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      Harrow Reminiscences—Peel And Byron. "Pe...

      HARROW REMINISCENCES—PEEL AND BYRON . "Peel and I were at Harrow together . Peel is a knowing fellow , and-Bill get on in the world . He heat me at classics , bnt in declamation I was at least his equal . _"ifoor-fsXifeqfBijroii . "Robert has doubled his fortune , and ruined bis country . " — Sir Robert Peel ' s father . f AU our happiness consists in being weR deceived . "English Publie . BIKOX . " There is a pleasure in the lonely woods ; There is a rapture on the sounding shore ; There is society when none intrudes , By the deep sea , and music in its roar : I love not man the less , but nature more From these our interviews , in which I Steal From all I may be , or have bera before , To mingle _' _with the universe , and feel WhatI can ne ' er express , yct cannot all Conceal . "

      PEEL . "There is a pleasure in the artful dodge ; There is a rapture in the official phrase - There _^ s society where none intrudes—On Treasury bench , and Cabinet dinner days , In Dow-ning-street , St Stephen ' s echoing floor : I love uot man the less , but self the more , Prom these re-unions , whence my colleagues find life ' s truest wisdom is—weU to deceive mankind . "

      BTBON . " O that the desert were my dwelling place , "With one fair spirit for my minister , That I might aU forget the human race _. And , hating no one , love but only her . Te elements , in whose congenial stir I feel my soul exalted 1 can je not Accord me such a being « Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot , Though with them to converse may rarely- he our lot V

      _* BEL . " 0 that St Stephen ' s were my dwelling place , With a well gulled ' majority' mine own , That I might humbug the whole human race , And , hating no one , love myself alone - Ye ' ayes ' and ' noes , ' in whose congenial stir I feel my soul exalted > can ye not Accord me such a party f Do I err In deeming such must dwell in such a spot , though weU to gull them all may rarely be my lot f " Chronicle

      Notice. The "Feast Of The Poets" Vnil Be...

      NOTICE . The "Feast of the Poets" vnil be postponed from the 22 nd to the 29 th inst .

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      Coningsbt- Or, The New Generation Btb.D'...

      CONINGSBT- or , THE NEW GENERATION _BtB . D'Iskaeli , Esq ., M . P . —London : Colburn Great Marlborough-street . ( Continued from the Northern Star of March 8 . J

      SIDONIA AUD COMSCSBT—HEBSEW ABCEKOA _* SCX . Since your society has become agitated in England , and powerful combinations menace your institutions , you mid the once loyal Hebrew invariably arrayed in the same ranks as the leveller and the latitudinarian _, and prepared to support the policy which may even endanger his life and property , rather than tamely continue under a system which seeks to degrade him . _* The Tories lose an important election = t a critical moment ; 'tis the Jews come forward Io vote against them . Thc Church is alarmed at the scheme of a latitudinarian university , and learns , with relief , that funds are not forthcoming for its _establishment : a Jen- immediately advances and endows it Yet the Jens , Coningsby , are essentially Tories . Toryism , indeed , is but copied from the mighty

      _prototype which ha = _iasl-iosed Europe . And every generation they muslheeome more powerful ami more dangerous to the society which is hostile to them . Do you think that the _quiel , humdrum persecution of a decorous _representat _^ _vt of an English university can crush those who have succesdvely haffltd the rbai-aohs , _S-.-buchadnezzar , Koine and tiie feudal ages ? The fact is , you ean-aoi destroy a pare race ofthe Caucasian organisation . It 15 a physiological fact ; a simple law of nature , which _has baaed Egyptian and Assyrian lungs , Eomau umpe-TL > T =, and Christian _iiKjuisiivrs . Sv peuallaws , no physical tortures , can _uSsxi thai a superior race should be absorbed in an inferior , or ho destroyed hy it . The mixed , pcrseea *" ::-graces disappear ; we pure , persecuted race remains .

      You never obie _.-re a great intcUectual movement in "E urope m which the . lews do not greatly participate . The first Jesuits werc Jews : that mysterious Russian diplomacy whicli so alarms -W estern Europe , is organised and principally earned oaby Jews ; that mighty revolution which is at this moment preparing in Germany , and wliich will he , in fact , a second and greater Reformation , and of which so little is , as yet , known in England , is entirely developing under the auspices of Jews , who almost monopolise the professorial chairs of Germany . "Neander _, - ( he founder ofSpMtualChrUtianitv , and who of Di

      is _B- _^ _gios Professor vinity in the University of Berlin , is a Jew - Senary , equally famous , and in the same - umveraty , is a Jen- ; _"VTehl _, the Arabic Professor of _Seidelberg , is a Jew . Years ago , when I was in Pales tine , I met a German student who was accnmalating -materials for the History of Christianity , and studying the genius ofthe place ; a modest and learned man . It was"ffebl ; then unknown ; since become the first Arabic scholar ofthe day , and the author of "The Life of Mahomet" Bnt for the German professors of this race , their name is Legion . I think there are more than ten at Berlin alone .

      I told you just aon- that I was going up to town tomorrow , because I always made it a rule to interpose when anairs of state were on the carpet * , otherwise , I never interfere . I hear of peace and war in newspapers , hat I am never alarmed , except when I am informed that the sovereigns want treasure ; then I know that monarchs are serious . A few years hack we were applied to by Russia . Now , there has "been no friendship between the Court of St Petersburg and my family . It has Dutch connexions which have generally supplied it ; and our representations in favour of the Polish Hebrews , a numerous race , but the most suffering and degraded of all tbe tribes , has not been very agreeable to the Czar . However , arena-stances drew to an approximation between the

      Eomanofis and the _Sldt-nias . I resolved to go myself to St Petersburg . I had , on my arrival , an interview with the Russian Minister of Finance , Count Cancrin ; I beheld tie son of a Lithuanian Jew . The loan was connected with theaSairs of Spain ; I resolved on repairing to Spain from Russia . I travelled without intermission . I had an audience , immediately ou my arrival , with the Spanish Minister , Senor Jfendizabal ; I beheld one like myself , the son of a _Suovo ChristSano , a Jew of Arragon . In consequence of what transpired at Madrid , I went straight to Paris , to consult the-President of the French Council j I beheld the son of a French Jew , a hero , an imperial marshal ; and very properly so , for viho should be military heroes , if not those who worship tie lord of Hosts . And is Soult a Hebrew t

      Yes - and several of the French marshals , and the most famous , Massena , for example ; his real name was _iSanasseh . But to my anecdote . . The consequence of Oar consultations was , that some " Northern power should he applied to iu a friendl y and mediative capacity . We fixed on Prussia , and the President ofthe Council made an application to the Prussian Minister , who attended a few days after our conference . Count Amimc entered the cabiue ,, and I beheld a Prussian Jew . So you see , toy dear Coningsby , that the world Is governed by very different personages to what is imagined by those who * arc cot behind fhe scenes . Ton startle , and deeply interest me . You must _studr physiology , my dear child . Pure races of Caucasus may be persecuted , hut they cannot be despised , except by the bralnl ignorance of some mongrel "treed . .

      -To the above list are added Maiho . _vides and Spikoza ; and the Jews are shown to have an _exclusive monopoly of musical genius . Musical Europe is ours . There is sot a company of _Angers , not an orchestra in a single capital , that are not crowded with our children , under the feigned names which they adopt to conciliate the dark aversion which your posterity will _aome day disclaim with shame and "disgust Almost every great composer , skilled musician , almost every voice that ravishes you with its

      _transport-M " strain *! , spring from _ourhAbes . The catalogue is too _Tast to enumerate ; too illustrious to dwell for a moment On secondary names , however eminent Enough for ns that the three great creative minds to whose exquisite mventiora all nations at this moment yield ; Rossini , _"eyerbeer _, Mendelsohn , are of Hebrew race ; and little «•> _joer men of-fashion , your " muscadins" of Paris , and your dandies of London , as they thrill into raptures at the notes of a Pasta or a _Grisi , little do they suspect that they are offering their homage to the sweet singers of

      Taits Edinburgh Magazine-March. -• * -K ...

      _TAITS EDINBURGH MAGAZINE-March . - * -k re _^ iaTe no _* ' y _* 3 ' _^ eehed ihe numbers containing the c ommencement of Mrs . Johnstone ' s tale oi we boldsnuth _' s Daughter , " we nave up to this t _^ been debarred the pleasure of reading this , to _aptcontnbntionto ' _Tfl-a . When we can make ourselvesi acquainted with the story _fcoitt the _teginning vmSSL - _tone _& _ug tossy thereon . Twsmonth ' s _S _^«> mainly filled with reviews of newly-pub _SS ** . embracing the " Correspondence of Edmund Burke" _CiHLEtos _- _s " Valentine _M'Glutchy _, " " _¦ > - _J" » a _*" _undpTW « . i _„ n \ xi-i _™^— _~~ a _> rZ . ui

      _bistsm ' _n _«» _r" » _-narc-a _uj jjiuiauui _ouu - _> safem" _S _^* _"Joamey from _Naples to Jeru-• _Sonr _^ h , f mmher *¦* otter works . Bos _Gavl-^ _tU _^ _^^^^ _setiGcismonthe "Poetry asters _whoeTi . _m _^ M _^ _eerersl unfortunate _poet-SmSfiSS ? f _*?***** bitter -merriment _, _gteftefo _! S 5 Sf _^ _orfB tamfifnliioFd , we _aSKflffi _^ **• - _« - occur , such as the _SSSritSf- ? a , _tfy - Bob had originally been i _^ _bT _^ n ?& ° _?* of - _^ _epsy _t _y Fatner _PwteSntrSLf _^^ _£ _*«* _&• _^ ere ( the - rroiestant rector ) and Father M'Cabe ( the Catholic

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      priest s curate ) over the death-bed of poor Boh—the oneresolved to gain back the stray sheep to the true fold , and the other to keep his new convert—is sufficiently comic , and we dare say , not much overdrawn . The dying man endeavours to stand well with both parties , but secretly sends for Father Roche ( the Catholic parish priest ) . Of this diverting incident we can only give the steeple-chase of the two parsons , cheered on in their gallop by the peasantry . "

      THE HOLY BiCE . —IN AT THE DEATH . Father M'Cabe having heard an account of Bob ' s state , and tliat the minister had been sent for , was at once upon the alert , and lost not a moment iu repairing to his house . So very eager , indeed , were these gentlemen , and so equal their speed , that they met at thc cross roads , one of which turned to Bob ' s house . # # * So , sir , said the priest , you are on your way to Bob Bcatty ' s , who is , as you well know , one of my flock . But how do you expect to get through the business , Mr . Lucre , seeing that you are so long out of practice ? _BoaBcatty was never , properly speaking , one of your flock , Mr . M'Cabe . I must beg leave to ride forward , sir and leave you to your Christian meditations . One inter-, riew with you is enough for any man .

      Faith , but I love you too well to part with you SO easily , said fhe priest spurrinfj on his horse , cheek by jowl —and a beautiful one you have _^—will I -ride with you , my worthy epicure ; and , what is more , 111 anoint Bob Beatty before your eyes . And , perhaps , perform another miracle , replied "Mr . Lucre , bitterly . Ay will I , if it be necessary , said the priest ; but I do solemnlyassure you that by far themost brilliantmiracle of modern days is to find the Rev . Phineas Lucre at a sick bed . Depend upon it , however , if Beatty had not turned Catholic , he might die like a dog for the same Mr . Lucre . I will not abtract the last shilling from his pocket for the unction of superstition , at all events .

      _Ifot you , faith ; you'll charge him nothing , I grant , and right glad am I to find that you know the value of your services . You forget , however , that my flock pay you well for doing this nothing—this is , for discharging your duty—notwithstanding . Both nowpushedonata rapid rate , growling at each other as they went along . On getting Into the fields they increased their speed ; and as the peasantry of both religions werc apprised of the circumstances connected with Bob ' s complaint and conversion , each party cheered on their own champion . More power to you , Father M'Cabe ; give him the Latin aud the Bravery ! Success , Mr . Lucre ' . Posh on , sir , and don't let the Popish rebel send hhn out of the world with a bandage on his eyes . Lay in thc Bible , Mr . Lucre ! Protestant and true blue for ever—hurra !

      The true Church for ever , Father M'Cabe , the jewel that you arc ! . Give the horse the spurs , avoumeen Sowl , Paddy , but the _bodogh parson has the advantage of him in the _coppul . Push on , your reverence ; you have tiie divil and the _parsen against you , for the one's drivin ' on the other _. Cross the corner of the Barny Hefner ' s meadow , Mr . Lucre , and wheel in at the garden ditch ; your horse can do it , although you ride the heaviest weight . Lay on him , sir , and think of Protestant Ascendancy . King "William against Popery and wooden shoes hurra ! Father , achora , keep your shoulder to the wind , and touch up Parra _Gastlia wid the spurs . A groan for the Protestant parson , father darlin' ! Three groans for the Popish Mass book . Bravo , Mr . Lucre 3 That ditch was well cleared ! Divil a purtier , father jewel ! Parra- _Gastha ' s adarlin ' and brought you over like a bird—hurra ' .

      Hare you no whip , Mr . Lucre ? Whip and spur , sir , or the Popish garran will be in before you . By tiie great Boyne , I ' m afraid the charger ' s blown . Goa enable you , father _avilish ! Blown ! Why what would you expect , aa' it the first visit ever the same horse made to a sick-bed ia his life : he now finds it isn't on the king ' s high-way he is—and I ' ll go bail it's himself thafs cursin' the same duty in his his heart . Bravo , Father Pal ! Parra Gastha ' s the boy that knows his duty—move power , Parra _Gastha ! Devil pursue thc hair ' s turned on hiin ; but be mc sowl , it wouldn't be so if he led thc life the Protestant blood did—feediu' high , and doin ' nothin ' . Mr . Lucre , pull out : I see you ' re hard np , sir , and so is your charger . Push _hii-:, sir , even if he should drop . Death and Protestantism before Popery and dishonour ' . Hurra , well done !

      All , be mc sowl , it ' s near the last gasp wid Uim aud his uiasther , no wondher ; they ' re both devilish far out of their _ch-mcat Faith , if thvy had Father M'Cabe and Parra Gastha ' s practice , they wouldn ' t be the show they are this minute . Well done both ! fresh and fair , snug and dry , you do it . Hurra ! When the two worthy gentlemen had reached Bob ' s house , they dismounted , each in a perspiration , and rushed to the bed of the dying man . Mr . Lucre sat , of course , at one side , and the priest at the other ; Mr . Lucre seized the right hand , the priest the left : whilst Bob looked at th _* jm both _allfewiaielj-, ami _garcacordial squeeze to each .

      You thought , sir , said Mr . Lucre to the priest haughtily , that he would have died au idolater . Boh squeezed Mr . Lucre ' s hand again , ' And you thought , replied Father' M'Cabe , that he would die a Protestant or a heretic , which is the same thing . ' Bob squeezed Father M'Cabe ' _s hand once more . Gentlemen , said Bob , be pleased to sit down—you are both Christian ministers , I hope . Jfo , said Father M'Cabe , there is but one of us a Christian ; Mr . Lucre here " is not worthy of the name , Bob . Bob squeezed the priesf s hand a third time . Beatty , said Mr . Lucre , this is a solemn occasion , and I ' m bound to say that the priest here is merely _unrepresentative of Antichrist . This is not a time to disguise the truth .

      Bob squeezed Mr . Lucre ' s hand a third time _alss . Beatty , continued Mr . Lucre , if you permi t , yourself to die a Papist , you seal your own everlasting punishment True , said Bob . Bob , said the priest , after the explanations of the true church wliich I have given you , if you allow yourself to relapse into heresy , you will suffer for it during all eternity . True , said Bob . There is no hope for those , who , like thc Papists and idolaters , hew for themselves vessels that will hold no water , said Lucre , ic , ic .

      The rictim of this spiritual worry dies at last in peace under the pious ministrations of Father Roche . On the whole this is a good number of Tout

      Wade's London Review.—March. This Ia The...

      WADE'S LONDON REVIEW . —March . This ia the second quarterly pari , embracing the monthly numbers for January , February , and March , of this Review , the whole forming a mass of 240 pages of matter which may risk comparison with more than one ofthe elder and more assuming quarterlies . Each succeeding month we notice improvements in this periodical , which give promise that its existence will be both , vigorous and lengthy . There is a genuineness and force in the Editor ' s productions truly refreshing . With all the views entertained by hhn wc cannot agree , but we heartily admit the good service his writings , as a whole , are calculated to do for the cause of " progress . " The articles on " Religious Changes" are " a heavy blow and sore discouragement" to priestly imposturesand fanatical insanities ; while such contributions to history as the " Rise and Progress of British Industry" are * invaluable . If wc

      have any fault te find with this and similar articles , it is that the writers scarcely do themselves and their subjects justice , by compressing so much into little . Subjects disposed of in a single article , require , to do them justice , the elucidation which only a series of such articles could admit of . Not the least valuable ofthe contents of this Review is the autobiography of its Editor , a delightful histoiy which we should be glad to find in the hands of every youth , and which even those of maturer years , particularly heads of families , would do well to be acquainted with , for the sake of their offspring . Sincerely do we thank the author of the "Autobiography" for the following castigation of the mad tinker ' s printed trash . In boyhood we ourselves suffered all that he describes ; and to this day we remember the nights of horror which it "was our doom to bear through reading the revolting fables

      of—BUNYAN _' _S mOBIM ' _s PBOCBESS . Notwithstanding the popularity of John Bunyan _' s writings in the religious world I consider them extremely pernidous to yovmg or ignorant people . I judge them from experience , without the least desire to weaken the effect of aBy sober work , calculated to promote virtue and rational piety . I have a strong objection to the use of allegories , emblems , and fables in early education : with adults who can understand and rightly interpret their application they may be harmless 5 but with children they are puzzling and misleading , as I found them to be . A

      child understands _evei-ything as presented to him till better information has corrected his errors ; he knows nothing of double meanings , of symbolicaljor allegorical allusions ; what anything appears that he believes it to be . His conclusions are necessaril y such ; consonant to the inexperienced state of a mind still pure aud untutored in falsehood , in deceptive appearances , allegorical allusions , and conventional understandings . All , therefore , that is presented to a child for improvement and instruction , ought to he presented in the same literal form and expression in which they are literally received , understood , and interpreted .

      I remember "being extremely perplexed with theheathen mythology . Jupiter , Juno , Vulcan , Minerva , and the rest , I considered real personages . A book of emblems I met with puzzled me much ; enterprise was exemplified by the voyage of Jason for the golden fleece ; friendship b y the story of Caste * _aadPollux , whom i considered veritably , and perhaps they were , the Siamese twins of antiquity The labours of Hercules and the exploits of Theseus I swallowed as authentic relations . Had Ovid ' s Metamorphoses come in liiy way I should have considered the

      narratives strange but true . Of course many are more favourably situated than I was ; they have friends about them to correct false impressions . But why should anybody ' s children be suffered to receive false impressions ? why should they wilfully and aforethought be set wrong for a while to be set right afterwards ? Why not start with them right at the outset f Wh y this needless _emha-nras-menttoiinants , and corrective trouble afterwards to adults ! But such unhappily constitutes too large a portion of what is called education ; nothing more than the pouring down the throats of children a Stream Of

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      falsehood to be pumped up afterwards by their friends and the world . Neither an allegory , emblem , nor fable , is a matter of easy understanding or elucidation . Let any one try and he will find it a word y and diffusive undertaking . For a child to understand them I hold quite unlikely . My father , poor man , essayed to unravel the perp lexity to me . He was very fond of old Bunyan's Pilgrim ' s Progress , and used to require me to read it to him while he was sorting or overlooking wool , and which 1 did , with a horrid enunciation , I dare say , of its barbarous nomenclature . I asked him for explanations of names and things , of Apolyon and the Dragon , Giant Despair , the Slough of Despond , and what not , aud which I doubt not he gave me to the best of his belief and understanding . The result of such reading , with other helps , was to people my young brain with a horrid phantasmagoria of bodiless and misshapen images , from whose midnight tortures and distractions I was happy to escape , after much suffering , with my faculties underanged .

      r was not the only sufferer . Ail the house suffered except my mother , whose naturally- good constitution and elastic spirits preserved her from the mental leprosy . . I have known a whole chamber full of children set screaming from the imagined sight or noise of some lurking devil , gh 05 t , imp , Cherub , 01 * Other illusive % ment of a disturbed and ill-trained fancy : I myself have yelled out at a . ghost that had perhaps no better origin than my mother's gown or night-cap hanging ou the bed-post . I should not notice such laughable things , for laughable they now are to me , did I not know that many children , and those of larger growth , suffer from the apprehension of spectral appearances . In the benighted and fanatical districts ofthe kingdom non-belief is the exception , not

      the rule , in the existence of good avid evil spirits—the most evil those sought in a dram-shop—aud of supernatural visitations . The mischief " often beg ins in the early period Of infancy , at a period the rig ht direction of which is often too much neglected by intelligent and not undutiful parents . " You little naughty imp ! " says a little naught ,-.- nursemaid to a rosy blue-eyed babe on her lap , "be quiet ; leave off crying , or I'll call Old Bogo . Hark '! he is up the . chimney . " She then scrapes with her foot , shakes the fiie-irons , or turns he _* r head with a deep guttural mutation of Giant Thrumbo . The chUd is silent , nstens , looks aghast , and clings to Lizzy ' s bosom , and firmly believes that Old Bogo dwells in the " chimney , the attic , or coalhole , ready at any time , at Lizzy ' s bidding , to snatch away mamma's darling !

      The foundation is thus early laid for a belief in invisible existences . An inlet is opened for the admission of any future , greater , or more imposing supernatural invention . But the injury is not confined to the nursery ; it is abroad , wide , and rampant in the world . Adults , too , haye their Bc-gos , with which they are well frighted under the sage and political- pretext of checking moral aberrations ; and with which they wiU continue to be frighted so long as a numerous class find it profitable , not for profit only I own , to resist their analysis and disper sion . I have doubts , however , myself whether a more literal and genuine procedure would not be preferable to

      this costly and misery-spreading contrivance , If Lizzy cannot keep the child quiet , and it is restless without cause , she had better be allowed to give it a smack , a shake , or pinch of the ear , and there's an end , than fiU its young mind with vague terrors that may ever after haunt and distress it . The inquiry , however , is too vast and vital to be handled by me , aud _inciderftally ; and I shall drop it curtly with a _quotation from Dryden , who , with the characteristic rigour of his intellect , has described in four lines the origin and course of that [ I have been dwelling upon , and which has carried me away from my narrative : — . .

      " By education most have been misled ; So they believe because they so were bred . The-priest continues what the nurse began , " Aud thus the child imposes on the man . " Amongst the reviews of new books wo notice in the March number a review of "Captain _Sibohne's Waterloo Campaign , " which wc have read with much interest , our only regret being that thc reviewer has not been lengthy enough in Ills comments and extracts . In thc article in the same number on " Religious Changes" we must complain that the notice contained therein of the "Lcvellcvs" and "Fifth

      Monarchy Men ' ' is fav too brief and imperfect . In religion , fanatics and fools they undoubtedly were ; but their ideas of the political and social rights of man were in thc main correct . Their principles , reproduced a century and a half later , under theory of " Equality and Liberty , " by the French Revolutionists , still survive , and are widely disseminated through England , France , Germany , and other nations : and the day is coming whon tho believers in those principles will command an attention not hitherto accorded to them . We wish tho London Review every success , and we doubt not but that the talent of its Editor will ensure that consummation .

      Simmonds's Colonial Magazine-March. Ther...

      _SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE-March . There are several valuable papers iii this months ' number , some of tliem continuations of former articles , some of them new contributions . Amongst the former we notice "The Agriculture of Hindostan , " and " The North American Fisheries ; " and amongst the latter , " Australian Sketches , " by Thomas M'Combie ; "Colonisation in Algeria , " by Lieutenant Latter ; " Confabs with a Colonist ; " and " Port Phillip as she is at'Present , " by J . Portek . The " Australian Sketches" are lively and entertaining ,

      the author giving a history of the notorious native chief Jickt _Jackt , of whom wc remember to have read a very interesting account some time ago in Tait ' _s Magazine . Lieutenant Lat-tcr's paper on "Algeria" contains much curious information , and we confess to having derived from it enlightenment on several points on which we had previously held mistaken views . " The Prairie Grave " is the title of a sweet little poem , which we would have gladly quoted , but must forbear , to make way for the following interesting account of

      THE IN » IA _RUBB-SB TREE , The caoutchouc tree grows , in general , to the height of forty or fifty feet without branches ; then branching , runs up fifteen feet higher . The leaf is about six inches long , thin , and shaped like that of a peach tree . The trees show their working by the number of knots , or bunches , made by tapping ; and a singular fact is , that , like a COW , when most tapped , they give most milk ov sap _. As the time of operating is early day , before sunrise we werc at hand . The blacks are first sent out through the forest , armed with a quantity of soft clay , and a small

      pick-axe . On coining to one of the trees , a portion of the soft clay is formed Into a cup and _stucfe to the trunk . The black then striking liis pick over the cup , the sap oozes out slowly , a tree giving daily about a gill . The tapper continues in this way , tapping perhaps about about fifty trees , when he returns , and with a jar , passing over thc ground , empties his cups . So by seven o ' clock the same blacks come in with their jars , ready for working . The sap at this stage resembles milk in appearance , and son . * what in taste . It is also frequently drunk with perfect safety . If left standing now , it will curdle like milk , disengaging a watery substance like whey .

      Shoemakers now arrange themselves to form the gum . Seated in the shade , with a large pan of milk on oue side , and onthe other a flagon , in which is burned a nut peculiar to this country , emitting a dense smoke , the operator having his last , or form , held by a long stick or handle , previously besmeared with soft clay ( in order to slip off the Shoe when finished ) , holds it over the pan , and pouring on the milk until it is covered , sets the coating in the smoke , then giving it a second coat , repeats the smoking ; and so on with a third and fourth , until the shoe is of the required thickness , averaging from six to twelve coats . When finished , the shoes on the forms are placed in the sun the remainder of the day to drip . Next day , if required , they may be figured , being bo soft that any impression will be indelibly received . The natives are very dexterous in this work . With a quill and a sharp-pointed stick they win produce finely-lined leaves and flowers , such as you may have seen os the shoes , in an incredibly short space of time . After

      remaining on the forms two or three days , the shoes are cut open on the top , _aUowing the last to slip out . They are then tied together , ready for the market . There pedlars and Jews trade for them with the country people ; and in lots of a thousand or more they are again sold to the merchants , who have them stuffed with straw , and packed in boxes to export , in which state they aro received in the United States . In the same manner , any shape may be manufactured . Thus , toys are made of clay forms . After drying , the Clay 13 broken and extracted . Bottles , etc , in the same way . According as the gum grows older , it becomes darker in colour , and more tough . The number of caoutchouc trees in the province is countless . In some parts whole forests exist , and they are frequently cut down for firewood . Although the trees exist in Mexico aud the East Indies , there appears to be no importation into the United States from these places . The reason , I suppose , must be the want of that prcZificness found in them heve .

      The caoutchouc tree may be woiked all the year ; but generaUy in the wet season they have rest , owing to the flooded state of the woods ; and the milk being watery , requires more to manufacture the same article than in the dry season . We can , cordially recommend this Magazine to all who would make themselves acquainted with the history , capabilities , social state , and prospects of those magnificent possessions which , with our "island home , " make up that glorious British Empire " on which the Bun never seta . "

      A Bowl Of "Punch," Fresh Brewed

      A BOWL OF "PUNCH , " FRESH BREWED

      _vibtui-s of Bacok . _—Labochebb and Eectobs . — A * " Rector and Conservative" writes a letter to the Times—a really affecting letter—on the virtues of bacon . He rejoices over the tariffthat" lard" is to be admitted free , but is "sorry to see bacon omitted . " And then the Rector goes on to-paint an Ap ician feast . "Bacon , "he says , " when they can getit , isthe staff of the labourer ' s dinner . " Listen , furth er ; '' The frugal mother provides a large pot of potatoes , and while she indulges herself and her younger ones only with salt , cuts off the small rasher and toasts it over the plates of the father and elder sons , aa being the _bread-winnei-s ; and this is all they . want . " " And this is all they want ! " How " _very easy is it for a capon-lined belly to give laws to a labourer's stoma ch' ; to interpret its huge contentment With a small rasher . Thc "frugalmother and her younger ones '/ neverthink of bacon at all . Oh no ! they inhale its odour with nostrils of stone—it never awakens a yearning appetite in them—certainly not ! thej * are mdvdged with

      A Bowl Of "Punch," Fresh Brewed

      potatoes and salt ; and , doubtless , this is all they want . Ciaxt wenot fancy a labourer , writing of the families Ol the Dean 9 and Rectors ofthe Church ; " The frugal mother has an early dinner . provided for her little ones and their _governess ; a plain joint , plain pudding , everything plain . At six or seven o ' clock , she cuts oft the fins of the turbot , she slices the fat of the haunch for the father and the elder sons . They afterwards take their port and claret , and—this is all they want . On this point , we are sure , the labourer can better answer . for tho rector than the rector for the labourer .

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      LONDON * . Metropolitan District Council , Tuvnaaain-lane , March 9 th ; Mr . Heath in the chair . —After several reports had been delivered iu relative tothe forthcoming Chartist Convention , thc case of Mr . Lewellyn was again brought before the Council . Mr . T . M . Wheeler read a letter he had received from Merthyr on the subject . Aftereonsiderable discussion the question was adjourned until Sunday next . On the suggestion of Mi-. T . M . Wheeler , the following resolution was unanimously adopted : — " That this Council recommend all the localities within the borough of Marylebone . to co-onerate in the return of

      a delegate or delegates to the ensuing Convention . They reconmiend the several localities within the borough of the Tower Hiuulets to unite for the same purpose . They recommend the localities in Southwark and . Lambeth to unite for the like purpose . They also recommend the localities of Westminster and London to unite for the same purpose . Lastly , they recommend all __ the suburban towns or districts , where it is not practicable to return a delegate on their own account , to unite in a similar way with the next tOWIt locality Ol' district , the delegates to report on the subject at . the next meeting . " The council then adjourned .

      Westminster . —At a meeting of the Clock House locality , Westminster , held on the 2 nd inst ., tiie following resolution was moved by Wm . Cuffay , seconded by Wm . Smith : — ""That this locality are of opinion that P . M . M'Douall is no longer a fit person to be a member ofthe Chartist body ; andthatouv confidence in Feargus O'Connor has never been shaken . " Carried by a large majority . The present Executive were then nominated for the ensuing year . The GrEjfERAL Registration Committee to the Chartists of _Englaijd asd Wales . — Brethren , Wc beg to remind yon that on or about the 25 th day of this -present month ( March ) overseers of the goor arenominated for the ensuing year . By the nomination of Chartist overseers , the registration battle will be more than half won . Then remember your

      duty ! The surveyors of highways are appointed at the same time . The elections of roor Law _gnariVians aiso take place about now , for the first time under the new alterations and regulations ofthe Poor Law Commisioners , in accordance with the 7 and 8 Vic , c . 101 , which enables the rate-payers to vote , if rated six months , instead of twelve as heretofore , and which prevents all owners from voting who neglected sending in their claims before the first ofFebruary last . Up , then , and be doing ! Obtain local power , that you may be the better enabled to contend for National Regeneration , politically and socially . —On behalf of the Committee , Edmund Stallwood . . Thomas Maktik Wheeler . Jon . v _Simpsox .

      Tur . _vaoain-Laxe . —Tho usual weekly meeting of the members took place on Tuesday last , Mi * . John Overton in'the-chair , when the following resolutions were passed : — " That it is thc opinion of this meeting , that Thomas Cooper , now a prisoner in Stafford Gaol , is a true . and sineero Chartist , and deserving of the _sympathy and support ofthe country ; " and " That copies of the above resolution be sent to the Star for insertion , and to Mr . Peplow , to be forwarded by hini to Thomas Cooper . " Thc auditors of the Quarterly Balance-sheet give in their report , which was received . Mr . Bayley moved , " That our Sub-Secretary write to

      thc Executive for a balance-sheet of the two last quarters , " Agreed to . —Mr . Tucker moved— " That we co-operate with the CamberwcH'locality in sending a delegate to the approaching Conference . " Agreed to . —Mr . T . M . Wheeler was then nominated as a candidate on the part of this locality . The meeting then proceeded to nominate for the Executive Committee , when Messrs . V . M'Grath , Thomas Cooper ( late of Leccister , now of Stafford Gaol ) , 0 . Doyle , F . O'Connor , T . AI . Wheeler , Wm . Jones ( of Liverpool ] , D . Ross ( oi' Manchester ) , Cuffay , and Clark , were proposed , and the first five were elected as the most proper persons for thc Executive . In consequence of the lateness of the hour the election of a General Council was deferral till next week .

      BACUP . Public Procession to Congratulate Mn . Tatteiisall on ins Release from _Lancaster Castle . —On Saturday last a large number of people left the town at five o ' clock , with a band of music , and a number of splendid banners , and met Mr . Tattersall , accompanied by Mr . Clark , member of tho Executive , a mile from the town . Messrs . Tattersall and Clark entered a gig , and were drawn into the town amidst the heart y congratulations of the people . After the procession a public tea party took place in thc Association-room , when about two hundred sat down to tea . An excellent band enlivened the proceedings . As soon as the tables were cleared , Dr . Smith was unanimously called to the chair , who opened the proceedings by a powerful speech , after whicli he gave the first sentiment : — " The people , the source of all legitimate power ; " whicli was ably

      responded to by Mr . ' Barker , The chairman gave the next sentiment : — " The health of our respected guest , Mr . Tattersall , and may he long live to advocate the rights of the people ; " whicli was well responded to by Mi * . Clark , in a splendid and eloquent speech . The next sentiment was : — "Frost , Williams , Jones , and Ellis ; " and was responded to by Mr . Tattersall . His address was masterly and powerful , and created a great impression on thc meeting . Thc next sentiment— "Feargus O'Connor and T . S . Duncombe , Esqrs . ; and may they long live to defend the working millions "—was responded to in an able manner by Mi * . _Tagg-. Mr . Clark moved a vote of thanks to the chairman , which was seconded by Mr . Tattersall , and earned by acclamation : Three cheers were given for the Charter , three for O'Connor and Duncombe , three for Tattersall and Clark , and the assemblage broke up highly delighted with the proceedings of the evening .

      Sunday . —At six o ' clock in the evening the room was crowded to overflowing , numbers being unable to gain admittance to hear Mr . Tattersall , who had been announced to deliver a lecture . Mr . Tagg was _unanimously called to the chair , who , after a few preliminary remarks , introduced Air . Tattersall , who passed in rapid review the plug * war , its causes , and consequences . He next gave an account of his arrest , trial , and imprisonment . The lecturer then proceeded to show the present position of the various classes of society , and the future prospects of the people . He gave the workers a severe lashing for their apathy and indifference , and called on them to rise , like the fabled bird , from tho ashes of their own degradation , and throw the shield of protection around the Executive , by swelling the ranks of the

      indomitable army of Chartists . Mr . Tattersall concluded his powerful lecture , after having spoke nearly two hours . At the close , Mr . Barker moved a vote of confidence in Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., which was seconded by Mr . Shackleton , and carried by acclamation ; after which , thirty-nine persons came forward and joined the association , who all took out cards of membership . Mondat . —At eight o ' clock in the evening a public ball took place in the Weavers' Arms . There was a goodly number of the fair sex present , who had rendered . assistance in getting up the tea party , and taken an active part in all the proceedings . Thus ended the regalings and proceedings of the week , having given a stimulus to the cause aiid general satisfaction to aU parties . '

      YORKSHIRE . West Riding Delegate Meetiko . —This meeting waBheld , according to notice , in the Working Man ' s Hall , Halifax , when the following places were represented : « -Halifax , Bradford , Uebden-hrldge , Dewsbuvy ,. _LittktoNvn , Birstall , and Sowerby—Mr , B . Rushtonintheehair . _Theminutcsofthelastmeeting having been read by the secretary , on the motion of Mr . _Coje , seconded by Mr . Shaw , they were confirmed . Several suma _Ns-ere handed in for the Executive , as per the general secretary ' s list . The following resolutions were adopted : — "That each locality iri the West' Riding send their account once a quarter to be examined by the meeting . " "That it

      is the opinion of this meeting _theWest Riding ought to have two delegates to represent tne Chartists of the Riding in the forthcoming Convention , to be held in London the third week in April ; and that each delegate lay this resolution before the Chartists of his locality . " . ; " That the next West Riding delegate meeting be held on Sunday , March 23 rd , to arrange for the election of two delegates to _represent the West Riding in the forthcoming Convention ; and it is requested that each delegate will come prepared with full instructions . " "That the secretary correspond with those localities who have not sent a delegate to this meeting . " The thanks of the meeting were given to the chairman , and the meeting separated . J , Crossland , Secretory ,

      : NOTTINGHAM . Public AIeeting . —On Monday evening last a public meeting ofthe inhabitants of Nottingham was held m the Town-hall for the purpose of petitioning Parliament against the Post-office Spy System . Mr . Thomas Roper was unanimously elected to the chair , who made a business-like speech , arid called upon Mr . Lilly to move the resolution as follows . — . " That this meeting considers the conduct of Sir James Graham , Secretary of State , in the opening of letters sent to Thomas Slingsby P ' uncombe , Esq ., member for Finsbury , subversive of ' all _sociaPorder , and a gross violation of the sacredness of private correspondence ; and this meeting expresses its unqualified disapprobation of an outrage so glaring upon the privileges of a member of the British House of Com-

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      mons . Further , the meeting resolves that a petition be laid before the House , praying that T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., may be allowed to examine at the bar ofthe House certain parties employed in the General Post-office , to prove the truth of" his allegations . " The resolution was seconded by Mv . Dovman in an excellent speech , and carried unanimously . Mr . Sweet then moved the petition , and made some heavy hits at the renegade Graham and his backer , Sir Robert Peel . The petition was seconded by Air . Widdowson , and earned unanimously . Thc petition was ordered to be forwarded to—Watson , Esq ., member for Kinsale , for presentation ; with a letter to B . D'lsraeli , - respectfully requesting him to support tho prayer thereof . A vote of thanks was given to the mayor for granting the use of the hall , and to the chairman , when the meeting dispersed .

      OLDHAM . Lecture . —On Sunday last Air . T . K . Taylor delivered his third lecture on the life , writings , and genius of Robert Burns , in the Chartist-room , Greaves-street . The lecturer gave a short narrative of the poet ' s life after he entered upon his farm at EUisland , and recited a variety of lus poems , which gave general satisfaction . After thc lecture , a meeting of the members took place for the purpose of nominating fit and proper persons to serve on the Executive Committee , when the following gentlemen were unanimously agreed upon , viz ., Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., Mr . M'Grath , Mr . T . M . Wheeler , Afr . Christopher Doyle , and Mr . T . Clark .

      MANCHESTER . - _Caupesteus' Hall . —A lecture was delivered in the above building on Sunday evening last , by that stanch defender of the people's cause , Mi * . George White , of Bradlord . BURNLEY . Lecture . —Mr . Thomas Clark , of ihe Executive Committee , lectured in the Chartist-room on Sunday , the 9 th inst . ; in the afternoon , onthe " Present State and Prospects of Political Parties ; " aud in the evening , on " Trades' Unions . " Mr . C . gave general satisfaction to his audiences . Collections were made at the close of each lecture in aid ofthe Executive Committee .

      BRADFORD . On Sunday the members of the General Council met in their room , at two o ' clock in the afternoon , when it was unanimously resolved— " That the proposition of the West Riding Delegate AIeeting , to elect two delegates to the . Chartist Conference , should be agreed to . " Discovery of a New Island in the Pacific—The New York Courier and Inquirer publishes the following account of the discovery of a new island in the Pacific Ocean by Captain Simmons , ofthe brigantine Faith . — "Captain Simmons was on liis way from Sidney to Valparaiso , and , after leaving _Otalielte _, first saw it on the 31 st of October , 1 S 43 . Seen from

      the deck of the vessel ; the island had tho appearance of a mass of rocks , but a nearer approach showed it to _' bc an island , covered with cocoa-nut trees , with thickunderbush . "When convinced that itwas an island , Captain Simmons supposed it might be oue already known , and at first mistook it for Carisfoot . To be sure , 'however , he lowered his boat and attempted to land , but was prevented by a reef of black coral rocks , with heavy breakers , wliich surrounded " the island , He went completely round it , however , and found it to be about six miles in circumference . At a short distance from it he found no sounding in sixty fathoms of water . After examining it tor two

      or three hours , as thoroughly as he deemed necessary , he steered for Carisfoot . according to his reckoning , made it in the course of a few hours , and passed to thc south of it . A large _lagoon ' was in thc middle of tlic island , which seemed to be rich and fertile . On reaching Valparaiso , where he remained for some months , he waited upon the commander of the British squadron and informed him of the discovery . He examined the most recent English charts , but no indication of such an island was to be found . Itis situate in the track from Otahcitc to Valparaiso , in south latitude 21 degrees and 10 minutes , and west longitude 138 degrees 54 minutes . He named it the Isle of Faith , from liis vessel . "

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      BANKRUPTS . ( From the Gazette of Friday , March ' . ) _i _' redeviek West , Southampton , boot and _shoemaker—-ffiUiam Spencer , _'NVaUiuRford , Berkshire , brewer—Charles Jacobs , Farringdon-market , fruit-salesman—Joseph _Wilson ( _Jennyn-street , St . _Jamess ' _ss , bootmaker — John _Sti'ucfcott _, Wye , Keut , grocer—James Stephen Herring , Cecilia-place , Spa-road , Bermondsey , builder—George Salmon , City-road-basin , timber-merchant—William Cawthorn , jun ., Salisbury-street , Strand , wine-merchant—John Hardy and George Hardy , Wisbech Saint _Teter , Cambridgeshire , grocers—Thomas Kewell Gorbell , Bedfordplace , Commcreial-road , bookseller — John Rook Day , "White Hart-street , Druvy-lane , victualler—Daniel MacKay _, Liverpool , master-mariner—William Butterill , Sheffield , grocer—William Cornelius Whittenbury , Leeds , cheesefactor—William Pell , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , _linendraper .

      dividends . March 28 , W . Law _, Reading , _Berkshire , draper—Aprils , -ft " . Smith , Strand , printer—April 3 , II , and A . "Wood , Basinghall-strcet , City , Blackwoll-hall factors—April 3 , H . Vf . Collinson , Stamford-street , Surrey , hatmaker—March 28 , T , Creeke , Cambridge , tailor—March 28 , D . Fowler , Lime-street , City , merchant— April 1 , 0 . P . Wathen , "Woodchcster , Gloucestershire , clothier—April 3 , J . Cox , Nottingham , silk-throwster .

      BANKRUPTS . ( From Tuesday ' s Gazette , March llth , 1815 J Joshua Taylor , _YTlrittlesea , Cambridgeshire , draper-Albert Green , Brighton , apothecary—David Holdforth , Stratford , Essex , grocer—Alfred Butt , Treyford , Sussex , miller—William _Hardisty , Wakefield , Yorkshire , whitesmith—John Roberts , Liverpool , _potato-dealer— Thomas Griffiths , Blaenifed , Cardiganshire , auctioneer .

      declarations of _dividbkus . J , L . Heatliorn _, Abctiurch-laue , City , shipowner , first dividend of 8 s in the pound , any Saturday , at , the office of Mr . Edwards , Frederick ' s-place , Old Jewry . J . Taylor , Brighton , bookseller , first dividend of 2 e 4 _, d in the pound , any Saturday , at the office of Mr . Edwards , ¦ P rederick _' s-place , Old Jewry . T . Trapp , Church-street , Southwark _, tallow-chandler , first dividend of 20 s in the pound , any Saturday , at the office of Mr . Edwards , Frederick's-place , Old Jewry . T _, P . Trapp , Church-street , Southwark , tallow-chandler , first dividend of 20 s ih the pound , any Saturday , at the office of Mr . _EdwardB , Frederick's-placo , Old Jewry . T . and T . P . Trapp , Church-street , Southwark , taUowchandlers , second dividend of Is 3 d in the pound , any Saturday , at the office of Mr .. Edwards , Frederiek ' s-piace , Old Jewry , „ _,-J . MaUalieu , Saddlcworth , " * _torkshire , _woollcn-manufactiirer , first dividend of 3 s 8 din the pound , any Tuesday , ' at the office of Mr . _ITobsonManchester .

      , T , Sherwood , Tilehurst , Berkshire , brickmakev , first dividend of 5 s in the pound , any-Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Pennell , Basinghall-street .. J . Bobbins , Winchester , bookseller , second dividend of 2 s 6 d in the pound , any Wednesday , at' thc office of Mr . Pennell , Basinghall-street . B . Wright , Liverpool , dealer in paint , first dividend of 10 s in the pound , any Thursday , at the office of Mr . Cazenove , Liverpool , J . and J . Woodhead , Bradford , Yorkshire , worsted stuff _, manufacturers , first dividend of is in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Freeman , Leeds . O . Holdsvvorth , Northowram , Yorkshire , worsted-spinner , dividend of 3 s 4 d in the pound to those creditors who have not received a former dividend , and further dividend of is in the pound to those who'have received a former dividend , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr .. Freeman , Leeds .

      DIVIDENDS . April 9 , Ii . R . Stutchbury , Theobalds _' s-road , Bedford _, row , bookseller—April 9 , J . Stevens and K . II . W . Drummond , Mile-end , road-contractors—April 9 , F . Blundell _, New Sarum , Wiltshire , grocer—April 9 , J . Maynard , Panton-street , Haymarket , bookseller—April 1 , J . F , Barwick , Old-street , St . Luke ' s , wheelwright—April 12 , J , II ., J . S ., J . K ., and A . Heron , Manchester , cotton-spinners—April 10 , 6 . and S . Potter and J . Krauss , Manchester , calico-printers—April 12 , H _, "ffftrdie , Manchester , merchant—April 2 , S . Parsons , Manchester , paper-hanger-April 3 , W . H . and T . B . Turner , Blackburn , Lancashire , cotton-spinners—April 2 , E . Sheppard , sen ., Uley , Gloucestershire , clothier—April i , W . Rees and G . Edwards , Wells , Somersetshire , nurserymen—April 8 T . and W . Witt-ell , Padstow _, Cornwall , _ship-buUdera—April 3 , J . "Hall , Wallsend , Northumberland , cowkeeper—April 8 , J . Tristram , Basford , Nottinghamshire , beer-house keeper—April 8 , R . Jackson , Leeds , engineer—April 3 , J . L . Tahbevnei _* , Birmingham , auctioneer—April 3 , T . labberuer , Binning _, ham , _com-factor—Aprils , B ., Ug _* a _** _,, Ilau \ ey , Staffordshire , grocer—April 4 , H . Newton , Derby , colour-manufacturer .

      CEBTIFICATE 8 TO BE GRANTED UNLESS CAUSE BE SHOWN TO THE CONTBAiV ON TIIE DAV Of meeting , April I , W . Dettmer , Upper Marylebone-street , pianoforte manufacturer—April 3 , A . Francis , W . Bavey , and M . Francis , Aberystwith , ironfounders—April 3 , J . _Heggin . botham and G . Peck , Manchester , _machine-makers—April 1 , T , Boss , Leicester , hosier—April 1 , J . R . Kiug , Bath , druggist—April 1 , C . Strange and R . Parsons , Baglan , Glamorganshire , merchants—April I , J , Quin , Liverpool , painter—April 1 , R . Proctor , Kingston-upon-Hull , coach proprietor-Aprfil , G . Craven , jun ., "Wakefield , "Yorkshire , corn-miller—April 1 , W . Hill , Woolwich , builder-April 1 , L . H . Folger , High-street , Shoreditch , cabinet-maker-April 1 , C . Dotesio , Slough , Buckinghamshire , hotel-keeper -April 1 , T . Baines , Bradford , Yorkshire , worsted-spinner -April 1 , A . Padbury , jun ., _Bpsom , Surrey , grocer .

      PABTKEBSMPS _DISSOLVED . ' H .-Roberts and M . Lawrence , keepers of a boardingschaol-J . Dunk aad T . Baker , Brighton , millers-J . R . C . and J . s . Ouston _, Kingston-upon-Hull , _wme-merchants ; as far as regards J . S . Ouston-J . Faulkner and T . Deaville , Stockport , Cheshire , spinners—J . and I . Bayley ana T and 3 . Kitts , Bolton , Lancashire , cotton-spinners ; as far m regards T . Kitts-0 . Marshall , J , Mitchell , and F j . swnes _, Sheffield , edge-tool manufacturers ; asJar ; as regards J . Mitchell- J . Morley , sen ., R . Morley , J . Morley , iun ., and B . and S . Morley , _Wood-strect , City ; as far as regards J . Morley , sen ., and R . Morley-M . and C . W .. Hooper , Grange . roadJ Bermondsey , leather-factors-. T . Cross _andlBarrittrBurv _. LaucasMve _. _manufacturmg-cheraistsluoimes

      T Smith inn ' . T Smith sen .. T . A . S . SllUUl , . , builders as far as regards F . Hurst and J . _Sajei-W _,, rT _, and H Higgins , Salford _, Lancashire , _machinematos ¦ as iii * is _^ _egords W . _Higmns-T Hudtan and H _Hemmines , _Paddington-street , Marylebone-J . Wey mouth _aSd CRig hy , Chancery-lane , attorneys-S . Hutch . _SsonandR . Binney _, Bradford , Yo _^ shire _, sharebrokers-. j Woolright , W . D , _Chidson _, T . Wait / and J . Lindsay , Liverpool , silk-mei _* cei _* s ' -J . Hilless and W . Todd , Bourn , tailors—J . James and'T . W . Richmond , Swansea , Glamorganshire , linen-drapers—R . Pitcher and P . Bates , Surrey Canal-bank , Old "Kent-road , tar . refiners-W . Allen and P . Long , Manchester , coach proprietors—J . H . Cuthbert and C . S . Bailey , Stonham Parva , Suffolk , beer-brewers .

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      . Newspateb Rev'ewi.I-0. — Can You Come ...

      _Newspateb Rev'ewi _. _i-0 . — Can you come to Antigone to-night ? said I , thrusting my head into the sub-editor ' s room at a weekly newspaper office . How much does it want to thc time ? An hour and a quarter . - _,..,.. , Well I have eighteen new books to look into ana notice . ' If I get done in time I'll go with you . Sharp work , said I . _, , , , , _„ Not particularly . They are short paragraphs ; only a column and a half altogether . Tint the reading ? , , . You don't _seriouslv think we read books ? . . How thc deuce , then , do you form your opinion of them ? , . Wc cut ' em open—and sniell the paper fcnite . — Hood ' s Magazine .

      Populatio . v Axalvsis _ExTRAORDitfAift " . —In addition to thc information afforded by the census of 1841 , we learn from the Leicester Mercury that the population of Leicester consists of three classes , viz ., those who believe in mesmerism , those who believe in magic rings , and those who believe in neither . Hint to Sfixsters ' . —In order to get married , you must learn to manage yourself ; and , after you have got married , to manage your husband ; and both together is what may be called the " Whole Duty of "Woman . "—Punch . Hint io Wives . — There are plenty of ways to bring a man to reason . His buttons may be not sewn on ; his dinner kept waiting , * pickles or potatoes not provided ; and there may be nothing for him but a cold shoulder when he expects a hot joint . — Ibid .

      Another !—There are two things that I would strongly impress upon you . One ia—never let you * husbands have a latch key , or they will take advantage of it to stay out . The otheris this—tell nobody your age ; for , recollect , human life is uncertain . You may become widows ; and , in that case , _fiud the disclosure a disadvantage . —Ibid , A Conscientious _Puwr . —In a court behind the Liverpool Collegiate Institution there is a pump , bearing thc inscription , " This pump does not work on Sundays , " Matrimonial Monopolists . —Eight widows having got married in Leeds within five days , thc _s pinster of that town are getting up a requisition for a publics meeting , to adopt the famous Pogmoor resolutions , and " put down" the infamous monopoly in marriage .

      To such an extent has this monopoly grown , that in 1812 the number * of widowers and widows who got married in England was no less than 20 , 198 ! Burking ax M . P . —There was once a man , according to the celebrated Greek author Delectus , who desired to jump over a hill , and took a run of three miles for that purpose ; bnt when lie reached its foot he found himself rather out of breath , so he quietly turned round and walked home again . Do our readers see anything in this pleasant and witty anecdote to remind them ofthe adventure of Mr . Roche , the member for Cork , as reported to have occurred the other night in tho House of Commons ? The Speaker was about to put a question from the chair , when Mr . E . B . Roche said he had come all the way from

      Ireland to—The Speaker . —All the way ? Mr . IXochc—Ycs , nil tho way , to ask a question of the Honourable Member for Bath . The Speaker said that such a question must not be askod . Mr . Roche liad no wish—Thc Speaker . —Then why did he say he had ? Mr . lloehc said he trusted—The Speaker said he never did . The Honourabl Member musk hold his tongue . Mi * . Roche snp 2 * oscd that—The Speaker said he had no right to suppose any thing of the kind . _H Mr . Roche hoped that lie was not asking too much then—The Speaker said he was asking a great deal too _nuieli . ...

      Mr . Roche said that Mr . Roebuck- had said that the Irish members had run from their posts—Tlic Spcakar said that Mr . Roebuck was quite right . It would have been nonsense to say that tlieir _poats had run from the Irish members . Mi * . Roche would return to Ireland—The Speaker said it was tho best thing thc Honourable Member could do . —Great Gun , Domestic _AcRrcrarffRE . —We heard of a gentleman who , last year , planted his onions close to his poppies , and the consequence was , they grew so sleepv that he never could get tkeni out of their beds , __ Hid .

      Repudiatcox . —Nothing uke it . —Joe Covrcll , in . his amusing reminiscences of his theatrical life , describes very humorously a theatrical family named Bland , consisting of a father and mother and two children , a boy and a girl , who were in a manner entailed by Stephen Kenible on the Durham theatre , when he leased it to Faulkner and Anderson . The parents did not live together , though they acted in the same theatre , and received twenty-five shillings a week each for the services of themselves and children . The man s dissipation and extravagance was the cause of their separation . The following description of a consultation between the father and son ( who acted as call-boy ) as to how the _fivc-and-twenty shillings , the week ' s salary , should be disposed of to the best advantage , is exceedingly laughable : —

      Sow , Johnny , my boy , the old man would say , let mo see . I owe eight shillings at the sign of the Saddle ; well , that ' s that , putting the amount on one side . Well , then , I promised to pay part of the score at the Blue Pig ; —well , say five shillings . There , HI stop Mother Pepper ' s mouth with that , now much does that make , John ? Why , nine—ten—eleven—twelve—thirteen shillings , says the boy , touching his five fingers . But I mean , you goose , how much have I got left ? How should I know , says John , Why don't you count it ?—you ' ve got the money _. But you ought to know , you young rascal , says the fatiier , with true parental authority ; you ought to know . Take thirteen from twenty-five—how many remain ? Why , twelve , to be sure , counting the balance silly in his hand . That ' s thc way you're neglecting your education , is it ? I shall have to talk to your school-master .

      Yes , you had better talk to him , says John ; for he told me yesterday , unless you let him have a little money , I needn't come to school no more . Ay , true , my dear—that ' s true ; you must not lose your education , at any rate , says the kind old man . Take him round five shillings after dinner , my dear . I had a po » with him last night , and he agreed , if I would let hhn have that much now , he'd take the rest out in tickets at the ben ., and treat the hoys . I want a pair of shoes , father , says John , I can get a capital-pair for three and sixpence . You must get them for three shillings , John ; we 0 W 9 the butcher four , and he must be paid , or we get no beef ; there , that ends it , said the poor old follow , with a selfsatisfied air ; but his vision of independence was in an instant destroyed by John ' s simply saj ing , You ' ve forgot the landlady , father .

      Yes , that ' s true—so I have ; yes , d nher * , she mua have her rent , or out ire go . John , my dear , I'll tell you how I'll contrive it . I'll put the Saddle off with four shillings , and open a branch account with the Yew Tree . Yes , that's all very well , says John quietly , but we owed her sixpence on last week , and she paid for the washing . "Well , how much does thc washing come to , John ? Two aud tuppence , replies the boy . Well , then , argues the old man , Mother Pepper must be content to take three shillings instead of five , But then , father , that won't do ; and we want tea . Who wants tea ? I don't care a fig for tea . But I do , replied the boy with provoking calmness . You want tea ! You'll want broad , you young rascal , shouts Bland in a rage . Bread ! that's true , exclaims John ; you forgot the baker .

      The old man's scheme to pacify his creditors with five and twenty shillings were all knocked on the head by the recollection ofthe baker ; and , sweeping the money Off the table into his breeches pocket , in a passion , he roared out , They may all go to the devil together ; I'm d—dif I pay any of them . _Wksimiksteuto _Wwl—O yes ! 0 _ yea ! Be'tt known to all whom it may concern , that John Temple Leader , the lost member for the borough of Westminster has come home , He was seen at Fenton _' s hotel , St . _James ' _S'Streot , on Wednesday evening looking very red in the face—not , however , the consequence of blushing so deeply for his long absence . His affectionate constituents are requested-to call upon liim at the earliest opportunity , when he wiU give a minute and particular account of the price of clarets and cheres amies , peaches and pettieoat 3 _, i tt the south of France . —iSatirat .

      PEEL AND PtISET . A surplus in the revenue ' s . A state of things that few tee , / And a surplice in the pulpit , too , O _, wondrous' Peel and Pusey . There is , indeed , a three years (?) pill Peel gives John Bull to swaUow ; But , though John Bull thinks he ' s not ill , There ' s _su _^ _ar-suiest to foUow . _Jffow Pusey , Exeter , and London , Have almost set John retching , With talk , of duties left undone , Aud . new costumes for preaching . So thougli"Johh' votes , you'll shrewdly-guess , _BotU " tax" and " talk" ' s a bore ; Peel promises John ' s duties less , , "While Pusey makes tliem more , —Ibid .

      _FonniDDiNG the Banns . —Although the Book of Common Prayer provides a form in which banns shall he published , it provides none in which they are to be forbidden ; but tliis desideratum it once fell to our lot to hear supplied , and the formula used wa 3 certainly at once terse and explicit . Immediately on the minister's concluding _^ ' If any of you know , & c ,, ye are now to declare it , " up started a most portly female , and exclaimed at the top of . her voice , with arms a-kimbo , " Mr . Parson , 1 stands here bodily , and forbids them ' ere banns openly _!"¦—ifoV &|

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 15, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_15031845/page/3/