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      Beauties Of Byron. So. Xv. "Chiide H____...

      BEAUTIES OF BYRON . SO . XV . " CHIIDE H ____ . OLI > . ' * Jn the notes fo the third canto of this immortal poem [ see Murray ' s one volume edition ] we find the following from the pen of Sir Walter Scott : — The first and second cantos of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" produced , on their appearance in 1812 , an effect upon the public , at least equal to any work which has appeared within this or the last century , and placed at once upon Lord Byron ' s bead the garland for wbich other men of genius have toiled long , and which they have _gained late . He was placed pre-eminent among the literary men of his country by general acclamation . It was amidst sneh feelings of admiration tbat bc entered the

      public stage . Everything in his manner , person , and conversation , tended to maintain the charm which Mis genius bad flunij around bim ; and those admitted to his _convexsation _, far from finding that ibalnsplred p _$ > et sunk into ordinary mortality , felt themselves attached to bim , not only by many noble qualities , but by the interest of a mysterious , undefined , and almost painful curiosity . A _countenanse exquisitely modelled to the expression of feeling and passion , and exhibiting the remarkable contrast of very dark hair and eyebrows with light and expressive eyes , presented to the physiognomist the mest interesting subject for the exercise of his art . The predominating- expression was that of deep and habitual thought , wliich gave way to the most rapid play of

      features when he engaged in interesting discussion ; so tbat a brother poet compared them to tbe sculpture of a beautiful alabaster vase , only seen to perfection when lighted up from within . The flashes of mirth , gaiety , indignation , or satirical dislike , which frequently animated Lord Byron ' s countenance , might , during an evening ' s conversation , be mistaken , by a stranger , for the habitual expression , so easily and so happily was it formed for them aU ; but those who had an opportunity of studying bis features for a length of time , and upon various occasions , both of rest and emotion , will agree tbat their properlanguagewas that of melancholy . Sometimes shades of this gloom interrupted eveu his gayest and most bappy _mo--rneiits .

      The following stanzas form the opening ofthe third canto : — js thy £ rir face like thy mother ' s , my fair child 1 Ada 1 sole _daughter of my house and heart ? * "When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled , And then we _parted—not as now we part , But with a nope . — Awaking with a start , The waters heave around me , and on high The winds lift up their voices : I depart , "Whither 1 know not ; i but the hour ' s gone by ,

      " When Albion 8 lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye . Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider . "Welcome to their roar ! Swift be their guidance whereso ' er it lead ! Though the strained mast should quiver as a reed , And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale , Still must 1 on ; for I am as a weed , Flung from Uie rock , on Ocean ' s foam to sail _Where ' er the surge may sweep , the tempest * * breath prevail .

      He , who grown aged in this world of woe , In deeds , not years , piercing tbe depths of life , So that no wonder waits him ; nor below ( Jin love , or sorrow , fame , ambition , strife , Gut to his heart again witli the keen knife Of silent , sharp endurance : he can tell Why thought seeks refuge in lone caves , yet rife With airy images , and shapes which dwell Still unimpaired though old , in the soul ' s haunted cell 'Tis to create and in creating love A being more intense , that we endow With fonn our fancy , gaining as we give The life we image , even as I do now .

      What ami ? _Nothing ; but wot so art thou , Soul of my thought ! with whom I traverse earth , Invisible but gazing , as I glow _10 x * d with thy spirit , blended with thy birth , And _feslin" still with thee in my crusb'd feelings' dearth Yet must I think less wildly : —1 hate thought Too long and darkly , till my brain became , In its own eddy boiling and o ' _crwrought A whirling gulph of phantasy and flame : And thus , untaught iu youth my heart to tame _. My springs of fife were poisoned . 'lis too late ! Yet am I changed ; though still enough tbe same In strength to bear what time can not abate Aud feed on bitter fruits without accusing Fate .

      In the stanzas following the above , the poet , " adopting more distinctly ihe character of Ghilde Harold than in the original poem , assigns the cause whv he has resumed his Pilgrim ' s staff , when it was hoped he had sat down for life a denizen of his native country . " That cause was his domestic unhappiness , which we shall not now further allude to . We cannot give the whole of the stanzas , butselect the following , fn wliich the poet , speaking of the "Uhilde , " describes himself : — Where rose tlie mountains , there to him were friends ; "Where _roll'd the ocean , thereon was his heme ; Where a blue sky , and glowing clime , extends , He liad the passion and the power to roam ; The desert , forest , cavern , breaker's foam , Were unto him companionship * , _futy spake A mutual language , clearer than the tone Of his land ' s tongue , which he would oft forsake Kor nature ' s pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake .

      Like the Chaldean , he could watch the stars Till he Had peopled them with beings bright As thtir own beams ; and earth , and earth-born Jars , And human ftailties , were forgotten quite : Could he have kep t his spirit to tbat flight He had been happy - , but this clay will sink Its spark immortal , envying it the light To which it mounts , as if to break the link That keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brink . But in man ' s dwellings he became a thing ItesUess and worn , and stern and wearisome , _Uroop'd as a wild-born falcon with dipt wing _. To whom the boundless air alone were hooae : Then came his fit again , which to o ' ercorae , As eagerly the barr'd up bird will beat His breast and beak against his wiry dome Till the blood tinge his plumage , so tlie heat Of his impeded soul would through his bosom cat .

      The Fate Of Hefobmers. [From " The Ocean...

      THE FATE OF _HEFOBMERS . [ From " The Ocean Flower . " By T . M . _Hc-hes . O 3 Ian _ tbou art the mystery ot the world , A compound of thc vile and the sublime , A fine creation all to chaos hurled , A thing of opposites , of pearl and slime . The glorious likeness of a God is there , But ah , the mirror blurred aud broken lie _ _=, Distoraug every feature—yet how fair—Worm of the Earth and angel of the Skies ! Thy life through error ' s maze doth wildering pass , Thy truths most precious doubt encircle ' s round Thy judgments , singular and in the mass , Are feeble , wavering , prejudiced , unsound . And they who labour most in thy behoof Arc- victims of thy persecution most ; Thou envicst , hatcst , jeerest , stand _' st aloof From those who fill discovery's foremost post . _Xt-w ages do them justice . Thou in life

      Dost _svuue tk 5 _benefactors—venomed _blotli ; Vet inured thisp lauet round , 'mid worldly strife , With Galileo aud his jailors both ! Art thou indeed , then , worthy of the toil , Tbe mental anguish , and the nervous shock , Of tbo v _ who , Earth to enlig hten , drudge and mod i—Prometheus , answer , chained upon thy rock ! Answer , great Hercules , thy labours done , EewaVded with the Centaur * * poisoned robe ; Give answer , _-Sbesews , _ott t l * _fc »» eU « on , Consigned io torture ' neath the passive Globe ; And answer all _ttet went before their time Amassing knowledge and diffusing light ; The bnmded 1 _' ariahs of erery clime—The dungeoned victims of a keener sight :

      Who = e mr'Iitv souls seemed formed for higher orb And casual dropt upon this humbler earth ; Yea , answer He whose grief aU grief absorbs , Divine " disturber" nailed for Sion ' s mirth i Answer , thou Globe , and show beneath thy sod , Up turned and smiling in eternal youth , The bones of aU the martyred saints of God , And _lmtcnered worshippers of Freedom , Truth ' . . Proscribed , maligned , reviled , aad hunted by The thing miscalled Society , a tear _JMight dim , but aU in vain , the martyr ' s eye ; 4 conscience pure transcends all human fear . . And Ibis shall be your fate till ends the world , Ye who would be Reformers ! would expose _Jfc _' rror or vice , Truth ' s sunlitnag unfurled , \ nd fearlessly defy her cruel foes .

      Set , oh , despair not . great and generous souls , But bold pursue your tasks of human love ; To thankless mortals _multiidy your doles , And trust for rourrenard from powers above

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      _^ _TiV _^ rvi ' OItY OF SUIGIDts . A rmsos flit 1 _'V . _^ Ai b _^* Bv Thomas _Coowm . the _KnniE is / es ? _r _TTnw 132 Beet-Street . Chartist London : J . now , I * , riser _, r Continued _fromihe Star of October UthJ

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      find a . halt in it , unless indeed he should bC _^ _aTeligiqua bigot ,, in which : caw _, ke will not be shwt-. oi matter on which to ground his cavillings . _Arto •/ beauties , " the puzzle is not twfind them , thie _pusSe is to select a few stanzas out of the hundred aiid thirty—all beautiful _> contained frJtbe "Book , " which shall give the reader something like an idea of this portion of the poem . We give the following from the " notes , " as a necessary introduction to the opening stanzas : — Six human beings underwent capital P'ihtehment in front of Stafford Gaol , during the two years _? remained in it . The entire procedure in any one instance , of course , I could not witness : on one occasion , only , — when , on account of the eaily Hour and season- of the year , I had not been removed from my night-cell , —I beheld tbe grim preface to tbe legal butchery . Without

      repeating the testimonies of reflecting men who havo _attended executions , as to the hardening effect of those savage spectacles , —1 will just observe that while the sound of tbe death-bell for the first execution filled me and my fellow-prisoners with paroxysms of distress , —on the Second , third , and fourth occasions , we became com- ' paratively unconcerned . And , when I was left a solitary prisoner , the sound of tbe death-bell , for the last time , created a few bitter thoughts of the abhorrent and uncivilized nature of the impending tragedy ; but a kind of careless disgust folio wed , from the instant reflection that all my dislike- of the brutal transaction was vain . And , within ten minutes after the death-bell had ceased , I actually caught myself humming " Te Banks and Braes o ' Bonny Doonl" Sow , amore sensitive and excitable human creature than myself ,-perhaps , does not exist : but there is tbe honest fact—such as startled me

      by its strangeness , at the time : —let the advocates for thc usefulness of capital punishments aa " impressive moral lessons" make what they can of it . Blood I Wood!—l ' e human hell-hounds , —when , oh when Will ye have had your fill ? The hazy morn Hath scarcely dawned upon this grisly den Of demon Power , ere yon poor wretch forlorn 13 led to slaughter : —led t—nay , fainting , borne Vnto the ladder ' s foot' . Murder by lair , In lieu of ined ' eine till his wits return , And pity , for a creature whose brain-flaw Urged him , ev ' n while he wept , to lay bis infant low ' . It is the death-toll : there . ' they bear him on ! I climb to read the lesson through my bars .- — Hah ! curse upon thee , priest!—is it well done _. That thou , a peace-robed herald pattering prayers , Dost head the dead-march 1 Trow ' st thou not it j are

      With that sky-message which proclaimed , thou say ' st , " Peace and Goodwill to Man" t—aye , that it mars The face of mercy to behold tliee placed There , in grim state , ' tween spears with crape , in mockery graced ? 'Tis passed , —the bloody cavalcade : Farewell , Poor pale , weak , _fellow-wormi ' twill soon be o'er , — Thy tearful pilgrimage . 'Tis done !—the knell Ceases ; aud though 1 , _happ'ly , see no more Of the fell tragedy , —the sullen roar Of groans aud execrations , pierces through 3 fy dungeon-grating , —for the _gauers pour The heart ' s involuntary curie on you , Te hireling butchers who now " give the law its due" ! Addressing the priests , the poet says : •—"What tyrants leave an vanquished in the mind By threat of chains , the gallows , flame , or sword , — "_ l e humble by your llell I—

      WA 3 I uot blind-To judge ye inconsistent ! True accord Subsists between your new and elder " word . " Te throw away no part : it is because , —¦ With cunning shrewder than the simple horde 0 ' th' laity , —ye ken the penal clause Blends in one spirit fierce tUe old and late Jews' laws - # ¦ # * * Hell-fire—coercion—for the ingrate hard Who will not love the God set forth as high , Vast , indescribable , in bis Love ' s regard For Men ! - "Love bim—or Ha will magnify "His glory by consigning thee to die

      * ' In ceaseless flames an ever-living death ' . " 0 Christ ! how can I love what doth outvio All tyrannies in horribleness of wrath—This monstrous Tiling derived from an old monster Faith f Thine , Galilean , is of all earth ' s creeds The greatest marvel I Wonder at thy toil Of tears , " self-sacrifice , and love succeeds Each step we tread with thee—till this dread foil Unto thy moral beauty doth despoil The yearning heart of its impassioned hope ; Beatli-stricken _, Mighted , doth the soul recoil From its tempestuous wish to love thee : droop It must in doubt : —and to its Oourne in darkness grope !

      Alas 1 thy repetition of that most Enslaving of all slavish thoughts—a Hell Wherewith the I ' riest may threat to tame the ghost Of him who dares in mortal life rebel 'Gainst Faith or Kings—restrains tbe heart's love swell Rushing to centre in thee , and reveals To Reason that thou couldst not burst the spell Of _Cwcuvastawce— -which ev'n the mightiest seals In impotence : we do but act as she impels . In ihe midst of his reveries the poet is startled by observing the destroying arts of the spider ; this painful sight induces some startling but perfectly rational reflections on the priest-taught dogma of a universal Providence unchangeably just anil good : which dogma appears to the poet to bo exceedingly questionable _, llabl murderous spider ' . —when 1 watched thee spread

      Thy cobweb yestermorn , it did relieve A dreary prison-hour to mark each thread From thee , thou magic artisan , receive Its faery texture : while I saw thee weave That _daidal miracle , this poison-thought Hose not that now impelletli me to grieve Much more than to admire—to grieve and doubt , As , in a torment-web , like thy poor victim , caught ! Priest ! dost thou smile , beholding how tlie web Of thought , involves , at length , its devotee , And lays bim , helpless as a Hmberbabe , AtMystery ' s feet ? Oh . ' I will slander thee Xomore : if Jiature hath a Deity , The Bible doth not slanderously limn _Hisportraiture : Author of agony The living book doth , hourly , picture Him : The written—thrones a Slaughterer 'tween the Cheru bim !

      'Tis clear ; who tries the Faith by _nature ' s test , — 0 modern Stagyrite!—between thy creed And Her must own " Analogy" confest . ¦ ' Submit thee , then , vain doubter!—since decreed « It is that life consists of things of greed ' And things to be their prey , —submit and bow _« To Him who made them thus : back , that may lead « Tliee to the Faith in whieh , thou dost allow , ' The Deity is drawn with Nature's girded brow !' Priest . ' I will answer thee with tliat free soul These bolts and bars have only served to thew . — Forty short summers towards my earthly goal Have I now journeyed , —and , for me , but few More summers ean remain : Wrong to eschew , And Right to choose , with heartfelt earnestness , How cau I lack dispose , —while , to my view , The grave is yawning iu its cold duresse To close what tyrants leave of my clay ' s feebleness ?

      Priest ! I have felt by turns from earliest days , As well as calms , the tempest ofthe brain : _Pervid devotion , aud the wild rapt blaze Of ecstasy in prayer ; ascetic pain And fasting ; midnight book-toil to obtain The key to facts—knowledge of tongues of old ; Weighing of evidence—grave , —long , —again ; "With constant watcbiugs how Man doth unfold Whatis the impress true he bears _fromNature ' s mould;—And this , in humbleness I would declare , And yet with courage , is my only Faith : — Goodness alone , with its blest , yearning care , Is worshipful—for Goodness only hath Power to make good and happy things of breath And thought . If Man can be transformed Wholly to virtue , —punishment aud wrath , — Taught by all priests that on thc earth bave swarmed , — Must be untaught ; and Man by Love to Right be charmed .

      Goodness alone is worshipful . —ftot wliat Gives life , hut what gives happiness is good . I cannot worship what I own a blot To be in my own nature—hasty flood Of feeling that with ireful hardihood Would rush to do what I would soon regret : Xor cau 1 worship , priest 1 thy Shapes ot Blood , Or Nature ' s cause of Pain : —if to beget Love in the soul these fail—shall worship , there bc met ? I cannot worship what I cannot love . ——If tliis be vicious , piiest . shew ine ttie way To virtue : I will own , — -if thou dost prove My error : but , till then , I humbly say , I think the error thine . To resurvey , For proofs of Deity , great Nature ' s face , Drawn , _« rea impelled , unto Mind ' s latest Uaj , I . _chall be by Her wonders;—but—th' embrace Of _All-nervauing Goodness , _—shalllfindlt ' stsaee I

      I say not that there is no God : but that _Itatow not . Dost thou know , or dost thou guess ?—• Whv should I _.. _skthee , priest ? Darkness has sat With _Lh'ht on Sature , — Woe with Happiness—Since human worms crawled from their languageless Imperfect embryons , and by signs essayed To picture their first thoughts . 'Tis but excess Of folly to attempt the great charade ( To solve ; and yet the irking wish must be obeyed . The poet next re-ihtroduces us to the assemblage of renowned suicides . The following amongst other charactersfigure in this book— Demosmie . ves , Whose lightning tipped tongue . Had made Greece glorious unto farthest time , Had Socrates ne ' er lived , nor Homer sung , Ji or Marathon been found beneath her clime ; _Themistocxes .

      Whose name with Siuamis shall live 1 For aye : " - - ¦ - , _andDu-us " the latest Creek . " . _Ofltomaiw there are _Cato , _Caius Cbucciics , _Cuhiics , and BnjJTiis and Cassics . ' " Besides" these , there are _ILcraiBii , PHOtms , _Saui * and several others ; together .-with mahv of the _character described in the previousbooks . Peer Saul is quite willing _to . _gpre « J ? wyw

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      ¦ mockeries * for the advancement' of the general good ; ! his only- regret is , that- i «'; hisi . mortsility , he wus ' _doonied'tb-be-a king . In _the _* fcbree following stanzas jfrom _his-speeuh , Bible-readers-will find- some rather jtoughish' nuts to crack ;"— ' I When - Samuel ,. in my sight , to piecesheweili The royal Agag , whom I longed to save—I saw that when . Jehovah bad a feud With his poor human worm , He would not wave Hisclhimto justice- —but , upon the slave Who dared ' _to-step _* between His holy wrath ' And the doomed victim , He would vengeance-hove—Slow—signal—sure » The Everlasting ' s path Who can find out ?—who comprehendeth what H « faith '

      His prophet did my humble head anoint , And said the tord had chosen me to rule : Exterminating war God did appoint On Amelek , next : —His ways are wonderful ! When I besought , at His Divine footstool , Pardon for weakness-, _Agag's holy Slayer Said God did' notrepe ' nt like man !—How dull Are our perceptions l—Did he not declare Me monarch , and repent I—He who refused my prayer I All—all is mystery I I sought no thrones : — My father ' s asses as I following , roamed O ' er the wild wilderness— -if on me shone The cheering sun , or sterile Nature gloomed—A kingdom seemed to me;— but I was doomed To know the mockery of earthly bliss!— . And is not Sheol mockery ?—We are wombed In dread and doubt—fearing to do amiss—And to do well , lack power te > burst our destinies !

      Mr . Cooper ' s " notes" are very interesting ,. some of them being in themselves complete though oriel histories or biographies of celebrated characters . The following is a specimen : —

      _CLEANTBES Is a noble . Greek example of mind triumphing over difficulties . He was at iivst a "fisty-cuffcr" —as tbe old translators phrase it , in the edition of Diogenes Laertius " made English by several hands : '' 1698—" but coming to Athens , with no more than four drachmas in his pockets , and meeting with Zeno , he betook himself most sedulously to the study of Philosophy , < fcc . " "By night ( says Enfield , who renders Laertius more elegantly ) he drew water as a common labourer in thc public gardens , that he might have leisure , in the _ddy-timu , to attend ' the schools of philosophy . The Athenian citizens observing that though he appeared strong and healthy , lie had no visible means of subsistence , summoned him before thc court of Areopagus , according to the custom of the city ,

      to give an account of liis manner of living . Upon this , he produced the gardener for whom he drew water , and a woman for whom he ground meal , as witnesses to prove that he subsisted by the honest 1 . boiir of his hands . The judges of the court were so struck with admiration of this singular example of industry and perseverance , that they ordered ten mince to be paid him out of the public treasury—which , however , Zeno would not suffer him to accept . ...... Cleauthes was for many years so poor , that he was _obligsd to write the hoads of his master ' s lectures upon shells and bones , for want of money to buy paper . "—The suicide of this philosopher , at a very advanced age , was singularly quiet and yet heroic . His physicians recommended fasting for some disease with wliich he was afflicted ; and having abstained from fond for two days , although he bad thus subdued his disorder , he refused to cat atrain , saying that since he had travelled

      so far towards tho end of life he would not go back again—and , accordingly , died by voluntary 'total abstinence . '—The testimonies to the elevated morality of his life are abundant , ' ' In this book eloquent and truly poetical speeches in favour of equality areput into the mouths of Dk-MOSTHESES , THEMlSTOCMiS , _ChKAHTlIES _, _CaII / S G { tAO _cnus , _Lvcuroos , and others . The speech of _Lycuygus concludes the book ; wo give the following extracts therefrom : — Error , from human ignorance darkly sprang . As children misname things , and shout or shriek , From pleasure or affright—so mankind sang , In rhapsodies of joy , the golden streak ' Of morn ; and , when they heard the thunder speak , Bowed down in awe , and wept . Infants in mind , They marvelled—and made gods of visage meek Or terrible , and , then , to them assigned Rule o er the sun and eloud , the sky , and sea , and wind _.

      Thrones , likewise , sprang from human ignorance : — Nature ' s rude elements presented war For Man : rocks , earth-flames , ocean ' s vast expanse , Storms , forests , savage beasts , were found to mar Man ' s _eass or rest : on every side a bar Opposed itself , alike to further good , Or present peace : —then , he an exemplar Was held who overcame , by hardihood , Lion or bear , horrors of cavern , flame , or flood . Such were old Earth ' s primeval monarchs : kings , Leaders , by courage—holding simple sway—If sway they held—by useful compassiugs Of larger means for nourishing man ' s clay . 0 Mithridates , when I heard thee say Some were born natural leaders , unto these _1 turned—the chiefs of patriarchal day—Comparing them with lords that Earth now sees—The puny _htldings man approaches on his knees 1

      Cities were built , and man subdued the soil : — But , now , Craft grew , and seized on mystery-Life , death , _sim , stars—all that the sons of . toil Saw without comprehending ;—and with glee , Secret but strong , saw Man a devotee _Become , credent and humble—reverent laud Rendering unto the I ' riest as lowlily As to the gods this minister of fraud Said he heard speak—while men him listed , overawed . Then , between Priest and King grew contest rife For mastership ; and Ganges and old Nile— ' Whose sacred servants foremost led the strife—Beheld the proof , in many a mighty pile That decked their marges , how completely Guile Could triumph over Strength . But , in the end , Altar and Throne felt it unworth tho while To waste each other—since , they shrewdly kenned The prey enough for both : —so King called Priest—hie friend !

      Long , dreary , miserable years have fled—Since the foul compact first was ratified , By Priestcraft placing on throned Kingship ' s head , With hands in reeking blood of victim dyed , The gaud of gold—thc sign of kingly pride— . Long , dreary , ' suffering , weeping , wailing years : — Oft have the bruised and trampled sufferers tried To rise;—but the Priest ' s curse woke inward fears , And they bowed down again unto their toil with tears ! # * * * Say ye , Right ' s triumph , like a dream , shall fade , 'Neath swift rewaking vigour of throned Power ?—Monarchs , be not deceived I Right , now , hath aid From Knowledge—hid by priests in seeretbower ,

      And when tbence _' scaped _. caught , and to dungeon-tow cr By them condemned—yea , to the fiery flame!—They knew not of her high immortal dower , Thc veritable Phccnix—whom to tame , Or to destroy , will ever mock old priestly aim I Lo . ' she hath ta ' en young Freedom by the hand—And , in the strength and comeliness of youth , Supplanting Craft and Power in every land , And heralding the reign of Love and Truth , They go . Yet little reek they of tbe growth Of Right and Knowledge , who the glorious pair Regard not : —the besotted shapes uncouth That dream , like _age-cramped spiders in their lair , Their cobweb safe—though winds sport with it in the air .

      And , brothers , here we solemnly obtest _^ The Sovereignties of Nature that the toil We will not cud , till Men and spirits West Hold general jubilee I— no said;—and , while He stretched aloft his bund—from motley pile And throne , great souls arose , and instant raised A hand aloft—each with a godlike smile!—And light empyreal from each essence blazed , Until I woke—with the bright vision soul-bedazed . * ( To le Continued . )

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      DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING _MAGAZINE—Octobek . London : Punch OSice , 92 , Fleet-street . In chapter xviii . of the excellent story of " St . Giles and St . James , " the reader is re-introduced to that oddity , the misanthropic , benevolent muffinmaker , Co ' ptlid ; now retired from business , and the inmate of a country residence , which this would-be modern Diogenes has christened with the name oi the " Tub . " Bright Jem , the kind-hearted linknian , now an old and withered man , is _herniit-conipaiiion of the ex-muHinmakcr . An accident brings St . Giles in contact with these two , though up to the close of the chapter he has not informed them who he is . This chapter is made the medium for some ofthe most beautiful thoughts ever given birth to by any writer . " Serving the People" is a good article , containing much wholesome truth . " The Fiery Tongue , " though not to be rated very high as a poem ,

      is amply redeemed from all impevtections by tuffl excellent spirit and nob _. eobjecfc of theauthor . " Cromwell in the Shades" " needs no ghost" to recommend the article . The article entitled " The Englishman in Prussia" we gave in this paper of the 4 th inst ., under the head of "The Prussian Despotism . " The seventh chapter of a "'History for Young Mglanu _^ has for Its subject "Early English Churchmen . The article is ably written , and shows the writer to be inthnatclv acquainted with thc subject on winch he writes . This " history" is the most valuable we have ever read , as regards England , and our only regret is , that the writer did not begin at the beginning , instead of commencing with the Conqueror . Every youth should read this ' excellent " history . " Thc Hedgehog Letters , " ' " The Philosopher Married , " "The Confessions of a Quack , " and . _previews" of several new works from , the remaining contents of this number . . We take the following extract from the " Hedgehog Letters ' : "— : ' .

      UAH / WAV _s . There ' s nobody ia town ; and nothing in the _papei'S but p lans of railways , tbat hi a little time will cov , er all England like a spider ' s net ; and , as in the net , these will be agbod many dies caught and gobbled up , by those who spiifit _. _<*' - ¦ - ' _- ¦ ' _« - ' " _•' ' * _*" ¦' ' _» ' * _8 _« ¦ £ A _ ad _, isn't *' it ii fine thing—I know you don't think ! so , bujt'isn't it _k-td know thatallthat'Sbeen done , and . a _^ , that ' s to ; do ,, wiij be don . _^ hecause Englishmen have _lifit off _cutting etfiei _m-m _' s . sbroats ! That peace has 4 one it all J If thej

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      ougMtn t to-set up a * dove ; with ; an _" oHv » _brancfr' _-rt- < every _railway-termuiuvl ' m a _» impostor . Yos _,-8 _randmbttier , peaee Das done it-all I Only tlHriU of theironthathad _beenrnelted Jntocanno ' n and rbu h * , shbt , and chain shot ,, and all the other sorts of . shot' that the _devilsona holiday play at" bowls ' with . —if the warhad _gons . _onf all the . very iame iron that ' s now peaceably laid- ' upon sleepers ! Think of the iron that had been fired into- the sea , , and banged through quiet people's houses , and sent masKihg squares and squares of . men—God ' s likenesses in- red ; blue , - and * green coats ; hired to be killed at so many ' plence a day—only think , what would have been ' this wicked ; I will say it ; this ' blasphemous waste of metal—that , - an it is , has been made into steam-engines : Very fine ; indeed , they _sayi istnovoav of artillery ; but what is it to thc roar of steam f I never see an engine ; witli'i ts red-hot coals and its clouds of steam and smoke , that it doesn ' t seem to me like a tremendous dragon tliat has been tamed by man to carry all lhe blessings of civilisation , to his

      feiiow-matures . * ¦¦ _- _.-.. * # ¦ . # ; Well . I should like the ghost of Buonaparte to get up some morning , and take the _Twiwin his thin hands . If he wouldn't turn ycllowe * than ever he-was at St . Helena I Thero he'd see plans for railways _iiiFranee- _^ beUy France , as I believe they call it—to bo carried out by Frenchmen and Englishmen . Yes ; he wouldn't see . 'em mixing bayonets , trying-to poke ' em in one another ' s bowels , that a few tonB of blood might , as they call it , water its _lairrels —( bow any man can wear _Jmirelsat all , I can't tell , they must smell so of the slaughter-house . ')—he wouldn ' t see ' em charging one another on- the battle-field , but quietly ranged , _choek-by-jowl _, in the list of directors I Not exchanging bullets , but clubbing together their hard _ea 9 h _

      Consider it , grandmother , isn't it droll ? Here , in these t « ry lists , you see English captains and eolonels in company with French viscounts and barons , and I don't know what , planning to lay ' iron down in France , to civilise andadd to the prosperity of Frenchmen . * * The Prince Joinville is now and then looking about our coast to find out , it is said , which is the softest part of us , in the case of a war , to put his foot upon us . Poor fellow I hVs got the disease of glory ; only , as it sometimes happens with the small-pox , it has struck inwards ; it can t Come OUt Upon him . When We've railways laid

      down , as I say , like a spider ' s web all over the country , won't it be a little bard to catch us asleep ? For you sod , just like the spider ' s web , the electric telegraph ' ( inquire what sort of a tiling it is , for I havn't time to tell you ) , the electric telegraph will touch a line ofthe web ; when down will come a tremendous spidurin a _redeoat with all sorts of murder after liim ! Mind , grandmother , let us hope this never may happen : but' when folks who'd molest us know it can come about , won't they let us alone ? ¦ Depend upon it , we ' re binding war over to keep the peace , and the bonds are made of railway iron I

      You'd hardly think it—you who used to talk to nie about the beauty of glory ( I know you meant nothing but red coats and the fine epaulets ; for that , so often is women's notion of glory , tho' bless ' em , they ' re among the first to make lint , and cry over the sons of glory , with gashes spoiling all their " 1 fine feathers )—you'd hardly think it , but they ' re going to put up a statue to the man whofirst made boiling water to run upon a rail , It ' s quite true * . I read it only a day or two ago . They ' ro going to fix up a statue to George Stephenson , in Newcastle . How you will cast up your dear old eyes when you hear of this J YoUi _wfio ' ro only thought that statues should be put up to Queen-Anne , and George the Third , and his nice son , George the Fourth , and such people I I should only like a good many of the statues here in London , to be made to take a cheap train down to Newcastle , to see it . If , dirty as they are—and dirty as they wero—they

      wouldn't blush as red aa a new copper halfpenny , why , those statues—especially when _they ' ve queens and kings in ' em—are the most unfeelingest of metal I What a lot of mangled bodies , and misery , and house-breaking , and wickedness of all sorts , carried on and made quite lawful by a uniform , may we see—if we chose to see at allabout the statue of what is called a conqueror ! What firing of houses , what shame , that because you ' re a woman , I won't more particularly write about—we might look upon under the . statue , that is only so high because it has so much wickedness to stand upon ! If the statue could feel at all , wouldn't it put up its hands , and hide its face , although it was made of the best bronze . When Georgo the Fourth is made to hear the news— ( for kings are So very long before tbe truth comes to ' cm)—he'd like ' to gallop off to the first meltei _*' s , ' ftnd go at once into the _nothini ; that men think hiin .

      We fear that Douglas Jkriiold js over sanguine a 3 to the moral and beneficial effects likely to flow from the union of English and French speculators in forming railroads iu Prance . Still the above noble ideas do honour to _* _% e heart of the writer . We need not say , that with the spirit of those ideas we cordially concur . In expressing our fears that Douulas _Jeubom . is over-sanguine in his belief in the continuance of peace , and the rapid progress of . general union , we do not do so without cause . Wo have on former occasions commented on the detestablespirit animating the war-journals of France , and we now invite the reader ' s attention to the following specimen of Anglo .-phobia on tlie part of the National : — .

      The French and _ENotisn Flags , — A very strange facthas been pointed out to us , to which we call the attention of tho ' public , for it pushes courtesy and the enteiite cordials a great deal too far . Travellers who pass by Barantin _, near Rouen , may sec on tbe aqueduct ( the National , no doubt , means viaduct ) ofthe railway the English flag raised by tho side of the French = flag ; The French flag , indeed , does not appear to be admitted at all excepting by tolerance , for it occupies the left . '' It has also been remarked that . at the time of th e Rouen races the English flag was hoisted on all the booths occupied by Englishmen . What is the meaning of this importation of English colours into the middle of France 1 There has beeii , certainly , a great degree of cowardice on the part of the local authorities who could tolerate such

      improprieties . By what right is an English flag displayed ? On account of works done in France ? Is it because these works arc conducted to some extent by . Englishmen ? We should like to know in that case if in England the French flag is tolerated in the same way 1 In principle , there is only the French flag , and there can be no other in France . It is of little consequence whether the works in masonry be done by English or by Chinese . They are made in France , and for France , and that is enough . It is to be hoped that the superior authorities will give orders to their subordinates to prevent this English flag from coming to insult the susceptibilities of French nationality by its presence . This right de banniere , which the English thus abuse , is not an affair of indifference . If it were , the English would not show themselves so persevering in their pretensions . —National .

      The above is a specimen of French nationality run crazy . The National professes to be an advocate oi " progress ; " its politics ave , we believe , Republican , and " something more ; " but , judging by the above paragraph , we must consider the iVati ' _onaZ as the organ of retrogession , rather than of progress . It would lead the world back to the " good old times " when nations savagely slaughtered each other for the hono « V Of a wretched rag of bunting , christened with the title of " flag , " or "banner . " French

      Republicanism teaches the abolition of nationalities and the substitution of fraternity instead ; but French Republicans , that is such Republicans as the writers in the National , would let loose the hell-hounds of war , and cover the earth with carnage and tears for the purpose of exalting the French flag ! The writer in the National evidently would make this exhibition in France of a bit of English bunting on the top of a drinking booth a casusbclli between the two nations ! Is this miserable barbarism a specimen of the much vaunted French civilisation ? If

      SO" 0 , shame to thee , land of the Gaul . " For ourselves , we earnestly desire the fraternity and common union of all nations , and it is because we desire this , that we protest against the rabid trash of the writer in thc National

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      HIE ILLUMINATED _MAGAZINE-Ociohkr . London : J . Clayton , 320 , Strand . Of " The Dead Guest , " continued in this number , we can say nothing , as not having seen the first and second numbers of this ( the hew ) series , jind , therefore , not having seen thc commencement of the story , we have hot read any portion of it . " Faith above all things" evidences deep thought and sound sense on the part of tlie writer , combined with a hopeful belief in human progress . In saying this , we speak of tlie avticlc generally ; there are exceptionary passages we cannot accord with ; the beau ideal of a reformer , sketched in this article , is hardly to our liking ; it strikes us that a true reformer " should be made of sterner stuff . " The " Sketches of Indian Sports" is capital , anil has but one fault ; it is too brief ; it would take a lone ; story indeed to tire us if

      written bjr . the author of these '' Sketches . " "The Widow of Lyons , " is a short but pleasing story , chiefly valuable for the beautiful illustration heading it . " The Foorhousc Fugitive , " being a sequel to "Bob Thin , in the September number , is most tastefully and beautifully illustrated . "Thc Past , the Present , and the Possible , " iscontinucd , ami if the narrative of the writer is _i-cally a history of his own experiences , ' then ; indeed , is " truth stranger tlian fiction ; " but whether truth or fiction , the story ' of our cosmopolitan friend is very interesting . " Mr . " Zigzag" continues his delightful " Recreations . " Chap . xi . gives an account pf "Sayos Court , Deptford , " the residence of the 'celebrated " Eybms " . " and chap . xii . describes " -Green-Ar bour Court , " sometiihe the London r esidence of the 20 od-hcarted Oliver'Goldsmith : —

      "lor shortness called mill , Who wrote like an angel , and talk'd like poor Poll . " This is a charming chapter . . The notices ofthe life and eccentricities bf our beloved Oliver lire most-interesting , and we are strongly tempted to quote the entire ' ehapter \ we _' must ,. however , content ourselves with the following extracts .: —" ¦ ' *

      ... _OLVttB _OOLPSMITB . The career of Goldsmith was . marked i not _only . by , the vicis 3 _itiide _« incidental ; to . the life of an _' outhor _SUbsiitillg by his _pM _. but _iteJuctualions _jWerc likewise aggravated , by tbe _waywa-jd-tendeijcieiqf an _uasettled and romantic disposition . When . a . bo _£ " The History of the Rogues and _Kapiywees _^ ' ml tint lives , oi pirates , _rook-r _^ ao / l

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      smugglers , received ' a " greater _sHare of hie ' attention than- the more regular sources of _lastruetion ; and' during . th ' e period ' of his _detrolt _' ory _g ' _tudies-at Trinity College , DubHnj-h < . < gavVbut little indlcation'of character , save such tokens , as appertain to that ofa * good-hearted , ' worthless-fellow ; ahd _^' _althoughtheprbfiiisiona of divinity- law . and medicine were successively set-before him , neithfer of them was found suited to " a _' . gc ' nuif which would have . its own time' and its own wayi- ¦ Tlie former _proreda'course for . which he had no vocation- _,-and such was ids-modesty and ingenuity in that particular , that when ) in ' _after- _'lifej'be happened to be asked to pray at ' a friend ' s house , he declined the office on the pleai'Of . not being good-enough '; _Thelcgal profession appeared'too expensive a * venture to the friends of the improvident

      scapegrace ; and some skill in throwing the sledge-hammer , _and-a pretty regular course of tippling at tbe _inn-of Ballymahon ; constituted ,- at this time , the chief _profi 1 _- ciency of _Jlastfir JfttH , Who was now dedicated to thsstudies preparatory to a " degree in the healing art . The scrapes , disgraces ,-and other dilemmas that distinguished this period of his- life , were mingled with many circumstances which manifested the native warmth and humanity of his ' disposition , and certain others which foreshadowed the nature of his future career : for , when put to lhe shifts for the ' means of paying a tavern score , be would write a ballad _and carry it to the sign of the Reindeer , in Montrath-street , where the Dublin Catnach of the time was always ready to furnish him with the amount of five shillingsin > payment for such a production .

      Green Arbour-court was the first settled London abode of Goldsmith . Having passed two years in the study of medicine under the elder Monro , at Edinburgh , where ho failed to __ take a degree , and another year at Leydeu , with the like ill success , ho proceeded over a considerable portion of the Continent : ' at one time travelling from one convent , to another , earning , his night ' s entertainment , after the manner of a roving jstudent of the" fifteenth century , by the _exAviVntion of his scholarship ; at another , piping merrily for his'tapper at the humble door of some cottage in tha sunny and- ' music-loving land of Italy . The wanderer had landed at-Dover , forlorn and destitute , and was jweBently engaged in that most melancholy of all pursuits—the search for employment in London . . This may be supposed _ta have been the

      mOSt trying period of Goldsmith ' s whole life ; and when , about ten _years-afterwaids , he began a ; story , to the surprise of a brilliant party at the house of Sir Joshua Reynolds , with " When I lived among the : beggars of Axelane , " itwas probably a reminiscence of tho very time when he wandered from one druggist ' s shop to another , humbly soliciting employment of any description . An obscure chemist had at length taken compassion on him , and the result . had been a brief sojourn at the cornor of Bell-yard , near theMonument . Thencxt transition had been an essay in the character of ' a physician on the Rankside , Southwark , upon the strength of the degree of bacholorin medicine , supposed to have been obtained at Louvain , and by the Uslp of Sleigh , a former fellowstudent at Edinburgh . Bnt Esculapius was hot

      propitious to this erratic disciple ; and , in spite of the suit of green velvet nnd gold , bought . at second hand , to enhance the dignity of his professional appearance , ' and although , in consequence of a patch whicli was discovered in the coat after the . bargain was concluded , the hat of the physician was invariabl y held so as to ' cover tlie left breast during a consultation , still the lack of patients or fees had induced a speedy termination of this adventure , and thus probably saved the lives and constitutions of some of the King ' s liege subjects . This was followed by an attempt to fulfil Hie duties of an usher to a school at Peckham ; but the _trickaof the young gentlemen , " the drudgery by day , aud last , - not least , the misery of being obliged to sleep on-the same pillow with

      a Frenchman , who stunk him dead with rancid pomatums , - '' had completed the disgust of the doctor , and finally drove him to Green Arbour-court , and the daily drudgery of a literary life . It was here that Malone found the doctor , " employed in writing his ' Inquiry into _Tolitc Learning , ' in a wretchedly dirty room ill which there wus but one chair ; and whan , f rom civility , this was offered to his visitant , he himself was obliged to sit in the window . While they were convening , some one gently rapped at the door , nnd , on being desired to come in , a poor ragged little girl of very decent behaviour enteved _, who , dropping a curtsey , said , ' My mamma sends her compliments , and begs the favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals . '""

      No one had ever met poverty and toil with a manlier spirit than Goldsmith did ; the immense catalogue of lii _ t obscure productions , ranging'from the history of empires even to that of ' "Goody Two . Shoes , " attest his indefatigable industry and patient endurance of unworthy toil . But such , exertion will produce a reaction . The mind of the ' author had lost its elasticity ; the spirit of the man flagged'and tfuj buoyant disposition that had carried him through so many trials was not of sufficient tension to urgo the last few steps towards the goal , in sight of which he fell . But , if the . spirit flagged , the

      heart remained true and tender to the last . He still played witli the children , and " taught the dog to beg ;" and it is told of him , that , being at a dinner-party , he suddenly ran out into the street _to-give ' aUhehadin his pocket to a poor ballad-singer . " Some of the company observed and remarked on . his lavish bountifulness . ' Oh , ' said he , ' you were all saying she sung sweetl y , but you did not perceive the misery of her notes , ' " He only , who had felt the thorn in his own breast , could detect the sorrowful secret in the song of the wounded ni ghtingale . " .

      On the 14 th of April , 1778 , Oliver Goldsmith departed from a life of many sorrows , with some bright glimpses of fame , and a few brief intervals of enjoyment . His mind had begun to prey upon itself , and the body suffered in the struggle . His last act as a-physician wns a-fatal one ; for his final prostration was hastened by an overdose . of a powerful medicine of his own prescription . IU was buried in the Temple Church , and his monument is in . Westminster Abbey , but thousands who have never so _? . n it have a better in their own henrt 3 when they recal those scenes of virtue ,-without affectation of pathos , without extravagance , and of wit and humour ¦ without offence or license , which embellish his works , of whom the great moralist bus said , he "left scarcely any kind of writing untouched , and touched none but what he adorned . " This number ofthe Illumwttd contains also a review of Mr . Cooper's "Purgatory of Suicides . " The notice is a favourable one .

      We last month expressed our unqualified admiration of this Magazine , which we no _* v repeat . The literary matter is ofa healthy and high-toned character ; the writers do not strain after effect , but achieve effect purely by the natural strength of their literary ability . As regards its literary contents , this Magazine may compete with any similar publication extant ; but as regards its illustrations itis beyond comparison the best of all the monthlies . It is from the first-page to the last a thing of pencilled poetry and artistic beauty .. After a somewhat lengthy career of unfortunate management , the Illuminated is now in good hands , and if the public will only give it a fair trial , it cannot fail to achieve more than even its former popularity . It is a pleasing labour to proclaim the merits of the worthy , and , earnestly hoping that our commendation may not be in vain , we warmly recommend this Magazine to the reading public . ' " '• • ; .

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      SIMMONDS * COLONIAL _MAGAZINE-Octohkii . London : Simmonds and Ward , . 18 , Cornhill . This month ' s number contains such a variety of matter _interesting to the general wader , as well ast 6 the politician , "the colonist , and the intending emigrant , that we have had some difficulty in getting through the one hundred and twenty pages and upwards , contained in a single number of this magazine . Indeed , we must candidly confess that we have not read the entire of the contents' of this number , for that would be a labour , though a pleasing and profitable one , greater than we have time to devoto to . Most of the contents , however , we have read , and , generally speaking , ivc must express ouv < approbation and admiration of tlic articles we have perused . The

      opening article is . a continuation ot the " Notes on the Sandwich Islands , " by Robert _Ckichtoh W . yllie , Esq . " The Missouri River' * gives a succinct account of that celebrated American stream . _JN e . \ t follows a continuation of thc series of valuable articles " On the Agriculture of Hindostan . " This is followed by a continuation of the interesting articles on the " Liberated African Establishment : at'St . Helena , " From the pen of the intelligent and talented editor of " The llobart Town Courier , " we have a highly interesting account of " An Excursion to the Wellington Falls , Van Dieman ' s Land . " A valuable topographical and general description of ' . 'The Cape of GooiV Hope , Cape Town , and its environs , " is given in this number . Comparatively speaking , but little is known in this country of this least-talked of ,- but most flourishing and happy of all the British colonies ; the article , therefore , in this magazine will bc of

      good service in throwing . light upon a land hitherto almost veiled from the denizens of the mother country . Perhaps the gem of the present number is the article entitled " The Crescent City , " , , by . Charles _IIootoj _* , _Esij ., describing the principal-features and characteristics of New Orleans and its motley inhabitants ; the only fault we have to find is , that the article is too brief . New Orleans is alreadya great city— -that it is destined to . be a still greater , no one can doubt . Articles ' on " The defenceless state of England , " "New Zealand , " " The Temples of ihe Ajnnta / 1 " Statistics of Van Dieman ' s Land , " "The Island of Cuba , " " By town ( Canada ) and its environs , ' * with some minor articles , form the remaining contents of this number ; which cannot fail ' . to add to the already widely extended popularity 6 f ~ Simmonds ' Colonial Magazine-. We . had marked several passages for extract , but . want . ' . of .. space " prevents us giving them : - - -.- ¦ ¦ ¦ * - . " - . ' ' ¦ ¦¦ _••*! ' _-. ' ¦ - _.- '•'¦¦ "

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      MEMOIRS OF AN _UMPRELL < V- ; By ,-. G _..- . 11 . ' _Rodwell . Part III . -London : - _£ .. . Mackenzie , lit ; Fleet-street . - '• . . _ . * , ; . ;¦ ... ¦ This , story ' becomes more and more interesting . In theiircsent part is . a comic song _. _entitled- " The ' _-Captain ofthe Guard , " ¦ composed by JdY . RonwEM .. Tho _^ lu _strations-W ; _Pmz are ex cellent .- We havo no room for extracts , but we _adviso .,, the-reader- 'to make hi 5 . apaj . 1 ainta 1 . ee with the work and judge for himself .

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      Air Ugly Cu 3 TOMKR . r-Tiien . ost effective _Rplaiidaccording , we believe , to Lord Byron—for the Oliver * of . an abusive ha ' c / fhey-coachroah is calling , him an ugly fellow J It is known to have been * the boast of Mr . O'Connell , that lie' could drive a ' coach-aht _ . s «; through an Act of Parliament , nor" is his fluency in opprobriousness less notorioHs ; and in , the terpitude ; whicli he attaches to the reproach of ugliness , he shows a further affinity with the brotherhood of th « _r ; whip . In the course of an inTeetivo against the i Times Commissioner tho uther day at" Conciliation " Hall , he asked— "Did tlicy ( his hearers ) know what he ( the Commissioner ) said ?—that the Irish women

      were ugly ' . He really did . Did he really ? IVe believe not ; but no matter . Tell that , or any thing else ,. to Conciliation' _^ Hall . A worse charge than that of ugliness , we think , was once brought against the women ef England : no matter for that either . — " Ugly " would seem—though the fact is certainly otherwiseto be the worst word in the O'Connell dictionary . Mr . John 0 Connell , the Tydides of Erin , can lind no more insulting epithet to apply to the Commissioner himself . Whether that gentleman is an ngly manor not , we imagine that the Agitators , father and son , have found hini an ugly customer . . lie ha 3 done not a little to spoil their trade ; still , we wonder that cither ol them should have called hiin ngly , since , by his revelations pf tlie wretchedness of the Irish

      peasantry , from whose hard hands is wrung thc " Repeal Rent , " ho has proved them both , O'Connell Senior and Junior , to be Very pretty fellows . —Punch . A _GnATinrroUiT Cathkdrm _.. —A great panic , wc understand , has been occasioned amongst the clergy of St . Paul ' s by an announcement which has gone the round of the papers , to the effect that the Very Reverend the _Deiw of _Wiwchcstev _lt fK . cattSCu the Cathedral of that cit y to be opened , a certain time daily , to the public , gratis . The clerical showmen , it appears ; are afraid that they will be expected to do likewise , and are in the greatest alarm for their twoperices . Twopence , they argue , is in itself a small

      sx . ua * , bv _ t _twopence every five minutes Or _BOCOmea tO a round one in the course of a day . Really the Dean of Winchester should have reflected before acting as he as done . He should have considered ,, that if ho does not care about money himself , there are other Deans who love it dearly , and to whom the slightest loss is heart-rending . He has evidently no- ear for " Cathedral music :, that is to say , the chink of cash . Rut he should have regarded other tastes than his own before endeavouring to abolish it , and to silence those silver-toned harmonies , than which to the feelings of certain churchmen , the "long-drawn , aisle and fretted vault" can resound with no strains more soothing .- —Aid .

      A Railway Panic—The Boulogne News _emphatically calls upon the public to refrain from railway speculation , on the ground that niiitiy schemes will be unfinished i ' or want of the necessary iron . To say the truth , we do not anticipate a _stopungc from want of iron , though we expect there will some day or other be a frightful smash for want of tin . —J 6 id . A Suitable ArrowTMBXT . —O'Connell is loud in his denunciation of the ' * Government Education " scheme . Could not Peel , to propitiate liim , establish 5 n one of the proposed Colleges a Professorship of Billingsgate , and confer tlie appointment—wittt an adequate salary—on the learned and vituperative gentleman ?—/& _i'r f . Poor Prince A ., a . \ j > his Recent "Accident . "How are the mighty fallen t On Saturday [ I sayr give us a little stimulant to help us through this

      melancholy story]—On Saturday ( sniff ) the p-r-mce met a most hawful haccident —[ More g-gin—gin is your only drink for your talc of sorrow]—a hawful haccident ! Before going up to town— ( ph-woh!]—his highness was innocentl y _a-coming down stairs —[ it wasn't after dinner , or , if it was , that makes no 'difference ] . He was a-comin' downstairs ( sniff , sniff , and oh-woh-woh ) his dear little foot _s-1-ippcd and d-o-wn , down tumbled the Royal Sportsman like a 1-ubberly stag ! Staggered and _exllunctified , he was ¦ p icked up by himselfor the regal niaid-of-all-workmaid-of-all-work—which means the maid what don't do ho work whatsomdever at all . He was _p-yicked up , and—( only to think—lend us your cotton wiper _oh-o-o-o-o-woh]—his blessed ancle was—out or jeikx J —Joe Miller , '

      _Surunri-uoos!— -The Admiralty have lately been experimentalizing on some new blocks submitted to their notice at Portsmouth . We defy competition , however , against the " oldblocks" presidingoverour naval department , although it _»«» said that the old ones were more likely to be cracked than thc newones . —Ibid . ¦ A _Dangekous Enemv . —Wc advise our naval commanders to be on the look-out , otherwise they are likely to fall foul of an ugly customer . We perceive that " one of the French admirals just appointed to a command ; is Rear-Admiral De llell ! Whoever encounters the gentleman may therefore expect warm work . —Ibid . A Useful Hist . —Itmay not be understood among the public ' _generally , that anybody breaking windows , renders himself , liable to thc "Ptines ant ? Penalties Act . " —Ibid .

      Ejhwutiox . —Emigration is at a discount in the city . The Lord Mayor was asked the other day how he should like to speculate i » the colonies . Gibbs replied that he should make " a very bad settler !" Some Am _ Bonx to Pat , others to Receive . — "Prince Albert refuses to pay £ 209 , the rate and arrears of rate , due for his farm at Windsor . "Tiwes . ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦'• • ' ' ; Since Prince Albert refuses his rates to defray , Alleging : accuses which call forth our laughter , An overtaxed people who still have to pay , Will rate him—at nothina—for ever hereafter .

      AN ANDOV 1 SB D _1 _TTV , _OEniCATEO TO MESSkS . LEWIS , HlCHOLlS , AND _I _1 EAO . I'll sing you a modern eong That was mado by a modern pate , Of three jolly commissioners , "Who lived on the poor ' s estate ; And cat and drank , and paid their way With many a parish rate , While a drunken master gave relief To _thepaujiers at their gate ! Three cheers for the three commissioners ,. "Kings" of tlie modern time . Tlieir hull so fine was bung around With Poor Law manifestoes , , And rules and regulations , F or pitching into pauper foes ! And there their -worships sat at ease ,

      Witli : what consciences , heaven knows And inwardly prayed that the master would give Each pauper a bloody noso I . Like three fender-hearted gentlemen , Commissioners of the modem timet When winter old brought frost and cold They opened house to all ; With courses three they fed the great , With bones they fed tlie _Binall I Nor was the houseless wanderer Ere driven from the door , Though , once within , he was twenty times Worse oft ' than he was before ! All along of the three commissioner * Christians ofthe modern time I

      Butfrauu , though sweet , must enu at last , And sure tha hour is m ' gh ; And every Poor Law casoproclaims The official life must die ! They'll lay them down reluctantly—Give up office with a sigh , A While paupers glad dance round their couch _. And curse the charity Ofthe three Poor Law commissioners , Samaritans of the modern time I Xow surely this were better far Than all the new parade Of oakum picking—crushing bones—And starving wliat Ood made ' . And mueh more economical

      Since poor-rates must be paid To let them have the benefit . For whom the rate was made , And not the three commissioners , Or any of their trade 1 - Positives Am Comparatives . —1 . A basin of Scotch oatmeal is Mck , but the head ofa fool is thicker 2 . Anything tart is asharp affair , but a churchwarden who steals the parish funds is a sharper . & _Juggernaut is a verv idol gentleman , but Dr .- Johnson wrote for an Mei \ " 4 . When the heat is at 100 dogrees , it is a warm day , biit old women of cooks will tell you that a saucepan is a warmer , a . A man , who is losing his senses is a strange individual , but we have seen Mr . Maeready act the part of a Stronger . C . A Yarmouth bloater is salt , but a psalm-book is a psalten T . A . chesnut horse is a orown animal , - _buta , baker's oven is _^ -browner . 8 . A puncheon of spirits is frequently a rum article , but v . large glass is a

      _rtimnur . -A ' Fact from _"VTAi-Kj _ F . -T .. i _> -D . — 'She following C 0 nversation is said to have takes place between Mrs . — _-. ot ' _ffew Yttvk , and her maid : — Vl Leah , bring me some water with the chill taken off . " "Yes , ma ' am , directly . " "Leah , what on earth keeps you : ? " " I ' ve been _looking ever > inco for the chill , ma ' am , and 1 can't find ii . ' . '—This reminds us of tho hoy' sent' to boil some eggs soft ; when questioned what detained him , ho answered , " Rot the things , it aint no use , thoy won't boil soft ; 1 ' been at them _, more nor an hour , and the more I biles ' era _thehwder _thevcets . " ¦ - ¦ . ' .- ¦ ' - ¦ _- . v -.. ;¦• , - ¦ , ¦ _,:-.

      A llKruniATOR _Extha _.-=-A far-west man , who hail his newspaper bill sent from _^ Boston . -replied , . _"T never ordered the paperi and if I did , I _havepaidfor it ; and it * I have not paid for it , I never-will , ' cos it's now run out of date . "; * _** ' _..- ' _» •' .- .- '¦ _' _¦!* >'' _i . ¦ ¦;¦ ¦ - : <¦> ¦¦ - _Givu a Reason . —Phrases which di < V well enouglu formerly , now only excite a sneer * : it does not db- 'to talk to the operatives about "our . pure and apostolical churoh ' , _* ' - 'and ; our "' glorious constitution , " thW'U _& ve ; no respect for either . ihKt . _oheimust ' _takelhigher grohhd , : _ahd'shov _* that- our object _is-not tapT _& _eEva particular . institutions ;' so _hjuch as to uphdd * et « Bal iprinciples , which are _ingreafdangetofifaUing . into ' ' disrepute , because of the Vices oi the institutions * _, which profess to exemplify them ,, -- fir , Arnold *

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 18, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_18101845/page/3/