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      A A considerable time has elapsed since last we gave gave any collection of poetical compositions in ! iflies'these calamus . Of late the sayings of politicians— * of 1 * of tbe earth earthy '—have warped tbe space due [ to tl to the inspired outpourings of the poets ; and the idoin doings of roaring revolutionists have left us no room [ for i for * h . e rhymers _'« wood-notes wild . * Even now we _ibavi bave but little space to _devote to the sons of song . In t In the sharing of a newspaper as in the sharing of _Ithe the earth [ see Schiller ] the poet h the last thought i of , of , although we will venture to hope anything but Ithe the least-cared for . In brief , we must have an eye i to ' to brevity ; and tbis must be our excuse for the very me meagre notice we are about to give of tbe man : fro Irom whose songs we propose to make our selections . 7 b Tbat man is tbe glorious poet _BERASGER .

      ' This favourite of France and object of Europe ' s til admiration , is a native of Paris , and was born in the ye year 1780 , at the house of his grandfather , a poor tai tailor . He lived nine years with his poor old grandfal father , during which time he was let run wild withoi out hooks or schooling . At nine years of age he * _tt * was sent _to'Peronae , there to live with an old grandat aunt who kept a small public-house , and in whieh h house he officiated as waiter or pot-boy . The old _w woman taught her young relative to read . At the a age of fourteen he was put apprentice to a printer , a and it was in the practical attempts at learning his t trade that he learned to spell , and made perfect the li lessons given hira by tbe old lady in her labours to I make bim acquainted with the art of reading . He

      t now attended a primary school , and soon acquired t considerable knowledge of the art of literary com-- position . At seventeen years of age he returned to Paris to * work as a journeyman compositor . Soon after his ; arrival in the capital the inclination came npon him to write verses . His poetical sensibility had early revealed itself , for when a hoy he had been affected to tears when , for the first time , be heard the Marseillaise sung by the enthusiastic Republicans of ' 92 . In his youthful musings he imagined a comedy , and subsequently an epic-poem , bnt did not carry ont either . Probably tbe stem realities of life put to fig ht these dreams of poetical ambition . Work had failed and the } oung poet was reduced to the most deplorable state of destitution .

      By the age of twenty-three , Beranger had written a great many songs and poems , but he conld not afford to print tbem , and in his destitute and friendless condition it wonld have been in vain to bave sought a publisher . He therefore made np a packet of his poetry , which , together with a letter , he addressed to Lncien Buonaparte , brother of the First Consul . _Lud ' en at once saw the genius of the poet , and wrote to him a letter full of encouragement ; nor did he stop there : he presented Beranger with the small pension which the poet continued to enjoy np to the year 1812 . Subsequently Beranger obtained literary employment as compiler of the ' Annals of the Museum , ' and afterwards obtained an appointment as copying clerk in the University Office , which he retained for twelve years .

      His first collection of songs was published in 1815 . 'Wine and women , mirth and laughter , ' were the main themes of his youthful effusions . These songs were , as Beranger has confessed , ' the mere caprices of a vagabond spirit ; ' and yet , as he added—' these are my most dearly cherished offspring . ' Between 1815 and 1 S 21 the _predictions of his pen began to be conceived in a more serious spiritoften assuming a political character . Not blind to the fatal results of Napoleon ' s _ambition , and fully conscious of the grinding tyranny of his rule , still Beranger detested the Bourbons and regarded the _Restoration in its true light—as a national calamity and profound humiliation for France . These feelings he gave expression to in the songs he composed between the years we have above-named .

      In 1821 Beranger published his second collection of songs , and the ten thousand copies printed were immediately bought up . His satirical political allusions left no room for doubt as to the parties aimed at ; the result was a government prosecution . He was condemned to three months imprisonment in St _Pelagie , and to pay a fine of three hundred francs . Besides this sentence he was further punished by being deprived of his employment as copying clerk in the University office . But Beranger ' s imprissnment was in fact a triumph . He was visited aud condoled with by the first men in France , and tbe public expressed a desire to pay his fine by subscription , but this he would not permit .

      His time was not idly spent in prison , for immediately after his release new and more vigorous political and satirical productions of his pen were in universal circulation . New persecution of the poet failed in again consigning him to prison at that time . In 1825 he published a third collection of his songs . Lafitte the hanker had offered him employment in his banking house , but he declined the offer , being anxious to maintain his independence even of the favours of friendship . In 1823 , on the publication of his fourth collection of songs , he was again prosecuted by the government , and was condemned to nine months' incarceration in the prison of La Force , and to pay a fine of ten thousand francs . Tbis fine was paid by public subscription , and this persecution of tbe people ' s favourite bard exalted him to the very pinnacle of

      popularity . The revolution of 1830 opened to him the path to political power and personal emolument . But both place and pension he nobly rejected . 'Unfortunately , ' says be , * I have no love for sinecures , and all forced labour has become insupportable to me , unless perhaps it were tbat of my old occupation of copying clerk . I could not bear to bave it said that I was the pensioner of so and so , of Peter or

      of Paul , of James or of Philip . Besides , I would give no man , nor party , to whom I mig ht thus place myself under obligations , tbe rig ht to say to me—* Do this , or do that—go forwards , but yon must only go thus far . ' How nobly Beranger contrasts with those things Southey and Wordsworth ! We may add , with his-own countrymen Thiers and Guizot , who have made their literary talents subserve their personal ambition , at the expense of the welfare of their countrymen .

      The perfidy of Louis Philippe , and the crimes of the gang of sham Liberals who acquired power after the revolution of 1830 , thoroughly disgusted Beranger , and probably did much to induce the decision he came to in 1833 to retire into private life . In that year he published his last collection of songs , and on that occasion announced his retirement in the following words : —* I retire from the lists , while I have still the strength to leave . Often towards the evening of life we allow ourselves to be surp : i 5 ed by sleep in the arm-chair , in which we are fixed . Better go wait its visit in bed , where it is so such needed . I haste to betake me to mine , even thoug h it be a rather hard one . '

      He chose the neig hbourhood of Tours for the p lace of bis retreat , where he passed several successive years . Subsequently he returned to the capital , and has since resided at Passy , a village on the Seine , about four miles frem Paris . Notwithstanding Jai 3 retirement the poet occasionally con tributed new compositions , strongly tinctured with Republicanism , and which were not witbout effect in aiding the general feeling of hostility to Louis Philippe , which preceded the Revolution of February , 1818 .

      In the general election of the members of the _National Assembly , Beranger was returned as one of the representatives of Paris , a touching compliment paid to him bv the people ; the crowning glory of his life . But his election had taken place in spite of his earnest entreaties to the contrary , and within the first week of the Assembly ' s sittings he resigned his seat and returned to his beloved cottage at Passy . The poet fairly pleaded aee and infirmities , and his inaptitude for the smif _* gles of political life , as furnishing sufficient reasons for resigning the distinction conferred upon him . His admirers will doubtless conclude with ns that he showed a wise discretion in refusing the honours of the tribune .

      A writer who visited Beranger four years ago , thus describes him : — ' The personal manner of the poet is full of unaffected urbanity . In person he is a tittle man , not more , I should _eay , tban five feet five inches in height , of a firm make and apparently robust and healthy . He has a high , intellectual forehead , regular and rather handsome features , and a quick sparkling eye . The principal expression of his face is , I think , that of kindness combined with shrewd ness . He talks rapidly and earnestly , pouring aflood of information upon whatever subject occupies his attention . be it political , biographical , or literary ; and possesses in an eminent degree the power of commanding the attention of his auditory . '

      We now come to Beranger ' s poetry . _^ We have neither room nor inclination to affect cnticism . His songs defy censure , and we despair to do him justice ia the way of praise . We might as well presume

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      • ' To ffUd refined gold , to paint the My , To throw a perfume on the violet , " as attempt to add to Beranger ' s fame by saying one word in praise of the priceless gems he has lavished upon his countrymen , and mankind generally _. We are indebted to the Dublin University Maga zine for the following translation of *¦ «_ _•>» . a M « * _» - *_ . _<« _.. •_

      THB TAILOE AND THE FAT . [ u TAittiro ix u r » . ] * Dans _ce Paris plain d _' or et de mlsere _, 4 o . ]' Here In Paris , eo full ef all squalor and gold , In seventeen hundred and eighty , A . D . At a tailor ' s—my grandfather , needy and aid-When an inftnt , 1 * 11 tell yoa what happened to me . No portent foretold by my crtdlt of straw The fame of an Orphans ; ba * , summoned one day By my cries , my poor grandfather harried and saw His child kissed and dandled aboat by a fay ! And the Fairy ' s gay _Iollaby song ia my ear * , With a charm that dispelled my first sorrows and tears Then the _hoaest old man , ia some little alarm , Would know what my fate ia the future should be , ' There he is , by my wand ' s mast infallible charm , A waiter , a printar , a clerk , ' replied she . * A thanderbalt still add- a _pressge to mine , *

      And he _ntarly has died on the threshold of home ; Bat the bird , so in revived by a mercy divine , Shall brave with its strains etber tempest * to corns . ' And the Fairy ' s gay lullaby sung ia my ears , With a charm that disp-lled my first _cerrowf and tears ' The _sylphi of onr youth , _thegaypleararei , ! n Omega Shall awaken his lyre to the revels of night ; Tha heart * of tht poor shall be glad ia hi * _loagi _, And the long weary hoar * of the wealthy grow light , But a darko . es * o ' _ersbadows and _ladisn * the strings , The bright day * of glory and empire are o ' er ; And hi * voice Is like tbat of a fisher tbat brings The news of a wreck in hi * griff to tha ihore . ' And the Fairy ' s gay lullaby sang In my earl _. With a charm that dispelled my first sorrows and tears . The tailor oried out— ' Then my daughter bat sent

      Bnt a maker of song * to compensate my ewe-Better work at my trade , day and night , th « n bt spent At last in vain sounds , like an echo la air / Hash , hash , ' said the fairy , * _thoa'rt wrong to complain—Though oft have great t & lentt the _smallestincoesi—Fcr the conntry shall cherish tht bard , and hi * ( train Shall soften the tears of tbe exile ' s distress , ' And the Fairy ' * gay lallaby saBg in oy etri , With a charm that dispelled my fir * t sorrow * and tears . Last night , at I sat in a sullen repose , I taw her again . With tbe air of a sage , Sbe thoughtfully plucked off tha have * of a ton , And the said— 'Thou hast felt the approaches of age , Kind memo-it * in Eld _vsttl give joy to the bruit , As mirages brighten the wildrrnts * Ion *—The _banqaett of friendship await thee , a Kant ,

      Aad there long live over the days tbat are goat . ' And the Fairy ' * gay presages song in my ears , With a charm that _dispelled all my sorrow * and fears . We take the following version of ie Grenier from Thackeray ' s Paris Sketch Book ' : —

      THE GARRET . "With peaslve eyes the little room I view _. Where , in my youth , I weathered it so long ; With a wild _mlitreis , a sUnoh friend or two , And a light heart still breaking into song : Making a raoek of life , and all its cans , Bioh In the _glery of my rising son , Lightly I vaulted op fonr pair of stair * _. In the brave day * when I was twenty-one . Yes ; ' ti * a garret—let bim know' * who will-There was my bed—fall hard it was , aad small Hy table there—and I decipher still Half a lame couplet charcoaled on the walL Ye joys , that Time ha * ewept with htm away , Come to mine ayes , ye dreams of lore and fun ; Far joa I pawned my watch how many a day , la the brave day * when I wat twenty-one . Asd see my little Jessy , firat of all ;

      She comes with pouting lips and sparkling _tyei Behold , bow roguishly she pins her shawl Across the narrow casement , curtain-wise ; Saw by the bed her petticost glides down , And when did woman look the worse la _noat % I have heard Binee who paid for maay a gown , In the brave day * when I was twenty . one _. One jolly evening , when my friends and I Made happy music with onr song and cheers , A _shoat of triumph mounted up thn * high , And distant cannon opened on our ears : We rise—we join in tha triumphant strata-Napoleon conquers—Aasterlitz is won—Tyrants shall never tread ns down again , In the brave days when I was _tweaty . one . let as be gone—the place is sad aad strange-How far , far off , these happy time * apptar ; All that I have to live I'd gladly change

      For one inch month a * I have waatid here—To draw long dream * of beauty , love and power , From fount * of hope that never will outran , And drink all life ' * quintessence in an hour , Giveme the day * _whsa I was twenty . one _. We have given another version of this charming piece in onr column , of ' Facts and Fancies , ' from Duffy ' s Catholic Magazine . ' We may here add , that it is to the poets of the suppressed ( Dublin ) Nation that we are indebted for translations of several of the pieces we propose to present to oar readers .

      THE WILL . O _* -THE-WISP 3 . ' 0 nait d ' ete , palx da village , io . ' 0 village calm , 0 summer night , Fare sky , . soft zephyr , streamlet _eletx , Ye made my happy childhood bright ; Yield to my age a solace here . A weary man , I tread the ground _. Where every thing recall tbe past—Eren te these wandering wisps _aronnd . _Oaca from these dancing fires , aghast _. Fear weald have borne me far , and fast ; I ' ve lost my ignorance _to-dsy ; Dance , merry meteors , denes away _. How oft we heard la evening tales , Of fool , malieloai things thty did ; And how along the fields and vales ,

      Their wondrous treasure * all were hid , Goblins and ghosts , and demons feu , The magic , and the mystery—All these my yonth _ballev-d too well , I ever saw fierce dragons flj , O ' er castles old of days gone by ; Bat yoang beliefs in age decay : Dance , merry meteors , dance away . Oae sight , when scarcely ten year * old , Wandering and wearied in a swamp , I saw their light , and felt consoled : •—It is my nurse ' s cottage lamp . The wonted cake awaits me there I I fly with young impatience fleet , When lo ! a shepherd cries beware ! Tbat light conducts thy heedless _ftet

      To where the sp r ites and spectres meet . Thus thro' my Ufa ' twas all the way : Dance , merry meteor * , dance away _. Once , at sixteen , I saw the light Dance os the grave ef the old priest . Sadden I cried , I'll pray to-night . Good father for thy spirit ' s rest . _Hethoaght he answered , ' child of Bin , Doth love already mould the best Of thy young visions from within ?' That sight my frightened credence leant To future pain , and punishment , Old priest , bast thou aught else to say ?«¦ Dance , merry meteors , dance away ! When I _wooedBosetobe my bride , A little gold had made as blest ; A wisp appears : be this my guide To where the hidden treasures rest . I follow on : bat as I fly

      My rspid feet approach a pool—Floundering I fall , and cannot die ! * Tee fiend then _laughed aloud to cool Yoor glowing race V nay , curious fool , Bat Boss , without me , lived as gay ; Dance , merry metiers , dance away . From all a thousand errors free , I ' m old before my time to-day . Ye transient , sparkling vapours , Bee , How time has tnrned my hair to gray . My eyes are opened by the wise ; Bat sweeter seemed the morn before I knew so much about the skies . _Rsason expels , for evermore , The sylphs that haunted as of yort . Sail would I fear the glidiag fay , Dance , merry meteors , dance away . Here is a charming domestic sketch _;—¦

      THE BLIND MOTHER . ' Toot en Slant voire lin , 6 c / Child , as you ply year spinning wheel , Give heed to what I shall repeat : At Colin ' * name I know you feel Your little heart begin to bea ' . But fiar tbe yonth : my eyes are dim _. Yet is my hearing watohfal ; nay , I beard a sigh ; it that for him f Ah ! hebatweos thee to betray . I hear the window opened : how J - L ' zstte , yoa are not spinning now . The chamber is so warm , yoa say , Bat don ' t stand there with ogling eye , To look at him who , day by day .

      Frewla round oar cot alert aod sly . Yon 3 » y I scold—Ah ! I was young , And fair as yoa , aad I can say What snares are in a glezing tongue , How love will ever lead astray—There ' * some one at tha door , I va w I Lizette , yen are not spinning now .

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      Yen tay tbe wind ha * stirred tht lock : Ah ! tt it teems ; beoause , for thlt , My dog hat got the hearty knock Whioh ( top * that andergrowl ef hit . Ye * : trust mt , Colin ' * love it brief . If thsu art wise I'd have thee fear Thy charms may yet be cause of grief-Bat , _blist me , what Is that I hear !—That was a kiss , tho * hashed aad low—Lizette , yoa are not spinning now . Tit a bird only , yon declare—Yonr favourite bird tbat you have kissed ; Then bit your bird be silent there : No more such kisses , I insist , Aht thoughtless oondacl brings disgrace : Even be , on whom yoa lavish all , Laughs very often in your face .

      1 st Fradenoa still avert yoor fall . Yoa hasten towards yonr reom ; I trow , Lizette , yon are not spinning new . Yon wish to go to bed , yoa cry ; Afaf ' tis a triok ! I understand . Colin i * here ; bnt let him fly , Or look in honour for yoor hand , Until yoor winniBg reprobate ¦¦ Shall lead yoa to the Charch , a bride , Still keep your maidenly estate ; Sit here , Lizette , aor quit my aide , Till oame * that time , or soon or slow , Spla on , at yoa are spinning now . But it is time we gave a specimen or two of the songs which brought down the wrath of the Bourbons upon the poet ' s head . We first quote' The Coronation of Charles the Simple , ' which the poet prefaced with the following explanation : —

      Charles the Third , _surnamed the Slmple _. one of the successors of Charlemagne , was firat driven from the throne by Eudes , Gaunt of Faris . He took refuge in England , and afterward * in Germany . Bat on tbe death of Eudes ( in 898 ) , the French Lords and BUhops attached themselves to Charles again , and restored him tha crown ; whioh he finally loir , when , on being betrayed by Herbert , Count of Yermaudols _, he was pat in prison at Pe * ronne , where he died In 92 i . The applicability of the satire to the then reigning Bourbons will be seen at a glance .

      CORONATION OF 0 HARLE 9 THE SIMPLE . Frenchmen I In Bbelmi attemble all , Oa _Moatjoy aad Saint Denis call ! Bepitt'd tha holy phial see—Oar father * ' day * again are come ; Sparrows in _numeroat flocks set free Flatter aboat the saored dome ; The monarch ' * brow with pleasure beams , For broken bonds here _imag'd be—The people ory : Fonr birds ! dream not our foolish

      dreams—Preserve—preserve yonr liberty ! Here are all ancient rigbts preferr'd , So I go back to Charles the Third—Whofollow'd Charlemagne , and well Desert U 'the Simple' name be bore—Fpon hi * flag no light-stream fell , When Germany he travell'd o ' er—When be was crown'd , a notay crowd Of bird * and flatterers sang with glee—The people cry : Ye birds I 0 sing not now so loud Preserve—preserve your llbsrty 1

      Beiizened with their fripperies , made From heavy Imposts—the parade Of Kings and Courtiers marches by-Courtiers , who all net long ago , 'Neath rebel standards floating high , Bo _*» 'd to a grand asurper , low ; Bat millions are net _ehower'd in vain , And faith well reoompens'd should ba ; The people cry—Poor birds J we dearly pay our cbaln _, Preserve—preserve your liberty ! Now gold-laced prelates bent before , Coaiks alters his confileor ; Tbey clothe him—hiss bim— oil bim—and Midst by mas divirie that fill the air , He on the Bible pats bis hand ,

      And hit confeBior bids him— ' Swear ! For Borne—whom such effaira _eoncerp , Has pardons for such pei jury . ' The people cry—Poor birds ! thus government we learn , Preserve—preserve your liberty ! So—aping Charlemagne—when placed The sword-belt ronnd his royal waist , TJpen the dost he flings him down , Sing , says a soldier , rouae thee , king ! J No , ' says the bishop , * thee I crown-Now wealth into onr coffers fling . What ( rusts command , that God records ; Long live—losg live legit ' aaey !' The people cry—oar lord is raled by other lords ! Poor birds—preserve yoar liberty !

      Tbit king miraculous , poor birds ! Will enre all scrofulas with words ; Bat yoa , the merriest things of all , Had better speedily bs gone ; Some sacrilege yea might let fall Io flattering near this altar-throne ; For piety all meekly brings Murderers her sentinels to be . The people ory—Poor birds ! we _eavy yon your wings-Preserve—preserve yonr liberty ! Turlupin '—or 'Master Merryman '—also gave great offence . Here is a specimen : — Come let us go * the King' to see-Not I , he aaid , I won't da that 1 Will he take off his crown to me , When I to bim take off my hat ! If I for somebody mast cry , Then here ' s for him that makes my bread ! And men will answer'

      I—I—I—Say wbat jast Merryman has said !' We must pass by the celebrated ballad entitled * The Infinitely Little or the Greybeard Dynasty , ' in which the poet so admirably pictured the dwarfed condition of France under the restored Bourbons . ' TheDevil ' s Death' [ LaMort du Diable ) excited a terrible uproar amongst tbe Jesuits and their friends , and was one of the songs on which was founded the government prosecution . For the following translation , as well as for that of the 'Coronation of Charles the Simple , ' we are indebted to an article b y Colonel Thompson , in the Westminster Review : —¦

      THE DEYIL'S DEATH . I slag to day a lay of lays , A glorious miracle yoa ' il see ; Give the great Salat Igaatlus praise , Of all small saint * the patron he . A dirty trick—If saints can trick , Aad If tbe truth may aU ba said , Has done tbe business for Old Nick , The Devil's dead—the Devil '» dead ! 013 Nick went ont one day to dine , And pledg'd the saint to drink his health , Ay ! said the saint— and in the wiae Some holy poison dropp'd by stealth { Gripes seized the _Djvll—sruel slot-He swears , he storms , andhanga his head ; Then ban's like roasted heretic—The Devil ' s dead—the Davit ' s dead I Love is not half so strong as fear ,

      For fear was constant with its gifts ; Intolerance la fading here , — Whe now the bUzlBg toroh uplifts ? If man from as Bhould onoe be free , What light may beam upoa his bead ! Geo greater than the Pope shall be—The Devil 'a dead—the Devil ' s dead \ _Igaatlua cams— ' Let me but take His place , his right , and see ; In brief-He has made men for ages quake , I'll make kings tremble like a leaf . With plagues , thefts , massacres , I'll ban B jth north and south ; where ' er I tread Leave rains both for God and man—The Devil ' s dead—the _DjvII 's dead !' ' . Come blessed one , ' thty uttered , * eome We hallow thy most saintly gall . ' And cow bis order , sent from Borne ,

      _O'enhadows _, darkens , curses all , I beard a choir of Angels tell Tbeir sympathies for men ; they said , * Ignatius Ib the heir of bell , The Davll ' _s dead—the Devil ' a dead I ' For this song the poet was denounced by the priests as au enemy of relig ion ; thus answered Beranger : — 'Some of my songs have been treated as impious , poor things ! by the King ' s _Attorney-Generalsand tbeir substitutes , who are all very

      religious people in their way . I can only here repeat what has been said a hundred times . __ When , as in our day , religion is made a political instrument of , its sacred character is apt to be disallowed . For it the most tolerant become intolerant . Believers , whose faith is not in what the church' teaches , are sometimes driven , out of revenge , to attack it in its sanctuary . I , who am one of these believers , have never gone so far as tbat , but bave been contented to make folks laugh at tbe mere flunkey-livery of Catholicism . Is this impiety ? ' Next week we shall conclude this selection from the verses of Beranger .

      Mobbib, Ihb Psdxbibian.—On Monday Week H...

      Mobbib , ihb _Psdxbibian . —On Monday week hut this celebrated pedestrian performed the following feat at Llanover--First , he walked half-amie , then ran half-a-mile , walked backwards _half-a-mile , walked backwards and forwards half-a-mile , P » yed a violin _half-a mile , played a tamborine half-a mile , ran a coach wheel _Mlf-a-mile , trundled a _hoap halfa-mile , wheeled a barrow half _a-mile , hopped one hundred yards , and then picked up ona hundred tones p laced a yard apart , fifty with his month , and fifty with his hands , and brought eaoh stone to a basket . He completed this in eight minutes less than aa hour , in the presence of a large number of _Seotators , who were much amused and surprised at s performance of this extraordinary feat . — Carmrthert Journal .

      Royal Polytechnic Institution. Among Tha...

      ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Among tha many attractions at this place , we have peen gratified with a Ieotnre _. aooompanied Iry a working model , on the new hydro-carbon gas apparatus , patented by Mr Stephen White , whioh is exhibited m the theatre , for the manufacture of gas from water , and common tar , or resin , « feo . This apparatus is cheap and very simple , consisting of three retorts piaoed in a stove , two of tbem are fitted with charcoal and thin pieces of iron , and in the third are placed chains hanging from a bar in tbe centre _, in the two first retorts the water is decomposed , which panes by meanB of a syphon pipe through the centre of the retort . The water passing through the heated material becomes converted into pure hydrogen and peroxide of carbon , thence it _paswa into the third retort , and combines with _bi-carbaratc of hydrogen , which is made from resin , tar , or like substances , and dropping on tbe red hot chains from another syphon tube , bv whioh the _sunnlv it _reau .

      • ? Vu Tne _* 8983 thus mixed aw at once conveyed into the gasometer for use , and no purifying apparatns is required . Tho important advantages ari , „ ?! ? J ™ » wnthw _a aro portabloness , _simplitlt » i n „ ° _, P ? _of-ts apparatus ; it gives a beau-„; _, i P e _?•*' fre 8 ftm tn < " _» e impurities wbioh are fnnwi ? o _- _- . coal * _- * affeotin B the health of « . \« ' - , UMn 8 all ornamental goods ; but this fat e h „ T _, tL er _' _- . _? L nied With P _* 31 _* 0 * 8 afe f '' _»*• Pri * _Site _^ _" . _^ e _^ ops of jewellers and drapers , in churches , hospitals , _faotories _, institutions , & o . This gas is another step in sanatory improvement , aB its purity has been frequently and carelully tested by f - *? . _•*?* . Tne inventor has been indefatigable in ao . _comphshing what tho late Sir H . Davey predicted , _tnatatsoine future time gas would be generated from water for general purposes , ' surpassing coal caB m brilliancy and purity .

      Cremorne Gardens. The Enterprising Propr...

      CREMORNE _GARDENS . The enterprising proprietor of these _Elysian gardens seems to be never weary of providing for the entertainment of bis patrons . On Monday evening last there was a grand ni _« ht ascent of tbe ' Royal _Cramorne Balloon' _withadazx'ing'display of fireworks from the car . Shortly after ten o ' clock the balloon slowly and gracefully ascended and was itself almost immediately lost to sight ; but far aloft , every _momenthigher and higher , the pyroteohnio devices blazed from the car , exciting the wonder and admiration of all present . French jets , Chinese streams of fire , Italian gerbes , variegated diamond and _Bengal lights , Roman Candles , & o . , & ta „ were inoluded in this delightful display of pyroteohnio art . The unanimoos applause of the immense company present

      testihed their unbounded satisfaction ; In the early part of the evening Messrs Silvani , Milner , and Green went through their oelebrated pasture feats . In tbe vocal and instrumental concert Mr Rous , the clever comic singer , excited roars of laughter by his song of 'Happy Land . ' In the theatre Mr E . Green , * the celebrated bottle sprite ' , proved his rightful claim to the title he has taken by a series of balancing performances on orystal bottles , deoanters , d * o ,, which mast ba _sesn to be comprehended ; and being teen oannot fail te be appreciated . The very crowded audience testified their approbation by unanimous and enthusiastic applause . Jeannette

      and Jeannot—tho best ballet of the _s'ason—was equally successful , and excited no small degree of mirth and evident satisfaction . The Gardens were more than ordinarily crowded , and as a natural consequence , those who delight in the waliz , the quadrille , and the polka mustered ia great force . The whole concluded at a quarter to twelve o ' clock with a gorgeouB display of fireworks . As the _season is fast drawing to a close , we think it a duty to our metropolitan readers who may not yet have visited these delightful gardens to do so without further delay . We are sure they will not regret acting on onr advice .

      Mr Kydd's Lectures. (From The Oxfordshir...

      MR _KYDD'S LECTURES . ( From the Oxfordshire Chronicle , ) Two lectures were delivered by permission of the Mayor , at our Town Hall , by Mr 5 . Kydd , from Glasgow , on Mondaj and Tuesday week , whioh were more numerously and respectably attended than we had expected , considering that the subject for consideration might bave _bsen regarded as a dry one . The lecturer , however , proved himself to be a thorough master of tbe subject , and , by his simple and forcible style of conveying his ideas , contrived to rivet the attention of his audience en both occasions for more than two hours . On Monday evening the lecturer sought to establish the following points : —1 st . That the land oi England is amply Buffioiont to maintain and profitably employ her whole

      population . 2 nd . That one great oause of national distress is the depopulation of our agricultural districts . 3 rd . That no permanent relief oan result from any scheme of emigration , however extensive , and that , probably , emigration may end in increasing the distress we desire to relieve . 4 th . That an extensive system of home colonisation , based on a plan similar to the pauper colonies in Holland , would at once relieve the labour market of Us surplus labourers , and lead to the certain abolition of poor rates . 5 th . That the internal industrial powers of America , Belgium , and France are such as muBt prevent any system of Free Trade , however extensive , from bringing even a temporary relief to our manufacturing population iu Yorkshire and Lancashire . fr ; b . Tbat tbe employ ment of our able- bodied labourers on the watte lands

      known by the name of uncultivated and profitable , would , if cultivated , so increase our home trade as to make our home consumption of manufactured _artioles equal to our home and foreign trade unitedly , as they now exist . Teh . That all the members ol a state have one common interest ; tbat this is not a question of Toryism , _Whiggism , or Chartism , but a question apart from all party politics , which must stand or fall on its own merits—a question of industrial development . On Tuesday evening Mr Kydd took for his text a quotation from the great Lord Bacon , to this _effect , that the four great pillars on which all national prosperity must rest , were Counsel , Religion , Treasure , and Justice ; and made an excellent use of it . Ho made some witty remarks on the lack of counsel , and brought forward Mr Disraeli acd

      Lord J . _RubboU , as witnesses to the fact that in ten long months our Parliament bad _soarcely carried any geod measure . The lecturer made some remarks on the mutual interest whioh all classes of society have in . each other . That while the wealthy could not safely neglect the poor , and suffer them to sink deeper and deeper into poverty and crime , the consequence of poverty , the labouring classes could not expect either employment or provision , but by the maintenance of order and by submission to the laws . In his concluding remarks he made some very home thrusts at the present state of the law which afforded but little protection , except at a price which the poor could hot affjrd to pay ; and stated his conviction that , Hntil the franchise was so enlarged as to embrace every man of saue mind , good character , and settled residence , those reforms would not be obtained

      wbich this industrial age required . He boldly avowed his allegiance to the Charter . A vote of thanks to Mr Kydd having been moved by Mr Towle , and seconded by Mr Faulkner , three oheers were given to the Mayor for the use of the hall , and the meeting separated . Not Butsoribicg our assent to all Mr Kydd ' _s views , we still consider that , taking the leotures _sb a whole , they were calculated to pour a flood of information in most dear and intelligible language on the minds of men too much oooupied in business to study suoh questions for themselves , and that their general tendency was to strengthen tbe bonds wbich hold _sooiety together , to uphold the constitution as established by Magna Charta , to expose those systems of corruption and oppression by which the common weal haa been damaged and marred , and to exoite a spirit of enquiry , and a hope of better days for Old England in store .

      Grbbhwich Hospital Schools.—A Malignant ...

      _Grbbhwich Hospital Schools . —A malignant fever , believed to be of the typhus kind , recently broke out in the upper school belonging to this institution . The boys returned , after the usual vacation , on the _ISthult ., and shortly afterwards symptoms of a bad sort presented themselves , _attacking a great many boys belonging to the Nautical School , in which there are _upwards of iQO pupils . The medical gentlemen took steps to check the disease , but _notwithstanding two died , and upwards of forty aro stated to be badly aSected _, and others likely to die in the infirmary . 300 of the scholars have _returned to their parents and guardians , in _oonsequecce of a circular having baen forwarded announcing the unpleasant news . Numbers oontinue to leave the asylum , and not moro than / erty remainand those owing to their relatives

      , residing at a great distance . The boys in the lower school also , about 400 in number , are said to be not affected by the lever ; but such are their tears that they have urgently desired to return to tbeir friends , but they have been refused . In consequence a mutinous spirit has evinced itself , followed by a general smashing of the windows of the school . Inquiry having been made into the circumstances , the ringleaders were disoovered , and punished by boing put under bread bnd water diet and severely flogged . It iB reported that one of the boys brought the complaint from . Portsmouth , where he bad been to spend his vacation with his parents . Some , however , attri buted it to the crowded Btate of the burying ground , in wh : oh the remains of the pensioners are deposited . —Observer .

      Cadiioh . —Mu _3 _hiooms being now in season , and plentiful , a correspondent favours us with the subjoined , which may probably be the means of adding a few years to the lives of those who indulge in that rural dainty : —* In cooking mushrooms for the table always boil tbem with an onion stripped of its entire skin . If in the process the onion becomes black or blue d p not use the musbr .: _oms ; if they are harmless the onion will remain white . '— Bristol Mirror . The Siamkbb Twins . —The _Philadbiphu American mentions that the Siamese twins , after being in private life for ten years , are about ta start on a tour of exhibition . As they each have a wife and three children , they probably find it _neoeaeary to provide for their increasing families .

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      _™™ 2 L ! V ' _" _* . ? otwyn _ffork 8 * _PoOtyp _\) ol , after _S , Iff ! bl ! i ? ., toi 1 _lVatt 8 ed bisaatAS by flying a hKrial _mij _! rS _^ K _backwarcVviewing kSled " maoh , Be > he ftU _"to » coalpit and was * J _, _SL ?!!" , Hfr w _* , floras •» _CoMMeW—It appears that the speeches delivered in the Howe ef & Tf ? _, ? * _,- _•*** of No ™> » t 5 _the"JS of measuring 1 , 432 yards , or nearly one mile ! Kranfchn and Washington never spoke longer than ten minutes at a time , a good example for modem * OMtors . How _spesdily / observea Dr Knox , ' dees the Anglo _baxon show his real character when relieved from the pressure of Three Estates . In America he will net allow a black man to be a free man ; in Australia he deems him entirely below his notice ; and in rasmama he swep t him , and at once , entirely from tbe land of his birth .

      Sir Walter Scott ' s _favonrite abode , _Abbotsford , is now open to the publio on Wednesdays and Fridays . Mr _lt . _asam , of _Sutton-upon . Trent , has found tbat mustard _bowu _amongat wheat is an effeotual cure for the wire worms . Two swallows have built their nests under one of the paddle-boxes of a steamer which pliea between Yarmouth harbour and Yarmouth reads , and the hen has already laid three eggs in this singular place . Want of Taste . —The Medical Tiubs states tbat carnivorous quadrupeds always eat men in preference to

      women , _sparing _^ he _Jatter'in most instances . This only shows they are bruteB and want taste . Galioiahi says :- 'In the eveningof Sunday week last , between seven acd eight , a globe of fire of splendid _brillianoy illuminated the atmosphere to the south _-west of Yvetot ( Seine Inferieure ) . At _hrst it took an ascending direction , but then came down again towards the earth , scattering glittering sparks around . ' It ia said tbat the Company of _Moneyers in the Mint is to be done away with , which will effect a saving of £ 10 , 000 .

      A Gbeat Fact . —Seventeen per cent , of the population of Great Britain and Ireland receive parochial relief . In Great Britain alone it is ten per cent . only . The poor rates of Great Britain Bre nearly eight millions and a half . This must come out of the industry of the working classes in a great _measure . A national poor-rate is almost inevitable . It is stated that William and Mary Howitt contemplate leaving England , and taking up their residence in tbe west . They have had relatives in Ohio for many years .

      A woman in humble life , narred Mary Moohtry , residing at _Boredell , near Rathdowney , made a _cakt for herself and daughter on Thursday evening . Soda waB solioited and ( as the unfortunate females thought ) procured from a neighbour to leaven the flour—unfortunately it was arsenio instead of soda . Shortly after partaking of the cake the woman died in ex treme agony , and her daughter took violently ill , and is not expeoted to recover . Pbisom Manufaciubk —It appears from an official document just issued that during the year 1847 , upon a daily average of 1 , 056 prisoners in Milbank Prison tbeir earnings amounted to £ 5 , 150 9 i . 101 d . The expense of the manufactory was £ 652 _7 i . 6 _£ d ., making the net profits by prisoners' earnings , £ 4 , 298 2 s . 3 _Jd . showing the annual earnings per head to have been £ 4 Is . 4 £ J .

      Soldiers' Provisions . —Tha contract for supplying her Majesty ' s troops with beef in the city and county of Limerick fer the next six months has been taken at 2 _£ d . per lb . —Limerick Examiner . The steamer _Euxine , which arrived at Southampton on Wednesday week last , has brought £ 170 . 000 iu gold from Constantinople . Mr James Wallack is named as the stage _* mana £ cr for tbe ensaing _Haymsrket Season . Jenny _, Lind has bean singing to crowded houses in Liverpool and Birmingham . Conundrum . —Why are the fair sex like the letter L —Because you cannot make love without tbem . Io the course of the session tbere have-been no less than 255 divisions in the House of Commons . The Manx herring fishery has of late proved _exceedingly productive . _Braham , now 75 years of age , sang at a concert in Birmingham the week before Jast .

      Statb op Nottingham . —There are at this moment 700 houses and shops untenanted in tho parish of St Mary's , Nottingham . An entire oargo of filberts , consisting of 2 , 260 baskets , waa imported into London , on Monday week , from Rotterdam , A reduction of £ 8 , 000 is to be made in the wages of the shipwright department at Woolwich this year , and £ 20 , 000 in wages far the factory establishment . The accounts from the wine districts of France and Italy are very favourable .

      Thecontraot for the thirty thousand tonB of iron pipes required for the water works of Liverpool , has been effected , at about £ 410 s . a ton . The atmospheric principle , during tbe time it was applied to the South Devon Railway , cost £ 108 to carry £ 100 worth of passengers . —Wakefield Journal A Slight Mistaeb . —A weman in Philadelphia , who , in April last , was deserted by her husband three days after marriage , had a man arrested the other day , erroneously supposing him to be ber renegade spouse . Mr H . Briggs , of Halifax , has obtained the gold medal awarded for botanical knowledge by the London University College . Emigration . —More than 200 young women ,, chiefly orphans , have been selected in the Irish workhouses , and have been embarked as emigrants on board a vessel which is about to sail for South Australia .

      A poor man in Clonmel bas invented a winnowing machine which feeds itself and fills the eaoks with winnowed corn at tbe same time . He has not the means to procure patents , _Vsrt AppflopaiATB . —At a market town in Rutlandshire the following placard is affixed to the shutters of a watchmaker , who has decamped leaving his creditors minus : — ' Wound up , and the mainspring broke . ' A Roland for an Oliver . — ' Well Mary , ' said a lawyer to a witness , 'if I may credit what I hear , I may venture to address you by the name of Black Moll . ' ' Faith you may , Mister Lawyer , ' said she , ' for I am atways called so by the _blaokguards . ' Milton Clark , a fugitive slave , said at a meeting in Northampton , Massachusetts , that General Taylor owned 200 slaves , seventy-five of whom were his wives . One of the audience remarked . ' Zichary is an Old Testament Christian . ' —North Star .

      A Great _Coontrt—Oregon is said to contain about 218 . 535 , 320 acres ; California and New Mexico contains 500 , 000 square miles . They and the other territories of the Union equal at least 1 , 600 , 000 square miles , or 1 , 024 , 000 , 000 square acres . —American Paper . Irish Wit . — ' Faith , ' said an Irishman who could not get into his oabin at Balingarry , his wife having turned the key upon him ; ' faith , but I ' m regularly locked in , ' ' In ! ' said his companion , ' in where V _« Why , in ihe street !' Cure for . Cramp—A stick of stone of brimstone held tightly in each hand will instantly relieve this tormenting complaint . It is also recommended that the feet be kept warm in bed as a preventive . An enormous fresh water trout , taken in Looh Nea was exhibited in the Exohange News-room on Friday week . It weighed 22 | lbs . —Liverpool Paper .

      Practical Satirb . —During tho joint-stock mania of 1812 , a wag advertised a company for draining the Red Sea , and recovering tbe valuables dropt thorein by the children of Israel in their passage and the E _g yptians in their pursuit . _Impobtast to Artists . —With a view to putting a stop to certain nefarious practices , a plan is in agitation for registering every picture that may be painted . The registry being effected by the artist , the forgery of the registration mark would bo felony . Fair at _Cootkhill . —The fair held here on the 8 th inst . was a very bad one , there being no demand for cattle ot any description in _consequenoe of the soarcity of money . —Cavati Advertiser .

      Mr Bailey , poulterer , of London , states that one London salesman Bells £ 100 , 000 worth of poultry , that he himself paid £ 81 , 000 last year fer poultry , and that £ 15 , 000 are paid yearly at Aylesbury for young ducklings . A Poacher , —A few days sinoe as John Graham , the notorious poacher of the south of Scotland , was in _Falahill Inn lighting his pipe , something caught the trigger of a gun which was laying on the table , and it exploded . The contents lodged in Graham ' s knee , and he was immediately Bent to Edinburgh Infirmary . On the way , however , he died from the loss of blood , tbe artery not having been tied before he was placed in the cait . Graham was tho same man who about a year ago was pursued several weeks by an officer , aad apprehended in Fife , with a stolen gun in _his _) hand , who while inthe _actofjbeing brought across the Firth , pretended to want a shot at some ducks , threw it into the sea , thus escaping punishmont for want of a proof .

      An Enormous Rat . —Thero was killed by a cat at Kinellan Dingwall , Kent , a few days ago , a rat , whioh measured from the snout tothe tip of tho tail fully twenty inches , whioh was one of the largest oi those noxious vermin we have heard ef . Truth and Kindnes * , —In the minds of the best of men tbere is . always has been , and always will be , some difference of opinion as to what is true ; but everybody knows and feels what is kind . Thb Parson and his Jack-Ass . —Tho Gateshead Obsbrvbr says , that a Rector in the county of Durham employs an ass to drag the roller along his garden walks , and clothes the animal ' s legs in boots , in order that its feet may leave no marks on the gravel . The Heart . —Continual prosperity hardens tbe heart , as continual sunshine does the earth ; but when the one is softened by the tears of sorrow , hnd the other by genial showers , they yield tho _33 fruits whioh the necessities of man require .

      A Quebr wat to Promote Civilisation . —It is announced in the Paris papers , that the Pope , with a view to extend civilisation in Madagascar , has ap * pointed a bishop te that bland ,

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      • Wt cull the ckokest . ' BUIiKB AND SHERIDAN . Itis well known that the celebrated Edmund Burke , on his first debut in life , improved himself not a little under the banners and patronage of the opposition ; for which purpose ha was a constant frtquenteroftbe various debates and disputation ! held at the house of one Seacocke , a baker , but who , notwithstanding his situation in life , was gifted with such a vein of eloquence , tbat be was unanimously constituted perpetual President of tho famous diaputing society held at the Robin Hood , near Templfl Bar . On a certain memorable occasion in the House of Commons . Mr Burke , exclaiming , ' / quit tht camp , suddenly left tbe opposition benches , and , going over to the Treasury side of tbe house ,

      thundered a violent philippic against his former friends and associates . Mr Sheridan ooncluded a spirited reply to that unlooked-for attack nearly in the _following words : ' That gentleman , to use his own expression , has quilted' the eemp ; but he will recel * lect that he has quitted it as a deserter , and I sin _. eerely hope that he will never return as a spy . But I , for one , ' he continue * , ' oannot sympathise in the astonishment with whioh so flagrant an act of _apostaoy has electrified the house , for neither I cor that gentleman havo forgotten from whom he haa borrowed those weapons whioh he now uses against os . So far , therefore , from being astonished at that gentleman ' s present tergiversation , I consider it not only characteristic , but consistent ; for it iB but natural that he , who on his first starting in life Bhould commit so gross a blunder as to go to a baker ' s for his . etoquence _, should conclude / such a career , by coming to the House of Commons for hit Bread . '

      Love awd Marriage- — 'Never marry but for love , says William Penn in his _Refactions and Maxims , ' but see that thou lovest wbat is lovely . ' HOPS . Hope is the golden cord that tethers man to tbifi _existenoe ; once destroy that ligament , and instead of introspecting with all the anxious eagerness exoited by happy anticipations , gloomy retrospection ! supervene , and the mind deciduates into the lowest depths of chaotic despair . Hope , like tbe neverfailing guide of the pathless ocean , the compass , even in the midst of most gloomy despondency , keeps steady to its point , and prompts us to look forward to a happy _jonclusion of a tempestuous voyage .

      THE GARRET ( From tbe French of Beranger , ) Je vlflns revolr l ' _aslle ou ma _jeunessa De la mlsere a * abi Ie * leccn _* , & c . ' I am eome to revisit my youth ' s first asylum , Where I learnt to bear patiently trouble and eare ; I'd tome very good friends , I had Bonus to beguile ' em I was twenty , my mistress t * _as fond and was fair . Not regarding tbe world , nor its wrongs nor its rights , With no future before mo , yonog , buoyant and bold , With footstep elastic I mounted six flights—One )* well in a garret at twenty yean old ! 'TiB a garret Indeed , and I wish jou to know it ; And there stood my bed , rosgh with bill and with bole ; And tbere was my table ; and see the young poet Scored bis lines on tbe wall , snd his pen was a coal ! _Re-appear , ye gay pleasures tbat earliest dawn'd

      Tbougb time long bas borne ye off distant and cold ; Ah bow oft to procure you , my watch has been _pswn'd _, One is well in a garret at twenty years old . _Abave all , my fair Lizzy , should hare re-appear As sbe was In _tbose dais , fresh , and mirthful , and young ! It was here , that across the ( mail trindo _* the dear Her shawl for a curtain so oftentimes bung , And her gown on our bed for a coverlet threw—Ob , Love , have _reipect for its every fold ! Who paid for ber wardrobe I tben little knew—One is well in a garret at twenty years old . One day we were feasting , our laughter was loud ,

      And the chorus was raised , and the song was begun , Wben we learnt by tbe shouts of tbe deafenlag crowd That Napoleon tbe fight of Marongo had won I Loud thundor'd the cannon ! our s ? ng was renew'd _, ' And we praised the lored chief and hii stploits so bold , And we said thai our France could ba never subdued-One is well In a garret at twenty years old , Lst ns pass from tbis roof where my faltering reason The thoughts of those times so beloved can bear ; I freely would give all ray _lifo's coming season For two months of suoh days and _delights as thea were I For dreaming of glory , of love , and of pleasure , And for selling our life for some joys quickly told , And for fixing our hopes on eome exquisite treasure , One is well in a garret at twenty years old .

      COAT AHD ABM 3 . Fawcet , who had chambers in tbe Temple , having _, called a tioket . porte . * to carry a message , he asked bis name : he said it was Russell . * And pray , ' said the comedian jocularly , 'is your coat of arms the same as the Dake of Bedford ' s ?'— ' As to our arms , your honour , ' says the porter , * I believe they _» re pretty muoh alike , bat there is a d d deal of difference between our coats . ' Love , Death , and thb Loitbrt . — Early in the reign of George II . the footman of a lady of quality , under the absurd infatuation ofa dream , disposed of the savings of the last twenty years of his life in two lottery tickets , which , proving blanks , after a few melancholy days he put an end to bis life . In hia box was found the following plan of the manner in

      which he should spend the five thousand ponnd prize , whioh his mistress preserved as a curiosity : — ' Aa soon as I bave received the money I will marry Grace Towers ; but as she has been cross and oT _, * will use her as a servant . Every morning she shall get me a mug of strong beer , with a tcast , nutmeg , and sugar in it ; than I will sleep till ten , after whioh I will hive a _lar _^ e sack posset . My dinner shall be on the table by one , and never without a pudding . I will have a stock of wine and brandy laid in . Abont five in the afternoon I will have tarts and jellies , and a gallon bowl of punch ; at ten a hot supper of two dishes . If I am in a good humour , and Grace behaves herself , Bhe shall sit down with me . To bed about twelve . ' Speculators in' Derby sweeps' may take a lesson from this .

      FATHER CHANGE . Tbere passed down tbe lane of life-Lane irregular and narrow—An ancient . fellow , eagle beaked , Trandliag _such-n barrow ! Heaped and heaped , and over heaped , Never was a loa * l « 6 raotly , _Andtbuj he kept exclaiming etill , Pressed however hotly , — _'Deaths and weddings ! deaths and wed . dings ! Useless old thing ta ' en for new l Something here for everybody ! Passing through ! ' Be in time , ne * I bs in time I

      Horo you bave all sorts nf _thiojs : Schoolbags , _buslnees ; gain * and losses ; Dolls , and marriage rings ; Bridecakes , coffins , cradles , crutohes ; Gaiety and sadness ; Health and riobnees , want and weakness , Reason—ey , and madness . R ? _gs and velvets , crusts and banquets , Hobfcy hor * _es not a feiv ! Now ' _s your time for making bargains , Passing through !' Out tbey oame , the silly people , Out by wlndoffB and by doors ; O ' er tbe roofs , up from tbe cellar * , Scores _succeediag scores _. Open mouthed and open handed ,

      Eager all for something atrange ; Pushing sidelong , bold aod timid , To old Father Caange . 'Deaths and weddings ' , _ehronds aud chap . lets ! Lots of notions , false and tru _?; Fame ' . '—ho bawled this to _thegarrats' Passing through !' Children bringing hoops and marbles , Careless words and merry looks , Held them up , rtceiving for them , Kuittod brows and boobs . Youths , to purchase learning ' s honour , Brouffht a load of midnight hours , Ruddy cheeks and social pleasuros , Open airs and _UawerB . ' Eduoation ; application ;

      Thoughts above the common crew ; Hollow chests and heavy foreheads , Passing through I ' Maidens brought familiar features , Old _oflcollons tried and s'rerg _, Llghtset bosoms , gay _compnnions , Merry dance and song _. For a heart and band _untested , For a very world of cares , Now relation * , new _pursuits , and Most experienced aire ! Bridal dresses ; splashed _postillion-Cips Be like Passing At an open A _phi _! All the bus An ho Cronding

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 23, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_23091848/page/3/