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      GOB'S WORLD IS WORTHY BETTER " MEN . Behold ! an . idle tale they tell : But who shall blame their telling it * The rogues have got their cant to sell , The world pays well for selling it ! n They say this world * s a " desert drear , "Wrapt in their own stark blindness ; That nfen were sent to snffer here : — What I by a God of kindness f—That , since the world has gone astray , It must be so for ever ; And we must stand still and obey ItsDesolaters . Never ! We'll labour for the better time , "With all onr might of Press and Pen ! Believe me , ' tis a truth sublime , God ' s World is worth y better Men .

      With Paradise the world began , — A world of love and gladness ; Its beauty hath been marred by man , With all his crime and madness . Tet 'tis a bright world still . Love brings Sunshine for spirits dreary ; With all our strife , sweet Rest hath wings To fold o ' er hearts a-weary . The sun , in glory like a god , To-day in heaven is shining ; The flowers upon the bloom-rich sod Their sweet love-lessons twining , As radiant of immortal youth As they were fresh from Eden . Then , Believe me , 'tis a noble truth , God ' s World is worthy better 3 Ien . 0 , they aTe bold and over bold , Who say we ' re doomed to anguish ; That men , in God's own image souled _,

      like hell-bound slaves should languish ! Probe "Nature ' s heart to its red core , There ' s more of good than e vil ; And man—down-trampled man—is more Of angel than of devil ! " Prepare to die ?"—Prepare to live ! We know not what is living ; And let us , for the world ' s good , give , As God is ever giving ! Give love , thought , action , wealth , and time , To win the primal age again . Believe me , ' tis a truth sublime , God ' s World is worthy better Men ! The Leader . Gerald Massey .

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      The Romance Of The Peerage ,* Or Cui'ios...

      The Romance of the Peerage , * or Cui'iosdies of family History . By G . L . Craik . Vol . IV . London : Chapman and Hall . Is this work "Mr . Craik shows the small beginnings , and , in our opinion , anything but " romantic" incid & nts , out of which bave grown some of the proudest families of oar aristocracy . Plunder , in one shape or another , constitutes the foundation of all of them , whether effected b y the sword , or _fhe more insidious , but not less mischievous , agency of nsnry and trade . Take , fer instance , the founder of the House of Lansdowne—the ancestor of the present President of the Council . He was what is

      called the founder of his own fortune ; but what were the means ? Purchasing the debentures of the soldiers in Cromwell's army in Ireland , and then bnyingthe _confiscated estates from improvident or straitened allottees . It would almost seem , indeed , from the career of Sir "W illiam Petty , and of Boyle , Earl of Cork , that , in the seventeenth century , Ireland was a greater field for unscrupulous , greedy , and pushing adventurers than India , during the earlier stages of its conquest and acquisition , or the Colonies now . Where the carcase is , there the vultures will follow Cromwell laid waste the land with fire and

      sword , and then distributed it among his vie torious soldiers . They were followed by nsurers and money-lenders—persons ready to take advantage of weakness , necessity , imprudence , or ignorance ; and by chicanery , and that species of bargain-making which sticks at nothing to compass its object . It is curious , too , to observe the unconscious manner in which the actors in this kind of immoral gambling and cheating speak of the affair , and even p iously give thanks to God , for having been so clever as to pluck their dupes . _3 Ir . Craik thus describes the manner in which Petty made his money : —

      In tbe latter part of the year 1652 , he obtained the appointment of Physician to the Army in Ireland , which he ret ained for about seven years . A inndred pounds which he was allowed for outfit made him worth about £ 500 when he landed nt Waterford , in September 1 G 52 ; he bad a salary of twenty shillings a day , and he made by his practice about £ _400 a year more . But these regular emoluments of his post were far from being all that he got ont of it . Ireland was , throughout the whole of the seventeenth century , the most tempting region of adventure for English ambition ; it was what the New World had been in the sixteenth , and what India became in the eighteenth ; though

      -what made it so rich an El Dorado , or land of gold , -was not so _mno h its natural wealth as the succession Of public calamities by which it had been torn and crushed , the divisions and ever following _subluxations , which _aga- ' n and again threw it down a helpless prev for the spoiler . Petty writes his title at full length as , «• Physician to the Army wha had suppressed the rebellion begun in the year 16 * 1 . and to the General of the same and the Head Quarters " He then proceeds : — - ' * " About September 1634 , 1 , perceiving tbat ths admeasurement of the lands forfeited by the aforementioned rebellion , and intended to regulate the satisfaction of the soldiers who had suppressed the same , was most

      insufficientlv and absurdly managed . I obtained a contract , " dated llth December , 1654 , for making the said admeasurement ; and , by God ' s MeuMur , so performed the same as that I gained about £ 9 , 00 !) thereby ; which , with the £ -500 above mentioned mv salary of twenty _shillins-s per diem , the beriebt of mv practice , together with £ 600 given me for directing an after-survey of the Adventurers lands , and £ 300 more for two years salary as Clerk ofthe Council , raised mean estate of about _i . IJ _. in readv and real money , at a time when , without

      art interest , or authority , men boug ht as much land for ten shillings in real money a s at this year , 1635 vields ten shillings per annum rent above his _UaieYtv _' s quit-rents . " Part of this money he kept in cash to answer emergencies ; wjth part of It he purchased the house and garden of the tart ot Arundel , in Lothbury , London ; but the greater part he invested in soldiers' debentures , with which he purchased lands in Ireland at _thclow price above described . Aubrey affirms tbat these lands produced him a rental of £ 18 , 000 a year .

      The autobiographical particulars in this extract are taken from Petty _' s will ; a singular document , in which the writer gives an account of bis life and fortunes , with the occasional insinuation of an opinion , as in this legacy to the poor , and his _convenient views on religion !—As for _legacies for the poor , I am at a stand . As for beggars by trade and election I "ire them _noijr fas for impotent * bv the hau 3 of God the __ viT-Z ,.. _„ M _tnmiintain them : as for those « b 0

      have been bred to no calling or estate they should bepnt upon their kindred ; as for those who cm get no work , the mag istrates should cause them to be employed , which may be well done i oh eland -where is fifteen acres of improveable land tor every head ; prisoners for crimes , by the Ring ; for debt , by tbeir prosecutors . As for those who compassionate the sufferings of any object , let them relieve themselves by relieving such Buffcrer . _" , thstis , give them alms pro re _notCt , and for God ' s sake relieve those several species above-mentioned where the above-mentioned olliaee * fail in their duties .

      "Wherefore I am contented that I have assisted all niy poor relations , ard put many into a way of getting their own bread , and have laboured in public works and by inventions , have _souahtout real object s of charity , and do hereby conjure all who partake of my estate from time to time to do tho same , at their peril . Seven _helcss , to answer custom and to tike thc surer side , I give £ 20 to the most _wanting ofthe parish wherein I die .

      As for religion , I die in the profession of that faith and in the practice of such worshi p as I find established bv the law of my country ; net being able to believe what I myself please , nor to worshi p God better tban by " doing . is I would be done nnto , and obseving the laws of my country , and expressing my love and honour to Almighty God by such signs and tokens as are understood to be such by the people with whom I live , God knowing my heart even without any at all .

      In fact , Sir Henry was a worshipper of Mammon , and a very successful one . Sir Stephen Foe , the founder of the great Whig House of Holland , was a courtier , and _jose by the personal regard of that most unprincipled and Kcencious of sovereigns , Charles the Second . The founder of the House cf "Phips ( now Phipps ) , Marquis of * _N onnanby ,

      The Romance Of The Peerage ,* Or Cui'ios...

      vras a M assachusetts man , who got some money by a search after a S panish treasureship , wrecked near the Bahamas a hundred y ears before . In short , the steps to the pinnacle of rank , title , and station seem , in all cases , to be very dirty ones ; but it is wonderful how the gilding , the jewels , the enninedrobe , and the glittering coronet , hide all that , and dazzle the multitude ! **™* a . _Massacliusotta man , who got mm

      History Of The War Of The Sicilian Vespe...

      History of the War of the Sicilian Vespers . By MiChele Amabi . London . Bentley . It is generally believed that the event known in history as the " Sicilian Vespers , " was the result ofa wide spread conspiracy , embracing all classes of people , kept secret for two years , and at length carried into effect suddenly , w _* ith immediate triumph , and final

      success . If sucu were the case it would , undoubtedly , be one of the strongest and most unparalleled incidents in human annals . Conspiracies seldom indeed ripen into action when participated in hy largo numbers , and they are , when confined to a few , equally liable to disappointment , by an untimely explosion , a miscalculation of time and resources , or the treachery of some of their apparently most zealous abettors .

      Amari held the common opinion when he began to study this portion of the annals of his native country , with a view to write its history . The result of his investigations has led him to a very different conclusion . That Peter of Arragon aimed at the kingdom of Sicily , either from self-prompting or at the suggestions of John of Procida , and other Sicilian exiles , is clear . It is equall y clear that he prepared an army for that purpose , under the pretence of waging war against tho Infidels . It appeal's to be true that he entered into a treaty with the Greek Emperor MichaelPaleologus , whom Charles of Anjou was threatening with war : it is also _possible , that a general conspiracy was formed among some of the Sicilian barons : but beyond this Amari does not

      believe that any conspiracy extended . " When carefully sifted , " he writes , "the contemporary records amount to this — that Peter eagerly aspired to the crown of Sicily ; that he armed himself ; that he treated for subsidies with the Emperor of Constantinople , whose power was threatened by Charles ; that Procida was oue of his messengers j that ho may , perhaps , have conspired wifch some few Sicilian barons , but that their plans were not yet matured nor their preparations completed , when the people of Sicily broke forth . " The foundation of the outbreak was long oppression in every form ; the immediate cause , like two great revolutions in Rome , and in some ofthe Italian cities of the middle ages , was injury to a woman . This is Amari ' s narrative of the

      beginning : — New outrages shed a gloom over the festival of Easter at Palermo , the ancient capital ofthe kingdom ; detested by the strangers more than any other city , as being the strongest and the most deeply injured . Messina was the seat of the King ' s Viceroy in Sicily , Herbert of Orleans ; Palermo was governed by the Justiciary of Yal di Mazzara , John of St . Remigio , a minister worthy of Charles . His subalterns , worthy both of the Justiciary and of the King , had recently launched out into fresh acts of rapine and violence . But the people submitted . It even went so far that the citizens of Palermo , seeking comfort from God amid their worldly tribulations , and having entered a church to pray , in that very church , ou the days sacred to the memory of

      the Saviour ' s passion , and amidst the penitential rites , were exposed to the most cruel outrages . The ban-dogs of the exchequer searched out amongst them those who had failed in the payment of tbe taxes , dragged them forth from the sacred ediSce , manacled , and bore them to prison , crying out insultingly hefore the multitude attracted to the spot , ' " Pav , paterini , pay ! " . And the people still submitted . " The Tuesday after Easter , which fell on the 31 st of March , there was a festival at the church of Santo Spirito . On that occasion a heinous outrage against the liberties of the Sicilians afforded the impulse , and the patience of the people gave way . "We will now record all that the historians most deserving of credence have transmitted to us _concerning this memorable event .

      Half a mile from the Southern wall of the city , en the brink of the ravine of Oreto , stands a church dedicated to the Holy Ghost ; concerning which the Latin Fathers have not failed to record , that on the day on which the first stone of it was laid , in the twelfth century , the sun was darkened by an eclipse . On one side of it are the precipice and the river , on the other the plain extending to the city , which in the present day is in great part encumbered with walls and gardens ; while a square enclosure , of moderate size , shaded by dusky cypresses , honeycombed with tomhs , and adorned with urns and other sepulchral monuments , surrounds the Church . This is a public cemetery , laid out towards

      the _eighteenth century , and fearfully failed in three weeks by the dire pestilence which devastated Sicily in 1 S 37 . On the Tuesday , at the hour of vespers , relig ion and custom crowded this then cheerful plain , carpeted with tbe flowers of spring , with citizens wending their way towards the church . Divided into numerous gronp 3 , they walked , sat in clusters , spread tbe tables , or _dimced upon the <* r ; . _ss ; and , whether it were a defect or a merit of the Sicilian character , threw off , for the moment , the recollection oftheir sufferings ;—when the followers of th e Justiciary suddenly appeared amongst them , and every bosom thrilled with a shudder of _disgust . The strangers came , with their usual

      insolent demeanour , as they said , to maintain tranquillity ; and for this purpose ihey mingled in the "roups , joined in thc dances , and familiarly accosted the women ; pressing the band of one , taking unwarrantable liberties witb others ; addressing indecent words and g estures to those more distaut ; until some temperately admonished them to depart _, in God ' s name , without insulting the women ; and Others murmured angrily ; but thc hot-blooded youths rai _= ed their voices so fiercely that the soldiers sa d to one another , " These insolent paterini must be armed , that they dare thus to answer ; " and replied to them with the most offensive insults , _insistino-. with _creat insolencp , on searching them for

      'inn ' and even here and there striking tJiem with Sticks or thongs . Every heart already throbbed fiercely on either side , when a young woman of _singular beautv , and of modest and dignified deportment , appeared with her husband and relations bending her steps towards the church . Drouefc , a Frenchman , impelled either by insolence © _rlieence approached her , as if to examine her for concealed weapons ; seized her , and searched her bosom . She fell fainting iuto her husband ' s arms ; who , in a voice almost choked with rage , exclaimed , "Death ,

      death to the French I" At the same moment , a vouth burst from the crowd which had gathered round them , sprang upon Drouefc , disarmed and slew him ; and probal-Iy at the same moment paid the penalty of his own life , leaving his name unknown , and the mystery forever unsolved , whether it were love for the injured woman , the impulse of a _cenerous heart , or the more exalted flame ot patriotism , thnt prompted him thus to give the signal of deliverance . 2 _* oblo examples have a power far beyond tbat of argument or eloquence to rouse

      the people , and the _a' _-ject slaves _awoKe at lengin from their long bondage . " Death , death to the French ! " thev cried ; and the cry , say the historians of tbe time , re-echoed like the voice of God _through the whole country , and found an answer in every heart . Above the corpse of Drouet were heaned those of victims slain on either side ; the crowd expanded itself , closed in , swayed hither and thither in wild coufusion ; thc Sicilians , with sticks , stones , and knives , rushed with desperate ferocity unon lheir fullv-armed opponents ; they sought hunted them down fearful tragedies

      for theru and ; were _enaeicd amid the preparations for festivity , and the overthro wn tables were drenched in blood . The people disp layed their strength and conquered The stni ¦ '"le was ' brief , and great the slaughter of thcPicili-in s ; but of the French there were two _hun-Arcd—and two hundred fell . meai blew , covered » ith blopd . brandishine the _nhfndered weapons , and proclaiming the insuIt ami K _fJZan nee the insurgents rushed towards the ! n , ? n tv 'Wh to tho French ! " they tranquil ciiy . . f d t t 0 _^ l _^ _^; _Sple . the words , the _coiLgipn

      r c-VAn * in -in instant aroused the whole people . Place , and _touting " _^^^ 'A _^ Z _i them and _sle _* them , while those too distant to strike added to the tumult by their apP _"" _^ the outbreak of this sudden uproar the Justl _^ 7 had taken _refu-e in his strong palace ; the next moment it was surrounded bv an enraged _wultuuue , crying aloud for his death : thev demolished ; tne _defencoB . and rushed furiously in : but the Justiciary escaped them ; favoured bv the confusion and the closing darkness , he sunneede _. _l _rhouph wounded in

      the face , in mounting his hone unol served , and with only two attendants , fled with all speed . "Meanwhile , the slaughter continued with increased ferocity ; even the darkness of night failed to arrest it , and it was resnmed on the morrowniore furiously

      History Of The War Of The Sicilian Vespe...

      than ever ; nor did it . cease at length because the thirst for vengeance was slaked , bufc because viotims were wanting to appease ifc . Two thousand French perished in this first outbreak . Amari ' s view of the unpremeditated nature of the massacre is supported by various reasons in the text , and by an elaborate review iu the appendix , of all the chroniclers who have written upon the subject ; the main arguments being , the silence of the best-informed contemporary historians about tho conspiracy , and the inconsistencies of the narratives themselves with several established facts . There is , also , the inherent improbability of so exten-W _*** ' i im ri ili ' 7 1 fi iii _' i II

      sive a plot being kept secret for such a length of time ; there is , too , the air of truth which pervades the historical view of Amari . Revolutions not brought about by constituted powers , or large classes acting openly , but by sudden risings , have always emanated from the people . A sudden spark has inflamed the latent passion which long oppression has induced , and roused the populace like an electric shock , "When they have done their work sufficiently to give promise of success , the " educated classes " step in to lead and regulate—which is necessary ; and to profit by the popular enthusiasm—the necessity for which we deny .

      How To Make Home Unhealthy. Chapman And ...

      How to make Home Unhealthy . Chapman and This is a collection of papers which ori g inall y appeared in the Examiner . Their lively satirical style attracted much attention , and the soundness of the philosophy they embody , though taught as dreams are , to be interpreted , namely , by contraries amply warrant their republication in a collected form . The didactic style which , works on the subject generally assume has , doubtless , tho effect of deterring many from giving it that attention which is due to its importance and its bearing upon the general well-being . This work is certain to attract readers from its purely literary merits , abounding , as ifc does ,

      with appropriate illustrations , apt anecdotes , and sly sarcasm ; the writer hits the admitted follies and errors of onr social and domestic habits hard , but pleasantly . There is no malice in his satire , and we feel that he chastises us for our good , not for the pleasure of inflicting punishment . The work is pervaded by au under curreut of sound and practical suggestions with regard to those sanitary and social conditions that affect the maintenance of health and the comfort of life , not the less valuable because it sparkles so pleasantly .

      Every page affords illustrations and quotations . "We shall take one or two , first giving the key note of them as stated by the author . Lucian tells a story of a painter , called Passus , who received from a Connoisseur an order for a picture of a horse painted with the legs upwards . He drew it in the usual way , for his own convenience . One day , however , his customer came in unexpectedly , saw the painting , and flew into a passion . Passus quietly turned the picture upside down and contented the Connoisseur . Let us see how the author turns the horse with its legs upwards .

      TnE LIGHT NUISANCE . Tieck tell us , in his " History of the Schild-I'iirger , " tbat the town council of that spirited community was very wise . It had been noticed that many worthy aldermen and common-councillors were in the hsibit of looking out of window when they ought to be attending to their duties . A vote was therefore , on one occasion , passed by a large majority , to this effect , namely—Whereas the windows of the town-hall are a great impediment to tbe dispatch of public business , it is ordered thafc , before the next day of meeting they be all bricked up . When the next day of meeting came , the worthy representatives of Schildbiirg were surprised to find themselves assembling in the dark .

      Presently , accepting the unlooked-for fact , they settled down into an edifying discussion of the question , whether darkness was nofc more convenient for their purposes than daylight . —Had you and I been there , my friend , our votes in the division would have been , like the vote in our own Ilouse of Commons a few days ago , for keeping out the Light Nuisance as much as possible . Darkness is better than daylight , certainly . Now this admits of proof . For , let me ask , where do you find the best part of a lettuce ?—not in the outside leaves . " Which are the choice parts of the celery ?—of course , the white shoots in the middle . Why , sir ? Because light has never come to them . They become white and luxurious by tying up , by earthing

      up , by any contrivance which has kept the sun at bay . It is the same with man ; while we obstruct the light by putting brick and board where glass suggests itself , and mock the light by picturing impracticable windows on our outside walls , —so that our houses stare about like blind men with glass eyes , —while this is done , we sit at home and blanch , wc become in our dim apartments pale and delicate , we grow to look refined , as gentlemen and ladies ought to look . Let the sanitary doctor at whose head we throw lettuces , go to the botanist and ask him , How is this ? Let him come back and tell us . Oh , gentleman , in these vegetables the natural juices are not formed wben you exclude the light . The natural juices in lettuce or in celery are flavoured much more strongly than our taste would

      relish , and therefore wc induce in these plants an imperfect development , in order to make them eatable . Tery well . The natural juices in a man are stronger than good taste can tolerate . Man requires horticulture to be fit to come to table . To rear tbe finer sorts of human kind , one great operation necessary is to banish light as much as possible . Ladies know that . To keep their faces pale , they pull the blinds down in their drawing-rooms , they put a veil between their countenances and thc sun when they go out , and carry , like good soldiers , a great shield on high , by name a parasol , to ward his darts off . They know better than to let the old ood kisa them into colour , as he does the peaches . They choose to remain green fruit ; and we all know that to be a delicacy .

      In anticipation of Christmas and New Year festivities , we shall conclude with our author's account of

      SPEXDIXG A VERT _PLEASAKT EVENING . By the consent of antiquity , ifc is determined that Pain shall bo doorkeeper to the house of Pleasure . In Europe , Purgatory led to Paradise ; and , had St . Svmeon lived among us now , he would have earned heaven , if the police permitted , by praying for ifc , during thirty years , upon the summit of a lamppost . In India the Fakir was beatified by standing on his head , under a hot sun , beset with roasting bonfires . In Greenland the soul expected to reach bliss by sliding for five days down a rugged rock , wounding itself , and shivering with cold . _' The American Indians sought happiness through _castigation , and considered vomits the most expeditious mode of enforcing self-denial on the stomach .

      Some tribes of Africans believe , that on the way to heaven every man s head is knocked against a wall . By consent of mankind , therefore , ifc is granted that wc must pass Pain on the way to Pleasure . What Pleasure is , when reached , none but the dogmatical can venture to determine . To _Gret-nlanders , a spacious fish-kettle , for ever simmering , in which boiled seals for ever swim , is thc delight of heaven . And _romombgr that , in the opinion of SI . Bailly , Adam aud Eve gardened in Nova Zembla . You will not he surprised , therefore , if I call upon you to prepare fer your domestic pleasures with a little sufiering : nor , when I tell you what such pleasures are , must you exclaim against them as absurd . Having the sanction of our

      forefathers , they nre what is fashionable now , and consequently thev aro what is fit . I propose , then , that you should give , for the entertainment ofyour friends , an Evening Party ; and as this is a scene in which young ladies prominently figure , I will , if vou please , on this occasion , pay particular attention to your daughter . O mystery of preparation ! - Pardon , sir . You err if you suppose me to insinuate that ladies are more careful over personal adornment than the gentlemen . When men made a _disp _' ay of manhood , wearing beards , it is recorded that they packed them , wben they went to bed , in p asteboard cases lost they might bo tumbled in the night . Man at his grimmest is as vain as woman , even when ho stalks about bearded and battle-axed . This is the mystery of preparation in your daughter's case : How does she breathe ? You

      have prepared her from childhood for tho part she is to play to-night , by training her form into the onlv shape which can be looked at with complacency in anv ball-room . A machine , called stay- "* , intro duced " long since into England , by the Normans , baa had her in its grip from early childhood . She has become pale , and—only the least bit—liable to be bluo about the nose and fingers , Stays aro an excellent contrivance ; they give a material support to the old cause , _Unhealthiness nfc Home . This is the _seorefc of their excellence . A woman ' s ribs are narrow at the top . and as they approach the waist they widen , to allow room for the lui . « s to play within them . If you can preventthe ribs from widening , you can prevent the lungs from _nhving which thoy havo no right to do , and make Ken . wurk . This you accomplish by the apency of SS It fortunately happens that these lungs

      How To Make Home Unhealthy. Chapman And ...

      _£ th _? _£ _S ° l _!*^ P i ttin _ff _^ the breath of life _nMvli , °° _whlch _^ ey are unable to do pro-S , H T _* _f ' _- fcr 8 P ace' ! t become 8 about as ? _rSini ° _* th 6 m _^ lfc would be t 0 - Tou to play the ofS _, W ? , _, . h , na c , 08 efc * _ty this compression m . fl _? * £ _* Sfc Mle _* aro made nervous , and become unhfc for much . exertion ; they do not , however , ; _.. « _« !• ° i P thafc they have lost flesh . There is a twtion of attire whioh would induce , in a _spe-£ 2 f ¦ TO _CtlUi' the belief that some internal flame _. _K . _? T - their _waists to gutter , and thafc the rids had all run down into a lump which protrudes ? _«?¦ i unier . the waistband . This appearance is , _i tnink , a fiction ; and for my opinion 1 have newspaper authority . In the it was writtenone i ~ ~"

      papers , day last year , that the hump alluded to was tested witu a nm upon the person of a lady , coming from tne isle of Alan , and ifc was found not to be sensitive . Brand y exuded from the wound ; for in that case the projection was a bladder , in which the prudent housewife was smuggling comfort in a quiet way Ihe touch of a pin changed all into discomfort , when she found thafc she was converted l 1 t 0 a- peripatetic _watering-can—brandyinjr-can I should have said . Your daughter conies down stairs dressed , with a bouquet , at a time whon tho dull seeker of Health and Strength would have her to go up stairs with a _bed-candiestick . Your euosts arrive . Young ladies thinly clad and packed in

      carnages , emerge , half-stifled ; put a cold foot , protected by a filmy shoe , upon the pavement , and run , shivering into your house . Well , sir , we'll warm them presently . * * Allow mo to dance a polka with your daughter . Frail , elegant creature , thafc she is ! A glass of wine , —a macaroon good . Sontag , yes ; and- that dear novel . That was a delightful dance ; now let us promenade . The room is close ; a g lass of wine , an ice , and let us get to the delicious draught in tbe conservatory , oi * by that door . . Is it iiot beautiful * The next quadrille—I look sl yly at my watch , and Auber _' s grim chorus rumbles within me ' - 'Void minuit ! void minuit . " Another dance . How fond she

      stems to bo of macaroons ! Supper . M y dear sir , I will take good care of your daughter . One sandwich . Champagne . Blancmange . Bonbon . Champagne . Sherry . Champagne . Tipsey-cake . Brandy cherries . Glass of wine . A macaroon . Trifle . Jelly . Champagne . Custard . Macaroon . The ladies are being taken care of—Yes , now in their absence we will drink their health , and wink at each other ; their and our Bad Healths . This is the happiest moment of our lives ; afc two in tbe _morning , with a dose of indigestion in the stomach , and three hours more to come before wc get to bed . You , my dear sir , hope thafc on many ' occasions like the _prosent you may see your friends around you , looking as glassy-eyed as you have made them

      to look now . We will rejoin the ladies . Nothing but champagne could have enabled us to keep up the evening so well . We wore getting weary before supper , —but we have had some wine , have dug the spur into our sides , and on we go again . At length , even the bottle stimulates our worn-out company no more ; and then we separate . Good night , dear sir : we bave spent a Very Pleasant Evening under your roof . To-morrow , when you depart from a late breakfast , havinp seen your daughter ' .- * face , and her boiled-mackerel eye , knowing that your wife is bilious , and that your son has just gone out for soda-water , you will feel yoursel ' f to be a Briton who has done his duty , a man who has paid something on account of his great debt to civilized society . "

      The Expositor, A Weekly Illustrated Reco...

      The Expositor , a weekly illustrated Recorder of Inventions , Designs , and Art Manufactures . No . 2 . J . Clayton and Son , Strand . J ournal of the Exhibition of 1851 . No 1 . Office , Essex-street , Strand . Ground Plan ofthe Exhibition building in Hyde Park . Wyld , Charing-cross . The titles of the preceding sufficiently explain their purpose and character . Of the

      two journals the Expositor appears to take the widest range , not confining itself to topics connected with the Exhibition alone , but imparting varied information on the position and progress of Arfc , Mechanism , and Industry in this couutry . Tho drawings illustratative of mechanical inventions , and of art manufacture , are well executed and a valuable feature in periodicals of this kind . For all who take an interest in matters connected

      with the Exhibition , or who intend to become competitors , this Journal offers full and systematised information ; while Mr . "VV yld ' s penny Ground Plan will form a very infcelligable guide through the long arcades of the " Crystal Palace . "

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      Haymarket Theatre. The Part Of Cassius I...

      HAYMARKET THEATRE . The part of Cassius in Julius Ccesar has been so rarely played by Mr . Macready that in enumerating a list of his possible characters one would be likely to pass it over , naming Julius Caesar on account of Brutus only . And yet there is no part which Mr . Macready brings out with greater force of individuality than this of Cassius , which he played on Saturday night . The irritable temper of the mansensitive to a degree of morbidity—he represents with the greatest nicety , In the first dialogue with Brutus he shows you plainly that he does not hate the elevation of Ca _* sar from a mere abstract

      principle , bufc that ifc is personally distasteful to him ; that it sours his temper ; that , to use a very _undig nified phrase , it is absolutely provoking . The great quarrel scene was inimitably done . Here the irritable temperament is developed into open rage . Self-control is all bnt lost ( the " all but" being finely maintained ) , yet still thc naturally affectionate _foundation is constantly kept in view , and teems ever ou the point of bursting into utterance , till at last all anger vanishes in the hearty reconciliation . Thc applause of tho audience when Cassius fell on the neck of Brutus denoted not only _admiration , but was a genuine expression of sympathy . Mr . How , as Mark Antony , lins achieved a success which

      is likely to advance him in public estimation . The famous oration was delivered not only with that energy which may be always found in Mr . How , but with a variety of tone and manner that proved much thought and discrimination . The calm nature nf Brutus was unaffectedly represented b y Sir . Davenport . The Young Quaker , a five act piece by O'Keefe , originally produced at the Haymarket in 1733 , has been revived for the non-Macready nights . It is a vapid work , with no intrinsic merit to recommend it , the only pleasing feature in it being thc genuine good humour which Mr . Webster infuses into the character of the Young Quaker , a youth of excellent disposition , but somewhat lax in his habits .

      Royal Polytechnic Institution. During Th...

      ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . During the past week Mr . George Barker has been engaged in deliverine a lecture on the Ballad Music of England , the subject being the Lays of the Foresters or Songs of Robin Hood . " It isiut to be expected thafc the lecturer could give a biograph y of the bold outlaw in the short space allotted to his lecture , nor is ifc necessary—for who is unacquainted with , the romantic history of the Forester , and his equally celebrated chaplain Friar Tuck , the stalwart priest , who could bring down a fat buck with a cloth-yard shaft , with as much ease as he could repeat his paternosters _? Tho

      lecturer merely touched on the more prominent events of the lives of these two worthies , and sung some appropriate ballads to illustrate each . The song in which tho brawny friar is described , is as amusing and as droll as the other , which Robin Hood is supposed to have sung to Richard the . first , when the King questioned him as to his parentage ; jit is plaintive and beautiful . The former song received an unanimous encore , and indeed the whole lecture was well received by a crowded audience , who frequently interrupted the lecturer with hearty rounds of applause .

      Thk Original Ms. Of Waverley , Wholly In...

      Thk Original MS . of Waverley , wholly in the handwriting of Sir Walter Scott—the same MS . which was sold at Evans ' s , in 1831 , with the other MSS . of the noble series of novels and romances , has just been presented to the Advocates' Library afc Edinburgh , by Mr . James Hall . Afc the sale alluded to , the MS . was bought by Mr . Wilks , M . P ., for £ 20 , and it was sold by that gentleman the nest week to Mr . Hall at Mr . Hall ' s price of forty guineas . It is a well-known fact to all readers of Scott , that the novel of Waverley was commenced aboufc the year 1 S 05 , and laid aside in an old cabinet till 1813 , when ifc was again taken up , completed , nnd published : we need hardly add with what success . The MS . both in the dated watermarks of the paper and ty features in the handwriting , confirms and illustrates tho story of tho delay . Itis not , perhaps , generally known that the trustees of

      the Advocates' Librarv were in treaty for the purchase of thc whole ' of the MSS ,, and actually offered moro for them than they realised at the sale . While wo regret tbat the offer ot the Advocates was not accepted , and tho MSS . kept together for public use and general gratification , we are pleased to think that , all circumstances considered , the most interesting of the MSS . ( thanks to Mr . Hall ) has been added to the treasures of the noblest Horary in Scotland . _—Athencum , " Never did Cardinal bring good to Englakd . ' —We read in Dr . Linpard _' s History , ( vol . iv ., p . 527 , ) on the authority of Cavendish , thafc when the Cardinals Campcggio and Wolsey adjourned the inquiry into tho legality of Ilenry VIII . ' _s marriage with Catharine of Arragon , " the Duko of Suffolk , striking the table , exclaimed with vehomenco , that the ' old saw ' wns now verified— _« Never did Cardinal bring good to England . ' "—Notes and Queries .

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      When Is A Chair Like A Lady's ' Dress ?—...

      When is a chair like a lady ' s ' dress ?—When it ia sat-in . ' Wives are great helpmates—they help many husbands to dispose of their cash . Vim True . — "This is a dead take in , " a _» the minnow said when swallowed by a pike . A Gruntkr . — "This is a regular Sou ' -wester , " as the pig said when blown overboard . —Joe Miller . The man that broke into the timber-yard has been arrested , having taken a deal too much . A rusty shield prayed to the sun , and said , " O sun ! illume me with thy ray . " The sun replied , " O shield I make thyself clean . " Keep a sovereign atone end ofyour purse and _half-arcrown at the other . By go doing you prevent the rings falling off .

      A gentleman has discovered a capital way to disperse a crowd of idle boys . He offers to teach them he catechism , and they i _nstantly run away . . " , ' A _Gueunset . paper says that the girls in Jersey are so dull tbat they have to drink a pint of yeast every night to make them rise early in the morning . Hb is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ; but he is more fortunate who can suit his temper to any circumstances . Dr . Turner of British Guiana has discovered a process in the manufacture of rum , by which it can be increased fifty per cent in strength . The tears of beauty are like light clouds floating over a heaven of stars , bidjmming them for a moment that they may shine with greater lust than before .

      " Jim , does jour mother ever whip you ?"— " No ; but she does a precious sight worse , though . " " What ' s that ?"—* ' Why , she washes my face every morning !" Wiit is an ill . made coach . wheel like a gang of blackguards playing at cards ? Because it is composed of a circle of bad fellows—very rough spoken —with a nave in its centre . "Nkveb be critical upon the ladies , " was the maxim of an old Irish peer , remarkable for hii homage to the sex ; " the only way a true gentleman ever will attempt to look at the faults of a prettv woman , is to shut his eyes . "

      " Your heel must be something better ,- . 1 think , " said a gentleman to a buxom lass , who had a hole in the heel of her stocking . " Why so ? " she asked . " Because , Miss , " was the _response , ' * I perceive it is getting out . " Law and Physic . —Law and physic only in cases of necessity ; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses ; they are good remedies , but bad recreations . A Consoling Reflection . —Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when , though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits , there are none who have fire and faggot at command . —Southey . The npmbeu of visitors to the Zoological Gardens , _Event ' s Park , during the current year , has been 3 * 14 590 , and the increase in the receipts , as compared with the corresponding period of 1849 , has been £ 5 , 600 .

      The Builder , m reply to a correspondent , says the height of the water front of the New Houses of Parliament is in the centre eighty feet , and at the sides seventy feet . The present height of the Victoria tower is 140 feet ; its ultimate height is not yet determined . Pussyism and Puppyism . —A young man said recently , in rather a pert way to the Rev . Dr . C ., " Dr . what is the difference between this pussyism they talk so much about , and puppyism ?"— " Puppyism , " replied the Doctor , " is founded on _dogmatism , and pussyism on the catechism . "

      Two Irishmbn one day went a shooting . A large flock of pidgeons came flying over their head * . Pat elevated his piece , and firing , brought one of them to the ground . ' * Arrah 1 " exclaimed his companion , " what a fool you are to waste your ammunition , when the bare fall would have killed him . " Curk for . Lisping .-A rapid and emphatic recital of the following simple narrative is an infallible cure for lisping : — "Hobbs m-ets Snobbs and Nobbs ; Hobbs bobs to Snobbs and Nobbs ; Hobbs nobs with Snobbs and robs Nobbs' fobs . ' This is , ' says Nobbs , ' the wont of Hebbs'jobs , ' and Snobbs sobs . " It was Count Charles de Morney ' s practise whenever he dined at a table d"h 6 te , to instruct his valet to come in and sit down with the company , place himself at the bottom or top ofthe table , treat his master as a perfect stranger , and help him to the best of everything .

      ' * Miss Titimmoth , " said a lisping little fellow of five , " I ' m alwath real _gtad when you come a vitlnting to our houth . " — "Arc you , my little dear ; you _are'fondof me , then ?"— "No , tbat ain ' t it Mith Thimmoth : but ' cauth then we alwath have two kindthof pieth . " "When Wilkib came to Edinburgh . " said his landlady , " he rented one of my attic ? , and I had an Irishman in the h ' r 3 t floor , but in course of lime they changed places . And so I always find it . The Irishmen begin in the first floor and end in the garret , while the Scotchmen begin iu the garret and end in the first floor . "

      A Yankee Auctioxeek lately indulged in the _following little bit of the paihetic : — " Gentlemen , il rny father and mother stood where you do , and didn ' t buy these boots—these elegant boots—when they were going fur one dollar , I should feel it my duty as a son to tell both of ' em that they were false to themselves and false to their country . " A New Musket . —A successful trial has been made at Portsmouth , in presence ot ' several military gentlemen , of a new musket , which _faves one third of the time , inpriming aud loading , and simplifying the d _; ill exercises . Seventy rounds may be fired in succession without priming ; the caps , bein ? plnced in the magazine , are acted upon by the action of the ramrod .

      As _TSncork . —The editor cf a magazine , having through some inadvertence , inserted the same article in two successive numbers of the _perk-dical , was reproached for carelessness . He replied , "You are quite in error ; the reason for the second insertion was this—my subscribers approved the article so _highly , that it was encored ! " The Archdeacon and the Artist . —Archdeacon Fisher was not without a little vanity on thesubjectot his sermons , and once received a quiet hint from Constable on the subject . Having _preached an old sermon which he was not aware that Constable had heard before , he asked him how he Hknd it ? ' Very much indeed , Fisher , " replied Constable , "Ialways did like that sermon . "—Leslie ' s Life of Constable .

      A Forgetful Lawyer . —A lawyer , who was sometimes forgetful , having been engaged to plead the _ciuse of an offender , began by saving : — " I know the prisoner at the bar , and he bears the character of being a most cosummate and impudent scoundvel I " Here somebody whispered to him that theprisoner was his client , when he immediately continued : — " But what great and good man ever lived , who was not calumniated by many of his contemporaries , " A . Match . — "When Dr . Johnson courted Mrs . Potter , whom he afterwards married , he to . 'd her he was of mean extraction , that he had no money , and that he had an uncle hanged . The lady , by way of reducing herself to an equality with the doctor , replied , that , she had no more money than himself , and that , _though she had not had a relation hanged , she had fifty who deserved hanging . And thus was accomplished this very curious _sffair .

      Old Bachelors . — " Faugh ! " says Mrs . _Partington , "don't tell me ! Old bachelors , indeed Let ' cm ( lie as they deserye . They always die sooner than married men , except my husband , poor dear , departed soul ! Bachelors can ' t live _Icnir . They've nobody to darn their stockiuss aud mend their clothes . They catch cold , and have nobodyto make ' em sage tea ; consequently tbey drop off ; and serve ' em right ; it ' s no matter , for not taking some of my _daughters off my hands . " A Double Mistake . —A man near Leeds was sent , one dav last week , by a woman who has lately

      been c nfined , with a message to the parish clerk , requesting thai ; she might have the ceremony oi ' " churching" _performed . The worthy friend informed the clerk's wife that he wanted " a woman axin to church . " The clerk ' s wife , supposing that he wanted the banns of marriage published , asked his name , which he gave , and also tlie name of the woman : which , being entered in tbe book , was read publicly by the church functionary , to the no little astonishment of the congregation , who were stirprised to hear a man asked in church with his nei « hbour ' s wife !— Church aud State Gazette .

      Fast _Sdaviso . —Thre ) brother *) , bearing a re * mnrkablo resemblance to one another , are in the habit of shaving at « _barbels shop in New Orleans A few days since , one of the brothers entered the shop early in tho morning , and whs duly shared by a German who had teen at work in the establishment for one or two days . About twelve o ' clock another brother came in , and underwent a similar operation at the hands of another person . In the evening the third brother made his appearance , when the German dropped his razor in astonishment , and exclaimed—* ' "Veil , mine goodness ! dat man hash the fastest beard I ever saw ; I shaves him in dis momin ' , anoder shave him at dinner times , and he gomes back now to mit his beard so long as it never vas . "

      Bullology . —The sun is at present in the sigu of Sagittarius , but the movements in progress would have been more appropriate at the season when he is in Taurus . They naturally lead us to reflect on the important p _. irt that the bovine element seems always to have played in mundane affairs . Bulls perform an _important _p- _> rt in the mythologies of Greece and Rome , _amitness the Miuotaurot Crete , and the _squabblo between Hercules and Cacus . The brazen bull of _Phalaris , too , enjoyed _considerable notoriety in its day ; _apd one of the earliest ubductionson record was performed by Great Jove himself , in the likeness of a bull . Turning to the cast , wc have the man-faced bull of the _Ninevites , which Mr . Layard has latel y restored to the light of day ; on one hand of him the second Apis of Egypt ¦ and on tl other the equally sacred _Braminee bull . Then there are the famous ' bulls of BasbaD ,

      When Is A Chair Like A Lady's ' Dress ?—...

      and the goldencalf of Aaron , which soniei people imagine __ to have been the Papal bull in its infancy _, _doming down to , more modern times and regions nearer Dome , we have bulls in abundance : the golden u ,,, V 1 " 5 Emperor Charles IV ., and the leaden « i \ _m 11 the p ° Pes * ' -There is John Bull , the un-: ? fci _^ 5 « i t therea _» Irish bulls in abundance . _LvIITk _?" J Ta . n'worth bull , which kept our conti i Ta ! 7 . ° i _™ « , ! , J ° _^ a considerable time . 1 here is the Bull and Mouth , well known to travellers . Among the celestial signs and . the signs of earthy innkeepers the bull . s e ( j „ nily prominent . Then there are the allied , spec . es Hl 3 bulletin , a diminutive kind of bull , as celebrated for mendacity as any Roman bun can be , and the whole race of * bullies A . complete natural hi > tory of bulls is a desideratum in science ; and , as such , we recommend the theme to the worshipful Zoological Society .

      Lake Superior . —Six years ago there were bufc two vessels of any kind on Lake Superior , and no more than one or two white families could be found within-400 miles from tho Sault to L i Pointe . . Now there are three large propellers , and six or seven sail vessels . Four lighthouses have been erected by the government , and several thousand inhabitants are scattered along the coast .

      F)R. Barker's Compound Indian Ex-A-J Tract, For Secret Debility, And Imnedimeuts To Mar-

      _F ) R . BARKER'S Compound Indian Ex-A-J tract , for Secret Debility , and _Imnedimeuts to Mar-

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 30, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_30111850/page/3/