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THE MANCHESTER ATHENJEUM. EOQENE SUE, SERGEANT TALFOOHD , DOUGLAS JEHKOLD.
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* _~~ BEAUTIES OF BYRON _, so . xvn . " CHILDE HABOLD . " _i the following lines addressed to Ms aster , tie _^^ the beauto of * _^ THE BHINE . _jtecarfedcrag _rfBrarfienMs _ilLn _, o ' er the wide and winding Bhine , - _Whosebreastofw-ters broadly swells " ween the banks which bear the vine , _TZa hills all rich with blossom'd trees , " 7 ~ _j _> ggjas -which promise corn and wine , 7 _I scatter'd cities crowning these , -whose fir white walls along them shine , wave strew-d a scene , which I should see with double joy wert thou with me .
a * oea » _S _^ * _witb deep blue eyeB , id hands which offer early flowers , tin : & ms ° ' a fUa Paradise ; ! L _ _tte frequent feudal towers _Ti _^ _agh green _leaves left their walls of gray , _Indmany a rock which steeply lowers , And noble arch in prona decay , £ oot o ' er this vale of _vintage-howers ; But ooe thing want these tanks of Rhine , — Thy gentle hand to clasp in mine !
I _sendthelflies given to me , though Ions before thy hand they touch , I know that they must _wither'a be , Bu t yet reject them not as such ; Por Ihave _cherish'd them as dear , Because they yet may meet thine eye , And Tilde thy soul to mine even here , men thou behold _' st them drooping nigh , And _know'st them gather'd by the Bhine , And _offend from my heart to thine !
The river nobly foams and flows , The charm of this enchanted ground , And all its thousand turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round . The haughtiest breast its wish might bound Throug h life to dwell delighted here ; Nor could on earth a spot be found Te nature and to me sd dear . Could thy dear eyes , in following mine , Still sweeten more these banks of Koine J
Against Rome. The Following Is A Transla...
AGAINST ROME . The following is a translation from a furious German poem _byGeorg Jlerwegh . It appears in an _anonymous collection called Gedichte _eines Lebendigen ( poems of a living one ) , wliich has attained immense popularity . Yes , I must » ire thee one curse more ; A curse upon thee , Peter ' s son , Curse on thy clergy o'er and o ' er , A curse on thy polluted throne . "Twas only venom , Pope , and gall , _TVhich , from the poles to the equator , Thou scattcr'd'st o ' er the nations all , With hyssop-dropping sceptre , traitor . Canaan of Europe , we to thee ,
TV ho once the world a _JBrutus show"d , And now thy slavish coward Imee _, Before a Vatican hast bow'd . Thou hast impal'd tbe flesh of man , Oace birth-place of Itienzi Cola , Since Luther felt the Papal ha-n , Aud none _seem'd loyal but Loyola . Thc soil that once pure honey gave Only with tears of sorrow flows , Since Henry in his shirt *—the slave-Stood in the Papal yard and froze . _Thencharnel-like its incense burn'd , The Eden chang'd to a Zahara ; And to _Italia's shroud was turn'd The many-colour'd , bright tiara .
Uot _i haughty Home , repress thy pride , — A limit to thy course is set . A stream thon art—exhausted—dried , — An infant ' s lip thou catfst not wet . Thou art a deeply fallen land , Sought but a newly-fashioned Bahd . Fraud—fraud alone is thy right hand ; Thy only sword is lie and fable . Though many slaves thou may ' st enlist Throughout the world , thou _still must fade The Holy Spirit can exist , ¦ Wit hout a priestly prinee ' s aid . Thou despot in the hellish pool , I have one greeting more , —receive it , — In Peter ' s chair thou boldest rule , Peter was like thee—I believe it , —
Who , when his Lord was judgM by men , Could feel no honest anger glow , And when he was condemn'd—ay , _then—Exclaim'd , " The man I do not hnow ;"Who , when the globe with anguish shook , And felt its veiy core was _shattered , Before the fire his station tooh , And with the judge ' s damsels chatter'd . In weakness only art thou like—A rock , like him , thou can ' st not stand ; The breeze of morn thy realm will strike , And scatter it about like sand . The thinkers wiU at last awake .
Pastor of _lieBj thy power to humble ; The age ' s wrath will o ' er thee break—The last of its tormentors crumble .
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The Purgatory Of Suicides. A Pbisoh Rhtu...
THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Pbisoh Rhtue in Ten Books . By Thouas Cooper , the Chartist . London : J . How , 132 , Fleet-street .
( _ContinueUfrom the Star of Oct . 25 th . ) The " Eighth" _isasplendid "Book . " The opening of an organ in the gaol chapel , which adjoined the " day-room " apportioned for Mr . Cooper and his fellow-offenders in Stafford Prison , gave birth to the opening stanzas of this " Book . " * The poet heats ihe " Old Hundredth" pealing , and the solemn sound calls up thoughts of the great Lutheb , and the other kindred and mighty spirits , who , bursting the fetters of Rome , wonfor men the inestimable " right of private judgment . " In the foUowing stanzas it _inu be seen that the poet does not limit Sis homage tosuchasL-oTHSB _, but as well , boldly , and nobly , pays liis homage to such as Pains , Godwin , Spinoza , Rousseau , Voltaire , aud Owes , who hare carried to its legitimate ends the right conquered from "Peter ' s sou" by Lutheb : —
Hark ! * tis the grand "OldHundredth" that now peals Its solemn glory through the tranced soul 1 That matchless marshalry of chords reveals , Luther I thy _freebern majesty : they roll So boldly , gravely full—that man ' s control , We feel , befits not the thew'd mind upgrown Which germs such thought-sounds . Term y _» me a thrall ! Bow , _tbeijjUpwakes fhe Saxon with each tonej Within me ! Nay!—I feel true freedom still my own ! Vain are your fetters , tyrants , for the mind ! Thy championship , brave stripling , proved them vain , — "What time thou didst so fearlessly unbind Old Europe from the triple tyrant ' s chain , — Enthroning Season the soul ' s suzerain : — Beason the judge o' th' book . True warrior For all men ' s right to think unawed by man , — "What though mirk Superstition on the shore IU Mind stiU lingers ?—She shall raise her throne no more .
Thy enterprize is speeding , and hath sped : — 1 care not that thou didst not comprehend Its ultimate : it may be , wholesome dread Of wfld excess Nature doth sagely blend With courage in great souls ; and , that the end Of noblest change must gradually be sought , — And Reason ' s heroes with Mind ' s foes contend from step to step , —yea , victory for Thought By years of struggling toil be stably , fully wrought . I care not though some weaknesses were thke : —• "Who shares thy giant strength ? None but the high And mi ghty mental lineage who divine , From age to age , the ground whereon to ply At vantage their souls' sinews , and rely On their own strength in truth for -vicl ory . Thou art our own , great Saxon ! we descry Our hrave old _Wickliffe ' s soul restored in thee * And claim thee / or our honoured land of lollardy J -
Honour , all hononr to ye , glorious band "Who broke the bondage of the Priest of Rome ! Sires of our common Saxon fatherland — England and Germany , —a glorious home Te left us , —if tee wffl . ' —amid the gloom . - « lighting a candle " by your noble lives And martyred deaths that quenchless , shall illume Our land for aye ! Oh , that death-vaunt still gives Bs strength ; and with it , brave one , th y great deed revives ! What though those words , like oracles of old Were sealed , in their full meaning , to the seer Who uttered them !—The future shall behold Their splendid verity : nay , perhaps , ' tis near ! Then—honour to each stalwart pioneer Of mental freedom , —Wiekliffe , Jerome , _Huss Luther , _JSfelancthon , Cobham _, Latimer ! ' Hononr to aU who dared the flame , scorn , l 0 E 8 — Ifho spurned to live mere spirit-thralls inglorious 1
0 thrice-blest children of that age of light And love , which now , from the far future beams Toyon it will pertain to place aright In truth ' s great temple whom herself esteems Her true disciples . Te when the dim dreams Of Time's weak youth are fled , and Knowledge pure Hath given the topstOHe to Truth ' s fane , —like gems In gold , shall p lace each dazzling portraiture Jn its eternal nidhe : —our hands were premature 1 * Ihe well-known penance of the Emperor Henry 11
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But , whin the toil of Mind hath wrought its aim ;—When later Faiths , like elder Phantasies , Are reckoned with the past;—when Han ' s high name Is grander than all titles ;—when aU things of lies And bloodshed , —thrones and altars , —creeds , and toys Of Priests and Kings , — Knowledge hath swept away ;—When Wisdom hath outgrown the childish guise Of mythic story , and put on th' array
Of manhood ;—in tbat boon , free , happy , brother-day , — It may be—that in Truth ' s eternal fane Enshrined ; each in his kindred niche of glory , He quaintly termed " rebellious needleman , " * By thee , great age-fellow 1—with martyr gory , Of some old " stout confessor of faith hoary , Hay stand , as right co-workers , equal , true , jFor Truth ;—although the world ' s oldbigot-story Of man ' s mind-infancy did long misview The scope oftheir twin-toil : scope _. that themselves scarce knew !
It may be that , around that temple ' s space _. Splendours may wreath full many a doubter ' s brow As brilliantly as they illume the face Of philanthropic creed ' _s-man , 'Mid the glow Of sculptured excellence , in shining row , Hobbes , Herbert , Mandeville , with Locke and Boyle ,-Hume , Godwin , may , with Beattie _, Butler , shew , — Statued -nith equal hononr in Truth ' s aisle . — lit with one ray , —how trnly kindred was their toil ! Spinoza and Rousseau , Bayle and Voltaire , With Fenelon , Erasmus , Pascal , shrined , — Hay beam in brotherhood eternal there!—But for thy future children doth the mind Most fondly yearn , loved fatherland ! and find Its sweetest dreams flow thence . 0 that some dream Would visit me revealing humankind As the far future shall discover them , — Living as they shall live on this loved
ocean-gem!—What Howard , when the dungeon is forgot , — What Montague , when no man ' s blood is shed , — "What Hale , when justice can be no more hought , — What Bernard Gilpin , when no poor lack bread , - ' What Cartwright , when no tyrants on them tread , — What Clarkson , when the world hath not a slave , — What Owen , when free thought awakes no dread , — WhatMathew , when there is no sot to save , — What JMen shall grace our isles when Wrong hath found its grave 1 0 thrice blest children of that age of light And love which now the trustful spirit sees , — Though beaming from afar , —Te will not slight Your noblest fathers , nor their memories 1 But , tombing names of blood and pride that please The human patient , whom to drug and craze Guile , long , with Power , hath striven , —Te to sweet
ease Of health , in heart and mind , restored , shall raise , With filial hands , true trophies to your fathers' praise 1 Bourse of the world wilt thou be , London , then ? For still I turn with fondness to thy face , And doat upon thee , —though I , mournful , ken Too many a blemish there 1—Wilt thou a grace Be , then , among Earth ' s cities ?—Or , shall race Arrive from some far clime , new emigrants To found a home , and find thy desart-space Renewed , my country!—howling forest-haunts And wilds " peopled with wolves thy old inhabitants V
Shall Gain forsake thy marts , great queen of Thames ? Thy merchant-navies vanish !—and , where Pride , ; In famine-woven silks and blood-bought gems , Now rolls her chariot , shall a dreary void Be found , and Silence with Decay divide Rule o ' er thy streets T—yea , there the badger peep Forth from sere weeds that half his grey head hide , Save when uplifted by the winds that sweep 'Hong chambers where tby pampered lords no longer sleep ? Or , shall true grandeur deck thee , —bounding joy Of human hearts feeling their fathers' home , — That happy home , —renewed , —and thee the Eye Become ofthe wide world 1—Gaol , " Bastile " -doom , TreadmiU , whip , gallows , demon war ' s costume ,
And all his trophies and his engines gone ;—No Tileness robed , —no Worth in rags;—Health ' s bloom On cheek of sturdy sire and manly son , — Proving what Secrets Science has from Nature won !—Mind writ in every face;—books million-fold Multiplied;—galleries with breath-shapes hung Raffaelle might worship , or Apelles old;—Groupes from great Shakspeare ' s world , or Chaucer ' s song , In bronzed or marbled life , seeming up-sprung From some new Phidian realm of earth beneath To gem the populous squares;—Music's full tongue Telling to millions what Mozart in death Enraptured heard—but could not the boon-sounds bequeath ;
And all—for ail 1—rank , class , distinction-badge , For ever gone '—Labour by Science made Brief recreation , —not by Privilege Avoided , nor its thrift in name of Trade Or commerce filched : —io give a brother ' s aid To brethren , and enlarge the general bliss From knowledge , virtue , healtii , —beyond parade Of pomp or gold affording joy . I wis , When Truth doth reign , —Earth shaU be sucb _^ a Para
_disel—The stanzas describing the renewal of the poet ' s " vision" are rich in imagination ; we would gladly quote them but cannot afford room . The character- ) introduced in this " Book" are , Aniens , Mesedemus Visits , _Quismltos _Vabjsb , " and M . bb Mo . v ialba , whose horrifically interesting suicide occurred only a few years ago , and is narrated in the " notes " to this "Book . " For any further acquaintance with this portion of the Poem , we must refer the reader to the work itself . ( To beeontinued . )
The Adventures Of Lord "William Carisdal...
THE ADVENTURES OF LORD "WILLIAM CARISDALE IN ICARIA ; descriptive op a Model Republic , and illustrating the Social and _Pouticax Regeneration of Society . Translated from the French of M . Cabet . London ; H . Hetherington , 40 , Holywell-street , Strand . Equality ! glorious and inspiring theme of the enthusiast's dreams , how many in the simplicity , hope * fulness , and leal-heartedness of youth have believed in thy reality , and thy speedy coming to bless the nations , how few , when manhood's experience and selfishness have taken the place of youth's enthusiasm and disinterestedness , clingto that belief . The hope of youth , thon art the believed "impracticability " of manhood , and the scorn of experienced age . Tet
still do thy votaries exist , and even increase in number , nor are they wholly confined to inexperienced dreamers ; there are some whom no toil , however seemingly fruitless—no persecution , however fieryno disappointment , however keen , can be induced to give up their belief in thy coming triumph . Like the Corsican they follow the " phantom , " though continually it eludes their grasp . The last century witnessed a magnificent event , when sages _andheros assembled to free the " new world" ftom the domination of the old , declared that "ail men are born free and _eoys / _sl" That declaration followed up by a complete victory over European kingcraft , and the establishment of political institutions , which guaranteed , at least nominally , equal
rights to all , was hailed by the friends of . the human race as the commencement of a veritable state of equality . Experience has dissipated the dream . Social _equality—the only " equality" which can ensure a veritable and lasting , "liberty "—exists in the States no more than in Great Britain . True , the Americans have neither "kings , " nor "lords , " nor " establishadchurch priests ; " true , it is ,. too , that they possess , generally , the franchise of political citizenship ; yet it is not less true , that the men of _Eroperty rule , idle , and enjoy , while the men of _ibour are ruled , toil , and suffer . We pass by the undisguised , shameless , and disgusting slavery ofthe black population , we speak only of the free whites ; we see them at the mercy of the men of wealth ,
driven to labour for a miserable pittance , and constrained to hold to this . life of toil under pain of starvation , the fear ofwhich is more potent than the planter ' s whip . All the causes that have produced the misery and degradation of the working classes of Great Britain are at full work in the States , rapidly producing similar results . The public and pr ivate immoralities produced by the European systems of social life , are , nnder the like system in the States , rapidly germinating , and bid fair to attain a gigantic growth . Passing by the immoralities of private life , 'the filth of those pestiferous excrescences , commercial towns and huge cities , passing by these , we beg the thinking man to note the spirit of brigandage which everywhere pervades the American Union ; whicli , under the guise of " extending republican institutions , " aims at universal conquest and spoliation . This baleful spirit is not the result of Republican institutions , for Great Britain ,
France , and other monarcnial states have exhibited , and do yet exhibit the same spirit ; the cause ofthis wholesale and unblushing selfishness is to be found in the fact , that the social institutions of the States are precisely similar to those of the old European countries . The holders of property , their cupidity boundless , their avarice never satisfied , not content with plundering their own countrymen of the fruits of their labour , greedily turn their eyes towards other nations ; from retail they naturally advance to wholesale brigandage . The helplessness of the working classes makes them the ready took of the property-holders . The working men have nothing in their own country ; when they have toiled for seven , or twenty , or forty yeara , they see they are as helpless as when they began , hence they , too , turn their eyes to other countries ,- having been robbed at home they will avenge themselves by robbing abroad . Of course they do not avow this , they toy to cheat them-* THOMAS _PilNE .- " < _Kebdlious needleman . ' I find I am slightly mistaken m the phrase , which I quoted from memory , without means of correction . Here is the ero-£ _nSSn _£ ? . _^ _^ arljle ' _magnificent unrhymed , unmatured Epic :- ' _JKor is our EnglSa without her mi *! sionanes . She has her Paine : rebellious stay-maker ;' _rnikempt ; who feels that he , a single needleman , didbv his Common , tense pamphlet , free _America-that he can and will free all tins world ; perhaps even the other . ' Carlyle ' s' French Revolution , '"
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selves , or at least , to cover their offenoe with the lying phrases , " national glory , " " extension of Republican institutions , " « fcc ., and so the two classes combine to rob whole . nations at once , the propertyholders taking care , with their usual cunning , that although the poor devils of moneyless , homeless adventurers , from New York , Philadelphia , and New Orleans , who make up the bulk of the brigand forces , shall have more than their fair share oi the toil , suffering , and perils of the enterprise , they ( the property-men ) will have the lion ' s share of the plunder . This has been precisely the case in Texas , where a few scoundrelly adventurers of the moneygrubbing class _haye contrived to appropriate to themselves nearly the whole of that magnificent bit of robbery . In the United States there exists nominally a Republic , or more properly a confederation of Republics ,
but the liberty existing is the liberty of the powerful to plunder the weak , and the equality proclaimed by the declaration of independence , is in the eyes of the cent and dollar loving Republicans , a chimera to be " repudiated" and laughed at . The revolution of ' 76 freed America from the domination of the English aristocracy , but it wrill require another and a mightier revolution to free Americans from the tyranny of their property-lords , and carry out the principles ofthe " Declaration of Independenoe . " The closing years of the last century witnessed a still more memorable and important struggle than even the American war , * we , of course , allude to tbe great French Revolution . Still more emphatic was the declaration in favour of enualitv made bv the
French revolutionists . "We _desire ' an order of things in which distinctions shall spring but from equality itself ; in which the citizen shall be subject to the magistrate , the magistrate to the people , and the people to justice ; in which the country shall ensure the prosperity of every individual ; and in which each individual shall enjoy with pride the prosperity and glory of his country . " And , again , " Let Europe learn that you will no longer suffer that there he ono indigent wretch , nor one oppressor on the French territory . " Such were the sentiments of the few purely honest and truly great men of thc Revolution . Nor were the people behind their leaders in responding to those sentiments , as their _well-remembereddemands testify : — "Bread , steel ,
and equality . " Tet all was in vain . Acts of national heroism and national sacrifice of the most magnificent order were fruitless of the great end desired . The equality demanded and hoped for proved but a delusion . Wav and assassination destroyed the flower of the people and their leaders , until the last of the latter , the famous " conspirators , " who designed a Republic in which all should equally labour and equally enjoy , were hewed down by the axe of tyranny , and the Revolution terminated—at least its first act—in leaving the people still the prey of the rich—still slaves , with only a change of masters . The second act of that Revolution ( 1830 ) —the third has yet to come—witnessed the peoplo again offer themselves an heroic sacrifice for tho
common good , but , again deceived and defrauded . The result was merely the changing of a few of the leading characters on the political stage , and consolidating the power of the pitiless enemies of equality . Hitherto the people have suffered , sacrificed , and combatted in vain . At the present time the very word Equality is proscribed in France , * and if yet men cling to the ideas of the past , hoping for their realization in the future , they are constrained , in France at least , to give no utterance to their aspirations , or , if uttered , the utterance must be in secret . Nor has this country been witliout its worshippers of the principle of Equality . To say nothing of the political Reformers who , demanding the right bf
citizenship for all men , avow that tliey regard that right merely as a means to an end , the end being the Equality of all members of tho commonwealth ; besides these , there has for many years past existed a party who , rejecting the means advocated by the political Reformers , desired to attain the wished-for end by what they deemed much shorter and better means . More than twelve years ago the leader of that party proclaimed that society was ripe for the change he demanded—a change which should guarantee Equality , freedom , and happiness to all men . The 1 st of May , 1833 , was solemnlyannounced as the first day of the " millenium , founded on rational principles and consistent practice . " Yet now , after a lapse of twelve years—after some yearstrial of an " experiment" which was to prove the truth ofthe announcement proclaimed with such sincerity and confidence on the above-named day—w _«
I find that "experiment" a fauure , the party divided , I and their leader disappointed and disgusted with thc result . The followers of Robert Owen have proved what all men knew before—that Equality is a theory , but that it can be reduced to practice they , or some party for them , have yet to prove . Yet despite these failures in America , France , and England , Equality ' s disciples , are more numerous than ever—we speak ofthe world at large—more enthusiastic , more assured of the ultimate triumph of their belief . And in truth "it were a consummation devoutly to be wished" that that triumph should come . But we must hold for the present . We have started a subject which it i _£ impossible we can dispose of in the limits we must necessarily confine ourselves to in this " notice . " For this week wo _muet conclude , by introducing M . Oabei _' s work to our readers , by the following extract from the translator ' s " introductory preface : "—
The foUowing work is written by M . Cabet , after the manner of Chancellor More _' _e Utopia : — The author supposes an English nobleman to become acquainted with Icaria , and to be so much interested with the description afford him by a friend , that he undertakes a journey , with the view of becoming fully acquainted with ita government , institutions , and customs . M . Cabet represents a nation practising a community of goods , on the largest scale- He supplies a desideratum long wished for in similar productions , via . —perfect democratic equality . This is a feature peculiarly interesting at the present moment , and becomes doubly so
when we take into consideration the talents , position , and sound views of this distinguished foreigner , whose mental qualifications would , if employed on the side of Government , have entitled him to fill the highest office in the State . M . Cabet has relinquished office , station , and for . time , to advocate the cause of the oppressed , and so far has he practised that which he preached , that , although a gentleman by profession and rank , he did not hesitate to give the hand of his own daughter to an amiable and deserving working man . This act alone speaks volumes for the sincerity of the man , and the philosophy of his mind , whilst the work itself will prove the clear intellect and grasping genius of the writer .
Many men of literary talents have attempted to confute the work , but most of them have ended by convincing themselves of the truth of the doctrine promulgated . Others who have tried to improve it , hare candidly confessed that they experienced ai much difficulty in improving , as in objecting , whilst the greatest triumph of all has been the adhesion of such writers as Pierre Leroux , Proudhon , Villegardelle , Louis Blanc , George Sand , and Eugene Sue . Everything proves the talent of the work , the progress of its principles in France , and the necessity for its publication in England . CTo be continued . )
Arabin; On, Thb Adventures Of A Colonist...
ARABIN ; on , thb Adventures of a Colonist in New South Wales . With an Essay on the _Ahorigines of Australia—By Thomas M'Combie . London : Simmonds and Ward , 18 , Cornhill . Mr . M'Combie is known to our readers as the author ot "Australian Sketches" in Simmond ' iColonial Magazine , and Tait ' s Edinburgh Magazine . His present work is , in our humble opinion , no improvement on his former productions , but rather the reverse . His " sketches , " particularly those published in Tait ' s Magazine , were vigorous and life-like pictures of Australian scenes , which is more than we can say of " Arabin . " The beat portion of the book is the " Essay on the Aborigines . " He describes the native Australian as being in height about five feet and
a half , the colour ot the American Indian , an experienced hunter and fish-catcher , and no mean enemy at the spear , boomerang , or waddie . He is an excellentrider , a first-rate shot , and exhibits great cunning , _Jatience _, and perseverance in the pursuit ofan object n childhood and youth the Aborigine is not illfavoured in personal appearance , but generally he looks old and ugly at thirty , and at forty he seems supernaturally aged—few or none are long-livers The constitution of the Aborigine appears to be peculiarly delicate , and few either young or old enjoy good health . Cutaneous diseases , low fevers , rheumatism , and rheumatic fevers , prevail amongst the Aborigines , whose knowledge of the "healing art " appeare to be very slight indeed . Their huts or
encampments are very simple and not very comfortable . Polygamy is allowed ; the chiefs and elders generally possess themselves of the finest young women ' in the tribe , this causes intrigue on the part of the young men , and daily feuds are the consequence . Their form of government is very simple , merely consisting in a chief or leader to each tribe , who , however , does not fare better than any other man . " There is a great chief on the Goulburn , in Anstralia FelLx , named Billy Hamilton * . he , however , has to hunt , fish , and provide for his belly , the same as the meanest man in the tribe . " Remembering what our " Billy Hamilton ' s" cost us ,
such as the "Iron Duke , " and Prince Albert , we blush for our lack of sense compared with the sense evidently possessed by those " savages . " As to religion , _theyacknowledgetneexistence of the "dibble , dibble , " ov spiritof evil , but of a God they know . nothing . In disposition the different tribes vai _* y much —in some parts they are peaceful and give no trouble —in others they are veryferocious , and charged with being addicted to cannibalism . Notwithstanding individual and partial success , Mr . M'Combie evidently looks upon the civilization ofthe Aborigines a ? hopeless ; he considers them a doomed race—a race that , in all probability , within a century willbe
extinct . As a tale , Arabin is but poor , but incidentally the work imparts some information concerning Australia , and Australian life and manners ; and our readers , who may deBire to know something of the sayings and
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doings of their queerisli relations at the antipodes , will do well tolurn to . . this volume .
C^N The Cl Ergy Show Their Right To Tith...
C _^ N THE CL ERGY SHOW THEIR RIGHT TO TITHES , BY AN APPEAL TO TIIE BIBLE . By Edward Walter , Liverpool : J . Shepherd , 132 , Scotland-road , London ; Watson , PauVs-alley . On the subject indicated by the title we expected to have found something sensible in this pamphlet ; but we find it _^ nonsensical rhapsody from beginning to end . The only good _thing-jwe can discern about it is , one of themottoson the title-page , extracted from the writings of Emerson : — It seems to me , that with the lights which are now gleaming in the eyes ofall men , residence in England becomes degradation to any man not employed to revolutionize it . Amen ! Mr . Walter means well we are sure ; but we advise him not to persevere in phamphleteering ; it is clearly not his vocation .
•^Exposition Of The Insecure Nature, And...
_•^ EXPOSITION OF THE INSECURE NATURE , AND PRINCIPLES OF THE DAVY _^ ND OTHER LAMPS , AS APPLIED TO COAL MINING .. Newcastle : Miners ' Advocate Office . _i . _? L -S _^ _PWet is a compilation of the evidence heard before the Parliamentary Committee in 1835 , appointed to investigate into the causes of coal-pit explosions . The evidence given before the committee _Vfif _t ? US 1 _r ' and dem <> n 3 trative of the insecurity ot the Davy Lamp , even under the ordinary circumstances that may , and does daily arise , in coal mines .
C _1 _^ S 3 5 AVt ? 1 SEASE S OF THE SK 1 N-THEIR VARIOUS CAUSES AND CURE . The result of Twenty Years Observation and Practice , —By Dr . J . De Prati . London : Brilliere , 219 , Regentstreet . * This little work is written by a man who evidently understands his subject . The information concerning herbal medicines chiefly employed by the author in curing cutaneous disorders is valuable . The work is worth perusing .
Publications Received . — - ' Colonization on the principles of pure Cliristianism , _* " " The Miners ' Advocate , " September and October ; _"Unhealthiness of Towns , ite Causes and Remedies ; " " Fraser ' s Musical Reformer ; " "The Tom Thumb Songster . " ( Cleave , Shoe-lane . )
The Manchester Athenjeum. Eoqene Sue, Sergeant Talfoohd , Douglas Jehkold.
THE MANCHESTER ATHENJEUM . EOQENE SUE , SERGEANT TALFOOHD , DOUGLAS JEHKOLD .
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AND SAMCEL LOVEK . On Friday October , 2 ith , the annual soiree oftlie Manchester AthciitBuin , took place in the _Pree Trade Hall . The demand foi * tickets was enormous , nearly four thousand were issued ; and had the Free-trade Hall been twice as big as it is , four thousand more might have been disposed of . A day or two before the affair , tickets of admissionrose to a premium , they became a thing to speculate in , like stock and scrip ; _suguinea was freely offered for the five shilling bit of pasteboard . The vast hall was full to _overflowing . Ladies and gentlemen were present in about equal proportions . The chairman , Mr . Sergeant Talfourd , and the principal notabilities , appeared about seven o'clock . To the right and left of thelcarned sergeant we observed Mr . Douglas Jerrold . Mr . P . Phillipps , Mr . Cobden , M . r ., Mr . Milner Gibson , M . P ., Mr . "Bright , M . P ., Mr . Brotherton , M . P ., Mr . Frank Stone , Mr . Lover , & c .
Mr . Charles Dickens- was to have come , hut was prevented by the delicate state of Mrs , Dickens ' s health . The . distinguished Ficnch writer Eugene Sue had been also invited , to which invitation he sent an interesting reply . It is impossible to convey the spirit and elegance of the letter in a translation , but we annex one as nearly literal as possible : — "Sir , —I have received with the most profound and respectful gratitude the invitation which you have done me the honour to forward me , in the name of the direc tors of the Manchester Athenoeum . Unfortunately , a nervous illness , which is attributed to overwork , and Which requires incessant care in consequence of the pain which it gives me , precludes me ( to my keenest regret ) from coming to England for the purpose of being present at the annual soiree ofthe Athenoeum . Have the
goodness , sir , to be my interpreter with the directors of the _Athenajum _, and to assure them how I am touched and impressed with the flattering distinction which they have deigned to accord me , for it would have been to mc an honour as great as it was unhoped for , to have heen associated with such eminent writers as Messrs , Dickens , Talfourd , D'lsraeli , Jerrold , Smythe , & c , knowing , at the same' time , sir , that I should only have owed this honour to the lively sympathies inspired by those ideas of social progress which I possess in common ( and I am doubly proud of it ) with these distinguished literary men ; as to my works , they are too imperfect to merit such a recompense . -Will you bave the goodness , sir , to assure the . directors ofirthe Athenaeum that Ishall never forget this proof of their friendly esteem and that I shall always endeavour to remain worthy of it . Accept , sir , the assurance of my most distinguished
consideration . - . * . "Eugene Sue . " H . Sue appears to _Imveboon highly _gratified with this invitation , as will be seen by the foUowing letter , addressed to the directors of _theAthenieum , by Mr . 'Charles Dickens : — ' _¦ _¦ . _; . '¦ " Devonshire-terrace , Oct . 17 , 1845 . " Desr Sirs , —M , Eugene Sue has begged me to write to you , and acknowledge with many heartfelt thanks the receipt of your flattering invitation . He requests me to assure you ofhis high and unfeigned sense of thc honour you have done him , and earnestly entreats me to add , that he is gratified by your recognition of him , a French
writer , in England—certainly beyond his power of expression in a foreignlanguage , and to an extent not at all easy of expression inhis own . His state of health , however , does not admit ofhis attending the soiree at Manchester . He has been very unwell , and is enjoined to seek repose , in pursuance of which advice he has already left Fans in search of temporary change and quiet . If I could convey to you an adequate idea of M . Eugene Sue ' s anxiety that I should do my very best to thank you on his behalf , and tofind ' strong words' for that purpose , you would feel with me that your remembrance of him has met with a sincere and quick response . —I have the honour to be , gentlemen , your faithful servant ,
"Charles Dickens . "To the Directors ofthe Athena-urn , Manchester . " The Chairman opened the proceedings of the evening in one of Mb peculiarly flowery orations , which we must compress into a much smaller space than , were we to follow the learned gentleman through all his rhetorical wreaths and garlands , we should be obliged to devote to it . He commenced by apologising for his own inefficiency to fill the post in which he found himself placed , an inefficiency , however , which he trusted would be overlooked in the dignity and interest of the occasion . The learned gentleman proceeded to congratulate the meeting upon what their institution had _accomplished—upon what had been accomplished , too , in Manchester , in a spirit kindred to the exertions of the institution whose
members he was addressing , He especially congratulated them on the boon which they had secured to the toiling thousands of Manchester , the precious Saturday half-holiday—that boon alike precious to man as to boy —when manhood borrowed the endearing nairio from childhood , and sought to enrich it with all that remained of childhood's still-remembered feelings—( cheers)— precious in the impulse which it gave to labour , and most precious in its result , when , brightened and graced by thoBe modes > hich tliis association indicated , it left body and mind more free for the service of earth and heaven ! ( Cheers . ) In considering tho benefits which the Man-Chester _Athenceum was likely to be the source of to those among whom it was founded , he would regard them not so much as affording a path by which a
few might rise above then' station , as promising a means of adorning and gracing that sphere of action in which many must continue to move . It might be that some master mind might start into fame from their ranks ; and should sueh rare felicity be their lot , with how great pride would they expatiate upon that greatness which they had watched in its dawn , and with how pure a satisfaction would they commemorate the achievements of their then illustrious townsman , when satiated with the applause of strangers , he would revert to those scenes among which his genius found its first expression , and earned its first prize . But it was not in the culture of such rare minds that he anticipated the happiest fruits of their peaceful victories . The talents which in darker
ages might have suggested the desire to guide the obscure but honourable sphere of peaceful labour in quest of literary distinction , could at present only be safely employed in adorning the path in which they originally moved . But if it were _teo late to be ambitious , except on some rare occasions , for the immortality which earth _eouldbastow , yet , for that true immortality of which time s longest duration was only a vivid symbol—for that immortality , the cultivation of wisdom and piety was as momentous now as ever . After alluding to several other points , tho learned gentleman concluded by urging forcibly upon the assemblage the duty of supporting strenuously and unweariedly the institution whose anniversary they were met to celebrate .
Mr . Mark PhUips , M . P ., followed , and in the course of the evening the company was also addressed by Messrs . Bright , M . P ., Milner Gibson , M . P ., and ) Cobden , M . P . ; we will not , however , inflict their speeches on our readers . The Chairman introduced to the meeting—not only as an artist , but as a Manchester man—Mr . Frank Stone , painter , among other gems , ofthe'" Heart ' s first misgiving . " Mr . F . Stone was received with great applause . He spoke of the _Athenseum as connected with the development and encouragement of art in Manchester . The
assemblage he saw before him forcibly recalled to his mind what had been done , and what was doing in Manchester , for every species of mental culture , since he was himself a youthful seeker after such knowledge as might forward him in his onward course . Had such an institution then existed , how many advantages would it have given him which he had to struggle on without obtaining . ( Hear . ) He would have had its library , its lectures , the encouragement afforded by the association and fellowship of its members , the stimulating influence arising from that association , and the inspiring , ennobling assurance , that at certain periods assemblages like tliis would meet toge-
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ther to do honour to imagination and intellectual pursuits , and their professors , ' and to cherish and promote a better understanding arid-more truthful appreciation both of art and artists , ( Cheers . ) . ; "sj Thd Chairman introduced to the meeting one , whose graver writings had been devoted in the most earnest and thoughtful manner to the great interests of his fellowmen , and whose lighter productions had always been characterised by mingled wit and wisdom ; and that , whether these writings were represented before the ourtain of a theatre , or behind a curtain of another description by a certain . lady , a friend of Mr . Douglas Jerrold , whom he would now introduce to them .
Mr . Douglas Jerrold was received with long and loud bursts of cheering—the whole assemblage rising as he stepped forward . When silence was restored , he said—The high object of your institution—its many refining tendencies have been so fully discussed—have been set forth with such varied and commanding eloquence by your distinguished chairman , that little indeed on such points is left for me to utter . And herein do I hold my . self peculiarly fortunate . I congratulate myself , and I especially congratulate you upon the very subordinate part I must necessarily play in the drama of this evening . ( _CheerB _. ) I have , you will perceive , already touched upon the drama . ( Hear , hear , ) I thought , before my present audience , I might venture to do so ; though I assure you that there are certain circles in the great city
which I quitted yesterday , in which I fear any such allusions would be considered very vulgar indeed . But having alluded to the drama , and having your cordial welcome still ringing in my brain , I cannot but compare myself to ono of the very many " walking gentlemen " with which th * drama abounds . It is the great occasion on which they appear that allows to them anew the short passing attention—not to themselves , but to tho principles with which they are humbly connected—principles carried out by stronger , loftier agents—do they owe their presence on the scene ; tnd such , ladies and gentlemen , do I feel to be my position this evening . The merits of your admirable institution have been made so manifest to-night—the thanksgiving for its prosperity has been so full and complete ; its noble aims have
been so clearly analysed—that it is difficult to find anything new to praise , as it seems hopeless to attempt to discover aught to condemn , Indeed , did I selfishly wish for matter for a more lengthened speech , I should wish for the existence of some good old wholesome wrong —would desire the presence of one of tliose bugbears ol the good old times—of ono of those creatures of igno . ranee , that condemned knowledge for the like reason that the owl flees the siin , it has not eyes , poor thing , to bear that light created for the health and happiness of the meanest man that lives . ( Cheers ) . But here there is no such giant to fight , no such bugbear to grapple with . The lady , Knowledge , too long pent-up in her tower , guarded , not hy giants , but , more provoking still , bydwarfs—and we have only to look back a few years—a
very-few years—to own there have been dwarfs as mischievous as any in fary tale . The lady , Knowledge , I say , is no longer a prisoner . Wehave killed tho giants —slainher dwarfs—and how have we kilicd them % Why , as Luther rebuked the devil , by throwing inkstands at him . ( Loud cheers . ) Music is no longer made the luxury of the few , but is acknowledged in the daily want of the many . It is a proud thing for you , People of Manchester , that you have erected this temple for her ; a temple wherein the humblest of your fellow-townsmen may come and listen to her , and feel his nature at once softened and elevated by the magic of her voice . To say that it offers to such the smallest consolation after their day of toil , to say that it imparts so them a keener consciousness of their dignity of their nature , to say that
while teaching tliem their own rightful position in the world it makes them respect the rightful position of others , Is only to translate into the merest common-place the oft repeated eloquence of gifted men . ( Hear , hear ) . These things are now truisms ; but human nature is ungrateful to truisms . For let us not forget how fortunate it is for us that we live in an age when such things are truisms . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) Truths , ladies and gentlemen , are like oaks of slow growth , and it is with the earlytruth as with the acorn . Show it to the merest ignorance , and it cannot conceive how that little germ shall hold within it a latent power , which duly developed shall breast thc billow and defy the thunder , ( Cheers , ) And so has truth grown , but with this sad difference , that it has been too often watered with the blood
of tliose who have dared to plant it . ( Cheers ) . Happy then is it for us—and for the blessing ought we not to render up our most humble and heartythanks f—that we may to-night be gathered together under its branches —for your institution is a great truth—a tru _. th that may be planted amid tho fears of the timid , the misgivings of really well-meaning folks , who still thought that truth for the masses was like barley-sugar for children—they might have a little—just a very little—when very good , but to be allowed to have their fill of it would be risking a terrible derangement of the body sociah ( Cheers and laughter ) . With tho success of your institution made as apparent as the sun , it is amusing—it is more , it is instructive-r-to remember the prophecies of certaift men , who predicted that the very light which would play about institutions sueh as yours , would only herald what to them appeared the total destruction of what they
considered the best foundations of society . Why these men remind me ofa story I read in one of Captain Parry ' s voyages , of a certain bear . The poor beast had drifted npon a loose piece of ice into the sun , and as he was borne into a yet warmer and warmer latitude , he felt his footing melt and melt away , and then , the story says , he growled and roared ne though heaven and earth were coming together . ( Laughter ) . And so was lt with these menandthe species is even now , I fear , not wholly extinctthey could not conceive that the very current of time that was carrying them yet nearer to the sun of knowledge was now bearing them to distinction . But it is not so , for it is not with men as with bears . The tide that carries us on to knowledge—whicli is power—gives to us that best , that noblest element of power , gentleness , which , in the fulness of its teaching , will bear all men to that happy end , of which institutions like yours arc the hopeful beginning . ( Loud and long continued cheers ) .
The Chairman next intoduced Mr , lover , who was warmly welcomed . In a short humorous speech , made still more amusing by Mb comie manner and , so to speak , acting , he excused himself from making a lengthened speech , on the ground of a severe cold in his head , observing that although he had heard of a saint—probably an Irish one—who was in the habit of carrying his head under his arm , he had never heard of a saint , or a sinner either , who could speak clearly with a cold in it . ( Laughter . ) However , he was deeply gratified by the reception which he had received . His malady did not extend further down than his throat—bis heart was all right . ( Cheers . ) Really , he looked upon a magnificent sight ! He could not , for the life of him , but look at it professionally . "Oh ! ladies and gentlemen , what a
beautiful six audiences you would make I" _J ( Loud laugh _, ter . ) But to leave badinage and come to facts . He would give them a fact ! He knew that they liked facts in Manchester , and many a telling one they had heard in that very hall . Well , now for his fact . He had traversed every county in England—he had addressed audiences in its every corner—and he could bear faithful evidence to the advantages of such institutions as that they were commemorating , in the obvious effect produced in manufacturing districts , where they were established , through their agency . No audience was so intelligent as a manufacturing audience . ( Cheer . ) How many a time , when before the titled auditory of Hanover-square , watching the effect of what he thought a pleasant joke , had he wished he could change the cold simper of the reversed
seats for the ready sympathy—the hearty laugh—of the back benches of Manchester . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Oh , the circles of society were like the circles of the atmosphere , the higher you got the colder you got . ( Loud cheers . ) He regretted as much as any of them the absence of Mr , Dickens . They knew the interesting cause which compelled him to stay in London . ( Cheers . ) Ha ( Mr , Lover ) had been almost afraid that he might have been detained nominally at least , in a similar fashion . He had just come from the west of England , and in his journey he was detained so long that he feared he should be late for Manches ter , at a place rejoicing in the sig nificant name of Babbicombe ( baby come ) . ( Lordlaughter . ) He was glad to hear that laugh ; and he would take advantage of it , sit down , and leave them laughing . ( Cheers and laughter . ) As soon as the speechmaking was over dancing com « menced , and was kept up to a late hour .
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Attempt at Murder in Tifperart . — A man of the name of Martin Morris ( who was in the employment of Mr . Nicholson , and overseer of the Balhnastick Colliery ) , was returning home on Monday mgntweek , when , about the hour of six o ' clock , ana within a few perches of his own residence , he was waylaid by three assassins , who , on recognising ms person , fired two shots at him from behind the ciitcn , and laid him prostrate on the ground . Three buJiete * sw *> l-a lf-. rlrra--1 . in _fhfl nnl _* rt .. ' . iiTiof £ i Trian _' c * h . aclC . Ot _WUlCU
two passed up to the front and top of Kis shoulder . Intelligence of the affair being communicated to Jonn Langley , Esq ., J . F ., that gentleman despatched three messengers in order to summon the attendance ot the police of the ! surrounding districts—Mardyke , Ballinonty , and Newbirmingham . The police were immediately in attendance , but could lay no clue as to the assassins . Two of the bullets have been extracted . No cause has been assigned for the commission of this horrible outrage . Morris was respected by all who knew him , and by none more than by his immediate neighbours . The country ior some miles around is in a perfect state of consternation , and surely it is not to be wondered that it is .
Suspected Murdeb . —Great excitement prevails at _Saltash , in consequence ofthe discovery of a man , named Joseph Clotwerthy , a boatman of that place , dead in Modition-lane , on Thursday afternoon week . The wife of the party who discovered it , found the body to be that of her father . How _. he came by his death is wrapped in mystery , and it is feared that the poor fellow has been murdered . All that is known is , that on the evening of the previous day , two men , strangers to the place , dressed as m iners lured him to take them in his boat from Saltash to Clothero ; he was never seen alive afterwards . His body bore marks of severe braises , and his eye ' s were blackened . The boat was found at Hole ' s Hold , the opposite side of thc river , with one paddle and the deceased ' s jacket in it . A man who was in company with the two suspected individuals on Wednesday is in custody , but nothing else _throwin- _** light on thi » dark transaction has been elicited . °
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_Cromweu- _AoAKf _.-Those who object to Oji _yet Cromwell having a statue because hewas merely the Protector , and not a monarch , must surely torgej his last speech to the Farliament , when he inquired "What's o ' clock ? " for lie the evidently appeared asking for the time , —Joe Miller . * The Church is Danger . — The Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the church of St . Stephen , Walbrook , have simultaneously gone to decay . Age has cruelly perforated the roof of the latter , and the sacred
edifice is absolutely more " holy" than •' righteous /* * We understand the parishioners intend petitioning Churchwarden Gibbs to present the building with a new " tile . " It sadly needs a covering . —Tbia . 7 Zoological .-The latest novelty at the Surrey Gardens is that of a Polar bear climbing a bare pole Indeed , such is the attraction weekly at these gardens , that it has resolved itself into Animal Magnetism . Had Miss Harriet Martineau promenaded that locality , she might probably have been cured of her complaint without the aid of quack mesmerists . -Ibid .
Eligible for Invalids . —A new cemetery is projected , east of the metropolis , the shareholders _^ in which are tempted by the promise of a very flattering bonus , viz . " a grave for themselves !"—Ibid Good News . —It is expected tha tat the next meeting of Parliament , the co « on Lords will beaihuorsted —Md . The Ex-Lord Mayor ' ¦ Doh ' t Dance . "—At the last entertainment at the Mansion House , Gibb 3 was asked to take part in a quadrille . His Lordship declined , remarldng he had forgotten his steps , ana was by no means perfect in his figures . —Ibid . crohwell _' s cuabactek , Wasn't Cromwell a despot , we're asked , And a sensual debauchee , too ? Since to answer this question we ' re tasked , We'll say—he was jcst ' twixt the two !
The Statues fob the New Houses of Parliament . —The commissioners on the Fine ' Arts have been groping about the new Houses of Parliament to find places to put statues in . Unfortunately , the niches are all too little to admit great men , and twenty-four inches is the extreme width of a comfortablcniche , so that the commissioners have been obliged to go through the " History of England " with a _two-foot-i'ulo , in order to find characters that can be brought within tlie prescribed limits . The discontented Barons are all to be cut down , and even the Sovereigns are obliged to submit to a general clipping . Considering the length to which tlic _Ttorons went with King John , we hardly sec how it will be possible to keep them sufficiently under to admit oftheir
getting into the gothic " niches . Thc sameness * of their attitude is said to fit them for these narrow places ; and it is true they were sturdy fellows , who , having once taken up a position , were determined to stick to it . As to John of Gaunt , he must give up his gauntness , if ho expects any accommodation in the new houses . The Venerable Bcde is to have an inside place , * and we should propose Old Parr going down toposterity , with a box of " Life Pills" in his hand , as a companion-statue . Cowpcr is to have a statue ; but we must beg that he will wear a decent head-dress , and not make his appcavauce in that strangejack-towcl-looking turban in which we have usually seen him in portraiture . Purcell is the only
musician on tho list , but we understand ho will hare a seal to his watch-chain engraved with a small portrait of Balf ' e , upon whom Purcell made a strong impression . There is a rumour that the writers of Punch are to have statues opposite the Barons who , signed " Magna Chai'ta , " as having used their pens for the good of tlieir country -almost as , much as the Barons , who , with a few dashes of tlieir goose-quills , gave to posterity a boon that has , only been equalled by a certain popular periodical whicli modesty will not allow us to name , but which thc reader has at his fingers' ends at the presentmoment . —Ranch . Coming Events , < fcc . —As many as 17 , 000 newspapers have been found in the General Post-office with their covers burst . The reason of the newspapers bursting is accounted for by the fact that they contain so many railway twi / _Wca . — _ioia .
edwin . —A Bathetic Bullad . The wind howled woefully , With a sad , a ghost-like tone ; And a youth wailed mournfully , For his hope of love was gone 1 The dripping trees shed rain drops Upon the reehing ground And the youth ' s dim eyes were poaring Tear-torrents all around . The thunder roared right awfully , And the bright forked lightning flashed And a" ~ demon would his voice have awed , And a fiend his glance abashed _. Then he stalked as doth a hero , As an oak-tree , proud and tall , And he said " I - yield submission , I obey the spirit ' s call !" He rushed into a dwelling ,
And with wild demoniac laugh , Ho shouted , as he entered , — "A glass of half-and-half ! " ' A Stage Coach and an Editor . —After much fatigue we had onljs accomplished a journey of 46 miles in twelve hours , between Gencsco and Dansiville . We had four horses ; and when I complained at one of the inns that our coachman ' seemed to ; take pleasure in driving rapidly over deep ruts and the roughest ground , it was explained to me that this was the first time in his life he had ever attempted
to drive any vehicle , whether two or four-wheeled . The coolness and confidence with which everyone here is ready to try his hand at any . craft is truly amusing . A few days afterwards I engaged a young man to drive me in a gig from Tioga to Blossberg . On the way , he pointed out , first , his father ' s property , and then a farm of his own , which he nad lately purchased . As he was not yet 20 years of age , I expressed surprise that ho had gone on so well in the world , when he told me that he had been editor of tiie Tioga Democrat for several years , but had now sola his share of the newspaper . —Lyell ' s Travels in North America .
Odd Origins . —Moses was a shepherd—Noah was a farmer—Confucius was a _,-carpent « r—Mahomet * called the Prophet , was a driver of _asses—Mehemefi AH was a barber—the present negro Emperor of Morocco was a pawnbroker— Bernardotte , the late King of Sweden , was a surgeon in the garrison of Martinique when the English took that island—Madame Bemadotte was a washerwoman of Paris—Napoleon , a _descendant of an obscure family of Corsica , was a major when he married Josephine , the daughter of a tobacconist Creole of Martinique- _^ Franklin was a printer—President Boyer was a mo * _latto barber—President John Tylor was a captain ef militia—Oliver Cromwell was originally a brewer- * t ) _MAnUn > nf D /\ 11 r -fVi / i T ft / in l ? A / in _T-Tinrf a _4 * t . ha A _ntAm-nnn is _ICaiUCUU _iJUVU l lli _JilUtilAlH
X VIA . ) ( JUO -. " UW A-L-g V » _VUV _-- -- ' rH States , was formerly an innkeeper-the stepfatherof Isabella Queen of Spain , husband of Queen Christina , and brother-in-law of the King of Naples , was once a bar-keeper of a coffee-room—General Espartero was a Ycstry clerk—King Christophe , of Hay ti , was . a slave of St . Kitt's—the reigning President of Hayti was also a negro slave—Bolivar was a druggist—General Paez was a cowkeeper—Vasco de Garna waa a sailor—Columbus was a sailor—Astor , tke richest man in the New world , before he became the proprietor of Astor-house _, used to sell apples through the Btreets of New York—Joseph Bonaparto , before hfe arrival at New'York with all the silver , gold , and
jewels of the Crown of Spain that he was able to take with him from that country , was the King of Spain , < fcc . !!—Louis Philippe was a teacher of tha French tongues at Switzerland , Boston , and Havannah—Catherine , the Empress of Russia , was a camp grisette— Cincinnatus was ploughing his _yinej-arda when the dictatorship of . Rome was offered to himtlie ! prcBent Governor of the island of Madeira was a tailor—and the actual Minister of Finance in Portugal was a dealer in bottles of Madeira wine . Thera are at present in Portugal and Spain several Dukes , Marquises , Counts , Viscounts , and Barons who formerly were cooks , tailors , barbers , cobblers , sweepers , and muleteers .
Blunders op French Translators . —The story is well known ofthe French translator , who came to a passage in wliich Swift says that the Duke of Marlborough broke an ofiicer , and who , not knowing that the expression meant dismissing a person from the army , rendered the passage by the word roue , by which it was conveyed that Marlborough broke the poor man on the wheel . Another Frenchman givea a not Yery delicate notion of Gibber ' s comedy of " Love ' s Last Shift , " b y calling it La Derniere Chemise de V Amour . In like manner , a writer of Congreve ' _s life , missing a letter in the tragedy of the * ' Mourning Bride , " translated it l' Espouse du Matin . " The
Bride ot the Morning . " But tho " most singular mistaking ofa book-title is that mentioned by D'lsraeli , who declares that a modern French bibliopole placed Edgeworth ' s " Essays on Irish Bulls" in a catalogue of works of natural history , as if it had been a treatise on horned cattle . A series of blunders have been committed through a more pardonable ignorance of English idioms . An early French editor of _Shafc spearc _' s plays , not approving of his predecessor L « Tourneur _' s paraphrastical' version , boasted of giving a more faithful one . As one proof of his capabilities ior the task , he conveyed a most ridiculous notion of thefollowing couplet in the Earl of Northumberland ' _^ celebrated speech in Henry IV . : —
" Even such a man , so faint , so spihtles > , So dull , so dead in look , so _woe-be-gpne . " The last words were paraphrased thus ' . _—aintidoulew ! vat ' en . ' which , re-translated into English , Signifies— "So , grief—be off with ! " In of Sir Walter Scott ' s novels , that f " a Welsh rabbit , " is translator renders it literally _dujwys de Galles : adding in rabbits ofthe Welsh mountains flavour , which makes them to be throughout Great Britain . — Journal ,
You One Avourite Supper-Dish, Mentioned....
one avourite supper-dish _, mentioned . The _^ KSch- _' by the _jKboraMfotfftji note , Slt _^ _tjfigiwld have Se _^ _ja _^ _ftw unconuno _^^ blwheS ChambllnY _^ iitnirgti ¦ " - < lr " " - ' . * ' _cc j . ~ - ' - _¦" .- ¦ - _* t > T " . . . " - . * : - ' L I ..- ' _£ _. " ¦ ¦ »* *¦ ! 1 _'J > ; 7 _'* _' . ~ ' _. . r- _*» / -r ¦ ¦ ¦/ * ' - ; v- . fci / / . _- *¦; ¦ _w- _' -v .-j > 7 _* # VV . O ! . ; :.: ' Vfavourite supper-dish , ioned . The _^ _HSJCi ** _^ y the 5 * _ijfijea _& p _faj ' j > , _^ _s _unconmM _^ _SshsSea : . ; _? -: _^ , %
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 1, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_01111845/page/3/
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