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September 6, 1845. , ? Argtff-Lil Northe...
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. Beauties Of Byron. So. Ix. Tl C 'Ntt.V...
. BEAUTIES OF BYRON . SO . IX . tl _'ntt . VS HABOUD . " The poet tlius ninp « 7 f tlie beauties and derormUles Of MWi _^*** _" * - * Oh , Christ ! it is a goodly sig : _" to see What Heaven hath done for thh . ' d * _* _- _* cious land ! What fruits of fragrance blush oil e , eri' tree j What goodly prospects o ' er the hills «* Tt | nau < i ' But man would mar them with an impiov _*/ nani : And when the Almighty Ufts his fiercest _9 _cou- E
'Gainst those who most transgress liis high com . 'mrad , With treble vengeance will his hot shafts urge * Gaul ' s locust host , and earth from fellest foemen purge . What beauties doth _Lisboaf first unfold ! Her image floating on that noble tide , Which poets -vainly pave with sands of gold , But now whereon a thousand keels did ride Of mighty strength , since Albion was allied , And to the Lwsians did her aid afford : A nation swoln with igneraucc and pride Who lick yetloathe the hand that vraves tlie sword To save tliem from the wrath of Gaul ' s unsparing lord . J
Poor paltry slaves ! yet born midst noblest scenes-Why , Saturn , waste thy wonders on such men ? Xo , Cintra = J glorious Eden intervenes . In _variegated maie of mount and glen . Ah , mel _n-hatliand can pencil guide , or pen , To followhalfon which the eye dilates Through views more dazzling unto mortal ken Than those whereof such things the bard relates , Who lo tlie awe-struck world unlock'd Elysium ' s gates ? The hoiTid crags , by toppling convent crown'd , Tlie cork-trees hoar tliat clothe tlie shaggy steep , The mountain-moss by scorching skies imbrown'd , The sunken glen , whose sunless shrubs must weep , Thc tender azure of the unruffled deep , The orange tints _Uiat gilil the greenest l ) Dugl ) , The torrents that from cliff to valley leap , The vine on high , the willow branch below , Jlix'd in one mighty scene , witli varied beauty glow .
Then slowly climb the many-winding way , And frequent turn to linger as you go , Prom loftier rocks new loveliness surrey , Ani rest ye at " Our Lady ' s house of woe ;" "Where frugal monks their little relies sllOW , And suudry legends to tlie stranger tell : Here imuiuus men liave punish'd been , and lo ! Beep in you cave Ilonorius long did dwell , In hope to merit heaven by making earth a helL And ' liere and there , as i « p the crags yoa spring , Mark many rude-carved crosses near the path : Yet deem not these devotion's offering—These are memorials trail of murderous wrath : For whereso ' er the shrieking victim hath Pour'd forth his blood beneath the assassin ' s knife , Some hand erects a cross of mouldering lath ; And grove and glen With thousand such are rife TUvoushout this purple land , where law secures notlife . ll
Tet Mafra shall one moment claim delay , Where dwelt of yore the Lusiau ' s luckless queen ; Aud church and court did mingle their array , And _uiass and revel were alternate seen 5 Lonltings and fi-eres—ill-sorted fry I ween . But here the Babylonian whore hath built 1 A dome , where _daunts she in such glorious sheen , That men forget the blood which she hath spilt , And bow the knee to Pomp that loves to varnish guilt . _O't-r vales that teem with fruits , romantic hills , ( Oh , that such hills upheld a free-bora race , ' ; Whereon to gaze the eye with joyanee fills , Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant place , Though sluggards deem it hut a foolish chase , And marvel men should quit their easy chair , The toilsome way , and long , long league , to trace , Oh J there is sweetness in the mountain air , And life , that bloated Ease can never hope to share .
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* T . usitania , the ancient name of Portugal . t The ancient name of tiie capital was Ulisipo , or _Iispo ; hence the Portugese Lisboa , the French Lisbonne , and our Lisbon . t This was written during the heat of the war with Kapoleou , in July , 1 S 09 . J The village of Cintra , fifteen miles from Lisbon , is perhaps tlie most delightful place in Europe—teeming with beauties natural and artificial—rocks , cataracts , precipices _, _-gardens , palaces , _convents , magnificent sea-view , A-c , A _* c II In JS 09 assassination was a common occurrence in the streets of Lisbon . Byron h _' unsdfhad a narrow escape from the knife . 5 "The extent of _JMafra is _prodigious—it contains a palace , convent _^ and most superb church . " Writing to Ms mother the joetsays : — " About ten miles to the right -ofCinfraisthe palace * of _Jfafra , the boast of Portugal , as it might be of any conntry , in point of magnificence without elegance . There is a convent annexed : the 3 fonks asked me if the English had any boots in their -country !"
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The Purgatory Of Suicides. A Prison Itky...
THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Prison Itkynie , in Ten _Boi-ks . By Thomas Cooper , the Chartist . London : J . How , 132 , Fleet-street . Our readers are already familiar with the title of this work , from tlie repeated announcements wliieli lave a _*^ eared in this paper ; and , we doubt not , that their curiosity lias been considerably excited as to the sort of work the Purgatory of Suicides would prove to be . If Mc . Coopi-n ( who is not _ashamed to own liis past connexion with the " gentle cralt " J Lad announced himself as a maker of new fittings for our readers' understandings , sur . ii an announcement would bave caused no surprise ; and our readers would naturally Lave anticipated that in advertising the producisof liis labour , Mr . Coopeb must have had some confidence in the worth of his workmanship ; and although the making of substantial shoes b . v an aristocrat ( were such a thing possible ) would certainly
excite some-wonder , the like work on tlie part of oueot the useful class would create no surprise . On the other hand when one of that class comes before the world as a book-maker , it but seldom happens that Ms labour is justly appreciated by any class . The privileged classes teruse to acknowledge , or even _investigate the merits of the daring aspirer _; and the proletarians , educated in the accursed belie ! of the natural aud necessary inferiority of their order , smile _inereduhusly when told that John Smith , the weaver , or Kobert Brown , the shoemaker , has written a book which the parson ofthe parish could not hare written . That Smith could weave good cloth , and Brown make good shoes , tbey can believe ; but that either could write philosophy or poetry hy the volume they think all hut impossible . They have been educated to deem themselves the " inferior order , " despite the examples of _Faixe and Buit . _N's and a host of others , custom chains them to tbe slavish belief .
Of course this does not apply to all of the proleta rian class . The Democratic party—thc advanced guard of that class—have learned a different doctrine , and that doctrine daily gathers converts . Still , ifany 01 our readers have been somewhat incredulous as to Mr . _Cot-rEifs poetical talents , they may be excused . I _' octs are not made every day . It is , wc fancy , no very diilicdt task to string together a few verses not "very faulty " m rhyme , and not absolutely outrageous as re'r . -irdssensc _. and thus constitute one'sselfa " poct ;" and _ofsuek _"poeis" there is in our day no Jack . It
15 , _llOWCVtr , a VCl'i * different tiling io produce a work like ilr . _Cooi-sk _' s " Prison Khyiue . " comprising well on to a thousand stanzas . Such a work , if well eseciiicJ _, jf bearing the genuine poetical stamp , is a great work , and , sooner or later , its author must reap Lis « reat reward . _Shouldnuyofourroailershaveenterfainedniisgiviiiss as to ilr . _Cooraai's poetical talents , we must confess to having shared those misgivings . To essay to Wjail the path of _Spexcek and _Utbox was a bold atteaipt , ilr . Cooper , has , however , essayed to do * -o—it remains to be seen with what success .
»» e shall not uow offer an opinion as to the merits ° i ilr . _CoopEtt ' s poem , for a very good reason , — as yet _tve have read only a very small portion of it . ne read all books before we review them . In which , wa beiievc , we difler from some of our brothcr-Sr \ f _depress , who review without reading at _f _twmii Ter ' _wc PvoPose to extract pretty freely _ZT ? "; l' ° ein , and thus afibrd our readers an opporfhllh- _^ son estcn * . of judging for themselves . Our _opimon of the work a , « _Ihole we shall defer w . G COuc ««* cd onr intended extracts . nJr , eon , ' . encc hy extracting the entire of thc _S _* * _ty _fal called upon to do this both in _SELi . _^ _i * - - ? ' _> M a Cliartist > and raore _yuuituiariy m justice to that unjustly expatriated _StilT _!^ _« ' _W _-n-U _*™ _-EU-M- " The _g _^ _erous to T ™ 0 f _*? - _CooMtt wil _* . _™ tnuk help _ .. ? r 0 Usc Public svmoathv in _lvhalf nf that
of _tw 6 My .-a * this moment in urgent need can _* Vr " 1 I , atliy i" a practical shape-and also to vriS ; , at . _Sen « _-ral demand for simple justice which _Eujfl - ' f least * shorteningtheduratkmofpoor romai 6 / 0110 _" " " Prison-Rhyme , '' -part of an historical 5 ui < le _~ ~~ a SemS ° siM , I _' ta , cs < —a , ld 3 small Hebrew wijfin lrtre _^ fruits of t , ro 3 ' ears an * _*' _-c _' weeks ' _aiiotm _™" m Stafford Ga « _- * The first idea of creating actor _^ 1 Uwh : _' ch lhe SJ , lrits of _simcMw should he the but a u ° c _? nrerScrs » arose in my miud ten years ago ;—in . !* * - * _* 5 _lrt _Dtverliare been composed except for HIT been _^ l" ™ . —ami _-i * Political strife in which I have n ... .. n * _** ne'l lias fWtetf , ! _.- _m _.-un _* . r .. _r _* n _^ _-n _.-l _nnln .. * . if _. millaim _iwiim
_"VUIOUMJ , * b * " = " *» , _*« Cf _pii , _^^ . which ihey could not have worn had my _coiidiahvl , I ** " r * - ' alised at an earlier period . An iudiritweiitv ° _^ lorertt < '' < -md wielded tic otel till three and **> ac « u - ~ S , r 4 , ? s Un & au , ! , 3 s-vvcakhealili and deprivation , tait - * W - * _li"uWlt' , 'J ? - of _Janscages , —and whose _espvris _*" * _rcVUt _r"Kfe , ra 5 _' 3 t first " lin > ited t 0 the - , n , uWe ° * " a _l- ibo ' _^ 5 ell " ol , nasta ' > and never enlarged beyond that c _** o * tni -h _^^ _* 0 rfier ° _™ news l * , P « > co _** _hl scarcely have I' _^ _-iical _^„ afabt } _* jfTe « ecinbodyin { jn ' . _orethau a few _'" _tnt ol ° _^ ? < -- ' % persecntoi * have , at least , the T _-= —n , _"f , _" * ° _^ a 1 llorc rol " _* character to my _a _»_ ' '' lj 51 _^ h 1 _ln ostassur _.-illv _«« .-.. tllm _* . i -. inlnvAfm- t . lin
_^ - ¦ Ua _wtis " sllt t S ° » y 1 endured from neuralgia , ca *<" ob _,, * " ' I know not what oilier torments , _—oe-^• _WwRinfl " slee P 5 « _- _* ll , added to the generaUi ¦ " _tniutcces of imprisonnieat .
The Purgatory Of Suicides. A Prison Itky...
I have not the Slightest wish to _enlarge on thu clrcum . stances of suffering under which my VbTses have been strung together : and only deprecate that severity of criticism which a Charlist rhymer must _expe _. ct to en . counter—by observing mat I am painfully conscio us my book contains many paWges correspondingly feeble _Ti'ith the debilitated state in which ! often strove to urgeoi _* We completion of my design . For reasons that involve the fate of others , as . weil as my own , I cannot omit to add a few remarks in this preface relative to the causes of our imprisonment .
The first six stanzas of thefoUowingpoera may he consi-{ dered as embod ying a speech I delivered to the Colliers _i on strike , inthe Staffordshire Potteries , on the loth of I August , 1842 . Without either purposing , aiding and ; abetting , or even knowing of an ou tbreak till it had _occurreil , —I regret to add that my address was followed by the demolition and burning of several houses , and by other acts of violence . I , and others , were apprehended and tried . 3 Jy first trial was for the most falsely alleged crime of burning and demolishing , or assisting to burn and _dejmolish . Sir Wm . Follett , —then Solicitor-General , —used every endeavour to procure a conviction . I pleaded my own cause , —a number of respectable working-men proved my am , —and _Snage _lindaliiUiraated his conviction that the evidence did not prove I ivas guilty . The jury returned a verdict i „ my favour , —and I was thus saved from transportation , —perhaps for the term of my natural life , but was remanded for trial on two other
indictments . In a few minutes I met melancholy proof of the extreme peril in which I had just been placed -, for , on being takeu back to the dungeon beneath the Court-House—a filthy , stifling cell to which prisoners are brought from the gaol on the day of trial , and which , in ihe language of the degraded beings who usually occupy it , is called * _theglor * ) - _. holo '—I found William Ellis walking about the room , and on taking his hand and speaking to him for the first time in my life , I learned _thatie had just been sentenced to twenty-one years' transportation for a like alleged offence to that for which I had been tried and acquitted . Yet he assured me , in the most solemn manner , that he was utterly innocent , and was asleep in his bed at _Burslem at the time it had been sworn he was on the scene of the
fire at Hanley . The aged woman with whom he and his wife lodged made oath to the truth ofthis ; but in spite of corroborative proofs of his innocence , —he was convicted on thestrange testimony of one man , who said that lie first saw a tall figure with its back towards him , at the fires;—that he theu , for a . few moments , saw the side face , blacked , of tliis figure;—and that he could swear it was Ellis ! On the false evidence of this man alone , has poor Ellis been banished from his country , —leaving his wife and children to the bitterest contumely and insult from his euemies . Yet—he had committed a crime—and it was so indelibly chronicled in thememories ofthe Staffordshire magnates that tiie governor of Stafford Gaol reminded him of it as soon as he « as brought to prison : —he had been guilty of an act of discourtesy to the Lord
Lieutenant of tlie county I At a county meeting _. called to congratulate the Queen on the bifth of the Prince ol Wales , Ellis , at the head of the Chartists of the Potteries and the democratic shoemakers of Stafford , opposed the grandee when named as president of the meeting , succeeded in getting a working-man _hito the chair by an overwhelming show of hands , and thc intended " congratulation" ended in naught . Such was poor Ellis ' s real _erhne . . Did it deserve tnenty-ooc years' transportation ? Let his bitterest enemies answer , —for even they are nolo professing their belief that Ellis was not at the fires . I am , then , not _thelieariestsufferer by false accusation ; —yet I feel I have great cause to complain of the
crookedness of their procedures on the part of our prosecutors ; and , though it may subject me to a sneer for squeamish taste , I cannot help observing that I could havesubmitted to impiisonmentnithout giving theiawyers much trouble , if lhe proceedings against myself and others had been less crooked . When the third indictment against me was read , —for " sedition" simply , —I told the Judge that I would at once plead " guilty , " and give the court no further trouble , if he would , as a lawyer , assure me that it ivas sedition to advise men ' to " cease labour until the People's Charter became tlie law of tbe land , " —for tliat 17 iad so advised the Colliers in the Potteries , and would not deny it : but Sir Nicholas Tindal said he could not assure me that it was sedition !
After being at liberty some time , on bail , I was tried before Judge Erskine , for a " scditous conspiracy" with William Ellis , John Itichards , and Joseph Capper . Again , I felt discontent at the crookedness of the law or custom thatrendered it possible for nie to stand indicted for a conspiracy with the poor exile , whom I had never seen nor _commuiiic-ned with in my life till we became prisoners . My discontent rose to stern resolve , however , as soon as I found , by the opening speech of counsel , that it was intended , —by what I considered most villanous unfair . ness , —to i erire all the old charges of " aiding to burn and demolish" in tliis second trial , —although under an indictment for conspiracy only , ily Judge acted worthilv
for one who hears the honoured name of Erskine , and allowed me all the fair-play an Englishman could desire who had to plead liis own cause , without lawyer or counsel , against four regular gownsmen with horse-hair wigs . The struggle lasted ten days ; and the county papers made testy complaints of " the insolent daring of a Chartist , who had thrown the whole county business of Staffordshire , aiidShropshire , an-J Herefordshire into disorder ;" but they were , of course , quite blind to . the mean-spirited injustice which had girt iue to fight against it . We were found " guilty , " as a matter of course ; but _tlieresult was to me a victory : fori so completely succeeded in laying bare the falsehood ofthe witnesses who affirmed I had been Seen
in the immediate neighbourhood oi thefires , that thejury told the judge they did not wish to have that part of Iris lordship ' s notes read to them which containedthe evidence of the said witnesses , but preferred that his lordship should write " mistake" thereon instead . My aged friend John Itichards , and myself , were called up for judgment in die Court of Queen's Bench some weeks after ; and lordDenman , Sir John Patteson , and Sir John Williams _thete read out the word " mistake , " as inserted in Judge _Eiskine's notes ; and thus openly proclaimed the fact that my taemics had failed in their attempt to fix the brand of felony upon me .
I make no doufct bnt that ma _- ny will be disposed Still to think and say , ihat however fat * 1 might be from intending to excite to violence , since violence lollowcd my address , it is but just that I have sufi ' ered for it . I beg to say , however , that I ho _' al a very contrary opinion . If an Englishman excites his wronged fellow-countrymen to a _h-g _.-il and constitutional course , ( and Lord Chief Justice Tindal told tlte _Staitbrdjury tbat now the old Combination Act was abolished , it teas perfectly legal and constitutional for men to agree to cease labour until the Peo . pie ' s Charter became law , ) it surely is not the person wlw so excites iheni that ought to be held responsible for the violence they may commit under an enraged sense ol wrong , but the Government who wrongs tliem . I appeal to Englishmen _olall shades of polities whether this is not the judgment we pass on all the fortunate revolutions tliat have occurred in ourhissory .
Yet Sir William follett , who again used his decaying strength , the hour before judgment was passed upon us in the _lleiicll , pointed to me with an austere look , and said , _"Thisinanis the chief author of the violence thatoccuvred ; and 1 conjure your lordships to pass a severe sentence on the prisoner Cooper . " Scarcely three years have passed , and the great lawyer is no more . He wronged me ; but I think of him with no vindictive feeling , for my imprisonment _llilS opened to lllf a nobler source of satiifactiuii than 7 ie could ever derive from all his honours , lie amassed wealth ; but the Times , alludiug to the '' frequent unhappy disappointments " occasioned hy Sir William Follett ' s non-attendance on cases he undertook to plead , says— "So often did tlie _. v occur , that solicitors and clients , iii the agony of disaster and _defeat , were in _^ he habit of saying that Sir "William often took briefs when he must have known that he
could not attend in court : and as barristers never return fees , tlic suitor sometimes found that he lost his monev and missed his advocate at a moment when he could badly spare either . " lam poor , and have been plunged into more than two hundred _jiounds * debt by the persecution ofmy enemies ; but Ihave the consolation to know that my course was dictated hy heartfelt zeal to relieve the sufferings and _oppressions of my fellow-men . lie was entombed with pomp , and a host of ttl _.-d great ones , of every sliade of party , attended the laying ofhis clay in the . . rave ; aud they purpose now to erect a monument lo his mtmory . Let tliem build it : the self-educated shoemaker has also reared his ; and , despite its _imperfecxions , he has a calm _con-iik-nce that , though tlie product of poverty , and sufferim :, aud wrong , it will outlast thc posthumous stone-block that may be erected to perpetuate tlte memory of the titled lawyer .
The following arc the first eig ht stanzes of the poem , all wc can find room for this week ;—Siavj £ s , toil no more!—Why delve , and moil , andpioe , To glut tbe tyrant-forgers of your chain 1 Slaves , toil no more 1 Up , from the midnight mine , Summon your swarthy thousands to the plain;—- Beneath thc bright sun marshalled , swell the Strain Of Liberty l—and , while the lordlillgS View Your banded hosts , with stricken heart and brain , — Shout , as one man , — . " Toil we no more renew , r Until the Many cease their slavery to the Few 1 "
" We'll crouch , and toil , and weave , no more—to weep I' l Exclaim your brothers from the weary loom . — I Yea , now , they swear , with one resolve , dread , deep" Well toil no more—to win a pauper ' s doom ! And , while the millions swear , fell Famine ' s gloom Spreads from their haggard faces , like a cloud Big with the fear and darkness of the tomb ; IIow , ' neath its terrors , are the tyrants bowed ! Slaves , toil no more—to starve!—Go forth , and tame the Proud ' . " And why not tame them all!—Of more than clay Do your high lords proclaim themselves ?—Of blood _Illustrious boast they «—or , that reason ' s ray Beams from the brows of Hollo ' s robber-brood More briglitly than from yours ! let them make good Their vaunt of nobleness—or now co . ifess The majesty of Atul _IVdlSB J | c the feud—Kot , like their sires , to murder and possess;—But for unbounded power to g ladden and to bless .
_iviiat say ye , —that the priests proclaim content ! So taught their Master , —who the hungry fed As well as taught , —who wept with men , —and bent , In gentleness and love , o ' er bier and bed Vhere wretchedness was found , until it fled % l'ebuked He not tlie false ones , till his zeal Irew down their hellish rage upon his head f—¦ . < nd who , that yearns foe world-spread human -weal , Do li not , ere long , the weight of priestly vengeance feel -
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Away . »—the hojyl of wolvesja _sh"e ' ep ' sidh > ' * * * _uise . . _;; 7 _s . I Why suffer ye tojBH your ears _^ _rrihe't" _? _" * . _' - - * . Why suffer ye to stalk before " your eyes ? " Behold , in pomp ; the purple prelate ride , —• And , on the beggar by his chariot ' s side Frown sullenl y , —although in rags and shame His brother cries for food ! Up , SWen the tide Of retribution , till ye end the game Lo > S practised by sleek priests in old Jteligion ' s name . _Slaves , toil no more 1—Despite their boast , ev ' n kings Must _c'ase to sit in pride , —without your toil' . . . - Spite of fhpir sanctity , —the _aurpliced things Who , through all time , have thirsted to embroil Man with his neighbour , and pollute the soil Of holiest mother Earth , with brother ' s gore , —• Join but to fold your hands , and ye willfoii To utter helplessness , —yea , to the coi'O Strike their pale craft with paler death!—Slaves , toil no more !
For that these words of truth I boldly spake To Labour ' s children in their _agony Of want and insult , —and , like men awake . After drugg'd slumbers , they did wildly flee Touoflieyknewnotwh . it , —until , with glee , v The cellar ofa christian priest they fouud , And with its poison fired their misery To mad revenge , —swift hurling to thegroand And flames—be _< l , cassock , wine-cups of the tippler gowned : For that I boldly spake those words of truth , And the starved multitude , —to fury wrought By sense of injury , and void of ruth , — Hushed forth to deeds of recklessness , —but nought Achieved of freedom , —since , nor plan , nor thought T heir might directed _; for this treason foul 'Gainst evil tyrants , I was _hitlior brought A captive , —' mid the vain derisive howl Of some who thought the iron now should pierce my soul . ( Tobe continued ) .
Punch. Pabt'l. London: Punch Office, 92,...
PUNCH . _Pabt'L . London : Punch Office , 92 , Fleet-street . The extracts that have appeared in our columns , during the last mouth ,, from the pages of our everfacetious , and right well beloved brother , Punch , leave us but Jittle room to say aught in the way ol commendation of the part before us . The inimitable Caudle Lectnvescontinueas racy and as provocative ol mirth as ever . Amongst the humbugs of the day , Punch has not forgotten that prince of charlatans , King Dan , whom he thus apostrophises *—•
TOO TAIX BY A HEAD . Mr _. Daniel O'Connell , —Pray , sir , are yott aware that you arc a head taller than you have any . righ t to be ? In the year 1813 you were f leased to promise that you would achieve rvpeal within six months , or else "lay your head upon thc block . " _Siaee then _eighteen months have elapsed , whilst neither has the empiiebeen dismembered , noryoursel ? decapitated . There you go , sir , with your head on , in defiance of _allthat is _trustworthy . Vow have thus disappointed Great Britain on the one hand , and Ireland on the other . It is to be hoped that you k * ep your temperance pledge better than you have kept your pledge to intemperance . Vo _* still walk ar . tl talk like—Very like—OOP Lord Lovat ; whereas you _owglit to _bearyourself aud your head , like St . Denis .
Your head must be more brazen than Friar' . Bacon ' s to remain where it is . True , is hut * diminished somewhat oflate , - but no thanks to you for Shat . Hide yanr diminished head , if you will ; keep it instead of your word ; otherwise , will you nill jou , I will have it taken it off myself . I have an artist who will execute you a * a moment ' s warrant ; and if you had ten thousand heads I should have as many blocks to bring them to . _Ponsb , P . S . Thc nation is open to a compromise with you- If you wish to keep your head , would you object to parting with your tail ?
The illustrations are hardly so good this month ; but , if never worse , we shall have but little cause for grumbling . We again recommend this excellent publication to all who love wit and wisdom .
George Cruikshank's Table-Booksunriimije...
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S _TABLE-BOOKSunriiMiJEn . London : Punch Office , t > 2 , Fleetstreet . This , as regards its literary matter , is by far a better number than usual . " A Mouthful of Fresh Air" is a capital quiz at fresh water sailors , and is capitally illustrated . That excellent burlesque , "A Legend of the Rhine , " is continued to the great amusement of the reader . The _contiuuation of the articles on "Social Zoology" is also good , and "Songs of the Sentiments" passable . " Orders for the Play" is one of the best things in the number , and although a caricature , contains too Hi _ucll of truth at bottom . The writer professes to be the Editor of a Sunday newspaper , and thus inveighs against the " editorial nuisance" of " orders ";—I need not tell you an "Order" is tbe privilege a newspaper enjoys of sending to any theatre , or exhibition , a piece of paper , which admits the bearer free of expense . It generally lranks two persons .
An Editor , as you know , has the power of exercising this privilege regularly once a day . * * # I never had the patience to count the number of theatres and exhibitions tliat are open iu London , but including the dioramas , industrious cockchafers , infant _Gvimaldis and the sixpenny theatres in the suburbs , there cannot be ono less , I am sure , thau one hundred . This makes one hundred orders the Editor has the power of disposing of every day . Hence arises his greatest misery . These one hundred orders are sure to bring two hundred letters;—to say nothing of the hundred persons wli j call on the Editor at all hours of the day : no matter whether he is in tho agonies of composition or not . 1 myselfam never free from these applications . * * # I cannot move out , or enter a room , but I am driven into a corner for an order . * * * I cannot buy a pair of gloves , or have a tooth pulled out , or pay a bill , but the inquiry is certain to be , " You couldn ' t oblige me , sir , with an order % " ¦ ,
I say nothing of the injury these confounded orders do to the theatres and exhibitions they are supposed to benefit—for , recollect , a person who has once tasted the pleasure of going to a theatre for nothing , never thinks Of paying again ; but I do inveigh most indignantly against the perpetual bore they are to an Editor ! He must , in common civility , answer erery oue ofhis letters ; this makes two hundred letters a day . Tliose persons he does not obligi— that is to say fifty outot every hundred—call him al sorts of complimentary names , and tell him , the first opportunity , what they thiuk of his " meanness . "
For the remainder of the artiele we must refer our readers to the Table-Book itself . The illustrations are all excellent , as being by thc inimitable Geobge they must of necessity be . Nest to a good joint ol Old English beef , we commend the Table-Book foi - every table _.
Tee Connoisseurs: A Monthly Record Ofthe...
TEE _CONNOISSEURS : a Monthly Record ofthe Fine Arls , Music , and the _Drama—Sittember . London * . E . Maukenzic , 111 , Fleet-street . The coi tents of this number are somewhat heavy , and not - * o much to our liking as the contents of the August i umber . The principal articles are , " The Historiial Painter , " "The Conductor , " " The Decline of the Drama , " " The past' Opera Season , '" " _Inauguration of the Statue of Beethoven , " and the m nthly " Theatrical Summary . " The criticisms on theatricals are ably written , although severe where the writer believes severity to be deserved , and . " take them for an in ail , " calculated to make this publication a first-rate authority with all who love the play . We are glad to see our views as to thc talented performances of Mrs . Warner and Mr , I ' liELPS , borne out by so competent a critic as the Editor of the _ConiiOissctu * . We do not remember to have noticed in the papers the following curious fact ;—
Tme Dbama in Tobket . —The regular drama , although in disgrace with us , has , it appears , been successful in other places . The pupils of the College of Kcbeck , in Constantinople , on the birth-day of their superior , gave a representation of " tlie ileiehant of Venice , " in English , and the " Malade Imauinaire , " in Prime )' , the performers being all Turks . The exhibition was received with such relish , that a series of performances in Turkish and modern Greek is said to be iu contemplation . The Turks will , no doubt , find this au improvement on their
professional story-tellers , and cause to \> e- dramatised , the Arabian Night ' s Entertainments . The present number contains an , original ballad entitled " Sacred Sorrow : " the words by E . G . _WisiiioRP _, Esq .: the music hy Kate Lodek . lhe illustration to this number is a most beautiful specimen of lithographic art ; a copy from a cartoon ot large dimensions by Mr . 17 ., J . TowkseM _) . IHc subject is from Shakspeare ' s fairy play , tho " Midsummer Moht's Dream ; " and depicts the moment when Puck is about to disenchant Lysandcr . __ All connoisseurs will do well to make this publication their " guide , philosopher , and friend . "
Tiie Balloon; Or, ^Emstatic Ma Gazine.— ...
TIIE BALLOON ; or , _^ Emstatic Ma gazine . — Sep-TEMBEtt . London : B . Steill , 20 , Paternoster Row . That the editor of this magazine ( Ilenry Wells , _Esq .. ) is no mere enthusiastic theorist , is proved iu nearly every page of the present month ' s number of the Balloon ; but particularly by the description given of his newly-invented waterproof car , to enable ffironauts to descend in safety into streams , rivers , or the sea itself , without fear of drowning . Such a car the editor has invented , and its utility , it appears , is soon to be put to the test by Mr .
Hampton , who is fast completing a splendid new balloon in Dublin . The present number contains also articles on several other subjects , including " The Destruction ol the Albion Balloon , " and tin "History of Mr . - Hampton ' s Balloon , " There _sm also short _aecouivts of the several _accents of Mr . Green during tbe past month . Thc . editor has . sonic faults of style which we could wish to see amended The funny (?) anecdote of the silly doings of thc country rustics at East Ham , on the occasion of tin descent of Mr . Hampton ' s bauoor- ., is neither \ 'ev witty , nor very probable : at any vp . tc , if true , * it is no worth tho space it occupies . As ballooning has of late experienced a revival and again occupies public attention to some extent
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"SS' ! y T ? ftWs _Application is well-timed , _i _„^ j l _}^ . _« _t-. think _,-, to . find numerous hPtrprH , _? ' , _^ l 0 ( min S been _liitherto , biit little ifi - _' ., * > _k _* ) we » re persuaded , however , _fif . f ? Ighfc , \ , turi ! ec * t 0 tue most important S _!^^ _l- i " . aU be Slad if this P « blicatiou helps _Sr _??^! _" _^" - _4 _" _*^™™^ . " If it does ! h „' ni .. f ii , ? . _trough any deficiency of zeal on the part of the editor . '
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D ? _rWF A q 3 mil 0 _W ' s SHILLING _MAGA-£ _t _AfJ ~ 55 E ? TE . MBEn . London : P « nc / i Office 92 , Jbleet-street . , ' ' _i Amongst the contributors to this month ' s number of Douglas _Jeruold ' s excellent magazine , weave glad to announce the name of our friend—the poet of Chartism—iiioMAs Coofeii ; who contributes a simple talc under the title of " Charity begins at Home . " The following e xtract will he its best recommendation : — " CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME . " All tho world , in the village of _Sturtoii-le-SteepIe , had said so , before the time of old Dorothy Pvcevoft but Dorothy did not join all the world in saying so . Stu ' rton is a homely little place , situate in the pleasant shire of Nottingham , and . lying within a couple of miles of the
' Trent , and old Lincolnshire ; and its church steeple forms a pretty object in the _laudaeoipe whish you view from the hills above _Gainsboi-6 ' . Dorothy Pyceroft , from the time that she was a child but the height of a table , went to _Gninsboro ' market with buttcr , eggs , orpoultry , as regularly as Tuesday returned in each week ; for the hearty old dame used commonly to boast that she had never known what it was to _luivc a day ' s illness In her life , although , at the season we are beginning to gossip shout , she was full threescorc-nnd-tcn . It was a bonny sight to see ths dame go tripping o ' er the charming lea whicli spreads its flowery riches from Sturton-le-Stecple to the hanks ot noble Trent , by four of the clock on a gay summer ' s morning , with the clean milking pail under her arm , that was bare to the elbow . You would have thought , at a distance , she had been some blithe maiden in hertc-jns .
And then the cheerful and clear tone in whieh she summoned her cows , calling to them as kindly aa if tliey were her children—'" Come , my pTatty creatures . " " a call that was the signal for a treat of pleasing pastorial music to the enthusiastic cariy angler on tlie Trent . * the rich , varied "low" of the cows—alto , tenor , and bassanswered that call , in changeful echo across the stream ; the angler ' s delighted ear caught a treble , heavenward , from the matin lark , to complete the " harmony ; " and even tlic cackling of the geese , uttering their confused joy at the sound ofthe duiue ' s voice , s « emed _tomingltno unpleasing "discord" with the natural chorus . By the time that her morning ' s milking ivas over , the spoilt maidens of the village were only beginning to open thei ?
kitchen window-shutters ; snd she usually passed the Whole train ol them , loitering and chatteriwf about their sweethearts , ora their way to- the lea , as sho returned home , with the rich load upou hei * head , aad her arms fixed us properly a-kimbo as ( rimld be shown by the sprigbtlicst lass that ever carried a milking-pail . Some little shame was _cummohly 'felt ' among the loiterers as they passed the exemplary old woman—but it did not result iri their _reformation . Old Farmer Muxloe , who , was alwnys abroad at « Jaybreak , and usually chatted a few j moments with the dam * just at the point where the footi path crossed tho briu 3 * -way over tbe lea , often commented in no very measured terms , on the decliae of discipline among the mil _& -maids since She days when Le was a lad .
"Ah , damef he used to- say , "there have been some sore changes - since you and 11 used to take-a turn around the maypole ; Fin sure the world gets _lazfer and laziei _* , every day . " _; " "Why , you seo ; . ' neighbour , fashions change , " the old dame would reply—for she ev 3 ? loved to take the more charitable side ofa question — " may be , things may change again , and folk may tak _*» to getting up earlier , after a few moro years are over . " ' " I'laitls _, I ' ve little- hope on't , "' tho old farrow would reply , _landi shake his * head , and smile ; "but there ' s nobody like thee , Dolly ; . for taking the kindest side . " " Why , _neighbour , I always think 5 * the best , " Dorothy would rejoin , ¦ with a benevolent smile ; . " r never saw things grow better "by harah words an _& harsh _thinlungs , in my time . "
And then tlie-old _farmeinvould smils-again , and'say , "Well , well , that ' s just like thee ! God hless thee , Doll * , ' , and good > morning to _thee-if and away he would turn Dobbin ' s head , and proceed sn his usual . morning _' s ride from field to field . The work of her little dairy , added to- the care ot a humble household , composed ef an infirm ; and belpleashusband , and an equally infirm maiden-sisier—with all and sundry , a stout house-dog ,-two tabby eats , and a fruitful poultry-yard—usually occupied _Sorod-j * Pyecroft through the bustling forenoon o £ each day . And when tliere ivas no immediate call upoo her skill aad benevolence among sick neighbours—for she was the cleverest herb-woman in the village , and _eacrcised her knowledge oftlie healing art without fee , or wining acceptance even of thanks—she would sit in hor polished high-backed chair , and work through the livelong afternoon at her spinning-wlieel , drowsing her two infirm _companions into a salutary rest and forgetfillness with the humming monotony of her labour , but revolving within her own . mind many a useful and solemn thought meanwhile .
Dorothy sat absorled in this her favourite eraplay _, one afternoon in autumn , when an itinerant pedlar made his customary call at the ' cottage door . The dame'smind was so deeply involved in the contrivance of one ef . her little plans of benevolence , that she did not recognise the face of the traveller until he had addressed her twice : " Any small wares for children ? any needles , pins-, or thimbles i" cried the pedlar , running through the list of his articles with the _glibucss of frequent repetition . " Ko , Jonah , I want . none , " replied the dame kindly ; "hut , may be , you'll take a horn b' beer , and a crunib . or two o' bread and cheese V The pedlar assented , well pleased ; and lowered the pack from his shoulders , nnd set down the basket from his Hand ; next , seating himself in a cliail'without the ctrcmonial of asking , and in all the gladsome confidence of wekome .
" Thank you , thank yoa , dame , " he said , and smacked his lips with pleasurable anticipation , as he took the born oi smiling beer and thc piece of bread and cheese from the dame ' s hand . "You ' re welcome , Jonah , " replied the dame heartily . " Have you walked for to-day , and what luck have you had V " 1 ' vo come twenty miles , and have never taken handsel yet , dame , " answered Jonah , in a melancholy tone . "So , poor heart ! " said Dorothy , very pitifully ; " I must buy a trifling dozen of needles of thee , however , before thou goest . I fear times are hard Jonah ; I heais many and grievous complaints . "
" Times are harder than ever I knew them to be , dame ,. I assure you , " rejoined Jonah ; " and they that _hawa a little money seem most determined to hold it fast . Sore _murmurings are made about this hy poor folk * . hut I don ' t wonder at it myself , " concluded the worldly _pedlur ; "for , in such sore times as these , there ' s no knowing what a body may come to want ; and , as thc old saying goes , you know , dome , ' Charity begins at home _£ ' "' and Jonah buried his nose in the ale-horn , thinking he had said something so wisely conclusive that it could not be contradicted . " They sny it was a parson who first used that saying , " observed Dorothy , glancing from Uev wheel , very keenly , towards the pedlar ; " but , for my part , Jonah , _t am very far from thinking it sueh a saying as a parson , ought to use . " " Say you , dame ? " said Jonah , opening his- eyes very wide . "Did charity begin at home with their Master ? " said Dorothy , by way of explanation .
" All , dame ! " said the pedlar , nuickly discerning Dorothy ' s meaning , " I f « ar but few parsons think of imitating their Master , now-a-days ' . " " That ' s more than I like te . say , " observed the gratis Dorothy ; I think there are more good people in the woidd than some folk think for ; bnt I ' m sure „ Jonah , we . all want a better understanding of our duty towards each other . " " Right , Dame Dorothy „ right!—that's the best sort of religion ; biit there ' s the least of it in this world-, " rejoined the podia" * -, _? 'Why ,-Jonah * " continued the good dame , " 1 think there might easily be a great deal move good in th * world than there is . B . vi rybody ought to _aemeinber hew many little kindncstcs it is in tlieir _poweu to perform far others , without any hurt to themselves . " "l ' es , a sight o' good might bo done in that way , dame , " _observed the pcdlnr _, beginning very ?« meh to admire Dorothy ' s remarks ; "and how much , _morehappj the world would be then !"
" Just sol" exclaimed Dorothy , —her aged face beamvag with benevolence , — " that is thc true way nf making the world happy ; for all to be trying to do tlwir fcllQ _\ _Y- _* l' * f Cll _« tures some Icinilnoss . And theu , jou see , Jonah , when once tlie pleasure of-thus acting _beganto be felt , there would soon be a pretty genei al willingness to make greater efforts , and even sacrifices of self-interest , as it is wrongly called , in order to experience greater pleasure , and likewise to increase the world ' s happiness . " "Truly , dame , " said the pedlar , " youdo me good to ' near you talk . I ' m but a poor scholar ; yet I can tell , _uithout book , that you must be right . " " But then , you see , Jonah , " continued the dame , half unconscious of Jonah ' s last observation , "if everybody were to say , ' Charity begins at homo , ' this general happi . ness would never begin . 1 like hest , Jonah , to think of the example of the Blessed Being who came into the world to do us all good , lie went about pitying the miserable and afflicted , and healing and blessing them . Charity did not begin at home with liim , Jonah !"
The tears vitwe now hastening down Jonah ' s rough checks . How forcible are lessons of goodness ! how irresistibly the heart owns their power 1 Jonah could-not support the , conversation further . _Dorotllj ' _s plain and unullected remarks . siyik deep into his _liosom ; and when lie rose up , and buckled ou his pack once more , and the jiged Annie gave him " handsel , " or first money f . wthc day , by purchasing a few pins and needles , the poor pedlar bade her farewell In an accent that showed lie felt more than common thankfulness for her kindness . Alas- tins iS a world where good 'impressions aro , too oftun , speedily ettaced by bad ones . Jonah called next at the gate of a wealth y suuire _, and , with hat in hand , asked fov leave to go ¦ _„ _,, t 0 tjle kitencn ( loor aua exl , iris warc 3 to the servants . The _simiro refused ; and wh . h Jonah pleaded his poverty , and ventured to remonstrate , the squire _froivilingly threatened to set thc dogs upon i hiin , if he did not instantly decamp ! Jonah turned away ,
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and bitterly cursed the unfeeling heart of the rich man , —avowing , internally , that Dorothy Pyecroft ws . s only a dotiug old fool , —for aftcrall , " Charity begun at home . " The entire tale , though brief ; is too lengthy for our columns ; we may . state , however , that Dame Dorothy next _encounters , tho . parson ofthe parish , WUO , _m reply to her expressed idea , that the rich might help . the boor , replies that " though many may be better oft than the poor , still , tliey have nothing to give away— " charity begins at home . " The dame combats his reverence on this proverb , and the result is his much-needed " _conversion . " The following tells the sequel of the story : —
liis fine manners were laid aside . Ho became a I real pastor . He was , from that day , more _frequently in the cottages of the poor , twenty times over , than in the houses of . the rieh . He distributed of his substance to relieve the want of others , and lived himself upon little . He forgot creeds , to preach goodness , and pity , and morcy , and love . He preached till he wept , and his audiences wept witli him . Ills life ivas an embodiment of thc virtues he inculcated . And when , in the course of five short years , he laid down his body in the grave , —a victim to the earnest conviction of his heart , —the poor crowded around his hallowed restingplace with streaming eyes , and loving , but afflicted hciir ' ts _, wishing thoy _miitht be where he was _wlien- ' they died ; since they were sure his presence , tliey said , of itself would make a heaven ! » ¦ .,. _.. . The young clergyman interred Dorothy Pyecroft but _half-a-yciii * before his own departure ; and her last words ' - were words of thankfulness that ever siie hnd shown the "
young man the fillliicy ofthe proVQi'h— "Charity begin at lwma . " We shall return to this magazine next week .
To Tke United Trades. Fellow" Operatives...
TO TKE UNITED TRADES . Fellow" Operatives , —Where shall we find a man amongst our political economists , or even in society , bold enough to say that industry does not deserve protection ; yet where is the man who will venture to affirm that it is protected . My friends , there is a very ' obvious reason for this state of things . The wealth and greatness of the nation is watched over , and protected by , the Government ; the interests of the capitalist or monied man . is secured by it also , and hy the same power provision is made for thc security of all tangible property , as well as for personal safety ; but labour , which forms in itself the only bona fide property of more than-two-thirds of the entire population , is left unprotected , unprovided for , and falls , like the prey of tho jnckall , into tlio lion ' sjaws . Are we , then , to look tothe capitalist
for that protection to industry which the legislature refuses to give ? The present position of society proves how much we hare to expsct from them . Has not the Government hitherto afforded them every facility for practising upon the rights of labour ? Sor lias any advantage been lost sight of hy the competitive spirit of ths age—they have been readily turned to account . The price cf labour , which ought to regulate tlie price oi" every article of consumption , is being reduced daily , whilst that of the principal necessaries of Tife _, _together with our enormous burthen ot _taxation , remains nearly tl ? e same . Thus , a great portion of the industrious classes , who have to live by their labour alone ; are absolutely reduced to a state of starvation ; they are literally crucified between two thieves —the avarice of tire capitalist on the one kind , and the demands of _Gbvernmenft on the other -,
-What , then , will ultimate ]!*/ ho the condition of the working classes _ifthsse evils am allowed to go on u-acheeked in their pregrcss ? It is allowed on all i hands , that competition _isoncof the principal causes ; of tliose redactions that take _palace on thc price o _? iabour , and that ifc forms one oi" the leading . features in every _transaction oif _commerse , none will deny ; that the spirit of competition keeps pace with the extension bf ' _oja * _commovae is equal certain . What , then , have we to hope from the capitalist ? What , irom the _Government ? What , from anything save our own exertions to secure the rights of industry ? From those we have much to hope—much may be done , but the result will be in accordance with the direction of _ourjowers , and proportionate with our endeavours to emancipate ourselves . The evils With
which tee have to- contend are great , * , they are of longstanding , therefore grccst and - _stwnuous must bo the exertions that will _freess from thraldom , and raise us from our _present deplorable condition . Yet shall we give up tha-pursuit of such an object , simply J because _grsafc exertions are required _for-Uhe _accomjplisllineiit of tho same ? Sha 3 we tamely submit I to the most appalling sufferings of poverty ,, and allow Ithose who laihour not at all to fatten on _oui » folly—to jrevel in case and _lusary on our sweat and toil , witli' out making a > determined stand against thoir unjust and nnprincipted _-praeHiaes ? "Without any preconcert on the part of the-employeis ofhibour , the present system of competition is calculated to produce the greatest evils that can afiiiet the working classes ; for it ia very clear that
self-interest is the spring of action m all mercantile speculations , is follows , then , that She great bulk of our merchants and manufacturers are impelled by similar motives , and this produces a : spontaneous _unity of aetion , Hie nataral tendency of whicli is to _eurtailitlie price of _Jabonr . To make this _moreelear , let us take , for axa . mple , any given branch of commerce .. The individuals- following _^ Miat species of coiiwnore © seek _topromote- their private-interest as much . .. aa possible , and . ¦ when ,, under a depression of trade , or other e : _aisiiin < r circumstances , this-canuot be accomplished to their _saitisiaction , the man- of business will try _to-reniedy the evil—he must live by his _capital . IlewilJj as Sir as possible , reduce- ilie price ofthe raw _material—next , thatof labour ; thus the prime cost of tlie finished commodity is _ennsi-i
derabiy lower than .. it lm been heretofore . 'Kins enables-him for a timn to _attract the _attsntion'Of ilic niarkei * ,. or purchaser , ancl to amass _weadtli wliich . he never would liave done had thi 3 expedient 1 not been adopted ; by him . But ether competitors having similar- interests to * promote ,, soon find' that they must resort to similar- practices-, or thoy will be a _» a dead letter in the market .. This is _dotvs ; . The impulse thus created soon subsides , and no _soonon does it lose-its efficacy by finding _iits- own levolj . aiicl begin to re-act upon the originals progenitors o _£ the same ,-than tliey make is . fresh attack ; npon tho-rights-of _industziy . Thus tMe evil has been _gradually-inorsasing _. aadi will continue to ins ' _reoae , unless _tlie-worfeiBg _classes determine to . _placs * _theraiselves im a _» position that will enable them to . have full command over -ine
price of their labour ,, whisk , may be done-without , injury to _> any party . How , then , is tais . _gveats-wot'k to be _aecomplistted but b $ ra wise dircation ; of our-power ? Hhwj . bllfj hv having one common _? centre- _iviskrh shall ( 1111 * 06 and eoiitaol thc movements ofthe ic . nltitu . de , _and _.- . h ? l > iwi * i ing our * united efforts to bear jtpon any given _undertaking , so as to secure- the- _gjsatcst _possibloaihantages- ? "Union _is-stwmgfck ,. but _discretionsisstim sou . ' ofthis business . Trutk is wlwl ' esome , _tlwuuh-itma . } - be-unpalatable . Past ? xpei'kfl _« e proves that it is bu * little use attempting _scetionally to _gain _. _anyperinaaeut advance on t ' _4 e _pulce of _laboivr- ; on-own . to _withstand the encroaehmeute . made upon : ifc , 3 fwe intend to achieve any real good , we must be- united in one body—V » e musS be- \ ais » and _disciieot in our counsels : we must _tae-fc long pull , a . strong pull , ; _asx . a pull _altogether ;
Wo must rebut the- attack of , ancl make onr ilfiReent upon the enemy with the _pcrsey-esancc of a . i Napoleon , and ,. like him , conquer _ouu-fbes by doing : business under a e « w system . Let us show to tho : oppressors of labour t _& roughout _fm- empire that that ingenuity and energy which haw so long been exercised for their aggrandisement , shall _anw be _«& - rectccl in , the defence of our rights _b-ohtabing a jesfc remuncyation ft ** our labour . Let the Trades _tkab have not done s » already , rally round _ttsc standard that has been so nobly unfurled—" The Associaiuon OF _USKTED TkJlDES : _yor . THE PnOTBCTICiXOr I . V _3 USTKr . ' " Let them add tothe numbers ofthis natSon . il movement , giving it thciv countenance and _support _, ancl the banner of independence , _planted up & n the ruins of a declining power , shall yet be seen waving i trkmnhantly over the heads of the brave- sobs oi 'fail . " _Justitia .
Riciiann Oastlbk.—We Have Heard, Frosa A...
RiciiAnn _Oastlbk . —We have heard , _frosa autho-l _tity on which we have pretty good _reasor . to rely , that Richard Oastler has made - £ 30 , 000 upov ; the Leeds Stock-Exchange , by legitimate business as a s ' uaicbroker * , that , having in every _instanwi exhibited the strictest integrity , and on repeated occasions _tlispliiyeil an unusually nieoty ol' honour , in handing over to his employers profits that have generally "been retained hy thc broker , but to which Mr . Oastler did not consider , himself honestly entitled , life fame spread as a faithful dealer ancl an upright man ; ami his business increased accordingly . Onco , wc are told , he saved to a speculator . £ S , 000 or £ 4 . 000 , which , by the custom of the trade , might have gone into the broker ' s pocket . No wonder Richard
Oastler prospered ; and he deserved to do so tor many well-known reasons . He ia a man vrhwc welfare is of public import ; and whether his ho'aest gains be above or below the sum stated , there arc thousands in tliis country who will rejoice as heartily at liis success as tliey sincerely sympathized with hint in the time ofhis misfortunes . To crown all , we are assured that Mr . Oastler contemplates entering Parliament , choosing from among the many Interests that now have a voice in the national assembly , to represent the interests of humanity on the sliort-tinio question . And then what a contrast will he offered to the admirin 0- ' caw Of wearY poverty , or -virtuous ambition sinking by the way , " between Ridiartl Oastler , confined in the Beet Prison for den-:, ami IVidiarn Oastler , " Esquire , " a man of wealth , and an able and influential member of Parliament \—Blackburn
Standard . ¦ Mn . RicnAnD Oastler . —An absurd statement re-1 specting this gentleman and his sains in busine-s as a sharebrokev appeared as a leading article in the Blackburn Standurd of Wednesday last , and bus since been conied into the London journals . Tliere is no foundation for the-statement that Mr . Oastier is about to enter Parliament : unci ns to the amount-. _< d b _' _. s gains ; the statement adverted to exaggerates ; them very muck , —icccb Intelligencer ,
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I £ _, E 0 TK ' 'N jfor _SooniwABK . —Why is Sir William Mo cswortlw '* * appropriate candidate for the borough of Southwark i -Because , to get into a borough is aU tbat a mole ' s wa- //' . —If the shenit ov high bailiff take the show of i :. antls in favour ' oi Miall . what then ? " VVhv then , " answers a debtor from the Queen ' s Prison—* ' it will not be the first time that a sheriff or a bailiff has taken my all !"—How are the Radicals pursuing Mr . _Piicher in this borough ? They are pursuing him with two strong _« mii '«* ' hates / —What would be a numerical minority at this election ? It wouldbe a numerical _niinori-y if all tho v oters were under age . —Why will the Speaker ' s dela / in the issue oi' the writ greatly fatigue , whatever met uber may be __ returned ? Because-he'll-have to _staiL ' ¦ so long before he can take his seat . — Joe Millers
Aim -aiua ;** . — 'What bit would you put into the month of nn I rish peasant to make hi ' m go _^ uiet ? ¦ The bit of land .. —ibid .
_ArraoraiATE wish . " Fro . ra your black looks jou wish me dead , " _SaJd _llroughani to Campbell , man of law ; " No , _tn " > " _«* d Jock , " I wish , hiitoad , You ki . _-tely had a stiff tack-jaw . " ¦ _Grrmax Tto '/ Es . —The Duke of Brunswick lately defended himself * person in the action of libel brought against liim h _, his former solicitor , Mr . Vallance _, at Crovdon , _w ' in course of tho proceedings the Duke couiplaiSBii ofhis being served witli a w _. ifc hi which lie was vk scribed as a person " commonly called tlic _BukoolJ Brunswick , " which lie considered an insult , "for ,. "' he said , "in my country if a , Duke has sixty som ? tlic . v aie aU - ° ukes ( laughter ) -, and if a Count _lias-sfn . ty sons they are aU Counts . No wonder tbat _Dttfeoi and Counts are so numerousin Germany .
WioowEit Smith _tvten Widow Jones . —Widowcr Smith ' s waggon _stoppe * 0 Ile morning at Wnlow Jones ' s door , and he _}* avt' the usual country signal that he wanted _somebody in the house , by dropping liis reins , and sittin « dc * utt . \ with lus _eibows on his knees . Out tripped the wiu ° _* . » s 1 » wlj _'*> _s a cricket , ' . with a tremendous black" ril 'hon on her snow-white cap . ' * Good morning" wis - * *¦»*¦ sawl on both sides , and the widow waited for * wi at wns further to bo said , "Well , ma ' am _Jotos-, perhaps you don't want to sell one of your cows , mt ' how ,, for nothing , anyway , do you ? " " Well , _ffee _i'c , Mr . . _biiiilh , you couldn ' t have spoken my mind _bs \ ' tcl ' - A . poor lonewiclifei _* , like me , docs not known hat to do with so many critters ; and I should bo- _« lsl ( 110 tnule _lf wc
. could fix it . " So they Adjourned t 0 tij , _° niCiuIo ) ' Farmer . Smith looked at Roan , , i lllJ then at tho w idow , at thc Downing cow , and at * , t he widow agi *>« i and so- on through tho whole forty :. V s » i ( i _> . \ was Hiatle every day for a week , _ijij , t farmer bniitli could not decide which cow he _waiiin _*•* . At length , on Satunlay , when widow Jones _wsm in aliiirry to * get through with her baking tor Stfl * ' > _•}"" " J j " ever SO much" to do in tho house , an al - _iavmora < wives and widows have on $ ;* _t-ui'Jay , slut ¦¦ ' ns ' 1 _'ttlo ' impatient . Parmer Smith was as _iircsol utcasevcr . ' " That _'era-Duwning is a pretty fair criet cr » ' , ttt , ' , '~ he stopped _ta glance at the willow ' s facs , a ] I " - _" _¦*••* walked round her—not the widow , but t"C row . dl
" That ' ere short-horn Durham is not a ba ¦ - ' -oking beast , but 1 don't know "—another look at & ? _™ dow . " The Downing cow I know before the latf . _eJ . _¦<• • _*»««« bought her . " Here he _sighcil , at the _allm-Si _* ° . ° late Mr . Jones - she sighed , anil both look < . * l at {! , ! , ''other . It was a highly interesting moment !* y Roan 13 a faithful * old milch , ami so is _lirhi-H ' ] > " . I have known hatter . " A long stare follow _* cac 1 speech " , thc pause was getting awkward , and . * t h ) _* _- Mrs . Jones broke out— " Lord ! Mr . Smith , ii * ' _" the one you _wanfy do say sol" Thciutentio "s ot widower _Bniltu . and widow Jones were duly _pu'JJL < ' _* lhe next day , as is the Jaw and custom in . _iVlas-jai ' _" * setts ; and as soon- as they wese outpublished , t " cy were married . —American paper _.
_Advantagsof a "FniEXD a * s Court . "—i'ha * t " *' _jaUee commissioners-have hitherto rei eived a _ssla vy of- £ 1 , 200 each ,- . inch iris rumoured that Sir Jam es _C-i-aham is about toinorcase it to no less a Slllll thl & n £ l ! ,. 8 O 0 . At present the Nctlierby baronet _doets-vft t contemplate any-increase in the dietary of pnup > vr _> . A \ Reform Jokk . —One of thc _bsst jokes of _tlnsvft ' _foaii times was-with- ' tlie waiter . ' * All ' it fbrr . j 8 * 'H hers , waiter , I suppose ?? ' said " sin eld _Tcvy , p _»> imjs _his-bill . " Oh yes ,. sir ; , all reformers' here , _masSW an _& njstres- * and all , sir . " "Anil you , John , ai'OyOUP a _rsiunner ? " "'Ycs ; . Ii _«* Mn' very stamnch for reform-, ' , sir , "' " Very well then ,. John ; there's the bill , the * _whsio bill , and nothing hut ths bill . " And so saying ,. ' the gentleman laid down-his money , —Acw Monthly ? , " _Magazine ? . Stjulimb _Pukouaiion _* . —¦ " Strike for the green _, f travea- of your sires I stvil >« for yonr altars , your '" homes ,, and jour hod aiv _tonaces "'— iVeio Torfe _*
papiei _> 3 ' .. Bucni . ExTBAonoiSARw—Tlio following is a literal copy of aa announcement _fi-nwarded to ns for insertion among the births of . the _w-eek . It is something like _Sobinson Crusoe ' s first night ' s lodging on the island , of . Juan Pernandes in a tree—rather a breezy berth :. — " On Sunday Last at Is Residence Airs . © f A . San and Air . "—Leeds _liitelligenter . " The-. D _^ riL can quoth _Sohii'Ture _, " —A gentleman , having a remarkably long _vbagc , lately passing a turnpike- gate , overheard one hid- say to another "Tliat _gentleman's face is-longer * iha » his _ilfe . " Strut-It witli the singularity of the rude observation , lie tinned and requested aii-oxplamitioii ; "Sir , " said the boy , "I read at scliool that man ' s life is but a span ,, and Jam sure _your-fnee is double that length . "
_ASDOVEK B _1 _SOHAOE . _( " ? -, ' Bone-dust may bo _a-pritiio mauui' _6 , Ami most abundant -crops hisuye ; But human muutlis were ne ' er designed . ; To-be tlie mills those bones to grind ! *• Lamis- a « d Gexti . kmkx . —Ii asked the landlord the ii _: n . at Corning , who was very , attentive to Ill ' s _gui'Sls-, _tofiml my coachman . II o immediately cried out in his bav-room , " Where is the gentleman that brought that man here ? " A few days before , a farmer in Now York had styled my wife the " woman , " though he called his daughters kulie 3 , and would , I believe , have freely extended that title to their _niaidset'v-Hit _... I was told of a witness in a late trial at Hasten , who said , " While ho and another gentleman were shovelling up mud , " he . —Lycll's Truvcls .
3 GKIM . IX THE GALLERY . OS _DCI'LIX 1 HKATKB . " Pat Mooney ! " shouts a > . voice in the gallery . " ¦ Halloo 1 " answers Pat from the opposite side of the-gallery-Voice ..- —Can you see ' cm ,. Pat ? ( Meaning tho -. Lowland _Laviy Lieutenant-. ) . i _' at Mooney . —lean . "'Alice . —Well , what ' s he like ? : Pat Mooney . —Oh , mighty like . " , grazier or middleman . Anyway , he has got a-good long nose of li is . ov * u .. ( Loud laughter , in , which Ms lovdship heartily ? jeans . )• Yoiee . —Is he clever , think you ? Vat Mooney . —I'd be sorry , to make liim since «~ keeper . ( Laughter _<* i < : aiji . ) Voice . —Does he look _eooil-natUTCu ?
Via Mooney . —Well , lie does , and enjoys a _}()}& _$ , _ioo . Heaven bless him ! : like a gentleman as hu _jjs > . Voice . —Then we'll not have to send him back h Vat Mooney . —Ko ,. I don't think we shall . " Wr _* may get worse . ( Roars of laughter . ) Tliey « i . v- ? . « . k " s mighty generous , and means to spend his inone ; _yiifc «; a prince . Cvallciy . —Bravo ! bravo I He'll keep him . liaan- - we'll ki-fp him . Three cheers , lads—throe chc'im _. ij ' v r the Lord Lieutenant .. ( Cheers and huiahler . ) Voice . —Well , and what ' s she like , Cat ? Vat Mooney . —0 b , nothing particular . Sho ' til neb
frighten a horse . (¦ Roars , her ladyship _joiniiijgjj . Voice . —Is she tall ? Pat Mooney . —Wait till slic stands up . Voice—May be she ' s stout , Vat ? Vat Mooney . —Fais ! you may say that . . ? _i isn't tho likes of her lives ou buttermilk . ( RoavsO Voice . —D ' ye think she ' s good-natured ? Vat Mooney . —0 b , I'll engage she i _*; . SW _iinstVa raa \ Wood in her , and there ' s plenty of it .. ( l { _oai'S » and " Bravo ! " iron , the Gallery , ) Manv Voices . —She'll do then , Vat ?
Vat Mooney . —Och , she will—she will . TH engage for her ladyship . Voice . —We may keep her , then , may w - > ? Vat Mooney . —Och i the longer the 1 otter , tlie longer the better . ( Roars . ) It's her h . < Sy _-Ji _!* . that'll speak tho good word for the man that ' s , i n tlirubble , ami never let the dacent woman want t' . mt ' s in the straw—God bless her ! ' ¦ Gallery . —Bravo ! bravo ! three cu eers for her Ladvship . '—three cheers for the Lad y Lieutenant 1
( Cheers and laughter . ) Pat Mooney ( seeing the Lord Ma" yoi' ) . —My SOWl to ye ! Dan Finnagan , is that you ? Gallery . —Ah ! ah ! Is that you , Dan Finnagan ? —is that you ? ( Hisses and laught >) Vat Mooney . —Faix ! it ' s good 1 ' jr the likes of us to see you down among thc ghihy there , Dan Flanagan I ( Laughter , at which lus I . ordship did not seem particularly pleased . ) Och L y ou needn ' t look up so sour at us ! Many ' s the go * oil time you ' ve-sat oa here yourself;—you knoivit i ' s _, ye old vinegar bottle I ( Roars . ) - "
Voice . —Sure the worUV _' s gone well _wid you any way , Dan Finnagan . X _« c hadn't them , white kid gloves— ¦ ' . Vat Mooney . —No , riov yet that grand ooekoil hat there—Voice . —No , nor thr it white wand , yc cormorant 1 when you kept the ch andlcr ' s shop , and cheated Miko Kcllv out of a farde _' _. _i ' s worth of utpes , and—Gallery . —Ah ! ah ! Who cheated Mike Kelly ? —who cheated Mike Kelly ? ( Great confusion , during wliich ' the orchestra strikes up . _)—ilcntiq- _'s Miscellany . " What ' s _nx a Name ?"—One of the most singular surnames e _\ cv met with is that of a gentleman iifforj t line in lvent . His family name was Bear , and as be [ had mat ' cvual vclittms fit' thc name of _Sava-jo . Vis parent ' _^ gave him the Christian ( or _i-atlur _ini-Cln-is-1 \\ a \ i \ name of Savage , llenci he enjoved thc pleasing 1 any amiable name of Savage Bear , Esq .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 6, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_06091845/page/3/
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