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      March 8, 1845. The Northern Star. ¦ *1, ...

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      A Labourer's Thoughts On St. Valentine's...

      A _LABOURER'S THOUGHTS ON ST . VALENTINE'S DAY . Mary , I work'd beside a wood On last St Valentine ' s day . And as I delved I saw two birds Sit on a leafless spray . And where they sat _' a golden patch Of soft sunlight did shine . They _cbirp'd and chirp'd as though they said " Thou art my Valentine . " And then I thought of thee , Mary , In London ' s noise and moil—My arms grew weary aU at once , And _wciild not let me toil . 1 thought how you had pledged your troth , And I had plighted mine , And yet I could not say to thee " Thou art mv Valentine . "

      "Poor birds . " I said , " in winter time How hard lias been your fare ; When frost had _garner'd every grain , And _stripp'd the woodlands * bare . " As scant a meal , as cold a home , Dear Mary , have been mine ; But , though 'tis spring , I dare not say , _« ' Wilt be my Valentine 1 " " E ' er long , " I said , " the buds wiR burst And deck the trees with green ; But stiR my cottage home must be The ruin it has been . " And then I thought you once had said , " If your home were but mine !" Though loved so wcD , I dared not say , * ' Wilt be my Valentine ?" I said , " Yon birds wiH build their nest , And bless it with their voung , And tell each other aR their iov ,

      Though with a wordless tongue ;" And then I thought how I could love A face that looked like thine ! —I saw my rags , and dared not say , " Wilt be my Valentine V " O , hapi > y birds , " a _^ ain I said , " You'll rear your little brood ; Your throbbing breasts will keep them warm . ' Vour toil can find them food . " And then I thought how I could moil , Bear love , for thee and thine . —The w orkhouse _beR rang out ; I groaned , " I ask no ValentineV

      " Hod feeds the sparrow f then I said , "And am I not a man ? His Image—the immortal work That crown'd creation ' s plan . Am I forgotten on the earth _. As though 1 were a clod ? Ho , I am a man—from man I claim My heritage of God !" God bless fhee , love ! be patient still , The hour will surely come , When every labourer in the land - Shall own a _A- ' uian . home . When laws shall let us love—and live , As nature did design ; So keep thou to thy plighted troth _. And I wiU hold to mine . Douglas JeroWs _Magazine .

      Notice.

      _NOTICE .

      G£S~ Finding That Our Poetical Scraps, B...

      _g _£ S ~ finding that our poetical scraps , both original and selected , accumulate much more rapidly than we can dispose of them by the ordinary channel , -we have been induced to propose to ouraelves and contributors the following arrangement—viz ., to give quarterly , in our columns , a selection of poetical " pieces , sueh selection to be entitled " THE FEAST OF TOE POETS . " The -first selection will appear this month ( March ) , the next in June , the next in September , and so On . Tie first ofthe "Feasts" will _"coBie off " in the Star of March 22 nd . Any of our readers , disposed to try their fortune in an attempt to procure admission to the "Feast , " must send in their poetical eontribntions on or before the loth inst . Commnncations -received after that date will not be attended to .

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      Comngsby; Or, The New Generation Bx B. D...

      COMNGSBY ; or , THE NEW _GENERATION Bx B . D'Israeu , Esq ., M . P . —London : Colburn , -Great _Mmlborougli-street . ( Continued from the Northern Star of March 1 . ) _CONEiSSET AND SIDONIA . _ENGtAND- ' s P 3 ESENT AKD

      _FCTCBE . You trill observe one curious trait , said Sidonia to Coningsby , in the history of this country ; the depositary of power is _slivays unpopular , all combine against it , always it falls . Power was deposited in the great Barons ; the Church using the Sing for its instrument crushed the great Barons . Power was deposited in the Church- fhe King bribing the Parliament plundered ihe * 3 n , nvh . Power was deposited in the King ; the Parliament using the People beheaded the King , expelled the King , and , finally , for a King substituted an _administrative officer . For one hundred and fifty

      years Power has been deposited in the Parliament , and for the last sixty or seventy years it has been becoming more and more unpopular . In 1830 it was endeavoured , by _a-reconstruction , to regain tbe popular affection ; but in truth , as the Parliament then only made itself more powerful , it has only beeome more odious . As we see Ihat the Barons , the Church , the King , have in turn devoured each other , and that the Parliament , the last devourer , remains , it is impossible to resist the impression that tliis body also is doomed to be destroyed , and he is a sagacious statesman who may detect in what form and in what quarter the great consumer will arise .

      Where ,, then , would you look for hope ? In what is more powerful than laws and institutions , and without which the best laws and the most skilful institutions . nay be a dead letter , or the very means of tyranny ; in the national character . It is not in the increased _feebleness of its institutions that I see the peril of England -, it is in the decline of its character as a community . And yet you could scarcely describe this as an age of corruption ! Kot of political corruption . _Burtt is an age of social disorganisation , far more dangerous in its consequences , because far more extensive . You may have a corrupt _g-ovenimca : and a pare community ; yoa may have a corrupt community and a pure administration . Which ironld jou elect ? _Heither , said Coningsby ; I wish to see a people full of faith , and a government full of duty .

      Kely upoa it , said Sidonia , that England should think more of de community and less of the government . But tell me , what do you understand by the term _natt-onal character ? * A character is an assemblage of qualities ; the character of England should be an assemblage of great qualities . Bat we cannot deny that the English have great virtues . The civilisation of a thousand ycara must produce great virtues : bnt we are spooling of the decline of public virtue , not its existence . In what , then , do you trace that decline ? In fhe fact that the various classes of this country aro arrayed against each other . Bnt to -what do you attribute those reciprocal hostilities ?

      A ot entirely , not even principally , to those economical causes of which wc hear so much . I think that there is no error so _-rnlgar as to bdieve that revolutions are occasioned by economical causes , They come in , doubtless , very often to precipitate a catastrophe - very rarely do they occasion one . * # * # 3 > o you _tlsnli , then , there is a- wild desire for extensive political _change in the country ? Hardly tbat : England is perplexed at the present mo ment , not inventive . That will be the next phasis in her moral state , and to that I wish to draw your thoughts . _Form _yseKwMelascribelittleinfluencetophysicalcauses

      for the production of tins perplexity , I am still less of opinion that it can be removed by any new disposition of political power . It would only aggravate the evil . That _VfOUldbeTecarringtothe old error of supposing yon can necessarily fad national content in political institutions . A _political institution is a machine ; the motive power is the national character . With that it rests whether the machine wffl benefit society or destroy it . Society in this country is perplexed , almost paralyzed ; in time it will move , sad it will devise . How arc the elements of ihe nation to be blended again together : In what spirit is that reorganization to tate place f To know that would be to know every tiling .

      In tins country , said Sidonia , since the peace , there has _lieen an _aitemj . t to advocate a rcconstruclion of society on a purely rational basis . The principle of Utility has been powerfully developed . I speak sot with lightness of tho _lahoia-s of the diseiples of that school . I bow to intellect in every form : and we should be grateful to any school of philosophers even if we disagree with them ; doubly grate *? al in this country , where for so long a period our statesmen were in so pitiable an arrear of public intelligence . There has been an attempt to reconstruct society on a basis of material motives and calculations . It has failed . It must ultimately have failed nnder any _circumsta-HSi-s : its failure- in an ancient and densely

      _peopled _Magdoni was inevitable , now limited is human reason , * the arofoundest inquirers are most conscious . We are not indebted to the reason of man for any of the great achievements which are the landmarks of human * ction and simian progress . It was not reason that besieged Troy- it wasnot reason thatsent forth the Saracen from the Desert to conquer the world ; that inspired the Crusades ; that instituted the Monastic orders ; it wasnot reason that produced the Jesuits ; above all , it wa 3 not -reason thai created the French Revolution . Han is only fenly great -srhenlie acts from the passions ; never irresistible but when he appeals to the Imagination . Even Mormon counts more votaries than Bentham . And you think , then , that as Imagination once subdued the State , Imagination may now save it ?

      Comngsby; Or, The New Generation Bx B. D...

      Man is made to adore and to obey : but if you will not command him ; if you give him nothing to worship ; he will fashion his own divinities , and find a chieftain iu his own passions . But where can wc find faith in a nation of sectaries ? Who can feel loyalty to a Sovereign of Lowning-street 1 I speak of the eternal principles of human nature ; you answer me with the passing accidents of the horn-. Sects rise and sects disappear . Where are the Fiftli-Moiianl . y men ? England is governed by Downing-strcet ; - ouce it was governed by Alfred and Elizabeth . We defer comment ; but beg our readers to mark that Sidonia , who may be presumed to speak the opinions of "Young England , " considers that to attempt the reform of the present system by " any new disposition of political _powu- _"—( Jhartism for instance—would but " aggravate the evil : " a viewnot likely to be acquiesced in by Mr . _^ 'Israeli's Chartist admirers .

      Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine.—Mar...

      DOUGLAS _JERROLD'S _SHILLING MAGAZINE . —March . We thought the first number of this _ilagazine was all that was excellent ; we pronounced the second number to be faultless ; but ihe present number is _evenanimprovement on its predecessors . Indeed , this is the Magazine for the Millions , and by them it should be unirci'sally read . We know that even a shilling a month—payable in one amount—is a greater sum than thousands can afford to lay out in the purchase of a book . Still , there are ways and means , whicli if adopted by tlie working _clasacs ' would secure for this Magazine an immense circulation . The supporters of circulating libraries , and tho frequenters ofthe metropolitan coffee-houses , alenc have it in their power by simply asking for it , to procure

      it a sale of some thousands . Again , in the readingrooms wliich in different parts of the country the working classes have established or have access to , they could easily introduce this Magazine , and once introduced the number of readers whom it would not fail to interest would be sure to continue its demand . Lastly , in howmany small towns and villages , where there are no libraries , no reading-rooms , but where working men , anxious for information and fond of reading , unite for the purchase of a weekly paper , and assemble at each other ' s houses to hear the paper read—how * easily could they club tlieir pence for tlie purchase of this Magazine monthly . In sneaking of these several parties , we of course speak of those to whom even a shillingis an object of some importance ;

      to all who can afford to purchase the Magazine for themselves , we strongly advise them to do so . They will not only * Snd the most delightful entertainment forthe present , bat will also have for the future a work which will truly grace their book-shelf , a store of instruction and amusement of the best description for the time to come . It is almost needless to say that we have no pecuniary interest in thus advising our readers . We may add that we know _uotbiBg of the proprietors of this Magazine , nor bave we any personal knowledge of the writers therein . It is * for the love ofthe principles advocated by tliose writers , our admiration

      of thon' talents , and for tlio ardent desire we have to see the social and political condition of the millions changed for the better , that we wish them to become readers and supporters of this Magazine , wliich so nobly and eloquently advocates tlieir cause , the cause of suffering humanity throughout the world . m _ThelEditor ' s " St . Giles and St . James" is continued with increasing interest ; the gems of thought which arc scattered thrcugh the narrative arc beautiful beyond all praise . His characters , too , are drawn with a fidelity to nature , only equalled by the magic pen of Dickens . From an admirable article on the Window Tax , we give the Mowing extract * . —

      e _- or _iight . We hardly know a more melancholy sight than a liouse with half its windows blocked up , to avoid the duty payable upon them . Tbe mind flies from the out to the inside of such a dwelling—and a dreary picture it sees there , ltooms illuminated only by au eternal twilight , not bright in sunshine—dim when a summer cloud passes —dark from tlie morning to tlie evening of the cheerless winter day ; then passages , like the passages from cell to cell in gaols , where you grope , and stumble , and feel your way ; staircases where your only guides are the bannisters or the wall , and ldtcbens like tlie bottom of mines . Outside the sensation is as dismal . You look upon the house deprived of half its windows as upon a one-eyed man . The thing is unnatural . There is no cheerfulness , no lightness of expression about it . The architect may have been skilful , and the form of the fabric may be graceful ; but the skiU has been thrown away—tlie grace lost . T he tax-gatherer has overthrown the artist in the struggle . Ask a Frenchman what he thinks of our cities . Ten to

      one the word " trtste" will be the reply ; and , compared to continental towns , they are " tiiste . " The very first thing which strikes an Englishman as he puts his foot upon tlie soil beyond the Channel , is -the light , gay , airy appearance of the town he is landing at . Tbe houses appear all smiles , and affability , and cheerfulness—a curious contrast to the dull , forbidding dwellings he has left . In a moment the cause of the difference flashes on him . The windows— "Aha ! " he exclaims , " as our ancestors of old believed that running waters could stop the pursuit of unholy things—demons and night riding witches—so do the salt tides of the Channel stay the progress of unholy taxes ; here there is no window du ' y ! " To Sir Francis Dashwood , who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer about 1762 , we owe the

      origin of tlie window tax , at least in its present shape . Before that period , a liouse tax existed ; the manner of reckoning it was then changed , aud its amount based upon the number of windows contained in each _dweUing . Dashwood was a poor weak creature , a nominee of Lord Bute ' s : Wilkes fell foul of him in the " North Briton , " and Churchill lashed him in one of his vigorous satires . It is recorded , that after his window duty feat , the children in the street—no doubt incited and urged on by their seniors—called after him as hepassed along , " There goes the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer England has ever known . " The asseveration might have been bold , but there was no more boldness in it than truth . If Dashwood and George Grenville originated * the light and air tax , it was Pitt who , by his immense additions to the burden ,

      rendered it the foully oppressive thing it now is . Sixteen shillings and sixpence per window was the amount of the duty which the heaven-born Minister laid upon heavenbora light aud air . Here was a proper retailing of sunbeams—a petty huckstering which intercepted the free gift of God , shown to be tlie" most free , by being the most universal of his blessings—and dispensed it to the poor at the rate of sixteen and sixpence per windowful ! Food does not everywhere fall in the same profusion ; fertilising rain does not everywhere fall in the same warm plenty ; nurturing and fostering heat does not everywhere put forth the same strength and regenerative power - , but light is everywhere—it clothes the world as with a garmentit flows from the grand centre of the universe to its

      uttermost limits—it is all-pervading and all-penetrating . Through the Stained glass of the cathedral , through the loophole ofthe prison—through broad portals and through narrow clunks it makes its way , reviving all , cheering all , blessing all . Such is light , or rather such was intended to be light . Man ' s legislation wars against God ' s designs . Man ' s contrivances inar God ' s gift . Our firmament may be as the skies of Claude , but legislation says , our dwellings shall be as the interiors of Rembrandt ! ( Vlways , unless you pay!—pay for Hberty of lungs and of eyespay for a chance of health and strength . If you are rich you can—if you are poor , typhus will prevent you from feeling the want of either light or air . You will need no windows iu a coffin !

      The " Recollections of Ilazlitt" is a most delightful paper . " The Genii of Steam , and the Great Britain Steam-ship , " gives us an imaginary converaation between Worcester , Watt , and Fulton ; in whicli they discuss the past and probable future progress of the mighty power—steam . "The Crimes of Quacks , " and " The Tally System , " are admirable exposes of two gigantic evils of our present social system , fraught with injury to millions . The poetry is of a superior character this month—we . give one piece , which will be found elsewhere ; another , " The Meeting of the Metals , " we reserve for future extract . Wc conclude with the followingcaustic effusion from " The _Hedgehog Letters , " wliich we hope Sir James Graham will " read , mark , learn , _aad inwardly digest : "—

      To ., Naples . Thank heaven and the printer that there are such things as ! You , my dear friend , will know to whom they apply , and may , therefore , receive this letter without its bringing down upon you the government of Naples . However , don't venture to write me any answer—for I'm in Sir James Graham ' s books ; I'm down—a marked man . Unhappily forme , a Polish refugee lives in our garret , and the eye of Russia is upon me . Nevertheless , there has been , I find , some good luck in this . I've nowdiscovered that tlie two gentlemen , with beards , who used to hire me when the Emperor Nicholas was here , to drive them from one end ofthe town to the other , did so to come at the plot which was hatching iu our attic . However , they got nothing out of me , but as old Lumpy says , wicey

      tcarsy . Still , I'm not comfortable . As a cabman , I've been boxed up with Spaniards , Italians , Sardinians , Anstrians—men of all countries aud all colours . Well , I don't know at this minute that every letter to Juniper Hedgehog—that is every copy—isn't in the office of Sir James Graham ! A nice thing this to go to bed aud sleep upon ! When I think of the sort of letters—full of delicate and tender matters—that has come to me , I own it does make me burn and fluster to think that I may not have a single secret to myself : no—Sir James , the Postoffice burglar—has broken into my affairs , and at this moment he knows all my poverty , all ray little stragglings with little debts , in fact , all my inner man . I seem o myself to walk about the world turned inside out ! And

      this evil , be it remembered , may be the fate of thousands , although , poor wretches , they may not know it , Who shall tell how many men ' s souls are at the Home Office under the Graham lock and key ! Still , says Sir James , the whole security , not only of this country , but in truth of the whole world , depends upon wax and _wafera , There k no _doabtthatiastsummer a few Italians were denounced to the government of Naples , and duly shot , —in consequence of seals broken at Downing-street . This is comfortable to reflect upon . Though if Sir James was a squeamish man—which he is not , for no man ever braved the pillory with all its unsavory accidents with a stronger stomach—then would he never again behold the Queen's head upon the red post-stamp without thinking of human blood !

      Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine.—Mar...

      Sir James , however , has two natures , —or rather , ' two parts . Like the picture of Death and the Lady , Sir James is only corrupt on one side . Thus spoke Tom Duncombe to the foolscap burglar—tlie sealing-wax Jaek Shipyard : — " He has had the meanness , ay , andthe baseness , to conceal his act , and has not had the corn-age to avow it . " Upon this , the Speaker , in one of his conciliatory moods , observed that " such observations nere very personal . Would the honourable gentleman withdraw them 1 " Whereupon Mr . Duncombe answered : — ' ' Sir , T applied those observations to the rig ht honourable gentleman irr his Ministerial capacity : to those observations and to those topics I adhere : so they mi *** ' } and shall remain . " i

      And they do remain . Aud Sir James remains " as a mhiiatcr _, " a " mean , " "base , " cowardly agent : How strange is the distinction between the minister and the man—they ' re quite two different things ; like the calipee calipash of a turtle . Sir James Graham rose to answer , with a confidence that would have honoured the Old Bailey . He _s-iid" Mr . Duncombe was a person quite indifferent to him . " This reminds me of the chap , who after he'd been flogged half a mile and more at the cart's tail , with all the world looking on , said to the man that had flayed him— " Sir , you're beneath mv notice . "

      I could write more , but Lumpy _' s called me for a fare . The fun , however , is not over yet ; andyoumay hear more of Sir James iu my next . Meantime , if you write , don't either use wax or wafers : it ' s only wasting property . Send your letters open , aud believe me , your faithful friend , Junipjbb Hepoehog .

      George Cruikshank's Table-Book. March, T...

      GEORGE CRUIKSHANK ' S TABLE-BOOK . March , This is a good number . * The illustrations are , as usual , rich with humour ; but the principal ! of them , entitled "The Folly of Crime , " conveys a lesson tothe viciously inclined , which we have never seen surpassed . Moralists labour to dissuade f rom crime ; priests—themselves too often the greatest criminalsdenounce crime ; 'legislators and their instruments punish crime ;• but George Cruikshank exhibits the folly of crime . His inimitable pencil exhibits a thousand-fold more forcibly'than pen or tongue of moralist or priest the miserably self-destroying fruits of the course pursued by the votary of vice . The literary contents are good , particularly the poetry : the " Song of the Months" is beautiful . From one of the prose articles we give the following humorous sketch

      of—THE STAGE LAMES IIAIO . „ A most striking peculiarity in the position of the stage ladies' maid is the ascendancy she immediately gains over every one in the house she happens to have got admission into . The only person she condescends to patronise is her young mistress , whom , however , she never assists in anything but a love affair , but that even is beneath her notice unless it is clandestine , and terminates in an elopement , which she insists on having the entire conduct of . She permits no scruples of delicacy or propriety on the part of her young lady , who , by the by , seldom expresses any stronger sentiment of self-respect than such as may be implied in the words , " Really , Betty , I tremhle at the step I am about to take , " when the ingenious interrogatory of "Lor , Miss , what ' s the use ? " from the stiige

      ladies' maid , at once removes any feeling of compunction by which the" stage young lady may for a moment have been influenced . " There is generally a struggle going on in the mind of the latter between duty and affection , when the casting vote is demanded from the stage ladies' maid , who - black-balls duty at once , and gives a plumper' for disobedience . The stage ladies' maid , nevertheless , receives bribes from the representative of the duty interest , namely , the heavy man who receives thirty shiilings a week for doing the respectable utility , and talks of having just dined with the minister . While , however , she gains a knowledge of the heavy man's plans , and accepts from him at every interview a heavy purse fUled with _gaUery checks , as a reward for her exertions in his behalf , the stage ladies' maid is urging her

      young mistress to rush into the threadbare arms ofa halfpay captain who makes love to her , by whistling up at the window , following her into the Park , kissing her maid , and practising other elegant little arts which military men —on the stage—are ordinarily addicted to . Perhaps , however , the most curious portion of the stage ladies ' maid ' s conduct is her treatment of the master of . the house , whom she keeps in a state of continual subjection , by an uninterrupted course of insult and violence . _Slie ordinarily addresses him as " an old hunks , shakes lier fist in his face , thrusts his hat and cane into his hand , — all the while pushing him towards the door , —when she

      has any purpose to serve by getting rid of hhn . If he begins to talk , she talks him down , so that he can only splutter and say , " Whew , " but he never thinks of either giving her a month ' s warning , or paying her wages and sending her about her business . The stage ladies' maid never thinks of leaving the drawing-room when visitors are present , but often remains in it alone to sing a song with Swiss variations which must be heard all over the liouse to the great disturbance of the family . In dress she always excels her mistress , and frequently wears veiy thin muslin over pink satin , the muslin being open all the way down the back , aud an apron with pockets of very recherche embroidery .

      Heartily recommending the Table-Book to all oui friends , we conclude with the following tit-bit : —

      ON THE PKESENT BAIIWAY SPECULATION MAMA , As gudgeons hurry to their fate , To railway bubbles some incline ; Forgetting that beneath the bait A hook's the end of many a line .

      The Illuminated Magazine-March. A Good N...

      THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE-March . A good number this of our old favourite . The chapters of Mr . _Carleton ' s tale , "Fatherland , " contained in this number impress us with a higher opinion of this tale than we had previously entertained . "Travel and Talk , " by Luke Rodek , is continued , and , despite some eccentricities of the writer , is most entertaining and instructive . His denunciation of the system of cruelty formerly universally pursued towards children by their schoolmasters , will be read with much interest , and the just and kindly sentiments of the writer will undoubtedly be reciprocated by the entire body of bis readers . His descriptions of Naples are the most delightful we have ever perused ; but we by no means

      sympathise with lus regrets that the English Sovereign has not a palace as magnificent as that of the Caserta : for this reason—that such pomps must be paid for by the people . We are not wanting in admiration for the beauties of architecture , nor insensible to the charms of that magnificence with which princes delight to surround themselves ; but wc would have the revenues of states devoted to other and better purposes than pandering to the selfish luxuries of one or a few individuals . We would have the people well fed , well clothed , and well housed , before the people ' s _monej- ; is expended in apportioning indescribable luxuries , and building palaces for kings . We admire national edifices ; ana agree with Lukp Rode . v that most of the buildings so called in

      England are a disgrace to the English name ; ' but let us add , that the kennels where tens of thousands of the English people are doomed to vegetate arc a disgrace a million-fold more degrading' . We would nave all this changed : and then say we "all hail" the triumphs of architecture , and let England in her public edifices outrival , if that be possible , the glories of Greece aud Rome;—with this proviso , that the national edifices shall lie the property of the commonwealth , for the use , advantage , and enjoyment ofthe universal people , and not as now the exclusive nests of Royal automatons and public plunderers .

      Lt * ke Roden furnishes his readers , no doubt unconsciously , with the most cutting satire on the vaunted glories of these Italian palaces . On the very frounds in the neighbourhood of , and close to the alace of Caserta , the pauper population swarmed in crowds , and the noise of the miserable wretches preferring their petitions to the visiters was absolutely deafening . These are the natural fruits of kingcraft , and that system of class domination to whicli Luke Roden * is politically attached . -Perish the palaces , say we , so . that pauperism perish with them ; if that be the only way of ridding us of the monster-degra dation .

      "The Adventures of a Scamp" become every chapter more interesting , * and now tliat his misfortunes have commenced , we may expect them to become still more so , as gentlemen of his character usually shine liest when put to tlieir wit ' s ends . " The Philosophy of Newspapers " is a capital article , by Asgus ( B . Reach ) , combining with amusement some sterling reflections which the gentlemen of the " fourth estate" would do well to reflect on . From " The Past , the Present , and the Possible" —a very clever paper—we take the following : —

      TRIUMPHS OF TnE _AKGLO'SAXOiYS . To this union of Celtic , Saxon , Danish , and Korman blood , mingling in one general stream , must we attribute that rare combination of impulse , caution , courage , energy , and indomitable perseverance , which marks the English , nationally , as the natural aristocracy of the world . It produced the intellect and abstract wisdom of a Bacon ; the world-filling poetry of a Shakspeare ; the ruling genius ofa Hampden ; the stern purposes of a Pym and an Eliot ; the religious enthusiasm ofa Cromwell ; and tlie lofty works of a Milton . It perpetuated the naval ascendancy , first commenced by an Alfred -. and furnished the military skill which the whole world has witnessed under many names , besides those of a Marlborough and a Wellington . It went forth to other lauds , and gave them a Washington and a Franklin ; and tho sea banner of England was once more renowned ill its " Star-spangled "

      offspring . It gave to the world a Brindley , a Watt , a Smeaton ; and taught the lesson that the primal curse , rightly understood , was only a disguised blessing . By the sweat of the brains within their fore heads , these great ones ofthe earth made clear to men ' s understandings that human drudgery was to cease . They established a dominion more powerful than that of the Romans—a dominion over the powers of nature , never to cease till human intellect shall wither , and he no more . Many are the nations of Europe who have sent fort h colonies into other lands , but none so numerous as those ofthe English ; and stULmore remarkable is the fact , that the _EngUah or their descendants have invariably possessedthemselves of the dominion over the colonies of foreign _nationa , whenever causes of dispute have arisen . In the East Indies , the French possessed colonies . During the process of War they changed hands , and the English became their masters .

      The Illuminated Magazine-March. A Good N...

      At the Capo of Good Hope , the Dutch possessed colonies , and the English became their masters . At the Mauritius , the French possessed a colony , and the English became its masters . In Canada the Freuch possessed a colonv , and the English became its masters . In Louisiana tile French possessed a colony , and the English descendants became its masters . In Florida , the Spaniards possessed a colony , and the English descendants became its masters ; and graduall y from Texas , these same _EngVish descendants win penetrate southwards , and ultimately become the rulers of Mexico . In La Plata the Spaniards possessed a colony , and the English took possession of it , but were driven out again , because they went merely as military adventurers , and not as rulers _" - Yet now , by a slower yet surer process , they ore gradually colonising

      and gaming the dominion . In New South Wales and Van Dieman ' s Land , is the English race , though of the ruder kind , surely planted . In Tahiti , the Friendly Islands , ihe _Sandirich Islands , and New Zealand . is th * e same stock fixed . The Grecian Islands are under their rule ; and gladly would tlie Grecian mainland receive them in exchange for the imbecile Bavarian . Inthe West India Islands , Spaniards , Frenchmen , and Dutchmen , have possessed lands now ruled hy Englishmen . Even the unwholesome Sierra Leone , is tlieir domain ; and the time must ultimately come when the _Bai-Im-jr States will rescue themselves from French misrule , by proclaiming themselves the subjects of English laws . Over the largest portion of India is their sway acknowledged ; and the land tliey have gained in China by the strong hand , will

      gradually accumulate , till a beaten and vanquished people acknowledge that theirs are the circumstances in which an invasion is a questionable evil on the one hand , and a positive good on the other . And where shall we seek the reason of this triumphant superiority of the English race over all others ? In the fact , that they are the most just and most intelligent of _conimevovs in modern times . They rule by the same process which ensured the dominion of Rome over conquered nations . The people they conquer are happier under their rule than under any other , The French in Algeria stable their steeds in the holy mosgues ; the English in India ofter no violence even to the most absurd of religions , but respect tiie prejudices of their subjects . The French are destructives—the " bricklayers' labourers" of revolution : the English are _Conservatirea _, destroying nothing till they

      have well considered the necessity . Not that the men wielding the English power have always been superior to tbewielders of French power . On the contrary , they have frequently been inferior to them . The most advanced philosophy of human progress is put forth by French writers ; but the utmost a Government can do , is to guide the torrent of natural impulse ; no Government can _whoUy change its direction . French rulers and writers may be in advance of their countrymen , and English rulers may be in the rear , but the different results which history gives of the two nations up to the present hour , mark distinctly the differing national characteristics . The preponderating principles of action in France are those of the Celtic virtues and vices ; while those of England are marked by the stronger qualities of the Teutonic race .

      We cannot close this notice without expressing the delight we have felt at reading the ' * Old Man ' s Ramble in the Footsteps of Whittington , " by G . II . Francis . It would be but tantalizing our readers , and doing an injustice to the author , to give any brief extract we might squeeze in this week ; wc , therefore , resist the temptation , hoping to have the opportunity of quoting from it at length in a future number of'the Star . The illustrations this month are not numerous , but are good . On the whole this is an excellent number , and affords us the opportunity of again recommending the Magazine to our readers , which wc do most cordially .

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      THE ILLUSTRATED FAMILY JOURNAL .-No . I . —London * . Sherwood and Co ., Paternostei

      row . Solomon was a wise man , at least so we are told . For our own part we have always considered that the proofs of his foolishness are much more evident than those of his wisdom . But let that pass he has the name of being the w'isest of men ; and in spite of _Smak-SPEA 5 E a name is everything . Still , we fancy when he declared that there was ' . ' nothing * new under the sun , " his wisdom-ship was for once , at least , at fault . Or at any rate if true in his own day , his wise saw , so often quoted , is altogether erroneous now . Solomon knew nothing of the wonders of literature . He could not have had the remotest prescience of the wonders of the cheap literature of the present day , otherwise he would never have left on record the now exploded fallacy that there is " nothing new under

      the sun . " Here is something new—the Illustrated Family Journal—something that " Solomon , hi all his glory" and with all his power , could not command . We confess that we ourselves had doubted the possibility of printers and publishers producing anything which should exceed in cheapness and beauty publications already in the field : but we were wrong as well as Sqlomok . Here is a publication of the possibility of which we had never dreamed . Most of our readers may know the size of the new series of Chambers ' Edinburgh Journal ; this publication is of the same form and size . Each number contains sixteen double column pages ; the paper is good , the type new and clear , and the printing beautifully executed . But there is something more—a feature not to be found in any similar publication , viz ., a profusion of wood engravings done in the first style of the art . The first

      number contains , bet-ides the beautiful head-piece , no less than tan of these wood engravings , of which two or three are perfect gems . Of the literary contents it is our good fortune to be able to speak in equally favourable terms . Amongst other articles the first number contains one of Tesntsox ' s beautiful poems — " Mariana . " One of Douglas Jerrold ' s pleasant theatrical sketches . A capital review of Seijeant Talvourd's " Vacation Rambles . " A description of the progress and processes of " Photogenic Drawing . " A romance from the French , «& c , & c . Tho first number of the Illustrated Family Journal was published on the first inst ., the price is but twopence ; and wc understand not less than £ 20 worth of engravings will appear in each number . Such a combination of art and literature cannot fail to prove a hit . The success of the Illustrated Family Journal is certain .

      Publications Received.— Taifs Edinburgh ...

      Publications Received . — Taifs Edinburgh _Magaslnc—Wade ' s * London Review—Simmond ' s Colonial Magazine—The Edinburgh Tales , Part II .

      Biography.-The Rev. Sydney Smith. {Compi...

      BIOGRAPHY .-THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH . { Compiled from various sources . ) A gentlemen ofthe name of Smith , who resided at Lydiard , near Taunton , in Devonshire , was the father ofthe reverend and learned person whose name stands at the head of tliis article . Although his family were inhabitants of Devonshire , it so happened that the subject of . this memoir was bom at Woodford , in Essex . The ancient school founded at Winchester by William of Wykeham was the seat of learning at wliich Sydney Smith imbibed his first draughts of knowledge ; there laying the foundation Of those attainments , and developing those intellec tual powers , which hare during the last half-century exercised a much more considerable influence upon

      the literature and social condition of England than to the cursory observer might at first view * appear . He was elected to New College , Oxford , inthe year 1 * 780 , where , ten years afterwards , he obtained a fellowship ; but it was not until six vears subsequent to the last mentioned date that he took the degree of M . A . Some years afterwards he became tutor to the son of Mr . Beach , M . P .. for Cirencester , and accompanied him to Edinburgh , where he remained for _fiye years , during a considerable portion of whieh he officiated at the episcopal chapel in that city . At this time and place bis career as an author may be said to liave commenced ; and amongst the earliest ofhis literary acquaintances were Lords Brougham , Jeffrey , and Murray . It was from a suggestion ot

      Mi ' . Smith that one of the most famous periodicals in Europe originated . He proposed to the noble and learned persons just mentioned—all of them still living—that thej * should unitC with liim in starting a review ; and of that publication the subject of this memoir was appointed editor . Few readers require to be informed that the publication here referred to is one whicli has enjoyed almost uninterrupted popularity for a period of more than forty years , under the title ofthe Edinburgh Review . Veiy soon after the commencement ofthe review * Mr . Smith ceased to be the editor , for he removed to London , wnere he settled in the year 1803 , and in the 35 th year cf his age married the daughter of Mr . Pybus , the banker ,

      That sucli a man as Mr . Smith should become an extremely popular preacher will readily be imagined ; accordingly wc find him about this time in the full enjoyment of fashionable notoriety , preaching at the Foundling Hospital , and the Berkeley and the Fitzroy Chapels . One of the publications of-that period describes him as having been " engaged" to preach at those places of resort ; just as one might speak of a theatrical " star" being " engaged" to perform at Covent-garden or Drury-lane . Doubtless - the Rev . Sydney Smith was , in hia own way , a star ofthe first magnitude ; and too happy were the proprietors of whatever trading chapel had the good fortune to place in their pulpit a man whose sermons were pointed and elaborated without the appearance of art ; natural , without the affectation of ease , and spirited without any flagrant breach of " the ecclesiastical

      proprieties . It was impossible , however , for an author ofhis reputation to disturb the repose of the pulpit by those sparkling compositions which alone could flow from his pen , without its being aserted that he transgressed the ancient rules according to which sermons have been composed for " time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrarv ;" there was , therefore , no lack of self-elected judges to dispute his orthodoxy , or of blunderers to criticise his style . Although Mr . Smith had now ceased to be the editor ofthe Edinburgh Review , —although he had , as he himself modestly " says , " placed its _management in the stronger hands of Lord Jeffrey and Lord Brougham , " he yet continued to be one of its most active contributors / writing frequently on prison discipline , on the abuses and corrupting influence of the Game Laws , on transportation to Botany Bay , on toleration ,

      Biography.-The Rev. Sydney Smith. {Compi...

      on Methodism , on education , on Irish bulls , mad Quakers , chimneysweepers , counsel for ¦ p risone _* rs , and a variety of other subjects . To the criticism of individual writers , or the estimate of literary character , he gave but little of his time or attention . Theonly person to whom he has devoted more than a > single article was the celebrated Charles James Fox , a man for whom Mr . Smith ' s admiration was intense ; and to whom , in personal-appearance at least , he is said to have borne a strong resemblance . It is not unworthy of observation , thatthe late Lord Holland , the nephew of Fox , warmly patronised Mr . Smith ; and when . Lord' Erskine held the great seal Lord Holland prevailed on that noble and learned person to bestow on Mr . Smith the living of Frostonin , in Yorkshire , where he resided for some years . It was about this time , or shortly before it , that he attacked the system of education pursued at Oxford with so much ardour as to draw upon him a severe _replv from the Provost of Oriel .

      The chapels where Mr . Smith preached in London were crowded with the wealthy , the dignified , and even with the learned inhabitants of this great city ; a circumstance which naturally attracted the attention of those gentlemen who manage the affairs of the Royal Institution . It happened , therefore , that before he went to live in Yorkshire it was thought that his wit , acumen , and learning might be displayed to advantage elsewhere than in the pulpit . He therefore became a lecturer on tlie belles kttres at the Royal Institution , and , of course , his prolusions were attended , according tothe theatrical phrase , by " overflowing and fashionable audiences . " In everything which he attempted he appears to have been eminently successful . At college he graduated with

      honour and obtained a fellowship . He projected and contributed to a review which has enjoyed the highest degree of prosperity ; he attempted " an ambitious style of preaching , with a vigour of talent which distanced all rivalry ; he became a public lecturer , and the whole world of May Fair flocked to Albemarlestrcct to enjoy his humour and becorae enlightened by his researches ; he published political works which have gone through editions so numerous , that as many as 2 C , 000 copies of some have been sold : he lived long enough to enjoy his reputation , and to attain to a greater age than falls to the lot of ordinary mortals ' ; and yet those who appreciate wit , who can admire learning , and _tfho honour the man that used both for the good of his species , will be _disrinsed to _thiiih t _. Vini . old ns Rvdnov Smith wno ho

      , died too soon . It was one of the Whig Ministry of 1800 who conferred upon Sydney Smith the living which he held in Yorkshire ; but he was not long settled there when the cry of "No Popery" expelled the Government of that day from the councils of the King , and Mr . Perceval ruled in their stead . It was then that the most popular of Mr . Smith ' s works made its appearance The celebrated letters of Peter Phjmleyunder which designation it was the pleasure of Sir . Smith then to write—went through so many editions that the anti-Catholic party stood aghast , and realty trembled for Protestant ascendancy . In 1829 he had received the rectory of Combe Florey _, in Somersetshire , a living the value ofwhich is * about £ 300

      per annum . In the year 1 S 31 _, during the Ministry of Lord Grey , tlie Rev . Sydney Smith became one of the canons residentiary of St . Paul ' s . Mr . Smith had by this time declined into the vale of years , and the _pecuniary advantages derivable from the exorcise of his literary powers had ceased to become an object to him : his pen was therefore in some degree-laid aside , and he was not induced to resume it until an occurrence took place whieh he regarded as a downright invasion of his property and of the rights oi deans and chapters , wluch , as a member of . one of those corporations , lie had sworn to defend . Lord John RusseU had introduced into Parliament a bill whicli very materially interfered with the interests of those bodies . The provisions of that bill may have

      possessed many good qualities , or have been disfigured by innumerable faults ; but the merits of the controversy have not outlived tlie occasion ; the part , however , which Mr . Smith took in the : dispute will not soon be forgotten . Lord John Russell was a Minister of the Crown , and a member of that ducal house to whichever ); Whig looks up with hereditary veneration ; but for these things Mr . Smith now cared not a jot . The property of himself and his brethren had been placed in jeopardy by the Government measure , and so , with merciless resolution , lie set about the task of making mincemeat of its authors . Letters from the facetious canon residentiary instantly appeared in the daily papers . Many people , even Whigs , began to think that he had the right side of

      the question , but those who thought differently exclaimed , how dreadful that a man professing "liberal " politics , and promoted by the "liberal party , " should thus treacherously wound his patrons ! These , reproaches sat lightly upon liis conscience . The feelings of a Whig may be wounded sometimes with impunity ; but let a Government beware how they touch his pocket . The assault of Mr . Smith upon Lord John was marked by the fierce intensity of personal interest . Every weapon of controversy was pressed into the service ; one moment the reverend gladiator was seen prostrating his antagonist with the heavy artillery of his argument , and the next overwhelming him with banter and ridicule—here assailing hun with an irresistible fact , there laughing in

      his face—now launching the _thunderbolts of his indignation , now giving way to irrepressible drollery . His late letters on the Pennsylvania _^ are fresh in the recollection of our readers . They supply the most varied illustrations of knavery , the drollest sarcasms on fraud . He was in his 74 th year at the time of his death , which _toolc place at his residence , Greenstreet , May Fair , on Saturday evening , Feb . 22 nd . We cannot close this brief mention of the dates of his long and useful life , without quoting his own account'of himself , published a few months since in the ¦ Revue des dews Mondes . It was addressed to M . Eugene Robin , the writer of an acute and well-toned critique upon his works . " I am % years old , and being canon of St . Paul's , in London , and a rector of a parish in the country , my time is divided equally between town and country . I am living amidst the

      best society m the metropolis , am at ease in my circumstances , in tolerable health , a mild Whig , a tolerating churchman , and much given to talking , laughing , and noise . I dine with the rich in London , and physic the poor in the country , passing from the sauces of Dives to the sores of Lazarus . I am . upon the whole , an happy man , have found the world an entertaining world , and am heartily thankful to Providence for the part allotted to me in it . " Sydney Smith ' s writings , notwithstanding tlieir apparently temporary character , have given him what is likely to be an enduring place in English literature . It is a rare distinction , out one which ought to be written on his monument , that while he wasted no gift of those so liberally bestowed on him in ministering to the unworthy pleasures of others , or in promoting his own aggrandisement—as a wit , he was more beloved than feared .

      A Bowl Of "Punch," Fresh Brewed. Curiosi...

      A BOWL OF " PUNCH , " FRESH BREWED . CURIOSITIES OF MURDER . For a time , the field near Haverstoek-terrace , Hampstead—the scene of the late terrific murderpromises to empty the parks and Kensington Gardens of the beauty and _fasluon generally to be found there . We learn from the Post , that two days after the discovery of the murder' Several carriages , _containing ladies , drove up to the field , and gentleman on horseback , attended by their grooms , rode across to view the place . Not content with seeing , many brought away boughs and twigs from the surrounding trees , and chips from the fence against which the unfortunate man fell after he was struck , and whereon the marks ofthe bloody fingers of the murderers were imnrinted .

      Of course these boughs and twigs will be carefully planted , and so may grow up and flourish a continual memento of agony and blood . Thus , instead of camellias and other exotics , forming opera bouquets for " beauty and fashion , " we may for a time have twigs of hawthorn and privet , from the field of murder , aa the only wear . We humbly suggest , too , thatthe " chips from the fence" should be curiously preserved—set in gold , as shawl-broaches and other trinkets for those " ladies" of susceptible hearts who flock to a scene of frightful homicide as to a flowershow—and who inspect and pry into the bloody fingermarks of murderers , as though they were exhausting tlieir admiration on some new geranium or wonderful fuchsia . One" oi the supposedmurderer ' s buttons was found in the field : what a gem that would be , shining in the bosom of lovely and fashionable woman Should the assassins happen to want money for their

      defence , we doubt not that they could obtain a very handsorae sum by selling locks of their hair to fashion and beauty—the genuineness of the article duly warranted by the turnkeys and hangman . As certain ladies and gentlemen cast such an air of fashion about murder , we earnestly advise M . Jullien immediately to put forth his Haveretock Polka . The music-sheet might be further recommended by a very striking lithograph , commemorating the atrocity . « „ T . * Sir James Graham ano thk Spy _SvsiEM . _^ -it is said , in extenuation of the conduct of Sir James Graham in opening private letters , that it enables him to do away with the spy system . This may be true to a certain extent ; but Sir James does away with the spy system as the Lord Mayor does away with the Lord Mayor ' s fool , by performing the duties himself . It is clear enough that no ministry is in want of epics while it has the services of a Sir James Graham . _-,,, _.

      Our Game Laws , etc ., to wit . —From a , calculation recently made , it appww that France possesses at present no less than ; sixty-two thousand one hundred and seventy-seven laws ! We doubt if England , with all its wealth in thisrespect , can boast of as many ; but then what a comfort it must be to an Siishman that aU the laws of hia country are _lawa for the poor , and not one of them a law exclusively fortherich ! . _" . ' _,., Warning _toTbaveWiBrs . —Lovers of single blessedness beware ! Bachelors who love your liberty , remain at home ! The last census of France has just disclosed the awful fact that , in Paris alone , there are no less than 51 , 000 widows !!!

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      A Fuxnt Advertisement.—In The Athenceum ...

      A Fuxnt Advertisement . —In the Athenceum appears the following announcement : — " Odd volumes wanted : —Brougham ' s Statsemcn . first edition , vol . I . " Our friend Toby thinks that his old master , Mr . Punch , is sadly negligent in not pointing out this refuge for the destitute , which is charitably opened lor Lord Brougham _amongst his quondam associates , where he yet can be _i-eceived as Mr . Brougham ( quantum' niuiatus ad illo ) the rampant demagogue and Edinburgh reviewer . No Go . —The French chemists profess to have detected both lead and copper in the human body . English beggars affirm , on the contrary , that there are individuals from whom copper cannot possibly be

      extracted . Love is often a solitary leaf , but neither storm nor blight , can fade it . Like the perfume that a dead flower sands forth , it is sweet when all the gay sunshine has departed ; when all its bloom is past , it has the fragrancy of memory ; it is the last lingering beam that glows _' long after sun and star have set—a refuge from the tempestuous and bereaving storms ot life . Dose Brows . —Mr . Greene , the chairman- of committees ofthe whole hou 3 e in the House of Commons , is said to be tired of _hisjobjandno wonder ; for if the House will persist in talking so much as they ; _dor-kccp the poor gentleman screwed to his chair for seven or eight hours at a stretch , night after , night—it is evident , all Greene as he is , he will very soon " be done Brown . "—Great Gun .

      Killed at Last . —We regret to say the House of Commons voted its own destruction last week . Mr . _MacKinnon obtained leave to introduce a bill to " prohibit the nuisance of smoke" I As everything in the House begins in smoke and ends in smoke , the passing ofthe bill will , as a matter of course , " put a period to the existence" of this branch ofour _Legia-Cure . —Ibid . Hebdomadal Boards . —Oxford , Feb . 13 . —I have been , sir , a carpenter for many years , but never yet met with-a '' hebdomadal board . " What is it ? Where docs it come from ? Is It _tllCSOl't Of wood that " heads of houses" are cut out of ? A few words from you would make the matter a deal planer to Your humble servant , A Plane Dealer . [ We never saw one of them . —En . ]—Rid . The late Edmund Keas , —Kean had his degrees of intoxication , according to a calculation made by a faithful servant of his , named . Miller . Tins man waa

      devotedly attached to his master—all menials adored him—and if Kean happened to be dining with a party of gentlemen , which he was obliged to do sometimes , Miller , who was as anxious about his conducting ' himself with propriety as a father could possibly be , when it was getting late , and the servants were ordered to leave the room , would take his station near the door , and from time to time make the following inquiries of any of the party who might happen to pass him : — How is master getting on , sir ? Oh ! very well , Miller , would be the probable reply . Is ho , getting—eh ? says Miller , _sigmficantly . Getting what ? says the stranger . Getting tipsy , sir , if you must have it . Oh ! just a little . Ah ! I though how it wouldbe , Miller would say with a sigh . And he promised me he'd behave himself . In half an hour he would make another inquiry to the same effect , and receive for answer , "Oh ' . he ' s just a little high , glorious company ! He ' s just going to sing us a song . "

      Going to sing ? says Miller , with anxiety . " What is he going to sing , sir ? What's the name of the song ?" The Storm . The Storm ! Ah , I see how it is ; if he ' s going to sing the Storm he ' s getting veiy drunk . Another half hour would pass , and he would listen at the key-hole , or , perhaps , open the door quietly , and thrust his head into the room , withdraw it in an instant , and , shutting the door , turn round with a look of horror , and exclaim " It ' s all over ! he ' s past hope ! he ' s out ofhis senses—he ' s talking Latin !" Too Early or too Late . —An actor of the name of Bland attached to the Durham Theatre was used to nerfoiin the Dart of Catesby in Richard III . Richard

      had so impressed upon his mind the high importance of his being very quick in saying "the Duke of Buckingham is taken , " that on one occasion he announced the joyful , tidings two minutes too soon . Again at the first pause , he popped in his head and proclaimed , " irny lord , the Duke of Buckingham is taken ; " and again was pulled back by the tail of hia tunic . When the right time actually arrived , he was a little too late , and Richard , foaming with rage , shouted out—" Now , sir ?"— "The Duke of Buckingham , " said Jemmy very calmly , "is taken now by G-. " O'Connell ' s "Ghost . "—Daniel the "Big , " the Daniel Lambert of green ould Ireland , as well as . the agitating Daniel O'Connell , of that country of " hereditary bondsmen , " spoke the following words , by way of peroration to a speech which he delivered to a renale meeting on Monday last : — " It is difficult

      to say how long the term of my life may last , pathetically exclaimed the Agitator ; " nature tells me that it cannotbe long ere I shall be called to another world , and when I shall lie in my cold grave , and my voice can be no longer heard by the people , I may " yet warn England not to dare to continue in their ' present tyranny . "—Vide Morning Chronicle of Wednesday for the above . Either this tag to O'Connell ' s last agitating speech contains a redoubtable "bull , " or the great Agitator has "fooled to the top of their bent" the superstitious confidence of Paddy-land . —Satirist . Bakox _Meresham . ' —That the speeches and general political conduct of Sir Edward Knatclibull formed _, only so much smoke , without perceptible fire , has ever been our opinion , excepting when turnpike gates have been in question . The government , at length , appears to think with us , for we perceive he is about to be created a peer , by the style and title of Baron Me ( e ) rsham . —Ibid .

      A GIBBS AT THE _VAT'CAIf . , " The _Treasurei-. Cardinal has been suspended by the Pope , owing to a defalcation of his accounts . " —Dai

      papers . Moon talks of bis peep _AtoldLouia Philippe , But never to rival great Gibbs may he hope ; Bis practice on Cbolt A . Cardinal holy Has tried on a victim no less than the Pope . Take courage then , Gibbs , Since to " brush with the dibs " Is accounted so " smart" in a quarter so high ; One fool ' s-cap you ' ve got , And wh y should you not Aspire to a Cardinal ' s hat by-and-bye 1—Ibid

      Brougham complained , the other day , that the House of Lords was " disagreeably cold . " Lyndhurst said he did not find it at all cold , and could only ascribe tho sufferings of Brougham to his not having the same dress that he the Chancellor had . Locd . Lyndhurst never spoke a greater truth ; all the clothes in Myers ' s shop , were it possible to place them on the " shivery shakery" limbs of poor Harry , would fail to make him feel comfortable and warm in his scat in the Lords . No ; nothing less than the robes of the Chancellor could restore his wonted circulation by the impetus it would give to his mental and physical system . —Bid . PABASOX . The Irish . Land Commissioners . _Pursuinj *; their impartial plan Of hearing all and minding none , Subpocna'd and examined Da . v . " "But ; Dan , " says Devon , " brazenly

      Said all were wrong who'd gone before , _* High rent and great prosperity Went still together , " _Dahiel swore . Castle-reach's State CosTRiBunoif , on the score of the Income-tax , as he informed the legislators of St . Stephen ' s the other evening , amounts to something handsome . Nevertheless , some of hia outgoings are much larger than the Income-tax . The Opera is a heavier impost than Peel's , and a singingwoman or tfemseusc will , in a single season , draw from him a vast deal more than the Premier has any chance of obtaining under the most favourable circumstances . — Ibid .

      A Man op Letters . —A few years ago the Ministry of that day was styled the Literary Ministry . The present one well deserves that appellation . As a "man of letters , " Graham alone would immortalize any Ministry . — Ibid . _,., „ ,. _« " . * Castlereagh has been inhalingthc " bnnyjbreeze « at Brighton , and doing as well as a sprightly young noble of independent means , and who pays a large sum per annum tothe Income-tax , may be expected to do . The other day , promenading on the Cham Pier , he inquired of the collector how the structure answered ? Did it pay ? The man shook his head , and replied in the negative . Whereupon his lordship improvised the following : —

      'Tis truth the tollman fells , I fear , That badly pays this Brighton pier ; But , lord , how many Peers I'd name , Their tradesmen say , do just the same _\—BM . Mr . _Ex-Bauon _Guhnbt . —This " ermihed Senior of the Bench , " when called to the bar—of the Old Bailey—some fifty years ago . was a Liberal _UipolitlCS , rather extremely so ; " in witness whereof , " we may mention that he christened one of his sons Russell and another Sydney , after the celebrated Lord William and Sir Algernon . In his character of judge , however , the learned baron waa neither a liberal expounder nor a liberal administrator ofthe law . That , perhaps , may have been the effect ofhis long practice at the Old Bailey , for it can ed an advocate whose clients

      views , should cultivate _mlargetL _^ v _^ _if _^^^^ d , BBOCGHAH _BOREIKMtEjg _& il _^^ * 'Tis said of Lord B ., none _iS _P _^ _M S _^> f 1 i ! l _•*?* _' t To spit a wild boar with tSPf _^ i _^ k _^ _Avliii L 21 But he never gets * aea _* s _t-j t t _^* _jSkW _^ _li' _w _;*> _pWM J _j *> He gives it so very much M /« _ffr > *•*•*? . •* _rrrj r £ _UWMWm _^ H _^ ¦ _""M S _& £ _2- ~ . ri _^ _YT * . - \ ' * _% _&\& _% MC _^^ J r tb _^ _t ' _MA * l _?*^ _WiHw- _* _W ' » ' ! l . ** IMiil'l * , " ! "T :- > l ' 'l •¦ ' / M _^ _WfetW 7 * _7 v KUf ' > -i- f _^ v .. « H W _h

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 8, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_08031845/page/3/