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      Jfovembeb 8, 1845. The Nqrthjilin Star. ...

      _JfovEMBEB 8 , 1845 . THE _NQRTHJIliN STAR . 3

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      Beauties Of Btron. -So. Inn. " Childe •"...

      BEAUTIES OF _BTRON . -so . inn . " CHILDE •" LUtoLD .- " Toflyfrom , need not be to hate , mankind : AH are not fit with them to stir and toil " _Sbris it discontent to keep the mind Deepinitsfountain , _Iestitover-boQ Inthehotthrong , where we become the spoil - . - Ofour infection , till too late and long - _ Wemay deplore end struggle with the coil , . Inwretchedinterchange ofwrong forwrong * andst-a-contentious wrorld , Btriving where none are - - - strong .

      Therein a moment , we may plunge our years In-fatal penitence , and in the blight Of our own soul , turn all our blood to tears And colour things to come with hues of Night ; The race of life becomes a hopeless flight To those that walk in darkness : on the sea , Theboldest steer but where there ports invite , Bnt there are wanderers o ' er Eternity Whose hark drives on and on , and _anchor'd ne ' er shall he . Is it not better , then , to be alone , And love earth only for its earthly sake ! By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone , Or the pure bason of its nursing lake

      , Which feedsit as a mother who doth make "A fair but froward infant her own eare . _Xissing its cries away as these awake ;—Is it not better thus our lives to wear , Than join the crushing crowd , doom'd to inflict on bear I live not inmyself , but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling , but the hum Of human cities torture : I can see Nothing to loathe iu nature , save to be Alink reluctant in a fleshly chain , _Class'd among creatures , when the soul can flee , And with the sky , the peak , the heaving plain Of ocean , or the stars , mingle , and not in Tain ,

      And thus I am absorb'd and tins is life : I look npon the peopled desert past , As on a place of agony and strife , Where , for some sin , to sorrow I was cast , To act aud suffer , but remount at last "With a fresh pinion ; which I feel to spring , Though young , yet waking vigorous , as the blast Which it would cope with , on delighted wing , Spurning the day-cold bonds * which round our being cling . And when at length , the mind shall be all free Irom what it hates in this degraded form _. Reft of its carnal life save what shall be Existent happier in the fly and worm , — "When elements to elements conform , And dust is as it should be , shall I not Peel all I see , less dazzling , but more warm ; 5 Phe bodiless thought ? The Spirit of each spot ? Ofwhich , even now , I share at times the immortal lot !

      Are not the _mountains , waves , and skies , a part Of me and ofmy soul , as I of them ? Is not the love of these days in my heart With a pure passion ? Should I not contemn All objects if compared with these ! and stem . A tide of suffering-, rather than forgo Such " feeling for the hard and worldly phlegm Of those whose eyes are only _tom'd below , Gazing npon the ground , with thoughts which dare not glow ?

      BODSSEAC . Here fhe self-torturing sophist , wild Rousseau , The apostle of affliction , he who threw Enchantment over paEsion , and from woe Wrung _overwhelming eloquence , first drew The breath wliich made Mm wretched ; jet he knew How to make madness beautiful , and cast O'er erring deeds and thoughts a heavenly hue Of words like sunbeams , dazzling as they past The eyes , which o ' er them shed tears feelingly and fast , His love was passion ' s essence— -as a tree On fire by lightning ; with etheral flame Kindled he was , and blasted ; for to be Thus , and enamour * d -nrere in him the same . Bnt hii wasnot the love of living dame , Hot of the dead who rise npon our dreams , But of ideal beauty , which became In him existence , and o _v erflowing teems

      Along pim burning page , distemperM though it seems _. This breathed itself to life in Julie , flits Invested her with all thaf s wild and sweet ; ThishaHow'd , too , the memorable kiss Which everv morn his _fererM lip would greet , Prom hers , who but with friendship his would meet ; But to that gentle touch , through brain and breast _JFlash'd the thrilled spirits lore devouring heat ; In that absorbing sigh perchance more blest Than vulgar minds may he with all they seek _possest , Bis life was one long war with _self-soughtfoes , On friends by him self . banish'd ; for his mind Had grown _supicion's sanctuary , and chose Por its own cruel sacrifice the kind , 'Gainst whom he raged Kith fury strange and blind . But he was phrenaed , —wherefore , who may know 1 Since cause might be which skill could never find ; But he was phrensied by disease or woe To that worst pitch ofall , which wears a reasoning show

      Por then he was inspired , and from Mm came As from the Pythian _' _s mystic cave of yore , Those oracles which set the world on flame , Sor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more : Did he not this for France ! which lay before . _Bow-d to the inborn tyranny of years i Broken and trembling to the yoke She bore , TUl by the voice of him and his compeers , Boused nplo too much wrath , wMch follows o _' ergrown fears t They made themselves a fearful monument ! The wreck of old opinions—things which grew , Breathed from the breath of time ; the veil they rent , And what behind it lay , all earth shall view .

      But good with ill they also overthrew , leaving but ruins , wherewith to _Tebufld Upon the same foundation , and renew Dungeons and thrones , which the same hour _refill'd , As heretofore becanse ambition was self-will'd . But this will not endure , nor be endured ! Mankind have felt their strength , and made it felt . They might have nsed it better , but , allured By their new -rigour , sternly have they dealt On one another ; pity ceased to melt With her once natural charities . But they Who in oppression ' s darkness caved have dwelt , They were not eagle ' s , nourish'd with the day ; What marvel then at times , if they mistook their prey

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      The Purgatory Of Suicides. A Pbisos Ibmi...

      THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Pbisos _IbmiE ix Tes Books . By Thomas Cooper , the Chartist . London : J . How , 132 , Fleet-street . ( Continued from the Star of Nov . 1 st . ) The _"JNinih Book" is brief , consistin | of bnt Borne fifty stanzas . The characters who figure therein are exclusively female , —Pokcia , Abbia , the wife of A 6 DB . uB . tt , the Carthaginian , Sophboxia , and Bart oa , the Jewess . The "Book" opens with a prison scene , in which awoman , with an infant child , comes to bid farewell to her " felon" husband . Tis Woman ' s voice!—woman in wailful grief , Joined by her babe ' s scarce conscious sympathy . — Tby wife bath come to take her farewell brief , Gauntfelon!—brief and bitter must it be Tor tby babe ' s mother—since the wide salt sea Must roll , for life , its deep , dark gulph between

      Thee , convict—and that form of agony I Poor wretched tMng ! well may she wdl , I ween , And wring her hands , ana wish that she had never been j " let me have one last kiss of my poor babe !" He _aaitfa , and clingeth to the grate . Oh I how The turnkey ' s answer -trill Ms bosom stab !—"Away!—we open not the bars V—and , Io ! They push him rudely back!—he may not know What baleful bliss it gives to clasp a chad . Or wife , ere one must jield them to life ' s woe . Ah ! litflehadthatkiEsMs grief beguiled—But- rather , filled Ms soul with after-throes more wild . She _faintethl—yet awakes to moan audjweep !—How little didst thou think that smiling morn - Thon didst , so early and so eager , peep Into thy mirror , and thy breast adorn With virgin rose—so soon the sorrow-thorn Would there have pierced!—that thou , in two short

      years , Woaldst see thy husband in that dress of scorn—And turn—a widowed bride—a thing of tears-Prom that stern grate , forlorn , to meet the world ' s rud _« jeers ! Poor sufferer ! how wilt thou the future brook !—To drudge from morn to eve for beggar ' s bread : — To hear thy Tagged child receive rebuke Par his sire's sins—that on the exile's head Already fall full sore ;—to see Mm shed Tears when he asks for food , and thou hast none To stop his hunger;—then , to make thy bed "With Mm upon tbe heath or moorland lone—Unless , for infamy , thou tak'st the rich man ' s boon !

      "What misery—hadst thou never been a bride—Thy heart had shunned!—Yet , thou wilt fondly cling "Unto the memory of thy love—nor elude , ' _-gy _^ _jljy a thought , in deepest suffering , His error who did tby young joy-bloom bring To desolation' HI requited love "Was thine , ev ' n from the bridal-revelling—Yet , thou forgavest all , nor didst reprove The wild excess which oft thee nigh to madness drove . — Very beautiful is the following apostrophe to woman : — - . Oh , woman ! how thy truest worth is slighted : — ¦ nr * tenderness how often met with hate : — 5 _to fondest puresthopes how often blighted : — * How man , _flie _tyrant , lords it o ' er thy fate , y et fagns for fl » J _Iwnign behest to wait _;—Howjealously he guards thy faithfulness , And forms a censure on tby every b tate—Ttochas tity terms coldness , —thy caress "• _jfeah foolimr , stratagem , orgro-uer love ' s excess !

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      Oh , woman ! fairest , frailest , sweetestflour Of Nature's garden , what rude storms thee bend ! Th y heart—thou priceless , peerless , matchless dower Of Natuie ' s treasury—what sufferings rend !' How meanly men , through selfishness , contend To pamper thee—how silkenly their lays Of love they lisp to gain their guilty end;—How sensually man lauds thy beauty ' s blaze ;—How heartlessly deserts thee in its dimmer days ; Oh , woman ! what anxieties destroy The bliss thou dreamest none can take away , When hushing thy soft care , thy cradled joy ;—How Time the blessings th y fond hopes pourtray Oft turns to curses , and thy heart a prey * To keenest woe becomes—maternal woe That , like maternal love , the human clay Moves more intensely than severest throe , Or most ecstatic thrill that mortal bosoms know . "

      How thy best children , Woman , testify A mother ' s worth , —attributing their zest For enterprize , or love of good , to thy Exalting nurture ! 0 let Mm attest A mother ' s worth—that Titan of the West—Unequalled -Washington ! And if such men , That dwarf princes , vigour from thy meek breast Now draw , Woman 1 what will thy sons be when Man looks on thee no longer with the tyrant's ken "When chivalry ' s false homage is forgot , — When eastern jealousy no more immures And renders thee a vernal idiot , — When thy young purity no villain-lures Are spread to blemish , —when tby mind matures In -freedom , and tby soul can make its choice , Untrammelled , unconstrained , where heart assures The heart it is beloved , —shall not tby voice And loek restore to Earth its long-lost Paradise ! That Hind is of no sex , —when thou art freed , Thy thought-deeds shall proclaim : our _Edgeworth ' s

      sense , p OurBaillie ' s truthful skill , Felicia ' s meed Of grace mth perfectest mellifluence Of music joined , —or thy magnificence Of heart and reason , _Seeker ' s glorious child!—Problems shall be no more : Woman's intense Inherent claim to mind-rank , when befoiled Ho more by Man , she will display with glow unsoiled . And when her e ' lildren see her more in joy , And yet in truest dignity , —no more A slave , —no more a drudge , —no more a toy!—When from her lips of love her spirit ' s store Of high ennobling wisdom she doth pour Into her offspring ' s ears , —into their eyes , Ere speech he learnt , looks Nature ' s purest lore Of truth and virtue , —shall not Man arise From error , —nurtured thus , —and loftiest good devise * ( To be continued . )

      Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. November. Edi...

      TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE . November . Edinburgh : W . Tait . London : Simpkin and A-fai-aba . il . All who desire to know the real character of the much-lauded Nelson , will do well to read the excellent review of the "Dispatches and Letters" of that "hero , " which opens the present number of Tot * ; . From these * ' Dispatches , " & c . the reader will learn bow small , indeed , are the claims of the victor of the Kile and Trafalgar to be enrolled in the list of England ' s worthies . His courage and skill as a great sea-captain cannot be questioned ; but as a negotiator be was contemptible , and he possessed none of the abilities requisite for a statesman . His hatred of tiie French -was unbounded ; and , with regard to that nation , he was throughout his life actuated by

      the most ignorant , bigotted , and contemptible national prejudices . He was a besotted admirer of kings ; and no matter hew despicable or infamous a king might be , Nelson would have unhesitatingly shed the blood of myriads to preserve the power or glut the -vengeance of his royal prpteg 6 . This he showed by his support of the infamous Neapolitan king and court . Ilis murder of Caraccioli has left an eternal stain upon Ms name whicli all the lies and subterfuges of corrupt and lickspittle writers will fail to efface . His disgraceful connection with the notorious Lady Hamilton reduced him to the lowest state of moral degradation in his public as well as private character . Yet to such a man are statues

      raised ! Forty years have only elapsed since Nelson fell , and his fame already wanes . We may safely predict that the end of another forty years will see Ms reputation at a yery low ebb indeed . This number contains the commencement of an American romance by Colonel Johxson _, entitled "Jenny Basket , " a tale ofthe revolutionary war , and a welltold tale it promises to be . "TheLife of Mozart " is an excellent review of Mr . IIolmes ' s biography of that wonderful genius . "The Life of Mozart" is another chapter added to the melancholy record of the sufferings of Nature's nobles , and the cruelty , tyranny , and meanness of those usurpers who by birth , force , and fraud , hare acquired and hold supremacy amongst men .

      'Tis true'tis pity , and pity'tis'tis true . "Notes on Gilfillan ' s'Gallery of Literary Portraits , '" by Thomas De Qcincet , is an exceedingly interesting article . The subjects of the " Notes " this month are Godwin and John Foster . The latter appears to have been much overrated . We anticipate great pleasure from the continuation of these " Notes . " By-the-by , in looking through the list ofthe Gilfillan Pbr traits , we are surprised to find the omission of sucb names as ' Btkon , Moore , Dickens , and Jeurolu . Why is this ? Madame _"Wo-ceeksberger ' s "Lettersfrom Naples" exhibit in startling colours the wretched and degraded state of the people of that country , caused mainljf by the withering influence of the Catholic priesthood . Some lengthy extracts will be found from these " Letters " in our seventh page , under the head of " _Foreign Movements ; " in addition to which we here insert the following illustrations of the deplorable

      8 _UPKB 8 TITI 0 _S OF THE NEAPOLITAN PEASANTS ? . The following adventure occurred last year to an Italian Mend of ours , who himself recounted the particulars to us : — On the arrival of this gentleman mth a friend on a sketching tour atthe small village of Cerito , amidst the mountains behind Capua , he engaged two little boys to carry his portfolio and drawing materials , and at once set off , thus accompanied , in search of a subject for the exercise of his pencil . Some time elapsed before he decided on a point of view ; and , in order to do so , he made several circuits amongst the hills , which apparently excited suspicion to his disadvantage . Some hours passed away , and the mother of the boys , who was ignorant that they had left home with a stranger , began to be anxious at their unusually long absence , and rata about the village demanding news of her children from her different neighbours .

      At that moment a man arrived from the hills , who had been a witness ofthe _artist's proceedings , and , in answer to her inquiries , he bluntly told her " that she might cease her clamour , for her children were irretrievably lost . Uo efforts of hers could save them , " he added , " for they were in the power of a sorcerer , who had carried them off to murder them for the purposes of his incantations . He had seen him with the boys forming his mysterious circles ; and by this time , no doubt , it was all over with them . " The horror of the woman at tbis information , the truth of which she never doubted for an instant , Burpassed all words . She called on her neighbours to revenge the death of her innocent babes ; she ran from house to house , summoning the peasantry to join her in extirpating the monster from the land ; and the clamour for revenge spreading from cottage to cottage , like the extending circles around a stone cast into deep water , the whole population of the district was ere long in a state of insurrection .

      The gentleman , meanwhile , unconscious of the tumult his movements had excited , was quietly making a drawing npon the mountain above the village . But however deeply engaged by his occupation , he could not fail at length to remark the increasing agitation of the country beneath . He saw the peasantry rushing -from their dwellings , and forming together in bands ; a murmur , as of an enraged multitude , ascended even to tho high point of rock on which he sat _^ and he could from time to time distinguish , that those who were assembling carried arms . Vainly he inquired of the children what was the meaning of this extraordinary commotion , nor was it til ] he saw the multitude closing around him on every side , and mounting the hills towards the spot where he was drawing , that a suspicion flashed on his mind , thathe was the object of the people ' s rage . Fortunately , understanding their dialect , he was warned of his danger , by distinguishing the word sorcerer , frequently repeated , united with threats of violence , as the crowd approached .

      He looked round for the children , considering that their safety would prove the best evidence of the innocence of his intentions , but they had already disappeared ; and ' as huge stones , cast by those who had clambered to the rocks above , began to foil around him , and a countless throng of male aud female peasants , in every variety of wild and ragged attire , drew nearer and nearer , some armed with guns , some with sticks and stones , andim . plements of husbandry , and all uttering the most hideous yells and threats of vengeance , he , and the young friend who was his companion , thought there was no disgrace In at once taking to flight . Deserting portfolios , sketch . books , andstools , they therefore ran off wi th the utmost rapidity . Most fortunately they took the road towards the -village , for the people believing they would endeavour to escape in an opposite direction , to gain the interiorof the country , had disposed themselves on the further side of the hill in an ambush , into which , had our friends fallen , they would probably nerer have escaped alive .

      They had net fled far , before they met the magistrate of the village , with a party of gens-d ' armes , proceeding to investigate the cause ofthe disturbance , and put it down by force , if necessary . They lost not a moment in claiming his protection against an attack , ofthe cause ofwhich they had only a vague suspicion . This was immediately and courteously granted , and the magistrate proceeded without delay to inquire the crime with which the stranger was charged . It was , however , in vain that he sought to convince the people of their error . Evea after the return ofthe children , they obstinately persisted in their belief of the gentleman ' s bad intentions ; and one old woman , who had armed herself -with a rusty -fowlingpiece , was with difficulty prevented firing on them . Though the tumult was allayed by the strong arm of uthority , it may readily be supposed , that our friend

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      made ho more sketches in that neighbourhood , and lost no time in returning to a more civilized district , where , even , if the belief in incantations be still retained , it has not _sufficiemt influence to excite the populace to insurrection and murder . In all his excursions since this adventure , he has lodged , when possible , in a monastery ; and for one or two days before he commenced sketching , has taken care to show himself in company with some of the holy fraternity , to put at rest all doubts of his sanctity . He has likewise procured a letter from the police in Naples , in virtue ofwhich he can obtain an escort in all dangerous _casee .

      Itis . welltbatstrangers should be made aware of such a state of things , for this is not a solitary instance of outrageous superstition amongst the peasantry . Avery short time has elapsed since an Englishman was attacked in a similar manner whilst sketching between Salerno and _Taistura . lie had enticed no children from their home ; no meditated murder could be brought to his charge ; and yet the people were as firmly convinced th at he was a sorcerer , as if lie had called the whole mysterious science of necromancy into action . ' Unfortunately , whilst he was engaged in sketching , it began ' to rain in _lorrents , and the ignorant people at or . ee accused him of being the cause of the change of weather . The next day , at the samehour , the same thing occurred , and their murmurs were redoubled ; but when , on the third day , the stranger was compelled to pack up his drawing materials by the fury ofthe storm , he found himself surrounded by an armed populaee . fvho threatened him _** vith immediate

      destruction . Ignorant of their language , he understood not the cause of their clamour . Por a while the people stood aloof , for they believed he bore a charmed life ; till atlength a woman , more furious than the rest of her companions , flung a kind of axe at him , -which wounded him severely about the hip . The mob no sooner saw that he was vulnerable , then the attack became general . Sticks , stones , and hatchets flew on every side : and it was with the utmost difficulty thathe succeeded in flying a short distance before his infuriated pursuers . Finding the door of a house open , henishedin for protection ; and most fortunately it was the residence of the principal magistrate ofthe place . This person , being sufficiently well informed to be aware of the injury done to the neighbourhood by such events , anxiously sought to repair the evil . About a dozen ofthe mob were immediately arrested , and brought into the presence ofthe wounded man _^ and when questioned as to what had provoked their outrage , they all clamourously repeated the accusation of sorcery .

      George Cruikshank's Table-Booknovember. ...

      GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOKNovember . London : Punch Office , 92 , Fleetstreet . This is an excellent number of the Table-Book The opening article , by the Editor , on " Railway Calls , " is accompanied by two admirable illustrations . The first representing '' Mr . John Bull in a quandary , or the anticipated effects of the Railway Calls . " The multitude of figures in this plate is trul y astonishing . John Bull is represented seated in his arm-chair , perfectly overwhelmed with a multitude of railway imps , who have assailed him to make good their " calk" One party are represented surrounding John ' s head and shoulders , and , witli their open-stretched mouths , are screaming

      their demands into his ears . One imp has taken possession of poor John ' s hat , another has bis . wig ; one imp is dragging John's glove off his right hand , another his ring off his left ; onehasgothold of John ' s neckcloth , another his pocket-book , and a third his handkerchief . Several imps are hard at work in extracting his watch and seals , and several more his purse . One posse are seen running off with his walking-stick , another are dragging his boots off . Two are . engaged bearing off his decanter of port , and a whole army are running off with his strong box . Two railway engines are employed , tbe one in taking off John ' s cash box , the other in removing his plate . Tin the fore-ground are a number of lawyer-imps , busy over an oyster-tub , taking in the

      " natives , very characteristically leaving the " shells" for poor Jons . To complete the picture , there is , in one corner , a view of " Bull Lodge" for sale ; and a rascally-looking auctioneer is seen " knocking down" Mr . Bull ' s " effects . " Over the victim ' s head is ringing the " Railway Bell , " and the whole is crowned by the demon of destruction and despair , who , with the " Railway Times" in each hand , is proclaiming the end of Mr . Bull ' s " speculations . " The fright , agony , and despair of poor John is admirably depicted in his countenance , which really seems to be life itself . The second illustration represents Air . John Bull in _KBELE-fs celebrated character of " Willibald , " in the extravaganza of the " Bottle Imp . " Of course the imp in the bottle is the railway imp , — " Scrip , " John is bawling out , " Who'll buy a bottle VI ; . " Oh ! do buy a bottle ! " The ludicrous figure he . cuts is laughable beyond all description . In the excellent

      article , by tbe Editor , speaking of the probable situation of John Boll in a few months hence , the writer says : — " Calls will literally tear bim tbpieceB , and there will cot be an article he ' possesses that the great interests of locomotion will-not carry , _awaj from him . A grand trunk will , run away with his strong box ; a junction of some , kind or other will tear ms coat in two ; some stupendous cutting will cutaway with his cash-box : a tremendous . tunnel will run through all he has ; and excavations on an extensive scale will empty all his pockets . " * * * " When this period arrives , instead of a struggle to get hold of scrip , there will be an eagerness to get rid of it . The last possessor will be the unhappy victim to all its liabilities , and every man will go about like the- unfortunate individual who had bought the " Bottle Imp , " and could only transfer its horrid responsibilities by getting hold of another purchaser . " The article concludes with the followiug ' ' " " "

      EP 1 GBAM . - The engineers who are retain'd , ¦ •• ¦¦ . To , make a . survey of a bubble ; ¦ . Now , the delusion is explained , - ¦ _-, s . ; May save themselves a world of _troublOi Since knavish schemes have got a shake By their imp _jsture being known-Levels there is ao . need to take , : The raHways having found their own . The "Legend of the Rhine" is drawing to a conclusion , the chapter in this number is very good . The " Old English Gentleman in a New Light" does " not exhibit that somewhat fabulous . character in a very enviable light , but , onthe contrary , in a very miserable plight . " Recreations in Natural History " give some amusing "travellers tales" of the Munchausen order . The remaining contents are readable .

      The Connoisseur: A Mo.Nthlt Record Os Ih...

      THE CONNOISSEUR : A Mo . nthlt Record os ihb Fine Abis , Music , and the Drama—November . London : E . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street .. This publication has one fault , which , if persevered in , will be very likely to produce a fatal result . The fault is neither the want of talent nor ignorance ol judicious literary arrangement . The illustrations are faultless , and thc contents are ever unexceptionable : yet is there " ae wee faut" which marks and mare every number—mars it , at least , in the eyes oi many , —the Connoisseur is honest . ' The Connoisseur does not speak the language of a clique , or devote'its columns to the glorifying of a few individuals , and the running down of others . The Connoisseur is not an advertising speculation , nor does it seek to win the patronage of artists , composers , musicians , dramatists , actors , managers , and publishers by servile puffing , miscalled criticism . The Connoisseur awards praise to to the humblest , where praise is felt to be

      due , and refuses it to the highest where truth and justice command silence or censure . This is honest ; but honesty is " a ragged virtue , " and much oftener finds its reward in " rags , " than in " purple and fine linen . " Honest criticism is distasteful to ethers besides composers , managers , publishers , Ac , the reading public themselves do not take well to it . He who would succeed , must , as a general rule , go with the stream , and not seek to guide it ; if he " pursues the opposite course the chances are a hundred to one that he is overwhelmed and lost . We do not despair that should the Connoisseur continue its struggle for a time , that _aurel ) , though slowly , it would acquire a class of readers who would not fear to hear the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth ; and would give tbeir hearty support to the truth-teller . We should be glad to know that that time had already come : in the meanwhile the struggle must be a

      severe one .-The principal articles in this month ' s number are on , —1 st ' . " Amateur Criticism ;"—2 nd . " Holmes ' Life of Mozart ; " —3 d . "The return of Macready ;" —and 4 th . " The Modern Classical . Drama m France . " These are all excellent ; we must , however , award our highest praise to the first and third . The critiques on tbe music and theatricals ofthe month are both interesting and instructive . The illustration , this month , is a portrait of Nicholas Poussin , from a picture by himself , drawn on stone by H . C . Maguire : it is a magnificent print , and will form a fitting companion to the beautiful portrait of Muiuxlo , given in the previous number . By-thebye , if the initials do not mislead us , we must

      congratulate Mr . _Maguiiie on his talent as a writer and critic , which is only second to his talent as an artist . This all readers of the Connoisseur will admit , who , like ourselves , read and enjoy the articles _signeed H . C . M , We hope that the noble portrait gallery _. of celebrated painters , commenced in this publication , will be continued ; let us add , that a short sketch of the life and productions of the painter , accompanying his portrait , would be welcome . We hope the editor oi the Connoisseur will take the bint . If our readers can appreciate a publication which in its every number proves itself " bold enough to be honest , and honest enough to be bold , "—if they can admire talent and independence , they will give their support to , and become readers o _£ the Connoisseur .

      Wade's London Review—November. London : ...

      WADE'S LONDON REVIEW—November . London : C , B . Christian , _WMtefriar-s-street , Fleetstreet . The contents ofthis Review are generally ofa substantial and practical character . There is nothin g very striking in the present number , the principal contents of which are " A Traveller's Diary , " giving some interesting particulars concerning tiie famous Russian port , Odessa , a place , notwithstanding its importance , but little known to the inhabitants of

      Wade's London Review—November. London : ...

      Western Europe : *« Talent for the Stage ; " " Obser vatwns on Language ; " a review of "Wakefield ' s Adventure s in New Zealand ; " and "Prose versus roetiy _. From" the article on Odessa we give the following extracts : — Odessa lies about 2 , 000 feet above the level of the sea , upon a nearly perpendicular bank of reddish yellow ochreous and brittle lime , which extends far into the interior . No other species of stone or mineral is to be seen far and wide in the country ; and this material , tlie worst fo _FHJJy _^ _K _. nevertheless the most commonly used far yalls _^ nd flooring of the stree ts . All tho palaces which have not yet received tlieir coating of plaster look , on that account , as gloomy and melancholy as ancient Roman ruin 8 j ' all the 6 treets are unpaved , and in tbe few ' instances of foot pavement , where such is the case , the holes and gaps caused by the dislocation of the material inconvenience the passenger still more than a total want ol pavement . The fatal maxim of the Russian policeto

      , build towns—for the prevention of infectious maladieswith streets enormously wide , and houses far off from each other , can nowhere be less applicable than in cold regions , and has moreover the disadvantage , as here in Odessa , of rendering the proper pavement ofthe streets almost impracticable . In no place in Europe _existB , therefore , such aterrible dust in the summer , and such an unfathomable mud in the winter , as in Odessa . Strange as it may appear , it is nevertheless a fact , that even in the severe winter of 1830-1831 several waggons were literary sunk and buried with the men and horses in the deep dirt in the southern end ofthe town , and that the police had no other means to prevent a similar recurrence ofthe accident than to choke up altogether the access to that par t of the to wn ! I saw a caricature of that fatal accident , representing in the fore-ground those fatal waggons , and in the back-ground a Frenchman stuck fast over the knees in the mud , exclaiming : " Ma foi , je me fixe la !" ( " Intruth , 1 am settling here ! " )

      There are but few Englishmen at Odessa , but a superabundance of Jews , The whole ofa particular quarter is swarming with them . Then * shy , sly , and wandering look , protruding from beneath a skin cap ( which many of them do not leave off even in the hot summer season ); their hair hanging down on both sides ofthe face in long curls ; the long beard , the dirty apparel , the strikingly _un-J"ealth y blown ' appearance of tlieir _half-grown children ; impress upon them the indelible stamp oftheir Oriental origin . Almost all of tliem speak a corrupted German patois , which is , however , so intermixed with words from nearly all languages that it is with the greatest difficulty one can understand them . Even among the Jews themselves there seem to exist several dialects , by which the Jews from Brody , e . g ., are distinguished from those of Podoliaand Odessa . In their phraseology they always put the accusative immediately after the verb , which seems to be more derived from the Russian than the Latin .

      Next to the Jew , the liussian attracts the notice ofthe stranger . Mostly short , round faces ; frequently turned up noses ; prominent cheek-bones ; a thick , commonly light or red , beard ; the hah" of the head cut round horizontally above the neck , in the form of around wig ; a low hat with a wide brim ; a sort of surtout reaching far down below the ancles , and tied round the stomach with a red woollen girdle ; wide and folded pantaloons , stuck into a pair of course half-boots ; a thick stick in hand . Such is the appearance of agenuine and national Russian . All porters , sailors , servants , waggoners , _Asc , wear this apparel . Even the hackney-coaches andthe national droshkas seem to have been imported from the interior of Russia .

      The whole article is interesti » g and well worth perusal . The author sums up his description of Odessa in the following not very flattering words : — "Suchis Odessa ! The picture we have given is certainly not very inviting ; and yet so it is ! Dear , dull , dusty , or dirty , it affords literally no other allurements but the opportunity of amassing wealth in a short time , and then depart thence as quickly . " We miss in this number the continuation of "II Vagabondo ; " the authoress of " Leaves torn from a Record of Life , " is also wanting .

      Punch. Part Lii. London: Punch Office, 9...

      PUNCH . Part LII . London : Punch office , 92 , Fleet-street . Inimitable as ever , Punch is above all praise , and , therefore , it would be folly in us to attempt to describe our favourite ' s excellencies . Thanks — heartfelt thanks to Punch for the following : —

      NICHOLAS AND THE NUNS . By some singular illusion , when the Emperor Nicholas shed the lustre of his countenance on this country , it is well known that he was considered the very Apollo of potentates by the femalcportion of the English aristocracy . —Beautiful , yes , and good and gentle women , forgetting the atrocities of the man in what is thought the glories of an Emperor , crushed and crowded for an introduction to the tremendous creature , and if he smiled , or said a soft wordor two , the happy lady felt her nature sublimated , raised . far beyond mere mortal happiness by tie condeseension . English wives and mothers forget the unmanly oppressor of Polish women—the chlld _^ _stealer and

      the flbgger . —We now take froni the Journal des Debuts —certainly not-the least temperate of French journals as quoted inthe Times—ran account of the murder , and the worse than murder , of forty-seven Polish Catholic nuns , who dwelt in an ancient convent near the town of Minsk . Their duties were as those ofthe Sisters of Charity . " They instructed the children , provided for the willows and aged , and assisted the poor by the fruits of their labours . " But the Emperor Nicholas orders a religion for all his subjects , as Ke orders auniform for his troops ; he is all for the Greek Church ; though indeed , it seems diabolic mockery to think of him in connexion with . any church at all . Well , the nuns would not apostatise .

      Whereupon—/ 'During the night Cossacks surrounded the . convent , seized the nuns with the most revolting brutality , bound them with cords , and conducted them thus to Witebesk , nearly twenty leagues frem Minsk , compelling them to walk the entire distance . " .. . . They were then confined - in a convent of _scbismatical nuns , and remaining firm to their faith , they were forced to perform the most vile offices , and ( hear this , ladies of England ) " received regularly every Friday fifty lashes . " They were covered with " wounds and sores . " They were subsequently compelled to work as labourers to the

      masons employed in constructing the episcopal palace I Finally all ; except three , sunk beneath their agonies . Three escaped , : ¦ and one of them , says the Debats , " the venerable superior , is actually at present in Paris . " This being the case , we put it to those high-born ladies who thronged . and fluttered about the man , under whose rule such atrocities are acted , whether it would not be as well for' them to invite . over this aged nun to England . Having worshipped the tyrant , they would make some amends for the grievous error by showing the sympathy of true womanhood with one of his thousand woman victims .

      Capital are the following imitations

      THE LAMENT OF THE STATUES . Previously to the determination of the Royal Commissioners to erect statues to the poets in the new Houses of Parliament , they might as well have consulted the feelings of those personages on the subject , which we suspect would , with a slight difference of expression , be much like those embodied in the following lines . These we have had the imprudence to put in the mouths of the poets , and to imagine each speech inscribed , respectively , on the pedestals of their statues : —

      _CHADCEB . Good sirs , I marvel what we here maken , Grete folk , certes , be sometimes mistaken , We standen in this stound by much errour , Ne poet was in Farlement before ; We are _fysh out of water , verily , I do net breathe well this air , perdy _, In the Abbaye we weren well enoughe : To put us here in Parlement is stuffo .

      _SPENSEE . Troth , brother Chaucer , 'I am of thy zninde , In Parlement I do not feel at home , 7 Where prating Dullness talks his hearer blinde , ¦ And dry Debate doth vainly froth and foam , : Folly , not Fancy , from his theme doth roam , And greedy Patriots rave for pence and place ; ¦ Poets are fashioned from another foam Than heavy marie of Statesmen ' s crawling race , And to be here , in faith , me seemeth dire disgrace ,

      . SHAKSPEABE . Grave _Grandsire Chaucer , and good Father Spenser , The judgment your sweet worships have pronounced On the hard mandate , and right stern decree , Which , much misplacing us , hath placed us here , Doth jump with my opinion . Here to'bide Beneath the pelting of the pitiless Brougham , To suffer Roebuck ' s petulance ; t _' endure The _jokekss wit of Sibthorp , and to brook The specious eloquence of glozing Peel To any _bouI alive were Purgatory : — But to the poet ' s 'tis a worser doom _. Oh that this monument were o ' er my tomb !

      HILTON . My sentence is for walking off , oh Bards ! Though we be marble . Doth not story old Record how statutes , erst , have breathed and walked , Instinct with life and motion ? Why relate Pygmalion ' s idol , and the wife of clay , , Pandora , she by cunning Vulcan wrought For hold Prometheus 1 Or , in modern days , The marble man that unto supper came To Seville ' s famous , but immoral Don , Hight Giovanni ? Could I here remain , Heavy debate to list with tortured ear , My Cromwell ' s absence would determine mine , Haste , then , and from your pedestals descend , To stalk abroad with me through London ' s streets , Dark ' ning with dire alarm the heart of town .

      DRTDEN . All British Art Commissions Royal sway , And when they order , sculptors must obey _. This poets find , whose effigies , like ours , Are called to Parliament by princely powers . Hard is our fate , thus destined to remain Where Noise and Nonsense hold divided reign , Amid contending politicians' strife , — Who ne ' er were represented in our life . Oh , that I ne ' er the tuneful lyre had strung ! Was it for this , unlucky bard , I sung ? Blackmore and Shadwell , after ages past , Rejoice ; your _irajured ghosts are now avenged at last ,

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      POPE . Curst , for ancestral sins , with parts and wit , The Muse inspired me , and , alas 1 I writ ; Oh ! had it been my happy fate to creep With thee , good Dennis , I with thee might sleep ; But immortality no slumber knows , And deathless bards can never tasterepose , JB'en though Joe Hume invoke the drowsy God , And Sibthorp bid five hundred heads to nod ; Though Plumptre lull the House to rest profound , And Spooner scatter all his poppies round ; And Palinerston compel the frequent wink , Our ears in vain tbeir opiate words . will drink . Oh I brother _Uanls , whom Sculpture hither brings , To mix with statesmen , and to herd with Kings : Blend , sole relief ! your marble tears with mine : Would that we ne ' er had penn ' d a single line ! The above extracts are specimens of the good things in prose and poetry to be found in this part . As to the illustrations , they are Punch's , —what more need be said to proclaim tlieir excellence ?

      The Medical Times. It Is Now Some Time S...

      THE MEDICAL TIMES . It is now some time since we noticed this very useful and talented publication , which is more than ever deserving of public patronage . We refer our readers to a highly important article from a recent number , on the prevailing epidemic in potatoes , which will be found in our sixth page ,

      Publications Received.—Cooper's Novels (...

      Publications Received . —Cooper ' s Novels ( Clark , Warwick-lane ); The Wandering Jew , Parts 2 , 3 , 4 ( Clark ); Tales of Shipwrecks , Parts 3 , 4 , 6 , 6 ( Clark ); Memoirs of an Umbrella , Part 4 ( Mackenzie , Fleet-street ); The Tom Thumb Songster , No . 2 ( Cleave , Shoe-lane ); National Temperance Advocate , November .

      The Andover Union.

      THE ANDOVER UNION .

      Asdovek, Moxday, Nov. 3. . Saturday Was ...

      _ASDOVEK , MOXDAY , NOV . 3 . . Saturday was a day of triumph to the friends of the poor , and therefore one of signal defeat to their foes . At a meeting of the ratepayers of the parish of Andover , held some few days ago , it was resolved to return Mr . Westlake as a member of the towncouncil of the borough , as a compliment to him for his manly , honest , and disinterested conduct in connexion with the recent inquiry into the management ofthe Andover Union , in tho face of the vilest and most dastardly attempts of some of the persons in authority to deter him from doing a public duty . Mr . Westlakowascompelled to beabscntfrom Andover until i Friday , for the purpose of making arrangements for having an interview with the Poor Law

      Commissioners , personally , to protest against the misrepresentations of his evidence given before their Assistant by that functionary . During his absence , however , the ratepayers of Andover were not idle , because their invitation to liim to become a member of the town-council was not idly offered ; and , after a contest severe and animated , Mr . Westlake was triumphantly returned , to the utter discomfiture of those guardians whose gross misconduct and neglect of duty rendered the recent inquiry , wliich hc was the instrument of bringing about , both imperatively necessary and highly important . Though several of the guardians are not entitled to vote for town-councillors , they used all the influence and means they could command to prevent the return of Mr . Westlake . Amongst them were clergymen , whose conduct

      as guardians , whether ex officio or otherwise , was too well known to have much influence among the ratepayers , Bribery and treating were plentifully employed , and all thelowscum ofthe town was brought into play against Mr . Westlake . Even a certain noble Lord , who resides at Marlborough , and could have no right to interfere , waspreyailed upon to come over to this town to put the screw upon a tenant in favour of the bone-gnawing starvation system . But all in vain . Mr . Westlake was returned by 118 votes , he being the only new candidate returned , and polling only 11 votes under the highest given for the one who _-ras at the head ofthe poll . Will not this event speak loudly inreply to the tergiversations ofthe Assistant and Chief Commissioners , and the shuffling statements of the guardians , whose impotence and

      improprieties are the more confirmed by it ? Will any of tliose functionaries again dare to repeat the falsehood , that nine-tenths of the rate-payers were opposed to the inquiry , condemned Mr . Westlake , and supported the Poor Law system as carried * out at Andover ? Why , Mr . Westlake has been re-elected to a new office which he never sought , by payers of the Eoor-rate , voluntarily , simultaneously , and alike onourably io that gentleman and to themselves . Then , again , Mr . Hammond , the medical man whom the guardians are attempting to ° thrust into Mr . Westlake's post , was put up as a candidate upon this occasion , in opposition to that gentleman , and received one _yote . M'Dougal was not a candidate , but he and his son-in-law Holly , were very busy , in company ! with a poor lieutenant and the clergy , in fruitless efforts to prevent the electors from exercising their right of putting Mr . Westlake in the

      towncouncil aa one oftheirrepresetatives , desiring thereby to testify their high sense of his character and conduct as a public servant , and their unequivocal contempt ofthe clique which would rather tolerate p rofligacy , cruelty , and fraud than honour the man by whose instrumentality those offences have been at least exposed if not visited with thepunishment tbey deserve . Another gratifying result of the recent inquiry is , that at the meeting of the guardians held on Saturday , the committee , which had been appointed to consider the dietarv table , recommended that in future the following additional allowances should be given , being of opinion that they : were absolutely necessary : —9 oz . of bread daily ; -. 402 . of bread on soup days ; meat three days in the week , instead of two only ; 111 b . of vegetables , instead of three quarters of a pound ; and suet puddings on Sunday ' s . Thisrecommendation was adopted .

      Am-Eced Extensive Swindling.—Two Men Are...

      _Am-eced Extensive _Swindling . —Two men are at present in custody , under warrants from the sheriff of Lanarkshire , charged with various swindling transactions of a very extensive description . One of them calls himself Captain Pasl M'Gregor , of Seafield House , Arran , and the otlier is George Inglis , a spirit-dealer , in King-street , _Glasgow . The impositions with which the parties are charged embrace a great number of cases , and have reference to a multiplicity of articles ; but the following are the more important : —Captain Paul M'Gregor , it appears , in tbe character of the occupant of Seafield liouse , Arran ( of which , by the way , he is actually the tenant ) , ordered from Mr . Yellowlees , coach-builder , Edinburgh , a fine chariot , valued at £ 100 , which was

      received in Glasgow , and the vehicle , it is alleged , was forthwith taken to Salford , Manchester , and sold for £ 45 . By a similar order a bull and three cows , of the Alderney and Guernsey breed , were obtained from an agent in England , who , no doubt , entertained thc belief that they were to form part of the fancy or ornamental stock of a landed proprietor in Arran ; but , after reaching Glasgow , they were taken to the _cattle-market , and , as is alleged , sold for what they would bring . In the possession of one of the prisoners , _amonsr otlier papers wliich brought to light many of their transactions , was found the invoice of a second chariot from a house in London . Of this vehicle , whicli appears to have been of considerable value , no trace can be found ; and ,

      therefore , as far as has been ascertauied , it has never entered the avenue of Seafield House . Sereral pianofortes , gold watches , and other articles of value , have also been ordered and received from London , besides other goods , of the most varied character , being ordered from Edinburgh , Liverpool , Manchester , and other towns . They have even dealt in guano , and quantities of this valuable article have been requested to be sent to Captain Paul M'Gregor , from Liverpool , but we have not ascertained whether the : island of Arran has ever been benefitted in an agricultural point of view by its introduction there as a manure . In short , the transactions of the parties were so extraordinary that nothing which could be

      turned into ready money seems to have escaped their notice , while they took care to pay nothing themselves , and the authorities having procured information , which led them to believe that the whole was a swindle , they are now in gaol to answer for their conduct . Captain Paul M'Gregor appeal's to have been the individual in whose name the goods were ordered ; but his coadjutor , _IngHs , is charged as having been the party chiefly instrumental in disposing of them after they were received . So laras is yet known they have not favoured Glasgow with any purchases , their transactions being wholly with towns at a distance , and these the sheriff ' s authorities are searching out with great care and assiduity . We may further state tha t many articles pawned or sold have already been discovered . —Glasgow Argus .

      Extensive Forgeries by a Liverpool Merchant . —On Saturday information was circulated _^ throu gh * out the divisions of the metropolitan and city police , that Mr . Lyon , an extensive merchant in Liverpool , in the Smyrna and American trade , has absconded from that city , having committed forgeries to a yery large amount , Mr , Lyon is believed to have quitted Liverpool about Monday or Tuesday week ; but he was not missed until Thursday . It is supposed that he is in London , and that he intends to quit the country . . He is described as about five feet ten inches high , sallow complexion , black busby hair and whiskers , rather prominent nose , dark eyes , thm face , prominent teeth , thin figure , and very upright ; dresses generally in a black frock coat , figured silk waistcoat , light trowsers , and black hat , Wellington boots , and black stock , and wears a large shirtpin , and several rings on his fingers—is fond of smoking , and is well known inthe sporting world .

      Highway Robbery . _—Saturday morning , between two and three o ' clock , as Captain Watson , residing at No . 29 , Park-place , Peckam New Town , was returning home to his residence , he was attacked by three men in the Commerciakoad , Old Kent . road _, who suddenly threw him down with great "violence , and , while two of them held him down , the third rifled his pockets .

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      Poutesess Reciprocatbd.^Aotuninal Wafl I...

      Poutesess RECiPROcATBD . _^ AOTuninal wafl in the county jail awaiting his _trialforjoiurder , With a reasonable prospect of conviction . : ' ' The candidate ftr thc shrivalty called one day to see him , when the prisoner , wishing to compliment his Visitor , SSMj . w him I . " If I should be condemned to be hanged , 1 know of no one by whom I would rather be hung than by you . " The visitor , acknowledging the _complimerit , with one ofhis blandest smiles , replied : Ana should I be elected sheriff , I know of no one I would rather hang tban you . "

      Somnambulism . —An extraordinary case of somnambulism occurred at Chatham Barracks , a few nights ago , Peter Slight , a young Scotchman , rose from his bed , by some means got into a drain , passed through it for a distance of five hundred feet , emerged from it , and , coming in contact with a post , fell down in a fit , in which state he was discovered , quite naked , and was conveyed to the military hospital . This was the fourth time he had walked in bis sleep . An Old Song . —The King of Denmark is selling one ofhis colonies , a newspaper paragraph says , " for a mere song . " Wc have made inquiries in the _city , and have ascertained that the song alluded to his _< " I ' ve no money . "—Punch , SONG OF THE RAII / WAT JUXIAC . ( TromPunch . ) This is my left hand—this is my right ; These are my eyes , my nose , my mouth ; I can discern the day from night :

      There lies the north , and there the south , Shake not the head , then—cry not" Hush !" Lay not the finger on the lip ' . Away !—unhand me!—let me rush In quest of Railway abates and scrip . Ha ! ha ! 'Tis you are mad , I say , You talk to me of Three per Cents ., Consols ? pooh , nonsense 1 What are they ! You prate of mortgages and rents—I tell you there are no such things : —Nay , do not threaten chains and whip , — They've flown away with paper wings , And leftus only shares and scrip . What ! Mind my business ? Fellow dear , You'll find yourself in Bedlam soon . Hark . '—let me whisper in your ear ;—Look!—there is my business—in the moon ! That ' s where all occupation ' led ;

      Gone , presto ! with hop , jump , and skip ; How , now , then can I earn my bread , Except by railway shares and scrip ? Get in my debts _? Lo , how you rave ! Who thinks of paying what he owes ? No , tell me not that he's a knave : In scrip ami shares the money goes . Mark yonder man , he ' s a trustee , With other's stock in guardianship ; Where is it ? Ha , my friend , you ' ll see—All sunk in Railway shares _andjscrip . Stick to thc shop ? What shop ? I've none , Defend me—how the madman stares ! I tell you there's no shop but one : The office where they sell you shares . You have a tailor , —want a coat Go , order it : you'll find a Snip , I'll bet you Sir a ten pound note , Will only measure you for scrip .

      I am not mad , I am not mad ; See where the shares on wirlwind fly : Off!—give me back the wings I had , To mount and catch them in the shy . Maniac , I say . '—you torture me !—You crush me , in that Iron grip ; Madmen , away ! and leave me free To chase my railway shares and scrip . A Modest Speculator . — A " niceyoung man , " who probably wants a few hundreds with which to speculate in railways , advertises his readiness to give twenty pounds to any person having tho ability to help him to " a pretty girl with two thousand pounds !" _TEscape from Quackery . —A provincial contemporary informs us that James Webb , a brewer ' s dray man , has had his "face saved from being eaten away by Holloway ' s ointment and pills J" Holloway won't thank our brother , we should think , for the publication of so damaging a fact .

      "hAT , Fair , asd Fifteen . "—The young Queen of Spain is described as having an " immense" arm , a ¦ " redundant" bust , and ankles " solid enough to support the golden tower of Seville . " She " waddles " from " excessive corpulency ; " and perspires from the fatigue of carrying so much " blubber . " At _dinnershe " swallows soup , an entire roast fowl , fish , pastry , sweetmeats , and preserves" ( her passion for " sweets " being preposterous ) . Her education having been _, neglected , her ignorance is as gross as her person . Bull Matrimonial . —An , Irish gentleman j tb © other day , in the excess . of his connubial affection , exclaimed , "Heaven forbid , my dear , that I should ever live to see you a widow ' . '' ,

      A Diabolical Doom . —A _^ pdor miser , arrriving on the banks of tho Styx , swam across , and cheated Charon , the ferryman , ofhis penny .. Hewas sentenced , as a punishment , to return to the world , that he might behold his spendthrift heirs squandering his money ! ¦ - ¦ - ¦ - ¦ ,-. ¦ ¦ . ¦ - - v ..--' _JAQUES IN CAPELicOURT . 7 ¦ _- ' _' . " ¦ _' - ' ¦ ' ' ' ¦ '' ' ( _FromPtinch . ) " •¦ _- ' ¦ ' - ¦ "'"• ' ¦ All the world are stags ! f- ' •¦' Yea , all the men and women merely jobbers _!¦ They have their brokersand their _share . accounts , ; ;" And one man in his time tries-many"lines ,- ' - ' - '• ' ¦' Theend being total _ruini" Frst , 'the greenhorn , " ' ' _¦¦ _;' Dabbling and dealing iii' alucky spec ); ! J And then the posperousseller / _with'his profits ' " •' And joyous winning face , buying like mad , ' - ' ' ' < '¦ : ; ' ¦ ¦ ¦ Unwilling to sell out ;' andthen ; the loser , '¦ ¦ - ¦ Sighing like furnace , with a wbful prospect' ' ¦¦

      Of the next settling day !• -Then the director , PuU of strange schemes , and lodged at the West-end , _Kaepiug a cab , and sudden growing rich , _^—Getting a bubble reputation !'¦ . ' : ¦ EveniuCapel-court . And then the bankrupt , With is debts' schedule large , and no assets : By all his decent friends entirely cut , — ¦ Full of bad scrip , and fertile of fresh schemes ; And so he plays his game . The sixth step sinks Into the low and herring-gutted stag , With spectacles on nose and list in hand ; His youthful gains all spent , tlie world too wide-Awake to be ta ' en in , and his long line Of hapless creditors thatidly wait And whistle for their cash . Last scene of all . That ends this sad but common history , Is—Union pauperism , and oakura picking : r Sans beer , sans beef , sans tea , sans everything . ¦! .

      Positives asd Comparatives . —A domestic cat is a tame beast , but Van _Amburgh- the lion king is a beast tamer . The imposition ofthe Income Tax onthe public by Sir Robert is a cool trick , but a plunge into the Frozen Ocean is a cooler . India , ; from this country is far off , but a husband who runs awav _fromhis children is m father off ! Anything proper is fit , but if you call on Moses the tailor , you will find him a fitter . ( Some say he ' s an put and out-fitter . ) A re- " tiring person is shy , but an English county is a shire . Lord Brougham ' s attempt to observe political consistency is a lame business , but a kick on the shins with the shoe of a ploughman is a lamer . An article without blemish is sound , but Prince Joinville , when lately off Brighton , was declared tobe a sounder . — JoeMiller . Mns . Caudle . —Why is Mrs . Caudle like _Samjjso of old ? Became she is able to jaw a thousand Philistines to death .

      " These are Stirring Times , " as the spoon said to the saucepan . Flattering _Resemulance . —A Southern Adonis , no way celebrated for his personal attractions , on completing a somewhat protracted toilet oue morning turned to his servant and inquired— " How do I look , Cffisar ? " " Plendid , raassa , plendid t" was ebony's delighted answer . " Do you think I'll do , _Csesar ?" ( giving him a piece of silver . ) "Guy , massa , neber see you look so fierce in all my life ; you look jist as bold as a lion . " Why , what do you know . about a lion ? Tou never saw one _Csesar . " " _Kebber see a lion , massa ! Guy I see Massa Peyton ' s Jim ride one ober to the mill ebery day . " " No , you fool , that ' sa donkey . " " Can't help dat , massa—i / om look jist like him . ¦

      The Collier at Kirk . —A collier entered the kirk of Lochgelly , tbe other Sunday , when the minister , in his sermon , made some observations about the capture of Jericho . The collier fell asleep until-the kirk was going out ; when , on his way home , one of his neighbours called out , "Whaurha ' eyebeenthe day , Archy ? " " Ah ! whaur do ye think ? but at the capture of Jericho . " " An' hoo did ye come on , Archy ? " " Ah , lad , I fell asleep ; and they had Jericho captured , and were singing and rejoicing when I awakened . "—Fife Herald .

      A Mendicant Dog . — " I was travelling , " says M . Blaze , " in the diligence . At the place where we changed horses I saw a good-looking poodle-dog ( chien _caniche ) , which carnie to . the coach door , _andsat up on Its two hind legs with the air of one begging for something . " Give him a sou , " aaid the postilion to me , "and you will see what he will . do with it . " I threw to lum the coin : he picked it . up , ran to the baker ' s and brought back a piece of _. b ' read ; which hfr ate .. This dog had belonged to a _' pcipr blind man , lately dead ; he had no master , and begged' alma on his own account . " '¦' . <]' _""' ' . ' . '" : '

      The Biter Bit . — " What for a Bbot ? " said a _gunsman to an old farmer standing near a pond _. where ducks were swimming . " _Half-a-crown /' _was the reply . The money wm paid , the / gun fired , and threeducks fell dead . "Well , old chap _.-how do you like that ? " said the sportsman . " Oh ,, well ; enough , " replied Hodge , "they are none of mine . '' A Strange Religion . — -A sfailor being' summoned to give his testimony l _^ fore a court ; was q . uestionea by the judge as to his religious _^ creed *; ' - .- _* - Are you an Episcopalian ? " " No , sir . " " A _Catholiof f "No , - sir . " "A Methodist ? " "No , ' sir . _"''> _* W bxt ; iWi : you , then ? " " I am captain ofthe foreto p , sir .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 8, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_08111845/page/3/