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• M. —¦— ——A—, Foetid 33r T*Ft*N Patnotistnwhether Triumphant Fallen T Have Lived *R~*7~ , ¦ " Nj "•"M ^^M*—^N—-^—^^**^***^M^* Mbm*M^Twmm___^_M • • J' -*•*¦ A. T. .... , Towt I0 ' Lm The Norther* Star. , 1 Datriotism. Ivhof Hur F.: !._..*-V.- R-N._ ~ . I ... T..._Tt. ^ 7~ ^^===:= -J-—?!!^T—. ' '"¦ ' [ »¦ ' R» Iiimiiinn-M-Im ¦ 'In-*-. =^..- _ .-Ja-M—. -"
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BEAUTIES OF BYRON _, so . xxiv . " can . DE _niUOLB . " Intending to conclude onr _extracts from " Child-HarAd" this week , wc think this a _fitting opportunity to offer a few words in explanation of onr _molive in giving these extracts from the writings of liYnox . The " age of cant" is not yet orer , otherwise it would be unnecessary for us to trouble our readers wiili the fol ! owin «* remark- ? . —remarks deprecatory of ihat canting spirit whieh , animating too many of our periodical writers , critics , aud others , has given birth iv _th-tse endless ciilumnies of whieh the author of
• 'Childe Harold' uas been the victim . We speak not only of those who , fr . au { irst to last , have _beliowed against " the _irreli-ious and immoral tendency" ofthe poet ' s works , but also of those candid , likr _, u-m _\ n _> M gentlemen , who are professedly great admirers of the poet ' s genius , but who ever _aecoinj « uy tlieir grudging praise with the cry . " Look at 1 : is blemish—see that spot—mark , again , yon dci .. nnity : —oh , shocking ! "' These Pharisees , too , can nercr give a good word to anoth _.-r poet hut they must needs institute " odious comparisons" between the object of tlieir praise and poor Bykox . Tilus one _c-mpares _lkuxs with Bykox , ami tries to exalt the one by labouring to debase the other—as if _tiere was not room enoush fir the exaltation
of both : Another , who has never had he niodesty and sense to ask himself , "Who made tiiec a judge of thy iellows , or rather , siqvrior . <>" paints an elaborate portraiture ( after his own fanev ) 01 the external features aud appearance of _Btuox and _-SiiEtLSY _, deducing , therefrom , that the former was possessed _^ with the devils of all evil passions , and the latter with virtues just the _reverso of those passions . Again , a new poet is introduced to the -world , and his eulogist praises hiui in ao stinted terms , —good ; hut the new poet is not all-perfect , he has , _« £ least , some errors of a somewhat
ultra-anti-ortho--aax nature as regards his political and religious views , these " errors" the reviewer discountenances , but charitably adds , " They are not the engraiued sins of thai great poet , the _brightness of whose genius yet made the world _forget his spots . " Poor Byhox ! even the heterodox Bunxs , the atheistic Shelley . aud the democratic Coopek , find their admirers ; but at you all the " uneo guid" fling their pebbles . You are the Goliah , at which every _sclf-couceited David liurls his sling ' s bullet . They have one excuse— " a fool ' s bolt is soon shot "—and , _perhaps , littleness of niinu is as fairly chargeable against them as is meanness of heart .
Wc have not now to do with Byrox as a man , though we dare be sworn he was , as a human being , a * good and as noble as the most of his species , and iu some respects _iutinitely above the great mass of his fellow-men , his critics ami revileis included . We and posterity have only to do with him as a poet ; b y liis works , not his mortal seif , he must be judged How , what is the great and unpardonable fault oi his _vrcrks ? That they represent man as he is . Other poets have represented man not as he is , but as they would liavc him be ; but every day ' s experience shows their _iuairiuiugs to be dreams indeed , having but little similitude with the _reaiitka of file . The tniducers of JJsEiix know his pictures of life to he veritable por traits , but they will not confess to the likeness . These morality-mongers pass through life masking themselves in sueh appearances a * best suit the ¦ w orld ' . * hypocrisy , and they naturally execrate him - » - _?«! would unmask them .
Btrox was not more immoral than his fellows , but ie was more honest . Ilis assailants are not purer ihan he , but they arc hypocritical . In short , Byro >" was a Max , —his " ' * moral" calumniators arc Shams . ' It has been charged against _Bruox thathe viewed all nature with an "evil eye , " never omitting to blend evil with good , and giving to the former the prep mderanee . ilis own lines have been quoted against him : — Jiuow je the land wLcre the cypress and myrtle , Are emblems of deeas that are done in their clime , ¦ Where the rage of this vulture , the love of die turtle , Sow melt into sorrow , now madden to criuic t
But what are these lines but a picture , a true picture , not only of the land of the East , but of Earth throughout its many lands ? Let the history of mankind be investigated , and the records of each aud every nation will attest how greatly the evil has _preponderated over the good . Witness the wars , pestilences , aad famines , whic _' -i bave afflicted ail countries , to which should be added the slavery and misery of the great mass of the people of all nations . _Asa _ui _. view men as individuals , and besides " the _xiiou . * aud natural ills which iiesh is heir to , " have not _thcairou _* : vreyed upon the weak , and _tltccunnuigunoiv the ignorant ? Lias not the most absorbing and hoheit of passion * , love—the noblest ef virtues , patriotismfceea _Moductive of more misery to their devotees than
they ever have of happiness ? » hether the dreams which love inspires were ever fully realised to any human beings , even the inost virtuous and most fortuuate , we question ; while there can he no question that this passion has caused sorrows which no tongue ever gave full utterance to , no pen ever fully descriher Patriots have been victimised not only by tvraiiis , bat also by the very slaves they have sought to re deem from bondage and misery ; aiid where one patriot can be named as having succeeded in his mission , mvriads might be named who have suffered and perished , victims to the fraud and force of the privlk'ied few , and the ignorance and prejudices of _th-2 _deluded many . The detractors of _Bruo . v have _charged against him that he hoUs
up—« tlie name ot" Washington , To make man blush there was but one . " But we snould he glad to see the assailants of the poet controvert his assertion . It they cannot do so , aud they cannot , should they not bluslt ? and in truth man may blush for the history of his kind , that it
is so . . ., We remember an anonymous writer in I aits _Jiiagjzlne" winding up a savage attack on _Bvitox by _asking , " Whom have his work- ? made better ? " We will answer that question by asking that writer another _qnesti-ja : — * ' Does he consider Adam was the better for eating of the ' tree of knowledge of good and evil . '" H _* i was , certainly , the wiser , if not the _happier . But wha is happy i Certainly not the men of mind . We kuow of none in this world who would liavc the _presumption to assert their happiness , save two _classes—; hc selfish , who have no feeling for then fellow-creatures , and the ignorant dupes aad slaves
ia _s-jul , who boast their " _contentment . " Bus what man with heart _snd brains in him desires the _happiness of either class ? If any _niau fancies himseli _liappy , let him take a day ' s walk through London , aud , no matter how wise in thought , how equable in temper , how virtuous iu action he may be , let hiai but walk with his eyes open , and his fancied happiness will be dispelled . If nor—if he _finish his walk unmoved—we shall at once comprehend his boasted hi p ;; iness to be _seiMness ; that self-imposed fraud , which makes the ' " comfortable , " " respectable " _denizens of this world , eat by day , and sleep by night , undisturbed by the cry of the famishing and the waii of the homeless .
Wc will tell the detractors of Btrox what his works have done for us . They have uttered for us wiat we have not the voice to give utterance to ourselves . Thev are a protest against the "fitness of things" iu this " best of ali possible worlds "—a protest which the hearts of thousands , perhaps millions , accord with . Byrox ' s works viudicato " free _thought" and that ia the _ali-iiaportaut cousidera tho ? lie is not tbat hopeful of the future that Shelley is , but time ouly can decide whether he or his _uofce brother bard is right . __ For _ourselves , aiifriusu we regard the past much in the light that _Bvno : fregarded it , yet , as respects the future , we cling to the belie ! in man ' s progress , and trust and believe with Suelley , that " A brighter mora awaits the human day . "
Next to the defending of those great principles which men have _agreed to personify by the words " Trath" aad "Justice , ' * and the succouring the affis _-ed _, defending the innocent , and aiding the _oppressed ; next to tue * e sacred duties , surely 110 duty c , n be _m-ire binding on man than that of vindicating _tVe memories of the departed great , against the _slaa-Cers of _iiriiorant and interested calumniators . But ve do not _asaira to be the defenders of _Bvnox . luu Lis memory need an advocate , we are too conscious of o _** r inability toprcsume to take upon ourselves such an elite * ; fortunately , however , no defender is wanted —idl that is necessary is , that tiie pott should be permitted to vindicate himself . With that end in v _:.-w wc comaiencul « "vh > g the extracts from tne
po-t ' s works which lave appeared 111 this paper uuder _tke head " Beauties of Byron . " We believed that _Ksiwithjtanding the comparative low price at which Byron's works are now published by Mr . Mluriy , tiat thousands . » f the working class—the class thi _.- > paper is specially addressed to—knew little or _110-th-. _ns of them . " Cheap and illegitimate editions uf Bon Juan , Cain , and the Vsion of Judgment , { have hem circulated to some considerable extent , bst the rtsi of tiie poet ' s works are almost entirely unknown to the _miUinus . To let oar readers know something of the _beauties of the poetry they have been used to Lear _s-i much denounced by the puritanical aud
hypocritical , aud to inspire them with tue desire to _cultivate a knowledge of the works of one of their greatest countrymen , has lieen our o bject . Of _ course _n-i readerof _theNvrilicm Sv . tr will rest satisfied with the mere extracts we give in these columns ; on the contrary , each will _natmaiiy te desirous to possess the poet ' s works in full , and set about obtaining them , _uaiass absolutely prevented by poverty . We Lave no piratical view of transferring Btkox _' s works to oar comma * , oa the contrary , our object is to proia' . > te _thsir legitimate _eireulation amongst that class _viiieu hitherto has not known them at sdl , or known them bus imperfectly .
_Br-aix has not only vindicated free thought ; iie La-, also , in language nao t superbly poetical , _deli-yjuced tyrants r . ud their tyranny ; the curse and crimes « i war , and tiie many other emu-antics coinjiihu * J b \ man uiiu * . ! his ii ; l !( , _s- ' - _* _aan . In " tiioughi * tiki breathe and ' _ix'ords . ihsl _varA . " he has glorLied
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patnotistn , whether triumphant or fallen . n has sung of beauty and of love with ft seraph ' s _tongueand the very eloquence of woe has" recorded his _^ own sorrows _uiiunnortal vers , . To that Terse wc _com-S _« _ntVTf ° " ** _, _** ? name a _« d racmory _. not To tally comprehend and enjw the _Belies of £ ? 5 *?? read _™ _^ _erery _line tllepo t _^ eft us . Onr _extract ncces _sarih-give the . reader fii _S T SC ° _. th 0 SC " _beauties" Stilt the - SSJ ? ' T x a r ° I » "at « we could have -IK * .-I' d ° _,-H n t _•» deemed sufiicient wo r £ _™ _» i ? ' . VulltI _^ _cxplanatorvremarks , wcmm _proceed to g , v the f .. lIo « inSr concluding extracts from Childe Harold . " Next week , we shall introduce to our readers " The Giaour . " Datriotism . _ivhof _hur f .: ! . _ .. _* -v .- _r-n _. _ _~ .
_SAPOtEOM . —would he all or _nothing-nor could wait titthe sure grave tolevel him ; few years Una iixM hiin with the C »* ars in his " fate , On whom we tr „ -ad : For titis the conqueror wars The areh oftriuaiph ! and for this Oie tea _« And blood of & ir ; li flow on as they have flow'd , An _uaivt-rsal _dvluge , whicli appears \ Vithout an ark for wretched man ' s abode , And ebbs hut to re-flow!—ISeneir thy r _jiubow , God
TY 3 A > SY . What from tlii * barren being do we reap 1 Oar senses narrow , and our reason frail , Lit i short , and truth a gem which loves the deep , Ami all things _ni'is-. _' ied ia cu _. 'to _.-ii 5 - falsest scale ; 0 ;> iu ' _iBii and Omnipotence , —whose veil Mamies the earth with darkness , until right-And wrong are accidents , and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright , Aad _tliair free _thoughts be crimes , and earth have too much light .
And thus tliey plot in sluggish _mis-jry , Hotting from sire to son , and age to age , Proud of their trampled nature , and so die , _Uttpieathing their hereditary rage To * he new race of inborn slaves , who wage _VTar for their chaius _, and rather than be free , _Bietrd _gladiator-liki-, and still cngaga _VTithiu the same _aren . i where they see Thtir fellows fall before , like leaves of the same tree . I speak not of men ' s creeds—they rest between Man am ) liis maker—but of _thiuus allow'd , Averrd and known , —and daily , hourly seen—• The joke that is upon us doubly bowM , And the intent of tyranny avow'd , The edict of Earth ' s rulers who are grown The ape 3 of hiui who humbled once the proud , Awl shook _ibem from their slumbers on the throne ; Too glorious , were this all liis mighty arinhad done .
_WaSHISGTOJJ . Can tyrants but by tyrants conqusr'd be , And Freedom find no champion aud no child Such as Columbia saw arise when she Sprang forth a Pallas , arm ' . i and undented ? Or must such minds be nourished iu the wild , Deep iu the unprmied forest , ' midst th « roar Oi cataracts , where nursiug _Xaturo smiled On infant _Washuigton 1 lias Earth no more Such seeds within her breast , or Europe no such shore *
_FUEEDOJf . Yet , Freedom ! yet thy banner , torn , biit flying , Streams like tlie thunder-storm against the wind ; Thy trumpet voice , though broken now and _ilyiu-j , The loudest still the tempest leaves behind ; Thy tree hath lost its blossoms , and the rind , _Chopp'd by the axe , looks rough and Utile worth , But the sap lasts , —and stili the seed we find Sown deep , even in the bosom of the North ; So shall a better spring less bitter seed brins * forth .
_KiTCttS—SOLITOOE . Oh ! that ths desert wcre my dwelling place , AVith one fair _Syirit for uij minister , That 1 might all _forget the human race , And , hating no one , love but only her ! Ye Elements!—in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted—Can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do I err Iu _deeming such inhabit many a spot ? Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot There is a pleasure in the pathless woods , There is a rapture in tUe lonely shore , There is society where none intrudes , liy the deep Sea , and music iu its roar : I love not Man the less , but Nature morej From these our interviews , in which I steal From all I may be , or have been before , T _« mingle with the Universe , and feel What I can ne ' er express , vet cannot all conceal .
TBE OCEAN . _li-jll on , thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the eai'h with ruin—his control Stops with the shore - . —upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed , nor doth remain A shadow of man ' s ravage , save his own , When , for a moment , like a drop of rain , He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan , Without a grave , unkuell'd , uncoffin'd aud unknown . Ilis step 3 are not upon thy paths , —thy fields Are not a spoil for him , —thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the evil strength he wields Fur earth ' s destruction thou dost all despise , Spurning liim from tliy bosom to the skits , And seiid ' st him , shivering in thy playful spray And howling to his Gods , where haply lies Ilis petty hope iu soma near port or bav ,
And dashest him again to earth : —there let him lay _. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities , bidding nations quake , Aad _monarchs tremble in their capitals , The oak leviathans , whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee , and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys , and , as the snowy flake , They melt into tliy yeast of waves , whicli mar Alike the Armada ' s pride , or spoils of Trafalgar . Thy shores are empires , changed in aU save _thee—Assyria , Greece , Koine , Carthage , what are they f Thy waters wasted them while they were free , And many a tyrant since ; these shores obey The stranger , slave , or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : —not so thou , Uuch _ingeable save to tliy wild waves play—Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow—Such as creation ' s dawn beheld , thou _rollcst now .
Thou glorious mirror , where the Almighty ' s form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time , Calm or convulsed—iu breeze , or gale , or storm , Icing the pole , or ia tha torrid clime Dark-heaving;—boundless , endless , and sublime —< The image of Eternity—the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee : thou goust forth , dread , fathomless , alone
XOV £ . Qh Lwe ! no habitant of Earth thou art—An unseen seraph , we believe in thee , A faith whose martyrs _ara the broken heart , But never yet hath s ; en , nor e ' er shall see The naked eye , tliy form , as it should be ; The mind lnth made thee , as it peopled heaven , Even with its own devising phantasy , And to a thought such shape and image given , As hsuuts the unqjcuched soul— _-jarch'd—wearied wrung—and riven .
1 IFK . Our life is a false nature—' tis not in The harmony of things , —thi 3 hard decree , This uneradicabl ¦> taint of sin , This boundless upas , this all-blasting tree , Whose root is earth , whose leaves and branches be The skies which rain their plagues oa men like dcK *—Disease , death , bondage—all the woes we see—And worse , the woes we see not—which throb through The immedicable sou , with _hcart-aclus ever new . Yet let us p mder boldly— 'tis a base Abandonment of reasou to resign Our right of _thought—our last -and only place Of refuge ; this , at least , shall still ha uilue : Though from our birth the faculty divine Is chain'd and tortured—cabiu'd , cribb'd , confin'd , Aud bred i n darkness , lest the truth should shine Too brightly on the unprepared mind , The beam pours in , for time and skill will couch tho blind
the cc & ie ! Oh Time ! _theheautifisr of ihedead , Adornerof the ruin , comfirter And only healer when the heart hath bled—Time ! the corrector where our judgments err , The test of truth , love , —sole philosopher , For all beside are so ;> hists , from thy thrift , Which never loses though it doth defer—Time , the avenger ! unto thee I lift Mv hands , and eves , and heart , and crave of thee a gift # * " *** # t And if my voice break forth , ' t 16 not that now I shrink t ' rsm what is suflei'd : let liim _spsak Who hath beheld decline mion my brow ,
Or seen my mind ' s convulsion leave it weak ; But iu this page a record will I seek . Sot ia the air shall those my words disperse . Though 1 be ashes ; 2 . far hour shall wreak The deep prophetic tuluess of this verse , And pile on human heads the mountain of my curse ! That curse shall be Forgiveness—Have I not—Hear me , my mother Earth ! behold it , Heaven!—Have I not had to wrestle with my lot ? Have I not _sufl'er'd things to be forgiven 1 Have I not had my bnuu searM , my heart riven , Hopes sapped , name blighted . Life ' s life lied away ' And only 110 : to _desperation driven , _JS . _cauac not altogether of such clay Ai rots into ths souls of those whom I survey .
From mighty wrongs to petty perfidy Have 1 not seen what human _things could do 1 From the loud roar of foaming calumny To the small whisper of the as paltry few , Ami subtler venom of the reptile crew _Ti-. e _J-. _tuus glance of whose significant eye , _Leaniiiy _g > lie with silence , would seem true , And without utterance , save tlu shrug or sigh , Ilea " , round to happy _foois its speechless obloquy .
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Bu « t I have lived , and have not lived in vain : My . -mad may lose its force , my Wood its fire , And _n . 'J * frame parish eVcii in _conquering pain ; Bat the . " w that within me which shall tire Torture a . "d Time , aud breathe when I evpire . Something unearthl y , which u , cy deem not of , like the rem _.-mherM tone ofa mute lyre , Shall on their * . "oficned spirits sink , and move In hearts all rocky . now the late remorse of love . ... T _... _ . _^
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TilK CONNOISSEUR— _Jasuaiy . . London : E . Mackenzie , 111 , _Fleei-etrect , The second volume of the " Cot _fwoisijeh'v" opens with great spirit . The present _mostli ' _ij . number , _be-ndes containing many excellent articles , is embellished with a lithographic engraviti" *>/ _VAtwrcu , from a portrait by himself ln _thi _^ _o _^ msite engraving" Mr . Maouirk has exceeded all ' Ah farmer triumph * . In tlie editorial address comnieucing the present number , the writer talcea hHi . _nixtnd in vindicating true , and exposing false , critici 3 n . v He promises that what tiie " Coiiiioisseiir" has JJi _^ eii hitherto , itsliallcontinue to be , the honest _cncouragier of talent , and the uncompromising opposer _atf quackery ; " a singularity of imrnosc alone _siifficieiTtf
to exeuse its intrusion on the pubiie . " '• Music as an Art , " is an ably written article ; and although the writer makes some novel , and indeed startling , assertions , his arguments _insupportofthoseassertions are , wc think , not easily to be answered . An article is devoted to a criticism 011 Mr . _IVallack ' s acting , in which the writer does justice to that veteran performer ' s excellent , and , in the present day , unrivalled personation of lago . " A Concert of Amateurs" lets the uninitiated into a few secrets of how these things are managed , wliich will make them laugh . This numberalsocontahisarticles 011 "Musical Criticism , " " Royal Academy of i \ Iusic King ' s Scholarships , " "The Decorative Art Society , " and the usual notiees of the dramatic and musical performances of the past month , which , as usual , are very interesting .
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TIIE ALMANACK OF TIIE MONrU . A 11 ? .-view of Ev 2 kttiii . no * and _Evkryuouy . Edited by _GlJLBEBT A . A *]> KCKKTT . This is a rare sixpenny-worth of fun , the essenceat least tho funny essence—of Punch squeezed into a fitting compass for the waistcoat pocket . First , we have "Some Account of January . ' _Si'KXSiiit described Jauuary as " an old gentleman , wrapped well " Iu many weeds , to keep the cold away . " Now , we are of opinion that " weeds " must have been originally written " tweeds ; " for , putting out of the question the well known fact that there are _uo weeds iu January—except widows' weeds , which an old man would not wear—it is very unlikely that Januarius would wrap himself up in such useless
and uncomfortable clothing , liie term " wrapped well" bears us out in our supposition , for , although none of us ever heard of " weedisli wrappers , " it is undeniable that "Tweedish wrappers" are articles we are all of us acquainted with . The " Great Event of the Month" is , of course , "The Ministerial Crisis , " which is _appropriately treated as a pantomime . The " Exhibition of the Month " introduces us to the _Smithfield Club Cattle Show . A poetical gem , entitled , "The Four Visits , " is excellent . The piece is signed "M . L" Mark Lemon , we presume . The " Abuse of the Month " is a severely
-iitiri « -al comment on the recent Woodstock Election . The "Absurdity of the Month" cuts up those benevolent newspaper gentry , who , not content , as heretofore , to " give away" waste-paper supplements , are now scrambling " three-guinea globe * , " and even " thousands of pounds sterling ! _"' The " Stage Passions" are treated of in an " Ode" by Mr . a'Bkckktt —how treated we need not say . These are but a very few of the good tilings _contained in this Almanack , which , hy the bye , is not wanting in some ot tbe serious and useful information contained in other almanacks . It treats of everything right humourously , aud everybody who loves a joke should read it .
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PUNCH , Part UV . London : Punch office , 92 , Fleet-street . The ancients had their "Immortal Nine" whom poets and others have so often apostrophised , hut we the moderns , are stiil more fortunate in possessing the wine immortal volumes of Punch . The present Part concludes the Niuth Volume , wh ' ch , if it be not superior , is at least equal to any of its predecessors . Amongst the principal subjects done justice to in this Part we notice our old friend Silk Bucki . nuiiam and his "Destitute . " lie well deserves the merciless castigatien administered to him . Ofcour . se Sir R . Pe > l is duly remembered , and here we have him _figuvinii as "The _i ' reimcr Navigator , " " Tho Knave of Spades , " & e . The "Iron Duke" is also dulv
honoured , as "The Army Tobacco-Stopper , " tlie nurse to the " Military Nursery , " and as the log tied to the leg of Peel . In this Part , too , Punch does full "justice to Ireland" b y his Inimitable illustration of" The Real Potatoe Blight , " exhibiting chariatan Pan in the form of an enormous rotten lumper . The "Diary" of the renowned " Jeames , " formerly of Berkeley-square , is continued in this Part , aud is what J . ames would call " wastry emusing . " But the gem of this Partis Punch ' s Ahiianaet for ISiG , which is very superior to the one for 1 S 1-5 . First , wc have twelve " Railway Miseries , " illustrated by Lekcu ; next , "Songs of tlie Months , " each song beiug an imitation of some popular poet . Amongst others we have imitations of _Byuos , Moore , Tesstsos , Barry
Coax wall , Leigh Huxt , Macaulat , Eliza Cook , and , chief of all , the " Poet Buns" ! Last , not least , this Almanack contains the sequel to the far-nous " Caudle Lectures , " showing how , after the death of Mrs . Caudle , —" sainted creature "—Caudle married Mi-s l _' rettyman , and how he " nagged her to death . " He had been a slave to his first wife , and so , to restore the balance , he became a tyrant to his _sucond . It is impossible to describe the fantastic whims and conceits whieh profusely adorn each page , and which must be seen to be appreciated . We should state that tiie Almanack may be had separately at the price charged for a single number of Punch . That it will have an immense circulation , is beyond doubt , and well it deserves it .
Tiie Tom Thumb Songster. London Cleave, ...
TIIE TOM THUMB SONGSTER . London Cleave , Shoe-lane . Judgin , * by the first and second numbers , this work will , when completed , be the best collection of songs published . What do our readers think of more than fifty songs for a penny ! E _ich number contains that number of songs , selected from the best authors , containing , too , the neweit and most popular lyrics of the day . The numbers are printed small pocket size , ami the work bids fair to be tiie neatest , handiest , and best in the world .
The London General Reciter. London: Clea...
THE LONDON GENERAL RECITER . London : Cleave , Shoe-lane . This is a companion work to the above , published in the same form , and at the same price . In addition to some of the best pieces in prose and poetry , generally known as " Recitations " the numbers before us contain choice and beautiful selections from Shakspkaiie , Byro . v , Mooue , _Cami'heix . Burks , Barry Cornwall , and others . The third number contains also tin whole of tiie celebrated Speech of the Martyred Patriot Robert Emmett . Truly this is an excellent work , and both it anil the Song Book ( noticed above ) cannot fail to have an immense circulation .
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WILLIAM 'MOM , THE POET OF _INVERURY . William Tiiom , the poet of Invevury , whose beautiful and pathetic " Rhymes aud Recollect ions" have made his name famous from the Thames and the Tweed to the Ganges and the Mississippi , is , we understand , about to appear before the public in a new , but appropriate character . Associated with Mr . Siscxaii _* , the celebrated Scotch vocalist , Mr . Tiiom is ahout to commence a scries of musical entertainments , in which his own lyrics , with the best ofthe songs and ballads contained in . Scottish minstrelsy —an _inexhaustible fount to draw frum—will be provided for the public ; these will be interspersed with
_Northern legends , _htstor . eal narratives , local traditions , and illustrations'of the manners , habits , customs , Ac , ofthe " guid folk" of the far North . Messrs . Tiiom and Si . vclair will , we understand , make their debut before a London audience in about two or three weeks' time . As one of " nature ' s nobles , " and an honour to the working class , Mr . Tiiom has especial claims upon our good word , which we give him most heartily . We hope our _readers will be on the lookout for the _commencement of tlie intended entertainments , for we are quite confident they will be instructed and delighted by the performances ol _Messrs . Tiiom and Sixclaiu .
Cpopeu, The Chartist.—Cooper, The Leices...
Cpopeu , the Chartist . —Cooper , the Leicester Chartist orator , who figured conspicuously in the riots of 1842 . and who subsequently _snftVved imprisonment for sedition , has betaken himself to literature , with much success . He lately published a lengthy poem entitled " The Purgatory of Suicides , " in whieh , the professed critics being judges , there are some splendid passages , lie has just published a two-volume book entitled '" Wise Saws and Modern Instances , " of which the Leicester Chronicle says , "the volumes contain a immber of sketches of
character , and delineations of scenes drawn chiefly Irom humble life . They are well written and interesting . The extreme notions , and some of tiic unsound views , of the writer are occasionally introduced into them , but seldom , if ever , in an oll ' ensivc manner . Tue stories contain some true and painful pictures of the miserable condition of many of the poorest operatives ; while others of them arc ofa humorous description . " Another paper says that Cooper is now a contributor to some ot the leading London magazines . —Bradford _Observer .
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A suw _PiiovKULKii for Steamers . —The model oi a new invention for _pi-opeilii : _^ steamers , wliiuli is said tu be weli worthy of _itur-cctwii aud attention , may l : c seen at ihe office of Messrs , Wiliiucr and . Smith , CiiwcU-strect .
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TIIE TRICKS OF THE LEAGUE , TO THE EDU'On OF TIIE NOHTHKUN STATt . Sir , —With 11 great portion of my i ' ellow . _countrymen ,-1 believe the Cora Laivs are a branch of that upas-tree be Heath whose deadly shade we have too long suffered , j am , therefore , no opponent to the abolition of those obnoxious laws , if their repeal is sought to be obtained I _mproper means , and the _benefits resulting from such _repeal secured to the whole people , instead of flowing into tho pockets of greedy speculators and grasping proht 01011501-a—a calamity which our old friend and bi other Radical , Sir Charles _Wolseli-y , opines will he the case ; and his opinion rests on no mean foundation .
I have said the Corn Laws are a branch of the political upas-tree . WiU it be wise to lop off tl » 3 single bruftch , and leave the root , trunk , and its multifarious branches untouched ? I trow not . Such was not the plan recommended by Major Oartwright . In his opinion , the pruning * of corruption ' s tree , would _attvcgtUen and invigorate it ; while / to destroy it , the axe of Radical Reform must be _appifed to the root , and every vestige ba thoroughly eradicates . Now , sir , if the Leaguo are really desirous to benefit the whole _coiamunity , why do they not lay tlio axe , at / nice , to tho root , whereby the object would be achieved ; _as iho mass would willingly enlist under thw ' r banner , _annf thus _faoiK-S'tte the work of political redemption . _Sfewew , as the means they employ must result in the presWT . ation and perpetuation of the great evil , it behoves
the _tvwli ing classes to stand aloof from their movement . If She } ' connect good , sound , salutary , and essential _pi'incipfef with their dogma—such principles as those _ctnbodibvl in the document entitled the "People's Chaiter '—tV ven , but w _> t tilt then , ought the people to render them * cvt ry possible support . They repudiate the idea of a ''¦ alii ling scale , " and will hear of nothing but going -he ' " _s-ho le hog" for their favourite measure ; it is , therefore , _rMictt lous for them to expect us to retrace our steps and _coihj-Ij ' with their advancing backwards , it' the League are ju _* jtifi ed in discountenancing half measures , surely the _Chni-tust ' -s are no less justified in contending for the whole messorr of the People ' s Rights . The argilments (?) tho I . esgn 0 use against us as " going loo far " may he as cogentijr _applied by the Protectionists against the League .
Depend upon it , jir , if the League were anxious to lay a" big _l » af" ou evwy _labourer's table , they would turn their attention front' * _se solitary branch of the national evil to the root _itselfr _-snt' alter their m < xh » operandi from the getting up of peep * _-sfioVVS , and exhibiting grind-stones and circular saws to _tn <> I ;« _iies as " articles of _vei-fu , " to something more svnsibls and better _ad'up-ied to compass the object . Hut they hare yet to give evidence that they contemplate the _ceminoii'ititei ' est . jMillcivnersv . and those allied to them , are the _nuusn springs in the movement . It is well known that "times are so hard" ' that the said millownurs can boast of their tens of _thousand ' s , purchase domains , erect palaces , anfi ! sport expensive _equipages , while the little loaf _growilesvsn the _vvorkies table .. If it be difficult for the camel to pass through tftu eye of a needle , it is evidently not very _diflicult to draw _a'aiiuwion through the eyo of a shuttle ; yet , notwithstanding the facility of accumulating these riche 9 , it never _enttsrs- the minds of the profitinen to turn ths table a little _iufuvovcr _ottheshuttle-drivfr ,
As the existing system enables tlio-pillars of the Li-ague to amass wealth with such _aniazin-frapidity , and to give their thousands to achieve their pet measure , they ought , in all conscience , to demonstrate _titeir sincerity iu the cause of the poor (?) by extending their bounty towards those whose good they say they seek , _iia the shape of an additional sixpence per cut , and a little-mow per week to the poor muleteers . This they can do , bat they won ' t- — thus proving the " _sueat fact , " that self-interest ami class aggrandisement are the objects sought under the guise _» f philanthropy .
On « trick of the League demands the _ranst public exposure . In their print * they blazon forth the " _obimt fact , " that a " uorkhuj man" has subscribed ! £ 25 towards the fund now raising to prosecute their next campaign . Sow , sir , if such was the case , their opponents might urge the" cheat _vact" as a reason for their hostility to all _change ; for , if a working man can _ntfjrdtociVE that sum , the system must work well , and it would be _dangerous to interfere therewith . Moreover , O . _itiden and Co , may advantage themselvis by _keeping this " CHEAT p act" in store for five U ' . _xda purposes . Should the " total repeal" crown their _Ms-interested efforts , they might say to Tim Bobbin , Well ,
Tim , then- 5 urmvt thee cut in , and thinks _thcwl get moar brass for ' t , knew ax't Korn Laws are nock ' t hov ; bud tliew mun submit to a pull deivn _, ot goa bewt work ; fer fhew mun understond we've them there lbrrin chaps to kumpcat with . Thew kon get porritch fer les knew than afore ; an' caw to thee moind th' ameunt we laid dewn to get th * hahbolishon , which we mini _h-iv back wit ' _hintei-est . An' sue thee bud , _du-i't remember Jack o ' Sam ' s givin' twenty-five pewnds _fet- _' t ivpcal . This shows yr > worrant badly hof befoar , though wc win * foarst to sa ' soa to gut wot wc wanted . Rut 1 conna stond _higglin we thee . Tuppence throe-fardins is't first reduction uppo every cut : an' iv ta dust ' ntloykeir , then get ent 0 ' me _ltewntin-hewse ; these plenty waitin' fcr ' t job cwtside "
I am neither a prophet , nor yet the son of a prophet , yet , sir , I _ventuva to pi-edict that something approximating to the above will not be of _unfienuent occurrence _, should the League rule the roast . A worthy man in this country , now under worse than the ancient Egyptian yoke , gives £ 25 to furthvr League purposes !!! Impossible . Tho real "fact" is , the " working man" is a rcedmaker _, employing several journeymen , besides apprentices . He is well to do—has a good business—is a kind and benevolent man , and worthy of better company than the League . Itis not his first donation , His object . I i elieve , is pure , but the League arc making use of his name and kindness to subserve purposes whieh , I guess , the donor never contemplated . Yours , truly , William Uidlt .. London , Jan . 7 . 1816 .
Ihe Poon Or The "1'Iitst City Is The Wob...
Ihe Poon or the " 1 _'iitST City is the Wobld !" —On Monday a poor woman named Mai » _ai-et Wright , aged upwards of seventy years , was brought before the Lord Mayor by Captain Kincaid , tiic aovernnr of Bridewell Hospital . Captain Ivincaid said that the old woman had been some time since committed to _Dridewell for two months for _haviii" * broken a window , and was sent , upon being _discharged frum that prison , to the City of London Union , in O _' aiiiionstreet , for the purpose of being conveyed to her parish in the country . 15 y her own account , after she had remained at the union-house at Pcckham for a fortnight , she was discharged , although she was _iuvsiou « to he allowed to remain in that asylum . The Lord Mavor : She did not discharge herself ? Captain
Ivincaid : She says- she wished to stay there , for she was in a state of utter destitution , and that the authorities would not allow her to remain beyond Monday morning . The Lord Mayor : 1 must say it is very discreditable iu the authorities of the large union of the City of London to have such complaints . They will nottf . ke tlio trouble to make inquiry into the eases _brought before them , and thus the poor ave deeply _alllictcd , and an enormous increase of expenditure takes place . I have received au account of the mischief done in breaking of windows during the last year , by persons who came here in consequence , in most instances , of the defective system of the City of Loudon Union . The following ia tlie account alluded to hy his lordship : —
From 1 st January to 31 st December , 18-15 . Total number of persons charged before tlie Lord Mayor with breaking windows Mo Total number of panes ol glass broken by the above 2-U Total estimated value of the alwve £ 11 13 s . Of that number , persons clurged with breaking windows at the Mansion-house S 2 Number of panes broken at the Mansionhouse 103 Value of glass destroyed at the
Mansionhouse ; G 2 S I 2 s . The Lord Mayor observed that the amount of the expense incurred , according to the list he had read , would have diminished the expenses to which the City was subjected by the extraordinary conduct pursued by the authorities of the union . The Lord _M-iyoraddcd that ho would take care that tho poor creature : should ba safely and comfortably conveyed to Cumberland . Ilis lordship said he could not take ii bettor opportunity of returning his most grateful thanki to the press for tho able manner ifi whieh they had responded to his call for assistance in rendering service to tiie poor children who were to be seen about the streets in a friendless and deplorable condition . He had received a great number of valuable communications upon the subject , and iie had not the slightest tio . ibt that a remedy wouht _, in a _short lim , _bs applied , a id iu all probabilit / eliicaciously _, to the tremendous evil .
_Attemited SstciiiE of a . Soi . _oiKR . —On Tuesday a private in tiie OOtli ililles , stationed in Dumbarton Castle , on being relieved from sentry at live in tho morning , attempted to kill himself , by placing the muzzle of his gun to his head , under the chin , and then discharging it . Tho pour fellow was so far successful—ho discharged his gun , but did not kill himself . The ball entered at the lower part of the face , but in place _ongoing up through his head , as he had intended , it came out above the nose , leaving ihe brain untouched . The victim of the rash act was , thereforeleft , in life , but desperately 'rounded . Thv
, jaw , the greater part of the tmgue , toe nose , anil indeed the whole face nearly , have been destroyed . The poor sufferer has been brought to tho barracks in Paisley , where the main part of the _depOt is stationed . He lias a good chavaeter in the regiuteiit , and is supposed to be ose- of the many who full victims to the _uttnaturai & _j'steinofpi-yti'iicteillife _boi _* - viee , which is pccnlEff to Ihe pritish army . Despondency _rcgardi-. i _* 4 the state of his _witc and three children , is _supposed , in consequence of his inability to assist them , _tj have operated most directly on his mind . _—UltiMOto Saturday Post .
Uoi , i . ow . \\'' . i _OisiMKKT and 11 u . s . — -Debtors' prison lufirmar / , Whitecross-street . —Extraordinary cure of Scrofula , hy the use of one large pot of Ointment and a _b-ix ni'Vtfls . —Captain Jarvis , an inmate of tho above prisor _, _, h _.-ul , for ten years past , several dreadful sera ' _"'¦ n' is ulcers on his legs and other parts of his body , w , i ' . eh _rcMslei ! every other kind oi ti-csiinic . it . liis < _- " ' ie was so _desperate as to confine him for several r iiimlhi tothe inlirmary _, until he was miraculously < cured by these _inediuines .
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* r _~*~ , " _nj " •" _^^ _M*—^ _n— - _^—^^**^***^ m _^* mBm _* m _^___^ TUN HOURS' BILL . LOUD MORPETH ASD TUB _JlELrlOATBS FltOM TILE SHORT TIME _COl'MHTEES . The death of LordWliarnclifii :, and the consequent _deration of the lion . John Stuar _. t Wortley , M . P ., to the House of Peers , having created a vacancy in the representation of the West Hiding , the central short time committees of _Yorkshireresvuveil that the ten hours' question should be promptly brought before such candidate or candidates as might offer them-¦ _ttlves , and that the secretary should solid ; an interview for a deputation from each of the _slmrt time committees ofthe manufacturing districts of Yorkshire . ' --.
On Saturday , December 21 , the Right Hon - Lord Viscount M orpeth having , in compliance with a numerousl y signed requisition ofthe electors , offered limscl as a camlidute _. intimating , at the same time , his intention of declining to visit the several large towns asion former occasions , the secretary ofthe centra short time committee immediately proceeded o lastlc Howard , from whence his lordsh ' ip ' s address tothe electors was dated the day previous , for the pin-poser of soliciting an interview for a deputation Irom all the short time committees of tho "West Riding on this important subject . Ho arrived at Castle Howard on Saturday evening , and was most courteously received by the noble lord ; who , in reply to hi * request on behalf of the short time committees , that
Lord Morpeth would fix a day upon which he might be pleased to meet the deputation from those bodies , expressed his readiness to meet diem at York . His lordship , at the same time , stated that if the delegates thought proper to send him a written communication , ho would give it the same attention , and save the deputies and himself the trouble ofa long journey . After some conversation on the factory- question , in which the noble lord showed considerable interest for the improvement of the _couditionof the workingclasses , the secretary returned , and on Monday summoned a meeting ofthe delegates at the New-inn , at Bradford , for Tuesday , the 30 th nit ., which was presided over by -the Rev . William Morgan , B _. D _., incumbent of Christ Church .
After considerable discussion it was decided that Lord Morpeth ' s suggestion should be acted upon , and the following memorial was unanimously adopted , to whicli his lordship ' s answer has been " received this day ( Jan . 5 th ) : —
. MEMORIAL OK TllE DELEGATES OF THE SHOUT TIME COMMITTEE _KOll TIIE WEST niDI . N 0 or ioiikshihe , "To the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Morpeth . " % lord—We , the delegates of the short time commitJee ; deputed from all the large nianu ! auturin ; j towns uf the West Riding , hsg leave most _respectfully to statu to your * lo . _-dship _, that the _existing act of Parliament allows _tlve- working of young persons in factories ( or twelve hours a day on rive days of the week , and nine hours on Saturdays-. That these hours of labour in factories are most oppressive , and that tho shortening thereof i » absolutely essential to the well-being of the crowded population iuthtt factory districts . Ihat the large-proportion of females and young persons employed in factories renders _itthsmore necessary to lessen this unreasonable lenxth of toil , and that the hours of working- should be from six in the- morning to six in the evening ., allowing _oroiier intervals- ftr meals .
" That a majority ofthe House of Commons , _including most of the leading : members of all parties , dWi iu the session before _lnsty-give-iheir support to Lord Ashley ' s measure of ten hours- working per nay , but , in _consequence ofthe opposition of the government to this just and necessary liuiiutioii ,. their decision was _subsequently reversed . "That the factory 3 _j-stem _requii-03 this term of daily labour to be enacted , fovthe purpose of giving to the _workiny . classes and their families the means of obtaining social comfort with moral and religious improvement . Tiia't this great questicnean never be settled until the chiiiKO of justice and humanity are conceded by a _le-jiiiative prohibition of the destructive toil , which many hundred * of thousands of persons-arc now doomed to suffer in factories inflicting upon these unoffending individuals two houu longer labour per day than is required from adults , who perform tlieir daily labour at other trades out of faat 03 i « 3 .
" _YOUI * memorialists , thewforo , most earnestly entreat your lordship ' s sympathy for their oppressed condition ; and . in theereni of your lordship being again called to take your seat in the House of Commons as iho representative ofthe West Riding , that you will gratify the expeetation entertained from your lordship's benevolent character , by giving your influence ami support to the bill which irill be introduced by lord Ashley for the restrietion of factory labour _t- _> ten hours a day for five days , and eight hours on Saturday : - . Signed on behalf ot" the delegates of the Short Time Committees , W , Morgan , B . l ) ., Chairman . AI . Ualme , Secretary .
LORD _SIORFCTU _' S _ItiPLV . Castle Howard , Jan . -3 , 18 ! C . Gentlemen—I have been favoured with the Memorial of the delegates of the Short Time Committees of the West Hiding or Yorkshire , I willingly promise to them the sympathy they request , with so much propriety and forbearance of language , for the whole buoy vihiuli they represent , and for their condition iu life . If I now reenter _Parliament , after the long interval of absence from its deliberations , and without having had the many important questions connected with factory labour especially brought under my notice , I must reserve to myself entire freedom to deal « 'ith the propositions which may be submitted for adoption ; but I shall bring to their consideration a keen feeling for the wants and Irishes oi the working classes , and a resolute determination to do my whole duty towards them . —I have the honour to be , gentlemen , vour most faithful servant ,
_HoarETii The delegates of the Short Time Committees ofthe West Hiding .
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Seicidk . —Mr . Wakley , M . l \ , coroner , held an inquest at the sign of the Red Lion , near Hammersmith Suspension-bridge , ou the body of Anne 1 ' earman , aged sixteen years , who was found in the river , _having , as it was supposed , committed suicide , owing to the _' threals ol hei * late mistress to h ..- ; e her brought before a _magistrate for some theft with which she was charged . The deceased , however , protested that she was innocent , but exhibited the utmost dread of the proceedings with which she was threatened . Mr . Wakley remarked on the harshness of the measures adopted towards so young a person . Verdict , " Found drowned . " The L . _vtb Boh . br Explosion " . — . \ _nothru Dk . vtii . —About eight o clock _o-. i Sunday morning another death , making the total number fifteen , was added to the list of victims by the late calami toil i explosion at the mill of Messrs . " llottwell and Kitts . The
doceased was a little gui , named Ann llaruman , aged eight years , who wns crossing tlie factory yard , and had got to the door of tiie house where she lived when the explosion took place . —Manchester Guardian . DARING R . UI . WAT RounliRY . _—liElCBSTBn , J \ x . 7 . — At tiie Leicester L ' pip / iauy sessions , Imld _before C . W . Packe _, Esq .-, M . P . at the Castle at _Leicester , to-day , Alfred Pencvainc and Josephine Marie lluismans " were charged with stealing a portmanteau , the property of S . Cooper , from Hie station of the Midland Counties Railway _Campany , at Leicester . The prisoners were of French extraction . The prosecutor is a tradesman , residing in _Kerby-slrcet , _llattonnarden . O . _i the Sth ult . he arrived at Leicester by
the railway , and took his portmanteau into tue booking-office , where he gave it in charge of a porter , intending to call for it on his return from the town , but upon his returning to tin * oiiiec lie _feiind the portmanteau had been taken away , and being unable to obtain any tidings cf it , he _piirsned his journey to Nottingham , where he gave information to the police , who at Nottingham ascertained that the two prisoners had offered various articles ol plate to different individuals for sale , and they were ultimately taken into custody , and the portmanteau in question , with its contents , was found in tlieir ' possession . From inquiries that were _subsequently made , it appeared that the prisoners were waiting at the Leicester s _' . ation when Mr . Cooper arrived b \ _fcltc train , ami as his _yortimmU-nii _happened i . i he placed close by their luggage , the female _psiMmer gave directions to one ofthe station porters to convey
that , together with their own luggage , t : i the _i-ari-iage ; n which they were a \« mt to ta _' se their _seAti .. Upon arriving at Systoti , a station about live naiJes- from Leicester , they left the wain , _ivtul remained till the arrival of the next , by which ti . cy proceeded _ta-Lough-Iwi-ough , ab nit six luiles fuv . horon , v > he * i > thoy remained all night , and went en to Nottingham the foiloivitii ; day . Mr . _Maeaulay addressed the . jury mi behalf of the prisoners , and i . i ihe eou ? he ' of Mi observations lie made some very string-Hit _redeistiotis upon the gross negligence exhibited _C-v . the servants ofthe railway _cmii-iauy , eiw of wiu > ai-. < aid , _ iii reply to a question put by -Mr . Macaulay , that " it was an everv dav occurrence fs . r oilier _pivsongei-s _. _uggags to bo taken awav bv individuals _va-whom ii did not l ) clonw . ""l'hejurv iU ' ievacaicfulaiimmin _^ up of the case by tho chairman , returned . 4 verdict ef Guilty . The prisoner was sentenced to- twelve mcntirs' _impvUomuc-nt with _b-rd labour .
Si : im > un Deaths . —Yesterday Mv . Hodiord held two inquests on pcreons who had died in n sudden manner . The iivst case was . hold at the Goikleii Linn , Dean-street , Soho , on the _bsdy of I _' _aroiiat : _Saumlerson , aged 2 ; _5 years . It _.-appeared by the evidence that on Wednesday _cver-Ang last _ti- . o deceased had been at a Christmas par .. ; , she than appeared iu her usual health and chc «' uhv _* . " ? s ; the nyxt day she complained of pain in thoeheot ,. She was attended bv Mr . Marshall , a -surgeon , but she died on Friday
morning . From a post mortem _exuiuuiatioti it wa . _» found that there had been an ulcer in the stomach , which _burstinij ; had caused _ death , ll- might have been accelerated by dancing or other exertion . Verdict , Died from natural causes . The second ease was held _tvt- the Plough , Carey-street , on Jonathan Stuckam Ingram , aged 51 , a _liecir-ed waterman at the Spotted Dog , Strand , who was ii'iir . il on Saturday _morning lying in bed cjiiUedead ; a medical gentleman said freiu _y-n at luck of apoplexy . Verdict aci C 0 _l'u ' wg \ v ,
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St. Paul's And Westminster Abbef. A Dubt...
ST . PAUL'S AND WESTMINSTER _ABBEf . A DUBT . . WKSTMISSTfiR _AllllSt . liver since I was an abbev , or , so to speak , a little baby , I never knew _anything soshabbv , no , notes _, cepting a superannuated tabb y ! „ , , st . _iwui / a . lowuom are _youalluiliiig ? on what wrong _naf you be brooding ? thus on the silence of the night so remarkably an abrupt exclamation iutritdin " . WBSTMlXSTElt AI 1 I 5 KY . lo tlie dean and chapter ' s doing , to the course they ve been pursuing ; whieh if they don't abandon it , 1 tear will prove mv utter ruin .
st . _m-i / s . And pray how have they ill-used vou ? mismanaged or abused you , dish _' _sured you , or due _i-ep _. _-uia aud fit and pro per maintenance refused you ? WESTM _1 XSTER _AISUKY . Why , old fellow , don't you know that they ' ve made nip quite a show , which is not at all the purpose I was built for long ago , and is one that I con * sider mean and low ? st . r . _vui / s . You suffer not alone , your grievance is my own ; I , too , have to bemoan that like a curiosity-shop I am daily shown .
¦ _ffESTJIIXSTKU ABBEY . __ m reduced to the condition of the Chinese Exhibition—though that will shortly close , when I shall , goodness knows !—or of the Egyptian Hall , which I i ! _on'tli _); eat all ; 1 feel , with deep dejection , that I ' m open for inspection , like Burford ' s Panorama , or Madame _lussaud ' s collection . . . . , st . _r-Aia ' _s . My case is just the same , and I say it is a shame ; I am like the Industrious Fleas , or anv sight you please : andlm sure you will agree , a Cathedral _Llitirclt like me ought never to have been converted into a sort of Woinbivcli ' s menagerie . _wBSTMixsrun aisbry . May I ask you , by the wav , how much the public payto behold your various wonders , hear vour whispering gallery ' s thunders , and listen to vour verger ' * monstrous Cockneyisras and blunders ? " ST . _r-ACT / s .
_I'onr-and-sw , or _theretbout , to see me out-andout , is the sum the show-folks charge ve—bv them I moan the clergy—a price my visitors m ' tv justly groan at . Now , in return , tell me what " are you shown at ?
# _lVKSTOI . _VSTEK ABBEY . fis but a sixpenny touch , but that sixpence is too much for . vorkiiigmen and such ; the nation ' s church _, should be , like the British nation , free , for high and low , rich and poor , gcntlcand simple , without money , without price , without i-cw . -irdor . fee . sr . paul ' s . That ' s exactly what I say , ' tis a monstrous thing to pay to see a church , as if it were a concert or a play . How deplorable our state is ' .- Thove ' s th & National Gallery gnttis : so is-the British Museum : and here are we , no better than the Colosseum!—Punch A YANKEE TRADE . " I calculate 1 couldn ' t drive a trade with vou today ? " said a true specimen of the Yankee " pedlar , as he stood at the door of a merchant in St . Louts . " 1 calculate you calculate about right , for vou cannot , " was the sneering reply .
l \ al , I guess you needn ' t get huffy about it . Now , here ' s-a dozen real genuine raw strops , worthtwo dollars- and a halt—you mav have ' em for _tivo dollars . '' i tell you-1 don't want any of vour trash so you had better be going . " Wal _, now , I declare ! I'll bet you five dollars if you make me an offer fo r them are _stnps , we'll have a trade yet " " Done , " replied the merchant , placing the money in the hands of a- bystander . The Yankee deposited the like sum—when the merchant oUorcd him a pic ; vy \\ ne for thestrops , __ " _They'll ymini , " said the Yankee ; as lie quietly lobbed the stakes . "But , " he added , with great apparent honesty , "I calculate a joke ' s a joke , and if vou don ' t want them strops , I'll trade back . "
The me chao / seounten nee _brightsned— "'You are not so bad a chap , after ail : here are tiie strops , give me the money . " " There it is , " said tlie Yankee , as he received the strops and passed over tlm picayune . "A trade ' s a trade—and mm you ' re wideawake in airr . est , 1 guess the next time you trade with that are pie-, vou'll doa lilttc better than to buy _r-wr _. strops . " And away walked the pedlar with his strops and his wager , amid the shouts of tlie _lam-hing crowd .
YE PEASANTRY OF ENGLAND DEWCATBD- TO WIS DUSK OF _SOIIHOLE . Yc peasantry of _lin-biud , Who till your fertile leas , _Uo » - little do vou think a man May lire on , if he please ? Your weekly wages , it ij plain , As far again _wouhlgo , And keep you sd cheap , ( r ' or _Korfuik ' s Duke s iys so ) If hunger rages tierce and _strong , To curry yon would so .
This powder , hungry fathers _. From all expense will save : _1 ' or if your chih ' . _rt-n wit thereof , Xo other f-. oil ill •¦}¦ " 11 eravj ; And any time that wu _^ _esfail , ( As oi ' t they fail , vim know , ) 'Tivi'loonie cheap a pinch to steep In water— -, \ pint or so ; And when hunger rage ? tierce and strong , To your curry powder go . Our labourers need no dainties ,
But something .-trong ami cheap ; No steak from viz the rump t ! io . y cravo , _5 _\ o chop from ¦ . f t' the sheep : With curry pmvd . r , _thricj a week , Warm into oed _thej- ' i ' i stow , Nor ever roar out foi more—Their plaee so w « _U tliey know ; But whfcn _huasi'i' rages ! i ; _ivc and strong , To the curry powder _ o . The ' tato erops _ofEanhinii May all to _griiiisren-: f . n n _, While _Norfolk's !; uke about your tot Ilis wise head shall eonce ; n . Meanwhile , ye hardy labourers . Your song of thanks . should llow To the fame of his name Who the _powiler matte _, iou know ; Wliich . when hunger ra ; es _ii-rrco and strong , Will set you in a _jrlow _y ' ttii .:: ! .
SoMKTiiixe is a N . vmk . —The second title of the Norfolk family is that of Earl of Surrey . We understand the present head ofthe _illustrious race intends to change Surrey into _Curn-y ; Ibr he insists th . it the latter was the original ticlo ; of which the former ia merely a corruption . —Ibid . Tim "Times" axi > _tiik Skasoss . —The Times in England is fur opening tiie ports ; but the _Smsoiis ia the north an ? generally for closing them . Death w Ron . Roy . —Ilis death bed was in character with his life ; _wiu-u _coiiiineii to _In-d , a person with _wluun lie was at enmity _propoWd to visit him . " Raise mo up , " said Hob ll > y to his attendants , " dress me in my best clothes , tic mi my arms , plaee me in my ehair . " It shall never hi said that 11 ;)) _H- > y _M-aegrej-or was seen defenceless and unarmed by an enemy . ' ' ' ilis wishes were executed and he received his _giiest with haughty courtesy . When he had
departed the dying uhief _txclaimed , '" It is all over now —put me to " bed—call in the piper ; let him play llj . I ' d mi _tulkUiiwe return no more ) as long as 1 breathe . " ' lie was obeyed ; ho died , it is said , before tne dirge was finished . * * * When dying , he _sho-. ve I that he entertained a _seiwe ofthe practical part of CUt istianity , very consistent with his _hiiihland notions _, lie was exhorted by the clergy man wiio ai tended him to forgive his eneiuie *; and that clause in the Lord ' s Prayer which eiijiitLsstieh a state of ' _niiiidv _. _- _asijiioted . _Rob-tti' _-y vi-pUed , _*** - Ay , n , v , v ye Uao _g ' . cu inu baitit law aad gospel for it . ' it * s ; t hard- law , hut I ken it ' s ttospet . i _« _ob-, " he _« u > . l _mnivas to his _s- _- _-. _*!) , '' my sword and dirk lie there : never _ditjiv them without reason , nor- pnt them up _witiiwit h <» n _>> ii _" . I ihrgive . my enemies ; but . see you to them , —or nu _* y—"—the words died atvay , nnd he expired . — - _'A _' li'Ot ' rs of the Jacobites .
P < ii . _tut-. M 3 . \ - va Pfc . uxGuvtiiKS .-llr . Xatlia « . i , _oS tho nuiMjuorado _wareiioihe , begs to inform the commissioners , superiati'iidents , _andiiupectursot' police , _ts . afe in _cimseipienee o ; the prevailing _priictiej of dressing up policemen in plain clothes , he has added to hiswardrobe au extensive stock of _dNguisv's , suited to every class of society , lie undertakes to turn nut any letter of the a ' _pisabet . or any number iu tho numeration table , in the first-rate style , and at the shortest lvdiee . For ilw _purposes of _piiliiical spying , Mr . Nathan has a variety of fustian jackets of nil sizM , with working-men ' s aprons and brown paper caps i _' _* _- suite . Baskets of tools can also be had if required . Tlie force may also be accommodated with dress coats _. Young _Ensjland white waistcoat * ,-and patent leather llighlows , for political meeting ; - -. Sporting _soits always ready for race grounds . _N _" . Ii . — Twenty policemen e .-m always _l > c _j ; ot , ready as Quakers at _livu minutes' notice . —Punch .
A SuAiti * WrrsKss . —Duriug the past week the following questions were put , in the _Ri-eordoi- ' _a Uourt , by Mr . James , the barrister , and _t-hu following _aii-. _' . _vi-i-s were returned bv a _witness from _Ect- _'lcs : — 'Do vou smoke ?" - " ' ! do . " " Wnat . cigars ?' "No . " "Then what * ' - , vou smoke ? " "Why , I smoke mv breath . " " Well vou don't want a pipe for that , " _sureiv ? " "Yes , I do . " "What pipe do -. ¦ _oum-.-an .- " " IVhv , im .. _utdpipe , otcour . se . ' lno last answer cau > ed much laughter , in winch the follow scented to chuckle more heartily than anybody else . —Liverpool M . iil .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 10, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_10011846/page/3/
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