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      Beauties Of Byron. So. Xv. "Childe B Aho...

      BEAUTIES OF BYRON . SO . XV . " childe b ahold . " In the notes to the third canto of this immortal pwm [ see _Mumy _' s one volume edition ] we find the following from the pen of Sir Waiteb Scott : — The first and second cantos of "Childe Harold ' s Pilgrimage" produced , on Hieir appearance in 1812 , an effect upon the public , at least equal to auy work which has appeared within this or the last century , and placed at once upon Lord Byron ' s head the garland for which other men of genius have toiled long , and which they have gained late , lie was placed pre-eminent among the literary men of his country by general acclamation . It was amidst such feelings of admiration that he entered tbe public stage . Everything in his manner , person , and conversation , tended to maintain the charm which his genius had fluns around hua ; aud tliose admitted to his

      conversation , far from finding that the inspired poet sunk into ordinary mortality , felt themselves attached to him , not only b > liianj noble qualities , but by the interest Of a mysterious , undefined , and almost painful curiosity . A countenance exquisitel y modelled to the expression of feeling and passion , and exhibiting the remarkable contrast of very dark hair and eyebrows witli light and expressive eyes , presented to tbe physiognomist the most interesting _subject & r the _tiereise of his art . The predominating expression was that of deep and habitual thought , -which gave way to the most rapid play of features when he engaged in interesting discussion ; so tliat

      a brother poet compared them to tbe sculpture of a beautiful alabaster vase , only seen to perfection when lighted up from within . The _Hashes of mirth , gaiety , _indignation , or satirical dislike , which frequently animated Lord Byron ' s countenance , might , during an evening ' s conversation , be mistaken , by » stranger , for the habitual expression , so easily and so happily was it formed for them all ; but those win had an opportunity of studying his features for a length of time , and upon various occasions , "both of rest and emotion , will agree that their proper language was that of melancholy . Sometimes shades ofthis gloom interrupted even his gayest and most happy moments .

      The following stanzas form thc opening ofthe third canto : — Is thy £ dr face like tliy mother ' 5 , my fair child ! Ada J sole daughter of my house and heart 1 * "When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled , And then ire parted—not as now we par _^ But with a hope . — Awaking with a start , The waters heave around me , aud on high The winds lift up their voices : I depart , "Whither I know not ; f but the hour ' s gone by , "When Albion ' s lesseai-a-j shores could grieve or glad mine eye .

      Once more npon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath mc as a steed That knows his rider . Welcome to their roarl Swift be their guidance _wliercsoVr it lead ! Though the strained mast should quiver as a reed , And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gals , Still must I ou ; for I am as a weed , "Flung from thc rock , ou Ocean ' s loam to sail "Where ' er the surge may sweep , the tempest's breath pre vail . # * * * Be , who grown aged in this world of woe , In deeds , not years , _piercing the _depths of life , So that no wonder waits him * , nor below Can love , or sorrow , fame , ambition , strife _.

      Cat to his heart again with the keen knife Of silent , sharp endurance : he can tell Why thought seeks refuge in lone caves , yet _rifs "With airy images , and shapes which dwell Still unimpaired though old , in the soul's haunted cell _, 'lis to create and in creating lovo A being more intense , that we endow _Tfith form our fancy , gaining as we give The life we image , even as I do now . What am 11 _Nothing : hut not so art thou _. Soul of my thought ! mth whom I traverse earth , Invisible hut gazing , as 1 glo w Mis'd with thy spirit , blended with thy birth , And feeling still with thee in my _crush'd feelings' dearth

      Tet must I think less wildly : —I hare thought Too long and darkly , till _u > y brain became , In its own eddy boiling and o ' crwrought A whirling gulph of phantasy and dame : And thus , _uataught iu youth my heart to tame ily springs of life were poisoned . 'Tis too late ! Yet am I changed ; though still enough the same In strength to bear what time can not abate And feed on hitter fruits without accusing Pate . In the stanzas following thc above , the poet , " adopting more distinctly the character of Childe Harold than ill the _original poem , assigns the cause why he has resumed his Pilgrim ' s staff , when it was hoped he had sat down for life a denizen ofhis native country . " That cause was his domestic _unhappiness , ¦ which we sliall not now further allude to . We cannot give the whole of _thest-vnaas , but select the following , in which the poet , speaking of thc "Childe , " describes himself : —

      Where rose the mountains , there to him were friends ; Where roll'd thc ocean , thereon was his home ; _AYhere a blue sky , aud glowing clime , extends , He had the passion and the power to roam ; The desert , forest , cavern , breaker ' s foam , Were unto him companionship ; they spake A mutual language , clearer thau the tone Of his land ' s tongue , which he would oft forsake 1 ' or nature's pages _glass'd by sunbeams on the lake _, like the Chaldean , he could watch the stars Till he had peopled them with beings bright As their owu beams ; and earth , and earth-born jaw , And human frailties , were forgotten quite :

      Could he have kept his spirit to tliat flight He had been happy ; but tliis clay will sink Its spark immortal , envying it tiie light To which it mounts , as if to break tbe link That keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brinl But in man ' s dwellings he became a thing Restless aad worn , aid stern , and wearisome , _Droop'd as a wild-born falcon with dipt whig , To whom the boundless air alone were home : Then came his lit again , which to o _' ercome , As eagerly lhe harr'd up bird will beat His breast and heak against his wiry doffl e Till the blood tinge his plumage , so ihe heat Of his impeded £ Oxil would through his bosom eat .

      Tjie Fate Of Kefoitmebs. [From " Thc Oce...

      TJIE FATE OF _KEFOItMEBS . [ From " Thc Ocean Flower . " By T . II . _Ut-gbes . 3 0 Man . ' thou art the mystery of the world , A compound of the vile and the sublime , A flue creation all to chaos hurled , A thing of opposites , of pearl and Slime I The glorious _likeness of a God is there , But , all , the mirror blurred and broken lies , Distorting every _fexi ture—yet _hoxv fair—Worm of the Earth and angel of tlie Skies ! Thy life through error ' s maze doth wildering pas ? , Thy truths mostpreiaous doubt encircle ' s round ; Thy judgments , singular aud in the mass , Ave feeble , wavering , prejudiced , unsound . And they who labour most in thy behoof Are _Tietiins of thy persecution most ; Thou enviest , hatcst , jeerest _, stand'st aloof From those who fill discovery ' s foremost post .

      Xcw ages Uo them justice . Thou in life Dost stone thy benefactors—venouicd Sloth ; Yetmoved this planet rouud , ' mid worldly strife , With Galileo and his jailors both ' . Art thou indeed , then , worthy of the toil , Tlie mental anguish , and die nervous shock , Of those who , Earth to enlighten , drudge and inoil S _Frometheus , answer , chaiucd upou tby rock : Answer , great Hercules , thy labours done , "Rewarded wilh the Centaur ' . - poisoned robe ; Give answer , Theseus , all thy laurels won , Consigned to torture ' neath the passive Globe ; And answer ail thst went before their time - Amassing knowledge anil _uiliuangli _i'ht ; Thc branded Pariahs of every

      clinic—The dungeoned victims of a keener sight ; Whose mig hty souls sceiutd formed for higher orb And casual dropt upon this humbler earth - , Yea , answer He whose grief aU gr ief absorbs , JDivine " disturber" nailed for Sion _' s mirth 2 Answer , thou Glohe , and show beneath thy sod , _Cpturued and smiling in eternal youth , The bones of all the martyred saints of God , Andhutehered worshippers of Freedom , Truth ! Proscribed , maligned , reviled , aad hunted by The thing miscalkd Society , a tear _ilight dim , but aU in vain , the mavtyv _' s eye-, A conscience pure transcends all huinau fear . And this shall be your fate till ends thc world , Te who would be Reformers J would expose Error or vice , Truth ' s _sunlitflajr unfurled , And fearlessly defy her cruel foes .

      Yet , oh , despair not , great and generous souls , But hold pursue your tasks of human love ; To thankless mortals multiply your _doles , And trust for your reward from powers above !

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      _^ _nTwffR fi ATORT OF SUICIDES . A _Tbisox SS"Sto : * _^ ' FICeUU ; _- T _^ _Z frm theStar of October llth . )

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      find , a fault in it , unless indeed he should be a religions bi got , in which ease he will not Le short of matter on which to ground his cavillings . As to ) ' beauties , " the puzzle is not to find them , the puzzle is to select a few stanzas out of the hundred and thirty—all beautiful , contained iu the "Book , " which shall give the reader something like an riea of this portion of the poem . We give the following from the " notes , " as a necessary introduction to the opening stanzas : — Six human beings underwent capital punishment in front of Stafford Gaol , during the two years I remained in it . The entire procedure in any one instance , of course , I could not witness : on one occasion , only , — when , on account of the early horn * aud season of the

      year , I had not been removed from my night-cell , —I beheld the grim preface to the legal butchery . Without repeating the testimonies of reflecting men who havo attended executions , as to the hardening effect of those savage spectacles , —I will just observe tbat while the sound of the death-bell for the first execution filled me and my fellow-prisoners with paroxysms of distress , —on the second , third , and fourth occasions , we became comparatively unconcerned . And , when I was left a solitary prisoner , the sound of the death-bell , for the hist time , created a few bitter thoughts of the abhorrent and uncivilized nature of the impending tragedy ; but a kind of careless disgust followed , from the iusumt reflection that aU my dislike of the brutal transaction was vain . And , within ten minutes after the deatb-bell hnd ceased ,

      1 actually caught myself humming " te Banks and Braes o' Bonny Doonl" Now , a more sensitive and excitable human creature than myself , perhaps , does not exist : but there is the honest fact—such as startled me by its strangeness , at the time : —let the advocates for thc usefulness of capital punishments as " impressive moral lessons" make what they _oon of it . Blood . ' Wood!—Ye human hell-hounds , —when , oh when Will ye have had your fill 3 The hazy morn Hath scarcely dawned upou tliis grisly den Of demon Fower , ere yon poor wretch forlorn Is led to slaughter : —led ?—nay , fainting , borne Unto the ladder ' s foot ! Murder liy law , In lieu of med _' eine till his wits return ,

      And pity , for a creature whose brain-flaw Urged him , ev ' n while he wept , to lay his infant low ! It is the death-toll : there ! they bear him on ! I climb to read the lesson through my bars . — Hah ! curse upon thee , priest . '—is it weU'done , That thou , a peace-robed herald pattering prayers , Dost head the dead-march ? Trow ' st thou not it jars With tbat sky-message which proclaimed , thou _s-. iy'st , " Peace aud _Goodwill to Man" 1—aye , that it mars The face of mercy to behold thee placed There , ia grim state , ' tween spears with crape , in mockery , graced !

      * Tis passed , —the bloody cavalcade : Farewell , _Pt _/ orpale , weak , fellow-norm ! ' twill soon be o ' er , — Thy tearful pilgrimage . 'Tis done!—the knell Ceases ; and though 1 , happ'iy , see no more Of tbe fell tragedy , —the sullen roar Of groans aud execrations , pierces through 3 _fy dungeon-grating , —for the gazers pour The heart's involuntary curse on you , Ye hireUng butchers who now " give the law its due" ! Addressing the priest ? , the poet says : — "What tyrants leave unvauquisbed in tho mind By threat of chains , the gallows , flame , or sword , — Ye humble by your Hell ' . —

      Was I not blind-To judge ye inconsistent ! True accord Subsists between your new and elder "word . " "X e throw away no part : it is because , — With cunning shrewder than the simple hordo 0 ' th' laity , —ye ken the penal clause Uleuds in one spirit fierce the old and late -Jews' laws . — * # # * Hell-fire—coercion—for tlie ingrato hard Who will not love the God set forth as high , Vast , indescribable , in his Love's regard For Hen ! " Love liim—or He will magnhy "ilis glory by consigning thee to die

      " In ceaseless flames an ever-living death !" 0 Christ ! how can I love what doth outvie All tyrannies iu horriblencss of wrath—This monstrous Thing derived from an old monster Faith 1 Thine , Galilean , is of all earth ' s creeds The greatest marvel ! Wonder at thy toil Of tears , self-sacrifice , and love succeeds Each step we tread with thee—till this dread foil Unto tby moral beauty doth despoil The yearning heart of its impassioned hops : Death-stricken , blighted , doth the soul recoil From its tempestuous wish to love thee : droop It must in doubt : —and to its bourne in darkness grope !

      Alas ! thy repetition of that most _Enslaving of all slavish thoughts—a Hell Wherewith the Priest may threat to tame the ghost Of him who dares in mortal life rebel 'Gainst Faith or Kings—restrains the heart ' s love swell Rushing to centre in tlicc , aud reveals To Reason that thou couldst not burst the spell Of Circumstance—whieh ev ' n the mightiest seals In impotence : we do hut act as she impels . In the midst of his reveries the poet is startled by observing the destroying arts of the spider ; this painful sight induces some startling but perfectly rational reflections on the priest-taught dogma of a universal Providence unchangeably just and good : which dogma appears to the poet to be exceedingly questionable . Hah ! murderous spider!—when I watched thee spread

      Thy cobweb yestermoru , it did relieve A dreary prison-hour to mark each thread From thee , thou magic artisan , receive Its faery texture : while I saw thee weave That _d-ed-il miracle , this poison-thought Hose not that now impellcth mc to grieve Much more than to admire— to grieve and doubt , . Is , in a torment-web , like thy poor victim , caught ! Priest ! dost thou smile , beholding how tho web Of thought , involves , at length , its devotee , And lays him , helpless as a limber babe , _AtMystery-s feet ? Oh . ' I will slander thee So more : if Nature hath a Deity , The Bible doth not slanderously limn liis portraiture : Author of agony The living book doth , hourly , picture Him : The written—thrones a Slaughterer 'tween the Chcru him !

      'T _. sclear ; who tries tlie _Faiili by > atur < - _s test , —« OmodernStagyrite _!—between thy creed And Her must own " Analogy" confest , ¦ « Submit thee , then , vain doubter!—since decre » d « It is that life consists of things of greed ' And things to be their prey , —submit and bow « To Him who mafc tliem thus : back , that may Uad ' Thee to the Faith in which , thou dost allow , ' The Deity is drawn with Nature's girded brow !' Priest ! 1 will answer thee with that free soul These bolts and ban . have only served to thew . — Forty short summers towards my earthly goal Have I uow journeyed , —aud , for me , but few More summers can remain : Wrong to eschew , And Ilight to choose , with heartfelt earnestness , How can I lack dispose , —while , to my view , The grave is yawning in its cold duresse To close what tyrants leave of my clay ' s feebleness ?

      Priest ! I have felt by turns from earliest days , As well as calms , the tempest of the brain ; Fervid devotion , and the wild rapt blaze Of ecstasy hi prayer ; ascetic pain And fasting ; midnight book-toil to obtain The key to facts—knowledge of tongues of old ; Weighing of evidence—grave , —long , —again ; With constantwatchings how Man doth unfold What is the impress true he bears from Nature ' s mould — And this , in humbleness I would declare , And yet with courage , is my only Faith : — Goodness alone , with its blest , yearning care , Is worshipful—for Goodness only hath Tower to make good and happy things of breath And thought . If Man can be transformed Wholly to virtue , —punishment and wrath , — Taught by all priests that on the earth have swarmed , — Must be untaught ; and Mau by Love to Bight be charmed .

      Goodness alone is worshipful . —A ot what Gives life , but what gives happiness is good . I cannot worship what I own a blot To be iu niy own nature—hasty flood Of feeling that with ireful hardihood Would rush to do what I would soon regret * . Nor can I worship , priest ! thy Shapes of Blood , Or Nature's cause of Fain : —if to _beyet Love in tlie soul these fail—sliall worship , there be met ? I cannot worship what I . cannot love . ——If this be vicious , p riest ! shew mettle way To virtue : I will own , —if thou dost prove My error : but , till then , I humbly say , I think the error thine . To resurvey , For proofs of Deity , great Nature ' s face ,

      Drawn , vca impelled , unto _JUind _' s latest day , I shall be by Her wonders;—bu t—th' embrace _^ Of All-pervading Goodness , —shall 1 find It's trace . I say not that there is no G od : hut that I know not . Dost _tfioit know , or dost thou guess . — Why should I ask thee , priest I Darkness has sat With light on _Mature , —Woe with Happiness—Since human worms _crawledfrom their _languages . Imperfect _embryons , and by signs essayed _Ts picture their first thoughts . 'lis but excess Of folly to attempt thc great charade t To solve ; and yet the irking wish must be obeyed . ¦ The poet next _reintroduces us to the assemblage of renowned suicides . The following amongst other charactersfiguve in this _book—Demobtuesss ,

      Whose lightning tipped tongue Had made Greece glorious unto farthest time , Had Socrates na ' er lived , nor nomer sung , _Jforllarathon been found beneath her clime , _* _TnowsrocxES , Whose name with Salamis shall live _T ? _f | 1 _*» 9 fP _andDlsua "the latest Greek . " Of Romans tliere are Cato , Guns Gracchus , Cuktics , and Bkutus and _Casbius . Besides these , there are _IIanxibal , i-HOiiw , Saul , and several others ; together _vyith SaS of the character * described in the previous HL Poor _StsL u quite willing to give up royal

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      mockeries for the advancement of the general good ; his only regret is , tbat , - in . his mortality , he was doomed to be a Icing . In the three following stanzas from his speech , Bible-readers will find some rather toughish " nuts to crack : "— ¦ _¦' . When Samuel , in my sight , to pieces hewed The royal Agag _, whom I longed to save— - I saw that when Jehovah bad a feud With his poor human worm , He would not wave His claim to justice—but , upon the slave Who dared to step between His holy wrath Aud the doomed victim , He would vengeance have—Slow—signal—sure ! The Everlasting ' s path Who can find out \—who comprehendeth what Ho saith ? His prophet did my humble head anoint , And snid the Lord h _.-. d chosen mc to rule :

      Exterminating war God did appoint On Amelck , next : —Ilis ways are wonderful ! When I besought , at His Divine footstool , Pardon for weakness , Agag ' s holy slayer Said God did not repent like man!—IIow dull Ave _owv peiccptioTis _* ;—Bill he not declare 31 c monarch , and repent T—ne who refused my prayer f All—all is mystery ! I sought no thrones : — . My father ' s asses , as I , following , roamed O ' er the wild wilderness—if on me shone The cheering sun , or sterile Nature g loomed—A kingdom seemed to me : —but I was doomed To know thc mockery of earthly bliss ! - — And is not Sheol mockery ?—We are womhed In dread and doubt—fearing to do amiss— - __ And to do well , lack power to burst our destinies ! Mr . Cooper's " notes" are very _interesting , some of them being in themselves complete though brief histories or biographies of celebrated characters . Thc iblloivinc - is a specimen . *—

      _CtEANTBES t . Is a noble Greek example of mind triumphing orer difficulties . He was at first a " fisty-cuffer" —as the old translators phrase it , in the edition of Diogenes Lacrtius " made English by several hands : " 1 G _96— "but coming to Athens , with no more than four drachmas in his pockets , and meeting with Zeno , he betook himself most sedulously to the study of Philosophy , ite . " " By night ( says Enfield , who renders Lacrtius more elegantly ) hc drew water as a common labourer in the public gardens , that he might have leisure , in the day-time , to attend the schools of philosophy . The Athenian citizens observing that though be appeared strong and healthy , he had no visible means of subsistence , summoned him before the court of . Areopagus , according to the custom of the city , to give an account ofhis manner of living . Upon this , he produced the gardener for whom he drew water , and a woman for whom he ground meal , as witnesses to prove

      that he subsisted by thc honest libour ofhis hands . The judges of the court were so struck with admiration of this singular example of industry and perseverance , that they ordered ten mince to be paid him out of the public treasury—which , however , Zcno would not suffer him to accept Cleanthcs was for many years so poor , that lie was obliged to write the hoads of his master ' s lectures upon shells and hones , for want of mouey to buy paper . "—The suicide of thisphilosopher , at a very advanced age , was singularly quiet awl yet heroic . His physicians recommended fasting for some disease with which he was afflicted ; and having abstained from food for two days , although he had thus subdued his disorder , he refused to eat again , saying that since hehad travelled so far towards ths end of life he would not go back again—and , accordingly , died by voluntary 'total abstinence . ' —Tbe testimonies to the elevated morality of his life arc abundant .

      In this book eloquent and truly poetical speeches in favour of equality are put into the mouths of DEMOSTHENES , _TUEMISTOCLUS , Cm _* A ** . TnES , CaiUS _GbACciics , _Lvcukgijs , and others . The speech of Lycurgus concludes thc book ; we give the following extracts therefrom : —• Error , from human ignorance darkly sprang . As children misname things , and shout or shriek , From pleasure or affright—so mankind sang , In rhapsodies of joy , the golden streak Of morn ; and , when they heard tho thunder speak , JHowed doxvn in aire , and wept . Infants in mind , They marvelled—and made gods of visage meek Or terrible , and , then , to them assigned ltule o ' er the sun and cloud , the sky , and sea , and wind _.

      Thrones , likewise , sprang from human ignorance : —« Nature ' s rude elements presented war For . Man : rocks , earth-flames , ocean ' s vast expanse , Storms , forests , savage beasts , were found to mar Man ' s case or rest : on every side a bar Opposed itself , alike to further good , Or present peace : —then , he an exemplar Was held who overcame , by hardihood , Lion or bear , horrors of cavern , flame , or flood . Such were old Earth ' s primeval monarehs : kings , Leaders , by courage—holding simple SWay—» If sway they held—by useful compassings Of larger means for nourishing man ' s clay . 0 illtbridatcs , when I heard thee say Some were born natural leaders , unto these _1 turned—the chiefs of patriarchal day-Comparing them with lords that Earth now sees—The puny _hildings man approaches on his knees !

      Cities were built , and matt subdued the soil - . — But , now , Craft grew , and seized on mystery—Life , death , sun , stars—all that the sons of toil Saw without comprehending;—and with glee , Secret but strong , saw Man a devotee Become , credent and humble—reverent laud ilendering unto the Priest as loivlily As to the gods this minister of fraud Said lie heard speak—while men him listed , vera wed . Then , between Priest and King grew contest rife For mastership ; and Ganges and old Nile—Whose sacred servants foremost led the strife—Beheld the proof , in many a mighty pile That decked their marges , lion * completely Guile Could triumph over Strength . Hut , iu the end _. Altar and Throne felt it unworth the while To waste eaeh other—since , they shrewdly kenned The prey enough for both : —so King called Priest—his friend !

      Long , dreary , _miscftiMe years have lieu—Since the foul compact lirst was ratified , By Priestcraft placing on throned Kingship ' s head , With hands in reeking blood of victim dyed , The gaud of gold—the sign of kingly pride-Long , dreary , sutfering , weeping , wailing years : — Oft have the bruised and trampled sufferers tried To rise;—but the Priest ' s curse woke inward fears , And they bowed down again unto their toil with tears ! Say yc , _Kight ' s triumph , like a dream , shall fade , 'Neath swift _rewakin-r vigour of throned Power 1 —• SlOUarcllS , bo not deceived ! Itight , now , hath aid From KnoiWedge—hid hy priests in secret bower ,

      And when thence scaped , caugiit , and to _dungeou-towev By them _condemned—yea , to the fiery flame!—They knew not of her high immortal dower , The veritable Phceuix—whom to tame , Or to destroy , will over mock old priestly aim ! Lo ! she hath ta ' en young Freedom by the hand—And , in the strength and comeliness of youth , Supplanting Craft and Power in every land , And heralding the reign of Lovo and Truth , They go . Yet little reek they of fhe growth Of Itight and Knowledge , who the glorious pair Regard not : —the besotted Shapes uncouth That dream , like age-cramped spiders in their lair , Their cobweb safe—though wiuds sport with it in _tUeaiv ,

      And , brothers , here wc solemnly obtest The Sovereignties of Nature that the toil We will not end , till Meu and spirits blest Hold gencrrl jubilee . _'— ne said j—and , while He stretched aloft his hand—from motley pile And throne , great souls arose , and instant raised A hand aloft—each with a godlike smile!—And light empyreal from each essence blazed , Until 1 woke—with the bright vision soul-bodazed ! ( To be Continued , )

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      DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING _MAGAZINE—Octobeb . London : Punch Oflico , A 3 , Meet-.-trect . Ill chapter xviii . of the excellent story of " St . Giles and St . James , " the reader is re-introduced to that oddity , ihe misanthropic , benevolent _muflinmaker , _Cdpstich , now retired from business , and the inmate of a country residence , which this WHlM-bc modern _Diogeses " has christened with the name of the " Tub . " Jlright Jem , thc _kind-hcavtcdlinhnian , now an old and withered man , is hermit-companion of the _ex-muliinnmker . An accident brings St . Giles in contact with these two , though up to the close oi tho chapter he has not informed them who he is . This chapter is made the medium tor some ofthe most beautiful thoughts ever given birth to by any writer . * * Serving the People" is a good article , containing much wholesome truth . 'The _Kor >' Tongue , " though not to be rated very high as a poem , is amply redeemed from all imperfections by tiie

      excellent spirit and noble object of the author . '' Cromwell in thc Shades" " needs no ghost" to recommend the article . The article entitled " The Enghshnian in Prussia" we gave iu this paper of the * lt ! i inst ., under the head of "The Prussian Despotism , lhe seventh _charter of a " History for Young England has for its subject "Early English Churchmen . The article is ably written , and shows thc writer to be intimately acquainted with the subject on which he writes . This " history" is the most valuable we have ever read , as regards England , and our only regret is , that the writer did not begin at the beginning , instead of commencing with the Conqueror . Every youth should read this excellent "history . " The Hedgehog Letters , " "The Philosopher Married , " " The Confessions of a Quack , " and " reviews" of several new works from the remaining contents of this number . Wo take the following oxtract from the " Hedgehog Letters : "—

      _BAIUUTS . There ' s nobody in town , and nothing in the papers hut plans of railways , that in a little time will cover all England like a spider ' s net ; and , as in the net , there will he a good many flies caught and gobbled up , by those who spiH it . * * # And isn't it a fine thing—I know you don ' t think so , but isn't it?— -to know that all that ' s been done , and aU that ' s to do , will be done , because Englishmen have left off cutting other _mon'a throat * t That peace has done : it all t If they

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      oughtn't to set up a dovo with an olive branch at every railway terminus , I ' impostor . yes , _grandmother , peace has done it all I Only think of the iron that had been melted into cannon and round shot , and chain shot , and aU the other sorts of shotthat the devils on a holiday play at bowls with!—if the war had gone on—all the very same iron that ' s now peaceably laid upon sleepers ! Think of thc iron that had been fired iuto the sea , and banged through quiet people ' s houses , and sent mashing squares and squares of

      men—God ' s likenesses in red , blue , and green coats , hired to be killed at so many pence a day—only think what would have been this wicked ,-I will say it , this blasphemous waste ol metal—that , as it is , has been made into steam-engines . Very fine , indeed , they say , is the roar of artillery ; but what is it to the roar of steam ? I never see an engine , with its red-hot coals and its clouds of steam and smoke , that it doesn't seem to me like a tremendous dragon that has been tamed by man to carry all the blessings of civilisation to his _fellow-crcatures .

      Well , I should like tho ghost of Buonaparte to get up some morning , and take tho Times in his thin hands . If he wouldn ' t turn yellower than ever bo was at St . Helena ! There he'd see plans for railways in France—M « _Fnuxtt , as I believe they call it—to bo carried out by Frenchmen and Englishmen . Yes ; he wouldn ' t see ' em mixing bayonets , trying to poke ' em iu one another ' s bowels , tbat a few tons of blood might , as they call it , water its laurels —( how any man can wear laurels at all , I can't tell , they must smell so of tho slaughter-house !)—he wouldn't see ' cm charging ono another on the battle-field , but quietly ranged , _chcek-by-jowl , in the list of directors I Not exchang ing bullets , hut clubbing together their hard cash .

      Consider it , grandmother , isn't it droll' Here , in these very lists , you see Euglish captains and colonels in company with French viscounts and barons , and I don't know what , planning to lay iron down in France , to civilise and add to thc prosperity of Frenchmen . * * The Prince Joinville is now and then looking about our coast to find out , it is said , which is the softest part of us , in the case of a war , to put his foot upon us . Poor fellow ! h _^ _- ' s got the disease of glory ; only , as it sometimes happens with the small-pox , it has Struck inwards ; it cau't come out upon him . When we ' ve _railwnys laid down , as I say , like a spider ' s web all over the country , won't it be a little hard to catch us asleep ? For yon see , just like the spider ' s web , the electric telegraph ( inquire what sort of a thing it is , for Ihavn ' t time to tell you ) , the ekcU'ic telegraph will touch a line of the web , when down will come a tremendous spider in a red coat with all sorts of murder after him ! Mind , grandmother , let us hope this never may happen : but when folks who'd

      molest us , know it can come about , won t they let us alone 1 Depend upon it , we ' re binding war over to keep the peace , and tlte bonds are made of railway iron ! You'd hardly think it—you who used to talk to me about the beauty of glory ( I know you meant nothing but red coats and the fine epaulets ; for that , so often is women ' s notion of glory , tlio" bless ' em , " they ' re among the first to make lint , and cry over the sons of glory , with gashes spoiling all their fine feathers)—you'd hardly think it , but tliey ' ro going to put up a statue to the man who first made boiling water to run upon a rail . It ' s quite true : I read it only a day or two ago . They ' re going to fix up a statuo to George Stephenson , in Newcastle . IIow you will east up your dear old eyes when you hoar of this ! You , who ' ve only thought that statues should be put up to Queeu Anne , and George tho Third , and his nice son , George the Fourth , and such people ! I should only like a good many of the statues here in London , to

      be made to take a cheap tram down to Newcastle , to see it . If , dirty as they are—and dirty as they were—tliey wouldn't blush as red as a new copper halfpenny , why , those statues—especially when they ' ve queens and kings in ' em—are the most unfeelingest of metal ! What a lot of mangled bodies , and misery , and house-breaking , and wickedness of all sorts , carried on aud matte quite lawful by a uniform , may we see—if we chose to see at allabout the statue of what is called a conqueror ! What firing of houses , what shame , that because you ' re a woman , I won't more particularly write about—we might look upon under the statue , that is only so high because it has so much wickedness to stand upon ! If the statue could feel at all , wouldn't it put up its hands , and hide its face , although it was made of the best bronze . When George the Fourth is made to hear the news —( for kings are so very long before the truth comes to 'em)—he'd like to gallop off to the first inciter ' s , and go at once into the uothimr that men think him .

      We fear that Douglas Jerrold is over sanguine as to tho moral and beueficial effects likely to flow from the union of English and French speculators in forming railroads in France . Still thc above noble ideas do honour to tho heart ofthe writer . We need not say , that with the spirit of those ideas we cordially concur . In expressing our fears that Douoias Jerkold is over-sanguine in his belief in the continuance of peace , and the rapid progress of general union , we do not do so without cause . "Wo have on former occasions commented on the detestable spirit animating the war-journals of France , and we now invite the reader ' s attention tothe following specimen of . Anglophobia on tne part of the National . _*—

      The Presc-am * Bxgiish Ftics . —A very strange fact has been pointed out to us , to which we call the attention of tho public , for it pushes courtesy and the entente cordiale a great deal too far . Travellers who pass by Barantin , near Itouen , may see on the aqueduct ( the National , no doubt , means viaduct ) of the railway the English flag raised by the side of the French flag . The _Ftetieh flag , indeed , does not appear to be admitted at all excepting by tolerance , for it occupies the left . It has also been remarked that at the timo of the lioucn races the English flag was hoisted on all the booths occupied b y Englishmen . What is the meaning of this importation of English colours into the middle of France ? There has been , certainly , a great _de-fi'ecof cowardice on the part of the local authorities who could tolerate such

      improprieties . Hy what right is an English flag displayed ? On account of works done , in France ? Is it because these works are conducted to some extent by Englishmen 1 We should like to know in that case if in England the French flag 13 tolerated in the same way 1 In principle , there is only the French flag , and thero can bono other in France . It is of little consequence whether the works in masonry be done by English or by Chinese . They are made in France , and for France , and that is enough . It is to be hoped that the superior authorities will give orders to their subordinates to prevent this English flag from Coming to insult tho susceptibilities of French nationality by Us presence . This right de banniere , whieh the English thus abuse , is not an afl ' air of indifference . If it were , the English would not shoxv themselves so persevering in their pretensions . _—Kitfiowal .

      The above is a specimen of French nationality run crazy . Thc National _^ professes to be an advocate ot " progress ; " its politics ave , we believe , Republican , and " something more ; " but , judging by the above _paragraph , we must consider the National as the organ of retrogession , rather than of _process . It would lead the world back to the " good old times " when nations savagely slaughtered each other for the honour ofa wretched rag of bunting , christened witli the title of "flag , " or "banner . " French

      Rcpublicanism teaches the abolition of nationalities and the substitution of fraternity instead ; but French Republicans , that is such Republicans as the writers in the National , would let loose the hell-hounds of war , and cover the earth with carnage and tears for the purpose of exalting the French Hag ! The writer in the National evidently would make this exhibition in France of a bit of English bunting on the top of a drinking booth a casusbelli between the two nations ' . Is this miserable barbarism a specimen of tho much vaunted French civilisation ? If

      _so—« 0 , shame to thee , land of the Gaul . " For ourselves , we earnestly desire the fraternity and common union of all nations , and it is because wc desire this , that we protest against the rabid trash of the writer in the A _' _ationai ,

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      THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE—Ociobbb . London : J . Clayton , S 20 , Strand . Of" The Dead Guest , " continued in this number , we can say nothing , as not having seen the first and second numbers of this ( the new ) series , and , therefore , not having seen thc commencement of the story , we have not read any portion of it . " Faith above all things" evidences deep thought and sound sense on the part of tho writer , combined with a hopeful belief in human progress . In saying this , we speak of the artiele generally ; there arc exceptioiiat'V passages vcj _cMinot accord with ; the beau ideal of a reformer , sketched in this article , is hardly to our liking ; it strikes lis that a true reformer " should be made of sterner stuff . " The "Sketches of Indian Sports is capital , and has but one fault ; it is too

      brict ; it would take a long storv indeed to tire us if written by the author of these "Sketches . " "The , ? _« , _^ yons , " is a short but pleasing story , Sr _° _XniW le , tllc beautiful illustration heading _,-r , , _IhePoorhouse Fugitive , " being a sequel to I _^ „ - _* _* " _« n the September number , is most _twtoju H-y and beautifull y illustrated . "The Past , tie I resent , and thc Possible , " is continued , and if the narrative of the writer is really a history of his owu experiences , then , indeed , is " truth _stranger than fiction ; " but whether truth or fiction , the story of our cosmopolitan friend is very intcrestin " " Mr . Zigzag" continues his delightful " Recreations . " Chap . xi . gives an account of " _Sayes Court , Deptford , " the residence of the celebrated

      _•• _Lv-jlts ; ' and-chap . xu . describes "Green-Ar-DOiir Court , ' sometime the London residence of the good-hearted Oliver Gomsmitii * . — " For shortness ealled Noll , Who wrote like an angel , amYtalk'd like poor Foil , " This is a charming chapter . The notices ofthe life and eccentricities ofour beloved Oliver are most interesting ,, and we are strongly tempted to quote the entire chapter ; wc must , however , content ourselves ¦ with the following extracts : ~ .

      onvlR _aOLDSSlTn . The career of Goldsmith was marked , not only by thevicissitude * incidental to the life of an author subsisting by his pen , hut its fluctuations were likewise aggravated . by the wayward tenden cies of an unsettled and romantic disposielon . When a boy , «« Thc History of the Rogues and Rappams _. ' - _'aii-i the lives _cj pirates , _soubt-vs , _« nd

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      smugglers , received a greater share of his attention than the more regular Sources of instruction ; and during the period of his desultory studies at Trinity College , Dublin , he gave but little indication of _chiracter , save such tokens as . appertain to that of a good-hearted , worthless fellow ; aud , although the professions of divinity , law , and medicine were successively set before him , neither of them was found suited to a genius which would have its own time and its own way . The former proved a course for which lie had no vocation ; and such was his modesty and ingenuity in that particular , that when , in after life , he happened to be asked to pray at a friend ' s house , he declined tho office on the plea of not being good enough . The legal profession appeared too expensive a venture to the friends of the improvident

      scapegmee ; and some skill in throwing the sledge-hammer , and a pretty regular course of tippling at the jnn of Ballymahoti , constituted , at this time , tbe chief proficiency of Master Noll , who was now dedicated to the studies preparatory to a degree in tin- ' healing art . The scrapes , disgraces , and other dilemmas that distinguished this period of his life were mingled with many circumstances which manifested the native warmth and humanity of his disposition , and certain others which foreshadowed the nature of liis future career : for , when put to the shifts fov the means of paying a tavern score , he would write a ballad and carry it to the sign of the Reindeer , in Montrath-strect , where the Dublin Catn . ieh of tho time was always ready to furnish him with the amount of five shillings in payment for such a production .

      Green Arbour-court was the first settled London abode of Goldsmith , Having passed two years in the study of medicine under the elder Monro , at Edinburgh , where he failed to take a degree , and another year at Leydcu , with the like ill success , he proceeded over a considerable portion ofthe Continent : at one time travelling from one convent to another , earning his night ' s entertainment , after the manner of a roving student of tho fifteenth century , by the exhibition ofhis scholarship ; at another , piping merrily for bis supper at the humble door of some cottage in the sunny ami music-loving land of Italy . The wanderer had landed at Dov _^ r , forlorn and destitute , and was presently engaged in that most melancholy of all pursuits—the search for employ--joe-it in London . This may be supposed ta have been the

      most trying period of Goldsmith ' s wholo life ; and when , about ten years afterwards , he began a story , to the sur . prise ofa brilliant party at the house of Sir Joshua Reynolds , xvith "When I lived among the beggars of jlxclane , "itwas probably a reminiscence of the very time when he wandered from one druggist's shop to another , humbly soliciting employment of any description . An obscure chemist had at length taken compassion on him , and tho result had teen a brief sojourn at the Corner of _llell-yard , near the Monument . I'he next transition had been an essay in thc character of a physician on thc Bankside , Southwark , upon tho strength of the degree of bachelor in medicine , supposed to have been obtained at Lomvain , and by the _halp of Sleigh , a former fellowstudent at Edinburgh . But Esculapius was not

      propitious to this erratic disciple ; and , in spite of the suit of green velvet and gold , bought at second hand , to enhance the dignity of his professional appearance , and although , in consequence of a patch ivhich was discovered in the coat after the bargain was concluded , the hat of tho physician was invariably held so as to cover the left breast during a consultation , still the lack of patients or fees bad induced a speedy termination ofthis adventure , and thus probably saved the lives aud constitutions of some of the King ' s liege subjects . This was followed by an attempt to fulfil the duties of an usher to a school at Peckham ; but the tricks of the young gentlemen , "the drudgery by day , and last , not least , the misery of being obliged to Sleep on the same pillow with

      a Frenchman , who stunk him dead with rancid pomatums , " had completed the disgust of the doctor , and finally drove him to Green Arbour-court , and the daily drudgery of . 1 literary life . It was _llCI'C that _llllloiie fouud the doctor , " employed iu writing his ' Inquiry into Polite Learning , ' in a wretchedly dirty room in which there was but one chair ; and when , from civility , this was offered to his visitant , he himself was obliged to sit in . the wiwdow . While they were conversing , some one gently rapped at the door , and , on being desired to come in , a poor ragged little girl of very decent behaviour entered , who , dropping a curtsey , said , * My mamma sends her compliments , aud begs the favour of you to lend her a chamber-not full of coals . '"

      No one hnd ever met poverty and toil with a manlier spirit than Goldsmith did ; the _iinincnsu catalogue of his obscure productions , ranging from tlie history of empires even to thatof "Goody Two Shoes , " attest his indefatigable industry and patient endurance of unworthy toil . But such exertion will produce a reaction . The mind of the author had lost its elasticity , tlws spirit of ths man flagged ; and the buoyant disposition tllilt had carried him through so many trials was not of sufficient tension to urge the last few steps towards the goal , in sight of which he fell . But , if the spirit flagged , the

      heart remained true and tender to the last . He still played with the children , and " taught the dog to beg ' _* and it is told of him , that , being at a dinner-party , he suddenly ran out into the street to give all he had in his pocket to a poor _ballad-singer . " Some of the company observed and remarked on his lavish bountifulncss , ' Oh , ' saii hc , you were all saying she sung sweetly , but you did not perceive the misery of her notes . '" Ee only , who had felt the thorn in his own breast , could detect the sorrowful secret in tho song of the wounded _nightimrale . "

      On thc llth of April , 177 S , Oliver Goldsmith departed from a life of many sorrows , with somo bright _glimi > ses of fame , and a few brief intervals of enjoyment . JUi 3 mind had begun to prey upon itself , and the body suffered in the struggle . Ilis last act as a physiciau was a fatal one ; for his final prostration was hastened by an overdose of a powerful medicine ofhis own prescription . He was buried in the Temple Church , and his monument is in Westminster Abbey ; but thousands _ll'J' 0 have never Si ,-- ii it havo a better Jn their own . hearts when they recal those scenes of virtue , without aft ' jetation of pathos , without extravagance , and of wit and humour without offence or license , which embellish his works , of whom the great moralist has said , he " left scarcely tiny kind of writing _uutouched , and touched none but what he adorned , " This number of the Illuminated contains also a . review of Mi * . _Coorun ' s " Purgatory of Suicides . " The notice is a favourable owe .

      t Wc last month expressed our unqualified admiration of this Magazine , which we noiv repeat . The literary matter is of a healthy and high-toned character ; the writers do not strain after efl ' eot , but achieve effect purely by the natural strength of their literary ability . As regards its literary contents , this Magazine may compete with any similar publication extant ; but as regards its illustrations it is beyond comparison the best of all tho mon thlies . It is from the first page lo the last a thing of pencilled poetry and artistic beauty . After a somewhat lengthy career of unfortunate management , the Illuminated is now in good hands , and if the public will only give it a fair trial , it cannot fail to achieve more than even its former popularity . It is a pleasing labour to proclaim the merits of the worthy , and , earnestly hoping that our commendation may not be in vain , we warmly recommend this _Magazine to the reading public .

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      SIMMONDS' COLONIAL _MAGAZINE—October . London : Simmonds and Ward , IS , Cornhffl , This month ' s number contains such a variety of matter interesting to the general reader , as well as to the politician , thc colonist , and the intending emigrant , that we have had some difficulty ill getting through the one hundred and twenty pages and upwards , contained in a single number o ' f this magazine . Indeed , we must candidly confess that wc have not read the entire of the contents of this number , for that would be a labour , though a pleasing and profitable one , greater than we have time to devote to . Most of the contents , however , wc have read , and , generally speaking , we must express our approbation and admiration of the artioj ) we have perused . The

      opening article is a _conization of the "Noteson the Sandwich Islands , " by _Robeot Cbiciitox Wyuie , Esq . " The Missouri River" gives asuccinct account oi that celebrated American stream . Next follows a continuation of the series of valuable articles " On the _Agriculture of Ilindostan . " This is followed by a continuation of the interesting articles on the " Liberated African Establishment at St . Helena . " From the pen of thc intelligent and talented editor of ' * The _Hobart Town Courier , " wc have a highly interesting account of" An Excursion to tlic Wellington Falls , Van Dieman ' s Land . " A valuable topographical and general description of "The Cape of Good IIopc , Cape Town , and its environs , " is given in this number . Comparatively speaking , but little is known in' this country of this least talked of , but most flourishing and happy ofall the British colonies ; the article , therefore , in this magazine will be of good service in throwing light upon a land hitherto

      almost veiled from thc denizens of the mother country . Perhaps the gem ofthe present number is the article entitled " The Crescent City , " by CiuniEs Ilooro . v , Esq ., describing the principal features and characteristics of . New Orleans and its motley inhabitants , ' the only fault we have to find is , that the article is too brief . New Orleans is already a great city—that it is destined to be a still greater , no one can doubt . Articles on "Thc defenceless state of England , " "New Zealand , " "The Temples of the Ajunta , " " Statistics of Van Pieman ' s Land , " "Tho Island of Cuba , " "Bytowu ( Canada ) and its-environs , " with some minor articles , form the remaining contents of this number , which cannot fail to add to the already widely extended popularity of Simmonds ' Colonial Magazine . We had marked several passages for extract , but want of space prevents us giving them .

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      MEMOIRS OB' AN UMBRELLA-By , Q , 11 , _lloDWELb . Part III . London : E . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street . This story becomes moro and more interesting . In the present part is a comic song , entitled "The Captain ofthe Guard , " composed by Mr . Rodwell . The illustrations by Pniz are excellent . We have no room for extracts , but we advise the reader to make his acquaintance with the work and judgefor himself .

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      A . v TJclv Customer . — The most effective according , wc belicYe _. to Lord HjTOll—for t of nn abusive hackney-coachman is eallin ugly fellow ! It is known to have been tht Mr . O'Connell , that he could drive a cone through an Act of 1 _' arllament , nor is his i opprobrioiisuess less notorious ; and in the which lie attaches to the reproach of ugl shows a further affinity with the brotherhot whip . In the course of an invective agr Times Commissioner tlie other dav at " Gone Hall , ho asked— "Didthey ( his bearers ) kn he ( the Commissioner ) said ?—that the Iris ! were ugly . Uo really did . Did he really I W not * , but no matter . Tell thator any thing

      , " Conciliation '' Hall . A worse charge thai ugliness , we think , was once brought against men of England : no matter for that either . — would seem—though the fact is certainly otln to be the worst word in the O'Connell dictionn John O'Connell , the _Tydides of Erin , can more insulting epithet to apply to the Comn himself . Whether that gentleman is an ugly not , we imagine that the Agitators , father "; have found him an ugly customer , lie has i a little to spoil their trade ; slill , we won either ol them should have called him ugly , s his revelations of the wretchedness of the li santry , from whose hard hands is wrung the ' llent , " he has proved them both , O'Conncl

      and Junior , to be very protty fellows . _—Pirnc / i A _Giutuitou-j Cathedral . —A great pa understand , has been occasioned amongst th of St . Paul ' s by an announcement which iias _; round ol" tha ' papers , to tho _eifect that t . Ucvcrend tho Dean of Winchester had cat Cathedral of that city to be opened , accrti daily , to the public , gratis . The clerical sho \ appears , are afraid that they will be expect likeivise , and are in the greatest alarm ior tin penccs . Twopence , tliey argue , is in itself sum , * but twopence every five minutes ov so c

      a round one m the course ot a day . Jleaily tl of Winchester should have reflected before a < he as done . He sliould have considered , th does not cave about money hjm . se ] f , tliere ai Deans who love it dearly , and to whom thc si loss is heart-rending . He has evidently no Cathedral music : that isto say , the cliink c But he sliould have _l-cgardcil other tastes tl own before endeavouring to abolish it , and to those silver-toned harmonies , than wliich to tl _itiga of certain churchmen , thc " long-drawi and fretted vault" can resound with no strain soothing . —Ibid .

      A _Kailway Panic—Thc lioxxlogne _Neu-s en cally calls upon the public to retrain from r , speculation , on thc ground that many _tchemes unfinished tor want of the necessary iron . To s truth , we do not anticipate a stoppage from w iron , though we expect there will some day or be a frightful smash for want of tin . —Ibid . A SumntE Ai-roiSTMEST . —O'Connell is lo his denunciation of the " Government Educ ; scheme . Could not Peel , to propitiate him , Wish in one of the proposed Colleges a l _' rofessi of BiUhi 2 _fgate , and confer the _appointmentan adequate salary—on the learned and vitupe gentleman _1—lbid . Poor Pkixck A ., akd his Recest " Accm-s-How arc the mighty fallen . ' On Saturday [ givo us a little stimulant to help us througl

      melancholy story ]—On Saturday ( sniff ) the pmet a mo _' st hawful haccident —[ More g-gin—i yonr only drink foryourtaleof sorrow]—a hawfu cident ' . Before going up to town—Iph-woh ' . " highness was innocently _a-coming down stair wasn't after dinner , or , it" it was , that makesii ferencc ] _. He was a-comin' downstairs ( sniff , and oh-woh-woh ) his dear little foot _s-l-ipped-o-wn , down tumbled the Royal Sportsman 1 1-ubbcrly stag ! Staggered and _exllunetificd , h picked up by himself or the regal _inaid-ol-all-W _maid-of-all-work—which means the maid what do no work whatsomdever at all . He was _p-yup , and —[ only to think—lend us your cotton w _oh-o-o-o-o-woh]—his blessed ancle was—out or j —Joe Miller .

      _Sui'RnFLuous I—The Admiralty have lately experimentalizing on some new blocks submitt ; their notice at Portsmouth . \ Yc defy compoti however , against the " old blocks" presiding ore naval department , although it teas said that th ones were more likely to be cracked than the ones . —Ibid . A DASGKno-js Eskmy . — "Wc advise our- naval mandcrs to be on the look-out , otherwise the likely to fall foul of an ugly customer . > Ve per that one of thc French admirals just _wp-pwwtciA command , is Rear-Admiral De Hell ! Whoevc counters the gentleman may therefore expect work . —Ibid . A Useful Hist . —It may not he understood a tho public generally , that anybody breaking win renders himself , liable to the "Panes and J tics Act . " —Ibid .

      Emigration . —Emigration is at a discount i : city . The Lord Mayor was asked the other da ; hc should like to speculate in the colonics , replied that he should make " a * uc _** i / bad setilei Some ark Boit . _v to Pai _* , or / i £ Rs to Rkcei " Prince Albert refuses to pay _£ 200 , the rati arrears of rate , duo for his fann at Windso ; Time / . Since Prince Albert refuses his rates to defray , Alleging excuses which call forth our laughter , An overtaxed people who sMlthftve to pay , Will rate him—atxiothiiw—for ever hereafter .

      AN AXDOYEK DITTY , _DEPICATEP TO MESShS , LEWIS , KlCllOltS , AND BE _& l I'll sing you a modern _aong That was mado by a modern pate , Of three jolly commissioners , Who lived or the poor ' s estate ; And eat and drank , and paid tlieir way "With many a parish rate , While n drunken master gave relief To the paupers at thoir gate ! Three cheers fov the three coinmissioi " Kings" of the modern timo . Their hall so fine was hung around With Poor Law manifestoes , And rules and regulations , For pitching into pauper foes ! And tliere tlieir worships sat at ease ,

      With what consciences , heaven knows And inwardly prayed that the master irould gin Each paupcv a bloody nose 5 Like three tender-hearted gentlemen , Commissioners of the modern time t When winter old brought frost and cold They opened house to all ; With courses three they fed the great _. With , bones they fed the small ! Nor Was the houseless wanderer Ere driven from the door , Though , once within , he was twenty times Worse oil'than hc was before ! AU along ofthe thrco ] commissionere Christians of the modern time !

      Butfraud , though sweet , must end at last , Aud sure tho hour is nigh ; And every Poor Law case proclaims Tho official life must die ! Thoy' 11 lay them down reluctantly—Givo up office with a sigh , While paupers glad dance round their coucl- _. And curse the charity Ofthe three Poor Law commissioners , ? Samaritans ofthe modern time ! Now surely this were hotter far Than all the new parade Of oakum picking—crushing bon _« 3—And starving what God made ! And much more economical Since poor-rates must he paid To let them have the benefit For whom the rate wa 3 made , And not the three _coinniissioht-rJ ,

      Or any oftheir trade ! Positives and OoMPAlUTir £ S . —l . A basin bfSS oatmeal is thick , but the head of a fool is thh 2 . Anything tart is a sharp affair , bu t a church wm who steals the parish funds is a sharper . 3 . Juu nautis a very idol gentleman , but Dr . Johnson * _n for an Idler . 4 . When the heat is at 100 _degro'e is a warm day , but old women of coofcs will teJeJ that a saucepan is a warmer . __ 5 . A man ww losing his senses is a strange individual , but woo seen Mr . Mac-ready act the part ofa Stranger . Yarmouth bloater is salt , ' but a psalm-book ! 1 ; psalter . 7 . A chesnut horse is a brown animal , 1 , baker's oven is a browner . S . A puncheon of ss is frequently a rum article , but a largo glassss rummer .

      A Fact from _Yaskke-Lasd . —The _follon'ingigj vcrsation is said to havo taken place _betwceu-ii . , of New York , and her maid : — " Leah , , roe some water with the chill taken off . " '"" ma ' am , directly . " " Leah , what on earth 1 II you ? " " I ' ve been _looking ever > ince for the e ma'am , and I can't find it . "—This vcmlndsus ' _o ' c hoy sent to boil some eggs soft ; when questst what detained him , he answered , " Rot the tbth it aintnonse , they won ' t boil soft ; I ' ve been at t more nor an hour , and the more I bites ' cm _tkehili ; they gets . " A Rkpodutor Extra . —A far-west man , wh _' hj his newspaper bill sent from Boston , replieiM never ordered the paper ; and if I did , I have _paiai it ; and if I have not paid for it , I never will , Va now run out of date . "

      _Giva a Reasok . —Phrases -which did welleieii formerly , now only excite a sneer : it docs notot ; talk to the operatives about" ¦ svHr , p * areandanoBt > 8 ll church , " and our " glorious constitution , " thine * --no respect for either ; but one must take i . ll ground , _snd show that our _objecVisnbttbnrpw particular institutions , so much as to upholtf e : _ei principles , -wbich . sure in _. great danger of _falliniini disrepute , because ( ft the viee 3 of the . instittit ; which profess to exemplify _them . —i _^ . Arnold . .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 18, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_18101845/page/3/