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Iwembeb 22, 1845. The Northern Istar. 3
_Iwembeb 22 , 1845 . THE _NORTHERN _ISTAR . 3
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BEAUTIES OF BYRON . ,.. _; ... TO . XX . 7 ; . ' . " CHILDB _HAEOU ) . " Canto IV . opens with the Mowing magnificent " _aazason _TCSICE . .-.: ¦ I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Si ghs ; A palace andaprison on each hand : I saw from out the waveher structures rise Asfrom thestroke of the enchanter ' s wand A thousand yeara their cloudy wings expand Around me , and a dying Glory smiles O ' er the f » time * . " when many a subject land look'd to the _winxfa lion's marble piles , W here Venicesat in state , throne J on h er hundred isles ! She loola a sea Cybele _, fresh from Ocean , - Rising with her tiara of proud towers
At every distance , with majestic motion , ¦ A ruler of the waters and their powers : And sneh she was ; her . daughters had their dowers " From spoils of nations , and . the _cxhaustless East PourM in her lap all gems in sparkling showers . In purple was she robed , and of her feast Honarchs partook , and deem'd their dignity increased . In Tenice Tasso's echoes are nolnore , And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore , And music meets not always now the ear : Those days are gone—but _JBeautrsiHl is here . States foil , arts fade—hnt Nature doth not die , 7 lioryet forget how Tenice once was dear , The pleasant place of all festivity , The revel of the earth , the mask of Italy ! But unto us she hath a spell beyond
Sot same in story , and her long array Of mighty shadows , whose dim forms disposed Above thedogeless city ' s _vanish'dsway ; Ours is a trophy which will not decay "With the Kialto ; Shylock and the iloor , And Pierre , can not be swept or worn away . _TheJkej-siones of the arch ! though all were o ' er , For us re-peopled were the solitary shore . The beings ofthe mind are not of clay ; Essentially immortal , 'they create And multiply in ns a brighter ray And more beloved existence : that which Fate Prohibits to . dull life , in this our state Of mortal bondage , by these spirits supplied , first exiles * , then replaces what we hate . "Watering the heart whose early flowers have died , And with a fresher growth replenishing the void .
The spouseless-Adriatic mourns her lord ; And animal marriage now no morerenewM , The _ButmrtaiiT . lies rotting unrestored , _Neglected garment of her widowhood ! St . JMark yet sees his Xion where h ? stood Stand , hut in mockery of his wither _* d power , Over tnfe proud place where an Emperor sned , And monarehs gazed and envied in the hour "When Tenice was a queen with , an uuequall'd dower . The _Ssabian sned , andnow the Austrian reignB— - An Emperor tramples where an Emperor inelt ; Kingdoms are shrunk te pfoyinces , and chains Clank over sceptred cities : nations melt
From power ' s iiigb pinnacle , when they have Ic-fc The sunshine for a while , and downward go like _lauwine loosen'd from the mountain ' s belt ; O h for one hour of blind old Dandolo ! Th' Octogenarian _chieij Byzantian ' s conquering foe . Before St . Mark still glow his steeds of brass , Their gilded collars glittering in the sun ; Bnt is not Dona ' s menace conie to pass ? _AretheynothrJjnW . ' - _^ Tenice lost and won , Her thirteen hundred years of freedom done , £ xi _& - > , like A sea-wezA . xn . to whence she rose Better be _whelm'd beneath the waves' and shun , Even in destruction _^ depth her foreign foes , From whom submission wrings an infamous repose
Statues of glass—all _shiverfd—the long file Of her dead JDoges are declined to dust ; But where they dwelt , the vast and sumptuous pile Bespeaks the pageant of their splendid trust ; Their' sceptre broken , and their sword in rust , Have _yiddedto-Uie stranger ; empty halls , Thin streets , and foreign aspects , sneh as most Too oft remind her who and what enthrals , Have flung a desolate cloud o'er Venice's lovely walls . # . ' . » - # .. * Thus , Tenice , if no stranger claim were thine , "Were all thy proud historic deeds forgot , Tby choral memory ofthe Bard divine , Thy love of Tasso , should have cut the knot "Which ties thee to thy tyrants ; and tby lot So shameful to the nations—most of all - Albion ! to thee : tbe Ocean Queen should not Abandon Ocean ' s children ; in the fall Of Tenice think of thine , despite thy watery wall !
I loved her from my boyhood—she to me "Was as a fairy city of the heart , Rising Oke water-columns from the sea , Of joy the sojonm , and of wealth the mart , And Otway , Baddiffe , Schiller , Shakspeare ' s art - , Had stamp'd her image in me , and even so , Although I foundher . thus , we did not part , Perchance even dearer in her day of woe , ' Than when she was a boast , a marvel and a show .
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THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Pbisoh Rhyme is Teh Books . By Thomas Cooper , the _Cliortist . London : J . How , 132 , Fleet-street .
f Continued from the Star of Nov . _ltslh . ) I dreamt again—but 'twas a gladsome dream : A dream of portents beatifical : A dream where the prophetic brain did teem "Witli glorious visions of high festival In sculptured aisle , and dome , and rainbowed hall : A festival of Brotherhood and Mind , _JBvsniridal spirits held , from thrall Of Evil freed—and mystically designed To' adumbrate future bliss for Earth and humankind . As where the way to some hoar fane of Nile—Carnac , orluxor , orfairlbsamboullay through an imaged path , for many a mile , Of _sphinxes huge or lions , so that IuU With abject awe and fitted for the rule Of priests the worshipper approached—thus seemed The aisle fit path to fill with beautiful 'Expectancies the ghostly throng that streamed Along its wilderness of sculptures , as I dreamed .
And when tbe dome we ranght , onr ecstacy Of hope ripened to rapturous overbliss "With what the spiritual sense did hear and see Beneath that span colossal : Music ' s voice A sweetness gushed fit to emparadise The plastic forms of wisdom and of worth That there in mystic apotheosis Ofstatued life reposed : forms of old Earth They were—the best , the noblest children of her birth . _Jlange above range rose many-fashioned niche—A ca rented space as wonderfal and vast A-i that weird city which few travellers reach—Ida-wean Petra , in the dangerous waste ; Aad in such order were the worthies placed That they , though mute , the world's progressive story Of spirit-toil revealed , from first to last-r-And how the spark , first caught by sages hoary Irom _N ature ' s fire , Mind nurtured to aflame of glory .
From ancient Orient to the late-born Vf est—Bard , thinker , devotee of enterprise , Philanthropist and patriot , soul of guest Tor Nature ' s secrets , chad in whose -wrapt eyes She glows so lovely that his spirit plies Its powers to imitate herforms—the gems From Earth ' s clay gathered—in immortal guise Seem there enshrined—beings whose Tery names _Shsd splendour more ineffable than diadems . A spiritual Pantheon ofthe Good , The Free , tbe Tireless , and the truly Great , It was : a mansion of _sonl-sanctitude That held tbe visitant spirit in a state Of ecstasied entrancement—all-elate _"ft'ith love and wonder , and yet boshed with awe ; And Mind seemed sounds symphonious to create That heightened bliss , pondering on what it saw-So fhat our thoughts germed music , by some unknown law .
Anon , this minstrelsy so wondrous ceased ; And , with a groupe of spirits who stood nigh—Gazing as if t _& ey would for ever feast On what they saw , yet nerer satisfy Their yearning souls—forthwith , metheught , that I Became consociate—hearing how they spoke Their glowing thoughts , by numbers that swept hy Still undistract , and still with sateless look Scanning the sculptures as they were a priceless hook . The scene changes : — Anon , woke thrilling sounds omnipotent - , On earth , to null all thoughts bnt such as sprung Up armed in the brain while forth was sent The trumpet's peal—but sneh as sought a tongne , Yet found it not , while bora and harp notes clung Unto each other ' s sweetness—or the heart Melted to faintness , with wrapt waitings wrung - Of hautboy and bassoon . Sncb prelude , thwart "Ihe dome piercing , seemed well-known signal to depart .
Soon , blent these brothers were with throngs that now Hock onward where , beyond tbe vault's vast span , I saw TCTealed a _daaoling _heaven- _^ ght bow , ; Graadbeyondlikeness , and by wondrous plan VAto the ball with roof cerulean _,, .- - ¦ Servingfor gate-way-arch . Thither to speed , "With uplift gaze , tbe spirit-crowd began— "While to the prelude movements did succeed Cf all snperbest sounds the mind devours with greed ,
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_roll-puliedtyti -ipanum and deep-toned string ~ Proclaimed dena ,. _„™ jr _» _fenM * ching ,. _- » _-jh" _^ tho . gtep . . _^ Of stately joy tow , _'ie _tast gathering ;— ? ; _Wlnle ; ev » andMti ' '' _i thetri 1 land sweep ; _; * _Offlutes andviols _cai , sed the heart to leap . --- With , foretaste of its bk ' _-iuet . _Mndhath known , Ev ' n in its house of clay , _rapture as deep From Handel ' s giant pomps or organ blown , - ' ¦ While long cathedral aisles some pageant proud Wis : " ¦ ' strown . ¦ _-. ¦ -.-,.. . _' - Beneath the wondrous arch of heavenly _aheC-n , I passed into the hall , when—lo ! no more Monarchal thrones and monster shapes were seen Within ; but , from the middle of its floor
Immense , shelved gently upward countless store Of sculptured seats extending to the bound ¦ Of that ellipsis vast—and wisest lore By plastic art Into each seat seemed wound-So that the mind read deepest lessons all around . ¦ And , on the rim ofthe ellipse ,- where , erst , ¦¦ - ¦ - ¦¦ - ¦ "Wild shapes reared irkingly , as if To prop the rainbowed roo _^ ino _^ _eid'two- _^ d hurst Upon their heads—stood images of life _. Bright as the son , their ' countenances rife * With blended beauty , intellect , and love : Fairplumed wings . they had—but'twas a strife ' For mind tojudge what it did best behove To say they were—such ' grace seemed in their forms
enwove . And , as the myriad multitude swarmed in _. Filling the spacious ampitbeatre In spir it-wbUpers some of seraphin . And some of genii talked , and guessed these were Such mystic essences . Interpreter None needed long : the soul ' gan soon perceive . They were her own creations , which the stir , Of glorious brother-thoughts had power f enweave To _6 « iS \ lOUB shapes—as if they did to sight upheave . With visages as bright , with looks as blest As kindly and intelligent , all beamed . And smiled upon each other , while tlieir rest They took npon the graven seats . None deemed .
Himself nobler than others : none esteemed His brother meanly : pride , aud rank , and state _. Had vanished—and , all equal , as beseemed A brother-throng , together Essence sate , In love , of humblest citizen and potentate . Aloft , o ' er all- the roof with splendour hued Of bows celestial still was self-suspended . The regalforms whose blazoned pomp I viewed . In earlier dreams , now sat with sages blended—Uncrowned , nnsceptred , aU their haught looks ended—With bards , and workers-out of human weal , And patriots who in lofty deed transcended Their oar thly fellows . Ghosts of erring zeal for iaiiths fantastic creed ** incomprehensible ,
And cruel _ldoUworships , whom I saw Climbing the Monnt of _Tanity—the wild tone dweller in the cave , whose rage with awe I witnessed 'mom ; his snakes _^—the * Poet-child . "With his lamenting harp , who wept , exiled To forest-selitudi _*—the tuneful choir Of bards who walked the grove— -the baud who toiled , Por aye , to kindle the fierce fatal fire Of soul wherewith France lit the devastating pyre Of liberty—a moiety of the ghosts ...... . Who . idly lay along the beach i _' th'land ' _" Of Sloth and Desolation—Sorrow's hosts— . . " . " ¦' . And crowds of those fair forms who , hand-in-hand , . Sped o'er the pasture-plain , with greetings bland , And garlanded with flowers—all sat arrayed '
In simple yet attractive guise : a band Of happy souls iunumerable : parade . Wealth , sorrow , guilt , for ever from their essence fled ! Soft consentaneous murmurs soon were heard , 'Mid which distinguishable grew the name Of sage Lycurgus—whereat claricord And viol , clarion , pipe , and drum became Mute as expectant listeners—and thc claim Fraternal to receive his speech , with meek Tet manly front , he rose to answer . Maim No longer were the powers of voice : the Greek Didsetm _. and they that followed , with Earth ' s tongues to speak . Brother and sister spirits , to rehearse Our joy—he said—what _Tolnmed tongue hath skill I -
Our happiness , like the eternal source From which it springs , doth erer overfill And over-run—so tbat our bliss we still Augment , commingling bliss . I triumph not To think me a true seer : too deep the thrill Of ecstacy doth' move me that all donbt - And guess are past , and this beatitude is ranght . Brothers , this blest reality hath swept The films of mystery from the general mind ; And he who doubted most now an adept ' Becomes in tracing Nature ' s progress : blind Where many , once : but how it was designed Prom earliest eld , tbat pain
corporeal—That hate , and all self-torture . ** of the mind Should past away , and brotherhood prevail And joy—all now perceive with vision spiritual . Te who , with opulence of speech endowed , Excel , begin the never-tiring theme— What mighty influences did long enshroud Themselves from vulgar gaze , and yet did seem To _Nature ' s true disciples with ths beam Of splendour ' s self-revealed—and sure to drown And overwhelm all error , as a stream Resistless sweeps all human barriers down—Or as Light ' s genial smile o ' ercometh Night's drear frown .
How we now wonder , while our ken afar -Travels from these joy-seats—surveys the dome Resplendent with full many an exemplar Of limn an virtues—and enrapt doth roam Along the dazzling aisle where graces bloom - Ineffable—how we now wonder Truth So long was hid ! Be thine th' exordium , 0 Mithridates I to pourtr ay the growth Of Good , and how she vanquished all her foes uncouth !—The reply of Mithridates we must reserve for next week .
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THE EDINBURGH TALES . Conducted by Mrs . Johnstone . Edinburgh : W . Tait , Prince ' s-street . London : Chapman and Hall , Strand . The first and second parts of this work were noticed in this paper some months sinre , and we then warmly recommended the work to our readers . Parts III ., IV ., V .. VJ ., and VU . we received some time ago , and would have noticed ere this , but that we have been waiting for a favourable opportunity to speak of them at some length , as we desired todo . We have waited in vain , and now tliat we proceed to give the long-deferred notice , we find ourselves compelled , by press of matter , to make that notice as brief as possible . In the seventh part , the first volume is brought to a conclusion . This , volume contains no less than nineteen different ' tales by the following talented and popular writers : —Mrs . Johkstoxe , Mrs . Fraseb , Mrs . Gore , Miss Mitfobd , Mrs . Crowe , William _Howrrr . Edwab _* Quilllvan , Thomas Caiilvlb , Mr .
Fkaser Tttlek , Colonel _Johnsok , and Sir Thomas Dick L asher . It would be useless to offer even a word a s to the excellencies of the above writers , their names are sufficient surety for the worth of their productions , and form the best evidence it would be possible for us to advance in proof of the high character of these "Tales . " Wehave before noticed the tales written by Mrs . Johnstone , we will , therefore , on the present occasion , give our readers a taste of _Wnxu-ii Howitt ' s quality . In part VII . is a story of the " Exploits of Johnny Darbyshire , a Primitive Quaker . " Thi 3 eccentric character was a farmer living in one of the most obscure parts ofthe country , on ihe borders of the Peak of Derbyshire . He was a Quaker , and never was there a man , from the first tothe present day of the society , who so thoroughly exhibited that quality attributed to the Quaker , in the rhyming nursery alphabet— " Q was a Quaker and would not bow down . "
The sayings and doings of this queer character are told in a most entertaining manner by Mr . Howitt , who st ates that _Johsst DAsnvsmiiE is no imaginary character , but a bona fide specimen of the many instances to be found in country nooks , of English independence run to seed . "Never was there a more pier-headed , arbitrary , positive , pugnacious fellow . He would argue anybody out of their opinions by the hour he would'threep them down / as he called it , that is , point blank , and with a loud voice , insist on his own possession of the right , and of the sound common sense of the matter , and if he could not convince them , would at least confound them with hw ohstreporous din and violence of action . " The scenes between him and Diggort _Brsox , the parish priest , are most diverting ; thus on one occasion Johnny was present at a vestry-meeting , called to vote a churchrate , when he held forth as follows : —
" Now , I'll tell you what , lads , " said Johnny ; " you ' ve made noise enough to frighten all the jackdaws ont ofthe steeple , and there they are flying all about with a pretty cawarring . Yon _' ve spun a yarn as long as all the posts and rails ° round my seven acres , and I dunnasee as you ' ve yet edged in so much as the th' owd wise men o' Gotham did and that ' s a cuckoo . I ' ve heard just one sensible word and that was to recommend a _cast-iron . pulpit , in _preference to a wooden ' un . As to a church-rate to repair th' owd steeple-house , why , my advice m to piffl th ' owd thing down , stick and stone , and mend your roads with it It ' s a cap ital heap o' stone in it , that one must allow—and your roads are pestilent bad . Down with the o _' ld daw-house , I say , and mend th' roads wi t , and setth ' parsonhere up fora guide-post . Oh ! its arare ' nn he'd make ; for he ' s always pointing th way to the folks , bnt I never see that he moves one inch himself . "JMr . Darbvshire , " exclaimed tbe clergyman , in high resentment , '' that is very nncivil in my presence , to say
the least of it , " . -. . " Civil or uncivil , '' returned Johnny ; "ifs tbe truth , lad , and thou can take it just as thou likes . I did not come here to bandy compliments ; sol may a » well be hanged for an old sheep as for a lainh— -well not make two mouthfuli of a cherry ; my advice is then to have a cest-iron pulpit , by all means , and while you are aboutit , a cast-iron parson , too . It will do " just as well as onr neighbour Diggory Dyson here , and a plaguy deal cheaper , for it will require neither tithes , _gjehe _, Easier-dues , nor church-rates !'' 7 1 The way _Jobnisy pnnisbe » 3 the rapacious toll-gate keeper ; the way he eour ' ted his wife ; and how he ruled that wife , and Jus ' man-servants , and his maid
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_senants , is laughably _toIdlbyjfMfc-. pHowiiT . C | Wei fW \ , giTeone : more extractr _^ 6 _Bi-fT'hadWintd tronble _respectrngamare coramlti & _Jli _© his " charge by a * . gentleman . 4 Under , peculiar circumstances / o _^ ny _. unfortunately caused the maw to break one of her legs , and the animal had to be destroyed : From this arose a law-suit , 'iri ' ¦ which Johnny was concerned- a _* defendant-.- The case had proceeded on the part of the plaintiff , no lawyer appearing for Johnny , andthe judge was about to declare the case decided against the defendant in default ofhis appearance , when ; . There was a hasty plucking off of a large hat ,, which somebody had apparently walked into court with on : asd
the moment afterwards a short " wan , in a Quaker dress , with _his ' grizzled hair hanging' in long locks on his . shoulders , and smoothed _closedowttoh the forehead , stepped with a peculiar air _. pf . confidence and cunning , up to thebar . Histawny , sunburntfeatures , andsmalldarkeyes , twinkling with an expression ' of much country subtlety , proclaimed him at once a character . ' At once a score , of voices murmured— " There ' * Johnny _Darbyshire himself' . " He glanced , with a quickand peculiar look at the counsel , sitting at their table with their papers before them , who , on thoir part , did not fail to return his survey with a stare of mixed wonder and amazement .. You could see it as plainly as possible written on _ then-faces ,- * - " Who have . we got here ! There is some fun brewing here to n certainty . " : > .
• But Johnny raised his eyes from them to the bench , where sat the judge , and sent them rapidly thence . to the jury-box , where they seemed to rest with a considerable satisfaction . .. " ' ' : "Is this a witness ! " inquired the judge . "If so , what is he doing there , or why . does he appear at all , till we know whether the cause is to be defended ?" * 'Ay , Lord Judge , _a ' s _. ftey call thee , I reckon I am a witness , and the best witness too that can be had in tlte case , for I ' m the man himself ; I'm John _Sarbyshire . I didn't mean to , have any . thing to do with these chaps i ' their wigs and gowns , with their long , dangling ' sleeves ; and I -dunna jet nieau to have oiiy thing todo wi' ' em . But I just heard one of ' em tell thee , that this cause was not going to be defended ; and that put my monkey up , and so , . thinks I , I'll e ' en up and tell ' ein that it will be defended though ay , ' and I reckon it will too ;; Johnny Darbyshire was ' never yet afraid of the face of any man oranysetof men . ? ' _.--. .
. _" If you are what you say , good man , " said the judge , "defendant in tliis case , you had better appoint counsel to state it for you . " - - ' "Nay , nay , Lord Judge , as tbey call thee , —hold ablt ; I know better than that .. Catch Johnny Darbyshire at flinging his money into a lawyer ' s bag 1 No , no . I know them chaps wi ' wigs well enough . They ' ve tongues as long as a besom steal , and fingers as long to poke after ' em . Nay , nay , I don't get my money so easily as to let them scrape it up , by , arrafuls . I've , worked early . and late , in heat and cold , for my Vit 'd money , and long
enough too , before these smart chaps had left their mother ' s apron-strings ; and let them catch a coin of it , if they can . _, No I . I know this case better than any other man can , and for why ? Because I was in it . It was me that had the mare to summer ; itwas me that rode her to the doctor ; I was in at th'breaking of theleg _^ and , for that reason , I can teU you exactly how it all happened . And what ' s any of those counsellors , —sharp ,-and fine ,. ind knowing as they look , with their tails and their powder , —what are they to know about the matter , except what somebody 'd have to tell ' em first ; I tell you , I saw it , I did it , and so there needs no twice telling of the story . "
" But are you going to produce evidence % " inquired the counsel for the other side . ' ' . ' ¦¦ "Evidence ? to be sure I am ; What does ths chap mean f Evidence % why , I am defender and evidence andall ! " _; . There was a good deal of merriment in the court , and at the bar , in which the judge himself joined . . .. " There wants no evidence , besides me ; for , as I tell you , I did it , and I'm not going to deny it . " . " Stop ! " cried the jiiage , " this is singular . If Mr , Darbyshire means to plead his own cause , and to include in it his evidence , he most be sworn . ' ¦ Let the oath be administered to him . " " Nay , I reckon thou need put none of thy oaths to me ! My father never brought me up to cursing and swearing , and such like wickedness . ' He left that to th' ragamuffins and rapscallions V - . th' street . I'm no swearer , nor liar neither , —thou may take my word safe enough . " "Let hira take his affirmation , if he be a member of the Society of Friends . "
¦ ' " Ay , now thou speakest sense . Lord Judge . . Ay , I ' m a member , I warrant mo . " The . clerk ofthe court here took his affirmation , and then Johnny proceeded . ' - " Well , I don't feel myself any better , or any honester now for . making that affirmation . I was just going to tell the plain truth before , and I can only teU th' same now . And , as I said , I ' m not going to deny what I ' ve done . ' No ! Johnny Darbysbire ' s not the man that erer did a thing and then denied it . Can any of these chaps i' th ' wigs say as much 1 Ay , now 1 reckon , " added he , shaking hig head archly at the gentlemen of the bar , " now I reckon you'd like , a good many on you . there , to be denyin ; this thing stoutly for me ! You'd soon persuade a good many simple folks here that I never did ride the mare , never broke ber leg , nay , never saw her that day at all . Wouldn't you , now ? wouldn't you ?" —— Here the laughter , on all sides , was loudly renewed .
- "But I'll take precious good care 'ye 'dunna . } No , no ! that ' s the very thing that I've stepped up here for . It ' s to keep your consciences clear of a few more additional lies . Oh dear ! I am quite grieved for you , when I think what falsities and deceit you'll one day have to answer for , as itis . " The gentlemen , thus complimented , appeared to . enjoy the satire of Johnny Darbyshire ; and stiU more was it relished in the body of the court . _ But again remarked the judge , "Mr . Darbyshire , I advise you to leave the counsel for the plaintiff to prove his case against you . " I ' st niver oss ! " exclaimed Johnny , with indignation . " I ' st niver oss ! " repeated the judge . " What does he mean ?—I don't understand him , " and he looked inquiringly at the bar . "He means , my lord , said a young counsel , " that he shall never offer , —never attempt to do so . "
. " That's a Darbyshire chap now , " said Johnny , turning confidentially towards the jury-box , where he saw _sooie of his county farmers . "He understands good English . " For Johnny ' s'extraordinary defence , the result of the trial , anil the strange consequences that ensued , we must refer our readers to the work itself . The story is throughout most excellent . We have not room to say even a word concernieg the other " Tales , " butthiswe the . less regret , seeing thatthe entire volume , consisting oi upwards of 400 beautifully printed , double columned pages , may be had ( we believe ) for a trifle above four shillings ! This venture of Mr . Tait ' s has , weare informed , been eminently successful , and well it deserves to bo so . The Edinburgh Tales have our hearty recommendation .
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_SHARPE'S LONDON MAGAZINE . Novembei * . London : T . B . Sharpe , 15 , Skinner-street , Snowhill . This publication is intended to supply the general reader with matter of an amusing and instructive character , at such a price as to include purchasers of every claas . It will appear in weekly numbers and monthly parts ; but the monthly parts will be issued at the commencement , instead of the end ofthe month . On the 1 st of a month the 7 monthly subscriber will liave his part , containing the four weekly numbers ( or five , as it may happen ) in advance , while those who prefer to purchase b y single numbers will receive them weekly in the ordinary way . This
p lan is a good one ; it constitutes this publication a monthly magazine , and also a weekly periodical . Each _nundier is illustrated , so that there are several illustrations in the monthly part . Those in the present part are very good . We must especially distinguish the "Well of St . Keyne" ( Southey ' s well known ballad ) , and the " Lost Hunter . " There is some good readable matter in this part , and altogether the work promises well . We must except one article , that entitled " America and her Slave States . " The spirit of this is most objectionable ; and we imagine the editor would find it somewhat difficult to reconcile the fierce anti-republican spirit of this article with the merit assumed by hiin of keeping his magazine " perfectly free from political and theological controversy . "
The Balloon; Or, Aerostatic Magazine. Oc...
THE BALLOON ; OR , AEROSTATIC MAGAZINE . October , November . London : Steele , Paternoster-row . These numbers ofthe Balloon contain much interesting information respecting the past history and progress of aerostation . In the number for the present month we observe the outline ofa plan to connect , aerostation with railway transit . The plan is a novel one , and certainly not more impracticable than many schemes to which the public have recently subscribed their money . For the present , ballooning _bsing over for this year , tliis magazine is to be discontinued / On the first of May next it will be resumed ; and as the rage for ballooning is likely to increase next year , there can be little doubt but tliat the Balloon , when revived , will be successful . Certainly the ability and zeal ofthe Editor entitle him to look for success .
Pictorial Penny Balladist. Part I. Londo...
PICTORIAL PENNY BALLADIST . Part I . London : J . C . Moore , 12 , Wellington-street , North Strand . ., „ _.- r This is an admirable work . The Ballad Poetry of England has shed more true and enduring glory on the English name than all the victories gamed under the red-cross banner , from Agincourt to Waterloo ; yet , strange to say , this poetry is unknown , unless merely by name , _U-tens of thousands of the present generation of _Englshmen . Perhaps the mam cause of this woeful _iguoraace has been the high price ot
the works m whieh fhe old English ballads were enshrined , which prevented the masses from obtaining them . Whoever , therefore , does what is . promised to be done by the publisher of tliis work , performs the part of a public benefactor . The Pictorial BaU ladist is publishing in penny weekly numbers , and monthly parts . The first part contains—1 st , the famous old ballad of " Chevy Chase ; " who that has read this ballad in his boyhood can ever cease to remember it ? Right worthil y is it placed at the com-1 meneement of the work . _Snd , «* The Nui-Erovme
Pictorial Penny Balladist. Part I. Londo...
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. ALMANACKS . ' . _>* , " The Miners ' - Almanack for 1846 . - _Newcastlc-upo-n . - ¦ vr . ¦ .- Tyne ; Miners ' Advocate Office . _Containing , besides the usual amount of information found- ; in almanacks , tables for calculating wages , prices for hewing coals , either by the score yard ,. or :. ton . ; market , weather , tide _,., and other tables , * accidents in mines , ventilation of coal mines , with tables showing the speed of air currents , and a mass of other useful information . « The _Friend-in-Need Almanack , lor the year 1846 . " _Londen : J . Shaw , 24 , Gloucester-street , Commercial-road East .
Puncfl'&Tribute To.,O'Connell. Z' - As T...
_PUNCfl' _& TRIBUTE TO ., O'CONNELL . Z ' - As the day comes round when the grateful millions , whom you are , making so .. wise , . industrious ,. and happy , are clubbing their halfpence for your benefit , itbecomes us ' all _. dear Datf ; to offer bin * guoiaot admiration to you ; and I hereby send you my cbritribution , ina coin with which you are yourself in the h ab . ? _, relieving _, the necessitous—I mean a little slack jaw . In a case of necessity in your country , you are always the very first to come down with a subscription of that sort . i And I wish : to heaven that poor Paddy , who has no lack _orthe commodity , and takes it from you so kindly , would but ' pay yoii back , in this present hard seasoniin the same circulating medium . I am not averse to the subscription-box at mosttimes . Agood crowd—a . good rattling scene , between me and Judy ,
or me and the devil—and , " now , gentlemen and ladies , " iny man goes round for the subscription ! and the coppers come tumbling into the tin . ' I don't like that _v-ilgar cant . of calling it a begging-box : wo are worthy of our hire , both of us . " 7 - there are times and seasons to take the money from _poordevilswhoarestaning!—actually starving ! To be going round formoney just now . in , Ireland— -to _takej the _liist . pence of the , poor , ragged , kindly , hungry , foolish creatures—it turns my gorge somehow . Tou _^ can't be goiiig to accept the money .. Do without'this time . ! If you haveinonei go down to Derrynane , and go tick ; but . don't take the poor devils' money . For the credit of us adventurers who live on the public , andwho " are said _to'be ' goodhatured and free-handed—rogues as we are ~ sto » the
collection of the coppers , just for this once . I know the old , gag about "forsaking , great professional emoluments , " and so forth . But let them off this time— -the poor starving rogues—the good-natured simple Paddies , who roar at all your jokes , huzzay at all your lies _. come _^ leagues upon leagues to attend your show , and have paid their money so often ! ' . " Dives and Lazarus" is bad enough , and the contrast' of the -poor man s sores and the rich man ' s purple . But put it that Dives absolutely ; begged the money from , Lazarus , and grows fat . . while the other starves , it ; will be even so if you take these folks ' money—but I am again growing too serious . 1 Not that I quarrel with a joke , my dear professional friend , or am jealous of yours ; but I think , of these ; latter days / you have been a trifle too facetious .-
That excessive good humoiir the which you have flung into the" discussion oftlie Starvation Question—or rather that airy gaiety with which you have eluded it—hopping facetiously away from it when pressed upon you ; and instead of talking about the ' means of preventing your countrymen ' s ruin , telling a story about the coolness of the Lord Lieutenant ' s rooms , or bavins a fling at the Saxon , or telling a lie about the Times' commissioner , struck me as rather out of place . A joke is a joke , and nothing can be more pleasing than a lie ( we wiil _calLifc a hoax ) in its proper place—but not ; always . You wouldn't ! cut capers over a dead body , or be particularly boisterous and facetious in a chapel or a sick room ;' and I think of late , 'dear sir , you have been allowing your humour to get the better of you on occasions almost as
solemn . For , isn't Hunger sacred ? _isn t Starvation solemn ? And the Want of a nation is staring Daniel O'Connell in the face , and the Liberator replies with a grin and a jibe . All the country is alarmed by the danger , and busy devising remedies to meet it . The , gentlemen of Kerry subscribe - £ 8 , 000—the Liberator subscribes , tho Advice that corn' shall not be sent' out of the country . The Lord Lieutenant does all that such a feeble , absurd ceremony as a Lord Lieutenant can do —gives a coremony of consolation ; says . Government has employed scientific men , ' will send for others , and so forth . Dan sneers at the scientific men because they are Saxons , and fancies he covers his own astounding selfishness and indifference by this brutal claptrap . 7 The people come flocking to Onnciliation Hall to know what Dan will do—what
he'll propose , God bless him ! that ' s to get them out of the scrape ? and he puts up Mr . Dillon Browne to indulge in ribald jokes against Agricultural Societies ; and he himself amuses the meeting with a piece ol ly ina ; buffoonery about the Times' commissioner , lie owns it is a He ; boasts and chuckles over the lie . " If he wasn't turned out of the house , as I declared he was , _^ e ought to have been turned out , " and all the audience roar . What an audience , and what an orator ! Think ofthe state of mintl of thc poorfel-Iowb who have been got to like and listen to such matter I who , perishing themselves with hunger , still feed and fatten him to whom in their extremity ( when every man with a heart in his breast is devising plans for their rescue ) the old cynic , who wallows in their bounty , docs not offer a shilling ; but for
all advice , jeers and belies their English brethren who , by God ' s help , are able and willing to assisi them , and for all consolation entertains them with lies and lazzis . I think it was the French _newspaper who called you the Irish Moses ; and now the people are calling upon their deliverer , and behold , out comes Jack Pudding ! My brazen old brother buffoon ' . If I had the ear of your Paddies in Conciliation Hall I would tell them a story : — "During the Consulship of Plancus , when I was green and young , I had a dear friend , who for some years made a very comfortable income out of me , by , cheating mo at cards . He was an exceedingly agreeable , generous , social fellow , and professed and felt , ho doubt , a warm regard for me ; lor he used always to win and I to pay with unalterable confidence
and good humour .. I furnished lus liouse lor hnn , 1 paid his tailor's bills , ! kept the worthy fellow in pocket-money . Win what he would , I wouldn ' t believe he was a cheat . 'At last , as I insisted on not discovering his practices , my jolly friend did not give himself the trouble to hide tbeiu ; and one day , when we were playing a friendly game at ecarte together , I saw him with a selection of eight or nine trumps and court cards comfortably spread in his lap , from which he supplied his hand as he wanted . " God save the Greens ! I leave the amateurs of good jokes on the other side of the channel to determine the moral of this fable . Who are the green ones there ? and whoso confidence and blindness are so inconceivable , that the old sharper who takes their money scorns even to hide the jugglery by which he robs them . _.-.. ; . . pUM .,,.
Mansiaughter By A Police Is-Specion. — T...
_Mansiaughter by a Police Is-SPECion . — The to wn of Chipp ing Norton has been thrown into tlie greatest excitement in consequence of a police inspector , named Nott , haying on Wednesday week struck a prisoner whom he was conveying to the lock-up liouse on a charge of felony , and from which blow the poor man died on the . following morning . So great was the excitement during the holding of the inquest , that the mayor issued handbills calling upon the people to keep the peaco , and stating that the fullest investigation should take place . This document appeased the minds of the populace , who had before evinced an inclination to administer Lynchlaw upon the inspector . An inquest was held oh Thursday , before Mr . Westall . coroner for
Oxfordshire , when the following particulars were elicited : — The deceased , _William Slatter , kept a horse in a stable near to thatof Mr . Hall , and the latter having lost a quantity of chaff , charged the deceased with having stolen it . This he denied , but eventually Nott , the police inspector , was sent for , and in the deceased ' s stable there was a quantity of chaff whieh Mr . Hall said he could swear to as being part of that stolen . Upon the latter trying to get the chaff out ofthe manger , the deceased prevented bim as neuoh as he could , saying that the chaff was bis own ,, and never belonged to Mr . Hall , and that leshouMi not have it . Nott , the inspector , said they would liave the chaff , and added these words : — _" I'll _soom settle you , " upon whieh he drew from his rkht _handuockei
a thick stick , and struck deceased a violent Mow on the head , whieh caused him to stagger , and deceased said , " You have done a fine _thiorhow feme . " Nott was repeating the blow , _whrwrMr . Ball pulled hi 9 arm baek and said , " For God's sake don't strike him any more ; there are plenty of people here to assist you if it ia required . " The _h-UHteufis were then ' placed on the deceased , and he was conveyed to the lock-up house . On his vray there ho complained how bad hia head was . Tliis was about seven o ' clock in the evening . The next morning , on Nott going to the lock-up house , he found his . prisoner dead , In
consequence ol thc great excitement prevailing m the town , it was _thought proper : that a . post mortem examination should be made by a non-resident surgeon , and _consequently the inquest was adjourned until Saturday , in . order " that thejury might avail themselves of the services of W . Wingfield , Esq ., an eminent surgeon , of Oxford ; who promptly attended , and alter mak : , ng a post mortem examination , stated to the jury - that he had no doubt that death was caused by die blow given deceased on the head by Nott ; ar . dthe jury . without hesitation returned a verdict of "Manslaughter , " and Ndtt was the same _evening spnt ' to Oxford Castle to take his trial at the _netf _, assizes , - '
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_; „ . >?(¦ v- LONDON . > ;¦)¦ } - . ; Metropolitan * District Council ,. —The above body met tor the dispatch of business lit the Hall , 1 , _Tornagain-lane , on Sunday afternoon / November ICth . Mr . John Mills was called to the chair , and reported thatthe Chartists of the Tower Hamlets were about to convene a great public meeting , to take such steps as may conduce to the restoration of onr exiled patriots , Frost , Williams , ' and'Jones . Sereral other localities - reported that they were taking similar Steps ; ' Other very promising and _pleasiiig reports of the progress of the movement were made ; andthe council adjourned ; -j . / .
'• _^ _f ?? _S Victim Commute !* . _—Thiscommitttemet in the llall , ' 1 _unrasain-lane , on Sunday afteraoon . _November 16 th . Air . Stallwood was _linauimoasly called to the chair . The minutes of the previews wetting haying been confirmed , Afr . Mylne , on _bs"all ol Mr , Wheeler , stated that the £ 2 voted to Mr .. John _Kidiards , at the previous meeting , had been duly lonvaided . The chairman stated that Mr . John Cleave had authorised liim to state , that hewas prepared to-hand over an IO V for the balance of money he held on behalf of the . victim fund , and further , that he wouldpay any order , made by . the com- ' mittee , to _victimsj from time to time , on account ofi the same . It was _rmanimouslv resolved , that Mr
Cleave ' s offer lie accepted . A letter was read from Mr . John Gray , of Goodbaro , near Burnley , relative to Thomas _Tattersaly and ifc _^ was _iiinanimdusly . resolved , ' tliat the snm ' of £ 3 _beAwarded to Mr . Thomas Tattersal , ' and that - the . secretary ( Mr . T . M . Wheeler ) bis hereby empowered to draw the same from the fund , and forward it immediately . It was also unanimously resoWefl _^ that the secretary be instructed to draw up an address to the public on behalf of the " National Victim Committee , " and present the same at our next meeting . It was then resolved , that this meeting ' stand adjourned until this day fortnight , at halt-past four in the afternoon , the meeting thenbroke up .
VETERAN Patriots' 'and Exiles' Widows' ' _akh _Childrens ¦ Funds . —A t the joint committee meeting of these two funds , held at Mr . Hughes , 32 , Barbican , ( in Thursday ni § ht before last , £ 2 were again disbursed for the relief of the sufferers . Thecommittees meet again , jointly , next "Monday night , at eight o ' cloek , also at Mr . _'IIughes' I beg to acknowledge the receipt of sixpence from Mr . G . Mansfield , jun ., of Bradford , Wilts ; and shall be . happy to receive more numerous contributions , knowing the distressed condition of those for whom these funds were instituted . —Thomas Cooper , 184 , Blackfriars-road .
City Localitv . —Mr . Cooper ' s lecture , last Sunday night , was hot attended by much more than half of liis usual audience , owing tothe state of the weather , and the dirty condition of the streets : the fair faces which generally constitute a _largelpart of the company were almost , entirely wanting . Mr . Hughes , jun ., was chairman ; and , after one of the Peoplesongs had been sung , introduced the lecturer . ..-The subject announced being " The discovery of . America , " Mr . C prefaced it by some interesting _miiai'ks on the ' navigation and commerce of the ancients . With the invention of the mariner ' s compass by Gioia , ' in 1302—an invention-also claimed by the Chinese—thc lecturer ' s principal theme began . He described , first , the voyages of discovery made by the Portuguese along the coast of Africa . ' as far as the
" Cape of Storms , " or , as it was afterwards named , the " Cape of Good Hope ; " and then related fhe birth andboyish _sailoi-ship of Columbus , with his early assertion of a belief that India might be reached by sailing directly to the west ; His patronage by Fei'diiiand and Isabella , and the circumstances of his first voyage , so full of brentlilcss interest , were graphically described , witli the brilliant occurrence of hi ? discovery of one of the Bahama Isles , tin the 12 th of October , 1492 , after a perilous navigation of 3 , 000 miles across the trackless Atlantic . - The second , third , and fourth voyages of the immortal discoverer , and the degrading fact ' of his being carried home iu chains to Spain , afterthc third voyage , —his high and unsubduable spirit , —and the many traits of generosity and nobleness which characterised him , were depicted in glowing colours . The vovagc of
Vasco de Gama , aim his arrival at Calicut , in the East Indies , by way of the Cape of Good Hope _; and the philanthropic struggles of Bartholomew las Casas , oh behalf of the enslaved natives of the New World , formed the next and not ler . 3 t interesting portion of the'lccture . The conquests of Mexico by Cortez . and of Peru by Pizarro , gave opportunity for highlycoloured and exciting descriptions ; 'and Mr . C . wound up his subject by recommending to reflection the great lessons to be derived from a view of resolution triumphing over difficulties , as evinced in the life of the great Columbus , —of philanthropy aa displayed in thc conduct of Las Casus , —of the hatel ' ulncss of war , as depicted in the acts of Cortez and Pizarro , —and of the abhorrent character of priestcraft , as instanced in the part taken by the priest Valverde , who gave the signal to the plundering Spaniards for their massacre of the confiding
Peruvians . ME & TnYR TYDVIL . Tub Land . —' lhe shareholders of No . 1 Association met on Sunday evening last , when the following resolutions were adopted : —" That we are in favour of enrolment as recommended by counsel . ! ' " That we are in favour of all the members becoming freeholders in preference to selling fhe estate . " "Wc are of opinion that it bo left to the discretion of each member whether ho will have two or four acres . " "That wc earnestly impress on the delegates to prevent any one having more than four acres . " " We recommend that the new rules bc printed uniform with Mr . O'Connor ' s work on Small Farms . "—[ We have given the sense cf thc resolutions agreed to by our Merthyr friends ; but the report was so badly written it was impossible to give it in full . — Ed . N . S . _1
GREENOCK . Mr . _M'GnATn addressed two public _meetings in the Hall of the Mechanics' Institution , on the _cvenimiK of Tuesday and Wednesday , the llth and 12 th . Ilis first subject was the Land , whicli hc handled in a manner creditable to himself and satisfactory to bis audience . Mr . M'Grath commenced by show _' _ing statistically the extent and capabilities of the Land ot Great Britain tomaiiitainthe population . Hesliowcd , in a clear and convincing manner , the whole people ' s right to the use of it , and concluded by giving an exposition of tho principle rules and regulations of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society . Mr . M'Grath was listened to with marked attention , intermingled with bursts of applause . Ilis second subject was"The duty of the people at the present _alarmiii-i crisis . "
VALE OF LEVEN . . We have lately had a visit from that uncompvomising patriot and advocate of democracy , Air . M'Grath , who delivered an eloquent and instructive lecture on Thursday evening , the 13 th inst ., in Mrs . Moody ' s large hall , Bonhill , to an intelligent audience of working men . Subject of the Lecture , " . The Land and its capabilities . " After speaking for the course of one hour and a half , _rivctiing the attention uf his audience to the subject as he went along , Inwound up one of the most splendid lectures that it was ever our lot to hear . On Friday evening , the Mth inst ., Mr . M'Grath lectured again in the Odd Fellows' llall , Alexandria , to a most respectable audience of intelligent working men . Subjeet ofthe lecture , "Tho Land ,. and how to get it . " Ikhandled his subject in an admirable stylo , demonstrating to the entire satisfaction of liis audit ; nce their natural right to the soil . At the close of the lecture a number of rules were disposed of , and some cards of membership taken out .
BACUP . The La _!*» . —On Sunday evening , November _lfth , the members of tbe Bacup branch of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society held their weekly meeting in the Chartist-room , Rochdale-road , when , a very interesting discussion took place on tho present rules of the Lund Society and thc Dewsbury resolutions . The following resolutions were agreed _tg- unanimously : — " That it is the opinion of this meet in ? that the selection of occupants be taken a * their shares are paid up instead of by ballot , » _s it wll give a greater stimilus to the soeietv . "— " That the 9 th ,
Dewsbury resolution is calculated to throw a * dampon the society ' s proceedings , and to injure tlie elm .-vacter of tlie- present directors of the Chsotist Ci > operative Land Society , in leading the _puWas- lo _thiufc that they have been appropriating the farads of tae said society to tlieir own _ai'graadisemenak . '' — "T 2 i . it it is- the _epinion of tlw meeting that ihe _proaoiit _directoi-s are entitled to . the beat thanks » f the shareholders ferthenoble and _straightforwardinanrsrin which tlisey have _perioraeii tlieir dnkses . "— " That this meeting stand adjourned to the 28 rd of _Kkveniber . " "
B _^ _RSSLEY . Ths Lasd ., —On Monday night last we had a full meeting of the members of the Land Societv * , to nominate a member for the forthcoming Confe / enec . The nomination unanimously fell on Mr . Jo _' _un Vallance fov the Barnsley anil Worsborougb _comn-. _wj branches . Mr . Frank Mirfield very warmly defended the conduct and chnra .-tcr of the Beard _! of . l ) irectors , and remarked that he was surprised how ; any man dare impeach the character of sucli wortl sy and deserving men and concluded by moving tho following resolution , which was seconded by Mr . . 7 Peter Hoey , and unanimously carried amid thc p i Audits of the ' meeting : — " That the thanks of the jiembers of thc Chartist Co-operative Land Society of the Barnsley and WorsborOUgh-COinmO'A branches are hereby elven to the Board of Directors for _Mieir efficient and econo-1 mical management of the _society .
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French Convicts . _—I'tappcars from a recently published account of the criminal statistics of France , that during the la ' it eight yeairs 6 , 000 convicts were discharged from , the hulks at Brest , Toulon , and Roeliefort . 01 'this number l _. TOO have been brought to trial and cr , nvicted again " of new crimes within-live years _after-Chelr liberation . During thesame period 55 , 000 have been released from ' the central prisons . Of these . 10 , 000 have been brought again to trial within thesame space of five years for fresh offences .
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Legal PER 3 Picrm _* : r—In _Haddocks Chancery , vol . 1 , page 125 , is the following specimen of lc » al . votheiation and perspicuity : —When a person is bound to do a thiag , and he does what may enable iiini to da the 1 * thing , he is supposed , in equity , to do it with ther view of doing what he is bound to do . -Keeping the Unities . —At a meeting of tS ' e Not * tingham Protestant Operative Association amd Reformation Society , held a short time ago , one-of the .. .. _. _., . .. .
speakers declared that they " _wauld make the walls ' of Rome totter in Nottingham . " A YaSkeb Purr . — " Christians nnd Jews , Cafio * lies and Protestants , Mormons and Infidels , have ail met oh one common ground ; and , on one subject aU least , have become so united as to give reason to be * lievei that the time is near at hand . when _watchmen in Zfon * shall see eye to eye : —viz . they all admit that Tice and Co ., No . 9 , Bowery , will sell a beautiful and _iduraWe hat , made in thc most fashionable style , fora I less price tlian any other establishment in the . city of Gotham , " '
_: New _WsiGnTs . _*» B Measures . —The monster newspapers aire now _nsed in many shops instead of the * usual weights . _Fswr supplements , wo believe , go toil Sundred weight . 7 The leaders , however , are never _ussdj . as they are found to be much heavier someday * thaa others . —Pimcfr . Waii and BfiG . tusB . —Why is a person who never * lays a wager as * bad as a regular gambler ?—Because he is mo 6 iett « r . . _.,- ' _Qa & _niENTS * _Easy—Popui-t-rioj * _Imsjf . kseI "—A typographical e ? ror of a curious diameter occurred in one of the _L-Nidon papers of this week . In the advertisement of tlio - Swansea and ! Hull , the letter E was substituted hVU in Hull .. Tho prospectus went on to state ,, thai " as * . the passenger traffic from Swansea tothat locality was so extensive , no doubt could be entertained that the line would prove most remunerative . "—Cambrian .
MOB ' - MELODIES . O _Ei-oin the 2 ? _yhe - J / - _* rdiii _* y . J THE SENBBAii . rOTER , _,, f te \ _sung by Sir Hubert Feel . ) -. ¦ Tunc— "I ' ve khsed > axid Fee prattled * Vve _kiss'd and I ' vepratlleti with fifty fair maids _. And chnngeil them lis oft 3 » yc see—I ' ve kissed and Fveprutfled with fifty fair maids , And changed them _as-oft as- ye see i On grave Mother Church ,. Gin-id first took his perch ; An J at Oxford I took- my _dej-rue j But I found her too old . and too much ofa scold _. And so cried " _TuU-raiiion ""for me , _Ne-mistnUe ! But , old Girl , " Toh _* ration " for met
But ere I could fix , Tapisticnl _trieks Again soon allured me to rove . ' _< Tlie Lady in scarlet" I found was no harlot , Hut worthy of " Protestant love .- ' _Tliough the cros 3 it might rest on that beautiful breast _, ' Twas still _i cjually charming to see ; So on " Emancipation " I took up my station—The "Pope and tlie Devil "forme , No mistake ! _Ilut the " Pope and the Devil" for me !
Oh ! who would uot teach thc dear lass that he loves Every grace that may make her divine ? And , as C , ymon grew bright when love lent his light , E ' en so 1 determined should mine . So I founded a College to teach her that knowledge , Which graces e ' en idolatry . 'Twas " Siaynooth and Endowment , " Maynooth and En dowment ; " _llaynooth and Endowment" for me , No mistake . But " Maynooth and Endowment" for me !
Next , I found new flame in a plump rural dame ; " Protection" she nsk'd as a boon ! As gallant as Hector , I vow'd to " protect hor "" Protect" her I did to some tune I Wc soon fell to _chiding . I found she _lov'd " sliding , " Her " scale" tool ; in every degree . So I whisper'd my lair , she got " more than her share . * And cried " Trade free as air" for me , No mistake I . But ¦ ' Trade free as air" forme !
Oh ! there ' s nothing like roving to keep a man loving ! I often both think it and feel , And " Unions" I _lind—rhowe ' er tender and kind —• May yet stand in need of " Repeal . " So whoever woos best shall have my behest , Whig , Tory , or Rail , though she ba . For a " Trade free as aii * , " e ' en in love , I declare ; And the warmest and _brhkest for mc , Ko mistake ! But the warmest and briskest for me I T . D
Invasions or England . — The Napoleon Column , at Boulogne , has just been completed , aftir upwards of thirty years' labour . The completion of it has lately been deferred out of compliment to the Prince de Joinville , who felt rather scrupulous about a monument being finished in honour of an invasion that had never taken place : His consent , however , was at last gained by the promiseMhat a similar column should be erected opposite I-. rii . hton , to commemorate a visit the warlike Prince paid there a short time back . —Punch .
As Odd _Faxcv . —in the Times of Friday , there iS an advertisement for an active young woman who , among otlier qualifications , " understands bright ; stoves . " She must be a very _intelligent person to beable to have an understanding witli a bright stove ; for if we were to study such an nrtiwu for a month , we should ' net _.-nicceed in establishing a sort of sympathy between curt-elves awl the lire-place . We presume , however , that this kind of ui'tlerstantiing h * perfectly practicable , and we think it very possible that the expression , " Sermons in stones , " must be a misprint for " Sermons in stoves , " which Shakespeare probably _thought of , anil which also occurred to the person advertising for a housemaid who understands them when in a state of _brightness . _—//•/*/ .
IIow to use Bad Potatoes . —A great deal has been said and written about what ought to he done with diseased potatoes . Iii Ireland , at least , thoy might , though we dare not hope they will , bo converted to-a vcrv useful purpose . The rotten potatoe is an effective , and at the same time not a . _dangerous missile . and would serve admirably tor pelting _lti-peal : _is > itntors off their platforms . This is the use which a good Paddy would make of a good-for-nothing Murphy . —
Md . Ivo _Smoki-vo Allowed . —Thc Alleghany Methodist Conference lately resolved - " That no minister shall bc admitted into this Conference who use * tobacco in any of its forms , except as medicine , and in that case satisfactory _evidence shall be given . " This decree will bo likely to laisc a smoke , _LxTitAOiiDiNAnr Dkmam ) for ( _J ' s . — " It is a fact , that tho demand by tlio printers ior I he _li-stlo letter q is so groat that the type-founders arc _doing nothinj ; else but casting for it . So many esquires- have found their way into print , that tho printers have been thrown . out of their calculations , and the supply is not ailequntc to tho demand . If , _thwafnro . _gentlemen happen-to find themselves dubbed slain Mr . they _will know the reason , "
The _Di'vn . _arioso the _Tailotcs . —S _^ -no timo ago , . a * . French teacher , resilient in Oxford , & y tho name of Ductile , ' called on Mr . _Whiefchan . * _-, a mercer , wiio lived opposite University _Ccliege , for a waistcoat piece , but eottld not reeollect tin ? i-u-sme oftlie material he wished for . lie said he _sSought it was de English for de di & _ble . Mr . WhsriUinm nmitioiied til * several na . me » oi his _inferna-S _higiiiusj v . * iich . as Old Sick , Bf _laibuh _, die . " No , an , it was xxnl < lat , " " was-the reply . At length- Mr . W . thought » f Satan ., " 0 h _, dat isvat Ivaut , "' saixi _ilAicane , " _* 1 want a soic _. i _vestoai "
" God- Mann , tbs C ' ou . _n'trt ,. nit Max maih * tub : ¦ jfowx- "— " When 1 think of _iaic years r _« ni years I > ived inr Sliort ' _s-gjirileiis ,. _nc-ssi * - _knnwjn » wliich _siihs _»! 'the _vforldtlic _s-an not up—saver _seeingjiiin net np > j—never-heaving a bird wla & _ti-e except " in . _a-cagetliinkinp : there-was * hardly _astytliing _uj-on tlv _cdithi but b _* riCitlay . CE * j'' iinil earp < , _* !*> _- * ij-3 _? s' work—lido feel it a ' blessing in nvt old age , _ths-ts 1 can see _i-aie trees of a . isiimEaer morning _waving about me— _-Titla feol happy _jwitlball _thkigs _^ seeing _tifaaato be so _ImijhtiiiiiTbeaiijti ' _iwV and buimmiiig ovw with Gn- & . ' _goodei * s < - . "—: "' _3 hnt's time , _Jem—" _vsvy true , " said . St . Giles . * : " -Mid- '" aa glad to sec- 5 _^ you look _hapny . "— " As a-. b * ittetil < , "' cried _Jenu u And , Lo _^ I'lov-e yoa ! . " when ; isome'jMnes think _*> v _1 > a : t I w _;* s in _llondnn ,- when I _! think _»• ' the- poor fifcUks tluit ' s _tliaru now-r-fchc _poorcretuvs-that's as fiafr . as _May-bi- _^ s for a year or so _,, aad _4 hen tumble , as 1 may say , in tho mn ' d , and cob
_iroilou by any body , till they Mo and aro-no _siore * thought oa than poisoned _va ' _s- —well , 5 am . thankfai _tlist I ' ve been brought into this place to feel Mivself _. iu I may say , somewhat cloased fixnrs _, _London " nnid » and my heart opened b y the sweet and prctiv thinga . about mc . " - '' And you _didn't know _nothia _* ' of _« at _% ilcning , _Jciii , when you fi-fsb camo ? " s _* _. \ _ivl St . G _? les . _ " 1 toll you not a bit . Hat _yorfve no t Wht _on'fe how soon aman with the * will in him ,-learns . "" I shall never fcrget what Mr . Capstich said to mc , when we first come , and 1 diiin _' t think 1 _conldtaks ; ' to if . ' Join , says he to m _& % l a garden is a beautiful boolr _» writ by tho linger of God ; cvciv flower anil every leal s a letter ; you ' ve onlv to _lesirn ' cm—and he ' s a poor dunce that can ' t , if he will , do that—to learn [ em , and join ' em , nutl then go on reading and reading , and you'll finn yourself carried away from the earth to the skies by ' tho beautiful storv v ' ou re going through . ' "—Jerrold ' s Shilling Magazine .
An Hotel Out-or Joint . —A gentleman who had : been stopping at an hotel within a hundred miles oii : Birkenhead , where during the ten days of his sojourn ,, the invariable reply to "John , what can _liliave foil dinner ? " was " Very nice _chopa and . steaks . * sir ;' at length sent for his landlord , and quietly told hiiiu that "his was thc . ifi _^ _cst hotel hc had ever- stoppei " at . " _•«« Indeed , sir ! the stiifest , sir—how so , sir ¦ "' "Why , Ihave been here for ten days , and can bean witness that there ' s never a joint in it . " -The laiidl lord vanished . -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 22, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_22111845/page/3/
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