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LINES . j )* the lamented Laman Blanchard ; . crittentm the first page ofa volume intended for the reception of Essays and _jTravmgs Slustratice of Sh & kspearc . « 'Like one who stands On the bright verge of some enchanted shore , ¦ _"jfliere wates from airy harps , and hidden hands , Are from the green grass ana the golden sands , Far echoed , o'er and o ' er _. As if the tranced Listener to invite Into that World of Light Thus stood I here , Musing awhile on these mblotted leases , _TiHthe blank pages brighten'a , ana mine ear Pound music in their rustling , sweet and clear , And wreathes that fancy weaves Entwined the volume—fiR'd vnth grateful lays , And songs of rapturous praise . *
'No sound I heard , -gat echoed o ' er and o ' er our Shakspeare ' s name , One lingering note of love , link'd word to word , Till every leaf was as a finry bird , Whose song is still the same : Or each was as a flower , with folded cells For Pucks and _Ariels ! * And visions grew—Visions not brief , though bright , frosted age Hath fall'd to rob of one diviner hue ,
Making them more fiuniliar , yet more new—These _flash'd into the page ; A group of crowned things—the radiant themes Of Shakspeare ' s Avon dreams . ' Of crowned things—( Rare crowns of living gems and lasting flowers } Some in the human likeness , some with -wings—Dyed in the beauty of ethereal springs—Some shedding piteous showers Of natural tears , and some in smiles that fell like sunshine on a delL
* Here Art had caught Tbe perfect mould of Hamlet ' s princely form , — The frantic Thane , fiend , cheated , lived , -Bethought ; Here Timon howl'd ; anon , sublimely wrought , Stood Lear , amid the storm ; There Romeo droop'd or _soar'd—while Jacques , here , Stfll watch'd the weeping deer . ' And then a throng Of heavenly natures , clad in earthly vest , lake angel-apparitions , pass'd along ;
me rich-lipped Rosalind , all light and song And Imogen ' s white breast ; Xow-voiced Cordelia , with her stifled sighs , And Juliet ' s shrouded eyes . The page , turn '** o ' er , SbewM Kate—or Viola—' my Lady tongue—The lost Venetian , with her living Moor ; The Maiden Wonder on the haunted shore , Happy , and fair , and young ; TiU on a poor , love-martyr'd mind I look-Ophelia , at the brook .
• Willi sweet Anne Page Tht bright throng ended ; for , _uniouch'd by time , Came Falstaff , laughtcr-laurell'd , young in age , With many a ripe and sack-devoted sage S And deathless clowns sublime Crowded the leaf , to vanish at a swoop , Like Oberon and his troop . 'Here sate , entranced , Makolio . ltg-trapp'd ; he who served the Jew Still with tlie fiend seem'd running ; then advasici-d JlesaaaV _j'rettj * piece of flesh , and danced With Bottom and his _crew—Semitio , Benedick , _press'd points of wit , And Osrick made his hit .
' At these , ere Ioug , Awoke my laughter , and the speU was past ; Ofthe gay multitude , a marvellous throng , Sv ti _- ace is here—no tints , no word , no song , On these hare leaves are cast—Tin- altar _kas heen _rear'd _, au offering fit—7 iiv flame is still unlit . _i-li . ' who now bent In _fonnifc reverence , hopes one wreath to bind Worthy oi him , whose genius strangely blent , CouM kindle ' wonder and astonishment ' Ir . Milton ' s starry mind ! Who stood Alone , but not as one Apart , And saw man ' s inmost heart !'"
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Essays On Natural History.—By Chakxes Wa...
ESSAYS ON _NATURAL HISTORY . —By _Chakxes Watertos ' , Esq . Second Series . London : Longman and Co ., Paternoster-row . ( Continued from the Northern Star of May 2 itli . J Mr . _WiTEnroN * appears to hare rouraied to Rome not so much for health or amusement as to make hiniself acquainted with the feathered tribes _abounding there . Ornithology is with hhn a passion , to giatifv which nearly all other matters are neglected . Instead , therefore , of ferreting out antiquities , and visiting the _schools of sculpture and painting , he passed lus mornings in the _bim-market . Of this place we hare die following description :- —•
TBE _JJISD-SUBKET OF S 0 _JI 2 2 ? held in the environs of the Rotunda , formerly fhe _rantlwou . _Xothing astonished me more than the _quanlities « f liinls which were daily exposed for sale during the season ; I could often count above four hundred _tlirnshw ? and blackbirds , anil often a hundred robin rcd-\ _iT _« _iitt hi ** tk * _ijuarter of it ; with twice as many larks , aud other small birds in vast profusion . In the course of one Jay . seventeen thousand quails have passed the Roman c-. wioariun . i- *; these pretty vernal and autumnal travel _ers are taken in nets of prodigious extent on the shores tf the Mulittrranean . In the spring of the year and at Jit- dose of lhe summer , cartloads of ringdoves arrive at -if stalls near tiie Rotunda . At first the venders were « 1 >\ * , vii 5 > mv ; but as we got better _awiiiaintc-d , nothing _onW .-in-pass their civility , and their wishes to impart _jverj - information to me ; and when they had procured a tut rare - _"' . _ei-imen , they always put it in a drawer apart f _* r me . These _lardmeii outwardly had the appearance of
Italian _biinditti , but it was all outside and nothing mere ; -J ) tr v . ; . _iv-, 'ood men notwithstanding their uncouth looks , ami 2 _* -i .. i Christians too , for I could see them waiting at * ie door of the church by half-past four o ' clock on a _wiuttr _' s iu < : rnuur ; , to be ready for the first mass . I preserved _i-fchty birds / a porcupine , a badger , some shell-fish , aud a _tatti land tortoises , whilst I was in Rome ; and these _esrapt-d _tl . e shipwreck by having _beenforwarded to Leghorn , son ** time previous to our embarking at Civita Voechia fur ilia : port . Whilst we wire viewing the lofty fragment vi s -all which towers amid the surrounding ruins of _taracaila ' s baths , I saw a hole in it which is _fi-efjucnted ly the large eagle owl of Europe . A fearless adventurer aad managed to get a young oue out of it the year before , sad be had sold it to the gardener at the Colonna palace , _shykept it alive in the pleasure-grounds ; and tliere I pad it a visit generally _on- _* e a week . Another pair of ' . tee noble wanderers of night is said to inhabit the enormous outworks at the top of St . Peter ' s . These birds are _ttiv _svuree in this part of Italy .
The _Ih-d-market did not , however , occupy our Sailor's entire attention . Here is a description of
_rili-KItUXO _aT SOME . As }¦ _«* * enter Rouw at tiie 1 _'ovU del _Popolo , a little on car right is lhe _greatslaughtcr-house , with a fine stream if water running through it . It is probably inferior to _wat in Italy for an extensive plan , and for judicious _aj-anj-aueuts . Here some seven or eight hundred pigs _a- t Jailed on eveiy Friday during the winter season . _Kcihiug can exceed the desterity with which they are fepatehed . About thirty of these large and fathlaefc figs arc driven into a _co-mmodions pen , followed by three t : four men , each with a sharp skewer in his hand , bent si one cud , iu order that ii may be used with advantage * On entering the yen these performers , who put you vastly _Huojial of _ass- _^ _si-ns , make a rush at tha hogs , each _J-idnsonebv tlie leg , amid a general yell of horror on
Ac part of the victims . Whilst the hog and the man are •• niggling on the ground , the latter , with iherapidiiy of fesight , pushes his skew ** betwixt the fore leg and tlie b * Jy , quite into the heart , and tliere gives it a turn or _tso . ihe lag can rise no more , but screams for a minute _< Tso , _2 ud then expires . This process is continued till - * y art- all despatched , Uic brutes sometimes rolling over * Ae botchers , aud sometimes tliebulchers orer the Iruics , -ri a jelling enough _lostuu one ' s cars . In the mean - * -ie the-. _cs-caws become faiuter and winter , an-I : hea all : - snei . ee on the death of the last piff , A cart is iu ' ' _' _Midtix-c ; tlie carcases are lifted into it , and _ftpro-< _- _* - _* -il ; Ou-ough the street lea . >'¦; ? one or wore dead hogs _'• d ' edyjis of tlie iluTereni pork shops . So _Woodajj-V-.-Ji . i _atwariily- , nor is the internal _hemorrliage _prejudt-* . - _* j _* _tktfiueat _, for Rome cannot be surpassed in tlie
t _- - -u . _oi'hir bacon , or in the soundness of her cam * . * - >« r ? _ie nad from Rome io Navies , Mr . Watertos _-ifturiteredahei-dof
IT 4 . UAS Errr . ii . 0 E 3 . Tina , aa thneglide on , every day producing something _j-r-s ;« . . in ? a „ e _jjle attention of my indefatigable _sisters-iii-7 ~ : _iai- ogive me sufficient occupation in ornithology , * - 4 at w .- _frfj somewhat low in spirits when the day _*) - *• _* * _-. > M _njjjcj , , ve were to take our departure for _^ - _'l _* . _i saw more birds on the rout from Rome to _^ - ¦ _-Ml . an I had observed in the whok of the journey f , Sl England . Kites and common _buzzwds , sparrow-Li _* k * _a ., wj _„ a .. i 10 Tcrs were ever on th » wing in the T _?\ _***' ¦ above us . As we were resting cur horses at Mt _jmd
' ¦ -- in ,. _,, „ the _dde of q _^ _,. oa _^ j a fincopportunity _i " tl : ; ag _i-k-e to a very large hau of Italion buffaloes . . f _^ 'W-k-iking animals have got a bad name for sup-• f' _** . _: r .- . d ; j _arid wJien j expressed my determination to _vi _** . _i-j , them , ] was _viamed by tbe Italians not to do so , ¦ _; _*«¦ - _baffalotts were -wicked mates , and would _ijoremc - ;' _^*! .. i _/ _aving singled out a tree or rivo of _eassyascent ¦ . ; , 7 herd was grazing , I advanced close up to it , _t . Tl- Tln S tlint one or other ofthe trees wouldbe a pro _c : » we , in case tlie brutes should be unruly . They _^ - ••• - av . j f . _ati _^ . though _tncy had
• i _? * **'•* a man before . _Tpon this , I immediately ¦ sf ciV " l _* _- ' anDS _« a _" _£ s * int 0 aU _iin ( - ' antic L _" . _' _* ' srumbliug loudly at the same time ; and the _tv- > _fl "" * lmlls ' cows , and calves , took off , as fast as i-, ' _^ _, C ( ' ' t * l lpe . t , learin , ' me to return sound and whole ' * - _' - , 'Kith ahearry laugh against the Italians ,
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_ctraio-os custom is SlCItT . In _Sic'd y we saw an exhibition , therecohection ofwhich Daunted me like a spectre for many a week afterwards . « might be termed a melancholy parade of death decked out m a profusion of gay and splendid colours . I could not comprehend by wliat species of philosophy these islanders had brought themselves to the contemplation of objects once so dear to them , but now shrunk into hideous deformity , and seeming , as it were , to ask for a removal from a situation which ill befits them , and which has robbed the grave of its just and _long-acknowledged perquisite . This abhorrent spectacle is no other than that of the dead brought from what ought to be their last resting-place , where the dryness of fhe climate has preserved their flesh from rotting . They were decked out in magnificent attire ; but death bad slain their beauty ; their godlike form was gone , and tiie worm had left upon them disgusting traces of its ravages . " 3 fatres , atque viri , defunctaque corpora vita . "
We saw what once had been fine young ladies , and elderly matrons , and fathers of families , in dresses fit for a convivial dance ; and we might bave imagined that they were enjoying an hour of repose till the arrival of the festive time . But when our eyes caught the parts not veiled by the gorgeous raiment , ob , heavens ! there , indeed , appeared death in all hisgrisly terrors . I had never seen any sight in my life , before this , so incongruous , so _mo-tt-rnful , so dismal , and so _horrifying . These shrunk and withered remnants of former bloom and beauty brought to my mind the exhibitions of stuffed monkeys which we see in our own museums , with this difference only , that the monkeys have glass eyes most unnaturally starting from tlieir sockets , whilst the hollow sockets of the Sicilian mummies contain a withered substance , discoloured and deprived of all the loveliness that life had once imparted to it .
It is said , "if God sends meat , too often the devil sends coolvs ; and we are inclined to believe this after reading the f ollowing specimen of
SOMAS _FILTHINESS . There are many things in Rome winch offend our English feelings , although the natives do not seem to be at all affected by them . Thus all the spouts send down torrents of water from the eaves of the houses into the streets below , inflicting a deluge on those who have not learned the art of threading tlieir way successfully through the spaces which intervene betwixt the descending tor-Tents . Many a time have I received on my shoulders this annoying fall of water . The streets , too , are abonanaHy filthy with offensive matter , causing a nuisance which would not be tolerated for a single day in an English town ; and within the entrance door of many of their dwellings there may be seen a pool which loudly calls for the mop , if tlie purity of ladies' flounces be an object
worthy of attention . Again ; the kitchens of these Italians appear as though they had never once been white washed since the days of Ancient Rome ; whilst their cooking utensils are , at times , none of the most cleanly . A friend of mine had ordered an omelet for supper , liis servant , on going accidentally into the kitchen , saw * the cook preparing it in a kind of thing which I dare not exactly describe . But the reader will understand me when I inform him that the filthy rascal , not having a proper kitchen-pan at hand , had actually been up into the bed-room for a substitute . Our English maid , once expressing a wish for a culinary utensil in order to pour some broth into it , tlie Italian servant had one in her eye which would just suit . She went and brought the brass pan in which we regularly washed our feet .
Mr . _Watertox is a most devoted Roman Catholic . The miracles and legends ef his church are believed by him with unfaltering faith . At Rome he saw the titulus , or piece of wood on whicli was written the inscription over the head of Christ when nailed to the cross—of the genuineness of the article he has not the least doubt ! The benediction annually bestowed on the lower animals in Rome , in the name of St . Anthony , has his warm approbation ! lie believes with Sir Wiixum _Hjoaimv , that the exhibition of the head of St . Januarius has upon the occasion of an eruption of VcsnTins , caused the eruption to cease ! He relates the pomp and circumstance attending the annual liquefaction of the blood of St . Januarius , of which he was an ere-witness , and
declares Ins firm conviction of the truth and fact of the " miracle ! " For the account of this great Neapoli tan f estival , wc must refer the reader to the book itself . _^ Mr . Watertox is too good a man , and too sincere in his convictions , for us not to respect his ¦ vie ws , however much we may be opposed to them . Wc may , however , remark , that seeing that Italy is so highly blessed , according to Mr . TVatertox , with priests , monks , saints , relics , miracles , and the full and undivided sway of the " only true church , " it is passing strange that a country so favoured (?) should be the woret-goremed , and its people the most wretched in mind , body , and estate of any people in Europe . Ignorance the most gross , idleness the most _dcKi-adinff , filth the most disgusting , and disease
the mo ? t repulsive , arc the characteristics of the mass of the _Keapolitans , as vouched for _bj nearly all travellers . If the priests can work miracles with the blood' ofSt . Januarius , why cannot they work the mitacle so much wanted of making the Neapolitans an enlightened , industrious , cleanly , and healthy population ? If they cannot do that , of what use is their "liquefaction " and other " miracles , " except to increase and perpetuate their own wealth and power at the expense of the misery aud slavery of the many ? Mr . Watebtos highly lauds one _B-esemct Josewi _Lahre , a religious beggar " who died at Rome in the odour of sanctity , on the ICth of April , 1783 ; " he was a Frenchman who , preferring a life of holy vagrancv to labour of any description , took up his
quarters at Rome , where he -passed his life in wandering about tbe churches , praying , and living on the alms of the credulous . Mr . Watekiox says— - _"Bexedict will probably lie eanonised , ere long , as the process of his beatification lias already commenced ! " Of sneh materials Rome's saints are made ! What was there in a life so spent to entitle this idle and hypocritical or fanatical mendicant to he elevated to the rank of saintship ? Who will assert that the honest English labourer or artisan , who performs his duties to his familv and to society , bearing with toil and battling with adversity , is not a far nobler character in the sight of earth ' and heaven than such useless vagrants as this St . Uencdict ? May our country be tor ever preserved from the degrading superstition which Mi ' . Watertox seems so ardently to admire . ( To be continued . )
The Family Herald. Part Xxiv. London : G...
THE FAMILY HERALD . Part XXIV . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . This part of this excellent publication is filled with most entertaining and instructive matter . The Wandering Jew is brought down to the conclusion of the seventh volume , which terminates with an account of ihe breaking out of the cholera in Paris . From the able editorial articles we give two extracts , one from an article on the Religious Warfare in Switzerland , the other from an article ou the Maynooth question : —
What may be the result of tliis contest we will not attempt to divine ; but we think wc are well authorised to say that the day is not far distant when some severe struggle will take place between the two great religious powers ef Christendom . The progress of civilisation , of humanity , demands it . The mouths of men are shut in ultra Popish countries . The resident English cannot even build themselves a chapel in the city of Naples or in the city of Rome , to worship God after the fashion of their fathers ; a Protestant cannot preach in public without being seized by tlie authorities ; innumerable books , political and religious , are proscribed , and refused admittance into papal territories—books that , perhaps , are calculated to inflame and to perplex the mind , but books , notwithstanding , which open the eyes , and lead men out
of old established prejudices and forms , which of themselves are gradually dissolving and losing their power over the most intelligent , or the most active and thoughtfid , perhaps also , the most immoral portion , of the community . Governments of this bigoted character are Jos : nghold of the convictions even of their own agents , and their most influential constituents . They stand , like pyramids , by tlieir own weight and antiquity , and by reason of the difficulty of removing them . But as obstacles to the progress of human thought , as tyrannical powers , which control tlie faith and opinions of men by _pliysica ? force , and forbid even a supply of many interesting , innocent , and instructive materials for thinking on the mysteries of creation and providence , they cannot Ion" be tolerated in their present condition . The volcano
must burst ere long , and when it bursts , war is one of the forms in which it will exhibit itself to the vulgar eye . The American Itevolation started a great controversy of popular versus monai-chie . it Governments , which is not yet solved , except to those who take a side , and are pleased to assert that they are satisfied . The French Revolution started a _qnestkn of philosoj & y versus religion , which still rages , thirty years after the war has terminated . Paincs " Rights of Man , " and his " Age of Reason , " _wfiebut biblical types of what was going on in the national mind when tiie war was raging , and what was j destined to go on when the military combatants had _j sheathed their swords and retired to their quarters . The war still rages in the human mind ; these rights of man ; are everv dav more and move discussed , in public and in
private . Before lhe time of the American and French Revolutions , public discussions were comparatively unknown ; the debates of Parliament were not reported ; popular meetings were scWom held to discuss any public question : new 5 _p-ipcrs were small in size , and few in number . There couldbe » ogi-rat war respecting international subject * , for want of materials . But the revolutionary war , by the _increas-rd excitement which it gave to the mind , supplied these materials , and urged on the controversy . Nor has the controversy which that war stirred up into a flame ever ceased to this day . It has produced our own Reform , and all its consequent experiment : on the old constitution of England—experiments
which have not satisfied , and can only lead to some other crisis , of which war at home ov abroad is the _outlaid sign . There is food for war in the world yet ; and the increased activity of party spirit is no uncertain sign of its approach . The ' Catholic nations arc very weak , or they would have been at war with us long ago . France is a neutral power—Roman Catholic in name , but so anti-Roman that the Pope excludes almost every popular French publication from his dominions . It would side with Protestants in politics , but it hates or is jealous of England . Its very hatred of England preserves its neutralitv . Bad passions suppressed are not appeased ; and if the soldiers have not vet begun to fight , the people are already in arms , and even now all England and Scot-
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land is excited upon a Roman Catholic question . After the fear of Puseyism is partly hushed , now comes the fear of Maynooth priestcraft . Meetings are held , committees are formed , petitions are signed , complaints arc uttered , loud , long and deep ; the alarm bell is rung throughout the land . "We are not fighting , vulgarly speaking , but we ave at war notwithstanding ; and the Swiss cantons , which are now engaged in a bloody strife about the Popish _ipiestion of Jesuitism , are merely ex . hibiting after another fashion that very operation of religious passion which is at present more silently and metaphysically going on amongst ourselves .
The opposition to the Maynooth grant is immense ; and its energy and its ubiquity reveal an important fact in the history ofthe present times . They give a splendid manifestation of the life of Protestantism in England and Scotland , and its unconquerable hatred of Papal dictation and Roman priestcraft . It is a lesson to all Christendom . It is the proof of a great fact— -a fact that seemed to want a proof—to allay the fears of Protestants on the oneband , and to disappoint the fond expectations of Romans on the other . The proof has been given ; and , as the Times well observes , there has been no such exhibition of Protestant feeling since the foundation ofthe Protestant constitution in 1688 .
The present part concludes the second volume of the Family Herald—a , good opportunity is therefore at present afforded to new subscribers to commence taking this publication , which is one we can warmly reccommeud to them .
The London Entertaining Magazine. Part V...
THE LONDON ENTERTAINING MAGAZINE . Part VI . London ; Cousins , 18 , Duke-street , tincoln ' _s-inn-ficlds . The exciting tale of Matilda , by Eugene Sue , is drawing to a close , and will be concluded in the next part of this trdy-entertaining periodical . The remaining contents of this part are , as usual , interesting , and cannot fail to please .
The Last Days Of Thomas Hood. Thefollowi...
THE LAST DAYS OF THOMAS HOOD . ThefollowingisabridgedfromanoticebyMr . S . C . Hall , in the Art-Union— "Mr . Hood ' s existence was a long disease rather than a life ; yet his temper , nnembittered by continual pain , remained ever cheerful and kindly , turning , to the very last , liis own . sad suffering into jests , and forcing those who wept over hisagony , fierce as it was ( till he was overtaken by the last dull sleep that continued for tlu-ee days pi-eceeding his death ) to smile at the witticisms of hiseonceits , however strangely mingled with the consciousness ofhis situation , and his solemn forecast of the rapidly approaching hereafter . Nor were such terrible contrasts reserved for his death-bed only .
Even when the 'Song of a Shirt' was knocking at every heart in Great Britain , its author was panting for breath ; and soon after he was confined to his bed , and literally propped up by pillows to write wit . And so he struggled ou , through successive paroxysms of illness , till the last few months fouud him working amidst the very crisis and beatings of heart disease ( more than once even in the intervals of delirium J ) at themonthly chapters of his last novel—doomed to remain , like his life , a gi'eat fragment . . But it is all over with him now . Hcis releasedfronilabours never remunerated in proportion to the pleasure they gave , and to the enormous profit they produced to others , seldom perhaps thought of by those whose hearts they opened , and whose care thev seemed to besuile .
Latterly his friends had been agonized by his terrible lament— 'I cannot die ! I cannot die ! and they could not but be thankful to lay him , on the 10 th of May , in a calm grave , at Kensall-green . It will not , we are sure , be long before a monument is raised to his memory - . and there are hearts enough in England to remember that his widow and children have but the small pension bestowed by Sir R . Peel , whose letter , in words that did equalhononr to the Minister and the poet , conveyed his regret that the grant was necessarily so scanty , and a request that he might be permitted to make the personal acquaintance of one with whose works he was intimatelv acquainted , and whose talents and character he had long appreciated and admired . "
Punch On "Sunday Pleasuring."
PUNCH ON "SUNDAY PLEASURING . "
The Two Following' Letters Appeared In T...
The two following' letters appeared in the Times last week ;—• NO . 1 . " Sm , —Can you assist me in the following dilemma ? " Is a visit to the exhibition of the Royal Academy a rational , Christian-like , and proper amusement for the afternoon of Sunday , after attending divine service in the morning—aye or no ? " If it be , why am I and my class excluded on that dav ?
"If it be not , why were 'their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Puchess of Cambridge , Prince George , the _Hereditai-y Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklcnburgh Strelitz ( attended by Mr . Edmond Mildmay ) , and the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden , accompanied by the Mar . chioness of Douglas , and attended by the Baroness de _Sti-umfcder , " as per Court Circular , admitted ? "Yours , tfcc , "A Ciebh , " Who never leaves business until dusk . " NO . II .
"Sis , —In answer to 'A Clerk , ' applying for the opening of the Royal Academy on the Sunday , I would ob serve , that the titled personages whom he names ( if they were admitted ou that day ) violated their duty to God and society by going , but in no way justified an act immoral and indecent in itself ; and that if once this barrier should be broken , there can be no reason why every pubhc exhibition in the country , and the theatres at night , should not equally be open also , as in Paris . "I am , sir , _joui-s obediently , "One op the People _cauhi _Cd-ristians . "
The documents were attentively read by our exalted chief , and were observed to affect the venerable Mr . Punch in a most extraordinaiy manner . The latter letter especially excited liim ; and lie was awake all night after it had appeared , tossing about in liis bed in a fury , and exclaiming , " Stiggins—it ' s Stiggins—I know it is—the rascal ! to say flic Royal Family is immoral and indecent , and insult the Grand Duchess Stephanie , and the Baroness de Strtunfeder I" v The next morning he arose quite calm , and calling for pens and paper , addressed the following ironic letter to the Clerk who wrote to the Timet : —
" Mt deab , though _unr-sown Friend , —I have seau your letter with deep feelings of sympathy . I know your condition—I know that you live ia Chelsea w Camden Town , with four children and a lodger . You work in that little runt of a garden of yours for _half-an-bour or so before breakfast : and having hurriedly swallowed your meal , in company with Mrs . Clerk and the _faoiily , and baring kissed the four pair of red cheeks , ah shining with bread and butter , trudge off for _athvee-taile walk to business in the cily , where nine o ' clock finds you at your desk over the ledger . At seven or eight you are back to that little dingy cottage of yours , and must be glad to get to bed early in order to be ready for the next day ' s labours .
" How can you have leisure to improve your mind under these circumstances ? My dear , worthy fellow , you must be in a state of lamentable ignorance—ignorance , indeed ! 0 , you poor miserable sinner , not to know how ignorant you are : and to dare for to go for to make such an audacious proposition as that about being allowed to see pictures on a Sunday ! " To look at pictures on Sunday is a' violation of your duty to Heaven and society . ' It is an act 'immoral and indecent . ' ' One of the people called Christians'has let you into that secret , in a neat and temperate letter , in reply to yours , wliich the Times publishes—and a very liberal and kind Christian he must be who warns you .
" It is a mistake to fancy that an examination of works of art , though they may ennoble and improve your mind on Saturday , is not an odious and wicked action on Sunday . Baroness Strumfeder may do as her ladyship likes . As for the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden , her Royal Highness is a Frenchwoman by birth , and a Princess living in a country where sad errors prevail—this dreadful one among others . - —of admitting the public to recreation after the hours of devotion on the Sabbath , and flinging the galleries and museums open to tbe poor who can see them on no other day .
" Make up your mind , my lad , and console yourself for living in the only country in Europe where you are debarred from sueh godless enjoyments . Suppose that it has been the custom of all Christendom ( and of England , until pious Oliver CromweU came and put an end to the diabolical superstition ) to recognise Art as not incompatible with religion , and to believe that harmless happiness was intended and designed to be a part of the _-wccW-j holiday . We are right , depend upon it—and all the world for ages and ages is wrong . Woe betide the unfortunate sinners ! 1 can't think of a company of French or German peasants ( I have seen many such ) dancing under an elm-tree , with Monsieur le Cure looking on , very likely , without a feeling of horror at their criminality—tempered , however , with pleasure in remembering that we in England are free from such crime ; and that I am _nst involved , like these countless myriads of human beings , in the commission of deadly sin .
" { Some of these unfortunate creatures believe » is wrong to eat mutton-chops on aFriday—and the wretched bigots wiU teU you that it is 'immoral and indecent , smd an insult to Heaven and society' to do such a thing . Blind and miserable superstition ) You must not amuse yourself on Sunday with pictures—but as for chops on a Friday , cat as many of them , my good friend , as you can buy . "And it is in vain of yon to expostulate with that ignorant arrogance of yours , which you mistake _^ or good sense , but which is " only monstrous pride and self-conceit ; it is in vain for you to say' if a man thinks it is a crime
to eat chops on a Friday , 1 won't force him to eat them , but in the name of common / sense let me have mine . ' If I think in common with his Royal Highness of Cambridge and Baroness Strumfeder that there is no harm in seeing pictures on Sunday , what man of the people called Christians has a right to doom me to perdition for my opinion ? Be you content that another should judge for you , and take his word for it . He has disposed of Baroness Strumfeder and tbe other titled personages , as you see . Do you think he does not know what is good for , or what will hereafter happen to , such a poor miserable creature as voul
"No , my worthy friend—let this man lay down the law , and be you contented to believe him . He must be right : he says 'he is one of the people called Christians . ' If
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others of the people rolled Christians give you different doctrine , don't listen to them . Coals and gridirons ' they are in fatal error . Be thankful for your chops on a Friday . " Remember that the rational and beneficent law of the land is that you are never to enjoy yourself ; that when the Saturday ends your hard week ' s labours and the day of rest comes , you have no right to interpret your ideas of rest in your own way . "It might he rest to your weary eyes , that have been bleared all the week over the blue lines in a ledger , to tooK at such a picture as the Catharine of Raphael , in the -National Gallery , or the Claude that hangs beside it . It may be that you have a heart to he touched by their beauty , ami elevated by those representations of pmified
and ennobled Nature . I , for my part , have often walked out with Mrs . Punch of a Sabbath evening , and looked at the fair landscape and the happy people , and heard the clinking bell tolling to chapel too ; and yet , somehow stayed in Hie fields without . Who knows whether the sight of God ' s beautiful world might not awaken as warm feelings of reverence and gratitude as the talk ofthe Rev . Mr . Stiggins in-doors , who was howling perdition at me oyer his pulpit cushion for not being present sitting under him . It is very probable that he thinks his sermon a much finer thing than a fine landscape , and can ' t understand how a picture should move any mortal _. soul . But , stop—why are we poor worms to understand what he doesn't understand , or to inquire about anything which is beyond his Reverence ' s comprehension ?
Be you content , then , my poor friend , to follow that profound and humble-minded instructor . Depend on it , Stiggins knows best what ' s good for you . Doesn't he say so , and isn't he an honourable man 1 Never mind all Europe , but stick to Stiggins . aemember your lot in bfe , andbe resigned thereunto ; no more aspiring to see pictures on Sunday , than to enjoy pineapples and champagne on the other days of the week . And if doubts and repimngs _««« crass your abominable mind , read over his letter , and after you see how he has disposed of poor Strumfeder , thank your stars that picture-gallery doors are shut against you on Sundays , and that you are the clerk you are . » Pokcu . " "P . S . By the way , there is one point in Stiggi ' ns ' s admirable letter which is not altogether supported by his usual logic . ' There ' s no reason , 'he says , 'if the Royal Academy were opened , why every public exhibition through the country and the theatres at night should not be
opened too V To this it must certainly be answered , that if the museums in Birmingham , Manchester , & c ., were open on Sunday afternoons , they would no doubt occasion in the provinces the dreadful depravity against which Stiggins protests in London . " But because an Exhibition was open on Sunday afternoon , it does not , therefore , follow that a theatre should be open on Sunday night . No , dear Stiggins , that is not put with your usual mildness of argument . Tho garden of St . James's Park is open till dusk , and the ungodly walkthcre—but it is not , therefore , open all night . You might go out for a walk of an afternoon , but it does not follow that you should stay out all night . No , _S'iggy , I would not allow any one to say that of you . And our admirable legislature has provided that only the gin-shops should be opened on Sunday—not the wicked theatres . "
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FIELD-GARDEN OPERATIONS . For the Week commencing Monday , June 3 rd , 18 ii . [ Extracted from , a _DiAnr of Actual Operations on five small farms on thecstates of Mrs . Davies Gilbert , near Eastbourne , in Sussex ; and on several model farms on the estates of the Earl of Dartmouth at Slaithwaite , in Yorkshire , published by Mr , Nowell , of Farnley Tyas , near Huddersfield , in order to guide other possessors of field gardens , by showing * them what labours ought to be undertaken on their own lands . The farms selected as models are—First . Two school farms at Willingdon and Eastdean , of
live acres each , conducted by ( x . Ci'uttcndcn and John Harris . Second . Two private farms , of five or sixacres * . one worked by Jesse Piper , the other by John Dumbrell—the former at Eastdean , the latter at Jevington—all of them within a few miles of Eastbourne . _Tliird . An industrial school farm at Slaithwaite . Fourth . Several p rivate model farms near the saiiieplace . _Theconsecutiveopei'ationsintheserepoi'ts will enable the curious reader to compare the climate and agricultural value of the south with -tlie north of England . The Diary is aided by '' Notes and Observations " from the pen of Mv . No-well , calculated for the time and season , which we subjoin .
"It is a very pleasant sight to see children engaged in useful and healthy labour upon a spot of ground which they can call their own -. they _sbaft be kept apart from the vice and folly of the young men of the city , " Note . —The school farms are cultivated bij boys , _ivfo in return for three hows' teaching in the morning , give three hours of tlieir labour in the afternoon for the master ' s benefit , which renders the schools _sEtFso tporting . _IVe believe that at Farnly Teas sixsevenths of the produce of the school farm will be assigned to the boys , and one-seventh to the master , who will receive the usual school fees , help the logs to cultivate their land , and teach them , in addition , to reading , writing , _^ to convert their produce into bacon by attending to pig-keeping , which at . Christmas may be divided , after paying rent and levy , amongst them in proportion to their services , and be made thus indirectly to . reach their parents in a way the most grateful to their feelings . ]
SUSSEX . _Mojtoav— WiUingdon School . Boys digging , and manuring for potatoes after tares . Eastdean School . Boys digging , sowing turnips , watering them with Hguid manure , planting potatoes and cabbages for winter . Piper . Hoeing amongst the potatoes . Dumbrell , Weeding oats . Tuesday—Willingdon School . Boys digging , manuring , and planting potatoes after tares . Eastdean School . Boys rolling barley aud oats , weeding pcnB , hoeing potatoes and carrots , sowing the garden with lucerne . Piper . Setting potatoes . Dumbrell . Weeding tares , paring off clover stems , Wednesday— Willingdon School . Boys planting potatoes after tares . Eastdean School , Boys emptying pails , and mixing the contents with mould , weeding tares , and getting forward potatoes . Piper . Hoeing and mending lucerne ; had but one slight shower of rain this three months at Eastdean . Dumbrell . Paring clover stems , burning , and
digging * Thursday—Willingdon School . Boys -planting potatoes . Eastdean School . Boys , digging , planting potatoes , planting cabbages after rye , and mending with liquid . Piper , Digging where the tares grew , and setting potatoes . " _DunioreM , Paving clover stems , and digging , Fbiday— Willingdon School . Boys digging the second time for turnips . Eastdean School . Boys sowing turnips between the carrots , transplanting turnips , hoeing mangel wurzel , weeding oats and barley . Piper . Setting potatoes . Dumbrell . Paring clover stems , digging , and spreading ashes . Saturday— Willingdon School . Boys digging the second time for turnips . Eastdean School . Boys hoeing potatoes , cleaning out pigs , pails , and scliool room . Piper . Emptying the tank , and mixing liquid with dung and mould . Dumbrell . Digging .
YORKSHIRE . Slaithwaite School . From nine to ten boys breaking sods , burning wicks , making a tank . C . Varley , carrying manure , ridging for turnips , and sowing them . James Bamford , sowing tares , preparing for turnips , enrtbing potatoes . John Bamford , delving , toning cabbages . COW-FEEDIXG . Willingdon School Cows ted on tares and clover . Dumbrell ' t . Two cows grazed iu the pasture the whole week , stall-fed mora and even on tares till Wednesday , afterwards with clover . Heifer stall-fed on tares . Slaithwaite School . Cow stall-fed on rye and tares . C . Varley ' s , on mown grass .
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS . Top-dressing Potatoes . —[ "Saltpetre increases the vital action in man ; it doth the same in plants , " ]—After the breaks or intervals in the rows are filled up , the application of saline top dressings will naturally commence . The following aro the best mixtures lor such purpose , and arc deduced from the results of numerous trials wliich have been ingeniously tabulated by Professor Johnstone . They may be applied to the crop when the plants arc live or six inches high , by scattering them upon the ridges , previous to a shower of rain . No . 1 . —For one acre of manured potatoes . Saltpetre , $ cwt . ; sulphate of soda , J cwt . ; sulphate of _magnesia , } cwt . No . 2 . —Saltpetre , * cwt . ; gypsum , 1 cwt . ; salt , 1 cwt . ; sulphate of magnesia , if cwt . No . 3 . —Nitrate of soda , ¦? cwt . ; gypsum , 1 cwt . ; wood-ash-charcoal , 30 bushels ; salt-pan bittern , 20 gallons .
_lop-DR'essisos am _Tvixsirs . — [ "Hoe yow turnips _whilf and . whenever the sun shines . " ]—Hoe early to frighten away . the fly , and scatter top dressings upon the row to " _drug _ them , immediately before a shower ; the poe Mowing soon after , will allow no pence to these pests . ' _' -Introduce the saline mixtures forthwith into the ground . . No . 1 . —After . manure and guano , or guano done—Apply a _th-essing of li cwt . of gypsum to the acre . rio . 2 . —Afler . domestic , or natural guano and
_ma-««»•« . —Apply nitrate ot soda ., \\ cwt ., mixed witli 1 cwt . of gypsum ; or , sulphate of ammonia , oCibs . , _WbiS . —After rape dust and manure . —Apply i cwt . _nitr-Re of soda mixed with 1 cwt . of gypsum . Tjie . author can speak with confidence , and from _experience , as to the efficacy of such _luauurings . The quantity of dung may be diminished in proportion to the value of the saline substances introduced before the seed , and in subsequent top dressinss . Let all dressings be well mixed with abundance ol coal ashes , to tickle , plague , and drive away insects .
New I > _iscot £ iiY of Manure is Africa *— The doubt which has hitherto existed of the finding of nitrate oi potass and nitrate of soda on the African shores has within the last few days boen entirely removed by the arrival of information giving its positive locality ;
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in consequence ofwhich a very considerable stir has taken place in the shipping interest , the few persons to whom the secret is known taking every available vessel , at rates ranging from £ i to £ i 10 s . per ton , "to be put into the ship ' s boats , " wliich is said to be satisfactory to the owners . Oh the Use op Soap-suds as" a Manure . — About twelve months ago I had at my command a tank that received nothing but the suds that came from the laundry . * I thought I would try its effects . The first thing I tried it on was hyacinths in pots , and the result was most astonishing . I tried some of Potter's liquid guano at the same time , as an experiment , but found the suds most beneficial . Manv ncrsons
who saw the hyacinths , said they never saw finer . I used it alternately with pure water , 1 also tried it with strawberries that were forcing , and though the plants were previously very bad ones , the result was very satisfactory . French beans in pots wore also a great deal improved , by its use , and I think if it wero extensively employed it would be found very beneficial to a great many plants . It must be remembered that it was not used from the wash-house , but was allowed to run into the tank , which was always nearly full ; by tins means it may be used without tlie least injury to any growing plant requiring such stimulus . —/ . Morris , in the United Gardeners' Journal .
Oats . —The oat is , within its range , one of the most useful grains with which man is acquainted . The mealy matter of it contains less starch and mucilage than that of barley : and not abovc a fifth part ofthe saccharine matter ; but it contains nearly one half move gluten : so that , as food for man , the oat forms a sort of intermediate between wheat and barley , being less nutritious than wheat , more nutritious , but less light and digestible , than barley ; and rather more stimulant than either . Of oats , or oat grasses , there are about twenty-five species , some o f them amongst the most troublesome and destructive weeds with which the farmer has to contend . Only one species is cultivated , but there are , as in the case of the other grains , a great many varieties of it . The older writers , indeed , describe anotherthe naked
, oat , or pileorn , as having been once in abundance and repute in some parts of England . The grains of that oat were without awns ; and it is said to have got its man * of pileorn , or peeleora , from the circumstance' of its thrusting clear out ot the husk , and thus not requiring to be " shelled" at the mill , as is the case with all the oats in cultivation . Of whatever country the oat may have been a native , it must have been of a country that is rather cold . The oat does not thrive well in a lower latitude than about 48 degrees , there being little of it south of the parallel of Paris . In the north , however , it is highly important . I * . thrives upon almost any soil , anil stands almost any degree of cold ; and if it can be ripened before the frost sets in , the more bleak and
barren the soil on which it grows , the finer is its flavour . There arc four or five varieties of the oat , which yield differently * . but the one which is best adapted for human food , though not the most productive , is the old white oat , which was so long the principal article of food among tho poor in this country , especially the northern parts of it . Where wheat can be readily obtained oats arc not much used for bread , but thev are used largely in the feeding of horses , with which they are supposed to agree better than any other species of grain . Oats are also sometimes employed in brewing and in distilling ; but are considered inferior to barley for those purposes . Rye . —Rye is a grain plant cultivated in this country and in the northern narts of Eurone . for food :
but the quantity o f it grown in Britain has become much less since agriculture was more improved , and the land brought into a better state of cultivation . The meal of rye contains nearly the . same quantity of mucilage and starch as that of oats , about twice the quantity of sugar , and a fourth more gluten . Ifc is , therefore , better adapted for fermented bread ; but it very soon becomes acid or sour : indeed , "it undergoes the acid fermentation in the process of baking ; and therefore , though rye bread . is rather pleasant from its acid taste , and has a gentle action on tho bowels , it is not either so nourishing as that ofthe other grains , or so easily digested . The soil upon which rye succeeds best is dry sand ;
accordingly it is the principal gram in the countries to the eastward ofthe Baltic Sea , aud tothe south of the Gulf of Finland ; it is grown also in some of the light sandy districts on the eastern coasts of Scotland , and in the northern parts of England , though more sparingly in the latter . The peculiar properties of rye are understood to lie in the husk , or in that part of the grain which is immediately in contact with it ; for coarse as the common black bread or ruck of the Russians is , which is made of the rye , husk and all , it has a flavour wliich is not found in the fine ruck of tho Russians , which is made of rye flour ; and if the latter were not sweetened by some addition , such as honey , it would be very unpalatable ,
Trench * Ploughing . —At the last meeting of the Highland Agricultural Society , Mr . Aitchison , of Drummore , road an account of " Experiments with trench-ploughing" made by Mr . J . Proudfoot , Pinkie Ilill , near Musselburgh . Mr . Proudfoot has been in the practice , for several years ]> ast , of trench-ploughing a considerable quantity of land every year for green crops , and las * , year he trench-ploughed twenty acres . The trenching consists of one plough going before and taking a furrow of 0 inches in depth , and another following in the same furrow and taking S or 9 inches more , so that together they reach a depth of 14 or 15 inches , and which is accomplished in just double the timo required for common ploughing . The trench-ploughed land requires no working in spring excepting harrowing __ or rolling before tho planting ofthe potatoes , and it is this non-stirring of the soil in spring , which , in Mr . Troudfoot ' s opinion , has been tbe cause of keeping the drought out of liis
ground , _irluch is a light son resting on a gravelly sub 3 oil _, aiKl preventing the potatoo failure in it for upwards of twenty years . Last year he planted G acres of potatoes on the trench soil , and 0 acres on laud worked in the ordinary manner in spring , the entire 12 acres beingcqually well manured : and tliough the trench-land was eight days later in being planted , the potatoe stems were as early above ground , were much stronger in the stem , and yielded li bolls , of 4 cwt . each boll , per Scotch acre , more . The trenched ground yielded 62 bolls , and the other i 8 bolls , per aero Scotch , and both were a good crop and of good quality . Sir G . SttMAe , having alluded to the practice of manuring land in autumn for the turnip crop . Mr , Aitchison mentioned that his turnips , which were raised on manure that had been applied in autumn , rotted much more readily by the month of January , when stored , than those which wore manured at the usual time ,
Corn Rents and Leases . —The following resolution was unanimously agreed to at the last monthly meeting ofthe _Halcsworth Farmers' Club ;— "That a more general adoption of corn rents , in connection with permanent and modified leases , would place the tenant-farmers of this district in a comparatively better position than when under the liability of fixed money payments . " Prodigious Ox . —One of the finest specimens of beef ever witnessed in Birmingham , was exhibited about a _fortnight since at the back of Mr . Holder ' s , Rodney Inn , C ' oleshill-strcct . For neatnessand _symmetry of form , and fatness , the ox was the best of its species ever slaughtered in that town . The noble animahvas of the Durham breed , by Mr . Arbnthnot ' s bull Hcspofc ; was bred by Mr . Baldwin , of Wcstonon-Avon , near Stratford-on-Avon , and fed by Mr . Newbold , of Baginton , near Coventry . The gross weight was 2027 lb ., or 253 st . 3 lb . A gi'eat portion of this extraordinary beast was sent to the metropolis
Bo . yes ami Sulphuric Acid . —Mr . P . Davis , of Milton House , j : « u- Pembridge , Herefordshire , has favoured tho council of the Royal Agricultural Society with the following statement of results : — " 25 th April , 1815 . '—With _relercnc'G to Mr . Pusey's suggestion as to the propriety of usiug bone-dust dissolved in sulphuric acid , along with compost instead of water , for turnips , I can confirm his idea f rom practice , having last year manured o acres with only 13 bushels of bone-dust dissolved in 2 i 0 lb . of the acid and 150 gallons of water . After standing 24 hours , the liquid
was mixed with throe cart-loads ot coal-ashes , andlett to remain for a week ; during which time it was turned over two or three times . The mixture was then drilled , along with the seed ; anil the result was a fair crop of common turnips off a piece of poor land , without othor manure , and at a cost of only 12 s . 9 d . per acre . " The council ordered their thanks to be returned to Mr . Davis for this communication , with a request that be voukl further favour them with a statement of his previous cropping of the field , as well as of the quantity o f his crop when freed from tops and tails .
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Railway AcaoEXT . —On Wednesday , as the halfpast ten o ' clock train form Glasgow wascoming along the Kilmarnock Junction , near FergusWH , it came _, in contact with a cow . The engine passed over and dragged ifc along a short distance . Its death was mstantaheoiis , —National . ' _Dismssixo _SnciDE _.-OnTiiur _. sdayevciungaiiinquest was hehViit Long-bara ,. . ncar , Crcditon , Devonshire , on thebo . ly ofa young woman , aged seventeen , named-Ann Partridge , who destroyed herself by takingK-xalitf acid , lt ; _.-ippeared tliat Miss Partridge was in the habit of daily going to Crediton for the nurnosc of _Ici-rning'theiviilUiicry business , and that time smut ¦ hj -M
some * _•»«« _•»*» _- _>«» _<™ H . _y . * , by aiyou ' n _? man , who is now . suffering imprisonment _atE-xctcrfor thii . ajs & ult . She appears to have heen exceedingly ' nervous aiid unhappy since tho indecent attack had boon _iiuacje" upon lier ; and though she never alluded _to-the maiter _, there can be no doubt that this was tho cause of her depression ol spirits anil unhappy _l-. tc . Two letters were found in her room , neither _H-aled or folded , but from _thes appearamd of the ink , they had evidently been written but * i few hours hcv were addressed to her sister . She stated- " The cause of my nmfortune was a sad broken heart , known to none bnt inyselt ; aud concluded by asking pardon oJ' God and her parents tor the weakness she was showing . The jury returned a verdict , "That the deceased died irom taking oxalic acid , administered by herself . "
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A Good Reason . —Everybody is astonished at the little progress made by the railway committees . In this , however , there will appear not much to wonder at , when it is considered that railways must be made in right lines , and that the House is little accustomed to straightforward proceedings . _—PUnck Disputes of Doctors . —A quarrel has arisen between the surgeons and general practitioners , which Sir James Graham proposes to step in and settle . We recommend the Home Secretaiv to let the profession alone ; for " Who shall decide when doctors disagree V' —lbid , _lhoiay _ArraorniATE . —Ireland , we understand , at the dictation of Daniel O'Connell , is ahout to repudiate the shamrock , and instead of it to assume , for a national emblem , the aspen , as typical of eternal
agi-A _IIaud Bargain . —It has been urged as an excuse for the irafalgar fountains , that they are at all events very durable . Our own opinion is , that they are altogether unendurable . —Ibid . Poon Creature !—We have often heard the Sister Isle called "Poor Old Ireland . " Poor Ireland , it seems , is so very old , that she has now lost the use of her members . —ibid . Yehv _Siur-iE , —A gentleman last week becmie a member of the Royal Humane Society , under the impression that lie could have one of their drags to go in to Epsom races . —Ibid , The " Plague . " — - " My dear , " said a wife to hec husband , " did you ever read of the plague in London ? " " No , I don't want to read it . its enough to have a plague in my own house !"
A Brotherly Conjecture .- —The editor ot the Chu cinnatian says he has been in a " sea of trouble" for several days past , ou " several accounts . " Probably the longest" account" was his tailor ' s . Glory !—Near St . Sevier lives an old soldier witli false leg , false arm , glass eye , complete set of teeth , nose of silver covered with a substance resembling flesh , and silver p late replacing part of Ins skull—he was a soldier under Napoleon , and these are his trophies of glory I % A Genius . —At a meeting of the Wesleyan Missionary Society , lately held in Nottingham , wc learn from tho Mercury , that a motion wns seconded by a Mr . James Everett , of York , " in a speech of extraordinary humour , sparkling with points of wit , and abounding in the varied tropes wliich Mr . E . is so
well known to have under perfect command , and whieh Ids exuberant fancy pours out like flic waters of an exhaustless fountain . His geuius , unfettered as the antelope , bounded over hill and dale , paused and gazed at every prospect , snuffed the gale , and ( lashed along again , exploring every nook , and rock aud covert of an almost boundless range of thought , and making an amazing variety of topics culled from political , social , and ecclesiastical economy , contributing to tha argument and illustration of a missionary speech . " Behind the Scenes at a Solicitor ' s . — " I say , llunthaui , there's _souki stuffi in mv room that we may get something out of . " " Who is it ? " " That Mr . Coverly , o f Devonshire , who signed the bond to Snatchitt . " " More fool he ! But that ' s his affair .
Has he got the money V " No ; but he has got a d—d fine estate . I know it well , but he doesn't suspect that . He is in a devil of a funk , and is ready to give his" cars to keep the matter snug . " " But will his estate bear bleeding ? " said Mr . [ luntham . "Oh , it ' s as good as gold ! And what do you think ?•*•• upon my soul , it ' s like the game walking into one ' s net—ho wants us to raise the money for liim . '" " I hope you told him we couldn't . " ' _* ' Of course I did . I tickled him nicely , and made it < a favour to try J and that ' s what I am supposed to come to you for _. It would be a pity to let him slip through our fingers , for there he sits lilicalambto be slaughtered , and wc may do whatwc like with him . " " Is there no way of making a fatter bill out of him before wcget
him the money % Couldn't you egg him on to dispute the bond ? " " Impossible ; you know ho confessed judgment , and signed a warrant of attorney , five months ago . There's nothing to do now but to issue execution , " " Suppose , " said Mr . lluntham , medi-, tatingly , " wc were to have him grabbed and locked up * " " That might make him desperate , and then he would get into _Playfair ' s hands , and wc should lose the chance . " " Damn that fellow , J say ; he ' s always spoiling the game for other people . " What the devil I does he think that attorneys can live by ' settling actions ! ' No , no ! when two fools want to go to law , let ' em go at it hammer and tongs—never stop ' em I But tho very firstthing that dirty dog Playfair does , is to try to reconcile the parties , and recommend them not to go to law ! Not go to law ? Why , what
would bocome of all of us if people didn't go to law ? That Marplot Play f air is the curse ofthe pro f ession I Well then , if that ' s the case , we had better hook oar man at once . Yon say he'll bear bleeding ? " " As much as you please . He ' s in a pretty sweat , though _, he tries to seem cool ; but I sec through him . Hed give his eyes to get out of the mess quietly . " " Como , then , Ictus go at him together , " said Hunthain ; " awl mind , you ' re to do t . io _| blarney . I shall _sayit ' s a thing impo _' _-sible—that we must proceed to execution , and all that . " The Characteristic op ' * Party . "—Speaking of the Great Captain ' s influence in the House of Lords , Ellenborough bouncingly exclaimed , " O ! the Duke has power to carry anything—he could carry the monument ! " " Possibly , " replied Normanby ; " that is _a-new'tw column—it leans to one side !"
. LIKES AND DISLIKES . " Towards the Bight Honourable Baronet Pee ! , Regard , nay , affection , I certainly feel , " In debate , exclaimed Dublin ' s Recorder ; " But as for tlie Cumberland Baronet , Gvaliam _, My feelings , I own , are by no means the same—My love doesn't stray o ' er the border !" Pleasure op Place . —Colonel Rowan has returned from his fishing excursion . These police commissioners , if they have not a very lucrative , have a very easy office I Messrs . Rowan and Mayne " go to play " three months alternately in the most agreeable nian **
ner imaginable . Cool . —Mr . Dairdson _, brought before the senate of of Michigan for contempt , left New York before the case was disposed of , leaving a letter directing tho senate to send the " reprimand" after him—through the post-office . " Rather not , raAXic you !"—What kind of per * sonal service is that for which persons are never expected to appear grateful ?— -The service of a writ , A Reason against Annexation . —At an _anti-annoXation meeting in New York State , one gentleman from the country objected to the annexation of Texas , on the ground that there were crocodiles there . Ho didn't" want 'em brought into this country . "
An Editou on his High Horse . —The Northern Herald , speaking ofthe Maynooth grant , has the following eloquent ebullition : — " Compared with sucli impiety as this , it wouldbe a comparatively insignificant piece of profane blasphemy to mouth the heavens , and tell their Maker that his material sun , spreading life , and warmth , and glory , throughout creation , is a curse , aud seek to exclude its rays from their dark and vile habitations !"
" so oo ' . " And so the Queen will not appear in * . At least this year , the Isle of Erin . What think you then of Peel ' s vain presage , These first fruits ofhis _fam'Q peace-message t Instead of oil upon the ocean Of Irish clamour and commotion , And smoothing Queen Victoria ' s sail To the , gve « i \ shoves of lnisfail _, * Her voyage has been made uncertain As aught behind the future ' s curtain ! That vaunted "message , " then , - 'tis plain , " lias failed at present in tbe »» . »—Has proved no halcyon to the storm , But rather wears the petrel ' s form 1
The late Mn . Stiucblland . —The Globe , which first announced the death of this lamented comedian , having informed us of that fact , added— " _tluring Mr . Strickland ' s unavoidable absence , his part has been sustained by Mr . Webster . " The Jojidan "Water . —Her Majesty having set tha example , wliich is of Romish origin , of having tha Royal infants baptized with water from the Riven Jordan , there is every probability ofthe Royal whin * being imitated pretty generally by the aristocratic portion ofthe community . The water , we learn hr our daily contemporaries , used at the christening of the infant son of Viscount and Viscountess Villie % on Saturday last , at St . George ' s church , Hanowr _wiiwrr ,. was " bottled up" and brought from tha
River Jordan by Emerson Tenncnt , the Belfast M . P . We hear that a new joint stock company is now in tha course of formation , to be called /' . The River Jordan pure and unadulterated Baptismal . Water Bottling Company , " under the patronage . . of . " Roya % ' and . witS some " brilliant" name for chairman . _Whfiii tha Jordan water is thus _broughtlirto _. genenll . use ( retailed by the company at 3 s . - per , singie chrj & _timing and os . for twins ) , it is only to "be _# arfi _§; jt'Eill . no longer be considered cither _fajAionaW _^ pr _^ _wtoocriVi tic—Satirist . - . _-, _.- _• . 7 ; r 7 Gratitude for Three _¥ A & . mwQ . } t .- _± My . . Lord O'Higgins ! doesn't thank Sir Robert ; Peel foi' the
proposed grant to Maynooth , not a bit ; the Premier need not , therefore , hope , by _improving the _beSs-of the Maynooth students , to bolster up' his popularity in Ireland . For , after all , as his lordship opserves , this miserable grant of £ 26 , 000 , amongst eight millions of Roman Catholics , docs _^ npt . amouiifcjo mora than three farthings yearly fo _^' fti _^ , _cjleafly . _^ Si ] Robert , this won't do * , the pric _^ jq ' _iiiQffer . for Irish gratitude is exceedingly _small—4 ec _% < _jij < 8 _liabbyi : we might say . Wc quite agree with _mxoLojfl _OjtHigginn . No patriotic Irishman can affbiu .. _W'Mjg _^ teiui _io E three farthings per annum . —Greau GtHn . . ilV . u , U
Presents to Dan . —At a _meetingjofstb _^ _iRepealc Association last week Mr . O'Connell said ., "JS > -hadi received a present of a snuff-box from _BoltoajiTiioichi was stated to be mado by an Irish workman , and _trf tho hoof of a Kerry cow . " Query ? ' Waa _ift-not * rather from the Pope ' s bull -which lately . _- ,. ' _tacketflM Agitator % —Md . - _\~ : * ¦ _* : ¦ , ¦ . ;> _'** * An ancient name fort he _Ei-cer-: ' : _ruV
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 31, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_31051845/page/3/
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