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UKES TO A SNOWDROP . "The poetry of Earth is never dead . " ggntle Sower 1 that decks th « greea , 2 j 8 the primrose jet is seen ; Or tbe purple crocus peeps , From the-border "whew It sleeps , Lonely do ' jt thon seem -to be Heath that aged eherry-tree , While the bitter If orlan gale , Sweeps across the ravaged rale . What , though -winter ' s sleety storm , Beat upon thy slender form ; Or the ruthless ruffian -wind , Treats thee rudely and unkind ! Tbon tiH » yet of brighter hours , Or summer ' s reign—of summert flowers j iad shadoWst the virgin spring ^ With health , and " healing in ha wing .
I > ewaiop » in the morning sheen , JTe ' er hath on thy bosom been . By yon pale start frosty light , Then hast watch'a the lonely night Bursting into life and bloom , 3 did the winter ' sjdreary gloom : Teaching all this troth to przs , " The poetry of Earth ne ' er dies . '' T aabK . Jas . M » K 0 WSJi
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OLD WINTER . tfbo ' i he that comes yonder , enthroned on the storm 2—soiosrse in his -roiee—so forbidding In form ? 5 i , nrments how -white i aid his visage how pale ! gi , belmEt the snow-flake—his -weapon the hail 1 £ oi irades , fresh as from glacial rocks—3 ^ jold bow they hang from his hoary old locks 5 Cb » ee tiny children are flocking to see ¦ VTboeTer this fearful old stranger can be 2 ? ti Winter , Old Winter , " I know by his pace . Ana * the light that reflects from his frosty old face .
Us wxtteia abroad -while we slumber and dream , Cnrljnp tb * green herbage and glaseth the stream Be toketh the glebe , and he bleaches the hills , Be curdles the fountains and erusteth the rills : jjjjbare the deep forest , and -withers the flower , Pisrotes the old ruin and batten the tower . Be wrath his -wand amid beauty and -worth , Ana scatters the -wreck o'er the face of the earth 2 » old Winter * rules over land , ocean , and sea , And a potient magician and laird is he .
3 $ Bt aSD , though his presence be frigid and dread , Bj nsrer comes forth but he bodeth of cheer ! Bis breath say be bleak , and his scouting may craze—Bl * touch may be icy , and sharper his ways ! 5 e light of his glance aa it flits on the breezs , Us dew-drops on hedge-row and bramble may freeze ! Jat nater £ and man after all must agree Sat a -welcome old annual -risiter ' s he ! And echo respond to the feeling , all fraught Wiih the comforts and joys that "Old Winter" has brought .
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THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE . If in tie course of onr bufferings with the world we have for one moment envied the wealthy the possession of their dross , " it has been when sighing for the possesaon of Aose treasures of Literature which the rich can ever command ; but vriiicb . to oa wire unattainable ; l > ecause , thon ^ h the spirit was iriHing" the " purse ms weak . " ThB Magazines have e > er been our special fa-Tonriies ; and -we submit , rightly so : each forming is ^ iry do a sort of Encyclopaedia in minature of all lie great branches of Literature—History , Poetry , Bomance , Philosophy , Ethics , Theology , Politics , Criticism , &c . &c Trne , the Magazine before us Brofessedlv eschews Polices and Polemics : but we
-will nevettheless venture to assert that not a number -of ihis excellent periodical can be read , wiihont the reader rising from its perusal with enlarged ideas of the righi 3 of bis fellow-men , and more charitable views of the differences entertained by others on that Texed question which has been , under so Einy different forms and names , a source of disunion and strife , instead of lore and charity , from tge to age . For the reasons then above stated , rejirding a 3 we do tie Magazines generally as embodied mullum in parvss of really " useful knowledge , " we feel no ordinary pleasure in reeom-Eeading them as the best description of reading ; because , in onr humble opinion , well calculated to elevate and improTe ihe minds and hearts of all classes .
Until-rery recently the great mas 3 of the operaiiTe classes hare been completely shut oat of the enpymentscf this class of periodical literature . The Teiy low price at which Tail ' s Magazine , and the IUunxnaiea ' Magazine hare been produced , havehoweTer placed the ± e within the reach of thousands who 3 Tere pre-riously strangers to this description of reading- Still , far larger is the number of those whose JEsansire not adequate to purchase Magazines even at thecost of a shilling a month ; and in the country there are none of the conveniesces which are afforded in
the MetropoliUm Coffee Houses to the artizans of the " great wen * ' and which are one of the most pleasing features of Life in London . " There is one method , however , by which the poorest of onr readers Eight attain some of these conTeniences ; that is by clubbing their pence together for the establishment of reading rooms and classes ; fer where the former cannot be immediately accomplished the latter may be started at once . ** Where there's a will , there ' s a wayf and most private rooms are large enough to hold twelTe T > ersons . Twelve clnbbine la penny each once a month may obtain therewith a shilling Magaz i ne ; and , so far as it is concerned , all the enjoyment that the wealthiest in the land are able to command .
"We know that the working man who has become awakened to a sense of his political and social helotism , and is ardent and anxious for the obtainment of what lie justly conceives to be hi 3 rights , is apt to regard , in his stern matter-of-fact existence , all reading of works of fiction as a waste of time ; pleaant it may be to the rich man , but of no utility to the poor . We beg to dissent from that opinion . Sound political knowledge is , we grant , of primary importance ; but ksowtedge i * power ; and there is no good reason why the mind of the working man should not be as highly cultivated as that of the idler . In refusing to be slaves , ice should aspiie to hi men .
It may be asked , " what has all this to do with the Illuminated Magazine V This : if onr readers Trili but take onr advice and establish reading clubs as we have suggested , then we wonld earnestly ad-rise them to become readers of—if possible all the Magazines : —at any rate { if means will allow ) of Tct / V ' " Hood ' and before all , the " Illuminvied ? No Chartist Coffee Honse , and no "Working Man ' s Heading Room , should be without these ; and in onr humble opinion both wonld be made more attractive , and of conrse more profitable , were the spggestion acted npon . At tbe present time Chartist Coffee Rooms are miserably defective in arrangements for supplying the demands oi the intellectual appetite .
_ The present month's number of the " Illnminated " is b no m eans ihe best that has appeared . Thi 3 is 3 alj accounted for ; the publisher ' s note again communicating the melancholy intelligence of ** the continued indisposition of the Editor , DorGLAS Jeehdld , The hopes we expressea in our Chrisl-»» as Garland were not realised : but we have the pleasure of informing onr readers , from the best authority , that , though slowly , the Editor is xeeovering from his lengthy and distressing illness ; and we trust , that the next number will be both graced by hi 3 pen , and have the benefit of his supervision .
The opening tale is entitled , " Mary Stuart at Chatsworth Paikf a Tale for Ladies from a Lady ' s pen . The subject , as the title bespeaks , is that of the captivity of Scotland's beauteous Q , aeen ; who , despite all her faalts , was , we have ever held , " more snp'd against than sinning f and upon whose portrait it is impossible to gaze without applying the lines ef the poet : — " If to her share some human errors fall , Look on her face and you'll forget them aTL " The tale is prettily told , and calculated to excite 1 he sympathies of all who love beauty ( and who are they who 4 o not I ) ; though , like the great lumiixry of ieaven , it may be occasionally veiled with clouds . ** The Broken-hearted Club" is an amusuig paper
from one whose promised series we expect will be found to be very entertaining : may we hope that the series will be kept up regnlarlyuntil completed . By-tha-bye , what has become of " The BoyB of London" by Mark Lemon ; The subject u anything but exhausted , and the writer is a great favourite Trith the public .. , The "Beans of England" are continued , embracing in the present number Sir John Snckling , one of the wits of Charles the Firsts time j and the well-known Collej Gbber , the contemporary , and iaown to all the readera , of Pope . "An Insh Highwayman" is , if we mistake not , on old Btory -Wished nn a ^ ain thoush none the worse for that .
Th » Beauties of War , ™ is another of the arbcles "Which , in this ^ Iagazinejhave done such good service i » exhibiting the true character of the demons , « QsesHed "honour , " and " glory , " which for bo « asy ages have drenched the earth with blood and tews . The present paper relates not to scenes of * Kual warfare , but to some of the effects which Ta tpraHy flow from the accursed sword-appealB of ** 8 ons . The author gives an acconnt of the state of Ssfcfie feeing in France dnring the time that country * w occupied by ihe alied army , after tbe final tethrow of flapoleon . The description of the *** fly animoaty -whica posted T > ctween the French * & 4 PrDBrimB" ia pajnfullT intereninj {» Be jjiTes
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one-particular instance , the pith of which we transcribe for onr readers . A Prussian officer was quartered at the honse of a widow , at a place in Normandy . The widow was the proprietor of a large establishment for the manufacture of crockery . Her family consisted of but one son about fifteen years of age . The officer ' s servant , determined to exercise his petty tyranny , vras in the habit of keeping np the family to prepare coffee for him at midnight ; insisting npon having suppers made at three o ' clock in the morning , &o . Madame L at last determined to make a formal complaint to the officer .
Whether the mode of slating her grievances did not please him , or the narration excited recollections whioo awakened a dormant ipirit of revenge , be received her remonstrances with haughtiness . * ' Madam , " said he , " my servant shall call you all out of bed six timei every night if I please , and you shall wait upon him yourself . I am sorry that you hare no dangbten , that you might learn how your infernal countrymen behaved to my aisters . My mother was a widow with four daughters ; dx ofl&cers of your brutal and uncivilised nation -were quartered in her house^—she had lostfeer only other son in tbe battle of Jena , and I was far away . The conduct of your countrymen would
have disgraced the lowest lavages—my mother and sister * were subjected to loathsome indignities , and made to perform the most abject menial services for their brutal guests . My mother ' s heart was brokenshe sank under tbe horrors she was compelled to witness ; and while her corpse yet lay in the house the officers endeavoured to dishonour my sisters ; bat I should go mad were 1 to begin a list of the atrocities committed by your army . Ton shall know a little of the miseries of war—to-morrow you shall have a couple more officers and half a dozen soldiers to maintainsee that you prepare for them . Take care to let me have a turkey dressed at half-p&Bt two in the morning , an 4 coffee at four . "
The lady slunk away , terrified at the aspect of the infuriated Prussian , and retired to think of the best mode of pacifying him : she rightly conjectured that the attempt would be most likely to be successful after she should have prepared him a dinner with unusual care , and given him time to subside ; set herself to the task with tbe determination to please him , if possible ; and hoped that a more humble entreaty in the evening might avert the dreaded infliction with which she bad been threatened . Not so her son , who had been listening at the door , attracted by the loud voice of the officer . He heard all ; but in his attempts lo rouse the workmen to resistance did not thin ^ it at all necessary to repeat the officer ' s account of French cruelties In Prussia—he dwelt only on the threats held out to his mother , and the tyranny of the servant—and he succeeded in inspiring them -with a determination to take a safe revenge .
The lady went on with her preparations for the officer ' s dinner , and was deeply engaged in larding a flue fowl , -when horrible screams assailed her ears . She rushed to the door of the kitchen—it was fastened ; to the door which led to the manufactory—that also was fastened ; every outlet for escape was closed ; —* be screamed for her son , and was answered by him from the other side of the d * or , that there was no danger , and no cause fci alarm . She entreated to be told what was the meaning of tbe screams , which now became fainter and fainter , as if retiring to a greater distance— *¦ Sey > 2 tranquille , ma mere , " said her son , " you win know it all prerently . I will let you out directly ; there is bo danger—none whatever . "
Presently the door was opened , and her son led her into the manufactory ; but what was her borrer to see the officer and his servant lying on the ground opposite the great furnace , each bound round with bandages from neck to feet like an Egyptian mummy . At the 'moment she entered , the door of the fiery furnace was thrown open , and cast its glare on tbe faces of the helpless beings ; the servant had fainted from excess of terror , and the officer ' s bloodless countenance is vain assumed an air of firmness . " Save me , Madam , if possible , and I sweat to you that this outrage ahall never be betrayed . I and my servant will instantly
remove , and you ahall have no others quartered on you . The lady stood aghast and unable to utter a word . The men cried out" Don ' t believe him , Madam , let us make complaints impossible ; " and they took up tbe h * lpless beings , and brought their feet near to the month of the furnace . " Say but the word , and in three minutes there wont be a vestige of either of them . We can never be detected—there -wont be aa atom of bone left , and their buttons will be undistinguished in the cinders . Say the word , Madam—say the word—they will be senseless in three seconds—the furnace is in full glow , and they will be turned into steam and ashes is half a minute . "
It was an awful moment . ' the men had not exaggerated the effect of the furnace , for the intense white heat , much greater than that of a glass-house , would have volatilized every panicle of the hapless wretches in an insUnt . The men held both the bodies in the attitude of throwing them into the furnace , and as their mistress ' s terror deprived her of the power of speech , they took silence for consent , and were proceeding to put their threat into execution , when the son , -who ha 4 only intended to frighten tbe offenders , and never contemplated the actual murder , screamed out his horror , and t&rew himself on his knees to intercede for them . The mother had by this time found her tongue , and joined her prayers with those of the son ; but it was not till after very long and urgent entreaties that they succeeded in arresting the hands of tbe ruffians , who were gloating in anticipation of so complete and so safe a vengeance . Indeed , except by the confession of one of the parties , deletion would have been absolutely impossible .
The officer and his servant were liberated , the latter plated in bed delirious , and the officer -was in no frame of mind to do justice to Madame L 's cookery . I venture to guess that the fowl went away unt&sted . The next day both officer and man were removed to fresh quarter *; but the servant's delirium gave rise to suspicion ; and although the officer contended that the -whole was a fable , it is supposed that his fellow soldiers believed his story , for the manufactory "was shortly afterwards burnt to the ground , and the men fchrosrn out of employment for mouths .
There is also an article entitled : — "The March of Civilization , or Newa from Australia . " Tnii title is given to "Sundry speculations that have been suggested by a file of Sydney papers ; " and tbtj instructive as well as amusing " specalations " they are . The views of "Colonial policy" put forth stamp the political character of the Magazine ( which remember reader , eschews politics !) as thoroughly democratic . From it we extract the following curious speculation as to
esglakd ' s DESTirrv . " To condnde with the subject with which we commenced ; the lise and progress of this colony nnder all the fearful disadvantages with which it has had to contend—of mismanagement from incompetent governors , a felon population , and being made the depot ef an overfed market—is as creditable to its own re-K > nrces , ras it is satisfactory to tbe mother country . We have seen , that little more than fifty years since , this beautiful and almost boundless territory , for its extent is not even yet fully discovered , now so replete as we have shown with the graces and elegancies of life , was an uncultivated desert , or , to adept its own homebred phrase , " a bush . " The solitary kangaroo , or the coarse savage a thousand times more brutish and untractable in his nature , —for here
- " -while along creation Music ran , She placed no echo in the heart of man !" its only inhabitant ; and the first traces of civilization spread by Jhe -very off-scourings of London vice and depravity . And now J may not an Englishman point to it with pride and exultation as a proof of what English energy has accomplished , and what English industry can do ? Into its beautiful harbours ships are ponring from each conntry of the civilized globe , while from them as many more are departing , freighted with the rich products of her natural wealth and
industry . Here is food too for the philosopher as weil as the patriot ! What , though upwards of fifteen thousand miles and mighty oceans intervene between Australia and father-land , English feelings , English objects , and English pursuits there predominate ; her influence creates—her power commands ; the same tastes pervading , the same topics exciting , and the same mother-words lisped , as in her own infant cradles ; from the same altars the same creed is acknowledged , and to the same throne of grace the Great Dispenser of all good is supplicated in the same prayers 1
The great cities of the earth have passed away , " and made no sign ; " the scholar and the antiquary cannot even agree as to their site . The glory is departed from Athens , and Borne is her own melancholy monument . May net England anticipate the same doom ? May not the capital of the -world share the same fate as prouder capitals have before her ? May not our prolific soil be exhausted , tbe seat of our manufactures be removed , the lesources of our national wealth be dried np or exhausted ?—Yes , as far as this small plot of earth is csncern&d ; but -what is to prevent her empire over the seas being maintained in a wider field for action , where her energies will have a bolder and freer scope ?
" What though tbe temple from its base decline ? Its hallowed things may deck another shrine . What though tbon perish on the northern wave ? Tby pfceenix spirit shall escape that grave ! Thy fame shall mock ths wasting flood of years Worlds are thy children , continents tby heirs ! 1 see them in the east , and in the west , Where'er the ocean heaves her troubled breast ; Wide o ' er the regions of the setting bus , - Where mighty streams through vast savannahs ran ; 'Mid woods coeval with the land they shade , And bright wing'd birds in every sunny glade ; 'Mid lakes , whose deeps the plummet ' s search defy , And hills thai hide their summits in the sky ; Where to the wandering eye , a world appears * YeiTd in the mystery of four thousand years—I-see thy children , children spread afar , And gather np thy arts of peace and war . * * Yes ! it seeds no great stretch of the imagination to prefigure the teat of tbe English Empire removed to a country , already its own adopted child , a lmost 1 , K , Eerrey * Australia .
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boundless in extent , the parts already discovered being nearly as large as tbe whole continent of Europe , forming as it does a portion of the globe already too unwieldly to be placed within any of its former divisions , and demanding one fer itself alone . With every capability and variety of soil and climate—in general nearer to her other dependencies , including Canada , both the Indies , the Oriental Archipelago , those numerous islands in the Polynesia , In the Pacific Ocean , Van Biemen ' s Land , New Zealand , from which it is barely separated—and in all of which civilization is
not only dawning , but its sun has almost risen , all revolving like sattellitea round the star of nations , — Australia may be considered as that part of the British Empire which the prophetic eye regards as the future seat of English power . Great Britain may become classic ground ; and centuries hence , pilgrims may wander over tbe deserted and moss-grown streets of London ; yet what patriot would feel his amor palria wounded in the foreknowledge that the bus of English power may set in its present northers sphere , to rise again in the ea » t , In another region , not less English because a mighty ocean divides it from tbe maternal soil .
TbeBe are speculations , we admit ; that they are wild or premature we deny ; but they suggest mighty considerations , of which the ultimate fate of a great nation—tbe most favoured uader heaven—is the chief . " A Supper Scene in the Olden Time , " is a good article ; the description of the M Devil Tavern , " the famed resort of M Hare Ben Jonson , " is a rich treat . At the supper we have Ben himself ; the Ulfated Lord Falkland ; " the most accomplished man of his age , " Sir John Suckling ; and others of the wits and gallants of that era . We are sorry that we can only find room for the following extracts : —
BBN / ONSON . " It was a fine day in June , and some time in the reign of the martyr Charles , that as the cry descended to tbe bar of ' Score a pint of bastard in the Dolphin , " and Wadlee's wife was busy chalking up the debt , a tall figure , somewhat up in years and apparently fatigued , was seen to enter within tbe bar of the Devil Tavern . His suit was of black , neither in the fashion nor out of it ; Mm make large and corpulent , with an ungracious gait , but one that told of activity in former times . His eyes were large and lustrous , and his whole face great with thought , and though scorbutic , highly interesting . There was a -perpetual play of humour and merriment upon bis lips , and he wore the air of no common , every-day character . Here is J orison ' s account of the
DEATH OF SHAKSPEBE . " 0 ! master , I must ask of you , " said Dick Brome , " to tell Sir John Suckling the cause of Sbakspere ' s death !"—" Why , my dear friend Dick , his was a simple end , though a hasty one . In the year 1612 , or thereabouts , he had retired to his native town , and ths banks of his own sweet Avon , with a decent competency , the produce « f his labours for the stage , and of his shares in the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres . He had come to town after a two years' absence , to settle something about the lease of a tenement in London . He looked well , and was fuller in the face than when he had left . His wit was as free , as natural , and entertaining as ever ; if any thing , it had gained . A few of ns had a social night with him at Greenwich ,
talking over other days—the past , the present , and the future . There were of the party , Mike Drayton , Dick Burn&ge , and his fellows , Hemings and CondelL We sat late , drank freely , and foolishly enough came poetically hom » in the water-poet * a boat The day bad been very fine , summer-heat almost throughout ; but it turned chilly in the evening , and we had not taken our long cloaks with us . We got well enough home , and dear Will Shakspere returned to Stratford the next day , complaining of a cold . A ride through a heavy rain upset him altogether ; the cold gained upon him , and in spite of the skill of his son-in-law , Hall , and the considerate care of his own Anne Hathaway , brave , open-hearted Will Shakspere ceased to exist among us . The whole looks like a dream to me—and we are to be Bitied who survive him . "
"The StockingB ; or , Idle Inny ; an Irish Fairy tale , by the late John L' Estrange , " is a capital story , well worth ( we think ) all the cost of the number . " The Helmsman ' s l ) og , " by Miss Pardoe , is a truly affecting tale , bearing the impress of reality . Doubtless , " a tale too true . " There are several other pieces in prose and verse which we need not enumerate . Bat we must remind the reader , as we have not before reviewed this Magazine , that it derives its title of " Illuminated " from the excellent wood-cut illustrations which profusely embellish each Number . The illustrations of the present Number are not equal to some of the previous ; though that of the " Koyal Oak" is excellent .
Again we heartily recommend the " Illuminated , as the Magasine of ihe Millions . Need we say one word more to ensure the patronage of the public I
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and they would kave got nothing but a welting and leathering from the Hessians if they had paid a visit to England . Rbcjpb to Make Pooh Mans Friend . —Take of the current coin of the realm as you can afford ; put In puree and deliver to a itoor man . This is the best sort of Poor Man ' s Friend . How to Make an April Fool . —Provide any parishioner « f St . Stephens , Walbrook , with a blank receipt , and seDd him to Alderman Gibbs for the balance of the Parish accounts . Another Wat . —Refer any person who is anxious to be informed of the time of day to the Clock of St . Clement ' s Church . Another " Another Way . "—Find a journeyman tailor who wishes to eara his living by hia trade , and send him to Moses .
Unclaimed Dividends —The shareholders of Waterloo Bridge never think of claiming a dividend , because they are quite aware that if they did they would be sure not to get it To Tell What O'clock it is by a Clock that Don't GO . —Get a sun-dial ,, or , if you have Dot one by you , make one . Take it out into the son , and place your clock , that don't go , by tke side of it . Ascertain the time by the shadows thrown on the dial by the sun , and then take you * clock , that don't go , in your left hand , and turn the hands round with your right , till they agree with the time marked on tbe sundial . Having done this , look at your clock , and you will ascertain what o ' clock It is . ( Header , keep your temper . ) Prediction . —To Cockneys . —You may expect ale in October , if not rain .
CHANSON DE 8 CHAMPS FOR OCTOBER . Air— "Betsy Baiter . " Plough stubbles and sow winter wheat , Your farm-yard get in order ; Take up potatoes meant to eat , Frame peas in some warm border . Ri , tooral , looral , looral , loo t Your quickset hedges now repair ; Manure your land with guano ; Feed oxen up for beef , with care , And Bell your wife's piano . Ri , tooral , looral , looral , loo I ( This chanson is adapted to be sung in chorus at the schools of agriculture , and is published under the countenance of the President of the Education Committee , whenever he may chance to be reading it . )
Historical—The month of June , 1843 , was " full ef incident , " like a Yictoria melo-drama . Gloucester persuaded his friend Ratcliffe to cut off several superfluous heads , and with Buckingham as his prompter , got up a little farce in Guildhall , in which several low comic citizens shouted , "Long live King Richard ! " which in the present day has been converted into " Brayvo , Hicks I " According to tbe Chronicles , Richard the Third took a very bad character to his last place ; but defective as he waa , in almost every point , he never conld have been so bad as be is represented by Mr . C . Kean . After all , the man ought to be pitied ; even when be tried to be agreeable he couldn't ; for , according to Shakspere , " He murrter'd when he smiled . "
In 1792 , King George the Third reviewed the Volunteers on Bagsbot Heath . Tbe bravery with which' they fired off their ] blank cartridge , without exhibiting any outward signs of excessive fear , attracted the enthusiastio admiration of one another . By his Majesty ' s gracious desire they were allowed at once to mount the white feather . ' On the 6 tb of November , 1605 , Guy Fawkes , who is well known as one of the London " lions stuffed with straw , " attempted to make Lucifer a match for the
House of Commons , and to dissolve Parliament by gunpowder . Had that end been obtained it could not have made more noise in tbe world than it has done . Lord Monteagle , the Spring Rice of 1605 , fortunately smelt tbe thing out , and was very handsomely re * warded for his discovery . Formerly it was usual , on the opening of Parliament , for the Members to go down in a body to the Coalhole under the House , but the practice was discontinued , as so many Members staid away under the apprehension of being taken for Guys .
Capt . Parry returned on the 26 th of Septembsr . 1827 , from an unsuccessful attempt to go to tbe Pole , that frightfully particular revising barrister , the Ice , having filed an objection to bis doing so . He bad been out sixty-one days , and had gone at the rate of a mile a day ; so that he mutt have got at far as from here to Worthing . This was called Parry's Expedition , but there was little expedition in the case—and the terra was about aa appropriate as that of Fly Waggons to the lumbering roulage , known by that name . Things to bb borne in mind in July . —That if yon have not much money , you should not think of going to tbe sea-side ; but if you have none at all you may go to Boulogne , or to Bath , which is frequently recommended .
The Weather—That if it rain on St . Swithin ' s-day , you may reckon the weather will be pretty much tbe same for a month after that it was before , but generally fair and dry .
TAVERN MEASURE . 2 Goes make 1 Gill 2 Gills ... 1 Lark 2 Larks ... 1 Riot 2 Riots ... 1 Cell , orStatlonhouse N . B —A cell is equivalent to 5 s . FOR OFFICE CLERKS—AS FOLLOWS : — 2 Drams make 1 Go 4 Goes ... 1 Headache 2 Headaches ... 1 Lecture 5 Lectures ... The Sack . Domestic . —Toast and Water is procured in the speediest manner by proposing Father Mathew ' s health at the nearest pump .
Hints to Country Cousins . —If you wish to pass a day Id town get into an omnibus at Sloone-atreet , and by tbe time you reach the Bank , you will be surprised to find , that you have accomplished the object you bad in view . Rules for ascertaining the Weight and Height of Cattle . —To ascertain the weight of a horse , place yonr tue nnder tbe animals foot while be is standing still . If there be any dispute about tbe height of the animalj the most efficient method to settle it is to pot the question to a ¦ ' show of bands . " Civic Relationship—Mr . Hobler is father of the city ; Alderman Gibbs is coxen to the parishioners of St . Stephen ' s , Walbrook .
Domestic—How tq make " Kisses" . —Take a bough of mistletoe and hang it up in a warm place . Pat beneath it a yeung lady with whom you are rathsr sweet . When she begins to melt , whick you may know by her change of colour , you must run your rigs and mould your lips for kisses .
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not wish to encourage a system ef national inrtebtednesa , ami therefore hoped to prevent peopie lending money which would not be returned to 1 them Hume was against ; national debts , and frequent !? in his writings , in common with all other great political and financial writers , prognosticates their end in England . The above faota may not exonerate the Pennsylvanians , but they ought to check our affectation of exemplary integrity . —( From The Movement : a weekly periodical , edited by G . J . Holyoake . )
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THE ALCHEMISTS . Tbe conduct of the scientific alchemists of the thirteenth , fourteenth and fifteenth centuries presents a problem of very difficult solution . When we consider that a gas , a fluid , and a solid may consist of the very same ingredients in different proportions ; and a vitalent poison may differ from the moat wholesome food only in the difference of quantity of the very same elements ; that gold and silver , and lead and mercury , and , indeed , all the metals may be extracted from transparent crystals , which scarcely { differ in their appearance from a piece of common salt , or a bit of sugarcanay ; and that diamond is nothing more than charcoal , —we need not greatly wonder at the extrava gant expectation that the precious metals and the noblest gems might be produced from the bases ! :
materials . These expectations , too , must have been often excited by the startling results of their daily experiments . The most ignorant compounder of simples could not fail to Witness tbe magical transformations of chemieal action ; and every new product must have added to tbe probability that the tempting doublets of gold and silver might be thrown from the dice-box with which he was gambling . But when the precious metals were found In lead and copper , j by the action of powerful re-agents , it was natural to suppose , that they had been actually formed during the process ; and men of well regulated minds even might have tbuB been led to embark in new adventures to procure a more copious supply , without any insult being offered to sober reason , or any injury inflicted on aound morality . —Sir D . Brewster ' s Martyrs of Science ,
ETRUSCAN ANTIQUITIES . About thirty years ago , the principality of Canino and Mnsignaso belonged to the papal domain . Pope Pius VII . offered it for sale to Lucitn Bonaparte , and , it is said , pressed him to purchase it , because he had a regard for him , and felt persuaded that it would prove a good bargain . It wonld almost appear that be had a presentiment of the extraordinary treasures which were so soon to be discovered there , and which had not long been opened up before they yielded forty thousand louia Luoien accepted the offer , became proprietor of Canino , and was thereupon created a Principe Romano . About fifteen years ago , when the sepulchres of ancient Ecruria were first generally examined , and began to be emptied of their magnificent contents , it was discovered
that the newly acquired property of Lucien Bonaparte possessed more than a common share ! of subterranean wealth . Some of the most superb vases in the world were excavated by him , besides gold and jewelled ornaments of the most exquisite workmanship , and bronze images , mirrors , and utensils of great rarity and beauty . It is truly unfortunate that his pecuniary circumstances did not admit of his preserving all that he found , and thus forming a great Bonaparte Etruscan museum ; for it would have been the most splendid and unique collection in Europe , far surpassing that at Naples , in the deep interest attached to countless antiquity , and to the mystery of ao extinct people , the manner of whose existence is now only to be learned from their graves . But , alas ! the precious possessions of central Etniria
have been dispersed over Europe among the museums of sovereigns and tbe cabinets of the curious ; and the Pope , the King of Bavaria , M . Durand , the Duke de Blacas , and the British Museum , pessess treasures , which , had they been preserved where they were discovered , would have made Musignano the place of pilgrimage to all those who inquired after the religious discipline of Tages , or tbe politieal constitution of Tarcbon . I had beard , in particular , much of the beauty of tbe gold and jewelled ornaments belonging to Lucien ; and that , a few winters ago / tbe Princess of Canino had appeared at some of tbe ambassadors' fetes in Rome with a parnre of Etruscan jewellery , which was the envy of the society , and excelled the chefs
aauvres of Paris or Vienna . Thus , after thousands of years , the sacred ceremonial costumes of the illustrious of the early wotld were made to contribute to a scene of splendour in modern Europe . Ancient Rome , under her kings , had probably seen many such , and modern Rome now looked upon them again . They were admired for their intrinsic merit among us , —a race who regard witfa awe , as a period of dim antiquity , the overthrow of that mighty and grinding despotism , which , in its early years had overwhelmed the glory and independence of ancient Etruria , where they were made , and which did not begin to exist until the power of Etruria was already on the wane—Graf ' s Tour lo Etntria . ;
ANCIENT AMERICAN RUIHg . Some remarkable ancient ruins have been recently discovered in tbe department of Oajaca . In reconnoitring the district of Tootitlan , in order to ascertain tbe best route for a road , the surveyor , Rafael Villa Gomez , came upon " tbe ruins of a great town " tpoblacion ) . It had been only partially explored at the date of our advices , bnt the ruins of more than 100 houses had already been observed , and the guide said tbe principal edifices were still beyond . : These rains are called "The Palaces of Mitla . " They exhibit a style of architecture altogether unlike tbe styles known in art , either ancient or modern ; yet they are not wanting in just proportions , symmetry and beauty , which give splendour and grace to the whole , as well as to tbe parts . This ruined town must have been built by a race which preceded the Mexicans , bnt whether by the Indians , or a people still more remote , is a question which belongs te the antiquarians , and we are not disposed to go into it here . —Mexican Paper .
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THE ORIGINAL ROBINSON CRUSOE . Colonel Sutcliffe , " the retired governor of Juan Fernanrtta , " recently published a volume , giving an account of that island from its discovery by Don Juan Fernandez , {( after whom it was named ) , in 1572 ; and to this volume be gives the title of Crusoniania , from tbe fact that it waa tbe well known abode of Alexandi-y Selkirk on this island , which furnished De Foe with the materials of bis inimitable romance of Robin-Boe Crusoe . But it is not so generally known that there was previously to Alexander Selkirk a solitary tenant of this Island , and one , too , whose sojourn there , as recorded b * Dam pier and Ringrose , must have been known to De Foe , as will be seen from tbe following extract from Colonel SutcUffe ' s book , in which we trace tbe original story of Man Friday , and his discovery of bis father in Robinson Crusoe .
" At the moment of their ( a crew of Buccaneers ) hurried escape from Juan Femandei , one of their crew , a Mosquito Indian , named William , happened to be in the woods hunting goats ; sa that the ship was under sail before he got back to the bay . Poor Will had only the clothes on bis back , a knife , a gun , a small born of powder , and a few shot . His Bituatien bcearae still more critical when the Spaniards entered the bay , took up the anchors and cables , and having caught sight of him , made a diligent search ; but he eluded their pursuit , and remained the sole human occupant of tbe island . '
" Dam pier , in the account which ha gives of Will ' s sojourn , states— ' At first he could procure scarcely any food but seals , which he found ordinary eating ; some other articles he obtained by means of his powder and shot , but these were soon expended . He next made a saw of his knife , by notching it , and so , by incessant labour , cut tbe barrel of biB gun into small pieces . He kindled a fire by striking with the gun flint against a piece of the barrel . Having heated the pieces of iron , he hammered them out , and bent them just as he pleased with hard stones , and sawed thorn with his jagged knife . By persevering industry , be ground them to an edge , and hardened them to a good temper , as there was occasion ; and thus he procured harpoons , lances , fishhooks , and a long knife . All this may seem
strange to those who are not acquainted with the sagacity of the Indians ; but it is no more than these Mosquito men are accustomed to in their own country , where they make their own fishing and striking instruments without either forge or anvil , though they spend a great deal of time about them . Having obtained these conveniences , he no longer lived upon seals , nor did he afterwards ever kill any , except when he wanted lines , which he made by cutting tbe seal-skins into thongs . He had now a plentiful subsistence , living upon goats , birds , or fish , aa best suited his inclination ; his clothes wore out , but be supplied their place by fastening a skin round his waist ; he built himself a little honse or lint , about half a mile from the sea , which be lined with goat skins . jTo render it
complete , his conch of sticks , raised about two feet distance from the ground , was spread with the same , and constituted bis only bedding . During the period of William ' s residence on tbe island , he was often sought for by the Spaniards ; and at one time , being guided by the light of his fire , they nearly surprised him . This escape , and his having frustrated by his activity and wiles , all their endeavours to take him , made his pursuers consider him to bo a supernatural being . Will could easily distinguish his friends from the Spaniards , by the rigging and appearance of their vessels and boats , and , on two English ships making their appearance , he almost went frantic with Joj , supposing thro
came on purpose to fetch him away—of suoh consequence is a man to himself . In order to give them a hearty welcome , be eanght and killed three goats , and dressed them with the " chonta ** ( cabbage palm , } that he might be teady to treat the crews as soon as they came on shore . On their landing , he waa recognised by a Mosquito India , named Robin , who was the first that leaped on shore . William bad stationed himself at tbe seaside , dressed in bis goat skin dress , ready to congratulate them on their arrival . The meeting of the two Indians , and old friends , was . affecting . Dampler gives the following description of the scene he witnessed :-Robin no to his Brother Mos qulto * man , tbnw bimielf flat upon hia face at Ha tat .
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> .. *; . -. vr » .. nc-r ? ' ?? . 1— _ .-i tt .,- ^ - , ^ --- ^ yyirj-ji . rj . -jau . ^ vjg who helping him up and embracing him , fell fiat with his face on the ground at Robin ' s feet , and was Uy him taken up also . We stoad with pleasure to behold this interview , whicb waa exceedingly affectionate n both sides ; and when their ceremonies of civility wereover . We also , that stood gazing at them , drew near . Bach of us embrae » d , b . im we bad found there , who was over--joyed to see so many of his ol 4 friends come hither , s bethought , purposely to fetch him . Dampier and Edmund Cook were bis former shipmates . The latter
was now a private seaman ; and Will found , that although bis friends bad not made so long a voyage merrly on his account , they proved themselves not unmindful of him ; for , as aeon aa they bad anchored , immediately got ont tfteir boat on pnrpose to send for him . They stayed , to- refit and refresh themselves , from the 23 rd of March to the 8 tb of April , 1684 Will was very useful in procnrhig goats , of whicb there was abundance on the island ; and , after having resided there alone for three years , two months , and eleven days , he embarked with bis former friends , to renew the avocation of a Buccaneer , "
The Last of the Stuarts-. —This most wonderful character still , lives at Tcveedmoutb , He completed his 115 th year at Christmas , 1843 . His father , General John Stuart , was a cousin of " Prince Charlie , " th © Pretender . His grandmother was- the Lady of Airiie , well known in old Scotch song . James Stuart saw those memorable battles dnring the rebellion in 1745 , Prestonpans and Culloden , and has spoken to , and bad wine with , tbe Pretender . He served on the side of the royalists in the American war , and was at the battle of Quebec , where General Wolfe lost hia life at the moment of victory . He served on board a man-of-war for many years' under those naval heroes . Admiral Rodney and Rear-Admiral Hood . He baa been five times married , and now lives with bis fifth wife , 75 years younger than himself . He has bad by bia several
wives 27 children ; ten of them have been killed in battle , five of them in India , two at Trafalgar nnder Nelson , one at Waterloo , and two at Algiers . For nearly 60 years be bas travelled in the Border district * as a wandering minstrel , playing on a fiddle , but be never asked alms from any one . Hundreds of persons can bear testimony to bis amazing strength , from which circumstances be got tbe bye-same' of "Jemmy Strength . " Among other feats he could carry a twenty four pounder cannon , and be has been known to lift a cart-load of hay , weighing a ton and a half , npon bis back . Many a time he has taken np a jackass , and walked through the toll-bar , carrying it on bis shoulders . It will be long before we can look upon his like again , to bear bis stories of 1745 . and his glowing description of the Yonng Chevalier . —Perthshire Advertiser .
Tomb of Paul and Virginia . — It was an oblong square space of about a couple of acres , surrounded with close plantation . Among the trees , one on each side of the further end of it , were two monuments , or ornamental erections , consisting of square nrns npon square pedestals ; in tbe middle of the space an oblong square pool stagnated , with an island of the same shape se nearly filling it as to leave only a canal of water all round , broad enough to give a good leap to an active man at any part . Tbe whole bad an aspect singularly cold ,- angular , and formal . The water was covered with coirae aquatic plants , its margin falling in at some parts , and ill-defined ftt all ; the grass around was strewn with fallen leaves and old rotten branches , the urns dismantled , and the place
altogether bad a ¦ blank , uncared for sort of look that was only redeemed by tbe appearance of tbe central island , crowned with graceful small trees , shooting up from among short clustering bushes . A coloured servant of the bouse passed ua : we accosted him , and he informed us that these monuments were the tombs of Paul and Virginia , personages of whom be could give bo further account On our remarking that a little weeding ! and pruning would wonderfully improve the look of tbe spot , plain and formal as it appeared , fce did not know bow it bad been allowed to run wild he said , but when spring came round , it was the intention of the owner to have \\ properly looked after and planted with flowers . —A Ramble among the Haunts of Paul and Virginia . —Co / burn ' s Magazine .
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London Corn Exchange , Jan . 15—Last week the arrivals or English wheat np to our market were on a very moderate scale ; but those of barley from all parts , were 'unusually large—those of borne grown alone amounted to 12 , 000 qrs . Of malt , beans , peas , and of flour , the supplies were scanty . Fresh np from Essex , Kent , and Suffolk , the supplies of wheat were very small , and , comparatively Bpeaking , somewhat out of condition , arising from tbe late prevailing damp weather . The quantity on show not being equal to the wants of the dealers , who were in good attendance , theldemand for all descriptions of both red and white was active , at an improvement in the currencies obtained on this day ae ' onight of Is per quarter , and ft clearance of the Essex and Kent stands was soon effected : hence very little was left over for Wednesday . There was an increased number of samples of Foreign ! Wheat on show , yet the business doing in that article
was tolerably extensive , and , in some instances , the quotations had an upward tendency , but not sufficiently so to warrant us in making any alterations in our prices . A few speculative purchases were made in wheat under lock , at full currencies . In consequence of the extreme large supply ol Bailey offering , the demand waa much checked ; indeed , it must be called heavy , at an abatement on last week's prices of Is per quarter , and very little progress was made in effective sales . Although tbfc quantity of malt brought forward was small , the inquiry for it was inactive , at rates barely equal to those obtained on Monday last The show of Oat samples was large , and the dealers were by no means anxious buyers . P / ices , however , were about stationary . Beans were very dull , and some of the factors gave way in their demands by Is per quarter . In peas very little was doing . The Flour trade was steady at late figures .
London Smithfield Cattle Market , Mosrdat , Jan . 15 th . —Although our market exhibited rather an extensive supply of Beasts as to numbers , % very great deficiency as to quality was observed in it , especially as relates to that portion of it derived from onr northern grazing districts . The attendance of buyers was tolerably numerous , and , notwithstanding the weather , was favourable to slaughtering , the Beef trade was inactive . However , the primest Scots , DevonB , tunts , and Herefords , found buyers , at prices about equal to those obtained on this day se ' nnight , tbe highest quotation ruling at 4 s 2 d per 81 bs , but tbe value of all other kinds bad a downward tendency ; still a fair clearance was effected previously te the conclusion of business . From Lincolnshire , Leicestershire ,
and Northamptonshire , we received about 2 , 300 short horas ; from Yorkshire—principally by railway—120 beasts ; from tbe Western and Midland countits , 200 runts , Hereford ! , Durhams , Irish beasts , &c ; from other parts of England 190 of various kinds ; from Scotland , by a steamer , 120 horned and polled Scots ; and from Ireland 50 beasts . A considerable increase was apparent in the supply of Sbeep , which produced some heaviness in tbe trade , and tbe rates in consequence suffered an abatement of 2 d per 8 lba ; the value of the best old Downs , whicb were rather more numerous tban of late , not exceeding is 4 d per Blba In calves , tbe number of which was scanty , only a
moderate buiines was transacted , yet tbe currencies were firmly supported . For Pigs we have to report a firm demand , at prices fully equal to those of last week . We are glad to be enabled to observe that very few cases of the prevailing epidemic were observed in either beasts or sheep to-day . Since our last no imports of lire stock have taken place from abroad , neither are any expected for this market The state of tbe demand today completely disappointed tbe expectation of the salesman and others ; but the cauie of the depression must be principally attributed to the immense arrivals of country-killed meat up to Newgate and Leadenhallmarkets ; and so long as they continue so extensive , so
long will the trade here rule heavy . Borough and Sfitalfields . —About 2 , 850 tons of potatoes have arrived in the Pool since this day se ' nnight , mostly from Scotland , Yorkshire , and the Channel Islands . Prime qualities are in request at foil prices ; bat in other kinds exceedingly little is doing . Borough Hop Market . —We bave now a much smaller quantity of hops on offer than has been the case at many previous corresponding periods of the year . This , together with most of the large brewers being short of stock , causes the demand to rule active , and the prices to have an upward tendency . The quotations of new bops are as under : —Weald of Kent pockets , £ 6 2 s to £ 6 14 s ; Mid Kent ditto , £ 6 12 s to £ 9 10 s ; East Kent , £ 6 15 s to £ »; ditto choice , £ 10 to £ 11 lls ; Sussex , £ 6 to £ 6 Ida ; Farnbam ' s , £ 8-I 5 a to £ 11 15 s ; Mid Kent bags . £ 6 15 s to £ 8 10 a .
Wool Market . —About 1 , 200 . packages of wool have-arrived in tbe port of London in the past week , chiefly from our colonies . No public Bales bave been yet declared , still tbe demand by private contract is steady , and prices in some instances have an upward tendency . Tallow . —There is no new- feature in this market worth notice ; tbe delivery ia the past week having ; been small , a farther decline has taken place in prices . Town Tallow is rather more sought after , and the price is firm , at 41 a 6 d to 42 s net cash . Liverpool Cattle Market , Mon » at , Jan . 15—We have bad a smaller supply of Cattle at market today tban last week , with prices much about the same * Heef 4 id to 5 id , Mnttoa 4 fd te 6 fd per lb . Jah 15
L . IVEBP 00 L Corn Market , Monday ,, . . — With the exception of 11 , 686 loads cf Oatmeal from Iri » . land , the imports of Grain , Ac . for the past week are of small amount . The advance of id . to 2 d . per bushel noted in prices of Wheat on Tuesday last , bas been followed by a modasate demand only , bat holder * laftfe remained firm , and that Imprawment baa been quite maintained . FU >« r muatalse be quoted Is . per sack dearer , but the sale has latterly been ratker less free tban at the dose of last week . Two or three cargoes of Oats have found buyers , and choice qualities , being in small supply , bave bought rather more money ; a few prime Irish mealing have sold at 2 s . 7 d . per 451 bs . A fair quantity of Oatmeal has been taken to bold over , at 20 s . 9 d . to 21 s . per load . Malting Barley bas commanded fully previous rates ; English bom 34 s . to 37 s . 6 d . per imperial quarter ; Irish , 4 s . 8 d . to 4 s . 10 d . pet 60 lbs . ; grinding qualities of the latter 4 s . to 4 a . 3 d . per 601 bs . Beans and Peas bave gone off slowly , ana have barely mpportod the prices of tart week .
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THE BEACON , This is a weekly publication , intended to contain " a summary of the best arguments for the settlement of all the disputed questions in morals and religion . " If the writers in this publication can succeed in settling the " vexed question" of religion , they will prove themselves to be very extraordinary persons . But , " better rnb than rust : " so let the lights of the Beacon blaze away .
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THE CRISPIN , « Monthly Journal devoted to the advocacy of Trade Societies . Contains some good articles , but is most shockingly printed ; Crispin must mend his outward man if he would live and prosper .
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THE PROVIDENT PHILANTHROPIST . This is another stamped paper , apparently one of the fruits of the recent discussions on metropolitan miser ; , and devoted to the furtherance of plans for its amelioration .
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THE MUNICIPAL AND POOR LAW GAZETIE . This is a stamped paper , edited by the well-known Mr . Aloti ^ late Assistant Poor Law Commissiotier . It contains a vast amount of valuable information which should be known to all who take an interest in public affairs .
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PUNCH'S ALMANACK . u Laugh and grow fat , " says the proverb ; the truth of which we . are in a fair way of testing ; for certainly we have bad to hold our sides , not once but a score of times , in looking through the pages of Punch ' s Almanack . We give a few of his jokes taken at random : but no selection we could make could give onr readers an idea of the original fun , seeing that along with the letter-press we cannot transfer its accoibpaniament , the rib-splitting illustrations of our mirth » provoking friend . Here are the extracts : —
Janeaby—2 . E . Burke b . 1730 . Who , like Gunter the confectioner , Gave up to parties what was meant for mankind . " 5 . Duke of York d . 1827- To commemorate tbe credit he had with his countrymen , a column is run up , which ends with a heavy figure- 22 . Lord Byron b . 17 S 8 . Thorwaldsen cuts him , and the Dean and Chapter of Westminster shut their doors against him . Febbuart . —14 . Final settlement of the Sulphur Question , 1842 . Of little good te the United Kingdom , SceUand having so much of tbe article on its hands . 15 . Clay , the American Minister , proposes & project foi raising a Revenue , 1842 . which ends in Sydney Smith " smoking" the aforesaid " clay , " 1843 .
March . —14 . Forty Shillings Bounty offered to all Abie-Bodied Seamen to enter tbe Navy , 1755 . Firstrate accommodation for Boarders . N . B . A Cat kept 23 . Social economy : for those gentlemen who are lovers of tbe Virginian weed in its native purity , we publish tbe following list of prices furnished us by one of the first Spanish houses : —A choice high-dried dock-leaf Regalia , 4 d . ; a fine old cabbage Cuba , 3 d . ; a genuine Woodville goss-lettuce Havannah , 4 d . ; a full-flavoured brown-paper Government Manilla , 3 d . ; a real Bengal Bruasel » - ? prout Cheroot , l £ d . Several hundred-weight of very rare Minories bave rrcently been raised to tbe title of the " Duke of Sussex ' s Cigars . " They require very few puffs to make good judges smoke them .
A pbil—Aphorisms : see tbe flowers are coming ont It is morn : you blushing ro ^ e : —but nol We bad a comparison to make : —tbe thought is madness . Beauty , to the individual of small income , is like ths pastrycook ' s shop to the scbool-boy . —Domestic Economy ; after arranging with a servant to live on board wages , to be sure to drown your cat—Horse Duties : It is tbe duty of a hired hone to go till he drops , upon emergencies ; but in oidinary cases , to be hired for Rich , mond , and driven on to Hampton-court , Mat . —1 . Roebuck gets a Bilk gown , 1843 ; Brougham having considered him , in bis former attire , a yard and a-balf of very bad stuff . 16 . An Earthquake prophesied to destroy all London on this day , 1842 . But thinks better of it—not being able to swallow tbe Morning Post . 22 . Mr . Chisholm assaulted by mistake for Gregory , the " Sotyrist , " 1843 . Unhappily , tbe errors of the press were not properly corrected .
Jure . —8 . Mr . Cottingham , the Union-hall magistrate , declares ha will not punish any man , except for felony , who fought at Waterloo , 1843 . Blind justice throws away her balance , and sticks to tbe sword . 25 . Proclamation for the Issue of Half Farthings , 1842 —to enable benevolent-minded Scotchmen to give away something . 26 . A new French Tariff is imposed , which virtually prohibits the admission of English linen , 1842 . The French having had enough of oar towelling . Sentiment for the 18 th : The Heroes of Waterloo ; and may the medal which adorns the breast of valour never be pledged fov less than its worth ! July . —19 . A boy , for accidentally destroying a leveret , ia Hogged by order of Lord Hardwicke , 1842 . The noblr , and gallant lord being deprived of a leveret , regales liimself with a eat
On Vhe 23 rd , in the year 1756 , the King sent a message to Parliament informing them that the French int ^ ded to invade England ; and that , being desirous the French should not pat their foot in it , be had ordered about 6 , 000 Hessians to be waiting on the shore . Ihe object of the French was to obtain booty ,
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ENGLISH REPUDIATIONS . The newspapers , American and English , h&ve indulged in much recrimination , as to the non-payment ot debts , and appropriation of property , occurring in tbe history of tbe two notiens . The Americans did not seem to know some facts , nnd the English prints bave taken care not to acknowledge them . The Americans quote our conduct to tbe Jews ; for many years they supplied the necessities of the nation , till , having no mere to satisfy the public rapacity , they were put to death , and forbidden tbe country . Tbe nest great and general confiscation of property occurred at the Reformation , when the church was divided between the
king and the nobles . Bat , under Edward III , occurred the refusal to pay a foreign debt , when several of the principal mercantile houses at Florence failed , in consequence cf tbe non-payment of sums lent to the English king . Henry VII . twice borrowed money from his subjects , and was exonerated by Parliament from pay-Ing . But the great fact of national bankruptcy , established nnder Charles II ., and legalized by William III ., and Queen Anne , may be said still to attach to us . I copy tbe following account of tbe whole transaction from p . 685 , vol . ii of tbe Pictorial History of England . "At tbe revolution , ( 1638 , ) with the exception of about £ 580 000 of arrears dae to the army , and £ 60 , 000 to the late king ' s servants , to meet both of which charges ,
there was money sufficient in the exchequer , and in the hands of the receiver of taxes , the only debt due by the state was the sum of £ 1 , 328 , 526 whicb had been seized by Charles II . on shutting np the exchequer in 1672 . Interest bad been originally paid npon this snm at the rate of 5 per cent ., but bad been discontinued in tbe last year of Charles ' s reign ; from which date , to tbe discredit of the government of William , as well as of that of JamesII ., no provision was made for the just claims of the persons from whom this money bad been taken , till tbe year 1700 , ( the last of William ' s reign . ) when tbe hereditary excise was charged with interest npon the whole , from the year 1705 , ( Queen Ann ' s reign ) at tbe rate of 3 per cent and the principal was
made redeemable on the payment of half Its amount , or £ 664 . 263 . The unfortunate bankers and merchants , therefore , to whom this money properly belonged , after it had been borrowed from them , in tbe first instance , without their consent , and then detained from them without any interest being paid upon it for above twenty years , during whicb space it would , at the then customary rate of interest , have accumulated three times its original amount , were now further mulcted or robbed of one half of tbe sum which bad hitherto been admitted to be legally dne to them . In fact , the entire amount to which they were plundered by this arrangement ,
conderably exceeded three millions sterling . King Charles ' s shutting of the exchequer has been deservedly reprobated ; bnt the injustice and hardship of that measure , which consisted simply in forcing a lean from the subject , for which , however , the ordinary rate of Interest was paid , were not to be compared to this winding up and conclusion of tbe affair by the government of King William . The £ 664 , 2 «? thus ultimately awarded in satisfaction of equitable claims to * ix times the amount , was called the bankers' debt , and still remains undischarged , althoughlong ago incorporated with other public debts'in that vast pile , of which it may in a manner be regarded as the foundation stone . *' Hume assigns as a reason for the parliament of Henry the Tintb not paying the king ' s debts , that they did
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Publications Received . —* ' Plummet on the Corn Luws ";— " The Letters , < £ c ., of James P . Greaves . "
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