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    • MADAME D'AiRUSMONT.
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      THE FATE OF THE OAK . Tie owl io her mite is calling ; The xiTer feis hoarse sovg . s : BgB ; But the Oak Is marked Icr f aDiDf , _ That baa stood for s hundred springs . Hark- ' —a blow , and a call sound fslloW 3 ; A second , —be bows his head ; A third , —and the ¦ wood ' s dark hollows Now know that their king is dead . His anna from their * runk are riven ; His body all barked and squared ; And he's now , like a feloD . driven In chains to the strong Jock-yard : He's sawn through the middle , and turned Fortheribscf afrigtW frfcs ; And he * caulked , ano pitched , and burned ; AEd jj otf— bpisStforseai 01 bow;—with his wings outspread Jjieagboft ( U a chostmay be ) , Bewilltrinjnpb again , though dead , And be dreaded in every tea : The lightning win bkza about , A » d wrap him in finning pride ; And the tbnnderfoud cannon will shout , In the fight , from hi * bold broad-side . And when he has fought , aad won , And been hoBonred from shore to shore , And his journey on earth is done , — Wiy , what can he ask for more ? There is nought that aiii-g can claim , - > Ora poet or warrier bold , Save a rhyme and a short-lived name , And to mix with the common mould ! Sorry CoriacalL

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      A YANKEE SOXG . THE WOJtKIS ' - MEITS XEiGU £ . Tiaie— " V :: Dan Tucker . " Come all yon who are fond of singing , Let ss bs : a song a ringing ; Bonnd the chorus , strong and hearty ; And well make a jovial party . Get out of the way yon speculators , You shall no longer be -dictators . Some love Herds and speculation , SomB with JJaaJs would £ 11 the nation ; In a lump we'll class theee criiturs , And -We'll call themsDeculators .

      Get out of the way , is . He 'who lives by labour only , Ne ' er shall find his fireside lonely ; But his home a happy place is , Blest with cheerful milling faces . Get out of the way , ie . Interest strals a man ' s good feelings , Be'B a rogue in all his dealings ; Smirks and smiles until he ' s found yon , Then , O , crackey J bow he ' s bound you . Get out of the way , * c . All who "wish for homes to bless them , All who wish the girls to kiss them , Hsik 1 while Eobemess iao ' er us , Here's a song , and this the chorus . Get out of the way , &&

      Once we used to beg io labour , Tien to toll was thought a favour ; Well have a home all smiling , snnny , Tvitbcat price and withont money . Get out of the way , Ac . Time was once when honest workers . "Were pnt upon a par with porkers s * Bat now a new reform ' s beginning ; Ssiliag land is uo-s * a sinning . Get ont of the way , is . See the Agrarian Ball a rolling , Hark J Msb knell of Avarice tolling ! Roll the ball to ev * ry station . In our own great Yankee nation . Posh slcng and ietp it moving , The People ' s Cause ia still improving

      Sst&n saw" his trade was failing , Heard do more the orphan ' s wailing ; Sent hi * imps abont ub yelling , " Don't stop ; don ' t Blop ; but keep on selling !* Grt out of the way you oifl load Seller , You ' re a loafing , craf ; y feller . True you once did pries demand . For'what -was Nature ' s gift , ihe Land ; Boast yGu may that yea have ccne it , KefarnTs on feet , and you cant come it : Get ont of the way , though you have done it , Bcform ' s the word , sudden cant come it .

      Monopolists now just be a thiskug , 2 fo mor 8 atanch great wrong be winking ¦ Come on -and own that yon ' re misizien , Sign the Pledge , and save your bacon . Push it along and keep it moving , The People ' s Cause is still improving . * " Swinish multitude , "

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      THE EXILE'S ADIEU . fTfce following lines are from the pen of the immortal 34 uir , orHnniershill , two niDes north ef Glasgow . They Tr ere addressed to a friecfi a few days before his departsrefor y = w South "Walts under BeLUnce of banishment for fourteen years . The principal charge against him was that he had possessed and circulated » copy of Paine : * " Bights of Man . " As anything with which the name cf Hnir is ass&cisted mutt be read with interest by all lovers of ireedoui , I am satisfied it will >» ot be necessary for me to n-qnest the favour of its Insertion in the People's paper ] "On board the Surprise , transport , PortsmontlvMarch 12 th , 179 J .

      This gift *—this little gift , with heart sincere , An exile , wafud from his iiBtive land , To friendship tried , beqneath'd with many a tear , "Whilst the dire bark lingers on ths . strand . These Borrows stream from no ignoble cause , I weep not o ' er my own peculiar "wrong ; Say when approving conscience yields applause , Should private sorrow claim the votive song J Bat , sh ! I Eejfc the rolling cloud from far Collect the daikning horrors of the storm ; And lo . ' I see the frantic iiend of war , With civil bl » od the civil field deform .

      Boll on , ye years of grief , your fated course : Boll on , ye years of tgony—of blood ; But , OI of civil rage when dried the soaTCe , From partial evil spring up general good . Alas J my JIofEit , from the dismal shore Of cheerless exDe when I slow return ; "What aoivrau ruins must I then deplore , What awful desolation shall I mourn . Paternal mansion , monldeiingin decay , ¦}• The close-barred gate may give no welcome kind ; Another lord , as lingering in delay , Msy hurriedly cry * another mansion find . ' And , 01 my Jloffat , whither shall I roxm ; F ^ ow , flow , ye tears ; perhaps the fnneralbier ; Ufa , fl-jnrish hope ; from thee I ask a heme , Thy gtistle bind shall wipe an exHe ' stear . Yes ; we shall weep o ' er each lamented grave ,

      Of those ~ who joined us in stern freedom ' s cause ; Anuss the moistecfd turf our tears shall lave , These tears shall Freedom honour wi * h applause . 1 soon shall join the dim aerial baDd , Tti » EtrsaBi of life has little time to flow ; O ! if my dying eyes thy soothing hand Should close—enough— 'tis all 1 ask below . This little idle , Mofiat , I bequeath , While life lemair-s of friendship just and pure ; This little pledge of love , rarvmng death , Friendship Immortal , and reunion sure . Thomas Muir .

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      • The " gift" here spoken of -was s gold watch and appendages . * T There forebodings , respecting his family affairs , had it bfctnhisiot to bsse returned to Scotland , be would tare found but too fatally verified .

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      IBE ILLUMINATED MAGAZIN £ .-JrLT . This popular and talented Magazine , S 3 it progresses in age , becomes more and more interesting , xhe rmnber beic-re us is crammed with articles not onlj abij -Rriiien , but the great majority have for ihtir aim and end the dtrtlovmeiii of some fpceat truth , oi ihe adTancement of some great prin- 1 « ple . Tyracts and their sycophants are satirized ; and Ecouiged ; the tricks of profit-mongers are ex- ; posed &ad " shovfn up "; the advancement of the ; Biases in mental strength and mora \ pow . er isi « ailantly aided ; the Tites of individuals , and the \ Giaies of ioeiety in the aggregateare both nnspa- i

      , iing ] j denounced : add io all these ibe bright crea-1 tions of fieiion , romance , and poetry , the whole J ulasirated by the "pencils of eminent artists , and -we ; « aye in this Magazine a- pubiicavicn interior to none j * f itsdaEs , and superior w E » ny . i " WegavsinonriasS " Tie Visit of tbe Cham of | AnoBtland to the jEOngdcm of &rloin . J > This , as our x » d £ TB QJ £ iit guess , was from the pen of the Editor , j ^ d ext racted from his faned ^ Chronicles « f Glorer- \ a » k , " We know ofno member of the London « i * rai » , i tBlessr indeed % e except Chules Dicke&s and L « gh j ¦ neat , who ha « dona ae much towardi f&uios the

      ¦ i * 8 Sd « , aBj ( ih 6 ating down th « old ijrteau of fraud and j {• ^ ii Donglas Jtrrold . In » bb rcepeeia J errol d i rZe doae vore . than even- Dickens ; ior he lias j dared to £ r * pp ls with frauds and Trrongs that tbe ] 3 » en of Dickens never essayed to touch : witness hisj iniiniiable satire Igiten in onr last ) upon the whole- i salemisexeant Nicholas and the btastly sycophants —the liiled scum , who paid their adoration to ttat TrorEc than Mexican gcii who lately polluted thiBiEle with has levpltipK presence . . " Witness , too , his ; ^ abonrs in that scourge of bumbcgB and Econndrels -r-Fwwh . Those Labours are nos nnheeded— notj « xet ? arded . Hjcngb neiihef Jaoiel wreath , nor j

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      irmmpaal arch be awarded him , yet has he his guerdon in the gratitude of tee thinking and tbe hopeful—the workers in the cause of mankind ' s progression ; while the future will assuredly proclaim his bnght reward . " He 7 uu deserved veil of his country . " One of the best articles in the present number , next to the contribution of the Editor , is a paper by John SannderB , entitled " Jllnstrations of a Literary Life of the Last Century , " the subject being poor but proud—persecuted , but ever glorious—the young , loTeable , murdeftd , but immortal Chatterton :

      " The dauntlees boy who perish'd in his pride . " The man who can read this sad , this melancholy this , to society , disfcracefal history , of the manner in which poor Ghatterton ' s compeers hunted him through his short , —alas , how brief existence!—drove him to despair and doomed him to a suicide's grave J—snapped the thread of his existence at the age of seventeen , and for erer Wasied , quenched , and destroyed that mighty spirit ; the man who can read this history unmoved , is not to be envied for his stoicism . He whose heart ~ 6 hall not swell with fierce and deadly indignation , hiB brain not thiob , and hiB eyeB gnsh liquid fire , rather than woman ' s tears , at reading this mournful tale is unworthy of the name of man , and beyond the pale of humanity ' s sympathies .

      We cannot thia week afford room for any very lengthy extracts , and it would be an injustice to Ibe writer and not the less unsatisfactory to our readers to select any one or two paragraphs from this excellent article . We therefore abstain from quotations for the present , promising our leaders to return to it , if possible , in a future Dumber of this paper , 14 Tbe Coffee Houses of London , " from the pen of Angus B . Reach , we wqnld gladly transfer to onr columns whole and entire could we afford room . As it is we must content ourselves with the following extracts ;—

      The whole place has an air of stillness and repose , yet perhaps a hundred people are seated in the diffetent boxes , conning over books and newspapers , and sipping their coffee at the Bame time . Orders are given in as different a tone , from the loud bullyiug demand you hear in the public-house , as is tbe quiet , modest appearance of the damsel who executes them from the flannting air of tbe ringleted , flasby young lady who stands behind the bar in a gin-palace . There is no quarrelling , no scuffling , no demaeds for the

      police . There is indeed little conversation further thsn an occasional—•* Tbe Times after you , if you please , Sir , " " When you ' ve done with that magtz ne , IT 1 trouble you , " passing from one box to another . Everybody is civil to his r . eighbour ; and yet the company is matle up of a class wno , were they at a public house instead of a coffee-houBe , in all probability , would be brawlii-g and bullying , or deeply immersed in such edifying discussions as to what four-legged brute is to win the next Deriy , or what two-legged brute iB . to win Ihe next prze-fight .

      Ton see at a glance that tbe majority of the guests are working men : fustian jackets are plentiful ; and here and there you see laid on the bench , tbe straw basktt containing the tools of their avocations . There are no " sporting characters" evidently ; no " gents , " with cnt-a-way Newmaifeet coats , and slang conversation . They would be above going to such places , of course . Snch atmospheres are not favourable for the sparkle of Lowthtr Arcade jewellery . But there are respectable men ; hard-working and JoDg-beaded fellows , -who think while tbty hammer , and read when the hammering is over ; who have an opinion of their own , and can express it ; who can feel deeply , as well as thikk clearly , and who bring a homely philosophy to the forge and the loom . We love to see h&rd horny hands—not -very white perchance , or Byronic in their formation— turn over the leaves of books and

      newspapers ; and eyes , although heavy with the labours of the day , Sight up as they pore over their contents : Tbe working man , at least in towns , is becoming more and more a reading man . Be has his political faith , an a he « a& give a reason for the faith that iB in him . Ihe times are passing away when senators said " Whit have low fellows , vulgar mechanics , to do with the laws , bnt to obey them ? " Cheap schools , cheap publications , cheap lectures , and last , not least , cheap coffee and reading rooms , have worked wonders , and will work still more .

      We doDt tnank tbe writer for his "lugging in " the name of Byron when there was need for it . His sneer at the puppifs ' * about town" we by do means disapprove of . But what the name of Byron can hare to do with the formation of the bands of idlers and sots , no matter how *' white" they maybe , is not very ciear to us . Byron's hand was not that of an id ? er or a brute ; that hand was ever employed in penning down immortal thoughts clad in the subiimesJ poesy , or stretched forth day by day to succour the oppressed and relieve tbe needy . The poor

      knew , whatever vile calumniators may assert to the contrary , that -wherever he trod , blessed charity and loving benevolence attended him upon his path , and that he wag not the vain , frivolous , selfish sensualist that his puny , mean-spirited detractors have represented . We care nothing for " Byronic hands ; " but we care much for Byronic Tieads which we can assure Angus B . Reach are fixed on Ihe shoulders of thousand ? of theipossessors of " hard-horny hands " impelling them to " War

      With all , who war with thought . " And that , as this writer shows , the Lendon Coffee Houses have been to a great extent instrumental in producing this now wide-spreading class In the metropolis . Look at tbe number of publications spread about in lavish confusien in our ideal coffee-house . There are imaginative works , critical "works , political and philosophical works : newspapers fly abont like antoron Jeaves , and like them they enrich the soil on which they are cast . Here we have them of all shades of politics

      indeed , urging all manner of social theories , differing from each other in almost every respect but in the most important respect—that of conveying knowledge under different shapes thty all do that . Toe reviews and magazines are sow a foimiciable host ; embracing matter to suit every taste ; enriched , as we have seen them , with some of tbe most brilliant essays , and the most rare fictions in the language . Here you have them all . Almost every sheet which issues from tbe metro politan periodical pteES you find in the coffee-bouse ; a- d for reading thtm { and you may read from morning until night , if you please ) yen pay—nothing !

      Well , you have your coffee ; you are in a warm , comfortable , well-lighted room ; a library is at your beck and bid ding ; newspapersaud periodicals , nativtand foreijTD , are contesting each other's claims to your notice . You may tit as long &s you like , and one or two pence is all the recompense demanded ! Why at home you would pay double the amount for one night ' s reading , of one book or periodical , frtm the circulating library . Here is knowledge , literary instruction , refined IntellectcaliEing pleasure , brought within the reach of all who love its teaching . For what a man pay * for s glass of gin , or a pint of porter at tbe publio house , be can > ave a more wholesome draught , a more comfortable place to enjoy it in , and a mental banquet , if he chooses , into the bargain .

      ' Tbess establishments , too , are of quite modern growth , and they have opened up a new and extensive trade . Twenty-five years ego there were not above ten or twelve ceffee-beuses in Londos , —tbat i > , bouses devoted exclusively to tbe sale of tea and coffee . Now , there are upwards of two thousand ; and ior several years back the rate of increase has been about * -ne hundred per annum . Twenty-five years ago , you could not get a cup of coffee , to say nothing of contingent Brtvantsges , under the charge of a sixpenc * . Now , ceffeenet of course very exquisitely flwoured , bnt still very drinkable—can be had from three-halfpence to threepence per enp ! Thwe are many coffee-boutea in Xondon charging these low rates , which are visited by 700 or EDO people a day , at &n average ; and in tbe vicinity ef the Haymarket , there is an establishment of to

      the kind ^ hich entertains people daily ; the charge there is three-halfpence per ccp tor ceffee ; tea is somewhat dearer j fcrtj-thr « e papers are taken in daily , seven country papers , six foreign psp « rs , twenty-four magazines per month , four quarterly reviews , and eleven weekly periodicals . Altogether about £ 4 oe a yearns expended in periodicals , wbicb are Circulated , be it remembered , generally among a class , who , if they bad not opportunities of reading them at tbe exceeding cheap rates at which they are furnished there , and in similar establishments , wonld probably never see them at tXl Besides the psriodicals , also , there is a tolerably extensive library provided , and this important auxiliary to the light forces ef tbe newspapers and magcz ' Jies is becoming more and more general

      Without the cheap lectures , the mechanics' institutes , the libraries , the scientific galleries , the coffee and reading ? ovtns , obb cod hardly imagine the toiling operative in possession of any knowledge above that of his handicraft . But the aristocracy of literatnre and science is destroyed . Knowledge is abroad over tbe world . It no longer sits enthroned in gilded saloons , apart from vulgar g&za . It is in tbe cottage , in tbe manufactory , shedding bright moral gleams over the dwellers in crowded smoky streets and alleys . It is brought within the reach of all ; and , although dandies may turn up theirjiosea at tho vulgarity of the cheap coffee-house , or philosophic pedants Enter at what they consider the quackery of tho cheap Bcien > tine gallery , both the one -and the other are doing Sieir good -work—fostering taste—encouraging ana dhecBog energy—sowing seed * -wbacb Will one day spring op in rich harvests .

      The Mime writer contributes another paper entitled " The Last Honr of a Suicide . " The subject ia the eft-repeated theme of man ' s villainy and woman ' s destruction . The tale » powerfully told , and cannot fail to excite feelings of the most intense interest and pity in the mind of the reader . "¦ The Tieket Plagme ; or the War of the Prices , *' nobly exposes that , gigantic -e , r& the unscrupulous competition of the profitocrao ' j with each other , producing as Ub natural con £ eq jenees frauds and bankruptcies with that order . . ^' " and unceasing toil and semi-starvation as the "lo '» of thfc wealth-producers . The " outward and ¦• VjsibJe Eign" of this monstrons competition is the nr ujrivereS system oi ticketing goeds selling ** nn ^ er pume cosi I" and at an " immenBe sacrifice J ' "We can sffbrd room for Tery little in the w- ^ j cf extract , bot give the following ;

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      Of the various effects which have sprung out of this great and grlevcns change , no adequate description can be given within a short compass ; but a few sketchy details mBy be here attempt « d , If sellers are to live , profits must ke had ; but , amidst the decline and fall of prices , when- men are fighting one another with figures , how are profits to be maintained f They are not maintained—they are miserably abridged—and , to prevent tbeir downright annihilation , mnth ingenuity and many expedients are rendered indispensable . Articles expressly suited to the game of reduction mnst be got up . Goods must cease to be good , lest prices should cease to pay . As tee money scale graduates oownwnrds , so the shades « f quality must descend , through erery degree of deterioration , through every step of

      inferiority . As nobody is attracted , however , by things which are at once bad and bad-lookiug , there arises a further necessity , that which calls forth all the arta of seeming into active operation . It ofttn happens that men , in order to go on . mnst seein virtuous : in like manner , articles to go iff , must seem good . A pleasing exterior , a sp » cious appearance , is on no account to be wanting , how JMle soever the flittering promise may be confirmed by tbe sequel . As a natural consequence of thia system , we have bats that make us ashamed of their company after the first shower—sbo&s that gape , long before they have had mcch exetciae—coats that part with their buttons as easily as a gentleman dis ^ misses a slight acquaintance—and watches that do bo ge , as never to deviate into time . In articles of luxury , as well as in those professing utility , tbe same kind of itsae takes place . Yon are a luxurious man , for instance , wiih a shallow pocket;—it is a cold , clear gay , and you fancy a cigar . Your eye is caught

      by a smart , florid-looking * bop , where many elegant convolutions of tbe fragrant weed are displayed in compact bundles , each surmounted by a pink ticket , of very curious scissor-ship . The prices inaTked are of « xeniplary moderation ; and yeur choice , partly determined by tbe state of your finances , falls on a lot quoted as low as sixpeDCt-balfp&Tiny a dczen . The name they bear is one which , you never her . rd of before , but it reads well" on the ticket , and the cigars , though rather small , have a nice glossy smoothness , and are well barrelled out towards the middle ; and , in short , you buy & dtzen . Arrived at home—for you scern to smoke in the streets—you proceed to make trial of your bargain . Ignition is accomplished—you sat your lips to work— " a strange invisible odour bits the sense ' —an odout coarse , acrid , and totally unlike that of any cigar yon ever nosed in lobby , saloon , steamboat , or elsewhere . With a wry face , and a resolution to know the wont , you cut the thing open , and unravel its interior . Of what does it consiBt ? It is not

      tobacco—it is not dock leaf—it is not cabbage—no , it is coloured paper—and you , th « purchaser , are " done brown . " The most injurious , oppressive , and deplorable of the results connected with this mistaken system remains to bs touched v . pon . I allude to the way in which it affects the interests and condition of those beings on whose labour and iuoustiy tbe transactions of trade are based . While the race of rivalry is stripping tbe shopkeeper of bis profits , it is tak'ng the bread away from tbe month ot tbe mechanic , Tha former , with that self-preference to which he is subject in common with all mankind , is somewhat more solicitous to retain bis own profits than to uphold his workman ' s wages ; and whin he finds that both must give w .: y , he insists , with a determination , alas ! but too natural , that wages should take tbe precedence in the descent

      of tbe scale . To what depths of misery and degradation that descent has by this time brought the journeyman and art'Zin of every denomination , needs only to be hinted at , since the sad details are a part of men's daily reading and discourse . In most cases , the current rates of payment are such as to move surprise and pity ai their inadequacy to the living wants of the unhappy beings who csn tut submit to them ; while the sufferings of the overwrought und spirit-broken women have an affecting prominence in tbe claims on our sympathy . To the miseries of the poor sbirtmakers tbe press has lent a voice that has pervaded universal England—and that voice must have found an echo in every heart These , and the whole train of similar calamities , tbnngh doubtless not produced without a variety of concurrent causes , owe much of their aggravation to the senrce which I have been endeavouring briefly to xamine and expose .

      The whole article is written in the best spirit and will well repay perusal . Mrs . Postans contributes an amusing chapter on 1 Z > ological Gardens , or , at Home and Abroad . " " The Adventures of a Scamp , " promise amusement . * Miss Pardoe contributes "A Fairy Fancy , in various Flights /' Several Poetic pieces grace the present No ., the best of which are "The Advent of S ; eam , " and % v The Autocrat ; " for neither of which , however , can we find room thi 3 week .

      We earnestly commend this Magazine to the support of all classes of society ; but particularly wo recommend it to the working millions . If the hard working thinkers who mainly frequent the two thousand coffee-houses of London were to insist that wherever ibis Magazine is not " taken in" that it should be—and they have only to &sk for it , and the proprietors of those places will at once cater to the tastes of their patrons : were this done , the Illuminated Magazine would immediately command that extensive circulation , its merits so Justly entitle it to .

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      From the mov * amusing article in the No ., entitled , " What is a Gangsman 1 " wa giva the following extract , showing how a gentlemaa may be manufactured : — There was in our University , &mocg the graduates of a certain year which my rheumatic bones quail to remember , a youth from the West , who had a thousand pounds in mon » y , and the world all before him . The learned professions were open to him ; . but he aspired not to distinction through the tugged an ^ uncertain paths of law , physic , or divinity . He did not want to expend hfs ready cash in dinners to attorneys , or in

      setting himself up as a country curate . Nature bad given him an athletic frame , a florid complexion , and a pair of flae blue eyes , which a female cousin of his , a Qilway lady , had assured him would be utterly thrown away in this poor country . He feaolved , therefore , as soon w » tbe University bqd set its stamp to his attractions , to tarry them off to a market , where , people can afford to pay for such luxnrieg . Bat before I his departure , having heard much of the sound prac- ' tical wisdom of my good friend , Billy Sheridan , he solicited an ' interview , in order to obtain hia advice ' and instructions upon the best way of setting about the enterprise . I

      The object of the young man , as confessed by himself , was to entrap some English lady of fortune , by his personal agreemens , on which he greatly valued himself ; and , by exaggerated representations of bis affairB and connexions , to lure her into a marriage ; which being accomplished , and her wealth made sure of , she might afterwards find out and be reconciled to the truth of the case , aa it might please God . " The first thing I should recommend , " BaW Billy , " in furtherance of your most laudable purpose , would be a modification of your name . You are called Cody , i think ? » ' ' ¦ ¦ The youth nodded assent "An excellent name ; but Corfft * : would be better ; for then you might be Codex valdr desideratus ; and I advise you seriously to think of it . There is something aristocratic in that termination of a proper name . Omne quod epit in ex—You understand ? " Yes , " answered tbe booby , " I do . "

      •• You do ?" . said Billy to himself " faith and that's more than I do ; but , " resuming his oracular importance , " you are now a Mr . Cody : an Irishman , it is plain by your brogue , and a strapping one , as any one may sea by your legs . But' what Cody 1 ' they will ask : ' which of the Codys is he ? ' Nobody knows . You m ; iy be the heir of Mrs . Cody , who sold lobsters in Buttermilk Lane , for aught the world can tell . " "Lobsters Id nit , man , don't be preposterous . My mother never sold a lobster in her life . " " Well , I ' m not saying she did j though , as Hamlet

      Bays , ' I would she were aa honest a man ? ' But amongst the indiscriminate vulgar of Codys , the tongue of envious malevolence might ascribe you to that branch . Now , what J was going to propose was , that you should endeavour to individualise yourself , by an addition of seme sort Do you know the Lord Lieutenant ? " tefcMgS iSBiifi " Yes , " said the bumpkin , " I attinded his Levee . " " 0 ! that ' 11 do . I suppose , then , he'd have no objections to knight you , before you set out on this adventure . "

      "I ' m afraid he would not doit , " says Cody ; " for when I stopped to tell him my father was a tinant of his , he said , ' Pass on , sir , ' in a voice tbat froEj nit . " " Ah ! no chance there , thon , " said Billy , smothering a laugh ; " but tbere are other ways , though the court may fretza you : frigore ie ferial , aa Horace says . Sappose , now , you should ennoble yourself by a name io combination with the seat of your ancestors , like Grey of Groby , or Coke of Holkbam . By tbe bye , in what name does the seat of your ancestors rejoice ? " fc ^' fjffigS

      " Sate ? " said Cody ; " faith and that ' s euibatrassiBg . My father bad a Bate in tbe Common Council of Limerick , as a member of tbe Guild of Brasbmafcers ; and my uncle sat in the same place for the Cortfwainers ; but , beyond them two , I know of no ansbester , sines I must tell you the whole truth , except an old gentleman tbat had ne ' er a sat * at all , but only a stand , —aa apple-stand at the corner of Baal ' s Bridge . " ' " Humph . " says Billy , " bltto * his lips in a dangerous manner , — " but what is the name of your estate : I think you said you bad an estate in Galway . " "O ! Gil way , —yes , I have a soart of » n estate there , as long as the rent is paid , and the lease holds ; and the ; call it the iloorieen , because it is so fruitful in Bog-mould . " > . . Sfgaggsj ,, s ..

      " Cody of the Moerieen , " quoth Billy , pondering , " That won't < fo . Is there nothing connected with it out of which we could tinker a name for you ? What are its prominent features ?" " Why , 'tis nothing but an old farm-house standing beside a bog , and close by tbo remains of one of these tall , square , roofless , and windowless buildings , which they cad castles in this country . " " And do you call tbat nothing ? Tell me at once , is tbat ruin upon your tenement ? " Yes , without a doubt ; I pay rent for it ; and my cows take shelter on its muddy floor , from tho storms . "

      " My dear friend , " cried Billy , " let me congratulate you . foila unfait accompli . Out of that rain we will build you a name , a fortune , and a wife . Why , what a number » f onr Irish gentry have made themselves a distinctive and . ennobling nomenclature from just such another possession . Let one of those queer old cowhouse edifices—for whatever they were in days of yore , they are now convertible to no other purpose—let one of them stand within a gentleman's bounds , and be has only to build a cottage of two storeys up alongside of it , to make himself a member of the castellated noblesse . Now , < chat is to hinder your sinking the ifoorieen *' " I wish I could , " said Cody , interpreting the words literally , and as Smith of Deanaton might judge , wisely . " I wish I could ; but I fear I should first sink in it myself . "

      " Nay , down with you to the haunches , if your beart be faint . But as you hope to rise by the opinions o ( deluded women , sink it you must , to the antipodes . Perish for ever tbat base Mosotian name , and call your place Castle Cody . " " 0 , bother , man , " said the half-flittered , half-vexed lord of tbe lofty cow-house . " The whole country would laugh at that . " " Welli and what harm will that do you ? I suppose you don ' t want to go a wife-bunting in Gal way or thereabouts . Eh ?" " O , no—decidedly not . "

      " Well , then , let tbe whole country laugh ; though it should be pretty well tired of laughing at such things by this time of day . The novelty is laid asleep long ago , and so , one might expect , is the fun . But yout land lies in England ; and they won't laugb tbere , I promise you , when you present yourself , not as a Mr . Cody from Ireland , but as Cody of Castle Cody . My dear friend , the alliteration of tbat name , with those lega of yours ( in those days men wore tights ) , and that patrician book of your nose , will be worth , more than all the acres of Mooriten , in the province of Connaught "

      " Yes , " said Cody , " I do not doubt but there is much in what you any . At the Tipperary Aesizss , the crier called a juror to the box as Philip Fogarty , of Castle Fogarty , in tbe Barony of Eliogarty ; * and the crowd fell back , as if they would have bucked themselves through tbe very walls of the court , to let the owner of so large a name pass by . I was awestruck myself , when I looked upon Fogarty of Castle Fogarty . " " I'll warrant ye were ; and what will it be in England , where thty know nothing about castles , except euch as W&twick Castle , or tbe like ? Tbe castle , then , is settled .: You are now Cody ot Castle Cody . " Cody nodded complacently , and his-nose became twice as hooked as before .

      " Let us now see , " said Billy , inwardly chuckling to behold tbe whole gudgeon hooked as well as bis nose , "if we cannot do something more for you . What is your name ?" Cody ot Castle Cody . " " Not tbat . I should know that as well as yourself , or even better . But I want the name you go by in the Catechism . " Jertmiah . " « ' Jeremiah . '—Jteremiau Cody t O , by Jupitar Ammon , no go ! Jerry would pull down all tbat Cody could build up ; aye , more—tbe very castle itself would topple on its owner ' s bead . Jorry must positively be buried in the i £ ooriten . " ; "Surely you would not have me give the , lie to my godfathers and godmothers , and take a name . iiiey never gave me ?" " Yes , but I would , though , if it were at all necessary . But I see bo occasion for that at oiesent . You must

      abjure Christian names entirely . Tbat is tbe newest old diatiuclton going . It provea descent froa ^ the ancient Phrygians or Milesians , who possessed tbia- country age » before such a thing aa a Christian name -was known in tbe world . " The fortune-hunter gaped , but could not speak ; -while Biily ran on breast-high , — " The Greeks , the flwt gentlemen in the world , bod no double names . There was Alcibiades , the very glass of fashion and the mould of form ; , nobody thought of putting 7 m , Christian name on the back of a letter thus—• Jeremiah Alcibiades , Esq ., Parthenon Parade *; but he was Aloibiades and Bothing mote . " ¦ " TbAfa true , " said Cody ; and Homer too , -with Agamemnon and Patroclas , and all those nobs , thej all had but a namtt a piece . "

      " No doubt of it You ' re ft classical bom * I t&s . The only prefix any one of them asauraed , was rJae article— i . " ' "Bo ?" ** Yet , tbe definite article ; and I would bar * - 70 a do the Bams . " ¦ " What 1 call my « e « Ho Cody V * Bill / laughtd outright . "No , thou cxasperator of aftcbM , " bo said ; " bnt O'Cody , if you pUase ; and Tfte O'Cody . , nn thou love me . ..- . - ,.. . . ; ¦ ¦ : ' . " The O'Cody P expostulated the aatr miahed castellan " The 0 Cody of Castle Cody ! ' Ah I v . Ow , Mi . Sheridan , none ot your nonsense . " " You may call it aansense , if T / ouwUU" said Billy , with an air of displeasure ; " Im ^ ^ 6 ma tell you , Sit ., that to-be one ' of tbe The ' s , in the present ago , is nest * ^ wtT ~ l

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      to blood-roya ? . If you are a ' The , ' thet « cau ha no othnr gentleiiua of yout nimo but his gentility is rtfljoted from yon . AH the Csdys wiil be emanations from ' The OCody . ' It is . 4 lofty and ancient title , far beyond your Sir Jerrys or Sir Toms ; and , what is no small consideration , it costs nothing . No fees to Sir William Bathatn ; no kissing hands , or bending the knee to arrogant Viceroys . | Waller , of Suffolk-street , will do it all for half-a-criwn . It Is but to order a pack of visiting-cards from him , and in an hour's time you are )

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      " There , * ' he added , rapidly : sketching the thing with a pencil , " there is your patent for you . " " How easy it is to be a great man ! " exclaimed The 0 Cody . I " Quanltda sapienlia myslificatur mundusl" gruntqd Billy . " But more than all , " be continued , ' * you not ; only secure distinction for yourself , by this cheap and easy method , above all other articulate men , you actually confer a title upon your lady also—an unbeught and attractive title , which gives { her precedence in society , j and is recognised even at the court" j "IndeedI" said the wif&itrapper , " that is a moat interesting fact ; pray , explain it . " !

      " Hear me , then , for my cause , " answered Billy . " The wife of a The' is a ^ ' Madame *; end by that name is announced at the drawing-rooms in tbe Castle . The -wife of an 0 , ' without a The , ' is a simple ' Mrs . ' I need not point oat to a man of your discernment What a mighty difference there must be , en fail de consequence , between Madame O'Cody and ploiu Mrs Cody . " And do you really advise me , ' said tbe dishonest oaf , "to unchristen myself ?" " Advise you ? To be sure I do ; and if tbat won't do , I command you . "Tis a pity , however , that you ' re not a Darmody . ' " Why a Darmody ? " i

      " Because , then , we might make a prince of you ' The Prince of KUmaquW is of the Darmodys , and we might borrow his principality ! for a month or two . Thea you could undertake to create the fortunate female 3 Serene Highness ; but' The O'Cody' is very good , with yeur eyes , and that noble proboscis . " For the conclusion of the adventures of l 4 The O'Cody of Castle Cody , " w ; e must refer our readers to the Magazine itself . ;

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      TO THE EDITOR OF TUB MORTHKRM STAR . SIR , —In my last I defined the meaning of Tbeolegy and Religion , botb in the words and ia tbe things signified ; elicited , satisfactorily , as I truat , the difference between them ; exposed { the futility and absurdity of making the former a subject of human study , and suggested the danger to individual rectitude of associating it with the law of righti and wrong ia the human mind , and tbe utter ruin to all tbe dearest interests of tbe human race—uay , evwii to the great scheme of human improvement itself , involved in . tbe blending together of its dreams and fictions , Its delusive hopes and terrors , its deatoraliziag ! threats and promises to take effect in a remot * unearthly and inconceivable future , with . the solemn obligations contracted in society between man and man , with the pure devotion ow « d by each individual- to the specieB , and with all the other glorious inspiration * of civiliaing and humanizing Religion . j _ .. .

      Betig&i I tie . And Boligion alona has . tied—accord-1 ing to the state of progress of human thought and : human practise , on various spots , of tho globe , and at J various epochs ot time * Religion , alona has tied tb » . slave to hia master , tho subject to t > i& ting , the cltizeaj to h » brother citizen , the patriot to liberty ; and evaa j under tbe most erronwms systams of government aad j defective forms of « ivUizjtioni alj classes of society aad j sec&s of opinion to * fce ark 0 * public safety , and tihe altar of a common country anjd a . cosamon cause I Rtligo , 1 tie . Aad Religion , she , and sh * alone , has tied man to woman , woman ia man , men to each other , south to age , age ta youth , the human mind to Bsuth , she human soul tchonour and to virtue , tbe civilised world together , vath the bonds of common interest ; human brotherhood and toe isstinctive belief in an ever improving Situ ** , aanoW preparing , andaayet to be prepared upoa this eaath . iby ever Improving genera ^ bions of our rac 3 . i

      Religo , I tie . And woe- ba to the hand which rasMj seeks to sever those bands , loose as they are and rotten , which still bold a diseased j society together , without ropptytag aiionget wad better ties—nnj , chaica , of adatrrant , wherein to receive and hold together th * felling fabric of , defective indeed , but still a&er . ert aad in > provable , civilization 1 < Taking Religion in the most strict etymologital sense -of the word , it will readilyj be distinguished that r . o tribe , race , or nation , could subsist in a state « £ association , or in any state or stage of civilization , without a Religion or wramon bond of union , Even a band of robbers—and the very word band impltaa tn « id « a , handed or hound together—tw a band of robbers mnst baw Borne eueh tie , aome pledge of honour o * common and sacred roleo ! conduct , or ttarir association wonld be annihilated j ..

      . _ Thefifst wHJodatioiu of men , and of many nations and potent eapite . at thia hoot , haw tod ^ Jf madeT or do now exist , w ; » uch . to * th « pnrpow of JSpoiiS %£ neighbour ai for protecting : themsel ** . StflFalthWt the overthrow and destruction of such Stations might be a desirable object to those who are preyed onon , it is certainly j not one to be desired by tbemseWes ; nor would any reasonable—flot to Bay benevolent—member of such nations propose their destruction as the beBt means of forwarding the purposes of general philanthropy . He would rather propose their reformation , which , at the existing point of aenetaUy awakening intelligence and . of generally .-alter ing circumstancea ia tbe aflkira of . tea civiUasd globe , is

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      , , , '¦¦ „ , « . ' ' on a * dhcir . cily attainable as it covtalnly a consUfflffl ^ n . vi b 0 W 0 VWf b 6 would ia durable . With tlifa i * from weakening the certainly moat scrupulously tditatu . ¦ ,, e hQ woaJ ( i religions feeling of the cfunmunUy , w «* .. " » ctand direct his most strenuous effjrt 3 to changa Us «<« . correct its aberrations . At all times the character of the religious bond deeideir that of the civilisation . In other words , the religion of a country presents atoned the principle of its Government and the theory of its political association . Tuere have been among men precisely as many religions as therehave been civilisations , i . e ., there have been , up to this period , four . The , first , that of Asia ( Egypt kclusivs ) , may be denominated the religion of the priest .

      Taking its rise with agriculture in the fertile regions of Southern Asia , this civilisation was probably mild and paternal in its youth ; and , when at the full apogee of its power and splendour , must have exhibiwd a wonderful schema of administrationa ! science and imperial magnificence . But , resting as it did , on the knowledge of tbe few and the ignorance of the many , it degenerated of necessity into tbe most cruel despotism : 00 tbe one part , and abject slavery on the other . Of thiB civilisation tha object was sMu quo ; tha binding principle undsubting adherence to , and devoted veneration for , all that had been established in the

      ! past by the will of Heaven , as expounded by the priest * Its political organization , however varied in the mode , as here held and guided by the Priest ; King ,. there bj the Ki » g Priest , and agaia in other empires ( and in such the state of things was d « cidt ; dly tbe Worst ) by temporal and spiritual heavenly vicegerents ,- acting conjointly . Its political organ'zition was tbat of the ftwdal system in its most perfect state . Well deBned and berouiury castes or classes ( it matters not as to tha name , tha thing with slight modifications in the mode or the decree ia in nature and effect tb& same ); a landed aristocracy at the head , and servile labourers formjag the bas&

      Tbe first master measure employed for the more certain eE 8 laiement of the species was the subjugation ot woman in her body and har soul . She , the intellect , the soul , the providence of society , being made the tool of tbat sex who represents tbe jplfisa instinct of animal life—that which looks to individual conservation and aeifish gratification , the nobler instinct enshrined in her—that which looks to the conservation and happiaess ot the species , was necessarily thus made subservient to the baser . The consequence has been what we witness at this honr : brute force quelling the inspirations of mind ; noise drowning reason ; disputation knowledge ; fraud subtracting from weakness what violence may have failed to rob ; law usurping the place of justice ; selfish interest tbat of generous friendship ; prostitution , contraband or legal i that of love - Theology of Religion , and rapacious Government tbat of benign Administration .

      Under the first civilization of tbe world , it is worthy of remark that" religion , and certainly , however tba reverse of truth la its principle , and however consequently defective in the theory and practice which that principle generated , the religion of ths Abiatio civilization has proved more binding and desirable than any which has ever swayed tha fate of Empires . It is worthy of remark that religion baa existed in one E'lipire , and probably was , in the outset , established iu all , distinct and apart from theelogy . In China , religion ia evidently at this honr as it has ever been , a social and political bond alone , holding men bound to each other , and all fas-, to the throne of

      tbe King Priest , whose mandate is held from Heaven . In the absence of all doctrine of a future state , or hopes and fears of rewards and punishments out of this world , ' human duties , however interpreted , are all here . Reverence far the past has to inspire the present , and the approval of posterity for religions adherence , to ancestral rules is a ! I that is thought of the future . Tbe Reformer ( not Founder , aa is the vulgar belief in Europe , ) of tbe Chinese religion , Confadoxi& WAS a just and patriotic statesman , an able administrator , and aa enlightened a philosopher and consistently virtuous a man sb ever adorned the records of humanity or the annals of a nation .

      Wherever there is ignorance , there la superstition ; and so China has hers . It ie compounded of trifles as numerous and ridiculous as the ceremonials of Chinese politeness , and in character , is pretty similar to those current among the more ignorant European peasantry and silly persona is all countries . The Bonzes and monks , who make a traffic of these popular whims and mummeries , have never commanded respect either for their persons , or their trade ; but are regarded much in tbe Bame light as our fortune-tellers , jugglers , and meamerisera . On tbe other hand , China has felt , in tbe duration of ber empire , tbe advantage of the absence of any great acheme of humbag such as m Europe

      is protected by law , remunerated by the state , and confouuded in the popular mind with religion . If ta& vice inherent in the religioaa principle has- kept her stationary under tbe yoke of despotism , the separation of tbat principle from tbe scarecrow of a national faith , and a national creed in shadows and incomprehensible Ap ' gmiB , has aided to preserve her civilintioo during untold generations , until , to the disgrace of a Christian empire , it yields in our day to the sap < and tho mine of commercial fraud , and to engines of destruction , forged under a-civilia % tba , more powerful , it is true , but also more cruel aud lesa- stable , aa being lesa than her own .

      In . Hindostan , from circumstances not difficult to interpret , did time permit , the coarse of eiroumstances was different There , at an early period , Theology absolutely stifled Religion . Toe same has been long growing to be tbe case in Christian Europe . And ia Christian Europe , the consequence wiil be the same as in Hindostan , Her empires will fall to pieces , or rot away in corruption , unless soroa principle more potent than that which has expired , and more in unison with , the wants and tbe intellect of tba epoch s&all gather together within its bond the scattering and warring elements of society , and inspire them to take a-new start in the race of civilization .

      In my next , I'shall pass in hasty review- toe sesond civilization of the world ; with its binding principle aud its political theory and practice . I am , Sir , your ' s with respect , Ei W . D > A-BUSM 0 » T . Dundee , 5 th July , 1844 .

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      BTZLER'S PARADISE . fj TO THE EDITOR OF THBNGRUHERN-STABEsteems © . Sir , —Appreciating greatly and thankfully your insertion of my address in your last paper , I beg leave to advert to an -error of the press * in it ; namely , in stating tbe number e > f acres under the section No . 1 , your paper says 1 , 000 to 2 , t ) &e acres : it ahould be 10 , 000 to 20 , 000 acres . This will be easily conceived when a machine ploughs , && , one rood in breadth with a mean rate of motion of two tniieB per hour ( an ox ' s walk ) , tbe late of ploughing , fcc , will be in one hour four acres , in twenty-four hours or . one day and night , ninety-six , acres , or about one hundred acres ; in one hundred days-of tbe year ( in spring and fall ) tea thousand acres ; which may be-easily doubled , in the same time , by either making the machine broader oe ? moving it thicker , ot both at once .

      I am respectfully , yours , &o ., No .-26 ( 5 , Strand , London , J . ' A . EfrB&KB . July 6 , 1844 ,

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      London Cor »» Exchangb , Monday Jia # , 8 > -Fresh up * o-day , we received rather a scanty supply of W&eat of home produce . She finest parcels ? of tooth red and white aostly found buyers , at about previous rates of curreney , but those - of all other-idesoriptions daclined quit * Is . per quarter . In Foreign Wheat the quotatiens are la pe ? quarter easier ; for bonded Wheat ; figure 3 were almost nominal ,. Chevalier descriptions- of Barley were held at previous currencies , but : grinding and distilling sorts weie Is per quarter lower . Malt at an abatesaent of la per quarter . For Oats , tba rates declined from 6 d to quite Is per quarter . Beans , at a redactioa of from Is to 2 s per quarter . Maple Peas Is . cheaper . Other kinds it ' late rates . Best town-made Flwur 503 per 280 Ib 3 .

      Lohqoh Smithfisud . Cattle Market , Monday July 3 . —The attendance of buyare beiDg small , the demand for all kinds of Beef wa 3 in a very sluggish state , and prices ruled , in soraa instaaces , a shade eaaisr than those on this dsy se ' nnight . Although a few . of the very pcimest Scots taayhave produced 4 s . \? e consider tne highest general ngnra tor Beef not to-have exceeded a * lOd ptr 3 iba . ifotwithstandinfe ; tha number of Sheep were extensive , we have tozeport a steady demand for that description or stocfc » . and last vfeek ' 3- prices were fully , supported , tho D 33 t old Downs readily producing 4 a . per 8 ; bs . Lambs , at prices basely equal to those quoted m our last report . CaSws at full ourreuues . Piga at late

      Boropqb * nd SPiTAL ^ LPS , ~ The season for old Potatoes being now newfr dosed , ¦ the demand for those kinds is heavy , and priees have a dowaward Sndency- ? hey ruling from 6 * k to 85 * per ton . Nevr P ? 22 S though in «« £ supply . comnund a steady 3 a BoB . U « THOp MAiKM . ~ The accountsfrom mosi * arts of the Weald of Kent , as well as from Sussex , ind Worcester , state that afurther mereaseof bhRhfe ha * taken place . la many plantationam East Kenfc . the vermin , ia represented as more eumerous thaDj ever ; the Hops in Mid Kent and Farnhaa are * however , looking xatber promising . The prop being inclination

      considered in a very critical 8 fcate » more , is manifested te purchase , and prices , in conse < jaence s aie firmly supported . Wool MATUwi . —The demand by private contract i » Bteady , at full prices . „ V Tiiiow ^ The price of Y . C . Tallow is very firm * and a goqd demand exist * for the tim « of * ear . The ** are buyers for the autumn at 42 s 6 d to 42 a Si ^ Bj letttrs rweired from St . Petersburgh t ^< ttMnaBj& the Russians were lesi wiling to sell ^» KBr | C . » were a trifle higher . ' ^ i i « 2 * L # ~ LiVBHPOOL Cattle Mabk ^ p , MoNPA-tjgjW *^ : ^ There was a good supply of Cattle at n « 5 $£ S 2 & 2 & ?'* which met with dull sale * t . ^ prices » ft » p Beef . " 4 id to 6 d , Mutton Sid to 6 R ^ ggSSj # per li > . Catdo ^ ported int o twer ^ ool frw ^^ - ^ to the 8 th iBstaut : —Cows 1426 , Calvea TO , » n ggi ; bi 5851 Lambs , 125 Pigs , 3708 , Horses 82 ; . - ;; , -

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      TAIT'S MAGAZINE-July . This is a moro than usually interesting No . of our talented bd < 3 old-established friend . Tail opens this month with an article on the " Report of tie Scottish Poor Law Commission , " an extract from which we cannot afford rocm for : but as it is a subjeet on which we intend shortly to fray sometbiug to our readers , we shall return to this article again . The most interesting articles in the present No . are , "What is a Gentleman V " Two or three things about Liverpool . " The translation of Frederika Bremer ' s "Curate , " and reviews of" Our Actresses , " the " Plea for Woman , " " Godley ' s Letters from America , " and " Coningsby . " This last we have not had time to read , but anticipate much entertainment from its peru&al .

      In the review of " Our Actresses" we are glad to see that Tait boldly denounces this scandalous book . True we have not read the work ; but we have Been sufficient in the shape of extracts through various channels to confinco a . « tfcat its entire perusal could not induce us to withdraw tbe designation . We had hoped tbat since the justly-merited incarceration of Gregory , of the Satirist , and the blackguards of The Age , that there would have been an end to the fihhy calling of these " poIe-calB of the press" . Bnt not 80 it appears : 107 though tho above worthies , are fcilent , and though the improved and improving taste of the masses has well nigh put down the " cheap and natty" press which exJBted bo rife Bome years ago , Mrs . Cornwall Baron Wilson it appears must needs come to the rescue to save tbiB dirty

      trade from annihilation during the interregnum occasioned by king Gregory ' s temporary banishment . We are glad of one thing ; and that is , that this book is not likeJy to get any wide circulation among the industrious classes . It matters not so much for ihe aristocracy . Their tsstes and habits are already ? o widely vitiated ; they are already so fully conversant with the whole arcana of scandal , that it iB not possible tor Mrs . Wilson ' s book to do them any injury . It is fortunate for her that she belongs to the " weaker sex , " and therefore eD joys a license which would not be accorded to the male members of ihe " race that mite : " otherwise there is no doubt that tbe writer would have suffered for his impudence and blackguardism , a la Lynch law , at the hands of the friends of the " Actresses" so grossly libelled in this most unwomanly book .

      We can only afford room for the following extract from Tuit ' s most just and well-deserved castigation of the author and her disreputable production : — It requires higher faculties than this writer possesses to estimate tbe merits of those , to whose talents tbe public owes mas ; an hour of tbe moat refined enjoyment , and Ircm tbe genius of some of whom tbo proudest intellects in tbe laud buve not been ashamed to own that they have drawn ennobling iiapuls « a tbat will be borne with them to the ! grave . A . great actress iB produced only by a combination of energetic btuay , with a wide acd intuitive sympathy with all / onus and phases

      of character and passion , which ia akia to tbe highest genius She writes the poetry of her heart in her thrilling embodiments of suffering or affection ; and she takeB tier place among the influences that bave formed our mind and character side-by-aide with the greatest poets . Such an one as thiB claims from us the reverence auc to womanhood and to genius . Enough for the public that they see tbe results of her hours of thought , or of those sorrows that bring Knowledge and wisdom to tbe heart . It is a vulgar spirit that would intrude into the sacred retreat of her domestic life , or play the spy upon the feeliogs that lie

      Within the quiet closnre af her breast . In 8 ceh a spirit is this feook wsitten . It is addressed to an unworthy curiosity , which it sheuld be the object of literature to repress , rather tfi&n to eneoarage , and it should be banished from eyeiy iabla wbeie good leeliag and good taste are cherished . A most ple&Bant volume Blight , indeed , be written uptn " Our Actresses "—a veiume that might be piquant ¦ wi thout BcandAl , and spaxkiing without falsehood—¦ which , confining itself ligidly to performers of the flist class , should glance aracef ally at the story of their lives , bnt should rest its strength upon Tivid pictures of the powers which fascinated our lathers and . ourselves There ia a writer whbBe pen , now only to © little seen , we should rejoice to see employed in such a task , — one , capable of sketching ibe stage favosriteaof our time in colours vivid as those ia which Colley Gibber huimmortaliied Mrs . Montforl and Mrs . Braeegirdle , and who oonld give to his pictures the added grace of a deeper sentiment . That writer iaLeign Hunt .

      In the review of Mrs . Hugo Reid ' s PIe » Tor "Woman , " Tait takes the side of the " Plea , " and boldly contendB for the Rights of Woman " ' with an earnestB . e&s and eloquence hardly inferior \ o Mary Wolstooscraft ' s . This article ib , i » deea , " rather au original essay on the subject of which it treats than a mere revierr of Mrs . Reid's " Plea . " it is written with great iorce and ability , andmu ^ tcommand the attenviop . of all thinkers , no matter on which aide of this ftuesUoa they array theiaseiT ^ s .

      Madame D'Airusmont.

      MADAME D'AiRUSMONT .

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      THE CORDWAINERS' COMPANION .-July . — With a Suppiekkws . This number contains a full account of the proceedings of t ^ e Conference of Cordwainers' Delegates , recently held at Birmingham ; besides other and interesting matter . The supplementary number is wholly occupied with the "General Laws , and Rules of the Sick Fund , " and of the lk Cordwainers ' General Mutual Assistance } Association , " together with the " Report" on wh ch these " Rules , " &o . were founded and adopted by the delegates at the Birmingham meeting . We need Bay no mote to recommend botb to the patronage and attention of the " Craft . "

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      TWEDDELL'S YORKSHIRE MISCELLANY , AND ENGLISHMAN'S MAGAZINE . Stokesley : George Tweddell . London : Miller , Newgatestreet , &c . ; This is the first number of a new quarterly periodical intended to rescue Yorkshire from the disgrace of its hitherto non-representation in the Republic of Letters . The ; following extracts from the " Introduction" will explain the object of its projector , and the grounds on which he builds his hopes of success : — \ Our object is not competition with the numerous Magazines of the Metropolis , but co-operation with all wbe are anxious to advance the welfare of the masses , by creating amongst them a thirst for the sweet waters of knowledge . I " And—seeing ignorance is the curse of God ,

      Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven , "we respectfully request the kind assistance of every one who desires the intellectual ; elevation of the people , and the reformation of public morals . To amuse without contaminating—to interest without seducing from the path of rectitude—to instruct the mind in every branch of useful kn « wledg « , and at the same time to amend the heart , will be ¦ the ckief object Qt oar labours . : Many persons , whose slender means will not allow them to provide themselves with the choice Periodicals of the present day , aan afford to purchase a Magazine

      once in three months , whose price does not amount to a half penny per week ; ] and hundreds of honest Yorkshiremen will peruse its pages , from tbe circumstance of its being connected with their own County , and conducted by one of themselves . And whilst wo study the convenience of the poor , and endeavour to introduce into their cots a publication Calculated to be of service to them , we trust it will be found of equal value to the more opulent classes ot society . Oar pleasures are not diminished by their being shared in by others . There ia not , and there cannot be , any monopoly of knowledge and of happiness . They are God's gifts to all who will accept the boon . ;

      Though we Intend making onr Periodical interesting to the people of Yorkshire particularly , we hope it will not prove uninteresting to our numerous subscribers in the neighbouring counties . Several highly talented individuals , in almost every caunty of England , have promised to supply their contributions to our pages . Every Yorkshire Magazine that has hitherto been attempted to be established , jhas proved unsuccesful . Let us now prove to the world , that Yorkshire can , and will , establish a Periodical of her own . We interfere with no other Publication ; but merely supply an

      organ by which Literature , Science , and the Arts , may be rendered familiar to the whole people of onr county . With a population of * ne million , five hundred and ninety-one thousand , four hundred and eighty souls , it cannot be denied , by any rational man , that Yorkshire stands in need of a periodical entirely devoted to Literature , Science , and the fine Arts ; and that desideratum we now purpose to supply . And surtly Yorfcsbirexnen are not so sunk in barbarism , —so completely immersed in the Stygian waters of ignorance , as not to be able to support as in oar undertaking 1

      The prose articles are generally interesting , and the poetry quite equal—if not superior to much that passes current in magazine literature . For the honour of Yorkshire we wish this speculation every success ; not doubting but that if supported , it will increase in talent as it increases ia age , and ultimately become worthy of I the great county from which it has taken its name .

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      Jgr _ , 3844 . THE N O it T H A R N ; S T A R . 3 _

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 13, 1844, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1271/page/3/