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r < vf < r / r / , /( # , r # , f , , , ^ « THE COMMISSION OF GENIUS Pp , th » ngiitJ thou hasta mishty work—A glorious task Jo do , Bettti Uian sauabbling with the Turk , < .- ' gabbling 1 ™ th a ' e Jcvv ! 3 indcr field than Waterloo Hi .- z thou wherein to war ; -Gainst fiercer foes than Cxsar knew , Or Itussia's daring Czar . Thou hast no need of spear or sword , Xor shield nor helmet bright , Nor quiver , with sharp arrows stored , To fit thee tor the fight ; Thine only weapon is thy right , "Which , if thou taskest well , Shall arm thee with a giant ' s might , And strength invincible .
Thou Last to pull oppression down—To humble haughty pride—To snatch from vice her jewell'd crown , And dash her slaves aside ;—To open freedom ' s portals wide , ¦ Wherever shut and barr'd ; ' And be , whatever may betide , A most unflinching lord . On stubborn error thou must throw Truth ' s full and startling light , And bid the blinded beldame grow Clear-eyed in years' despite - , And through the thick and lampless night Of Ignorance advance , And waken him to visions bright , From dulness' misty trance .
Before the thrones of mighty kings Thou must unfearing stand , And tell them place and power are things Loose-based on shifting sand ; That empires may awhile expand , Yet , if unjust their sway , Though snake-eyed craft their being planu'd , They surely shall decay . Thou art to go where senates sit , And thunder in their ear—That hearts corrupt arc all unfit In government to share . What if they threaten ?—thou must dare Their vengeance to its worst Or , through uncounted ages , bear The epithet accurst .
Thou hast to burst the barriers strong "Which prejudice hath built , And brand each doer dark , of wrong With Ms just title—guilt ! Remember , tis not if thou wilt , But 'tis thou shalt require From him who hath life's current spilt , A retribution dire . Thou shalt contemn wealth ' s proffered gold , And , to thy mandate just , In all his glittering stores behold But sordid dross and dust . ~ Sor shalt thou , like cursed Achan , lust For garments rich and rare : Think , as the flames consumed his trust , Thou inay ' st Ms torments share .
Thou shalt not leave one ill uncheck'd , Nor dally with the time That looks on peace and comfort wreck'd As anything but crime . Thou know ' st how earth was in her prims , And unto thee 'tis given To make her in her age sublime—A secondary heaven . Kay , speak not of thine humble birth ; Tis false—thou'rt of the sky ; God sent thee specially to earth . On We commission high . Thou wilt not surely dare deny Thy task , with lying breath ; If so , like Judas , thou shalt die An everlasting death !
TJp!—rouse thee from thy shameful sleep , What dost thou on the ground ? And with thy wings of lightning sweep The universe around . "Wny , like a captive gyved and bound , G roan ' st thou thine hours away , "When , as a monarch robed and crown'd , Thou might " st all living sway ? Arise 2 go forth ! for lo , -a curse Bests both on thee and thine , Barker , and deadlier , and worse Than erst was Lantech' s sign . Go forth ! thine errand is divine ; Refuse , and thus 'tis given ; Thou art a traitor most malign—A renegade to heaven I Bristol .
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CONINGSBY ; or , THE NEW" GENERATION . BrB . D'lsniEU , Esq ., itP . London : Colbum , Great Marlborough-street . C Continued from the Sbrihern Star of December 14 tk . J Mr , D'Iskaeu has expended bo small quantity of fine writing on the glories of Eton , and the joys , excitements , hopes , and competitive straggles of its youthful inmates . Few themes will probably be more interesting to those of the readers of Coiwigsby , who have had the privilege of receiving instruction at that famed school ; but to the mass of our readers this applies not , and to pester them with descriptions of Eton life would be but adding insult to injury . At Eton the children of the landed aristocrat , the speculating
profitmonger , the tncky lawyer—in short , all who have money , may commingle and compete in common for the glorious prizes which knowledge awards to her successful votaries ; but this is denied to the children of the poor man , the offspring of the class whose labour is the support of . the classes we have enumerated . There is a subject in connection with Eton , as with every other great public school , which we should have been arlad to hare seen handled something more severely than it has been by Mr . D'Israeliwe allude to the abominable fagging system . Mr . D'Israeli glances at this system , and that is all ; lie scarcely gives it a word of condemnation . Thefagging system to look upon as one of the prime props of existing tyrannies . It is almost invariably seen
that the boy who is the most bullied and trampled on during his school minority , becomes , on attaining Ms majority , as brutally tyrannical as he had been previously base and servile , repaying upon others the injuries he has himself borne , and avenging himself for Ms past degradation , by degrading and trampling on those weaker than himself . The result of this training is , that the pupils , with rare exceptions , carry from the school into active life the mingled servility and love of despotism which has characteriscdtliemintlieirpupilage . Hence courtiers , and sycophants , tyrants , and slaves are made . The system has been allowed to exist and perpetuate itself because its fruits have been the perpetuity of inequality , and the prolongation of the reign of caste .
Any scheme of educational reform which shall not extinguish every vestige of the fagcuig system must iaQin producing any results widely differing from the existing state of things . Onr readers can hardly fail to have been struck , in perusing extracts already given from Gtmingsby , with the "very elegant slang which , according to Mr . D'Israeli , prevails in the conversation of Etonians . "We were aware that Eton had long been famous for the eloquence of its pupils , but we certainly were not previously aware that so much of costermongering slang formed so large an ingredient in the eloquence of Eton ' s boasted orators 2 "When Coningsby first alludes to Millbank , he speaks of him as " an infernal manufacturer . " This word " infprnal" seems to
be exceedingly popular with the Etonians . Buckhurst speaks of the rebels in the civil war having been " infernall y Veted . " Again , when it is rumoured that Coningsby is drowned , Buckhurstbreaksin with "It ' s an infernal lit . '" "larls" and " row , " and many similar phrases , appear to be as natural in the mouths of these young patricians as in those of the humblest plebeians of St . Giles's . We mention this merely because it is the fashion of aristocrats , young and old , to turn up their noses , and curl their lips "with contempt , at those they are pleased to term the " common , people , " the "lower class , " &c We thank Mr . D'Isbaeli for disabusing the minds of those of the " common people" who may have been foolishly disposed to give credence to the vaunted superiority of manners on the part of their wealthy masters .
The boy Millbank , before-mentioned , one of Coningsby ' s school-fellows , was the son of one of the wealthiest manufacturers of Lancashire . "Hisfather , whose opinions were of a very Democratic bent , sent his son to Eton , though he disapproved of the system of education pursued there , to show that he had as much right to do so as any Duke in the land . " Of course he had the right , for he had the money . But very different would be the position of those hundreds , or thousands , whose labour was the source of the elder MUlbank's wealth . Sight they had none , to send their children to be educated with the children of Dukes , heeawe moncv they had none ! Our
Lancashire readers wilL we fancy , be rather surprised to hear of Democratic mVlowners ; perhaps we shall be enlightened by and bye , as to the democratic opinions of the elder Millbank . We have seen that the youngcf Millbank was no favourite of Coningsby ' s in the first instance ; but an accident happening to the fanner while bathing , Coningsby has the good fortune to save his schoolfellow ' s life at the imminent risk of his own . This creates a fricndslup between the two , -which speedily ripens into an attachment of the most romantic character . Following this we have aa account of the Eton Montem , at which Lord Monmouth { Coningsby ' s grandfather ) attended to take leave of bis grandson !—
Good bye , jut dear Harry , " said Lord Monmouth , V J >*« he bade his grandson farewell . " I am going a - ' « nl again ; I cannot remain in this Itadical-rhldtn
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THE > EW EDINBURGH REVIEW " . Quarterly . Part I . We noticed some time ago the first monthly instalment of this new periodical , which we learn i 3 intended to appear in a quarterly as well as monthly shape . In the second and third numbers improvement , in a literary view is , we are glad to say , sufficiently evident . But we must add to this our regret that the good sense of some articles should be neutralised by the unmistakeablc trash of others . As an example of the latter , we cite the Review of Chambers ' Tracts , jS o . 1 , which purports to be a biography of Louis Philippe . It would be hard to decide whether the Tract or the Review is the greatest mass of nonsense . Again , the writer of the article entitled " Social Maladies from Partial Civilization" argues
in favour , of Savings Banks as one means of remedy for the distress of the working class ! Adding , that workmen should save out of their high wages when trade is brisk to lay by a store for a period of slackness ! " The object sought , " says this writer , "is to make the good cover the lady care , and this is perhaps possible , were the high wages paid in prosperous times not so imprudently dissipated ! " Never was a viler calumny uttered against the working classes than this same Malthusian lie—the " improvidence of the working classes . " It would be waste of time and patience to argue this point . Here is the fact , that all the people spend—no matter how they spend itthey have made for themselves . But over and above that , three-fourths of "what they have made is taken from them by other classes . The mansions , the mills ,
the servants , the horses , the hounds , and the harlots of the wealthy , are all paid for by the poor . Every necessary , every luxury , enjoyed by the wealthy , has been produced by the working man , or obtained in exchange for the fruits of his labour . How atrocious , then , is the brazen impudence of the men who charge on the working classes dissipated and improvident habits ; when , owing to the robberies of the rich , the poov have not the means to either iinprovidently expend , or criminally dissipate . And then the precious remedy this writer suggests for the distress he acknowledges to exist ! We would reccommendhim , before he again attempts to play the part of statetinker , to put himself under the tuition of the Bradford Democrat , whose letter appeared in last week's Star . A six months' sweating at the combs , with
the reward of comber ' s wages , to meet the wants of a comber ' s family , would put him up to a thing or two , and among other matters teach him his capabilities of " laying by a store" for the future . If the conductors of the New Edinburgh really wish it to succeed , they will see the propriety of putting a stop to such emasculated -puerilities as the schemes put forth by the writer of the article " Social Maladies , " < fcc . &c . We gladly turn to articles of a different stamp , of which we are glad to say there are several . We particularly single out an article entitled "Religious Changes . " The first portion of which gives the history of Druidisni ; the second portion , the history of the Apostolic Age ; and the third , the history of Papacv , to the Reformation . The writer clearly proves ,
first , the derivation of Druidisni from the East , that fertile birth-place of all superstitions—second , its wide diffusion through nearly all the countries of the earth—and , third , its continuance , in various shapes , down to the present time , as instanced in the names of the days of the week ; the British poetical mythology , —the faiiies . Pucks , &c ., the ceremonies of All-Hallowmas , May-day , and Midsummer-eve ; reverence for the misletoe , &e ., &a . Of Christianity , the writer clearly shows , that long after the introduction of that religion into this country , the new creed was as much Druidical and Pagan as Christian . "The Pagan temples here , as they had previously been at Rome , being consecrated for Christian worship , and the festivals heretofore kept in honour of heathen deities , and dear to the populace , were
dedicated to the saints of the new promulgation . " Christianity itself made no pi-ogress till incorporated with Paganism . We quote the following : — The establishment of a new religion indeed is a phoenix , of which the world can hardly yet boast of having inherited or recorded a perfect specimen . Most forms of worship hitherto promulgated and established have been derivative , and held in combination with pre-existing beliefs , rites , and ceremonies . The aboriginal , the Catholic faith of Europe , and probably of mankind , has been shown to have been Druidism ; the sanguinary offerings and the priesthood of this primitive worship were exterminated , but its forms and spirit survived and still survive in the
popular feelings and usages of nations . Upon the ruins of this superstition the more splendid and visible forms of the heathen mythology were established . Christianity itself hardly ever existed uncombined with pre-existing rites , unless during the brief term of the Author ' s earthly pilgrimage , and , as delivered from the lips of Jesus Christ himself , itpartookmore of thenature of a preceptive doctrine for separate individual edification than of a new promulgation intended to constitute national worship . As first offered it wasirithont forms or expression ; it had no temple , no sacrifice , no priesthood ; it was a faith , a belief , a spirit of communion , which the divine oracle proposed to open between each "believer ana the Almighty .
In this simple state , however , it did not survive the age of the Evangelists . It became incorporated with Judaism . The first converts were Jews , who were all zealous for the law of theii ? fathers , nor did they consider themselves exempt from its obligations . They kept the Jewish sabbath , were circumcised , attended the worship * the temple and the synagogue , and in all things observed the Mosaic ritual . St . Paul was a Jew-Christian , observing the law , and who himself circumcised Timothy . The first fifteen bishops of Jerusalem were Kazarenes , as converted Jews were termed .
Jesus Christ gave a new moral and a new faith to mankind , but these were soon lost sight of , if not buried under the superstructure erected out of materials derived from other sources . The Gospel was preached to the Gentile nations , but never obtained a pervading influence over them until it began to he promulgated from their temples , -add commingled with their superstitions . Upon this platform the Roman worship was established . The faith might he Christ's , but the visible and dominant elements which obtained for the Catholic Church its supremacy were wholly of pagan origin .
That this is the true history of Catholicism has been established by Dr . Middleton , a learned divine of the Church of England . In his celebrated letter from Rome he exhibits , in a perspicuous manner , the conformity between Paganism and Popery , and proves that the religion of the Romans , in its services -and rites , is entirely borrowed from their heathen ancestors . But it was by such conformity Catholicism triumphed , and without it Christianity itself would probably have made very slow progress in the conversion of men . Incorporated with a more ancient and popular worship , its propagative force was vastly augmented ; it obtained by this union ' ( hat which it most needed—spectacle and rites , which , appealing to the senses in visible forms , its authority was rapidly extended —first over the Latin empire of the "West , and next over the German nations who subdued it . With another extract we conclude : —
What could be more stainless , meek , and lowly than Christianity in its first advances to mankind ? It was infancy—guileless , unblemished , and unpretending . But as it advanced in years and strength , as it mingled with temporal interests , with the pursuits of ambition , power , and riches , its character was perverted . From a holy aspiration , pure and undefiled , it degenerated into an apparatus of wordliness . From being the handmaid of civilisation , it became the great obstacle to social advancement . From the laudable vocation of controlling the passions of fierce and wicked men , of asserting human equality and God ' s impartial justice to all , its ministers degenerated into oppressors , and erected a vast superstructure of plunder and monopoly .
The " Autobiography of a Living Writer ; " the " Origin of the Lawsand the Three Estates ; " " Sandhurst College and its Mathematics ; " "Blackguardism , its Rise and Fall ; " "Optical Delusions ;" " Keviews of the Correspondence of the Right Hon . Edmund Burke ; " and other works : are articles all worthy of attentive perusal : but for further extract or comment we cannot afford room .
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THE NEW PARLEY LIBRARY . Part IX . This excellent miscellany increases in interest as it increases in age . If its contents were limited only to the excellent translation of the Wandering Jew , it would be worth far more than the price charged for it . At the present moment , when priestcraft , both abroad and at home , is making such might }' efforts to regain its old ascendancy , it behoves the friends of free thought to be everywhere on the alert to provide the antidote to the poison so widely diffused . The day is not far distant when the struggle commenced * by the French Reformers will have to be consummate d . The second great conflict is approaching . Let the friends of reason and the rights of man look to it , that priestlv villany does not over-reach
them . We say to the " men of the progress , " help to circulate by every means in your power this work of Eugexe Sue ' s . It is enough for you to know that on the Continent the priests everywhere preach and rail against it , and in some countries have succeeded in getting the civil power to interdict the printing of it ; it is enough for you to know that the archhypocrite , the meat impostor , the Mokanna of our time , Mr . Pamei / O'Cosnell . denounces and raves against this work—It is surely enough for the advocates of human liberty to know these things , o induce them to do their best to circulate a work so hated and feared by priests . To our readers , we say , buy the New Parley Library , and read the Wandering Jew .
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THE ORPHAN ; OR , MEMOIRS OF MATILDA . By Evgexe Site . London : Newby , Mortimerstreet . This is a translation of one of Ecoexe Sue ' s works , translated by the ? Ion . D . G . Osbonie . The first number only * has reached us , and this necessarily af-
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fords us but poor materials on which to ground a judgment of the work ; but we suppose the reputation of the author of ^ ; ThVMysteries of Ptfrj ^ . will be siifiicient guarimteewitlnnost renders , thataudit which emanates from Ids pen must be sterling ore . The Orphan opens with no lack of that mystery . so dear to all romance readers . Thus , we have most of the scenes described in Fart I laid in the interior of' an unpretending coffee-house in one of tlie most out-of-the-way and unfrequented parts of Paris . Opposite to "Le Cafe Lebceuf is a sombre and long-uninhabited building , called the " hotel D'Orbesson . " This hotel , after being many years un tenanted , is taken possession of by a Colonel Ulric , whom nobody knows , and whose pursuits nobody can divine , and who is attended by an equally mysterious janissary . The greater part of the number before us is taken up with an account of the contrivances had recourse to bv the gossips , who were in
the habit ot assembling at Madame Lebceut s to satisfy their curiosity as to who and what the [ strange Colonel is . This is Mowed by the mysterious introduction of two females , one young and very handsome . Then we have the equally mysterious introduction of two exquisites , who appear to belong to that class of unquestionable blackguards , " men about town , " or " menof the world . " These have a rencontre with the mysterious colonel , who , refusing certain explanations required of him , a duel is threatened , and is supposed to " come off , " though of this too we are left in doubt . From this slight sketch the lovers of romance ¦ will see that there is mystery enough in all conscience to " begin with . Perhaps future numbers will afford us materials for an extract or two , which is not the case with that before us . The work will be illustrated by Robert Craikshank , whose name is sufficient to guarantee the first of talent in his department .
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THE CLOTHWORKERS OF THE OLDEN TIME . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NOMHEBN STAB . Snt , —The able , though mind-paining prose picture of the present condition of the male and female cloth-workers of Bradford , as given , from a correspondent , in your last number of the just-departed year , has suggested to me the propriety of transcribing , for the first number of the new year , a companion-piece , by way of contrast , in a picture in poetry , as written about two centuries and a half ago , and
referring to a period much more remote . The author is Thomas Delony , who wrote various of the popular ballads of the tune—the Spanish Lady , Fair Rosamond , Wat Tyler , and many others ; but the extract given is to be found in a small volume , purporting to be a life of John of Winchcombe , a rich , and otherwise celebrated clothier , in the reign of Henry VIII ., and who had his name from the town of Ms birth . Delony also wrote the History of the Six Worthy Clothiers of the West , in honour of the same profession ; and the History of the Gentle Craft , in compliment to shoemakers .
From a notice in Stow , I find he was outlawed in 1596 , by the authorities of the City of London , for writing some verses on the dearnessof corn , * and had been blamed before this for printing a book in favour of the silk-weavers , when they were engaged in some struggle connected with then- craft ; and hence the productions were necessarily most objectionablG to the "powers that be . " Both these compositions , it appears , are now lost , though " pity it is " it is so . The annals of the producing classes have yet to be written , and not alone from yesterday , but through hundreds of years back . Should you , sir , therefore , consider the accompanying transcript worthy of insertion , as a small" item " in this way , it is at your service , and will , no doubt , occasion some interest in its perusal . Much of the description is at once simple and engaging ; as , for instance , of the women carders ,
" who syngmg sat , with voices cleare ; and of the " maydens" with " Their smocke sleeves like to winter snow , " while Each sleeve , with a silken band , Was featly tied to the hand . " " Pretty maids , " indeed ! as the writer calls them ; spinning their soft threads out of the beautiful fleece , and mingling together their . " voices meet , like nightingales ! " And then , too , how exquisitely the employment of the " seven score and ten children "is
hit off—the children of humble , inoffensive fathers , orjof " poore silly men , " as the phrase is here set forth in the manner of expression of the period . And again , what a glorious John Bull finish the poet makes . Such a fulness of all good eating ; and such a clatter of "dishes , pots , and pans ! " And of all this , even the " seven score and ten " children , had their rich bellyfuls , and a clear penny " every one ;" beside , " at night , " a penny , which would purchase more of other eatables than six times the sum does now . But let the poet tell the tale himself ) and here itis : —
JOHN OF WlNCHCOMBS's WOEKE PEOPLE . Within one roomc , u ° ins large and long , There stood two hundred loomes full strong-, Two hundred men , the truth is so , Wrought in these loomes all in a row . By every one a pretty boy Sate making quils with mickle joy . And in another place , hard by , An hundred women , merrily , Were carding hard with joyful cheere , Who singing sat with voices cleare . And in a chamber , close beside , Two hundred maydens did abide , In peticoats of stammel red , And milk-white kerchers on their head :
There smocke sleeves like to winter snow That on the western mountaines flow , And each sleeve , with a silken band , Was featly tied to the hand . These pretty maids did never lin , But in that place did all day spin ; And spinning so , with voices sweet , Like nightingales they sung full sweet . Then to another roome came they , Where children were in poore array ; And every one sat picking woll , The finest from the course to cull :
The number was seven score and ten , The children of poore silly men . And there , their labours to requite , Had every one a penny at night , Beside thoir meate and drink all day , Which was to tiiem a wondrous stay . Within another place tikuwise , Full fifty proper men he spies ; And these were Slicarcnitu every one , Whose skill and cunning there was shownc And hard by them there did rcniainc Full foure score Rowers taking paiue . f
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A Dye-house likewise had hs then , Wherein he kept full for ' tie men . And likewise in _ his . ^ uiHng- . Miil ,., .,. Full twentie persons kept he still . Each week ten good fat oxen lie Spent in his house for cerraintie ; Besides good butter , cheese , and iisl ) , And many another wholesome * dish . He' ? . ' . !!)! a Butcher all the yecre ; A Brewer eke for Ale and Beere : A Baker for to bakehis bread , Which stootl liis liouseliolde in good stead . Five Cookes within his kitchen great , Were all the yeare to dresse his meate ; Sixe scullion boyes unto their hands To make clean dishes , pots , and pans : Beside poore children that did stay To turn , the brooches every day . This was a gallant clothier sure , Whose fame for ever shall indure !
Wishing all the readers of the Star , and everybody else , to soon see these starry times again , I remain , Sir , yours , very truly , The Editor of inn " Cordwainers Companion . " P . S . —Would not the new version of the " Emp loyer and the Employed " go off in a neat cheap pamphlet ? The "Garland , " too , is beautiful , it is a thoroughly blooming Winter Wreath , though so much of it is tear-fed .
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CHARLES DICKENS—BOZ . Sir Walter Scott died in 1832 , and Dickens appeared in 1833 . Those who love to trace the descents of genius , wiEbe pleased with the curious coincidence in point of time , which we offer to Mr . Dickens' admirers in lieu of the old joke—that Scott wrote well , but Dickens he wrote WeUer . Some of Ms first efforts , his Sketches by Bos , were written for the old " Monthly Magazine . " We recollect falling iu with a stray sheet of this magazine , three or four days after its publication , for it became waste paper , so sickly was its then existence , the day after it was out . We were all cars and eyes , merriment and pleasure , though the writer ' s name was more unknown to us than the real origin of Junius . From the pages of the "Monthly Magazine" his labours were transferred to the columns of the " Morning "Chronicle . " Here they had a wide circulation , and the name of "Boz" was known
" Far as loud Bow ' s stupendous bells resound . " They were immediately collected by Macrone , and illustrated by Cruiksliank . The demand was unprecedented ; and the supply at first was not equal to the demand . We recollect a dowager countess calling at Macrone ' s , in St . James ' s-square , for a copy of the work . He had sold the last , and the new edition would not be ready before tomorrow . The countess , all impatient , begged for the loan of the two volumes . He had sold his own . She would look in the shop , she said , for herself , and actually left her carriage to rummage for a copy . The search was ineffectual , and the noble lady drove off really offended with the young and handsome publisher .
He had not as yet taken the people ; but the "Pickwick Papers , " his next publication , completed that triumph Ifot much was expected from the first number , and Mr . Macrone , it is said , had more than foretold its failure . With the third and fourth numbers it rose into reputation , and Macrone willingly admitted the incorrectness of this conclusion . Our morning and evening papers abounded with paragraphs from Pickwick , and Sam Weller became more the idol Of the people than the great Lord Essex , Jack Wilks , Sir Francis Burdett , or Lord George Gordon . It was in this the heyday of his rising reputation that we had the pleasure of meeting Mr . Dickens for the first time . —His appearance is prepossessing ; his figure small —but well made ; Ms look intelligent , and his eyes peculiarly expressive . He seemed scanning you , not
obtrusively , but unobservedly , from head to foot . As bo entered , there was a cry like that of Pope , Pope !—the cry described by Sir J . Reynolds as hailing the appearance of that Ulustrious poet . There was a sort of whisper of " Dickens is hero ; here is Dickens , " in a concealed kind of under breath—confidentially telling what each wishes to know . In a mixed party stupid people abound , and some were there that night who expected he would talk the next number of Pickwick , or create a new Sam Weller for the amusement of the party . There was quite a buz about Boz , and modest as we then were , we were content that night with seeing Dickens—retiring to another room in expectation of some other and early occasion of forming his acquaintance . This we have since done , and we believe we have both his goodwill and his good wishes .
To our thinking "Boz" has never outdone or equalled his Sam Weller—that happy creature of fine and fertile observation , so unmistakeahly true to human nature . Sam needs no letter of introduction to our sympathies ; he is just as welcome for the period of his existence as Falstaff , Uncle Toby , or Tom Jones . Tho critics who call Hogarth a comic painter , call Mr . Dickens a comic writer . The description is incorrect in both cases . Hogarth and Dickens are painful moralists —men that prove human nature to the quick—healing satirists that unveil rice and effect a moral good . Jfr . Dickens lias been a benefactor to liis species—he lias smoothed the brow of pain , the face of sorrow , and lent balm to the bed of death . This is praise sufficient for a life . Yet he has done more . He lias enlarged our public sympathies , calling attention to the neglected bastard and to the penniless poor—to those thin-dieted asylums , called cheap schools—and to those real prisons , our union workhouses . —Pictorial Times .
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home , and having said grace , enjoyed like a good man his Christmas dinner , with what extreme seJfcontenhnent he must have looked unOn his children ( if ho Wblesscd with such - cherubs ) , thinking of the felonious Jane Allen ' s babe in Oxford gaol . And then , when he turned himself round to his lire , thinking of the faggot , what pleasant things ho must have seen in the embers of his Christmas log I "What a- Jacob ' s ladder must his fancy have p ictured , with John Page , chairmalccr , upon all but the topmost round ! And is this a man to want a faggot ? Certainly not ; Punch would give him one with all his heart and all his strength . Tue Christmas Waits . —The following were the most popular last week - . —John 'Bull waiting for a Repeal of the Income-Tax . The Parishioners of St . Stephen ' s , Walbrook , waiting for a settlement of their accounts . Lord Brougham waiting for the Woolsack . The fountains in Trafalgar-square waiting for the Artesian Well .
A Fakthixc fob Repeal ; on , Ihe Irish Coxjunon . —Our English renders may recollect an ingenious wayfarer , who was wont to levy small contributions on the pockets of his spectators by means of a sheet of white paper ; yes , - of one sheet of Bath post . This paper tlie adroit beggar would fold up into different shapes , all distinctly representing twenty different things . "Now , " lie would say , "it is a chest of drawers , " and a chest of drawers it was ; " now it is a lady ' s bonnet ; " nobody coukLdispute it —it was a lady ' s bonnet ; " andnoio itis a coalscuttle . " The crowd would by their applause declare it to be a coal-scuttle , and nothing else . Now , this man was an honest showman , though" lie dealt iu sleight of hand ; though he earned his mutton and potatoes by dexterity of finger—he was , nevertheless ,
no cheat ; what he promised to do , he faithfully accomplished . Why will not Daniel O'Connell copy the high principle of the English showman ? As , like Mm , lie deals in legerdemain—why , like him , does he not put an honest face upon the matter ? How long is it since he has promised to show all the features of the doll Repeal ?—and up to the present time she is muffled like an Indian beauty . " Give a farthing—only a farthing—and you shall see what you shall see . Hereditary bondsmen , know ye notonly a farthing!—who would be free—but one farthing!—themselves must—down with your farthings !—strike the blow ! Only a farthing !" Handsome Turn-Out . —The Duke of Buckingham and Cliandos , the Labourer ' s Friend , and Farm-servant ' s Father , has lately been exercising a little wholesome fatherly severity upon bis Irish tenants in Westmeath , where eighteen families have been
turned adrift by the Duke ' s steward . Pleasant weather this for the wet bog , or the ditch-side ! It appeal's that no rent was due from them . Doubtless , on the occasion of the next agricultural jubilee at Stowc , these eighteen families will form part of the pageant . The conduct of the Duke of Buckingham proves the truth of what has been often said of him , that " no landlord can turnout a finer set of tenants . " A Good Beoisnisg . — A pension of £ C 00 has fallen into the Civil List . We wish the Civil List " a happy new year , and many of ' em . "—Punch . Conscience Money . —Mr . Punch begs to acknowledge several sums of money from the different concoetors of the London pantomimes and burlesques , for the very liberal use they have made of his jokes and subjects of the past year . The list will be published , and the amount forwarded to a magistrate for the relief of the Fountains in Trafalgar-square , in a dav or two .
The Detentions at the Post Office . —A gentleman , living in Camden Town , would feel particularly obliged to Colonel Mabeiiy to return to him , as soon as he has done with . them , the goose and Epping sausages , which were sent to him through the post last week by a friend in the country .
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GfooDLAivFOBTiiE uiiits . —By . aii ancient Act . of the good old Scottish Parliament , passed in tlie reign of Margaret , about 12 . 98 , it was " ordonit that'during yo reign of her maist blessit Majestic , ilka maiden ladce of baitli high and low estait , shall hue liberty to speak yc man she likes ; g ifhe refuses to take her to be his wif , . lie shall be mulct in tho sum of an him * drity pundis or less , as liis estait may be , except and always gif lie can make it appear that he is bethrothit to aiiither woman , then he shall be free . " The Land . —How would you like a rural cottage
with a flower garden on one hand—a vegetable garden on the other—a green lawn in front behedged with , fruit trees ? Would it not be rather better than stifled up apartments in a crowded street ? Would not the green-sward , the flowers , and the trees be more likely to awaken virtue in your cliildren than tho filthy sights and sounds that greet them in the city ? Would they not grow up better , both in body and soul , for having all tho wholesome and gentl influences of nature springing up around them ? Wasted a Steam Parso . v . —An iron church ha been built at Glasgowto be sent to Jamaica .
, r ii ~_ K « Tr . ~ . _ . n mi i * i % _ . .. a . XK n ** ^ J _ -l »* y % . ^^ Tile Lasd op Ede . w The following is the address of the principal of a boarding-school , in the vicinity of Sydney , New South Wales : —Mi's . Love , Harmony-house , Concord , near Kissing Point . New Occupation fou a Dentist . —An itinerant dentist lately called at a house in one of the far west towns , and applied for business . " Don ' t you want your teeth drawn V says he to the owner . "No . " "Don ' t your wife ? " " No . " "None of the children ? " " No . " " Can't you give me some sort of a job ? " asked the dentist . " Why , " replied the man ,
" I have an old cross-cut saw , the teeth of which arc out of order ; " you can have a job if you'll fix ' em !" hm Eve to the Futube . —At a meeting , convened by the friends of Clay , held in Woodstock , Vermont , one of the orators grew amazingly eloquent , exclaiming , "Who ever heard of a woman ' s naming her son after James K . Polk V and then made a significant pause , as if inviting an answe . r . " I never did , " exclaimed a fair democrat in the crowd , who had been married about six months previous , " but Ibiovj one that intends to . "
" A sweet return , " exclaimed the husband , when his wife threw the sugar basin at him . Ax American says that lie lias a niggev servant so black that a piece of charcoal makes a white mark on him . Worth Remembering . —Write injuries in dust , but kindness in marble . Lay not your faculties in the sepulchre of idleness . - Envy is a turnkey by birth , and an executioner by profession . March op Gentility . —Some years ago a wit introduced a match vender to an innkeeper as a traveller in the sulphur and timber line from the firm of Beelzebub and Co . It will not be disputed that the present age is a progressive age , since ladies and
gentlemen Lave superseded the way-faring adventurers . A mendicant called a few days ago at Money-hill , near Rickmersworth ; he rang the bell , which being duly answered by the cook , she bargained for a box of congrcves , for which she paid a penny , besides looking him up sundry crumbs that fell from the rich man's table . Whilst " the traveller" was stowing away tUe prog , tlio cook inquired if he had any dipt matches ? " No marm , I never carries the like : a gentleman what ' s close at hand deals in them : I say , Long Tom ( vociferated the cadger ) , this ere lady wants some o' your sort . " The gentleman forthwith supplied warm , who gladdened lis heart with a plentiful supply of prog in addition to the penny .
The State of Salvation . —On the high road to Chesham , a few miles before entering that ancient town , stands the picturesque village of Chenies . At the entrance of tlie village some gothic abnshouses , Greeted by a Countoss of Bedford , remind the travel lei- of the good okl times , when to steal a goose was expiated by bestowing the giblets in alms . The goose that furnished the giblets alluded to , was nested in the reign of " bluff Harry , " and taken possession of by the ancestors of the present " Lord Finality" for conscience sake . In the village is a school for the perpetuity of ignorance under tlie immediate patronage of the Reverend Lord incumbent and my Lady patroness . A young damsel , who had received a large share of " my lady ' s instruction , " chanced to captivate a young paper-maker from a
neighbouring mill . The happy day of wedlock arrived , when a goodly inustey ot villagers assembled to witness the ceremony , which , as a special mark of condescension , was performed by " my Lord " ' in ¦ propria persona . Every thing passed off with the utmost decorum until the clergyman addressed the bride , " Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband ? " &c ., to which the damsel replied with infinite alacrity , " Yes , verily ; and by God ' s help so I will . And I heartily thank our Heavenly Father , that he hath called me to this state of salvation !" " My Lord" looked very queer , " My Lady" essayed to appear serious amidst the roar of laughter , in which she was at length compelled to join ; rendering it evident that mirth is a thorough democrat , an out-and-out leveller .
Matrimonial Baskets . —A lady of fashion stepped into a shop not long since , and asked the keeper it he had any matrimonial baskets , she beingtoo polite to say cradles . Sir Fletcher Norton , when pleading before Lord Mansfield on some question of manorial rights , chanced unfortunately to say , " My Lord , I can illustrate the point by an instance in my own person ; I myself have two little manors . " The judge immediately interposed in one of his blandest smile * , " we all know it , Sir Fletcher . " A reason for not Gaming . —Some gentlemen being at a tavern together , for want of better diversion , one proposed play . " But , " said another of the companv , "I have fourteen good reasons against gaming . ' ' " What are they V said another . " "In the first place , " answered he , "I have no money . " " 0 ! " said the other , "if you had four hundred reasons , you need not name another . "
Owrire Sheeidax . — " How is it , " said a gentleman to Sheridan , " that your name has not an 0 attached to it , your family is Irish , and no doubt illustrious V "No family has a better right to an 0 than our family , " replied Sheridan , " for we 0 ( owe ) everybody . " William PiTT . — -The fashionable hours of the present times were neatly censured by this war-making Minister . " Mx . Pitt , " said the Duchess of Gordon , " I shall expect you to dine with me at ten this evening . " " I must decline that honour , " said the premier , "for I am engaged to sup with the Bishop of London at nine . " Leoal Wit . —A barrister observed to a learned
brother in court , the other day , * that the wearing of whiskers was unprofessional . " " Right , " replied his friend , " a lawyer cannot be too barefaced . " The Queen's Visit to the Smithfield Cattle Club Snow . —The first to greet hoi Majesty on that occasion was ¦ ¦ " the black-polled ox of the Scotch breed , bred by Prince Albert ; " which had been " removed from the dark corner it had previously occupied , into the light near the entrance . " When the Prince approached , his grateful foster-child attempted to lick his hands ; and her Maiesty was so touched , that , on learning it had already been sold to a butcher , she declared her resolution to redeem its life from the shambles . —Spectator , Dec . 21 .
0 Bullock , thou wast wide awake , And thus escaped ' st sticking , 1 wish , for the poor Otter ' s sake , He'd given the Prince a licking ! ' American Criticism . —The New York papers speak in high raptures of a Madame Pico , who has appeared at the Italian Opera-house in that city . She appeared first in Ricci ' s Criara di Rosenberg , then m Donizetti ' 8 Lucresia Borgia . Upon the latter event an American critic says : — " Madame Pico represents the leader of the conspirators , and does the noise and the iollification . She was exquisitely dressed , sang
with as little of the split straw in her soprano as we ever heard her sing with , and acted to Tier singing with , what tho Greeks called onomatoj )« a—movement linked Nvith sound inclivisibly . The fourth act represented the youths at the fatal supper , Pico the principal customer . After a little hob-nobbing on the other side of the table , she glides round , upon her plumptitudinous locomotives , and dashes into a song , rich and rolicking > Dawn went the tmtot for ( he first lime into her well of contralto , and up came the liqind , and golden music , of a round , true fulness , that md < the ears thirst a luxury . " CO
An Accomplished Youno Lady : Modern Finish . —Her edication is slicked off complete ; a mantymaker gets her up well , and she is sent back to home with the tower stamp on her , " edicated at a boardin - school . " She astonishes the natives round about where the old folks live , and makes ' em stare agin , she is so improved . She plays beautifully on the piano , two pieces , they were crack pieces larncd onder the eye and ear of the master ; but there is a secret nobody knows but her—she can't play notlun else . She sings two or . three songs , the last lessons larnt at school , and the last she ever will larn . She has two or three beautiful drawin ' s ; but there is a secret here too—the master finished 'em , and she can't do another . s > ne meal ™ Fmncli beautiful : but it ' s fortunate she am t
in Franco now , so that secret is safe . She is a very agreeable gal , and talks very pleasantly , for she 1 as seen the world . She was in London for a ew weeks : saw the last play , andknows a great deal about the theatre . She has been to the Opera once , and has seen Celeste and Fanny Elsslcr , . and heard Lablache andGi'isi , and isajudgeof danein' andsingin . She saw the Queen a horse-back in the Park , and is a iud"c of ridin '; and was at a party at Lady bvjlabulFs , and knows London life . This vSi'iushjasts a whole year . The two new pieces wcar , <> ut > ami the s-iijis ' get old , and the drawin ' s everybody has seed , and ' the London millinery wants rtueymi ' , and the Queen has another princess , and there is another singer at tlie Opera , and all is gone but the credit , " she was edicated at a boardin' school . —Sam Mick in England ,
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country . Resieir . bcr , though I am away , Monmouth House is your home—at lcvist as Ions as it belongs to me . I understand my xailor has turned Liberal , and is going to stand for one of jlit metropolitan districts ; a friend of Lord Durham ; perhaps I shall find him in it vrlien I return . 1 fear there are evil days for the xew genebatiox !" ( To be continued . )
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The WHOLE ART or CHESS and DRAUGHTS . London : Cleave , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street . We must confess our ignorance of the art of which this little book treats , and , therefore , our incompetence to decide on its merits . Chess has been described as the " Amusement of princes , sages , and conquerors ; " and it will not be the fault of the publisher of this little work if it be not also the amusement of the million . We subjoin the introduction ; for the very full instructions on every jjoint connected with this popular pastime we must refer our readers to the book itself , which may be had at a cost within the reach of the humblest .
THE HISTORY OF CHESS . It has been justly observed , that among all the in-doov amusements invented by man foi the employment of the idle or the relief of the studious , chess stands pre-eminent . It is the most refined and ingenious of all games , and possesses a charm which has rendered it a favourite of the greatest characters , ' whether kings , warriors , or philosophers . As an amusement , it possesses an advantage as great as it is singular ; being highly interesting in itself , aud played with leisure , it requires no inducement of gain , and iu consequence is rarely played for money . The glory of conquest is allowed to form a sufficient attraction .
Chess is of unknown origin and antiquity . Some writers have ascribed its invention to the Greeks , some to the Hindoos , others to the Chinese , and a fourth class to the Persians . There can be little doubt that it originated in the east , and at a very remote period of history ; and it is certain that it has been known in Hindostan , and adjacent regions , for at least two thousand years . From the Persians it was introduced by the Arabians into Spain ; thence it found its way to France ; and was made known in England during the reign of William the Conqueror . The name of the came , aud also the names of the
pieces with which it is played , have undergone many mutations in travelling from country to country ; nevertheless , in the present terms which we employ , tho semblance of the original eastern- appellations may be seen . Iu Hindostan . it possesses the Sanscrit name of ciMtuvaHga , which imports the four members of an army—elephants , horses , chariots , and foot soldiers ; the game being a scene of niimic warfare , in which these elements respectively act a peculiar part . The Persians corrupted the Sanscrit word into cJwtmng , which the Arabians softened into ihalrdnj ; fi-oin that appellation it passed into scaccfti , ecftecs , and finally chess . - By the Frenchit is called ecltecs , and a chess board they term eckiouier . ¦
According to the modern European arrangement , the idea of elephants , horses , chariots , and foot soldiers has been abandoned , and there have been substituted a king , queen , bishops , knights , castles or rooks , and pawns , forming six distinct classes of pieces . The term bishop is only English , being a substitution for elephant . The knights represent the horse-soldiers . The termroofcis from the eastern word rokh , a hero , and represents an armed chariot or fortification ; the English give the piece the form of a castle . The pawns are the foot soldiers , the name being from peon , an attendant . The chess pieces made in India , or China , for sale to wealthy Europeans , are sometimes made of solid ivory , five or six inches high , and are exceedingly beautiful , no degree of labour being spared in the carving . The king and queen are seated on elephants , under a canopy , the bishops ave camels , with archers as their riders ; the knights are on horseback ; the castles are elephants , with castles on their hacks filled with warriors ; and the pawns are soldiers , one a sergeant , another a drummer , another a £ fer , and the rest ordinary fighting men .
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* The account is in the stereotype edition of Stow , and the words are : — " The maker of the scurrilous ballad was one Delonic , an idle fellow , and one noted with the like spirit , in printing a book for the silk-weavers , wherein was found some such foolish and disorderly doctrines . " "He could not , " says the same authority , " be found , and sent in his place a copy of the ballad , as a sort of joke upon his mayor-ship . " t This term " paine , " I suppose , is intended to convey the carefulness with which the " rowers " executed their tasks ; though what is meant by " rowers" I am not aware .
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A Faggot Case . —At the Watlington Petty Sessions , one John Page , chair-maker , of Wheelend , Stoken-church ( blessed be his door-posts !) charged " Jane Allen , a wretchedly distressed-looking woman , with an infant at her breast , with having stolen , on the 25 th of November , a small faggot of wood , of tho value of ' one penny , ' from off a pile in Thirdswood . " Now , John Page , having this faggot very much next his heart—indeed , it must have been pretty well of the same stuff—insisted upon a conviction , and the woman—John Page's recording angel lias written
down the fact— " with the infant in her arms , was committed to Oxford gaol , to take her trial at the Quarter Sessions , charged - with stealing the said faggot , of the value of three-farthings . " What a very pleasant Christmas this John Page must have passed ! What a remarkably nice man to spend a Christmas with ! With what sweet serenity lie must have gone to church—for , of course , such a stickler for thrcc-farthing honesty , Las his pew and all things proper , and pays his devotions regularly as his taxes . And then when he returned to his jocund
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INFERNAL TREATMENT OF THE POOR IN SUTHERLAND . ( From the Glasgow National . ) We have just received , from a highly-respectable correspondent in the North of Scotland , who pledges himself to its accuracy , the following most extraordinary statement with regard to the" condition of the poor in the parish of Ci'lech , in the district of Rosehall , and county of Sutherland : — "In the district of Rosehall , within the parish of Criech , and county of Sutherland , there are upwards of fifty poor persons who have received no parochial relief since the disruption of the Church of Scotland , in May , 1813 . "A deputation of their number presented a petition for relief in spring last to the Kirk session and minister of the parish , by whom it was contemptuously returned , with the intimation , that they would receive nothing , as they had gone out from the Established Church , and from the state .
" Despairing of relief by other means , legal proceedings were commenced by one of their number , whose case was taken up by Mr . Charles Spence , S . S . C . ' On receiving a petition from him on behalf of that individual , the minister of the parish , who has in his hands about £ 200 of the poor ' s money , sent liis session clerk with two pounds , to be divided among the poor on the list . " The clerk , after travelling twenty miles with it , luid not the heart to attempt distributing the miserable dole , and carried it back to the minister again . "A meeting of the heritors and kirk-session was then convened , which was held at Invershin on the 20 th December , and which was attended by heritors , or their factors , representing property to the amount ef between £ i 0 , 000 and £ 50 , 000 per annum .
" After reducing the list to fifty , by striking off the names of some poor persons , and distributing these fifty persons into three classes , they assessed themselves in tlie sum oitwekevoimds ; which together with the two pounds from the kirk-session , making in all fourteen pounds , ( hey ordered to le divided among these fifty pcopk—each to reeeive five , six , and four shillings , according to the class inwhich they were placed—« s maintenance for the last twenty months , and probably for twelve months to come . "Of the fifty persons to whom this aliment has been awarded , two are blind—three are idiots—many are above eighty years of age—some are entirely , or almost entirely , confined to bed—several are in such extreme destitution , that their neighhours were repeatedly afraid that fhej would be found dead , in their wretched huts , of actual want—and almost all have no means ot ' subsistence , except the charity of neighbours , who are nearly as poor as themselves . "
Fourteenpounds sterling , as thirty-two months maintenance for fifty poor persons—two of whom are " blind "—three of whom are "idiots "—many of whom are " above eighty years of afc" —several of whom are "almost entirely confined to bed" —and several are "in such extreme destitution that their neighbours are afraid they will be found dead in their huts of actual waut ! " Of a verity , 'tis a princely sum—honourable to the hearts , and no less honourable to the Christian feelings of those by whom it is doled out . "We hear much in these times of the oppression of the poor by the millocracy—of their hard work .
and their long hours , and their small wages . And no doubt—and the more ' s the pity—there is sometimes but too much truth in the accusation . But , gracious Heaven such evils are well-being—are comfort—are happiness itself , when compared with those sustained by those poor people . " Fourteen pounds sterling , " as "thirty-two months' maintenance" for fifty poor aged , infirm , starving , destitute persons ! We have heard much—much , too , that has astonished us , of the condition of the labouring poor in this end of the island ; hut of a truth this eclipses all .
Gbeat Pedestrian Match . —The great pedestrian match between the English and American runners , for 1 , 200 dollars , came off on the 19 th ult . on the Beacon Course , at Hoboken , opposite New York , and attracted an immense assemblage of spectators . The competitors y / ere- ^ John Barlow and Thomas Greenhalgh , two Englishmen , natives of Lancashire ; Thomas M'Cabe , an Irishman ; John Steeprock , an Indian ; John Underhill and Thomas Jackson , Americans ; John Gildersleeve and Joseph Smith , of New York ; and J . P . Taylor , of Connecticut . The distance to be performed was ten miles , over ground extremel y heavy , from the rain of the previous evening . The betting was decidedly in favour of Barlow and Greenhalgh , who had obtained
considerable reputation in this country as pedestrians , and also from their having earned off prizes at a former trial of speed over the same course . After the arrangement of the usual preliminaries , the start took place , the two Englishmen leading at a tremendous pace , closely followed by the Indian and Gildersleeve . Barlow accomplished the first mile in the short space of 5 minutes 10 seconds , the Indian being second , and Gildersleeve and Greezihalgh third and fourth ; behind them M'Cabe andTaylor , and the rest " nowhere . " Barlow maintained his position in the second mile , which he ran in 5 minutes 15 seconds , the Indian well up , and Gildersleeve and Greenhalgh as before . Barlow did the third mile in 5 minutes 22 seconds , and was now 50 yards ahead of the Indian , Gildersleeve and Greenhalgh being still third anirfourtk . Barlow from this
mile kept increasing the distance between him , and the other competitors . He closed the four ill mile in 5 minutes 25 seconds ; fifth mile , 5 minutes 28 seconds ; sixth mile , 5 minutes 31 seconds' ; seventh mile , 5 minutes 34 seconds ; eighth mile , 5 minutes 36 seconds ; ninth mile , 5 f » inutes 35 seconds ; and last mile , 5 minutes 25 sdjetfdsij&us accomplishing the ten miles in the unprecedented short time of 54 minutes 21 seconds . Steeprock , the Indian , was second ; time , 54 minutes 33 seconds . Greenhalgh third ; time , 55 minutes 10 seconds . Gildersleeve fourth ; tjme ,.-55 , inM 9 utes 61 seconds . Taylor sixth ; time , 69 . minutes 52 seconds . In the last mile Grcenhalglvmade a most desperate effort , passed Gildersleeve , and gained 40 seconds on Barlow , though the latter ran this mile 10 seconds quicker than he did the ninth . Greenhalgh , it is supposed , must have run'ihis mile in about 4 minutes 48 seconds . Barlow
beat the Indian exactly 173 yards , while Greenhalgh was less than 90 behind him . Itis supposed that had Greenhalgh laade bis running in the ninth mile , instead of waiting for Gildersleeve , he would have beat the Indian , and thus become entitled to tliu second prize . The purse was thus divided ;—Barlow , 700 dollars ; Stoeproek , 250 dollars ; Greenhalgh , 150 dollars ; and M'Cabe , 25 dollars . Barlow has since returned to England , leaving Grcenhalgh behind to complete some matches he'had undertaken . — New York Paper ,
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A BOWL OF "PUNCH , " FRESH BREWED . THE BISHOPS . Certainly there is something the matter with the Bishops . It is not for Punch to criticise the lawn with the eye and finger of a lady > vho would buy pocket-handkerchiefs ; but there is something the matter with the Bishops . There was a time when we never heard of them save hi their Christian proprieties ; when they gave away oxen and cart-loads of bread at their doors to . the poor . Now do they every day occupy—to the exclusion of much instructive and amusing matter—three Or four columns of the Times . Surely , this is not as it ought to be .
People get up of mornings and wonder what Meter will say—just as certain foils , the first thing they do , consult the weather-cock . Then , again , they look to see if London is in the paper . This must be wrong . We had come to thia conclusion , when we were made to stare by the Bishop of Chester . That good man was , doubtless , uneasy at thenotorictywhich rewarded certain of his brethren . He therefore determined to call public attention to himself- ; and so signed a petition to the . Queen , for mercy- to Mary Gallop , by her own confession , the murderess oi her father . And the Bishop
observes—That she was not influenced to this great crime by any malignant hatred to her father , but as a means that occurred to her mind of enabling her to marry the person to whom she Jiad engaged herself . Now , should some Dean or Canon put arsenic in the Bishop of Chester ' s turtle-soup , in the hope of obtaining his bishopric , would not the prisoner have this excuse—that he had no " malignant hatred" to the Bishop ;—certainly not ; only too much love for his see ? Some time since , there was a prejudice agamst certain candles , it being alleged that they were impregnated with arsenic that they might burn the brighter . The morality of Mary Gallop ( according to the Bishop ) partakes , and , for the same reason , of the brilliancy of these tapers ; tor he
says—That should the Queen ' s mercy be extended to this miserable Woman , she might prove of great me in being employed , in teaching young persons in one of the schools in any place to which she may be transported . This wretched woman administered two doses of poison to her father . With no touch of conscienceno remorse , she gave the second dose , the first having failed . And this is the instrument to teach young persons ! Imagine with what solemn emphasis would flow , from the lips of the parricide , these words : — " Honour thy father and thy mother , that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy Sod giveth thee . "
By the way , when Mary FuiTey was suffering under the agonies of the death-warrant so atrociously inflicted upon her—yes , Sir James Graham , atrociously—where were the Bishops to plead the cause of an outraged , broken-hearted woman ? But then Mary Furley had not poisoned her father ; she was , probably , not eligible as a Christian monitress . In a word , Mary Furley was not Mary Gallop . Let it not be thought that we advocate , under any circumstances , capital punishment . Certainly not . It is our belief that the gallows is the worBt reformer . Our strictures arc only intended ! for the sophists who play tho mountebank to humanity .
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