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A LABOIJBEB'S TJBflgSHTS OS ST . VALENTINE ^" DAY . Hary , I irorhM hesidc a wood On last St Valentine ' s day , And as 1 delved I saw two birds Sit on a leafless spray . And where fhey sat a golden patch Of soft sunlight did shine , They chirp'd and chirp'd as though they said " Thou art my Valentine . " Ao& then I thought of thee , Ilary , In London ' s noise audicoil My arms grew weary all at once , And would not let jne toil . 1 thought hon- you had pledged 3 our troth , And I had plighted mine , And yet I could not say to thee " Thou art my Valentine . ' '
¦ "Poor hirds , " I said , "in winta- time How hard has been jour fare ; "When frost had garner's every grain , And stripp'd the woodlands hare . " As scant a meal , as cold a home , Bear ilary , have heen mine ; But , though 'tis spring , I dare not say , " "Wilt he my Valentine 3 " E ' er long , " I said , " the Trads will burst , And deck the trees -with green ;" But still my cottage home must be The nun it has heen . " And then 1 thought you once had said , " If your home were but mine 2 " Though loved so well , I dared not say , " Wilt he my Valentine V I said , " Yon birds will build their nest , And hless it with their young , And tell each other all their iov »
Though with a wordless tongue f And then I thought how I could love A face that looked We thine 1 —I saw my rags , and dared not say , " "Wat he my Valentine V " 0 , happy birds / ' again I said , "TouTl rear jour little brood .-. Tour tnroboing fcreasts will keep them warm ! Your toil can find ihem food . " And then 1 thought how I could moil , Bear love , for thee and thine . —The -workhouse heBrang out ; I groaned , " I ask no Valentine J "
" God feeds the sparrow f then I said , "And am I not a man ? His Image—the immortal work That crown'd creation ' s plan . Am 1 forgotten on the earth , As though 1 were a clod ? No , I am a sum—from man I claim My heritage of Godi " God bless thee , love I be patient still , The hour will surely come , "When every labonrer in the land Shall own a human home . "When laws shall let us love—and live , As nature did design ; So ieep thou to thy plighted troth , - £ d& I will hold to mine . — -Douglas JcroWs Jtfewarine .
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< SJ ~ Finding thai our poetical scraps , both original SBu SeltCled , aeCUIfiukte Diuch more rapidly than -we can dispose Of them by the ordinary channel , we have been induced to propose to ourselves and contributors the following arrangement—viz ., to give quarterly , in our columns , a selection ofpoeti-Cal pieees , Slick selection to be entitled " THE FEAST Of THE POETS . " The first selection wffl appear Ms month ( March ) , { he nest in June , the nest in September , and so on . The first of the " Feasts" will " come off " - in the Star of March 22 nd . Any of our readers , disposed to try their fortune in an attempt to procure admission to the "Feast , " must send in their poet ical contributions on or before the 15 £ h inst , CoHffinffications received after iJiai date will not be attended to .
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CONINGSBY ; or , THE ] SEW GENERATION . Bt B . jyisRSEn , Esq ., > I . P . —London : Colburn , Great Marlborough-stmt , ( Continued from tlie Nortiiera Star of March \ . ) CONISOSBT MSB SIDOXIA . —ESCLASB ' s PRESENT AND
FDTCBE . Yon -will observe one cutfous trait , said Sidonia . to Conmgsby , in the history of this country ; the depositary of power is always unpopular , all combine against it , always it fells . Power was deposited in the great Barons ; the Church using the King for its instrument crushed the great Barons . Power was deposited in the Church "; -the lung bribing the Parliament plundered the Church . Poiver was deposited in the King ; the ? artiainent using fbe Teople beheaded ifce King , expelled the Eing , and , finally , for a Xing substituted sn administrative officer . For one hundred and fifty
years Power has been deposited in the Parliament , and for the last sixty or seventy years it has been beeomioguioreandmore unpopular . In 1830 it was endeavoured , by a reconstruction , to Tegain the popular affection ; but ia truth , as the Parliament then only made itself more powerful , it has only become more odious . As we see thai &e Barons , the Cborcli , the King , have in turn devoured each other , and that the Parliament , the last 3 evourer , remains , it is impossible to resist the impression Aat this body also is doomed to be destroyed , and lie is a Sagacious statesman who may detect in what form aud in srhat quarter the great consumer veil arise .
"Where , ihen , troaid you look for hope ? In what is more powerful ihan Jaws and institutions , and without which the best laws and the most skilful institutions may l » e a dead letter , or the very means of ¦ tyranny ; in the national character . It is not in the increased feebleness of its institutions that I see the peril Of . England : it is in the decline of its tliaracter as a community . And yet you could scarcely describe tins as an age of corruption ? Xot of political corruption . But it is an age of social disorganisation , far more dangerous in its consequences , because far more extensive . You may have a corrupt government and a pure community ; you may have a corrupt community and a pare administration . "Which would you elect ? Neither , said Coningsby I wish to see a people full of faith , and a government full of duty . Rely upon it , said Sidonia , that England should think more of the community and less of the government . But tell ine , what do you understand by the tennnar . onal character ? A character is an assemblage of qualities ; the character of England should be an assemblage of great qualities . But we cannot deny that the English have . great virtues . The civilisation of a thousand years must produce great ¦ virtues : but we are . speaking of the decline of public virtue , not its existence-In what , then , do you trace that decline 1 In the tact that the various classes of ibis country are arrayed against each other . But to what do you attribute those reciprocal hostilities ? Sot entirely , not even principally , to those economical causes of -which we hear so much . 1 think that fliere is SO error so vulgar as to believe that revolutions are occasioned by economical causes , They come in , doubtless , very often to precipitate a catastrophe ; very rarely do
* # # * Do you think , then , there is a wild desire for estensive political change in the country I Hardly that : England is perplexed at the present moment , Mot inventive . That trill be the next phasis in her moral state , and to that I wish to draw jour thoughts . Porm yseh ^ whaelascribelittleinfluencetopbysiealcauses for the production of this perplexity , I am still less of opinion that it can be removed by any new disposition of political power . It would only aggravate the evil . That would"berecumng to the old errorof supposing yon can necessarily find national content in political institutions . A political institution is a machine ; the motive power is zhe national character . With that it rests whether the machine wall benefit society or destroy it . Society in this country is perplexed , almost paralyzed : in tune it wBl move , and it will devise . How are the elements of the nation to be blended again together ? In what spirit is that reorganization to take place ? To niiow that would be to kuow evervthine . "*
* # * # In" this country , said Sidonia , since the peace , there has oeen an attempt to advocate a reconstruction of society < n a purel y rational basis . The principle of Utility has teen powerfull y developed . 1 speak Botwith lightness of the labours of the disdples of that school . I bow to intellect in every form : and we should be grateful to any school of philosophers even if we disagree with them ; doubly grateful in tins country , where for so long a period our statesmen were in so pitiable an arrear of public inteBigence . There has been an attempt to reconstruct " oety On a hasis of material motives and calculations . « has failed . It must ultimately have failed under any arcnmstances ; its failure in an ancient and densely peopled liingdom was inevitable . How limited is humap ^ ason , the profoundest inqnlnss are most conscious . We not indebted to the reason of man for any of the P ^ t'achievements which are the landmarks of human ^* nm aud hmnan progress . It was not reason that bei ^* T * oy ¦ it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen ^^ e Destrtto conquer the world ; that inspired the j ^ r 5 that instituted the Monastic orders ; it was not ^^ ftat produced the Jesuits ; above all , it was not ^ "j ^ n that created the French Revolution . Man is only ^ j ^ Ereat wheahe acts from the passions ; never irre-HonnmT * ^^ fceaPpeab to the Imagination . . Even An imco'nits more votaries than Bentham : ' the Stat t 1 * ^ . 3 ien , that as Imagination once subdued *> unaginafiomnay now save it ?
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Man is made to adore and to obey : but if you will not command him ; if you give him nothing to worship ; he will fashion his own divinities , and find a chieftain in his own passions . But where can we find faith in a nation of sectaries ? Who can feel loyalty to a Soverdgirof Downing-strect ? I speak of the eternal principles of human nature ; you answer me with the passing accidents of the hour . Sects rise and seots disappear . Where are the Fifth-lionarehy men ? England is governed by Downing-su-eet ; once it was governed by Alfred and Elizabeth . . We defer comment ; but beg o « r readers to mark that Sidonia , who msiy I * presumed to speak the opinions of "Young England , " considers that to attempt the reform of tlTcpresent system by " any new disposition of political powu- "— Chartism for instance—would but " agavavate the evil : " a view not likely to be acquiesced in by Mr . D'lsraeU ' s Chartist admirers .
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DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE . —Mahch . "We thought the first number of this Magazine was all that was excellent , \? eprontmnced the second number to be faultless ; but the present number is even an improvement on its predecessors . Indeed , this is the Magazine for the Millions , and by them it should be universally read . TTe know that even a shilling a month—payable in one amount—is a greater sum than thousands can afford to lay out in the purchase of a book . Still , there are ways and means , which if adopted by the working classes ' would secure for this Magazine an immense circulation . The supporters of circulating libraries , and the frequenters of the metropolitan coffee-houses , alene have
it intheir-power by simply asking for it , to procure it a sale of some thousands . Again , in the readingrooms which in different parts of the country tie working classes have established or have access to , they could easily introduce this Magazine , and once introduced the number of readers whom it would not fail to interest would be sure to continue its demand . Lastly , in howmany small towns and villages , where there are no libraries , do reading-rooms , but where working men , anxious for information and fond of reading , unite for the purchase of a weekly paper , and assemble at each other ' s houses to hear the paper read—how easily could they club their pence for the purchase of this Magazine monthly . In speaking of these several parties , we of course speak oi' those to
whom even a shillingis an object of some importance ; to all who can afford to wivctee the Magazine for themselves , we strongly advise them to do so . They will not only find the most delightful entertainment for the present , but will also have for the future a work whieh will truly grace their book-shelf , a store of instruction avid amusement of the best description for the time to come . _ It is almost needless to say that we have no pecuniary interest in thus advising our readers . We may add that we know nothing of the proprietors of this Magazine , nor have we any personal knowledge of the writers therein . It is for the love of the prinl dvcated b
cipes ao y those - writers , our admiration of their talents , and for the ardent desire we have to see the social and political condition of the millions changed for the better , that we wish them to become readers and supporters of this Magazine , which so nobly and eloquently advocates their cause , the cause of suffering humanity throughout the world , WEditor ' s " St . Giles and St . James" is continued with increasing interest ; the gems of thought which are scattered through the narrative are beautiful beyond all praise . His characters , too , are drawn with a fidelity to nature , only equalled by the magic pen of Dickexs . From an admirable article on the'Window Tax , we give the following extract : —
THE LCXTJBT OF HOHT . We hardly know a more melancholy sight than a house wlQi half its windows blocked up , to avoid the duty payable upon ihem . The mind flies from the out to the inside of such a dwelling' —and a dreary picture it sees there . Booms illuminated only by an eternal twilight , not bright in sunshine—dun when a summer cloud passes —dark from the morning to the evening of the cheerless winter day ; then passages , like the passages from cell to cell in gaols , where you grope , and stumble , and feel your ¦ way ; staircases where your only guides are thebannisters or the wall , and kitchens like the bottom of mines . Outside the sensation is as dismal . You look upon the house deprived of half its windows as upon a one-eyed man . The thing is unnatural . There is no cheerfulness , no lightness of expression about it . The architect may have been skilful , and the form of the fabric may be graceful but the skill has been thrown away—the grace lost . The tax-gatherer has overthrown the artist in the struggle . Ask a Frenchman what he thinks of our cities ! Ten to one the word " triste" will he the reply ; and , compared to continental towns , they are "triste . " The very first thing which strikes an Englishman as he puts his foot upon the soil beyond the Channel , is the light , gay airy appearance of fhe town he is landing at . The houses appear all smiles , and aflability , and cheerfulness—a curious contrast to the dull , forbidding dwellings he has left . In a moment the cause of the difference flashes on him . The windows— "ihaJ"he exclaims , " as our ancestors of old believed that running waters couid stop
the pursuit of unholy thing 6—demons and night riding witches- ^ -so do the salt tiiles of the Channel stay the progress of unholy taxes ; here there is no window du * y . '" To Sir Francis Bashwood , who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer about 1762 , we owe the origin of the window tax , at least iu its present shape . Before that period , a house tax existed ; the manner of reckoning it was then changed , and its amount based upon the number of windows contained in each dwelling . Dashwood was a poor weak creature , anominee of Lord Bute ' "Wilkes fell foul of him in the " iforth Briton , " and Cburcmll lashed him In one of his vigorous satires . It is recorded , that after his window duty feat , the children' in the street—no doubt incited and urged 011 by their seniors—called after him as hepasscd along , "There goes
the worst Chancellor of tbe Exchequer England has ever known . " The asseveration might have been bold , but there was no moieboltmess in ittban truth . If DashwooQ and George Grenvjlle originated ' the light and air tax , it was Pitt who , by Ms immense additions to the burden , rendered it the foully oppressive thing it now is . Sixteen shillings and sixpence per window was the amount of the duty which the heaven-born Minister laid upon heavenborn li glit and air . Here -was a proper retailing of sun-OcamS—a petty huckstering which intercepted the free gift of God , shown to be the most free , by being the most universal of his blessings—and dispensed it to the poor at the rate of sixteen and sixpence per windowfulj Food does not everywhere fall in the same profusion 5 fertilising rain does not everywhere fall in the same warm plenty ; nurturing and fostering heat does not everywhere put
forth the same strength and regenerative power ; but light is everywhere^—it clothes the world as with a garmentit flows flrom the grand centre of the universe to its uttermost limits—it is all-pervading and all-penetrating Through the stained glass of the cathedral , through the loophole of the jirison—through broad portals and through narrow chinks it makes its -way , reviving all , cheering all , blessitig all . Sucli is light , or rather such was intended to be light , Man ' s legislation wars against God ' s designs . Man's contrivances mar God ' s gift . Our firmament may be as the sides of Claude , bnt legislation says , our dwellings shall be as the interiors of Rembrandt . ' Always , unless you pay !—pay for liberty of lungs and of eyespay for a chance of health aHd strength . If you are rich you can—if you are poor , typhus will prevent you from feeling tbe want of either light or air . Ton will need 110 windows in a coffin !
The " Recollections of IlazHtt" is amost delightful paper . " The Genii of Steam , and the Great Britain Steam-snip , " gives us an imaginary conversation between Worcester , Watt , and Fulton ; in which they discuss the past and probable future progress of the mighty power—steam . "The Crimes of Quacks , " and " The Tally System , " ate admirable exposes of two gigantic evils of ourpresent social system , fraught with injury to millions . The poetry is of a superior character this month—we give one piece , which will be found elsewhere ; another , " The Meeting of the Metals , " we reserve for future extract . "We conclude with the ibllowjngcaustic effusion from " The Hedgehog Letters , " wliich we hope Sir James Graham will " read , mark , learn , and inwardly digest : "—
To , > api . e 8 . Tbjlss heaven and the printer that there are such things as ! You , my dear friend , -Bill knowtowhom they apply , and may , tha-efore , receive this letter without its bringing down upon you the government of Naples Howerer , don ' t venture to write me any answer—for I ' m in Sir James Graham's books ; I ' m down—a marked man . Unhappily for me a Polish refugee lives iu our garret , and the eye of Russia is upon me . Nevertheless , there has been , I find , some good luck in this . I ' ve now discovered that the two gentlemen , with beards , who used to hire me-when the Emperor Nicholas was here , to drive them from one end of the town to the other , did so to come at the plot which was hatching in our attic . However , they got nothing out of me , but as old Lumpy saysakey
, warey . Still , I ' m not comfortable . As a cabman , I ' ve been boxed up with Spaniards , Italians , Sardinians , Austrians—men of all countries and all colours . "Well , I don't know at this minute that every letter to Juniper Hedgehog—lhat is every copy—isn't in the office of Sir James Graham ! A nice tiling this to go to bed and sleep upon J "When I think of the sort of letters—full of delicate and tender matters—that has come to me , I own it does make me burn and fluster to think that I may not haveasmgle secret to myself : no—Sir James , the Postoffice burglar—has broken into my affairs , and at this moment he knows all my poverty , all my little stragglings with little debts , in fact , all my inner man . I seem 0 myself to walk about the -world turned inside out ! And
this evil , be it remembered , may be the fate of thousands , although , poor wretcues , they may not know it . Who shall tell how many men ' s souls sre at the Home Office under the Graham lock and key J Still , says Sir James , the whole security , not only of this country , but in truth of the whole world , depends " upon wax and wafers . _ There is no doubt that last summer a ft w Italians were denounced to the government of Naples , and duly shot , —in consequence < rf seals broken at Downiug-street . This is comfortable to reflect upon . Though if Sir James was a squeamish man—which he is not , for no man ever braved the pillory with all its unsavory accidents with a stronger stomach—then would he never again behold the Queen ' s head upon the red post-stamp without thinking of human blood !
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a Sir James , however has two natures , —or rather , two ' parts . Like the picture of Death and the Lady , Sir James is Only corrupt On one side . Thus spoke Tom Buncombe to the foolscap burglar—the sealing-wax Jack ShepjKinl : — " lie lias bad the meanness , ay , and the baseness , 10 conceal his act , and has not had the courage to avow it . " Upon tins , the Speaker , in one of his conciliatory moods , obserred that "such observations were very personal . "Would the honourable gentleman withdraw them V Whereupon Mr . Duncombe answered : — " Sir , 1 applied those observations to the right honourable gentleman in bis Ministerial caparity : to those observations ami to Those topies I adhere ; so they wmst and tlcaU remain . " And they do remain . And Sir James remains " as a minister , " a " mean , " "base , " cowardly agent : How strange is the distinction between the minister and the man—they ' re quite two different things ; like the calipee calipash of a turtle . Sir James Graham rose to answer , with a confidence that would have honoured the Old Bailey . He suM"Mr . Duncombe was a person quite indifferent to him . " This reminds me of the chap , who after he'd been flogged half a mile and more at the tart ' s tail , with all the world looking on , said to the man that had flayed him— "Sir , you're beneath my notice . " I could write more , bin Lnmpy ' s called me for a fare ., The fun , however , is not otcv vet ' , and you may hear move of Sir James in my next . Meantime , if you write , ' don't either use wax or wafers ; it's only wasting property . Send your letters open , and believe me , your faithful friend , Juniper Hedgehog .
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GEORGE GRUIKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOK . March . This is a good number . The illustrations are , as usual , rich ¦ with humour ; but the principal ! of them , entitled " The Folly of Crime , " conveys a lesson to the viciously inclined , which we have never seen surpassed . Moralists labour to dissuade from crime ; priests—themselves too often the greatest criminalsdenounce crime ; legislators and their instruments punish crime ; but Geokoe Cruikshaxk . exhibits the folhj of crime . His inimitable pencil exhibits a thousand-fold moreforcibly ' than pen or tongue of moralist or priest the miserably self-destroying fruits of the course pursued by tlie votary " of vice . The literary contents are good , particularly the poetry : the " Song of the Months" is beautiful . From one of the prose articles we give the following humorous sketch
of—THE STAGE LADIES' MAID . A most striking peculiarity in the position of the stage ladies' maid is the ascendancy she immeoi . ately gains over every one in the house she happens to have got admission into . Tbe only person sfee condescends to patronise is her young mistress , whom , however , she never assists in anything but a love affair , but that even is beneath her notice unless it is clandestine , and terminates in an elopement , which she insists on having the entire conduct of . She permits no scruples of delicacy or propriety on the part of her young lady , who , by the by , seldom expresses any stronger sentiment of self-respect than such as may be implied in the words , "Keally , Betty , I tremble at the step I am about to take , " when the ingenious interrogatory of "Lor , Miss , what ' s the use ? " from the stage
ladies' maid , at once removes any feeling of compunction by wliich the stage voung lady may -for a . moment have been influenced . There is generally a struggle going on in the mind of the latter between duty and affection , when the casting vote is demanded from the stage ladies' maid , who ^ black-balls duty at once , and gives a plumper for disobedience . The stage ladies' maid , nevertheless , receives bribes from the representative of the duty interest , namely , the heavy man who receives thirty shillings a week for doing the respectable utility , and talks of having just dined with the minister . While , however , she gains a knowledge of the heavy man's plans , and accepts from him at every Interview a heavy purse filled with gallery cheeks ; as a reward for her exertions in his behalf , the stage ladies' maid is urging-her
young mistress to rush into the threadbare arms of a halfpay captain who makes love to her , by whistling up at the window , following her into the Park , kissing her maid , and practising other elegant little arts which military men —on the stage—are ordinarily addicted to . Perhaps , however , the most curious portion of tnc stage ladies ' maid's conduct is her treatment of the master of the house , whom she keeps in a state of continual subjection , by an uninterrupted course of insult and violence . She ordinarily addresses him as an old hunks , shakes liev fist in his face , thrusts his hat and cane into his hand , — all the wliile pushing him towards the door . —when , she
has any purpose to serve by getting rid of him . If lie begins to talk , she talks him down , so that he can only splutter and say , " Whew , " but he never thinks of either giving her a month's warning , or paying her wages and sending her about her business . The stage ladies' maid nevev thinks of leaving the drawing-room when visitors are present , but often remains in it alone to sing a song with Swiss variations which must be heaud all over the house to the great disturbance of the family . In dress she always excels her mistress , and frequently wears very thin muslin over pink satin , the muslin being open all the way down the back , and an apron with pockets of very recherche embroidery . Heartily recommending the Table-Booh to all our friends , we conclude with the following tit-bit : ~ r ON THE PKESBXT RAILWAY SPECULATION MAN 3 . * , As gudgeons hurry to their fate , To railway bubbles some incline ; Forgetting that beneath the bait A hook ' s the end of many a line .
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THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE—March . A good number this of our old favourite . The chapters of Mr . Carijeion ' s tale , " Fatherland , " contained in this number impress us with a highei opinion of this talc than we had previously entertained . " Travel and Talk , " by Luke Rodeiv , ia continued , and , despite some eccentricities of the writer , is most entertaining and instructive . His denunciation of the system of cruelty formerly universally pursued towards children by their schoolmasters , will be read with much interest , and the just and Jundlv sentiments of the ^ yrite ^ will un . deubtedly be reciprocated by the entire body of his readers . His descriptions of Naples are the most delightful we have ever perused ; but we by no means
sympathise with lus regrets that the English Sovereign has not a palace as magnificent as that of the Casevta : tov this reason—that sueh pomps must be paid for by the people . We are not wanting in admiration for the beauties of architecture , nor insensible to the charms of that magnificence with which princes delight to surround themselves ; but we would have the revenues of states devoted to other and better purposes than pandering to the selfish luxuries of one or a few individuals . " We would have the people well fed , well clothed , and well housed , before tlw people ' s inoney ; is expended in apportioning indescribable luxuries , and building palaces for kings . We admire national edifices ; and agree with . Luke Rodes that most of the buildings so called in
England are a disgrace to the English name ; but let us add , that theitenncls where tens of thousands of the English people are doomed to vegetate are a disgrace a million-fold more degrading . We would have all this changed : and then say we " all hail" the triumphs of architecture , and let England in her public edifices outrival , if that be possible , the glories of Greece and Rome;—with this proviso , that the national edifices shall be the property of the commonwealth , for the use , advantage , and enjoyment of the universal people , and not as now the exclusive nests of Roval automatons and public plunderers .
Luke Roden furnishes his readers , no doubt unconsciously , with the most cutting satire on the vaunted glories of these Italian palaces . On the very grounds in the neighbourhood of , and close to the Palace of Caserta , the pauper population swarmed in crowds , and the noise of the miserable ' wretches preferring their petitions to the visitors was absolutely deafening . These are the natural fruits of kingcraft , and that system of class domination to which Luke Roden is politically attached . Perish the palaces , say we , so that pauperism perish with them ; if that be the only way of ridding us of the monster-degradation .
"the Adventures of a Scamp" become every chapter more interesting ; and now that bis misfortunes have commenced , we may expect them to become still more so , as gentlemen of Ilia character usually shine best when put to their wit ' s ends . " The Philosophy of Newspapers" is a capital article , by Asgcs ( B . Reach ) , combining with amusement some sterling reflections which the gentlemen of the " fourth estate ' would do well to reflect on . $ rom " The Fast , the Present , and the Possible "—a very clever paper—we take tlie following : —
TRIUMPHS OF THE . OKiLO-SAXON'S . To tin s union of Celtic , Saxon , Danish , and JJorman blood , mingling in one general stream , must we attribute that rare combination of impulse , caution , courage , energy , and indomitable perseverance , which marks the English , nationally , as the natural aristocracy of tbe world . It produced the intellect and abstract wisdom of a Bacon ; the world-filling poetry of a Sliakspeare ; the ruling genius of a Ilampden ; the stern purposes of a Pvm ana an Eliot ; the reli gious enthusiasm of a Cromwell ; and tlie lofty works of a Milton . It perpetuated the naval ascendancy , first commenced by an Alfred ; and furnished the military skill which the whole world haB witnessed tmaer many names , besides Those of a Marlborough and a W ellmgton . It went forth t , ; other lauds , and gave them a Washington aTlu a praT ) V . lin ; and tho sea banner ot England was once more ren . -, vned in its " star-spangled " It
offspring . gave to the v .-orld a Brindley , a Watt , a Smeaton ; and taught the lesson that the PAmn \ c » U jnghtly understood , was only . 1 disguised Messing By the sweat of the brains within their foreheads , these great ones of the earth made clear to men ' s understandings that human drudgery was to cease . 1 te estaTOsheu a dominion more powerful than that of the Romnns—a dominion over the powers of nature , never to cease till human intellect shall wither , and be no more . Many are the nations of Europe who have sent forth colonies into other lands , but none so numerous asthose of the English '; and still more remarkable is the fact , that the English or their descendants haveinvariablypossesaedthemaelve 6 of . thedo minion over the colonies offoreign nations , whenever causes of dispute have arisen . In the Bast IndieSjthe French possessed colonies . During the process of wftr they changed hands , and the English became their masters .
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At the Cape of Good Hope , the Dutch possessed colonies , and the 'English became theirmasters . At the Mauritius , the French possessed a colony , and the English became its masters . In Canada the Preueh possessed a colony , and the English became its wasters . In Louisiana the French possessed a colony , and the English descendants became . its masters . In Florida , the Spaniards possessed a colony , and the English descendants became its masters ; and gradually from Texas , these same English descendants will penetrate southwards , and ultimately become the rulers of Mexico . , In La Plata the Spaniards possessed a colony , and the English took possession of it , but were driven out again , because they went merely as military adventurers , and not as rulers . Yet now , \>\ a slower yet surer process , they are gradually colonising
and gaming , the dominion . In Xcw South Wales and Van Dieman ' s Land , is tlie English vace , though of the ruder Mnd , surely planted . In Tahiti , the Friendly Islands , ihe Sandwich Islands , and New Zealand is the same stock fixed . The Grecian Islands are under their rule ; and gladly would the Grecian mainland receive them in exchange for the imbecile Bavarian . In the West India Islands , Spaniards , Frenchmen , and Dutchmen , have possessed lands now ruled by Englishmen , Even the unwholesome Sierra Leone is their domain ; and the time must ultimately come when the Barbary States will rescue themselves from French misrole , by proclaiming themselves the subjects of English laws . Over the largest portion of India is their sway acknowledged ; and the land they have gained in China by the Strong hand , will
gradually accumulate , till a heateu and vanquished people acknowledge that theirs are the circumstances in which an invasion is a questionable evil on the one hand , and a positive good on the other . And where shall we seek the reason of tliis triumphant superiority of the English race , over all others ? In the fact , that they are the most just and most intelligent of conquerors in modern times . They rule by the same process which ensured the dominion of Home over conquered nations . The people they conquer are happier under their rule than under a » j tAheir . 1 he 5 renDh in Algeria stable their steeds in the holy mosques ; the English in India offer no violence even to the most absurd of religions , but respect the prejudices of their subjects . The French are destructives- —tlie " bricklayers' labourers" of revolution : the English are Conservatives , destroying nothing till they
have well considered the necessity . Not that the men wielding the English power have always been superior , to tbe wielders of French power . On the contrary , they have frequently been inferior to them . The most advanced philosophy of human progress is put forth by French writers ; but the utmost a Government can do is to guide the torrent of natural impulse ; no Government can wholly change its direction . French rulers and writers may be in advance of their countrymen , and English rulers may be in the rear , but the different results which history gives of tlie two nations up to the present hour , mark distinctly the differing national characteristics . The preponderating principles of action in France are those of the Celtic virtues and vices ; while those of England arc marked by the stronger qualities of the Teutonic race .
We cannot close this notice without expressing the delight we have felt at reading the " Old Man ' s Ramble in the Footsteps of Whittington , " by G . H . Francis . It would be but tantalizing our readers , and doing ah injustice to the author , to give any brief extract we might squeeze in this week ; we , therefore , resist the temptation , hoping to have the opportunity of quoting from it at length in a future number of the Star . The illustrations this month are not numerous , but are good . On the whole this is an excellent number , and affords us the opportunity of again recominenciing tlie Magazine to our readers , which we do most cordially ,
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THE ILLUSTRATED FAMILY . JOURNAL .-No . I , —London : Sherwood and Co ,, Paternostervow . SoLouoNwasawiscman . atlcastsowearetold . For our own part we have always considered that the proofs of his foolishness are much more evident than those of his wisdom . But let that pass ; he has the name of being the wisest of men ;' and in spite of Siukspeabe a name is everything . Still , we fancy when he declared that there was " nothing new under the aun , " Ms wisdoxnsMp was for once , at least , at fault . Or at any rate if true in his own day , his wise saw , so often quoted , is altogether erroneous now . Solomon knew nothing of the wonders of literature . He could not have had the remotest prescience of the
wonders of the cheap literature ot the present day , otherwise he would never have left on record the now exploded fallacy that there is " nothing new under the sun . " Here is sometliing new—the Illustrated Family Journal—something that" Solomon , ill all his glory" and with all his power , could not command . We confess that we ourselves had doubted the possibility of printers and publishers producing anything which should exceed in cheapness and beauty publications already in the field ; bnt we were wrong as well as Soz . omo . v . Here is a publication of the possibility of which we had never dreamed . Most of our readers may know the size of the new series of Chambers ' Edinburgh Journal ; this publication is of the same form and size . Each number contains sixteen double column pages ; the paper is good , the type hew and clear , and the printing beautifully executed . But there is something morev-a feature not to be found in any similar publication , viz .. a profusion of wood
engravings done in the first style of the art . The first number contains , bes-ides the beautiful head-piece , no less than ten of these wood engravings , of which tsvo or three are perfect gems . Of the literary contents it is our gooa fortune to be able to speak in equally favourable terms . Amongst other articles tlie first number contains one of Tensyson ' s beautiful poems — "Mariana . " One of Douglas Jbrrolb ' s pleasant theatrical sketches . A capital review of Seyjeant Talfourd's " Vacation Rambles . " A description of the progress and processes of " Photogenic Drawing . " A romance from the French , < fcc , &c , The fil'St number of the Illustrated Family Journal was published on the first inst ., the price is but twopence ; and we understand not less than £ 20 worth of engravings will appear in each number . Such a combination of art and literature cannot * faD to prove a hit . The success of tlie Illustrated Family Journal is certain .
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PunncATio . vs Received . —Tait's Edinburgh Mi aaine—Wade ' s London Review—Simmond ' s Colonial Maya . zine ~ The Edinburgh Tain , Part II .
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BIOGRAPHY ,-THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH . { Compiled from various sources . ) A gentlemen of the name of Smith , who resided at Lydiard , near Taunton , in Devonshire , was the father of the reverend and learned person whose name stands at the head of this article . Although his family were inhabitants of Devonshire , it so happened that the subject of this memoir was born at Woodfoi'd , in Essex . The ancient school founded at Winchester by William of Wykeham was the seat of learning at which Sydney Smith imbibed his first draughts of knowledge ; there laying the foundation of those attainments , and developing those intellectual powers , which have during the last half-century exercised a much more considerable influence upon
the literature and social condition of England than to the cursory observer might at first view appear . He was elected to New College , Oxford , in the year 1180 , where , ten years afterwards , he obtaine ' d a fellowship ; but it was not until six years subsequent to the last mentioned date that he took the degree of M . A . Some years afterwards he became tutor to the son of Mr , Beach , M . P . for Cirencester , and accompanied himto Edinburgh , where he remained for five vears , during a considerable portion of which he officiated at the episcopal chape . 1 ia that City . At tliis time and place his career as an author may be said to have commenced ; and amongst the earliest of his literal ? acquaintances were Lords Brougham , Jeffrey , and Murray . It was from a suggestion oi
Mr . Smith that one of the most famous periodicals in Europe , originated . He proposed to the noble and learned persons just mentioned—all of them still living—that they should unite with him in Starting a review ; and of that publication the subject of this memoir was appointed editor . Few readers require to be informed that the publication here referred to is one whieh has enjoyed almost uninterrupted popularity for a period of more than forty years , under the title of the Edinburgh lievieiv . Very soon after the commencement of the review Mr . Smith ceased to be the editor , for he removed to London , Wliere lie settled in the year 1803 , and in the 35 th year cf Ms age married the daughter of Mr . Pybus , the banker ,
That such a man as Mr . Smith should become an extremely popular preacher will readily be imagined ; accordingly we find him aooxit this time in the full enjoyment of fashionable notoriety , preaching at the Foundling Hospital , and the Berkeley and the Fitzvoy Chapels . One of the publications of that period describes him as having been " engaged " to preach at those places of resort ; just as one might speak of a theatrical " star" being " engaged" to perform at Corent-garden or Drury-lane . Doubtless the Rev . Sydney Smith was , in his own way , a star of the first magnitude ; and too happy were the proprietors of whatever trading chapel had the good fortune to place in their pulpit a man whose sermons were pointed and elaborated without the appearance of art ; natural , without the affectation of ease , and spirited
without any flagrant breach of " the ecclesiastical proprieties . " . It was impossible , however , for an author of his reputation to disturb the repose of the pulpit by those sparkling compositions which - alone could flow from his pen , without its being aserted that he ' transgressed the ancient rules according to which sermons have been composed for '' time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary ;" there was ,: therefore , no lack of self-elected judges to dispute his orthodoxy , or of blunderers to criticise his style ' : - . ; •¦> - .. ¦ ¦•¦<¦ ¦ "Although Mr . ' Smith , had now ceased to be the editor of the Edinburgh Review , —although he had ; aa he himself modestly says , " placed itsmanagemeni in tiao stronger hands of lord Jeffrey and Lord Brougham , . he yet continued to . be one of its most active contributors , writing frequently on prison discipline , on tnc abuses and corrupting influence of the Game Laws , on transportation to Botany Bay , on toleration ,
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on Methodism , on education , on Irish bulls , mad Quakers , chimneysweepers , counsel for prisoners , and a variety of other subjects . To the criticism of individual writers , or the estimate of literary character , he gave but little of his time or attention , The only person to whom he lias devoted more than a single article was the celebrated Charles James Fox , a man for whom Mr . Smith ' s admiration was intense ; and ts whom , in personal appearance at least , he is said to have borne a strong resemblance . It is not unworthy of observation , that the late Lord Holland , the nephew of Fox , warmly patronised Mr . Smith ; and when Lord Erskine held the great seal Lord Holland prevailed on that noble and learned person to bestow on Mr . Smith the living of Frostonin , in
Yorkshire , where he resided for some years . It was about this time , or shortly before it , th « at lie attacked the system of education pursued . at Oxford with so much ardour as to dvaw upon him a aeyeve reply from the Provost of Oriel . The chapels where Mr . Smith preached in London were crowded with the wealthy / the dignified , and even with the learned inhabitants of this great city ; a circumstance which naturally attracted the attention of those gentlemen who manage the affairs of the Royal Institution . It happencd . thereforc , that before he went to live in Yorkshire it was thought that his wit , acumen , aud learning might be displayed to advantage elsewhere than in the pulpit , lie therefore became a lecturer on the Mtes lelins
at the Roy « al Institution , and , of course , his prolusions were attended , according to the theatrical phrase , by " overflowing and fashionable audiences . " In everything wliich he attempted he appears to have been eminently successful . At college he graduated with honour and obtained a fellowship . He projected and contributed to a review which has enjoyed the highest degree of prosperity ; lie attempted an ambitious style of preaching , with a vigour of talent which distanced all rivalry ; he became a public lecturer , and the whole world of May Fair flocked to x \ lbemarlestreetto enjoy his humour and become enlightened by his researches ; he published political works which have gone through editions so numerous , that as many as 2 C , 000 ' copies of some have heen sold : he
lived long enough to enjoy Ins reputation , and to attain to a greater * age than falls to the lot of ordinary mortals ; and yet those who appreciate wit , who can admire learning , and who honour the man that used both for the good of his species , will be disposed to think that , old as Sydney Smith was , he died too soon . It was one of the Whig Ministry of 1806 who conferred upon Sydney Smith the living which he held in Yorkshire ; bnthe was not long settled there when the cry . « f " No-Popery" expelled the Government of that day from the councils of the King , awl Mr . Perceval ruled in their stead . It was then that the most popular of Mi-. Smith ' s works made its appearance . The celebrated Letters of Pettr Plymleyunder which designation it was the pleasure of Mr .
Smith then to writer-went through so many editions that the anti-Catholic party stood aghast , and really trembled for Protestant ascendancy . In 1829 lie had received the rectory of Combe Florey , in Somersetshire , a living the value of which is about £ 300 per annum . In the year 1831 , during the Ministry of Lord Grey , the Rev . Sydney Smith became one of the canons residentiary of St . Paul ' s . Mr . Smith had by this time declined into the vale of years , and the pecuniary advantages derivable from the exercise of his literary powers had ceased to become an object to _ him : his pen was therefore in some degree laid aside , and ho Was not induced to resume it until an occurrence took place whieh he regarded as a downright invasion of his property and of the riehta of
deans and chapters , which , as a member of one of those corporations , he had sworn to defend , Lord Jollll Russell had introduced j ' nto Parliament a , bill which very materially interfered with' the interests of those bodies . The provisions of that bill may have possessed many good qualities , or have been disfigured by innumerable faults ; but the merits of the controversy have not outlived the occasion ; the part , however , wliich Mr . Smith took in the dispute will not soon be forgotten . Lord John Russell was a Minister of the Crown , and a member of that ducal house to which eyery Whig looks up with hereditary veneration ; but tor these tilings . Mr . Smith now cared not a jot . The property of himself and his brethreix had been placed injeopai'dy by the Government measure ,
and so , with merciless resolution , he set about the task ot making mincemeat of its authors . Letters from the facetious canon residentiary instantly ap ^ peared in the daily papers . Many people , even Whigs , began to think that he had the right side of the question , but those who thought differently exclaimed , how dreadful that a man professing "liberal " polities , and promoted by the " liberal party , " should thus treacherously wound his patrons ' . These repl'Oaclies Sat lightly upon his conscience . The feelings of a Whig may be wounded sometimes with impunity ; bnt let a Government beware how they touch Ms pocket . The assault of Mr . Smith upon Lord John was marked by the fierce intensity of personal interest . Every weapon of controversy was
pressed into the service . ; one moment the reverend gladiator was seen prostrating his antagonist with the heavy artillery of his argument , and the next overwhelming him with banter and ridicule—here assailing him with an irresistible fact , there Laughing in Ills face—now launching the thunderbolts of his indignation , now giving way to irrepressible drollery . His late letters on the Pennsylvania ™ are fresh in the recollection of our readers .- They supply the most varied illustrations of knavery , the drollest sarcasms on fraud . " He was in Iris 74 th year at the time of his death , which took place at his residence , Grocnstrect , May Fair , on Saturday evening-, Feb . 22 nd . We cannot close this brief mention of the dates of Ms long and useful life , without quoting his own accountjof li imsclf , published afew months since in the Jicv no dee dmx Mamies . It was addressed to M . Eugene Robin , the writer of an acute and well-toned critique upon his works . "I am 74 years old , and
being canon of St . Paul ' s , in London , and a rector of a parish in the country , my cime is divided equally between town and country . lam living amidst . the best society in the metropolis , am at ease in my circumstances , in tolerable health , a mild Whig , a tolerating churchman , and much given to talking , laughing , and noise . I dine with the rich in London , and physic the poor in the country , passing from the sauces of Dives to the sores of Lazarus . I am . upon the whole , an happy man , have found the world an entertaining' world , and am heartily thankful to Providence for the part allotted to me in it . " Sydney Smith ' s writings , notwithstanding their apparently temporary character , have given him what is likely to be an enduring place in English literature . It is a rare distinction , but one which , ought to be written on his monument , that while he wasted no gift of those so liberally bestowed on him in ministering to the "unworthy pleasures of others , or in promoting his own aggrandisement ^ -as a wit , he was more beloved than feared .
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A Fcn > : y A » v £ KT « BMKN ' -r . —In the ... Minium appears the fbUawtog announcement , ; .-- Odd volumes wanted ^ Broughnm ' s Statsenien , Jm edition , vol . I . " Our fifend Toby .-. limta that his old master Mr . ivnch , is « i % -jwglisont "i not pointing out this refuge for thedestiteta wlueU w charitably opened for Lord Brougham to >« ongst lus quondam associates , . whore he yet « w ^ f ^ ved as Mr Brougham ( quantum umtof-ius Vrf ' * . & >> . ^ rampant demagogue and Edinburgh reviewer . ' ¦ —' . , - No Go—The French chemists p \« to have detected both lead and copper in the , human way . English beggars affirm , on the contrary , tftattaere are individuals from whom copper cannot posbiwy- oe extracted . \
Love is often a solitary leaf , but neither stoim .. nor blight can fade it . " Like the perfume that : & . dead flower sends forth , it is sweet when all the gay ' sunshine has departed ; when all its bloom is ps ^ i , ithas the frngrancy of memory ; it is the last lingering beam that glows long after sun and star have ? ct—a refuge from the tempestuous and bereaving su-. ; ; : is of life . Done Brown . —Mr . Greene , the chairman of committees of the whole house in the House of Commons , is said to be tired of his job ; and no wonder ; for if the House will persist in talking so much as they do—keep the poor gentleman screwed to his chair for seven or eight hours at a stretch , night after night—it is evident , a \\ Greene ns lie '» , Vie will very soon " be done $ rozvn . "—Great G ' uu .
Killed at List . —We regret to say the House oi Commons voted its own destruction last week . Mr . \ Mackinnon obtained leave to introduce a bill to " prohibit the nuisance of smoke" ! As everything in the House begins in smoke and ends in smoke , the passing of the hill will , as a mate ofcovwse , " put a period to the existence" of this branch of our Legisture . —Ibid . Hebdomadal Boabds . —Oxford , Fj ; b . 13 . —I have been , sir , a carpenter for many years , but never yet met with a "hebdomadal board . " "What is it ? Where does it come from ? Is it the sort of wood that " heads of houses" are cut out of ? A few words from you would make the matter a deal planer x to Your humble servant , A Plane Dealer . | We never saw one of them . —Ed . 1—Ibid .
The late Edmusd Keajj . —Kean had his degrees of intoxication , according to a calculation made by a faithful servant of his , named Miller . Tliis man was devotedly attached to his master—all menials adored him—and if Kean happened to lie dining with a party of gentlemen , which he was obliged to do sometimes , Miller , who was as anxious about his conducting himself with propriety aa a father could possibly be , when it was getting late , and the servants ware ordered to leave the room , would take his station near the door , and from time to time make the following inqxiirics of any of the party who might happen to pasahini . — How is master getting on , sir ? Oh ! very well , Miller , would be the probable reply . Is he getting—eh ? says Miller , significantly . Getting what ? says the stranger . Getting tipsy , sir , if you must have it . Oh ! just a little . Ah ! Ithoughhowit would be , Miller would say
with a sifrli . with a sigh . And he promised me he'd behave ) nmse ) f . In half an hOW he would make another inquiry'to the same effect , and receive for answer , "Oh ! he ' s just a little high , glorious company ! He ' s just going to sing us a song . " Going to fs ' mg ? says MUW , with anxiety . " What is lie going to sing , sir ? What ' s the name of the song ?" The Stovm . The Storm ! Ah , I sec how it is ; if he's going to sing the Stovm he ' s getting very drunk . Another half hour would pass , and he would listen at the key-hole , or , perhaps , open the door quietly , and thrust his head into the room , withdraw it in an instant , and , shutting the door , turn round with a look of horror , and exclaim " It ' s all over ! lie ' s past hope ! he's out of his senses—he ' s talking Latin ¦ "
Too Early on too Late . —An actor of the name of Bland attached to the Durham Theatre was xised to perform the part of Gatesby in Richard III . Richard fiad so impressed upon his mind the high importance of his being veiy quick in saying ' the Duke of Buckingham is taken , '' that on one occasion he announced the joyful tidings Uro minutes too soon . Again at the first pause , he popped in his head and proclaimed , " my lord , the Dwlre of Buckingham is taken ; " and again was pulled back by the tail of Ms tunic . When the right time actually arrived , lie was a little too late , and Richard , foaming with rage , shouted out— "Now , sir ?"—" The Duke of Buckingham , " said Jemmy very calmly , "is taken now byG-. » \
O'Conneli / s " Ghost . "—Daniel the " Big , " the Daniel Lambert of green ould Ireland , as well as the agitating Daniel O'Connell , of that country of "hereditary bondsmen , " spoke the following words , ' by way of peroration to a speech which l \ c delivered to a repale meeting on Monday last : — " It is difficult to say how long the term of my life may last , " pathetically exclaimed the Agitator ; " nature tells me that it cannot be long ere I shall be called to another world , and when I shall lie in my cold grave , ^ and my voice can be no longer heard by the people , " ** I may yet warn England not to dare to continue in
their present tyranny . — Vide Morning Chroniek ot Wednesday for the above . -Either this tag to O'Gonnell ' s last agitating speech contains a redoubtable "bull , " or the great Agitator has " fooled to the top of their bent" tho superstitious confidence of Paddy-land . —Satirist . Baron Meb : eb ! iam . —That the speeches and general political conduct of Sir Edward lvnatclibull formed only so much moke , without perceptible fire , has ever been our opinion , excepting when turnpike gates have been in question . The government , at length , appeal's to think with us , for we perceive he is about to be created a peer , by the style and title of Baron jYefeJrsJmvvv . —Ibid .
A GIBBS AT THE VATICAN" , " The Tveasxiver-CaTtYmal has heen suspended hy the Pope , owing to a defalcation of his accounts . "—X » ai yagers . Moon talks of his peep At old Louis PiiiUPPE , But never to rival great Gibiss may he hope ; Sis practice on Ckoly A Cardinal holy Has trilid Oil a victim no less than the Pops . Take courage then , Gibbs , Since to " brush with the dibs " Is accounted bo " smart" in a quarter so high : One fool ' s-cap you ' ve got , And why should you not Aspire to a Cardinal ' s hatby-and-bye ?—If ** . Bbougham complained , the other day , that tiie House of Lords was " disagreeably cold . " Lyndhurst said he did not find it at all cold , and could only ascribe the sufferings of Brougham to his not having the same dress that lie tlie Chancellor had . Lord Lyndhurst never spoke a greater truth ; all ilie clothes in Myers's shop , were it possible to place them on the " shivery sliakery" limbs of poor Harry , would fail to make him feel comfortable and warm in his scat in the Lords . No ; nothing less than the robes of the Chancellor could restore his wonted circulation by the impetus it would give to his mental and phvsical system . —Ibid .
PARADOX . Thelnsh Land Commissioners , Pursuing their impartial plan Of hearing all and minding none , Subposna'd and examined Dak . " But Dan , " says Devon , " brazenly Said ail were wrong who'd gone before : High rent and great prosperity Went still together , " Dahiei . swore , Casxmreaoh ' s State C < mRiBi 3 Tio : s , on the score of the Income-tax , as he informed the legislators of St . Stephen ' s the other evening , amounts to something handsome . Nevertheless , some of his outgoings are much larger than the Income-tax . .. The Opera is a heavier impost than Peel ' s , and a singingwoman or danseuse will , in a single season , draw from him a vast deal more than the Premier has any chance of obtaining under the most favourable civ * . eumstances . —Ibid .
A Max of Letters . —A few years ago the Ministry of that day was styled the Literary Ministry . The present one well deserves that appellation . As a " man of letters , " Graham alone would immortalize any Ministry . —Ibid . . Castlereaoh has been inhalingthe " brinyjbree 7 . es'' ' at Brighton , and doing as well as a sprightly young noble of independent means , and who pays a large sum per annum to the Income-tax , may be expected to do . The other day , promenading on the Chain Pier , he inquired of the collector how the structm-a answered ? Did it pay ? Themaushookhis . hcr . ct . and replied in the negative . Whereupon hislord § h !]< improvised the following : — .. . ' ' ' .. . ; 'Tis truth the tollman tells , I fear , ,. That badly pay 3 this Brighton pier ; But , lord , howmany Peers I'd name , Their tradesmen say , do just the same !—!!>«?
Mr . Ex-Barox Gursey . —This " ermmed Senior of the Bench , " when called to the ¦ bar—Of the Old Bailey—somefiftyyears ago , was a Liberal in politics , rather extremely so ; " in witness Whereof , " we may mention that he christened one of hia sons Russell and another Sydney , after the celebrated Lord Wiliiam and Sir Algernon . In . his character of judge , however , the learned baron was neither a liboral expounder nor a liberal administrator cf the . law . - That , " perhaps , may have been the effect ot'his'longpi-iictifeo ^ at the Old Bailey , for it can hardly be expected i § i& ~ : ' an . advocate whose clients are all eonfined < & : $ } & : views , should cultivate € n ? ar ^ ed , one 3 . hiinself ; --rijii ^ .. , - BBODOHAM . - BOTIXISG THB BOiB ^ .. / ,. , "'' X ' ¦ . ' - ¦ 'Tis said of Lord B ,, none is keener tiiaii'iie " ' ' 5 To spit a wild hoar with eclat ; But he never gets near to the brute with his spew ' , He gives it so very much tow .
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A BOWL OF"PUNCH , " FRESH BREWED . CURIOSITIES 03 ? XIBHDER . For a time , the field near Haverstock-tevrace , Hampstead—the scene of the late terrific murderpromises to empty the parks and Kensington Gardens of the beauty and fashion generally to be found there . We learn from the Post , that two days after the discovery of the murder—Several Carriages , containing fculles , drove up to the field , and gentleman on horseback , attended by their grooms , rode across to view the place . Not content with seeing , many brought away houghs and twigs f tom the surrounding trees , and chips from the fence against Which the unfortunate roan fell alter he was struck , anil whereon tho marks jjf the bloody fingers of the murderers were imprinted .
Of course these boughs and twigs will be carefully planted , and so may grow up and flourish a continual memento of agony and blood . Thus , instead of camellias and other exotics , forming opera bouquets for" beauty and fashion , " we may for a time have twigs of hawthorn and privet , from the field of murder , as the only . wear . We humbly suggest , too , that the " chips from the fence" should be curiously preserved—set in gold , as shawl-broaches and other trinkets for those " ladies" of susceptible hearts who nock to a scene of frightful homicide as to a flowershow—and who inspect and pry into the bloody fingermarks of murderers , as though they were exhausting their admiration on some new geranium or wonderful fuchsia . One of the supposedmurderer ' s buttons was found in the field : what a gem that' would be , shining in the bosom of lovely and fashionable woman Should the asaassins happen to want money for their defence , we doubt iwt tluvt they could obtain a very handsome- sum by selling locks of their hair to fashion and beauty—the genuineness of the article duly warranted by the turnkeys and hangman . As certain ladies and gentlemen cast such an air ot fashion about murder , we earnestly advise M . Jullien immediately to put forth his Haverstock Polka . The music-sheet might . be further recommended by a very striking lithograph , " commemorating the atrocity .
Sir James Graham and the Spv System . — -It is said , in extenuation of the conduct of Sir James Graham , in opening privatelettets , that it enables him to do away with the spy system . This may be true to a certain extent ; but Sir James docs away with , the spy system as the Lord Mayor does away with the Lord Mayor ' s fool , by performing tlie duties himself . It is clciir enough that no ministry is in want of spies while it has the services of a Sir James Graham . Our Game Laws , etc ., to wit . —From- a calculation recently made , it appears that Franco possesses at present no less than sixty-two , thousand one hundred arid seventy-seven laws ! We doubt if . England , with all its wealth in tliis respect , can hiast of as many- ; but then what acomrort it must be to an Enelishman ; that all the laws of his country are laws for « ie poor , ana not one of them a law exclusively for the rich !' Warning ™ Travellers . —Lovers of single blessedness , 'beware ! Bachelors who love your liberty , remain at home ! Tho laBt census ot France has just disclosed the awful fact that , in Paris alone , there are no less than 5 J , 000 widows !!!
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