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NOTICE . The "Feast of Ht € Poets" will be . postponed from the ' 22 nd io the 29 th inst .
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HARROW BEMINISOENCES—PBEi AM ) BYROX . ' Peel and I were at Harrow together . Peel is a knowing fellow , and mil get on in the world . . He beat ine at classics , lint in declamation I was at least his equal . "Moore ' s lAfeo / Evroii . " Robert las doubled his fortune , and ruined Ms country . "— Sir Robert Fed ' s fatter . " All onr happiness consists in being well deceived . "English JhOUc . . SSBOS . " There is a pleasure in tbe lonely woods ; There is a rapture on the sounding shore : There is soactg when none intrudes , By the deep sea , and music in its roar : I love not man the less , but nature more From these our interviews , in which I steal Prom all I may be , or have been before , " To mingle / wish the universe , and feel WhatI can ne ' er express , yet cannotall conceal "
PEEL . « There is a pleasure in the artful dodge ; There is a rapture in the official phrase ; Tberefis society where none intrudes—On Treasury bench , and Cabinet dinner days , In Downing-street , SL Stephen ' s echoing floor : Hove not man the less , but self the more , From these re-unions , wheuce iny colleagues find _ Life ' s truest wisdom is—i « R to deceive manftmi . " . ¦ BXEosr . ' 6 that the desert were my dwelling place , " With one fair spirit for my minister , That I might all forget the human race , And , haling no one , love but only her . Te elements , in whose congenial stir I feel my soul esalted ! can ye not Accord me-such a Twang 5 Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot , Though with , them to converse mav rarelv be our lot !"
PEEt . " 0 that St . Stephen ' s were my dwelling place , With a well gulled' majority mine own , That I might hunilrag the whole human race , And , hating no one , love myself alone : Te ' ayes ' and ' noes ? in whose congenial stir I fed my soul exalted f can ye not - - Accord me such a party ? Do I err 2 n deeming such must dwell in such a spot , Though well to gull them aU niaj- rarely be my lot V Chronicle .
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COMNGSBY ; or , THE NEW GENERATION . JJr B . D'JsniEij , Esq ., ALP . —London : Colbum , Great Alarlborough-street . ( Continued from the Northern Star of MarcJi SJ S 1 SOK 1 A AKD CO 5 ISC 5 BX—IIEBBEW ASCEKDAKCT . Since your society lias become agitated in England , aud powerful combinations menace your institutions , you find the once loyal Hebrew invariably arrayed in the same ranks as the leveller and the latitudinarian , and prepared to support the policy -which may even endanger bis life and property , rather than tamely continue under a system which seeks to degrade him . The Tories lose an important election at a critical moment ; 'tis the Jews come forward to vote against them . The Church is alarmed at the scheme of a latitudinarian university and learns , with relief , that funds are not forthcoming
for its establishment ; a Jew immediately advances and endows it Yet the Jews , Coningsby , are essentially Tories . - Toryism , indeed , is but copied from the mighty prototype which has fashioned Europe . And every generation they must become more powerful audmore daugcrons to the society which is hostile to them . Do yon think that the quiet , humdrum persecution of a decorous representative of an English university can crush those ¦ who have successively baffled the" Pharaohs ,-If ebuchadsezzar , Rome and the feudal ages ? The-fact is , you cannot destroy a pure race of the Caucasian organisation . It is a physiological fact ; a simple law of nature , which has baffled Egyptian and Assyrian kings , Roman emperors , and Christian inquisitors . Kb penal laws , no physical ioriures , can effect that a superior race should be absorbed in an inferior , or be destroyed by it . The mixed , persecuting races disappear ; the pure , persecuted race remains .
You never ooscrve a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do not greatly participate . The first Jesuits were Jews : that mysterious Russian diplomacy which so alarms "Western Europe , is organised and principally carried on by Jews ; . that mighty revolu tion which is at this moment preparing in Germany , and which will be , in fact , a second and greater Reformation , and of which so little is , as yet , known hi England , is entirely developing under the auspices of Jews , who almost monopolise the professorial chairs of- Germany . JTeander , the founder of Spiritual Christianitv , and who
is Regius Professor of Divinity hi the University of Berlin , is a Jew ; Benary , equally famous , and in the same university , is a Jew ; AVehl , the Arabic Professor of Heidelbarg ^ is a Jew . Tears ago , when I was in Palestine , I met a German student who was accuiualatuig materials ibr the History of Christianity , and studying the gwjius of the placs ; a modest and learned man . It was Weil ; then unknown ; since become the first Arabic scholar of the day , and the author of "The life of Mahomet . " But for the German professors of this race , their name is Legion . I think there are more than' ten at Berlin alone .
1 told yon Just noiv that I was going up to town tomorrow , Itecause I always made it a rule to interpose ¦ wh en affairs of state -wereon the carpet ; otherwise , I never interfere . I hear of peace and war in newspapers , bci I am never alarmed , except when I am informed that the sovereigns want treasure ; then I know that monarchs are serious . A few years back we were applied to by Russia . Row , there has beeu no friendship between the Court of St . Petersburg and my family . It has Dutch connexions which have generally supplied it ; and our representa tion ? in favour of the Polish Hebrews , a numerous race , but the most suffering and degraded of all the tribes , has not been very agreeable to the Czar . However , circumstances drew to an approximation between the
fiomanpfls and the Sidonias . I resolved to go myself to St . Petersburg . I had , on my arrival , an interview ¦ with the Russian Minister of Finance , Count Caucrin ; I beheld the son of a Lithuanian Jew . The loan was cannected with the afiairs of Spain ; I resolved on repair ing to Spain from Russia . I travelled without intermission . I had an audience , immediately on my arrival , with the Spanish Minister , Senor Mendizabal ; I beheld one like myself , the son of a Nuovo Christiano , a Jew of Arragon . In consequence of what transpired at Madrid , 1 went straight to Paris , to consult the President of the Trench Council ; I beheld the son of a French Jew , a hero , an imperial marshal ; and very properly so , for who should be military heroes , if not those who worship the Lord of Hosts ?
And M Sonlt a Hebrew ? Yes ; and several of the French marshals , and the Inosl . % mous , Massena , for example ; his real name was Uaua&eh . But to my anecdote . The consequence of our consultations was , that some Northern power should be applied to in a friendly and mediative capacity . We £ xed on Prussia , and thePresident of the Council made an application to the Prussian Minister , who attended a few days after onr conference . Count Arnime entered the cabinet , and I beheld a Prussian Jew . So you see , aay dear Coningsh y , that the world is governed by very different personages to what is imagined by those who are cot behind the scenes . You startle , and deeply interest me . You must study physiology , my dear child . Pure races of Caucasus may be persecuted , but they cannot be despised , except by the brutal ignorance of aorae mongrel breed ; —
To the above list are added Maoionides and Spdjoea ; and the Jews are shown to have an exclusive monopoly of musical geniua . Musical Europe is ours . There is not a company of singers , not an orchestra in a single capital , that are not crowded with oar children , under the feigned names which they adopt to conciliate the dark aversion which your posterity will some day disclaim with shame and disgust Almost every great composer , skilled musician , almost every voice that ravishes yon with its
transporting strains , spring from our tribes . The catalogue is too vast to enumerate ; too illustrious to dwell for a moment on secondary names , however eminent . Enough for us that . the three great creative minds to whose exquisite inventions all nations at this moment yield ; Rossini , Meyerbeer , Mendelsohn , are of Hebrew race ; and little do yoar men of fashion , your " muscadins" of Paris , and your dandies of London , as they thrill into raptures at the notes of a Pasta or a Grisi , little do they suspect that they are offering their homage to the sweet singers of Israel !
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TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE—March . As we hare not yet received the numbers contain ing the commencement of Mrs- Johnstone's tale of the " Goldsmith ' s Daughter , " we have up to this time been debarred the pleasure of reading this , her latest contribution to Tait . yfhsn ve can make eur selves acquainted with the storj from the beginning , we may hare something to say thereon . This month's number is mainly filled with reviews of newly-published works , embracing the " Correspondence orEdmund Burke , " Caheeios ' b "Valentine M'Clutchy , " tie " Baron de Bode ' s Travels in Luristan and Arabistan , " Bobber ' s "Journey from Naples to
Jerusalem , " and a number of other works . Bon Gaultieb contributes an amusing criticism on the "Poetry of the Month , " in which several unfortunate poetasters , whose names in mercy we withhold , are made the victims of t his clever writer ' s bitter merriment . Prom the review of Cae £ etos s beautiful novel , we give the following extract The ' reviewer says" Many capital incidental scenes occur , such as the death-bed of Bob Beatty . Bob had originally been a Protestant , but was converted to Romanism , from being miraculously cured of epilepsy by Father M * Cabe . The struggle between Mr . Lucre , ( the Protestant rector ) , mid Father M'Cabe ( the Catholic - ^» " ¦ ¦ ' ¦* ' ' ' 7 . ' *'* - *¦
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pricstTcurate ) orer tTiraeatir-bed -of-poSFBSCSHe one resolved to gain back the stray sheep to the true fold , and the other to keep his new convert-is sumcientiy comic , and we dare say , not much overdrawn . Ihe dying man endeavours to stand well with both parties , but secretly sends for Father Roche ( the Catholic parish pr iest ) , Of this diverting incident we cani only give the steeple-chase of the two parsons , cheered on m their gallop by the peasantry . " THE HOLT EACE . —IN AT THE DEATH . Father M- ' Cabe hat-ing heard an actount of Bob ' s state , and that the minister had been sent for , was at once upon the alert , and lost not a moment in repairing to his house . So very eager , indeed , were these gentlemen , and so equal their speed , that they met at the cross roads , one of which turned to Bob ' s house . * # *
So , sir , said the priest , you are on your way to Bob Beatty , who is , as you well know , one of my flock . But how , do you expect to gctthrough the business , Mr . Lucre , seeing that you are so long out of practice ? Boh Beatty was never , properly speaking , one of your flock , Mr . M'Cabe . I must beg leave to rifle forward , sir and leave you to your Christian meditations ; One inter-, view with jou is enough for any man . . Faith , but I love you too weU to part with you so easily , said the priest spurring on his horse , cheek by jowl —and a beautiful one you have—will I ride with you , my worthy epicure ; and , what is more , I'll anoint Bob Beatty beforeyour eyes . . And , perhaps , perform another miracle , replied Mi * . Lucre , l > itteily .
Ay -will I , if it be necessary , said the priest . ; but I do solemnly assure you thatbyfarthemost brilliant miracle of modern days is to find the Rev . Phineas Lucre at a sick bed . Depend upon it , however , if Beatty had not turned Catholic , he might die like a dog for the same Mr . Lucre . I will not attract the last shilling from his pocket for the unction of superstition , at all events . lfc > t you , faith ; you'll charge him nothing , I grant , and right glad am I to find that you know the value of your services . You forget , however , that my flock pay you \ vell for doing this nothing—this is , for discharging your duty—notwithstanding . - - / Both now pushed on at a rapid rate , growling at each other as they went along . On getting into the fields they increased their speed ; and as the peasantry of bothreligioiuvwore apprised of the circumstances connected with Bob ' s complaint and conversion , each party cheered on their own champion . ;
More power to you , Father M'Oabe ; give him the Latin and the Bravery ! Success , Mr . Lucre i Push on , sir , and don't let the Popish rebel send him out of the world with a bandage on his eyes . Lay in the Bible , Mr . Lucre ! ' Protestant and true blue for ever—hurra ! The true Church for ever , Father M'Cabe , the jewel that you are ! Give the horse the spurs , avourneen . Sow ] , Paddy , but tke . bodagli parson has the advantage of him in the cappul . Push on , your reverence ; you have thediviland the parsen against you , for the one ' s drivin ' on the other . - Cross the corner of the Barny Mether ' s meadow , Mr . Lucre , and wheel in at the garden ditch ; your horse can do it , although you ride the heaviest weight . Lay on him , sir , and think of Protestant Ascendancy . King William against Popery and wooden shoes : hurra !
Father , achora , keep your shoulder to the wind , and touch up Parra Gastfia wid the spurs . A groan for the Protestantparson , father darlin' ! Three groans for the Popish Mass book . Bravo , Mr . Lucre ! That ditch was well cleared ! Divilapurtier , father jewel ! Parra Gastha ' s adarlin ' and brought you over like a bird—hurra t Have you no whip , Mr . Lucre ? Whip and spur , sir , or the Popish garran will be in before you . By the great Boyne , I ' m afraid the charger's blown . God enable you , father avilish ! Blown ! Why what would you expect , an' it the first visit ever the same horse made to a sick-bed in his life ; he now finds it isn't on the king ' s high-way lie is—and I'll go bail it's himself that ' s cursin' the same duty hi his his heart . Bravo , Father Pat ! Parra Gastha ' s the boy that knows his duty—more power , Parra Gastha ! Devil pursue the hair ' s turned on Mm ; but be me sowl , it wouldn ' t be so if he led the life the-Protestant blood did—feedin' high , and doin ' nothin ' .
Mr , Lucre , pull out ; I sec you ' re hard up , suyand so is your charger . Push him , sir , even if he should drop * Death and Protestantism before Ppperj and . dishonour ; Ilurra , well done ! Ah , be me sowl , if s near the last gasp' wid iim and his masther , no wondlier ; they ' re both devilish far out of their element . Faith , if they had Father M'Cabe and Parra Gastha's practice , they wouldn't be the show they are this minute . Well done both ! fresh and fair , snug and dry , you do it . Hurra ! TVhen the two worthy gentlemen had reached Bob ' s house , they dismounted , each in a perspiration , . and rushed to the bed of the dying man . Mr . Lucre sat , of course , at one side , and the priest at tie otn " er ; Mr . Lucre seized the right hand , the priest the left : whilst Bob looked at them both alternately , aud gave a cordial squeeze to each .
You thought , sir , said Mr . Lucre to the priest haughtily that he would have died an idolater . Bob squeezed Mr . Lucre ' s hand again . And you .. Jhought , replied Father M'Cabe , that he would die a Protestant or a heretic , which is the same thing .. Bod squeezed Father M'Cabe ' s hand once more . Gentlemen , said Bob , be pleased to sit down—you are holh Christian ministers , I hope . No , said Father M'Cabe , there is but one of us a Christian ; Mr . Lucre here is not worthy of tne name , Bui ) , Bob squeezed the priest ' s hand a third tune . Bcatiy , said Mr . Lucre , this is a solemn occasion , and I'm bound to say that the priest here is merely a representative of Antichrist . This is not a time to disguise the truth . Bob squeezed Mr . Lucre ' s hand a third time also . Beatty , continued Mr . Lucre , if you permit yourself to die a Papist , you seal your own everlasting punishment . True , said Bob .
Bob , said the priest , after the explanations of the true church which I have given you , if you allow yourself to relapse into heresy , you will suffer for it during all eternity . True , said Bob . : There is no hope for those , who , like the Papists and idolaters , hew for themselves vessels that will hold no water , said Lucre , &c . &c . The victim of this spiritual worry dies at last in peace under the pious ministrations of Father Rochet On the whole this is a good number of Tait .
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WADE'S LONDON REVIEW . —March . This is the second quarterly part , embracing the monthly numbers for January , February , and March , of this " Review , ihe whole forming a mass of 240 pages of matter which may risk comparison with more than one of the elder and more assuming quarterlies . Each succeeding month we notice improvements in this periodical , which give promise that its existence will be both vigorous and lengthy . There is a genuineness and force in the Editor ' s productions truly refreshing . With all the views entertained by him we cannot agree , but we-heartily admit the good service his writings , as a whole , are calculated to do for the cause of "progress . " Tie articles on " Religious Ghanges" are " aheavy blow and sore discouragement" to priestly imposturesand fanatical insanities ; while such contributions to history as the " Rise and Progress of British Industry" are invaluable . If we
have any fault to find with this and similar articles , it is that the writers scarcely do themselves and their subjects justice , by compressing so much into little . Subjects disposed of in a single article , require , to do them justice , the elucidation which only a series of such articles could admit of . Not the least valuable of the contents of this Review is the autobiography of its Editor , a delightful history which we should be glad to find in the hands of every youth , and which even those of maturer years , particularly heads of families , would do well to be acquainted with , for the sake of their ofispring . Sincerely do we thank the author of the "Autobiography" for the following castigatiou of the mad tinker ' s printed trash . In boyhood we ourselves suffered all that he describes ; and to this day we remember the nights of horror which it was onr doom to bear through reading the revoltingfables of— '
buktan ' s pilgrim ' s progbess . Notwithstanding the popularity of John Bunyan's writ ings in the religious world I consider them extremely pernicious to young or ignorant people . I judge them from experience , without the least desire to weaken the effect of any sober work , calculated to promote virtue and rational piety . I have a strong objection to the use of allegories , emblems , and fables in early education : with adults who can understand and rightly interpret their application they may be harmless ; but with children they are puzzling aud misleading , as I found them to be . A
child understands everything as presented to him till better information has corrected his errors ; he knows nothing of double meanings , of symbolicaljor allegorical allusions ; what anything appears that he believes it to be . His conclusions are necessarily such ; consonant to the inexperienced state of a mind still pure and untutored in falsehood , in deceptive appearances , allegorical allusions , and conventional tmderstaudings . All , therefore , that is presented to a child for improvement and instruction , ought to be presented in the same literal form and expression in which they are literally received , understood , and interpreted .
Iremember being extremely perplexed with the heathen mythology . Jupiter , Juno , Vulcan , Minerva , and the rest , I considered real personages . A book of emblems I met with puzzled me much ; enterprise was exemplified by the voyage of Jason for the golden fleece ; friendship by the story of Gastor and Pollux , whom I considered veritably and perhaps they were , the Siamese twins of antiquity . The labours of Hercules and the exploits of Theseus 1 swallowed as authentic relations . Had Ovid's Metamorphoses come in my wav I should have considered the
narratives strange but true . Of course many are more favourably situated than I was ; they have friends about them to correct false impressions . But why should any body ' s children be suffered to receive false impressions ? why should they wilfuU . vand aforethought be set wrong for a while to be set right afterwards ? T ^ by not start with them right at the outset ? Why this needless embarrassment to infants , and correctiveitrouble afterwards to adults ? But such unhappily constitutes top ^ large a portion of what is called education ; nothing more than the pouring down the throats of children a stream of
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f ! . " - * i "**» '• iil > 'l-.- « V' ^» li ^ .- « V . I *^ S >» l'i , '» ' - ' - ';« - ' -rt . /» -1 ^<« t-4- ^« t « i-V «» -I" « ' »» . > t »« "rt »^*** ' *^ * 'J' ^* ' ^ falsehood to be pumped up afterwards by tlieir friends and the world . . Neither , an allegory , emblem , nor fable , is a matter of easy understanding or elucidation . Let any one try and ho will find it a wordy and diffusive undertaking . For a child to understand them I hold quite unlikely . My father , pour man , essayed to unravel the-. perplexity to me . He was very fond of old Bunyau ' s Pilgrim's Progress , and used to require me to read it to him whilo he was sorting or overlooUin" ; wool , and which I did , with- a horrid enunciation , I dare say , of its barharous nomenclature . I asked him for . explanations of names and Uung 9 , Of Apolyon and the ; Dragon , Giant Despair , the Slough of Despond , aud what not , and which I doubt not he gave me to the best of his belief and understanding . The result of such reading :, with other helps , was to people my young brain with-a horrid phantasmagoria of bodiless and misshapen images , from whose midnight tortures and distractions I was happy to escape , after much suffering , with ray faculties underanged ; : .-.
. I was not the only sufferer . All the house suffered except my mother , whose naturally good constitution and clastic spirits preserved her from the mental leprosy . I have known a whole chamber full of children set screaming , from the imagined sight or noise of some lurking devil , ghost , imp , cherub , * or other illusive figment of a disturbed and ill-trained fancy ,: I myself have yelled out at a ghost that had perhaps no better origin than my mother ' s gown ' or night-cap hanging on the bed-post , I should not notice such laughable things , for laughable they now are to me , did I not know that many children , and those of larger growth , suffer from the apprehension of spectral appearances . In the benighted and fanatical districts of the kingdom non-belief is the exception , not
the rule , in the existence of good and evil spirits—the most evil those sought , in a dram-shop—and of supernatural visitations . The mischief often begins in the early period of infancy , at a period the right direction of which is often too much neglected by intelligent and not undutiful parents . " You little naughty imp ! " says a little naughty nursemaid to a rosy blue-eyed babe . onherlap , " be quiet ; leave off crying , or I'll call Old Bogo . Hark he is up the chimney . " She then scrapes with her foot , Shakes the fire-irons , or'turns her head with a deep guttural imitation of Giant Thrumbo . The child is silent , listens , looks aghast , and clings to Lizzy ' s bosom , and firmly believes that Old Bogo dwells in the chimney , the attic , or coalhole , ready at any ' time , at-Lizzy's bidding , to snatch away mamma ' s darling I , - ¦'¦;'
The foundation is thus early laid for a belief in invisible existences . An inlet is opened for . the admission of any future , greater , or more imposing supernatural in . vehtion . But the injury is not confined to the nursery ; it is abroad , wide , and lampant in the world . Adults , too , have their Bogos , with which they are well frighted under , the sage and . political pretest of checking moral aberrations ; and with which they will continue to be frighted so long as a numerous class find it profitable , not for profit only I ovra , to resist their analysis and' dispersion . I have doubts , however , myself whether a more literal and genuine procedure would not be preferable to
this costly and misery-spreading contrivance . If Lizzy cannot keep the child quiet , and it is restless . without cause , she had better be allowed to give it a smack , a shake , or pinch of the ear . and there ' 6 an end , than fill its young mind with vaguo terrors that may ever after haunt and distress it . " The inquiry , however , is too vast and vital to be handled by me , and iucidentally ; and I shall drop it curtly with a quotation from i ) ryden , who , with the characteristic vigour of his intellect , has described in four lines the origin and course of that ; i have been dwelling upon , and which has carried me away from my narrative : —
" By education most have been misled ; So they believe because they so were bred . The priest continues what the nurse began , And thus the child imposes on the man . " Amongst the reviews of new books we notice in the March number a review of "Captain Siborne ' s Waterloo Campaign , " which we have read with much interest , our only regret being that the reviewer has not been lengthy enough in his comments and extracts . In the article in the same number on " Religious Changes" we must complain that the notice contained therein of the "Levellers" and "Fifth
Monarchy . Men" is far too brief and imperfect ..... Inreligion , fanatics and fools they undoubtedly were ; but their ideas of the political and social rights of man were in-the ^ main correct ; -Their principles , ' reproduced a century and a half later , under the cry of " Equality and Liberty , " , by the French Revolutionists , ¦ Still-- survive , and ' are widely disseminated through : England , France ; Germany , andv . other nations i- and the day _ Is coming when the believers in those principles will command an attention not hitherto accorded to'them * . We' wish the London Review every success , arid we ? doubt not but that the talent of its Editor , will ensure-that consummation-.
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SIMMQNDS' ^ COLONIALMAGAZINE-MAncH . There are several valuable papers in this months ' numbeiysbme of them continuations of former articles , some of them new contributions . Amongst the former we notice "The Agriculture of Hindostan , " and " The North American Fisheries ; " and amongst the latter , " Australian Sketches , " by Thomas M'Combie ; " Colonisation in Algeria , " by Lieutenant Latter ; " Confabs with a Colonist ; " and . " Port Phillip as she is at Present , " byj . Porter . The "Australian Sketches" are lively . and ' entertaining , the author giving a history of the notorious native chief JicKT Jackv , of . whom wo remember-to have read a . very interesting account some time , ago in Tent ' s Magazine . Lieutenant Latter ' s paper on "Algeria" contains much curious information , and we confess to : having derived from it enlightenment on several points on which we had previously held mistaken views . " The Prairie Grave" is the title of a sweet little poem , which we would have gladly quoted , but must forbear , to make way for the following interesting account of
THE INDIA BCBBEB THEE . . The caoutchouc tree grows , in general , to the height of forty or fifty feet without branches ; then branching , runs up fifteen feet higher . The leaf is about six inches long , thin , and shaped . like that of apeach tree . Thetreesshow their working by the number of knots , or bunches , made by tapping ; and a singular fact is , that , like a cow , when most tapped , they give most milk or sap . As the time of operating is early day , before sunrise we were at hand . The blacks are first sent out through the forest , armed with a quantity of soft clay , and a small
pick-axe . On coming to ' one of the trees , a portion of the soft clay is formed into a cup and stuck to the trunk . Tlie black then striking his pick . over the cup , the sap oozes out slowly , a tree , giving daily about a gill . The tapper continues in this way , " tapping perhaps about about fifty trees , when he returns , and with a jar , passing over the ground , empties his cups . So by seven o ' clock the same blacks como in with their jars , ready for working . The sap at this stage resembles milk in appearance , and s-jinewhatift taste . ¦ It is also frequently drunk with perfect safety . If left standing now , it will curdle like milk , disengaging a watery substance like whey ' .
Shoemakers now arrange themselves to form the gum . Seated in the shade , with a large pan of milk on one ' side , and on the other a flagon , in which is burned a nut peculiar to this country , emitting a dense smoke , the operator having his last , or form , held by a long stick or handle , previously besmeared with soft clay ( in order to slip off the shoe when finished ) , holds it over the pan , and pouring on the milk until it is covered , sets the coating in the smoke , then giving it a second eoat , repeats the smoking ; and so on with a third and fourth , until the shoe is of the required thickness , averaging from six to twelve coats . , When finished , the shoes on the forms arc placed in . the sun the remainder of the day to drip . Next day , if required , they may be figured , Being so soft that any ' impression , will be indelibly received . The natives are very dexterous in this work ' . With a quill and a sharp-pointed stick they will produce finely-lined leaves and flowers , such as you may have seen on the shoes , in an incredibly short space of time . After
remaining on the forms two or three days , the shoes are cut open on the top , allowing the last to slip out .. They are then tied together , ready for the market . There pedlars arid Jews trade for them with the country people ; andinlotsofa thousand or more they are again sold to the merchants , who have them stuffed with straw , and packed in boxes to export , in . which state they are receivedinthe United ( States . In the same manner , any shape may be manufactured . Thus , toys are made of clay forms . After drying , the clay is broken and extracted . Bottles , < tc , in the same way . According as the gum grows older , it becomes darker in colour , and more tough . The number of caoutchouc trees in the province is countless . In some parts whole forests exist , and they are frequeutly cut down for firewood . Although the trees exist in Mexico and the , East Indies , there appears to be no importation into the United States from these places . The reason , I suppose , must be the want of that prolificness found in them here .
The caoutchouc tree may be worked all theyear but generally in the wet season they have rest , owing to the flooded state of the woods ; and the milk being watery , requires more to manufacture the same article than in the dry season . We . can cordially recommelid this Magazine to all who would make themselves acquainted with the history , capabilities , social state , and prospects of those magnificent possessions which , with 6 Ur "island home , " make up that glorious British Empire " on which the sun never sets . ""
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A BOWL OF " PUNCH , " FRESH BREWED * Virtues of Bacon . —Labourers and Rectors . — A " Rector and Conservative" writes a letter to the Kmes—a really affecting letter—on the virtues oi bacon . He rejoices over the tariff that" lard" is to be admitted free , but is "sorn to see bacon omitted . And then the Rector goes on to paint an Apician feast . "Bacon , " he says , " when they can get it , is the staff of the labourer ' s dinner . " Listen , further " The frugal mother provides a large pot of potatoes , and while she indulges herself and her younger ones only with salt , cuts off the small rasher and toasts it over the plates of the father and elder sons , aa being the bread-winners ; and this ia all they want . " " And this is all they want ! " Ew rerr easy is it fora capon-lined belly to give laws to alabburer ' sstomacn '; to interpret its huge contentment frith'a small rasher The M frugalmotherandheryounger ones" neverthink of baeon . at . all . Oh no ! , they ,. inhale ,, Jts- o ^ our . with nostrils of stone—it never awakens a yearning appetite in them ^ ertainly not ! they" are indulged with . ' ;• ..--....,. < ,,,: 7 I , ,.. -,.,, -f ,. „ ..,:.., ' .: s . ;' :., : ' . . in , .
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potatoes and salt ; and , doubtless , this is all they . want . Oan we not fancy ' . ^ labourer ; ' writing of the families 'Oi the DeanaandRector s-of the Church- > " The frugal mothervhas- an earl y dinner provided for her . little ones and their governess ; a plain joint , plain pudding , everything plain . At six or seven o ' clock , she cuts Off the fills-of tlie'turbot , she slices the fat of the -haunch ^ or the father and- the elder sons . They afterwards take . thenv port and claret , and—this is all they wdnt . , 0 n this point ' , we are . sure , the labourer can better answer for ' the rector than the rector for the lhlimivei . •'';¦! :, ¦ .. < ¦ •• . ... ¦
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LONDON . ' '" ' Metropolitan District Council , Tiirnagain-lanc , March 9 th ; . Mr . Heath in the chair . —After several reports had been delivered in relative to the forthcoming Chartist 'Convention , the case ' of Mr . Lewellyn was again brought before the Council . ' : Mr . T . M . Wheeler read a , letter he had received , from Merthyr on ' the subject . After considerable discussion the question was adjourned until Sunday next : On thesuggestion-of Miv T . M . Wheeler , the following resolution was unanimously , adopted : — "That this Council recommend all the localities within the
borough of Maryiebone , to co- ' operato in the return of a delegate or delegates to the ensuing Convention . They recommend , the several localities within the borough of tlie Tower Hamlets to unite for the same purpose . They recommend the localities in Southwark and- Lambeth to unite- for the like purpose . Tliey also , recommend the localities of Westminster and London to unite for - the same purpose . Lastly , they recommend all the suburban towns or districts , where it is not practicable toroturn a delegate on their own account * to unite in a > similar way with the next town locality or district ,, the delegates to report on the subject at the next meeting . " The council then adjourned .
Westminster . —At a meeting of the Clock House locality , Westminster , held on the 2 nd inst . ; the following resolution was movedbyWm . Cuffay , seconded by Win . Smith : — " That this locality are of opinion that P . M . M'Douall is no longer a fit person to be a member of the Chartisfrbody ; and that our confidence in Feargus O'Connor . has never been shaken . " Carried by a large majority .. The present , Executive were then nominated for the ensuing year . The General Registration Committee to due Chartists or England axd Wales . — Brethren , We beg to remind you that on or about the -25 th day of this present month ( March ) overseers of the poor arc-nominated for the ensuing year . By the nomination of Charttet overseers , the registration battle
will be more than half won . Then remember your duty \ The snrveyorsof highways are appointed at the same time . The elections of rooi" Law guardians also take Dlace about now , for the first time under the new alterations and regulations of the Poor Law Commisioners ,. in : accordance with the 7 and 8 Vic , c . 101 , which enables the rate-payers to vote , if rated six months , instead of twelve as heretofore , and which prevents all owners' from voting who neglected sending in their claims before the first of February last . Up , then , and be doing ! Obtain local power , that you may be the better enabled to contend for National Regeneration , politically and socially . —On behalf of the Committee , : ¦ : Edmund SiALLWOODi Thomas Martin Wheeler . John Simpson .
Tubxaoain-Lane . —Tie usual weekly meeting of the members took p lace on Tuesday last , Mr . John Overtoil in the chair , when the following resolutions were passed : —' , ' That . it . is the opinion of this meetingj . ith . at Thomas Cooper , now a prisoner in Stafford Gsjol , is a true and sincere Chartist- ' and deserving of the sympathy and support of the country ; " and " That copies of the above resolution be . sent to the Star for insertion , and to Mr . Peplow , to be forwarded by him to . Thomas Cooper . ' The auditors of the Quarterly Balance-sheet give in their report , which was received ; Mr ; Bayley moved , f'Thatour Sub-Secretary write to
the Executive for a balanceTsheet of the two last quarters , " ' Agreed to . — -Mf : Tucker moved— " That we co-operate with .- 'the Camber well locality in sending adelegateitO / . the approaching Conference . ' - ' Agreed to . —Mr . T . M . Wheeler was then nominate , d as a candidate on ! the part of this locality ! . The meeting then proceeded to nominate for- the Executive Committee , when Messrs . P . M'Grath , Thomas Coopei ; ( late : of Leceister , now of Stafford Gaol ) , C . Doyle , F . O'Connor , T . M . Wheeler , Win . Jones ( of Liverpool ) , D . lloss ( of Manchester ) , Cuffay , and Clark , were proposed , and the first five were elected as the most proper persons for the Executive . ¦ In consequence of the lateness of the hour the election of a General Council was deferred till next week .
BACUP . Public Procession to Congratulate Mr . Tat-TEUSALIi ON HIS RELEASE FROM LANCASTER CASTLE . —On Saturday lost a large number of people left the town at five o'cLock , with' a band of music , and a number of splendid banners , and met-Mr . Tattersall , accompanied by Mr . Clark , member of the Executive , a mile from , the town . Messrs . Tattersall and Clark entered a gig , and were drawn into the town amidst the hearty congratulations of the people . After the procession a public tea party took place in the Association-room , when . about two hundred sat down to tea . An excellent band enlivened the proceedings . As soon as the tables were cleared , Dr . Smith was unanimously called to the chair , who opened the proceedings by a powerful speech , after which he gave the first sentiment : — " The people , the source of all legitimate power ; " which was ably responded to by Mr . Barker . The chairman gave
the next sentiment : — " The health of our respected guest , Mr . Tattersall , and may he long live to advocate the rights of the people ; " which was well responded to by Mr . Clark , in a splendid and eloquent speech . The next sentiment was : — "Frost , Williams , Jones , and Ellis ; " and was responded to by Mr . Tattersall . His address was masterly and powerful , and created a great impression on the meeting . The next sentiment— " Feavgus O'Connor and T . S . Buncombe , Estjrs . ; and may they long live to defend the working millions "—was responded to in an able manner by Mr . Tagg . Mr . Clark moved a vote of thanks to the chairman , which was seconded by Mr . Tattevsall , and carried by acolamation . Three cheers were given for the Charter , three for O ' Connor and Duncombe , three for Tattersall . and Clark , and the assemblage broke up highly delighted with the proceedings of the evening .
Sunday . —At six o ' clock in the evening the room was crowded to overflowing , numbers being unable to gam admittance to hear filr . Tattersall , who had been announced to deliver a lecture . Mr . Tagg was unanimously called to the chair , who , after a few preliminary remarks , introduced Mr . Tattersall , who passed in rapid review the plug war , its causes , and consequences . He next gave an account of his arrest , trial , and imprisonment . The . lecturer then proceeded to show the present position of the various classes of society , and the future prospects of tie people . He gave the workers a severe lashing for their apathy and indifference , and called on them to rise , like the fabled bird , from the ashes of tbeir own degradation , and throw the ahield of protection
around the Executive , " by swelling the ranks of the indomitable army of ChartiBts . Mr . Tattersall concluded his powerful lecture , after having spoke nearly two hours . At . . the close , Mr . Barker moved a vote of confidence In Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., which was seconded by Mr . Shackleton , and carried by acclamation ; after which , thirty-nine persons came forward and joined the association , who all took out cards of membership . Monday . —At eight o ' clock in the . evening a public ball took place in the Weavers' Anna . There was a goodly number of the fair aex present , who had rendered ' assistance in getting up the tea party , and taken an active part in all the proceedings . Thus ended the regalings and proceedings of the week , having given a stimulus to . the cause and general satisfaction to all parties .
. ... •» ; YORKSHIRE . Wkst RiDiNCf Delegate Meeting . —This meeting was held , according to notice , in the Working Man ' s Hall , Halifax , when the following places were represented .- —Halifax , Bradford , Hebden-bridge , Dewsbury , Littletown , Birstall , and Sowerby—Mr . B . Rushton in the chair . The minutes of the last meeting having been road by the secretary , on , the motion of Mr . Cole ,, seconded by Mr . Shaw , they were confinned . Several sums were handed in for the Executive , as . per the general secretary ' s list . The following resolutions were adopted : — " -That each locality in the West . Riding send their account once a quarter to be examined by the meeting . " "That it
ls . the opinion oi this meeting the West Riding ought to have two delegates to represent the Chartists of the Riding in : the forthcoming Convention , to be held in London the third week in April ; and that each delegate lay this resolution before the Chartists of his locality . " " That the next West Riding delegate meeting be held on Sunday , March 23 rd , to arrange for the election of two delegates to represent the West Riding in the forthcoming Convention ; and it is requested that each delegate will come prepared with full instructions . " "That the secretary correspond with those localities who have not sent a delegate to this meeting . " The thanks of the meeting were given to the chairman , and the meeting separated . J . Crossland , Secretary .
NOTTINGHAM . Public Meeting . —On Monday eveninglast a public meeting of the inhabitants of Nottingham was held in the Town-hall for the purpose of petitioning Parliament against the Post-office Spy System . Mr . Thomas Roper was unanimously elected to the chair , who made a business-like speech , and called upon Mr . Lilly to move the resolution as follows : —/ 'That this meeting considers the conduct of Sir James Graham , Secretary of State ,-in tie opening c-f'lettere sent to Thomas Slingsbjr Buncombe ; -Esq ., member for jFinsbury , ; subversive of aU'social order ; and a gross violation of the aacredness of private correspondence rahd , this meeting ' expresseB ' ife'unqualified ampprobation ofan outrage so glaricg ' upon the pri- vileges ' of a'imemberof-the British'House of Com-• { ju ^ lirr , Jit *; :. ' . " ; ' ¦'•'' ; 'M f * ' . ' '
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mons . i Further , the meeting resolves tliat a petition be laid before tlie House , praying .-that T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., maybe allowed to examine at the bar of the House certain parties employed in the General Post-office ; to prove the truth of his allegatipns . " Tlie ' resolution ^ was seconded by Mr : Dorinan in an excellent speech ,, and . carried ., unanimously . Mr . Sweet then moved . the . ; petition ,.-and . made some heavy hits at the renegade Graham and his backer , Sir Robert Peel . ' The petition was seconded by Miv Widdowson , arid carried unanimously . The petition was ordered to be forwarded to—Watson , Esq ; , ' member for Kinsale , for presentation ; with , a letter to B . DUsraeli , respectfully requesting him to support the prayer thereof . " A vote of thanks was given totUcmayov for granting the , use of the hall , aud to the chairman , wheivthe meeting dispersed . ¦ . .
! OLDHAM . , V Lecture . —On Sunday last Mr . T . K . Taylor delivered his thii'd lecture on the life ; writings , and genius of Robert Burns , in the Chartist-room , Greaves-street ; " The lecturer gave a short narrative of the poet ' s life after he . entered upon his farm . « at Ellisland , and recited tx ¦ ¦ variety , of Ins poems , which gave general satisfaction . After the lecture , a meeting of the members took place for the purpose ot nominating fit and proper persons to serve on the Executive Committee , when the following gentlemen were unanimously agreed upon , viz ., FeavguS O'Connor , Esq ., Mr . M'Grath , Mr . T . M . . Wheeler , Mr . Christopher Doyle ? and Mr . T . Clark .
MANCHESTER . ' Carpenters' Hall . —A lecture was delivered in the above building on Sunday evening last , by that stanch defender of the people's cause , ' Mr . George White , of Bradford . BURNLEY . -. - . Lecture . —Mr . Thomas Clark , of the Executive Committee , lectured in the Chartist-room on Sunday , the 9 th inst ., in the afternoon , on the " Present State and Prospects of Political Parties ; " and in the evening , on " Trades' Unions . " Mr . C . gave general satisfaction to his audiences . Collections were made at the close of each lecture in aid of the Executive Committee .
. , . BRADFORD . . On Sunday the members of the General Council met in their room , at two o ' clock in the afternoon , when it was unanimously resolved- — " That the proposition of the West Riding Delegate Meeting , to elect two delegates to the Chartist Conference , should be agreed to . " . . ::
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BiNKRUPTS . ¦ ( From the Gazette of Friday , March 1 . ) Frederick West , Southampton , boot and shoemaker-William Spencer , AVallingford , Berkshire , brewer—Charles Jacobs , Farringdon-market , fruit-salesman—Joseph Wilsoh , ' Jermyn-street , St . James ' s , bootmaker — John Struckett , Wye , Kent , grocer—Jamo 3 Stephen Herring , . Cecilia-place , Spa-road ; Bennondsey , builder—George Salmon , City-road-basin , timber-inercliant—William . Cawthorn , jun ., Salisbury-street , Strand , wine-merchant—John Hardy and George Ityrdy , Wisbech Saint Peter , Cambridgeshire , grocers—Thowjas Kewell Gorbell , Bedford , nlace , Comraereial-roaaV fjooksellfi '—John Rock Day
White Hart-street , Brury-lane , victualler—Daniel Mackay Liverpool , master-mariner—William Butterill , Sheffield , grocer—William Cornelius Whittenbuft-, Leeds , cheesefactov—William Pell , Keweastle-upon- ^ nc , linendvapet . DIVIDENDS ^ . ; . !*' March 28 , W . Laiv ^ aflingfrfidBBhire , draper—April 3 , W . Smith , StMtridTprintei- —April 3 , H . and A . Wood , Basinghall-street ,.. City , ^ lackwell-hall factors—April 3 , II . W . Collinson , Stamford-street , Surrey , hatmaker — . March 28 , T . Creeke , Cambridge , tailor—March 28 , D . Fowler , Lime-3 h'eet , City , merchant — April 1 ; 0 . P . Wathen , Woodchester , Gloucestershire , clothier—April 3 , J . Cox , Nottingham , silk-throwster .
BANKRUPTS . ( From Tuesday's Gazette , March llth , Wio . j Joshua iJaylor , Whittlcsea , Cambridgcsliire , draper-Albert Green , Brighton , apothecary—Bavid Holdforth , Stratford ^ Essex , grocer—Alfred Kott , Treyford , Sussex , miUer—William Kardisty , Wakefield , Yorkshire , white , smith—John Roberts , Liverpool , potato-dealer—Thomas Griffiths ,. Blaenifed , Cardiganshire , auctioneer .
DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS . J . L . Heathorn , Abchurch-lane , City , shipowner , first dividend of 8 s in thepound , any Saturday , at the office of Mr . Edwards , Frederick ' s-place , Old Jewry . J . Taylor , Brighton , bookseller , first dividend of 2 s 4 d in the pound , any Satuvday , at the office of My . Edwards , Frederick ' s-place , Old Jewry . , T . Trapp , Cliurcn-street ,. Southwavk , tallow-chandler , first dividend of 20 s in the pound , any Saturday , at the office ofMv . Edwards , Frederick's-plnee , Old Jewry . T . P . Trapp , Cauvch-street , Southwark , tallow-chandler , first dividend of ' 20 s in the pound , any Saturday / at the office of Mr . Edwards , Frederick's-place , Old Jewry , v T . and T . P . Trapp , Church-street , Southwark , tallowchandlers , second dividend of Is 3 d in . the pound , any Saturday , at the office of Mr . Edwards , Frederick ' s-place , Old Jewry . J . Mallalieu , Saddleworth , Yorkshire , woollen-manufacturer , first dividend of 3 s 8 din thepound , any Tuesday , at the office of Mr . Hobson , Manchester .
T . Sherwood , Tileliurst , Berkshire , bnckmaker , first dividend of 5 s in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Pennell , Basinghall-street . J . Robbing , . Winchester , bookseller , second dividend of 2 s fld in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Pennell , Basinghall-street . B . Wright , Liverpool , dealer in pamt , first dividend of 10 s in the pound , any Thursday , at the office of Mr . Cazenoye , Liverpool . j . and J . Woodhead , Bradford , Yorkslure , worsted stuffmanufacturers , first dividend of 4 s in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Freeman , Leeds . G . Holdsworlh , NorthowT . im , Yorkshire , w&i < sted-spmner , dividend of 3 s 4 d in the pound to those creditors who have not received a former dividend , and further dividend of Is in the pound to those who have received a former dividend , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Freeman , Louds .
DIVIDENDS . April 9 , H . R . Stutchbury , Theobalds's-road , Bedfordrow , bookseller—April 9 , J . Stevens aud R . H . W . Drummoud . Mile-end , road-contractors—April 9 , F . Blundell , New Savum , Wiltshire , grocer—April 9 , J . Maynard , Panton-streot , Haymarket , bookseller—April 1 , J , F . Barwick , Old-street , St . Luke ' s , wheelwright—April 12 , J . H ., J . S ., J . K ., and A . Heron , Manchester , cotton-spinners—April 10 , 6 . and S . Potter and J . Krauss , Manchester , calico-printers—April 12 , H . Hardie , Manchester , merchant—April 2 , S . Parsons , Manchester , paper-hanger-April 3 , W . H . and T . B . Turner , Blackburn , Lancashire , cotton-spinners—April 2 , B . Sheppard , sen ., Uley , Gloucestershire , clothier—ApriH , W . Bees and Or , Edwards , Wells , Somersetshire , nurserymen—April 8 , T . and TrVWithcH , Padstow , Cornwall , ship-builders—April 3 , J . Eail , Wallsend , ¦ Northumberland , cowkeeper—April 8 , J . Tristram , Basford , Nottinghamshire , beer-hpnse keeper—April 8 , R . Jackson , Leeds , engineer—April 3 , J . L . Tabberner , Birmingham , auctioneer—April 3 , T . Tauberner , Birmingham , corn-factor—April 5 , R . Light , Hanley , Staffordshire , grocer—April 4 , H . Newton , Derby , colour-manufacturer .
CERTIFICATES TO BE GRANTED UNLESB CAUBEBE SHOWN TO THE CONTRAST . ON THE DAT OF MEETING . April 1 , W . Dettmer , Upper Marylebone-street , pianoforte manufacturer— April 8 , A . Francis ,. W . Davey , and M .. Francis , Aberystwith , ironfounders—April 3 , J . Hegginbotham and G . Peck , Manchester , machine-makers—April 1 , T . Ross , Leicester , hosier—April 1 , J . H . King , Bath , druggist—April 1 , C . Strange and R . Parsons , Baglan , Glamorganshire , merchants—April 1 , J . Quin , Liverpool , painter—April 1 , B . . Proctor , Kingston-upon-IIull , coach proprietor— April 1 , G . Craven , jun ., Wakefield , Yorkshire , corn-miller—April 1 , W . ' Hill , Woolwich , builder—April 1 , L . II . Folger , High-street , Shoreditch , cabinet-maker-April 1 , C . Dotesio , Slough , Buckinghamshire , hotel-keeper —April 1 , -T . Baines , Bradford , Yorkslure , worsted-spinner -April 1 , A . Padbury , jun . i Epsom , Surrey , grocer .
¦ 'V PABTNEHSIIIPS DISSOLVED . ' H . Roberts and M . Lawrence , keepers of a boardingschool-J . Dunk and T . Baker , Brighton , millers-J . R . C . and J . 5 . OUBtOn , KingSton-upon-HwU , lune-merchants ; as far as regards J . S . Ouston-J . Faulkner and T . Beaville , Stockport , Cheshire , spinners-J . and I . Bayley aim T . and J . Kitts , Bolton , Lancashire , cotton-spinners ; as far as regards T . Kitts-C . Marshall , J . Mitchell , and F . J . Stones ? Sheffield , edge-tool manufacturers ; as far as regards J . Mitchell-J . Morfey , sen ., K . Morley , J . Morley , jun ., and B . and S . Morley , Wood-stvcet , City ; as far . regards J . Morley , sen ., and R . Morley-M . and C . H . Hfoper . Grange-road . Bermondsey . leather . factors-. T . Cross andJ . Barritt , Bury , LancasWre , manufarturing-chemistsfeaawac&uftsssiasa TrffSSMB ^ ifii | Mf eSs ^ s ^ p j " < Z&I 1 -D '' CmUson , T . TO , and J . Luuteay , ¦ LkKoa ?" skmePODrsUj , Hilless aiuLW ., Todd , Bourn , tffi-V . James and T . W ., K ! chmond , Swansea , Glamor- . . wnsnire , line ' riVfepers-R / Pitcher and P . Bates , Surrey Oanal-baWoid l&nt . road ,, tar : refift 6 M-W . Allen and P . Long Manchester , ooach proprietors—J . H . Cutnbert and C . % tiailejv Stonham Pam , Suffolk ' , beer-brewers .: ' ;
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Newspaper Hbviewio t . —Can you come to Antigone to-night ? said I , thrusting niy head into the sub-editor ' s room at a weekly newspaper office : ; ¦ ' How much docs it want to the time ? ' ¦ ^ An hour and a quarter . ¦ " > , ' Well I have eighteen naw books to look ' mto and ¦ notice . ' If I get done in time I'll go with you . Sharp work , said I . ' . ' Not particularly . They are abort paragraphs ; mj a column and a half altogether . But the reading ? ; ' You don't seriously think we read books ? - - How the deuce , then , do you form your opinion ot ; them ?; ¦ •''¦ ¦ - . . ' . We cut ' em open—and smell the paper kiute . r-Ilood ' s Maqazine , . ¦
Population Analysis Extraordinary . —In addition to the information afforded by the census of 1841 , wo learn from the Leicester Mercury that the . population of Leicester consists of three classes , viz ., those who believe in mesmerism , those who believe * in magic rings , and those who . believe in neither . Hint to Spinsters I—In order to get married , you ' must learn to manage yourself ; and , after you have got married , to riianagc- your husband ; and both ; ogether is what may be called the "Whole Duty of Woman . " —Punch . - - ¦ ¦ . Hint to Wives : — There are plenty of ways to bring a man to reason . His buttons may be not ' sewn on ; his dinner kept - waiting ; pickles or potatoes not provided ; and there may be nothing for him but a cold shoulder when he expects a hot joint . —Ibid .
Another !—There are two things that I would , strongly impress upon yoir . One is—^ never let your husbands have a latch key , - or they will take advantage of it to stay out ; The other is this—tell nobody your age ; for , recollect , human life is uncertain . You may become widows ; and , in that case , find tlie disclosure a disadvantage . —Ibid . A CosaciESTioos PuMP . ^ -In a court behind the Liverpool Collegiate . Institution there is a pump , beciring the inscription , " This pump does not work on Sundays . " Matuimon'ial Monopolists . —Eight widows having got married in Leeds within five days , the s pinster of that town are getting up a requisition foi a publics meeting , to adopt the famous rogmoor resolutions , and ' " put down" the infamous monopoly in marriage . To such an extent has this monopoly grown , that in 1842 the number of widowers and widows who got married in England was no less than 20 , 198 !
Burking Atf M . E . —There was once a man , according to the celebrated Greek author Delectus , who desired to jump over a hill ,, and took a run of three miles for that purpose ; but when he reached its foot he found himself rather out . of breath , so he quietly turned round and walked home again . Do our readers see anything in this pleasant and witty anecdote to remind them of the adventure of Mr . Roche , the member for Cork , as reported to have occurred the other night . iu the House of Commons ? The Speaker was about to put a question from the chair , when Mr . E . B . Roche said he had come all the way from Ireland to—The Speaker . —All the way ? Mr . Roche . —Yes , all the way , to ask a question of the Honourable Member for Bath .
The Speaker said that-such-a question must not b « asked . Mi . Roche had no wish—The Speaker . —Then why did he say he had ? Mr . Roche said he trusted—The Speaker said he never did . The Honourabl , Member must hold his tongue . ' Mr . Roche supposed that—The Speaker said he had no right to suppose any thing of the kind . Mr . Roche hoped that he was not asking too much , then—The Speaker said he was-asking a great deal too much . ¦ .- ¦ - ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ' -, ¦ : ¦ Mr . Roche said that Mr .. Roebuck had said that the Msh members had run from their posts- ^ The Speakar said that Mr . Roebuck was quite right . It would have been nonsense to say that their posts had rim from the "Irish , members . ' ¦ - ¦ - ¦• - . - ' _; ¦
¦ Mv . Roche would return to Ireland—The Speaker said it was the best thing the Hon . - ourable Member could do . —Great Gun . . . ¦ ¦ > Domestic Agriculture . —We heard of a gentle- ¦ man who , last year , planted his onions close to his poppies , and the consequence was , they grew so sleepy that he never could get tkera out of their bed 3 . —Ibid . ¦ Repudiation . —Nothing uke it . —Joe Cowell , ia his amusing reminiscences of his theatrical life , describes very humorously a theatrical family named Bland , consisting o £ a father and mother and two children , a boy and a girl , who were in a manner entailed by Stephen Kemble on the Durham theatre , when he leased it to . Faulkner and Anderson . Tha
parents did not live together , though they acted in the same theatre , and received twenty-five shillings a week each for the services of themselves and children . The man ' s dissipation and extravagance was the cnusc of their separation . The following description of a consultation between the father and son ( who nctecl as call-boy ) as to how the five-and-twenty shillings , tlie week ' s salary , should bo disposed of to tlie best advantage , is exceedingly laugluible : — Now , Johnny , my boy , the old man would say , let me see . I owe eight shillings at the sign of the Saddle ; well , that ' s that , putting the amount on one side . Well , then , I promised to pay part of the score at the Blue Pig ; —well , say five shillings . There , I'll stop Mother Pepper ' s mouth with that . How much does that make , John ?
Why , nine—ten—eleven—twelve—thirteen shillwga , says the boy , touching his five fingers . But I mean , you goose , how much have I got left ? How should I know , says John . Why don't you count it ?—you ' ve got the money . But you ought to know , you young rascal , says the father , with true parental authority ; you ought to know . Take thirteen from twenty-five—how many remain $ Why , twelve , to be sure , counting the balance slily in his hand . That ' s the way you ' re neglecting your education , is it ? I shall have to talk to your school-master . Yes , you had better talk to him , says John ; for he told ¦ me yesterday , unless you let him have a little money , I needn't come to school no more .
Ay , " true , my dear—that ' s true ; you must not lose your education , at any rate , says the kind old man . Takeliim round five shillings after dinner , my dear . I had & pot with him last night , and he agreed , if I would let him have that much now , he'd take the rest out in tickets at the &en ., * and treat the boys . I want a pair of shoes , father , says John , I can get a capital pair for three and sixpence . You must get them for three shillings , John ; we ow « the butcher four , and ho must be-paid , or we get no beef ; there , that ends it , said the poor old fellow , with a . selfsatisfied air ; but his vision of independence was in an instant destroyed by John ' s simply saying , You ' ve forgot the landlady , father . Yes , that ' s true—so I have ; yes , d n her ; she mua have her rent , or out we go . John , my dear , I'll tell you how I'll contrive it . I'll put the Saddle off with four shillings , and open a &rancft account with the Yew Tree ,
Tes , that ' s all very well , says John quietly , but we owai her sixpence on last week , and she paid for the washing . - Well ; how much does the washing come to , John ? Two and tuppence , reptt . es the boy . Well , then , argues the old man , Mother Popper must bo content to take three shillings instead of five . But thenj father , that won't do ; and we want tea . Who wants tea ? I don't caro a fig for tea . But I do , replied the boy with provoking calmness . You want tea ! You'll want bread , you young rascal , shouts Bland in a rage . Bread ! that ' s true , exclaims John ; you forgot tha baker . _ The old man ' s scheme to pacify his creditors with five and twenty shillings were all knocked , on the head by the recollection of the baker ; and , sweeping the money off the table into his breeches pocket , in a passion , he roared OUt , They may all go to the devil together ; I ' m d- —d if I pay
any of them . Westminster to Wit ' .-0 yes ! O yes ! Be it known to all whom it may concern , that John Temple Leader , the lost member for the borough of Westminster has come home . He was seen at Fentons hotel , St . James's-street , on Wednesday evening ,-looking very red in the face—not , however , the consequence of blushing so deeply for his long abaence His affectionate constituents are requested to call . upon him at the earliest opportunity , when he wiU give aminute and particular accountof the price of ' clarets and chores amies , peaches and petticoats ; m the south of France . —Satirist . ' ' PEEL AND PUSEI . A surplus in the revenue ' s . A state of tilings that few see , And a surplice in the pulpit , too , O , wondrous ! I ' oel and Pusey . There is , indued , a three years (?) pill Peel gives John Bull to swallow ; But , though John Bull thinks he ' s not ill , There ' s sugar-sweet to follow . Now Tusey , Exeter , and London , Have almost set John retching , "" ' . With talk of duties left undone , . ' And new costumes for preaching . So though John votes , you'll shrewdly guess , ¦ ; .- Both " tax " and " talk" ' s a bore ; ..,.- Peel promises John ' s Mies less , '" - ; . While . Pusey makes them more . —IbvK Forbidding the Banns . —Although the Book of Common Prayer provides a form in which banns shall be published , it provides none in which they are to be forbidden ; but this totrferatwm it once fell to : ' our lot to hear supplied ,: and-the formula v $ & yraa . , ; . certainly at once terse and explicit . Immediately :... on the minister ' s concluding ; "If any of you know ,. ifec ; , ye aws : now to declare it / ' [ up started a ; . moat' - < : ' portly , female , and exclaimed at the top of her voice , - ' with arms a-kunbo , "Mr . Parson , ' ! stands here ff bodily , and forbids them -ore banns openly ' . "—IJtiJ ' : .-¦ ' - ¦'¦ : - ' ¦ ; l " ¦ ...... <¦ . . ¦ /; , ¦ ' ¦ ; ¦ ; ... .. V
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Discoverv op a New Island i \ the Pacific—The New York Courier and inquirer publishes the following account of the discovery ot a new island'in the 'Pacific Ocean by Captain Simmons , of the brigautine Faith : — "Captain ; . Simmons was on his way from Sidney to Valparaiso ,-and , after leaving Otaheite , first saw -it on the 31 st of October , 1843 . Seen from the deck of the vessel , the island had the appearance of a mass of rocks , but a nearer approach showed it to'be an island , covered with' cocoa-nut trees , with thick underbusli . When convinced that it was an island , Captain Simmons supposed it might be oze already known , and at first mistook it for Carisfoot . To be sure , however ,, he lowered his boat and attempted to land , but was prevented by a reef of black coral rocks , with heavy breakers , whiftli surrounded
tlie island . He went completel y round it , however , and found it to be about six miles in circumference . At a short distance from it he found no sounding in sixty fathoms of water . After examining it for two or three hours , as thoroughly as he deemed necessary , he steered for . Carisfoot , according to his reckoning , made it in the course of a few hours , and passed to the south of it . A large lagooinyas in the middle of the island , which seemed to be rich and fertile . On reaching Valparaiso , where he remained for some months , he waited upon the commander of the British squadron and informed him of the discovery . He examined the most recent > English charts , but no indication of such an island was to be found . It is situate in the track from Otaheite to Valparaiso , in south latitude 21 degrees-arid 10 minutes , and weat longitude 138 . degrees 5 i minutes . He named it the Isle of Faith , from his vessel . "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 15, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1306/page/3/
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