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BEAJJTIES OF BYRON , so . ti . " EXGLISH BABDS ASD SCOTCH REVIEWERS . " We had intended not to have given any portion of the personal attacks on reviewers , and other writers , to be found throughout this poem ; but as these portions of the work are , as might be expected , the most forcible , it is only fair that we should give our readers at least a specimen . The following is the openins of the poet ' s terrific onslaught on Jehfret
the Editor of the Edinburgh Review : — Ye t say ! why should the hard at once resign Jfis claim to favour from the sacred Nine ! Por ever startled hy the mingled howl Of northern wolves , that still in darknessprowl ; Aged or young , the living or the dead , Ko mercy fiHd—these harpies must be fea . TVhj do tlie injured unresistiug yield The calm possession of their native field ? TVhy tamely thus before their fangs retreat , > for hunt the hlcodhounds back to Arthur's Seat « #
Health to immortal J effirey ; once , in name , England could boast a judge almost the same ; In soul so like , so merciful , yet just , Seme think that Satan has resign'd his trust , And given the spirit to the world again , To sentence letters , as he sentenced men . "With hand less mighty , but with heart as black , TVith voice as willing to decree the rack ; Bred in the courts betimes , though all that law As yet hath taught him is to find a flaw ; Since well instructed in the patriot school To rail at party , though a party tool , "Who knows , if chance his patrons should restore
Back to the sway they forfeited before , His scribbling toils some recompense may meet , And raise this Daniel to the judgment seat ? t Let Jeffrey's shade indulge the pious hope , And greeting thus , present him with a rope : " Ileir to ray -virtues ! man of equal mind ! SkiHVl to condemn as to tmduce mankind , This cord receive , for thee reserved with care , To wield in judgment , and at length to wear . " In the tenth canto of Don Juan , Brnox pays the following pretty compliment to his quondam * antagonist : And all our little feuds—atleastall
mine-Bear Jeffrey , once my most redoubted foe , ( As far as rhyme and criticism combine To make such puppets of us things below , ) Are over : here ' s ahealth to " AuM Lang Syne !" I do not know you , and may never know Tour face—but you have acted on the whole Most nobly , and I own it from my soul . Mr . Jeffrey has been for some years one of the judges of the Court of Session , and is therefore a sitter on the "judgment seat . " It is only fair to add , thatasa judgehe isas opposite to the infamous English
judge Jeffries , as light is from darkness , or justice from incarnate villany . flis recent decision in the case of the widow Dcsas , of Ceres , when he declared that "the right of the poor to a sufficient support ¦ was even preferable to the claim of the lord of the land , " entitles him to the thanks of every friend of right . May he live long to so perform the duties of his hig h , office ! In a very different spirit to the attack on Jeffrey is the following beautiful tribute to the memory of the lamented Kirk WiflTE-
Unhappy White 1 } while life was in its spring , And thy young muse just waved her joyous wing , The spoiler swept that soaring lyre away , "Which else had sounded an immortal lay . Oh ! what a noble heart was here undone , "When science self-destroyed her favourite son ! Tes , sue too much indulged thy fond pursuit , She sowed the seeds , but death has reap'd the fruit 'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow , And helpM to plant the wonnd that laid thee low : So the struck eagle , stretch'd upon the plain , 2 Co more through rolling clouds to soar again , Tiew * d his own feather on the fatal dart , Ana TOing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart : Seen were his pangs , but keener far to feel , He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; "While fie same plumage that had warm'd his nest Brauk the last life-drop of his bleeding breast .
STANZAS . Br J . M'Kowejj . ' By the marge of the sea has thy foot ever stray'd "When eve shed its deep mellow tinge ? Hast thou linger ed to hear the sweet music that ' s made By the ocean waves ivhispering fringe ? J Tis then you may hear the wild barnacles call The scream of the sea-loving mew , And that deep thrilling note that is wilder than all , The voice of the wailing curlew . The song of the linnet is sweet from the spray ; The blackbird ' s comes rich from the thorn ; And dear is the lark ' s when he ' s soaring away To herald the birth of the morn : The note of the eagle is piercing and loud ; The turtle's as soft as its true ; But give me , 0 give me , that song from the cloud , The voice of the wailing curlew .
Sky minstrel ! how often I ' ve paus'd when a child As I roam'd in my own native vale , To listen thy music so fitful and wild Borne far on the wings of the gale . And still as I rest by the door of my cot Thy voice can youth' -, feelings renew , And strangel y Tm tempted to envy thy lot , Taou wild-noted walling curlew . Tor 0 it were happiness surely , to fly In those regions so pure and so bright , To float ' neath the dome of that beautiful sky , When ting'd with the setting sun's light . There , there , thou can ' st revel unfetterM and free , And no cunning of man can pursue ; What wonder I ' m eager to wander with thee , Thou wild-noted wailing curlew !
"When the beauties of nature shall cease me to more , And " desire" in my bosom " shall fail , " And this heart that is beating with rapture and love Shall lie ccld as a clod of the vale , Then make me a grave far away from the crowd , Where spring may her sweet flowers strew , Leave my dirge to be sung by the bird of the cloud , The wild-noted wailinx curlew .
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• Arthur's seat ; the tall which overhangs Edinburgh . ¦ i " Too IWocioui—this is mere insanity . "—Btbon , 1 S 1 G . ¦ }" Henry Kirk White died at Cambridge , in October , 3836 , in consequence of too much exertion in the pursuit of studios that would have matured a mind which di .- e ise and ^ povcrty could not impair , and which death itself rather destroyed than subdued , llis poems abound in such beauties as must impress the raider with the liveliest regret that so short a period was allotted to talents which would have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume . "
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DATS AND SIGHTS IN THE EAST ; from the original notes of a recent Traveller through Egypt , Arabia-Pctra , Syria , Turkey , and Greece . By MissPlvmlkt . London ; T . C . tfewby , % Mortimer-street , Cavendish-square . As a synopsis of eastern wonders for the home reader , and as a band-book for travellers directing their steps eastward , this book will be useful . The narrative opens in the Lav of Svra , from whence the reader is taken to Alexandria . Of this city there is a brief description , after which is given an account oi
Pompey s pillar , the Pyramids , the Nile , and Grand Cairo . From Cairo the writer proceeded about four hundred miles up the Nile to Thebes . Returning to Cairo he ( Miss Plumley ' straveller is of the masculine sex ) joined a party of travellers who were about to cross the desert to Palestine . They proceeded to Suez , where they crossed to the opposite continent-Asia . The first place of note they next reached was Mount Sinai . They next arrived at Akaba , and at length , after nearly a month ' s march , entered the "land of Edom , " where Mount Hor , and Petra , "the Cit y of the Rock , " with its magnificent ruins , well repaid the travellers for their toilsome journey . Ten davs afterwards the travellers were on the borders
of Palestine . They first arrived at Mount Hebron , then Bethlehem , and lastly , an hour or two ' s march thence brought them to Jerusalem . Having visited the Jordan , the Dead Sea , Bethany , Mount Olivet , and other places , the travellers left Jerusalem for Damascus , on their way visiting Uablous ( Neapolis ) , Acre ^ which they found in desolation—thanks to British intermeddling between the Sultan and Me-Lemet Ali—Nazareth , Mount Tabor , Tiberias , and Capernaum . Damascus is pictured as the mest beautiful of eastern cities . The wondrous ruins of Baalbec arc next described . Leaving Baalbec the travellers next reached Mount Lebanon , recently , and indeed still the theatre of a horrible civil war . They next reached Beyrout , and there took leave of Syria . Constantinople and Athens were subse'qaentlr visited , but the descriptions of these places , particularly thai of the Ottoman capital , are meagre and
nnsatisfaetorv-Sueh ^ was the route travelled , and the one described in this book ; the most interesting portion of "which is the march through the desert , and the description of Petra . "ffegivethefollowingextracts : —
THE " C 1 TI OF THE BOCK . " The descent from the base of Mount Dor to Petra is considerable ; we followed the course of the bed of a torrent , and the first vietf it offered us of the situation of this * City of the Eock ' more than realised allimagination had pictured . I say , the situation ; for of Petra , as yet we saw only the excavations high in the western range ; but allaronnd , and far as the eye could reach , gigantic piles of rock—rocks of the wildest and most majestic form , and kindling with lovely tints ; rocks , which have been described as a' sea , andits waves petrified , ' and some of ¦ which sfiH shut in from our eyes , the desolate city : but afier following the torrent ' s dry course for some distance further , we . turned to the right up a steep ascent , and passed an isolated column near which were heaps of ruins , and from this spot we had a view of the open space , on which the greater part of the city stood ; and hence we beheld the splendid monuments sculptured in
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Jhe S 7 I ~ 1 Sigbt »*» tJ » t might well arrest the traveller ' s-steps , and absorb his every faculty , tte mo ? t r < l ° ne i —^ * ^ **«<* . o » * e most smgular spectacle which the magnificent creatioM ta ^ lT * f , ° d the Tain action of men , have united Lrihem- *** CUr 5 csi * of those "ho should come tvi * - ^* attanRt to describe my feelings-on viewing this splendid Temple ; fresh as if sculptured yesterday Itsfecadeis magnificent , hewn out of the rugged side of a sand-stone mouutain , whose rosy tints add much to . its Deauty ; and whose rugged and mis-shapen crests contrast singularlywith this finely proportioned edifice .
Thepomco is supported by Corinthian coluransione fw ^ aUen ; but s 0 im P ° » S « the ensemble , man did not tor some moments observe the defect- the cornice and pediment are elaboratel y sculptured / and fresh and pointed , as from the hand of the mason . The colonade is thirty-five feet high ; the columns , three feet in diameter ; they each consist of three pieces , andarethe only portions jiot hewn out ot the rock ; and this accounts for the entircnes 3 of the cornice , though one of the columns had fallen from beneath it . " I attribute much of the lightness arid elegance of the JUiasne to th , e divided pediment and the light lantcrn-like structure in its centre , surmounted by an urn . This urn is supposed by the Arabs to contain gold , which is likely to remain untold by them , unless their ingenuity can sug - gest ( which fate forbid ) some other mode of reachin" it than by firing ball at it , as they now often do » °
Its theatre , which has thirty-three rows of scats , , ^ r ° i ^ T ' m 3 St ° f wWch are iuiteperfect ; at fteback above the seats , are chambers or boxes , also hewn m the rock . Its width is one hundred and twenty feet , and the scene ( which was built ) has disappeared altogether . ¦ - The beautiful proportions of the theatre are seen to great advantage from the upper seats , and thence , too , the view of the other ruins are splendid . H—— and I remained behind the others , and reclining on its topmost bench , gave ourselves up to the contemplation of the extraordinary scene around . ' The western range is full of excavated tombs 'high as the eagle ' s nest , ' many of them being hundreds of feet from the ground ; and nearer stand rich and lovely specimens of temple and tomb , whose formation , fteien , as they all are , must have occupied the ancient dwellers in Petra
through successive generations ; unlike the Egyptians , the inhabitants of this rock expended their wealth and talents in beautifying the exterior of their sepulchres , leaving the interior quite plain . '"
A CHBISTIAN SCENE IS THE " llOLt CITT . " April 30 th . At 2 p . m ., went to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to witness the " miracle" of the descent of the ' HolyFire . " Two companies of Turkish troops were dra-vvn up in front of the church , to which we were admitted by the monks of the Greek convent , who placed us in the gallery within the cupola , from which -we had a good view of the interior ; the floor was crowded to excess by a sad set of ruffians , who were fighting and making a terrible noise . It was a motley assembly—Greeks , Turks , Arabs , Copts , Armenians , and Abyssinians were there , in a terrible state of coafusiou .
About half-an-hour after we entered , the Greek , Armenian , and Latin Bishops , walked twice i u procession round the sepulchre , with banners , &c . At 3 , an Armenian and a Greek Bishop entered the sepulchre , from which , iu a few minutes after , the Holy Fire appeared , when the shouting and uproar became dreadful , and the mob pressed forward to light their candles ; in a few minutes the whole church was in a blaze , and the motions of the dense crowd , each individual of which held a lighted candle , gave a curious effect to the brilliant scene . All denominations of worshippers have separate
chapels in this church ; and while we were there , two processions , one Greek aud the other Armenian , came in contact , and as neither would give way , a regular fight ensued ; the banner poles , and many oltheirltoly instruments , were broken and used as weapons , and candlesticks were flying in all directions . The tumult raged with indescribable fury for nearly half-an-hour , when a body of Turkish troops marched in , cleared tho church , and locked the doors . I left , disgusted with all 1 had seen , and not at all surprised that the spectators of such exhibitions should apply the terms Christians and Dogs synonymously .
TIIE SYRIAN GREEK WOMEN . The Syrian Greek woman are , beyond comparison , the loveliest in the world ; we saw many of those of Nazareth , who came down with their pitchers to the fountain of Nahor for water , in whom were visibly united all that painters may in vain endeavour to picture—all that poets dream . Their featuies combine the perfect proportion of the Greek model , with the character and expression of the daughters of Israel ; their figures , the united delicacy aud voluptuousness of form which the finest Grecian statues possess . The costume of those we saw this evening was well suited to its wearers .
The long hair , which was plaited , fell over their shoulders , and was in many instances ornamented with great numbers of gold sequins and some pearls ; in others , flowers of brilliant hues replaced the " pearl and gold , " but all wore the full loose trousers , drawn tight at the ancle ( which , not unfreguently , was encircled with silver bracelets ); thepetticoatreachingonl yto the knees , and the upper vest open at the breast—it is neither boddice , tunic , or jacket , but something between each .
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HOW'S ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF BRITISH SONG . London : J . How , 132 , Fleet-street . Two or three weeks back we noticed the first six numbers of this admirable work ; we have now to say a word or two on the thirteen subsequent numbers—No . 7 to Jfo . 19 . In these numbers we have the following popular and truly national pieces : — "Ere around the huge Oak , " " When pensive I thought of my love , " " I locked up all my treasure , " " The Lass of Richmond-hill , " "The Friar I of Orders Grey , " " Allen-a-Dalo , " " Faint and Wearily , " " Under the Greenwood Tree , " "Blow , blow , thou Winter Wind . " " Come unto these Yellow Sands , " " Where the Bsc sucks , " " Old Towler , " " The Beggar Girl , " " Wapping Old Stairs , " and " Sally in our Alley : " .. besides
several others , there being in these numbers no fewer than twenty-eight different pieces . Not the least interesting feature of this publication is the resuscitation in its pages of the simple yet beautiful ballads which , exciting the delight of our fathers , we , their ungrateful heirs , have permitted to fall into disuse and oblivion . "Sally in our Alley " and "The Beggar Girl" are specimens of the class of compositions we allude to ; the former of these may yet upon rare occasions be heard , but rather in private than in public ; as to the latter— " The Beggar Girl "—that appears to be almost universally forgotten . We extract the following account of the origin of " Sally in our Alley , " as given by Henry Carey , author of both the words and the music : — *
" A shoemaker's apprentice , making holiday with his sweetheart , treated her with a sight of Bedlam , the puppet shows , the flying chairs , and all the elegance of Moorfields , whence proceeding to the Farthing Pie House , he gave her a collation of buns , cheesecakes , gammon of bacon , stuffed beef , and bottled ale ; through all which scenes the author dodged them , charmed with the simplicity of their courtship , from which he drew this little sketch of nature : but being then young and obscure , he wps very much ridiculed for this performance , which nevertheless made its way into the polite world , and amply recompensed him by the applause of the divine Add-on . " . We are told by the editor of this work tliat
HESBT CAHEV , likeDibdin , was at once a poet and a musician , though his genius in both characters was of a lower order . He produced several dramatic pieces , and a great number of songs and ballads , in which , it has been remarked to his praise , that , though he lived in a not very scrupulous age , he preserved an inviolable regard for decency and good manners Caret , though his life was without reproach , appears to have been improvident , and died by his own hand in "Warner-street , Clerkenwell , on the 4 th of October , 1743 . - We cannot resist the temptation to give the words
of—THE BECC 1 E . CIEL . Over the mountain aud over the moor , Hungry and bare-foot I wander forlorn . My father is dead and my mother is poor , And she grieves for the days that rail never return . Pity , kind gentlemen , friends of humanity , Cold blows the wind , and the night ' s coming on ; Give me some food for my mother for charity , Give me some food and then I will be go : ce . Call me not lazy-back beggar , and bold-enough , Fain would 1 learu both to knit and to sew , I ' ve two little brothers athome , when they're old enough They will work hard for the gifts you bestow . Pity , kind gentlemen , friends of humanity , Cold blows the wind , and the night's coming on ; Give me some food for my mother for charity , Give me some food and then I will be gone . Think , while you revel so careless and free ,
Secure from the wind , and well-clothed and fed , Should fortune so change it , how hard would it he To bog at a door for a morsel of bread . Pity , kind gentlemen , friends of humanity , Cold blows the wind , and the night's coming on ; Give me some food for my mother for charity , Give me seme food and then I will be gone . For the music we must of course refer our readers to the Book of British Song . It appears that this little ballad was published anonymously between forty and fifty years ago ; the authorship of the words
and music is unknown . It was for many years exceedingly popular . The illustration to this song is most charming , and indeed the illustrations throughout these numbers are beautiful and faultless . Portraits of several eminent composers , with biographical notices annexed , add to the value of this publication . It only remains for us to repeat the hope we formerly expressed , that this truly national work may meet with national support ; most earnestly do we advise all lovers of music to " give their orders" for How ' s Illustrated Book of British Song .
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THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE . AtGUSI . This pumber of the Advocate is an important one , containing an official report of the proceedings o £ the annual Conference of the British-Temperance Association , with the new plan . of crganisatioa agreed to by the delegates . v .
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SIMMONDS * COLONIAL . MAGAZINE ^ -Avgtjst . . .. London : Siramondsand Ward , 18 ; . Gomhill . This is an interesting number of this very useful Magazine . The opening article is- "On the Lake Parima and the Geography of Guiana . " Who has not heard of Sir Walter : Ramjigii ' s . "Eli Dorado " the land of gold and of the sun : ? . There are few regions on the globe which have raised such an interest as Guiana . Since tho discovery of the Gulf of Park by Columbus , in ! 408 , and the ex edhion of Vicente Piucoii , who discovered the Orinoco at the commfcncement of the sixteenth century , it became the theatre
of enterprises , which were directed more by . visionary dreams than by prudence , and the life and fortune of thousands were sacrificed in search cf a . region . which was said to abound in precious metals . The rook 3 were represented as impregnated with gold ,. the veins of . which layso near the surface as to make it shine with a dazzling splendour . The houses of its capital , culled Manoa , were covered with plates of gold ; it was builtupona vast lake named Parima , and the reflection of its fairy build , ings caused the whitish clouds in the southern hemisphere , which are known to us as the clouds of Magellan ,, to adopt their luminous appearance . ¦ : ¦ . .. ..
It appears that the first accounts of such a risll district reached Europe in 1535 , and the mountains of New-Grenada were considered to encompass it . The sovereign prince of this worldly paradise ( continues the fiction ) was from head to foot covered with gold-dust ,, so as to . resemble a golden statue worked by the hand of a skilful goldsmith , and from this circumstance he was called thegilded— " El Dorado . " When , after fruitless searches , in . New Grenada ,, the locality of the fable was transferred to Guiana , that whole province was designated under the name of " El Dorado . " The various expeditions which were directed in search of it , and which occasioned such a waste of human life , that the annals of history do not oft ' er a parallel , in lieu of suppressing new attempts , seemed only to produce new adventurers , equally eager to achieve the discovery of " El Dorado . " ' . , - ¦ .
The unfortunate Raleigh was not the last who pursued that phantom . The close of the past century offered another knight-errant of "El Dorado" in Don Manuel Centurion , who , in 1770 , was Governor of the Spanish Province of Guiana . It appears that the believers in this fabled paradise are not yet extinct , as only a few years ago a map was published by Mr . Wyld , and as recently as 1841 another was published by a Mr . Van Heuvel in New York , upon which the Laguna de Parima figures in its whole extent . Visionary and unreal as the famed " El Dorado" has been proved to be , still there are grounds for believing that the tradition had once a more substantial foundation : —
The geological structure of this region leaves but little doubt that it was once the bed of an inland lake , which , by one of those catastrophes of which even later times give us examples , broke its barrier , forcing for its waters a path in the Atlantic . " May we not connect with the former existence of this inland sea the fable of the Lake Parima and the El Dorado 9 Thousands of years have elapsed ; generations may have been buried and returned to dust ; nations , who once wandered on its banks , may be extinct and exist even no more in name ; still tho tradition of the Lake Parima and the El Dorado survived these changes of time ; transmitted from father to sou , its fame was carried across the Atlantic , and kindled this romantic fire of the chivalric llaleigh . " These are the words which I used when describing that feature on another occasion ; and after having revisited it , I have still that impression . Dut equally certain is it , that the existence of such a lake does not belong to our historical period .
There are important articles in this number on " The Trade , Shipping , and General Statistics of New Brunswick , " " The Progress of Wealth , Population , and Trade in Canada , " " Colonial Reform " "The Sandwich Islands , " " The History and Statistics of Barbadoes , " and " The Wakefield Theory of Colonisation . " Besides these / there is the conclusion of the "Narrative of a Steam Voyage from Southampton to St . Lucia , " and continuations of the " Account of the liberated African establishment at St . Ilelena , " and " Reminiscences of the Island of puba . " _ Several of these articles are very entertaining , whilst all of them abound in information most useful to the statesman , the colonist , and tke emigrant . Prefixed to the present number is a well executed map of the Cape of Good Hope , illustrated with views , aud containing much interesting infovmation .
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THE CONNOISSEUR : A Monthly Record of the Fine Arts , Music , and the Drama . August . London : E . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street . t _ This , though the fifth number of the Connoisseur , is but the first wo have seen ; and if we may judge of the publication by a solitary copy , we should pronounce it worthy the public ' s patronage . Perhaps there is an allowance of gall in the editor ' s ink somcwhatmorc than necessary , but we are bound to add that impartiality and a stern love of truth seems to guide him in allhis decisions—he may be mistaken , but , it is our belief , is in no instance wilfully . unjust .
The contents of this number consist of critiques on the " Westminster Hall Exhibition , " the " Past Concert Season , " " Class Singing , " and "The Drama ; " together with articles entitled "The Tragedian , " " Musical Sketches , " " The Piscovery of Nineveh , " " The Royal Academy , " and some titbits of literary , musical , and theatrical gossip and chit-chat . We have been the most impressed with the article entitled " The Tragedian , " which is a truly clever and original composition . The opening remarks in the critique on " Tho Westminster Hall
Exhibition" have our warm approbation . The article on " The Royal Academy" administers a severe but well merited rebuke to a certain would-be Sir Oracle in all matters connected with the Fine Arts , which it is hoped that person will profit by ; Punch has given him a cudgelling two or three times of late , but he appears to be all but incorrigible ; still we hope for amendment . In the article entitled " The Drama" a well merited tribute is paid to the now first of tragic actresses Miss Cushman . Of this lady ' s remarkable likeness to Macready , the writer
says—None can witness this lady ' s performance without being struck by the resemblance of , not only her countenance , but the tone of her voice , and many of what we will call her mannerisms , with those of Mr . Macready . The similarity is more remarkable than any we have yet observed between individuals not having some relationship with each other ¦ and , but that we have reason to believe the lady has approached her thirty-fifth summer , and our veteran tragedian to be not much beyond fifty , we should suppose them to be something nearer than cousins . As it is , we must conclude that similar physical formation in features and organs of sound have facilitated the natural tendency to imitation on the part of the lady , in adopting the peculiarities of one in whom she must have met , for the first time , a mind , temperament , aud energy , congenial with her own . "We care not how soon wo see them together .
With the wish expressed in tlic last sentence we cordially concur . In a notice of " Sadler ' s Wells Theatre , " there is akoajust compliment paid to Mr . Phelps , with every word of which we heartily auree . This number of the Connoisseur is illustrated by a copy from a painting by Mimai . o ( a lithographic gem ) , and an original ballad by Cmvelli . To all overs of the Fine Arts we recommend the Connoiscur .
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THE MINERS' ADVOCATE — July , _ August . Newcastle-upon-Tyne : M . Juto , Side . These two numbers of the Miners' Advocate contain several excellent articles , together with reports of Miners' meetings , correspondence , &c . We find in the July number a paragraph from the introduction to Hood ' s "Lay of the Labourer , " which we give below . That paragraph appeared in this paper at the time we gave the Lay of the Labourer , but since then poor Hood has departed from this life , followed by the sorrowful regrets of millions of his countrymen and countrywomen . The paragraph g iven below , written when he was on his death-bed , becomes therefore doubly interesting , and we hesitate not to repeat it in our columns . Was it word for word inscribed upon his tomb , poor Hood would need no other epitaph , its every word is true as truth itself : —
THOMAB HOOP . As my works testify , I am of the working class myself , and in my humble sphere furnish employment formally hands , including paper-makers , draug htsmen , engravers , compositors , pressmen , binders , folders , and stitchersand critics—all receiving a fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s work . My gains consequently are limited—not nearly so enormous as have been realised upon shirts , slops , shawls , &C , curiously illustrating how a man or a woman might be clothed with curses as with a garment . My fortune las been expressed without a long vow of those
ciphersthose 0 ' s , at once significant of hundreds of thousands of pounds , and as many ejaculations of pain and sorrow from dependent slaves . ' My wealth might all be hoarded , if I were miserly , in a gallipot or tin snuff-box . My guineas , placed edge to edge , instead of extending from the llinories to Golden-square , would , barely reach from home to Bread-street . My riches would hardly allow , me to roll in them , even If turned into the new copper mites . But tben , thank God , not one reproach clings to my coin . Mo tears or blood clogs the meshes ; no hair ,, plucked in deBperation ,, is . knitted with the silk of my lean , pursp . ., Na consumptive sempstress- can point aUnve her h . r , nj
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forever and say "For thee , 8 Ewi »« , « j obma pauwb . Z ' i ^ , ° tVlS Hvin 8 skeleton !» or hold up her ^ okfcl W - OI ) &W ? ' Slmki "S ™ *< " * "ieidul looks , oan cry ,. in . piercing voice , " For . tbee , and for six s ^^ i **^^ ^^^ ^^ ofte ^ ^ o faMhinglatonr ^ hisjoints W , l i 1 ¦ ' h ° Ws 0 Ut t 0 me in the » ° ofhis broad hard hand , seven , miserable shillings , and mutters , ' < For SduS ^ "rf , '> for 8 ixlon 81 ousdays ' fromdawn led Hw i ^? S& hOt and ° ' ttrongh - -wefa * l & * I nif n m ^ KU j short sleeps are peaoeful ; my dream , untroubled . ^ hiy ghastly phantoms with reproachful faces , and Bileaoe more terrible than speech , haunt my quiet pillow . ¦ -. ¦ .. ¦ . ' ¦
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T MYSTERIES OF PARIS -B y Eugene Sue . I ' eople' ^ dition . London : Clark / Warwick-Jane , Paternoster-row . ' Two m thras . weeks ago we briefly noticed this work ; we now . return to it again : we propose to give a few extracts from it when we can find room . The following affecting story ( which we have been compelled to somewhat curtail ) of the heroine of the work scarcely exaggerates , we fear , the sufferings borne by thousands whom society ( in England as well ™ -Jj » ne ° \ "" its t 0 bo ^ ned in ignorance , misery , and crime : ^ - ° ' ¦ THE STORY OP IA GOUALEUSE . S Begin with the beginning , " said the Chourineur . "Yes , your parents V added Rodolph . "I never knew them , " said Fleur-de-JIarie . Rodolph ! br ° Ughtly ° UP < tUen Goual ^ e !» asked
I do not know , sir . ; as . far back as I can recollect when I think I was- about seven or eightycars of age , i lived mti , an old , one-eyed woman , whom they call La Chouctt , * because she had a hooked nose , a very round green eye and altogethcr . rcstmbled an owl who had lost an eye . This one-tyed . old woman ,- sent me to sell barleysugar at night on the P . ont Wj hut that was only a donk for-begging ; , and when i did not take her ten sous at least , the Chouette gave me a beating instead of mv supper . " ?;¦; . -. , ¦ , ' , " So , " said the Ghourincur ,. " you danced : instead ot eating , when you did not pick up ten sous V " Yes , and afterwards had to lie upon some straw spread upon the ground , - where I was almost perished with hitter cold . " "
Fleur- ( le : Marie-resumed : « The next morning , the oneeyed woman gave me the same allowance for breakfast as for supper , and sent me to Alontfaucon to look for worms to bait fish ; for during the day the Chouette kept her stall for selling fishing-tackle by the bridge of Notre Dame . For a child sevenyears old , half dead with hunger and coM , it is a long way from the Hue de la Mortollorie to arontfauc , on . I used to return very , very tired ; then about noon the Chouette would give me a little piece of dry bread . " " Ah ! " said the Chourineur , " we all know what it is to be miserable . " "Oh ! it is impossible you could ever have been as wretched as I was , Chourineur ! " said Fleur-de-Marie
" What , not I , Goualeusc ? Why , my girl , you were a queen compared to me ! At least , when you were little , you had straw to sleep on , and bread to cat ; for my part , I used to spend my most comfortable nights in the Hme . kilns at Clicliy , like a genuine vagabond , and fed upon cabbage-stumps and such . llke dainties , which I picked up when and where I could ; but as I was often too tired , after my day ' s dance , to go so far as the Hme-kiins at Clicky , I slc ^ t under the caves at the Louvre ; and in winter I had beautiful white sheets—whenever the snow fell . ? ¦
-.-"Ah ! a man is hardy ; but I was a poor little girl , " said Fleur-de-Marie . " When La Chouette beat me , the first blow always knocked me flown ; then she stamped upon me , muttering , 'Ah , the nasty little beast ! she hasn ' t a farthing's . worth of strength—she can't oven bear a couple of thumps without falling ! ' and tlien she called me Pegriotte ( little thief ); I never had any other appellation —that was my baptismal name . " "Just like me—I had the same baptism they give to stray dogs . I was called « Thing ! ' < Animal ! ' or 'the Albino . ' -It is . astonishing-how . much we are like one another , my girl , " said the Chourineur . " That is true—in our misery , " said Fleur-de . Marie . "And when you had fetched the worms for the Chouette , what did you do next ? " asked tho Chouri .
neur . : :,. .. ; -. "Then thoold woman would send me to beg round where she kept her stall till night ; andin the evening she went to the Pont Neuf , to sell her fried fish . Heavens I used to think it a long time to wait for a morsel of bread ; but if I was unlucky enough to ask the Chouette for something to eat , she would biat me , and say . 'Get ten sous ! and you shall have your supper , Pegriotte . Ah , me ! then , being hungry , and sore from the thumps and kicks she gave me , I cried as if my heartwould break ; but the
old woman put my tray of barley-sugar about my neck , and placed me on the Pont Nouf , wherci in winter , I was almost frozen to death . Yet sometimes , in spite of myself , I slept as I stood : but not long , for the Chouette kicked me till I awoke . Then I remained on the bridge till eleven o ' clock , my tray of barley-sugar hangiug round my neck , and often crying bitterly . On seeing me cry , the passengers would sometimes give me a trifle ; and I often obtained ten and fifteen sous , which I gave to the Chouette , who searched me all over , and even , examined my mouth , to see if I had concealed any tl . ing . "
. Well , when she discovered the secret of my success , she always beat me severely before she took me to my post on tho bridge , in order that I might cry and sob as people passed by , and by that means get more money . At last I got hardened to blows , I saw that tlic Cliouottc was very angry when I did not cry , so , to be revenged upon her , the more she ill-used me the more I laughed , though the pain brought the tears into my eyes . " "But did not the barley-sugar tempt you , my poor Goualeuse ?"
" Ah , Chourineur , that it did ; but I never tasted it , although I longed to do so . Alas , that longing was my ruin . One day , returning from Montfaugon , some little boys beat me , and took away my basket . I returned home , well knowing what was in store for me ; I had a merciless thumping , and no bread . In the evening , before she took me to the bridge , the Chouette , furious because I had taken nothing homo the ' evening before , instead of beating me as usual , to make me cry , tortured me by pulling the liair from the ' side of my temples—a part most sensible to pain . "
"Thousand thunders ! that was coining it too strong !" shouted the bandit , striking the table fiercely with his fist , and knitting his bushy brows ; " Beat a child—that ' s not out of the way ; but to toiture her ! Blood and thunder ! " \ ¦¦ Roilolpli had listened attentively to tho narrative of Fleur-de-Marie ; he now looked with astonishment at the Chourineur , this outburst of feeling astonished him . " What is the matter with you , Chourineur ? " he inquired , . " What ' s the matter with me ! Have you no feeling , then ? That beast of a Chouette , who tortured this child Is your heart as hard as your linueltles V "Goon , my girl , " said Rodolph , without noticing the interruption of the Chourineur .
" I have told you the Chouette beat me to make me cry , I was then sent to the bridge with mybarley-sugar . The old woman was at her frying-pan , and from time to time she shook her clenched fist at me . However , as I had not broken my fast since the night before , and was very hungry , atthe risk of putting the Chouette in a passion , I took a stick of barley-sugar , and began to eat it . " " Bravo ! my girl . " " I ate a second piece—" "Bravo ! Liberty or death !" " I found it very nice ; not so much from daintiness as from real hunger . But an orange-woman cried out to tho one-eyed woman : 'Holloa ! Chouette , Pcgriot ' o is eating your stock in trade ! ' It ivas a serious matter for me ' ; but thatwas afterwards ; for the old woman , although boiling over with rage at seeing me devour the barley-sugar , could not leave her frying-pan , for the fat was boiling .
"At a distance she threatened me with her long iron fork . When her fry was cooked she came up to me . I had only received three sous in charity , and I had eaten sis sous ' , worth of barley-sugar . She did not say a word , but took me , by the hand , and pulled me away after her . At this moment , I knew not how it was that I did not drop dead < vith fright . I remember it as well as if it were but now—it was about New-year ' s Day , and there were many shops on theTont Neuf , all filled with toys , and 1 had been looking at them all the evening with the greatest delight—beautiful dolls , little furnished houses you know how amusing such things are to a child . " " And had you never any playthings , G oualeuse V asked the Chourinenr .
"I ? _ Good heaven ! whojivas there to give me any playthings ? " said the young girl , in a sad tone . " IIowever , the evening passed away . Although it was in the depth of winter , I only had on a little cotton gown—no stockings , no shift , and the wooden shoes on my feetthat was not enough to stifle one with heat , was it \ Well , when the one-eyed woman took me by the hand , I became bathed in perspiration from head to foot , What frightcned me most was that , instead of swearing as usual , she only kept on muttering between her teeth . She never once let go my hand , but made mo walk so fast—so very fast—that I was obliged to run to keep up with her , and m running I lost one of my wooden shoes ; and as I did not dare to say so , I followed her with one foot naked on the bare stones , and when we reached home it was covered with blood . "
"We lodged in a garret , in the Ruede la Mortellerie : adjoining the entrance . to our alley there was a dram-shop . The Chouette went in , ¦ still drag - ging me by the hand , and drank a half-pint of brandy at .. too l bar .,- Atlength , we got up into our loft ; the Chouette double-locked the door ; I threw myself at her feet , and begged her pardon for having eaten the barley-susnr . She did not answer me , a » a I heard her mumbling to herself as she talked about the room : H What shall I do to-night to this Pegriotte-this little tiuef of my barley sugar ? Let me see—how shall I serve her out ? Ah yes !* And then . sho stopped to look at me maliciousl y with her one green eye , whilel stiU knelt before « eiv ihen suddenly the old woman went to a shelf and teetL » 0 VVn * Pah % ' ¦ - pincDrs ' tako out one . of my _ "And did sho really take out your tooth , my . poor . •« wn- ' asked Rodolph , whilst the Chourineur vented his rag © ma volley of the most violent epithets . , ' Vi ¦• ' . : ; .. ' -:- - ¦• - ; -- ; . i » The ; , Qwl .- :: . ¦ : ¦ ,,-. '" [¦ : ¦ - . - ¦ "
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¦ . "Tes , sit ; but not at tho first pull . Great heavenhow I suffered ! She held my' head between her . knees , as if- it had been in a vice . Then , partly with the pincers , andpartly with herfingers , she pulled out my tooth , and then said— 'Now , Pegriotte , I will pull out one of your teeth every day ; and when you have no more left , I will throw you into the river . - . toba eaten by the fishes * " "Ah , the old devil ! to wrench out a poor child ' s teeth in that manner ! " exclaimed the Chourineur , withredou-Wed . fury . The day following poor > GouaUuse ran away - when night came on sho hid herself in a timber-yardYwherc slic slept . Next day about noon she was ' scented out by a dog , and the alarm , was raised of " thieves" in the- yard . Hearing a child cry , tho dog was called off , and the poor child had to come out of her hiding
I saw a bluff-looking gentleman and a man in a blouse Ah , . what do you do in my timber-yard , you little thief ?' said the gentleman in a menacing tone . I put my . hands together , and said : ' Pray don ' t hurt me : I have had nothing to eat for two days , and I ' ve run away from the Chouette , who pulled out my tooth , and said she-would throw me to the fishes . Not-knowing where to sleep , I was passing your yard , I have slept during the night amongst these logs , under this heap , not thinking to hurt anybody . ' 'I ' m not to be deceived in that way ! : You came here to steal my wood . Go and call the police , ' said the timber merchant to his man . " The result : ^ -
"Iwas taken to the magistrate , " resumed La Goualeuse . " I accused myself of being a vagrant , and they sent nie to prison . I was taken before the court , and formally , sentenced as a roguo and vagabond , to-remain until I was . sixteen years of age in . a house of correotion . I heartily thank the judges for their kindness ; for inprison Ihadfood , I . wasnotbeaten ,. anditwasaperfeotparadise compared to the miserable loft of . the Chouette . Moreover , in prison I learned to sew ; but , alas ! . I was idle :: I ; preferred singing , to . working , and particularly when the sun . was shining ,. Oil !; when it shsne briiihtly in the courtyard . of the prison ,. I could not refrain from singing ; and then , while 1 sang , I fancied I was no longer a prisoner . It was after I began to sing so much that they called , me Goualeusc instead of Pegriottfr . Ihen , when I . was sixteen , I left , the prison . At thedoor 1 found the Ogress-of this house , with two or three old women , who . had come to see some of my fellow prisoners , i and who had always told me that when I left the prison they would find me some employment . "
"Ah ,. good ! - good ! I understand , " said the Ghourineur .. '" My pretty little maid / said the Ogress and the old women , " will you come and lodge ' with us ; we will give you nice clothes ,, and you shall have nothing to do but to amuse yourself . ' But I distrusted ihem and refused , saying to myself :-. ' I know how to use my needle well , and I have two hundrel francs by me . I have been eight years in prison / I should like to enjoy myself a littlethat will not harm anybody : work will come when the money is gone . '' And so I began to 3 pend my two
hundre'd francs . Ah ! that was a sad mistake , " added Fleurde-Marie , with a sigh . " I ought first to have got work : but 1 hadnt a soul on earth to ndvise me . A girl , sixteen years of age—thrown as I was on the streets of Paris ; one is so lonely ; but what is done is done . I have acted wrong , and I have suffered for it . I began then to 3 pend my money ; first , I bought flowers to put in my room—I do so love flowers ; then I bought a gown , a pretty shawl , und took a walk in the Bois de Boulogne , aud I went to St . Germains , to Vincennes—in the country ! Oh , how I love the country !
Most of her money having vanished , poor Goualeuse began to think of getting work . Sue had reserved fifty francs to keep hor while looking for employment ; but this she expended on a miserable woman who craved her help in the hour of extremest misery . Goualcusc ' s money was now all gone : — " Then I looked out for work ; but it was too late . 1 was a good needle woman . I had good courage , and thought that I had only to wish for work and that I should get it ! Ah ! how I deceived myself ! I went into a shop where they sell ready-made linen , and asked for work , and as I would not tell a story , I said I had just left prison ; on which they showed me the door , without making me any answer . I begged they would give me a trial , but
they pushed me into the street as if I had been a thief . Then I remembered , when too late , what Rigolette had told me . I sold my small remnant of clothes and linen to obtain food , and at length , when I had nothing left they drove me from my lodging . I had not eaten for two days ; I did not know where to sleep . Then it was I met the Ogress and one of the oid women . Knowing where I lodged , they had been continually haunting me from the time I came out of the prison . They told me they would get me work—I believed thorn . They led me with them ; I was so exhausted for want of food that I hardly knew what I did . They gave me brandy to drink , and—andbehold ! " said the wretched creature , burying her face in h ( irli . iii < ls .
Rodolph had listened with deep interest to this recital , made with such touehingfrankness . Misery , destitution , ignorance of the world , had destroyed this wretched girl , cast at sixteen years of age , alone and unprotected , on the wide world at Paris ! RoSolph involuntarily thought of a beloved child whom he had lost—a girl , who died at the age of six years ; and who , had she lived , would have been like Fleur-de-Marie , sixteen years and a half old . This recollection painfully excited his solicitude for the unhappy creature , whose melancholy history he had just heard .
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Publications Received . —The Ballad Poetry of Ireland—Clarke ' s Wandering Jew , parti .
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Royai Meanness . —It seems from the Debate on the Supplioa , that Kings , and Emperors , and lloyal Princes , when they come to this country , do not pay their own travelling expenses . John Bull is called upon to pay for turnpikes , stokers , equerries / boots , glasses of brandy-and-water;—in fact , everything . Now , this is too bad ! Not only does an autocrat come to England when lie is not wanted , but we arc actually forced to pay for tho very ship that brings him to usi It is just as if a " sponge" were to dine
with you on a Sunday—eat and drink as much as he liked—stop all night—and then ask you to pay for his omnibus home , and for the cab that brought him to your door ! We vote that if the Emperor of Russia comes to England again , he be allowed , like a commercial traveller , so much a day for travelling expenses ' , and if he has a sandwich and a glass ot ale beyond that , he must get his Chancellor of the Exchequer to pay for it . If the Emperor does not like this arrangement , we are glad to tell him , he has his remedy—he needn't come at all . —Punch .
The Crown in Danger !—On Saturday afternoon , immediately after her Majesty had delivered her speech , and was in the act of quitting the House of Lords , the Duke of Argyll , whose office it is to bear the velvet cushion on which the crown is placed when her Majesty is retiring , stumbled , and the consequence was that the crown fell off the velvet cushion on tho floor . A number oftlic jewels fell out of it , and it was otherwise much injured . Tliejewels were all picked up and handed to the noble duke . On the accident being made known to her Majesty she expressed her concern that his grace should have met with , the slight accident , but was glad lie was not hurt .
Smalt , Debts Act . —On Tuesday the act for the better securing the payment of small debts was issued . In every stage of the measure alterations have been made , and it was only on receiving the Royal assent on Saturday that it was known that further correctiens could not be made until Parliament again assembled . There are twenty-five sections ami four schedules in tho act . Singularly enough , it dates its operation just twelve months from the passing of the act which liberated some hundreds of poor persons who were in custody for sums not exceeding £ 20 , and prevented the incarceration of some hundreds of others for like sums . It will be well if a reaction does not take place , and creditors proceed to extremes , under the provisions of the new law . Debtors may now
be induced to " make their peace" with their creditors without putting the machinery of the new law into operation . The general effect of the law appears to be , that a creditor who has obtained a judgment , or any order for payment , from a competent court , for any sum not exceeding £ 20 , can expeditiously and cheaply summon a debtor , to the Court of Bankruptcy , or Court of Requests , provided the latter is presided over by a barrister , special pleader , or an attorney who has been ten years in practice . The debtor may be examined as well as the creditor , ar . d , shouldthe debtor fail toattend , or make a satisfactory answer , or shall appear to have been guilty of any fraud either in the removal of his goods or the contraction of the debt , he mav be sent to prison for a
period not exceeding forty days , which imprisonment is not to extinguish the debt , nor is it to be got rid of by an order from the Court of Bankruptcy or Insolvent Debtors , but the judge who sent him to prison may order tlie discharge on satisfaction fceing made by the payment of tho debt and custs . One of tho last amended amendments states that Ujg actual necessaries of the debtor shall not be seiaed in execution , and allows him goods , tools , &o .,. to the value of £ 5 . The jurisdiction of the inieriou courts may , by an order in Council , be extended to £ 20 , and all such I applications must be advertised in . tile London Gax . ette one month before they are considered . Witnesses
not attending when summoned may be fined £ 5 , to be enforced in like manner as payment of any debt recovered by a judgment . There is power given to execute warrants againsi . the persons or goods of a debtor against whom an order has been obtained , not . withstanding the removal from the jurisdiction of the court in which such outer was obtained . The act i only to apply to England . The forms to be used and the fees to be charged are set forth in the schedules of the act .. Creditors and debtors may be their own lawyers in the matter . Provided the small debts i courts are extended and presided over as mentioned , veiy few actions will be brought in tho superior , courts for amounts under £ 20 , The act . took effect from I Saturday last . . ' " . :. - , ., -. '" : /;; .- > - ' ' ' , ;¦
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Reform opthe Bar . —We are happy to state that the barristers of-the Oxford Circuit have , at length , resolved to vindicate tho ^ dignity of the Bar , andta show a bright example to the whole of their silvertongued and unsophisticated brethren . They hare come to an expressed resolution that it is beneath the character of any of them " to report law proceedings for the press . " And following up this beginning in the right path , they have also resolved , that if it shall happen that any counsel receive a retaining fee to conduct a case which , from a press of business , he shall be unable to advocate , it will henceforth'be considered a breach of tlie merest every-day honesty not to return the money . Indeed , it is said that this
resolution is to have a retrospective effect , in which , case considerable sums must be paid back . We shall be happy to advertise the day on which learned gentlemen propose to disgorge . —JWi . Irish Secresy . —Mr . Somers , tho pugnacious Irish member , who sent his challenging missive to Mr . Roebuck endorsed it , " private and confidential ;" whilst at the close of the epistle he informed the honourable and learned member that ho had " sent a copy ot it to the Morning Chronicle' " Amiaule SiMmciiy . — " Miss Brown , I have been , to learu how to tell fortunes , " said a yomig fellow to a brisk brunette ; "just let me have your hand if you please . " " La ! Mr . White , how sudden you are ¦ Well ! go and ask papa . "
IT SPOILS A MAN TO 5 IAIWT HIM . ( From an American I ' apcr . ) Believe , dear girls , this maxim true , In precept anil in practice too : The truth I dare avouch to you , It spoils a man to marry him ! The creature never ought to go Beyond a honeymoon or so . Survive he that , why then he'll show-It spoils a man to marry him ! When pleading , kneeling , at your feet , His words , how bland : his looks , how sweet ' Eternal love your ears doth greet—It spoils a man to marry him ! With kisses sweet consent he'll wring , And get jour finger in a ring ; And then—he ' s quite another thing-It spoils a man to marry him !
Hnve you a doubt—a fear : then drop it ; A wish , a will , a fancy—lop it ; Pause when the question he doth " pop it , " Ere you consent to marry him ! But should you daring venture , then , To choose the worst or best of men : Wliy then , nine cases out of ten-It spoils a man to marry him ! The "Last of . "his Race . "—When tho Earlof Sunderland resigned office in the reign of Queen
Anno , tho Queen offered him a pension of £ 3 . 000 a year ; but the Earl replied , that if he could not have the honour to serve his country , he would not incur the infamy of plundering it . We wish a few of our modern Peers were equally upright . A Suout Difference . —A pompous fellow made a very inadequate offer for a valuable property , and calling the next day for an answer , inquired if the owner had entertained his proposition . "No , " re plied the other , " but your proposition has enter tamed me . "
Metaphysics Defined . —A Scotch blacksmith , ore being asked the meaning of metaphysics , explained it as follows :- " When the party who listens dinna ken what the party who speaks means , and the party who speaks dinna ken what he means himsel , that is metaphysics . " Benefit of Dnucs . —A physician , who had drugged a citizen ' s wife , who had died , to his great astonishment received a hundred guineas from the inconsolable widower . " Alas ! " cried he , " what should I have profited had I but saved the lady ! " " Be not distressed , " replied the citizen , " I should not have given yeu a farthing . " . . ¦
A . Quaker Woman ' s SrEECii . —Dear friends , there are three tilings I very much wonder at . Tlie first is , that children should be so foolish as to throw up Btones , brick-bats , and clubs into fruit-trees to knock down tho fruit—if they would let it alone , it would fall of itself . The second is , that men should be so foolish , and even so wicked , as to go to war and kill one another—if they would let one another alone , they would die of themselves . And the last thing I wonder at most of all is , that of young women—if they would stay at home , the young men would come after them .
Benefit of Counsel . —The uses of cross-examination were rather unmercifully exposed by Judge Piirke , upon the trial of some rioters , when a learned gentleman , concerned for one of the prisoners , asked some questions affecting another man who bad no > counsel employed . " He is not your client , " said the judge . " He is mine—do not hang my client , whatever you may do with your own . " This was passing sentence upon the unfortunate pleader , at all events . Fair on koth Sides . —How often have we heard that England ought to be grateful that she has a House of Lords ? If any reason were wanting , here is one : —A Peer said , in a debate about Mr . Barry ' s neverto-be-completed Houses of Parliament , " The walls of the House of Lords will be so thick , that it will be impossible to hear anything that takes place outside . " Now , how grateful every Englishman will be if this advantage should be proved to be not all on the side of the Lords!—Punch .
Reproving the Follies of the Ace . —When anything very outrageous or ridiculous is built , it is generally called in the neighbourhood " A Folly . " Thus we have throughout England a number of architectural absurdities , known as " Bmcos ' s Folly , " "Jones ' s Folly , " "Thompson ' s Folly , " &c . But the greatest folly of all in the building way is uuquestionably Trafalgar-square . Might it not be called henceforth " Englakd ' s Folly ?"—Ibid . A Capital Investment . —We print the following fact for the sake of persons , possessed of large property , who are fond of speculating : — " On Tuesday , July 20 th , there was a debate in the House of Lords , and Lord Brougham never spoke a single word . " We should like to have the sums of money that will bo offered in a few years for a newspaper of the above date- —Ibid .
Hearts , Hands , asd Shillings . —Daniel O'Connell , the other day , addressing a . mob which he had convened at Galway , is reported to have expressed himself as follows : — "I want every man ' s shilling , and I will tell you why ; because there is a heart and hand behind every shilling . I want the hearts and hands of every man . " - We have no doubt that Mr . O'Connell wants every man ' s shilling ; and we wish we could say as much of every other assertion tljat has bGon made by that gentleman . In particular , we should be very glad if we could . believe the sequel to this very statement . How difficult it seems to bo to the Agitator to utter an entirely credible sentence ! lie says that he wants every man ' s shilling because there is a heart and a hand behind the coin in question . O'Connell is not a simpleton , whatever
he is ; and we arc sure that it is no nonsensical reason for which he wants every man ' s shilling . Every man ' s shilling would come to more millions of pounds sterling t ' aan we are in a position to reckon . A great many people besides Mr . O'Connell would be glad of every , not to say any , man ' s shilling . However , when His Unacknowledged Majesty tells us that he wants the hearts . and hands of every man , this , again , is a declaration which we can receive , with some little allowance . We take it that he wants . the hearts and hands as represented by the shillings . Shillings , we presume , arc , . according to Mr . O'Connell , counters that stand for hands and hearts . But is it absolutely necessary tliat those counters should be silver ? Would . not bone be less expensive to the poor Irish . —Ibid .
Going to be Buried . —A poor Irishman passing through a village near Chester , saw a crowd approaching , which made him inquire " what was the matter ?' He was answered , "A man was going to be buried . " " Oh , " replied he , "I'll stop to sec that , for we cany them in our country . " - ¦ . ¦ - ' . A Poetical Lover . —A young poet in Cleveland , Ohio , has fallen in love the second time . It may be true that " true love never yet did run smooth , " but this can't be said of his poetry : —
o wunst i . luvil a nuthcr girl Uuv name it was murrhier but betsy dear my lov for u is 45 times more higher . Adap tation to Circumstances . —One Here Vonn Scheldt , a German , was breakfasting with a fellow of Worcester College , in company with the Revs . J . H . Newman , F . Marriott , and other eminent divines . The conversation turned on the different religious observances of different countries , and the dutyof conformity . "OchGott , " said Ilerr Vonn Scheldt , " venlam in any contree , Itinkitmadutcetobe of do religion of dat contree . Yen 1 am in Italy I go . to mass , I go to confession , I am of de religion ot ' ue Roman Catholique . Yen I am in Tuvquec , I trink no vin , 1 marry four wife . I am of de religion o £ ile Turque . Yen I am in England , I trink portvin ; I say " Gott tarn ; " I am of de religion of de Englishe . "
A "Deaf" Jtjroii . —Rather Green . —In the Nisi Prius Court , at Bridgewater , on Tuesday week , a juror appeared in the witness box , and claimed exemption on the ground of deafness . Mr . Baron Platt , in a very subdued tono of voice , interrogated the deaf ' un . "How long have you been deaf ? " inquired the judge . The juror _ uatoait ( u tingly ; answered "Two years . " ' lirajtfdgeVjn ; )^ much less audible tone— " How w . aKi ^ . ur . ^ loalness r caused ?"—Juror ( without evincing ^ h ^ -Je ^ st ^ dinT . culty in hearing ) : " I caught asever ? col 3 ;? l-r 4 Judgo ' ( in a voice almost reduced to a w ^ &petJi ^ -Don't " you think your deafness is cured ?" - ~ v a ^ q , " mjr / Iordi'A answered the unsuspecting jurymJm . ^ 'Oh ,-yoii'ir do very well / sir , " replied his lordffiip ^ aniidstToais of laughter . W ^^ Wv ^ No Room . — " Owing to a crow ^ df ^ hfir'inatter ^ we are unable to make room for if ! " a $ iu& editor at the dinner-table replied , when he W- i § ful ? Sted to take somepudiUne , .- ^^^• r
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 16, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1328/page/3/
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