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— - * — BEAUTIES OF BYRON . HO . XTHI . " CBttDE BABO 1 B . " /^ mneed notfce to hate , mankind : ^ SSthem to stir and ^ , S ^ eontenttoheep the mmd * * , Libuntain , lestitover-hoil ^^ « h ™ uTV nere ive become the spoil ^^ SS ^ olateanaiong SSSSS- ^^ v - ^ ^ pihedinta-cbaDge of m-ong for wrong ? ° -a wn « n ^ ' 1 TOria ' striviD S wiere * OEe we strong . " " ~ ; na moment , tre may plunge our years ffff ^ U ^ andinthel . ligT . t In »' - ' ! ? - , } nrn ^ onrbloodto tears , Of iK = S come " * ith hues ofIti Eht ; ** " * jiife iecomes a * ° Ftes flight J jj ^ t walk in darkness : on the sea , To ^« t steer but -where there ports invite , £ S ^ wanaereis »' a-Et ^ ty tor k drives on and on , and anchorM ne ' er shall
t . it not tetter , then , to he alone , ' Li love earth only for its earthly sate i Tft jbe Ms * rnsninff of the arrony Bhone , Or jbejmrehason of its nursing lake , -ffbich feedsitasa mother -who doth make i iairbnt frowardmfantlieroTm care . Steins its cries away as these awake ;—' 5 it not oetter thus onr lires to -re-ear , jisajoin the crashing crowd , doom'd to inflict on tear ! j u « not inmjself , hut I hecome Portion of tbataronnd mej and to me jjigh mountains are a feeling , hut the hum # human cities torture : I can see Sotting to loathe in nature , save to "be Alinlc reluctant in a fleshly chain , figss'd among creatures ,-when the Eonl can flee , AD a sith the sky , the peak , the heaving plain Ci ocean , or the stars , mingle , and not in rain .
And thus 1 am absor o d and this is life : I look upon the peopled desert past , A ? on a place of agony and strife , ¦ ffiere , for some sin , to sorrow I was cast , Jo act and suffer , but remount at last With a fresh pinion ; 'which I feel to spring , Though yoong , yet waking -rigorons , as the blast Which it would cope with , on delighted wing , gpsrning lie day-cold oonds * which round onr oeSng ding . , - And when at length , the mini ] shaB be all free from -what it hates in this degraded form , Reft of its carnal life save what shall be Xsietent happier in the fly and worm , —
When elements to elements conform , And dost is as it should be , shall I not Ted all I see , less dazzling , but more 'warm ; Tiie bodiless thought ? The Spirit of each spot ? ( ifirhich , eren now , I share at times the immortal lot 1 Are not the mountains , "wares , and skies , a part Of me and of my soul , as I of them t Is not the love of these days in my heart TVith a pore passion I Should I not' contemn jU ! objects y compared-with these ? and Stem A title of suffering , rather than forgo Such feeling for the hard and worldly phlegm Of those whose eyes are only turn'd below , Gaangupon the ground , -with thoughts which dare not glow ?
EOUBBEAU . Here the self-torturing sophist , -wild Rousseau , Tie apostle of affliction , he -who threw Enchantment over passion , and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence , first drew The breath which made him wretched ; jet he knew Sow to make madness beautiful , and cast O ' er erring deeds and thoughts a heavenly hue Of words like sunbeams , dazzling as they past The eres , which , o ' er them shed teats feelingly and fast , HiBlovewaBpassion's essence—aiatree On fire by lightning ; -with etheral flame 5 in ( fle < l he was , and blasted ; for to be Thus , and enamour *! were in him the same . But bis -was not the love of living dame ,
Nor of tie dead who rise upon our dreamg , Sat of ideal beauty , - which became In him existence , and o ' erfiowing teems Along his burning page , distemper'd though it seems . This breathed itself to life in Julie , this Invested her with all that ' s -wild and sweet ; This haBow'd , too , thememorablekiss "Which every morn his fever'd lip would greet , Prom hers , robo bnt rrf th friendship his would meet ; But to that gentle touch , through brain and breast Tlash'd the thrilled spirits lore devouring heat ; In that absorbing sigh perchance more blest Than -vulgar minds may be -with all they seek possest , Sis life was one long -war with self-sought foes , Onfriends by him self-banish'd ; for his mind Had grown sunirion'e sanctuary , and chose
For its own cruel sacrifice the kind , 'Gainst whom he raged lvith fury strange and blind . Sat he was phrensied , —wherefore , who may know ? Since cause might he which skill could never find ; Bat he was phrensied by disease or woe To that worst pitch of all , which wears a reasoning show . Por then he was inspired , and from him came As from the Fythian ' s mystic cave of yore , Those oracles which set the -world on flame , Hot ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more : Did he not this for France ? which lay before BowM to the inborn tyranny of years ! Broken and trembl ing to the yoke she bore , 3221 by ibe voice of him and his compeers , Soused up to too much wrath , -which follows o ' ergrown fears f
They made themselves a fearful monument ! The wreck of old opinions—things which grew , Breathed from the breath of time ; the Teil they rent , And what behind it lay , all earth shall view . But good with ill they also overthrew , Xeaving but ruins , -wherewith to rebnild TJpoa the same foundation , and renew Dungeons and thrones , which the same hour xeflll'd , As heretofore because ambition -was self-will'd . But this win not endure , nor be endured ! ifankina have felt their strength , and made itfelt . They might have used it better , but , allured Bj their new vigour , sternly have they dealt On one another ; pity ceased to melt "With her once natural charities . But they TTno in oppression ' s darkness caved have dwelt , They Vere not eagle ' s , nourish'd with the day ; "What marvel then at times , if they mistook their prey !
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THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Peison Rhyme k Ten Books . By Thomas Coofeb , tf < e Chartist . London : J . How , 132 , Heet-sfaeet . ( Continuedjromihe Star of Nov . 1 st . } The " -. Ninth Book" is brief , consisting of but some fifty stanzas . The characters -who figure therein are exclusively female , —Pobcia , Abbia , the ¦ wife of AsDBinuxt the Carthaginian , Sopbbqsia , ana Bahcxa , the Jewess . The "Book" ODens with a Brison scene , in which a woman , -with an infant child , iomes to bid farewell to her " faioa" husband . 'Tis "Woman ' s voice J—woman in wailful grief , Joined by her babe ' s scarce conscious sympathy . — Thy wife iath come to take her farewell hriefj Gaunt felon!—brief and bitter must it be Jot thy babe ' s mother—since the wide salt sea Must roll , forlife , its deep , dark gulph between Thee , convict—and that form of agony ! Poor wretehedthing J well may she wail , I ween ,
And wring her hands , and wish that she had never been j "Iiet jnenave one last Jdss of my poor babe !" He saith , and dingeth to the grate . Oh 1 how The turnkey's answer will his bosom stab!—«• Away!—we open not the bars . '" — and , lo ! They push him rudely back I—he may not know ffhatbalefulblissitgivesto clasp a child Or wife , " ere one most yield them to life ' s woe . Ah ! Ettte had that 3 ds 3 his grief beguiled—But lather , filled his soul with after-throes more wild . She faintefli!—yet awakes to moan andjweep !—How little &dst ihou think that smiling mom Thou didst , so early and so eager , peep Into thy mirror , and-thy breast adorn TVith virgin rose—so soon the sorrow-thorn "Would there nave pierced J—that thou , in two short
jears , "Wouldst see thy husband in that dress of scorn—And turn—a widowed bride—a thing of tearsjrom that stern grate , forlorn , to meet the -world ' s rud « jeers ! Poor sufferer J how wilt thou the future brook!—To drudge from morn to eve for beggar's bread ;—To hear thy ragged child Teceive rebuke Por his sire ' s sins—that on the exile ' s head already £ & full sore;—to see Mm shed Tears when he asks for food , and thou hast none To stop his hunger;—then , to make thy bed .. :
"With him upon the heath or moorland lone—Unless for infamy , thoniak ' st the rich man ' s boon ! -What misery—hadst thou never been a bride—Thy heart had shunned i—Yet , fhod wilt fondly cling Unto the memory of thy love—nor chide , Erti by athought , in deepest suffering , His error , rrho did thy young joy-bloom bring Todesoifttionl III requited love ¦ Vpas thine , ev ' n from tho bridal-reveHiDg—Tet , thou forgaves t all , nor didstieprove The wild excess which oft thee nigh to madness drove .-Very beanttfW is the following apostrophe to
\ TO 03 B . —~ Ob , woman ! how thy truest worth is slighted : — Thy tenderness how often met with hate : — T&T SmSest pnrestiopes low often Wighted : — How man , ihe ^ rant , lOTflsit o ' erthjfate , Yet feigns for tbj benign behest to wait ;—Howiealonsly he gnards thy faithfulness , SJ forms a censure on thy eve ^ y state-Thvcnas « y terniscoldness ' " ~ 3 ' caress weXStotage m , orgrcsserlove ' sexceBBl
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Oh , woman ! feireBt , frailest , sweetest flour Of Nature's garden , -what rude storms thee bend ! Thy heart—thou priceless , peerlesg , matchless dower Of Nature ' s treasury—what sufferings rend ! How meanly men , through selfishness , contend To pamper thee—how silkenly their lays Of lore they lisp to gain taeir guilty end ;—How sensually man lauds thy beauty's blaze ;—How heartlessly deserts thee in its dimmer days ; Oh , woman ! what anxieties destroy The bliss thou dreamestnone can take away , "When hushing thy soft care , thy cradled joy;—How Time the blessings thy fond hopes pourtray Oft turns to curses , and thy heart a prey To keenest woe becomes—maternal woe That , like maternal love , the human clay Moves more intensely than severest throe , Or most ecstatic thrill that mortal bosoms know . " A -m . «
How thy best children , Woman , testify A mother ' s worth , —attributing their zest Por enterprize , or love of good , to thy Exalting nurture ! 0 let him attest A mother ' s worth—that Titan of the West"Unequalled Washington ! And if such men , That dwarf princes , vigour from thy meek breast Now draw , Woman J what will thy sons be when ifan looks on thee no longer with the tyrant's ken * When chivalry ' s false homage is forgot , — When eastern jealousy no more immures And renders thee a vernal idiot , — When thy young purity no villain-lures . Are spread to blemish , —when thy mind matures lit freedom , and thy soul can make its choice , Untrammelled , unconstrained , where heart assures The hear t it is beloved , —shall not thy voice And loek restore to Earth its long-lost Paradise !
That Mind is of no sex , —when thou art freed , Thy thought-deeds shall proclaim : our Edgeworth'i
sense , Our Baillie ' s truthful skill , Felicia ' s meed Of grace with perfectestmellifluence Of music joined , —or thy magnificence Of heart and reason . Seeker ' s glorious child !—Problems shall be no more : Woman ' s intense Inherent claim to mind-rank , when befoiled 3 f o more by Man , she will display with glow unsoiled . And when her fiildren see her more in j oy , And yet in truest dignity , ^ -no more A slave , —no more a drudge , —no more a toy !•— . When from her lips of love her spirit ' s store Of high ennobling wisdom she doth pour Into her offspring ' s ears , —into their eyeB , Ere speech he learnt , looks Nature ' s purest lore Of truth and virtue , —shall not Man arise Prom error , —nurtured thus , —and loftiest good devise i ( To lecontinued . )
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TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE . Novembbb . Edinburgh : W . Tait . London : Simpkin and -Marshall . All who desire to know the real character of the much-lauded Nelson , will do well to read the excellent review of the "Dispatches and Letters" of that "hero , " which opens the present number of Tait From these ' Dispatches , " « fcc ., the reader will learn hew small , indeed , are the claims of the victor of the Kile and Trafalgar to be enrolled in the list of England ' s worthies . His courage and skill as a great sea-captain cannot be questioned ; but as a negotiator he was contemptible , and he possessed none of the abilities requisite for a statesman . His hatred of tie French was unbounded ; and , with regard to that nation , he was throughout his life actuated by
the most ignorant , bigotted , and contemptible national prejudices . He was a besotted admirer of kings ; and no matter how despicable or infamous a king might be , Nelson would have unhesitatingly shed the blood of myriads to preserve the power or glut the vengeance of his royal proteg 6 . This he showed by Ms support of the infamous Neapolitan king and court . His murder of Cabacciom has left an eternal stain upon his name which all the lies and subterfuges of corrupt and lickspittle writers will fail to efiace . His disgraceful connection with the notorious Lady Hamilton reduced him to the lowest state of moral degradation in his public as well as private character . Yet to such a man are statues
raised ! Forty years have only elapsed since Nelson fell , and his fame already wanes . "We may safely predict that the end of another forty years will see his reputation at a very low ebb indeed . This number contains the commencement of an American romance by Colonel Johnson , entitled " Jenny Basket , " a tale of the revolutionary war , and a welltold tale it promises to be . " The Life of Mozart " is an excellent review of Mr . Holmes's biograpliv of that wonderful genius . " The Life of Mozart" is another chapter added to the melancholy record of the sufferings of Nature ' s nobles , and the cruelty , tyranny , and meanness of those usurpers who by birth , force , and fraud , have acquired and held supremacy amongst men .
'Tis true 'tis pity , and pity ' as ' as true . "Notes on Gilfillan ' s 'Gallery of Literary Portraits , ' " by Thomas De Quincet , is an exceedingly interesting article . The subjects of the " Notes " this month are Godwin and John Foster . The latter appears to have beenmuch overrated . We anticipate great pleasure from the continuation of these "Notes . " By-the-by , in looking through the list of the Gilnllan Portraits , we are surprised to find the omission of such sames as Btron , Moore , Dickens , and Jerrold . Why is this ? Madame Wolfensberger's "Lettersfrom Naples" exhibit in startling colours the wretched and degraded state of the people of that country , caused mainly by the withering influence of the Catholic priesthood . Some len « thy extracts will be found from these "Letters " in our seventh page , under the head of " Foreign Movements ; " in addition to which we here insert the following illustrations of the deplorable
SUfEBSTITION OF THE NEAPOLITAN PEASANTRY . The following adventure occurred last year to an Italian friend of oars , who himself recounted the particulars to us : — On the arrival of this gentleman with a friend on a fketching tour at the small village of Cevito , amidst the mountains behind Capua , he engaged two little boys to carry his portfolio and drawing materials , and at once set off , thus accompanied , in search of & subject for the exercis * of his pencil . Some time elapsed before he decided on a point of view ; and , in order to do so , he made several circuits amongst the hills , which apparently excited suspicion to his disadvantage . Some hours passed away , and the mother of the boys , who was ignorant that they had left home with a stranger , began to be anxious at their unusually long absence , and raa about the village demanding news of her children from her different neighbours .
At that moment a man arrived from the hills , who had been a witness of the artist " s proceedings , and , in answer to her inquiries , he Uuntly told her " that she might cease her clamour , for her children were irretrievably lost . ' So efforts of hers could save them , " he added , " for they were in the power of a sorcerer , who had carried them off to murder them for the purposes of his incantations . He had seen him with the boys forming his mysterious circles ; and by this time , no doubt , it was all over vrith them . " The horror Of the woman at this information , the truth of which she never doubted for an instant , surpassed all words . She called on her neighbours to revenge the death of her innocent babes ; she ran from bouse to house , summoning the peasantry to join her in tstirpating the monster from the land ; and the clamour for revenge spreading from cottage to cottage , like the extending circles around a stone cast into deep water , the whole population of the district was ere long in a state of insurrection .
The gentleman , meanwhile , unconscious of the tumult his movements had excited , was quietly making a drawing upon the mountain above the village . But however deeply engaged by his occupation , he could not fail at length to remark the increasing agitation of the country beneath . Ho saw the peasantry rushing from their dwellings , and forming together in bands ; a murmur , ' as cf an enraged multitude , ascended even to the high point cf rock on which he sat , and he could from time to time distinguish , that those who were assembling carried arms . TainJyie inquired of the children what was the meaning of this extraordinary commotion , nor was it till te saw the multitude closing around him on every side , and mounting the hills towards the spot where he was 6 rawing , that a suspicion flashed on his mind , that he was the object of the people ' s rage . Fortunately , understanding their dialect , he was warned of his danger , by extinguishing the word sorcerer , frequently repeated , united With threats of violence , as the crowd approached .
He looked round for the children , considering that their safety would prove the best evidence of the innocence Of his intentions , but they had already disappeared ; and as huge atonos , cast by those who had clambered to the rocks above , began to fall around him , and a countless thrwgof male and female peasants , in every variety of T . -ild and ragged attire , drew nearer and nearer , some armed with guns , some with sticks and stones , and implements of husbandry , and all uttering the most hideous jells and threats ofveugeance . ne . and the young friend who was his companion , thought there was no disgrace ia at once taking to flight . Deserting portfolios , sketchbooks , and storfs , they therefore ran off with the utmost Tapidity . Most fortunately they took the road towards the village , for the people believing they would endeavour t » escape in an opposite direction , to gain the ioteriorof the country , had disposed themselves on the further side at the hill in an ambush , iBto which , had our friends fallen , they would probably never have escaped alive .
They had not fled far , before they met the magistrate 6 f the village , with a party of gens-a ' armes , proceeding to investigate the cause of the disturbance , and put it down by force , if necessary . They lost not a moment in claiming his protection against an attack , of the cause of which they bad only a . vague suspicion . This was immediately and courteously granted , and the magistrate proceeded without delay to inquire the crime with which the stranger was charged . It was , however , in vain that he sought to convince the people of their error . Even after taeretorn of the children , they obstinately persisted in their belief of the gentleman ' s bad intentions ; and one old woman , who had armed herself with a rusty fowlingpiece , was with difficulty prevented firing on them . Though the tumult was allayed by the strong arm of wthtttity , it may readily be supposed , that our friend
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made no more sketches in that neighbourhood , ' and lost no time in returning to a more civilized district , where , even , if the belief in incantations be still retained , it hai not sufficient influence to excite the populace to insurrection and murder . In all his excursions' since thii adventure , he has lodged , when possible , in a monastery ; and for one or two days before he commenced sketching ; has taken care to show himself iu company with some of the holy fraternity , to put at rest all doubts of his sanctity . He has likewise procured a letter from the police in Naples , in virtue of which he can obtain an escort in all dangerous cases .
It is well that strangers should be made aware of such a state of things , for this is not a solitary instance of outrageous superstition amongst the peasantry . A very short time has elapsed since an Englishman was attacked in a similar manner whilst sketching between Salerno and Fsstum . He had enticed no children from their home ; no meditated murder could be brought to his charge ; and yet the people were as firmly convinced that he was a sorcerer , as if he had called the whole mysterious science of necromancy into action . Unfortunately , -whilst he was engaged In sketching , it began to Jain in KOTentS ) and the ignorant people at once accused him of being the cause of the change of weather . The next day , at the samehour , the same thing occurred , and their murmurs were redoubled ; but when , on the third day , the stranger was compelled to pack up his drawing materials by the fury of the storm , he found himself surrounded by an armed populace , who threatened him with immediate
destruction . Ignorant of their langusge , he understood not the cause of their clamour . For a while the people stood aloof ; for they believed he bore a charmed life ; till stlength a woman , more farious than the rest of her companions , flung a kind of axe at him , which wounded him severely about the hip . The mob no sooner saw that he was vulnerable , then the attack became general . Sticks , stones , and hatchets flew on every side : and it was with the utmost difficulty that he succeeded in flying a short distance before his infuriated pursuers . Finding the door of a house open , herushedin for protection ; and most fortunately it was the residence of the principal magistrate of the place . This person , being sufficiently well informed to be aware of the injury done to the neighbourhood by such events , anxiously sought to repair the evil . About a dozen of the mob wereimmediately arrested , and brought into the presence of the wounded man ; and when questioned as to what had provoked their outrage ) they all clamourously repeated the accusation of sorcery .
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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK ' S TABLE-BOOK- ^ November . London : Punch Office , 92 , Fleetstreet ; . . > . ¦ This is an excellent number of the Talle-Book . The opening article , by the Editor , on "Railway Calls , " is accompanied by two admirable illustrations . The first representing " Mr . John Boh . in a quandary , or the anticipated effects of the Railway Calls . " The multitude of figures in this plate , is truly astonishing . John Bull is represented seated in his arm-chair , perfectly overwhelmed with a multitude of railway imps , who have assailed Mill to make good their " calls . " One party are represented surrounding Joss ' s head and shoulders , and , with their ouen-stretched mouths , are screaming
their demands into his ears . One imp has taken possession of poor Joss ' s hat , another has his wig ; one imp is dragging John ' s glove off his right hand , another his ring off bis left ; onehasgothold of John ' s neckcloth , another his pocket-book , and a third his handkerchief . Several imps are hard at work in extracting his watch and seals , and several more his purse . One posse are seen running off with his walking-stick , another are dragging his boots off . Two are engaged bearing off his decanter of port , and a whole army are running off with hie strong box . Two railway engines are employed , the one in taking off John ' s cash box / the other in removing his plate . In the fore-ground are a number of lawyer-imps , busy over an oyster-tub , taking in the
" natives , " very characteristically leaving the " shells ' - ' for poor John . To complete the picture , there is , in one corner , a view of " Bull Lodge" for sale ; and a rascally-looking auctioneer is seen "knocking down" Mr . Bull ' s " effects . " Over the victim ' s head is ringing the "Railway Bell , " and the whole is crowned by the demon of destruction and despair , who ; with the "Railway Times" in each hand , is proclaiming the end of Mr . Boll ' s " speculations . " Thei fright ; agony , and . despair of poor John' 'is admirably depicted in his countenance , which really seems to be life . itself . The second illustration represents Mr . Jons Bull in Keelbt ' s celebrated character of " \ Yillibald , " ,, in the extravaganza of the " Bottle Imp . " Of course the imp in the bottle is the railway imp , — " Scrip , " John is bawling out , " Who'll buy a bottle ? " " Oh ! do buy a bottle ! " The ludicrous figure he cuts is laushable beyond all description . In the excellent
article , by the Editor , speaking of the probable situation of John Bull in a few months hence , the writer says : — " Cab ' s will literally tear him to pieces , and there will r . ot be an article he possesses that the great interests of locomotion will not carry away from him . A grand trunk will run away with his strong box ; a junction of some kind or other will tear bis coat in two ; some stupendous cutting will cut away with his cash-box : a tremendous tunnel will run through all he has ; and excavations on an extensive scale will empty all his pockets . " * * * " When this period arrives , instead of a struggle to get hold of scrip , there will bean eagerness to get rid of it . The last possessor will be the unhappy victim to all its liabilities , and every man will go about like the unfortunate individual who had bought the " Bottle Imp / ' and could only transfer its horrid responsibilities by getting bold of another purchaser . " The article concludes with the following
EPIGRAM . The engineers who are retain'd , To make a survey of a bubble ; Now , the delusion is explained , May save themselves a world of trouble . Since knavish schemes have got a shake ¦ Bj their imposture being knownlevels there is no need to take , The railways having found their own . The "Legend of the Rhine" is drawing to a conclusion , the chapter in this number is very good . The " Old English . Gentleman in a New Light" does sot exhibit that somewhat fabulous character in a very enviable light , but , on the contrary , in a very miserable plight . " Recreations in Natural History " give some amusing " travellers tales" of the Munchausen order . The remaining contents are readable .
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THE CONNOISSEUR : A Monthlt Record op the Fine Arts , Music , and ihe Drama—Novem ber . London : E . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street . This publication lias one fault , which , if persevered in , will be very likely to produce a fatal result . The fault is neither the want of talent nor ignorance of judicious literary arrangement . The illustrations are faultless , and the contents are ever unexceptionable : yet is there " ae wee faut" which marks and mars every number—mars it , at least , in the eyes of many , —the Connoisseur is hottest ¦ ' The Connoisseur does not speak the language of a clique , or devote its columns to the glorifying of a few individuals , and the running down of others . The Connoisseur i& not an advertising speculation , nor does it seek to win the patronage of artists , composers , musicians , dramatists , actors , managers , and publishers by servile puffing , miscalled criticism . The Connoisseur awards nraise to to the humblest , where praise is felt to be
due , and refuses it to the highest where truth and justice command silence or censure . This is honest ; but honesty is " a ragged virtue , " and much oftener finds its reward ia " rags , ' . ' than in " purple and fine linen . " Honest criticism is distasteful to others besides composers , managers , publishers , &c , the reading public themselves do not take well to it . He who would succeed , must , as a general rule , go with the stream , and not seek to guide it ; if he pursue ? the opposite course the chances are a hundred to one that he is overwhelmed and lost . We do not despair that should the Connoisseur continue its struggle for a time , that surelj , though slowly , it would acquire a class of readers who would not fear to hear the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth ; and would give their hearty support to the truth-teller . We should be glad to know that that time had already come ; in the meanwhile the struggle must be a
severe one . , The principal articles in this month ' s number are on , —2 st . " Amateur Criticism ;"—2 nd . "Holmes ^ Life of Mozart ;" -3 d . " The return of Macready ; •^ -and 4 th . " The Modern Classical Drama w France . " These are all excellent ; we must , nowever , award our highest praise to the first and tjuni . The critiques on the music and theatricals of the month are both interesting and instructive . Ane illustration , this month , is a portrait oi Nicholas Poussik , from a picture by himself , drawn oir stone by H . C . Maquihe : it is a magnificent print , and will form a fitting companion to the beautiful portrait of Murillo , given in the previous number . JJy-tnebye , if the initials do not mislead us , we must conand
gratulate Mr . Maguire on his talent as a writer critic , which is only second to his talent as an artist . This all readers of the Gmnoi ^ mr wJl admit , who , like ourselves , read and enjoy the articles signeed H . C . M . . . „ - , We hope that the noble portrait gajlery of celebrated painters , commenced in this publication ,, Will be continued let us add , that a short sketchof the life and productions of the painter , accompanying his portrait , would be welcome . We hope the editor 01 the Connoisseur will take the hint . ,. , If our readers can appreciate a publication ^ w&icli in its every number proves itself " bold enough to be honest , and West enough to Dfl bolu , " " -rf ft *?;""? admire talent and independence , they will give their support to , and become readers of , the Connoww .
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WADE'S LONDON REVIEW—November . London : C . B . Christian , Whitefriar ' s-street , Fleetstreet . , The contents of this Review are generally of a substantial and practical character . There is nothing very striking in the present number , the principal contents of which are " A Traveller's Diary , gl v Mg some interesting particulars concerning the famous Russian port , Odessa , a place , notwit hstanding its importance , but little known to the inhabitants of
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Westem ^ Europe : " Talent for the Stage ; " " Obser-. vations ,. onvLanguage ;' . ' a review : of V Wakefield ' s Adwnturesan . New Zealand ; " and . V Prose verstts Poetry . ; * rom the article on Odessa wo give the following extracts : — ' ¦ ' Odessa lies about 2 , 000 feet above the level of the sea , upon a nearly perpendicular bank of reddish yellow ochreous trad brittle lime , which extends far into the interior . 2 fo other species of stone or mineral is to be seen far and wide in the country ; and this material , the worst for buUding , is nevertheless the most commonly used far walls , and flooring of the streets . All the palaces which have not yet received their coating of plaster look / on that account-as gloomy and melancholy as ancient Roman ruins ; aU the streets are unpnv « d , ' and in the few instances of foot pavement , where such is the case , tha holes and gaps caused by the dislocation of the material inconvenience '¦ the passenger still more than a total want of pavement The fatal maxim of the Eussian police , to
build towns—for the prevention of infectious maladieswith streets enormously wide , and houses far off from each other , can nowhere be less applicable than in cold regions , and has moreover the disadvantage , as here in Odessa , of rendering the proper pavement of the streets almost impracticable . In no place iu Europe exists , therefore , such a terrible dust in the summer , and such an unfathomable mud in the winter , as in Odessa . Strange as it may appear , it is nevertheless a fact , that even in the severe" winter of 1830-1831 several waggons were literary sunk and buried with the men and horses in the deep dirt in the southern end of the town , and that the police had no other means to prevent a similar recurrence of the accident than to choke up altogether tlie access to that part of the town ! I saw a caricature of that fatal aceidenti representing in the fore-ground those fatal waggons , and in the back-ground a Frenchman stuck fast over the knees in the mud , exclaiming : " Ma foi , je me fixe la !" ( " In truth , I am uttling here ! " )
There are hat few Englishmen at Odessa , butasuperaoundance of Jews . The whole of a particular quarter is swarming with them . Their shy , sly , and wandering look , protruding from beneath a skin cap ( which many of them do not leave off even in the hot summer season ); their hair hanging down on both sides of the face in long curls , the long beard , the dirty apparel , the strikingly unhealthy blown' appearance of their half-grown children ; impress , upon \ hein the indelible stamp of their Oriental origin . ' ' Almost all of ' tliem speak a corrupted German patois , which is , however , so intermixed with words from nearly all languages that it is with the greatest difficulty one can underrtarid them , Even among the Jews themselves there seem to exist several ' dialects , by which the Jews from Broiy , e . ff ., . are distinguished irom those of Podolia and Odessa . In their phraseology they always put the accusative immediately after the verb , which seems to be more derived from the Russian than the Latin . .
Next to the Jew , the Russian attracts the notice of the stranger . Mostly short , round faces ; frequently turned up noses ; prominent cheek-hone ' s ; a thick , commonly light or red , beard ; the hair of the head cut round horizontally above the neck , in the form of a round wig ; & low hat with a wide brim ; a sort of surtout reaching far down below the ancles , and tied round the stomach with a red woollen girdle ; wide and folded pantaloons , stuck into a pair of course Balf-Doots ; a thick stick in hand . Such is the appearance of agenuine and national Russian . All porters , sailors , servants , waggoners , &c , near this apparel , Even the hackney-coaches and the national droshkas'seem to have been imported from the interior of Russia .
The whole article is interesting and-well worth perusal . The author sums up his description of Odessa in the following not very flattering words : — "Suchis Odessa ! The picture we have given is certainly . not ; yery inviting ; and yet so it is ! Dear , dull , du £ tyj- " or dirty , it affords literally no other allurements but the opportunity of amassing wealth in a short time , and then depart thence a 3 quickly . " ! We miss in this number . the continuation of "II Vagaljondo j'Mhe authoress of " Leaves torn from a Record of Life , " is also wanting . - . ¦
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PUNCH . Paet LII . London : Punch office , 92 , ¦ Fleet-street . Inimitable as ever , Punch is above all praise , and , therefore , it would be folly in us to attempt to describe our favourite's excellencies . Thanks — heartfelt thanks to Punch for the following : —
mcnOlAB AXD THE NUNS , By some singular illusion , when the Emperor Nicholas shed the lustre of his countenance on this country , it is weir known that he was considered the very Apollo of potentates by the female portion of the EngliBh aristocracy . —Beautiful , yes , and good and gentle women , forgetting the atrocities of the man in what is thought the glories of an Emperor , crushed and crowded for an introduction to the tremendous creature , and if he smiled , or said a soft word or two , the happy lady felt her nature sublimated , raised far beyond mere mortal happiness by tie condescension . English wives and mothers forget the unmanly oppressor , of Polish women—the cbild . stealer and
the flogger . —We now take from the Journal Aes Dtbats —certainly not the least temperate of French journals as quoted in the Times—an account of the murder , and the worse than murder , of forty-seven Polish Catholic nun ' s , ivho dwejt in an ' ateient convent near the town of Minsk . Their duties were as those of the Sisters of Charity . " They instructed the children , provided for thewldWs ' anil aged , and assisted the poor by the fruits of their labours . " But the Emperor Nicholas orders a religion for all his subjects , as he orders a uniform for his troops ; he is all for the Greek Church ; though indeed , it seems diabolic mockery to think of him in connexion with any church at all . Well , the nuns would sot apostatise .
Whereupon"During the night . Cossacks surrounded the convent , seized the nuns with the most revolting brutality , bound them with cords , and conducted them thus to Witebesk , nearly twenty leagues frem Minsk , compelling them to walk the entire distance . " . ¦ They were then confined in a convent of schismatical nuns , and remaining firm to their faith , they were forced to perform the most vile ' offices , and ( hear this , ladies of England ) " received regularly every Friday fifty lashes . " They were covered with "wounds and sores . " They were subsequently compelled to work as labourers to the
masons employed in constructing the episcopal palace Finally all , except three , sunk beneath their agonies . Three escaped ,- and one of them , says the JDebats , " the venerable superior , is actually at present in Paris . " This being the case , we put it to those high-horn ladies who thronged and fluttered about the man , under whose rule suish atrocities are acted , whether it would not toe as well for them to invite over this aged nun to England . Having worshipped the tyrant , they would make some amends for the grievous error by showing the sympathy of true womanhood with one of his thousand woman victims , - '• ¦ ' - ' ' ' : :.. ''
Capital are the following imitations : ~ - ' - THE LAMENT OF THE STATOE 8 . ¦ Previously to the determination of the Hoyal Commissioners' to erect statues to the poets in the new Houses of Parliament , they might as well have consulted the feelings of those personages on the subject , which we suspect would , with a slight difference of expression , be much like those embodied in the following lines . These we have had the imprudence to put in the mouthb of the poets , and to imagine each speech inscribed , respectively , on the pedestals of their statues : —
OHiUCEB , Good sirs , I marvel what we here maken , Grete folk , certes , be sometimes mistaken , We standen in this stound by much errour , Ne poet was iu Parlement before ; We are fysh out of water , verily , I do not breathe well this air , perdy , In the Abbaye we weren well enoughe : . To put us here in Parlement is stuft ' e .
8 FEN 8 EB . Troth , brother Chaucer , I am of thy minde , In Parlement I do not feel at home , Where prating Dullness talks his hearer blinde , - And dry Debate doth vainly froth and foam , ¦ V- Folly , not Fancy , from his theme doth roam , 'And greedy Patriots rave for pence and place ; Poets are fashioned from another foam Than heavy marie of Statesmen ' s crawling race , And to be here , in faith , me seemeth dire disgrace ,
BUAKBPEAKE . Grave Grandsire Chaucer , and good Father Spenser , The judgment your sweet worships have pronounced On the hard mandate , and right stern decree , Which , much misplacing us , hath placed us here , Doth jump with my opinion . Here to 'bide Beneath the pelting of the pitiless Brougham , To suffer Roebuck ' s petulance ; t'endure The jokeless wit of Sibthorp , and to brook . The specious eloquence of glozing Peel To any soul alive were Purgatory : — But to the poet ' s 'tis a worser doom . Oh that this monument were o ' er my tomb !
HILTON . My sentence is for walking off , oh Bards ! Though we be marble . Doth not story old Record how statutes , erst , have breathed and walked , Instinct with life and motion ? Why relate Pygmalion's idol , and the wife of clay , Pandora , she by cunning Vulcan wrought For bold Prometheus f Or , in modern days , The marble man that unto supper came To Seville ' s famouB , 'butimmoral Don , llight . Giovanni ? ., Could I here remain , Heavy debate to list wita tortured ear , My Cromwell ' s ' absence would determine mine . Haste , then , " and from your pedestals descend , To stalk abroad with me through London ' s streets , Dark ' ning with * dire alarm the heart of town .
•; .. .. » E « nEM . All British A » t Commissions Royal sway ; And ' when they order , sculptors must obey , This poets find , whose effigies ; like ours . Are called to Parliament by princely powers . Hard is our fate , thus destined to remain ' Where Noise and Nonsense hold divided reign , Amid contending politicians' strife , — Who ne'er were represented in our life . Oh , that I " ne er the tuneful lyre had strung : . .. Was it for thi 3 ,-unlucky bard . I sung 3 Blackmdre and Shad well , after ages past , - ' Rejoice ; your injured ghosts are now avenged ntlaBt
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. . - - - ' .. > "* - - ; -r - ¦ '' ' pope . Curst , for . ancestral sins , Withparts and wit , The Muse inspired me , and , nl ; is ! I writ ; Oil I-had it been my happy fate to creep With thee , good Deniiis , I with thee might sleep ; But immortality no slumber knows , And deatbleea bards' can never taste repose , E ' en though Joe Hume invoke the drowsy God , And Sibthorp'bid five hundred heads to nod 5 Though Plumptre lull the House to rest profound , And Spooner scatter all his poppies round ; And Talmerston compel the frequent wink , Our ears in vain their opiate words will drink . Oh ! brother 3 ards , whom Sculpture hither brings , To mix with statesmen , and to herd with Kings : Blend , sole relief ! your marble tears with mine : Would that we ne'er had penn ' d a single line ! The above extracts are specimens of the good things in _ prose upd poetry to be found in this part . As to the illustrations , they are Punch ' s , —what more need be said to proclaim their excellence ?
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Andoveb , Moxday , Nov . 3 . Ssiturtlay was a day of triumph to the friends of the poor , and therefore one of signal defeat to their foes . At a meeting of the ratepayers of the parish of AA&wev , held some few days ago , it was resolved to return Mr . Westlalce as a member of the towncouncil of the borough , as a compliment to him for his manly , honest , and disinterested conduct in connexion with the recent inquiry into the management oftue Andover Union , in the face of the vilest and most dastardly attempts of some of the persons in authority to deter him from doing a public duty . Mr . Westlake waseompelled to be absent from Andover until Friday , for the purpose of making arrangements for having an interview with the Poor Law
Commissioners , personally , to protest against the misrepresentations of his evidence given before their Assistant by that functionary . During his absence , however , the ratepayers of Andover were not idle , because their invitation to him to become a member of the town-council was not idly offered ; and , after a contest severe and animated , Mr . Westlake was triumphantly returned , to the utter discomfiture of those guardians whose gross misconduct and neglect of duty rendered the recent inquiry , which he was the instrument of bringing about , both imperatively necessary and highly important . Though , several of the guardians are not entitled to vote for town-councillors , they used all the influence and means they could command to prevent the return of Mr . Westlake . Amongst them were clergymen , whose conduct
as guardians , whether ex o § . do or otherwise , was too weiysnown to have much influence among the ratepayers , ¦ Bribery and treating were plentifully employed , and all the low scum of the town was brought into play against Mr . Westlake . Even a certain noble Lord , who resides at Marlborough , and could have no right to . interfere , waspreyailed upon to come over to this town to put the screw upon a tenant in favour of the bone-gnawing starvation system . But all in vain . Mr . WeBtlake vasreturaedby 118 votes , he being the only ne w candidate returned , and polling only 11 votes under the highest given for the one who ras at the head of the poll . Will not this event speak loudly inreply to the tergiversations of the Assistant and Chief Commissioners , and the shuffling statements of the guardians , whose impotence and
improprieties are the more confirmed by it ? Will any of those functionaries again dare to repeat the falsehood , thatnine-tenths of the rate-payers were opposed to theinquiry , condemned Mr . Westlake , and supported the Poor Law system as carried out at Andover ? Why , Mr . Westlake has been re-elected to a new office which he never sought , by payers of the poor-rate , voluntarily , simultaneously , and alike honourably to that . gentleman and to themselves . Then , again , Mr . Hammond , the medical man whom the guardians . are attempting to ; thrust into Mr . Westlake ' s post , was put up as a candidate upon this occasion , in opposition to that gentleman , and received one vote . M'Dougal was not a candidate , but he and his son-in-law Holly , were very busy , in company with a poor lieutenant and the clergy , in fruitless efforts to prevent the electors from exercising their riffht of Dutfcine Mi . Westlake in the
towncouncil as one of their represetatives , desiring thereby to testify their high sense of his character arid conduct as a public servant , apd their unequivocal contempt of the clique which would rather tolerate profligacy , cruelty , and fraud than honour the man by whose instrumentality those offences have been at least exposedL If not visited with the punishment they deserve . Another gratifying result of the recent inquiry is , that at the meeting of the guardians held on Saturday , ihe committee , which had been appointed to consider the dietarv table , recommended that in future the following additional allowances should be given , being of opinion that they were absolutely necessary : —2 oz . of bread daily ; 4 oz . of bread on soup days ; meat three days in the week , instead of two only ; 111 b . of vegetables , instead of three quarters of a pound ; and suet puddings on Sundays . This recommendation was adopted .
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Alleged Extensive Swindling . —Two men are at present in custody , under warrants from the sheriff of Lanarkshire , charged with various swindling transactions of a very extensive description . One of them calls himself Captain Paul M'Gregor , of Seafield House , Arvan , and the other is George Inglis , a spirit-dealer , in King-street , Glasgow . The impositions with wJiich . the parties are charged embrace a great number of cases , and have reference to a multiplicity of articles ; but the following are the more important : —Captain Paul M'Gregor , it appears , in the character of the occupant of Seafield House , Arran ( of which , by the way , he is actually , the tenant ) , ordered from Mr . Yellowlees , coach-builder , Edinburgh , a fine chariot , valued at . £ 100 , which was received in Glasgow , and the vehicle , it is alleged ,
was forthwith taken to Salford , Manchester , and sold for £ 45 . By a similar order a bull and three cows , of the Alderney and Guernsey breed , were obtained from an agent in England , who , no doubt , entertained the belief that they were to form part of the fancy or ornamental stock of a landed proprietor in Arran ; but , after reaching Glasgow , they were taken to the cattle-market , and , as is alleged , sold for what they would bring . In the possession of one of the prisoners , aniontr other papers which brought to light many of their transactions , was found the invoice of a second chariot from a house in London . Of this vehicle , which appears to have been of considerable value , no trace can be found ; and , thereforeas far as has been ascertained , it has never
, entered the avenue of Seafield House . Several pianofortes , gold watches , and other articles of value , have also been ordered and received jVom London , besides other goods , of the most varied character , being . ordered from Edinburgh , Liverpool , Manchester , and other towns . They have even dealt in guano , and quantities of this valuable article have been requested to be sent to Captain Paul M'Gregor , from Liverpool , but we have not ascertained whether the island of Arran has ever been benefited in an agricultural point of view by its introduction there as a manure . ' In short , the transactions of the parties were so extraordinary that nothing which could be turned into ready money seems to have escaped their
notice , while they took care to pay nothing themselves , and the authorities having procured information , which led them to believe that the whole was a swindle , they arc now in gaol to answer for their conduct . Captain Paul M'Gregor appears to have been the individual in whose name the goods were ordered ; but his coadjutor , Inglis , is charged as having been the party chiefly instrumental in dlSjposing of them after they were received . So lar _ as as yet known they have not favoured Glasgow with any purchases , their transactions being wholly with towns at a distance , and these the sheriff ' s authorities are searching out with great care and assiduity . We may further state that many articles pawned or sold have already been discovered . —Glasgow Argus .
Extensive Forgeries by a Liverpool Merchant . —On Saturday information was circulated throughout the divisions of the metropolitan and city police , that Mr . Lyon , an extensive merchant in Liverpool , in the Smyrna and American trade , has absconded from .. that city , having committed forgeries to a very large amount . Mr . Lyon is believed to have quitted Liverpool about Monday or Tuesday week ; but he was not missed until Thursday . It is supposed that he is in London , and tbat . he intends to quit the country . He is described as about five feet ten inches high , salfow complexion , black bushy hair and whiskers , rather prominent nose , dark eyes , thin face , prominent teeth , thin figure , and very upright ; dresses generally in a black' frock coat , figured silk Wstcoat , light trowsers , anil black hat , Wellington boots , and black Stock , and wears a large sWpin , and several rings onhis fingera-w fond of amoking and is well known in the Bportmg world .
HIGHWAY Robbebt . —Saturday morning , between two and three o'clock , as Captain Watson , residing at No . 29 , Park-place , Peckam New Town , was returning home to his residence , he was attacked by three men in the Commercial-road , Old Kent-road , Who Suddenly threw him down with great violence , and , while two of them held him down , the third rifled his pockets . . . .
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PouissEss Reciprocated . —A criminal was in the county jail awaiting his trial for . murder , with a reasonable prospect of conviction . The candidate tor . the shrivalty called one day to . see him , when the Srisoner , wishing to compliment his' -visitor , said toim : "If I should be condemned to be hanged , I know of no one by whom I would rather be hMg than by you . " The visitor , acknowledging the :, cdmpliment , with one of his blandest smiles , replied fc .- ' And should I be elected sheriff , I know of no one I would rather hang than you . " , ; H- ? ' - ¦ : Somnambulism . —An extraordinary case of
somnambulism occurred at Chatham Barracks , a few nights ago , Peter Slight , a young Scotchman , rose from his bed , by some means got into a drain , passed through it for a distance of five hundred feet , emerged from it , and , coming in contact with a post , fell down in a fit , in which state he was discovered , quite naked , and was conveyed to the military Hospital . This was the fourth time he had walked in his sleep . An Old Song . —The King of Denmark is selling 1 one of his colonies , a newspaper paragraph says , " for a mere song . " We have made inquiries in the city , and have ascertained that the song alluded to his " I ' ve no money . "—Punck
BONO OF THE RAILWAY MANIAC . ( FromPtmck ) This is my lef t hand—this is my right ; These are my eyes , my nose , my mouth ; I can discern the day from night : There lies the north , and there the south , Shake not the head , then—cry not" Hush !" Lay not the finger on the lip : Away !—unhand me!—let me rush In quest of Railway shares and scrip . Ha ! ha ! 'Tis you are mad , I say , You talk to me of Three per Cents ., Consols 1 pooh , nonsense ! What are they t You prate of mortgages and rents—I tell you there are no such things : —Nay , do not threaten chains and whip , —• . - The / ve flown away wittrpaper wings , And leftus only shares and scrip .
What ! Mind my business t Fellow dear , You'll find yourself in Bedlam soon . Hark!—let me whisper in your ear;—Look!—there is niy business—in the moon ! That ' s where all occupation ' s fled ; " Gone , presto ! with hop , jump , and skip ; How , now , then can I earn my bread , Except by railway shares and scrip ? Get in my debts ? to , how you rave ! Who thinks of paying what he owes ? No , tell me not that he ' s a knave : In scrip and shares the money goes . Mark yonder man , lie ' s a trustee , With other ' s stock in guardianship ; Where is it I Ha , my friend , you'll see— ¦ All sunk in Railway shares and scrip . Stick to tho shop 1 What shop ? I ' ve none , Defend me—how the madman stares ! I tell you there ' s no shop but one :
The office where they sell you shares . You have a tailor , —want a coat G 6 ; order it : you'll findaSnip , I'll betyba Sir a ten pound note , AVill only measure you for scrip . I am not m ad , I am not mad ; See where the shares on wi « -l » yiinl . fly : Off !•—give me back the win ^ s I had , To mount and catch them in the sky . Maniac , I say!—you torture me!—You crush me , in that Iron grip ; Madmen , away ! and leave me free
To chase my railway shares and scrip . A Modest Specuxatob . — A " niceyoung man , " who probably wants a few hundreds with which to speculate in railways , advertises his readinessto give twenty pounds to any person having the ability to help him to " a pretty girl with two thousand pounds !" Escape from Quackery . —A provincial contemporary informs us that James Webb , a brewer ' sdrayman , has had his " face saved from being eaten aivay by Holloway ' s ointment and pills . ' " . Holloway won ' t thank our brother , we should think , for the publication of so damaging a fact .
"Fat , Fair , amd Fifteen . "—The young Queenof Spain is described as having an " immense" arm , a " redundant" bust , and ankles " solid enough to support the golden tower of Seville . " She " waddles " from " excessive corpulency ; " and perspirestfrpm the fatigue of carrying so much " blubber . " At d ^ hflrshe " swallowssoup , an entire roast fowl , fish / pastry , sweetmeats , and preserves" ( her passion for " sweets' ? being preposterous ) . Her education havinjf'been neglected , her ignorance is as gross as her person . Bull Matrimonial . —An Irish gentleman ,-the other day , in the excess of his connubial affection , exclaimed , " Heaven forbid , my dear , that I should ever Zfue to see you a winow !"
A Diabolical Doom . —A poor miser , arrrivingon the banks of the Styx , swam across , and cheated Charon , the ferryman , of his penny . He was sentenced , as a punishment ; to return to the world , that he might behold his spendthrift heirs ' squandering his money ! JAQUES IN CAPEL-COITRT . ( FromPimcft . ) AH the world are stags ! Yea , all the men and women merely jobbers ! ¦ They have their brokers and their sliare-accounte , And one man in his time tries many lines , The end being total ruin . Frst , the greenhorn , ' Dabbling and dealing in a lucky spue , ; And then the posperous seller , with his profits Andjoyous winning face , buying like mad , Unwilling to sell out ; and then , the loser , Sighing like furnace , with a woful prospect
Ot the nest settling day ! Then the director , Full of strange schemes , and lodged at the West-end , Keepiug a cab , and sudden growing rich , — Getting a bubble reputation Even iu Capel-court . And then the bankrupt , With is debts' schedule large , and no assets ; liy all his decent friends entirely cut , — Full of bad scrip , and fertile of fresh schemes ; And so he plays his game . The sixth step sinks Into the low and herring-gutted stag , With spectacles on nose and list in hand ; His youthful gains all spent , the world too wide-Awafce to be ta ' en in , and his long lino Of hapless creditors thatidly wait And whistle for their cash . Last scene of all , That ends this sad but common history , Is—Union pauperism , arid oakum picking : Sans beer , satis beef , sans tea , saus everything ,
Positives asd Comparatives . —A domestic cat is a tame beast , but Van Amburgh the lion king is a beast tamer . The imposition of the Income Tax on the public by Sir Robert is a cool trick , but a plunge into the Frozen Ocean is a cooler . India , from this country is far off , but a husband who runs awar from his children is a father off ! Anything proper is fir , but if you call on Moses the tailor , you will find him a fitter . ( Some say he ' s an out and out-fitter . ) A retiring person is shy , but an English county is a shire . Lord Brougham's attempt to observe political consistency is a lame business , but a kick on the shins with the shoe Of a ploughman is a lamer . An . article without blemish is sound , but Prince Joinville , when lately off Brighton , was declared to be a sounder . — Joe Miller . Mks . Caudle . —Why is Mrs . Caudle like Sampso of old ? Because she is able to jaw athousaud Philia * tines to death .
" Thebe are Stirring Times , " as the spoon said to the saucepan . Fwttehiso Resemblance . —A Southern Adonis , no way celebrated for his personal attractions , on turned to his servant and inquired— " How do I look , Csesav ? " " Plendid , massa . plendid ! " was ebony ' s delighted answer . " Do you think I'll do , C # sar ?" ( giving him a piece of silver . ) "Guy , massa , neber see you look so fierce in all my life ; you look jist as bold as a lion . " '' Why , what do you know about a lion ? You never saw oneC ' iosar . " "Nebberseea lion , massa ! Guy I see Massa Peyton ' s Jim ride one ober to the mill ebery day . " '' No , you fool , that ' s a donkey . " " Can't help dat , massa—you look jist like him .
The Coixier at KmK . —A collier entered the kirk ofLochgelly , the other Sunday , when the minister , in his sermon , made some observations abeut the capture of Jericho . The collier fell asleep until the kirk was going out ; when , on bis way home , one of his neighbours called out , " Whaur ha ' e ye been the day , Archy ? " "Ah . ' whaur do ye think ? but at the capture of Jericho . " " An' hoo did ye come on , Archy ? " " Ah , lad , I fell asleep ; and they had Jericho captured , and were singing and rejoicing when I awakened . "—Fife Herald . ' ¦ A Mendicant Doo . — " I was travelling , " ' says M .
Blaze , " in the diligence . At the ' place where we changed horses I saw a good-looking poodle-dog ( chien caniphe ) , which came to the coach door , and sat up on its two hind legs with the air of one begging for something . "Give him a sou , " said the postilion to me , " and you will see what he will do with it . " I threw to Him . the coin : he picked it up , ran to the baker ' s and brought back a piece of bread , which ho ate .. This dog had' belonged to a poor blind man , lately dead ; he had no master , and begged alms on his own account . "
The Biter Bit . — "What for a shot ? " said a gunsman to an old farmer standing near a pond where ducks were swimming . / . « Half-MHWn , ' ? W 08 tha reply . The money was paid , the gun fired , and three ducks fell dead . " Well , old chap , how do you like that ? " said the sportsman . " Oh , well enough , " replied HwJge , " they are none of mine . " .,. , , . . A Strange Reuoion . —A sailor- being- summoned to give his testimony before a court , was questioned by the judge as to his religious creed . " . ' Are you an Episcopalian ? " No , sir . " "A Catholic ? " " No , sir . " "A Methodist ? " "No , sir . l . " Whatam you , then ? " " I am captain of thelforetopV air . " ' ¦ ¦ ¦
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THE MEDICAL TIMES . It is now some time since we noticed this very useful and talented publication , which is more than ever deserving of public patronage . We refer our readers to a highly important article from a recent number , on the prevailing epidemic in potatoes , which will be found in our sixth page .
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Publications Received . —Cooper ' s Novels ( Clavk , Warwick-lane ); The Wandering Jew , Parts 2 , 3 , i ( Clark ); Tales of Shipwrecks , Parts 3 , i , 5 , 6 ( Clavk ); Memoirs of an Umbrella , Part I ( Mackenzie , Fleet-street ); The Tom Thumb Songster , No . 2 ( Cleave , Shoe-lane ); National Temperance Advocate , November .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 8, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1340/page/3/
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