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      anstoerate , Catholic landlords , Catholic amenta ™ , and schemers , these were the conscienS f wha relievedfromthc necessity 5 J 3 H ? S - of rUieulou 8 oaths con cS 5 theS 3 . a 8 t ™ g tender , were admitted to PaS ^ aSffi ^ &sfes&a ? SI *^ ' Z sss ^ sssss sucKrom " S ^ "' " , { ° 7 ' andy «« fc *« llaa under n Z mise . ra ! e ^ upes a princelv income " I > 'L ^ ? f . of 8 " mu « g f « r them "justice" and daS ^ l- ™ J *«> his numerous staff of men-Juous tool , and satellites havefattened on the pence « ftWu , ded millions , while those millions are as wretched and miserable now as wh en O'Coxsm aristoerata . Cathnlit . lm . Ji ftrfl 0 > Catholic jJTT ^ & ? 5 as j . 5 SSs 5

      commenced h » moral" agiiatiou . He humbugged ma couji trjmen for years by bringing forward , and then shelving , the Repeal agitation , wntil at last he was compelled to go on with it , since which time he has continuallyjiigglcd aud thimble-ri ^ ed to keep up the steam without bringing the agitation to an issue , and never intending that it should come to any issue in his time beyond the "farthing a week—penny a month—shilling a year . " He who hurled his " high and haughty defiance" at the English government , played a cravenly part whei that " defiance" was answered . Instead of taking a high and noble stand on principle , he wriggled aud lied , and tried to show M 9 "loyalty" by reminding his judges how he had helped the English government to hunt

      down the Chartists . When the Chartists were arraigned at Lancaster on a similar charge , though with one exception they were all poor and untaught —or self-tau « ht men—all who possibly could give utterance to their thoughts did so ; they boldly defended themselves , and , caring little about personal result ? , they manfully vindicated their principles and their cause ; but ' the Repeal leaders feed lawyers , and permitted those lawvers to pursue any course without regard to principle * , which those legalised traffickers in words deemed the best to save their clients from the law ' s vesgeance . At this very time we see a second exhibition of this dastardly spirit by the fire-eating , blood-and-thurder Action . Prosecuted for showing in his journal how Irish railwavs

      might be made instrumental in murdering " Saxoh " soldiers en mam Dcfft , instead of defending in his own person the prosecuted article , is running after . awyers , whom he will employ to prove , if they can , that the massacreing article meant something * altogether different to the construction put upon it by every one who read it . These patriots are well worthy of their leader . O'Cosseix betrayed the v English factory children , the Dorchester labourers , and the Canadian patriot ^ . He fulminated his anathemas against trades' unions , did his best to get the government to put down those onl y means of protection for their labour which the working classes have , and did all that falsehood and slander could effect to destroy the Glasgow cotton-sninners . We ft . lio m-Uer

      of these remarks ) shall ever remember with pride and pleasure that at that time we unmasked the " miscreant , altnough we bad , in consequence , to suffer «> e hatred and censure of the stam * who tried to shield him from public odium . I ! e was one of the authors of the " People ' s Charter , " and declared on the completion of that document that only the "fool" or the "knave" could refuse to adopt it , yet hesubseqtently repudiated the Charter , and heaped the foulest abuse upon its supporters . He hounded on the Whi gs to persecute O'Coxxor , Stei-hess , and Oasti . hr , and was not even satisfied when hundreds of victims crowded the gaols . He ( Mr . Howm ' s moral force friend ) offered the "Whics " five hundred thousand Tipperary boys" to shed " the blood of the

      English working men whenstruggling for those rights he had bidden them contend for . He chuckled and exulted that it was " a handful of Irish boys" who shot Shell and others at Newport . In the House of Commons , when Ms easting vote would have liberated tie Chartist prisoners aud restored the Chartist exiles , he walked out of the house and left the victims to their miserv . We believe Mr . Howitt prides himself thvt he is an Englishman ; has he forgotten the disgusting calumnies poured out by this arch-calumniator sgainst the women of England ? Wehave not much " nationality"in our composition , hut remembering ? this calumny , we think praise of O'CosxKixfromthelipsof an Englishman should make that Englishman blnsh . Has he not done his utmost to revive national animosities , rekindle national antipathies and set Irishmen in hostility towards Englishmen ? Has he not excited a ferocious hatred against the people he calls " Saxons ? " Has he not confounded

      the Ensljsh people with the English government , and taught his ignorant followers to look forward with joyful anticipation to the ruin , not of the government of England , but of England as a nation ? His latest act of rascality appropriately concludes tbJ 3 brief and imperfect catalogue of his crimes . He haa acted the part of " Isfobmeb . " and never stayed in his infernal machinations until he has succeeded in compel-! the Irish administration to prosecute for " sedition" Mr . Patiuck O'fliGcixs , whose only real " crimes" are , that he is a Chartist , and has done more thon any other man to makeknswn the villainies of which O'Coxxeix as a public man has been guilty . There was a time when O'Conxell was as popular in England as in Ireland , when he was believed in * nd trusted by the great majority of the people of both countries . He exercised a power which no other man wielded : —

      "Never had mortal man such opportunity Except Napoleon , or abused it more . " nad O'Cosxeu . been , an honest man the people of the two Islands might ere this have ob t ained the rights of citizenship , the Charter would have been law , and thepeopleof both countries , united and free , would have been progressing in happiness and greatness . He has preferred another course . He has betrayed liberty in England , and done his best to revive barbarism in Ireland by rekindling the brutal prejudices which knaves and fools call " nationality . " The " magnificent results" Mr . nowvrr spealw of as having flowed from O'Coxxell ' s public acts , have been t iumphs only for the Catholic priests and the Irish ps-ofitocracy . He embodies the triple character of loawaii * , lawyer , and Jesuit , and "the curses ef hate and the hisses of scorn "—posterity will award to him .

      Madame Wolfexsbekger ' s " Letters from Naples " are ceucluded in this number of Tait . Her letter ? have been valuable contributions to the too imperfect stock of knowledge possessed by the people of this country concerning Italy . We hope to have further information concerning other paits of Italy from the samewriter . For the able and courageous manner in which she has exposed the evils of that prime curse of Italy—priestcraft—Madame Wolfexiseegeh deserves the thanks of every friend of freedom anil progress . We shall , if we can find room , give extracts from these concluding letters in the course of a week or two . From Da Quintet ' s "Noteson GilfiHan ' sGallery of Literary Portraits" we take the following account of

      THE DEATn OF SHILLEY . On Monday , July S , 1822 , being then in his twentyninth jear , he was returning from Leghorn to his hoim at Lerici , in a schooner-rigged boat of his own , twentyfour feet long , eight in the beam , and drawing four feet water . His companions were only two , —Mr . Williamc , formerly of the eighth Dragoons , and Charles Vivian , an English seaman in Shelley ' s service . The run homewards would not have occupied more than six or eight hours . Hut the gulf of Spezia is peculiarly dangerous for sinal craft in bad weather ; aud unfortunately a squall of about , ona hour ' s duration came on , the wind at the same time shifting so as to blow exactly in the teeth of the course to Lerici . From the interesting nairative drawn up by Mr . Trelawney , well known at that time for

      his connexion with the Greek revolution , it seems that for sight tf a ; s the fate of the W . it was unknown : and during thattim * couriers hadb . e . i despatched along the whole line of coast between Leghorn and Nice , under anxious Lopes that the voyagers might have run into some creek for shelter . But at the end of the eight days this suspense ceased . Some articles belonging to Shelby ' s boat had previously been washed ashore : these might have been thrown overboard ; but finally the two bodies of Shelley and ifr . Williams came on shore , near Via Ilc-ggio , about four miles a ]> art . Both were in a state of advanced decomposition : but were fully identified . Vivian ' s body was not recovered for three weeks . From the state of thetwo corpses , ithidbecowe difficult to remove them ; and thi-y were , therefore , burned , by the sea side , on funeral pyres , with the classic rites of paganism ,

      four Englsih gentlemen being present—Captain Shenley of the navy , Mr . Leigh Hunt , Lord ByroH , and Mr . Trelawaey . A circumstance is added by Mr . GilfiHan , which previous accounts do not mention , viz . that Shel-Itv ' s heart remained unconsumed by the fire ; but this in a phenomenon that has repeatedly occurred at judicial deaths bj fire . The remains of Mr . Williams , when collected from the fire , were conveyed to England ; but Slicllej ' a were buried in the Protestant burying ground at Rome , not far from a child of bis own , and Keats the pott . It is remarkable that S ' ceUey , in the preface to his AdonaU , dedicated to the memory of that young poet , had spoken with delight of this cemetery—as "» nopen space among the ruins" ( of ancient Rome , ) " covered in winter with violets and dauies ; " adding— "It might : r . a !; e one in love with death , to think that one should be boned in so sweet a place . "

      " Every body knows" says Mr . GilfiHan " that , on the arrival of Leigh Hunt in Italy , Shelley hastened to meet him . During all the time he spent in Leghorn , he was in brilliant spirits , —to him ever a sure prognostic of coming evil . " ( That is , in the Scottish phrase , he was fy . ) " On his return to bis home and family , his skiff was overtaken by a fearful hurricane , and all on hoard perished . To a gentleman , who , at the time , was with a glass surveying the sea , the scene of his drowning assumed a very striking appearance . A great many vessels were visible , and among them one small skiff , which attracted his particular attention . Suddenly a dreadful storm , attended by thunder and columns of lightning , swept over the sea , and eclipsed the prospect , When it had passed , ha loukvd again . The larger vessels were all safe , riding upon the swell ; the skiff only had gone 1 down tor ever , And in that skiff was Shelley ! Ilere lie

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      had met Ins fate . Wert thou , oh religious sea , only avengmg on his head the cause of th y denied andinsultua Deity ! Wereye , ye elements , in your courses , commissioned to destroy hlH 1 ? Ah , there is no reply . The surge is silent : The elements have no voice In the eternal councils the secret is hid of the reason of the man's death . And there tuo , rests the still mole tremendous sacret of the character ofhis destiny . " JUft «?? ^ i " 1 ° f AIr ' J Gn *« WK'i account ?™ i £ i * l i . T . ** * * seething most presumptuous and absurd " SSls ^^^ issiaa

      . True , he do S ) t directly aver that the manner of SuellktAs death was a "judgment ; " but , that he meant this to be inferred us readers can hardly avoid belu ! vin « r . Wert thou oh rchgiovs sea ! ( what a phrase !) only ifTf ? S " fe - C c : ilise . «> f thy denied and insulted Ue , ty . < " 'Iherc u no m staking tho meaning ot thi » . In the eternal councils the secret is hid oi he man ' s death . " Nothing of the sort ; there is no hiding , no secret , Mr . DE Quwom- Java ? » T . K Gull of Speoia is particularl y dangerous ' for small in

      craji oau weather , " and Mr . Gilvjlmn hinwilf Iff p . sed" ^ S / lainly - lh , *» ' * ' *«< £% & ilKfi i , lhetol 3 «! r ««» M& wn all safe ; the « h i ! 5 w , g 01 ie di : » ^ ever . " Whit more SSriL 5 T more m . »?«»*>»«> with maritime WTtin SjIjaw P erlsliedloc »«« ' » ewii 5 in a small skiff , a vessel not capable of encountering the storm Had he been in one of the "larger ve&ds what rational wan can doubt but that lie would have been safe . If , indued , there had been a great inany " skittV' in tho gulf , and only one " large snip , and Shelley on board that ship , and if , in the storm , the large ship hail gone down while all the SKitts had been saved , then , if the superstitious had cried a judgment , " although we should have been as sceptical then as we are now , still the ignorant would have had something like a colourable excuse

      lor their absurd belief ; but , as the case really was , Air . Gilfilux ' s pretended "judgment" must appear ridiculous to the most obtuse . The following paragraph , which we find as a note to the article on which we are commenting , leaves no doubt as to the causes ot Jsiielluy ' s drowning : The immediate cause of the catastrophe was supposed to be this -. —Shelley's boat had reached a distance of four miles from the shore , when the storm suddenly arose , and the wind suddenly shifted : ' from excessive smoothness , " says Hr . Trclawney , all at once the sta was "foaming

      , breaking , and getting into a very heavy swell . " After one hour the swell went down ; and towards evening it was almost a calm . The circumstances were all adverse : the gale , the current setting into the gulf , the instantaneous change of wind , acting upon an undecked boat , having all the sheets fast , overladen , and no expert hands onboard but one , made the foundering as sudden as it was inevitable . The boat is supposed to have filled to leeward , and ( carrying two tons of ballast ) to have gone down like a shot . A book found in the pocket of Shelley , and the unaltered state of the dress on ail the

      corpses when washed on shore , sufficiently indicated that not a moment ' s preparation for meeting tho danger had been possible . After this who will deny that Mr . Gilfilun ' s trash about " religious sews , " is the moat absurd stuff that ever an " auld wife" twaddled . Sir Thomas Dick LAUiait contributes a Highland tale , entitled " Love , Jealousy , and Vengeance . " A lengthy review is give : i of Mr . Cauiale ' s " Oliver Cromwell ' s Letters and Speeches , " which affords the reader a considerable insight into that work . One article on railways , and two on the Ministerial changes of the past month , together with the " Literary Register , " complete this month ' s number , wJiich contains much very interesting matter , and well commences the new year .

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      DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE . Jasuart . London : Punch Olfice , Fieetstreet . Bravely this magazine begins the now year . The Editor ' s story , " St . Giles and St . James , " abounds with beautiful thcuahts , and reflections embodying sterling wisdom . The description of the robbery of the gold destined to bribe the electors of Liquorish , is most ably written . " Men of Letters and their abettors" containssome wholesome troths we aro alad to see in print ; a great deal of nonsense has lately been spoken and written respecting the social position of literary men , which the opening portion of Paul Bell ' s " speech" will go far to correct . " The Winter Robin" is a delightful story , well-fitted to

      instruct , improve , and delight the youth of both sexes , while it may also be read with advantage by the adults of all ages and classes , particularly Christian ministers , and lip-worshippers of justice and goodness . " English Scenes and Characters , " is the first of a series of papers by William IIowiit . The character sketched in the present paper is , "The Country Manty-Mekker . " There is life and truth in the portrait . These are the subjects we delight to see Mr . IIowitt ' s pen engaged on ; we hope to have many of his characters and sketches . The valuable articles under the title of " The Englishman in Prussia , ' are concluded in this number ; we hope to meet this writer again . The excellent " Hedgehog Letters" embrace several subjects of public

      interest , including the ducal doings of the past month ; the " pinch of curry powder , " &c . As may be supposed , the unhappy dukes , Norfolk , Richmond , Cambridge , Wellington , andothcr . % are most unmercifully whipped by the quizzical " cabman . " The tenth chapter of the truly valuable " History for Young England , " sketches the reign and adventures of the famous Richard Occur de Lion . Such are the principal contents of this number . Now for our extracts ; but where shall we select , when every article teems with beauties ? We might select from the pearls so profusely scattered through "St . Giles and St . James ; " the truthful and noble sarcasms of

      Juniper Htd gehog ; the sensible reflections of Paul Hell ; the beautiful moral of "The Winter Robin ;" William Howiti ' s English scenes ; or the historical pictures for " Young England . " But we cannot cive extracts from all these ; and as the author of " The Englishman in Prussia" has brought his labours to a close , we will present our readers with a spice of his concluding description of Prussia and Prussian life . The whole article would occupy nearly three columns of this paper , we can only , therefore , afford room for the following extracts , but the reader will do well to turn to the magazine and read the entire article , together with its other excellent contents .

      GEEMAN HOUSES . German house 3 are genei ally built upon the principle of a thorough draught—that is , of obtaining , Hut avoiding , a thorough draught . Opposite a door , window , passage , or gateway , there is usually another dotr , window , passage , or gateway ; and by these means y « u continually find yourself in the centre of a strong current of air . It does not matter in the warm reasons of the year ; but in the winter or other cold windy months , anil more particularly in Rhenish Prussia , it is dreailiul . In ildtlirion to this , the doors and windows do not fit close , so that jou may sit and roast your body close to your stove , with a draught cutting your ankles off , from a long gap underneath tl . e door , and another draught cuttta }; your throat from the iideand chinks of the window-frame .

      We have sat at dinner on a cold windv day in winter , in a room like an oven , but with our feetas cold as ice , from the wind of a great stone hall below , that had a wide staircase opposite the front door ( continually opening ) , the head of which staircase waa directly facing the diningroom door , the said doar not touching the floor by at least half an inch all along . As there arc no car ] . et 3 or other impediments to tho wind , we had it "fresh" as anj of the doors below leading to street or garden were opened , to say nothing of open windows . Then , the method ol winning the rooms in winter by the German stove , is detestable . You arc either mad * hot to suffocation , the horrid thing becoming red-hot , or it dots not give out iiaif enough heat , and is often the only warm thing in the room . If the stove was alight and warm , we were never

      able to convince any host or hostess of any house , puWic or prirate , that this fact wa § not the principal consideration , and that it was the person occupying the room who ought chieilj to be considered—itwaswhethcrAe was warm or cold , —that was the point ; the stove being warm was , in iuclf , little or nothing to the purpose—the stove waa not lit to warm itself only . It was of no use;—they smiled , or took it amiss , and went away , saying , " Englnnders w « re an original people ! " Sometimes tho stores arc lit by an aperture from the outside of the room , so that the regulation of the temperature being thus totally out of your hands , they either freeze you , or regularly balie you , just as the case may happen ; and you have no remedy but t * run out of the room . In the comforts and luxuries of social life , Germany i * a hundred years behiud England .

      GEBMAN UEDS . The beds are all too short . A short man can scarcely lie quite straight without his feet pressing against thefuutward ; A tall man must either lie hunched up nose-aii : " - ltnees , or his naked feet and ankles must stick out over the wooden barrier at the bed ' s foot , or else ( as the pillows are generally higher than the head-board ) his head must hang over the pillows , and dangle towards the Hoor , an attitude in which , to our certain knowledge , several English travellers have awoke in the morning , to their momentary confusion and stultified astonishment . In winter—and this is the trying period —( ftilV of OUT tourists Know anything about the winter)—then comes a fresh discomfort , lu the first place , the blaulcets arc not inado to " tuck in ; " tfi « y are muct too narrow ; the part tucked in would be considered as wasted . For what use is the part tucked in « thoy would ask . This would be foolishly extravagant ; the blankets therefore are properly und

      wisely of the same width as the bed . The consequence iitliat half a doien times in the night you are awoke by the cold coming in at one side or the other ; in your efforts to repair theopuning you make an opening at the other side , and by the morning your bed-clothes are liudiiled round you in uo shape at all , and with no good success . So much for blankets ; but very oft « n your only bed-• lothes is a sheet with a stuffed bag , in fact a small feather-bed laid over it . Now this putted bag , which covers you . is just the width of the bed , or something less , and little more than two-thirds of its length ; and here is a scene of misery ! Y ou must inevitably lie in the shape of a frog , or your neck and shoulders would bo quite uncovered , except by the mere sheet . A quarter of an hour of this , and you are sure to be in a vapour b : ith , tho feather-bag is so excessively hot ; but every time you turn from one side to the other , the narrow fat covering jumps up somewhere , and ietn in the firming air ot your winter chamber . If you turn at alUiMtily , jtw raise She thing ¦ i i 5 r r

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      'on botb sides , and a thorough draught instantly pagsw through jour hot vapour bed , aud astonishes your poor legs and back . Sometimes in the night , and iu darkness jou have " a scejlc » ^ i , , onr wtber-bng , which can scarcel y be described . You awake with a frozen limb , or side , or shoulder—endeavour to adjust tfcebag nud cover yourself properly—find you lmve got the thing broadways over you instead ofloug-wajs—try to put it right"S « s corner-ways—then no-how—changes »» shup . iM , as utterl y to baffle and confuse jou in the dark , till you douotknow andfind it impossible to discovur , whether jou are in a wrong position in your bed or have got the l »» S wron g;—you are in a fever—it now gota hotter than ever , and less in size—buconies elastic , perverse-, alivohas a will of its own—and finally , lips off upon the floor , either rolling underneath the bedstead , or gettmj ; itself involved with legs of chair * , so that you are compelled to get out in tho frightfull y cold air and grope about in thu darkness , upon the icy carpetless floor , to recover your detestable mid accursed companion . ^^ s \; . r 2 isisr * , rr

      OEKSIiK COOKEBT . Many of their dishes are excellent ; and of their three hundred m ethods of dressing potatoes , a very desirable selection mi ght be made . A great many of their soup * also , t jr flavour , itbolwomoneM , and economy , are not to be surpassed , Jut for originality , for inventiveness , for the bringing together of thu most apparently uncongenial and incongruous materials , they certainly exceed any . thing that an Engli , l mian could imagine . The tahle dlwie of a good hotel always presents an agreeable variety . lea-soup with slices of raw beef in it , or followed by raw herrings (« euved » in someway , but not cooked ); baked beef with preserved plums , and hot yellow goosefat laid upon slices of brown bread or toast , may seem rather startling to delicate stomachs . Baked tlueks

      stuffed with ehesuuts and onions , and garnished with a sauce ot pickled cherries or very sour braiidy-chemoB ; potatoes fried with vinegar and sugar ; turnips cuveved with cinnamon ; and black pudding " assisted" ky baked pears preserved in syrup ; potatoes stewed with onions and sugar ; French beans fried in brown sugsir ; and boiled salmon smothered iu custiird , or a light batter pudding;—all these may ' appear ingenious , if not generally seductive . After a great many di « lies of this kind , th « last that comes before the desert , is almost always hot baked mutton with a rich brown sauce , mad * "thick and slab . " The following specimens of Koch-Kunst will also bo found interesting : —a duck stuffed with almondi and apples ; raw ham , with pancakes and salad ; potatoes and caraway comfits ; a turnip sliced , and made delicious

      with rock-salt , pepper , and caraways to be eaten with coffee ; a hare stuffed with chesnuts , ice . In the matter of poultry the German cooks have need of all their art , as there is really very little flesh upon the bones of their fowls ; and n goose is commonl y a mere skeleton , with a gristle and a thick yellow fatty tough skin over it ; in fact , an English friend has truly designated it when he said a German goose was just like , "a little fiddle in a leathern bag . " The use of blood in many of their dishes is alarming to our notions of refinement , especially as it ia made no secret of " the art , " but is openly carried in jugs and cups from slaughter-houses . The legs of mutton are also opt to be very musculiir und pipy . The King oi Prussia sends to Windsor for 7 tw mutton . How gladly would every Englishman in Prussia do the same .

      Tho writer says coffee in Germany is very good , but the tea is detestable , aud made of undeniable neuge-lcaves . "The manners of the Germans are polite , pleasant , eordial , and very ceremonious ; for the most part ( bilging , and without any of those airs of pride and superciliousness with which Englishmen are so constantly aud so justly taxed . " This writer intimates that considerable hypiocrisy exists in Germany as regards " morals ; " you may sin , only take care that your sin be cloaked ; preserve your character , and that is everything . Some account of the amusements of the country is given , including the Carnival , and the Christmas festivities . The writer thus honestly and candidly concludes his viewB of

      THE GESMAN NATION . In concluding this series of p-Apm . tne "Englishman iH Prussia" requests permission to offer one OV two emplltttte remarks . Much has been said of a disparaging kind in the viuws ha has taken of the politics , religion , morals , and customs of Prussia ; nor have various objectionable characteristics aud domesticities been allowed to pass without comment . All he can now say is this , he has spoken the truth exactl y as it presented itself to his mind . But no di . paraycments that he has thought himself bound to utter—no sense of absurdities , incongruitii-s , and short-comings , luwe iu mvj vesjvtct atttreu his estimate and opinion of the essentially high qualities

      existing in the mucr rpirit of the German nation . He regards Germany as the great storeliouso of new ideas ; us the nation by which the kingdoms , equally of imagination and of science , have been ruled over in modern days by potentates of a genius ranking with the highest ; as the nation producing the greatest number of indefatigable and life duvoting spirits iu the cause of truth , both abstract and practical , though chiefly abstract ; as the nation to whom , of all others , the modern age is most indebted for new food for its soul ; and as the nation in which ( though the practical development and organization may devolve upon England and Trance ) the redemption of the modern world will be originated .

      Several " reviews" conclude this number , including a brief , not very clear , but on thewhole very favourable notice , of Mr . Ccorat ' s " Pirwitory ot Suicides . "

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      SIMMOKDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE-Jasuauy . London : Simmonda and Ward , Bargeyaid , Eucklersbury . When this periodical commenced , in January , 1314 , there were then several journals in existence devoted to Colonial and Indian affairs ; others have started up in the interval ; but , we believe , with the single exception of one weekl y journal , this magazine now stands alone as a literary representative of the British Colonies . Amidst tlie rise , decline , and fall of so many similar publications , it is pleasing to observe the success of this one . We believe that success has more than fultilletl tlic most sanguine expectations of its projectors . This is gratifying to us ,

      inasmuch as enterprise , industry , talent , and honesty , by whomsoever exhibited , command our admiration ; and the parties possessing these claims to public support , our best wishes . True , we see some things in perhaps every number of this magazine we cannot accord with , opposed to our own principles , or at variance with our own views , but we are not so Utopian as to imagine we can find all men , or even the majority , coinciding with us in all things . We are satisfied if we can find the writers of a publication like this exhibiting their faith in human progress , and helping that " progress" by reprcseutiu <; the interests and vindicating the claims of ouv ' brethren beyond the wave , at the same time adding to the information and enlarging the sympathies of theii countrymen " at home . "

      An important and interesting " Account of the Settlement of Nelson , New Zealand , " opens this number . The description is by a writer on the spot , and apparently has not the least tinge of exaggeration ; the article bears evidence of " plain sailing " throughout . The " Account ' of the Liberated African Establishment at St . Helena" is continued iu this number . The author of these articles writes well , and makes subjects otherwise repulsive , readable , and even interesting , by Ills mariner of treating them . He tells us that Lemon Valley , the residence and burial-place ef Napolkon , has , since the removal of the withered remains of him , "Whose game was empires , and whose stakes were thrones .

      Whose table earth—whose dice were human bones , " ceased to attract attention , and has already fallen into almost utter oblivion . The house occupied by the fallen emperor has long since been converted into a bain , is now fast mouldering into decay , and probably iu the course of twenty years will exist no more . The willow trees whiuh shaded his grave jiavo been cut down , aiul the grave itself is comparatively neglected . A valuable statistical article on " South Australia" will well repay perusal . A most interesting account of ' Tho Mahogany Tree of Honduras " describes the tree in its natural state , tells of its

      discovery , and relates the toil * and tliihcultics encountered by the cutters of this valuable wood . This number contains tho fourth of Mr . M'Commk ' s "Australian Sketches . " describing Melbourne and New Town , Port Phillip . The principal of the remaining articles arc "Notes on tho Sandwich Islands , " " Sketches of Santa Cruz aud St . Thomas , " "The Indians of Orialla , " and "Reminiscences of the Island of Cuba . " The poetry of t ' . iis magazine is usually of a superior order ; there aro two beautiful pieces in the present number , one we select for the gratitication of our readers : — THE INDIAN VOYAGER .

      11 V UEN 11 I n . ISUEEN , KSQ . I ' ve wandered in distant regions , The homos of the fair and free ; Of wealth and poverty . I ' counted the hostile legions : l ' rince , paupir , und priest ; Gold , galleys , ami jjlue : Oh ! lutiue fi-sist with thu savage beast , In the wilds oi' my lintivasua . I ' ve traversed the fields of the stranger , liy river , road , and rail ; Aliis ! eVr . those who quail But little iuT . igiue the danger : Train , tuunel , iiuU truck ; Burst , lioiler , and break : Oh ! bear we b ; iuk to my mountain hack , And my boat on the glassy lake , I ' ve dwelt iu the City of Wonders , The haunt of the worldly-wise ; Their sullen , douded skies , No sunshine of lienv ' n ever sunders Vog , funnel , and foam ; Cold , uatarrah , and cramp : Oh ! ltt me roam to my tropic home , Illuiuinrd b y Suture ' s lamp . I ' ve loitered in grove and in garret , Long sacred to lyre and to lute ; l ! ut now , unpaid , all mute Ha : ; gs the harp of a liy ton or Barrett ; Hate , hunger , and hire ; Drudge , drivel , and ilroni ! : Oh ! K-t mo live my rustic Ijtb Iu the Hush of thu torrid . one * .

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      ¦ I ' ve worship'd , iu church and in chapel , The type of each . Olnistian scheme ; Here Bigotry raves . supreme—There Discord has thrown down her apple : Cowl , cloister , and cant ; Ulebe , Gospel , and ;{ : ill : Oh ! letmecliauntiu the desert haunt A hymn to the Lord of All . I ' ve tarried with Dives , the miser , And smiled inliis daughter ' s train—Who would her hand obtain t or her wealth not her worthmust prixe her : * - * k- ***

      , , Pelf , plunder , and pride Sin , sorrow , and shock : Oh ! I" } me giwo to my homely hrld * 'ihelmde of my native rock . I ' re stood in the peasant ' s cottar—The henr t-droplmng in ] , «„ ,.. His . children heaved a sigh For a jness of iioorhouse pottage ; Tithe , treason , and test ; Guilt , gallows , and gore : Oh ! let me rest my hanw'd breast On the far Atlantic show . 3 t . Lucia , Nor . ISiS .

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      WADE'S LONDON REVIEW . London- 0 B Christian , Whiteiriars-strect , Fleet-street Wo have received the December and January numbers of this 7 fcvfew together , anil so too , we observe have some ot our weekly contemporaries . We hope tins is notto he the standing arrangement (?) , as it t ? fl W V'f Hl 0 M for u ° ' thcmiddleof Janu-\ vLa . i \ i f ° / iT mentin S ° » a Maga / ine pub-£ t + i St Ot S ™* ** , 1845 ; and yet not to notice it at all would be unjust both to the writers therein and to our readers . The December number contains some most excellent articles . In the first

      place we have a continuation-of " II Va-alondo " very cleverly written , and very amusing Two must , however , make this objection to Master Vagabondo —thjit one month we have had a chapter and the next month none . It is provoking enough to be baulked in the middle of a good story with the abominable announcement" to be continued , " even when one feels certain that the next month ' s number , it it brings not the conclusion , will , at least , brin" the " continuation" of the story ; but how much more provoking it is when one can have no faith that the

      neat number will even " continue" the fragmentary article . More than once the readers of tluV'A ' evicw" have bocn so sewed by " 11 Vagabondo ; " thus in No . 13 we had a chapter of his adventures , " to be sontinucd , " but No . 14 contained no mention of him . No . 15 ( December ) has a chapter—far too brief , but ISo . 10 ( January ) 1 ms nothing from or of him . This is " too bad . " " The Field of the Forty Fools" is an illustration of Highland life in the olden time . Hie very title of "A few more Thoughts on Rabelais will ensure readers for the article .. ^ " Lvell '

      s 1 ravels in North America" is a well-written review ot I rofessor Lteli ' s able , impartial , and intwestin « account of the United States , and North Ameriw ; eneralty . " The Unhappy Man " is , we are sure , a sketch from real life . The " Diary of a Modern Traveller" is continued from the preceding number and gives gome graphic pictures of life in the Crimea , llus number concludes with a sketch of the career and character of the famous Earl of Jkn ^ lield . We give the following extracts from the " Diary of a Modern Traveller" : —

      THE BTEPP OF THE CIllMEA . The stepp consign of an immeasurable turf , mostly formed of , at best , a dozen species of plants , partly social , partly herbal , mid partly fruit bearing , and among which predominates'the welilol . They are all of a voluptuous growth , manifesting the natural fertility of the soil . The eye can descry no tree , no visible height , no watir , brook , or spring , only now and then a half decayed draw-well , around which lie grouped the panting horn cattle . ( The infancy of civilisation litre may be inferred from the mode in which water is drawn from the well nt one of the first station * of this stepp ; nnniely , ahorsu ia fixed to n rope , that draws up a pail at tlie other end of the rope , by being whipped away from tl'c spot . ) You meet with camels measuring the distant plain with grave steps ; half savage horses , avoiding shyly the traveller as well a » the hunchbacked beasts of burden ; swine , wild , longbristled , and black , pasturing around the dwellings , as it

      they were the legitimate aborigines of the unpopuluted country ; huts , with flut-turf roofs , upon which grass thrives as abun-imnly iw upon the open field ; still farther you meet with whole flueks of wild geese , which frequently approach the traveller , so nenr at first as to show their tine checkered feathers , asd then , after having satisfied this vanity , betake themselves to awkward flight ; also long trains of wnggons drawn by two oxen each , travelling slowly to fetch salt from Ferecop to th * interior , or corn-brnmly to Simphvrojiol ; finally , the first Stepp-Tartars , their heads covered with long 7 voollen civps of slucp-skin , with brown Mongolian faces , from which glare a pair of very small black eyes—these arc , togctluT with a burning sun , upon the whole , tiie leading objects that offer themselves to the view of the traveller through the -Nagayian and GrimeAii siepp ( as also the stepps of southern Kussia , and more especially of the Caucasus ) , from Aleshki via Perecop to Simpheropol .

      t . uitah nousis . Particularly uncomfortable for us Europeans is the interior of the house of a Tartar . A roundly vaulttd door , but at the same time so low , as to force any man of middle stature to bfnil his back in enterimj , Iearis to a low ante-room , from which two side doors conduct into the so-eallcd parlours , one of which being destintd for tin male , and the otlur for the female inmates . Very str ' etly separated are the two sexes ; also , among tlic / i : Mahometans , the women but seldom leave their apartmeiits ( and more especially among the higher classes ) , und even then only very deeply veiled . The cushions oi

      bolsters around the walls , the charcoal basins in the ci'iiti-o ; the cooling vessel of the oriental Kalikan , or pipe ; the beams of the roof that pass along the ceiling , fur the purpose of suspending on them various utensils ; Uie room freely asccmling utter thu Italian fashion , as high up us the very gables of . the . house ; the worktti carpet , that is not absent even in the poorest dwelling , and the low room tables—nil this reminds the traveller Unit lie is here in the uist , though only ou the northern border of it , where the patriarchal and stationary principle already begins to contrast with European civilization .

      Widely varying views have been taken of the Tartar character , our modern traveller says— "My ov ? n opinion is , that there is hardly to be found a people more lazy , stationary , and given to fatalism , but at the same time al . < o quiet , harmless , and moral , than tho Tartars of the Crimea . Their strict honesty is greatly extolled , a feature that advantageously distinguishes them from the Russians generally . " We must defer till next week any notice of the January number .

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      MR . COOPER'S "DESPOTISM . " We last week reoeived tho fallowing letter , which want of room compelled us to defer till this week : — Hit . Editor—I was much surprised aud grieved as » Chartist , at Mr . Cooper ' s lu ' -ter in last Saturday ' s titar , respecting the getting up of a Song and Hymn J ) ock . The object I jipprovijof ; but Mr . C . ' s arbitrary censorship of the different contributions which may be svut ; his tint , "That I have license to reject the whole or any part ol what you send , " neither I nor any other man of thought can approve of . AVliy it is nothing else but right down despotism . Wevtt I a yoet , itv . Editw , and s « Vn \ g * Jv > v fame , it would not be in ill . Cooper ' s bands I should

      place my work for revision . >> ho made him sole judge of poetry ? And v ; ere he the clovercst man in the . kingdom I would protest ugaiust oho iaUividuul deciding upon tho claims of many . Mr . C , as a Chartist , knows our principles to he , that all shall legislate for all . It" a song book is wanted , let a committee he chosen who can sctilu the merits ot" the different contributions iu verso , but let us hear no moiv in this or any other ease , from a democrat , that I will do this or that . Being no rhyniiat myself I cannot be said to write from jealousy—only , not In-ing in itussi . i , I am no titlvocatu for despotism in any 3 hape . Yours truly , Jtotlurhithe , Surrey . John Matiuas .

      We give the writer of "the above epistle credit tor believing himself to be " a democrat , " but certainly he adopts most extraordinary means to prove his faith in democratic principles . We have turned to Mr . Coorau ' s letter to the " Chartist Poets" ( published iu this panci of January 3 rd ) and really we cannot sec one idea , or one word therein , which can be fairly objected to . Mr . Cooper thinks a good Chartist Song and Hymn Book is needed , lie oilers to conti'ibutf several of his own productions to such a work , and invites all his " rhyming brethren" to also contribute thereto . He adds , very properly , that lie must be the judge of tho pieces sent to him , and must be allowed to exercise the power of rvjeethi " the whole , or anv part of the son » s he may receive ,

      Mr . Matiius calls this " arbitrary censorship . " "despotism , " &c . If such be " censorship" and " despotism , " what does he understand liberty to be ? Mr . CoorER , for the public good , undertakes a troublesome otlicc without too or reward . He livvs by his pen , yet he oilers to give the . productions of hU pen o aid a public object , lie offers to take upon himself the onerous and thankless duties of Editor of the intended work , ( a task we don't envy him ) , and lie will evidently incur further trouble , and perhaps pecuniary expense and risk , at the same time devoting tlie profits of the speculation , if any , to « most holy purpose , the aiding of our Veteran Patriots , and the Wives and Families of the Chartist exiles . To impute to Mr . Coovkr "despotism" &c , as Mr .

      Matiuas does , i 3 monstrously unjust . But Mr . Matuias does not object to " censorship , " only it must be the censorship of a " committee , " There are too many liberuh of Mr . Mathias ' s stamp . Clothe tyranny in a democratic garb , give it a popular name , and forthwith , in the eyes ol such men , the devil of despotism becomes transformed into the augcl of liberty . We should be glad to know ho \ v a committee could decide as to the merits of" Chartist Rhymes" belter than Mr . Cooi-ku ? Or how tho decisions of such a committee could be moro satisfactory ihan the decisions of Mr . Cooi'Kii ? If Mr . Matihas thinks a committee could make up a bettor Song Book than Mr . Cora ™ , let him get together such a c . immtttee , and then we shall have two song books instead of one . Again , if the persons whose

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      Msongs' or " hymn * " Mr . Cooper rejects , dispute ma jud gment , their remedy is to publish on their own account , and then we may have a variety of soi ^ books Onco for all , we must repudiate and condemn this intolerant and ridiculous ratem of l ™ " ? rf ^ illdivitlll « l freedom of members of the great Chartist party , Wo Acm w ,. — "ishmentobefrfo As much from mobs as kiltSs _ f } . ou a 3 me > ^ & z ^\ st $ M party he has clung despite tlie wishes , Wa ™ f ,, » i 3 objections of those who , to a great extent , havVit fo their pwrw to influence In * social existence -Tt i . ™^ r :,, n ,. , „„ . „ , „„ .. . „

      too bad that such a man should have his motive * misrepresented , and his doings distorted , bv tlie an just suspicions and surmises of the very parties he -a labouring to serve . If Mr . Coopun can in a good thing , Jet him do it after his own fashion . We would do so ; and we think we know enough of Mr . Coopkb to predict that he will so do likewise .

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      EXTRACT FROM A LETTER ON THE , LATE CRISIS . [ from l ' unch . ] Urn following manly and straightforward letter has been addressed to our respected town .-man , Mr , MFarlano , by a gentleman holding a distinauished public situation m London . It h the testimony of a person whose means of information cannot be questtoneu ; and when we name the writer , Mr . M'l ' uncb , o 1-leet-strcet , the public will agree with us , thafc lie composition ( like every other by the tamenen ) does honour to the head a ; d heart of our countryman : —

      "We ave out of office , nnd Lord Grey lias done it alT , lor my own part , I told Lorrt John that , provide h » would ^ o for a total Cm Luw Repeal , I was his man . We all said so . Macaulny said so . Lord Johu » i < reed . At the eleventh hour in comes Grey , and sajS lie will noC net with Pulnuivston as Foreign Minister ; tmd tho embryo Cabinet is dertrojed b y that m . timed oljeetion , and the pangs and travail of a week end m bitter disap . pomtment . "You will , perhaps , be anxious to know , my dear M'Farlanc , how this interposition of my Lord Grcv could ruin the * *

      just-formed Administration . ' You r >; il »»! :, is it possible that the world could not go on without Lo / d Grey anil with Lord Palmerston , or without Lord Palmerston and with Lord Grey ! Is each of thtsv noblemen absolutely m-ressary to the welfare of the empire , and can ' t wo survive unless we have both of then , in a Whig Miiiistvy » You picture to yourself Death inter , vening—you fancy that tiough Grey should puish , or Temple be carried oft ' to ancestral vaults , or both eat with other . up and expire—yet the kingdom would survive , the sun would rise pretty much as usual , and the stocks ( alter a period ol ' mourning ) wouidrallv .

      " In this , my dear Mac , you are in gross error . Y < -u do not s ^ em to undtrstaud ihat the Whigs are our natural leaders—appointed b y Heaven and the Red Dor-k to rule and govern us . There are about n dozen of this privileged class of noblemen—set apart ft o ! ii thu rest of the world—having R overniiient vested in thi-m , as priest , hood is in the Brahmins , or * as in the tribe of Levi . Read the Court Ch :. uUir about these Whiss—thi-si- p-cat irrevocable rulers of ours . They sec noW . y else ; tl : ey keep aloof from the world which they govei n * It is ' Lor J John goes to ilinto-liouse , or llinto to Lwd' John ; or Lord PaSmerstoii gave a dinner to Lord Jlinto and Liiiisdowne ; or the Marquis of Lansdov . ne entertained at BowooO , Lord Jlinto , Lord Pnlmerstbn , Lusd J > -l : i Kt > £ .

      sell , tfce . Thuy see only one another , these 8 * rat : Siu ; r . ( . rj ; They decide in thrir conclaves what is good fvV . s , i :. - * doubt . The working peopla , htndtd by your ('• ; -i-is and Villiera work , and toil , and strive— ovg . ¦ . .. ;?«¦ ! l , > forces of tho country against the Corn I , uv . s— \ h ; . x it down ; and then Lord John conits nobly in , : i :-t ! ? . ¦ ¦ , 'Well done , my heroes ; you have ciiiiqui-ri •! !¦ : t : Vs buttle . And 1 place myself at your hesd . -1 have 1 ,, e ! s opposed to yeur measures for a long . Ions time ; i-r . r \ , \> have fought your nj-ht so well , that I condesceiiil to Itad you . I am your natural nristomcy-. I , aiu ' , P . i ' . ir . oiston , and Grey , and tlie rest of u . ? . Our services aiv priceless . We intend to come into the ministi-j upon jw > r shoulders . '

      " It was in this way that Louis-Phili ppo walked into Paris after the three day * ' lighting and revolution : it 18 ;! 0 ; andblesseri the people ; aud took the proflt i ' fivA ha * rukd ever since as Managing Director of the 1 ' ivnclt nation . Philippa was slm-ys u Whig . Ho lived ia England , arid profited by our institutions . Thi-re ara forty articles in the Whig tuitli ; the thirty-nine *•« know of , and the fortieth is : — It is ordered by Heaven , and decreed by the laws of Nature , that the Wh : « L . < i (! & should have governance and authoriiv over the i : coi-le of England . '

      " Lord John is not a proud man , very likely , but he has these convictions before named , and acts upon th < m . TlitiM you have a proof how liouest he is . He conceives the country can't be governed without Lord lVmievston mid Lord Grey . They must rule , or Downinjj-strcet ha * no charms for him . So ha doesn ' t hesitate a im-nu-nt : office he resigns ; it is impossible without Lord Palmerston—the edintry may go to the . deuce ; ha can ' t preserve it without Lord Grey . " I tremble to think , my dear M'Fnrlsine , that som » desperate atheists may be htci : r . ow thinking ofdenyii : ;; this old dynasty altogether , and asking , " Suppose Ovey goes , and Russell atterwanis , and Palnurston , the Go 'i of War , and all the met ! of Jlinto ? Suj-poK ' , « hm one lord can ' t nguc with t ' other lord , the third lord timsit necessary to break up a ftovei nssient ; is ali Eitg ' . and w b « hauliud because their lordships are « o squtmish ' ' . "

      " 1 for my part , however , must not spi-ak . I was leokinir forward to the T » pu and SenIins- 'ffa . x . i )/ Si-o as my uerth , iiu . i maybe considt red an interested party . lit my opinion the Whigs are so neees . vtry . that- ^ t ! : at I don ' t happen to kiimv uynbody else-to take thtir plsce . Hut , Omy dear friend , why—why weni ' t Grey or Palmerston out of the way 1 ¦*¦ . ;¦ " Ever your * truly , ' "T . 1 $ . M'Pracu . " To P . Sl'Ifarlane , Esq ., Edinburgh . "

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      Cuke for a Bowel Comi-uint . — The late Lord Erskine beinir one tiny hnlispcseu in tho Cmist-of Kinj- ' s lient'lf , to'J Mr . Jekyil " that he had av » in his bowels , for uir . ch heeuulil get no relief . " V I'll give you an inlallilile ;<;; mf ; e , " said the humorous barrister , " . act iii « i ! e Ailorney . Citiieral , aud then , you'll have no botvels . " Emancipation ok the " Bnowxs . "—The iuiiii ; . ne hero , Wilberl ' orce , who , uniler the standard of Liberty , freed " tlioiisHisils of blacks fn . 'in their possrs-.-ors , was not by hiilf dm l . iWratm- that he is who iV : s burthens his own boatlsinan of their browiis!—ii / e p lritstophdei . Official . —The unocctipicr . pedestal in Trafalgarsquare 5 s , we hear , to be apjiropratcil to a fo ; tuu-itts German General , who obtained a field mart-hit I ' d bu ' . on without ever seeing a shot lived in war . —Ibid .

      Profanity . —That man is profane who stops tne > flowing of liis tears with a handkerchief , because—he dams his eyes . —Ibid . Infidkl Tuhkky and Christian E . ngund— "We gai \\ ev \ vti \ ft A vivUviv in l >( . u-i , uooi . { , \\ v . \ Vvi \ -iwsirt learn le .-sons of wisdum and humanity even from tinr barbarous Turks , hi Turkey , the Criminal Coile lias been so much amended , that— " The extreme repugnance of the jn -esen ^ Sultan to sicn death-warrants , even in eases fhicli in this cmintry would b <* considered r . s amountiiiL' to wiiful murder , b »»

      rendered capital punishments extremely ran :. " Hcucc , we much do ubt wSa-ther beni » htiii . l Constantinople would utter sueh ghastly exhibi ions , as lir . vo this wool ; edified the population of Christian London . The Divan does not shod blood in revi-iyi' : thw Council of St . James ' s still demands an eye for ; ut eye , a tooth for a tooth , after the good old Jewish , way . The English Winister lia » . !; sawordii )! . . as ho says , to the bible ; whilst it would seem the bnibivous Turk legislates in the benevolent spirit of the New Testament . — Finish , ¦ '

      How to M . \ iis a Uailwat —Take a sheet of foolscap paper Mid u Court Vv . iite for lTSO . l'iek your Lords ami lliglit Umiourables , tuUl liaif-a-Jozen ex-Members of Parliament , anil season with a few merchants and F . ll . S . ' 3 . Then throw in an engineer , a Banker , and a Lawyer ; garnish with imagn-aiy advantages , and sevvo up in an advertisement . —' -&W . OusKitvATioss or a . Naturalist . —This ' bein <; about ; the time for the tneetiti ! : of PaiTmniiMit ,. tSio Sta £ begins to draw iu his » un >« . The- Ultilway-Pigeoii . makes a deposit of its nest-egg , aud thu Lawyer-bird comes to carry is off with his long bill . The latter has been preparing all the season for leathering his iicsc , and now succeeds in doiiis so . —Ibid . .

      A Dbamatic Rkmsii . —W lint a devilled turkey isto the insipidity of " tuvki-y boiled , ia ihe suliinined pint of a di'untit " to u drama of the dull « v ! d timos . tt ' o tiike the description from a Sunday print . It is deiieionsly peppered : — " In it- ( the iititwr ' s l ' ciiiio » 1 ire exhibited a worthy English farmer hfii'U Ms nil , and being miaed by the rn ^« ci 7 j » ofutt landlord , the seduvtion of the farmer ' s 6 iviu (> yji / d : uigl ) lir , by tho only son of the afoftwid Jmitf . W , : \ daughter f'tlxdtf accusiwi her viv ' n mother of a n . 'bbcrn , in order ti > saves

      herself and child from buim : turned iuhii ' t , and ili £ - earded by her seducer , a de , i of thieves , a bwyhoy and highway robbery ; tho underplot being inad ^ upr of tho ail vent . 'res of a m »(> i , wanton ivo ' . na » , ' \ & *•'• # Ac . There is but one thin : ; wauling in this ilejicious drama : there is no nnirder . Wanting hlou . d , it is as the plum-pudding without the liramly . " Ni-verthrless , who sIvaII say , \ ti \ h sueh pieces licensed by the I . »'» yd Chamberlain ( since we must have a licenser ) , th ? t ho is not an admirable sehuoimasler for the && 1-

      lenes ? —Ibid . A l . KFr-iiASDED Co . mim . imk . nt . — " Got ! bless yo . ur honour ! you saved my life ! " said : i beggar . to a cnntiiin under whom ho hud sewed . " Saved your life ! " replied the olticer . "Do you think .. I am a doctor ? " " No , " answered tlie man ; " but I served under vou at the IwUfcof Coruimn ; and wne n you ran aWfty I followed , or c !* j 1 should have bwn killed ...

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      SO . XXV . " TUB GIAOCB . " This poem was first pnblished ia 181 ? . , before Hie appearance of the third and fourth car . tos of CliiMe Hardd . Reader , peruse and admire tie magnificent poetry bieathing in every lice of the following picture ef

      GREECE . Fair dime ! where every season smiles . Benignant o er those blessed isles , AYlricii , seen from far Colonna ' s heiglit . Make glad tlio heart that liails the si-lit , And Jtr . d to loneliness deli giit . There mildly dimpling . Ocean ' s c ueek Reflects the tints of many a peak Caught by the laughing tides that lave These Bdens of ths eastern ware : And if at times a transient breeze Break the bine crystal of the seas , Or sweep one blossom from the trer 3 , How welcome is each gentle air That wakes and traits the odours there '

      Strange—that where Nature loved to trace , As if for Gods , a dwelling place . And every charm and gracehatb , mii'd ¦ Wi thin the paradise she fix'd , There man , enainour'd of distress , Should mar it into wilderness , Aud trample , brute-like , o ' er each flower That tasks not one laborious hour ; Sor claims the culture of his hand ' To bloom along the fairy land , But springs as to preclude his care ,

      And sweetly woos him—but to spare ! Strange—that where all is peace beside , There passion riots in her pride , And lust and rapine wildly reign To darken o ' er the fair domain . It is as though the fiends prerailM Against the seraphs tiiey assail'J , And , fix'd on heweuly thrones , shonld dwell Tha freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene , so form'd for jo * . So curst the tyrants that destroy !

      lie who hath bent him o ' er the dead Ere the first day of death ia fled , The first dark day of nothingness . The last of danger and distress , ( Before Decay ' s effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers , ) And ffiaxVd the mili angelic air , Tue rapture of repose that ' s there , The SsM yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek , And—nut for that sad siirouded eye , That fires not , \ rin . s not ; weeps not . now And but for that chill , changeless brow .

      Where cold Obstruction ' s apathy Appals the gazing mourner ' s heart , As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads , yet dwells upon ; Yes , but for these and these alone , Some moments ay , one treacherous hour . He still might doubt the tjrant ' s power ; So fair , so calm , so softly seal'd , The fir > t . last look by death reveal'J ! Such is the aspect of this shore ; * Tis Greece , hut living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet , so deadly fair , We start , for soul ia wanting there .

      Cliue of the onforgotten brave ! Whose hind from plain to mountain-cave Was Freedom ' s h « ne or GSory ' s grave ! Shrine of the mighty ! can it be , That this is all remains of thee ? Approach , thoa craven crouching slave ; Say , is not this Thtrmopjl * i These waters fclue that round vou lare . Oh ssrrile ofepiini ; of tht ? frae—Pronounce what sea , what shore is this t The gulf , the rock of SaUunis ! These scenes , then * story not unknown , Arise , and make again your own ; Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires ;

      And he who In tks strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear . That Tyranny shall quake to hear , And leave his son 3 a hope , a fame . They too will rather die than shame : For Freedom ' s battle once begun , Bequtath'd by bleeding Sire to Son , Though oaSed oft is erer won . Baar witness , Greece , thy living page , Attest it many a deathless age ! While ktags , in dusty darkness hid , Have left a nameless pyramid . Thy heroes , though the general doom Hash swept the column from their tomb , A mightier monument command , The mountains of their native Und ! SONGS FOR TIIE PEOPLE . [ For many months past our poet ' s column lias been exclusively occupied with , extracts from tue writing ? oi"Btbos . Desirous , Lowever , oiinfusinginoreTarietv into this column , we Lave for some time past intended to give weekly , inadditionto the " Beauties , " a good song , original or select . We had purposed to commence these songs on the first Saturday in the present year , but other matters prevented us so doing . We give this expiration , as otherwise it migfit be supposed we wished to anticipate Mr . Cooper ' s projected " Song and Hymn-Book . " Thk we neither wish to do , nor can do , as the one song weekly in this paper cannot at all interfere with the first-rate Songs and Iluumt , intended to be published in a collected form . Air . Cooper ' s project , we think a very excellent une , and will give it every aid iu our power . Any speus of former rhymers we have in . 9 tore , Mr . Coopeh L £ welcome to select from . ] THE LA 5 D . IT THOMAS SVE 5 CE . [ Some forty years ago , Thomas Spexce proposed to restore to tie people of England the laud Gfwhiclthey liad been robbed , by making the land and buildings of each parish the property of the people , and dividing ihe rents amongst the people equally ; but the landlords of that day , who did not like the ideaot justice any better than do the landlords of the present day , persecuted aad imprisoned SraxcE , and never stayed their persecution until they had hunted Mm to death . They could not , however , destroy his principles , which bid fair at no distant day to ilestroi the usurpation of the landlords . ] A Sosc io hi sung altht Conasencetne « to / th { Millamhini tttit . t JAere Shell be Miithtr lords nor landlords , hat God atidMan isilili atthi all . Toe— "Goisati Vie King . " Hari' how the trumpet ' s souud Proclaim * tlie land ground Tlit jubilee I Tell * all the poor oppress'd >' o more shall they becess'd , >' or landlords more molest Their property . I ! ant- t ' ounelvci now we pay , Dreading no quarter day , Fraught with distress , ^ ffslconie that daj 3 raw 3 near , For tben our rent we share , Earth ' s rightful lords we are Ordain'd for this . Sow hat ! i the oppressor ceas'J , And ail the world releas'd From misery ! The fir-trees all rejoice , Aud cedars lift then : voice , Ceas'dnowtheFELLEB ' s noise , Lor-g r&U'd by thee . The sceptre now is broke , Which with continual stroke The nations smote ! lldl from beneath does rise , To meet the lofty ejres , Froai the most pompous siae , flow brought to nought ! Since then this jubilee S ^ ts all at Liberty Let us be glad . Behold each man return To his possession Xo more like doves to mourn By landlords sad !

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      TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZIKE—Jascart . — Edinburgh ; Tait : London ; Simpkin and Marshall . "We feel great respect for Wmiiam HowiTT . than whom few writers have more instructed and delighted us ; we are , therefore , sorry to find him in this nuraocrof T «« * « 3 £ jja : tne holding np 0 'Coxxeh as a " patriot . " We win * not dispute his picture of O'Cosxeli . as a landlord , though so widelv different to that paiated by the " Times Commissioner . " But . supposing O'Ucnxeii . to be all that Mr . llowirr represents him to be privately , 3 dr . IL ' s views as to the agitator ' s acts and career as a public" man are amazingly erroneous . Mr . Howm tells us that O'CossEii , for the greater part of half a century has bun tue leader of a moral movement , which has 3 fc < ady produced the most magnificent r £ suit ? , and that he has well wou the proud title of the /• Liberator , Indeed , Mr . llowm , your simplicity is unmatched , if you really believe 33 you ¦ write . U'OosxJOLtue "Li berator ! " Yes ! " The saviour of the nation not yet saved . " WLom has he liberated ? " lie o pened Parliament and ofiice io his fellow believers . " Indeed he did but the " believers" were of hisown class . Catholic * Vie have been compelled to omit some very beautiful Jin * -- both : ; i the coniiiicmeuiiut , { aud iu the cviirsc of the < ii > vi : i « g r . uiticn vf the mem .

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      January i 7 , 1846 THE NORTHERN STAR . ^^^^^^^ ^ * , „ , , g ii r ¦• ™ ¦

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 17, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1350/page/3/