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IRELAND . BT IE 1 DIHAHD PiEIUOmiTS . ( Trandattd by Mary HowiU . ) The boat swings to a in » ty chain ; The mail , the o » r of use no longer ; Tlw fisher * » boy died yestor-e ' en , And now the father faints with hanger . Pale Ireland ' s fiih b landlord ' * fitfa . It gives him costly food and rainunt ; A tatteied garb , an empty dish , " The « e aro the moursfui fiiher * * payment . A pastoral jouad U on the wind , With kine the roads are thronged;—oh pit ; I A ragged peasant crawl * behind , And drires them to the sea-port city . —Pale Ireland's herds the landlord claim *—That food which Paddy's sonl desireth—That which would nerve his children ' s frames , The landlord ' s export trade reqnireth .
To him the cattle are a fount Ofj-J and luxury never scanty ; And each horned head augment * the amount Which swells for him the horn of plenty . In Paris and in London town His gold makes gaming tables glitter , The while his Irish poor Us down And die , like flies in winter bitter . . Halloh ! halloh ! the chase is up ! Paddy rush in—be not a dreamer ! —In vain for thee there is no hope , The game goes with the earliest steaner ! For Ireland ' s game is landlord ' s game , —The landlord is a large tncroacher ! « od speed tha peasant ' s righteous claim ' ; He is too feeble for a poacher 1 The landlord cares for ox and bound
Their worth a peasant ' s worth surpasses ! —Instead of draining marish ground-Old Ireland's wild and drear morassesfie leaves the land s bo £ gy fen With sedge and useless moss grown over ! ¦ He leaves it for the water-hen , The rabbit , and the screamisg plover . Yes , ' neath the curse of Heaven ! Of waste And wilderness four million acres I —To you corrupt , outworn , debased , No wakening peals prove slamber-breakers—Oh , Irish , land is landlord ' s land ! And therefore by the wayside dreary , "The famished -aothers weeping stahd , And begfor means their dead to bury . A wailing cry sweeps like a blast
Tne length and breadth of Ireland thorough ; "The west wind which my casement passed Brought to mine ear that wail of sorrow . . Faint a * a dying man ' s last sigh , Cams o ' er the waves , my heart-strings searing , The crj of woe , the hunger cry , The death-cry of poor , weeping Erin . Erin ! she kneels in stricken g-ief , Pale , agonized , with wild hair flying . And strews the shamrock ' s withered leaf Upon her children , dead and dying . She kneels beside the sea . the streams , And by her ancient hills' ianndations . Her , more than Byron ' * Rome , beseems - The title , " Niobe of natioas . " Sdtoilt ' s Journal .
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THE MAGAZINES . Simmonds ' s Colonial Magazint . April . London : Simmonds and Ward , Barge-yard , Bucklersbury . The opening article b on Ireland , in which is advocated au extensive system of emigration as the principal means of removing the present evils of tint unhappy country . Of coarse such a " remedy " h&s not our approval . " Sampson Brown" continues hiiamusin w descriptionsof "Lite in the Jungle . " An interesting account of " The present State ' and Agricultural Capabilities of Malaeia" tells of the destructive effects of the grasping policy of this country in the East . The Dutch formerly ruled in Malacca , and prosperity for both natives and settlers was the consequence of their sway , but war has
• changed all that ; conquest—British conquest—has 41 made a solitude and called it peace . " From this article on Malacca we learn that the cruel and infeinous practice of burning and affixing indelible blue mirks on the foreheads of criminals is still in use in British Indii . Shame , shame ! An elaborate paper on ' The Condition and Prospects of the Aborigines of Australia , " shows the rapid extinction of that »» , caused by the ascendancy of the whites , and the vices which these have " brought in their train . It appears , that to shoot the aborigines is qoite an amusement , like shooting sparrows at Battereea Ked Ilouse ; and that poisoning them is almost as common as destroying house-vermin in fiis coan ry b y ratsbane ! | It is frightful to read of the sufferings of the aborigines caused by diseases imparted to them by the whites . Infanticide is general . " The blacks say they have now no country , and are therefore , an * illing to keen their children . "
W hat a fearful declaration is this ot the consequences flowing from the ascendancy oi the civilised , " Christian" ruffians ! A gloomy account is given of "The state of Canada in 1817 . " It would appear ttit the lesson ef the recent " rebellion" is lost upon the arisn cr atic knaves and imbeciles who govern that country . " The amount drawn from the industry of the people for public expenditure has increased within the last six years in a ratio of more ihan double the increase of the population , which is now burthened with a . public debt of between three and four millions of pounds , besides local taxation aud numerous useless paid local officers , all formerly unknown in Lo « er Canada . " It is not difficult to predict the end if this system is persevered in . The Teraamins articles are < ra " The Kaffir War , " " The French Fisheries at Newfoundland , " "The Mannfuture of Sugar and Rum , " " Dr Leichhardt ' s Discoveries in Australia , " and "Notes on Sierra Leone . '
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Ik People ' s Journal . Part XV . London : J . Bennett , 69 , Fleet-street . This part of the "People ' s Journal" is rich in ably-written contributions from the pens of Harriet Jfartinean , Joseph Mazzini , Miss Jewsbury , J . C . Prince , and ottier eminent writers . We would have quoted Irom Miss Martineau ' s "Survey from the Pyramids , " from the "Picture of Parliament , " the ' Recollections of Paris , " "Social Problems , " Wint « Musings , " and other papers in prose and poetry . bnt cannot . All the room we can possibly spare we
must devote to extracts from Joseph Mazrini ' s able article on George Sand , " which article is decidedly * to gem of this part . From our heart ' s depths we thank Mr Mazzini for his chivalrous and triumphant fffidieationof our glorious Byron . Neverbefore have we seen the character of Byron so truly pourtrayed . Himself gifted with poet ' s soul , ( who will question < te having read the extracts given below ?) the Italian exile reads our poet as posterity will read and Jam » him , and knowing him will weep and worship at bis shrine .
BIROS AS © GEORGE 8 A 5 D . All those who haie watched the sunrise upon the Alps from some lofty peak have seen , as I have from Mount Ceaw . first , the ni ght , the vast night , sad and void , but an which one would say a creation was elaborating i tself —' . ten the fi » st ray of light trembling upon the horizon , 'ague and pale like a timid and uncertain hope ; then ttel . mg line of fira cmting the blue heaven , firm and decided as a promise ; and then , as at a . givensigual , the tekuf vapours mounts slowly from the abyss , grey and se .-nbre as Doubt , extending itself like a shroud between ths earth and the star of day , risitig like a bad thought betwixt the w « rld and truth ; to which succeeds the
Struggle eminently poetic between the orb , apparently bsaaless and lifeless , and the rolling mist , here black as envy , there dull and heavy a * sauseless ignorance , a biting cold the while encircling you in its serpent-like folds , threatening jour heart like uncertainty in the Wof trial—until at last the sun , disengaging himself from tfce cloud , reveals himself high in heavtn , calm in b » tfory , and inundates you , in the midst of the dazzling « wws , with warmth and l ight . Such is the life of Genius . ttvy and persecution ; -buton one side of the tomb , it matters htUe which , assured triumph . Ton may burn ras works of Rousmn in the public market-place ; the ¦ pint of Rousseau will survive ; it will appear to you jeu-s alterwards embodUd ia the French constitution . ¦ wr - — — -v * 4 vutu VUUIUIUUUU .
. l . un "" I mwnter P tte spirit , and blacken at your hThZ £ WSter . Abbe ' J but ^ e people , who recognise -mi , ^» "" I ™ ° f rae •* " * « " » PWph « Of Mother , will read and adopt him as their own > & , ! £ of you ; anJ posterity will end by placing Us proscribed « Utee above the tomb where will lie far ever inferred the principle of aristocracy . You may sound jeur alarm * g * rast George Sand in your old Quarterly , and forbid Jour youth to rea . i her : you will find some day , without T * eu knowin g how . the best places is your library usurped ° y ner volumes . It ii not so « s « y to suppress one of ths , Sw : i "ns writers of France ; and when I say this ^ i peak of literary merit merely , of what regards form
George Sand is a powerful walitj . AU that * he ex-Presses , even snppo » lng it error , is to her truth , it is * " « en with her heart ' s blood ; she would be ready , « Kibt it not , to sign it with the blood of her body . She «« ofttn scandalised and shocked her readers ; but " nasntver beea in seeking merely for an artistic effect , « tor ac eccentricity of the woman of genius . No ; sb « Wth W 8 Jr * belieted ' > eHtlf to bs accomplishing a duty . n »«! * " * « " * emine tJy democratic , tortured by the andI , < Si ^ eaTaia « taid a stormj life for peace tti . hf 1 m n Ooiel muit sne no * D »« Wt almost ' Mntened at ** »« tude into which she was plunging ! be . n * V woald * he no * hBTe Preferred , had i t «*» possible , to act in all thinp , u-i-h th « mniti > .. doi
ai : nere was within her that instinct of strong souls , e tucmauou of truth , the revolt against ths false and ato . n' ^ * rdour of V toKlytim . And she has W'Vi-God knows with what » uffering—obeyed this
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- - instinct . The form of her aspirations for social reform and of her religious presentiments , has sonutimes slightly dunged ; she has immediately hastened to de . claw it . Bach of her books is eminentl y an action it I , a manifestation . I might say a confession , so much is there that is religious in that which characterises hV , made without r « serve and without disguise , without prtfe a . without false shame , and picturing ' uS 2 .. ate of her mind at the time of its production n £ . Z £ tt ^ tt ^ f ^ Xt ^^^ 5 n " > . *»" '« |™ ot her aspiration , for — - . 77777 , „ ,
But what u more the individuality of George Sand is " ° ?; f . « : » « J »« tor her age ; iti . iu this kind o . W , nt , ty that hesab . v , all the secret of the immense repugnance , and t he immense sympathy which she h » exc . te . 1 . it ™ felt from the firgt that there was ia that voice , melodiously sad . , et proud and finn . more than an individual inspiration ; it apoke the secret of the world around her ; the complaint of the age groping T ?? « midstrui »» : the aspiration , vigorous , though ill defined , of tha coming generations . In that doubU serks , embracing all the high priests of art . from Homer to Goethe on the aue side , from Dante to Byron on tb « other , the place of George Sand cannot be doubt .-d . By the peculiar nature of her artistic genius , as well as by the temper of her soul , keenly alive to hol y indignation , to exalted pity , and te boundless love , she belongs entirely to the second—to the geniuses who suffer , struggle , and aspire , not to those ttho calmly contemplate ; to those who desire to transform the medium in which
humanity works , not to those who elevate themselves , calm and impassable , above it ; to the prophets of the ideal , the future , not to the painters of the real and present . She is born an apostle . Sorrows , uncertainties , hopes , daring , all that characterises a race fluctuating like oar own , between a cradle and a tomb , botween an epoch which ia pasting away , and another which appioaches , she accepts all , and embodies all in herself . She has encountered every obstacle In our adventurous path ; she has been woundel by every thorn ; she has dared the edge of each giddy precipice ; ever iu advance , she beckons to us with her hand , pointing out all the difflealtie * to be smoothed away , all the gulfs to OB closed np . Coming in the days of 1830 , afur an heroic effort , wMch those who made it fondly hoped would have advanced the world a step , but whith ended in nothing bet . tcr than a patching up of the old aystem , she felt at once
that the question of life could not be solved by resting on the surface of a simple political organisation ; that it throbbed at tha very heart ef society ; and making a scalpel of her pen , she prabed the evil to its very seat , and laid it bare . Whenever this happens in the world ' s history ; whenever some one amongst us , appointed by God for the task , coraes to disturb the torpor of humanity by grief hiid reproaches , the first iaipuls * of the crowd is inevitably hostile . " Why troubleat thou the night with thy cries 1- say the demi . gods to Prometheus . " Why do you tear me from this welcome slumber I" says the unhappy one , wearied by suffering , to those who urge t im nnwardi ; " I was about to lose the consciousness of my misery ; you recall me to it—accursed be y «!" Human indolence aad apathy are the greatest esemies that truth , and the genius which proclaims truth , can encounter upon earth .
BehoM Byron ! he appears , long before George Sand , at the close of one epoch , but befora the appearance of the other ; in the midst of a community based upon an aristocracy which has outlived the vi gour of its prime , surrounded by a Europe containing nothing grand , unless it be Napoleon on one side , and Pitt on the other—genius degraded to the level of egotism , intellect bound to the service of the past . The future has nowhere an interpreter ; belief is no more , there is its pretence ; prayer is no more , there is a movement of the lips at a fixel day and hour for the sake of the family , or ichitis called the people ; love is no more , desire has taken its place ; the holy warfare of ideas is abandoned , the conflict is that of interests . The worship of great thoughts has passed away ; that which U has but the torn banner of some
corpse like traditions , — -that which icou'd be hoists only the standard of physicnl wants , of material appetites ; around him are ruins ; beyond him the desert ; the horizon is blank ; along cry of suffering and indignation escapes from the breast of Byron ; be is answered by anathemas . He departs ; he hurries through Europe in search of an ideal to adore ; he traverses it distracted , palpiutiug ike Mazeppa on the horse , borne onwards by a fit ree desire ; the wolves of envy and ealumay pnr suing him . He vuits Greece ; he visits Italy ; if any where a spark of the sacred fire , a ray of divine poetry is preserved , it must better * . Sothing . A glorious past , a degraded present ; none of lifr ' a poetry ; no movement , save that of the sufferer turning on his couch to relieve his pain . Byron , from the solitude of his exile , tnrm
his eyes agiin towards England ; he sings . What does he sing ! What springs Irom the mysterious and jet unique conception which rales , one woald say in spite of bimsel , over all that escapes from him in his sleepless night ! The funeral hymn , the death , the epitaph of the aristocratic idea ; we discovered it , we continent&lists , before his own country . He fakes his types from amongst those privileged by strength , beauty , and individual power . They are grand , poetical , and heroic ; but solitary , isolated ; they hold no cemmunion with the world around him , unless it tie to rule over it ; they have no kindred ; they live from their own life alone . They repulse humanity , and regard the crowd with disdain Bach of them S 3 ys , I have faith in myself ; never , I have faith in ourtclvcs . They all aspire to pnwer or to
happiness . The one and the other alike escape them . Byron destroys them one after the other , as if he were the executioner of a sentence decreed in heaven ; they all die , and a popular maledicnon wanders round their solitary tjrabs . This is , for those who read with the soul ' s eyes , wfeat Byron sings , or rather what humanity sings through him . The crowd do not comprehend it ; they listen , fascinated for an instant , then repent , and avenge their mumentary forgetfulness by calumniating and in . suiting tha poet . His intuition of the death of a form of society they call wounded self-love ; his sorrow for all is attributed to cowardly egotism . They credit not the traces of profound suffering which betray themselves through bis lineaments ; they credit not the presentiment of a new life which from time to time escapes his
trembling lips ; they believe not in the despairing embrace in which he grasps the material universe , heaven , stars , lakes . Alps , and sea , and identifier hitpself with if , and through it with God , of whom , to him at least , it is tbs symbol . They do , however , take into consideration tome unhappy moments , in which , wearied out by the emptiness of life , he has raised with remorse , I am sure , the cup of ignoble pleasures to hii lips , believing he might find forgetfulness there . How many times have not his accuscr < drained this cup , without redeeming the sic by a sibgle virtue ; 'without , I will not say bearing , but with , out having tven the capacity of appreciating , the burden wliich weighed upon Bjrou I Aud dW be wA himself break into fragments this uuwortby cup , immediately that the cry of new life was heard in Greece ;
jtnmodiately that something appeared worthy of the devotion of his life ! Such has been , for I have not in the least departed from my subject , such U still , with a large portion of this society or the present day , the fate of George Sand , And it is this which renders her doubl y dear and sacred tons . Site has suffered through us , and for us . She has passed through the crisis of the age . The evil that she has picturd is not her evil , it is ours . I t does uot come to u& from her ; it was , and is yet around us in the air we breathe ; in the foundations of our corrupt soniety , in the hypocrisy above all which has spread its ample cloak over all the manifestations of our life . Only whilst we , pat tly from incapacity , partly from cowardice , hare been silent , at the risk of allowing the evil to become a fatal sore , the has spoken ; she has rtith daring
hand torn away the veil ; she has laid bare the festering wounds , and she has cried to us , Behold your society ! She has bad not only the intuition but the courage and sincerity of genius . Thank God ! she has had also a * much as possible its reward , 1 do not speak of glory , which , whatever has been done to prevent it , has crowned her ; I know well that she values it bnt little . 1 do not evt-n speakof something much more precious—of the small number of chosen souls , the initiated and precurslve of every country , who communicate with her from afar , whom her voice encourages and consoles , who rise up Stronger irom the perusal of her works , and fellow all her steps with love and admiration . I speak of the reward which God has given ber through her own conscience , by the work of holy calm which has been achieved
within her , and which has found its gradual expression in the series of her works . It is this work which it is most essential to point out t « all those who would from the present time truly comprehend and judge George Sand . They must embrace her whole career , and follow it step by step in its ascending progress , from the depths and the stagnant vapours of society , up to the clear azure of those exalted regions to which she has raised herself by degrees . There may possibly exist tome clanger to the weak in one or other of ber isolated volume ! , but good , and great good only , can be the result of making a complete study of the whole . How many things which appear to us offensive and out of place , and prosaic in nature , reveal themselves full of meaning , and harmo .
nised in the general beauty of the whole , when the landscape unrolls itself from the highest peak , to ths persevering traveller ! How wo shall smile at these sorrows , at these inexplicable disords that we now call by the name ef evil , when , the painful course of development and trial once accomplished , we can from the height of superior and perfected existence feel and understand our ! i /» in Us anity of intelligence , of love , and ot power The law of physical nature , and of our life , it often re- ' produced in miniature in the task of genius ; and I regret that the translator of George Sand has failed to perceive this , and that she has commenced by destroying all idaa of progressive order , of the morel aad philosophical relationship of her works .
I have said somewhere in thebtginning of these pages , and I recall it when citing Xei Leitrct tCun Voyageur , which no man could ever have written—that , thanks be to God , Geo . , 3 and is a wiinan . It is this indeed which is the last and most important cause of the immense excitation produced by her works . As a writer , as an apostle of religious democracy , Geo-ge Sand , high as she may bo placed , doei not stand such alone . What she is , she is 48 « woman . In the vast and imposing question which is beginning to ferment in men ' s minds , and which I have no intention of treating here , of the emancipation of woman , of the determination of her duties and her rights in the world , the materials for decision were wanting to us ; and it was evidently not from our impressions , from our judgment ! that we could draw them . "We might , iudeed , in some exceptional moments of revelation through affection , und . er * t » , sd a woman ; wmn all that
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» £ i she feels , all that she dreams , all that sht pursues , what sanctifies her or makes her fall , what weighs upon her and transforms her true nature , in the present arrangement of society , a mmsB only could tell us ; and no woman bad at yet told us * Some women , indeed , before her , had endeavoured to- deal with the question ; but simply on . the ground ef right , and , as theorists , giving us what the common element of humanity could supply , and nothing more ; nothing that a man ceold not have written . In France , Madame de Stael had made a step in advance by her "Corinne ¦» there , womaafe shewn at a belogglfted with au individuality , the working out of which should be the source of anew Waal . But more strong in intellect than in heart , and not having had , after all , to struggle with life in earnest , as GeorgeSand , Madame de Stael was not destined to advance upon the path as yet but diml y seen . She withdrew herself in reality soun afterwards in "Delphine , " where tha woman is tMLter-»«« d even in the words which serve as an inscription to the work . * ill , f ¦ ,
Madame Sand is the first who has boldly entered the areua . audshehas maniainedher posi tion through all . As a Auman being she has pleaded for the iquttlity to which her sex has a right , by mingling herself , theoretically and practicall y , with all our struggles , with all the great question * , religious , social , and political , which at present interest us : as a woman she has declared to us tho secret of her sex , its inward life in all Us phases , under all circumstances ; and she has thus prepared the way to a just conception of the special mission reserved touer sex-of the duties and special right * which have fallen to Us iharo .
Her life is in her books . Every soul worthy of understanding her will learn to find her there . George Sand is one of those geniuses whose every work contains the image of its author , visibly transferred to its page by her own tears and beart ' i blood .
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* " A man must brave opinion , a woman submit to it . '' The Family Herald . Part XLVII . The Musical Herald . Pabt XI . . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . j Both these publications continne their successful career . As UBUal , the' 'Family Herald" is replete with interesting and suggestive matter . We had marked extracts , but have not room for them . The " Musical Herald" contains an excellent selection of music and musical literature . We understand that both publications continue to increase in circulation . The "Family Herald" has been now some four years before the public ; its increase of sale , notwithstandign its previous immense circulation , and the many competitors it has to cnoounter , is , therefore , proof that the public are not wearying of an old friend , but , on the contrary , are more and moreattraoted by the " Herald ' s" decided superiority over all similar publications .
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TheMners Advoeate . April . Edited and published by W . Daniells , Douglas , Isle of Man . There are some valuable articles in this number on the " Rights and Wrongs of Labour , " " The Bamsley Explosion , " and interesting reports of miners' proceedings . We are glad to learu that the circulation of the Advocate is rapidly increasing .
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THE EASTER HOMDATS . Easter Monday , though possessing all the elements of a right roystering " Saint" MondiJ , specially provides for its numerous votaries entertainments of an original , varied , and highly-attractive character . The people ' s holiday in question was Viot one { whit behindhand in this respect , and though the greater part of tha day was downcast and gloomy , intermingled with a good sprinkling of rain and hail , those persons bent upon enjoy , ment were not retarded , by the lowering aspect of the weather , from visiting ihe usual popular places which Cockaigne so peculiarly delighteth to honour . The innu . merablo fairs in the vicinity of London were thronged—Greenwich being the centre-point of attraction . " Scratchers , " as usual , were in great requisition , afford , ing infinite fun to the " gents" and juveniles , and equally
disconcerting thu steady and anti-go-ahead visitors . TbePark , too , —one of the most popular places of public resort in the vicinity of the " great metropolis "—was crowde . 1 to excess— " kiss in the ring " delighting the gallants and the "high-spirited ' of tha griitler sex ; whilst some very laughable feats were performed by the stumbles andJHmbles ofantiqaated holyday folks , who grow young again for half an hour whilst ascending and descending "On- ) Tree " and other hillocks—and whole gryrations , and puffing and blowing , afforded vaitraerri . ment to lookers-on , and those whose courage would be frightened out of its propriety in achieving similar moun . tainous undertakings . —But we have not space to dilate further ; and will at once proceed to furnish our readers with a concise eccount , of the representations at the leading theatres : —
DROUY liANE . —MrBunn produced a spectacle quite inimitable , founded on Felicien . David ' s musical opera of " Le Desert , " andcleverly adapted by Mr Tully , under tho title of th « •« Imaum ' s Daughter . " To those who delight in " 'pectacle " we say visit Drury-lan * . Any . thing mere vivid than a battle between the caravan and the Arabs has been rarely witnessed on any boards . The l > alt in the desert , with the horses , camels , &c ., on the ground , was full of life . The simoom was won . derfully contrived . The rolling on of the drifting sand , and the wind of fire were great mechanical and scanic triumphs , and w « re received with thunders ef applau « e . The desert by starlight with the subsequent sunrise was
also very beautiful . The great coup de thtalre was the final procession with the chariot drawn by the two elephants , although the circuit round the stage was wairid in some degree b y the harness of "Jenny Llnd"becoming entangled with her trunk ; her partner in colossal tame drugged her out of the maze , and the house was in ecstasies . " Maritana" preceded the ; orientalspectacle , and went off with eclat ; but the audience reserved outbursts of acclamation to greet the poetical manger , and at the end of the performances insisted upon his appearance in front of the curtain ; but Mr Bunn declined the honour —and a wicked wag turned the sweet voices into shauts of laughter by throwing a real bun , " done brown , " upon the stage .
HATMARKET . —Mr Planche has added to his ropu . tation in the new Ewter piece at this theatre , yclrpt the " New Planet , " &c . It is full of piquancy—indeed , so innumerable are the Jokes and witticisms , that the aurtieuie are kept throughout in continual laughter . The same liberality has beea bestowed upon the scenery , appointments , &c ., for wliich Mr Webster is so conspicuously distinguished . We doubt not tha " New Planet" will form a focus of attraction for some weeks to come . ASTLEY'S . —Mr Batty presented his numerous patrons with a delightful evening ' s amusement . ' Good wine needs no bush ; " and wo can emphaticall y and conscientiously say , wa never visit this splendid Theatre without bting highly gratified . In the present representation , the "Bride of Abydos , ' the rusources of the menagerie have been taxed to the utmost , to give due
effect . The scenery , executed by Mr Laidlaw , is \ try magnificent , and reflects high credit upon that gentleman's artistic powers . The groupings are eminently picturesque , the appointments of the most "liberal conceit , ' * the liorse furniture gorgeous , the panoramic effects ¦ nest grateful to the eye , thecoatumes really , and without one word of exaggeration , turprUingly beautiful , and the properties generally magnificent . In the "Scenes of the Circle " Mr Barry , the Clown , on his return to this theatre , received unanimous plaudits ; and at the con . elusion of the entertainments , Mr Batty muit have felt highly gratified that his spirited efforts to please were duly appreciated ; and the public , In crowding boxes , pit and gallery , will , whilst enjoying a really excellent and highlY . pleasAng entertainment , only " Tenner unto Casar that which is Cajar ' s , " and so return the manage , ment a fair percentage for a large outlay of money .
SURREY . —Tha doors of thU well-patronizad theatre were besieged hours before the usual time of admitting the public , to witness a naw drums , called the " Discarded Daughter , " a piece containing a more than average amountof talent imparted to the "domestic drama , " and filled with sentiments to well underttood by the regular Surreyites . We bad an abundance of stirring incidents , interesting situation ! , &o ., and due respect was shown for the virtue of the heroine—all of which was vociferously applauded by tha audience , who were , however , evidently on the qui « i «« for the great attraction of the evening , viz . —the extraordinary performances of a troop of Bedouin Arabs—the real Simon Pures—whose wonderful ability bas already created the astonishment of our Parisian neighbours—and whose famo was not one jot abated by the unprecedented evolutions ve
witnessed . Extraordinary leaps and summersets we have seen at Astley ' s , but nothing evtr approaching the daring of these denizens of the desert . Tkty p ile themselves up into pyramids , olimb into columns , and divide again into individuals , imitating the "flight of stags" and the " spring of the leopard . " They have a peculiar style of summerset , made sideways , and preceded and followed by a series of rapid twirls that recall descriptions of the dancing dervishes . In all caseBthoy have a most cat . liko facility of falling on their fe « t . It would be impossible to describo their performances in detail : the crowning achievement was a series of summersets within a circle of bayonets fixed upright , executed with astonishing precision . It is evident hero that the least failure would have been highly dangerous , if not fatal . The execuuon of this exciting feat was rewarded TfHh ' tumults of applauit , Undtr the " illustrious FredV
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MMgvnmt . at the Adel pbi , we recollect several Bedouin hntiLn ? through * """ Pri'tos P »« bfmances ; but the party no « r in England «* -e much roor »» umerow JS 1 number > and the mp-iM it , of course . S ^ hl am J , conoluded thB entertainments , the howe being crowded in every nart mfnf ? ! f WWL 8-Mr Phal ^ the highly talented manager , uut for th „ attrflct , ve ^ .,, of fa B re f _ ,, Jane s \ SSnta *" r " . ! lnterlu *< V called "The Rival Sergeants and Ihe amusing fa « e of the -Bengal Tiger . Dirested as the tragedy was of Mr Ptadpi ' powerful acting , tb . house , on tl . 7 r . sing of theaurtain , presented a ve ,, respectable , though not a crowded audience , and the combined efforts of the very effici-nt company carried this powerful tragedy to a triumphant condtt . « , n , the wily » ake of Glouecster being tOHy re . presented by Mr 6 . Bennett , an , l Mhs Cooper , Mr Mara tOn J ?^ i MisS L < Addi 80 n . receiving muck applause , especially the last-aatned lad y , whose limited caree * has
already , gained her many admlreM ,-her commanding talenu enabling her to successfull y " phy up teC an actor of so much deserved reputation as Mr Fhelps . Tbepiot of , he"Rival Sergeants » Cwhich wa . a ^ sue . cessfaUs could be desired ) turns on the endeavour ! of ? = 1 Kt « attsS » aB 3 Whr « S expedients to supplant bis more fortunate « mS placed insome . crubarrassin and ludlcroug positions and is eventually outwitted and exposed by the < air obieet of his professed attachment , who discoms that he feels more regard for her purse than her person . Several Incidental songs were very prettily sung by Miss Wallack OLYMPIC—Mr G . Bolton has again r « -opened this theatre for the summer season . We cannot do less than
wish him success , more particularly as we hear , and indeed believe , Mr | Bolton to be sincere in hit endeavours to restore thin once popular and elegant theatre to its wonted pristine condition . All the " parts" make a " whole , " so saith the philosopher ; and sur « ly it must have occurred to Mr Bolton that , for due and correct representation , an efficient and working company mutt be selected . We do hope that the performance * on Monday are not to be taken as a sample of what the manager intends " to put before the town . " And , besides , it is really unfair to two or three popular and respected actor * , that the whole burthen of an opening night should ba levied on their shoulders—indeed , to these gentlemen
, and the aid of the prerapter . the " Mountaineers " clambered to a dreary close , MrDenvil sustaining the leading cbn . racter . In the " Spare Bed , " which followed , Mr Romer awakened the audience , putting them in a good humour ; and it | is only just to this clever and industrious actor to say , that hit abilities were fully appreciated on this occasion ; although , in our humble opinion , Mr Romer—though not a juvenile—has never been so great a favourite as his talents entitle him to be . Mr George Wild appeared in a new burlesque , and hit popular and peculiar acting diterted ^ he audience , and created some laughter , whilst Mr Romer and Miss Williams did all that combined talent could do ; but we must admit that even the title of
the burlesque falls in being understood—and we defy the most inveterate punster to discover the funniment intended to be conveyed in "Joan of Arc , the Maid of All-he . ans ; " the only meaning we cau devise Is , thnt Joan of Arc is supposed to execute the work of a regular household drudge—duir > g , indeed , the labour of " ail-yeans" in the house . This is " a worser , " and should , withoutdelay , be transmitted to ourfacetlous cotemporary Punch . We do not say the burlesque Is without vigour or spirit , and we trust , for ihe sake of manager and actors , it will have s ruu ; but we do most earner . tly hope Mr Bolton will at once see the necessity of orgauUvng his company , not allowing himself to be too repeatedly thrust before the public in leading characters , under the impression that he is n great actor , —but thathe will . in justice to himself and brethren , divide fairly the honour and merit , so as to successfully and effectively offer the public tho legitimate" drama ; and hence , foster and encourage " legitimate" acting ; when we do not doubt hi «
reward will be in the plaudlt 3 of crowded and well-conducted Uoubm . We have been thus candid , out of the purest good-will towards Mr Bolton ' s undertaking ; it will , we desire , be our more pleasing duty tn record the un"quivocal success of new and more satisfactory efforts . THE COLOSSEUM—The doors of this splendid establishment were opened to the puhlic at a reduced price of admission , and the new system was rewarded with deserved success , upwards of 1 , 000 visitors having been present in the course of the day and evening . The entertainments comprised the Panoramas of London , by night and day ; tho exhibition of sculpture , stalactite caverns , prize cartoons , ie ., which have already acquired their meed of popularity among the sight . secrs from town and country . Surely encouragement ought to be cheerfully continued to this interesting exhibition . It is indeed " a sight for a father , " ay , and mother , sister , and brother—and , we hope , even a respected grandmother .
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION—There w » s a vait deal to be seen , and sufficient to be heard , to pl « . ase , recreate , and improve most persons . The electro magnetic telegraph sicnnl apparatus , and the living specimens of the O ' jmnolui Bleetricus , or electrical eels , were umongst many other objects that attracted much attention . Various useful inventions also csancd much satisfaction , and the lectures of Professor Bachhoffiier , and the other gentlemen engaged , drew together in the theatre a vast assembl y of eager listeners . The museum is now in ad . mirable order , and the arrangements for facilitating instruction both by lectures and by the illustration of in . numerable models are almost perfect .
CREUORNE GARDENS . —The veteran Green made his first aeronautic trip shortl y after six o ' clock , from these gardens , in the great Nassau balloon . He ascended in company with twelve gentlemen , in the presence of several thousand spectators within the grounds , and several thousand more without . The wind was blowing from the north-east at th » time of the ascent , so that the balloon was carried immediatel y across the river , sailing over the Wandaworth fields , ana taking a direction towards Sydenham and Croydon . The veteran pilot appeared in the beat possible spirits , and was cheered by the voices of the company assembled as he mounted into the clouds . The visitors immediately afterwards re . paired to the different amusements provided for themthe festivities being kept up till a late hour—the company separating highly delighted at the magnificent im . provements effected during the recess . We hope thece truly beautiful pleasure gardens " for the million" will be extensively patronised .
MADAME TASSAUD'S—An addition has been made to this exhibition of the figure of Pope Pius IX ., dressed in his pontificals , and in the act , it would seem , of Rranting a haiiediction . Two French Roman Catholic clergymen who were present , said they had seen his Holiness , and pronounced it to bo '' striking . " A handsome figure of Henry VII ., attired in a sumptuous velvet robe , trimmed with ermine , and wearing the collar of thft Order of the Garter—one nlso of Macread y as Corfo » bout , an excellent likeness—have beeu introduced since our Ian notice of this exhibition , where half a day may be very amusingly and not uselessly speat .
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THESE ARE THE CIIAMBERS'S OF 1845 ! LW 0 have already shown to our readers the ChB «\ . bers ' 8 of 1847 ; we now refer to the previous opinions of these changeable economists . Whence this wonderful ehange ?]
IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDSSPADE HUSBANDRY , f From tne Information for the People , No . *! 2 . ) [ Continuedfrom our lait , ] Let us now proceed to the practical application of this valuable fossil manure , commencing with its use in the reclaiming of waste lands . If moorish or waste soil is much infested with the tenacious roots of rushes , heaths , and other weeds which resist the mechanical aotion of the harrow , and yield slowly to putrefaction , the best modo is to till the ground , and allow it to lie in this state for twelve or eighteen months , or even two yenrs , before applying the lime . It is then generally applied in autumn , and tilled in
as soon as possible ; but if not immediately tilled in , tho soil with the lime on it should be harrowed , so that its decomposine effects may act as powerfully as possible upon the vegetable matter . After these operations , the land is sown two successive years with oats , without any fallowing ; and along with the second crop of oats some persons sow it out m grass aeeds for pasture . Others , after the first or second crop of oats , give tho land a summer fallow for one season , or a green crop with manure . Oa the following season another crop of oats is taken , along with which grass seeds are sown , and in this state it is committed to pasture , In some cases , after tiling
the soil is allowed to Ho for one , two , or more y ears according to its nature , after which it is reduced to a complete state of pulverisation by a well-wrought naked summer fallow . On tne spring followin g it is limed , and the lime is well harrowed in along with grass seeds alone , and in the following season the lsnd is committed to pasture . This , however , is a tery expensive mode , and catmot be recommended to tenants whose lease is of a moderate length . It is decidedly themost enriching mode of laying down waste land with lime only for pasturage , as the energy which the lime communicated to the soil is not exhausted bs grain crops . *
It will now be observed that lime is a most important engine of improvement for waste lands ; for it decomposes and brings into active use the inert vegetable matter nnd also servos as an elementary earth for tho crowth of plants . For pent lands , after being drained , and generally all rough lands reclaimed from a state of nature , hme is invaluable , and equally so foe either tillage or pasture . In connexion with turnip husbandry , it has been the grand reolaimer in many parts ot Scotland , and will effeot similar ends in anj district of country not possessing a sharp and active soil ; in suoh places it is not required , and its application may do harm . Laid on merely as a top . dresr . ing-that is , thinly powdered over the landlime is found to have very extraordinary effects . Mr Aiton , in his Treatise on Mobs , observes ,- " If lime or rather calcareous substances are laid on the sward , though the land be neither laboured nor any see < 3 sown , snch are the effects of hot lime , that the mosi i plants mil instantly disappear , and ft rich trod bum
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™? i ard of oIoTe p » d » iBie 9 . -and the richest poa or K ? n ° m fr " 1968 ' " so spontaneously . " srw £ n « » lt of experiments in many different Srfcrf 8661118 , ^ ^*^^ provedf that the S 2351 K e t w jth 5 iv T ^ *! aterilitv Th »^ m ^ ? th B * " ^ continuing in to r £ Pectet ^ fc tiM > ' ° WCVer ' ¦" ments beine e * i » Lj •\ ' r * " P * proper arrangelying in a state of wX rS . ff K ^ t ° t&X gtmia ^' progressively ironed . S y tbese meana * It seems to be a caimM « i , L c # lime-rather MhJlSl ^ j ! T * •!? use ' wiutt
nausta toe soil- whi > n »< h » „ - I r ' ; » y e » - ! ^ s FSr ? l = Se anSSl . i . •* " * ^^^ the dung of tion ES &T ? , !? : and b y *™ »« en-«!! u » J / • k " . th * land free } ron > fertS VJl " ,. ft' wil 1 * Progressively S& . h i * H * PR lw » tioii of lime ? it ia a to cive atnrl UW inv f ab'y ^ sanded to , always fcXhSw'T * 1 anewlvKslaked condition , cLs&iu ' , " T / ? Mtetkct - If 8 la ^ » does tc ?! l length of , time bc ' rore ! t » aPPH ^ . » naturSlL h 8 ° P ° werful | y ««>*• in reducing the natural fierbaee or nenfcra i « ii « r « l *> . a ; j . »„ li . —
ZESlV'P'&r * * ^ &er 7 areVry hin btiforea 8 \ im S * ge « thesesquiring a nourishing E ^ i ^ fSKs ^ wss 5 ^ si ? W- tT ; . 3 'J aswlf £ J ° toP * ** " »« oh or so , will generate hVK he a . rendering the- ground capable of being benefited by the dropping * of the animals it supports .
, , IRRIGATION . While some lands can be reclaimed only by draining , others , which are naturaHjn dry , may berendered equally serviceable by irrigation , or artificial watering . Lands in the dry climate of Australia " seem to be in this condition ; instead of depriving them of water , they require all that can be conve- niently led towards them . Mueh of the land in theinner parts of North America is likewise so dry , that dra \ nage is altogether undesiraNb ; and irrigation Is in many cases a means of fertilisation . It may happen that lands naturally marshy are as much ii L ter for irrigation as dry deserts ; but in : all such cases the lands must in the first place be drained . This leads to an explanation of the principle of irrigation . When water lies in or npon the land , it stagnate * - and produces * marsh , which is alike insalubrious and unproductive . The extensive Pontine marshes in the neighbourhood of Rome present a remarkable example ot both these conditions . In order that water may not be injurious , it must be kept flowing , always running amongst and from theblades . of herbage . Regarding the theory of irrigation , Sir Humphrey Davy says— " Water is absolutely essential to vegetation ; and , when land has been covered with water in the winter or in the beginning of spring , the moisture , which has penetrated deep into the soil and even the subsoil , becomes a sort of nourishment to the roots of plants in the summer , and prevents those bad effects which often happen in land in their natural state , from a long continuance of dry weather . When the water used in irrigation has flowed over a calcareous country , it is generally found impregnated with carbonate of lime , and in this state it tends , in many instances , to ameliorate the soil . Common river water , also , generally contains a certain portion of organisable matter , which is much greater after rains than at other times , and which exists in the largest quantity when the stream rises in a cultivated country . Even in cases where the water used for flooding is pure , and free from animal and vegetable substances , it acts by causing the more equable diffusion of nutritive mattes existing in the land ; and in very cold seasons , it preserves the tender roots and leaves of the grass from being
injured by frost . In general those waters which breed the best fish are the best fitted for watering meadows , but most of the benefits of irrigation may be derived from any kind of water . It is , however , a general principle , that water containing ferruginous impregnations , though possessed of fertilising effects when applied to a calcareous soil , are injurious to- soils that do not effervesce with acids ; and that calcareous waters , which are known by the earthy deposit they afford when boiled , me of most use on siliceous soils , or other soils containing no remarkable quantity of carbonate of limo . " Whatever be the actual properties communicated by the water , it is certain that the general effect of meadow irrigation is greatly to increase tb * quantity of herbage , and render it more sweet and nourishing for cattle than if grown on dry grounds . ( To be continued . )
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A Polytechnic Institution has been formed at Bombay . A law for the regulation of the press has been laid before the Germanio diet . Sweetmeats of all kinds aue- now made by machines , which are said to perform as much work as nine men . A few days since , the funeral took place here of the once celebrated vocalist Mariani Sessi , who , in the time of Catalani , appeared as a rival star .
The funeral of the Prince de Polignac took place on Saturday , at St . Germarn-en-Laye . It was strictly private . The gardenct of General Harrison , late president of the United States , complained to him that the hoys stole his grapes , and advised him to get a good do 2 . " No , " said thff general , " I ' ll get a good schoobiaster . and he will take care of the boys and the grapes too !" Nettles have been on sale in Preston at threepence a pound . It has been calculated that the food of a wild rabbit costs a halfpenny a day . A guard on the Great Western Railway has writtea a tragedy , called " Athclstan , " which has been pubished by subscription . The Builder says that to put the silver edging to muslin which is always thrown away before converting the maUrialtouae , costs the country £ 20 > 6 * 0 a-year .
A Winchester man , a teetotaller , the other day , stalled a neighbour if he were not inclining to the Temperance Society ? and he replied "Yeaj for when he saw the wine his mouth watered . " Prizes were lately offered by the French govern ment for the composition of religious aad moral songs , anil no fewer than 1 , 700 competitors entered the lists .
More recruits . ire said to have been raised in Ireland since the 1 st of April , 1846 , than in the three years immediately preceding . A Kendal paper mentions the birth of a monstrous calf , which was furnished with two perfect heads . During the trials at the late Nottingham assizes , the pockets of several persona were picked in the court . At the Sussex Assizes last week , there were no less than four actions springing out of family feuds , vte ... one by a father against his son , one by a son against ) his father , one by a son against his mother , and one by one brother against another . Vesuvius continues to be very active j but theNsapolitans feel no fear , as aone of the symptoms have manifested themselves which are known to be- the forerunners of a great eruption .
A patent has been granted for the manufacture of iron coaches . An omnibus , carrying nineteen persons , besides the driver and cad , is said to weigh only 11 ewt . A sepulchre which has been recently discovered at Rome , near tho family vault of the Soipioa , contains inscriptions relating to the deposit of the bodies of freedmenofPaulttsEmiliua and Julius Ctesar , and of the tiring woman of the famous Messalina . A return , obtained by Mr Hume , shows that the actual expenses incurred at the Mint in the lat » re . coinage of light gold coin , amounted to £ 67 , 810 , George the Third ] came to the throne in 1700 , when the national debt was 120 nvllionj ; in 1810 , when he died , it was 820 millions , having increased during that period about £ 38 , 000 a day v or nearly £ 38 a m i nute .
The sentence on the privato of marines , ordered to be hung at the yard-arm o ( one of the Queen ' s ships , for striking a corporal , has been commuted to transportation for life . There are at present no less than thirty widows keepers of inns in Carlisle . An Irish peasant , on a small ragged pony , was I floundering through a bog , when the animal in its 1 attempts to push on , got one of its hoofs into the stirrups . " Arrah , my boy , " said the tidcr , '' if you are going to get up , it is tirao for me to got down . " The young crops throughout the Belgian provinces j are reported to present a very promising appearance . ! The village of Preigney . in the department oi' the Haute-Saone , was nearly destroyed by fire a few days since . The loss of property is estimated at 230 , 000 francs .
i Memory ia like a picture gallery of onr pnst days . l he fairest and most pleasing of the pictures are those wl"ch immortalise the days of useful industry . . Mr Luke Hansard has cnnimenoeu the isbue of a 1 journal , called The Spirit of tha Times . I m The Prussian minister of the interior haa appointed s ixteen shorthand writers to report ; the proceeding of ( he general diet ,
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Tlf- Pf . » and the P 11 BW 8 HKB .-A poet was once asked by his publisher how many copies of his poem then 1 ft-sheets he would like to have put in boards ? ' Tire whole edition , " ' replied the confident author , ' • Humpfr ! ' * said the pubiteher , "justas yon please ; but iF yoa will take my-advice , you will only have r drzeii'er so . " " Vfhyynot the whole ? " asked the indignant poet . "Because , " answered his ad . viser , ' -it spoils them for- waste paper . "—Frazer . ' PftuseiMf Armt . —16 is- » aitl that the Prussian government intends te > redace the establishment of it * army-• BAmiooiuno . —A letter ' from Pisa states that the Italian aeronaut , Orlandi , > vlio bas made already four hundred and twenty ttriab voyages with continued success , has just completed sa entirely new machine , . which is proved with machinery , to enable him to have compete control of ttie balloon in the sir , and to guide its direction withoertainty .
R ' Are- ^ vare never knowi * . to bo so plentiful in the swcn-yards and granarieshnear Lancaster aa-during thb present season . , BiD-TnaOT . —The tradetof Rouen is now in-a very distressed state , and th&- manufactories are only worked three days a week ; _ Ii « mAv--Pro fessor Wilson-has completed his contimmjon of Mill ' s " History of British India *" ¦ 1 MrUswrd Lk MBRcn « i , the lately appointed G « yernor of Newfoundland } has left town £ ith his suite for Halifax . Hkiaiko the Poor IL ftonV Rsn « f T ! Hio » i ««
last week bought a number of sacks of potatoes , at ! & » .. a sack , resolving to furnish each poor industrious man with one sack of three bushels , the land he allows them to have rent free . The only , stipulation , he makes with the recipients is , that aw . shall be planted , and if the crop be good the quantity ftirnished to be returned , tf not , the poor will have nothing to pay either for land or seed . ¦ . liinraoonAPHic Stone . —A quarry of good Ifthogra-TiViio sUmc has been discovered on the southern coast ?; * ? ' . » asd it has beeB proposed to export it to India , where lithographers are chiefly supplied
: i , Siiiwip . —At the lato ESeter Sessions , one Lee was ( tried for stealing a razar . After the recorder summed up . the prisoner begged to suppl y an inadvertent omission on the part of the judge . " Gentlemen of the jury , " said Lee , "if you have any doubts , you . are to give mo the benefit ef them . " He was acijuitted . ¦ Handing . —Several thousands of person * lately assembled at Racine , in the state of Wisconsin , to see a man hung for murder , but the sheriff Finformed tha people that the govGrwor had reprieved the prisoner for thirty days , Disappointed by this postponement of the sliowwhich they had expected , ithey hung the effigy of the governor , and then sepa-! ra&ed peaceably .
Artichokes a Sdb « 3 tute fob Potatoss . —It has latterly been much urged upon the cottagers the utility of extensively substituting in their allotments and gardens the Jerusalem artichoke for the potato . N » weather hurts it , it appears to grow almost any where , and yields quite as large a crop a » the most prolific potato . German Emigration : to Amrrica , — ITpwards of WJW German emigrants have , within thle last fortnight , passed through Cologne , on their way to 1 Bremen , Havre , and Antwerp , where they will take ' their departure for America .
A Miser . —An old man , named Hoivilte , who had lived for some time in a state of the most dreadful misery in a wretched , garret ia the rue St Germain-I Auxerrois , and was frequentl y rel eT « ed by his neighbours , was a few days ago found dead in the heap of straw that served for his bed ; . there was discovered among his miserable rags a sum of TOOOf . in money , a bank note of 5001 " . and a quantity of plate and articles of jewellery . —GaU ' omni . A Nonu Exampsb . —Lord Harry Vane , M P ., who has recently become the proprietor of the great por . tion of the land inAshton Keynes , Wiltshire , has authorised all his tenants to destroy , in any way , the rabbits they may hereafter find on their respective farms . [ We trust other large landad proprietors will follow this example . None denytthat these vermin are other than most destructive ; and it is terrible
to reflect that , when the people are- crying loudly for food—cheap food , tho poor man ) should be prevented ' rom securing it , which he oould abundantly and readily do , if the privileges held out by Lord Harry Vane were generally granted . ]; Ili , ustiutio . v . of Mr . Disraeu ' iS . Oimonr . —The Spectator , in allusion to Mr Disraeli ' s speech in the recent Cracow debate , says : — "Mr Disraeli undertook to nmke out that there had been no violation of treaty . pnd succeeded in malting an entertaining speech . This gentleman has a knack at displaying \ ut and 3 cnse in a tlie . 'is on-some nonsensical theme . It is-a sort of literary tight-rope dancing : you wonder h&w the postuve-mast&r can execute such , striking actions upon so worthless ^ s < and ing-ground . You may admire the feat , but a » to results the exertion all goes for nothing . "
More Flibs . —The Dumfries Herald says , that en Monday forenoon , about 10 o ' clock , a shower of flies , which darkened the air as they descended , fell on the Appan-road , about half a mile to the east of Dumfries , and covered the roruBfor 600 or 700 yards , as thick aa-hailstones . Si . NOtiL&ft Circumstance . —Gr » e day last week as oneofthe-gentlemen commoner * of Winchester Collego wasdiscussing a barrel of oysters with a friend , he was surprised on feeling jn his mouth something harder Ulan the general nature of the oyster , —it turned out to be a very large pearl , valued by a Win « Chester jeweller at 200 guineas ; who affirmed that it was the largest lie had ever seen . CoujkjRoy , Peer of France , who was Minister of Fin an ae under the Restoration , expired at Paris on Saturday . He was one of , ' the largest landed proprietors in France , his revenue amounting . to two million francs ( £ 80 , 000 . ) .
The Liverpool Times of- Tuesday contains an announcement that in futuroits price will be 2 id . UjOXORMlIt OP PoSTAOa THROUGHOUT GbRMANI . —A letter from Berlin , of tha-30 th , says that the governments of all thestates of the Germanio confederation are aegotiating for the establishment of a uniform postage tariff for all Germany , and that a congress og their delegates will shortly meet at Dresden to Bottle the rate of charge . Railway op Ten TjjpifSAND Miles . —A proposition has been started to form a railway to connect , with , the exception of the short sea-passage to Antwerp or , Flushing—London wiih Canton , in China , ( a twelve , days'journey only ) , w , iib ramifications to all the prin' oipal cities , towns , and works ef Europe and Asia , and to many in Afiaca also , if thought desirable , by means of which roads a daily post and free intercourse , commercial ,, social , and philosophical , may be established and permanently maintained over a population of from six hundred to sevea hundred millions of people . .
A CoNTBi ^ aoiiA KE otBcbks . —Mr George ^ Thomson , the correspondent of Burns , and the main prompter of his imniortal lyiics , was lately predated with a testimonial ^ a beautiful silver vase . Dbatii op , a , Diplomatist . — The ' * Journal des Debats" announces the death , at Muaich , on the 23 rd ult ., ot Baron Alexander de Cetta , one of the most distinguished dip lomatists of tho present century , in the 73 nd year of his age . Mi'jidbh Auihobismd . —Richard , aslave of Robert Rowan , who whipped another 8 laye ,, Maria , to doatb , in Charleston ,, !! . S ., has been tricii and acquitted , because he did it by the direction of ; kit mistress . New Roman Catholic Cuurcu . — A new Roman Catholic church , to be called St Patrick and St Austin , is now erecting in Johnscivtrstreet , Commercial-road , St . George ' s in the East * . It is on . 1 very large scald , with school-houses , for 800 children attached .
A FnusTFin . Vise !—A few dpys ago , tho wife of the Rtv . J . Rider , "Vicar of JSuneaton , near Coventry , was safely delivered ei ' ifoux children , who are all \ Wvag . About ten months , ago she had three children at a birth , who are still living . Dkqsirtion the better % k \\ % dsc—The " Boston Liberator" mentions that among the deserters from the American army is the R $ y .. \ Y . H . Barnes . The revarend gentleman having secured three months * salary in advance , shrank , froia the sight of grimvisaged War . Italian Flour A&armal of 1 , 200 sacks of flour bas taken place from Italy , by a vessel arrived frost Leghorn , the produce of that place .
Antiquarian Disgokkrv—On Monday the navigators employed near the sews arches on theChertsey Railway , dug up a , vase , apparently of ancient Roman manufacture . It was about two feet high , and one in diameter , andeontained the remaius of a child . Mr Laboucksw .-c-Wq have authority tosi $ jt » that thsre is no foundation , whatever for a repent which has been circulated . for the last day er two ,, to the effect that Mb Labou « hure intends to roths ffivm the office of Irish Secretary . —Times .
BBiTiau , Museum . —No less than l&lTft person * passed on . Easter Monday through the- collections of this institution . As an instance ot th . e increasing interest which tUo public takes in thjs . national collection , we may , state that on Easter , Monday , 1845 , the number of visitors wns 15 , 316 ;• wliereas on Mon » day there were 19 , 170 . During t ^ p . y . ew 1841 there were 319 , 374 , while during last ^ year there were T 8 O . 601 . ' , r Morb Stmpious ep tub WiN 3 WJi \^ The glories ot Coneilirtta Uatt ate drawing fftsVto & close , and the remnant of the ' staff that still H *«» ° n the shillings aud peuoe of the poor dupe * contr * utors must soon betake themselves to somfl m-jre honest ca ling . I believo I am correct iu . statip ^ that the library which cost upwards of SfcOOD , win the market , and would bo disposed of w reasonable terms for ' oftsji ^ in ™ usMm monev &t . sorely wanted to defeat-tfci 3 v
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? ¦ The Ashtonian . Aphil . Ashton-under-Lyne : J , Williamson , Stamford-street . This is a penny monthly literary miscellany , published at Ashton-under-Lyne , and seems to be worthy of pubjic patronage . The number before us contains an article of the right sort on the Ten Hours' question ; a beautiful poem by J . C . Prince , and much other interesting matter .
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? PunucATioss Received— " The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review ; " " The Memoirs of a Physician" ( No . 2 , Parlour Library ); " Tiie Man-inthe-Moon" ( No . 4 > : Parts IV . and V . Haydn ' s " Creation , " and VII . and VIII . Handel ' s " Messiah" ( London : V . Novello , Dean-street , Soho ) .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 10, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1413/page/3/
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