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THEW 0 BKDJ 6-MA 1 T 8 SONG . - Bt EUERJOXU . , ..-..: . the land is my birthright—the beauBrui land ! : By the promise that God gave to man , - ¦ When creation first came from the Iafegivert hand , And the ate of the rainbow the waterwaste spanned , And the green earth to brighten began . Thej have torn me away from its mother-Hre breast , " "And forth on a wilderness cast ; -A slave , or a trampler ef dates , at * the best , To conquer tbeearth at s master ' s behest , And die as a pauper at last . The citki of England are grand to Behold , ... Her harvests their plenty reveal ; On channels of iron roll treasures of gold , And argosies prondly their banners unfold : :: We see them—from gaol and BastHe !
When the foemen of England were thick oa the sea , And their legions were lining the shore , "Who came to the rescnee !—The conquerors are we ! The tamers are tamed and the captives ate free ! ' And we are but slates as before ! . In the mart and the mill where theforeigner tried To outrie us with glittering store . * We poured in our labour—we humbled his pride , And where is a nation can march by our side ! Yet we an as poor as before ! The' noble may chase—and the farmer may reap - t ) nr woods and our fields o ' er and
o'er—The long and the courtier their revels may keep , And the noble on pillows of eider ma ; sleep , Batwhexeisthebedof the poor f Foot planks and a place in a parish church-yard , "Where they bury a skeleton thing ; But they soon dig us up from the niggardly sward , To make room for others , who straggled as hard l ? or the glory of— " Country and Mag . " God moulded and quickened , the Church bids us learn ¦ Brom the green , earth man ' s wonderful frame ; Then , since 'tis our birthplace , onr cradle and urn , Tie source that we come frem—to which we return lisbutfitwe should live by the same .
The land is my birthright—then on—in a band , ' Battalions of progress ! advance , 1-take my invincible armoor in hand , For the spade , after all , is the lord of the land , Asd the sickle shall baffle the lance . For now we have learned the great lessen aright , "That Frank—Briton—Teuton , an one ; That their interestis not to compete—but wife ! Till nations combining leave tyrants to fight By the light of young liberty ' s sun ! In clearing off old scores , we most not forget two or three poets who have committed themselves to ran the gauntlet of criticism by venturing op nublishing their poems in" a collected form , " and Whose volumes we have bad by us for some months past . We bare first to introdnce /
Poems by a Cobnut . London : Simmoddsand Ward , .. 6 , Barge Yard , Bueklersbiiy . .. These poems bear date "July , l 4 s , the Banks of the Sf John , New Brunswick . " Coming from over theseawe would fain bid them welcome ; bat , unhappily * our" CoIoiiist"hB 3 inistaken confusion of language for poetry , and althongh we are in no humourto criticise severely , or condemn uncharitably , we tan find but little worthy of commendation in this-volume . The first two poems , "Francis Tamo" and " The Indian Girl , " wecanmake neither head nor tail of ; " Moncachtapo" is more readable ;
and " TaeTraffiquer" is the best of the four . Some beautiful thoughts , and occasionally a few lines breathing genuine poetry , are to be met with , but the author seems to have bad no settled purpose in view when he sat down to write , and losing sight of simplicity , the first requisite in poetry as well as prose , le seems to have fallen into the not uncommon but yery egregious error , of " piling the agonyf labour ing to supply the want of genuine power by the use of far-fetched words , tremendous epithets and mystified sentences . From the "Miscellaneous" poems towards the close of the volume we extract the following ' -somewhat favourable specimen of the Colonist " s poetry : —
r STORK OH A FOBEST LAKE . Ye loud winds ! y « proud winds ! on — oa in your might—Bear on , ye dense clouds , weigh ' ye down- in . tie night— ? 'Tis pitchy and dark—come , thon terrible roar ! I near thee—I grasp thee from the fax forest shore . There ' s a voice in the hill-tops—a voice on the lake—X will stand by thee , Flood ! I will hear thy waves break : Geme-thoa oa in thy strength , roll thou on in thy ¦ power , "filth the wind of this night—with the voice of this hour ! See how they roll crested before the strong blast—The wares of the lake , —ho w the dark waters cast ! And they roll and they burst up along on the sand , And they sound where they dash—let them break where I stand ! ¦ ¦ .
The rhythm of the Winds ! the Elements ' strife ! The deep sullen dark—the driven rain rife ;—Terrifical moment!—sublimity fraught , How it swells ia my soul , how it bursts on my thought ! I look on ye , Heavens ! and behold ye in night , And dim forms and distant , faint , fall on my sight ; And high thoughts arise , and conceptions are given , Great—glorious—full , as the masfry of Even . TbeatroBg gust bears by me and howls ia its play , And the heary rain strikes me , drives sideloag a nay : Bat ^ I'Jl breast thee , thoa Storm ! andstand by thee , thon Lake ! While thy proud waters loam , and thy far forests shake .
There ' s a falling of gay leaves along the thick wood ; The glory of autumn is spoil'd in thy mood , Thou Tempest ! — the stubborn trees bend to thy might , - Aad hark ! , how that sulltn crash boom'd on i t * flight ! . "" There ' s a warring of winds , and the old forest roars ; There ' s a bursting of waves op along the loud shores , And a roaring of torrent * away from yon hill : Sot I love thee , thou Lake ! and exultiogly , ttflL Souad on in thy greatness , thou terrible nun ! There is depth in thy tone , there is power in tby strain ; - Te solemn-voiced billows—ye winds toned of GoDYes , I lore ye , great Minitrels ! and tread where you ' ve trod . Next , from the "Land of brown heath and shaggy wood , Land of the mountain and the flood !'
comes IteKt ' and Snatches of Prose . By T . Besbaii . London : ' Smith , Elder and Co . Edinburgh : J . Wenaes . Whatever be the faults of these poems , criticism is disarmed by the touching story of their author : — * iOn the night of the 29 th of October , 18 * 4 , and after a day ' s vexation ( with such I am welt acquainted ) , we , —that i « , my wife , myself , and children—were in bed . They slept , I could not , but lay revolving many painful things in mj-mind , wondering would I ever get a blink of baltr-htarted happiness . I had often thought of Professor Wilson ; bad even , written two Utters to him ,
Which were given in despair to the flames—for I am a toaaef-no education , neter being farther than the Testameat when at school . I am , even now , at the writing ; have bought " Chambers' Arithmetic , " bnt my mind is too unsettled to make progress , and caa but find delight la the attempt at verse-making , whichl write with almost the facility of prose . Well , I wondered if I might show him tome of my pieces—wondered if he would read them , or laugh at them ; wondered again if it might be possible he would think them decent ; and if I might print a volume , get as much profit as would clear my debts , sad enable ma to taste , for the first time in seven yean , an ta » y mind .
Professor Wilson read Mr Denham ' s verses , and vraised what he read . Encouraged by the Professor ' s tandnets . the poet ventured to launch the present TOlume on . "the sea of Literature ; " the arocess , towCTer . has , we fear , not been equal to his hopes and the good wishes of his friend , the great Northern critic We lament this , for Mr Denham has given ? ttof TolumeCTideuee of a manly spirit and consider ^ abdity . jrorthy of a better fate than that trhieh has hitherto blighted Ms existence . In some stanzas , entitled "Waa think ye ^ is tie greatest BbTertheanthortootrulydescricS notodyWown condition , but that of thousands of other " Freeborn Britons : " --They speak o ' slaves in ither states , Andmuckle gear they gie them ; . Bnt 0 ! there ' s some within oar gates ; We ' re own familiar wi' them . "Wha , think ye , is the greatest slave 1
Ift no the man o * jet , tin ; It ' s him amang the free and orav »—Thefemetf wwfa dOt , sirs . From a poem of considerable power , bat bearing abadlyHBhosen title , we seltct the following stanzas , which wwatitle , . - tRIESTCBAFT . KdigionVO ! what deeds of shams Fell tyrants buckle ob thy name-E ' en yet we ' ve creeds of varied frame Waa'd burn aa'kill , An' hunt their fellows doualiko game—* They hae the will . 6 od kindly gae us Beawn's gift , " But not for priest to riddle , sift— r Qiweel we see their schemes an'drift An' feckless nonsense ; Bat seekna Truth , or unco swif t They'll dand your conscience . Ay , still some fanatics will tell That o&srcrfeds are doomed to h—H ,
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They wantna truth , but try to quell , Inquirb' mind * An'he wha baudly thinks for sel ' They ca'him blini . But let a gome » algruntan'pray He'scoftthe knack the bowls to ' nlay , Wi "kyteweelpanged he'll struttin' gae , — ., . Atf jogfu ' braw ; While honest worth gangs sad an * wae , Wrmonieafe ' . The law protects ye frae their burnin ' , 3 ut no frae a' their cant an' scsrnin ' , Still powerfn' wiles an' monie a turnin * They can display , To spoil your trade , and set ye mouroin ' For bread away . Unseen , within its stifled urn , The honest heart may swellin' burn , Hopeless , hapless grief to churn ^ tru ^ buttryjo
Though nobly brave ; Its only chance , for to sojourn - Beyond the grave . 0 ! weelmicht that high-minded man , Proud Scotia ' s bard , wha kent the clan , Say—marking how they seized the scran At ilka turn—. "Man ' s inhumani ty to man , Gars thousands mourn . " - Was the poet revising his writings we doubt not that he would see the propriety of omitting many things in this volume , including the whole of the prose from page 100 to the end . We sincerely wish that a happier future may . enable Mr Denham to correct the imperfections of his first attempt as an author , adding thereto a few more such pieces as the following : — " - .. .. BLUE BELL BRAES .
Wi'a heart fa'young , And wi'care unsung , I hae ranged by my mountain lake"Where , the torrent sped frae its rocky bed , Bounding wild and glad , over hush and brake Those happy day s are fled . Those sunny gleams Still seem in dreams'Will I e ' er see the auld cottage again ! Lives my mither noo ! Is Mar j true ! Ohl those youthm'thochts , they aye bring pain In my youthfu ' pride , Ah ! and wae betide , I sought me a summer shore ; Among Indian isles , woo'd fortune's smiles , Giving icaUkforieedlth—stttlsig Mng for more-Id ! a vietim by golden wiles .
Oh ! what heartless dross—What years of loss : Affection and friendship and love's pure rays , Now shrirell'd and shrunk , A sapless trunk , Sever mair to climb o ' er the blue-bell hraes . Ob ! my heathery hills , And your bltakin'rills , Once again on the briny deep , Gladly , now , 1 come , e ' er the mighty sea , To my thistle glen—faint , I come to weep—And to my fatherland—ioDet . My sad heart clings , As mem ' ry brings , The revolving views o' auH langsjne days ; : Each dear scene thronging , ¦ Wild tfaochts longing . For the freshening breeze o' my heather braes
Another Scottish poet ; their name is Lejion ! Here we have ; The Strotkmore Melodist : a Collection of Original Poem and Songs . By John JJivbn . London : Smith . Elder . and Co ., 65 , Cornhill . These poems are the productions of a journeyman baker , the fruits of leisure moments snatched from his toilsome occupation . " Hededicateshi 8 book"to William Thom of Inverury , as a tribute of esteem for a man whom the buffets of the world could not subdue—whom poverty and neglect could not discourage , and whose genius has raised him from the humble ranks of life , to a respectable rank in Scot *
fish literature . " These melodies possess considerable merit their principal fault being that hot merely the thought * expressed , but the mode of expression , too often very closely imitate Burns . Thus the most careless reader ma ; at once see that tbe poem entitled "A Vision , " is a rather close copy of "Death and Dr Hornbook , " and " Cupar Fair" bears the same suspicious resemblance to Burns' "SoUyFair , " both , however , wanting the genuine poetry of the oiiginajs . Despite this John Niven is not destitute of poetical power , and indeed exhibits most power whea , not trying to imitate Burns , he trusts in his own resources . We select two favourable specimens of our poet ' s compositions , —the one a love , the other a liberty song : —
THE SWEETEST FLOWEE 05 ATH 0 L BRAES Aie— " Oh , Nanny , witt thou , gang w ? mef Ah ! no , 'tis not those ringlets fair - That cluster round tby marble brow , Like mists that shade , but to compare The hue of Athol ' s mountain snow , ' That voice , though soft as purling stream , - Is not the subject of my praise , ' That makes young Mary shine supreme , The sweetest flower on Athol braes . I know full well the poet ' s strains Hath spread they outward beauty far ; - I kntw full well ' mang Athol ' s glens Thon sbin ' st a bright and peerless star . But ' tis not meet that I should dwell Upon those charms , tho' bright and rare , For . ah ! thy worth they canna tell Wha only know that thou art fair . Had I not known that heart sincere .
Where warmtfi and innocence combine ; Tor guileless love is centred there , . Within a pure and spotless shrins . Had I not knows that thou possess Such worth of mind and happy glee , As might enhance an angel ' s bliBs , I might have err'din loving thee . Ob , who would say that thou conldst rove Like butterfly in garden bower ? Oh , who will say that gentle love ¦ Is fading as the summer flower ! That heavenly flame , for ever bright , Too pure to mix with mortal clay ; Will shine with unabated light , - When beauty ' s charms must fade away , Italia ! land of love and song , ' Sweet are thy bright and sunny skies ; Thy lays are melting , sweet and strong ,
And sweet thy daughters' sparkling eyes ; And sweet the midnight serenade That mtirmurs o ' er the moonlit sea ;<—But sweeter is my native glade , And Athol ' s lovely flower to me .
THE LASD OF LIBERTY . Ara— ' ScoVandyeL " I < iaw poor Scotland sair oppressed , I heard her children monrn , While tyrants lived in luxury , And held her wants to scorn . And oh ! it grieved my heart fu' sair Auld Scotland ' s wrangs to see , — - "Whose sons have shed their dearest bluid To keep their country free ! Where's now the land , the boasted land ,-The land « f liberty * There was a time when plenty smiled Within the peasant ' s cot ; And then , though poor , the peasant lived Contented with hia lot . But now Oppression's iron grasp
0 erspreads the land with woe ; And priests , with despots , have combined That things should thus be so ; For those who seem the people's friends , Hare proved their deadliestfoe . But , hark ! what means that murmur deep , Now wafted on tbe wind ! It issues from tbe toilers' homes , — The millions are combined ! And louder now I hea r their voice , — The shout is Liberty ! Till , echoed from a thousand hills , It rings from sea to sea ; And thus , the cadence of their song , — We shall—we shall be free ! What theugh the despots , in their rage , Our bravest men should doom To pine in cheerless solitude ,
Within the dungeon's gloom ! The victims' chains shall yet be loos'd , For this is Heaven's decree , — That discord with Its jarring strife , Shall shortly eease to be ; And this again shall be th « land , — The land of Liberty . The last ef the publications we have had on hand for some time past , waiting our editorial praise or censure , is a play in five acts , entitled , Gritelda ; or , lavs andPaticnce . By Johh Wakiss . London : Strange , Paternoster-row .
This " play" is dedicated to Douplas , Jerwld as a token of respect for his genius , and of gratitudefor ttefavourable opinion which gave the author confidence to lay the work before the public . Griselda may be read by the fire-side , but is not likely ever to find ! ts way to the stage ; it must , therefore , be viewed as a dramatic poem . Though feeble in maav parts , thereare passages of considerable beauty . The plot or story is slight and founded upon one of Boccacio's stories . ^ Walter , King of Mercia , weds Gnselda , a shepherd girl , whose heart he had previously wooed and won , in the disguise of a woodman . The nebles , dissatisfied with this choice , intrigue against the Queen , and , at length , succeed in inducing the King to divorce her . The . King next pays his devotions to a fair dame of the "higher orders , " who , however , repulse * him , she being ia lore with
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ler own p age . ' : She opens the , eyes of the King to the intrigues of which Griselda has been the victim , and thereby awakens all his former love for his ill-used wife . * The conclusion gives the usual awards of " poetical justice "—Griselda is reinstated in ler former position as wife and Queen , of Walter ; ; he lady who loves her page is made happy with him , the page being ennobled at the expense of one of the rascally aristocrats ; and , finally , the enemies of Griselda are set to the ; " rightabout , " to do penance in banishment for their misdeeds . The " play " page . . Sheopensihe , » es ofihe : King : to
is intended to show the exceeding love of woman , and patient submission to wrongs inflicted by the object of her love . Some of these wrongs are , however , such as no one but a brute would inflict , and no woman with any spirit would submit to . Mr Watkins would have made his heroine more attractive , had he endowed her with less patience , or her fickle husband with more ; feeling . As anot unfavourable specimen of the poetry of this play , we give the following extract ; Gri * 8 elda is speaking while yet unconscious that her lover is a king : —
Oris . Another morn , the last new birth ftf Time ! I rise with her to live the foremost life ; For see , she brings fresh graces to reward - Those ihat salute her earliest . Ob , sweet morn ! Heaven ' s handmaid thou that parls't Bight's dusky hair , And with salubrious breath dost sweep away ; ¦ Her vapours foul , to clear the earth for sunshine . . Now tby attendant star hath done it 6 vigil , ' ' ' ' ¦ And the veil'd vestal modestly retires : ' For lo ! the sun comes forth and day begins ., : The birds sing those same matins Heav ' n did teach , - When first Creation painted this green world . ¦ ' The lark , whose topping spirit leads the choir , Soars highest up to make himself first heard . How earnest in his praise—a few glad notes
Reiterated o ' er and o ' er untir'd ! " Ah , happiest they who likest him can live , To wake with light , and drink the watery air ,, Catching the sun ere he descends to earth . E ' en now bis upland beam walks down the vale , Chasing the gloom before him : gentlest glory ! That not alone the trees , but smallest blade Gladdens with its own green , normusiB aught , Thou that dost make our river flow in g < 4 g , - ' And how dost tend my sheep , whose woolly fleece , WashM by the holy dews , tby white beams bleacb , The while they crop their bed of foodful flowers . But bark ! my father comes—his morning voice Ties with the throstle whistling as he walks . Oh , blest are we that have no wish save one , Bat that I must not breathe save in my prayers .
Although Mr Watkins is net likely ever to become a poetical star of the first magnitude , he is better employed writing dramatic poems than dabbling in politics—clearly not his vocation . When last our readers heard of John Watkins , hewas " as busy as the devil in a gale of wind , " snarling at everybody , and making himself ridiculous ; his present work is at least harmless—may please many , and can give offence to none .
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SADLER'S WELLS . —The Tempest continues to draw crowded and admiring audiences to this legitimate theatre— now almost the sole refuge of the . divine Shakspere . Those of our readers who witnessed this beautifully " got up" and highly poetical play atCoveaU garden under Macready's management , will deem it high praise to award equal merit to Mr Fbelps , who sustains the character of Prospero with great dignity . Miss Julia St George , as Ariel , does her spiriting gently , and , for so young aa actress , with considerable talent * singing the difficult music with much judgment and care . We never saw Mr G . Bennett perform so much to our taste as he
does in the extraordinary character of Caliban . In the hands of » ny other actor we are fearful that nice discrimination exercised by this clever actor , in catching up the poetry in this remarkable creation of the immortal bard ' s , and so imparting the feeliags of the man , where the rough exterior of the brute is painfully visible , would Regenerate into valgarity and buffonery . Indeed , the various characters are generall y well sustained , and the scenery is altogether very splendid and highly pictumque . We sincerely hope tbe management will not , through lack of public favour , confine their energies to the pre . sent revival . Wecoasider the really intellectual play , goer owea avast debt of gratitude to MrPhelps ; aud surely this gentleman will not go unrewarded .
MsMOToMTAir Delegates' Theatbical Benefit . — The benefit in aid of the funds of this active body took place at the Pavilion Theatre , on Wednesday evening , April the 28 th . The entertainments were the melodrama of the " Gjpsey King , " the singing of five of that very numerous race , 5 clept "Ethiopian Serenaded " the evolutions of" Dancing Master Wilson" and his pupils , a "New DivertJssemeat , " and the domestiefdrama of the " Lawless Witness . " All tne performers acquitted themselres admirably , but special praise is dae to Kits Marion Lacey , Miss Watling , Mr ' T . Phillips , Mr 0 , Freer , Dancing MaBter Wilson and tbe " Teuessee Serenade ™ . The house was well attended by an audience evidently delighted with the entertainments of the evening . ?
Polytechnic . —Several interesting and instructive lectures have been recently delivered at this establishmeat to crowdad auditories . Amongst those which struck us as peculiarly deserving notice , was that given by Mr Jones , on Animal Mechanism , and in which the talented lecturer proceeded to describe that wonderful insect , the gnat , which , although it only lives in the air fer a single hoar , exists in tne water , for a period of three years . Mr Jones observed that while In the water it was necessary for this insect to breathe occasionally the tresh air ; but , having neither feet nor fins , it was im . possible for it to gain the surface . Nature , however , had surmounted this difficulty , by placing a hollow p ! p » at the extremity of the tail ; to this pipe was attached a small paddle , which raised or depressed the insectat its will , and thus it was permitted to breathe . On Its near arrival to : the winged insect , the pipe at the end of
the tail dropped off , and was replaced by two pipes fixed in the centre of the back : these caused the insect to be constantly on the surface of the water , the skin became soft and thin , and , after a short time , the . gnat came forth . The skin . altnough untenanted , was not allowed to perish , for , on the insect leaving , it formed a perfect miniature life-boat : this natural boat was used by the goat as a repository forits eggs , and not even the roughest weather nor the strongest wind could overturn it . It mightbe asked why should the gnat be so short-lived , or a ringed insect at all ? In answer it might he stated , that the reason was in order t © allow the insect to deposit its eggs in different parts , so that one place might not be overran with them ., The lecture was copiously illustrated by beautifully coloured drawings , and was received with much applause . These and similarly instructive lectures will , we hope , meet with tbe encouragement they so well deserve . ...
OLYMPIC . —On Saturday last the printers in connection with the daily newspaper press , gave an amateur dramatic performance at this theatre , in aid of the funds of the Printers'Pension Society . The pieces selected for representation were Colman ' s comedy of "The Poor Gentleman" and " Luke the Labourer . " It would be as uamsual as unjust to attempt a critical examination of an amateur performance entered upon with motives of sack an admirable character as the present ; but , were w « inclined to be hypercritical , a close observance of the performance satisfies us that it would ba difficult to take exception to a single item in the whole entertainment , " Tbe Poor Gentleman" was especially well supported , and while awarding a full meed of praise to all , i t is , pexhaps , but justice to particularise the efforts of Meisri
Ryan , Philp , Green , and Bishop , who maintained their respective characters with an ability which we have seldom seen passed . Emily Worthington found a chaste and pretty supporter in Miss E . Llojd ; Mrs Furimau enacted with much ability the somewhat difficult part of Miss Lucretia Mac Tab ; and Miss Kelly threw an unusual piquancy and zest into' the ' small part of Mary . The house was densely crowded in every part , and it gives us pleasure to add that one of the private boxes was especially reserved for Prince Albert at his own request . The following address , written for the occasion by Mr Angus B . Beach—a gentlemaa already favourably known in the lighter walks of literature—was delivered by MrForster , previous to the comedy : — * : " Last year we tried our fortune on the stage ,
We played for woe-worn Want and tottering Age ; Oar cause , and not our merits , made us bold , We won your plaudits , and tregaiaed your gold I . So now , once more , your favouring smile we claim , Our drama different , but our end the lame . We ' re bolder , though , than when we tried our hand In that dramatic band-box ' ycltpt" The Strand . " ? Yet , in a cause like this , it is mot well , To pay an inch by asking for an ell ; A growing web demands a widened loom , Your spreading charity needs elbew room , Amd changes so your natures , that e ' en devils—Printers ' , I mean—demand " Oljmpic" revels . ¦ Now to commence , then . ( LooktattteplaybiU , ) Here ' s our bill of
fare-May all enjoy some savoury morsel there . First comes the comedy : —be its Ive acts , To those who reap the produce , five great facts ! Bid our "Poor Gentleman" a loud " God speed , " For , wanting your applause , he ' s poor indeed J What ' s next t Our actors here will pleate , I wot—These failing—we can try those who are not . You doubt t—Bat incur play the mimic ' s art Can even make the absent take a part . Some moments more let joyous song and danoe Biug in the ear , and twinkle to the glance : With" Luke the Labourer" to close the day , A stirring , hearty , good old English playv A play that cold indifference cannot brook , One must be keattd—not Iv&t-vximtd by " Luke !" I ' ve done ! All ready ? { Looks off . Prompter nodi . )
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¦ Of our venturous host . Is every warrior fairly at his post ! ( PrmpttT again . ) Tis well . iTowbigs ) Be bold , and think tho but beginners . Who on a night like this would be the sinners—The hissed , or hisserst Wuy , of course , the latter . What ! Hiss the food from off a poor man ' s platter I Pensh the thought ! Ring up at once ! Begin ! Th « course is dear ! My life npon't we win !" * A Berformane *» In < xiA ~ f * e * Ua * .. — . 1- . * # * « .. » .. _ .. * » nf k 1 bUO DhUIw bv
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-THESE ARE THE CHAMBERS' OF 18 « . , / l ^ fehave already shown toour readers the Ohamp « . ° " ^> we now refer to the previous opinions M these changeable economists .- Whence this wonaerful change ?| ,..:. > THESE arb ^» p hni ^ i , ^ ,
IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDSSPADE HUSBANDRY . . ,. ., ( Frbmihe Information for tht People , No . 72 . J *¦ ¦ ¦'• . ¦ ¦• : - [ Continued from o * r latt . ] ¦¦' - . ¦ - "If amuletcanbemadetorun upon a meadow , as previouslydescribadunder . lhe head Irrigation , the cottager will add prodigiously to his stock of grain , fodder , and bay , From a single acre , well irrigated , as much as 200 stunes of sweet nourishing hay mav be gathered every year , besides a quantity of greeh muff . The proper saving of this meadow hay requires considerable tact ; . if any way spoiled , the cattle will probably not touch it . '
^ In the scheme of working a cottage farm , it should oe an object to make the very most of every day out ° l door . S i when the season and weather permit , and ^ occupy the dead of winter and days of bad weather at work m the tarn or house . The Swiss small tarmera do much by working at some , handicraft employment , ; particularly , weaving and making toys , during those seasons when prevented from labouring out of doors ; and in many instances they keep one member of the family at the loom .:. In short , nono mu 8 tbeidle ; . the grown-up children , when not at school , being made useful as far , as their capacities willadmitof . r : ¦ - v • - . ¦ . * . » . " «» It is calculated tbat an ' aetwe * spadesman would find little difficulty in bringing half an acre annually into state rods make the
an improved ; for as 80 ^ halt acre , and there being 313 working days in the year , to accomplish this it would require little more than a quarter of a rod to be trenchel daily , whereas a moderate day ' s work , even where the soil is atony and difficult to trench , would considerably exceed : a rod . But where there is a boy or two to aS 3 ist , an acre might with perfect ease be brought into an improved state yearly .- ¦• ¦ ¦ • . ..-. . ¦ .-.., ¦ : >¦ . ;•/ _ j ., : - . ' .:,-., ,, Whether it would bs preferable to . devote a cottage farm tj >» ' mixture of greon ^ and grftin crops , n » in ordinary husbandry , or make it chiefly a'dairy Farm , in which the raising of green crops for fodder is the principal if not the only object , must depend on iooal circumstances . If near a city , where fresh dairy
produce could be profitably disposed of , dairy farming might be moat suitable , although the'large rents usually exacted near populous towns would prove an obstacle . Several experiments have been made in order . to ascertain the quantity of ^ produce in roots , artificial grasses , &c , that an acre of ground , under this sort of culture , could be made to yield ; aiid the result has been that even lees than 80 rods , or halt ' an acre , will produce food sufficient to maintain a cow . This calculation is founded upon the wellknown fact , that 100 lbs . weight of green food , a considerable portion of it roots , is a sufficient daily allowance for an ordinary cow . But cows kept upon such produce must not be allowed to pasture on those portion ' s of the ground that are devoted to grass
crops , such as clover , lucern , tares , * c . ; but for the better health of the animals , they should have an open space to move about in adjoining the shed or out-building , where they find shelter from the storm and cold ; for in Boiling cattle during the hottest part of tho summer , an open shed , with a rack fur their food ; is to be preferred to shutting them up in close stables . . Mr , Allen , in his " Colonies at florae , " very properly remarks— " Whenever it is possible to make a rod of ground produce 500 , bs . of the artificial grasses , in the several cuttings during the season , 1 greatly prefer it to anything eke , for cows thrive best upon grass and bay . " lie afterwards observes , in reference to this sort' of food— " As it sometimes
suffers much in dry seasons , we must entirely depend upon it ; but 1 have proved that it is possible to keep a cow all the year round UDon the produce of half an acre ofland , it it bei properly " cultivated . " He then proceeds to give a list ot the produce he raised , which consists of lucern , cabbage , tares , mangel-wurzel , potatoes , turnips , parsnips , and carrots ; and as a portion of hay is indispensable along with some of the root-crops during the winter season , " he did hot attempt to grow it , but sold a portion of his potatoes , and laid out the sura he received for them inhav , We need only add , that whatever number of cows be kept , they must , be fed entirely within doors , anil only suffered to go out in any Bmall enclosure for the sake of air and exercise . - -
PL 4 N OF A THREE ACRE FARM . With the view of keeping up in the country a certain number of peasant families who should be able to assist farmers at particular seasons , the late Sir John Sinclair planned a system of cottage farms of three acres each ; these were individually to be cultivated entirely by manual labour , and by the cottagerand his family . . . From' the account of the method of managing these cottage farms , which he has given in the second volume of the Farmer's Magazine , we select the following particulars : — " ¦ ¦ Cwmpf Crops . —The three acres proposed to ^ be cultivated should be divided into four portions , each consisting of three roods , under the following system of management : — . :
Roods . Under potatoes , two roods ; under turnips , one * " 8 ' Under winter tares , two roods ; spring tares , one 3 v Underbarley , wheat , or oats ... . , „ ¦;• „ . '¦ ¦ 8 Under clover , with a mixture of rye-grass ... 3
' Total ... ... 12 Other articles besides these might be mentioned ; but it seems to me of peculiar importance to restrict the attention of the cottager to as few objects oi cultivation as possible . It is proposed that the produce of the two roods of potatoes shall go to the maintenance of the cottager and his family , and that the rood of turnips should be gjven to the cow in whiter and during the spring , in addition to its other fare .. ' The second portion , sown with tares ( the two roods of potatoes of the former year to be successively with winter tares
sown , and the turnip rood w ' uh spring tares ) , might partly be cut green , tor feeding the cow in summer and autumn ; but if . the season will permit , the whole ought to be made into hay fur the winter and spring food , and three roods ol clover cut green for summer food . lue third yotiiunmay be sovin either with WUy , wheat , or oats , according to the soil or climate , and the general custom of the country . The straw of any of these cropB would be of essential service for littering tho cow , but would be still more useful , if cut into chaff , for feeding it . ' '
- The fourth portion . appropriated to clover and ryegrass , to be cut green , which , with the assistance of the orchard , will produce on three roods ot land , as muchfeod as will maintain a cow and heroalf for five months , namely , from the end of May or beginning of June , when it may be first cut , to tbe 1 at oi ' November , besides some assistance to tho pigs . It is supposed that an acre of clover and rye-grass , cut green , will ' produce 20 , 000 pounds weight of food for cattle . Three roods , therefore , ought to yield 15 , 000 pounds weight . A large caw requires HO pounds weight ot green food per day ; a middling cow , such as a cottager is likely to purchase , not above 90 ponnds ; consequently ; in five months , allowing 1 , 320 pounds weight for the calf and the pigs , there will remain 13 , 680 pounds for the cew . Were there , however , even a small deficiency , it would be more than compensated by the rood of land proposed to be kept in perpetual pasture as an orchard . . ,
itode in which the family may be maintained . —It is calculated that three roods and eight perches oi potatoes will maintain a family of aix persons for about nine months in the year , but according to the preceding plan , it is proposed to have but two roods under that article ; for , however valuable potatoes are justly accounted , yet some change of food would be acceptable ; and the cottager will-be enabled , from the produce of the cow ; and by the income derived from his own labour , and from that ot his family , to purchase other wholesome articles of provisions .
Manner in vihieh the Stock may b ' e lcept . —li appears from the preceding system of cropping ,. that ten mods o f land , or two acres and a half , are appropriated to the raising of food for the cow in suuinwr and winter , besides the pasture of the orchard ; and , unless the season should be extremely unfavourable , tbe produce will be found not only adequate to that purpose , but also to maintain the calf for some time , till it can be sold to advantage . It is indeed extremely material , under the proposed system , to make as much profit of the calves as possible , as the money thus raised will be a resource , enabling the cottager to replace his cow when a new one mu » t be purchased . For the winter provision of the cow , which is the most material , because the summer food cau be more
easily procured , there is the produce , 1 . Of about three roods of tares madeiinto ' hay . 2 . Of three roods of straw , deducting what may be necessary for litter ; and if dry earth be pat iuto the cow ' s hovel , and removed from time to time to the dunghill , little or no litter will be necessary . 3 . Of one rood of turnips . The whole will be Rufficient for seven months in the year , namely , from the 1 st November to the 1 st June ; and during-the remaining five months , the pasture of the orchard , some of the winter tares , and the produce of three roods of clover and rye-grass , will not only suffice , but will furnish a surplus for the calf , if it is kept for any length of time , and Home clover for the pigs . The inferior barley , potatoes . Ac , will of course be given to the pigs ana poultry . ( Tolttmtinwd . )
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Pooiubm . —On Tuesday a fight came off in the Kentish Marshes , on the London side of Greenhithe , between J . Hazeltine and R . Williams . The former was the victor , -the beaten man being severely punished . . Thb Championship . —In reply to the letters from Wm . Perry , theTipton Slasher , which have appeared , Gaunt states that he will fight Perry , for 4500 vside , according to his challenge , and deposit £ 100 as a first instalment . The event to come off in five months from the . aiRoing of articles .
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EMIGRATION TO TEXAS . ' !¦) •¦ ' -. ' ¦ ¦ - ¦ ' ¦• ¦ ' * ••; - r ™ % Rowed , the manager of the British Mutual « X 2 Associati 6 n ' ,, ls very fond of appealing to XifiT ^ u ^ WentsreBpectingTexas , as the SiS ? ) r , lh ority f « r nisowndwerfptions and prc SSSihS ? - ^ ^ Mr Kennedy ' s evidence is taSft « Mowing extracts from Hoc == gSSB ^ We haa not been located many hours , after our arrivai ajssaBatf . assr ^ ? hauBteduponus for the disappointments and miseries which we all were doomed to endure . The almost inevitable fataHty of the main land , and of thoseparis of tbe interior—Brazoria and the Brazosfor instanQe ~ whero
, at present the greatest quantity of cotton is produced , was strongly dwelt upon ; unless the northern emigrant who purposed settling on the landhod takentbe precautionary measure of becoming " acclimated" by a year erso ' a residence oa the island . Abundant illustrative oases not of doubtful slgnificancy were quoted in support of these representations ; nor , in-fact , aid that kind ' of ocular demonstration derived from an inspection of the crowd of people we daily saw , appear in the very least to deny them . Mast of the men , particularly such as had spout . much time . up the country , walked with a loose , danghnggait , as though no tensity existed in the muscles of the body , and each joint of the bones had been Beparated ,. aud' subsequentl y reunited with . bad wire , atter tbe faBhwn of an anatomy .. While with literal accuracy it may be said , that real Texan complexion generall , » M of a yellow kid . glove colour-. or , let us in othjcUng « . Bl say , of asortbf witch-like-aRd
auper-Notwl hetanding all this , we could not believe . The books said otherwise ; and individuals might speak from misinformation , from partial observation , or from prejudice . because they were home sick . InoreduUty had taken hold of us , and we were willlug . Besides , we were in glorious spirits—in excellent health brought fresh from homa , and breatbia from off somfl thousands of-tnlleg of the great life-giving deep ; andWfelt ttiat ^ othing could hurt us , that we could live anywhere , and go through anything . - Alas , alar ! what a different tale didnino months tell amongst even our . thirty passengers ' . What hope did that brief period blight—what magnificent prospects demolish ! What manly strength did it tear down to the farth as though Ithaa beitn very weakness—what weakness reduce to an after-life of misery , and what misery hurl into the grave ! I think I see now the glad , active , and hopeful band as it landed on that anticipated shore of earthly happiness , full of eagerness , and spirit , and life , and contrast it with tbe wretched remains of
that same band , when , heart-sick of glorious Texan promises without realisation , drooping over theirown losses and sorrows , clad ia mourning , for the prairie-buried dead , and bidding a final and' everlastiug adieu to the bones of those who had once b » tn "flesh of their flesh and blood uf their blood , " they slowly retraced their steps to the same , but now melancholy shore , in the last faint hope , in too many instances , - of possibly once more reaching the homo of their birth alive . I would now earnestly oall the attention of all readers interested in Texan matters , and particularly of that class who may bemlgratorily inclined , to the brief facts which follow . They certainly contradict , not the infer . eace 8 only , but the very words , of certain visionary bookmakers , wh » havo gone before me , but on that very account , I think , if on no other , ' - ought to be the more esteeuud . Upon this' queatiori of salubrity of climate , 1 truth is strange : " with Hamlet , let us " therefore , as a stranger , give it welcome . "
That Galveston Island is the most salubrious portion of the whole Texan sea-board , or low flat couutry , appears to be universftll ; conoeded . - That is , it is more healthy than any other portion of the confessedly un . healthy coast ranging from seventy to one hundred miles inland from the bordtrs of the Qulf of Mexico .. Yet within that range are comprehended all the towns , cities , and locations of any importance at present existing either in positive log and plank upon the soil itself , in the round marks made on the maps at the 'discretion of the
surveyor , or in the prophetical imaginations of Hie Rev . Mr Newoll , of , New York , the Rev . Mr Lawrence , of Now Orleans , or of—Kennedy , Esq . of our own country . Austin , the capital of the Republic , is certainly laid down beyond that line nearly another hundred mill s from the ocean ; that remote ( and , with reference to the hostile Camanche Indians , unsafe ) Bpot having been selected by the wisdom of the Texan Congress as only sufficiently removed from the coast ( it is 200 ta \ Wa fcovft Galvtftton ) just to ensure tte perfect safety of ( he health of its inhabitants .
Of all this immense district then , comprehending , in a general sense , the whole of the moat thickly-located and populated parts of Texas , Oalveston Island is admitted to be by far the most healthful . Citizens come from these places on the mainland to the island to recruit their health ; the sick from all quarters of the world are invited to it for the recovery of their wonted life and vigour ; and the inhabitants of New Orleans particularly have been , wooed to pay it a loving visit , while " Yellow Jack , " the dreadful fever of . the south , was playing his mortal game of bowls amongst tho unlucky nights whose destiny confined them within th ' e influence of the vapours arising from the cypress Bwamps of the Lower Missis , sippi . In fact , atone time "Galveston Island " was as nlversal a medicine as is now , or ever was , Dr Morlson's pills , Under these circumstances , I aak , how comes it Salveston swarms with doctors 1 ¦ that doctors find plentt
to do amongst a populatien of from two to three thousand ? ( I guess atit , since the authorities literally cannot afford to pay for the taking of a census ;) that yellow fever and mitigated cholera ara no strangers there 1 and that the visits of Southern Americans and Oceanians fur the sike of health have totally ceased , after , only one or two experiments 1 Perhaps Messrs ., Newell , Lawrence , and Kennedy , who know so well the healthful properties and the virtues of Texan air , will endeavour to reconcile these f acts to . the satisfaction of that public whom hitherto they have so wofully misled . At the same time , the charges of doctors ( eight in ten at least of whom never had their diplomas ) are enormous . It is no uncommon thing to hear a labouring man state something to the effect that , " It ' s of no use working here ; for if one contriveB to save up seventy or eighty dollars beforehand , and then gets' chill and fever' for two or three weeks , it alVgo&s . 'lft p » ss \ cl and tneh one ' s iustiw fnrwB . a oi » . i . « o biie started . "
The reason why all thatlow flat portion of the mainland before alluded to should not only be less salubrious than the island—and , indeed , that its trabealtbintss should increase in some given ratio to its distance from the sea—is plain enough . It is almost entirely attribu . trtble to tbe fact of its being less under tbe influence of those fine sea-breezes which almost constantly blow from the south , tempering the burning atmosphere as they pass , conferring most life where most strong , but dying away altogether long before tbey have reached a hundred miles inland , and thus leaving the dead , swampy level to reek and eteam in a sweltering calm , and under an almost vertical sun , between which and the rank earth below , perhaps , not once a month is seen a single passing cloud . To any wan who knows what kind ef soil aud
temperature are required for a good rice-land , the simple fact that all these levels and bottoms are considered eminently fitted for the cultivation of that hot and wet . growing grain , will suffloe as a more than necessary proof of its generally total unfitness as a ' looation for emigrants from any temperate region , and most especially for the natives of such a climate as this of Grent Britain . Even southern planters , men bora to the climate , and upon similar soil , —in Louisiana , Florida , the Carolina * , or any of tbe States neighbouring Texas , who do not work la the ' fields with their own hands , and avoid exposure as much as possible , — whose circumstances are easy , and who suffer none of the privations which multi . ply so unexpectedly about the uncapitalled emigrant , — find quite enough to do to maintain their health , and
that of their families , through a continuance ot seasons in these latitudes , and with such a { ace of country . The immense annual migration which takes place amongst this , as well as all other portions of the great populations of the south , —thousands of miles , perhaps , up tbe MU . tisBippitothe Lakes , or by sea to tbe great Atlantic cities of the north—sufficiently attests the sense which thy entertain of the anti-consumptive and invigorating nature of the air from which they first drew the breath of life . " 6 b , but , " exclaim Messrs Newell , Lawrence , Ken . nedy , and a whole host of land-speculators , whose highttt earthly intertit it is to get a popxdalion into the country 6 y ftoofc or by croofe— " Oh , but Texas ia quite different , There are no wooded swamps like those of Louisiana and Florida in this delightful country , Rolling prairies , fine uplands , swelling lawns—"
Yes , yes , gentlemen ; It is a very beautiful country , beyond all question , to looh at ; but that is not the point at issue . Neither are there very fine uplands in the swamps , nor rolling prairies on the aen-board level . And as to all the rest , the difference between that part of the coast of the Gulf within tbe boundaries of tbe United States , and that comprehended under tho general name of Mexican , is much more political than physical . Let the reader take a glance at a good map , and be will find the low sea . board of Texas just as full of inlets , straggling arms and bays , lagoonB , and tbe like ( all Indicative of a flat , pestiferous country ) , as is the adjoining coast of Louisiana , Alabama , Ac
Is it reasonable to suppose that a British farmer , an agricultural labourer , or a ' ' pale-faced " mechanic , can , with the least security of health or lite , be transported from a cold , moist climate , in which all his previous existenee has been pasted , into a sultry and burning # ne like thU , in which southern born and bred cltiaens are barely fitted to dwelH Above all , is it to be conceived that upon any extemtve scale ( Indiridual exceptions amount to aothing , ) a [ population of such immigrants can work in the sun , and perform all those out-deor labours now performed only by native or slave soil , with perfcct ; impunlty to health ? The idea is preposterous in the extreme . .
It has been said that Galveston abounds in doctors , " who find plenty to do , although that town is more healthy than any other place of site or note in tUe whole country . Glad indeed would the inland settlers be to nave one of these medioal gentlemen amongst them , or even within the very reasonable reach of fifteen ortwonty miles : but they uro not excessively foad of raunlag greater risks than necessary , and especially in localities where—although their practice . as far as prairie-crossing i > concerned , must be vtry extensive- iodttd—they y « t do
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not contrive to get enough , with all their monstrous ex . tortioning , to warrant them in putting their own heads in rather doubtful pickle . The consequence is , that the lonely settlers of the country generally cannot , inlosses of aBy extreme of necessity , obtain medical assistance of any kind or quality . "Every man his own " doctor »} g just ns needful aa that every man should bVhls own farrier , or his own footman . Tho solitary squatter in these magnifWat solitudes must either patch and physic poor diseased nature according to his own knowled ge and discretion , or leave her altogether unplastered , uhs . pointed , unansealed , " to conquer the enemy , with her own weapons , or to sink under the conflict , just as circumstance ! , under Providence , may decree
. . TEXAN DISEASES . Bilious fevers ; of different degrees of intensity ; ague and fever , producing irrecoverable prostration of tbe sys . tern , ' doliriuro , and eventually death ; with cholera , in different mitigated stages , constitute the general diseases in Texas of a formidable character . At the town of HouBtnn , which is admirably situated in a swamp , ' the latter malady most extensively prevails , and numbers die there every season . The filthiness and corruption of the water , which there is execrable , appear to be one main causa of this periodical swmner mortality ; aiden , doubtless , by the miasma of the pestilent surrounding noighbourhood . A toUrabl ; correct idea may be formed of the nature of the locality of Houston , from the fact that after the setting in of the rains the towii becomes next to totally inaccessible » ave by water ; neither carriage nor horse beiDg able to drag or flounder through the deep miry ground by which it is at that season , as i t were , entrenched . -
Houston is seventy or eighty miles inland ( a long diBtance within the " narrow strip , » j and yet Mr Kennedy says that " persons who arrive in summer will be quite safe by retiring fifty or sixty miles inland . " To " retire » to . Houston in summer is exactly the same to a stranger retiring to a churchyard to see his own grave dug . Take newly-arrived emigrants on the average , and not two ia ten would survive twelve months . .. ,, ' -, - Perhaps , after all , the best proof that can be adduced in evidence of the essential and radical unhealtblneBs ol tha country that « ' requires no physicians , " is to be found in the following carious fact : —The disease , If it b » properly termed such , is common enough in Galveeton . ' as mail ? - * limping , hero anu neruirie mere can well attest . Should an individual chance , especially during the burning summer months , to , knock off , or graze by accident , any portion of the skin of the hands or legs—parts mdsl liable to such petty disasters—the chances are sure ' to
be very much in favour of the injury , however slight , becoming at first difficult to heal , aud eventually a kind of running ulcerous sore , eating into the flesh deeper and deeper , until rest and sanative applications so far avail as to arrest the progress of the complaint . It might be supposed that this corrupt state of the system originated in an evil mode of life , or from excessive drinking . The fact is not so . Females ns well as men , people who totally abstain from all vinous or fermented drinks , equally with thoB 9 who make constant use of both wine and spirits , are liable to it . Nay , I have known worse cases amongst the former class even than tbe latter , and hence am partly induced to conclude that the atrocioui compound of liquid matter , vegetable essence , and inseet life and excrement , there termed " water , " has more to do with it than is ordinarily suspected . The slightest mishap of this kind will frequently confine a patient to his house for weeks together , and generally continue , from first to last , during a period of several months . :
FATH or EHIGBANTI . ' Out of the thirty individuals who went out in the same ship with me , not more than three entertained for a moment any other views than those of obtaining land . either by purchase , or through the medium of the government grants , —of squatting upon it , and becoming for the re « mainder of their natural lives good citizens of the hew Republic , Look at the result . Of all this number , tipr one succeeded in effecting the objeet for which he had left home and country , crossed thousands of miles ipl ocean , and gone to Texas , Before Christmas of the same year , some of them h&d returned home , or gone into the United States ; some were dying , some dead , and some almost perishing from sheer want , either because they could get nstbing to do , or were too sick and reduced to work at all ; and some others , alaB I were imprisoned upon tbe island , merely because their resources being completely exhausted , they had not left the meanswherewith to get away . '
May I never again see such ruin of body and fortune , such wreck of heart , aa it was my fate to witness ia Texas ! . . ,.-
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Food and Medicine without Mohby . —At thi » season of the year , young nettles , when boiled , are a most excellent table vegetable , and as a purifier , of the blood they are unequalled—they are more nutri * tious than moat of the greens in common use . , Very III Off !—The John & Groat Journal sajB , " While we now write , our county has neither sheriff , sheriff substitute , procurator-fiscal , sheriff , clerk depute , nor superintendent of police . The town is in an equally deplorable state . We are minus provost , senior bailie , town clerk , and town-officer I AH these officialaare off in a lump to the Justiciary Court at Inverness . Now is the time for a row ! "
Ihb Dbkb in a Nbw Character . —A few dayB Bince , at the early service' at the royal chapel , the absence of the clerk embarrassed the clergyman ; but the Duke of Wellington immediately took the prayer book and read the responses in his stead . ... Clubs at Romb . —Clubs , have become very fashionable at Rome since the accession of Pius IX ; and besides German , French , and English clubs , several have been established by the Romans them , selves . : ;¦ . . . .. ' : ' . FoflRRiERiST CoN 8 PiRACt . —The Jersey Impartial states that the French authorities in the department of the Calvados have discovered a conspiracy ,- in which - Beveral thousand persons are implicated , rhe conspirators are sai d to be all FourrieristB . [ Fudge !]
n Cat am > Doo Lips —The dissensions between tha Queen of Spain and her husband have caused such . BcandulouB scenes in the palace , that the political chief of Madrid is said to have entreated the editors of all tho newspapers published in that capital to refrain from making any allusion to them . Destruotivkhkbs . —A few days since , a little boy , living near Preston , brnkft n .. WVinp-BUo = ~»* ' » atone , that he threw at the reflection of his own form , which he mistook for another boy that threatened him . He then triumphantly oried to hia father , that he had broken the face of his supposed enemy . ,
• American Naval FoRcs .-The largest naval force which the United States have ever had afloat , is now employed in the war with Mexico . This force comprises 46 ships , 24 barques , 56 brig 8 , and eleven steamers , which have been hired as transports , and the regular vessels of war , added to these , make a total ot ' 164 " ships . .. ¦ ¦ - . ¦ .-Stormy . —The line of telegraphic wire between New York ami Philadelphia was lately much injured by the falling of sleet , which in » e till the iceon the wire was nearly an inch in diameter .. The wind rose at the same time , and the ice-cased wires were blown about with such fury as to overturn , and even break the posts . .. - ..
Mad Does . —Three mad dogs were shot last week at Inverness . Sinoular SoiciDK o ? a SoioiBB . —A few days ago a soldier was about to cross the Pont d'Arcole when the usual charge of one halfpenny waa de- * manded . He appeared auvpmed , made the Bign of the cross , and threw himself into the Seine . Whisky -There , is at present in bond , ia Leitb ., upwards of 69 . 000 gallons of malt , and about 33 , 000 gallen 3 of grain whisky . ' Mr O'Coknell ' s Proobess . —Thehon . and learned gentleman was sufficiently recovered on Fridai to leave Lyons , by Bteamer , for Valence .
The Nklson Ceuiws .-The wovka at this column have been resumed after a lapse | of nearly two months . 1 he masonry , with the exception of the pedestals at the south-east and west corners for the reception of the lions , ia complete ; as also the basso-relievo ornaments intended to the sides of the pedestal . SnttWRECK .-On the 13 th a Russian Bteanwr , called the Irrwisoh , left Curisch-Haff Bay for Tilsit , uotmttottviMling the sea was full ot ice . It first of all made its way through the numerous floating pieces ,-but on arriving before Windenburg , where there were some- large masses , it sustained some serious sliooks , which did it great injury , and at the same momenta fiie broke out on board . The vessel went down in about a quarter of an hour . Th « nassnnmM
and crew , thirty-two persons in all , were saved by the exertions of the inhabitants of Windenburg . Capiais Warnbr ' s "Lono RAN ( W . ^ 0 n Friday , a parliamentary document was issued respecting the pubho money placed at the disposal of government to obtain a trial ot Captain Warner ' s " ¦¦ Long Range . " It appears that £ , 300 was set aside for the purpose mentioned , and Mr Warner and Lord Ingestrie " entered into a bond , to raako the experiment , and gave Th r » i 8 sory n ? 4 « sure payment of the money , rhe government , after the failure of the experiment , cancelled the note givon for the repayment of the money \ V ! P tam Warner had declared that the F" ? ^! !? be - W ^ ed . and there waa no reason to doubt that it was as stated .
North Polar EiPEDmos . —The plan of an overland expedition to the North Pole , under the direction ef Dr Sir John Richardson , of Haslar-hospital . has been submitted - by him to the government ana approved of . Burial of Sir Walker Scott . —Tho body of Sir Walter Scott was brought home in the Wellealey , and is now on . its way for interment in the grave of tho author of " Waverley , " in Dryburgh Abbey . Abbotsford does not pass at once to thesofroftne editor of tho Quarterly Review , ' ¦ Lady Scott , . bj her marriage settlement , has a life interest inihe estate .
Vbri Disaorebablb . —a maiden in the north of England , the other day , took a fancy to % pi a ' pair of handcuffs , wMoabad been left , by het bpUBin , » police-officer , ' on the table . She contrived wfaiUa them on her wrists , and meanwhile her ei > uiin && ; parted * on a long ' journey , with the key o ^ wwHi-She was suspected as an escaped prijOneSTapdlooi ^ ' up , but afterwards released ; but manmiimiwp ^ four hours elapaed . before tae ¦ fetters ^ SmWmfpi moved . • ,,. •• ,,... ' . .., - w ^
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 1, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1416/page/3/
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