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' XXT SR RE 1 IESIBER THE DAYS OF OLD . Bl TH 0 H 1 S M 035 E . 1 * t Erin remember the d » ys ef old , £ : s her faithless sons betrav ' d her , Whfn lla ' achi wore the collar of gold tvhich fee won from her proud inTSdcr . When her kings wkS standard ef gretn tmfari ' d , loathe Red-Branch Knights to danger , £ re tie imerald gem of the western world Was set in tie crown of 8 stranger . 03 Lough Xe * gb ' s bank as the Jhbermin BtrajB , Wnea tfce clear cold eve ' g declining-, He sees the round towers of other dEjs la the wares beneath him ibiniug . Tkas shall memory often in dreams EuWime , Catch a glimpse ef the days that stie oier ; Thus sighing look through the wave * of Time P j r the long-faded gleries they coTer .
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£ > 'ALOGIES AND CONTRASTS , OR , COMpARATIVfi SKETCHED OF FRAKCE AND ENGLAND . By the Author of ' The Revelations tj Rufiia ' London : T . C . Newbj , 72 , Mortimer * street , Cavendish-square . { Concluding notice . ) In selecting some further extracts from the infec ting chapter on 'Public Men and Political Patties in France , ' we must again remind our readers inut this work was written before the revolution of February . Here is eur author ' s account of that rery ^ different copy of O'Cokkell : — OD 1 L 0 S BiKOT . Odilon-Barrot , the ltader of tbe Opposition—and belosg iEg to tfcat section of it termed the dynastic oppoiltiaa—is , hawerer , far frsm being either a desperate character or a reToIntionlst .
On the contrary , weaicfiv , timid , and desirous of opfcoldlng the pwstBt family upon the throne , he bs » for jears clameured for a minimum of reform , which wsuld fcsrdly have been accepted as an instalment by oar EBglUh TnhtMiTt in the moat unpropitioas dajs of ascend-« 3 t tert ism . Odilon-Barrot , aa advocate by profession , held a distingsUhed place in the oppoiition , under the restora-Siaa . At tbe outset of the reflation of lS 3 f > , he was made f ecretary to the mncicipal eommisBloa , he was the chief commissioner who escorted through France the faHea fog , end lastly , prefect of the Seioe . Described bj LouU Blare as half calculator , half entfcUEiss * , he is too fconest ever to have coincided in the corrnpt system he opposes , too irresolute to accept the fa ll COntcqaenetE ef hlM opposition .
fin forehead Is high , his countenance moody , its expressiois sedate and centeiaplariTe , his voice eosorocs , fcis manner pompsus . In the $ tf ) e of bis oratory be somewhat resemble ! Gaizot . Like him , fond of generalising , he s&cts philosophic Tiews . The reflective powers of his Blind , alraott to the exclusion of the perceptive , predominate to fiiKCt bis elcqatsce , and in tbe course of frequent dijTeiiioD , he is apt sometimes hopeleiily to lose the thread of his discourse . He shares with Guizot in demeanour , some diidsiafalness and b&oteur , galy that what in G allot is the remit of contemptuous pride originates in OdUon . Barrot la self inSstioD , bo tbst instead of being dignified he is puaid np , snd if lest grate would bo gimplj comecatntial .
la point of talent , he is « Ten 3 atched by the leaders of those parties who haTe hitherto held office , but eren thsngfe tqi&Ureg or lurpitsing tketa is ability , coaid BeTer . on sccoast of several deficiencies , make successful headagsinet snch m ; n as Tfeicrs or Guizat . He ia neither aggmrite nor bold enough to lead aa opposition , snd Is wasting in that practicality commonly acquired by reutin ? , but of whiih natural aptitude so readily supplies the plaee . In 1 SS 0 , 0 * non . Bsrrot , like Louis Philippe , Th-ers , Sabot , and Cassimir Pfrrier , was panic-striefcea at the £ rst eutbreak of the revolution . He did not hail it fearlessl y an 3 with opsn arms like Lafi . te , Audry de Payra-Teau / and Dupont do l'Eure . Whenever a political Storm hss threatened , he has besa accustomed to retire to his coHntry seat near Pan .
MAtGus is described as witty and inconsistent , and , like Thiers , ' unscrupulously prone to participate in splendid despotism . ' Bcgeaud is' a vulgar bully , who . sometimes menacing even his employers , carries Threateningly the hand begrimed in pelf to the hilt of a sword tarnished with Algerian cruelties . ' Emilie be Gisardis is a literary bravo , who neither believes , nor affects to believe , in political integrity , His doctrine is , ' politically speaking , we are all knaves together . ' We must extract the following notice of
BIIKHB . The legitimatis !* boestBerryer , one of the two most eloqaea ; men in France— : he Catholio liberals , tbe other , in lie A ' Bbe LtCDrdaire , In Berryer , —perhaps the first political speaker in the world , —is united Toice , person srt , sptitatade , intellect , command of language , imagination , reason , in fact all that mai » great an oratoreictpt a cinse . That which fee advocatts , narrow in its scope and trammdUng to his genius , hai notuieg but Eiifortnns to reeommend it . Bat « hat cause is there , so averse to hiB own cobt : ctious , so deroid of hope , that If hallowed by miifortune , Bemer will sot plead !
When toe nephew of the aaa t 3 whom the fortunes of the chief par : of theebsmber of psew wes owing , stood KTaigued before tuat time-serving tribnna ) , the vie ' . im of ridicule and failure , in an ill-advised attempt , It was 3 erryer finding him , who magically transposed the tfrithlEg jadces into the place of the accused . These men , who had each taken theii ten or a doz : n oaths , tha unswciTiDg legttimatist thas apostrophised' Spsakiag on your own conscience and bsfore God , in tue presence of us tsao knots ' jo * , say , —if he hed sue-CEeaed , if he had trianiptiea , —I would bsve denied him , i ' wouH have repulsed his adTanceB , I would have refused all participation in hU power V Too brief is the notice of
liHESATt . His parolt ! < Tun Orflyant , or ' profession of abeUever , ' was e moring and poetical expoiitioa of the faith of what then sppesred an finomsJj nnhtari of—rtpsbJicsa Catholicism . The Abbe Lsmenais , now advanced in years . iB a man of uatonnded benevolence and unquestionable genius . Botk may be read is the expression of his dtep < hought-/ nl ere , ia tbe expsaiion of his venerable meditative brow " ; botii sre breathed in every psga of the eloqusnce he has lef ; on rccordi Our author has a high opinion of Dupont de l'Eare . We give the following interesting notice of
THS AXAC 01 . Impssing is aspect , tail of stature , * rlth lofty forefeead , acquiline noae , classical feature * , voice fitted to contey toe thoughts of a gigsntic mind , and glva utter-Mice to tbe feeliDgR of a heart as capaelens—the elQer Arasromsy be sightly heerd in tbe chamber of venal 09-pntiea and jotb ' ng placemen , exposicg the abnse * of go . vernment with icfl . xible logic and practical argament , unetpected in one w « pped in abstrnie COnttmplltionin « e < 3 in aeasuiicg the flight of stars , in penetrating the arcana of nature and caUetfeg its eternal laws . At other times his denunciations psal with a vehement eloquence no 'ess str&cge in the phitoopner w ^ ose range ef thought hat been in the pasdoaleSS donaia of mathematical and abstract calculation .
Hii biography would be a romamce . if the term romen . tic he applicable to acquirements and a Hfe so classical . Sdected at the age of twenty by the Bureau des Longitudes t * carry the meridian of Paris to the south of Spain , he spent lii months oa s bleak mountain top to watch the opportunity of an observation . Arrested as a spy , detained a « prisoner , and captured as a bondsman , in tbe course of hi » mfssios , neither perii cor privation deter-Kdfrom the prosecution Of bis scientifis pursuits . Like Archimedes , fataliy ahiorhcd in the solution of ft problem amidst the sack of Syracuse , so Arago , a captive at Boses and Palamcj , refused to esc 3 pe—not toleaTe bekitti hla bijiastrumeatjaudtheregult of his labours . Wten , jears afterward ? , the Algerian eipeditioa wbb In contemplation , and minister * , admirals , and geoerals wereacfco . 't , Arago w * s the only man in France who eonld determine the facilities or dimcultiEB of landing , and describe the surrounding country .
Taken and enslaved , in the course of his researches , by the Algfrine corsairt , who obliged him to serve as interpreter on board their ships , his observant eye had HEglscted nothiag , aad after so long a period bis memorjenabltdhim , with nndeviating accuracy , to give that information which consuls , merchants , and trsderi ceaH no- , furnish , whose Ures had been spent in Algiers , or passing bitween that state and their mother country . Tfee Aragoi , like true citizens of the old Greek repnhisee . hare been not oo } y tvei Slit to stigmatise the eacroaclisasnts of authority , foremost to protect the oppressed , end vindicate tbe right ! of their fellow-COUntrymen—nut , in the hour of armed resistance , ever prompt to identify tbemielves with thatmetement which failure wo aid have ma ie rebellion—to draw tbe sword and fling away the scabbard .
The elder Arago , in the heat of tbe contest daring the thrte days of July , penetrated , accompanied by bis y « achfal eoc—st the peril of cis life then and of his bead hereafter—amidst menaces and imprecations Into the praence of the roj&liit commander , to endeavour to restraia ihs effusion of blool-The late Duke ef Orleans li w-11 knewn to have owed his lifc , dnrin ? the three days of July , to the exertions of the younger Arag 5 , | heading s . bind of atmtd iasurgents , from whese hands all the esergy and courage of their leader was requistte to estrlcate the ctptire prince .
At the trial of the ministers ef Charles X ., the elder Arsgog « neroa « Jy withheld his dunning evidence to me tfetirlire * . It was Ethane the yousger , who , braving petal and penalties , mainly contrived tie etcapa of the rtfHftUcans condemud la fee c * mptit < i ' Avrg ,
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The Aragos whese aames we read foremos t In the defence of the accused , in alnost every political trial are near relatives in blood , who follow In the footsteps of their elders . The notice of Ledru RoIIin is so exceedingly meagre as to be not worth extracting . The account of Latnartine is full , but of his antecedents our readers have been more than once informed . He is estimated by our author as Unquestionably , the first of all French dead or living poets . ' When speaking of Lamartine , the author of these sketches pays the following fitting tribute to our great poet
BYRON . 1 We have a Homer , a Dante , a Shakespeare , and a Byron famished by thirty centuries and three people , but no fifth in their own or any other country to mate with them / Again , in the first volume , page 143 , our author lemarks , ' The influence oi Byron ' s writings has been inconceivable in Eastern Europe . Avowedl y he has inspired a host of poets , WD 9 , in their turn , rousing as with a trumpet ' s voice , whole millions from the lethargy of ages , to consciousness of their condition , have inspired them with promising volition . '
We have long believed Marrast a scoundrel , and the little that is said of him in this work confirms that belief . Still more unquestionable confirmation is being daily supplied by passing events . The exeditor of the National never deceived us . He was always a would-be aristocrat , and is at this moment of all enemies to the French Republic , by far tbe most dangerous . We copy with pleasure the following just appreciation of the talents and truthfulness of
LOUIS BL 4 KC . Louis B ' . anc—formerly editor of the Botc Sens , and already appreciated in his literary character in this eonctry—selected as a mediae of attack on the existing system , tha page of history hitherto neglected as inapplicable to such aggression . Is that contemporane 6 m reflection of the political life of bis country , bis 'Eitloire & Dix am , ' the hietoriaa of still palpitating events , bag succeeded in prodaclag s wcrk bo novel aad comprebiDsive in conception , to concise and lucid in execution , that its jadgl menti , descending to posterity for ratification , wil . transmit to its admiration one of th ; most remarks
able memorisls of the intellect ef ovage , Whilst de . veloplng ths strong teBdencieB , political , philosophic , and econemical of Its author , whilst avowing his bial and riveting that vivid interest which tbe ephemera of th 6 press pecHUarly inspire , U ii no lei a distinguished by classic excellencies of construction and style , than by the impartiality which elscennectloH with events , and lapse of interval between the narration and occurrence , has been held indispensable to secure . For though the judgments ef Louis Blanc nay be arral . setJ by thote whom hs directly censures , all ere forced to admit the justice of bis praise < r condemnation of third parties , sod the even-handed fairness with which , notwithstanding strong feeling * at a partisan , he estimates the acts aad character of friends and foes .
Returning to the' Introduction to these volumes , written subsequent to the February revolution , we find our author arguiag that whatever shade of opinion or party may predominate , the Republic in some shape is inevitable for France , and hence may be regarded as indestructibly established . In the chapter from which we have quoted the above extracts , our author had written some months before the revolution , that the overthrow of Louis Philippe ' s government would be ' the least of the popular difficulties . ' The reai struggle he
predicted would be that of' Labour against the abuses of Capital , and the tyranny of the shopocracy now oppressing operative industry . ' When the ' Introduction' was written , the struggle was going on . The events of the four days of June , and the 15 th of May , had not then occurred , and our author was sanguine of a peaceable and happy solution of the great question of Labour ' s Emancipation . As a specimen of the sound and generous views entertained by him on this all-important question , we give the following extract : —
CAPITAL AKD 1 AB 0 UB . The rebellion of labour against the tyranny of capital is ag old as the history of society , bat the ignorauoe of those retelling , has beiu usually suck as not to Inspire capitalists with much solicitude for the future . The notions of the dredge underpaid , overwerked , or both , were either to abolish tbe genhnde by charging place with his master , or by destroying machinery and capital . But the masses becoming wiser in eur geseratiem , are conscious of the absurdity of attempting to live without labour . They do not , as in the old revalutloB , like RusslaD serfs , or revolted negroes , believe that they can eat , driafe , and be merry , lilss their loris , wittsut labour , but insist only on a proper requital for it . And in the exaggeration of their principles , instead of repudiating , rather sanctify work , and incline to demand that all shell be forced to labour with them .
' To live working , or die fighting , ' was many year * sine * the motto inscribed on the red banner of the Lyoaess operitfrtu , ai they matched against the troops . The operative masses , are also becoming too cognisant of the value of capital , to think of destraying i * . Their growing tendency is rathst to acknowledge and lament Its iasufficieney , than to deny its use , or wisk n dissipated . But instead of allowing It to remain in individual han € s , as a mesns of coercing labour , they concatae that it should be accumulated through association , and that labour should participate in its profits . Instead of tha old Jack Cade spirit of destroying machinery , and opposing implements and method ? , which economise t » il , the trua tbeory is being propagated that mechanical improvement may be more effectually employed to benefit , than it has ever beea hitherto to oppressthe operative masses .
, The question ef the emancipation of labour , as nrged by the classes representing it—divested of its former saicldal and barbarous pretension *—is there / ore Bssuming plausible and perhaps feasible Bhapes . Minutely investigated by writers of intelligence and probity , they have conceived that they see toitapraoticable and satisfactory tolution , and that the remedies of manj Social BTils lie rather iu economical innovation than po Utical change . At all events , they have impressed the operatives with this conviction . Monarchy has been swept away not as Sie final cause , asd republic established , not as tfeees pected panaceaof wroDg , but simply as the impediment to a great economical experiment , or as affording facilities towards it . Nothing can prevent this experiment from being made or renewed , under different forms , until absolute fai / ure shall condemn , or success justify , the expectations founded on it .
Political diversion and opposition will Only delay io render more sweeping and calamitouB to classes , transformations which might otherwise be effected by coercive compromise . We must not judge ths practicability cf realising theBe views by the opinions of tbe chief part of our own press , necessarily prejudiced in favour of the snpremacy of capital—any more than by the enthusiastic prognostications ofits advocates . Though no theory , however promising , be safe until sanctioned by the test of experience , it muBt be admitted that the principle on which these views of coincident , social , end economical reform are feunfled—the prin ^ ciple of association—is confirmatory , as far as antecedents ertend , of the results anticipated .
Small territories 1 , with scanty populations , have by asstoclation of force , been able to over-run and 8 abdue vast countries , whose defensible resources were desnl . torily scattered . By association , the English soldier BBS abundance of goed food for that number of pence which will hardly keep life and soul together in tht ffolsted artifss . By association , poor districts have magnificent roads and harbours , whilst in wealthy lands the produce ef tbe earth wastes on the « pot for want of conveyance . By association , the JiaKtue of tbe clnb enjoys for his tens of pounds luxuries and comforts be could not command for hundreds . By association , comnsu nicatioa is maintained by thepo «» office , at the charge o ' one-pmny , with s regularity and speed which mtilwxaires couli not formerly comsjand .
It is even asserted , and there is HOthing distinctly to dUprere the conjecture , that by intelligently organtscd asseeiation of whatever capital l : es foattered through s poor country , would give a more fcffeouveo 0 mbiuation than in the wea lthiest community is spontane . o utly effected . Organised association Is therefore looked to as thp meins bj which the tyranny of capital may be limited , without forfgoing it ? beneflte , by which the expenditure may be reduced , the comforts and well-beiDg of the labouring olasses augmented , and production increased . Appended to the second volume is an Appendix of nearly a hundred pages on the important subject of'OurNational Defences / considered in relation to the probabilities of a Frenca invasion ; to our thinking the most rational and most able composition on this subject yet published .
In taking leave of this work we have but one regret to express—that the author did not omit—or considerably abridge—the chapters on Italian , Swiss and Spanish politics , and instead , have added to the sketches he has given of the personal character , customs , and habits of our French neighbours With his knowledge of France and French society we feel persuaded he might have added manr an interesting page , illustrative of the daily life of all classes of Frenchmen . For what he has done we return him our thanks , attd we trust that , before long , we shall meet him again in some work not less valuable and interesting . We have mucb pleasure in warmly recommending the ' Comparative Sketches of France and England' to all lovers of liberal Hteratore , friends to fraternity , and pioneers of progress .
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The Childhood of Mary Lseson . By Mary Howitt . London : Darton . , We cannot praise this little volume too much . It « dectdedl j the most charming child ' s story book We . u ve y read J a book - t 00 > which mav be read with Pleasure and profit , by < children of a larger growth than those for whom it is mainly intended . Mary Howitt a fine descriptive powers shine in this volume ; and from the enthusiasm with which she nas painted the scenes of ManLeeson ' s childhood
, we are led to more than half suspect that the recollections of her own early days have gone a long way tosupply the materials for this story-in fact , that Mary Homtt was Mary Leeson . This fanCv of ours derives strength from the fact that Mary ' Leeson ' s birthplace , though not named , is , from the description thereof , evidently Nottingham , and nearly the whole of the scenes in the yenng heroine ' s history belong to the romantic counties of Nuttir . gham and Derby . °
"We must be excused from attempting any account of the history of Mary Leeson , for to do so would involve us in the task of repeating almost the entire story , and giving quotations we should not know where to stop with . We must , therefore , content ourselves with recommending all our adult readers to purchase this work as a holiday-gift , ' fairing , ' or birth-day present for their children or juvenile acquaintances . As we have before intimated even parents may read this book with advantage , and if they do so , will , we are confident , embrace Mary Howitt ' s ' idea of the spirit which ought to direct the education of a child . '
We should add a word for the publisher . The binding and illustrations are worthy of the story . A prettier volume , internally and externally , never graced a child ' s library .
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Mathematics no Mystery , or the Beauties and Uses of Euclid . By G . J . Holyoake . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s-head-passage , Paternosterrow . Mr Holyoake by his educational works bids fair to win a national and well-deserved reputation . His ' Practical Grammar' has reached a fifth edition , and the work before us—having already attained a second edition—promises to be proportionality popular . We do not say equally popular , because we are aware that an idea prevails amongst the working classes , that the study of mathematics is only fitted for those who have more leisure and better means of acquiring instruction , than falls to the lot
of the great body of the people , v \ e think a pe rusal of the first two or three chapters of this work would dispel that unfortunate error . It is true that those who are already adults , and engaged in wrestling with the difficulties of providing for a family , have other and more vitally important matters to engage their attention than the subject-matter of this book ; but we are persuaded that any young man , fired with a thirst for knowledge and the holy ambition of achieving that power , which is the necessary result of knowledge , may acquire frem Mr
Holyoake s work , at least such a general acquaintance with this important science , as shall enable him to distinctly understand the nature and ap . plication of mathematics — the process of geometrical r » asoning—and the meaning of the technical terms now so frequent in the scientific lecture-room , and in treatises on mechanics . ' The student who learns thus much only can hardly take to himself the title of' mathematician , ' but who will dispute the utility of self-culture even so restricted ? In spite of Pope , a ' little knowledge' of any subject , is better than none at all .
In the preface , Mr Holyoake states his aims in writing this work have been— ' 1 . To prescribe the limits of mathematical learning , defining what must be acquired and what may be neglected . 2 . The discussion of the supposed connexion between arithmetic and mathematics , and explanation of certain important distinctions generally confined to the class room . 3 . Presenting a history of the rise and progress of mathematics , somewhat more complete than previous ones . 4 . Extending the view of the utility oi mathematics as a means of gnaging the physical world . 5 . A development of the
argument in favour of this science , as a means of mental discipline , guarded from the arrogance and exaggeration which have so often destroyed its efficiency . 6 . An exposition of mathematical logie , and the true principles of science , illustrating the value of the one and the simplicity of the other . 7 . The enforcement of natural geometry—resting it on the foundation of the common understanding , distinguishing its beauties and uses , adapting it to the wants of the many , to the capacities of the young , to the aptitudes of the uninitiated , and the exigencies of men of business—tbe people of little time and a definite purpose . '
Like most of the publications issued by Mr Watson , this book is neatly got up , and published at a very reasonable charge . Self-educators will do well to add this work to their stores of useful knowledge .
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PERIODICALS . 1 . —The Ethnological Journal . Edited b y Luke Burke , Esq . August . London : 12 , Red Lioncourt , Fleet-street . 2 . —The Family Herald . Part LXIII . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . 3 . — The Apostle , and Chronicle of the Communist Church . Shirreffs and Russell , Douglas , Isle-of-Man . 1 . The third number of this most interesting magazine opens with a continuation of the wonderful story of ' The Destruction of Atlantis , which includes an elaborate attempt to show that the
continent of America was known to the ancient Egyptians and other nations of remote antiquity . Without acknowledging ourselves converted to Mr Burke ' s theories , we must confess that our scepticism is | considerably shaken . According to this gentleman ' s interpretation of Plato , there once existed an immense island , named Atlantis , betweeen Europe and America , near the straits of Gibraltar ; the people of which island subdued many nations of Europe and Africa , and also a vast tract of the continent beyond the Atlantic , now called America ;
and that after attaining great glory and power , this island was destroyed by a combination of an earthquake with volcanic fires and the overflowing of the waves of the sea , and became submerged beneath tbe ocean ! Mr Burke also says , and promises to hereafter prove , that the ' sicred isles of the west , which Hindoo mythology has filled with such marvels , are no other than the regions which we at present inhabit . He also promises to prove to British antiquarians that their own country possesses claims to high antiquity , which will , ere long , render its archaeology a study of the deepest interest .
Pirested of Mr Burke ' s theory concerning the Amazons , we should not have much difficulty in crediting bis version of the story of Atlantis . But however improbable the commonly-received accounts of the Amazons may be , we are not prepared to regard their history as entirely fabulous , and the traditions of their wars as only meaning the encroachments of the sea upon the land . It would , however , be folly to pronounce judgment on these questions , until we have the whole of the evidence before us . Mr Burke pledges himself to prove , hereafter , 'by evidence the most varied and conclusive , that the Atlantic island did actually exist , and did actually perish in the manner related
by Plato ; ' and that this island called Atlantis , was not only a place of vast consequence in the remotest times , but that it was actually the aboriginal country of the intellectual races , and consequently the natural seat of empire , as well as tbe primary centre of civilisation . ' Mr Burke adds : — 'We shall also show that , at the era of its destruction , humanity was comparatively old ; that Italy , Greece , Asia Minor , Syria , &c , had passad through several successive states of barbarism and civilisation ; that the most extensive intercommunications existed hetween distant regions , and , in one word , that not only the first streams of knowledge , but some also of the earliest waves of conquest , had passed from
the west to the east . ' ,, _ , „<¦ These are ' brave words ; ' and for the sake ot truth , human knowledge , and the interest we feel in Mr Burke ' s succeBB , we heartily hope that the revelations of the future will mske good the promises 01 the present . . r The article on ' The Origin of Nations , by beo . Ross , appears to us to be out of place in this magazine If Mr Burke accepts the Mosaic account ot the Creation , the Tower of Babel , the Deluge , &c , away goes his theory of Atlantis , and also his theory of the' Geographical Distribution of the Wi-SiveRacea . ' ' The ' Orig in of Nation * ; woud find a fitting place in such miserable , pnest-mspirea productions as RollMs Aneient History , bat is ridiculous in the Ethnological Magazine . Mr Burte must be consistent ; any attempt to establish me reputation on two opposite theories will bring him to the ground . ..
_ _ , x , o A c ontinuatioa ( from the first number ) of the Fundamental Doctrines of Ethnology , ' intro duces us to the editor ' s view ? oa the subject of the Primi-
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tive Races of Mankind , their characters , distribution , and condition ; and also certain comments on the principles which regulate the transmission of qualities from parents to offspring . Poets have placed the « golden age' in the far distant past ; philosophers , on the other hand , have repudiated the poets story as a fable ; some of them predicting an ' age of gold' in the future . Without disputing the future , Mr Burke revives the poets' story of the past , which he supports by ( philosophical ) arguments not to be easily confuted . According to his theory , disease , want , and war , were unknown in the first ages of the world ; the primitive races were healthy , beautiful , sinless , and happy . They lived in a state of being where , according to
Byron—All was paace , and innocence , and blUa . I wonder bow they got through the twelve hours !' And according to Mr Burke such was the happy lot of the Atlanteans . Moore sings : — ' Oh ! had we somo bri ght little Isle of our oirn , In a blue summer ocean far off and alono ; Where a leaf never dies in the still blooming boweru , And ihe bee banquets on through a whole year ol flowers
Where tbe sun loves to pause , With bo fond a delay , That the night only draws A thin veil o ' er ihe day ; Whera simply to feei that we breath , that we live Ia worth the best joys that life elsewhere can give •• Such a ' bright isle' must Atlantis have been . Would that it existed now ; how gladly would we fly to it from this land of knaves and slaves , and quit the occupation of
Dropping bucketa into empty wells , And growing old at drawing nothing up . ' With cordial wishes for the success of the Ethnological Magazine , we heartily recommend this number to our readers .
following extract : — STANZAS . ' It is better to repose 1 b the earth betimes than to sit up late . '—Conversation between J&sov and Rbodopz . By Waiter Savage Landob , t ' n the ' Book of Beauty , 18 U . Happy are those who rest for ever Where wares tbe harebell amid tbe heather , Aad waters Btrey—Happy are those who thus repose Ere yet ths dew from off life ' s rose H . ib pasa'd away . Happy ar « » hose who perish young , Sre yet remorso tbo beart has wrung Or grief or sorrow : ' Who only take of life a sip , And slumber with a smiling lip , Dreading no morrow .
Happy are they , to know no thought Of pleasure by pain dearly bought On the world ' s stage ' The fever-he » t of hope and fear , ' Tbo thousand ills all mortals bear , Not them engage . Their being passes as the tone When on tbe harp the hand 1 b throws Ic idle mood ; Or as tbe sweet , cool breeze of heaven In tropic climes at sunset given , Elsa vainly woo'd .
Happy are they , thuB early blest , Sleeping so young to dreamleas rest , To waka no more , Save where , all earthly trouble past , The eternal home it theirs at last , Beyond Time ' B shore .
3 . —A new publication by Goodwyn Barmby , devoted to his peculiar views , and containing a report of the general Yearly Conference of the Communist Church , together with articles on Woman ' s Industrial Independence , ' and ' Pleas for Private Property considered and answered . ' The Apostle will be published gratuitously as often as the ' Communist Church Fund' may furnish the means for its publication .
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Royal Polytechnic Institution . —On Thursday last Mr Baggs gave hia second lecture en the character of tie Electric Ee ) s , in the Chemical Theatre of this plaee . The lecture commenced by a series of galvanic experiments , showing the analogy between the power with which these wonderful creatures are endowed tor the purpose of killing their prey ; he also stated that the eels now deposited in this establishment were the only living specimens in England , and , he believed , in Europe . The simple aod unaffected manner of Mr Baggs ' s treatment of
the subjest wap very pleasing and instructive , convening & good insight to his hearers of the phenomenon before them . His experiments were exceedingly interesting and were intended to illustrate the connexion between electricity and magnetism . He also exhibited numerous beautiful experiments to his astonished audience , explaining to them the very simple apparatus by which the immense mass of cliff , at Dover , was removed , and that in reality it would not be impossible that Buch an undertaking might be effected by means of a power given to a creation so low in the scale of nature as the electric eel .
Gigantic Gas Mxtbb . —A gigantic d ^ y gas meter has just been manufactured for Covent garden Theatre , at Mr Glover's iron works , 168 , Drury-lane . This meter ia composed of two chambers , the upper one contains the machinery , the lower is divided into six compartments , viz ., three movable diaphragms and three fixed partitions . The gas enters at the inlet pipe , whence it passes to the bottom of the meter , and fills each compartment in succession . A continuous supply ia kept up by the action on the movable diaphragms which acts upon the indicating machinery by means of a very simple and ingenious contrivance , which registers the consumption of gas with unerring accuracy on a plate of six dials and indexes of units to millions . The meter is capable af measuring 6 , 000 cubit feet of gas per hour , and is
ro measure the supply of 1 , 500 burners . Its weight i 8 fcw > ton ' , is sixteen feet in circumference , and nearly eight feet in height . The ahape is a hexagon , with gothio duras , executed in the first style of art , and ia highly creditable to the taste and execution of Mr Glover , the Manufacturer . This colossal machins has been executed under the immediate superintendance of Mr Defrus , the inventor and patentee . Tub Cholera . —In the Registrar-General ' s report this week we find no less than twenty-one cakes of oholera returned , while the average number for the lait five years is only five . On looking over the list we notice three deaths distinctly reported as occuring from Aaiatio oholera . One in St Gilea ' -iu-thefields , the patient expired in thirty-eight hours after
the attack ; another in Bethnal-green , duration of illness sixteen hours . Diarrhoea at the present moment wejknow is very prevalent , at which we cannot be surprised when we take into consideration the meteorological pheno . mena . In Russia the cholera still continues to increase ; and physicians appear as much pMzz ' ed as ever what remedies to employ with a prospectiof succeas . 0 ur own government ia watobing the progress of this disease , and is prepared to act with rmrey should circumstances require it . — Medical Times . Asiatic cholera , says the Lan-cbt , is Steadily marching westward , and it seems now to be enly a question whether this Eaodera plague shall make its appearance amongst us in the autumn of 1848 , or the spring of 1849 .
Life is z vast ; railway train , in which we are all compulsory passengers . On the outside is written— ' No stoppage by the way . ' We get in at ths cradle ; and are put down at tho gravo ; we have just time to ohange clothes in the transit . Well , my boy , do you know what syn-tax means ? ( said a schoolmaster to the child of a teetotaller , 1 Iss , sir ; the dooty upon sperrils . ' The Biter Bit—A man at Leith , by a trick , got twelve shillings from a boy in exchange for an old one pound note of the Commercial Bank , which he no doubt thought valueless ; it turned out to be really worth a pound , and thus the sharper doped himself out of eight shillings . A private of the 30 th regiment , now stationed at Fulwood barracks , Preston , has received fifty lashes for assaulting the colonel , and , in addition , he will be imprisoned a year .
A seizure of pikes was made at Manchester on Saturday last , by the police , at a place where the manufacturers had taken them to be ground . Ic is be * lieved that they were not intended for a local market ) but were destined for Ireland . The two men in whose possession they were found were set at liberty on Mon « day , od their own recognisances . At the late Sligo assizes two of the grand jury quarrelled , and as an ' affair of honour' was apprehended * the aid of the Judge waa called in , and the belligerents bound in £ BOO each to keep the peace for seven years . A oess collector of Wegtmoath waa robbed a few days since ef £ 200 on tha highway . lie made tbe loss known to s ime peasantry , who pursued the robber , captured him , and he was hurried off to Mullingar , where the assizes was proceeding . Here he was arraigned , convicted , and sentenced to transportation for life—the whole of these transactions occurrinwithin twenty-four hours . ¦¦¦ W 1
g _ . ... >> U | S . »»>• - - WW J * V US HVUIUI _ a 1 The Duublb Mdhdkr near Swansea— The nigo sheriff has received a enmmunioation from the Secretary of State to the effect that the lives of the two men Martin and Leary , who were sentenced to death at the lata aaaiE 9 B by Mr Justice V . Williams , will be spared . Tkey are to be transported for Uto . Barricading . —A few days ago the Secretary ot SSate gsYe orders for barricading with strong bare the metropolitan police oourta and stations ; ana workmen were this day baniJT eapleyea in doing w . —
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MIDDLE CLASS MORALITY . TRICKS OF THE BASE BOURGEOISIE . We take tho following from the Weekly Dispatch , one of the favourite journals of tbo ahopocracy - A E » W 0 RD 3 ON BHOPCtUFr . We obBerve in the August number of Awswoarn ' s Magazine , a very excellent artlole by Mrs White upon the triclis practised by tradesmen . ThU lady a&jn _ ' In these dayB , when deceit developes Itself in tho tnwindiag of a eotton . rool , and false meaouro nuk ^ its way into « o email a parcel as a pleoo of tape—whea mti . nufactureru , upon the princi ple ( we sappoae ) that' mony a miokle makes a mnckle , ' malot their customer .-, of yards , and bait yards , and even Inflnltesalmal quantities , in thejuBt measurement of tbe articles purchased—and
retailers , in self-defence , play at repris-. la with the public —ifl it to be wondered Bt that cozetisgo should oo- ^ ur in greater things , noil that the whole system ofbsr'er Bhould be affected by a similar spirit of trickery ? 'f do petty traffickers in these small wares are , atlonat , mucb sinned again ^ aa sinuing ; but competition , i > r . < l tbe thirst for gain , level comparative distinction *; a ; A from the silk mercer « bo permits his unealaricd or . < pmon to remunerate tbemseives oat of the profits o ( tztortlon , § to the baker who buries a sapernumerary ounco under tbe accidental crumbs in his sccle , —ail nr « tainted with tho lame evil , till confidence in the fr . tr dealing and honesty of tradesmen , as a class , is rn \>< M ] wearing away , and ahoppiag converted into little betler than an encounter with Bmooth-tongatd sharpers : so
that ladies net about that once pleasant business with fear and trembling , convinced that neither judgment nor experience can save them from being duped either in tbe quantity , coedftfoD , or quality cf their purchases , ' There is , unfortunately , a great deal of truth in these observations ; and thousands of tradesmen , wbo hold thtir head high , and are deemed respectable beyond tUe possibility of impeachment , aro culpable of the most paltry meannessee in order to reap a little additional profit . The wholesale dealer mulcU the retailer , and the retailer makes up for It by cheating hie customers . This is the real English of tho whole matter ; end there is no use in blinking the truth . But let It not be supposed that ths wholesale dealer ia alono to blame , or that ho gave the first encouragement to this system of minute
larceny . He saw tbo retailer practising it in some instances , and feeling that times were nurd , be thought he night qb well himself cdopt the ecbemo , But , ae Mrs White observes , ' of all tbe trickeries oftradeicraft , perhaps those of drapers are the most detestable : tl » pj are so flagrant , and yet ao paltry , ' It ia common eoougb to ticket a particular article ontside the shop at a very lot ? price ; and when the customer enters and r quires a few yards thereof , or perhaps the entire article Itself , ths servine-mon very composedly produces a package from tho shelf . That this is a very inferior material is immediately perceived ; bnt it is useless to say , ' I want tbe article which is marked is tbe window . ' The man insists that there is no dlfferenco ; and if the customer be a lady or respectable women . It is ten to one that ( he
will sooner pat up with the imposture than wrangle about it in tbe pretence of several persons . Should Bho , however , wouUeat & spirit calculated to convince the mahogany-jumper that she Is not to be thus flagrantly cheated , bo ma ; perhape begin to euact tho bully ; and , in some instances , these insuStrable coxcombs have grossly insulted females by Buoh coarse observations as , 'Ofa I I dare say you are na € \! ng bettor than you should be ! ' Ah ! I can Bee Into your character plainly enough ; yon are a shoplifter ! ' and infamous allusions , ot direct charges of this nature . Another [ revahnt trtck ROw-a-dajB , le to substitute the ordinary i brios for foreign ones of high pries , and impudently dispose oi them to ignorance and credulity as euoh . There is aleo a practice adopted hi even tbe first-rate houses at the
West end , of marking the shllliogs in large aad very plain printed figures , and putting down tbe pence in a verj minute etyl * , or In faint pencil marks , Mrs White says —• ' We knot ? of establishments where ladies have not only been refuted tbe goods priced in the windows , but insulted for not buyia ; others offered at tho same figure , though of a most inferior description ; snd we could take our readers to m ; Te than one establishment ornamented with carpets , Corinthian eotamns , and plate-glass , where five . guinea ehawU have been sold for fifty , and Persian rabbit-eking , with real ermine tails , passed off on lady purchasers , ( n the shape of muffs and mantles , far the regal fur itself . ' Fraud and trickery of this liiBd create fortunes , whilst honest industry cannot Cftrn a CrUSt I aad buildg Villas ,
while upright dealing is unable to spare cash enough to hire a lodging at Gravesend for the season , Mrs 'White tells the fallowing etory , for the trath ef which she vouohes : — ' A lady with her husband entered a shop in the vicinity of London , where Bbe was in tbe babit of making purchases for her family , snd requested to see tome shawls . Now expensive shawls were cot a part of etook ; twe gaineBB were the highest price they kept , and those tbe lady did not think good enough . She was asked what price she thought of goiBg to ; and tbe assistant , stepping back to tbe wareroom , presently returned with one ofa different pattern , but of precisely the same value as the rest , which he pretended to have ha \ in reserve ; and , unfolding It with due emprenement , baldly added £ 3 17 a . 6 d . to the two guineas he had pre . piously Asked for tho others . The style Wmg oae tbe lady admired , she at once purchased it . Had sot tbe young man acted in this manner ho would not have sold
a shawl at all on that ocoasion ; and he was , doubtless , highly triumphant in tho encoees of his knavery . But , what is tbe worst of all is , that this kind of cheating ceases to be regarded by the trade in its proper light ; and the young man alluded to , instead of being looked on as dishonest , was doubtless praised as ' a devllisb , sharp , ehrnwd , and business . like fellow . ' We expect shortly to find the characters of assistants in shops thus summed np when references aro taken : — ' He is a most valuable servant , aud I should not think of parting with him were I not going to retire from business . Take him by all means ; bo can cheat tho most experienced lady who ever went shopping , and norer will let any female leave the place until be has coaxed or bullied her into buying something . Ha Bill pass off lbs veriest rubbiBh as excellest artioleB , and ib up to every move on the chess-board of B&oporaft . ' To ouch a state of tbings ire a indeed , rapidly verging !
. From a notice of Ainswokth's Magazine in another weekly newspaper we give the following additional extract from Mrs White ' s artiole : — It has been found ( says the writer ) & good speculation to wll / ully damage the eaterior of goods , in order to have it believed that the ; must be BOld at & BBCTifioe . Ima . gino a Bion getting op a manageable fire in his own premises , singeing tbo eelvage edges sf silk and linen , smearing sheeting and table cloths with mud and water , trampling bnleo of calico under foot , smoking the Walls and roof of the Bhop , and otherwise giving things the appearance of all but a fatal conflagration ! and yet the smouldering ef such a mattcuvre has , on more than ono occasion , served to stimulate custom , and furnished thousands of dupes with imaginary prizes , to which the very circumstance of their being ' damaged' only gives additional value .
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ARREST OF ANOTHER LONDON CHARTIST , Bow-btrbet , Saturdat , Adg . 5 . —R . Crowe waf charged with having ! on Monday , used seditious language . —Policeman Brothers stated that on Mop < day last he attended in plain clothes at a meeting in a house , 83 , Dean-street , Soho , which was used foi the purpeme of Chartiat meetings . He was not present at the osmmenoement of the meeting . Whet he arrived there were about 150 persons present , con-Biating of mechanics , women , children , and the lowei order of Irish . A young man read some extraote from the papers . About ten minutes afterwards the prisoner made a speech , in the course of whioh he used the following expressions : — ' The late insurec ' tion in Paris has ohown feowe / isily a orown can t > £ crumbled . Now is the time to be ready—now is the
time to ba resolute , and the game is our own . I do not care for those persons present who wear other people ' s clothes . I do not oare if what I asy ia criminal . I for my part shall do all in my power next week to put a atop to trade , and urge the Irish in London to rebellion . ' This last expression waa received with loud applause . —The prisoner asked whether the constable had taken notes of his speech ? —Brothers said , not at the time : he quoted entirely from memory He was satisfied what he stated was correct . — -The prisoner said he denied the accuracy of the constable ' s evidence . He had not ottered the language imputed to him . —Serjeant J . Gray
apprehended the prisoner at his residence , 1 , Archor-Btreet , Camden Town . —In answer to the charge , the prisoner said the whole of the evideaoe , with very little exception , was entirely a fabrication ; He was only surprised that any magistrate could entertain a charge ao vaguely Btated , and by a person who had taken no notes of the proceedings . As he supposed , however , the case rausfc go elsewhere , he should not call witnesses , or make any defence . —Mr Jardine ordered him to enter into his own recognizances in the sum of £ 100 . and to find two sureties of £ 50 each , to anijwer the charge at the Central Criminal Court .
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RBroBUOAKiBM . —Frankness and an unalterable sincerity are repqblican virtoes . Where one man is bo far exalted over the heads of the community , there flattery and dissimulation will inevitably grow m , —Godwin Mr O'Fiaherty , the solicitor who defended John Mitohel , has gone off to Amsriflft . Lewis Cocka , a convict in Milbank Penitentiary , has deatrojed hiB life by hanging . Gretna Green MarriagoB can never oocur again , List week a Scotch marriage bill was read a third les
time in the Lords , which requires runaway coup to reBide a fortnight in Scotland tefore they can effect the hasty purpose wiiioa is Baid to be iollowed by a leisurely penitence . Remarkable Instinct . — A boy fell into the Tweed the other day and was drowning , when a oow in a meadow bellowed so loudly , and ran toand fro in bo atrange a manner that those at hand ran to tho spot , and the poor fettle fellow was taken out of the water . He fell insensible immediately , » = « died ghortly after wairds . The Nbwbt ExiMWiR » a very angry ; with Mr J . O'Connell for Wa last pease promoting address , which that journal Bays ib intended to grease the rene that ii to hang the Iriib patriots .
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' We ei . Ut ! ie ekokett . ' The Blessed British Constitution . — ' Let us try , by tbe criterion of good government the constitution of Great Britain . In the first place , we have no deraooraoy , for the people are not rep resected . In the second place , we Lave no aristocracy , or preeminence of the beat , for tbe governors of the cation are the children of chance , and not the choice of the people . In the third place , the British oonstitu ' . ion is not monarohial ; for the government is committed not to the guidance of one wiil , but to the contention t \ ? l Since' therefore , it is clearly demonstrated , that the Constitution , as it is oalied , i 8 neuner monarohy , aristocracy , nor democracy . what is it then ? It j 3 oligarchy , ochlararchy , / Y «*^/' .- cnrrB , ptioil » BBd anarchy . ' - /! Review of the Conttuutwn of Qrat Britain 54
, , p ; of s rnfn ^ 'Ta ^ , fhoul d rearh every individual ? ti v bd'Ih 6 y all 8 bareoae »«»»<« »*»"' K fflbee ^« n « Iun ^ ip " rtlonl 8 r fcancnes , "we had srS « £ * ss ss ^^ trB and « Hrhi& . . Where tbeee abonnd , learning San ^ ^ V ^ r ediately Hft Dptheif Elective Part cr Ina GovERNMEsx . -It is not tf I n r ^? 1 ° vernmenfc i » elective , that it is less a despotism ; if the persons so elected possess , afterwards , as a parliament , unlimited powers , eleotioD , id thisoase , becoaes separated from representation and the candidates are candidates for despotism . -Rights of Man , mrt 2 .
» BfP 0 TIBM . 15 uoh a history a 3 that of Suetonius , whioh gives us a succession of absolute princes , 13 to me an unanswerable argument against despotic power Where the prince is a man of wisdom and virtue , it is , indeed , happy for hia people that he is absolute ; but since , in the common run of mankind , fer one tnat is wiBe and good , you find ten of a contrary character , it ia very dangerous for a nation to stand us chance , or to have its public happiness or misery depend on the virtues or vices of a single person . into tne
j ^ ooK history I have mentioned , or into any senea of absolute prinoes , how many tyrants must you read through before you come to an emperor that is supportable . But this is net all —An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned , when converted into an absolute prince . Uive a man the power of doing what he pleases with impunity , you extinguish his fear , and consequently overturn m him one of the great pillars of morality . —¦ Addison . '
SONNET TO JOHK CSITCBLET PRIKCE , Author of Sours vilih the Muses . Hail ! prince of modern poets ! thou whose aong So oft hath charm'd me In dull sorrow ' s hour : To grasp thy honest band I oft times long For few , lika theo , have gained the magic power Of charming heart and mind : it is a dower Which Nature only on a few bestows , For fear that tha ths honour due Bhould I 010 , Which from her sons she claims . For poels are Nature ' s first fav ' rltes ; and their only care Ia for their mother , — -knowing well that she Ia no eroBs ttep « dftmo , but a parent kind . Forever tlrlrlng to endow mankind With peaoe , and love . andhealth , and liberty , Whose pioneers are poats such as tbee . — Stokasky . Geosqe Tweddell
KEFOBM THE HOUSE . Reform the House ! the taxes equalise , Mske the Landowners pay , the Labourer cries , Who most rtcelves , tho wealthy or the great , Should moat contribute to support the state . Not to , the Ministerial minions say , Oars is the right of power , ye commen olBy , Toil fir theTaxea still , plebdsn elves , Nor vainly hope , we ' ll ever tax ourselves . TnOTH .- ~ Truth « an only be offensive to him whose conduct will not bear the test of examination . — Qerrald . IA Roland for ^ n Oli ver . '—Although no phrase U in more common use , few are acquainted with ita origin . The expression signifies the giving of an equivalent . Roland and Oliver were two kaighta , famous in romanoe ; the wonderful achievements of the one cou'd only ba equalled by those ot the othen Hence the phrase , ' A Roland for an Oliver . '
* COTEHPOBABT OP BOBNS . More than half a century having elapsad ( Bays the Kilmabnock Jqvrhal ) sines tbe tomb cloaed over the mortal remains of Burns , tbe number of those who remember the event which awakened such stralDB of lamentation over Scotland must bo few ; and still fewor will bo tha number of those who recollect him & young farmer inMoaegiel . Though few and far hetween , still there are some who remember him ere his poems were iasued from the Kilmarnock press , Of these there Is one , and , psrfiapg , tbe only ono residing in tnisnelfffc . bourhood , who knew tbe bard ere his aspiration , ' That he , for pair auld Scotland ' s Bake , Some uaeful plan or book might taste , Or write a sang at leoBt , '
was crowned with success—knew him when ho was » o much entangled with the Macobliae belles , whoa he warns agftinet Rob MosBgiel—and drank veritable toddy with him in JTauso Tannock ' s at that very ( acrament which he has painted in colours of nnfadinj freehneBS . Janet Wjllie , relict of Hnngo M'Oann , who comes io for a passing notice in ono of Barne'a epistles , is a native of Mauchline , now in her eighty-fourth year , being t ' deent , according to Scottish pt-raseology , with Jean Armour . In beryouHj , we deubt cot that she was possessed of considerable perfioaal attractions , as her still straight , tall , and well . formed figure , and regular features ' , indi .
cats ; asd the fact of bfinp married at the early age ef seventeen , rather corroborates such a supposition . Her memory does sot seem much impaired , but more early occurrences are remembered better than more recent transactions . Of course , after such pains have been taken in collecting everything regarding our national poet , little new important information is likely to be obtained ; still her imprcGBione and recollections are not without interest , and throw some little more l ' ghtonthe ' Holy Fair , ' J < mn Armour , i » the estimation of Jean Wyllie , was not a braw woman—a mere &t » it of a body— - bat Highland Mary was in be&uty far surpassing Jeaa Armour . Of the four whom ho celebrates in the
Btanzi' Miaa Miller ig fine , Miss Murobland ' s divine , Miss Smith she has nit , and Miss Beattie is braw ; There is beauty acd fortune to be got with Hiss HorloB ,- — But Armour ' s tho jewel for mo 0 ' them 0 ' 'Burn's had his jewel , but few others were of Burns ' s opinion in this respect ; and here alio Janet Wyllie dis-Bents . The Mies Smith was a sister of the James Smith to whom one of tbo very baBt ef tbe epistles was written MiBB Miller married Dr Mackenzie , of Maucbline . Mlei Morton was a braw lass , and married a Mr rattersoa in tbe same town . ' The Hoi ; Fair , ' she Ifl of opinion , Was named ' The Holt Faib , ' not from any wish to ridicule it , but was naturally suggested by the circumstance of its being held ia the churchyard , tbe place where , 00 fairs , coopers , dealers in yarn , lint weol , and other articles , generally exhibited their goods for gale .
A PROPHECY ! D 0 WSFALL OP KINGS—WAR—DEATH—THE MILLENIUM ! The following lines , said to be prophetic have been current for many years in Germany : — ' I would not bo a king in 1848 ; I would not be a soldier in 1849 ; I would not be a grave-digger in 1850 ; but I would be whateve ? you please in 1851 / Cunions Epitaph . —The following ia copied from a tombstone in Stirling churchyard : « - 1 Oar life ig like a winter day—Some osly breakfast , and away ; Others to dinner stay , and are full fed ; The oldest man but sups , and goes to bed ; Large Is hit debt who lingers out the day ; He that goes aoonest , haa the least to pay , '
—sftrlingr Observer , ' Adam , ' said a gouty gentleman to a tricky son , 1 1 would be on the tvt to cane you , were I aW « . ' Paddy at the Plough . —An Irishman , newly im . ported , made application to a farmer in Kyle for work . On being asked if he could ' hold the plough , ' Paddy said he could ' do ' that or anything else . He was accordingly engaged , aud next day his master went with him to the field to see him commence operations . It was coon found that the Hibernian was new at the trade . ' Did you not tell me . sir , you could hold the plough ? ' Baid the maBter . ' Arrah , be aisy now , ' said Pat ; how the d 1 can I hould it and two horses drawing it away from me ; but give it me into tho barn , and , by Jappera , I'll hould it with ever a boy .
A Guatefdl Irishman—Among the O'Cornell ' s professional reminiscences was the following uniqa in-Btance of a client ' s gratitude . He had obtained an acquittal ; and the fellow , in the extaoy of hisjoyt exclaimed , Uch , oouncellor ! . I ' vfe no way here to show your honour my gratitude , but I wisht I saw V 0 U kDOC&ed down in my own parish , and may ba 1 wouldn't bring a faction to the reecue ?' Tailors abd Dociobs . —A doctor once returned a coat to a tailor because it did not exactly fit him . Tbe tailor , afterwards seeing the doctor at the funeral of one ol hia patients , said to him , ' Ah , dootor , you are a happy man . ' ' Why so ? ' enquired the doctor . ' BeoauBe , ' said the tailor , ' you never hare any of your bad work returned on your bands . "
ALL BIGHT . Mstrai . — ' Didn't I tell you not to tak e the first and second floor ' s milk in tho same basin ?' Maid . — 'Please , ma ' am , it ' s all right , I put a piece ef paper between ' em !' * Cause and Efpect .-A lady in Fltzroj-iqOM ? h& 8 a cat whi « h in the course of last year broke 1 fifty plates , six oream jugs , two brass candlesticks , tnree soup tureens , fifteen cups , Bad one P oker ~ f ? ° LjJ £ P eaten no lew than thirty chiekeni , two aweeMgmpg Beven turkeys , tferee leg * of lamb , t < HMjO < S » pies , aHd three pots of preserved apncgsj . 5 *® iheleso , thio out is the greatest faToan ^ Wtt- « f 000 k aad all the servant * . "" -. ¦ j
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2 . —The best articles in this part of the Family Herald are those on ' Correct Speaking , ' Eating and Drinking , ' and the « Preservation of Health . ' The other contents are of the character usual to this p . ptertflinintr neriodical . Wp hnvp mnm fnrnniu tha
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