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ji considerable time has elapsed since last we gave any collection of poetical compositions in these wlumns . Of late the sayings of politicians—< of the earth earthy '—have usurped the space due to the inspired outpourings of the poets ; and the doings of roaring revolutionists have left us no room for the rhymers'' wood-notes wild . ' Evea now we lave but little space to devote to the sons of song . In the sharing of a newspaper as in the sharing of the earth £ see Schiller ] the poet is the last thought of , although we will venture to hope anything but the least-cared for . In brief , we must have an eye to brevity ; and this must be our excuse for the very meagre notice we are about to give of the man from whose songs we propose to make our selections . That man is the glorious poet
BERANGER . This favourite of France and object of Europe ' s admiration , is a native of Paris , and was born in the year 1780 , at the house of his grandfather , a poor tailor . He lived nine years with his poor old grandlather , during which time he was let run wild without hooks or schooling . At nine years of age he was sent toPeronne , there to live with an old grandaunt who kept a small public-house and in whieh
, house he officiated as waiter or pot-boy . The old woman taught her young relative to read . At the age of fourteen he was put apprentice to a printer , audit was in the practical attempts at learning his trade that he learned to spell , and made perfect the lessons given him by the old lady in her labours to make him acquainted with the art of reading . He now attended a primary school , and soon acquired considerable knowledge of the art of literarv
composition . At seventeen years of age he returned to Paris to work as a journeyman compositor . Soon after his arrival in the capital the inclination came upon him to write verses . His poetical sensibility had early revealed itself , for when a boy he had been affected to tears when , for the first time , he heard the Marseillaise sung by the enthusiastic Republicans of ' 92 . In his youthful musings he imagined a comedy , and subsequently an epic-poem , but did net carry out either . Probably the stem realities of life put to flight these dreams of poetical ambition . " Work Bad failed and the joung poet was reduced to the most deplorable state of destitution .
By the age of twenty-three , Beranger had written a great many songs and poems , but he could not afford to print them , and in his destitute andfriendless condition it would have beea in vain to have sought a publisher . He therefore made up a packet of his poetry , which , together with a letter , he addressed to Lucien Buonaparte , brother of the First Consul . Lucien at once saw the genius of the poet , and wrote to him a letter full of encouragement ; nor did he stop there : he presented Beranger with the small pension which the poet continued to enjoy up to the year 1812 . Subsequentl y Beranger obtained literary employment as compiler of the Annals of the Museum , ' and afterwards obtained an appointment as copying clerk ia the University Office , ¦ which he retained for twelve vears .
His first collection of songs was published in 1 S 15 . ' Wine and women , mirth and laughter , were the main themes of his youthful effusions . These songs were , as Beranger has confessed , ' the mere caprices of a vagabond spirit ; ' and yet , as he added— 'these are my most dearly cherished
offspring . Between 1815 and 1821 the productions of his pen began to be conceived in a more serious spiritoften assuming a political character . Not blind to the fatal results of Napoleon ' s ambition , and fully conscious of the grinding tyranny of his rule , still Beranger detested the Bourbons and regarded the Restoration in its true li ght—as a national calamity and profound humiliation for France . These feelings he gave expression to in the songs he composed between the vears we have above-named .
In 1821 Beranger published his second collection of songs , and the ten thousand copies printed were immediately bought up . His satirical political allusions left co room for doubt as to the parties aimed at ; the result was a government prosecution . He was condemned to three months imprisonment in St PeJagie , and to pay a fine of three hundred francs . Besides this sentence he was further punished by being deprived of his employment as copying clerk in the University office . Bat Beranger ' s imprisenment was in fact a triumph . He was visited and condoled with by the first men in France , and the public expressed a desire to pay his fine by subscription , but this he would not permit .
His time was not idly spent m prison , for immediately after his release new and more vigorous political and satirical productions of his pen were in universal circulation . New persecution of the poet failed in again consigning aim to prison at that time . In 1825 he published a third collection of his songs . Lafitte the banker had offered him employment in his banking house , but he declined the offer , being anxious to maintain his independence even of the favours of friendship .
In 1828 , on the publication of his fourth collection of songs , he was again prosecuted by the government , and was condemned to nine months' incarceration in the prison of Ea Force , and to pay a fine of ten thousand francs . This fine was paid by public subscription , and this persecution of the people ' s favourite bard exalted him to the very pinnacle otf popularity . The revolation of 1830 opened to him the path to political power and personal emolument . But ioth p lace and pension he nobly rejected . Unfoitunatelv , ' says he , ' I have no love for siBecures ,
and all forced labour has become insupportable to me , unless perhaps it were that of my old occupation of copying clerk . I could not bear to have it said that I was the pensioner of so and so , of Peter or of Paul , of James or of Philip . Besides , I would give no man , nor party , to whom I might thus place myself under obligations , the right to say to me—* Do this , or do that—go forwards , but you must only go thus far . ' How nobly Beranger contrasts with those things Southey and Wordsworth ! We may add , with his own countrymen Thiers and Guizot , who have made their literarv talents subserve their
personal ambition , at the expense of the welfare of their countrymen . The perfidy of Loois Philippe , and the crimes of the peg of sham liberals who acquired power after the revolution of 1830 , thoroughly disgusted Beranser , and probably did much to induce the decision he came to in 1833 to retire into private life . In that year he published his last collection of songs , and ontliat occasion announced his retirement in the following words : — ' I retire from the . Iists , while I have itOl the strength to leave . Often towards the evening of life we allow ourselves to be surprised by sleep in the arm-chair , in which we are fixed . Better go wait its visit in bed , where it is so isucli needed . I haste to betake me to mine , even t' -oneh it be a rather hard one . '
He chose the neighbourhood of Tours for the place of his retreat , where he passed several successive vears . Subsequently he returned to the capital , and has since resided " at Passy , a village on the Seine , about four miles frem Paris . Notwithstanding his retirement the poet occasionally contributed new compositions , strongly tinctured with Republicanism , and which were Hot without effect in aiding the general feeling of hostility to Louis Philippe , which preceded the Revolution of February , 1848 .
In the general election of the members of the National Assembly , Beranger was returned as one of the representatives of Paris , a touching compliment paid to him by the people ; the crowning glory of his life . But hh election had taken place in spite of his earnest entreaties to the contrary , and withiu the first week of the Assembly ' s sittings he resigned Ms seat and returned to his beloved cottage at Passy . The poet fairly pleaded aee and infirmities , and his inaptitude for ths sfruzgle 3 of political life , as furnishing sufficient reasons for resigning the distinction conferred upon him . His admirers will doubtless conclude with us that he showed a wise discretion in refusing the honours of the tribune .
A writer who visited Beranger four years ago , thus describes him : — ' The personal manner of the poet i 3 full of unaffected urbanity . In person he is a little man , uot more , I should say , than five feet five inches in height , of a firm make and apparently robust and healthy . He has a high , intellectual forehead , regular and rather handsome features , and a quick sparkling eye . The principal expression of his face is , I think , that ef kindness combined with shrewd ness . He talks rapidly and earnestly , pouring a flood of information upon whatever subject occupies his attention , be it political , biographical , or literary ; and possesses in an eminent degree the power of commanding the attention of his auditory . '
We now come to Beranger ' s poetry . We have neither room nor inclination to affect criticism . His songs defy censure , and we despair to do him justice ia the way of praise . We might as well presume
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To gild refined gold , to paint the li ' y , To throw a perfume on the violet , " as attempt to add to Beranger's fame by saying one word in praise of the priceless gems he has lavished upon his countrymen , and mankind generally . We are indebted to the Dublin University Magazine for the following translation of " * " " > a 8 ° " . paint Uy , To throw a DerfumB on the violet . "
THE TAILOR AHD THE FAY . [ m T 1 IUSUK £ X LA FEE . ] Dans oo Piria pleln d ' or et de mlsere , &c . ]' Hera In Paris , to full of all squalor and gold , In BeveBteen hundred and eighty , a . d . At a tailor ' s—my grandfather , needy and eld-When aa infint , I'll tail you what happened to me . Ko portent foretold by my cradle of straw The fame of an Orpheus ; bu ' , summoned one da ; By my cries , my poor grandfather hurried and saw His child kissed and dandled about by a fay ! And the Fairy ' s gay lullaby sung in my ears , With a chirm tbat dlipelled my first sorrows and tears . Then the honest old man , ia some little alarm , Would know what my fate in the future should be . ' There he i 9 , by my wand ' s most infallible charm , A waiter , a printtr , a clerk , ' replied she . 'A thunderbolt still adds a presage to mine , *
And he nearly bus died on the threshold of home ; Bat the bird , « o > n revived by a mercy divine , Shall brave with its strains other tempests to come . ' And the Fairy ' s gay lullaby sang in my ears , With a charm that dispelled my first sorrows and tears ' The sylphs of our youth , the gay pleaBures , in throngs Shall awaken his lyre to the revels of night ; The hearts of the poor shall be glad in his songs , And the long weary hoars of the wealthy grow light . Bat a darkness o ' ershaiows and sadieus the strings , The bright days of glory and empire are o'er ; And his voice fo like tbat of a fitfcer thatbriDgs The news of a wreck in his grief to the shore . ' And the Falrj ' t gay lullaby Ming in my ears , With a charm that dispelled my first sorrows and tears . The tailor cried oat— ' Then my daughter has sent
Bat a mafeer of songs to compensate my care—Better work at my trade , day an ! night , thin fee spent At last in vain sonnds , like an echo In air . ' 1 Hash , hash , ' said the fairy , ' thou ' rt wrong to complain—Though oft have great Ulentsths smallest success—For the country shall cherish the bard , and his strain Shall soften the tears of the exile ' s distress . ' And the Fairy ' s gay lollaby son ? In my ears , With a charm that dispelled my first sorrows and tears . Last night , as I sat in a sullen repose , I saw ber again . With the air of a sage , She thoughtfully pTncked eff the leaves of a rose , And sht said— ' Thou hast felt the approaches of age , Kind memories In Eld will give joy to the breast , As mirages brighten the wilderness lone—The banquets of friendship await thee , a guest ,
Aad there ling live OTer the days that ata gone . ' And the Fairy's gay presages sang in ay ears , With a charm that dispelled all my sorrows and fears . "We take the following version of Le Grenier from Thackeray ' s'Paris Sketch Book ' : —
THE GARRET . With pensive eyes the little room I view , Where , in my youth , I weathered it so long ; With a wild mistr&ss , a stanch friend or two , And a light hasrt still breaking into soog : Ifakisg araosk of life , and all its cares , Rich in the glery of my rising sun , Lightly I vaulted up fonr pair of stairs . In tns brave days when I was twenty-one . Yes ; 'tis a garret—let htm knot ' t who will—There was my bed—fall hard it was , and small My table there—and I decipher still Half a lame cenplet charcoaled on the wall . Ye joys , that Time has swept with him away , Come to mine eyes , ye dreams of love and fun ; Far yon I pawned my watch how many a day , In the brave days when I was twenty-one . And ses my little Jessy , first of all ;
She comes with pouting lips and sparkling eyea Behold , how rogahhly she plQB her shawl Across the narrow casement , curtain-wise ; Now by the bed her petticoat glides down , And when did woman look the worse Ik none ! I have heard since who paid for many a gown , In the brare days whea I was twenty , one . One jolly evening , when my friends and I Made hsppy music with onr losg and chews , A shout of triumph mounted np thus high , And distant cannon opened on onr ears : We rise—we join in the triumphant strain-Napoleon conquers—Austerlilz is won—Tyrants shall never tread us down again , In the brave days when I was twenty-one . Let as be gone—the place is sad and strange—How far , far off , these happy times appear ; All that I have to live I'd gladly change
For one such month as Ihava wasted here—To draw long dreams of beaa * y , lov « and power , From founts of hope that never will outran , And drink all life's quintessence in an hour , Give me the days wh « n I was twenty . one . We have given another version of this charming piece in our column of'Facts and Fancies , ' from 'Duffy ' s Catholic Magazine . ' We may here add , that it is to the poets of the suppressed ( Dublin ) Nation that we are indebted for translations of several of the pieces we propose to present to our readers .
THE WH . L-0 ' -THE-WISP 3 . ' O nait d'ete , paix da village . « to , ' O village calm , O summer night , Pore sky , soft zephyr , streamlet eleax , Ye male my happy childhood bright ; Yield to my age a solace bere . A weary man , I tread the gronad , Where every thing recala the past-Even to these wandering wisps around . Oace from these dancing fires , aghast , Fear weuH have borne me far , and fart ; I ' ve lost my ignorance to-day ; Dance , merry meteors , dance awaj . How oft we heard in evening tales , Of faul , malicious things they Hi ; And how along the fields and vales ,
Their wondrous treasures all were hid . Goblins and ghosts , and demons fill , The magic , and the mystery—All these my youthbslieved too well . I ever saw fierce dragons flj , O ' er castles old of days gone by ; Bat yonng beliefs in age decay : Dance , merry meteors , dance away . On . 9 night , when sceicsly ten years old , Wandering and wearied in a swamp , I saw their ligfer , and felt consoled : — It Is my nurse ' s cottaga lamp . Tee wonted cake awaits me there ! I fly with yonng impatience fijet , Whenlo ! a shepherd ciies beware 1 That litht contacts tby heedless feet
To where the sprites and spectres meet . Thus thro * my life ' twas all the way : Dance , merry meteors , dance away . Once , at sixteen , I saw the light Dance on the grave ef the old prleBt . Sadden I cried , I'll pray tonight , Good father for tby spirit ' s rest . Hethoaght he answered , ' child of sin , Doth love already mould the best Of tby youag visions from within ?' That night my frightened credence leant To future pain , and punishment , Old priest , hasttbon aught else to say !—Dance , merry meteors , dacce away ! When I BOoeoRosetoba my bride , A little gold had made us blest ; A wisp appears : be this my guide
To where the hidden treasures rest , I follow on : bat as I fly My rapid feet approach a pool-Floundering I fall , and cannot die ! ' The ficed them laughed aloud to cool Yoar glswing race ! ' Bay , carious fool , Bat Rose , without me , lived as gay ; Dance , merry meteers dance away . From all a thonBand errors free , I ' m old before my time to-day . Ye transient , sparkling vapours , see , How time has turned my hair to gray . My eyes are opened by the wise ; Bat sweeter seemed the morn before I knew sa much about the skies . Reason expels , for evermore , The sylphs tbat hauated as of yore .
Still would I fear the glidiag fay , Dance , merry meteor ? , dance away . Here is a charming domestic sketch : — THE BLIND MOTHER . ( Tout en filant votre Ho , inc . ' Child , as you ply yeur spinnisg wheel , Give heed to what I shall r < paat : At Colin ' s name I know you feel Yoar little heart begin to bea . Bat fiar the youth : my eyes arc dim , Yet is my hearing watchful ; nay , I heard a sigh ; Is that for him ? Ah ! he bat wsos thee to betray . I hear the window opened : how ! L ' zstte , yon are not spinning now . The chamber is se warm , you say , Bat don ' t stand there with ogling eye , To leok at him who , day by day .
Prowls round our cot alert and sly , You s » y I scold—Ahl I was young , And fair as you , and I can say What snares are in a glczlng tongue , How love will ever lead astray—There ' s some one at the door , I vew ! Lizettf , yeu ore not spinning now . The pott , whea a t » j , «» » tr « & by Uchtalfig ^ the house eUi » ana * * ? eronae .
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You say the wind has stirred the lock : Ah ! ss it seems ; because , for this , « y aoj has got the hearty knock Which stops that undergrowl efhls . Yes : trust nw Colin ' s love le brief . K then art wise I'd have thee fear Toy charms may yet be oauBe of grief—Bat , bless me , what U that I hear 1—That was a kiss , tho'hushed and low—Hzatte , you are not spinning now . Tis a bird only , you declare—Your favourite bird that you have kissed ; TbenbU your Hrd be silent there : No more such kisses , I iaslst . Ah ! thoughtless conduct brings disgrace : Ewn he , on whom you lavish all , liMghs very often in your face , st Prodeuoe , „„ .. . „ You "y the wkdhas itirred * e lock :
L still avert your fall . You hasten towards yoHr nom ; I trow , L zstte , you are not spinniDgnsw . You wish to go to bad , you cry ; Ah ! ' tis a trick ! I understand . Collnishere ; but let him fly , Or look in honour for your hand , Until your winniBg reprobate Shall lead you to the Church , a bride , Still keep your maidenly estate ; Sit here , Lisette , nor qait my side , Till comes that time , or soon or slow , Spia on , as you are spinning now . But it is time we gave a specimen or two of the songs which brought down the wrath of the Bourbons upon the poet ' s head . We first quote'The Coronation of Charles the Simple , ' which the poet prefaced with the following explanation : —
Charles the Third , surnamed the Slmple . one of the sue cessors of Charlemagne , was first driven from the throne by Eudeg , Caunt of Paris . He took refage in England , and afterwards in Germany ; But on the death of Eudes ( in 898 ) , the French Lards and Bishops attached themselves to Charles again , and restored him the crown ; which he finally loit , when , on beiHg betrayed by Herbert , Connt of Termandois , he was put in prison at Paronne , where he died in 924 . The applicability of the satire to the then reigning Bourbons will be seen at a glance .
CORONATION OF CHARLES THE SIMPLE , ' Frenchmen ! In Rhelms aisemble all , On Monijoy and Saint Denis call ! Repaix'd the holy phial see—Our fathers' days again are come ; Sparrows in numerous flocks set free Flutter about the isored dome ; The monarch ' s brow with pleasure beams , For broken bonds here imag'd be—The people cry : Poor birds ! dream sot cur foolbh
dreams—Preserve—preserve yonr liberty ! Here are all ancient rights prefen'd , So I go back to Charles the Third—Whofollow'd Charlemagne , and well Deserv'd ' the Simple' name he bore—Upon his flag no llght-stream fell , When Germany he travell'd o ' er—When he was crown'd , a noisy crowd Of birds and flatterers sung with glee—The people cry : Ye birds ! 0 siagnot now eo loud-Preserve—preserve your libtrty !
BeSiisned with their fripparies , made From heavy imposts—the parade Of Kings and Courtiers marches by-Courtiers , who all net long ago , 'Jfeath rebel standards floating high , Bow'd to a grand usurper , l ow ; Bat millions are net showet'd In vain , And faith well recompens'd should be ; The people cry—Pjor birds ! we dearly pay our chain , Preserve—preserve your liberty »
Sow gold-laced prelates bent before , Charles utters his confileor ; They clothe him—kiss him- oil him—and Midst hyaas divine that fill the air , He on the Bible pats bis hand , And bis confesior bids him— ' Swear 1 For Rome—whom such iffairs eoncer ? , Has pardons for such pe » jary . ' The people cry—Poor birds ! thus government we learn , Preserve—preserve your liberty ! So—aping Charlemagne—when placed The sword-belt round his royal waist , Upen the dust he flings him down , King , Bays a soldier , rouse the ? , king ! ]
• No , ' says the birtiop , thee I crown-Now wealth into cur coffers fling . What trisBis command , that God records ; Lang live—Iosg live legit ' macy !' The people cry—our lord is ruled by other lords \ Poor birds—preserve yonr liberty ! This king miraculous , poor birds ! Will cure all scrofulas with words ; Bat you , the merriest things of all , Had better speedily be gone ; Some sacrilege you might let fall In flittering near this altar . throne ; For piety all meekly brtegg Murderers her sentinels to be . The people cry—Poor birds ! we envy you your wings Preserve—preserve your liberty ' .
'Turlupm '—or ' Master Merryman '—also gave great offence . Here is a specimen : — Come let ui go' the King' to see-Not I , he said , I won ' t da that ! Will ha take off his crown to me , Wnen I to him take off my hat ! If I for somebody must cry , Then here ' s for him that makes my bread ! And men will answer' I—I—I Say what just Uerrimunhas said ' . '
We must pass by the celebrated baHad entitled ' The Infinitely Little or the Greybeard Dynasty , ' in which the poet so admirably pictured the dwarfed condition of France under the restored Bourbons . 'TheDevil ' s Death' { LaMort du Diahle ) excited a terrible uproar amongst the Jesuits and their friends , and was one of the songs on which was founded the government pro 3 ecuti « n . For the following translation , as well as for that of the 'Coronation of Charles the Simple / we are indebted to an article by Colonel Thompson , in the WkstminsUr Review : —
THE DEVIL'S DEATH . I sing to day a lay of lays , A glorious miracle you ' ll sae ; Give the great Saint Ignatius praise , Of all small saints the patron he . A dirty trick—if saints caa trick , And if the truth may all be eatd , Has done the bueiness for Old Nick , The Deril ' a dead—the Devil '» dead ! OH Nick went out one day to dine , And pledg'd the saint to drink h ! s health . Ay ! said the mint—and in the wise Some holy poison dropp'd by stealth J Gripes seized tie Dovil—jiuel sick—He swears , he storms , and hanga his head ; Then burs ' s like roasted heretic—The Devil ' s dead—' . he Dovil ' a dead ! Love is not half so strong as fear ,
For fear was constant with its gifts ; Intolerance is fading here , — Who now the bltziBg toroh uplifts ? If man from us shoald oooe be free , What light may beam npon his head ! Gad greater than the Pope shall be—The Devil's dead—the Devil ' s dead ! Ignatius cam ;— ' Let me but take His place , his right , and see ; in brief-He has made men for ages quake , I'll make kings tremble like a leaf . With plagues , thefts , massacres , I'll ban B-ith north and south ; where'er I tread Leave rains both for God and
man—The DdviT * dead—the D . vil ' s dead <' ' ¦ Come blessed one , ' they uttered , ' come , We hallow thy most saiatly gall . ' And now his order , sent from Rome , O ' ershadows , darkens , corses all . I beard a choir of Augeli tell Their sympathies for men ; they said , ' ' Ignatius Is the heir of bell , The Devils dead—the Deril * 6 dead !' For - this song the poet was denounced by the priests as an enemy of religion ; thus answered Beranger : —• Some of my songs have been treated as
impious , poor things ! by the King ' s Attorney-Generals and their substitutes , who are all very religious people in their way . I can only here repeat what has been said a hundred times . When , as in our day , religion is made a political instrument of , its sacred character is apt to be disallowed . For it the most tolerant become intolerant . Believers , whose faith is not in what' the church' teaches , are sometimes driven , out of revenge , to attack it in its sanctuary . I , who am oue of these believers , have never gone so far as that , but have been contented to make folks laugh at the mere flunkey-livery of Catholicism . Is this impiety ?' Next week we shall conclude this selection from the verses of Beranger .
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Morris , thb Pbdbbibian . —On Monday week Iaat this celebrated pedestrian performed the following feat at Llanovar : —First , he walked half-a-mile , then tan half-a-milo , walked backwards half-a-mile , walked backwards and forwards half-a-mi ! e , played a violin aalf-a mile , played a tamborine half-a rnile , ran a coach wheel half-a-milr , trundled a hoop halfa-mile , wheeled a barrow half a-rnile , hopped oue hundred yards , and then picked up one hundred atones placed a yard apart , fifty with his mouth , and fifty with his hands , and brought ; oach atone to a basket . lie completed this ia eight minutes less than aa hour , in the pressnee of a large number of spectators , who were much amused and surprised at tha isetfa « nM «» oS th \ a extraordinary feat , — C « rmarthen Journal .
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CREMORNE GARDENS . The enterprising proprietor of these Elynian gardens seemBto be never weary of providing for the entertainment of his patrons . On Monday evening last there was a grand night aBcent of the ' Royal Cromorne Balloon' withadazz'ing'di * play of fireworks from the car . Shortly after ten o ' clock the balloon slowly and gracefully ascended and was itself alraoat immediately lost to sight ; but far aloft , every moment higher and higher , the pyrotechnio devices b ! az 3 Q from the car , exciting the wonder and admiration of all prefent . French jets , Chinese streams of&re , Italian getbes , varingated diamond and Bingal ! $ ¦ tJ Roraan Candles , « fec , < fco ., were included in this delightful display of pyroleahnicart . Tho unanimops applause of the immense company Dresent
testmed tneir unbounded satisfaction ; In the early part of the evening Messrs Silvani , Milner , and dreen went through their celebrated posture feats . In the vocal and instrumental concert Mr Ross , the clever comic singer , excited roars of laughter by his song of 'Happy Land . ' In the theatre Mr E . Green , 'the celebrated bottle sprite ' , proved his rightful claim to the title he has taken by a series of balancing performances on crystal bottles , decanters , &b ., which raust be seen to be comprehended : and being teen oannot fail te be appreciated . The Tery crowded audience testified their approbation by unanimous aad enthusiastic applause . Jeannette
and Jeannot—thn best ballet of the s-ason—was equally successful , and excited no small degree of mirth and evident satisfaction . The Gardens were raore than ordinarily crowded , and as a natural consequence those who delight in the waltz , the quadrille , and the polka mustered id great force , ine whole concluded at a quarter to twelve o ' clock with a RorgeouB display of fireworks . As the seaBoa is tast drawing to a close , we think it a duty to our metropolitan readers who may not yet have visited these delightful gardens to do sd without further deiay . WeareBurethey will not regret acting on our advice .
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MR KYDD'S LECTURES . ( From th 8 Oxfordshire Chronicle . ) Two lectures were delivered bj permission of the Mayor , at oar Town Hall , by Mr S . Kydd , from Glasgow , on Monday and Tuesday week , which were more numerously and respectably attended than we had expected , considering that the subjeot for consideration might have been regarded as a dry one . The lecturer , however , proved himself to ba a thorough master of the subject , and , by his simple and forcible style of conveying his ideas , contrived to rivet the attention of his audience en both occasions for more than two hours . On Monday evening the lecturer sought to establish the following paints : —1 st . That the land ot England is amply sufficient to maintain and profitably employ her whole
population . 2 ad . That one great cause of national distress is the depopulation of our agricultural districts . 3 rd . Inat no permanent relief can result from anyBcheme of emigration , however extensive , and that , probably , emigration may end in increasing the distress we desire to relieve . 4 th . That tn extensive system of home calonisation , based on a plan similar to the pauper colonies in Holland , would at once relieve the labour market of its surplus labourers , and lead to the certain abolition of poor rates . 6 th . That the internal industrial powers of America , Belgium , and France are such as must prevent any system of Free Trade , however extensive , from bringing even a temporary relief to our manufacturing population ia Yorkshire and Lancashire . fr ; h . That the employment of our able-bodied labourers on the waste lands
known by the name of uncultivated and profitable , would , if cultivated , so increase our home trade as to make our home consumption of manufactured articles equal to our home and foreign trade unitedly , as they now exist . 7 th . That all the members ol a state have one common interest ; that this is not a question of Toryism , Whiggiso , or Chartism , but a question apart from all party polities , which must stand or fall on its own merits—a question of industrial development . On Tuesday evening Mr Kydd took for his text a quotation from the great Lord Bacon , to this effect , that the four great pillars on which all national prosperity must rest , were Counsel , Religion , Treasure , and Justice ; and made an excellent use of it . He made some witty remarks on the lack of counsel , and brought forward Mr Disraeli acd
Lord J . Russell , as witnesses to the fact that in ten long months our Parliament had soarcely carried any geod measure . The leoturer made some remarks on the mutual interest which all classes of society have in each other . That while the wealthy could not safely neglect the poor , and suffer them to sink deeper and deeper into poverty and crime , the consequence of poverty , the labouring classes could not expect either employment or provision , but by the maintenance of order and by submission to the laws . In his concluding remarks he made some very home thrusts at the present state of the law which afforded bnt little protection , except at a price which the poor could not afford to pay ; and stated his conviction that , until the franchise was so enlarged as to embrace every man of eaue mind , good character , and settled residence , those reforms would not be obtained
which this industrial age required . He baldly avowed his allegiance to the Charter . A vote of thanks to Mr Kydd having been moved by Mr Towle , and seconded by Mr Faulkner , three cheers were given to the Mayor for the ubb of the hall , anil the meeting separated . Not sufescribicg our assent to allMrKjdd ' sviewe , we still consider that , taking the lecturer as a whole , they were calculated to pour a flood of information in most dear and intelligible language on the minds of men too much oooupied in business to study such queBtiots for themselves , and that their general tendenoy was to strengthen the bonds which hold Bopiety together , to uphold the constitution as established by Magna Charta , to expose those systems of corruption and oppression by which the common weal has been damaged and marred , and to exoite a spirit of enquiry , and a hope of better days for Old England in store .
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Gbeenwich Hospital Schools . —A malignant fever , believed to he of the typhus kind , recently broke out m the upper school belonging to this institution . The dojb returned , after the usual vacation , on the l&ta ult ., and shortly afterwardB Bysnptoms of a bad sort presented themselves , attaokin ? a ' great many boyB beloBgiDg t 9 the Nautical School , in which there HS oUOO pupils . The medical gentlemen took steps to check the disease , but notwithstanding Xotf' a uPward , ? , , forty are 8 tatedto be badly 2 S ' others hkely to die in the infirmary . 52 ?« a- 80 ho - lar 8 have return ? d t 0 theif Paints hflPn fi fnr » i 5 > r a 00 nBeqV 6 Dce of a circular having been forwarded anaouncing the unpleasant news Numbers oontmue to leave the asylum , and not more than Jerty remain , and those 6 » in * to their ! JS inth
SMf . P ^ . *" - T ^ boys elowe $ jfi 5 E \ £ ? H nnwnbw , are said to bo not u 5 ? SJ ? f f . 5 5 . * uch are their fears that h ? , Mho k ge S tly ^ t 0 return t 0 * f friemb , Ku 7 i t V K been - rertt 3 et 1 ' Ia consequence a mu-SfMr 5 ft eT ) - . ed it 8 elf ' followed b * a WDeral smashing of the windows of the school . Inquiry having been made into the oircumstances , the ringleaders were discovered , and punished by being put under bread and water diet and severe ' y flogged . It is reported that one of the boys brought the complaint from Portsmouth , where ha had been to spend his vacation 71 th his parents . Some , however , attributed it to the crowded state of the burying ground , -Oteefver * ** ° th < J p 8 nsioner 8 ar 0 de P 09 ited - CiuiioH . -MushtODms being now in season , and plentiful , a correspondent favours us with the subjoined , which may prob&bW ba tha means nf addine
a tew years to the lives of those who indulge in that rural dainty :-. ' In cooking mushrooms for the table always boil them with an onion stripped of its entire skin , itm the process the onion becomes black or blue do not use the musbroms ; if they are harmless the onion will remain white . '—Bristol Mirror . IHE SlAMEBK TwiNS .-The PHILADELPHIA AuKBIcan mentions that the Siamese twins , after being in private life for ten yeara , are about t » start on a tour of exhibition . Astheyeaoh have a wife and three children , they probably find it necessary to provide for their increasing families .
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1 We cull the choicest . 1 BURKB AND EHERIDAN . It is well known that the celebrated Edmund Burke , oa his firBt debut in life , improved himself not a little under the banners and patronage of the opposition ; for which purpose he was a constant mquenter ofthe various debates and disputatioul neii at the bouse of one Seacocbe , a baker , but who , notwithstanding his situation in life , was gifted with suoh a ven of eloquence , that he was unanimously constituted perpetual President of the famous die . puting society held at the Robin Hood , near Temple ear . On a certain memorable occasion in the House of Commons , Mr Burke , exclaiming , •/ quit the camp , ' suddenly left the oppesition benches , and , going ov « r to the Treasury aide of the house , thun ' dered a violent philippic against his former fiiendl and associates . Mr Sheridan concluded a spirited reply to that unlooked-lbr attack nearly in the fol-J > wing . words : ' That gentleman , to use his own f ^ ttTi . ' 11 ? "'"^^ camp ; but hcwillrecel * SliSf ! i ! u £ d il as a de 3 erter . 18 in " eerely nope that he will never return as a spy . But l , tor one , he continued , ' oannot sympathise in the astonishment with which so flat-rant an act of apostacy has electrified the house , for neither I not that gentleman have forgotten from whom ho has borrowed those weapons wb-ch he now uses against us . So far , therefore , from being astonished at that gentleman ' s pretent tergiversation , I consider it no 6 only characteristic , but consistent ; for it is hutntturalthat he , who on his first starting in life should commit soj-roBS a blunder as to go to a baker s for his ^ eloquence , should conclude such a eweer , by coming 10 the . House of Commons for nil ¦ oread . ' i
w-n- Mabriaoe .- ' Never marry but for love , says William Ptnnmhis Reflections and Maxims , but see that thou lovest what is lovely . * HOPS . Hope is the golden cord that tethers man to this existence ; once destroy that ligament , and instead 0 } introspecting with all the anxious eogernessex . cited by happy anticipations , gloomy retrospections supervene , and the mind deciduates into the lowest depths of chaotic despair . Hope , like the never * wiling guide of the pathless ocean , tha compass , even in the midst of most gloomy despondency , keeps steady to its point , and prompts ua to look forward to a happy joncluBion of a tempestuous voyage .
TBE GARRET . ( Prom the French of Beranger . ) 1 Ja viens rtvolr resile ou ma jeunease De la mlsere a sabi les ltcons , &c . ' [ am come to revisit my joutb ' a first aiiylom , 17 her « I learnt to bear patiently trouble and < jare ¦ I d some very good friends , I had songs So beguile ' em I was twenty , my mistress was fond and was fair . Not regarding the world , nor Us wrongs nor Its rights , With no future before mB , young , buoyant and bold , With footstep elastic I mounted six flights Oae Is well In a garret at twenty ywars old ! 'Tis a gsrrtt Indeed , and I wish jou to know it ; And there stood my bed , rosgb . with hill and with hole ; And there was my taMo ; and sea the yourg poet Soored his HneB on the wall , and his pen was a coal ! Rs-appeur , yo gay pleasurestbet earliest dswn'd
, Though time long has borne jo off distant and cold ; Ah how oft to procure you , my watch has been pawa'd . One is welt in a garret at twenty ytara old . Above all , my fair Vzzj , should here re appear As she was in thoso dajs , fresh , and mirthfol , and young ! It was here , that across the tmall window tha dear Her shawl fur a curtain bo oftentimes hung , And her gown on our bad for a coverlet threw— . Oh , Love , hava rctpect for itB every fold ! Who paid for har wardrobe I thtn little Unew—One is well in a garret at twenty years old , One day wo were feaBting , onr laughter was loud .
And the chorus waa raised , and the song was begun , When wo learnt by the shouts of the deafeniag crowd That NapoloeH the fight of Harengo had won ! Loud thunder'd the cannon ! our song was rensw'd , And we praised the loved qaitf and hit esplolts BO bold , And we said thai our France could ba never subdued—One is well In a garret at twenty yoars old . Let us paw from this roof where my faltering reason The thoughts of those times so beloved can bear ; I freely would rIvb all ray lifo ' a coming season For two months of suoh days and dellgha as thea were ! For dreaming of glory , of love , and of pleasure , And for BelliDg eur life for some Joys quickly told , And for fixing our hop ? s on some exquisite treasure , One Is well In a garret srt twenty yearB old .
COAT AND ABM ? . Fawcet , who bad cbambsrs in the Temple , hiving called a ticket-porter to caTry a message , ha asked his name : ho said it was Ru 9 Pall . 4 And pray , ' said the comedian jocularly , 'is your coat of arms tha same as the Duke of Bedford ' * ?• _« As to our arms , your honour , ' says the porter , I believe they are pretty much alike , budthera is a d d deal of difference between our coats . ' Lovb , Dbath . and thb Lottery . _ Early in tho reign of George II . the footman of a lady of quality , under the absurd infatuation of a dream , disposed o £ the savings of the lasttwenty years of his life in two lottery tickets , which , proving blanks , after a few melancholy days he put an end to his life . In his box was found the following plan of the manner ia
which he should spend the fiva thousand pound prize , which his mistress preserved as a curiosity : — 'As soon as I have received the money I will marry Grace TowerB ; but as Bbe has been cross and o-y , I will use her as a servant . Every morning she shall get me a mug of strong beer , with a te&st , nutmeg , and BUgar in it ; than I will sleep till ten , after which I will hive a l . irse sack posset . My dinner , shall be oa the table by one , and never without a pudding . I will have a stock of wine aad brandy laid in . About five in the af ternocs I will have tarta and jellies * and a gallon bowl of punch ; at ten a het aupper of two dishes . If I am in a good humour , and Grace behaves herself , she Bhall sit down with me . To bed about twelve . Speculators in' Derby sweeps' may take a lesson from this .
FATHER CHANGE . There pasBcd down the lane of life—Line irregular and narro w—An ancient fellow , eagle beaked , Trundling such a barrow ! Heaped and heaped , and ova * heaped , Never was a loa . l so motl y , And tbuj ho kept exclaiming otill , Pressed however hotly , — 'Daatha and weddings ! deaths and wed « dings ! TJst'leBj old thing ta ' tn for now ! Something her » for everybody ' . Passing through ! ' Beiri time , nosv ! ba ia time ! Here yo . u . have all sorts of thines ' . Schoolbagfl , business ; g- ins and losses ; D 0 II 9 , and marriage jinga ;
BridocakeB , comns , cradle * , cruiohca ; Gaiety and n&dnesa ; Ils . ilth and richness , want and weakness , Reason—ay , and maflncea . Rags and velvetn , cruets and banquets , Hobby borsea not a few ! Now's yoar timo for making bargains , Passing through !' Oat they came , tta silly pcop ' . e , Out by windows snd by doors ; O ' er the roofp , op from the cellars , Scores succeeding scores . Open mouthe . 4 and open handed , Eager all for something strange ; Puthing sidelong , bold and timid , To old Father Change , 1 Deaths and weddings ! abrouda sml chip , lets !
Lots of notions , false and trui ; Fame ' . —he bawled this to thegarrata ' Passing through !' Chlldron bringing hoops and marbles , Careless words and merry looks , Held them up , Reiving for them , Kulttcd brows aniboohs . Youths , to purebnae lcarning'o honour , Brought a load of midnight hours , Ruddy cheeks . and sooial pleasures , Open airs and fljwcra , ' Education ; application ; Thoughts above the common crew ; Hollow cheats and heavy forebears , Passing through !' Maidens brought familiar features .
Old atieciiona tried and s'rorg , L ' . ghtc-Bt bosom . o , gBy companions , Merry dance and aong . For a heart nn 1 hand untested , For n very world of care ? , Now nl ( U ' ion > , new pursuits , and Mo ^ tcxperimccd airt ! Bridal drcBaes ; splashed postillions ; C ips and Kys , and curaes too ; Be like other . ' ni » es and mothers , Passing through !' At an open attic castm . nt , A philo 3 cphi r who heard All tho bustlu , umiltd profoundly As ho sirokid h ; a beani , 'Cioivding out about him , ' quoth he ,
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i ti aoSSthJ ^ * 118 0 F ™* H 0 OTB <« COMMONS-It ss&TfiWsaatta-, —* ton £ ! ? WaBnil > gton never Bpoko longer than StorT ** e > a good exa ° for neSn S 9 ™ r . EPeed K- ' ' ob 8 , Z es Dr Knox - 'does the Anglo Saxon show his real character when relieved from the presaure of Three Estates . In America ha will ho SSL * E ! aokm 4 a . t , L B a ^ e man ; in Australia t hSVl 5 s bir P th hlHI > Md at ° > eDtireIy from nn i ^ * . u 00 tt '? , ? a 7 ourite abode - Abbotsford , is now open to the 1 public on Wednesdays and Fridays . Mr Jiasam , ofSutton-uDon-Trent . has f .. und thai-.
mustard sown amongst wheat is an effeotual cure for the wire worms . iu Two B . T l haTe built thelr n «» ts under ono of the paddle-boxes of a steamer which plies between Yarmouth harbour and Yarmouth reads , acd the nen h » B already laid three eRRs in this singular place . Wani op TiSTE . -The Medical Times states that carnivoroas quadrupeds always eat men in preference n « i ? Z ' P . arin& . latterjin most instates . This only shows they are brutes and want taste . l ^ S 8 ajS : ~ ' In the eveDi » 8 ° f Sunday week last , between seven aid eight , a globe of fire ot K ^ fi . ^ " ^ " " ted * theatmosphe e to fl « r T $ T * f T !?«* ( S « ta « iDferieuw ) . At hrst it took an ascending direction , but then oame spTrkB Snd 7 ard 3 the 6 arlh ' BcatteriDg B li « erin 8 It is said that the Company of Moneyors in the Mint 11 to be done away with , which will effect a savins of £ 10 , 000 .
A Great Fact —Seventeen per cent , of the population of Great Britain and Ireland reserve parochial relief . In Great Britain alone it is ten per cent . only . The poor rates of Great Britain are nearly eight millions and a half . This must come oat of the industry of the working classes in a great measure . A national poor-rate is almost inevitable . It is stated that William and Mary Howitt contemplate leaving England , and taking up their residence in the west . They have had relatives in Ohio for many years .
A woman in humble life , naced Mary Moohtry , residing at Boredell , near Rwkdowney , made a caku for herself and daughter 00 Thursday evening . Soda was solicited and ( as the unfortunate females thought ) procured from a neighbour to leaven the flour—unfortunately it was arsenic instead of soda . Shortly after partaking of the oake the woman died in ex treme agony , and herdaHghter took violently ill , and is not expected to recover . Pbison Masufaoiubk — It appears from an offioial document just issued that d uring theyear 1847 , upon a daily average of 1 , 056 prisoners in Milbank Prison their earnings amounted to £ 5 , 150 9 ) . 10 H » The expense of the manufactory waa dE 852 7 i . 6 J < i ., ?? ££ *« fe , I ™ ' by Poolers' earnings , £ 4 , 298 2 s . 3 Ji . showing the annual earnings per head to have been $ 4 . l « , 4 H ,
Soldiers' Provisions . —The contract for supply , ing her Majesty ' s troops with beef in the city and county of Limerick for the next Bix months haB been taken at 2 Jd . per Ib .-Linierici Examiner . The steamer Euxice . which arrived at Southampton on Wednesday week last , has brought £ 170 000 in gold from Constantinople . Mr James Wallack is named a » the stage-manager for the ensuing Haymsrket Season . c Jenny Lind has been Binging to crowded houses in Liverpool and Birmingham . CoNUNDRUM . _ Why are the fair sex like the letter L «— Because you cannot make love without them . In the course of the session there have been no leas than 255 divisions in the Ilouse of Commons . The Manx herring fishery has of late proved exceedinely productive . Braham , now 75 years of age , sang ata concert in Birmingham the week before last .
Statb op Nottingham . —There are at this moment 700 houses and shops untenanted in the parish of St Mary's , Nottingham . Ah entire oargo of filberts , consisting of 2 , 260 baskets , was imported isto London , on Monday week , irom Rotterdam . A reduction of £ 8 , 000 is to be made in the wages of the shipwright department at Woolwioh this year , and £ 20 000 in wages fur the factory establishment . The accounts from the wine districts of Franoe and Italy are very favourable .
The contract for the thirty thousand tons of iron pipes required for the water-works of Liverpool , has been effected , at about £ 410 i . a ton . The atmospherio principle , during the time it was applied to the South Devon Railway , cost £ 108 to cany £ 100 worth of pssseiigerB . —Wakefield Journal A Slight Mbiakh . —A woman in Philadelphia , who . in April last , was deserted by her husband three days after marriage , had a man arrested the other day , erroneously suppoaing him to be her renegade spouse . Mrll . Briggs , of Halifax , has obtained the gold medal awarded for botanical knowledge by the London University . College . EMioRATieN . ^ -More than 200 young women , chiefly orphans , havebeen selected in the Irish workhouses , and have been embarked as emigrants on board a vessel which is about to sail for S&uth Australia .
A poor man in Clcnmel haa invented a winnowing machine which feeds itself and fills the tacks with winnowed corn at the same time , He has not the means to procure patents . Very Appropkiatb . —At a market town in Rutlandshire the following placard ia affixed to the Bkutters of a watchmaker , who has decamped leaving hie creditors minus : — ' Wound up , and the mainspring broke . ' A Roland for an Ouvkr . — ' Well Mary , ' said a lawyer to a witness , 'if I may credit what I hear , I may venture to address you by the name of Black Moil . ' 'Faith you may , Mister Lawyer , ' said she , 1 for I am always called 89 bj the blackguards . ' Milton Clark , a fugitive slave , said a't a meeting in Northampton , Massachusetts , that General Taylor owned 200 t \ . % ves , sevenly-five of whom were his wives . Ono of the audienoe remarked . ' Zioharyis an Old Testament Christian . '—North Star .
A Great Country .. —Oregon is said to contain about 218 , 535 , 320 acres ; California and New Mexico contains 500 . 000 square miles . They and the ether territories of the Union equal at least 1600 , 000 fquwe mile 3 , or 1 , 024 , 000 , 000 square ao&B . —Ameri can Paper . Irish Wit . — ' FaUh , ' said an Irishman who could not get into his oabin at Balingarry , his wife having turned the key upon h'm ; ' faith , but I ' m regularly locked in . ' ' /«/ ' aaid his companion , ' in where ?' ' Why , in the street !' Cube for Cramp . —A stick of stone of brimstone held tightly in each hand will instantly relieve this tormenting complaint . It is also recommended that the feet be kept warm in bed as a preventive .
An enormous fresh water trout , taken in Loch Nea was exhibited io the Exchange News-room on Friday week . It weighed 22 f lbs . —Liverpool Paper . Practical Satirb . —During the joint-stock mania of 1842 , a wag advertised a company for draining the Red Sea , and reooveiyng the valuables dropt therein by the children of Israel in their passage and the Egyptians in their pursuit . Important to "Artists . —With a view to putting a stop to certain nefarious practices , a plan is ia agitation for registering every picture that may be painted . The registry being effected by the artist , the forgery of the registration mark would be felony . # Pair at Cootbhill . —Thefairlieldhere onth 8 8 th inst . was a very bad one , there being no demand for cattle of any description in consequence of the soarcity of money . —Cavan Advertiser .
Mr Bailey , poulterer , of London , states that one London salesman sells £ 100 , 000 worth of poultry , that he himself paid £ 81 , 000 last year for poultry , and that £ 15 , 000 are paid yearly at Aylesbury for ysung ducklings . A Poacher . —A . few days since as John Graham , the notorious poaoher of the south of Sootland , was in Falahill Inn lighting his pipe , something caught the trigger of a gun which was laying on the table , and it exploded , Tho contents lodged in Graham ' s kuoe , and he was immediately sent to Edinburgh Infirmary . On the way , however , he died from the loss of blood , the artery not having been tied before he was placed iu the catt . Graham was the Barae man who about a year ago was pursued several weeks by an officer , aad apprehended ia Fife , with a stolen gun in his ^ baud , who while in tho act ofjbaing brought across the Firth , pretended to want a shot at some ducks , threw it into the sea , thua escaping punishment for want of a proof . ¦
An Enormous Rat . —There was killed by a cat at Kinellan Dingwall , Kent , a few days ago , a rat . which measured from the snout to the tip of the tail fully twenty icche 3 , which ' was one of the largest ot thoue noxious vermin we have heard of . Truth and Kindness . —In the minds of the best of men thero ia , always has been , and always will be , some difference of opinion ai to what is true ; but everybody knows and feels what is kind . Thb Parssn and bis Jack-Ass . —The Gateshead Observer aaja , tha , a Hector in the county ot Durham employs an ass to drag the roller along his garden walks , and clothes the nmmai ' d legs in boots , in order that its feet may leave no marks on the gtavel . The Heart . —Continual prosperity ' hardens the heart , as continual sunshine doeB the earth ; but when tho one is softened by the tears of sorrow , and the other by genial showers , they yield tho 3 s fruits whioh the necessities of man require .
A Q . UEKR WAY TO PROMOTE CIVILISATION . —h IB announced in the Paris papers , that the Pope , with a view to extend civilisation in Madagascar , has appointed a bishop to that island ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 23, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1489/page/3/
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