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    A WORD TO KINGS . BT W . C . BEMJET . Here as I by my fireside sit , And meditate my rhymes . Across my busy brain will flit The tidings of the times ; And as along my memory runs The news each moment brings , Prom out the whirl of thought is Bpoa This counsel unto kings : Beware ! ting * , beware ! Heed the game ye play : Kings , the world is moving . Stand out from the way . At List from Prussia ' s royal lips .

    Let honest truth be heard—A people tire of paltry knaves , "Who break too oft their word ; The perjured faith of doped " fifteen Must pass with " forty-eight ; The future holds more Marches yet . If wisdom come too late . Beware . ' tings , beware ! Heed the game ye play ; King 3 , the world h moving , Stand from out the way . "Weak Austria , plant on swords your thront , Play out your bloody game , Tour triumphs Freedom laughs to Bcorn ; The end is but the same .

    Each time the sybil comes for more ; Denied her present due , Tienna yet wul have her rights , And kings her vengeance too . Beware 3 kings , beware ! Heed the game ye play , King 3 , the world is moving , Stand from out the way . You llapsburgb . 6 and you Brandenburghs , Are things we prize , no doubt , Force not the world to find such things , It well can do without ; Gagged tongues and censor-skidded thought 3 fo longer now you rule ; Be wise , and see that these are times "When rnlers must to school .

    Beware I kings , beware ! Heed the game ye play ; Kings , the world is moving , Stand from out the way . Bourbon , of Naples , when , shall time Tour bloody rule forget ? And dream yon there shall come no hour To pay Messina ' s debt ? Hate reapeth hate—blood cries for blood I ' Shall not that err endure ? The avenging furies on the track , Or swift , or slow , are sure . Beware ! kings , beware J Heed the same ye play ;

    Kings , the world is moving , Stand from out the way . The times are gone when history By kings alone was made ; The ' present has some paiis , 'tis plain , By nations to be played . Woe , -iroe to those by whom their path—Their feted path—is crossed ; A scaffold once a Bourbon trod—A head a Stuart lost . Beware 3 kings , beware ! Heed the game ye play ; Eings , the world is moving , Stand from out the way . —Birmingham Mercury .

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    THE KEIKDALE PRISONERS . Shall we , the heirs of Freedom , now repine , Though cast like pearls before a herd of swine ? Though lingering in a dungeon , yet shall we Yield up one jot I 3 fo ! Shade of Liberty , Deign still to guard , inspire , and warm our hearts , That we may nobly still perform our parts . And may we bravely prove in after years , That tyrants' chains for us contain no fearg . But that we may continue firm and true , And show there still exists a " faithful few . "

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    PERIODICALS . Con Cregan , the Irish Gil Bias . London : \ V « S . Orr , and Co ., Amen-corner ; Dublin . ; J . M'Glaslian . In a preliminary address , from the author of this work to tho public , lie remarks that 'His native bashfulness , and other things of the kind , might have deterred him from giving these papers to the -world ; or , at least , like ids old friend Talleyrand , the publication might have been delayed till long after Ms demise ; but he has been converted from these intentions by remarking that modesty is about

    as much cultivated now as astrology ; and that as a wr iter of memoirs is certain of Being attacfced , vilified , and , to useabeautiiul native expression , ' Daily-ragged , ' by the press , it is just as veil that he should be to ? the fore , ' to attack , vilify , and 'bally-rag' in Ms turn . " This is candid and sensible . The work is to appear in monthly parts , and as , tip to this time , "we have only seen the first part , we cannot as yet say much about Con and his confessions—" barring" that he seems to possess tile right Stuff for a story-teller . To give our readers a taste of Carl's quality , we have extracted most of the first chapter , from -which they will learn

    HOW COX ' S FATHER LEFT HIMSEIF A 1 EGACT ! I was born in a little cabin on the borders of Heath and Kins ' s County ! it stood on a small triangular bit of ground , beside a cross road ; and although the place was surveyed every ten years or so , they were never able to say to which county -we belonged , there being just the same number of arguments for the one side as for the other ; a circumstance , many believed , that decided my father in his original choice of the residence ; for while , under the" disputed boundary question , he paid no rates or county cess , he always made a point of voting at both county elections ! This may seem to indicate that my parent was of a naturally acute habit ; and indeed the way he became possessed of zlie bit of ground will confirm that impression . "

    A neighbouring fanner—Harry M'Caieiues 'without a TrilL Of two sons the younger had 'listed , and gone to India . On the night of the old farmer ' s death , the eldest son , Peter M'Cabe , roused up Coil ' s fiither to seek his assistance to construct a - will in the name of the deceased . In the following extract it is the said Peter 31 'Cabe who speaks in the first paragraph : — " Listen to me now , Corny , I want ye to help me in this business ; and here ' s five guineas in goold , if re do what I bid ye . Te know that ye were always reckoned the image of my fiither , and before he took ill ve were mistaken for each other every day of the week . "

    " Aiian : " said my father : for lie was getting frk'litened at the notion , without well knowing why . " Well , what I want is , for ye to come over to the house , and get into the bed . " " Xot beside the cerpse ? " said my father , trembling . " By no means—but by yourself ; and you re to pretend to be my father , and that ye want to make ver will before ve die : and then Til send for the

    neighbours , and Billy Scanlan the schoolmaster , anfye'll tell him what to write , laving all the farm and everything to nie—ye understand . And as the neighbours wall see ye , and hear yer voice , it will never be believed but it was himself that did it . " " The room must be very dark , " says my father . " To be sure it will , but have no fear ! Nobody will dare to come nigh the bed ; and ye'll only ^ have to make a cross witfi yer pen under the name . " " And the priest I "" said mv father .

    " 3 Iy father quarrelled with him List week about the Easter dues ; and Father Tom said he ' d not give Mm the' rites ; ' and that ' s lucky now ! Come alonn- now , quick ; for we ' ve no time to lose : it wnst be all finished before the daybreaks . " My father did not lose much time at his toilet , for lio just wrapped his big coat ' round him , and slipping on his brogues left the house . I sat up in the basket and listened till they were gone some Biinutes ; and then , in a COStlUUC as fight as my parent ' s set out after them , to watch the course of t ! je adventure . I thought to take a short cut and be Wore them ; but by bad luck I fell into a bog hole , aad onlr escaped being drowned by a chance . As it

    " tfas , when I reached the house , the performance had alread y begun . Iilunklseethewhole scene this instant before JBv eves , as I gat on a little window with one pane , ^¦ ¦ i tiiat a broken one , and surveyed the proceeding , -k ^ as a large room , at one end of which was abed , an'l beside it a table , with physic bottles and spoons , ^ t ea -cups ; a little farther off was anoth er table , £ l vh : eh sut Billy Scanlan , with all manner of Vnti » £ materials before him . The country people p * two , sometimes three , deep round the walls , all intently easier and anxious lor the coming event . y *<* himself went from place to place , trying to "fi ller his mef , and occasionally hel p ing the com-*~ to whisk y—which was supplied with more than a £ c astomed liberality . ** consciousness of the deceit and trickery

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    could not deprive the scene x > f a certain solemnity . The misty distance of the half-lighted room ; the highly-wrought expression of the country people ' s faces , never more intensely excited than at some moment of this kind ; the low deep-drawn breathings , unbroken save by a sigh or a sob—the tribute of affectionate sorrow to some lost fnend , whose memory was thus forcibly brought back ; -these , I repeatit , were all so real , that . as I looked a . thrilling sense of awe came over me , and I actually shook with fear . . . .,,...

    A low faint cough , from the dark corner where the bed stood , seemed to cause even a deeper stillness ; and thenSn a silence where the buzzW of a fly would have been heard , my father said , ' Where ' s Billv Scanlan ? I want to make my will ' . " " * He's here , father , " said Peter , taking Billy by the hand , and leading him to the bedside . " "Write what I bid ye , Billy , and be quick , for I hav'n't a long time afore me here . I die a good Catholic , though Father O'Kafferty wou't sive me the'rites . '" b A general chorus of muttered " Oh , musha , musha , " was now heard through the room : bu whether in grief over the sad fate of the dying man , or the unflinching severity of the priest , is har < to say . " I die in peace with all my neighbours , and all mankind !" Another chorus of the company seemed to approve these charitable expressions .

    " I bequeath unto my son Peter , —and never was there a better son , or a decenter boy !—have you that down ? I bequeath unto my son , Peter , the whole of my two farms of Killunundoonery and Knocksheboora , with the fallow meadows behind Lynch ' s house ; the forge , and the right of turf on the Dooran bog . I give him , and much good may it do him , Lanty Cassarn ' s acre , and the Luary field , with the lime-kiln ; and that reminds me that my mouth is just as dry ; let me taste what ye have in the jug . " Here the dying man took a hearty pull , and seemed considerably refreshed by it . " Where was I , Billy Seanlan ? " says he ; " on , I remember , at the limekiln : I leave him—that ' s Peter , I mean , —the two potato gardens at ffoonan ' s Well ; and it is the elegant fine crop 3 grows there . " " An't you gettin' wake , father , darlin' ? says Peter , who began to be afraid of my father ' s loquaciousness ; for , to say the truth , the punch got into Mb head , and he was greatly disposed to talk .

    " lam , Peter , my son , says he ; " lam getting wake : iust touch my lips again with the jug . Ah , Peter , Peter , you watered the drink ?" " ~ So , indeed , father ! but it ' s the taste is leavin ' you , " says Peter ; and again a low chorus of compassionate pity murmured through the cabin . " Well , Fm nearly done now , " says my father , "there ' s only one little plot of ground remaining ; and I put it on you , Peter—as ye wish to live a good man , and die with the same easy heart I do now—that ye mind my last words to ye here . Are ye listenin' ? Are the neighbours listenin' 1 Is Billy Scanlan listenin' ?"

    " Yes , Sir . Yes , father . "We're all minding , " chorused the audience . " Well , then , it is my last-will and testament , and may—give me over the jug "—here he took a long drink—" and may that blessed liquour be poison to me if Tza not as eager about this as every other Other part of my will ; I say , then , I bequeath the little plot at the cress-roads to poor Con Cregan , for he has a heavy charge , and is as honest ana as lard-working a man as ever Iknew;—Be a friend to him , Peter , dear ; never let him want while ye have

    it yourself ; think on me on my death bed whenever he asks ye for any trifle . Is it down , BUly Scanlan ? The two acres at the cross to Con Cregan , and his heirs in scdaseelorum . Ah , blessed be the saints ! but I feel my heartlighter after that , " says he : " a good work makes an easy conscience ; and now Til drink all the company ' s good health , and many happy returns——" What he was going to add there ' s no saying ; but Peter , who was now terribly frightened at the lively tone the sick man was assuming , hurried all the p eople away into another room , to let his father dio

    in peace . When they were all gone , Peter stepped back to my father , who was putting on his progues in a corner ! •¦ Con , " says he " ye did it ail well ; but sure that was a joke about the two acres at the cross ?" "Ofcourse it was , Peter ! " says he ; " sure it was all a joke for the matter of that ; won't I make the neighbours laugh merry to morrow when I tell them all about it ! "You would ' nt be mean enought to betray me ?" says Peter , trembling with fright . H Crnin -wn M » ftnlilJ « f liaTnann nvim . rvli i-r . rm ewninptui \ nuutv xiv uv uwuu

    » s ^ m uuvujjU Vu cu ( tguiiiau yer father ' s dying words ! " says my father , "the last sentence ever he spoke ; " and here he gave a low , wicked laugh , that made ' myself shake with fear . " Very well , Con , " says Peter , holding out his hand : " a bargain's a bargain ; ver a deep fellow , that's all ! " and so it ended ; and my father slipped quietly home over the bog , mighty well satisfied with the legacy he had left himself . And thus we became the owners of the little Spot known to this day as Con ' s Acre ; of which , more lereafter .

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    An amateur naturalist offers a reward to the man who will furnish him % live specimen of the " brick pat . " ' ... '

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    BIG BRITAIN-wmw LITTLE BRITONS . A PHBHCHJUS ' S VIJSW OP ENGIAKD ' b BOCIAIi STSTEU . ( From Mchelefsmtioty ofiht French jReuoZuttow . ) The British Empire is indeed a grand world ! But *?• ^ cm P " e . An harmony of nations . It i » a thing alowly , wisely , and firmly founded , on necessary relations , and founded especially , if it is to be lasting , on the benefits conferred by the conquerors , Such was the great Roman empire , which Has covered the world with its monuments , and left everywhere high roads and laws for nations . Such were not the settlements of the Venetians , Portuguese , " and Butch ; " those glorious little nations , which with nothing did such immense things , havo nevertheless been unable to found anything . You have , I know well , what they hadnqt , your

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    naval . These are certainly very powerful means . And yet how does it happen that , having them , you have succeeded so little in taking root . In no part ( excepting the United States , founded at a different period , under a religious influence ) in no part have you taken deep root in the earth ; I see you everywhere oa the surface ,, of the g lobe ; but firmly rooted , —nowhere . The reason is that you have been everywhere , gathering and sucking the substance of the earth , but implanting nothing , no sympathy , no thought . Having brought no moral idea with you , you have founded nowhere . Your India , for instance , one of the finest empires that the sun has seen , —what have you done with it ? It has withered in your hands . You remain exterior to it ; you are a parasite body that will be cast off to-morrow . You found that marvellous country provided with commerce and agriculture . . . Yet what now remains to be exported , except opium ?

    But of all the English countries , the one that has suffered the most is assuredly England herself ! Here , the bankers willlaugh , and so -lyill ^ the lords perhaps , and with them a fe \ r hundred thousand men , —the vampires of England . . . Yes , but twenty millions of men are weeping , and those men are England herself ! There is no instance of a people so indefatigable and industrious , having ,, after the most desperate efforts , maintained for fifty years , purchased only misery and famine . It was the opinion of Europe in 1789 , and one that Burke publicly professed : " That in England property was divided more equally than in Prance ;" and one of the best informed members of the Constituent Assembly observed , that at that period " most of the English are land-owners . " ' Thi 3 was . pernaps , an exaggeration . But , what

    is certain , is , that small landed-proprietors were then innumerable ; that one met everywhere with the modest and quiet cottage , that humble yet charming habitation , which , exhibited to us so many times in novels and engravings , had made us all in love with England ; add , moreover , the affecting accessories of a quiet , homely , moral , and laborious life , the Bible read in the family circle , the virgin vine and the rose-tree overhanging the * low porch , the handsome yet serious girl spinning on the threshold amidst her young brothers , and the sports of those fine children , vying in colour with the carnation , and full of life . Oh ! many years ago , I still saw somethinglikethis in the best preserved districts of England , and I was so affected by it as to forget our wars , and , I confess , to rejoice that the invasion had not taken place , nor gone to trouble that peaceful world . . . I thanked the ocean !

    I was wrong . The invasion would have saved England . It would at least have forced her to stop and reflect on the brink of the terrible abyss into which aho has blindly plunged . It would have forced the aristocracy to grant something to the people , to relax somewhat of their barbarous obstinacy . Let us add one word to make this more evident Landed property , entirely aristocratical , as we know , contributed m 1700 one-sixth of tho public expenditure , one-ninth in 1793 , but only one twenty-fourth from 1810 to 1842 ! The rich paid less and less , and the poor more and more , and slaved more and more . At the peace , strange to say , the aristocracy granted relief only to itself , none to the people who had so heroically laboured ,

    and supplied by their mortal labour tho forty billions required by the long war .. What a terrible tai . on hatred , pride , and the mad spirit of rivalry ! Go on , John Bull , keep up tho game , thy honour 13 staked not to give it ap . Work , pay , and double thy stakes , thou obstinate gamester . Rule , Britannia , rule ! . . . Work—work thyself to the bone \ Rule , Britannia \ And add to thy work two hours more , —four hours , nay meal time , and the hours of rest ! Friend , add , moreover , thy wife and children , and , by way of loan , add also the work of thy children unbovn ; and who will be born poor and bent double with debts . . . Rule , Britannia ! and die , all of you , in order that France may die ! .

    Alas ! you unfortunate , obstinate people , much good have you done yourselves with your hatred and scorn ; and all that on the word of your enemies and ours . I have wept bitter tears over the miseries of our enemies . Indeed , how can we help weeping when we seethe best part of England , her moral treasure , the family , annihilated ! I speak not of those monstrous Babels of manufactories , where prostitution has ceased from very exhaustion . I allude to the agricultural districts . What is more lamentable than to meet , in the fields , on the richest estates in the -world , those mendicant labourers , working in a dress-coat , wearing the cast-off clothes of the rich ; to meet on the roads crowds of children , sold and

    hired , transported from one county to another in 'harvest time , to work the ground by the day , —all together pell-mell , girls and boys , a filthy troop , miserably piled up in waggons ! This warfare against infancy is atrocious ! Yet such is the spectacle now presented by England . The burden which went onfailine fromthe rich upon tho poor , from man to woman , falls from her upon the child . The child , worn out and corrupted before his existence , cannot live . Under this lugubrious spectacle of juvenile misery and promiscuous intercourse , there is a terrible sentence , more than the end of a society—the extermination of a race . Ho remedy will cure this . England will neither be willing nor able to alter . Electoral reform has made ' no difference ; . neither has the Income Tax ; and Free Trade will not succeed any better ; food

    will become cheaper , but wages will lower . How should the material change ? The soul has remained ever the same . Far from diminishing by the excess of misery , the national malady , that satanioal spirit of pride , does but increase . Sot one of them would wish for equality ; they are all aristocratical in heart . This prodigious hard-heartedness is a terrible spectacle . Wealth is ever going on concentrating itself in fewer hands . The' progressive diminution of -wages , and the dearness of provisions , go on prolonging work , excluding the means of saving , and depriving the workman of the short leisure moments -which allowed some moral culture , might raise him from his degradation , open for him the path to distinction , tne road to political power , and the right . to that power .

    What means that immense and ridiculous distribution of Bibles to a people who no longer read , have no longer any time , and often no longev any povfev to read ? Their Bible , alas . ' in these days , it is in the corrosive liquor which restores him for a moment , intoxicates him , and procures him oblivion . Read ! mark ! learn ! : These are empty , odious words : he wants , to remain ignorant . The whole hope of the aristocracy is , that those millions of men who are dying , and who are replaced only by dying fchildrcn , will die at least in sience , peaceably , and without any disturbance . That population * it is true , having never been very warlike Binco the fifteenth century , but which formerly boasted ,, not without reason , of its physical

    strength , now feels itself teeble , attenuated , ana worn out in body and soul . , I here allude to the manufacturing population m particular . Asfor the strong and intelligent workmen , whom England still possesses in great numbers , two . things are contending against them : — First , they receive no moral culture , no light from ¦ without ; the clergy , even on their own lands , neglect them entirely ; and the radicals , who communicated with them ten years ago , have now separated from them , and , through fear , have joined the Conservative party . Secondly , these workmen are unable to find any impulse within themsolres ; there being , as I have said , no time for reading and reflection . ' . ' . . .

    There is another cause of decline which deserves to be examined . England ' s superiority long proceeded from this cause : that the men of the different classes were there less specialised than on the continent ; the gentleman , by his strong plain food , and violent exercise , was akin to , and often stronger than the workman ; and the latter , by his biblical culture , and the interest he took m public affairs , was ' iiot far . removed from the gentleman . In tho English navy , even at the present day , among the buitders , pilots , and first-class sailors , you will find verr often these two men in one—a complete lmper-. ittfltiAn ftf the-two classes in equilibrium , who .

    without being a scientific scholar ( like the French engineer ) , has much practical knowledge , and at th ? same time a workman ' s energy . This happens onlyiu the navy , and in workmen of a superior order- but the ' bulk of the working classes , that prodigiously numerous multitude , ever increasing , rirentcrcd a different path . The complete man , SmeS and physical equilibrium , formerly com-E » S of people " , is becoming morescarce ^ T&ISemc division , of labour has specialised the iB ^ MW ^

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    link , their action together , and work like a single engine . This continuing , has gradually created Btrange clasBes of men , sickening to the sight , because one perceives in them at the first glance , the ugly impress of a narrow speciality of work ; that is to say , the complete subjection " of personality to some miserable detail of industry ; and from thCSO faxed and perpetuated deformities result races , no longer the fine strong races of Britons and Saxons , but tribes of pale cotton-spinners , races of humpbacked blacksmiths , and , in the diversities of the blacksmith , secondary races , Badly characterised . Aristotle , m his polities , says , as a calculating naturalist , noting exterior signs : " The slave is an ugly man ; and doubtless that slave of antiquity was ugly , bent , and often made hump-backed by hia burdebut

    n ; yet , with all that , he varied his labour , exercised his different physical faculties , preserved inthem a certain equilibrium , and remained man : he was the slave of a man . But what , alas ! shall we say of him , who , hound down to Borne minute occupation , the same , and the same for ever , the serf of a miserable product of manufacture , is the "slave of a pin , the slave of a ball of cotton , &c , < fcc . And then how many slaves , moreover , has this single pm , in its different parts , head , shank , point , &c , who , doing but one single thing , must confine their activity and their mind to that measure ! Such is the great and terrible differenco between the Englishman and the Frenchman . The Englishman is a part of a man . This part may be sometimes an admirable

    workman , of singular utility and efficacy ; no matter , it is stul onl y a part . Whatever he may do , he ia relative ; he exists by relation to one common action , —a machine—a thing . This is a life of things , not a life of man . Man personality ( except the voluntary relations which it gives itself and chooses for itself ) , is an absolute being—a God . Society , far from being an education for the Englishman , or adding qualities to his nature , has even taken from him that basis which bears qualities , and forms their substratum—the integrity of being . For the Frenchman , on the contrary , it has strengthened the fundamental unity ; and , through all our misfortunes , moral miseries , and others , it has constantly endowed , augmented , and strengthened him , as a complete man .

    The French peasant , as a soldier , a small landed proprietor , under various denominations , has bocome man * more and more . -

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    " Chartist Tracts for the Times . "We understand that No . I . of a series of Chartist Tracts for the Times , edited by George "White , John West , and James Leach , at present confined hi Kirkdale gaol , is in the pre 3 s and will be published by ^ the latter end of this month . No . I . is entitled : " Why are we poor ? What do the Chartists want 1 " We anticipate that these tracts will deserve and command an immense circulation .

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    Tire Clergy , is the Olden Time . —A young Levito—such was the phrase then in use—might bo had for his board , a small garret , and £ 10 a year , and might not only perform his own professional functions , might not only be the most patient of butts and of listeners , might not only be always ready in fine weather for bowls , and in rainy weather for shovelboard , but might always save the expense of a gardener or a groom . Sometimes the reverend man nailed up the apricots , and sometimes he curried the coach-horses . He cast up the farrier ' s bills . He walked ten miles with a message or parcel . If he was permitted to dine with tho family , he was expected to content himself with the plainest fare , ne might fill himself with the corned beef and the carrots , but as soon as the tarts and cheesecakes made their appearance , he quitted his seat and stood

    aloof till he was summoned to return thanks for the repast , from a groat portion of which he had been excluded . Perhaps , after some years' service , he was presented with a living sufficient to support him , but he often found it necessary to purchase his preferment by a species of simony , which furnished an inexhaustible subject of pleasantry to three or four generations of scoffers . With his cure he was expected to take a wife . The wife had ordinarily been in the patron ' s service ; and it was well if she was not not suspected of standing too high in the patron ' s favour . Indeed , the nature of the matrimonial alliance connexions which the clergymen of that ago were in the habit of forming , is the most certain indication of the place which the order held in the social system . At Oxonian , writing a few

    months alter tho death of Charles II ., complained bitterly that not only the country attorney and the country apothecary , looked down with disdain on the co'i . itry gentlemen , but that one of the lessons most earnestly inculcated on every girl of honourable family , was no give no encouragement to a lover in orders , and that if any young lady forgot this procept , she was almost as much disgraced as by an illicit amour . Clarendon , -who assuredly bore no ill will to the church , mentions it as a sign of the confusion of ranks which the great rebellion had produced , that some damsels of noble families had bostowed themselves on" divines . A waiting-woman ¦ was generally considered as the most suitable holpmate for a parson , Queen Elizabeth , as the head of tho church , had given what seemed to be a

    formal sanction to this prejudice , by issuing special orders that no clergyman should presume to marry a Servant girl without the consent of her master or mistress . During several generations , accordingly , the relations between priests and handmaidens was a theme for endless jest , nor would it be easy to find in the comedy of the seventeenth century a single instance of a clergyman who wins a spouse above the rank of a cook . Even so late as the time of George II ., the keenesfc of all observers of life and manners , himself a priest , remarked , that in a great household the chaplain was the resource of a lady ' s maid ¦ whose character had been blown upon , and who was therefore forced to give up hopes of catching the steward . —Mdcaulays History of England . Tuk Bouoxjqu of Harwich . —At the election

    which took place in 1 S 37 , the three candidates , Messrs . Ellice , Ilerries , and Tower , had polled seventy-four votes each at half-past three o ' clock in the afternoon : there was only one voter left to poll , and how this casting vote was obtained is thus described by Mr . Joseph Parkes : —" There was , " says he , " an intention of petitioning in 1807 , by Mr . Tower ; and I know that one man had £ 500 for the casting vote at that election ! I know it had been offered to Mr Tower and refused by him , and that half the votes had been bought on each side for the two sitting members , and I nave reason to believe that'the man had £ 500 "—neither move nor less . Thus it was ( continues the News ) , that Messrs . Ilerries and Ellice were duly elected by a majority of one vote over Sir . Tower . But this vras a meYe

    trine . It was not until 1841 that , bribery really began in Harwich . Then they disdained hundreds , and counted on nothing less than thousands . '—and they got the money , too . —Daily News . The Irvixoitks . —Tho body of religionists in London popularly known as Irvingites ( a title , however , which they indignantly repudiate , although they revere the memory of Edward Irving ) , are at this moment very active . Within the bounds of the metropolis they have seven churches—a sort of imitation of the seven apocalyptic churches ; and Newman-street , where Mr . Irving used to preach , is a sort of Jerusalem . Here , once a month ,

    representatives from these seven churches assemble ; and although the reputation of the party is associated with ideas of fanaticism and absurdity , the proceedings of the managers and leaders are characterised . by much shrewdness and worldly wisdom . Mr . Drummond , formerly of the banking firm of Drummond and Co ., but now a country gentleman , and one of the members for West Surrey , is imclerstood to be still connected with thebody , which is actively endeavouring to increase its influence by the accession of other names of repute . —[ The person here mentioned is the cranky genius who , last session , run a-muck at the Northern Star , but only succeeded in making himself ridiculous . ]

    The Butler Divobce Case . —VmhsxusiTnu , Jan . 22 . A decision Uas at length been given in the Butler divorce case , by the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the city and county of Philadelphia . The decree of the Court was delivered by Judge King , senior judge of the court ; and that decision is in favour of Mrs . Butler . The document read by the Judge is of great length , but the whole may be summed up in the following brief sentence ; —The court decrees that it will not give any final decision in relation to the divorce prayed by Pierce Butler against his wife , Francis Ann ( Fanny Kemble ) Butler ; and that the matter shall and may be sent before a jury in the Court of Common Pleas , there to be tried , and final issue given . The decree has given evident satisfaction to the public of this city . Large Sctiiie Pactort in America . —The scythe manufacturing establishment of Reubon B . Dunn , Esq ., at tfortli Wane , in Maine , is the largest of the

    kind in the world . The establishment consists , besides warehouse , furnishing shops , &c , of three principal buildings for manufacturing , two of which ai'O 144 feet in length . In these , and in departments connected with the establishment , are employed about 100 men , many _ of whom have families settled at the place . A flourishing village has grown up within , the last few years , and is rapidly incrCRS " ing : 12 , 000 dozen scythes are annually manufactured , to produce which arc required 450 , 000 fcs . of iron , 7 o , 600 fts . of steel , 1 , 200 tons of hard coal , 10 , 000 bushels of charcoal , 100 tons of grindstones , and half a ton of borax . This last article is used in the process of welding . Mr . Dunn is erecting additional works in the vicinity , which will he soon completed , when he will be enabled to turn out 17 , 000 dozen scythes annually . This establishment is now move than double the extent of any otW in the world—none even in England being found to compete with ii . ' —Mw York Farmer and Mechanic

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    OLYMPIC . Oa Monday night a little piece , described in the play-bill as a ' classical drama , ' was produced at this theatre , under the name of The Hemlock Draught . It is an adaption , by Mr . John Oxenford , from a French piece , originally produced some years ago at the Odeon , in Paris , and performed last year at the St . James ' s Theatre . The plot is simple enough . A young Athenian , Clinias , disgusted with the world , has resolved to terminate his existence on the evening of the day in which the action of the piece occurs , by the fashionable means—a draught of hemlock . He has lately become the possessor of a beautiful and high-souled slave , whom at first

    he holds but lightly , in consideration of her casteso lightly as to make her the subject of a wager between two of his friends , Cleon and Paris , to be won by him who shall first win the lady ' s love . A keen encounter of wit ensues between the fair slave and these reckless wagerers , in the course of which they become really so enamoured of her as to come even to blows , and her cries bring Clinias to Btop the fray . Moved by her story , he resolves to make her free , aad restore her to her country and family ; but by this time he has become enamoured of her charms , innocence , and virtue , while her grau ' tude for big generosity has as * sumed a warmer character . Still , Uowever , he persists in his fatal purpose . Bidding her an eternal adieu , and uttering his wish that she may be happy

    with . > he whose Vwaitis not wasted and withered like his . he is raising the poisoned cup to his lips , when her cry of agony , and passionate avowal of her love , arrest his hand , and change at once the wholecurrent of his feelings . At this juncture the two friends make their appearance to know the result of the lady ' s choice . Clinias tells them that , being unable to choose either of them , she bad bean under the necessity of choosing him . The piece is well put upon the stage , with a characteristic fixed scene , awarding to the approved notion of Athenian habits , and on the whole was exceedingly well acted . Mr . Benjamin Barnett . afterwards made hi « first appearance in the character of Monsieur Jacques . He was received in the most favourable manner , and recalled at the end by the undivided verdict of a very full house .

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    ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . During the past week , Dr . Ryan has been engaged in delivering & lecture at the above named establishment on heat , the laws of combustion , and the best mode of obtaining artificial light . —Doctor Bachoffner is still engaged in his admirable lecture on the Electric Light , and he still fears it cannot be brought within a fair amount of £ . s . d . —There are also some additions to the dissolving views , more particularly an authenticated view of Califor . nia , which has been kindly allowed to be copied and exhibited by one of our mest eminent puWUhers , for whom it was drawn . It is said to give a verj good representation of the new El Dorado . —Doctoi Bachoffner , however , observes , that too much faitb should not be given to the accounts which arc daily published from the AmeTOf t papers , ofosening that it is not always gold that glitters . The institution has been constantly crowded since Christmas ,

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    A New York paper mentions the arrival there of an enormous boa-constrictor , thirty feet long , which was caught in Africa , in a rope-net , and the capture of which occupied 12 G negroes seven hours . The showmen of America have had a keen contest for this creature . Tan Amhurgh offered 7 , 000 dollars for it , but its owner will not take less than 10 , 000 dollars . Politeness is like an air-cushion—there may be nothing solid in it , but it eases jolts wonderfully . The right hon . Sir II . L . Bulwer , K . C . B ., who lately represented her Majesty in Spain , has been appointed to succeed Sir 11 . Fakenhanias British Minister in the United States . Sir R . Pakenham , who has long been a diplomatic servant of the Crown , will retire upon a well-earned pension . It is understood that the differences with Spain which have led to a suspension of diplomatic relations are in process of amicable adjustment .

    A COJTSIDEHATB POLICEMAN . — -fOUNT THE GO TS before you Begi . v . —The Halifax new borough police have printed instructions that their duty is to prevent offences . One of the body ( who , though a teetotaller , is somewhat of a rum subject ) the other day carried out his instructions in a rather novel manner . Two drunken fellows were quarrelling in the street , and from words were proceeding to blows , when the gentleman in blue came up . Without drawing either staff or snaps he marched up to the irate combatants , and , tapping one of them on the shoulder , said gravely , " You haven ' t either of you fourteen shillings that you can spare , have you i" This broad hint at " penalty and costs " brought the two td their senses . They remembered that they could not afford the luxury of a street row , and so they went away in peace . —Halifax Gxmvdimx .

    How Courtship is China « 'GoesioPoi . "—Essau Ackum , a young Chinaman , now employed by Labrcy , Seholes , and Co ., tea dealers , Manchester , has furnished the Manchester Gttardian with an ac COU&t of a . Chinese redding . " If , " says he , " dwing your courtshi p any pot or earthen vessel is cracked or broken , it is considered a bad omen , and one that is never disregarded .. Should the young gentleman , therefore , while in the house of tho lady's parents , hear or see anything of her that is not to his mind , he generally manages ! ( by accident , nfonnrenV to break liis tea cud—and so break off

    the match . " . . „ _ . . The " Expedient Stomach Warmer . " — Tim " new thing , " for such ( begging Solomon ' s pardon ) we venture to call it , is a sort of hollow breastplate for the belly ( don't laugh ) , with separate reservoirs for lime water ; and when you have a fancy for bringing the two together , you can enjoy a good warming ; even our temperance friends , therefore , who ropudiate " cold within , " may now indulge in " warm without ! " What a comical' ago it is !•—Gateshead Obeerver . ' Charcoal ground to powder 18 one of the best things ever discovered to clean- knives . This is a late and valuable discovery .

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    TIIE lAJTD . The land or earth in any country or neighbourhood , with every thing in or on the same , or pertaining thereto , belongs at all times to the living inhabitants of tho saif country or neighbourhood i £ an equal manner . For , there is no living but on land , ami its productions , consequently , what we cannot live without , wo have the same property in as in our lives . —r / mma * S ^ nte . The earth is tho habitation , the natural inheritance , of all mankind , of ages present and to come a habitation belonging to no man in particular bufe to every man ; and one in which all have an ' equal right to dwell .- —John Gray . Confession . —Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong . It is but owning what you need not bo ashamed of , that you now have more sense than you had before to see your error ; more humility to acknowledge it ; and more grace to

    correct it . IIumas Bubblies . —People who endeavour to attract that attention by _ dress which they cannot obtain by their intrinsic worth , resemble tho soap balloons blown by children ; the thinnest bubbles are invested with the brightest colours . Ta . rka . tiox Cheap !—The Leeds Ludligencer says -. — " We learn from the United States that an American newspaper is about to publish Jhcaulat / s History of England in two numbers of the paper , " at the cost of 3 d . The book is published here at H 2 s . Immortality . —Somo of the houses in Edinburgh

    are eleven stories hi g h , and in one of these , near that exquisite green slope from the castle esplanade , Johnson visited lioswell ; and here , also , David Hume , the historian and philosopher , resided for many years , till he removen into the oldest square of the new town . A recent traveller , toiling up the stairs , asked an old woman who was conveying a p itcher of water to her aerial domicile in the building , whether she could tell him in which story David Hume lodged ? " Dawvid Hume ! Dawvid Hume ! " replied the old woman , " I hae been here this echteen . year , and never mind sic a name . Dawvid Hume is no on this stair . "

    " Mother , " said a little boy , the other day , " why are orphans the happiest children on " earth ?" " They arc not , my child ; why do you ask that question 1 "— " Bccsiubo they have no' mothers to spank ' em . " " So you would not take me to be twenty ! " said a young lady to her partner , while dancing the polka a few evening 3 ago ; " what would you take mo for , then ?— " For better , for worse I" replied he . An attorney , ( says Storno , ) is to a barrister what an apothecary is to a physician ; with this difference , however , that your lawyer does not deal in scruples . Inisir To . vgbes WixiED . —Amongst tho latest commercial news from the West Indies is the following startling announcement : — " Toxgues . Irish are wanted , there being none of this description in the market . [ The O'Connells should export their tongues , there beinirno further demand for them in

    the nomo market . ] Siiakspeaiie Americanised . —An American paper translates a passage of Richard the Third into the Yankee tongue , thus : — Neow is the winta uv cour discontent Med glorious summa by this son o' Yock , An' all the cleouds thet lcowred upon eour lieouee In the deep buzzum o' the oshin buried ; Neow air eour brows beound 'ith victorious ¦ wreaths , ' Eour broused arms hung up fcr moniniunce , ¦ Eour starn alarums changed to merry meetins , Eour droffle marches to delightful measures ; Grim-visaged war heth smeuthed hiswrinklcd front . An' noow , instead o' mountin' b . ircbicl steeds , To fright the souls o' ferfle edversarics , He capers nimly in a lady ' s chamber , To the lascivious pleasin' uv a loot .

    The Representative System seems to be gaining ground in England . The good and respectable title of " Reporter" is being rapidly merged in "Representative of the Press , and it was only last week that the death of a traveller for a soda water in .-tmifactovy vra 3 announced as that of a " representative" of the firm . > Sensible People . —A public meeting of the principal inhabitants of Cape Town has petitionod the Queen against the project of sending convict " exiles" from England to the Cape of Good Hope . Ox the Picture op aKus . —( On the picture of a very j'oung Nun—not reading a devotional book , and not contemplating a crucifix placed beside her . ) So young—too young—consign \ 1 to cloistral shade , Untimely wedded—wedded , yet a msiil , ' And hast thou loft no thought , no wisii behind , Ji o sweet employment for the wandering- mind , — Who would be proud to waft a sigh I ' roih thee , Sweeter than auq'ht he steals from Avabv ?

    Thou wevt immur u—poor maiden—as I guess In the blank childhood of thy simpleness ; Too young to doubt , too pure to be ashamed , Thou gavest to God—what God had never claimed , And dfdst unwecting sifrn away thine all Of earthly good—; v guiltlc . 83 prodigal ; Tho largo reversion of tluvie unborn love Was sold to purchase an estate above . Yet b y thy hands upon thy bosom prest I think indeed thou art not unite : ifc rest ; That Christ that lianas upon the sculptured CVOSS Is not the Jesus to redeem thy loss ;—Nor will that book , whato ' er its page contain , Convince thec that the world is false and vain . Even now there is a somotMng at thy heart That would be ott ^—but may not , dare noc stillti Yes , yes , —thy face , tiiine eyes , thy closed lips prove Thou wort created to ho loved , and love . —Hartley Coleridge ,

    The Electric Telegraph . —I hoard an old and a . new joke cut upon the subject of the electric telegraph t ' other morning . ' 1 'ho old one was , that it was a shoeMnn aft'aiv ; but the new one , uttered by a young lady , pleased me better . She said , " I don ' t like the idea of intelligence being communicated hy the agency of sparks . Sparks have no right to divulge secrets . The next thing they will do will bo to kiss and tell . " An Irish dragoon , on hearing that his widowed mother had been married since he quitted Ireland , exclaimed , " Murthei ! I hope she won't have a sou ouldcr than me , if sho docs I shall lose the estate !" What is the difference between the Guard of a Coach and tlio Guard of a Harem?—One takes care of tho Mails , and the other of the Females .

    A Possible Result of Studt . —A man may study a thing till ho believes it . Creech died a Lueretian ; Burckhart and Browne wore Mohammedans . Sale , tho translator of tlic Koran , \ yiis suspected of being an Islamite . —Byron . Writing for the Prkss . —Oyo poets and prosers , who aspire to write in the miscellanies , and above all , O ye palpitating untried , who meditate the offer of your maiden essays to establish 'periodica Is , take cave , pray ye take care to cultivate a good plain , bold , round text . Set up Tomkins as well as Pope or Drydcn for a model , and have an eye to your uothooks . Some persons hold tliafcthe best writers arc those who write tho best hands , and I have known

    the conductor of a magazine to be converted by a crabblcd MS . to the same opinion . Of all thing ? , therefore , be legible ; and to that end practise penmanship . If you have never learned , tako lessons ; . Be sure to buy tho best paper , the best ink , tho bosfc pens , and then sit down and do the best you can ; as school boys do—put out your tongue and take pains . So shall yo happily escape the rash ejection of ajadod editor ; so iiaving got into your hand , it is ' possible that your head may follow ; and , though last , not least , ye may fortunately avert those awlul mistakes of the press , which sometimes ruin a poet ' s sublimest effusion by pantomimically transforming his roses into noses , and his angels into angles , and all his happiness into pappiness . —Hood . _ West of Yorkshire

    There is a town in the Hiding' remarkable for the singularly ha names ot its inhabitants . In one street the brnss-plate on a , house door intimates that tho dweller within is tho proprietor of tho name- of Flint . The door-plate of tho noxt house is inscribed Harder . Tire Actor a > 'd the Bishop , —Jqc llaincs , the comedian , who died 1701 , was no less celebrated for his facetiousness and wicked pranks than for his acting . lie was arrested in the street , for a debt of £ 20 , by a couple of bailiffs , as the Bishop of Ely was passing in his coach . " Ah . . " said Joe to the bailiffs , " here ' s my cousin , the Bishop of Ely ; let me but speak to him , and he'll pay the debt . " The bailiffs thought they might venture , as they were within threoor four yards of him ; so up goes Joe close to the coach , and taking off his hat , the bishop ordered the coach to stop ; while Joe , thrusting his head in at the window , said softly , " My lord , ncre

    are two poor men who have such great heavy scruples of conscience , that I fear they may hang themselves , and I beseech your lordship to speak with them . " " Certainly , " said tho bishop , and calling to the bailiffs , said , * " You conic to me to-morrow morning , and I'll satisfy you . " The men bowed and went away , and Joe , hugging himself with this fallacious device was permitted to go free . In the morning the bailiffs , expecting the debtand charge ? , repaired to the bishop ' s , where being introduced , " Well , " said the bishop , " what are your scruples of conscience ? " "Scruples , " said tho bailiffs , " we have no scruples ; we are bailiffs ^ my lovd arrested your cousin , Joe Haines , for £ 20 . Your lordship promised to satisfy us to-day , and we hope your loi-dship will be as good as your word . The bishop , roneetingthat his honour and name would be compromised if he refused to pay , was reluctantly obliged to discharge tho debt and costs . Tub Use a . \ d Abuse of Wit . —When wit is

    urtperverted , it lightens labour , makes the very face of care to shine , diffuses cheerfulness among men , multiplies the sources of harmless enjoyment , gilds the dark things of life , and hei g htens the lustre of the brightest . If perverted , wit becomes an instrument of malevolence ; it gives a deceitful colouring to vice—it reflects a resemblance of truth upon error , and distorts the features of real truth by false lights .

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    The Cotton Manufacturers ' , Managers ' , and Spinners New Pocket Guide . By John Moss . London : W . Strange ,

    Paternosterrow . This little volume contains examples of the various calculations connected . with the machinery of a Cotton Mill , through all its operations , from the raw material to the loom j together -with rules whereby to find the speed of any shaft , drum , wheel , spindle , or . roller connected with machinery .

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    COLOSSEUM . This has , ever since our first visit , been with us a favourite place of resort . " There is a fullness and completeness in the conception and execution of all we see , that renders a charm to the whole . The Cyclorama of Lisbon , before and after the earthquake in 1755 , which is added to the establishment , is no exception to the general plan . It consists of a continuation of scenic representations of the ill-fated city , opening with a morning view of the sea at the mouth of the river Tagus—the watersi still and deep , with scarce a ripple on their surface , have a softness not to be met with on our more northern ceaats . The boats near the banks , and the vessels in the

    distance , give the picture the air of life itself . The atmosphere is mild , and bo beautifully are the lights and shades towards the horizon interwoven and tinged , that you watch them as earnestly as you would one of our fiue autumn sunsets over the lakes of Cumberland . Suddenly you command a view of the rivtr filled with merchantmen , and the houses and palaces on the banks , represent a delightfully situated city , in all the enjoyment of commerce and luxury . Some of the churches and pub * lie buildings are of a noble and commanding appearance ; and as yon cast your eye over the city , you pay the artist ( Mr Bradwell ) , a merited tribute ol respect , for his care in the arrangement of heights

    and distances ; the most minute objects are proportioned with care . This we deem an indispensable requisite for all paintings consisting of mixed objects . The artist , too , has managed to give to the houses and public edifices , a solid foundation— -yow see them as if they were built , and not painted . The scene in the Tagus during the tremeur of the earthqiake , is fearfully grand . Fancy five majestic vessels struggling for life , from the momentary inundation of some fifty feet of water , rockfog from a subterranean and sub-marine shock , thai ; rends and closes walls in a breath , and buries a solid city in some six or seven minutes . The desolation of the few remaining inhabitants ) who have escaped with life only to know despair , and the full-volumed fires burning red and leisurely , as if their tvork of destruction was finished , whilst the few shattered and

    blackened walls , the last wrecks of sunny grandeur , give to the spectator an impression to be reflected upon and remembered . The fate of Lisbon has com * manded homage frem the penB of Montgomery , Coleridge , and Byron , and we surmise that the fine scenic representation , which we cannot describe , might have been enjoyed by all of them . The hall , from which the paintings are viewed is chaste , varied , and beautiful . 4 The School of Athens , '' Apollo and the Muses , ' painted by Mr . Homer , and copied from the cartoons of Raphael , are a study . The remainwig portions ol the Colosseum , which we recently noticed , remain unchanged . It is with satisfaction that ve know that our recommendation has caused not a few country friends to visit the Colosseumall of whom have said their time ani money were never better appropriated , and we again say to our country and town readers—do likewise .

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    February 10 , 1849 , THE NORTHERN STAR . 3

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    The Haunted Druggist . By Buz . London : TV . Strange , Paternoster-row . A burlesque on the latest ( would that we were sure we might say the last , ) volume of trash corned from the muddled brains of Dickens . The following is a very fair imitation—we can hardly say caricature—of the commencement of the Haunted Man ;—"What every one says ought to be true ; What

    cverv one savs may be true ; What every one says might be true ; What every one says should be true ; What every one says is true ; What every one says must be true ! And every one did say that he was a , Haunted Chemist and Druggist . Every body knew it ; every body said it ; every body thought it . You should have seen him in his back parlour , alone , staring into the fire , —though what he expected to find there , always was and will be a mystery , —his feet on the fender and his ledger before Mm . You should have seen Mm alone in that back

    parlour . When the twilight duskened round that room . When shades of departed patients glimmered out on the wall ; When blue pills became blue devils , black doses black demons , and castor oil assumed the form of gentleness ; When the Chemist ' s bottles began to shine , making the passer-by now blue , now too , now yellow , and now green , a face of prismatic colours ; When the ' prentice boy packed up the bottles and the pill-boxes in the basket for his nightly round , and blessed his lucky stars and empty pockets that he was not doomed to take their contents ; When the streets began to darken and daylight to vanish ; When the old cat started on its evening ramble : When the muffin-boy commenced

    his tinkling walk and envied the toasting before the fire that Sis muffins would undergo ; When the actor , muffled up , hastened through lanes that seemed to lead nowhere , and vanished through a door that closed by a dead weight and pulley ; When genteel comedy slunk through back slums with a l > and-box under her shawl ; When crowds congregate at the gallery door ; When playbills are thrust in your face ; When lamp-lighters , like Will-o ' -the-wisps , glide here , there , and everywhere , with long ladders , through crowds , and never jostle any one ; When milliners' girls , who have toiled all day over finery they are not to wear , wend their way with large baskets to large houses they are not to enter ; "When trampers knock at the Workhouse door ; When bakers do sit down and do cast up accounts ; When shopboys begin to take

    advantage of the early-closing movement ; When weary outcasts of a sunny clime totter beneath their heavy organs ; When the Chelsea steamer" is moored for the Digit ; When cooks -with large baskets are seen emerging from area-steps , and policemen are looking round the corners ; When odd boys ride quickly on odd horses to the Sun Newspaper Office ; When the blurred Sun goes down and the curd Moon comes up : When snow falls on the tips of noses and the lashes of the eyes ; When sailors sail on and sea-serpents glide o ' er the deep ; When fiohing smacks dot the sea , intent on cultivating the acquaintance of the finny tribe , and light-houses stand like the policeman at Herne Bay—solitary and watchful : and birds strike against the electric wires on a railway and fall dead : —When , when , when 2

    Oh ! Then—then—then , you should have seen this Chemist in his back piurlour- * Ione-istaring into the fire—alone I He was a sight i The above , if it had heen written "by Charles Dickens "—and something very hke the above was very lately written by that author—wonld te pronounced " fine " «™ ing . by some Meg . From such authors and tacir admirers , Good Sense deliver us .

• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 10, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1509/page/3/