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most momentous passages of modern history . " Excelsior" is a well-written sketch . showing the manner ia which the most gifted , highsou . ed , and patriotic of our race , are thwarted in their aspiration s and endeavours to / benefit their fellow creatures , and how often an nntimely grave closes over the fondl y cherished , hope , which , even in death , sheds its halo over their last hours . We may note , also , that the second number is decidedly more political and practical than the first ; while there is no lack of light and agreeable matter , the utile is blended with the du / ce . The opening article , on Home Colonisation , contrasted with Foreign Emigration , as a cure for national evils , is a brief but forcible statement TIIASb tnOMPnrAnfl ThA . aao . rraa n £ * nnJ « . _ t * . «_
of the merits of the twe different systems . This paper—which is from the pen of the editor—after pithily Btatingthe creed of the emigration-mongers , proceeds to show , on incontrovertible authorit y , that this country possesses the power of supporting four times its present population ; and then proceeds to answer the question , why that power has not been developed , in the following manner : — But it may bo asked , if we possess theso capabilities , why have they not been taken advantage of ? Fully to reply to that question would require some time and space . We can only indicate what appear tons the leading causes . The first is to be found in the individual appropriation of the soil , and the
consequent existence of laws of primogeniture and entail , which lock up the land—God ' s gift to allm the possession of a few families . These appropriators of the common store only allow the soil to be used as it suits tlieir convenience , interest or caprice . In all cases their interests are considered , and not the interests of the whole community to whom the land really belongs . Its cultivation therefore , instead of forming a primary object with society , and being conducted in the most comprehensive and scientific manner , has been carried on in accordance with individual enlightenment , individual views of self-interest , and the amount of individual capital , enterprise and labour , which might bo applied to it
The wretched results of this system are apparent all over England . la order to maintain political influence over tbeir tenantry , and perpetuate that predominance in the government on which our aristocracy pride themselves , the greater part of the land is held on tenancies-at-wul . The result is , that farming is , in such cases , generally carried on from year to year , instead of being conducted on an extended and practical plan , involving considerable immediate outlay , but yielding enormously increased returns at » future period . Wherever the landlords have had the intelligence to make the granting of leases the foundation of their agricultural system , the invariable effect has been an immense augmentation of the gross produce . The proceedings of the
Lite Lord Leicester at Holkham , and the influence he exerted over the whole system of farming in Norfolk , is an eminent instance of the truth of this statement ; and , generally , speaking , the state of agriculture in the lowlands of Scotland , is a still more striking illustration . In addition to the obstructive and impoverishing effect of entails in the landlord class , and the want of leases among the farmer class , the game laws , and the sporting propensities of our gentry , may be mentioned as prominent causes of the comparatively uncultivated state of the land of this country . Yery . large portions are occupied by game preserves , plantations , and pleasure grounds , for the delectation ef the wealthy classes , which , if cultivated for the support . of man , would yield rich and luxuriant crops . The farms in the immediate neighbourhood of these preserves , are plundered to an enormous extent by the depredations of the game , and . of
course , this helps to diminish the total amount of food produced for the subsistence of the people . - Besides these inherent defects in the holding and cultivation of the soil , so far as the landlords and farmers are concerned , there has , within the last half century , been another powerful agency at work , to prevent the real value of agriculture to a country being properly appreciated . The introduction of the manufacturing system , with its large and rapid returns to the owners of capital and machinery , has naturally turned the main current of the genius , the industry , and the enterprise of the country in that direction . While the most extraordinary progress has been made in the production of textile fabrics , and in the discovery and application of the most delicate , complicated , and powerful machinery for that purpose , the art of agriculture has not advanced in anything like the same proportion , in consequence of the abstraction of the national energies to manufacturing pursuits .
The combined effect of these causes has been to produce an artificial sterility in the soil of our native land , and to lead partially informed persons to the conclusion that Britain is over-populated . But while it can be demonstrated , that there are the means of producing food for one hundred or one hundred and twenty millions of human beings , while , at the same time , we have not more than a quarter of that number to support , it is evident that this is a grosa fallacy and delusion . The writer forcibl y contrasts the merits of the two different plans as a remedy for national
grievances : — Instead " of sending away any of that labour , which is the true wealth of the country , to reclaim wildernesses , cut down forests , and cultivate prairies elsewhere , they should be kept at home and employed in fertilizing our own soil . Every thousand acres which may by-skill , labour , and capital , bo won from either artificial or natural unproductiveness , would , in fact , be an increase to the surface of the kingdom , as much so , as if a slice of a thousand acres had been cut from the shores of some of those distant lands to which it is proposed to transport the " surplus labourers , " and added to our own . Until the unemployed and uncultivated land of this country is brought into full play ; we have no
" surplus labour . Our first duty is to subdue and cultivate to its full extent , " the land we live in . " When that is done , it will be time enough to think about emigrating , the mode in which that emigration should be conducted , and who should be the parlies to emigrate . On the mere score of economy , the plan of Home Colonization is preferable to that of Foreign Colonization . In order to produce the sli g htest effect on the labour market by means of emigration , we may assume fairly , that one million families should be taken out of it at once . Calculating the outfit , passage-money , and maintenance of that one
million , until they got in their first crops , at the low amouutof £ 20 a head , it would require £ 100 , 000 , 000 to locate them . If the plan of systematic Foreign Colonization is to be considered at all applicable to the evib of society , this process of sending off people and treasure , would have to be . repeated very frequently . One of the most undoubted facts in history is , that population very speedily replaces itself under favourable circumstances ; the vacuum caused by the abstraction of one million persons from the labour market , would soon be filled up , and then the depletory process would have to be repeated .
Instead of this most wasteful and inefficient plan , by which , not only the existing capital of the country , but its power to produce more would be most imprudently squandered , we say , that twenty millions sterling judiciously applied to the reclamation and colonization of our waste and crown lands , would be both an immediate and a permanent benefit to all parties ; the country would add to its already large capital , the people would have a larger cultivated area on which to depend for subsistence , and the labourers who ^ had been instrumental in producing thi 3 addition to the cultivated territory , the real wealth , and the permanent prosperity of the country , would , under a just system , share largely in that prosperity , without having undergone any of the sufferings , dangers , or diseases which ever track the steps of the foreign emigrant .
"National Education a means of promoting Universal Happiness , " is anew and important view of this most essential question , of which we can only give an idea by the subjoined extracts : — Since the pursuit of happiness is the prime business of life ; since there is an eternal craving for it in every human bosom—is it not highly desirable that all arrangements which appear likely to produce it , should be called into immediate operation ? In thh light , National Education assumes a new and
important aspect , as a medium through which the sum of general happiness might be increased . The uneducated man , in general , is incapable oi experiencing the pleasures which spring from the possession of knowledge . The sciences may unlock their stores , and pour their inestimable , inexhanstable treasures at bis feet , but he has no taste for their beauties , no mind to appreciate their value . The landscape may be clothed in all the wild luxuriance of nature , but he lacks the inner sense which imparts life to its beauties , meaning to its varied manifestations . >
" A primrose by the river ' s brim A yellow primrose is to him , And it is nothing more . But the case is reversed with the educated . The most elevating pleasures that humanity can . feel , spring from the proper exercise of a cultivated understanding , and of an imagination duly disci plined and subdued . An acquaintance with literature , even if it be but partial , is a source of pure delight . The philosophic student digs up happiness from the entrails of the earth , and derives both amusement and instruction from the pebbles on its surface . Nature is to him an interminable source of gratiflcation . Chemistry unfolds to him its wonders , and exhibits the constituent element ? of organic and inorganic
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X BALLAD OE SIR . JOHN FRANKLIN BT GKOBOK H . BOBXE . " The ice was here , the ice was there , The ice was aU around . "— Coleridge : ftliitlier saU you , Sir John Franklin ? Cried a whaler in Baffin ' s Bay ; To know if between the land and the Pole , Imay find a broad sea-way . I charge you back , Sir John Franklin , As you would live and thrive , i For between the land and the frozen Pole ll Xo man may sail alive . . Sat loudly laughed the stout Sir John , : And spoke unto his men ;—Half Eng land is wrong , if he is right ; Bear off to westward then .
Oh whither sail you , brave Englishman ? Cried the little Esquimaux . Between yonr land and the polar star My goodly vessel go . Come down , if you would journey there , The little Indian said ; jlnd change your cloth for fur clothing , Tour vessel for a sled . But lig htly laughed the stout Sir John , And the crew laughed with Mm too ;
A sailor to change from ship to sled , I ween , were something new ! All throug h the long , Ions . polar day , The vessels westwardsped ; And wherever the sail of Sir John was blown , The ice gave way , and fled—Gave way with many a hollow groan , And with many a surly roar ; But it murmured and threatened on every side , And closed where he sailed before .
Ho ! see ye not , my merry men , The broad and open sea ? "Bethink ye what the whaler 3 aid , Bethink ye of the little Indian ' s sled ! The crew laug hed out in glee . * * ¦ Sir John , Sir John , 'tis bitter cold , The send drives on the breeze , The ice comes looming from the North , The very sunbeams freeze . Bright Summer goes , dark Winter comes—We cannot rule the y ear ; But long ere Summer ' s sun goes down , On yonder sea we'll steer . The dripping icebergs dipped and rose And floundered down the . gale ; The ships were staid , the yards were manned , Abu furled the useless sail .
The Summer ' s gone , the Winter ' s come , We sail not on yonder sea ; "Wh y sail we not , Sir John Franklin ? A silent man was be . * * * The Winter goes , the Summer come 3 , We cannot rule the year ; I ween , we cannot rule the ways , Sir Jonn , wherein we'd steer . The cruel ice came floating on , And closed beneath the lee , Till the thickening waters dashed bo more 'Twas ice around , behind , before—My God ! there is no sea ! "What think you of the whaler now ? What of the Esquimaux ? -A . sled were better than a ship ,
To cruise through ice and snow . Down sank the baleful crimson sun ; The northern-light came ont , -And glared upon the ice-bound ship 3 , And shook its speare about . Sir John , the night is black and long , The hissing wind is bleak ; The hard-bound ice is strong as death : — Iprythee , Captain , speak . The night is neither bright nor short , The singing breeze is cold , The ice is not so strong as hope , The heart of man is bold !
What hope can scale tMs icy wall , High over the main flag-staff ? Above the ridges the wolftand bear Xook down with a patient , settled . stare-Look down on us and laugh . The summer went , the Winter came—We could not rule the year ; But Summer will melt the ice again , And open a path to the sunny main , Whereon our ships shall steer . * * . The Winter went , the Summer went , The Winter came around ; Hut the bard-bound ice was as strong as death , And the voice of hope sank to a breath , Yet caught at every sound . Hark ! heard you not the sound of guns ? And there , and there again ? Tis some uneasy iceberg ' s roar ,
As be turns in the frozen main , fsir John , where are the English fields , And where the English trees ? And where are the little English flowers , That open in the breeze ? Be still , be still , my brave sailors ! You shall see the fields again , £ && smell the scent of the opening flowera , The grass , and the waving grain . Ob ! when shall I see my orphan child ? My Mary waits for me ; Oh ! when shall I see my old mother , And pray at her trembling knee ? Be still , be still , my brave sailors ! Think not such thoughts again ! But a tear froze slowly on his cheek-He thought of Lady Jane .
Ah ! bitter , bitter grows the cold , The ice grows more and more ; More settled stare the wolf and bear , More patient than before . Oh ! think you , good Sir John Franklin , We'll ever see the land ? ' Twas cruel to sexd U 3 here to starve , Without a helping band . . 'Twas cruel , Sir John , to send us here ,
So far from help or no me ; To starve and freeze on this lonely sea ; I ween , the Lords of the Admiralty Had rather send than come . Oh ! whether we starve to death alone , Or sail to our own country , We have done what man has never done—The open ocean danced in the sun—We passed the Northern Sea ! Sartain ' s ( American ) Magazine
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THE NATIONAL INSTRUCTOR . No . H . W . Rider : 16 , Great Windmill-street . Tbe second number of this new candidate for public favour does ample justice to its title . Its contents are judiciously varied ; while , in all , tho same predominating principle of social and political reform is distinctly marked . " The Secret "— a tale commenced irthe first number—improves as it progresses , and exhibits in a very graphic manner tho -workings of the present classification of society upon the mental and moral character of those subjected to its influence . Fiction—when made the vehicle of
sound information as to the causes which per vert the intellect , and debase the moral being alike of the "Haves and Have-nots" of society—assumes a utilitarian aspect , which even the most rigorous disciple of Jeremy Bentham will not be slow to recognise , and has this advantage , that , while the masses might be de"terred by didactic and logical expositions of "first principles , they cannot help being attracted by them -when thrown into a dramatic form . " The Lifeand Adventures of Feargus O'Connor "—by himself—will , however , no doubt , with the mass of the reading public ,
form the great attraction of the National Instructor . Apart from the excitement produced by an exceedingly lively style of narration , the light which the portion of the autobiography in the present number throws on the menage of the author ' s father , on the kind « f education he received , and the prevalent ideas of school discipline , when Mr . O'Connor "Was a subject of the potent birch—cannot fail to be exceedingly interesting to all students of progress , as well as to those who take an interest in the circumstances by which the characters of men are formed who afterwards
exercise powerful and wide-spread influence over then-fellow-men . Mr . O'Connor graphically relates his first " love-making , " and furnishes another illustration of the oft-quoted words of the dramatist"The course of true love never did run smooth . " - In subsequent portions of the narrative , we V&J expect to have much interesting and valuable information , respecting some of the
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bodies . Geology enables hitajo trace the various physical revolutions which have ' occurred on the surface or in-the bowels of the earth , and informs him . tMtotherraeesof beingsrwere its denizens before man was called into existence . Mathematics expand ™ . PQwer of thinking , and . open up the pathway which leads to an acquaintance- with the sublime science of astronomy , which of itself unlocks fresh fountains of felicity . When the sun has set in glory , and his last rays have fallen noon hill and valley , streamlet and woodland , when the gorgeous tints on the clouds are vanishing , and Twlight , clad uysober grey , comes on }' when ; . _«« rf^— -. 1 « _ * .. .. _ - •• • _ _
"The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea , " and ' all nature is sinking to repose—then how cheering it must be to the educated man to wander from home—or , alone , on the watch-towen raised for science , to banqueton the beauties of the scene ! The moon , rising in the eastern sky , flings her silvery mantle over tho landscape—the stars do homage to her superior bri ghtness ; while earth and its waters roll on , illumined by her lustre and reflecting her image . "Whatbigh and ennobling feelings arise in the philosopher ' s mind as he scans the Heavens , and roams m thought over-the immensity of the Universe . Overwhelming thoughts of sublimity . and vastoess
, lofty conceptions of the beautiful mingled with tender reminiscences of bygone years , agitate his breast . The appearance of the revolving orbs above , calls up feelings with which the names of a Copernicus , a Galileo , a Newton , and a Ilerschel , are associated . The history of the heavens lies spread out before him , and he is enabled , in some measure , to behold its future condition iu perspective . Who will have the temerity to affirm that the astronomer , in such circumstances , does not experience the purest and the most elevating delight ? And where is the mdividaal , possessed of the least spark of philanthropy , who would not wish to make such pleasures in' some measure accessible to all ?
• A wise , well-adjusted , and liberal scheme of National Education , if carried into effect , would place these refined gratifications within the reach of the majority of men . The people ; if rightly trained from infancy to manhood , would have placed in their hands the key with which they might unlock all the stores of knowledge . . A taste for the sciences , and for literature in general , would thus be generated , and a fine and high-toned morality would be made to pervade all the ramifications of society . Crime would be repressed if not abolished ; vice would become dishonourable aud abhorred , and " the full tide , of popular opinion would be brought to bear on those dispositions and actions which ; re prejudicial to the interests of the Commonwealth .
One of the veteran Beranger ' s " people's songs , " expository of the body-and-soul-destroying character of our boasted modern civilisation , as respects large portions of the population of this and all other " civilised countries , " will not fail to awaken a sympathetic chord in thousands of hearts which have themselves felt
" The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune . " If the National Instructor continues to blend sound abstract social and political information with fiction and poetry , directly bearing on the interests of the masses , it will worthily vindicate its title , and deserve a circulation at least equal to any of its cheap contemporaries .
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PRINCESS'S THEATRE . The announcement of a highly , attractive bill of fare , for the benefit of Messrs . Macfarren and Loder ; two of our most distinguished musicians , whose operatic works have been eminently serviceable in maintaining the reputation aad prosperity oi this establishment , brought together an audience on Monday night which filled the theatre to the roof . The entertainments consisted of the first act of Chdtles II ., the second act of the Night Dancers , the farce of The First Night , and a concert , in which several eminent vocalists and instrumentalists appeared , including Hiss Catherine Hayes ,-Madame Macfarren , Mr . Sims Reeves , Herr Ernst , M . Vivier , Mr . Benedict , Mr . Osborne , Mr . H . B . Richards , Mr . W . C . Macfarren , &c . The whole passed off with the greatest eclat , and entirely to the satisfaction of the audience . Mr . Loder conducted in the orchestra .
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STANDARD . This popular little theatre was taken on "Wednesday night for the benefit of the wife and family of John J . Fussell , one of the "Whi g victims of 1848 , who is still suffering imprisonment in Tothill-flelds House of . Correction , and- from the numerous attendance , there is no doubt but that the object was achieved . The romantic spectacle of Peter Wllkins , or The Hying Indians was presented on this occasion , and from the manner in which Mr . Douglas has placed it on the stage , aided by the talents of Messrs . Gaston , Gates , H . Lewis , and Mrs . Honnor , promises to have a successful run . ¦ The interlude of Matrimony followed , in which Messrs .
Lewis Herbert , Basil Potter , and Miss E . Terry convulsed the house with laughter . The performance concluded with a powerful drama , entitled The Haunted Grange , or The Heart and the Key . This piece abounds with striking effects , and thrilliug incidents , and affords ample scope for the talents of Messrs . Lyons , R . Hcnnor , Gaston , Mrs . Honnor , and others of the corps dramatique . The scenery is splendid , and the performers appeared to vie with each other in emulation . The audience retired well pleassd with the nig ht ' s enjoyment , which was further hei g htened by the satisfaction that they had served their friend and brother John J . Fussell .
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ASTLEY'S . The Afghanistan War ( the revival of which we noticed last week ) continues to attract crowded and delighted audiences .. The scenes in the circle are of a superior character , and enlivened by the drolleries of the rival clowns , Barry and Wheal . Mdlle Gardoni received well-merited applause for her elegant exercises on the tight rope . The laughable farce of the Lottery Ticket concluded the entertainments on Tuesday evening .
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . A series of lectures on the chemistry of hydrogen , with espeoial reference to its application for conveying by balloons pyrotechnic and other signals to Sir John Franklin , has just been commenced by Mr . Pepper , chemical professor at this establishment . The materials and construction of the balloons were first noticed ; as they might be made of oiled silk , gold-beaters' skin , or prepared paper : the latter was preferred , because , with ordinary care , it lasted very well , and had tho great additional advantage of cheapness . A five-feet goldbeaters' skin balloon cost £ 10 , whilst a dozen paper ones could be made for £ 3 16 s . ; thus the number of balloons to be sent might be increased , and the
chances multiplied of some of the signals finding their way to the missing expedition . The chemical nature of hydrogen was then demonstrated by various experiments—its extraordinary li ghtness shown by comparison with coal gas . The buoy signals , to be used in case of distress by the searching party ; the pyrotechnic signah by parachutes ; the rocket signals , and Darby ' s arrangements for firing , are all clearly explained . The construction of the fusee or quick match employed , and its admirable principle ( the argand ) , was likewise demonstrated ; and it waa shown that it w > uld burn just as well for a few minutes as for several consecutive hours . The discourse was illustrated b y numerous brilliant and appropriate experiments .
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The Skven-miub Tunnel through xhb Alps . The following details are gathered from Dr . Grany ille ' s paper , as promised . To give at once some idea of the boldness of Chov . Mons' undertaking , we may , in the first place , state that , in its progress , the tunnel must pass under some of the most elevated crests of Monnt Cenis—one , in particular , where there will be 4 , 850 feet of mountain , capped with eternal glaciers , over head , at the middle of the tunnel ,, so that not only will the workmen and machinery in construction , and the passengers and trains in transit , be buried to that depth in the mountain , but all idea of shafts , cither to facilitate excavation , or to promote ventilation , must be out of the question . The breath of life itself must be re .
spired , from either extremity , with artificial aid , in shape of currents of fresh air transmitted , and of foul withdrawn , by mechanical apparatus ever at work , at least during excavation , which is also itself to be effected by machinery of a new and simple nature , worked by water power of mountain streams , whereby the trains are also to bo run through the tunnel which ascends , from the northern or Savoy side , at Modane , all the way to its exit at Bardbnneehe , with a gradient equal to 19 in 1 , 000 . The machine , once presented to the rock , projects into it simultaneously four horizontal serierof sixteen scalpels , working backwards and forwards by means of springs cased in , and put in motion by the same water power . "While these are at work , one vertical series on each side works '
simultaneously up and down , so that , together , they cut out four blocks , or rather insulate four blocks on all sides , except on the rock behind , from which they are afterwards detached by hand . It has been already ascertained that each of the two machines , at the opposite ends of the tunnel , will excavate to the extent of 22 feet a day , and it is estimated that the whole excavation will be completed in four years . ; The gallery to be perforated by tho machines will be 13 feet wide by 7 feet high , and this once cut through , the bore will be enlarged by ordinary means to 25 feet in width and 19 feet in height , and a double line of rails laid . The estimated cost of this great tunnel is only 13 , 804 , 942 f . ( £ 552 , 197 ) . It is to be immediately commenced at tha north . entranoe , —2 % e £ m 7 rfj r . - ;
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XiowBibdE and ' thb Jew . —Tbe other day I was what you wouldcall / oored by a Jew .. He passed me several times crying for old clothes , in the most nasal and extraordinary tone I ever heard . At last ' . I was so provoked , that I said to him- ' Pray , why . can't you say ' old clothes' in a plain way , as I do now ?" ine Jew , stopped , and looking gravely '' at me , said' in Vf" and even fine accent , "Sir ; I can say ' old clothes as well as you can j but if you had to say sd ten times a minute , for an hour together , you . would say O gh Clo' as I do now ; " and so he marched off . 1 was so confounded . with the justice of the retort , that I followed and gave him a shilling ! the only one I had .-CoJeritf fl '» Table Talk Patience is very good , but perseverance is much better ; while the former stands as a stoic under difficulties the latter whips them out of the ring
, . ^ Phetit Picklb . —A good lady , who had two children sick of the measles , went to a friend for the best remedy . Her friend had just received a note from another lad y , inquiring the way to make certain pickles . In the . contusion , the lady who inquired about the pickles received tlie remedy for the measles , while the anxious mother of the sick children read with horror the following : — " Scald them three or four times in very hot vinegar j sprinkle them well with salt , and in a few days they will be cured . " Soon after the Copernican system of astronomy
began to be generally understood , an old farmer went to his parson with the following inquiry :- " Dr . T ., do you believe in the new story they tell about the earth moving round the sun ? " " Yes , certainly . " Do you think it is according to the Scriptures ? If its true , how could Joshua command the sun to stand still ? " ¦ <• Umph ! " quoth the parson , Joshua commanded the sun to stand still , did he ?" ; Tv » - " , ' We 11 ' it stood still , did it not' ? » - " Yes . ' " Very well . Did you ever hear that he set it a going again ? " .
A Grntebman being asked what article of trade was most adulterated , replied , "religion . " loo can never overtake Time . It is best , therefore ,. to be always a few minutes before him . Nkw DiGQiNa Machine . —An implementhas beer invented by Mr . J . Hutchinson , of Market Hill . for digging the land by horee power . The machine consists of a hollow cylinder of iron , with ? spades attached to its surface at right angles to each other , and about one foot square apart . During our visit the machine was } n use planting potatoes ; it went along the furrow , with two women following , who dropped a set in each of the holes made by the implement , which one man easil y covered with a broad wooden hoe . It was computed that as much work can be done by three hands with this machine , as by ten hands without it . —Armagh Gazette .
If a man be gracious and civil to a stranger . it shows he is a citizen of the world , and that his heart isno island cut from other lands , but a continent that joins them . ¦ < At an . excellent hotel , not a hundred miles from Liverpool , they were one dayshort of a waiter ; when a newly-arrived Hibernian was hastily made to sup . ply the place of a more expert hand . " Now , Barney , said mine host ; " mind you serve every man with soup , anyhow . "—Bedad I'll do that same , " said the alert Barney . Soup came on the startand
Bar-, ney , after helping all but one guest , came upon the last one . Soup , sir , " said Barney .- " No soup for me said the gent . — " But you must have it , " said Barney , "it is the rules of the house . "— D—n the house / ' exclaimed the guest , highly exasperated ; when I don t want soup I won't eat it-get along with you . " - " Well , " said Barney , with solemnity , " all I can say is jeatthis ; it ' s tho regulations of the house , and the divil a drop else ye'H get till ye finish the soup ! " The traveller then gave in , and the soup was gobbled .
One person abusing another in the presence of Churchill , the poet , said he was so extremely stupid that if you said a good word he could not understand it . "Pray , sir , did you ever try him ? " said the poet . At a public garden in the suburbs of London , a waiter , observing one of his master ' s customers bolting before his bill waa paid , roared out to a brother attendant :. "Run , run , Bob , there ' s two teas and a glass of brandy and water escaped over the fencecatch ' em . " ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' . ' A Glasgow youth walking with his sweetheart along Queen : street of that city , stopped at the door of a pastry-cook ' s shop , and addressing his lady-love , sail , "Now , my dear , what will you take ? " She , expecting to be treated to some of the good things of the shop , modestly replied , " I will take anything you like . " "Then , " says he , " we will take a walk , " and marched past the shop . .
The Pokt Laureate was formerly called the king ' s versifier , and may be traced as far back as 1251 , at which period his stipend was one hundred shillings per annum ; it is now dElOO a year . In the "History of English Poetry , " Mr . Warton says , " In the reign of Edward IV . the first mention is made of the more dignified appellation of Laureate , which was originally bestowed on John Kay . " Mr . Wharton is also of opinion that the title arose from the degrees taken at the University of Oxford , on which occasion a wreath of laurel was presented'to the new graduate
who was styled Poeta Laureatus "Jim , did you ever double the Cape of Good Hope ?"— " I expect I have . "— " When ?"— " Last night , when 1 put my arm round the cape that belongs to the dress of the young lady that I have good hopes of making Mrs . Dusenberry . " Recently , a gentleman was accosted by a female vagrant , when he replied that he never gave to beggars in the street . " If I knew where your honour lived , " quietly responded the woman , " I'd be calling at your house , and then I shouldn ' tinterferetuithyour arrangements . ' "
It is understood that the gentleman called to the bar under the name of Mr . Sims Reeves is not the eminent tenor of that name , however singular the coincidence . The voice of the legal Reeves is a Jarytone , A Gbstleman one day observed to Henry Ersldne , who was a great punster , that punning was the lowest of wit . " It is so , " answered Erskine , " and therefore the foundation of all wit . " . . They debate strange questions down east . The las )> was— " What is the difference between the Bridge of Sighs , and the size of a bridge ? " The next is to be— " The difference between a facsimile and a sick family . " Choosing a Husband . —An American sea
captain had as a passenger a young lady of great personal attractions , and five young gentlemen , also passengers , and who , in the course of a short voyage , all fell desperately in love with the young lady . The young lady liking all the five youne gentlemen equally well , felt herself placed in a position of some difficulty , and applied for some advice to the captain , who , being of an original turn of mind , proposed to the young lady that she should jump overboard , he having a well-manned boat alongside , to prevent the possibility of accident , and that she should marry the man who jumped in after her . She was very much struck by it , And it being summer time and fine weather , and naturally fondof bathing , decided to accept the proposition . Accordingly , on a
certain morning , when her five admirers were all on deck , she went over tho side head foremost . Four of the five immediately plunged in after her , and said the young lady to the captain , when they were all on deck again , " What am I to do now ? see how wet they are . ' Said the captain to the young lady , " Take the dry one , " which she did . What part of a ship is like a farmer ?—The tiller . Depths of the European Seas . —In the neighbourhood of the Continent tho seas are often shallow and their bottom seems to bo only the continuation by gentle slopes , of the relief of the continents which border them . Thus the Baltic Sea has a depth of only 120 feet between the coasts of Germany and those of Sweden—scarcely a twentieth narfc of that
of Lagc-Maggjore near , the Italian Alps ; farther north . it becomes deeper . The Adriatic , between Venice and Trieste , has a depth of only 100 feet : In theae two cases we see that the bod ia only the continuation of the gentlo inclination of the plains of Northern Germany and of Friuli . It is the same with , the Northern . Sea , and with those which wash the British Islands . Here is found a submarine plateau , which serves as a common basis for tho coasts of Franco and the British Islands ; nowhere does it sink lower than 600 feet , and frequently it rises much higher .: Between Franco and England the greatest dopth does not exceed 300 feet ; but at the edge of the plateau , ( south-west of Ireland , for example , ) the depth suddenly sinks to more than
A OUUfeet ; we may say that hero the basin of the Atlantic really begins . The seas in the south of JMirope are distinguished from the preceding by their much greater depths . The basin of tho Mediterranean may be called a basin broken through and jallen in ; resembling on a small scale what tho Pacific Ocean is on a large one . All the short and abrupt slopes of the lands surrounding it fall rapidly towards the interior . The western basin , in particular , seems to be very deep ; it is isolated from the Atlantic b y a submarino ridge or neck , which , in the narrowest part of tho Strait of Gibraltar , is not
more than 1 , 000 feet below the surface . But a little farther towards tho oaBt the depth falls suddenly to 3 , 000 feet ; and at the south of the coast of Spain and of the Sierra Nevada , a depth of 0 , 000 has been ascertained by Captain Smith . Captain Berare inr dicates still greater depths on'the coast of Algeria . If we may believe Marsigli , and if ho has not made some mistake in the statement ; there has' been found in the prolongation of the Pyrenees the onormous depth" of 9 , 000 feet . Not far ; from Cape Asinara , on the north-west of Sardinia , tho plummet has been sunk , without touching bottom , at a depth of nearly 5 , 000 feet . —Quyot ' s Earth and Man .
Military Savings Banks . —According to a return made to parliament and printed on Tuesday the number of depositors to military savings banks on the . 31 st of March , 1849 , was 0 , 747 , of which 5 , 756 belong to the cavalry and infantry , and 901 in the ordnance corps . The total amount of tho fund for military savings banks , up to tho 14 th March last was mcCO % » , « d , ' " ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ m im
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 1, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1576/page/3/
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