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THE EXODTJS OF THE PEOPLE . labour and liberty are for ever one;— f - Tn man ' s true life their work is jointly done I Behold they bare descended . __ Through ages and through centuries , Since Moses first through parted seas , led forth the ransomed Israelites-- ^ Andtanght the tribes in one greatnationblended , Thedecalogueof humanrightsI _ - _ ¦ " ' « . ^ . ^ gF ^ " 61 - c . MSRaasfgv * - ^ . On to tneir Paradise bright , ThePboshsep Lasd ! Wandered that chosen band . The land—the earth-this was the glorious goal Which armed each valiant soul ;—TheLAXD which God had g iven them for their
"Which they throngh toil should win , — This was the mighty heritage which alone Led them through desert Zin . . Those Hebrew multitudes were outled Throug h cloven waters 1 They were fed With Heaven ' s unstinted bread ! And not for one , but alt , the bounteous feast was spread : - - Priest—Levite—ay , or Pablican—It mattered not—' twas bread for man !
That pilgrimage is a parable for the world ! Tyrants may read it when from empire hurled—Slave 3 may behold the Sinai flame of God—And tread the dust in which they once were trod That p ilgrimage 13 the gospel of the poor , Teaching Heaven's holiest mandate—to endure—Proving God ' s promise infinitely sure—That pilgrimage s prophecy for all time-Thus through all ages , and in every clime , The Peopie have teen wandering—toiung on l But , ah ! not yet the Promised Land is won—Sot yet—and not till right has conquered mignt , Shall Canaan ' s borders bless the people ' s sight ! A . 3 . H . D .
OUR EAKLT LOVED . BY FBAXCES BROWS . Our early loved—how their memory clings To the hearts that loTe no more 2 - Lite a rose that still in its sweetness springs , Where a garden's pride is o ' er ; Though the weeds and thorns may long have de faced The place of the perished flowers , Tet that lingerer gladdens the cheerless waste "With the bloom of its brighter hours ! Our early loved—hath their after path From our steps far parted been ! Hath tiie hand of power , or the flame of wrath , On life ' s barriers risen between ! Yet still , in our dreams , their shadows come , O ' er the parting waste of years , Though the path is marked with many a tomb , . And its sands are wet with tears !
They come with a lifat left far behind On the distant mountain ' s brow , "Where the sunrise shone on the waking mind That is dark with shadows now ; Bnt ever as the morning star returns To brighten the evening shades , The lamp of their memory brighter burn ? , As the spirit's daylight fades . Our early loved—have we found them changed In the gloom of oar winter days ; And their bright locks blanched and their looks estranged , Till they scarce returned our gaze ? But far in " the Land where storms or time Can no longer sear or chill , In the light of our memory's cloudless clime We shall find them changeless still !
Hath , the grass on the grave grown rankly green "Where we laid , so long ago , Onr first affections , all unseen , In their deep and quenchless glow ? Alas ! for the dost so darkly piled O'er the bright but buried sem ; But safe are the treasures death hath sealed"for there come 3 no change on them !" TVe may love asain , and the later ties Of life may tie bright and strong ; But if broken , never in memory ' s eye 3 "Will their fragments shine so lonir : And the shrine 3 of our childkood ' s stainless faith , "V 7 e may leave them far and cold , Bat the heart still turns to the stara of youth "With a love that ne ' er grows old !
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History of the United States of America , from the Discovery of the Continent to tlie Organisation <> f Government under the Federal Constitution . By ElCHABB HlIDRETH . 3 VOls . Xew York : Harper . London : Low . This is , " -we believe , the first attempt at a complete history of the United States . " No other work on American History , ' says the author in Ms Preface , " except mere compends and abridgements , embraces the same extent of time : none comprehends the same circuit
of inquiry , or has anything like the same plan and objects . . Nowhere else can be found in the same distinct- completeness the carious and instructive story of Hew England theocracytie financial , economical , and political history of the colonies and the revolution—the origin and shaping' of our existing laws and institutions , state and national—the progressive social and intellectual development of our peaple . " The three large volumes already published bring down the narrative to the establishment of the
Eepublican Constitution—that is , to 1788-9 . In two more volumes the author is to continue it to the present time . One great fault in Mr . Hildreth ' s work is , the method of its arrangement . Instead of dividing it , in the first place , into books , or sections , each book or section comprising some specific portion of the history capable of being detached from the remainder—and then subordinately into chapters—Mr . Hildreth lets the narrative straggle on as it best can through no fewer than forty-eight chapters , continued in nnhroken series over the three volumes .
2 for conld a-division into books have been bo difficult . Anglo-American history prior to 1788-9 very readily breaks itself up into three periods , each having a kind of independent unity : the period of primitive colonisation , commencing with the discovery of the American continent , and terminating in the early part of the eighteenth century—the period of the intercolonial wars , as Mr . Hildreth calls them , that is , of the-wars between the English and the French in America , extending from about 1690 to 1760 , when Canada was annexed to the British dominions—and the period of the struggle for independence , extending from 1700 , or thereabouts , to 1783 , or , more properly , to 1789 .
Perhaps the best portion of the work , as it stands , is that which goes over the ground of the first of the three periods above mentioned . This appears to have been the most carefully written . The spirit in which the story is told is also remarkably fair . The Puritans—" often rude , hard , narrow , superstitious , and mistaken , ' as Mr . Hildreth thinks them , " but always earnest , downright , manly , and sincere" are treated with evident respect and liMnw ; and only now and then ,
when in duty bound as a modern and an American—as , for example , in behalf of representative freedom , religious toleration , and such matters—does the author put in any protest of Ma own . On the question of Negro slavery his leanings are plainly enough in favour of abolition . On this , however , as on every other snbject treated of , his expressions are as customary and commonplace aa Tnay De There 13 , notwithstanding , occasionall y , a bit of interesting writing . Take for example , the account of the trials for witchcraft in
Massaclmssetta , in 1688 92 : — "While Andres was still governor , shortly after Increase Mather's departure for England , four young children , members of a pious family , j n Boston ,, the eldest a girl of thirteen , the youngest a boy not five , had begun io behave in a singular manner , barking like dogs , purring like cats , seeming to become deaf , blind , or dumb , having their limbs
strangely distorted , complaining that they were pinched , pricked , pulled , or cut ; acting out , in fact , the effects of witchcraft , according to the current Motions of it , and the descriptions in the books referred to . The terrified father called in Dr . Oakes , a zealous leader of the ultra-theocratic party , who gave his opinion that the children were bewitched . The oldest girl had lately received a bitter scolding from an old Irish indented servant , whose daughter Sfie had accused of theft . This Bame old woman ,
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frora indications no doubt given by the children , was soon fixed upon as being the witoh . The four ministers of Boston and another from . CharleBtown having kept a day of fasting and prayer at the troubled house , the youngest child was relieved . But the others , more persevering and' more artful , continuing as before , the old woman was presently arrested , and charged with . bewitching them , She had for a long time been reputed a witoh , and she even seems to have flattered herself that she was one . Indeed her answers were so " senseless , " that the magistrates referred' it to the doctors to see if she-were not " crazed in her intellects . " On their report of her sanity , the old woman was tried , found guilty , and executed . rora indications no " doubt given by 11 m i hililn n
Though Increase Mather was absent on this interesting occasion , he had a zealous representative in his son Cotton Mather , a young minister of twentyfive , a prodigy of learning , eloquence , and piety , recently settled as colleague with his father , over Boston Korth Church . * * Cotton Mather had taken a very active part in the late case of witchcraft ; and that he might study the operations of diabolical agency at his leisure , and thus be furnished with evidence and arguments to establish its reality , he took the eldest of the bewitched children home to his own house . His eagerness to believe invited imposture . His excessive vanity and strong prejudices made him easy game . Adroit andartfui bevond her vears , the girl fooled him to the top of
his bent . His ready pen was soon furnished with materials for " a story made all up of wonders ;" which , with some matters of the same sort , and a sermon preached on the occasion , which he presently published under the title of " Memorable Providences relating to 'Witchcrafts and Possessions . " with a preface , hi which he warned all " Sadducees'' that he would regard their doubts for the future as a personal insult . Cotton Mather was not the only dupe . " The old heresy of the sensual Sadducees denying the being of angels either good or evil , " says the recommendatory preface to the book , signed by the other four
ministers of Boston , " died not with them , nor will it , whilst men , abandoning both faith and reason , count it their wisdom to credit nothing but what they see or feel .. How much this fond opinion hath gotten ground in this debauched age is awfully observahle ; and what a dangerous stroke it gives to settle men in atheism is not hard to discern . God is , therefore , pleased , besides the witnesses borne to this truth in sacred writ , to suffer devils sometimes to do such things iu the world as shall stop the mouths of gainsayers , and extort a confession from them . " The ministers add their testimony to the truth of Mather's statements ; which they commend as furnishinc " clear information that there
is both a God . and a devil and witchcraft . The book was presently republished in Londoa , with a preface by Baxter , who pronounced the girl's case so " convincing" that " he must be a very obdurate Sadducee who would not believe it . " * * The bewitched girl , as she ceased to be an object of popular attention , seems to have returned to her former behaviour . But the seed had been sown on fruitful ground . After an interval of nearly four years , three young g irls in the family of Parris , minister of Salem village , now Danvers , began to exhibit similar pranks . As in the Boston case , a physician pronounced them bewitched , and Tituba , an old Indian woman , the servant of Parris , who undertook , by some vulgar rites , to discover the
witch , was rewarded by the girls with the accusation of being herself the cause of their sufferings . The neighbouring ministers assembled at the house of Parris for fasting and prayer . The village fasted , and presently a general fast was ordained throughout the colony . The " bewitched children , thu 3 rendered objects of universal sympathy and attention , " did not long want imitators . Several young girls , and two or three women of the neighbourhood , began to be afflicted in the same way ; as did also John , the Indian husband of Tituba , warned , it would seem , by the fate of his wife . Parris took a very active part in discovering the witches ; so did Uoyes , minister of Salem , described as a learned , a charitable , and a good man . A town committee was soon formed for the detection of the witches . Two of the magistrates ,
resident at Salem , entered with great zeal into the matter . The accusations , confined at first to Tituba and two other friendless women , one crazed , and the other bed-rid , presently included two female members of Parris ' s church , in which , as in so many other churches , there had been some sharp dissensions . The next Sunday after this accusation Parris preached from the verse— " Have I not chosen you twelve , and one is a devil ? " At the announcement of this text , the sister of one of the accused women rose and left the ¦ meeting-house . The two were accused immediately after , and the same fate soon overtook all who showed the least disposition to resist the prevailing delusion . The matter bad now assumed so much importance that the deputy governor proceeded to Salem village , with five other magistrates , and held a court in the meeting-house .
The remainder of the history of this delusion , which spread all over Massachusetts , and involved the deaths of many persons of both sexes , occupies several pages . Among the miscellaneous points of information contained in the part of Mr . Hildreth ' s work devoted to the early history of the various colonies , are such facts as these : that , numerous as were the tribes of Indians with whom the early settlers came into contact , the total number of Indians inhabiting the whole territory of the United States east of the Rocky Mountain can at no time within Euro pean reeord hare exceeded 300 . 000 individuals ; that the oldest town by many years in the United States is St . Augustine , in Florida ,
founded by a Spanish colony in 1594—the second being . Santa Fe , founded also by the Spaniards in 1532 ; that the first college in America was Harvard College , Cambridge , endowed by John Harvard , aclergyman , with a sum of about £ 800 , in the year 1639 ; that the first printing press in America was setupintheaametowniu 1640 by Stephen Day , whose first production was a metrical version of the Psalms , " not very remarkable for tunefulness ; " and that the total population of the various Anglo-American colonies as lately as 1715 , when Franklin was a boy of nine years of age , was only 434 , GOO souls . The following passage relatiug to the currency of Xew England is not uninteresting : —
Such coia as the emigrants to Xew England brought with them quickly went back again in payment for imported goods ; but so long as the emigration was kept up , the inconvenience was little felt . * * The sudden stop to immigration , occasioned by the pclitic . il changes in England , caused a great fall of prices , and a corresponding difficulty in paying debts . Taxe 3 had all along been paid in grain and cattle at rates fixed by the General Court ; and grain , at different prices for the different sorts , was now made a legal tender for the payment of all new debts . To prevent sacrifices of property in cases of inability to pay , corn , cattle , and other personal goods—or , in defect of such goods , the house and lauds of thedebtor , when
_ taken in execution—were to be delivered over to the ereditor , at such value as they might be appraised at by " three understanding and indifferent men , " one chosen by the " ereditor , another by the debtor , and a third by the marshal . * * Beaver skins -were also paid and received as money ; and , from their value as a remittance , they held the next place to coin . Musket balls , at . a farthing each , were at one time a legal tender to the amounl of a shilling . A more available currency was found in the-wampum or peapte—cylindrical beads , half an inch long , of two colours , while and bluish black , made by the Indians from parts of certain sea shells . The people of Plymouth first learned the use and value of this article from the Dutch of Manhattan ,
and they soon found it very profitable in trade with ths Eastern Indians—the shells of which it was made not being common north of Cape Cod . Presently it came to be employed a 3 a circulating medium , first in the Indian traffic , and then among the colonists generally . Three of the blsck beads , or six of the white , passed for a penny . For convenience of reckoning they were strung in known parcels—a j . enny , threepence , a shilling , and five shillings in white ; twopence , sixpence , two-andsixpence , and ten shillings in black . A fathom of white was worth ten shillings , or two dollars and a half ; a fathom of black , twice as much ; but , as the quantity in circulation increased , the value presently depreciated , and the number of bead 3 to the penny was augmented .
Ifc is as a repertory of snob , facts as these , rather than as a historical view of the primitive condition of the Anglo-American settlements , that Mr . Hildreth ' s work is to be considered valuable . The social condition of the American colonies during the second great era of Anglo-American History—that of the Intercolonial Wars—was not the same as it had been during the first . Regarding New England in particular , Mr . Hildreth says : —
In the century since its settlement Jfew England bad undergone a great change . The austere manners Of the Puritan fathers were still indeed preserved ; their language was repeated ; their observances were kept up ; their institutions were revered ; forms and habits remained—but the spirit was gone The mere ordinary objects of human S f " » the universal passion for wealth , ffi ^ T Squabbles ^ th royal goremors , land speculations , paper-money jobs , and projects of terri
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tonal and personal aggrandisement , had superseded tno «» v el » phy . 8 ioal disputes , ; that spiritual vision , and that absorbing passion for a pure theocratic commonwealtu , wbich . had carried the fathers into the wilderness . ' . ' . ; It was among a " colder set of influences , therefore , than those . which had tended the planting of the colonies , that their destined heroes and defenders—the Franklins and the Washingtons of the , eighteenth centurypassed their youth and manhood . Enthusiasm was extinct ; and a prudent , formal inuifferentism had succeeded ; So decided was | I mil ¦
the change—or as it appeared'to many , the degeneracy—that one or two men in whom the old spirit lingered , or was rekindled , made it the aim of their lives to renew and propagate it .. Of these . by far the most distinguished was Jonathan Edwards ; the greatest thinker , perhaps , that America has yet produced—but of whom we defy the most quick sighted reader to obtain the slightest notion from Mr . Hil 1 dreth . Assistants ; of his , in his Herculean attempt to bring back religious fervour and
sincerity among a population of half a million of persons , were the two Wesleys and "Whit field : the WesleySj it is true , rather through their disciples than directly—for during their residence in America in 1736-7 they did not exert much influence . The '' Great Revival , '' however , was but temporary in its effec s ; and Anglo-American society preferred to advance in its own more spontaneous direction . Franklin , rather than Jonathan Edwards , was the type of the growing American character in the period of the intercolonial wars .
Of these wars there were four : the first lasted eight years ! or from 1690 to 1698 , —the second twelve years , or from 1701 to 1713 , — the third eight years , or from 1740 to 1748 , — and the fourth six years , or from 1754 to 1760 . The second volume of Mr . Hildreth ' s work is in great part taken up with an account of these wars , and of the progress of the colonies during the seventy years over which they extended . Here , even more than in the preceding part of the work , hiive we to complain of the extreme insipidity and dulness of his narrative .
The same kind of objections lie against the remaining portions of the work ; m which Mr . Hildreth relates the struggle of the colonies for independence , and completes the third great section of Anglo-American history . Here , however , owing to the unity of the subject , the interest is better kept up ; and we should suppose that the reader who desires to inform himself in all the particulars , military or political , of the American Revolution , would find that they had . been scrupulously collected for him by Mr . Hildretb . More than this we cannot say . For masterly portraits of the men of the revolution , —Franklin , Washington , Jefferson , &c , —or for profound-appreciations of its worth and its historic consequences , the reader must go elsewhere .
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POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . This inimitable establishment continues to attract thousands of visitors , by its varied exhibitions of genius and nrt . On our recent visit we heard a lecture on nova motive railways ; and we had a ride by the train . Secondly , —A lecture on chemistry , by Mr . Pepper , in which the priestly imposition , " The fiery ordeal , " was exposed and exploded . The juvenile portion of the audience was treated to barley sugar , made by the lecturer dipping his hands with fruit into boiling sugar on the spot . Thirdly , —We were charmed with the Tyrolese airs , of the " Alpine singers , " who sung in their native tongue , clad in all the romantic simplicity of their native hills . The Alpine singers are three in number , two males and . a female ' ; the latter beautiful in person , and possessing-a most charming voice , bv which she captivated her audience , and
succeeded in eliciting more than one encore . Aiter witnessing the " doings , " of the diver and the diving bell , the evolutions of the electric eels , and the wonders of the Photographic art , as' shown in innumerable portraits , vro had a lecture from professor Backoffner on electricity , with numerous experiments , which at once astonished , delighted , and electrified the audience . The dissolving views in the large theatre , embracing beautiful pictures in the Morea . Cape Town , Fingal ' s cave , the drip ^ pingwell of Knaresbro ' , the Rock of Gibralter , and the caves in the inierior of the rock , containing a battalion of Infantry ; and concluding with the brilliant and ever changing chromatrope , which elicited loud and repeated bursts of applause . To our readers who are lovers of science , and admirers of the fine arts , we say , fail not to visit the Polytechnic Institution .
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— ^ >— THERAPECTIC 3 . —The history of medicine is hv nefmeans flattering to science . It is questionable whether more is known of diseases , their cause , * and their cure , at this moment , than in the time of Galen ; it is certain that diseases are quite as numerous , and in the aggregate as fatal . Every age has produced some new system , of artificial therapeutics which the next age has banished ; each has boasted in its turn ofcures ^ and they , in their turn , have been condemned as failures . Medicines themselves are the subjects unsettled ; in fact , that it has no established principles , that it is little more than conjectural ? ' At this moment , ' says Mr . Pinny , ' the opinions on the subjact ot treatment arc almost a 3 numerons as the practitioners themselves . Witness the mass of contradiction on the treatment of even one disease , namely , consumption . Stroll attributes its frequency to the introduction of bark . Morton considers bark an effectual cure , lleid ascribes the frequency of the disease to the use of mercury . Brillonet asserts that it is
curable liy mercury only . * Ituse says that consumption is an inflammatory disease — should be treated by bleeding , purging , cooling medicines , and starvation . Salvadori says it is a disease of debility , and should be treated b y tonics , stimnlating remedies , and a generous diet . Galen recommended vinegar as the bestpreventative of consumption . Dessault and others assert that consumption is often brought on by taking vinegar to prevent obesity . Beddoe 3 recommended foxglove as a . speeific . Dr . Parr found foxgleve more injurious in his pvactke than beneficial . Such are theTontradictory statements of medical men ! ' And yet there can be but one true theory of disease . Of the fallibility and inefficiency of medicine , nouc have been more conscious than mediral men themselves , many , of whom have been honest enough to avow their conviction , and now recommend MESSRS . DU BARRY'S KBVALESTA AKABICA FOOD , a farina , which careful analysis lias shown to be derived from the root of an African plant , somewhat
similar to our honeysuckle . Ic appears to possess properties of a hig hly curative and delicately nutritive kind ; and numerous testimonials from parties of unquestionable respectnbility , have attested that it supersedes medicine of every description in the effectual and permanent removal of indigestion ( dyspepsia ) , constipation , and diarrhoea , nervousHess , biliousness , liver complaint , flatulency , distension , palpitation of the heart , nervous headache , deaf ness , noises in the head and ears , pains in almost evt ry part of the body , chronic inflammation and ulceratjon of the stomach , erysipelas , eruptions on the skin , incipient consumption , dropsy , rheumatism , gout , heartburn , nausea and sickness during pregnancy , after eating , or at sea , low spirits , spasms , cramp , spleen , general debility , paralysis , asthma , coughs , inquietude , sleeplessness , involuntary blushing , tremour , dislike to society , unfitness for study , loss of memory , delusions , vertigo , blood to the hesd , exhaustioni melancholy , groundless fenr , indecision ,
wretchedness , thoughts of self-destruction , and many other complaints . It is , moreover , admitted by those who have used it to be the best food for infants and invalids generally , as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach , but imparts a healthy relish for lunch aud dinner , and restores the faculty of indigestion and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled . It has the highest . -ipprobiuion of Lord Stuart de Decies ; the Venerable Archdeacon Alexander Stuart , of Ross , a cure of three years' nervousness ; llnjor-General Thomas King , of Exmouth ; Capt . Parker , D . Bingham , H . N ., of No . 4 Park-walk , Little Chelsea , London , who was cured of twenty-seven years dyspepsia in six weeks titti < s ; Captain Andrews . R . N ., Captain Edwards , R . S . ; William JIunt , Esq ., barrister-nt-lnw , King ' s College , Cambridge , who , after suffering years from partial paralysis , has regained the use of his limbs in a very short time upon this excellent food ; the Rev . Charles Kerr of AVinslow , Bucks , a cure of functional disorders ; air . T . ladf
Woodhouse , Bromley—recording the cure of a- y rom constipation and sickness during pregnancy ; the Kev . T . Minster , of St . Saviour ' s , Leeds-acme of five years' nervousness , with spasms and daily vomitings ; Mr . layloi , coroner of Bolton ; Capt . Allen , recording the cure of epileptic fits ; Doctors Ure and Harvey ; James Shorland , Esq ., No . 3 , Sydney-terrace , Reading , iierks , lute surgeon in the 90 th Hegiment , a cure of dropsy ; James Porter , Esq ., Athol-street , Perth , a cure of thirteen years cough , with general debility ; J . Smvth , Esq ., 37 Lower Ahbeystreet , Dublin ; Cornelius O'SulIivan , M . D ., F . H . C . S ., Dublin , a perfect cure of thirty years' indescribable agony from aneurism , which had resisted all other remedies ; and 10 . 000 other well known individuals , who have sent the discoverers and importers , Do Babbit and Co ., 197 ftenr Bond-street , London , testimonials of the extraordinary manner in which their health has been restored by ( his useful aud economical diet , after all other remedies had been tried in Tain for many years and all hopes ofreCOVCl'y
abandaned . 'A full report of important cures ot ' the above and many other complaints and testimonials from parties of the highest reepectability , is , we ( ind , sent gratis by 1 JO HAnuvandCo . '—Morning Chronicle . Du Babih and Co ., 127 Sew Bond-street , London ; also of Barclay , Edwards , Sutton , Sanger , nnd Ilatmay , and through nil grecers , ( illGmists . mtiliciuu vendors , and booksellers in the Kiguom . Caution . —The name of Messrs . Do Babky ' s invaluable Food , as also that of the firm , have been closely imitated that invalids cannot too carefully look at the exact spellingof both , and also Messrs . Du Uabks ' s address la < Mw Bond . strcet , London , in order to avoid being imposed upon by Ervalenta , lleal Arabian Revalenta , Lentil Powder , er other spurioua compounds of ve » se > uemis Indian and oatmeal , under a close imitation of the name , which bare nothing to recommend them but the reckless audacity of their ignorant or unscrupulous compoundeis , and which , though admirably adapted for pigs , "ouia play sad haroe with the delicate stomach of an invalid or nfant .
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Gigantic SiAiDE .-The gigantic statue of the King of Bavaria is now " placed on the hill of Sainte n ™ An ne ar Munich . The bronze of the statuehaB cost 92 , 600011 or 234 , 000 fr . The statue has taken eight years to cast , and is to be inaugurated on the return of King Louis to Munich "Jim , why is it that a musician ' s strains are always heard so much less distinctly when he playB alone , than when in a band ?"— "Why , I didn ' t know it was so—suppose it must be because he plays so-lo . "
Hot Drinks . —Tom Toper was asVed what he thought of the effects of hot drinks on the system . ' Hot drinks , sir , " said Mr . Toper , " are bad , decidedly bad . Tea . and coffee , sir , are hurtful . And even hot punch—when very hot—I suppose is injurious ' . " With Rbspect to the goods of this world , it might be said , that parions are preaching for them —that lawyers are pleading for them—that physicians are prescribing from them— -that authors are writing for them—that soldiers are fighting for them —but that philosophers alone are enjoying them . An Irish Grieh . — " O yis ! O yis r cried an Irishman in the street a few days since , ringing a bell , "lost , between twilve o ' clock and McKinney ' s store on Market Street , a large brass kay . I'll not be afther tellin ' . ye what it is , but it is the kay of the bank , sure . "
A Substitute for Coal . —A most interesting discovery has been made in Russia , between Dorpat and Norva , of a combustible as carboniferous and calefactory as coal . It is of a yellowish brown colour , with white spots , and is the subject of much speculation , bsing said to be of a much earlier geological period than any known coal field . —Mining Journal . Mrs . Pabtington says , that when she was a gal , she used to go to parties , and always had a beau to extort her home . But now , says she , the gals undergo all such declivities ; the task of extorting them home ; revolves on their dear selves . The old lady drew down her speos , and thanked her stars that she bad lived in other days , when men were more palpable in depreciating the worth of the female sect .
"No Compliments . "—An aged divine was often obliged to avail himself of the . assistance of probationers . One day , a young man quite vain of his accomplishments as a public orator , officiated , and on descending from the desk , was met by the elder with extended hands , and expecting great praise , he paid , "No compliments , I pray . " "Na , na , na , " said the parson . " now-a-days I ' m glad o' anybody . " A Pauper ' s Wardrobe . —At Keswick , a few days ago , an old female pauper ' s effects were at her death divided into upwards of 300 lots , and amongst her hoarded goods were no less than 115 pairs of stockings , 17 bedquilts , 12 cotton gowns , 3 silk gowns , 8 hats , 9 shawls , 3 silk scarfs , 34 chemises , 25 sheets ,
18 caps , 30 lockets , 12 blankets , 1 silver watch , 3 silver thimbles , and several stiver spoons . The sum realised amounted to between £ 30 and . £ 40 , which the overseers of Borrowdale took charge of . The Premier ' s Holidays . — "Punch" little thonght while describing a Premier during the holidays , as he is " supposed to be , " in his last week ' s journal , and contrasting it with the reality , that the supposition was the correct description ; for Loid Juhn Russell was , one day last week , observed in front of Mr . Mnule ' s house at Birnam , . enjoying himself with his children , in sending up papor balloons into the air , and chasing them over the lawn . —Perth Courier . ;
DcrinG the hunting season , the Laird of Logan was favoured with many visitors . On one occasion , a party assembled at his hou > e more numerous than usual , and such as to excite the fears of his housekeeper for accommodation during the night . In this quandary she applied to her master . "Dear me , laird , what am I to do wi' a' thae folks . I wonder they hae nae mair sonse than come trooping here in dizens ; there ' s no beds in the house for half o ' them ! " "Keep yoursel easy , my woman , " said the laird , "I'll just fill them a ' fbu , and they'll fin ' beds For . themsels . "
A Mississippi ^ ' Oak . —A Mississippian was bragging to a Yankee of the fertility of the sail of his region . To give a practical illustration of his subject , he said , that he went to the woods to cut down an oak tree . After he had chopped for about a week or ten days , he thought fee would take a walk round , the tree , just to see how much he had cut . When he got to the other side he saw another man chopping on the same oak . "I say , " says our friend , "how long have you been cutting ? "' "Just three weeks , " says the stranger . The tree was so . big round that they did not hear the sound of each other ' s axes !—N . O . Argus , , ' ,
Exhibition of laol . —The HurJcaru states , that the following articles have already been lodged in the bonded warehouse , at Calcutta : —A large eastern tent of extraordinary richness , with gilt poles , the covering of finest cashmere shawl cloth , embroidered all over with gold and silver . An etui of beautiful opaque , gold bound , the top forming a radient centre , set in diamonds and rubies . A , magnificent couch and six chairs , of carved ivory work , presented by the Nawab Kazim to . her Majesty . A couch cushion worked in gold and silver thread with the names of Victoria and Albert , the initials being diamonds , and the other letters jri pearls of large size _ . One hundred and twenty life-size figures , representing the various occupations of Hindoos , with working implements complete . And a very extensive stock of native jewellery and gold ornaments , from Delhi and Cuttack .
Strong Water . —A friend of ours , saya the Medi cal Times , was attending a union pauper patient . She was suffering from some variety of ulcer on the leg . Water was considered the most fitting applicationinternal medicine unnecessary . Thinking the wdman might not apply the water , he gave a lotion made of tinted water . The woman coraplaiued that it was too strong , that it caused extreme pain . Our friend bid her put two tablespoonafuls of water with each tablespoonful of the lotion . She assured him the next day that it now answered very well , caused no
pain , and seemed to be doing her good . ' Tub eccentbic Dr . Byles bad , at one time , a remarkably stupid Irish girl as a domestic , With a look and voice of terror he said to her , in haste— "Go arid tell your mistress that Dr . Bylea has put an end to himself . " The girl flew up stairs , and , with a face full of horror , exclaimed , at the top of her lun . s" Dr . Byles has put an ~ end to himself ! " The astonished wife and daughter rushed into the parlour —and the «| was the Doctor , calmly walking about with a part Jf a cow ' s tail , that he had picked up in the street , tied to his coat or cassock behind .
Singular Expermknts with Electro Magnetism—Dr . Page , of Washington , United States , is now exhibiting his new application of Electro Magnetism bs a motive power , at the Smithsonian Institute in that city . He causes a bar of iron , weighing one hundred and sixty pounds to dance without 3 upport in the air like a foathGr , to the height of ten inches and upwards , the forcb operating on it averaging three hundred pounds . Ho states , that there would be no difficulty in raising a weight of a hundred tons , and causing it to move through the space of a hundred feet , " with the proper apparatus . " He also developes a great explosive force from his magnet . Hft has made an engine of four or five horse power , which works successfully , and at a cost less than steam , and the " larger the engine the less tinrelative expense of driving it , " These results are cot entirely conclusive ; the battery requires improvement , and " the experiment of a machine of a hundred h ' . rse power can alone decide the value of us invention . "
t Folly of Pride . — 'Die Rev . Sidney Smith , or many years one of the contributors to the great English Reviews , thus discoimeth on the folly of pride in such a creature as man : — " After all , take some quiet , sober moment of iife , and add together the two ideas of pride and man ; behold him , creature of a span bigh . stalking through infinite space in all the grandeur of littleness . Perched on a speck of he universe , every wind of Heaven strikes into his ) lood the coldness of death ; his soul floats from his body like melody from the string ; day and nig ht , as dus !; on the wheel , he is rolled along the Heavens , through a labyrinth of worlds , and all the creations ot God are flaming above and beneath . Is this a creature to make for himself a crown of glory , to deny his own flesh , to mock at his fellow sprung from that dust to which both will soon return ? Docs the proud > 1 an » otwf Does he not suffer ? Does he not die ? When he reas na is he never stopped by diffi-
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culties ? , When he acts is he never tempted bypleasure ? When he lives is he free from pain ? When he dies can he escape the common grave ? - Pride is not the . heritage of man ; humility should dwell with frailty , and atone for ignorance , error , and ini perfection . " ¦' ' ' ' . " . ' . ' VJ '' \ . ¦' .: '
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September 28 ,, 1850 . THE NORTHERN STAR . = ' ¦¦ " ***"""
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 28, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1593/page/3/
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