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TEE GENIUS OF POTERTY . "Weary and worm am I ; from early morn to sunset have I wrought , Shut from the clear bine sky . Tor life I toil and strive ; . ind little truly hath my labour brought , Except that Tm alive , . . A cMld of sorrow sinking into naught . Beyond the base control Of sorrows , toil , and pain ; In paths of emulation sheds her lignt , Then , growing faint again . Awakes to darkness , misery , and night . Oh , strange , bewildering life ! r ? ade "ireams have borne me onward in their iall An ever-fetter'd strife . Alas ! my cup of joy , Ere it had reach'd my thirsty lips , t ? as gall . Realities destroy The dear Elysiunis \ rtucn . my fancies call . Em .
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JjigJtt and Dariness ; or Mysteries of Life . By Mrs . Catherine Crowe , Author of " The 5 ight-side of Mature , " &c . London Colburn . l ' iyht and Darkness , " or Mysteries of Life /' is ii collection of tales , for the most part turnjugupon criminal jurisprudence , many of which lave already appeared in periodicals . Tales are amongst the most popular of reading : we can all get through a tale . The voung , the untrained , or the impatient , to ttIioui the length of a novel in three volumes is a task , and who want intelligence to appreciate the art and knowledge of life displayed in a xeallv good fiction , can easily sustain their
attention for a tale : the most critical gladly tnru io one when idle , or exhausted , or wearied with too much of heavy excellence . The more the length of a tale approximates to that of a novel , the greater variety and solidity it will have , aud great ability -will always do more than little . The best mode of imparting depth and matter is by making stories illustrative , substantially if not formally . 2 fational tales on this account approach more closely to the novel ; for though it is quite true that a peculiar subject argues a peculiar aptitude , ¦ jrlereas tales of every-day life are often a mere succession of washy imitations , it is probable that contemporary tales would have a greater interest if they only illustrated any mode of life—bad . as it were a purpose .
3 Frs . Crowe has attained this purpose , by mating tales of extraordinary crime , circumsfcjuial evidence , the wrongfully condemned , narrow escapes , with some of the other states whk'h accident , guilt , passion , or weakness , 30 frequently bring before the courts . As these tales are rarely of the vulgar sort of crime , they often contain within themselves EC-metlring larger than a moral for felons ; which Mrs . Crowe , who has a taste for moralising , never omits to improve . As her subjects are also drawn from foreign jurisprudence , she exhibits incidentally the foreign practice , and sometimes explains its apparent anomalies . Thus , the continually recurring
" extenuating circumstances " in French verdicts , is not the mere indulgence of a morbid scntiiTientalism , but a precautionary measure grounded on a former state of the law . "When trial by jury was established during the first Berolution , a pardon could not be pleaded to the verdict of a jury : a new trial might "be grouted by a court of review on discovering a fla ' . v , but "if the forms were correct sentence must be executed . The story of Lesurques , a man -who was beheaded in spite of his evident innocence , illnstrates ihat defect in the Revolutionary constitution , and the state of opinion which induces a verdict condemnatory of the prisoner , but sparing life .
The tales in these volumes are of varying character and varying length ; some , indeed , leing almost too brief forreprinting in volumes . TLc scenes of those which have crime in some * gv other for their basis are laid on the Continent ; the few stories of English manners avtiid the criminal law , but are rather on that dark side of nature upon which Mrs . Crowe apparently likes to look . One section is devoted to foreign poisoners of xhe present century ; a terrible Bubject at all times , but a crime which seem 3 to be more widely practised in many countries , includiug our own , than Englishmen a few years since would readily have believed . In
the manufacturing districts , the habit has indeed urigeu with the occasion . The burial dub furnishes a motive ; the march of mind a knowledge of opium and other quiet poisons . This scientific movement has not yet reached the boore ; in the rural districts they poison men as they poison rats ; giving occasion to needless suffering , and running greater risk of detection . Whether it be the coarse English peasant or the better-mannered and more sentimental German woman , they bath seem pretty much alike in the total want of moral intelligence and human sympathy united with much of what is called plausibility .
One of the cases under the head of Poisoners , though there was no attempt at prison in the case , is that of Madame Tiluat , wujcn occurred in 1699 , and is a strauge example of the state of fashionable opinion in Paris at the time . Monsieur and lladame Tiquet , were of course on ill terms ; indeed , there was open war between them . One night M . Tiquet was shot , by an unseen hand , uear bis own door .
Be would have been failed on the spot , were it Dot , aa the doctors affirmed , that his heart had so contracted on the sudden alarm , that it had not filledI its usual space , and the ball had jast missed 4 . He was earned into the house ; and on beine asked by the police what enemy he could point io as most likely to have sought his life ne aaswered that he had no enemy but his wife ' An torestigation was set on foot , of which she was fully avare ; but she asserted her innocence , and re fused to fly . Oa the contrary she visited and received her friends , apparently with a mind quite disengaged ; and when the Countess d'Annoy observed to her that Monsieur Tiquet could not be sure who was the assassin , she answered , that if he were sure , he would take care not to tell it . 11 Ii is me they -want to kill , ' said she .
Slie received numerous vrarnhiga and offers of assistance , all of which she rejected ; and when at length she was arrested , nine days after the atteasptcd murder , she-displayed a hearty composure , * tat , combined with the insufficient evidence they kad , might have puzzled the authorities , had not a certain laguais de place , called Auguste Cate--aiu , voluntarily come forward , and confessed , that , ^ ee years before , he , Moura . the porter , and Several others , had been engaged by Madame Tick et to murder her huBbani . The plot failed at fei ttime ; but ^ ftthis indication , there was " ttie difficulty in . bringinjr home the crime to
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Madame Tiquet and Mourn , who were both condemedtodie . Monsieur Tiquet ,. scarcely recovered from his wounds , proceeded to Versailles , and , with his son and daughter , threw himself at the feet of Louis XIV . to beg for her life , which being , at the instance of the Archbishop , refused , he proceeded to request that he might be appointed heir to her property—a petition which seems to have afforded much diversion to the lively Parisians ; and the king himself , in granting it , observed , that the seeqnd petition had effaced the merit of the first . Since according to the law of that period , Madame Tiquet ' s property was liable to confiscation , we cannot altogether see the justice of the Madame Tiquet and Moura , who were both con-
stricture . Monsieur Tiquet was in embarrassed circumstances ; and after the injury he had re ceived was fairly entitled to such a compensation . The Chevalier de Mongeorge , and her own family also , made every effort to obtain the commutation of her sentence , but with equal ill success . On being asked whether the former was privy to her guilty intent , ahe said , " Not for the world would I have dared to hint such a thing to him . I should have lost him for ever if I had ! * The publication and execution of the sentence were appointed to take place on the same day ; and when she was conducted to the chamber of tortures ignorant of what awaited her , she inquired , " if her affair would soon be decided ?" Soon enough , ' * replied the gaoler .
And here a strange scene ensued . The judgo who had read her sentence—which was to the effect that she should lose her head on the scaffold , after first undergoing the rack in order to force her to a confession and the betrayal of her accomplices—had formerly been her lover . Howbeit , he had his duty to perform ; and , bidding her place herself on her knees before him , he fulfilled it . Proceeding afterwards , as was then the custom , to pronounce an exhortation , wherein he contrasted in the most pathetic terms her former with her present condition— " She who was once the idol of the world around her , blest with beauty , youth , talents , rank , and affluence , now a criminal on her way to the scaffold !"—he entreated her to spend in repentance the short time that remained to her , and by an ample confession to relievo him from the pain of seeing her . placed on the rack .
But he was mistaken if he thought to move that iron heart . Cold , motionless , with an unshaken voice , and without even changing colour , she answered him— " You are right . The past and the present are strangely different ; for then you were at my feet , now I am at yours . But I have done with such recollections . So far from fearing , I desire the moment that is to terminate my wretched life , and release me from my misfortunes . I hope to meet my death with as much firmness as I have listened toits announcement ; and be assured that neither fear nor pain shall induce me to confess myself guilty of a crime which I have Bever committed . " The rack , however , soon forced her to break this resolution ; she confessed her own guilt , and that of Moura , but , as we have said before , exonerated Mongeorge . _ ... .. . _ .
Xever before nor since did any execution in Paris , unless it were that of the Royal family of France , excite so extraordinary an interest . Persons even of rank and distinction rushed from all quarters Into the city ; and every window on the way she wa 3 to pass " , and in the Place de Greve , were let at high prices and crowded with spactators . She declared herself penitent to her confessor ; begged pardon of Moura , who sat in the same carriage with her ; sent her tender remembrances to her children , and a prayer to her husband that he would cherish them and forgive her . She died with an unshaken courage and selfpossession that euchanted the Parisians ; mounting the scaffold with a light step , contemplating the multitude with unmoved composure , and baring her fair neck with as much alacrity as if it were to welcome a carcanet of jewels rather than an axe .
The executioner was so amazed and confounded by the wondrous beauty of the head he was about to sever , that he was incapable of his office , and put her to much needless pain . Even after death the features remained unchanged ; and although she was in her forty-second year at the period of her execution , many people affirmed that she was more beautiful in death than she had been in life . Her husband buried her with much honour ; the Chevalier de Mongeorge , who , quite inconsolable , had wandered about the park at Versailles during the sad ceremony , quitted Prance , and travelled for several months ; Parisian ladies sighed over the fair victim , smiled with contempt at the name of Monsieur Tiquet , and pitying the faithful lover , " wished that Heaveu had made them such a man . "
The longest of the English stories is " The Money Seekers ; " in which a selfish , weak , unstable , but not ill-designing lover , loses a fortune and his mistress , through a course of idleness and extravagance , brou ght on b y expected heirship . The elements of the " story are not very new—with an Indian uncle , the son of an old college friend , whom the nabob has never seen , and a great dislike on the part of the oM Indian to legacy-hunters ; there are also some improbabilities of structure ; but the picture of the yielding votary of enjoyment and selfishness is true enough , and unfortunatel y too common .
The denouement is thus brought about . Air . Livingstone , the nabob , is thrown into the society of Emily Der ing , the heroine , and is so struck with her , that he determines to marry her to her lover , Gerald Gage . That weatpersonage , however , has already allowed himself to be entrapped into a marriage that ahall release him from his pecuniary difficulties ; and when Mr . Livingstone , somewhat after the fashion of the stage , tells Gerald of the wealth and beauty provided for him , he is placed in anything but a comfortable state of mind .
Gerald ' s head seemed in a whirl ; the past , the present , the future , darted through his mind with the rapidity of an electrical shock—what he was , what he , might hare been ; his madness—his stupidity—his " d—d ill luck . " His throat was parched , and his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth ; so that when Mr . Livingstone pressed him for an answer , he could only gasp out , " It cannot—cannot be . " " " Well , " said Mr . Livingtone , " I shall only make one effort ' to shake your determination , and that is , the sight of the lady herself ; " and before the unfortunate victim could expostulate , the old gentleman Lad left the room .
Gerald felt disposed to rush outof the house ; but the dread of offending Mr . Livingstone , and so losing what appeared his only chance of escape from utter destitution , prevented him . So he sat with his eyes fixed vacantly upon the door till it opened ; and Mr . Livingstone , pushing in Emily , cried , " There , look at her ; and if you don'tlike her , why I must try and get you fifty pounds a year at the India House to keep you from starving . " The door was shut , the old man gone , and the young people in each other ' s arms in a second . Emily forgot the neglect—Gerald forgot the wife : young loves , past scenes , were alone remembered . Emily was all happiness . Gerald was in a delirium ; it was too much for his brain ; he pressed her
convulsively to his heart , and covered her face with kisses . Emily felt how he loved , and thought how be must have suffered ; and she tried to calm him and lead him into conversation , but in vain . Some time—they knew not how long—had passed in these wild transports , when the door again opened , and Mr . Livingstone entered with parchments and papers in bis hand . " Come ! " said he , " you have years of love and lovemaking before you—this evening must be mine . It's long since I have made anybody happy ; and now that I hope I have done it completely , you must come up-stairsto the drawing room , and let me enjoy the sight of my work . First , however , before we go , I will put
this deed in your hand Gerald—ii is your wife ' s marriage settlement of two hundred thousand pounds . I have chosen to vest the property in her , rather than in you , for various reasons . One is , that I know her better , and am attached to her ; another , that I am aware , from your own confessions , that she is better fitted to take care of it . But a good husband need very seldom complain of this sort of arrangement ; few women are so ungenerous as to make bim feel any difference ; and I am sure Emily Bering will not be one of them !" Emily turned a sweet smile of assurance on Gerald ; but his lips were compressed , and his features ghastly .
_ , _„ , ___ „ .,. " Come , " continued Mr . Livingstone , " they are waiting tea for us ; let us go up-stairs : " and he gave Emily his arm . " Remember , Gerald , said he , tapping the young man on the back , " remember , when I die she will be my heir . " Silent and melancholy Gerald followed to the drawing room , shook hands with Mr . and Mrs . Miller , took his seat , and went throug h the dumb show of the tea table . Everbodywas struck with bis countenance and strange demeanour , except Xicky , who never observed anything . Mr . Livingstone thought that this sudden heap of joy had
crushed him for the momont . " He will be all right to-morrow , " whispered he to Mr . Miller , but the lawyer s sagacity and Emily ' s affection were not so n ? f T , * i sfied - The former was completely puzzled—he began to doubt his attachment to Mnuy ; out she , strong in her conviction from what had passed below , was sure that , whatever it might 2 £ J T * ° a thafc that was affecting him so 3 and true woman-like , she felt that any ffiK ^ -SS ^ S BKiavSajBjfe 5 L 5
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Lights and Shades of Ireland . B y Asenaxh Nicholson . Houlston . Mrs . Nicholson is an American lady , who , with praiseworthy benevolence , has devoted herself to the task of alleviating the miseries of the Irish people , in the terrible year of the famine . She was in Ireland during the whole of that awful period , pursuing her own course of honourable benevolence ; and she has stories to tell of physical sufferings equal in point of mere fact to anything in Mr . Osborno ' s work , which we recently noticed .
The following extract suggests a lesson to the women of more favoured classes . Mm Nicholson is severe on the false system of edu > cation for Irishwomen of the upper ranks ; and the facts of her case afford a commentary on her sarcasms which makes it difficult to resist their force . See what a Avaste of that wealth which should have brought sustenance to many was caused by sheer ignorance on the part of those who mi ght be , and ought to be , the lights of the people : —
When the famine had actually come , and all the country was aghast , when supplies from all parts were poured in , what was done with these supplies ? Why , the best that these inefficient housekeepers could do . The rice and Indian meal , both of which are excellent articles of food , were cooked in such a manner that , in most cases , they were actually unhealthy , and in all cases unpalatable . So unused were they to the use of that common article rice , that they steeped it the night before , then poured the water off , without rubbing , and for three or four hours they boiled , stirred , and simmered this , till it became a watery jelly , disgusting to the eye , and unsavoury to the taste , for they never salted it . besides unwholesome for the stomachs of those
who had always used a dry potato for food . The poor complained that it made them sick ; they were accused of being ungrateful , and sometimes told they should not have any more ; and the difficulty , if possible , was increased by giving it out uncooked . For the starving ones in the towns had no fuel , and they could not keep ud a fire to stew it for hours , and many of them atfi it raw , which was certainly better when they had good teeth than cooked in an unsavoury way . But the Indian meal ! Who shall attempt a description of this frightful formidable ? When it first landed , the rich , who had no occasion for using it , hailed it with joy , and some actually condescended to say , " They believed they ceuld eat it themselves . " But the poor , who had not yet slid
down the precipice so far as to feel that they were actually dying , could be heard in the streets and in the market-place to interrogate one another , "And have ye seen 'the yaller Indian , God save us awl ? By dad and ' Peel ' s brimstone' has come over again , to scrape the maw of every divil on us . " * * And the yaller Indian was called by all manner of epithets , and went through all manner of ordeals but the right one . The Indian meal by some was stirred in cold water with a stick , then put quite dry upon a griddle , it consequently crumbled apart , there was no turning it ; and one desponding woman came to me saying , " That the last bit of turf had died on her , and not a ha ' porth of the yaller Indian would stop with its comrade . " Others made
what they called " stirabout ; " this was done , too , by first steeping in cold water , then pouring it into a pot , and immediately after swelling became so thick that it could not be stirred , neither would it cook in the least . The " stirabout" then became a " standabout , " and the effect of eating this was all but favourable to those who had seldom taken farinaceous food . They actually were afraid to take it in many cases , the government meal in particular , fearing that the " Inglish intinded to kill them" with the " tarin and scrapin ; " but when hunger had progressed a little , these fears subsided , and they cared neither what they ate or who sent it to them . Had the women of the higher classes known how to prepare these articles in a proper manner ,
much money might have been saved , and many lives rescued which are now lost . When the first clamour bad a little subsided , there followed the recipes for cooking Indian meal . One of these , highly celebrated for a while , was from Italy , and called " Polentia , " whether spelt correctly the learned must decide , but this same Polentia would do for gentlemen and ladies too . ' The recipe cannot precisely be given , but enough to know that it was turned and overturned—covered and uncoveredboiled and steamed in a pot—and then camo out genteely , in a becoming shape , according to the form of the pot used . Now , this was often on the tables of the gentry , for the recipe and meal were from Italy ; the poor would only bear of this at a distance—the cooking they could never attain . Xext camo American recipes . These , with all due credence were accepted as the one thing needful , for they possessed these redeeming qualities -. —first ,
they were from America , the land which they loved , for many of their "kin" were there ; next , that , though they thought that nobody but negroes ate it—yet negroes lived on that food ; and " sure the Americans wouldn't hurt ' em . " These recipes were prepared in due form , and made up with suets , fats , sweets , and spices , so that the Laird John Russell himself could " ate ' em . " A great and grand meeting of lords and nobility was held , called by the poor the " yaller Indian maitin ; " and a bond , fide sanction put on to the Indian meal cake . Here again was a difficulty— the meal was for the hungry ; where could they produce spices , sweets , and fats for such delicacies ?—and as , they thought that these were necessary to make it ; safe to eat , then their fears were awakened anew . But a few weeks adjusted all these difficulties , for when the number of the slain had increased in every parish , all murmuring of the quality of food ceased—they suffered in uncomplaining silence .
But if the women of Ireland have a work to do—the more incumbent on them to undertake now since it has been so long and fatally neglected—their husbands aud fathers , the owners of the soil , have theirs before them also . The nature of this will be best illustrated by the example of what one honest and well-advised landlord , Lord George Hill , has already tried and accomplished—as detailed by our American recorder of bis good deeds . The consequence is , that not a single person died of famine at Gweedore ! It is to be hoped that , out of the many who are buying lands in Ireland under the new Incumbered Estates Act , there will not be a few with the courage , capital and courtesy needed to pursue with success the example set them by Lord George .
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Jenny Lind in America . —Mdlle . Lind ' a doings occupy a very limited space in our files by this steamer . Sho was enjoying a triumph afc Boston , however ; had visited the Cambridge Observatory ( where a vain effort was made to discover a planet specially in honour of her call ); and subsequently received a visit from the Governor of the State and the Executive Council , her reception of whom was courteous , whilst her conversation was philosophical as regards her gifts , and charitable as regards her poorer fellow-creatures . Her concerts continue to be crowded , and the enthusiasm was "
tremendous . " * She had engaged with Barnum to visit London at the " World's Fair " in June next , and the remainder of her eighty nights of song in the United States would be devoted to New York , New Orleans , and , it is added , Havannah . She sang on the 30 th at a rehearsal , and was " quite indignant " at the multitude present . Mr . Dodge , the £ 125 donor for the first ticket , had received public honours at the concert-hall on first appearing . We find in the journals the following excellent" Jennygram , " relative to the hatter who bought the first ticket in New York . It is headed " Genin ' s
Motive : "— "Don't fancy there is any revealing Of a heart that could easily melt ; It wasn't a matter of feeling , But merely a matter of' felt' !"' —Time * . Terrible Calamitt . —Vienna , October 9 . —The Reichs Zeitung gives a terrific picture of the catastrophe at the place of pilgrimage called Herrgott , on the Weis , near Purgstal . At one of the publichouses the pilgrims ( of whom 3 , 000 wore assembled at Herrgott ) spent the night in eating and drinking . While baking the fish the oven took fire . Behind the inn were a number of stables and barns ,, in
which hundreds of the pilgrims were reposing , and almost all perished in the flames , which rose so rapidly through the thatched roofs , fanned by a strong wind , that there was no possibility of raising ladders to attempt to rescue a single person . . Many threw themselves from the lofts , and , with broken limbs , half consumed with fire , reached hither and thithor with tho most pitious cries . Not a single engine was hi the place , and we are assured , by an eye-witness , that the fearful calamity at fceopoldstadt , in 1848 , fades into nothing by the Bide of . this awM calamity . Scarcely half of ' the , pilgrims were sated , and those who have surviv edkave for the most part been much injojed . The . bedisa of the dead were found burnt te a eifl&T .
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haymarket : ¦ ' : \ - ¦¦; ";¦ iriVhr Mr w P ? mL lor the ^ ason on Monday fihv £ ' f ? did not "inaiigerate "; the occar ^ SL ? ° du ^ ofan y "a ™' ? ' « « ie ennf S 3 T V he T enin & were ° ' fovourites-InL ^ TJ ¥ , Bm 9 h ^ mond md Who ' s S / S ! 7 ^ > - ? theyused to be > wi& s «> at spirit , and receded with great applause ; the manager and principal performers being most cordially welcomed , aa they Severally made their appearance I t n » £ ' , T # ,, recess th ° theatre has been newly painted and decorated , and looks exceedingly fresh and cheerful . A new royal box has been erected by the Queen's command . It is adjoining to and on a l evel with the stage , of spacious dimensions , and fitted up with the utmost elegance . Behind it is a retiring room beautifully ornamented . The decorations consist of lieht PomDeian blaster * .
terming panels all round ; each panel containing a view of some scene familiar to her Ma-] 6 J ?^ a ^ f y ^ opied from well known sketches proceeding from tho royal pencil . We noticedparticularly Windsor Castle , Osborne House and waterfall , Balmoral the residence of Prince Albert when in Germany , and other scenes of similar interest . Their effect is very light and pleasing , and the room is the perfection of taste and comfort . We trust it will often be occupied : < for , to visit the English theatres frequently and habitually is the only way by which the sovereign can really and effectually encourage the English drama . These decorations have been executed by Mr . San ? and his assistants , under the direction of Mr . C . Manby . The cast
of the Serious Family was nearly the same as on the previous period of its representation . Air . iludson , however , now first essayed the character of Captain Murphy Maguire ( a part previous y filled by Mr . James Wallack ); and Mr . Parsele ( a useful actor from the Lyceum ) performed the little part of Frank Vincent . The comedy went off with its usual success . Miss Reynolds gave exquisite finish to the character of Mrs . Cbarles Torrens , and Mrs . Stanley was exacting and imperious as the morose mamma . Mr . Aminadab Sleek in the hands of Mr . Buckstone , was the perfection of canting hypocrisy ; and the parts of Capt . Maguire and Mr . Charles Torrens were ably filled by Vlr . Hudson and Mr . Webster . General applause followed the descent of the curtain , which again drew up and disclosed the performers on the stage .
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Dreadful Conflagration at Sea , —Much nnxiety . has been evinced in the City during the last few days respecting tho loss of a first-olass ste ; im ship in the atlantic , which is reported to have been totally destroyed by fire . The following details wero furnished by Mr . Barras , captain of tho William , from Quebec , who communicated the loss to the authorities at Lloyd ' s . The William left Great Matis , in the Gulf of St . Lawrence , on the 4 th ult ., and on the evening of tho 12 th a large steamer , with three masts , ^ yas observed in lat 46 d . 14 m . N ., Ion . S 6 d . 27 m . W ., steering to the north-west . The mention of this circumstance is the more
necessary , in order that this ship might not be confounded with the one that was subsequently seen on fire , as she was proceeding in quite a different direction . Towards dusk on tho following day a strong lurid glare was noticed about fifteen miles to the southward of their course , and Mr . Barras , concluding that it was caused by some unfortunate ship in flames , very promptly bore down towards her , with a view of picking up the crew . He di . rected a good look out to be kept , it being thought that those on board had left in the boats , and were knocking about in the ocean . During'the period the William was making for . the blazing ship , the wind blowing from the N . E ., tho flames raged with terrific violence , aud , to use an expression of one of
the crew , " i _ fc looked more like a mountain of fire than a ship inflames . " The scene is described to have been ono of awful grandeur , both ocean and sky being illuminated as far as tho . eye could reach . In the course of two or three hours the William got within a quarter of a mile of the flaming wreck . She was enveloped in flames from stem to stern , and from her light build and a quantity of ironwork , it was apparent that she was a steamer , and that of a large class . She was burned within a foot of the water ' s edge . Mr . Barras states that he saw the platform between the paddle boxes , the iron stanchions , and the davits for the stern boats , a rig only adopted by steamers . They had a full view of the deck of the vessel , and nothing could be seen of
the crew or the passengers . It being supposed that they had taken to the Boats and had been picked up by one of the many vessels that take the track at this period of the year , the William , after continuing in the vicinity of the wreck , was held to her course on the wind , a bright light being kept up , and a good look-out in all directions . A sail was observed in the south steering N . W ., and it was thought she might have succeeded in getting those belonging to the steamer on board . At day-break hands were sent up to look round on all points for the boats , but none were to be Been . A craft was noticed in the N . E . steering W . but nothing else . Mr . Barras can give no opinion as to- where the unfortunate vessel was from , or where she was bound , but be is confident she was a steamer . The spot of her destruction was about fouir days * run from
Halifax , but not being in the usual course to that port , will account for the American mail not bringing tidings of fche conflagratioa ,. It is the improssi&a of those- belonging to the 'William , that the crew and tbe passengers had escaped . When they got down to-hershehad apparently been burning six or eigfet hours , and as tke- weather had been very fair , the moon being up * they concluded that all had got away in tho boato , and had been picked up . Mokmoh Emigrants . —Lately , a . hundred persons arrived ia Liverpool from Bodford and the neighbourhood , on their way to the Salt Lake Valley , North America , tho adopted country of the singular see * the Mormons . The party consisted of small farmers , market gardeners , labOWrei'S i anu niechanics . with their wives and children .
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¦ i& tTO-BNKT—A cat that settles differences between mice . -- ; - . • <¦•• ¦ ¦¦ ¦ : ¦ " ' ¦¦ ¦ Friendship . — "Where are you going ? " said George Sclwyn to an acquaintance . — " To see a friend . "—! ' Well , I'll go with you , for I never saw one yet . . ' • • , A Oubwsmy . —The latest cuiiosity is a chicken grown from . ah egg-plant . We suppose it was hatched by the setting sun . LAwisliKeaaieve ; you may see through if , but you must be considerably reduced before you can get through it . Dear Eyes-, -- " Those dear eyes of rhine , " as the old gentleman said when he bought his wife a pair of gold-mounted spectacles . " The Law ' s Delay . "—The Chancery suit of the Attorney-General v . Trevelyan is now one hundred and sixty-four years old .
An Indication . —When a man attempts to tie his cravat around a lamp-post , he may be considered in a rather " how came you so" condition . Cui-thkoats . —Europe has 500 , 000 more armed men than at the last war , during the time that Napoleon was at the highest point of his renown . " The Sea-serpent has been seen in Kinsale Roads , " said a traveller . " What ! " exclaimed Paddy , " Is he coming to ' Cork by land , then ?" ¦ Mrs - Partington . " —" Important business with her father ! " muttered Mrs Partington : " why it's very strange . Bless me ; it ' s very singular that he never calls when her father is at home !" One op our young beaus says he likes all kinds of Anna , but Anna Mosity . He can ' t bear her . He ig distant relative to the one who said Satan was a female , with tho original name of Lucy Fair .
Never set yourself up for a musician just because you have got a drum in your ear , nor believe that youjare cut out for a school-teacher merely because you have a pupil in your eye . A dandy , with a cigar in his mouth , on board a steamboat , once stepped up to a foreigner , and said , " Pray , sir , do gentlemen smoke in your country ?" " Gentlemen dp not smoke in public iu any country , " was the laconic answer . . Three of the Judges upon the bench commenced life as reporters for the public press , namely , Lord Chief Justice Campbell , Mr . Justice Talfourd and 3 aron Alderson .
Twenty-six thousand sea-faring men , now subscribe 2 s . Gd . each per annum to the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society . To Female-bathers . —An assemblage of native girls in the Sandwich Islands , will , in quick succession , leap from a precipice seventy feet high , into the ioaming torrent below . Think of this , ye bold ladybathers at Brighton . A good rule . —Never suffer your children to require services from others which they can perform themselves . A strict observance of this rule will be of incalculable advantage to them through every period of life . A very fall man wns in the street of Boston , when an old lady , who admired his gigantic stature , addressed him— "Mister , were you large when you were small ? " Yes , marm , I was considered big when I was little . "
A Grocer ' s Shop . —Boy . Please , sir , to tell me the time of the day •?— Grocer . Twelve o ' clock . Exit boy , who returns in a few seconds , and again inquires the time of the day ? Grocer . Did I not just tell you that it was twelve o ' clock ?—Boy , Yes , sir , but that was for another woman , and this is for my mother .
EPIGRAM . Said Death to Pol Sly , " Put no rum in thy tea . Or die as thy mother died , aged twenty-three . " Pol gave him an answer that struck the chiirl dumb , " My mother , you know , put no tea in her rum . " Changing Placbs . —Jenny Lind , on board the Atlantic , asked one of the firemen , an Irishman , if he had it in his power , would he exchange places with her ?— " Faix , I certainly would , " he replied , " if I cpnld sing as well . "— " And why ? " asked Miss Lind . — " Faix , and because , " said he "the wages are better . " .
A Hopeless Task . —To see half a dozen uncles , two or three brothers , and a maiden aunt of seventy , holding consultation to devise ways and means to prevent a young girl marryjng the young man she loves , is just about as ridiculous as to see an intoxicated man attempting to catch his own shadow . " I say , boy , whose horse is that you're riding ?" — "Why , it ' s daddy ' s . " "Who is your daddy ?" —" Don't you know ? Why , Uncle Peter Jones . " " So—you aro the son of your uncle ?"— " Why , yes , calculate I am . You see dad got to be a widower , and married mother ' s sister , and now he ' s my uncle . "
A chap walking out , came across , " old Isaac " sitting in the broiling sun , fishing . " Well , Walton , " said he , " what in the world are you doing there ?" - "Fiffin ! " ( Fishing . ) " What ? " - " Fiffin !" " Fishing ? Well , what ' s the reason you can ' t talk ? What ' s in your mouth ?"— " O , nuffin but ¦ woiims ( worms ) for bait ! " - Mankind . —Mankind are more what they are made by their fellows than what they are made by their Creator . The wolf is ferocious , because hunted from a whelp . The snake tuvns upon you , because you disturb and pursue it . The child growa surly , because unjustly coerced . But , above all , man becomes unjust and cruel , because pursued with cruelty and injustice by his brother men . —Mrs . Gore ' s Money Lender .
A Trying Situation . —It was the remark of a humourist , that" to talk about a person having the power to weep oa all occasions , is the height of moonshine . ' I'd like to see a man cry with a pretty girl beside him , pockets full of cash , aud plenty of champagne within reach !" A Sailor ' s Idea of Good Meat . — Warburton , in his account of his voyage up the Nile , giv . es an amusing instance of a singular opinion held by sailors . He says— " On arriving at Kench , we gave the crew a Fjeast consisting of an old ram , preferred by thorn to younger mutton , because it stood more cheiving . " Jenny Lind . —The New York Evening Post sings in this fashion : — " Not sweeter sang the birds of Eden , Than this fail Nightingale of Sweden :
The only diff rence 'twixt the two lies heve—Their notes were gratis , hers are very dear . " A Dog ' s Tail . —There is a great deal of philosophy in a dog ' s tail . ^ It is as great a tell-tale as a lad y's fan , If a dog is plensed , his tail is immediately in a wag-ish humour ; if he is afraid , it droops : if angry , it" sticks out . " You can tell the character and disposition of a ilog by his tail , as well as Donovan can decipher yours from the "bumps . " ¦ Cash versus Notes . —The following rusa was adopted by a large number of Yankees who shrank from the high prices paid to hear Jenny Lind , " not
thatthey loved music less , but money more . " When the doors were opened for the second private rehersal , the musicians entered one after the other : flute , fiddle , doublebass , and drum , trumpet and opheiclide , all came , much to the bewilderment of tho doorkeeper , who never knew them to pass that way before ; and judge of Jenny ' s surprise , to find an orchestra , vocal with sweet sounds , behind her , and an equally large though perfectly silent one , staring her in the face . The keen Yankees had borrowed a lot of old instruments , and played on the doorkeeper , the only thing they could play on .
A " Happv" Explanation . — A large partly assembled at dinner one day in a hospitable mansion in the South of Scotland , under the genial presidentship of a bachelor host . The wine went freely round , and a very Ion ? sederunt was terminated by . the party , with one exception , retiring from the diningroom to enjoy coffee and cigars . This exception was an elderly gentleman , renowned for his social qualities , who had been selected to fill the seat at the other end of the table , and who had freely exerted himself in tbe performance of his duties . Not relishing the smoking part of the entertainment , he kept his seat for a little time in deep meditation , and then ringing the bell informed the old butler of his intention of retiring for the night . Thinking he saw something like a smile on the servant ' s face , he turned gravely rountl , saying , " Ay , John , I think I'll go to bed ; but I ' m no ' -fou , John , mind that ; I ' m no' the leasf ; fou ; but I ' m just fatigued wi' drinking . "
A Rat Story . —The following dodge is said , by the Qennantown Telegraph , to have been recently enacted in the city of Philadelphia , as the play bills have . it , " with unbounded success : — "A fellow , half-dandy , half-loafer , entered an oyster saloon , and gave his orders for a plate of raw . While swallowing the bivalves , a huge rat came rushing over the counter . The oyster eater and oyster seller started at the Right , and the latter made a rush for the critter , followed by several of the " hangers on " about the
saloon , but the rat succeeded in making his escape through the back door . The party had scarcely returned , and the customer had swallowed his last oyster , when another rat appeared . The result in this case wns the same as in the former one , and the landlord and his friends returned to discover that his customer had disappeared , after borrowing from the till its contents , amounting to fifty dollars ! The rogue had an accomplice outside , who had let tbe rats in at the window . Shrewd triok that , and worthy the reputation of a Philadelphia lawyer ! "
Gardener ' s Conundrum . —Why is a Gardener the most extraordinary man in the world ?—Because no man has more business upon earth t and alwayB chooses good grounds for what he does ; he commands his thyme , ismaster of the mint , and fingers penny-royal ; he raises his celery every year , and it is a hard year indeed that does not produce a plum He meets with more bows than a minister of state , and makes up more beds than a French king , ani has more painted ladies , and more genuine voses and lilies than are to be found at a country wake . He makes raking his business more than his diversion ; but , unlike other gentlemen , he make it an advantage to his health and fortune . Disteinpors fatal to others never hurt him , for he thrives in a consump tion ; and he can boast of more laurels , if possible than the Duke of Wellington .
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rnEEE'S SOMETHING GOOD IN EVERT 1 HEART . ¦ ffould ' st win the crime-stained wanderer back Irani Vice ' s dark and hideous tracklet not a frown thy brow deform , 'Twill add but fierceness to the storm ; Deal kindly—in that bosom dark Still lingers Virtue ' s glimmering spark ; pleadTwith him—? tis tbe nobler part—There ' s something good in every heart . jjiing to his mind the early time , E ' er sin had stained his soul with crime ; ¦ ffiien fond affection blessed his hours—JVnd strewed his joyous path with flowers ; ¦ ffhen sportive jest and harmless glee Bespoke a spirit pure and free . Tlead with him—' tis tbe nobler part—There's something good in every heart . There "wa 3 a time that head did rest , Close to a mother's yearning brest—A lime his ear tbe precepts caught , A kind and virtuous father taught ? It matters not what treacherous ray Tirst turned his steps from Virtue ' s way-Enough to know thou yefc may ' st save That soul from sin ' s engulphing wave ; Plead witb him—act the nobler part—There ' s something good in every heart .
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OLYMPIC . A new comedy , in two acts , called Mu Wife ' s Daughter , was produced at this theatre on Monday night . It is by Mr . Sterling Coyne , and is worthy of his clever and practised pen . It is , indeed , one of the pleasantest little pieces that we have seen ; and , in itself as well as its performance , it reminded us of the . Frisian stage . The heroine of this piece is a lady of forty , endowed with considerable personal attractions , and devotedly attached to a young husband , who has married her chiefly to repair his ruined fortunes , but who has been subsequently fascinated by her really good qualities . Not wishing her pretensions to youth to be too much compromised , the lady has kept in the background a grown-up daughter , the offspring of a former marriage , but the young damsel escaping from her boarding school has sought her mother's house , and is for a while concealed by her youthful father-in-law . This concealment leads to several
misunderstandings , Hie wife , knowing that somebody is hidden , but not discovering who that somebody is , concludes that her husband is unfaithful ; the valetde-chambre thinks " that he might take advantage of the young lady ' s equivocal position by offering her his hand ; and an old friend of the family is led to believe that his own juvenile better half has paid a mysterious visit to the married Lothario . All these asperities are smoothed down by the discovery that the lady ' s daughter is the person harboured , and she is duly married off to a young gentleman she really loves . The great purpose of the piece is the elaboration of the wife ' s character . She is a woman of strong affections , and so acutely alive to the difference of years between herself and her husband , that the slightest circumstance easily proves a . cause of irritation . Such a character could not have been intrusted to a more fitting artiste than llrs . Stirling , whose peculiarity consists in Jin appreciation and natural representation
of the minutest shades of feeling , and her delineation of that state of niind which is commonly called " thin-skinned , " is perfect . The valetde-chambre , assumingthe airs _ of an exquisite , exhibits Mr . Compton in a new position , and his vulgar arrogance and imperturbable coolness are admirably sustained . Mr . W . Farren , in the part of an old man married to a young wife , gives a ludicrous but somewhat melancholy picture of infirm old age affecting the vigour and vivacity of youth ; and Mr . H . Farren did justice to the character of the husband . The success of My Wife ' s Daughter was unequivocal , and the author bowed from his box in answer to tho repeated demands of a crowded audience . A new Divertissement followed , abrid ged from the celebrated Ballet of La Pin , called the Sultan ' s Dream , in which the graceful dancing of Madame Louise , and the talented Madlle . Adelc , was rapturously and deservedly encored .
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SADLER'S-WELLS THEATRE . The appearance of Miss Sarah Lyons , a young actress of considerable promise , in . the character of Desdemona , is a new feature at this house . Miss Lyon 9 is possessed of great personal attractions , and though she does not seem to be yet free from the trammels of tuition , she gives evidence of earnestness and substantial feeling rarely to be found in one so young . In the reiterated appeals to Othello in favour of Michael Cassio , her manner assumed more than ordinary artlessnessi and the endearing expressions gained much effect from her youthful and innocent appearance Othello is one of Mr . Phelps ' s best Shaksperian characters . Ile . is eminently an actor of feeling , and the play of the countenance under the influence of increasing jealousy , is a remarkable instance of his peculiarity . ^ The honest indignation and sincere grief of Emilia , is admirably embodied by Miss Glynn .
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his hand tenderly , and badeihimsoo h ^ V fn . n . nrmwi his hand tenderly , and bade- ; himseelier to-morrow ; Gerald went home , knocked at his father-in-law ' s door , and , on being admitted , asked-for a night candlestick , and ascended to hia room , locked himself in , loaded his pistols , put one in his mouth , and blew his brains out . The report brought up the family , but when the door was broken open lie was dead . His wife died a few months afterwards , in bringing a child into the world , for whioh Emily amply provided ; and , when some years had elapsed , and her grief and regret had subsided , sho . married Charles Miller .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 19, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1596/page/3/
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