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Thirtj-Fifth Edition , Containing the Rtmedyfor tte rrsvmtton ofDiteate , Illustrated with Twenty-Six Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steal . ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS , GENERATIVE INCAPACITY , AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE . A new and improvsd Edition , enlarged to 198 pages , pries 2 s . 6 d ; by post , direct from tho Establishment , 8 s . 64 . in postage stamps , T HE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work e « the Exhaustion sad Physical . . Decay of the System , groduasi by Excessive Indulgence , the consoqueno 8 » of Infection , » r the » buaa £ Mercury , with explicit Directions for the uea of the Preventive Lotion , followed by Obsbbta-tions on the Mareied Stats , and the disqualifications which prevent it ; illustrated by twenty-gixcolouredEtgravings , and by the detail of Cases . By R . and L . PBflflY and 0 * ., , Bernera-etrwt , Oxford * street , London . Published by the authors , and sold by Strange , 21 , Paternoster-row ; Hannay , 63 , and Sanger , 158 , Oxford-streetj ; Starie , 23 , Tichborne-stroBt , Haymarket ; and Gorton , 11 & 7
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fcOD'S WORLD IS WORTHY BETTER MEN Behold ! an idle tale they tell : But "ffho shall blame their telling it ! The rogaea hare got their cant to sell , The world pays well for selling it ! They say this world ' s a " desert drear , "Wrapt in their own stark blindness ; That men were sent to suffer here : —• "What ! by a God of kindness ?—That , since the world has gone astray , It must be so for ever ; And we must stand still and obey Its Desolaters . Never ! Ve'll labour for the b etter time , "With all bur mig ht of Press and Pen ! Beliere m « v ' tis a truth sublime , God ' s World is worthy better Men .
• With Paradise the world began , — A world of love and gladness ; Its beauty hath been marred by man , "With all his crime and madness . Tet 'tis a bright world still . LoTe brings Sunshine for spirits dreary ; "With all our strife , sweet Best hath wings To fold o ' er hearts a-weary . The sun , in glory like a god , To-day in heaven is shining ; The flowers upon the bloom-rich sod Their sweet love-lessons twining , As radiant of immortal youth As they were fresh from Eden . Then , Believe me 'tis a noble truth , God ' s World is worthy better Men . 0 , they are bold and over bold ,
Who say we re doomed to anguish ; That men , in God's own image sonied , lake hell-bound slaves should languish ! Probe Nature ' s heart to its red core , There ' s more of good than evil ; And man—down-trampled man—is more Of angel than of devil ] " Prepare to die !"—Prepare to live 1 We know not what is living ; And let us , for the world's good , give , As God is ever giving ! Give love , thought , action , wealth , and time , To win the primal age again . Believe me , 'tis a truth sublime , God ' s World is worthy better Men I The leader . Gerald Masset .
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The Romance of the Peerage ; or Curiosities of fami ly History . By G . L . Craik . Yol . IY . London : Chapman and Hall . Is this work Mr . Craik shows the small Iveg innings , and , in our op inion , anythin g but " romantic" incidents , ont of which have grown some of . the proudest families of our aristocracy . Plunder , in one shape or another , constitutes the foundation of all of them , whether effected by the sword , or the more insidious , but not less mischievous , agency of usury and trade . Take , for instance , the founder of the House of Lauedowne—the ancestor of the present President of the Council . He was what is
called the founder of his own fortune ; hut what were the means ? Purchasing the debentures of the soldiers in Cromwell ' s army in Ireland , and then buyingthe confiscated estates from improvident or straitened allottees . It -would almost seem , indeed , from the career of Sir William Petty , and of Boyle , Earl of Cork , that , in the seventeenth century , Ireland was a greater field for unscrupulous , greedy , and pushing adventurers than India , during the earlier Btages of its conquest and acquisition , or the Colonies now . Where the carcase is , there the vultures will follow . Cromwell laid waste the land with fire and
sword , and then distributed it among his victorious soldiers . They were followed by usurers and money-lenders—persons ready to take advantage of weakness , necessity , imprudence , or ignorance ; and by chicanery , and that species of bargain-making which sticks at nothing to compass its object . It is carious , too , to observe the unconscious manner in which the actors in this kind of i mmora l gambling and cheating speak of the affair , and even piously give thanks to God , for having been so clever as to pluck their dupes . Mr . Craik thus describes the manner in which Petty made his money : —
In the latter part of the year 1652 , he obtained Ihe appointment of Physician to the Army in Ireland , which he retained for about seven years . A hundred pounds which he was allowed for outfit made Mm worth about £ 500 when he landed at Walerford , in September 1652 ; he had a salary of twenty shillings a day , and he made by his practice about £ 400 a year more . But these regular emoluments of his post were far from being all that he got out of it . Ireland was , throughout the whole of the seventeenth century , the most tempting region of adventure for English ambition ; it was what the New World had been in the sixteenth , and what India became in the eighteenth ; though
what made it so rich an El Dorado , or land of gold , ras not so much its natural wealth as the succession of public calamities by which it had been torn and crushed , the divisions and ever following subjugations , which again and again threw it down a helpless prey for the spoiler . Petty writes his title at full length as , "Physician to the Army who . had suppressed the rebellion begun in the year 1641 , and to the General of the same and the HeadQuartere . " He then proceeds!—" About September 1654 , 1 , perceiving that the admeasurement of the lands forfeited by the aforementioned rebellion , and intended to regulate the satisfaction of the soldiers who had suppressed the same , was most
insufficiently and absurdly managed , I obtained a contract dated 11 th December , 1654 , for making the said admeasurement ; and , by God ' s hlesBing so Tjerformed the same as that I gamed about £ 9 , 000 thereby ; which , with the £ 500 above mentioned , my salary of twenty shillings per diem , the benefit of my practice , together with £ 600 given me for directing an after-survey of the Adventurers lands , and £ 800 more for two years' salary as Clerk of the Council , raised me an estate of about £ 13 , 000 in ready and real money , at a time when , without ht much
art , interest , or authority , men bougas land for ten shillings in real money as at thi 3 year , 1635 yields ten shillings per annum rent above his Majesty ' s quit-rents . " Part of this money he kspfc in cash to answer emergencies ; with part of w he purchased the house and garden of the Earl of Arundel , in Lothbury , London ; but the greater part he invested in soldiers' debentures , with which he purchased lands in Ireland at the low price above described . Aubrey affirms that these lands produced him a rental of £ 18 , 000 a year .
The aut ob iogr a p hical particulars in this extract are taken from Petty ' s will ; a singular document , in which the writer g ives an account of his life and fortunes , with the occasional insinuation of an epinion , as in this legacy to the poor , and his convenient views on religion : — As for legacies for the poor , I am at a stand . As for beggars by trade and election , I give them nothinf-lsforimpotents by the hand of God , the public ought to maintain them ; as for those who havebeenbred tono calling or estate , they should be put upon their kindred ; as for those who can Set no work , the mag istrates should cause them to be employed , which may be well done m Ireland , where is fifteen acres of hnproveable land for every
head ; prisoners for crimes , by the King ; for debt , by their prosecutors . As for those who compassionate the sufferings of any object , let them relieve themselves by relieving such sufferers , that is , give them alms pro re naa , and for God ' s sake relieve those several species above-mentioned where the above-mentioned obU gtes fail in their dnties . Wherefore I am contented that I have assisted all my poor relations , and put many into a way of getting their own bread , and have laboured in public works and by inventions , have sought out real objects of charily , and do her eby conjure all who partake of my estate from time to time to do the same , at their peril . Nevertheless , to answer custom and to take the surer side , I give £ 20 to the most wanting of the parish wherein I die . * ?
As for religion , I die in the profession of that faith and in the practice of snch worship as I find established by the law of my country ; not being able to believe what I myself please , nor to worship God better than by doing as I would be done unto , and obseving the laws of my country , and expressing my love and honour to Almighty God by such signs and tokens as are understood to be such by the people with whom I live , God knowing my heart even without any at aU . In fact , Sir Henry was a worshipper of $£ ammon , and a very successful one . Sir Stephen Foe , the founder of the great Whig House of Holland , was a courtier , and rose by the personal regard of that most unprincip ledandJicenciousof sovereigns , Charles the Second . . The . founder of the House of Phips ( now Phipps ) , Marquis of Normanby ,
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History of the War of the Sicilian Vespers . By Michele Amaki . London . Bentley . It is generall y believed that the event known in history as the " Sicilian Vespers , " was the result of a wide spread conspiracy , embracing all classes of people , kept secret for two ye a rs , and at length carried into effect suddenly , with immediate triumph , and final
success . If such were the case it would , undoubtedly , be one of the strongest and most unparalleled incidents in human annals . Conspiracies seldom indeed ripen into action , when partici p a ted in b y large numbers , and they are , when confined to a few , equally liable to disappointment , by an untimel y explosion , a miscalculation of time and resources , or the treachery of some of their apparently most zealous abettors .
Amari held the common opinion when he began to study this portion of the annals of his native country , with anew to write its history . The result of his investigations has led him to a very different conclusion . That Peter of Arragon aimed at the kingdom of Sicily , either from self-prompting or at the suggestions of John of Frpcida , and other Sicilian exiles , is clear . It is equally clear that he prepared an army for that purpose , under the pretence of waging war against the Infidels . It appears to he true that he entered into a treaty with the Greek Emperor MichaelPaleologus , whom Charles of Anjou was threatening with war : it is also possible , that a general conspiracy was formed among some of the Sicilian barons : hut beyond this Amari does not
believe that any conspiracy extended . "When carefully sifted , " he writes , "the contemporary records amount to this—that Peter eagerly aspired to the crown of Sicily ; that he armed h i mself ; that he treated for subsidies with the Emperor of Constantinople , whose power was threatened by Charles ; that Procida was one of his messengers ; that he may , perhaps , have consp ired with some few Sicilian barons , but that their plans were not y et matured nor their preparations completed , when the pe o p le of Sicily broke forth . " The foundation of the outbreak was long oppression in every form ; the immediate cause , like two great revolutions in Rome , and in some of the Italian cities of the middle ages , was injury to a woman . This is Amari ' s narrative of the
beg inning : — Xew outrages shed a gloom over the festival of Easter at Palermo , the ancient capital of the kingdom ; detested by the strangers more than any other city , as being the strongest and the most deeply injured . Messina was the seat of the King ' s Viceroy in Sicily , Herbert of Orleans ; Palermo was governed by the Justiciary of Tal di Mazzara , John of St Bemigio , a minister worthy of Charles . His subalterns , worthy both of the Justiciary and of the King , had recently launched out into fresh acts of rapine and violence . But the people submitted . It even went so far that the citizens of Palermo , seeking comfort from God amid their worldly tribulations , and having entered a church to pray , in that verv church , oh the days sacred to the memory of
the Saviour ' s passion , and amidst the penitential rites , were exposed to the most cruel outrages . The ban-dogs of the exchequer searched out amongst them those who had failed in the payment of the taxes , dragged them forth from the . sacred edifice , manacled , and bore them to prison , crying out insulting ly before the multitude attracted to the spot , " Pay , paterini , pay I" And the people still submitted . The Tuesday after Easter , which fell on the 31 st of JIarch , there was a festival at the church of Santo Sp irito . On that occasion a heinous outrage against the liberties of the Sicilians afforded the impulse , and the patience of the people gave way . We will now record all that the historians most deserving of credence have transmitted to us concerning this memorable event .
Haifa mile from the Southern wall of the city , to the brink of the ravine of Oreto , stands a church dedicated to the Holy Ghost ; concerning which the latin Fathers have not failed to record , that on the day on which the first stone of ^ it was laid , in the twelfth century , the sun was darkened by an eclipse . On one side of it are the precipice and the river , on the other the plain extending to the city , which in the present day is in great part encumbered with walk and gardens ; while a square enclosure , of moderate size , shaded by dusky cjpresses , honeycombed with tombs , and adorned with urns and other sepulchral monuments , surrounds the ntinrch . This is a nubile cemetery , laid out towards
the eighteenth century , and fearfully filled in three weeks by the dire pestilence which devastated Sicily in 1837 . On the Tuesday , at the hour of vespers , relig ion and custom crowded this then cheerful plain , carpeted with the flowers of spring , with citizens wending their way towards the church . Divided into numerous groups , they walked , sat in clusters , spread the tables , or danced upon the grass ; and , whether it were a defect or a merit of the Sicilian character , threw off , for the moment , the recollection of then- Bufferings ;—when the fol-Iowersof the Justiciary suddenly appeared amongst them , and every bosom thrilled with a shudder of disgust The strangers came , with their usual
in-. BOlent demeanour , as they said , to maintain tranquillity ; andfor this purpose they minded in the groups , joined in the dances , and familiarly accosted the women , pressing the hand of one , taking unwarrantable liberties with others ; addressing indecent words and gestures to those more distant ; until some temperately admonished them to depart , in God ' s name , without insulting the women ; and others murmured angrily ; but the hot-blooded youths raised their voices so fiercely that the soldiers said to one another , " These insolent paterini must be armed , that they dare thus to answer ; " and replied tothemwiththe most offensive insults , insisting , with ereat insolence , on searching them for
arms , and even here and there striking them with sticks or thongs . Every heart already throbbed fiercely on either side , when a young woman of singular beauty , and of modest and dignified deportment , appeared with her husband and relations bending her steps towards the church . Drouefc , a Frenchman , impelled either by insolence or licence , approached her , as if to examine her for concealed weapons ; seized her , and searched her bosom . She fell fainting into her husband ' s arms ; who , in a voice almost choked with rage , exclaimed , " Death , death to the tfrench I" At the same moment , a youth burst from the crowd which had gathered Sound fhpm . Rnrane UDOn DroHet , disarmed and
slew him and probably at the same moment paid the penalty of his own life , leaving his name unknown , and the mystery forever unsolved , whether it were love for the injured woman , the impulse of a generous heart , or the more exalted flame of patriotism , that prompted him thus to give the signal of deliverance . Noble examples have a power far beyond that of argument or eloquence to rouse the people , and the abject slaves awoke at length from then- long bondage . " Death , death to the French ! " the * cried and the cry , say the historians of the time , re-echoed like the voice of God through the whole country , and found an answer in every heart . Above the corpse of Drouet were
heaped those of victims slain on either side ; the crowd expanded itself , closed in , swayed hither and thither in wild confusion ; the Sicilians , with sticks , stones , and knives , rushed with desperate ferocity npon their fully-armed opponents ; they sought for them and hunted them down ; fearful tragedies were enacted amid the preparations for festivity , and the overthrown tables were drenched in blood . The people displayed their strength and conquered . The struggle was brief , and great the slaughter of theSicfflans ; but of the French there were two hundred—and two hundred fell . . Ttreathless covered with blood , brandishing the S = » fi « SBf » SJtf !
tMfinnff citv . " Death to u » jsmtou " » J KB . Sas manyas they found were put . to inm open doors , searched every nook , ev ^""" jf place , and ahouting " Death to the French ! smote them and slew tfem , while those too distant to strike added to the tumult by their app lause . On the outbreak of thin sudden unroar the Justiciary
had taken refuge in his strong palace ; the next moment it was surrounded by an enraged multituae , crying aloud for his death : they demolished tno defences , and rushed furiously in ; but the Justiciary escaped them ; favoured by the confusion and the closing darkness , he succeeded , though wounded in the face , in mounting his horse unob « erred , and with only two attendants , fled with all speed . Meanwhile , the slaughter continued with increased ferocity ; even the darkness of night failed to arrest it , and it was resumed on the mwrow more furiously
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. ' ? — . How to make Home Unhealthy . Chapman and Hall . This is a collection of papers which orig in a ll y appeared in the Examiner . Their lively satirical style attracted much attention , and the soundness of the philosophy they embody , though taught as dreams are , to be interpreted , namely , by contraries amp ly warrant their republication in a collected form . The didactic style which works on the subject generally assume has , doubtless , the effect of deterring many from gi v i ng i t that attention which is due to its importance and its bearing upon the general well-being . This work is certain to attract readers from its
purely literary merits , abounding , as it does , with appropriate illustrations , apt anecdotes , and sl y sarcasm ; the writer hits the admitted follies and errors of our social and domestic habits hard , but pleasantly . There is no malice in his s atir e , an d we f eel that he chast i ses us for oufgood , T not " for " the pleasure of inflicting punishment . The work is pervaded by an under current of sound and practical suggestions with regard to those sanitary and social conditions that affect the maintenance of health and the comfort of life , not the le s s
v a luable be ca u s e it sparkl es s o p leasantly . Every page affords illustrations and quotations . We shall take one or two , fir s t g iving the key note of them as stated by the author . Lucian tells a story of a painter , called Fassus , who received from a Connoisseur an order for a picture of a horse painted with the legs upwards . He drew it in the usual way , for his own convenience . One day , however , his customer came in unexpectedly , saw the painting , and flew into a passion . Fassus quietly turned the picture upside down and contented the
Connoisseur . Let . us see how the author turns the horse with its legs upwards .
THE UGHT NUISANCE . Tieck tell us , in his " History of the Schildbiirger , " that the town council of that spirited community was very wise . It had been noticed that many worthy aldermen and common-councillors were in the habit of looking out of window when they ought to be attending to their duties . A vote was therefore , on one occasion , passed by a large majority , to this effect , namely—Whereas the windows of the town-hall are a great impediment to the dispatch of public business , it is ordered that , before the next day of meeting they be all bricked up . When the next day of meeting came , the worthy representatives of Sehildbiirg were
surprised to find themselves . assembling in the dark . Presently , accepting the unlooked-for fact , they settled down into an edifying discussion of the question , whether darkness was not more convenient for their purposes than daylight . —Had you and I been there , my friend , our votes in the division would have been , like the vote in our own House of Commons a few days ago , for keeping out the Light Nuisance as much as possible . Darkness is better than daylight , certainly . Now this admits of proof . . For , let me ask , where do you find the best part of a lettuce ?—not in the outside leaves . Which are the choice parts of the celery?—of course , the white shoots in the middle . Why , sir ?
Because light has never come to them , They become white and luxurious by tying up , by earthing up , by any contrivance which has kept the sun at bay . It is the same with man ; while we obstruct the light by putting brick and board where glass suggests itself , and mock the light by picturing impracticable windows on our outside walls , —se that our houses stare about like blind men with glass eyes , —while this is done , we sit at home and blanch , we become in our dim apartments pale and delicate , we grow to look refined , as gentlemen and ladies ought to look . Let the sanitary doctor at whose head we throw lettuces , go to the botanist and ask him , How is this ? Let him come back and tell us . Oh , gentleman , in these vegetables the natural juices are not formed when you exclude the light ,
The natural juices in lettuce or in celery are flavoured much more strongly than our taste would relish , and therefore we induce in these plants an imperfect development , iu order to make them eatable . Very well . The natural juices in a man are stronger than good taste can tolerate . Man requires horticulture to be fit to come to table . To rear the finer sorts of human kind , one great operation necessary is to banish light as much as possible . Ladies know that . To keep their faces pale , they pull the blinds down in their drawing-rooms , they put a veil between their countenances and the sun when they go out , and carry , like good soldiers , a great shield on high , by name a parasol , to ward his darts off . They know better than to let the old god kiss them into colour , as he does the peaches . They choose to remain green fruit ; and we all know that to be a delicacy .
In anticipation of Christmas and New Tear festivities , we shall conclude with our author's account of
SPENDING A VERT PLEASANT EVENING . By the consent of antiquity , it is determined that Fain shall be doorkeeper to the house of Fleasure . In Europe , Purgatory led to Paradise : and , had St . Symeon lived among us now , he would have earned heaven , if the police permitted , by praying for it , during thirty years , upon the summit of a lamppost . In India the Fakir was beatified by standing on his head , under a hot sun , beset with roasting bonfires . In Greenland the soul expected to reach bliss by sliding for five days down a rugged rock , wounding itself , and shivering with cold . The American Indians sought happiness through castlgation , and considered vomits the most expeditious
mode of enforcing self-denial on the stomach . Some tribes of Africans believe , that on the -way to heaven every man ' s head is knocked against a wall . By consent of mankind , therefore , it is granted that we must pass Pain on the way to Plea sure . What Pleasure is , when reached , none but the dogmatical can venture to determine . To Greenlanders , a spacious fish-kettle , for ever simmering , in which boiled seals for ever swim , is the delight of heaven . And remember that , in the opinion of M . Bailly , Adam and Eve gardened in Nova Zembla . You will not be surprised , therefore , if I call upon you to prepare for your domestic pleasures with a little 6 uftering ; nor , when I tell you
what such pleasures are , must you exclaim against them as absurd . Having the sanction of our forefathers , they are what is fashionable now , and consequently they are what is fit . I propose , then , that you should give , for the entertainment of your friends , an Evening Party ; and as this is a scene is which young ladies prominently figure , I will , if you please , on this occasion , pay particular attention to your daughter . O mystery of preparation ! -Pardon , Bir . You err if you suppose me to insinuate that ladies are more careful over personal adornment than the gentlemen . When men made a display of manhood , wearing beards , it Is recorded that they packed them , when they went to bed , in pasteboard cases lest they might be tumbled in the night . Man at his grimmest is as vain as woman , even when he stalks about bearded and
battle-axed . This is the mystery of preparation in your daughter ' s case : How does she breathe ? You have prepared her from childhood for the part she is to play to-night , by training her form into the only shape which can be looked at with complacency in any ball-room . A machine , called stays , introduced long since into England , by the Normans , has had her in its grip from early childhood . She has become pale , and—only the least bit—liable to be blue about the nose and fingers . Stays are an excellent contrivance ; they give a material support to the old cause , TJnhealthinesB at Home . This is the secret of their excellence . A woman s ribs are narrow at the top , and as they snm-oach the waist they widen , to allow room fpr fhelunes to play within them . If youcan preventthe ribs from widening , you can prevent the lungs from playing , which they have no right to do , and make them work . This you accomplish by the agency of JtS ft fortu nately Happens that taeso lungs
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fatothS . -: . » e putting of the breath of life i lbl 00 d ~ Thich' they are unable to do prorfffflffin ^ ramped . for s P J jt beoomGS aboi « as ? Snn - them ^ wouId b 6 ^ y ° u * ° plaj ' the Sffirff "Sa ° hina doset . By ; this . compression of the chest ladies are made nervous , and become » nnt ™ ? ' much exertion : ' they u 0 ' < however , fa a fi . Hn ° W- 6 tha * they have lost flesh . There LStwiW £ whioh would mduce ' sPe " S L « T °$ iS * . ^ belief that some internal flame iBHTi 1 ttw-TOWta to gutter , and that the SSSr J L d owninto a lump which protrudes t nSS . o n | e f . the waistband . This appearance is , I think , a fiction ; and for my opinion I have newspaper authority . In the naners if ; wa * xvrit . tAt , ma e work fo ^^ !•>*„ « ,- 1 .. " , . " »? putting 01 tne Dreatn . 01 lite
day last year , that the . hump alluded to was tested with a pm upon the person of a lady , coming from the Iskvof Man , and it was found not to be sensitive . Brandy exuded from the wound ; for in that case the projection was a bladder , in which the prudent housewife was smuggling comfort in a quiet way . ihe touch of a pin changed all into discomfort , when she found that she was converted *} peripatetic watering-can—brand ying-oan I should have said . Your daughter comes down stairs dressed , with a bouquet , at a time when the dull seeker of Health and Strength would have her to go up stairs with a bed-candlestick . Your guests ^! -J ° ^? ladi ? ' tM p l y clad and packed in
. carriages , emerge , half-stifled ; put a cold foot , protected by a filmy shoe , upon the pavement , and run , shivering into your house . Well , sir , we'll warm them presentl y . * * Allow mo to dance a polka with your daughter . Frail , elegant creature , that she is ! A glass of wine , —a macaroon : good . Sontag , yes ; and that dear novel . That was a delightfu l dance ; now let us promenade . The room is close ; a glass of wine , an ice , and let us get to the delicious draught in the conservatory , or by that door . Is it not beautiful ? The next quadrille—I look sl yl y at my watch , and Auber ' s grim chorus rumbles within me ,. Void minuit void minuit ! ' Another dance . How fond she
seems to be of macaroons ! Supper . My dear sir , I will take good care of your daughter . One sandwich . Champagne . Blancmange . Bonbon . Champagne . Sherry . Champagne . Tipsey-cake . Brandy cherries . Glass of wine . A macaroon . Trifle . Jelly , Champagne . Custard . Macaroon . The ladies are being taken care of—Yes , now in their absence we will drink their health ; and wink at each other ; their and our Bad Healths . This is the happiest moment of our lives ; at two in the morning , with a dose of indigestion in the stomach , and three hours more to come before we get to bed . You , my dear sir , hope that on many occasions like , the present you may see your friends around you , looking as glassy . eyed as you have madethem
to look now . We will rejoin the ladies . Nothing but champagne could have enabled us to keep up the evening so well . We were getting weary before supper , —but we have had some wine , have dug the spur into our sides , and on we go again . At length , even the bottle stimulates our worn-out company no more ; and then we separate . Good night , dear air : we have spent a Very Pleasant Evening under your roof . To-morrow , when you depart from a late breakfast , havinr seen your daughter's face , ' and her boiled-mackerel eye , knowing that your wife is bilious , and that your son has just gone out for , soda-water , you will feel yourself to be a Briton who has done his duty , a man who has paid something on account of his great debt , to civilized society . "
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HAYMARKET THEATRE . The part of Cassius in Julius C&sar has been so rarely played by Mr . Macready that in enumerating a list of his possible characters one would be likely to pass it over , naming Julius Ccesar on account of Brutus only .- And yet there is no part which Mr , Macready brings out with greater force of individuality than this of Cassias , which he played on Saturday night ; The irritable temper of the mansensitive to a . degree of morbidity—he represents with the greatest Bicety . In the first dialogue with Brutus he shows you plainly that he does not hate the elevation of Csesar from a mere abstract
principle , but that it is personally distasteful to him ; that it sours his temper : that , to use a very undignified phrase , it is absolutely provoking . The great quarrel scene was inimitably done . Here the irritable temperament is developed into open rage . Self-control is all but lost ( the " all but" being finely maintained ) , yet still the naturally affectionate foundation is constantly kept in view , and eeems ever on the point of bursting into utterance , till at last all anger vanishes in the hearty reconciliation The applause of the audience when Cassius fell on the Heck of Brutus denoted not only admiration , but was a genuine expression of sympathy . Mr .
How , as Mark Antony , has achieved a success which is likely to advance him in public estimation . The famous oration was delivered not only with that energy which may be always found in Mr . How , but with a variety of tone and manner that proved much thought and discrimination . The calm nature of Brutus was unaffectedly represented by Mr . Davenport . The Youtig Quaker , a five act piece by O'Keefe , originally produced at the Haymarket in 1783 , has been revived for the non-Macready nights . It is a vapid work , with no intrinsic merit to recommend it , the only pleasing feature in it being the genuine good humour which Mr . Webster infuses into the character of the Young Quaker , a youth of excellent disposition , but somewhat lax in his habits .
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . During the past week Mr . Georgo Barker hae been engaged in delivering a lecture on the Ballad Music of England , the subject being the Lays of the Foresters or Songs of Robin Hood . It is not to be expected that the lecturer could give a biography of the bold outlaw in the short space allotted to his lecture , nor is it necessary —» r who is unacquainted with the romantic history of the Forester , and his equally celebrated chaplain Friar Tuck , the stalwart priest , who could bring down a fat buck with a cloth-yard shaft , with as much ease as he could repeat his paternosters ? The
lecturer merely touched on the more prominent events of the lives of these two worthies , and sung some appropriate ballads to illustrate each . The song in which the brawny friar is described , is as amusing and as droll as the other , which Robin Hood is supposed to have sung to Richard the first , when the King questioned him as to his parent * age ;| it is plaintive and beautiful . The former song received an unanimous encore , and indeed the whole lecture was well received by a crowded audience , < who frequently interrupted the lecturer with hearty rounds of applause .
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The Original MS . of Wavbrwy , wholly in the handwriting of Sir Walter Scott—the same MS . which was sold at Evans ' s , in 1831 , with the other MSS . of the noble series of novels and romances , baa just been presented to the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh , by Mr . James Hall . At the sale alluded to , the MS . was bought by Me . Wilks , M . P ., for £ 20 , audit was sold by that gentleman the next week to Mr . Hall at Mr . Hall ' s price of forty fuineas . It is a well-known fact to all readers of dotfc , that the novel of Waverley was commenced about the year 1805 , and laid aside in an old cabinet till 1813 , when it was again taken up , completed , and published : we need hardly add with what
success . The MS . both in the dated watermarks of the paper and by features in the handwriting , confirms and illustrates the story of the delay . It is not , perhaps , generally known that the trustees of the Advocates' Library were in treaty for the purchase of the whole of the MSS ., and actually offered more for them than they realised at the sale . While we regret that the offer of the Advocates was not accepted , and the MSS . kept together for public use and general gratification , we are pleased to think that , all circumstances considered , the moBt interesting of the MSS . ( thanks to Mr . Hall ) has been added to the treasures of the noblest library in Scotland . —Athenmum .
' Never did Cardinal briso good to England . " —We read in Dr . Lingawl ' s History , ( vol . iv ., p . 527 , ) on the authority of Cavendish , that when the Cardinals Campeggio and Wolsey adjourned the inquiry into the legality of Henry VIII . ' s marriage with Catharine of Arragon , "the Duke of Suffolk , striking the table , exclaimed with vehemence , that the ' old saw ' was now verified- Never did Cardinal bring good to England . ' " —Note * « nd Qumu .
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Waaif 13 a chair like a lady ' s dresa ?—When it is sat-in . . Wives are great helpmates—they help many husbands to dispose of their cash . Vbbt TatjB .- " Thisisa dead take in , " as the minnow said when swallowed by a pike . A Gruktbr . — "This is a regular 5 b « * -wester , " as the pig said when blown overboard . — Joe Mller . The man that broke into the timber-yard has been arrested , having taken a deal too much . A rusty shield prayed to the sun , and said , " 0 sun ! < iUnme me with thy ray . " The sun replied , ' O shield ! make th yself clean . " Keep a sovereign at one end of your purse and half-a-crown at the other . By so doing you prevent the rings falling off ,
A GKNTH 5 MAN has discovered a capital way to disperse a crowd of idle boys . He offers to teach them he catechism , and they i nstantly run away . , A Guernsey paper says that the girls in Jersey are so dull tbat they have to drink a pint of yeast every night to make them rise early in the morning . He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ; but he is more fortunate who can suit his temper to any circumstances . Dr . Turner of British Guiana has discovered a process in the manufacture of rum , by which it can be increased fifty per cent in strength . The tears of beauty are like light clouds floating over a heaven of stars , biditnming them for a moment that they may shine with greater lust than before .
" Jim , does your mother ever whip you ?"— " No ; but she does a precious sight worse , though . " " What ' s that ?" - " Why , she washesmj face every morning ! Wht is an ill-made coach-wheel like a gang of blackguards playing at cards ? Because it is composed of a Circle of bad fellows—very rough spoken —with a nave in its centre , " Never be critical upon the ladies , " was the maxim of an old Irish peer , remarkable fo r his homage to the sex ; " the only way a true gentleman ever will attempt to look at the faults of a pretty woman , is to shut his eyes , "
"Your heel must be something better , I think , " said a gentleman to a buxom lass , who had a hole in the heel of her stocking . " Why so V she asked . " Because , Miss , " was the response , " I perceive it is getting out . ' Law and Phtsic—Law and physic only in cases of necessity ; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses ; they are good remedies , but bad recreations . A Consoliw Reflection . —Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when , though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits , there are none who have fire and faggot at command . —Southet , Thb numbbh of visitors to the Zoological Gardens , Regent ' s Park , during the current year , has been 341 . 590 , and the increase in the receipts , as compared with the corresponding period of 1849 , has been £ 5 , 600 .
The Builder , in reply to a correspondent , says the height of the water front of the New Houses of Parliament is in the centre eighty feet , and at the sides seventy feet . The present height of the Victoria tower is 140 feet ; its ultimate height is not yet determined . PcssnsM and Pcppvism . —A young man said recently , in rather a pert way to the Rev . Dr . C , " Dr . what is the difference between this pussyism they talk so much about , and puppyism ? "— « Puppyism , " replied the Doctor , " is founded on dogma .-tism , and pussyism on the catechism . " Two Irishmen one day went a shooting . A large floek of pidgeons came flying over their heads . Pat elevated his piece , and firing , brought one of them to the ground . " Arrah ! " exclaimed his companion , • what a fool you are to waste your ammunition , when
the bare fall would have killed him . " Cure for Lisping . —A rapid and emphatic recital of the following simple narrative is an infallible cure for lisping : —" Hobbs meets Snobbs and Nobbs ; Hobbs bobs to Snobbs and Nobbs ; Hobbs nobs with Snobbs and robs Nobbs' fobs . ' This is , ' says Nobbs , the worst of Hobbs' jobs , ' and Snobbs sobs . " It was Count Charles de Morney ' s practise whenever he dined at a table d'hote to instruct his valet to come in and sit down with the company , place himself at the bottom or top of the table , treat his master as a perfect stranger , and help him to the best of everything . " Miss TmifMOTH , " said a lisping little fellow of five , " I ' m alwath real glad when you come a vithiting to our houth . "—" Are you , my little dear ; you are fond of me , then ?"— "No , that ain't it Mith Thiramoth : but ' cauth then we alwath have two kindth of pieth . "
" When Wilkib came to Edinburgh , " said his landlady , " he rented one of my attics , and I had an Irishman in the first floor , but in course of time they changed places . And so I always find it . The Irishmen begin in the first floor and end in the garret , while the Scotchmen begin in the garret and end in the first floor . " A Yankee Auctioneer lately indulged in the following little bit ofVthe pathetic : — "Gentlemen , if my father and mother stood where you do , and didn't buy these boots—these elegant bootg ~ when they were going for one dollar , I should feel it my duty as a son to tell both of '? that they were false to themselves and false to their country . "
A New musket . — A successful trial has been made at Portsmouth , in presence of several military gentlemen , of a new musket , which saves one third of the time in priming and loading , and simplifying the drill exercises . Seventy rounds may be fired in succession without priming ; the caps , being placed in the magazine , are acted upon by the action of the ramrod . An Encore . —The editor of a magazine , having through some inadvertence , inserted the same article in two successive numbers of the periodical , was
reproached for carelessness . He replied , "You are quiteinerror ; the reason for the second insertion was this—my subscribers approved the article so highly , that it was encored !" The Archdeacon and thb Artist . —Archdeacon Fisher was not without a little vanity on thesubjectof his sermons , and once received a quiet hint from Con * stable on the subject . Having preached an old sermon which he was nob aware that Constable had heard before , he asked him how he liked it ? " Very much indeed , Fisher , " replied Constable , "Ialways did like that sermon . "—Leslie ' s Life of Constable .
A Forgetful Lawyer . —A lawyer , who was sometimes forgetful , having been engaged to plead the cause of an offender , began by saying ;— " I know the prisoner at the bar , and he bears the character of being a most coaummate and impudent ecoundrel !" Here somebody whispered to him that the prisoner was his client , when he immediately continued : — 11 But what great and good man ever lived , who was not calumniated by many of his contemporaries . " A Match . —When Dr . Johnson courted Mrs . Potter , whom he afterwards married , he told her he was of mean extraction , that he Had no money , and that he had an uncle hanged . The lady , by way of reducing herself to an equality with the doctor , replied , that she had no more money than himself ,
and that , though she had not had a relation hanged , she had fifty who deserved hanging . And thus was accomplished this very curious affair . Old BacheioRs . — " Faugh 1 " says Mrs ; Partington , "don't tell me ! Old bachelors , indeed ! Let ' em die as they deserve . They always die sooner than married men , except my husband , poor dear , departed soul ! Bachelors can't live long . They ' ve nobody to darn their stockings and mend their clothes . They catch cold , and have nobodyto make 'em sage tea ; consequently they drop off ; and serve ' em right ; it ' s no matter , for not taking some of my daughters off my hands . " A Double Mistake . —A man near Leeds was sent , one day last week , by a woman who has lately
been confined , with a message to the parish clerk , requesting tbat she might have the ceremony of " churching" performed . The worthy friend informed the clerk's wife that he wanted " a woman axiu to church . " The clerk ' s wife , supposing that he wanted the banns of marriage published , asked his name , which he gave , and also the name of the woman : which , being entered in the book , was read publicly by the church functionary , to the no little astonishment of the congregation , who were surprised to hear a man asked in church with his neighbour ' s wife I— -Church aud State Gazette . Fast Shaving . —Three brothers , bearing a remarkable resemblance to one another , are in the
habit of shaving at a barber ' s shop in New Orleans A few days since , one of the brothers entered the shop early in the morning , and was duly shaved by a German who had been at work in the establishment for one or two days . About twelve o ' clock another brother came in , and underwent a similar operation at the hands of another person . In the evening the third brother made _ his appearance , when the German dropped his razor in astonishment , and exclaimed— " Yell , mine goodness ! dafc man hash the fastest beard I ever saw ; I shaves him in dis mornin ' , anoder shave him at dinner times , and lie gomes back now to mit his beard so long as it never vaa . "
Bulioiogy . —The sun is at present in the sign of Sagittarius , but the movements in progress would havo been more appropriate at the season when he is in Taurus . They naturally-lead us to reflect on the important part that the bovine element seems always to have played in mundane affairs . Bulls perform an important part in the mythologies of Greece and Rome , ta witness the Minotaur of Crete , and the squabble between Hercules and Cacus . The brazen bull of Phalaris , too , enjoyed considerable notoriety in its day ; and one of the earliest abductions on record was performed by Great Jove himself , in the likeness of a bull . Turning to the east , we have the man-faced bull of the Ninevites . which Mr . Layard has lately restored to the light of day ; on one ^ hand ^ of him the second Apis of Egypt ji and . onifbe other the equally sacred Braminee bull . Then there are the famous bulk of Bashan ,
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and the golden calf of Aaron , which some people imagine to have been the Papal bull in its infancy . Coming down to more modern times and regions nearerhome , we have bulls in abundance : the golden , wi f ^ Bn panw Charles IV . , and the leaden "" Xf > e Popes . There is John Bull , the un-T ? l ? 7 ii * ifnithe rea » I « sh buUs in abundance . iSrSLv K . ° rth bull , which kept our con-ThlShthM J iokeB for a considerable time . There isthe Bull and Mouth , well known to travellers . Among the celestial signs and the signs of earthy innkeepers the bull is , equally prominent . Then there are the allied species : the bulletin , a diminui'll ^ f ^ L ! * 5 ? WJ * mendacity as nniifi . »^ i . i . i ' a 1 .. --1 . . . .
any Roman buil can be , and the whole race of bullies A complete natural history of bulls is a desideratum in science ; and , as such , we recommend the theme to tbe worshipful Zoological Society . Lake Sui-brior . —Six years ago there were but two vessels of any kind on Lake Superior , and not more than one or two white families could be found , within 400 miles from the Sault to La Pointe . Not ? there are three large propellers , and six or seven sail vessels . Four lig hthouses have been erected by the government , and several thousand inhabitants aro scattered along the coast .
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than ever ; nor did it cease at length because the thirst-forvengeance was slaked , but because victims were wanting to appease it . Two thousand French perished in this first outbreak . Amari ' s view of the unpremeditated nature of the massacre is supported by various reasons in the text ; and by an elaborate review in the appendix , of all the chroniclers who have written upon the subject . ; the main arguments being , the silence of the beBt-informed contemporary historians about the conspiracy , and the inconsistencies of the narratives themselves with several established facts . There is , also , the inherent improbability of so extenthan eveVF nor did it cease at ^ ngth because the t , hirat fnp wntrpati ^ , c . = u % j £ , « . t . n . n .. s » „;„ -
sive a plot being kept secret for such a length o f t ime ; ther e i s , too , the air of truth which pervades the historical view of Amari . Revolutions not broug ht about by constituted powers , or large classes acting openly , but by sudden risings , have always emanated from the people ; A sudden spark has inflamed the latent passion which long oppression has induced , and roused the populace like an electric shock . IVhen they have done their work sufficiently to give promise of success , the " e d ucated cl asses " step in to lead and regulate—which is necessary ; and to profit by the popular enthusiasm—the necessity for which we deny .
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¦ was a Massachusetts man , who " got " some money by a search after a S panish treasurefillip , wrecked near the Bahamas a hundred years Before . ' In short , the steps to the pinn ac l e of rank , title , and station seem , in all cases , to be very dirty ones ; but it is wonderful how the gilding , the jewels , the erminedrobe , and the gtittering coronet , hide all that , and dazzle the multitude ! ' ' TO a . Maslachnsetts man , who got some mnnnv t > v a search after a SnamaTi ^ , c . n
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explain their purpose and character . . Of t h e two journals the Expositor appears to take the widest range , not confining itself to topics connected with the Exhibition alone , but imparting varied information on the position and progress of Art , Me c hanism , an d Industry in this country . The drawings illustratative of mechanical inventions , and of art manufacture , are well executed and a valuable feature in periodicals of this kind . For all
The Expositor , a weekly illustrated Recorder of Inventions , Desi gns , and Art Manufactures . No . 2 . J . Clayton and Son , Strand . J ownal of the Exhibition of 1851 . No 1 . Office , Essex-street , Strand . Ground Plan of the Exhibition building in Hyde Park . W y ld , Charing-cross . The titles ' of the preceding sufficiently
who take an interest in matters connected with the Exhibition , or who intend to become competitors , this Journal offers full and systematised information ; while Mr . "W yld ' s penny Ground Plan will form a very intelligable guide through the long arcades of the " Crystal Palace . "
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