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sereams of the maniac . Few , if any , had teams in a state to take them over the barren waste at oue flight , the nme-tenths being obliged to wait in the middle of this oven , and send on the animals to recrart fora few days ; when some few that were in a position to do 80 , commenced a trade of packin « small kegs of water on thair mules and retailine it at exorbitant rates ; but their heartless extomonh drove the sufferers into an united exertion to sink a well , which was rewarded l . y a moderate suj . ply ot tolerable water . I have no mariner of dou « . t , that had we proceeded without lightening IHir loads , we would also haye been obliged to halt , for even with what we carried we had very little indeed to spare . screams the maniac . Few . ifsr . v \ , ~ a * : I
Difficult passes or passages of rivers had been encountered on both Bides of the Rocky Mom . tains , bat the pass of the Great Sienu Nevada was the worst and the last . Towards evening we came to a lake closeunder the main ridges of the mountain , which explorers call Heed Lake—from the broad margin of reeds that * surround it ; and a short distance beyond the lufce ! came to the foot of the steep , where the trail curlttf up to the formidable pass , at the foot of which sc .. halted ' or the sight , to make preparations for the I undertaking . Had we met such an ascent in the I earlier part of the journey , I fancy we would Ujive I pronounced it insurmountable and turned back id
despair ; but having encountered so many danse rous places , and overcome so many difficulties , « e became inured to hazard and toil , oiJy regarding the greatest obstacles as merely perplexlui : but never impossible ; and as this was the only remaining one , we were resolved nut to be stopped , if recourse was to be had to the agency of powder . By way of experiment , in the eveuing , just to see if the animals could clamber up or work in such a perpendicular posture , 1 tried icy horse with a hold of his lariat ; but wben I brought him to the base of the ascent , he had as little idea of facing it as he would have of climbing a good wall ; for , as one of the party said , "It was not only right up and down , but leant a little over . " I tried to persuade him
first , and then to whip him ; but neither was « f any use : he did not comprehend me . Not so olii Sacramento ( the mule ) , who , like a practised hodman , reared on end as soon as he was brought to the bilge , and commenced the escalade without an instant ' s hesitation , clambering frequently in a position that made me fear he should have fallen backwards , until he got to a ledge or shelf , where there was a narrow resting-place . It was quite clear from this essay that we could not calculate much on draught , when the animals would find such difficulty " in getting up themselves ; so we were all reconciled to the alternative of diamounting the waggons , and hauling them up piecemeal by ropes , only determining first to try one in the us ' unl way , and if it failed , then resort to the other mode .
The judgment of Mr . Kelly upon the agricultural capabilities of California , is opposed to that of Fremont The soii in many places is indeed excellent , capable of producing anything ; bat the seasons , and the duration of the winter , render wheat cultivation impossible : indeed , bread stuffs , rice , &c , can be imported cheaper than they can be grown with labour at all approaching present wages , Of the golden capabilities of that country , Mr . Kelly thinks more highly than many people . He considers that the deposits are not merely superficial , but that the earth teems with the precious metal . This , however , can only be extracted in the regular way by sinking mines , smelting the ore , and all the other mining
processes , which require so large a capital that few individuals can attempt it , and absorb so much money that few , whether individuals or companies , can be certain of much profit . The diggings , or superficial deposits , were exhausted in some places when Mr . Kelly was there—that is , for extraction by rough processes ; but he is of opinion that gold may yet be profitably obtained by scientific methods . It ia , however , a remarkable fact , that neither Mr . Kelly nor any other writer who records bis experience of and Ms opinion on the gold region stops there . The company , it is true , is none of the choicest , the workia very hard , and the deductions owing to the high price of food and merest necessaries are
very great—reasons enoug h to deter a man from going there . But Mr . Kelly was there was accustomed to " rough it , '' and had got acquainted with the work . Still he left the diggings , and he advises others to stay away . This is from some sensible parting advice to emigrants . The labourer , who all his life has been accustomed to hard toil and exposure , whose frame has been casehardened by snows and suushine , whoge constitution will not shrink under the vicissitudes of diet and climate , is the proper manner of man for a miner . lie has shivered the rock in the quarry at home—he can do the same in California
he has worked in mud and water digging the canal in his native state , and can endure wet feet in the vocation of a gold-digger . He was never o ver-daintily ministered to in food , nor does he pine at the rough fare of the mines . But take the carpenter from behind his dry bench , the smith from his warm forge , or the spruce clerk from his high stooJ , and place them in cold water , with a red-hot sun glaring down upon them , —let them strain every muscle in this novel sphere of labour , rough it on bard bread and salt junk , seeking repose on the damp earth , and , believe me , they will soon exhibit the sad effects of so radical a change . Besides , steady employment about the different
cities will enable a man to enjoy more comforts and save more money than he can as a general thing by the precarious income of the diggings . The average daily income of miners , embracing all the diggings , has been computed , by persons in a position to make the calculation , at eight dollars ; which , from my own observation , taking good mines and had , energetic men and slothful , good workmen and those unused to toil , I consider tolerably near the mark , let me next see the number of days this income can be reckoned on : we first substract fifty-two Sundays , and at least ninety-one days for the winter and high-water season , making together one hundred and forty-three days ; thoBe from three hundred and sixty-five leave two hundred and twenty-two days , or within a fraction of
thirty-two weeks ; tben all miners allow at the rate of one day in the week for prospecting , seekingnew ground , which leaves a residue of ono hundred and 3 S ™* ing-aays ; from which I might , and should , deduct largely for sictness and other contingencies ; but admitting one hundred and ninety days as the yearly average , afc eight dollars per day , it yields a total of 1 , 520 dollar ! , showing Mat something over four dollars per day for thiyear round is the miner ' s income . Let the mechanic or clerk ; in following this calculation , aim bear in mind , that- while he in Francisco or Sacramento lays in Ins necessaries at reasonable rate 3 the miner has to submit to the most UBnrions exactionsand , after a little sober reflection , I conceive he will come into my view of the matter .
Of the state of society in California Mr . Kelly gives as bad an account as well can be , not only in the diggings bat everywhere else where Americans are found . The peculiar " smartness" in Francisco , Sacramento , and the mines , seems characteristic of the Yankee ; but the civilised world appears to contribute its quota to the gambling , and the blasphemy and ribaldry of the miners are not peculiar to congregations of Americans . Passage after passage might be quoted descriptive of the state of society as to morals , but we will rather quote one indicative of manners . The scene occurs at San Jose , a place where the Spaniards are numerous . One mam attraction of the festa was a horse-race between Spanish and American owners .
While the ground was being measured , hundreds of speculators , carrying about their dolla-a and doubloons in shawls and handkerchiefs , keDt un a stormy vociferation , in which it wa 8 apparent the American horse had the call ; and after all the money was staked , horses , mules , and accoutrements were betted one against the other , until four-fifths of those on the ground were imp icK in the issue . During the excitement the lines were somewhat broken and the principals , with some special friends , rode along to have them readjusted affording an opportunity of contrasting the demeai
nour 01 the Spaniard and the Yankee ; the one all courtesy and urbanity , politely motioning the people back ; the other , in a tone of vulgar insolence , using the most frightful imprecations , and plunging their ho » e 3 amongst them whenever they came to a Spanish group ; I never remember to have been more deeply impressed with ineflable disgust than while , witnessing this exhibition of arrogant brutality . Talk of Americans ' goin » ahead ! 'but in order to be unencumbered in the strife , they cast aside every figment of olden civilisation , not even retaining the fig-leaf of decency or decorum . —at least so far as the Californian
emigrants are concerned . The Yankee uproar was terrific , and the inherent bad taste and . under-breeding evinced at the triumph , was the more repugnant from the placid and good humoured temper in which the Spaniards bore their defeat . ¦ " I knowed we would whip them damned tawneya , " and such , like expressions , met your ears at every turn , and as they led off the
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EARTH'S WRONGS . ^ r-sonls who bore the name te rSt on earth , though on them hurl'd fi and fetter , sword , and flame , l = fS Sing ° f godless world , XSpeaththeaitarcry . t ^ rSawie on tbdr iOMlty foes ; for Tl ^ Sorps that fill the sky & ' »! JnKn » voice of tb . oasand 3 " ro 3 e , Xh * M& the g « teful aong :
, , jo nge;—the earth hath drunk Ja we shedinjoyforthee ; i ' iicath the cold swift waters sunk , i T , f 1 n 2 'd the foam that edg'd the sea ; offl * > «»*» «**• ! ? ld t ! l e * P ° t That man may seek m vain to hide ; -rhv martyr ' s blood oan perish not , 3 jjioo- h swept beneath an ocean ' s tide ; Baste thou tojunge the wrong : — i flow long—Oh Lord—how long ' . "
jT ? jvrti bears their cry ;—yet not alone Rin ^ s through it 3 courts that awful pray ' r ; urib hath her slaves , whose feebler moan , \ f « U anguished note , ascendeth there ; fon dreiry home , and cheerless hearth , Where patient grief site down to die , flow by oppression , pain , and dearth , jlespondeth to the heart ' s sad cry : — Judge thou the proud and strong ; "How long—oa Lord—bow lchg \" 5 » e o * ertask . * d men , whose days are given To heaping wealth for-others use , S * niggard hands repell'd and driven From life ' s pure joys to its abuse , — fffco pant for time , the richest gift
Tbat God bestows on man , to learn Jow they their hearts to him may lift , And thence for peace and mercy turn , — Cry out , —a mighty throbjf ;—" How long—oh Lord—how long . !" ? be infant things whose trembling feet Can scarcely tread their native soil , Sv whip and hunger fore'd to meet S TLe JengthenM hours of daily toil , Xrain' 4 to deceive , and pity gain With gashing tears , and sUfl'd moan , ' _ iud simulate the racking pain , — in easy task , with all their own , — Cry out , —a mighty . throng , — ' How long—oh Lord—how long !"
From darken'd mines , and barren hills , From swelling wares on ocean ' s breast , from unsown fields , wlierefamine kills , And camps with toii unmark'd by rest , Prom every spot where slavery weara The life of man , and wrongs oppress , i fob ascends which heaven hears , Though utter'd in the heart's recess : — Jadse though the proud and strong ; " flowlong—oh Lord—how long I " Hear ye the cry—whose homes are set iuwag the prond , in wealtlTarrayM ; 8 etlre = s the wrong and woe , while yet The dreadful fire of wrath is slay'd : Tor not in vain shall man send up *
ilis voice and tears to pitying skies ; An'i ye shall drink the bitter cup ; Ofhcaven ' s revenge for guiltless sighs ;—Hear ! for the cry is strong;—• ' llow long—oh Lord—how long !"
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hi " Excursion to California over the Prairie , Jfwfy Mountains , and Great Siena Nevada . With a Stroll through the Diggings and Hunches of that Country . By TVhjiam Kelly , J . P . Two Vols . Chapman and
Hall . & Kelly started for the United States in salary 1849 to seek fortune in California . ! tm Sew York he made his way to the TVesa raters , by Albany , Buffalo , Detroit , and sago ; he descended the Illinois to St . t . s , and thence ascended the Missouri to Iqjiffldence , the starting-point in that quarfor adventurers who make the overland a *\ En route , Mr . Kelly had fallen in Idiflereiit persons bound for the same El ado , possessing , education and " means to at" according to his ideas of "the right : g . " They prepared for tbeir . journey in
A style , —a species of green uniform , wag-% mules ; outfit , and provision of the best : % ; a kind of military order vras estashed , and ' a ballot placed Mr . Kelly in comikI of the expedition . The event seems to s ? justified the choice ; for although ne , like rrest of the company , -was without expense in desert travelling , he successfully carsi ihe expedition in one hundred and two its over a distance exceeding two thousand ja , across the Prairies , the Rocky Monnffi , and the terrible country between the s of the Mormons and the gold district .
smn easy reach of the eit y of Sacramento , ibaud separated , and Mr . Kelly passed the aeof his stay in exploring various diggings , i di gging himself ; he also visited Sacraato , St Francisco , and other places , before itwk leave of California . Xboagh the Prairie , the difficulties were asderaUe , ' butusual in travelling with wagas for many hundred miles , when the only M is an indistinct trail , the country confi-! i % intersected by streams and rivers , that " * to be crossed in spite of precipitous banks
«* p waters , with barren land occasionally * niug where water and pasturage are aw . Natural obstacles increase on ap-[ acliing the Rocky Mountains ; but soon PB they are crossed the traveller is involved ' an inhospitable region . Heavy sands , faity vegetation , water impregnated with ^ particl es , sometimes so potent as to Ijb Nntikable , rugged ways and precipitous Plantain paths , characterise the country for pat sis hundred miles ; a desert of sixty N intervenes without any water whatever , Pthe most arduous difficulties of the road
w w hen the animals and the men are al-* wr a out . Although the party started rl in the season , and from the completeness weir outfit pushed on rapidly , the summer a well advanced before they reached the ^ part of the journey ; and their sufferings ^ ssinir the desert on-the North of Califor-3 * ere very great . Re direct flames of the solar fire seemed absof ? to curl around us , creating a wavy visible ' ^' atmosphe re , as if we were moving through ^ p ; rm smoke ; and thi s at length produced a <« iui insensibility in some , and madness in others ; ® «? the men coming up to me and demanding . 'WniamostneretBvwry tone , as if Ihail a * nZ
L e h l lted ' adjn » nMter the gruel to the eNs bnt there were only seven men out of the h « e "We to lend a hand . Some were howling for P * , and some threw themselves in a fainting pe wriw thg shade of the waggons . I neverfelt psai so nearly overcome ; and only for a great F ^ l made , feelmg that , aB the conductor of the [„ J « "W 5 incumbent on me to set a eood H'le . 1 . hould also have sunk m thf struSle ifi , *" * ? V 0 Qr lnt& > . ' llirne 88 leMitbe f *** of the water from the kegs , thev brayed 11 nought , in a piteous tone , laying , Oh ! let L ~" . > e ; " while the others pressed aroond , f ! = *« fc difficulty restrained from trampling on | * Ji * we were draining it off ; and it was a matr «» Q small trouble to give each his basin , from turner in which the other would noke into it .
C'Jl > the w » rd ' Move , " was passed ; but 1 a , j ! . eof tho teamsters altogether incapable of in i ' , an , sore against my grain , bad to place i ; i , V e tso insane men in the waggons , the ^ I * " el ) ecome so restless and outrageous - * 4 . Sn ? ctantI F constrained to resort to the EaT £ f ^ "ative of tying them down . Those t we under the waggons did not appear to N * ti £ ^ conld the * he So * to need its to * wl U 11 Qe Waggons were moved on , and they ^ Nr ^ Fi 9 ECd to the Sttn J wheathe J arose - but | 4 , ] , r ! 1 J enervated 8 tate- 3 implored , I ex-N ^* ' 8 tru ggteon for two houra more , N w ^ , ' drea " hrelief ; lut they w » deaf * & l « and k" 1 ^ to * lifted into their ' ^ Teasf t ngth we aU S 6 t nwrtioivand three !» $ * , > « nausted men rode ahead on our best = 0 im- ' dlrec *; 'onB to Mtum and meet ub 4 % ;* Pf ^ 'e with water , which I knew , from Mve j H , S'gf could not be more than ten or ^ i- " n o * j mless we missed our way ; an ** t&T not M n to « f 0 P h ""» l « d our endre ji "n . * « 9 " ^ 1 ffOm tlie 8 ? Parti es -who gave me the " ftaS" P ec'n » g Hnmboldt river , tbat the ^ 'es 1 » <) CCUITen ceB in ffieDesert [ by sneceedine ^ iawS- " - ? « e «» l «' «* transcended the NS # hotror ' ^ d * "no being pi ? Z . Putnd carcases and deserted waggons , fa- fh " - . f "M with * ° e moans of thl [ - U » Vails of the sufferbg ; -Jd tte wfld
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Spanish horses past their late masters who were returning on foot to the u ^ ^ Z nl ^ ulTeryf ^^ ™ ° bSCeD ° «* '& •« Jon ** ^\? t f « l ? " i ndescrib » Me feeling of attp . oii « ., as if to fill up the measure of my loathing at their day ' s conduct , to look on at a Yanke ? ilrniKiu- match , perfectly in character and keeping with ihu tenour of tbeir ottiergoin ^ s on . It took place . it one of the oueu bootlis on the course , « ur =., tn . sragr .-atcrowd , and giving riSG to fresh ut-ttin-s The nvm who W ( O the toss for choice of fluids selected port « iue , each tumbler to have a raw ejr >; broken into it—a potion that appeared to c .-..
take hu opponent by surprise ; however , they went to »« rk , an > l with the short necessary pauses , got up as for . s tlieniuth glass each , whetiotie betrayed > yfn | . touis of disiress , and , to , tn » ke use of Lord Jtorbury's pun , eoul < i not" be egged on " any furtlter ; Lr , in attenipting to raise the tenth to his mimtii , the su . mach rebidled , after a fashion that commumcatcii . a spasm of nausea to mo , which it required aU'the - muscular power in my ihroui tosu ; . ilue . " I afterwards heard the victor \ a'iniingly proceeded to the baker ' s dozen , and wound u , » i > y drinking tae spectators' health in a iiumperofbramly arid water .
Journals of a landscape Painter in Albania , § c . By Edwaud Leau . Bentley . Among our writing painters Mr . Lear may take high rank . Mr . Lear ' s journals beg&U in the month of September 1848 , when he left Constantinople in an over-crammed steamer for Satoniki;—noting on his voyage Ossa and Olympus , which looked out over the Gulf till they were shut in "by a thick scirocco-like vapour , "—and in a few graphic words giving us a lively picture of his fellow-passengersa hareem of Turkish females , who covered one-half of the triangular quarter-deck " with a diversity of robes , pink , blue , chocolate and amber , pea , sea , olive , bottle , pale and dark green "— Wallachiaus , Bosuiaca and Jews .
The disembarkation at Salonild was a scene of noisy bustle . Cholera had made travellers with impedimenta , or baggage , scarce at Salomki . Accordingl y—_ There were literally crowds of black-turbnned Hebrews at the water ' s edge , speculating on the possible share of each in tbe conveyance > S luggage ? 5 Li v st f liner ' The enthusiastic Israelites rushed into the water , and seizing my arms and egs , tore me out of the boat , and up a narrow . board , with the most unsatisfactory zeal ; immediately after which they fell upon my enraged dragoman in the same mode , and finall y turowingthomselves on my lu » gage , each portion of it was cVuned by ten or twelve frenzied agitators , who pullej this way and that way , t , u I , who stood apart , resigned to whatever might happen , confidently awaited the iotaoestruction
; ot my " roba . " From yells and pullings to and fro , the scene changed in a few minutesi to a real fight , and the whole community fell to the most furious hair-pulling , turban-clenching , and robe tearing , till the luggage was forgotten , and all the party was involved in one terriBc combat . How this exhibition would ha ? e ended I cannot tell , for in the heat of the conflict my man came running with a half score of Government Kawasi , or police ; and tbe * ay in which they fell to belabouring the enraged Hebrews was a thine never to be forgotten . These took a deal of severe beating from sticks and whips before they gate way and eventually some « is or eight were selected to ' carry the packages of the Ingliz , which I followed into the city , not unvexed at being the indirect cause of so much strife .
This brawling entry of our landscape-painter into the arena of his labours , gave no false augury of what manner of incidents his iourney would yield . Saloniki i s a dull and peaceful haunt , its inhabitants at once thinned and cowed by the presence of the cholera ; and Mr . Lear was free to roam about and to sketch , had he so pleased . In most of his subsequent stopping places—as often as Was raised the cry of " Scroo j scroo ! " ( a short and easy Albanian way of saying "He writes " ) , our artist was not only pressed on and peeped at , and ignominiously pelted like one who was about some evil work , but
assailed also by fierce dogs . Frantic Dervises howled and grinned in his face , —Sometimes even threatened him with their knives ; and it became necessary when he wished to sketch to apply for a Kawas , or armed attendant , to stand by and keep at bay the crew of men and brutes outraged by such unhallowed Frankish proceedings . A horse is the convey ance in Albania ; but the roads are wretched —oftentimes even perilous , especially after heavy rains—sometimes down tangled lanes , recalling what weread of the close paths which thread the Bocages of La Vendee—sometimes along friable mountain shelves , where no General Wade or Macadam ever comes , after
a storm or landslip , to clear the path and make it practicable . Then—day ' s fatigue overan Albanian khan is as rough a place for a night's lodging as can be conceived . The sleeper is sheltered , it is true ; but from the crazy rafters above his bed and his supper-tray and his fire with its blinding wood fimolce , spiders , hens and cats have the habit of tumbling at all hours of the ni ght;—and he must dispute his quarters with pigs and donkeys—to say nothing of rude bipeds , who sleep with the bare soles of their feet close to the fire . Of course in places thus furnished , the food ia not likel y to be either various or clean .
Such are the general difficulties under which art is pursued in Albania : —let us illustrate from a later page of Mr . Lear ' s journals : — 0 the khan of Tyrana ! with its immense stables fall of uproarious horses ; Us broken ladders , by which ono climbed distrustfully up to the moat uneven and dirtiest of corridors " in which aloft some twenty feet square by six feet in height was the best I could pick out as a home for the night . Its walls , falling in masses of mud from its osier-woven sides ( leaving great boles exposed to your neighbours * view ; or , worse still , to the cftld night air ) ; —its thinly raftered roof , anything but proof to the cadent amenities resulting from the location of an
Albanian family above it ; its floor of shaking boards , so disunted that it seemed unsafe to move incautiously across it , and through the great chasms of which the horses b elow were open to contemplation , while the suffocating atmosphere produced thence are not to be described ! * * * 0 khan of Tyrana ! rats , mice , cockroaches , and all lesser vermin were there . Huge flimsy cobwebs , hanging in festoons above my head ; big frizzly moths , bustling into my eyes and face , for the holes representing windows I could close but imperfectly with sacks and baggage ; yet here I was prepared to sleep , thankful that a clean mat was a partial preventive to some of this list of woes , andfindin »
some consolation in the low crooning singing of the Gheghes above me , who , with that capacity for melody which those Northern- Albanians seem to possess eo essentially , were murmuring their wild airs in choral harmony . * Even with a guard , it was a work of trouble to Bketch in Tyrana ; for it was market , or baiaar day , and when I was tempted to open my book in the large space before the two principal mosques —( ono wild scene of confusion , in which oxen , buffaloes , sheep , goats , geese , asses , dogs , and children , were all running about in disorder)—a great part of the natives , im . pelted by curiosity , pressed closely to watch my operations , in spite of the Kawas , who k ' eptas clear
a space as he could for me ; the women alone , in dark feringhis , and ghostly white muslin masks , Bitting unmoved with their wares . Fain would I have drawn the exquisitely pretty arabesque-covered mosques , but the crowds at last stilled my enthusiasm . Not the least annoyance was that given mo by the persevering attentions of a mad or fanatic Dervish , of most singular appearance as well as conduct . Dis note of " Sbaiian" was frequently sounded ; and as he twirled about , and performed many curious antics , he frequently advanced to me , shaking a long , hooked stick , covered with jingling ornaments , in my very face , pointing to tbe Kawaa with menaciug looks , as though he would
say , " Were it not for this protector you should be annihilated , yon infidel ! " * ** No sooner , after retiring to my pig-stye dormitory ; had I put out my candle , and was preparing to sleep , than the sound of a key turning in the lock of the next door to that of my garret , disturbed me , andlo broad rays of light illumined my detestable lodging from a large hole a foot in diameter , besides from two or three others , just above my head ; at . the saine time a whirring , humming sound , followed by strange whizzings and mumblings , besan ' to pervade
the apartment . Desirous to know what was going on , I crawled to the smallest chink , without encountering the rays from the great hiatus , and what didlsee ? My friend of the morning—tbe maniac oervish—performing the most wonderful evolutions and gyrations ; spinning round and round . for his own private diversion , first on his legs , and then PJ'Ot-wise , sur wn scant , and indulging in numerous other pious gymnastic feats . Not quite-easy at my Vicinity to this very eccentric neighbour ; and- half anticipatmg a twitch from his brass-hooked ' stick , I sat watching the event , whatever it might be . It
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^ d sSr ^ a ^ cups ^ flof . Dirty , and queer , and wUd aa J *} mt to - fo lo , ' better than those Ghee ! h 2 ^ 'S p lace 18 ' Jt is far -at least the noveltJEd « - * k r . anaand m ™ s ™ all about one , and & frien , ? lv ! ^ - - ?^ u « stranger stands with reS fo t « Zr Whl ° h fh ° him prefer Klumana ^ ^ D ^ ive 8 , make 8 to aupper Achmet zin 3 Dtv ' a h , ' T iom ] l througHthe mmeroXS& * "i * ! ' ^ ofMonammedan devotion infhO f d Pj ; ^ ratIons Ate this themed 35 S TK * ° " " m ! mariot hospitality is tffSJiJfcft £$ *
amsffis ^ fi ^ raas St allotted toti ? a sm « ll C'i » d ! e being the only S ? ¥ ' - "S-t r £ ^ r , tKtLnrc \* 5 fnM ?« K "" -t P P etual suiter for ei » ht or I fw + -f ' . wh 0 m wo Polled out from blneath by their tails at momentary intervals , when they wailed aloud and rushed back again , pleased em SnwWS ? - t fowl through the table , as they Zi i . ? ther 7 ° enjoy tt ' After the 1 % 4 out haa ? ni I- ? 2 y 0 Ured ' and ita ramains consigned to the afflicted cats there came on a fearful species Of Cheese SOUD , With butter . , nerfentl . fth , i « W «
ing of hands " a laturque , " and the evening meal XSnr « % SUPP f 0 Vei ' W 8 aU ^ at in a 8 erai - ^ about the fire . Some six or eight of the towstnon came u-a sort of mVee-and drinking cups of coffee was the occupation for some hours , Albanian Zl X and T little' Greek understood a xx -tSS * n or eleven a 11 but the fa «» ly Kradual £ withdrew ; and the old gentleman , Achmet , and therest of the Albanians rolled themselves up a a nr « f eS f and tt' ABas ^ sio placed himself ZZ J £ > W PistoIs ^ « 8 ide > . and as for me , with my head on my knapsack , I managed to get an hour or two of early sleep , though the noMn ° L T f h i ? a 8 sailed me ' » new fomer , hanQJ ^ - ° ( theexcur 8 ioncats » wlio played at bo-peep , behind my head , made thA-J * . Vf «¦
-S twin ?/ real , suffe »» g . ^ more so as h great wood fire nearly roasted me , and was odious to tho eyes , as a wood fire must needs be . That the Albanians are ' as proud of a good keen-er as the Irish , Mr . Lear had opportunity of observing at Vund , where the death of one ot Anastasio ' s cousins had taken place iuBt before his arrival . — . AfewKhimariotes were idling below , the shady trees , and Aaastasio was' soon surrounded and welcomed back to his native haunts , though I perceived that some bad news was communicated to him , a 9 he changed colour during the recital of the intelligence , aud clasping his hand ' s , exclaimed aloud with every appearance of real sorrow . The cause of this grief was , ho presently informed me . the tidihssof
tue oeath ot one of his cousins at Yun 6 , his native place , a girl of eighteen , whose extreme beauty and good qualities had made her a sort of queen of the village , which ; said Anasfivsio , I shall find a changed place , owing to her decease . " I loved her , " said no with all my heart , and had we been married , as we ought to have been , our lives might have been most thoroughly happy . " Having said thu 3 much , and begging me to excuse his grief , he sat down , with his head on his hand , in a mood of woe befitting such a bereavement . Meanwhile I reposed till the moment came for a fresh move onwards , whenlo ! with the quickness of light the afflicted Ana 8 taaio arose , and ran to a group of women advancing towards the olive trees , among whom was one who seemed to interest
him not a little , and as she drew nearer I perceived that she was equally affected by the eWo meeting ;— finally they sato down together , and conversed with an earnestness which convinced me that the new-cOraor was a friend , at least , if not a sister to the departed and lamented cousin of Vun 6 It was no w time to start , and as the mules were loading the Khimariote girl lingered , and I never saw a more oxquisitely handsome face than hers : each feature was perfectly faultless in form ; but the general expression of the countenance had a tinse of sternness , with somewhat of traces of mifferinl nor raven tresses' fell' loose over her beautiful shoulders and neck , and her form , from head to foot , was majestic and graceful to perfection her dress , too , the short , open Greek iacket or sDencor
ornamented with red patterns , the many folded petticoat , and the scarlet embroidered apron , admirably became her . She was a perfect model of beauty , as she stood knitting , bardlybendiin' beneiith the burden she was carrying-her fine " face half in shadefrom a snowy handkerchief thrown negligently over her head . She vanished when we were leaving Palasa , but reappeared below the village , and accompanied Anastaaio for a mile ov more through tho surrounding olive grounds , and leaving him at last with a bitter expression of melancholy which it was impossible not to sympathise with . Ah , Signore , " said Anastasio , " she was to have been
r ay wife , but now she ia married to a horrid old . man of Avl 6 na , who hates her , and she bates him , and so they will be wretched all their lives . 'Corpo di Bacco ! Ana ' sUisio , why you told me iust now you were to be married to the girl who has iust died at Yun 6 !" - " So I was , Signore ; but her parents would not let me marry her , so I have not thought about her any more—only now that she ia dead I cannot help being very Borry ; but Fortina , the girl who has just gone back , was the woman I loved better than anybody . "— " Then why didn't you marry her ?' - "Pcrch 6 , perehd , " said the afflicted Anastasio , "perche , I havo a wife already , Signore , m Yuno , and a little girl six years old . Si , Bignor ,
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Marshall , as a pert waiting maid , acted well The piece was quite successful , and was performed to a full house . Mr . Robert Brough , at its conclusion was called upon to bow his acknowledgments be ' fore the curtain .
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• STRAND THEATRE . - - Kensington Gardens- * topic of the day just nowwere on Monday evening made the subjeot of a sparkling little comedy , in two acts j by Mr . Uobeft ' Brough . The fun is based upon the mounting propensities of a gentleman , whoafte ? wards meets inadrawing room the young ladi <* JielMtfannoyeu : in thegardenrt Mrs . beymour , a& a . deified married lady , and Miss
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FATHER GAVAZZF , ON AURICULAR CONFESSION . This address , to which his countrymen listened with deep interest , offered no passage of exciting eloquence , no appeal to the feelings of an impassioned auditory , being a simple recital of doctrinal proofs , and a cslm exposition of scriptural authorities . The theory of the confessional was admitted by Us advocates to be enveloped in mist and mystery , its warrant unsatisfactory , ita origin indefinable , us development gradual , its practical working surrounded with objections . The council of Trent nad . neverheless , not hesitated to assert its institution to be of divine right ( 14 th session ) , and scouted the suspieion . of . its merely human ensctment
. But in that tumultuous assembly , swayed by a preponderating and compact majority of interested Italians , it was far easier to pur . a matter to the vote than to tbe proof ; and of all the oppressive machinery by which priestcraft grinds down the laity into ahjtct dependence , this engine is the most notoriously traceable to mere clerical ingenuity pedigree was sought to be . w uhl » bei » by over zear fl ° It i / con T wilh tlie old ! aw ; ™* the acknowledgment of sinfulnejs on the pan of the guilty , on which Job and Ewkiel frequently laid emphasis , as an essential preliminary to pardon , wa 8 tortured by scholastic argumentation into a precedent for " auricular" confession . To illustrate this supposed analogy a multitude of passages of the Old Testament were brought forward , amongst others Lev . xvi . 21 .
These and similar inconclusive references were to sane logicians so obviously nugatory that Thomas Aquinas had fairly given up the matter as not pro . ven . The case of patients afflicted with lpprosy or elephantiasis , who were commanded to exhibit their symptoms to the . Judaic priesthood , was clearly a sanitary regulation , these functionaries in the Hebrew theocracy being invested with municipal administration , and it being indispensable in the civil and social economy to prevent the- spread of a contagious disease so fatal at that period among Oriental tribes . The fitting corollary would be public dispensaries , not private confessionals . But , dismissing all these allegorical reasonings , and corainz
to the supposed allegations found in the Gospel , he found ; that . allegory was still the predominant element in the susteiitation of this claim , and the famous " power of the keys ' . ' the main groundwork of its assertion . The ceremony of presenting conquerors with the keys of a subjugated town and the constant allusions in scripture to the gates , of a ctiy as the emblems of force and authority , were overlooked in tbe construction of these passages , the literal interpretation of which would involve the manifestly inadmissable theory of man being completely at the capricious mercy of his fellow mortal for admission into God ' s inheritance in direct contradiction to the solemn and inspired announcement , Revelation iii . 7 .
The text of 16 th Matthew , it which this meta . phorioal transmission of keys to Peter ocourred , was next sifted wiih masterly criticism , and its bearing on the exclusive and individual perogutiveB cf the presumed successor of Peter shown to be hardly compatible with a general participation of the prieathood in the prerogative of forgiving sin . An intimate acquaintance with the writings of Aug \ utin , Chrysostnm , Ireiiseu 9 , &e ., was evinced in the crowd of quotations which the speaker flung into his argument . Nor were the less conspicuous and more modern authorities of B ^ naventura , Peter Lombard , Maldonatus , and Denis the Carthusian , less copiously drawn upon for corroborating testimony . Cardinal Cajetan , whose name was heard frequently amid
the din of controversy at the outbreak of the Reformation , and admitted that the New Testament , furnished no direct warrant for auricular avowal to a priest ; that the words of Paul as to the preparatory process before a fitting reception of the Lord's Supper , " Leta man examine himself ( prolet seipsum ); and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup" ( 1 Cor . ; ii . 28 ) , seemed to point to a quite different conclusion ; but the pertinacity of the schoolmen when direct evidence was either not forthcoming or broke down , still took convenient refuge in allegory , and a fanciful inference as to the necessity of a power in man to unloose from sin even wben God bad forgiven the repentant sinnur was drawn from the injunction of Jesus in the cast of the resuscitated Lazarus . ( John ii . 44 . )
¦ Of equal value and corresponding relevance m-re the other scriptural attempts to vindicate this pre posterous assumption . The total absence of any allusion to this secret practice in tbe records of early Christianity , while the frequent reference made to public declarations of guilt before the assemblies of the faithful in the first centuries went to demonstrate the nature of church discipline , salutary and inoffensive in the one case , and indicative in the other of the tendency to degenerate to which all human arrangements are liable : for nothing could be more clear than the gradual subsidence of public confession ( a voluntary self-humiliation ) into the private abuse of auricular
and compulsory disclosures . The evidences of this comparatively modern substitution of a demoralising and repulsive practice for an ancient edifying and impressive ceremony were abundant in the pages of ecclesiastical history , and it required no less audacity than that of Pope Innocent III . ( the contemporary of John Lackland , and Cardinal Pandolfo ) to exercise over Christendom the same tyranny that be attempted in England , and openly incorporate the confessional into tbe dogmatic teaching of Rome , by insisting on its first formal establishment at the fourth council of Lateran , a . d . 1212 . The gpeaker ' 9 ofoject . in this first part of bis inquiry into a painful sulriact being merely to elucidate the facts
and arguments usually alleged for its acceptance as a Christian institution ( of which we can only give the above meagre outline ) , he reserved for next occasion the development of its moral and Bocial inconveniences and evils , from a long personal experience of ita working . ¦ Hia discourse , which had been singularly dispassionate , kindled up at the cloee with a glowing picture of the weeping penitent of Bethany at tbfi feet of the Redeemer , anointing them with the precious perfumes hitherto lavished in extravagance and guilt , unabashed by the presence of the Pharisees , who rebuked her , and seeking forgiveness from kirn alone whom she had offsnded .
So convinced were these doctors of the law that an infringement on the attributes of the godhead was involved in the solemn act of forgiveness ; a condonation vouchsafed to silent but sincere repentance , unattended with pharisiic conditions , irrespective of detailed disclosures , unaccompanied by irrelevant or loathsome revelations , hut elicited at once by the fervour of divine love , genuine sorrow , and contrition .
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DEMOCRATIC TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES . TO THE EDITOR OF TUB NORTHERN STAR . Sib , —As there appeared in last Saturday ' s paper an addresfromtheAge of "Reason Total-Abstinence Society , Cumberland-street , Deansgate , Manchester , requiring aid and co-operation in removing the evils which have long been existing in temperance fiocieties generally , the Eccle 3 Temperance Committee feel pround in stating that they cordially agree with all that that address contains . They have been contending with the same evil * , and a few individuals who have been endeavouring to remove them , have been charged with being quiblers , critics , infidels , and socialists , foi- contending that man ought to ¦ have free liberty of speech , and be allowed to worship God according to' the dictates of his own conscience ; some have
even gone so far as to say tbat it is not just for a majority to rule in all cases ; and these , Mr . Editor , "are professing liberals . It is the decision of the committees connected with our society that all men shall have equal privileges , providing that they are for the propagation of the temperance principles . We need not trouble you with any lengthened remarks , but must add , that we shall feel proud in aiding and co-opevating with tho Cumberlandstreet Committee in carrying out those principles , which , in our opinion , are calculated to raise the working classes of this country to a state of happiness ^ and prosperity , if unvvevsaUy adopted ; be lieving . atthe same time that sectarianism has been one of the greatest evils connected with the above societies . On behalf of the Committee , Jobs Brimklow , Corresponding Secretary , 34 , Silk-street , Eccles .
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Stbbbt - Organs . —The following memorandum has just been circulated by Mr . Commissioner llayne , for the guidance of the superintendents ot police : —" Tlie polioe would be justified in stopping musio playing in the streets , and , if necessary , removing the parties in cases where , from the loud noiae , or other circumstances , danger > is Caused to passengers in the streets , hovseB frightened , or the thoroughfares obstructed ^ v / IetVinatruotions be given accordingly for tUo guidance of the police "
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low UkeTS ' 2 thief wh 0 Purloins a feather pil-OOYM SHhtflLn ^** 11 8 t ^ W ^ rM * *• MiLm-w _ tf < J . . tool { a 0 U P ar 'd 'aw sir . bushes , Ufa said tl h 'y " Pla ° e - ar 0 Und ^ berry with salt sjriakle Hi raffi W ** - l from the air . l ab 30 rb tho moisture Children a Blesiing "Wimf i i ¦ dren are / ' as the parish ^* ¦ RfcJKSi'H : lees for christening them . ok tlwf PitAisE and CENsrjRE .-Trust him little who praises all ; him lesa who censures all ; and him least who is indifferent about all . Excellence . —All human excellence is but com . parativo . There may be persons who excel us , j » much as we fancy we excel the meanest . The Protectionist . party is composed of nothing but fops , fools , fanatics , and fox hunters . —Atifr News .
The Free Trade parly is made up of coxcombs ' , Uckneys , crazy men , and cotton spinners . —Bristol-Minor . A Similarity . —Cats and pigeons , although they may have nothing of the India-rubber kind in their formation , are notoriously gutterperchers . Usmn STAiEs . -The -population of the United Mates is returned , by the last census , at 21 , 710 . 000 . Missionary SociETiEs .-li ' rom 1800 to 1850 tho sum ot £ 14 , 500 , 000 has been subscribed towards the funds of the various Missionary Societies in this country . wsJi" 1 r * T ! fc is n 0 lesB an e * K f « a man to m . t a sun * ^ ° the heaVens ko be ffit ^
Riches .-AU the good things of this world are nt » farther good to us than as they areofuse , and whatever we may heap up to give to others , we enjoy only as much as we can use , and no move . —Defoe . "The BuieiiT SlDB . "~ Alwayado as the sun does-look at the bright side of everything . For d £ lion P ' itis thtee tilUes a 3 800 d for Trie ' RoTHscHiLns—The richest of the Rothschilds is stated to be Baron Ansolm , of Frankfort , ascertained to be worth seven millions sterling V \ hy does nt he come here and enjoy the luxury of tbe Income Tax ?
A . Still osobe , &e . ~ There are some folks wh » t hink a good deal and say but little , and they are wise folk ; and there are others , agin , who blart out whatever comes uppermost ; and Igucss they are prettyconsiderable superfine darned fools . —&m » Slick . " Inexpressibles . " — Tho Preston Chronicle speaks of a primitive village in Lancashire where the patriarchs adhere to knee breeches . One of them onc « mounted a pair of trousers , but was laughed out of them by a neighbour , who called them " breeches with sleeves . " ' A Conscientious Lawyer . —A lawer on his deatft bed willed all his property to the lunatic asylum , saymg as a reason fot so doing , that he wished his property to return to the liberal class of people who had patronised him .
rt Oman . —A mother , s \ ie cherishes and corrects us j a sister , slie consults and counsels us ; a sweetheart , she coquets and conquers us ; a wife , she comforts and confides in us—without her , what would become of us ? The Jaws . —Selden says , " Talk what you will of the Jews , that they are CUrsed-tkey thrive whereever they come ; they are able to oblige the Prince of their country , by lending him money ; none of thent beg ; they keep together j and lor their being hated , my life for yours , Christians hate one another as much . "
What is a Virgin . —A shrewd little fellow , who had only recently " begun to learn Latin , " occasionally mixed his mother tongue with a spice of the dead language ? . It so chanced , as he was reading atone to his master , he astonished him by his translation : — " Vir , a man ; gin , a trap ;—Virgin , a mantrap . ' * Charity . —When people are down in the world n is quite as bad to appear to patronise them as it ia to neglect them : indeed , worse to a proud spirit , for the very sensitiveness which makes them susceptible to insult , enables them better to suffice to themselves , and to reject even kindness that has nofe delicacy for its companion . —Miriam Scdley .
Cost of Crime . —In five of the principal towns in Enaland there are 28 , 708 persons of known bad character ; including those in England and Wales , there are probably 130 000 living without the waits of the prisons . The Edinburgh Review estimates that each , of them coats the communiiy about £ 100 a year while at liherty . The Municipal Council in Liverpool , in 1836 , estimated the annual loss hy crime in that town at £ 700 , 000 . Coinciding Tumhtions . —A tradition has been handed down among the Kaffirs similar to a superstition entertained by the Burmese . The Burmese priests foretold that as soon as a vessel without sail * or rowers should be seen in the Irawaddy River , Burmali would fall . The Kaffirs relate that a prophecy exists among them to the effect , " Tlint when sea wnggons ( steamers with paddle-wheels ) shall make their resting placein the mouth of the Buffalo , Knffir Land shall die . "—J / is . Ward ' s Jhe Cave anil TheKaflin .
a Temporary Fault . —A young gentleman , of at-dent temperament , was expatiating , to a friend older and more experienced than himself , on the matchless perfection of a young lady , whom he was soon to lead to the hymeneal altar . Tlie friend aware that perfection is not to 1 , 'e expected in woman , slily asked , "Is . she thus perfect ? is there nothing in demeanour or conduct tbat can be construed into a fault ? " "I know of none . " replied the mmlest youth , " except the love she bears to unworthy me . " "Oh , if that be all , she'll obtain , forgiveness , for she'll sincerely repent . '
Foiiensic Wit . —In addressing a jury upon one occasion , the celebrated Mr . Jeffrey found it necessary t » make very free with the character of a military officer , who was present during the whole harangue . Upon hearing himself several times contemptuousl y spoken of as . "the soldier , '' the son of Mars , b > iilin « with indignation , interrupted tho pleader— "Don ' t call me a soldier , sir ; I am aa officer . " Mr . Jeffrey immediately went on— " Well , gentlemen , this otBcer , who is no soldier , was the sole cause of all the mischief that has occurred . "
" Now . "— "Now"is a constant syllable ticking , from the eioek of time , " Now" is the watchword of the wise . "Now" is on the banner of the prudent . Let us keep this little word always in our mind ; and whenever anything presents itself to us in the shape of work , whether mental or physical , we 8 houlddoit with all our might , remembering that' Now" is the only time for us . Itis , indeed , a sorry way to get through the world by putting off till to-morrow , saying , " Then" I will do it . No ' . tliis will never answer . "Now" is ours , " Then " may never be . —Bond of Brotherhood .
The s hieves and the Great Exhibition . —It is intended to lay down aa electric telegraph ronmt the t > uildin « , having a -dial-plate at every entrance . A . number of the detective force are being instructed in-the working of this machine , so that on the entrance of any known swindler or pickpocket , information of the fact will be communicated simultaneously to every part of the edifice . In the eyp . nt of any robbery taking place , information , givi ) at one door will be transmitted to the others , and any known thief or suspicious character attempting » " go out / will be subjected to an examination .
EXTRAOBDINART CURE OF HvOROPHOBH . —In a letter addressed to the Academy of Sciences , Paris , M . Brussner states that in 1835 he attended a woman dying of hydrophobia , whom he bled at her own special request . Some of the blood got into a scratch on his band . He took no notice of the circumstnnofi until one day , while driving in hia carriage , he was seized with all the symptoms of that dreadful disease . Hopeless of recovery he entered a bath heated to 107 deg . 36 sec . ' Fab .., with the intent of dying easily ; but , to his asteniBhrnent , he was not Ion-.- in the bath before he felt himself quite recovered . He got out , dressed himself " , and from that time never had the slightegt return of the disease . He subsequently ,, and . successfully , tried the same remedy with eighty persons attacked with , hydrophobia , and only failed with a child , who died in the bath . . .
Decision of character h one of the most important < f human , qualities , philosophically con-Siderefi , Speculation , knowledge , is not the chief end of man ; it is action . We may by a fine education learn to think most correctly , and talk most beautifully ; but when it comes to notion , if we are weak and undecided , we are of all beings the most wretched . All mankind feel themselves weak , beset with infirmities , and surrounded with dangera ; the acu ' iest minds are the most conscious of difficulties and dnnuere . They want above all things a leader with that boldneas ^ decision , and energy , which with slmme they do not find in themselves . " Giveus ihe man , " shout the multitude , " wliowill step forward and take the responsibility , " ^ He is instantly the idol , the lord , and the king among men . He tt : en . who would command among his . fellows ' , must mw | them more in energy of will tlan in power oil Intelleci . —Bvrmap . • " . ¦
DlSArPEARANOB 01 THE" PaIRISS .- ' How 0 * 0 you account , ' said the late Rey . Mr . Macbean * oE Alves , to a sagacious old elder of hia session , "for the almost total disappearance of ghosts and fairies thai used to be 80 common 5 n your young days ?'? — Ia ™ l " ? , > t ' minister . " replied the shrewd old ma ., "itsa" owing to the tea ; when the tea cam m the gha « ts and . fairies gaed out . Wec-1 do I mind , whan at a our neighbouring meetingsbridals , christenings , lykewauks , an' the like—we entertained ane anither wi ' rich nappy ale ; aod . than the verm doniest o' U 3 usedto . getvmrm . i' the face , an ! a little ennfused'iri the head , and weel fit to sea amaist onythiiig whan on the muirs on our way name .. But the t ? a has put out the nappy . ; . an' I have . remarked that by losing the nappy we lost baith gha ! 8 ts and fairies , "—Elgin Courier ,
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SURREY THEATRE . On Monday evening a new domestic drama , of that peculiar class which has long found favour amongst the admirers of the non -legitimate , was produced here under the unusually modest title of " Michaelmas Day , " The period of the play is fixed a hundred years ago , and the action occurs in the vicinity of Carlisle . The principal characters are an old miser , his daughter , her accepted suitor , a rejected lover , a village scamp , and an officer of the law . These various personages are brought together under circumstanceswhichleadto the impression , that they aresumciently acquaipted with each other ' s peculianties , as to render it somewhat difficult for any very violent contest to arise amongst them ; Nevertheless , such is the magic power exercised by the dramatist , that a murder is committed by one of the fraternity , and the murderer is supposed to be the
accepted lover of the vigtim ' s daughter . Jealousy has b ^ n th . . f « se ° t this accusation , and a prison the effect of it . The real culprit , of course , remains unknown till the conclusion of the piece , whilst the innocent lover , who is made to answer for the charge , is exposed to sundry trials of pa ' tienceand endurance , which are sufficient to drown all his hopes of a satisfactory termination to his attachment . The scenes ofleve and revenge which take place in the meantime are necessarily of the most distressingcharacter , but in the end the virtuous arc rewarded , and the vicious very properly punished * by . command of the law , and to tbe satisfaction of the audience . The serious portion of the piece is , as usual , relieved , by the explous of buffoons , who appear ever and anon for the purpose of raising a' laugh , often at the expense ot common sense , but still to the delight of the contented occupants of nit and eMw The
drama was very creditably represented , and , as the productionof a young writer , it may be said to » ive some promise , inasmuch as its chief merit does hot lie in prolonged dialogue , but in a satisfactory attempt at dramatic action . The play was quite successful , although the applause at the condugioa wa 3 n ° «« ™\ . ™«««* character which , marks an undoubted ' triumph " at this theatre . As to the title -Ife&aefaflu Day-it has nothing whatever to do with the piece . which might just as appropriately be called " Gaod Friday ? ' or" Shrove Tuesday . "
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