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      Beware of Guinea , Foreign-named Quacks , who Imitate this Advertisement . Pains in the Back , Grave ' , Lumbago , Rheumatism , Gout , Indigestion , LcUlity , Gonorrhoea Stricture , Gleet , d'c . T ) R . BARKER ' S PUR 1 PIC TILLS * J ( of which there are useless imitations under other title .- ) have in many instances effected a cure when all other mesins bad failed , and are i \ ovr established , by tho consent of every pjtti ™ t who has yet tried them , as also ny the faculty in . iaiSEi . vES , as the most safa and efficacious remedy ever discovered for discharges of any kind , retention of the urine , and diseases of the Kidneys and Urinary Organs generally , whether resulting from imprudence or otherwise , which , if neglected , frequently ending in stunein the bladder , and a lingering death i Tor Gout , Seiutica , Hheumatism , Tic Doloreux , Erysipelas , fula

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      The South of Ireland in 1850 j deing the Journal of a Tour in Leinster amd Minister By A . Gr . Stark . With numerous illustrations . Dufly , Dublin . The object of Mr . Stark in his excursion was partly pleasure , partly to observe the state of the peasantry , the conduct of the landlords , and the workings of the Irish Poor-law , — chiefly perhaps to collect materials for a book which should be illustrated by his friend Mr . 31 . Augelo Hayes . He started from Dublin ; proceeded through Carlow , Casliel , Tipperary , Waterford , Cork and Skibbereen , to Bantry Bay , his extreme southern point ; and

      retnrued to Dublin by the way of Kiliarney . Tho excursionist adopted various mode 3 of locomotion — railway , steam ,, public and private car ; he often left the beaten track , and examined places not much visited by the common traveller ; he sometimes lingered in a neighbourhood to inquire into its state , and the character of the gentry . He listened to all that was told him , drew his conclusions from what he saw , and tells the result without circumlocution ; in fact he may be Said to be free in his UBeof names , and in his remarks upon the circumstances and conduct

      of their owners , in their capacity of landlords and country gentlemen , resident or absentee . "With the exception of a chapter devoted to Ihe Poor-law , Mr . Stark is not systematic in his exposition of the social and economical evils of Ireland , bnt he takes local facts as they tarn up . Certain things , however , come out systematically , and jobbing especially . The railways seem to have been deeply infected b y it , and even the charitable subscriptions perverted to purposes of private profit . All have heard of Skibbereen and its sufferings : according to Mr . Stark there needed have been none , except perhaps at the outset .

      I have been making some inquiries as to the man " ner and amount of the relief afforded to the distressed population of this town and neighbourhood daring the memorable famine of 1846-7 . Here , perhaps , more than in any other part of the tiiisdoin , the potato blight was felt . Skibbereen owed its chief consequence to the health and a ' umidniica of that esculent ; and ot course , when it failed , the privations of the people were proportionately severe . Potatoes were the principal crop reared by the farmers—potatoes created the middle man—potatoes paid the rack rent , and helped the heartless landlord to indulge his passions . When the ro't friled , therefore , the whole fahriobuilt

      oj-oii it tumbled to pieces , aad the civilized world rang with the woes of Skibbereen and the neighbouring village of Schull . And the civilized World was not deaf to the cry of agony . Contributions from every point of the compass , in money and food , from Turk and Christian , from Jew ana Gentile , Gael and Saxon poured in to mitigate the horrors of famine . At one time it was feared that humanity -would give up in despair the task of Saving Skibbereen . Money Bent to it seemed like oil thrown on a fire to extinguish it . It was . a vortex that swallowed up everything . Thousands trerc squandered : and if venerable divines and letter writing philanthropists were to be believed

      the people perished nevertheless . It has been calculated tbai ; as much money and food was sent to Sk hbcrcen from charitable bodies as should have fed and clothed the entire population for a twelvemonth . Far he it from ma to insinuate that any orie rivalled the licentiate in Gil Bias , who made fumsolf rich by taking care of the poor , and turned to his own use the donations intrusted to him to prevent hia fellow creatures dying of the worst death known to human nature . Still some explanation is necessary , or , perhaps , in future , should Providence ever visit this country with new horrors , the fonntain of charity m many a bosom will be sealed up by doubt and suspicion . The money and food disbursed by the Belief Committee were

      duly accounted for , because the Government , which contributed pound for pound , insisted upon the production of a cleat statement . Every penny expended by the Society of Friends was also made patent to the public . But others have not been equally explicit . The Reverend Mr . Townsend , Protestant Sector , was an indefatigable collector Of money and provisions , and was eminently successful , owjd £ to the touching appeals he made through the public journals ; yet I am told that ne gave no Dr . and Cr . accounts of his benevolent services . Sorao apparently well-informed persons roughly estimated the amount of money , &o ., received by the reverend gentleman as not less than £ 14 , 000—but this , I think , must be exaggeration- * - and said that the value of his devotion and

      sacrifices wonld ho greatly enhanced by a full revelation . It is all very well , they said , in distributing your Own goods , to follow the Scriptural injunction , and not let your left hand know what your right hand doetV , but the rule , they think , does not hold when you are dispensing the donations of other people . The Catholic Clergy—whose duties during the crish must have been of the most awful kindalso received great means in caBh and necessaries ; bnt they avoir the utmost eagerness to " render anjaccount of their stewardship . " Indeed , publicity , onocacnot help concluding , would answer every good purpose .

      According to Mr . Stark , the Great Southern and Western Railway is a good example of jobbing at the beginning : bnt landlords , we suppoBB , have to be propitiated everywhere , and the lavish expense in proportion to the object is national —" when nothing ' s left that ' s worth defence , we bnild a magazine . *' The terminal of the Great Southern and Western Eail « vay Company , at King ' s Bridge , is a stupendous illustration of the contrast we 80 often observe in Irish " enterprises of ] great pith and moment " between splendid beginnings and indifferent results The hugb architectural pile—beautiful in its design , and constructed with a lavish waste of the

      VaWornmn ore , that reminds as of the building of Solomon ' s Temple—seems , with its endless succession of offices , stores , vaults , and warehouses , to offer accommodation for the entire traffic of Liverpool , Manchester , Birmingham , and Glasgow . Everything—from the luxuriously-appointed boardroom of the directors , with its Morocco-covered loungers and gorgeous carpet , in which your feet Blnk as on a bed of most , down to the fire-shovel with which the begrimed stoker feeds hi 3 slave the steam-en » ine—is of the most costly and substantial quality . While the reflecting stranger contemplates all these things , which are usually " theoutward and visible signs" of long-established prosperity

      and permanent wealth , he cannot help thinking , that , in a country like thiB , which is proverbially poor , and , in the opinion of many , not ripe for railway communication , if much of the money which had been squandered in superfluous buildings , or in the unnecessary adornment of works of utility , had been devoted to purposes of practical advantageinch as the establishment of manufactures along the line , which wonld have fed the traffic returnsthe condition of the shareholders would not be so deplorable as it is now represented . The site choseu for tbe erection of the magnificent terminus seems to have been unhappily selected for the uses ot the railway , as a formidable hill has to ha

      surmounted by the train immediately after it starts . Practical engineers assert , that had the spirit of jobbing not governed the counsels of tho directors , BWch more favourable gradients could have been obtained , by adopting , as the locale of the terminus , * position nearer to St .. James ' s Gate , which might have" been procured at a comparatively moderate expense , as it only involved the purchase of a ruined street and some dilapidated tenements . Had mis been done , the ludicrous scene which is of daily occurrence on the line would not have been Presented . As the string of carriages , in one of ^ irieh I was placed , toiled up the hill , at the rate cf aaout a mile per hour . I Lad the curiosity to put

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      my head out of the window whC * certainly was amused by an exhibition which is a Remarkable teature m travelling by steam in the mi ^ d ! ° of "' e nineteenth century . Two porters , armed wit . ' lluge mops , preceded the snorting engine , and diHgi'tuty scoured the rail 3 , _ reminding one of the Scutun game of curling , in which the sportsman with lii « Brush industriousl y sweep 3 away all the obstacles on the ice , and coaxes as it were the stone to a further advance . It was laughable to remark the sangfroid with which the railway precursors flourished their mops , cleared awav the dust from the ? I ^ l ^ tura in . fLwii :. ™ I- .. ™ ' V ? . * Mrfi .. ,. f „ . „

      rails , and then sat down to await tho approach of the train , not to be cut into pieces , but to quietly get up and recommence the application of their smoothing process . As the carriages finally topped the hill , they contemplated them with a r ^ lf-uomplacent " we-alone-did-it" sort of look , tiia ; seemed to demand the gratitude of all the passengers for having been enabled by their exertions to overcome the formidable engineering difficulty . According to information received in a railway carriage , Queen Victoria saw the Lehis ter property after the manner in which the Empress Catherine saw the Crimea .

      " Ihe change in the condition of the Duke ' . « tenantry and peasantry must have taken place very suddenly , " I remarked ,- " as on tbe occasiou of the Queen ' s visit to Carton , we were told that all went ' merry as a marriage bell , ' and every body was comfortable and happy . " "Ah , sir , " said my fellow traveller , with a look of indulgent pity at my simplicity , ' it would have been better if the Queen had never come to Irolai . ti at all , than that she should have been blindfolded in the way she was ; and only that I am told sho is a shrewd little lady , full of intelligence , who looks under the surface of things , she must have been deceived by tho state of apparent comfort which she witnessed on tbe only occasion when she penetrated into the interior of the country . She came down to Carton in a carriage drawn by four

      bloodhorses , which carried her over the country at a much quicker pace than we arc now going upon this rail way . The Duke had made a wise provision that nothing unsightly should meet the royal eye during the journey ; for half-a-dozen fleet horsemen preceded the carriage , whose business it was to falsify the old adage that a cat may look at a king . ' Wei ! dressed persons were allowed to remain on the road and take off their hats and cheer the Queen ; but all wandering beggars and vagrants were , without ceremony , whipped over the hedqe into tbe fields , and compelled to remain there in obscurity until the royal train had passed . " " Still , " 1 remarked , " her Majesty's heart must have been gratified at the Bight of the 'boldpi'a-Eautry , their country ' s pride , ' -who appeared so gaily on the lawn of Carton House . "

      " Ha ! ha ! ha !"—and the fat grazier roared with laughter , like one that had the lungs of a Stentor . " Bold peasantry , indeed ! Do you know what , sir —it is twenty years since I was in the Theatie Royal , Dublin ; but the last time I was there I saw much more joyous peasants disporting themselves on a lawn on the stage in Hawkin ' s-street ; and of the two I think Mr . Calcraft is a better manager than the Duke . I was at Carton , and can tell you that no one who was not up to the mark in the matter of dress , no person out at the elbows , or whose locks made their appearance through the roof of

      his hat , was allowed to approach the lawn . Why , the fellow who danced the Irish jig you have heard so much of , and who was dressed in a cutaway grey frieze coat , corduroy breeches , and worsted stockings and knee-buckles , was a dancing-master from Carlow ; and his fair partner , with the short , homespun petticoat , was a bar-maid from an inn in Athy , who appeared , by particular desire , in that garb ior the first time in her life , and for that day only . " " Any one for Mageney ? " roared the guard . "I am , " responded the grazier ; and my " fat friend" vanished .

      A portion of the volume is devoted to an examination of several workhouses that employ their paupers , ( and from tbe necessity of tbe case , generally in handicraft or manufactures , ) as well as to a consideration of pauper labour in connexion with its alleged particular benefits , and the general objection upon principles of political economy . The mere dogmas of political economy are not to be taken absolutely , unless they can be supported by reason . After all there are larger questions connected with a state than the laws that regulate the production of national wealth . Anv one who

      wrote under the Poor Law system as administered before the changes introduced during the Revolutionary war , or who looks to the object of the Elizabethan statute , must be held to advocate work by paupers if he advocated a Poor Law . Compulsory work for the able bodied is the very essence of the statute , as indeed the name of icorihouse implies . The question requires examination upon principle . There can be no doubt , but that if these occupants of a workhouse could be made to produce everything they require— " to keep themselves " - —their labour would be purely beneficial . The rates would be reduced to the rent

      of the buildings and the cost of management , while the paupers would no more interfere with the labour-market than if they had been sent to a distant country . All the food or raw mater ials that paupers can raise beyond the absolute cost of raising is pure gain . It is no valid objection to say that tbe pauper ' s labour is marketably unprofitable or unproductive ; that it costs more to keep him than he produces . Kept he must be though he does nothing : if it costs three pounds a year for his food and he produces only one pound , it is still a pound gained . There is also tbe use of his improvement of the land .

      The case of manufactures or handicraft , and still more the making-up of goods—as garments , shirts , &c . —for sale out of doors , is not perhaps so easily settled . But we think that whatever the pauper uses , that he may properly produce—if he can he brought to do it . But as to articles made for sale , it is a direct interference with independent industry . The taking in work is still more open to question . From the nature of tbe case , it is likely to create a ruinous competition , and to make two or three paupers instead of one . But this part of the question lies deeper than workhouse work . Something is rotten in that state of society when the unwilling and the unskilled labour of paupers has a palpably injurious effect upon employment and wages .

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      The History of the Jews in Great Britain . By Rev . M . Mabgououih . Three Vols . London : Bentley . The author of this book of course writes from the Jewish point of view ,, and whatever may be thought of his skill , or the peculiar opinions entertained by him , has succeeded—out of the abundant materials at his disposal—in making a very readable book , if not quite entitled to the appellation of a history . It would exceed the space at our disposal to follow even an

      outline in the career of the Hebrews , since their first introduction into this country , or to give an idea of the cruel and merciless persecutions to which they -were exposed at various periods . We prefer , therefore , to , extract a few passages of popular interest . Here is an old friend as he presented himself in the days of the Duchess Mazarine . * It is curious to notice how little " The Wandering Jew " has altered since that time in his traditional lineaments : —

      He says be was an officer of the Sanhedrim at the time that Pilate condemned ChriBt , and remembers every particular relating to the Apostles : that he struck our Saviour-at the time of his coming ont of the judgment hall , and was therefore condemned to live till his last , coming . That be had travelled into every corner of the world : and pretends to cure diseases by a touch . He speaks several languages , and gives such a just account of past ages , that people do not know what to think of him . The two Universities sent Beveral doctors to examine him , who with all their utoll were not able to discover the least contradiction in his discourse . One very learned man spoke to him in Arabio , and he answered in the same tongue—telling him that there was 6 carce a single hiBtory in the world that

      was true . The same gentleman asked him what he thought of Mahommed ? He answered , he knew him very well ; that he was a man of good understanding , but subject to mistakes as well as other men — particularly in denying that Jesus was crucified ; " for I saw him ! " said he , i " nailed to the cros 3 , with mine own eyes ! I was likewise present at the burning of Rome , by Nero ! " He said likewise , that ho saw Saladin returning frqni his conquests in the Levant , and told several particulars relating to Soliman the Magnificent . He affirmed , also , that he had seen Tamerlane and Bajazete ; and gave an ample relation of the wars in the Holy Land . The common people give out that he works miracles ; but the wiser sort look upon him as an impostor . Perhaps the same individual personified elsewhere , the Messiah , for it is singular that that

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      LKrfl " ' thegrea t impostor , Wd Claim to the Messiahship of Israel . ^ Arnong the most interesting particulars in Mr . Margoliouth ' s volumes is , the account of remarkable persons who have embraced or for-Siikea the reli gion of the Hebrews . Perhapsthe most remarkable convert made to Judaism in England was Lord George Gordon-the hero of the No Popery Riots of 1780—who completed a life of religious fanaticism by public apostacy . Mr . Margoliouth has obtained from Hebrew sources some curious information about this erratic personage in his late years . In London : — ™ the Messiahahip of Israel .

      Lord George Gordon attended the Hamburgh Synatiogue , where be was called up to the reading of tli « l : iw ; and was honoured with Me Sliebaynich . He prost-nted that synagogue with £ 100 . Ho then went to Paris , and wrote a book against Alario Antoinette , Queen of ¦ France , which proved libellous , and subjt'cteit his lordship to imprisonment at 2 ? ew-• r . 'itc . Whilst in prison , he was very regular in his Jewish observances ; every morning he was seen with h ' i 3 phylacteries between his eyes , and opposite to his heart . Every Saturday he had a public service in his room , by the aid of ten Polish Jews . He looked like a patriarch with his beautiful long

      board . His Saturday ' s bread was baked according to the manner of the Jews , his wine was Jewish , his meat was Jewish , and he was the best Jew in the congregation of Israel . On his prison wall were to be seen , first , tho ten commandments , in the Hebrew language , then the bag of the Talitb , or fringed garment , and of tho phylacteries . The Court required him to bring bail—he brought two poor Polish Israelites as guarantees . The Court would not accept them , because of their poverty . The rich Jews would do nothing towards assisting the prisoner , for fear of a persecution . in itr } ' f 5 br 0 k ? healt ' and wwintemd lu the Gordon family vault .

      The laying him in the family vault was contrary to his wish : as , to the last , be expressed the strongest desire to be buried in the sepalchres of the ancient people . Though proud of their . noble convert , the Jews gained no advantage from his conversion ; and the balance was struck against them by tho conversion of David Ricardo , the political economist , and Sir bampson Gideon to Christianity . There is a lengthened account in these volumes of the rise and history of the Rothschild family : —from which we extract the following story illustrative of stock-jobbing moraluy and throwing -a new light on the maxim "Ihere ' s honour among thieves"

      ran 3 ? ?? JOff financler lived on Stamford Hill there resided opposite to him another very wealthy dealer in stock exchange , Lucas by name . nvhtnS ^ r ? ° 2 ght ^ late ' from a <™ yiual party ; he observed a carnage and four standn » g before Rothschild ' s gate , upon which heordered his own carriage to go out of the way , and com . mnndedI his coachman to await in readiness his re * turn . Lucas went stealthily and watched , unobserved he movements at Rothschild ' s gate . He did not he long m ambush before he heard a party leaving the Hebrew millionaire's mansion ? and going towards tl > o carriage . He saw Rothschild accoropamedbytwo muffled figures ,, step into the carriage , and heard the word of command « t «« m

      my - ue followed Rothschild ' s carriage very cosely . But when he reached the top of the street in which Rothschild ' s office was situated Lucas ordered his carriage to stop , fr om which he stepped out , and proceeded , reeling to and fro through the street , feigning to be mortally drunk . He made his way in the same mood , as far as Rothschild s office , and san s ceremonie opened the door , to the great consternation and terror of tho housekeeper , uttering sundry ejaculations , in the broken accents of Bacchus' votarieB . Heedless of the aff D .. u-, » use ^ eeper s ren' ° nstrances , he opened Rothschild ' s private office , in the sam « ai » nn »; nn

      attitude and fell down flat on the floor . Rothschild and his friends became greatly alarmed . Ef . forts were made to restore and remove the wouldbe-drunkard , but Lucas was too good an actor and was therefore in such a fit a « to be unfit tobo moved hither or thither . « Should a physician be sent for ? ' asked Rothschild . But the housekeeper threw some cold water into Lucas ' s face , and the patient began to breathe a little more naturally , and fell into a sound snoring sleep . He was covered over , and Rothschild and tbe strangers proceeded unsuspectingly to business . Tho strangers brought the good intelligence that the affairs in Smdn were

      an right , respecting which the members of the exchange were , for a few days previous , very apprehensive , and the funds were therefore in a rapidly sinking condition . The good news , however could not , m the common course of despatch , be publicly known for another day . Rothschild therefore planned to order his brokers to buy up , cautiously , all the stock that should be io the market , by twelve o clock the following day . He sent for his principal broker thus early , ia . order to intrust him with the important instruction . The broker was rather tardier than Rothschild ' s patience could brook ho therefere deteimined to go himself . As soon as Rothschild was gone , Lucas began to recover , nnd by degrees was able to get up , being distracted as

      hesaid . Mwith a violent-head-ache , " and insistedin spite of tho housekeeper ' s expostulations—upon going home . But Lucas went to his broker , and instructed him to buy up all tho stock he could get by ten o ' clock the . following mornis * . About eleven o ' clock , Lucas met Rothschild , and inquired satirically how he ( Rothschild ) was off for stock Lucas won the day , and Rothschild is said never to have forgiven "the base , dishonest , and nefarious stratagem . " In another place , Mr . Margoliouth speaks thus of the great " lion of his tribe " : — .

      Yet , with all his hoardings , Rothschild was by no menns a happy man . Dangers and assassinations seemed to haunt his imagination by day and by night , and not without grounds . Many a time , as he himself said , just beforo he sat down to dinner , a note would be put into his hand running thus : — "If you do not send me immediately the sum of five hundred pounds , I will blow your brains out . " He affected to despise such threats ; thev nevertheless exercised a direful effect upon the millionaire . He loaded Mb pistols , every night before he went to bed , and put thorn beside him . He did not think himself more secure in his counting-house than he

      did m his bed . * * It must be moreover confessed that tbe members of the synagogue generally did not entertain the same respect for him as the foreign Jews do for the Rothschilds of Frankfort . Some thought he might have done more for liis brethren than he did , and that if he had only used the influence which he possessed with government and the many friends which he had at Court , all the civil disabilities with which the British Jews continued to be stigmatised would have been abolished , when the proposition was first mooted . ' But Rothschild , " said an intelligent English Jew to the writer , " was too great a slave to hism ' oney . and all other slavery was counted liberty ia his sight . "

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      The Exposition o / 1851 , or views of the Industry , the Science , and the Government of England . By C . Babbage , Esq . Murray . - The able and practical author of this work on the great event of the year , has made it a peg on which to hang discussions on almost every variety of topic . Many of them have but slight relation to the chief subject , but as incidental to , and arising out of it ; they possess great and living interest , not only from their own intrinsic merits but the style in which they are treated . In our extracts we shall confine ourselves to such as have reference to the

      Exhibition itself . Mr . Babbage thinks that two great errors were committed by the Royal Commission . The first , in the selection of the Bite , and the second , in not permitting exhibitors to affix prices to their articles . He would have preferred the part of tho Park next , to Park-lane , which he calculates would have saved many miles either of walking or driving to those from the eastern part of London . That , however , is mere matter of

      opinion ; but the argument to prices . has more weight , and we believe we are right in sayiDg that the Royal Commission abandoned their original intention of allowing prices to be affixed togoods only at the instance of a powerful . body of exhibitors themselves , who expressed their dislike to that regulation through the local committees . The following illustration of the minute circumstances , which will sometimes influence a purchaser in his choico of an article or of a shop , will commend itself to most readers .

      Let us suppose that a lady having somo leisure goes out in search of a , fan . She passes several shops in which they . may . or may not be , kept for sale . She sees some fan ' s in a shop window , but as they are not ' open she' passes on , intending to return to-them if she cannot suit Herself- '¦ elsewhere . A few doors beyond there are some fans open , but none of them exactly suit her taste , and she does not like to give the owner of the shop the trouble of opening a number of fans , none of which may please her . In the nest street sho sges iu the window of a shop some fans , which are open . One of these appears to suit her , but there is so

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      pnw marked on it * T 7 ~~ ======= shop and examf ^™ . ° t Hke to go into the Bubtlo implement T K rai ? utel y whether the strength to $ EL \ VTu has 8 ufficient be too expensive £ h d Jt 8 ball"ro ° ra trials . ' «* it beyond Motheri "A pur ^ Afihorfc distan % ce selves to her notica h ? 5 i ? - ^ f ™* vre 8 eni the » - eaoh of thcin £ if ^ T ? of an ° ther shop , ' *• One ^ tSS ttW ? ° ^ mM ' kedu P ° little , to the £ 8 hp h h o e f atln * ^ , prefers , a solves to enter thK « iL / Ppr ° - ' sho re " perceiving toKiM ^ i . - ° > But dant in the aZZ ?* W ^¦ * k '" ° * tten " dinner , or 3 , ™ ¦ U x mistrGSS ma y ^ at toy . to ' Ut £ T » l ? uZ " babyj andalio not disturb hS not" ° « L-n cons . eq « ence-I will finds a shopTn h ?« ' fW 1 p , asslnS onward , she fan , althonSi hot lf 7 md 0 W Of , which is a P ™" T witW &Bita ' tR £ °° 'I s tllG las Una Ait . nJl ™ r ° pkeeper-buUh 9 dnnx ;« -.- shott and « v , ^ -. Shedo 8 snot like to eo into tint

      , haveeni edTk ffihn T " ' ° - ™' suitable she had va ^? t - ? notthe ™ st posed in the STi ' h ° , g tliat tho fana ex " in store Sin * ^ 1 ^^ T ^ f , f ° ? . » k « P » ments removed a f , n k f m ? ' - i mpedi - open In theWindow » iS *•' , " " i ljr s , ult her les an attendanH ?? n Jl I th lts P rico clearly marked , bly 12 Shfl I \ the 8 h ° P > a ^ the door is hospita l it wS SadS n V ¦ a ? d examines ifc ' and filldin P same class ? ft n f ! Whother there are otllers of the it 7 ^« S ! f ? Pattern ; to . whioh tho reply is , that cha es th A ° u . romainin g- U tnis she purthe foiw / S aIfc ! l ° S h had she entcred « " « & of more eS ^ P ? 8 ] 16 ^ ht ^ vo found , fans both The JS , 5 ^ hel > taste and a * » less price , lnet marling has decided her choice . Within the Crystal Palace itself , Mr . Bab-™ £ l * ? . far the absence of triced EZ / r i 5 view t 0 dimiDi 8 h ^ o wefulness of the collection . —

      now ^ Mrl " 8 I 5 allmdeed in numher ' but important from its functions , suffers the greatest inconvenience from tho absence of price Those engaged in studying tho commercial and economical relations of various manufactures , either for the gratification of their own tastes or for the instruction of the public , are entirely deprived of the moat important element of their reasonings . If men article had its price affixed , many relations would strike the eye of an experienced observer which might lead him to further inquiries , and probably to tue most interestin

      g results . , But it is quite impossible for him to write to any considerable portion of 15 , 000 expositors for their list of prices or even to go round and ask for ifc in the buildup itself . Price m many cases offers at once a veriffcation of tho truth of other statements . Thus to a person conversant with the subjects , the low price of an article might prove that it had boon manufactored m some mode entirely different from that usually practised . This would lead to an examination of it , in order to discover the improved process . Ihe »« ce of an article compared with iu

      weight might prove that tho metal of which it is made could not be genuine . The price of a woven fabric , added to a knowled ge of its breadth and substance , even without its weight , might in many cases effectually disprove the statement of its bein » entirely made of wool , or hair , or flax , or silk , aa the case might be . The exchange of commodities between those to whom Buch exchanges may bo desirable being the great and ultimate object of the Exposition , every circumstance that can give

      publicity to the thingo exhibited should bo most carefully attended to . The price in money is the most important element in every bargain ; to omit it is not less absurd than to represent a tragedy without its hero , or to paint a portrait without a nose . It commits a double error : for it withholds tho only test by which the comparative value of things can 1 ) 8 kno ^ TO , and it puts aside the greatest of all interests , that of the consumer , in order to favour a small and particular class—the middle-men .

      On the subject of prizes Mr . Babbage has Borne very excellent suggestions ; which if the plan of keeping the Exhibition permanentl y open as an universal gallery of art and produce shall be realised , will be found worthy of full consideration by those who will succeed to its management . For example , he says : — One of the inventions most important to a class of highly skilled workman ( engineers ) would be a small motive power , — ranging , perhaps , fromtho force of half a man to that of two horses , whick might commence as well as cease its action at a moment ' s notice , require no expense of time for its management , and be of moderate price both in

      original cost and in dail y expense . A small Bteam engine does not fulfil . tbeBe conditions . In a town where water is supplied at high pressure , a cylinder and a portion of apparatus similar to that of a high-pressure engine would fully answer the conditions , if the water oould be supplied at a moderate price . - Such a source of power would in many cases be invaluable to men just rising from the class of journeyman to , that of master . It might also be of great use to many small masters in various trades . If the eO 9 t per , day were even somewhat greater than that of steam for an equal extent of power , it would yotbe on tiio whole mtoch cheaper , because it would never consumex > ower ' wiihout doing workIt ht bo to

      . mig applied small planing and drilling machines , to lathes , to grindstones , grinding mills , mangling ; and to a great variety of other purposes . In all large workshops a separate tool or rather machine , is used for each process , and this contributes to the economy of the produce . But many masters in a small way are unable to afford auch an expenge , Hot having sufficient work for the full employment of any one machine . Of thisclass are many jobbing masters who live by repairing machines . Such also are that class of masters who make models of the inventions of others and carry out forthem their mechanical speculations . To these two classes that of amateur engineers may be added

      The lathe with Us sliding rest is the basis of their stock . With this they can drill , and with the addition of a few wheels can cut screws . The further addition of a vertical slide will enable them to plane small pieces of metal by means of facing cutters on the mandril . By other additions tho teeth of ; wheels may also be cut , and in some rare cases a lathe may be converted into , a small planing machine . The loss of time in malting the changes necessary to enable the lathe to fulfil all these different-functions , necessarily confines its use to the peculiar classes alluded to above ; but to make these changes is often less expensive than to be oblk'ed continually to send to larger workshops where

      the heavier portion of their work can be exeouted . It would certainly bo desirable , if some good plan cannot be devised for bringing the whole of such operations within the reach of one machine of moderate price , that at least a system should bo devised for combiningthem in two separate machines . Some readers may possibly think such combinations as have been mentioned too minute and special for the subject of a prize ; bnt when it is considered that they bear upon the interests of one of the best classes of workmen , and how important it is for the

      welfare of the oommuriity that skill , industry , and intelligence should be assisted in their efforts ' to rise in tho social scale , these details will be excused , In making known and meeting practical wants of this kind we expect to find one of the best material results of the Exhibition . ' . As we have said , there are many other subjects dwelt on more or less by Mr . Babbage in this volume ; and every student of theoretic or practical science will find hints and suggestions of value in its pages .

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      The Absconding . Witnesses or St . Aibans . — Captain R . A . Gossott , the assistant serjeant-atarms of the House of Commons , has reported : to Lord Charles RusBell , the serjeant-at-arms , that , in compliance with his lordship ' s directions , he proceeded last , month to Boulogne , to endeavour to obtain information respecting the witnesses in the St . Alban ' s case , who had absconded . On his arrival at Boulogne he waited on the British consul , who acebnipained him to the police and passport offices . ' From ..-too official books he there learned that Georgo Sealey Waggett was lodging : at No . 52 , Rue de THopital , and that James Skegg and Thos . Birohmore were at a small public-house on the port , called the Anchor and Hope , and that the only

      other lodger there was a Mv . Frederick , Edwatds , nged twenty-six ' . ' He also learned that John Hayward . had been at the Hotel des Bains for two nights , but had left for Paris about ten days before . He desired Inspector Beckerson ( the officer employed to watch the parties at Boulogne ) to call on Waggett , which he did , and gave him a copy of the proclamation offering a reward for his apprehension . . After reading it . Waggett said ho certainly should not return to England , as he understood the Speaker ' s warrant was of no avail at Boulogne , and thought of moving to some place in the interior of France if ho could obtain a passport . Waggett further stated that he was not aware of Skegg and Birchmore being at Boulogne , but that he had seen Hay ward , who had gone to the Paris races , and had not returned . The inspector observed that he

      must have been at considerable expense in coming from England , and remaining in a foreign place , to which he replied , that he had been as yet 'Hiving on a small income of-his own , but he was getting very short of money , and they must send him some without delay . "' Hethen seemed , to think nehad said too much ; and changed the subject of conversation . . With reference io Skegg and Birchmore , he ^ had been made aware . that it would bo vei'y difficult to secure ah -interview with them at their hotel . He therefore made a point of meeting them on the Sands , where they took daily exercise , and endeavoured to enter into conversation with them , but it was of no avail . Captain Gossett , in conclusion , states that tke police authorities at Boulogne have been most active in watching the parties , and had afforded every information ,

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      Mark other men ' s shipwrecks thy sea marks . Troubles are like dogs—the smaller they are , the more they annoy you . The new planet has received the name of Irtm from the Greek word Eirene , signifying Peace . Cons . —What would be likely to give tho best report of a fire?—A ' powder magazine . . Wh y 16 the street door like a barrel of beer . '—Because it's frequently tapped . Why is London milk like a Bank of England note ? -because it is not current without the water-mark . , »»» ul - t a bar ^ treat certuil 1 let « rs of the alpl bet with severity J-When he tics up queues (( As ) and puts toupees two ( P ' s ) in irons . - iMPBovaMNTS

      in BuicKs .-An improvement re-Vl "" ff , ? the formation of bricks is to shape PJS ' ? ' 1 - -Ifc 1 appears that the recent Papal of 11 ntw ' e - "l \ f ffect of increasing the funds ot the Bible Society by £ 12 , 000 . oflSV ?! ' ? " a ° » ucE .-Thedeclared value SS-a-irar ' Sr ^ 'ftWiaa ; V ^ l T Cos ^ community £ 100 , 000 . Mr H ^ "; herighteou 8 PenaIt F inflicted by G « rS ? ' | ° - "•? ° fficer of lh « Coldstream Somerset ' mlUly CalIed " J « 8 tice throwing a oenSnVf T- "" . ^ " ^ the flmou » t ex-S £ ^?!^ ra = » eo expended annuallis calculated at £ 2100 000

      y , . A Rkquesi Complied With .- " Tom , tell . the & » V aI-Ti told ' , ' 11 e * e you a glass of Happiness . —The fruit of falsehood is folly the endofolyisruin Thefmitof truth is wisdom the end of truth is happiness . A cation ' s true happiness , therefore , rests on wisdom . CnitBAN . —Some one asking Mr . Curran why a countryman of his walked about London with his tongue out of his mouth , he said that he " supposed he did so in hope to catch the English accent . Very Tempting . —An aged Quakeress , the other afternoon , was seen intently gazing upon a piece nf brocaded silk , displnyed in a linendraper ' s simp in Fleet-street . Acockneypasser-byobserved , that it was Satin temptine Eve .

      A Buddist . —The Colombo Observer ( Ceylon ) records the case of a Buddist who lately committed suicide , " hoping in the next birth to assume the shape of some animal , and thereby to be enabled to torment another person with whom he had quarrelled ! ' H Doctors . —That was a " bit of a wng" who said , " When my wife was very sick , I called an Allopathic physician ; she got no better . I then called an homoeopathic , and she ' mended a little . ' One day he broke his leg , and couldn ' t come at all : then she got well !'' Motives . —The true motives of our act ' iorn , like the real pipes of an organ , are usually concealed ; but the gmlded and the hollow pretext is pompously placed in front of the show .

      Good Advice . —One day the philosopher Bias found himself in the same vessel with a crowd of sorry scoundrels . A tempest came on ; and in-Btantly the whole band began t 9 invoke the succour of their gods . " Be quiet , you wretches ! " said thesa » e ; "if the gods perceivo that you are here weave lost !" A gutta pevcha tube has been placed in a colliery in Wales , haying a shaft 400 feet deep , whereby a whisper , either trom ihe bottom or top , is instantly heard : a whistle calls attention , and then follows the message . A great source of mischief will be thus abolished by the use of this safe and expeditious mode of communication .

      NoVEti Invention-. —The Lancaster Gazette describes an invention for lighting up turret clock faces with gas lights , on a principle which is perfectly selfregulating . The clock lights itself at the proper hour , namely , at sunset each ni » ht , and extinguishes itself at sunrise each morning , and follows the sitting and rising of the 6 un from the shortest to the longest day , and again from the longest to the shortest day , with only a haf-yearly adjustment . A Useful Hint . —A plain-spoken woman lately visited a married woman and said to her , " How do you contrive to amuse yourself ?"— " Amuse , " said the other , staiting ; " do you know I have my housework to do ?"— "Yes , " was the answer , " I seo you have it to do ; but as it is never done , I conclude you must have some other way of passing your time . "

      LIGHTENING THE SHIP . It blew a hai'd storm , and in utmost confusion , The sailors all hurried to get absolution ; Wliich done , and the weight of their sins they'd confess'd , Were transf ' err'd ( as they thought ) from themselves to the priest ; ¦ To lighten the ship and conclude their devotion , They toss'd the poor parson souse into the ocean ! Joint Literauy LABoua . — When " the committee of . tbe French Academy were emph yed in preparing the well known Academy Dictionary , Cuvier , the

      celebrated naturalist , came one day into the room where they were holding a srssion . "Glad to see you , M . Cuvier , " caid one of the forty ; " we have just decided a definition which we think quite satisfactory , but on which we should like to have your opinion . We have been defining the word Crab , and have explained ic thus :-Crab , a small red fish which walks backwards . " " Perfect , gentlemen , " said Cuvier ; " only , if you will give me leave , I will make one small observation in natural history . The crab is not a fish , it is not red , and it does not walk backward ? . With these exceptions , your definition is excellent . " ¦ .

      Weight of the Bells in Exeter Cathedral . — In the South Tower are eleven bells , ten of which are rung in peal , being the largest and heaviest set in the kingdom , the tenor weighing 2 , 000 lbs . heavier than any other of that denomination in England . The weights are as follows : — Grandison ( Tenor ) 7 , 522 lbs . Stafford 5 , 250 Old Nineo'Clock .... 4 , 300 Cobthorne 3 , 400 Doombell 2350 Fox ..... 1 , 700 Four th Bell on the ten 1 , 400 Pougamouth ( not rung in peal of ten ) 1 , 250 Third Bell on the ten i , ] 5 Q

      Second Bell on the ten l inn oecona lien on the ten . „ HOQ Treble Bell 1 , 000 In the North Tower is the Gnat Bell , weighing 12 , 500 lbs ., on which the clock strikes : it was formerly rung by the united exertions of twenty-four men , and its deep sonorous tone was heard at the distance of many miles — 'P . G . B . The Summer of 1851 . —A journal published at Potsdam gives the following predictions , drawn , says the writer , from observations made on natural occurrences : — " The summer of 1851 will be as warm as

      that of 1811 , and will consequently surpass in heat the seasons of 1722 , 1831 , ami 1832 ; for , firstly , the years 1849 and 1850 correspond exactly by their temperature with those of 1810 , 1821 , and 1833 , and with those of 1840 and 1841 as regards wet and floods ; secondly , the winter of 1850 resembles those of 1810 —1811 , 1821-1822 , 1833-1834 , and 1841 , for the mildness of the temperature and other' peculiarities ; thirdly , that the summers which we have just mentioned were preceded , as in the present year , by shocks of earthquake . "

      Card Playing applied to Nauticai . Purposes . —A captain well known in the merchant service , in con 6 equ . ence . of the . scarcity of sajlors , had to take green hands , or landsmen . Finding it impossible to teach them the " ropeB" of his ship , and fearing a storm , he adopted the following plan for their instruotion . Calling his crew to the quarter deck , lie asked them if they could play cards , and receiving an affirmative , answer from them , he . immediately took a pack of cards and . placed them on the principal rope—the ace on one , the king on another , * c . When the gale came he gave orders ' to haul" taut" on the jack of diamonds , overhaul the ace of spades , let go the ten pf olubs , cast off the dueee of hearts , &c , and in three days he asserts he had as good a working crew as an ? captain need wish for .

      The AuTHOBiras at Fault . —When Professor Marjolin , a celebrated French surgeon , commenced life he was extremely poor—so much so , that he was unable to pay the rent of a wretched dissecting room which he had hired . On the expiration of the first quarter , the bailiffs were sent in to seize for non-payment of rent . Marjolin received them with great courtesy , and dwelling in pompous terms on the fragments of decomposing mortality which composed his whole stock in trade , encouraged the law-limbs to " seize his effects . " At the same time he reminded the authorities , that they were bound to preserve the said effects for a month " without degradation or injury , and to return them on offer of payment in the same state as when seized . " It ia unnecessary to say that the conditions were declined , and Marjolin allowed to continue for a few quarters more , until brighter days shone . The great surgeon used to tell

      this story himself with infinite glee . —Medical Times . The New York Picayune has a story about a lawyer and a olient . The latterhad been arraigned for stealing a set of silver spoons . The articles were found upon the culprit , and there was no . use in attempting to deny the charge . The counsel seeing no escape except on the plea of insanity or idiotoy , instructed the fellow to put on as silly a look as possible , arid when any question was put to him , to utter in a drawling manner , the word " spoons . " ' If successful the fee was to be twenty dollars . The man did so , and was told to go about hia business as a fool When they had got hUo the taUthe oonnwltapped his client on the shoulder , saying , " Now , my good fellow , that twenty dollars . The rogue looked the lawyer fall in the face , and putting on a grotesque and silly expression , and winking with his wes . exclaimed , " Spoons ! " and then made tracks .

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      THE KINGL 1 EST KINGS . 3 o ! ye who in a nohle wort , Win scorn , as flames draw air , And in the way where lions lurk , God ' s image , bravely bear ; Though trouble-tried and torture-torn , The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn . Life's glory , like the how in heaven , Still spriugcth from the cloud ; And soul ne ' er soared tho starry seven , But pain ' s fire-chariot rode . They ' ve battled best who ' ve boldliest borne , The kingliest kings are crowaed with thorn . The martyrs red crown on the brow Doth into glory bnrn , ' And tears that from love ' s torn heart flow , To pearls of spirit turn , The murkiest hour is mother of morn , The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn . As beauty in death ' s cerement shrouds , And stars bejewel night ; God-splendour Iive 3 in dim heart-clouds , Aud suffering nuraeth might , -And dear heart-hopes hi pan ? s are horn , The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn . Lyrics of Love , or Voices of Freedom By Gerald AIasskt . THE TnvftT . TP . RT Trrv / ie

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 21, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1631/page/3/