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OHKE HAST , OHXE RAST . "
•? Sever hasting , never resting , With a firm and joyous heart , £ ver onward slowly tending , Acting , aye , a brave man s part . \ C-tb a high and holy purpose , Doing all thou findst to do : otrking every man ' s upraising , With his highest end in view . Undepressed by seeming failure ; Cnelated by success ; ili - ^ Uts attained revealing higher , Onward , upward , ever press . Si' -wly moves the march of ages ; Sbwly goes the forest-king ; Slowly to perfection cometh Evtrv great and glorious thing .
Broadest stream from narrowest sources Noblest trees from meanest seeds ; } ii «> ny ends from small beginnings , From lowly promise , lofty deeds . Acrns which the winds have scattered , Future navies may provide , Yhoushts at midnight whispered lowly 1 ' rove a people ' s future gui < -e . Such the law enforced by nature Since the Earth her course began ; Such to thee she searcheth daily , Eager , ardent , restless man . "Never hasting , never resting , " Glad in peace , and calm in strife ; Quietly thyself preparing , To perform thy part in life . Earliest , hopeful , and unswerving ,
weary though thou art and faint ; > Ver despair , there's God above thee , Listing ever to thy plaint . Stumbleth he who runneth fast ; Dieth he who standeth still ; ^ vov by haste , nor rest can ever " Mail his destiny fulfil . " Sever hasting , never resting , " Le « rend fine , and quaint , and olden , In < mr thinking , in our acting , Siiould be writ in letters golden . From the Leader .
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The Italian Volunteers and Lomlard Bifie Brigade ; being an Authentic Narrative of the Organisation , Adventures , and Final blshanding of these Corps , in 1848-49 . By Emh . 10 BAXDOLO . London : Longman and Co . The object of the author in Ms history of the Italian Volunteers is to give an unbiassed narrative of what came within his own knowledge as to the conduct and character of the corps , perhaps with the ulterior purpose of defending
his friends from the attacks that have been made upon them , and of placing the zeal and services of the better portion of the Yolunteers clearly before the world . Secondary in object , but essentially involved in the narrative , is the irremediable defects of volunteers in a military point of view—they can become useful for a campaign only by ceasing to be volunteers ; and there are incidental accounts of the causes ( obvious only after the event ) which rendered the efforts of the national party ( for the movement conld hardly be called national ) hopeless from the beginning .
It is likely that Dandolo may be somewhat biassed by personal feeling as regards his friends , aid by his political opinions in respect to a general judgment upon events . But the Italian . Volunteers is a useful and interesting book . Unlike most of its predecessors on the same subject , it is in the main a personal narrative ; the author describing events which he actually saw , or ¦ which he
learned from the immediate actors at the time of tlseir occurrence . His politics seem to be those of the careful , and rather conservative Italians ; men -who are averse to Republicanism , at least in the actual state of affairs , and who would be well satisfied -with a federal Italy , aad constitutional governments for each state , iu lieu of the Italian unity and nationality ef Mazzini and his followers . This
class , ii would appear , are religious : not Papists , or blindly obedient to the Pope , but Catholics , and strict observers of the forms of iheir religion . In this last feature Bmilio Dandolo and his friends differ from Mariotti ; tut tiieir political conclusions are similar . The narrative relates to three distinct subjects , —the first campaign of 1848 in Lombardy ; the second of 1849 in Piedmont ; and the defence of Rome . From-the nature of the service and the object of the author , neither account furnishes a story of the whole war . The defence of Borne is the fullest , and as
respects military adventure , the most interesting : the campaign in Piedmont , chiefly relates to the circumstances which induced the Biile Corps to depart for Home ; the account of the war being very brief , from Dandoio ' s having been with the army of Eamoriiio ( subsequently shot for disobedience ) ; and abandoned by his leader and -without « re < rs , Daudolo ' s exploit merely consisted in a clever running retreat before the Austrian advance . In the Milanese campaign , the volunteers with whom Dandolo was connected were niainly employed in endeavouring to revo l utionise the Tyrol , and subsequently in watching it ; the actions in which they were
engaged were secondary or unimportant ; but the account of the formation and conduct of the body is a striking picture of the Italian ideas of the period , and of what may be WkeQ for from volunteers in general . When fittdeizky withdrew from Milan , to reach the base of his future operations , the Milanese ^ ere so exalted , that they considered the expulsion of the Austrians accomplished . When the Piedmontese army reached Milan they wero welcomed with the salute , "We have driven out the Croats—here are more of them . " The Provisional Government issued a proclamation inviting the young men of Milan to enrol themselves under Manara as
volunteers . Owing , sayB Dandolo , «* to the delusive idea which prevailed , of all being already accomplished , but very few young men presented themselves during the first days , ana the « Army of the Alps ' ( which was the pompous name given to this moveable legion ) waB composed of 120 armed men—a discouraging evidence of the careless security which had taken possession of the minds of those very men who had performed such wonders in the streets of Milan . " This inertness passed away , and several thousand were afterwards enrolled . A
good many of the number were foreign adventurers , or the refase of society at home : these men , however brave in action some of them might be , brought discredit on the cause by acts of violence and plunder , and very soon alienated , as Mariotti noted , the Tyrolese peasants they went to free . JNombers , indeed , * ere young men of character and family , who * ould " bear any privation rather than resort to ex cesses of tins kind . But they were almoat *^ mischievous in another way ; they were as « ttle amenable to orders , or attentive to the o « uute routine of service , as the woTBtmauvais
™] it . The corps had no uniformity m arms or clothing—which , perhaps , was solely the fault of Government ; they had little or no disci pline , either in the sense of instruction or onduet ; the camp seems to have been an Aggregation of clubs or debating societies ; while ^ dividual will , or popular appeal was substituted for that instant obedience to orders , ^ ithout which war cannot be effectively carded , on . The following is an illustration of T olunteer habits . The Government had permitted , the passage of certain provision wag-S O' 3 S to some well-affected people in the Tyrol , v ho would otherwise starve—the general had Sfinted a safe conduct and an escort—but the ^ lunteers , excited by some camp orators , d etermined that they should not pass : —
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himself heard . They pitied him , as one who from an excess of good faith was so blinded as not to see the danger and the ill effects of an unpardonable compliance . In their delusion they did not perceive that it would have been better to furnish food to the enemy for a month , than to have been guilty of one such ruinous offence against the rules of discipline . The General was speedily informed of the lamentable state of affairs ; and the principal officer of the staff who had signed the safe conduct hurried to the spot , accompanied by brave Captain Osio , an aide-de-camp . himself heard . They pitied him , as one who from
The n-gitnent was assembled , and these two officers , with Manarn , addressed themselves to each company separately , laying before them the serious nature of the fault they were committing ' , and admonishing the most outrageous with judicious severity . Their addresses were received in profound silence . One after another the companies were consigned to their respective quarters , numerous sentinels were placed to hinder all communications , and the two delegates passed on to the second battalion .
These men were under arms , and the waggon was still waiting at the entrance of the bridge . The frank address , the repeated command to submit to the orders of the General , seemed to have some « ffeet : the soldiers began to hesitate ; they appeared to understand the importance of the decision which was cspp . cted fvom them . A moment more , and tho indispensible exactions of discipline would have been acceded to , when , a voice wus heard from the ranks , " No . by God , the waggon shall not pass ! " " Who has ' dared to answer ? " exclaimed
Mauara . " Here I am , " replied the voice ; and the volunteer It , a young " 5 aD 0 I > ardent character , and till then an excellent soldier , though somewhat too hot and headstrong , came forward . The others -whispered in an under tone among themselves , and exchanged significant glances . Manara repeated the order to open the gate of the bridge- No one moved , and U—— smiled triumphantly , quietly leaning on bis musket . Oh , why diJ not JUan . tr . -i consent , as I then suggested to him , that effrontery so unheard of and so ruinous should be instantly and terribly chastised ?
Four men were ordered to arrest the rebel : they looked on each other and lemaincd motionless . The whole company witnessed , unmoved , thi 3 most extraordinary scene . Several officers rushed forwards to accomplish the arre > t : a menacing shout then burst forth on every side ; R was 8 ur « rounded and carried off in the midst of applause . Things were now arrived at such a pitch , that the battalion was on the very verge of offering the horrible spectacle of civil war . Two companies took arms in favour of the revolt ; the others showed themselves still disposed to maintain the cause of right and discipline . Bat on this occasion the commanders evinced a blameable weakness . R
was expelled ; they did not , however , venture to arrest him in the presence of the companies . It was not till he arrived at Brescia that he was secretly imprisoned for a month . When he came out , at the time of the general retreat , he returned , entreating to be re-admitted into the battalion : he was received , and ever after , as if nothing had happened , he showed himself an obedient soldier . The waggon « as sent back amidst the hisses of the troop 3 , and thus the spirit of insubordinatioa triumphed in the most scandalous manner . The story of the siege of Rome is not only interesting from greater action but for its greater freshness j no other book that we have met with having given any original account of that event . Dandolo ' s narrative is not indeed
complete as a vhole view , but there is plenty of variety , incident , and life . The Lombard Rifles were employed in the expedition under Garibaldi against the Neapolitans who had advauced upon Rome . The following is a picture of that chief and his band : — T 7 e encamped on the magnificent site of the villa of Adrian ; and the numerous fires which glistened among the ruins , and lighted up their subterraneous caverns , produced a strange and picturesque effect . The singular aspect of the camp seemed in unison with the wildness of the scene . Garibaldi and his staff were dressed in scarlet blouses , with hats of every possible form , without distinctions of any kind , or any pretension to military ornament . They
rode on American saddles , and seemed to pride themselves on their contempt for all the observances most strictly enjoined on regular troops . Followed by their orderlies ( almost all of whom had come from America ) they might be seen hurrying to and fro , now dispersing , then again collecting , active , rapid , and indefatigable in their movements , YFhen the troops halted to encamp or to take some repose , while the soldiers piled their arms , we used to be surprised to see officers , the general himself included , leap down from their horses , and attend to the wants of their own steeds . When these operations were concluded , they opened their saddles , which were made so as to be unrolled and to form a
small kind of ter . t , and their personal arrangementa were then completed . If they failed in procuring provisions from the neighbouring villages , three or four colonels and majors threw themselves on the bare backs of their horses , and , armed with long lazzos , set off at full speed through the campagna in search of sheep or oxen : when they had collected a sufficient quantity they returned , driving their ill-gotten flocks before them ; a certain portion was divided among each company , and then all indiscriminately , officers and men , fell to killing , cutting up , 3 nd roasting at enormous fires quarters of oxen , besides bids and young pigs , to say nothing Of booty of a smaller sort , such as poultry , geese , &e .
Garibaldi , in the meanwhile , if the encampment was far from the scene of danger , lay stretched out under his tent . If , on the contrary , the enemy were near at hand , he remained constantly on horseback , giving orders &n « J visiting the outposts ; often disguised aa a peasant , he risked his own safety in daring reconnaisances , but most frequently , seated on some commanding elevation , he passed whole hour ? examining the environs with the aid of a telescope . "When thegeneral ' strumpeigavetbesignal to prepare for departure , the lazzos served to catch the horses which had been left to graze at liberty
in the meadows . The order of march was always arranged oa the preceding day , and the corps set out without any one ever knowing where they might arrive the day after . Owing to this patriarchal simplicity , pushed perhaps somewhat too far , Garibaldi appeared more like the chief of a tribe of Indiana than a general ; but at the approach of danger , and in the heat of combat , « his presence of mind and courage were admirable ; and then by the astonishing rapidity of his movements , be made up . in a great measure , for bis deficiency in those qualities which are generally supposed to be absolutely essential in a good general .
The Garibaldi legion , which numbered about a thousand men , was composed of a most incongruous mixture of individuals of all descriptions . Boys of twelve or fourteen years old , stimulated by noble enthusiasm , or by the restlessness of their age ; veteran soldiers , attracted by the fame of the celebrated chief of Monte-Video ; and , mingled with these , a number of individuals anxious to find impunity and license in the confusion of war : such were the elements of this truly original co / ps . Dandolo complains tbat the example of Garibaldi ' s Legion had a mischievous effect upon the Lombard Rifles ; but though the morale of the Legion might be bad , its military efficiency was sustained , and obedience to orders enforced : GaribaWi , for example ,
would have made Jiis safe conduct respected by his men , and with no words about it . The moral of regular discipline in war is , however , the great lesson of the book , as it is of most of the other books that have been written upon the late Italian campaigns . A country may be favoured with a heaven-born general , ' or get one quickly made , but an army , like any other institution , is a work of time . The defenders of Rome seem to have been as well organised as it was possible with such improvised bodies , yet a vital position was lost in a way scarcely possible with thorough soldiers even if treachery were reall y at work , it must have taken some other form than catching the defenders of a breach napping .
On the night of the 2 lst , the second battalion of Reg . Unione mounted guard on bastion 6 . All was quiet . lieutenant-Colonel Rossi , whose duty it was to make the general round of inspection , found everything in order ; the soldiers at their post in perfect silence . He continued the round as far as the neighbouring gate " Portese . " On his return , when near the breach , he was stopped by the " § ui t / iue ? " of the sentinel . Aathe Romans also when on duty were aceuBtomed to employ " alt qui vive . ' " he gave the watchword and was going on , when he found himself surrounded and made prisoner . What on earth had happened ? In the space of naif an hour the French had occupied the breach , not as if it were a post held by the enemy , but as they relieved in fortress
might have guard a . Not a single shot had been exchanged , not a drop of blood had been shed . The sentinels had fled ; the drowsy pickets were aroused by the enemy silently shaking them , enjoining them to decamp to a place of security ; it may well be imagined , that , astonished and terror-struck , they did not wait for a repetition of the advice . The whole circumstance was involved in extricable mystery : there were suspicions of treachery ; some of the sentinels , when interrogated , affirmed that the French had made their appearance from under ground , and had compelled them to fly . Their contradictory assertions only served to bewilder the interrogators . Last of all it was reported , that the FrenehW discolored a secret door which opened
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into a subterraneous passage leading from the outer base of the wall into the city , and that by this means they had suddenly , iu the dead of night , made their appearance in tho midst of the terrified sentinels , wtio , seeing themselves surrounded on every side , had yielded without a struggle . On the same night , bastion No . 7 , and the wall which united it with No . 6 , fell , after a vigorous resistance , into the hands of the French . This event produced a dreadful sensation in Rome itself . The French now commanded the site of our camp , and as soon as their cannon could be planted on the breach , our ruin would be accominto a subterraneous passage leading from the outer
plished . They immediately set about fortifying the position they had gained . There was a great difference of opinion within the city . The Roman General , Roselli , urged the necessity of our instantly making an attack , in order to regain at the point of the bayonet all that we had recently lost . Garibaldi , better acquainted with the discouragement which that morning pervaded even the test in the ranks , who had begun to suspect some treachery , and looked upon all as hopeles 3 , opposed himself warmly to Roselli's proposal . Thus wero these precious hours lost in useless discussions : evening drew on ; the French had already crowned the breach , and the enterprise Lad become impossible . From that moment we all saw that the fortune of Rome was lost .
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Lectures on Political " Economy . By Fbancis W . Newman , formerly Fellow of Balliol College , Oxford . London : Chapman . The ability of the author of these lectuveaia unquestioned . The soundness of the views he takes of the important subjects handled is quite another thing . Tho lectures were originally delivered to the *• Ladies' College" in Bedford-square , in a somewhat hurried Style , and publication as promptl y followed . It is not to be denied that there are bold and excellent things in the volume ; out our readers will form an opinion for themselves , as to the real character of the book , from the following extract on the great social and political questions of the day : —
Let me assure you that I for one look with no complacency on the existing state of the mass of English workers . But be it remembered it is a complicated and immense problem to feed twenty million mouths . In a savage state , Great Britain would perhaps have only half a million . To interfere artificially with the great agencies by which this va 3 t population feeds itself , is a most delicate and dangerous affair ; in which the purest philanthropy , unless guided by true and positive science , would be ruinous . If any one propose measures for elevating our working class , by all means let us acknowledge that his object is excellent , and the attempt anything but superfluous . But if he accompany his plan with invective against Competition as in itself
an evil thing , then , whatever his benevolence , I cannot refrain from characterising his scheme as ignorant and dangerous . I do not speak at random . Printed papers have been put into my hands which advocate the establishment of Christian villages in which common property is to be the rule . To recommend these , Competition is denounced as an essentially unchristian principle ( of course that means a base and evil principle ); and to this statement the names of three English biBhops are annexed . The same tone of address prevails in all those who are endeavouring to promoto what they call Christian Socialism . The danger to the uneducated , arising from this is , that they are incited to rancour against their own equals who dare to witn tnem
compete and to accept work which they want to keep for themselves . The only competition which they see is , that to which they are themselves exposed ; that capitalists also have to stand competition escapes them . Selfish violence against their rivals is thus held up as a venial , if irregular punishment of guilt . To b ystanders , on the other hand , this Socialistic scheme ia dangerous , because itfurnishes idle mind 3 with a ready-made ereed , and saves them the effort of thought . In every break up of old beliefs , any new system that can start with enthusiasm has a good prospect of adherents . If discontented with Old Physic , we easily become Homjeopaths or Hydropaths ; not so much because we have proof that either new system is truebut
, because we find the old one unsatisfactory . The same cause gave currency to Astrology and Egyptian Reiigion in old Rome , and afterwards to Alohammedism in the East , and , in modern times , to Fourierism in France , to Mormonism in America . The Socialists appear to ine to be go empty of proof , as scarcely to deserve scientific reply ; but their strength lies in the tendency of men to accept any new system which pretends to obviate felt grievances . Their errors I would classify as moral , political , and economical . Mdial : 1 st , In speaking as though my duties were equal towards all mankind ; which is untrue . To have any but a very secondary care for those who are unconnected with me in the relations of life , would be a hurtful Quixotism . 2 nd ,
In wonderfully undervaluing the difficulty of subduing a ruinous selfishness in a community that lived on common property . Political : In imagining that such a community , if men were allowed to choose their own occupations , would not presently break in pieces from their rival preferences ; or that if it were subjected to the despotism of a single mind , it could fail to degenerate into apathetic stupidity . But my peculiar business is with the Economic error , which consists in blindness to the fact that there can be no such thing' as Price except through the influence of Competition ; and that if they mean to allow exchanges between Community and Community , they ought to abandon this declamation against Competition . Consider
once more the circumstances of exchange . If human labour were bo uninventive that the best organised industry were absorbed , on mere necessaries , —food , clothing , and shelter , —there would be room for the argument , that , wherever was a superfluity of these things , all who needed might be allowed to help themselves freely . This is the state of brute animals , and approximately of savages . But when , through the ingenuity which God has given us , our labour becomes tenfold and twentyfold in efficiency—when , inconsequence , alargepnrtofanation must either be idle or produce luxuries , ( I mean here things not nece 3 sary ) , it is absurd to argue in the same way . For instance , if velvet is produced , how ia it to be exchanged with potatoes ? Is it
not egregious nonsense , and almost a desecrating of right sentiment , to say , ' the Law of Love shall rule : let them take as much velvet as they need ; and let us have as many potatoes as we need ?" The reply is , first , that no one needs velvet;—next , that it is not the Law of Love to let each help himself ; for while supply is limited , one may so do it as to deprive others . To discuss and discover how much a man needs , is an infinite question . The only feasible mode is that of a Poor Law , which , under certain circumstances , doles out a definite supply to each . And this breaks down of itself unless the persons thus relieved are a small fraction of the whole . The many must support themselves by free exohange . The truth is really
painful , but needs to be enforced , that Competition , though ( like all the laws of Nature ) often severe , is yet a beneficial as well as a necessary process . If I desire to get my garden dug , and am about to pay a man 43 . for his day ' s work , merely because I have been accustomed to pay tbat sum , but before I have agreed with him another man offers to do the same work for 3 s . 6 d ., the presumption is that the latter ia in greater need , and tbat ( unless I am in some previous moral relation to the former , which ought to be respected , ) I should do a more humane act by employing the one at 3 s . 6 d . than the other at 4 s . I do not now treat of the prudential question . The cheapest priced work is not always truly the cheapest . I merely say , that if it
be really the cheaper , and if we be m no nearer moral relation to one than to the other of the parties , my humanity , quite aa much a 8 my parsimony , will dictate my receiving the cheaper bargain . However , in theory , might we not lay down tbat the time occupied in producing an article measures its value ? Then , if one man can hunt , shoot , and bring back a bag of game in the same time that another can carve a walking-stick , the stick and the bag of game ought to be of equal value in the market . —But it is obvious , that no one can know , how long another takes or ouyht to be about his work except by aid of competition . When fowlera brine strings of dead
birjs into the market , their competition lowers the price so as to put a fine on the unskilful or idle ; and again , so as to punish them all , if they kill more birdB than are wanted . Surely this is a most wholesome principle , It forces all to Bell at or nearly at the price of him who ean afford to sell cheapest ; which is to the universal benefit of buyers . And as they sell only in order to buy , they reap the benefit of competition in their turn , when they come forward as buyers . " The scent of Balliol College hangs round the Professor still , and we fear the sellers of labour will seek for other advisers in the future vrhkh Hea before them big with Buch important problems ,
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i ^ i Maliciodb Robbbrt ax Sotkk ' s Symposium . — On Sunday evening some evil-disposed person penetrated to the " Encampment of All IJationa , ' in the Symposium , and succeeded in cutting off and carrying away twenty-five yards of the monster tablecloth which formed one of the attractions of Gorehouse , and was certainly a triumph of BritiBh . manufacture . The Ex-Sopbrisibhdekt of Dkpword Dqcktahd . —It is reported that , through the influence of the Duke of Wellington , Rear-admiral Sir John Hill has been granted to a retirement of no less than £ 850 per annum . "It is better to be born lucky tban rioVVRifted Service Gazette .
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A np * - E- ^ fMARKET THEATRE . Bradshau , \ Called 6 r ^ haw , Baq&aw , and & £ fought out at this theatre on TuestoieSmi . * " !? , ton 6 i 8 Grin > shaw , an assistant founded wffW u ^ i 8 fc ' wh 0 is successfully conbyT « Srin ? ^ g 8 haw ' medical student , pursued tovJrof ? h . ' ? ffl 0 er * . md Bradsha * . a clandestine a mLs nf me - ° f the aformid officer - Th 0 Plot , scribe hL eqUlV ° ' U would be difficulfc * ° ° e : itexce ^ i eXtravagantas ifc is > B" <* stone makes ihSkofT ely ™ , 'ng > ^ d the audience was in a until rhfi ? * htfl E , from th 0 moment he appeared Encif ° S 0- ? "e Principal part has evidently w ? n 6 i eXpreS / ly for * his popular actor , and he of the dklnfn t ° ir ! Oro advan ^ . The liveliness Sett 5 iS ^ r peottliap oddityand smart - the DPn ^\ ° r " Vf mate that the farce elates from Sobablv ^ v ? ' th 0 u 2 h the foundation h attended ? l ^ origin ' llouse ffas we " ?; ! "f > and th ? « w ° ea » of the piece was decided . ar 0 fSa n Se df 0 r re P etition b > ' Buckstone , amid
ti « * OLYMPIC THEATRE . P « n !«? * , ? ? alled The Fire E ^ er , brings out V j ompton in his best comic force . Personating a timorous Cavalier recruit ho unconsciously commits act which lays him open to the suspicion of secretly favouring tho Roundheads ; and upon being tried oy a court-martial is ordered to be shot . Having been led to suppose that the entire proceedings originate in the ioking propensities of his cemraues , and that the trial and the sentence are equally matter of jest , the recruit puts on an unwonted air of heroism , treating the whale process vmn merry indifference , much to the amazement of tue soldiery , who gave him little credit for bravery ot any kind . The captain finding his recruit a man . oi invincible courage , even under the sentence of death , proposes to him to undertake the dangerous task of
carrying a despatch into the heart of the enemy s lines , which he accomplishes in tho snme sort of heroic spirit as in the other case . He is of course successful in the mission , and when he finds , as he eventually does , that his life has been literally forfeited , and that he has just been employed on a task of all others the most perilous , he swoons with fear , and afc once eschews all military glory for the future , The farce is slight GUOUgh , but the drollery of the notion is somewhat original , and the dry jocularity of Compton , whose lively gallantry suddenly degenerates into the most aUjoct cowardice , is a pregnant source of diversion " . M . Selby is stated to be the author of this dramatic trifle . Mr . Oxenford ' s clever adaptation of Adrienne Leeouvrier has been revived here , Mr . W . Parren resuming his original character of Michonnet . Mrs . Stirling plays the heroine , to which she gives an effect scarcely inferior to that of Rachel herself .
STANDARD THEATRE . The performances this week commenced with a new domestic drama , founded on facts of recent occurrence , called Margaret Catchpole . The three first acts are Jaid in England , and develope incidents of startling variety , ending with the expatriation of the guilty , yet duped and betrayed Margaret , to Van Diemen's Land . The fourth act is laid in tbat colony , and introduces , amid the other novelties of that far-off land , several chiefs of the native tribes . The drama ends with the marriage of the heroine to a wealthy settler , her former lover having been
slain in endeavouring to procure her escape . The piece was well got up . The Chinese Bell-ringers performed a variety of tunes before the glass curtain ; all lovers of this music should decidedly pay a visit to the theatre during their engagement . The performances concluded with the drama of hlrien the Bold , which was played with great spirit . The concluding scene , where Idrien is precipitated into the cataract , is oneof great novelty—the water falling from the roof of the theatre , flowing from rock to rook , until the whole stage appears one mass of foam and spray , amid which the body of the bandit is seen rolling fearfully to inevitable destruction .
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Dr . Bachhoffner , the professor of natural philosophy to this establishment , has just commenced some highly interesting and instructive lectures on the forthcoming total eclipse of the sun on the 28 th of this month . The doctor remarked that all that behold this phenomenon must he struck with its awful sublime appearance , and after alluding to the superstition of our ancestors in reference to eclipses , went on to explain in a lucid manner the causes of the difference between total and partial eclipses , lie then called attention to the course which the eclipse would take over Europe ; and showed by a map how it commences in Norway and terminates near the Black Son , explaining at the same time that in Great Britain tho ccli ^ su wo uld DO but partial . The professor illustrated his lecture by exhibiting many very beautiful diagrams , and concluded with great applause from a very crowded audience .
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The Genbrai , Apatbx—What shall we write about ? What do people care about ? What do they interest themselves about ? Nothing . Everything is a bore , or insipid as the white of an egg . Shall we say something of Jotee Persaud ' s case ? For Jqtee Persaud the public care not ; a jot . As well might any one try to rouse indignation on behalf of Mr , Hudson . Smithfield Market , happily , is doomed at last . Is not that a subject for congratulation ? Yes , but not for an article . The fact is enough , without any words about it . The metropolitan water supply concerns every inhabitant of London ; but nobody believes that anything will be done this session , and there is no faith in the water doctors . There is the Church Building Acts Amendment
Bill ; but who requires to be told that the heads of the poor man ' s church are ever ready to encroach on the poor man ' a church room , and to substitute pew rateaforfveesittings ? For so ib is , that the holy men illustrate their implicit faith in the doctrine that the kingdom of heaven is the inheritance of the poor , who , therefore , do not stand in the same need of spiritual instruction as the rich , to whom the access is aa difficult as the eye of a needle to a camel . Shall the subject be the fresh and lively one of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill ? Better , say our readers , leave your paper in blank , saving your types and your readers , and sparing that most stale , flat , and unprofitable discussion , Mr . Faxton had a narrow escape of being burnt to a cinder in a
railway carriage on fire the other day , and is that not a text for some comment on the expediency of having a guard at the end of a train with means of communication with the engine driver ? "No , " say our readers / " You have been hammering away on the subject for tho last half-dozen years , and it is idle to waste more words about it till some one has been actually roasted to death between one station and another , then a stir will be made in earnest about the matter . " At present the spontaneous combustion of a Hindoo widow in India would be looked upon with infinitely greater horror and indignation than the burning of an unwilling Paxton in posse .- Well , but , as a last resource , there is the topic that has swallowed up all others , the Exhibition , the moralising upon which is as inexhaustible as the wonders it displays . But of
this , too , the public is tiring—not of the thing itself , but of the talking and writing about it , which are beginning to fall into the class of bores . The highest enconium on a party now would be that the Exhibition was not once mentioned in it . About what , then , do people converse ? About the nothing that there is to converse about , an example we have followed in writing . From Dan to Beeraheba all ia barren . We are in the collapse after an excitement . When and about what will interest bo roused again ? When will the suspended animation of the public be restored ? At present it neither reads , nor writes , nor thinks , nor troubles or concerns itself about anything , and especially eschews spending any money . Nevertheless , hard as the case is , we must write ; even though we have no subject to write about ! and no public to read . — Examiner .
Htdb Park Reviews . —The Foot Guards have been out lately in Hyde-park , performing various evolutions in the presence of their colonels , and exciting the speoial admiration of the rustics who now swarm ia the metropolis . It is , however , accounted somewhat atrange , tbat while the foot regiments are bo actively employed nothing is done with the Household Cavalry . Farmers think it would benefit the fat dray horses of the Life Guards amazingly if they had a little exercise , and at the same time show the yokels what splendid cavalry we have . There ia another point of view in which their employment is likely to be of service , of which the country people take no account . We mean the
military view . Might it not be beneficial to order out the Life Guards with the Household Infantry , and give them the opportunity of brigading together ? We believe that not one of the big horses can stand fire ; the moment a musket is discharged away they go helter skelter at once as if the very devil waa at their heavy heels . It would be rather awkward if such very nervous animals were sent to the wars , Better by far employ their inglorious ease ia accustoming them to volleys of blank musketry ,- than keep them fattening and atupifying on no better exercise than a gallop ia the Scrubs , and no other soldiering than a march from the Howe Guards to the barracks and back . — United Service Gazette .
Oh Tuesday the Kasseid Heir , steam yateh , built for the Pacha of Egypt , was launched from the premises of Messrs . Joyce and Co ., opposite the Dreadnought Hospital Ship . Her dimensions are —Length , 150 feet ; beam , eighteen feet ; depth , eleven feet , builders' old measure . Old measure , 239 52-74 tons . She is : to he fitted with a screw propeller and a pair of vibrating engines of the collective power of eighty horses . The Mi'stachio . —A witty definition of a mustachio was recently given as tUe " uppec Up gone in mourning for the loss of the brains /'
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Cons . —What flower most resembles a bull ' s mouth ?—A cowslip . When does a man look like a cannon ball ?—When he looks round . Truth , they say , lies in a well . '' For my part , " said a wit , " I thought it the ptoperty of truth to lie nowhere . " A Query . — -Speaking of fashionable hats , should one say " the latest style , " or ' ¦ ' the latest tile . " The Crops . —Favourable accounts relative to the growing crops in the United Kingdom continue to be received . ' A False Charoe . —A woman charged with being drunk and disorderly , denied the latter offence , saying that " she was too drunk to be disorderly . "
" Miss Johnson , have you ever seen Cta . bWs TalesV ' - " Crab ' s tails ! No ; it is the first time that I ever heard that crabs had tails . " Patent purse-gloves , which have a pocket to contain any small sum of money , a railway ticket , &c , lor immediate use , have been invented . Novel Discovery .-A discovery has just been made at Hermiones , in the Pe / oponnesus , of a certain spring of water which , when mixed with oil , becomes at once a kind of soap . "W ^ t ' s ! N a Namb ?» -Signor Giovanni yitelli , " professor of music , " having eoI : into the insolvent court , turns out to be "John Whittle !" ; Will You Remember THi 3 ? -Good temper is IlKe a sunny day ; it sheds a brightness over everyttung . It is the sweetener of toil , and tho soother or disquietude .
To BE extolled for a quality which a man knows himself to want , should give him no other happiness man to be mistaken for the owner of an estate over which he may chance to be travelling . Tarnation Tall . —An American giant refused to come over to this country , because not one of our days—even tho twenty-first of June—is long enough for him to stand upright in . " Heads up , Eyes Right . "—In walking , always turn your toes out and your thoughts inwaida . The t ' ovmer will prevent you from falling into cellars , the latter from falling into iniquity .
Prospects of a Civil War . —Elderly married man : " I didn't say anything ; but , my dear , I think you might get breakfast ready before tea time ( ahem !) . Only once—just for a change . " Old and Tough . —A Canadian bought a patriarchal turkey : — "I took him home , " says he ; " my wife bile him tree hours , and den he crow . My wife put him in de pot wid de tatera and he kick ' cm all out . " Tub World ' s "Wonder . —It has been said that if we leave out the Pyramids from among the Seven Wonders of the ancient world the other six could be placed ia the inside of the wonder of the modern world now standing in Hyde Park .
Recruiting . —A young man asked his governor for some money , as he wanted to go out of town to recruit his health . "Recruit your health ! ' exclaimed the old captain " well , then , sir , here ' s a shilling , tbat is all we pay for recruiting in the array . " The Dumb Speaking . —A rogue asked charity , on pretence of being dumb . A lady having asked Win with equal simplicity and humanity , how long he had been dumb , he was thrown off his guard and answered , " From birth , madam" — " Poor fellow , " said the lady , and gave him a shilling' . A PosEn , —Those two celebrated divines and scholars , Drs . South and Sherlock , were once disputing on 6 ome religious subjects , when the latter accused his opponent of using his wit in the controversy . " Well , " said South , " suppose that it had pleased God to give you wit , what would you have done . "
Making the Clock oo . —Some rascal has stolen a Connecticut clock from the New York Mirror office . Whereupon the editor remarks : — " All we have to say is , that the clock never went before , and but for the principle involved in the case we should say nothing about it . " Ingenious Contrivance . —A clock is being introduced into various mills . Id ' s set in motion from the main shafts of the works , and fastened up in proximity to an ordinary clock . By referring to both , the foreman is enabled to detect at a glance the increase or diminution of the speed of the machinery , and thus to regulate its working . The field of Waterloo is , like the rest of Belgium , remarkably rich . For several years after the conflict the crops were prodigious , owing to the vast quantity of animal matter blended with the soil . Even yet , aftev the lapse of so many years , the grain on those portions where the dead were interred is not only richer , but of a darker colour than elsewhere .
Father Ignatius is said to have imposed a new penance on the poor of his ministrations . He makes them pray daily for the benighted English , all of whom he affirms will go to mass this year if four paters and t . hrp . e nwn nro ea \ A owvy moiiiliig ; but , as the Irish housemaid remarked , "It is too hard upon any poor girl who has to make three fires , tidy the parlour , and bile the kettle before nine !" Sensible Remark . —At the time when the Pope had " frighted the isle from its propriety , " a friend of ours , who , in getting on to the top of an
omnibus , said , " It is a wet day , was received by the coachman with "Thankye , Sir , for that wery sensible information . You ' re the first gen'leman for a whole fortnight that has spoken about anything but the Papal Aggression 1—Builder . Nautical . —A sailor , the other day , in describing his first efforts to become nautical , said that just at the close of a dark night he wag sent aloft to see if he cnuld see a light . After a short time he was hailed from the deck with— " Mast head , ahoy . ' "" Ay , ay , sir , " was the answer . " Do you see a light ?" - "Yes , sir . " "What light ?" - « Daylight , sir . " The lookout was ordered down with a
run . Blue Bonnets . —The Jersey Times has an impromptu , written on seeing ladies' bonnets hung with blue shades . Oh ! age of reverses , and times of disorder ! On which forlorn poets in vain would write sonnets : Once " all the blue bonnets were over the border ;" Now , all the blue borders are over the bonnets ! The Ruling Passion . —Colonel Cunynghame tells us , in his work on America , that when at St . Louis , he had a long conversation at dinner upon the wonders of America . At length his companion wound up with this wonderful wm&rk : — " I calculate , sir , that your Queen must now be tarnation mad that her grandfather did not leave England at the time of her independence . ; that he did not settle in this country , and annex Great Britain to it ! Your little isle , sir , would make a pretty addition to this fine country !"
The Folly op Fretting . —Two gardeners , who were neighbours , had their crops of early peas killed by the frost . One of them came to condole with the other . "Ab , " cried he , "how unfortunate ! Do you know , neighbour , I have done nothing but fret ever since . But , bless me , you seem to have a fine crop comingup—what sort are they ? " " Why , these are those 1 sowed immediately after ray loss . "" What , coming up already ? " " Yes , " replied the other , " while you were fretting , I was working . " Fighting for thk Lord . —An Irish preacher was considerably annoyed ( as many before and since have likewise been ) by persons getting up and leaving tbe church during his sermon . His patience being exhausted , he stopped his discourse and in a rowdy way exclaimed— "Goen , ray lad , I ' ve seen the top of
your head , that s enough ! " I'll see you again , sir . "— "You had better see me now , " replied the preacher , "for . when lam in the pulpit I light for the Lord , but when I ' m out of ifc I fight for myself . " A Second Frankenstein . —The Cincinnati ffonpariel announces that a scientific gentleman of that city has , at various times , produced animal life solely from the action of certain chemical preparations on each other . In conclusion , the journalist says : — " The specimen of life produced did not exist more than twenty-four hours in either instance ; but the simple fact of life power being thus manifested and attested , as it is by the personal examination of five or six eminent physicians , may lead to something of which the world of science , as at present , may look forward with awe and amazement !"
Indian Rubber Tots . —In tbe American department of the Exhibition we see a new application of India rubber . We have often heard of " real blessings to mothers , but what will they say to everlasting toys—toys that will never break ? This great desideratum of the nursery haa been effected in America by the use of vulcanised India rubber . Here we have rattles , lions , tigers , monkeys , horseB , frogs , dolls , absolutely indestructible . We fear that this will be considered by the toy . makers of France , Germany , and Switzerland as one of the evil results of the Exhibition ; for , who would think of purchasing toys of lead , tin , or wood , when they can be had made of indestructible Indian rubber . ¦ ' .
ThbDesired Effect . —A young girl . from tbe Country being on & visit to * Quaker , was prevailed on to accompany him to meeting . It happened to be a silent one , none of the brethren being moved-to utter a syllable . When the Quaker left the meeting house with his young friend , he asked her , "How didst thou like the meeting ? " To which she pettishly replied — " Like it ! why , I ean see no sense in it—to go and sit for whole hours together without speaking a word —it is enough to kill Satan himself . ' , "Yea , my dear , " rejoined the Quaker , "that is just what we Rrmarkablb Sits for a Bird ' s Nest . —A water
wagtail built its nest thi 6 spring in a chink of the outer wall of . the . saw mill at Carron village , The large water wheel is continually revolving during the day , within four inches of the nest in which the pa . rent bird sits with the most apparent unconcern , " the dizzying mill wheel" having , to all appearance , no effect upon its little brain . More curious still , owing to the close proximity of the wall and the wheel , the bird could not fly between them , and actually , on entering or leaving her nest , flew right through between the revolving spokes , at whatever rate tho huge circle was reYolving . — Dumfries Owner ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 5, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1633/page/3/
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