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      CURES FOR THE UN CURED . ' HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT . An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or King ' s Evil , Extract of a letter from Mr . J . H . Allidaj , 209 High-street . Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1850 . Sir , —My eldest son , when about three years of age , was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , i which : after a short time broke out into an . ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrofula tind prescribed for a considerable time without effect . The disease then for years went oh graduall y increasing in virulence , when besides the ulcer in the neck , another formed below the left knee , and a third under the eye besides seven others on the left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During the wheie of the time my suffering boy had received the constant ' advice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides being for several months at tbe General Hospital

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      TRUE PROGRESS . ( From Poems By Fritz and Lioxeit . ) Thins not your labour done , Whatever good ia won , Ye who the world of hope and danger tread ; For many a loftier peak , That mortal man may seek , Uplifts almost to heaven its towering head T hough dim in mist and cloud , And hid in snowy shroud , There is a Patn that patient toil may keep ; Though often beaten back . And lost the dangerous trade , The conquering Sag shall crown the highest Bleep ThetaiehtT nutute old .

      With step serene and bold , Adrano'd , though all the world in scorn derided ; Without doubt or fear , Unheeding danger near They to the power of truth their cause confided . With wonder and "with awe , The heaven-born things they saw , [ gain'd , Through years of toil , and oft through life they And woke the dreaming world , In deadly slumber curl'd , To purge each thought and hops by em * BfeinVJ , The paths before unknown , Which oft they trod alone , We , in admiring crowds , may preis to see ; Yet , as we wond'rine gaze , On once untrodden ways . Content to live in sloth we may not bo .

      For yet the mountain-height Its crest above our sight Bears op * while myst ' ries strange are hid between ; We , too , most higherclimb , Or truths still more sublime Than those onr fathers won trill lie unseen . Then gird the loins and toil To break the rocky soil , . And pierce through all that bars our upward way ; Lot wisdom lead the van , While faith recounts to roan Wl-That once beyond themista their shines a oloualess And when ihejheight we gain , And doubts no more remain . Each . Bball review with joy tbe paths he trod ; And we , too , shall behold ,-Like Moses as of old , High on a holier mount , the face of God .

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      Henrt Bon EtcfcenfeZs , a Tale for the Young , 6 y C . Schniid ; with a complete vocabulary , fyc . ByFaickLebahn . London : C . H . Clarke , Boaverie-street . TfilS tale is simple , and one well adapted to the study of beginners in the German language . The vocabnlarly will enable the reader to dispense with , a dictionary . We bad , at first , thought it would have been better if placed at the bottom of each page ; but , upon C 3 nslderation , we think it best as it is , as the memory ought to be taxed to some extent . With all good wishes for the success of this

      little work , we are of opinion that Ollendorf ' s system has not been equalled . That system dispenses with both dictionary and grammar , aud gives the student an insight into the language by easy gradations . By all other methods , the student will have to read a great many volnmes before lie will make much progress . The familiar sentences at the end of the book are by no means novel id their way , and seemed to be penned , like most of the guide books of the present day , for tbe especialttsoof what are called the * better sort of people '—viz ., those who keep carriages .

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      The History of the Restoration of the Monarchy in France . By A . Db Lamabxike . London : Tizetelly and Go . This is a sequel to the well known History of the GIrondins by the same eloquent writer . Those who think that history should be the xesult of a patient collection and comparison ef documents and authorities , a calm , dispassionate , and judicial narrative of events , will scarcely find in the graphic , impassioned , and dramatic sketches of M . Lamarline . But

      what the author may lose in dignity he gams in attractiveness , by his mode of treating the subject ; and having been a co-actor in some of the most important events in French History , as well as personally acquainted with many of the personages whom he introduces in Ma new work , he invests his narrative with a charm of reality and life-like colouring , which , apart from the thrilling nature of the events themselves , must carry the reader resistlessly onward . His judgment of Napoleon is Bevere , and by no means favourable ; while the family of the Bourbon princes evidently have his -warm sympathy . He paints them all en beau ;

      and we can believe him , when he says ' his heart is interested in that forgotten generation / for it is clearly that fountain from whence his inspiration has drawn out his reason . It would be out of place for us to attempt to follow the stream of events which M . Lamartfne commences in the present portion of his work . In preference , we selectthe story of the murder of the Duke d'Enghienone of the blackest spots in the character and memory of Napoleon—for quotation . At the time of the plot of Georges and Pichegru , against the life of Buonaparte , the Duke had settled with the young Princess Charlotte of

      Rohan , at Ettenbeim , a village in the territory of Baden . He here reposed in obscurity , in love , and in rustic employments , after the seven years of fighting and activity which had matured him at so early an age . Several friends of his house , left behind by his father , and Bome of the aideB-de-camps of his wars , lived retired in the same village , and shared his simple and innocent amusements . Georges , who had beea vainly sought after for three weeks in Paris , was discovered and surprised on the evening of the 9 th of March . On being interrogated by Beal , he avowed that he had come to Paris to carry off the First Consul by main force , but

      not to assassinate him ; that he had been connected with St . Hejant , the plotter of the attempt at assassination in the Rue St . Nicaise ; but that St . B 6 jant , in constructing the infernal machine , had exceededhi 3 instruotion 8 , whiehmerelyreguiredhim to Tecrnit a -number of determined horsemen—to attack Bonaparte ' s escort during one of bis excursions outof the city , and take thedictatorprisonerto London ; that nothing was yet ready for tbis enterprise ; and that they awaited the expected arrival of a prince in Paris for its consummation . This prince , in the imagination of Bonaparte and of

      tbe police , could be none other than the Duke d Enghien ; and another deposition of Leridant confirmed this erroneous conclusion . This conspirator , a friend of Georges , eaid that he bad seen , at Ghaillot , in the house where Georges lived incognito , a young man , whose name was kept secret , and who was elegantly dressed , of handsome features and aristocratic manners ; and that he had imagined this young man to be the prince expected by the conspirators . It was not known , until long afterwards , that this young man whose exterior and whose mysterious appearance had truck Xeridant , was tbe Count Jules de f olignac .

      Bonaparte , resolved to strike his enemies with terror , commanded General Ordener to cross the Rhine with 300 drageons and thirty mounted gendanneB , iavest the village of jEttenheim , and seize the prince and all his papers . . Ordener selonton the same night , that of the 10 and 11 th of March , and arrived on the 12 lh at Strasbourg . He held a council on his arrival with General Leral , Chariot , the colonel of gendarmes , and the commis « ary of police , and they resolved to precede and facilitate the nocturnal expedition by a minute reconnoitring of the scene of action . An agent of police named Stahl , and a non-eommiseioned officer of gendarmerie , named Pfersdoff , both born on tbe German bank of the Rhine , were

      despatched on tbe instant , and marching all night , arrived at eight o ' clock in the morning at Ettenieim . They strolled , with an affectation of indifference , which ill concealed their curiosity , about the bouse of the Prince , in order to make themselves well acquainted with the approaches to it ; bnt their faces , which were unknown to the Duke ' s eerrants , their waft for BO apparent purpose , and their scrutinizing looks awakened suspicion , as if by a presentiment . The Prince ' s valet » de-chambre , concealed behind a window , obeerred these two strangers walking round the trails , and intently noting the objects of their mis-¦ ion . ' He called another of the servants of the house , named Cannone , and communicated his anxieties to him . Cannone was an old BOldier and

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      companion of the prince fvoia his earliest mfanc He had fought -ffUti him in all his campaigns , and had saved his life in Poland , by covering him with his sabre and his person . He fancied that he remembered having somewhere seen the face of Pfersdoff , and thought he recognised in him a gendarme ill disguise . He hastened to inform the Prince of the suspicious appearance of these two observers , and of the conjectures which he had formed on the features of Pfersdoff ; but the Prince , with the thoughtlessness of his age , disdained to pay any attention to these symptoms of espionage . Nevertheless , an officer of his army , named Schmidt , who was then with him , went out and accosted Stahl and Pfersdoff , and questioned __ —; —^

      them with an appearance of unconcern , pretending that he was going their way , and accompanied them for more than a league ; but at last seeing them take a road which led into the interior of Germany , instead of returning towards the Rhine , he feltreas-Bured , and returned to traoquillise the servants and retainers at Ettenbeim . But the anxieties of love are not so easily Bet at rest as those of friendship . The Princess Charlotte de Rohan , informed in the morning of the suspicious appearance of these prowlers around the house of thePrinoe , was filled with a presentiment of danger , and begged

      he would take warning from these indications , and absent himself for a few days from a residence where he was so evidently watched , and possibly with & criminal intention . Oat of affection for her , rather than from uneasiness on hi 3 own account , the Duke consented to absent himself for two or three days , and it was settled that he should set out the third morning after , on a long hunting excursion in the forests of the Grand Duke of Baden , during which tbe suspicions of his betrothed would be either dissipated or verified ; but it was fated that the third morning should . not dawn on him in Germany .

      Passing over the circumstances of his arrest , which are minutely narrated , and also the incidents of the journey to Paris , we come to the end . Bonaparte had determined on the Duke ' s death , and his ministers and judges receive their instructions to that effect The midnight trial , the despicable meanness of tbe tribunal , the heroic attitude of the young Conde , are vividly depicted in this volume : but we pass on , to the denoumnt of the plot .

      As soon as the judgment was pronounced , and even before it was drawn np , Hullin sent to inform Savary and the Judge-Advqcate of the sentence of dettb , in order that they might take their measures for its execution . It seemed as if the time was equally pressing to the tribunal as to those who awaited their decision , and as if an invisible genius was hurrying along the acts , formalities , and hours , in order that the morning ' s sun might not witness the deeds of the night , flullin and his colleagues remained in the hall of council , and 'drew up at random the judgment they had juBt given ; and this short and unskilfully prepared document ( summing up a whole examination in two questions and two answers ) terminated with the order to execute the

      sentence fortnwita , Bavary had not waited for this order to be written before he prepared for its execution , and bad already marked out the spot . The court and the esplanade being encumbered with troops , by thepresenceof the brigadeof infantry , and tbe legion of gendarmes d'tilite , no safe place could be found therein which the fire of a platoon did not run the risk of striking a soldier or a speotator . No doubt it was also feared that too great publicity would thus be given to the murder in the midst of anavmy ; that the ec&ne of the execution was too distant from the place of sepulture ; and that feelings of pity and horror would pervade the ranks at the sight of this young man ' s mangled corpse . The moat of the chateau , however , offered the

      means of avoiding ail these dangers , as it would conceal the murder as well as the victim . This place was accordingly chosen . Harel received orders to give up the keys of the steps and iron gateways , which descended from the towers and opened on tbe foundation of : the Qnateany to point out the different outlets and sites , and to procure a gravedigger to commence digging a grave while the man for whom it was intended still breathed . A poor working gardener of the chateau , named Bontemps , was awakened , and his work pointed ont to him . He was furnished with a' lantern to guide him through the labyrinth of the moat , and light him while he dog it up . Bontemps descended with bis shovel and pickaxe to the bottom of tbe

      moat , ana tmuing tne ground all about dry and hard , he recollected that they had began to dig a trench the evening before , at the foot of the Queen ' s Pavilion , in the angle formed by the tower and a little wall breast high , for tbe purpose , it was said , of depositing rubbish in it . He accordingly went to tbe foot of the tower , marked out in paces the measure of a man ' s body extended at length , and dug in the earth that had been already moved a grave for the corpse they were preparing for it . The Duke d'Enghien could have heard from his window , over the humming noise of tbe troops below , the dull and regular sound of the pickaxe which was digging his last conch . Savary , at the same time , marched down and arranged slowly in

      the moat tbe detachments of troops who were to witness this military death , and ordered the firing party to load their muskets . The Prince was far from suspecting either so much rigour or so much haste on the part of his iudgea . He did not doubt that even a sentence of death , if awarded by the commission , would give occasion for an exhibition of magnanimity on the part of the First Consul . He bad granted an amnesty to emigrants taken with arms in their hands ; how could it be doubted , then , that he who pardoned obscure and culpable exiles would not honour himself by an act of justice or clemency towards an illustrious prince , beloved by all Europe , and innocent of all crime ? He bad taken back , after his interrogatories and his

      appearance before the military commission , into the room where he had slept . He entered it without exhibiting any of that fright which prisoners experience in the anxiety and uncertainty of their sentence . With a serene countenance and unoccupied mind , he conversed with his gendarmes , and played with his dog . . Lieutenant Noirot , who was on guard over him , had formerly served in a-regiment of cavalry commanded by a colonel who was a friend of the Prince of Conde . He had also seen the Duke d'Enghien , when a cnild , sometimes accompany bis father to reviews and field-days of the regiment ; and he reminded the Prince of that period and these circumstances of his youth . The Duke smiled at these reminiscences , and renewed

      them himself by other recollections of hisinfaacy , which mingled with those of Noirot . He inquired , with a curiosity full of interest , about tbe career of this officer since that epoch ; of the campaigns be had made ; of the battles in which he had been engaged ; of the promotion he had received : of his present rank , his expectations , and his partiality for the service . He seemed to find a lively pleasure in this conversation on the past with a brave officer , who spoke to him with the accent and the heart of a man who would gladly indulge in pity , were it not for the severity of duty . A noise of footsteps , advancing slowly towards the chamber , interrupted tbis agreeable and laBt indulgence of captivity . It was the commandant of Tincennes ,

      Harel , accompanied by tbe brigadier of tbe gendarmerie of the village Aufort . This friend of Harel ' s had been permitted to remain in one of the commandant ' s rooms , after having ordered the Prince ' s supper , and from thence he had heard or seen all the events of the night . Harel , agitated , and trembling at the mission be had to fulfil , had permitted Auforfc to follow and assist him in his message to the prisoner . They saluted the Prince re-¦ pectfully ; but neither of them bad the firmness to acquaint him with the truth . The dejected attitude aud trembling voice of Harel alone revealed to the eye and to the heart of the Prince a fatal presentiment of the rigour of his judges . Bethought they now came for him only to bear his sentence tead .

      Harel desired him , on the part of the tribunal , to follow him , and he went before with a lantern in his band , through the corridors , the passages , and tbe courts it was necessary to cross , to arrive at the building called the " Devil ' s Tower . " The interior of this tower contained the only staircase and the only door descending to , and opening into , the lowest moat . The Prince appeared to hesitate two or three times on going into this suspicious tower , like a victim which smells the blood , and wbioh resists and turns back its head on crossing the threshold of a slaughterhouse . * * Harel and Aufort preceded the Duke in silence down the steps of the narrow winding staircase , which descended to a postern through the massy walls of this tower . The Prince , with an instinctive horror of the place , sad of the depth beneath the soil to which the steps were leading him , began to think they were not conducting him before the judges , but into the haudsof murce . rera , or to the gloom of a dungeon .

      He trembled in all his limbs , and convulsively drew back his foot , as he addressed hiB guides in front : _ - " Where are you conducting me f" be demanded with a stifled voice . " If it is to bury me alive in a dungeon I would rather die this instant . "' Sir , " replied Harel , turning round , " follow me , and summon up all your courage . " The Prince partly comprehended him , and followed . They at length issued from the winding staircase through a low postern which opened on the bottom of the moat , and continued walking for some time in the dark , along . the foot of the lofty walls of the fortress , as far as the basement of the Queen ' s Pavilion When tufty had tvurned lh& angle of this pavilion , which Jbad concealed another part of the moat behind its walls , the Prince suddenly found himself in front of the detachment of the troops drawn up to witness his death . - The . firing party , selected for the execution , was jepa-^ ted from the rest ; and the barrels of their musiets reflecting the dnll light of some lanterns carried by a few of the attendants , threw a sinister

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      glare on the moat , tho massy walls , anil the newly dug grave . The Prince stopped at a sign from his guides , within a few paces of the firing party . lie saw his fate at a glance ; but he neither trembled nor turned pale . A slight and Chilling rnin W ;< S falling from n . gloomy sky , and a melancholy silence reigned throughout the moat . Nothing disturbed the horror of the scene but the whispering and shuffling feet of a few groups of officers and soldiers who had collected upon the parapets above , ana . on the drawbridge which led into the forest of Vincennes . Adjutant Pelle , who commanded the detachment , advanced , with his eyes lowered , towards the Prince . He held in his hand the sentence of the military conmission , which he read in a low dull voicebut perfectlintelligible . The Prince .

      , y listened , without making an observation or losing hiB firmness . Ho seemed to have collected m an instant all his courage , aud all the military heroism of his race , to show his enemies that he know how to die . Two feelings alone seemed to occupy him during the moment of intense silence which followed the reading of his sentence ; one was to invoke the aid of religion to soothe his laat struggle , and the other to communicate bis dying thoughts to her he was going to leave desolate on tue earth . He accordingly asked if he could have the assistance Of a priest , but there was none in the castle ; and though a few minutes would suffice to call the cure of Vineennes , they were too much preased tot time , and too anxious to a vail , themselves of the night , which was to cover everything . The officers

      nearest to him made a sign that he roust renounce this consolation ; and one brutal fellow from the midst of a group , called out , in a tone of irony ,- — " Do you wish , then , to die like a Capuchin V The Prince raised his head with an air of indignation , and turning towards the group of officers and gendarmes who had accompanied him to the ground , he asked , in a loud voice , if there was any one amongst them willing to do him one last service . Lieutenant Noirot advanced from the group , and approached him , thus sufficiently , evincing his intention . The Prince said a few words to him in a low voice , and Noirot , turning towards the side occupied by the troops , said : — " Gendarmes , have any of you got a pair of scissors about you 1 " The gendarmes searched their cartridge boxes , and a

      pair of scissors was passed from hand to hand to the Prince . He took off his cap , cut oft one of the locks of his air , drew » letter from his pocket , and » ring from his finger ; then folding the hair , the letter , and the ring in a sheet of paper , he gave the little packet , his sole inheritance / to Lieutenant Noirot , charging him , in the name of pity for his situation and his death , to send them to the young PrinceBS Charlotte de Rohan , at Ettenheim . This love message being thus confided , he collected himself for a moment , with his hands joined , to offer up a last prayer , and in a low voice recommended his soul to God . He then made five or six paces to place himself in front of the firing party , whose loaded muskets he saw glimmering at a short distance . Tbe light of a large lantern containing

      several candles , placed upon the little wall that stood over the open grave , gleamed full upon him , and lighted the aim of the soldiers . The firing party retired a few paces to a proper distance , the adjutant gave the word to fire , and the young Prince , as if struck by a thunderbolt , fell upon the earth without a cry and without a struggle . At that moment the clock of the castle struck the hour of three . Hullin and his colleagues were waiting in the vestibule of Harel ' s quarters for their carriage to convey them back to Paris , and were talking . with some bitterness of Savary ' s refusal to transmit their letter to his master , when an unexpected explosion ,

      resounding from the moat of the forest gate , made them start and tremble , and taught them that judges should never reckon upon anything but justice and their own conscience . This still small voice pursued them through their lives . The Duke d'Enghien was no more . His dog , which had followed him into the moat , yelled when he saw him fall , and threw himself on the body of his master . It was with difficulty the poor animal could be torn away from the spot , and given to one of the Prince ' s servants , who took him to the Princess Charlotte , — the only messenger from that tomb were slept the hapless victim whom she never ceased to deplore .

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      Golden Dreams and Wateng Realities ; being the Adventures of a Gold Seefor in California and the Pacific Islands . By W . Shaw . London : Smith and Elder . The author of this stirring work was at Adelaide when tUe news arrived of the discovery of tho El Dorado in California . He had found no opening there , was tired of doing nothing , and shipped himself on board a fast Bailing vessel , without loss of time , for the Diggins . The record of his suffering , aud of the scenes be witnessed , outrival all that fiction has ever invented ; and unless he had been bountifully gifted in the matter of a sound constitution , with youth on his side , he could not hare survived to tell the tale of his adventures . ¦

      From the first moment of his setting foot on shore at San Francisco till he re-embarked in the same vessel that brought him out , his career was one continued series of hardship , privation , and labour , with frequent danger and risk of life ; one half of which undergoHe in a civilised country would secure wealth . His passage from St . Francisco to Stockton was made in an over-crowded craft , where there was not room to lie down , exposed to a burning sun by day and to chilling dews by ni ght . To reach tbe diggings , he joined a sort of caravan , where the principle of ' every one for himself' was carried out in perfection : even men who sank from fatigue and want of water were left to perish in the wilderness , — which was perhaps inevitable , —but when water was reached not a moment was wasted

      in bestowing a thought on comrades whom assistance might have rescued . At the diggings , Mr . Shaw and a shipmate , with a Malay lad and a Chinese as followers , tell to work , and did pretty well so far as getting gold ; but theirs waB the fate of every one who has told his story ; the expenses nearly absorbed the gains . The rainy season set in soon and violently : it became impossible to work ; sickness overtook the party in common

      with the mass of the diggers ; when Mr . Shaw recovered , he found it was simply to return nearly empty-handed , or to remain and starve if he escaped death by disease . With a resolute will , and a strength of constitution euch aB few possess , he started alone , to walk back to Stockton ; and thence by the permission of some sailors he rowed his passage back to Francisco . There , in ignorance of any handicraft , he lived by hard labour , till he got a sort of waiter's berth at a mission-house

      turned into a tavern , and kept by a Mormon whose sleeping partner was a Romish priest . From this state he was rescued by the offer of a free passage in his old ship , which had been detained for want of hands . This offer he gladly accepted , and sailed tor Sy dney , in the Mazeppa , calling in his way at the Sandwich and Navigator ' s Islands . The misery of avarice amidst all its wealth has been , a theme for poets and moralists ; but the reality surpasses the imagination : a few sentences of our adventurer , nothing what struck him , surpasses poetry .

      It would be difficult to describe my sensation after the first day * 8 ramble in Francisco . I had witnessed so many startling Bights , that had I not been well assured of their reality , I might have imagined them phantasies of the brain : buildings were springing up ' as at the stroke of an enchanter ' s wand' ; valuable merchandise was strewed about in every direction ; men of every costume and colour—Down-Eaaters with sharp-set faces , sallow Southerners , gaunt Western squatters , vivacious Frenchmen , sedate Germans , sturdy English colonists , Califorriians and Chilians , Mexicans , Kanakas and Celestials—hurried to and fro , pursuing their various avocations ; and business to

      an incalculable amount seemed to be transacted . Looking at the rude nign-boards inscribed in various languages , glancing at the chaos of articles exposed for sale , and listening to the various dialects ( spoken , the city seemed a complete Babel . Gold was evidently the mainspring of all this activity . Tables piled with gold were seen under tents , whence issued melodious strains of music ; and the moBt exaggerated statements were current respecting the auriferous regions . But nmiu scenes of profusion and extravagance , ¦ no sign oi

      order or comfort was perceptible , nor did any one appear happy : wan anxious countenanceSi anil restless eager eyes , met you on every side . The aspect of personal neglect and discomfort , filth , rags ; -and squalor , combined with un easiness , avidity , and recklessness of manner , an all-absorbing selfishness , as if each were striving against his fellow man , were cli&ra&teTOtiGS of the gold fever , at once repulsive and pitiable ; and , notwithstanding the gold I saw on every side a feeling of despondency crept insensible over me .

      ¦ FranciBco ' at that time was not the place for 'pausing to think what your right hand could find to do ; you must do something at once , Mr . Shaw followed the examples about

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      him , and began business as soon as he landed his effects : this was his first day and night at San Francisco . , Having landed Our baggage on the beach , findin g we oohW not obtain safe stowage , and that it was not the custom of the country , nor indeed practicable , to retain a superfluity of clothing , fourof us agreed to erect an awning of sheets , and dispose therein of our stock of wearing apparel to the best advantage to passers-by . So , constructing shelves and a counter of stray planks , we emptied our trunks of their contents , and exposed the articles to rieir . i realised by the sale of my personal effects seventy , dollars . The beach around was covered with oaat-off clothing ; ' varnished . . . _

      French boots , satin and silk waistcoats , and similar luxurious but unfit articles of apparel , being diacarded for others of more serviceable and durable materials . Boxes and baggage were perched on the ledges of the cliff , as safe from being pillaged as if they had been guarded ; severe and summary laws against felony deterring the most knavish from stealing . " i ¦ ' One of my shipmates , having a few barrrels of spirits , proposed retailing them in conjunction with myself . Being unable to procure a tent for our temporary grog-store , we run a few posts in the ground , nailing quilts around and above tor oover-» " £ . On che first night of sleeping under our shelter ,. my comrade , who had been drinking in company with some Mexicans during the day , fell

      asleep with a pipe in his mouth ; and at midnight I was aroused by a suffocating Mnoke which filled the place , his clothes having caught fire . In trying to put out the flames , which had reached the quilts , the framework of our " store" came down upon U 8 ; my comrade , completely inebriated , lay on the ground insensible of danger ; so , pulling him by the leg from underneath the burning canopy , I extinguished the fire . I then wandered about till daylight , inwardly resolving never to associate in an undertaking with a man given to habits of intoxication . The morning was bitterly cold , and when I returned my shipmate lay as I left him . The dew and cold had somewhat sobered him , however ; and after sundry admonitions I letfc him . Thus passed my first night in California .

      The summary execution of Lynch-law in certain cases , and the general report of lawlessness , may seem contradictory ; yet they are not so when examined . Taking that which is acquired is promptly punished ; violence to get the means of acquiring is over ' looked ; indeed it was not always safe to attempt to punish it . At the diggings a regular pitched battle took place between two rival claimants to same ground . 'I viewed / says Mr . Shaw , ' the barbarous encounter from an eminence ; at its termination , when 2 visited the field of battle , I was horror-struck at the sanguinary atrocities which had been committed : some men lay with their entrails hanging out , others had their skulls smashed

      with the pick-axe , and bodies lopt with the axe ; while a few lay breathing their last , seemingly unscathed , but shot to death with ballets . " National predilections , however , are the main thing which prompt to execution or stay ifc . During his later sojourn at Francisco , Mr . Shaw found the body of a murdered man whose papers showed him to be an Irish sailor , The Mormon inkeeper advised him to say nothing about it ; before the Alcalde , when he mentioned that tbe wounds had been inflicted by a bowie-knife , the American functionary dismissed him with a similar hint to mind his own business . This is a picture of onesided justice during the journey to the diggings . The scene is Stockton . 1

      About this time there ma a great deal of excitfi * ment respecting the administration of tho laws . It had happened that an Emancipist from Van Diemen ' s Land , ' who had not been cured of his evil practices , had been tempted to steal a ' few articles of little value from a tent ; ft meeting was in * fltantly convened , the case was 8 ununarily adjudicated , and the punishment of death was decreed . Appeals were made for mere ; ; but not even a respite could be obtained for the culprit ; who expiated his offenoe with his life twelve hours after

      it was committed , although a small felony is usually punished by the loss of an ear . I can only attribute this harsh judgment to the enmity which the lower class of Americans have to the British settlers of Sew Holland ; those arriving from Sydney and other parts alike incur the odium of convictism , which naturally engenders a feeling of mutual dislike . The British colonists invariably wore blue woollen shirts , the . Americans ' red ones ; colours thus became a badge of party , and each distrusted and avoided communication with tbe other . '

      A fresh cause of commotion was the arrest and trial of'a young man . of good family from the States , who had wilfully shot a German dead with a revolver . A dispute as to the merits of their respective countries had arisen between them , and the German having passed certain severe strictures upon America , was pitched out of the tent ; he returned to retaliate ; when a revolver wa 8 pointed at him , and on bis ¦ tdrancing , a bullet pierced his abdomen . ; ' ; The place allotted for the dispensation of justice was the hulk of a superannuated brig ; the bulwarks had been raised , and an awning of canvass fore and aft served for a roof ; around the after part , by the taffrail . sat the jurors , wearing beards

      of long growth , roughly attired , and armed with bowie-knives . They were seated in the most uneasy postures , squirting pools of tobacco-juice , and twisting their legs about in contorted attitudes ; seme actually turning their backs to the court . The Alcalde and his lawyer were seated at a table in the centre , and the proceedings were opened by the State counsel ; who was apparently a gentleman , and stated the case , calling witnesses who clearly proved the prisoner ' s guilt . The lawyer for the defence was a character diametrically opposite , and from his peculiarities what would be termed a " popular man ; " one who well understood the national weaknesses of the Americans ,

      and ( knew how to turn them to account . Without attempting to disprove tbe evidence , ho skilfully pandered to tbe passions of his audience ; representing his client as a martyr , who endangered bis life in defending the reputation of the Republic . Such flowers of rhetoric told effectively ; the jury , if they had not made up their minds beforehand , were primed with excuses for perverting justice , and , as was expected , returned a verdiot of " Not Guilty . " Iudeed , such waB the violence outside , that it was rather dangerous to express an opinion on the subject adverse to the culprit ; I was there * fore not surprised at the jury being afraid to condemn him .

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      Misconduct of Pilots The following salutary provision appears in tho Mercantile Marine'Act Amendment , which is now in force : — " Any pilot , in charge of any ghip , who by wilful breach of duty or by neglect of duty , or by reason ! of drunkenness , does any act tending to the immediate loss , destruction , or serious damage . of such ship , or tending immediately to endanger the life or limb of any person on board of such shi p , or who , by wilfull breach of duty or neglect of duty , or by reason of drunkenness ^ refuses or omita to do any lawful act proper and requisite to be done by him for' preserving such ship from loss , destruction , or serious damage , or for preserving any person bolonging to or on board of such ship from danger to life or limb , shall for each offence bo deemed guilty of a misdemeanour . " ' .

      Fbmaib , Convicts . -- The Anna Maria Female convict ship , in charge of surgeon-superintendent M'Crea , at present lying off the Royal Arsenal , Woolwich , has taken on hoard about 200 female convicts , several of whom have their children with them , for conveyance to Hobart Town . The majority of the convicts are of Irish extraction , and mostly from Liverpool . There are two , however , on board , eaoh under sentence of fourteen years ' transportation , in consequence of articles being

      found in their possession whioh they bad received from their male associates of the Uckfield gang , A boy , the offspring of one of these females , was put on board on Tuesday , to accompany biB mother to Hobart Town . The child was born in gaol . . Cornwall ; —An apple was gathered fast week of the kind appropriately called " fill-basket , ' iniihe garden of Mr . Harry , at Vellanoweth , in the parish of Ludgvan , the weight of which wWseventeen ounces , the length four inches , and the circumference twelve inoh . es .

      AppBinAMCB ojf WiNrER . —On Friday morning last the Snowdon range of mountains appeared co « vered with snow . Heavy rain had fallen , during the whole of Thursday , attended in tbe latter part of the day with cold wind from the norUi . ea 8 t . To judge from- present appearances , a sovere winter may be expected . Many who are considered wdather-wise have for some time been prognosticating that such will be the case . ; ¦ ; ¦•• ' \ ' [\' , MmNiom Trains-to the Exhibition , —The . Midland Company propose running midnight trains until the close of the Great Exhibition , giving single , day trips and fifteen hours in London . " ¦ > ' The salary of the Lord Chancellor will shortly be reduced from £ 14 . 000 . per annum to . £ 10 , 000 .

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      Ik vou wriuld know a bad lllisbai ] ( l , look at \\\ i wife's countenance . A Fixed Aim . —There is nothing like a fixed aim ; it dignifies nature and insures success . Coy . —Why are many innkeepers' wives like generals ?—Because they are ruUrt of hosts , Gratitude is the music of the heart , when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness . A Collen-ary Operation . —Sending the Earth , Sun , Moon , Stars , and Planets , all to pot . —Punch . FlR 8 T Rcssian Railway . —On the 15 th of August , the first railway in Russia was opened by a train on the Moscow and Petersburg line . Thbre is nothing more universally commended than a fine day ; tho reason is , that people can commend it without envy . WHY , T 6 m " , my dear fellow , how old yon look !" — " Dare say , Bob , for the fact ia , I never was so old before in my life . "

      Familt Prater . —Robert Hall Baid of family prayer , "It serves as an edge and border , to preserve the web of life from unravelling . " Con . —What difference is there between a bantam cock and a dirty housemaid ?—The one is a domestic fowl , the other a foul domestic . Giving and RscBirxNG . —Digby says it is true that" there is more pleasure in giving than receiving , but he also thinks ifc especially nppli-s to medicine , kicks , and advice ; Caution . —The magistrates of Bristol have fined a man twenty shillings and costs , or three weeks ' imprisonment , for purchasing a return ticket from an excursionist . A Remgioms Robbbh . — ' « Boy , why did you take an armful of my brushwood on Sunday ?"—• ' Why , sir , mother wanted some kindling wood , and I didn ' t like to split wood on Sunday . " ' j Bjsbb in New Zbaxano , —The New Zealand jmrnal announces a novel importation , that of the bee , which has thriven in New Zealand . Native honey is now numbered among the luxuries of the coleny . .. ¦¦• ¦ •• -

      Fashionable Chamtt . — Beggar Woman : " Please , sir , give me a penny to keep me from starving . "—Oem : •« Can ' t stop—in a great hurry-1 ' ve got to make a speech at the Society for the Relief of the Destitute . " CoAiis fob LotrnoN . —The Great Northern Railway promises Londoners cheap coals , if they will only " give their orders . " They state that they can supply the London public with 2 , 500 tons of coals per day . First Australian Railway . —A letter from Sydney , dated Feb . 7 th , 1851 , states that the turf of the first Australian railway haB been turvied . Il IB intended by the company'to carry the Jine as far as Goulburn , a distance of 120 miles .

      An infallible criterion , so far as it goes , of a good inn , is &cleanmu ! tardpot . If tbat is in proper order , you may be sure that tne beds will be well aired , the sheets clean , and all the et ceceras properly looked after . An Irish Advertisembnt . — " If the gentleman who keeps a shoe-store with a red head , will return the umbrella which be borrowed of a young lady with an ivory handle , he will hear of something to her advantage . ' American Oisters . —An importation has recently taken place , for the first time , of several packages of Oysters , by a vessel from New York . These American oysters were found , on examination , to be contained in jars , shelled , and preserved in vinegar and pepper . '

      Widows . —The decision of the Lord Chancellor respecting the extraordinary will of the Duke of Bridgewater , settles the question that widows may marry , irrespective of any restrictions made by tbeir husbands in reducing their dowries , provided they change their weeds . RATHER Awkward—A gentleman , in his eagerness at table to answer a call for apple pie , owing to the knife slipping on the bottom of the dish , found his knuckles buried in the crust ; when a wag , who sat opposite , gravely observed , as he held bis plate ' Sir , I ' ll trouble you for a bit , while your hand ' B Norwegian Railway . —Accounts have been received of the ceremony of cutting the first sod of the Norwegian Railway , which is to run from Christiana to Lake Moraen . Its length is only fifty miles , but it will connect the seaboard of Norway with several hundred miles of inland navigation .

      Mrs . PARTINGTON . — " Really , it ' s bo loodikerus . " exclaimed Mrs . Partington , on bearing of Cardinal Wlfletnah preaching in the streets , " that he should set such a bad eggsampte as to go upbraiding himself about without a hat , instead of which , by going without his shoes he would imitate the epistle of old . ' Smart RkpiX—A gentleman residing in the neighbourhood of Cork , on walking out one Sunday evening , met a young peasant girl , whose parents lived near his house . " Where are you going , Jenny'"said he . " Looking for a son-in-law for my mother , sir , " was the smart reply . Jenny , in fact , was going courting . What is a CoauEiTE ?—A young lady of more beauty than sense , more accomplishments than learning , more charm of person then grace of mind , more admirers than friends , and more fools than wise men for attendants .

      : A Pretty Scale of Prices . —A fashionable portrait painter , whose name it would not be fair to bis many rivals to mention , when asked what are his terms , invariably answers : — " I have no scale of prices . In fact , I generally leave it open to the liberality of my patrons : I have but one rule to guide me in taking likenesses , and that , to be candid , is , 'Handsome is , who Handsome does . '" . Good Advice . —Instruct your son well , or others will instruct him ill . No child goes altogether

      untaught . Send him to the school of wisdom , or he will go of himself to the rival academy , kept by the lady with the cap and bells . There is always teaching going on of some sort—just as in fields vegetation is never idle . A Father ' s Advice . — JeemB , my lad , keep away from the gals . When you see one coming , dodge . Jest such a critter as that young ' un cleanin' the door-step on t ' other side of the street , fooled yer poor dad , Jimmy . If it hadn ' t been for her , you and ye * dad might ba'been in Oaliforney , huntin'dimung , my son . "

      Eakly Rising . —Place a basin of cold water by the side of your bed . When your icst wake in the morning dip your hands in the basin , and wet your brow ; and sleep will not again seal you in its treacherous embrace . This is the . advice given by an aged clergyman , who had been in the habit of rising early during a long life . Large Lunatic Asyldm . —The County Lunatic Asylumn at Colneyhatcn , whicli was apeucd in July last as a supplementary establishment to Han well , contains at" present , 179 male , and 331 female patients . The total cost of the asylum will not exceed £ 300 , 000 . The building has been constructed for the reception of 1 , 200 patients , and is said to be the largest establishment of the kind in Europe . AStoryofthb Confession . —A young man , who , for his sins / was about being married , presented himself for confession , As he appeared rather

      Embarrassed how he should proceed to enumerate his errors . "Come , " said the Abbe G : , kindly , ' do you ever tell falsehoods ? " "Father , I am not a lawyer . " " Did you ever steal ? " •• Father , I am , not a , merchant , " "You never committed murder ? " " Sir , I am a doctor , " consciously replied the young penitent , casting down his eyes . A Brace of Compliments . —The Hon . Edward Everett , when a young man just out of college , was invited to deliver an oration in the city of Salem . At the dinner , Judge Story called up Mr . Everett by the following sentiment : — " Fame follows applause where ever it ( Everett ) goes ! " Mr . Everett rose instantly , and gave the following ;— " The members of the legal profession ! However high may be their aspirations , tbey can never rise higher tnan '* 0 »« £ torv . " *

      How Criminals are Created . —Half of onr criminals are created by bad training at bome ; and the trouble of reforming them is occasioned by the neglect to form tbe parent , educationally . The other half consists of those whose physical organisation , is bad—the bad organisation often resulting from depraved life under a' continued inheritance of misteaching . Thus we continually trace the criminal population that reies society , crowds our gaols , and puzzles our magistrates , to some neglect of education in the parental direction . ' ¦ : ¦ ¦

      Slikp « airing . —The friends of somnambulists should always place iron bars , or , cording , acrosB their bed-room windows , and lock them in their roomB , with a large bell which they might ring in case of illness , &c . Or a strap round the instep , attached to a long cord , tied to a chair or bed post , would be sufficient security , and generally cure them . A person sleeping in the same room , and speaking gently , kindly , and firmly to them , as soon as they are beard to move , will break them of the habit .

      Thb Miraculous Cabbage . —Rose Tangier , the Miracle-monger in France , asserted that Bbe was ordered by Heaven to plant a cabbage in a convent garden , and that in a few days the miraculous vegetable grew to so enormous a size that the whole community dined off it . Vast as this vegetable must have been , Fathef Newtnas , of Birmingham , is ready to swallow the cabbage , and all the community who ate it , and the story into tbe bargain , and to preach without inconvenience afterwards to a select congregation . —/ toneA .

      The Museum of Practical Geology , in JerfiiaHstreet , is now open on Mondays , Tuesday and Wednesdays . No charge for admission . Many objects in this museum are of great intere Bt . and well worthy of inspection . The metals and nrineWk are notonly exhibited in their natural aSS fit also m their ^ applications to the arts of life and raan * g industry . The electrotyped , ¦ . or copper JoSd flowers , are alone worth the trouble 0 R visit . The s ^ r * iS 5 ut 5 are 88 id to ^^^

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      Search foivSib John Franklin * . —The following irnportan ; . letter was received at Ll 0 J' ()* S Oil 5 fl * tUI'dllV : « - " l < V . lix Discovery Vessel , Stranraer , Septi 25 , 1851 —Sir : I am to acquaint you that the American vessels , Advance and Rvscue , after wintering ia the ice in Baffin ' s Bay , put into Godhaven ( Leifle ) , in Disco , sailed thence on the 21 st of June , 1851 . and were spoken off Proven , in Greenland , on tho 4 « n of August , on their way to America , after a fruitless si'arcl ) for the missing ships . They have been sickly , and lost one or two men . bat were now /

      ail wen . i he Danish Government brig Hoalfiskett a u" ^ l K od i D | in com Pany with the Fellr , on the 30 th of August ; was to sail thence on the 10 th o £ September , for Kron Prins Island , and thence to Copenhagen . All well . The Felix parted with all the other discovery ships on the 13 th of August , sailed for Godbaven on "the 2 nd of September , and arrived here this day under my charge . John Ross , Rear-Admiral . R . N . To the Secretary , Lloyd ' s , London . —N . B . No traces of the missing ships were found since'they wintered at Beechy Island , and left it in September , 1816 . " Thk ships bound for Sydney , in New South , Wales , the " nearest port to the Opbir gold regions , arc remarkably on che increase . The General Post * ofilCO 9 . dV 9 rti 86 d on Saturday nearly { wenty vessels by which . letter bags would be sent to Sydney .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 4, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1646/page/3/