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TflE SOUNDS OF IXDUSTilT . BT TJUXCE 5 B . GAGE . I love the bang : n « hammer , The whirring of the plane , The crushing of the busy saw , The creaking of the crane , The ringing of the anvil . The grating of tie drill , The clattering of the turning lathe , The whirling of the mill , The buzzing of the spindle , The rattling of the loom , The puffing of the engine , And the fan ' s continuous boom—The dipping of the tailor'ssheara , The driving of the awl , The sounds of busy labour—Hove , I love them all .
Hove tbe ploughman ' s whistle , The reaper ' s cheerful song , The drover ' s oft-repeated shout , As he spurs his stock along ; The bustle of the market-man . As he hies him to the town , The hallo from the tree-top , As the ripened fruit comes down ; The bu 3 y sound of the threshers . As they clean the ripened grain , And huskers' joke , and mirth , and glee , 'Neatta the moonlight on the plain ; The kind voice of the dairyman , The shepherd ' s gentle call—These sounds of active industry , I love , I love them all . For they tell my longing spirit
Of the earnestness of life ; How much of all its happiness Comes out of toil and strife . Sot that toil and strife that fainteth And murmureth all the way—If or the toil and the strife that groan Beneath the tyrant ' s sway : But the toil and strife that springefch From " a free and willing heart , A strife which ever bringetn . To the striver all hia part . Oh , there is good in labour , If we labour but right . That gives vigour to the day-time , And a sweeter sleep at night , A good that bringeth pleasure ,
Even to the toiling hours-Tor duty cheers the spirit . As the dew revives the flowers . Oh , say not that Jehovah Bade us labour as a doom ; 2 ? o , it is his richest mercy , And will scatter half life ' s gloom ! Then let us still be doing Whate ' er we find to do—With an earnest willing spirit And a strong hand FREE AXD TRUE .
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few responded to it . There was scarcely a true heart left . With despairing eyes ho looked around upoa his recrc . int followers . lie saw that there was no hope of winning them back to their old allegiance ; be felt thai" he was surrounded by traitors and cowards , who were willing to abandon him to his fate . It was idle to strug-le against his destiny . The first bitter pang was over ; he reassuined his serenity of demeanour , and , addressing himself to the Kuzzilbashes , formally gave them their discharge . He then dismissed all who were inclined to purchase Bafety by tendering allegiance to the Shah ; and with a small handful of followers , leaving his guns still in position , turned his horse ' s head towards the regions of the Hindoo-Koosh . Mr . Kayo thus narrates the battle o f Pur . wandurrab , which terminated in the surrender of the Chieftain . few responded to ifc . There was scavcelv a tvuo
On the 2 nd of November—a day which h& 9 obtained a melancholy celebrity in the annals of the English in Afghanistan—the British force came at last in sight of the enemy . The army of the Ameer was posted in the valley of Purwandurrah . The Ifijrow hills were bristling with the armed population of a hostile country . Unprepared for the conflict , Dost Mahomed had no design on that November morning of giving war to the Feringhees . ¦ An unexpected movement precipitated the collision . On the first appearance of the British troops , the Ameer evacuated the village of PurwandviMah and the neighbouring forts ; and was moving off to a position on some elevated ground commanded by a ateep hill to the rearward , when , at the suggestion
of Dr . Lord , the British cavalry were moved forward to outflank the Afghan horse . What followed is one of the most exciting , as it is one of tbe most melancholy , incidents of the Afghan war . It waB a clear , bright morning . The yellow , foliage of autumn glittered like gold in the broad sunlight The opposite hilla were alive with the enemy . The crisp , fresh air , so bracing and invigorating to the human frame , seemed to breathe confidence and courage . Dost Mahomed , who , since his defeat at Bameean , had been often heard of , but never seen , by the British troop 3 , and who seemed to elude the graap of the Army of . Oecupation V \ k& an igni » fatuus , was now actually within their reach . It ought to have been an hour of triumph . It
was one of humiliation . The Afghans were on the hills skirting one side of th «> pass ; the British troops were on the opposite declivity . Dost Mahomed saw our cavalry advancing , and from that moment cast behind him all thought of retreat . At the head of a small band of horsemen , strong , sturdy Afghans , but badly mounted , he prepared to meet his assailants . Beside him rode the bearer of the blue standard which marked his place in the battle . He pointed to it , reined in his horse , then snatching the white lungbi from his head , stood up in his stirrups uncovered before his followers , and called upon them in the name of God and the Prophet , to drive the cursed Kaffirs from the country of the faithful . " Follow
me , " he cried aloud , " or I am a lost man . " Slowly , but steadily , the Afghan horsemen advanced . Tbe English officers who led our cavalry to ^ the attack covered themselves with glory . The native troopers fled like sheep . Emboldened by the craven conduct of the British cavalry , the Afghan horsemen rode forward , driving their enemy - before them , and charging right up to tbe position of the British , until almost within reach of our guns . The Afghan sabres toid , with cruel effect , upon our mounted men . Lieutenants Broadfoot and Crisp were cut to pieces . A treacherous shot from a neighbouring bastion brought Dr . Lord to the ground ; and the dagger of the assassin completed the work of death . Captains Frastr and Ponsonb . v , whose gallantry has
never been surpassed even in the annals of old Roman heroism , still live to show their honourable scars ; and to tell , with mingled pride and humiliation , the story of that melancholy day . In front of our columns , flaunting the national standard , the Afghans stood for sometime Blasters of the field , and then quietly withdrew from the 6 cene of battle . Sir Alexander Burnes , awed by this disaster , wrote to Sir William Macnaghten that there was nothing left for the force but to fall back upon Caubul , and implored the Envoy there to concentrate all our troops . Sir William received this letter on the 3 rd of Kov ., as he was taking his evening ride on the outskirts of the city . His worst forebodings seem to be" confimed . Little did he know what thoughts were
stirring in the breaBt of the Ameer . Dost Mahomed in the very hoar of victory , felt that it was hopeless to contend against the power of the British Government . lie had too much sagacity not to know that his success at Purwaudurrah must eventually tend , by moving tbe British to redouble their exertions , rather to hasten than to retard the inevitable day of his final destruction . He quitted the field in no mood of exultation , with no . bright visions of the future before him . He had won the last throw , but the final issue had ceased to be a matter of speculation . Tie hour hi which , with dignity and grace , he might throw himself upon the protection of hi 3 enemies , now seemed to have arrived . He had met the British troops in the
fleld , and at the head of a little band of horsemen had driven back , the cavalry of the Fewinghees . His last charge had been a noble one ; he might now retire from the contest without a blotch upon his name . So thought the Ameer ; as was his wont , taking counsel of his saddle . Sone knew in the British camp the direction he had taken ; none guessed the character of his thoughts . On the day after the victory of Purwandurrah he was under the walls of Caubul . He had been four-and-twenty hours in tbe saddle ; but betrayed little symptoms of fatigue . A single horseman attended him . As they approached the residence of the British Envov , they saw an English gentleman returning from his evening ride . The attendant gallopped the
forward to satisfy himself of the identity of rider and being assured that the Envoy was before him , he said that the Ameer was at hand . " What Ameer ? " asked Macnaghten . "DoBt Mahomed Khan , " was the answer ; and presently the Ameer himself fctocd before him . Throwing himself from his horse . Dost Mahomed sainted the Envoy , and said he was come to claim his protection . He surrendered his sword to the British chief ; but Macnaghten returning it to him , desired the Ameer to remount . They then rode together into the Mission compound—Dost Mohomed asking many questions about his family as they went . A tent having been pitched for his accommodation , he wrote letters to his sons , exhorting them to follow hia example and seek the protection of the British government . He Beemed to have become reconhe saidto
ciled to his fate . lie had no wish , , escape . Porce , indeed , would not drive Mm to abandon the refuge he had voluntarily sought . With Macnaehten he conversed freely of hia paat history ; and Tawed , by the recital alike of . his doings and his sufferings , the strongest feelings of admiration and compassion in the Envoy ' s breast . Every effort was made to soothe the Ameers feelin "S ; and he soon became serene and cheerful . A report that it was the design of our government to banish him to London , disturbed his equanimity for a time ; but he was soon reassured by the promises of the * Envoy , and began to look forward with hopefulness to a life of repose and security in the British dominions . A prisoner , but a honoured one , in tbe British camp , Dost Mahomed remained some ten days at Caubul , during which time all the leadire officers of the garrison paid him the most
marked attention . Men who kept aloof from Shah Shoojan , as one to be religiously avoided , were eager to present themselves " before the unfortunate Ameer , and to show " that they respected him in his fallen fortunes . He received his visitors with courtesy , and conversed with them with freedom . Seated on tbe ground he desired them to be seated ; and seemed to take pleasure in the society of the brave men who did him honour . A strikinff feature in Mr . Kaye ' s book is
the manner in which he points the fate which seemed to dog the whole of the unjust proceedings , and finally overwhelmed their authors . Never was groundless and unprovoked injustice accompanied by snch harassing successes , and overtaken by such prompt destruction . ? For the King ' s offence the people died' is an old story ; but in this case punishment , even if Inadequate , overtook the responaible author . This is Mr . Kaje ' s description of the Governor , probably from authentic private information , when the news of the insurrection first
reached Calcutta : — The blow fell heavily upon Lord Auckland . An wniable gentleman and a well-intentioned statesman , he had made for himself many friends ; perhaps ihere was not in all Calcutta at that time , even amongst the most strenuous opponents of the policy which had resulted in so much misery and disgrace , one who did not now grieve for the suffering ' s of him whose errors had been so severely visited . Had it fallen . it any other time , it would not have been so acutely fait . But It came upon him at the close of his reign , when he could do nothin" to restore tbe brilliancy of his tarnished reputation . He had expected to embark for Engand successful ruler had
land a happy man a . He , as he thought , conquered and trariquilized Afghanistan For the former exploit be had been created in earl" aid the latter would have entitled him to the honour . It is true that he had drained the treasury of India ; but he belived that he was about to hand over no embryo war to his successor , and that , therefore , the treasury would soon rcnlenisb itself . The prospect was sufficiently cheern » ard he wag eager to depart : but the old year wore to a close , and found Lord Auckland pacing , with a troubled counti-nance , the spacious apartments of Government House-found him the most luckless of rulers and the most miserable of men . i ¦
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i > evor was statesman so cast down—never was statesman so perplexed and ' bewilHered . ' The month of December w ; is one of painful anxiet ) — Of . . boding fear—of - embarrassing uncertainty . There was do officicial information from Caubul . The private accounts received from Jellal . tbad : > nd Peshawur , always brief , often vague and conflicting , excited the worst apprehensions without dispelling much of tbe public ignorance . In this conjuncture , Government were helpless . The Caubul force , cut off from all support , could by no possibility be rescued . Tbe utmost rigour and determinationthe highest wisdom and sagacity—could avail no-Xevw was sKitpsm-m » net ><^ n _ na ' rni < n ^
thing at such a time . The scales had fallen from the eyes of the Governor-General , only to show him the utter hopelessness of the case . In this terrible emergency , he seems to have perceived , for the first time , the madness of posting a detached force in a foreign country , hundreds of miles from our own frontier , cut off from all support by rugged mountains and impenetrable defiles . Before a single brigade could be pushed on to the relief of the beleagured force , the whole army might be annihilated . Clearly Lord Auckland now beheld the inherent viciousness of the original policy of the war , and , in sorrow and humiliation , began to bethink himself of the propriety of abandoning it .
As time brought with it disaster upon diBaBter , though tbe fatal end was not yet reached , Lord Aucklandis described as sinking into despondency , even to the extent of y ielding to the disgrace of withdrawal under defeat . And such a confession of weakness Lord Auckland was inclined to make . He seemed to veel and stagger under tbe blow—to be paralyzed and enfeebled by the disasters that had overtaken him . Hiscorrespondenceatthia time betokened such painful prostration , that some to whom he wrote destroyed , in pity , all traces of these humiliating revelations . It was vaguely rumoured too , how ,
in bitterness of spirit , he passed long hours pacing by day tbe - spacious verandahs of Government House , or by night cooling his feverish brow on the grass-plots in front of it , accompanied by some member of his hottsi&cAu endeared to him by ; ties of blood . The curse brooded over him as it was brooding over Elphinatone and Macnagtten , darkening his vision , clouding his judgment , prostrating his energies—turning everything to teeule-1 ) 633 and folly . New tidings of disaster—misfortune treading on the beels of misfortune—came flooding in from beyond the Indus ; and the chief ruler of the land , with a great &rmy at his call , thought
Wily of extrication and retreat—thought of bringing back instead of pushiug forward , our troops ; of abandoning , instead of regaining , our-position . Fascinated , as it were , by the great calamity , his yes were riveted on the little linij of country between Caubul and Peshawur ; and he . did not tee , in his eagerness to rescue small detachments from daDger , and to escape the immediate recur * rence of new disasters in Afghanistan , that the question now to be solved was one of far greater scope and significance—that it was not so much whether Afghanistan were to bo occupied , as whether India were to be retained .
: The final end—the abandonment of Afghaniatan—must have been reached under any circumstances ; but the disgrace and destruction was undoubtedly owing to the appointment of General Elphinstone b y Lord Auckland , in opposition to advice ; and this , as Mr . Kaye observes , was needful to that great lesson which Nemesis was on the watch to teach . Whether the general political conclusion has been reached—that tho public Bhould not permit diplomatists and ministersto involve thenation in unjust ware with Impunity—may be doubted . Impolicy , imprudence , incapacity , were all conspicuous in the Afghan war ; but never was the proverb touching the best policy better illustrated—common honesty would have prevented all .
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Tracts by Christian Socialists . Labour and the Poor . A Clergyman ' s Answer to the Question * on what grounds can you associate with men generally ? London : Bezer , 183 , Fleet Street . These two tracts are useful additions to the series we have already noticed iu these columns . The first is reprinted , with a few alterations , from ' Frazer ' s Magazine , ' and there is ample evidence of its having proceeded from the vigorous pen of the author of ' Alton Locke . ' Dealing with the question to which Mr . Henry Mayhew , by his inquiries and revelations , attracted public
attention so strongly ,. it is natural that Mr . . Kingeley should have made liberal use of the facts brought to light by that investigation . But in doing this , he does not fall into tho weakness of merely retailing at second hand statements that everybody knew before hand . The subject is placed in a new and more forcible aspect by the graphic and fervid style of the writer , by his hearty sympathy with the sufferers , and the comprehensive and p hilosophical manner in which he deduces general conclusions . Here is part of a picture of the Metropolis , which is truly designated ' stranger , sadder , tembler than all fintinn' !—
Look at the Spitalfields weavers , " formerly the only botanists in the metropolis , " possessing , within the memory of living man , an Entomological Society , a Horticultural Society ! an Historical Society , and a , Mathematical Society , all maintained by the operatives , —bringing forth a Dpllond , a Simpson , and an Edwards ; and then , in tho courBe of this very half century , Beting their wages cut awav from them year after year , falling from 14 s . 6 d /( average ) iu 1821 to 7 s . in . 1839 , and to 5 a . Od . in 1849 ; till the second or third rate weavers are found living twenty-three persons in a house ; tasting sometimes animal food once a month , while they produce maroon coloured velvets " for ladies
to wear and adorn them , and make themselves handsome . " Look at the three-thousand labourers BonflYing every morning at the London Pock-gates for a single day ' s hire of half-a-crown , and if failing of admission , still waiting In the yarda by the day long , on the chance of earning M . an hour if wanted for some stray ship , —the average earnings of the whole class not exceeding 5 s . per week throughout the year ; whilst an easterly wind will throw 7 , 000 out of employ , or , with their dependents , 20 , 000 Look at the slop-work tailors , the men receiving 3 s . 6 d , for the ooats they made at 6 " s . Id , two years ago , —sometimes eating , drinking , sleepingworking in one room , as many as ever the
, room will contain ; the women earning at the best from 4 s . Gd . to ob . per week , let them sit from eight in the morning till ton at night , and paying out of that la . 6 J . for trimmings and 6 d . candles every week , so thac altogether they earn about 3 s . in the six days , —hopeless oreatures , that " never knew a rise , but continual reductions 1 " Look at the shirtmaker , making shirts for 2 s . a dozen that were 3 s . 6 d . eight years ago : her usual time of work " from five in the morning till nine at night , winter and summer ; " when there is a press of business getting up often at two or three in the morning , and " carrying on" till the evening of the following daymerely lying down in her olothe 3 to take a nap
, of five or ten minutes , for " tbe agitation of mind never lets one lie longer ; " and for all this toil earning on an average 2 s . lOJd . per week , or 2 a . clear , after deducting cotton and candle , —a hopeless creature , too , that " never knew them to raise the prices J" Look at the waiatcoat-maker , —her average earning from 3 s . to 4 s . a week , out of which , all deductions made , she has about Is . lOJd . to lire upon : she , too , one who has found " prices continually going down , " and " never know an advance , " and yet knows persons " who get even lower prices than she does ; ob , yes , a great deal low&r ! " Look At th < & W 6 fkers for the awtty-cl&lhlfei * .
—the one working for the soldiers and marines , and receiving 8 d . for jackets that fourteen years ago used to be Is . 4 d ., for , " you know they lower them always , " earning 2 s . a week on an average , and finding her own thread ; the other , working for the convicts , earning 3 a . a week when m full work , and having to deduct thread and candles , " which is quite-half ; " whilst of the trowsersstitcher " the most Bhe ever earned was < m . a-weeK , and that her girl helped her to a good wt . After pileing . fact upon fact of a similar and worse description than the preceding , the writer in a burst of not unnatural indignation at a ' system which produces " bucIi horrible
results , says : — On the first perusal of such statements the question scarcely arises in any one s mind , Must cuese things ba any longer ? so mighty is the inner voice that cries ,- " Thest ' iiust sot be 1 " And if any one should so far allow his conscience to be juggled by his intellect , or smothered by hia indolent self-love , as to sigh and say , " These evils are necessary ones , —they are the natural results of competition , and competition is the liiw of human society ; tins is what I bare to answer ,- " If it bo necessary in English society , that from thirteen to fourteen thousand females should in London be engaged in slop-work , earning on an average traopouoe-ttaiipenny a day , of whom one fourth , being those who have no husband or parent to support them , have no choice but between starvation and prostitution ,
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if this be necessary , I say , in English society , then English society is the devils' own work , and to holl witn it as anon as possible !" . There is , however , the better alternative of mtiking society truly a Partnership , iu which the good of all would be promoted by the union of all . That is the object , to promote winch tho Christian Sociulists are now labouring . _ The othertract is , we believe , from the peno Professor Maurice , of King ' s College , and will well repay perusal , not only from the adniirablo style in which it is written , but the light it incidentall y throws upoa the ( structure of societ y in this country , and the influences . ; ,.. _ . ; ' _ . _
which separate class from class , and trammel even the wisest and best of men in their endeavours to pass over the great gulf which divides them . At first sight , it would seem to be a sarcasm to ask such a question as that put by Professor Maurice . Of all men in the world , a clergyman ought to be the most unexclusive in his associations . If the Gospel he preaches be universal in its application , and really a gospel of brotherhood , he is bound , as a faithful exponent of its spirit and practice , to communicate freely with his fellow men . If Socialism , or Infidelity , or Romanism , are erroneous or injurious , the way to neutralize their evil influences is not
to hold aloof from those who profess these opinions , but the contrary . The Professor has ably worked out the different phases of thought and experience , by which a young clergyman graduall y arrives at the conclusion that he must' meet men on a human ground—on the broadest ground possible , ' and not upon any sectarian basis . In the following passage we have the very pith and marrow of Christian Somlmnv—The conviction has been brought homa to some of us with terrible force , that while religious men are disputing on what ground they shall unite , as member of an Evangelical Alliance , as Engli 9 h Churchmen , as Romaniststhe great body of
, Englishmen is becoming utterly indifferent to us all , smile grimly and contemptuously at OUT controversies , believe that no help is to come to their sufferings from any of us . All our denunciations , compromises , ecclesiastical arrangements , middle ways , mean to them absoluiely nothing . Our words and phrasG 9 touch no want of which they are conscious , excite in them ao fears , kindle them to no hopes . But are they without fears and hopes ? Thore never was a time in their history when both were more awake . They fear that they are sinking , that they shall sink more and more , in the scale of animal existence , in the scale of human existence . They hope to work out for themselves some new
condition of things which shall be better than any which they or their forefathers have ever known There is reason enough for their fearB , Day by day they feel more certain that each man among them is engaged in a fearful struggle with his neighbour for the means of existence ; day by day they are told that this ia as it should be , that this struggle is the great law of society which can never be re > pealed , which must go on acquiring fresh strength from each victim that is sacrificed to it , from eaoh fresh creature that 13 born into the world . Thus experience and theory are continually supporting and illustrating each other . They have a sense of sinking , of being crushed down by the material resources of the country , by its mechanioal powers ,
and they are told that all this is according to an eternal destiny . A chain of circumstances which they cannot break , is binding them in ; the attempt to break any link of it is ridiculed as idle ami unless . The sottishness which accompanies despondency , which is sometimes the consolation of solitude , sometimes the effect of a craving for sooiety , and which must always be looked for whore any causes have destroyed domestic life , helps to degrade the man still further , to make his body as unhealthy and feeblo ns hia spirit . Here are influences which are at work to drag the English labouring man into a very deep pit . But he has hopes of escaping from it , dreams of a world quite different from the one in which he is living , a " new
moral world that nifty be created for him , a world where there shall be order and not anarchy , fellowship not rivalship , where intellectual improvement shall be possible , where the physical powers shall have their proper development . Ho ha 9 a dream of this Kind , which he believes that certain new arrangements of society would enable him to realise . The dream at nil events makes him a more energetic man , ashamed of acts which turn him into a beast , inclined to feel more for his fellows , and with them . It seems therefore as if it would be a very sad thing to bo obliged to tell him that such speculations are utterly monstrous , that they can have no foundation in experience or reason , that he must be whafc he was before he had them , and what the great body
of his neighbours actually are . It would , I say , be a very grievous thing that this should he necessary ; and yGt people who never agree upon any other matter , think that it is necessary ; religious men and worldly men , nigh Churchmen , and Economists think that it ia their first duty to prove to work * ing men that there is no better order of things possible in this world than that which is established upon a principle of perpetual strife ; that they , to be sure , if they are good or prudent men individually may save themselves from the wreck and ruin , preserve decency , ultimately perhaps keep a pig ; but that the notion of a better social state is wild and fanatical , one which only fools would entertain , or Knaves encourage . The plea with religious men
for adopting this view of the case , which , would strike one at first as very dangerous and immoral is , that these plans of society are not based upon religion , and therefore taat no good can come out of them . Now , I admit at once—I have admitted already—that so far as the propounded of these systems know , there is nothing religious in them at all , that they have been set up in despair of any help coming to the most pressing necessities of the time from its religious teachers . I admit further , that the originators of these systems have , for tho most part a positive dislike to us , the religious teachers of the land , and would dispense with us . I admit further , that the system which they would fain see established ia an Atheistic system , built
upon the worship of circumstances and not upon the acknowledgment ot a . Divuio Will . These may be reasons why Christian ministers should allow this scheme to work wlthont any notice or interference of theirs—why they should tremble at it , rave at it , deny the facts which give it all its power ; these may bo reasons why we should go on debating and arguing about points which the majority of our countrymen cannot understand , and in which they take no in crest . But these may also be reasons why we should solemnly reflect upon the thoughts which are occupying working wen , should seriously consider whether these thoughts and all the social difficulties which have called them forth are not divine signs and intimations to us , compelling hs to consider the meaning of our own words and professions , urging us to reformation , pointing out a better path to union than any which we have devised .
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Ths light of a rope is perfectl y harmless . Life-like . —A painter in Cincinnati has painted an eagle so natural that it lays two eggs a day . Profane Histobt . —An old lady " objected to givins her son a collegiate education , after learning that " profane history" was one of the studies . How can you express in lour unita that food ig neceasarj ? for man ?— 1 , 0 , 2 , 8 . One—ought—to eat . —Punch . A Gallant . —There ia a young man in Toledo who has grown round-shouldered through bending ever go much to kiss the girls , who are rather short in his neiglibeurhood , Turkish La . w . —So necessary at one time was coffee considered by the Turks , that the refusal to supply it in a reasonable quantity to a wife wa » reckoned among the legal oauaea for a divorce .
Parental Advice . —A shrewd old gentleman once said to his daughter , "Be sure , my dear , that you never marry a poor man ; but remember , the pooreBt man in the world is one that has money and nothing else . " Settling Accounts . —A man advertises for a wife , who can settle accounts . We reckon that there are quite a number who wouW like a wife who could settle their accounts . At least it is more than they can do themselves . Adversity . — Adversity exasperates fools , deject * cowards , draws out the faculties of the wise and induitrious , puta the modest to the necessity of trying their skill , awes the opulent , and makes the idle in-Quntrious .
Prune and SoDBn . —On b reoenk trial , a witness was asked as to the rationality of Joseph Buckley . " When Buckley was sober , "he said , "he was very sensitive—as sensitive as any other man i but when drunk he *» s very much exaggerated . " Legal Kkfinemknt . —A coroner ' s jury having sat on the body of a young lady who hung herself in consequence of disappointment in love , returned a verdict—Died by the visitation of Cupid . Thee Tory '' Morning Herald" has become a convert to the necessity of a new Reform Bill , avowedly on the ground of the delinquencies elicited by the St . Alban ' s Br ibery ( JammisB ^ n . Tub Worst of British Bloombrism . —We do not feel much alarmed by the probability that
Britannia will leave off her pettiooats ; but the news from Kaffir-land makes us seriously apprehensive that she may give up her Cape . —Punch . Queer Lodgings . —A writer , giving an account of the Boston jubilee , of which he declares himself an eye-witness , describea the night ' s lodging thus : — " Twenty in a room , and three in a bed ; besides thousands in baby-jumpers hooked to the limbs of trees on the common . " Mr . Hobbs . —Iu consequence of the success of Mr . Hobbi as a picker of "locks , " he has , we believe , been consulted on the subject of one or two mysterious " holtg" that have lately been made bj periodb rather overburdened with pecuniary liabilities , —/ tone /* .
Thb Holidays of Lawmakers . —The "Connecticut Courant" Bays ;— "The English Parliament , the oldest of constitutional bodies , adjourned to attend the Derby races ; the Legislature of California , the youngest , adjourned to witnesg a bull And bear fight . " The AldBhman ' b Advice to his Sow . —Air Gobble : — "Yousee , Sam , you are a werry young man ; and when I am took away ( which , in the common course of events , can ' t bo werry long fust , ) you will have a great deal of property , i » ow , 1 have only one piece of advice to give you . It '» this —and by all means act upon it : —Lay down plenty of port in your youth , that you may have a good bottle of wine in your old ago . " —Punch .
A Rbsponsb . —The " Star Spangled Banner " says that , not long since , in South Carolina , a clergyman who was preaching on the disobedience of Jonah when commanded to go and preach to the Ninevites , exclaimed in a v » ice of thunder , that passed through the congregation like an electric shuck , ' and are there any Jonahs here ? " There Wag a negro present whose name was Jonah , who , thinking hiraielf called on , immediately arose , and turning up his white eye , with his broadest grin , replied , "Here be one , Massa . "
IsqRatiiudb . —Garrick applying to Lord Rochford to appoint a Mr . Glover , a surgeon in the Essex militia , says— ' He is a most skilful , worthy man , a good writer , and a steady friend to government . I have known him long , he is much beloved , and the worst thing I ever heard of him was , that , by his skill in hl 8 profession , he recovered a thief , after he had hung half an hour , and which thief , before he had healed the circle the rope had made , picked Glover ' s pocket by way of gratitude , and never thanked him for his good ofiees . "
Lump em . —A young Wesleyan student recently occupied , on Sunday morning , the pulpit of one of their chapels in Manchester , and in Ilia prayer he prayed for the Queen , Prince Albert , and each of the Royal babes by name , then proceeded to theDuchessof Kent , aud got as far as the King of Hanover , when a blunt , honest countryman , who huppened to be a worshipper , tired of this lo » g catalogue , cried out aloud " Lump ' em ! lump ' em J" A hearty " Amen ' . " from the congregation testified how feelingly they entered into thecouutrrman ' s request , to the surprise and confusion of the " man in black . "Ooncaster Chronicle ..
A Surprise . —A buxom Parisian widow recently married a youthful poet . After the wedding she took him aside , and , iu a . penitential tone , begged hie for giveness for having deceived U \ m in declaring that her income amounted to t . vo thousand franksa-year . "And you haven ' t it ? " asked the poet ; adding , after a pause , " Well , it's of no consequence—don t trouble your head about such a trifle !"— "But , you misunderstand me , " said the bride , " I only mis-stated the amount—it is twenty thousand ! " The account states that the poet pardoned her , the other way , with equal facility . '
Da . ng . er of Buying Game toom Hawkkrs . — Tho Metropolitan licenced dealers in game have formed themselves into a society , to put down the unlicensed sellers , and officers are employed by them to carry the law into force . One of the clauses of the Game Act enforces a penalty of £ 5 on any person purchasing game / rom an unlicensed dealer ; and during the last few days , at the instance of these officers , Beveral parties have been fined for so buying . The penalties were , however , reduced , as they did not know that they were committing any offence . Husband and Wife should run together on an equality ; it is dangerous for either to take the lead . The most difficult driving ig that of a tandem !
IUsty TrtouoHTs . —Be not too ready to pronounce that what you think a bad youth will necessarily became a bad man . Yonder sturdy oak may have grown from an acorn that had been rejected by a hog ! Logic—A gentleman asked a country clergy * man for the use of his pulpit for a young divine , a relation of his . " I really do not know , '' said the clergyman , "how to refuse » ou ; but if the young man could preach better than me , my congregation will be dissatisfied with me afterwards , and if he should preach worse , I don ' t think he ' s fit to preach at all . "
Pork Chops for a Horsb!—At Rotherhara Statutes , on Monday week , a gentleman who wanted a feed of provender for his horse , sent his servant man with a shilling to buy some " chop " for a bait . The simple fellow , unused to stable parlance , went ; to a pork-butcher ' a shop , and invested the whole ( shilling in pork chops , with which he hastened back to his master and the hungry horse . A "VVisbacbk . —A countryman horn a parish in the neighbourhood of Banff , on his return from the Great Exhibition , astonished a native who had not been ao far travelled , with the observation , "lsaw , man , in the British Museum , a lot o' beasts , but they were only stuffit with straw and pob ; and I Ban the lavie beasts &' leevin' when I went to the Theological Gardens in the Regent ' s Park . '
A Thikjt Detector . —A remarkably simple but certain detector of thieves has been invented by Messrs . Biddle and Company , of St . John-street , Cterkennrell . It consists of a double-shaped wedge , andean be placed to windows , shutters , or doors , charged with an electric ball , and upon the slightest pressure a report bb of a . pistol takes place , at the game time defying entrance . It is also 10 constructed that a wax taper cun be affixed to the wedge , which , on the explosion , will ignite .
Hixr to a High-Flying Lawter—The late Judge Peace of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio , waaa noted wag . A young lawyer was onoe making his first effort before him , and had thrown himself on the wings of his imagination into the seventh heaven , and was seemingly preparing for a higher ascent , when the judge struck his rule on the desk t » o or three times , exclaiming to the astonished orator , " Hold on , hold on , my dear tir . Don ' t ^ o a ny higher , for you are already out of the uriBdicdon of the court . "
Gas . —Since the establishment of the Great Central Gas Company in London , the price of gas throughout the city has been reduced from 9 s . to 4 s . 6 d . per thousand cubic feet . The consumption of gas has increased from 45 , 000 , 000 to 750 . 000 , 000 feet . A dividend of 7 i percent , has already been declared , and a promise held out that 10 per cent ., on all . the capital paid up , will be returned to the shareholders before the company is eighteen months old . ACROSTIC , DESCRIPTIVE OF THE SEVEX WONDERS OF THB WORLD . W atch Tower of Ptolemy . ' O lympian Jupiter ' s Statue . , N ebuchudnezznr of Babylon ' s Gardens . )) iuna ' s Temple of Euhesus . E gyptian Pyramids . ; U nodes , itsCelossus . S epulchre of Mansalus , King of Caria .
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History tfihe Tf ar in Afghanistan . By . J . W . Kate . Two vols . London : Bentley . Our readers will recollect the disastrous and disgraceful sceues of which Mr . Kaye presents in these volumes the fullest history that lias yet appeared . During its continuance , an entire Indian army was sacrificed in an aggression , which terminated in signal and ignominious failure , and the nuances of India were impoverished for years by the expenses incurred . The author of this history , though , not like many previous writers on the subject , personally engaged in the war , "has bad advantages over all his predecessors , in conse * qaeuce of the ample original materials of the most valuable kind placed at his disposal .
He has had before him the journals or me * 2 sorandnm 3 of General Elphiuatone , Brigadier Stelton , and other officers engaged in the disasters of Caubul , as well as documents of a more public and official character ; garbled extracts of which , and often , shame to say , falsified versions , have appeared in the blue books . The documents , indeed , do not lead to absolutely new conclusions on the Bubject of the war . The Duke of "Wellington and other public men heat acquainted with the East censured the policy as soon as it was announced , and predicted an unfortunate conclusion ; the false pretexts on which it was based—the
utter want of public honesty , or rather the downright wickedness of the measure—were palpable on the face of it . A fuller and more inward , light 13 thrown upon the subject by Mr . Kaye ' s original matter . The plain , uuafiected , and amiable private character of many of the men engaged , is well brought out in these letters , and some of them possess a biographical value . The public phase is of a graver and sadder cast . The absence of all idea of justice , right , or
iuman feeling , in Lord Auckland ' s confidential and irresponsible advisers—the manner in which they regarded life and possession but = as couuters with which to play a game ^—are distinctly exhibited . The new documents , moreover , show their ignorance of the game they had undertaken , and the wild dreams they indulged in ; for some of them projected the ' occupation of Herat , and a great movement , a sort of propaganda , in Central Asia , extending to Bokhara and Khiva .
The great merit of the history consists m its traeiug , from first to last , the events , errors , and mischances which produced at last % catastrophe never to he forgotten in the annals of our Indian Empire . At the present moment , when we are engaged in anotherthough smaller—war of aggression on the tribes of South Africa , it is interesting to trace the -way in which this country is involved in these shameful and expensive transactions by subordinate or ambitious officiate ; aud almost simultaneously with the
appearaucoof tho work , there has been promulgated , by authority , a scheme for removing the seat of Government from Calcutta to Simlah , where the Afghanistan war was planned . This scheme is accompanied by , other intimations , which render a second war with the Affghans extremely probable ; and we , therefore , may , erelong , have a repetition of the lamentable tale here told by Mr . Kaye . From such a work we can only give a few extracts not of a continuous character . Here are two uictures of the hero of the history , Dost
Mahomed , at two eventful periods : the one , H 3 last attempt to defend his capital ; the other , his surrender when overwhelmed by adverse fortune : — All hope of negotiation was now at an end ; and Dost Mahomed , with resolution worthy of a better fate , marchceii out to dispute the progress of the invaders . At the head of an army in which the seeds of dissolution had already been sown , he moved down upon TJrghundeh . There he drew up his troops and parked his guns . But it was not on this ground that he had determined to g ive tho Feringhees battle . The last stand was to have been made at Maidan , on the Caubul river—a spot the
natural advantages of which would have been greatly in his favour . But the battle was never fought . At Urghundeh it became too manifest that there was treachery in his camp . Tho venal Kuzzilbashes were fast deserting bis standard . Tbere -sras scarcely a true man left in his ranks . Hadjee Ehan , Khankur , on whom he had placed great reliance , had gone over to the enemy , and others were fast following his example . Thus *** the flrisis of his fate . He looked around him , and saw only perfidy on the right hand and on the left Equal to the occasion , bat basely deserted ^ could the Ameer do ? KeTer bad the nobility of his natnre shone forth more truly and more lustrously . In the hour of adversity , wheri all were false , he was trne to his own manhood , into he
tho Midst of his own perfidious troops roue , with the Koran in l . is hand , and there called upon his followers , in the names of God and the Fropnet , not to forget that they were true Jlahomedanb BOt to disgrace their names and to dishonour theij religion , by rushing into the arms of one who baa filled the " countty with infidels and blasp hemers . He besought them to make one stand , like brave sen and true believers ; to rally round the standard of the commander of the faithful ; to beat back the invading Teringhees or die in the clorious attempt . He then reminded them of his own claims on their fidelity , You have eaten my salt , " be said , " these thirteen years . If , as is ' too plain , you are resolved to seek a new master , grant me but one favour in requital for that long liuriod of maintenance and kindness—enable me ° t 6 die with houonr . Siaud by the brother of Futteli Khan , whilst ho csventes one last charge against the cavalry of these rvrhlKhie dO"S : in that onset he « -iil foil ; then go and make ycur own terms with Shah Soojah . " The noble spirit-stirring appeal was vainly uttered ;
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The North Walks Mussei Trade . —A very re . munerative trade is springing up in Korth Wales , originating in the more extensive working of the various fisheries along the coast . The whole of the seaboard of this part of the country abounds with fish of every description , which until very recently was caught and sold only for local use , but the opening of the Chester and Holyhead Railway appears to have opened a new market iu the northern and midland districts . It will scarcely be credited that during the last two months no fewer than 330 tons of mussels have been sent per rail from Conway to Manchester . This large quantity of shellfish was packed up in bags , sixteen of which made a ton ,
and were disposed of at the rate of from Is . 6 d . to 2 s . per bag . Employment has thus been afforded to a large number of men , women , and children , for eren the latter have beon ongaged in tho colleotiou of the fish on the shore , between high and Ionwater mark , and there can be no doubt that in a short time the valuable and hitherto neglected fisheries on the Welsh coast will be-fully , and profitably worked , affording to a number of small coasting uessels regular employment and adequate remuneration . Oyater dredging is now carried on to a great extent in Cardigan-bay , there being seventeen vessels employed , which average eaoh 1 , 000 fish per day , and this large number is chiefly sent to the Liverpool and Lancashire markets ,
Municipal Elections , —Dobmn ;— -The elections , to fill the vacancies in the Town Council of this city—caused by t ! ie retirement of fifteen members , were held on Tuesday in the sevoral wards ,- Four onJy were contested , tte rest re-elected the outgoing members . The only remarkable struggle was between Sir Edward M'Donnell and Mr . Chas . Gavin Duffy , proprietor of the " Nation . " The young Irelander was defeated . Mr . Sweetman , the brewer , was again defeated in Merchant ' s Quay Ward , on this occasian by Mr . Dennehy . Mr . French Ttas returned for Montjoy , and Mr . N . Hone for FHzwilliam Wards .
Mb . Dsraeli . —The " Daily Express ' - ' of Wednesday states that it is the intention of Mr . Disraeli to oppose the government scheme , for screwing the amount of the famine loans out ot the broken-down landholders of Ireland . Tbe-hon . member feels the vuiustke that these heartless Whigs would perpetrate , and there is no doubt that if he comes to the rescue Iveltvnd vritt be saved from the grievous infliction threatened her .
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. Iso Iiioio I'Ills Nor Any Otlii'igdi'iigs. ' 30,0110 Cukes }Iy ' Iiu " J5a»Ny's D E V A L _ N T A A B .-V B1c A F O 017, ¦*•« A Ple.-Isant Ami Effectual Vcmeilv (Wiihuut Medicine,
. iSo iiioio I'ills nor any otlii'igDi'iigs . ' 30 , 0110 CUKES } iY ' iiu " j 5 A » nY'S D E V A L _ N T A A B .-V B 1 C A F O 017 , ¦*•« a ple .-isant ami effectual vcmeilv ( wiihuut medicine ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 29, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1654/page/3/
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