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      . IQYE'S FAIRY RING . Let Titans war with social Jove , My own sweet Wife and I"We make Elysium in our lore , And let the world go by ! gore never hearts leapt tali 10 light With crowned queen or king ; 0 never world was half so bright , As i 3 our fairy-ring , Dear Love ! Our hallowed fairy-ring

      Oar world of empire is not large Bat priceless wealth doth hold : A night and day , link marge and marge , Bat what rich realms they fold 1 And clasping all from outer strife Sits Lore with foldeawing A broad o ' er dearer life-in-life , Within oar fairy-ring , Dear Love ! Our hallowed fairy-ring .

      We ve known a many sorrows sweet ! We ' ve wept a many tears . And often trade with trembling feet , Our prilgrimage of age : Bat when our sky grew dark and wild AU cloielier did we ding : Clouds broke to beauty as you smiled—Peaoa crown'd ourfairy-ring , Dear Love I Oar hallowed fairy-ring .

      There , lean your gentle heart on mine , And bravely we'll bear up : Aye mingling Love ' s most precious wine , In Life ' s most bitter cup ! And evermore tbe circling bours Borne gift of glory br ing . We live and love Tike happy flowers , All in our fairy-ring , Dear Love ! Our hallowed fairy-ring , Away ! ' grim lords of Murderdom ! Away—0 Hate and Strife : Hence—revellers reeling drunken from Tour feast of human life : Heaven shield our little Gosben round

      Prom plagues tbat with them spring—0 never be their footprints found Within our fairy-ring , Dear Love ! Our hallowed fairy-ring . Bat come ye , who the Truth dare own , And work in Love ' s dear name ; Gome all who wear the Martyr ' s crown—The Mystic ' s robe of flame ! Street souk a Christless world doth doom , Like birds smote blind to singfor them we'll aye make welcome room Within our fairy-ring , Dear Love ! Our hallowed fairy-ring . Gerald Massbt

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      Lord George Bentinch A Political Biography By B . Disraeli , M . P . London : Colburn & Co . Lord G . Bestinck was a political meteor , and Mr . Disraeli tries to convert him into a fixed star . In the . Parliamentary history of this country , few things have been more surprising than , the sudden emergence of a man eminent only on the turf , from the obscurity of the back benches of the House of Commons to the leadership of a great party , and the almost sudden extinction of that leadershi p by death , on his way to a dinner party in the midBt of the fields , to whose rural charms and pure air he had retired in ordec to recruit himself after the labours of a hard-working session .

      Nobody but Mr . Disraeli could have written such a biograph y . The great motive power which impelled Bentinck to action was his strong personal feelings . He did not understand the first princi ples of Political Science , and never studied statesmanship , or politics as systems . But he hated Peel because he believed he had ill-used Canning ; and he had , in an unusual degree , the prejudices of the landed aristocracy , and their instinctive repugnance to anything that interfered -with their territorial and political predominence . The impulsive fearlessness of his nature , his sirong passions , English ' pluck' and detestation of what he thought ' foul play , ' made him a Godsend to the Protectionists at the moment they were deserted } j all then-recognised leaders . The ficion of a dncal

      Jiouse—titled , wealthy , and connected with the land , he was the beau ideal of a leader for them in their then position and whatever may be thought of the ability with which he discharged the duties of the position , there can be none as to the untiring industry and earnestness he brought to his task . In fact it killed him . It -was impossible to see him session after session without seeing that his frame—powerful as it was—was giving way nnder his protracted and

      severe exerfaona . Shortly before the termination of toe session which was so soon after followed by Ms death we passed him at Whitehall , and were struck with the sunken and dull appearance of his eve , and his once clear and ruddy countenance . There can be iio doubt of . his self-devotion to the cause which ho embraced , , nd his career throws a powerful light on the position of men placed in such positions " No one took a more modest view of his powers than himself . Leadershi p was thrust upon him , and what he deemed public duty alone impelled him to accept the perilous position . His chief disadvantages arose SS ^ I !? *™ > «**« ? ^ tendency to sleep afthe had taken food

      er . During his mortal straggle against Free Trade , he breakfasted at Harcourt iiouse earl y on the morning .-received deputations and visitors till twelve ,-sat in Committee until the bpeaker took the chair , _ and did not dine until long ? , rt V eems cl <* r t o us , however , though Mr . Disraeh is sparing of details , that the ^ i ^ T ^ ff P revion 8 lyJed *? Lord George must have strained his powers andiuduceda tendency to apop exy or to heart disease . He knew that his political exertions were sealing his fate . More than once he was heard to say- 'In this cause I have lrt ££ » *«** ***»> «* his

      en be au ^ ° COarse P ^ late * noWe ^ end ' hotiW **? v ° ,. ? arl in debate ' attended the aKSd&ffl - n asenat « . te Possessed a great Sd H -a ^ ? ' * > iewed with in <*« st £ « . n extraordinary regard by every sporting man SSiftT - m - h aImost a 11 oftheSB he w « acquamted ; SJ . S on el « ier side , were his intimate companions and confederates . His ea Ser and energetic disposition ; his $ uck perception , clear iudsment . and nromnt d <* Uim .

      tedSZrt T- * WcU h ° ° S t 0 his options his S , It . ° f truth ; his d « ing and speculative spirit , h . s lofty bearing , blended asit was with a simplicity S thflfi ^ ff rem le ; fhe «* " * of to friends ^ even the fircenessof hishatesand prejudices ; all combined £ fe ° nn > ° ? T ' Cbaracte " ^ atever may S& . P ™ ? mast always direct and lead . Mature had S 2 ui Srfl ? r spiri ? with a material *> " » which SSl ^ t ? harm * ° ? , with it 3 noble and command ng SfSS * 8 'f *"• « markable for his presence h « countenance almost a model of manly beauty ; his face Sy and wMftf 011 Clear a - ? - d ""^ the forehead the JSS- r I the nose acqudine and delicately moulded : SatuS'P ; ? h or * - Bat * W 38 in the dark-brown eye the aS mLT ? ? i erciDg - scraUny tbafc a 11 tbe «*» " «*» of 2 JJ ? a ? f m ? forth ; abrilliantglance , notsoft , butardent , Sed pen 0 U 8 ' ^ capable of deception or of being

      ae-¦ H , 1 rge ' 3 ^ eeches read a great deal better ~ they were heard > Hq posseH 8 ed the rav material of an orator , but it was not cultivated in early life . He came into the field too late in life to conquer his consequent want of facility . His action ^ ^ jp ^ H Hs enunciation somewhat broken , contused , and hesitating ; but you always felt that he S ^ f ^ ^ ty personal-investigation with the facts he urged upon the attention of * us Hearers , and , though you might feel that the pMosoph y of these facts was abovi bis comprehen-2 fST-Z ? doubt of Ws sincerity and nu-JJf * ?^ 111111 tt e opinions he propounded . It was luese . uifact , which constituted the great charm of aLtt « PUbKc Ufe > *** many of higher public SSSSSoJ lack * " * ^ ht &e a MeM 18 Vl

      from ^^ ° fi P ^ yM , as may be expected SurJ ^ ^***** * man » one long laudation of W ^ T /^ y ^ ' Kwnonewthingfor us to TarL \ * - ' . J ^ efrom him . According to his theory , EJ ? w ^ -mwaig power of political and par-Si ^ We ; w iihout thorough wrdial party op-SS S ? V emotion in theTpolitical Corn T ^^ hist 01 7 o *«» Kepeal of the ^ Laws which gives a new version of that yet aBDaronl ^ V ? ^ P of his elaborate attempt at lSbS ^ ff" ? . thelate Si * Robert Peel , the party Ued wth wI"ch he hunted and baited the great

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      statesman in his life time pursueB him to the grave . ' Hers is his introduction of the present Prime Minister , apropos of the race , to settle the Corn Laws between riyal . atateimen , after . tJie . / . League' had ripened the question : — ! ;; ;; j " : ' \ The position of Lord John Bussell durinjj ^ the last admi nistration of Sir Robert Peel was a mortifying one . Every public mall is prepared to ; endure ' defeat with the same equanimity with which heshouldbear more auspicious fortunes ; but noone likes to be vanquished unfairly . It ; was tbe opinion of Lord John Russell that he had not been fairly treated by t he triumphant opposition ! which had ousted him from the Treasury bench . He was indeed too reserved and too justly proud , a man to give any vent to these feelings in the heyday of Conservative exultation .

      But the feelings were not less lively ; he brooded ; over them with the pain' which accompanies the -sense of injustice . Session after ; session , while his policy was ap propriated in detail by those who had often condemned or misrepresented it , the * frigid manner often veiled an indignant spirit and the cynio smile was sometimes tbe signal of a contempt which he was toojhaughty to express . But when the honr of judgment had arrived , and when he might speak of his feelings with becoming dignity , in giving the reason why at the beginning of 1846 , when summoned by his sovereign , he had at first respectfully declined the commission of her Majesty to form a government on account of his weakness in the House of Commons , be added :- "I need not now explain why it was . that ; in the House of

      Commons those who in general agree with me . in opinion ) are inferior in number to those who generally follow the right honourable baronet ( Sir Robert Peel ) hut I must say , on this occasion , that during the whole of our administration , our motives never received a fair construction , nor did our measures ever receive an impartial' consideration from those who were our political : opponents . " This is a grave charge , applying as it does to a very eventful period of nearly seven years , for suoh was the considerable duration of the Melbourne government . ; ' Was tbe charge well-founded ? In reluctantly admittingUb authenticity , there are however , in justice to the Conservative ministry , and equally in justice to the Conservative party , several important considerations to be indicated . < I <

      After assigning the course of Whig politics ending in the Licbfield House compact . as the cause of tbe bitter opposition to the \^ higs , the writer carries on hia narrative to the end of 1845 ; and thus describes the circumstances under which Lord John Russell wrote the famous epistle that will be known in history as his ' Edinburgh Letter . 'In or out of power , therefore , the position of Lord John Russell since the Reform Act has been more splendid than satisfactory ; and when thp Whig party , as was inevitable from their antecedents , but , apparently to hisWrtifioation , in consequence of his guidance , was again overthrown , and had lost all credit and confidence with the country , it was to be expected that a . man . of his thoughtful ambition would seek whan the occasion offered to rebuild his and

      repower new the lustre of his reputation with no superstitious deference to that party of which he was the victim as much as the idol , and with no very punctilious consideration for the feelings of that Conservative government , which bad certainly extended to him an opposition neither distinguished by its generosity nor its candour . Suoh was the man ; and such his fortunes , such perhaps his feelings ; who was watching in a distant c > ty in the autumn of ' 45 " four Cabinet councils held in the ' week . " To one so experienced in political life , and " especially ., to one so intimately acquainted with the personal character of the chief actors , it was hot difficult to form some conclusion as to

      the nature of' these momentous deliberations . When tha Cabinet dispersed and Parliament waa again prorogued , it was evident , to use a subsequent expression of Lord John Russell , that the policy decided on was a polioy of inaction . It is in the season of perplexity , of hesitation , of timidity , of doubt , that leading minds advance to decide and to direct . 2 fow was the moment to strike . And without consulting his party , which for the first time he really led , and with no false delicacy for a Conservative Cabinet in convulsions , he expressed bis opinions on public affairs in that celebrated Edinburgh epistle , which was addressed , on the 28 th of November , to his constituents , the citizens of Londonl

      It is contended subsequently , at great length and with much ingenuity , by Mr . Disraeli , tbat the Whig leaders deeply regretted the Edinburgh letter because it prevented the settlement of the Corn Question upon a moderate fixedduty . He cites the printed , speech of Lord Palmerston , saying that alow fixed , duty would have been a preferable settlement , —mentions the efforts of a deceased Whig peer , in 1846 , to bring about a unioa between Lord G . Bentinck and Lord John Eussell , —and argues that but for the Edinburgh letter the moderate duty would have been certainly passed , and Peel thrown out by the junction of the Whigs , the landed interest and the Irish Members . .

      It is quite clear that Mr . Disraeli himself believes that this might havebeen thecaBe . But it matters little now to this country . The repeal of the old protective sy stemmustbe accepted by all parties as unfait accompli . The duty of the practical statesman is , in future , to adapt our other institutions to the new principle adopted . We have already alluded to the relentless manner in which Mr . Disraeli persecuted and attacked Sir RobertPeel during his life . Here is the portrait he draws of him after his death , in which , through an affectation of candour , the clear-sighted reader will discern all the old rancour . We omit some passages to suit our space .

      Mature had combined in Sir Robert Peel many admirable parts . In him a physical frame incapable of fatigue was united with an understanding equally vigorous and flexible . He was gifted with the faculty of method in tbei highest degree , and with great powers of application , which were sustained by a prodigious memory , while he could communicate his acquisitions with clear and fluent elocution . . Such a man , under any circumstances , and in any sphere of life , would probably have become remarkable . Ordained from his youth to be busied with the affairs of a great empire , such a man , after long years of observation , praotice , and perpetual discipline , would have-become what Sir Robert Peel was in the latter portion of his life , a

      transcendent administrator of public business , and a matchless master of debate in a popular assembly . In the course of time tbe method which was natural to Sir Robert Peel had matured into a habit ofsuchexpertness that no one in the despatch of affairs ever adapted tbe means more fitly to the end ; his original flexibility had ripened into consummate tack ; his memory had accumulated such stores of political information that he could bring luminously together all that wa 3 necessary to establish or to illustrate a subject ; while in the Bouse of Commons he was equally eminent inexposition and in reply ; in the first , distinguished by his arrangement , bis clearness , and his completeness ; in the second , ready , ingenious , and adroit , prompt in detecting the weak points of his adversary , and dexterous in extricating himself from an embarrassing position .

      ThHs gifted , and thus accomplished , Sir Robert Peel had a great deficiency ; he was without imagination . Wanting imagination , he wanted prescience . No one was more sagacious when dealing with the circumstances before him : no one penetrated the present with more acuterieUB and accuracv . His judgment was faultless , provided he had not to deal with the future . Thus it happened through his long career , that while ho always was looked upon as the most prudent and safest of leaders , he ever , after a protracted display of admirable tactics , concluded his campaigns by surrendering at discretion . He was so adroit that he could prolong resistance even beyond its turn , but so little foreseeing that often in the very triumph of his mar . cevres he found himself in an untenable position . And so it came to pass that Roman Catholic Emancipation .

      Parliamentary Reform , and the Abrogation of our commercial system , were all carried in baste or in passion and without conditions or mitigatory arrangements . ' ; Sir RobertPeel had a peculiarity which is , perhaps , natural with men of very great talents who have not the creative faculty ; he had a dangerous sympathy with the creations of others . Instead of being cold and wary , as was commonly supposed , he was impulsive , and even inclined to rashness . When be was ambiguous , unsatisfactory , reserved , tortuous , it was that he was perplexed , that he did not see his way , that the routine which he had admirably administered failed , him , and that his own mind was not constructed to create a substitute for the custom which was crumbling away . Then he ' was ever on the lookout for hew ideas , and when he embraced them he did so with

      eagerness , and often with precipitancy ; he always carried these novel plans to an extent which even their projectors or chief promoters bad usually not anticipated ,-as was seen , for example , in the settlement of the currency . Although apparently wrapped up in himself , and supposed to be egotistical , except in seasons of rare exaltedness , as in the years 1844-5 , when he reeled under the favour of the Court , the homage of the Continent , and the servility of p arliament , be was teatty deficient in self-confidence . Ihere was always some person representing some theory or system exercising an influence over his mind . In : his ' sallet days'it was Mr . Homer or Sir Samuel Romilly ; w If- and more impor tant periods , it was the Duke of Wellington , the King of the freneh , Mr . Jones Lloyd , some others , and , finally , Mr . Cobden . After tracing the manner in which this peculiar temperament influenced his career , and the history of this country through a succession of political crises , Mr . Disraeli proceeds : —• "' . ¦' ., ' . " , " ... ' ' . ' . :

      Sir Robert Peel had a bad manner , of-which he was' sensible ; he was by nature very shy , but forced early iu life into eminent positions he had formed an artificial manner , haughtily stiff or exubera ntly bland , of which generally speaking he could not divest himself . There were , however , occasions when he did succeed hv this , and bnthese , usually when he . was alone : with an individual whom he wished to please , his manner was not only unaffectedly cor * dial but he could even charm . When he-was ridiculed by his opponents in ' 41 as one little adapted for ! a Courtj-and especially the ; Court of . a Queen ; those who knew ; him well augured different results from his high promotion , and they were right . But generally speakiug he was never at his ease and never very content except in the House of Commons . Even there he was not natural , though there the deficiency wis compensated for by his unrivalled facility , which passed current with the vulgar eye for the precious

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      quality for . which it waa'sabsfituted . ' ' Hetfad& ' btained ^ complete ) control ^ overohta ^ epiper < hvthioh ,: wa 3 ; 'byj nature Bomewhatfiery .. His dispp » ition wa 8 good ; ithere jw « . nothing . petty about ; him ; he was . venr .. free ; from / rancour : nil ' W' ^ - !^ .. ^ T »^ l > ttf . * Bt' : Sa ^ Vt ^ perMriMI ( tJ and still raoroi-perha'b 8 , ; by ; diHoipUne , he % s 6 veinriagnani > . mOU > . - "; ''!" J ' ¦'• ' - v •¦ - . " ' . ' ¦ ; 'I sj . 'TJu . ' ' /! ¦ ' fJ ' iT '/<¦ , ' , [ : _ .. .. ( ., ; -For « o . yery' clever , a man ( hewar , deficient in . the knowledge , of hurrtan natore .,,-iiThe Jpro 3 Rerous , X'outine' of bis ' , y ?« th was - not ^ ypuraWe to tbeifcvelownen ' t ofthisfaouityl Parliament , it is remarkable that SirRobert Peefnevetfre- ' presented »¦ popular ' constituericy w- 'itopd ' s ? coriteBted elec . ' 'tiony . ' -Ashe : advanced'in lifeihe * was-always ; absorbed in thQught , ; and abstraction ; is not friendly ; to a perception of haracter fine

      c , . or tq ; a ; appreciation $ the circumBtanceVdf the hour ., ... , . "' '' , ' "> ¦' , - <> jt -t ; As an orator Sir Robert Peel had ! perhaps , ' : th ' o most available talent that has ever been brought to' bear in the flouso of Commons .- We have mentioned ; that bbth in exposition , and ¦ : in reply ; , he was ; equally . eminenti , ( His statementa were perspicuous , complete , and . dignified , ; wheii he combated the objections o ^ oriti . oised the ' propositions of an opponent , be was , ' adroit and a ' oute ; no ' speaker ever sustained a process'of argumentation in a public 'assembly more lucidly , and : none as debaters have united jniso conspicuous * degree ; -prudence . with ; promptness ; iln the higher effort . B of oratory he was not sucoeasful . His voca ^ bulary was ample and . never mean ; but it was neither rioh nor rare . His speeohes will afford no sentiment of surpassmggrandeur or beauty that will linger in the ears of <

      coming generations . He embalmed no great political truth in immortal words ., His flights , we . re ,, ponderous ;; he soared with the . wing . of , the ,, vulture rather , than the plume of an eagle ; and his perorations when raOBt . elaborate we ' re most ' unwieldy . In pathos he' was quite deficient ; when heattempted to touch the ¦ tender pasBions , if was ' painful . . His face became distorted , like that of * woman who wantsto crybatcannotBUcqeBd . :. Orators certainly should not shed tears , but there . are moments , when , as the , Italians Bay , the voice ., should yreep .. The- / taste of Sir Rob . erif : Peel was highly cultivated ; but' it waai not oritfinally'fi'iie ;' be had no wit ; buthe badakeen sense bf the ridioulousand a ' n ' abundant vein of genuine 'humour . ' -Notwithstanding bis artificial reserve , he . had ajhearty and ; a merry , laughs and sometimes his mirth was uncontrollable . He . waa gifted with ah

      admirable organ ; perhaps , | the finest tbat has been heard in the -house / in our days , ' u ' nleSB ' f e '" exc ep ' fr thei tteifling'tones ' of 0 Connell . Sir Robert ' Peel also modulated'his voioe with great skill . --His enunciation was very clear , ' though somtwhat marred by : . provincialisms . His great deficiency , was want of nature ,: which made him often appear even . with a good cause more plausible tha ^ poriuaaive , and ' m 6 re specious than conyincing . He may "be " said to have' oradually infroduced a new-style into the House of Commong which was suited to the age in whioh he ohiefly flourished , and to the novel elements of the assembly whioh he had to guide . He had- to deal with greater details than bis predecessorB , and he had in many instances to address those who were deficient in , preyiou 8 knowledge . Something of the lecture , therefore , entered into ' his displays . This style may be called the didactic . ; ' ..,,. '

      Sir Robert Peel was a very good-looking man . He was tall , and tho . ugh of latter years he had become portly , had to the last a comely presence ., ' Thirty years ago , when he waB yottngrandlijihe , with curling brown hair , he had a very radiant expresaioh of countenance . His brow was very di 8 tinguiahed , not so mnoh for its intellectual development ; although that was of a very high order , " agi for its remarkably , frank expression , , so different from his oharacier in life . The expression of the brow might even be said to amount to beauty . ' .. The rest of the features did not , however ; sustain ' this impression .- The eye was riot good ; it was sly / arid he had ah awkward habit of looking askance ; He had the fatal defect also of a long upper lip , and his mouth wascompressed . ; i

      One cannot say of Sir Robert Peel , notwithstanding his unrivalled powers of dispatching affairs , that he was the greatest Minister that this country ever pro ' duced ; bHcause , twice placed at the helm , and on the second oooasion with the Court and the Parliament equally devoted to him , he never could maintain himself in power .: Jor , notwithstanding bis consummate Parliamentary taoties , can he be described as the greatest , party leader that erer flourished among us , for he contrived to destroy the' rf . ost cdmpaot , powerful , and devoted' party that ever ¦ followed a British statesman . Certainly , . notwithstanding hiss great Bway in debate ,-we cannot recognise him as our greatest orator , for in many of the supreme requisites of oratory he was singularly deficient . But what ho really was , and what posterity will acknowledge him to have been , is the greatest member of Parliament that ever lived . ' vr ' , Peace to hia ashes ! : His name will be often appealed , to in that scene which beloved so wellj and never withont homage even by his opponents . . ; '

      Our readers may judge of the sincerity of the ' requiescat in pace' by the following passage , descriptive of the feeling with which he ? and his party regarded the late statesman at the timebf their great struggle against the traitor ' . # The large majority in the House of Lords h ^ d extinguished in many hearts the lingering hope that the ministerial measure might be defeated . Vengeance , therefore , had succeeded in most breasts to the more sanguine sentiment . The . field : was lost , but there should be retribution at any rate for the men who had betrayed it , &c . &c . Then he lingers fondly on the final scene in which the fall of the Minister was accomplished . . ! - ;

      At length , about half-paat one o ' clock , the galleries were cleared , the division called , ' and the question put . In almost all previous divisions ' where the fate of a government had been depending , the vote of every member with scarcely , an exception had been anticipated : that , was not the case in the present / instance , and tbe direction which members took as they left their seats was anxiously watched . ' More than pne hundred protectionist members followed the minister j more than eighty avoided the division , a few of these however had paired ; nearly the same number followed Lord George Bentinck . But it was not merely their numbers that attracted the anxious observation of the treasury bench as the . protectionists passed in defile before the minuter to the hostile lobby . It was impossible that he could have marked them without emotion :

      the flower of that great party which bad been so proud to follow one who had been so proud to lead them . They ¦ were men to gain whose hearts and the hearts of their fathers had been the aim and exultation of his life . They had extended to him an unlimited confidence and an adinivation without stint ; They had stood by him in the darkest hour , andhad borne him from the depth 3 of political despair to the proudest . of living positions . Right or wrong , they were men of honour , breeding , and refinement , high and generous character , great weight and station in the countryi which they had ever placed at his disposal . They had been not only his followers but his friends ; had joined in the same pastimes , drank from the same cup , and in the pleasantness of , private life bad often forgotten together the cares and strife of politics . He

      must have felt something of this while the Manners , the Somersets , the Bentincks ; the Lowthers , and tbe Lennoxes , passed before him . A ' ndthose country gentlemen , " those gentlemen of England , " : of whom , but five years ago , the very same building was ringing with his pride of being the leader—if his heart were hardened to Sir Charles Burrell , Sir William Joliffe , Sir Charles Knight , Sir John Trollope , Sir Edward Kerrison , Sir John Tyrrell , he surely must have had a pang , when his eye rested on Sir Joha Yarde Buller , his choice and pattern country gentleman , whom he had himself selected and invited but six years back to move a . vote of want of confidence in' the whig government , in order , against the feeling of the court , to instal Sir Robert , Peel in their stead . They trooped on : all the men of metal and large-acred squires , whose spirit he had

      so often qniokened and whose counsel he had so often solioited in his fine conservative speeches in Whitehall gardens : Mr . Bankes , with a parliamentary name of two centuries , and Mr . Christopher from that broad Lincolnshire which protection had ereated ; arid the Milefles ' and the Henleys were there ; and tho Duncorabes , the Liddels , and theTorkes ; and Devon had sent there tbe stout heart of Mr . Buck—and Wiltshire , the pleasant presence of Walter Long . Mr . Newdegate waa there , whom Sir R 6 \> evt hud himself recommended to the . confidenco of the electors of Warwickshire , as one of whom he had the highest hopes ; and Mr . Alderman Thompson was there , who , also through

      Sir Robert's seleotion , had seconded , the assault upon tie whigs , led on by Sir John Buller But the list h too long ; or good names remain behind , * * The news that the government were not only beaten , but by a mejority so large as seventy-threei began to circulate . An incredulous murmur , passed it . along , the- treasury , bench . . " They say we are beaten by s ' eventy-threp ! " whispered the moat important member of the cabinet in a tone of surprise to ¦ Sir RobertPeel . Sir Roberi did- not reply or even turn his head . He looked very grave , and extended his chin as was his habit when he was annoyed and cared not to speak , He began to comprehend his position , and that the emperor was without his army . . ; . , ..

      On the subject of Sir Robert Peel ' s susceptibility on occasions like thiB , Mr . Disraeli tells the following anecdote , referring to another debate : — It was about this time , tbat a strange incident occurred at the adjournment of the ' house . The minister , plunged in profound and perhaps painful reverie , was unconscious of tbe termination of the proceedings of the night , and remained in his seat unmoved : 'At that period , although with his accustomed and admirable self-control he rarely evinced any irritability in the jcohdiict ' of parliamentary business , it is understood '' , th ' ati under' less

      publiccircumstances , he was anxious and , much disquieted . His coU ieagues , lingering , for awhile , followed the other members and left the house , and those onwhom ,- from the intimacy of their official relations with Sir Robert Peel , the oflSce of rousing him would have devolved , hesitated from some sympathy ^ with his janusuaLsuscettibility to perform that ; duty , tbougntneyremained * watching their chief behind the Bpeaker ' s . chair . The benches had become empty , the lights were about to bo extinguished ;; ifcjsa duty of a clerk of the house to . examine the chamber , before the , doors are closed j and tonight it was also the strange lot of this gentleman to diiturb the reverie of a statesman . . i '

      "We must try to find room for the most pathetic and best written passage in the w . hole iyolmnne : " --the description of Mr . O'ConheH ' s last appearance in the House of Commons : — He sate in an unusual place—in that generally occupied by the leader of the opposition , and spoke from the red box , convenient to him from the number of documents to which he had to refer . Hib appearance was of great

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      i ^ bility / and ^ thfc ^ oneg of W » -Toice were ^ eri-s ' tiil ' ' 'fliV . i Wfik jteWfflfe Jf « fi ? M ^ OM ^ Mkew / jmrne diatelT . arouqd , him . and . the mmfsteM sittmeion the other ^ r ! . V mgreen fatye ^ nd 'liVteriitfg ' wiftInal wteS and r « ^ pWe ? ul'ment 4-whioH'b . eca me' % ookS * Ti ™ : i : » trange - and itouohing spectacle to those who 'fgmemb ^ ed [ the form of . colos « alenergy andthe clear and thvilline toi ^ , tfiat hadonce . startled , ^ disturbed , arid , JcontroJled > senate ? ^' •^ ConnelLwas ' M his . legs . fjr nearly two i houvs ) assisted oeo&gionaU ; m the management of bis donummiti * bymedevtitedaide-de ^ a ^ 4 o the ^ w " e' ^ - ¦ : was ^ performance of dumb showi & feeble oldinVn inutteriing beforeia tablo ; ibutTegpectJfor the great parliamentary 'peripnagekopt allorderlraSilfthe . fortunes of a bartvhiini

      uponhisrhetoriojand . though not an , accent reached the g ^ J ? , ryi means' were taken that , next niprhing ' the country should nbt'lose the last and hbt ' thB Uirti I ' ntereiting of the speeohes of ofiewnohad so long Occupied and agitated the mind of nations . ; This remarkable address ' was an abnegatio . n . ofith . e o Whole . policy : of . Mr . ; O ' . ConnelKs career . It proved : by , a , mass of . authentic evidence ranging ; over a long term of vears , that Irish outrage was the consequence of physical misery , and that the social evils of that country could not be successfully encountered , by : political remedies . To oomplete the picture ; it conoluded with a panegyric : of : Ulster and a patriotic quotatiou from ' Lord Clare . . . , : <

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      Tales of / the : . Mountains' , ; ¦ or-Sojourns in Eastern . ' Belgium . 2-vols . London : Pickering . This book contains two tales ; the first o f which called , ' The Mountain Home , ' seems designed to point the moral of ; such truisms as these—that a man with an . income will . not rise , to eminence at the bar ; that success in life requires the ;¦ : qualities of resolution , hardness , and the like , as weU as of intellectual capability ; and that a man who lives abroad on the plea of cheapness misses many comforts and advantages , even , if he attains his end ; ¦ This is done in a fresh and ; living ¦ manner , with a good deal of judicious : remark on character and life , expressed in a scholar-like style and with touches of -pleasantry . The framework of the story runs thus / Mr . St . Clair , agentleman of family : with eight hundred a year , it » by various circumstances induced to withdraw

      from the . pursuit . of legal fame ^ and retire to the ' mountauiflV in the neighbourhood of Liege , to economise and educate his family wellandcheaply . It cannot be said that he fails . His chateau and grounds ' are delightful , ' the neighbourhood is beautiful , provisions are . : cheap , his income is more than sufficient ; his time , is occupied-with gardening , -field sport , study , the education of his Bons , and varied by occasional visits , especiall y of the friend who writes theibook . But though all is smooth and outwardly happy ; it will ; not do : St . Clair inwardly longs for native scenes ; , native manners , and old familiar faces . To bring about this desirable result without offending St . Clair by- appearing to do so , is the end of the action ; and though many of the persons , scenes , and occurrences , do not very coherently contribute to the denouement , it is attained at last . There is much that is sterling In the following remarks : —

      ¦ It is very seldom irideedthat weread in the histories of eminent professional men , that the top step in the ladder of preferment is reached by those whose progress is impeded by such a weight as ei ght hundred a year , or anything like it in their breeohes pockets . The jockey that rides lightest ( mum panbusj has the best chance of arriving first at the winning post ; and * if we consult the annals of our most gifted lawyers . and physicians ( to divinity the argument will not so well apply , ) we . shallsee that Turkey carpets , softsettees , and dainty fare , have rarely been the preenrsors to the woolsaok or the President ' s chair . Arid this accounts for the fact that judicial honours are not hereditary—that no man has less chance of being a judge than the son of a ludge ; and why ?~ The : fathermmintnr ) tn tho inn tick « f

      the ladder , by dint of patient plodding perseverance : pres-81 n gpn , progressively , . step , by , step , despite , every . discouragement ; keeping his . ne ok steadily to the collar , straining every . iierve , heart and soul ; applying himself to the uphill task before him , till ; perfect in' the art of climbing , he surmounted . every difiicuHy , -and . reached the honoured goal of his ambition . " ,. * , But not only did he work hard ' ; he ' fared sparingly , was humbly lodged and plainly clad ; rose early , and did not begrudge the midnight oil ; denied himself , for the sake of those beloved objects at home , whose welfare and advancement were no less precious to him than hi 3 ownever

      , y luxury ; not an idle shilling did he spend ; for was not more than every shilling . sorely taxed for chambers' ront , and those most trying but indispensable costs , the costs of circuit . When was he ever absent from his post ? It was a marvel to : himself sometimos , how he got from town to town ; " but there he was . nay ; w . ould have pledged all he had in the world—and Bella parted , I verily believe withont a sigh , with Jthe . beautiful silver tea-pot , sugar basin , anil creamjug , her kind aunt Charlotte ' s present on l . ier marriage , and which next to her husband and children she prized seemingly above everything on earth—rather than he should be absent at assizes .

      Such wa 8 the father ' s plan and progess . Tho son ' s career commences under brighter auspices ; . he is the child of luxury , rolls in the lap of indulgence ; is splendidly lodged , daintily fed , and elegantlj attired ; keep * fashionable hours , has a footmnn at his call , and a carriage to take him round the Park when his health requires an airing ; and though he show his faoo in court but three times a T , veek , and barely a friendly . brief reward his constancy on circuit , there is a good dinner , a luxurious bed , a happy homo , and approving smiles to greet him , all tho same . He may be a first-rate scholar , a prize-man , adutiful son , an affectionate brother , an exemplary member of society ; but he must have studied the six first books of Euclid to little advantage , he muafc be but slightly versed in the rationale of cause and effect , if he delude himself into the fond belief that such superfine qualifications , per ss , compose the Btuff of winch a judge is made .

      A ghost story , when brief and probable , has always an interest ; and here is one , told by Mrs St . Clair during a discussion upon the topic , caused by a ' ghost' having been seen about the grounds of the chateau . Borne years ago , being on a visit to a near relation at Rookwood in Oxfordshire , and not choosing , from slight indisposition , to make one of their picnic fishing party to a beautiful park lake some few miles off , I sallied forth , towards the close of the evening , to enjoy a solitary stroll round the extensive grounds and shrubberies of the old manor-house .

      Night was fast coming on ; but the delicious coolness of the air , after a sultry August day , induced mo to prolong my walk later than usual . For no assignable cause , I had been conscious all day of an unusual depression of spiritsa gloom had been hanging over , my thoughts that I could neither account for nor shake off . An undefinable apprehension of approaching calamity—that mysterious foreshadowing of impending evil—those inexplicable "hints and pressings of the mind , " as De Foe calls them , which , for aught we know , may be , as he says , " the converse of spirits and the secret communication between the embodied and the unembodied , " permitted by Providence as warnings and preparatives—bad haunted my imagination for some dajspast . ¦ . . ¦ ¦ But I was determined no longer to give way to such ridiculous phantasmfl , and was debating in my mind wliethev to proceed through a wicket atthe extremity of tho shrubbery

      that opened into a beautiful wood walk , and so , by a circuit ous path , gain the highroad , by . which I should probably meet my friends returning from their excursion , or retrace my steps to tbe house , when I thought I saw a tall white figure moving at a short distance among the trees . I was not one to give wajy generally speaking , to imaginary fears ; but most own my feelings at this moment were nofvery . creditable to my courage and usual presence of mind , on which . I piqued . myself . Insensibly I quickened my steps' aa I heard the old turret-clock toll nine . It was almost dark , and , in spite of all my fortitude , I felt my heart beating quicker , and quicker , as , neither looking one way nor the other , I turned haslily down one of the more shaded alleys that led by a shorter cut , than round the shrubbery to : the house . Scarcely had I proceeded ten paces , when the same figure , white from head to foot , crossed the path ' so close to me as almost to ; touch my dress . ' '¦ ¦ : ' ¦ ¦< .: ¦ '¦ .. ¦

      Instinctively , as you may suppose , I started back , and the blood for a moment left my cheek , I could feel , pale as marble ; but it was but for a moment . Recovering , by an immense internal struggle , my self-possession , T moved on with a firm determined step . almbst ashamed of the timidity I had been betrayed into ; but had hardly reached the ' end of the avenue ^ yhen the spectral , form of ray unknown attendant again intercepted my ' , progress , and ,, turning its head , regarded me for a moment with a look of deep and unutterable interest , and , waving its hand , vanished from mysight . . ' ' ' - ¦ - , For a moment I stood as if transfixed , gazing in speechless horror on the spot from which the figure had diaappeared . : lt was the apparition of my mother—mv Bolcsur .

      viving parent—my . beloved mother ! ¦ I did not scream or faint away , as many would have done under a less appalling visitation ! Somehow , I reached the house , and at lengthen my owu room , threw myself on the bed in a state of mind much "easier to be imagined than described .- Notva : wink-of sleep closed my eyes that night ; the spectral form of my beloved parent nsver . quitted me . What . ' think . you , must have been my horror , when the following morning ' s post brought me the intelligence of her sudden death ? - ThatTsaw herapparitionalmost atthe identical ^ hour at wbiob shewas taken ill and died ; I am sure of that as I live . So one , not even Mr . St . Clair , oaneverconvinceme . to . thecontrary .

      •• > The second tale in , the book ; relates to < . a case : of rivalry in love ; where the unsuccessful : suitor meets a'violent end , and the favoured lover Jb - suspected of murder , found ; guilty , and condemned ' vto ; die ,. but savei at the last moment by a ; death-bed , confession . L'The ; scene ; is-laid in ; thei same / imountain-landilpf , ; B elgium as the first tale : -the manners , and characters of the dramatic personse" are appropriate ; and as a mere tale , The Phrophetess of Embourg ' surpasses The Mountain Home , ' but does not deal so much with realities , or display eo much knowledge of the worl .

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      : . CoNJr . —Which is the smallest bridge a tta world ?—Th Bridge of your Nose . What is Bell metal?—Standing £ 2 , 000 for St . Alban ' s election . —Tht Month , _ LpYBislike most epidemics ; the more apprehensive we We of it , the more likely are we to become subjects of the contagion . . r ^? . Gw . —At Crewe , every working man ' s cottage is lighted with gas , at a cost of lid . a week . llow to Bkoik thb New Ysiu . —Open the door with the dtm - ! H ? ' that il may close on the golden hin 8 e of prosperity . — -iMd ,.. , A draught of 52 , 840 herrings was recently talsen near « Jrf ?' d of T'PPOo Saib lately died at the extreme old ageot ninety-seven ., J . QE T }! KATH 17 tVB . VlT . _/ T % .-l # / TTl « lPil ! . •__

      oil r > u , » j «> w « . "AR \ rARis ) . — unuirunner nonce , - ? £ S 10 D refuBe ' , ' ^ nd the Public Press Suspended . " ssasesasiaiKiw iSsasis » = s « s 3 ' ^ SA ^ iS&iSi ft i j -ft Things to bk Rembmbbiib » .-A hundred of coals ia eighty pounds . A woman of thirty is two-and-twentv Att eightpenny cab-fare is one and sixpence . A butt of Sherry is often a barrel of Marsala .-, Punch ' s Almanack . * Mrs . Partinoion reading the death of a distinguished lawyer , who was stated to be the father of the Bar , exckimed- ^ Poor man j . be had a dreadful noisy se of

      GoLD .-Bymeansofa plan recently devised by Professor Hattnauer , go d ore can now be worked with profit , althoueh 'l ?^ onJytwo hundred grains of gold per ton . Value about 3 o 3 . - Engli 8 h Judges ;—It iV 150 years since a judBe ' was pro * ceeded against and dismigged , in England , for misconducta faqt testifying to the purity of the administration of iusticem this country .---Substitute for CoFFEB .-It is said that Dr . Moorehead , oi lulianiore . haB discovered in the common garden parsnb an excellent substitute for coffee , by merely cleanBicg , cutting , toasting , and grinding . Rich Bi 9 H 0 PS .-Ten Irish bishops , Beresford , Fowler Bernard , Steward Percy , Hawkins ; Porter . Cleaver ^ ¦ S ^ 'iaaif . th 6 ir ^ ilieS ' ' W or an

      Science at Discount .- " Is not that a beautiful shell ?" asKed a lady , wishing to show her science .- " Jndade , hS *? V " ' "P liedan Irishman ; "but I amni botanist , and do not understand physiology . " rofi S ? u ? ort 8 are bein ? made t 0 compel Lord Guildfordto refund the immense revenues he has been deriving , under a defective title , from the Mastership of St . Cross Hospital , ^ te f" ? SBMM () I ' 8 .-An Irish gentleman thus addressed an indolent servant who indulged himself in bed at a late h 9 " . »« the morning , Fall to rising , you spalpeea ! fall to rising ; don ' t stand there lying in bed all da ? . " * ' ^ ir ^ L ^" *'"" ^ ' ' ^ 80 mucn bead ed in our schoolboy days as to be punished by sitting between two ?« V ^ J t he r ? ° f education . In after years we learned to submit to such things without shedding a tear . iiBADTiFUi Custom . —It was an ancient custom \ o burv the youngatmorningflight ; for as they strove to give the softest interpretation to death , so they imagined thaC Aurora , who loved the young , had taken them to her embrace .

      A Husband Robbing his Wipr . — The High Court of Justiciary , Edinburgh , haa affirmed a conviction of a husband charged with stealing £ 200 from his wite , the money being her . special property , and secured to her by express contract . The judges were unanimous .

      A Close SHAVE .-The "Cape Town Mail" has an account of an engagement with the Kaffirs , in which Major Home , of the 12 th regiment , had half of Ms whiiitr cut off by . a ba ] U The oftcer observed , with the greatest sang froid , that " it was a very close ahave . " . Virtue . —Wealth , honour , and favour , may come upon . 1 man by chance ; nay ! they may be cast upon hita without so much as looking after them ; but virtue is the work of industry and labonr ; and certainly ' tis worth the while to purchase that good which brings all others along with it . — Fees to WAiTBRs . -Tbe praotice of extorting pence ostensibly as tees and remuneration for the services of waiters , is now prominently under public consideration at some of the City dining-rooms . The obaoxious tax has already beaa abandoned at one of the largest establishments in iJucklersbury . STORM PBOGNOSTICATOR

      . It mim be understood at this iz a varry useful inven * shan an be way ov infamashun , t'follahin ar sum at signs- be which it mdecates Storms : — ' When a Womman hea just wesht t'hause floor an a great taal dog curns in on a rainy day , an runnin all ovver it , Leaves t print ov his mueky feet uppan iwery fleg , theaze hommast suar ta be a ratlin , not ov hail but sand stones . When a Womman iz goin ta hev a tea pairtv , an t ' cat bez . gottan tut milk-bowl an lapt iwery drop at cream off , a strong vfjnd ia suar ta be heard ,-espeshally by servant lasses . . ¦ . When a Womman hez gottan bur cloaze nicely wesht sa hung aght ta dry , an a long groind pig euros an rooits cloaze prop daan , this is suar ta be follad be squalls . When a Womman thumps a bairn at izanthurawn , and macks it go ucreaiain hoam , depend on it theal be a tremendashurricanfollah . .

      t When a Womman hez a dressmacker it hause , anshooza just abaght gottan hur new gaan haaf finisht , an hur husband cumshoam an orders hvir off abagbt her biznass , this for a sartainty al be follad be gloominess an happan wet . —Poffmoor Olmenack . . The Metropolis . —The City of London stands upon 620 acres . The fixed property in houses located on this small spot is estimated at forty millions sterling ; and the value of moveable property in the City , according to the ' Railway Journal is considered to be worth a hundred millions sterling . The Spirit of the AGE .-0 ne of the latest cases of which we ( " Cambridge Chronicle , " United States ) , have heard , is that of a little urchin , who , having been listening quite intently one evenin g to an animated discussion on prpgress and improvement , the next day addressed the following interrogatory to his parent :- 'Pa , is Kew England Rum the spirit of the age ?' ¦ ¦

      ' An Avaricious Boarder . — " My friend , " said an American Hotel-keeper to an over-avaricious boarder , " you e »' so much , I shall have to charge you an extra halfdollar . — "An extra half-dollar ! " replied his boarder , with his countenance the very picture of pain . " For goodness sake don't do that ! I ' m most dead now , eating three dollara' worth , and if you put on an extra half-dollar , I shall certainly bust—I shall . " Catholicism . —It is stated that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy of Ireland have resolved not to celebrate the rites of mnrriage between a Protestant woman and Roman Catholic man , unless the woman cois ; nts that all the children shall be brought up as Roman Catholics . It is added , that Dr . Wiseman will uphold the priesthood of this country in a similar determination , —Liverpool Times .

      An Electro-Magnet that exerts an attractive force of 220 pounds when the armature is in contact with its poles , only exhibits a' force of 40 pounds if the armature is removed one-fiftieth of an inch from tbe poles ; hence the gieat less of power . This difficulty overcome , steam engines will be considered " unwieldy lumber . " The force ill a mayiel is a source < f power which never becomes exhausted , and loses nothing by what it imparts . Mines of Puke Copper .-We gather from the " Lake Superior Journal" that the copper mines there yield a produce unequalled in the world . The distinction between these mines and all others is that the yield is of tbe pure

      metal . Every advancing step only demonstrates more clearly that this pure lode is not a chance' collection , but is , in fact , increasing in purity as well as quantity as the miners proceed . ¦• ¦ •• : .. . " Very Good . —The Marquis of Townsend , when a young man , and engaged in battle , saw a drummer at his side kiledby a cannon ball , which scattered his brains in every direction . His eyes were at once fixed on the ghastly object , which seemed wholly to engross his thoughts . A superior officer observing him , supposed he was intimidated by the sight , and addressed him in a . manner to cheer his spirits . V Oh , " said the young Marquis with calmess , but severity , 111 am only puzzled to make out how any with such a quantity of brains ever came to be here . "

      Vegetable Tallow . —The fallow-tree { Siillingia sebifera ) is cultivated to a great extent at Ningpo . Chusan , and the eastern provinces of China , for the white tallow that surrounds the seed , which is used for , and possesses most of the properties of beef tallow , furnishing candles , cerates , plasters , &c . for domestic and medical uses . It is not much used for cooking , the Chinese preferring other vegetable oils that they have in use for tbat purpose . The tallow is produced in considerable quantities , and is sold at Chnsan at a . very low price ; when mixed with wax it forms an excellent material for candleB . The tree itself , apart from the value of the substance it yields , would be an importannt addition to the ornamental trees of this country , and , it is said , might be easily cultivated ; the leaves resemble the aspen in shape and colour • . . - ¦ .

      . Rapidity op Thought in Dreaming . — A tery remarkable circumstance , and aa important point of analogy , is to be found in the extreme rapidity with which tbe mental operations are performed , or rather with which the material changes on which the ideas depend are ' excited in the hemispherical ganglia ' . I *' would appear as if a whole series of acts , that would really occupy a long lapse of time , pass ideally througl the mind in one instant . We have in . dreams no true per ception of ,. the lapse of time-a strange property of mind , for if such be also its property when entered intoUe «« ft < n 1 disembodied state , time will appear to Us 4 M » F » W lationBofBDace aft well a * of time are !^ stf''ten \^| Jiimi

      that while almost an eternity is corapresse * 'jpj ^ i&ini 6 M infinite , space is traversed more . swiftly thajn . S ^ fT | up | igP There are numerous illustrations of this pffljfw ^^^ record ; A gentleman dreamt thathe had enlisted | sT » 5 pSer : 'A ' o . inei his regiment , deserted ' * was apprehended , cffl ^^ pit . Ap ed condemned-to'be ; 8 hoy « ndi ; at , laBt led : o ^ oTr ^ ecution After all tbe : usual * . pr , epavations , a gun wasWSSp ; Swbk ( with the report , and found , that , a noise in theVjwniDgrd ^ i had , at the same moment , ' produced ' the-dreanV--ant awakened him . A friend of BrK Abercrombie dr ^ Drt . tfia he had crossed tbe Atlantic and spent afortnightin America in embarking , on his return , he fell into the sea , and awaken ing in the fright , found that be had not beeu asleep toi minutes . —Dr . JhWoti /' s Psychological Journal

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 3, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1659/page/3/