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      . October 4, 1851. The Nqrthe^^N Star. _...

      . October 4 , 1851 . THE NQRTHE ^^ N STAR . __________ 3

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      True Progress. (From Poems By Tmrz And I...

      TRUE PROGRESS . ( From Poems By Tmrz and Iiolktt . ) Think not your labour done , -Whatever goodis « on , Ye who the world of hope and danger tread ; For many a loftier peak , That mortal man may seek , ^ Up lifts almost to heaven its towering head Though dim in mist and cloud , And hid in snojry shroud , There is a path that patient toil may keep ; Though often beaten back And lo st the dangerous track , The conqu ering flag shall crown the highest ateep The miehty minds old

      With step > erene and bold , Adrane'd , though all the world iu scorn derided ; Without doubt or fear , Unheeding danger near They to the power of truth their cause confided . "With wonder and with awe , The heaven-born things they saw , [ garo'd , Through years of toil , and oft through life they And woke the dreaming world , In deadly slumber curi'd , _ f To purge each thought and hope by error stain d . The paths before unknown , "Which oft they trod alone , Vie , in admiring crowds , may press to see ; Tet , as we wond ' rin e gaze , On once untrodden ways , Content to live in sloth , we may not be .

      For yet the mountain-height Its crest above our sight Bears up , while myst ' ries strange are hid between ; We , too , must higherclimb , Or truths still more sublime Than those our fathers won will lie unseen . Then gird the loins and toil To break the rocky soil , And pierce through all that bars onr upward way ; let -wisdom lead the Tan , . While faith recounts to man l oay . That once beyond theorists their shines a cloudless

      And when thejheig ht we gam , And doubts no more remain , Each shall renew with joy the paths he trod And we , too , shall behold , Like Moees as of old , Hi » h on a holier mount , the face or boa .

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      Henri Von Eichenfels, A Tale For The You...

      Henri von Eichenfels , a Tale for the Young , b y C . fichmid ; with a compltte vocabulary , Sre . ByFalckLebahn . London : C . H . Clarke , Bouverie-street . THIS tale is simple , and one well adapted to the stud y of beginners ia the German Iangaage . The Tocabtdaxly toII enable the reader to dispense with a dictionary . We had , at first , thought it would have been better if placed at the bottom of each page ; hut , upon consideration , we think it best as it is , as the memory ought to be taxed to some extent .

      With all good wishes for the success of this little work , we are of opinion that Ollendorf 8 system has not been equalled . That system dispenses with both dictionary and grammar , and gives the student an insig ht into the language by easy gradations . By all other methods , the student will hare to read a great many volumes before he will make much progress . The familiar sentences at the end of the book are by no means novel in their way , and seemed to be penned , like most of the guide hooks of the present day , for the especial use of what are called the * better sort of people —viz . , those who keep carriages .

      The History Of Tie Restoration Of The Mo...

      The History of tie Restoration of the Monarchy in France . B y A . De Lamartine . London : Vizetelly and Co . This is a sequel to the well known History of the Girondins by the same eloquent writer . Those who think that history should be the result of a patient collection and comparison ef documents and authorities , a calm , dispassionate , and judicial narrative of events , will scarcel y find in the graphic , impassioned , and dramatic sketches of M . Lamartine . But what the author may lose in dignity Be gains in attractiveness , by his mode of treating the subject ; and having been a co-actor in some of the most important events in French History ,

      as well as personally acquainted with many of the personages whom he introduces in his new work , he invests his narrative with a charm of reality and life-like colouring , which , apart from the thrilling nature of the events themselves , must carry the reader resistlessly onward . His judgment of In apoleon is severe , and by no means favourable ; while the family of the Bourbon princes evidentl y have his warm sympathy . He paints them alien bean ; and we can believe him , when he says * his heart is interested in that forgotten generation / for it is clearly that fountain f rom whence his inspiration has drawn Out Mb reason . It would be out of place for us to attempt to follow the stream of events which

      31 . Lamartine commences in the present portion of his work . In preference , we selectthe gtory of the murder of the Duke d'Enghien--one of the blackest spots in the character and memory of Napoleon—for quotation . At the time of the plot of Georges and Pichegru , against the life of Buonaparte , the Duke had settled with the young Princess Charlotte of Bohan , at Ettenheim , a village in the territory of Baden . He here reposed in obscurity , in love , and in rustic employments , after the seven years of fig hting and activity which had matured him at s o earl y an age . Several friends of his house , left behind b y his father , and some of the aides-de-camps of his wars , lived retired in the same village , and shared his simple and innocent amusements .

      Georges , who had been vainly sought after for three weeks in Paris , was discovered and surprised on the evening of the Oth of March . On being interrogated by Real , he avowed that he Bad come to pans tocarry off the First Consul uymam iorcc , out not to assassinate him ; that he had been connected with St . Rejant , the plotter of the attempt at assassination in the Rue St . 2 ficaise ; but that St . Jtejxnt , in constructing the infernal machine , had eXCeededhisinstruelions , which merely required him to recruit a number of determined horsemen—to attack Bonaparte ' s escort during one of his excursions ont of the city , and take thedictator prisoner to London ; that nothing was yet ready for this enterprise ; and that they awaited the expected arrival

      Of a prince in Paris for its consummation . This prince , in the imagination of Bonaparte and of the police , could be none other than the Puke d'Enghien J . and another deposition of Leridant confirmed this erroneous conclusion . This conspirator , a friend of Georges , said that he had seen , at Ghaillot , in the house where Georges lived incognito , a young man , whose name was kept secret , and who was elegantly dressed , of handsome features and aristocratic manners ; and that he had imagined this young man to be the prince expected by tbe conspirators . It was not known , until long afterwards , that this young man whose exterior and whose mysterious appearance had struck leridaut , was the Count Jules de lolignac .

      Bonaparte , resolved to strike his enemies with terror , commanded General Ordener to cross the Ehine with 300 dragoons and thirty mounted gendarmes , invest the village of JSttenheim , and seize the p rince and all his papers . Ordener set ont on tho same night , that of the 10 and 11 th of March , and arrived on the 12 th at Strasbourg . He held a council on his arrival with General Le ? al , Chariot , the colonel of gendarmes , and the commissary of police , and they resolved to precede and facilitate the nocturnal expedition by a minute reconnoitring of the scene of action . A agent of police named Stahl , and a non-commissioned officer of gendarmerie , named Pfersdoff , both born on the German bank of the Rhine , were

      despatched on the instant , and marching all night , arrived at eight o ' clock in the morning at Ettenheim . They strolled , with an affectation of indifference , which ill concealed their curiosity , about the hoaso of the Prince , in order to make themselves well acquainted with the approaches to it ; but their faces , which were unknown to the Duke ' s servants , their walk for no apparent purpese , and their scrutinizing looks awakened suspicion , as if by a presentiment . The Prince ' s Talet-de-ohambre , concealed behind a window , observed these " two strangers walking round tflfl Tfalls , ' and intently noting the objects of their miswon . He called another of the' servants of tbe house , named' Cannone , and communicated bis anxieties to him . Cannone was an old soldier and

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      companion of the prince from his earliest infanc He had fought with'him in all his campaigns , and had saved his life in Poland , by covering him with his sabre and hia person . He fancied that he remembered having somewhere seen the , face of Pfersdoff , and thought he recognised in him a gendarme in disguise . He hastened to inform the Prince of the suspicious appearance ot these two observers , and of the conjectures which he had formed on tho features of Pfersdoff ; but the Prince , with the thoughtlessness of bis age , disdained to pay any attention to these symptoms of espionage . Nevertheless , an officer of his army , named Schmidt , who was then with him , went out and accosted SUhl and Pfersdoff , and questioned them with an appearance of unconcern , pretending that he was going their way , and accompanied them for more than a league ; but at last seeing them take a road which led into the interior of Germany , instead of retnrnine towards the tlbine , he felt

      reassured , and returned to tranquillise the servants and retainers at Ettenheim . But the anxieties of love are not so easily set at rest as those of friendship . The Princess Charlotte de Rohan , informed in the morning of the suspicions appearance of these prowlers around the house of tbe Prince , was filled with a presentiment of danger , and begged he would take warning from these indications , and absent himself for a few days from a residence where he was so evidently watched , and possibly with a criminal intention . Out of affection for her , rather than from uneasiness on his own account , the Duke consented , to absent himself for two or three days , and it was settled that he should set out the third morning after , on a long hunting excursion iu the forests of the Grand Duke of Baden , during which the suspicions of his betrothed would be either dissipated or verified ; but it was fated that the third morning should not dawn on him in Germany .

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

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

      eentenceforthwith . Savary had not waited for this order to be written before he prepared for its execution , and had already marked ont the spot . The court and the esplanade being encumbered with troops , bythepresenceof the brigadeof infantry , and tbe legion of gendarmes d ' elite , no safe place could be found therein which the fire of a pla ' toon did not run tbe risk of striking a soldier or a spectator . No doubt it was also feared that too great publicity would thus be given to the murder in the midst of an army ; that the scene of the execution was too distant from the place of sepulture ; and that feelings of pity and horror would pervade the ranks at the sight of this young man ' s mangled corpse . The moat of the chateau , however , offered the

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

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

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

      clemency towards an illustrious prince , beloved by all Europe , and innocent of all crime ? He had taken back , after his interrogatories and his appearance before the military commission , into the room where ho had slept . He entered it without exhibiting any of that fright which prisoners experience in the anxiety and uncertainty of their sentence . With a serene countenance and unoc cupied mind , he conversed with his gendarmes , and played with his dog . Lieutenant Koirot , who was on guard over him , had formerly served in a regiment of cavalry commanded by a colonel who was a friend of the Prince of Conde . He had also seen

      the Duke d'Enghien , when a child , sometimes accompany his father to reviews and field-days of the regiment ; and he reminded the Prince of that period and these circumstances of his youth . The Duke smiled at these reminiscences , and renewed tbem himself by other recollections of his infancy , which mingled with those of Noirot . He inquired , with a curiosity full of interest , about the career of this officer since that epoch ; of the campaigns he had made ; of the battles in which be had been engaged ; of the promotion he had received : of his present rank , his expectations , and his partiality for the service . He seemed to find a lively pleasure in this conversation on the past with a brave officer , who spoke to him with the accent and the

      heart of a man who would gladly indulge in pity , were it not for the severity of duty , A noUQ Of footsteps , advancing slowly towards tbe chamber , interrupted this agreeable and last indulgence of captivity . It was the commandant of Vincennes , Harel , accompanied by the brigadier of the gendarmerie of the village Auforfc . This friend of Uarel ' s had been permitted to remain in one of the commandant ' s rooms , after having ordered the Prince ' s supper , and from tbence be had heard or seen all the events of the night . Harel , agitated and trembling at the mission he had to fulfil , had permitted Aufort to follow and assist him in his message to the prisoner . They saluted the Prince respectfully ; but neither of them had the firmness to

      acquaint him with tlie truth . The dejected attitude and trembling voice of Harel alone revealed to the eye and to the heart of the Prince a fatal presentiment of tbe rigour o f hia judges , lie thought tbey now came for uim only to hear his sentence read , Harel desired him , on the part of the tribunal , to follow him , and he went before with a lantern in his hand , through the corridors , the passages , and the courts it was necessary to cross , to arrive at the building called the " Devil ' s Tower . " The interior of this tower contained tbe only staircase and the only door descending to , and opening into , the lowest moat . The Prince appeared to hesitate two or three times on goin" into this suspicious tower , like a victim which smells the blood , and which

      resists and turns back its head on crossing the threshold of a slaughter house . * * Harel and Aufort preceded the Duke in silence down tho steps of tho narrow winding staircase , which descended to a postern through the massy walls of this tower . The Prince , with an instinctive horror of the place , and of the depth beneath the soil to which the steps were leading him , began to think they were not conducting him before the judges , but into the hands of murderers , or to the gloom of a dungeon . He trembled in all his limbs , and convulsively drew back his foot , as be addressed his guides in front : — " Where are you conducting me V he demanded with a stifled voiea . " If it is to bury me alive in a dungeon I would rather die this instant . "" Sir , " replied Harel , turning round , " follow me ,

      land summon up all your courage . " The Prince partly comprehended him , and followed . Tbey at length issued from the winding staircase through a low postern which opened on the bottom of tbe moat , and continued walking for some time in the dark along the foot of the Jofty walls of tho fortress ' as far as the basement of the Queen ' s Pavilion When they had turned the angle of this pavilion which had concealed another part of the moat behind its walls , the Prince suddenly found himself in front of the detachment of the troops drawn up to witness his death . The firing oarty , selected for the execution , was separated from the rest ; and the barrels of their muskets reflecting the dull light of some lanterns car-Td by a few of the attendants , threw a einirter

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

      , . listened , without making an observation or losing bis firmness . He seemed to have collected in an instant all his courage , and all the military heroism of his race , to show his enemies that he knew how to die . Two feelings alone seemed to occupy him during the moment of intense silence which followed the reading of hia sentence ; one was to invoke the aid of religion to soothe hia last struggle , and tho other to communicate his dy ing thoughts to her he was going to leave desolate on the earth . He accordingly asked if he could have the assistance of a priest , but there was none in tbe castle ; and though a few minutes would suffice to call the cure of Vincennes , they were too much pressed for time , and too anxious to avail themselves of the night , which was to cover everything . The officers

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

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

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

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

      Golden Dreams And Waking Realities: Bein...

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

      From the first moment of his setting foot on shore at San Francisco till he re-embarked in tbe same vessel that brought him out , his career was one continued series of hardship , privation , and labour , with frequent danger and risk of life ; one half of which undergone in a civilised country would secure wealth . His passage from St . Francisco to Stockton was made in an over-crowded craft , where there was not room to lie down , exposed to a burning sun by day and to chilling dews by night . To reach the diggings , he joined a sort of caravan , where the principle of every one for himself' was carried out in perfection :

      even men who sank from fatigue and want of water were left to perish in the wilderness , — which was perhaps inevitable , —but when water was reached not a moment was wasted in bestowing a thought on comrades whom assistance might have rescued . At the diggings , Mr . Shaw and a shipmate , with a Malay lad and a Chinese as followers , fell to work , and did pretty well so far as getting gold ; but theirs was the fate of every one who has told his story : the expenses nearly absorbed the gains . The rainy season sot in soon and violently : it became impossible to work ; sickness overtook the party in common with the mass of the diggers ; when Mr . Shaw

      recovered , he found it was simply to return nearly empty-handed , or to remain and starve if he escaped death b y disease . With a resolute will , and a strength of constitution such as few possess ) he started alone , to walk back to Stockton ; and thence by the permission of some sailors he rowed his passage back t 0 Francisco . There , in ignorance of any handicraft , he lived by hard labour , till he got a sort of waiter's berth at a mission-house turned into a tavern , and kept by a Mormon , whose sleeping partner was a Romish priest . From this state he was rescued b y the offer of a free passage in his old ship , which had been detained for want of hands . This offer he

      gladly accepted , and sailed for Sydney in the Mazcppa , calling in his way at the Sandwich and Navigator ' s Islands . The misery of avarice amidst all Its wealth has been a theme for poets and moralists ; but the reality surpasses the imagination : a few sentences of our adventurer , nothing what struck him , surpasses poetry . It would be difficult to describe my sensation after the first day ' s ramble in Francisco . I had witnessed so many startling sights , that bad I not been well assured of their reality , I might have imagined them phantasies of the brain : buildings were springing up ' as at the stroke of an

      enchanter ' s wand' , valuable merchandise was strewed about in every direction ; men of every costume and colour—Down-Easters with sharp-set faces , sallow Southerners , gaunt Western squatters , vivacious Frenchmen , sedate Germans , sturdy English colonists , Californians and Chilians , Mexicans , Kanakas and Celestials—hurried to and fro , pursuing their various avocations ; and business to an incalculable amount seemed to be transacted . Looking at the rude sign-boards inscribed in various languages , glancing at the chaos of articles exposed for sale , and listening to the various dialects spoken , the city seemed a complete Babel . Gold was evidently the mainspring of all this activity . Tables piled with gold were seen under

      tents , whence issued melodious strains of music ; and the most exaggerated statements were current respecting the auriferous regions . But amid scenes of profusion and extravagance , _ no sign of order or comfort was perceptible , nor did any one appear happy : wan anxious countenances , and restless eager eyes , met you on every side . The aspect of personal neglect and discomfort , filth , rags , and squalor , combined with uneasiness , avidity , and recklessness of manner , an all-absorbing selfishness , as if each were striving against his fellow man , were characteristics of the gold fever , at once repulsive and pitiable ; and , notwithstanding the gold 1 saw on every side a feeling of despondency crept insensible over mo . .

      Francisco at that time was not the place for pausing to think what your right hand COUld find to do ; you must do something at once . Mr , gUaw followed the examples about

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

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

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

      The summary execution of Lynch-Iaw in certain cases , and the general report of law » lessnes 0 , may seem contradictory ; yet they are not so when examined . Taking that which is acquired is promptly punished ; violence to get the means of acquiring is overlooked ; indeed it was not always safe to attempt to punish it . At the diggings a regular pitched battle took p lace between two rival claimants to same ground , * I viawed > ' says Mr . Shaw , * the barbarous encounter from an eminence ; at its termination , when 1 visited the field of battle , I was horror-struck at the sanguinary atrocities which had been committed : some men lay with their entrails hanging out , - others had their skulls smashed

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

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

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

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

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

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

      Books Received. The Convict. By G. P. R....

      BOOKS RECEIVED . The Convict . By G . P . R . Jamks ( Parlour Library ) , London : Simms and M'Intyre . The Girlhood of Shakespeare ' s Heroines , Beatrict and Hero . By Mary Cowdeh Clarke . London : W . II . Smith and Son . The Christian Socialist . Part XI .

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      Misconduct op Phois . —The following salutary provision appears in the Mercantile Marine Act Amendment , which is now ia force : — " Any pilot , in charge of any ship , who by wilful breach of duty or i > y neglect of duty , or by reason of drunkenness , 'does any .-. ct tending to the immediate loss , destruction , or serious damage of such ship , or tending immediately to endanger the life or limb of any person on board of such ahip , or wbo , by wilfull breach of duty or neglect of duty , or by reason of drunkenness , refuses or omits to do any lawful act proper and requisite to be done by him for preserving such ship from loss , destruction , or serious damage , or for preserving any person bolonging to or on board of such ship from danger to life or limb , shall for each offence be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour . "

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

      found m their possession which they had received from their male associates of the Uckfield gang . A boy , the offspring of one of these females , was put on board on Tuesday , to accompany his mother to Hobart Town . The child was horn in gaol . Cornwall . —An apple was gathered last week of the kind appropriatel y called " fill-basket , " in tho garden of Mr . Harry , at Vellanowetb , in the parish of Ludgvan , the weight of which was seventeen ounces , the length four inches , and the circumference twelve inches .

      Appe arance of Winter . —On Friday morning last the Snowdon range of mountains appeared covered with snow . Heavy rain had fallen during the whole of Thursday , attended in the latter part of the day with cold wind from the north-east . To judge from present ' appeavances , a severe winter may be expected . Many who are considered weather-wise have for some time been prognosticating that such will be the case . " MiDsion ? Traihs to the Exhibition ;—Tho Midland Company propose running midnight trains until the close of the . Great Exhibition , giving single day trips and fifteen hours in London . This salary of the Lord Chancellor will shortly be reduced from , < fii 4 , () 00 per annum to £ 10 , 000 .

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      If you would know a bad husband , look at his wife ' s countenance . A Fixeo Aim . —There is nothing like a fixed aim ; it dignifies nature and insures success . Con . —Why are many innkeepers' wives like generals ?—Because they are rulers of hosts , Gratiivds is the mania o the heart , when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness . A CuLLEN-Anv . Operation . —Sendin ? the Earth , Sun , Moon , Stars , and Planets , all to pot . —Punch . First Rcssian Railway . — -On the 15 th of August , the first railway in Russia was opened by a train on the Moscow and Petersburg line . There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day ; the reason is , that people can commend it without envy .

      " Why , Tom , my dear fellow , how old you look !" —• ' Dare say , Bob , for the fact is , I never was so old before in my life , ' ' Fahilt Prayer . —Robert Hall said of family prayer , " It serves as an edge and border , to preserve the web of life from unravelling . " Cos . —What difference is there between a bantam cock and a dirty housemaid?—The one is a domestic fowl , the other a foul domestic . Giving and Receiving . —Digby says it is true that" there is more pleasure in giving than receiving , " but he also thinks it especially applies to medicine , kicks , and advice .

      Caution . —The magistrates of' Bristol have fined a man twenty shillings and costs , or three weeks ' imprisonment , for purchasing a return ticket from as excursionist . A Religious Robber . — " Boy , why did you take an armful of my brushwood on Sunday ?"•— " Why , sir , mother wanted some kindling wood , and I didn ' t like to split wood on Sunday . " j BKB 8 in New Zealand . —The New Zealand ournal announces a novel importation , that of the bee , which has thriven in New Zealand . Native honey is now numbered among the luxuries of the colony . Fashionable CiuniTr . — Beggar Woman ; " Please , sir , give me a penny to keep me from starving . "—

      COALS FOR London . —The Great Northern Railway promises Londoners cheap coals , if they will only " give their orders . " They state that they can supply the London public with 2 , 000 tons of coals per day . First Australia * Railway . ~ A letter from Sydney , dated Feb . 7 th , 1851 , states that the turf or the first Australian railway has been turned , It is intended by the company to carry the line as far as Goulbum , a distance of 120 miles . An infallible criterion , so far as it goes , of a good inn , is aclean mustardpot , If that is in proper order , you may be sure that the beds will be well aired , the sheets clean , and all the et ceteras properly looked after .

      As Irish AnvERTiSEMKNT . — " If the gentleman who keeps a shoe-store with a red head , will return the umbrella which he borrowed of a young lady with an ivory handle , he will hear of something to her advantage . " Amemcm * Osstbka—An importation has recently taken place , for the first time , of several packages of oysters , by a vessel from New York . These American oysters were fsund , on examination , to be contained in jars , shelled , and preserved in vinegar and pepper . Widows . —The decision of the Lord Chancellor respecting the extraordinary will of the Duke of Bridgewater , settles the question that widows may marry , irrespective of any restrictions made by their husbands in reducing their dowries , provided they change their weeds .

      Rather Awkward . —A gentleman , in his eagerness at table to answer a call for apple pie , owing to the knife slipping on tbe bottom of the dish , found his knuckles buried in the crust ; when a wag , who sat opposite , gravely observed , as he held bis plate , " Sir , I'll trouble you for a bit , while your hand ' s in !" Norwegian Railway . —Accounts have been received of the ceremony of cutting the first sod . of the Norwegian Railway , which is to run from Chris * liana to Lake Morsen . Its length is only fifty miles , but it will connect the seaboard of Norway with several hundred miles of inland navigation . Mrs . Partington . — " Really , it ' s so loodikerus , " exclaimed Mrs . Partington , on hearing of Cardinal Wiseman preaching in the streets , " that he should set such a bad eggsample as to go upbraiding himself about without a bat , instead of which , by going without his shoes he would imitate the epistle of old . ' '

      Smart RbplX—A gentleman residing in the neighbourhood of Cork , on walking out one Sunday evening , met a young peasant girl , whose parents lived near his house . " Where are you going , Jennyf ' aaidhe . "Looking for a son-in-law for my mother » sir , " was tho smart reply . Jenny , in fact , was going courting . What is a Coo . ubtte ?—A young lady of more beauty than sense , more accomplishments than learning , more charm of person then grace of mind , more admirers than friends , and more fools than wise men for attendants .

      A Prettt Scale of Prices . —A fashionable portrait painter , whose name it would not be fair to his many rivals to mention , when asked what are his terms , invariably answers : — " I have no scale of prices . In fact , 1 generally leave it open to the liberality of my patrons . I have but one rule to guide me in taking likenesses , and that , to be candid , is , 'Handsome is , who Handsome does . '" Good Advice . —Instruct your son well , or others will instruct him ill . No child goes altogether untaught . Send him to the school of wisdom , or he Will go of himself to the rival academy , kept by the lady with the cap and bells . There is always teaching going on of some sort—just as in fields vegetation is never idle .

      A Father ' s Advice — " Jeems , my lad keep away from the gals . When you see one coming , dodge . Jest such a critter as that young ' un cleanin * the door-step on t ' other side of the street , fooled yer poor dad , Jimmy . If it hadn ' t been for her , you and yer dad might ha'been in Californey , huntin'dimuns , my son . " Eauly Rising . —Place a basin of cold water by the side of your bed . When your first wake in the morning dip your hands in the basin , and wet your brow ; and sleep will not again seal you in its treacherous embrace . This is the advice given by an aged clergyman , who had been in the habit of rising early during a long life .

      Labge Lunatic Asylum . —The County Lunatic Asylumn at Colneyhatch , which was opened in July last as a supplementary establishment to Hanwell , contains at present , 179 male , and 331 female patients . The total cost of the asylum will not exceed £ 300 , 000 , The . building has been constructed for the reception of 1 , 2 < J 0 patiftnls , and is said to be the largest establishment of the kind in Europe . ' A Story of the Confkssion . —A young man , who , for his sins , was about being married , pr ea ^ nl ^^ himself for confession , As he appeared rather embarrassed how he should proceed to enumerate his errors . " Come , " said the Abbe G , kindly ,

      "do you ever tell falsehoods ? " "Father , I am not a lawyer . " •• Did you ever Steal ? " l < Father , I am not a merchant . " "lou never committed murder ? " "Sir , lam a doctor , " consciously replied tbe young penitent , casting down his eyes . A Bbaoe op Complimbhib , —The Hon . Edward Everett , when a young man just out of college , was invited to deliver an eration in the city of Salem . At the dinner , Judge Story called up Mr . Everett by the following sentiment : — "Fame follows applause where ever it ( Everett ) goes ! " Mr . Everett rose Instantly , and gave the following : — " Tbe members of the legal profession ! However high may be their aspirations , they can never rise higher than one Story . "'

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

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

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

      The Museum of Practical Geology , in Jermanstreet , is now open on Mondays , Tuesday , and Wednesdays . No charge for admission . Many objects in this museum arc of great interest , and well worthy of inspection . The metals and minerals are hot only exhibited in their natural statevbut also in theirapplications to the arts of life and man ' s industry . Ihe electrotyped , or copper CftVArPn flowers , are alone worth the trouble of a visit thp building ; and contenta are said to have coat « £ government 443 . 000 the

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      Seahch for Sir John' Franklin . —The follow * ifig important letter was received ' at Lloyd ' s on Sa « turday : — " Felix Discovery Vessel , Stranraer , Sept . 25 , 1851 —Sir ; I am to acquaint you that the American vessels , Advance and Rrscue , after wintering in tue ice iu Baffin ' s Bay , put into Godhaven ( Leifle ) m Disco , sailed thence on the 21 at of June , 1851 , ™\» ere spoken off Proved , in Greenland , on the « tn-of August , on their way to America , after a fruitless search for the missing ships . They have been sickly , and lost one or two men , but were now

      all well . The Danish Government brig IloalOskea a ^" on u y odhaveD -. >« company with the Felix , - on the 30 th of August ; was to sail thence on the 10 th of September , for Kron Prins Island , and thence to Copenhagen . All well . The Felix parted with all the other discovery ships on the 13 th of August , sailed for Godhaven on the 2 nd of September , and arrived here this day under my charge . John Robs , Rear-Admiral , R . N . To the Secretary , Lloyd ' s , London . —N . B . No traces of the missing ships were found since they wintered at Beechy Island , and left it in September 181 G . " ' '

      , „ _ .. Thb ships bound for Sydney , in New South Wales , the nearest port to the Ophir gold regions , an ; remarkably on the increase . The General Post « office snlvertised on Saturday nearly twenty vessels by which ktter bags would he sent to Sydney .

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      i- ' -EYEBROWS , < fcc , may he , with ci-rtainty , obiafnea by using a very small portion of ROSALIE COUPELLE'S 1 'AltISIAN POMADE , every morning , instead of any ! oil or other preparation . A furtuight'Buao will , in most'in-Mances , show its surprising properties in producing and Burling Whiskers , Hair , 4 c , at any age , from whatever cause deficient ; as also checking greyness , & e . For children it is indispensable , forming the bania of a beautiful head of hair , and rendering the use of the small comb BU » necessary . Pctsmm v » h » ha-re Wn deceived by ridiculously named imitations of this Pomade , will do well to make one trial of the genuine preparation , which they will never regret . Price ' 2 s . jiet pot , sent post free -with instructions , & c ., on receipt ot twenty . four stamps , by Madame C 0 H » PELLE , Ely-placfr , Holborn , London . Important Notice . — None is geuuiue unless the slgna . ture ' Rosalie Coupeile , ' is in red letters on a white ground on the stamp round each package of her prepara * tions . TEMIKONIALS , the originals of which , with many others , may he seen at the ettubliehment .

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      CURES FOR THE UNCUKED J HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or Kino ' s Evil . Extract of aletler from Mr . J . II . AUiday , 209 Hkh-street ; Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1850 , Sir , —My eldest son , when about three years of nee , was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , which after a short time broke out into an Ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrofula and prescribed for a considerable time without effect . The disease then for years went on gradually increasing in virulence , when besides the ulcer in the neck , another formed below the left knee , and a third under the eye , besides seven others on the left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During the whole of the time my suffering boy had received the constant advice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides being for several months at the General Hospital

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 4, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_04101851/page/3/