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      July 5 , 185 L THE NORTHERN STAR , "" * " I I ! t 7 7 ! ¦ iiwhiwii ' ' ' , _ .

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      , « OII >* E HAST , OHXEKAST . ' « Vever hasting , never resting , " With a firm aud joyous heart , Tver onward slowly tending , Acting , aye , a brave man s part . Trjth a high and holy purpose , Doing all thou findst to do : gcfkim : every man ' s upraising , * " ff : thhis highest end in view . Undepressed by seeming failure ; Undated by success ; Heights attained reveaiiiijr . hi gher , Onward , upwar-5 , ever press . Slowly moves the march of .-i jres ; " ? l-. wly goes the forest-King ; s ; j 0 wjv to perfection t-omeih

      Every great and glorious thing . jjniadest stream from narrowest sources S ublfist trees from mean-st seeds ; Jlinh'v ends from small •••• giiuiings , " Fr-jiii lowjy promise , loity deeds . Acorns which the winds have scattered , Future navies may provide , Thou ghts at midnight whispered Jowly Trove a peop loVfuture gui e . Such the law enforced by nature Since the Earth her course began ; Such to thee she searchi-th daily , Eager , ardent , restless man . «« 5 ever hastiiur , never restinjr , " Glad in peace , and calm in Strife ; Quietly thyself preparing , To perform thy part iu life .

      Earnest , hopeful , and unswerving , Weary though thou art jmd faint ; ye ' er despair , there ' s God above thee , Listing ever to thy plaint . Srunibleth he who rum elb fast ; Dieth he who standeth * till ; Xor by haste , nor rest can ever Mau his destiny fulfil . " Sever hasting , never resting , " Legend fine , and quaint , and olden , In our tumtaug , in our acting , Should be writ in letters golden . From the Leader

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      jy Italian Volunteers and Lombard Rifle jirigadej being an . diitatic Narrative of the Organisation , Adventures , and Final Disbanding of these Corps , in 1848-49 . B y Emilio Dandolo . London ; Longman aud Co . "TnE object of the author in Ms history of the Italian Volunteers is to give an unbiassed narrative of what came within his own knowledge a ; to the conduct and character of the corps , wrhans with the ulterior purpose of defending

      ais friends from the attacks that have Deen Bide upon them , and of placing the zeal and services of the better portion of the Volunteers clearly before the world . Secondary in obiert , but essentially involved in the narrative , ii tie irremediable defects of volunteers in a aliitary point of view—they can become r .-eful for a , campaign only b y ceasing to be volunteers ; and there are incidental accounts a tie causes ( obvious only after the event ) jrfcich rendered the efforts of the national party ikthe movement could hardly be called national ) hopeless from the beginning .

      It is likel y that Dandolo may be somewhat Eased by personal feeling as regards his Sends , and by his political opinions in re-Fpoct to a general judgment upon events . But tie Italian Volunteers is a useful and investing book . Unlike most of its predeceases on the same subject , it is in the main a personal narrative ; the author describing erents which he actually saw , or which , he learned from the immediate actors at the time of their occurrence . His politics seem to be those of the careful , and rather conservative

      Italians ; men who are averse to Republicanism , at least in the actual state of affairs , and who would be'well satisfied with a federal Italy , and constitutional governments for each Hate , in lieu of the Italian unity and nationality ef Mazziui and his followers . This class , it would appear , are relig ions : not Papists , or blindly obedient to the Pope , but Catholics , and strict observers of the forms if their religion . In this last feature Emilio Dandolo and bis friends differ from Mariotti ; kt their political conclusions are similar .

      The narrative relates to three distinct subjects . —the first campaign of 1848 in Lomkrdy - , the second of 1849 in Piedmont ; and lie defence of Eome . From the nature of lie service and the object of the author , neither account furnishes a story of the whole war . The defence of Rome is the fullest , and as respects military adventure , the most interest-% : the campaign in Piedmont , chiefly Rites to the circumstances which induced

      lueltifle Corps to depart for Itome ; the account of the war being very brief , from Dance ' s having been with the army of RamofiEo ( subsequentl y shot for disobedience ) ; u > l abandoned by his leader and without fl flere , Dandolo ' s exploit merely consisted in 3 clever running retreat before the Austrian Branca In the Milanese campaign , the volunteers with whom Dandolo was connected ¦* ere mainl y emp loyed in endeavouring to revolutionise the Tyrol , and subsequentl y in etching H ; the actions in which they were

      engaged were secondary or unimportant ; but j lie account of the formation and conduct of jielod y is a striking picture of the Italian 52 eas of the period , and of what may be ^» led far from volunteers in general . "When Eadetzk y withdrew from Milan , to reach the k « of his future operations , the Milanese * ere so exalted , that they considered the expulsion of the Austrians accomp lished . When toe Piedmontese army reached Milan they * ere welcomed with the salute , " We have arisen out the Croats—here are more of "tern . " The Provisional Government issued

      3 . proclamation inviting the young men of * lilan to enrol themselves under Manara as volunteers . Owing , says Dandolo , " to the fldu iive Idea which prevailed , of all being ^ ead y accomplished , but very few young ^ o presented themselves during the firs t " % s , and the « Army of the Alps « * hicb . was the pompous name given to ftis moveable legion ) was composed of ^ armed men—a discouraging evidence of * e careless security which had taken possesion of the minds of those very men who had formed such wonders in the streets of swan . " This inertness passed away , and -Ve ral thousand -were afterwards enrolled . A

      ; °° " many of the number were forei gn advents , or the refuse of society at home : these ^ tfi , however brave in action some of them T ^ htbe , brought discredit on the cause b y ° ^ s Of violence and p lunder , and very soon t leti ated , asMariotti noted , the Tyrolese pea-• j ^ te they went to free . Numbers , indeed , ^ young men of character and family , who ^* d bear any privation rather than resort to jesses of this kind . But they were almost ^ Juischievons in another way : they were as ^ amenable to orders , or attentive to tbe ^ Ite routine of service , as the worst manuals - *« - Th < i corps toad no uniformity in arms ;* Jthin < r—IwniMi Tiprrians -ipafi snlplv f . llfl ¦¦— "

      wit I r * ' j , ""™* " * J < W v ^ r 0 Ternuient ; they had little or no cm e ' eitner m the sense of instruction or a * ,. ' . ^ camp seems to have been an iat \ i ' ° * ' absor debating societies ; while ktAi V 1 ^ ' or u ar appeal was substi-* itih * k " instant obedience to orders , . r * ut wliich . war cannot be effectivel y car-Ij ; ° - The following is an illustration of mS ** h , x } AU ' Tne Government had per-» , ' ** tne passage of certain provision wag-Mi * SOUle ^ ell-affected people in the Tyrol , 2 r in * j ^ otberwise starve—the general had V . , i a 8 afe conduct and an escort—but the ^ Minteers , excited by some camp orators , ^ ined that they should not pass : —

      is , . " "Presence of Manara himself proved unavaill 3 \ ., i U 0 lw lt , lstan ding the energy which he dis-T n not 7 ril ! l 5 land , n 3 the a " acument of all the "amor their chief , even he could not make

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      himself heard . They pitied him , as one who from an excess of good faith was so blinded aa not to see the danger and the ill effects of an unpardonable compliance . In their delusion they did not perceive that it would have been better to furnish food to the enemy for a month , than to have been guilty of one such ruinous offence against tho rules of discipline . The General was speedily informed of the lamentable state of affairs ; and the principal officer of the staff who had signed the safe conduct hurried to th « spot , accompanied by brave Captain Oslo , himself heard . Thevoitied him na nun rvhn from

      an aide-de-camp . The rf / riment was assembled , and these two officers with Manara , addressed themselves to each company separately , laying before them the serious nature " of the fault they were committing , and admonishing the most outrageous with judicious severity . Their addresses were received in profound silence . One after another the companies were consigned to their respective quarters , numerous sentinels were p laced to hinder all communications , and tbe two deb-gates passed on to the second battalion .

      These men were under arms , and the waggon was still waiting at the entrance of the bridge . The frank address , the repeated command to submit to the orders of the General , seemed to have some effect : the soldiers be ^ an to hesitate ; they appeared to understand the importance of the decision which was expected from them . A moment more , and tho indispensible exactions of discipline would have been acceded to , when a voice was heard from the ranks , " No , by God , tbe waggon shall not pass ! " "Who has dared to answer ? " exclaimed

      Manara . " Here 1 am , " replied the voice ; and the volunteer R , a youuj j man of ardent char . icter , and till then an excellent soldier , though somewhat too hot and headstrong , came forward . The others whispered in an under tone among them-elve-s and exchanged significant glances . Manara repeated the order to open the gate of the bridee . 3 o one moved , and II smiled triumphantly , quietly loaning on his musket . Oh , why did no t Manara consent , as I then suggested to him , that effrontery so unheard of and so ruinous should be instantly and terribly chastised ?

      Four men were ordered to arrest the rebel : they looked on each other and remained motionless . The whole company witnessed , unmoved , this most extraordinary scene . Several officers rushed forwards to accomplish the arrest : a menacing shont then burst forth on every side ; R was surrounded and carried off in the midst of applause . Thin » s were now arrived at such a p itch , that the battalion was on the very verge of offering the horrible spectacle of civil war . Two companies took arms in favour of the revolt ; the others showed themselves still disposed to maintain the cau-fe of

      right and discipline . Bat on this occasion the commanders evinced a blameable weakness . R——was expelled ; they did not , however , venture to arrest him in the presence of the companies . It was not till he arrived at Brescia that he was secretly imprisoned for a month . When he came out , at the time of the general retreat , he returned , entreating to be re admitted into the battalion : he was received , and ever after , as if nothing had happened , he showed himself an obedient soldier . The waggon vas sent back amidst the hisses of the troops , and thus the spirit of insubordination triumphed in the most scandalous manner .

      The story of the siege of Rome is not onl y interesting from greater action but for its greater freshness ; no other book that we have met with having given any original account of that event . Dandolo ' s narrative is not indeed complete as a whole view , but there is p lenty of variety , incident , and life . The Lombard Rifles were employed in the expedition under Garibaldi against the Neapolitans who had advanced upon Home . The following is a picture of that chief and his band : — We encamped on tbe magnificent site of the villa of Adrian ; and the numerous fires which glistened among the rains , and lighted up their subterraneous caverns , produced a strange and picturesque effect . The singular aspect of the camp seemed in unison with the wildness of the scene . Garibaldi and his

      staff were dressed in scarlet blouses , with hats of every possible form , without distinctions of any kind , or any pretension to military ornament . They rode on American paddles , and seemed to pride themselves on their contempt for all the observances most strictly enjoined on regular troops . Followed by their orderlies ( almost all of whom had come from America ) they might be seen hurrying to and fro , now dispersing , then again collecting , active , rapid , and indefatigable in their movements . When the troops baited to encamp or to take some repose , while the soldiers piled their arms , we used to be surprised to see officers , the general himself included , leap down from their horses , and attend to the wants of their own steeds . When these operations were concluded , they opened their saddles , which were made so as to be unrolled and to form a

      small kind of tent , and their personal arrangements were then completed . If they failed in procuring provisions from the neighbouring villages , three or four colonels and majors threw themselves on the bare backs of their horses , and , armed with long lazzos . set off at full speed through the eampagna in search of sheep or oxen : when they had collected a sufficient quantity they returned , driving their ill-gotten flocks before them ; a certain portion was divided among each company , and then all indiscriminately , officers and men , fell to killing , cutting up , and roa > tinj ? at enormous fires quarters of oxen , besides kids and young pigs , to say nothing of booty of a smaller sort , such as poultry , geese , & c .

      Garibaldi , in tbe meanwhile , if the encampment was far from the scene of danger , lay stretched out under his tent . If , on the contrary , the enemy were near at hand , he remained constantly on horseback , giving orders and visiting the outposts ; often disguised as a pea * ant , he risked his own safety in daring reconmisances , but most frequently , seated on some commanding elevation , he passed whole hour . " examining the environs with the aid of a telescope . When the general's trumpet gave the signal to prepare for departure , the lazzos served to catch the horses which had been left to graze at liberty

      in the meadows . The order of march was always arranged oa the preceding day , and the corps set out without any one ever knowing where they might arrive the day after . Owing to this patriarchal simplicity , pushed perhaps somewhat too far , Garibaldi appeared more like the chief of a tribe of Indians than a general ; but at the approach of danger , and in the heat of combat , his presence of mind and courage were admirable ; and then by the astonishing rapidity of his movements , he niado up , in a great measure , for his deficiency in those qualities which are generally supposed to be absolutely essential in a good general .

      The Garibaldi Legion , which numbered about a thousand men , was composed of a most incongruous mixture of individuals of all descriptions . Boys of twelve or fourteen years old , stimulated by noble enthusiasm , or by the restlessness of their age ; veteran soldiers , attracted by the fame of the celebrated chief of Monte-Video ; and , mingled with these , a number of individuals anxious to find impunity and license in tbe confusion of war : such were the elements of this trul y original corns .

      Dandolo complains that the example of Garibaldi ' s Leg ion had a mischievous effect upon the Lombard Rifles ; but though the morafe of the Legion mig ht be bad , its military efficiency was sustained , and obedience to orders enforced : Garibaldi , for example , would have made his safe conduct respected by his men , and with no words about it . The moral of regular discipline in war is , however , the great lesson of the book , as it is of most of the other books that have been written upon

      the late Italian campaigns . A country may be favoured with a -heaven-born general , ' or get one quickly made , but an army , like any other institution , is a work of time . The defenders of Home seem to have been as well organised as it was possible with such improvised bodies , yet a vital position was lost in a way scarcely possible with thorough soldiers even if treachery were really at work , it must have taken some other form than catching the defenders of a breach napping .

      On the ni g ht of the 2 lsr , the second battalion of Reg . TJnione mounted guard on bastion 6 . All was quiet . Lieutenant-Colonel Rossi , whose duty it was to make the general round of inspection , found everything in order ; the soldiers at their post in perfect silence . He continued the round as far as the neighbouring gate " Porteso . " On his return , when near the breach , he was sapped by the " Qui vive ? '' of the sentinel . As the Romans also when on duty were accustomed to employ " alt qui vive . ' " he gave the watchword and was going on , when he found himself surrounded and made prisoner . What on earth had happened ? In the space Of half an hour the French had occupied the breach , not as if it were a post held by the enemy , but as they

      mig ht have relieved guard in a ortress . Sot a single shot had been exchanged , not a drop of blood had been shed . Tbe sentinels had fled ; the drowsy pickets were aroused by tbe enemy silently shaking them , enjoining them to decamp to a place of security ; it may well be imagined , that , astonished and terror-struck , they did not wait for a repetition of the advice . The whole circumstance was involved in extricable mystery ; there were ausoicions of treachery ; some of the sentinels , when interrogated , affirmed that the French had mado their appearance from under ground , and had compelled them to fly . Tiieir contradictory assertions only served to bewilder the interror / atow . Lay t of all it was reported , that the French " bad discovered a secret door which opened

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      into a subterraneous passage leading from tho outer base of the wall into the city , and that by this means they had suddenly , in the dead of night , made their appearance in tho midst of the terrified sentinels , who , seeing themselves surrounded on every side , had yielded without a struggle . On the same night , bastion Ko . 7 , and the wall which united it with 2 fo . 6 , fell , after a vigorous resistance , into the hands of the French , This event produced a dreadful sensation in Rome itself . The French now commanded the site oi our camp , and as soon as their cannon could be planted on the breach , our ruin would be accominto it Suhtei'Mn ™ ,,. * „ -, oa-,, ™ l ™ , ]; ., ™ -C . ™ tv . « .. «««

      plished . They immediately set about fortifying the position they had gained . There was a great difference of opinion within the city . The Roman General , Roselli , urged the necessity of our instantly making an attack , iu order to regain at the point of the bayonet all that we had recently lost . Garibaldi , better acquainted with the discouragement which that morning pervaded even tlie best in the ranks , who had begun to suspect some treachery , and looked upon all as hopeless , opposed himself warmly to Roselli ' s proposal . Thus were these precious hours lost in useless discussions : evening drew on ; the French had already crowned the breach , and the enterprise had become impossible . From that moment we all saw that the fortune of Rome was lost .

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      Lectures on Political Economy , B y FRANCIS W . Newman , formerl y Fellow of Balliol College , Oxford . London : Chapman . The ability of the author of these lectures is unquestioned . The soundness of the views he takes of tho important subjects hemdled is quite another thing . Tho lectures were originally delivered to the "Ladies' College" in Bedford-square , in a somewhat hurried stylo , and publication as promptly followed . It is not to be denied that there are bold and excellent things in the volume ; but our readers will form an opinion for themselves , as to the real character of the book , from the following extract on the great social and political questions of the day : —

      Let me assure you that I for one look with no complacency on the existing state of the mass of English workers . But be it remembered it is a complicated and immense problem to feed twenty million mouths . In a savage state , Great Britain would perhaps have only half a million . To interfere artificially with the great agencies by which this vast population feeds itself , is a most delicate and dangerous affair ; in which the purest philanthropy , unless guided by true and positive science , would be ruinous . If any one propose measures for elevating our working class , by all means let us acknowledge that his object ia excellent , and the attempt anything but superfluous . But if he accompany his plan with invective against Competition as in itself

      an evil thing , then , whatever his benevolence , I cannot refrain from characterising his scheme as ignorant and dangerous . I do not speak at random . Printed papers have been put into my hands which advocate the establishment of Christian villages in which common property is to be tho rule . To recommend these , Competition is denounced as an essentially unchristian principle ( of course that means a base and evil principle ); and to this statement the names of three English bishops are annexed . The same tone of address prevails in all those who are endeavouring to promote what they call Christian Socialism . The danger to the uneducated , arising from this is , that they are incited to rancour against their own equals who dare to

      compete with them and to accept work which they want to keep for themselves . The only competition which they see is , that to which they are themselves exposed ; that capitalists also have to stand competition escapes them . Selfish violence against their rivals is thus held up as a venial , if irregular punishment of guilt . To bystanders , on the other hand , this Socialistic scheme is dangerous , because itfurnishes idle minds with a ready-made creed , and saves them the effort of thought . In every break up of old beliefs , any new system that can start with enthusiasm has a good prospect of adherents . If discontented with Old Physic , we easily become Hommopaths or Hydropaths ; not so much because we have proof that either new system is true , but

      because we find the old one unsatisfactory . The same cause gave currency to Astrology and Egyptian Relig ion in old Rome , and afterwards to Mohammedism in the East , and , in modern times , to Fourierism in France , to Mormonism in America . The Socialists appear to me to be so empty of proof , as scarcely to deserve scientific reply ; but their strength lies in the tendency of men to accept any new system which pretends to obviate felt grievances . Their errors I would classify as moral , political , and economical . Moral : 1 st , In speaking as though my duties were equal towards all mankind ; which is untrue . To have any but a very secondary care for those who are unconnected with me in the relations of life , would be a hurtful Quixotism . 2 nd ,

      In wonderfully undervaluing the difficulty of subduing a ruinous selfishness in a community , tbat lived on common property . Political : In imagining that such a community , if men were allowed to choose their own occupations , would not presently break in pieces from their rival preferences ; or that if it were subjected to the despotism of a single mind , it could fail to degenerate into apathetic stupidity . But my peculiar business is with the Economic error , which consists in blindness to the fact that there can be no such thing as Price except through the influence of Competition ; and that if they mean to allow exchanges between Community and Community , they ought to abandon this declamation against Competition . Consider

      once more the circumstances of exchange . If human labour were so uninventive that the best organised industry were absorbed on mere necessaries , —food , clothing , and shelter , —there would be room for the argument , that , wherever was a superfluity of these things , all who needed might be allowed to help themselves freel y . This is the state of brute animals , and approximately of savages . But when , through theingenuity which God has given us , our labour becomes tenfold and twenty fold in efficiency—when , inconsequence , alargepartofanation must either be idle or produce luxuries , ( I mean here things not necessary ) , it is absurd to argue in the same way . For instance , if velvet is produced , how is it to be exchanged with potatoes 1 Is it

      not egregious nonsense , and almost a desecrating of right sentiment , to say , " the Law of Love shall rule : let them take as much velvet as they need ; and let vs have as many potatoes as we need V The reply is , first , that no one needs velvet;—next , that it is not the Law of Love to let each help himself ; for while supply is limited , one may so do it as to deprive others . To discuss and discover how much a man needs , is an infinite question . The only feasible mode is that of a Poor Law , which , under certain circumstances , doles out a definite supply to each , . And this breaks down of itself unless the persons thus relieved are a small fraction of the whole . The many must support themselves by free exchange . The truth is really

      painful , but needs to be enforced , that Competition , though ( like all the laws of Nature ) often severe , is yet a beneficial as well as a necessary process . If I desire to get my garden dug , and am about to pay a man 4 s . for his day ' s work , merely because I have been accustomed to pay that sum , but before I have agreed with him another roan offers to do the same work for 3 s . Gd ., the presumption ia that the latter is in greater need , and tbat ( unless lam in some previous moral relation to the former , which ought to be respected , ) I should do a more humane act by employing the one at 3 s . Gd . than tbe other at 4 s . I do not now treat of the prudential question . The cheapest priced work is not always truly the cheapest . I merely say , that if it 6 e really the cheaper , and if we be in no

      nearer moral relation to one than to the other of the parties , ray humanity , quite as much as my parsimony , will dictate my receiving the cheaper bargain . However , in theory , might we not lay down that the time occupied in producing an article measures its value ? Then , if one man can hunt , shoot , and bring back a bag of game in the same time that another can carve a walking-stick , the stick and the bag of game ought to be of equal value in the market , —But it is obvious , that no one can know how long another

      takes or ouyht to be about his work except by aid of competition . When fowlers bring strings of dead birds into the market , their competition lowers the price so as to put a fine on the unskilful or idle ; and again , so as to punish them all , if they kill more birds than are wanted . Surely this is a most wholesome principle . It forces all to sell at or nearly at the price of him who can afford to sell cheapest ; which is to the universal benefit of buyers . -And as they sell only in order to buy , they reap the benefit of competition in their turn , when they come forward as buyers . "

      The scent of Balliol College hangs round the Professor still , and we fear the sellers ' of labour will seek for other advisers in the future which lies before them big with such important problems .

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      Malicious Robber * at Som ' s SvMPOsivjM . —On Sunday evening some evil-disposed person penetrated to the " Encampment of All Nations , " in the Symposium , and succeeded in cutting off and carrying away twenty-five yards of the monster tablecloth which formed one of the attractions of Gorehouse , and was certainly a triumph of British manufacture . The Ex-Superinienoent op Depiford Dock-TARn . —It is reported that , through the influence of the Duke of Wellington , Rear-admiral Sir John Hill has been granted to a retirement Of no less than £ 850 per annum . " It is better to be born lucky than vieh , " —U » iud Service Gazette .

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      OLYMPIC THEATRE . rJ , nf . nYn h ° f aIled Th ¦**» Eater , brinffs out S S r b 0 Sfc comic for <* . Personating a timoious Cavalier recruit lie unconsciously commits an act which lays him open to the suspicion of secretly favouring the Roundheads ; and upon being tried by a court-martial is ordered to bo shot . Having been led to suppose that the entire proceedings originate m tho joking propensities of his eemrades , and that the trial , ind the sentence are equally matter of jest , tho recruit puts on an unwonted air of heroism , treating the whole process with merry indifference , much , to the amazement of the soldiery , \ yh 0 gave him little credit for braverv Ot any Kind . The captain findins his recruit a mail

      ot invincible courage , even under the sentence of death , proposes to him to undertake the dangerous task of carrying a despatch into tho heart of the enemy s lines , which he accomplishes in the same sort of heroic spirit as in the other case . He is of course successful in the mission , and when he finds , as he eventuall y does , tbat his life has been literally forfeited , and that he has just been employed on a task of all others tbe most perilous , he swoons with fear , and at once eschews all military glory for the

      future . The farce is sli g ht enough , but the drollery of the notion is somewhat original , and the dry jocularity of Compton , whose lively gallantry suddenly degenerates into the most abject cowardice , is a pregnant source of diversion . M . Selby is stated to be tbe author of this dramatic trifle . Mr . Oxenford ' s clever adaptation of Adrienne Lecouvrier has been revived here , Mr . W . Farren resuming his original character of Miehonnet . Mrs . Stirling plays the heroine , to which she gives an effect scarcely inferior to that of Rachel herself .

      STANDARD THEATRE . The performances this week commenced with a new domestic drama , founded on facts of recent occurrence , called Margaret Catchpole . The three first acts are laid in England , and develope incidents of startling variety , ending with the expatriation of the guilty , yet duped and betrayed Margaret , to Van Diemen ' s Land . The fourth act is laid in that colony , and introduces , amid the other novelties of thai far-off land , several chiefs of the native tribes . Tbe drama ends with the marriage of the heroine to a wealthy settler , her former lover having been

      slam in endeavouring to procure her escape . The piece was well got up . The Chinese Bell-ringers performed a variety of tunoa before tho glass curtain , - all lovers of this music should decidedly pay a visit to the theatre during their engagement . The performances concluded with the drama of ldrien the Bold , which was played with great spirit . The concluding scene , where ldrien is precipitated into the cataract , is oneof great novelty—the water falling from the l'OOf of the theatre , flowing from rock to rock , until the whole stage appears one mass of foam and spray , amid which the body of the bandit is seen rolling fearfully to inevitable

      destruction . ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Dr . Bachhoffner , the professor of natural philosophy to this establishment , has just commenced some highly interesting and instructive lectures on the forthcoming total eclipse of the sun on the 28 th of this month . The doctor remarked that all that behold this phenomenon must be struck with its awful sublime appearance , and after alluding to the

      superstition of our ancestors in reference to eclipses , went on to explain in & lucid manner the onuses of the difference between total and partial eclipses . He then called attention to tire course which the eclipse would take over Europe ; and showed by a map how it commences in Norway and terminates near the Black Sea , explaining at the same time that in Great Britain the eclipse would be but partial . The professor illustrated his lecture by exhibiting many very beautiful diagrams , and concluded with great applause from a very crowded audience .

      The General Ap*Tnv.~What Shall We Write ...

      The General Ap * Tnv . ~ What shall we write about ? What do people care about ? What do they interest themselves about ? Nothing , Everything is a bore , or insipid as the white of an egg . Shall we say something of Jotee Persaud ' s case ? For Jotee Persaud the public care not a jot . As well might any one try to rouse indication on behalf of Mr . Hudson . Smitbfield Market , happily , is doomed at last . Is not that a subject for congratulation ? Yes , but not for an article . The fact is enough , without any words about it . The metropolitan water supply concerns every inhabitant of London ; but nobody believes that anything will be done this session , and there is no faith in the water doctors . There is the Church Buildup Acts Amendment

      Bui ; but who requires to be told that the heads of the poor man ' s church are ever ready to encroach on the poor man ' s church room , and to substitute pew rates for free sittings ? For so it is , that the holy men illustrate their implicit faith in the doctrine that the kingdom of heaven is the inheritance of the poor , who , therefore , do not stand in the same need of spiritual instruction as tho rich , to whom tbe access is as difficult as the eye of a needle to a camel . Shall the subject be the fresh and lively one of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill ? Better , say our readers , leave your paper in blank , saving your types and your renders , and sparing that most stale , flat , and unprofitable discussion . Mr . Paxton had a narrow escape of being burnt to a cinder in a

      railway carriago on firo the other day , and is that not a text for some comment on the expediency of having a guard at the end of a train with means of communication with the engine driver ? "No , " say our readers . " You have been hammering away on tho subject for the last half-dozen years , and it is idle to waste more words about it till some one has been actually roasted to death between one station and another , then a stir will be made in earnest about the matter . " At present the spontaneous combustion of a Hindoo widow in India would be looked upon with infinitely greater horror and indignation than the burning of an unwilling Paxton in posse . Well , but , as a lasr . resource , there is the topic that has swallowed up all others , the Exhibition , the moralising upon which is as inexhaustible as tho wonders it displays . But of

      this , too , the public is tiring—not of the thing itself , but of the talking and writing about it , which are beginning to fall into the class of bores . The highest enconium on a party now would be tbat the Exhibition was not once mentioned in it . About what , then , do people converse ? About the nothing that there ia to converse about , an example we have followed in writing . From Dan to Bcersheba all is barren . We are in the collapse aft or an excitement . When and about what will interest be roused again ? When will tho suspended animation of the public bo restored ? At present it neither reads , nor writes , nor thinks , nor troubles or concerns , itself about anything , and especially eschews spending any money . Nevertheless , hard as the case is , we must write ; even though we have no subject to write about , and no public to read . — Esamimr . '

      Htdh Park KETiEws .--The Foot Guards have been out lately in H yde-park , performing various evolutions in the presence of their colonels , and exciting the special admiration of the rustics who now swarm in the metropoliSi It is , however , accounted somewhat strange , that while the foot regiments are so activel y employed nothing is done with the Household Cavalry . Farmers think it would benefit the fat dray horses of the Life Guards amazingly if they had a little exercise , and at tho same time show the yokels what splendid cavalry we have . There is another point of view in which their employment is likely to be of service , of which the country people take no account . We mean the

      military view . Might it not be beneficial to order out the Iiife Guards with the Household Infantry , and give them the opportunity of brigading together ? We believe that not one of the big horses can stand fire ; the moment ; > musket is discharged away they go bolter skelter at once as if the very devil was at their heavy heels . It would be rather awkward if' BUCh very nervous animal .-i u ere sent to the wars . Better by far employ their inglorious ease in accustoming them to volleys of blank musketry , than keep them fattening and stupifying on no better exercise than a gallop in the Scrubs , and no other . soldiering than a march from the Horse Guards to the barracks and back . — United Service Gazette .

      Oh Tuesday the Kasseid Heir , steam yateh , built for the Pacha of Egypt , was launched from the premises of Messrs . Joyce and Co ., opposite the Dreadnought Hospital Ship . Her dimensions are —Length , 150 feet ; beam , eighteen feefc ; depth , eleven feet , builders' old measure . Old measure , 230 52-74 tons . She is to be fitted with a screw propeller and a pair of vibrating engines of tho collective power of eighty horses . The ftli'STACmo . —A . witty definition of a mustachio was recently ^ iven as the " upper lip gone in mournin g fur the loss of the brains . "

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      Cons.—What Flower Most Resembles A Bull'...

      Cons . —What flower most resembles a bull ' s month ?—A cowslip . When does a man look like a cannon ball ?—When he looks round . Truth , they say , lies in a well . " For my part , " said a wit , " I thought it the property of truth to lie nowhere . " A Query . —Speaking of fashionable hats , should one say " the latest style , " or " the latest tile . " The Croi's . —Favourable accounts relative to tbe growing ; crops in the United Kingdom continue to be received . A False Charge , —A woman charged with being drunk and disorderly , denied the latter offem-e , saving that " she was too drunk to be disorderly . " " Miss Johnson , have vou ever seen Cralbe ' t TalcsV — " Crab ' s tails ! No ; it is the first time that I ever heard that crabs had tails . "

      Patent purse-gloves , which have a pocket to contain any small sum of money , a railway ticket , Sec , for immediate use , have been invented . Novel Discovbky . -A discovery has just boon made at llermiones , iu the Peloponnesus , of a curiam spring of water which , when mixed with oil , hecomes at once a kind of soap . "What ' s i . v a Namb ?"—Signor Giovanni Vitelli , " professor of music , " having eof . into thr insolvent court , ( urns ruit to he " John Whittle ! ' ' Will Iou Ukmumbkr Tms ^ -Good temper is like a sunny day ; it sheds a brightness over everything . It is the sweetener of toil , and the sontlwr ot disquietude . To be extolled for a quality which a man knows himseit to want , should five hira no other happiness than to be mistaken for the owner of an estate over which he may chance to be travelling

      Tarnation Tall . —An American giant refused to come over to this country , because not one of our days—even the twenty-first of June-is long enough for him to stand upri ght in . ° " Heads up , Eyks Right . "—In walking , always turn your toes out and your thoughts inwards . The former will prevent you from falling into cellars , the latter from falling into iniquity . Prospects of a Civil War . —Elderly married man ; " I didn ' t say anything ; but , my dear , 1 think you might get breakfast ready before tea time ( ahem !) . Only once—just for a change . " Old and Touoh . —A Canadian bought a patriarchal turkey : — "I took him home , " fays he ; " my wile bile him tree hours , and den he crow . Mv wife put him in de pot « id de taters and he kick ' em all out . "

      Thb World ' s Wonder . —It has been said that if we leave out the Pyramids from among the Seven Wonders of the ancient world the other six could be placed iu the inside of the wonder of the modern world now standing in Hyde Park . Recruiting . —A young man asked his governor for some money , as he wanted to go out of town to recruit his health . "Recruit your health ! " exclaimed the old captain " well , then , sir , here s a shilling , that is all we pay for recruiting in the army . " Tub Dumb Speaking . —A rogue asked charity , on pretence of being dumb . A lady having asked him with equal simplicity and humanity , how long he had been dumb , he was thrown off his guard and answered , "From birth , madam "— " Poor fellow . " said the ladr , and gave him a shilling .

      A Poser . —Those two celebrated divines and scholars , Drs . South and Sherlock , were once disputing on some religious subjects , when the latter accused his opponent of using his wit in the contro * versy . " Weil , " said South , " suppose that it had pleased God to give t / ou wit , what would you have done . " Making the Clock go . —Some rascal has stolen a Connecticut clock from the New York Mirror office . Whereupon the editor remarks : — " All we have to say is , that the dock never went before , and but for the principle involved in the case we should say nothing about it . " Ingenious Contrivance . —A clock is being introduced into various mills . It is set in motion from the main shafts of the works , and fastened up in proximit y to an ordinary clock . By referring to both , the foreman is enabled to detect at a glance the increase or diminution of the speed of the machinery , and thus to regulate its working .

      The field of Waterloo is , like the rest of Belgium , remarkably rich . For several years after the conflict the crops were prodigious , owing to the vast quantity of animal matter bli-nded with the soilt Even yet , after the lapse of so many years , tho grain on those portions where the dead were interred is not only richer , but of a darker colour than elsewhere . Father Ignatius is said to have imposed a new penance on the poor of his ministrations . He makes them pray daily for tbe benighted English , all of whom he affirms will go to mass this year if four paters and three aves are said every morning ; but , as the Irish housemaid remarked , "It is too hard upon any poor girl who has to make three fires , tidy the parlour , and bile the kettle before nine !"

      • Sensible Remark . —At the time when tho Pope had " frighted the isle from its propriety , " a friend of ours , who , in getting on to the top of an omnibus , said , " It is a wet day , " was received by the coachman with "Thankye , Sir , for that wery sensible information . You ' re the first gen'leman for a whole fortnight that has spoken about anything but the Papal Aggression!—Builder . Nautical . —A sailor , the other day , in describing his first efforts to become nautical , said that just at the close of a dark night he was sent aloft to see if he could see a light . After a short time he was hailed from the deck with— " Mast head , ahoy !"" Ay , ay , sir , " was the answer . " Do you see a light ?"— "Yes , sir . " "What light ?"— " Daylight , sir . " The lookout was ordered down witha

      run . Blue Bonnets . —The Jersey Times has an impromptu , written on seeing ladies' bonnets hung with blue shades . Oh ! age of reverses , and times of disorder ! On which forlorn poets in vain would write sonnets : Once " all the blue bonnets were over the border ;" Now , all tho blue borders are over the bonnets ! The Ruling Passion . —Colonel Cunynghame tells us , in his work on America , that when at St . Louis , lie had a long conversation at dinner upon the wonders of America . At length his companion wound up with this wonderful remark : — " I calculate , sir , that your Queen must now be tarnation mad that her grandfather did not leave England at ihe time of her independence ; that he did not settle in this country , and annex Great Britain to it ! Your little isle , sir , would make a pretty addition to this fine country !"

      The Folly of Fretting . —Two gardeners , who were neighbours , had their crops of early peas killed by the frost . One of them came to condole with the other . "Ah , " cried he , "how unfortunate ! Do you know , neighbour , I have done nothing but fret ever since . But , bless me , you seem to have a fine crop comingup—what ssrt are they ? " " Why , these are those 1 sowed immediately after my loss . "" What , coming up already 1 " " Yes , " replied the other , ' while you were fretting , I was working . " Fighting for the Lord . —An Irish preacher was considerably annoyed ( as many before and since have likewise been ) by persons getting up and leaving the church during his sermon . His patience being exhausted , he stopped his discourse and in a rowdy way exclaimed— " Go on , my lad , I ' ve seen the top of

      your head , that ' s enough ! " I'll see you again , sir . "— "You had better see me now , " replied the preacher , " for when I am in the pulpit I fight for the Lord , but when I ' m out of it I fight for myself . " A Second Frankenstein . —The Cincinnati Nonpariel announces that a scientific gentleman of that city has , at various time * , produced animal life solely from the action of certain chemical preparations on each other . In conclusion , the journalist says : — " The specimen of life produced did not exist more than twenty-four hours in either instance ; but the simple fact of life power being thus manifested and attested , as it is by the personal examination of five or six eminent physicians , raay lead to something of which the world of science , as at present , may look forward with awe and amazement !"

      Inoian Rubber Tots . —In the American department ot the Exhibition we see a new application of India rubber . We have often heard of " real blessings to mothers , but what will they say to everlasting toys—toys that will never break ? This great desideratum of the nursery has been effected in America by the use of vulcanised India rubber . Here we huve rattles , lions , tigers , monkeys , horses , frogs , dolls , absolutely indestructible . We fear that this will be considered by the toy makers of France , Germany , and Switzerland as one of the evil results of the Exhibition ; for , who would think of purchasing toys of lead , tin , or wood , when they can be had made of indestructible Indian rubber .

      'I hk Desired Effect . —A young girl from the country being on a visit to a Quaker , was prevailed on to accompany him to meeting . It happened to be a silent one , none of the brethren being moved to utter a syllable . When the Quaker left the meeting house with his young friend , lie asked her , "Ilo « didst thou like the meeting ? " To which she pettishly replied — " Like it ! why , I can see no sense in it—to go and sit for whole hours together without speaking a word —it is enough to kill Satan himself . " " lea , my dear , " rejoined the Quaker , "that is just what we want . " Remarkable Site for a Bird ' s Nbst . —A water

      wagtail built its nest this spring in a chink of the outer wall of the saw mill at Carron village . Ihe lar ^ e water wheel is continually revolving during the day , within four inches of the nest in which the parent bird sits with the most apparent uncorcem , '• the dizzying mill wheel " having , to all appearance , no effect upon its little brain . More curious still , owing to the close proximity of the wall and the wheel , the bird could not fly between them , and « ctually , on entering or leaving her nest , flow right throuili between the revolving spokes , at whatever rate the huge circle was revolving . — Dumfries Courier ,

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 5, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05071851/page/3/