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      ' TH ' THE MELANCHOLY MONTH OF MAY . Che Foe ThePoets sing the merry month of May , Bnt s Bat surely Nature sever Iook'd so glum . Where t Where are the flowers that make all nature gay ? Who Wherearethebees ? Alas ! they ' re all a hum . Where Where are the blossoms that should gem the bower » This This year they make a very sorry show ; For wb For what with boisterous winls and pelting showers The The buds are blown away before they blow . ^ Milton Milton alludes to zephyr gently playing WM WitbyonngAurora , f ! rilofinirthandglee ; If in tl If in the present rear they'd gone a Maying , ' The Theymusthavedonesowithaparapiiti " . Theyl They bid ns forth iu May to hear the note

      On Of nightingale resounding through the plain ; Tbis ; Thlsyearweshouldhare neededagreatcoat ' As As a protection ' gainst the rattling rain . The 1 The murm'ring breeze is weR enough , no doubt , Th That gently dallies with fair Phoebe's carls ; Bat i Bat not so pleasant when it blows about Y < four latin rapid and successive whirls . Adie Adieu , duR month!—dark , dismal wet , and drear ' . W Who call thee merry , know not what they say ; Tho Thonltbe the greatest cheat in all theyear ! F , Farewell , most melancholy month of May . ' emu-shank ' s Table-Bool

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      ESS ESSAYS m NATURAL HISTORY , & c . Bv C . Vfi Wa . teb . tos , Esq . London : Longman and Co ., Pa Paternoster-row . (< ( Continuedfrom , tiic Northern Star o / 3 % Zlst . ) W We continue oar extracts frem Mr . WuERrox's ente entertaining book : — THE SOIXEAWS S ? ABSOW , OB TBBCSB . If Itehistoryisbutlittleknowntotheworldatlai-ge . and its i its identity is exposed to be called in question on account of t of the name which it erroneously bears . The bird to wis which I aRude is the passer soKtarww ; in English , the solitar taiy sparrow ; and in Italian , jM . ' ^ em « i ( " 6 wiit . * * Th The first time I ever saw this lonely plaintive songster wa wasingotngtohearioasshithemagniScentchnrchofthe

      Je Jesuits at Rome . The dawn was just appearing , and the bh bird passed over my head in its transit from the roof of th < the Palace Odeschalchi , to the belfry of the church ofthe Tt Twelve Apostles , singingasitflew . I thought it had been th the Italian blackbird , with notes somewhat different from th those / Jfour own ; its song was partly that of the blackbird , ar and partly that ofthe storm-cock , but not so loud as the la last , nor so varied as the first . I found out my mistake is in due time ; and , on seeing that the bird was the true si solitary thrash , I paid particular attention to its habits . I It is indeed a solitary bird , forit never associates with any 0 other , and only with its own mate iu breeding time ; and e even then it is often seen quite aloue upon the house-top , i where it warbles in sweet and plaintive strains , and con-1 tinuesitssougasitmovesineasyfligbtfrMikTOoftoroof . The traveUer who is fond of ornithology may often see this bird on the remains ofthe Temple of Peace , and

      occasionally in the Villa Borghese , but much more frequently on the stupendous rains of the Baths of Caracalla , where it breeds in holes of the waUs , and always on the Colosseum , where it likewise makes its nest ; and , in fine , at one time or other of the . day , oa the tops of most of the churches , monasteries , and convents within and without the walls of the eternal city . ' It lays five eggs of a very pale blue . They much resemble those of our starling . The bird itself is blue , with black wings and tail ; aud the blue of the body becomes lighter when placed in different attitudes . "Whilst I lodged in the Palazzo di Gregorio , this solitary songster haditswe ^ t iw the roof of the celebrated Propaganda , across the street " dei due Jlacelli , " and only a few yards from my window . I longed to get at it ; but knowing that the Romans would not understand my scaling the walls of the Propaganda , iu order to ^ r . ipagate the history of the solitary thrush , aud seeing at the came time that the hole at which the bird entered was

      very difficult ox access , 1 deemed it most prudent to keep dear of the Propaganda , and to try to procure the uest from some other quarter . The many promises which Roman sportsmen had given aie , of Hie nest and eggs of the Military thrash , baring entirely failed , and I myself not bring able to go in quest of them , oa account of an attack of dysentery , which bore heavy on me , 1 despaired of obtaining the object of my -wishes ; aud I should have left Italy -sithotit other nest or eggs , had not the llcv . Mr . C < WM , vise-j » es 5 dent of the Scotch college in Rome , •^ sorted himself as bebad already often done , in ihecause of natural history . This learned and worthy gentleman , sent expressly for a nest to the vineyard of his college . It was found in the roof of the house , and had four eggs in it . The lad who took it bad succeeded in capturing the female bird . Having examined the poor captive as

      siinntely as though I had been a custom-house officer , I Jun-ed it loose into the world again ; and , as it flew a way 1 hoped it would have better luck for the time to come . 1 ¦ sent the nest and eggs to England , by a different route -i ' rom that which . 1 raysfiii pw « ue < S . Had 1 taken them with me , they would have gone to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea ; for in the wight of the ICth of June , 1 S 4 L , my sisters-in-law , Miss Sdmonstone and Miss Helen Bdmondstone , my little boy , my servants , and myselfj vrere wrecked off the Isle of iZiba . We bad only fifteen minutes t-y save our lives , before the vessel foundered , and we lost everything except the clothes on oar backs . Ihe solitary thrush is scan in all the countries of the East , up to Syria and Ssypt , and probably much farther oa . This bird is solitary to the fullest extent of the word .

      We now return with Mr . W-ATEmos to England , and give the following singular account of THS POWERS 0 ? VrGETATJOK . In those good daysof old , when there were r . o cornfactors in England " to counteract that part of oar Redeemer ' s prayer , " Give ns this day our daily bread , 'by hoarding wp -vast stoves of grain , « ntil mouldincss and vermin have rendered it unfit for the use of man , there 5 tood at Walton HaU a-water-mill , tor the interest of the proprietor and the good of the country round . Time , the Teat annihilator of all human inventions , saving taxation and the national debt , laid this fabric low in ruins some

      asty years ago ; aid nothing now remains to shovrthe s-aee -wtwre it once stood except a masswemillstoiie , which measures foil seventeen feet in circumference . The ground where the mill stood having been converted into aieadorv , this stone lay there unnoticed and unknown save by the passing hay-maker ) from the period of the mfll ' s dissoluti'in to the autumn of the year 1913 , when one of onr nat-eatitig wild animals , probably by way of a winter store , deposited a few imts tmuer its protecting cover . In the course of the following summer , a single ant having escaped the teath of the destroyer , sent up its verdant shoot through the bole in the centre of the prosmribent millstone .

      One day I pointed out ibis rising tree to a gentleman who was standing by ; and I said , "If this young plant scape destruction , some time or other it wiU support the mUlstone , and raise it from the ground . " H « seemed to Scubt this . in order , lowever , that the plant might have a fair Hiznce of success , ! directed that it should be defended from accident and harm by means of s wooden paling . Year after year itincreased in size and beauty ; and when its expansion had entirely filled the hole in the centre of * i > f > nuHstc-ne , it gradually began to raise up the millstone itself from the seat of its long repose . This huge mass of Mone is now eight inches above the ground , and is entirely sapported by the stem of ihe nnt tree , which has risen to the height of twenty-five feet , and bears excellent fruit .

      Strangers often inspect this original curiosity . « vhen I meet a visitor whose mild physiognomy informs me that Ms soul is proof against the stormy winds of politics , which now-a-days set aR the world in a ferment , I venture a small attempt at pleasantry , and say that I never pass this tree and millstone without thinking of poor old Mr . Bull , with a weight of eight hundred millions of pounds round bis galled aeck ;—frnraal source oi . speculation to a MaebiaveL bat of sorrow to a Washington .

      CHANGES K » THE HABITS Or AS 1 HALS . M * tom-cat , apparently an excellent tnouser , will sometimes prefer dry biscuit to a mattoa chop . Sterne's ass seem ed to relisbmaearoon . Mdallassesrelisbinacarooii , we might doubt the fitness of the -Spanish proverb , "La miel no es para la bora del asno f Hcncy is not made for the mouth ofthe ass . Parrots in cages will puU off their own feathers , and eat them by the dozen . Blackbirds , < hh 9 Bgh on very short allowance , caused by the frosty earner , would not touch their favourite ivy berries , shidiwere thrown down in abundance for them in the cardan of my friend , Mr . London , of Bayswater . I knew a healthy old owl who took her confinement so much to ieart that she refused aBldndof food , and died at last for ^ attofit And , -svhen I was in the Mediterranean Sea , I awabrateiatbesbape ofman swallow pieces of raw fowl I which he had torn asunder , feathers and aR , ) with as fflaefc avidit * as Sr Robert Peel devours our incomes .

      Mr . Wvteeton defends the account he formerly gave of the cayman , * which it appears lias been euesfioned bymorerecent writers , orratber a certain writer in Lardmr ' s Cahinct Cyclopedia . Mr . Water'O-v considers the carman tobe a lizard of an extra ordinary size . Crocodile is the eastern name , ana ^ jnW , or alligator , the -western name for this monstrous hard . De refutes the old fable of crocodiles bedding tearaovertheirYicthns , and devourin g their 5 jm young ; and relates some striking instances of : ae lerociiy of these monsters . Here is one : —

      IHE CATMAS . In the year J & 3 SI carried tord CoHingWood ' s despatches ;* ** Oronogne to the city of Angostura , where the ipatS * governor , Bon FethxdeYndarte , resided . Icor T * sfoi « lea with him for some time afterwards . He was a ^ dier . of vast information in the natural history of the Jountry , anj had been a great explorer in his time . He awed m 3 a j , ^ ^ p 0 f Spanish Guiana , having made ; ' from his own personal snrrey of those regions iu early ^ e- On the breaking out of the revolutionary war , ^ hich , according to Canning ' s rambling specnlation , was to ^ jjjg atnonsand rqnjblies , tbis true Spaniard "'ugatfw King Ferdinand Til . Bnt fortune having de-**** against bin , he left the Oronoque , and retired to " - <* i = Jand of Santa Cruz ; where death closed his mortal faieer .

      • * he Spaniards , who have more pleasure than pnrifan-^» m their composition , think it no harm , after they g re perfonntd the sacred duties of the day , to enjoy a j *? « n « aj erening , in gay attire , on the Alameda or •^ fc & c walk , where titers fegeaarally a band of music I

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      had resorted to the walk attached to Augustm-a , and was in company with Governor Ynciarte , when he stopped on reaching a certain place , aud begged my attention to what he was going to relate . " Do ,, Carlos , " said he to me , mark the opening which leads to the Oronoque . " I was on this very spot , a great number ofthe inhabitants being present , when there suddenly came out of the river an enormous cayman . It seized a man close by me , and carried him off to the water , where it sank with him to appear no more . The attack was so sudden , and the animal so tremendous , that none of us had either time or courage to go the unfortunate man's rescue . "

      J I" The Fomer Account Of The Cayman Her...

      j I " fomer account of the cayman here alluded to , which appeared originally in the Wander , wgs , there is given the best crocodile story we ever read-so geod , that although the work in which it appeared has been published some years , we think it will interest our readers to transfer it to our columns . The story relates the capture of a cayman in the River Esscquibo in Guiana . About half-past five in the morning , the Indian stole oft silently to take a look at the bait . On arriving at the place he set op a tremendous shout . We all jumped out of oar hammocks , and ran to him . The Indians got there before me , for they had no chrthes to put on , and 1 lost two minutes in looking for my trousers and in slip ping into them .

      Wefownd a cayman , tenfeet andahalf long , fast to the end of the . rope . Xotbing now remained to do , but to get him out of the water without injuring his scales , "hoc opus , hie labor . " We mustered strong : there were three Indians from the creek , there was my own Indian \ an , Daddy Quashi , the negro from Mrs . Peterson ' s , James , Mr . R . Edmonstone ' s man , whom I was instructing to preserve birds , and , lastly , myself . 1 informed the Indians that it was my intention to draw him quietly out of the water , and then secure him . They looked and stared at each other , and said I might do it myself , but they would have no band in it ; the cayman would worry some of ns . On saying this " conscdere duces , " they squatted on their hams with the most perfect indifference .

      The Indians of these wilds hare never been subject to the least restraint ; and 1 knew enough of them to be aware , that if I tried to force them against their will , they would take off ; and leave me and my presents unheeded , and never return . Daddy Quashi was for applying to onr guns , as usual , considering them onr best and safest friends . I immediately offered to knock Mm down for bis cowardice , and he shrunk back , begging that I would be cautious , and not get myself worried ; and apologising for his own want of resolution . My Indian was now in conversation with the others , and they asked me if I would allow them to shoot a dozen arrows into him , and thus disable him . This would have ruined all . I had come above three huadred miles on purpose to get a cayman uninjured , and not to carry back a mutilated specimen . I rejected their proposition with firmness , and darted a disdainful eye upon the Indians .

      Daddy Quashi was again beginning to remonstrate , and I chased him on the sand-bank for a quarter of a mile . He told me afterwards he thought he should have dropped down dead with fright , for he was firmly persuaded , if I had caught him , I should have bundled him into the cayman ' s jaws . Here then we stood , in silence like a calm before a thunder-storm . " Hoc res summit loco . Scinditur in contraria vulgus . " They wanted to kill him , and I wanted to take him alive . I now walked up and down the sand , revolving a dozen projects in my head . The canoe was at a considerable

      distance , and I ordered the people to bring it round to the place where we were . The mast was eight feet long , and not much thicker than my wrist . I took it out of the canoe , and wrapped the sail round the end of it Now it appeared clear to me , that if I went down upon one knee , and held the mast in the same position as the soldier holds his bayonet when rushing to the charge , I could force it down the cayman ' s throat , should he come openmouthed at me . When this was told to the Indians , they brightened up , and said they would help me to pull him out ofthe river .

      "Brave suuad ! " said I to myself , "' Audax omnia perpeti , ' now that you have got me betwixt yourselves and danger . " I then mustered all hands for the Inst time before the battle . We were , four South American savages , two negroes from Africa , a Creole from Trinidad , aud myself a white man from Yorkshire . In fact , a little tower of Babel group , in dress , no dress , address , and language . Daddy Quashi hung in the rear : I Showed him a large Spanish knife , which I always carried in the waistband of my trousers-. it spoke volumes to him , and he shrugged aphis shoulders in absolute despair . The sun was just peeping over the high forests on the eastern hills , as if coming to look on , and bid us act with becoming fortitude . I placed aR the people at the end of the rope , and ordered them to pull till the cayman appeared on the surface ofthe water ; and then , should he plunge , to slacken the rope and let hint go again into the deep .

      I now took the mast of the canoe in my hand ( the sail being tied round the end of the mast ) and sunk down upon one knee , about four yards from the water ' s edge , determining to thrust it down his throat , in case he gave me an opportunity . I certainly felt somewhat uncomfortable in tbis situation , and I thought of Cerberus on the other side of tbe Styx ferry . The people pulled the cayman to tbe surface ; he plunged furiously as soon as he arrived in these upper regions , and immediately went below again on their slackening the rope . I saw enough not to fall in love at first sight I now told them we would run aU risks , and have him on land immediately . They pulled again , and out he came— " monstrum borrendum , informe . " This was an interesting moment . Ikeptinj position firmly , with my eye fixed steadfast on him .

      By the time the cayman was within two yards of me , I saw he was in a state of fear and perturbation ; I instantly dropped the mas ^ sprung up , and jumped on his back , turning half round as I vaulted , so that I gained my seat with my face in a right position . I immediately seized his fore-legs , and , by main force , twisted them on his back ; thus they served me for a bridle . lie now seemed to have recovered from his suiprise , and probably fancying himself in hostile company , he begun to plunge furiously , and lashed the sand with his long and powerful tail . I was out of reach of the strokes of it , hy being near his head . He continued to plunge and strike , and made my seat very uncomfortable . It must have been a fine sight for an unoccupied spectator .

      The people roared out in triumph , and were so vociferous , that it was some time before they heard me tell than to pull me and my beast of burden farther in laqd . I was apprehensive the rope might break , and then there would have been every chanceof going down to the regions under water with the cayman . That would have been more perilous than Arion ' s marine morning

      ride" Delphini insidens -vada casrula sulcat Arion . " The people now dragged us about forty yards on the sand : it was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman ' s back . Should it be asked , bow I managed to keep my seat , I would answer—I hunted some years with Lord Darlington's fox hounds . After repeated attempts to regain his liberty , the cayman gave in , and became tranquil through exhaustion , I now managed to tie up his jaws , and firmly secured his fore-feet in the position I had held them . We had now another severe struggle for superiority , but he was soon overcome , and again remained quiet . While some of the people were pressing upon his head and shoulders , I threw myself on his tail , and by keeping it down to the sand , prevented him from kicking up another dust . He was finally conveyed to the canoe , and then to the place where we had suspended our hammocks . There I cut his throat ; and after breakfast was over , commenced the dissection .

      George Cruikshank's Table-Book. Juke. Th...

      GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOK . Juke . This is a very good number of the Tahle-Book . The illustrations are , as usual , excellent , and the literary matter this month is more entertaining than in some of the preceding numbers . "A Legend of the Rhine" promises to he agood story ; " Florence Preserved" is a capital quiz , which will be well understood bythedonsof "highlife ; " "TheStageLover " is one of a series of amusing papers on stage charac ters , by the Editor ; "The Melancholy Month of Jfciy" will be found in our Poefs Corner ; " A Fabulous Character " describes the vulgar notion of what is an editor—his imagined happy life and all-potent rule ; his connexions and influence—social , political , literary , scientific , theatrical , & c . After describing the editor as he is supposed to be by the imaginative public , the writer next describes him as he really is .

      as EorroE , as he figures in real life , is quite a different creature to what he figures in the public ' s Arabian imagination . He is , reader , like yourself merely a man ; and not , as you have gathered from fictions and reports , a Grand Junction of Rothschild and D'Orsay , with a branch of Dr . Johnson and Joseph Ady . On . the contrary , an Editor dresses plainly , keeps no stud beyond the owe or two he wears in his shirt , pays the income-tax with infinite grumbling when his salary allows him , but grumbles infinitely more when it does not ; is as fond of Champagne as any lady of fashion , but does not drink itas often , as it costs eight shillings a bottle ; sleeps on a mattrass stuffed with more straw and thorns than roses - rarely violates the edicts of FatherMathew , and

      has no more victims than any one else who has a tailor . ? # # The thousand and one charms , too , that colour and gild his existence , consist , in cold truth , in his devouring—no matter what his tasteorappeHteniarhca quantity of raw manuscripts ; in answering questions about the colour of Prince Albert ' s hair ; in being insulted bv every other correspondent ; in making an enemy for life of every contributor whose article he rejects ; in being presented with " the lie" by any member ofthe aristocracy for saying he has acold when he has not ; in being eontinuaUy solicited to do miracles with his paper which Parliament and the seven wise men could not effect ; in being every other hour pestered for copy!—copy 1-ncopy ! and in stopping up to aR hours of the morning in a cold printing-ofiice correcting proofs . ¦

      Reader , unless you have had an university education , like hard work , have a soul for scissors and paste , are fond of reading the debates , are addicted to late hours , and are partial to fllegible MS ., every-day abuse , and rheumatisms , remain as you are , and abjure printers devils as yon would impatient creditors . The romance about an editor maybe very flattering and agreeable , 'but > believe us , so it ought to be , to compensate in any measure for the prosy « a « ty .

      Punch-Pabtxlvii. There Are Some Excellen...

      PUNCH-PabtXLVII . There are some excellent illustrations in this uiontlis- part of Punch , particularly " Papa Cohden taking Master Robert a Free-trade Walk ;" Punch at the next Anti-Corn-Law League Bazaar ; " " The Greedy Boy who Cried for the -Moon ;" " Joey Hume ( the Call-bov of the House of Common ); " and "Punch at ' the Royal Academy . " ihree of the admirable Caudle Curtain lectures arc contained in this part , besides excellent articles on various subjects , including the one on " Sunday Pleasuring , " given in last week ' s Star . Of course there is also an abundant supply of jokes and fun of all sorts , in poetry , prose , and illustration . We recommend Punch to all who love wit and wisdom .

      The Christian Mythology Unveiled. By Log...

      THE CHRISTIAN MYTHOLOGY UNVEILED . By Logax MircnEix . London : B . J ) . Cousins , 18 , Duke-street , Lincoln ' s-inn-fields .

      [ becond Notice . ] We return to this work for the purpose of stating a singular fact in connection with its publication—a fact which , in justice to the publisher as well as to the cause of free inquiry , should be made generally known . The author of "The Christain Mythology Unveiled" was a Scotchman by birth , and , according to present usages , a " gentleman , " because possessed of what is called an "independency . " He would , however , in a far different state of society—a state which , we trust , the future will see realised—have made Mod his claim to the title of " gentleman , " from the fact that he devoted his life to services of good for the benefit of his fellow creaturesand

      em-, ployed his talents and money for the propagation of what he conceived to be the truth , and in aid of those who suffered for their advocacy of justice and freedom . The "Christain Mythology Unveiled " was first " published privately for the author" in the year 1840 , by the publisher of the present edition . This private edition was printed at the expense of the author for circulation amongst his friends , and having disposed of the copies in this way , Mr . Mnciiell applied to Mr . Cousins to print a second private edition . Circumstances , however , intervened to prevent Mr . Coesrss doing this , andsnbsequently a second private edition was printed by another party ; but we request the reader to note that the first private edition had the name of the publisher to it : the

      second had not . The first bore the imprint" Printed for the Author by Benjamin D . Cousins , 18 , Duke-street , Lincoln ' s-inn-Fields ; the second was simply , " London ; Printed for the Author , " the without any publisher ' s name . Soon after second private edition was printed the author died , and Ah " . Cousins hearing of his death , determined to give to the public what had been previously confined to the knowledge of a few . He accordingly set about publishing the edition wluch we formerly noticed at some length , printing on the title-page , besides the author ' s name , his own as publisher . He commenced the publication of the work in threepenny numbers , so as to p lace it within the reach of all classes , and , if possible , ensure for it a large

      circulation . Ihe first number was published , and the second number was in the press , when an article appeared in the Weekly Dispauh , announcing the death of Mr . Mitchell , and stating that he had bequeathed in his will the sum of Jive hundred pounds to any publisher who should have the moral courage to print and publish his " Christian Mythology Unveiled , " with the author ' s name , and the publisher ' s name , on the title-page . Mr . Cousins , with no thought , with no knowledge , of this legacy , had already commenced the publica tion ofthe work with his name in the imprint . The work was completed—no other publisher attempting to do what . Mr . Cousins had done : and then he advanced his claim for the legacy . Two gentlemen , hose in

      w names we are possession of , were appointed execators , with whom was associated a third person of whom we shall spcakpvesently . The will , wttfovtw natclyfor the ends of justice , had been bungled in the making . One of the executors wasa witness to the will , with a legacy of £ 50 . To have acted as executor he most have thrown up his own legacyj' the law not allowing a witness to a will to be an interested party . He therefore declined to act . The other executors also declined acting . The carrying out of the provi sions of the will wag therefore left entirely to a Mrs , Nei . so . y , niece ofthe deceased , and by him appointed executrix in conjunction with the above gentlemen . This lady , wife of a Mr . Kelson , land-balifftothc Messrs . Broadwood , piano-forte makers , on the estate of Broadwoods , near Crawley , in the county of Sussex , is , as well as her husband , Scotch , inheriting all that religious bigotry ,

      associated with a love ot the " siller , " so characteristic of a large number of the canny bodies ofthe ''land o' cakes . " To this lady Mr . Cousins made application for his five hundred pounds , and was met witha point blank refusal . "To give up the money , " he was told , "for the purpose contemplated in the will , would be to devote it to the service of the devil I" All the other provisions of the will would be complied with , but religious scruples prevented compliance with this one . Mr . Cousins attempted to argue his right , but he might as profitably nave " whistled jigs to milestones . " Self-interest and religious duty were too closely combined to permit the lady coming to any other decision than that of herself keeping the five hundred pounds—of course , all for the glory of God . ' Mrs . Nelson ' s conviction is , that " godliness is great gain ; " and the eloquence of a Demosthenes , combined with the reasoning of a Locke , would fail to change her convictions .

      Mr . Cousins , of course , has what ia facetiously called his " remedy at law "—a remedy which usually turns out worse than the disease . Whether Mr . Cousins will prosecute his right by legal means we cannot say ; we believe , however , that he has no idea of abandoning his claim . Another matter we may mention . Along with the deceased ' s plate , furniture , & e ., there came into the possession of Mr . Nelson about 150 copies of the second private edition of the " Mythology , " which the deceased had directed should be given to the well-known publisher , Mr . EmxoniM W ' ilson , for

      distribution . Whether Mr . Wilson ever received the beoks , we know not ; but the Nelsons informed Mr . Cousins that . it was their intention to burn them—an intention which there is but little doubt they have carried into effect . Such stupid and brutal bigotry in the present day is really astonishing . The facts wc have stated can add nothing to the merits of " The Christian Mythology Unveiled , " but when a liberal and enterprising man is plundered under the guise of " piety , " and robbed in the name of religion , as Mr . Cousins has been , it is only right that the facts should be made known .

      The Book Of The Poor Man's Church. Londo...

      THE BOOK OF THE POOR MAN'S CHURCH . London : Cleave , Shoe-Jane . When , in addition to one State Church , the people of this country are about to be taxed for the support ef another—for the endowment of Maynoothis , without doubt , the first step toward the endowment ofthe Irish Catholic Church-at such a time the extensive circulation of this little work is very desirable . From this book the people may learn of what they are defrauded for the support ofthe English establishment , and , we doubt not , that , so learning , they would at once solve the Maynooth question by deciding that if one State Church is a great evil , another such Church will but doable that evil . The Booh of the Poor Man ' s Church treats of the

      following subjects : — Ihe unchristian character of a Church Establishment ; " " The persecuting spirit of the Church ; " "The mercenary character of the Church ; tithe encroachments ; how the rich parsons have defrauded the poorer ones ; the sale of livings ; robbery of thenoor by the clergy ; " "The indifference ofthe Clergy to their Duties ; " "The wealth of the Clergy and the voracity ofthe Bishops ;" " The Church condemned by herself . " The amount of information given on all these matters is astonish ing , considering the compass into which , it is crammed . As a work of reference it will be found invaluable . We had marked a lengthy extract , bnt can only find room for the Mowing : — The state clergy consist of : —

      First , —The Puseyite clergy , who hold Roman Catholic doctrines with Protestant incomes . These are endeavouring to bring back into the church outward forms and observances which impress the senses ; such as crosses , images , pictures , flowers , candles , and bowings to the communion table . They also adopt fastings and observe saints'days—they claim apostolic descent ; and ascribe to the sacrament , and to the functions of their office , a vir tue very flattering to their own conceit , but entirely at variance with the principles of tlie Reformation and with that worship which is " in spirit and in truth . " Secondly , — The fox-hunting , ball-going , and race-frequenting clergy , who hold no doctrines at all , but who receive the incomes of the church . The respectable inhabitants of Canterbury have recently endeavoured to put down the races , because of the grievous evils which attend them , but their efforts have been frustrated by the clergy .

      The bishops are generall y placed in f heir elevated stations hy the patronage of the nobility and the government ; and when so placed they look to their patrons for further promotion . A bishop , if he pleases the government , is removed to a more lucrative bishopric ; so that sometimes the same diocese has two or three bishops within a single year , none of whom seriously attend to its welfare , but tnsrely wait for a higher step , to obtain which they arenst unfrcquentiy led to act as dishonourable a part in the House of Lords as the mere placeman or pensioner , docs in the House of Commons .

      lYhether we look at the State Church , then , in Hsongm —in its government—in its principles—or in its tendency ; whether we contemplate its priesthood—its ceremoniesits revenues—or its character , we defy any man to find a single feature of resemblance to it , in a New Tes tam ent Church . How striking is the contrast ! Light and darkness cannot be more dissimilar than are a scriptural congregation , termedachurch , and an ecclesiastical establish mentj denominated in like manner . And if to all thatwe have said , be added , the uniform hostility of the priesthood to the progress of public liberty and the diffusion of general knowledge , we shall have some tolerably accurate wotion o ? the evils of a church establishment . This excellent sixpenny-worth should be in the hands of every one ,

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      Death op Willuu Laimaw , Esq . —We have to record the death of Mr . Wm . Laidlaw , author of the exquisitel y simple and pathetic Scottish ballad Lucys FHttui ' , " ana various contributions to natural history and general literature , besides being peculiarly distinguished for his long and confidential interaoursc with Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford . Air . Laidlaw died or . the 13 th MaV , at Contin , in the county , of Ross . His health , afwnvs delicate , had been in a siiattercd and precarious state for some years past , and a second attack of paralvsis in the course ot last autumn left little hope of permanent recovery . lie was still able , however , to continue his interest in passing events , and he retained his habitual benevolence and serenity to the last , dyin " in the midst of his family and relatives without a

      pang or struggle . A mora amiable or affectionate man never passed to a hi gher state of existence . Some of the most eminent and gifted of the visitors at Abbotsford ( as Miss Edgeworth , Washington Irving , and Mr . Moore ) have recorded their impressions of Mr . Laidlaw ' s modest worth , aud there is scarcely a reader of "Lockhart ' s Life of Scott" in any part of the civilised world where genius or virtue is revered , who will hear without a sigh ofthe lossot that early and attached friend of the Great Minstrel , who was ever by his side for nearly twenty years—whe rambled with him on the banks of the lwce . d vn familiar and unrestrained confidence—who shared in the superintendence of all his rural plans and improvements—who wrote to his dictation some ot the imperishable scenes of his works—and who , at last , '

      " when discord on the music fell , And darkness oh the glory , " was one ofthe few who watched over the latest manifestations , and the final eclipse of that greatest of contemporary minds . The deceased was a native of Selkirkshire , born m November , 1780 , at the farm of Blackhouse , situated on the Douglasburn , near Traquaiv . He v » as the eldest son of an extensive store-farmer , in whose happy family Sir Walter Scott is supposed by Mr . Lockhartto have witnessed some of those traits of genuine worth and primitive hospitality with which he has heightened his delineation of the home of Dandle Dinmont . The acquaintance of "the Sheriff" with Mr . Laidlaw soon ripened into atender affection ; and the latter , alter some reverses and disappointments , at length went to reside

      permanently on the estate at Abbotsford , which he took entirely under his charge . Morning , noon , and night the poet and his friend might be seen planning out or improving plantations , buildings , and enclosures . Laidlaw knew the value of every acre of land , as Hogg remarked , and of every tree in the woods , with the characters of all the neighbours and retainers . He was the life and animating spirit of that interesting and classical property from 1817 till the death of Scott in 1832 , when the curtain fell on what might be considered a brilliant paseant , or dream of the morning , ending abruptly in blackness and desolation ! Mr . Laidlaw afterwards removed to the north , where his two excellent and affectionate brothers have been long resident as tenants of large pastoral farms ; and he was engaged successively as factor on the estates of Seaforth and Balnagown , both

      in Rossshire . His health at length gave way , and he r etired to Contin—the family of Sir Charles Ross , of Balnagown having handsomely acknowledged their sense of his services , by settling upon him an annuity for life . His time was occupied in reading and studying botany , in which , as in most rural matters , he was a great enthusiast ; but he declined all efforts to engage him in writing a domestic life of Scott , or record of his intimacy with hire , for which lie might seem to be peculiarly well qualified . His thoughts and recollections , however , were seldom long absent from that memorable period of his life . He loved to dwell on the warm benevolence , and kindness of his great friend—on his marvellous genius and unconquerable spirit—and one of ihe hist sensations which death tore from the breast of William Laidlaw was the . image of his beloved Abbotsford . — Inverness Courier .

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      FIELD-GARDEN OPERATIONS . For the Week commencing Monday , June 10 th , 1844 . [ Extracted from a Diahy of Actual Operations on five small farms on the estates of Mrs . Davies Gilbert , near Eastbourne , in Sussex ; and on several model farms on the estates of the Earl of Dartmouth at Slaithwaitc , in Yorkshire , published by Mr . Novell , ' of Farnley Tyas , near Huddevsneld , in order to guide other possessors of field gardens , by showing them what labours ought to be undertaken on their own lands . The farms selected as models are—First . Two school farms at Willingdon and Eastdean . of

      five acres each , conducted by u . Cruttenden and John Hams . Second . Two private farms , of five or six acres : one worked by Jesse Piper , the other by John Durabrell—the former at Eastdean , the latter at Jevington—all of them within a few miles of Eastbourne . Third . An industrial school farm at Slaithwaitc . Fourth . Several private model farms near the sameplace . The consecutive operations in these reports will enable the curious reader to compare the climate and agricultural value of the south with the north of England , The Diakv is aided by '' Notes and Observations " from the pen of Mr . No-well , calculated for the time and season , which we subjoin .

      " The joys of these little ones shall be continually in the hoped for success of their labours ; their thoughts shall be turned away from what is evil to that which is good , " Nora . —The school fanns are adtivated by boys , wfo in return for three hours' teaching in the morning give three hours of their labour in the afternoon for the master ' s benefit , which renders the schools seuswroRTisa . We believe that at Famhj Tyas sLvsevenths of ihe produce , of the scluol firm will be assigned to the hoys , and one-seventh to the master , who wilt receive the usual school fees , help the boys to cultivate their land , and teach them , in addition to ' reading , writing , & c , to ' convert their prodwe into bacon , by attending to pig-keeping , which at Christmas may be divided , after paying rent aud lemj , amongst them in proportion to their services , awl bemade thus indirectly to reach their parents in a way tae most gratefid to their feelings . ] 9

      SUSSEX . Honvixt—WiUi ngdon School . Boys digging for potatoes after tares . Eastdean School .. hoys digging , sowing white turnips , watering , picking off weeds and stones . Piper . Gathering flints . Dumhrell Digging , spreading ashes , sowing turnips , and mixing dung and mould . Tuesday—Willingdon School . Boys digging for potatoes , and turnips after tares , Eastdean School . Boys hoeing potatoes , gathering weeds for the pigs , turning over a mixen for wheat . Pips * . Boeing earroto . Dnmbrett . Digging up tare ground , hoeing carrots . WEOXESOAr— Willingdon School . Boys digging for turnips and potatoes after tares . Eastdean School . Bovs emptying privy pails , nipping the blossom

      from potatoes , and thinning carrots . Piper . Drawing litter to the piggery , and mixing it with mould . DumbreU . Mixing dung and mould . ' fnvnsn . KY—Willingdon School . Boys planting potatoes . Eastdean School . Boys digging between potatoes , hoeing forward turnips , planting and manuring cabbages for winter . Piper . Turning the mixen . DumbreU . Digging up tare ground , manuring and hoeing carrots . Fbidav—Willingdon School , Boys earthing up potatoes . Eastdean School . Boys weeding wheat andoats , hoeing peas , and pouring tank liquid between the drills . Piper . Booing potatoes . DumbreU . Digging up tare ground , and hoeing carrots . Saturday— Willingdon School . Boys emptying the tanks . Eastdean School . Boys cleaning piggeiy and pails , watering carrots , and cleaning up . Piper . Hoeing onions . DumbreU . Mowing clover for hay .

      TOBKSHinE , Slaithwaitc School . From ten to twelve boys drilling turnips , sowing broadcast , digging the tare ground , have planted 300 cabbages and watered them , with twelve rows of turnips . C . Varley , manuring ior and sowing turnips , ' mixing peat earth with manure . . C 0 W-FEF . DIX 0 . Willingdon School Cows fed in the stall on tares and clover . DimilrelVs . Two cows stall-fed with clover .

      NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS . J Testative Analysis . —t" Nature at all times answers the questions that are put to her—and such questions are experiments . "—iicbi ? . ]—Unless you are instructed by chemical analysis as to the composition of the soil , you cannot apply-manure of any kind whatever to crops with unerring certainty ; neither can you apply on all occasions for information to the expert analyst but may you not cause aplant to assume its functions , and predict its own requirements ? Suppose you wish to take a particular crop from your field . Select an average space of two rods in such field—and introduce the crop you wish to be afterwards grown there . By applying the various manures indicated in known quantities to its different'parts , may \ ou not , by a minute attention to the progress of the crop find out what kind of manure will be acceptable , or the contrary ? The year following , the whole field may be cropped with more if not entire , certainty of success , with the same vegetable .

      Rape . —fSeed sown , 1 peck broadcast ; or J peck of rape . and l ^ . peck of rye . J-This is a very valuable plant for soiling . When you have reason to fear that turnips sown after tares , might not attain to proper « ie , 8 ubstitoe ta # . Itinftybe sown'in drills * and hoed ; . hut i for soiling ; - sow-it broadcast from ' June to September . TheearJy / sowri i may becut in November , and again in ths foUwung spring ! The late sown will stand over wih ' terj and be the first green food in spring . " > A little rye " mwc'd ' with it will be an improvement ^ -. Cows , like sheep , greatl y relish this plant , neither does it communicate any ill taste to milk . Cut up the rejected woody stems and mix them with turnip ' or other wash . Acrbp of turnips may follow both , or winter ' wheat ' may follow those sown in June .

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      To TEST THE SinEXOTH or Guaso . —i" Guano , though no saint , works miracles . "—Pentvhui Seizing . }—Procure a few ounces of fresh burnt Jimc-stouc , reduce it to a fine powder , which introduce into a bottle perfectly dry in the inside , and keep it . well corked for future use , renewing it frequently . Take a tea spoonful of each sample of guano you wish to test , which place in separate cups , and add a spoonful of water , then measure , with a dry spoon , the same quantity of quick lime into each cup , m a moment , stirring quickly , and the sample that gives the strongest smell of hartshorn is the best guano ..

      Hoe CoxTixuAiMr . —1 our crops being now generally above the ground , your principal attention ought to be directed to kcepinsr down the weeds by perpetual hoeing , and your turnips in particular must not be neglected . The triangular hoc , made at Birmingham , is undoubtedly best adapted for . turnip hoeing ; ior once cleaning of its three sides cleans three hoes , and the corners will nicely pick out the plants . Do not leave them too thick , and thus lose both in the quantity and quality of the crop . Where the rows are 27 inches apart , from 12 to 14 inches is near enough . Persons short in the back make the best turnip hoers , therefore careful boys may be employed . Very nice work it is too foe young girls ; may prevent many a consumption , and add to their bloom . After the hoc has performed its part , let the most promising plant be seized with ono hand and the inferior ones removed with the other .

      T ] uyspr , \ xmG Swedes . —Fill up all intervals in the ridges of your turnips , or failing places on broadcast lands , with Swede plants . Let your planting stick never rest , keep its point to the root , and insert the plant so firmly that it cannot be nipped up by a slight pull ; and remember that the almost momentary act of placing a single plant may be the means , without further care , on your part , of providing C or 8 or lOfts . of solid food for your cow during dreary winter . On . ELBcmcm Awhbd to the Growth of Punts . —At the last meeting ofthe Royal Institution , the Rev . E . Sidney read a communication " On the Electricity of Plants in the several Stages of their Development . " At the commencement and at each

      division of this communication , Mr . Sidney dwelt on his desire to be considered , not as the promulgator of any theory on theinfluence of electricity on vegetable growth , but as the cautious observer of important and instructive facts . The following six propositions were maintained : —First , electricity appears to exercise an influence on growing plants . After noticing the experiments of Maimbray , Nollett , Bertholon , Davy , and others , Mr . Sidney mentioned that ha had himself accelerated the growth of a hyacinth in the common glass jar by giving it sparks , on alternate days , from the machine . Secondly , fluids contained in vegetable tissues possess a high conducting energy , as compared with the ordinary substances found on the earth ' s surface . In

      confirmation of this , several experiments were shown to prove the conducting energy of vegetable points . Tho fact was also stated that if was impossible to give an electric shock to more than one at each extremity of a circle of poisons standing on a grass plat . This the operator easily did when they transferred themselves to a gravel-walk . In the former instance , the current went across the grass , instead of being carried from ouehuman body to another . A jar , of forty-six square inches of coated surface , was discharged by a blade of grass in little more than four minutes of time , whereas it required three times that period to produce the same effect by means of a metallic needle . Mr . Sidney said , however , that probably the blade of grass had many points . Mr . Sidney a / so showed a drawing of Mr . Weekes ' s

      electroscope with vegetable points , which Mr . Wcekes prefers to any artificial ones he has yet tried in the open air during the passage of a cloud . Thirdly , there are indications of adaptation to electrical influences in the differences of form of parts of plants in the different stages of their development . Thus the moistened germ of a vegetating seed becomes a good conductor . The ascending and descending portions are , in the majority of instances , pointed . Plants designed for a rapid growth have generally a strong pubescence . Those destined to meet the variations ofthe seasons have often thorns or prickles . As surincebecomes needed for other purposes , the pointed Is changed to the expansive form of the vegetable organ . As the period of'f ' ruitingapproaches , it seems

      desirable that electricity should be carried off . Hence the hairs , & c , fall off or dry away . The apparent exception is that ofpappi , which have a special office tor conveyance of seeds . Gardeners put metallic hoops over fruiting melons which tends to take off electricity and shade them . Fourthly , Mr . Sidney inquired , whether there are not natural phenomena tending to confirm these views ? Vines and hops are said to grow rapidly during and after a thunderstorm , and peas to pod after a tempest . As to hops , these effects may be ascribed to the destruction of aphides , dsc , by the lightning ; but as these animals arc tenacious of life , the storm which destroys the parasitic insect , would probably also kill the plant which fed it . Again , it is observed , that there are no plants

      wherever simooms , which appear to result from a highly electrical state ofthe atmosphere , occur . Mr . Brydone ' s observations of tte presence of electricity in the atmosphere of Mount Etna , in places where vegetation was absent , audits deficiency wherever vegetation luxuriated , also indicated theinfluence of plants in distributing atmospheric electricity . This was illustrated by an experiment with a cone of chalk , with a piece of moss on one part . The part without the moss brought near tho machine , only slightly affected the electrometer . The moss carried off the electricity entirely . Fifthly , Mr , Sidney suggested the inquiry , whether the forms and geographical distribution of certain species of plants did not indicate design with reference to their electrical pronertics

      and uses . The prevalence of the fir tribes in high latitudes was noted . These trees are characterised by their needle-shaped foliage , and it was argued that the conducting power , with which this form invested them , might modify dryness and cold , and aid in the precipitation of snow . Mr . Sidney concluded by suggesting modes of applying electricity topractical agriculture and horticulture . First , with regard to the free electricity in the atmosphere . Having mentioned some experiments of Mr . Foster , of Finbrassie , on growing crops , Mr . Sidney described modifications of this arrangement made by Professor E . Solly , in his experiments at the Horticultural Garden , and by himself . The latter consist of wires suspended over the growing crop from other wires

      which are . kept , parallel to the horizon by being fastened to insulatedrods . . Secondly , electricity artificially generated by the voltaic pile . Mr . Sidney has found that potatoes , mustard and cress , cinerarias , fuchsias , and other plants ; have their development , and , in some instances , then- productiveness , increased hy being madejo grow between a copper and a zinc plate connected by 3 conducting wire ; while , on the other hand , geraniums and balsams are destroyed , by the same ^ influence . Mr . Sidney at present believes that the application of electricity to vegetable growth may bemade available in horticulture . The question as to agriculture may be decided when more experiments are tried , and the philosophy of the experiments fully determined .

      Sibaw as Manure . —I have heard farmers complain they had so much straw , they could scarcely make it into manure . In such a case I would recommend their adopting my plan of cutting it into chaff : with a two-horse power cutter ; by Wilks , of Sheffield , we can cut up about thirty-two trusses per hour . As my bailiff says , '' You may almost carry away a truss in your shooting-jacket pocket when it is cut up . " I find in practice , that it absorbs the urine as it falls , like a sponge , the liquid entering at both ends ofthe short cut lengths ,. decomposition takes place rapidly , the manure is more equally moist , and very soon made ; one cart load so created is equal to two of long

      straw , so we save half our cartage—an important matter . It is quite clear that long uncut litter must remain dry until trodden down and broken longitudinally to admit of moisture , the best part of which is often washed away before the straw is in a state to absorb it . If you desire to keep your horses and stock clean , it is necessary to spread a little long straw on the chaff bed , the latter holding so much moisture . Our solid and liquid manure all goes into one tank , and is generally carried on the land in five or six weeks , occasionally piimpingsoinc ofthe liquid from the well on the top of the heap . —Mechi's Letters on . k-rici'iturc .

      A Fact about Potatoes . —An intelligent farmer tells me he never loses his potatoes in dry or wet seasons since he has treated the sets or cuttings in the following manner : —As the eves or sets are cut , they are dusted with / ra & slaked lime ( slaked immediately befbre using ) until they arc coated with it all over . Ihe lime forms a paste over them , which prevents the moisture running or exuding , and thus removes the danger of shrivelling or rotting in a dry season like the last , when the results were forcibly illustrated . A portion of the field was planted with sets in the usual way ( without lime ) on an abundant dressing of farm-yard manure . These shrivelled , were slow in coming up , and were but a moderate crop ; on the rest of the field the limed sets were do

      posited without manure—came up quickly and regularly—were an uniformly fine crop of large potatoes , superior in every respect to the dunged portion ; the limed portion received a dressing of two cwt . i per acre of Peruvian guano , applied at two intervals after the plant appeared . This'is tlie third season of so treating the potatoe sets . I have no doubt the same result is , partially produced hy the practice , of Mr . Dimmcry , a successful potatoe grower ( as quoted in Mr . Morton ' s book oh soils ) . ' Mr . D . spreads sbqt in the drills on which the sets arc deposited ^ In this case I imagine the soot adheres to tho' moist surface of the set and prevents the escape . of sap . Both soot and lime must act us a manure , perhaps by supplying carbon . The plan is deserving of trial , and seems reasonably advantageous . — Ibid .

      ¦ Extraordinary Pin * o ' BMAscE . —A short time since a performance' rather extraordinary in farm labour took place in the south of Devon . Mr . Dcwdney bet Mr . H . K . Skinner , of Whatcombe , North Huish , near Totnes , £ 1 , that he could not sow aevenhags of barley in one hour ; but withdrew the bet . " Mr . Skinner however was in the field , and did the work

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      in three minutes less than the time stipulated fin' *! Mr . II . K . Skinner has also sown cujlit hags and three quarters in one hour and thirteen i » ii . iites . over five acres of land on Great Aish Farm , the property of Henry Kingwell , Ksq ., in the parish ot -oiirli Brent 1—Exeter Flying Post .

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      Advice Gratis . — Mr . Baron Alderson ami Mr . Justice Mnulc arc the most good-natured as well as the wittiest judges on the bench . Tho latter , some short time since , tried a man for bigamy , who pleaded a runaway wife as his excuse . 'Tliejudge told him before taking a second wife fie should have got a divorce from the first , and explained the whole process in a very familiar and single-minded manner . Every shade ofthe process was delineated , but not a word of the costs . It was as satisfactory as a hctiire on colours in the Blind Asylum . Mr . Baron Aiderson , whilst trying tho poor n-rctch Connor , dumped a word of advice to his brother coroner , M . Wakley .

      Ihe latter , indignant at not having the murderer before him , adjourned his inquest on the victim sine die . " Tell Mr . Wakley , " says the learned baron , - ' when he next adjourns sine die hepwts an end to Ins authority in the matter , " Orakge I'kei ,. —The ultra Protestant party in Ireland declare Feel has proved himscll everything ; but Orange Peel . A Strange Want . —A country gentleman lias been advertising in tho Times for a " Double Brougham . " Lord Campbell has requested us tostafe , that he has one to dispose of , at any price , which has never been used on railways . Should his lordship succeed we shall debit him . with the price of an

      advertisement . Correct Definition . —What is "free trade ?"Holding an Anti-Cora-Law-League Bazaar at Coventgaiden Theatre , and charging double the value for every article . — [ This is the " sliding-scale" upwards 1 ] What is Luxury ?—A candle would have been a luxury to Alfred ; a half-crown cotton gown to his Queen . Carpets , in lieu of rushes , would have been luxuries to Henry VII . ; glass windows in lieu of horn , to his nobles . A lettuce to Henry VIII . ' s Queen ; silk gloves and stockings to Queen Elizabeth ; and so on , " ad infinitum . " Charles Waterton , Esq ., author of several works on natural history , in an account of his family , tells that one of his ancestors , in the time of Henry VI ., " was sent into France by the King , with orders to contract a royal marriage , and was allowed 13 s . a day for his trouble and travelling expenses .

      Kissiso wiTiiori Measure . —A Mr . John Joues , writing on the 27 th ult ., to his "dearBetsy , "a pretty Chcshn'C Abigail , subscribed himmlf her '' true lover , John Jones , with 2 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 kisses ' . " A Family Scese . — "What are you doing there , Jane ? " " Why , pa , I ' m goingto dye my doll ' s pinafore red . " '' But what havo you got to aye it ? " J'Heer , pa . " " Beer ! who on earth told you that beer would dye red ? " Why , ma said , yesterday , that it was beer that made your nose so red , and I thought . " " Here , Susan , take this cluid . "

      Awtheb . — " Pa , doesn't all mean awn / thing f " " Yes , my son , it means the whole . " " Well , then , where the Testament says , ' Swear not at all , ' it means swear not at everybody , doesn ' t it V " John , put my horse in the waggon—I must go to the mill . " "Tuis is the Way the Money Goes . " —In the year 1843 , eight million one thousand four hundred and forty-nine pounds , one shilling , and fourpence , was spent by the people of this kingdom in tobacco ! —a tolerably round sum to " end in smoke . " If the weed had been worked into pigtail , rather more than half an inch thick , it would have formed a line Q 9 , 4 fQ miles long—long enough to go nearly five times round the world !

      Peel , the "Solemn Swell . " —in a sentimental drama , played at a minor theatre in London , the chime of a boll caused one of the characters tfl fi-Velaim—'' Iknow that peal—the solemn swell , " < te . This was at once converted by the audience into an allusion to Sir Robert Peel , and produced much laughter and applause .. The Lord Chamberlain has , therefore , ordered that tho line shall be struck out , or so altered as to destroy the possibility of tbe Premier being laughed at as a " solemn swell . " Let both "Jonathan" and "John" Look Out ! —We understand that it is probable that a third

      party is about to claim the territory disputed by England and America , termed the Oregon . Many natives of the sister isle say ^ that , from the name , there can be no doubt it originally belonged to the O'Regan's , aud when they get the " Repale" they are determined to obtain it for tlie " gim of the say . '' If it is good for nothing else to them , it may serve for an Irish Botany Bay , and when Dan is proclaimed King he can send his son John there as Governor , with Bishop O ' lliggins and Dillon Browne as his Councillors . When established they will expel the Saxons , Americans , and Indians , in the true spirit of Irish " conciliation . "

      " One Trial is Sufficient . "— " Would it were lawful to marry two wives ! " exclaimed an enthusiastic young bachelor * desperately in love with a . couple of country cousins . " Try one to begin with , " was the rejoinder of a surly old Benedict . Important to Bachelors . —In tho comedy off "Time Works Wonders , " Douglas Jen-old says" Women are all alike . When they're maids , they ' res mild as milk . Once make ' em wives , and they ltam their backs against their marriage certificates andrt defy you . " Fact Worth Knowing . —An antidote for arsenidi has been discovered by Dr . Bunsen in the hvdrate & i

      peroxide of iron , a simple preparation which ought tt < have a place on the shelves of every druggist in thin kingdom . Theatricals by Daylight . —A theatre is conn structiug at Leghorn , the cupola of which is composes of glass ; by this means representations by daylighjh will be attainable . A Rational Answer . —Diogenes , being asked whaia time a man should dine , replied , "A rich man wheie : he will , and a poor man when he can . " Please the Pigs . — -The curious colloquial phrasas * " please the pigs , " is a corruption of " please the Pyx / x , that is , the vessel containing the Eucharist , whioic was regarded as the divinity by believers in transusu

      stantiation . Avarice . —In an old caricature of this detestaital vice , his satanic majesty is represented as convcyiiyii a miser to his realm , who during the journey makafc a proposal to supply tho abode with fuel at ft rcaSOlSO able rate . Wonoerfui , Accuracy!!!—In a weighty tome ic general geography , lately published , the author ( H <| II < Stein ) informs us , that" London lies on the serpentinti river , which discharges itself into the Thame ? . '' ' "Too Ignorant to be Entrustm wrrh b t Franchise . "—The mayor of a certain Welsh counfunf town recently issued the folIowngmandate- ^ "Desifesi you will ordur the widder Jenkins to pere befour iur at Town all tomorroh at A lavin , has I mey egsamnmn hur and pass hur hoam , has she is likeriye to be Vie v true balsam hear . "

      To Gentlemen that "Can't Wait . "—A g \ g courted a lady for twenty-eight years , and ta t ! married her . She turned out to be a perfect viravira but died in two years after the wedding . "No * No said the bereaved one , in a self-gratulattng t < g t < "see what 1 have escaped hy a long courtship . " . " Broken-head Provident Society . —A hurabembej poor persons intend to form a Broken-head SociSoci for the purpose of raising a fund to compensate jate ] people whose crowns are cracked by gentlemen nen higher grade . Such an institution seemshecessicessi as . under the present lawi the poor man gets gets

      "kicks , " and the Crown the "halfpence . " The Ladies . —A quaint writer says— " Ihavejave ; women so delicate that they are afraid to to for fear of the horses running away ; af ' raiaiVaiti sail , for fear the boat should overset ; and afra afra walk , for fear the dew might fall ; but I never sawr sav > afraid to get married . " Very Considerate . —A friend of the late Th < e Th » i Hood ' s , afflicted with the same mania , said , . . aid ,,, tears standing in his eyes , " Ah , poor fellow ^ low ^ from motives of generosity—wanted to enable dole th i dertaker to urn a lively Hood . " ;

      Folly in the Wig . — At the beginning of thef thetecnth century the " wisdom" of ouranmtQpestQp ; evinced in the wearing of enormous wigs , c $ s , cq'i from thirty to forty guineas . Thieves were constconst ; . on the watch to plunder the wearers , hy imtfratatuatct them in the streets . " A most ingenious mode mode Mrs . Stone , in her Chronicles of Fashion ) was , ) was ,, thief to carry on his head a sharp ! x > y in aeon acc basket , who , in passing through a crowd , would would J tcrously seize and conceal the' mostattractiro-iotive-lo j periwig . "

      Remorse or Conscience . —A decayed old 4 old m man , who ended his days iu the Gwitflwottgh rough house , boing on his death-bed , and . having sonug soma which hung heavy oh his mind , desiiyd tlie . vi tlie . vi i the parish might be sent for ,, who arriving in ing in the mystery was cleared by the paiiptrtellihrtcllinii that , " once upon a time , passing over a certai ) certai | i | men , hesriw two men putting down a . diwtioiwcctiorm and , waiting till they had done and left , ; he woi he woVi turned the post in aii opposife direction , andlii , andT always been a- 'heavy burthen on hisVconscicconscicc think how lhahy unfortunate travellers lie nas-he uaa the wrong way ! , '' A SrJr-EBFLt'Ous "WisHYr- ^ -At a recent public < public < < whore the Duke of Cambridge was—of cour 8 &« our 8 e > ir chair , Viscount . Ranelagh proposed theDuk ' e'sDuke ' ai and concluded by wkhing " Fiong ears to bita to hiii Highness . "

      Split in Conciliation Hall . —Young Ireljng Irehli Old Ireland , it is said , have quarrelled ateUed abb '' Godless Education" scheme . If Peel has aid lias a t two factions by the ears , it is a master-stroke ostroke oo whereby the body of quiet people of IreU > f Ireka benefit . For has not the poet remarked that , id that ,, certain persons fall out certain other persaer pemx by their own ?"

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 7, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_07061845/page/3/