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      Utpbmil 10,1847, Thg Northern Star. 3

      UtPBMiL 10 , 1847 , THg NORTHERN STAR . 3

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      Ireland. Bt Firdisasd Fieiliqb1th. ( Tra...

      IRELAND . BT FIRDISASD FIEILIQB 1 TH . ( Translated by Uary Hewitt . ) The boat swings to a tasty chain ; The sat , the oar , of use no longer ; ¦ yh « fisher ' s boy died yester-e ' en And now tbe father feints with hunger , pale Ireland ' s fish is landlord ' s fish . It gives him costl y food and raiment ; A tsttered garb , an empty dish , Thete are the mouraful fuhei ' a payment . A pastoral soaad is on the wind , With kiae the roads are thronged ; --oh pity ! A ragged peasant craw l * behind , Aad drives them to the sea-port city . —Pale Ireland ' s herds tbe landlord claims—That food which Paddy ' s soul desireth—That which would nerre bis children ' s frames . The landlord ' s export trade tequireth . To Mm the cuttle are a fount

      Of j « y and luxury never scanty ; And each horned head augment * the amount Which swells for him the horn of plenty . In P * ris * Qd in London town His goldmaUes gaming tables glitter , The while bis Irish poor he down And die , like flies in winter bitter . Halloh 1 halloh I the chase is up ! Paddy rush in—be not a dreamer ! —In rain for thee there is no hope , the giwao g «« s with the earliest rteauer J For Ireland ' s came is landlord ' s gam ? , —The landlord is a large incroacher ! Cod speed the peasant ' s righteous claim ; He is too feeble for a poacher I The landlord cares for ox and hound , Their wor th a peasant ' s worth surpasses ! __ lnste * d of draining marish

      ground-Old Ireland ' s wild and drear morasses-He leaves the land abo . rgyfea With sedge and useless moss grown over ! He leaves it for the water-hen . The rabbit , and the screamiag plover . Yes , 'oesth tbe curse of Heaven ! Of waste And wilderness fonr million acres ! —To you-eorru . t , outworn , debased , No wakening pculs prove slumber-breakers—Oh , Irish , land is landlord's land ! And therefore by the wayside dreary , The famished "aethers weeping stand , And beg for means their dead to bury . A wailiag cry sweeps like a blast The length and breadth of Ireland thorough ; The west wind which my casement passed Brought to mine ear that wail of sorrow , faint as a dying man ' s Isst sigh ,

      Came o ' er the ware * , my heart-strings searing , The cry of woe , the hunger cry , The death-cry of poor , weeping Erin . Eiin ! she kneels in stricken g-ief , Palj , agonized , with wild hair flying , . And strews the shamrock ' s withered leaf Upon her children , dead and dying . -She kneels beside the sea , the streams , And by her ancient hills * foundations , — Ser . m iw than Byron ' s Rome , beseems Tbe title , " Kiobe of natioas . " Hmtitt ' s Journal .

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      The Magazines. Tiismonds's Colonial Maga...

      THE MAGAZINES . tiismonds ' s Colonial Magazine . April . London : Simmonds and Ward , Barge-yard , Bucklersbury . The opening article is on Ireland , in which is advocated an extensive system of emigration as the principal means of removing the present evils of that unhappy country . Of course such a " remedy " has not our approval . " " Sampson Brown" continues tisamusin 0 ; descripttons ' of "Li ' e in the Jonale . " An interesting account of " Tbe pres ° nt State ' and Agritnitural Capabilities of Malacca" teils ^ of the destructive effects of the grasping policy of this country in the East The Butch formerly ruled in Malacca , and prosperity for bath natives and settlers was the consequence of their sway , but war has chanced all that ; conquest—British conquest—has

      " made a solitude and c tiled it peace , iron : this article on Malacca we learn that the cruel and infamous practice of burning and affixing indelible blue marks on the foreheads of criminals is still in use in British India . Shame , shame ! An elaborate paper ira " The Condition and Prospects of the Aborigines ef Australia , " shows the rapid extinction of that nee , caused by the ascendancy of the whites , snd the vices which these bare brought in their Jrain . It apoears , that to shoot the aborigines is tjuitc an amusement , like shooting sparrows at jiittersea Hed House ; and that poisoning them is slmist as omtnon as destroying house-vermin in I ' n ' s country by ratsbane !| It is frightful to read of the sufferings * of the aborigine * caused by diseases imparted t » them by the whites . Infanticide is

      general . *• The b ' acks say they haw now no country , and are , therefore , unwilling to keep their children . " What a fearful declaration is this ol the consequences flowing from the ascendancy oi the " civilised , " " Christian" ruffians ! A ehwmy account is given of "The state of Canada in 1817 . " It would appear that the lesson of the recent ** rebellion" is lost upon ihe aristocratic knaves and imbeciles who govern lhat country . " The amount drawn from the industry of the people for public expenditure has increased within the last Ax years i « a ratio of more lion double the increase of the population , which U I ow buitUi ned witii a public debt of between three * nd four millions of pounds , besides local taxation and nuraerou * useless paid local officers , all formerly unknown in La \ cr Canada . " It is not difficult to

      predict the end if this system is persevered in . The lemainins articles are on " The Kaffir War , " " The Jrench Fisheries at Newfoundland , " "The Manufacture of Sugar and Ram , " " Dr Leichhardt ' s Discoveries in Australia , " and "tfotes on Sierra Leone . "

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      Jhc People ' s Journal . Part XV . London : J . Bennett , 69 , Fleet-street . This part of the "People's Journal" is rich in ably-written contributions from tbe pens of Harriet Mariineau , Joseph Mazzini , Miss Jawsbury , J . C . Prince , aud otiier eminent writers . We would Lave quoted Irani Miss Itiartineao ' s " Survey from the Pyramids , " from the "Picture of Parliament , " the ** IiccoHect ons of Paris , " "Social Problems , " "Winter Musings , " and other paners in prose and poetry , feat c ^ nn .-t . All the room we can possibly spare we

      must devote to extracts from Joseph Mazzini ' s able article on ' George Sand , " which article is decidedly the gem of this part . From oar heart '*) depths we thank Mr Mazzini for his chivalrous and triumphant vindication of our glorious Byron . Neverbefore have We seen the eb . tracter t > f Byron so truly ponrtvayed Himself gifted with poet ' s soul , ( who will question Jactt having read tbe extracts given below ?) the Italian exile reads our poet as posterity will read and know him , and knowing him will weep and worship at Ms shrine .

      BTHO . V ASH GEORGE SASD . All those who have watclird the sunrise upon tbe Alps from so jie lofty pe ? . k have seen , as 1 hare from Mount Cenis , first , the night , the vast night , sad and void , but In which one would say a creation was elaborating Itstlt —ft mi the iirst ray © flight trembling upon the horizon , Vague and pule like a timid and uncertain hope ; thi-n tfce 1-iig Hue of fire cnttine the blue heaven , 6 rm and decided as a promise ; and thtn , a * at a given signal , the sea of vapours mounts slowly from the abyss , grey and sombre as Doubt , extending itself like a shroud between the earth and tbe star of day , rising like a bad thought betwixt the wtrld and truth ; to which succeeds tbe

      Struggle eminently poetic betwetn the orb , apparently bsauUws and lifeless , and the rolling mist , here black as envy , there dull and heavy as sanseless ignorance , a biting cold ttte while encircling yon in its serpent-like folds , threatening your heart like uncertainty in the hear of trial—until at last the sun , disengaging himself from tbe cloud , reveals himself high in heaven , calm fn his glory , and inundates you , in the midst of the dazzling snows , with warmth and light . Such is the life of Genius . Envy aad persecution;—buton one side of tbe tomb , it matters little which , assured triumph . Toa may burn the works of Iloasseaa ia the public market-place ; the Spirit of Rousseau will survive ; it will appear to you yeas afterwards embodied ia the French constitution .

      ion may misinterpret the spirit , and blacken at your lsUure , the memory of Byron—to unvy exile his statue from Westminster Abbey ; but the people , who recognise xn him the victim of one epoch and the prophet of another will read , and adopt him as their own , in spite of you ; and posterity will end by placing his proscribed statne above tbe tomb where will lie for ever interred tbe principle of aristocracy . Y ° n roa sound jour alarm against George Sand in your old Quarterly , and forbid jour youth to read her : yon will find some day , without well knowing how , the best places in your library usurped by her vjinmes . It is not so sasy to suppress one of the two first living writers of France ; and when I say this I speak of literary merit merely , of what regards form alone .

      George Sand is a powerful reality . All that she expresses , even supposing it error , is to her truth , it Is writt . n with ht ' r heart ' s blood : she would be read y , doubt it not , to sign it with the blood of her body . She has ofttn tcandalised and shocked her readers ; but it bas never beta in seeking merely for an artistic iffect , or for an eccentricity of the woman of , genius . No { she has always believed herself to be accomplishing a duty . With a nature eminently democratic , tortured by the ncee ^ ity of loving , yearning mid a stormy life for peace and order . Low many timet mast she not have felt almost frightened at tbe solitude into which she was plunging J How msny tiuws would she not have preferred , had it been possible , to act in all things will the multitude 1 But thvre was within her that instinct of strong souls , lis fascination of rata , tha revolt against thi false and the unjust , tee ardour of proselytism . And she has always—Ood kaows with what euffitriog—obeyed this

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      instinct . The form of her aspirations for social reform , and of her religions presentiments , has sometimes slightly chsnged ; she has immediately hastened to declare it . Bach of her books is eminently an action . It Is a manifestation , I raieht say a confession , so much is there that is religious in that which characterises her , made without reserve and without disguise , without pride as without false shame , and picturing truly the state of her mind at the time of its production . It has hem found easy to invent against her almost all kinds of accusations ; but never those of hypocrisy , of Jesuitism , or of the vanity of an artiatatiitudinising or draping hergulf in order to please .

      But what is more , the individuali ty of George Sand is not only her own , it is that of her age ; it is in this kind of identity that lies ah , * : all the secret of the immense wpn ^ nance . and the immense sympathy which she has excited . It was felt from the first that there was in that voice , me lodiously sad , yet pronl and firm , more than an individual inspiration ; it spoke the secret of the world around her ; the complaint of the age groping onward amidst ruins ; the aspiration , vigorous , though ill ( Waned , of tho coming generation * . In that double serii-s , embracing all the high priests of nrt , from Homer to Goethe on the one side , from Dante to Byron on the other , the place of George Sand cannot bo doubt d . By the p ? cu ! iar nature of her artistic genius , as well at by the temper of her soul , keenly alive to hol y indignation ,

      to exalted pity , and to boundless love , she belongs entirely to t ! te second—to the geniuses who suffer , struggle , and aspire , not to those who calmly contemplate ; to those who desire to transform the medium in which humanity works , not to those who elevate themselves , calm and impassable , above it ; to the prophets of the ideal , the future , not to the printers of the real and present . She is bora an apostls . Sorrows , uncertainties , hopes , daring , all that characterises a race fluctuating like oar own , bit ween a cradle and a tomb , between an epoch which is passing away , and another which approaches , she accepts all , and embodies all in herself . She has encountered every obstacle In our adventurous path ; * he has been wounde \ by every thorn ; she has dan-d the edge of each giddy precipice ; ever in advance , she beckons to us with her hand , pointing out all the difficulties to be smoothed away , all the gulfs to be closed up . Coming in the days of 1830 , after an heroic effort , wi . ich those who made it fondly booed would hare ad *

      vanced the world a step , but wbi « b vnded in nothing bet . ter than a patch ng up of the old system , she felt at once that the question of life could not be solved by resting on the surface of a simple political organisation ; that it throbbed at the very heart of society ; and making a scalpel of hsr pen , she probed the evil to its very seat , and hid it bare . Whenever this happens in the world's hlst . iry ; whenever some one amongst us , appointed by God for the Usk . cames to disturb the torpor of humanity by grk-f Mid reproaches , the first impulse of the crowd is inevitably hostile , " Why troublest thou the night with thy cries ! ' * say the demi-gods to Prometheus . " Why do yon tear me from this welcome slumbs-r ! " says the unhappy one , wearied by suif .-ring , to those who urge tim onwards ; " I was about to lose the consciousness of my misery ; you recall me to it—accursed be yo !" Human indob .-nce aad apathy are the greatest eaemies that truth , aad the genius which proclaims truth , can encounter upon earth .

      Bebol-l Byron ! he appears , Ion ? before George Sand , at tbe close of one epoch , bnt befora tho appearance of the other ; it the midst of a community based upon an aristocracy which bas outlived tbe vigour of its prime , surro'inded by a Europe containing nothing grand , unless it be Napoleon on one side , and Pitt on the other— -genius degraded to the level of egotism , intellect bound to the service of the past . Tbe future has nowhere nn interpreter ; belief is no more , ther * is its pretence ; prayer is no more , there is a movement of the lips at a fixe 1 day and hour fir the sake « f the family , or whitis called the people ; love is no more desire has taken its place ; tbe holy warfare of ideas is abandoned , the conflict is that of interests . Tbe worship of great thouihts has passed away ; that which is has bat the torn banner of some

      curpso-like traditions , —that which icou d be hoists only the standard of physical wants , of material appetites ; around him are ruins ; beyond him the desert ; the horizon is blank ; a long cry of suffering and indignation escapes from the breast of Byron ; be is answered by anathemas . lie departs ; he hurries through Europe in search of an ideal to adore ; he traverses it distracted , palp itating \ k * . Mareppa on the horse , borne onwards by a fii rce desire ; the wolves of envy and calumny par suing him . He visits Greece ; be visits Italy ; if any where a spark of the sacred fire , a ray of divine poetry is preserved , it mast be there . Nothing . A glorious past , a degraded present ; none of life ' s poatrv ; no reovement , save that of tbe sidfcrer turning on his couch to relieve his pain . Byron , from the solitude of bis ewle , turns

      his eyes asfin towards England ; he sings . What does lit ? sin ; ? I What springs lrotn the mysterious and jet unique conception which rules , one would say in spite of hiuisel , over all that escapes from him in his sleepless night ! The funeral hymn , th ? death , the epitaph of the aristocratic idea ; we discovered it , we contincntalists , before his own country . He takes his type . ; from amongst tho * e privileged by strength , beauty , and individual power . They ars grand , poetical , and heroic ; bnt soli , tary , isolated ; tliey hold no communion with the world nroandhim , unless it be to rule over it ; tbey have no kindred ; they live from their own life alone . They repulse- humanity , and regard the crowd with disdain E-ich of them says , I have faith in nytelf ; never , I have faith in ourselves . They all aspire to power or to

      happiness . The one and the other alike escape them . Byron destroy * them on * after the other , as if he were the executioner of a sentence decreed in heaven ; they all di ? , and a popular malediction wanders round their solitary t > aitu . This is , for those who read with the soul ' s eyes , w '« at Byron sings , or rather what humanity sings throsgh him . The crowd do not comprehend it ; they listen , fascinated for an instant , then repent , and avenge their m imentary for ^ etfuluess by calumniating and insulting the poet . His intuition of the death of a form of society they call wounde-l self-love ; his sorrow for all is attributed to cowardly egotism . They credit not the traces of profound suffering which betray themselves through hi * lineamentii ; tbey credit not tbe presentiment of a new life which fro-n time to time escapes his

      trembling lips ; they believe not in tbe despairing embrace in which he grasps the material universe , heaven , stars , lakes-Alps , and sea , and identifies himself with i ' , and through it with God , of whom , to him at least , it is tbe symbol . They do , however , take into consideration some unhappy moments , in which , wearied out by the em ; . tiuess of life , he has raised with remorse . I inn sure , the cup of ignoble pleasures to hi * lips , believing he might find f , > r-, 'e ! fuliiess there . How many times have not his accusers drained thU cup , without redeeming the sic by a single virtai- ; without , I will not say bi-arin ^ , but with , out having 4-ven the capacity of appreciating , the burden which weighed upju Byron ! And did he not himself br . aU into fragments this unworthy cop , immediately that the cry of n--w life was heard in Greece ;

      immediately that something appeared worthy of the devotion of bis life ? Such bas been , for I have not in th !? least departed from my sulj ^ ct , such is still , with a large portion of the society of the present day , the fate of George Sand . And it is this which rendirs her doubly dear and -icred to as . She has suffered through ns , and for us . She has passed through the crisis of the age . The evil that she bas pictur-. d is not her evil , it is ours . It does not come to us from her ; it was , and is yet ftound as in the air we breathe ; in tbe foundation * of our corrupt society , in the hypocrisy above all which has spread its ample cloak over all the manifestations of our life . Only whilst we , pit tly from incapacity , partly from cowardice , have btm silent , nt the risk of allowing the evil to become a fatal sore , she has spoken ; she bas v » ith daring

      hand torn away the veil ; she bas laid bare the festering nnunds , and she has cried to us , Behold your society I She has had not onl y the intuition but the courage and sincerity of genius . Thank God ! she has had also a ' much as possible its reward . 1 do not speak of tjltwy , which , whatt ver has been done to prevent it , has crowned her ; I know well that she values it bat little . I do not evtuspeakof something much more precious—of the small number of chosen souls , the initiated and procursive of every country , who communicate with her from afar , whom her voice encourages and consoles , who rise up stronger iro : n the perusal of her works , and follow nil her steps with love and admiration . I spjak of thereward which God has given her through her own conscience , by the work of holy calm which has been achieved

      within her , and which has found its gradual expression in the series of her works . It is this work which it is nu-st essential to point out t * all those who would from the present time truly comprehend and judge George Sand . They must embrace her whole career , and follow it step by sti-p in its ascending progress , from the depths and the stagnant vapours of society , up to the clear azure of those exalted regions to which she has raised herself by degrees . There may possibly exist some danger to the weak in one or other of her isolated volume * , but good , and great good only , can be tbe result of making a complete study of the whole . How many things which appear to us offensive and out of place , and prosaic in natuw , revt-al themselves full of meaning , and

      hnrmonisrd in the general beauty of the whole , when the landscape unrolls itself from the highest peak , to tits persevering traveller ! How we shall smile at these sorrows , at these inexplicable disords that we now call by the name ef ceil , when , the painful course of development and trial once accomplished , we can from the height of a superior and perfected existence feel and understand our life in its ' unity of iotelligencv , of love , and of power The law of physical nature , and of our life , is often re- ' produced in miniature in the task ' of genius ; and I regret that the translator of George Sand has failed to prrcdre this , and that she has commenced by des'roying all idea of progressive order , of the morel and pkiloaophical relationship other works .

      I have sntd somewhere in thebrginning of these pages , and I recall It when citing Its Lettres cPun Voyancur , which co man . could , ever have written—that , thanks be to God , Geo , 3 and is a ujmxn . It is this indeed which is the last and most important cause of the immense excitation produced by her works . As a writer , as an apostie of religious democracy , George Sand , high as she may be placed , does not stand such alone . What she is , she is as a woman . In the vast and imposing question which is beginning to ferment in men ' sminds , and which I have no intention of treating here , of the eniancipation of woman , of tbe determination of her duties and her rights in the world , the materials for decision were wanting to ns ; and it was evidently notfrom cwimpressions , from ou .- ' judgments that wo could draw them . We might , indeed ) in some exceptional moments of revelation through affeflt « on , widerstaad . a woman j woman , all that

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      the feels , all that the dresmi , all that aht pursue * , what sanctifies her or makes her fall , what weighs upon her and transforms her traa nature , in tbe present ar . rangement of society , a woman only could tell u » - and no woman had as yet told us . Some women , indeed ,, before her , had endeavoured to deal with the question ; but simply on tha ground of right , and , as the jrist * , giving us what the common element of humanity could supply , and nothing more ; nothing that a man could not have written In France , Madame de Stael had made a step in adrance by her "Corinne : * ' there , woman is shewn as a beingglfted with an individuality , the working out of whicii should be tbe source of a new ideal . Bo 1 uore strong in intellect than in heart , and not having had , after all , to struggle with life In tamest , as George Sand , Madame de Stael was not destined to advance upon the path as yet but dimly seen . She withdrew herself in resdit ? < oun afterwards in "Delpbine , " where tbe woman is *» 6 att « rnised even in the words which serve as an inscription to tbe work , *

      Madame Sand is the first who has boldly entered the arena , and she has mantained her position through all . As a humni being she has ple ? ded for the t , quali « y to whicii her sex has a rixht , b * mingling herself , theoretically and practically , with all our struggles , with all the great questions rcKgious , social , aud political , which at present interest us : as a wman she has declared to- us the seeret of her sex , its inward life in all its p hasej , under all circumstances ; and she has thus prepared the way to a just conception of tho special mission reserved to her sex—of the duties and special rig hts which have fallen to its share .

      Her life is in her books . Eveiy soul worthy of understanding her will lesrn to find her there . George Saudis one of those geniuses whose every work contains tho image of its author , visibly transferred to its page by her own tears and heart ' . * blood .

      * " A Man Must Brave Opinion, A Woman Su...

      * " A man must brave opinion , a woman submit to it . *"

      The Family Herald. Pabt Xlvii. The Music...

      The Family Herald . Pabt XLVII . The Musical Herald . Part XI . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . Both these publications continue their successful career . As usual , the "Family Herald" is replete with interesting and suggestive matter . VVe had marked extract * but have not room for them . The ' * Musical Herald" contains an excellent selection of musicand musical literature . VVe understand that both publications continue to increase in circulation . The "Family Herald" has been now some four years before the public ; its increase of sale , notwithstandign its previous immense circulation , and the many oompctitars it has to encounter , is , therefore , proof that the public are not wearying of an old friend , but , on the contrary , are more and more attracted by the " Herald ' s" decided superiority over all similar publications .

      The Miners'advocate. Armt. Edited And Pu...

      The Miners'Advocate . Armt . Edited and published by VV . Daniells , Duuglas , Lie of Man . There are some valuable articles in this nurnfer on the "Rights and Wrongs of Labour , " "The Barnsley Explosion , " and interesting reports of miners' proceedings . We are glad to learn that the circulation of the Advocate is rapidly increasing .

      The Ashtonian. April. Ashton-Under-Lyne:...

      The Ashtonian . April . Ashton-under-Lyne : J . Williamson , Stamford-street . This is a penny monthly literary miscellany , published at Ashton-under-Lyne , and seems to be worthy of public patronage . The number before us contains an article of the rij . 'kt sort on the Ten Hours' question ; a beautiful poem by J . C . Prince , and much other interesting matter .

      Publications Rcceivkn—" The Westminster ...

      Publications RcCEivKn— " The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review ; " " The Memoirs of a Physician" ( No . 2 . Parlour Library ); "Tne Man-inthe-Moon" ( No . 1- ; Parts IV . and V . Haydn ' s " Creation , " and VII . and VIII . Handel ' s "Messiah" ( London : V . Novello , Dean-street , Soho ) .

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      Tub Easter Holidats. Easter Monday, Thou...

      TUB EASTER HOLIDATS . Easter Monday , though possessing all the elements of a ri ' sht roysteriug "Saint "Mond-ty , specially provides f ^ r its i \ u \ i \ et oua -votaru-a entertainment * ofun orij ; inal varied , and highly-attractive character . The people's holiday in question was [ not one ( whit behindhand i : i this respect , and though the greater part of the day was downcast an 4 gl > omy , intermingled with a good sprinkling of nin and hail , those persons bent upon enjoymrnt were not retarded , by the lowering aspect of the weather , from vi-dting the muni popular places which Cockaigne so peculiarly delighteth to honour . The innumerable lairs in tlie vicinity of London were thronged—Greenwich being the centre . po ' mt of attraction . Scratchers , " as usual , were in great requisition , afford , ing infinite fun to the " g < -uts" and juveniles , and equally

      disconcerting thJ steady and anti-go-ahead visitors . TheP-trk , too , —one of the mast popular places of public resort in the vicinity of the ' great motrop > Us "—was crowded to excess— " ktss in tho ring " delighting the gallants and the " high-spirited " of tha g < ntler sex ; whilst some rery laughable feats trera performed by tbe stntcl-les andjaaibles of antiqmted holyday folks , who crow young again for halt' an hour whilst ascending and descending " On » Troe" and other hillocks—and whose jtryrations , and puffing and blowing , aftbrdi-d vastmerriment to lookers on , and those whose courage would se frightened out of its propriety in achieving similar mountainous undertakings . —But we have not space to dilate urtht-r ; and will at once proceed to foruish our readers with a concise account of the representations at the leading theatres : —

      DRURTTjAASE . —MrBunn produced a spectacle quite inimitable , founded on Felicicn . David ' s musical opera of" LeCsert . " andcleverly adapted by Mr Tullj , under the title of tha " Imaum ' s Daughter . " To those who delight in "• peetncle" we say visit Drury-lane . Any . thins more vivid than ab . ittle between the caravan and the Arabs has been rarely witnessed on any boards . The >> uit in the desert , with the horses , camels , iiC , on the ground , was full of life . The simoom was wonderfully contrived . The rolling on of the drifting sand , and the wind of fire were great mechanical and scenic triumphs , aud ware received with thunders ofappluu « e . The di-siirt by starlight with the subsequent sunrise was

      also very beautiful . The great coup de theatre was the final procession with the chariot drawn by the twoeleph nits , although the circuit round the stage was marred in some degree by the harness ot 'Jenny Lind" becoming entangled with her trunk ; her partner in colossal tame dragged bt-r out of the maze , and the house was in ecstasi * s . " Maritana " preceded ihe ] orientalspectacle , and went off with eclat ; but the audience reservrd outbursts of acclamation to greet the poetieal manger , and at the end of the performances insisted upon his appearance in front of tbe curtain ; but MrBunn declined the honour —and a wicked wag turned the sweet voices into slums of laughter by throwing a real bun , " done brown , " upon the sia-e .

      HAYMARKET . —Mr Planche has aided to his rotation in tlicnew Evterpiece at this theatre , ych pt tnc "New Planet , ''& c . It is foil of piquancy—indeed , so innumerable are the jokes and witticisms , that the niidien-. e are kept throughout in continual laughter . The same liberality has been bestowed upon the scenery , appointments , & c ., for which Mr Webster is so conspicuously distinguished . We doubt not tha "New Planet" will form a focus of attraction for some weeks to come . iSTLET' 3 . —Mr Batty presented bis numerous patrons with a delightful evening ' s amusement . ' Good wine iceda no bush ; " and wa can emphatically and conscientiously say , we never visit this splendid Theatre without being highly gratified . In tbe present representation , the "Bride of Abydos , " the resources of the menagerie have been taxed to the utmost , to give due

      tffect . Tho scenery , executed by Mr Laidlaw , is itry magnificent , and reflects high credit upon that gentleman ' s artistic powers . The groupings are eminently picturveque , the appointments of the most "liberal conctit , '' the horse furniture gorgeous , the panoramic effects mest grateful to the eye , the costumes really , and without one word of exaggeration , surprisingly beautiful , and the properties generally magnificent . In the " Scents of tlie C . rele " Mr Barry , the Clown on his return to this theatre received unanimous plaudits ; and at tbe conclusion of the entertainments , Mr Batty must bava felt highly gratified that his spirited efforts to please were < Jnly appreciated ; and the public , in crowding boxes , pit and gallery , will , whilst enjoying a really excellent and highly . pleasing entertainment , only " render unto Casar that which is Casar ' s , " and so return the management a fair per centage for a large outlay of money .

      SURREY . —Tho doors of this well-patronized theatre wera besieged hours before the usual time of admitting the public , to witness a new dr » ma , called tbe '' Dis . carded Daughter , " a ph co containing a more than average arnountof talent imparted to the "domestic drama , " and filled with sentiments so well understood by the regular Surreyites . We had an abundance- of stirring incidents , interesting situations , Jsc , and due respect was shown for the virtue of tho heroine—all ot which was vociferously applauded by the audience , who were , however , evidently on tho qui nine for tbe great Attraction of the evening , viz—the extraordinary performances of a troop of Bedouin Arabs—tbe real Simon Pures—whose wonderful ability has already created tho astonishment of our Parisian neighbours—and whose fame was not one jot abated by tho unprecedented evolutions we

      witnessed . Extraordinary leaps and summersets we have seen at Astley ' s , but nothing evtr approaching the dxrliy of these deniz .-ns of the des-.-rt . They p ile them * selves up into pyramids , climb Into columns , and divido again into individuals , imitating the " flight of stags" and the " spring of the leopard . " Tliey have a peculiar style of summerset , made sideways , and preceded and followed by tt series of rapid twirls that recall descriptions of the dancing dervishes . In all cases tlwy have a most cat-like facility of falling on their feet . It would be impossible to describe their performances in detail : the crowning achievement was a series of summersets within a circle of bayonets fixed upright , executed with astonishing precision . It is evident here that the least fa-lure would have been highly dangerous , if not fatal . The execution of this exciting feat was rewarded with tumults of applauit . Under the " illustrious Fred's "

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      anagetnent , at the Adelpbi , we recillect several Bedouin Arabs going through some surprising performances j but the party now in England are much more numerous ( fourteen in number ) and the eoup-ieell is , of course , more striliing and complete . Two new pieces ( ofarce , and another drama ) concluded tho entertainments , the house being crowded in every part . SADLB » 'S WELLS . —Mr Phelps , the highly talented manager , put forth an attractive bill of fare : — "Jane Shore , " * new musical interluae , called "The Rival Sergeants , " - and the amusing farce ol the *« Bengal Tiger . " Divested as tha tragedy was of Mr Phelps- ' powerful acting , the house , on the rising of tha curtain , presented a very respeetatle , though not a crowded audience , and the combined efforts of the very efflcb-nt company cweied this powerful tragedy to a triumphant conclusion , the wily l > ako of Gloucester being ably represented by Mr G . Bennett , and Hiss Cooper , Mr

      Marston , and Miss L . Addison , receiving much applause , especially the last-named lady , whose limited career has already gained her many admirers , —her commanding talents enabling her to successfully "play up . to" an actor of so much deserved reputation as Mr Phelps . The plot of tho "Rival Sergeants , " ( which was as sue cessful as cooid be desired ) turns on the endeavours of two sergeants of the French Guards to win the affections of Margaretta ( Miss J . Wallack ) , a young lady possessing more soltd attractions than mere personal charms Sergeant CharlesH Mr Scharf ) is the favourite ; and his rival , Sergeant O'Lynn ( Mr H . Mellon ) , a native of the Emerald Isle , in endeavouring by very questionable expedients to supplant his more fortunate conwado , ig p laced insomejerobarrassing and ludicrous positions . aad is eventually outwitted and exposed by tho fair object of his professed attachment , who discovers that he feels moreregard for her purse than her person . Several

      incidental songs were very prettily sung by Miss Wallack , OLYMPIC— -Ur G . Bolton has again re-opened this theatre for the summer season . We cannot do less than wish him success , more particularly as we hear , aud indeed believe , Mr'Bolton to be sincere in his endeavours te restore this once popular and elegant theatro to its wonted pristine condition . All the " parts" make a " whole , " so saith the philosopher ; and surely it must have occurred to Mr Bolton that , for due and correct representation , nn efficient and working company matt be selected . We do hope that the performance * on Monday aro not to be taken as a sample of what the manager intends " to put before the town . " And , besides , it is really unfair to two or three popular and respected actors , that the whole burthen of an opening night should

      b % levied on their shoulders—indeed , to these gentlemen , and tho aid of theprompter , the ' Mountaineer 8 " clambered to a dreary close , Mr Denvil sustaining the leading character . In the " Spare Bed , " which followed , Mr Romer awakencl the audience , putting them in a good humour ; anditjisonlyjusttothigcleverandindustri & usactortosay , that Usabilities were fully appreciated on this occasion ; although , in our humble opinion , Mr Romer—though not a juvenile—has never been so great a favourite as bis taleuls entitle him to be . Mr George Wild appeared In a new burlesque , nnd bis popular and peculiar acting diverted the audience , and created some laughter , whilst Mr Romer and Miss Williams did all that combined talent could do ; but we must admit that oven tbe title of the burlesque fails in being understood—and wo defy the

      most inveterate punster to discover the funniment intended to be conveyed in "Joan of Arc , the Maid of All-he-ans ; " the only meaning tec cau devise is , that Joan of Arc is supposed to execute the work of a regular household drudge—doing , Indeed , the labour of " all-yeans" in the house . This is " a wo . rser , " and should , withontdelay , be transmitted to our facetious cotemporary i » «> ie * . We do not say the burle . tque is without vigour or spirit , and we trust , for the sake of manager and actors , it will have a run ; but we do most earnestly hope Mr Uolton will at once se * - the necessity of organising his company , not allowing himself to be too repeatedly thrust before the public in leading characters , under the impres-» i >> n that he is a oreat actor , —but thathe Will , in justice to himself and brethren , divide fairly tbe honour and merit , so as to successfully and effectively offer the public the "legitimate" drama ; and hence , foster and encourage "Icgitimate " acting ; when we do not doubt his

      reward will be in the plaudits of crowded and well-conducted houses . We have been thus candid , out of tbe purest good-will towards Mr Bolton ' s undertaking ; it will , we desire , be our more pleasing duty to record tbe un-quivocal « ucces » of new and more eatisfactrry efforts . TIIE COLOSSEUM The doors of this splendid establishment were opened to the public at a reduced price of admission , aud the new system was rewarded with de . served success , upwards of 1 , 000 visitors having been present in the eourse of the day and evening . The entertainir . ents comprised the Panoramas of Londan , by night and day ; the exhibition of sculpture , stalactite caverns , prize cartoons , < fcc ., which have already acquired tlieir mesd of popularity among the sight-seers from town and country . Surely encouragemrnt ought to be cheerfully continued to this interesting exhibition . It is indeed "a sight for a father , " ay , and mother , sister , and brother—and , we hope , even a respected grandmother .

      POhYTECHSlC INSTITUTION . —There was a vatt deal to be seen , and sufficient to be heard , to please , recreate , and improve most persons . The electro magnetic telegraph siun . il apparatus , and the living specimens of the

      CREMOUNE GARDENS . —The veteran Green made his first aeronautic trip shortly after six o ' clock , from thesegardens , in the greatNiissan balloon . He ascended in company with twelve gentlemen , in the presence of several thousand spectators within the grounds , and several thousand more without . The wind was blowing from the north-cast at tbe time of the ascent , to that the balloon was c . irritd immediately ncro's the river , sailing over the Wandsworih fields , and taking a direc tios towards Sydenham and Croydon . The veteran pilot appeared in the best possible spirits , and was cheered by ihe voices of the company assembled an be mounted into the clouds . The visitors immediately afterwards re . paired to the different amusements provided for themthe festivities being kept up till a late hour—the company separating highly delighted at the magnificent improvements effected during then cm . We hope thefC truly beautiful pleasure gardens " for the million" will be extensively patronised .

      Madame TASSAUD' 3 . —An addition has been made to this exhibition of the figure of 1 ' opc Pius IX ., dressed in his pontificals , and in the act , it would seem , of Sr . inting a benediction . Two French Roman Catholic clergymen who were present , said they had seen his Holiiu-ss . and pronounced it to bo ¦' striking , " A handsome figure of Henry VII ., attired in a sumptuous velvet robs ' , trimmed with ermine , and weaving the collar of the Order o { the Garter—one also of M & crcady as Corlolamts , nn excellent likeness—have been introduced since our last iwtice ef this exhibition , where half a day may bo very amusingly and not u « elessly spent .

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      TIIKSE ARE THE CHAMBERS'S OF 1845 ! [ Wo have already shown to our readers the Chambers ' s of 1847 ; we now refer to the previous opinions of these changeable economists . Whence this wonderful change ?]

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      IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDSSPADE HUSBANDRY . ( From the Information for the People , No . 7 ' 2 . J [ Coitlimied / rom our last . ] let us now proceed to the practical application of this valuable fossil manure , commencing with its use in the reclaiming of waste lands . If moorish or waste soil is ru ; -ch infested with the tenacious roots of rushes , heaths , and other weeds which resist the mechanical action of the havvow , and yield slowly to putrefaction , the best morfo is to till the ground , and allow it to lio in this state for twelve or eighteen months , or oven two years , before applying the lime . It is then generally applied in autumn , and tilled in as soon as possible ; but if not immediately tilled in , the soil with the lime on it should be harrowed , so that its decomposing effects may net as powerfully as possible upon the vegetable matter . After these operations , the land is sown two successive years with oats , without any fallowing ; nnd along

      with the second crop of oats some persons sow u out in crass needs for pasture . Others , alter the fir * t or second crop of oats , give the laud a summer fallow for one season , or a green crop with manure . On the following season another crop ot oats is taken , along with which grass seeds arc sown , and in this state it is committed to pasture . In some cases , after tillage , the soil is allowed to lie for one , two , or more years , according to its nature , after which it is reduced to a complete state of pulverisation by a well-wrought naked summer fallow . On the spring following it is limed , and the lime is well harrowed in along with grass seeds alone , and in the i ' o'lowing season the land is committed to pasture . This , however , is a very expensive mode , and cannot be recommended to tenants whoso lease ia of a moderate length . It is decidedly ; themost enriching mode of laying down waste land with Jime only for pastura « e , as the energy which the lime communicated to the soil is not exhausted by grain crops .

      It wiil now be observed that lime is a most important engine of improvement for wnstu lands ; for it decomposes and brines into active use the inert vegetable matter , and also serves as an elementary earth for the growth of plants , l ' or peat lands , after being drained , and generally all rough land * reclaimed f rom as iiteofnature , lime is invaluable , and equally so for either tillage or ptsturc . In connexion with twrnip husbandry , it has been the grand reclaimer in many parts ot Scotland , and will effect similar ends in any district of country not possessing a sharp and active soil ; in such places it is not required , and its application may do harm . Laid on merely as a topdresring—that is , thinly powdered over the landlime is found to have very extraordinary effects . Mr Alton , in his Treatise on Moss , observes , — " If lime or rather calcareous substances are laid on the award , though the land bo neither laboured nor any seed gown , such are tlie effects of hot lime , that the moss plants will instantly disappear , » nd » ricu and beau .

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      tifnl award of clover , daisies , and the richest poa or meadow grasses , will rise spontaneously . " Irom the result of experiments in many different Situations , it seems satisfactorily proved , th a * the proprietors of waste lands within reach of $ m » have . 3 « Vb Warac J w th e ™» da contra ? i « t ^ L „ rJ COmpfeterae , 'wation , hpwerer / . i * ii 8 t ments- being entered mtobetween the landlords and the tenants , agreat proportini , of tbe pastoral grounds , lying ma state of waste , might by these mSn » te progressively improved . « w *« ow > It Beems to be a general wish of farmers to use lime . rather » tillage than . by top-dressing , whiebis much to be regretted , na the iime , when used in tilwith

      lage , conjoined c-ver-cropping . eventually , exhausts the so . ; whereasj . by applying it im . topdressing *^ will prove hi ghly beneficial . Thereftre , in a climate rising six hundred feet above the level i u 1 ™ ' t ° P "<™» g » the most effectual way in which lime can be applied for improving barren pasture-grounds . The iatid > is never in " thto-way exhausted b y any species of croppmR ; it is put m a state of being benefited by the dun » of the animals grazing upon it ; and by duo attention being , paid to keeping the land free from wctness i by draining , it pill be progressively fertilized In the application of lime , it is a rule wbioh should invariably be attended to , always to Kive abundance , and hra newlv-slakcd condrSon , in order that it may have its fulfeffpct . If slalfcd a

      considerable length of time h-fiiro it is applied ; it does no * act so powerfully either in reducing the natural herbage or neutralising tho acids , as wfien applwdin-a hot powdery state . There are very tnin , moorish , soils , however , where lime by itself wilt not £ S 2 ? r herbage , these requiring a nourishing S . ^ <*?<«> " earth will be found to hare the same W . ri «« i i * 8 tron S «» - Top-drewing t « S t L * 8 and ™ 5 y , * ta > be performed with adWtage in mossy moorish tracts , where lime cannot easily be obtained . These- earthy materials have a wonderful effect in improving the pasturage uthey entirely destroy tbe growth of moss plants , nnd if applied to tho depth of an inch or so , will generate a sweet herbage , rendering the gwttnd capable of being benefited by the droppings of the animals it supports .

      IRBIOATIOK . While some lands can be reclaimed on ' y by draining , others , which are naturally dry , may be rendered equally serviceable by irrigation , or artificial watering . Lands in the dry climate of Australia seem to bo in this condition ; instead of depriving them of water , they require all that can be conveniently led towards them . Much of the land'in the inner parts of North America is likewise so dry , that drainage is altogether undesirable , and irrigation is in many cases a means of fertilisation .. It may happen that lands naturally marshy are-as- much the better for irrigation as dry deserts ; .-but in all such casus the lands must in the first place be drained . This leads to an exolanation of- tne

      principle of irrigation . When . water lies in or upon the land , it- staenatcB and produces a marsh , which is alike insalubrious and unproductive . The extensive Pontine marshes in tho neighbourhood of Rome present a remarkable example ot both these conditions . In- order that water may not be injurious , it must be kept flowing , always running amongst and from theblatfes of herbage . Regarding the theory of irrigation ,. Sir Humphrey Davy says— " Water is absolutely essential to vegetation ; and , when land has been covered with water in the winter or in the beginning of spring , tho moisture , which has penetrated dteep into the soil and even the subsoil , becomes a-sort of nourishment to the roots of plants in the summer , and prevents those bad effeet-t which often happen in land

      in their natural state , from a long' continuance of dry weather . When tbe water used in irrigation has flowed over a calcareous country , it is generally found impregnated with carbonate of lime , and in this state it tends , in many instances-, to ameliorate the soil . Common river water , also , generally contains a certain portion of organis & ble- matter , which is much greater after rains than at other times , and which exists in the largest quantity when the stream rises in a cultivated country . Even in cases where the water used for flooding is . pure , and free from animal and vegetable subHanees , it acts by causine the more equable diffusion of nutritive matter existing in the land : and in very cold seasons , it preserves the tender roots and leaves of tho grass from being injured by frost .

      In aeneral those waters which breed tho best h > bi are the best fitted for watering meadows , but most of the benefits of irrigation may be derived from any kind of water . It is , however , a general principlc i that water containing ferruginous impregnation * , though possessed of fcnilisim ? effects when ^ applied to a calcareous soil , are injurious to soils that do not effervesce with acids ; and that calcareous waters , which are known by the earthy deposit thny afford when boiled , are of most use on siliceous soils , or other soils containing no remarkable quantity of carbonate of lime . " V ? U » tcver be the actual properties communicated by the water , it is certain that the central effect of meadow irrigation is greatly to increase the quantity of liHrlwge , and render it more street and nourishing for cattle than if grown on dry grounds . ( To be continued . )

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      A Polytechnic Institution has been formed at Bombay . ' A law for the regulation of the press has been laid before tbe Germanic diet . Sweetmeats of all kinds are now made by machines , which are said to perform as much work as nine men . A few days since , the funeral took place here of the once celebrated vocalist Mariani Sessi , who , in the time of Catalan } , appeared as a rival star . The funeral of the Prince do Polignac took place on Saturday , at St . Germain-en-Laye . It was strictly private .

      The gardenr * of General Harrison , late president of the United States , complained to him that the boys stole hi * graves , and advised him to get a good dosr . " No , " said the general , " I'll get a good schoolmaster , and he will take care of tho boys and the grapes too !" Nettles have been on sale in Preston at threepence a pound . It has been calculated that tho food of a wild rabbit costs a halfpenny a day . A guard on the Great Western Railway has wrHten a tragedy , called " Athelstan , " which has been pubi « hed by subscription . The Builder says that to put the silver edging to muslin which is always thrown away beforo converting the material to use , costs the country £ 20 , 000 a-venr .

      A Winchester man , a teetotaller , the other day , ns' -ed a neighbour if he were not inclining to the Temperance Society ? and he replied " Yes ; for when he saw the wine his mouth watered . " Prizes were lately offered by the French govern ment for the composition of religious and moral songs , nnd no fewer than 1 , 7011 competitors entered the lists . Move recmils are said to have been raised in Ireland since the 1 st of April , 1816 , than in the three years immediately preceding . A Kendal paper mentions tbe birth of a monstroua calf , which was furnished wiih two perfect heads . During ( he trials at the late Nottingham assizes , the pockets of several persons were picked in the court .

      At the Sussex Assizes last week , there wore no less than four actions springing out of family feuds , viz ., one by a father against hiss » n , one by a son against his father , one by a son against his mother , and one by one brother against another . Vesuvius continues to be very active ; but the Neapolitans feel no fear , as none of the syraptems have manifested themselves which are known to be the forerunners of a great eruption . A patent has been granted for the manufacture of iron coaches . An omnibus , carrying nineteen persons , besides the driver and cad , is said to weigh only 11 cwt .

      A sepulchre which has been recently discovered at Home , near the family vault of the Soipios , contains inscriptions relating to the deposit of the bodies of freedmen of Paulus Emilius and Julius Casar , and of the tiring woman of the famous Messalina . A return , obtained by Mr Hume , shows that the actual expenses incurred at the Mint in the late recoinage of light eold coin , amounted to £ 07 , 815 . George the Third came to the throne in 1760 , when tbe national debt was 120 m illions ; in 1819 , when he died , it was 820 millions , having increased during that period about £ 36 , 000 a day , or nearly £ 23 a minute . . ...

      The sentence on the private of marines , ordered to be hung at tbe vard-arm of one of the Queen ' s ships , for striking a corporal , has been commuted to transportation for life . There are at present no less than thirty widows keepers of inns in Carlisle . An Irish peasant , on a small ragged pony , was floundering through a bog , when the animal in its attempts to push on , got one of its hoofs into tho stirrups . " Arrah , my boy , " said the rider , * if you are going to get up , it is time for roe to get down . " The young crops throughout the Belgian provinces are reported to present a very promising appearance . The village of Preigney . in the department of the Haute-SaOne , was nearly destroyed by firoa few days since . Tho loss of property ia estimated at 250 , 000 francs .

      Memory is like a picture gallery of our past days . The fairest and most pleasing of the pictures are those which immortalise the days of useful industry . Mr Luke Hansard has commenced tho issue of a new journal , called The Spirit of the Times , The Prussian minister of the interior has appointed sixteen short-hand writers to report tho proceodnigi of the general diet ,

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      TjlK Pobta . M ) TJIK Pwjjusijbh . —A poet was onoa asked by his-publisher how many copies of his poem then in sheets he would like to have put in boards ? " The whole etJition , " replied the confident author . '• Humph i" Iwid the publisher ,- " just as you pleaso ; but if yon will take my advice ; , you will only have a d zen or so . " " Why not the whole ? " asked the indignant poet . " Because , ' - * " answered his adviser , '' it spoik them for waste paper . "—Frazer . PntrssiAff" . -A ! RMr . —It is said'tlVat the Prussian government intends to reduce the establishment of it- < army . Balloonwov—A letter from Pisa-stales that the Italian aeronaut , Orlandi , who has made alread y four hundred ami twen'y serial voyages wfch continued success , has-jipt completed an entirely new machine , which is proved with machinery ,., to enable him to have complete control of the balloon intJicair , and to guide its direction with certainty *

      Rats werencrer known to be so plentiful in the stack-yards and granaries near Lancaster as during the present aeasoh . Bao TitADE ^ P-The trade of Roust * -is now in a very distressed state , and the manufactories are only worked three dviys a week . Ibdia . —Professor Wilson has completed his continuation of Mill ' s " History of British India . " Sin Gaspaob-iLk tWnncnANT , the lately appointed Gi-wnior of Newfoundland , has left town with his suite for Halifax . Helping thh Poor . —II Cook . Bsch . of Titherley .

      last week bought anumberofsacks-of potatoes , at 18 s . a sack , resolving to furnish each poor industrious man with-one sack of three bushels , the land he allows them to have rent free . The only stipulation he makes with the reoipients is , that all shall be planted , and if the crop begood tho quantity furnished to b « returned , if not , . the poor will have nothing to pay cither for land or seed ; LiTiinoRAPtucuSiONE . —A quarryof good lithographic stone has been discovered on : tho southern coast of Arabia , aad it has been proposed to export it to India , where lithographors ^ re chiefly supplied from Europe .

      Sharp . —At the late Exeter-Sessions , one Leo was tried for stealing a razir . After ; - the recorder summed up , the prisoner begged tO / snpply an inadvertent omission on the part of tho judge . " Gentlemen of tho jury , " said * Lee , " if you have * any doubts , you are to give me- the benefit ef them . " He was acquitted . 11 angi . no . —Several thnusands-of persons lately assembled at Racine , in the state of Wisconsin , to sec a man hung for murder , but the-sheriff informed the people that the governor- had- seprieved the prisoner for thirty ? days . Disappointed by tl > is postponement of the show which ) tliey had expected , they hung the effigy of the governor , and then separated peaceably .

      AnTiciiowss- a-. Sunmirinin Eoa Potatoks . —It has latterly been much urged upon the cottagers tho utility of extensively substituting in their allotments and cardens the Jerusalem artichoke for the potato . No weather-hurts it , it appears to (; row almost any where , and yields quite as large a crop as tlie most prolific potato . German 3 iiionATum to . A jserica . — Upwards of 6000 German emigrants haw ,. within the last fortnight , passed through Cologne , on their way to Bremen , Havre , and Aatwerp > where they will take their departure for America .

      A Mis * r . - An old man , named HorviUe , who had lived for some time in a state of tho most dreadful misery in a wretched garret is tho rue St GtrmainrAuxerroiS ) and was frequently rePeved by his neighbours , was a few days ago found dead in the heap ol straw that served for his bed ; there was discovercdiamong his miserable rass a sum of Y . OOOf . in money , a banlc note of 5001 ' . and a quantity of plate and articles of jewellery . —Ga % naHi . A Nb 3 LK Ex ^ MPua—L' > rd H arry Vane , M P ., who has recently become the proprietor of the great por .

      tion of the land in ' Asliton Keynes , Wiltshire , has authorised ail his tenants to destroy , in any way , tbe rabbits they may hereafter find on their respective farms . [ . VVe trust other large landed proprietors will follow this example . None deny that these vermin arc other than rk . sC destructive ; and it is terrible to reflect that , when the people are crying loudly foy-food—cheap food , the i > oor man should bo prevented *' rom securing it , whicii he could abundantly aad readily do , if the privileges held out by Lord Harry Vatic were generally granted J

      lLt . usTii . vnax of Mn . Disraeli ' s OnxTony . —The Spectator , in allusion to Mr Disraeli ' s sreecli in the recent Cracow deb . ite , say- : — "Mr Disraeli undertook to make out that there had been no violation of trcaty . andsucceeded in making an entertaining speech . This gentleman has a knu-k nt displaying ' -it and sense in a the . 'is on some nonsensical theme . It is a sort of literary tight-rope dancinir : yon wonder hew the posture-master can execute such striking actions upon s t worthless . ! s- anditig-ground . You may admire the feat , but as to results the exertion all goes tor noth'ng . " Moke Flies . — The Dumfries Herald says , that on Monday forenoon , about 10 o ' clock , a shower of ( lies , which darkened tlie air as tlwy descended , fell on the Appan-road , about hail a mile to the east of Dumfries , and covered the road tor COO or 701 ) yards , as thick as hailstone * .

      SiNot'LMt Uir . cuMSTANCR . —One day la ^ t week as one of the gentlemen commoners of Winchester CoU logo was discussing a barrel of oysters with a friend , hi was surprised on feeling in his mouth something harder than the general nature of the oyster , —it turned out to be a very large pearl , valued by a Winchester jeweller at 200 guineas ; who aftirraeJ that it was the largest lie had ever seen . Cou . vrliov , Peer of France , who was Minister of Finance under the Restoration , expired at Paris on Saturday . He wis one of the largest landed proprietors in France , his revenue amounting to two million francs ( £ 80 . 000 ) The Hverjwol Times of Tuesday contains an announcement that in future its price will be 211 .

      Ux-ikohmitt op Postage tiiiviioiiout Germany . —A , letter from Berlin , of tho b ^ h , i-ays that the governments of all thestates of the Germanic confederation are negotiating for tho establishment of a uniform postage tariff for aU Germany , ami that a viorisrm of tlieir delegates will shortly meet at Dresden to settle the rate of charge . Railway of Tk » Thousand Milks , —A proposition has been started to form a railway to connect , with the exception of the short sea-passwgc to Antwerp or Flushing—London with Canton , in China , ( a twelve days'journey only ) with ramifications to all the principal cities , towns , and works of Europe and Asia , and to many in Africa also , if thought desirable , by means of which roads a daily post and free intercourse , commercial , social , and philosophical , may bo established and permanently maintained over a population of from six hundred to seven hundred millions of people .

      A Coxtkmporahy of Burns . —Mr George Thomson , the correspondent of Burns , and the main prompter of his immortal lyrics , was lately presented with a testimonial , a beautiful silver vase . Dkath of a Diplomatist . — The "Journal des Debats" announces the death , at Munich , on the 23 rd ult ., of Baron Alexander dc Cetto , one of the most distinguished diplomatists of the present century , in the 72 nd vear of his age . Murder Autiiokisbd . —Richard , a slave of Robert Rowan , who whipped another slave , Maria , to death , in Charleston , U . S ., has been tried and acquitted , because he did it by the direction of hii mistress . Nkw Roman Catholic Ciiukcii . — A now Roman Catholic church , to be called St Patrick and St Austin , is now erecting in Johnson-street , Commercial-road , St . George ' s in the East . It is on a very largo scale , with school-houses for 800 children attached .

      A Fruitful Visk !—A few days ago , tho wife of the R ; v . J . Rider , Vicar of Nuneaton , near Coventry , was safely delivered of f « ur childrcn . who are oil living . About ten months ago she had three children at a birth , who arc still living . DlSCBRTION THE RKTTKH PAIIT , dSC—Th . 0 " Boston Liberator" mentions that among the deserters from the American army is tho Rev . W . II . Barnes . The reverend gentleman having secured three months salary in advance , shrank from the sight of grimvisaged War . Italian Flouii . — An arrival of 1 , 200 sacks of flour has taken place from Italy , by a vessel arrived from Leghorn , the produce of that place . Antio , uaihan Discovert . —On Mcnday the navigators employed near the seven arches on theChertsey Railway , duif up a vase , apparently ol ancient Roman manufacture . It was about two feet high , and one in diameter , and contained the remains of a child .

      Mk Lauoi'chkre . —Wc have authority to state that there is no foundation whatever for a report which has been circulated / or the last day or two . to ihe effect that Mr Labouchere intends to retire from the olh ' ca of Irish Secretary . —Tt ' m « . Bsitish Muskbai . —No less than 19 , 170 persons passed on Easter Monday through the collections of this institution . As an instance of the increasing interest which the publ ' c takes in this national collection , we may state that on Easter Monday , 1815 , the number of visitors was 15 , 810 ; whereas on Monday there were W , 17 « . During the year 1841 there were 319 , 871 , while during last year there were W 601

      . . _ _ , _„ .-Alonp . Symvious

      SuicwK St Liverpool on Sunday mgUUs tho ten o ' clock Woodside steamer was proceeding hence to the ferry , when about half way across tlie liver » man . name unknown , mounted the bulwark , jumped overboard , and vias drowned .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 10, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_10041847/page/3/