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      GIBE—THE MEN OF KENT . BY JZSSE HAMMOin ) . TOen liberty was driven O ' er foreign realms to roam , By Sirft 0 " Tras P Onr island for her home , jhe lien of Xcnthad nitch'd her tent . As if hy ancient charter ; And they bad sworn , as freemen horn , Their birthright ne ' er to barter . Then your bumpers raise to your country ' s pralst , As queen of the ocean wave ; Be the standing toast , the land we boast Of beauty and the brave . When hostile banners floated , And dangers gathered round ; To liberty devoted ,

      The foremost they were found . The Ken of Sent , with firm intent ; Her sacred tree to nourish , On field or flood would shed their blood , That liberty might flourish . . Then your bumpers raise , 4 e Kow peace , her form displaying , Smiles on their fertile plains ; They join , due homage paying , In patriotic strains . Tlie Ken of Kent now dwell content ; But should their country need ' em , first of the free , they still will be The houy-guard of freedom . Then vour bumpers raise , & c

      Asacbeoshc. By A Foot1iajt. It's Wery We...

      ASACBEOSHC . BY A FOOT 1 IAJT . It ' s wery well to talk in praise Of Tea and "Water-drintong ways , In proper time and place ; Of sober draughts , so clear and cool , Dipp'd out of a transparent pool Reflecting heaven ' s face . Of babbling brooks , and purling rills , And streams as gushes from the lulls , Ifs wery well to talk-Hut what becomes of all such schemes , With ponds of ice , and running streams , As doesn't even walk *

      When winter comes with piercing cold , And all tlie rivers , new or old , Is frozen far and wide ; And limpid springs is solid stuff , And crystal pools is hard enough To skate upon , and slide ;—What then are thirsty men to do , But drink of ale , and porter too , Champagne as makes a fizz : 1 ' ort , sheiry , or the Rhenish sort , And u rhaps a drop of summut short—The water-pipes is friz ! Hood ' s Jlagasinc

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      Oomngsbt - Or, The 2jew Generation. Ur B...

      OOMNGSBT - or , THE 2 JEW GENERATION . Ur B . I / Israeli , Esq ., M . P . London : Colburn , Great Marlljorongh-street . ( Contimio . 1 from the Northern Star of January 4 ih . ) Book II ., chap . L , opens with a political retrospect of the state of parties in JS 34 , in which vear the once popular IU-forai Ministry was upset , and the eagcrly-Eought ltclbrmcd Parliament dissolved . The partial brtak-up of the Whig party at that period , the secession of Stanley and Graham , and the queer pranks of Chancellor Brougham , were , according to Mr . D'lsracli , occasioned by the too great success of the party in the election of 1832 . There were tco many

      placehunters and expectants to satisfy , who , lieing left unsatisfied , sj > ec-dily became hostile to their own chitfe—inti-isucrs against the existence of their own party . In treating of the position of Sir Robert Peel iu 1334-5 , Mr . D'Jsracli takes a glance at the history of the Tory party fk-oni tlie time of Pitt downwards . Piti is praised as the last of Tory statesmen ; the Duke , —though , as we have previously intimated , not considered b y Mr . © 'Israeli a great statesman , —is lauded as a great " military genius " hut the Sid-Eiouths , Castlcre'ighs , Vaniittarts , and the rest of f-fifligang , aro consigned to a contemptuous infamy . The following is a masterlv exposition of the " Condition of England" in 1816-17-18-19 : —

      tus hoee or cut-theoat castleeeagh . Xoivcomiutnc . U that Condition of England question , of which our generation hears so much . During firc-andtwenty years every influence that can devdope the energies and resources of a nation had been acting with concentrated stimulation on the-British Isles . Jsational peril and national glory ; the perpetual menace of invasion , the continual triumph of conquest ; tlie most extensive foreign commerce that was ever conducted by a single nation ; an ilmnitatle currency ; an internal trade supported by swarming millions , whom manufactures and incJosuru bills . summoned into existence above . ill , the supreme confcroul obtained by man over mechanic power ; these are some of tlie causes of that rapid advance Of material civilization in England , to which the annals of the world can afford no parallel . But there was no proportionate advance in our moral civilization . In the liurry-Churrv of inoney-raakinjr , men-makiag , and machine making , we had altogether outgrown , not the spirit , hut the onrauizjition , of our institutions .

      The peace came ; the stimulating influences suddenly ceased ; the people , iu a novel and painful position , found themselves -without guides . They went to the ministry ; tber asked to be guided ; they asked to he governed . Commerce requested a code ; trade required a currency ; the unfranchised subject solicited his equal privilege ; suffering labour clamoured for its rights ; a new race detrended education . What did the ministry do I 5 hey fell into s . panic . Having fulfilled during their lives ihe duties of administration , they were frightened hosiuse they were called upon , for the first time , to perform the functions of government Like all weak men , tlisy had recourse to what they called strong measures . They determined to put down the multitude . They thought they were imitating Mr . Pitt , because they mistook disoisauizauon for sedition .

      j heir projects of relief were as ndicnlous as their system of coercion was ruthless ; both were alike founded in intense iyuc-rauee . When wc recall Mr . Tansittart with his currency resolutions ; Lord CasUereagh "with his plans for the employment of labour ; and lord Sidmoufh with Ms plots for fcliyiaMMg the laborious , one is tempted to imagine that the present epoch has been one of peculiar advances in political ability , and marvel how England could have attained her present pitch under a series of each governors . \ [ We thank Mr . D'Isrncli for Ms exposure of the ruffianly government i which , at the period he speaks Of , weighed like a nightmare on the heart of England , autl , like a vampire , drained the blood of ihe people- Aever be it forgotten that it was that govenmient who , having used as tools the brave teamen of Britain to crush the power of France , when no longer requiring their services flung them by thousands into the streets , to perish of hunger , or

      die as Caskman died at tlie Old Bailey , kemr on the callows for demanding bread!—that It was that infernal government who v . ' iedv and humanely , when the unemployed demanded work and bread , proposed the setting of Englishmen to the task of digging holes and filling them up again , as a sufficient panacea for the evils coinplaincd of I—that it was that accursed government who suspended the Habeas Corpus Act , and erammed the prisons with the demanders for a radical reform of that House , the corruption of which was unbluHihigly proclaimed by one of the jury to be as " notorious as the sun at noon-day !"—that it was that atiwious government who passed laws to disarm the people ; to prevenrthem acquirins ; a knowledge of the use of arms ; to fetter tJuTright of Efisembling for the discussion of grievances ; and to prevent the march of inquiry and the progress of Imowledire hy restrictions on the press!—that it was that traii-hating government who plundered and drove C < . ' -bcttij : t « exile , and condemned Carlileand

      the other auvwates of free discussion to years of torturing imprisonment I—that it was that bloody government vi jw sanctioned the horrible massacre Of the penult ; peaceably and legallv assembled nt I ' etffl-loe , to perform a constihitional actthat of petitioning the Legislature ; and who inipn- » iicti Hunt and otners for being present at thai meeting , so . brutally and horribly put down;—that ^ it was that hellish government who plotted ihe rhmiigs at I / mdon , andDcrbv , and at Scotland—who hung Brandrcfk , Wilson , Eaird , osti j , 1 hisrlewood , and their fellow sufferers—deliteKteljconeot-ting what they called "treason , " that they miiht jnurdei- patriots as " traitors !"—that it *« s the chief and king of that government—that Moated mass oi ' Heartless sensualism—that beastlv incarnation of all the devilries of kimreraft , —Fum , the founh . —xcito zfetafcl the Yeoman Cavalrv butchers

      tf the ilanehester people , and sanctioned every atroj « y fi bis Banisters , and who , at length , not daring wW * J - * i , 3 lc S BZe » shut iimself u ? in Lis den , hit v J fcstj he rotting awav inch by inch ; " « u « th causing universal jov—millions invoking " » scs on his tomb : —that the prime actor in the fc ^ f ,, bat ? « i" « eut , the Irish snake Castlep ^ A ™ c ; Practical eonftter of the fabled deeds of St . « nek , , htd by his own hand , a seli-munlerer , " cutgr «*» tpcat at North Cray , in Kent ! " and , to * S « . neVw - ? forgotten that there are vet alive £ «!»< V "" ? otthat government on whom jus-^« h » , , ?? doile ; ^ d 111 TCvrarA of whose crimes iittl a \? . . t 0 ° S ° od—a thousand-fold too mer-* ii ( l , ^; i - ^ r -D'JsraeIi ' s description of the way in todl <« * ?* managed bv tlie bribed supporters The ~ T ~ delender s « the Castlereagh regime ;—Bsnu > * ' ** Bigbys , * indeed , at this period , one

      emin : thtis v ! . ^ ? 0 lnat mngns tribe , greatly distin . teoJciiij "'^ ''Jts . They demonstrated , in a manner E » oa i " t a , lE < 3 u ^ ^^ Jt was Impossible for any ! K ! C ! t ; - " ^ 5 ability , knowledge , or virtue ; any -tion . n-i .. ^ J ! SOn ' sa J ray of fancy or faculty of iniagi-3 tS - 'U . J . _ _ n ° t a Supporter of the « Ti « ring ^^ Tninis-; Pani !;« ii _ -r ° hnpeached the management of a ' * "' l'aliuc was assured tiat the accuser

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      had embezzled ; if any one complained of the conduct of a colonial governor , the complainant was announced as a returned convict . An amelioration of the Criminal code was discountenanced , because a search in the parish register of an obscure village proved that the proposer had not been born in wedlock . A relaxation of the commercial system was denounced , because one of its principal advocates was a Socinian . The inutility of Parliamentary Keforni was ever obvious , since Mr . Higby tras a Member of the House of Commons . "Vfe must quote the following truthful sketch of the Church-plundering , people-oppressing Whigs : —

      It is in the plunder of the church that we must seek for the primary cause of our political exclusion and our commercial restraint That unhallowed booty created a factitious aristocracy , ever fearful that they might he called upon to disgorge their sacrilegious spoil . To prevent this they took refuge in political religionism , and , paltering with the disturbed consciences or the pious fantasies of a portion of the people , they organised themselves Into religious sects . These became the unconscious Frstorians of their ill-gotten domains . At the head of these

      religionists they have continued ever since to govern , or powerfully to influence this country . They have in that time pulled down thrones and churches , changed dynasties , abrogated and remodelled Parliaments : they have disfranchised Scotland and confiscated Ireland . One may admire the vigour and consistence of the Whig party , and recognise in their career that unity of purpose that can only spring from a great principle ; but the Whigs introduced sectarian religion , sectarian religion led to political exclusion , and political exclusion was soou accompanied by commercial restraint .

      A pretty squad of hypocrites these to set themselves up as Church Reformers , " " Free Traders , " and advocates of " Civil and Ueligious Liberty !" The Young Englanders appear to be great admirers of George Canning . Of their favourite statesman we shall have something to say in our next . ( To he eontinued . J

      The Illuminated Magazine.—Jixvart. We Ar...

      THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE . —JiXVART . We are sorry to be compelled to enter our protest against the opening article of this month ' s number-Chap . HI . of Carlcton ' s tale of "Fatherland . To serve his own views , which must be of the most contracted order , the author has painted the discontented among the working classes ( by far the great majority of the working population ) , aa being brutes and drunkards in the manufacturing districts ; and ruffians and inceudaries in the agricultural . He has done more : he has placed in the mouths of the vilest characters , sentiments and phrases embodying principles sacred to freedom and justice . That incendiaries and poachers —( poaching we deem no crime ; the poacher is the " illegal" asserter of a natural

      and inalienable ri ght)—widely exist , we have but too good evidence : but that either class understand the principles libelled by the author of " Fatherland , " we utterl y deny . We feel warmly for the success of the Illuminated ; and for the sake of the magazine , we earnestly hope that Mr . Carleton ' s productions may be brought to a speedy termination , if they be of a class of which the present is a sample . There is a lachrymose article in the present number , entitled " Royal Funerals—Past and Present , " in which the author laments the decline and fall of those heartless pageantries and glittering follies , Royal Funerals I The funeral of that rotten debauchee , George the Fourth , and his precious brother , the Duke of L 0 . U ., were , it seems , models of perfection in the eyes of the author of this jeremiad , " ' typifyingthegriefof ' the nation" at the loss of these worthies : while the recent funeral of the late

      Princess Sophia , which was unfurnished with some of the usual trappings , and conducted with less of dignity than common on such occasions , excites tho fierce ire of the author of the paper . Some of his animadversions may be well founded ; but we really think it would have been more in accordance with the declared objects of this magazine , if the lives and deaths , the births and funerals , of the poor—those on whom useless good-for-nothing princes and princesses feed and fatten , had been taken into the author ' s consideration , and formed a subject for his pen . m Wc gladly cut short these fault-finding remarks to give our meed of approbation to such articles as " Travel and Talk , " byLukcRoden ; " Our Dream ;" "A Legend for Christmas Times , " by Angus Reach ; " The Adventures of a Scamp , " & c . From " Travel and Talk , " by far the best contribution to the present month ' s mu-nber , we give the following extracts . We should premise that the seeneis "the Eternal City : "

      CASTLE Or 8 T . AlCGELO . The round castle of St . Angelo , at the end of the bridge , has a very imposing appearance ; the square platform on which it stands is so mutilated and changed by buildings and garden walls that one scarcely recognises its original form . When Adrian , in the very height of the power , splendour , and extent of the Eoman Empire , founded this mausoleum ( for such you are aware was its original destination ) , it was cased with marble , surrounded by innumerable columns and statues of exquisite merit , and had a dome surmounted by an enormous cone of brass , something like a pine apple . At such a period , who that looked at the apparently immutable grandeur of that mighty empire , could have anticipated that it would be despoiled of its ornaments and turned into a fortress ? Kay , that the very statues would be used in defence of it , and thrown down on the heads ot the besiegers . How beautiful were these statues may be j udged by one of them recovered from the rubbish of the ditchthe celebrated Barherini Paun , at Munich .

      But who indeed can look forward four hundred years : a long immortality in the mutations of empires ! We seem destined to see changes as great several times in a century if the present ungovernable appetite for " Reformations" shall continue .

      THE VATICAS . What an enormous mass of building is the Vatican ; it measures more than twelve hundred feet by a thousand fe-ct ; the rooms are innumerable ; it is impossible to give even a passing glance at them : they are reckoned by hundreds—I might almost say by thousands . I must confine myself to a very few of the objects of interest it contains . While my companions rambled about St Peter ' s for the fifth time , in a sort of quiet fascination which seemed to occupy every sense , I strolled up the steps of its almost interminable staircase , which leads to the Vatican . It was one of the public days , when tlie galleries of pictures and statues are thrown open to the people , hut a small number of whom , however , seemed inclined to take advantage of tlie permission .

      The first thing which struck me uith surprise was , that there should exist so great a number of genuine authentic statues and busts of ancient personages , executed during their life—domestic portraits , in fact , not only of the great men of antiquity and of their wives and children , but of the unknown vulgar . Portions of tombs aud other monuments to the dead , with their inscriptions , testify again and again to the identity of the motives and feelings of the human race , in all ages and countries . There are epitaphs as tender as the connubial or parental feeling of modern times could inspire , and although the insincerity of such testimonials has passed into proverb , it is evident that they are often dictated by tlie most affectionate devotion ; one cannot read these inscriptions without a very vivid feeling of admission to the inmost sentiments of the men of other days . The large hiatus between Roman and modern history seems filled up , and our own Kings follow iu natural succession the Emperors of Home .

      THE " TELLOW TIBEE . " In going to-day , from the Piazza delPopolo to St . Peter ' s , I noticed a long row of boys on the banks of the Tiber , near the bridge of St . Angelo , sitting on a high wall , aud occupying themselves in angling ; I say angling—not fislting , for the prey was the rubbish floating down the muddy river—sticks , rags , bits of board , hay , straw , and a thousand other things were the reward of their patience and industry ; from time to time , as a prize of greater magnitude or Talue was lifted aloft , a loud shout from the others testified their delight , and showed their unselfish disposi tions : to be sure tlie partv might have been gregarious ,

      and seeking their prey in partnership ; but when a thing admits of assigning two motives , Jet as take the best . Tho amuscmi'nt will give some conception of tlie beauty of the " yellow Tiber , " as it was called twenty centuries ago —a more disgusting aud filthy ditch cannot be found . It appears that these - " -cvs , like the chiffoniers of Paris , form a regular class of the population : and it is strongl y suspected that while some are fishing below , others are occupied higher up the river in throning in the pvey ; a very safe kind of robbery from its difficulty of detection , and tlie impossibility of idcutifyino ; the thief and the receiver of the stolen goods .

      We can give our unqualified approval of the lllustetions to this number . " Our Christmas Dream , " by Phiz , is excellent ; but " Broad Lea Farm , " by Prior , is a gem of beauty . We should add that some clever reviews of new hooka conclude the present number .

      George Cruikshank's Table Book. Edited B...

      GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE BOOK . Edited by G . A . h'Beckitt . 194 , Strand . We hail with pleasure the appearance of this new candidate for public favour , appearing as it does under the management of two such talented men as the universallv popul- « r George Cruikshank , and the author of the " Comic Bkckstonc . " The illustrations are of the first order , especially the frontispiece , which is the most beautiful and elaboratdy-fmished etching we ever remember to have * een . The literary portion is hardly equal to . what we had expected from the pen of the editor ; the usual allowances , however , mustbemadeforthedinicdtiesattendingthe " getting out" of a first number . Doubtless , supported by the encouraging patronage of the public , improvement where reqiuied will speedily be visible . We q uote two extracts : — THE rHILOSOrHT OF CASTLE SHOWS—PRIZE PAUPESB .

      The present is the age of enlargement Shopkeepers make arrangements forthe enlargement of theirpremises ; tlie legislature deerc :-s the enlargement of prisons for debt ; newspaper pr ? . ; ..-ietors enlarge tlieir sheets ; and , m order to keep pace with the enlarged vivws whicli are prevalent in the present day , the agriculturists have commenced permanently enlarging tlieir cattle . Perhaps the remains of gigantic animals that geologists have occasionally lighted on , may be traced to some antediluvian eattleshow , and our ' ancestors may have rushed toan eshibmon

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      of prize mammoths with the same eagerness we of the present day evince in running after overgrown beeves and alarmingly blown-out muttons . As we are informed that there is still " room for improvement , " we must presume that more extensive bullocks , and more extravagantly exaggerated sheep than any we have yet " seen , are threatened by the Smithfield Cattle Club . To us there is something painfully pantomimic in the thought ; and we look forward to the possibility of the extinction of mutton chops , except as huge joints—a state of things which will he ruinous to the poor chop-house interest . Already does Brobdignagian beef choke up the entrance to the butcher ' s shop ; and extencirc indeed must he the scale upon which

      the business of weighing it is conducted . It has occurred to US that the same care and expense which are lavished on the fattening of animals might be beneficially applied to the feeding of our own species , and we should suggest that the experiment should be tried , by offering premiums for prize paupers . Overseers and relieving-officers might be justly proud of sending up favourable examples of what could he done by judicious dieting ; and the Poor-Law Commissioners would no doubt be glad of the opportunity of vindicating their system from the starvation stigma which is now generally attached to it . A fat pauper , labelled East Retford Union , would be the best answer that could be made to the reports which have gone abroad with reference to the workhouse regulations of the place

      auuueato . CUTTING DOWN Alf ARTICLE . A Dialogue between an Editor and his Amanuensis . Editor . —Let me see . We have to fill a vacant space of half a page . What articles have we to select from ? ^ DiamieiWM ( readin g titles ) . — " Lines written to King Charles the ni ght after his execution . " " The Wars of the League , a tale of the Corn Laws . " " Stanzas addressed to a young lady on her having asked the author whether he danced the Polka ! when he said , he did not , and she recommended him to take some lessons , when he replied he certainly would . " Editor . —The title of that would have answered the purpose if it had been a little longer . Proceed . Amanuensis . — "Love and Madness , by one who has known the One , and is still suffering from the Other . " " The Bell Ropes , a Sequel to the Chinus . " " A Sonnet . " Editor . —Ah ! let us hear the sonnet . That will give us the required quantity if the quality happens to suit . Bead it out , if you please . Amanuensis ( reading ) .

      TO THB DUKE Ot WELLINGTON . " Thou art a famous general indeed , " £ cJitor . —Everybody knows that . Cut it out . Amanuensis ( reading ) . " To thee the wreath of glory is decreed . " Editor . —Very true ; but as that forms the rhyme to the previous line—it must come out . Amanuensis ( reading ) , " Not Hannibal , not Soult , not Marshal Ney , Not Blucher , not Napoleon , not DessaLx—" . Editor . —The reader will never take the trouble to untie all those knots . Cut them out . Amanuauis ( reading ) . " Not Alexander when he fought and won , Did do the noble deeds that thou hast done . " . Editor . —That not being as it were tied to all the other nots , tlie first line must be omitted , and the second being dependent on it , must go too . Cut it out . Amanuensis ( reading ) . "Great in the senate , greater in ' the field ,

      In neither wert thou ever known to yield . " Editor . —Poetically pretty , but historically false . lie yielded in the senate once or twice . Cut it out . Amanuensis ( reading ) . " Mercy 'tis known has ever been thy creed , ¦ Though none so well can make a people Weed . " Editor . —Capital ! Excellent ! An admirable article ! Amanuensis . —It's all cut out !!! Editor . —Yes ; hut we can restore some of it . I have it . Begin with the first line and end with the last , commencing tlie latter with "For" instead of " Though . " Prefix as a title the article— " Epigram on General Tom Thumb , " and read it to me . -dinanuensfs ( reading ) .

      EPIGKAM ON GENEKAL T 0 X TH 0 MB . " Thou art a famous general indeed , ' - For none so well can make a people bleed . " -Editor . —That reads very well . Let it be put into type immediately . [ Exit Amanuensis . Editor ] ralls asleep over a pile of Coi-respondence . ) We should add thattne Table Pooh is most elegantly got up , handsomely printed on fine paper , the cover only being a treat to look upon . We hope George Cmikshank ' s Table Boolt will be found on the tablet of thousands of his admirers .

      Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine.—Jam...

      DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE . —Jamhart . This new Magazine is a " sign of the times . " Let sceptics doubt and croakers growl , questioning the progression of the human race : that progression is rapidly emerging from the chaos of doubt , and becoming a " great fact , " which ere long none will dare to gainsay . But a few years ago the reading world was led captive by the magic pen of a Scott : and that world —( what a microscopic atom compared with the reading world of the present day ! J--was moved to transport or to tears by the chivalric doings and unmerited misfortunes or fictitious sorrows of gallant knights and ladies fair . All this is changed . Now Charles Dickens and others like

      him have effected a revolution in novel writing . It is the many , not the few , who now form the materials from which arc quarried the heroes and heroines of fiction . It is no longer courtly intrigues and aristocratic broils which afford themes for the " peerage of the pen : " but , on the contrary , matter-of-fact straggles , about the genuineness of which there can be no mistake , —the struggle for life and right in which the mighty order of workers—no counterfeits , are the actors . It is not the rose-water sorrows of queens and ladies , but the scalding tear-drops of suffering women and martyred children , which , proclaimed by the novelist , now excite tlie sympathies of the vast and ever-increasing " race that read . " Truth is strange ! yes , is stranger than fiction , as now proven by the " annals oi the poor , " in our day , for the first time , fairly published in the sight of earth and heaven . . Surely the reign of wrong is

      drawing to a close ! Surely the day of suffering is coming to an end ! when those to whom heaven hath given the gift of genius , no longer prostitute their powers to the service of falsehood and tyranny , but use them for the god-like purpose of vindicating the truth , and smiting oppression from the heights of power to the depths of impotence . We have named Charles Dickens as one of the principal promoters of this revolution in literature : but we must not forget Thomas Ilood , Douglas Jerrold , and many other kindred spirits . It is with this last-named gentleman we have now more particularly to do . His retirement from the editorehip ^ of the Illuminated-Magatine afforded us unmixed pain ; and we are sure excited the regrets of some thousands . It is , ' therefore , as may be supposed , with no ordinary feelings of pleasure that we hail his re-appearance as editor of the new magazine now under notice .

      This magazine is intended to be devoted to tho consideration of the social wants and rightful claims of the Peo pl e . In the language of the prospectus , "it is intended that it shall appeal to the hearts of the masses of England . " This is taking hig h ground : but we have faith that the Editor is a man fully capable of maintaining !! is position . " It is our belief , " says he , "that tho present epoch is pregnant with more human interest than any previous era ; aa it is also our faith that the present social contest , if carried out on all sides with conscience and tender heart , ' must end in a more

      equitable allotment of tlie good provided tor all men . To aid , however humbly , in this rig hteous and bloodless struggle is a truer , a more grateful glory , than any glory blatant in gaieties '' Wc add , Amen ! and may the success of Mr . Jerrolu ' s present undertaking be every way conimensurate with his hopeful aspirations , and the mighty good he seta himself to help to accomplish . The present number opens with a tale by the editor , entitled " St . Giles and St . James ' s ; " it is written in the author ' s best , inimitable style , and will stir the hearts of thousands . We give tho

      INTBODUCTION , Our first paragraph shall be a confession of ignorance , Vfe know not the genealogy of St . Giles . All we know is this . Our St . Giles was born—we can hardly say first saw the light—in Hampshire Hog-lane . We believe that we arepretty sure of his fattier , hut at once lose ourselves seeking his grflndsire . We are immediately in a genealogical fog , without even a link ' s end from the Ilerald ' s-ofnce to guide us . True it is , we might , if we would , sit contentedly down in the darkness , and our imagination , aided by obscurity—as men are apt to close their eyes when they would take a bright internal look —might in a trice discover the family tree ; now complacently following its branches as they waved towards the court-end of the town , and now avoiding them as they struck towards Tyburn . 7 Te might do this , for it has been done many a time , and for only so much hard cash . But can the nimUy of St . Giles fee us for the labonr f No . Then we trust we are not so wholly lost to fhe decencies of life as to lie gratis .

      Nevertheless , we owe some explanation to the polite reader , for that we have given typographical precedence to St . Giles to the apparent injury of St . James . W * e think we have a just reason for this . There appears to us—and sure we are the like opinion burns in the breasts of many most respectaplo people—more of the original animal man in St . Giles than in St . James . He seems to vindicate , and that brazenly , unblushingly , the baseness of his origin . He stands before us a creature of the earth ! or rather , of the mud of the earth . If it be otherwise , then has St . Giles again and aiwsn been much abused , mistaken .

      The very nakedness of St . Gdes—according to our heraldry—makes him elder brother of St James . As we consider him , he is as much the elder , as the bare skin of man is older than than the silks and velvets , that have enwrapt it . He may be " amarked andbrahded" vagabond ; but , nevertheless , he is the elder brother . Contemp lating him , we behold in his wants—in his fierceness , begotten of these wants—the proscribed from the confines of this world's Paradise . Consider the history of man . Tour vagabond is lost In the shadows of antiquarian night —now , ycur gentleman is a conwuon-pla c * of yesterday .

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      Upon this philosophical principle do we place St , Giles before St . James , and believe us , dear reader , for no catchpenny reason whatever . We do not say that a three-legged oaken stool is a finer , more commodious chattel , than a gilded chair ; but , in the genealogy of household moveables , sure we are it ranks as tlie elder brother , St . Giles and St . James ! Is it possible they can be brethren 1 Every particle of their faces , every atom of their covering , cries "tfo ; " externally , as different as the aforesaid three-legged stool and glittering chair ; and yet , in truth , of the same frame-work—the very same , impossible . ' Let us see . What a . clumsy thing is this three-legged stool . ' What heavy joinery work ! Surely it was shaped by an adze , and put together by some bungler , ignorant of the craft . What a piece of stark vulgarity !

      How very handsome the chair of ceremony ! How soft to the touch—how pleasant to the eye ! All damask , carving , and gilding , Well , wo have . stript away the covering ; we have scratched a little of the gilding off , and what is there beneath ? Why , oak—mere oak—a younger branch of the tree—a piece of kindred wood to the threelegged stool . The same material makes stool and chair hut then the magical delusion worked by damask , gold , aud dainty carving ! In this way it is our hope to show St . Giles and St . James—to prove their brotherhood—their identity of material . We may , here and there , scratch a little of the gilding off one , but only to display the kindred nature of both . Thus , St . James may sometimes appear to be only St . Giles better stuffed , and with a brighter covering .

      Into the tale of "St . Giles and St . James , " it is not our purpose to enter , more than by remarking that its object is evidently to contrast the misery and crime-creating influences of the one with the Sybarite gorgeousness and heartlessness of the other . The subject of the opening chapters is the finding , on a . bitter winter ' s night , of an unfortunate child ( the "St . Giles" of the story ) and its supposed mother , freezing to death on a door-step . The watchmen , who have been aroused from their slumbers , don't know what to do with the woman , because " she isn't dead , and she isn't a breaking the peace ! " It being too late to get her into the workhouse , she is taken to the watchhouse , where she dies . Here is a burst of eloquence such as few men could pen , in denunciation of

      KAN ' S INHUMANITY TO KAN . For an instant , the watchmen in silence gazed upon the babe . Even their natures , hardened in scenes of crime and destitution , were touched by the appealing innocence ef the child . " Poor little heart ! " said one . " God help it ! " cried another . Yes : God help it ! And with such , easy adjuration do we leave thousands and tens of thousands of human souls to want and ignorance ; doom them , when yet sleeping the sleep of guiltlessness , to future devils—their own unguided passions . We make them outcasts , wretches ; and then punish , in their wickedness , our own selfishness—our own neglect . We cry "God help the babes , " and hang the men . Yet a moment . The child is still before us . May we not see about it—contending for it—the principles of good and

      evil ! A contest between the angels and tlie fiends ? Come hither , statesman ; you , who livo within a party circle ; you , who nightly fi ght some miserable fight ; continually strive in some selfish struggle for power aud place , considering men only as tools , the merest instruments of your aggrandisement ; come here , in the wintry street , and look upon God ' s image in its babyhood ! Consider this Uttle man . Are not creatures such as these the noblest , grandest things of earth ? Have they not solemn natures —are they not suMJy touched for tho liighest purposes of human life ? Come they not into this world to grace and dignify it ? There is no spot , no coarser stuff , in the pauper flish before you that indicates a lower nature . There is no felon mark upon it—no natural formation indicating the thief in its baby

      fingersno inevitable blasphemy upon its hps . It lies before you a fair , unsullied thing , fresh from the band of God . Will you , without an effort , let the great fiend stamp his fiery brand upon it ? Shall it , even in its sleeping innocence , bo made a trading thing by . misery and vica ? A creature borne from street to street—a piece of . living merchandise for mingled beggary and crime ? Say , what , with its awakening soul , shall it learn ? What lessons whereby to pass through life , making an item in the social sum ? Why , cunning will ho its wisdom ; hypocrisy its truth ; theft its natural law of self-preservation . To this child , so nurtured , so taught , your whole code of morals , nay , - your brief right and wrong , arc writ in stranger figures than Egyptian hieroglyphics , and—time passesand you scourge tlie creature never taught , forthe heinous guilt of knowing nought but ill ! The good , has been a sealed book to hinij aud the dunce is punished with tho

      jail . Doubtless , there are great statesmen ; wizards in bullion and bank-paper ; thinkers profound in cotton , and every turn and variation of the markets , abroad aud at home . But there arc statesmen yet to come ; statesmen of nobler aims—of more heroic action ; teachers of the people ; vindicators of the universal dignity of man ; apostles of tho groat social truth , that knowledge!—which is the spiritual lig ht of God—like his material light , was made to bless and comfort all men . And when these men arise—and it is worse than weak , it is sinful , to despair of them—the youngling poor will not ha bound upon tho very threshold of human life , and made by want and ignorance , life ' s shame and misery . There is not a babe lying in the public street on its mother lap—the unconscious medirant to ripen into the criminal—that is not a reproach to the State ; a scandal and a crying shame upon men who study all politics , save the politics of the human heart .

      Wc havo left ourselves no space to do more than merely enumerate the titles of the other articles , most of which are of the first order of Magazine literature . " Shadows of coming events" is it most able nolitieal article , the entire of which could we transfer to our colomns , would express our own views on the questions on which it treats . " Tho finery of war" is sufficiently explained by its name , and is all that could'be wished for on such a subject . " Recollections of Hazlitt" we have not found time to read . "A few words on early Shop-shutting " ably advocates the cause sought to be sewed . "A history for Young England" is the commencement of a series of papers , the first of which is interesting ,

      chiefly for the extracts it contains from the writings of that peat Englishman of whom our country may well be proud—Sir Walter Raleigh . We shall look forward to the continuance of this " History" with some interest . " The Hedghog Letters , " containing the opinions and . adventures of Juniper Hedghog , Cabman , London , and written to his relatives and acquaintances in various parts of the world , arc rich indeed . The second of these letters , smaslung up . the Puseyite . system , is capital . If this Magizinc continues as it has begun , succeed it must . . To believe otherwise would be , to "doubt "the potency of truth and despair of the cause of humanity .

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      LETTER OPENING AT THE POST OFFICE . Watson , Paul's Alley , Paternoster-row . This tract is mainly a reprint of an article in tho Westminster Review tor September , 1844 , entitled " Mazzini and . tho ethics of Politicians . " There is also added to the- reprinted article , a communication from Mr . Mazzini , giving an account of the heroic brothers Baxdieiu , with some particulars of their foul murder by the infamous Neapolitan Government . The tract is one of the best of the many excellent works published by Mr . Watson , and

      cannot fail , if widely circulated , to do good service to the cause of liberty . The space occupied by the preceding reviews compels us to be very brief with our remarks , and prevents us doing anything like justice to this welltimed publication . This , however , we tho less regret seeing that the small sum of fourpence will put the reader in possession of the work itself . The W « al >» MWfe >* Reviewer commences his masterly article with the Mowing plain-speaking introduction : —

      We feel it incumbent upon us to denounce , m the strongest language we can command , a principle of administration , which , if carried out , would be found subversive of all the moral obligations of society ; and yet a principle now openly advocated , not merely by political opponents , but in some instances by men with whom we have been accustomed to act , and a class of politicians standing well in the World's regard for public character aud private worth . This is honest ; this is bold . The Westminster Review is in its party pvedelictions a mere Whig ; to denounce then its own party , and to hold up to deserved scorn and opprobrium the chiefs of that party , who equally with they of . the " adverse faction" have been guiltv of violating the most sacred of the laws of morality ' s cede , is a service done to truth and justice worthv ' of all commendation . Pity it is that the Ifeview has found so few of ll- e organs of public opinion to follow its noble example . The Reviewer proceeds : ~

      We have long considered the state of our academical and university education to be the cause of . half the errors committed in legislation ; but of all the evils to be traced to this fruitful source , none are greater than tho moral canker they occasion . Tlie ethics of irchdeacon Paley and Professor Sewell , —political expediency on the one hand , and blind submission to authority on the other , — the transformations of Ovid and the history of Punic Wars , leave no place for the decalogue , or any sound interpretation of its meaning ; and tlie result in after life , when our high-born university graduates appear at the council board , is , as tho world has seen with astonishment , a formal recognition of petii lament as a fundamental , maxim of state policy . The reports of the Committees of the two houses are ably sifted , and the enormous crimes attempted to be justified , or at least apologised for in these sbamele « reports , aro brought clearly before the reader .

      We are ftdly aware that those who prepared it ( the report ) , and those who signed it , so bewildered themselves by their own sophistries , that they did not , in fact , well know what they were about ; but we feel not the less necessity of stripping the principle , advocated of all disguise , and we would present it to the reader in its naked hideousnegs . ' • :. - ¦ ¦ ¦ ' " A . monster of such frightful mien , As to be bated need * but to b » seen . "

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      Here , then , is the moral creed of English statesmen in the 19 th century ; or more correctly speaking , a portion of that craft of government which sets itself above all laws , human and divine : 1 . Theft is permissible , when information important to the public interest can only be obtained by STEALING it from a letter . 2 . Ltiks is permissible to conceal theft ; in the tacit form of reseating a letter , so that the fact of its having been opened may never be detected . 3 . FoKOEaY is permissible for tlie same object ; in the form of counterfeiting seals and imitating Post-office stamps .

      4 , Tbeaciiibt is permissible in ' cases of emergency . ' The servant may betray his master for the ' public good ;' the confidential agent may act as a secret spy . The bearer of a written communication , comprising , perhaps , the lives and fortunes of individuals , may carry it direct to their bitterest enemies , and be honourably commended for his breach of trust , 5 . Rogue-makiso is also permissible ; for the arts of knavery aro somewhat distasteful to honest men , aud forgery , in particular , is a skilled profession , which cannot be thoroughly acquired without many opportunities of practice . G . TrBANNOPS injustice is permissible ; in the form of secret accusations , and secret tribunals for trying a man in the dark , upon the evidence of stolen documents , of which the purport may be wholly misunderstood .

      In using the word permissible , wo have put the case less forcibly than we should have done , to place it upon its true merits . The business of a public office , like that of the Secretary of State , does not consist in the exercise of optional privileges . Sir James Graham , or Lord Aberdeen , when they opened Mazzini ' s letters , did so , not , of course , from motives of idle curosity , but from a sentiment of duty . Observe , then , where our moral legislators are leading us . It is the duty , say they , of a Minister , in certain ' eases of emergency , ' affecting important public interests , ' to steal , to lie , to commit fobgebt , and tibannous injustice ; and to keep inconstant training a staff of knaves fit forsimilar nets of public service , when not convenient to perform them personally .

      . So here we have it proved , proclaimed , made " notorious as the sun at noon-day , " that we Englishmen live under a THING which maintains its power by thievery , lying , treachery , rogue-making , and tyramwus injustice ! We shall presently show that murder is also chargeable to its account . Passing over the other portions of this pamphlet , we come at once to tho proof of this charge . Our readers will remember the unfortunate expedition of tho Brothers BASMERAfrom Corfu to Calabria , where they and their compatriots were brutally murdered . It is proved , in the work before us , that through Mr . Mazzini ' s letters , which were villanously opened by the agents of Lord Aberdeen , our Government became acquainted with the facts of the intended expedition , which it should be stated Mr . Mazzini was doing his

      utmost to prevent , foreseeing the rum that would , if persevered in , fall on the actors . The information obtained by such damnable means was communicated to the Austrian and Italian Governments . No information of this—no hint , was given to the patriots . On the contrary , it is shown , beyond doubt , by Mr . Mazzini , that the Neapolitan Government sent its vile agents to Corfu to lure the unfortunate exiles into tlie fatal trap set for them . The horrid plot too well succeeded , and the result our readers know . The Wood of these martyred patriots is on the head of Lord AiiEitDEEx ; and were there justice to be had in England—did the House of . Commons really represent the people of England—before its bar Lord Aberdeen would be impeached , and this foul blot upon our country ' s honour would bo fearfully but justly avenged .

      This is not all ; it is now well known that the Polish Revolution , that struggle so heartily sympathised with by the people of England , was put down , not by Russian force , but by British treachery ! The vile Whig Government , the hypocrites who at that very time wore bawling for " Civil and Religious Liberty all over the World ! " and convulsing England from centre to circumference , with tlieir rascally " Bill " agitation ; these scoundrels were at the same time in league with tho ruffian Nicholas , imparting to him every particle of information they could obtain which would enable him to thwart the p lans of the Polish patriots-, It is now equally well known that some

      hundreds of French , Spanish , Polish , German , and Italian patriots , have been consigned to dungeons , where many of them yet remain , betrayed by the hellish agencies employed by the English Government to aid the propping up of the continental despotisms . The brief memoir of Mazzini contained in the Reviewer ' s article is intensely interesting . While it exposes the infernal means adopted by the continental despotisms to keep down liberty , it makes known also , the glorious spirit which , animating the patriots of nearly every nation in Europe , will never cease its labours ' till its ends are accomplished—the regeneration of nations , and' the universal overthrow of tyrannv .

      The following is the affecting account givon by Mr . Mazzini of the execution of the heroic martyrs;—-The Bandiera and their seven companions died calm and intrepid , bearing witness to their faith , as becomes men who die for _ the Just and the True . One who was present at their last moments at Cosenza , on the 25 th of July , speaks of them as of saints , reminding one of the martyrs of the first ages of Christianity . The morning of their execution , they were found asleep . They paid almost minute attention to their toilet , as if they were about to accomplish an act of religious solemnity . A priest approached them : they mildly repulsed him ,

      saying that , having sought to practise the law of the gospel , and to propagate it even at the cost of their blood among those emancipated by Jesus , they hoped more from their own good intentions than from ins words . "Reserve them , " added one of them , " for your oppressed brethren , and teach them to be what the Cross has made them , free and equal . " They walked to flie place of punishment , conversing together , without agitation , without ostentation . " Spare the face ! " said they to the soldiers , who were making ready : "it was made in the image of God . Viva l'Italia ' . " This was their last cry upon earth , God and their brothers will recollect it .

      " If we have sueetss , " they wrote tome in their last letter , on the 11 th of June , " hasten to join us ! If we fall , tell our coisnti-i / meii to imitate our example ; for life has ocen given its to employ nobly and usefully , and the cause for which we shall have fought and died is the purest , the holiest that ever warmed ihe Vreasts of men : it is the cause 0 / Liberty , of Equalitt , of HuaiANiTx , ofthe Independence and Vsitx or Italy " Mr . Mazzini adds bitterly , " Such are the men against whom your government lias leagued itself with Austria and the King of Naples . " No ! Mr . Mazzini , the government of the Aberdeen ' s and Graham ' s is not our government—not the government of the people of England ; it is the government of the aristocracy and the profit-mongers ; but is no representative of the British , people . By the people the libcrticidal acts of the government are abhorred and repudiated ; aud tho actors execrated as not loss the dishonourers of their own country than the foes of universal liberty .

      We heartily commend this work to our readers , trusting that it will be circulated far and wide . Viva l'Italia ! While Italy continues to produce such sons as the god-like Bandieua , liberty can never be despaired of . 0 land of immortal glory , thy _ day is coming ! _ Popes and Kings shall strive in vain to prevent this resurrection . " The fall noon of freed om shall shine on thee yet !"

      William Tnoii.—The Inverury Poet Has, Wc...

      William Tnoii . —The Inverury poet has , wc observe from a notice in the Aberdeen Herald , gone to London to superintend tho publication of a new edition of his works . The London papers , particularly Punch and the Examiner , have dono much to forward tho interests of this unfortunate son of genius ; and wc trust they will not lionise him too much , to the injury of his simple , unsophisticated tastes . and habits . Poor John Clare ( now in-an asylum ) never fairly relished his country life and humble cottage after his acquaintance with London ; and the Ettrick Shepherd ( who had always during bis stay in the

      metropolis , half a dozen dinner and supper parties on hand ) was certainl y not the better for it . Tfev sf ?; n » f ; energetic mind of Burns , it will be recollected , was not proof against the blandishments of fashionable society in Edinburgh . The efforts of the friends of Thorn should be steadily directed towards a permanent provision for him in the shape of an annuity , however small . He is now approaching fifty years of age , and the "light of song" must soon begin to decay . Wc rejoice to hear , . that by his first edition , and the kindness of friends , the poet has cleared above £ 200 .- —Inverness Courier .

      The Poet Tnoit . —An Indian paper , just received has the following : — " An appeal to the generosity of the Calcutta community was made not long since by the Calcutta Star , and warmly supported by the Ilurhmi , in favour of the Scottish poet Thorn , of Inverury , Aberdeenshire , who has undergone much distress , owing to want of employment in his occupation of weaver . Scotland celebrates the memory of Burns with fetes and processions , leaving Iter living 2 ioel to starve in a garret . We are happy to say that a considerable siunlias boon subscribed for Mr . Thorn ; in fact , upwards of £ 100 , "

      Gillespie The Burglar—Escapk And Capture...

      Gillespie the Burglar—Escapk and Capture . On Saturday last , Gillespie , who w as arrested on suspicion that he was one of the parties who broke into the shop of Mr . Grindal , grocer , Wigton , was brought before the sitting magistrates , on Saturday last , and was fully committed to take his trial at the ensuing assizes . He was immediatel y conveyed to the lock-up , from which , notwithstanding lie was legironed and a person < in ' charge of him prior to his removal to gaol , -he ' contrived to escape , - ' / id for some time succeeded in . cvad ' mg the police . . On VYertnesdav morning , hbwcVcr . ' -he was discovered by Kent , in Botchergate , with a woman ' s cap and cloak on , and was immediately taken into custody and safely lodged in the gaol , where he now awaits J iis trial , lie is supposed to have taken an active part in the recent rolweries in this city . —C < vrli $ U Paper ,

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      EXTRAORDINARY ADVERTISEMENT . The peculiarity of the advertisements which sometimes appear both in the provincial and metropolitan journals , has often given rise to comment .. We think , however , that very few among them can compete with the following , which appeared in an American paper more than twenty , years since :

      TUE SUBSCRIBER Bern" - detennincd not to move from this [ State , requests all persons indebted , . to pay particular attention to his iVeiu definition of an Old Grammar , viz . ; . PRESENT TENSE .-lam * *) In want of money . Thou artf > Indebted to me . .,,-., ' M He is ! ) Shortly to be authorised for the wint thereof , to take the body .. Unless immediate payment is made , you must expect to take a lecture upon my new plural . The Subscriber oilers for sale , at his Store , two rods south of the Fish-market , the following articles , viz . : — ' # SOLID AU 0 UMEST 3 .. Hot oysters , boiled lobstersbam and eggsbutter

      , , and cheese , & c , & c . AGITATION'S . Cider , vinegar , salt , pickles , & c . GRIEVAX & ES .. Peppcr-saucc , mustard , cayenne-popper , Ac . PUNISHMENTS . Rum , brandy , Ac ., « fcc ., & c . SUPERFLUITIES .. Snuff , tobacco , cigars , pomatum , Ac . EXTKAORDINARIES . Sea-serpents' bones , wooden shoes , water witches , & c , N . B . —The above articles will be exchanged for

      NECESSARIES , VIZ : : — Bank bills at par , crowns , dollars , half ditto , quarter ditto , pisturcens , ninepenny pieces , fourponny , halfpenny ditto , or cents .

      TERMS OF PAYMENT . One-half the sum down , and the other half on tho delivery of the articles .. RUniMENTS GRATIS , VIZ . : — Those indebted for Arguments Must not be .. Agitated ; Nor think it a Grievance If they should meet ............... Punislmient For calling for such . Superfluities ; Nor think it Extraordinary That I find it Necessary To demand immediate Payment Andrew Suim , The smallest favour thankfully received . * Andrew Smith , t Any one the cap fits . t ITozekiah Goddard , Sheriffs Deputy .

      A Loxo Nap . —A young American , who is travelling iii Europe , gravely announces in a letter , that Professor Van Gruss ' clbnch , of Stockholm , has brought to a state of perfection the art of producing a torpor in the system by the application of cold , of degrees of intensity proceeding from less to greater , so as to cause the human body to become perfectly torpid , in which state it may remain for 100 or 1 , 000 years , and then be awakened to a new existence ! Aberxetut axd thk Yankee Captain . —An American captain , being one morning shown into Abcrncthy ' s consulting-room , immediately , in Yankee fashion , emptied the contents of liis mouth upon tho ! 1 nm- 'Plio . man op mi-f' . ieinn stared—kecoinff his

      hands in his pockets , according to custom , until the patient should explain . " What shall I do for my dyspepsy ? " asked the American captain . " Pay ma your tee , aud I'll tell you , " replied the doctor . The money was produced , and Abemothy coolly replied , " Instead of spitting your saliva over my carpet , keep it to chew your food with . " An Irish officer dreadfully wounded in battle , m he was lying on the ground near a soldier who was making a terrible howling , exclaimed , " What do you make such a noise for—do you think nobody is killed but voursclff "

      A Slt " Bet . "—Miss Elizabeth Peabody offered to lay a wager , on the Presidential election , with any eligible young man , viz ., that if Polk was elected ! she was the winner , and should have her opponent for a husband ; but if Polk were defeated , then her opponent was the winner , and would bo entitled to have her for a wife ! Who can Beat it . —It is stated in the papers tliat a young wife hi Lowell , Mass ., has presented her husband with five children in eleven months ! Au editor asks , " who can beat it V The Baltimore Sun replies by asking , " In the name of Bedlam who would wish to beat it ?"

      A CoxTMBUMOjf to Chemical Science . —MML Henry and Devergie profess to have detected lead and copper in man . That there is lead , and in large quantity , in the composition of many men , he would indeed be a leaden man who denied ; but beggars affirm that there are individuals in the human family from whom they find it utterly impossible to extract copper ! The Salvation or the Couniri ' . —The ikittlow playing came off with immense success . Sir Joseph knocked the pins about quite skilfully . Master Bowley took an innings at a shorter distance also j and everybody said that now , when a baronet and hit son played at skittles , tho country was coming round again as fast as it could come . —Dickens .

      Novel Mode of Catching Rabbits . —A corrosih pondent of a contemporary says— " When I lived * t Seaton Sluice , my companions and I used to go at nights witli a dark lantern on Hartly Links , and catch rabbits with sea-ferrets , as wc called them , We got largo crab * ( commonly called dog-crabs ) from off the rocks ; we stuck a lig hted caudle , about one incli long , on the crab ' s back , aud sent them into the holes , before which we placed a net . Before the crab got far into the hole , the rabbits came tanpy . lappy into the nets . In this way we caught numbera of them in a short time . " A Puzzler . — "Mamma , do sheep write ? " "No , child . " " Then what do they have pens for , mamma ?"

      The Wat to serve a Fool . —A wight , rejoicing in the name of Parkhurat , has scratched his nomo on the windows of several of the first-class carriages of the Greenwich Railway , and some wag has made the very mortifying addition— " Since hung at Maidstone . " Both name and history have , on some of thfl carriages , since been carefully obliterated , evident !* hy the hand of the original offender : for it is nol likely that any friend , however well-disposed , would volunteer such a service , and thereby run the risk of being detected by the Company ' s servants . Orioin' of tub word Tariff . — -The puzzling name " tariff" is derived from the town of Tarifa , at thfl mouth of the Straits of Gibraltar . When the Moore held possession of both the pillars of Hercules , it w « s here that they levied contributions for vessels onteiv in < r the Mediterranean—whence the generic name .

      Apostromk to Gold . —God of the craven heart I idol of millions , how splendid are thy temples , hoir zealous arc thy worshippers ! They gather around thy smile in the morning , they leave not thy devotions at midnig ht ! Thou smilest upon them , and they grow mad in the midnight of their palaces . They make themselves monarchs in fancy , and conquerors in dreams . Who can withstand thee ? Thou leadest the feet of beauty , thou dircctcst the arm of the brave ! th y pathway of triumphs , thy presence the solace of power ! Thou silenced the voice of eloquence when the Macedonian held thee up glittering before the eye of the orator ; and the mistress of the world rose before thee in the bal ance ! Disposer of empires , thou spreadest over the world . Thy spell nerved the assassin and urged on the betrayer . Thy yellow visage incited the spoiler when lie sought thee on the . crimson field , and made himself red in the carnacc . In all ages thou hast triumphed . W hcthcr

      in tlie thirty pieces rewarding a Judas , or the sparkling crown on the brow of a tyrant ; always alike invincible . The man of business bows obsequiously to theo . The man of fashion falls before thee , and the miser clothes thy garment as though it were th » curtains of heaven ! Thou hast a retinue of coaches , aud an army of slaves . Thou hast a goal of a splendid misery , where the guilt makes her alliance with death . The virgin of the sanctuary fears no < thy footsteps , and the shorn priest flics not the powc / of thy magic . —Oaicn . How to make a "Gut . ' * —Get a head of longhair turned up at the ends , and put it on a chapeau Francais ; take a pair of mustachios , an imperial and eyeglass ; add to these a blue satin scarf , with a gold pin Uke a beadle ' s staff , braided coat , crimson waistcoat , ladies' boots , canary kids , a tremendous swagger , and a very small riding whip . Put these together on a . block , turn it into Regent-street about three o ' elnek , and you will have succeeded in making a perfect Guy . —Punch .

      Bi-. NKVOLESCE . —Why is cold weather productive of benevolence ?—Because it makes people put thjeir hands in their pockets . Niggerism . — " 1 shall retire in dit gust , " a * the nigger said to the hurricane . An Error of the Press . —A Cambridge paper , giving the conditions of a proposed prize for the best hexameter verses , says " the exercises are to be sent in bv the 31 st of March , and are not to exceed on * hundred miles in length . "—These compositors will bft the death of us !

      Wasp-like Womek . —My notice was attracted to « lady—no , not a lady , but to the waist of a lady befom me ! Wasps and brush handles , but she was screwed up a few ! I can't begin to find a comparison for it . She was compressed into a span—drawn up almost out of sight-a perfect show . And this is what is called a good figure ! I don't know what sort of a figure , without a figure 8 . Well , some women an * fools , if they are women . I'd rather many a woman like a sugar hogshead than connect myself with suck a looking hour-g lass . —Sam Slick Good mask ers are the blossoms of good sense , and , it may be added , of good feeling too ; for if the law of loudness be written in the heart , it will lead to that disinterestedness in little as well as great tliing * --that desire to oblige , and attention to the gratifies tion of others , which are the foundation of good mmnen . —L ) ck 4 .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 11, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_11011845/page/3/