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      BEAUTIES OF BYRON . SO . 2 UT . " " CBItDE UXXOVD . " Tbe second Canto of this magnificent poem was written in Greece in the year 1819 , when the poet ^ wss in his twenty-third year . At that time he appears to have regarded the restoration of Greece as all but impossible ; hence the dejected and almost despairing tone of the following beautiful stanzas . A ^ w years subsequently , Bvbo . v had cause to change his opinions as to the destiny of the Greeks , and what is did for them—devoting to their cause his fortune , his person , his sword , his life—is it not written on the hearts of freedom's sons in every clime ? Is not his nameimperishably entwined with that of his passkmatelv-loved

      GREECE ? Fair Greece ! sad relic of departed worth ! Immortal , though no more ; though fallen , great ' . "Who now shall lead tby scatter ed children forth , And long accustom'd bondage uncreate ? Xot such thy sons who whilome did wait , The hopeless warriors of a willing doom , In bleak Thermopylars sepulchral strait—Oh ! who that gallant spirit shall resume , leap from Eurotas' banks , and call thee from the tomb ! Spirit of Freedom ! when on Phyle ' s brow Thou sat " st with Thrasybulos and his train , Conld ' st thou forbode the dismal hour which now Dims the green beauties of thine Attic plain I 2 J 0 t thirty tyrants now enforce the chain , But every carle can lord it o'er thy laud ; 2 Jer rise thy soul , but idly rail in vain , Tremnling beneath th < = scourge of Turkish hand , Jrom birth to death enslaved ; in word , in deed , mann'dl

      Tn all save form , how changed ! and who That marks tbe fire still sparkling in each eye , "Who hut Would deem their bosoms burn'd anew " with thy unnuenched beam , lost Liberty ! And many dream withal the hour is nigh That gives them back their fathers' heritage : For foreign arms and aid they fondly sigh , ~ Sor solely dare encounter hostile rage . Or tear their name denied from Slavery ' s mournful page Hereditary bondsmen 1 know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow 1 By their right arms the conquest must be wrought ? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye % No ! True , they may lay your proud despoilers low , But not for you will Freedom ' s altars flame . Shades of the Helots ! triumph o ' er your foe ! Greece 1 change thy lords , thy state is still the same ; Thy glorious day is o ' er , but not thine years of shame .

      When nseth Lacedzmon ' s hardihood , "When Thebes Epaminondas rears again , TYhen Athens' children are with hearts endued , " When Grecian mothers shall give birth to men , Then may'st thou be restored ; but not till then , A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; An hour may lay it in the dost : and when Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate , Recall its virtues back , and vanquish time and fate ! And yet how lovely in thine eye of woe , Land of lost gods and god-like men ! art thou ! Thy vales of evergreen , thy hills of snow , Proclaim thee Nature ' s varied favourite now : Thy fanes , thy temples to thy surface bow , Commingling slowly with heroic earth ,

      Broke oy the share of every rustic plough : So perish monuments of mortal birth , So perish all in turn save well-recorded Worth ; Save where some solitary column mourns Above its prostrate brethren of the care ; Save where Tritonia's airy shrine adorns Colonna ' s cliff , and gleam along the wave ; Save o'er some warrior ' s half-forgotten grave , "Where the grey stones and unmolested grass Ages , but not oblivion , feebly brave , "Whilst strangers only not regardless pass , Lingering like me , perchance to gaze , and sigh " Alas 1 " Tet are thy skies as blue , thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves , aud verdant are thy fields , Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd ,

      And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds , The fi-ee-boru wanderer of thy monntaiu-air ; Apollo still thy long , long summer gilds , Still iu his beam Mendcli ' s marbles glare ; Ar ^ Glory , Freedom , fail , but JTature still is fair . Where ' er we tread ' t is haunted holy ground ; 7 $ o earth ol thine is lost in vulgar mould , But one vast realm of tronder spreads around , And all the Muses' tuhts seem truly told , Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon s Each hill and dale , each deep ' ning glen and wold Defies the power which crush'd thy temples gone : Age shakes Athena ' s tower but spares grey Marathon . The sun , the so vL hut not the slave , the same ; Unchanged in all except its foreign

      lord—Preserves alike its bounds and boundless fame The battle-field , where Persia ' s victim horde First bowed beneath the brunt of Hellas' sword , As on the morn to distant glory dear , TTiien . Marathon became a magic word ; "Which nttertl , to the hearer ' s eye appear The camp , the host , the fight , the conqueror ' s career , The flyim ; Mede , his shaftless broken bow ; The fiery Greek , his red pursuing spear ; Mountains above , Earth ' s , Ocean ' s plain below ; Death in the front , Destruction in the rear 1 Such was the scene—what now remaineth here 1 "What sacred trophy marks the hallowM ground , "Recording Freedom ' s smile and Asia ' s tear ? The rifled urn , the -violated mound , The dust thy courser ' s hoof , rude stranger ! spurns around .

      Tet to the remnants of thy splendour past Shall pilgrims pensive , but unwearied , throng : Long shall the voyager , with th' Ionian blast , Half the hright clime of battle and of song ; Long shall thine annals and immortal tongue Fill with thy fame the youth of many a shore ; Boast of the aged I lesson of the young ! "Which sages venerate and bards adore , As Pallas aud the iluse unveil tlieir awful lore . The above stanzas conclude our extracts from the second Canto of Childe Harold ,

      As Acrostic. T Iiou Hard T«F Chartism, A...

      AS ACROSTIC . T Iiou hard t « f Chartism , accept my humble praise : H cart-gratitude I yield for thy immortal lays . O h , that our tyrants would be waru'd by thee ! M ay they incline in time the slave make free . A hi would they listen to thy warning strains , S laves to make men and break their galling chains . ' C an'st weilil thy pen—make soft the despot ' s heart ? 0 h , then , write on , and act the Briton ' s part , 0 urs be the task , for freedom boldly fights—P reserve us , heaven ! in struggling for the right . E ach one for liberty declare the world all o ' er , H eniove our fetters , or , " Slaves I toil no more !" . T . Shaw

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      The Purgatory Of Suicides. A Prison Rhym...

      THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Prison Rhyme jx Tex Books . By Thomas Cooper , the Chartist . London : J . How , 132 , Fleet-strcetl A splendid address to " JsigbA" opens the Fifth Hook—we can find room for only a portion of the stanzas : — Hail eldest 3 fight . ' Mother of human fear 1 Vague solitude where infant . Man first felt His native helplessness 1 Beneath whose drear And solemn coverture he , trembling , knelt To what in thy vast womb of darkness dwelt Unseen , unknown!—hut , with the waking San , Shouting , sprang up to see glad Xature melt In smiles—triumpiiantly his Joy-God run Up the blue sky—and light ' s bright reign again begun 1

      Hail starless darkness!—sterile silence hail ! Would that o ' er Chaos thy wide rule had been Perpetual , and reptile Man ' s birth-wail Had ne ' er been heard—or , over huge , obscene , And monstrous births oi ocean or terrene For ever thou hadst brooded—so that light Had ne'er mocked monals , nor the morning sheen Broke thy stern sigil to give baleful sight To man—whose lock upon his fellow is a blig ht * Season of sepulchred and secret sin j Beneath thy pall what vjfcucss doth . Maw MSv , Fram age to age—tie moral Harlequin "Who dons the saint to play the fratricide . Villainy ' s jubilee!—Crime ' s revel-tide . '— ' Whose murky archives opened would proclaim Ton ermined judge a gold-DOUght homicide—Yon pr iest an atheist—and hold up to shame Myriads of knaves writ" honest" in the roll of Fame '

      The poet bethinks him of the condition of the toiling slaves of Ms country , and their submission to oppression incites him to curse their pusillanimity . Tie allusion to Fsosr , that follows , is -very beautiful : — Darkness I thy sceptre still maintain—for thou -Some scan ty sleep to . England ' s slaves dost bring : Leicester's starved stockingers their misery now forget ; and Manchester ' s pale tenderling—The famished factory child—its suffering A while exchangetb for a pleasant dream !

      Dream on , poor infant wretch . ' Mammon may wring From out thy tender heart , at the first gleam Of lig lrtj the life-drop , and exhaust its feeble stream ! Darkness!—sGU rule—that the Lancastrian hive Of starveling slaves may bless thee—for ev ' n they"With , all their wretchedness—desire to live 1 Aye , men desire to live—to whom the day Will bring again their woman ' s task—to stay At squalid home , and play the babe ' s meek nurse Till sound of factory be'U—when they away Must haste , aud hold the suckling to life ' s source—Within the rails } ' Vpon . their tyrants be my enrse I

      The Purgatory Of Suicides. A Prison Rhym...

      Nay , rather light that curse on ye , yourselves—Te timid , crouching crew 1 Is there no heart Among ye stung to see the puny elves , His children , daily die—bis wife dispart Her hair , and glare in madness ? Doth the smart Of degradation cease to rankle in your veins ! Paint , though ye be , and feeble—will none start Unto his feet , and cry , while aught remains In him of life— "Death ! or deliverance from our chains V Cowards!—do ye believe all men are like Yourselves?—that craven fear doth paralyse Each English arm until it dares not strike A tyrant !—that no voice could esorcisa Old Tyler ' s spirit—and impel to rise Millions omnipotent in vengeful ire ? Tool , that I am ! are there not hungry spies On every hand—who watch , for dirty hire , Each glance of every eye that glows with Freedom ' s fire

      Frost ! while I rave in darkness , thou dost feel The sun in yon far southern felon-land—But feei ' st , therewith , thy chain , Thy wound to heal 2 fo help extends 1 Foor victim!—sold , trepanned By hirelings of the minion whose spite planned Thy death , and built thy gallows—but , through fear Of labour ' s vengeance , stayed the hangman's hand ; Victim of thy heart ' s thirst with bread to cheer England ' s lean artizan , and Cambria ' s mountaineer ! Ifow many a despicable sordid tool Of tyranny doth flippantly descant Upon thy deed—cleping thee " rebel fool , " And gallant Shell a " broil-slain miscreant "—" Who , had your cause and ye proved dominant , Would loudly have extolled your fearlessness , And boisterously swelled the choral chaunt Filled with the eulogy of your excess Of deep fraternal zeal to end Man ' s wretchedness ;

      In the notes to this Book we find the following remarks on Frost : — I write from no personal knowledge of John Frostfor the "Newport insurrection" occurred more than a year before I became acquainted with a single Chartistbut from the testimony of my eloquent and intelligent friend , Henry Vincent , who had witnessed Mr . Frost ' s up . right discharge of duty as a magistrate , frequently partook of his hospitality , shared deeply his political views and purposes , and speaks enthusiastically ( I mean in private ) of the poor exile ' s generous sincerity andpatriotie high-mindedness .

      So Mr . Cooper ' s " eloquentand intelligent friend , " Hjexbt Vincent , yet continues to "speak enthusiastically of the poor exile ' s generous sincerity and patriotic high-mindedness . " This is news to us . Air . Cooper does well to add , however , that this enthusiasm on the part of the " political pedlar" is confined to " private" exhibitions . We should think they were particularly private . It may he true that Hexby Vincent , the Chartist , frequently partook of Frost ' s hospitality , and shared deeply his political -views and purposes ; but we are sure that Henry Vincent , the bought and sold advocate of " respectable" reform , is utterly guiltless of now avowing any connection with , or admiration oi poor Frost . This "respectable" mouther of

      " moral" inanities , flimsy sentimentalities , and poetical puffery , whose hypocritical canting and whining about "the blessings of religion , " draws down the applause of the oily black slugs of dissenting and teetotal platforms , would be shocked to hear the name of Frost mentioned , and " the Charter " would cause him to faint outright . We can assure Mr . Cooper , who glories in the name of " Chartist , " that his claiming the " eloquent and intelligent" for his "friend" will be deemed an unpardonable offence by that " respectable" gentleman " : and the offence -will be not a little magnified , from the fact of Mr . Cooper reminding the world that the now frothy Mawworm , Vincent , was once a Chartist , and a "friend" (?) of the " rebel" Frost ' s .

      In another " note" on the Newport affair , Mr . Cooper offers some further remarks , which we feel bound to transfer to our columns . We must , however , dissent from the doctrine " that a resort to force , under any circumstances , is indefensible , eitlier as a wise or a just proceeding . " With all deference to Mr . Cooper , this is " indefensible" nonsense ; and we wish he had left this '' prison reflection" in the prison , and not brought it out with him , more especially as the very opposite doctrine is to be found more thau once repeated in the poem before us : — " Treason doth never prosper : what ' s the reason f "For , if it prosper none dare call it treason . "

      So says Sir John Harrington ; and , without asserting that it was morally or physically possible for the Welsh emeute o £ November , 1839 , to have succeeded—I shall not shrink to avow my conviction that the fated enterprize of John Frost , which had for its object the enfranchisement of every sane male inhabitant of Great Britain and Ireland , of twenty-one years of age , was equally as noble , although not so imposing , as the thriumph-in-arms of the Barons of Itunnymede—or ( he "Glorious Revolution " of less . Reflection—and , above all , pmsn . reflection —•

      has , indeed , done much to impress me with the belief that a resort to force , under any circumstances , is indefensible , either as a wise or a just proceeding—but , for the life of me , I cannot subdue the feeling of an Englishman when the picture starts before my imagination of Hampden on ciiaigrove Field "drawing the sword and throw , ing atwiy the scabbard . " And if Patriotism need not be ashamed at the thrill of the blood which such a portrait enkindles—why blush ; o own admiration for the heroism of poor Shell—a youth of singular masculine beauty , and an enthusiast for the enfranchisement of his own

      orderwho loaded and fired Ins piece three times , with the greatest intrepidity , before he fell in the streets of Newport ! We do not write History like the glorious old Greeks , or the memory of stich a hero would not he lost . Lost!—let me remember that a Nugent—to whom all honour!—has had the moral courage to exert himself , aud successfully , for the erection of a column on Chalgrove Field , at the bi-century of Hampden's death . —May not a noUe be found , in November 2039 , to commemorate Shell's Ml at Xewport with equal earnestness ? Servility and Frejudice may be staggered at the thought nowbut what would have been thought of a column to Hampden , when the bones of Cromwell , Bradshaw , and Ireton had been dug up , and were hung in gibbet-irons ?

      The following allusion to the expatriated patriot Ellis is pathetic and beautiful : — Ellis—my brother!—though hut once in life I clasped thy hand—for one hours troubled breath Heard thy tongue ' s accents—in the dungeon rife With sounds of maddened sorrow—yet , till death Hearse me in silence , of my plighted faith To thee as to a brother , I will think : — And never—though it bring me direst wrath—That they ware wronyed thy innocence , will I shrink To tell the oppressors whose revenge-cup thou dost drink .

      A perjurer sold thee to the lordling ' s spite—The lordling ' s tenant-serfs dared not demur The verdict—for they marked his nod , though slight!—How sternly starless did the dread night lour On the low minions of tyrannic power When they , to exile thee—the wronged one—led ! 'Twas such a night as this ; and griefs heart-shower These yielding eves , in my lone dungeon , shed For , ' mid the clank of chains , echoed thy farewell tread ! And thou , all guiltless of the violent deed "Wherewith they charged thee , as the new-horn child !—And he , failing t' entwine the victor ' s meed "With patriotic daricg—deep-despoiled , Alike , of the sweet heaven that on yc smiled In your young loveling ' s eyes—your widows frowned Upon by the rude world—scorn on scorn piled Upon your memories , by each hireling , bouud To fawn or bark as he is bid—like the vile hound !—

      The poet sleeps and dreams again ; here is the opening of his vision : — Upon a bleak and barren plain , I dreamed That I emerged—where one tall pillar reared Its height until among the clouds it seemed To end . Yet , ' twas but mockery when I ncared This lofty wonder—for its top appeared Beneath man ' s . tature . Low , around the base , Lay broken sculptures of great names revered In times of old ; but ruin did deface Them till the * - looked like MeKiory iu her burial-place .

      And then another , and another stone Uprose , in the far distance—each the aim Tain-glorious of its founders making known More by its wreck than record of the name Or deed it had been stablished to proclaim . Food for despondence , thus , the onioning mind Gathered with scuiblant shapes that fleeting came Athwart its vision : —for , as flits the wind , These imaged columns fled—or with new forms com hined . In allegoric lessons for the soul—Of Liberty , each marble fragment strewed Upon that plain , each pictured deed and scroll , Told , as it lay in ruined pulchritude" She is a goddess Man hath oft pursued" Won seldom—and hath never yet retained " Her living presence ! " Dreary solitude O'er all I saw in saddened vision reigned—Until a verdant mound my anxious spirit gained .

      And , on the mound , methought a mystic cirque Of giant stones , in simple grandeur rose—Resembling Earth ' s first fathers' handy-work—Their temples , or their tombs . Of Freedom's cause-When Gallia ' s sous bound laurel on their brows Blent with the oak—full many a devotee—Self-exiled from the wrath of friends grown foes—In earnest converse seated seemed to be 'Uia shadow of that huge cairn ' s hoary majesty . A band of the French revolutionists are introduced , including Coxdorcet , Buzot , P ^ olaud , Valaze , Le Bas , and Babeuf . The language of the several speakers is very grand ; we can , however , only find room for the following magnificent outburst * of which Coxdorcet is the speaker : —

      The spirit of Prometheus doth but sleep Within tbekuman heart , —lulled , drugged , and drowse By Power ' s robedmed ' einers who keenly Veep Watch O ' er its breathings , —and have ever ehoused Their prey into more slumber , when aroused For a brief breath by Freedom ' s vital touch , It started its sk-ek keepers , who caroused , Gaily , beside their prostrate / victim ' s couch— . Husking it safe , for aye , within , their privileged clutch !

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      The spirit of Prometheus doth . but sleep Withi * man ' s heart : —the dark , blood-feeding brood Of serpents that so hush around it creep , Now they peveeive , with apprehension shrewd . Their Terror-Trinity of Crown , Sword , Eood— - Is near evanishment , —may justly dread The ruthless vengeance in its waking mood Of the heart ' s Titan thought : —Up from its bed 'Twill spring , and crush the asps that on its life misfed The spirit of Prometheus doth but sleep : — The Mind ' . s tornado wakes , through earth , ev ' n now ! And soon it will to nought the fabric sweep , Of age-reared Priestcraft , and its shapes of

      woe-Its Hell , Wrath-God , and Fear—that foulest foe Of human freedom!— "I will freely think !" 'Twillboldly tell the surpliced cozeners— "Lo ! " I dare your monster God!—nor will I shrink " His tyrant tortures to defy—ev ' n though I sink "Amid the bottomless abyss of pain " Te say He hath created for his slaves ! " There let him hurl me!—and despite the chain " That spiritually binds me under waves ' * Of liquid flame , —He shall find one who braves " His wrath , and hurls back hatred for a God "Who forms without their will His creatures—graves " Their natures on them—rules by his own nod " Of providence , their lives—and , then , beneath his

      rod"His scourge eternal , tortures them , without " Surcease or intermission ' . "—Endless fire For a breath ' s error—for a moment ' s doubt!—Infinite G reatness exercising ire RelCIltleSS On a Worm!—Why ?—That the quire Celestial may His spotless glory sing—His attributes harmonious made by dire Infliction on his worms ot" sufferings And He Himself in joy extatic revelling ! Oh ! what a potent poison hath benumbed The human mind , and robbed it of its might Inherent!—since , affrighted , cowed , begloomed , And stultified—this juggle of the Night It kneels unto , and calls " divinest light !"But , it will soon the jugglers' toils outleap Who long , behind the altar of their Sprite Of blood , have played at terrible bo-peep With Man!—the spirit of Prometheus doth hut sleep !

      For the remainder of this Book we must refer the reader to the poem itself , where they will find the lion-licking , lady-loving , Jew Jack-the-Giant-killer Samson introduced ; with sundry anti-atheistic speeches on his part , and sundry priest-frightening replies on the part of the revolutionary suicides . Weeannot afford room this week for further extracts , and , indeed , had we room , we should hesitate to add anything to the extract just given—a piece worthy of the great Shelley himself ! What higher praise could we award Mr . Cooper ? None .

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      GEORGE CRUIKSHANlv'S TABLE-BOOKOctober . London : Punch Office , 92 , Fleet-Stl'GGfc " Return from a delightful trip on the Continent " forms the subject of the large steel engraving by Crwkshank in the present number . It represents a party conveyed in an open boat from the Belgian packet to Dover harbour . Wind and waves combine to make all concerned supremely miserable , as is evident by the despairing faces of the unfortunates , most of whom are engaged in " casting up their accounts . " The article thus illustrated is written by Angus B . Reach , who can write very cleverly , though his present production is by no means firstrate . The Editor contributes an irreverent ! and cockneyish parody on Goldsmith ' s famed " Edwin and Angelina , " entitled "The Hermit of Vauxhall . " The " Legend of the Rliinc" exhibits , this month , symptoms of spinning on the part of the writer ; the present chapters are not good . The following article being brief , we give it entire : —

      POETlCAI , INVITATION'S , If all the young ladies who sit down to a piano to sing a song were to be taken at their words—that is to say , at the words of the poet , which , for the time being , they adopt as their own—much awkwardness might be the consequence . If the iiivitutioiis that are frequently issued were to be literally accepted , we should have people rushing to willow glens the day after an evening party ; or jumping into cabs and giving directions to the cabmen to drive " where the aspens quiver , " " down by the shining river , " whither they had been requested to " bring their guitar" by some syren of last night's soiree . Four or five years ago it was customary to recommend a whole roomful of company to hurry " Away , away to the mountain ' s brow ! " and many of our readers will recollect being intreated to " leave the gay and festive scene" considerably before supper , and to " rove ' mid forests green , "for the

      purpose of watching the lingering ray " that shoots from every star ; " which , as the stars happen to be innumerable , would have been a very endless business . To ask a gentleman to come and watcli the rays that shoot from every star , is almost as bad as inviting him to come and count the " five million additional lamps" at Vauxhall , a task under which even Cocker must have fallen prostrate . The coolness with which a request for a meeting * ' by moonlight alone" is frequently conveyed may be all very well in a crowded room-full of guests , but if the solitary interview were to come oft" at the appointed hour , the strongest of female nerves might bo shaken . As the invitation is general , any one present is at liberty to accept it , provided he fulfil the condition of coming alone ; and if Spring-heeled Jack should happen to overhear the soug , he might take it into his head—and heels—to keep the appointment .

      Toung ladies should be Very careful in issuing notes of invitation to a moonlight soiree , for they do not know who may overhear them , and attend the rendezvous . The Cock-lane Ghost , had he been living when the song of ' Meet mo by moonlight" was composed , would have been a very likely sort of gentleman to be waiting " in tho grove at the end of the vale , " for the purpose of Bestowing the sweet light of his eyes—glaring , through two holes in a turnip—upon any one who had asked for it . Wo must say , we prefer the present system of writing songs with no meaning at all , to the old method of asking people to a moonlight tete-a-tete , a meeting in " a tranquil cot at a pleasant spot , " or a conversazione " where the aspens quiver . " " You'll remember me , " pledges you to nothing , unless a waiter sings it while you nod your assent , and a promise to do something " when hollow hearts shall wear a mask" is certainly void , for impossibility .

      The illustrations are all excellent , and cannot fail to cause the realisation of the idea of "laughter holding both his sides . "

      Punch—Part Li. London: Punch Office, 92,...

      PUNCH—Part LI . London : Punch Office , 92 , Fleet-street . " Merry and wise , " our hunch-hacked friend maintains his post as chief satirist cf wrong , falsehood , and lolly ; sparing no one , from the Queen on her throne , to the sycophant of the Morning Post . The recent royal visit " to Germany has afforded Punch matter for much "jest in earnest , " which the high and mighty of the land would do well to reflect on . We can assure their "high mightinesses" that , at any rate , the people will not fail to reflect—and what

      the result of their reflections will be , " needs no ghost to tell . " In a number of the present Part is a double " cartoon , " entitled "An Historical Parallel ; or CourtPastimes , " in which Queen Elizabeth and her Court are represented as witnessing a bear-baiting , in 15 S 0 , and Queen Victoria as gazing upon the slaughter of the deer at Gotha , in 18-15 . Punch states that a book is in preparation for the use of the heir to the throne , in which the examples of his parents will be put forth in a series of easy lessons in one syllable , of which the following is a specimen : —

      The Deer is a poor weak Brute , which it is good to Kill . It was once the Flan to Hunt the Deer ; but it Runs so fast , that it puts one quite in a Heat lo try to Catch it . A prince should not get Hot , or be at much pains to Hunt the Beer , but should have the Deer all Caught , and put in a small Space , which they can in no way get Out of . Then the Prince should come with his Gun , and Shoot at the Deer , when he must KU 1 some , It is fine sport to see the Deer fall Dead in the Place , where they are all put so Close that a Prince , Shoot how he will , must Hit some of them . If you are a good Boy , you shall have a Gun , and some Deer to Shoot at with the Gun , and then they shall be all put Dead in a Kow , for you to look at them . Oh ! what nice Sport for a Prince of the Blood ! Here is a new and unproved nursery rhyme for the voung Guelphs : —

      Sing a song of Gotha—a pocket-full of rye , liight-and-lbi-ty timid deer driven in to die ; When the sport was open'd , all bleeding they were seen—Wasn ' t that a dainty dish to set before a Queen ? The Queen sat in her easy chair , and looked as sweet as honey ; The Prince was shooting at the deer , in weather bright and sunny ; The bands were playing Folkas , dress'd in green and golden clothes ; The Nobles cut the poor deer ' s throats , and that is all Punch knows ' . The following is , we fear , too good to be true . We could forgive 1 'rince Albert all his sins—JnClUding his hat-making , deer-slaughtering , and other offences perhaps still more heinous—if he would do the State the good service of making game of tbe voracious and dangerous brutes described in the following announcement : —

      Several of the Civic Companies have invited 1 ' rince Albert to a day ' s sport in the City . They have offered to collect in the area of the Stock Exchange all the bulls and bears that are in the habit of prowling about the neighbourhood . As soon as these are despa tched , a number of desperate Stags , that have been brought up expressly by the railways , ' will be driven from Capel-courtinto tho interior , and his Royal Highness will be armed with unlimited power to hunt down as many as he p leases . The following is excellent : — CHILDEES ' S SONG FOR THE COBUBG GKBGOBIVS TEST . We ' re happy German children ; You praise our glossy hair , Our wreaths and pretty costumes , Our cheeks so fat and fair : Our little bodies never

      Grew stunted at the loom ; Our infant eyes ne ' er ached in The pit-seam ' s choky gloom . "We never sobb'd to sleep , on straw Close creucked for warmth , like vermin—We are *<& English children ; No > Qott sty tfanfc , we are German ,

      Punch—Part Li. London: Punch Office, 92,...

      They say our English sisters Are never blithe as we ; But , Queen , you look so gracious ^ Xhat this can never be , They tell us they ' s ill nurtured , Of raiment scant and rude—Not picturesque , as we are—A wild and wolfish brood ! Then bless good Saint GregoriUB , That did our lots determine—We are not English children ; No , Gott stg daub , we are German When you go back to England , You'll think on what you ' ve seen j TllOU ask our English sistws To dance upon the green . Perhaps they'll look less savage , With seemlier clothes and food ; Perhaps with kindly teaching

      You'll change their sullen mood 'Tis sad that tuey should go in rags , And you , their Queen , in ermine—We are not English children ; No , Gott sey dank , we ' re German ! " Qiieen Victoria ' s Statue of Shakspeare" is an excellent piece of satire , which , if Victoria read it , and it she has aught of sense and shame in her composition , must make her blush crimson to the eves . One tiling ihe tenant of Windsor Castle may be sure of , that reverence for that WOll-mgu worn Out jugin virtue

      glevy , of which she is permitted to live a iiteot splendid idleness and haughty isolation , is not on the increase amongst her "loving subjects' ^?) , butjusfc the reverse . The other contents of this part we have not room to notice ; enough , that from the hi-st to the last page all is admirable , and worthy of all praise . Ihe illustrations , too , this month are more than ordinaril y excellen t—we must particularly notice the portrait of the holy mendicant , Bishop Bloomfield . More it is not necessary we should say in praise and recommendation of the unrivalled Punch ,

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      noW ' £ ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF BRITISH SONG-Nos . 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 . London : How , 132 , Fleet-street . These numbrrs contain Collin ' s elegant verses "To Fair Fidele ' s Grassy Tomb" ( set to music by Dr Arne ) , Dihdin ' s famed " Farewell my Trim-built Wherry ; "" Black-eyed Susan ; " " Lovelv Nan ;" " Crazy Jane ; " " The Bab y ' s Hushaby ; " and several other pieces of minor celebrity . The illustrations are most beautiful . The cheapness of this work is astonishing ; thus the first three of the above-named pieces are contained in a sing le number , which ( poetry , music , and illustrations ) is published for sixpence I We again earnestl y recommend this excellent work to all the lovers of British Song .

      Wade's London Review-October. London-C. ...

      WADE'S LONDON REVIEW-October . London-C . B . Christian , Whitefriar ' s-strect , Fleet-street . The contents of this month ' s number are . — " Ambition , a Greek tale" ( concluded ); " Vital Statistics •" "Parrot ' s Journey to Ararat ; " "H Vagabondo " ( continued ); " Michelet ' s History of France ;" " Railway Speculation ; " and " A Practical Survey of Ancient Coins . " These contributions are ably written , but are almost all of a dry , and not generally interesting character . " II Vagabondo" is an exception , but his reminiscences this month exhibit him , with all his cunning , in the unenviable character of a spooney ; we must not forget , however , that even Gil Blas showed himself soft on more than one occasion .

      The Connoisseur.—October. London: E Mack...

      THE CONNOISSEUR . —October . London : E Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street . The principal contents of this month ' s number embrace the following subjects : — "Roval Academy of Arts ; " "ThePrima Donna ; " "Tho Decline ot the Drama" ( concluded ); " British Archaeological Institute ; " " Fine An Commission ; " " Homer ' s Physiology of the Human Voice ; " " Shaksperian Critics ; " and "Dramatic Summary . " We have read the -whole of these articles with much pleasure ,

      and we believe some profit ; and we are only sorry that wc have not space at command to give to our readers a specimen of the good things this number contains . Amongst its contents is an original ballad , the music by S . Wyldr . The illustration to this month's number is a perfect gem—a lithographic portrait of Murillo from a painting by himself , H , 0 . Magmre is the artist who has drawn the copy , and a most exquisitely beautiful production it is . Wc must again express our approbation of the theatrical criticisms in this aerial , which are penned by a master-hand .

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      THE FAMILY IIERALD-Parts XXVII . XXVIII . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . We have only room to say , that we have read the greater portion of the varied contents of these two parts , and having so read , we unhesitatingly recommend the Family Herald as the very best of the penny publications . More than that , we can conscientiously say , that the Family Herald is far superior to many higher-priced publications . Its every page is filled with entertaining instruction , and instructive entertainment . No family should be without the Family Herald .

      Memoir Of The Earl Spencer.

      MEMOIR OF THE EARL SPENCER .

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      The largest gifts of nature and the most esteemed results of education seem occasionally to be combined in the same individual , for the purpose of enabling him efficiently to discharge the duties of a situation to which by mere accident he may have been rnbod ; hence it is by no means uncommon to find great lawyers on the bench , real statesmen in the Cabinet , and learned divines in episcopal palaces . But no one could see a heavy agriculturist leading the House of Commons without being convinced that , in that instance at least , original predilections and early habits had combined to neutralize the bounty of fortune . It was impossible to behold such a man enacting the part of a Minister of State without feeling that it was one of the oddest amongst the London

      exhibitions . In its day it was a show that attracted all strangers ; and successive audiences have retired from the scene , frankly acknowledging tlhltifc was even more wonderful than they had expected . During eight-and-twenty years the subject of this memoir—being then Lord Althorn—held a seat in the House of Commons , and was a very active member of that assembly , There can be no doubt that when Lord Goderich resigned , the Whig opposition set up Lord Althorp as their acknowledged organ ; and , of course , every one remembers that he was the Ministerial leader in the Lower House , not only in the Government of Lord Grey , but during the first Melbourne Ministry . In that position he was placed with as slender personal

      qualifications for the post as ever iell to the lot ot mortal man although no one will be disposed to deny that he was a person of great private worth ; that he possessed some intellectual vigour , and was distinguished by many aimable qualities ; but his attempt to he a leading Minister in a popular assembly partook so largely of tbe ridiculous that it reached the burlesque . In tracing out the strange career which led to these absurd results it would not be very interesting to dwell upon' tho early history of the noble Earl . " One naturally desires to review the process by which a mighty intellect reaches maturity ; but to examine the advancement and cultivation of an ordinary understanding yields little profit and no entertainment . .

      Earl Spencer was bom on the SOtll of May , 1782 . In due time he went to Trinity College , Cambridge , where he obtained the honorary degree of M . A . There was little chance that such a man could become a senior wrangler , or contend for classical honours ; if , however , he had graduated in a college instituted for the purpose of teaching the arts of fattening oxen or breeding sheep , no man could have carried off the prize from so great a proficient in those very useful matters as John Charles Spencer . But as the qualities of short-horned bullocks and black-faced rams have little connexion with Greek literature or mathematical science , he departed from Cambridge a very undistinguished student o ** that learned "University . At the very carlivst possible age he entered the House of Commons , having been elected for

      Okekamptpn . While he sat for that borough ltcould not bo said that he did anything in the House of Commons which reflected much credit upon the choice of the electors who had returned him to Parliament ; he was , however , at that period so very young a man that no very considerable displays of legislative ability could be expected at his hands . But if his talents—such as they were—had not yet begun to develope themselves , his ambition was more precocious , " and he offered himself for Cambridge at the earliest opportunity that occurred . The death of Mr . Pitt led to a general election , but Lord Althorp ; as candidate for his " almamale *" was defeated by a large majority , and he was fain to fall back upon the ccasVvtucncy which he had previously represented . In the same year a vacancy occurred for Northamptonshire , where a considerable portion of the estates of the Spencer family are

      situated . For that county he was returned after a sovero struggle , ivnd continued to represent it for a quarter of a century . During the Fox and Grenville Ministry the office which he first held under the Crown was conferred upon him . It was one of small importance—namely , a Lordship of the Treasury ; but , every one knows , it belongs to that class of situations by means of which the scions of the aristocracy are usually initiated in the mysteries of official life . From this time forward he laboured with the assiduity and zeal which distinguished the leading " iVhigs of that period ; by whiqli they succeeded in gaining the confidence of a numerous and powerful party in the House of Commons , while they attracted the support of the Liberal and Reforming body throughout the country . In his hostility to the Duke of York , in the year 1809 , lord Althorp rendered himself rathey conspicuous j and-when-that illustrious personage resigned the wmiflflfld ^ tne

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      army , the subject of this memoir concluded a long speech by saying "that resignation ought to occasion 110- regret , as his Royal Highness had lost the confidence of the country . " He also took that opportunity to denounce the practice of conferring high office on persons of such exalted rank . The next series of debates in which he took a prominent part were those occasioned by the escape of Bonaparte from Elba , when he showed that which no one now will be disposed to call patriotism , in moving an address to the Prince Regent , praying his Roval Highness not to disturb tho peace of Europe . The peace of Europe , however , was established upon a much broader basis than it could have been by the policy which Lord Althorp recommended ; and from the moment that the war ceased , his Lordshin . in

      common with the other Whigs , took up the trade ot worrying the Minister about economy and retrenchment . For some years they had little else on which to ; found a series of clap-trap speeches , and , to do them justice , they made the most of the plausible arguments with which the state of public afmirsthen furnished them . On his political and Parliamentary career , we may readily bestow all the praise which consistency deserves ; for whatever may have been his political vacillations at a later period of lite , it must bo acknowledged , that so long as the Tories remained in power he was an uncompromising Whig . He deprecated a large naval establishment ,- he clamoured unceasingly against the military force winch it was thought necessary to maintain ; he opposed the Six Acts with as munh enemv as was

      possible in a man so phlegmatic ; he resisted the grant of £ 0 , 000 " to the Duke of Kent on his marridge ; he moved for a repeal of the Foreign Enlistment Bill , and he opposed the Irish Insurrection Act . But the subject upon which he most frequently submitted motions to the House was the state of the public finances : and , because betook upon himself to censure the financial plans of Others , it was concluded that he was capable of propounding fiscal measures himself ; when Lord Grey , therefore , came into power he selected Lord Althorp for his Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and it is not easy to have imagined a move infelicitous choice j for tllOUgll lie possessed many qualities highly deserving of respect , and justly entitling him to the confidence of his party , that man could never have found himself at

      home in the treasury Chambers at Whitehall , whose tastes and knowledge almost exclusivel y qualified Ilim for rural pursuits ; whose eye was better filled by the image of a plethoric ox than a full exchequer , and who will be best remembered in the history of his race as the " Bucolic Earl Spencer . " Nevertheless he wasau active memberof Parliament , and weshoukl needlessly extend the limits of this article if we were to follow him through every stage of his Parliamentary career , or even enumerate a titlio of the occasions on which he addressed the House of Commons . Events , however , with which he was intimately connected were assigned as the reasons for breaking up two Administrations—the first of these was the Goderich Ministry , during which it was proposed to appoint Lord Althorp Chairman of a

      Finance Committee ; and that proposition led to the resignation of Mr . llerries . This circumstance was stated to be the proximate cause of Lord Godcrioh ' s surrendering the seals of office . But it is well known that this was not the real cause of the Duk 6 of Wellington ' s accession to power , and it is as certain that the removal of Lord Althorp to the Upper House was not tho sole operative circumstance which dissolved the first Melbourne Ministry ; yet his Lordship ' s name is in the popular mind most closely connected with both changes of Administration . Very Very little more need be added respecting his conduct as an Opposition member ; he took an active part ill promoting the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts ; he opposed the grant of £ 2000 a year to the Canning family , and he supported a proposition for

      abolishing the office of Lord-Lientenant of Ireland . In 1830 he became leader of the Ministerial party in the House of Commons , occupying , as already stated , the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer . As might have been expected , his first budget was full of blunders ; and , however startling these errors might be , they occasioned even less surprise than the cool indifference with which he retraced his steps for the purpose of correcting them . His influence , however , seemed scarcely to suffer ; for the Ministry to which he belonged enjoyed the support of five hundred members of the House of Commons . But even that vast majority melted away under the continued operation of the inconsistency which marked the character of Lord Althorp at this period of his political life ; for his opponents charged him — and upon no weak

      grounds—with supporting questions in Opposition which he opposed during his tenure of office . Amongst the instances cited to his disadvantage were the assessed taxes , the extension of the elective franchise , the ballot , the newspaper-tax , the cheap pamphlet duty , military flogging , and the pension list . Of the measures which he supported and was instrumental in carrying , Parliamentary Reform and the Poor Law Amendment Act may be reckoned the most conspicuous . Respecting the latter of these , public opinion has been so unequivocally expressed that any more special reference to the subject in this place would be superfluous . But as to the Reform Bill , his Lordship certainly seemed to be the chief agent in carrying it throueh the House of Commons . Technically

      speaking , Lord John Russell had " charge of the bill ; " but , to do Lord Althorp justice , he made himself perfectly master of its details , and the admirable good temper with which he discussed the whole of its provisions excited unqualified applause ; while the extraordinary powers of recollection which he displayed while debating its details drew forth the most flattering compliments even from his opponents . And his success was the more remarkable when wc recollect that his temper was tried every night by the withering sarcasms of Mr . Croker , and his memory unceasingly tested by the indomitable industry of Sir Robert Feel . The opening of the year ISSi was characterised by the notable affair of " Who is . the traitor ? " Mr . Hill , then member for Hull , having stated _ to his constituents that an Irish member , who had violently

      opposed the Coercion Bill , had gone to a Cabinet Minister and secretly urged him to pass it , as Otherwise no man could live in peace in Ireland . This created no little excitement ; and Mr . O'Connell , on the meeting of Parliament , demanded the authority from Lord Althorp . The noble lord said he should not act a manly part if he did not declare that lie had good reason to believe that some Irish members who spoke and voted against the bill had used very different language in private . Mr . O'Connell started up , and accused Lord Althorp of shrinking . On which the noble Lord said , "Does the honourable and learned member accuse me of shrinking ?" Mr . O'Connell at once retracted the expression , and added , " I feel I ought not to use a harsh expression towards the noble Lord . " The result of the affair

      is in the recollection ot every reader . Alter an inquiry by a committee into a specific charge against Mr . Shell , the matter was supposed to have originated in misinformation or misapprehension , and there it dropped . A more serious matter came to embarrass the Government . The manner in which they met Mr . Ward ' s " appropriation motion , " by proposing a commission of inquiry into the property and resources of the Irish church , Jed to the retirement of Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham , to protracted debate , and produced that fierce and sudden assault from Lord Stanley on his recent colleagues , which led Lord Althorp , in his quiet way , to tell liini that he aliviiys had thought his genius would never have fair play until he became an Opposition orator 1 But the

      debates revealed weakness in the Government , division amongst its supporters , and greatly damaged its moral power . Afterwards , Mr . Littleton , the Secretary , for Ireland , became involved in a dispute with Mr . O'Connell . lie had unadvisedly assured him , in a private communication , that the Coercion Bill would not be renewed , not being aware that Earl Grey contemplated renewing it . This led to n \ ueh _ unpleasant personal recrimination and explanation ; and ultimately Lord Althorp sent his , resignation to Earl Grey , even after the Ministry had refused to accept Mr . Littleton ' s . This led to Earl Grey ' s retirement . In his speech , detailing the circumstances , he termed Lord Althorp "the leading member of Government in the Commons , on whom my whole confidence rested—whom I considered as the

      right arm of the Government , and without whom I felt it was impossible that the Government could go on . " Earl Grey was replaced by Lord Melbourne , and Lord Althorp was induced to retain his place as Chancellor of tiie Exchequer . This he did till the death of his father , on the 10 th of November , 1834 , and his own consequent elevation to the peerage , which furnished an occasion * of which William IV . immediately availed himself , lor declaring the Melbourne Ministry dissolved . Sir Robert Peel was summoned from Italy to lace for a few months an adverse House of Commons , and when once more the Liberal party regained their seats on the Treasury benches , no office was found in which Lord Spencer could assist his quondam colleagues . Thus ended the public career of the noble Earl , the close of whose natural life it is now- our duty to record . Nine years ago he gave up the hopes and tears of political existence , and though he delivered two or three speeches his

      in the House of Lords during that period , yet oratory was for the most part confined to agricultural dinners , and the distribution of . prizes at Cattle Shows . Amidst such scenes he seemed precisely m that position for which he was intended by nature and qualified by education . His popular manners , bnrlv frame , and unpretending exterior , would aeon to justify the saying , that though he wasn iaimer amongst lords , he was no lord amongst farmers ; tuat , on the contrary , bo was most thoroughly one , oi themselves , and quite to tho " manner born . IJhao the imnerfeotions of his husky voice were not cnticised ? HThe errors of his inconclusive logic were not felt - his repet tions and stammerings , his SmSplace sentiments and clumsy style were either unperceived or indulgentlyiorgiven i while his unfei gneif kindliness of disposition , tho mgenuons tone of his character , and the simplicity of bis bear inrwere usually remembered to his advantage s & , » d should at a moment like the present on no accept ! fprgptt ^ nV

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      DBOPSOFCOMFORTCBNZnALLTADMlSISTKRKDBrFBIEiVnsf . Having your health proposed at the age of forty , as a " promising young man . " Reading a newspaper on a railway , containing an account of "five-and-twenfy Jives lost" only tho day before . Losing a heavy sum at cards , and all your friends wondering how you could have been " such a fool . " Putting on a white neckcloth , which you fancy becomes you , and being hailed all the evening as " waiter . "

      Publishing a novel which does not sell , and readingin a review— " This work is equal to anything of AmswortA ' Breaking down before ladies in the middle of a song , and a wag calling out " Encore . " Losing your latch-key , and wife and mother-in-lawboth sitting up lor you . Having your gig nearly upset by an omnibus , and oettig abused by the conductor for not seeing " yere ye ' re coming to , ' '—Punch . Vegetable Diet . —However much the disease ) among the potatoes may distress the poor Irish during the following winter , it will not in the least alter the diet of the Great Agitator , whose living is vervpIaiDV having existed all his life upon cabbage—ibid .

      Snouu > CnoMwv . u , have a Statuk ?—Everybody is asking , " Should Cromwell have a statue ? " and echo is in all directions bawlingout , "Yes , ofcOUl'SC . " It is true that Cromwell cannot be traced back to-Lady Rcdburga , or proved to be a lineal descendant of Ethelsantha , the wife of Alfred ; but he certainlyplayed his part of sovereign as well as if he had been , " native and to the manner born" for it . We should like to know whether he has not as good a right to a statue as Richard the Third , who played Old Harry with the Tower bedding , and made sandwiches of tho infant princes between a couple of feather beds . Nothing can palliate this romance of the palliasse , and there is no excUSefor a dOWny Undo who smothered the heirs to the throne in downy

      goosc-quill . lie made the mattress and pillows of the young princes the means of bolstering up his own title to the throne : and his subsequent conduct was very disgraceful , for we def y any one to 5 CC the play of Riehard the Third without coming to tho conclusion that Dick was a deceitful scoundrel . In fact , the false front he assumed has caused that article to bear the name of Dickey up to the present period . Then , again , look at John . ' We should like to know what on earth ho deserves a statue ibr . He was a fellow , according to Shakspeare , always putting out young princes' eyes with enormous pincers . Hisintimacy with Hubert was enough to condemn him

      in the opinion of any well-regulated-minded individual . Henry the Eighth , too , ought to have stood at the bar of the Old Bailey for sexigamy ; but wo think we--have said enough to show that there are a few kings in our llnmc and Smollett , who ought to be deprived of statues , if merit gives any claim to the distinction of being " done in stone" for the New Houses of Parliament . Cromwell was , until his elevation , a very respectable brewer , and at least on a level with Barclay , Perkins , or Meux ; and though he was not an entire sovereign , he is by no means to be thought small beer of by the true constitutional Englishman . —Ibid .

      Fon PAnuAMKNr . —A Cam-cos . —The decorations of the new Houses of Parliament will be incomplete , unless they include a representation of Justice , whois supposed to preside over parliamentary proceedings . That thejib of justice , to use a nautical term , should have a mediaeval cut , is highly necessary , for twoconsiderations . In the first place , Justice , cheek-byjowl as she will be with Chivalry , and other Gothic company , will otherwise resemble a denizen of the waters out of its element . In the second , the Justice of Parliament , for an obvious reason , should be de « lineated in a style approaching caricature or burlesque , which is precisely that of the art of the middle ages . For these good reasons , it is essential that Justice should grasp hev scales and sword by a mode

      of prehension practicably by no mortal ; and that those properties should be cumbersome and awkwardloi'king in the extreme . There is a profundity in representing her as a supernatural being , taking hold of thines in an impossible manner . On the same deep princi p le she should be drawn standing in an attitude which the human mechanism does not admit of . There is another good reason , which we will nob enlarge upon , why Justice should appear twisted in the British Senate . The tardigrade character of Justice ought further to be made visible in her feet , which should be quaintly clumsy , and contorted to a degree involving lameness . The anatomical

      difficulties which oppose these requisites are to be veiled with a profusion of drapery , which , as our sagacious ancestors well knew , will cover outrageous drawing . The face of Justice should be that of a monumental brass , both on account of the a ? sthetical character of the material , and the corpse-like attributes proper to-Gothic sanctity . The cause of right and nutlH'C versus humbug , which Justice is ever trying , ought to be manifested by scrolls stuck into her scales , inscribed , of course , with old English characters . Altogether , the person of Justice should be deformed , and her look old-maidish ; so that she may be devoid of the Paganism of symmetry and beauty . —Ibid .

      The Force of Habit . —The Cmionus , originally a French vessel , has generally been the first in the races of the Experimental Squadron . Our brave sailors say this is to be accounted for , by the fact of her being a foreign ship , and having been taught from her cradle to run away at the sight of an English vessel . — Ibid . Punch ' s Political Dicixokaky . —Anarchy . —The entire absence of government : as , if the governor goes out for the day , the children arc left in a state of anarchy . Persons living in anarchy are , nsfaras politico ni-o oonooi-nod , said to bo in a stato of nulure but they soon get into such a stato of ill-nature , that it is found necessary to place some control over them —Rid .

      Irish Imaoeuy . — "Iktissb Oraioky , "—At a recent Repeal meeting Mr . O'Connell was described by one of the speakers as " an oak of the forest , e veryhair of whose head was sanctified . " We never saw an oak with a fine head of hair ; though , it is , no doubt , possible ; for people are talking a good deal just now about the curl in the potato ; and if potatoes can be possessed of curls , we do not see why trees should not have hair also . We can scarcely see how O'Connell is an oak of the forest , though , in our opinion , he seems to be most at home when in the Groves of Blarney . —iMd .

      MELODIES . ( Extracted from the Tyne Mercury . ) THE ANDOVER ANTHEM . ( I- ' oe Two Voices . ) As " said or sung" by the Revs . 0 . Dodson and G . W Smyth . Tcne—Gregorian Chant , Say he was frolicsome sometimes , And staid too long at the " Eight Bells , " Hu cannot always count the chimes , Whose heart not gall but kindness swells . The eili-ale and myself , 1 wis , See nothing here that ' s much amiss . Admit that to his daughter dear He sent by chance a dinner "hot , '* The act was charvtj" ' vis clear , Aud we still preach it ; do we uot I The rector and myself , 1 wis , Sec nothing but what ' s good in this !

      What ! deal with treats like this as crimes ! AVhy 'tis no question , e ' en at Home , Nor in the columns of the Times That " Charity begins at Home IV Rector and curate , then , in this Can nothing see that ' s tar amiss . ' Talk not' to us of " stinking hones 1 " There ' s muek of" Gusto" in that same , Quite good enough for "Jacks" and " Joaus !" ¦ lust so the Bishop likes his game . And , therefore , he and wc in this See nothing that ' s at all amiss . Crant that to inaid and matron both He was gallant ; is that call'd " lewd 1 " It only proves he was not loal h , Kind soul ! to soothe their solitude . The Curate and myself in this Can ' t , really , fancy aught amiss !

      True he might say his prayers " twice over , "' But why on this must scandal fail ? Attack , instead , the graceless Hover . Who never says his prayers at alh Hector nor Curate can in this Find a tight that is the ieast amiss . ' . Ken-castle , Oct . 1 , 3813 , T . IK Jewish Financiers . —The Hebrew has a peculiar aptitude in managing money . Joseph was treasnmto Pharaoh , Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar , Mordccai to Artaxerxes , and Levi to Don Pedro the Gruel . The Moors who first invaded Spain had an Israelite for the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and a gentleman of the same nation now lends money to all the nations of the earth .

      Positive asd Com ? arative . ^—An attempt to poison yourself is a " rash" act ; but a slice of fried bacon is " a rasher ! " A showery day is . " * ' damp ; " but ihe refusal of a young lady to marry you is " a damper !" A sovereign short in weight is "light ; " but a boat for the conveyance of goods is " a lighter ' . " What you attach to a window is a "blind ; " but a flash of lightning in your eyes is , " a blinder ! " l ' nuco Albert is called a ' - ' -fine" man ; but one who refines metals is " a finer ! " A stiff old lady is " prim ;" ¦ ¦ but a child ' s spelling book is " a primer 1 " A cracked head is a , " sore" affair ; but a sk ylark is " a soarer { " A negro is a " black , - but one who cleans boots is " a blacker I" A capital O is a "bold O ; " but the member for Chippenham is , " Bolder 0 !"

      How to "Ukdekstaxd the CurhEnct . Question' . — Op en your window at one end of the room and your door at the other on a stormy day—and your knowlege wUtlw complete , —JwMiler , . -

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 11, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_11101845/page/3/