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      BEAUTIES OR BYRON . 50 ; TI . " EtCLHH BAHDS AKD S 03 TCB BETIEWERH . " "We lad intended not to Lave given any portion of the personal attacks on reviewers , and other writers , to be found throughout this poem ; but as these portions ofthe workare , as might be expected , the most forcible , it is only fair that we should give our leaders at least a specimen . The following is the opening ofthe poet ' s terrific onslaught on Jeefbet , theEoitoroftheAKnourjft ^ eyww : — Yet say ! why should the hard at once resign IBs claim to favour from the sacred Nine * Tor ever startled by the mingled howl Of norftem-wolves , that still in dartnessprowl 5

      . Aged or young , the hong or the dead ,. 3 $ o mercy find—these harpies must be fed . "Why do the injured unresisting yield "Ihecalm possession of their native field ! "Why tamely thus before their fangs retreat , 3 for hunt the bloodhounds back to Arthur's Seat !* health to immortal Jeffrey 5 once , in name , Sngland could boast a judge almost the same ; In soal so like , so merciful , yet just , Seme think that Satan has resign'd his trust , And given the spirit to the world again , To sentence letters , as he sentenced men . With hand less mighty , but with heart as black , "With voice as willing to decree the rack - ,

      Bred in the courts betimes , though all that law As yet hath taught him is to find a flaw ; Since well instructed in the patriot school To rail at parry , though a party tool , "Who knows , if chance his patrons should restore Back to the sway they forfeited before , His scribbling toils some recompense may meet , And raise this Daniel to the judgment seat ! f Let Jeffrey ' s shade indulge the pious hope , And greeting thus , present him with a rope : " Heir to my virtues 1 man of equal mind . ! Skill'd to condemn as to traduce mankind , This cord receive , for thee reserved with care , To wield in judgment , and at length to wear . "

      In the tenth canto of Don Juan , Bmo . v pays the following pretty compliment to his quondam antagonist : And all our little feuds—at least all mine—Bear Jeffrey , once my most redoubted foe , ( As far as rhyme and criticism combine To make such puppets of us things below , ) Are over : here ' s ahealth to " Anld Lang Syne 1 " 1 do not know you , and may never know Tour face—but you have acted on the-whole Most noblvj . and I own it from my-so & . ¦•¦

      Mr . Je * f bet has been for . ' some fea' & one ofthe Jfldges of the Court of Session , and is therefore a -sitter on the "judgment seat . " Ii is only fair to add , -thatasajudgehcisasopposifetotheinfamousEnglish judge - JBEFniSsvas light is from darkness , or justice from incarnate vfflany . His recent decision in the case ofthe widow Dmcciw , of Ceres , when he declared that " th & tight of the' poor lb a sufficient support was even pr eferable to the claim of thelordofthe land , " entitles him to the thanks of every friend of right . May he live long to so perform the duties of his high office ! •"•• In a very different spirit to the attack on Jeffrey , is the following beautiful tribute to the memory of the lamented Rata White : —

      Unhappy White ! £ while life was in its spring , And thy youngmuse just wavedher joyouswing , The spoiler swept that soaring lyre away , "VThich else had sounded an immortal Jay . Oh ! what a noble heart was here undone , "When science self-destroyed her favourite son I Yes , she too much indulged thy fond pursuit , She sowed the seeds , but death has reap'd the fruit * T was thine own genius gave the final blow , And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle , stretch'd upon the plain , 3 To more through rolling clouds to soar again , TlewVl his own feather on the fatal dart ; And wingM the shaft that quiver'd in his heart : Seen were his pangs , but keener far to feel , He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; "While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Braiit the last life-drop of his bleeding breast .

      STANZAS . BY J . M « Kowe » . By the marge of the sea has thy foot ever strayM - ¦ "When eve shed its deep mellow tinge ? Hast thou linger'd to hear " the sweet music that ' s made By the ocean waves whispering fringe f 'lis then you may bear the wild barnacles call The scream of the sea-loving mew , And that deep thrilling notefhatis wilder than all , The voice of the wailing curlew . The song of the linnet is sweet from the spray ; The blackbird ' s comes rich from the thorn ; And clear is the lark ' s when he ' s soaring away

      To herald the birth of the morn : The note of the eagle is piercing and loud ; The turtle ' s as soft as its true ; Bat give me , 0 give me , that song from the cloud , The voice of the wailing curlew . Sky minstrel 1 how often I ' ve pans'd when a child As I roam'd in my own native vale , To listen thy music so fitful and wild Borne far on the wings of the gale . And still as I rest by the door of my cot Thy voice can youth ' s feelings renew , And strangely I ' m tempted to envyjhy lot , Thou wild-noted wailing curlew .

      For 0 it were happiness surely , to fly . In those regions so pare and so bright , To float ' neath the dome of that beautiful sky , When ting'd with the setting sun's light . There , there , thon can ' st revel unfetterM and free , And no cunning of man can pursue ; What wonder I ' m eager to wander with thee , TuOtt \ rild . uoted waiting curlew ! When the beauties of nature shall cease me to more , . And " desire" in my bosom " shall fail , " And this heart that is beating with rapture and love Shall lie ccld as a clod of the vale , Then make me a grave far away from the crowd , Where spring may her sweet flowers strew , Leave my dirge to he sung by the bird of the cloud , The wild-noted wailing curlew .

      ?Arthur's Sea:; The Li'jl Which Overhang...

      ? Arthur ' s sea : ; the li'Jl which overhangs Edinburgh . ' " -T " Too ferocious—this is mere insanity . "—Bntos , 1 S 16 . i"Henrv Kirk White died at Cambridge , in October , 1836 , in consequence of too much exertion in the pursuit of studies that would have matured a mind which dfc e ise andjpoverty could not impair , and which death itself rather destroyed than subdued . 10 s poems abound in such beauties as must impress the reader with the liveliest re ° ret that so short a period was allotted to talents which would have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume . "

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      Dats And Nights In The East; From The Or...

      DATS AND NIGHTS IN THE EAST ; from the orHnal notes of a recent Traveller through Egypt , Arabia-Petra , Syria , Turkey , and Greece , -by MissPuiuLK . London : T . C . Nevfby , 72 , Mortimer-street , Cavendish-square . Asa svnopsis of eastern wonders for the home reader , and as a hand-book for travellers directing their steps eastward , this book will be useful . The narrative opens in the . bay of Syra , from whence the reader is taken to Alexandria . Of this city there is ja , brief description , after which is given an account of Pompey ' s pillar , the Pyramids , the Nile , and Grand Cairo . From Cairo the writer proceeded about four lundred miles up the Nile to Thebes . Returning to Cairo he ( Miss PJumlcy ' stravellcr is of the masculine

      sex ) joined a party of travellers who were about to iross the desert to Palestine . They proceeded to Suez , where thev crossed to the opposite continent-Asia . The first place of note they next reached was Mount Sinai . They next arrived at Afcaba , and at length , after nearly a month ' s inarch , entered the " Land of Edom , " ' where Mount Ilor , and Petra , "the City of the Rock , " with its magnificent ruins , well repaid the travellers for their toilsome journey . Ten days afterwards the travellers wereon the borders of Palestine . They first arrived at Mount Hebron , then Bethlehem , and lastly , an hour or two ' s nmch thence brought them to Jerusalem . Baring visited the Jordan , the Dead Sea , Bethany , Mount Olivet ^

      and other plaes , the travellers lelt Jerusalem lor Damascus , on their way visiting Nablous ( Ncapohs ) , Acre , which thev found in desolation—thanks to Dritish intermeddling between the Sultan and Melemet Ali-Nazireth , Mount Tabor , Tiberias , and Capernaum . Damascus is pictured as the ^ mest beautiful of eastern cities . The wondrous nuns of Daalbce arc next described . Leaving Baalbec the travellers next reached Mount Lebanon , recently , and indeed still the theatre of a horrible civil war . Thev next reached Bevroat , and there took leave of Syria . Constantinople and Athens were subsequentlv Tisited , but the descriptions of these places , Bartieulariv that ofthe Ottoman capital , are meagre

      and unsatisfactory . - Such was the route travelled , and the one described in this book ; themost interesting portion of which is the march through Hie desert , and the description of Petra . "Wegivethefollowingextiacts : — TBE " CITX OF THE BOCK . " "The descent from the base of 3 Iount Hor to Petra is considerable ; we followed the course of the bed of a torrent , and the first viewit offered us of the situation of this * City of the Rock' more than realised allimagination . had pictured . I say , the situation ; for of Terra , as yet we

      fiaw ' only the excavations high in the western range ; but an around , and far as the eye could reach , gigantic pfles of rock—rocks ofthe -wildest and most majestic form , and iindlingTriih lovely tints ; rocks , which have been described as a « sea , and its waves , petrified , ' and some of which still shut in from our eyes , the desolate , city : but after following thei torrent' s Jdrybourse for some distance further , we turned to the Mght . up a steep ascent ; and passed an isolated colmna ^ neai , -which , were heaps of xaii is ^ . ana f tom .. ' this . , spot we had a view , of the : open space , on which '' the , greater part of the ' eity ] stood ; ° ^ hence we beheld the splendid monuments , senjptured in

      Dats And Nights In The East; From The Or...

      the eastern range-a sight it was that , might well arrest the travellers , steps , and absorb his every faculty the power alone accepted ; of gazing , awe-stricken , on the most singular spectacle which the magnifteent creations ot nature , and theism ambition , of men , navo united to bequeath to the curiosity of those who shsuld come after them . '" "I cannot attempt to describe my feelings on viewing this splendid Temple ; fresh as if sculptured yesterday . Its facade is magnificent , hewn out of the rugged side . of a sand-stone mountain , whose rosy tints add much to its beauty ; and whose rugged ami mis-shapen crests contrast singularly with this finely proportioned edifice ¦

      . ' . "he portico is supported b y Corinthian columns , one of which has fallen ; but so imposing is the ensemble , that I did not for some moments observe the defect- the cornice and pediment are elaborately sculptured , ' and fresh and pointed , as from-the hand of the mason . The colonade is thirty-five feet high ; the columns , threefcet m diameter ; they each consist of three pieces , and are the only portions not hewn out oi the rock ; and this accounts for the entireness of the cornice , though one of the columns had fallen from beneath it . : " I attribute much ofthe lightness and elegance of the Khasne to the divided pediment and thelightlantera-like structure in its centre , surmounted by an urn . Thisurn is supposed by the Arabs to contain gold , which is likely to remain untold by them , unless their ingenuity can suggest ( which fate forbid ) some other mode of reachuv it than by firing ball at it , asthey now often do . " "

      "IU theatre , which has thirty-three rows of seats , * e * m oat of the rock , most of which are quite perfect ; at the back , above the seats , are ch ambers or boxes , also hewn in the rock . Its width is one hundred and twenty feet ; and . the scene ( which was built ) has disappeared altogether . * ' The beautiful proportions of the theatre are seen to great advantage from , the upper seats , and thence , too , the view of the other ruins are splendid , II—audi remained behind the others , and reclining on its topmost bench , gave ourselves up to the contemplation of the extraordinary scene around .

      " The western range is full of excavated tombs 'high as the eagle ' s nest , ' many of them being hundreds of feet from the ground-, and nearer stand rich and lovely specimens of temple and tomb ; whose formation , heicn , as they all are , must have occupied the ancient dwellers in Petra through successive generations ; unlike the Egyptians , the inhabitants of this rock expended their wealth and : talents in beautifying the exterior of their sepulchres , leaving the interior quite plain . '"

      A CHRISTIAN SCENE IN THE " llOtt CITV . " April 30 th . At 2 p . M ., went to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to witness the " miracle" of the descent of the " Holy Eke . " Two companies of Tuvhish troops were drawn up ia front of the church , to which we were admitted by the monks of the Greek convent , who placed us in the gallery within the cupola , from which we had a good view of the interior ; the floor was crowded to excess by a sad set of ruffians , who were fighting and making a terrible noise . It was a motley assembly—Greehs , Turks , Arabs , Copts , Armenians , and Abyssiuians were there , iu a terrible state of confusion .

      About half-an-hour after we entered , the Greek , Armenian , and Latin Bishops , walked twice in procession round the sepulchre , with banners , & e . AtS , an Armenian and a Greek Bishop entered the sepulchre , from which , in a few minutes after , the Holy Fire appeared , ' when the shouting and uproar became dreadful , and the mob pressed forward to light their candles ; " in a few minutes the whole church was in a blaze , and the motions , ofthe dense crowd , each individual ofwhich held al'ghtcd candle , gave a curious effect to the brilliant scene . All denominations of worshippers have separate

      chapels in this church ; and while we were there , two processions , one Greek and the other Armenian , came in contact , and as neither would ' give way , ' a regular fight ensued ; the banner poles , and many of their Iioly instruments , were broken and used as weapons , and candlesticks were flying in all' directions . The tumult raged with indescribable fury for nearly half-an-hour , when a body of Turkish troops marched in , cleared the church , and locked the doors . I left , disgusted with all I / had seen , and not at all surprised that the spectators of such exhibitions should apply the terms Christians and Dogs synonymously .

      the sraus gbeek : WOMEJT . The Syrian Greek woman are , heyoud comparison , the loveliest in the world ; we saw many of those of Nazareth , who came down , with their pitchers to the fountain of Nahorfor water , in whom were . . visibly ' united all that painters may in vain endeavour to picture—all that poeta dream . Their featmes combine the perfect proportion of the Greek model , with the character and expression of the daughters of Israel ; their figures , the united delicacy and voluptuousness ol form which ' the finest Grecian statues possess . The costume of those we saw this evening was well suited to its wearers .

      The long hair , . which was plaited , fell over their Shoulders , and Was in many instances ornamented with great numbers of gold sequins and some pearls ; in others , flowers of brilliant hues replaced . the " pearl and gold , " but all wore the full loose trousers , drawn tight at the ancle ( which , notinfrequently , was encircled with silver bracelets ) ; the petticoat reaching only to the knees , and the upper vest open at the breast—it is neither boddice , tunic , or jacket , but something between each .

      How's Illustrated Book Of British Song. ...

      HOW'S ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF BRITISH SONG . London : J . How , 132 , Fleet-street . Two or three weeks back we noticed the first six numbers of this admirable work ; we have now tosay a word or two on the thirteen subsequent numbers—No . _ 7 to No . 19 . In these numbers we have the following popular and truly national pieces : — "Ere around the huge . Oak " ;' - ' - '" . When pensive I thought of my love , " "I locked up all my treasure , " " The Lass of Richmond-hiU , '' «* The IViar of Orders Grey , " " Allen-a-Dalc , " "Faint and Wearily , " " Under the Greenwood Tree , " " Blow , blow , thou Winter . Wind , " " Come unto these Yellow Sands , " " Where the Bee sucks , ? ' " Old Towler , " " The Beggar Girl , " " Wapping Old Stairs , " and " Sally in our Alley ;" ¦ ' besides several others , there being in these numbers no fewer than twenty-eight different pieces .

      Not the least interesting feature of this publication is the resuscitation in its pages of the simple yet beautiful ballads which , exciting the delight of our fathers , we , their ungrateful heirs , have permitted to fall into disuse , and oblivion . " Sally in our Alley " and "The Beggar Girl" are specimens of the class of compositions we allude to ; the former of these may yet upon rare occasions be heard , but rather in private than in public ; as to the latter— " The Beggar Girl" —that appears to be almost universally forgotten . We extract the following account of the origin of "Sally in our Alley , " as given by Henry Carey , author of both the words and the music : —

      " A shoemakers apprentice , making holiday with his sweetheart , treated her with a sight of Bedlam , the puppet shows , the flying chairs , and all the elegance of 3 Ioorfields , whence proceeding to the Farthing Pie House , he gave her a collation of buns , cheesecakes , gammon of bacon , stuffed beef , and bottled ale ; through all which scenes the author dodged them , charmed with the simpUciry of their courtship , from which he drew this little sketch of nature : but being then young and obscure , he w ? s very much ridiculed for this performance , which nevertheless made its way into the polite world , and amply recompensed him by the applause of the divine Addison . " We are told by the editor of this work that

      IIES- 'BT . CAKEY , likeDibdin , was at once a poet and a musician , though his genius in both characters was of a lower order , lie produced several dramatic pieces , aud a great number of songs and ballads , in which , it has been remarked to his praise , that , though he lived in a not very scrupulous age , he preserved an inviolable regard for decency and good manners . Cahet , though his life was without reproach , appears to have been improvident , and died by his own hand in Warner-street , Clcrkenwell , on ike 4 th of October , 1743 . We cannot resist the temptation to give the words

      of—THE BEGGAH G 1 HL . Over the mountain aud over the moor , Hungry and bare-foot I wander forlorn . My father is dead and my mother is poor , And she grieves for the days that will never return . Tiry , kind gentlemen , friends of humanity , Cold blows the wind , and the night ' s coming on ; Give me some food for my mother for charity , Give me some food and then I will be goae . Call me not lazy-back beggar , and bold-enough , Fain would I learn both to knit and to sew , I ' ve twolittle brothers athome , when tkey ' reokl enough , They will work hard for the gifts you bestow . Pity , kind gentlemen , friends of humanity , Cold blows the wind , and the night ' s coming on ; Give me some food for my mother for charity , Give me some food and then I will be gone . Thinkwhile vou revel so careless and free ,

      , Secure from the wind , and well-clothed and fed , Should fortune so change it , how hard would it he To beg at a door for a morsel of bread . Pity , kind gentlemen , friends of humanity , Cold Wows the wind , and the night's coining on ; Give me seme food for my mother for charity , Give me seme food and then I will be gone . For the music we must of course refer our roidora to the Booh of ¦ BritishSong . It ^ appears that this i ;« in hnllnd was nublished anonymously between

      forty and fiftv years ago ; the authorship ol the words and music is * unknown . It was for many years exceeding popular . The illustration to . this song is most ehaVming , and ^^ ff ^ S ^ ft out these numbers are beautiful an d faultless .. 1 ortraits of several eminent composers , with biograp Mcal notices annexed , add to the value of this PU ° remains for ns to repeat the hope we formerly expressed , that this truly national work may meet with national support ; , most ¦***** %$ advise alllovers of music to " give then- orders for Hats Illustrated Book of British Song . >

      The National Temperance Advocate ' Accos...

      THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE ' Accost . _ . . This number of the Advocate , is an impr , rtant-one , containing an official report of the proceedings ot the annual Conference of the British Tera ' perance Association , - with the new plan of organis ' jttion agreetf to by the delegates ; - _ ' \ i ^ bai 4 U-- ~ .-

      George Ertjikshank's Table'book-. Aucwsi...

      GEORGE eRTJIKSHANK'S TABLE'BOOK-. Aucwsi . London :. Ptmc / 4 Office , 02 , Fleet-street . The admiral gfcg ! . engraving to this month's number of the Tatu ifoofc illustrate our social ornithology , in the annual- emigration of birds , BritMb and foreign , flereweseeon the wing all the varietieB of the feathered tribes- "tlle greaf Jong- «/ H , or lawyervulture , " the " hawk , ov bailiff bird , " now nearly , extinct , ^ or degenerated into a sort of bliie-? . ° , P ° llce cock-sparrow /' ' " the gambler-{ m-d , whose prey is the " pigeon , " "Italiansinging-biros , who take their , flight from this country about the beginning of August , having previously been smccesslull yoccupiedinfeatheringtheirnests . " the ' Legend of the Rhine '! is continued , and is superbly ridiculous . Besides the large plate , there are several most laughable illustrations in this number .

      Simmonds* Colonial Magazine-Airai-Sr Lon...

      SIMMONDS * COLONIAL MAGAZINE-Airai-sr London : SimmondsandAVard , 18 , Cornbill . This is an interesting number of this very useful Magazine . The opening article is '* On the Lake Parimaand the . Geography of Guiana . " Who hflS not heard of Sir Walter Uamich ' s " El , Dorado , " the laud of gold and of the sun ? There are few regions on the globe which have raised such an interest as Guiana . Since the discovery of the Gulf of Paria by Columbus , in 1498 , and the expedition of VicentePincon , who . discovered the Orinoco at the- commencement Of the sixteenth century , it became the theatre

      of enterprises , which were directed more by . visionary dreams than by prudence , and the life and fortune of thousands were sacrificed in search of'a region which was said to abound in precious metals . The rocks were represented as impregnated with gold ,. the veins of which lay so near the surface as to make it shine with a dazzling splendour . The housesof its capital , called Manoa , were covered with plates of gold it . was built upon a vast lake named Parima , and the reflection of its fairy buildings , caused the whitish clouds in the southern hemisphere , which are known to us as the clouds of Magellan , to adopt their luminous appearance .

      It appears that the first accounts of such a rich dis . trict reached Europe in 1535 , and the mountains of Wen-Grenada were considered to encompass it . The sovereign prince of this worldly paradise ( continues the fiction ) was from head to foot covered with gold-dust , so as to resemble a golden statue worked by th e hand : of a skilful goldsmith , and from this circumstance he was called thegilded— "El Dorado . " When , after fruitless searches in New Grenada , the locality of the fable was transferred to Guiana , that whole province was designated under the name of " El Dorado . " The various expeditions . which were directed in search of it , and which occasioned such a waste of human life , that the aunals of history do not offer a parallel , in lieu of suppressing new attempts , seemed only to produce new adventurers , equally eager to achieve tho discovery of " El Dorado . "

      The unfortunate Raleigh was not the last who pursued that phantom . The close of the past century offered another kaight-errant of "El Dorado" in Don Manuel Centurion , who , iu 1770 , was Governor of the Spanish Province of Guiana . It appears that the believers in this fabled paradise are not yet extinct , as only a tew years ago a map was published by Mr . Wyld , and as recently as-1841 another was published by a Mr . Van Heuvel in New York , upon which the Laguna de Parima figures in its whole extent . Visionary and unreal as the famed ¦ " El Dorado" has been proved to be , still there are grounds for believing that the tradition had once a more substantial foundation : —

      The geological structure of this region leaves but little doubt that it was once the bed of aw inland . lake , which , by ono of those catastrophes of which even later times give us examples , broke its barrier , forcing for its waters a path in the Atlantic . "Jfay we not connect , witlr the former existence of this inland sea the fable of the lake Parima and the El Dorado ? Thousands of years have elapsed ; generations may have been buried and returned to dust ; nations , who ouce wandered on its banks , may be extinct and exist even no more in name ; still the tradition of the Lake Parima and the El Dorado survived these changes of time ; transmitted from father to son , its fame was carried across the Atlantic , and kindled the romantic hre of the chivalric Italeigh . " These are . the words which I used when describing , that feature on another occasion ; and after having revisited it , I have still that impression . But equally certain is it , that the existence of such a lake does not belong ; to . our historical period .

      There are important articles in this number on "The Trade , Shipping , and General Statistics of New Brunswick ; " " The Progress of Wealth , Population , aud Trade in Canada , " " Colonial Reform , " "The Sandwich Islands , " " The History and Statistics of Barbadoes , " and "The Wakefield Theory of Colonisation . " Besides these , there is the conclusion of the "Narrative of a Steam Voyage from Southampton to . St . Lucia , " and continuations of the " Account of the liberated African establishment at St . Helena , " and "Reminiscences of the Island of Cuba . " Several of ' . these articles are very entertaining , whilst all of them abound in information most useful to the statesman , the colonist , and tke emigraat . Prefixed to the present number is a well executed map ofthe Cape of Good Hope , illustrated with views , and containing much interesting information .

      The. Connoisseur: A Monthly, Record Of T...

      THE . CONNOISSEUR : A Monthly , Record of the Fine Arts , Music , and the . Drama . August . London : E . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street . This , though the fifthnuinbcr of the Connoisseur , is but the first we have seen ; and if ^ vve ; may ; judge of the pubHcatum . by a solitary copy , we should pronounce it worthy the public ' s patronage . ¦ _ Perhaps there is an allowance of gall in the editor ' sink somewhat more than necessary , but we-are bound to add that impartiality and a stern love of truth seems to guide him in all his decisions—he may be mistaken , but , it is our belief , is in no instance wilfully unjust . , . ; The contents of this number consist of critiques on the " Westminster Hall Exhibition , " the " Past Concert Season , " " Class Singing , " and " The Drama ; " together with articles entitled " The

      Tragedian , " " Musical Sketches , " "TheDiscovery of Nineveh , " " The Royal Academy , " and some titbits of literary , musical , and theatrical gossip and chit-chat . We have been the most impressed with the article entitled " The Tragedian , " which is a truly clever and original composition . The opening remarks in the critique on " The Westminster Hall Exhibition" have our warm approbation ; The article on "The Royal Academy" administers a severe but well merited rebuke to a certain would-be Sir Oracle iu all matters connected , with the Fine Arts , which it is hoped that person will profit by ; Punch lias given him a cudgelling two or three times of late , but he appears to be all but incorrigible ; still we hope for amendment . In the article entitled "The Drama" a well merited tribute is paid to the now first of tragic actresses Miss Cushman . Of this lady ' s remarkable likeness to Macbeady , the writer

      says—None can witness this lady ' s performance without being struck by the resemblance of , not only her countenance , but the tone of her voice , and many of what we will call her mannerisms , with those of Mr . JIacready . The similarity is move remarkable than any wo have yet observed between individuals not having some relationship with each other : and , but that we have reason to believe the lady has approached her thirty-fifth summer , and our veteran tragedian to be not much beyond fifty , we should suppose them to be something nearer than cousins . As it is , we must conclude that similar physical formation iu features and organs of sound have facilitated the natural tendency to imitation on tho part ofthe lady , in adopting the peculiarities of one in whom she must have met , for the first time , a mind , temperament , and energy , congenial with her own . We care nothow soon we see them together .

      With the wish expressed in the last sentence we cordially concur . In a notice of " Sadler ' s Wells Theatre , " there is alsoajust compliment paid to Mr . Phelps , with every word of which we heartily as-ree . This number of the Connoisseur is illustrated by a copy from a painting by Mueillo ( a lithographic ccmVand an original ballad by Cmvelli . lo all overs of the Fine Arts we recommend tne Connoiseur .

      The Miners' Advocate - July, August. New...

      THE MINERS' ADVOCATE - July , August . Newcastle-upon-Tyne : M . Ju-le , Side . These two numbers ofthe Miners' Advocate contain several excellent articles , together with reports ol Miners'meetinss , correspondence , & c . - . »« ™ the July number a paragraph < r ° m thc mt t «^ to Hood ' s ¦ " Lay ofthe Labourer , wh c V ^ egne below That paragraph appeared in tlnspapei at thon noor Hood has departed irora tins liW i touowcu byEoffi ^ and countrywomen . Th ^ aragrap h . JJJ ^ g ^ written when he was on lusdeath-bed , ^ conies * " « e fore doubly interesting ,, ami we beatote nf tojepeot it in our columns . Was it word for youl inscribed upon his tomb , poor Hoon would need no othei epitaph , its every word is true as truth itscll .-

      THOMAS HOOD . > As my works testify , I am « to ™ % * * % ^ and in my humble sphere furnish " ^ S *^^ handsi including paper-makers , ^ ff ^ S ^ . compositors , pressmen , ^ *** £ ffi ^ and critics—aU receiving a fair day s » - ' ^_ ¦> work . My gains consequently are 1 ^^™™* £ enormous as have been reahsed upon sh rts . sIop ^ IunWs K , curiously illustrating how a man ^^™ £ be clothed with curses as with a garment ' __ has been expressed wi thontalong rowo thoseepl r has wenexpressea wiin ^ YJ" ^ urfids of thousands of hundreds

      those O's , at once signmcant of o ^^ pounds , and as many ^ " ^^ aU be hoarded , from dependent slaves . My wealth migm a if I were miserly , in a galUpot oi : tin snuWos . jy guineas , ^^ placed edge to edge , instead ^ of - ^ f ^ J ^ theMinoriestoGolden-square , would « . " £ T home to Bread-street . My riches would havdl >^ Uow me toroU in them , even if turned into the new copper . nntat . But then / thank God > not one reproach chngs to my win . Ko tears or blood clogs the meshes ; . » lw « desperation , is knitted with the silk of n » y : ^ ^ Noconsnmptive sempstress can point st nioner oooi

      The Miners' Advocate - July, August. New...

      ¦ ' . jai- ' jg fore-finjer and say , "For thee , enwiNffUf roajM rsveza . - ism , I am become , tbisi living skeleton IV or hold-.-up her fatal iteedle , as one through theveye . of which" tho strip , tural camel must pass ere I may hope to enter heaven , No withered workwoman , shaking-at me-her suicidal looks , . can cry , in apiercing . voice , - ' » For thee , ondfor six poor pence , J embroidered . eighty , fiowers on this-veil "literally a- veil of tears . Jfo famishmglaJlourcr .-his kiints racked with toil , holds out to ino in the palm of his broad hard hand seven miserable shillings , . and mutters , " For these , and svparishloaf , for six long loiig days , . from < dawH till dusk j-, through hot and cold ,. through ^ wct and dry , I tilled tbyla ' nd !'' My short sleeps are peaceful ; my dreams untroubled . » o ghastly phantoms with leproachfut faces , audi silence more terrible '•• than speech , haunt my quiet pillew .. . , ,

      The Mysteries Of Paris — Bv Kjgesb • Sub...

      THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS — Bv Kjgesb Sub : People ' s Edition . Iforidon : Clark , ' Warwicklane , Paternoster-re w . . Two or three weeks , ago we . briefly . noticed this work ; we now return to it again : ; we propose to give a few extracts from it when we can find room . The following affecting story ( which / we have been compelled to somewhat curtail ) of : the heroine of the work scarcely exaggerates ,. we fear , the sufferings borne by thousands whom society ( in England as well as France ) permits to be trained in ignorance , misery , and crime : —

      TMEiSTOBYOP LA OODALEUSE . "Begin witlt the beginning , " ' said the Chourineur . "Yes , your parents ? " added Rodoiph . " I never knew them , " said- Fleur-de-Marie . " Who . brought you up , then , GoualeuseS » asked ¦¦

      Rodoiph . , ; .. . ; "I do not know , sir ; asfar back , as I can recollect , When I "think I was about seven or eight years of age , " I lived with an old , one-eyed woman , whom they callio Clwuelt , * because she had a hooked nose , a very round green eye , and altogether rcsembledan owl who had lost an eye . This one-eyed old woman , sent me to sell barleysugar at night on the Pont J ' euf ; but that was only a eloak for begging ; ond when I did not take her ten sous at least , the Ciiouette gave me a beating instead ; of ; my supper . " " " So , " said the Chourineur , " you danced instead of eating , when you did not pick up ten sous V " Yes , aud afterwards-had to . Ho upon some straw spread upon the . ground , where , I was almost perished with bitter cold . " ..

      . Fleur-dc-Marieresumed : "Thenextmorning ,. theoneeyed woman , gave me the same allowance for breakfast as for supper , and sent me to Moutfaugon to look for worms to bait fishjfor during the day the Chouette kept her stall for selling fishing-tackle by the bridge of Notre Dame , for a child seven years old , half dead with hunger and cold , it is a long way from the Rue de la Mortellerie to Montfauson . I used to , return very , very tired ; then about noon the Chouette would give me . a little piece oi dry bread . " ! ¦" ¦ Ah !' . ' said the Chourineur , " we all know what it is to be miserable . " " Oh \ , it is impossible you could ever have been as wrctchedas I was . Chourineur ' . "saidEleuv-de-Marie .

      • : " What / not I , Goualeuse ? "Why , my girl , you were a queen compared to me ! At least , when you were little , you . had straw to sleep on , and bread to cat ; for my part , I used to spend my mostcomfortable nights in the limekilns at Clichy , like a genuine vngabond , and fed upon cabbage-stumps and such . llke dainties , which , I picked up when and where I could ; bat . as I wasoften too tired , after my day ' s dance , to go . so far as - the ; lime-kilns at Clichy , I slept under the eaves at the louvre ; and in winter I had beautiful white sheets— -whenever the snow feu . * r .-. ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ . - ¦ •¦; .. .. ;¦ ' , ' Ah ! a man is hardy ; but I was a poor little girl , " said Fleur-de-Marie . ' When La Chouette beat me , tiie first blow always knocked me down ; then she stamped upon me , muttering ,. .. ' Ah , the nasty little beast ! she hasn't a farthing's-worth of strength—she can't even bear a couple of thumps without falling ] ' and . then . she called , me Pcgriotte ( little thief ) ; I never had any other . appellation —that was my baptismal name . " -

      : "Just like me—Iliad thosamebaptism they , give to stray dogs . I was called . 'Thing ! ' 'Animal ! ' or 'the Albino . ' It is astonishing , how much weave like one another , my girl , " said the Chourineur . " That is true—in our misery , " said Fleur-de-Marie . - " And when , you had fetched '• the worms for : the Chouette , what did you do next ? " asked . the Chom-j .

      neur . ' " Then the old woman would send me to beg round where she kept her stall till night ; and in the evening , she went to the Pont Neuf , to sell her fried fish . Heavens I used to think it . a long time to wait for a morsel of bread ; but if I was unlucky enough to ask the Chouette for something to eat , she would bsat mc , and say : ' G et ten SOUS ! and you . , shall have your supper , Pegriotte . ' - Ah , me ! then , being hungry , and sore from the thumps and kicks she gave me , I cried as if my heart would break ; but the

      old woman put my tray of barley-sugar . about my neck , and placed me on the Pont Neuf , < where ; in winter ; I was almost frozen to death . Yet sometimes , in spite of myself , I slept as I stood : but not long , for the Chouette kicked me till Lawoke . Then Iremained on the bridge till eleven o ' clock , my tray of barley-sugar hanging round my neck , aiid often crying bitterly . ' On . seeing me cry , the passengers would sometimes give me a trifle ; and I often ohtained teii and fifteen sous , which I gave to the Chouette , who searched mo all over , and even examined my mouth , to see if I had concealed any thing , "

      Well , when she discovered the secret of my success , shs always beat me severely before she took me to thy post on the bridge , in order that I might cry and sob as people passed by , ' and by that means get more money . At last I got hardened to blows .. I saw that the Chouette was very angry when I'did not cry , so ,: to be revenged upon her , the move she ill-used me the more I laughed , though tiie pain brought the taars into my eyes . " . " But . did not the barley-sugar tempt you , my ' poor Goualeuse ? " . '

      "Ah , Chourineur , that it did ; but I never , tasted it , aUhough . I longed to do so . Alas , ! that longing ; was my ruin . One day , returning from Montfaueon , sonic little boys heat me , and took away . ' , my . basket . I returned home , . . welf knowing what was in store forme ; I had a merciless thumping , and no bread . . . In the evening , before she took me to tiie bridge , the Chouette , furious because I had taken nothing home the evening before , instead of beating me as usual , to make me cry , tortured me by pulling the hair from the side of my temples—a part most sensible to pain . "

      "Thousand thunders ! that was coining it too strong !" shouted the bandit , striking the table" fiercely with his fist , and knitting his bushy brows ; " Beat a child—that ' s not out of the way ; but to toiture . her ! Blood and thunder !" Kbdolph hiid listened attentively to tho narrative of Fleur-de-Marie ; he now looked with astonishment at the Chourineur , this outburst of feeling astonished him . " What is the matter with you , Chourineur 1 " he inquired , "' ¦ ¦ " What's the matter with ' met Ilaveyou no feeling , then ? That beast of a Chouette , who tortured this child ! Is your heart as hard as your knuckles ?" "Go on , my girl , " said Rodoiph , without noticing the interruption of the Chourineur .

      " I have told you the Chouette beat me to make me cry , I was then sent to tho bridge with my barley-sugar . T be old woman was at her frying-pan , and from time to time she shook her clenched fist at me . However , as I had not broken my fast since the night before , and was very hungry , at the risk of putting the Chouctto in a passion , I took a stick of barley-sugar , and began to cat it , " : " Bravo ! my girl . " " I ate a second piece—" "Bravo ! Liberty or death !" " [ found it very nice ; not so much from daintiness as from real hunger . But an orange-woman cried out to the one-eyed woman : ' Holloa ! Chouette , Pegriot ' e is eating your stock in trade ! ' It ivas a serious matter for me ; but that was afterwards ; for the old woman , although boiling over with rage , at seeing , me devour the barley-sugar , could not leave her frying-pan , for the fat was boiling .

      - "At a distance she threatened mc with her long iron fork ; When her fry was cooked she came up to me . I had only received three sous in charity , and I had eaten six sous ' , worth of barley-sugar . She did not say a word , but : tobk me by the hand , and pulled me away after her . At this moment , I knew not how it was that I'did not drop dead with fright . I remember it as well as if it were but now—it was about New-year ' s Day , and there were hi any shops on the Pont Ncuf , all filled with toys , and I had been' looking at them all' the evening with the greatest delight—beautiful dolls , little furnished houses you know how amusing such things are to a child . " "And had you never any playthings , G oualeuse ? " asked the Chourineur .

      "I ? Good heaven ! whogwas there to give me any ; playthings ? " said the young girl , in a sad tone . " However , the evening passed away . Although it was in the depth of winter , I only had on a little cotton gown—no stockings , no shift , and the wooden shoes on my feetthat was not enough to stifle one with heat , was it 1 Well , When the one-eyed woman took me by-the hand , I became bathed in perspiration from head to foot . What frightened me most was that , instead of swearing as usual , she only kept on muttering between her teeth . She never onco let go my hand , but made me walk so fast—so very fast—that 1 was obliged to run to keep up with her , and in running I lost one of my wooden shoes ; and as I did not date to say so , I followed her with one foot naked on the bare stones , and when we reached home it was covered with blood . " ;

      "We lodged in a garret , in the Rue do la . Mortellerie : adjoining the entrance to our alley there was-a dram-shop . The Chouette went in , still dragging : me by the hand ,: and drank a half-pint of brandy at the bar ., At length , we got up into our loft ; the . Chouette double-locked the door ; I threw myself at her feet , and begged her pardon for having eaten the barley-suirar . She did not answer me , and I heard her mumbling to herself as she walked about the room ¦ What shall , 1-do , to-night to this Pcgriotte—this little thief of my barley sugar ? let me see—how shall I serve her out ? Ah yes !* And then she stopped to look at me maliciously with her one green eye , while I still knelt before her . Then : suddenly the old woman went to a shelf and took down a pair of pincers , to take out one of my 1 teeth . " '¦ ¦ ¦' ,. " .: ¦ ' ' : ' .

      " Anddid- she- really take-but your tooth ,-my poor girlt" asked ; Roddlph ; whilst ; the Chourineurivonted his rage in a volley of the most violent epithets , , - » .-..,

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      "Tes > sir ; -but not atthefirstpul / . . Great heaveshow- Isuffeiibd IJ She held my _ head between her knees , as if it had been' in a vice . ¦ Then ; partly with the pincers , and partly witlrhcrfingers , shepulledoutmy tootli , and then ; , said— ' Non > . Pegriotte , -1 will pull out one of your teeth every day ; , and when you have no more left , I will throw youinto the river ; tobe eaten by the fishes . '" "Ah , the old devil ! to-wrench out a poor child's teeth ' in that manner ! ' ! exclaimed' the Chourineur , With rcdou . btedfory . The day following poor O ' oualeuse ran away ; when night came oh she hid herself ia ! a timber-yard , where she slept . Next day about noon she was scented out ; by a- dog , and the aiarmwas raised ' of " thieves" in : the yard . Hearing a child" cry , the'dog was called off , and tho poor child hnd ' to come out' of her hiding ; hble > - , , ,..

      . "Isaw a bluff-looking gentleman and amanin a blouse ' Ah ,- what do you do in my timber-yard , you little thief V said the gentleman in a menacing tone . I put my hands together , and said : Pray don't hurt me " : I have had nothing to eat for two days , and I ' ve run away from til e Chouette , who ; pullfid out my tooth , and said she would throw me to the fishes . Not knowing where to- sleep , I was passing your yard , I have , slept during the night amongst th « se logs , under this heap , not thinking to hurt anybody . ' 'I'm not to be deceived in that-way , ! - ' You came here to steal my wood . Go and call the police , ' said the timber merchant to his man . !' The result : —

      "Iwas taken to ' the ' magistrate , ' * resumed La Oou . aleuse . "I accused myself of being a vagrant , and they sent me to prison . I ' was taken before the court , and formally sentenced as a rogue and vagabond , to remain until 1 was- sixteen years of age in a house of correction . I heartily thank the judges for their kindness ; for in prison I had food , I was not beaten , and it wasa perfectparadise compared to the miserable loft of the Chouette . Moreover , in prison I learned to sew ; but , alas ! Iwas idle : I preferred singing . to working , and particularly

      when thesuu was shining . Oh ! .. whenitsh « nebrightly in the court-yard . of the prison , I could not refrain from singing ; and then , while I sang , I fancied I was no longer a prisoner . It was after I began to , sing . so much that they called mo Goualeuse . instead of Pegriotto . Then , when I was sixteen , Vleft the prison . At thedoor 1 found the Ogress- of this house , with two or three old women , who had come to see some of my fellow prisoners , and who . had . always told me that when I left the prison they would find me some employment . " - " Ah , good ! good ! I understand , " said

      fhe-Chourmeur . "' Jfy pretty little maid , ' said the Ogress and the old women , ' will you come and lodge . with us ; we will give you nice clothes , and you shall have nothing to do but to amuse yourself . ' But I distrusted . lhem and refused , saying to myself :. ' I know how-to use my needle well , aud I have two hundrel francs by me . I have been eight years in prison , I-should like to enjoy myself a littlethat will not harm anybody : work will come when the money is gone . ' And so I began to spend my two hun .

      ured francs . All 1 that was a sad mistake , " added Fleurde-Mario , with a sigh . " I ought first to have got work but I hadn ' t a soul on earth toadviseme , A girl , sixteen years of'age—thrown as I was on the streets of Paris ; ono is so lonely ; but what is done is done . I have acted wrong , and I have suffered for it .. I began then to spend my money ; first , I bought flowers to put in my room—1 do so love flowers ; then I bought a gown , a pretty shawl , mid took i a walk in the Bois de Boulogne , aud I went to St . Germains , to-Vincennes—in the country ! Qh , - howI love the country !

      Most of her monty having vanished , poor CouaZcitsc began to think of getting work . Sue had ¦ reserved fifty francs to keep hcrwhilelooking for employment ; but this she expended on a miserable woman who craved her help in the hour of extremest misery . Goualevse ' s money was now all gone : — " Then Hooked out for work ; but it was too late . I was a good needle woman . I had good , courage , and thought that I had only to wish for work and that Ishould get it ! Ah ! how I deceived myself ! I wentinto a shop where they sell ready-made linen , and asked for work , and as I would not tell a story , I said I had just left prison ; on which : they showed me the door , without making me any answer . I begged they would give me a trial , but

      they pushed me into tno street as if I had been a thief . Then I remembered , when too late , what Rigolette had told me .. I sold nvy small remnant of clothes and linen to obtain food , and at length , when I had nothing left they . drove me from my lodging . I had not eaten for two days ; I did not know where to sleep . Then it was I met the Ogress and one of the old women . Knowing where I lodged , they had been continually haunting me from the time I came out of the prison . Thoy told me they would get mc work—I believed them . They led me with them ; I' was so exhausted for want of food that I hardly knew what I did . They gave me brandy to drink , and—andbehold ! - " said the wretched creature , burying her nice mhcrhands .

      Itodolph had listened with deep interest to this recital , made with such touchingfrankness . Misery , destitution , ignorance ofthe world , had destroyed this wretched girl , cast at sixteen years of age , alone and unprotected , on the wide world at Paris ! Eodolph involuntarily thought of a beloved child whom he had lost—a girl , who died at the age of six years ; and who , had she lived , would have been like Fleur-de-Marie , sixteen years and a half old . This recollection painfully excited his solicitude for the unhappy creature , whose melancholy ' history , he had just heard .

      Eubucatioss, Received.—The Ballad Poetry...

      Eubucatioss , Received . —The Ballad Poetry of Ireland—Clarke ' s Wandering Jeiv , parti .

      Eovat Meanness.—It Seems From The Debate...

      EovAt Meanness . —It seems from the Debate on the Supplies , that Kings , and Emperors , and lloyal Princes , when they come to this country , do not p ' ay their own travelling expenses . John Bull is called upon to pay for turnpikes , stokers , equerries , boots , glasses of brandy-and-water;—in fact , everything . Now , this is too bad ! Not only does an autocrat come to England when he is not wanted , but wo are actually forced to pay for the very ship that brings him to us . It is just as if a " sponge" were to dine with you on a Sunday—cat and . drink as much as he liked—stop all night—and then ask you to pay for his omnibus home , and for the cab that brought him to your door ! We ' vote that if the Emperor of Russia comes to England again , he be allowed , like a commercial traveller , so much a day for travelling expenses ; and if he has a sandwich and a glass of ale beyond that , ho must get his Chancellor of the Exchequer to pay for it . If the Emperor does not like this arrangement , we are glad to tell him , he has his remedy—he needn't come at all . —Punch .

      The Cnowx In Danger !—On Saturday Aftern...

      The Cnowx in Danger !—On Saturday afternoon , immediately after her Majesty had delivered her speech , and was in the act of quitting the House of Lords , the Duke of Argyll , whose office it is to bear the velvet cushion on which the crown is placed when her Majesty is retiring , stumbled , and the consequence was that the crown fell off the velvet cushion on the- floor . A number of the jewels fell out of it , and it was otherwise much injured . Thcjewels were all picked up and handed to the noble duke . On the accident being made known to her Majesty she expressed her concern that his grace should have met with the slight accident , but was glad he was not hurt .

      Smam , Debts Act . —On Tuesday the act for the better securing the payment of small debts was issued . In every stage of the measure alterations have been made , and it was only on receiving the Royal assent on Saturday that it was known that further corrections could not be made until Parliament again- assembled . There are twenty-five sections and four schedules in the act . Singularly enough , it dates its operation just twelve months from the passing-of the act which liberated some . hundreds of poor persons who were in custody for sums not exceeding £ 20 , and prevented the incarceration of some hundreds of others for like sums . It will be well if a reaction does not take place , and creditors proceed to extremes , under the provisions of the new law . Debtors may now

      be induced to " make their peace" with their creditors without putting the machinery of the new law into operation . The general effect of the law appears to be , that a creditor who has obtained a judgment , or any order for payment , from a competent court , for any sum not exceeding £ 20 , can expeditiously and cheaply summon a debtor , to the Court of Bankruptcy , or Court of Requests , provided the latter is presided over by a barrister , special pleader , or an attorney who has been ten years in practice . The debtor may be examined as well as the creditor , and , should tho debtor fail toattend , or make a satisfactory answer , or shall appear to have been guilty of'any fraud either in the removal of his goods or the contraction of the debt , he may be sent to prison for a

      period not exceeding forty days , which'impnsonment j is not to extinguish the debt , nor is it to be got rid of by an order . from the Court of Bankruptcy or Insolvent . Dcbtors , but the judge who sent him to prison may order . thc discharge on satisfaction being made by the payment of the debt and ousts . One or the last amended amendments states that the actual necessaries of the debtor shall not be r seized m execution , and allows him goods , tools , & c ., to the value ot £ 5 . The jurisdiction of the inferior courts may , by an order in Council , be extended to £ 20 , and all such applications must beadvertisedin the London Gagette one month „ beforc , they ; are considered . Witnesses not attending when summoned may be fined £ -5 , to

      be enforced in like manner as payment of any debt recovered by a judgment ; -There ia power given to execute warrants against . the persons or goods ; ot a debtor against vImhh an order has ken obtained , notwithstanding tho removal from the jurisdiction ofthe court in which such order was obtained , the act is only to apply to England ; - The forms to be used and the fees , to 1 « charged are set forth in . thc ^ schedulcs of the act .: Creditors : and debtors may . be their own lawyers in the matter . Provided the small debts courts are extended and presided . over as-mentioned , , veiy . few actions will be brought inthe superior courts lor-Jmounts undergo . The act . took effect from Saturday last .

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      " Reform Of Tiie Bar.—We Are Happy To St...

      " Reform of tiie Bar . —We are happy to state that the barristers of the Oxford CirctwD have , at-length , resolved to vindicate tlie ^ dignity of the Bar ,-and tc show a brig ht example to the whole of their silvertongued and unsop histicated brethren / . They / have come to an expressed resolution that it is beneath the character of any of them- "to report law proceedings for the press . " And following-up this beginning ^ the right path , they have also resolved , that if it shall happen that any counsel receive a retaining fee to conduct a case which , from a press of business , he it

      shall be unable to advocate . ^ will henceforth be considered a breach of the merest every-day honesty not to return the money . Indeed , it is said that this resolution is to have a retrospective effect , in which case considerable sums must be paid back . We shall be happy to advertise the day on which learned g ' ehi tlemen propose to disgorge . —^ Punch . Imaii Secresv . —Mr . Somers , the pugnacious Irishmen ! ber , who sent his challenging , missive to Mr ; Roebuck , endorsed it , " private and confidential ;' . * whilst at the close of the epistle he informed' the honourable and learned member that he had "sent a copy of it to the Morning Chronicle !"

      Amiable SiMrucuv . — " Miss Brown , I have been to learn how to tell fortunes , " said a young fellow to a brisk brunette ; "jiist let mc have your hand If yonplease . " " La ! Mr . White , how sudden youare i Well ! go and ask papa . "

      IT SPOILS A MAN TO WAKItr IHM . { From an American Paper . )' Believe , dear girls , this maxim true , In precept and in practice too : The truth I dare avouch to you . It spoils a man to marry him t ' The creature never ought to go lleyond a honeymoon or so . Survive he that , why then he'll show-It spoils a man to marry him ' . When pleading , kneeling :, at your feet , His words , how bland : his looks , how sweet Eternal love your ears doth greet—It spoils a man to marry him ! "With kisses sweet consent he'll wring , And get jour finger in a ring ; And then—he ' s quite another thing-It spoils a man to marry him . '

      Have you a doubt—a fear : then drop it ; A wish , a will , a fancy—lop it ; Pause when the question he doth " pop it , " Ere you consent to marry him ! Hut should you daring venture , then , To choose the worst or best of men : Why then , nine cases out of ten—It spoils a man to marry him ! The "Last of his Race . " —When the Earl ' . of Sunderland resigned office in the reign of Queen

      Anno , the Qiieon offc-rcd him a pension of £ 3 , 000 a year ; but the Earl replied , . ' that , if lie could not have the honour to serve his country , he would not incur the infamy of plundering it . Wo wish a few of bur modern Vccva were equally upright . A Slight Diffkkkxce . —A pompous fellow made a very , inadequate oifer for a valuable property , and calling the next day for an answer , inquired . " i | the owner had entertained his proposition . " No ^' rc plied the other , " but jour proposition has enter taimd mc . "

      Metaphysics Defikkd . —A Scotch " . blacksmith , . 011 being asked the meaning of metaphysics , explained it as follows-. — " "When the party " who listens dinnil ken what the party who speaks means , and the party who speaks dinna ken what lie means himsel , that is metaphysics . " Bexefit oFDnros . —A physician , who had drugged a citizen ' s wife , who had died , to his great astonish * ment received a hundred guineas from the inconsolable widower . " Alas ! " cried ho , " . what should I have profited had I but saved the lady ! " " Be riot distressed , " replied the citizen , " I should not have

      given yen a farthing . " A Quaker Woman ' s Speech . —Dear friends ; there are three things I very much wonder at . The first is , that children should be so foolish as to throw up stones , brick-bats , and clubs into fruit-trees to knock down the fruit—if they would let it alone , it would fall of itself . The second is , that men shouhVbe so foolish , and even so wicked , ' as to go to war and kill one another—if they would let one another " alone ; they would die of themselves . And the last thing I wonder at most of all is , that of * young women—if they would stay at home , the young men would come after them ;

      Benefit of Counsel . —The uses of cross-examination were rather unmercifully exposed by Judge Parke , upon the trial of some rioters , when a learned gentleman , concerned for one ofthe prisoners , asked some questions affecting another-man who had . 110 counsel employed . " He is not your client , " said the judge . " He is mine—do not hang my client , whatever you may do with your own . " This was passing sentence upon the unfortunate pleader , ' at all events . Faih on doth Sides . —How often have we heard that England ought to be grateful that she hasa House of Lords ? If any reason wore wanting , here is one : —A Peer said , in a debate about Mr . Barry ' s neverto-be-completed Housesof Parliament ,- " The walls of the Ilouse of Lords will be so thick , that it will be impossible to hear anything that takes place outside . " Now , how grateful every Enalishman will be

      if this advantage should be proved to be not all on the side of the Lords!—Punch . Reproving tub Follies of the Age . —When anything very outrageous or ridiculous is built , it is generally called in the neighbourhood "A Folly . " Thus wo have throughout England a number of architectural absurdities , known as " Biucos ' s Folly , " " Jones ' s Folly , " " 'Inompsox ' s Folly , " & c . But the greatest folly of all in the building way is unquestionably Trafalgar-square . Might it not be called henceforth " Esoland ' s FoLiYT '—lk'd . A Capital Investment . —We print the following fact for the sake of persons , possessed of large property , who are fond of speculating : — " On Tuesday , July 29 th j there was a debate in the House of Lords , and Lord Brougham never qwlce a single word . " Wa should like to have the sums of money that will he offered in a few years for a newspaper of the above

      date—Ibid . Hearts , ITaxds , axd Shillings . —Daniel O'Connell , the other day , addressing a mob which he had convened at Gahvay , is reported to have expressed himself as follows : — "I want every man ' s shilling , and I will tell you why ; because . there is a heart and hand behind every shilling . I want the hearts and hands of every man . " We . have no doubt that Mr . O'Connell wants every man ' s shilling "; and wo wish we could say as much of evcry . other assertion that has been made by that gentleman . In particular , we should be very glad if we could believe the sequel to this very statement . How difficult it seems to be to the Acitator to utter an entirely credible sentence ! lie says that he wants every man ' s shilling , because there is a heart and a hand behind the coin

      in question . O'Connell is not a simpleton , whatever lie is ; and we are sure that it is no nonsensical reason for which he wants every man ' s shilling ^ Everyman's shilling would conic to more millions of pounds sterling than we arc in a position to reckon . A great many people besides Mr . O'Connell would be glad of every , not to say any , man ' s shilling . However , when I-lis Unacknowledged Majesty tells us that lie wants the hearts and hands of every man , this , again , is a declaration which we can receive , with some little allowance . We take it that he wants the hearts and bands as represented by the shillings . Shillings , we presume , arc , according . to Mr . O'Connell , counters that stand for hands and hearts . But is it absolutely necessary that those counters . should he silver ? Would not bone be less expensive to the poor Irish . —Bid .

      Going to be Bukied . —A poor Irishman-passing through- a village near Chester , saw a crowd approaching , which made him inquire " what was the matter ? " He was answered , "A man Mias-going to be buried . " '* Oh , " replied he , "I'll stop to see that , for we cany them in our country . " A Pof . tical Loveu . —A young pnet in Cleveland , Ohio , has fallen in love the second time . It may be true that " true love never yet did run smooth , " but this can't be said ofhis poetry : — 0 wunst i luvtl a nutber girl Ituv namft it was TiYUYvWev but betsy dear my lov for 11 is 45 times more higher .

      Adaptation to Circumstances . —OncIIcvr Yonn in _ Scheldt , a German , was breakfasting with a fellow of ol " Worcester College , in company with the Revs . J . II . , L , Newman , F . ' Marriott , and other eminent divines , ss .. The conversation turned on the different religious us » observances of different countries , and the duty of off conformity . " Och Gott , " said Ilcrr Yonn Scheldt , lt „ " ven I am . in any contree , I tink it ma dutec to be bee of de religion of dat contrcc . Yen 1 am in Italy I go goc to mass 1 go to confession , I am of de religion of de dee Roman Catholique . Yen I am in Turqucc , I trinkinl * no vin , I marry four wife ; I am of de religion otiokl de'Turque . Yen I am in England ; I ^ rink . portvin ; in I ' say " Gotfc tam ; " I am of do religknuof de dd < Englishe . "

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 16, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_16081845/page/3/