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      BEAUTIES OF BYROlf . SO . xr . I ' CHttBB HAJOLD . " In the notes ' i ? the third canto of this immortal poem [ see Murray ' s pne volume edition ] we find the following from the pen 0 / Sir Waeteb Scoii : — The first and secend cantos Ol " " Childe Harold ' s Pil . grimage" produced , on their appearance & 1812 > an effect upon the public , at least equal to any work which has appeared within this or the hut century , and plaCtU at once upon Lord Byron ' s head the garland for which other men of genius have toiled long , and which they have gained late . He was placed pre-eminent among the literary men of his country fcy general acclamation . It was

      amidst such feelings of admiration that he entered the public stage . Everything in his manner , person , and conversation , tended to maintain the charm which his genius had flung around him ; and those admitted to Ms conversation , far from finding that the inspired poet sunk into ordinary mortality , felt themselves attached to him , aot only by many noble qualities , but by the interest of a mysterious , undefined , and almost painful curiosity . A . countenance exquisitely modelled to the expression of feeling and paSSlOU , and elhibitiug the remarkable contrast of very dark hair and eyebrows with Ught and expressive eyes , presented to the physiognomist the most -interesting subject for the exercise of his art . The pre--dominating expression was that Of deep and habitual

      . thought , which gave way to the most rapid play of features when he engaged in interesting discussion ; so that 41 brother poet compared them to the sculpture of a beau-. tiful alabaster vase , only seen to perfection when lighted op from within . The Hashes of mirth , gaiety , indignation , or satirical dislike , which frequently animated Lord Byron ' s countenance , might , during an evening ' s conversation , be mistaken , by a stranger , for the habitual expressioc , so easily and so happily was it formed for them aU ; but those who had an opportunity of studying his features for a length of time , and upon various occasions ; both of rest and emotion , will agree that their proper language was that of melancholy . Sometimes shades of this gloom interrupted even his gayest and most happy

      moments . The following stanzas form the opening of the third canto ;—Is thy fair face like thy mother ' s , my fair child ' . Ada ! sole daughter of my house and heart !* TVhen last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled , And then we parted—not as now we part . Rut with a hope . — Awaking with a start , The waters heave around me , and on high The winds lift up their voices : I depart , "Whither I know not ;! but the hour ' s gone by .

      When Albion ' s lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye . Once more upon the waters ! yet once more I And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider . Welcome to their roar ! Swift be their guidance whereso'er it lead ! Though the strained mast should quiver as a reed , And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale , Still must I on ; for I am as a weed , Flung from the rock , on Ocean ' s foam to sail Where ' ur the surge may sweep , the tempests breath prevail .

      He , who grown aged iu this world of woe , In deeds , not years , piercing the depths of life , So that no wonder waits him ; nor below Can luve , or sorrow , fame , ambition , strife , Cut to his heart again with the keen knife Of silent , sharp endurance : he can tell Why thought seeks refuge in lone eaves , yet rifo With airy images , and shapes which dwell Still unimpaired though old , in the soul ' s haunted cell 'Tis to create and in creating lore A being more intense , that we endow With form our fancy , gaining as we give The life we image , even as I do now .

      What am I ? Xothing : but not so art thou , Soul of my thought : with whom I traverse earth , Invisible but gazing , as I glow Jlix'd with thy spirit , blended with thy birth , And feeling still with thee in my crush'd feelings dearth Yet must I think less wildly : —I hace thought Too long and darkly , till my brain became , In its own eddy boiling and o ' erwrought A whirling gulph of phantasy and flume : Aud thus , untaught iu youth my heart to tame j sij springs of lite were poisoned . 'Tistoolate ! Yet am 1 changed ; though still enough the same In strength to bear -what time can not abate And feed on bitter fruits without accusing Pate .

      In the stanzas following the above , the poet , " adopting more distinctly the character of Childe Harold than in the original poem , assigns the cause why he has resumed his Pilgrim ' s staff , when it was hoped he had sat down for life a denizen of his native country . " That cause was his domestic unhappiness , which we shall not now further allude to . "We cannot give the whole of the stanzas , butselect the following , iu which Cue poet , speaking of the "Childe , " describes himself : — Where rose the mountains , there to him were friends ; Where roll'd the ocean , thereon was his home ; Whtre a blue shy , and glowing clime , extends . He had the passion and the power to roam ; The desert , forest , cavern , breaker ' s foam , Were unto kirn companionship ; they spake A mutual language , clearer than the tone Of his land ' s tongue , which he would oft forsake For nature ' s pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake .

      Take the Chaldean , he could watch the stars Till he had peopled them with beings bright As their own beams ; and earth , and earth-born jars , And human frailties , were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy ; hut this clay will sink Its spark immortal , envying it the Ught To which it mounts , as if to break the link That keeps ws from yonheavenwhichwoosus to its brink But in man ' s dweUings he became a thing Restless and worn , and stern and wearisome , Droop'd as a wild-born falcon with dipt whig , To whom the boundless air alone were home : Then came his At again , which to o'ercome , As eagerly the barr d up bird will beat His breast and beak against his wiry dome TiU the blood tinge his plumage , so the heat Of his impeded soul would through his bosom eat .

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      THE PAXE OP IlEFORMERS . fFrom " The Ocean flower . " By T . M . Hcches . J 0 Man I thou art Hie mystery of the world , A compound of the vile aud the sublime , A line creation aU to chaos hurled , A thing of oppositcs , of pearl and Slirae : The glorious likeness of a God is there , But , ah , the mirror blurred aud broken lies , DJstoraJig every feature—yet how fair—Worm of the Earth and angel of the Skies 1 Thy life through error ' s maze doth wildering pass , Thy truths most precious doubt encircle ' s round ; Thy judgments , singular and in the mass , Are feeble , wavering , prejudiced , unsound . And they who labour most in thy behoof Are victims of thy persecution most ; Thou euviest , hatest , jcerest , stand'st aloof

      From those who fill discovery ' s foremost post . Xew a"CS do them justice . Thou in life Host stone thy benefactors—rcnouied Sloth ; Yet moved this planet round , ' mid worldly strife , With Galileo andhis jailors both ! Art thou indeed , then , worthy of the toil , Ihe mental anguish , and the nervous shock . Of those who , Earth to enlighten , drudge aud moil i—Prometheus , answer , chained upon thy rock ! Answer , great Hercules , thy labours done , Rewarded with the Centaur ' s poisoned robe ; Give answer , Theseus , aU thy laurels won , Consigned to torture ' nealh the passive Globe ; And answer all that went before their time Amassius knowledge aud diffusing light ; The branded Pariahs of every

      clime—The dungeoned victims of a keener sight : Whose mighty souls seemed formed for higher orb And casual dropt upon this humbler earth ; Yea , answer He whose grief aU grief absorbs . Divine " disturber' nailed for Sioa ' s mirth 5 Answer , thou Globe , and show beneath thy sod , Upturned and smiling in eternal youth , The bones of aR the martyred saints of God , And butchered worshippers of Freedom , Truth ! Proscribed , maligned , reviled , and hunted by The thing miscalled Society , a tear Slight dim , but aU in vain , the martyr ' s eye ; A conscience pure transcends aU human fear . And this shall be your fate till ends the world , Ye who would be Reformers ! would expose Error or vice , Truth ' s sunlitflag unfurled , * nd fearlessly defy her cruel foes .

      Yet oh despair not , great and generous souls , But hold pursue yonr tasks of human love ; To thankless mortals multiply yonr doles , And trust for your reward from powers above )

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      find a fault in it , unlea ? indeed he should be a religious bigot , in which case £ e will not be short of matter on which to ground ids cavillings . As to I' beauties , " the puzzle is not to findte < 3 »> the puzzle is to select a few stanzas out of the"fiunautf and tUirty—all beautiful , contained in the "Book /' whiii shall give the reader something like an idea of this portion of the poem . We give the following from the " notes , " as a necessary introduction to the opening stanzas : — Six human beings underwent capital punishment in front of Stafford Gaol , daring the two years I remained in it . The entire procedure in any one instance , of course , I could not witness : on one occasion , only , — when , on account of the early hour and season of the year , I had not been removed from my night-cell , —I beheld the grim preface to the legal butchery . Without repeating the testimonies of reflecting men who have

      attended executions , as to the hardening effect of those garage spectacles , —I will just observe that while the sound of the death-bell for the first execution filled me and my fellow-prisoners with paroxysms of distressj ^ -on the second , third , and fourth occasions , we became comparatively unconcerned . And , when I was left a solitary prisoner , the sound of the death-bell , for the last time , created a few bitter thoughts of the abhorrent and Uncivilized natUl' 6 of the impending tragedy ; but a kind of careless disgust followed , from the instant reflection that all my dislike of the brutal transaction was vain . And , within ten minutes after the death-bell had ceased , i actually caught myself humming "Ye Banks and Braes o'Honny Boon * " JTow , a more sensitive and excitable human creature than ' myself , perhaps , does not exist : hut there is the honest fact—such as startled me by its strangeness , at the time : —let the advocates for the usefulness of capital punishments as " impressive moral lessons" make what they can of it .

      Blood ! blood!—Ye human hell-hounds , —when , oh when Will ye have had jour fill ? The hazy morn Hath scarcely dawned upon this grisly den Of demon Power , ere yon poor wretch forlorn Is led to slaughter : —led ?—nay , fainting , borne Unto the ladder ' s foot ! Murder by law , In lieu of med'eine till his wits return , And pity , for a creature whose brain-flaw Urged him , ev ' n while he wept , to lay his infant low 1 It is the'death-toll " : there ! they bear him on ! I climb to read the lesson through my bars . — Hah ! curse upon thee , priest!—is it well done , That thou , a peace-robed herald pattering prayers , Dost head the dead-march ? Trow ' st thou not it jars With that sky-message which proclaimed , thou say ' st ,

      " Peace and Goodwill to Man" !—aye , that it mars The face of mercy to behold thee placed There , in grim state , 'tweenspears with crape , in mockery , graced ? 'Tis passed , —the bloody cavalcade : Farewell , Poor pale , weak , fellow-worml 'twill soon he o ' er , — Thy tearful pilgrimage . Tis done!—the knell Ceases ; aud though I , happ'ly , see no more Of the fell tragedy , —the sullen roar Of groans aud execrations , pierces through 3 Iy dungeon-grating , —for the gazers pour The heart ' s involuntary curse on you , Ye hireling butchers " who now " give the law its due" ! Addressing the priests , the poet says : — What tyrants leave unvanquished in the mind By threat Of chains , the gallows , flame , or sword , — Ye humble by your Hell ' . —

      Was I not blind-To judge yc inconsistent 1 True accord Subsists between your new and elder " word . " Ye throw away no part : it is because , — With cunning shrewder than the simple horde 0 ' th' laity , —ye ken the penal clause Blends in one spirit fierce the old and late Jews' law « '¦*'¦* * Hell-fire—coercion—for the ingrate hard Who will not love the God set forth as high , Vast , indescribable , iu his Love ' s regard For Men ! " " Love him—or He will magnify "His glory by consigning thee to die

      " In ceaseless names an ever-living death !" 0 Christ ! how can I love what doth outvie All tyrannies in horriblcness of wrath—This monstrous Thing derived from an old monster V aith t Thine , Galilean , is of all earth ' s creeds The greatest marvel ! Wonder at thy toil Of tears , self-sacrifice , and lore succeeds Bach step we tread with thee—till this dread foil Unto thy moral beauty doth despoil The yearning heart of its impassioned hope : Death-stricken , blighted , doth the soul rCCOll Prom its tempestuous wish to love thee : droop It must iu doubt ;—and to its bourne in darkness grope !

      I " Alas ! thy repetition of that most Enslaving of all slavish thoughts—a Hell Wherewith the Priest may threat to tame the ghost Of him who dares in mortal life rebel 'Gainst Faith or Kings—restrains the heart ' s love swell Rushing to centre in thee , and reveals To lleason that thou couldst not burst the spell Of Circumstance—which ev ' n the mightiest seals In impotence : we do but act as she impels . In the midst of his reveries the poet is startled by observing the destroying ' arts-of the spider ; this painful sight induces some startling but perfectly

      rational reflections on the priest-taught dogma of a universal Providence unchangeably just and good : which dogma appears to the poet to be exceedingly questionable . Hah ! murderous spider!—when I watched thee spread Thy cobweb yesterniorn , it did relieve A dreary prison-hour to mark each thread From thee , thou magic artisan , receive Its faery texture : while I saw thee weave That daedal miracle , this poison-thought Rose not that now impelleth mc to grieve Much more than to admire— to grieve and doubt , As . in a torment-web , like thy poor victim , caught !

      Priest ! dost thou smile , beholding how the web Of thought , involves , at length , its devotee , And lays him , helpless as a limber babe , AtMystery's feet % Oh ! I will slander thee jS ' o more : if Nature hath a Deity , The Bible doth not slanderously limn His portraiture : Author of agony The living book doth , hourly , picture Hiin : The written—thrones a Slaughterer ' tween the Cheru bun ' . 'Tis clear ; who tries Oie Paitli by Nature ' s test , — 0 modern Stagyrite!—between thy creed And Her must own " Analogy" confest . Submit thee , then , vain doubter!—since decreed 1 It is that life consists of things of greed ' And things to be their prey , —submit and bow ' To Him who ma ^ e them thus : back , that may lead ' Thee to the Faith in which , thou dost allow ,

      ' The Deity is drawn with Nature ' s girded brow 1 Priest ! I will answer thee with that free soul These holts and bars have only served to thew . — Forty short summers towards my earthly goal Have I now journeyed , —and , for me , but few More summers can remain : Wrong to eschew , And Right to choose , with heartfelt earnestness , How can I lack dispose , —while , to my view , The grave is yawning in its cold duresse To close what tyrants leave of ray clay's feebleness ? Priest 11 have felt by turns from earliest days , As well as calms , the tempest of the brain : Fervid devotion , and the wild rapt blaze Of ecstasy in prayer ; ascetic pain And fasting ; midnight book-toil to obtain The key to facts—knowledge of tongues of old ; Weighing of evidence—grave , —long , —again ; With constant watchings how Man doth unfold Wliatis the impress true he bears fromNature ' s mould ;

      And this , in humbleness 1 would declare , And yet with courage , is my only Faith : — Goodness alone , with its blest , yearning care , Is worshipful—for Goodness only hath Power to make good and happy things of breath ¦ And thought . If Man can be transformed Wholly to virtue , —punishment and wrath , — Taught by all priests that on the earth have swarmed , — Must he untaught ; and Man by love to Right be - charmed . Goodness alone is worshipful . —Not what Gives life , but what gives happiness is good . I cannot worship what I own a blot To he in my own nature- —hasty flood Of feeling that with ireful hardihood Would rush to do what I would soon regret : Sor can I worship , priest ! thy Shapes of Blood , Or Kature ' s cause of Pain : —ifto beget Love in the soul these fail—shall worship , there be met ?

      I cannot worship what I cannot love . If this be vicious , priest ! shew me the way To virtue : I will own , —if thou dost prove My error : but , till then , I humbly say , I think the error thine . To resurvey , Por proofs of Deity , great Nature ' s face , Drawn , yea impelled , unto Mind ' s latest day , I shall be by Her wonders;—but—th' embrace Of All-pervading Goodness , —shall land It ' s trace ? I say not that there is no God : but that

      I know Ml . Dost thou know , or dost thou guess ?—Why should I ask thee , priest ! Darkness has sat With Lighten Nature , —Woe with Happiness—Since human worms crawledfrom their languagcless Imperfect embryons , and by signs essayed To picture their first thoughts . 'Tis but excess Of folly to attempt the great charade To solve ; and yet the irking wish must be obeyed . —« Tbe poet next re-introduces us to the assemblage of renowned suicides . The following amongst other characters figure in this book—Demosthenes ,

      Whose lightning tipped tongue Had made Greece glorious unto farthest time , Had Socrates ne ' er lived , nor Homer sung , Nor Marathon been found beneath her clime ; Themistocles , Whose namewith Salamis shall live For aye ; andDtsus " the latest Greek . " Of Romans there are Cato , Guns Gracchus , Curacies , and Bnuurs and Cassitjs . Besides these , there are IIassibal , Phoiios , Saul , and several others ; together with many of the characters described in the previous boob . Pwr Saw is quite willing to give up royal

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      mockeries for the advancement of the general ifiodj his only regret is , that , in ' his mortality , he was doomed to be a king . In the . thi-ee followiija stanzas from his speech , Bible-readers will find some r & thef toughish " nuts to crack : "~ . : ; -- ^ . When Samuel , in my sight , to ' pieces hewed The royal Agag , whom I longed to save—1 saw that when Jehovah had a feud With his poor human worm , lie would not ware His claim to justice—but , upon the slave Who dared to step between His holy wrath And the doomed victim , He would vengeance have-Slow—signal—sure ! The Everlasting ' s path Who can find out ?—who comprehendeth what Ho saith f

      Ills p . rophet did my humble head anoint , And said the Lord had chosen me to rule : Extermina ting war God did appoint On Amclek , . next : —H ' 3 Wft > ' * wonderful ! When I besou £ i ' . *> at His Divine footstool . Pardon for weakness , Agag ' s holy slayer Said God did not rep » * nt like man •'—How dull Are our perceptions!— - l ) ia 1 > e not declare Me monarch , and repent ? - * : He wh 0 refused my prayer ? All—all is mystery ! I soogt ' l no thrones : — My father ' s asses , as I , following ' , Warned O ' er the wild wilderness—if on me < shone The cheering sun , or sterile Satnre gloomed—¦ A kingdom seemed to me : —but I was doomed To know the mockery of earthly blias !— - Aud is not Sheol mockery ?—W e are wombod In dread and doubt—fearing to do amiss—And to do well , lack power to burst our destinies !

      Mr . Cooper ' s " notes" are very interesting , some of them , being in themselves complete though briel histories Or biographies of celebrated characters . The Mowing is a specimen : —

      CLEAKIHES Is a noble Greek example of mind triumphing over difficulties . He was at first a "fisty-cuft ' er" —as the old translators phrase it , in the edition of Diogenes Laertius " madeEnglish by several hands : " 1690— "but coming to Athens , with no more than four , drachmas in his pockets , and meeting with Zeno , he betook himself most sedulously to the study of Philosophy , < fce- " " By night ( says Enfield , who renders Laertius more elegantly ) he drew water as a common labourer in the public gardens , that he might have leisure , in the day-time , to attend the schools of philosophy . The Athenian citizens observing that though be appeared strong and healthy , he had no visible means of subsistence , summoned him before tho Court of Areopagus , according to the custom of the city , to give an account of his manner of living . Upon this , he produced the gardener for whom he drew water , and a woman for whom he ground meal , as witnesses to prove

      that he subsisted by the honest l . ibour of his hands . The judges of the Court were SO struck-with admiration of this singular example of industry and perseverance , that they ordered ten » it »< c to be paid him out of the public treasury—which , however , Zeno would not suffer him to accept . Cleanthes ' was for many years SO poor , that he was obliged to write the heads of his master ' s lectures upon shells and bones , for want of money to buy paper . "—The suicide of this philosopher , at a very advanced age , was singularly quiet and yet heroic . His physicians recommended fasting for some disease with which ho was afflicted ; and having abstained from fond for two days , although he had thus subdued his disorder , he refused to eat again , saying that since he had travelled so far towards the end of life he would not go back again—and , accordingly , died by voluntary ' total abstinence . '—The testimonies to the elevated morality of his life are abundant .

      In this book eloquent and truly poatical speeches in favour of equality are put into the mouths of'Du-MOSTHKNES , ThEMISTOCLES , & . EANTHES , CaIUS Guacchds , Lycukgos , and others , The speech of Lycurgus concludes the book ; we give the following extracts therefrom : — Error , from human ignorance darkly sprang . As children misname things , and shout or shriek , Prom pleasure or alTrlght—so mankind sang , 111 rhapsodies Of joy , the golden streak Of morn ; and , when they heard the thunder speak , Bowed down in awe , and wept . Infants in mind , They marvelled—and made gods of visage meek Or terrible , and , then , to them assigned Buie o ' er the sun and cloud , the sky , and sea , and wind .

      Thrones , likewise , sprang from human ignorance : — Nature ' s rude elements presented war For Man : rocks , earth-flames , ocean ' s vast expanse , Storms , forests , savage beasts , were found to mar Man's ease or rest : on every side a bar Opposed itself , alike to further good . Or present peace : —then , he an exemplar Was held who overcame , by hardihood , Iiion or bear , horrors of cavern , flame , or flood . Such were old Earth ' s primeval monarchs : kings , Leaders , by courage—holding simple sway—If sway they held—by useful compassings Of larger means for nourishing man ' s clay . 0 Mithridates , when I heard thee say Some were born natural leaders , unto these 1 turned—tho chiefs of patriarchal day—Comparing them with lords that Earth now sees —• The puny hlldin ^ s man approaches on his knees !

      Cities were built , and man subdued the sou . — Hut , now , Craft grew , and seized'on mystery-Life , death , sun , stars—all that the sons of toil Saw without comprehending ;—and with glee , Secret but strong , saw Man a devotee Become , credent and humble—reverent laud Rendering unto the Priest as lowlily As to the gods this minister of fraud Said he heard speak- —while men him listed , overawed . Then , between Priest and King grew contest rife For mastership ; and Ganges and old Nile— Whose sacred servants foremost led the strife—Beheld the proof , in many a mighty pile That decked their marges , how completely Guile Could triumph over Strength . But , in the end . Altar and Throne felt it uuworth the while To waste each other—since , they shrewdly kenned The prey enough for both : —so King called Priest—his friend !

      Long , dreary , miserable years have fled—Since the foul compact first was ratified , By Priestcraft placing on throned Kingship ' s head , With hands in reeking blood of victim dyed , The gaud of gold—the sign of kingly pride—Long , dreary , suffering , weeping , wailing years : — Oft have the bruised and trampled sufferers tried To rise ;—but the Priest ' s curse woke inward fears , And ' they bowed down again unto their toil with tears ] ^ % # % Say ye , Itight ' s triumph , like a dream , shall fade , 'Neath swift reivaking vigour of throned Power 1—Monarchs , be not deceived ! Right , now , hath aid From Knowledge—hid by priests in secret bower ,

      And when theuce ' scapo . d . eaught , and to dungeon-towei By them condemned—yea , to the fiery flame!—They knew not of her high immortal flower , The veritable Phoenix—whom to tame , Or to destroy , will ever mock old priestly aim ! Lo ! she hath ta ' en young Freedom by the hand—And , in the strength and comeliness of youth , S upplantimr Craft and Tower in every land , And heralding the reign of Love and Truth , They go . Yet little reek they of the growth Of Itight and Knowledge , who the glorious pair Regard not : —the besotted shapes uncouth That dream , like age-craroped spiders in their lair , Their cobweb safe—though winds sport with it in the air ,

      And , brothers , here we solemnly obtest The Sovereignties of Nature that the toil We will not end , till Men and spirits blest Hold general jubilee !— He said;—and , while He stretched aloft his hand—from motley pile And throne , great souls arose , and instant raised A hand aloft—each with a godlike smile!—And light empyreal from each essence blazed , Until I woke—with the bright vision soul-beda / . ed . ' ( lobe Continued , J

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      DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE—October . London : Punch Office , 92 , Fleet-street . In chapter xviii . of the excellent story of " St . Giles and St . James , " the reader is re-introduced to that oddity , the misanthropic , benevolent muffinmaker , Capstkk , now retired from business , and the inmate of a country residence , which this would-be modern Diooexes has christened with the name of the " Tub . " Bright Jem , the kind-hearted linkman , now an old and withered man , is liermit-companion of the cx-rauffinmaker . An accident brings -St . Giles in contact with these two , though up to the close of tho chapter ho has not informed them who he is . This chapter is made the medium for some of the most beautiful thoughts ever given birth to by any writer . " Serving the People" is a good article , containing much wholesome truth . "The Fiery Tongue , " though not to be rated very high as a poem , is amply redeemed from all imperfections by tho

      excellent spirit and noble object of the author . " Cromwell in the Shades" * ' needs no ghost" to recommend the article . The article entitled "Tho Englishman in Prussia" we gave in this paper of the ' 1 th inst ., under the head of " The Prussian Despotism . " The seventh chapter of a " History for Young England ' has for its subject " Early English Churchmen . ' The article is ably written , and shows the writer to be intnuateiy acquainted with the subject on which he writes . This " histor y" is the most valuable w'e have ever read , as regards Engia ? . !?; and our only regret is , that the writer did not begin ai xuS begttW ning , instead of commencing with the CODfiueror . Every youth should read this excellent "history . " " The Hedgehog Letters , " " The Philosopher Married , " "Ihe Confessions of & Quack , " and " reviews" of several new Dorics from the remaining contents of this numb ' . we take the following extract from the , . *« hedgehog Letters : "—

      EAILWAT 3 . Therc ' ^ nobody in town , and nothing in the papers but plans ' of railways , that in a little time will cover all Bng- ^ lar . dlike a ' spider ' s net ; and , as in the net , there will be a good many flies caught and gobbled up , by those who spin it . * # # And isn't it a fine thing—I know you don't think so , but isn't it ?—to know that all that ' s been done , and all that ' s to do , will be done , because Englishmen havfe Uftoffi cutting other men ' s throats ? That peace has done it « U I If they

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      oughta , * to setup a dove with an olive branch at every rallwaytenninus , I ' impostor . .: ^ tes , grandmother , peace has done it all I Only think of the iron that had been melted into-cannon and round shot , and chain shot , and all the other sorts of shotthat the devils on a holiday play at bowls with!—if the war had gone on—all the verjr same iron that ' s now peaceably i » iu n pon sleepers ! Think of the Iron that had been fired into the sea , and banged through quiet people ' s houses , andflent mashing squares and squares of men—God ' s likenesses in red , blue , and green coats , hired to be killed at so many pence a day—only think what would have been this wicked , I will say it , this blasphemous waste of metal—that , as it Is , has been made into steam-engines . Tery fine , indeed , they say , is the roar of artillery ; hut what is it to the roar of steam ? I never see an engine , with its red-hot coals and its clouds of steam and smoke , that it doesn't seem to ms like a tremendous dragon that has been tamed by man to carry all the blessings of civilisation to bis

      fellow-creatures . ¦ * ' - * * # Well , I should like the ghost 6 f Buonaparte to get up soma morning , and take the Times'in bis thin hands ; If he wouldn't turn yellower than ever he was St St . Helena ! There he'd see plans for railways in France-fctfy Arfnie ; as I believe they call it—to be carried out b y Frenchmen and Englishmen . Yes . he wouldn't see ' em mixing bayonets , trying to poke ' em in one another ' s OOWels , that a fOW tons Of blood might , as they call it , water its laurels—( how any man can wear laurels at all , I can't tell , they must smell so of tho slaughter-house!)—he wouldn't see ' em charging one another on the battle-field , but quietly ranged , check-by-jow ] , in the list of directors I Not exchanging bullets , but clubbing together their hard

      Consider _ it , grandmother , isn't it droll ? Here , in these very lists , you see English captains and colonels in company with French viscounts and barons , and I don't know what , planning to lay iron down in France , to civilise and add to the prosperity of Frenchmen . # * The Prince Joinville is now and then looking about our coast to find out , it is said , which is the softest part oi us , in the case of a war , to put hia foot upon us . Poor fel . low ! hs ' s got the disease of glory j only , as it sometimes happens with the small-pox , it has struck inwards ; it can't come out upon him . -When we ' ve railways laid

      down , as I say , like a spider ' s web all over the country , won't it be a little hard to catch us asleep i Por you see , just like the spider ' s web , the electric telegraph ( inquire what sort of a thing it is , for Ihavn ' fc time to : tell you ) , the electric telegraph will touch a line of tue . web , when down will come a tremendous spider in a red coat with all sorts of murder after him ! Mind , grandmother , let us hope this never may happen : but when folks who'd 010 lest us , know it can come about , won't they let us alone ? Depend upon it , we ' re binding war over to keep the peace , and the bonds are made of railway iron !

      You'd hardly think it—you who used to talk to me about the beauty of glory ( I know you meant nothing . but red coats and the fine epaulets ; for that , so often is WOmen ' s notion of glory , tho' bless ' em , they ' re among the first to make lint , and cry over the sons of glory , with gashes spoiling all their fine feathers )—you'd hardly think it , but they ' re going to put up a statue to tile man who first made boiling water to run upon a . vail . It's quite true : I read it only a day or two ago . They ' re going to fix up a statue to George Stephenson , in Newcastle ^ How you will castup your dear old eyes when you hear of this ! You , who ' ve only thought that statues should be put up to Queen Anne , and George the Third , and his nice son , George the Fourth , and such people ! I should only like a good many of the statues here in London , to be made to take a cheap train down to Newcastle , to see it . If , dirty as they are—and dirty as they Were—they

      wouldn't blush as red a » a new copper halfpenny , why , those statues—especially when they ' ve queeris and kings in 'cm—are the most uufeelingest of metal I - \ Yho , t a lot of mangled bodies , and misery , and house-breaking , and wickedness of all sorts , carried on and made quite lawful by a . uniform , may we see—if we chose to see at allabOUt the Statue Of What is called a conqueror ! What firing of houses , what shame , that because you're a woman , I won't more particularly write about— -we might look upon under the statue , that is anly so high because it has so much wickedness to stand upon ! If the statue could feel at all , wouldn't it put up its hands , and hide its face , although it was made of the best bronze . When George the Fourth is made to hear the news—( for kings are so very long before the truth comes to ' em)—he'd like to gallop off to the first meltev ' s , and go at once into the nothing that men think him .

      We fear that Douglas JEUROLP IS OVCr SangulnO as to the moral and beneficial effects likely to flow from the union of English and French speculators in forming railroads in France . Still the above noble ideas do honour to the heart of the writer . We need not say , that with the spirit of those ideas we cordially , concur . In expressing our fears that Douglas Jbhrold is over-sanguine in his belief in the continuance of pcace ,. and the rapid progress of general union , we do not do so without cause . We have on former occasions commented on the detestable spirit animating the war-journals of France , aud we now invite the reader s attention to the following specimen of Anglophobia on the part of the National : — .

      The French aki > Esglish'Flags . —A very strange fact has been pointed out to us , to which we call the attention of the public , for it'pushes courtesy and the entente cordmte a great deal too far . Travellers who pass by Barantin , near Itouen , may see on tho aqueduct ( the National , no doubt , means viaduct ) of the railway the English flag raised by the side of the French flag . The Fi ench flag , indeed , does not appear to be admitted at all excepting by tolerance , for it occupies the left . It llliS also been remarked that at the time of the Itouen races the English flag was hoisted on all the booths occupied by Englishmen . Y 7 hat is the meaning of this importation of English colours into the middle of France ? There has been , certainly , a great degree of cowardice on the part of the local authorities who could tolerate such

      improprieties . By what right is an English flag displayed ? On account of works done in France 1 Is it because these works are conducted to some extent by Englishmen ? We should like to know in that case if in England the French flag is tolerated in the same way ? In principle , there is only the French flag , and there can he no other in France . It is of little consequence whether the works in masonry he done by English or by Chinese . They are made in France , and for France , and that is enough . It is to be hoped that the superior authorities will give orders to their subordinates to prevent this English flag from coining to insult the susceptibilities of French nationality by its presence . This right de banniere , which the English thus abuse , is not an affair of indifference . If it wore , the English would not show themselves so persevering in their pretensions . —A' ationot .

      The above is a specimen of French nationality run crazy . The A' att ' oncti professes to be an advocate ol " progress ; " its politics are , we believe , Republican , and " something more ; " but , judging by the above paragraph , we must consider the National as the organ of retrogession , rather than of progress . It would lead the world back to the " good old times " when nations savagely slaughtered each other for the honour of a wretched rag of bunting , christened with the title of " flag , " or " banner . " French

      Republicanism teaches the abolition of nationalities and the substitution of fraternity instead ; but French Republicans , that is such Republicans as the writers in the National , would let loose the hell-hounds of war , and cover tho earth with carnage and tears for the purpose of exalting the French flag ! The writer in the National evidently would make this exhibition in France of a bit of English bunting on the top of a drinking booth a casusbelli between the two nations ! Is this miserable barbarism a specimen ol the much vaunted French civilisation ? If

      50—" 0 , shame to thee , land of the Gaul . " For ourselves , we earnestly desire the fraternity and common union of all nations , and it is because we desire this , that we protest against the rabid trash of the writer in the National .

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      smugglers ; reeeiWu 9 gr ^ s , 1 . a of (! nis attent 5 ^ ( than the more regular smCeS Of ^ me a u dnr ! ing the period of his deshftc-ry studied flt WW ? volley Dublin , he gave hut little ittcRcatiou d ( character , save such tokens as art > pe # Ufin' ttf fliaV of a gocd-heafteil , Worthless fellow ; atid ,- aitfayfcfeh the ' professions of divinity , law , and medicine ft ere' Successively set before him , neither of them was fotrftdf suited to a genius which would have its own time and Its own way . The former proved a course for which he had no vocation ; and such was his modesty and ingenuity in that particular , that when , in after life , he happened to bo asked to pray at a friend ' s house , he declined the office on tho plea of not being good enough . The legal profession appeared too expensive a venture to the friends of the improvident

      scapegrace ; and some skill in throwing the sledge-hammer , and a pretty regular course of tippling at the inn of Ballymahon , constituted , at this time , the chief proficiency of Master Noll , who was now dedicated to the studies preparatory to a degree in the healing art . The scrapes , disgraces , and other dilemmas thatdistinguished this period of fiols life were mingled with many circumstances Which manifested the native warmth and humanity Of his disposition , and Certain others which foreshadowed the nature of his future career : for , when put to the shifts for the means of paying a tavern score , he would write a ballad and carry it to Die sign of the Itcin-& er , in ilontrath-strert , where the Dublin Catnneh of thO time was always ; . ready to furnish him with the amount of five shillings in payment for such a production .

      Green Arbour-court was the first settled London abode of Goldsmith ' . Having passed two years in the study of meaicine under the elder Monro , nt Edinburgh , where ho failed to take a degree , -a nd another year at Leydett , with the like ill success , he proceeded over a considerable portion of tho Continent ; at one time travelling from one convent to another , earning his night ' s entertainment , after the manner of a roving student of the fifteenth century , by the exhibition of his scholarship ; at another , piping merrily for his supper at the humble door of some cottage in the sunny and music-loving land of Italy . The wanderer had landed at Dover , forlorn and destitute , and was presently engaged in that most melancholy of all pursuits—tlie search for employment in London . This may be supposed to have been the

      most trying period of Goldsmith ' s whole life ; and when , about ten years afterwards , he began a : story , to tho sur . prise of a brilliant party at the house of Sir Joshua Key . nolds , with " When I lived among the beggars of Axe . lane , " it was probably a . reminiscence of the very time when he wandered from one'druggist ' s shop to another , humhly soliciting employment of any description . An obscure chemist had at length taken compassion on him , and the result had teen a brief sojourn at the comer Of Bell-yard , near the Monument . The next transition had been an essay in the character of a physician' on the Bankside , Southwark , upon the strength of the degree of bachelor in medicine , supposed to have been obtained at Louvoin , and by the help of Sletgli a former fellow , student at Edinburgh . But Esculapius was not

      propitious to this erratic disciple ; and , in spite of the suit of green velvet and gold , hought at second hand , to enhance the dignity of his professional appearance , and although , in consequence of a patch which was disco , vered in the coat after the bargain was concluded , the ti ' at of the physician was invariably held so as to cover the left breast during n consultation , still the lack of patients or fees had induced a speedy termination of this adventure , and thus probably saved the lives and constitutions of some of the King ' s liege subjects ; This was followed by an attempt to fulfil the duties of an usher to a school at Peckham ; but the tricks of the young gentlemen , " the drudgery by day , and last , not least , the misery of being obliged to sleep on the same pillow with

      a Frenchman , who stunk him dead with rancid pomaturns , " had completed the disgust of the doctor , arid filially drove him to Green Arbour-court , and the daily drudgery of a literary life . It was here that Malone found the doctor , •' employed in writing his 'Inquiry into Polite Learning , ' in a wretchedly dirty room in which there was but one chair ; and when , from civility , this was offered to his visitant , he himself was obliged to sit in the window . While they were conversing , some one gently rapped at the door , and , on being desired to come in , a poor ragged little girl of very decent behaviour entered , , dropping a curtsey , said , ' My mamma setids her compliments , and begs the favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals . '"

      No one had ever met poverty and toil with a manlier spirit than Goldsmith did * , the immense catalogue of his obscure productions , ranging from the history of empires even to that of "Goody . Two Shoes , " attest his indefatigable industry and patient endurance of unworthy toil . But such exertion will produce a reaction . The mind of the author had lost its elasticity ; the spirit of the man flagged ; and the buoyant disposition that had carried him through so many trials was not of sufficient tension to urge the last few steps towards the goal , in sight of which he fell . But , if the spirit flagged , the

      heart remained true and tender to the last . lie still ' played with the children , and " taught the dog to beg ;" and it is told of him , that , being at a dinner-party , ha suddenly ran out into the street to give all he had in Ills pocket to a poor ballad-singer . " Some of the company observed and remarked on his lavish bountifulness . ' Oh , ' said he , ' you were all saying she sung sweetly , but you did not perceive the misery of h er notes . '" He only , who had felt the thorn in his own breast , could detect the sorrowful secret in the song of the wounded nightingale . '

      On the Uth of April , 1778 , Oliver Goldsmith departed from a life of many sorrows , with some bright glimpses of fame , and a few brief intervals of enjoyment . His mind had begun to prey upon itself , aud the tody suffered in the struggle , llis last act as a physician was a fatal one ; for his final prostration was hastened by an overdose of a powerful medicine of his own prescription . He was buried in the Temple Church , and his monument is in Westminster Abbey ; but thousands who have never seen it have a better in their own hearts when they reeal those scenes of virtue , without affectation of pathos , without extravagance , and of wit and humour without offence or license , which embellish his works , of whom the great moralist has said , he " left scarcely any kind of writing untouched , and touched none but what he adorned , " _ This number of the Illuminated contains also a review of Mr . Coopmt's " Purgatory of Suicides . " The notice is a favourable one ,

      We last month expressed our unqualified admiration of this Magazine , which we now repeat . The literary matter is of a healthy and high-toned character ; the writers do not strain after effect , but achieve effect purely by the natural strength of their literary ability . As regards its literary contents , this Magazine may compete with any similar publication extant ; but as regards its illustrations it is beyond comparison the best of all the monthlies . It is from the first page to the last a thing of pencilled poetry and artistic beauty . After a somewhat lengthy career of unfortunate management , the Illuminated is now in good hands , and if the public will only give it a fair trial , it cannot fail to achieve more than even its former popularity . -It is a pleasing labour to proclaim the merits of the worthy , and , earnestly hoping that our commendation may not be in vain , we warmly recommend this Magazine to the reading public .

      Me Illuminated Magazine-Ocrouuii. London...

      ME ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE-Ocrouuii . London : J . Clayton , 320 , Strand . Of " The Dead Guest , " continued in this number , we can say nothing , as not having seen the first and second numbers of this ( the now ) series , and , therefore , not having seen the commencement of the story , we have not read any portion of it . " Faith above all things" evidences deep thought and sound sense on the part of the writer , combined with a hopeful belief in human progress . In saying this , we speak of the article generally ; there are exceptionary passages we cannot accord with ; the beau ideal of a reformer , sketched in this article , is hardly to our liking ; it strikes us that a true reformer " should be made of sterner stuff . " The "Sketches of Indian Sports" is capital , and has but one fault ; it is too brief ; it would take a long storv indeed to tire us if

      written by _ the author of these " Sketches . " "The Widow ot Lyons , " is a short but pleasing story , chiefly valuable for the beautiful illustration heading it . " lhePoorhouse Fugitive , " being a sequel to « Bob Thm , " in the September number , is most tastefully and beautifully illustrated . "The Past ,-the Present , and the Possible , " is continued , and if the narrative of the writer is really a-history of his own experiences , then , indeed , is " truth stranger than fiction ; ' but whether truth or fiction , the story of our cosmopolitan friend is very interesting . " Mr . Zigzag" continues his delightful " Recreations . " Chap . xi . gives an account of "Sayes Court , Peptford , " the residence of the celebrated 'Evklvn ,- ' and chap . xii ; describes "Green-Arbour Court , " sometime the London residence of the gOo'd-hcarted Oliver Goldsmith : ~

      " For shortness ealled Nollj . Who wi ' o . ° like an angel , anu talk'dlike poor Poll . " This is a chail'ning'iJliabf er . The notices of the life and eccentricities ut- our beloved Oliver are most n > teresting , and we aVfl strongly tempted to quote , ihe entire chapter ; wo must , I'owev ^ r , content ottrsoiveg with the following extracts : —

      OlIViB GOLDSMITH , The career Of Goldsmith was marked not on ' * *' CiiB vicissitudei incidental to the hfe of an author A-i . , 1 S by his pen , but its fluctuations , were ia 3 & « £ S £ « i '" by the wayward tenders of a „ Unsettled and romantfc il Tn ° , J * *? ^' ,. ^^ tory of the Kogu s and flopparce ^ wd fte lives ' of pirates , robbers , and

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      SIMMONDS * COLONIAL MAGAZINE-Octomb . London : Siramonds and Ward , IS , Cornhill . This month ' s number contains such a variety of matter interesting to the general reader , as well as to the politician , the colonist , and the intending emigrant , that we have had some difficulty in getting through the one hundred and twenty pages arid upwards , contained in a single number o ' f this magazine . Indeed , wo must candidly confess that we have not read the entire of the contents of this number , for that would be a labour , though a pleasing and profitable one , greater than we have time to devote to . Most of the contents , however , we have read , and , generally speaking , we must express our approbation and admiration of the articles we have perused . The opening . article is a continuation of the "Notes on

      the Sandwich Islands , by Robert Crichto . v "Wvixie , Esq . " The Missouri River" gives a succinct account of that celebrated American stream . Next follows a continuation of the series of valuable articles " On the Agriculture of Hindostan . " This is followed by a continuation of the interesting articles on the " Liberated African Establishment at St . Helena . " From the pen of the intelligent and talented editor of " The Hobart Town Courier , " we have a highly interesting account of " An Excursion to the Wellington Falls , Van Dieman ' s Land . " A valuable topographical and general description of " The Cape of pood Hope , Cape Town , and its environs , " is given in this number . Comparatively speaking , but little is JillO ' . vn in this country of this least talked of , but most flourishing and happy of all the British colonies ; the article , therefore , in this magazine will be of good service in throwing light upon a land hitherto

      almost veiled from the denizens ot the mother country . Perhaps the gem of the present number is tho article entitled " The Orescent City , " by Ckables Hoorotf , Esq ., describing the principal features and characteristics of New Orleans and its motley inhabitants ; the only fault we hare to- find is , that the article is too brief . New Orleans is already a great city—that it is destined to be a still greater , no one can doubt . Articles on "The defenceless state of England , " "New Zealand , " "The Temples of the Ajunta , " " Statistics of Van Pieman ' s Land , " " The Island of Cuba , " " Bytown ( Canada ) and its environs , " with some minor articles , form the reclaming contents of this number , which cannot fail to add to the already widely extended popularity of Simmonds ' Colonial Magazine . We had marked ' several passages for extract , but want of space pr / jvents us giving thorn .

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      MEMOIRS OF AN ... UMBRELLA- By U H . EonwEti Pakt III . Lon'don : E . Mackenzie , IU yieet-street , This story becomes more sv . id more interesting . In ti . b orcsent part is a comic ' song , entitled" The ; Captain of the Guard , " compof , ed by Mr . RoDWEhu " . ' The illustrations by Phis ar . e excellent . " . ' ^ e have no ¦ -ni for extracts , bur , to advise the reader to roo . / hfe acquaintanc ' j with the wis And judge for make ,. himself .

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      A « Uolv Customer . —The moat effective Rolandaccording , wc believe , to Lord Byron—for the Olivers of an ^ abusive hackney-coachman 1 * 8 Calling JlilB an ugly fellow ! It is known to have been ; the boast of Air . O'Connell , that he could drive a coach-and-sfx through an Act of Parliament , nor is his fluency ia opprobnousness less notorious ; and in theterpitudet which he attaches to the reproach of ugliness , her shows a further affinity with the brotherhood of the whip , in the course of au invective against the Times Commissioner tbe other day at " Conciliation " liall , he asked- " Did they ( his hearers ) know what he ( the Commissioner ) said ? -that the Irish women were ugly . Hcreallydid . Didhereally ? Webelicrff not ; bHt no matter . Tell that , or any thing else , to ConciliationIlall

      " " , . A worse charge than that of ugliness , we think , was once brought against the women ot England : no matter for that either . — " Ugly " would seem—though the fact is certainlv otherwiset ° , be lmrstr ? in the ° 'Connelldictionary . MV John O'Connell , the Tydides of Erin , can find no more insulting epithet to apply to the Commissioner himself . Whether that gentleman is an tiglv manor not , we imagine that the Agitators , father and son , have found him an ugly customer . He has done not a little to spoil their trade ; still , we wonder that either of them should have called him ugly , since , by his revelations of the wretchedness of the Irish peasantry , from whose hard bands iswiungthe * ' Repeal Rent , " he has proved them'both , O'Coimell Senior and Junior , to be very pretty fellows . —Punch .

      A Gkatuitouu Cathedrai ,. —A great panic , wc understand , has been occasioned amongst the clergy of St . Paul's by an announcement which has gorie the ? round of the papers , to the effect , that the Very Reverend the Dean of Winchester had caused tho Cathedral of that city to be opened , a certain time daily , to the public , gratis . The clerical showmen , it appears , are afraid that they will be expected to do likewise , and are in the greatest alarm for their tWOpences . Twopence , they argue , is in itself a small sum ; but twopence every five minutes or so comes to a round one in the course of a dav . Reallv the Dean

      of Winchester should have reflected before acting as he as done . He should have considered , that if ho does not care about money himself , there are other Deahs who love it dearly , and to" whom the slightest loss' is heart-rending . He has evidently no ear for Cathedral music : that is to say , the chink of cash . But he should have regarded other tastes than his own before endeavouring to abolish it , and to sileneo those silver-toned harmonies , than which to the feelings of certain churchmen , the "long-drawn aisle and fretted vault" can resound with no strains more soothing . —Ibid .

      A Railway Panic—Tho Boulogne AW * emphatically calls upon the public to refrain from rail wayspeculation , on the ground that many schemes will be ? unfinished for want of the necessary iron . To say the truth , we do not anticipate a stoppage from want of iron , though we evpcot there will some day or other be a' frightful smash for want of tin . —Ibid . A Suitable Appointment . —O'Connell is loud in his denunciation of the " Government Education " scheme . Could not Peel , to propitiate him , establish in one of the proposed Colleges a Professorship of Billingsgate , and confer the appointment—with : an adequate salary—on the learned arid vituperative gentleman I- " Ibid . Poor Prisce A ., and ms Recest " Accident . "— - Ilow are the mighty fallen . ' On Saturday [ Iaay , give us a little stimulant to help us through this

      melancholy story ]—On Saturday ( sniff ) the p-r-incer met a most hawful haccident —[ More g-gin—gin is your only drink for your tale of sorrow !—a hawful haccident ! Before going up to town —[ oh-woh!]—his highness was innocently a-coming down stairs—[ it wasn't after dinner , or , if it was , that makes no difference' ! . He was a-comin' downstairs ( sniff , sniff , and oh-woh-woh ) his dear little foot s-1-ippcd and d-o-wn , down tumbled the Royal Sportsman like a Lubberly stag ! Staggered and exflunctificd , he was picked up by himselfor the regal maid-of-all-work—r maid-of-all-work—which means the maid what don't do no work whatsomdever at all . He was p-y-icked up , and —[ only to think—lend us your cotton wiper : oh-o-o-o-o-wohl- —his blessed ancle was—out of jeikt I —Joe Miller .

      Superfluous !—The -Admiralty have lately been experimentalizing on some new blocks submitted to their notice at Portsmouth . We defy competition , however , against the " old blocks" presiding over our naval department , although it was said that the old ones were more likely to be cracked than the new ones . —Ibid . A Dangerous Enemy . —Wc advise our naval commanders to be on the look-out , otherwise they are likely to fall foul of an ugly customer . We perceive that one of the French admirals just appointed to a command , is Rear-Admiral De Nell . ' WhoCYCI * Cn-COUutcvs the gentleman may therefore expect wann work .- —Ibid . A Useful Hint . —It may not be understood among the public ' generally , that anybody breaking windows , renders himself , liable to the " Panes and Penalties Act . "—Ibid ,

      _ Emigration . —Emigration is at a discount m tho city . The Lord Mayor was asked the other day how he should like to speculate in the colonies . Gibba replied that he should make " a very bad settler !" Some are Bon . v to Tat , oiirens to RECEIVE . — " Prince Albert refuses to pay £ 200 , the rate and arrears of rate , due for his farm at Windsor . "— . Times , Since Prince Albert refuses his rates to defray , Alleging excuses which call forth our laughter . An overtaxed people who stiKhave to pay , Will rate him—at nothing—for ever hereafter . AN ANDOVEE DITTY , DEDICATE © TO MESShS . LEWIS , N 1 CH 0 LLS , AND HEAD . ' I'll sing you a modern song That was made by a modern pate , Of three jolly commissioners ,

      Who lived on the poor ' s estate ; And eat and drank , and paid their way With many a parish rate , While a drunken master gave relief To the paupers at their gate ! Three cheers for the three commissioners , " Kings" of the modern time . Their hall so fine was hung around With Poor Law manifestoes , And rules and regulations , For pitching into pauper foes I And there their worships sat at ease , With what consciences , heaven knows And inwardly prayed that the master would give Each pauper a bloody nose 1 Like three i 6 ) id « r-hearted gentlemen , Commissioners of tbe modern time !

      When winter old brought frost and cold Ihey opened house to all ; With courses three they fed the great , With hones they fed the small ! JTor was tho houseless wanderer Ere driven from the door , Though , once within , he was twenty times Worse off than he was before ! All along of the thrcc " commissioners Christians of the modern time ! Butfeaud , though sweet , must end at last , And sure the hour is nigh ; And every Poor Law case proclaims The official life must die ! They'll lay them down reluctantly—Give up office with a sigh , While paupers ghid dance round their couch , And curse the charity Of the three l ' oor Law commissioners ,

      Samaritans of the modern time . ' Now surely this were better far Than all the now parade Of oakum picking—crushing bones—And starving what Uod made ' . And much more economical Since poor-rates must be paid To let them have the benefit For whom the rate was made , And not the three commissioners , Or any of their trade I

      Positives and Compabatives . —1 .. A basin of Scotch oatmeal is thick , but the head of a fool is thicker . 2 . Anything tart is asharp affair , but achurchwarden who steals the parish funds is a sliarper . 3 . Juggernaut is a very idol gentleman , but Dr . Johnson wrote for an Idler . 4 . When the heat is at 100 degrees , lfc is a warm day , but old women of cooks will tell you that a saucepan is a ivarmer . p . A man who is losing his senses is a strange individual , but we nave seen Mr . Macready act the part ofa Stranger , b . A Yarmouth bloater is salt , but a psalm-book is a psalter . 7 . A chesnut horse is a brown animal , but a "baker ' s oven is a browner . 8 . A puncheon of spirits is frequently a rum article , but a large glass is a rummer .

      A Fact uroji Yankee-Land . —Tho following conversation is said to have taken place between Mrs . . , of New York , and her maid : — " Leah , br ing me some water with the cMl takca off . " " Yes , ma ' am , directly . " " Leah , what on earth keeps you ?"' " I ' ve been looking ever since for the chill , ma ' am , and I can't find it . "—This reminds us of the boy sent to boil some eggs soft ; when questioned what detained him , he answered , "" Rot the things , it alnt no use , they won't boilsoft ; I ' ve been at them more nor an hour , and the more I biles ' em theharder they gets . V . , , T who had

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 18, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_18101845/page/3/