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      COD'S WORLD IS WORTHY BETTER ME 3 Behold ! an idle tale they tell : But who shall blame their telling it ! The rogues have got their cant to sell , The world pays well for selling it ! m They say this world ' s a " desert drear , ' "Wrapt in their own stark blindness ; That men were sent to suffer here : — What ! by a God of kindness ?—That , since the world has gone astray , It must be so for ever ; And we must stand still and obey Its Besolaters . Never ! We'll labour for the better time , "With all our might of Press and Pen ! Believe me , 'tis a truth sublime , God ' s World is worthy better Men .

      With Paradise the world began , — A world of love and gladness ; Its bcaury hath been marred by man , With all his crime and madness . Yet ' tis a bright world still . Lore brings Sunshine for spirits dreary ; With all our strife , sweet Rest hath wings To fold o ' er hearts a-weary . The sun , in glory like a god , To-day in heaven is shining ; The flowers upon the bloom-rich sod Their sweet love-lessons twining , As radiant of immortal youth As they were fresh from Eden . Then , Believe me , ' tis a noble truth , God ' s World is worthy better 3 fen . 0 , they are hold and over bold , Who say we ' re doomed to anguish ; That men , in God ' s own ima « e souled ,

      Like hell-bound slaves should languish ! Probe Nature ' s heart to its red core , There ' s more of good than evil ; Ami man—down-trampled man—is more Of angel than of devil ! " Prenare to die ?"—Prepare to live ! We know not what is living ; And let us , for the world ' s good , give , As God is ever giving ! Give love , thought , action , wealth , and time , To win the primal age again . Believe me , ' tis a truth sublime , God ' s World is worthy better Men ! The Leader . Gebau > . Massbt .

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      The Romance Of The Peerages Or Curiositi...

      The Romance of the Peerages or Curiosities of family History . By G . L . Craik . Yol . IV . London ; Chapman and Hall . Is this Tyork Mr . Craik shows the small ¦ beg innings , and , in our opinion , anything but " romantic" incidents , out of which have grown some of the proudest families of our aristocracy . Plunder , in one shape or another , constitutes the foundation of all of them , whether effected by the sword , or the more , insidious , hut not Jess mischievous , acency of usury and trade .

      Take , fcr instance , the founder of the House of Lansdowne—the ancestor of the present President of the Council . He was what is called tho founder of bis own fortune ; but what were the means ? Purchasing the debentures of the soldiers in Cromwell ' s army in Ireland , andihen buyingthe confiscated estates from improvident or straitened allottees . It would almost seem , indeed , from the career of Sir "William . Petty , and of Boyle , Earl of Cork , that , in the seventeenth century , Ireland was a greater field for unscrupulous , greedy , and pushing adventurers than India , daring the earlier stages of its conquest and acquisition , or the Colonies now . Where the

      carcase is , there the vultures will follow . Cromwell laid waste the land with fire and sword , and then distributed it among his victorious soldiers . They were followed by nsnrers and money-lenders—persons ready to take advantage of weakness , necessity , imprudence , or ignorance ; and by chicanery , and that species of bargain-making , which sticks at nothing to compass its object . It is carious , too , to observe the unconscious manner in which the actors in this kind of immoral gambling and cheating speak of the affair , and even piously give thanks to God , for having been so clever as to pluck their dupes , Mr . Craik thus describes the manner in -which Petty made his money : —

      In tho latter pirfc of the year 1652 , he obtained tho appointment of Physician to the Army in lrelsnd / wbich he retained for about seven years . A hundred pounds -which he was allowed for outfit made hinrworth about £ 500 when he landed at Waterier d , in September 1652 ; he had a salary of twpntv ' shillings a day , and he made by his practice ahout ' sElOO a year more . But these regular emoluments of his post were far from being all that he <* or out of it . Ireland was , throughout the whole of the seventeenth century , the most tempting region of adventure for English ambition ; it was "What the 5 vuvf World had bean in the sixteenth , and what India became in the eighteenth ; though

      what ma < ls it so rich an El Dorado , or land of gold , was not so much its natural wealth as the succession of public calamities by which it had been torn an > I crushed , the divisions and ever following subjojr . t 1 ons ; which aga n and again threw it down a hei' . ^ ss prev for the spoiler . " Petty writes his title at fill ! length as , '" Physician to the Army who had suppressed the rebellion begun in the year 1641 , and to i iie General of the same and tbe Head Quarter * . " He then proceeds : —" About September 1654 , T , perceiving that the admeasurement of the hrAa forfiiited by the aforementioned rebellion , and intended to regulate the satisfaction of the soldiers who had suppressed the same , was most

      ihsufficV'tlv and absurdly managed . I obtained a contract . ' -V ^ e ? 11 th December , 1654 , for making the sai i admeasurement ; and , by God ' s blessing , so p » ' -for : ne 3 the same as that I gained about . £ 9 , 000 therebv ; which , with the £ 500 above mentioned , mv s-tiarv of twentv shillings per diem , tbe benefit of mv practice , together with £ 600 given me for dire'tin ? an after-survey of tbe Adventurers lands , and £ 800 more for two years' salary as Clerk Of the ' Council , raised mean estate of about £ 13 , 000 in readv and real monev , at a time when , without

      art . interest , or authority , men bought as much land for ten shillings in real money as at this year , 16 ^ 5 , jHds ten shillings per annum rent above his Kaj ^ lv ' s quit-rents . " Part of this money he kept in cash " to answer emergencies ; with part of it he Purchased the house and . garden of the Earl of Arundel , in Lothbury , Xondon j but the greater Ear ; ho invested in soldiers * debentures , with which e purchased lands inlreland at the low price above ^ ccrU'eS . . Aubrey affirms that these lands produce ! hifn a rental of £ 18 , 000 a year .

      The autobiographical particulars in this extra ^ arc taken from Petty's will ; a singular document , in which the writer gives an account of his life and fortunes , with the occasional insinuation of an opinion , as in this legacy to the poor , and his convenient views on religion : — . .. \« f . ir legacies for the poor , I am at a stand ... As for be- ^ ars bv trade and election , I give them no thin ^ r ^ sfor ' impotehts by the hand of God , the public ou * ht to maintain them ; as for thosev who ha ™ teen bred to no calling , or estate , they should bo put upon iheir kindred ; as for those who can get no work , the magistrates should cause them to be employed , which may be well done in Ireland , where i- « liftecn acres of improreable land for every

      head ; prisoners for crimes , by ; . the JSing ; for debt , by their , prosecutors ! As for those who compassionate the sufferings of any object , let ttiem relieve themselves by relieving- ' such sufferers , thatis , g ive thcan alms pro « iota ,- and for God ' s sake relieve those several species' above-mentioned where the above-mentioned ooligttt fail iu their duties * "Whorcfore I am contented that I have = asaistpd all ' my poor relations ,. and put many into a wav of getting their own bread , and have laboured In pablin' ^ orks and by inventions , have sought out real object ? of charity , and do hereby conjure all who partake of my estate from time to time to do the mnf ! , at their peril . ^ 9 rtheless , to answer « U £ ! o ; a ? nd to tike the surer side , I give £ 20 to the Jnost wan ' rng Of the parish' wherein I die .

      As for' religion , I die in the profession of that feith atiSjn . the practice of such worship . as I find -est ^ - ^ hed by tbe law' of my country ; not being able to believe what I myself pjjease . nor to worshi p Qui l »? tV ^ r thaa by doing ' as I would be" done unto , and ol'Sevinjr the laws of my country , and express- ' ing my twe-and honour'to Almighty God by such Siir ^ s and" tokens , as , are understood to be such by ibepeorie with whom , I Hve i God knowing my heart even w ^ h 'but any at all . .. In fact , Sir Henry . was a , worshipper of MainmjWjf , and a very successful one .

      Sir Stephen Fcie , tha founder of- the , great "Whi * jlpftse of . Holland ,. was a courtier , and rose bWthe personal regard ,. of that most , onpiincip ledandJicenciousof sovereigns , Charley the Second ,. The . ^ onnder ; . of the , House , of Phips ( novr Phipps ) , Mari j ius of Normanby

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      was a Massachusetts man , who got some money by a search . after a Spanish treasureship , wrecked near the Bahamas a hundred years before . In short , the steps to the pinnacle of rank , title , and station seem , in all eases , to be very dirty ones ; but it is wonderful how the gilding , the jewels , the ermined robe , and the glittering coronet , hide all that , and dazzle the multitude ! -srn « a Massacbxisetts man . who , cwvt--. c ~ -

      History Of The War Of The Sicilian Vespe...

      History of the War of the Sicilian Vespers . B y Michelb Amari , London . - Bentley , It is generally believed that the event known in history as the "Sicilian Vespers , " was the result of a wide spread conspiracy , embracing all classes of people , kept secret for two years , and at length carried into effect suddenly , with immediate triumph , and final success . If such were the case it would , undoubtedly , be one of the strongest and most unparalleled incidents in human annals . Conspiracies seldom indeed rip en into action when participated in by large numbers , and they are , when confined to a few , equally liable to disappointment , by an untimely explosion , a miscalculation of time and resources , or the treachery of some of their apparentl y most

      zealous abettors . Amari held the common opinion when he began to study this portion of the annals of his native country , with a view to write its history . The result of his investigations has led him to a very different conclusion . That Peter of Arragon aimed at the kingdom of Sicily , either from self-prompting or at the suggestions of John of Procida , and other Sicilian exiles , is clear . It is equally clear that he prepared an army for that purpose , under the pretence of waging war against the Infidels . It appears to be true that he entered into a treaty with the Greek Emperor MichaelPaleologus , whom Charles or Anjou was threatening with war : it is also possible , that a general conspiracy was formed among some of the Sicilian

      barons : but beyond this Amari does not believe that any conspiracy extended . '' When carefully sifted , " he writes , " the contemporary records amount to this — that Peter eagerly aspired to the crown of Sicily ; that he armed himself ; that he treated for subsidies with the Emperor of Constantinople , whose power was threatened by Charles j that Procida was one of his messengers ; that he may , perhaps , have conspired with some few Sicilian baronp , but that their plans were not yet matured nor their preparations completed , when the people of Sicily broke forth . " The foundation of the outbreak was long oppression in every form ; the immediate cause , like two great revolutions in Home , and in some of the Italian cities of the middle ages , was injury to a woman . This is Amari ' a narrative of the

      beginning : — 3 few outrages shed a gloom over the festival of Easter at Palermo , the ancient capital of the kingdom ; detested by the strangers more than any other city , as being the strongest and the most deeply injured . Messina was the seat of the King's Viceroy in Sicily , Herbert « f Orleans ; Palermo was governed by the Justiciary of Tal di Mazzara , John of St . Remigio , a minister worthy of Charles . His subalterns , worthy both of the Justiciary and of the Kins , had recently launched out into fresh acts of rapine and violence . But the people submitted . It even went so far that the citizens of Palermo , seeking comfort from God amid their worldly tribulations , and having entered a church to pray , in that verv church , on the days sacred to the memory of

      the Saviour ' passion , and amidst the penitent'al rites , were exposed to the most cruel outrages . The ban-dogs of the exchequer searched out amonffst them those who had failed in the payment of the " taxes , dragged them forth from the sacred ediSee , manacled , and bore them to prison , crying out insultingly before the multitude attracted to the spot , ' - ' " Pay , paterini , pay ! "' And the people still submitted . " The Tuesday after Easter , which fell on the 31 st of March , there was a festival at the church of Santo Spirito . On that occasion a heinous outrage against the liberties of the Sicilians afforded the impulse , and the patience of the people wave way . We will now record all that the historians most deserving of credence have transmitted to us concerning this memorable event .

      Ilalf a mile from the Southern wall of tbe city , en the brink of the ravine of Oreto , stands a church dedicated to the Holy Ghost ; concerning which the Latin Fathers have not failed to record , that on the day " oh which the first stone of it was laid , in the twelfth century , the sun was darkened by an eclipse . On one side of it are the precipice and the river , on the other the plain extending to the city , which in the present day is in great part encumbered with walls and gardens ; while a square enclosure , of moderate sue , shaded by dusky cypresses , honeycombed with tombs , and adorned with urns and other sepulchral monuments , surrounds the church . This is a public cemetery , laid out towards

      the eighteenth century , and- fearfully filled in three weeks" by the dire pestilence which devastated Sicilv in 1837 . On the Tuesday , at the hour of vespers , religion and custom crowded this then cheerful plain , carpeted with the flowers of spring , with citizens wending their way towards the church . Divided into numerous groups , they walked , sat in clusters , spread the tables , or danced upon the grass ; and , whether it were a defect or a merit of " the Sicilian character , threw off , for the moment , the recollection of their sufferings ;—when the followers of the Justiciary suddenly appeared amongst them , and every bos . im thrilled with a shudder of disgust . The strangers came , with their usual

      insolent demeanour , as they said , to maintain tranquillitv ; and for this purpose they mingled in the groups , joined in tbe dances , and familiarly accosted the women , pressing the hand of one , taking unwarrantable liberties with others ; addressing indecent words and gestures to those more distant ; until some temperately admonished them to depart , in God ' s name , without insulting the women ; and others murmured angrily ; but the hot-blooded youths raised their voices so fiercely that the soldiers sa'd to one another , " These insolent paterini mnst be armed , that they dare thus to answer ; '' and replied to them with the most offensive insults , . insistingwith great insolence , on searching them for

      , arms , and even here and there striking them with sticks or thongs . Every heart already throbbed fiercely oh either side , when a young woman of singular beauty , and of modest and dignified deportment , appeared with her husband and relations bending her steps towards , the church . Drouet , a Frenchman , impelled either by insolence or licence , approached her , as if to examine her for concealed weapons ; seized her , and searched her bosom . She fell fainting into her husband ' s arms ; who , in a voice almost choked with rage , exclaimed , " Death ,

      death to the . French ! " At the same moment , a youth burst from the crowd which bad gathered round them , sprang upon Drouet , disarmed and slew him ; and probatly at the same moment paid thepenaltv of his own life , leaving his name unknown , and the mystery forever unsolved , whether it were love for the injured woman , the impulse of a generous heart , or the more exalted flame of patriotism , that prompted him thus to give the signal of deliverance . Xoble examples have a power far beyond that of argument or eloquence . to rouse

      the people , and the abject slaves . awoKe at lengtn from their long bondage . " Death , death to the French ! " they cried ; and the cry , say the historians of the time , re-echoed like the voice of God tbrou » h the whole country , and found an answer in every heart . Above the corpse of Drouet were heaped those of victims slain on either side ; the crowd expanded itself , closed in , swayed hither and thither in wild confusion ; tbe Sicilians , with sticks , stones , and knives , rushed with desperate ferocity upon their fully-armed opponents ; they sought for them and hunted them down ; fearful tragedies were enacted amid the preparations for festivity , and tbe overthrown tables were drenched in blood . Th « neonle displayed tbeir strength and conquered .

      The stru" * le was brief , and great the slaughter ot Sicili ans ; but of the French there were two hundred—and two hundred fell . V ... , . Treatbless , covered nith blood , brandishing the ntandcreSpM 9 . and proclaiming the insult and plundcrea -w ^ p , r towards the SLS 3 RE ? " Sn to the French ! " the , shouted - and as many as they found were put . to thesword The example , tbe words , the contagion of nS uVan instant aroused the whole people , In the hea ? of the" tumult Roger Ma . tmige <> a nobleman , was chosen , or constituted himself their leader . The multitude continued to »««» . dividing into . troops , they scoured the »^ K ""* bnen dVs , searched every nook eyW ^ jgg place , and shouting " Death to tho French 1 smote them and slew them , while those too distant to strike aided to the tumult bv their applause . _ un

      the outbreak of this sudden uproar the Justiciary had taken refuge in his strong palace ; the next moment it . waa surrounded by an enraged multitude , crying aloud for his death : they demolished the defences ; and rushed furiously in ; but the Justiciary escaped them ; favoured by the confusion and the closing darkness , he succeeded , though wounded in the face , jn mounting his horee unobtsrred , " and with W . ^ o attendants , fled ' with ill speed . 'Mean ^ ? hue .. th 6 ' slaughter- continued with ' increased ferocity ; even ; the darkness of nightfailed to arrest it , and it was resumed on the morjto » more furiously

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      than ever ; nor did it cease at length because the thirst for vengeance was slaked , but because victims were wanting to appease h . Two thousand French perished in this first outbreak . Amari ' s view of the unpremeditated nature of the massacre is supported by various reasons in the text , and by an elaborate review in the appendix , of all the chroniclers who have written upon the subject ; the main arguments being , the silence of the best-informed contemporary historians about the conspiracy , and the inconsistencies of the narratives themselves with several established facts . There is , also , the inherent improbability of so extensive a plot being kept secret for such a length of time ; there is , too , the air of truth which pervades the historical view of Amari . Revo-« . *; , ' . y . ' •• -

      lutions not brought about by constituted powers , or large classes acting openly , but by sudden risings , have always emanated from the people . A sudden spark has inflamed the latent passion which long oppression has induced , and roused the populace like an electric shock . When they have done their work sufficiently to give promise of success , the " educated classes " step in to lead and regulate—which is necessary ; and to profit by the popular enthusiasm—the necessity for which we deny .

      How To Make Home Unhealthy. Chapman And ...

      How to make Home Unhealthy . Chapman and Hall . * This is a collection of papers which ori ginally appeared in the Examiner . Tbeir livel y satirical style attracted much attention , and the soundness of the philosophy they embody , though taught as dreams are , to be interpreted , namely , by contraries amply warrant their republication in a collected form . The didactic style which works on ths subject generally assume has , doubtless , the effect of deterring many from giving it that attention which is due to its importance and its bearing upon the general well-being . This work is certain to attract readers from its purely literary merits , abounding , as it does , with appropriate illustrations , apt anecdotes , and sly sarcasm ; the writer hits the admitted follies and errors of our social and domestic

      habits hard , but pleasantly . There is no malice in his satire , and we feel that he chastises us for our good , not for the pleasure of inflicting punishment . The work is pervaded by an under current of sound and practical suggestions with regard to those sanitary and social conditions that affect the maintenance of health aud tho comfort of life , not the less valuable because . it sparkles so pleasantly . Every page affords illustrations and quotations . We shall take one or two , first giving the key

      note of them as stated by the author . Lucian tells a story of a painter , called Passus , who received from a Connoisseur an order for a picture of a horse painted with the legs upwards . He drew it in the usual way , for his own convenience . One day , however , his customer came in unexpectedly , saw the painting , and flew into a passion . Passus quietly turned the picture upside down and contented the Connoisseur . Let us see how the author turns the horse with its legs upwards .

      THE LIGHT NUISANCE . Tieck tell us , in bis " History of the Schildbiirger , " that the town council of that spirited community was very wise . It had been noticed that many worthy aldermen and common-councillors were in the habit of looking out of window when they ought to be attending to their duties . A vote was therefore , on one occasion , passed by a large maiority , to this effect , namely—Whereas the windows of the town-hall are a great impediment to the dispatch of public business , it is ordered that , before the next day of meeting they be all bricked up . When the nest day of meeting came , the worthy representatives of Schildburg were

      surprised to find themselves assembling in the dark . Presently , accepting the unlooked-for fact , they settled down into an edifying discussion of the question , whether darkness was not more . convenient for their purposes than daylight . —Had you and I been there , my friend , our votes in the division would have been , like the vote in our own House of Commons a few days ago , for keeping out the Light Nuisance as much as possible . Darkness is better than daylight , certainly . Jfow this admits of proof . For , let me ask , where do you find the best part of a lettuce ?—not in the outside leaves . Which are the choice parts of the celery ?—of course , the white shoots in tbe middle . Why , sir ?

      Because light has never come to . them . They-Jaecoine white and luxurious by tying up , by earthing up , by any contrivance which has kept the sun at bay . It is the same with man ; while we obstruct the light by putting brick and board where glass suggests itself , and mock tbe light by picturing impracticable windows on our outside walls , —so that our houses stare about like blind men with glass eyeSj- ^ -wbile this is done , we sit at home and blanch , we become in our dim apartments pale and delicate , we grow to look refined , as' gentlemen and ladies ought to look . Let the sanitary doctor at whose head we throw lettuces , go to the botanist and ask him , How is this ? Let him come back and tell us . Oh , gentleman , irt these vegetables the . natural juices are not formed when you exclude the light .

      The natural juices in lettuce or in celery are flavoured much more strongly than our taste would relish , and therefore we induce in these plants an imperfect development , in order to make them eatable . Very well . The natural juices in a man are stronger than good taste can tolerate . Man requires horticulture to be fit to come to table . To rear the finer sorts of human kind , one great operation necessary is to banish light as much as possible . Ladies know that . To keep their faces pale , they pull . the blinds down in their drawing-rooms , they put a veil between their countenances and the sun when they go out , and carry , like good soldiers , a great shield on high , by name a parasol , to ward bis darts off . They know better than to let the old » od kiss them into colour , as he does the peaches . They choose to remain green fruit ; and . we all know that to be a delicacy .

      In anticipation of Christmas and New Year festivities , we shall conclude with our author's account of

      SPENDING A VERT PLEASANT EVENING . By the consent of antiquity , it is determined that Pain shall bo doorkeeper to the house of Pleasure , In Europe , Purgatory led to Paradise ; and , had St . Symeon lived among us now , he would have earned heaven , if the police permitted , by- praying for it , during thirty years , upon the summit of a lamppost . . "" In India the Fakir was beatified by standing on his head , under a hot sun , beset , with roasting bonfires . In Greenland the soul expected to reach bliss by sliding for five days down , a rugged rock , wounding itself . and shivering with cold . The American Indians sought happiness through castigation , and considered vomits the most expeditions

      mode of enforcing self-denial on the stomach . Some tribes of Africans believe , that on the way to heaven every man ' s head is knocked against a wall . By consent of mankind , therefore , it is granted that we uiust pass Pain on the way to Pleasure . What Pleasure is , when reached , none but the dogmatical can venture to determine . To Greenlanders ; a spacious fish-kettle , for ever simmering , in-which , boiled seals for ever swim , is the delight of heaven . And remember that , in the opinion of M ; " Bailly , Adam and ' Eve gardened in Nova Zambia . You will not be surprised ; therefore , if I call upon you to prepare for your domestic pleasures with a little suffering '; nor , when I tell you

      what such pleasures are , must you exclaim against them as absurd . Having the " sanction of . ourforefathers , they are what is fashionable how , and consequently ' they are what is fit . I propose ,, then , that yon should give , for the entertainment ofyoiir friendsj an , Evening Party ; and as this is a scene in which young ladies prominently figure , I will , if you please , on this occasion , pay particular attention to your daughter . O mystery ! of preparation !— Pardon , sir ; You err if you ' suppose me to insinuate that ladies are more careful over personal adornment than the gentlemen . When men made a display of manhood , wearing beards , if ; Is re * corded that they packed tb ' eni , " when they-Went to

      bed ,. in ' pasteboard cases lest they might be tumbled in "the ( night ' . Man at his grimmest is ' as vain as woiriahi even when he stalks about 'bearded and battle-axed . This is the mystery . of preparation in your daughter ' s case : How does she breathe ? 'You have prepared her from ' childhood for the part she istoplay ' to-night , - by training her form into the only ' shape which can be looked at with complacency in any ball-room " : A machine , called stays , introduced long ' since into' England , by tho Normans , has bad her in its grip from early child-1 the least

      hood . She has become pale , and—only bit-diable to be blue about the nose and fingers . Stays are an excellent' contrivance ; .. - ' they give' a material / supporttb . 'thepldcaiise , TJnhealthinessat . 'Home . ' This is ' $ b ' e secrjeifc-. bf ^ their . excellencei ,, A woman s ribs are narrow ' at . the top ,, and . as they ^ nproach the waist theywiden , ; to allow . room-for the iun » s toplay Within them . If , you can preventthe r ibs from ^ ^ widenihgiTOU cain . preyentthelunMfrpm ffig , whichVthej r-Kayennr ggtpdo , ; and ; m ko Swork . This you accomp hsh . by ^ agenoj . of S It fortunately happens that these lungs

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      in ^ h ? w „ n ° / ° ~ t P'lttine the &«> atk > of life into thei blood-which they are unablfrfa do prohSSir !? wou , d be to y ° *» pkytne nfthe chJfi i - hlna ! Cl 08 et - fi y '«« compression , Jl ft t lad lesarenn » de nervous , and become SwU «^ oxe ^; they do not , however , fX' £ PP ° . e that they have lost flesh . There , it «»^ v attlro whi 6 h wouId m"uce , in a spe-Sto - belief that 8 omo inte ™ al flam ° Shi EM theu" wais . ts t 0 S ^ ter , and that the hfhiS ,, y" ? ,. downinto a lump which protrudes H A T . the waistband . This appearance is , na ^ ra '„ , ! -l i a"d for my opinion I have newspaper authority . In the papers it was written , one day last year , that the hump alluded to was tested with a pin upon the person of a ladv . coming from

      the isie of Man , and it was found not to be sensitive . Brand y exuded from the wound ; for in that case the projection was a bladder , in which the prudent housewife was smuggling comfort in a quiot Way * , t 0 Uch of a P changed all into discomrort , when she found that she was converted into a peripatetic watering-can—brandying-can I should have said . Your darfghter comes down 8 ta . \™ d ! . essed \ Wlth » bouquet , at a time when the dull seeker of Health and Strength would have her to go up stairs with a bed-candlestick . Your guests arrive . Young ladies thinly clad and packed in " ^• -. "Ti half-stifled ; put a cold foot , protected by a filmy shoe the pavementand

      , upon , run , shivering into your house . Well , sir , we'll warm them presently . •¦• Allow mo to dance a polka . with your daughter . Frail , elegant creature that she is ! A glass of wine ,-a macaroon ; good , bontag , yes ; and that dear novel . That was a delightful dance ; now let us promenade . The room is close ; a glass of wine , an ice , and let us get to the delicious draught in the conservatory , or by that door . Is it not beautiful ? The next quadnlle-I look sl yly at my watch , and Auber ' s grim chorus rumbles within . me , ' Void minuit ! voici minuit ! ' Another dance . How fond she seems to be of macaroons ! Supper . My dear sir , I will take good care of your daughter . One

      sandwich . Champagne . Blancmange . Bonbon . Champagne . Sherry . Champagne . Tipsey-cako , Brandy cherries . Glass of wine . A macaroon . Trifle . Jelly . Champagne . Custard . Macaroon . The ladies are beingtakencareof—Yes , now in their absence we will drink their health , and wink at each other ; tbeir and our Bad Healths . This is the happiest moment of our lives ; at two in the moruinw , with a dose of indigestion in the stomach , and three hours more to come before we get to bed . You , my dear sir , hope that on many occasions like the present you may see your friends around you , looking as glassy-eyed as you have made them to look now . We will rejoin the ladies . Nothing but

      champagne could have enabled us to keep up the evening so well . We were getting weary before supper , —but we have had some wine , have dug the spur into our sides , and on we go again . At length , even the bottle stimulates our worn-out company no more ; and then we separate . Good night , dear sir : we have spent a Very Pleasant Evening under your roof . To-morrgw , when you depart from a late breakfast , havin ? seen your daughter ' s face , and her boiled-mackerel eye , knowing that your wife is bilious , and that your son has just gone out for soda-water , you will feel yourself to be a Briton who has done his duty , a man who has paid something on account of his great debt to civilized society . "

      The Expositor, A Weekly Illustrated Reco...

      The Expositor , a weekly illustrated Recorder of Inventions , Designs , and Art Manufactures . No . 2 , J . Clayton and Son , Strand . J ournal of the Exhibition of 1851 . No 1 . Office , Essex-street , Strand . Ground Plan of the Exhibition building in Hyde Park . Wyld , Charing-cross . . The titles of the preceding sufficiently explain their purpose and character . Of the two journals the Expositor appears to take the widest range , not confining itself to topics connected with the Exhibition alone , but imparting varied information on the position and progress of Art , Mechanism , and Industry in this country . The drawings illustratative of mechanical inventions , and . of art manufacture , are well executed and a valuable feature in periodicals of this kind . For all who take an interest in matters connected with the Exhibition , or who intend to become competitors , this Journal ' offers full and systematised information ; while Mr . Wy ld ' s penny . Ground Plan , will form a very intelligable guide through the long arcades of the " Crystal Palace . " , ' - ' . ' ¦ " , •'

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      Haymarket Theatre. The Part Of Cassias I...

      HAYMARKET THEATRE . The part of Cassias in Julius Cassar has been so rarely ployed by Mr . Macready that in enumerating a list of his possible characters One ' wtfuld ^ beJlkely to ' pass it over , naming Juliug ^ Cafsar ' on account of Brutus only . And yet there is no part which Mr . Macready brings out with greater force of individuality than this of Cassias , which he played on Saturday night . The irritable temper of the mansensitive to a degree of morbidity—he represents with the greatest nicety . In the first dialogue with Brutns he shows . you plainly that he- does not hate the elevation of Csesar from a mere abstract

      principle , but that it-is personally distasteful to him ; that it sours his temper ; that , to useii very imdig nified phrage , it ig absolutely provoking . The greai quarrel ; 8 cene was inimitably done . Here the irritable temperament is developed into open rage . Self-control is all but lost ( the " all but" being finely maintained ) , yet still the naturally affectionaie foundation is constantly kept in view , and seems ever on the point of bursting into utterance , ti / i at last all anger vanishes in the hearty reconciliation . The applause of the audience when Gassius fell on the neck of Brutus denoted not only admiration , but was a genuine expression of sympathy . Mr . How , as Mark Antony , has achieved a success which

      is likely to advance him in public estimation . . The famous oration was delivered not only with that energy which may be always found in Mr . How , but with a variety of tone and manner that proved much thought : and discrimination ; The calm nature of Brutus was unaffectedly represented by Mr . Davenport / Ttie Toung . Quaker ; a five act piece by O'Keefe , originally produced at'the Haymarkct in 1783 , has been revived for . the' non-Maoready nights .-..-, It is a vapid work , with no intrinsic merit to recommend it , the only pleasing feature in it being the genuine good humour which Mr , Webster infuses into the character of the Young Quaker , a youth of excellent disposition , but somewhat lax in his habits .

      Eoyal Polytechnic Institution. During Th...

      EOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . During the past week Mr , Gebrgo Barker has been engaged in delivering a lecture on the Ballad Music of England , the subject being the Lays of the Foresters or Songs of Robin Hood . It is not to be expected that the lecturer could give a biography of the bold outlaw in the short , space allotted to his lecture , nor is it necessary—for who is unacquainted with the romantic history of the Forester , and his equally celebrated chaplain Friar Tuck , the stalwart priest ' , ' who could bring down " , a fat buck with a cloth-yard shaft , with as liiuoh easeas he could repeat his paternosters i The

      lecturer merely touched on the more prominent events of the lives of these two worthies , and sung some appropriate ballads to illustrate each . The song in which the brawny friar is described , is as amusing and . as droll as the other , which Robin Hood is supposed to . have sung to Richard the first , when the King questioned him as to his parentage ; jit is plaintive and oeautiful . The former song received an unanimous encore , and indeed tho whole lecture was well received by a crowded audience , who frequently interrupted the lecturer with hearty rounds of applause ,

      The Original Ms. Or Wavbrlet, Wholly In ...

      The Original MS . or Wavbrlet , wholly in the handwriting of . Sir Walter Scott—tho same MS . which was sold at Evans ' s , in 1831 , with the other MSS . of the noble series of novels , and romances , bas just been presented to the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh , by Mr ., James Hall . At the sale alluded to , the MS . was bought by Mr . Wilks , M . P ., for £ 20 , and it was sold by that gentleman the next week to . Mr . Hall at . Mr ; Hall ' s price of forty guineas . It is a well-known fact , to all readers of Scott , ' that the novel / of Waverley was . commenced about the year 1805 , ' and laid aside in an old cabinet till 1813 , when it was again taken up , completed , and published : we need naruly add with what success . The MS . both' in the dated watermarks of the paper and by features . in the handwriting , confirms and illustrates tho story of the delay .: It is not , perhaps , generally known that tbo .. trustees of the Advocates' Library were in'treaty for the

      purchase of the , ; whole of the MSS . j arid actually offered more ' for them than they realised at , the sale . ' While we regret that the offer of the Adypr bates was . not accepted , and the'MSS . kept , together for public use and general gratification ^ we arc pleased to'think that , atfeircumstahces considered , ' the most . intoresting . of the MSS . ( thanks . to Mr . Hall ) has be ' eri ' added "to the treasures of the noblest library in . Scotland : ^«/ i « Mwiuni . •„ . ... ; :. ¦ ... V - "Never djo Cardinal bring good io England , '' -4 We i read ^ iiv" Dr . ¦ Lingard ' s History , ( vol ; iv ., p ^ 627 , ) on the authority of Cavendishj that'whenthe Gardinalfi Campeggid-arid Wdlsey'adjourned the inquiry ; int ' o the , Jegalit ' ylbf ^ Henry . yilVs luarriage i with Catharine , of , Arragbn ,. V the Duke , of , Suffolk , striKing-thetablei exclaimed with vehemence , that the 'Wk ^ TVfW' nOw verified- ' Never-did- 'Car' dinal bimg ' gbMWtMnWS' ' - 'NQtet md $ «« n « f ,

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      Wire* .18 A Chair Like A Lady's Dress ?—...

      Wire * . a chair like a lady ' s dress ?—Whe & . it is sat-in . Wivbs- auk great ' helpmates—they help many husbands to dispose of their cash . Vbrt Trub— " This is a dead take in , " a * the minnow said when swallowed by a pike . : A Ghuntbb . — "This is a regular Sou ' -vester , " as the pig said when blown overboard .-Zoe tftller . The man that broke into the timber-vard has been arrested , having taken a deal too much . " A rusty shield prayed to the sun , and said , " 0 SUri ! illume me with thy ray . " The sun replied , ' * O shield ! make thyself clean . " Keep ; a sovereign at one end of your purse and half-a-crown at the other . By so doing you prevent the rings falling off ,

      A gentleman has discovered a capital way to disperse a crowd of idle boys . He offers to teach them he catechism , and they i nstantly run away . A Gokrnsm paper says that the girls in Jersey are so dull tbat they have to drink a pint of yeast every night to make them rise early « i the morning . He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ; but he is more fortunate who can suit his temper to any circumstances . Dr . Turner of British Guiana has discovered a process in the manufacture of rum , by Which it can be increased fifty per cent in strength . The tears of beauty are like light clouds floating oyer a heaven of stars , bidimming them for a moment that they may shine with greater lust than before . ¦ ,

      " Jim , noEs your mother ever whip you ?"— " No : but she does a precious sight worse , though . " " What's that 1 "— " Why , she washes my face every morning ! Wht is an ill-made coach . wheei like a gang of blackguards playing at cards ? Because it is composed of a circle of bad fellows—very rough spoken —with a nave in its centre . "Nxvbb bb critical upon the ladies , " was the maxim of an old Irish peer , remarkable for his homage to the sex ; " tho only way a true gentleman ever will attempt to look at the faults of a pretty woman , ig to shut Ms tyes . "

      " Your heel must be something better , I think , " said a gentleman to a buxom lass , who had a hole in the heel of her stocking , "Why so ? " she asked . " Because , Miss , " was the response , « ' I perceive it is getting out . " Law and Phtsic . —Law and physic- only in cases of necessity ; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses ; they are good remedies , but bad recreations . A Consoling Reflection . —Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when , though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits , there are none who have fire and faggot at command , —SOUTHET . The number of visitors to the Zoological Gardens , Regent ' s Park , during the current year , has been 344 590 , and the increase in the receipts , as compared with the corresponding period of 1849 . hag been £ 5 , 600 .

      The Builder , in reply to a correspondent , says the height of the water front of the New Houses of Parliament is in the centre eighty feet , and at the sides seventy feet . The present height of the Victoria tower is HO feet ; its ultimate height is not yet determined . Possttsm and Puppvism . —A young man said recently , in rather a pert way to the Rev . Dr . C ., " Dr . what is the difference between this pussyism they talk so much about , and puppyism ?"— "Puppyism , " replied the Doctor , " is founded oh dograntism , and pussyism on the catechism . "

      Two Ibissmbn one day went a shooting . A large flock ofpidgeons came flying over their heads . Pat elevated his piece , and firing , brought one of them to the ground . " Arrah 1 " exclaimed his companion , " what a fool you are to waste your ammunition , when the bare fall would have killed him . " Cure for Lisping . —A rapid and emphatic recital of the following simple narrative is an infallible cure for lisping ;— " Hobba m ? ets Rnobbs and Nobbs ; Hobbs bobs to Snobbs and Nobbs ; Hobbs nobs with Snobbs and robs Nobbs' fobs . ' This is , ' says Nobbs , ' the worst of Hobbs' jobs , ' and Snobbs sobs . " It was Count Charles de Morney ' s prnctige whenever he dined at a table d'hote , to instruct his valet to come in and sit down with the company , place himself at the bottom or top of the table , treat his master as a perfect stranger , and help him to the best of everything .

      " Miss Thimmoth , " said a lisping little fellow of five , " I ' m alwath real glad when you come a vithiting to our houth . "— " Arc you , my little dear ; you are fond of me , then ? "— "No , that ain ' t it With Thimmoth : but ' cauth then we alwath have two kindthofpieth . " " WhenWilkib came to Edinburgh , " said his landlady , " he rented one of my attic ? , and I had an Irishman in the first floor , but in course of time ihey changed places . And so I always find it . The Irishmen begin in the first floor and end in the garret , while the Scotchmen begin in the garret and end in the first floor . "

      A Yankee Auctioneer lately indulged in the following little bit of the paihetic : — " Gentlemen , it ray . father and mother stood where . you do , and didn ' t buy these boots—these elegant boots—when they were going for one dollar , J should , feel it my duty as aaon to tell both of ' em that they were false to themselves and false to their country . "' A New Musket . —A successful trial has been made at Portsmouth , in presence o- ! ' several military gentlemen , of- ' a new musket , which saves one third of the time in priming and loading , and simplifying the drill exercises . Seventy rounds may be fired in succession without priming ; the caps , being placed in the magazine , are acted upon by the action of the ramrod .

      AnEncohe . —The editor of a magazine , having through some inadvertence , inserted the same article in two successive numbers of the periodical , was reproached for carelessness . ' He replied , "You are quite in error ; . the reason for the seenrid insertion was this—my subscribers approved the article so highly , that it was encored !" The Archdeacon and the Artist . —Archdeacon Fisher was not without a little vanity on thesubjeetof his sermons , and once received a quiet hint from Constable on the subject . Having preached an old sermon -which he was not aware that Constable had heard before , he asked him how he liked it ? "Very much indeed , Fisher , " replied Constable , MI always did like that sermon . " —Leslies Life of Constable .

      A Forgetful Lawyer . - ^ A lawyer , who was sometimes forgetful , having been engaged to plead the cause of an offender , began by saying : — " I know the prisoner at the bar , and he bears the character of being a most cosummate and impudent scoundrel ! " Here somebody whispered to him that the prisoner was his client ,. when lie immediately continued : — " But what great and good man over lived , who was not calumniated by many of his contemporaries . " A Match . —When Dr . Johnson " courted Mrs . Potter , whom he afterwards married , he told ber be was of mean extraction , that he had no money , and that be had au uncle hanged- The lady , by way . of reducing herself to an equality with the doctor , replied , that she had no more money than himself , and that , thouuh she had not had a relation hanged , she had fifty who deserved hanging . And thus was accomplished this , very curious affair .

      Otn Bachelors . — " Faugh ! " says Mrs . Partington , " don't _ tell ; me ! Old bachelors , indeed Let ' em die as they deserve * They always die sooner than married men , except my husband , poor dear , departed soul ! Bachelors can't live lon ^ . They've ' nobody to darn their stockings and mend their slothes . They catch cold , and have nobodyto make ' em sage tea ; consequently they drop off ; and serve . ' em right ; it's no matter , for not taking some of my daughters off my hands . " " ' A' Douhlb Mistake , —a man near Leeds was sent , one day last week , by a woman who has lately

      been confined , with a message to the parish clerk , requesting that she might have the ceremony of " churching" performed . The wortbyfriend informed the clerk ' s wife that lie wanted "a woman axin to church . " . The clerk ' s wife , supposing that he wanted the banns of marriage published , asked his name , which he gave , and also the name of the woman ; which , being entered in the book , was read publicly by the church functionary , to the no little astonishment of the congregation , who were surprised to . hear-a man ' asked in church with his neinubour ' s wife I— Church aud State Gazette .

      Fast Shaving . —Thrta brothers , beanng a remarkable resemblance to one another , are in the habit of shaving at a barber ' s shop in New Orleans A few days since , one of the brothers ; entered the shop early in the morning ' , and was duly shaved by a German who ' had been at work in tho establishment for one or two days . About twelve o ' clock another hrpthercanie in , and underwent-a similar operation at . the hands of another person . In the evening the third brother made his appearance , when the German dropped hisrazor in astonishment , abd exclaimed— " Veil * mine goodness J , dat man bash the fastest beard I ever saw ; I shaves him . in dis Imornin ' , ahoder shave him at dinner times , and he gomes back now to mit his beard solong as it never .. „ . .. ... . „ .,.. -. ....- ... .. .. ....... _

      : Bu . LLoi . OGT . —The sun' is at present in the sign of Saajttarius , but the movements in progress would have been more ' ajs ' propriate at the" season ' when he is in Ta « rus ) v , They ' naturally . ilead us to . reflect on the important ; part that the bovine element seems 'always to- have played in mundane affairs . Bulls perform an- important ' part in the . mythologies of Greece and ; Rome , as witness the Minotaur of Crete , and the ^ guabb ^ e " ,., between Hercules and . Cacus . The brazen , b ' . ulf 6 / Phalaris , too , enjoyed cpnsufepable notoriety in its day ; and one ofnhe'earliest abductions on record was performed by Great' Jove hipself , ' in : the likeness of a bull . . Turning ( 0 ' « he east , \ ye have . thel man-. faced . liuil of the Ninevites ; which : Mr . XayardJias-lately restored | o the light of day , ; : on one :, hand of , ; him the . second ; Apis , of 'Egypt ;? and on tl other the equally-sacred'Braminee bull , Then"'there , are tlie famoas b ' ulhj of'BaBhRn ,-

      Wire* .18 A Chair Like A Lady's Dress ?—...

      and the golden waif of Aaron , which some people ima * f ^ . to have been the Papal bull in its infancy , ' , w ) nung downto moT g modern times and regions S „ r ,. , ^ have l » HiH » abundance : the goldem buisof aV p Peror Ch «* le - the , ead <™ The 1 eias th e " Tn herc ar ? Iriah ™ ls in abundance ., IrtltZ M » nA ?* V - , bull v w »» ch kept our eon-TllS £ Rnna ln d u ! u for a considerable time . ' There is the Ball and Mouth , well known to travellers . Among the celestial s . gnr a „ a the 8 ig „ eartn ; innkeepers , the bull is equally prominent . Then there are the allied species : the bulletin a diminn " tire kind of bull , as celebrated for mendacity as any Roman bull can be , and the whole race of bulliea A complete natural hi . itory of bulls is a desideratum in science ; and , as such , we recommend the theme to the worshipful Zoological Society . Lake Superior . —Six years ago there were but two vessels of any kind on Luke Superior , and not more than one or two white families could be found

      within 400 miles from tho Sault to La Pointe . Now there are three large propellers , and six or seven sail vessels . Four lighthouses have been erected by the government , and several thousand inhabitants are scattered along the coast .

      T)R. Barker's Compound Indian Ex-*/ Tract, For Secret Debility, And Impediments To Mario

      T ) R . BARKER'S Compound Indian Ex-*/ tract , for Secret Debility , and Impediments to Mario

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 30, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_30111850/page/3/