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      October 4y 1843; 'The Northern S$J-Ir. A...

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      Beavties Of Btron, So. Xra. "Childe Haeo...

      BEAVTIES OF BTRON , so . xra _. " CHILDE HAEOLD . " "We think we may appropriately introduce the ¦ fallowing beautiful stanza * , as BtBOS ' s SIGHT THOUGHTS , "Tis night , when meditation bids m feel "We once bave loved , though love is at an end ; The heart , lone mourner of its baffled zeal , Though friendless now , will dream it had a -Mend . "Who with the weight of years would wish to bend ,-"When _jouth itself survives young love and joy * Alas ! when mingling souls forget to blend , Death hath bnt Rttle left him to destroy J _3 hl happyyears ! once more who would not be a boy !

      Thus bending o ' er the vessel ' s laving- side , To gaze on _Dian ' s _nave-reflected sphere , The soul forgets her schemes of Hope and Pride , And flies unconscious o ' er each backward year . Kone are so desolate but something dear , Dearer than self , possesses or _possess'd A thought , and claims the homage of a tear ; A flashing pang ! of which the weary breast "Woulu _sVSR , albietin vain , the heavy heart divest , To sit on rocks , to muse o ' er flood and fell , To slowly trace the forest ' s shady scene , "Where things that own not man's dominion dwell , And mortal foot hath ne ' er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountains all unseen , "With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o ' er steeps , and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; ' tis bnt to hold Converse with Nature ' s charms , and view her stores nnroll'd .

      But , ' midst the crowd , the hum , the shock of men , To hear , to see , to feel , and to possess , And roam along , tbe world ' s tired denizen , "With none who bless us , none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress J 3 one that with kindred consciousness endued _. If we were not , would seem to smile the less Of aR that flattsr * d , foRowed , sought , and sued , This is to be alone : this , this is solitude ! More blest the life of godly eremite , Sneh as on lonely Athos maybe seen , Watching at eve upon the giant height ! "Which looks o ' er waves so blue , skies so serene , That he who there at each an hour bath been Will wistful linger on that hallowM spot , Then slowly tear bim from the witching scene , Sigh forth one -wis ! that such had been his lot , Then turn to hate a world he had almost forgot .

      The following stanzas open the story of the " ChildeV pilgrimage through Albania : mark how surpassingly beautiful is the first stanza :- _* Dear _Mature is the kindest mother still , Though always changing , in her aspect mild ; From her bare bosom let me take my fiH , Her _nevcr-iveaned , though not her _favour'd child . Oh I sbe is fairest in her features wild , "Where nothing polished dares pollute her path ; To me by day or night she ever smiled , Though I have mark'd her when none other hath , And sought her more aud more , anil loved her best in wrath .

      Land of Albania 1 where Iskander * rose , Theme ef the young , and beacon of the wise , And be his namesake , whose oft-baffled foes Shrunk from his deeds of chivalrous emprize : Land of Albania J _} let me bend mine eyes On thee , thou rugged nurse of savage men ! The cross descends , thy minarets arise , And the pale crescent sparkles in the glen _. Through ma-. iy a cypress grove within each city ' s ken , Childe Harold safl'd and pass'd the barren spot "Where sad Penelope o ' eriook'd tbe wave ,- } : And onward view _* d the mount , not yet forgot , The lover ' s refuge and the Lesbian ' s grave . Dark Sappho ! could not Terse immortal save That breast imbued with such immortal fire ** Could she not live who life eternal gave ? If life eternal may await the lyre , That only Heaven to which Earth ' s children may aspire

      Here the red cross , for stiR the cross is here , Though sadly scoffM at by the circumcised , _Torgcts that pride to pamper'd priesthood dear ; Churchman and votary alike despised Toul Superstition ! howsoever disguised Idol , saint , vigin , prophet , crescent , cross , For whatsoever symbol thou art nrhed _. Thou sacerdotal gain , hut general loss ' "Who from true worship ' s gold cau separate thy dross ? Atnbracia ' s gulf behold , where once was lost A world for woman , lovely , harmless thing ! In yonder rippling bay their naval host Bid many a Roman chief and Asian Meg To doubtful _conflict certain slaughter bring : ! Look where the second _Caisars trophies rose ! IS _' ow , like tlie hands that rear'd them , withering , Imperial anarchs , doubling human woes ! God ! was thy globe ordain'd for such to win and lose !

      Oh ! whereDodona ! is thine aged grove , Prophetic fount , and oracle divine ? "What valley echoed the response of Jove 1 "Wiat trace remaineth of the thunderer's shrine f All , all forgotten—and shaU man repine That his frail bonds to fleeting life are broke ? Cease , fool ! the fate of gods may weR be thine : "Would ' st thou survive the marble or the oak % "When nations , tongues , and worlds must sink beneath the stroke ! Tfe are compelled io pass by the stanzas , perhaps equally as beautiful as the above , descriptive oi Albaulanlife , andtb . epoet ' sintervie * ffwitb . tliefamous and terrible Ali Pacha . For tbe " beauties" of these picturesque stanzas , including the semi-brigand song ranunencing Tambourgi ! Tambourgi ! thy larum afar Gives hopes to the valiant , and promise of war ;

      we must refer the reader to the poem itself ; fom the notes to which they will also glcail _RlUCll interesting information concerning the country of Albania _Utbon- was attended by two Albanians for a considerable time , and , speaking of their fidelity , he says , men " more faithful in peril or indefatigable in service" be never found . When in ihe Morea , in 3810 , the poet was seized with a dangerous fever , and these two men nursed him " with an attention which would hare done honour to civilization . " The one was a Turk [ Mahometan ] named Dervish Tahiri ; the other an Infidel [ Christian ] named Basilius . The poet thus describes his leave-taking -with these attendants : —

      "When preparations were made for my return , my Albanians were summoned to receive their pay . Basilius took his with an awkward show of regret at my intended departure , and marched away to his quarters With his bag of piastres . I sent for Dervish , bnt for some time lie was not to be fonnd ; at last he entered , just as Signor Logotheti , father tc the ci-devant Anglo-consul of Athens , and some other of my Greek acquaintances , paid me a visit . Dervish took , the money , but on a sudden dashed it to tbe ground ; and clasping Ms hands , which he raised to liis forehead , rushed out ofthe room weeping bitterly . From that moment to the lour of my embarkation , he continued his lamentations , and all our efforts to console him only produced this answer— "He leaves me . " Signor Logotheti , who never wept before for any . thing less _xban the loss of a para ( about the fourth of a

      farthing ) , melted ; the padre of the convent , my attendants , my visitors—ana I verily believe that even Sterne ' s " foolish fat scullion" would have left her "fish-kettle" to sympathise with the unaffected sorrow of this barbarian . For my own part , when I remembered that , a short time before my departure from England , a noble and mOit intimate associate had excused himself from taking leave of me because he had to attend a relation "to a niilliner ' s / ' I felt no less surprised than humiliated by the present occurrence and the past recollection . That Dervish would leave me with some regret was to be expected ; when master and man have heen scrambling over the mountains of a dozen provinces together , they are _nnwRling to separate ; but his present feelings , contrasted with his native ferocity , improved my opinion of tbe human heart .

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      The Purgatory Of Suicides, A ?Bisos Rhtj...

      THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES , A ? bisos Rhtjie e * Tex Books . By Thomas Coopeb _, Hie Chartist , London ; J . How , 132 , Fleet-street . ( Continued from the Star of September Wi . ) The following pnrely poetical and truly beautiful stanza ; , forming the exordium to the fourth book , appeal to " _aave been suggested by the singing of a robin m the window-grating of the poet-prisoner ' a cell :-* v 7 _elo > me , sweet Robin!—welcome , cheerful one ! "Whydost thou slight the merry fields of corn , — The kranas of human joy , —the plenty strown Pron Autumn ' s teeming lap , —and , at gray morn , "Ere he snn wakes , sing to the things of scorn

      Andnfamy an _* want and sadness whom Thefcsironger feRow-criniinals have torn Pronfreedom ana the gladsome Rght of home-To queen , the nobler spark within , in dungeon'd gloom S "Why _t-jsttbou choose , throughout ihe live-long day , A prisn _raaiparfforihy perch , and sing As tha _wotRdstrend thy fragile throat ? Away ! " » yliileftien u , away , npon lightwing , A whi , - —b * _yond this- house of suffering I Away _^ and I wiR watch for thy return , — _^ Thimijj , meanwhile , how , by the silver spring "Mantihrith golden lilies , thou dost turn Thy prejr head awry , so meaningly , ana yearn ,

      The Purgatory Of Suicides, A ?Bisos Rhtj...

      From but that _beaming mok , to know what thoughts , "Within the barb-leated _Oarfs-rongue dwell—The purple eye _petalleo * W » ' snow , that floats So gracefull y : —dost ttim * * _datnosel , Young Hope , kirtled _wRS Ctia _^ tity , there fell Into the stream , and grew a SowtV so fair 1 Ah ! still thou Hnger ' st , while 1 , _dreaming , tell Of pleasures I would reap , if free I were , — Like thee , —to breathe sweet Freedom ' s _bairny air . Away I—for this is not a clime lor tftee—Sweet childhood ' s sacred one ! _Thehawthornfi bend "With ruddy fruitage : tiny troops , with glee Plundering the mellow wealth ; a shout will send Aloft , if they behold their feathered friend ,-loved "Robin Redbreast , " mingle wilh their joy ! - Did tl ey notwatch thy tenderlings , and wend "With eager steps ; when school was o ' er , a coy And wistful peep to take—lest some rude ruffian boyy

      With sacrilegious heart and hand , sliould rob Thy nest as heathenly as if '•* Heaven ' s bird " "Were not more sacred than the vulgar mob Of pies and crews ? Flee , —loved one!—thou hast heard This dissonance of bolts and bars that gird Old England ' s modern slaves , until thy sense Of freedom ' s music will he sepulchred ;—Hie to yon jocund band of innocence , And , ' mid their rapture , pour thy heart ' s mellifluence ! StiR Rnger ' st tbou upon that dreary wall Which bars , so enviously , my view of grove , And Stream , and hill , —as if it were death ' s pall ? 0 leave this tyrant-hold , —and , joyous rove-Loved bird of Home , — -bird of our father ' s love , — "Where the thatched cottage , clad with late-blown rose , And sweetbriar , and rosemary , thickly wove With the dwarf _« vine , its nectared garland shews Unto the amorous bees that ' midst its sweets carouse .

      Hasten , dear Robin!—for the nged dame Calls thee to gather up the honeyed crumb She scatters at her door ; and , at thy name , The youngsters crowd to see their favourite come . Fear not Grimalkin!—she doth sing " three-thrum , ' "With happy half-shut eyes , upon the warm Soft cushion in the corner-chnir : deaf , dumb , And toothless lies old Growler : —fear no harm , — Loved Robin 1—thou shalt banquet hold without alarm Ah J Chanticleer hath eyed the dainties spread For thee , and summons his pert train the prize To share . Lo ! how the children ask with dread , Ofthe old grandame with tbe glazed eyes , " Why Robin does not come ! " Thc pet one cries , Because he sees thee not , —unpacified , Ev n with the apple tinet with vermeil dyes , The first-born offers with a kiss ! Abide Not here , expected one , —lest woe the cot betide !

      If thou return not , Gammer o er her pail "Will sing in sorrow , 'neath the brinded cow , — And Gaffer sigh over his nut-brown ale , — While evermore the petlings , with sad brow , WUI look for thee upon the holly hough—Where thou didst chirp thy sigualnote , ere on The lowly _grunsel thou didst light , and shew , With such sweet confidence , —thou darling one!—Thy blythesome face , —and , on thee , all cried "benison !'; The thought strikes the poet that the robin has abjured his former haunts because the happiness which once existed there , exists no longer : —

      Alas ! I mind me why thou _linger ' st here : — 3 fy country ' s happy cottages abound No longer!—where they stood and smiled , uprear The " _Bastihi" and the gaol!—and thou hast found Such refuge , Robin , as—upon the ground Where Alfred reigned , and Hampden fought and bled-Where Hilton sung , and Latimer was crowned With glorious martyrdom—is portioned Unto our fathers' sons—who win with tears then * bread . Bread!—nay , devour with greed the grovelling root , As recompense of labour for their lords;—Or , spurned , when begging to have , like the brute , Fodder for toil , and coerced into hordes Of midnight spoilers—swell the black records Of cruelty and crime . " This dear , dear land " Is dear no longer : its great name affords Thoughts but for curses ! Aye , where the brave baud Sang in the flames—Ut by the brood of Hildebrand

      ;—Where strode the iron men of Runnymede , And quelled the tyrant;—where Hypocrisy And Lawlessness , though sprung of royal seed And sceptred , paid stern forfeit by decree Of broad-day justice unto Liberty;—Where noblest deeds were done ; upon this _isle- _^ " This precious stone set in the silver sea , " Hen talk of England as of something vile ; And wish they could forget her , in some far exile ! The cottage b : ibes are mourning , did I say , For that the threshold tlieir loved visitant Presented not ? Alas , poor bird ! Thy lay And all its sweetness is forgot : their want Of bread hath banished thoughts of Robin ' s chaunt : The children plenty know no more ; and Love And Gentleness have fled from Hunger's haunt : — Fled is aR worship for fair things that rove Among fair flowers—worship in young hearts sweetly wove .

      Pair Nature charms not : feuowslup with song And beauty—germs from whieh grow , for the good Reverence , aad for the frail—though wrong-Pity and tenderness;—all these , the rude ChiR breath of Want hath stifled in the bud ; And beggar quarrels for their SSanty crust " Sow fill ihehosonis ol the lean , divarfed brood , The peasant father—sprung from sires robust—Beholds at home , and wishes he were laid in dust ! Ah ! darling Robin—thou wilt soon behold No homes for poor men on old England ' s shore;—No homes but the vile gaol , or vUer fold Reared by new rule to herd the " surplus poor "Wise rule which unto Pauperism's foul cere—The rich man's purse-plague ' s core—shall penetrate : Paupers shall multiply tlieir race no more . Era-apt tlicy live in palaces ! Debate Upon the rule they may : but—the slaves bear their fate 1

      Slaves—abject , bloodless , soulless , sneaking slaves . '—> Your fetters are perfected , now ! Tug , strain , Toil , sweat , and starve , and die!—For , whoso raves For larger pittance from his lords humane—Or , malcontent , daves from hard toil _leftaiw—He shaR be Bas tiled . ' His wise lords say well-Such grumbling slaves might nurture bold disdain In their serf-offspring : better ' tis to quell , At once , and , in the germ , creatures that might ; rebel 1 Cowards—why did ye suffer knaves to forgo These eunuch-fetters—and to bind them on Your limbs

      ?—Beshrew this rising m my gorge To think tbat others ' neath their fetters groan , .-And do not break them!—Wear I not my own ? Aye— -and must wear them , while my tyrants choose , WeR : let me bide my time ; and , then , atone For that real crime—the failing to arouse Slaves against tyrants : —1 may—yet—before life ' s close . In this book ( which is much superior to the second and third ) we are introduced to Chatierios , Sappho , and LucnEiius . Of the first of these we are

      told-A stately burthen , couched in antique tongue And magic rhyme , unto his mystic sheR With tuneful voice , the unseen minstrel sung . Bnt , suddenly , his lofty harpings feR To dirge-like melody—for smit by spell Of memory , fhe bard his fated toil On earth—his breath of hope hushed by the kneR Of early death , sung sadly . Bull recoil His harp seized , next—as if it shrunk from overtoil . The sorrow-broken songster , soon , to wake Its chords in wailful cavatina strove : — He sung oi tlie-proud , slighted Dosom _' s ache—Of soul-consuming fires more fierce than love

      Or jealousy—of restless hopes that move Their young possessor to aspirings wild—¦ Of disappointment ' s gall when frowns disprove His smiling day-dreams—till the draught defiled—The deathly chalice—tempts the scorn-stung Poet _^ hild ! Sobbings , that heaved as they would rend the heart , Succeeded—and the lyre was dumb ! Then passed The shade of fated Chatterton athwart My path—sad , mournful , slow , with eyes downcast , And visage ye might emblem by awaste Of over-prurience , or tropic field Where luscious fruitage springing thick and fast Expires of hasty ripeness , ere can yield Te th' taste its sweets , or their rich value be revealed , —

      The picture of Sappho is beautiful : — A monumental form , that meekly glowed With softest radiance , sadly o ' er an urn Sepulchral ' neath a lofty cypress , bowed , Midway , along this sombrous pathway . Lorn It droop'd , and , voiceless , seemed to teR , "I mourn With more than mortal grief ; " yet , was such grace Celestial hy that drooping statue worn , That one desired for ever in that place To stay and gaze upon its spiritual face . Enwrapt to ecstasy , I gazed till life Began to fill its breast , and passion shone Through its unmarbled eyes ! Death a vain strife _"Bisayed , with chilly grasp around her zone , To hold in sculptured grief that ardent one . Lo 2 high immortal Love breathed vital power On her fair Rmbs—and , with a gentle moan , She raised her head—a monument no more Of sorrow—but , for love , a peerless cynosure !

      Her islet shell the burning Lesbian took From sad repose upon the urn that feigned To hold the image of her grief , and strook The matchless chords as one who-pain disdained ; Then , proudly , though with tears , she thus complained Of slighted tenderness—vowing to feed Her fruitless flame till , spirit dlsenchained From torture , her deep constancy its meed Should find in some blest state for souls by gods decreed Phaon . ' beloved , unloving Phaon ! thee The maid enamoured hymns—by pain unchanged In Hades , as by scorn on earth , i on mc Let angry Jove , the Tgrture _^ be avenged

      The Purgatory Of Suicides, A ?Bisos Rhtj...

      For slighted life , and order dU iarr ' " S Ofhis stern government : woe »»/ _* a 11 not " 1 Trest Tliy image from its throne ; _nererv '> _strAn _* 5 * Shall be her love from Sappho ' s faith ful breast She car . love on-unloved , despised , _av uc-a 00 med ' un blest ! * " * * * Fidelity to Nature ' s impulses Shall bring , at length , ineffable reward ; They who , all unsubdusd , ' gainst miseries' _^ Of human scorn and death and woe have warred Shall meet their guerdon : ; dreams of gifted bar'd * And visions of gray seer shall be fulfilled : Torture that long the universe hath marred , Shall end ; of Love and Hate" the combat wild Shall cease : the discords of thc soul for aye be stilled .-It cannot be that with the Beautiful Deformity shall ever , envious , blend : Mercy divine , shall demon Wrath annul , Lore conquer Hate—and glorious Goodness bend Ifcr iris over life till it transcend

      The power of Evil , and annihilate Its sting for ever!— Ardent Lesbian , end Thy dreams—nor dare Futurity and Fate To fix , by thy fond wish r in fancied happy state ' . — Thus broke upon my spirit _aceents stern , Haughty , abrupt;—and , forthwith , stood beside Sappho ' s soft form a spirit cold and dern Of aspect , but whose stately , seemly pride Outspoke the tuneful Roman suicide Who wooed tha Muse to leave her wonted hill , And tread the plain with philosophic stride— t And , slighting toys , with manly themes to fill The soul—of its own Liberty , Fate , Good , and 111 . For the dialogue between the Lesbian poetess and tbe Roman philosopher , we must refer the reader to the poem . In the "Notes" to this book the poet thus speaks of Sappho : —

      Ancient and modern critics without number—Longmus , _Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Horace himself , Vossius , Hoffman , Addison , _dsc . ic , have paid the highest tribute to the poetical excellence of the fair suicide of Lesbos ; but , perhaps , a more finished and eloquent eulogy on her lyric worth is not to be found in the compass of a few words , than the following extract from the Oth vol . of the Eneyclopaidia Metropolitana : — -. " There are few intellectual treasures , the loss of which is more deeply to be regretted than that of the works of this poetess ; for the remnants which have reached us certainly display genius of the highest order ; : they are

      rich even to exuberance , and yet directed by the most exquisite taste . In these most delicious of love-songs the tide of passion seems deep aud exhaustless ; it flows rapidly yet gently on , while the most sparkling fancy is ever playiug over it ; and the words themselves seem to participate in tlie sentiments which they _develope _* It is a mistake to imagine that the fragments of Sappho are nothing more than the eloquent expressions of amatory feeUng ; they are really verses of high imagination ; -which renders them as beautiful as they are intense , and , in the opinion of some writers , raises them even to the sublime . "

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      * Iskaderis The Tnrmsh Word For Alexande...

      * Iskaderis the TnrMsh word for Alexander _, t _Albaia comprisespart of Macedonia , Ulyrw , Chaoma , andEpirs , t Ithat _. I Tuettfleof Actum ,

      The Wandering Jew. By Eugene Sue. People...

      THE WANDERING JEW . By Eugene Sue . People ' s Edition . Pabt I . London : Clark , Warwick-lane , Paternoster-row . We havo not before noticed this clever and universally popular romance ; it is therefore necessary that in introducing Mr . Clark ' s edition to our readers we should make a few explanatory remark _^ as to the plot of the story , and the principal personages who figure therein . "V The title of the work appears to have been given to it almost solely for the purpose of effect , for the famous , though fabulous Juif Errant has really but little to do with the story . " Thc Jesuits Unmasked" would have been a more appropriate title , for the whole story turns upon the intrigues of the Pere d'Aingrigny and the Pere Rodin of the society of

      the Jesuits , to deprive the rightful heirs of one Jaqucs Renncpont of property to the amount of 240 millions of francs ( about ten millions sterling ) , which they are entitled to divide amongst them , with all its accumulations , one hundred and fifty years after his death . The Jesuit intriguers are represented in the story to have induced one of the heirs of the _Rennepont family , Gabriel Renncpont by name , to become a priest and a member of the order of the Jesuits , and to abandon all his rights in the inheritance to his order . The objects therefore of the Jesuit conspirators arc to get Gabriel Rpmepontto the place where the inheritance is to be surrendered to the representatives of the family , and thus , through him . to obtain it for themselves , and to keep nil the other members of the family absent from Paris until after the division of the property . To effect this latter object , these priestly conspirators are described in the story as having recourse to all manner of fraud , falsehood , and intrigue ; hesitating not to commit

      atrocities , at the recital of which the hail * of the reader ' s head almost stands on end , "like quills upon the fretful porcupine . " , The first of the heirs , or rather heiresses of the house of _llonnepont introduced to the reader , are two young girls named Rose and Blanche Simon , the daughters of a Bonapartist Field-Marshal Simon , who , soon after the close of the last war , had married the daughter of a French refugee , belonging to the family of Rennepont , at Warsaw , and who almost immediately after the marriage had . been banished from Poland , owing to the intrigues of the Jesuits . On his return to France , having become involved in a military conspiracy , he is obliged again to fly , and proceeds to India , where ho . heads the natives , and gains several victories over , the English—romance victories ; of course ! In India he becomes acquainted with a certain Prince Djalma , the son of a native prince by a French lady , also one of the heirs of the Rennepont family . Marshal Simon ' s still mere unfortunate wife had _' been sent to

      Siberia , where she gives birth to two daughters , Rose and Blanche . These children , at her death , she leaves to the care of an old French soldier , a follower of Marshal Simon , named Francis Saudoin . This veteran of the Empire ( who bears the nickname of DagobcrtJ _, is first introduced to the reader at a coantry inn , near Leipsic , where he arrives late in the evening , with Rose and Blanche , both mounted on liis faithful steed , and is accompanied by his faithM dog . There he has the misfortune to fall in with ah emissary of the Jesuits , sent for the express purpose of stopping his course , in the person of Morok , a religious impostor , and tamer of -wild beasts , -who is travelling about the country , exhibiting his lions , Cain and Judas , and his black panther of Java , bearing the terrible name of " La Mort" ( Death ) . By this miscreant Morok , poor Dagobert ' s horse is destroyed , the poor creature being torn to pieces by

      " La Mort . " The recital of the poor animal's death is painfully horrible . Dagobert is further robbed Of his passport , and he is at last delivered intothe hands of justice , on a charge of assault and vagabondism . Fortunately , however , Dagobert escapes , and after a variety of adventures , reaches Hamburgh , where ho embarks in a steamer with Rose and Blanche . In a terrible storm the steamer is wrecked on the coast of France , but the three escape the destructive sea , and take refuge in the chateau of Mademoiselle de Cardoville , another heiress of the family of Rennepont , just as the Rev . Father Rodin , the most finished miscreant of the whole Jesuit confraternity , is on a Yisit there . By him the Pere d'Aingrigny is informed ofthe landing of Rose and Blanche . —Haying said thus much explanatory of some of the leading characters—others we shall speak of at a future timewe give the Mowing extract : —

      _IttZ DESPATCHES , * Morok , the brute-tamer , having deprived Dagohert of his horse , and robbed him ofhis papers aud money , concluded he would he unable to continue his journey . lie had accordingly , previous to th * arrival of the burgomaster , sent Karl to Leipsic with a letter , which he was ordered to carry to the post-office immediately . The address of this letter ran thus * . — _"JIossituaRom ** _-, "Rue du Milieu des Ursins , " Paris . " About the middle of this retired and little Known street , situated below the level of the Quai Napoleon , on which it opens not far from the Rue St . Landry , there stood at that time a house of modest appearance , built at the farther end of a gloomy court yard , separated from the street by a smaU building , forming a kind of fa _j ade , having an arched doorway and two casement windows protected by thickiron bar * .

      The interior of this quiet dwelling was ofthe simpliest description , as will be evident from a description of the furniture of a large room on the ground floor of tlie principal building . Old grey wainscotting covered the wails ; the tiie-pavcd flooring was painted red , then waxea , and carefully polished ; and white calico curtains were suspended before the windows . A globe , about four feet in diameter , mounted on a pedestal of massive oak , stood at one end of the room , opposite the fire place . On this large globe might Toe seen very many small red crosses , scattered over all the quarters of the world ; from the north to the south , from the east to the west ; from the most savage regions and distant isles , to the most civilised countries , including France itself : there was no land , in short , which had not places marked withth « se

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      little red crosses , evidently serving as signs of indication , or points of reference . Before a table of black wood , crowded with _pnpurs , With its back to the wall near the lire , stood an empty chair ; further on , between two windows , was a large walnut-tree bureau , surmounted by shelves bearing pasteboard boxes . Towards the end of the month of October , 1835 , about eight iu the morning , a man sat wriiing nt tliis bureau . i That man was M . Rodiu _, thu correspondent of Morok , the brute-tamer . He was fifty years of age , and wore an - _> ldthreadbareolivo great coat , with a greasy collar ; a cotK P oc , { , _'* -Ilanok' rohiefserved him as a cravat , and his t usci s _and , va ' stcoa ' hlack cloth had long since lost even paN vicle of , _iap : llis - fBBt » sbod with Urge grea 6 ed Bhoes _, resMA . ° " ? sn _^ V * S uare / ot « _" ' _""P" _* ' 1 _|

      placed on the _r _^ _«•** " _»««« _«<«>*• . His grey hair , combed -flat and _^ _"S ht . _'Oyer _. thetemplM , crowned bii bald brow . ni _«^ _rtrw _5 _^ _" _* _^ P n _^« Me . and the upper _eyelids , limp- » K rt _^ _""B bkethe membrane which half veib the eye » U . *< _$ _M _*> a , most _oneealed his small , bright black eyes . KistK and celourless . lips were not distinguishable wf * h- « n « _j . * ale complexion of _his-kau . vi « age , _sharp-jM ) se , » ndpoi i ntedC ) , . , n This livid and almost liplessfaee had a still more « tr _*» . _nge appearance from its _sepuiecsai iinmobjli _** fy ;• but for w _? ra Pi " movement of M . Rodin ' s- fingers , as , leaning cm' tJ'e bureau , he scribbled away with his pe » , £ » might ha \ 'e been taken for a corpse . With the aid of acyphcr ( or secret alphabet ) - he transcribed in such a' manner that they would be unintelligible to any ene not possessing- the key , some _pasages from a long written'paper ..

      It was an unpleasant spectacle _nobehold that maw , witli his rigid , fro 7 Xm features , writing , in mysterious-characters , in the dead silence of a dull- and gloomy day , which increased' the cheerless look of that cold and naked

      room . The clock strnolc eight , The knocker of the outer gate fell-heavily , a- bell rung twice , several doors _opentd and shut , and a > _second person entered the apartment . - M _; Rodin rose on'his entrance , still holding the pen between his fingers . Ho bowed-with profoundhumility , then resumed his task without _snying-a n orcl . ¦ - * * *• # Mr . Rodin , the stranger ' s secretary , continued' writing . " Have you finished the examination ofthe foreiga correspondence V inquired Rodin ' s master . " Here is the abstract , " " " Have the letters always- reached the required- ad--dresses in envelopes , and been afterwards brought _heue according to my directions !"" " Always . "

      " Read your abstract to me ; , if there are any I ought to answer myself , I will tell you . " And Rodin ' s master began to pace the room with his hands crossed behind liim < dictating remarks , which tlie secretary carefully noted down . The secretary took a voluminous draft , and thus began : — "Don Ramon Olivarez ¦ acknowledges from Cadiz the receipt of letter No . 19 ' •; he will observe what it enjoins , and will deny all participation in the elopement . " "Nothing to file % " "Count Romanofde Riga is in a-state of pecuniary embarrassment . " " Tell Buplessis to send him a remittance of fifty louis . I once served as a captain in the Count ' s regiment ; lie lias since given excellent information , "

      "Tlie first parcel of the History of _Ernnce ,. expurgated for the use of believers , has been " received at Philadelphia ; and these being sold , there- is a demand ' for more . " ¦ " Make a memorandum , and write to Duplessis . Go on . " ; "M . Spindler sends from _JJamur the secret report concerning M . Ardouin . _"' " Make an abstract of it . " " Doctor Van Ostadit , from the same town , sends a confidential note respecting Messrs , Spindler and Ardouin . " " Compare them . Goon . " " Count Malipierri , of Turin , sends word that the donation of 300 , 000 francs is signed , " "Inform Duplessis of that . Well ?"

      "Don Stanislaus has started for the baths of Baden with Queen Maria Ernestine . He says her Majesty will receive with gratitude the information , and reply to it with her own hand . " "Take a note of that . I will write to the Queen myself . " While Rodin made a few notes ' on the margin ofthe paper which lie held , his master , in the course of his promenade through tho length and breadth of the chamber , drew near the globe marked with smaU red crosses . He surveyed it thoughtfully for a moment . Rodin went on -. — " Owing to the state of mind prevalent in sonic parts of Italy , Father Orsml writes from Milan , where some agitators are turning their eyes towards Prance , it would be useful to circulate widely through the country a little book calumniating the French , our countrymen , as impious and debaunched plunderers ,, and _blood-shedders . "

      " The idea is capital I It would be / easy to dl'OSS up cleverly the excesses we committed in Italy during the wars of the republic . We must give the task of writing this book to Jacques Dumoulin ; that man is full of bile , gall , and venom—the pamphlet will be terrible . I will furnish some hints to him , but Jacques Dumoulin must not be paid till he has delivered the manuscript . " " To be sure not . Pay him beforehand , and he will he dead drunk for a week , in some vile haunt or other . Owing to that , you were obliged to pay him twice for his virulent tract against the pantheistical tendency of Professor Martin ' s philosophical system . " *• Make a note , and proceed , " "The merchant sends word that the clerk is about to make the banker render his accounts to the person who by right " Uttering these words with strong emphasis , Kodin said to his master— " Do you understand ?" '

      " Perfectly , " said the other , with a shudder ; " they are the expressions agreed on . Proceed . " "Butthe clerk , " resumed the secretary , " is restrained by a last scruple . " After a moment ' s silence , _during wliich his countenance contracted painfully , Rodin ' s master resumed : — "Continue to act on the clerk ' s imagination by silence and solitude ; then make him read again thc list of cases of absolved and authorised regicides . Go on . " " During three years , two servant _gfc-ls of Ambrosius , who was sent to the little parish in the mountains of the Valais , have disappeared and never been heard of . A third has just shaved the same fate . The protcstants of the district begin to whisper ; they talk of murder , attended with horrible circumstances . " "let Amhrosius be defended against the infamous calumnies of a party that never scruples to adopt the most monstrous surmises , until theve bc complete and evident proof of his guilt . Goon . " .

      " Thompson , of Liverpool , has secured for Justin the place of steward to Lord Stewart , a rich Irish catholic , whose intellect is daily growing weaker . " " When this fact is proven , send Thompson fifty louis as a gratuity . Make a note for Duplessis , and go on . " " The Cardinal Prince Almafi will conform to the first three points ofthe memorial . He wishes to make some reservations on the fourth . " "No reservations—full and absolute assent .. If not , war—and , observe particularly , desperate war—no pity for himself nor for his creatures . Go on . " "Pra Paolo announces that the patriot Boccari , thc head of a very extensive secret society , in despair at finding his friends accuse him of treason , in consequenea of suspicion instilled into their minds by Pra Paolo , has cominitted suicide . " "Boccari ! Is it possible 1 Boccari . ' . the patriot Boccari ! That eminently dangerous foe 1 " cried Rodin's

      master . "Thc patriot Boccari , " repeated the imperturbable secretary . "Tell Duplessis to send an order to Pra Paolo , for twenty-five louis . Make a note of that . " _"Hausmann announces that the French danseuse Albertine Ducomet _. is the mistress of the reigning prince : she has an absolute influence over him ; by her instrumentality the proposed design might be effected ; but , in her turn , Albertine is devotedly under the influence of her lover , who is condemned for forgery in Prance , and she does nothing without consulting him . " "Desire Hausmanu to communieate with this man , and if his demands arc reasonable _. letthem be complied with ; let him inform himself also whether this girl has any relatives in Paris . " " The Due d'Orbano sends word that the king , his master _, will authorise the proposed establishment , but on conditions already notified . "

      " Jfo conditions , positiveadherence or positive refusal ! That is the way to know Mends from foes . The more untoward circumstances appear , the more necessary itis to show firmness and self-reliance . " ' " He also writes that all the diplomatic corps support the father of the Protestant girl , who will not leave the convent in which she has taken refuge , unless it be to marry her lover ,, to . whom her father objects . " " So the diplomatic body perseveres in claiming her in the name of the father V " Yes , they persevere . " "Then continue to reply , that the _spiritual power has nothing , in . common with the temporal , power . " At this moment two loud knocks were heard at the door .

      "See who it is , " said Rodin ' s master . Rodin rose and went out . His master continued tc . pace the-room pensively . His steps having again led him near the _anormovis globe , he paused . _? or some time he contemplated , in profound silence , the numerous little crosses which _geemed to cover all the countries of the- earth like the _meshss of an immense net . Reflecting , doubtless , on the invisible notion ofhis power ,, which seesaed to pervade the world , tbat man ' s features grew animated ; his large grey eye dilated and glistened ,-his nostrils expanded , and his

      masculine countenance took an incredible expression of energy , and audacity . With a lofty brow * and disdainful lip he drew near the globe , and placed his vigorous hand on the pole . . From his powerful grasp and imperious movement , _itseemed as if . this man thought _hft ruled the g lobe he looked down on , and upon whioh . he placed his hand with such haughty , such daring mastery . But he did not smile . His . large brow became fearfully knit , and his look threatening ; an artist wishing to paint the demon of pride and tyranny , could not have chosen a more , _fearful model . When Rodin re . en , tered , his master ' s _couuUaaaw na . 'l resumed its usual expression ,

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      J TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE ~ _OoronEn . _Edinburgh ; Tait . London : _Siinpkin , and Marshall . _r - . _ Tlie opening article of this month ' s number of Tail is on the " Present State of Politics , " from the pen of J . A . Roebuck , M . P . This article will , no doubt , claim the attention of our "Whig Radical contemporaries , and may possibly elicit their praises . hov ourselves the subject has no interest , and only the curiosity to know what the" honourable and waspish member for , Bath would be saying now , could have prompted us to read a page of his _disseri atl 0 " _' _, J " comment on , the ministerial doingsf of _f'W , _Vvm ? their re > gn' from 1832 to 18-11 is an ott 7 told tale , and from sheer / repetition has become . flat , wearv . _stain , nnd _minvntitoMA >• n : „ ¦ _„>» : „«

      tionol _Puel and his position is , however , on the whole , fair and correct . ' * Monastic Studies ' , Jests . anil Eccentricities , " is afl interesting review of a , 1 , 1 _^ 1 Produced hy the _IteV . S , II . _Waiti-and , on Iho State of Religion and Literature in the _n _*"" ' tenth , eleventh , and twelfth centuries . " ' I ue Picture Collector , " by _Pbter Paul Paleim , is a capital article , intended n a companion to tho clever sketch of _the _' _. _Pictme-deahr , whieh appeared in this magazine , from the same hand , some time ago : a-more racy and amusing article wehave not read lor a longtime . Next we -have a gossiping skotch of _Derbyshire ' s famed watering place , " Buxton . " . Then follows " Job _Sykea _' a Story , " by

      that excellent sporting writer Jons Mills . The annual " Feast ofthe Foets" appears in this month ' s number , and to our mind is inferior to most of the preceding " Feasts . " Scottish ; Peasant . Life , the Birth of William the Conqueror , and thc ' Invincible Armada , are the three pest pieces in the present " Feast . " The English Opium- Eater _tontributes an article on "The Temperance Movement of Modern-Times ; " and a most singular and interesting article it is . No tee-totaller should neglect to read this curioua article ,- ahd j ; indeed , all men , whether water-drinkers or otlierwise , may glean most valuable information from the experiences aad reminiscences of the Es & nsir _Qbium Eater . We give the following extracts : —

      I * S » _1 G £ 8 T 10 « . Past counting are the victims of alcohol , that , having by vast efforts emanoipated themselves for si season , are violently forced into relapsing by the nervous irritations of demoniac cookery . Unhappily for them , the horrors of indigestion are- relieved for the moment , however Ultimately strengthened , hy strong liquors ; the relief is immediate , and cannot _fitil to be perceived bnt the aggravation , being removed to a distance , is not always referred to its proper cause . This is the capital rock and stumbling-block in the path-of him who is hurrying back to the camps of temperance ; and-many a reader , is _JiliCly to misapprehend the case through the habit he has acquired of supposing indigestion to lurk chiefly amongst luxurious dishes . But , on tho contrary , it is amongst the plainest , simplest , and commonest dishes that such misery

      lurks , in England . Let us glance at three articles of diet , beyond all Comparison Of most ordinary occurrence , viz ., potatoes , bread , and butcher ' s meat . The art of preparing potatoes for human use is utterly unknown , except in certain provinces of our empire , and amongst certain sections of- the labouring class . Iii our great cities—Loudon , Edinburgh , & c . —the sort of things which you see offered at table under the name and reputation of potatoes , are such that , if you could suppose the company to bc composed of Centaurs and Lnpitlue , or any other quarrelsome people , it would become necessary for tlie police to interfere . The potato of cities is a very danger-Oils missile ; and , if thrown with an accurate aim by an angry hand , will fracture any known skull . In volume and consistency it is very like a paving . stone ; only that , I should say ,-the paving-stone had the advantage in point

      of tenderness . And upon this horrid basis , which youthful ostriches would repent of swallowing , the trembling , palpitating invalid , fresh from the scourging of alcohol , is requested to build the superstructure of his dinner . The proverb says that three flittings aro as bad us a fire ; and on that model I conceirc tliat three potatoes , as they are found at many British dinner-tables , would be euual , in principle of ruin , to two glasses of vitriol . - The same _savage ignorance appears , and only not so often , in the bread of this island . Myriads of families eat it in that early state of sponge which bread assumes during the process of baking j but less than sixty hours will not fit this dangerous article , of human diet to be eaten . And those who are , acquainted with the works of Parmentier , or other learned investigators of bread and of the baker ' s art , must be aware that this quality of sponginess ( though

      quite equal to the ruin of the digestive organs ) is but one in a legion of vices to which tho article is liable . A German ofmuch research wroteabook on theconceivable faults in a pair of shoes , which he found to be about sis hundred and sixty-six , many of them , as he observed , requiring a very delicate process of study to find out ; whereas the possible faults in bread , which are not less in number require no study ut all for the detection * . they publish themselves through all varieties of misery . But ~ tbe perfection of barbarism , as regards ouv island cookery , is reserved for animal food ; and the two poles of Oromasdes and Ahrimanes are nowhere so conspicuously exhibited . Our insular , sheep , for instance , are so far superior to any which the contiucnt produces , that the p resent Prussian minister at our court is in the habit Of questioning a man's right to talk of mutton as anything _bsyond n great idea , unless he can prove a residence in

      Great Britain . One sole case he cites of a dinner on the Elbe , when a particular , leg of mutton really struck him as rivalling any which he had known in England . The mystery seemed inexplicable - , but , upon uiciuii'y , it turned out to be an importation from 1 ' eith . Yet this incomparable article , to produce which tho skill- of the feeder must co-operate with the peculiar bounty of nature , calls forth thc most dangerous refinements of barbarism in its cookery . A " Frenchman requires , as the primary qualification of flesh meat , that it should he tender . We English universally , but especially the Scots , treat that quality with indifference , or . with bare toleration . "What we require is , that it should be fresh , that is , recently killed ( in whicli state it canuot be digestible except by a crocodile ) ; and we present it at table in a transition state of leather , demanding the teeth of a tiger io renditin pieces ,, and the stomach of a tiger to digest it .

      SLOPS , MUFFINS , AND SUICIDES . Fifty years ago—and still lingering inveterately amongst nurses and other ignorant persons—there prevailed a notion that" slops" must be the proper resource ofthe valetudinarian ; and the same erroneous notion appears in thc common expression of ignorant wonder at the sort of hreakfastsusualamongstwomen of rankinthe times of Queen Elizabeth . " What robust stomachs they must have had to support such solid meals ! " As to the question of fact , whether the stomachs were more or less robust in those days than at present , there is no need to offer an opinion . Butthe question of principle concerned in scientific dietetics points in the very opposite direction . By how much the organs of digestion are feebler , by so mueli is it tlie more indispensable that solid food and animal food should be adopted . A robust stomach may

      be equal to the trying task of supporting a fluid , such as tea for breakfast ; but for a feeble stomach , and still more for a stomach enfeebled by bad habits , broiled beef , or something equally solid and animal , hut not too much subjected to the action of lire , isltlie only tolerable diet . This , indeed ,. is the one capital rule for a sufferer from habitual intoxication , who must inevitably labour under an impaired digestion ; that as little as possible he should use of any liquid diet , and as little as possible of vegetable diet . Beef and a little bread ( at least sixty hours old ) , compose the privileged bill of fare for his breakfast , But precisely it is , by the way , in relation to this earliest meal that human folly bas in one or two instances shown itself most ruinously inventive . The less variety there is at that meal , tho more is the danger from any single luxury ; and there i » one known by the ' name of " muffins , "

      which has repeatedly manifested itself to bc a plain and direct bounty upon suicide . Darwin , in his "Zoonomia , " reports a case where an officer , holdiug the rank of lieutenant colonel , could not tolerate a breakfast in which this odious articl * was wanting j but , as a savage retribution invariably supervened within an hour or two upon _this-act of insane sensuality , he came to a resolution that life was intolerable with muffins , but still more intolerable without muffins , lie would stand the nuisance no longer : but yet , being a just man , he would give nature one final chance of reforming her dyspeptic atrocities . Muffins therefore being laid at one angle of the breakfast-table , and loaded pistols at another , With rigid equity the colonel awaited the result . Th ' iB was naturally pretty much as usual : and then the poor man , incapable _ofietreating from his word of honour , committed suicide having previously left a line for posterity to the effect ( though I forget the expression ) , " that a muffinless

      world was no world for him ; better no life at all than a life dismantled of muffins . " Br . Darwin was a showy philosopher , and fond of producing effect ; so that some allowance must be made in construing the affair . Strictly speaking , it is probable that not the special want of muffins , but tha general torment of indigestion , was the curse from which the unhappy sufferer sought relief by suicide . And the colonel was not the fijst by many a million , that has fled from the very same form of wretchedness , or from its effects upon the genial spirits , to the same gloomy refuge . It should never be- forgotten , that , although some other more overt vexation , is gene * rally assigned as the proximate cause of suicide , and often may be so . as regards the immadiate occasion , too generally this , vexation borrowed its whole _powes to annoy , from the habitual atmosphere of irritation m which the system had been kept by indigestion . So . that indirectly and virtually perhaps . aU suicides maybe traced to mismanaged digestion . .

      "We are sorry we cannot find room for further extracts , but we earnestl y recommend tlie reader to turn to the magazine and read forhimself theentire of this valuable article . An elaborate review of ' • The Dispatches and Letters of Lord Nelson is commenced in this number . _Amonpt the _shorten notices of new works , we find the fo llowing on the Purgatory of Suicides ;—• This epic , which bears , date _Staffijrd Gaol , isiby farthe most remarkable poem » po * our table in the current monkrSd we « £ ¦ extend the period . As we cannot , however at this time , find space to render a reason , fiithes f « our approbation of _^ much of its execution , or condemnation of mw _* of * its spirit , and something of its ! tendency , we must be content , in tho meantime , to : announce to tho work ! this singular production .

      We understand by fhe _aoove that we may expeet next mouth a fair aad full review of Mr , Cooper s Po ' quu \ Yc hope so , If tho critic ' s judgment bids

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      him praise or condemn , let him do as bidden , honestly and fearlessly ; but no burking . We have a high opinion of the criticism of this magazine , and shall be glad to sec it brought to bear on thc production of bur Chartist poet . ' This is , _*¦ take it for all in all , " an excellent number of Tait _, and we have much pleasure in recommending it to our readers .

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      * Lucretius . t "in reading the rules " of the order of the Jesuits , under the title 'De . Formula _Scri & eiidi' ( lustitut . ii ., xi ., p . 125-129 , the development of the eighth part of the _Con « stitutions ) , we are astonished at the number of letters , relations , registers , and writings of all kinds preserved in the archives of the Society . a system of police , much more exact and better informed than that of any government , is here brought to light . The Venetian Government itself was surpassed by the Jesuits . When that state expelled them in 16 _D 6 , it seized their papers , and censured their extreme and

      intolerable curiosity . Then * police system ( that secret inquisition ) , carried to such a degree of perfection , explains the power , of a body so weU-informcd _, so persevering in its projects , so powerful through unity , and ( as the Constitutions themselves express _iqTthe union of its members . It is easy to see , also , what inimenso ascendancy the government of this society acquired ; and how truly the General of the Jesuits was enabled to say to the Duke of Brissac : 'Prom this chamber , sir , I govern not only Paris , but _Chiija ; not only China , but the whole world ; _neffdves anyone know how itis done . ' "—Constitutions of the Jesuits , with the declarations . Latin Text , from tly _« _"fragftO _Eflit ., I p . 470 to 478 . Paris , 1834 .

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      "He was Locked Up . "— "Who was locked up _?~ what was the culprit ' s sin against society ? What niquityhadhe- _"a poor siclclv bov , aqout fifteerv > ears ot age "~ committed , that the awful Mr . Combe , sitting m his magisterial chair at _Clerhenweli ; should punish tieprisoner , ( who liad not 2 s . 6 d . to pay a hne ) with hard captivity . ' " What ( asks themoralist ) was his evil-doing ? " Listen , and sigh over the wickedness of humanity . Tlie '' sicklv boy" had obstructed " the foot-path and carriage-way in _Chnpei-atrcot , St . Vtmem , with his basket of fruifc

      rqr sale I 'l he audacious malefactor , " with tears in his eyes , said lie had no otlier way to live ; " and thc offending , destitute wretch was therefore—locked up!—fundi . The Sm AUEBfltfPB ' Oy ' _J-MEST iHAKKvuiat Received ; , —The difficulty , it seems , with railways is to invent a whistle that shall give intimation to ' another train of approaching danger .- We are sure the public would be too grateful for any improvement of the kind , especially as they now find that , if they lose their lives on a pleasure excursion , it is paying rather too dearly for their whistle . —Aid .

      _TUJJ _ASDOYEK WM > _-1 tOW , [ "Thoy ( the adherents , or tail , ofthe Chairman ofthe * Andover Union Board ) take up the case in the spirit of partizanship : the Chairman is their leader , and their warcry is 'We wuut he beat ! Wa wuht . be bcat ' , "W Report in Times . Wc vront bc beat ' . "We wuntbabeat ! Pon ' t talk ' to we—for we _wuntsse- 't—Talk to a pooast _, or a log , Goo argit ' y wi' hos or hog . "We be resolved our side shall win , "for which we'll goo drough thick an * thin > What do we care wliat paupers cat ? "Wewuntbebeat ! Wo wunt be beat ! '

      "We wunt be beat . ' lVe wunt be beat ! _"VVe wunt bc prached to , we repeat ; We don't care what the truth may he , 'Tis all the one , vor that , to vre . What we ' ve made up our minds to do , That zame we manes to carry drough ; You may as well a mule entreat ; We wuut be beat ! We wunt be beat ' . We wunt be beat ! We wunt he beat ! Oil we _M-ill goo , and _Tvunt retreat . No ; by our Cliairman we will stand , 'Gin all the rason in the land . We ' ve got no ears for pnupers ' groans , What zignifies their kiiawuiv * bones ? What inntterswhat be Workus taeat ! , We wunt be beat ! We wunt be beat !•—Md

      Pukcii s _PoLiTicAE-DlcwoiVARr . —Allotment System —the practice of allotting little bits of ground to agricultural labourers to diminish tlieir grounds ot complaint , and by employing them on small plots of earth preventing-them from entering on plots of JJ _niOl'C dangerous character . 'I'he system is said to have worked well ; and the labourers have worked well , wherever it lias been- adopted . ' Ambassadorit sort of ticket-porter , by whom-messages and parcels are carefully delivered from _> one sovereign tor another . An ambassador must furnish _hia country _^ men with passports and protection ; : so that lie is not " only a porter , but a policeman as- well , for he musts

      defend those who apply to him- for assistance , and enable them to " move on" when' travelling . Aa ambassador is called " his Excellence , " though lie may excel in nothing but short whist and diplomatic cunning . An ambassador is-free i ' romall process , so that , after dealing with tradesmen to a large extent , _, he may cut , or play any other odd triok that a _Jackin-oflice , if he happens- to be a knave , would disgrace himself by practising . Amendment—a word _some « times applied to the tinkering of an Act of Parliament . It is called amendment from , the Greek a , which signifies not ; and mendmmti which is the old Saxon term for mending ..

      SriMTEn Proceeding ax Colossi *'—Her Majesty * with that liberality to foreigners , for which she is unfortunately so distinguished , presented the above city with £ 5 G 0 towards the _workaof thc cathedral . A meeting was got up in order to-refuse the royal bounty , and request her Majesty to give it to the * poor Irish , ov to the Anglican church ; but those finger-ends of office—the police—dispersed the meeting , before any resolution had been oomo to . We are glad it ended so . Had these gentlemen passed tnehr humane resolve , they would have had the bitterness of disappointment for their labour . Her Majesty-God bless lier!—when an Englishman or Irishman ia concerned , would rather take than give . —Ibid .

      On De _/ lU . Me . —It has bean _pvivately reported that a certain great personage , since the mighty fuss some goths have kicked up about thc slaughter- of game at Gotha , has lamented that she had not been at home in the royal nursery listening to her dears- talking instead of being present at the deor-stalking abroad . —Ibid . A Churchwarden ' s Mistake . —A large farmer , who is churchwarden of a parish nenr Aylesbury ; recently received by his carrier a bottle of spirits , and some letters and parcels , one of which was a list of voters to be stuck on the Church door . On Sundaymorning the congregation were amused and surprised to find on the Church door a bill to tho follovwng effect : — Mr , Bough t of Henry Gulliver , 2 gallons best brandy .... 30 s £ 3-Paid same time . Please return the bottle .

      In the afternoon thc list of voters covered _tlllS ' curious notice . Swearing " Books . —ilaiv- Extraordinary , —At , the Eniiistymon petty sessions on Monday , Michael Droney , gamekeeper to Major . Macnamara , summoned two men for hunting and killing a liaro with " ; two greyhounds and abeag e , on the ISth of August . The case having been proved against them a dismissal was called for , on the ground that the information was not sworn on the Holy Evangelists , but on a Protestant prayer book . Thc swearing-book ( wliich was stated to be the same used for thc last thirteen years ) was examined , and declared not to contain the Holy Evangelists , and the court therefore dismissed the case . [ Close inspection would often detect similar informalities in English _CoiirtB , ];

      JOHNKY DARBXSniKE , A rRIUITIVE QUAKSR . —Oil his way to his regular meeting he had to pass through . a toll-bar ; and being on Sundays exempt by law from paying at it , it may be supposed that the barkeeper did not fling open thc gate often with . the best grace . One Sunday evening , however , Johnny Darby skive had , from somo cause or other , stayed late witli his friends after afternoon meeting . When lie passed through the toll-gate he gave his usual , nod to the keeper , and was passing on ; but the man called out to demand the toll , declaring that it was _no > longer Sunday night , but Monday morning , being past twelve o'clock . " Nay , friend , thou art wrong , ' "*" said Johnny , pulling out his watch * . ;" see , it yet wants a quarter . "— " No , I tell you , " _' replied the

      keeper , gruffly , "it is past twelve . Look , there is my clock . "— " Ay , friend , but thy clock like thyself doesn't speak the truth . Like its master , it is »• little too hasty . I assure thee my watch is right , for I just now compared it by the steeple-house clock ia the town . "— " 1 toll yon , " replied the keeper , angrily , " I ' nothing to do with youv watch . ; . I go by my clock , and there it is . "— " Well , . I _. lhink thou arfe too exact with me , my friend . " — " Will you pay me or not ? " roared the keeper ; "you go through , often _, onough in the devil ' s name without paying . " - * "Gently , gently , my friend , "' replied Johnny ; "there is the money : and its really after twelve o ' clock thou sayst ? ' ""— "To be _subb . "— " WelL . very wollt then for the * next twenty-four hours I can go through

      again without paying ?" - "To be sure ; everybody knows that . "— " Very well , then I now bid thee farewell . " And with that , Johnny Parbyslure jogged on . The gate-keaper , chuckling at having & b lalt extorted a . double toll from the _siuwd Quaker , writ to bed , not , on that quiet road , expecting further disturbance till towards daylight ; but , just as he was about to pop into bed , he heard some one nde _up-and cry , " Gate !» Internally cursing the late _troveller , he threw on his things and descended to onen thc gate , when he was astonished to see the ftuaker returned . "Thou sayst it really is past twelve , friend ?"— " To be sure . "— " Then open the gate : I have occasion to ride back again . "—Tha gate flew open , Johnny Barbyshire trotted back ; towards the town , and the man , with double curse * in his mind , _jeturned up stairs . This time he was . not so sure of exemption from interruption , for a * expected the Quaker would in a while be coming back homewards aeain . And he was quite right .

      Just as he was about to put out his candle , there was a cry of M Gate . " He descended , and behold the Quaker once more presented himself . — " It _wallyia past twelve , thou sayst ?'' - « "Umph ?» _, _gnmted tha fellow .- " Then , of course , I have nothin g more to pay . I would not , however , advise thee _togo to * _oea . _toiight , for it is so particularly fine that I _propwe _* . to enjoy it by riding to and fro here a few hours . _^ The _iw , who now saw / ohnny Iterbyahire ' _s _m , drift , exclaimed , " Here , for _^ X _^^ V _*^ your money back , and let me get a wink of sleep ., _«• But Johnny refused to receive the money , observuir , "if it was after twelve , then the uaoney X 3 justly thine ; but I advise thee another time not to be to * exact , " and with that he rode off . _—Mn _^ _ry _^ _S _^ _gfir . ¦ Ban _Bjiax ax LASL _^ The "Irish paperal are- _. _all-iSt _*^' - _* , mortalizing a most wost _wwder _{^ V . _ikitor ' _"ffwe % : xj surpassing Mr . O'Connell himself , has been born , & v _2 . a place , called llose CarD _^ ry , with " _twobails ' * ' * , I while the _Iterator , go i _" _^ has onl y , _achieved one , _^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 4, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_04101845/page/3/