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      Apmi. 5, 1845 - The Northern Star. ^ J

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      APRtt FOOLS . He wbomourneth day by day Tnathisvouth doth pass away _vutetheblossomson the tree , Snr eau Apri _^ ool maSt he : for the blossoms fade and die That the tree may fruit supply ; go vonth fled , we e er should find Fruitful wisdom left behind . pit who lives to garner gold , Selling what should ne ' er be sold , Bartering peace for dross , why he Sure an April-fool must be * _jjjmv who ' d h ave mo n rn'd his end WiU rejoice that they may spend ; for the ingots he may save , - _\' onc wffl boxy in his grave .

      "He who spurns the homy hand , thTo _^ hag loom or tilling- land , Treating labour scornfully—Sure an April-fool is he ! Were theloom of toil bereft Spider would weave warp and weft * . "Earth and labour are allied—Thriftless groom makts thriftless bride . _ He who ibinks that Time hath done JUl for _tt-hich Timfe was begun , Nor Its onward course doth see , S uch a n A pril-fool must be ! Nig ht but slowly melts away , Daylig ht cometh ray by ray ; Time must work creation ' s plan , And Jl & K be victor over Mas . JerroUTs Shitting Magazine

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      Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine—Apis...

      DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE—Apish . Bravely is the promise to make every article in ibis Magazine " breathe with a purpose" fulfilled by the editor and Ms clever assistant contributors . There is not a solitary page of this publication that does not fhHv redeem " the pledges given in the prospectus , and realise all the expectations whicli were entertained by the most sanguine of its friends . In the story of " St . Giles and St . James" we have this month , a continuation ofthe progress ofthe Hog-lane hero , who from petty larceny lias made astride to ihe more Tnipin-likecxploit of horse-stealing , wliich at the age of fourteen brings him under sentence cf death . Much beautiful writing— " thoHghts that breathe and words that burn "—such as Douglas

      TEKnotn alone could write is to be found in this story . The " Cat and Fiddle Moralities , " by the Editor , rive promise of rare entertainment ; the " Tale of a Tiger , " contained in thc first ef these " Moralities , " is made the medium of enforcing the moral " never io _nenlect and ill-use a poor relation . For however low and helpless he may seem , the day may come when he _sh-Jl have about him the strength of a _tker . " " Holidays for the People" is an excellent article , the purport of which may be inferred from iirfiuc . The writer suggests that thc 3 rd of April , lie real or presumed birth-day of "William _ShakaiLiRE , should henceforth be the great national holiday of the people of this country . Leaving St . Georcrc to the contempt or oblivion he so richly mcriisSt . George ' s day must still be Vie day of an

      , _-Enslislmian ' s festival year , it being _Shakspeaee ' s birth-day . The writer goes on to give a fancy piciure of Ihe way thisholiaay will be kept in years hence . * _* Yould that his rosy dreams were realised The _suggestion of this writer is a most excellent one , and we ' lLiiik something should at once be done to carry it as far as possible into practical effect . To achieve-the full realisation of this writer ' s ideas the publie mind requires further enlightemncnt , and the public taste needs that wise direction which the few must impart , and to effect this the concerted action of the few is needed . Wqj not commence the natioiwtl festival this year ? It would he perhaps the few only who would at first take part in it ; no matter , " Rome

      was not built in a day ; " but , thc sooner the _^ ood work is begun , the sooner -will it arrive at a glorious perfection . "A history for Tounir England" is a most valuable paper , containing historical truths not to be found in any of the common compilations of English history we have seen . The period embraced in the present chanter is the terrible seven years of the Norman conquest from 10 G 6 to 1073 . The character ofthe Royal bastard is painted with a master ' s hand , and - " - "he butcheries perpetrated by the Normans , and lie horrible sufferings of the Saxon-English , are described with thrilling fidelity . Several other articles in prose and poetry are to be found in the present number . From the admirable " Hedgehog Letters" we give the following : —

      TO _SiHOEL HEDGEHOG , GALL 4 STEE SHOWMAN , _BATCLlFlr'S 1 J 1 GBWAV . Deab Silt , —I ' m just come home from Hampstead ; an d so , while the matter ' s fresh in my mind , I sa t do w n ; o write you a few lines . Ton have heard of thc awful murder—of course . — "WeU , I don't know : murder ' s a shocking thing to be sure ; nobody can say it isn't ; and yet after what Fre seen to-day—Sunday , mind— -it does almost seem to me as if people took a sort of pleasure in it . Bless you ? if you'd only seen the hundreds and hundreds of folks figged out in their very best to enjoy a sight of the pl ace w he r e a man h ad bee n bu t che r ed , —you'd have thought Ilaverstock field , stained and cursed as it is with bloed—a second _TauxbaU at the least . _Tm sure I _* Te seen people going to Greenwich _Tair , with not half -ie pleasure in their faces . However , I'll tell you all about it .

      1 was called off the _staadabout eight o ' clock this morning by a -jcmlanau and lady , dressed as I thought for church . * They ' re a little earl y , thought J , but that ' s _Adr "business . * " Take us to Hampstead , " said the gentlem an ; " and mind ; as near to the murder as possible . ' ' " Do , my goodman , " said the lady—bless you ! to have looked at her you'd have thought she'd have fainted at the sound of murder— "do my good man , " said she , andmake baste ; for I wouldn ' t be too late for anything . Take care of these , " said she to the gentleman , g iving iiini a "basket , *' and niind they don 't break . " "WeU , it ' s my business to drive a cab ; so I said nothing hut started for Hampstead . Bless you ! before I'd got half up Tot--renham-court-road , it was no easy driving , I can teU you . The road _swa-mied ! Tip and down the _Xew-Toad , t h roug h _Camdep Town , and ri ght to Haverstock-hill—I never saw anything like it , except perhaps on the day they ruu for the Derb y . —Everybody seemed turned out to enjoy themselves—determined to have ahoUday and no mistake .

      Well , I drove as near as I could to the place : and then IgOt a boy to hold the horse , and got down and went along with my fare . If i t did n't make me savage and sic * - , Sam , t o see hundreds of fellows—well-dressed gentry , mind _youl—^ aping and lounging about , and now and then poking fhe grass with their sticks , as if it was something precious because blood had been shed upon it —and now breaking bits off the trees about the place , I suppose to make tooth-picks and cribbage-pegs of . And men there were fathers—precious fools!—bringing their children with them , boys and girls , as though they'd "brought _V'iu to a stall of gingerbread nuts , where they mi ght fiU their beUies aud be happy ! But the worst of all . Sam , was to See the women , lots of ' em nice , young-, fair creatures , tender as if they were made of best was , — there they were running along , and looking at the bushes , and the grass , and talking of the blood , and the deathstruggle—just asif they were looking at aud talking of -ie monkeys at the'Logical Gardens . "WeU , the handsomest of ' cm after a time looked to me no better than

      young witches , —ana that ' s the truth . Every minute I expected some of ' em to do a polka , th e y did af t e r a t ime Seem so to enjoy themselves . "Well , all of a sudden , I m i ssed my fare . Looking about , I saw my gentleman go up to the brick waU . Then "fee took a beavy hammer out of lus pocket , and Mocking away , spfit a _briCk , and then knocked it out of the wall . "This is something like , " said he to me , t wmkli ng his eye ; " sometliing to remember the murder ljy . " And then be carefully wrapt the pieces of brick in a silk handkerchief , and put ' em in his brcasi pocket , as if they'd been lumps of diamonds . I said nothing— -but I could lave kicked liim . However , he hadn ' t done yet—for going to a part of tbe field , he said to his wife—for so she proved to be— "This is the place , Arabella ; the very place : where ' s thc pots I" Then the lady took three garden-pots from a basket , and t hen he r husb a nd , dropping upon bis knees , turned up the earth with a large _clai-p-knife . and when _le-diiDed the pels , he dug- up two

      or three daisy roots , and set ' em ; his wife smiling and looking as happy aU fhe wlrile as if she'd got a new gown , or a new bonnet , or both . " Come , " said the gentleman , _s-muitins at the daisy roots , aad twisting onc of the pots in his _band—« this is what I call worth coming for . As I say , this is something torecoUect a murder by . Humph !" and then he paused a bit , and looted very wishftdly at the _stUe—" iimnpb ! i should like a walking-stick out of that ; but the police are so particular , I suppose they wouldn ' t suffer it Gome along , ArabeUa ; " and securing the broken brick and the daisy roots in the pots , my gentleman went back to the cab . * " Now drive as fast as you _cantoaie cburch _/ hesaid ; « I wouldn't but be there for aay money . "Well , I never did drive through sueh a crowd , but at last I managed it : and at last , —but no ; I haven ' t patience enough to write any more upon this part Of it There was nothing wanted in and about the churchyard to make it a feir , except a few staUs and such like . It made nie sick , Sam , to look upon this murder ' s _UoUday .

      I wish you'd have seen the Yorkshire Grey , publicbouse ! Xo sooner did tier open fhe doors , than there was as much scrambling as _' at any p layhouse on boxingmgb t -Well , the landlord didn't make a little by bis gin that day _« _^ _uriier proved a good customer to liim ! And Tien to seetlie hundreds and hundreds struggling and pashms to get to the bar—to hear ' em lau g hi ng and shouting—and seeing 'em tossing off their liquor—upon my "fife , Sam , ihere was a mob of well-dressed , weU-to-do _Englishmia , that , considering wha t had brought tliem there , wasn 't half so _decent asa crowdof Zealand savages . Cricketing ' s an English sport—so is single-stick--so are bowls—so are mne-pms—and after what I ' ve seen 10-day—so , I ' m sure of it is murder- "For my part , it does seem a liiue bard to bang tbe murderer himself , when it appears that he gives by his wickedness so much enjoyment to his _feUow-subjects * WeU , Sam , _Fm now come to the marrow of my letter , and it ' s this , I do think , if you wfll only take _pah-s , and

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      have all the murders of the year nicel y got up , you may make a capital p e nn ' orth of the lot wilh your show at Christmas . When , lords and iauies make a scrimmage for it at police-courts , and respectable , pious people take in newspapers for the very best _likenesses of prisoners and _cut-tliro-ts , — I ' m sure you'd get custom—if the thing was well done—ay , " of the nobility , gentry , a n d public in general . " Now , do , Sam , take my advice . Depend upon it , the poplar taste sets in for blood : and so , instead on w in t e r ' s nights a going about with your old-fashioned cry of _" ' GaUantce-Show "—sing out "llur—der , " and your fortune ' s made . And so no more from Vour cousin and well-wisher , Juniper Hedgehog .

      Mr. George Crl-Ikshank's Tablebook.—Apri...

      MR . GEORGE _CRL-IKSHANK'S TABLEBOOK . —April . " The Dream ofthe London Season , " by the Editor , is a pleasant conceit in verse , magnificently illustrated with a splendid steel engraving , by Mr . Cruikshank . The other illustrations are all excellent . The best of the literary contents is " Betty Morrison ' s Pocket-Book "—a pleasing and simple story of a good and fortunate servant girl . The lines " To Rosalie , -with a pair of Scissovs , " are very pretty , but too lengthy to transfer to our columns .

      Ta1ts Edinburgh Magazine—Aran. With The ...

      TA 1 TS EDINBURGH MAGAZINE—Aran . With the present month ' s number wc have to acknowledge the receipt of the numbers for November , December , and January last ; we shall now be in a ? osition to make ourselves acquainted with Mrs . obxsiose ' s tale of "The Goldsmith ' s Daughter " from the commencement . "Next month our readers shall have our opinion thereon . The present number of fait opens with an article on the glorious German Poet , _Fueiligkatk ; his '' Poems and Politics . " Of this article we shall have something to say in our forthcoming " Feast ofthe Poets . "

      We are glad to meet Box Gacltiee again ; though No . 4 of * ' Nights in the _Martello" is not near so good as its predecessors . The views therein respecting Dickens , we beg io enter our protest against . We are glad to find Box Gaul-tier making favourable mention of an old friend of ours , and political coadjutor , Mr . William . M'Dowall , of Dumfries , who , it appeals , has published a volume of poetry , entitled , " The Man ofthe Woods . " A specimen isgiven from a poem entitled , "The Martyr of Erronianga , " the subject being the death , of Williams , tlic missionary . We have not room for the lines , but wc agree with the writer in Tait that they are " beautiful . " From Madame Wolfensberger ' s delightful " Letters from Naples" we give thc following notice of

      TnE JESUITS IN THE VALLEY . OF S 03 BENTO . The Jesuits only a few years ago for the first time fixed themselves in this delicious valley . At tbe commencement they were onl y four or five in number , and pur . chased a smaU house overhanging the sea ; others joined them ; they required more accommodation , and they enlarged tlieir dweUing . The further increase of their numbers obliged them to add a --Aug to the building- , which was now become a seminary . Its iiuhabitauts are every day extending then- power . Yet aU this is going on quietly and silently no one knows what is passing behind the high walls that surround then * garden and dwelling : but their influence is daily felt more and more , though those they seek to govern are unconscious whence it proceeds . Dutitis excercised f or no good purpose . Satisfied tliat the ignorance of the people is the best foundation for their authority , they make no efforts so dispel it , and the poor children of thc valley are still as ignorant aud neglected as before the pious fraternity became the inhabitants of then * shores .

      Several reviews of new works , and a continuation ofthe "Life and Correspondence of Niebuhr , thc Historian of Rome , " complete the very excellent , number of Tail for April .

      Wade's London Review—Armx. London: Orr A...

      WADE'S LONDON REVIEW—Armx . London : Orr and Co ., Paternoster-row . This is a capital number of the London Review The opening article , on the- "Relative Civilisation of Ancient and Modern Nations , " is a most able contribution to , or rather review of , history . Such articles £ stliis , and those on "Religious ' Changes" in the preceding liunibers , stamp this Review as one of the most talented and fearless publications of the present time . We should have dearly liked to have transferred to these columns thc brief biographical sketch of the immortal Rabelais , but cannot possibly afford room to do so . AVe give the description of the

      FIKST APPEARANCE OF BAEELAIS IN _TAMS . More than three centuries have silently rolled away since on le Ouai des Auguslins in Paris , opposite I ' jSotel cTHereu l e ( where Chancellor "Duprat lived ) , there appeared one day a strange figure , dressed in a long green robe , with an Armenian cap and huge spectacles tied to it , and an enormous inkhorn at his girdle , and a mob of aU the loungers behind him . Attracted by the noise of the crowd , t he c h ance l lo r comes to the wi n do w , and , on seeing this strange being , demands who he is , aud receives as answer , "Jcsuisecorckeur des veaux . " Dupratis a son of Eve ; his curiosity is excited , and he sends a page to inquire further into the matter . The page advances , andjreceives a reply in Latin . Away he goes to fetch one who understands that language , and the stranger bursts forth into Greek . A Greek scholar appears , and is saluted in S p anish ; and every new interpreter hears a new language , tUl the mighty linguist has gone through Italian , German , and Hebrew , and perhaps Arabic , Dutch and Danish . The astonished chancellor then

      himself gives him an audience , and the stranger all at once addresses him in the vernacular tongue , and discovers his name and object , namely , t bat he has co m e o n b eha lf of tbe privileges of the faculty of ilontpelier , and thathe had adopted this method of introduction after having in vain tried every other . This odd being _wasFaANCois Rabelais , physician , and s t r a n g e as his debut may ap p ear , i t is a fi t p r esen t men t ofthe author ofthe lives of Gargantua and his son Pantagrucl . His life was grotesque throughout , and Still more grotesque is the book in which , though dead , be still speaks to posterity . "Caligraphy and Character" is an amusing article ; bnt Ave suspect fancy has at least as much to do as fact in supporting the writer's theory . The " Cycle of Nations , " and articles on " Scottish Banking , " and the " Board of Ordnance , " we have not yet found time to read . Several reviews of new books ave contained in the present number , wliich altogether is well calculated to render this periodical highly popular .

      The London Entertaining Magazine. Pari I...

      THE LONDON ENTERTAINING MAGAZINE . Pari IV . Vol . L—London : B . D . Cousins , Duke-street , Lincoln's-inn-fields . In addition to Eugese Sue ' s Matilda , this part contains the commencement and continuation of a new and interesting novel , entitled " Alida ; or , Town and Country . " Several other tales and sketches in prose and poetry , one from the pen of Thomas Hood , also appear in this part . Part IV . completes the first volume , which is now before ns , and we are bound to admit that the publisher has fully redeemed the promise he set out with •—that of producing a work which , from the novelty of its combination , the convenience of its size , and its trifling cost , would merit the patronage of all

      classes . And it appears that , judging _^ from the encouragement he las received , the publisher ' s endeavours to eater for the pnblic have not been in vain . Grateful for this patronage , the same care , we are informed , ivill be taken to render future volumes of this little wonder of literature still further _deserving of popular support . Books in general have within a very few years been greatly reduced in price , bnt the exceedingly small charge for this publication is without equal , even in these days of cheap literature . The volume , containing six hundred closely printed pages , elegantly bound , may be had , we understand , tor three shillings . We may remind our readers that this _Magasine may also be had in weekly penny numbers and monthly parts .

      A Journey Up Tiie Mississippi River, Fro...

      A JOURNEY UP TIIE MISSISSIPPI RIVER , FROM ITS MOUTH TO NAUVOO , THE CITY OF THE LATTER-SAY SAINTS . By W . Aiikex , of Ashton-under-Lyne . The author of this little book is well known to the Lancashire Chartists , as a man whose patriotism and abilities are of a sterling and high order . He has suffered consider ably from the persecution of the rampant enemies of man ' s rights , and to this cause , Ave believe , is to be attributed his American venture . His sojourn in the States appears to have been not of very long duration ; and , judging by the work before us , his previous admiration of Transatlantic men and

      things appears , to say the least , not to have been strengthened . His out-spoken denunciations of slavery are just what we should have expected from an honest man battling and suffering for freedomfor all . His exposure ofthe Mormon fraud is an act of mercy to the dupes ofthe "latter-day " knaves yet remaining in England ; it is to be hoped many of those will make themselves acquainted with the actual state of things at Nauvoo , and thus save themselves the misery of encountering the horrible reality endured by the victims of this wretched imposition .

      Mr . Aiikes ' s visit to the States not being a trip of pleasure , but an act of necessity , and his business there being not book but _fcrea _^ Biaking , his opportunities of seeing the country were necessarily very limited . His first point of landing was _Hew Orleans —a place which , according to Mr . Aitkex ' s account of it , we should have no desire to visit . From New Orleans he sailed 1 , 500 miJes np the Mississippi to St . Louis . _Trayellijig was very cheap , but at St . Louis it was found that hundredswere out of employment , for whom subscriptions were being raised , and whom it was proposed to transport to the Oregon . After considerable labour and suffering , Mr . Aiikex succeeded in obtaining a school-teacher ' s place in the State of Illinois , the cause of abandoning which is not stated . Before leaving the country he paid a visit to Nauvoo . The only fine building in the " Holy City" was the vet unfinished temple . Almost the only decent building was the prophet ' s house . The mass of the inhabitants were lodged in the most

      A Journey Up Tiie Mississippi River, Fro...

      • wretched hovels , suffering thorough "destitution . " Mr . Aitken encountered the prophet , the notorious Joe Smith , who , as our readers are aware , has since been assassinated . He is described as a coarse , illiterate , omen-laced impostor , with a tendency to swear like a Billingsgate fish-wife . Some account of the Mormon fraud is given : a more contemptible piece of jugglery never was attempted bv the veriest mountebank . Mr . Aitkex ' s descriptive powers are no way insignificant ; wc are , therefore , sorry that , instead of occupying space with the "lecture" and the " poetry , " ho did not give us some account of his Ufe instead , and the customs of the inhabitants during his six months' teaching in Illinois . We should also have been glad to have had some particulars of his journey back to England . The book has certainly an _unfinished appearance , and that is its worst fault . We had marked several passages descriptive of the

      revolting state of tho slaves of New Orleans for extract , but cannot afford room for them . Mr . Aitke . Vs statements of the condition of the slaves , and the brutal ruffianism of their infamous Republican (!) masters , are truly shocking . Journeying up the Mississi ppi , Mr . Aitken hud several opportunities of conversing with the plantation slaves . He describes their lot as anything but enviable , and their desire for liberty as universal . That portion of Mr . Polk ' s message ( given in our List ) relative to the abolitionists , cannot fail to excite the most intense disgust in thc breasts of all who may read Mr . _Aitkex's account of United States slavery . Mr . Aitken ' s " Journey , " wliich is published for a shilling , is printed by Williamson , of Ashton-under-Lyne ; but wc presume may also be had of the Manchester and London publishers . We cordially recommend it to our readers thev will find in its contents much that is valuable and interesting .

      The Runaway Apprentice; Or, A Peep Into ...

      THE RUNAWAY APPRENTICE ; OR , A PEEP INTO THE FACTORY SYSTEM . London * G . Berger , Holywell-street . This is a curious little book , containing something ofthe life of one who appears to have endured some hard" _buffefctings In the course of Ills mortal pilgrimage . The author is , we believe , a working man , bora in France of English parents . Driven frem that country by the revolutionary outbreak of 1789 , his parents took refuge in Holland . Hero , on the arrival of the British army in 1793 , the author ' s father re-joined the military ; he had previously served in America , under General Womb . In the dcplorabb retreat of 1795 , the author lost liis father . The wretched man died of his wounds and cold , leaving his two children whom he had with him . the

      author , then a boy nine years old , and his sister , a year older , to the tender mercies of his comrades . Two villains of the British army took charge ofthe children , but robbed them of their money left by their father , and finally deserted them at _Bramilly _, on the Rhine . Here , at first taken care of by a benevolent German family , they were subsequently transferred to the British Consul , and by him sent to England . On their arrival in tliis country the orphans were taken to tlle Military Hospital at Chelsea , from there to the workhouse of that parish , and finally were sold by thc parish officers to a mill-owner in Lancashire of the name of Douglas , who had two mills near Castlenioore , not far , we believe , from Eecles . The hellish factory-system of that time , described

      by the author of this little book , must bave been the most atrocious system of robbery , tyranny , arid cruelty , that ever cursed the earth . After enduring and witnessing the most heart-rending brutalities , and after many futile attempts at escaping , the last of these attempts was successful . He walked about 200 miles , and at length reached the metropolis . In London , he obtained employment as pot-boy , and after serving in this aud a similar capacity in several public-houses , he at length obtained a better situation in the house of a medical gentleman . He subsequently lived in several families as a . " gentleman ' s servant , " and seems to have considerably improved his circumstances at that time . The narrative abruptly concludes at the period of the author ' s twenty-fourth year .

      It was only then that he became acquainted with the fate of his mother , who was in England at the time of his lather ' s death . About thc same time he recovered possession of his sister , whom he nad been constrained to leave behind at the factory-hell . We had marked for extract several passages descriptive ofthe horrors of the factory-system , fifty years ago , but want of room compels us to withhold them . This little book has many faults of composition , but considering that the author passed his childhood and youth , without any one to guide him in the paths of knowledge , that he was twenty years old before he learned to read , and then was his own teacher : considering these things , we think it reflects great credit on him to be able to write at aU , much more a book of any kind . We believe this , too , is not his first

      attempt , as wc see he describes liimself as the author of " Rambles with the British army in 1793-94-95 , " and " Life among the Spindles ; " but of these works , not having seen them , we can say nothing . It only remains for us to recommend this little book to our readers , which we do most willingly . We had almost forgot to say , that the reminiscences of the author ' s " campaigning , " contained in the work before us , we have perused * with much pleasure , on account of his humane and enlightened views on the subject of that scourge of the earth—War . We understand that he lias published the present narrative with the view of assisting himself and family ; and we sincerely hope that tliat view may be realized . Toward that end , we tliink , it not inadvisable to give the author ' s name and residence - . —Henry William Thompson , 1 , Oxford-place , Westminster-road .

      Punch.—Part Xlv. With Well-Sustained Wit...

      PUNCH . —Part XLV . With well-sustained wit and talent in every department , Pi ' _-ic / _ipursueshistriumphantcourse . The part before us is brimful of fun , with that due admixture of serious matter which has earned for Punch , as the friend of the _oppressed and the punisher of the wrong-doer , a popularity unattained by any similar publication . The illustrations in this part are all excellent , but wc must specially single out " Peel ' s Bane and Antidote , " " Stand and Deliver , " "The Wellington Pet , " "Peel ' s Dirty Little Boy , " and " The Reconciliation . " This last is truly excellent ; it represents the reconciliation of the peer and the peasant—the fonncr trampling down the hateful Game Laws , Poor Laws , and other remnants of feudal despotism ; and the latter extinguishing under his foot the incendiary ' s torch . But this excellent picture must be seen to he appreciated . We take the following extract from " The Caudle Curtain Lectures , " at present publishing weekly in Punch : —

      MB . CAUDLE HAS BEEN TO _GREEHWICH SA 1 R , Hem!—So , Mr . Caudle : I hope you enjoyed yourself at Greenwich . How do I know you ' ve been at Greenwicb ? I know it very well , sir : know all about it : know more than you tbink I know . I thought there was something in the wind . Yes , I was sure of it , when you went out of the house , to-day . I knew it by the looks of you , though I didn't say anything . U po n ray word ! And you call yourself a respectable man , and the father of a family ! Going to a fair amonget all sorts of p e op le—at your time of life . Yes ; and never tbink of taking your wife with you . 0 no J you can go and enjoy yourself out , wi t h I don 't know who : go out , and make yourself very pleasant , I dare say . Don't teU me ; I hear what a nice companion Mr . Caudle is : what a good-tempered person . Ha ! I only wish people could see you at borne , that ' s all . But so it is with men . They can keep all their good temper for out-of-doors—their wives never see any of it , 0 dear ! I ' m su r e I don 't know who'd be a poor woman !

      Now , Caudle , Im not in an iU temper ; not at all . I know I used to be a fool when we were first married * . I used to worry and fretmyself to death when you went out : but I've got over that . 1 wouldn't put myself out of the way now for the best man that ever trod . Por what thanks does a poor woman get ? None at all . No : it's those who don't care for their _famflies , who ave the best thought of . I only wish I could bring myself not to care for mine . And why couldn't you say , Uke a man , y ou we r e going to Greenwich Fair when you went out ? It ' s no use your saying that , Mr . Caudle : don't tell me that you didn't think of going ; you'd made your mind up to it , and you know it . Pretty games you ' ve h ad , no doubt ! I should like to have been behind you , that ' s aU , A man at your time of life !

      And I , of course , I never want to go out . 0 , no ! I may stay at home with the cat . You couldn ' t think of taking your wife and chUdren , like any other decent man , to a fair . 0 , no ; you never care to he seen ivith us . I'm sure many people don't know you ' re married : how can they ? Your wife ' s never seen with you . 0 , no ; any b o dy hut those belonging to you ! Greenwich lair , indeed ! Yes , —and of course you went up and down the hill , running and racing with nobody knows who . Don't tell nie ; I know what you are when you 're out . You don't suppose , Mr . Caudle , I've forgotten that p ink bonnet , do you ? No : I won't hold my tongue , and I ' m not a foolish woman . It ' s no matter , sir , if the pink bonnet was fifty years ago—it ' s all the same for that . No : if I Uve for fifty years to come , I never wUl leave « ff talking of it . You ought to be ashamed of yourself , "Mr . Caudle . Ha ! few wives would have been what I ' ve been to you . I only wish my time was to come over a gain , that ' s aU : I wouldn't be tbe fool I have been .

      Going to a fair ! and I suppose you had your fortune told by the gypsies ? You needn't have wasted your money . I ' m sure I can teU y <• . _-. your fortune if you go on as you do . Yes , the gaol will i •» your fortune , Mr . Caudle . And it would be no matter—n .-ae at aU—if your wife and children didn ' t suffer with you . And then you must go _ri-ling upon donkeys—you didn 't go riding upon do : ; kies ? Yes ; it ' s very weU for you to say so ; but I dare say you did . I tell you , Caudle , I know what you are when you ' re out . I wouldn't tens ' any of you—you , es p eciall y , Caudle . Then you must go in the thick of the fan * , and have the girls scratching your coat with rattles ! You coul dn't help it , if they did scratch your coat ] Don't tell me ; people don't scratch coats unless _tbay're encouraged to do it . Anil you must go iu a swing , too . You didn't go in a swing ? And I ' m a foolish woman to think so , am I ? W e ll , zf you didn't , it was no fault of yours ; you wished to go , I ' no doubt .

      And then you must go into _iliv fbows « There , _—J _« don ' t deny that . You did go in } . . - ; . sW "What of it ;

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      Mr . Caudle ? A good deal of it , sir . Nice crowding and squeezing in those shows , I know . Pretty places . ' And you a married man and the father of a family . No , I won t hold my tongue . It ' s very well for you to threaten to get Up . You ' re to go to Greenwich Pair , and race up and down tlio hilj _, an ( i p ) ay at k _- ss _j n the r _- Pah , s disgusting , Mr Caudle . 0 , 1 dare say you did play at it : if you didn't , you'd have liked , and that ' s just as bad ;—and you can go into swings , and shows , and roundabouts . Ill was yon , I should hide my head under thc clothes , and be ashamed of myself _. And what is ; most sclfisli—most mean of you , Caudleyou can go and enjoy yourself , and never so much as bring home for the poor children a gingti-brcad-nut . Don 't tell me that your pocket was picked of a pound of nuts ! Nice company you must have been in to luwc your pocket picked .:

      Bu t I da r e say I shall hear all about it to-morrow . I ' ve no doubt , sir , you werc dancing at the Crown and Anchor . I should like to have seen you . Xo : I ' m not making myself ridiculous . It ' s you that ' s making yourself ridiculous ; and everybody that knows you says so . Everybod y knows what I have to put up with -from you . Going to a fair , indeed ! At your time Here , says Caudle , I closed off , hearing confusedly the words—bill—gypsies—rattles—roundabout—swingspink bonnet—nuts .

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      London. Chaktissi In The Tower Hami^Ets....

      LONDON . Chaktissi in the Tower Hami _^ ets . —A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the Chartists of the above borough was held in the Hall of Science , Whitechapel , on Monday evening , March 31 st , at half-past eight o ' clock . Mr . Davis was called to the chair , and introduced Mr . Blackmore to move the first resolution . Mr . Blaclunore said , he hoped tliis meeting might be considered as the commencement of a new era in , this district . He beVievcu that the working classes , had in a very great measure to thank their own apathy fov the miseries they endured . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Blackmore concluded by moving the following resolution : — "That this meeting views with extreme regret the present apathy and want of

      union existing m thc ranks of the working classes , and . hereby pledge themselves individually and collectively to renewed exertions in the great and good cause of Chartism . " Mr . Mills , a veteran in the ranks of radical reform , cordially seconded the motion . Mr . John West , of Macclesfield , then rose to support the resolution , and was received with loud cheers . He said the condition ofthe working classes for some time past had been so bad that he was astonished that apathy could prevail , and that thousands could endure pining want and starvation so quietly . ( Hear , hear . ) Yet he did not despair . He thought from recent proceedings he was warranted in saying that the cause of Labour never had brighter prospects than at the present time . ( Cheers . ) Thc

      working classes did not now take up their opinions in a moment of enthusiasm to lay them down again the monient they grew cool . No ; . their opinions now were the result of a calm and deliberate conviction . ( Cheers . ) Parliament had said they could do nothing for the working classes , although they knew that thousands were in a state of destitution and misery . What a pretty set of legislators they must he ! But if they really could do nothing for the welfare of the State , let them resign their places to better men , who had the good sense to know a remedy , and honesty and moral courage sufficient to apply that remedy . ( Cheers . ) Sir Robert Peel had made a . bid far beyond that small man , Lord John Russell , and thus shut out the greatest enemies the

      working classes ever had—the Whigs . ( Cheers . ) There was now a sort of go-between party , Young England , who offered the working classes a little bit of a cabbage garden at the back of the house ; but he ( Mr . West ) demanded , on behalf of his order , as much land as would furnish them with all the requisites of life . Lord Egerton , too—and by the way he ( Mr . West ) must say that he ( Lord E . ) was as good a man as was to be found in the ranks of the old feudal aristocracy—had found it necessary to cultivate a better understanding with the workers . Well , his son becanie of age . The heads of beer barrels were knocked in , and there was beef and mutton in abundance ; so that the poor workers for the nonce might eat and drink to their hearts' content . At the

      conclusion of this portion of the feast , her ladyship , like a fine old English gentlewoman , she must fleetly lead the ball , and she invited the colliers' wives to dance the Polka . But , 01 the uncivilised brutes , they did not know how to dance the Polka . ( Laughter . ) "What ! English colliers and their wives not know how to dance the Polka ? Horrid barbarism !!! ( Roars of laughter . ) This was not to he endured ; so her ladyship had a saloon erected ; and sent for three French dancingmasters _^ froni London ; and—0 , glorious progress of civilisation _l—colliers and their wives can now dance the Polka !!! ( Loud laughter . ) Well , Lord Francis was not to be outdone by his good lady , so he immediately had portions of his immense estate cut out into half acres , three-quarters of an acre , and acre .

      and acre and a __ half allotments , to be cultivated by the poor , * and in order to give thc full advantage , he allowed them to choose a cow from his well-bred stock , paying for the same by instalments , and yet allowing them the animals at far below the market value . ( Cheers . ) These things were good , as far as they went . ( Hear , hear . ) But such small amendments must not allure the ' working classes from their great object , the Charter . ( Loud cheers . ) He did not wish to take from the rich what they now possessed , but he did wish that his order should create wealth , for themselves for the future . ( Hear , hear . ) We ( said Mr . West ) complain of the legislation of thoseiellows down at Westminster , and God knows not without reason , but the legislation of the

      manufacturers oi the north was-infinitely worse , for by their laws they not unfrequently made a man work the whole week without wages , and pay for the privilege into the bargain ! Mr . West then ably went into the questions of capital and labour , supply and demand , and made an eloquent and touching appeal on behalf of the Hand-loom Weavers , on whose behalf he had come to London . He resumed his seat amidst the loudest applause . The resolution was then put , and carried unanimously . Mr . Pattenden moved the second resolution as follows : — " That tliis meeting liaving carefully discussed the present condition of the working classes , feel confident that nothing short of a House of Commons elected on the principles of the People ' s Charter , will secure to them those rights

      to which they are so justly entitled . Mi * . Frazer , in an eloquent and very able speech , seconded the resolution . Hewas greatly applauded . Mr . Bentole ( of Macclesfield ) said he coidd most cordially support the resolution , and felt the full force of the argument it contained . Ho recollected perfectly the great turn-out of 1842 , and from Ms experience , then obtained , lie felt fully convinced that nothing short of a House of Commons elected by the whole people would do justice to society at large . ( Hear , hear . ) . Trades' Unions might tend to alleviate their condition , but so long as class legislation existed , so long would there be privation , misery , and destitution . He therefore cordially supported the resolution , convinced as he was that until

      the people obtained their Charter never would they be either contented , happy , or free . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . Stout came forward and said a few words in opposition to the resolution , giving Socialism the preference over Chartism . Mr . West replied , evidently to the satisfaction of the meeting . The resolution was then put and carried unanimously , Mr . T . M . Wheeler moved a vote of thanks to the chairman , which was carried by acclamation , and thc meeting was dissolved . Metropolitan Disthict Council ,, Turnagain-lane , March 30 th , Mr . _Mj-lne in the chair . —Thc rules of the Llewellyn Chartist hat-club were read by Mr . Wheeler , and highly approved of . Several persons enrolled then * names as members . It was then moved ,

      seconded , and carried unanimously , that the quarterly balance sheet be ready by next Sunday . Chelsea . —The members of the Chelsea locality niet at the Cheshire Cheese , on Sunday evening , for tiie purpose of hearing Mv . G . White deliver a lecture on " the rightsof man . " Mr . W . Matthews was called to the chair , and introduced Mr . White , who , in a masterly and interesting speech , proved that the rig hts and privileges of the working classes would never be ceded to them until the People ' s Charter become the law of the land . A gentleman addressed the meeting , and recommended the working classes to unite for the purpose of mutual co-operation . Mr . Corbett answered the objections raised , and Mr . White finally replied . AJ 1 present seemed satisfied , and the meeting adjourned with a vote of thanks to the chairman .

      LONGTON . STAFFORDsniRE _PoiiEMEs . —A lecture was delivered m the Working Man ' s Hall , on Sunday evening last , March 30 th , by Mr . William Dixon , of Manchester , who addressed the meeting for upwards of an hour . The speaker was listened to throughout with the most marked attention . Mr . Dixon made an appeal on behalf of Mr . Cooper , who ia to be liberated from her Majesty ' s college , at Stafford , on Saturday , May 3 rd , 1845 . A , collection was made which amounted to upwards of £ 1 Is .

      Os Monday Evening Mr . Dixon delivered a second lecture in theaboveHall—subject , " Trades' Unions , as they arc and as they ought to be . " The Hall was crowded m every part . The lecturer waa repeatedly cheered during his address . The thanks of the audience were given to that sterling veteran , William Starkey _, who occupied the chair , with three hearty cheers for the progress of union and organisation amongst the millions of this countiy . _Sples-ou ) Tea Partt and Ball . —The rate-payers of Longton and Lane End held a splendid tea party and ball , on Tuesday evening , April 1 st , in celebration ot the glorious victory achieved by Labour over the combined forces . Despite several unfavourable circumstances , upwards of 400 of the hardy sons of toil , with their wives , sat down to tea . The chair was occupied by a working man , aiv _* l ' . he meeting addressed

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      by the people's long-tried friend , "Old Daddy Richards , " who , upon appearing before them , was loudlyclicered . Mr . Richards addressed tho audience at great length , and was followed in a short speech by Mr . William Dixon , of Manchester . . ' Dancing followed , and was kept up with groat spirit until a late hour , when all departed , highly gratified with the amusements of the evening . HEBDEN BRIDGE . Two Lectukes were delivered in the Democratic Chapel , at the above place , on Sundav last , by Mv . Thomas Tattersall , of Burnley ; one in thc afternoon , on " England and her Institutions , " and one in thc evening , on " The Charter as a remedy for National . Evils . " A vote of thanks was given to tlte lecturer , which he briefly acknowledged , and thc meeting separated highly delighted with what they had heard .

      YALE OF LEYEN . Mr . Philip M'Gkath . — This talented lecturer armed in the Vale on Thursday , March 27 th , and delivered a lecture the same evening , in Mr . Ritchie's large room , to a very respectable audience , chiefly _CftSco-Printers . The subject of the lecture was Trades _^ Unions . He spoke for upwards of an hour , addressing one of thc most talented and commonsense lectures that it ever was our lot to listen to . Mr . M'Grath lectured again on Friday evening , 28 th , in the Odd Fellows' Hall , to the Chartists of tho Vale . The hall was well filled by an intelligent and attentive audience . The subject of the lecture was , " Tbe Land and Chartism . " The lecturer prefaced

      his lecture b y taking a glance at the free trade humbug , in which he exposed the fallacies of the League and the opinion of its principal supporters . Mr . M'Grath then took a retrospective view of the _mis-. ipplication of machinery , and its consequent eifects on the working classes . He next directed the attention of his audience to the land and its capabilities , after which he gave a clear and forcible exposition of the People ' s Charter , shewing the justice of its principles and the absolute necessity that existed of its being made the law of the land . Mr . M'Grath was received in a very enthusiastic manner at both lectures , and much good will doubtless be the result of his able exertions in this quaxtes .

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      Strange Story . — We find in the New Bedford Mercury ( American paper ) a long and minute account of a mutiny which occurred on board the whaling ship Sharon , in November , 1842 , and ofthe manner in which the ship was retaken from thc mutineers by a single person , Mr . Clough , tbe third mate . The Sharon , after a cruise near thc Caroline Islands , had procured supplies at Ascension , and was preparing for the voyage , when eleven of her crew deserted , and were not retaken . She shipped a new crew of seventeen , including six natives of the islands ' . On Sunday , November 6 , in latitude two degrees twenty seconds north , longitude 1 C 2 degrees east , both boats were lowered in chase of whales : Captain Norris , a

      Portuguese bjy _, w ? , cted as steward , and three of the natives being left oh board . The boats soon captured a whale , whicli the ship took alongside , and the boats went in pursuit of another . At three o'clock p . m ., the boat of Mr . Smith , thc mate , being about a . mile and a half from thc ship , perceived a signal flying , and pulled towards her . On coming within hailing distance , tlicy were told by thc boy , who was aloft , that the natives had kille _' d Captain Nbrris , and were in possession of the ship . Just then , one of the natives ; entirely naked , leaped upon the taffrail , and , brandishing a spear , dared the crew to come on board . An armed native stood guard at each side , and hammers , belaying pins , and other missiles had been collected for their use , and werc hurled furiously at the boat , though without

      much injury , Thc mate then waited tor the other boat , and consulted as to thc best method of retaking the ship . It was proposed that the boats should advance and board her , one upon each side , atthe same time ; but Mr . Smith , the mate , who had become master by the captain's death , proposed that both crews should make the attack with one boat , and leave him in the other . Tliis proposal was received with no favour , the men declaring they would sooner start for the nearest land and risk the chance of escape . Mr . Clough , who had acted as Mr . Smith ' s ' steersman , hud several times darted his lance at the savage on the tafirail ; but the distance was too great , and he requested to be rowed nearer . But Mr . Smith thought the danger

      too great , and refused to approach the ship . Mr . dough , proposed several other devices , but , in default of aid from others , resolved to retake the ship himself . He accordingly , after dark _^ was taken oy the boat ahead of the ship at some distance , to avoid exciting suspicion , and taking a knife in his teeth to defend himself from sharks , whicli had been attracted by the whale , swam to the ship , after a hard struggle of an hour and a half , during whicli two sharks kept him company , but did not offer to molest him . Having reached the ship he dived under , seized the rudder at the heel , and climbed to the starboard cabin-window , through which he made Ms entry . Laying aside his clothes , and ascertaining that no suspicion existed of bis being on board , he groped

      about for arms , and found two cutlasses and two muskets , which he loaded . While loading one he heard some one descending the stairs . Running thither he grasped a cutlass , and a struggle ensued . Mr . Clough succeeded in throwing his antagonist , thrust out one of his eyes , and left him for dead , having been severely wounded himself in thc contest . No sooner had he left his supposed victim , than he tot up and furiously renewed the attack , but nally fell down from loss ofblood . Mr . Clough , going again to the gangway , saw another person with a cutting spade : he shot him from below , through theheart ,- but just as he fired the spade ' was thrown at liim , and disabled his left arm . A thin , pel-son came to the gangway with another spade , but soon

      went forward . Mr . Clough then hailed the boats , which were very near , told them he had killed two of the mutineers , arid was himself dangerously wounded , and urged them to come , at once on board They refused , as they had heard but one discharge , feared only one had been killed , and they did not think it safe . After about half an hour , hearing no noise , they came aboard , struck a light , and went into tbe cabin . The man with whom Mr . Clough had first contended was found on the transom , his eye hanging on his cheek , and his body covered with gore , He did not move , but merely groaned , whereupon Mr . Smith , the mate , fired a musket at him , and one of his men thrust him through with a cutting spade ; he was then thrown into tbe sea . Tbe deek was tracked

      with clotted blood ; the headless body of Captain Norris was found , with that of onc of his murderers . The other mutineer jumped overboard , but returned , surrendered , and was taken to Sydney . The Sharon completed her voyage under Mr . Smith , Mr . Clough acting as second mate . This is an extraordinary narrative , and in some of its details almost incredible . If it be entirely true , it is difficult to tell whether most to admire the heroism and daring of Mr . Clough , or to despise the cowardice of Mr . Smith and the crew . The Mercury says tbat the owners of the Sharon have given Mr . Clough the command of a fine ship , wliich , if the narrative be true , he has well deserved . We believe the fact of this mutiny was reported some months ago , though its details have never before been so fully stated .

      Taking ins Veil . —On Monday a young lad y was invested with tbe holy habit and religious veil of a Sister of Mercy , at the Convent of Mercy , Bermondsey . The ceremony took place in the Church of thc Most Holy Trinity , which adjoins the convent . The sacred edifice was crowded with spectators ofthe higher classes of society , who appeared to take the deepest interest in the imposing proceedings . Miss Zimmer , the postulant , having communicated in the morning , first appeared in her seculiar dress at the ceremony . At the appointed hour ( noon ) all the religious assembled , put on tlieir church cloaks , and lighted their candles . The following divines officiated : —the Right Rev . Dr . Griffiths , Revs . G . Foley , North , Butlar , Gollingridge , Bowman , Cotter ,

      Horrabm , Ringrove , Bamber , and O iNeale . Ihe postulant tookhcr place between the Superioress ofthe convent and an assistant , and on her knees asked the blessing of the former and her own religious name . At a given signal the choir sang the hymn Gloriosa Virgimm . The hymn finished , the celebrant "Bishop repeated , " Ora pro ea , sancta Dei Genetrix . " He then blessed a wax candle , and placed it on the altar , and having put incense into the thuribles and blessed it , he sprinkled the candle with holy water , incensed it , and presented it lighted to ihe postulant , saying"Accipe , filLa clianssima , lumen corporalc , in signum luminis interioris _, ad repellcndas omncs tcnebras ignorantiaj , vel erroris . " The Bishop next preached a sermon suitable to the occasion from these

      words . _*— " Behold , wc have left all things , and have followed Thee . " The sermon ended , the Superioress and her assistant conducted the postulant to the grate of tho altar , when , kneeling , she was interrogated as follows : — -Celebrant : "My child , what do you demand ?"—Postulant : " The mercy of God and the holy habit of religion . "—Celebrant : " Is it of }; our own free will that you demand the holy habit of religion?—Postulant ; "Yes , myT . ord . " Aftersome further questions and answers , and prayers , the parties arose , made a genuflection , and retired , when the postulant put off her secular dress , and the religious habi _* U having been blessed by the Bishop , she waa clad in them , as well as in the blessed veil . She then became a novice , and atthe conclusion of

      the initiatory rites the Bishop sprinkled her with holy water ; the assistant directing her tonse , made with her a genuflection to the Holy Sacrament , and conducted her to the Superioress , to whom she kneeled . The latter raising her embraced her . liie novice then embraced the other religious , to wflom she bowed before and after the embrace . _¦™* _™ _£ then sang the Psalm " Ecce _pn _-Wffl _iuonndum habitare _fratves _»;™ _«« - __ J _™ _SS ended , the religious retired in the same ordci m which they entered . . The Heioiit of IMi » i _* nENCE .--AIdcrman Gibbs has 1 _JhZi i . Jmself affain as churchwarden of St . Ste-± iS _WaTbrookY Weshouldnotbe at all surprised to hear of his going down to Westminster Abbey some fine morning , and crowning himself King of Ensland . — Puneh .

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      Prussian Commandments . — After Frederick II . had taken possession of Silesia , the Catholic peasants formed rather an unfavourable opinion of the . new government . " The Prussians , " they . used to , say , "have not ten but only three _eomnuuiilments , _yw ., pay taxes , catch deserters , and don't reason . " . ; ,. Colloquy in a Coal-Holk . —Sheridan , once fell into a coal-collar , on his way homo , . liter supping at Drury-lanc : and his abuse at the vendor for not keeping a light at the cellar-door was warmly retorted by thc man's wife . " Confound it , " cried Sheridan' ( who was not hurt ) , " do you think I want to pocket your coal ? " "No , " returned the woman , " hilt vour nose mav set thc coal-hole on fire . " " * . _- . , E . von . Moi 7 s Kissixc—General Tom Thumb calculates that he has kissed two millions of ladies ;*

      TnE Lazy Ones . —Which is the la-. _iest class of persons ? Tall people . Why ? Because they are always longer in bod than others . Humbug . —We must define humbug . It is not naked untruth . A draper ' s assistant , who tells a I ; urv that a stress will wash when it will not , docs not humbug- —he merely cheats her . But if ho persuades hor to buy a good-for-nothing muslin , by telling hoi * that he has sold such another to a Duchess , he humbugs her , whether he speaks truly or not . He imposes an inference , in favour of his commodit y , through her large vanity , upon her small mind . Humbug thus , consists in making people deceive

      themselves by _supplyiny-. tiiem with _prciuiscs , true or false , from which , by reason of their ignorance , weakness , or prejudices , theydraw wrong conclusions . There is nothing essentially fraudulent in straight hair and rusty black ; but the vulgar associate these externals with sauetity ; accordingly they are assumed by thc Stiggins class of humbugs . Thus the owl , by his mere exterior—involuntary humbug . '—passed with the ancients for the bird of Pallas ; thus is there , to the clown , wisdom in the wis ; which perhaps covers a numskull . And thus will professional costume cause « i simpleton to be thought a Sydenham . —Jerrold's S ft . ig Magazine .

      Board and Lodging _lixTUAOHDiNAnv . —In a recent advertisement in a morning paper , headed " Grouse Shooting , " a gentleman " renting some ofthe best moors in Scotland , " notifies that ho " wishes to meet with two or three guns to board and lodge in his house . " We wish ho may get the guns , and we hope they may pay tlieir shot . —Punch . IIiSTonicAL Parallel . —Thc Standard says that Sir Robert Peel administered to Ben D'lsraeli " the most terrific castigation" ever delivered by man . The National says Soult thrashed Wellington dreadfully at Toulouse . —Mi .

      Very Consoling . —Dr . Rush , m a treatise on Sugar , maintains , that "in those countries where sugar is abundantly oaten , plagues ave . _unknewn . " So that if sugar were abundantly eaten in England , wc should get rid of the Polka . —Aid . Away with Him . —It is an actual fact that the Government has sent out a ship , called "The Graham , " to Sydney . " The Graham" carries letters . Of course they will open themselves on the way _. Every well-constituted mind would wish not only _diat this , but that other Grahams should 20 to Svdhev— .

      and the longer they staid the better . —Ibid . Tue Temperance Movement . —We . are happy , to hear from a newspaper paragraph , that "the * spots onthe face of the sun are considerably less this year . " This looks as if old Sol had been taking thc pledge , and that this improvement was owing to his having entirely renounced the use of " mountain dew" ana other alcohol , Let us hope , now , as ho has turned teetotaller , he will get up somewhat earlier for the future , and endeavour . 'to show his face iu London a little before one or two o ' clock in the dav .--i M '

      ' Curiosities op Chop Houses . —Gentleman : "Let ' s have a boiled mackerel . " Waiter : "Bikd , sir Better have ' cm bviled , sir . If they ' re _biled , the ; . ' ro spiled , sir l "—BJd . ¦¦ ¦ - •*' Manly Sport . —We leaun that a day or tv ,- * *> go a couple of prize-ring heroes , known to fame as * iung Sambo and Jordan , fought at Ilooley _Co-ninn _*' , _Tlo contest had peculiar attractions for the lovers of sport—manly sport . It appears that " Jordan _, having exceeded tho stipulated ' weight ,, was cguipellcd to fight without shoes , his opponent li g hting ivith spiked shoes , and availing himself oS treading on thc feet of Jordan and mutilating them exceedingly ; and £ 5 were offered by the friends of Jordan to be permitted to fieht in shoes , but it was notacccDted . "

      Of course not : thc friends of _Toung _Sambo-r-the lovers of manly sport—knew too well the value of spiked shoes to forego the advantages for £ 5 . The Sun tells us— " They kept up the contest , both displaying great game ; Sambo continuing to ' thrust . the spikes of his shoes into thc feet of his antagonist at every opportunity , notwithstanding the unanimous groans of thc spectators . Frequent appeals were made to thc umpires , but who decided it fair , and within the rules of boxing . " And this is manly sport ! The Continental ruffian now and then earns his dinner by his knife : the British pugilist wins the stakes by the " spikes of his shoes . " Both deal in cold iron ; only in the latter case it is for the especial encouragement of manly English sport .-

      —Ibid . A Civic Solomon . —Horace Walpolc tells a story of a Lord Mayor of London , who , liaving heard that a friend had the smallpox twice , and died of it , asked if he died the first time or the second . The Vowels . —Is there a word in the English language that contains all the vowels ? There is , iHiqiicsti ' _onably . Going ! Going ! Going!—The repeal oftheauc tion duty will enable young ladiesto set themselves up to thc highest bidder . Considerations of diity have hitherto restrained them . . " ¦ The _Mystbuious Lady in Piccadilly . —This deceptive exemplification of "second sight" is to be conducted b y Sir James Graham , who will allow r _. i >\ _- lady or gentleman to write a letter , seal it , and 1 it in a box , " secured by Government . " Sir v will then , to the great amazement of thev . repeat thc contents of his letter without any p . having seen him read H . —Great Gun .

      Duke op York's Column . —From the top of . . column a fine view may be obtained of St . James" spark , with a very distant prospect ofthe payment of his late Royal Ilighness ' s debts . —Ibid . Awful Spread oe Popery . —It is no less true th _*\ n alarming that thc Roman Catholic clergy are beginning to overspread this fine Protestant country . We ourselves saw no loss than six cardinals in the company of as many well-dressed ladies while walking up Regent-street last Monday morning . —R _> id . Glory . —Near St . Sevier , there lives an old soldier with a false leg , a false arm , a glass eye , a complete set of false teeth , a nose of silver , covered with a substance resembling flesh , and a silver plate replacing part of his skull . He was a soldier under Napoleon , and these are his trophies . Lots of Brass . — There is a dandy in St , Louis who has so much brass that a company of enterprising citizens talk of buying him up , and commencing a manufactory of cow-bells .

      Mother Church . —Even thc sublime service for thc dead is doled out in some places on a sliding _, scale of charges , proportioned to the means ofthe survivors At Coventry , the clergy have been in the habit of charging an additional eight or ten shillings when the whole of the service is read ; the general rule being to cut it extremely short whenever the burials ol the poor took place . Yet how constantly do wc hear the doctrine preached that rich and poor are cqualin the sight of Heaven , wliich is , doubtless , very true ; it is not at all true , however , that tlicy are equal m the . sight of men , aud especially there ia a wonderful distinction between them in the eyes of the clergy . A Coventry parson cannot even commit the poor to the dust without evincing his contempt for poverty _, by the curtailment ofthe service . Happy it is that _, _thcreposoofthodoail is incapable oi' _benn * troubled by tliis detestable homage to thc pride ofthe living . —Satirist .

      Gibbs , we are told , was much struck with the answer made by Tawell to one of his friends who pressed him warmly to render a full account of the deed he had done . " I am not prepared ! I ' m not prepared , " was tbe reply of tbe agonised Quaker . Tho Lord Mayor thinks Tawell ' s answer an admirable one under the circumstances , and warmly condemns the principle of endeavouring to extract a confession before a man is prepared to give it . It was just such _, a reply , he says , as he should have given himself , had , he been going to be hanged instead oi 'lawell I—Ibid

      Loan Radnor's " Tender " -ness to ms Tenants . —The Earl of Radnor has again been rendering himself conspicuous in his small way , by advocating the system of letting farms by tender . We should have thought that at the present time , when an organised and powerful opposition is in active operation , the landowners would at least exhibit a little more caution in their proceedings , and not _strengthen that opposition by coercing then * tenants into giving hig her rents , especially now , when farm , produce is considerably depreciated in value . The Earl of Radnor , however , appears to think differently . " We

      shall merely advert to one assertion of his _lordsnip ; but all the others are equally futile . His lordship . says " that land , like every other commodity , shoull be open to competition . " In the profundity oi his wisdom he does not perceive that m " every other commodity" competition tends to reduce the price , inconsequence ofthe _manufacture increasing , not only according to , but in excess of the demand , whilst competition for farms , from the naturally limited supply , can only increase the rental , while free trade in corn , which he also advocates , Would diminish the price ofthe produce . —I id . ' :

      Fine 1 * e £ Lings . —The recent suicide of theccwho was detected stealing some ribbon , would ?' to prove that shame and " fine feelings" are stronger in persons of her condition than in tl' .-of " lady thieves . " The h . - . _'er seem to have tithe conclusion that the best way k - . 0 _bvaaevi , —Hid .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 5, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_05041845/page/3/