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      Beauties Of Byrox. Ko. Xxv. "Thi Gliocs....

      BEAUTIES OF _BYROX . KO . XXV . " THI GliOCS . " Thi This poem was first _aublislied in _1813 , before tbe _.,-nMa . ppcarance of tbe third and fourth cantos of Cluidt udxroldiTvld . Header , peruse and admire tie magnificent ppoetrpoetry breathing in every line of the following pictitute tu « of

      OHESCE . Fai r clime ! where eveiy season smiles Benignant o ' er those blessed isles , "Which , seen from far Colonna ' s height , Make glad tlie heart that hails the _sijiht _, And lend to loneliness delight . Tli « _re madly dimpling , Ocean ' s _clitek _HffitM'la tbe liliU of _lnaijv a peak Caught by tbe laughing tides tliat lave These Edens of the eastern wave : And if at times a transient breeze _Breafc the blue crystal of the seas _. Or sweep one blossom from the trees , How welcome is each gentle air That wakes and wafts the odours there !* _t ? # *

      Strange—that where Xatnre loved to trace , As if for Gods , a dwelling place , And every charm aad grace hath nrix'd "Within the paradise she fix'd , There man , _enainour ' ti of distress , Should mar it iuto wilderness , And trample , brute-like , o ' er each flower That tasks not one laborious hour ; _ _N ' or claims the culture of his band To bloom along the fain * land , But springs as to preclude his care ,

      And sweetly woos him—but to jpare ! Strange—that where all is peace beside , There passion riots in her pride , And lust and rapine wildly reign To darken o ' er the fair domain . It is as though the fiends _prtvail'd Against tha seraphs tliey assaii'd _, And , fix'd on hearenly thrones , should dwell Tha freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene , so form'd for joy , So curst the _tvrants that destroy !

      He who hath bent him o ' er the dead _ £ re the first day of death is fled , _-JJje first dark day of nothingness , * T £ e last of danger and distress , iiBefore Decay's effacing fingers . Have swept the lines where beauty _lir-gersj Audoinrk'd tha mild angelic air , 'The rapture of repose that ' s there , 'The fix'd yet tender traits that _streak * The languor of the placid cheek , And—bat for that sad shrouded eye , Tbat fires not , wins not , weeps not , now And but for that chill , changeless crow ,

      "Where cold Obstruction ' s apathy Appals th * _gaang mourner ' s heart , As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads , yet dwells upon ; Tea . but for these and these alone , Some moments , ay , one treacherous hour , He still might doubt the tyrant ' s power ; So fair , so calm , so softly seal'd , The nr * i . last lookby death reveal'd ' . Such is the aspect of this shore ; "lis Greece , but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet , so deadly fair , "We start , for soul is wanting there .

      * * * * * Cli _« e of the _unforgotten brave ! "Whose land from plain to _monutain-cava Was Freedom ' s heme or Glory ' s grave . ' Shrine of the mighty _ can it be , That this is all remains of thee ! Approach , _thoa craven . croui * hing _slsse ; Say , is not this Thtrmopjto ? These waters bine that round you lave , Oh servile offspring of the free—Pronounce what sea , what shore is this ** The gulf , the rock of Salamis ! These scenes , their story not unknown , Arise , and make again your own ; Snatch from the ashes ' of your sires The embers of their former fires ;

      And he who in tha strife expires "Will add to theirs a name of fear , That Tyranny shall quake to hear , And leave his son 3 a hope , a fame _. They too will rather die than shame : For Freedom ' s battle once begun , Bequeath'd by bleeding Sire to Son , Though baffled oft is eTer won . Bear witness , Greece , thy living page , Attest it many a deathless age I While kings , in dusty darkness hid , Have left a nameless pyramid , Thy heroes , though the general doom Hath swept fhe column from their tcmb , A mightii . r monument command , The mountains of their native land !

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      " _" _Kt have heen compelled to omit some very beautiful lines both at the _e-oiumencemeuf . laud in the _iv-irse ofthe _opMiui- ; _j-unioa of the iM .. _n .

      Songs For The People

      SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE

      [ For many months past our poet s column bas been exclusively occupied with extracts from the writings ofBriios . _ Dcsiroas , Iiowever , ofinfasiBgnioreTariety into this column , we have for some time past intended io give weekly , inadditionto tbe " Beauties , " a good song , original or select . We had _purposed to commence these sonp on tbe first Saturday in the present vear , but other matters prevented ns so doing , we give this _expiration , as otherwise il might be supposed we wished to anticipate Mr . Coofek ' s projected ** Song and Hymn-Bock . " This we neither wish to do , nor can do , as the one son < : weekly in this paper cannot at all interfere with the first-rate Sonp and Hymns , intended to be published in a collected form . -Sir . Cooper ' s _prr-ject , we think a very excellent one , and will give it every aid in oui power . Any songs of former rhymers we lave in store . Mr . Coopeh is ' welcome io select from . ]

      THE LAXD . _BT THOMAS SPEXCE . [ Some forty years ago , Thomas _Spexce proposed to _Kstore to tlie * peop le of England the 3 ai _ dofwbicL thev bad been robbed , Ly making tbe land and buildings of each parish the property ofthe people , and _dividing lhe rents amongst the people equally ; but the landlords of tbat day ~ wbo did not like the ' _ideaol justice any better than do the landlords of tbe present day , " _persecuted and imprisoned Stesle , und never stayed their _persecution until they had bunted him to death . Tbey could not , however , destroy his principles , which bid fair at no distant day fo destroy the usurpation ofthe _landionis . _] A Soso to *¦* s' !" . i at At _Cosnaenceand of tie Millennium , trJlni _tlerc shall be neither lords nor landlords , but God and Man trill be all in aU .

      ¦ TltfE— " God sane the Kaig . Hark ! how the trumpet ' s sound _Proclaims the land around The jubilee _! Tells ail the poor _oppresi'd 5 o v . _iure shall thej tecessd , _ 5 _Tor _l-tndlurds more molest Their property : Bents t' ourselves now we pay , Dreading no quarter-day , Fraught with distress . ¦ _Welc ome that day drows near , Pur then our rent we share , Earth ' s rightful lords we are Ordain'd for thi 3 .

      Xow hath the Oppressor cea _^ 'd , And all the ivotld _relt-as'd _IVnn tnUtry ! The fir-trees all rejoice , And cedars lift tlieir voice , _Ceas'd now the _Feues ' _-S noise , Long rai = * d by thee . Th ? sceptre now is broke , "Which with continual stroke The nations smote . ' Hell from beneath does rise , To meet the lofty eyes , Trom the most pompons size ,

      H « w _brought to nought 1 Since then this jubilee Sets all at Liberty Let us be glad . Behold each man return To his possession _Jifo more like doves to mourn 15 y landlords sad !

      Subieto* *

      _SUbieto _* _*

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      _TAITS _EDINBURGH MA & _AZKE-JAXCAnr . — Edinburgh ; Tait : London ; Simpkin and Marshall . We feel groat respect for Wnzmi Uowirr , than whom few writers bave more instructed and delighted us ; we are , therefore , sorry to find him in this number of Tail ' s J % a ; ine holding up _O'Cotstshj as a " patriot . " We will not dispute his picture of _O'Cosxeij , as a landlord , though so widely different to that painted by the " limes' Commissioner . " But ,

      supposing O'Coxxell to be all that Mr . liowm represents him to be privately , Mr . H . * s views as to the agitator ' s acts and career as a public man are amazingly erroneous . Mr . Howitt tells us that O'Coxxell , for tbe greater part of half a centuiv , has been the leader of a moral movement , ¦ which has _alrcadyproduced the most magnificent results , and that he has well won the prond title of the " Liberator . " Indeed , Mr . Howitt , vour simplicity is unmatched , if you raallv _believe as you write . O'Coxxell the "Liberator ! " Yes *

      " Tbe saviour of the nation not yet _savsd . " Whom has he liberated ? "He opened Parliament and office to his fellow believers . " Indeed he did , but tbe " believers" were of his own _cla-a . _Cathslic

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      _arwtocrats , Catholic landlords , Catholic adventurers and _schemes , these were the _conscientioiL geE _whorelievedfromthenece _^ ity _ofswallowmg _altS _ofndieuloiis oaths concerning the Pone and thepg tender , were _admitted to Parliament and o £ _aS these were tlie on y parties who derived anv benefit tion . 0 Coxseu , projected , and has continued to cad a " moral-force" agitation , _whichSS _' _lm been the means ol keeping his carcase out oi * Su ? while it has not always saved his f £ ? e „ ? rom death ana _slaughter , as the records of thra _^ - a _^ _uonabnndamly _testify . Hebus _carrSonhi JS' ° _™ . _action for years , and yearlv he has _nnt _^ nT 1 " 3 _J" 1 _^ - _* dupes a princely income under P _etence of gaming for thcin "justice" and Kepeal . Himself and his numerous staff of mendauous tools and satellites have fattened on the pence of the deluded millions , while those millions are as aristocrats , fiathnl . n ior . __ i __ . ___ , n _ . » i . _ . i __ .

      wretched and miserable now as whan _O'Co . nneli commenced his " _mQr-A" agitation . He humbugged his countrymen for vears bv bringing forward , and then shelving , thc Repeal agitation , until at last be was compelled to go on with it , since which time he bas continually juggled and thimble-rigged to keep up the steam witfiout bringing thc agitation to au issue , and never intending that it should come to any issue in his time beyond the "farthing a week—penny a month—shilling a year . " He who hurled his "high and haughty defiance" at the English government , played a craveiily part when that " defiance" was answered . Instead of taking a high and noble stand on principle , he wriggled and lied , and tried to show his "loyalty" by reminding bis judges bow be had helped tue English government to bunt down the Chartists . When the Chartists were

      arraigned at Lancaster on a similar cliarge , though with one exception tliey were all poor and untaught —or self-taught men—all who possibly could give utterance to their thoughts did so ; they boldly defended themselves , and , caring little about personal result ? , they manfully vindicated their principles and their cause ; but tbe Repeal leaders feed lawyers , and permitted those lawyers to pursue any course without regard to principle , which tkoselegalised traffickers in words deemed the best to save tlieir clients from the law ' s vengeance . At this very time we see a second exhibition of tbis dastardly spirit by the fire-eating , blood-and-thunder Nation . Prosecuted for showing in his journal how Irish railways might be made instrumental in murdering " Saxon "

      soldiers en masse , Dcrft , instead of defending in his own person the prosecuted article , is running after _lawyers , whom he will employ to prove , if they can , that the massacreing article meant something altogether different to the construction put . upon it by every one who read it . These patriots are well worthy of their leader . O'Coxxell betrayed the English factory children , the Dorchester labourers , and the Canadian patriots . He fulminated his anathemas against trades' unions , did his best to get the government _foput down those only means of protection for their labour wbich the working classes have , and did all tbat falsehood and slander could effect to destroy the Glasgow cotton-spinners . We ( the writer of these remarks ) shall ererrememberwith wide and

      pleasure that at that time we unmasked the " miscreant , " although we had , in consequence , to suffer the hatred and censure of the shams who tried to shield him from public odium . He was one of the authors of the " People ' s Charter , " and declared on the completion of that document that only tbe "fool" or the " knave" could refuse to adopt it , yet he subsequently repudiated the Charter , and heaped the foulest abuse upon its supporters . He hounded on the Whigs to persecute O'Cosxor , Stephens , and Oistler , and was not even satisfied when hundreds of victims crowded the gaol ? . He ( Mr . Howitt ' s moral force friend ) offered the Whigs " five hundred thousand Tipperavy boys" to shed the blood of tbe English working men when struggling for those rights

      he had bidden them contend for . He chuckled and exulted that it was " a handful of Irish boys" who shot Shell and others at Newport . In the House of Commons , when his casting vote would have liberated the Chartist prisoners and restored the Chartist exiles , be walked out of the house and left the victims to their misery . "We believe Mr . _Howiti prides himself that he is an Englishman ; has he forgotten the disgusting calumnies poured out by this arch-calumniator _against the women of England ? We have not mueh " nationality" in our composition , bnt remembering } this calumny , we think praise of _O'CosxEiifromtbelipsof an Englishman should make that Englishman blush . Has lis not done his utmost to revive national animosities , rekindle national antipathies and set Irishmen in hostility towards

      Englishmen ? Has be not excited a ferocious hatred against the people he calls " Saxons ? " Has henotconfounded tbe English people with tbe English government , and taught his ignorant followers to look forward with joyful anticipation to the ruin , not of the government of England , but of England as a nation ? ___ His latest act of rascality appropriately concludes this brief and imperfect catalogue ofhis crimes . He h & 3 acted the part of "IsfORMEB , " and never stayed in his infernal machinations until he has succeeded in compelling the Irish administration to prosecute for " sedition" Mr . Patbick _O'Hiccixs , whose only real " crimes" are , that he is a Chartist , and has done more than any other man to make known the villainies of which O'Coxxell as a public man has been guilty .

      There waa a time when O'Coxxell was as popular in England as in Ireland , when he was believed in and trusted by the great majority of the people of both countries . He exercised a power which no other man wielded : — "Iferer had mortal man sneh opportunity Except"Napoleon , or abused itmore . " Had O ' Coxxell been an honest man the people of the two Islands mig ht ere this have obtained the rights of citizenship , the Charter would bate been law , and the peopleof both countries , united and free ,

      would have been progressing in happiness and greatness . He has preferred another course . He has betrayed liberty in England , and done his best to revive barbarism in Ireland by rekindling the brutal prejudices which knaves and fools call" nationality . " The " magnificent results" Mr . Howitt speaks of as having flowed from O'Coxxell ' s public acts , have been t iumnhs only for the Catholic priests and the Irish profitocracy . He embodies the triple character of bouraeois , lawyer , and Jesuit , and "tke curse : of hate ' and the hisses of scorn "—posterity will award to him .

      Madame _Woleensbeeger ' s " Letters from Naples arc concluded in this number of Tait . Her letter- * have been valuable contributions to the too imperfect stock of knowledge possessed by the people of tbis country concerning Italy . We hope to have further information concerning other parts of Italy from the samewriter . For the able and courageous manner in which she has exposed the evils of that prime curse of Italy—priestcraft—Madame Wolfexhergek deserves the thanks of every friend of freedom and _nrogress . We shall , if we can find room , give extracts from these concluding letters in the course of a week or two . - FroinDE _Qcixcnv ' s _"Noteson Gilfillan _' s Gallery of Literary Portraits" we take the following account of

      7 ns math or shellet . On Monday , July 8 , 1322 , htiug then in his twentyninth year , he was returning from Leghorn to his _liomtat Lerici , in a schooner-rigged boat of his own , twentyfour feet _long , eight in tlie beam , and drawing four feet water . His companions were only two , —Mr . Williams , formerly of the _eight'i Dragoons , and Charles Vivian , an English seaman in Shelley's service . The run homewards would not have occupied more tbau six or eight hours . But the gulf of Syezia is peculiarly dangerous for sma . l craft in bad weather ; and _unfortunatt-ly a squall of about onB hour ' s duration came on , the wind at thc same time shifting so as to blow exactly in the teeth of the course to Lerici . From the interesting nairafive drawn np by Mr . Trelawney , well known at that time for

      his connexion witli tbe Creek revolution , it seems that for _a _' ght _«' avs tlie fate ofthe boat was unknown : and during that _tltns couriers had b ea _despatched along the whole line of coast between Leghorn anil Uice , under anxious hopes that the voyagers might _luive run into some creek for shelter . BHt at the end of the eight days this suspense ceased . Some articles belonging to ShelUy ' _s boat had _previously heen washed ashore : these might have heen thrown overboard : but finally the _tn-o bodies of Shelley and Mr . Williams came on shore , near Via Reggio , about four miles apart . Both were in a state of advanced decomposition : but were fully identified . Vivian ' s body was not recovered for three weeks . From thestate of the two corpses , ithsdbecoiae difficult to remove them ; and they were , therefore , burned , by the sea side , on funeral pyres , with the classic rites of paganism ,

      four Englsih gentlemen being _present—Captain Shenley ofthe navy , Mr . Leigh Hunt , Lord Byron , and Mr . Trelawney . A circumstance is added by Mr . Gilfillan , which previous accounts do not mention , viz . that Shelley ' s heart remained unconsumed by the fire ; bnt this is a phenomenon that has repeatedly occurred at judicial deaths by fire . The remains of Mr . Williams , when collected from the fire , were conveyed to Eng land ; hut _Shellt-y ' s were buried in the Protestant burying ground at Borne , not far from a child of his own , and Keats the poet . It is . remarkable that Shelley , in the preface to his Adonais , dedicated to the memory of thntyoung poet , had spoken with delight of this cemetery—as " an open space among the ruins" ( of ancient Borne , } " covered in winter witli violets and daisies ; " adding—'' It might make one in love with death , to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place . "

      " Every body knows" says Mr . Cilfillan " that , on the arrival of Leigh Hunt in Italy , Shelley hastened to meet him . During all the time he spent in Leghorn , he was iu brilliant spirits , —to hira ever a sure prognostic of coming crib" ( That is , in the Scottish phrase , he was fey . ) "On his return to his home and family , his skiff , was overtaken hy a fearful hurricane , and all on board ) perished . To a gentleman , who , at the time , was with aglass surveying the sea , the scene of his drowning _as-j snmed a very _striking appearance . A great many vessels were visible , and among ihem one small skiff , which attracted his particular attention . Suddenly a dreadful j storm , attended by thunder and columns of lightning , swept over the sea , and eclipsed the prospect . "When it had passed , he looked again . The larger vessels were all safe , riding upon the swell ; the skiff only _hsd gone down tor ever , And in that skiff was Shelley 1 Here he

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      had met his fate . Wert thou , oh religious sea , only avenging on his head the cause of thy denied an d insulted Deity _^ l Were ye ,. ye elements , in your courses , .. commissioned to destroy him ? Ah , there is uo repiy . The surge is silent : Tbe elements have no voice . In' the eternal councils the _seeiet is hid of the reason of the man ' s death . Aud there too , rests the still more tremendous secret of the character of his destiny . " The latter portion of . Mr . _Gilpillas _' s account cannot fail to strike our readers as something most presumptuous and absurd . True , he does not directly aver that tbe manner of Shelley ' s death waa a "judgment ; " but , that he meant this to be inferred , his readers can hardly avoid belicvin " . " Wert thou , oh religious sea . ' ( what a ' phrase !) only

      avenging en his head the cause of th y denied and insulted Deity ? " There is no mistaking the meaning of this . "In tho eternal councils thesecrct is Lid 6 t the man ' s death . " "Nothing of thc sort ; there is no hiding , no secret . Air . Du _Quisctv says , " The Gulf of Spezzia is particularly dangerous for small craft in bad weather , " and Air . Gilfillax , himself , puts it still more plainly , lie says , after the storm had passed , " The larger vessels were all safe ; the _Bkiff only had gone d . wn for ever . " What more natural ? What more in accordance with maritimo experience ? Shelley perished because he was in a "small skiff , " a vessel not capable of encountering the storm . Ilad he been in one ofthe "larger

      vessels , " what rational man can doubt buttiinthe _jfould bave been safe , if , indeed , there bad been a great many " _skiHs" in the gulf , and only one "large ship , " and Shelley on board tbat ship , and if , in the storm , the large ship had gone down while all tbe skiffs had been saved , then , if thc superstitious liad cried " a judgment , " although wc should have been as sceptical then as we are now , still the ignorant would have had something like a colourable excuse for their absurd belief ; but , as the case really was , Mr . Gilwllax ' s pretended "judgment" must appear ridiculous to the most obtuse . The following paragraph , which we find as a note to the article oh which we are commenting , leaves no doubt as to the causes of Shellky ' s drowning : —

      The immediate cause of the catastrophe was supposed to be this : —Shelley ' s boat had reached a distance of four miles from the shore , when the storm suddenly arose , and the wind suddenly shifted : "from excessive smoothness , " says Mr . Trelawney , all at once the sea was "foaming , breaking , and getting into a very heavy swell . " After one hour the swell went down ; and towards evening it was almost a calm . The circumstances were all adverse : the gale , thc current setting into the gulf , thc instantaneous change of wind , acting upon au undecked boat , having all the sheets fast , overladen , and no expert bands on board but oue , made tbe foundering as sudden as it was inevitable . The boat is supposed to have filled to leeward , and ( cairying two tons of ballast ) to have gone down like a shot . A book found in thc pocket of Shelley , and * the unaltered state of the dress on all the corpses when washed on shore , sufficiently indicated tliat not a moment ' s preparation for meeting the danger had been possible .

      After this who will deny that Mr . Gilfillan ' s trash about " religious seas , " is the most absurd stuff that ever an " auld wife" twaddled . Sir Thomas Dick _Lauulu contributes a Highland tale , entitled "Love , Jealousy , and Vengeance . " A lengthy review is given of Mr . Caklyle ' s " Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches , " which affords the reader a considerable insight into that work . One article on railways , and two on the Alinisterial changes of the past month , together with the "Literarv Register , " complete this month ' s number , which contains much very interesting matter , and well commences the new year .

      Douglas Jeitrold's Shilling Magazine. Ja...

      DOUGLAS _JEItROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE . _Jaxuary . London : Punch Office , Fleetstreet . Bravely this magazine begins the new year . The Editor's story , " St . Giles and St . James , " abounds ! with beautiful thoughts , and reflections embodying sterling wisdom . The description of the robbery of the gold destined to bribe the electors of Liquorish , is most ably written . "Men of Letters and their abettors" containssome wholesome truths we are glad to see in print ; a great deal of nonsense has lately been spoken and written respecting tiiesocial _position of literary men , wliich the opening portion of Pail Bell ' s " speech" will go far to correct . " The Winter Robin" is a delightful story , well-fitted to

      instruct , improve , and delight tbe youth of both sexes , while it may also be read with advantage by the adults of all ages and classes , particularly Christian ministers , and lip-worshippers of justice and goodness . " English Scenes and Characters , " is the first of a series of papers by William Howitt . The character sketched in the present paper 13 , "The Country Manty-Mekker . " There is life and truth in the portrait . These are the subjects we delight to see Air . IIowiti _' s pen engaged on ; we hope to have many of his characters and sketches . Tbe valuable articles under the title of "The Englishman in Prussia , " are concluded in this number ; we hope to meet this writer again . Tlie excellent "Hedgebog Letters" embrace several subjects of public

      interest , including the ducal doings of the past month ; the " pinch of curry powder , " die . As may be supposed , the unhappy dukes , Norfolk , Richmond , Cambridge , Wellington , and other ? , are most unmercifully whipped by the quizzical " cabman . " The tenth chapter of the truly valuable " History for Young England , " sketches the reign and adventures of the famous Richard _Coeur de Lion . Sucli are the principal contents of this number . Now for our extracts ; but where shall we select , when every article teems with beauties ? We might select from tbe pearls so profusely scattered through "St . Giles and St . James : " the truthful and noble sarcasms of

      Juniper lhdgehog ; tbe sensible reflections of Paul Bell ; the beautiful moral of "The Winter Robin ;" William IIowiti ' s English scenes ; or the historical pictures for " Young England . " But we cannot give extracts from all these ; and as tbe author of " Tbe Englishman in Prussia" has brought bis labours to a close , we will present onr readers with a spice of his concluding description of Prussia and Prussian life . The whole article would occupy nearly three columns of this paper , we can only , therefore , afl ' ord room for the following extracts , but thc reader will do well to turn to the . magazine and read the entire article , together with its other excellent contents .

      GERMAN _IIOCSES . German houses are generally built upon the principle of a thorough draught—that is , of obtaining , not avoiding , a thorough draught . Opposite a door , window , passage , or gateway , there is usually anotlier door , window , passage , or gateway ; and by these means you continually find yourself in thc centre of a strong current of air . It does not matter in the warm seasons ofthe year ; but in the winter or other cold windy months , and more particularly in IUieuish Prussia , it is dreadful . In addition to this , the doors and windows do not lit close , so that you may sit and roast your body close to your stove , with a draught cutting your ankles off , from n long gap underneath the door , and another draught cutting vour throat from the sideand chinks ofthe window-frame .

      We have sat at dinner on a cold windy day in winter , in a room like an oven , but with our feet as cold as ice , from the wind of a great stone hall below , that had a wide staircase opposite the front door ( continually opening ) , the head of which suiircasi ; was _dirsetly facing the diningroom door , the _saiel door not touching the floor by at least Half an _inchSait along . As there arc no carpets or other impediments tothe wind , we had it "fresh" as any of the doors below leading to street or garden wtre oprned , to say nothing of open windows . Then , the method oi warming the rooms in winter by the German stove , is detestable . You are either made hot to suffocation , Hit horrid thing becoming red-hot , or it docs not give out half enough heat , and is often tlie only warm thing in the room . If thc store was _alightand warm , we were never

      able to convince any host or hostess of any house , public or private , that this fact was not the principal consideration , and that it was the person occupying the room who ought chiefly to be considered—it waswhether he was warm or cold , —that waa the point ; the stove being warm was , in itself , little or nothing to tbe purpose—the stove was not lit to warm itself ouly . It was of no uso;—tliey smiled , or took it amiss , and went away , saying , _"Biiglnndera w « re an original people ' . " Sometimes tho stoves ure lit by an aperture from the outside ofthe room , so that the _regulation of the temperature being thus totally out of your hands , tliey either freeze you , or regularly bafce you , just as tlic case may happen ; and you have no remedy hut to run out of the room . - In thc comforts and luxuries of social life , Germany is a hundred years behiud England .

      GEHMi . V BEDS . The beds are all too short . A short man can scarcely lie quite straight without his feet pressing against thtfoutboard : A tall man must either lie hunched up _nosc-air- ' - knees , or his nuked feet and ankles roust stick out over the wooden barrier at the bed's foot , or else ( as the pillows arc generally higher than the head-board ) his head mast hang over the pillows , and dangle towards the floor , an attitude in which , to our certain knowledge , several English travellers have awoke iu the morning , to their momentary confusion und stultified astonishment . In winter—and this is the trying period —( few of our tourists know anything about the winter)—then comes a fresh discomfort . In the first place , the blankets are not made to " tuck in ; '"* tbey are much too narrow ; the part tucked in would be considered as wasted . For what use is the part tucked in ? they would ask .. Tin ' s would be foolishly extravagant ; the blankets therefore are properly and

      wisely of the sariie width as the bed . The consequence is that half a dozen times in the' night you are awoke by the cold coming in at . ene side or the other ; in your efforts to repair theopeningyou inake . au opening at , the other side , aiid by the-morning your-bed-clothes . are huddled rouhd ' youinnoshapo at all , and with no good success . So much for blankets ; but very often your only bedclothes , is a sheet with a _siuftl-d . bag , in fact a . small feather-bed laid over it . Now this puffed bag , which covers you , is just the width ofthe bed , or something less , and little more than two-thirds of its length ; and here is a scene of misery I You must _ihevit-ibly lie in the shape of a frog , or your neck and shoulders would bo quite uncovered , except by the mere sheet . A quarter of an hour of this , and yon are sure to he in a vapour bath , the fea ther-bag i 9 so excessively hot ; but evtry . time you turn from _one ' sideto the otlier , the narrow fat covering jumps up somewhere , and lets in the freezing air ot your winter chumbsi _* If _youturutttalihastdj , youraise th _« thing

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      | both sides , and » thorough draught instantly passes through your hot _valour bed , and astonishes your poor legs aud back . - Som *» times in the night , and in darkness , you have " a scene" with your feather-bug , which can scarcely be described . . You awake with a frozen limb , or side , or shoulder—endeavour to adjust the bag and cover yourself properl y—find fOu have got the thing hroadwiys over you instead of lo _* _g-ways—try to put it right—1 'tgets _corner-ways— then n . _*> -bow—changes its shape so at > utterly to baffle and confu . ie you in the dark , till you _doiMitkuow , and find it _impossible to discover , whether you are in a wrong position in your bed or have got thc bag wrtfng;—you are iii a fever—it now gets hotter than ever , and less in size— becomes _elustic , perverse , alivehas a will of its own—and finally jh ' ps off upon the floor , either rolling underneath the _bedstead , o . v getting itself involved with legs of chairs , s » that _JOU » 'iri ! compelled to get out in the frightfully cold nir and grope about in the darkness , upon the icy _carpetless floor , to . _V-cover your detestable aud accursed companion .

      GEHMlN COOKERV , Many of their dishes are excellent ; and of their three hundred methods of dressing potatoes , a very desirable selection might be made . A great many of their soups also , far flavour , wholesomencss and economy , are net to he surpassed . But for originality , for inventiveness , for the bringing together of the most apparently uncongenial and incongruous materials , they certaiuJy exceed anything that an Englishman could imagine . The table d ' lwte oi a goodhotelalways presents an agreeable variety . _Pea-soup * with slices of raw beef in it , or followed by raw _herriugs {" cured" in some way , but not cooked ); baked beef with preserved plums , and hot yellow goose _, fat laid upon slices of brown bread or toast , may seem rather startling to delicate stomachs . Baked ducks

      stuffed with chesnuts and onions , and garnished with a sauce ot pickled _chtrries or very soiir brandy-cherries ; potatoes fried with vinegar anu sugar ; turnips covered with cinnamon ; and black pudding " assisted" ky baked pears preserved in syrup ; potatoes stewed with onions and sugar ; French beans fried in brown sugar ; and boiled salmon smothered in custard , or a light batter pudding;—all these may appear ingenious , if not generally seductive . After a _gtesit many _dishts of tW * _hiwvi _, tho last that comes before tbe desert , is utmost always hot baked mutton with a rich brown sauce , made " thick and slab . " The following specimens of _Koch-Kunst will also be found interesting : —a duck stuffed with almonds and apples ; raw ham , with pancakes nnd salad ; potatoes and caraway comfits ; a turnip sliced , and made delicious

      with rock-salt , pepper , and caraways to be eaten with coffee ; a hare stuffed with chesnuts , « tc . In the matter of poultry thc German cooks have need of all their art , as there is really very little flesh upon the bones of their fowls ; and a goose is commonly a mere skeleton , wilh a gristle and a _tliick yellow fatty tough skin over it ; in fact , an English friend has truly designated it when he said a German goose was just like "a little fiddle in a leathern bag . " The use of blood in many of their dishes is alarming to our notionB of refinement , especially as it is made no secret of "the art , " but is openly carried in jugs and cups from slaughter-houses . The legs of mutton are also apt to be very muscular und pipy . The King of Prussia sends to Windsor for his mutton . How gladly would every Englishman in Prussia do the same .

      The writer sa _>* 9 coffee in Germany is very good , but the tea is detestable , and made of undeniable hedge-leaves . "The manners ofthe Germans are polite , pleasant , cordial , and very ceremonious ; for the most part obliging , and without any of those airs of pride and superciliousness with wbich Englishmen are so constantly and so justly taxed . " This writer intimates that considerable hjprocrisy exists in Germany as regards " morals ; " you may sin , only take care tbat your sin be cloaked ; preserve your character , and that is everything . Sonic account of the amusements ofthe country is given , including tbe Carnival , and the Christmas festivities . The writer thus honestly and candidly concludes his views of

      THE GERMAN NAT 10 H . In concluding this series of papers , the " Englishman is Prussia" requests permission to offer one or tivo cm . phatic remarks . Much has been said of a disparaging kiud in thc views he has taken of the politics , religion , morals , and customs of Prussia ; nor have various objectionable _characteristics and domesticities been allowed to pass without comment . AU he can now say is this , he has spoken the iruth exactly as it presented itself to his mind . But no _disparagements , that he has thought himself bound to utter—no sense of absurdities , incongruities , and short-comings , have in _« ny respect altered his estimate and opinion of the essentially high qualities

      existing in the inner spirit ofthe German nation . He regards Germany as the great storehouse of new ideas ; as the nation by which the kingdoms , equally of ivnagina . tion and of science , have been ruled over in modern days by potentates of a genius ranking with the highest ; as the nation producing thegreatest numbtr of indefatigable Midlife _duvoting spirits in thu cause of truth , both abstract and practical , though chiefly abstract ; as the nation to whom , of all others , the modern age is most indebted for new food for its soul ; and as the nation in which ( though the practical development and organization may devolve upon England and France ) the redemption ofthe modern world will be originated .

      Several " reviews" conclude this number , including a brief , not very clear , but on thc whole very favourable notice , of Mr . _CoorBtt ' s " Purgatory ol Suicides . "

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      SIMMONDS'S COLOMAL _MAGAZINE-Jasuakt . London : Simmonds and Ward , Bargeyard , Bucklersbury . When this periodical commenced , in Janunry , 1814 , there were then several journals in existence devoted to Colonial and Indian affairs ; others have started up in the interval ; but , wc believe , with tbe single exception of oue weekly journal , this magazine now stands alone as a literary representative of the British Colonies . Amidst tlie rise , decline , and fall of so many _faiiniW publications , it is pleasing to observe the success of this one . We believe that

      success has more than _lullillcd the most sanguine expectations of its projectors . This is gratifying to ns , inasmuch as enterprise , industry , talent , and honesty , by whomsoever exhibited , command our admiration ; and the parties possessing these claims to public support , our best wishes . True , we see some things in perhaps every number of this magazine we cannot accord with , opposed to our own _principles , or at variance with our own views , but we are not so Utopian as to imagine we can find all men , or even the majority , coinciding with us in all things . We are satisfied if we can find the writers of a publication like this exhibiting their faith in human progress , and helping that " progress" by representing tlie interests and vindicating the claims of our brethren beyond the wave , at the same time adding to the information and enlarging the sympathies of * their countrymen " athome . "

      An important and interesting " Account of the Settlement of Nelson , New Zealand , " opens this number . The description is by a writer on the spot , _aift ! apparently lias r . _ot thc least tinge of exaggeration ; thc article hears evidence of " plain sailing " throughout . Thc "Account of thc Liberated African Establishment at St . Helena" is continued in this number . The author of these articles writes well , and makes subjects , otherwise repulsive , readable , and ' even interesting , by his maimer of treating tliem . lie tells us that Lemon Valley , the residence and burial-place efN . iroLKo . v , has , since the removal of the withered remains of him ,

      " Whose game was empires , and whose stakes were thrones . . Whose table earth—whose dice were human bones , " ceased to attract attention , and has already fallen into almost utter oblivion . The house occupied by the fallen emperor bas long since been converted into a barn , is now fust mouldering into decay , and probably in the . course of twenty-years will exist no raor « . The willow trees which shaded his grave hare been cut down , and tbe grave itself is comparatively neglected . A valuable statistical article on " South Australia" will well repay perusal . A most

      interesting account of * The Mahogany Ireo ot Honduras describes the tree in its natural state , tells of its discovery , and relates the toils and difficulties encountered by thecutters of this valuable wood . Tin ' s number contains the fourth of Mr . M'Comiuk ' s "Australian Sketches , " describing Melbourne and New Town , Port Phillip . Tlie princi p al of the _remaining article -. are "Notes on the Sandwich Islands , " "Sketches of Santa Cruz and St . Thomas , " "The Indians of Oriulla , " and " Reminiscences ofthe Island of Cuba . " The poetry of this magazine is usually of a superior order ; there arc two beautiful pieces in the present number , one we _, select for the gratification of our

      readers : — i ' - ¦ - THE INDIAN , VOYAGER . Br _HEKBV II . IntJ _ E . * ,, li ; 3 < I . I ' ve wandered in distant regions , > _vThe homes of thefair andfree ; Of wealth and poverty . ¦ I ' ve counted the hostile legions * . Prince , pauper , and priest ; Gold , galleys , and glee : Oh t lctme feast with the savage beast , i In the wilds of my native sea . I ' ve traversed the fields of the stranger , By river , road , and rail ; ¦ "'' ' Alas ! eVn those who quail But little imjgine the danger : Train , tunnel , and track- ; -. Burst ,-boiler , and break : Oh ! bear me back to niy inountaia hack , Aud my boat on tho glassy lake .

      I ' ve dwelt in thc City of Wonders , Tho haunt of the worldly-wise ; Their sullen , clouded skies , Bo sunshine of heav'n evev 3 Uiiders Fog , funnel , ' and foam ;'•' Cold , cutarrah , nnd cramp ; ¦ Oh ! Ut mc roam to my trop ic home , Illumined by Nature ' s lamp , I ' ve loitered in grove and in . garret , Long sacred to ly round to lute ; But now , unpaid , all muto Hangs the harp of a Byroiior Barrett Hate , hunger , and hire ; ' Drudge , drivel , and di one : Oh ! let ' me fire my rustic lyre lu ih < i flush of _ttw torrid . W _» .

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      I ' ve worship'd , in church aud in chapel , Tlie type of each Christian scheme ; . Here Bigotry raves supreme—There Discord has thrown down her apple . * Cowl , cloister , and cant ; Glebe , Gospel , and gall : Oh ! letmechauntin the desert haunt A hymn to Hie Lord of Alb I ' ve tarried with Dives , the miser , And smiled in his daughter's train—Who would her hand obtain For her wealth , not her worth , must prize her . ' Pelf

      , plunder , and pride ; Sin , sorrow , and shock : Oh ! let me glide to my homely bride , The _briiic of my native nick . I ' ve stood in the peasant ' s cottage—The _heart-drop hung in his ej ° His children heaved a sigh For a mess of _poorhousu pottage : Tithe , treason , und test ; Guilt , gallons , and gore : Oh ! let mo rest my hanoiv'd breast On the far Atlantic shore . St . Xucia . Nov . 1813 .

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      _WAUE'S LONDON REVIEW . London : C . B . Christian , _\ VhitefViai _* s-street , Fleet-street . Wc Intra received the December and January numbers of thin Review together , and so too , we observe , have some of our weekly contemporaries . Wo hope thm is not to be the standing arrangement (?) , as it looks rather _ridicuJous for us , in thc middle of January , 1816 , to be commenting on a Magazine published on the 1 st of December , 1845 ; and yet not to notice it at all would be unjust both to thc writers therein and to our readers . The December number contains some most excellent articles . In the first place we have a continaation of " II _Vagabondo , " very cleverly written , and very amusing ; '" we must , however , make this objection to Master r « _oaiwnfo

      —that one month we have had a chapter and the next month none . It ia provoking enough to be baulked in the middle of a good story with , the abominable announcement" to be continued , " even when one feefs certain that the next month ' s number , if it brings not the conclusion , will , at least , bring the " continuation" of the story ; but bow much more provoking it is when one can have no faith that the next number will even " continue" thc fragmentary article . More than once tlie readers of this "Heview" have been so served by "II Vagabondo ; " thus in No . 13 we had a chapter of his adventures , " to be continued , " but No . 14 contained nomention of him . No . 15 ( December ) has a chapter—far too brief , but No . 16 ( January ) has nothing from or of hiin . This

      is " too bad . " " The Field of the Forty Fools " is an illustration of Highland life in the olden time . The very title of " A few more Thoughts on Rabelais" will ensure readers for the article . " Lyell's Travels in North America" is a well-written review of Professor Lykll ' s able , impartial , and interesting account of thc United States , and North America generally . " The Unhappy Man " is , wc are sure , a sketch from real life . The " Diary ofa Modern Traveller" is continued from the preceding number , and gives some graphic pictures of life in the Crimea . This number concludes with a sketch of the career and character of the famous Earl of Mansfield . We give the following extracts from thc "Diary ofa Modern Traveller" : —

      THE _iTEFP OF THE CBI 5 IEA . Tho stepp consists of an immeasurable turf , mostly formed of , at best , u dozen species of plants , partly social , partly herbal , and partly fruit bearing , and among wliich predominates the melilot . They are all of a voluptuous growth , manifesting the natural fertility ofthe soil . The eye can descry no tree , no visible height , no _wati-r , brook , or spring , only now and then a half decayed draw-well , around which lie grouped the panting horn cattle . ( The infancy of civilisation here niay be inferred from the mode in which water is drawn from the well at one of the first stations of this stepp ; namely , a horse is fixed to a rope , that draws up a pail nt the otlier end of the rope , by being whipped away from the spot . ) You meet with camels meHSuring tlie _tllsisni pl __; n wish grave steps ; half sarage horses , avoiding shyly the traveller as well as the hunchbacked beasts of burden ; swine , wild , longbristled , and black , pasturing around thc dwellings , as if

      Ihey were the legitimate aborigines of the unpopulated country ; huts , with flat-turf roofs , upon which grass thrives as abundantly as upon the open field ; still farther you meet with whole flocks of wild geese , which lrequcntly approach the traveller , so near at first as to show their fine checkered feathers , aHd then , after having satisfied this vanity , betake themselves to awkward flight ; also long trains of waggons drawn by two oxen each , _travelling slowly to fetch stilt irom Pert-cop to thu interior , or corn-brandy to _Simphtropol ; finally , the first _Stcpp-Tnrtavs , their beads covered with long woollen caps of sheep-skin , with brown Mongolian faces , from which glare a pair of very small black eyes—these an * , together with a burning sun , upou the whole , the leading objects tbat oiler themselves to the view of the _traveller through tho _Nagayian and Crimean s : tpp ( as also the Btepps of southern Russia , and more _nspecinlly of the Caucasus ) , from Aleshki _uiti . Perecop to Simpheropol .

      TA 1 . _TAR HOUSES . Particularly uncomfortable for us Europeans is the interior of the house of a Tartar . A roundly vaulted door , but at the same time so low , as to force any man of middle stature to bund his back in entering , leads to a low mite-room , from which two side doors conduct into thu so-called parlours , one of which being destined for thu male , and thc other for the female inmates . Very strictly separated are th p two sexes ; al . « o , among these Mahometans , the women but seldom leave their _apartuicivts ( awl mora especially among the higher classes ) _, and even then only very deeply veiled . The cushions or

      bolsters around the walls , the charcoal basins in the centre ; thc cooling vessel of the _orientiil Kulikan , or pipe ; the beams of tlie roof that pass along the ceiling , fur the purpose of suspending on thtm various utensils ; the room freely ascending alter the Indian fashion , a ? high up as the very gables of the huuse ; thu worked carpet , that is not absent even in the poorest dwelling , and the Jow room tables—all this reminds the traveller that he is hero in the cist , though only on thc northern border of it , where the patriarchal and stationary principle already begins to contrast with European civilization .

      Widely varying views bave been taken ofthe Tartar character , onr modern traveller _snys— "M _» own opinion is , tbat there is hardly to be found a people more lazy , stationary , and given to fatalism , but at tlic same time also quiet , harmless , ami moral , than the Tartars of the Crimea . Theirstriet honesty is greatly extolled , a feature that advantageously distinguishes tlicm from the Russians generally . " We must deter till nextweek anv notice of the January number .

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      AIR . COOPER'S "DESPOTISM . " We last week received the following letter , winch want of room compelled us to defer till this week : — Mn . Editok—I was much surprised and grieved as a Chartist , at Mr . Cooper's letter in last Saturday ' s Star , respecting the getting np of n Song and Hymn Buck . The object I approve of ; but Mr . Cs arbitrary censorship of the different contribution . - ; whieh may be sent ; his fiat , " That I have license to reject the whole or any part of what you send , " neither I nor any other limn of thought ean approve of . Why it is nothing else but right down despotism . Were I a poet , Mr . Editor , ' and seeking for fameit would not be in Mr . Cooper ' s hands 1 should

      , place my work for revision . Who made him sole judge of poetry ? And were he the cleverest man in the kingdom I would protest against _»«« indlv _Wiihl deciding upon the claims of many . Mr . C _, as a Chartist , knows onr principles tu ho , that all shall legislate for all . If a song book is minted , let a committee be chosen who can setihi the merits of thc different contributions in verse , but let us hear iio rooiv in this or any other case , from a demoera * , that X will do . this or that . _IJciiig no rhymist myself I cannot be said to write from jealousy—only , not being in llussia , I am no advocate for desputism in liny shape . ' * ' _Vours truly , Kothtrhithe , Surrey . John * _TMatiuab .

      We give the writer of , 'the above epistle credit lor believing himself to be " a democrat , " but certainly he adopts most extraordinary means to provo his faith in democratic principles . We have turned to Mr . _Coon-u ' sletter to the "Chartist _l'dcts ' . _'lpublisheil in this paper of January 3 rd ) and really wc cannot sec one idea , or one word therein , which can be fairly objected to . . Mr . Cooper thinks a geod Chartist Song . and Hymn Book is needed .. He oilers to contribute several of his own productions to such a work , and invites all his " rhyming brethren" to also contribute thereto . ' . ' lie adds , very properly , that he must bo the judge of the pieces sent to him , and must Wallowed to exercise the power of rejecting the wholeor part of the songs he may receive .

      , any Mr . _Melius calls this" _arbitrary censorship , _« . _lespotism , " & _ei If such bc " censorship" and " despotism , " what does lie understand liberty to _bei ? Mr . . Cooper , forthe p . iblic good ,- undertakes a troublesome office without fee or reward . He Im-s by his pen , yet lie offers to give the productions ol his pen to aid a public object . He offers to take upon nunself the onerous and thankless duties of Editor o she-intended work , ( a task we don't envy him ) , and he will evidently , incur further trouble , and pcriian _** pecuniary expense and . risk , at the same time dcvofuur the urolits of tlio speculation , if any , to a most

      holy purpose , the aiding of our Veteran Patriots , and the Wives and Families of thc Chartist exiles : lo impute to . Mr . CoorBn "despotism" itc , as Mr . Matiius does , is . monstrously _ui-just . lint Mr . _Matiius does hot object to " censorship , " only it ; ' must be" the censorship of a " _coinnnttec _» _Iheroare too many Uberah of Mr . _Maihins's stamp . Clothe ; tyranny in a democratic grab , give it a popular , _iiiime _, and forthwith , inthe eyes ot such ' men , the ) devil of despotism becomes transformed into . , this angel of liberty . Wc show !** be glad to know how a committee could ilcciilc ns 4 o thc merits of " Chartisb Hhvmns" better tlnitt Mr . Coom _ H ( Or how thri ' - '

      decisions ' of subh a _committee could bo moro _satislae , tory than-the decisiara ' _-- <* i' Mr . ¦ _Cooi-ur ? It Mr , Mathias thinks a eonimittee . could make up a belter Song Book thai * Mr . Coovkh , let him get together such a _euniraifttce , and thenwe shall have two song _boolu _mstuM _eTohe . Again , if the persons whose

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      songs ' or "hymns" Mr . Cooper rejects , dispute his judgment , their remedy is to publish on their own account , and then we mav have a variotv of som _* books . Once for all , we must repudiate and condemn this into eront and ridiculous erstem of meddling with the individual freedom bf members of the great Chartist party . Wc . , , - , —wish men tobe free As much from mobs as kh 1 gS _ f roin J 0 U as we > , Mr . Cooper is a Poet , —a man of _i _^ _nlna _u 0 fo . and judgment Gifted by _iT _w fl ffl ' W ic & _-, us own indus ry has rendered fruitful , he j ™ _Jp honour to his ck » ami party . To the name of _thafiparty he has clung dispite ihe wishes , _warning and " ' objections of those who , to a great extent , havo ' it In 11 then * power to influence hii social existence It ia

      too bad" that such a imm should hare his motives *' misrepresented , ami his doings distorted , hv the' unjust suspicions nnd surmises of the very parties he is labouring to serve . If Mr . Coopk r can do a good ' thing , let him do it after his own fashion . We would do so ; and we think we know enough of Mr . Coop _ . R to _pveilict that he will so do likewise .

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      EXTRACT _l- ' ltOM A LETTER ON TUE , ( . i ; LA . TE CRISIS . - __• [ From Punch . ] ' '• The following manly and straightforward Jetfetr has been addressed to our respected town-man , Mr , M'Farlane , by a gentleman holding a distinguished public situation m London . It is the testimony of a person whose means of information cannot bc questioned ; and when we name the writer , Mr . M'Punel . i _' of 1 * feet-street , the public will agree with us , that . the composition ( like every other by the samepen'f does honour to the head and heart of our cdiinW ' man : — ¦ J

      " We are out of office , and Lord Grey has done it all _. For my _omipart , 1 told Lord John that , provided he would go for a total Com L .. h ; Kepeal , I was his man , "We all said so . "Macaulay said so . Lor-kJohn upreed _. At the eleventh hour in comes Grey , and says he will noe act with Palmcrstoii as foreign Minister ; and tho embryo Cabinet is destroyed by that _ili-linicdoljtctioil _, aiid ihe pangs and travail of a week end m bitter disap . pointment , "You will , perhaps , bo anxious to know , my dear _M'Pjrlane , how this interposition of my Lord C ' rcy could

      ruin'the just-formed Administration . You will -ick , ig it possible that thc world could not go on without Lord Grey and with Lord Palmerston _, or without Lord l'almerstoii and with Lord G rey ! Is eaeh of these noblemen absolutely mccsaary to tho welfare of the empire , and can't we survive unless we have both of them in a Whig Ministry ? You picture to yourself Death intervening—you fancy that _tlough Grey should perish , or Temple he carried off to Mieestnil vaults , or both eat enclt other up and expire—yet the kingdom would survive , the sun would rise pretty much as usual , and the- stocks ( after a period of mourning ) wouldrnllv .

      " hi this , my dear line , you are in gross error . Y . u do not stem to understand that the Whigs are our ; natural leaders—appointed by Heaven and the lied Boole ' '' * to rule and _fjoveni us , There are ahout a dozen of . this- , i privileged class of noblemen—set apart from tho jvsi of . , _- thc world—bavin ;; government vested in them , as priest- * ' hood is in the _Iirahuiius , or was in the tribe of Levi . ""' Head the Court _Cintdur ahout these "Whigs— -these great ¦ , ' _- ' irrevocable rulers of ours . They see nobody tint ; tl . ey keep aloof from the world whicli they govern . It is Lord ' . ' John goes to _Minto-house , or Mitito to Lord John ; ' or lord Palnierston gave a dinner to Lord Minto and ' LanSdowue ; or the Marquis of Lansdowne _tuivrtuuitu . at . * . ; _llowood , Lord Minto _, Lord Palnierston , Lord Ji _^ ui Km ? -, . . _.- ,

      sell , itc . They see only oue another , these ai . at . Sig ' _iiidrsJ They decide in tlieir conclaves what- ' _I ' sgoOd ' ' _fdr' -us _, no ; 7 «' doubt . Thc working peoplo , head _> . di'by _^ oin' C « 'bde _>& ; ¦¦ _;* and Villiers work , and toil , and . _striyg _^ _-oi-giifB _^ ft . ' _^ _ljj _' i ; A forces of the country agaiust the Coin Laws _^ _j _& at > s _' 'j down ; and then Lord John conns nobly in , < at ' _-d" ' fffyV , _^ : " * 'Well done , my heroes ; you have . ' ' _conquvrfa'ififtSuJ _•;*¦ battle . And 1 plaee myself nt your-head ., i : l'lriive . . hrs __ - . _ _* i _oppuKeu to jwir measures for a long . Inns time ; . but _vo ' it - ' * have fnught your light so well , tiiai _11 v ... iS _^ a " t ! j j _£ a * 3 you . I am your natural _iiristoeriicy—^ _iinH-piihnefSflin , ' and Grey , and the rest of u « . Our s _ervicesviirff priee- - ' . less . We intend to come into tlie . miuistry .. upon your . > shoulders '

      " It wns in this way that Louis-Philippe walked into Paris after the tliree _daja' lighting and ' _revoluth-ftr-in 18 SQ ; and blessed the people ; und took the _prpnu _. _jam ! has ruhd ever > ince as Managing Director , 01 " the _l- ' nnc ' lx . nation . Philippe was always a Whig , lie lived in England , and profited hy our institutions . There are forty articles in the Whig faith "; the thirty-nine" _rt'e know of , and the fortieth 13 : —* It is ordend by _lli-aven , and decreed by the laws of Nature , that the Whig _Lrnds should have governance and authority over the people of England . '

      "Lord John is not n proud man , very likely , but he has these convictions before named , and acts upon thrm _. There you have ii proof how honest he is . lie ' conceives the country can ' t be governed without Lord 1 _' iilmerstnn and Lord Grt'j _* . They must rule , or Doivning-sti eet ) . a » no charms for him . So he doesn't hesitate , a ' nimitnt : office he resigns ; it is impossible without lord _i'almer-S'on—thc et untiy may go to the deuce ; he can ' t preserve it without Lord Grpy . "I tremble to think , my dear M'Farlane , that soma ' desperate atheists may be ever , now thinking of _denyiisjj Unsold dynasty _altogether , and asking , "Suppo-e Grey goes , and Hussell _atterwanls , and I \ _-ilnierston , the God ; of War , and all the race of Minto ? Suppose , when one ., j lord can't ague with t ' other lord , the third lord iimsit necessary to break up a Government ' ; is iili _Kiijjlinid ' to h » baulked because theii * lordships ' are so s ' _qui-miih !" ¦ - > " . ' - . ••; " 1 for my part , however , must liot . _tjn-ak . . _J'jsaslook * . itigforward tothe Tape ami Scaling ; W _py-oDir 6 as " « iy berth , . an . _i maybe consul , red an ih ' _trrtil'Sl ' pafty . ' _- ' lns * ' - / my opinion the Whigs are so nccmar _;/' f __*( i t 3 fr- _^*^ . - _'>& don ' t happen to know * aynbody else to _^ ti _^ c- _^ l _^^ to : _^^ liut , Oniy dear friend , why—why wcr ( ' _^ t , _b fei _^ b _^ l _|<_^ j _|^_ i _|» ston out of the way ? ''' , _' " v " " . _^^' _'' / _Qif-S " _Evcr-youia _^ _tlfl-j _^ . _- _*?*) ' _'f _^ _fi \ ¦ _'H'V _^^ _0 _fW & 2 _»^ _fi ' " To P . _M'Farlnne , Esq ., Edinburghj' _^^ _WS _^ f . t _^^ _Hn " .. _&* . ¦;•¦ - ' _•* ... _ . - _•• £ .

      ;Cl3sp. I'Ou A Piowkl Clftir- ' Uist. - ...

      ; Cl 3 SP . I'OU A _PiOWKL Clftir- ' UIST . - rf _^ J _«^^ _wi' _} T ' Erskine being one day indisposed in r , _^ ke ( _tCI _« i _" tt _^ _iOf . _>¦ King ' s Bench , told Mr . _JekjU " tli .-it . he M _<*> Vn . ; - in his bowels , for which he could gef _t 61 _* c 1 M . ' * _}^ . rU " give vou an ' infallible sp ' ccili « , _' ,, _;* . _' * aid 6 l ) i _^ Wa _!^* _pn ! t . > > barrister , " get _mnde _Altoi-ncy-tl _^ ii _^ sJ _^ aj _^^| _ i _; j . . you'll liavc no _Iwels . " . . „ >_ _# _^ _^ _f _|^ _lK > i e ' _KlUSCIl'ATlON Of Till * '' _BuOWX'i . ' . _^ ' ] 1 ) j _^| _Mfi _% | _j . j . hero , "Wiibcrforce , who , is ink r Hits i sfnn 3 _^ r . ot _;| . j Liberty , freed _jlioussiiids of blacks _fVonfoeWpsft'SiW f sors , was not by half tlie Liberator fb ' a ( _M » P > _i _^ t _)^ i * r « ' } } burthens-his own bondsman of _^ h _^ b _^^ _-J _^ _fe _^ _^ _phystnphdis . ' ' _\^^ i _* _t Orricuh . —The unoccupied peilcstal _. iu Trnf : t " ! g 8 i _$ . A ' ¦ _musire ' i s , we hear , to be appropr nted ' _tft _fffiBUftwiffo _* Gorman -General , who obtained :, a ; . h '& W ; Hn ** , Ej ii _^ _ff _;< J _^ 6 it . _ou without ever seeing a shot lired . in _"Wffjfgfel ' _\ I'rovaxity . — That man is profane wli . o . _^ tp _^ ti jff _^ _lc _' flow-in- ; of liis tears with a handkerchief , bcciuSc _^ h tf ¦ dams his eyes . — Ibid . . " ' '" - '

      I . NFIDKL _TlSlSKKV AXD _CllKISTIAN ES 0 LAS » . _^ W « _e _* » _• _*• eatiicr from a writer in _BMckwood , that we mis . Kts . 4 _^ _4 Fcarn lessons of wisdom *"¦» ' ! _lmmanity even from tip _^ barbarous Turks , hi-Turkey , the ; Criminal . _Co'lu .... has been so much nnieiided , that- " 1 lie extreme hv '• pu » nance 61 ' the present Sultan to _ssij-n death-war- r- ¦; rants , even'in cases which in this country wuim l » ' considered as amounting to wiilul murder , bas j rendered capital punishments extreme y raw . . . Hence , wc much doubt w . iethei * benij : i : ted Consian- - cxIiihi ions have 1

      tinoplc would oifcTsiichirh . _'istly , as this weok ' edified the population ot _thnstmn London . .. . Tho Divan does , not shed . blood in _revi-it _:- '' . * tlio > Council of St . James ' s still dcmaml _? an eye for . _* _-. » _H " - eve , a ' tooth for _» tooth , alter _ihel'hiu'l old . _leivish . ; . _^ _w-av Thc English Minister _haiiqsiiecord . imjj _^ ' _>* ttV-t _* V {' savs . to ihe bible ; whilst it would seem tj ) eba _^« r _^ - _| _st-j Turk _legislates in this benevolent > pkii _^^ t ti _^ _" _^/ _rc Te » tament .-A «« _' _^ . ' , * ¦ _* . _* ' , : f ? ' f _"lM M HOW TO MaXK A UMI . WAT .-Th _^« _hMtf _fiffl- %% . cap paper mwI a " Court Guide _fmWte _^ y _^^ fMi :

      Lords and Right _llonourawc 3 ,. au _> _wj _^ fea _» f _^?^^ f Members ofl ' arlianient , ami _^ % _MktV _^^ mM . chants and . F . U . S . _' s . Then _*™! | _^^™ Banker , and a Lawyer ; garnish _* vv ? _fWhnit | iB _^ i _^^ vantages ,-and servo up m _anadyertis' _^ i _^ - _^ _Wif i f ' Obseuvations of a _Naxu _* uust _0 _£ \ j _^>| j _^ IK _^| the time . for the mcctiuj ? of _SK _^^^& _pWS hecins to draw in his h » rn . < ' ™ _ll % _M'l _)^ S mites a deposit of _ta nw _}^^^^ bmes to carry it on with his bipSrlM . -4 * _% _&* f )} # $ ! . _* ! been preparing all the season _fcH # t _^ iai- _^! . |« _Jjy and now succeeds in do _.,, g so _-M _^ ' _< _* £ . - . _r _^ _g ¦ A _Diumatic _Iti- _'usu .-What , _«^ _WfefM | ! to tbe insipidity of a turkey boiW * , _*»*«« TO ? l . _«^* _W ? _nifti . ___* . _ilnim ' a to ii drama of the _dlill'old-fam < Js , h » _Wi *' t i 98

      . take the description from n Similay pn » t . _:, : Lt _i- " . _"" _^" . _*^; lieiously- peppered :- "In . it ( the _% f » ™««« . ! arc _exhibits _» worthy . English former Jonnp his ¦« It ¦« M ' and being named by thi _ropacilyofhs'tendlord , tu , t bin i seduction of the farmer ' s b . cmtifel uaiigliu v , by tl « T- turn onlv son ofthe aforesaid landlord ,, * daughter p . d _& liil _® hh _aeeimmt her _ouw mother of a _' nUtry , in order _w _*^^ _licrself ' aiul child from biiins turned adrift , a « d _tluil ilisis carded bv her seducer , « t / c _»'*«/ thieves , _a'Jww / _oiWon _^ and highway robbery .. the underplot bejn _^ matly : ljd ? _W of the adventures , of a mv ) , irantoii wm * 9 . .. *< _' * S « etc There is bnt one thing _wahtiiiR'intHis'dclinMic } W ) i drama tlieveisiw murder . - _AVSilU _^^ _iloodj _' _-pw _^^ tbe _wlnm-wuddingwithfiut tlio br . _Vtf . _lYi _^& er _^^^

      who shaibaay ,- with such l- _* ci'eUi / . _<« Chamberlain (? ince . wc must * m _$ » . l | _fi'SS 2 be is not ati au »» raW « " _^^*^* _M _^ L _^ A " - _Lkvt-iiAXbBl ) 0 OMPUMKST . —? i _Govfibfe _^ _r _»¦ _¥ « Ml honour ! ymi saved" my Ji » W ? f , # , _| _efl | _ii a captain under _wlwm he had « ctv _$ . « 4 _$ _»** _-A , ' 'f . L , life '" replied the _olicer . "Do t "" * t * n * ' * ' ' ¦'' _ttdr r Pi ' N < _N _^ inSweml tho ma _|^;| M _^ i _^ i n iimlpr vnu it tiie batteid Coruimft , < M ' _^ _'JV ,, _^ V _,, 1 . ,- . - . ' wi--.

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 17, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_17011846/page/3/