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      FASTISG FOR FON . BT WILLIAM THuM . "Th « j drank good ale Tobeefeandkail On Fridays when thev fasted . "—Old Ballad

      " Go mourn , ' * quoth she , ' ye our lieges so fat , Go fast for tbe sins of the labourer's brat , Tho' wicked—the * ' vile be the bones that begot it , The poor skinny eif shall have better things taught it Than impious _tnurmuringi—marryiogs and _cooiags , Bringing down on onr land all these doleful ' - . doings . Waste nut your devotions on fathers and mother * , For tha suckling ther »' s hope , — 'tit a ll up with others , Our bishops have worked you a wondrous prayer ; ( Thty _ orfc for their wages—of coune you ' re aware , ) "lis easy of utterance—_ rucefully _!»?&» And' warranted safe' to the requisite height . Tend well to the hour , or ye mumble in vain ,

      All prayers mwt be bagged by the Wednesday tram . _Sbeended—so we , tor our country ' s good , We aU went a-fasting as fast as we coula—Such _tosi ing aud toiling—Such baking aad boiling—With steaming and stewing And brewing aud—ioing , Till London seemed one mighty kitchen at last : The very clouds _tieken 'mid fames of the Fast . Cabs , vans , and coaches all , Laden with life , — Big ion and baby small , — Tailor not orer tall _. Airing his pretty " gal , " All for a wife .

      Then away to the Heath ! to the " Conduit " away , We'll hare such fat fun this here Messed " Fast day . " Old Thames bears twice the common trail Of pilgrims 01 his trcast . So cut , so jagged , from steam and sail _. His purer flood , One mortal mud ! My eye ! how merrily they scud _. With sandwich , girt , rod jest . That song as it rings round thy shores happy river ! Our Freedom!—our Cuttrch!—and our—Fast Days for curl

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      THE WESTMINSTER AND FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW . Ami , 1817 . _Usuou . G . _Laxford , Whitefrbre-street . The opening article of this number of the Westminster and Foreign , is devoted to a consideration of " l'heProvince of Tragedy ; " ia which the writer contrasts Bulwer and Dickens , the contrast beiug in favour of the latter . The article is brief and suggestive ; and , therefore , may be perused with pleasure and profit . In the article on " Speculative _Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century , " the writer makes " awful smash" of the German _transcendentalists , and triumphantly vindicates the _comman-sense philosophy of Locke and the English school if thinkers . In _ajeview of two works describing North Wales and the English Jakes , recently published , the Reviewer

      Cuts up Miss Costello ' s topography and geography , and administers a alight reproof to Dr Mackay , for his outrageous puffing of " the Lakers , " . Wordsworth , Southey , and Co . The Reviewer says truly , that there is a teat from which no poet con escape , and that is , fitness for quotation . To the end of time , people will be sure to quote * a clear description from Cowper , a burning line from Byron , a majestic thought from Milton , a nervous couplet from Pope , a sweet allegory from Shakespeare ; " but are not rery likely to quote from Southey , Wordsworth , or Wilson . We suppose there cannot be much doubt thatthe Reviewer is . from the country of Llewelyn and Glendower ; sure we are , that a son of the Ancient Britons reading the Reviewer ' sglowingdeseriptionsof the mountains and torrents of tbe land of tbe bards , must , as he reads line by line , be ready to exclaim" We tread tbe land tlist bore us . "

      We give a short extract from the Reviewer ' s recol kctLas of

      _WE 13 H SCESKRTImmediately after leaving Beddgelert , the beauties of font _Aberglaslyn burst uu the _vie-w . Itis difficult to eojoj these beauties to the fall , for tbe small natives surround you in troops with rubbishly morsels of mineral _Cariosities , for sale ; but in spite of this nuisance , Pont Aber _^ _Iaalyn and its cairngorm-coloured river , aud its _ieatber-purpled rocks wUl be sure to Uve long in unfadi « g spltndour in the memory of aB who view them with ap * rcciating eyes . Tan-y-Bwlch and _Maentwrog have tbeir varied recommendations , bat thi * is nut ihe place to en „ r on the in _. riu of these rival hostelries of the Valley of _Festiniog . We must , however , pause at the waterfaUs near _Jfcientwrog _. the Baven and Llyn rhabdrdhu , both on the same stream , a tributary ofthe Tivy . There is a path through a wood which overlooks both of

      these , but this view is _unsatia & cturj-, _especially as _regards Llyii-rbaiadr-dhu _, the upper and better fall ; so we nude a circuit through tbe wood , and after a laborious hoar spent ia forcing our way through tangled brushwood at length reached the very verge of tbe faU . Tue bed of the river , for two hundred yards above the fillwe speak unpoetically _. and are not quoting Miss _CosteUo —is a spout or gutter of solid rock , sloping at au angle of 35 degrees . The _ river darts with inconceivable rapidity , but iu silence , and smoothly , along tbis spout , and at its termination shoots with a magnificent arch into the basin below , wbich is very appropriately termed the Black Pool , fer i : seems of ink ; blackness . Tall trees surround it on every side , and a column « f mist , like the cloud tbat in picture precedes the * _Urae"iti § h boat , raises itt indefinite form high above their heads .

      From MaentwTo _; , thtre is ample choice of roads ; thai to the left , leads to Bala , that to tbe _ti _^ ht , winds round ths sea-coast to Harlech aad Barmouth , and that straight forward , through Trawsfynnydd . We take the last , not is the most picturesque , but as leading to waterfall * , and make our firn bait at the neat and tasty hostelry of Dol-y-mell > nl _; n . It la necessary to procure a guide from this place , otherwise much tune wiU be lost in the tiresome occupation of explaining to the few natives you chance to meet the objects you have in view , in requnst . ing to be favoured with their opinions and advice , aad ia receiving the most conflicting and bewildering directions .

      Dol _. y . mell'nlyn , the first fall to which the guide con . duett you , is but a few hundred yards from the ion . The scenery is very beautiful , wooded aud rocky ; the fall is scarcely _distinguishable from twenty others above and below it ; the nvisy little river , the Jfaddox , as christened after a resident proprietor , is a serins of falls , and no one taken aloue is of sufficient magnitude to attract much notice in tbis land of waterfalls ; but tbe aggregate of falls at this spot forms a very phasing picture . Tlie rocky bed of the river rears its huge masses of stone high above tbe stream , so high , indeed , that the spray , eren during floods , cma never moisten them ; these masses are ot a dark brown colunr , approaching _tj black , and are curiously spotted with huge patches ot snow-white lichen .

      Two miles from Dol-y-melljnlyn , and also close together , are two other falls—Bhaiadr . y . Mawddach , and _PUtil-y-Cam . The first of these is- ot considerable volume , and is a double and pictuiesque fall , but , compared with its neighbour , it is really nothirig . The guide , after you ar « satisfied witb the Hawddach fall , takes you through a little wood , and across a wooden lichen covered bridge , under which the Cain flows discontentedly over a stoBy bottom , after iu headlong leap : he then turns to the left , and jou stand at the base of the cascade . The basin wbich receives it is unusuallj small , and the ground rises so abruptly aU round it ,

      except where the water escapes , that it is impossible to get a satisfactory view of the ialL We clambered carefully along a narrow ledge tbat margins tbe basin , and then , holding ou by roots and ferns , leaued back against the rock , and looked upwards at tbe waters that were falling in thunder at our feet The grass , the ferns , the _guarled oaks , ay , the very rock against which we were leaning , trembled with the continous concussion ; the little basia was filled as with coiling milk , and tbe spray would hare wet a dry man instantly to the skin ; but we bad already weathered _Skven hours of pouring raia , and this little moisture in addition appeared quite uaimportsnt .

      A long article on the disputed play of " The Two "Noble Kinsmen , " is brought to this conclusion * " That the play of ' The Two Noble Kinsmen' is one to which Shakespeare possesses a better title tban can be proved for him to' Pericles : * —that to him belong its entire plan and general arrangement ; bnt that perhaps , for want of time to complete it by a day named , and probably by w , - _* y of encouragement to a young author ol some promise , he availed himself of the assistance of Fletcher to fill up a portion of the outline . " From the article on "Sites for Public Monuments " we extract the following Tery interesting particulars respecting

      THB CATHEDRAL OS COLOGSE . A greater triumph of mind tban history has yet recorded of individual achievements in art , will be the completion , within the nineteenth century , of the Cuthedral cf Cologne . Six hundred years bave passed away since the original design was traced of this the noblest monument of medixval architecture . Tbe name of its author has been forgotten , but his spirit bas _livtd ; lived in its own beautiful creations ; lived through times of war and pillage , and tbat malversion of ecclesiastical fuuds which retarded and interrupted for long periods tbe progress of the work ; _lired through the Reformation , which , eren in states which remained Catholic , put an

      end to the building of cathedral . ' , and for a time involved in utter ruin the multitudes to whom the ancient religion had given employment in the sister arts of sculpture , architecture , music and painting ; lived through French revolutions and European conflicts ; lived to an age of scientific miracles ; and iu that age , and By a generation to whom tbe wonders of the printing press , the telescope , the steam-engine , the railroad , tho electric telegraph , have become familiar , llv _« . d to witness the Present doing homage to the genius of the Past—art confessing itself outdone—an _, d the people of different states and opposite _croeds , Protestant , Catholic , and Rationalist , _combining tt _coa-rplete the ¦ nflniihed monument of their fore-

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      tithers , as an acknowledged model of taste and cons true tire skill which has never bsen surpassed . The first stone of the cathedral was laid on the Uth oi August , 1248 . The building was continued at in terrain during the next centuries , and then abandoned . The intention of completing it , however , appears never to have been wholly relinquished , and the erane , which had been employed for raising the stones to their destined height , was left on the top of the south tower , in anticipation of its further service . There it remained for four hundred years , regarded by the inhabitants of Cologne as a symbol and pledge of a promise unredeemed , but for which a time would come . When , at last , the crane fell to the ground from decay , it was not only missed , but its loss as felt as a public calamity . With the crane all hope seemed to have finaUy departed ; and it is not a little curious and interesting that this simple incident should hare led ( as it would seem to have done ) to the great national effort now making for the restoration and completion of the entire edifice .

      In 1819 an old Burgermeister bequeathed a legacy toward restoring the crane ; this was followed by a subscription for repairs ; and , finally , the Prussian government took the matter in hand and determined to complete the cathedral . The new foundation-stone for the body of the church was laid with great ceremony on the 4 th of September , 184 * . ' , by the King of Prussia , surrounded by princes from nearly aU the royal families ef Germany , in tha _presence of a countless multitude of spectators , embr . 11 _wft the whole population of Cologne and the neighbouring towns ofthe Rhine ; - a scene well described iu the October numberof the Quarterly Review . At its conclusion , tbe block having been lowered , and the usual speeches delivered , tbe Dombau Meister addressed the artisans , teUing them t _*> resume their labours to the music and sentiment of Schiller ' s " Song ot the Bell . "

      "He was answered by a hurrah from the tower ; the crane moved slowly on its axis ; a chorus of workmen ' s voices rose in sonorous melody ; a block of stone was seen mounting slowly through the air ; every hat was wave *! , his Majesty ' s the heartiest of ali ; and , amidst roars of eannen , one stone more was added to that tower , where the last bad been left above four centuries before . " In thi * article the writer reviews the " vexed question" of the Wellington statue , which he contrasts with that of Peter the Great at St Peters

      burg , greatly to the disadvantage ot the first of these monstrosities . The writer advances some novel but conclusive views respecting the Duke ' s _effi-ty , which we commend to all who take any interest in the question , whieh we do not ; and * e suppose our readers agree with us . The next article is more important , but not so conclusive ; indeed the ' writer , while throwing doubt upon the views of others , settles nothing himself , iiis subject is " Theories of Population , " and the writers reviewed are Double * day and Thornton . The theory of Mr Doubieday is embraced in the four following propositions : —

      1—That when the existence of any _specits , animal or vegetable , is threatened , there is a stimulus to increase . 2 , — -If any species , animal or vegetable , receive an immoderate supply of aliment , or become plethoric , it does not reproduce itself at all . 3 . —If moderate aliment be administered it reproduces itself without _increasing . 4—If equal portions of the species bo put into these different states , tbe decrease of oae portion will be compensated for by the increase of another , and tb . numbers of the whole will remain as before . We have net seen Mr Doableday ' s book , but judging by the review , we fancy he is rather more than a match tor his reviewer ;

      An article entitled " Reports on Lighthouses , " is followed by an elaborate bnt inviting review of those "liahts ot the nineteenth century , " Strauss and Parker . This article , take it for all-in-all , is the most admirable in the whole number . The reviewer ' s brilliant argument and bold criticism will command the applause of all inquirers after truth—of all who are " bold enough to be honest , and honest _enough to be bold . " The following quotations from Parker ' s " Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion , " will parly explain the ideas ot the American _Reformer : —

      THE _DKITT . " The _feelings , F < : ar , Reverence , Devotion , Love , naturally pe rsonify God , humanize tba Deity , and represent the Infinite under tbe limitations of a finite and imperfect being , whom we 'can know all about . ' IU has tlie thoughts , feelings , passions , limitations of a maa : is subject to time and space ; sees , remembers , has a form . Tbis is Anthropomorphism . It is well in its place;— -some rude men seem to require it . They mu-t paint to themselves a _Dfity with a form—the Ancient of Days a venerable monarch seated on a throne , surrounded by troops of followers . But it must be reinem bered that all this is poetry ; this personal aud authro ' pomorpbi'ic conception is a phantom of the brain , that

      hag no existence independent of ourselves . A poet personifies a mountain or the moon ; addresses it as if it wore the form of man , could see and tee ] , had humiH thoughts . Sentiments , hopes , and pleasures , and expectations . What the poet ' s fancy does lor the mountain , the feelings of reverence and derotion do for the idea ol God ;—they clothe it with a human _personality , became that is the highest which is known to us . Men would _, comprehend the Deity;—they can only apprehend him-A Beaver or a Reindeer , if possessed •/ religious faculties , would also conceive of the Deity with the limitations of their own personality , as a Beaver or a Rein deer , —whose f . culties as such wera perfect;—but the conception , like our own , must be only subjectivo , foi man is no measureof G id . "—P . 123 .

      THE _BlOLt . The Bible is made for man , not man for tba Bible . Its truths , are old as the _creatien _, repeated mote or less purely in every tongue . Let i > s errois and ahsurdiues no longer bs forced on the pious mind , but perish for ever ; let the Word of God come through conscience , reason , and holy feeling , as light through the windows of morning . Worship with no master but God , no creed but truth , uo service but love , and we have nothing to fear . According to Parker , the great merit ofthe Catholic Church "is its assertion of the truth , that God still inspires mankind as much as ever : '' its great f ault , that it '" limits this inspiration to itself . " Ot the Protestant Church , the grand merit "is its

      proclamation of freedom ot conscience within the limits o the Scriptures ; tbe grand vice , its erection ot tbe Bible into a master ofthe soul . " Parker contends that ( true ) Christianity " has no rites , no priests , no creed ; puts nothing , permits nothing between the soul of man and God ; fears nothing from the truth ; demands only a divine life . " By far the most interesting portion of the Review is the _criticism of Strauss ' s * ' Life of Jesus . " We give the following extract : —

      _BTRATJS 3 . In the opinion of Strauss , the biographical details recorded of Jesus were cast in the moulds of imaginative invention , preserved in his age and nation . These were determined almost entirely by the prevalent _expectation of a Messiah ; within the wide compass of wbich may be discovered parallels , which may have been sources for most ofthe incidents in the gospels . Our author ' s plan , therefore , once adopted , is plain and mechanical enough . By the 3 ide of each scripture section , in turn , he spreads tbe picture of the Messiah , drawn out of all accessible sources , from the Pentateuch to the latest Talmudists : as ha can find , or summon into existence by the magic of his look , a succession of correspondences , he ticks tbem off , stroke by stroke ; and then , combining bis discoveries , produces the Jewish sketch as the prototype of the Christian story . The following is a brief extoct from thc Westminster _RsWewer _' s powerful and eloquent description of

      THB PROGRESS OF FREB THOUOHT . The bodily breadth of belief , that rested with equable weight oa the whole area of Scripture , is no longer to be found among the educated members of any church . The high claims of the former age have _suffered many abatements . The hint may now ba innocently dropped , that perhaps there was a limit to the wisdom of Solomon , and the learning of Motes . The _arctsalogist , curious about the _longevity of nations , and ansious to re-construct the wrecks of an immemorial civilization in India or in E , 'jpt , is no longer arrested by the chronological margin of the flood ; but obtains unlimited grants of land beyond , from which tbe mirage will retire as he advances . Geology , after exasperating the jealous guardians of Christendom , by disturbing the Creation , no longer offers , by way of hush-money , to establish the Deluge ; but n _* _.

      c _ IIb its " Reliquiae _Diluvian-e , " and is more ashamed of its penance tban of its sins . Tbe Tower of Babel does notstshd in the way of researches into the origin of languages ; aud even tbe FaU imposes no limit to the ethnological speculations which treat the common parentage of all mankind as an open question . The admissions that now and thm slip from divines—suoh as Dr Arnold's statement that St Paul _eutertainsd an erroneous expectation of tbe approaching end of tbe world—show , in tbe most striking manner , how changed is our theological meridian . Even in the religious taste of the classes who combine belief with habits of cultivated thought , an hides ofthe same thing may be found . The simple appeal to verbal and external authority has lost its effect from the pulpit or the press . In maintaining the influence o' Christianity , the main stress is more and more thrown on its moral , esthetic , philosophical , and affectionate elements . Consistent believers iu its supernatural origin are not fond of dwelling , as their forefathers were , on the records of purely physical interpositions of

      God : they rest , with grateful faith , on such events as the resurrection of Christ ; the raising of tbe nidow ' s boh ; the healing of the leper and the blind ; on the _miraclesot obvious majesty and mercy , which corretpond with some noble action of the imagination nnd the heart : but are painfully chafed when obliged ta think , with any distinct _, ness , of the turning of rods into serpents , _andofdasttuto flies ; of the story of Jonah ; ofthe conveyance of demons into swine ; of the endowment of handkerchiefs , aprons , and shadows , with miraculous gifts ; or of any like incidents , in which the shock to expectation is unrelieved by apparent divineuess of purpose , and dignity of mode . TYa , ar * far from denouncing , or from praising , these things as indications " of unbelief-or of illumination ; we refer to them simply as facts , manifest and interesting to every thoughtful observer . We will add , that thoug h-, of course , they imply a loosened belief in some things ones held certain , they are not apparently attended by any decline Of religious earnestness in tbe present age . la England , at least , tha prevalence of a r « r « reutial spirit aoo _* B _| thinkers of _( Tary class Hems to

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      open a prospect of some union , having a deeper founds _, tion tban mere dogmatical concurrence . The Reviewer thus _sums ' up his estimate of the labours oi Strauss : — We cannot believe thatheuceforth any instructed theologian will waste his strength in attempting to harmonise the gospels ; or that laymen will be expected to make nothing of their discrepancies ; or that future books of Christian evidence will stake everything on their authorship ; or that tbe religion of mere testimony and authority will longer repudiate tba alliance of the religion of reflection and consciousness . Dr Strauss will not carry maukind to his own point : but neither wiil he leave tbem where tbey are . He has found a fulcrum for moving the globe : but he does it under the human condition : he swings himself across half the universe ; and he stirs ths world—an inch . Most truly was our Byron inspired when he wrote : —

      "Even gods must yield—religions take their turn : 'Twas Jove ' s— 'tis Mahomet's—and other creeds Wilt rise with other years , " _ c . We live in an age of transition , but he is a mole-eyed brute who cannot see something ot the future . Inthe review or summary of "Foreign Literature , " we have notices—far coo brief , some ofthemof several new and important works ; to wit : some new songs by Beranger ; Michelet ' sand Louis Blanc ' s Histories of the Revolution ; Lamartine ' s History of the _Giroodins ; DeTocquevilie ' s Louis XV ., Ac ., & e . From the last-named ot these , we give the following extract : —

      LOUIS xv . Up to the ago of _two-aud-tweuty the king evinced no disposition to conjugal infidelity . He was tben remarkably handsome , and the ladies of the court vied with each otber in efforts to allure him . Bis confidential attendants , according to tbe invariable _tactiss of their class , were eager to provide him with a mistress , and took cars to make him observe the amorous advances of the fair dames around him . At first bis answer was ou all such occasions , " The queen is a mucb finer woman . " But the pertinacity of his tempters , seconded by the weakness and vacuity of his own nature , at last prevailed ; and his panders , Bachelier and Lebel , cast the bashful and reluctant young monarch almost by

      force into the arms of Madame de Mailly . At the bead of the triumphant conspiracy was that _grave and reverend person , that zealous and demure churchman , Cardinal Pleury . Unseen he directed all the machinations of the plot , selected the mistress , and contrived the interviews . Madame de Mailly was perfectly free from ambition , tha geeatest of merits in the old minister ' s eyes , for it relieved him from all apprehension on the score « , f his own influenc *; her lovs for the king was genuine and disinterested , and she even beggared herself for the sake of her sordid lover , whose avarice was such thathe did not blush to amass money iu a time ot famine by jobbing io corn As single-hearted and fond as La Yalliere , and stilt more unhappy , like her she cied penitent , a victim to the base ambition of her own sisters .

      If Louis hid been slow to cast aside tbe restraints of decorum , it is notorious with what desperate assiduity he afterwards revelled iu depravity , and helped to bring about tbat catastrophe wbich he had ability _enough to foresee , and heartlessness enough to disregard , because he believed it was not to _happen in his day . His reign may be divided into five portions , two oif which we have briefly glanced st—namely , the regency , and the ministry of Cardinal Fleury ; the remaining three are denoted by the ntmes of the three successive mattresses en litre , Mesdames de Chateauroux , de Pompadour , and du Barry . The first of these was a proud and ambitiuus woman , ons ot the thres sisters of Madame de Mailly , who supplanted ber in the king's favour . Sbe desired to exalt the glory of her royal paramour , and under her

      influence Louis seemed for a while to shake off his apathy and sloth ; she insisted that he should apply himself to the business of government , and appear at the head of his army . But her reign was brief ; she died suddenly , and the king relapsed into bis old habits . Then eame the vindictive procuress , Madame do Pompadour , who filled the Bastile with the victims of her resentment , and the Pure _Anx-Cerft with female children kidnapped , or purchased , or tempted to offer _themselves toluntarily , to be instiuctel iu the principles of religion and the practices of rice by the devout and debauched monarch _. When Pompadour died , it was _quites ia accordance with the tit and natural sequence of things , that du Barry should step from a brothel to take her place as virtual queen of France .

      There was likewise a natural fitness in the manner of death that befel Louis XV . Alarmed by soma symptom ; : of contrition manifested by him , the Countess du Barry , who had long followed the system of Madame de Pompadour , prevailed ou the king to make au excursion to Trianon , where he would find a young girl whose charnu would dissipate his gloomy thoughts . But the girl was already labouring under tho latent stage of small pox ; the _king caught the infection , and died in a few days , at the age of six'y . four , and after a reign of filty . nine years . His death was welcomed with joy by the nation which had ouce regarded him with such genuine aud warm affection . When some one bantered the priest of St Genevieve on the inethcacy of the prayers and ceremonies at the shrine of the saint on the _occasion of the king ' s illness , " Why , " replied tha priest , " is he not dead ? What more would you have ?"

      From Lamartine ' s History ofthe Girondins , there - is an extract given describing the private life ot Robespierre . Of this we purpe . se to speak fully as . _-oon as an English translation of Lamartine ' s work is published , and we see one already announced . Michelet ' s History appears to be one of that half mystical chat acter of which his People largely partook . Louis Blanc ' s History is not favourably spoken of by the Reviewer , but the very reasons why he condemns it almost assure us tbat tbis "History " is the one before all yet published or publishing , that wiil most faithfully represent the Revolution . The English publisher who would print a translation of this " History" at a moderate price would be a public benefactor . We pray our poets to give us , if they can , a translation of " Notre Coq" one of the a : * w chansons of Beranger ; the refrain almost sets us crowing : —

      Co _. co , coquerico , Prance , reir . _ets ton schako . Coquerico , coquerico !" Atter a mass of " Miscellaneous Notices" of new works , follows a political postscript , which we have neither time nor space to comment on . Suffice it to say that the writer is dreadfully alarmed at the triumph ot the Ten Hours' Bill , which he predicts must fail when brought into operation ; and on the subject of Ireland predicts all sorts of horrors ascertain to flow frora the ministerial measures . In one thing only we agree with the writer of the " Postscript , " and it is , that the Irish are miserable , not because they are Celts , or Catholics , or beeau _*^ of small farms , but because of the villanous system of Landlord rule , without a radical relorm of which there is no hope for Ireland .

      On the whole , we have read this number of the Westminster and Foreign Quartaly Revieiv with great Measure . Ofthe Quarterlies it is second to none in sterling value , while its contents generally ure much more agreeable reading than either of its cont . Mii poraries .

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      • Publications _Received . — " Brougham versus Brougham on the New Port Law ; " by Richard Oastler . " The Herald of _Co-operation . " " The Fratntivork Knitter . "

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      Attkmpieo _Escaps from Gior ,. — The very crowded state of _Euniskillen gaol has attracted a good deal of public attention of late . The number at present , and for some time past , confined , exceeds three hundred . In such a state of things it is impossible to prevent intercourse ; and the Irishman ' s proverbial love of country and of liberty may be expected to lead him to plot with his fellow-convicts for escape . A _conspiracy of this nature was detected among the convicts under rule of transportation ( numbering nearly fif ty ) , and no doubt would bave led * . o the most disastrous consequences had not their intentions been discovered , and the plot frustrated . It was arranged that one of the party should feign ill , and while the officers of the prison would be engaged in rendering assistance , or conveying him to the hospital , they would seize the officers ,

      press them into a hail or yard , and lock them up and make to the room where the fire-arms are deposited , and with those arms all who opposed were to be shut down , till the conspirators regained' their forfeited liberty . A signal was to be given to another party of convicts in another hall as they marched to their cells at the breakfast hour , and all were to join . Fortunately , the governor got under the plan before the concerted hour to give the signal , and got them _unsuspectingly divided and marched to their cells . When secured , he and his assistants put irons upon the most determined and refractory . They confessed their design , and regretted that it had been discorertd . averring tbat they would gladly have died in attempting their escape—that death would have been the consequence , either to the governor and his assistants , or to the conspirators—perhaps to both .

      A _Gknuikb Irishman . —A few days ago , as a gentleman ef our acquaintance was walking up Northgate , in Wakefield , he was accested by a son of the Emerald Isle in the following manner : —** Arrah , yer honour , and would ye be after telling me the name ofthe street opposite ? " To which the gentleman replied "Providence-street . " "Sure enough , and yer honour , and that ' s the very street I ' m wanting , and faith , I ' ve a particular friend who lives in that same street , but , by my soul , I ' ve intirely and com * plately forgot his _name—perhapsnow , you would be

      , after telling me his name too . " This _eo excited our friend ' s risible faculties , that he burst into an immoderate fit of laughter , _4 o the no small amazement ofpoor Paddy , who retorted , " Faith , and you re no gentleman , or you wouldn ' t ba after ' thrating one in that manner ; by my soul , but ye may have to ask the same question yourself , some day . ' * A second fit ol laughter was the result ot this droll remark , and Paddy , after looking unutterable things , walked away , no doubt to find a more gentlemanly informant . —Lctdt _InteUigeneer _,

      These Are The Chambers's Of 1845! Iwe Ha...

      THESE ARE THE CHAMBERS'S OF 1845 ! IWe have already shown to our readers the Chamr * l ¦* 84 _^ _' ' Hrenow refer to tbe previous opinions ot these chan geable economists . Whence this wonderful change _?]

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      IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDSSPADE HUSBANDRY . ( From the Information for the People , No . T 2 . ) ( Continued from our last . ) In order to irrigate a field , there must ba a difference ot levels , the water being made to run in a main channel along the highest side , and thence sending small rills all over the lower parts of the ground . The principle of adjustment is by sluices . _Wheutheslope is considerable , the water requires to be sent diagonally aoro . > s the field , and being catched in mains at intervals , is again distributed , if need be , in new directions . This is called catch work irrigation . The _follo- * _ina observations on the subject occur in Stephen ' s Practical Irrigator and Drainer : — " In the

      formation of au irrigated meadow , there are two rules ofthe greatest weight : one is , tbat no part of the works be mude on a dead level ; and the other , that every drop of water be kept in constant motion ; but to give exact directions for the formation , is beyond tbe ingenuity of man ; for no two pieces of land are precisely alike , which renders it _imoossible for the irrigator to follow the same plan in one field that he has done in another . Each meadow , therefore , requires a different design , the construction to be varied according to the nature of the ground and the quality and quantity of the water . Inclined plains are absolutely necessary for the purpose of irrigation ; and the benefit of irrigation depends so much upon the _£ Ood management nnd patient _nerseveram-n

      of those who have the superintendence of it , that I do not wonder it has so often proved unsuccessful . However simple the construction of a water meadow may appear to be on a superficial view , those who enter minutely into the detail will find it much more difficult than is commonly imagined . It is not an easy task to give an irregular surface the equal slope requisite fer the overflowing of water . It is very necessary for the irrigator to have just ideas of levels ; a knowledge of superficial forms will not be sufficient . Few people unacquainted with the art of irrigation , and the regularity of form which the adjustment of water requires , have any idea ofthe exj » ense of modelling the surface of a field . Where land is very uneven , it is sometimes _advisable to break it up with

      the plough , and take a crop of oats before the formation ; by which means the land can be properly cleaned and pulverised before _levelling it into form with the levelling plough and spade the following year —an operation which may be executed at halt the expense of doing the whole with the spado and wheel-barrow . But there is one advantage by doing the whole work with spade and barrow , especially where the turf is strong , which is , that the water can be applied as soon as the beds are formed ; but by breaking up , and taking a crop of oats , it will require two or three years after the grass seeds are sown before the water can be used , which some _propuietors think too long to wait , therefore wili rather beat an additional expense to have the turf lifted

      and laid down again ; by so doing , the whole operations may be performed in one season . The grass seeds generally used for laying down land for water meadow are , vernal grass , crested dogstail , soft meadow grass , rough-stalked meadow grass , foxtail , flotia grass f aorostt ' s _stotoni / era ) , which last is one ofthe prevailing grasses in all good meadows ; and the best way of planting it is to cut the whole into short pieces , the same way as cutting straw into chaff , and sow it with other sides . It is not always that those grasses give a good crop the first year ; therefore , to obviate this evil , some perennial ryegrass seed should 1 e sown along with the others , to produce a crop of hay before the watering commence . "

      It must be understood that the irrigation of any meadow is not to be incessant . There are times when the water must be _^ altogether turned off , and the ground left to dry ; it is at these times that the herbage is to bo cut and removed . In large meadows , it is customary to turn off the water , from different pat ts at different times , by which a _constant succession of crops is obtained . Speaking on this part of the management , Mr Stephens observes : — "One of tbe greatest defects in the management of irrigated meadows in this country , is the not paying proper attention to freeing the ground from subterraneous and stagnant water ; for experience shows that , wherever there is too much moisture beneath the surface , or if the water lodges too long upon it , the crop will always be coarse and scanty . Another great error generally committed is , allowing the

      water to run too long at a time , without properly drying the ground . I know gome instances in this neighbourhood where tbe ground is not attempted to be dried from the time the water is put on the meadows _, in the autumn , till eight or ten days before the _cutting of tlie hay ; the consequence is , that the grass is of the coarsest quality , and the ground has become so very bogey , that the whole crop of grass is obliged to be carried by people to some other place to be made into hay . Another inconvenience arises from bad management , which , I am sorry to say , is too prevalent in this country ; that is , permitting the grass to stand too long before cutting ; the consequence is , coarse hay , badly made , and in many im _« taiice 8 half rotten before being put into the stack ; and , ra _ireover , owing to the lateness of the season , the aftermath is entirely lost ; so that the proprietor has not received half the value of his meadoiv which

      he ought to have received , it the hay had been made in the proper season . The first operation ofthe irrigator is to adjust the water in the conductor , or , if the meadow is in more parts than one , the water io each conductor must be first regulated ; then he commences anew by regulating the stops in the first feedei ; but should there not be sufficient water in the feeder , a little more must be let -a , by making the aperture wider or deeper , till the water flow 3 regularly over the sides from one ead to the other ; from the first , he proceeds to the second _feader , and so on , until the water in all the feeders is adjusted . Let the beds of a water-meadow be ever so well tormed , yet , by some places sinking more than others , or by the ice raising

      the surface of the ground , although the water along the banks of the feeders have been ever so nicely adjusted , it often happens that there may be _soire places between the feeders and drains with too little water , when it will be advisable for the manager to mike a third round , redressing inequalities of the surface , so as to give every spot an inch deep of water . Every part of the works being _rejuiated , the water should be allowed to run through the whole of October , November , December , and January , from fifteen to twenty days at a time , without intermission , At the expiration ot these periods , the ground should be made completely dry for five or six days , to give it air ; for there are few species of grasses ,

      which form the most nutritious part ol the herbage of water meadows , that will long exist under an entire immersion of water . Moreover , if the frost should be severe , and the water begin to freeze , the watering must i . e discontinued , otherwise the whole surface will become one sheet of ice ; and wherever the ice takes hold ofthe ground , it will undoubtedly draw it into heaps , which is very injurious to the plants . The object of this early preparation of the meadows is to _' cake advantage of the autumnal floods , which bring alomj with thera a variety of putrescent matter , which is found very enriching to laud . " At the most convenient period of the year , the various channels will require to be cleaned out , aud the works repaired .

      _PBOTECTISO BIVBR BANK . Much valuable land on the banks of rivers and rivulets is often laid waste by the encroaohments ol _fliods , A few wordson this important subject seem to be accessary , it may b <* laid down as a principle in natural science , tbat water is irresistible , and therefore it must not be resisted—it must be humoured . All windings in streams are caused by resistance . The water , in rushing onward , dashes against a projecting stone or hard part on ono of its banks ; this sends it in an opposite direction , and it strikes against whatever obstacle is presented . This process of interruption soon causes a mouldering of tbe banks in opposite directions , so that at length the water runs in a zig-zag or serpen tine course . All this might have been avoided by allowing the water a perfectly iree course . The damage done to lands by flooding , has led to numerous experiments for keeping the water in its

      channel , but seldom with any degree of success ; because the attempts have been to them in the current by sheer force . In all cases in which it is desirable to keep out tides or high floods from lands , the only secure method consists in giving the banks such a slope that they wUl present no resistance whatever , but allow the water to rise and subside with equal ease and tranquillity . As a geueral truth , the greater the slope the better ; and it should never be less than a foot and a half for every foot in the height . Employ no stenes or stakes , or any thing else , for the current to catch upon ; but cover the slopes with smooth turf , at a season which will allow of its growth before the floods set in . If any patches get broke , let them be annually mended . To keep out high floods , the banks must be made correspondingly high . Artificial embankments , in a flat country , should assume the form oi a long mound , sloping on both sides .

      Notwithstanding the obvious utility of this simple and unexpensive mode of protecting river banks , instances ot damage are constantly occurring from projects of an opposite kind . Mr Stephens mentions the following as one of many within his knowledge : — " An embankment was thrown round thd small island , Mugdrum , in the river Tay , to protect tho land from being overflowed by the tide ; but it was made so steep , that tho first spring tides levelled the greater part of it to the ground . A _^ second attempt was made , with the additional expense oi a stone wall facing the water , which shared the same fate with the former bank . Since these failures , a third embankment has been erected witb nothing but the natural soil of the land , and the whole covered witk thin turf . The length cf the present slope next the sea is five times the perpendicular height of the bank , aad the inner slope three tine *;

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      the water meeting no resistance , rolls down tho long slope without doing any injury . " We refer to Mr Stephens' useful treatise for further information on this subject , as well as on irrigation and draining . ( To be continued in our ntxl . )

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      •-«.«..__ , —„N«E§ Returnea To Tne Scene...

      • _- _« _. _« _.. __ _, —„ n _« e § _returnea to tne scene her former triumphs on [ Monday evening last . And , truly , her reception was as enthusiastic and genuine as the most sealous admirers of this beautiful and gifted lady could desire . Long before the rising of the curtain the "little theatre" was crowded with a highly fashionable and _inteliectaal audience , who had assembled , not merely to witness tbe fascinating _performances of Mrs Nes _* bitt , * but , as lovers of the legitimate drama , hnd gathered together to offer a tribute of heartfelt congratu . latiou to one who has no competitor , and whose return to the stage may be justly hailed with the most unbounded admiration . The comedy selected was " The Love Chase , " in wbich , in her _original part of Constance .

      ten years ago , at this theatre , she achieved one of her mott brilliant and abiding triumphs . Mrs _Ketbitt is returned to us as beautiful in person and as winning in style aa when she took , what we are delighted to find wa * not , a last farewell . The stage is her true home—for hers is a spirit to receive and impart pleasure ; and however we may regret the circumstances which have caused her return , we cannot but rejoice tbat she will again make not oaly the walls of the Haymarket echo with her joyous peals , but that thousands of hearts will be mads glad with the sound of ber gonial voice and the suuny smiles of her radiant features . Her Constance has moulted no feather ofits wonted excellence ; there is the same heartiness in the mirth , the same pathos in the sentiment , and the same true womanliness _through _, out . The fine description of the chase was giren as only Mrs _Kesbitt can give It ; and the taunts and the

      _sarcasms of the _acsne with Wildrake en his musical affectations of the Widow Jones , were all instinct with the purest spirit of comedy . Each successive scene was received with warm greetings ; atthe fall of the curtain she was called forth amid enthusiastic cheers , waving of kerchiefs , and innumerable bouquets were cast in honour at her feet . The house was crowded in every part , and bore rather the aspect of a fete tban ofa dramatic performance . —Tha Widow Green of Mrs Glover is a worthy companion-piece to the Constance of Mrs Nesbitt . There is no similar talent to Mrs Glover ' s now extant iu any European theatre ; we may vainly seek , either for hor matronly _benuty , her intellectual powers , or her fine ap . _preciati-. in of dramatic character . The audience _compUmentcd themselves by calling her forward to express their sense of her unfailing and uttfaded excellence . Mr Webster acted _Wildrake with his usuil spirit .

      SADLER'S WELLS . —The task of banishing from the stage "The Tempest" at modified by Dryden , and reviving the play in its original form , was performed by Mr _Macready during his management of Covent Garden . Tbe directors of Sadler ' s Wells have ever been actuated by a similar spirit , and have done all they can to restore the genuine plays of Shakespeare forthe benefit of au audience which is certainly strong in enthusiasm for the name of the great dramatist . Their " Richard the Third" was a striking instance in this respect , and now they have followed in the steps of Mr Macreadyby producing "The Tempest , " m Us proper shaps , and with every regard to scenic decoration . They hare eren shown more rigidity in adhering to the original text than was dis- eyed at Covent Garden , for , while they adopt

      _MrMaciea _' _y ' splan of substituting a picturesque storm at sea for the opening scene of the sailors , they _reitore the speech in the third act , " You are three men of sin , " to Ariel , wbo appears , as written , in the form of a harpy , whereas at Covent Garden this speech was given to Prospero . The circumstance ia perhaps ef no great importance to the play , as Ariel is supposed to speak completely under the influence of Prospero , to whom tha words may easily be transferred . But it is right to mention it asan _iustancsofgood _. _Shakesperian faith on 1 ho part of Mr Phelps , who by following the original plan sacrifices one of the most important speeches of a part which cannot be called a thankful one , Prospero and Miranda , ( played at Sadler ' s Wells by Miss L . Addiion _. ) though the latter is a beautiful impersonation of feminine innocence , are neither of them characters which _artistn ambitious of walking in the highest path would be anxious to play , were they not surrounded by the name of _Shakespere with tbat halo which renders it illuitrious

      to act in any of bis pieces . The comic parts of" The Tempest" are those which " come out" most with a general audience , and it is remarkable to observe the keen sense of enjoyment f . It by the Sadler ' s W « ll 3 ' au . dienceat the drolleries of Trinculo ( _Younite ) . and Stephauo ( Scharf . Hn company with Caliban . Mr G . Bennett '* performance of this last character embodies a really fine conception . The lubberly hatred , the abject crouching _, the brutish veneration , are faithfully depicted , the actor realising the combination of strong vindictive passion , with mental inferiority . The scenery is entirely new and very beautiful , the sudden conversion of a calm " profile" sea into a " carpet" of billows , with the ship tossed upon them , being as clever a management of a storm as one would wish to see . The audience , who flock to see "The Tempest" in crowds , testify tlieir approbation by applause , wliich is indeed enthusiastic . A . little iuterlude _, _callud " The Rival Serjeants , " by Mr W . Collier , has been produced with success . It i * very slight , but it causes mirth , and is enlivened by a number of agreeable songs to well-known tunes .

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      According To A Letter From India, A Boy,...

      According to a letter from India , a boy , seven years old , was lately discovered near Ferozepore , in the den ofa sbe wolf , who is supposed to have " nursed and done for him" as an ancestress of her ' s is said to have done for Romulus and Remus some centuries ago . The boy is quite savage , and will touch _nothing but raw flesh-Among the names attached to a petition lying at the Holborn baths for the abolition of Smithfield market , occur the signatures of Bull , Cow , and Cafe , At the Sussex a 3 _sizes last week , there were no less than four actions springing out of family feuds , viz , one by a father _a-ainst his se . n , one by a son against his father , one by a son against his mother , and one by one brother against another . Another present of illustrated books has been forwarded to the Qu » en by a publisher of New York .

      Professor Challis has confirmed the statement that a ring , similar to that which surrounds Saturn , encircles the newly-discovered planet Neptune . A society has been formed in London for ihe publication ofa _stratagraphical series of British fossils , and it will take the title of the _Palw _^ ntographical Society . Senor Mon , the late Spanish minister of Finance , was , about four years ago , a kind of clerk to Count Toreno , and lived in a poor lodging-house in Madrid , at the rate of ha \ t _'* _a-crown or three shillings a day , but he is now supposed to be worth £ 500 , ODO . The Italian aeronaut , Orlandi , who has made four hundred and twenty ascents with success , is said to bave completed a machine which will 3 nable hira to control the balloon iu the air , and to guide its direction with certainty .

      A newspaper was lately posted at Bremen , in Germany , for a firm at Swansea . It was , however , forwarded to New Zealand , and was eventually returned to Swansea , after it had travelled upwards ol forty thousand miles . , L ™ _, j A man named Daniel Aitken lately died at Wexford , Canada , at the age of 120 years . During hir . life he had contracted seven marriages , and he lett 570 _i-rand and great-grandchildren . . ' The gross total quan tity ot ali soap made in txreat Britain during tbeyear _* 1816 . ainounted to 1 , 831 , 9551 b . of silica ted soap ; 167 , 750 , 9901 b . of other hard soap ; and 15 , 807 9021 b . of soft soap . t An Irish car driver in his list of journoy expenses , charged , " Refreshments for the horse , 2 d . " On inquiry , it turned out that the rogue meant whipcord I __ . . .

      A grand exhibition of works of the Fine Arts is to be opened at Amsterdam on the 3 rd of May . Foreign artists will be allowed to exhibit . There is a tailor living in New York who works so fast that he is compelled to keep a pail of water by him " to cool his needle in . " Mr \ V . Lambert , of _Risbury Court , Herefordshire , has now in his possession a lamb , yeaned oa the 28 tb ult ., with six legs , four on the left side , and two on the right . The two additional legs aro their proper length , bat are attached to the body only by hanging to the skin . _ , . . „ . ., , Mr Brack , treasurer at Glasgow to the Highland Relief Fund , has received £ 10 , 000 from the British Association , making in all from that Association the

      munificent sum ol £ 28 , 000 ; One of tho leading members of the Young Irelond Association was asked why the " usual" weekly acknowledgment ol rent was net published with their usual weekly proceedings in the Nation ; to which he gave the following very satisfactory reply :- The devil a ra p we got the whole week . Phantoms are only seen m the dark . There are always miracles in a land of ignorance .-iamartine . " I am always sorry , " says a French writer , when a woman becomes an author ; I would much rather that she remained a woman . "— I Weare always sorry when a man becomes a fool , ( as the writer of the above proves himself to be , ) _we-vould much rather he remained a man . — Ed . N _. S . ] The kee per of tho serpents , and ether reptiles , at

      the Garden of Plants , has just brought to perfection an apparatus , of great svmplicvty _. lor th « artificial ! hatching of eggs . The Emperor of Russia has just given orders that the works of the railway from St Petersburg to Moscow shall be pushed forward with the greatest activity , and , that the number of workmen at present employed shall be increased by 59 , 000 soldiers _^ ,. * After a recent snow-s % ra in Orkney large , "knolls of snow were found Over the _tountry , looking like * _heapa of manure " ' covered with snow'f hat whicM when examined , turned 01 ft to be * cyliudricai , like hollow fluted rollers , or ladies' swan-down rautft , bearing a strong resemblance to the latter . I hey j had been formed by the wind rolling up tho snow , «? boys form snow-toil * for _Mausweat .

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      Linor / n Ron , Public Works is Ibbund . —Week ending March 6 . 734 , 792 ; March 20 , 004 , 442 . March 27 , 558 , 047 ; April 3 , 525 , 518 . Vkry Sknsibi , _*! . —Tho municipal authorities of Berlin having announced to the lung their desire to give a grand banquet to the members ofthe Diet , his Majesty h _* _ts replied that with the misery that exists , it would be better to employ the money in mora useful objects . Jew akb Gentilk . —The King of Bavaria has ordered that , in consequence ofthe _dearness of food , an increase of salary shall be awarded to the Jewish schools , the same as to the masters of Christian _schools * f . ABUAt _* . —Mr Brooks , so well known as the enter *

      prising traveller and successful settler m the Indian Archipelago , has received an official sanction and reward of his labours , by being appointed commis « _sioner and consul-general from England to tho Sultan and Independert Chiefs of Borneo . t Pouosac—The eldest son of the late Prince da Polignac _olaimsaseat in the Chamber of Peers , because , when his father was condemned to " civil death , " the law whereby the Peerage was hereditary bad not yet been repealed . Tnu _CeuDUK National Tributr FuND .-Since the last _adrertisement of ' subscriptions to this fund , £ 559 have been added , including £ 100 from Mr Jedediah Strutt , of Belper , and £ 50 from Mesirs Petrio and Co ., of Rochdale . The total amount of the subscriptions now reaches £ 60 . 692 .

      The Coast Dbpesces . —The orders in hand at the Royal Arsenal nt the present time , in connection with the coast defences , amount to 23 _50-pounder guns , and 228 8-inch guns , to be mounted on dwarf platforms . These guns are to be distributed to Gravesend and Tilbury Fort , Portsmouth , Plymouth , Guernsey , Sheerne . ** s , Malta , Corfu , Quebec , Hong Kong , & c . Importation ov llsnttixos . — -The ship Ina , arrived in the Commercial Docks , from St John ' s , New Brunswick , has brought , in addition to an extensive cargo of wood goods , the very large number of G 3 T boxes of herrings in a preserved state , and 4 firkins of butter , the production of that British province of North America .

      Fatal Accioknt . —On Sunday afternoon a sailing boat containing four young men was upset in the river Thames , at Battersea Reach , and John Some ? , aged 19 , son of Mr Somes , of tbe King ' s-rond , Chelsea , was drowned . The other three , being able to swim , kept themselves afloat till assistance reached thera from the shore . Chkap _MuTROPOiirAt- _Tbavbuwo . — Omnibused have commenced running from Battersea to lloxtoa conveying passengers the entire distance , about nine miles , for sixpence . The Ant and Bee , steam vessels , running from London Bridge to the West End , have reduced their fares to one halfpenny ; and the Citizen Steam-boat Company have commenced running their vessels to Hammersmith , _Wandsivortli , and Putney at reduced fares . _Unostj-ntatious _Charitt . —A gentleman called a few'days ago at M » _ssrs _Hallett ' s , who are bankers

      tothe Western Dispensary , Charles-street , Westminster , and saying he much regretted to find the charity so p . or , he placed a fifty pound note on tbe counter , desiring it might be put to tlieir credit as the " donation ofa governor , " declining to leave his name . Important . —Mr Anthony , surgeon , of Brixbam . was lately called to a young married female , about nineteen years of age , who ba-l taken ahout 100 grains of oxalic acid , He administered milk with a view to form a coagulum , which succeeded in tha most effectual way by producing instantaneous vomiting , as he expected j after every ejection from tha stomach , Mr A . repeated the dose of milk , in quantities of a pint and sometimes half a pint , until vomiting ceased , and the pulse was restored to its natural tone . Milk being a decided antidote to the poison , too much publicity _cannot be given for the information of tho public .

      _Derbyi-hiri * Dialect . — An honest labourer of Chesterfield , when being examined on tbe recent trial of Platts tor murder , puzzled both judge and counsel by his provincialisms . When describing the emptying ot the cesspool acd finding the remains , he said , ¦¦ something came in the gate ; " " the gate , " exclaimed the judge ; '' the eate" echoed the counsel ; bath wearing a greatly puzzled aspect , until itwasexplained that the gate was synonymous with the way ; the jury , however , who were chiefly selected from tht Peak , well knew what the witness meant . Subsequently , tho same witness deposed to finding " * stafe , " which led to a repetition of questioning _tind wonderment , which was satisfied by the explanation that a straight piece of turned wood was meant . Tub Jewish _wombk of _Frankfort-on-the-Maine have formed an association for the education of poor Jewish "iris .

      A _Larob _Subtbrranrav Cave has been discovered under Bell-street , Birmingham . When or for what purpose it was formed is yet a mystery . Tub _Riou-r Way to convert the Jews . — The society t ' . _irmed some time back in Posen , for _purchasing land , and letting it out at a moderate rate to poor Jews , in order to induce them to follow fixed labour , instead of getting their living by selling pedlar ' s wares , or other unrecognised pursuit ? , is continuing its operations with success . Up to the present time more than 15 , 000 Jewish families have demanded portions of land , and this fact proves that the Polish Jews are beginning to prefer agriculture to commerce .

      Tame Birds . —At the Rectory , Llanfoist , the Rev . James Jenkins has a lawn adjoining his garden , where may be seen several robins and chaffinches , the worthy rector making it a daily practice of feeding them ; and he has so successfully trained them , that the moment he enters the lawn they will immediately come to his call , ane . fly , each in its turn to tbe number of six or eight , into his hand to be fed . Nojiwboia _* - Icr . —A vessel named the David Foye , arrived in the Regent ' s Canal from Frederick ' s [ Iold _, Norway , has brought , with the exception of a lew fathoms of firewood , some spars , and two cases of Norwegian game , an entire cargo of ice , comprising from 300 to 350 tons weight of this singular article of merchandise .

      Glorious Winter Quarters . —A terrestrial paradise appears to have been found by our forces at Tampico . In December they were luxuriating oa green peas , oranges , banana - , lemons , _canvass-back ducks , teal , snipe , etc ., which sell _s-t prices truly remarkable . Wild ducks were only one cent each . It is a glorious place in winter , but a dreadful yellow fever sepulchre in summer . —New York Sun . Bb Just before tou arb Gbnbrous . —A shepherd in the ceunty of Caithness lately lost two or three of his master ' s sheep , and being determined his employer should not be loser in the matter , stole the same number from a neighbour , for which ha _hasjustbeencoramiUedtothegaol of Wick . —Ronshire Advertiser .

      A _Surk Proof . —It is satd that Prince Massimo , postmaster at Rome , is the undoubted and the only lineal descendant of _Fabius Maximus , and the slow coaoh system adopted at the post-om ' ce under hia auspices , is cited as an additional proof of hia extraction , if any were needed . Jbxny _Li » d . —Mr Bunn has modestly offered to take £ 2 , 000 from Jenny Lind , and annul the contract , provided she will also sing three times in hia theatre _before she sings anywhere elso in England . Shakspbark ' s House . —The house at

      Stratfordupon-Avon , in which Shakspeare is supposed to have been born , and in which he certainly spent a part of his _boyhood is about to be sold by public auction . Qi / kkr _CnsnACTEns—Some species of infusorial animalcula * , inconceivably small as tbey are , and only visible through powerful microscopes , have , nevertheless , upwards ofa 100 distinct stomachs . Ether . —A few days ago , a lady _underwnt aa operation for cancer in the breast in Manchester . Mr _Bickerstetli , surgeon , was the operator . Ether was used , and the patient experienced no pain .

      Female Recruit . —A recruit at Glasgow , a few days since , was rejected , on being discovered to be a female . The amount of property locked up in Chancery ia upwards of forty millions sterling . _ScfrBRiNo and Loy'no . —* " O mother , " said a very little child , " Mr S does love Aunt Lucy—he aits by her—he whispers to her—and he hugs her . " "Why , Edward , your aunt does not suffer that , does she ? " " Suffer it , _yesmother , she loves it . " Quits Lccid . — "Do you know Mr B ? " "I do . " " What sort of a man is he ? " "In the morning he is a whiskey barrel , and at night he is a barrel of whiskey ! " " Ah , indeed !"

      Hard Times—An old lady was complaining a few days since , in the market , ofthe excessive high price of provisions . " It is not the meat only that is so enormously dear , " says she , " but I canuot obtain flour for a pudding for less than double the usual price , and they do not make the eggs half so large ' aa they used to be !" _QuA-atERa . — "Where areyourquarters _. Flaneganr " said a captain to one ofhis volunteers—a son of the sod . " Oh , Captain , jewel , " said he , _** i . iverniintion it ; I have been inrouled now for a week ; I spint the bounty the first night , and devil a quarter did I see since : not so much as a tin eint piece . "

      A Hard Case . —A tailor , while travelling on the lakes , was asked by a Yankee where he lived , and what hisbusines * was , dsc , to which he replied that he lived in Toledo , and that his profession was sitting on the smooth side of poverty , and jerkng out the . cords of affliction . To which an _e- * . chan | e replie'vt " We ' ve been there , " nnd found it pretty _tougft work , sometimes , to "jerk" the hard knots through . _ELEcitoNs .-Mr William Pinney , a liberal , w » 8 returned for East Somersetshire , on Saturday last , in the room of Col- Gore Langton , deceased , without oppositipn . "' •; .- _,-v' - ¦" . . " i : \ _- _r * - . . ¦ _'* . ., _„ .: ; . EiiriiquAKB . ! SrA strong shock of a _^^ _rjhquaka vasj » _Mj _^ _mt _$$ _V _* _^ _ffiV 4 ia _^ *; _llitfT To _' SnoEMAKBBS . —if Bn _- ' _e-e-sr _^ ro _^ 5 iiitruote _< J of the shape of the human feet , _neitjwr too _^ rga nor too small , and making an - equal pressure every " * where , corns and bunions o ( the feet would neretr 1 exiit .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 17, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_17041847/page/3/