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      USES . Ivjihe lamented Laman Blanchard ; written on the first page ' _tfg , volume intended for the reception of Essays and a _prvtdagi _^ _ustntOcetffSliakspeare . "like one who stands fl _rjntiebrig ht verge of some enchantea shore , e "Where notes from airy harps , and hidden hands , : i Are from the green grass and fhe golden sands , "Far echoed , o ' er and o ' er , if As _tf ' « _he-J - * ' _* _^ _*^ n _« to invite Into that "World of "Li ght 'Thus stood I here ,

      s -gaangawhBe on these unblotted leaves , I TiH the blank pages brighten'd , and mine ear i Pound mmdc in iheir rustling , sweet and clear _. And wreathes that fancy _weares I "Ettt _^ _ea ae votame--fin'dvratii grateful lays _. And songs of rapturous praise . 'No sound I heard , Bot echoed o ' er and o ' er _oiirShafispeaie ' sname , Oue _** _i- * geringnoteoflove , - unk'dwoTdto wort * , Till every leaf was as a faiiy bird , "Whose song is still the same : _Qt each was as a flower , with folded ceUs For Pucks and Ariels 1

      • And visions grew—Tisions not brief , though bright , frosted age _33 thfail'd to rob of onc diviner hue , _jjaJdng than more familiar , yet more new—¦ Tliese flash'd into the page ; A group of crowned things—the radiant themes Of Shakspeare's Avon dreams . * Of crowned things—• . "Rare crowns of living gems and lasting flowers ) Some in tiiehusnan likeness , some with _irings—Byed in the beauty of ethereal springs—Some shedding piteous showers Of natural tears , and some iu smiles that fell Like sunshine on a delL

      Here Art had caught The perfect mould of Hamlet ' s princely form , — The frantic Thane , fiend , cheated , lived , metaongnt Here Timon _howl'd ; anon , _snMimely wroo _«* ht , Stood _Lexr , amid fhe storm ; There Borneo _dvoop'd or _soar'd—while Jacques , here , StiB watch'd the weeping deer . ' And then a throng Of heavenly natures , clad in earthly vest , Like angel-apparitions , _pass'd along ; The rich-lipped Rosalind , all light and song , And Imogen ' s white breast ; low-voiced Cordelia , with her stilled sighs , And Juliet ' s shrouded eyes .

      • The page , tuni'd o'er , _Shew-a * Kate—or Viola—' my Lady tongue "Thc lost Venetian , with her living Moor ; The Maiden Wonder on the haunted shore , Ilappy , and fair , and young ; TiD on a _jioor , love-martyr ** - ! mind I look—Ophelia , at the brook . ' With sweet Anne Page Ihe bright throng ended ; for , untoueh'd by time , fame Falstaff , _latighter-lauri-ir-l , yoang in age , Willi many a ripe and sack-devoted sage ! And deathless clonus sublime Crondril the leaf , to vanish at a swoop , Like Oberon aud his troop . lleie sate , entranced ,

      _Malvolio , h _^ -trapp _' _-l ; he who served the Jew Still with the feud seemM running ; then advanced _M-.-.-fina _' s pretty piece of flesh , and danced Willi Bottom and his crew—Jfcrcutio , Benedick , press- _'d points of wit , Aud Osrich nude his hit . ¦ ii the * , erelong , JksvA * i » y _Ixinjrliter , and fhe speB was past ; Of flit si " ' ! ' inulntade , a marvellous throng , > ' o tract- is _ln-re—no tints , no word , no song , On _rht-s- " _•>• ¦ " - •* leaves are cast—The aJfar has been _rear'd , an offering fit—Tlte Same is still unlit .

      'Oh ! who now bent In _iiunibii-revcrenee , hopes one wreath to bind W « nhy of him , whose genius strangely blent , CwuM kindle wonder aud astonishment ' In Milton ' s starry mind ! Who stood Alone , but not as one Apart , Ami > _= aw man ' s inmost heart l' _"

      *,Cmeto& 33sats On Natural History.—By C...

      * , cmeto _& 33 SATS ON _NATURAL HISTORY . —By Charles Watertox , Esq . Second Series . London : Long man and Co ., l ' aterncstcr-tovr . ( _Couiwudfrom tin _Nvrihim Star of May 2 Afh . ) Mr . WjTEnTOS appeal's to "have journied to Rome st so much for health or amusement as to make _Hmsclf acquainted with the feathered tribes abound-32 there . Ornithology is with him a passion , to _aaiifv which nearly all other matters are neglected _Imcnd , therefore , of ferreting out antiquities , and vsitiii ! r the schools of sculpture and painting , he Kssed his mornings in the biru-niarket . Of this place ' •» have the _followin _* . ' description : —

      THE BIED-HARKET OF ROME :- htid in the environs of Ihe Rotunda , formerly the i _* _saUieoii . Xothing astonished me more than the quau" _skivibiids wliich were daily exposed for sale during i- _fa- _^ n ; 1 could often count above four hundred L' > K >; _aul blackbirds , and ofteu a hundred robin _redb-tsi . in oue _. marter of it ; with twice as many larks , al .. ' . her small birds in vast profusion . In thc course of _? _a-Is \ ? seventeen thousand _quailshavepassedtiie Roman _r-jiwu- _' _-nuse : tliese _iiretfy vernal and aurmnual travel _iz-uKta-kat ' _in _ucisof _prooigious extent on the shores i A , M _^ i « rrai >« in . in tne -. nring of the year and at i . _d-i- vi ihe summer , cartloads of ringdoves arrive at 1 .- _iiall _, j urartbe Rotunda . At first the venders were iniili me : but as we got better _acquainted , nothing

      ¦ H surpass their civility , and their ivishes to impart _tnisifoniiationtoine ; and when they had procured a -rial . . 'iKvimen , tliey always put it in a drawer apart : a-. These _birdmen outwardly hadtiie appeai _* ance of 2 aii _1-andiitl but it was all omside and nothing more ; j w . iv g . _xid men notwithstanding then- uncouth looks , - _-1-. '« . «! Chris-Jans too , for I could see tliem waiting at _t i 3 . > .. r o : tin- church by half-past four o ' clock on a win-- _* " - _nwraiiig , to be ready for tiie first mass . I preserved Ait bir . lr ~ a porcupine , a badger , some shell-fish , aud a ¦ . ii land tortoises , whilst 1 wa ? in Rome ; and these es-- " - iihe _slupwreek by baring beeufonvarded to Leghorn , - - ¦ "jiiitr _pi-eriuas to our emterkin'r at Civita Veechia

      - ~* * _i & r port . _Whilst we wore viewing theloftyfragment * - ' "• --- . iii which towers amid the surrounding ruins of _f-a-allaV baths , I saw a hole in it which is frequented ' . ' •¦ ih- _1-n-gt- _ea-rle owl of Europe . A fearless adventurer - _* 5 _a-. n _.-u . 'cd to get a young one ont of it the year before , ' ¦ •' ¦ - •>!• bad scila it to flic gardener at the _Colonna palace , * *"' _" ¦ _'ivj't it alive in ihe i _» leasui _* c-2 ronnds ; and there I Ui i ; a visit -jeuerallj' once a week . Another pair of _"i- _^ t r , -lOe wanderers of night is said to inhabit the enor" - ' • -- 'inworks at the top of St . Pcicr ' s . These birds are " v ---are- ; in this part of Italy . l _/* e bird-market did not , however , occupy our l " -iW "< _eiiiire attention . Here is a description of

      riG-SILUSG _aT liOSIE . _fe jou cuter Borne at the Porta del Popolo , alittie on * _» - _-i-ihi is tiie great -daughter-house , ivith a fine stream _•" _- _"UrruHning through it . Itis probably inferior to _« i : > Italy for an extensive plan , ani for jutficious ¦ _^ - i _- v _' jsiiits . Here some seven or eight hundred pigs : '» . il on evciy Friday during the winter season . - _¦ ' _-iiias cau exceed the dexterity with which tbey are " _iKi-V-d . About _tliirty of these 3 arge and fetblack ¦ 3 in .- driven into a commodious pen , followed by three : -iur jaen , each with a sharp skewer in his hand , "bent _- r t-nd , in order that it may he used with advantage .

      ' - miring the pen these performers , who put jou vastiy - ¦ - ana of assassins . , make a rush at the hogs , each " - _^ _e one by the leg , amid a general yeM of horror ou - • art of the victims . "Whilst the hog and the man are _' ' - _"iiling on the ground , the latter , with the rapidity of •"¦ - du . pushes his skewer betwixt the fore leg and tiie ' _? , yuite into the heart , and there- gives it a turn or ' " ¦ TJ-v } . j _^ can rise no more , but screams for a minute ; . ' - *•• , u :. l then expires . This process is continued till ' * ¦ "! ir- all _ocspatclicd . the brutes sometimes rolling over * _^** i ei ? , ; i , d _somttiuies tiie butchers over ihe brutes , - * nl i _£ in _^ cn 0 _Itrn t 0 s { un one * s cars . in { he mean * " - _¦ - _* -- _breams become fainter aud -fiunter _, and then aH

      -- _'« _^ e _( _jeatu the _pij _* . A nart is in _- tokt _; Uic- carcases arc lifted inw it , and itpro-¦ j _duu _-iih _U ; e street , leaving _oneoriBovfi dead hogs : ! i - aW- _< rf the different pork shop ? . No _bloou * apf j " ' _- > . _arJlv , nor _js the internal hemorrhage _prejudi-- * - -lie _isieat _, for i _^ _jne cav , not bt surpassed in the ' _*'' _* < A Iir .- luton , < _ir iu the soununcss ofher liams . ' - _' ¦ ilie _wia-JfroiaRojnetoXiples , Mr . Watebiox fo _BaicmJahPrdof _T _, IT AlUX _UVFrALOES . J _-as did time glide on , every dav producing sometliing

      - ' * _.- _'a « t thc attention of my indefatigable sistcrs-m" _7 , _**'' '' 5 iveiiicsullicient occupation in ornithology , irir _* i * ,: ltl : " *' _*' _'i , at low in spirits when the day ; _-,. ° ; ' _*' weh we were to take our departure for •• Ti _" " " * nore birds on the rout from Rome to _i _^ y _* _- _®* l had observed in the whole of the journey _iff ) .. S _^ ' - ' - K _* t' - Bid _counnou buzzards , sparrowi- n " " _^ " , v ' _-bovt'rs , were ever on the wing in the ¦ _-i vault ¦ . b ,, _!^ ns j _^ we wcre resting our horses at ¦ - 'IJtin _,. ,. „ .,. .. ... . ..... * ¦ : _. . . . lie _ade ofthe roadlhad

      - -... . ''' , * , a fineopportunity i-j _?' - -1 _" - 'v ' a ve laI o herd of Italiun buffaloes . ; _-Vj _^ _T ' _-yu ** e animals have got a bad name for sup-. * . _M xh _^ antJ _wljen , _gjpygjsjjj mj determination to i ' _-i _*?* _^ ' _^ was _w-ji-nc-d by the Italians not to do so , - _i ~ _£ >& A' * 3 were _wiettd bmtes , and would gore nie " - -r _* \ . Uavln _t' " -hurled out a tree or two of easy ascent - . _* . _^ - "" " - "I was grazinjr _, I advar . eed _cl- _'se up to it , :... _;^" ' S thai »> _:, £ _i , r .- , _»* iert-: tiieirc .- 's _* noald'bca pros ;* r * " 1 " _*" - > _" - case thc hiutes should be unruly . They : _^ _" _"" " * ' c , and stared at me as -hough they had ¦ - _•• _Vh " " , _" _''• befjTc "C _pou this , I iivnnediatcly a ii _»^ '"' _- ' _" * an '* _^ _s-3 - into a ! 1 kim _* ailtic _- ; . _] .. _;^ ' _"""anbling loudly at tiie same time ; and the " "* ' _- "iv-, " 1 , Is ' _c _, _iv _*" _s _' _'• _, _1 ca _^ es , -lookofi ; as fast as ¦ v Ti _" _^ _''"^ I _' - 'earin _;; nie to return soundand -whole " ¦••; * ith a hem ;} - iattgh against the Italian * :,

      Cdrjous Custom Is Sicilv

      CDRJOUS CUSTOM IS SICILV

      Jn Sicily we saw an exhibition , the recollection of which haunted me like a spectre for many a week afterwards . It might be termed a melancholy parade of death decked out in a profusion of gay and splendid colours . I could not comprehend by what species of philosophy these islanders had brought themselves to the contemplation of objects once so dear to them , bat now shrunk into hideous deformity , and seeming , as it were , to ask for a removal from a situation wliich ill befits them , and which has robbed the grave of its just and long-acknowledged perquisite . This abhorrent spectacle is no other than that of tiie dead brought from what ought to be their last resting-place , where the dryness of the climate has preserved their flesh from rotting . They wcre decked out iu magnificent attire ; but death had slain their beauty ; their godlike form was gone , and the worm had left UpOU them disgusting traces of Its ravages .

      "Matres , atque -rfri , defunctaque corpora vita , " * We saw what once had been fi ne young ladies , and elderly matrons , and fathers of families , in dresses fit for a convivial dance ; and we might have imaginedthatthey were enjoying an hour of repose till the arrival of the festive time . But when our eyes caught the parts not veiled by the gorgeous raiment , oh , heavens ! there , indeed , appeared deathin allhisgrisly terrors . I had never seen any sight in my life , before this , so incongruous , so mournful , so dismal , 3 nd so horrifying . These shrunk and withered remnants of former bloom and beauty brought to my mind the exhibitions of stuffed monkeys which we see in our own museums , with this difference only , that the monkeys Lave gLiss eyes most unnaturally starting from their sockets , whilst the hollow sockets of . the Sicilian mummies contain a withered substance , discoloured and deprived of all tiie loveliness that life had I once imparted to it .

      It is said , "if God sends meat , too often the devil sends cooks ; and we ave inclined to believe this after reading the following specimen of

      ¦ COMAS nWlIlNESS . There arc many things in Borne which offend our English feelings , although the natives do not seem to be at all affected by them . Thus all the spouts send down torrents of water from the eaves of the houses into the streets below , inflicting a deluge on those who have not learned the art of threading their way successfully through the spaces wliich intervene betwixt the descending torrents . Many a time have I received on my shoulders this annoying fall of water . The streets , too , are abominably filthy with offensive matter , causing a nuisance which would not be tolerated for a single day in an English town ; and within tiie entrance door of many of thendwellings tliere may be seen a pool which loudly calls for the mop , if thc purity of ladies' flounces be an object

      worthy of attention . Again ; the "kitchens of these Italians appear as though they had never once been white washed since the days of Ancient Rome ; whilst their cooking utensils are , at times , none of the most cleanly . A friend of mine had ordered an omelet for supper . His servant , on going accidentally into the kitchen , saw the cook preparing it in a kind of thing which I dare not exactly describe . But the reader will understand me when I inform him tbat the filthy rascal , not baring a proper kitchen-pan at hand , had actually been up into the bed-room for a substitute . Our English maid , once expressing a wish for a culinary utensil in order to pour some broth into it , the Italian servanthad one in her eye which would just suit . She went and brought the brass pan in which we regularly washed our feet .

      Air . _TvirEnrnvis a most devoted Roman Catholic . The miracles and legends of his church are believed by him with Hnfaltering faith . At Rome he saw the titulus , or piece of wood on which was written the inscription over the head of Christ when nailed to the cross—of the genuineness of the article he has not the least doubt . * The benediction annually bestowed on the lower animals in Rome , in the name of St . Anthony , has his warm approbatiou ! He believes with Sir Wiluam nAMixTo . v , that the exhibition of the head of St . Januarius has upon the occasion of an . eruption of Vesuvius , caused the eruption to cease ! Ue relates the _ponro and circumstance attending thc annual liquefaction of the blood of St . Januarius , of which he was an eve-witness , and

      declares his firm conviction ofthe truth and fact ofthe " miracle 5 " For the account of this great _Neapolitan f estival , we must refer the reader to the book itself . Mr . Waterton is too good a mau , and too sincere in his convictions , for us not to respect his views , however much we may be opposed to them . We may , however , remark , that seeing that Italy is so highly blessed , according to Mr . "Watertox , with priests , monks , saints , relics , miracles , and the full and undivided sway of the " only true church , " it is passing strange that a country so favoured (?) should be the worst-governed , and its people the most wretched in mind , body , and estate of any people in Europe . Ignorance the most _^ gross , idleness the most degrading , filth the most disgusting , and disease

      the most -repulsive , are the characteristics 01 the mass of the Neapolitans , as vouched for by nearly all travellers . If the priests can work miracles with the bloodbf St . Januarius , why cannot they work the miracle so much wanted of making the " Neapolitans an enlightened , industrious , cleanly , and healthy population ? If they cannot do that , of what use is their " liquefaction" and other " miracles , '' except to increascand perpetuate their own wealth and power at the expense of the misery and slavery of the many ? Mr . Watebios highly lauds one "Besewct Joseph Labre , a- religious beggar " who died at Rome in the odour o f sanctity , on the IGth of April , 1183 ; " he was a Frenchman who , preferring a life of holy racrancv to labour of any description , took un his

      ouarters at Rome , where he _passed bis life in wandering about the churches , praying , and living on the alms of the credulous . Mr . _Watehto- * . - says— "Benedict will probably be canonised , ere long , as the process of his ljeatification has already commenced 1 " Of such materials Rome's saints arc made ! "What was tliere in a life so spent to entitle this Idle and hypocritical or fanatical mendicant to be elevated to the rank of _salntship ? Who will assert that the honest English labourer or artisan , who performs his duties to his family and to society , bearing with toil and battling with adversity , is not a far nobler char acter in the sight of earth and heaven than sucli useless vagrants as this St . Benedict ? May our country bo for over preserved from the degrading superstition wliich Mr . Wat £ rt 0 . \ seems so ardently to admire . ( To be continued . )

      The Family Herald. Part Xxiv. London : G...

      THE FAMILY HERALD . Part XXIV . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . This part of tliis excellent publication is filled with most entertaining and instructive matter . _^ The Wondering Jeiv is brought down to the conclusion of thc seventh -volume , which terminates with an account of the breaking out of fhe cholera in Paris . From the able editorial articles we give two extracts , one from an article on ihe Religious Warfare in Switzerland , the other from an article on the Maynooth question : —

      "What may be the result of this contest we will not attempt to divine- but we think we are well authorised to say that the day is not far distant when some severe struggle will take place between the two great reUgious powers ef Christendom . The progress of civilisation , of humanity , demands it . The mouths of men are shut in ultra Popish countries . The resident English cannot even build themselves a chapel in the city of "Maples or in the city of Rome , to worship God afterthe fashion of their fathers ; a Protestant cannot preach in public without being seized by fhe authorities ; innumerable books , political and religious , are proscribed , and refused admittance into papal territories—books that , perhaps , are calculated to Inflame and to perplex the mind , but books , notwithstanding , which open the eyes , and lead men out

      of old established prejudices and forms , which of themselves are gradually dissolving and losing their power over the most intelligent , or the most active and thoughtful , perhaps also , the most immoral portion , of the com--mwftitj . ftuvernmeuts of this bigoted character are losing hold of the convictions even of their own agents , anil their most influential constituents . They stand , like pyramids , hy their own -weight au 4 aatiquity , ami by reason of the difficulty of removing them . But as obstacles to the progress of human thought , as tyrannical powers , which control the faith and opinions of men by physiciti force , and forbid even a supply of many interesting , innocent , and instructive materials for thinking on the mysteries of creation and providence , they cannot long be toleratedintheir present condition . Thevolcano

      must burst ere long , and when it bursts , war is one of the forms in which it " will exhibit itself to the vulgar eye . The American "Revolution started a great controversy of popular versus monarchical Governments , which is not yet solved , except to those who take a side , and are pleased to assert that they are satisfied . The Prench "Revolution started a question of philosophy terms religion , wliich still rages , thirty years after the war has terminated . Paine ' s " Rights of "Man , " ana his " Age of Reason , " were but biblical types of what was going on in the national mind when the war was raging , and what was destined to go on when the _nnUtary combatants had sheathed their swords and retired to their quarters . The war still rages in the human mind , - these rights oi man are every dav more and more discussed , in public and in

      private . Before the time of the American and French Revolutions , public discussions were comparatively unknown ; the debates of Pa rliament were not reported ; popular meetings were seldom held to discuss any public nuestion ; newspapers were small in size , and few m number . TheTe could be no great war respecting international subjects , for want of materials . But the revolutionary wa-r , by the increased excitement which it gave to the mind , supplied these materials , and urged en the controversy . Uor has the controversy which that war stirred up into a flame ever ceased to this day . It has produced our own Reform , and aU its consequent experiments on the old constitution of England—experiments which have not satisfiedand can only lead to some other

      , crisis , of whieh war at home or abroad is the outward sign . There is food for war in the world yet ; and the increased activity of party spirit is no uncertain sign of its approach . The Catholic nations are very weak , or they would have been at warwitli ns long ago . Franc e is a ucutral power—Boman Catholic in name , but so _anti-Konian that the Pope excludes almost every popular French publication from his dominions . It would side with Protestants in politics , but it hates or is jealous of "England . Its very hatred of England preserves its neutrality . Bad passions suppressed are not appeased ; and if the soldiers have not yet begun to fight , the people are already in arms , and even now all England and Scot-

      The Family Herald. Part Xxiv. London : G...

      land is excited upon a Boman Catholic question . After the fear of Puseyism is partly hushed , now comes the fear of Maynooth priestcraft . Meetings are held , committees are formed , petitions are signed , complaints ave uttered , loud , long and deep ; the alarm bell is rung throughout the land . We are not fighting , vulgarly speaking , hut we are at war , notwithstanding * , and the Swiss cantons , which are now engaged in a bloody strife about the Popish question of Jesuitism , are merely exhibiting after another fashion that very operation of religious passion whicli is at present more silently and metaphysically going on amongst ourselves .

      The opposition to the Maynooth grant is immense ; and its energy and its ubiquity reveal an important fact in the history of the present times . They give a splendid manifestation oJ the life of Protestantism in England and Scotland , aud Its unconquerable hatred of Papal dictation and Roman priestcraft . It is a lesson to all Christendom . It is the proof of a great fact—a fact that seemed to want a proof—to allay the fears of Protestants on the one hand , aud to disappoint the fond expectations of Romans on the other . The proof has been given ; and , as the Times well observes , there has been no such exhibition of Protestant feeUng since the foundation of the Protestant constitution in 1688 .

      The present part concludes the second volume of the Family Herald—a good opportunity is therefore at present afforded to new subscribers _' to commence taking this publication , wliich is one we can warmly reccommend to tliem .

      The London Entertaining Magazine. Pari V...

      THE LONDON ENTERTAINING MAGAZINE . Pari VI . London ; Cousins , 18 , Duke-street , Lincoln _' s-inn-fields . The exciting tale of Matilda , by _Evjgehe Sue , is drawing to a close , and will be concluded in the next part of this _truly-entertainiug periodical . Thc remaining contents of this part are , as usual , interesting , and cannot fail to please .

      THE LAST DAYS OF THOMAS HOOD . _ThefoUowmgisabridgedfronianoticebyMr . S . C . Hall , in the Art-Utiion— "Mr . Hood ' s existence waa a hmg disease rather than a life ; yet his temper , unemoittcred by continual pain , remained ever cheerful and kindly , turning , to the very last , Ms own sad suffering into jests , and forcing those who wept over hisagony , fierce as it was ( till he was overtaken by the last dull sleep that continued for three days proceeding his death ) to smile at the witticisms ofhiseonceits , however strangely mingled with the consciousness of his situation , and his solemn forecast of the rapidly approaching hereafter . Nor were such terrible contrasts reserved for his death-bed only .

      Even when the 'Song of a Shirt' was knocking at every heart in Great Britain , its author was panting for breath ; and soon after he was confined to his bed , and literally propped up by pillows to write wit . And so hc struggled on , through successive paroxysms of illness , till the last few months found him working ' amidst the very crisis and beatings of heart disease ( more than once even in the intervals of delirium J ) at the monthly chapters of his last novel—doomed to remain , like his lite , a great fragment . But it is all overwithhimnow . _Heisreleasedfromlaboursnevcr remunerated in proportion tothe pleasure they gave , and to the enormous profit they produced to others , seldom perhaps thought of by those whose hearts they opened , andwhosecavetheyseemedtobceuile .

      Latterly his friends had been agonized by his terrible lament— 'I cannot die ! I cannot die ! and they could not but be thankful to lay him , on the 10 th of May , in a calm grave , at Kcnsall-green . It will not , we are sure , he long before a monument is raised to kisnieniory ; and there are hearts enough in England to remember that his widow and children have but the small pension bestowed by Sir R , Peel , whose letter , in words that did equal honour to the Minister and the poet , conveyed his regret that the grant was necessarily so scanty , and a request that he might be permitted to make tho personal acquaintance of one with whose works he was intihiately acquainted , and whose talents and character he had long appreciated and admired . "

      Punch On "Sunday Pleasuring." Thc Two F ...

      PUNCH ON "SUNDAY PLEASURING . " Thc two f ollowing letters appeared in the Times last week-: — xo . 1 . " Sin , —Can you assist me in tho following dilemma 2 " Is a visit to the exhibition of the Royal Academy a rational , Christian-like , and proper amusement for the afternoon of Sunday , after attending divine service in the morning—aye or no ? " If it be , why am I and my class excluded on that day ?

      "If it be not , why were 'their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge , Prince George , the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz { attended by Mr . Edmund MiMmay ) , ' and the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden , accompanied by the Mar chioness of Douglas , and attended by the Baroness de Strumfcder , " as per Court Circular , admitted ? "Yours ,-fcc , "A Clerk , " Who never leaves business until _dusl-. ' _"

      no . 11 , "Sis , —In answer to 'A Clerk , ' applying for the opening of the Royal Academy on the Sunday , I would observe , that the titled personages whom he names ( if they were admitted on that day ) violated tlieir duty to God and society by going , but in no way justified an act immoral and indecent in itself ; and tbat if once this barrier should be broken , there can be no reason why every public exhibition iu the country , and the theatres at night , should not equally be open also , as in Paris . " I am , sir , yours obediently , " One of the P £ < u * i . e _<* au . _" £ & Cbmstiass . "

      The documents were attentively _rCftll Iff 0 U 1 * 0 Xnjted chief , and were observed to affect the venerable Mr . Punch in a most extraordinary manner . The latter letter especially excited him ; and he was awake all night after it had appeared , tossing about in his bed in a fury , and exclaiming , " Stiggins—it ' s Stiggins—I know it is—the rascal ! to say the Royal Family is immoral and indecent , and insult the Grand Duchess Stephanie , and the Baroness dc Strumfeder I " The next morning he arose quite calm , and calling for pens and paper , addressed the following ironic letter to the Clerk who wrote to the Times : —

      " My _oeab , _TnocoH unkhown _Fbiem > , —I have read your letter with deep feelings of sympathy . I know your condition—I know that you live in Chelsea or Camden Town , with four children and a lodger . Ton work in that little runt of a garden of yours for _halfan-hom * or so before breakfast : and having hurriedly swallowed your meal , in company with _ISrs . Clerk and the family and having kissed the four pair of red cheeks , all shining with bread and butter , trudge off for a three-mile walk to business in the city , where nine o'cloek finds you at your desk over the ledger . At seven or eight you are back to that little dingy cottage of yours , and must be glad to get to bed early iu order to be ready for the next day ' s labours . "•

      " How can you have leisure to improve your nund under these circumstances ? My dear , worthy fellow , you must be in a state of lamentable ignorance—igno rance , indeed . ' 0 , you poor miserable sinner , not to know how ignorant you are : and to dare for to go for to make such an audacious proposition as that about being allowed to see pictures on a Sunday ! " To look at pictures ou Sunday is a ' violation of your duty to Ifeaven and society . ' It is an act 'immoral and indecent' ' One of the people called Christians' has let you into that secret , in a neat and temperate letter , in reply to yours , which the Times publishes—and a very liberal and kind Christian he must be who warns you .

      " It is a mistake to fancy that an examination of works of art , though they may ennoble and improve your mind on Saturday , is not an odious and wicked action on Sun . day . Baroness Strumfedev nifty do as her ladyship likes . As for the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden , her Royal Highness is a Frenchwoman by birth , and a Princess living in a country where sad errors prevail—this dreadful one among others : —of admitting the public to recreation after the hours of devotion on the Sabbath , and flinging the galleries and museums open to the poor who can see them on no other day .

      " Make up your mind , my lad , and console yourself for living in the only country in Europe where you are debarred from such godless enjoyments . Suppose that it has been the custom of all Christendom ( and of England , until pious Oliver Cromwell came and put an end to the diabolical superstition ) to recognise Art as not incompatible with religion , and to believe that harmless happiness was intended and designed tobe a part ofthe weekly holiday . "We arc right , depend upon it—and all thc world for ages and ages is wrong . "Woe betide the unfortunate sinners ! I can't think of a company of French or German peasants { I have seen many sueh ) dancing under an elm-tree , witli Monsieur le Cure looking on , very likely , without a feeling of horror at their criminality—tempered , however , with pleasure in remembering that we in England are free from such crime ; and that I am net involved , like these countless myriads of j human beiogs _, in the commission of _deadlj sin .

      _"ISome of tliese unfortunate creatures believe it is wrong to eat mutton-chops on a Friday—and the wretched bigots will tell you that itis 'immoral and indecent , and an insult to Heaven and society' to do such a thing . Blind aud miserable superstition ! You must not amuse yourself on Sunday with pictures—but as for chops on a _Priday , eat as many of them , iny good friend , as yon can buy . "And it is in vain of you fo expostulate with that ignorant arrogance of yours , which you mistake for good sense , but which is only monslious pride and self-conceit it is in vain for you to say'it ' a man thinks it is a crime

      to eat chops on a Friday , I won't force him to eat them , but in thc name of common _' sense let me have mine . If I think in common with his Royal Highness of Cambridge and Baroness Strumfeder that there is no harm in seeing pictures on Sunday , what man of the people called Christians has a right to doom me to perdition for my opinion 1 Be you content that another _sUauM judge for you , » _ft < l take his word for it . He has disposed of Baroness Strumfeder and the other titled personages , as you see , Doyou think he does not know what is good for , or what wiU hereafter happen to , such a poor miserable creature as you ?

      "So , my worthy friend—let tbis man lay down the law , , and be you contented to believe hini . He must be right : ; he says 'he is one of the people called Christians . ' If j

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      others of the people called Christians give yon different doctrine _^ don t listen to tiiera . Coals and gridirons J they are in fatal error . Be thankful for yonr chops on a Friday . _'"llemember that the rational and beneficent law of the land is that yon are never to enjoy yourself ; that when the Saturday ends yonr hard week ' s labours and the day of rest comes , you have no right to interpret your ideas of rest in your own way . " " niight be rest to your weary eyes , that have been bleared all the week over the blue lines fa a ledger , to look at sueh : a picture as the Catharine of Raphael , in the National Sallery _, or the Claude that hangs beside it . It may be that you have a heart to be touched by their beauty , and elevated by those representations ot purified Nature

      and ennobUd , I , _ftr my ]) m , _> - , m . e often _^^ out with Mrs . Punch of a Sabbath evening , and looked at the fair landscape and the happy people , and heard the clinking hell tolling to chapel too ; and yet , somehow stayed in . the fields without , "Who knows whether the sight of God's beautiful world might not awaken as warm feelings of reverence and gratitude as Hie talk ofthe Rev . Jfr . Stiggins in-doors , who was howling perdition at me over his pulpitcushion for not being present sitting under him , It is very probable that he thinks his sermon a much finer thing than a fine landscape , and can't understand how a picture should move any mortal soul . But , stop—xrhy are wo poor worms to understand what he doesn't understand , or to inquire about anything which is beyond lus Reverence ' s comprehension 2

      "Be you content , then , my poor friend , to follow that profound and humble-minded instructor . Depend on it Stiggins __ knows best what ' s good for you . Doesn't he say so , and isn't he an honourable man ? Never mind all Europe , but stick to Stiggins . Remember your lot in life , and be resigned thereunto ; no more aspiring to see pictures on Sunday , thau to enjoy _pine-apples and champagne on the other days of the week . And if doubts and repinings _toi'M cross your abominable mind , read over his letter , and after you see how he has disposed of poor Strumfeder , thank your stars tbat picture-gallery doors are shut against you on Sundays , and that you aro the clerkyouare . "Punch . "

      "P . S . By the way , there is one point in Stiggius ' s admirable letter which is not altogether supported by his usual logic . ' There ' s no reason , ' he say ' s , ' if the Royal Academy were opened , why every public exhibition through the country and "the theatres at night should not be opened too ? ' To this it must certainly be answered , that if the museums in Birmingham , Manchester , Sic , were open on Sunday afternoons , they would no doubt occasion in the provinces the dreadful depravity against which Stiggins protests in London . " But because an Exhibition was open on Sunday

      afternoon , it _doeB not , therefore , follow that a theatre should be open on Sunday night . No , dear Stiggins , that is not put with your usual mildness of argument . The garden of St . James ' s Park is open till dusk , and the ungodly walkthere—but it is not , therefore , open all night , You might go out for a walk of an afternoon , but it does not follow that you should stay out aU night . No , St'ggy , I would not allow any one to say that of you . And ouv admirable legislature has provided that only the gin-shops should be opened on Sunday—not the wicked theatres . "

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      FIELD-GARDEN _OPERATIONS . For ihe Week commencing Monday , June 3 rd , 1844 . [ Extracted from a Diabt of Actual Operatioxis on ftve small farms on the estates of Mrs . Davies Gilbert , near Eastbourne , in Sussex ; and on sever-il _mv > M farms on the estates of the Earl of Dartmouth at Slaithwaite , hi Yorkshire , published by Mr . Nowell , of Farnley Tyas , near Huddersfield , in order to guide other possessors of field gardens , by showing them what labours ought to bo undertaken on tlieir own lands . The farms selected as models arc—First . Two school farms at'Willinffdon and Eastdean . of

      five acres each , conducted by 6 . Cruttenden and John Harris . Second . Two private farms , of five or six acres : one worked by Jesse Piper , the . other by John Dumbrell—the former at Eastdean , the latter at Jevington—all of them within a few miles of Eastbourne . Third . An industrial school farm at Slaithwaite . Fourth . Several private model farms near the sameplace . The consecutive operations in these reports will enable the curious reader to compare the climate and agricultural value of the Bouth with thc north of England . The Dmrv is aided b y "Notesand Observations" from the pen of Mr . Nowell , calculated for tho time and season , which we subjoin .

      "It is a very pleasant sight to seo children engaged in useful and healthy labour upon a spot of ground wliich they can call their own : they shall be kept apart , from the vice and folly of the young men of the city , " Note . —Thi scftool farms are cultivated by boys , wh _» ixi return for three hours' teaching in the morning , give three _houx-s of their labour in the afternoon for the _mastex- ' s benefit , which renders the schools sewsur-pORjiso . We believe ihat at Farnly Tyas sixsevenths of the produce of the scliool . farm ivill be assigned to the boys , and one-seventh to the master , who will receive the usual school fees , help the boys to cultivate their land , and teach them , in addition , to reading , ivxiting , dx . to . convert , their _px-oduce into bacon by attending to pig-keeping , ivhieh al Christmas may be divided , after paying rent and levy , amongst them in proportion to their sex-vices , and be made thus indirectly to reach their parents in a ivay the most grateful to theirfeelixiqs , ]

      SUSSEX . . Moxday—WiUingdon School Boys digging , and manuring for potatoes after tares . Eastdean School . Boys digging , sowing turnips , watering them , with liquid manure , planting potatoes and cabbages for wintvv . Piper . Hoeing amongst the potatoes , Dumbrell , Weeding oats . Tuesday—WiUingdon School . Boys digging , manuring , and planting potatoes after tares . Eastdean School . Boys rolling barley and oats , weediug peas , hoeing potatoes and carrots , sowing the garden with lucerne . Piper . Setting potatoes . DumbreU . Wooding tares , paring off clover stems . _VVunxESDAY— WiUingdon School . Boys planting potatoes after tares , Eastdean School . Boys emptying P ? . ils , and mixing the contents with mould , weeding tares , and getting forward potatoes . Piper . Hoeing and mending lucerne ; had but ono slight shower of rain this three months at Eastdean . Dumbrell . Paring clover stems , burning , and

      dig-Umg . _TnunsnAY—WiUingdon School . Boys planting potatoes . Eastdean School . Boys digging , planting potatoes , planting cabbages after rye , and mending with liquid . Piper . Digging where tho tares grew , and setting potatoes . Dumbrell . Paring clover stems , and digging . FiunAY— WiUixigdon School , Boys digging thc second time for turnips . _Eastdean School . Boys sowing turnips between the carrots , transplanting turnips , hoeing mangel wurzel , weeding oats and barley . Piper . Setting potatoes . Dumbrell . Paring clover stems , digging , and spreading ashes . Saturday— WiUingdon School . Boys digging the second time for turnios . _Eastdean School , Boys hoeing potatoes , cleaning out pigs , pails , and school room . Piper . Emptying thc tank , and mixing liquid with dung and mould . DumbreU-. Digging .

      YORKSHIRE . Slaithvaite School From nine to ten boys breaking sods , burning wicks , making a tank . C . Varley , carrying manure , ridging for turnips , and sowing them . James Bamford , sowing tares , preparing for turnips , earthing potatoes . John Bamford , delving , hming cabbages . COIV-FEEMXO . WiUingdon School . Cows fed on tares and clover . Dumbrell's . Two cows grazed in the pasture the whole ¦ week , stall-fed mom and even on tares till Wednesday , afterwards with clover . Heifer stall-fed on tares . _Slttithxvaite School . Cow stall-fed on 17 c and tares . C . Varley ' s , on mown grass .

      NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS . Tor-DuESSiNa Potatoes . —[ "Saltpetre increases the vital action in man ; it doth the same in plants . " ]—After the breaks or intervals in the rows are filled up , the application of saline top dressings will naturally commence . The following aro the best mixtures for such purpose , and arc deduced from the results oi numerous trials which have been ingeniously tabulated by Professor Johnstone . Tlicy may be applied to the crop when the plants are flvo or six inches high , by scattering thorn upon the ridges , previous to a shower ol ram . "No . 1 . —For oxxe _acx-e of manured potato's . Saltpetre . J ewt . ; sulphate of soda , | ewt . ; sulphate of masno . ia , J ewt .

      No . 2 . —Saltpetre , J ewt . , * gypsum , 1 ewt . ; salt , 1 ewt . ; sulphate of magnesia , f ewt . No . 3 .- —Nitrate of soda , £ ewt . ; gypsum , 1 ewt . ; wood-ash-charcoal , 30 bushels ; salt-pan bittern , 20 gallons . _Tor-DRESSisos eor TuKsiPts . _—l '* "i * loc yow turnips while and whenever the sun shines . " ]—Hoc early to frighten away the fly , and scatter ton dressings upon the row to drug them , immediately before a shower _; the hoe following soon after , will allow no peace to these pests ... _ Introduce thc saline mixtures forthwith into thc ground .

      No . 1 . —After manure axid gucmo , or guano alone—Apply a dressing of 1 J ewt , of gypsum to the acre . No . 2 , —After domestic , or natural guano and . xxmnurc—Apply nitrate of soda , li ewt ., mixed with 1 ewt . of gypsum ; or , sulphate of ammonia , 561 bs . No . 3 . —After rape dust and _inamtrc— -Apply _\ ewt . nitrate of soda mixed with 1 ewt , of gypsum . The author can speak with confidence , and from experience , as to the efficacy of such manuring * . Tho quantity of dung may be diminished in proportion to the value of the saline substances introduced before the seed , aud in subsequent top dressings . Let all dressings be well mixed with abundance of coal ashes , to tickle , plague , and drive awa insects .

      New DiscpVF . r . T of Maxdkb is Avuica . —The doubt which has hitherto existed ofthe finding of nitrate of potass anu nitrate of soda on the African shores has within the last few days boen entirely ; removed by the arrival of information giving its positive locality ;

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      inconsequence of which a very considerable stir has taken place in the shipping interest , the few persons to whom the secret is known taking every available vessel , at rates ranging from £ 4 to £ 410 s . per ton , " tobe put into the ship ' s boats , " which is said to be satisfactory to the owners . On the Use of SoAr-sims as a Manure . —About twelve months ago I had at my command a tank that received nothing but thc suds that came from the laundry : I thought I would try its effects . The first thing I tried it on was hyacinths in pots , and the result was most astonishing . I tried some of Potter s liquid guano at the same time , as an experiment , hut Found the suds most beneficial . Many persons

      who saw the hyacinths , said they never saw finer . I used it alternately with pure water . I also tried it with strawberries that wcre forcing , and though the plants were previously very bad ones , tho result was veiy satisfactory . French beans in pots were also a great deal improved by its use , and I think if it were extensively employed it wonld be f ound very beneficial to a great many plants . It must be remembered that it was not used from thc wash-house , but was allowed to run into the tank , which was always nearly full ; by this means it may be used without tlic least injury to any growing plant requiring such stimulus . —/ . Mom ' s , in the United Gardeners' Journal .

      Oats . —The oat is , within its range , onc of the most useful grains with which man is acquainted . Tho mealy matter of it contains less starch and mucilage than that of barley : and not above a fifth part o f the saccharine matter ; but it contains nearly one half more gluten : so that , as food for man , the oat forms a sort of intermediate between wheat and barley , being less nutritious than wheat , more nutritious , but less hght and digestible , than barley ; and rather more stimulant than either . Of oats , or oat grasses , there arc about twenty-five species , some of them amongst the most troublesome and destructive weeds with which the farmer has to contend . Only one species is cultivated , but there are , as in the case oi the other grains , a great many varieties of it . The older writers , indeed , describe another , the naked

      oat , or pilcorn , as having been once in abundance and repute in some parts of England . The grains of that oat were without awns ; and it is said to have got its name of pilcorn , or peelcom from the circumstance of its thrusting clear out of the husk , and thus not requiring to be " shelled" at the mill , as is the case with all thc oats in cultivation . Of whatever country tho oat may have been a native , it must have been of a country that is rather cold . Tho oat does not thrive well in a lower latitude than about 48 degrees , there being little of it south of tho parallel of Paris . In the north , however , it is highly important . It thrives upon almost any soil , anil stands almost any degree of cold ; and if it can bo ripened before the frost sets in , the more bleak and

      barren the soil on which it grows , the finer is its flavour . _ There are four or five varieties of tho oat , which yield differently ; but the one which is best adapted for human food , though not thc most productive , is the old white oat , which was so long the principal article of food among the poor in this country , especially the northern parts of it . Whcro wheat can be readily obtained oats are not much used for bread , but they are used largely in thc feeding of horses , with which they are supposed to agree better than any other species of grain . Oats arc also sometimes employed in brewing aud in distilling ; but are considered inferior to barley for those purposes . Ryb . —Rye is a grain plant cultivated iu this country and in the northern parts of Euronc for food * .

      but tho quantity of it grown in Britain has become much less since agriculture was more improved , and the land brought into a better state of cultivation . The meal of rye contains nearly the same quantity of mucilage and starch as that of oats , about twice the quantity of sugar , and a fourth more gluten . It is , therefore , better adapted for fermented bread ; but it very soon becomes acid or sour : indeed , it undergoes the acid fermentation in the process of baking ; and therefore , though rye bread is rather pleasant from its acid taste , and has a gentle action on the bowels , it is not either so nourishing as that ofthe other grains , or so easily digested . Thc soil upon which ryo succeeds best is dry sand ; _accordingly it is the principal grain hi the countries to the

      eastward of the Baltic Sea , and tothe south of the Gulf of Finland ; it is grown also in some of the light sandy districts on the eastern coasts of Scotland , and in the northern parts of England , though more sparingly in the latter . The peculiar properties of rye arc understood to lie in the husk , or iu that partof the grain which is immediately in contact with it ; for coarse as the common black bread or _x-uek of the Russians is , which is made of the rye , husk and all , it has a flavour which is not found in the fine ruck of the Russians , which is made of rye flour ; and ifthe latter were not sweetened by some addition , such as honey , it would be very unpalatable .

      _TnsscH _Plououino . —At the last meeting of the Highland Agricultural Society , Mr . Aitchison , of Drummore , read an account of "Experiments with trench-ploughing" made hy Mr . J . Proudfoot , Pinkie Hill , near Musselburgh . Mr . Proudfoot has been in the practice , for several years past , of trench-ploughing a considerable quantity of land every year for green crops , and last year hc trench-ploughed twenty acres . The trenching consists of one plough going before and taking a furrow of 6 inches in depth , and another following in thc same furrow and taking 8 or 9 _inchea more , so tftat together they reach a depth of 14 or 15 inches , and which is accomplished in just double the time rcQuived lbs common ploughing . The trencll-ploughcd land requires no -workuig in _spring excepting haiTowing or lulling before the planting of the potatoes , and it is this non-stirring of the soil in spring , which , in Mr . Proudfoot ' s opinion , has been the cause of keeping the drought out of his

      ground , which is a light sou resting on a gravelly subsoil _. and preventing the potatoe failure in it for upwards of twenty years . Last year hc planted G acres of potatoes on the trench soil , and 0 acres on land worked in the ordinary manner in spring , the entire 12 acres being equally well manured : and though the trench-land was eight days later in being planted , the potatoe stems were as early above ground , wore much stronger in thc stem , and yielded li bolls , of iewt . each boll , per Scotch acre , more . The trenched ground yielded G 2 bolls , and the other _< 18 bolls , por acre Scotch , and both were a good crop and of good quality . Sir G-. Suttie , having alluded to thc practice of manuring land in autumn for tho turnip crop . Mr . Aitchison mentioned that his turnips , which were raised on manure that had been apphed in autumn , rotted much more readily by thc month of January , when stored , than those which werc manured at the usual time .

      Corn Rents md Leases . —Tho following resolution was unanimously agreed to at the last monthly meeting of the Halcsworth Farmers' Club . _*— " That a more general adoption ofcorn rents , in connection with permanent and modified leases , would place the tenant-farmers of this district in a comparatively better position than when under the liability of fixed money payments . " Prodigious Ox . —One of the finest specimens of beef ever witnessed in Birmingham , was exhibited about a fortnight since at the back of Mr . Holder ' s , Rodney Inn , Colcshill-strect . For neatness and symmetry of form , and fatness , the ox was the best of its species ever slaughtered in that town . The noble animal was of the Durham breed , b y Mr . Arbuthnot's bull Despot ; was bred by Mr . Baldwin , of Westonon-Avon , near Stratford-on-Avon , and f ed by Mr . Newbold , of Baginton , near Coventry . The gross weight was 2027 lb ., or 253 st . 3 lb . A great portion of this extraordinary beast was sent to thc metropolis

      Bonus ahd Sui / rntraic Acid . —Mr . P . Davis , of Milton House , near Pembridge , Herefordshire , has favoured thc council of thc Royal Agricultural Society with the following statemen t of results : —'' 25 th April , 1815 : —With reference to Mr . Pusey's suggestion as to the propriety of using bone-dust dissolved in sulphuric acid , along with compost instead of water , for turnips , I can confirm his idea from practice , having last year manured o acres with only 13 bushels of bone-dust dissolved in 270 lb . of the acid and ISO gallons of water . After _standing 24 hours , the liauid

      was mixed with three cart-loads of coal-ashes , and left to remain for a week ; during which time it was turned over two or three times . The mixture was then drilled , along with the seed ; and the result was a fair crop of common turnips off a piece of poor land , witliout other manure , and at a cost of only 12 s . 9 d . per acre . " The council ordered their thanks to be returned to Mr . Davis for this communication , with a request that he would further favour tliem with a statement of his previous cropping of the field , as well as ofthe quantity of his crop when freed frem tops and tails .

      Railway Accident . —On Wednesday , as the halfpast ten o ' cloek train form Glasgow was coming along the Kilmarnock Junction , near Fcrgushill , it came in contact with a cow . The engine passed over ana _dragged it along a short distance . Its death was _instautaiwous . _—iVationaZ . Distressing Sui « DE ,-On Thursday evening an inquest was held at Long-bam , near Crediton , Devonshire , on the body ofa young woman , aged seventeen , named Ann Partridge , who destroyed herself by taking oxalic acid , _^ appeared that Miss Partridge was in the habit of daily going to Crediton for the purpose of learning thc millinery business , and that LB time since she was grossly assaulted on the road

      bv a young man , who is now suffering imprisonment at lisetev for the assault . She appears to havo been exceedingly nervous and unhappy since the indecent attack had been made upon her ; and though she never alluded to thc matter , thero can be no doubt that this was the cause of her depression of spirits and _uuhappv fate . Two letters were found in her yww , neither _icalcd or folded , but . irom the appearance of the ink , they had evidently been written but a few hours . _' hey were addressed to her sister . She stated— " The cause of my misfortune was a sad broken heart , known to none but myself ) " and concluded by asking pardon of God and her parents for the weakness she was ' showing . The jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased died from taking oxalic acid , administered by herself , "

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      A Good Reason . —Everybodv is astonished at the little progress made by the railway committees . In this , however , there will appear not much to wonder at , when it is considered that railways must be made in right lines , and that the House is little accustomed to straightforward proceedings . —Punch . Disputes of Doctors . —A quarrelhas arisen between the surgeons and general practitioners , which Sir James Graham proposes to step ill and settle . Wo recommend the Home Secretary to let the profession alone ; for " Who shall decide when doctors disagree ?"—Ml _Higuly ApmoraiATE . —Ireland , we understand , at the dictation of Daniel O'Connell , is about to rcpudiate the shamrock , and instead of it to assume , for a national emblem , thc aspen , as typical of eternal agitation . —Ibid .

      A Hum Bargain . —It has been urged as an excuse lor the Trafalgar fountains , that thev are at all events very durable . Ouv own opinionis , that they arc altogether unendurable . —Ibid . Poor Creature I—We have often heard the Sister Isle called "Poor Old Ireland . " Poor Ireland , it seems is so very old , that site has now lost thc use of her members .- —ibid . Very _Suiple . —A gentleman last week became a member of thc Royal Humane Society , under the impression that he could have one of their drags to go in to Epsom races . —Ibid . Tue " Plague : "— " My dear , " said a wife to her husband , " did you ever read of the plague in London ? " " No , 1 don't want to read it . Jfs enough to have a plague in my own house !"

      A _Brotherly Conjecture . —The editor ofthe Cot cinnatian says he has been in a " sea of trouble" for several days past , on " several accounts . " Probably the longest " account" was his tailor ' s . Gloky ' . —Near St . Sevier lives an old soldier with false leg , false arm , glass eye , complete set of teeth , nose of silver covered with a substanee resembling flesh , and silver plate replacing part ofhis skull—he was a soldier under Napoleon , and these are his trophies of glory ! . A Genius . —At a meeting of the Wcslcyan Missionary Society , lately held in Nottingham , we learn from the Mercury , that a motion was seconded by a Mr . James Everett , of York , " in a speech of extraordinary humour , sparkling with points of wit , and abounding in thc varied tropes which Mr . E . is so

      well known to have under perfect command , and which his exuberant fancy pours out like thc waters of an exha _\* . " jtt <» s fountain . His genius , unfettered as thc antelope , bounded over hill and dale , paused and gazed at every prospect , snuffed the gale , and dashed along again , exploring evei-y nook , and rock , aud covert of an almost boundless range of thought , aud making an amazing variety of topics culled from political , social , and ecclesiastical economy , contributing to the argument and illustration of a missionary speech . " Behind the Scexes at a _Solicitok _' s . — " I say _Iluntfiam , there ' s some stuf f in my room that wc may get something out of . " " Who is it ? " " That Mi * . Coverly . of Devonshire , who _sianed the bond to

      Snatchitt , " " More fool hc ! But that's his affair . Has he got the money ? " "No ; but he has got a d—d lino _est-ite . I know it well , but ho doesn't suspect that . He is in a devil of a funk , and is ready to give his cars to keep the matter snug . " " But will his estate bear bleeding ? " said Mr . Huntham . '' Oh , it ' s as good as gold ! And what do you think ?—upon my soul , it ' s like the game walking into onc' 3 net—ho wants us to raise the money for him ' . " " I hope you told him wc couldn't . " " Of course I did . I tickled him nicely , and made it a favour to try 1 and that ' s what I am supppscd to come to you for . It would he ajaty to let him slip through our fingers , for there ho sits like a lamb to be slaughtered , and

      we may do what wo like with him . " Is there no way of making a fatter bill out of him before wcget him thc money ? Couldn' t you egg him on to dispute the bond ? " "Impossible ; you know he confessed judgment , and signed a warrant of attorney , five months ago . There's nothiug to do now but to is & iw execution . " " Suppose , " said Mr . Huntham , meditatingly , " we were to have him grabbed and locked up ? " "That might make him desperate , and then he woidd get into Playfair ' s hands , and we should lose the chance . " " Damn that fellow , I say ; he ' s always spoiling thc game for other people . " "What the devil ! does hc think that attornoyo can live by ' settling actions ! ' No , no \ when two fools want to go to law , let ' em go at it hammer and tongs—never stop ' em I But the very _firatthing that dirty dog _Playfair does , is to try to reconcile the parties , and recommend

      them not to go to law ' . Not go to law *? " why , what would become of all of us if people didn ' t go to law ? That Marplot Playfair is tho curse of thc profession I Well then , if that ' s _tlw case , we had better hook our man at once . You say he'll bear bleeding ? " "As much as you please . Hc'fi in a pretty sweat , though _, he tries to seem cool ; but I seo through him . He'd give his eyes to get out of thc mess quietly . " " Come , then , let us go at liim together , " said Huntham ; " and mind , you ' re to do thc _| blarney . I shall sayit _' s a thing impossible—that wc must proceed to execution , and all that . " Tir e Characteristic op " Party . "—Speaking of the Great Captain's influence in the House of Lords , Ellenborongh bouncingly exclaimed , " O ! the Dnke has power to carry anything—hc could carry the monument ! " " Possibly , " replied _Novniauby ; " that is aparty column—ft leans to one side !"

      . 'tlKES AXD DISUSES . " Towards the Right HonouraUc "Dnronet Tee ) , _Hcgiil'il _, nay , affection , I certainly feel , " In debate , exclaimed Dublin ' s Recorder ; " But as for the _Cumberlaxul Baronet ; , Graham , My feelings , I own , are by no means tlic same—My love doesn't stray o ' er the border !" Pleasure op Place . —Colonel Rowan has returned from his fishixig excursion . These police commissioners , if tlicy have not a very lucrative , have a very easy office ! Messrs . Rowan and Mayne " go to play three months alternately in thc most agreeable manner imaginable . Cool . —Mr . Dairdson _, brought before thc senate of of Michigan for contempt , left New York before the ease was disposed of , leaving a letter directing the senate to send the " reprimand" after him—through _, thc post-office . "Rather sot , toank you ' . " —What kind of per sonal service is that for whieh persons arc never expected to appear grateful ?—The service of a wit .

      A _Reason agatsst A-s-sexatio-n . —At an anti-annexation meeting in New York State , one gentlemaa from the country objected to thc annexation of Texas , on the ground that there were crocodiles there . He didn 't " want ' em brought into this country . " An Editor on ms High Horse . —The Northern Herald , speaking ofthe Maynooth grant , has the following eloquent ebullition : — " Compared with such _, impiety as this , it would be a comparatively insignificant piece of profane blasphemy to mouth the heavens , and tell their Maker that his material sun , spreading life , and warmth , and glory , throughout creation , is a curse , and seek to exclude its rays from their dark and vile habitations !"

      •* NO go !" And so the Queen will not appear in , At least this year , the Isle of Erin . "What thinl * you then of Peel ' s vain presage , These first fruits ofhis fani _' il peace-message f Instead of oil upon the ocean Of Irish clamour and commotion , And smoothing Queen Victoria ' s sail To the green shores of Inisfail , * Her voyage has been made uncertain As aught behind the future ' s curtain ! That vaunted " message , " then , 'tis plain , " Has failed at present in the main—Has proved no halcyon to the storm , But rather wears the petrel ' s form !

      The late Mn , Stihckland . —The Globe , which first announced the death of this lamented comedian , haying informed us of that fact , added— " During Mr . Strickland ' s unavoidable absence , his part has been sustained by Mr . Webster . " The Jordan Water . —Her Majesty having set the example , which is of Romish origin , of having the Royal infants baptized with water from tbe River Jordan , there is every probability ofthe Royal whim _, being imitated pretty generally by the aristocratic portion ofthe community . The water , we learn by our daily contemporaries , used at tlio christening of the infant son of Viscount and Viscountess _Vilheru ,

      on Saturday last , at St . George's church , Hanoversquare , was " bottled up" and brought from the River Jordan by Emerson Tennent , thc Belfast M . P . Wc hear that a new joint stock company is now in the course of formation , to be called " 'Ihe River Jordan pure and unadulterated Baptismal Water Bottling Company , " under the patronage of Royalty , and with some " brilliant" name for chairman . When the Jordan water is thus brought into general use ( retailed by the company at 3 s . per single christening and 5 s . for twins ) , it is only to be feared it will no longer bo considered either fashionable or aristocratic . —Satirist .

      Gratitude for Three . = Farthings . — My Lord O'Higgins ! doesn't thank Sir Robert Peel for the proposed grant to Maynooth , not a bit ; thc Premier need not , therefore , hope , by improving tiie beds of the Maynooth students , to bolster up his popularity in Ireland . For , after all , as his lordship observes , this miserable grant of £ 26 , 000 , amongst eight millions of Roman Catholics , does not amount to more than three _fanhixxgs yearly for each . Really , Sit Robert , this won't do ; the price you offer for Irish gratitude is exceedingly small—decidedly shabby , we

      might say . We quite agree with my Lord O Higgins . No patriotic Irishman can afford to be grateful fot three farthings per annum . —Great _Gxm , ¦ Presents to Das . —At a meeting of the Repeal Association last week Mv , O'ConneU said "heftad received a present of a snuff-box from Bolton ; -which was stated to bo made by an Irish workman , and _^ frrtv _?** the hoof of a Kerry cow . " Query ? _Tv ' _-iiji O _^ _-S _^ - _^ rather from the Pope ' s bull which latelv at - _SM _^ m _^ ' _^ ' _'' Agitator ? -2 ta * _, * _P _\^ . . _$ . _#£

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 31, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_31051845/page/3/