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      A August 16, 1845. Tflil I@Rtheki Star. ...

      A August 16 , 1845 . _Tflil i _@ _RTHEKI STAR . *>

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      Beauties Of Byron. So. Ti. ' " English B...

      BEAUTIES OF BYRON . SO . TI . ' " ENGLISH BABDS ASD SCOTCH REVIEWERS . " We We lad intended not to have given any portion of t ] the pthe personal attacks on reviewers , and other writers , ito beto he found throughout this poem ; but as these port ; tions tions ofthe work are , as might be expected , the most fiforeilforcible , it is only fair that we should give our rreadcreaders at least a specimen . The following is the _oopeniopenins of the poet ' s terrific onslaught on Jjeffbey , t the Ithe Editor ofthe Edinburgh Review : T Yet say ! why should the hard at once resign " ] His claim to favour from the sacred Nine ! For ever startled by the mingled howl

      Of northern wolres , that still in darknessprowl ; Aged or young , the living or the Cead , ¦ So mercy _find—theseliarpies most be fed . Why do the injured unresisting yield The calm possession of their native field 1 "Wh y tamely thus before their fangs retreat , Xor hunt the _bkodbounds back to Arthur ' s Seat !« Health to immortal Jeffrey ; once , in name , JEngland could boast a judge almost thc same ; "In soul so like , so merciful , yet just , "Some think that Satan has resi _gn'd his trust , Aud given the spirit to the -world again , 'To sentence letters , as he sentenced men . "" Wi th hand less mighty , but with heart as black .

      _^» ith voice as willing to decree the rack ; ? Sred in the courts betimes , though aU that law As yet hath taught him is to find a flaw ; _; S _5 nce well instructed in the patriot school "To rail at party , though a party tool , "Who knows , if chance his patrons should restore 'Back to the sway they forfeited before , "His scribbling toils some recompense may meet , 'And raise this Daniel to tlic judgment seat ? t Xet Jeffrey ' s shade indulge the pious hope , And greeting thus , present him with a rope :

      "" Heir to my virtues ! man of equal mind ! SkiU'd to condemn as to traduce mankind . This cord receive , for thee reserved with care , To wield in judgment , and at length to wear . " In the tenth canto of Don , Juan , BtrOX pays the ft following pretty compliment to his quondam " antag goaist : And all onr little feuds—at least all mine—Dear Jeffrey , once my most redoubted foe , I As far as rhyme and criticism combine

      To make such puppets of us things below , ) Are over : here ' s ahcalth to " Auld lang Syne !" I do not know you , and may never know _Yoar face—hut you have acted on the whole Most nobly , and I own it from my sold . Mr . JEFFnEr has been for some yeara one of the _jndges of thc Court of Session , and is therefore a sitter on the "judgment seat . " It is only fair to add , that as a judge he is as opposite to the infnmous English judge Jeffries , as light is from darkness , or justice from incarnate villany . His recent decision in the case ofthe widow _Dn . _vcAX , of Ceres , when he declared that " the right of the poor ton sufficient support was even preferable to the claim of tlie lord of the land , " entitles him to the thanks of every friend of right . May lie live long to so perform the duties of his high office !

      In a very different spirit to thc attack on _Jeffrex _* , is the following beautiful tribute to the memory of the lamented _Kraic "White : — Unhappy White ! J while life was in its spring , And thy young muse just waved her joyous wing , The spoiler swept that soaring lyre away , "Which else had sounded an immortal lay . Oh ! what a uoble heart was here undone , "When science self-destroyed her favourite son ! "i «» , she too much indulged thy fond pursuit ,

      She sowed the seeds , but death has _reap'd the fruit _liras thine own genius gave the final blow , And _hdp'd to plant the wound that laid thee low : So lhe struck eagle , stretch'd upon the plain , _Ho more through rolling clouds to soar again , ¦ V 5 ew _* d his own feather on the fatal dart , And wingM the shaft that quiver ' tl in his heart : Keen were his pangs , bat keener far to feel , lie nursed tlie pinion which _impell'd the steel ; ¦ While rte same plumage that had _warm'd his nest JPrauk the last life-drop of his bleeding breast .

      STANZAS . Ut J . M'Kowex , By the marge of the sea has thy foot ever stray'd -When eve shed its deep mellow tinge ? Bast thou VingerM to hear the sweet music that ' s made By the ocean wares whispering fringe ? 'lis then you may hear the wild barnacles call The scream cf tlie sea-loving jnew , Aud that deep thrilling note that is wilder than all , The voice of the wailing curlew . The song of lhe linnet is sweet from the spray ; The blackbird ' s comes rich from the thorn ; And clear is the lark ' s when he ' s soaring away To herald the Krth of the morn : The note of the eagle is piercing and loud ; The turtle ' s as soft as its true ; Hut give me , 0 give me , that song from the cloud , The voice of the wailing curlew .

      Sky minstrel ! how often I ' ve paus'd when a child As I roam * < 1 in my own native vale , To listen thy music so fitful and wild Borne far on the wings of the gale . And still as I rest by the door of my cot Thy voice can youth' - , feelings renew , Aud strangely I ' m tempted to envy thy lot , Thou wild-noted wailing curlew . For 0 it were happiness surely , to fly In those regions so pure and so bright , To 9 _'iat 'neath the dome of tliat beautiful sky , When ting'd with the setting sun ' s li _^ ht . There , there , thou _can'st revel unfetter'd and free , And no cunning of man can pursue ; What wonder I'm eager to wander with thee , Thou wild-noted wailing curlew ? "When the beauties of nature shall cease me to move ,

      And " desire '' in my bosom " shall fell , " And this heart tliat is beating with rapture and love Shall lie ccld as a clod of the vale , Then make me a grave far away from the crowd , -Where spring may her sweet floweis strew , Leave wiy < ttv _? e to In * sung by the bird of the cloud , Tbe wild-noted wailing curlew .

      * Arthur's Seat; The Lill Which Overlian...

      * Arthur ' s seat ; the lill which _overlianjts EUinhurjjh . 1 - Ton ferm . -u . ui—slits is mere insanity . _"—Jirso . v , 1816 . -J"Henry Kirk White died at Cambridge , in October , _JSM , in consequence of too much _excrriun in the pursuit of studies tliat _wunW hare matured a mind which di .-a . ise and " poverty could not impair , and which death itself rathe - destroyed than subdued . His poem : abound in such Lean ties as must impress the reader with tlte liveliest regret ihat so short a period was allotted to talents which would hare dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume . " '

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      Days Ani ) Sights Is T1je East; From The...

      DAYS ANI ) SIGHTS IS T 1 JE EAST ; from the original uotes of arct-ent Traveller through Egypt , Arabia-Petra , Syria , Turkey , and Greece . By Miss 1 ' lvmixy . London : T . C . A'ewby , 12 , Mortimer-street , Cavendish-square . As a synopsis of eastern wonders for the home reader , and as a _hand-lmok for travellers directing their steps eastward , this book will be useful . The narrative opens in thc bay of Syra , from whence the reader is taken to Alexandria . Of this cit j there is a brief description , after which is given an account of _Pompeys pillar , thc Pyramids , thc Kile , and Grand Cairo . From Cairo the writer proceeded about four liuuilrcd miles up the _Xilc to Thebes . Returning to

      Cairo ho ( Miss Pluuiley _' straveller is of the masculine sex ) joined a party of travellers who were about to cross ihe desert to Palestine . They proceeded to Suez , where they crossed to the opposite continent—Asia . Thc first place of note they next reached was Mount Sinai . They next arrived at Akaba _, and at length , aficr nearly a month ' s march , entered thc 44 Land of E-Joni , " * where Mount _Ilor , and Pefra , " thc City of the Rock , " with its magnificent ruins , well repaid Use travellers for iheir toilsome journey . Ten days _aftcrnranls thc travellers were on the borders uf PaUstine . They _firet arrived at Mount Hebron , then _Bctb ' _ehiin , and lastly , au hour or two ' s _m-irch _thcace brought them to Jerusalem . Having Tisitcd the Jordan , th < - Dead SeaiicthanrMount Olivet

      , , , and other _places , the travellers left Jerusalem for Damascus , ou their wav visiting _Aablous ( Neapolis ) , Acre , which they found iu desolation—thanks to Lntish mieniK-ddliiig between the Sultan and Mchemet _Afi-Aaz-ireth _, Mount Tabor , Tiberias , and Capernaum . Damascus is pictured as the incst beautiful of _castcra cities . Thc wondrous ruins of . _il-ialLce are next described . Leaving Uaalbcc the travellers next reached Mount Lebanon , rcccntlv , and indeed still the theatre of a horrible civil war . Ihey next reached llcyrout , and there took leave of Syria . _Constaiitii-oplc and _Athens were _subse-• aiciitiy visited , but the descriptions of these places , pariiealaviy thai of the Ottoman capital , are meagre and _uusatisfacloi-v .

      Such was the route travelled , and thc one deso _* ibeu ' in this book ; the most interesting _portiou of wludii is the march through the desert , aud the description ofPcira . _Wcgivcihefoilowingexti-acts : —

      THE " GITS OF THE BOCK . " * The descent from the base of Mount Hor to Petra is _coasidtrabls _; wc followed tlie course of the bed of a torrent , and the first view it offered ais of _theiituafwn of this City of the _itucf more _^ . _^ ii all imagination had pictured . 1 y , the situation ; for of Petra , as yet we saw only the excavations high in the western range- hut all around , ana far as the eye could reach , gigantic piles of rock—rocks ofthe wildest and most majestic form , aud kiudling with lovel y tints ; rocks , which have been described as a' sea , Wits waves petrified / and some of which Mill shut in from our eyes , the desolate city : but after following the torrent ' s dry course for some distance further , we turned to the light tip a steep ascent , and passed an isolated column near which Were heaps of ruins , and from this spot we had a view of the open space , on whieh the greater part of the city stood and hence we beheld the splendid monuments sculptured In

      Days Ani ) Sights Is T1je East; From The...

      the eastern range—a sight it was that might well arrest the traveller ' s steps , and absorb his every faculty , the power alone excepted , of gazing , awe-stricken , on the most _« singular spectacle which the magnificent _creationsof nature , and the vain ambition of men , have unitedto' bequeath to the curiosity of those who should come after them . '" "I cannot attempt to describe- my feelings on viewing this Bplendid Temple ; fresh as if sculptured yesterday . Its facade is magnificent , hewn out of the rugged side of a sand-stone mountain , whose _rosj tints add much to its beauty ; and whose rugged and mis-shapen crests con- trast singularly with this finely proportioned edifiee .

      « The portico is supported b y Corinthian columns , one of whicli has fallen ; but so imposing is the ensemble , that I did not for some moments observe the defect ; the cornice aud pediment are elaborately sculptured , and fresh and pointed , as from thc hand of the mason . The colonade is thirty-five feet hi gh ; the columns , three feet in diameter ; they each consist of three piecss , and are the only portions not hewn out ol lhe _ioi-k ; and this accounts for the _entirenes 3 of the cornice , though one of the columns had fallen from beneath it . " I attribute much of the li ghtness and elegauce of the Khasne to the divided pediment and the light lanterii-like structure in its centre , surmounted by an urn . This urn is supposed by the Arabs to contain gold , which is likely to remain untold by them , unless their ingenuity can suggest ( which fate forbid ) some other mode of reachiii" it than by firing ball at it , as they now often do . " °

      • "Its theatre / which has thirty-three vows of seats , heicn out of the rock , most of whieh are quite perfect ; at the back , above the seats , are chambers or boxes , also hewn in the rock . Its width is one hundred and twentyfeet , and the scene ( which was built ) has disappeared altogether . " The beautiful proportions of the theatre are seen to great advantage from the upper seats , and thence , too , the view of the other ruins are splendid . II- -andl remained behind the others , and reclining on its topmost bench , gave ourselves up to the contemplation of the extraordinary scene around .

      •• The western range is full of excavated tombs 'high as the eagle ' s nest , ' many of them being hundreds of feet from the ground ; and nearer stand rich and lovely specimens of temple and tomb , whose formation , _fteten , as they all are , must have occupied the ancient d » elk-re in l ' clra through successive generations ; unlike the Egyptians , the inhabitants of this rock expended their wealth and talents in bcautiiying the arterial * of their sepulchres , leaving the interior quite plain . '"

      A _CHBIST 1 AS SCENE IS THE " llOLt CITr . ' April 3 Qth . At 2 r . M ., went to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to witness the " miracle * ' of the descent ofthe "' Holy Fire . " Two companies of Turkish troops were drawn up in front of the church , to which wc were admitted by the monks ofthe Greek convent , who placed us in the gallery within the cupola , from which we had a good view of the in tenor ; the floor was crowded to excess by a sad set of ruffians , who were fighting and making a terrible noise . It was a motley assembly—Greeks , Turks , Arabs , Copis , Armenians , and Abyssiuians were there , iu a terrible stale of confusion .

      About _half-an-hour after we entered , the Greek , Armenian , and Latin Bishops , walked twice in procession round the sepulchre , with banners , & c At 3 , an Armenian aud a Greek " Bishop entered the sepulchre , from whicli , in a few minutes after , the Holy Tire appeared , when tiie shouting and uproar became dreadful , and the mob pressed forward to light tlieir candles ; in a few minutes the whole church was in a blaze , and ihe motions of tbe dense crowd , each individual of which held a lighted Candle , gave a curious effect to the brllUaut scene . All denominations of worshippers have separate

      chapels in this church ; and while we were there , two processions , one Greek and tlie other Armenian , came in contact , and as neither would give way , a regular fight ensued * , the _b-wwier poles , _aa _^ _tnaviy of their kohl instruments , were broken and used as weapons , and candlesticks were flying in all directions . The tumult raged with indescribable fury for nearly half-an-hour , when a body of Turkish trcops marched in , cleared the church , and locked the doors . I left , disgusted with all 1 had seen , and not at all surprised that the spectators of such exhibitions should apply the terms ChrisiiatiS and Dogs synonymously .

      TOE _SYH 1 AN - GREEK WOMEN . Tlic Syrian Greek woman are , beyond comparison , the loveliest in the world ; we saw many of tliose of _Nazareth , who came down with their pitchers to the fountain of Kahor for water , in whom were visibly united all that painters may in vain endeavour to picture—all that poets dream . Their features combine the perfect proportion of the Greek model , with the character and expression ofthe daughters of Israel ; their figures , the united delicacy and voluptuousness of form which tbe fittest Grecian statues possess . The costume of those we saw this evening was well suited to its wearers .

      The long hair , which was plaited , fell over their shoulders , and was in many instances ornamented with great numbers of gold sequins and some pearls ; iu others , flowers of brilliant hues replaced the " pearl and gold , " but all wore the full loose trousers , drawn tight at the ancle ( which , not unfrequeutly , was ciicircli'd with silver bracelets ) ; the pettieoatrcaehing only to the knees , aud tht-upper vest open at the breast—it is neither boddice , tunic , or jacket , hut something between each .

      Row's Illustrated Book Of British Song. ...

      ROW'S ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF BRITISH SONG . London : J . Uow , 132 , Fleet-street . Two or three weeks . hack we noticed the first six numbers of this admirable work ; we have now to say a word or two on the thirteen subsequent numbers—So . 7 to No . 19 . In these numbers we have the following popular and truly national piccc 3 : — " Ere around the huge Oak , " "When pensive I thought of mv love , " " I locked up all my treasure , " " The Lass of Richmond-Mi , " " Tlie Friar of Orders Grey , " " Allen-a-Dalo , " "Taint and Wearily , " "Under the Greenwood Tree , " " Blow , blow , thou Winter Wind . " " Come unto these Yellow Sands , " " Where thc Bee sucks , " " Old Towler , " " The Beggar Girl , " " Wapping Old Stairs , " and " Sally in our Alley ; _** . besides several others , there being in these numbers no fewer than twenty-eight different pieces .

      Not thc least interesting feature of this publication is the resuscitation in its pages of the simple yet beautiful ballads which , exciting the delight of our fathers , we , their ungrateful heirs , have permitted to fall into disuse and oblivion . " Sally in our Alley " and " The Beggar Girl" are specimens ofthe class of compositions we allude to ; the former of these may yet upon rave occasions be heard , but rather in private thau in public ; as to the latter— " The Beggar Girl "—that appears to be almost universally forgotten . We extract the _following account of the origin of " Sally in our Alley , " as given by Ilenry Carey , author ot both thc words and the music : —

      " A shoemaker s apprentice , making holiday with Ins sweetheart , treated her with a _si-iht of Kedlam , the puppet shows , the flying chairs , and all the elegance of 3 / _ooriields , whence proceeding-to the Farthing Tie House , he gave her a collation of buns , cheesecakes , gammon of bacon , stufied beef , and bottled ale ; through all which scenes the author dodged them , charmed with the simplicity of their courtship , from which he drew this little sketch of nature : but being then young and obscure , he wps Tery much ridiculed for this performance , which nevertheless- made its way into the polite world , and amply recompensed him hy the applause of the divine _Add-on . " Wc arc told by the editor of this work that

      _HESHT CA 11 EY , like Dibdin , was at once a poet and a musician , though his genius in both characters was of a lower order , lie produced several dramatic pieces , and a great number of songs and ballads , in which , it has been remarked to his praise , that , though he lived in a not very scrupulous age , he preserved an inviolable regard for decency and jjood manners _Cahet , though his life was without reproach , appears to have been improvident , and died by his own hand in - \ Vnrncr-street , Clerkenwell , on thc 4 th of October , 1740 . We cannot resist the temptation to give thc words

      of—Till *; becoar gii :. Over the mountain aud over the moor , Hungry and hare-foot I wander forlorn . My father is dead and my mother is poor , And she grieves for the days that will never return . Pity , kind gentlemen , friends of humanity , Cold blows the wind , and the night ' s coming on ; Give me some food for my mother for charity , Give me some food and then I will be go * c . Call me not lazy-back beggar , and _bold-enough , Fain would I learn both to Unit and to sew , I ' ve twolittlehrothers athome , when they ' re old enough ] They will work hard for the gifts you bestow . Pity , kind gentlemen , friends of humanity , Cold blows the wind , and the night ' s coming on ; Give me some food for my mother for charity , - Give me some food and then I will be gone . Think , while you revel so careless and free ,

      Secure from the wind , aud well-elothed and fed , Should fortune so change it , how hard would it be To beg at a door for a morsel of bread . Pity , kind gentlemen , friends of humanity , Cold blows the wind , and the night ' s coming on ; Give me sf me food for my mother for charity , Give me some food and then 1 will he gone . For thc music wc must of course refer our readers to the Book of British Song . It appears that this little ballad was published anonymously between forty and fifty years ago ; thc _authovship of the words

      and music is unknown . It was for many years exceedinglv popular . The illustration to this song is most charming , and indeed the illustrations throughout these numbers are beautiful and faultless . Portraits of several eminent composers , with biographical notices annexed , add to the value of this publication . Itouly remains for us to repeat thc hope we formerly expressed , that this truly national work may meet with national support ; most earnestly do we _anvise all lovers of music to " give tlieir _ordei-s" for Hou ' s Illustrated Book of British Song .

      The National Temperance Advocate. ' . '¦...

      THE _NATIONAL TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE . ' . '¦ - ¦ ¦ . ¦ * August . * This number of the Advocate is an important one , containing an official report of the proceedings of the annual Conference of the British Temperance Association , with the new plan of organisation agreed to by the _delegates _. _kui

      The National Temperance Advocate. ' . '¦...

      , GEORGE _CRUIKSIIANK'S TABLE B 00 _Ki Awhjst . London : Punch Office , 02 , Eleet-street .. - The _admirable steel engraving to this- month ' s - number of the Table Book illustrates our mial ornithology , in the auilliat emigration of birds-, British ! u _rJ ore } s _"; _Hei-e _weseeon the wing all tho varieties of the feathered tribes— "the great long-Mfd , or lawyer vulture , " the "hawk , or bailiff-bird , " now nearly extinct , or "degenerated into a sort ? of bluefinch , or police cock-sparrow , " " tho gamblerbird , " whose prey is thc ** pigeon , " " Italian _singwg-biros , " who take their flight from this country _abeut the beginning of August , having previously been " successfully occupied in feathering their nests . " The "Legend ofthe Rhine" is continued , and is superbly ridiculous . Besides the large plate ,. there are several most laughable illustrations _iiv this number .

      Simmonds' Colonial Magazine-Auoust. Lond...

      SIMMONDS' COLONIAL MAGAZINE-Auoust . London : Sinimouds and Ward , IS , Cornhill . This is an interesting number ofthis very useful Magatine . The opening article ia " On thc Lake PariJiia and the Geography of Guiana . " Whohas not heard of Sir _Walteu Raleigh ' s "El Dorado , " the land of gold and of the sun ] There are few regions on the globe which have raised such an interest as Guiana . Since the " discovery of the Gulf of Paria by Columbus , in 1408 , and the expedition of Vicente _Pincon . who discovered the Ovinoeo at the

      commencement of the sixteenth century , it became the theatre of enterprises , which were directed more by visionary dreams than by prudence , and the life and fortune ol thousands were sacrificed in search of a region which was said to abound in precious metals . The rock 3 were represented as impregnated with gold , the veins of which lay so near the surface as to make it shine with a _daizling splendour . The houses of its _c-ipital , called Hanoa , were covered with plates of gold ; it was builtupoil ft Vast lake named Parimn , and the reflection of its fairy buildings caused the whitish clouds in the southern hemisphere , which are known to us as the clouds of Magellan , to adopt their luminous appearance .

      It appears that the first accounts of such a rich district reached Euvopo in 1535 , and the mountains of New Grenada were considered to encompass it . The sovereign prince of this worldly paradise ( continues the fiction ) was from head to foot covered with gold-dust , so as to resemble a golden statue worked by the hand of a skilful goldsmith , and from this circumstance he was called thegilded— "El Dorado . " When , after fruitless searches in New Grenada , the locality of the fable was transferred to Guiana , that whole province was designated under the name of " El Dorado . " The various expeditions which were directed in search of it , and which occasioned such a waste of human life , that the annals of history do not offer a parallel , in lieu of suppressing new attempts , seemed only to produce new adventurers , equally eager to achieve the discovery of " El Dorado . "

      The unfortunate Raleigh was not the last who pursued that phantom . The close of the past century offered another kuight-crraut of "El Dorado" in Dun Manuel Centurion ; who , in 1770 , was Governor of tbe Spanish Province of Guiana . It appears that the believers in this fabled paradise are not yet extinct , as only a few years ago a map was published by Mi-. Wyld , and as recently as 1841 another was published by a Mr . Van llcuvel in New York , upon which thc Laguna de Parima figures in its whole extent . Visionary ani unreal as the famed "ElDorado" has been proved to be , still there are grounds for believing that the tradition had once a more substantial foundation- . —

      The geological structure of tins region leaves but little doubt that ic was once the bed of an inland lake , whicli , by one of those catastrophes of which even later times give us examples , broke its harrier , forcing for its _ivater ? a path iu the Atlantic . "May we not connect with the former existence of this inland sea the fable of the Lake Parima and the El Dorado ? Thousands of years have elapsed ; generations may have been buried and returned to dust ; nations , ivlw once H-audcred on its banks , may be extinct and exist even no more in name ; still the tradition Of the Lake _l'ariinaand the El Dorado survived these changes of time ; transmitted from father to son , its fame ivas carried across the Atlantic , and kindled the romantic fire of the _cltivalric Ualetgli . " These ar .. * the words wliich I used when describing that feature on another occasion ; and after having revisited it , I have still that impression . But equally certain is it , that the existence of such it lake does not belong to our historical period .

      There are important articles in this number on "Thc Trade , Shipping , and General Statistics ol New Brunswick , " "The l _' _rogress of Wealth , Population , and Trade in Canada , " " Colonial _llttlorm , " " The Sandwich Islands , " " The History and Statistics of Barbadoes , " and " The Wakefield Theory ol Colonisation . " Besides these , there is the conclusion of the " Narrative ot a Steam Voyage from Southampton to St . Lucia , " and continuations ofthe " Account of the liberated African establishment at St . Helena , " : and " Itcniiniscciices of the Island of Cuba . " Several of these articles are very entertaining , whilst all of them abound in information most useful to thc statesman , the colonist , and tke cmigraat . Prefixed to the present number is a well executed map of the Cape of _Gootl Hope , illustrated with views , and containing much interesting information .

      Tiie Connoisseur: A Monthly Record Of Th...

      TIIE CONNOISSEUR : A Monthly Record of the Fine Arts , Music , and the Drama . August . London : E . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street . This , though the fifth number of the Connoisseur , is but the first we bave seen ; and if wd may judge of the publication by a solitary copy , wc should pronounce it worthy the public ' s patronage . . ' Perhaps there is an allowance of gall in the editor ' s ink somewhat more titan necessary , but we are bound co add that impartiality and astern love of truth seems to guide hira in all his decisions—he may be mistaken , but , it is our belief , is in no instance wilfully unjust .

      The contents of this number consist of critiques on the " _IVestrwinster II _.-tH Exhibition , " the " Past Concert Season , " " Class _Singing" and "The Drama '; " together with articles entitled " The Tragedian , " " Musical Sketches , " " The Discovery of Nineveh , " "The Royal Academy , " and some titbits of literary , musical , and theatrical gossip and chit-chat . We have been the most impressed witli the article entitled " Thc Tragedian , " which is a truly clever and original composition . The opening remarks in the critique on " The Westminster Hall

      Exhibition have our warm approbation . The article on " The Royal Academy" aduiitiisters a severe but well merited rebuke to a certain wonlil-be Sir Oracle in all matters connected with the Fine Arts , which it is hoped that person will profit by - , Punch has given liim a cudgelling two or three times of late , but lie appears to be all but incorrigible ; still we hope tor amendment . In the article entitled " The Drama" a well merited tribute is paid to the now first of tragic actresses Miss Cusbman . Of this lad y ' s remarkable likeness to i \ l . \ ctiEAi > _y , the writer

      says—None can witness this lady ' s performance without being struck by the resemblance of , not only her countenance , but the tone of her voice , and many of what ive will cull her mannerisms , with those of ilr . Maeready , The similarity is more remarkable than any we have yet observed between individuals not having some relationship with each other and , but that we have reason to believe the lady has approached her thirty-fifth summer , and our veteran tragedian to be not much beyond fifty , we should suppose them to be something nearer than cousins . As it is , we must conclude that similar physical formation iu features and organs of sound have facilitated the natural tendency to imitation on tho part of the lady , in adopting the peculiarities of one in whom she must have met , for the first time , a mind , temperament , and energy , congenial with her own . Vfc eare not how soon we see tliein together .

      With ' the " wish expressed in thc last sentence wc cordially concur . In a notice of" Sadler's Wells Theatre , " thero is also ajust compliment paid to Mr . _Piieli-s , with every word of whieh we heartily a _^ rec . This number of thc Connoisseur is illustrated by a copy from a painting by _Muriu-o ( a lithographic gem ) , and an . original ballad by _Crivelli . To all overs of thc Fine Arts we reeuiumond tlie C ' onnoiscnr .

      The Miners' Advocate — Jav, August. Newc...

      THE MINERS' ADVOCATE — _Jav , August . Newcastle-upon-Tyne : M . JiHc , Side . These two numbers of the Miners' Advocate contain several excellent articles , together with reports of Miners'nieetin « s , correspondence , & c . We liim in the July number a paragraph from the introduction to Hood ' s " iay of thc . Labourer , " which we give below . That paragraph appeared iu this paper at thc time we gave the Lay of the Labourer but since then poor Hood has departed from this lite , followed bv the sorrowful regrets of millions of his countrymen aiid countrywomen . The paragraph given below , written when he was on his death-bed , becomes therefore doublv interesting , and we hesitate not to repeat it in our columns . Was it word for word inscribed upon liis tomb , poor Hood would need no other epitaph , its every word ia true _srs truth itself * . —

      tiiomas noon . As my works testify , I am of the working elass myself , and in my humble sphere furnish employment for many hands , including paper-makers , draughtsmen , engraver ? , compositors , pressmen , binders , folders , and stitchersand critics—all receiving a fair day's wage for a fair day's work . Mj- gains consequently are limited—not nearly so enormous as have been realised upon shirts , slops , shawls , A * c ., curiously illustrating how a man or a woman might be clothed with curses as with a garment . My , fortune has been expressed _lritheut along row of tliose ciphers

      those 0 ' s , at once significant of hundreds of thousands of pounds , and as many ejaculations of pain and sorrow from dependent slaves . My wealth might all he hoarded , if I were miserly , in a gallipot or tin snull ' -box . My guineas , placed edge to edge , instead of extending "from thb Minories to Golden-square , would barely reach from home to Bread-street . "M y riches would hardly allow me to roll in them , even if turned into the new , copper mites . But then , thank . God , not one reproach clings to my coin . No tears or blood clogs the meshes ; ho hair , plucked iu desperation , is knitted with the silk of my lean purse . No consumptive sempstress can point at me htr bony

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      _fore-fuycr and say , "For , thee , kwino im _ronui * muwbism ,. I am become tins , living skeleton I" or hold up her fatal needle , as ono through the eye of which the scriptural camel must pa 3 s ere I may hope to enter heaven . So withered workwoman , shaking at mo her suicidal looks , can cry , in . a piercingvoice ,. "Forthee , and . forsix poor pence , I embroidered eighty Boners ou thin veil "— - literally a veil of tears . No famishinglabourer , his jnints racked with toil , holds out to me in the palm ofhis broad Iiard hand seven-miserable shillings , nnd mutters ,. " For these , and a _parishloaf , for six long _loug days , _from-dawn till dusk , through , hot and cold , through wet and dry , I tilled thy land r' My short sleeps arc peaceful ; my dreams uutroubled . No- ghastly phantoms with reproachful faces , and silence : more terrible than speech / haunt my quiet _pilloir .

      The Mysteries Of Paris —By Ecsutfe Sub. ...

      THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS —By _EcsutfE Sub . People ' s Edition . London :: Clark , Warwiok * lane , Paternoster-row . Two or three weeks ago we briefly noticed this work ; we now return to it again : we propose to give a lew extracts from it when we can find room . The following aifecting story ( which wc have been compelled to som ewhat curtail ) of the heroine of the work scarcely exaggerates , we four , the sufferings borne by thousands * whom society ( in England as well as France ) permits to be trained in ignorance , misery , anil crime . v-TIIE _SSJOHTT OP IA _QOOAIEUSE . "Begin with the beginning , " said the _Cliourineur . " Yes , your parents V added Rodolph . " I never knew them , " said _Fleur-de-Marie . " Who broug ht you up , then , Goualeuse ? " asked _Bodolph .

      " I do not know , sir ; as far back as I can recollect , wheal thiuk I was about seven or eight years of age , I lived with au old , one-eyed woman , whom they _cullXci _Chovctt , * because she had a hooked nose , a very round green eye , and altogether rest mbled an owl who had lost an eye . This one-eyed old woman , sent mil to sell _barlcysugav at night on the Pont _J ' _euf ; hut that was only ' a cloak for begging ; , and when I did not take her ten sous at least , the Cltouette gave me a beating instead of my supper . " "So , " said tlie Cliourineur , " you danced instead ofi eating , when you did not pick up ten sous V "Yes , nnd afterwards had to lie upon some straw spread upon the ground , where I was almost perished with bitter cold . "

      _"Plcur-Ue-JIaris resumed : "Tlie next morning , the 0310-eyed woman gave me the same allowance for breakfast as for supper , and sent mo to Montfaueon to look for worms to bait fish ; for during the day the Chouette kept her stall for selling fishing-tackle hy the bridge of Notre Dame . For a child _seveayears old , half dead with hunger and cold , it is a long way from the Hue de la Mortellcrie to _Montf-iugon . I used to return very , very tired ; then about noon the Chouette would give me a little piece of dry _bvcatl . " " Ah ! " said the Cliourineur , "we all know what it is to be miserable . " "Oh ! itis impossible you could ever have been as wretched as I was , Cliourineur ""said Fleur-de-Marie .

      " What , not I , Goualeuse ? Why , my girl , you were a queen compared to me ! At least , when you were little , you hail straw to sleep on and bread to eat ; for my part , I used to spend my most comfortable nights in the limekilns at Cliehy _, like a genuine vagabond , nnd fed upon cabbage-Stumps and sueh . llki dainties , which I _pic-Ueil up when aud where I could ; but as I was often too tired , after my day ' s dance , to go so far as the lime-kilns at Cliehy , IsJej . t under the eaves at the Louvre ; and in winter I had beautiful white sheets—whenever the snowfell . ' ? " Ah ! a man is hardy ; but I was a poor little girl , " said _Fleur-de-Jlaiic . " " . _TVIieh La Chouette beat me , thc first blow always knocked mc down ; then she stamped upon me , muttering , * Ah , the nasty little beast ! she hasn't a farthing ' s-worth of strength—she ean ' t even bear a couple of thumps without falling 1 ' and then she called nie _Pegriotte ( little thief ); I nevcv had any other appellation —that was my baptismal name . "

      "Just like me—Iliad the same baptism they give to stv » _j dogs . I was called 'Thing ! ' ' Animal ! - - or 'the Albino . ' It is astonishing how much we are like one another , my girl , " said the Cliourineur , " That is true—in our misery , " said Fleur-de-Marie . "And when you had fetched the worms for thc Chouette , what did you do next ? " asked the

      Cliourineur . "Then the old woman . would send me to beg round where she kept her stall lill night ; and in the evening she went to theI _' ont Neuf , to sell her fried fish . Heavens ! I used to think it a long time to wait for a morsel of bread ; but if I was unlucky enough to ask the Chouette for something to eat , she would bi . it me , and say : ' G ct ten sous ! ami you shall , have your supper , Pegriotte . ' Ah , me ! then , being hungry , and so ? e from the thumps and kicks she gave me , 1 cried as if my heart would break ; but the

      old woman put my tray of _Vrley-sugas about my week , and placed meon the Pont _Neut _; where , in winter , I was almost ' frozen to death . Yet sometimes , in spite of mysfclf , I slept as I stood : but not long , for the Chouette kicked me till I awoke . Then I remained on the bridge till eleven o ' clock , my tray of barley-sugar hanging round my neck , and often crying bitterly . On seeing me cry , thc passenger . * would sometimes give me a trifle ; andl often obtained ten and fifteen sous , which I gave to the Chouette , who searched me all over , an

      Well , when she discovered ihe secret ofmy success , she always , beat me severely before she took me to my post on the bridge , in order that I might cry and sob as people passed by , and by that means get more money . At last I got hardened to blows . I saw that the Chouette was very angry when I did not cry , so , to be revenged upon her , the more she ill-used me the move I-laughed , though the pain brought the tears into my eyes . " "But did not the barley . sugar tempt you , my poor flnnaieuse ?"

      " Ah , Cliourineur , that it did ; but I never tasted it , although I longed to do so , Alas , that longing was my ruin . One day , returning from _Montfaugon , some little boys beat me , and took away my basket . I _rctin-ncd home , well knowing what was in store for me ; I had a merciless thumping , aud no bread . In the evening , before she took nie to the bridge , thc Chouette , furious because I had taken nothing home thc evening before , instead of beating mens usual , to make me cry , tortured mc by pulling the hair from the side of my temples—a part most sensible to pain . "

      "Thousand thunders ! that was _comitis ; it too strong !" shouted the bandit , striking the tnble fiercely with his fist , and knitting his bushy brows ; " Beat a child—that's not out ofthe way ; but to _toitui-e her ! Blood and thunder . ' " . Rudolph had listened attentively to tho narrative of Fleur-de-Marie ; he now looked with astonishment at the Cliourineur , this outburst of feeling astonished him . "What is the matter with you , Cliourineur ? " he inquired , " What ' s the matter with me ! Have you no feeling , then ? That beast ofa Chouette , who tortured this child ' . Is your heart as hard as your knuckles ?" "Coon , my girl , " said Rodolph , without noticing the interruption of the Cliourineur .

      " I have told you the Chouette beat me to make me cry , I was then sent to the bridge with my barley-sugar . The old woman was at her frying-pan , and from time to time she shook her clenched fist at me . However , as I had not broken niyfi-st since the night before , and was very hungry , at the risk of putting the Cliouettu in a passion , I took a stick of barley-sugr . r , and began to cat it . " " Bravo ! my girl . " " I ate a second piece—" " Bravo ! Liberty or death !' . ' " I found it very nice ; not so much from daintiness as from real hunger . But an orange-woman cried nut to the one-eyed woman : 'Holloa ! Chouette , _l'egriot cis eating your stock in trade ! ' It ivas a serious matter for nie ; but that was afterwards ; for the old woman , although boiling over with rage at seeing me devour the barley-sugar , could not leave her frying-pan , for the fat was boiling .

      "At a distance she threatened inc with her long iron fork . When her _fi-y was cooked she came up to nie . I hud only received tliree sous in charity , and I had eaten six sous _' worth of barley-sugar . She did not say a word , but took me by the hand , and pulled me away after her . At this moment , I knew not how it was that I did hot drop dead with , fright ... - I remember it ' as ' . well as if it WCl'C but now—it was about New-year ' s Day , and thero were many shops on thc I ' ont Neuf , all filled with toys , aud I had been looking at them all the evening with the greatest delight—beautiful dolls , little furnished houses : you know how amusing such things are to a child . " "And _hadyou never any playthings , Goualeuse ? " askcil the Cliourineur .

      "I ? Good heaven ! _whojwas there to give me any playthings ? " said the young girl , in a sad tone . " However , the evening passed away . Although it was in the depth of winter , I only had on a little cotton gown—no stockings / no shift , ¦ and the wooden shoes on my feetthat was not enough to stifle one with heat , was it 1 Well , when the one-eyed woman _tcok me by the hand , 1 became bathed in perspiration from head to foot . What frightened me most was that , instead of swearing as usual , she only kept on -muttering between her teeth . She never once let go my hand , butmademe walk so fast— -so veryfast—that 1 was obliged to run to keep up with lier , and in running I lost one of my wooden shoes ; and as I did not dare to say so , 1 followed hey with one foot naked on the hare stones , and when wc reached home it was covered with blood . "

      "l \ e lodged in a garret , in the Httcde- ' _la Mortellcrie : adjoining the entrance to our alley tliere was a dram-shop . Tlie Chouette went in , still _draguing me by the hand , and drank a half-pint of brandy at the bar . At length , we got up into our loft ; the Chouette double-locked the door ; I threw myself at her feet , and begged Iter pardon for having eaten the barlcy-smtar . She did not answer nie , and I heard her mumbling to herself as she walked about tlie room * . _« Whttt shain do to-night to this Pegriotte—this little thief ofmy barley sugar « Let me sec— -how shall I serve her out ? Ah yes V And then she stopped to . look at mc maliciously with her one / gicen eye , while I still knelt before her . Then suddenly tlvo old woman went to a shelf und took down a pair of pincers , to take out one of my teeth . " " Aud did she _saally take out your , tooth , my .: poot girl V * asked _ltoJolph , whilst thc Cliourineur vented his rag * in a volley ef the most violent epithets , ? The Owl . i

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      "Yes , sir ; but not at tlte first pull . Great hearenhow I suffered ! She held my head between her knees , as if it had been in a vice . Then , partly with tlte pincers , and partly with her fingers , she pulled out my tooth , and then said— "Now , Pegriotte , I will pull out ono of your teeth every day ; and when you have no more left , I will throw you into the river , tobe eaten by the fishes . '" " Ah , the old devil ! to wrench out a poor child ' s teeth in that manner ! " exclaimed tho Cliourineur , with redou . bled fury . Thc day following poor Goualeuse ran away ; when night came ' on sho hid herself in a timber-yard , where she slept . Next day about noon she was scented out by a dog , and the alarm was raised of "thieves" in . the yard . Hearing a child cry , the'dog was " called off , and the poor child had to come out of her hiding hole : —

      "I sawn bluff-looking gentleman and a man in a blouse . ' Ah , what do you do in my timber-yard , you little thiof V said the gentleman in a menacing tone . I put my hands together , and said : ' Pray don ' t hurt me : I have had nothing to eat for two days , and I ' ve run away from the Chouette , who pulled out ' my tooth , and said she would throw me to the fishes . Not knowing where to sleep , I was passing your yard , I have slept during the night amongst those logs , uuder this heap , not thinking to hurt anybody , ' 'I ' m not to be deceived in that way ! You came here to steal my wood . Go and call the police , ' said the timber merchant to his man . " The result : —

      " I was taken to the magistrate , " resumed La Goualeuse . "I accused myself of being a vagrant , and they sent me to prison . I was taken beforo the court , and formally . sentenced as a roguo aud vagabond , to remain until I was sixteen years of age in a house of correction . I heartily thank tlte judges fur their kindness ; for in prison I had food , I was not beaten , and it was a perfect paradise compared to the miserable loft of the Chouette . Moreover in prison I learned to sew ; but , alaB ! _Iwas idle : I preferred singing to working , and particularly when the sun was shining . Oh ! when it _slisno brightly in the court-yard of the prison , I could not refrain from singing ; nnd then , while 1 sang , I fancied I was no longer a prisoner . It was after I began to Sing so much that they called me Goualeuse instead of Pegriotte . Then , when I was sixteen , I left , the prison . At thedoov 1 found the Ogress of this house , with two or three old women , who hnd come to see some ofmy fellow prisoners , and who had always told nie that when 1 left the prison they would find me some employment . "

      " Ah , good ! good ! I understand , " said the Cliourineur . "' My pretty little maid , ' said thc 0 gre 6 s and the old women , 'will you conic and lodge with us ; we will give you nice clothes , and you shall have nothing to do but to amuse yourself . ' But I distrusted _ihrni and refused , saying to myself : 'I know how to use my needle well , and I have two hundrel francs by me . I have been eight years in prison , I should like to enjoy myself a littlethat will not harm anybody-, work will come when the money is gone . ' And so I began to spend my two

      hundred francs . Ah ! that was a sad mistake , " added Fleurde-Marie , with a sigh . " I ought first to have got work but I hadn ' t a soul on earth to advise tne . A girl , sixteen years of age—thrown as I was on the streets of Paris ; one is so lonely ; but what is done is done . I have acted wrong , and I have suffered for it . I began then to spend my money ; first , I bought flowers to put in my room—I do so love flowers ; then I bought a gown , a pretty shawl , _•> nd took a walk in the RoiS de Boulogne , and I went to St . Germains , to _Vincennes—in the country ! Oh , how I love the country !

      Most of her moiuy having vanished , poor Goualeuse began to think of getting work . Sue had reserved fifty francs to keep _herwhilelookingfor employment ; but this she expended on a miserable woman who craved her help in the hour of extrcmest misery . Goualeusc ' s money was now all gone -. —• ' ¦ " Then I looked out for work ; but it was too late . 1 was a good needle woman . I had good courage , and thought that I had only to wish for work and that I should get it ! Ah ! how I deceived myself ! I went into a shop where they sell ready-made linen , and asked for work , and as I would not tell a story , I said I had just left prison ; on which they showed me the door , without making mc any answer . I begged they would give me a trial , but

      they pushed me into the street as if I had been a thief . Then I remembered , when too late , _w-hatltigolette had told mc . I sold my small remnant of clothesand linen to obtain food , and at length , when I had nothing left they drove me from my lodging . I had not eaten for two days ; I did not know where to sleep . Then it was I met tlic Ogress and one of the old women . Knowing where 1 lodged , tliey lv _, \ d been continually haunting me from the time I came out of _thejn-ison . They toldme they would get tne work—I believed them . They led me with them ; I was so exhausted for want of food that I hardly knew what I did . Tliey gave me brandy to drink , and—andbehold!—— " said the wretched creature , burying her face in her hands .

      Rodolph had listened with deep interest to tins recital , made with such touching frankuess . Misery , destitution , ignorance of the world , had destroyed this wretched girl , east at _sfc-icon years of age , alone and unprotected , on the wide world at Paris ! Rodolph involuntarily thought of a beloved child whom he had lost—a girl , who died at . the age of six years ; and who , had she lived , would have been like I'lciw-dc-ilariQ , sixteen years and a half . ' old . This recollection painfully excited his solicitude fyr the unhappy creature , whose melancholy history he had just heard .

      Publications Received.—The Ballad Poetry...

      Publications Received . —The Ballad Poetry of Ireland—Clarke ' s Wandering Jew , parti _.

      Royal Meanness.—It Seems From The Debate...

      Royal Meanness . —It seems from the Debate on the Supplies , that Kings , and Emperors , and Koyal Princes , when tliey come to this country , do not pay their own travelling expenses . John Bull is called upon to pay for turnpikes , stokers , equerries , boots , glasses of brandy-and-water;—in fact , everything . Now , this is too bad . ' Not only docs au autocrat conic to England when he is not wanted , but wc arc actually forced to pay for the very ship that brings

      him to us . It is just as if a " sponge" were to dine with you on a Sunday—eat and drink as much as he liked—stop all night—and then ask you to pay for his omnibus home , aud for the cab that brought him to your door ! Wc vote that if the Emperor of Russia comes to England again , he be allowed , like a commercial traveller , so much a day for travelling expenses ; and if lie has a sandwich and -a glass of ale bevond that , ho must get his Chancellor of the Exchequer to pay for it . If the Emperor docs not like this arrangement , we aro glad to tell liim , he has his remedy—he needn't come at all , —Punch .

      Tub C' Now.V I.\* Danger !—On Saturday A...

      Tub C' now . v i . \* Danger !—On Saturday afternoon , immediately after her Majesty had deli vera } her speech , and wns in the act of quitting the Houseof Lords , the Duke of Argyll , whose office itis to bear the velvet cushion on which the crown is placed when her Majesty is retiring , stumbled , and the consequence was that the crown fell off the velvet cushion on the- floor . A number of the jewels fell outof it , aud it was otherwise much injured . Thcjewcls were all picked up and handed to the noble duke . On the accident being made known to her Majesty she expressed her concern that his grace should have met with the slight accident , but was glad he was not hurt .

      S . _u . _ti , fc Debts Act . —On Tuesday the act for the better securing the payment of small debts was issued . In every stage ofthe measure alterations have been made , and it was only on receiving tbe lloy . il assent on Saturday that it was known that further corrections could not be made until Parliament again assembled . There arc twenty-five sections and four schedules in tlic act . Singularly enough , it dates its operation just twelve months from thc passing of the act which liberated some hundreds of poor persons who were in custody for sums not exceed ins £ 20 , and prevented the incarceration of some hundreds of others for like sums , lt will be well if a reaction docs not take place , and creditors proceed to extremes , under the provisions of the new law . Debtors may now

      bo induced to " make their peace" with their creditors without putting the machinery of the new law into operation . The general eflectofthe law appears to be , that a creditor who has obtained a judgment , or any order for payment , from a competent court , for any sum not exceeding £ 20 , can expeditiously and cheaply summon a debtor , to tho Court of Bankruptcy , or Court of Requests , provided the latter is presided over by a barrister , special pleader , or an attorney who has been ten years in practice . The debtor may be examined as well as the creditor , and , should thc ' debtor fail toattewl , or make a satisfactory answer , or shall appear to have been guilty of any fraud cither in the removal of his goods or the contraction ofthe debt , he may be sent to prison for " a

      period not exceeding forty days , which imprisonment , is not to extinguish thc debt , nor is it to be got rid of by an order from thc- Court of Bankruptcy ov Insolvent Debtors , but thc judgc ' who . ' sont him to prison may order the discharge on satisfacfion being made by the pavment ofthe debt and cists . One ot the last amended amendments states that the actual _necessaries of thc debtor shall not be sewed m execution , and allows him goods , tools , Ac , to thc value of £ 5 . - Tlie jurisdiction of thc inferior courts may , by an order in Council , be extended to- £ 20 , and all such applications must be advertised in thc Londmi Gazette one month before thev arc consulercu . \\ _jwesscs to

      not attending when summoned may be fined £ o , be enforced in like manner as payment ot any uebt recovered by a judgment . There is power given to execute warrants against the persons or goods ol a debtor against whom an order has been obtained , notwithstanding the removal from the jurisdiction ot the court in which such order was obtained , ihe act is only to apply , to England . The forms to be used and the fees to be . charged are set forth in the schedules of tbe act . Creditors and debtors may be their own lawyers in the matter . Provided the small debts _, courts are extended and presided oveiVas mentioned ; ¦ veiy . few actions will be brought inthe superior courts [ for ' amounts under £ 20 . The act took efteet . lroin \ Saturday )» st .

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      Liefonm Of The Bab.-Wc Are Happy To Stat...

      liEFonM of the Bab .-Wc are happy to state that ; the barristers of the Oxford Circuit _hwB , at _length , resolved to vindicate the / _lignity of the Bar , ana to show a bright example to the whole of their silvertongued and unsophisticated brethren . They hare come to an expressed resolution that it is beneath the character of any of them " to report law proceedings for the p ress . " And following up this beginning in the right path , they have also resolved , that if ifc sliall happen that any counsel receive a retaining fee to conduct a case which , from a press of business , he shall bo unable to advocate , it will henceforth be

      considered a breach of the merest every-day honesty not to return the money . Indeed , ifc is said that this resolution is to have a retrospective effect , in whicli case considerable sums must be paid back . Wc shall be happy to advertise the day on which learned gentlemen propose to disgorge . *—Punch . Irish Skchesv . —Mv . Somers , the pugnacious Irish member , who sent his challenging missive to Mr . Itoebuck , endorsed it , " private and confidential ;" whilst at the close ofthe epistle he informed the honourable and learned member that lie had " sent a copy of it to the Morning Chronicle !"

      Amiable Simplicity .-- Miss Brown , I have been to learn how to tell fortunes , " said a young fellow to a brisk brunette ; "just let mc have your hand if you please . " " La ! Mr . White , how sudden youare i Well ! go and ask papa . " it spoils a mas to marry iiim . ( J ' _-Vomi an American Paper . )

      Believe , dear girls , this maxim true , In precept and in practice too : The truth I dare avouch to you _. It spoils a man to marry him I The creature never ought to go Beyond a honeymoon or so . Survive lie that , why then he'll show—It spoils a man to marry him ! When pleading , kneeling , at your feet , Ilia words , how bland : his looks , how _RVfefit Eternal love your cars doth greet—It spoils a man to marry him ! With kisses sweet consent he'll wring , And get your finger in a ring ; And then—he ' s quite another thing—It spoils a man to marrv him !

      Havo you a doubt—a fear ; then drop it ; A wish , a will , a fancy—lop it ; Pause irhen the question lie doth " pop it , " Ere you consent to marry him ! But should you daring venture , then , To choose tlie worst or best of men : Why then , nine cases out of ten-It spoils a man to marry him ! The " Last of his Race . "—When the Earl of Sunderland- resigned office in the reign of Queen

      Anne , the Queen offered him a pension of £ ' d . 000 a year ; but thc Earl replied , that if he could not have the honour to serve his country , lie would not incur the infamy of plundering it . Wc wish a few of our modern Peers were equally upright . A Sliuiit _Difpeuknck . —A pompous fellow made a very inadequate offer for a valuable property , and calling the next'day for an answer , inquired if the owner had entertained his proposition . " No , " re plied the otlier , "but jour proposition has enter _laintd me . "

      _Wewphysics Defikkd . —A Scotch blacksmith , on being asked tho meaning of metaphysics , explained it as follows : —" . When the party who listens dinna ken what thc party who speaks means , and the party who speaks dinna ken what he means himsel , that in metaphysics . " Benefit ok Drugs . —A physician , who had drugged a citizen ' s wife , who had died , to his great astonishment received a hundred guineas from the inconsolable widower . " Alas ! " cried he , " what should I have profited bad I but saved tbe lady ! " " Be . not distressed , " replied the citizen , " 1 should not have given you a farthing . "

      A _QoAiCKtt Woman ' s Spef . ch . —Dear friends , there are three things 1 very much wonder at . The first is , that children should be so foolish as to throw up stones , brick-bats , and clubs into fruit-trees to knock down the fruit—if they would let it alone , it would fall of itself . Thc second is , that men should be so foolish , and even so ¦ tricked , as to go to war and kill one another—if they would let one another alone , they would die of themselves . And the last thing I wonder at most of all is , that of young women—if they would stay at home , the young men would come after them .

      _^ Besewt of _CoussEii . —fhe uses of cross-examination were rather unmercifully exposed by Judge Parke , upon the trial of some rioters , when a learned gentleman , concerned for one ofthe _pvisoncrs , asked some questions affecting another man who had no counsel employed . "He is not your client , " said thc judge . " lie is mine—do not hang my client , whatever you may do with your own . " - This was passing sentence upon the unfortunate pleader , at . all events . Fair on _hotii Sides . —IIow often have we heard

      that England ought to be grateful that she has a liouse of Lords 1 If any reason were wanting , here is one —A Peer said , in a debate about Mr . Barry's neverto-be-completed Houses of Parliament , " The walls of the liouse of Lords will be so thick , that it will be impossible to hear anything that takes place outside . " Now , how grateful every Englishman will he if ibis advantage should be proved to he not all on the side of the Lords [—Punch . Reproving the Follies of the Age . —When anything very outrageous or ridiculous is built , it is generally called in thc neighbourhood " A Folly . " Thus we have throughout _England a number of architectural absurdities , known as " Bniccs _' s Folly , " " ¦ . Jones ' s Folly , " " Thompson ' s Folly , " < fcc But the greatest tolly of all in tho building way is unquestionably Trafalgar-square . Might it not be culled henceforth " E . _nclaxd ' s Folly ?"—Ibid .

      A Capital Investment . —Wo print the following fact for the sake of persons , possessed of large property , who arc fond of speculating - . — " On Tuesday , July 29 th , * there was a debate in the House of Lords , and Lord Brougham never spoke a single word . " We should like to have tbe sums of money that will be offered in a few years for a newspaper of the above date—Ibid . Hearts , lLvsns , _ano Shillings . —Daniel O'Connell , the other day , addressing a mob which he had convened at'Galway , is reported to have expressed himself as follows : — "I want every man ' s shilling , and I will tell you why ; because there is a heart and hand behind every shilling . 1 want the hearts and hands of every man . " We have no doubt that Mr .

      O ' Connell wants every man's shilling ; and we wish t wc could say as much of every other assertion that i has been made by that gentleman . In particular , , we should be very _' glad if wc could believe the sequel I to this very statement . How difficult it seems to be j to ' tho * Agitator to utter an entirely credible sen- * - tence ! lie says that he wants every man's shilling , [ , because there is a heart and a hand hehind the coin n in question . O'Connell is not , a simpleton , whatever ir he is ; and we are sure that it is no nonsensical _^ rca- ason for which he wants every man's shilling . Every ry man ' s shilling would conic to more millions of pounds ds

      sterling than wc arc in a position to reckon . A grcatat many people besides Mr . O'ConneU would be glad of of every , not to say any , man s shilling . Uowcvcr , ; r , wlicii His Unacknowledged Majesty tells us that hehe wants the hearts and hands of every man , this , is , again , is a declaration which we can receive , withith some little allowance . Wc lake it that lie wants thethe hearts and hands as represented by thc shillings . gs . Shillings , wc presume , are , according to Mr . O'C ' on-onnell , counters that stand for hands and hearts . _ButSut : is it absolutely necessary that those counters shouldiildl ba silver ? Would not bone be less expensive to thethe _i poor Irish . —Hid .

      Going to r . E _Buiiied . —A poor Irishman _passiiigmg ; through a village mar Chester , saw a crowd ap-ap--proaehing , which made him inquire " what was thethec matter ? " He was answered , "A man was goingnnt _] to be buried . " " Oh , " replied he , "I'll stop to sen sou that , for wc carry _thc-ni in our country . " A Poetical IJoveh . —A young poet in Clevelandandl Ohio , has fallen in love the ' second time . It may biy bin true that " true love never yet did run smooth , " bu' _bui this can't he said of his poetry : — o wunst x liivrt a nuthcr girl Ilur name it was inurrhier but hetsy . dear my lov for u is 15 times more higher .

      _Adaptation to Ciiicumstancks . —One Hcrr VoiiVoii . . Scheldt , a German , was breakfasting with a fellow town Worcester . College , in company with the licvs . J . I J . II Newman , F . Marriott , and other eminent divinevinec The conversation turned on the different rcligioiigiom observances of different countries , and ihe _dntylnty conformity . "OchGoU , " said llcrv _Yorni SckWikWt " von I am in any contrec , 1 tink it ma dutcc to c to > of dc religion of dat contrec . Ven I am in Italy lily I f to mass , I go to confession , I am of de religion ofn off Roman _Catholiquc . Ven I am in _Ttirqtiee , I tril trii no vin , I marry four wife . I am of do rcligionigionn dc'fwquo . Ven I am in England , I trinlcportvbrtv ' ri _I-sav" " Gott tain ; " I am of do religion of . of Engiishe . " . * ¦ . * ¦ iin 11

      A "Deaf" JuRon . — RATirEn GnEE . v . —In Nisi Prins Court , at Bridgcw _. itor , on Tuesday wcy wcc a juror appeared in thc witness boN , and claimed mod I emption on the ground of deafness . Mr . Ba . Ban Piatt , in a _vcvv subdued tone of voice , intei intern gated tho _deaf ' _tin : " Don- long bare you boil bb tlcaf" inquired thc judge . The juror _unhesnhes _* s jtingly answered " Two years . " ' ihe judge , igo , ii _i much " less audible tone— " How was your deaf deaf f S caused ?"—Juror ( without evincing the least cast it - . culty in hearing ) : " I caught a severe cokl . "—J < " —Jtli I ( in a voice almost reduced to a whisper ) : "I : "IE you think vour deafness is cured ?"— " _Js o , my kmylolo | answered ' the ' unsuspecting _juvymau . — "Oh , yOh _, yy ! do very well , sir , " replied his lordship , amidst iiidst _11 of laughter . " * ' _, .. , , ' - . ' . _- No Room . — "Owing toa crowd of other _irncr mm we aro unable '' to make room for it ! " as the tthe << at the dinner-table replied , when he was requ requ _* u to take some pudding .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 16, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_16081845/page/3/