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      " *~ BEAUTIES OF BYRON . XO . XX V . " ths cuor * . ' * This poem was first published in ISIS , before the appearance of the third an J fourth cantos of Childe Harold . Header , peruse and admire the magnificent _poefay breathing in every line of the following pictore cf

      GREECE . Fair clhne ! where every * cason smiles Benignant o ' er those blessed isle ? . _KThich , seen from far Colonna ' s _hi % ht , Make glad theheart that hails the right , And lend to _loneliness deli ght-There mildly dimpling , Ocean ' s cheek Reflects the tints of many a peak Caught by the laughing tide * that lave These Edens of tbe eastern wave : And if at times a transient breeze Break the blue crystal of the seas , Or sweep one blossom from the trees , How welcome is each gentle air That wakes and watts the odours there !*

      Strange—that where Xsture loved to trace , As if for Gods , a dwelling place , And every charm aad grace hath _mix'd "Within the paradise she fix'd , There man , _enamonr'd of distress , Sheuld mar it into wilderness , And trample , brute-like , o ' er each flower That tasks not one laborious hour ; Sot claimi the culture of his hand To bloom along the fairy land , But springs as to preclude his care , And sweetly woos him—bnt to spare ! Strange—that where all is peace beside _. There passion riots in her pride , And lust and rapine wildly reign To darken o'er the fair domain .

      It is as though the fiends prevail'd Against the seraphs they areail'd _. And , fix'd on heavenly thrones , should dwell The freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene , so _form'd for joy , So enrct the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o ' er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled , The first dark day of nothingness , The last of danger and distress , f Before Decay ' s effacing fingers Bave swept the fines where beauty lingers , } And mark'd the mild angelic air , The rapture of repose that's there , The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek , And—bat for that sad shrouded eye ,

      That fires not , wins not , weeps not , now , And bnt for that chill , changeless brow , Where cold Obstruction ' s apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart , As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads , yet dwells upon ; Tee , but for these and these alone , Some moments , ay , one treacherous hour , He stRl might deubt the tyrant ' s power ; So fair , so calm , so softly seal'd , The first , lastlookby death reveal'd 1 Such is the aspect of this shore ; 'lis Greece , but living Greece no more . ' So coldly sweet , so deadly fair , We start for _eonl is wanting there .

      Cluae of the nnforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain to mountain-cave "Was Freedom ' s heme or Glory's grave 1 Shrine of the mighty ! can it be , That this is all remains of thee ! Approach , thoacraven crouching slave ; Say , is not this Thsrmopyhs I These waters bine that round jou lave , _OhserTfleofispringof thefree—Pronounce what sea , what shore is this t The giuf , the rock of Salamis I These scenes , their story not unknown , Arise , and make again yonr own ; Snatch from the ashes of yonr sires _Theemhere of their former fires ;

      And he who in the strife expires WiU add to theirs a name of fear , Tbat Tyranny _shaH quake to hear , And leave his sons a hope , & fame _. They too wiU rather die than shame : For Freedom ' s battle once began , _Beqneath'dby bleeding Sire to Son , Though baffled oft is ever won . Bear witness , Greece , thy living page , Attestitmany a deathless age ! While kings , in dusty darkness hid , Have left a nameless pyramid , Thy heroes , though the general doom Hath swept the column ironi their tomb , A mightier monument command , The mountains of their native land !

      Soxgs For The People. [For Many Months P...

      SOXGS FOR THE PEOPLE . [ For many months past our poet's column has been _exclusiTely occupied with extracts from the vreitings . _ofBxboh . _Desirous , however , ofinfaangmorevariety into this column , we have for some time past intended to give weekly , inadditiontothe " Beauties , " a good Eong , original or select We had purposed fo commence these songs on the first Saturday in the present year , hut other matters prevented ns so doing . We give this explanation , as otherwise ii might be supposed we wished to anticipate Mr . Coofeb ' s projected " Song and Hymn-BooL" This we neither wish to do , nor can do , as the one song weekly in this paper cannot at all interfere with the first-rate Songs and Hymns , intended to be published in a collected form . Sir . Cooper's project , we think a very excellent one , and will give it every ' aid in our power . Any songsofformerrhymersweliavein . store , Mr . _Coopeb is _^ welcome to select from . ]

      THE LAXD . BT THOMAS SPEXCE . [ Some forty years ago , Thomas Spesce proposed to restore to the " people of England the land of which they had been robbed , hy making the land and buildings of each parish the property ofthe people , and dividing the rents amongst the people equally ; but the landlords of that day , who didnotlike theideaof justice any better than do the _jandlords ofthe present day , " persecuted and imprisoned Spesce , and _neTer stayed their persecution until they had hunted him to death . They could not , however , destroy his principles , which bid fair at no distant day to destroy the asnrpation of the landlords . ] A Sosc to be su » g at the _CommeneimentoftheMaTemiium , Khen there shall be neither lords nor landlords , bat God and Man iriB be aU iu all . Tcse— "God save ( he King . "

      Hark ! how the trumpet's sound Proclaims the land around The jubilee ! Tells all the poor _oppress'd So more shall they be _ctas'd , Sor landlords more molest Their property ; Bents t ' _oorielves now we pay , Dreading no _quarter day , Fraught with distress . Welcome that day draws near , For then our rent we share , Earth ' s rightful lords we are Ord & in'd for this .

      Xow hath the oppressor csas'd _. And all the world releas'd From misery ! The fir-trees all _rqoice , And cedars lift their voice , _Ceas'd now the Feller's noise , Long raib'd by thee . The sceptre now is broke , Which with continual stroke The nations smote ! Hell from beneath does rise , To meet the lofty eyes , From the most pompous size , How brought to nought !

      Since then this jubilee Sets all at liberty Let ns be glad . Ikhold each man return To his possession So more like doves to mourn By landlords sad !

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      TA 1 _TS EDINBURGH _MAGAZINE-Jaotary—Edinburgh ; Tait ; London ; Simpkin and Mar-We feel great respect for William _Howin _* , than whom few writers have more instructed and _delishted ns ; we are , therefore , sorry to find him in this number of Tail's Magazine holding up 0 Cosselx as a " patriot . " We will not dispute his picture of _O'CossEiA as a landlord , though so widely different tothat painted by the " Tones * Commissioner . But , supposing _O'Oosseu to be all that Mr . Hownr

      _repreants himto be privately , Mr . fl . _' s Tiews as to the agitator ' s acts and career as a public man are amazingly erroneous , Mr . Howm tells us that O'Coxxell , foi * the greater part of half a century , has been the leader of a moral movement , which has already prodnced the most magnificent results , and _tbatlie has well won the proud title of the " Liberator . " Indeed , Mr . Howzrr , your simnlicit y is unmatched , if you really believe as you write . _O'Cosxeiithe "Liberator ! " Yes !

      " The saviour of the nation not yet saved . " Whom has he liberated ? " Be opened Parliament and office to his fellow believers . " Indeed he did , but the * ' believers" were of his own clas 3 . Cathdic * W _* have been compelled to omit some very beautiful lines both at tlie commencement , J and in the course ofthe opening portion of the pjem .

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      wutocrate , Catholio landlords , Catholic adventurers and schemers , these were the conscientious gentry _* he > , relieved from the necessity of swaUowingaBtring of ridiculous oaths concerning the Pope and the Pretender , wereadraitted to Parliament and office , and these were the only parties who derived any benefit from that legislative swindle , " Catholic emancipation . " _O'Coxkell projected , and haa continued , to lead a " moral-force" agitation , which agitation has been the means oi keeping his carcase out of trouble , while it has not always saTed his followers from death and slaughter , as the records of the anti-tithe agitation abundantly testify . He has carried on his " moral-force" agitation for years , and yearly he has sucked from his miserable dupes a princely income _++ 1 _** _--. i _ rt _^ ± \ _*• • « _ n _. * t . _A . 1 _? n m Jw ** % t _fiMM _**

      under pretence of gaining for them "justice" and " Repeal . " Himself and his numerous staff of mendacious tools and satellites have fattened on the pence of the deluded millions , while those millions are as wretched and miserable now as when O'Coxxell commenced his " moral" _agitation . He humbugged his countrymen for years by bringing forward , and then shelving , the Repeal agitation , until at last he was compelled to go on with it , since which time he has _continuallyjugglcd and thimble-rigged to keep up the steam without bringing the agitation to an issue , and never intending that it should come to any issue in his time beyond the "farthing a week—penny a month—shifting a year . " He who hurled his "high and haughty defiance" at the English

      government , played a cravenly part when that "defiance" was answered . Instead of taking a high and noble stand on principle , he wriggled and lied , and tried to show his "loyalty" by reminding his judges how he had helped the English government to hunt down the Chartists . When the Chartists were arraigned at Lancaster on a similar charge , though with one exception they were all poor and untaught —or self-taught men—all who possibly could give utterance to their thoughts did so ; thev boldly defended themselves , and , caring little about personal results , they manfully vindicated tlieir principles and their cause ; but the Repeal leaders feed lawyers , and permitted those lawyers to pursue any course without regard to principle , which those

      legalised traffickers in words deemed the best to save their clients from the law ' s vengeance . At this very time we see a second exhibition of this dastardly spirit by the fire-eating , blood-and-thuuder Nation . Prose cuted for showing in his -journal how Irish railways might be made instrumental in murdering " Saxes " soldiers en masse , Duffy , instead of defending in his own person the prosecuted article , is running after lawyers , whom he will employ to prove , if they can , that the massacreing article meant something altogether different to the construction put upon it by every one who read it . These patriots are well worthy of their leader . O'Coxxell betrayed the English factory children , the Dorchester labourers , and the Canadian patriots . He fulminated his

      anathemas against trades' unions , did his best to get the government to pnt down those only means of protec tion for their labour which the working classes have , and did all that falsehood and slander could effect to destroy the Glasgow cotton-spinners . We ( the writer of these remarks ) shaU ever rememberwith pride and pleasure that at that time we unmasked the " miscreant , " although we had , inconsequence , to suffer the hatred and censure of the shams who tried to shield him from public odium . He was one of the authors of the " People ' s Charter , " and declared on the completion of that document that only the "fool" or the "knave" could refuse to adopt it , yet he _subseqtently repudiated the Charter , and heaped the foulest abuse upon its supporters . He hounded

      on the Whigs to persecute O'Coxxon , Stxphexs , and Oastler , and was not even satisfied when hundreds of victims crowded the gaols . He ( Mr . Howiri ' s moral force friend ) offered the Whigs " five hundred thousand Tipperary boys" to shed the blood of the English working men whenstruggling for those rights he had bidden them contend for . He chuckled and exulted that it was " a handful of Irish boys" who shot Shell and others at Newport . In the House of Commons , when his casting vote would have liberated the Chartist prisoners and restored the Chartist exiles , he walked out of the house and left the victims to their misery . We believe Mr . Howin prides himself that he is an Englishman ; has he forgotten the disgusting calumnies poured out by this

      arch-calumniator sgainst the women of England ? We have not much' * nationality" in our composition , but remembering _^ this calumny , we think praise of _O'tJoxireiifromthelip _^ ofanEnglishmanshouldmake that Englishman blush . Has he not done his utmost to revive national animosities , rekindle national antipathies and set Irishmen in hostility towards Englishmen ? Has he not excited a ferocious hatred against thepeople he calls " Saxons ? " Has he notconfounded the English people with the English government , and taught his ignorant followers to look forward with joyful anticipation to the ruin , not of the government of England , but of England as a nation ? _^ His latest act of rascalitv appropriately concludes this brief and

      imperfect catalogue of bis crimes . He has acted the part of " Lvformer , " and never stayed in his infernal machinations until he has succeeded in compelling the Irish administration to prosecute for " sedition" Mr . Patrick _O'Higoixs , whose only real " crimes" are , that he is a Chartist , and has done more than any other man to make known the villainies of which O'Cosxell as a public man has been guilty . There was a time when O'Coknell was as popular in England as in Ireland , when he was believed in and trusted by the great majority of the people of both countries . He exercised a power which no other man wielded : —

      " Sever had mortal man such opportunity Except Xapoleon , or abused it more . " Had O'Coxxell been an honest man the people of the two Islands might ere this have obtained the rights of citismship , the Charter would have been law , and the peopleof both countries , united and free , would have been progressing in happiness and greatness . He has preferred another course . He has betraved liberty in England , and done his best to revive barbarism in Ireland by rekindling the brutal prejudices which knaves and fools call" nationality . " The " magnificent results" Mr . Howitt speaks of as having flowed from O'Coxxeix ' s public acts , have been triumphs only for the Catholic priests and the Irish profitocracy . He embodies the triple character of bouraeois , lawyer , and Jesuit , and "the curses ef hate and the hisses of scorn "—posterity will i award to him . . .

      Madame _Wolfensbercer ' s " Letters from Naples " are concluded in this » umber of Tait . Her letters have been valuable contributions to the too imperfect stock of knowledge possessed by the people of this country concerning Italy . We hope to have further information concerning other parts of Italy from the samewriter . For the able and courageous manner in which she has exposed the evils of that prime curse of Italy—priestcraft—Madame _Wolfexbergek deserves the thanks of every friend of freedom and progress . We shall , if we can find room , give extracts from these concluding letters in the course of a week or two . _FromDe Quixcev ' s "Noteson Gilfillan _' sGallery o f Literary Portraits" we take the following account of

      THE DEATH OF _SUtllET . On Monday , July S , 1 S 22 , being then in his twentyninth year , he was returning from Leghorn to his home at lend , in a schooner-rigged boat of his own , twentyfour feet long , eight in the beam , and drawing four feet water . His companions were only two , —Mr . Williams , formerly of the eighth Dragoons , and Charles Vivian , an English seaman in Shelley ' s service . The run homewards would not have occupied more than six or eight hours . But the gulf of Spezia is psculiarly dangerous for sma'l craft in bad weather ; and unfortunately a squall of about one hour ' s duration came on , the wind at the same time shifting so as to blow exactly in the teeth of the course to Lerici . From the interesting narrative drawn up by Mr . Trelawney , well known at that time for

      his connexion with the Greek revolution , it seems that for eight flajs the fate of the boat was unknown : and during tuattimi couriers had bi en despatched along the whole line of coast between-Leghorn and Nice , under anxious hopes that the voyagers might have run into some creek for shelter . But at the end of the eight days this suspense ceased . Some articles belonging to Shelley ' s boat bad previously been washed ashore : these might have been thrown overboard : but finally tbe two bodies of Shelley and Mr . Williams came on shore , near Via Beggio , about four miles apart . Both wcre in a state of advanced decomposition : but were fully identified . Vivian ' s body was not recovered for three weeks . From the state of the two corpses , it had become difficult to remove them ; and _tbt-y were , therefore , burned , by the sea side , on funeral pyres , with tbe classic rites of paganism ,

      four Englsih gentlemen being present—Captain Shenlev of the navy , Mr . Leigh Hunt , Lord Byron , and Mr . Trelawney . . A circumstance is added by Mr . GHfillan , which previous accounts do not mention , viz . that Shelley ' s heart remained uneonsumed by the fire ; but this is a phenomenon that has repeatedly occurred at judicial deaths by fire . The remain * of Mr . Williams , when collected from the fire , were conveyed to England ; but Shelley ' s were buried in the Protestant burying ground at Rome , not far from a child of his own , and Keats the poet . Itis remarkable that Shelley , in the preface to his Adonais , dedicated to the memory of that young poet _, had spoken with delight of tbis cemetery—as " an open space among the ruins" ( of ancient Rome , } " covered in winter with violets and dairies ; " adding— " I * ' might make one in love with death , to think that one should be buried iu so sweet a place . "

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

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      had met his fate . Wert thou , oh reH _^ n „» avenging _onhishead the « a _„ _i _^ Deity ;? Were ye , ye elements , in your courses _elS sioned to destroy Km * Ah _, J _^ _h' _^ _' _^ J _^ i surge is _silen : The elements have no voice : In the _2 SS _2 _ST Ld Seem h m ° f * e " _»™ of the mans death . And there _^ rest 8 the 6 tm mendous secret of the character of his destiny . " The latter portion of Mr . _GilfuusY account cannot fail to strike our readers as something most presumptuous and absurd . True , he does not directly aver that the manner of Shelley ' s death was a "judgment ; " but , that he meantThi _^ K \*« A tMaf _liie _fot » _VfiHf 41

      " & _t _) l i r _° an _W avoid believing . Wert thou oh religious seo ! ( what aphrase !) only _f . _CTvf _& _^ ? " -WW . ° f % denied and insulted Deity V There h no mistaking the meaning ot this . In the eternal councils the secret is hid of the man ' s death . " . Nothing of the sort ; there is no hiding , no secret . Mr . De Qciscey says , "The Gulf of _Spezzia is particularly dangerous for small craft in bad weather , " and Mr . Gilfjllax , himself , puts it still more plainly . He says , after the storm had passed , * ' The larger vessels were all safe ; the skiff only had gone down for ever . " What more natural ? What more in accordance with maritime

      experience ? Shelleyperished because he was in a " small skiff , " a vessel not capable of encountering the storm . Had he been in one ofthe "larger vessels , " what rational man can doubt but that he would have been safe . If , indeed , there had been a great many " skiffs" in the gulf , and only one " large ship , " and Shellet on board tbat ship , and if , in the storm , the large ship had gone down while all the skiffs had been saved , then , if the superstitious bad cried " a judgment , " although we should have been as sceptical then as we are now , still the ignorant would have had something like a colourable excuse for their absurd belief ; but , as the caso really was , Afr . Gilfillan ' s pretended "judgment" must appear _ridiculousto the most obtuse . The following paragraph , which we find as a note to the article oh which we are commenting , leaves no doubt as to the causes of Shelley's drowning : —

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

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

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

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

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

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

      GEB 11 AN HOUSES . . German houses are generally _, built upon the principle ofa thorough draught—that is , of obtaining , not avoiding , a thorough draught . Opposite a door , window , passage , or gateway , there is usually another door , window , passage , or gateway ; and by these means you continually find _yourself in the centre of a strong current of air . It does not matter in the warm seasons of the year ; but in the winter or other cold windy months , and more particularly in _lihenish Prussia , it is dreadful . In addition to this , the doors and windows do not fit close , so that you may sit and roast your body close to your stove , with a draught cutting your ankles off , from a long gap underneath tlie door , and another draught cutting vour throat from the tide andchinks ofthe window-frame .

      We have sat at dinner on a cold windy day in winter , in a room like an oven , but with our feetas cold as ice , from the wind of a great stone hall below , that had a wide staircase opposite the front door ( continually opening ) , the head of which staircase was directly facing the diningroom door , the saW door not touching the floor by at least half an inch all along . As there are no carpets or other impediments tothe wind , we had it "' fresh" as any of the doors below leading to street or garden were opened , to say nothing of open windows . Then , the method of warming the rooms in winter by the German stove , is detestable . You are either _matfe hot to suffocation , the horrid thing becoming red-hot , or it does not give out half enough heat , and is often the only warm thing in the room . If _tlicstot-e was alightand warm , we were never

      able to convince any host or hostess of any house , public or private , that this fact was not the principal consideration , and that it was the person occupying tlie room who oughtchieflytobe considered—it waswhethcr he was warm _orVioId , —that was the point ; the stove being warm was , in itself , little or nothing to the purpose—the stove waa not lit to warm itself only . It was of no use;—they smiled , or took it amiss , aud went away , saying , "Englanders were an original people ! " Sometimes tlie stoves are lit by an aperture from the outside ofthe room , so that the regulation of the temperature being thus totally out of your hands , they cither freeze you , or regularly bake you , just as the ease may happen ; and you have no remedy but t * run out of the room . In the comforts and luxuries of * sociul life , Germany is a hundred years behind England .

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

      wisely of the same width as the bed . The consequence is that half a dozen times in the night you are awoke by the cold coming in at ne _' side or the other ; in your efforts to repair tlie opening you make an opening at the other side , and by tlie morning your bed-clothes are huddled round you in no shape at all , and with no good success . So much for blankets ; but very often your only bedelothes is a sheet with a stuffed bag , in fact a small feather-bed laid over it . Now this puffed bag , which covers you , is just the width of the bed , or something less , and little more than two-thirds of its length ; und here is a scene of misery ! You must inevitably lie in the shape of a frog , or your neck and shoulders would be quite uncovered , except by the mere sheet . A quarter of an hour of this , and you are sure to be in a vapour bath , the feather-bag is so excessively hot ; but every time you turn from one side to the other , the narrow fat covering jumps np somewhere , and lets in the freezing air ot your winter chamber . If you turn at aU hastil y , you raise the thing

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      in both sides , and a thorough draught instantly passes through jour hot vapour bed , and astonishes your poor legs aud back . Sometimes in the night , and in darltneis you have " a scene" with your feather-bag , which can scarcely be described . You awake with a frozen limb , or side , or shoulder—endeavour to adjust the bag and cover yourself properly—find you have gQt the t ] lmg br ( md _ ways over you instead of _long-wajs—try to put it rightit gets corner-ways—then _no-how-changes its shape so as utterly to baffle and confuse you in the dark , till you donotkuow _. andfind it impossible to discover , whether you are in a wrong position in your bed or have got the bag wrong;—you are in a fever-it now gets hotter tlian ever , and less m size—becomes elastic , perverse , alivehas a will of its own—nnd finally slips off upon the floor , either rolling underneath the bedstead , or getting itself involved with legs of chairs , ss that you are compelled to get out in the frightfully cold air and grope about in the darkness , upon the icy carpetless floor , to recover your detestable and accursed companion . _IJr '

      GERMAN COOKEBr . Many of their dishes are excellent ; and of their three hundred methods of dressing potatoes , a very desirable selection might be made . A great many of their aoups also , fw flavour , wholesomeness , and economy , are not to be surpassed . But for originality , for inventiveness , for the bringing together of the most apparently uncongenial and incongruous materials , they certainly exceed any . thing tbat an Englishman could imagine . The table d'hote of a good hotel always presents an agreeable variety . _Pea-soup with slices of raw beef in it , or followed by raw herrings ( " cured" in some way , but not cooked ); baked beef with preserved plums , and hot yellow goose fat laid upon slices of brown bread or toast , may seem rather startling to delicate stomachs . Uaked ducks

      stuffed with chesnuts and ouions , and garnished with a sauce of pickled cherries or very sour brandy-cherries ; potatoes fried with vinegar and sugar ; turnips covered with cinnamon ; and black pudding " assisted" by baked pears preserved in syrup ; potatoes stewed with onions and sugar ; French beans fried in brown sugar ; and boiled salmon smothered in custard , or a light batter pudding;—all these may appear ingenious , if not generally seductive .. After a great many dishes of this kind , the last that comes before the desert , is almost always hot baked mutton with a rich brown sauce , mad _« " thick and slab . " The following specimeus of _Kocli-Kunst will also be found interesting : —a duok Bluffed with almonds and apples ; raw ham , with pancakes and salad ; potatoes and caraway comfits ;' a turnip sliced , and made delioious

      with rock-salt , pepper , and caraways to be eaten with coffee ; a hare stuffed with chesnuts , & c . In the matter of poultry the German cooks have need of all their art , as there is really very little flesh upon the bones of their fowls ; and a goose is commonly a mere skeleton , with a griBtle and a thick yellow fatty tough skin over it ; in fact , an English friend has truly designated it when he said a German goose was just like " a little fiddle in a leathern bag . " The use of blood in many of their dishes is alarming to our notions of refinement , especially as it is made no secret of "the art , " . but is openly carried in jugs and cups from slaughter-houses . The legs of mutton are also apt to be very muscular and pipy . The King of Prussia sends to Windsor for 7 iis mutton . How gladly would every Englishman in Prussia do the same .

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

      THE GERMAN NATION . In concluding this series of papers , the "Englishman is Prusfiia" requests permission to offer one or two emphatic remarks . Much has been said of a disparaging kind in the views ha haa taken of the polities , religion , morals , and customs of Prussia nor have various objectionable characteristics and domesticities been allowed to pass without comment . All he can now say is this , he has spoken the truth exactly as it presented itself to his mind . But no disparagements that he lias thought himself bound to utter—no sense of absurdities , incongruities , and short-comings , have in any respect altered bis estimate and opinion of the essentially high qualities

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

      Several " reviews" conclude this number , including a brief , not very clear , but on the whole , very favourable notice , of Mr . Cooper's " _Pargatory of Suicides . "

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      _SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL _MAGAZINE-Jawjarv . London : Simmonds and Ward , Bargeyard , Bucklersbury . When this periodical commenced , in January , 184 i , there wcre then several journals in existence devoted to Colonial and Indian affairs ; others have started up in the interval ; but , we believe , with the single exception of one weekly journal , this magazine now stands alone as a literary representative of the British Colonies . Amidst the rise , decline , and fall of so many similar publications , it is pleasing to observe the success of this one . We believe that success has more than fulfilled the most sanguine expectations of its projectors . This is gratifying to us , inasmuch as enterprise , industry , talent , and honesty ,

      by whomsoever exhibited , command our admiration ; and the parties possessing these claims to public support , our best wishes . True , we see some things in perhaps every number of this magazine we cannot accord with , opposed to our own principles , or at variance with our own views , but we are not so Utopian as to imagine we can find all men , or even the majority , coinciding with us in all things . We are satisfied if we can find the writers ofa publication like this exhibiting their faith in human progress , and helping that " progress" by representing the interests and vindicating the claims of our brethren beyond tlie , wave , at the same time adding to the information and enlarging the sympathies of their

      countrymen " at home . " An important and interesting "Account of the Settlement , of Nelson , New Zealand , " opens this number . The description is by a writer on the spot , and apparently has not the least tinge of exaggeration ; the article bears evidence of " plain sailing " throughout . The " Account of the Liberated African Establishment at St . Helena" is continued in this number . The author of these articles writes weft , and makes subjects , otherwise repulsive , _resdnble , and even interesting , by his manner of treating them . He tells us that Lemon Valley , the residcuce and burial-place ef Napoleon , has , since the removal of the withered remains of him ,

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

      interesting account of ' Tho Mahogany Twe of Honduras ' describes the tree in its natural state , tells of its discovery , and relates the toils and difficulties encountered by thecuttcrs of this valuable wood . This number contains tho fourth of Mr . M'Combie ' s " Australian Sketches , " describing Melbourne and New Town , Port Phillip . The principal of the _remaining artioles are " Notes on the Sandwich Islands , " " Sketches of Santa Cruz and St . Thomas , " " The Indians of Orialla , " and " lteminiscenees of the Island of Cuba . " The poetry of this magazine is usually of a superior order ; there are two beautiful pieces in the present number , one we select for the gratification of our readers : —

      THE INDIAN VOYAGER . BV HENRV _H . BRBEN , XBQ . I ' ve wandered in distant regions , The homes of the fair and free ; Of wealth and poverty . I ' ve counted the hostile legions : Prince , pauper , and priest ; Gold , galleys , and glee : Oh ! let me feast with the savage beast , In the wilds of my native sea . I ' ve traversed the fields of the stranger , By river , road , and rail ; Alas ! e ' en those who quail But little hiuigine the danger : Train , tunnel , and track ; Burst , boiler , and break : Oli ! bear me back to my mountain hack , And my boat on the gla 6 sy lake .

      I ' ve dwelt in the City of Wonders , The haunt ofthe worldly-wise ; Their sullen , clouded skies , No 6 unshinc of hcav ' n ever sunders Fog , funnel , and foam ; Cold , catarrah _, and cramp : Oh ! let me roam to my tropic home , Illumined by nature ' s lamp . I've loitered in grove and in garret , Long sacred to lyre and to lute ; But now , unpaid , all mute * Hangs the harp of a Byron or Barrett Hate , hunger , and hire ; Drudge , drivel , and drone : Oh ! let mc fire my rustic lyre In the flash of tho torrid : one .

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      I ' ve _worshlp-cl , in church and in chapel , The type of each Christian scheme ; Here Bigotry raves supreme—There Discord lias thrown down her apple : Cowl , cloister , and cant ; Glebe , Gospel , and gall : Oh ! let me chaunt in the desert haunt A hymn to the Lord of All . I ' ve tarried with Dives , the miser , And smiled in his daughter ' s train—Who would her hand obtain For her wealth not her worthmust prize her

      , , Pelf , plunder , and pride ; Sin , sorrow , and shock : Oh ! let me glide to my homely bride , The bride of my native rock . I ' ve stood in the peasant ' s cottage—The heart-drop hung hi his eye - . His children heaved a sigh For a mess of poorhouse pottage : Tithe , treason , and test ; Guilt , gallows , and gore : Oh ! let me rest my harrow'd breast On the far Atlantic shore , St . Lucia , Nov . 1845 .

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      WADE'S LONDON REVIEW . London : C . B . Christian , YYhitefriars-street , Fleet-street . We have received the December and January numbers of this Review together , and so too , we observe , have some of our weekly contemporaries . We hope this is not to be the standing arrangement (?) , as it looks rather ridiculous for us , in the middle of January , 1846 , to bo commenting on a Magazine published on the 1 st of December , 1845 ; and yet not to notice it at all would be unjust both to the writers tlitrcin and to our readers . The December number contains some most excellent articles . In the first

      place we have a continuation of " 11 Va » abondo , " very cleverly written , and very amusing ; we must , however , make this objection to Master Vagabondo —that one month we have had a chapter and the next month none . It is provoking enough to be baulked in the middle of a good story with the abominable announcement" to be continued , " even when one feels certain that the next month ' s number , if it brings not the conclusion , will , at least , bring the " continuation" of the story ; but how much more provoking it is when one can have no faith that the next number will even " continue" the fragmentary article . More than once the readers of this "

      Review' have been so served by " II Vagabondo ; " thus in No . 13 wc had a ehaptcr of his adventures , " to be continued , " but No . 14 contained no mention of bim . No . 15 ( December ) has a chapter—far too brief , but No . 16 ( January ) has nothing from or of him . This is " too bad . " " The Field of the Forty Fools " is an illustration of Highland life in the olden time . The very title of " A few more Thoughts on Rabelais" will ensure readers for the article . " Lyell's Travels in North America" is a well-written review of Professor Lteix ' s able , impartial , and interesting account of the United States , and North America generally . " The Unhappy Man " is , we are sure , a sketch _fi-om real life . The " Diary of a Modern Traveller" is continued from the preceding number , and gives some graphic pictures of life in the Crimea . This number concludes with a sketch of the career and character of the famous Earl of Mansfield . We give the following extracts from the " Diary of a Modern Traveller" : —

      TBI STEM- OF THE CBIMEA . The _stepp consists of ah- immeasurable turf , mostly formed of , at best , a dozen species of plants , partly social , partly herbal , and partly fruit bearing , and among which predominates the melilot . They are all of a voluptuous growth , manifesting the natural fertility ofthe soil . The eye can descry no tree , no visible height , no water , brook , or spring , only now and then a half decayed draw-well , around wliich lie grouped the panting horn cattle . ( The infancy of civilisation here may be inferred from the mode in which water is drawn from the well at one of the first stations of tbis stepp : namely , ahorse is fixed to a rope , that draws up a pail at the other end of the rope , by being whipped away from tlie spot . ) You meet with camels measuring the distant plain with grave steps ; half savage horsis , avoiding shyly the traveller as well as the hunchbacked beasts of burden ; swine , wild , longbristled , and black , pasturing around the dwellings , as if

      they were the legitimate aborigines of the unpopulated country ; huts , with flat-turf roofs , upon which grass thrives as abundantly at upon the open field ; still farther you meet with whole flocks of wild geese , which frequently approach the traveller , so near at first as to show their fine checkered feathers , and then , after having satisfied this vanity , betake themselves to awkward flight ; also long trains of waggons drawn by two oxen each , _traveling slowly to fetch salt from Perecop to the interior , or corn-brandy to Simpheropol ; finally , the first _Stcpp-Tartars , their heads covered with long woollen caps of sheep-skin , with brown Mongolian faces , from which glare a pair of very small black eyes—these are , together with a burning sun , upon the whole , the leading objects that offer themselves to the view of the traveller through the Nagayian and _Crimean stepp ( as also the _stepps of southern Russia , anil , more especially of the Caucasus ) , from Alesliki via Perecop to Simpheropol .

      TARTAR 1 I 0 DSIS . Particularly uncomfortable for us Europeans is the interior of the house of a Tartar . A roundly vaulted door , tut at tho 6 aii \ o tlwic bo low , as to force u _« y . n .. i _. of middle stature to bend his back in entering , leads to a low ante-room , from which two side doors conduct iuto the so-called parlours , ono of whieh being destined for the mule , and the other for the female inmates . Very strictly separated are the two sexes ; also , among these Mahometans , the women but seldom leave their apartments ( and more especially among the higher classes ) , and even then only very deeply veiled . The cushions or

      bolsters around the walls , the charcoal basins in the centre ; the cooling vessel of the oriental Kalikan , ' or pipe ; the beams of the roof that pass along the ceiling , for the purpose of suspending on them various utensils ; the room freely ascending alter the Italian fashion , as high up as the very gables of the house ; tlie worked carpet , that is not absent even in the poorest dwelling , and tbe low room tables—all this reminds the traveller that he is here in the east , though only on the northern border of it , where the patriarchal and stationary principle already begins to contrast with European civilization .

      Widely varying views have been taken of the Tartar character , our modern traveller says— " My own opinion is , that there is hardly to be found a people more lazy , stationary , and given to fatalism , but at the same time also quiet , harmless , and moral , than the Tartars of the Crimea . Their strict honesty is greatly extolled , a feature that advantageously distinguishes them from the Russians generally . " We must defer till next week any notice of tlio January number .

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      MR . COOPER ' S "DESPOTISM . " We last week reoeived the following letter , which want of room compelled us to defer till this week : — Mn . Editor—I was much surprised and grieved as a Chartist , at Mr . Cooper's letter in last Saturday's Star , respecting the getting up of a Song and Hymn Book . The object f approve of ; bat Mi : Cs arbitrary censorship of the different contributions which may be sent ; his fiat , "That I have license to reject the whole or any part of what you send , " neither . I nor any other man of thought can approve of . Why it is nothing else but right down despotism . Were I a poet , Mr . Editor , and seeking for

      fame , it would not bo in Mr . Cooper ' s bands I should place my work for revision . Who made him sole judge of poetry ? And were he the cleverest man in the kingdom I would protest against one individual deciding upon the claims of many . Mr . C ., as a Chartist , knows our principles to be , that all shall legislate for all . If a song book ia wanted , let a committee be chosen who can settlu tiie merits of the different contributions in verse , but let us hoar no mora in this or any other ease , from a democrat , that I will do this or that . Being no rhymist myself I _canuot be said to write from jealousy—only , not being in llussia , I am no advocate for despotism in

      any shape . Yours truly , Rotherhithc , Surrey . John _Mathias , We give the writer ofthe above epistle credit'for _bslicving himself to be " " a democrat , " but certainly he adopts most extraordinary means to prove his faith in democratic principles . We have turned to Mr . _CoornR ' sletter to the "Chartist Pocts" ( published in this paper of January 3 rd ) and really we cannot see one idea , or one word therein , which can be fairly objected to . Mr . Cooper thinks a good Chartist Song and Hymn Book is needed . He offers to contribute several of his own productions to such a work , and invites all his " rhyming brethren" to also contribute thereto . He adds , very properly , that he must be the judge of tho pieces sent to him , and

      must bo allowed to exercise the power of rejecting the whole , or any part of the songs he may receive Mr . Mathias calls this " arbitrary censorship , " "despotism , " & c . If such be " censorship" and " despotism , " what does he understand liberty to be ? Mr . _CoorEB , for the public good , undertakes a troublesome office without feo or reward . He lives by his pen , yet he offers to give the productions of his pen to aid a public object , lie offers to take upon himself the onerous aud thankless duties of Editor of the intended work , ( a task we don't envy him ) , and he will evidently incur further trouble , and perhaps pecuniary expense and risk , at the same time devoting the profits of the speculation , if any , to * most holy purpose , tho aiding of our Veteran Patriots , and tho Wives and Families of the Chartist exiles . To

      impute to Mr . Cooper "despotism" ic , as Mr , Mathias docs , is monstrously unjust . But Mr . Mathias docs not object to " censorship , " only it must be tho censorship of a " committee . " Thero are too many liberals of Mr . Mathias _' s stamp . Clothe tyranny in a democratic garb , give it a popular name , and forthwith , in the eyes of such men , the devil of despotism becomes transformed into the angel of liberty . We should be glad to know how a committee could decide as to the merits of" Chartist Rhymes" better than Mr . CoorER ? Or how tho decisions of suoh a committee could be more satisfactory than the decisions of Mr . Coofbr ? If Mr . Mathias thinks a committee could make up a bettor Song Book than Mr . Cooper , lot him get together such a committee , and then we shall have two song books instead of one . Again , if the persons whose

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      songs or "hymns" Mr . Cooper rejects , dispute his judgment , their remedy is to publish on their own account , and then we may have a variety of song books . Once for all , we must repudiate and condemn this intolerant and ridiculous system of _fhl mli c _\ _Pt dividual freedom of members of the great Chartist party . We i _w , ~ w » sh men to he free As much from mobs as kings-fron 3 you as me . Mr . Cooper is a Poet ,-a man of _eenius taste and judgment . Gifted by nature wit . tSSS S ich

      nonour to ins class and party . To the name of that party he has clung _dt-spitc the wishes , warnings and objections of those who , to a great extent , have ' it in their power to influence his social existence . It is " too bad that such a man should have his motives misrepresented , and his doings distorted , by the unjust suspicions and surmises of the very parties he is labouring to serve . If Mr . Cooper can do a good thing , let him do it after his own fashion . We would do so ; and we think we know enough of Mr . Cooper to predict that he will so do likewise .

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      EXTRACT FROM A LETTER ON THE LATE CRISIS . [ From Punch , ] The following manly and straightforward letter has been addressed to our respected townsman , Mr . _M'Farlane , by a gentleman holding a distinguished public situation in London . It is the testimony of a person whose means of information cannot be questioned ; and when we name the writer , Mr . M _* -Puncb , of Fleet-street , the public will agree with us , that the composition ( like every other by the same pen ) does honour to the head and heart ' of our countryman : —

      " We are out of office , and Lord Grey has done it all For my own part , I told Lord John that , provided he would go for a total Corn Law Repeal , I was his man . We all said so . Macaulay said so . Lord John agreed _. At the eleventh hour in comes Grey , and says he will not act with Palmerston as Foreign Minister ; and the embryo Cabinet is _destrojed by that ill-timed objection , and the pangs and travail of a week end in bitter disap . pointment , "You will , perhaps , be anxious to know , my dear M'Farlane , how this interposition of my Lord Grey could

      ruin the just-formed Administration . You will ask , is it possible that the world could not go on without Lord Grey and with Lord Palmerston , or without Lord Palmerston and with Lord G rey ? Is each of these noblemen absolutely necessary to the welfare of the empire , and can't we survive unless we have both of them in a Whig Ministry ? You picture to yourself Death intervening—you fancy that tkough Grey should perish , or Temple be carried off to ancestral vaults , or both eat each other up and expire—yet the kingdom would survive , the sun would rise pretty much as usual , and the stocks ( after a period of mourning ) would rally .

      " In this , my dear Mac , you are in gross error . You do not stem to understand that the Whigs are our natural leaders—appointed by Heaven and the Bed Book to rule and govern us . There are about a dozen of this privileged class of noblemen—set apart from the rest of the world—having government vested in them , as priesthood is in the Brahmins , or was in the tribe of Levi . Read the Court Circular about these Whigs—these great irrevocable rulers ofonrs . They see nobody else ; they keep aloof from the world which they govern . It is Lord John goes to _Miuto-house , or Minto to Lord John ; or Lord Palmerston gave a dinner to Lord Minto and _Lansdowne ; or the Marquis of Lansdowne entertained at Bowooa , Lord Minto , Lord Palmerston , Lord John

      Enssell , tic . They see only one another , these great Signiors They decide in their conclaves what is good for us , no doubt . The working people , headed by your Cobdens and Villiers work , and toil , and strive—organise the forces of the country against the Corn Laws—Beat it down ; and then Lord John , comes nobly in , and says , ' Well done , my heroes ; you have conquered in this battle . And I place myself at your head . I have been opposed to your measures for a long , long time ; but you have fought your fight so well , that I condescend to lead you . I am your natural aristocracy—I , and PaJmerston , and Grey , and the rest of us . Our services are priceless _. We intend to come into the ministry upon Jour shoulders , '

      " It was in this way that Louis-Philippe walked into Paris after the three days' righting and revolution in 1830 ; and blessed the people ; and took the profits _, Jand has ruled ever since as Managing Director of the French nation . Philippe was always a Whig . He lived in England , and profited by our institutions . There are forty articles in the Whig faith ; the _thirty-nmc we know of , and the fortieth is : — ' It is ordered by Heaven , and decreed by the laws of Nature , that the Whig Lords should have governance and authority over the people of England . '

      " Lord John is not a proud man , very likely , but he has these convictions before named , and acts upon them . There jou have a proof how honest he is . He conceives the country can't be governed without Lord Palmerston and Lord Grey . They must rule , or Downing-streethas no charms for him . So he doesn't hesitate a moment : office he resigns ; it is impossible without lord Palmerston—the ctunlt _*/ may go to the deuce ; ho can't preserve It without Lord Grey , "I tremble to think , my dear M'Farlane , that some desperate atheists may be even now thinking of denying this old ; dynasty altogether , and asking , "Suppose Grey goes _, and Russell afterwards , aud Palmerston , the God of War , nnd all the race of Minto 1 Suppose , when one lord can't agree with t ' other lord , the third lord finds it necessary to break up a Government ; is all England to be baulked because their 2 ords 2 _tips are so scjueirush ?"

      " I for my part , however , must not speak . I was looking forward to the Tape and Sealing-Wax-ofiice as my berth , and maybe considered an interested party . In my opinion the Whigs are so necessary , that that I don't happen t _^ i _-now ayn body ' else to take their place . But , 0 my dear friend , why—why wcrn't Grey or Palmerston out of the way 1 " Ever yours truly , "T . B . M'Ponch . "To P . M'Farlane , Esq ., Edinburgh . "

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      Cure fob a Bowel Complaint . —The late Lord Evskine being one day indisposed in the Court ot King ' s Bench , told Mr . Jekyll" that he had a pain in his bowels , for which he could get no relief . " " I'll give you an infallible specific , " said the humorous barrister , " get made Attorney-General , and then you ' ll have no bowels . " Emancipation of the "Browns . "—The humane hero , Wilberforce , who , under the standard of Liberty , freed thousands of blacks from their possessors , was not by half the Liberator that he is who _disburdens his own bondsman of their browns!—Mephystopheles . Official . — The unoccupied pedestal in Trafalgarsquare is , we hear , to be appropriated to a fortunate German General , who obtained a field marshal ' s _btdon without ever seeing a shot fired in war . —Ibid .

      Profanity . — That man is profane who stops the flowing of his tears with a handkerchief , because—he dams his eyes . —Bid . Infidel Turk ey and Ciiristiav England . —We gather from a writer in Bktckwood , that wo might learn lessons of wisdom and humanity even from the barbarous Turks . In Turkey , the Criminal Code has been so much amended , that— " The extreme repugnance of the present Sultan to sign death-warrants , even in cases whicli in this country would bo considered as amounting to wilful murder , has rpiidered caDital punishments extreme y rare .

      Hence we much doubt whether benighted Constantinople would offer such ghastly cxliibiiioiis _; as have this week edified the population of Christian London . The Divan does not shed blood in revenge : the Council of St . James ' s still demands an me for an . eve a tooth for a tooth , after the good old Jewish _wiv The English Minister hangs according , as he says to the bible ; whilst it would seem the barbarous Turk legislates in the benevolent spirit of the _JSew Testament . « -P _«» wn _« How to Make a RAiLWAT .-Take a sheet of foolscap paper and a Court Guixie for WW . Pick yonr xLL „« , i H . ioht Honourables . add half-a-dozen

      ex-Members of Parliament , and season with a few merchants and F . tt . S . * _» . Then throw in an engineer a Banker , and a Lawyer ; garnish with imaginary ad . vantages , and serve up m an advertiscmcnt _.-l & _uL _Onsmmmow of a Natubaust .-TMs being - about the K for the meeting of Parliament , the Stag beriMto tow in liis horns . The Rauway-l'igoon makes a deposit of its nest-egg , and the Lawyer-bird comestoclnyit off with his long bill . The latter has ber P repaving all the season for feathering his net , and now succeeds in doing so . —Ibid . A _Diusuwo RELisii .-What a _( _tortllcd turkey is to he insipidity of a turkey boiled is tto _£ _J « » jJ plot ofa drama to a drama of the dull old times . J e . take tho description from a Sunday prmt . _Itistienciously _^ peppered :- " In it ( the Beggar's Pea ton are exhibited * worthy English farmer fmg hi * all , _«» A hoin » _rvinad bv the ravacily ofhs landlord , t ic

      seduction of the farmer ' s beautiful ilaughtfr _, by tlio only son ofthe aforesaid landlord , a daughter filuig accusing her own mother of a robbery in order to _san , herself and child from being turned adrift , _aiu discarded by her seducer , a den of thieves , a burglary , and highum robbery ; tho underplot being made up of tho adventures of a lavev , wanton wman , _** ., & o . There is but one thing wanting in this dchcioin , drama : there is no murder . Wanting blood , it sas the plum-pudding withouHhe brandy _^ _crthete who shall say , with such pieces Chamberlain ( since we must have he is not an admirable schoolmaster lories 1-Md . A Left-handed pOMmum . honour ! you saved my life ! " a captain under whom he had served life' ? ' replied the officer . "Do doctor'" "No , " answered the man _ntmiini

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 17, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_17011846/page/3/