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      GLEE—THE MEN OF KENT . ST JESSE HAMMOND . "When liberty was driven , O ' er foreign realms to roam , " * " . "V- By AVpftoie she was given ^ -j , Our island for her home . The Men of Kent had pitch'd her tent , As if by ancient charter ; And the ; had sworn , as freemen born , Their birthright ne ' er to barter . Then your bumpers raise to your country ' s praise , As queen of the ocean wave ; Be the standing toast , the laud we boast Of beauty and the brave . "When hostile banners floated , And dangers gathered round ; To liberty devoted ,

      The foremost they were found . The Hen of Kent , with firm intent , Her sacred tree to nourish , Ou field or flood would shed their blood , That liberty might flourish . Then your bumpers raise , &c Kow peace , her form displaying , Smiles on their fertile plains ; They join , due homage paying , In patriotic strains . The Men of Sent now dwell content ; But should their country need 'em , First of the free , they still will be The body-guard of freedom . Then tout bumpers raise , 4 e

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      AUACBEOX TIC . BY A FOOTilAN . It ? s wery well to talk in praise Of Tea and Water-drinking ways , In proper time and place ; Of sober draughts , so clear and cool , Dipp'd out of a transparent pool Reflecting heaven ' s face . Of babbling brooks , and purling rills , And streams as gushes from the hills , If s wery well to talk—But what becomes of all such schemes , With ponds of ice , and running streams , As doesn't even walk I

      When -winter comes with piercing cold , And all the rivers , new or old , Is frozen for and wide ; And limpid springs is solid stuff , And crystal pools is hard enough To skate upon , and slide ;—What then are thirsty men to do , But drink of ale , and porter too , Champagne as makes a fi ** : Port , sherry , or the Bhenish sort , And p ' rhaps a drop of summut short—The water-pipes is friz ! JlooiVs Magazine

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      CONDJGSBT ; or , THE NEW GENERATION . Bt B . D'Isbaeli , Esq ., M . P . London : Colburn , Great Marlborough-street . ( Continued from tlic Northern Star of January 4 th . J Book II ., chap , i , opens with a political retrospect of the state of parties in 183 i , in which year the once popular Reform Ministry was upset , and the cagcriy Eought Reformed Parliament dissolved . The partial break-up of the Whig party at that period , the secession of Stanley and Graham , and the queer pranks of Chancellor Brougham , were , according to Mr . D'lsraeli , occasioned by the too great success of the party in the election of 1832 . There were too many

      placehunters and expectants to satisfy , who , being left unsatisfied , speedily became hostile to their own chiefs—intriguers against the existence of their own party . In treating of the position of Sir Robert Peel in 1834-5 , Mr . D'Sraeli takes a glance at the history of the Tory party from the time of Pitt downwards . Pit * is praised as the last of Tory statesmen ; the Duke , —though , as we have previously intimated , not eonsidosd by Mr . D'la'fleli a great statesman , — -is lauded as a great " military genius ; " but the Sidmouths , Castlereaghs , Vansittarts , and the rest of that gang , are consigned to a contemptuous infamy . The following is a masterly exposition of the " Condition of England" in 1816-17-18-19 : —

      THE ECI / E OF CCT-THBOAT O&STLEBEAGU . Sow commenced that Condition of England question , of which our generation hears so much . During five-andtrventy years every influence that can develope the energies and resources of a nation had been aeting with concentrated stimulation on the British Isles . National peril end national glory ; the perpetual menace of invasion , the continual triumph of conquest ; the most extensive foreign commerce that was ever conducted by a single nation ; an illimitable currency ; an internal trade supported by swarming millions , whom manufactures and Enclosure bills summoned into existence ; above all , the supreme controul obtained by man over mechanic power ; these are some of the causes of that rapid advance of material civilization in England , to which the annals of the world can afford no parallel . But there was no proportionate advance in our moral civilization . In the hurrysknrrr of money-making , men-makjag , and macliinemaMng , we had altogether outgrown , not the spirit , hut the organization , of our institutions .

      The peace came ; the stimulating influences suddenly ceased ; the people , in a novel and painful position , found themselves without guides . They went to the ministry ; they asied to fee guided ; they asked to "be governed . Commerce requested a code ; trade required a currency the unfranchised subject solicited his equal privilege ; suffering labour clamoured for its rights ; a new race demanded education . "What did the ministry do I They fell into a panic Having fulfilled during their lives the duties of administration , they were frightened because they were called upon , for the first time , to perform the functions of government . Like all weak inen , they had recourse to what they called strong measures . They determined to put down the multitude . They thought they were imitating ilr . Pitt , because they mistool ; disorganization for sedition .

      Thdr projects of relief were as ridiculous as their system of coercion was ruthless ; Dotli were alike founded in intense ignorance . When we recall Sir . Vansittart with Ms currency resolutions ; Lord Castlereagh with his plans for tiw employment of labour ; and Lord Sidmouth with liis plots for ensnaring the laborious , one is tempted to imagine that the present epoch has been one of peculiar advances in political ability , and marvel how England could have attained her present pitch under a series of such governors . We thank Mr . D'Israeli for his exposure of the ruffianly government , which , at the period he speaks of , weighed like a liightniare on the heart of England , and , Jifce a vampire , drained the Wood of the people . Never be it forgotten that it was that

      government who , having used as tools the brave seamen of Britain to crush the power of France , vrhen no longer requiring their services flung them by thousands into the streets , to perish of hunger , or die as Cashmau died at the Old Bailey , hung on the gallows for demanding bread !¦—that it was that infernal government who wisely and humanely , when the unemployed demanded work and bread , proposed ihe setting of Englishmen to the task of digging holes and filling them up again , as a sufficient panacea for the evils complained of I—that it was that accursed government who suspended the Habeas Corpus Act , and crammed the prisons with the demanders for a radical reform of that House , the corruption of widen was unblushingly proclaimed by one of the jury to be

      as " notorious as the sun at noon-day !"—that it was that atrocious government who passed laws to disarm the people ; to prevent them acquiring a knowledge of the use of anus ; to fetter the right of assembling for the discussion of grievances ; and to prevent the inarch of inquiry and the progress of knowledge by restrictions on the press !—that it was that truth-hating government who plundered and drove Cobbett into exile , and condemned Carlilcand the other advocates of free discussion to years of torturing imprisonment . '—that it was that bloody government who sanctioned the horrible massacre of the people peaceably and legally assembled at Fetcrioo , to perform a constitutional actthat of petitioning the Legislature : and

      who imprisoned Hunt and others for heing present at that meeting , so brutally and horribly put down '—that it was that hellish government who plotted the riotings at London , and Derby , and in Scotland—who hung Brandrefb , Wilson , Baml , Hardy , Thistlewood , and their fellow sufferers—deli berately concocting what they called "treason , " that they might murder patriots as "traitors I" —that it was the chief and king of that government—that bloated mass of heartless sensualism—that beastly incarnation of all the devilries of kingcraft , —Fnm tlte Jb « Tti ,-wrvho thanked the Yeoman Cavalrv butchers of the Manchester people , and sanctioned everv

      atrocity of his ministers , and who , at length , not daring to meet the public gaze , shut himself up in his den , where , at last , he died , rotting away inch by inch ; his death causing universal joy—millions invoking erases on his tomb \—that the prime actor in the doings of that government , the Irish snake Castlereagh , the practical confuter of the fabled deedsof St . Patrick , died by his own Land , a self-murderer , " cutting his own throat at North Cray , in Kent ! " and , lastly ; never be it forgotten that there are yet alive murderous minions of iliat government on whom justice has uot botn done ; and iu reward of whose crimes hanging would be too good—a thousand-told too merciful a return !

      Here is Mr . D'Israeli ' s description of the way in ¦ which things were managed by the bribed supporters and hireling defenders of the Castlereagh regime : — The class of Rigliys , indeed , at this period , one eminently favourable to that fungus tribe , greatly distillgnished themselves . They demonstrated , in a * manner absolutely convincing , flint it was impossible for any person to possess any ability , knowledge , or virtue ; anv Capacity of reason , ray of iaucy or iaenlty of imag ination , -nuo was not a supporter of the existing administration . If any one impeached the management of a department , the public was assured that the accuser

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      had embezzled ; if any one complained of the conduct of a colonial governor , the complainant was announced as a returned convict . An amelioration of the criminal code was discoauienauced , because a search in the parish register of an obscure village proved that the proposer had not been born in wedlock . A relaxation of the commercial system was denounced , because one of its principal advocates was a Sociuian . The inutility of Parliamentary Reform was evtr obvious , since Mr . Risby was a Member of the House of Commons . We must quote the following truthful sketch of the Church-plundering , people-oppressing Whigs : — It is in the plunder of the church that we must seek for the primary cause of our political exclusion and our commercial restraint That unhallowed booty created" a factitious aristocracy , ever fearful that they mi"ht be called

      upon to disgorge their sacrilegious spoil . To prevent tins they took refuge in political religionism , and , paltering with the disturbed consciences or the pious fantasies of a portion of the people , they organised themselves into religious sects . These became the unconscious Prtetorians of their ill-gotten domains . At the head of these religionists they have continued ever since to govern , or powerfully to influence this country . They have in that time pulled down thrones and churches , changed dynasties , abrogated and remodelled Parliaments : they ' have disfranchised Scotland and confiscated Ireland . One may admire the vigour and consistence of the Whig party , and recognise in their career that unity of purpose that can only spring from a great principle ; but the Whigs introduced sectarian religion , sectarian religion led to political exclusion , and political exclusion was soon accompanied by commercial restraint .

      A pretty squad of hypocrites these io set themselves up as " Church Reformers , " " Free Traders , " and advocates of " Civil and Religious Liberty !" The Young Englanders appear to be great admirers of George Canning . Of their favourite statesman we shall have something to say in our next . ( To be continued . )

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      THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE . —January . We are sorry to be compelled to enter our protest against the opening article of this month ' s number-Chap . III . of CarleWs tale of "Fatherland . To serve his own views , which must be of the most contracted order , the author has painted the discontented among the working classes ( by far . the great majority of the working population ) , as being brutes and drunkards in the manufacturing districts ; and ruffians and incendaries in the agricultural . He has done more : he has placed iuthe mouths of the vilest characters , sentiments and phrases embodying ; principles sacred to freedom and justice . That incendiaries and poachers —( poaching we deeni no crime ; the poacher is the "illegal" asserter of a natural

      and inalienable right)—widely exist , we have but too good evidence ; but that either class understand the principles libelled by the author of " Fatherland , " we utterly deny , We feel warmly for the success of the Illuminated ; and for the sake of the magazine , we earnestly hope that Mr . Carleton's productions may be brought to a speedy termination , if they be of a class of which the present is a sample . There is a lachrymose article in the present number , entitled " Royal Funerals—Past and Present , " in which the author laments the decline and fall of those heartless pageantries and glittering follies , Royal Funerals ! The funeral of that rotten debauchee , George the Fourth , and Ms precious brother , the Duke of I . 0 . TL , were , it seems , models of perfection in the eyes of the author of this jeremiad , " typifying the grief of the nation" at the loss of these worthies ; while the recent funeral of the late

      Princess Sophia , which was unfurnished with some of the usual trappings , and conducted with less of dignity than common on such occasions , excites the fierce ire of the author of the paper . Some of his animadversions may be well founded ; but we really think it would have been more in accordance with the declared objects of this magazine , if the lives and deaths , the births and funerals , of the poor—those on whom useless good-for-nothing princes and princesses food and fatten , had been taken into the author ' s consideration , and formed a subject jFor his pen . We gladly cut short these faultfinding remarks to give our meed of approbation to such articles as " Travel and Talk , ^ by LukeRoden ; " Our Dream ;" "A Legend for Christmas Times , " by Angus Reach ; " The Adventures of a Scamp , " &c . From " Travel and Talk , " by far the best contribution to the present month's number , we give the following extracts . We should premise that the scene is "the Eternal City : "

      CASTLE Or ST . ANGELO , The round castle of St . Angelo , at the end of the bridge , has a very imposing appearance ; the square platform on which it stands is so mutilated and changed by buildings and garden walls that one scarcely recognises its original form . "When Adrian , in the very height of the power , splendour , and extent of the Roman Empire , founded this mausoleum ( for such you are aware was its original destination ) , it was cased with marble , surrounded by innumerable columns and statues of exquisite merit , and had a dome surmounted by an enormous cone of brass , something like a pine apple . At such a period , who that looked at the apparently immutable grandeur of that mighty empire , could have anticipated that it would be despoiled of its ornaments and turned into a fortress ? Nay , that the very statues would be used in defence of it , and thrown down on the heads ot the besiegers . How beautiful were these statues may be judged by one of them recovered from the ruljrbisli of the ditchthe celebrated Barberini Faun , at Munich .

      But who indeed can look forward four hundred years a long immortality in the mutations of empires ! ¦ We seem destined to see changes as great several times in a century if the present ungovernable appetite for " Reformations" shall continue .

      THE VATICAN . What an enormous mass of building is the Vatican ; it measures more than twelve hundred feet by a thousand feet ; the rooms are innumerable ; it is impossible to give even a passing glance at them 5 they are reckoned by hundreds—I might almost say by thousands . I must confine myself to a very few of the objects of interest it contains . While my companions rambled about St . Peter ' s for the fifth time , in a sort of quiet fascination which seemed to occupy every sense , I strolled up the steps of its almost interminable staircase , which leads to the Vatican . It was one of the public days , when the galleries of pictures and statues are thrown open to the people , but a small number of whom , however , seemed inclined to take advantage of the permission .

      The first thing winch struck me with surprise was , that there should exist so great a number of genuine authentic statues and busfe of ancient personages , executed during their life—domestic portraits , in fact , not only of the great men of antiquity and of their wives and children , but of the unknown vulgar . Portions of tombs and other monuments to the dead , with their inscriptions , testify again and again to the identity of the motives and feelings of the human race , in all ages and countries . There are epitaphs as tender as the connubial or parental feeling of modem times could inspire , and although the insincerity of such testimonials has passed into proverb , it is evident that they are often dictated by the most affectionate devotion ; one cannot read these inscriptions without a very livid feeling of admission to the inmost sentiments of the men of other days . The large hiatus between Roman and modern history seems filled up , and our own Kings follow in natural succession the Emperors of Home .

      THE "TELLOW TIBEB . " In going to-day , from the Piazza del Popolo to St . Peter ' s , I noticed a long row of boys on the banks of the Tiber , near the bridge of St . Angelo , sitting on a high wall , and occupying themselves iu angling ; I say angling—not fishing , for the prey was the rubbish floating down the muddy river—sticks , rags , bits of board , hay , straw , and a thousand other things were the reward of their patience and industry ; from time to time , as a prize of greater magnitude or value wa 6 lifted aloft , n loud shout from the others testified their delight , and showed their unselfish dispositions ; to be sure the party might have been gregarious , and seeking their prey in partnership ; but when a thing admits of assigning two motives , let us take the best . The amusement will give some conception of the beauty

      of the " yellow Tiber , as it was called twenty centuries ago —a more disgusting and filthy ditch cannot be found . It appears that these boys , like the chiffoniers of Paris , form a regular class of the population ; and it is strongly suspected that while some are fishing below , others are occupied higher up the river in throwing in the prey ; a very safe kind of robbery from its difficulty of detection , and the impoisibility of identifying the thief and the receiver of the stolen goods . We can give our unqualified approval of the illustrations tothisnumber . "Our Christmas Dream , " by Phis , is excellent ; but " Broad Lea Farm , " by Prior , is a gem of beauty . We should add that some clever reviews of new hooka conclude the present number .

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      GEORGE CBTJIKSHAXK'S TABLE BOOK . Edited by G . A . a'BECKETi . 194 , Strand . We hail with pleasure the appearance of this new candidate for public favour , appearing as it docs under the management of two such talented men as the universally popular George Cruikshank , and the author of the * ' Coniic Blackstone . " The illustrations arc of the first order , especially the frontispiece , which is the most beautiful and elaborately-finished etching we ever remember to have seen . The literary portion is hardly equal to what we had expected from the pen of the editor ; the usual allowances , however , must be made for the difficulties attending the " getting out" of a first number . Doubtless , supported by the encouraging patronage of the public , improvement where required will speedily Tbe visible . We q note two extracts : —

      TBE PHILOSOPHY OP CATTLE SHOWS—PBIZE PABPEBS . The present is the age of enlargement . Shopkeepers make arrangements for the enlargement of theirpremises ; the legislature decrees the enlargement of jiri- "n « ior debt ; newspaper proprietors enlarge their sliee : . 4 : ai ; •! . in order to keep pace with the cnbrp-.-d viuws which arc i . vevalent in the present day , tho agriculturists have cojhmeueed permanently enlarging their cattle . Perhaps the remaius of gigantic animals that geologists have occasionally lighted on , may be traced to some antediluvian oattleshow , and our ancestors may have rushed to an exhibition

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      of prize mammoths with the same eagerness we of the present day evince in running after overgrown beeves and alarmingly blown-out muttons . As we are informed that there is still " room for improvement , " we must presume that more extensive bullocks , and more extravagantly exaggerated sheep than any we have yet seen , are threatened by the Smithfield Cattle Club . To us there is something painfully pantomimic in the thought ; and we look forward to the possibility of the extinction of mutton chops , except as huge joints—a state of things which will be ruinous to the poor chop-house interest . Already does Brohdignagian beef choke up the entrance to the butcher's shop ; and extensive indeed must be the scale upon which the business of weighing it is conducted . It has occurred

      to us that the same care anil expense which are lavished on the fattening of animals might he beneficially applied to the feeding of our own species , and we should suggest that the experiment should be triad , by offering premiums for prize paupers . Overseers and relieving-officers might be justly proud of sending up favourable examples of what could be done by judicious dieting ; and the Poor-Law Commissioners would no doubt bo glad of the opportunity of vindicating their system from the . starvation stigma which is now generally attachod to it . A fat pauper , labelled East Itetford Union , would be the best answer that could be made to the reports which have gone abroad with reference to the workhouse regulations of the place alluded to .

      CUTTING DOWN AN ARTICLE . A Dialogue between an Editor and his Amanuensis . Editor . —Let me see . We have to fill a vacant space of half a page . "Whatarticles have we to select from ? Amanuensis ( reading titles ) . — " lines written to King Charles the night after his execution . " " The "Wars of the League , a tale of the Corn Laws . " " Stanzas addressed to a young lady on her having asked the author whether he danced the Polka ? when he said , he did not , and she recommended him to take some lessons , when he replied he certainly would . " Editor . —The title of that would have answered the purpose if it had been a little longer . Proceed . Amanuensis . — " Love and Madness , by one who has known the One , and is still suffering from the Other . " " The Bell Ropes , a Sequel to the Chimes . " "A Sonnet . " Editor . —Ah ! let us hear the sonnet , That will give us the required quantity if the quality happens to suit . Read it out , if you please . Amanuensis ( reading ) .

      TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON . " Thou art a famous general indeed . " Editor . —Everybody knows that . Cut it out . Amanuensis ( reading ) , " To thee the wreath of glory is decreed , " Editor . —Very true ; but as that forms the rhyme to the previous line—it must come out . Amanuensis ( reading ) , : " Sot Hannibal , not Soult , not Marshal Hoy , Not Blueher , not Napoleon , not Dessaix—" Editor . —The reader will never take the trouble to untie all those knots . Cut them out . Amanuensis ( reading ) . "Not Alexander when he fought and won , Sid do the noble deeds that thou hast done . " Editor . —That not being as it were tied to all the other nod , the first line must be omitted , and the second being dependent on it , must go too . Cut it out . Amanuensis ( reading ) . " Great in the senate , greater in the field ,

      In neither wert thou ever known to yield . Editor . —Poetically pretty , but historically false . He yielded in the senate once or twice . Cut it out . Amanuensis ( reading ) . " Mercy 'tis known has ever been thy creed , Though none so well can make a people bleed . " Editor . —Capital ! Excellent ! An admirable article ! Amanuensis . —It ' s all cut out !!! Editor . —Yes ; but we can restore some of it . I have it . Begin with the first line and end with the last , commencing the latter with " For" instead of " Though , " Prefix as a title the article— " Epigram on General Tom Thumb , " and read it to me . Amanucntis ( reading ) .

      EPIGRAM ON GENERAL TOM THUMB . " Thou art a famous general indeed , For none so well can make a people Weed . " Editor . —That reads very well . Let it be put into type immediately , [ Exit Amanuensis . Editorjfalls asleep over a pile of Correspondence . ] We should add thattne Table Book is most elegantly got up , handsomely printed on fine paper , the cover only being a treat to look upon . Wo hope George Cruikshank's Table Book will he found on the tables of thousands of his admirers .

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      DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE . —Jashaey . This new Magazine is a " sign of the times . " Let sceptics doubt and croakers growl , questioning the progression of the human race : that progression is rapidly emerging from the chaos of doubt , and becoming a " great fact , " which ere long none will dare to gainsay . But a few years ago the - reading world was led captive by the magie pen of a Scott : and that world —( what a microscopic atom compared with the reading world of the present day ! J—was moved to transport or to tears by the chivalric doings and unmerited misfortunes or fictitious sorrows of gallant knights and ladies fair . All this is chanced . Now Charles Dickens and osiers like

      him have effected a revolution in novel writmg / r'lfc is the meant , not the few , who now form the materials from which are quarried the heroes andheroinea of fiction . It is no longer courtly intrigues and aristocratic broils which afford themes for the " peerage of the pen : " but , on the contrary , matter-of-fact struggles , about the genuineness of which there can be no mistake , —the struggle for life and right in which the mighty order of workers—no Counterfeits , are the actors . It is not the rose-water sorrows of queens and ladies , but the scalding tear-drops of suffering women and martyred children , which , proclaimed by the novelist , now excite the sympathies of the vast and ever-increasing " race that read . " Truth w strange . yes , is stranger than fiction , as now proven by the " annals of the poor , " in our day , for the first time , fairly published in the sight of earth and heaven . Surely the reign of wrong is

      drawing to a close ! Surely the day of suffering is coming to an end ! when those to whom heaven hath given the gift of genius , no longer prostitute their powers to the service of falsehood and tyranny , but use them for the god-like purpose of vindicating the truth , and smiting oppression from the heights of power to the depths of impotence . We have named Charles Dickens as one of the principal promoters of this revolution in literature : but we must not forget Thomas Hood , Douglas Jorrold , and many other kindred spirits . It is with this last-named gentleman we have now more particularly to do . His retirement from the editorship of the Illuminated Magdzine afforded us unmixed pain ; and we arc sure excited the regrets of some thousands . It is , therefore , as may be supposed , with no ordinary feelings of pleasure that we hail his re-appearance as editor of the new magazine now under -notice .

      This magazine is intended to be devoted to the consideration of the social wiints and rightful claims of the People . In tlic language of the prospectus , "it is intended that it shairappcal to the hearts of the masses of England . " This is taking high ground : but we have faith that the Editor is a man fully capable of maiutainingli is position . " It is our belief , " says he , "that the present epoch is pregnant with move human interest than any previous era ; as it is also our faith that the present social contest , if earned out on all sides with " conscience and tender heart , ' must end in a more equitable allotment of t-lio good provided for all men . To aid , however humbly , in this righteous and bloodless struggle is a truer , a more grateful glory , than any glory blatant in gazettes" We add , Amen ! and mav thesuccessof Mr . Jcrrold ' spresent undertaking he every way commensurate with his hopeful aspirations , and the mighty good he sets himself to help to accomplish . ...

      _ ... , , The present number opens with a tale by the editor , entitled "St . Giles and St . James ' s ; " it is written in the author ' s best , inimitable style , and will stir tlic hearts of thousands . We give the

      INTltODDCTION . Our first paragraph shall be a confession of ignorance , We know not the geuealogy of St . Giles . All we know is tins . Our St . Giles was l ) orn—we can liardly say first saw the light— in Hampshire llog-lailO . We believe that we arcpretty sure of his fatlicv , bnt at once lose ourselves socking his grandsire . We are immediately in a genealogical fog , without even a link ' s end from the Herald ' s-oflice to guide us . True it is , we might , if we would , sit contentedly down in the darkness , aiid our imagination , aided by ob ' scurity—as men are apt to close their eyes when they would tako a bright internal look —might in a trice discover the family tree ; now complacently following its branches as they waved towards the court-end of tho town , and now avoiding theni as they strode towards Tyburn . We might do this , for it . ha ? been done many a time , and for only so inueh hard cash Bnt can the family of St . Giles fee us for the labonr ? J » 'o . Then we trust wo are not so wholly lost to the

      decenciesof life as to he gratis . Nevertheless , we oive some explanation to the polite reader , for that Wv have given typographical precedence to St . Giles to the apparent injury of St . James . ' We think we have a just re :- ,, mi for this . There appears to ub—and sure we are the ! iUe ojrinion burns in the breasts of many most rcspecta ? : o people—more of the original animal man in St . Giles ' .: an in St . James . lie seems to vindicate , and that In-azc uly , unblusliingly , the baseness of his origin . He stands before us a creature of the earth or rather , of the mud of the earth . Kit he otherwise , then has St . Giles again and again been much abused , mistaken .

      The very nakedness of St . Giles—according to our heraldry—makes him elder brother of St James . As we consider him , lie is as much the elder , as the bare skin of man is older than than the silks and velvets , that have enwrnpt it . ITe maj be " it marked and branded" vagabond ; but , nevertheless , he is the elder brother . Contemplating him , we behold in his wants—in his fiereem'ss , begotten of these wants—the proscribed from the confines of tViip world ' s Paradise . Consider tlio history of man . Tour vagabond is lost in flit 1 shadows of antiquarian night —dott , your gentleman is a common-place of yesterday ,

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      Upon this philosophical principle do we place St . Giles before St . James , and believe us , dear reader , for no catchpenny reason whatever . We do not s&y Ihat ¦ & three-legged oaken stool is a finer , more commodious chattel , than a gilded chair ; but , in the genealogy of household moveableg , sure we are it ranks as the elder brother , ¦'' ¦ ¦' ¦'¦¦¦'¦ . . St . Giles and St . James ! . Is it possible they can be brethren ? Every particle of their faces , every atom of their covering , cries " No ; " externally , as different as the aforesaid three-legged stool and glittering chair ; and yet , in truth , of tho same frame-work—the very same . Impossible ! Let us see . : " ' -What a clumsy thing is this three-legged stool ! What heavy joinery work ! Surely it was ghnpud by an adao , and put together by some bungler , ignorant of the craft . What a . piece of stark vulgarity !

      . How very handsome the chair of ceremony ! How soft to the touch—how pleasant to the eye ! All damask , carving , and gilding . Well , wo have stript away the covering ; we have scratched a little of the gilding off , and what is there beneath ? Why , oak—mere oak—a younger branch of the tree—a piece of kindred wood to the threelegged stool . The same material makes stool and chairbut then the magical delusion worked by damask , gold , and dainty carving ! In this way it is our hope to show St . Giles and St . James—to prove their brotlierhood—their identity of material . We may , here and there , scratch a little of the gilding off one , but only to display the kindred nature of both . Thus , St . James may sometimes appear to be only St . Giles better stuffed , and with a brighter covering .

      Into the tale of "St . Giles and St . James , " it ig not our purpose to enter , more than by remarking that its ol ) ject is evidently to contrast the misery and crime-creating influences of the one with the Sybarite gorgeousness and heartlessness of the other . The subject of the opening chapters is the finding , on a bitter winter ' s night , of an ¦ unfortunate child ( the " St . Giles" of the story ) and its supposed mother , freezing to death on a aoor-step . The watchmen , who have been aroused from their slumbers , don't know what to do with the woman , because " she isn't dead , and she isn't a breaking the peace ! " It being too late to get her into the workhouse , she is taken to the watchhouse , where she dies . Here is a burst of eloquence such as few men could pen , in denunciation of

      ; . MAN ' S 1 NHUMAN 1 TS TO MAN . ^* F 6 r an instsmt the watchmen in silence gazcd . upon the babe . Even their natures , hardened in scenes of crime and destitution , were touched by the appealing innocence ef the child . " Poor little heart ! " said one . " God help it ! " cried another . Yes : God help it ! And with such easy adjuration do we leave thousands and tens of thousands of human souls to want and ignorance ; doom them , when yet sleeping the sleep of guiltlessness , to future devils—their own unguided passions . We make them outcasts , wretches ; and then punish , in their wickedness , our own selfishness—our own neglect . We cry " God help the babes , " and hang the men . Yet a moment . The child is still before us . May we not see about it—contending for it—the principles of good and |

      evil ? A contest between the angels and the fiends ? Come hither , statesman ; you , who live within a party circle ; you , who nightly fight some miserable fight ; continually strive in some selfish struggle for power and place , considering men only as tools , the merest instruments of your aggrandisement ; come here , in the wintry street , and look upon God ' s image in its babyhood ! Consider thi 9 little man . Are not creatures such as these the noblest , grandest things of earth ? Have they not solemn natures —are they not subtly touched for the highest purposes of human life ? Come they not into this world to grace and dignify it ? There is no spot , no coarser stuff , in the pauper flesh before you that indicates a lower nature . There is no felon mark npon it—no natural formation indicating the thief in its baby

      fingersno inevitable blasphemy upon its lips . It lies before you a fair , unsullied thing , fresh from the hand of God . Will you , -without an effort , let the great fiend stamp his fiery brand upon it ? Shall it , even in its Bleeping innocence , be made a trading thing by misery and vies ? A crea . ture borne from street to street—a pieco of living merchandise for mingled beggary and crime ? Say , what , with its awakening soul , shall it learn ? What lessons whereby to pass through life , making an item in the social sum ? Why , cunning will be its wisdom ; hypocrisy its truth ¦ theft its natural law of eelf-presei'vation . To thii child , so nurtured , so taught , your whole code of morals , nay , your brief right and wrong , are writ in stranger figures than Egyptian hieroglyphics , and—time passesand you scourge the creature never taught , for the heinoiu guilt of knowing nought but ill ! The good lifts been a sealed book to him , and the dunce is punished with the

      jail . Doubtless , there are great statesmen ; wizards in bullion and bank-paper ; thinkers profound in cotton , and every turn and variation of the markets , abroad and . at home . But there are statesmen yet to come ; statesmen of nobler aims—of more heroic action ; teachers of tho people ; vindicators of the universal dignity of man ; apostles of the great social truth , that knowledge—which is the spiritual light of God—like his material light , was made to bless and comfort all men . And when these men arise—and it is worse than weak , it is sinful , to despair of them—the youngling poor will not be bound upon the very threshold of human life , and made by want and ignorance , life ' s shame and misery . There is not a babe lying in the public street on its mother lap—the unconscious medirant to ripen into the criminal—that is not a reproach to the State ; a scandal and ' a crying shame upon men who study all politics , save the polities of the human heart .

      We have left ourselves no space to do more than merely enumerate the titles of the other articles , most of which are of the first order of Magazine literature . " Shadows of coming events" is a most able political article , the entire of which could we transfer to our colomns , would express our own views on the questions on which it treats . " The finery of war" is sufficiently explained by its name , and is all that could be wished tor on such a subject . " Recollections of Hazlitt" we have not found time to read . " A few words on early Shop-shutting " ably advocates the cause sought to be served . " A history for Young England" is the commencement of a series of papers , the first of which is interesting ,

      chiefly for the extracts it contains from the writings of that great Englishman of whom our country may well be proud—Sir Walter Ralei g h . We shall look forward to the continuance of this " 11181017 " with some interest . " The Hedghog Letters , " containing the opinions and adventures of Juniper Heilghog , Cabman , London , and written to his relatives and acquaintances in various paints of the world , are rich indeed . The second of these lettera , _ smashing \ ip the Puseyite system , is capital . If this Magizine continues as it has begun , succeed it must . To believe otherwise would be to doubt the potency of truth and despair of the cause of humanity .

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      LETTER OPENING AT THE POST OFFICE , Watson , Paul's Alley , Paternoster-row . This tract is mainty a reprint of an article in the Westminster Review for September , 1844 , entitled " Mazzini and the ethicstf Politicians . " There is also added to the reprinted article , a communication from Mr . Mazzixi , giving an account of the heroic brothers Bandiera , with some particulars of their foul murder by the infamous Neapolitan Government . The tract is one of the best of the many excellent works published by Mr , Watson , and

      cannot fail , if widely circulated , to do good service to the cause of liberty . The space occupied by the preceding reviews compels us to be very brief with our remarks , and prevents us doing anything like justice to this welltimed publication . This , however , we the less regret seeing that the small sum of fourpence will put the reader in possession of the work itself . The Westminster Reviewer commences his masterly article with the following plain-speaking introduction : —

      Wo feol it incumbent upon us to denounce , in the strongest language we can command , a pr inciple of administration , which , if carried out , would be found subversive of all the moral obligations of society ; and yet a principle now openly advocated , not merely by political opponents , but in some instances by men with whom we have been accustomed to act , and a class of politicians standing well in the world's regard for public character and private worth . This is honest ; this is bold . The Westminster Review is in its party predelictions a more "Whig ; to denounce then its own party , and to hold up to deserved scorn and opprobrium the chiefs of that party , who equally with they of the " adverse faction" have been guilty of violating the most sacred of the laws of morality ' s code , is a . service done to truth and justice worthy of all . commendation . Pity it is that the Review has found so few of the organs of public opinion to follow its ' noble example . The Reviewer proceeds : —

      • We have long considered the state of our academical and uuiversity education to be the cause of half the errors cbmmitti'ilin legislation ; but of all the evils to lie traced to this fruitful source , none are greater than the moral canker they . occasion . The ethics of Archdeacon Paley and Professor Sewell , —political expediency on the one hand , and blind submission to authority on the other , — tlis" transformations of Ovid and the Ijistory of Punic Wars , leave no place for the duealoguc , or any sound interpretation of Us meaning ; ami the result in after life , when our high-born university graduates appear at the council board , is , as the world lias seen with astonishment , a formal recognition of petty lauceny as a fundamental maxim of state policy . The reports of the Committees of the two houses are ably sifted , and the enormous crimes attempted to bo justified , or at least apologised for in these shameless reports , are brought clearly before . the reader .

      Wo are fully aware ' that those who prepared it ( the report ) , and those who signed it , so bewildered themselves by their own sophistries , that they did not , in fact , well know what they were about ; but we feel not the less necessity of stripping the principle advocated of all disguise , and we would present it to the reader in its naked hidcousuess . ¦ ' A monster of such frightful mien , As to be hated needs but to be seen . "

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      Here , then , is the moral creed of English statesmen in the 19 th century ; or more correctly speaking , a portionof that craft Of government which sets itself above all laws , human and divine . ¦ _ : 1 . Theft is permissible , when information important to the public interest can only be obtained by steal . ino . it from a letter . .. ¦ ¦' - 2 . I . TINO is permissible to conceal theft ; in the tacit fovm of mealing a lettev , so that the fact of its having been opened may never toe detected . 3 . Forgery is permissible for the same object ; in the form of counterfeiting seals and imitating Post-office stamps .

      4 . Tbeachebt is permissible in cases of emergency . The servant may betray his master for the' public goo d ;' the confidential agent may act as a secret spy . The bearer of a written communication , comprising , perhaps , the lives and fortunes of individuals , may carry it direct to their bitterest enemies , and be honourably commended for his breach of trust . 5 . Rogue-making is also permissible ; for the arts of knavery are somewhat distasteful to hoiiGst men , and forgery , in particular , is a skilled profession , which cannot be thoroughly acquired without many opportunities of practice . 0 . Ttrannodb injustice is permissible ; in the form of secret accusations , and secret tribunals for trying a man . in tho dark , upon the evidence of stolen documents , of which the purport may be wholly misunderstood .

      In using the word permissible , we have put the case less forcibly than we should have done , to place it upon its true merits . The business of a public office , like that of the Secretary of State , does not consist in the exercise of optional privileges . Sir James Gtaaham , oi 1 Lord Aberdeen , when they opened Mazzini's letters , did so , not , of course , from motives of idle curosity , but from a sentiment of duty . Observe , then , where our moral legislators are leading us . It is the du ty , say they , of a Minister , in certain ' oases of emergency , ' affeeting 1 important public interests , ' . to steal , to lie , to commit pobgeet , and tyrannous injustice ; and to keep in constant training a staff of knaves fit for similar acts of public service , when not convenient to perform them personally .

      So here we have it proved , proclaimed , made " notorious as the sun at noon-day , " that we Englishmen live under a THING which maintains its power by thievery , lying , treachery , rogue-snaking , and tyrannous injustice ! We shall presently show that murder is also chargeable to its account . Passing over the other portions of this pamphlet , we come at once to the proof of this charge . Our readers will remember the unfortunate expedition of the Brothers BANMEiufrom Corfu to Calabria , where they and their compatriots were brutally murdered , It is proved , in tlic work before ub , that through Mr . Mazzini ' s letters , which were villanoiwly opened by the agents of Lord Aberdeen , our Government became acquainted with the facts of the intended expedition , which it should be stated Mr . Mazzini was doinsr hia f A 4 AWU A V Jrf »»»^ »»^ " » *» '"' ~™ ™ ~— ¦ ' " ~ " ~— — ' ^ w ~ - ~^ «•«¦*•* ¦ ^ ¦ . ww HV 4 > I |> 4 &AU

      utmost to prevent , foreseeing the ruin that would , if persevered in , fall on the actors . The information obtained by such damnable means was communicated to the Austrian and Italian Governments . No information of this—no hint , was given to the patriots . On the contrary , it is shown , beyond doubt , by Mr . Mazzini , that the Neapolitan Government sent its ¦ vile agents to Corfu to lure the unfortunate exiles into the fatal trap set for them . The horrid plot too well succeeded , and the result our readers know . The blood of these martyred patriots is on the head of Lord Aberdeen ; and were there justice to be had in Engknd— did the House of Commons really represent the people of England—before its bar Lord Aberdeen would be impeached , and this foul blot upon our country ' s honour would be fearfully but justly avenged .

      This is not all ; it is now well known that tho Polish Revolution , that strugglo so heartily sympathised with by the people of England , was put down , not by Russian force , but by British treachery ! The vile Whig Government , the hypocrites who at that very time were bawling for " Civil and Religious Liberty all over the World ! " and convulsing England from centre to circumference , with their rascally " Bill " agitation ; these scoundrels were at the same time in league with the ruffian Nicholas , imparting to him every particle of iuformatiou they could obtain which would enable him to thwart the plans of the Polish patriots . It is flow equally well known that some

      hundreds of French , Spanish , Polish , German , and Italian patriots , have been consigned to dungeons , where many of them yet remain , betrayed by the hellish agencies employed by the English Government to ciid the propping up of the continental despotisms . The brief memoir of Mazzihi contained in the Reviewer ' s article is intensely interesting . While it exposes the infernal means adopted by the continental despotisms to keep down liberty , it makes known also , the glorious spirit which , animating the patriots of nearly every nation in Europe , will nevor ceaao its labours till its onds are accomplished—the regeneration of nations , and the universal overthrow of tyrannv .

      The following is the affecting account givon by Mr . Mazzini of the execution of the heroic martyrs;—The Bandiera and their seven companions died calm and intrepid , hearing witness to their faith , as becomes men who die for the Just and the True . One who was present at their last moments at Cosenza , ou tiie ' 25 th of July , speak * of them as of saints , reminding one of the martyrs of the iirst ages of Christianity . The morning Of their execution , they were found asleep , They paid almost minute attention to their toilet , as if they were about to accomplish an act of religious solemnity . A priest approached them : they mildly repulsed him ,

      saying that , having sought to practise the law ot the gospel , and to propagate it even at the cost of their blood among those emancipated by Jgsus , they hoped more from their own good intentions than from his words . " Reserve them , " added one of them , " for your oppressed brethren , and teach them to be what the Cross has made them , !' ree and equal . " They walked to the place of punishment , conversing together , without agitation , without ostentation . '' Spare the face ! " said they to the soldiers , who were making ready : "it was made in the image of God , Viva l'Italu I" This was their last cry upon earth , God and their brothers will recollect it .

      "If we have success , they wrote to me in their last letter , on the 11 th of June , " hasten to join us / If we fall , tell our countrymen to imitate our example ; for life hat been given us to employ nobly and vsefuUtj , av < l the oausefor whinh we shall have fought and died is the purest , the holiest that ever warmed the breasts of men : it is the cause o / Libeuty ., of Equality . 0 / Humanity , 0 / the Independence and Unity of Italy . " Mr . Mazzisi add 3 bitterly , " Such arc the men against whom ^ ow government has leagued itself with Austria and the King of NapteB . " Wo ! Mr . Mazzini , the government of the Aberdeen's and Graham ' s is not our government- ^ -not tlic government of the people of England ; it is the government of the aristocracy and the profit-mongers ; but is no representative of the British pooplo . By tho people tho libcrticidal acts of the government are abhorred and repudiated ; and the actors execrated as not less the dishonourers of their own countiy than the foes of universal liberty .

      We heartily commend this work to our readers , trusting that it will be circulated far and wide . Viva i / Italia ! While Italy continues to produce such sons as the god-like Bandieha , liberty can never be despaired of . 0 land of immortal gjory ^ , th j ^ dciy is coming ! Popes and Kings shall strivo in vain to prevent this resurrection . " The full noon of freed om shall shine on thee yet !"

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      William Tiiom . —The Inverury poet has , wo observe from a notice in the Aberdeen Herald , gone to London to superintend the publication of a new edition of his works . The London papers , particularly Punch and the Examiner , have done much to forward the interests of this unfortunate son of genius ; and we trust they will not lionise him too much , to the injury of his simple , unsophisticated tastes and habits . Poor John Clare ( now in an asylum ) never fairly relished his country life and humble cottage after his acquaintance with London ; and the Ettrick

      Shepherd ( who had always during his stay in the metropolis , half a dozen dinner and supper parties on hand ) was cerfciinly not the better for it . The strong , energetic mind of Burns , it will be recollected , was not proof against the blandishments of fashionable society in Edinburgh . The efforts of the friends of Thorn should be steadily directed towards a permanent provision for him in the shape of an annuity , however small . He is now approaching fifty years of age , and the "light of song" must soon begin to decay . We rejoice to hear , that by his first edition , and the kindness of friends , the poet has cleared above £ 200 . — -Im / crncsj Courier .

      TnE Poet Tiiom . —An Indian paper , just received has the following : — " An appeal to the generosity of the Calcutta community was made not Jong since by the Calcutta Star , and warmly siippoi-ted by the Ilurkara , in favour of the Scottish poet Thorn , of Invorury , Aberdeenshiro , who has undergone much distress , owing to want of employment in his occupation of weaver . Scotland celebrates the memory of Burns witli fetes and processions , leaving her living poet to starve in a garret . " We are happy to say that a considerable sum has been subscribed for Mr . Thorn ; in fact , upwards of £ 100 . "

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      EXTRAORDINARY ADVERTISEMENT . The peculiarity of the advertisements , which sometimes appear both in the provincial and metropolitan journals , has often given rise . to comment . We think , however , that very few among them can compete with the following , which appeared in an American paper more than twenty years since : — THE SUBBCIUBKR Being determined not to-move from this State , re * quests all persons indebted , to pay particular attention to his New definition of an Old Grammar , viz .:

      WIEBENT TENSE . lam * ) In want of money . Thou artf )> Indebted to me . # . . Heist j Shortly to be authorised tor tlic want thereof , to take the body . Unleis'immediate payment ismade , you must expect to take a lecture upon my new plural . The Subscriber offers for sale , at his Store , two rod * south of the Fish-market , the following articles , viz .: — ; SOLID ARGUMENTS . Hot oysters , boiled lobsters , ham and eggs , butter

      and cheese , < fec , < fcc . AGITATIONS . Cider , vinegar , salt , pickles , &o . GRIEVANCES . Pepper-sauce , mustard , cayenne-pepper , &c . PUNISHMENTS . Rum , brandy , &c , &c , &c . SUPERFLUITIES . Snuff , tobacco , cigars , pomatum , &c . EXTRAOBDINAIUES . Sea-serpents' bones , wooden shoes , water witches , &c . N . B . —The above articles will be exchanged for NECESSARIES , VIZ . * . — Bank bills at par , crowns , dollars , half ditto , quartetditto , pistureens , nincneimy pieces , fourpenny , halfpenny ditto , or cents . TBRMS OF PAYMENT . One-half the sum down , and the other half on the

      delivery of the articles * nUDIUENTS GRATIS , VIZ . * . — Those indebted for ... ' . Argument * Must not be Agitated ; Nor think it a Grievance If they should meet Punishment For calling for such Superfluities ;• Nor think it .... Extraordinary That I find it Necessary To demand immediate Payment Andrew Smith The smallest favour thankfully received , * Andrew Smith , t Any one the cap fits . ± Uezekialt Goddard . Sheriff's Deputy .

      A Long Nap . —A young American , who is travelling in Europe , gravely announces in a letter , that Professor Van Grusselbach , of Stockholm , has brought to a Btate of perfection the art of producing a torpor in the system by the application of cold , of'degrees of intensity proceeding from less to greater , so as to cause the human body to become perfectly torpid , in which state it may remain for 100 or 1 , 000 years , and then be awakened to a new existence !

      Abersethy and the Yankee Captain . —An Amo ricau captain , being one morning shown into Abeiv nethy ' s consulting-room , immediately , in Yankeefashion , emptied the contents of his mouth upon the floor . The man of medicine stared—keeping hi 3 hands in his pockets , according to custom , until the patient should explain . " What shall I do for my dyspopsy ? " asked the American captain . " Pay me your fee , and I'll tell you , " replied the doctor . Tho money was produced , and Abernethy coolly replied , " Instead of spitting your saliva over my carpet , keep it to chew your food with . " An Irish officer dreadfully wounded in battle , a * he was lying on the ground near a soldier who was making a terrible howling , exclaimed , "What do yon make such a noise for—do you think nobody is killed , but yourself ?"

      A Sltc " Bet . "—Miss Elizabeth Peabody offered to lay a wager , on the Presidential ek-ction , with any eligible young man , viz ., that if Polk was elected , she was the winner , and should have her opponent for a husband ; but if Polk were defeated , then he * opponent was tho winnoi , and would bo entitled to have her for a "wife ! Who can Beat it . —It is stated in the papers thaff a young wife in Lowell , Mass ., has presented her husband with five cliildrcn in eleven months ! An editor asks , " who can beat it ? " The Baltimore Su » replies by asking , "In the name of Bedlam whp would wish to beat it ?"

      A Contribution to Chemical Science . —MM . Henry and Devergie profess to have detected lead and copper in man . That there is lead , and in large quantity , in the composition of many men , he would indeed bo a loadon man who denied ; but beggars , affirm that there are individuals in the human family from whom they find it utterly impossible to extractcopper ! Tue Salvation of the Country . —The skittlesplaying came off with immense success . Sir Josephs knocked the pins about quite skilfully . Masteg-Bowley took an innings at a shorter distance also j and everybody said that now , when a baronct . and Ms eon played at skittles , the country was coming round , again as fast as it could come . —DicUns .

      Novel Mode of Catching Rabbits . —A corres * pondent of a contemporary says— " When I lived at Seaton Sluice , my companions and I used to go at nights with a dark lantern ou Hartly Links , and catch rabbits with sea-ferrets , as we called them-We got large crabs ( commonly called dog-crabs ) from off the rocks ; we stuck a lighted candle , about onfr inch long , on the crab ' s back , and sent them into the holes , before which we placed a net . Before the crab got far into the hole , the rabbits came tappy * lappy into the nets . In this way we caught numbers of them in a short time . " A Puzzler . —" Mamma , do sheep write ? " "rfo , child . " " Then what do they have pens for ,, mamma ?"

      The Way to serve a Fool . —A wight , rejoicing in the name of Parkhurst , has scratched his name on the windows of several of tho first-class carriages of the Greenwich Railway , and some wag has made the very mortifying addition— " Since hung at Maid * stone . " Both name and history have , on some of the carriages , since bren carefully obliterated , evidently by the hand of the original offender ; for it is not likely that any friend , however well-disposed , would volunteer such a service , and thereby run the risk of being detected by the Company's servants . • Origin of the word Tariff . —The puzzling name "tariff' is derived from tbe town of Tarifa , at the mouth of the Straits of Gibraltar . When the Moors held possession of both the p illars of Hercules , it Avas here that they levied contributions for vessels entoring the Mediterranean—whence the generic name .

      ArosTHOPnE to Gold . —God of the craven ; heart idol of millions , how splendid are thy temples , ho \ r zealous are thy worshippers ! They gather around thy smile in the morning , they leave not thy devotions at midnight ! Thou smilost upon thorn , and they grow mad in the midnight of their palaces * They make themselves monarchs in fancy , and conquerors in dreams . Who can withstand thee ? Thoa leadest the feet of beauty , thou directest the arm of the brave ! thy pathway of triumphs , th y presencethe solace of power ! Thou silenced the voice of clo » quencc when the Macedonian held theeupglittering before the eye of tlic orator ; and the mistress of the world rose before thee in the balance ! Disposer of empiresthou sprcadest over the world . Thy spell

      , nerved the assassin and urged on the betrayer , lhj yellow visage incited the spoiler when he sought thee on the crimson field , and made himself red in the carnage . In all ages thou hast triumphed . Whether in the thirty pieces rewarding a Judas , or the sparkling crown on tho brow of a tyrant ; always alike invincible . The man of business bows obsequiously to thee . Tlic man of fashion falls before thee , and the miser clothes thy garment as though it were the curtains of heaven ! Thou hast a retinue of coaches ,. and an army of slaves . Thou hast a goal of a splendid misery , where the guilt makes her alliance

      with death . The virgin of the sanctuary fears not thy footsteps , and the shorn priest flies not the power of thy magic . —Ossian , How to make a " Gut . "—Get a head of long hair turned up at the ends , and put it on a chapeau Frangais ; take a pair of mustacliios , an imperial and eye * glass ; add to these a blue satin scarf , with a gold pin like a beadle ' s staff , braided coat , crimson waistcoat , ladies' boots , canary kids , a tremendous swagger , and a very small riding whip . Put these together on a block , turn it into Regent-street about three o'clock , and you . will have succeeded in making a perfect Guv . —Punch ,

      Benevolencb . —Why is cold weather productive of benevolence ?—Because it makcB people put their hands in their pockets . Nigoerism . — " I shall retire in dis gust , " as the nigger said to the bur ; icane . An Error of the Press . —A Cambridge paper , giving the conditions of a proposed prize for the best hexameter verses , says " the exercises are to be sent in by tho 31 st of March , and are not to exceed o «« hundred mihs in length . " —Thcee compositors Will be the death of us !

      Wasp-like Women . —My notice was attracted to a lady—no , not a lady , but to the waist of a lady before me Wasps and brush handles , but she was screwed up a few ! I can't begin to find a comparison for it . She was compressed into a span—drawn up almost out of sight—a perfect show . And this is what is called a good figure ! I don't know what sort of a figure , without a figure 8 . Well , some women ara fools , if they are women . Pd rather marry a woman like a sugar hogshead than connect myself with such , a looking hour-glass . —Sam Slick . Good manners are the blossoms of good sense , and , it may be added , of good feeling too ; for it the lawot kindness be written in tho heart , it will Irail-to that disinterestedness in little as well as » ro ? it thingsthat desire to oblige , and attention t » tl ;« . ¦ ratification of others , which are the foundation of gooU manners . — Locke . ' ¦

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      GlLLESFIE THE BURGLAR—ESCAPE AND CAPTURE . On Saturday last , Gillespie , who was arrested on suspicion that lie was one of the parties who broke into the shop of Mr . Grindal , grocer , Wigton , was brought before the sitting magistrates , on Saturday last , and was fully committed to take his trial at the ensuing assizes . ¦ He was immediately conveyed to the lock-up , from which , notwithstanding he was legironed and a person in charge of him prior to his removal to gaol , he contrived to escape , and for soino time succeeded in evading the police . On Wednesday morning , however , he was discovered by Kent , in Botchergate , with " a woman ' s cap and cloak on , and was immediately taken into custody and safely lodged in . the gaol , where he now awaits his trial . He is supposed to have taken an active part in the recent rooberies in this city . —Carlisle Paper ,

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      Janua « i ii , I ,.,. THE NORTHERN STAR . ' 3

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 11, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1297/page/3/