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      3 SJTANNIA TO HIBERNIA ON HER USELESS °° ^ ' MEMBERS . IflliAJaMeinber what wonian t wai-k , y je think Td suffer him at home to lark I j » 4 g iTe it Mm well , and cry «• Don't shirk !" And " JTon- then lazy <" ^ 6 tinake 3 me mention tins just now ! ggre ' s youaidclda' up a row ; i teepin' your Members at home to prate , TOien fiiey ought to be helpin' to legislate . I rant to know of what avail Is Daniel O'Connell and all his tan t ¦ jhey might as ' B'eH have stopp'd in gaol . I tell you what , Hibernia—If I had a Member , &c . jjstfid ofbrealdn ' ofthepeace , infl girin * work to the police , flhj don't you trj to gain your cause jjmwns according to the laws t Siw can O ' Conaell earn his rent Bj staying away from Parliament ! yi ask him how the cash was spent ; And also say—Ifl had a Member , 4 c . ghj . What ' s the good , and there ' s &c use Qi all his railing and abase ; 3 fc bolls so large , his jokes so small , Jnbis Conciliation Hall ? «< Be off at once ! " Fd tell the pack : « About your business in a crack ! " Unless yon wast to get the ' sack ;' For , mark me , gentlemen , " If I had a Member , &c . that would be better , sure , a deal , Than agitatin' for Repeal : A farce , a flam , a pact of stuff I Wnchyou ' ve litenhoax'd withlong enough . Cesae now , give up the wild-goose chase , Before me'tis a hopeless case : Send every Member to his place , With the following observation—If I had a Member , &c . Panel .

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      TO THE VOET MOOEB . jaej s 1 * o one * ° the E ^ es—^ V abandon the earth , to the seraphs , their kindred , our minstrels are flown , jsStsrc left to the land , that is proud of their birth , One ray of their brightness—one poet alone . 3 bere a re many whose numbers are graceful ana fair , ft hese thoughts are harmonious , whose melodies please ; £ ad eatat , as they listen , can idly compare "ffith { he jewels of old simple sparkles like these . 3 u : let the great Master once waken the lay , Once rouse from the sleep that has held him too long , £ ;(! , as from the sunburst the clouds troop away , Shall all be o ' crwhehn'd in his torrent of song . Ose lay of his country—all passion and tears , Ose rrail of her grieij or despair or flisflain , li worth all the efforts—the study—of

      years—0 ! when shall we hear them and hail him again * 3 : d the minstrel awaken , and charm us , as when We inciv from his verse what the spells were of yore ; Ifae tap is his book , and its chords are Ms pen—TCntoar&ui'ss enshrouds theeS—return to us , Moore L . S . c .

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      ? CONINGSBY ; or , THE ITEW GENERATION . BiB . D'Ishaeij , Esq ., IIP . —London : Colburn , Great Marlborough-street . ( Continued from the Northern Star of February 22 J The scene changes from the Cotton-lord' s "happy iaSey" to Coningsby Castle , the seat of Lord Moshocth . We are not in a critical humour this week , in lien therefore of our own comments we give the following extracts : —

      CATHOLIC TEaSECUTlOX OF THE 8 PAMSH JEWS . Eves after the fell of the principal Moorish kingdoms , the-Jews of Spam were still treated by the conquering foihsirith tenderness and consideration . Their num . bos , tfceir irealth , the fact tnat , in Arragon especially , they were the proprietors of the son , and surrounded by warlSe and devoted followers , secured for them & usage ^ iiich for a considerable period iryifTp them little sensible ci tts change of dynasties and religions . But the tempest gradually gathered . As the Goths grew stronger , pen-eraSon became more bold . Where the Jewish popu lation was scanty , they wera-deprived of their privileges

      or obliged to conform under tha title of "NuevoB Chris-Sanos . " At length the onion of the two crowns under Ferdinand and Isabella , and the fall of the last Moorish UngSom , brought the crisis of their fate both to the new Christian and the non-conforming Hebrew . The inquisition appeared , the institution that had exterminated the ilbisensee and had desolated Languedoc , and which it £ hoold ever he remembered was established in the Spanish kingdoms against the protests of the Cortes and amid the ferrer of the populace . The Dominicans opened their fcs tribunal at Seville . How many were burned alive at SeriHe during the fo * t year , how many impr isoned for life .-skat countless thousands were Tisited with severe

      though lighter punishments , need not be recorded here . In nothing was the holy office more happy than in multifsnn asd subtle means by which they tested the sincerity of the new Christians . At length the Inquisition was to be extended to Arragon . Thehigh-spirited nobles of that Idngdom knew that its institution was for them a matter Of life or death . The Cortes of Arragon appealed to the Sing and to the Pope ; they organised an extensive conspiracy ; the chirf Inquisitor was assassinated in the cathedral of Saragossa . Alas ! it was feted that in this , Oat of the many , and continual , and continuing struggles between the rival organisations of the north and south , the

      children of the sun should feu . The fagot and the Sao Senito were the doom of the nobles of Arragon . Those who were convicted of secret Judaism , and this scarcely three centuries ago , were dragged to the stake ; the sons of the noblest houses , in whose veins the Hebrew taint could be traced , had to walk in solemn procession , SfflgaS psalms and confessing their feith in the religion Of thefellTorquemada . This triumph in Arragon , the almost simultaneous fall of the hist Moorish kingdom , raised " the hopes of the pure Christians to the highest pitch . Having puigea the new Christians , they next turned their attention to the old Hebrews . Ferdinand

      was resolved that the delicious air of 8 pain should be oreaihea no longer by anyone who did not profess the Catholic faith . Baptism or exile was the alternative . Hore than six hundred thousand individuals ( some authorities greatly increase theamoant ) , the most industrious , the most intelhgenJi and the most enlightened of Spanish subjects , -would not desert the religion of their fetters . ForthistheygaTe upthedelightfnllandwherein they Sad Kved for centuries , the beautiful cities they had raised , the universities from which Christendom drew for gee its most precious lore , the tombs of their ancestors , the tanplej where they had worshipped the Godfor whom they had made this sacrifice . They had but four months toprepsre for eternal exHe after a residence of as many centBries / dimng which brief period forced sales and

      glutted markets virtually confiscated their property . It iia calamity that the scattered nation still ranks with tie desolations of Nebuchadnezzar and of Titus . Who afe » this should say the Jews are by nature a . sordid people ? But the Spanish Goth , then so cruel and so haughty , where Is he ? A despised suppliant to the reiy Wee which he banished for some miserable portion of the treasure which their habits of industry have again accu-^^• d . Where is that tribunal that summoned Medina *«™ a and Cadiz to its dark innuiation ? Where Is y psa . Its fall , itsnnparalleledandits irremediable feU , samaml yto be attributed to the expulson of thatlarge Portion of its subjects , the most industrious and inteUi-|« K ,-mio traced their origin to the Mosaic and Mahometan Arabs .

      ICCIAJJ GAT . —THE GECHPI CLUB . J ^ j * was a favourite haunt towards midnight of several 1 * y yoniISer members of the party at the castle who twkV ° rda £ afion from the decorous gravities of jwasjiea life in the fumes of tobacco , the inspiration of J ~* f toddy , and the infinite amusement of Lutian fs conversation and company . This was the genial aonr when the good story gladdened , the pun flaahed , and ^ . ^^^ arWedwithjonymirthorsaucyroiniickry . To-^• » being CoTiingsbj ' s initiation , there was a special a ~ ena mating of the Grumpy Club , in which everybody ev i *** * he gayest things with the gravest face , and rnSa ^ canried a forfeit , lurian was the inimitable Terv * T HetoWatal eforwhichhewasfamous , of "the t ^^^^^ econntyfejnay whohaa been established in had ** lor several generations , but who ( it was a fact ) fin ? ^ r ? " distinguished by the strange and humilia-~^> i ^ ou iarity of bein « r Tiorn with sTippii ' s tails . " The

      ^ "lie circumstances raaer which Lucian Gay had Z ^ L ^ oahrted with thu feet ; the traditionary mys-¦» en « L « ^ fema ^ ™ qnestion had succeeded for whicir ^ nSlnie ^ 5 secret ; the decided measures to ertt tfc rf th £ ^^ *** <> llrse to ^ P SnaH / t » . nim onr "Rhen itfirat became prevalent ; and , ^ * ineongin ana result of the legend ; were details to enmifl 1 G 3 ^ wia the most rueful countenance loved pom upon attentiTC ^ ex panaing jntdligenee pre ^ . 7 ™™ l ) er ^ tte Grumpy Club . Pamffiar as all 'werewai iflie stoiy whose stimulus of agonising

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      nabuttj they had alliu turn experienced , it was with estreme difficulty that any of them could resist the fatal exploaon which was to be attended withjthe dreaded penalty . Iiord Beaumanoir looked on the table with desperate seriousness , an ominous pucker quivering rouudhig Up- Mr . . Melton cram med his handkerchief into Ms mouth with one hand , while he lighted the wrong end of a cigar with the other ; one youth hung over the back of his chair , pinchingiimself like a faquir , while another hid his countenance on the table . " It was at the Hunt dinner , " continuedLucian Gay in an almost solemn tone , "that an idea for a moment was prevalent that Sir Mowbray GholmOHdeleyFetherstonehaugh , as the head of the " family , had resolved to terminate for ever these mysterious aspersions on his race that had circulated " in the

      county for more than two centuries ; I mean that the highly respectable family of the Cholmondeley Fetherstonehaughs had the misfortune to be graced with that appendage to which I have referred . His health being drunk , Sir Mowbray Cholmondeley Fetherstouehaugh rose . He was a little unpopular at the moment from an ugly story about Trilling foxes , and the guests were not as quiet as orators generally desire , so the Honourable Baronet prayed particular attention to a matter personal to himself . Instantly there was a dead silence —; " but here Coningsby , who had moved for some time very restlessly on his chair suddenly started up , and straggling for a moment against the inward convulsion but iu Tain , stamped against the floor and gave a shout . "A song from Mr . Coningsby , " said the president of the Grumpy Club , amid an universal and now permissible roar of laughter . Coningsby could not sing ; so he was

      to favour them as a substitute with a speech or a sentiment . But Lucian Gay always let one off these penalties easily , and indeed was ever ready to fulfil them for alL Song , speech , or sentiment , he poured them all forth ; nor were pastimes more active wanting . He could dance a Tarantalla like a Lazaroni , and execute a Cracovienne with all the mincing graces of an opera heroine . Hia powers of mimickry indeed were great and versatile . But in nothing was he so happy as in a Parliamentary debate . And it was remarkable that , though himself a man who on ordinary occasions was quite incapable without infinite perplexity of publicly expressing his sense of the merest courtesy of society , he was not only a master of the style of every speaker of distinction in either house , but he seemed in his imitative play to appropriate their intellectual as well as their physical peculiarities , and presentedyou with their mind as well as their manner . There were several

      attempts to-night to induce Lucian to indulge his guests with a debate , but he seemed to avoid the exertion , which was great . As the night grew old however , and every hour he grew more lively , he suddenly broke without further pressure into the promised diversion ; and Coningsby listenedreaJJy with admiration to a discussion , of which the only fault was that it was more Parliamentary than the original . Bit loud as was the laughter , and vehement the cheering with which Lucian ' s performances were received , all these ebullitions sank into insignificance compared with the reception which greeted what he himself

      announced was to be the speech of the night . Having quaffed full many a quaigh of toddy . . lie insisted on delivering it on the table , a proposition with which his auditors immediately closed . Their orator appeared , the great man of the night , who was to answer everybody on both sides . Ah ! that harsh voice , that arrogant style , that saucy superficiality which decided on everything , that insolent ignorance that contradicted everybody ; it was impossible to mistake them ! And Coningsby had the pleasure of seeing reproduced before him the guardian of his youth , and the patron of the mimic—the Bight Honourable Nicholas Bigbr .

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      THE LO 2 JDOK ENTERTAINING MAGAZINE . S . D . Cousins , Duke-street , Lincoln ' s-inn-fielda . From the second part of this excellent pennyworth we give the following extract : —

      THE DBESS-MAKEE . Is there a more helpless , a more forlorn and unprotected creature than , in nine cases out of ten , the Dressmaker ' s Girl , the daily Sempstress—pushed prematurely from the parental hearth , or rather no hearth , to win her miserable crust by aching fingers ? Crust—literally crust—is nearly all the reward of hours of drudgery , of a monotonous task , at which the heart sinks , and the evelids are fain to droop , until aroused and strung anew to labour . Daily bread—a phrase that to most people combines many things—is to our heroine a literal truth—a

      cola reality . She is a thousand times more to be pitied than yonder ballad-singer , with her feet imbedded in highway-mud , bawling the last effusion of the author whose noblest aspiration is to be a butterfly , er , in shrill treble , screaming the semi-politieal satires of the poets of Seven Dials . She—the minstrel—has no respectability to keep up ; she has not to stint her appetite , that she may have a plurality of gowns ; he has not to sooth a hungry stomach with a bit of gauze , a yard or so of riband—any morsel of finery that shall at least be the type , shall present a show , of a condiTOn of comfort ^ although the cupboard shall remain empty for it .

      Poor , gentle thing!—now hurrying on , fearing that she is five miautes ' too late , and now pausing , and creeping into a doorway , to let some staggering drunkard pass , roaring and reeling home . It may be , too , that this little creature was born in the lap of comfort—was the pet , the hope , of a fireside—was the darling of a circle—the child of competence , of luxury . Death , however , has taken her father—the sole prop and stay of a house of plenty ; and the widow , after struggling from year to year , has passed from bad to worse ; and now with four children—our little Dressmaker ' s Girl the eldest—pines hi a three-pair back room , whence every morning our young heroine , with a patience and a pensive sweetness—the gifts of early adversity—sallies forth to unremitting toil . Our little Dressmaker has arrived at the " work-room . "

      After two or three hours , she takes her bread-aud-butter , and warm adulterated water , denominated tea . Breakfast hurriedly over , she works , under ' the rigid , scrutinising eye of a task-mistress ; some four hours more , and then proceeds to the important work of dinner . A scanty slice of meat—perhaps an egg—is produced from her basket : she dines , and sews again till five . Then comes again th » fluid of the morning , and again the needle until eight . Hark!—yes , that's eight now striking . Thank heaven ! thinks ^ our heroine , as she rises to put by her work , the task for the day is done ! At this moment a thundering knock is heard at the door ! The Duchess of Daffodils must have her robe byfour to-morrow !

      Again the Dress-maker's Apprentice is made to take her place—again she resumes her thread and needle : and perhaps . the clock is beating one , as she again , jaded and half dead with work , creeps to her lodging , and goes to bed , still haunted with the thought that as the work is very back she must he up by five to-morrow . She has , however , certain glimpses of holidays ; she is despatched to receive orders , to take home work ; and despite herself , if the weather be fine—if it be not her fete to trudge , ankle-deep in mud , with bandbox in one hand , and umbrella in the other—she cannot but pause at shop windows , and indulge in a day-dream that shall possess her of a few trinkets from the jeweller ' s , her eye unconsciously wandering towards the wedding rings—at the next window a new bonnet—at the next , a gown for very great occasions .

      The Dress-maker's Girl has a profound secret—a secret hidden hi the inmost recesses of her virgin heart . '' A lieutenant of the Guards —( take care of that lieutenant ) —such apensive-looking , ] melancholy , elegant young man , kissed his hand to her twice in Pall . mall . " This secret she had revealed to nobody , except ten familiar friends . She learns a song—something about" A Soldier ' s Bride " —which she hums whilst working , unconscious of the tittering of her sister sempstresses ; and only breaks off to blush and tell them not to be so Billy . These , however , are green , sunny spots in the life of the Dress-maker ' s Girl : as she grows towards womanhood , years bring with them a deeper sense of her forlorn and unprotected condition ; effacing her heauty , sad . dening her mind , and making her taste all the bitterness of that bitter morsel of bread earned by tasked needlework .

      Can there be a more forlorn , more pitiable condition than that of the Daily Sempstress , growing old and lonely on the wages of her ill-paid craft ? Follow her to her room—the topmost nook of some old gloomy house , in some gloomy court : survey the abode of penury ; of penury striving with a stoutness of heart , of which the world knows nothing , to put a bright face upon want : to smile with patience on the greatest , as on the pettiest privations . This is the Dress-maker , long since past her girlhood ; the Sempstress , no longer outstarcd in the street—followed for her heauty—flattered—lied to ; tempted with ease and luxury , when her own home offers nothing but indigence and hardest labour . This is not

      the young , Mushing creature walking in London streets , her path full of pit-falls ; the lawful prey of selfish vicethe watched-for prize of mercenary infamy . No ; she has escaped all these snares ; she has , in the innocence and constancy of her heart , triumphed over the seductions of pleasure ; lias , with the winp of a dore , escaped the net spread for her by fiends with the faces of women . She has wasted the lightheartedness of her childhood , and ihe bloom of her youth , in daily , nightly toil : and arrived at middle age , she is still the working Sempstress—the lonely , faded spinster—the human animal vegetating on two shillings per diem . Is not this the fate of thousands in this our glorious metropolis ?

      And yet how much worse , how much more terrible the destiny of thousands of others ; of poor , unprotected creatures , with hearts in then ? bosoms , once throbbing with the best and purest hopes , once yearning with the noblest and tenderest affections—creatures in whom the character of wife and mother might have shone with the brightest lustre—cast abroad and trodden on like wayside -weeds ; loathed and scorned by one sex ; outraged , bullied by the other ; until deceived , wounded , and exasperated nature rises against its wrongers ; and , denaturalized in voice , face , and feeling , we cannot recognise the Dressmaker ' s Girl—the modest , gentle thing , with hlushingface and dewy eye—in that screeching virago , that howling ,

      raving Jezabel , now stamping in the impotence of drunkenness and rage at that stone-faced policeman , now tumbling , dead as a carcass in the mire , and weeping maudlin tears of gin and vengeance ! And why is this T What has worked this grievous transformation % What has effected this awful , this disgusting change % Alas ! some ten—nine—seven years ago , temptation showed its thousand gifts—apples of seeming gold , with ashes at the core—to the poor Dress-maker ; proffered life-long ease , all the happiness and luxury enjoyed by her high-born sisters ; and to assist temptation , there was a yearning of love—a faith and easy credence in the woman's heart , that made her not altogether selfish , calculating : whilst , on the other hand , they were incessant labour and pinching

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      economy , and—and—but Gm story is the story of hundreds ; she M—and " The once fall ' n woman must for ever fall !" The moaest , virgin flower is become the scoff of the multitude , the mockery of a mob ! Part III . is published , and besides the continuation of Eugexe She ' s Matilda , contains a variety of matter in prose and poetry , which , to be appreciated , must bo seen and read .

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      THE GREAT GUN . We wish we could see the conductors ef this publication abandon a system which certainly reflects no honour on their labours , and is not at aU calculated to increase the popularity of their paper . We allude to the shallow , ill-natured , but futile attempts made to run down the writers of Punch : more especially one narticular writer in that excellent publication . If this was all we had to complain of , we might be silent ; for we might safely leave the gentleman alluded to to defend himself . But principles are ridiculed , and the best sympathies of our nature run-amuck against , to give vent to the envious and splenetic feelings of the Great Gun writers . In proof of this we might name several highly objectionable articles : enough that we name the piece entitled , "Virtuous Indignation , the Song of the Literary Man of Feeling : " a production conceived m the

      worst possible spirit , and as trashy as it is base . We don't like to have to say this . We know nothing personal of the writers either inPtmcR or the Great t fw » : we judge of both by their works , and would , if we could , award our unqualified approbation to the latter as well as to the former . We gladly turn from this unwelcome task , to speak in terms the very opposite , of much contained in the . Great Gun . Its jokes , many of which we transfer weekly to our columns , are of the raciest ; and there are not wanting articles of & serious cast which nave our warmest approbation . Of these we may name the articles m the N 03 . for the 1 st and 8 th of February , entitled— " The Critical Literature of the London Press ; " and the following excellent remarks on the life and treatment of that magnificent musical genius Carl Mxru Von Weber .

      CONSISTENCY Lately a paragraph appeared in the daily papers giving a . detailed account of the solemn inhumation of the remains of the lamented and gifted composer , Carl Maria Ton 'Weber , which took place at Dresden with great funeral pomp . Nearly twenty years have passed since Weber paid a visit to this country , and received , to a certain extent , the encouragement due to his talents ; that is to say , although everybody went to hear his opera of "Der Freischutz , " the composer did not receive one farthing either from the proprietor of the English Operahouse ( where it was first produced in England ) , nor from the lessees of Drury Lane or Covent Garden . The musical career of 'Weber had been one of

      continued disappointment . His works were nearly unappreciated ; their beauties were condemned as faults , The mai'Vellous harmonies , which the world has since reluctantly acknowledged as the masterpieces of a mighty genius , were at first looked upon as combinations of discords , and his wilder and more unstudied efforts as the ravings of an overwrought brain . But the world has repented of its injustice ; it has decreed that the name of Weber , hitherto cherished by the f ? w who have listened to " Oberon , " to the overture of "The Ruler of the Spirits , " to "Euryanthe , " setting apart his most extraordinary , though perhaps not finest work , "Der Preischutz , " shall beloved and revered by thousand !; .

      His countrymen have celebrated his triumphs by a festival—ceremonies in which the musicians of Dresden , and even some from Berlin and Munich , have hastened to join , and accompany his mortal remains from then ? resting-place at Magdeburg ( they had reposed quietly in a vault in London for a considerable time ) , to the tomb prepared for their reception hi thocity of Dresden . By following the mournfully-decorated barge containing them down the Elbe by torch-light , by bending over his grave in the mockery of " effective sorrow , " they imagine they have more than atoned for the entire neglect of the living genius , and have cast a halo around the dead .

      It is a positive and undeniable fact that Weber never received , in his own country , the slightest remuneration for " Der Freischutz . " A bankrupt manager swallowed up his rightful emoluments . And when the spore was first brought over to England , wltK a view to its production at one of our national theatres , it was pronounced by the musical director ( an artist of the highest talent ) not only to be totally unfitted for our stage , but ineffective hi itself . A manager of more enterprise tried the opera as an experiment at a summer theatre , and he announced it as " a new musical performance of an extraordinary character , " and that " the eccentric vehicle for music and scenio effect was a literal translation from the highly-celebrated German opera , &c , &c , of Carl Maria Von Weber . " It was received with great success .

      We have alluded before in the Great Gun to the salaries of principal performera . For a certain perio ' d both Braham and Miss Stephens performed in the English Operahouse version of " Der Freischutz . " let us look how matters stood : — Mr . Braham ' s salary , per night . . £ 21 0 0 Miss Stephens' 20 0 0 Carl Maria Von Weber ( the inventory . , and creator ) ....... / Weber fared better with his " Oberon , " which was performed at Covent Garden with far less effect , in consequence of the utter mcagreness of the libretto , for he received one thousand pounds ; a sum inadequate to the merits of the work , but beyond what his modesty either hoped or expected . The encouragement which Weber had never received in his own country came toe late to do more than cast a momentary brightness over his fortunes in England .

      He had followed in the weary and almost heart-broken track of his predecessors , Mozart and Beethoven . He died ! It is left for future writers , when his works , by the diffusion of musical knowledge , shall have been far better appreciated , to observe that , twenty years after the death of Weber , the musicians and authorities of Dresden ( hi Bad imitation of one of the favourite manias of the Parisians ) removed his remains to their city , as if the soul that breathed throughout his harmonies was sleeping still within the perished clay they had thus disturbed .

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      BIOGRAPHY . .-LAMAN BLANCHARD . ( From the Literary Gazette ) . ^ . tu / eel » ngs we have not words to express , it IS this day mv painful task to record the death / on Saturday week , of Mr . Laman Blanchard ; a personal iriend long associated with and intimately known to us » and a literary man whose writings have justly earned tor him a contemporaneous and wide-spread celebrity , and a fame which will be more extended and permanent . Alas , that we have to add , the manner of his loss was one of those calamitous instances of the helplessness of weak humanity to bear up against the pressure of afflictions . The minds of individuals devoted to the ceaseless toils of literature , calling forth and wasting their energies , are hut ill

      prepared to endure sufferings of another nature . The ideal cannot slide into and ., compete with the real world ; and though it may be a refuge for griefs of a less poignant character , the imagination , however compact , is unable to wrestle with and withdraw us from the more severe visitations of mortal distress . It was the heavy misfortune of Mi . Blancliard , a few weeks ago , to be deprived of a wife , whom a protracted illness had only the more endeared to hima woman so equable in temper , so warm-hearted , so amiable to all , and so attached to him , that none could be surprised at the more than bridal affection

      which subsisted between them , and seemed the very spirit of their being . For Blancliard himself was of a fine and congenial temperament . Endued with great ( perhaps witli too much ) sensibility , he was open , sincere , gentle , susceptible to every the minutest act of kindness , firm in integrity , and overflowing with high sympathies towards all that was generous and good . His family bereavement preyed upon him night and day ; and at last his excited sense was torn with delirium , and wrecked in the sea of trouble which overwhelmed the powers of reason , and made him unaccountable for his aets . She was gone from biB side vrith -whom he might truly have said ,

      The mind much stiff'ranee does o erslrip When grief hath mates , and bearing fellowship : His consolation had not only departed , but was the source of his intellectual prostration : the shock was fatal to a fancy and understanding , which had for many years stood the test of unremitting labour for the press ; and lie who had charmed thousands and tens of thousands continually with his pleasant thoughts , fell a sacrifice to an " o ' ercharged heart . " We have incidentally alluded to the prominent features of Mr . Blanchard ' s character ; but must return to offer a slight remark on points in it which particularly rivetted our regard and admiration . His unaffected sensibility was absolutely beautiful . It was inherent , spontaneous , and embraced the whole sphere in which he moved . It was alike seen in benevolence towards the poor and lowly ; in charity

      towards a class too often excepted from the rule , the infirm and erring ; in justice tempered with mercy towards all ; and in the most genial and confiding lore towards thoae whom he esteemed . And so of his integrity . It was without parade or outward demonstration , and seemed to be an innate part of himself . Yet its very gentleness and quiescency made its force . There was no assertion belonging to it , to beget opposition ; and any desire that mi ght arise to impede its way perished in the face of its invisible omnipotence . We never knew a man so humbly resolute and so nobly inflexible , with demeanour , manners , and language that might appear to indicate a softness to be wrought upon , and a disposition to evade a collision rather than to brave a conflict . Those who could surmise this , were diametrically mistaken .

      The moral and social qualities at which we have thus nastily glanced shone in all Laman Blanchard's literary productions . The lightest and most amusing of his essays partook of his philanthropy and pathos , and jaimed in various ways and moods at the improvement of Ms fellow-creatures , and the amelioration of the general lot . His graver and political efforts breathed all his unbending fidelity to the side upon which his opinions ranged . He recently wrote in the Examiner , having previously , afew years since , been connected with the Courier newspaper as an e'ditor and leading contributor ^ When that journal fell into the hands of the opposite party ( shortly before it sunk under its frequent mutations ) , Mr . OlUllUUaru iiiiunu uia ui / iui yiv

      nup ugum uyuu u <* - carious provision , dependent upon health and strength , and the difficult access to a market where his talents might be appreciated . This , no thanks to friends or parties , he found in the New Monthl y itagazine , in Aimworth ' s Magasins , and in other periodical publications ; and also in occasional employment on , works which the publishera thought likely to be popular , such as the Posthumous Memoirs of L . E . L . Was there an inscrutable link between their destinies —her mysterious fate and that of her biographer ? No man ever entertained a more modest appreciation of his own merits than Mr . Blanchard . We never heard him speak of any of his writings ; and , what is eauallv rare and laudable in our day . we nevelfceard

      him decry the writings of others his contemporaries ; nor do we beUeve he ever experienced one feeling of envy or jealousy at success , though it might in every other judgment exceed his own with far less grounds to recommend it . And we ought to look at the vast mas 3 and variety of his productions , which cannot be believed till what has flowed in a hundred streams is collected inte one grand river ; it will then be seen that bis mind was most fertile , never ceasing to throw off original conceptions , fanciful ideas , poetry of a high order , whether playful or pathetic ; and being in truth an inexhaustible source of that perpetual and diversified profusion of literary wealth with which he enlivened and enriched the periodical publications of his day , in which men of first-rate learning and exalted genius are swamped till they «* -V t < M II %% & £ W *^ V 44 A

      IVUillUIb &VX&V « W 4 Hf 4 tWW ^ W ** 4 « W **« W ** W ^ are dead ! I In person Mr . Blanchard was of middle-size and light and active form . His countenance was well modelled , and his eyes peculiarly expressive either of deep emotion or gay humour . His manners , as we have noticed , were placid and gentlemanly ; and his convereation , serious or lively , as occasion suited , was always agreeable , candid , and acceptable . His society was much sought by a numerous circle of literary and other friends , to whom his stores of information recommended and his most estimable qualities endeared . He has left a daughter , accomplished under his anxious superintendence in music and other feminine graces , and of whom he was almost

      passionately fond , and three sons younger than her , to lament the untimely loss of a father , of whom and of whose memory they have just and abundant grounds to be proud . The sadness which must mix with their filial recollections cannot as yet be consoled ; but it must gratify them in the depths of their orphan woes to know that a body of the admirers and friends of their honoured parent have so far provided that they shall not suffer that destitution which 13 but too often the inheritance of the children of genius . For several years their proper education and earthly comforts nave been secured ; and the means suggested , if not adopted , for the eligible settlement of the younger branches . Mr . Blancliard was only forty-two years ofage .

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      RKS 6 VRCK 9 6 V Stria . —At a late meeting of the Syrc-Egyptian Society , Mr . F . W . Ainswortb , of the late Euphrates expedition , in the chair , numerous coloured drawings of Syrian costumes and scenery were exhibited , and the learned chairman gave the society a most lucid explanation of a large picture in oil , painted by Mr . Barker , and which , although in an unfinished state , he consented , at the request of the council , to send for . It was a representation of Mount Casing , the mouth of the Oronteg , its voniantic pass , and the bay of Antioch . It is impossible , in ew words , to do justice either to the picture or to Mr . Ainsworth ' s observations . The subject abounds in interest . After commenting on the geographical position of the Orontes—the beautiful little island of

      Melibcea , named after the nymph 01 whom Urontes was enamoured , and which must not , he said , be confounded with the Thessalian Melibcea—the Grotto beyond , with its gently mwmuring waters flowing from within , and the ruins by which it is surrounded , those especially of the ancient church of Ham , alluded to in Mr . Cary's " Fragments , " the monastery and column of St . Simon Stily tee , mentioned by Gibbonthe traditions connected with Mount Casins—the curious atmospheric phenomena which are at times to be observed from its summit ( six thousand feet above the level of the sea ) , and other objects which have employed the pen of Pliny , Strabo , Oppianas , Cyneget , Virgil , Spartianua , Gibbon , Annianas , Marcellinus , and others ; he pronounced the whole district to

      be replete in classic interest , and remarkable for its vegetable splendour and scenic beauty . The author of the paper having alluded particularly to the capabilities of the north of Syria , the salubrity of the climate of Swadeyeh , and the great variety of soil ( his father , who has held land there moro than forty years , having succeeded in cultivating plants , shrubs , and trees , ofthe most opposite natures , which he haB introduced from all parts of the -world ) , the conversation turned upon the immense advantage offered by this country for colonisation , especially as remarked by Mr . Mussabini , protection was afforded to European residents , schools were being established , the necessaries of life were cheap , the climate was perhaps the finest in the world , the soil was good , medical men

      were being sent out , and there was a regular intercourse with Europe by steam . In reply to a question put by one of the members , Dr . Holt Yatea stated that Europeans were now permitted to hold land , and their property was respected , which was not always the case , and he regretted that emigration to Syria was not encouraged . It could only be because the resources and beauty of that country were not sufficiently known . It was remarkable that there was no person who had once visited Syria who did not desire 0 return ; that by calling it a " terrestrial paradise " Mr . Barker was right , but that , in his opinion , it must be seen to be appreciated . He then exhibited a diagram of the site of the ancient " Soli , or Pomneiopolis . " situated on the north-west shore of the

      Gulf of Iskenderoon , on the Cilician coast , not far from Tarsus , the birth place of St . Paul—the river Cydnus , which is celebrated as having borne the love-sick Cleopatra to the presence of Mark Antony —Adana , and the river Sykoin , spanned by the ancient bridge of Justinian , which has several arclieB , affording positive proof of the once prosperous state of the district—the pass of Issus , famous in history as the spot where Darius and Alexander contested the dominion of Asia—and lastly of Antioch , erected by the General Seleneus in honour of his father Antiochus . This Soli , he observed , was not to be confounded with "Soli in Cyprus , " built by the Athenians in honour of Solon . The spot represented in the diagram was originally founded by pirates , but

      had subsequently become one of the most important cities of the Levant . There were still the remains of a large port with two piers extending into the sea , with sufficient water for merchant vessels . A flight of wide steps led up from it to a double row of stately columns , the remains of a magnificent building , probably an exchange or hall of commerce , on eitherside of which were extensive ruins , and an amphitheatre of considerable size ; the plains beyond being capable of lugh cultivation , the whole bounded by the towering heights of Mount Taurus , which are thickly wooded , and supplied Mohammed AU with timber for building his ships ; there was abundance of stone , ex * cellent water , and even coal and iron , but of these things no use was made . Although there was a

      spacious harbour and good anchorage in the bay at all seasons ofthe year , Capt . Beaufort , 1 ig added , in his survey ofAsia Minor , speaks of " ^ extensive and pestilential morasses" in the neighbourhood , and correctly—but these might be removed , and were removed by H . R . II . BrahimPascha , and by Mr . Hay , one of the society ' s members , who drained the land , and burnt up the brushwood and briars with which the country was overgrown , and there was then no longer any malaria ! But when the Turks again took possession , they purposely broke down the embankments , which , with the pernicious influence of an unohecked redundant vegetation subject to decay , and the summer heats , reduced the plains to their original unhealthy state . There was , however , no

      permanent source of malaria , and in the hands of Europeans this might unquestionably be made one of the finest colonies in the world . The plains of Adana alone , if cultivated , would support thousands , as they have done before ; and together with Tarsus , Soli , Antioch , and Swadeyeh , would speedily become a most luxuriant and flourishing commercial territory , and , uniting as it does all the advantages of sea and land , an important outlet for the riches of the east ; for being on the high road between Aleppo , Damascus , the Euphrates , Hania , Horns , and Asia Minor , it already constitutes the principal gate of Syria , infinitely superior to that of Beyroot and Lebanon , although now deserted and run to waste—in fact , a more eligible spot for a settlement could not be found .

      Improvement in the Power-loom . —We were favoured , says the Leeds Intelligencer , with an opportunity , the other day , of visiting the Iron-works of Messrs . John Cawood and Son , in this town , Leeds , and examining minutely the working of some Linen Power-looms on their premises , for which letters patent have been taken out by Mr . Martin Cawood and Mr . WMam Prichard of this town . We were delighted to observe the ease and rapidity with which nearly all kinds of linen fabrics were woven , from the broad damask table cloth to the finest shirtings . The principal improvement in these patent looms , as we learnt from Mr . Prichard , consists in an uniform and regular letting off or inscribing off of the yarn from the warp-beam , thereby producing an evenness

      and equaUty in the wetting 01 the doth , which has been heretofore unattainable . By this newly patented motion being attached to the loom , a web of several hundred yards in length can be perfectly and uniformly woven from the commencement of the Warp to the end . With the new invention there are no loose weights , levers , and . vones attached to the yarn beam : these cumbersome , and unseemly , and uncertain appendages being entirely dispensed with . Another improvement consists in a motion for stopping the loom without the assistance of the weaver , the moment the weft breaks or the yarn in the weaving bobbin becomes exhausted ; at the same time that the cloth woven presents no thin places or inequality of surface or substance . Moreover this contrivance

      entirely obviates the necessity , on the part of the weaver , for having to put back by unfolding the cloth from the cloth-beam , and winding upon the yarn-beam . The next improvement consists in a self-acting "temple , " which revolves as the cloth is being woven , always remaining at the same distance from the opening of the sheard or shed , and from its peculiar construction stretches out the selvage to the full width of the-piece—no care whatever being required to attend to it on the part of the weaver ; and we observed that there were no teeth marks , or damages done to the cloth , as is commonly the case

      when the ordinary " temple" is used . The last improvement , and that which is more especially applicable to linen weaving , consists in a spring beam of cast or wrought iron attached to the back 01 the loom , and which y ields to the stroke , and resumes its original position the moment the slay leaves the cloth ; thus giving an artificial elasticity to the yarn . The inventions can be applied to any power-looms . From a close inspection of the working of them , we think it highly probable that in a very short time nearly all tne linen manufactures ViJl be -woven lay power . We are informed that the weaving of the quantity woven will not exceed in cost one half what it does by hand .

      Artificial Rain . —We copy the following article in relation to the subject from the Philadelphia Inquirer ; —We are indebted to a friend at Washington for a circular in relation to Professor Espy ' s Theory of Artificial Rain , by which we learn that the experiment was successfully tried last summer , in two cases in the interior of Pennsylvania , and one in Indiana . A letter dated Coudersport , Pa ., July 29 , and signed by a number of respectable individuals , states that on Saturday , July 13 th , about one o ' clock , the fallow of D . H , Ellsworth , Esq , containing about six acres , was fired . At the time the fire was set the clay was calm and warm , and would be considered clear ; there were some flying clouds , with slight appearance of rain to the north , but none in the neighbourhood . The fire spread rapidly , and burned with great violence . In a short time a white cloud was seen to form over the black smoke , which rose over the fire with great velocity , nearly perpendicular . The white cloud

      rolled outwards above , especially towards the north and south , and probabl y more still towards the east , as the wind was gentle in that direction , and as the rain which fell from it increased as it proceeded cast as far as heard from . It did net swell out very far towards the west . In less than an hour from the commencement of the burning very large drops of rain were seen descending by many inhabitants oi Coudersport from the cloud , glistening in the rays ot the sun like diamonds . It rained but little at Uudersport , which was about one hundred rods west of the fire , and none at all one half mile west of the village . The signers expressed the opinion that this rain was produced by the burning ofthe fallow , and they therefore addressed Professor Espy a letter statine the fact . —Another successful experiment was made by burning a fallow of two acres , on the farm of D . Metzgar , at Pike , Potter county , on the Hth of August—to which place the Coudersport shower of

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      July 13 th extended—a distance of twenty-two miles <> ast . The certificates are full and unequivocal .-Dr . W . Hemble Salteiy of Pulaski county , Indiana , rives an interesting account of a rain which was produced by the burning of a" prairie , seven or eight miles north of his residence , on the 6 th of August , when there was no appearance of rain , and when the thermometer stood at 88 . The formation of the clouds , at a moment when no others were seen within fifty miles of the place , appeared to be m all respects according to the condition of the theory .

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      M ' DO-Att . Mac thirsting for fame , but still more 60 for pelf , In . trying to do all has done for himself . Mischief for the Million . — In consequence of the state ofthe law , allowing a person to walk into the British" Museum , and smash the Portland Vase for three pounds , it is possible that this sort of amusement may supersede the hitherto aristocratic amusement of breaking windows , and wrenching off doorknockers . A morning ' s lark in the National Gallery would be cheap at thirty pounds , If half-adozen were to club together for the purpose , and the sum would include the privilege of running walkingsticks into six of the best pictures the collection contains . We presume the law ia left in this state

      for the purpose of allowing the luxury of mischief to those who are disposed to pay for it . Three pounds were all the law demanded for the amusement of breakbg the Portland Vase , or rather for breaking the shade , the latter being the only article charged for , and the vase being , of course , thrown in gratis . It is not often that the law is so very particular to a shade as it hasbeenintkisinstance . Weshouldliketoknowwhere the three pounds came from that were sent anonymously to pay the fine for the mischievous donkey who smashed the precious article . No doubt , if the money could be traced , it would be found to have been supplied by one of the " vulgar rich , " , who would be happy to demolish the Elgin marbles at so much a yard , 6 r take the Museum all round upon a reduced scale of penalties . —Punch ,

      Srsosmovs Terms . —We hare heard nothing lately of the ' long range . " The reason is , the same thing is now so much better expressed by theliicojffl T&x . —Mid . - The Privileges of Parliament . —The arches on Westminster Bridge have been turned into dust-bins , two or three of them being filled with heaps of rubbish . Now there is no excuse for this accumulation , when the House of Commons is so conveniently nigh . —Ibid . Aristocratic Condescension . —A Northumberland newspaper , reporting the " opening ofthe north dock atSeahani , "observes— "The sea was allowed to enter tn . the presence 0 / t / ie Jfargut ' s and ifarchimms of Londonderry . "—Britiuml ! i complains that there has been no " ruling the waves" ever since .

      Not to be Outdone . —At Waterloo , a Highland regiment and the Scots Greys met in the thickest ofthe fight , and raised the cry of "Scotland for ever I" '' And ould Ireland for longer . '" exclaimed an Irish dragoon . " You are quite welcome , " as the empty purse said to the shilling . Who was the first Patkoit of a NAffSPAPER ?—> Cain : he took A-Bel ' s Life . Broken English . —A Frenchman having a weakness in his chest , told his physician he felt a pain in his portmanteau . Soap . —The Irish petition Parliament for an extended trade with England in soap—being desirous of lathering the Saxon . '—Punch ...

      Disastrous . —One of Punch's friends , who was present at the battle of Navarino , in the peaceful capacity of a passenger , received a cannon ball in his chest—which utterly destroyed a dozen shirts that were packed up in it ! The Holt Shirt of Trkves . —As much doubfc exists in the minds of many overnice sceptics respecting the holy shirt at Treves , we canassure them that there need not be a second opinion as to ita being very holv indeed . Common sense must dictate that nosnirt of such an age could possibly be preserved complete . The French priesthood had Detter send the relic to his Holi-ness the Pope of Rome to have the article put into thorough repair . It would , at all events , furnish a job for the distressed needlewomen of Rome , and they might be granted dispensation into the bargain . In its present condition we mucb . question whether the holy shirt could " a tail unfold . "— Great Gun .

      Kind Indeed !—Since the destruction or The Portland Vase , Lord Brougham , who takes a lively interest in art , has presented to the British Museum a cast of his countenance to supply the place of the shattered vase . This , if not a handsome , is , at least , a very liberal gift . It will be inserted in the catalogue of the Museum as The Brougham Mug . — find . iRisn Practical Wit . — A Tipperary Rockite sends a letter of advice to a neighbour , about taking a certain piece of land or letting it alone ; and ends with , this pithy question— "What ' s the whole world to a man if his wife bejx , widow ?"—Bid . The Arch-Humbug- Again . — It would be doing O'flMmell an iniustice if we did not give all the

      currency , in our pewer to some few of " this bestabused man in the world's" flowers of Billingsgate . Speaking at Litimidation-hall , the other day , of the conduct of a Roman Catholic gentleman , Montes-Suieu Bellew , member for Louth , the " beat-abused " ius broke out : — " I denounce him , as an arrantan unsavoury—renegade . If ever he shows his face again , at a Louth election , ugly as that face was now , It would look uglier coming away . " A pretty broad hint this , of what is called a slating in petto . Again Waldey comes in for this " nate and illigint bit . " " Waldey was like the old woman called Innocent Abigail , who went to hell without a sin . " What a pity Dan is not over here to refresh the house with his oratory !—Satirist .

      Babes of Grace . — Those pious builders , Messrs . Grisselland Peto , whose gift of bibles and tracts to the workmen in their employ , we recorded in our last , in order , we suppose , to render them , if not more obedient to command , at least more trattable , had recently a curious illustration ofthe we to which the holy volume was turned in one instance . A workman deliberately offered his bible to the landlord of a public-house for a quartern of gin . The boniface , much to his credit , refused the offer . " Well , " said Grissell and Peto ' s babe of grace , " as I have no money , will you trust me till Saturday , when I promise to pay you . " "No , " said the landlord . "A pretty fellow you are for a Christian , " ohuckled the oabe ; " you will neither take the word of a man nor the word of the Lord . " So muoh for thrusting religion down thirsty throats . —Ibid . a " mqht" subject ,

      A paradox—but true , alas ! And one that much chagrin'd us ; Feel takes the duty clean off glass , But leaves it upon windows f—Jbid . The Destruction of the Portuhd Vase is not quite so prodigious and irreparable as at first imagined . The accomplished menders of antique pota and pans at the Museum are hard at work , endeavouring to put the broken fragments into the pristine shape of the vase , and Sir Henry Ellis says , with every fair chance of achieving tno job . A cracked pitcher , or a reputation with a flaw in it , 13 better than none at all , and the Portland vase whea repaired , by this rule , ought still be venerated , despite its fractures—ju 9 t as an ancient belle , on the strength of her past reputation , retains a few straggling admirers , even though the ravages of time may be visible through the cracks of the paint used to conceal them—Ibid .

      MKITATIOK OF LABOtJB . Sir James sat quiet and composed , Hor changed his posture nor his face ; Indeed , some say he almost dosed While Duncohbe called him mean and base ! "Whatever of his pluck be said , To pity Gbahah Sat inclines ; Think that on Friday he had read Some eighty thousand valentines!—Ibid , Lord Brougham has been recommended to have a galvanic ring passed through , his nose , in order to cure the \ witching to which that organ is subject . His lordship has promised to take the subject into serious and quiet consideration . —Ibid . A . True Biu ,. —The Mowing is a veritable copy «> £ a " bill , " passed a few days since , at a village in . Essex , to a gentleman who had left his horse at one of the inns , with directions that it should be baited forthe night , and brought home the next morning . The man who brought the animal brought also the account in question with him : — To anps . . . . 4 s . 6 d . To agitinonimum . , . 06 5 0 For such of our readers as are not used to hieroglyphics , we give the translation : — To an horse . . . . 4 b . 6 d . To a gettin' on him home . . 06 5 0 Surely this is a fine fainilar episode of equestrian literature . How to Produce Courage SciEitriFicAUiT . — A gentleman , passing through , a certain street , spied a little fellow busily employed in inflicting rather heavy blows on his pate , just behind the ear , with a brickbat . Being desirous of knowing what sin so young a child had committed , which , required ao extraordinary a penance , he asked- the boy why he waa pounding his head so violently . " 0 , sir , " said the lad earnestly , while the big tears chased each other down liia cheeks , " that great Bill Smith called me a liar yesterday ; and I'm tryin' to raise the bump o £ cmnbativeness , so as to get pluck to give him a good licking to-morrow . " A Commodious Establishment . —A beer-shop at Gravesend has in front a board , upon which is painted the following announcement : —" Good accommodation for ateam-packets . "

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      NOTICE . « f- Finding that our poetical scraps , both original aEdselecteu . accamulatemuchmorerapidly than we can dispose of them by the ordinary channel , we have been induced to propose to ourselves and contributors the following arrangement—viz ., to give quar terly , in our columns , a selection of poetical pieces , suchseleetion to be entitled " THE PEA 3 I OF THE POETS . " The first selection will appear this month ( March ) , the nest in June , fhe next in September , and so on . The first of the "Feaate" will " comeoff " in the Star of Much 22 nd . Any of our leaders , disposed to try their fortune in an attempt to pro cure admission to the "Feast , " must send in their poetical contributions on or before fhe lothinst . Ccmmunications received after that date will not be attended to .

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      THE POPE . The Pope he leads a happy life , No contradiction knows , nor strife ; He rules the roast by Right Divine , I would the Papal chair were mine ! But happy , now , I fear he ' s not , Those Irish are a noisy lot ; And as wifi Din he has to cope , I think I'd rather not be Pope . CConneix better pleases me , With all he will he maketh free ; He raises rtnt with wondrous skill ; Like him I would my pockets fill . But even ho , the great King Dan , Is forced to Gink the gentleman , And bluster where Repealers dine ; I would not change his lot for mine .

      So here 111 take my lowly stand , In what is called " this favoured land ;" Put up with strife , if need be mine , Nor at an empty purse repine . But when my pocket's filled , with glee I'll dream that I O'CoNHEift he ; And when their mouths Repealers ope , I'll thank my stars I'm not the Pope ! Justice and her Fees . —When English justice talks of being equally accessible to the rich and the poor , it is very like Old Mrs . Cole discoursing on chastity , or slave-buying America swaggering about freedom . Justice is , in truth , only to oe sought by fees . You must drop money in her scales before she will use them . A fellow named John Gooke was

      recently committed to gaol for an attempt to rob two miserable girls . The case was one of peculiar atrocity , as the scoundrel had first charged one of his victims with robbing him . The magistrate , however , soon made Cooke and the poor girl change places at the bar , and the rascal waa committed for trial . Well , we thought , the ruffian will now get his deserts : the majesty of the offended law—for that is the phrase—will speedily vindicate itself .. Not so fast . There were fees to be paid . " In order to obtain 4 s ., the fee for the indictment , the poor girls had to pawn some of their dreas , and even then ( the con-• table eaid ) he was obliged to advance the only shilling he had about him to make up the sum ; but when 6 d

      they went into the office , the crier demanded Is . ., his fees , and said he would send the bill back to the Indictment-office if it were not paid . The girls were wholly unprepared for this demand , but ran forthwith to scrape up the money . In their absence the crier had sent the bill before the grand jury , and the witnesses were absent when called . The bill was consequently thrown out , and the prisoner discharged . " The lesson to be gathered from this is , let no miserable woman , however grossly abused and robbed , think of punishing her wronger unless she can procure flve-and-sixpencefees to purchase the satisfaction . It is an absurdity to think that justice sits at Clerkenwell Sessions , or anywhere else , to dispense right gratis ; nonsense she sells it .

      Irish Aohicdmuual Association . —Inconsequence of the declaration of Mr . O'Connell , that he would die on the floor of the House of Commons , and ikm go over to Ireland to agitate for repeal , there was an extra meeting of the Irish Agricultural Association , atwhich it was unanimously resolved that the first prize should be given to the Honourable Member , for the Greatest Bull that ever was known . Bates for the Poor . —We understand that some of the railway companies , desirous of carrying out the project for supplying the poor with baths , have had their third-class carriages constructed so as to serve the double purpose of a locomotive and a washing-tub . They are supplied with water from the ram , which pours in upon all sides ; and enough to constitute a bath is provided in a very few minutes , if the weather happens to be favourable to the benevolent object .

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      Funeral of Mr . Lamak Blanchakd . —On Saturday afternoon the remains of this truly estimable and much-lamented gentleman were interred in the cemetery at Norwood . He was followed to his last earthly resting-place by a number of his early and valued coOaboraUufi in the field of literature , and other friends endeared to him by his warmth and kindness of heart . The chief mourners on the sad occasion were the three sons of Mr . Blanchard , with Mr . Evans , Mr . Keymer , and Mr . Smith , brothersin-law . There were also present—Mr . E . Tennent , M . P ., C . Landseer , R . A ., W . Jordan , D . Jerrold , T . Landseer , F . Stone , George Cruikshank , Kenny Meadows , W . F . Ainsworth , William Hazlitt , W . N . James , Henry Baylis , S . C . Hall , R . Keeley , J . B . Buckstone , Samuel Lover , George Patmore , Mark Lemon , — Hurst , Coventry Patmore , Esqrs ., 4 c , amounting altogether to seventy persons , assembled to pay a last tribute of respect to their departed friend .

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      ? Millhouse , the Poet . —We were much pleased on our visit to Edwinstowe , on Monday last , to witness a neat monument , nearly finished , and about to be erected in the Cemetery at Nottingham , to the memory ofthe late Robert Millhouse , the poet . At the Sherwood Gathering , on the 5 th July , 1842 , a suIdscription was entered into for that purpose , and the work was committed to the care of Mr . Widdison , sculptor , of Edwinstowe , who , we must say , has executed the task committed to his charge in a clever and appropriate manner . The monument itself is

      about six feet high . Orer the surbaae is the tablet containing the following inscription . Emblematical ofthe subject , over the inscription , is a lyre entwined within a wreath—the whole surmounted with an elegant crosa-flory . The design itself is good and substantial , and the work is executed in a manner highly creditable to the artist himself , and will prove itself worthy of the genius whose memory it is intended to perpetuate . The poetic inscription is from the pen of Mr . Spencer Hall , who was the intimate friend of poor Millhouae . andis creditable both to the head and heart of the writer . —

      In Memory of ROBERT MILLHOUSE , Author of "Destinies of Man , " " Sherwood Forest , " " The Song of the Patriot , " "Blossoms , " and other Poems , who died at Nottingham , April 13 th , 1839 , aged 60 years . " When Trent shall flow no more , and blossoms fail On Sherwood ' s plains to scent the springtide gale ; "When the lark ' s lay shall lack its thrilling charm , And song forget the patriot ' s soul to warm : When love o ' er human hearts hath lost all sway , His fame may pass—but not till then—away : For Nature taught , and Freedom fixed his rhyme , And virtue dedicated it to Time . " Nottingham Journal ,

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      Astonishinq Pbecociit . —A charity boy , only six years old , belonging to St . Martin ' s parish , being asked by one ofthe overseers what was his notion of perpetuity , " instantly replied , "The Income xdX *

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      Mabch 11845 rp jjg NORTHERN STAR . * s .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 1, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1304/page/3/