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      BEAUTIES OF BIBOJrf Jto . x . ¦ " CBttPE HABOTO , " The poel ' s nrat theme is HISPAJiU . ** Oh , lovely Spain ! renoHu'd , romantic land ! " Where is that standard which Pelagio bore , When Cava ' s traitor-sire first call'd the band That dyed thy mountain streams with Gothic gore i Where are those bWy tanners wMcli Of vore Tfav d o ' er thy sons , victorious to the gale . Ana drove at last the spoiUrs to their shoret Kea gleam'd the cross , ana waned" crescent pale , While Afae ' s echoes thrill'd with iloorish matrons ' wail Teems not each ditty with the glorious tale ? Ah ! such , alas ! the hero's amplest fate ! When granite moulders ana when records fail . A peasants plaint prolongs his dnhions dat « . Triiel bend thine eye from he&Tento thine estaU , See hour the mighty shrink into a song ! Can Volume , Pillar , pae , preserve thee great 1 Oc must thou trust tradition ' s simple tongue "When Flattery deeps with thee , and History ' does ihee wrong ?

      Awake , yesons of Spain ! awake ! aaTance ! Lo ! Chivalry , your ancient goaaess , cries ; But wields not , as of old , her thirsty lance , JSor shakes her crimson plumage in the skies . "Now on the smoke of tflazing bolts she flies , And speaks in thunder through yon engine ' s roar ! In every peal she calls— "Awake ! arise !" Say , is her voice more feeble than of yore , VFhen her war-song was heard on Andalusia ' s shore ! The following sk stanzas form a magnificent phUUpic against " the game of kings " : — Hark heard you not those hoofs of dreadful note ? Sounds not tbs clang of conflict on the heath ! Saw ye not -whom the reeking sabre smote ; 2 for Eared your brethren ere they sank beneath Tyrants and tyrants' slaves « —tte fees of death , The hale-fires flash on high—from rock to rock Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe j Death riaes upon the sulphury Siroc , Bad battle stamps his foot , ana nations feel the shock .

      Lo ! where the giant on the mountain stand * . His blood-red trusses deep ' ning in the son , IHth death-snotglowingin his fiery hands , And ejs that scorcheth all it glares upon ; Restless it rolls , sow fixU , and now anon Slashing afar—and at his iron feet Destruction cowers , to mark what aeeds ara done ! For on this morn three potent nations meet , lo sheafcefore his shrine ths blood he deems most swett By Heaven ! it is a splendid light to » te ( For one who hath no friend , no brothtr there ) Their ri-ral ^ &rfs of mix'd embroidery , Their variouB arms that glitter in the air ! What gallant war-hounds rouge them from their lair And gnash their fangs , loud jelling *» Hwarprejl All join the chase , but few the triumph share ; The Grave shall bear th « chiefest prize away , And Havoc scarce for joy can number their array .

      Three hosts combine to offer sacrifice ; Three tongues prefer strange orisons on high ; Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sides i The shouts are France , Spain , Albion , Victory ! The foe , the victim , and the fond ally That fights for all but ever fights in rain , Are met—as if at home they could not die—To fetd the crow on Talavera ' s plain , J ! kna fertilise the field that each pretends to gain-t Xhere shall they rot—Ambition's honour ed fOOlS I Tes , Honour Hecks the turf that wraps their clay ! Tain Sophistry ! in these behold the tools , The broken took , that tyrants cost away 3 Jy myriads , when they dare to pave then * way "With human hearts—to what!—a dream alone . Can despots compass aught that hails their sway ? Or call tvifh truth one span of earth their Own , Save that wherein at Jast they crumble hone hy l ) ono ! * * * # a

      Kot so the rustic—with his trembling mata He lurks , nor casts his heavy eye afar , lest he should view his vineyard desolate , Blasted below the dun hot breath of war . No more beneath soft JEve ' s consenting star fandango twirls his jocund Castanet : Ah , monarchs ! could ye taste the mirth ye mar , Kot in the toils of glory would ye fret ; The hoarse dull drum would sleep and man he happy yet Here follows a beautiful portrait of

      THE MAID OF 3 AB . ACOSSA . Glorious as a patriotic leroino , she has been not Ies 3 fortnnate than heroic to have had such a poet as jBntox to immortalise her deeds and name : — Is it for this the Spanish maid , aroused , " Hangs on the willow her unstrung guitar , And , all uuses'd , the aolacehath espoused , Sung the loud song , and dared the deed of war ? And sue , inrhom once the semblance of a scar Anpall'd , an owlet ' s larum chill'd with dread , Ifow views the column-scattering bay ' net jar ,

      The folchion flash , and o er the yet warm dead Stalks with Minerva ' s step where JIars might quake to tread . Ye who shall marvel when you hear her tale , QU ! ha 3 you known her in her softer hour , ' "MarkVl her black eye that mocks her coal-black veil , Heard her light lively tones in Lady ' s bower . Seen her long locks that foil the painter ' s power , Her fairy form , with more than female grace , Scarce wouM you deem that Saragossa ' s tOW'er liflield her smile In Danger ' s Gorgon face , Tltiu the closed ranks , and lead in Glorv ' s fearful chase .

      H « r lover sinks—she sheds no ill-timed tear ; Her chief is slain—she fills his fatal post ; Her fellows flee—she checks their base career ; The foe retires—she htads the sallying host : "vvi ' . o can appease like her a lover ' s ghost ? "Who can avenge so well a leader ' s fall ? "IVnat maid retrieve when man ' s ilush'd hope is lost ! "Who hang so fiercely on the firing Gaul , J PoilM hy a woman ' s hand , before a batter'd "wall % Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons , 15 ut form'd for all the witching arts of love : Though thus in arms they emulate he ? sons , And in the horrid phalanx dare to move , 'Tis but the tender fierceness of the dove , Pecking the hand that hover ' s o ' er her mate : In softness as in firmness far above Remoter females , famed for sickening prate ; Her mind is nobler sure , her charms perchance as great

      The seal love s dimpling finger hath impress d Denotes how soft that chin which bears his touch : Her lips , whose kisses pout to leave their nest , Ed man tie valiant ere he merit such : Her glance how wildly beautiful . ' hoirmuch Hath I'luebus woo'd in vain to spoil'her check , Which glows yet smoother from his amorous clutch ! "Who round the North for paler dames would seek I How poor tlieir forms appear . ' honr languid , wan , and weak ! "Match mi , ye climes ! -which poets love to land ; Hatch me . ye harems of the land ! where now j I strike my strain , far distant , to applaud Jieauties that even a cynic must avow ; Hatch me those Jlouries , whom ye scarce allow To taste the sale lest Love should ride the wind , " With . Spain ' s dark-glancing daughters u—deign , to know , There jour wise Prophet ' s paradise we find , His black-eyed inaids of Heaven , angelically kind .

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      * Ilispania , the ancient name of Spain . _ i " Sorely were we puzzled how to dispOSO Of that Same victory of Talavera and » victory it surelj was somewhere , for everybody claimed it . The Spanish despatch ¦ called it Cuesta ' s , and ma ^ e no great mention of the viscount ( Wcllesley ); the Piwnch called it theirs ( to my great discomfiture—for a French consul stopped my mouth > a Greece with a pestilent Paris Gazette , just as X had « ued Sebastina , "in buckram , ' aud King Joseph , 'in feudal jp-eeu ' J—and % ve have not yet determined what to *** " * * w vtom ; for etrbes , it was none of our own . "t "Such were the exploits of the Maid of Saragossa , wno , oy her valour , elevated herself to the highest rank of fteroiues . WJ , en the author was at Seville , she walked « auy ou the Prado , decorated with medals and orders , by rSmS o ? fte JUDta " J ] rao . v

      . _ . fh » I 3 ? < Ate of Augusiiua , the famous heroine of both » L ^ 2 V V 20 Ssa > arerecordea atlength in Soiithey ' s fircKf ?? Peni Mular War . At the time when she lovorhSf nOtic " ? ' * mounting a battery where her in her * , « . « . ' lurking a gun in his place , she was £ toSfet ? 2 fi ^ ^ "ding ly pretty , of a soft ASSf ' tekh ^ <*«*> d r oKTe be ronerivefl i i ? ms niore graceful in motion than can « dr of hk ^ aa : En t rIishn > a n , uSedtothe drowsy listless ares * and TS ? women ' added t 0 the most ^ coming ^ oriirenuero ^ ? time ' ** " > most aecent ** * Em ^ 4 < SmS ? bcanly ^^ istible " -BTBON tQ

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      a > fiLm U ^ G 4 J 0 RY OF SUICIDES . A Prison cSV , ? * ; ^ Thomas Coopbh , ^ m london : J- How , 133 , Fleet-street . 1 Vo / fi "' ft" ^ Pom Vie Star of Sept . GtkJ *» our r ! TLtllis Tee ^ a Phasing fact to commnnieate ¦ "nwS ?; U- ? ¥ . -Brita'mi " ( ft h'Sh Toiy weekly 3 fJ tu , t& I ) ubhslled in the metropolis ) , of August ^ -vSlfT ^ f " » fcwof'JSwbub C 00 PBB ' 8 OK *** : * % ? f- iJl ° re ^ ew is a remarkable J k . Conn . Or ihe P * " 1 * 5 herein lavished upon SorbS P ?*? cal talents , but also forthsrery ^ e st renotw ^ " made * 3 T the reviewer , « s to of tu ^ SS Of ,. Chartist boav ; and the necessity « --i .- _?* . * ho lire far the towW . n «? Or nf thinm fl

      i 5 ^« i - * a . -K * S KHtei ^ ttejnlannia , althou h anewspaper , ^ < l ^ ana , rl -t 1 V ? c ^ aracter as a literary paper , ^ setK ° r tyin Iftenuynmtteia ranks high . ^ JwiiK ' S ^ a Bl acri tie so -well qualified , and ^ ^ eriaufzL ' ^ ?' " P rais « indeed , and must i ^ Mriwwrfa i ^ opeb . It is not usual for mti BJu * ti « . t ^? ? **<> && , on the same wk ; » tnosr vhJ ^ f-Cooper , and wishing ourieadere wm a ^ iter for the aristocracy is con-

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      Sirained to admit as to $ e tolsnt to be found in the Chartut ranks ; we take i ) x * liberty to transfer to our columns the moat important points of the Britannia ' s critique . . ThsmiewerfirstgiTesasamm . '' ^^^ - Coom r's preface , which appeared entin ? i » *" , ? ? of ^ t week . He conemdes the summar / m . , tnese words — "He ( Mr . Cooper ) went into gs * . ? Chartist spouter ; he has come , forth—no prejs » u lce against pernicious opinions must blind us to tlW truth—o great poet ! " The remarks immediately' lowing this we extract entire : —

      We repeat it emphatically that Thomas Coopet' i * of those great poets , stampea by nature ' s own hana no . t fashioned by schools , not taught by labour tostring rhymes together , but pouring forth from the fullness of his own mind and heart a torrent of burning and impetuous eloquence . We may greatly disapprove of his conceptions , but we are compelled by the law of our being that constrains admiration , to do homage to the richness and fertility of his imagination , and to that amazing command of language , and supreme faculty of expression ttat makes Ins verse , while full , various , and eminently poehc , the perfect expositor of his thought . The impression forced on his mind by his verse is , that it is the work of inspiration rather than of labour . It never stops or falters its Mk

      m magnificent flight . It has no feeble pas-T ^ ' ° ^ ^ y ™** ' compromise of strength to riijthm . Throughout its seven or eight thousand lines ursagenuine wd ard 6 nt outpour ^ B grSt J 5 xrntatedhy envy , or fancied wrong , depressed and pained t > y calamity dark with imperfect knowledge , distorted by feehugs of hate , fired by illusory ideas of man ' s equality but still retaining even in its greatest faults unquestionable power of intellect ofthe very rarest and highest t ana . Our judgment may he disputea-the world may aaregard this mighty and daring effort of an irregular but lofty genius , though we do not think it will , —yet stitt we shall hold to our opinion that this Prison Itliyme is the most wonderful effort of intellectual power produced within the last century .

      Amidst so much to strongly condense , we cannot consent topass by this work with a slight tvotuse . We must remember the condition of the writer in passing sentence on his error * . They spring much more fr » m a darkened understanding than a corrupted heart . They are notth * engrained sins of that great poet , the brightness of whose genius yet made the w « l& forget his spots . There is nothing mean , low , vicious , or lascivious in the verse of this Chartist . He has the finest feeling for the beauty of the New Testament , for the sublimity of the Old ; but tlie doubts of neglected youth cling to him , and shake his soul with the agony of unueUef .

      The poem is written in tho Spenserian stanza . Grander and more nervous than " Clulde HaroW , " which , in its reflective passages it somewhat resembles—evidencing much deeper reaaing , much profounder thought , much greater power of the forcible and th « terrible in expression , though with lesB beauty of poetic imagery—this Prison Iihvme comes nearer than any other poem In our language to the grand woiks of Mliton . The spirit of tbatmightymasterwhich hitherto has looked so coldly and contemptuously on all its worshippers , has found out this imprisoned Chartist , and breathed upon him in his eell . Wonder of wonders , this self-taught shoemaker is hardly less versed in curious and mystic lore than the sightless hard , to whose mental vision all antiquity andits fables , its heroes , ana its creeds , seemed revealed .

      Be it understood we speak only of the genius of the ¦ writer—genius is the proper , the only correct word to apply to his poetic fire . We have read with sorrow we cannot express , those fearful revelations of the doubts which torment and rend his soul , leading him to distrust his own consciousness , and sometimes tremblingly to regard the grave as a dark and eternal sepulchre—that hoarded bitterness of y ear § Of DOTCrty and neglect—that tOrrent , of reproach which he hurls against kings , ministers , and the priests of all religions—and that fiery wrath

      with which he enwraps the objects of his hate , as if he would consume them in its folds , till his muse assumes almost a fiend-like aspect . Much , very much , is there in this book to Shock ana horrify a well-regulated mind beyond the scope of WOl ' uS tO tell . It 13 not to be lightly read ; it is not to be placed in young hands . We might even be disposed to wish it had never been , written . But here itis , . full of power , full of eloguence , full of grand detached passages—beyond all question the most singular poem in the English language . It will suggest some serious reflections to us hereafter .

      We omit the quotations from the poem given in the Britannia , as these and other quotations we shall ourselves give in due order . We give some further extracts from the critique : — With wonderful pomp and luxuriance does the author recal the great names of antiquity , and invest the form Of each ; with peculiar and distinctive characteristics . The stanza , so difficult of management in an inferior hand , is by him wrought , even in the most elaborate and difficult descriptions , with as much ease as a skilled hand weaves osier rods into baakctwork . He is master of his verse , and uses it as a master , not a servant . He makes it subservient to his thought ; with a boldness more to be admired than condemned he employs rhymes and word * unatkorised by authority rather than suffer-his muse to he fettered by commonplace rules .

      There are , in this volume , at least a thousand of such stanzas as we have quoted . Some purely beautiful ; some shocking , malignant , and terrible ; but all evincing triumphant poetic genius . Think , then , of the entire work being composed in a dungeon ; of all the gorgeous images and glowing splendours that shine upon the page , being conceived in the darkness , pain , and privation of a prison cell , and , acknowledging how superior the mind can rise to all external circumstances , let us frankly , with all its faults , acknotrteojie this Prison Rhyme to ut 011 C of the most wondenul productions of which the world has preserved record .

      It suggests deep thoughts , not to be lightely expressed , not to be heedltssly discarded . We cannot suppress genius of this kind . It will rise supsrior to all fetters . It resembles the elements of"the natural world , ivhich may be controlled but cannot be annihilated . The torrent that unrestrained would desolate a country may be turned into channels to fertilize it , and made to contribute to the service and pleasure of man . . AYhat might this poet not have been had his infancy and youth been less neglected , had he been cared for by the state , had his mind bem trained to a knowledge of truth , anil reared with reverent

      regards for things holy ? Is not this book a great evidence of the danger we run , in letting our youthful population grow up like rank weeds , without knowledge , care , or culture ? Self-taught men are self-willed . They recognise no obligations , no authority . They conceive they owe all to themselves ; and , acknowledging none of the li 5 ; jherdutiesoflife , uQueof . tlie , responsibilities of intellectual power , they hurl back apon society its scorn or contempt of themselves , We kuow not what effect this book will have ; we almost fear pernicious . There is more danger in the spirit it breathes , than in a thousand Chartist meetings by torchlight .

      It gives another warning , a solemn one too , —on the danger of rudely disturbing old and settled institutions . The Sew Poor Law has been long in operation , tlieve appears no prospect of its repeal—yet see , in this book , which speaks the mind of millions , with what intensity it is hated , and with what joy a revolution would be hailed that should sweep it away . Itis favourable to the good feeling of the author that he now deprecates all resort to violence . The path of minds like his is usually a rou ? h one , but is cleared at

      last . Genius in its progress has often to pass through dark caverns before it arrives at halls of light ; under happier circumstances we trust they are dawning upon him , his temper may become softened , and his views of life extended and clearea . Then , from tlm great , but rude commencement , more great than the earlier woTks of some whose names are now imperishably embalmed in our language , may arise a lofty superstructure of poetic fame . His natural powers are so eminent that success must attend Ills efforts , to whatever labour he may turn his vigorous mind .

      We have gone through the volume hastily , and have recorded our impressions of it with equal speed . It is one of those works in which there is so much to admire , so much to condemn , so much of sublimity and of beauty , so much of wvatlv and of fire , so much of heaven , so much of hell , that the mind cannot easily pass a decided judgment on it , but can only in noticing it attempt to reflect the feelings and the sentiments it has originated . In ouoting the Britannia's review of Mr . Coopeii's poem . * we do not forego our own right to criticise it , and express our own views as to its merita , which , whether we agree With the Britannia reviewer or not , we . shall honestly express when we come to the conclusion of the poem . . A lengthy review of the Purgatory of Suicides appeared in the Athencamn of Saturday last ; we Siiall most likely give some extracts therefrom next week . We now proceed with our extracts from the poem . The poet sleeps in his cell , and has a vision on Ms prison oed ,

      Which took its tinct from the mind ' s waking throes . The openingportion of the vision is horrible enough to stand by the side of John Bunjan ' s famous "Valley of the Shadow of Death . " Methought I voyaged in the bark of Death—Himself the helmsman—oo a skyless sea , Where non » of all his passengers drew breath"Jet each , instinct with strange vitality , Glared from his ghastly eye-balls upon me , And then upon that pilot , who upheld One chill and fleshless hand so witheringly That , wliile around his boat the hoarse waves swelled , It sesmed as if their rage that solemn signal quelled .

      I know not how these mariners I saw : No light made visible the grisly crew : It 8 ? emed a . rision of the soul—by lair Ofeorp ' ral sense unfettered , and more true Than living things revealed to mortal view . Sor can earth ' s Bubel syllables unfold Aught that can shadow forth the mystic hue Of myriad creatures—or their monstrous mould—Which ' thwart that dismal sea their hideous hugencw relied . , Kot stature terrible of mastodon Or mammoth;—lougitude of lizards vast , Lords of the slime when earth , from chaos won . Grew big with primal life , unm , aghast , She quaked at her strange children;—not all past Or present , which from out the dasdal earth , The human reptile , latest born , hath classed By guess , cleping it" Knowledge "—for the mirth Of future worms , crawling , in pride , to death—from birthi

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      Sot old leviathan , of bulk uncouth ;—Nor fabled kraken , with his gea-borne trail ;—> « t all that 8 » gej tell , in 6 c-W sooth , Of the sun ' s progeny on Memphic vale , Which from redundant Nile his beams exhal *;—> or all that phrenzied poets exorcise | From memory ' s grave , then weave with fancies frail ; - Can image , in their shades , or shapes , or size , Those ocsan-direllerg huge beholding Death ' s emprW The voyage , royagew * and ocean-forms . Alike , were strange , and wUq , and wonderful ; But marrels grew I When , of that sea of storms We reached the shore , the waves at once were lull-Death and his * kiff evanished , and seemed null And void as things that never were—while they , Pf late Death ' s passenger * , so cold and dull , J Topk , with an air of stern resolve , their way nttf A gloomy land where itartling visions lay .

      Any one who wishes to " sup full of horrors" must read the stanza ? immediately following the above , describing ths mai'ca of the ghostly crew through the land of shadows to which Death ' s bark has conveyed them . For ourselres irc have no taste for such phantasies , however' poetically described . In our boyhood , thanks to Bunyan , " prince of dreamers , " we had quantum tuf of such visions to last us a moderate life-time . The next extract describes fv mi ghty hall where are ass&jnblGd the mighty suicides oftheolde ^ time : this v » ionary hall exhibits the poet ' s descriptive powers to great advantage : —

      By beam or rafter architectonic llBdarkeu'd—with a roof of rainbows graced , Smiled that wide palace-hall : —yet , upward , quick And tim ' rous looks old shapes columnar cast-That stretched their sinews as with effort vast To prop the heavenly arch whose full they feared s—Distorted things—abortions of the Past—They were : Satyrs , with wild-goats' legs and beard , Ana one-eyed Arimasp and Cyclops , there appeared ; Scythians , with heel in front , ana toes oehina—An old Imaus known ; and Ethiops dark ' And headless , wearing mouth and eyes enshrined In their huge brea 6 ts ; and countless monster * « tark And staring , hymn'd divine by hierarch Of Ganges and old Nile—with heads , tails , arms , Tusks , horns , confused , of elephant , a P , shark , Serpent , dog , crocodile , or ox : vile swarms Of hideous phantasies , half-sharinj ? human forms .

      In triple colonnade around th' immense Ellipsis of tu » t hall these creatures stood—Colossal images of ache intense And apprehemive dread ;¦—while o ' er them bow « d The arch that still in jewelled beauty glowed . Such horror , Went with grace , Apollo ' s prieSt 'Mid strangling folds of Neptune ' s serpents showed—Aud still doth show—enmarbled , undeceased—That breathing stone the Fast to gem the Future leased Area within , inclosed , of amplitude * Hore spacious stretched than wide circumference Of sculptured temple , hy far traveller viewed In Hindoo cave—or where Wild audience The Arab gives to hoar Magnificence Defying Ruin , and in some huge tomb , Hewed for a monarch , nightly sleeps—from whence , I' th' morn , he Messes Mecca ' s seer—while gloOIll Eterne veils Memnon ' a brow behoWing Thebes' sad doom

      Throughout this column-girt enclosure rose ¦ Thrones , —some with fashion of a fortalice [ Or tower ; some , like cathedrallcd shrine , where tows Are paid to saintly heritor of bliss , Shewed niche , and pinnacle , and quaint device Of carven wonder-work ; ivhile some parado outvied of oia Tenownea Acropolis Or Parthenon , where graceful shaft o ' erlaid With bossed entablature Han ' s noblest skill displayed . Significant depicturings of fraud Conjunct with force , —cMmrcras blending grim Tierce forms with fascinations , '" shapes that awed Pelasgie men in ages old and dim , — For metOUej alOUg thft 5 > lwUi ' s broad i \ m , 'Tween gem-uropp'd triglyphs , —wore each classic throne : Rapine of harpy , smile of siren prim , Lewd lure of lamia , wile of spliinx , and frown Of minotaur and archer-eentanr there were shewn .

      Or , where a shrine-shaped throne , o ' ercaoopied With perforated carvery , rose —V , pile Of frail aerial wonder , —typified Were Fright and Mischief mist with Stealth ana OuiU : Hag rode her broomttaff , flaukt with bugbear vilo And goggle-eyed hobgoblin , while a host led by Puck-Hairy mocked with infantile And puny trick the snuke that wreathed and tossed His trail around the skull and cross-bones of grim ghost . In the list of potentates , legislators , heroes , and

      others , who occupy this hall , there are Sardanapalus , CEdipus , JSgeus , Saul , Telamon , Codius , Chow Sin , Lycurgus , Mark Antony , Nero , Mithriuates , Dido , Cleopatra , « fec , &c . These hold converse on the destiny of man . Sardanapalus , who commences the " war of words , " taunts Lycurgus with the failure of his prediction that kings should cease to reign , and mankind bow only to self-government , Sardanapalus points triumphantly to the ruins of Greece , and the extinction of Spartan virtue and freedom , in proof of his assertion that

      There must be conquering lords , and slaves that yield : There hath been , —anil there will be . Chow Sin , the Emperor of China , takes up the same strain , and instances Chin « i as the most ancient and flourishing of states , becaiise conservative of its faith in kings aud priests . Marie Antony answers the Cathaian despot , and shows the real and degraded state of China . The stanzas put into the mouth of Mark Antony are very fine . He predicts the speedy destruction ot the old and worn-out einuire of Chow Sin : — The restless pirates of the northern isles , — Breaking your barriers of three thousand years , — With their own eyes , your land of fabled smiles Behold , —and find it but a laud of tears-Like their own . Nero replies to the anti-monaveliieal scoffings of Antony , and administers a not undeserved scourging to the

      Hero of Actium . '—Vestal of the Nile ! In his turn Nero has his own vices rigidly pourtrayed by the heavy hand of Maxiraian . The quarrel is becoming " a very pretty quarrel , " each unmasking the other , when the fierce Politic King Mitliridatcs silences the disputants by appealing to Lycurgus to give his reasons for his belief in the ultimate des ' ruction of kingcraft and universal reign of equality . Thus appealed to , Lycurgus answers : — The Power that forms , supports , and governs Man , Smilas on Mm evermore ; benignly woke His infancy with love ; unfolds its plan Of happiness in the fair-written book Of Man ' s own nature , nnd tht > forms that look Upon his essence from the outward world ; Tmplants « o instinct in his breast to inouk His life ; but hath his sentient clay impended With reason—sovereign gem in fragile folds enfurled .

      A thing of beauty , though but frail , in joy Perpetual might his mortal life be past ; But fablers do his peace and bliss destroy With falsest fears : each hour is overcast With sadness , anil each breath an autcpast , Becomes of some arcaa future , which , to shun , He must propitiate mystic demons vast , By rites that serve to load with pious boon The smooth and crafty priest who consecrates tho throne Very beautiful are the stanzas comprising the ad dress of tho great Spartan : — Ye clepe me Prophet !—I accept the jest For earnest ; and , with mystic wreath thus crowned By your united voice , Mystery attest

      To be tiie tyrant Power from whose profound Soul-bond . ige man is breaking : whispering sound Of Truth ' s young breath greets Europe ' s grateful tar ; And Freedom , in some hearts , a throne hath found ,. ' " On that new shore where still , alas ! appear . ¦ , Earth's oM « n stains—the helot ' s stripes—the helot ' s tear Afric ' s dark tribes , and Asia ' s populous swarms , The voice of Truth , and Freedom ' s holy call Shall know , ere long—upstarting . —not to avms , For Wood and slaughter , —but to disenthral Tlieir new-born spirits from Faith ' s mystical Degrading chains , and shake their ancient slough Of sottish ignorance off : no more to crawl In abjectness 'foie hideous goSs , nor throw Their slavish frames 'fore kings , in vile prostration low .

      " What follows , " says the reviewer in th e Britannia , " is equal to tl e noblest stanzas in Byron " : — Thrones , —ye perceive your splendours ' gin to pala ;—And soon we must our penal throes renew . I cease my theme;—nnd may have erred , — for frail Is still our wisdom : it may be , the Few Shall still the Many trample and subdue : That Truth and Liberty shall bloom—to die , — Like glorious winged things , that , swift pursue The sunbeam-atoms for a day , then hie .

      To de » tb , —Wending , as'tweve , a breath—a smile—a sigh 1 It may be that the human soul is mixt With naturft of decadence and frail change . Essentially : that never stably fixt , But mutable , eternally to range ' From ignorance to wisdom , —then , by strange . ¦ Return , to ignorance , —may be its fate , Inevitably ;—that when their brief revenge Slaves take on tyrants , they emancipate Themselves in vain , —And Nature doth ttieir Itrift frustrate .

      Spirits , it may be emptier than a dream That fair Equality shall one ( lay hold Sole gceptre on tho earth : that Man . shall dacca His brother man too sacred to be sold Or slain , —16 be by any power controlled , Saw the soft foTce of love and wisdom : field It is for thought : thy dogma , —monarch old , — , "There must be eonqu ' ring lords and slates that yield •' — The Future may attest as the staineu Past hath sealed . Lycurgus proposes that other shades of great suicides should be invited , to join in this supernatural conference ; as the mouarchs express their assent , the dream of the poet is broken ; and the first book ends . ( To fa continued . )

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      W £ ^ ROLD ' S SHILLING . MAGA-£ lJ \ Ji—Sepie ^ bbb , Loadon : Punch Office , 02 Fleet-street . ' ' We return to this nuigazfce , from which -we gave an extract in our last . Ih'tfie continuation in the present mo nth ' s number , of the editor ' s story of " St . wles and St . James" is a powerfully written eoSVOiH ot the ignorant and bloody barbarizes of the " good old times , " as shown by the hanging of unfortunate wretches to the number of fifteen atWe , as was the ? i ^ & T , ' on the morning of the ^ 3 rd of June , 1784 . We had marked this excellent piece of writing For extract , but caniiot find room for itthvs week ! nevertheless if , hall appear in this paper . "The tnglishnianin Prussia , No . II . " contains , ™ amount ot that gigantic fraud , " The Holv Gont at 'IWes "

      together with a number of similar frauds . Wenfled say nothing in commendation of this well-timed and excellent article , as it sufficiently commends itself ; rififf « T * T n " } fci ! 1 PaSe 7 ° r tWspaper . "The a most nteresting establishment in Frante , the agriffttXSr £ f H' near 'i ' o » rs , establE ouenS \ Vhf + dplly f icaI r . ecovery of W 5 ^ Hn-SSS ' h-SS " f ^ sht Lows tt" ™ and 2 W& ? tW * by im , itatinS the noble example SinnJSv 1 W and De Bmmiomkhb , do sg ffijftlv ' ^ Jto *} ^ vo noble-minded men are Siw J ; i $ d the / « fc of the State , so mis-SKSf P . '" famously squandered in the embasof sim lir ™ f " - ' been , devotcd t 0 the establishment ot similar colomes to that at Mettray , the King of t ?? mcades ^ d the Chief Of the Doctrinaires l

      .,., KSSS 7 ^« ives % ; utalon ; sTe hSShS ? ° 4 UeirCO . untl < y whidh-tfiae cod * » ever Snfi ? tedl , " > the one a perjured tyrant , the other a tyrant ' s tool , are , despite their acknowled ged abilities , the most unpopular men living ; and » m be amongst the most execrated when dead . . As an example of what may be done , thia Mettray experiment is of the first importance ; although next to valueless as a means of national regeneration ; seeing , that while the system at Mettray saves one unfortunate , the system at Paris , and throughout trance generally , is destroying , at the least , a hundred lor every one saved by Messrs . De Meiz and T > b Bbbwcveiies . After all , there is no real remedy but in changing the social system . The . nhUnnthromnts

      of Mettray may ameliorate the evil results flowing irom the present -anti-social state o [ tliirijje , but nothing short of the remedy prescribed by Babeot and Buos'AnRoii will effect , a thorough cure for the present , aud prove a prerentive for the future . Still , all hononr to the founders of Mettray I If -we can find room we may give the article , in' this paper , in a week or two . By the bye , tho Soeiafists jnighi tunr the example of Mettray to account . Now that the failure of the Harmony Hall experiment as a community is no longer doubtful , why not tSuvft tlvc establishment to tlie next best purpose , that of an agricultural industrial college , for the trahang of youth in a practical knowledge of the social svstem , and habits in consonance therewith ? If there be

      any truth in the system of the Socialists , oy any chance of that system being reduced to practice , experience has proved that it can Only be by Csmmitting its working to a race trained iree from the prejudices and habits of the present generation . "The Position of men of Letters" contains some good ideas , but also a something which to us seercs not sound . There has of late in this mi gazine , an < 5 several other publications , been raised an outcry against the present political system in * . is- country , which showers down IlOllOUl'S and eni luments on certain privileged classes , to the exclulion of those who possess nothing but their talents to recommend them for the services and rewards of public situations . The outcry is well-founded , and we hope will become

      louder and louder until the cause thereof J > o removed . The discontented parties we speak of desire , that , instead Of tlie booby sons of lovds , or the brainless scions of wealth , claiming as by right the privilege to be enrolled in the ranks of the r » lcrs of the state , that the offices now in most instances so unworthily occupied , should be thrown open to the competition of the men of genius , talent , and leasning ; and that to the modi ; worthy , regardless of birth or money , should be allotted the public employments . This principle is good and grand ii' taken in its fullest sense ; indeed , it is just what , as regards Govcnvment , the democracy are contending for . But we doubt the motives of some of these clamourers for the " aristocracy of talent ; " and they furnish us

      with reasons for doubting , when wo see them , as in the case of this writer in Jerrold's Magazine ( "The Position of Men of Letters" ) lauding the system which in France elevates (?) a Vicion Hugo to the peerage ; in Prussia , where a IIumboux is at once a peer and minister ; and in * Spain , where the dramatist Maktinkz de la Kosa is , or was , lately a minister . It may be a very good thing for Messrs , Hugo , Hcmboldt , De la Eosa and Co ., that tliey should share with privileged brigands , military adventurers , and jobbing politician ' s , the titles , crosses , orders , and pecuniary pickings derived from the plunder and , brutalisation of the nations tluiy respectively belong to . This may be very well for the clever geutlumen in question ; but of what benefit is it to the millions of France . Prussia , and Spain , who

      are not romancists , philosophers , or play-writers ? None . Nor , as experience has shown , docs this " elevation" of tlie literati of ii country to the functions and honours of public life tend at all to the advancement of nations in political , or even mental freedom . Indeed , tlie very contrary is tho fact . No ono knows this J ' act better than that crafty old sinner , Louis I ' juiirPF . ; and sec the use he has made of it . Alter tbc ' three days , " the greater part of the journalists , a , ml other writers , who had stimulated that revolution , were forthwith rewarded by the king of the shopocrats with places , pensions , orders , and other tit-bits of corruption ; the cunning old usurer , well knowing that by such means he could attach these literary prostitutes to his causeand so buv up

      , the press as an engine for the support and conservation of his new tyranny . Almost the only honest man of the prominent journalists who remained true to the cause of the many , who wouM neither be math a peer , nor a minister , nor a placeman of any kind , Armaxd Cahkel , was speedily got rid of , being convcnicntly killed in a duel , into which he was villanously entrapped . Writ rs not so prominent , but equally honest , such as the editors of the Tribune , were subjected to prosecution after prosecution , until , by the aid of villanous middleclass juries , they were utterly ruined in purse , and left to perish in the dungeons to which they were consigned . So that between comintion and

      uersecutiorf , honest journalism ivas all but uticrly stifled , What remained previous to the Ficschi affair was then utterly put an end to ; and such superlative scoundrels as Thiers , Gujzot and Co ., were tlie men who were the prime movers in every infamous law adopted to chain the press and fetter tho millions . The public writers of Franco are with a . few —very few—honourable exceptions , the basest set of knaves that ever prostituted brains or wielded pens , and yet that is the country where the " aristocracy of talent" has sway ; where poets are mado peers , and journalists ministers \ As to Prussia , we do not fee wherein the Prussian people benefit by having Huron IIiuinoi . DT for a minister . Wo have not beard

      that he has made even an . attev&pt to abolish the censorship ; and we rather think he has not put pen to paper yet to prepare the constitution so long promised by the present perjured , pietistic king . Then look at Martiskz db la Rosa , tho grand tool and creature of the royal harlot Chiustixa . lias not this play-writing member of the " aristocracy of talent" been the associate of the blood-drinking monster Narvaez ? Has he not sanctioned and approved , and lielpcd to carry out all the atrocities of which the reigning faction in Spain have been guilty during the last two years ? Narvakz is a brute : but brute as he is , he is really respectable compared with this intellectual , elegant blood-dabbler , Rosa . If Rosa is a fair specimen of the " aristocracy of talent , " heaven pvesevve via fvom that aristocracy ' s rule !

      • " It the author of tho article in Jerrold ' s Magazine which has called forth these remarks , imagines that tho democratic movement in tins country is intended merely to put one set of men down and place another set up ; remove hereditary avistoeratsmerely that their places may be filled with " babbling literati , " he makes a grand mistake ; a mistake which , with the example of the Girondists before him , he might have avoided . They—the Girondistsdesired to put down monarchy , the avistooraoy ,-and the priesthood , hut only with tho view ot establishing themselves in the places of the discomfited orders of the old regime . They had no icea of establishing a system of veritable liberty , which , to escist , must be based -upon equality of labour and ts

      enjoymen . The consequence was , that this woulcUe " aristocracy of talent" wevetrodden down by the men of energy who promised themasses a real « . ft * , Some of tho Promisers were honest men . V ould that they had all been so ! Be it understood that we offer thwse observations not as the apologist of the present system , which excludes a Carlyms , a Dickens , a JwitoLD , or a Cooper , from public employments , and confers them oi \ sueh idiots as the Marquis of Londonderrv ; nor are we opposed to the reign of an " aristocracy of talent ; on the contrary , we earnestly desire- to sec its- commencement . Wlmt wo insist upon ig this that the power of that " arittocraty" , hall emanate from the people . We want no poets made peers of by King or Queen—no journalist called to WU office because lvia prostitution of intellect « calculated upon oeiore

      -nanu j oy uirae who giveliim his degraded elevation . " As tho Whigs are pnly good for anything when out of office , so , irhi<he present system asts , it will not trouble us mu . cR'to see tho " men of ^ PnlTi" ? , tllCy are < - Tfofr discontent is a powerful hdp to the enfi : au . uhisement of a ] , „ _ volutions are not made with rose-water " -and that being tlie - caso , if ^ ever a - revolution should come upon this country , we trust if , hjwe miguier enGs , and achierehappier resuUj ,. than the merely giving us such precious rulm ^ Tnreas , the lying historian , or M m" / 5 ? r oSA ' thebutchering play-writer . ¦ Ot the other entente of this number of Jerrold ' s Magazine we liave no room to speak / save that we have , as usaal , read with much pleasure the " Hedgehog -Letters . ' It would be superfluous for us now to say anything by waj of recommending this publication—it best recommends itself .

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      THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE-SEP 7 BMBEn . _ London : J . Clayton , 320 , Strand . ' ¦ ihis is the third number of the new Beries o . a magazme which , beforetimo , it has often been ou . - pleasing task to speak of in approving terms ' The hrst and second numbers of tile present series we ^^ K ^? t f , asc s s ^ w ^ a ^^ s 52 "P « # » «« A lor its versc-iUK that a not bad -as or the quaint and original illustotemswith winch it Is profusely garnished . "The Reonations of Mr Zigzag the Elder " contains some curious rejections of , and pleasing gossip concerning Etus Asumole , and his house in Little Shire-lane ; and the immortal Boar ' s Head , of Eastcheap . "Zara , the Rich Man ' s Daughter , " is a £ &&J 2 & ?! * & ' ^» "^ pillar

      ^ ***• Rationale of Ghosts" contains some good sense on a 8 ^ T « e , m « Ie of inexhaustless nonsense . The writer ot ihePast , the Present , and the Possible" we hare met before in the oldsQriea oi'this magazine and right glad we are to meet him again . His prel sent contribution would do credit to any publication There is some good poetry in this number . As regards the illustrations , this magazine is once more worthy of its name . Indeed , in the best days of the old series , this magazine was never so truly '' the IxMjstmATKnr as now . There are magazines tor which the charge is half-a-crown , or three shillings and sixpence , which certainly can claim no superiority , as regards literary ability , over this ; while , as regards their pictorial embellishments , they are as farthing rushlights to tho great sun itself , when compared with the Illuminated at the same time the latter is published at less than half the coat of iiie high-priced monthlies .

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      TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE—Avovm and September . Edinburgh : W .. 'f ait ; London ; Simpfcin , Marshall , and Co . Circumstances , it were useless to explain , prevented us noticing fciio August Jiumber of this old established , and deservedly popular magazine . It would , howeTer , be unjastnot to sotice the August number , simply because * August has gone by . Tlie opening article is a review of the celebrated work of the Trench historian , M , MlGUBlUT , On " Priests , Women , and Ohiidren . " The review is not bo much to our liking as some reviews of the same work we hare seen in ether publications- Still it is a valuable article—indesd the most valuable in the numS * r . M . Miciielet ' s- work is one of the most valuable contributions to the CWSO of free tllOUSht ,-

      —ilia foundation &nd sate-guard o ? all frecdom . —whieh baa appeared since the timo of ? 9 ltairk . His exposure of priestcraft , as it exists-in France aS the present day , was much needed , and will , we triisfe , be productive of thelioped-&r results . There is grouad , too , for SO tasting ; foy before ifc appeared in an English dress , it had scM to tlie extent of fifty thousand copies ' in Francs . The review of "The Memoiw of Laily Heste ? Stanhopa , " extending through fourteen double-columned pages , must , at any rate , have thoroughly skimmed the cream of the work . Thisreviewismostcleyeriyprepared , and the reader of Tail will scarcely tind'it necessary to read [ the original workaSter having perused She review , " Servia , tSie YuUllgSst Membfer of the European Family , " gwes the reader much interesting information— thanka-to Mr . Papon ' s book—of acounSry hardly Ssaowa to western Euro !}* , and a people who « seem to possess qualities which fsouire but fair cultivation to

      fit them for greatness . Reviews of the "Life of Jean Paul Ri

      TIIE FRENCH KBVOUmoSI . Indirectly , Besides , it ought not to ba overlooked that , as respects tho French Revolution , tlio jdiole coUcge of philosophy in "The Excursion , " who are gathered together upon ttic ease of the recluae , make tlie same mistake that he makes . VTUy is the recluse disgusted with the Trench Revolution 3 Because it had not fulfilled many of his expectations ; and of those wineli it had fulfilled , some had been sooa darkened by reverses . But really tills was eliildiBh impatience . If « man depends for the exuberance of his harvest upon the splendour of the coming summer , you do not excuse him for taking prussie acid because it rains cats and dogs through the first ten days of April . AH ia good time we say : take it easy ; make acquaintance with May and June , before you do anything rasli . The French

      Revolution lias not evon yet ( 1845 ) come Into full action . Ii was tho explosion of a prodigious volcano , which scattered its lava over every kingdom of every continent , everywhere silently manuring them for social struggles ; this lava is gradually fertilizing all : the reTolutionnrjmovsment is moving onwards at this hour as iuexorilbl ? as ever . Listen , if you have ears for such spiritual sounds , to tlie mighty tide even now slowly coming up from the sea to Milan , to Rome , to Naples , to Vienna . Ilearken to the gentle undulations already breaking against the steps of- that golden throne which stretches from St . Petersburgh to Astrachan;—tremble at the hurricanes which have long been mustering about the pavilions of the Ottoman radishill ) . All these are long swells setting in from the French Revo ' .-ution . Even as

      regards France herself , that which gave the mortal offence to the sympathies of the solitary was the Reign of Terror . But ^ how thoughtless to measure the cycles of vast national revolutions by metres that would not strclch round an ordinary human paBSion . Even to a frail sweetheart , you would grant more indulgence than to be oft" in a pet because somo transitory cloud arose between you . Tlie reign of terror was a mere fleeting phasis . The Napoleon dynasty was nothing more . Even thnt scourge , ivliidi was supposed by many to have mastered the Revolution , 1 ms itself passed away upon the wind—leaving no wreck , veliquo , or record behind , except precisely those changes which it worked , not as nn enemy to the Revolution ( which also it was ) , but as its servant and its tool .

      The " Passages in the History of Knoclvavow " , avo brought to a conclusion . 'Die iritole story has been ably toUl , and -will ivell repay perusal . The critique on the third and fourth volumes of " Tliiers' History of Napoleon" should be read by all who desire to cet at the truth of French history . There arc several other reviews in this number , including " A Scottish Craftsman ' s Travels in tho United States and Canada , " , written by William IVmsox , of Stonekaven , a sensible anil well-written work , if we may judge by the extracts in ' f ait ,- and Charles Mack . u ' s " Legends of tlm isles and other poems , " a true poet , whose success we shall be delighted to hear of .

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      SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE . —S » - TuuuBtu L&ndon ; Simmonds and Ward , 18 , Covnhill . This number contains the usual amount of statistical and descriptive information on colonial subjects , fs * which this magazine has earned so fair a fame , Among tho more important contents are articles oa the " Iuijvovtsand Exports of Dcmerara ;" " Tho Agriculture oi" Hindostan ; " the " Pi-ogress of Wealth * Tvade , and Population in Canada f " The Newfoundland Fisheries" ( being the Report of the Committee appointed by the General Assembly of Newfoundland to inquire into the state o ? thi-Fisheries of that Colony i ) "Tho Geography afi Africa" ( an article contributed by Mr . Jamb M'Q . uhen , containing ranch curious information aa the subject o £ African discovery ); and lastly , a my valuable article on "Hong Kong , and the Yive Chinese Free Ports , " Accompanying this avtWle is , a view of Victoria ^ the English capital of Hong Ivong , ¦ which it appears lias already become a place « f

      importance * In August , 1841 , not a single home was yet Wilts ,, but in June , 1843 , tlie town was considerahly more than two miles long , and its increase since then has been nearly proportionate . It novy contains hundreds of excellent shops , a well supplied marketpiape ,, several fine public buildings , good roads , Ac . This number contains also several articles of light reading , amongst which are" Tho Merchant ' s Bride " ( concluded ;) " Reminiscences of the Island of Cuba ; " and a Tory interesting account of " The Murichi , or It * Palm of Guiana . " We are gtod to learn by the prefaco of the volume just conolndii ) , that the proprietors and conductors of this magazine arc enabled to record the " continued and unexampled success" of their venture . This success is certainly well deserved . The present number commences the sixth volume , which , \ $ as well conducted as its predecessors , cannot fail to win a still further increase of public patronage .

      Coxmsiox Op ax old Offendee . — ¦ r £ b 6 Standard of Wednesday Bays , " The advice of the great Lord Chatham to the Lord Grantley of his time to say nothing when he had nothing to say , ' ig excellent for Members of Parliament , but it will not do for newspapers . We must tAfsmtthing every day , whether Tie havo or have not anything to say , and the consequence is that we must occasionally writs a great deal of nonsense , a great de » , j of impertinence , and some of us , at least , a gren . c deal that is false and mischievous . " Natural . —If a village beggar were to board money , in what funds would he i'jyest it ? In anythin ? but the ttocks !

      A Lumpi . vg Pbxn onTn . —" Now , ray man , " said a London AWernjan , to a " Young Kid" in London streets , " what would you say if I gave you a penny V Boy . "Vy , that you yosajolly old brick , "—/"« ncA ,

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      Political Railwat Accipbnt . —An accident JateJy happoned to one Peel , the driver of the engirt * filled " Expediency , " belonging to the express tra'in on the government line of railway . It ia well knov'vn that the line is exceedingly crooked , and th 9 ins and outs havo always been considered very dangerous . Peel , who is a reckless follow , aud who has * lost his p lace once or twice for improper conduct , put tho engine at full speed , though it had pot an : enor- « mous weight to pull against in the shape of an

      article for Maynooth , which was rery awkwardly placed , and if it had fallen down must inevitably'have crushed him ; regardless of consequences , he urged the engine on ; and if it liad not happened 'to be " Expediency , " ivhicli ] i ( i is in the habit of driving ; he result would probably have been fatal . It was , lowever , by keeping up the speed that he succeeded in keeping clear of the dead-weight at his back ; and there being- fortunately nothing in his way t » cause a collision , he arrived in safety » i the end of his jOW ney . —JPuncft , ¦ ¦ .

      FoRTiicoMixtf- Raimmts . — 'Wefhave been favoured with the following list of railways whiefe will be brought before Parliament early " next session ;—A railway from the Stock Exchange to the Bethlera Hospital , with a branch to Newgate , and another to the Queen a Bench . The shares are already at a very heavy premium , having been principally bought up by large speculatora at Leeds . Tfee chairman is the late proj ector of the Diddlesex Insurance Com--pany . —A railway from Covent Garden Theatre to Portugal-street , with branches to tlie Strand , Olympic , and other minor theatre ? . Mr . Charles Kean

      and Mr , yandenhoff have taken a number of share * in this railway , which is now known familiarly astlie * tragedian's line—Branch railways from tlmdiffeifent termini of tlie principal rail-ways in London to ' the largest metropolitan hospitals "will be opened as soon as sufficient accommodation can be madein-the ' latter tor the- great access _ of business this contemplated junction is sure to brihg , InvesflMent of capital to any amount may tie ceasidered perfectly safe in any of these new lines , as'i'rom the intimate connexion that has long . Minted between thu respective localities of each , the ; W * eldy traffi * 5 n passengers and property must bo immeaoe . —Mia-. '' . ¦ . -.

      MS JOIXT TOUiftB BA-RBJSTJjh AraJ did j-6 u not iear of a joJIy Tomisf Barrister , At the Old Bailey who used i" * ? sr to ply ? Ho made out his cftecAvitli jMcHtftkill and de : tcr ! tjv Twisting endi fiat , while he gtosnl o ' er each Ire ; Ho stuck ' at nothing . ; and thatBcateadily , ThefHons all soaghifhis aid so r » 3 tli ) y , And he eared from conviction so many a thief , That this Barrister nfi % r was in vrcm * of a brief . "What sights of fine rouses he got ofFliy his blarney- ; : His tongue was so glib , nnd so sptaions ivitlial ; ¦ Ho was always retaineJ&y the grcat'Sitjr forgers To Newgate from Mansion House zsM , or Guildhall , Anil often' tlie Press wo ;* HJ be gibing r . n < J jeering , Hut'twas-all one to him ,.: ** cni'iring amt sneering ; He'd sweafr black was wWfte-in behalf of a thief , So this Barrister ne ' er \ vr * &i want of a brief .

      And yet , oaJy think what stoange moralsiare lawyers , < Tlie Bar of such condutSc&ink nothing at all : ; Whilst Should any poor Covmael vciwvt lor s paper , " To Coveirtrj- with iijnl JTjfJiat illStllllt t&Ji' Call ! Prom their hssss they'll cxpailbim , he'll find , to his soiv row ; Bnt they'll Avne with the ^ ouaehreaker ' s hireling tomorrow ; Then hurrah !~ tliougli his tiven-t be swindler'or thief , —» For tho Barrister never in wsfsvoj a brief . —ISM . Interesting ; Reuc at Ssmhwatj . — At Rosenau " , where his Royal Highness- Prince Albert first saw

      light , thcy show affecticnat « ly ,. ni ) t only the cradle in which the royals infant was kwd 1 , but the silver spoon which he had ichis mouth \ i \ Kn lie was born . The correspondent _ oK the Mornir ^ 'ShQld fainted when lie saw this admirable relic . " ii « i » - as large as a soupladle ,- 1 iandsome ) j- embossed with tlie ill' 1118 of England ; a « d in tho-custody otKMnna Eyergluck , his Royal Mighness % excellent mwsc , —Vrince Leopold ( now King of the Belgians ) was-born with a similar ornament . Ife is-ifeept at Goth ?/ , v « nc ! er the charge of the lady who brought up his then Serene Highness by hand , Madame l ? aj > penhoim . —* . ftVA .

      The Cause OP-TilariATK Bad Wbaoheb . —M . Aragfr lias discovered tha 6 the inclemency off the weather in Paris is occasioned by curtain blocks-of ice floating about in the-Atlantic . From tiiia'weaiay iiilorthac the cold weather- - which we havs-livtriy experienced has arisen fi'om-thelfcrge quantitiasol ! Wcnham Lake ice which are daily- carried about the streets of London . — Ibid . Jiow inoVD'ttm-S'SAjuE of Ciunmr . LTJ . —Is Oliver CionweHto havca'Statuo in the Ntw llovises of Parliament ? That' is ,. i » he proper company for the de ^

      ceased Kingsaud Qucwsof Engiand ? Atiirstthoughci w » sbon \ d be- disposed to say that U « was ; but when we come to compare-laira with tliercapcct . iblo King Henry the Eighth , ami the bisnef-oent daughters of that Sovereign ^ . IShvy and Elizabetiii : not to mention . as fat , if not as notorious , a monarch of later date : and withal to put ! ourselves in the Protector ' s place ; we doubt whether that place would be alonjf with those said personages . Is Ci'onv . vell fit to stai £ among them t Are ivsr fit to carry food of a certain , description to a-- hear 1—llrid .

      Kew Line of Business . —We un . 'lerstam 1 that me dieal students , mtead of walking the hospitals , intend to apply , for penaission to walk the differcnfi railways , as , from , the number of accidents that occur on each line , they expect to finish their sm-gical education in one-half oi' the usual period : —Ibid . SOVEBEIO . V SP 01 tT ; . 0 B , THE srAC-SI . itlCHTEIl AT COTUA . " Tiiis day a stag must tlie . "—Xew version of OjX Song Horn rose in G'obnrg ; glorious morn J The remittee rung loud , "While soundud evory Itunistnan ' s Jiorn , 'Mongst < ittUv >\' 5 jojons crowd ; The English Queen ! ouv GhrvsUan Queen I Our Albert ' s numavuh mats , Goes , pleasure-plumed , to fi > vt 3 tgvc 6 T 9 j To ' beast battue" in State .

      Oil ! brilliant was our Queen ' s cortege—Kings , princes , ladies , lords ! On Coburg ' s greensward , hist ' ty- ' s page Such nobles nt'er records . The myriads tlH'OHg eneii riflge nnd hill , Guards round the slaughter scene ; Tim Couvt arrives ; ' midst auelaim sbrill , Pavilion'd sits—our Queen ! 'Tis said the yoxitliful Queen of Spain On bull-fights loving ilo&ts » . The Queen who Uolh o ' lr Britaiu reign On other slaughter gloats ! Tliciiorn ' gain sounds ! thes ' gaal ' sgiven , On tlaUi in maddening fright Tlie forest's free-born—ruthless driven To sicld a Queen flelisht !

      Goaded and chafed , tliciralltlers dash , They close th' imprisoned round ; T ? or freedom hohl they make a dash , 13 ut futile is their bound ! Again—again , tlie proud entrapped For glorious freedom hie ! ¦ When , hark . ' a Prince ' s jriin hatli snapped—The noble bi-ute miut die ! The stag ' s but type of Freedom's fate , The sport of each crowned head ; Its pant for right is sport of State ; 'Tis marked at , doomed , and dcatl ! If such as this bo Queady sport , And -wortly of renown , Changed soon may be the sport of Court , And pleasure of each crown . Catherine de Medic-is once stood , And cheered her son to slsiupliter ; Tli' Huguenot stags sunk bathed " in blood , And With as little quarter !

      # * # # The bull-fight glads the Quscn of Spain ; The bttU-btrit - p \ -. asei ouv million ; What sport glads Vic % let truth prevail , From GathVs stained pavilion!—Satirist , Somewhat too Conclusive . —In the examination into tho dreadful case of the Andover Union , -whiclr is going on by direction of Government , a reverend genUeman was questioned upon tho nature of his had

      spiritual instruction to a sick pauper : — " You . heard that this woman had lived in a Btato of auultsry 1 Yes . —And you went for the purpose fcf getting at the truth ? No : I felt it my-duty to point out the sina of that woman , and I mentioned adultery and other sins of which we are all guilty . * ( Laughter . )— A -voice : " Speak for rounielf , if you please , sir . " ( RenBVfeil laughter . )—The impartiality of evidence with which the revoreiul gentleman included himself in tlie commission of tli « crimes in questioa is , to say the least , a rare occurrence of candid confession .

      A Foousn Fatrkh . —At Boston , United States , & ¦ poor simpleton , who , under the belief that the world ; w » 9 coming to an end , made over all his property to . liis son , and went about preaching Millerism , and is ; now suing the son for its restoration , Mmuxu iur Most os w . —A «» U « v , t » 1 t o nad \ m ^' on the bank of the canal , lately full into the vrafcp and was drowned . A few . weeks afterward ^ hi » . " widow , Jenny , discovered something floating ooi the * canal , which , on drawing ^ shoro * turnod oui to , b e * her husband . From tho body there issued a great ; quantity of cela , which tho carefulJonny gathered into a largo hamper . A frieiid . of Jenny ' s happening to pass at the time , she accosted herthua * " oieav mo , Mary , here ' s rar man , and I liara ' cot a' th&a oela out o' Ima . V ( hat sV , » H 1 ao vi' him V' " Why faith Jenny , " says her trien ( 1 ( .. if he wag minQ ^ would just set him va again . You might raak'a grand trade o' the eoU . "—FaftwiJiwaW ;

      Tiik Law op Gbwht . —Ladies were in tho habit , some years ago . of weaving bonnets as big . ns prize caooages , ih ' i monstrosity . gradually ^ subsided to their arms , a « ., d assumed the form of " gigot sleeves , " It has no ^ fallen still lower , and becomo a " bustle . ' ! Wkte » kxU 1 t A

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 13, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1332/page/3/