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      BEAUTIES OF BIRON . SO . XIY . "CHIIDE BABOLD . " The second canto of this magnificent poem vraa \ mtten in Greece in the year 1810 , when the poet was in his twenty-third vear . At that time he appears to have regarded the restoration of Greece as all but impossible ; hence tlie dejected and almost despairing tone of the following beautiful stanzas . A few years subsequently , Bjnox had cause to change his opinions as to the destiny of the Greeks , ani what he did for them—devoting to their cause his fortune , his person , his sword , his life—is it not written on the hearts of freedom ' s sons in every eliine ? Is not his -name imperishabiy entwined with that of his pas-= sionately-loYed

      GBEECE ? Pair Greece ! sad relic of departed worth ! Immortal , though no more ; tliuugh fallen , great ! "Who now shall lead thy seatter'J children forth , . And long accustum ' cl bondage uncreate ? Sot such thy sons who whilome did wait , The hopeless warriors of a willing doom , In bleak Thermojiyhcs sapukhral strait —• Oh 5 wto that gallant fpiiit shall rasume , Leap from Eurotas' banks , and c Jl thee from the tomb Spirit of Freedom ! when ou Phyle ' s brow Thou sat * st with Thrasvbulus and his train , CouM ' st tliou forbodc the dismal hour which now 3 ) ims the green beauties of ibiue Attic plain ? Ifot thirty tyrants now enforce the chain , But every carle cau lnnl it o'er thy land ; yer rise thy son ! , but idly rail in vain , Trembling beneath the scourge of Turkish hand , Irom Wrth to death enslaved ; in word , in deed , nn mannM .

      In all save form , how changed ! and who That marlis die fire still siKirkling in each eye , "Who but would deem their bosoms burn'd anew "With thy unquetiched beam , lost Liberty ! And many dream withal the hour 15 nigh That gives them back their fathers' heritage : Tor foreign arms and aid they fondly sigh , Ifor solely dare encounter hostile rage , Or tear their name defiled from Slavery ' s mournful page Hereditary bondsmen ! linoiv ye not "IVho would be tree thtuisulvc-s must strike the blow ? Ev their right arms tlie conquest must be wrought ? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye ? Xo ! True , they may lay your proud despoilfrs low , But not for you will Freedom ' s altars flame . Shades of the Helots ! triumph o ' er your foe 2 Greece ! cluing . ; thy lords , thy state is still the same ; Thv glorious day is o'ev , but not thine years of shame .

      When risatii Laceda : aon ' s hardihood , "When Thebes Epaniinoudns rears again , "Wluss Athens * children are with hearts endued , "Vflian Grecian mothers shall give ulrih to men , Then may ' s ! thyu be restored ; but not till then . A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; Ail hour may lay it in the dust : and when Can man its shaitci'd splendour renovate , Itecall its virtues lracl ; , aufi vanquish time and fate And yet Uovr lively in thine eye of woo , Lund of lost gods and god-like men . ' art tilOU . ' Thy vales of evergreen , ihy hills of suoiv , Proclaim thee Nature ' s varied favourite now : Tliy fanes , tliy temples to thy surface bow , Commill <; ling slowly wiUi heroic earth , 3 Jiv > ke by the siiare of every rustic plough : So iierisii monuments of mortal birth , So per ish all in turn save well-recorded Worth :

      Save where some solitary column mourns Above its prostrate brethren of the eave ; Save where Tritonia ' s airy shrine adorns Colonna ' s cliff , and gleam along the wave ; Save o ' er some warrior ' s Imlf-forgotten grave , "Where the grey stones and unmolested grass Ages , but not oblivion , feebly brave , " Whilst strangers only not regardJess pass , lingering like me , perchance to gaze , and sigh " Alas Tet are thy skies as blue , thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves , and verdant are thy fields , Thine olive ripe as wlian Jlincrva smil'd . And still his honied wealth HyineUttS yields ; There the Mithe bee his fragrant fortress builds . The free-born -wanderer of ihy mountain-air ; Apollo still thy long , Jong summer gi lds , Still in Iris beam 'Mendeli ' s marbles glare ; Art , Glory , Freedom , fail , but Xature Stiii is fair .

      "Where ' er we tread ' t is haunted holy ground ; Xo earth of thine is lost in -vulgar mould , But one vast realm of wonder spreads around , And a ll tbc Muses' tales seem truly told , Till the sense aches with gazing to behold T ' ae scenes our earliest dreams have divelt upon 3 JJacb . hill and dale , each dceji ' iiing gl en aud wold Defies the power which crusVd tliy temples gone : Age shakes Athena's tower , but spares grey Marathon Tiie sun , the soil , but not the slave , the same ; Tj nehanged in all except its foreign lord—Preserves alike its bounds and b junduss fame The battle-field , where IVrsia ' s victim horde First bowed beneath the brunt of Kcllas' sword , As on tJie morn to distant glory dear , "When Marathon became a magic word ; " Which utterM , to the hearer ' s eye appear Tin camp , the host , the fight , the conqueror ' s career .

      The % inji JUeee , his slwftless hrohen bow ; Tlie fiery Cfreelc , his re-j pursuing spear ; Mountains above , Enrth's , Ocean ' s plain OfilOW ; 3 > rath in the front , Destruction in the rear ! Such was the scene—wliat now Tevnaine \ n Aicre \ " What sacred trojihy marks the hallow'd ground , llecoroing Freedom ' s smile ami Asia's tear 2 The rified urn , the violated mound , The dast tliy courser's Hoof , rude Stranger 2 Fpnms around . Tct to the remnants of thy splendour past Shall pilgrims puusive , but unwearied , tUrong : Xonjj sliall the voyager , with th' Ionian blast , Jlail the l « riglit clime of battle and of song ; Xong shall thine annals aud immortal tongue Till with thy fame the youth of many a shore ; JBoast of the aged I lesson of the young ! Which sages venerate anil bards adore , As Pallas and the Muse unveil their awful lore . The above stanzas conclude our extracts from the second Canto of Childe JIarold .

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      AX ACROSTIC . T houbar i of Charti sm , accept my humble praise : H eart-gratitude I yield for thy immortal lavs . O li , that our tyrants would be warn'd by thee ! SI 33- they incline in time the slave make free . A lil would they listen to thy warning strains , S laves to make men aud hreak their galling chains ! C au ' at weild thy pen—make soft the despot ' s heart ? O h , then , write on , and act the Briton ' s part . 0 urs be the task , for freedom boldly fights—P reserve us , heaven I in struggling for tlie right . £ acli one for liberty declare the world all o ' er , H einovc our fetters , or , " Slares . ' toil no more I " J . Shaw

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      TnE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A I ' bisos RaniE ix Tex Books . By Thomas Coorcn , Vie Cliartist . London : J . IIow , 132 , Fieet-street . A splendid address to " 2 fight" opens the Fifth Book—we can find room for only a portion of the stanzas : — Hail eldest Sight 1 Mother of human fear . ' Vague solitude where infant Man first felt His native helplessness I Beneath whose drear And solemn coverture he , trembling , knelt To what iii thy vast womb of darkness dwelt Trnccon , unknown !—but , w ^ lU the Waking Sun , Shouting , sprang up to see glad Mature melt In smiles—triumphantly his Joy-God run Up the bine sky—and Sli ght ' s bright reign again LPgUU ! Hail starless darkness I—sterile silence hailJ

      "Would that o er Chaos thy wide rule iiad been Perpetual , and reptile Man ' s birth-wait Had ne er been heard—or , over huge , obscene . And monstrous births of ocean or terrene For ever thou hadst brooded—so that Light Had ne ' er merited mortals , nor the morning sheen Broke thy stern ssgil to give baleful sight To man—whose look npon his fellow is a blight ! Season of sepulchred and secret sin ! Beneath thy pall what vileness doth Han hide , Tr « m age to age—the moral Harlequin "Who dons the saint to play the fratricide . Tillainy's jubilee : — Crime ' s revel-tide ! "Whose murky archives opened would proclaim Yon ermincd judge a gold-bought homicide—Yon priest an atheist—and hold up to shame Myriads of knaves writ" honestf in the roll of Fame ! ? # * *

      The poet betlunks Lim of the condition of the toiling slaves of Ms country , and their submission to oppression Incites him to curse their pusillanimity . The allusion , to Fkost , that follows , is very beautiful : — Darkness I thy sceptre still maintain—for thou Some scanty sleep to England's slaves dost bring : Leicester ' s starved stockingers their misery now Jb ' orget ; and Manchester ' s pale tenderling—The famished factory child—its suffering A wMle exchanseth lor a pleasant dream !

      . Dream on , poor infant wretch ! Mammon may wring Prom out tby tender heart , at the first gleam o » f light , the life-drop , and exhaust its feeble stream ' . Darkness J—still rule—that the Lancastrian hive -Of starveling slaves may bless thee—for ev ' n they—With all their wretchedness—desire to lire ! Aye , men desire to live—to whom the day Will bring again their woman ' s task—to stay At sgualid home , and play the babe ' s meek nurse Till sound of factory bell—when they away ilust haste , and hold the suckling to life ' s source—Within fie rails ! Upon their tyrants be my curse !

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      Ifay , rather light that curse on ye , yourselves—Ye timid , crouching crew 1 Is there no heart Among ye stung to see the puny tlves , His children , daily die—his wife dispart Iler hair , and glare in madness ? Doth the smart Of degradation cease to rankle in your veins ? Faiut , though ye be , and feeble—will none start Unto his feet , and cry , while aught remains In him of life— "Death ! or deliverance from our chains !" Cowards J—do ye believe all men are like Yourselves?—that craven fear doth paralyse Each English aim until it dares not strike A tyrant ?—that no voice couid exorcist ) Old Tyler ' s spirit—and impel to rise ilillions omnipotent in vengeful ire ? Pool , that I am ! arc there not hungry spies Oa every hand—who watch , for dirty hire , Each glance of every eve that glows with Freedom ' s fire !

      Frost ! while I rave in darkness , thou dost feel The sun in you far southern felonJaml—But ftcl ' st , therewith , thy chain . Thy M-ound to heal No help extends ! Poor victim !—sold , trepanned By hirelings of the minion whose spite planned Tliy death , and built thy gallows—but , through fear Of Labour ' s vengeance , stayed the hangman ' s hand ; Victim of thy heart ' s thirst With Broad to cheer England ' s lean artizan , and Cambria ' s mountaineer ! now many a despicable sordid tool Of tyranny doth flippantly descant Upon thy deed—cleping thee " rebel fool , " And gallant Shell a " broil-slain miscreant" "Who , had your cause and ye proved dominant , Would loudly have extolled your fearlessness And boisterously swelled the choral chaunt Tilled with the eulogy of your excess Of deep fraternal zeal to end Man ' s wretchedness '

      In the notes to this Book we find the following remarks on Fkosi : — I write from no personal knowledge of John Frost for the "Newport insurrection" occurred more than a year before I became acquainted « ith a single Chartist but from the testimony of my eloquent and intelligent friend , Ilenry Vincent , who had witnessed Mr . Frost ' s upright discharge of duty as a magistrate , frequently partook of his hospitality , shared deeply his political views and purposes , and speaks enthusiastically ( I mean in private ) of the poor exile ' s generous sincerity aud patriotic hidMiiiiKkdness .

      So Mr . Cooper ' s" eloquent and intelligent frienil , " Henry Viscest , yet continues to "^ pe ak enthusiastically of the poor exile ' s generous sincerity and patriotic high-mhidedness . " This is news to us . Mr . Coopeu does well to add , however , that this enthusiasm on the part of the " political pedlar" is confined to " private" exhibitions . We should think they were particularly private . It may be true that iIexut Vixcent , the Chartist , frequently partook of Frost ' s hospitality , and shared deeply his political views and purposes ; tut we are SUVC that IIkshy Vincent , the bought and sold advocate of " respectable" reform , is utterly guiltless of now avowing any connection with , " or admiration oi poor Fiiost . This " respectable" mouther of

      " moral" inanities , flimsy sentimentalities , and poetical puffery , whose hypocritical Cillltil !^ and whining about "the blessings of religion , " draws down the applause of the oily black slugs of dissenting and teetotal platforms , would be shucked to hear the name of Fkost mentioned , and " tho Charter " would cause him to i ' amt outright . "We can assure . Mr . Cooi'EK , who glories iu the name of " Chartist " that Ills claiming the " eloquent and intelligent" for his " friend" will be deemed an . unpardonable offence by that " respectable" gentleman : and the otfenoe will be not a little i-.: agm ( icd , from tho fact of Mr . Coor-ER reminding the world that the now frothy Mawwonn , Viscest , was once a Cliartist , ami a "friend" (?) of the "rebel" Fhost ' s .

      In another " note" on tho Newport affair , Mr . Coopi-jj ofiers some further remarks , which we fuel bound to transfer to ourcolumns . V / umust , however , dissent from tho doctrine " that a resort to force , undo' any clrcumsi-mcct , is indefensible , either as a zvise or a just proceeding . " With all deference to Mr . Goofkr , this is "indefensible" nonsense ; and we wish he had left this " prison reflection" in the prison , and not brought it out with him , more especially as tho very opposite doctrine is to be found more than once repeated in the poem before us : — " Treason doth never prosper : what's the reason ? " For , is it rirospev none dare call it treason . "

      So says Sir John Harrington ; and , without asserting that it was nioi-allv or pbysicnily possible for tlie Welsh emcute of November , 18 : J « , to have succeeded—I suail wot shrink to avow my conviction that the i ' ated cnterprize of John Frost , which had for its object the enfranchisement of every sane male inliauitiuit of Great Uritaiu and Ireland , of twc-iity-one years of age . was equally as noble , although not so imposing , as t ! i « thriumpli-iu-anns of the Barons of Ruunymede—or the "Glorious llerolution " of 10 S 8 . lii-ilectitm—and , above all , i / .-isou-retkctionhas , indeed , done much to impress me with the belief that a resort to force , under any circumstances , is indefensible , either as a wise or a just proceeding—but , for the life of me , I caunot subdue the feeling of au En ; rlishu : » , > i when tlie picture sSarls before my imagination of Ilampden on Chalgrovc Field "drawing the sword und tin-owing away the scabbard . " And if Patriotism need not be

      ashamed at the thrill of the Wood which such a portrait enkindles—why blush io own admiration for the heroism of poor Shell—a youth of singular masciiliue beauty , aud an enthusiast for the cnfrauchiscineiit of his own orderwho loaded ami fired his piece three limes , with the greatest iah-fijaJity , before lie fell in tlie Streets of Newport ? We do not write History like the glorious old Greeks , or tlie memory of sack a Utro would not be lost . . Lost!—let me remember that a Xugent—to whom all honour!—has ha < lthe moral courage to exert himself , and successfully , for tlie erection of a column Oli Chalgrove I'ieUl , at tlie bi-ceatury \> f llnmpden ' s death . —May not a noUc be found , in November 2089 , to commemorate SlifcU's fell at Newport with equal earnestness ? Servility and Prejudice may be staggered at the thought nowbut what would have been thought of a column to Ilainp . den , when the bones of Cromwell , Uradshaw , and Ireton had bi-en dug up , and were hung in gibbet-irons ?

      f he following allusion to the expatriated patriot Ems is pathetic nud beautiful : — Ellis—my brother 1—though but once in life I clasped thy hand—for one hour ' s troubled breath Heard thy tongue ' s accents—in the dungeon rife With sounds of maddened sorrow—yet , till death llearse me 211 silence , of my plighted faith To thee as to a brother , I will thin ]; : — And never—though it bring me direst wrath—That they wave wronged thy innocence , will I shrink To tell the oppressors whose revenge-cup thou dost drink .

      A perjurer sold thee to tlie lordling ' s spite—The lordling ' s tenant-serfs dared not demur The verdict—for they marked his nod , though Slight!—How sternly starless did the dread night lour On the low minions of tyrannic power When they , to exile thee—the wronged one—led ! 'I was such a night as this ; and grief ' s heart-shower These yielding eyes , in my lone dungeon , shed ¦ ror , ' mid the clank of chains , echoed tliy farewell tread ! And thou , all guiltless of the violent deed "Wherewith they charged thee , as the new-torn child !—And he , failing t' entwine the victor ' s meed With patriotic darir . g—deep-despoiled , Alike , of the sweet heaven that on ye smiled In your youn ^ loveliug's eyes—your widows frowned T 3 poul ) y the rude world—scorn on scorn piled Upon your memories , by each hireling , bound To fawn or bark as he is bid—like the vile hound !—

      The poet sleeps and dreams again ; here is the opening of his vision : — Upon a bleak and barren plain , I dreamed That I emerged—where one tall pillar reared I ts height until amoiig the clouds it seemed To end . Yet , ' twas but mockery when I nearcd This lofty wonder—for its top appeared Beneath man ' s stature . Low , around the uase , Lay broken sculptures of great names revered Iu times of old ; but ruin did deface Them till they looked like Memory iu her burial-place .

      And then another , and another stone Uprose , in the far distance—each the aim Vain-glorious of its founders making known More by its wreck than record of the name Or deed it had been stablished to proclaim . Food for despondence , thus , tlie brooding mind Gathered with semblant shapes that fleeting camo A til wart its vision : —for , as flits the wind , These imaged columns fled—or with new forms com bined . in allegoric lessons for the soul—Of Liberty , euch marble fragment strewed Upon that plain , each pictured deed and scroll , Told , as it lay iu ruined pulchritude" She is a goddess Man hath oft pursued—*• Won seldom—and liatli never yet retained "Her living presence I" Drenry solitude O'er all I saw in saddened vision reigned—Until a verdant mound my anxious spirit gained .

      And , on the mound , methought a mystic cirque Of giant stones , in simple grandeur roseltesembling Earth ' s first fathers' handy-work—Their temples , or their tombs . Of Freedom ' s cause—When Gallia ' s sons bound laurel on their brows Blent with the oak—full many a devotee—Self-exiled from the wrath of friends grown foes—In earnest converse seated seemed to hs "ilid shadow of that huge cairn ' s hoary majesty . A band of the French revolutionists are introduced , including Condorcet , Bozot , Holaxd , Vjoaze , Lk Bas , and Babedf . The language of tlie SCYCl'il speakers is very grand ; we can , however , only find room for the following magnificent outburst , of which CosDoncEi isthe speaker : —

      The spirit of Prometheus doth hut sleep Within thehuman heart , —lulled , urugged , and drowse By Power ' s robed lued ' ciners who keenly fceup Watch o ' er its breathings , —and have ever choused Their prey into more slumber , when aroused For a brief breath by Freedom ' s vital touch , It started its sleek keepers , who caiovj i ^ Gaily , beside their prostrate victya . ' s couch-- ! Thinking tt gafr , for aye , within , their priyUegeS dutea ' .

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      Tho spirit of Prometheus doth but sleep "Within man's heart : —the dark , blood-feeding brood Of serpents tliat so hush around it creep , Now they perceive , with apprehension shrewd , Their Terror-Trinity of Crown , Sword , Rood-Is near evanishment , —may justly dread Tlie ruthless vengeance in its waking mood Of the heart ' s Titan thought : —Up from its bed 'Twill spring , and crush the asps that on its life misfea ; The spirit of Prometheus doth but sleep;—Tho Mindls tornado wakes , through earth , ev ' n now ! And soon it will to nought the . fabric sweep , Of age-reared Priestcraft , and its shapes of woe— Its Hell , Wrath-God , and Fear—that foulest foo Of human fruudom!— I will freely think . ' " 'Twill boldly tell tlie surpliced cozeners— "Lo ! " f dare your monster God!—nor will I shrink " His tyrant tortures to defy—ev ' n though I sink

      " Amid tho bottomless abyss of pain " Ye say Ke hath created for his slaves ! " There let him hurt me!—tmd despite the chain " That spiritually binds me tinder waves " Of liquid flame , —lie shall find one who braves " His wrath , and hurls back hatred for a God "AVho forms without their will His creatures—graves " Their natures on them—rules uy his own nod " Of-proviilencc , their lives—and , then , beneath his rod"Kis scourge eternal , tortures them , without " Surcease or intermission ' . "—Endless firo I or a breath ' s error—for a moment ' s doubt!—Infinite Greatness exercising ire Relentless on a worm . '—Why '—That the quire Celestial may His spotless glory sing—His attributes harmonious made by diro Infliction on his worms ot" suffering—And He Himself in joy cxtntic rcvelliii'' !

      Oh ! what a potent poison hath bonumbed . The human minfl , and robbed it of its might Inherent!—since , affrighted , cowed , begloomcil , And stultified—this juggle of the Night I t kneels unto , and calls "diviucst light !"J 5 ut , it will soon the jugglers' toils ontleap Who loiig , bbhind the altar of their Sprite Of blood , have played at terrible bo-peep With Man!—the spirit of Prometheus doth butsleep ! For the remainder of this Book we must refer tlie reader to the poem itself , where they will find the lion-liclcing , lady-loving , Jew Jack-the-Giant-killer Samson introduced ; with sundry anti-atheistic speeches on his part , and sundry priest-frightening replies on the pavfc of the revolutionary suicides . We cannot aflbrd room this week for further extracts , and , indeed , had we rooni , v / e should hesitate to add anything to the extract just given—a piece worthy of tho great Shku-ky himself ; What higher praise could we award Mr . Cooper ? None .

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      GEORGE CRUlKSIlANlv'S TABLE-BOOKOctober . London : l ' unch OiHce , 92 , Flcetstrcet . " licturii from a delightful trip on the Continent " forms the subject of the large steel engraving by CnuiKSHAXK . in the present number . It represents a party conveyed iu an open boat from the Belgian packet to Dover liavWir . Wind and -waves combine io make all concerned supremely miserable , as is evident by the despairing faces of the unfortunates , most of whom arc engaged in " casting up their accounts . " The article thus illustrated is written by A ;; gus B . Reach , who can write very cleverly , though his present production is by no means firstrate . The Editor contributes an irrovovend and eoekneyish parody on Goldsmith ' s famed " Edwin and Angelina , " entitled " The Hermit of Vauxball . " The " Legend of the Rhine" exhibits , this month , symptoms of S 2 > inni » g on the part of the writer ; the present chapters are not good . The following article being brief , we dvc it entire : —

      POETICAL INVITATION'S . If all the young ladies who sit down to a piano to sing a song were to be taken at their words—that is to say , at the words of the poet , which , for the time being , they adopt as their own—much awkwardness might be the consequence . Ii" tlie imitations tliat are frequently issued were to be literally accepted , we should have people rushing to willow glens the day after an evening party ; or jumping into cabs and giving directions to the cabmen to drive " where the aspens quiver , " " down by the shifting rivnr , " whither they had been requested to " bring their guitar" by some syren of last night ' s soiree . Pour or five years ago it w :: s customary to recommend a whole roomful of company to hurry " Away , away to the mountain's brow ! " and many of our renders will recollect being in . treated to " leave tlie gay and festive scene" considerably before supper , ana to " rove 'mid forests croon , " for the

      purpose of watching the lingering ray " that shoots from every slar ; " which , as the stavs huppcu to bo innumerable , wouid have been a very endless business . To ask a gentleman to come and watch the rays that shoot from every stnr , is almost as bad as inviting him to come and count tha " live million additional lamps" at Yuuxhall , . task under which even Cocker must have fallen prostrate . The coolness with which a request for a meeting "by moonlight alone" is frequently conveyed may bo all very well in a crowded room-full of guests , but if the solitary interview were to come oft' at the appointed hour , tlie strongest of female nerves might be shaken . As the in . vitation is general , any one present 5 s at liberty to accept ir , provided he fulfil the condition of coming alone ; ¦ avlX Vf Sjiving-Vittlcd Jack should happen to overhear the song , he might take it into his hsad—and heels—to keep the appointment .

      Young ladies should be very careful iu issuing notes of invitation to a moonlight soiree , for they do not know who may overhear them , aad attend tUo rendezvous , Tlie Coc ! c-laiie Ghost ^ had he been living when the song of " Meet mi : by moonlight" was composed , would have been a very lilcely sort of gentleman to be waiting " in the grove at the end of the vale , " for the purpose of bestowing tlie sweet light of liis uyos—glaring lUvougU two holes in a turnip—upon any one who had asked for it . We must say , we prefer the present system of writing songs with no meaning at all , to the old method of asking people to a moonlight tete-a-tete , a meeting in " a tranqui cot at a pleasant spot , " ov a conversazione " whvrc the aspens quiter . " " You'll remember me , " pledges you to nothing , unless a waiter sings it while you nod your assent , and a promise to do something " when hollow hearts shall wear a mask" is certainly void , for impossibility .

      The illustrations arc an excellent , and cannot fail to cause the realisation of the idea of " laughter holding both his sides . "

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      PUNCH—Pam LI . London : Punch Office , 92 , Fleet-street . "Merry and wise , "_ our hunch-backed friend maintains his post as chief satirist of wrong , falsehood , and folly ; sparing no one , from the Queen on her throne , to the sycophant of the Morning Post . The recent royal visit ' to Germany lias afforded 1 ' uneh matter for much "jest in earnest / ' which the high and mighty . of the land would do well to reflect on . We can assure their " high mightinesses" that , at auy rate , the people will not fail to reflect—and what

      the result of their reflections will be , " needs no ghost to tell . " In a number of the present Part is a double " cartoon , " entitled "An Historical Parallel ; 01 Court Pastimes , " in which Queen Elizabeth and her Court are represented as witnessing a bear-baiting , in 15 S 0 , and Queen Victoria as gazing upon the slaughter of the deer at Gotha , in 1815 . Punch states that a book is in preparation for the use of the heir to the throne , in which the examples of his parents will be put forth in a series of easy lessons in one svllable , of which the following is a specimen : —

      The Deer is p . poor weak Brute , which it is good to Kill . It was once the Plan to Hunt the Deer ; but it Runs so fast , that it puts one quite in a Heat to try to Catch it . A Prince should not get Hot , or be at much pains to Hunt the Deer , hut should have the Deer all Caught , and put in a small Space , which they can in no way get Out of . Then the Prince should come with his Gun , and Shoot at the Deer , when ho must Kill some . I t is line sport to see the Deer fall Dead in the Place , where they are all put bo Close that a Prince , Shoot how ho will , must Hit some of them . If you are a good Boy , you shall have a Gun , and some Deer to Shoot at with the Gun ; and then they sliall be all put Dead in a How , for you to look at them . Oil ! what nice Snort for a Prince of the Blood !

      Here is a now and improved nursery rhyme for the young Guelphs : — Sing a song of Gotha—a pocket-full of rye , Eiglit-aud-forty timid deer driven in to die ; When the sport was open'd , all Weeding they were seen"Wasn ' t thai a . dainty dish to set before a Queen ? Tlie Queen sat iu her easy chair , and looked as sweet as honey ; The Prince was shooting at the deer , in weather bright and sunny ; _ The bands were playing Polkas , dress'd in green and goldtn clothes ; The Nobles cut the poor deer ' s throats , and that is all Vunch knows ! The following is , we fear , too ' good to be true . We could forgive Prince Alhekt all his sins—including his hat-making , deer-slaughtering , and other oftencea perhaps still more heinous—if he would do the State the good service of making game of the veracious and dangerous brutes described in the following

      announcement : — Several of the Civic Companies have invited Prince Albert to a day ' s sport in the City . They have offered to collect in the area of the Stock Exchange all the bulls ami hears that are in the habit of prowling about the neighbourhood . As soon as these are despatched , a munll « ot desperate Stain , that have beeu brought up e ^ prc «^> by the r .-ilways , will be driven from Capel-court iitftt the interior , imd his Royal Highness will be armed w&h . ttai > . mited power to hunt down as many as he p lcasSSi The following is excellent : — cuiUHIEN ' S SOSO FOH THE COBUHC CRSQQKfCS FEST . We ' re happy German children ; You praise ovk glossy hair , Our wreaths and pretty costumes . Our cheeks so fat and fair ; Our little bodies never Grew stunted at the 1 qod- > Our infant eyes ne ' er D ' . ' ueu j n Tliepi ^ eanV 3 r v , ; gloonif We never MN ? d to sleep , on straw CloBe cr ouched for warmth , like vermin—Wcavp not English children ; ITo , GqU sey dank , we are German ,

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      They say our Engligh sisters Are never blithe as we ; But , Queen , you look so gracious , That this can never be They t ell us they ' s ill nurtured , Of raiment scant and rude—Not picturesque , as wj are A wild and woJiish brood ! Then Wess good Saint Gregorius , Tliat did our lots determine—We are not English children ; ¦ No , Golt sey dank , we are German . When jou go back to England , You'll think ou what you ' ve SCCII Tlletl ask our English sistwrs

      To dance upon the green . Perhaps they'll look less savage , With seemlier clothes and food ; Perhaps with kindly teaching You'll change their sullen mood 'Tis sad tliat they should go in rags , And you , their Queen , in ermine—We are not English children ; No , Goit sey dan * , we're German ! "Queen . Victoria ' s Statue of Shakspcaro" is an excel lent piece of satire , which , if Victoria read it , and it she has aught of sense and shame in her composition , must make her blush crimson to the eves .

      une ruing . lie tenant of Windsor Castle may be sure ot , that reverence for that well-nigh , worn out jugglerym virtue , of which she is permitted to live ° a life ot splendid idleness and haughty isolation , is not on the increase amongst her " loving subjects " (?) but just the reverse . The other contents of this part we have not room to notice ; enough , that from the hret to tho last p » go all is admirable , and worthy of all praise . Ihe illustrations , too , this month arc more than ordinaril y excellent—we must particularly notice the portrait of the holy meitUicant , Bishop 13 LO 0 MF 1 ELD . More it is not necessary we should say in praise and recommendation of the unrivalled Punch .

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      TIIE CONNOISSEUR . —Octobsii . London : E . Alackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street . The principal contents of this month ' s number embrace the following subjects . — " Royal Academy of Arts ; " "The Prima Donna ; " "The Decline of the Drama" ( concluded ); " British Archaeological Institute ; " " Fine Art Commission ; " " Romcr ' s Physiology of tlie Human Voice ; " " Shaksperian Critics ; " and " Dramatic Summary . " We have read tlie wliolc of these articles with ' niHcIi pleasure ,

      and we believe some profit ; and we avc only sorry that we have not space at command to give to 0111 readers a specimen of the good things this number contains . Amongst its contents is an original ballad , the music by S . 'SYvi . de . The illustration to this month ' s number is a perfect gem—a lithographic portrait of Mumi . lo from a painting- by himself . II . 0 . MACUiiiKis the artist who lias-drawn tho copy , and a most exquisitel y beautiful production it is . V / c must again express our approbation of the theatrical criticisms in this serial , which are penned by a master-hand .

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      TIIE FAMILY HERALD-Parts XXVII . XXVIII . London : G-. Biggs , 421 , Strand . "We have only room to say , that , we have read the greater portion of the varied contents of these two parts , and having so road , we unhesitatingly recommend the Family Herald as tho very best of the penny publications . More tkanthat , we can conscientiously say , that the Family Herald is far superior to many higher-priced publications . Its every page is filled with entertaining instruction , and instructive entertainment . No family should be without the Family Herald .

      Memoir Of The Earl Spencer.

      MEMOIR OF THE EARL SPENCER .

      Ihe largest giits of nature and the most esteemed results of education seem pcaisisnally to he combined in the same individual , for the purpose of enabling him efficiently to discharge tlie duties of a situation to which by mere accident he may have been raised ; hence it is by no means uncommon to find great lawyers 011 the bench , real statesmen in the Cabinet , and learned divines in episcopal palaces . But no one could see a heavy agriculturist leading the House of Commons without being conviuccd that , in . that instance at least , original predilections and early habits had combined to neutralize the bounty of fortune .

      It was impossible to behold suc ! i a man enacting the part of a Minister of State without feeling that it was one of the oddest amongst the London exhibitions . In its day it was a show that attracted all strangers ; and successive audiences have retired from the scene ,- frankly acknowledging tliat it was even more wonderful than they had expected . During cight-and-twenty years the subject of this memoir—being then Lord Althorp—hold a scat in the House of Commons , and was a very active member of that assembly . There can be no doubt that when Lord Gouerieh resigned , the "Whig opposition set up Lord Althorp as " their acknowledged organ ; and , of course , every one remembers that he was the Ministerial leader in the

      Lower House , not only in the Government ot Lord Grey , but during the first Melbourne Ministry . In that position lie was placed with as slendei personal qualifications for the post as ever fell to the lot of mortal man , although no one will be disposed to deny that he was a person of great private worth ; that he possessed some intellectual vigour , and was distinguished by many aimable qualities ; but his attempt to be a leading Minister in a popular assembly partook sb largely of the ridiculous that it reached the burlesque . In tracing out the strange career which led to these absurd results it would not be very interesting to dwell upon the parly history of the noble Earl . One naturally desires to review the process by which a mighty intellect reaches maturity ; but to examine the advancement and cultivation of an ordinary understanding yields little profit and no entertainment .

      Earl Spencer was born on the 30 th of May , 1 T 82 . In due time he went to Trinity College , Cambridge , where he obtained the honorary degree of M . A . There was little chance that such a man could become a senior wrangler , or contend for classical honours ; if , however , he had graduated in a college instituted for the purpose c . f teaching the avta of fattening oxen or breeding sheep , no man could have earned off the prize from so great a proficient in those very useful matters as John Charles Spencer . But as tho qualities of _ short-horned bullocks and black-faced rams have little connexion with Greek literature or mathematical science , lie departed from Cambridge ii very undistinguished student o tliat learned University . At the very earliest possible age lie entered

      the House of Coimnous , having been elected for Okehampton . While be sat for that borough itcould not be said that he did anything in the House of Commons which reflected much credit upon the choice of the electors who had returned him to Parliament ; he was , however , at that period so very young « a man that no very considerable displays of legislative ability could be expected at his hands . But if his talcnts-rsuch . as thoy were—had not yet begun to develope themselves , his ambition w * more precocious , " and he offered himself for Cambridge at the earliest opportunity that occurred . The death of Mr . I'itt led to a general election , but Lord Althorp [ as candidate for hi 3 " alma mater " was deteatcd by a large majority , and lie was fain to tall back upon the constituency which he had previously represented . In the same year a vacancy occurred for Northamptonshire , where a considerable pwUon of the estates of tiic Spencer family are

      Situated , * For that county be was returned after a " severe struggle , and continued to represent it for a quarter of a century . During the Fqx and Grenville Ministry the office which ho first held under the Crown was conferred upon him . It was OUC of smnil importance—namely , a Lordship of tho Treasury , but , every one knows , it belongs to thfct class of situations by means of which tb . i scions of the aristocracy are usually initiated fa the mysteries of official lite . i * rom this time forward he laboured with the ' wilt l M / eal whloh distinguished the leading & » « that P eriod 5 1 > V ^ ich they succeed in gaining the confidence of a numerous and powertliJ party in the House of Commons , while they attracted the support of the Liberal and Reforming body throughout the country . In his hostility to the Duke of York , in the year ISOO . 'Lord A- ' , thorp rendered himself rather conspicuous ; and when that illustrious personage resigned the command of the

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      army , the subject of this memoir concluded a long speech by saying - 'tlvat resignation ought "to occasion no regret , as his Royal Highness had lost tlie confidence of the country . " lie also took that opportunity to denounce the practice of couferriug high otfice on persons of such exalted rank . The next scries of debates in which he took a prominent part were those occasioned by the escape of Bonaparte from Elba , when he showed that which no one now will be disposed to call patriotism , in moving an address to the Prince Regent , praying his Royal Highness not to disturb' the peace of Europe . The peace ot Luvope , however , was established upon a much broader Onsis than it could have bam by the policy which Lord Althorp recommended ; aud from

      me moment tliat the war ceased , his Lordship , in common with the other Whigs , took up the trade of worrying the Minister about economy and retrenchment . For some years they had little else on which to . found ji series of clap-trap speeches , ami , to do them . justice , they made the most of the plausible arguments with which the state of public nnviiivsthen furnished them . On his political and Parliamentary career , we may readily bestow all the praise winch consistency deserves ; fur whatever may have been his political vacillati ons at a later puriod of life , it must bo acknowledged , that so long as the Tories remained in power he was an uncompromising \ v lug . He deprecated a larao naval establishment , ; he clamoured unceasingly against the military

      twee which it was thought necessary to maintain ; he opposed the Six Acts with as much energy as was possible in a man so phlegmatic ; lie resisted the grant of £ 0 , 000 to the Duke of Kent on his marriage ; ho moved for a repeal of the Forei gn Enlistment Bill and he opposed the Irish Insurrection Act . liut the subject upon which he most frequently submitted motions to the House was the str . tu of the public finances : and , because betook upon himself to censure the financial plans of others , it was concluded that he was capable of propounding fiscal measures himself ; when Lord Groy , therefore , came into power he selected Lord Althorp l ' ov his Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and it is not easy to have imagined a more infelicitous choice ; for though he

      possessed many qualities hi ghly deserving of respect , and justly entitling him to the confidence ot" ins party , that man could never- have found himself at home in the Treasury Chambers at Whitehall , whose tastes and knowledge almost exclusively qualified him for rural pursuits ; whose eye was butter iillcd by the image of a plethoric ox than a full exchequer , and who will be best remembered in the history of his race as the " Bucolic Earl Spencer . " Nevertheless he wnsan active nienibci'ofP . aWiament , and we should needlessly extend the limits of this article if we were to follow him through every stage of his Parliamentary career , or even enumerate a tithe of the occasions ^ which ho addressed the House of Commons . Events , however , with which he was intimately connected were assigned as the reasons for breaking up h yo Administrations—the first of these was the Goderich MinistiT , during which it was

      proposed to appoint Lord Althorp Chairman of a Finaneo Committee ; and that proposition led to the resignation of Mr . Howies . This circumstance was stated to be the proximate cmsc of Lord Goderich ' s surrendering the seals of office . But it is well known that this was not the real cause of the Duke of Wellington ' s accession to power , and it is as certain that the removal of Lord Althorp to the UpjlLT House was not the sole operative circumstaueo ' which dissolved the first Melbourne Ministry ; yet his Lordship ' s name is in the popular mind most closely connected with both changes of Administration . Very Very little move need be added respecting liis conduct is an Opposition memher ; Jic took an active jwrt in promoting the repeal of tho Test and Corporation Acts ; he opposed the grant of £ 2000 a year to the Canning family , and be supported a proposition for abolishing the oflice of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland .

      In 1830 he became leader of the Ministerial party in the llousa of Commons , occupying , a ; s already stated , the oiiice of Chancellor of the Exchequer . As might have been expected , his first budget was full of blunders ; and , however startling these- errors might be , they occasioned even less surprise than the cool indifference with which he retraced his steps for the purpose of correcting them . His influence , however , seemed scarcely to suffer ; for the Ministry to which he belonged enjoyed the support of five hundred members of the House of Commons . But even that vast majority melted away under the continued operation of the inconsistency which marked the character of Lord Althorp at this period of his political life ; for UU onuouents charged lum — and upon no weak

      grounds—with supporting questions in Opposition which , lie opposed din-ing his tenure of office . Amongst the instances cited to bis disadvan « tagc were the assessed taxes , the extension of the elective franchise , the ballot , the newspaper-tax , the cheap pamphlet duty , military flogging , and the pension list . Of the measures Avhicli lie supported and was instrumental in carrying , Parliamentary Reform and the Poor Law Amendment Act may be reckoned the most couspicvious . Respecting tV . c latter of these , public opinion has been so unequivocally expressed that any more special reference to the subject in this place won ]( l be superfluous . But as to the Reform Bill , bis

      Lordship certainly seemed to be the chief agent in carrying it through the House of Commons . Technically speaking , Lord John Russell had " charge of the bill ; " but , to do Lord Althorp justice , lie made himself perfectly master of'its details , and the admirable good temper with which he discussed the whole of its provisions excited unqualified applause ; while the extraordinary powers of recollection which he displayed while debating its details drew forth the most flattering compliments even from his opponents , Am ] his success was the more remarkable when we recollect that his temper was tried every night by the withering sarcasms of Mr . Croker , and his memory unceasingly tested by the indomitable industry of Sir Robert Peel .

      The opening of the year 1831 was characterised by the notable aftair of "Who is the traitor ? " Mr . Hill , then member for Hull , having stated to his constituents that an Irish member , who had violently opposed the Coercion Bill , bad gone to a Cabinet Minister awl secretly urged him to pass it , as otherwise 110 man could live in peace in Ireland . This created no little excitement ; and Mr . O'Connell , on the meeting of Parliament , demanded tlw authority from Lord Althorp . The noble lord said he should not act a manly part if he did not declare that he bad good reason to believe that some Irish

      members who spoke and voted against the bill bad used very different language in private . Mr . O'Conntll started up , and accused Lord Althorp of shrinking . On which the noble Lord said , " Does the honourable and learned member accuse me of shrinking ?" Mr . O'Connell at once retracted the expression , and added , " I feel I ought not to use a harsh expression towards the noble Lord . " The result of the aflair is in the recollection of every reader . After an inquiry by a committee into a specific charge against Mr . Sheil , the matter was supposed to have originated in misinformation or misapprehension , and there it dropped .

      A more serious matter came to embarrass the Government . The manner in which they met Mr . Ward ' s " appropriation motion , " by proposing a commission Of inquiry into the property aud resources of the Irish church , led to the retirement of Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham , to protracted debate , and produced that fierce and sudden assault from Lord Stanley on his recent colleagues , which led Lord Altliorp , in his quiet way , to tell him that he always had thought his genius would never have fair play until he became an Opposition orator ! But the debates revealed weakness in the Government , division amongst its supporters , and greatly damaged its moral power . Afterwards , Mr . Littleton , the Secretary for Ireland , hecame involved in a dispute with

      Mr . O'CoHiiell . Ho had unadvisedly assured him , in a private communication , that the Coercion Bill would not be renewed , not being aware that Earl Grey contemplated renewing it . This led to much unpleasant personal recrimination and explanation ; and ultimately Loid Althorp gent his resignation to Earl Grey , even after the Ministry had refused to accept Mr . Littleton's . This led to Earl Grey ' s retirement . In his speech , detailing the circumstances , he termed Lord Althorp "the leading member of Government in the Commons , on whom my whole confidence vested—whom I considered as the right arm of tlie Government , and without whom 1 felt it was impossible that the Government could go on . " Earl Grey was replaced by Lord Melbourne ,

      and Lord Althorp was induced to retain his place as Chancellor of the Exchequer . Tins he did till the death of his father , on the 10 th of November , 1834 , and his own consequent elevation to the peerage , which furnished an occasion , of which "William IV . immediately availed himself , for declaring the Melbourne Ministry dissolved . Sir llobert Peel was summoned from Italy to face for a few months an adverse House of Commons , and when once more the Liberal party regained their seats on the Treasury benches , no office was found in which Lord Spencer could assist his guondaw colleagues . Thus ended the public career of the noble EarJ , the close of whose natrral life it is now our duty to record . Nine years ago he gave np the hopes and fears of political existence , and though he delivered two or three speeches that yet ins

      in the House of Lords during period , oratory was for the most part confined to a gricultural dinners , and the distribution of prizes at Gattto Shows . Amidst such scenes he seemed precisely in that position for which ho was intended by nature and qualified by education . His popular manners , burly frame , and unpretending exterior , wouli seem to justify the saying , that though he * ° * ****** * amongst lords , he was no lord amongst farmeiai . that , : £ ^* w * £ sr tK \ 8 s SrsfatfK r ^ T not felt ; his repetitions and stammerings , his Snimoa-pJace sentiments , and clumsy style w ~ - StU Reived or Mulgcnt ^— ^ -g unfeign ed kindliness or « IBpOflition , the ingenuous tone of li . . " character , and the simplicity of his bearing were usually remembered to his advantage ; and should At » rapnipn l like the present < m no account ke forgotteni

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      DnOI'SOFCOMrOHTGE . VEnALLYADMlMSrjJREDByiT . IENjpif Having your health proposed at the ago of forty , as a " promising young man . " Reading a newspaper on a railivsy , containing " an account of "iivc-and-twenty lives lost" only thft day before . Losing a heavy sum at cards , and all your friend * wondering how you could have been " such a fool /' 1 utting on a white neckcloth , which you fancy becomes you , ami being linilud all tile evening a * waiter . " . Publishing a novel which docs not sell , and reading m a review— "This work is equal to anythingof Aimworth ' s . Breaking down before Indies in the middle of a songv and a wag calling out " £ « core . "

      Losing your latch-key , and wife and mother-in-law ootk sitting up ior you . Having your gi « j nearly upset by an omnibus , and being abused by tlie conductor ibr not sceiim- " vere ye re coming to , "—J ' taic / t . ° Veg etable Diet . —However much the disease among the potatoes may distress the poor Irish during the lollowins winter , it will not in the least alter the diet ot the Great Agitator , whose Jivim . 'is verv plain , Iiavjiis existed all his litb upon callage . —km . _ Should Cromwell have a Statue ?—Everybody is asking , "Should Cromwell have a statue ? and ecbo is in all directions bawling out , "Yes , of course . " It is true that Cromwell cannot lie traced bnclc to Lady Redhurga , or proved to be a lineal descendant Ot Llheisantha , the wii ' c of Alfred ; but ho

      certainlyplayed his part of sovereign as well as if he had been " native and to tho manner born" for it . . Wo should like to know whether be has not as good a right to A statue as Richard the Third , who played Old Harry with the Tower betiding , aud made sandwiches of the infant princes between a couple of feather beds . Nothing can palliate this romance of tho palliasse , and there is no excuse for a downy uncle who smothered tlie heirs to the throne in downy goosc-quill . He made the mattress aud pillows of the young princes the means of bolstering up his own title to the throne : and his subsequent conduct was very disgraceful , for we defy any one to see the play of Richard tha Third without coiiiiiig to the conclusion that Dick was a deceitful scoundrel . In fact the false front ho assumed has caused that article to bear the name of Dickey uji to the present period . "

      Then , ajjniii , look at John . ' We should like to luiow what on earth he deserves a statue for . He was a fellow , according to Shakspeare , always putting out young princes' eyes with enormous pincers . His intimacy with Hubert was enough to condemn him . in the opinion of any woll-iegulated-mimleil individual . Henry ( ho Eighth , too , ought to have stood at the bar ot the Old Bailey for scxigamy ; but wo think we have said enough to show that thcro are a few kings in our llnmc and Smollett , who ought to be deprived of statues , if merit gives any claim t ( r the distinction of hting "dom in sfone" lor the Nor Houses of Parliament . Cromwell was , until his elevation , a very respectable brewer , and at least on a level with Barclay , Perkins , or Mmix ; and though he was not an entire sovereign , ho is bv no means to be thought small beer of by the true COilstitutioual li . n g liabman . —loxu .

      Fon Parliament . —A Caiitoox . —The decorations of the new Houses of Parliament will be incomplete , unless they include a representation of Justice , who is supposed to preside ovcvpavl-n »> o » ti » ifj »» . o * ou « i 34 > « F , Th . it UiL-Jiti or Justice , to use a nautical term , should have a lnedituval cut , is highly necessary , for two considerations . In the first place , Justice ! ehnck-byjowl ' as she will be with Chivalry , and other ( . iothic company , will otherwise resemble a denizen of the waters out of its element . In the second , the Justice of Parliament , for an obvious reason , should be delineated in a style approaching caricature or burlesque , which is precisely that of the art of the middle ages . For these good reasons , it is essential that Justice should gvsisi > liev scales and sword by a mode of prehension practicably bv no mortal : and that

      those properties should be cumbersome and awkwardlooking in the extreme . There is a profundity in . representing her as a supernatural being , taking hold of things in an impossible manner . On the same deep principle she should be drawn standing in ail attitude which the human mechanism does not admit of . There is another good reason , which we will not enlarge upon , why Justice should appear twisted in the British Senate . The tardigrade character of Justice ought further to be made visiWc ill her fccfc » which should be quaintly clumsy , . and contoricd to a degree involving lameness . The anatomical

      difficulties which oppose these requisites are to be veiled with a profusion of drapery , which , as our sagacious ancestors well knew , will cover outrageous drawing . The face of Justice should be that of a monumental brass , both on account of the lesthetical character ofthe material , and the eorpse-like attributes proper to Gothic sanctity . The cause of right and nature versus humbug , which Justice is ever trying , ou ;; ht to be manifested by scrolls stuck into her stales , " inscribed , of course , with old English character . ! . Altogether , the person of Justice should be deformed , and her look old-maidish ; so that she may he devoid of the Paganism of symmetry and beauty . —Ibid .

      Thk Force of Habit . —The Campus , originally » French vessel , has generally been the lirst in the races of the Experimental Squadron . Onr brave sailors say this is to be accounted for , by the fact of her being a'foreign ship , and having been taught from her era " die to run away at the sight of an English vessel . —»

      Ibid . Punch ' s Political Pjctkhtaky . —Anarchy . —Tho entire absence of government ; as , if the governor goes out for the day , the children arc left iu a state of anarchy . Persons living in anarchy are , as far as politics are concerned , said to be in a state of nature ; but they soon get into such a state of ill-nature , that it is found necessary to place some control over them —Ibid . Ini . su IjfAOEnv . — " Intlvse Oiuiort , "—At a

      recent Repeal meeting Mr . O'Connell was described bv one of the speakers as " an oak of the forest , everyhair of whose head was sauetilied . " We never saw an oak with a tine head of hair ; though it is , no doubt , possible ; for people are talking a good deal just now about the curl in tho potato ; and if potatoes can be possessed of curls , we do not see why treesshould not have hair also . We can scarcely see how O'Connell is an oak of the forest , though , iii our opinion , lie seems to be most at home when in the Groves of Blarney . —/ &W .

      MOB MELODIES . ( Extracted from thu Tyne Mercury . ) THE ANJOOVEB ANTHEM . { For Two Voices . ) As " Eaid or sung" by the Revs . C . Dodson and G . W » SmytJi , 'Ivke—Gregorian Chant . Say he was frolicsome sometimes , And staid too loiif at the " Eight Bells , " lie cannot always count the chimes , Whose heart not gall but kindness swells . The curate and myself , I wie , Sec nothing here that ' s much amiss . Admit that to his daughter dear lie sent by chance a dinner " hot /' The act was " charity" ' tis clear . And we still preach it ; do we not ? The rcutoi' nsid urj-sdi ' , 1 ivia , See nothing but what ' s good in this !

      What ! deal with treats like this as crimes . ' Why 'tis no question , e ' en at Rome , I < or in the columns of tho Times Tliat" Charity begins at Home !" Bector and curate , then , in this Can nothing see that ' s liir nniiss I Talk not to us of " stinking bones !" There ' s much of" Gusto" in that same , Q uite good enough for "faults" aild " JoUtlS 1 " Just so the Bishop likes his game I And , therefore , he and we in this See nothing that ' s at all amiss . Grant that to inaid and matron both He was gallant ; is that cull'd » lewd I " It only proves he was not loath , Kind soul ! to soothe their solitude . The Curate and myself in this Can ' t , really , fancy aught amiss !

      True he might say his prayers " twice over , " But why on this must scandal fall ? Attack , instead , the graceless Rover Who never says his prayers at » U . Rector nor Curate can in this Find aught that is the least amiss I Newcastle , Oet . 1 , 1845 . T . I ) . Jewish Financiers . —The Hebrew has a peculiar aptitude iu managing money . Joseph was trea ^ m-ito Pharaoh , Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar , Mordecai tt » Artaxerxes , and Lcvi to Don Pedro the Cruel . Tins Moors who first invaded Spain had an Israelite for tho Chancellor of the Exchequer , and a gentleman of the same nation now lends money to all the nation * of tho earth .

      Positive asd Co . Ml' . \ HATirK . —An attempt to . poison yourself is a " rash" act ; but a slice of fried hucon is 11 a rasher 1 " A . showery day is "damp ; " but iba refusal of a young lady to marry you is " adami'tr 1 " A sovereign short in weight is "light ; " but a boat for the conveyance of goods is " a lighter ! " AVInu . you attach to a window is a " blind ; " bat a Hash of lightning in yova * eyes is " a blinder ' . " 1 ' nv . cc Albert & called a "fine" man ; but one who icfines metals is " a finer ! " A stiff old lady is " prim ;"• but a . child ' s spelling book 13 '" a primer L " A cracked head ia a " sore" affair ; hut a skylark is " a goavcr ! " A negro is a " black ; " but one \ vlw > clean" ' - ' Mocker V A capital O is a « So ^» *^ » 5 ^ " Bolder O !"

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      HOW'S ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF BRITISH SONG—Nos . 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 . London : How , 132 , l- ' lcct-strcct . These numbers contain Collin ' a elegant verses " To Fair Fidele ' s Grassy Tomb" ( set to music by Dr Arnc ) , Dibdin ' s famed " Farewell my Trim-built Wherry ; " " Black-eyed Susan ; " "Lovclv JN ' aii ;" " Crazy Jane ; " "The Baby ' s Hushaby ; " and several other pieces of minor celebrity . The illustrations are most beautiful . 1 he cheapness of this work is astonishing ; thus the first three of the above-named pieces are contained in a single number , which ( poetry , music , and illustrations ) is published for sixpence ! We again earnestl y recommend this excellent work to all tlie lovers of British Song .

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      WADE'S LONDON REVIEW-Ociobkr . London-0 . B . Christian , Whitefriar ' s-street , Fleet-street . The contents of this month ' s number are;— " Ambition , a Greek tale" ( concluded ); " Vital Statistics ;" "Parrot's Journey to Ararat ; " "II Vnjjabondo " ( continued ); " Miehelct ' s History of France ;" "Railway Speculation ; " and " A Practical Survey of Ancient Coins . " These contributions avc ably written , but are almost all of a dry , and not generally iutercstiugcharactei ' . " II Vagabomlo" 3 san exeep ' - tion , but his reminiscences this month exhibit him , with all his cunning , in the unenviable character of aspoonei /; we must not forget , however , that even Gil Blas showed himself soft on more than one occasion .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 11, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1336/page/3/