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      • ** FASriKGFORPUN . Bt WILLIAM THv . lt . " They drank good ale To beefe and kail On Fridays when they fasted . "— ( Hd Ballad i'Go mourn , " quoth * he , ye oar lieges lofat , Co fcst for the aim of the labourer's brat , Tbo' wicked—th » ' tile be tlie bone « that begot it , Xhe poor skinny elf shall have bevter things taught it Thin impion * in armorings marrying * and cooiags , Bringing down on oar land &J 1 these doleful ' adoings . tf aste not jour devotions on fathers and mother * , for the suckling theft ' s hope , —' tU all up with olieri , 0 jr bUhopi have worked you a woudrous prayer ;

      ( Thej work for their wages—of c » ur * e you ' re aware , ] Tis easy of utterauce—gr . cefuly fw **» And * warranted safe' to the requisite height . Tend well to the hour , or y e mumble ia vain , All prayers must be bagged by the Wednesday train . " She ended—so we , for our country's good , We all went a-lasting as faft as * e could—Such toas ing and toiling—Such baking aad boiling—With steaming and stewing And brtwing and— loing , till London seemed one mighty kitchen at lait : The rery cl » uds sicken ' mid fumes of the fast . Cabs , Tans , and coaches alt . Laden with life , — Big son and baby small , — Tailor not over tall .

      Airing hit pretty " gal , " All for a wife . Then away to the Heath ! to the • Conduit" a way , fle'il hare such fat fun this here blessed " Fast day , " Old Thames bears twice the common trail Of pilgrims 01 his breast . So cat , so jagged , from steam and sail , Bis purer flood , One mortal mud ! My eye ! how merrily they scad . With sandwich , gin , -nd jest . Tbat song as it rings round thy shores happy river ! O-ir Freedom !—our Ctmrch!—and our —> ait Days forever ' .

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      IilE WESTMINSTER AND FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW . April , 1317 . London : G . Luxford , Whitefriars-street . Tlie opening article of this number of the Westsiimter and Forei gn , is devoled to a consideration of " Tiie Province of Tragedy ; " in which the writer contrasts Bulwer and Dickens , the contrast being iu ftfour of the latter . The article is brief aad suggestive ; and , therefore , may be perused with pleasure IB " profit . In the article on "Speculative Pbilosapliy in the Nineteenth Century , " the writer makes " a « ful smash" of the German transcendeutalists , » ad triumphantly vindicates the common-sense philsoyliy of Locke and the English school of thinkers . In a review oi two works describing North Wales and tije English lakes , recently published , the Reviewer cats up Alias Costello ' a topography and geography

      , tod administers a slight reproof to Dr . Mackay , for his outrageous puffing of " the Lakers , " Wordsworth , Soutuey , and Co . The Reviewer says truly , thai ibeie is a test from which no poet can escape , aad tial is , fitness for Quotation . To the end or time , peoj'le wilt be sure to quote ' a clear description from Co * per , a burning line from Byron , a majestic taoi ' gbt from Milton , a nervous couplet from Pope , a sweet allegory trum Shakespeare ; " but are not raj iikeiy to quote Irani Southey , Wordsworth , or Vifeon . We suppose there cannot be much doubt that the Reviewer is . frora the country of Llewelyn and Gleuuower ; sure we are , that a son of the Ancient Britons reading the Reviewer ' sglowiogdeseriptionsof tie niuuutains and torrents of the land of the bards , nost , as he reads line by line , be ready to exclaim—•• We tread tlie land that bore us . " We give a short extract from the Reviewer ' s rccollecti . nsof

      WKISH SCENEHY . Immediately after leaving lSeddgelert , the beauties of Pant Aberglaslyu burst on the view . It is difficult to eajojr these beauties to the full , tor the small natives sur louoiyoa iu troops iritii rubbisbljr morsels of mineral C 3 ri » bitiis , for sale ; but in spite of this nuisauce , Pont Abti-lasljn and its cairngorta-eoloured river , aud i ts Uather-puipled rocks will be sare to live long in unfediag splendour in the mtmory of all who view them with ifpri-ciaiing eyes . Tan-y-B \ v ! ch and Maentwrog have then varied recommendations , but thU is not the place » emer on the merits of these rival hosttlries of the Valley uf Fesuniog . We must , however , pause at the caurtalk near Mientwrog . the Raven and Llynrbabdrihu , both on the same stream , a tributary of the Tivy . Ibeie is a path through a wood which overlooks both of

      car , but this view is unsatisfactory , especially as re-• U&i Llj ,,. rilai » dr-dhu , the upper aud better fall ; so we Bade a circuit through the wood , and after a laborious fcom spent iu toicing our way through tangled brushwooi at length readied the very verge of the fall . Tim btd of the nver , for two hundred yards above the faille speak unpottically . and are not quoting Miss Castello -is a spout or gutter of solid rock , slopiug at au angle si 34 degrees . The river darts with inconceivable rapiiity , bui iu sUence , and smoothly , alungthis spout , and it Us tiTihination shoott with a raaguiticent arch into the lasin below , which is very appropriately termed the Black Pool , f « r it seems of . inky blackness . Tall trees surround it on every side , and a column « f mist , like the &oud that in picture precedes the Israeiitish host , raises ia indefinite tottn huh above their heads .

      From Jlaintwrog , thtre is ample choice of roads ; that to tie left , 1-ads to B ^ la , that to the light , winds round tat saa-coast to Uarltch and Barmoutb , and that straight forward , through Trawsl ynnydd . We take the last , not is the most picturesque , but as leading to waterfalls , sad make our tint halt at the neat and tasty hostelry of buly-nielljnl jn . It is ntcessary to procure a guide bom this place , otherwise much time will bf lottin the tirexjuie occupation of explaining to the few natives you chance to meet the objects you have in view , in requesting to te favoured with thtir opinions and advice , » ad in rcctiving the must conflicting and bewildering dimtions .

      Da-y-meMjnl yn , the first fall to which the guHe conflacu you , is but a few huudred yards from the inn . Ibe scenery is very beautiful , wooded and rock y ; the fill is scarcely di-tinsuishable from twenty others above lad below it ; the noisy little river , the Maddox , as christened after a resident proprietor , is a series of falls , tad iiu Oiie taken alone is of sufficient magnitude to attract much notice in tbii land of waterfalls ; but theagjrcgiite vi mils at this spot furnu a very pleasing picture . Itie rocky bed of the river 1 ears its huge masses of stone kigh aboie the stream , so high , indeed , that the tyraj . e-tu during floods , can never moisten them ; taesi nussts are ot a dark brown colour , approaching 13 & »<* , i , ua are curiously spotted With Uige patches 01 * M » -nhite lichen .

      T » ., uiilcB from Dol-y-mellynlyn , and also close to . jeth . r , are two other falls ~ -Rhaiadr . y . Mawddach , and rai il-y-Ciu . The first of these , { s of considerable Wluue , uui is a double and pictuie ' fque fall , but , coinfared with its neighbour , it is really nothing . The saidr , afur J 00 „„ latislj eii , vitU tne Maw 4 daen faU < «*•* jou through a little wood , and across a woodsm whta covtred bridge , under which the Cain flows dis . conuiittiSij over a stony bottom , after its headlong leap : oetl * u turus to the left , and jou stendat the oase of «» e lasiade . The basin which receives it is unusually aali , and the ground rises so abiupUj aU round it , exttpt nli ., ~ , , ue water escapes , tUat it U impossible to get a ^ ta- . bfactory view of the tall . We clambered carefully * ' 0 " g . i narrow huge that margins the basin , and then , tolaing on by root * and ferns , leaued back against the «> ck , aud looked upwards at the waters that were

      tallttg ia tnunder at our feet . l ' Ue grass , the ferns , the ? . ur , cd oaks , ay , the very rock against which we were tatniDg , trtiuUed nitb the continous concussion ; the title bairn was tilled as with ooiling milk , and the spray woull i . ave wet a dry man instantly to the skin ; but we tad already weathered given hours ofpsuringrain , and thU ht-le moisture in addition appeared qaite unimportent . A long article on the disputed play of " The Two Kob ; e Kinsmen , " is brought to this conclusion : lliatthe piayof ' The Two Noble Kinsmen' is one to winch Shakespeare posse 8 se > a betttr title than can be proved fur him to' Peiidts : ' -that to him belong its entire plan and general arrangement : but that perhaps , ior want of time to complete it bvaday named , and probably by w ., y of encouragement to a JOline , author ol some prom . se . he availed himse ^ of OUu £ "' aDCe ° l FletebW tO m UP a P ^ ioS ke

      From the article on " Sites for Public Monumenu" we extract the Mowing , ery interesting particulars respecting "

      IHK CATHEDBAL OF COLOCKK . & greater triumph of mind than history has jet recorded of individual achievements in art , will be the tcmHttidn , within the nineteenth century , of the Cathedral of CJognt . Sir hundred years have passed away fence u , e original design was traced of this the noblest tBon ucittit of medieval architecture . The name of its luthi . r has been forgotten , but his spirit has lived ; lived w ite own beautiful creations ; lived through times of *» r aud p-liage , and that makersion of ecclesiastical Jundi nliich retarded and interrupted for long periods the Progftsi of ibe work ; lived through the Reformation ,

      • huh , even in states which remained Catholic , put an « a to ihe building of cathedrals and for a time involved wuiien uiu the multitude * to whom thr ancient religion id mven euplojment in the sister aits of sculpture , arc hitecture , music and paiutiac ; hvtd through Fiench « 0 , miOUb ana European t 0 . fli ,.,,. ilVt . d t 0 an age Of ^ eiiu fic uaraces ; and iu Ui-ji age , and by a generation "ftom tue * ondersof the pnn . ing press , the telescope , wtuam-eugine , the railroaa , the eUctric telegraph , ^ i * e b . come familiar , Hv ,. d to witness the Present doing Jni « gt to the genius of the Past—art confessing itself awjue—and the piople of different states and opposite « et « s , Trotcsunt , Catholic , and BatiunalUt , combining k > eom pltte xht unfinished monument o ( their fore .

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      f ithers , a * an acknowledged model of tatta and construe , tire skill which bas never been sorpSKSed . The first stone of the cathedral was laid on the 14 th ot August , 1218 . The building wai continued at interval during the next centuries , and then abandoned . The intention of completing it , however , appears never to havt been wholly relinquished , and the crane , whloh had been employed for raising the stones to their destined height was let * on the top of the south tower , in anticipation o ! it * further service . There it remained for four hundred years , regarded by the inhabitants of Cologne as a symbol and pledge of a promise unredeemed , but for which 11 time would come . When , at last , the crane fell to the grouua from decay , it was not only missed , but its los-» as felt as a public calamity . Wuh the crane all hope seemvdtohave finally departed ; audit it uot a little curious and interesting that this simple incident should have led ( as it would seem to have done ) to the great national effort now making for the restoration and completion of the entire edifice . { t ^ y ^ ^^!^^^^ niem *^

      In 1819 an old Burgermeister bequeathed a legacy toward restoring the crane ; this was followed by a subscription for repairs ; and , finally , the Prussian government took the matter in band and determined to complete the cathedral . Thenewftrandation-stons forfhebodyof the church wa * laid with great ceremony on the 4 th of September , 1842 , by the King of Prussia , surrounded byprincesinon nearl y all the royal families of Germany , in the prpgenc- * of u countless multitude of spectators , erabrat mg the whole population of Cologne and the neighbouring towns of the Rhine ; - a scene well described in the October number ot the Quarterly ifetieto . At its conclusion , the block haviuj ; been lowered , and the usual speeches delivered , the Dutnbau Meister addressed the artizans , telling them t « resume their labours to the music and sentiment of Schiller ' s « ' Song of the Bell . "

      " He was answered by a hurrah from the tower ; th < - crane moved slowly on its axis ; a chorus of workmen's voices rose in sonorous melody ; a block of stono ivai seen mounting slowly through the air ; every bat was wave . ' , his Majesty ' s the heartiest of all ; and , amidsi roars of cannon , one stone more was added to thai tower , where the last had been left above four centuriei before . " In thin article the writer reviews the " vexed question" of the Wellington statue , which he con trasts with that of Peter the Great at St Peters

      burg , greatly to the disadvantage ot the first of these monstrosities . The writer advances some novel but conclusive vu wi respecting the Duke ' s eth ' uy , which we commend to all who take any interest in thtquesti <> n , which we do not ; aud - e suppose our readers agree with us . The next article is more important , but not so conclusive ; indeed the writer , while throwing doubt upon , tne views of others , settles nothing himself , llis subject is " Tutories of Population , " and the writers reviewed are Doubleday and Thornton . The theory of Mr Doubleday is embraced in the four followug propositions : —

      1 . —That when the existence of any * peci « s , animal or vegetable , is threatened , there is a stimulus to increase . 2 . —If any species , animal or vegetable , receive an immoderate supply of aliment , cr become plethoric , it does not reproduce itself at all . 3 . —If moderate aliment be administered it reproduces itself without imrea-ing . 4 —If equal portions of the species be put intu these different states , the decrease of oao portion will be compensated for by the increase of auotlitr , and th numbers of the whole will remain as before . We have net seen Mr Doubleday ' s book , but judg ing by the review , we faecy he is rather more than a match tor his reviewer .

      An article entitled " Reports on Lighthouses , " is followed by an elaborate but inviting review of those "Ui jlds ol the nineteenth ctntury , " Strauss anil Parker . This article , take it for all-in-all , is thr most admirable in the whole number . The reviewer ' s brilliant argument and bold criticism will comronnu the applause of all inquirers after truth—of all who are " bold enough to be honest , and honest enou ; li to be bold . " The following quotations from Parker ' s " Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion , " will parly explain the ideas ot the American Reformer : — THE DKlir , " The feelingii , Fear , RvVcrence , Devotion , Love , naturally pirsnnify God , humanize the Deity , and represent the Infinite under the limitations of a finite anil

      imperfect being , whom wa ' can know all about . ' 11 . has the' thoughts , feelings , passions , limitations of a man : is subject to time and space ; sees , remembers , has a form . This i « Anthropomorphism . It is well in its place ;—some tude men seem to lequire it . They mu-t paint to themselves a Deity with a form—the Ancient ot Days—a venerable jnonaich seated on a throne , surrounded by troops of followers . But it must be rimem bered that all this is . poetry ; this personal and anthro ' pumorphitic conception is a phantom of the brain , that husno existence indepmdent of ourselves . A poet per . sonitics a mountain or the moon ; addresses it as if ii

      wore the form of man , could see and feel , had human thoughts , stntiments , hopes , and plejsures , and expectations . What the poet ' s fancy docs lor the mouutaiu , the feelings of revireiice and devotion do for the idea 01 God ;—they clothe it with a human personality , became tbat is the highest which is known to us . Men would , comprehend the Deity;—they can only apprehend bim-A Heaver or a Reindeer , if possessed of religious fa cultus , would also conceive of the Deity with the litnitatioHs of their own personality , as a Beaver or a Bein deer , —whose f . culties as such were perfect;—but the conception , like our own , must be only subjective , fot man is no measure of G i& . "—P . 123 .

      TBE BIBLE . The Bible is made for man , not man for the Bible . Its truths , are old as tbecreatitn , itpcated mote or lest purely in every tongue . Let its errors and absurdities no longer be forced on the pious mind , but perish tor ever ; let the Word of God come through conscience , reason , and holy feeling , as light" through the windows of morning . Worship with no master but God , no creed but truth , no service but love , and we have nothing to fear . According to Parker , the great merit of the Catholie Church "is its assertion of the truth , that God

      still inspires mankind as much as ever : ' 'its great fault , that it '' limits this inspiration toitseif . " Oi the Protestant Church , the grand merit " is its proclamation of freedom of cousiience within the limits o « ' the Scriptures ; the grand vice , its erection ol the Bible into a master of the soul . " Parker contends that ( true ) Christianity " ha * no rites , no priests , no creed ; puts nothing , permits nothing between the soul of man and God ; fears nothing from the rruth ; demands only a divine life . " By far the most interesting portion of the Review is the criticism of Strauss ' s "Life of Je 3 us . " We give the followinextract : —

      siBAcaa . In the epinion of Strauss , the biographical details recorded of Jesus were vast in the moulds of imaginative invention , preserved in bis age and nation . These were determined almost entirely by the prevalent expectation of a Messiah ; within the wide compass of which may be discovered parallels , which may have been sources for most of the incidents in the gospels . Our author ' s plan , therefore , once adopted , is plain and mechanical enough . By the side of taeh scripture section , in turn , he spreads the picture of the Messiah , drawn out of all acctssible sources , from the Pentateuch to the latest Taluiudists : as be can find , or summon into existence by tbe magic of his look , a succession of correspondences , he licks tbem off , stroke by stroke ; and then , combK ning bis discoveries , produces the Jewuh sketch as the prototype of the Christian story . The followinn is a brief extract from the Westminster Reviewer ' s powerful and eloquent description

      IHE rr . 0 QBE 8 S OF FREB THOUGHT . The bodily breadth of belief , that rested with equable weight on the whole area of Scripture , i * ua longer to be foaud among the educated members of any church . The high claims of the former age ha » e suffered many abatements . The hint may now be innocently droppsd , that perhaps there was a limit to the wisdom » f Solomon , and the learning ot Mof es . The arch » ilogist . curious about the longevity of nations , and anxious to re-construct the wrecks of an immemorial civilization in India or in Egypt , IB no longer arrested by the chronological margin of the flood ; but obtains unlimited grants of land ' beyond , from which the mirage will retire as he advances . Gtiolofy , after exasperating tbe jealous guardians of Christendom , by disturbing tbe Creation . no longer offers , by w&v of hush-money , to establish the Deluge ; but r * .

      chlls its " IMiquia Diluviause , " ann is more ashamed of its penance than of iu sins . The Tower of Babel does not stJtti in the way of researches into the origin of languages ; and even the Fall imposes no limit to the ethnological speculations which treat the common parentage of all mankind as an open question . The admissions that now and tbix slip from divines—such as Dr Arnold ' s statement that St Paul entertained an erroneous expectation ot" the approaching end of the world—show , in the mo » t striking manner , how changed it our theological meridian , Even in the religious taste of tho classes who combine belief with habit * of cultivated thought , an index of the same thing may be found . The simple ap . peal to verbal and external authority has lost its tffect from the pulpit or the press . In maintaining the influence o- Christianity , the main stress is more and more thrown on its moral , ssthetic , philosophical , and affectionate elements . Consistent b . lievers in its supernatural origin are not fond of dwelling , as their forefathers were , on the records of purely physical interpositions of to

      j d : tii « y rest > With grateful faith , on such events as the resurrection of Christ ; the raising of the widow ' s sob the healing or the leper and the blind ; on the miraclenot obvious amjestyand mercy , which correspond with some UDble action of the imagination » nd the heart : but are ptinful-y chafed when obliged to think , wiih any distinctne « , of the turning of rods into serpents , and of du 3 t into nits ; of the story of Jonah ; of the conveyance of demous into swine ; of the endowment of handkerchiefs , aprons , and shadows , with miraculous gifts ; or of any like incidents , in which the shock to expectation is unrelieved by apparent divineuess of purpose , and dignity of mode . We are far from denouncin g , or from praising , these things as indications of unbelief or of illumination ; we refer to them simply as facts , manifest and interesting to every thoughtful observer . We will add . that tUuugh , of course , they imply a loosened belief in some things once held certain , they are not apparently attended by any decline of religious earnestness in the present age . In England , at least , the prevalence of a reverential spirit among think « r . eo . f every class Items to

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      open a prospect of some union , having a deeper found * , "on than mere dogmatical concurrence . The Reviewer thus Eums . up his estimate of the labours of Strauss : — We cacnot believe tbatheoceforth any instructed theologian will waste his strength in attempting to harmonise chu gospels ; or tbat laymen will be expected to make nothing ot their discrepancies ; or tbnt future books of Christian evider . ee will stake everything on their au . thorship ; or that the religion of m ^ re teitimony and au . thority will longer repudiate the alliance of the religion of reflection and consciousness . Dr Straus * will not carry mankind to his own point : but neither will he leave them where they are . He has found a fulcrum for mov . tug the globe ; but he does it uwiw the hurann coniHtion : he swings himself across half the universe ; and he stirs the world—au inch . Most truly was our Byron inspired when he wrote : — opBna of « omeunion , havlagadeeperfoand » .

      • Even go < in roust yield—religions take their turn ! 'Twas Jove ' s—' tis Mahomet ' s—and other creeds Will rise with otheryeara , " « tc . We live in an age of transition , but he is a mole-eyed brute who cannot see something ot the future . In the review or summary of "Foreign Literature , " we have notices—far soo brief , some of themot several new and important works ; to wit : some new songs by B 6 ranger ; Michelet ' sand Louis Blanc ' s Histories ot the Revolution ; Latna > tine ' s llistory of the Girondins ; DeTocqueville ' s Louis XV ., &c , &c . b rom the last-named of these , we give the following extract : —

      LOUIS XV . Up to the age of two-and-tiventy the king evinced no disposition to conjugal infidelity . He was then remark . - « l > ly handsome , an < t the ladies of the court vied with each other in efforts to allure him . His conlidentiul attendants , according to the invariable tactics of thtir class , were eager to provide him with a mistress , and took care to maka him observe the amorous advances of the fair dames aiound him . At first his un . swer was on all sueh occasions , " The queen is a much finer woman . " But the pertinacity of his tempters , seconded by the weakness and vacuity of his own nature , at last prevailed ; ai » d his panders , Bachelitr and Lebel , cast the bashful and reluctaut young monarch almost by force into

      the anus of Madame de Mailly . At the head of the triumphant conspiracy was that grave and reverend person , that zealous a nd denture churchman , Cardinal Flewxy . Unseen he directed « J 1 the machinations of the plot , selected the mistresi , and contrived the interriowi . Madame de Mailly was perfectly free from ambition , the ieeatest of Hi * rits in the old minister ' s ej « s , for it relieved him from all apprehension on the score « . f his own influence ; her love for the king was genuine and disinterested , and she even beggared henelf for the sake of her sordid lover , whose avarice was such that he did not tilush to amass money in a time 01 famine by jobbing in corn . As single-hearted and fond as LaValliere , ani still more unhappy , like her she uied penitent , a victim to the biUe ambition of her own sisters .

      If Louis hid been slow to cast aside the restraints of decorum , it is notorious with what desperata assiduity he afterwards revelled in depravity , and helped to brinj ¦ t bout that catastrophe which he had ability enough to foresee , and heartlessness enough to disregard , because lie believed it was not to huppen in hi ^ day . His reign nay be divided into five portions , two oF which we have briefly glancedut—namely , the regency , and the ministry of Cardinal Fleury ; the remaining three are denoted by the nmies of the three 8 ucces * tve maitraset en titre , Mesdames de Chateauroux , de Pompadour , and du B-irry . The first of these was a proud and ambitious woman , one ot the three sisters of Madame de Mailly , . vim supplanted her in the king ' s favour . She desired to exalt the glory of her royal paramour , and under her

      mHuence Louis eeemed for a while to shake off his apathy aud sloth ; she insisted tbat he should apply himself to the business of government , and appear at the head ot his 4 rmy . But her reign was brief ; she died suddenly , and the king relapsed iuto his old habits . Then carat ! the vindictive procuress , Madame de Pompadour , « ho tilled the Bustiie with the vistiuis of her resentment , and tlie I ' arc Aux Cerft with female children kidnapped , or purchased , or tempted to offer thennelves voluntarily , 10 be instructed in the principles of religion and the practices of vice b y the devout and debauched monarch . When Pompadour died , it was quite In accordance with the fit aud natural sequence of things , that du Barry should step from a brothel to take her place as virtual queen of France .

      There was likewise a na * ural fitness in the manner of death that befel Louis XV . Alarmed by some symptom- of contrition manifested by him , the Countess du Barry , who had long followed the system of Madame de Pompadour , prevailed on the kins ; to make au excursion 10 Trianon , where he would find a young girl whose charms would dissipate his gloomy thoughts . But the girl was already labouring under the latent stage of small pox ; the king caught the infection , and died in a few days , at the age of sixty-four , and after a reign ol ntty-nine years . His death was welcomed with joy by the uaiion which had once regarded him with such genumenud warm affection . When some one bantered the priest of St Genevieve on the inefficacy of the prayers and ceremonies at the shrine of the saint on the occasion ot the king ' s illnesi , " Why , " replied the priest , "is he not dead f What more would you have \"

      From Lamartine ' s History of the Girondins , there » l ! n exIract K ' describing tne private life of Kobtapierre . Of this we purpise to speak fully as oon as an Engiisli translation of Lamartine ' s work w published , and we see one already announced . Michelet ' a History appears to be one of that half mystical cha . acier of which his People largely partook . LoiiM Blanc ' s History i 8 not favourably tipoken of by the Reviewer , but the very reas-ms why he condemns it aimos , assure usttiatthis "llistory " is the one before ah yet published or publishing , that will most faithfully Tepreseut the Revolution . I lie English pooler who would print a translation 01 this " History" at a moderate price would be a public benetactor . We pray our poets to give us , if Jliey can , a translation of " Notre Cuq" one of the xa w chansons of Beranger ; tiie refrain almost sets us crowing : —

      Co , co , coquerico , France , ren . ets tun schako . Coqueriso , coquerico J " After a mass of " Miscellaneous Notices" of new works , foliows a political postscript , which we have neither time nor space to comment on . Suffice it to say that the writer is dreadfully alarmed at the triumph , ot the Ten U .. ura' Bill , ' which he predicts must fail when brought into operation ; and on the subject of Ireland predicts all sorts of horrors ascertaiu to flow from the ministerial measures . In one thing only we agree with the writer of the " Postscript , ' and it is , that the Irish are miserable , not because they are Celts , or Catholics , or became of small farms , but because of the villanous system of Landlord rule , without a radical reform of which there is no hope for Ireland .

      On the whole , we have read this number of the Westmimter and Foreign Quarterly Jtevieiu with great ¦ ileaaure . Of the Quarterlies it is second to none in sterling value , while its contents generally iiremueh more agreeable reading than either of its coi . ttui poraries .

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      Publications Receivkd . — Brougham versus Brougham on the New Pov Law ; " by Richard Oastier . " The Herald of Cooperation . " "The framework knitter "

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      Attempted Escapb from Gaol . The very crowded state of Enniskillen gaol has attracted a « ood deal of public attention of late . The number at present , and for some time past , confined , exceeds three hundred . In such a state of things it is impossible to prevent intercourse ; and the Irishman ' s proverbial love of country and of liberty may be expected to lead him to plot with his fellow-convicts for escape . A conspiracy of this nature was detected among the convicts under rule of transportation ( numbering ne . irly fifty ) , and no doubt would have led to tbe most disasirous consequences had not their intentions been discovered , and the plot frustrated . It was arranged tbat one of the party hould feign ill , and while the officers of tbe prison would be engaged in rendering assistance , or conveying him to the hospital , they would seize the officers ,

      press them into a hall or yard , and lock them up and make to the room where the fire-nrms are de « posited , and with those arms all who opposed were to be shut down , till the conspirators regained their forfeited liberty . A signal was to be given to another party of convicts in another ball as they marched to their cells at the breakfast hour , and all were to join . Fortunately , the governor got under the plan before the concerted hour to give the signal , and got them unsuspectingly , divided and marched to their cells . When secured , he and his assistants put irons upon the most determined and refractory . They confessed their design , and regrelted that it had been discovert d , averring that they would gladly have died in attempting their escape—that death would have been the consequence , either to the governor and bis assistants , or to the conspirators—perhaps to both .

      A Genuine Irishman . —A few days ago , as a gentleman of our acquaintance was walking up Northgate , in Wakefield , he was accosted by a son of the Emerald Isle in the following manner : — " Arrah , yer honour , and would ye be after telling me the name of the street opposite ? " To which tbe gentleman replied "Providence-sireet . " "Sure enough , and yer honour , and that ' s the very street I'm wanting , and faith , I ' ve a particular friend who lives in that same street , but , by my soul , I ' ve intirely and

      complatelv forgot bis name—perhaps , now , you would be alter telling me bis name too . " This so excited our friend ' s risible faculties , that he burst into an immoderate fat of laughter , to the no small amazement of poor Paddy , who retorted , "Faith , and you ' re no gentleman , oryou wouldn ' t be after thrating one in that manner ; by my soul , but ye may have to ask the same question yourself , someday . " A second tit ot Faddy , atter looking unutterable things , walked SKfiSttS * - " ** - ** " ! - *

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      IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDSSPADE HUSBANDRY . ( From the I nformation for the People ,. SRh 12 . ) t j x ( Cwtomd from our last . ) , In order to irrigate a field , there must be-a differencfroHeyels , the water being made t » run in a main channel along tbe highest side , and thence sending small nils alt over the lower parts of the ground . The principle of adjustment is by sluioes . Wlien theslope is coBjSiderable . the water requires to bo sent diagonally across the field , and being catched i » mains at intervals , is again distributed , if nee * be-,, in new directions . Thin is called catch work irrigation . The following observations on the subject occur rn Stephen ' s Practical lrrigator and Drainer— "In the

      . formation of an irrigated meadow , there are two rules of the greatest weight : one is , that no part of the works be m : ide on a dead level ; and the other , that every drop of water be kept in constant motion : but KSv * T * £ the fcnwtion , is beyond he ingenuity of man ; for no twp . pieces of land » n precisely alike which renders it impossibte for the rngator to follow the game plan in one field that he has done 'J . another . Each meadow , therefore , requires a different design , the construction to be varied according to the nature of the ground and the quality and quantity of ( he water ! Inclined plains are absolutely necessary for the purpose of irrigation ; and the benefit of irrigation depends so much upon the good management and patient Derseverance

      of those who have the superintendence of it , that I d <> not wonder it has so often proved unsuccessful . However simple the construction of a water meadow may appear to be on a superficial view , those who enter minutely into the detail will find it much more difficult than is commonly imagined . It is not an easy task to give an irregular surface the equal slope requisite for the overflowing of water . It is very necessary for the irrigator to have just ideas of levels ; a knowledge of superficial form * will not be sufficient . Few people unacquainted with the art of irrigation , and the regularity of form which the adjustment of water requires , have any idea of the expense of modeUins the surface of a field . Where land is vcry uneven , it is sometimes advisable to break it up witb

      the plough , and take a crop of oats before the formation ; by which means the land can be properly cleaned and pulverised befi . re levelling it into form with the levelling plough and spade the following year —an operation which may be executed at halt tho expense of doing the whole with the spade and wheel-barrow . But there is one advantage by doini { the whole work with spade and harrow , e-pecially where the turf is strong , which is , that thu water can be applied as soon as the beds are formed ; but by breaking up , and taking a orop of oats , it will require two or three years after the grass seeds are sown before the water can be used , which some proprietors think too long to wait , therefore will rather be at an additional expense to have the ttirf lifted

      ana laid down again ; by so doing , the whole operations may be performed in one season . The grass seeds generally used for laying down land for water meadow are vernal grass , crested dogstail , soft meadow g ^ s , rough-stalked meadow grass , foxtail , florin grass ( agrostis stobnifera ) , which last is one of the prevailing grasses in all good meadows ; and the best way of planting it is to cut the whole into short pieces , the same way as cutting straw into chaff , and sow it with other sidos . It is not always that those grasses give a good crop tbe first year ; therefore , to obviate this evil , some perennial rye . grass seed should I e sown along with the others , to produce a crop of hay before the watering commence . "

      It must be understood that the irrigation of any meadow is not to be incessant . There are times when the water must be " altogether turned off , and the ground left to dry ; it is at these times that the herbage is to be cut and removed . In large meadows , it is customary to turn off the water , from different pai ts at different times , by which a constant succession of crops is obtained . Speaking on this part of the management , Mr Stephens observes : — "One of the sreatest defects in the management of irrigated meadows in this country , is the not paying proper attention to freeing the ground from subterraneous and stagnant water ; for experience shows that , wherever there is too much moisture beneath the surfact ! , or if tlie water lodges too long upon it , the crop will always bo coarse and scanty . Another great error generally committed is , allowing the water to run too long at a time , without properly

      drying the ground . I know gome 1 instances in tkas neighbourhood where the ground is not attempted to be dried from the time the water i 3 put on the meadows , in the autumn , till ei-iht or ten davs before the cuttin * of the hay ; the consequence is , that the grass is of the coarsest quality , and the ground has become so very bousry , that tho whole crop of grass is obliged to be carried by people to some other place to be made into hay . Another inconvenience arises from bad manajjement , which , I am sorry to say , is too prevalent in this country ; that is , uermitting the urass to stand too long before cutting ; the consequence is , cnarse hay , badly made , and in many instances half rotten before b-ing put into the stack ; and , moreover , owin ? to the lateness of the season , the aftermath ia entirely lost ; so that the proprietor lias not received half the value of his meadow which lie ought to have received , if the hay had been made in the proper season .

      The first operation ef the irrigator is to adjust the water in the conductor , or . it th-- meadow is in more parts tiian one , the water in each conductor must be first regulated ; then he commences anew by regulating the slops in the first feeder ; but should there not be sufficient water in the feeder , a little more must be let n , by making tho aperture wider or deeper , till the water flows regularly over the sides from one end to the other ; from the first , he proceeds to the second feeder , and so on , until the water in all the feeders is adjusted . Let the beds of a water-meadow be ever so well formed , yet . by some places sinking more than others , or by the ice raising the surface of the ground , althouuh the water along the banks of the feeders have been ever so nicely

      adjusted , it often happens that tlicre mar be sonre places between the feeders and drains with too little water , when it will be advisable for the manager to in ike a third round , redressing inequalities of the surface , so as to give every spot an inch deep of water . Every part of the werksbeing regulated , the water should be allowed to run through the whole of October , November , December , and January , from fifteen to twenty days at a time , without interims , sion . At the expiration ot these periods , the ground should be made completely dry for five or six ti& \ s , to give it air ; for there are few species of grasses , which form the most nutritious part of the herbage

      of water meadows , that will long exist under an entire immersion of water . Moreover , if the frost should be severe , and the water befjin to freeze , the watering must I e discontinued , otherwise the whole surface will become one aheet of ice ; and wherever the ice takes hold oftue ground , it will undoubtedly draw it into heaps , which is very injurious to the plants . The object of this early preparation of the meadnwg is to ' take advantage of the autumnal floods , which bring alon * with them a variety ot putrescent matter , which is found very enriching to laud . " At the most convenient period of the year , tbe various channels will require to be cleaned out , and the works repaired .

      PROTKCTI . NO BlVKIt BANKS . Much valuable land on the banks of rivers and rivulets is often laid waste by the encroachments ot fl mils . A few words on this important subject soem to be necessary ! It may be laid down as a principle in natural science , that water is irresistible , and therefore it must not be resisted—it must be humoured . All windings in streams are caused by resistance . The water , in rushing onward , dashes aaainst a projecting stone or hard part on one of its banks ; this sends it in an opposite direction , and it strikes against whatever obstacle is presented . This process of interruption snon causes a mouldering ot ' the banks in opposite directions , so that at length the water runs in a zig-zag or serpentine course . AU this might have been avoided by allowing the water a perfectly free course .

      The damage done to lands by flooding , has led to numerous experiments for keeping the water in its channel , but seldom with any degree of success ; because the attempts have been to them in the current by sheer force . In all cases in which it is desirable to keep out tides or high floods from lands , the only secure method consists in giving the banks such a slope that they will present no resistance whatever , but allow the water to rise and subside with equal ease and tranquillity . Asa general truth , theereater

      the slope the better ; and it should never be less than a foot and a half for every foot in the height . Employ no atones or stakes , or any thing else , for the current to catch upon ; but cover the slopes with smooth turf , at a season which will allow of its growth before the floods set in . If any patches get broke , let them be annually mended . To keep out ligh floods , tiie banks must be made correspondingly high . Artificial embankments , in a flat country , should assume the form ot a long mound , sloping on both aides .

      Notwithstanding the obvious utility of this simple and unexpensive mode of protecting river banks , instances of damage are constantly occurring from projects of an opposite kind . Mr Stephens mentions the following as one of many within his knowledge : — " An embankment was thrown round the I small island , Mug drum , in the river Tay , to proteot the land from being overflowed by tb « tide ; but it was made so steep , that the first spring tides levelled the greater part of it to the ground . A second attempt was made , with the additional expense of a stone wall facing the water , which shared the same fato with the former bank . Since the&e failures , a third embankment has been erected witb nothing but the natural soil of the land , and the whole covered with thin turf . The length cf the present slope next tho sea u five times the perpendicular height of the . bank , and the inner aloije three timei j

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      the water meeting no resistance , rolls down the long | IoPe without doing any injury . " We refer to Mr fl- k- useful treatise for further information on tnisBubxect . as well as on irrigation and draining . ( To bevontinuei in cmr next . )

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      HATM-AftKBT .-Mr . Ne . bitt retumedto thTmw of her former tnumphsonJUonday eveningUaat . And ; teulr her reeeptlon was as enthusiMtie and Renuine as the most sealoua admirer * of this beautiful und gifted . iady ^ . w desire , long before the rising of the curtate tha "little theatre" was crowded with a highly , msliionablo and intelleeUal audienoe , who had aM « mbled ,, notnwie ) y to wltnens-the faBolnating performance * of M * s Nesbttt , ' but , aa lovers of the legitimate drama , ha * gv thered togethertooffer a tribute of heartfelt congratn . lation to one who has no competitor , and whose return to the stage may be justly hailed with'the most unbounded admiration .. The comedy selected wa » "The Lore Chaw , "' in . which , in herorhrinal part of Constance

      ten year * ago , at this theatre , she achieved one of her most brilliant and abiding triumphs . Mre Nesbitt i » returned to us at beautiful in person asd as winning in style as when she took , what we are delighted to find was not , a last farewell : The stage is her true home—fur hers rci a spirit to receive and impart pleasure ; and however we may regret the circumstances- which have caused her return , we cannot bat rejpice tbut sh » will again make not oaly the walls of ths Hay . roar . ket echo with hep joyous peals , but that thousands of : hearts will be mads glan with tiie sound of her genial voke tuid the sunny smiles of her radiant features . II « u Constance has moulted no . fe * tberofit » wonted excellence ; thtre i » the same heartiness In the mirth , the same pathos In tho geminwnt , tmdtbo same true womanliness throughout . The fine description of the chaw wan given as onlj Mrs- Nesbitt can give It ; and the taunts aad th » aar .

      easmsofth « f ! c « newUh VTildrake on hU musical affectatioas of the Widow Jones , were all inMinct with the purartspiritofcomady . Each suseessive « cen& was received with warm greetings ; at the fall of the curtain she was called fosth amid enthusiastic-cheers , waving of kerchiefs , and innumerable bouquet * were cast i n honour at her feet . The house was crowded in ever ; part , and bore rather th » aspect of a / efs than of a dramatic performance —Ths Widow Green of Mra Glover is a worth } companion-piece to the Constance of Mrs Nesbitt . There la no similar talent to Mrs Glovcr ' g now extant in any European theatre ; we may vainly seek , either lor her matronly beauty , her intellectual powers , or her fine appreciation of dramatic character . Tho audience com . pliiBeoted themselves by calling her forward to express their sense of hc » unfailing and unfaded excellence . Mr Webster acted Wildrake with his usuhI spirit .

      SADLER'S WELLS—The task of banishing from the stage " The Tempest" as modified by Drydeii , and reviving the play in its original form , was performed by Mr Uicrcady during his managtmewt of Covent Gnrden . Tho directors of Sadler ' s Wells have ever beea actuated by a similar spirit , and have doneull they can to restore the genuine plays of Shakespeare for the benefit of an audience which is certainly strong in enthusiasm for the name of the great dramatist . Their " Riuhaid the Third" was a striking instance in this respect , » nd now they have followed in the steps of Mr Macreadyby producing '' The Tempest , " in iU proper shape , and with every regard to scenic decoration . They have even shown more rigidity in adhering to the original text than was displayed at Covent Garden , for , while they adopt

      Mr Macreadj ' s plan of substituting a picturesque storm at sea for the opening scene of the sailors , they restore the speech in the third act , "You are . three men ol sin , " to Ariel , who appears , as written , in the form of a harpy , whereas at Covent Garden this speech was given to Frospero . Tbe circumstance is perhaps ef no great importance to the play , as Arid is supposed to speak completely under the influence of Prospero , to whom the words may easily be transferred . But it is right tu mention It as an instance of good Shakesperiiin faith on the part of MrPhelps , who by t ' oll owing the original plan sacrifices one of the most important speeches of a purl which cannot be called . 1 thankful one . Prospero and Miranda , ( played at Sadler's Wells bj Miss L . Addiion , ) though the latter is a beautiful impersonation of feminine

      innocence , tire neither of them characters which artiste ambitious of walking in the highest path would be anxious to play , were they not surrounded by the uarae of Shakespere with that halo which renders it illustrious to act in any of his pieces . The comie parts of" The Tempest" are those which " come out" most with a general audience , and it is remarkable to observe the keen sense of enjoyment fit by the Sadler ' s Wells ' au dience at the drolleries of Trinculo ( Yount ; t ) . and Stephano ( Scbarf , ) in company with Caliban . Mr G . Bennett ' s performance of this last character embodies a really iiiu conception , The lubberly hatred , the abject crouching ,

      the brutish veneration , are faithfully depicted , the actor realising the combination of strong vindictive passion , with mental Inferiority . The scenery is entirely new and rery beautiful , the sudden conversion of a calm " pro file . " sea into a " carpet" ofbillow 9 , with the ship toised upon tbem , being as clever a management of ; i storm as one would wish to see . The audience , who flock to see " The Tempest" in cron-ds , testify their approbation bj applause , whichU indeedenthuiiastic . A . Iiu ' ' interlude , calkd " The Rival Serjeants , " by Mr W . Coliu-r . has been produced with success . It is very slight , i > ii ' . it causes mirth , and is enliveued by a number of agreeable aongs to well-known tune 9 .

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      Laboub Roll , Public Worms in Ireland —Week ending March 6 . 734 , 792 ; March 20 , 6 ( 54 . 442 March 27 , 553 , 047 ; April 3 , 525 . 5181 ' Vkrv Sknsibie . —The municipal authorities of Berlin bavinsr announced to the King their desire to give a grand banquet to the members of the Diet , his Majesty hdS replied that with the misery that exists , it would he better to employ the money in more useful objects . Jew anb Gimkii . b . —The king of Bavaria has ordered that , inconsequence of the dearness of food , an increase of salary shall be awarded ) to the Jewish schools , the same as to the masters of Christian schools . I . abuan . —Mr&rooks , so well known as the enterprising travelleMind auccessful settlerin tho Indian Archipelago , hag-received an official sanction and

      reward of his labours , by being appamted commit sioner and consul-general from England to tho Sultan and Tndependert Chiefs of Borneo . Polionac— Tlfe eldest son of the late Prince da Holignac claims * sent in the Chamber of Peers , because , when his-father was condemned to " civil aeath , the law whereby the Peerage was hereditary Had not yet been-repealed . J he C © bdb& National Tributk Fi )»» .-Since the ' ?* ' *< "easement of Subscriptions to this fund , * 0 o 9 have been added , including JElQOifrom Mr Jededla Strutt , of Bel ter , and £ 50 from . Messrs Petrio and Lo ., of Rochdale . The total amount of the sub . scriptions now reaches £ 60 , 692 .

      The Com DSwakokb . —Ihe order * in hnnd at tho P L Arsenal al tne P «* sent tima , in connection with the coast defences , amount to- 23 56-pounder guns , and 228 &ini ; h guns , to be mounted on dwarf Pjattorm 8 . Ihese guns are to ba- distributed to Gravesend and Tilbury Fort , Portsmouth , Plymouth , Guernsey , Shcerness , Malta , Cori ' ay Quebec , lions Kong , &c . Importation o » fIlsiiRi ! tos . —The < . eVip Ina , arrived in the Commercial Docks , from St John ' s , New-Brunswick , has brought , in addition to an extensive cartto of wood goods , the very large- number of 63 T boxes ol nerrings » in a preserved state , and 4 firkins 'll . tter » tne production of that British provinco of North . \ meriea » .

      Fatal Accrastre . —On Sunday afternoon a roiling boat , containing tour young men was upset in the river Thames . at-Battersea ReaoJu and John Somes , aged 19 , son of Mr Somes , of the- Xing ' s-road . ' Chelnea , was drowned . The other three , being able to iwim , kept themselves afloat till assistance reached them from the shore . Chkap Mkthorolitan Trayem-ino . — Omnibuses have commenced running from Battersea to lloxton conveying passengers tlie entire distance , about nine miles , lor sixpence . The Ant and Bee . steam vessels , running from London Bridge to . the West End , have reduced their * fares to one halfpenny ; and the Citizen Steam-boat Company have- commenced running heir vessels to Hammcrsjaitli , Wandsworth , and Putney at reduoed : fares .

      Unostrntaiious GiuRm . —A gentleman called a few . days ago at Messrs Halleat ' s , who are bankers to the Western Dispensary , Charles-street , Westminnter , and saying he much regretted to find the charity so pi : pr , he placed a fifty pivuad note on the counter , desiring it might be put to their credit as the " donation ofa governor , ' declining ! to leave his name . Important . — Mr Anthony , surgeon , of Brixham , was lately , called to a young married femnle , about nineteen years of age . who ha 1 taken about 100 grains of oxalic acid . He administered milk with a view to form a congulum , which succeeded in the most effcatusil way by producing instantaneous vomiting , as he expected ; after every ejection from the S ; omach , Mr A . repeated the dose of milk , in quantities of a pint and sometimes half a pint , until vomiting eeaseil , and the )> ulse was restored to its natural tone . Milk being a decided antidote to the poison , too much publicity caimoi be given for the infermation of the public .

      DEBsxrtHBK Dialect . — An honest labourer of Chestei-hVId , when being examined on the recent trial of Platts tor murder , puzzled both judge and counsel by his provincialisms . When decriuing the emptying ol tbe cesspool ar . d finding tlie remains , he said , " something came in the gate ; " " the gate , " exclaimed the jud « o ; "the aate" echoed the counsel ; beth wearing a greatly puzzled aspect , until it was explained that the gate was synonymous with the way ; the jury , however , who were chiefly selected from th » Peak , well knew what the witness meant . Subse . quently , the same witness deposed to finding" a stafe , " which led to a repetition of questioning and wonderment , which was satisfied by tho explanation that a straight piece of turned wood was meant . Tue Jewish womks of Frankfort-i > n-the-Maine have formed an association for the education of poor Jewish girls .

      A LAnoK Subtkmunean Cave has been discovered under Bell-street , Birmingham . When or for what purpose it was formed is yet a mystery . The Uiout Way to convert the Jews . — The society formed some time back in i'o . sen , for purchasing land , and letting it out at a moderate rate to poor Jews , iu order to induce them to follow fixed labour , instead of getting their living by selling pedlar ' s wares , or other unrecognised pursuits , is continuing its operations with success . Up to tlie present time more than 15 . 000 Jewish families have demanded portions of land , and this fact proves that e Polish Jews are beginning to prefer agriculture commerce .

      Tame Birds . —At the Rectory , Llanfoist . the Rev . James Jenkins has a lawn adjoining his garden , where may be seen several robins and chaffinches , tlie worthy rector making it a daily practice of feeding them ; and he has so successfully trained them , that the moment he enters the lawn they will immediately come to his call , nnu fly , each in its turn , to the number of six or eight , into his hand to be fed . Norwegian Ick . —A vessel named the D ivid Foye , arrived in tho Regent ' s Canal from Frederick ' s Hold , Norway , has brought , with the exception of a tew fathoms ot firewood , somo spars , and twocase 9 of Norwegian game , an entire car « o of ice , comprising from 300 to 350 tons weight of this singular article of merchandise . J t ' ! \ '' ° I l ( 0 ' < a

      Glorious Winter Quarters . —A terrestrial paradise appears t » have been found by our forces at Tampico . In December they were luxuriating on green peas , oranges , bananas , lemons , canvass-back ducks , teal , snipe , &c , which sell H prices truly remarkable . Wild ducks were onl y one cent each . It is a glorious place in winter , but a dreadful yellow fevi-r sepulchre in summer . —New York Sun , Be Just before tou are Gknkrous . — A shepherd in tho csunty of Caithness lately lost two or three of his master ' s sheen , and being determined his employer should not ba loser in the matter , stole the same number from a neighbour , for which he has just been committed to tho gaol of Wick . —Rossthire Advertiser . {* J

      A buns Pnoop . —It is . said that Prince Massimo , postmaster at Rome , is . the undoubted and the only litieul descendant of Fabius Maximus , ami the slow coach system adopted , at ihe post-olnce under his auspices , is cited as an additional proof of his extraction , if any were needed . Jknnv Lind . —Mr Bunn lias modestly offered to take £ 2 , 000 from Jeany Lind , and annul the contract , provided she will also sing three times in his theatre before she sings anywhere elae in England . Shakspeaku ' s House . —Tho house at

      Stratfordupon-Avon , in whurii Shakspcare is supposed to have been bom , and in which ho certainly spent a part of his boylicoJ , is about to be sold by public auction . Qukkr CiiAiucmcRS . —Somo spscios of infusorial animalcules , inconceivably small as they are , and only visible through powerful microscopes , have , nevertheless , upwards ofa 100 distinct stomachs . Ether . —A tew days ago , a lady underwent an operation for caacer in the breast in Manchester . Mr Bickerstctb , surgeon , was tlie operator . Ether was used , and tlie patient experienced no pain . Femalk Recruit . —A recruift at Glasgow , a few days since , was rejected , on beiag discovered to be a female . The amount of property locked up in Chancery is upwards of forty millions BterUng .

      bi'FFERiNO and Lovino . — " mother , " said a very little child , " Mr S does-love Aunt Lucy—he sits by her—he whispers to her—and he hues her . " "Why , Edward , your auat does not suffer that , does she V " Suffer it , yssniother , she loves it . " Quitr Lucid — "Do y . au know Mr B ? " " I do . " "What sort ofa man is he ? " "Jathe morning he is a whiskey banal , and at night lie is a barrel of whiskey ! " " Ah , indeed !" IIaiu ) Times—A . n old lady was containing a few days since , in the manket , of the excessive high price of provisions . "Itia . aoUheraes \ t only that is so enormously dear , " s * y » she , " but ! cannot obtain flour for a pudding ftar less than , double the usual price , and they do . noi make the eigs half so lar « e as tWy used to be !"•

      Quautisrs . — "Wbere are your qttarters . Flanecan ?" siud a captain to . one of his volunteers—a son of the sod . "Oh , Captain , jewel , " said he , "nivormintion it ; I haw been inroulsi now for a week ; I spint the bouaty tha first ni ^ ht , and devil » quarter did I see sin * j ; not so rou < & as a tin cint piece . " A Hard Ca . sk —A tailo ^ while travelling on tbo lakes , wag . asked by a Yankee where he lived , and what hi&businetH was , 4 c , to which ho replied that he lived in Toledo , and that his profession was sitting on tho swoutU side oSpoverty , and jerking out the cords of affliction , 'jfo which an exchange replies : "Wo ' ve been thtso , " and lousd it pretty tuujh wovk . soraetimes ,, to "jerk" Um » hard knots . through . EtucTioNs .- ^ r William Pinney , a- liberal , was returned for Kast Somersetshire , on Saturday ast , in the room oi Col . Gore langton , decoased , without [ opposition . Earthquake A . strong shock of an earthquake was tell ut Bergea * Norway , on the 21 st ult . IJ ' iN-j to SnofMAKKBS . —If shoos were constructed of iho » hnpo ftl tho human feet , wither too large I ' . tor too small , and making on ct ^ ua \ pressure everywhere , corns and bunwwusf thofoet would nevw I ixist ,

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      According to a letter from India , a boy , seven years old , was lately discovered near Ferozepore , in tbe den of a she wolf , who is supposed to have " nursed and done for him" as an ancestress of her ' s is said to have done for Romulus and Remus some centuries ago . The boy is quite savage , and will touch nothing but raw flesh . Among the names attached to a petition lying at the Ilolborn baths for the abolition of Smithfield market , occur tbe signatures of Bull , Cow , and Calfe . At the Sussex assizes last week , there were no less than tour actions springing out of family feuds , viz , one by a father against his s ., n , one by a son against his father , one by a son against his mother , and one by one brother against another . Another present of illustrated books has been for- warded to the Qu » en by a publisher of New York .

      Professor Challis has confirmed the statement that a ring , similar to that which surrounds Saturn , encircles the newly-discovered planet Neptune . A society has been formed in London for the publication of a stratagraphical series of British fossils , and it will take the title of the Palesjntographical Society . Senor Mon , tho late Spanish minister of Finance , was , about four years ago , x kind of clerk ( 0 Count Toreno , and lived in a poor lodging-house in Madrid , at the rate of half-a-crown or three shillings a day , but he is now supposed to be worth £ 500 . 000 . The Italian aeronaut , Orlnnrii , who has made four hundred and twenty ascents with success , is said to have completed a machine which will 3 » able him to control the balloon in the air , and to guide its direction with certainty .

      A newspaper was lately posted at Bremen , iu Germany , for a firm at Swansea . It was , however , forwarded to New Zealand , and waa eventually returned to Swansea , after it bad travelled upwards ol forty thousand milcB . A man named Daniel Aitken lately died at Wexford , Canada , at the age of 120 years . During his life he had contracted soven marriages , and ho left 510 grand and great-grandchildren . The gross total quantity of all soap made in Great Britain during t » eyearl 8 t 6 , aniounted to l , 831 , 955 ib . of silicated soap ; 107 , 750 , 9901 b . of other hard soap ; and 15 , 807 9021 b . of soft soap . An Irish car driver in his list of journey expenses , chnrged , "Refreshments for tbe horse , 2 d . " On inquiry , it turned out that the rogue meant whipcord !

      A grand exhibition of works of the Fine Arts is to be opened at Amsterdam on the 3 rd of May . Foreign artists will be allowed to exhibit . There is a tailor living in New York who works so fast that he is compelled to . keep a pail of water by him ' to cool his needle in . " Mr \ V . Lambert , of Risbury Court , Herefordshire , has now in bis possession a lamb , yeaned on the 26 tb ult ., with six legs , four on the left side , and two on the right . The two additional legs are their proper length , but are attached to the body only by hanging tothetkin . Mr Breck , treasurer at Glasgow to the Highland Relief Fund , has received £ 10 , 000 from the British Association , making in all from that Association th munificent sum of mOOO . . .

      1 One of the leading members of the Young Ireland Association was asked why the " usual" weekly ac knowledgment of rent was not published wita their usual weekly proceedings in the Nation ; bo whicli he gave the { .. Mowing very satisfactory reply / 5— " The devila rap we got the whole week . Phantoms are only seen in the dark . 1 Here are always miracles in a land of ignorance . —iamartine , j " I am always sorry , " says a French writer , " when a woman becomes an author ; I would much rather tbat she remained a woman . "—[ We are always sa » ry whtn a man becomes a fool , ( as the- writer ofc the above proves himself to be , ) we ^« aW nrach rattier he remained a man . —Ed . N . S . \ The keeper of the serpents , and otaer reptiles , at tho Garden of Plants , has just brought to javiection an apparatus , of great simplicity , ior tU » avtiticia ! ! hatching of

      eggs-The Emperor of Russia , has just gim orderB that I the works of the railway from St Petersburg to Mobcow shall be push . **) forward with tho greatest activity , and that the number of workmen at present employed shall be inoreased by 50 , 000 soldiers . After a recenA snow-storm in Orkney large knolls ofsnow were ; found over the country , looking like heaps of manure covered whh snow ; but whieh , when examined , turned out to be cylindrical , like hollow fluted rollers , ov ladies' swan-down , witfe , bearing a strong resemblance to the latter , They had been formed by the wind rolling up the snow , (•„ boys form snowballs far amusement .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 17, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1414/page/3/