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      THE VOICE AND THE PEN . BT D . > . M ' CARTHT . Oh ! the orator ' s voice is a mighty power , is it echoes from , share to shore ; And the fearless pen hath more away o ' er men , Than the murderous cannon ' s roar ! •^ h at bursts the chains far o ' er the main , . And hrigbtens the captive ' s den ? 'Tis the fearless pen and the voice of power . Hurrah ! for the voice and pen ! Hurrah ! Hurrah ! for the voice and pen 1 The tyrant knaves-who deny man ' s rights , And the cowards who blanch with fear , Exclaim with glee— " JJo armi have ye , 3 Jof cannon , sword , nor spear ! your hills are ours , with our f orta and towers We are masters of mount and glen I " T yrants beware I for the arms we bear ire the voice and the fearless pen ! Hurrah ! Hurrah ! for the voice and pen ! Toongh your horsemen , stand with their bridle i hand , ' And yonr sentinels walked around ; Though your matches flare in the midnight air And your brazen trumpets sound ; ' Oh ! the . orator ' s tongue should be heard amoni These listening warrior men ; And they'll quickly say— " "Why should we slay Our friends of the voice and pen ?" Hurrah ! Hurrah ! for the ' voice and . pen I

      when the lord created the earth and sea , The stars and the glorious sun , The Godhead epoke , and the universe woke And the might ; work was done ! let a word be flung from the orator ' s tongue , Or a drop from the fearless pen , And the chains accursed , asunder burst That fettered the minds of men ! Hurrah !

      Hurrah ! for tbe Toice and pen ! Oh 1 tbese are the swords with / which we fight , The arms in which we trust , Which no tyrant hand will dare to brand ; Which time cannot dim or rost ! "When these we bore , we triumphed before , "With these we'll triumph again ! And the world will say no power can stay The voice and the fearless pen ! Hurrah ! Hurrah ! for the voice and pen !

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      A Transport Voyage to the Mauritius and Back ; touching at the Cape of Good Hope and St . Helena . By the Author oiPaddiana . Murray . It is pleasant to get a peep at foreign land and characters in the company of so lively * and entertaining a miter as the author of Paddiana . The basis of the present volume is a voyage lie made a few years ago from Cork to the Mauritius , with a detachment of his regiment ; a sojourn at Mauritius , with descriptions of the life and character of its inhabitants , and their call made on the re turn home at Algoa Bay , the Cape , and St .

      Helena . It certainly cannot be said , with any degree of truth , that either of these names promises much of novelty to those accustomed , to dip into contemporary literature ; and yet , the author , by dint of good animal spirits , quick perception , and lively descriptive talent , has contrived to construct an exceedingly piquant and readable volume . . Many persons know the Mauritius , wo dare say , principally as a place from which England draws a portion of the sugar it consumes . A glimpse at the island , its modes of life , and some of its peculiar inconveniences , may , therefore , neither he uninstruetive or uuinteresting .

      After having said a word or two concerning Port Loois and the graves of Paul and Virginia , —our voyager describes a day in tbe island : — I was invited to pass a few day 3 with , an English family , residing about seven miles from Port Louis , the master , by the way , being one of the most extensive slave-owners of the island , his stock consisting of upwards of fire hundred individuals . Mounting a sorry hack , provided by Monsieur Jolly , at gun-fire in the morning , I rambled out of to ^ n round the foot of the Mome Fortune in company with a black acting as guide and horsekeeper , aud carrying my effects upon bis head in a

      large tin-box , the universal substitute for portmanteau or carpet-bag , as both water and insectproof . My sable friend had provided himself with a sugar-cane , abont five feet long , which he used as a walking stick , and at the same time gradually chewed up as lie went along . This practice lias its advantage , as well in its refreshing effects upon the eater as affording an Index to an observant eye of the distance traversed , and how much of the journey remained , by the length of the uneaten stick . A ladicrons figure my friend made at first ee I pushed him a little wp ' the hill , eating up the stick and balancing tbe tin as he shuffled along , and encouraging himself with the short exclamation . - — - ~~^^ MQ " — " "" " ~~ " " ^ » w ^^ ^ V r -w ^ 1 1 ITT ^^ M \ f | r »

      "iek , ick , ' used by all the black men when engaged in hard work . We ascended nearly the -whole way into a delightful temperature , though the country did not improve in picturesque beauty . "We arrived in time to partake of a sumptuous breakfast , in which curries and other spiced dishes held a prominent place , inflaming tbe blood at the very time it shonld have been the study of every one to keep it cool , and inducing a thirst to be slaked at tiffin by copious draughts of wine and vater , or beer , keeping up the fever till dinnertime . After breakfast most of the men walked about the ground- carrying umbrellas . Amongst the trees ia the garden were the India-rubber , the

      tea , < tc , and the enterprising proprietor had attempted to get up a peachery , by planting the trees ( nil standards ) in a grove of large trees , so as to ensure then : being shaded from tha intense glare of the snn . Apples and figs were also tried , but it was understood that tbese as well as the peaches were a failure . The most acceptable present that can be made in the Mauritius is a plateful of apples , which are brought with great care from the Cape , at which place tbe pines of the Mauritius are a very acceptable return . An excellent dinner by lamplight , kept up with plenty of wine till rather a late hour , completed the fever of the day , and this was Eotduninished by having soon after dark a large

      iron frame on the lawn filled with chips , which Wire li ghted into a blazing fire to attract the mosquitoes , flying bugs , &c , from the house . At night the guests retired to their separate pavilions , like Email summer-houses scattered about the ground , and forming , from being open nearly all round , cool and agreeable bedrooms . In the course of our evening walk the worthy proprietor encouraged U 3 to pick our own souchong from one of the tea-trees , and the strong infnsion was brought in after dinner . It differed little from tea made of the dried China leaves , excepting an aromatic flavour acquired from the peculiar scent of the earth In this island . "

      The island is subject to all kinds of insect plagues , of which the white ant 3 are by no means the least formidable and destructive ' . — It is curious to watch the progress of the white acts , even without seeing them . A something like the end of asinall walking-stick is thrust upthrongh the floor against the wall . Gradually it rises higher and higher , as if a stem of ivy , without leaves or branches , were crawling up your wall . It is a Wit of wheel or arched passage , advancing upwards without any perceptible agency . Suddenly a branch-line is thrown out from the main trunk * having an eye perhaps to the contents of the corner cupboard . Curious to know what is the moving Principle of thi 3 singular intruder , you break through the thin brown-paper-likc crust of the

      tunnel , and find it filled with a hurrying crowd of whity- ' . rowninsects , some with wings , some with .-° nt , all intent upon the extension of tbe line . Arrived at the ceiling , it goes right through plank or baam that may stand in its way , or , should the engineers so will it , take a short cut through the ** ll into the next apartment . In the Isle of jraDes they usually build ttielr nests in trees . It «< & hke a huge excrescence upon the trunk , and j * sry branch of that tree , as well as the trunk , «* s a covered way along it , so that , although millions may be engaged in bringing to the nest the Produce of the tree or the earth beneath , yet not * single insect is seen about the place . It is this Y ^ e for Bring in the dark which give 3 them such * pale and unsunned complexion .

      Other disagreeable intruders are hinted at , wmewhat laughably , though ws dare say it would , be no joke to have their company forced « pon one . " After trying in vain to banish ' ^ scorpions , " says the author , "Igaveupthe ^ mpt , There w as always one , and no more , « J aheap of manuscript music in a corfler . " *«¦ eveu after such a chronicle of lodgers , our r ? ' - " * ed tourist , on leaving theisland , strikes fc «« j bailee M follows :-. Xo one , I think , can leave the Mauritius without « wt toti » janguage of . TljeoaorBHwt ; « 'ifci 8

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      a paradise , and" not without' houris . " The economist , ' However , via prone to . grumble at paying XISWw * £ ** M » meat , five shillings I pound for his fresh butter , and : twice as much for clothes as he does in England ; ' but his green teathe only kind nsed-is about two shillings ' a pound , ms sugar the merest trifle , pine 3 a penny each , and othertropical fruits equally reasonable ; . fish abun-«! n pret * J °° » 0 < ual erha . to that on tne tpntment of Europe generally ; poultry : excellent and reasonable : vegetables pood , but dear :

      sheep-mutton not to be procured , the substitute being supplied by that useful animal , the goat , who also furnishes the milk and "lamb ; " and good Irish salt butter renders yon independent of the inaccessible luxury of fresh . A lady of " preserving " , habits may here find abundant cheap occupation , from the cheapness of fruit , sngar , and brandy ; accordingly , mango and guava jelly , and pines , figure much in the consignments to friends at hotae . That excellent frnit the " lechee , " though abundant in the market . I believe is not indigenous . , ... .

      A glance at the "Royalty" of theisland discloses its " Young Hopeful" in the certainly useful occupation of a tailor , and remembering that Eve ' s fig leaf apron was the first commencement of that kind of civilisation which followed the knowledge of good and evil , it certainly does credit to the sagacity of King Eadama that he began at the beginning . He showed a great deal more sense than many of his European " royal" brethren . The incapacity of the race is , however , testified to by the failure of . his . son aud heir to master the " art and mystery ' of making pantaloons and jackets ; so that here also we must strike a balance : —

      That enlightened savage , King Itadama , of Madagascar , encouraged the intercourse of his subjects with Europeans , and especially with his neighbours of the Isle of France . He even Bent forth his son—like another Peter—to learn , the arts of life , and at Port . lonis he made his first experiment . The intelligent reader will be anxious to learn which of the sciences had the honour to take off the ed ^ e of his m aiden wit . He eschewed- 'altogether the road chosen by his royal prototype above mentioned , as regards shipbuilding , though not disinclined to imitate him , it is said , in . the " hot pepper and brandy . '' Monarchs may be supposed the best judges of the requirements of their Bubjects ; what ships were to the Russian ,

      pantaloons were to the Malgache . His Majesty not unnaturally thought that the first step towards- civiliiing a naked people was to clothe them , so he bound the young pripce apprentice to Monsieur 3 olly , the tailor . His Royal Highness at first showed some aptitude for the business , and plied diligently enough the goose and shears , but he soon fell off into dissipated habits , till in a few months they found it expedient to send him back to court , he being pronounced totally unfit for . the shop * board . * * Itadama was passionately fond . of music—a 3 indeed appear to be most of his countrymen—and sent over twelve boys to form a band , under the instruction of tbe band-master of the 82 nd regiment , who received £ 200 a-year for the undertaking . They attained considerable

      proficiency , when they were summoned to their own country to play the chefs d ' muvres of Mozart and Rossini in the forests of Madagascar . We ' may imagine the -astonishment of a traveller at being welcomed at a native court , in an almost unknown country , by a band of half-naked savages , with some familiar overture , executed with the precision of a London or Paris orchestra . This great aptitude for music may be witnessed at all hours in the streets of Port Lonis , where the airs played by the military band are taken up and whistled with extraordinary taste and accuracy by all the little black boys of the place . The regiment to which I had the honour of belonging was received with screams of delight on landing , from the number of black drummers kept up in that distinguished corps .

      In attempting to being up his son to the tailor ing , his Majesty certainly showed a great deal more sense than we do in sending out missionaries to fill the heads of savages with incomprehensible theological dogmas and mysteries . " ¦ Here is a sketch of a native convert at Algoa Bay : — Anything more dreary and uncomfortable than a converted savage I have never seen in the fora of humanity . He has discarded all spirit and ; picturesqueness with his kaross , and set up cant and the narrowest bigotry with his highlows . We had a precious specimen at lira . Hunt ' s : a young man of a sepia colour , superior to the Hottentot as touching his tint , though on a level with

      him as touching his hastiness . He had not arrived at the highlow state ; but , having been the servant of some good man about the bay , had imbibed . an inveterate taste for psalmody . Sitting the livelong day propped against- the shady side , of a wall , he poured forth with endless iteration his one hymnr , of which every part was unintelligible but the concluding words of each verse" De sufferings off de Laaambe . " From morn till noon , from noon till dewy eve , unless specially employed elsewhere , which happened rarely , did he drawl out this deplorable ditty . He attached no meaning to the words , and knew no

      more about too Lamb or his Sufferings than ons of the lower animals . To read , write , or attend to any serious business within hearing of such a nuisance , was impossible ; accordingly he became a butt for the missiles of those engaged in more profane occupations : apples , potatoes , segments of pumpkins , were hurled at him , with an occasional handful of wet clay from the well , where the serving-man Ben was pursuing his subterranean work ; This functionary had attempted to get up a counter-irritation by instructing one of the Hottentots in a melody of a totally different character ; one verse of which ran thus— '

      " Father , was a Mantatee , Mother was a Fingoe , Sister was a shocking B ., And I'm a rogue , by Jingo , " to the tune of Yankee Doodle : but the unwearied persistency of tbe sacred songster drove all secular opposition out of the field . We conclude with a capital story of Major Holder and his hats—the subject , an Indian officer , on leave of absence at the Gape , and an inmate of Hoe same boarding-house as the writer : —

      Tha most Singular ; character- which Cape Town presented was a Major Holder , of the Bombay Army . In dress he was entirely unique . He wore invariably a short red shell-jacket , thrown open , with a white waistcoat , and short but large white trousers , cotton stockings , and shoes ; on his head a cocked-hat , with an upright red and white feather , the whole surmounted by a green silk umbrella , held painfully aloft to clear the feather ; to this may be added a shirt collar which acted almost as a pair of bunkers on either side . In person he was ample , but somewhat shapeless ; and he had a

      vast oblong face , which neither laughed nor showed any sign of animation whatever . The history of the Major ' s cocked-hat was as follows . Strolling into an auction at Bombay , he was rather taken with the reasonable price of a cocked-hat , which the flippant auctioneer was recommending with all his ingenuity . " Going for six rupees—must be sold to pay the creditors . No advance upon six ? Shall we say siccas ? " In an evil hour the Major bid for the hat , left Iris address , and returned to bis quarters , the happy possessor of a "bargain . " ' . ' < "'

      Seated at breakfast the next morning , a procession is observed approaching the house ; four men carrying a large paoking-case slung to a pole , and headed by a half-caste , with a small paper in his hand . "Major Holder , sar , brought you the cockedhats , sar ; all sound and good , sar ; wish live long to wear out , sar . Here lee ? bill , which feel obleege you pay , sar . " Whereupon he puts into the hands of the astounded commander a document headed , " Major Thomas Holder , of H . E . I . C' 8 Eegt . Dr . to estate of —— and Co ., bankrupts , for seventy-two cocked-hate , purchased at auction , 4 c , &c , &c . "

      It was in vain that the Major remonstrated after he understood the predicament in which he was placed ; in vain he appealed to the auctioneer—to the company present ; it was too good a joke , and they would have given it against him under almost any circumstances . Major Holder was a ri gid economist ; he had also a nnnd which admitted but one idea at a time , and , indeed , not very often that . He was possessed of six dozen of cocfeed-hats , and they must be worn out . Being mostly in command of his own regiment , he had unlimited choice as to his own

      headdress ; so he commenced the task at once . From thenceforward all other hats or caps were to him matters of history . At the economical rate of two hats a year , he might safely calculate upon being much advanced in life before the case was exhaHsted . True , there were drawbacks : he was much consulted about auctions by his friends ; many inquiries made of him on that point ; bills of auctions , and especially anything relating to cockedhats , forwarded to him by the kind attention of acquaintance ; and a question very currentl y put to him by the ensigns was , " Tom , how are you off for hats ?"

      The interest generally taken in tbe Major ' s hats was farfrom dying , even after the lapse of years : tbe less likely to no so , indeed , from the circumstance of their forming epochs in history , —as , "Such a one sot leave in Tom ' s fourth hat ; " or "I hope to be off before Tom changes his hat ; " or , " I'll make you . a bet that . Jack ' s married , before another hat's gone . " " - " .. ' .- _ -.. mentbis individual arrived at the Cape he w * j

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      understood to be itf his fifteenth hat . ; . but'there occurred some confusion in the Major ' s chronology ; for it was understood that ^ owing to tlje-practical jokes played there , no less than three- hats were expended during the . sliort month of his . stayi ;' . To correct this , he adopted tlie plan of . sittingvipott , liis hat" at dinner ; but-as he wore no tails to-rhis jacket , aud left the feather protruding behind , it had , to a stranger , ' the appearance of being a natural appendage to his person . ;¦ ¦ : ; r- .

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      Travels in My Garden . By AlphoNSE Kabs . .- . ¦ " Illustrated . Paris : Curmer . There are few more agreeable companions round a garden or elsewhere than M . Ka ' rr . In a series of letters to a mere adventuirous friend , who has extended his roamings to distant Isolds , the author describes all that he sees and observes during his journeys among-the flowers , birds , and'insects , of his garden ; and comes to the conclusion—in which every reader of his book will be disposed to join—that the powers of observation and enjoyment which the traveller carries with him , and not the number of miles traversed and discomforts endured , constitute the pleasure of travelling . Aspiderinthemidst of its web , the hum of

      a bee , or the sight of the commonest flower , serves as a pretext for a chapter in which instruction is often conveyed in the shape of amusement . There ia a' mixture of the Frenchman and the German in M . Karr , observable in this work . He loves his birds and his flowers , and writes of them as a German might do , and in the next page he satirises men and manners with all the caustic wit of a Frenchman . The result , is , a volume , half botanical and half metaphysical—a mixture of the ideal and ; the positive—which effectually prevents weariness on the part of the- reader . As a specimen of tho abstract thinking , we give an attack on property , which may throw a new li ght upon the subject , even to old Socialists : —

      Ask the first man you meet , provided he be of this part of the country , to whom that large acacia belongs ? He will answer at once—That acacia belongs to Mr . Stephen . And so it does , for I have regular deeds to testify that the acacia belongs to me . What a bitter sarcasm ! The tree is more than a hundred' years old , and has preserved all the vigour of youth ; I am thirty-six ; I have already begun to die , I have lost two teeth , and I cannot sit up late without fatigue . The tree has seen three generations live and die beneath its ¦ hade . ; if I iIve to he very old , if I escape sickness and ill health , if I die by dint of living , I shall perhaps see it in flower thirty times more- ^ and then , some of those children who are playing marbles

      now , and whom we are teaching Latin against their will , those children for whom we spread bread and butter , and who will be men then , will put me by in a deal box , and pack me alongside of the others below the earth ,, so as to have more room above , until another generation whom they will have brought up for the purpose will pack them away in their turn in similar boxes , and lay them beside us ; And yet I call that tree mine ! ten generations more will live and die beneath its shade , and I call that tree mine ! I can neither see nor reach the nest that a bird has built on one of its topmost boughs , and I call the tree mine ! Mine ! there is not ono of the things I call mine that is not destined to . last more than me ; not a single button of my gaiters

      tnat ib not destined to outlive me considerably . What a singular thing is property , of which man is so proud ! When I had nothing of my own , I had the forests and meadows , the sea , the heavens and all their stars ; . since I have bought this old house and this garden , I have only this house and this garden . Property is a covenant by which one renounces everything that is not included between four particular walls . I remember an old wood close to the house where I was born ; how many days have I spent beneath its leafy shade , in ita green paths ; how many violets I have picked there in March—how many lilies of the valley in May How many strawberries , blackberries , and filberts I have eaten ; how many butterflies and lizzards I

      have pursued and caught ; how many nests I have discovered there ; how often , at evening , I have admired there tbe stars which seemed to blossom one by one among the tree tops—at morning have watched the sun ' s rays penetrating the leafy dome likeluminousdust ! What balmy perfumes , what gentle reveries , I have enjoyed there ; how many verses I wrote—how often I read over her letter * there ! I used to go at the close' of day to a little wooded hill to see the sun set , and watch its oblique rays tinging with red the white trunks of the birches which surrounded me . That was not mine , it belonged to an old , crippled , impotent marquis , who had most likely never been in it—it was Ms !¦ Far from being tbe lord of Nature , as so manv

      nhilosnphers , poets , and moralists have pretended , man is her assiduous slave , and property is one of the baits by means of which he is induced to take upon himself numberless strange drudgeries . Look at that man mowing ! how tired he seems ; thesweat di-ipa from his brow . ' He is cutting & > hay for 7 «' s horse —he is proud and happy . Man is einployeu by Kature to gather in seeds , arid to sow them at proper seasons , and to dig the earth round- the trees in order that they may feel the gentle and salutary influences of rain and sunshine . In every town that is tolerably populous , the poor man has a public library , and consequently from fifteen to twenty thousand volumes for his use ; if he grow rich , he will buy a library and books of his own ; he will

      only have four or fivo hundred volumes , it is true , but how proud and pleased he will be ! You are poor ; the sea , is jours with Hb Bolemn sounds , and the loud voice of its winds-the sea in its awful wrath , and its still more imposing calm—the sea is yours , but it belongs to others likewise : one of these days , when by dint of toil , vexation , and perhaps meanne 33 too , you have become rich—more or . less—you will have a little marble basin built up in your garden , or at any rate you will lose no time in purchasing and placing in your house a crystal vase with two gold fishes . There are times when I cannot but ask myself , if perchance our judgment rbay not ; be so far perverted as to call poverty that which is splendour and wealth , aud to term opulence what—in fact—is want and destitution .

      " We have not room for a romance of " Tulip Love , " which forcibl y—and even painfull yexemplifies the mania that takes possession of minds accustomed to concentrate their attention too much , and too exclusively , on one particular object or pursuit . The work is full of varied interest .

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      Lives end Anecdotes of Misers ; or the Passion of Avarice . Displayed . By F . S . Merryweather . London : Simpkin , Marshall , and Co . Mr . Merryweather has achieved considerable distinction by his antiquarian research , and the light he has thrown upon the habits and customs of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors . In the present volume he has collected a number of anecdotes , respecting a class of men whose

      eccentricities , combined with their wealth , have always tended to make a fruitful theme of gossip and wonderment . Mr . Merryweather ' s stories about misers are , however , much better than his endeavour to account , philosophically , for the all-absorbing passion of avarice , whose practical results he records ; and so without troubling our readers with « ny theory on the subject , "we "will Belect , as a sample of the book , a tale k which a miser meets a fearful end : —

      In the year 1762 an extraordinary instance of avarice occurred in France . A miser , of the name of Foscue , who had amassed enormous wealth by tbe most sordid parsimony and the most discreditable extortion , waa requested by the government to advance a sum of money as a loan . The miser , to whom a fair interest was not inducement sufficiently strong to enable him to part with his treasured gold , declared his incapacity to meet this demand ; he pleaded severe losses and tbe utmost poverty . Fearing , however , that some of his neighbours , among whom he was very unpopular , would report bis immense wealth to the governmentj he applied his ingenuity to discover some effectual way of

      hiding his gold , should they attempt to institute a search to ascertain the truth or falsehood of his plea . With great care and secrecy ho dug a deep cave in his cellar ; to this receptacle for his treasure he descended by a ladder , and to the trap door he attached a spring lock , so that , on shutting , it would fasten of itself . By-and-by the miser disappeared ; inquiries were made ; the house was searched ; woods were explored , and the ponds were dragged ; but no Foscue could they find ; and gossips began to conclude that the miser had fled

      with his gold to some part , where , by living incognito , he would be free from the demands of the government . Some time passed on ; the house in which he had lived was sold , and workmen were busily employed in its repair . In the progress of their work they met with the door of the secret cave , with the koy in the lock , outside . They threw back the door and descended with a light ; Tie first object upon which the lamp was reflected was the ghastly body of Foscue the raiser , and . ; 8 eattered around him were heavy , bags of gold and ponderous , chests . of ^ un told treasure ; a candlestick lay beside ban , w the floor , ! Xbts vrorsuipper of Mammon bad

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      IT / A ^ . < cave tp . pay-his'devoirs tohisgolden S ?^ ?^ mea sacWace to . his . devotion ! What ™ n -&"t -2 tjle - « ensktibn « of that miserable w , 7 ^ j ' * - horrors'bf his- situation ;' when ' & «{•? ? orc 0 S 1 } after : bira ,-andthespringlock S ^ Ay lmK 1 S 0 ?; him within hi 8 ,, sebret mine ¦ fe-- ' *^ W- % « been , the last , struggles of fcBw f ?^^ How > rrible . musth-fvebe - en " jo appeals of conscience within that ' sordld sinner each n ? A ^ M disgorged its . tVeasur ' e , Kri ' d !™ ' §\ e e of gold : havo danced , in imagination , around > m as a demon . ! Hoff hated ,, when the S K \ of , stayyation ' eame slowly upon him ; S > f ° 6 - " that yellow . riaion i . his very heart must have . growmsick at that ( which he once " ao 11 ! i

      duST : Gttld iuba ? - s ° ldin ° ^ iff ** piled m heaps - gold for a pillow . ; gold strewed upon fferTrnW , """^ tolie . -upon . ! .. Whilst bis taper gS *^ ° ? uld Ms eyea , nothing met £ S'WM-J- ^ hen tho last dicker died ? way , and the miaer was left in darkness to dwell hS ^ n / ; comin g death , iind upptf his many sins , how awful must have been the agonies of conscience ! now , surely , amidst tho gloom of that sepulchre of gold , must the poor whom ho had oppressed , and the unfortunate whom he had ruined by his avarice have rose up to reproacfrhim ; and , when ' the mind becamefevered b y its last deadly struggles , how the races ol , haggard poverty , of hate , and loathing for tho miser , must , in one loud , discordant chorus , nayo cried for vengence and retribution upon his guilty soul ! ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' ' r

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      THE GREAT EXHIBITION ^ DP 1831 . ADMISSION OF VISITORS . . ^ Majesty ' s Commissioners for . the Exhibition of 1851 have had under their consideration the regulutions respecting the admission of visitors , which it appears to theni necessary to adopt for the effectual accomplishment of ' the purposes of the Exhibition . Their ' attehtion has ; heen principally directed to the following points : — : .:- - > - ¦ = 1 . —The necessity of making ' suoh arrangements as shall secure the convenienco of the publiq visiting the Exliibitioft , Wiiether for stud y and instruction , or for the more general purposes of curiosity and amusement . :

      2 . —The due protection and security of the property deposited in the building ; ' ' 8 . —The effective control over the number of visitors , whileths servants and , officers entruBted with the maintenance of order . and regularity in tho building are ' comparatively experienced in their duties . ¦¦ ¦ : ;¦ •¦ .. ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ 4 . —Tho necessity of maintaining the self-supporting character . of the exhibition , and of defraying the liabilites-incurred . , 5 . —ThedeBire of tho commissioners to render the exhibition accessible to all persons at tha lowest possible charge ; and with the least delay , which a due regard to , the preceding considerations will admit . '

      Having these objeots in view , her Majesty ' s commiEsioners have determined to adopt tho following regulations : — : ¦ : . ¦ ¦•¦¦ ¦ ¦ The exhibition will be open every day ( Sundays execpted ) . The . hpurB of admission and other details will be announced at a subsequent period . The charges for admission will be as follows : — Season tickets for a gentleman ........... ' ... . £ 3 3 0 Season tickets for a lady . ; .. ; ............ ; . 2 2 0 These tickets are not transferable , but they will entitle the owner to admission on % \\ occasions on which tho Exhibition is open to the public . The commissioners reserve to themselves the . power of raising the price of the season tickets when tho first issue is exhausted , should circumstances render it advisable . ' ! ¦ ¦ ¦

      On the first day of the Exhibition season tickets only will be available , and no money will bo received at the doors of . entrance on that day . On the second and third days the prices of admission on entrance will befeaoh day ) £ 10 0 On the fourth day of Exhibition ........... 0 5 0 To be reduced on the twenty-second day to 0 1 0 from the twenty-second day the prices of admission will be as follows : — ~ •' On Mondays , Tuesdays , Wednesdays , and ' : Thursdays in each week . ^ ...... ; . ; ..... ; .,.. 0 1 0 On Fridays . ' ..... ' .. ' .....:........ „• . ¦ . ; .... „;• 0 2 6 On Saturdays 0 5 0

      No change will bo given at thedoors . This regulation is necessary to prevent the inconvenience and confusion which would arise from interruption or delay at the entrances . " . Should experience in : the progress of the Exhibition render any ^ Iteration in these arrangements necessary , the commissioners reserve to themselves the power of making such modifications as may appear desirable , of which due and timely notice , howevor , will be given to the public . ' Bv . order of her Majesty ' s Commissioners , J . ScoW Rdssbll ' , EnoAn A . Bowrinq ( for S . , li . 2 foETHooTE ) . ; Exhibition Building ; Hyde Park , Feb . 8 , 1861 . ¦ . ¦ -. ... - ¦ .

      A Police Court will , it is said , be established in or very near the Crystal Palace during tho continuance of the Exhibition .

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      :- _ ' - - - THE , SAILORS ' STRIKE , . . . Shields , Saturday .. —Affairs have become morb involved in this and the neighbouring ports-during the last two or three days than , ever they . were before . On Wednesday week the Shields ! seamen met , and resolved that those who felt inclinbd might sign articles for the coasting trade , and " proceed to sea ; but on Thursday , at a general meeting of the seamen of the whole district , some ' 3 , 000 strong , held on Shields' Sands , this resolution was rescinded , and the following . adopted : r- " That in the opinion of this meeting- the new articles provided by the Mercantile Marine , and Merchant Seamen ' s Acts are unconstitutional and unjust , and that the seamen of tho north-east ports of England

      are determined to oppose them by all the moral power they pO 386 S 3 , and that no now ships proceed to sea under the , new . articles ; and that the men refuse to sign > ticlgs , ' either coasting or foreign , countenancing ' the ' above-mentioned acts , " :: A delegate meeting-was held after the public meeting , at which ^ tliore were representatives from Hull , Seaham , , Sunderland , Newcastle , Shields , Blyth . and Hartley , when tho above resolution wai confirmed ; and the result is that the men have left their ships , and , with the exception of some vessels that have left the harbour guarded by tho police , the entire shipping trade of the north-eastern ports is stopped . There has been . a good deal of " mobbing" both at Shields and Sunderland . The Sate

      oi Bristol , has been got to sea from tho South Docks at Sunderland . As she was the first vessel to proceed to sea on a foreign voyage from that port since the strike , some anxiety was felt for tho safety of the crew , and to prevent , mischief , the mayor , the chairman of the local marine , board , and the boats manned by the river police , were present , but though there was u large muster of the men on strike at the dock gates , the only reception they gave the crew was a volley of yells , and the veaBel was got away without any mischief . The mato of the llockliffe has been very ill-used by a mob in going home from his vessel at . the ] North Docks . Twenty pounds reward is offered b y the Sunderland Shipowners ' Society for the capture of the

      ringleaders . Two seamen who had attempted to sign articles at SHnderland were set upon by a number of seamen , hustled , and pelted with mud . To-day a seaman was brought out of the Isabella , of London , lyingjn the Tyne , by a boat belonging to the watch committee , and having been landed at the low part of Shields was attacked by a mob of -women amountingto aboyo 200 , and very much maltreated ; in fact he would have been in danger of his life if some tradesmen and pilots had not come to his assistance and got him into a public-house , where he was sheltered until the police came to bis rescue . A crimp named Hammond , who had procured some " half msrrowe'Mor a vessel , had to fly for his life before an infuriated mob of women at North Shields

      on Friday ni ght . ; The crew of the ' Peruvian have been sent to gaol for thirty days'by the Teignmouth magistrates , on a charge of having deserted their vessel after si gning articles ; and the crew of the Don were taken on board their , vessel to-day , having expressed their willingness to go to sea rather than to gaol . The boats , of the Heoate will be upon the river to-night to protect some vessels going to sea . The Trident has gone round to Sunderland to protect the vessels in the Wear . Meetings have been held in Sunderland , Shields , Seaham , and Hartlepool , durmgthe last few days , and , in addition to the local speakers , have been addressed by the deputation from Hull . Captain Beechey has had another interview- with the deputations from the

      Shields seamen ; bufc without satisfaction to either party . . Liverpool . —On Monday nearl y 2 . 000 eailon struck work , and paraded the town with a band of music and flags . They carried with them ancrSey of Mr . Labouchere , er , as they called the ri ght hon . gentlemen , " Larboardsheer . " It . was generally understood ^ among ; the men that they were to make a bonfire of their tickets in the evening . They protest not only against the New Marine Act , but against the old one , by which they are compelled to subscribe a shilling a month as hospital money , from which but few of them derive any benefit . Yarmouth . — The almost universal discontent

      which some of the enactments in the now Mercantile Marine Act has occasioned as at last manifested itself among the mariners of Yarmouth . On Tuesday mornmg several hundreds of ' them threwup their tickets and formed " a strike . " They assembled on the Hall Quay , and having prooured flagB and musical instruments , speedily formed into a procession of eight abreast , and thus they marched round the town , gaining accessions as they , went down the quay ,-at one time they mustered at ^ least 1 , 000 strong . - . Every'day they met and paraded the town for several hours , arid in the l eyennig' they haveheld meetings at the Royal-Exchange Quay . On Wednesday evening , fit a neeting of several

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      hundreds of them , a union was established , and ud-. ward 8 ' of 500 ¦ members immediatel y enrolled A . publio meeting : of the shi powners of the port was held on Monday at the Town-hall , " in' pursuance of a requisition to"the mayor" and magistrates by " a committee for surperiritendiiig tho ' nffnirs of the seamen ' as regards those grievances so . bitterly com plauwdof m . tho new Mercantile Marine * Act . " > About seventy shipowners were present ; the mayor ( Charles ; Pearson , Esq ., R . N . ) , in the chair . The committee of Beamon attended as a deputation , and were distinguished by white rosettOB and " the medal of the Shipwrecked Mariners'Society . . The men presented a memorial respectfully calling upon tho owners to assist them in . getting rid of those enactments and imposts whioh are causing such wide-• pread dissatisfaction throughout the country , The meotlng was addressed b y aeveral influential shipowners , who _ were unanimous' in exnressine their

      moac unquaiifted disapproval of the new Set , as being tho most vexatious species of legislation to which either the owners ; masters , or men , ' had ever been subjected id ; Ul timatel y ; Mr . G Dahby Palmer , the largest owner ; in the port , moved that a committee , consisting of six owners and six men , SS f e 7 } PP ° mt ed . to draw . up a petition to the th « A * « T " ' P ^^ g <>* . * total repeal of nnn ^\ 5 ? ^ J ? 8310 " . Emotion whs seconded by Mr . G . Blake , ' and agreed to with onlv one dissentient . Tho men then ^ brought forS S 2 nW , i ° - 'I ? ' but as the 8 Ub J " ^ not « SL ? rt & m the re 1 « 'V'tioni it was agreed to 2 tma £ r yOf 6 ne m ° m < * S on mSf V 7 n he "" differences between the sea ^ men of Hull and tho shipowners still continue . The wages demanded b y tho men are £ 3 per month and M « store > anda strong determination seems to be apparent among the men to accept no less . On luesday , as the vessel Minstrel , bound tn Amp .. ^

      was about to leave the Humber dock to proceed 01 her yoyage , about 500 - sailors asaembled on the SVTT -il Vlng been ciro « lated that she was about to sail with a crew wlio had signed for reduced wages , viz ,, £ 3 per month without Wl stores . As she was leaving the dock several sailors sprang on board to bring the crew on shore if possible , and were immediately followed by some pohce officers , who took two of the sailors into custody . On landing they were surrounded by " a largo mob in the greatest state of excitement , and wEo shortl y commenced an attack upon the police , with the intention of rescuing . tho . prisoners . The officers wer . o so hardl y prCs 8 ed that they were compelled to-use their truncheons ' ; arid sereral severe injuries ^ were sustained . Stones , brickbats , and other offensive missiles were hurled with much violence and considerable damage was occasioned to the houses near the snot . -After munh riiflfoniH , « i , »

      police succeeded m lod ging the prisoners in prison and in apprehending the ringleaders of the riot . ine town is now comparatively quiet . Later -intelli gence has reached us , by which it T . ° » f » ' , mm Wl ^ arrested on Tuesdav . The "force used their truncheons vigorously , and the mea are stated to have stood in their own ( lemLiH , % * v . uffle '««««> ¦¦ » > y : the " poUoe . - - On Wednesday the three men were committed on the £ & ? f ^ ' Th 0 f 0 ll 0 flin & neiriorial is Trade- " - P ^ sonted to . the "Board of "The Memorial of the Master Mariners , Soamen , and other interested persons of the Poit of Hull humbly sheweth , — ' . ' "That your memorialists have observed with considerable interest the' imnortant chanapa- re .

      centlymado in the laws relating to the conduct of master manners and seamen in the British Merchant Service , especially those contained in the Mercantile Alarine Act of 1850 , and in the regulations of your right honourable board in pursuance thereof . That your- memorialists are dul y sensible of the great importance of using endeavours to improve tho condition of master mariners and seamen , and of promoting means to-encourage and secure the faithful and efficient discharge , of- their nautical duties ; and they will be happy to give their utmost support to any measures that appear calculated to increase the facilties to commercial navigation give confidence and assurance of the utmost , practical care and securitv of shinninc aha Mwmoi . ;

      courage the professional and moral improvement and advance the interests , comforts , and satisfaction of masters and seamen in the British Merchant Service—winch desirable objects they consider , with deep regret , are ' not likely to be effected by means of the present lawsland regulations . "Thatthe governing principle of the laws and regulations now in force , and which apply to both masters and seamen , in that of servile degradation , rigorous coercion , and oppressive taxation ; inasmuch as British seamen aro" ticketed and numbeved like slaves , without which slavish bad ges being produced , deposited , and recorded , they cannot obtain employment ; and for offences , which are frequently unavoidable , they incur extreme pain and penalties , not inflicted upon any other class ; of British subjects ; and , when they obtain employment to sail in

      tne r oreign trade , they are prohibited from making their own engagements as masters and servants , however well known , or whatever decree of confidence they may entertain'towards each other , which is tho condition of many of your memorialists , who have , known . each other . for many yoavs . and have frequently been employed in the same ships together without any disagreement ; notwithstanding which they are subjected to the intervention and surveillance of a class of officers , called shipping-masters , whose services they do not require , and in whose presence their agreemnntB must be confirmed , their bond or slave tickets must be transferred and recorded , and whom they aro obliged to pay' bv a compulsory tax deducted from their hard-earned wages , which tax is imposed upon ship-owners , and soamon .

      "Your memorialists , therefore , most humbly pray , that your right honourable board may be pleased forthwith to discontinue tbe use of Seamen a register tickets , which are regarded as badges 6 v slavery ; and also to discontinue the compulsory use of Shipping-offices , and the indispensable interference of Shipping-masters in the engngementof seamen for tho foreign trade ; ' and also to repeal the obnoxious tax upon seamen ' s wages for the payment of Shipping-masters' duties which they do not require , and which practice they consider to bo a slavish degradation while it remains compulsory ; and also , that your right honourable board will be pleased to diacontinue your recognisance of the two

      Twenty- offences contained in the regula . tions , and allow ships' crows ; to devise their own domestic regulations without legislative intevferonce ; and also , that your right honourable ooard would be pleased , in tho exercise of your discretionary power under the provisions of the Mercantile Marine-Act / to establish and patronise nautical schools in large seaports , and award prizes to excellence m pupils / and to devise means for the promotion and encouragement of friendly ¦ feelings amongst masters , officers , and seamen , by rendering it highl y complimentary , praiseworth y , and honourable to all seafaring persons to enjoy testimonials of the regard , esteem , and respect of their masters , officers , and crews . 1 : - "And , as in duty bound , " Your memorialists will ever pray . "

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      St . Bartholomew ' s Medicine Chbst . —Between two and three hundred pounds are spent every year for , strong sound port wine for the siok poor in Bartholomew ' s ; Hospital . It is bought in pipes , and drawn off as needed . Nearly two thousand pounds weight of castor oil , two hundred gallons of spwite of wine , at seventeen shillings a gallon ; twelve tons of linseed meal ; a thousand pounds weight of senna ; and twenty-seven hundredwei ght of salts , are items in the annual account fordrugs . The grand total spent upon physio in a twelvemonth is two thousand six hundred pounds . Five thousand yards of calico ate wanted for rollerB , for bandaging ; to Hay nothing of the stouter and stiffer fabrio used for plasters . More than half a hundredweight of sareaparilla is used every week—a sign how much the constitution of the patients requires improvements In a year twenty-nine thousand

      seven hundred leeches yiero bought for the use of the establishment—an invasion of foreigners without parallel , till we have tho influx of the Great Exhibition—for the leeches brought to bite and die in this London Hospital are gathered in France and Poland , in Africa and Spain . A ton and a half of treaclo is annually used to mako some kinds of syrup ; the five casks of hips , which , mixod with a cask of sugar , makes linctus for coughs , has been already mentioned ; but one little fact , in addition , respecting it , should not pass unnoticed . This proparation for coughs is red in colour , and looks fruity , and tastes somewhat sweet , having still , however , an acW toll . As white * comes the coughs increase , and the demand upon tho stock of linctua becomes heavier and heavier . This is expected and provided for ; but one season it had been larger even than usual . The same children and the same

      women came again and again most persevenngly ; when , in consequence of some inquiries it wa 3 found that one of the most urgent claimants for the favourite physic lived by Belling little sweets and pies to children , in a back street near Smithficld , and that she used the favourite linctus ' to make fruit tarts of . —Diciens ' s " Ilwuehold Words . " Loss of thb Brio Laurel , op Glabqow , with ah on Board . —Glasgow , Feb . 6 . —The vessel with which the Thistle steamer came into collision in the Firth of Clyde on Tuesday night , turns out to be the Laurel , of Glasgow , irom Demerara , inward bound with a cargo of sugar and molasses . This has been ascertained from part of the stern , the master ' s desk , and a portion of the cargo having floated ashore at Pladda . It is believed there were at least sixteen hands on board belonging to the vessel , -an 4 ? , passenger , all of whom have no eloubt perished :. The Laurel was upwards of 300 tons burthenrand wns thff pi-opefty- 'of Messre ' ) i and J .-Campbell ; of 'this . city ; : Both hull and cargo are insured by the underwriters here ' s

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      Wny is an umbrella like a Scotch shower ? . Bocause the moment it rains it ' s missed . A Plymouth tradesman had succeeded in making cast-iron horse-shoe magnets , to lift 150 lbs . at « cost of 30 j . each . r . Yi ? ' IS ? ' ^ young girl like a ship coming into Dublin harbour ? Answer-Because she endeavours to keep dear of the boys' ( buoys )!!! LviL .--He is wise that can avoid an evil ; he is patient that can endure it ; but he is valiant that can conquer it . , -JtiKiKhm of soil is best adapted for the cultivation of rye ? Very dry ; for every person knows that % n ~ dvst-ry must prosper ,

      Doing hotbing . — " Dan , Dan , what on earth . are you doing up there ? " .- ' Nothing , sir , wa * the response . —'' Then atop doing it , sir , right off " Mrs . PaRtington , noticing the recent death of Mr . Kyan , tbe . well-known inventor , is anxious to know if he is the person who invented kyan * pepper . A < Good . —If present good is round thee , H may b& well to look for change , but to trust in a continuance is better . Sharp set . —The sexton of Salisbury Cathedral was telling Lamb that eight persons had dined together upon the top of the spire , upon which . he re » - marked that" they must have been sharp get ;" AiirsiAKB . —A gentlaman down east seeing his pretty maid with his wife ' s bonnet on / kissed her , supposing her to be the real ot fner . He soon discovered his error through the assistance of his wile .

      • • TlIK u ? bsamr somewhat equivocally observes , thafc no object produced at the forthcoming Exhibition will contain more matter of solid interest , than Mr . wyld s hollow globe . . Sblf Denial . —Teach self-denial , and make it » practical pleasurable , and you create for the world a destiny more sublimo than over issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer . A mbak feiaotv . —There ia a man in Brighton 8 O mean that he buttons his shirt with wafers . He is the same old gentleman who looks at his money through a magnifying glass . By this means , he sa vs , a threepenny-piece looks as large as a sixpence . Good-brrkding is a [ guard upon the tongue ; the misfortune is , that we put it on and . off : with our fine clothes and visiting faceB , and do not wear it where it is wanted—at home ! ' "• ' ¦ ' - ' - ' ¦

      A dutiful hope . —A poor widow woman was relating to her neighbour hon -fond Her husband was of having a good fire ; howbusy" he wonldmako himself m fixing it so that it would burn . ' . ' Ah , poor dear man ! " she continued , " I hope he has gone to a place where they keep good fires . " The Chaplain of the Preston House of Correction announces the startling fact , that more than sixty per cent , of the degraded persons committed tol ' reston gaol were , at onetime or other , Sunday scholars . ¦ j In Paris 160 papers of various kinds are published ; in London , ninety-seven : in Berlin , seventynine ; in Leipsig , sixty-eight ; in St . Petersburg thirty-six . The number of journals published m Germany , exclusive of Austria , is 645 , nearly three times as niany as Paris and London put together . — Leader . ' '

      A Monstkii Bustle .-A Miss Gresley Jarman ' s bustle was . lately exhibited at the Clerkenwell Police Uurt , and contained no less than ten pounds of leathers , which she was charged with having stolenf from her lodgings . She denied the robbery ; and de-: clared that ten pounds of feathers were the usual complement of the bustles she wore . Light a Substance . — M . Recamier has presented a short note to the Academy of Sciences , with a detail of certain experiments which led the author to conclude that light is a physicalsubstance capable of being employed as a locomotive power . This would beat steam and electricity hollow . Think of our being t . ble to realise the dream of the poet , and " riding on a sunbeam ;' - ''

      j The Nominative an Objective . —Two men were disputing the paternity of a picture , one of them remarking , " 111 wager you a guinea that that picture was painted by Shee . " "I beg your pardon , " said Lamb , in hi 3 driest manner , " but would it not be more grammatical to say painted by Mr ?" Vkry Black . — "O father ! I ' ve just seen the blackest nigger that ever was ! " said a little boy , one day , as he came running into the house . " How b ack was he , my son ?"— " Oh , lie was as black as black can be ! Why , father , charcoal would make a white mark on him . "

      # Curious Lottery . — -At an evening party , recently , it was proposed to dispose of the belle of the room by lottery . Twenty tickets were immediately g old , at a fixed price . The joke ended not here . The fortunate adventurer has since married the lady whose number was drawn against bis name . Sense ats » Fout , — An Irishwoman who had Kept a little grocery , was brought to her death-bed , and was on the point of breathing her last , when she called her husband to her bed-side : — " Jamie , " she family said , " there ' s Missus Mullony—she owes me six shillings . " - " Och ! " exclaimed her husband , 1 Biddy , darlint , yo ' re sensible to the last !" - " Yis , dear ; an' there ' s Missus McCraw , I owe her balf-aeovereiijn . "— " Och ! be jabbers , andye'fe as foolish as ever . ' ¦•¦

      .. ; Iron : risbv . d . Vessel . —A vessel called the Marion Macintyniw&ii lately launched at Liverpool , her ribs formed of iron ; she is 300 tons burden , and yet weighed , when completel y rigged , only 100 tons , which is one-half the usual weight of a vessel of such , burden ; with a cargo double her tonnage , sha would not draw more than twelve or thirteen feet of wuter . It is estimated her ' speed and durability will be great . ¦ i T , l , ] f ^ Wheelbarrow . — " Dan ? me if I don t b live the world ' s a wheelbarrow , " said a jollv inebriate , as he rolled along ; , "and I ' m the wheel revolving on the haxis . " " Now I ' m in the mud , " continued he , as he fell headlong into the gutter - ' and now I ' m on dryland , " as he fetched upoa the curb-stone . ' His concluding remark , as his boots followed his head down an open cellar way , was , "now the wheel is broke , and the wehiole ia upset . '

      As Thick as Lojjg . — A young barrister the other day want into one of the numerous perruqvners m the Temple , to procure a wig . In taking the dimensions of the lawyer ' s head , a youth from , the country exclaimed , " Why ! how long your head is , Sir . — " \ es , " replied young Blackstone , " we lawyers must have long heads . " The boy proceeded to his vacation , but at length exclaimed , "Lord . Sir , your head is as tfit ' cfc as it ia long . " Vetrifibd Bricks , Tiles , &c .-Mr . Elliott , of Blisworth , has obtained a patent for making vitrified bricks , tiles , &c , of limestone , chalk , clay , old furnace ciaders , and other plastic materials , which will melt into a liquid similar to iron , and will bear to be carried in u ladle to a sand or caBt iron mould ; in about two minutes , when set , may be taken out of the mould , and stacked one brick upon another while hot , ao that they will retain the heat a sufficient time to anneal and become Btrong and hard .

      Thukb Days' Sight . —A Frenchman , unacquaiated with business , once received a draft payable in three days' sight at a certain bank . The first day he presented himself at the counter , and taking the draft from his pocket-book , extended it before the paying teller , and to his astonishment said , " You see that once , " and , folding the draft , he walked away . The next morning he appeared again , and going through the same form , said , " You sea that twice . " The third day lie appeared again and said , " lou see that three times , Wow , by gar , you will pay him . "

      Thst of SoBRiKTy .. —The New Englander informs us how the police tell when a man is drunk , at a village " down South . " Between the cells there is a passage which serves as a thermometer for the subject . The officers bring the subject to its entrance , and say to him , " Now , if you can walk to the other end of this place , without touching on both sides , you will be discharged at once ; but if not , it is clear that you are publicly drunk , and muBt take up your lodgings in thiB boarding-house . " Much dispute has been obviated by this ingenious arrangement .

      Thb Decline or Duelling . —In taking leave of a painful interesting topic , we would fain express a hope and a belief that a better feeling on the subject of duelling is gaining ground in this country than has existed for centuries . There is growing up a spirit of dignified submission to the law of man , based as it is on the law of God , which totall y prohibits those unholy exhibitions of murderous malevolence . A true estimate is formed of the nature of honour—oue which forbids alike the offering and resenting of inaults . —Blachvood .

      The MtniciL Profession .-2 , 574 Medical men are practising at the present time in London . Of these , 2 , 237 are engaged in General Practice 187 as pure Surgeons ; and 150 as Physicians . If we regard the Metropolis as containing two and & quarter mi hons of souls ( a number of which is in all probability very close to the truth , ) then it is evident that there are about eleven General PractituioneiB to every 10 , 000 of the inhabitants ; seven P ^ re ourRews to every 100 , 000 ; and rather more than six Physicians to the same number , Bots' Mabbles . —There is something ingenious in the manufacture of those toys . The great part of them are made of a hard stone , found near Coburg , in Saxony . The stone is first broken with a hammer into small cubical fragments , and about 100 or 150 of these are ground at one time in a mill , somewhat like a flour mill . ' [ The lower stone—and which

      ramams at rest , has several concentric circular groves or furrows ; the upper stone is of the same diameter as the lower , and is made to revolve by water or other power . Minute streams of water are directed into the furrows of the lower stone . The pressure of the runnur ou the little pieces rolls them over in all direction s , and in about one-quarter of an hour the whole of the rough fragments are reduced into nearly acour r « to spheres ,

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 15, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1613/page/3/