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      ^ BOUGH BBIME OS A ROUGH MATTER . Irons aXew . Wprk entitled Yeast : aProllem . The merry brown hares came leaping Over the crest Qf the hill . "Where the clover apd corn lay sleeping Under the moonli ght still . , . leaping late an ^ early ,. . . v ; . ..,,.- ! ¦ * Till tinder their bite and their tread The swedes , and the wheat , and the barlev , lay cankered and trampled and dead . A poacherVwidow sat sighing On the side of the -white chalk banS , Where , under the gloomy fir-woods , One spot in the ley throve rank . She watcted a long taft of clover , . . . "Where rabbit or hare never ran ; For its black soar haulm covered over The blood ol a murdered man . . .

      She thought of the dark plantation , And the hares , and her husband ' s blood , And tile voice Of her indignation Bose iip to the . throne of God . _ •*• I am long past ' wailing and whining—I have wept too much in my life : I ' ve had twenty years of pining As an English labourer ' s wife . «« A'lab 6 urer in Christian England . "Where they cant of a Saviour ' s name , . And jet waste men ' s lives like the vermin ' s For a few more brace of game . " . There ' sblood 6 a yournew foreign shrubs , Squire ; .. . ' There ' s blood on your pointers'feet ; There ' s blood oh the game yon sell , squire , ¦

      - •" . " . And there ' s Wood on the game you eat ! " Yon hare sold the labouring man , squire , - : Body and son ! to shame , ' ' ' " To pay for your seat in' the House , squire , -And to pay for toe feed of year game .. . " You made him a poacher yourself , squire , '" When . yoa'd give neither work nor meat ; And your barley-fed hares robbed the garden At our starving children ' s feet ; " When packed in one reeking chamber , Man , maid , mother , and little ones lay ; 'While the rain pattered in on the rotting bride bed , And the walls let in the day ; * - *• 'When ' we lay in the burning fever On the mud of the cold clay floor , - -Till you parted us all for three months , squire , At the cursed workhouse-door :

      - " We quarrelled like brutes , and who wonders ? What self-respect could we keep , 'Woraehonsedthanyourbacksandyour pointeK ) , Worse fed than your hogs and your sheep ? - " Our daughters with base-born babies Have wandered away in their shame ; If your muses had slept , squire , where they did , "Tour misses might do the same . " Can your lady patch hearts that are breaking With handfuls of coals and rice , Or by dealing out flannel and sheeting A little below coat-price ? = ! . _ ¦* ' You . may tire of the gaol and the workhouse , And take to allotments and schools , ' Ba ^ you ' ve run up a . debt that will never . Be repaid us by penny-club rules .

      - "In the season of shame and sadness , .. In the dar . k and dreary day , . "When scrofula , gout , and madnes 3 , Are eating yonr race away ; " When to kennels and liveried varlets ' Ton havexaatjour daughters * bread , And , worn out with liquor and harlots , ¦ Your heir , at your feet lies dead ; *• When jour youngest , the meally-monthed rector , . ... . .. . .. , . Lets your soul rot asleep to the grave , . Tou will find in your God the protector " Of the freeman you fancied your slave . " She . looked at the tuft of clover , And wept till her heart grew light ; And at last , when her passion was over , . Went wandering into the night .

      Bat the merry brown bares came leaping Over the uplands 8 tUl , Where the elover and corn lay sleeping On the side of the white chalk hill .

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      WUlimPenn : an Historical Biography . By William Hepwobih Dixosj iLondon : Chapman and Hall . •; '; .. c . . ' * PBXN was a remarkable man ; for although Pox founded Quakerism ; Penn shaped it , en-. dowed it "with decent grace ,- and made it presentable . His embodiment of a great principle -connected bun "with events that were great in . themselves , and were to be greater hereafter . An active mind , a capacity for affairs , the genial taste which is now known as wet

      Quakerism , with anandsome allowance of the wisdom of the serpent , associated him with nobles and princes . These features gjve interest to his character and career . There was something striking also in the persons connected with Mm . His father , Admiral Penn , was a thorough seaman , rather than a naval genius : a favourite both of Charles and James , who entirely trusted . him—and rightly , foralthongh he offered to betray Cromwell , he had no means of betraying them . The royal brothers personally liked hun ; which might be without impugning their judgment , as the Admiral was a complete man of the world . ¦ The family

      of Wilhain Penrfs first wife was remarkable : and Gnliehna Springett herself , besides her own graces , was a neighbour of Milton at Chalfpnt , and a sort of platonic and knightly flame of his " , friend Elgood . The religious ferment of the age , the leading principles and peculiar practices of the fanatical Quakers , the state of Protestant Dissent abroad , and many collateral circumstances ^ connected with the foundation and fortunes of Pennsylvania , if not absolutely essential ; to Penn ' s biography , may appropriately he introduced to relieve and vary it All this is skilfully , though too artificially , done by , Hx ; Dison . Admiral Penn had fished in the troubled

      waters of the Commonwealth and the Restoration with some success ; and he had built his hopes nponhisson William , as capable of worthily representing the famil y he was to found and the peerage { of Weymouth ) he was promised . No expense was . spared upon his education , no management omitted to introduce him to courtly and noble connexions ; and during Penn ' s successive internal religious struggles , and several outward changes from drabcoloured religion and hack again , the Admiral , in spite of his anger , adopted the most conciliatory measures , endeavouring to divert Jus son from his fanaticism rather than to force

      The cirenmstances under which he was converted are curious . While at Oxford he met with Thomas Loe , a preacher of the principles of GeorgeJFox Young Penn became partly attached to the principles of Nonconformity ; —but the influence of his family prevailed over him for a time . -For services to the fctate , his father the Admiral had received the forfeited property of Lord Clancarthy in the County of Cork , —where he resided for some time at Macroom Castle . That propert y was afterwards exchanged for Shangarry Castle , in the same county ; and thither ^ asy oung Penn sent by his father in order to oe out of the way of the Puritans .

      While the Admiral in England was exulting < tt « the success of this measure , his son , during one of his frequent visits to Cork , aeard of the preaching of Thomas Loe , his old Oxford acquaintance , went and heard aim , aad from that night he hecame a " Qua-* «• in heart atleast ?' The Duke of Ormonde was then Viceroy « f Ireland , —and the Duke ' s family took great in terest in young Penn . What took place ° n the intelli gence reaching Dublin that Wil-« am Penn had turned Quaker is thus described uv Air .. Dixon : —and nothing can well be more dramatic

      Hrs friends at the vice-regal court were greatly omressed at thus untoward event . The earl wrote «« to the admiral to inform hun of his son ' s danger , stating the bare fusts just as they had come to rL * " ? wlea Se- The family were thunderstruck . * ae lather especially was seriously annoyed ; he « iou «; ht the boy ' a conduct not" only nwd but what *« far worse in' that libertine age-r-ridieulous . iue world was beginning to laugh at him and his lamuy :- ^ he could bear it no longer . He wrote in Peremptory terms , calling him to London . William

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      obeyed wrthout a word . of expostulation . At ihe first interview between father andson nothing irai said = on the . anbject which both : had a * much ' at neart . The admjral scrutinised . the youth with searching eyes , —and as he observed no change in hisxostmne , norihhi 3 manner any of that format stiffness which he thought the' only distinction of the abhorred sect , he-felt re-as&ured . " His son was still dressed , like . a . gentleman ; he wore lace and ruffles , plume and rapier ; the graceful curls of the cavalier , still-fell in natural clusters about his neck and shoulders : —he began to hope ttiathis noble correspondent bad erred in his friendly haste ; but a few days served to dissipate this illusion . He was first . struok with the circumstance that hia gon » ..

      omitted to uncover in the presence of his elders and superiors ; and with somewhat of indignation and impatience in his tone , demanded an interview and an explanation . William frankly owned ' that : he was now a' Quaker . The admiral laughed at the idea , and . treating it as a passing fancy , tried to reason him out of it . . But he mistook his strength : The boy was the better , theologian and the more thorough master of all the weapons bt controversy . He then fell back on his own leading motives . A Quaker ! Why the Quakers a bjured worldly titles , —and lie expected to be made a p ' eerl Had the boy turned Independant , Anabaptist , —any thing but Quaker , he might have reconciled it" to hi » conscience . But he had made himself " one of aseet remarkable only for absurdities which . would close on him every door in courtly circles ; ' -Then there was that question of the > hat ... Was he to believe that his own son would , refuse to uncover in' his

      presence 1 The thing was quite rebellious and unnatural . And to crown all , — "how would he behave himself at Court ! ' Would : he wear his hat in the royal presence ? - William paused / He asked an hour to consider his answer , —and withdrew to his own chamber . . This enraged the admiral more than ever .. What ! a son of hia could hesitate at such a question ! " Why , this" was a question of : breeding —not of conscience ! Every child uncovered to his father—every subject to his sovereign . " Could any man with the feelings and education of a gentleman doubt , ? And this boy—for ; whom he had worked so hard—bad won such interest—had , opened such a brilliant prospecfr- ^ ttiat'fie , with his . practical and cultivated mind , should throw away bis golden opr portunities fora mere wbiuisy ! fie felt ' that his patience was sorely tried . After a time spentiin solitude and prayer , the young man returned to his father with the result of his meditation—a refusal ; The indignant admiral turned him out of doors .

      Mr . Dixon ' a Bixth chapter will , have an eg . pecial attraction for many readers , as it w cords the political connexion subsisting between Algernon Sydney and Penn , and gives a graphic statement of the stirring politics of ihe times when the great Republican lived ., Penn zealously supported the political interests of Sydney : —• and the reader will " find tibat elect ioneering in . the . seventeenth century was accompanied by as disgraceful incidents as have , called down reprobation in our own times . ; '!

      Disgusted with the scenes thus enacted at home , Penn conceived the idea of founding a free community in the New . World . A free colony to all mankind , in which the sovereignty should rest with the people at large , and without any privileged order , —such was the Utopia of . Penn , —such his first conception of Pennsylvania . In Hen of money due to his father from government , he proposed to take from the King ' s Council a piece of territory on the Atlantic seaboard . ' His wishes were met : —and he became at once a legislator and a colonial proprietor . , - '*" . ' . "'•' ¦ ' As will be expected ; the history of Penn ' s proceedings in Pennsylvania occupies a conr siderable portion of Mr ; Dixon ' fiivoliime . Of the famous conference and treaty between Peira and the Indians , Mr . Dixon gives the following animated narrative : — '

      This , conference has become" one of the" most Btriking scenes in history . ' Artists have ' painted , poets have sung , philosophers" have applauded it ; but it is nevertheless clear , that in words ' and colours it has been equally and generally misrepresented , because painters , poets , and historians have chosen to draw on their imaginations for the features of a scene , every marking line of which they might have recovered from authentic sources . The great outlines of nature are easily obtained . There , the dense masses of cedar , pine , , . and chesnut , stretching far away , into the , interior of the land ; here , the noble river rolling its waters down to the Atlantio ocean ; along its siirfice ro . se the purple smoke of the settlers' homesteads ; " on the opposite shores

      lay the fertile and settled ; country of East Aew \ Jersey . ; Here stood the' gigantic elm . which wag to become immortal from that day forwardand tiaetb lay the verdant cOHncil-chamber formed by nature on the surface of the soil . In the centre stood William Penn ; in- costume ^ undistinguished from the surrounding group , save by . the silken sash . His costume was simple , but not pedantic or : ungainlyV An outer coat , reaching ., tp . th ' e knees , and covered with buttons ; a vest of' other date rials , but equally ample ; Ixousers extremely full , slashed at the aide 3 , and tied with BtrinRB or ribbons ; a profusion of shirt sleeve and ruffles—with ' a hat of- the cavalier shape ( wanting only the feather ) , from beneath the brim of which escaped

      the curls of " a new peruke—were its chief and not ungraceful ingredients . At his Tight hand was Colonel-Markham , who had met the Indians-in council more than once on that identical spot , aad ' was regarded by them as a firm and faithful friend ; on . his left Pearson , the intrepid companion of his Toyage ; and near his person , but a little backward , a band of his most attached adherents . When the Indians approached . 'in their old forest costume , their bright feathers sparkling in the sun , and their bodies painted in the most gorgeous manner , the governor received them with the easy dignity of one accustomed to mix with European coArts . As soon as the reception was over , the sachems Tetired to a short distance , and after a brief

      consultation among themselves ,. Taminent , the chief sachem or king , a man whose virtues are still remembered by the sons of the forest , advanced again a few paces , and put upon his own head a chaplet , into which was twisted a small horn : this chaplet was his symbol of power ; and in the customs of the Lenni Lenape , whenever the chief placed it upon his brows , the spot became at once saered , and the person of every one present inviolable . The venerable Indian king'then seated himself on the ground , with the older sachems on his right and left ; the middle-aged warriors ranged themselves- in the form" of a , crescent , or half-moon , round them ; and the younger fni - omed a thirl and outer semi-circle . All being seated in this picturesque and striking order , the old monarch announced to the governor that the natives were prepared to hear and consider uiB

      woros . renn then rose to address them , his countenance oeauiing with all the prideof manhood . He was at this time thirty-eight years old , light and graceful in form ; "the handsomest , best-looking , most lively gentleman she had ever seen , " wrote a lady who was an eye-witness of tb . B ceremony . He addressed them in their own language ; the topics werefew . and simple ; and the beauty of his ideas would compensate with such an audience for the minor errors of diction . The Great Spirit , he sai «' who ruled in the heaven to which good men go after death , who bad made them and him out of nothing , and who knew every secret thought that was in the he ? rt of white man or red man / kcew that he and his children had a strong desire to live in peace , to be their friends , to do no wrong , but to serve them in every way to the extent of their power . As the Great spirit wa 3 the common Father of all , he wished them to live together not

      merely as brothers , as the children of a common parent , but as if they were joined with one bead , one heart ; one body , together " : that if ill was done to one , all would suffer ; if good was done to any , all would gain . He and his children , he went oh to say , never used the rifle or trusted to the sword they met the red men on . the broad path of good faith and good-will . They intended-to do no harm , and they had no fear in their hearts . They believed that their brothers of the red race were just , and they were prepared to trust in their friendship . He then unfolded the writing of the treaty of friendship , and explained its clauses-one after the other . It recited that from that day the children of On _ as _ and the nations of the lenni ap 6 should be to

      I ^ n brothers each other-that all paths should be free and open .-thafc the doors of the white men should be open to the , red men , and the doors of the . red men should be open to the white men ,-tbat the children of Onas should not believe any false reports of the Lenni Lenape nor the Lenm Lenape of the children of Onas ^ but should come a nd see for themselves as brothers to brothers , and bury such false reports in a bottomless pit-that if the Christians should hear of -anything likely to be of hurt to the Indians , or the Indians hear of anything likely to harm the Christians , they should run , ' like true friends , andletthe other know , —that if any son of Onas were to do any harm to any red skin , or any red skin mrA

      to do harm to a son of Onas , the sufferer should not offer to right himself , but should complain to the chiefs and to Onas , that justice might be declared by twelve honest men , and the wrong buried in a pit with no bottom , —that the Lenni . Lenape should assist the white men and the white men should assist . tj&e Lenni Lenape against all such as would disturb them or do them , hurt , —and lastlj , that both Christians and Indians should tell their children' of this league and chain of friendship , that it should grow stronger and stronger , and be kept bright and clean , without rua tor spot , while thewaters ran down the creeks and rivers , and while the sun and moon and stars endured . He then laid the scroll on tie

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      £ ! Kff # *? ¥ ? W nt "plied » n ^ "V Sf ? ^ v ' ™ b 8 ti » Pce , 'he wastfavourable to * b > 12 k a ? e ? ' - ? e $ w ? henH received his proposal "V « gray ity , ' andaccepted'it for themaeLves and . for their children * So" oaths , ho seals , no official w ne - ere used ; . the . treaty"tras . ratified on both sides with a yea , yea-theonly one ,, says Toltaire , that the world has known never sworn to and never broken . This scene remained to the two raees who were witnesses and aotors-in it , an inheritance of good-will and honourable pride for an entire century . From year to year , sayB the venerable historian Of the Six NationB , Heckeweider . the sachems flsseniWed their children'in the woods , in a shady spot aa like as they could find to that in which the great Onas ha d conferred with them , when they would spread out his words or speeches on a blanket

      or clean piece of bark , and repeat the whole again ahdagain to theip great satisfaction . ; In a-few years Penn going beyond seas and never returning became to them a sort of mythical-personage ; they not only held his . memory in the greatest veneration , but treated the whole body of white men with more KiridneBS for his sake . To be a follower of . Onas was at all times a passport to their protection arid hospitality ... Nor have his own countrymen been less ^ indebted or . less grateful to the , Great Treaty " . To it , and to the strictness with which -its provisions were . maintained by Penn , "is owing that striking factrecorded by Bancroft ^ -that while every other colony in the ; New World was visited in turn by the horrors ; of k | dian warfare , no drop ol Quaker blood was ever shed by a red man in Pennsylvania . It is humiliating to the pride of the white man to think that one of his race ' Should

      have been the first to break this noble league of peace . Forty yeaw after the 'famous treaty , and fiv 9 ; years after the death . ofcOhas , one of his unjrorthy " children murdered the first red ; man who lout his life in , Pennsylvania . , The deed was attended with circumstances" of unusual atrocity ; but it shows in a striking li ght the power of a noblo sentiment , that the-Indians themselves prayed that the murderer ' s lite might be spared ; It Vaa spared ; but he died in a , very short time , arid they then « aid ,. V . The ; Great spirit had avenged their brother . " Thoyenerable > lm ; tree . under which the

      meeting took place served to . mark the spot until the storm of 1810 threw it to the" ground . - It measured twenty-four feet in girt , and was found to be then two hundred and eighty-three yeaw ; old . -, A piece of it . was sent , home to > the Penn family , by whom it was mounted oo a" pedestal . with appro ^ ptiateinBcriptiona ; andtlio remainder was manufactured into vases , work-stands , and other relics , now held sacred' by their possessory A plain granite monument has since been erected on the spot , inscribed on eaoh face with four short and simple sentences ' cdiBmemorative of the Great Treaty ; " ' ' ' = . ¦ : ' ¦ . ¦ ' ' ¦• ; ' ¦

      , Beyond the . absurdity of refusing to uncover , and the affectation of feeing and . lowing , Penn had not inuch of the Quaker starch . . In his youth he wore love-locks , in ^ is age a wig ; he had a taste for strong ' : ' ¦ . drinks ,, as well as other creature comforts ; a , liking , for the pomps and vanities of this wicked world . Mr . Dixon has collected a variety of particulars of the . style of living of "the Governor , " in Pennsylvania ; after describing the house and grounds ; hecontmuesasfoUbws ' ;—; T ' .. The furnishing of Pennsbury was tomatch . Mahoeany was a luxury then unknown ; but his spider tables , and high , backed carved chairs were of the finest oak . Ah inventory of the furniture is still extant : there were a set of Turkey worked Chairs

      , arm chairs . for , ease , and couches ; with plush and satin cushions for luxury and beauty . , In the . parlour stood the great leather chairof the proprietor ; ineyery room werefound cushions and " curtains of satin , camlet , idamaski and striped linen ; and there is a carpet mentioned as being in one apartment , thoughatthabiperiod 8 uoh ; ana » ti . Dl 8 waa haroV ever seen except . in the palaces of kings . -H » sideboard furniture ; was also . that ; of a gentleman : it included a service of silver , plaih . biit maesivej blue and white china , a ' complete aeVoif Tnnbridge ware , and a great quantity of damask- table cloths , ! and fine napkins . The table was ' served -as became' his rank , plainlyjbut plentifully . Ann , Mohpls was his cook ; and he used to . observe in his pleasantry .

      " . Ab , the book of cookery has outgrown th ^ 'Bible , and I fear is read oftener ; to be sure , it is of more use . " But he was no . favourer of excess , because , aa he said , «« it destroys hospitality and Wrongs the poor . " The French cyitine ,. then in great vogue , waB a subject of his frequent ridicule . " " The sauce is now prepared bgfore the meat , '" says he ^ in his maxims ; " . : twelve pennyworth' of . flesh with five 'Shillings of cookery : may happen to make a fashionable dish . Plain beef . and mutton is become dull food ; but bythe time its . natural-relish is lost in the orqwd of cooks' ingredients , and the mieat suffleiehtly diBguised . f tota ; t > e ' eSt « r 8 / il pasBeBun ' der a French name fora rare dish . "' H'fi cellars were well stocked ; . Canary , Claret , " . Sack ; -arid Madeira , '

      being the ; favourite wines consumed . by ' his family and . their gpeBts . .. Besides ,. these -nobler" drinks , there was a plentiful , supply , on all occasions , of Indian' or general festivity , of ale and ' eider . Penn ' s own wine ' 8 eenis to have been Madeira ; and he certainly had no disliko'to the temperate pleasures" of the table .. In . one of his letters to . his steward , Sotcher , he writeBir * " Pray send « s some ; two or three smoked . haunphes of Venison , and pork—get therii from ' the' Swedes ; alao ' some smoked shads and beefs ; " ' adding , with delicious unction , " the old priest at Philadelphia had rare shads . " i " : For travelling , the family , had a large coach ; but inconsequence of the badness of the roads , even tHose between Pennsbury . and Philadelphia . it was

      seldom used ; a calesh , in which they chiefly drove about ; and a sedan-chair , in which Hannah and Letty went a-sbopping in the city , or to pay Visits of ceremony . to : their female acquaintance in the ne » r neighbourhqod ; The Governor . ; himself went about the . country , on horseback ,. and , frbm one settlement to an ' otheV in hisyacht ; He retained the passion for boating , which he had acquired at Oxford , to tha lart ; and that love ' of fine horses which , the Englishman Bharesiwiththe Arab did not forsake him inthe New -World . At his first visit to America he carried . over " three blood mares , a fine white horse " not of ; full breed , and other inferior animali ,, iiot fpr breeding but for labour ; ' His inquiries about the mares were as frequent and

      minute as those about the gardens ; and > when he went out for the second time , in 1699 ,, he" took with him the magnificent colt Tamerlane ,. by the celebrated Godolphin Barb , ' to which the best horses in England trace their pedigree . . Yet Tamerlane himself could not win'his master ' s affeotions from his yaoht —a fine vessel ; of : six oars , with ' * s regular crew * who received their wages as such , and well deserved them while the Governor was in the country . In giving some directions about his house and effects after his return ' to England , he writes of this yacht : — " But ' above all dead things ; I hope nobod y uses her on any account , and that the is kept in a dry aock , or at least covered rfrom the weather . " .

      . The dress and . habits of the Penns at Pennsbury had as . little of the . sourness and formality whioh have been ascribed to the early follower . 3 of George Pox as the mansion arid its furhishingsL - There was nothing to mark them as different to most wellbred families of high rank in . England and America at the present day . Pennsbury was renowned throughout the country for its judicious hospitalities . . The ladies dressed like gentlewomen ; wore caps and buckles ' , silk gowns and golden ornanients . Penn had no less than four wigs in America , all purchased in the same year , at . a cost of nearly twenty pounds . - To innocent dances and country fairs he not only made no objection , but countenanced them by his own and his family ' s presence .

      In the fulfilment of his task Mr . Dixon has displayed great industry and great ability . B [ e has made use of all channels of information which modern publication has offered to him , whether directly ,, as in American publications on Penn and , Pennsylvania , or indirectly ^ in such books as the Memoirs of Pepys . He is a ] so entitled to the praise of ori ginal research . He has had recourse to the State Paper Oflice , the British Museum , and leBS public repositories ; he has been assisted by the family of Penn , and procured transcripts from the archives olVHolland . From these authorities Mr . Dixon has judiciously selected the essential facts that bear upon the life of Penn ; skilfully arranged them ; and presented them in a narrative of much vigour and variety .

      •¦ ' - . -. < : """ Tqit ' s Magazine . For April . London : Simpkin and Marshall . The opening paper , " On the Decline of Pauper ism , " in the present number , is much too slight in its texture and slipshod in its statistics , to satisfy the pains-taking inquirer on this important question . We believe it was Canning who said , that " nothing was so fallacious as facts , except figures ; " and the figures in Tait hare a marvellously . fallacious

      look to © ur eyes . The whole question of pauperism is one of such annually-increasing importance—it is pregnant with such awful consequences to the future , and constitutes such an anomalous feature of the present , that when Tail next takes up the question , we hope it will not be to touch it in "the same sketchy and unsatisfactory manner . . "Becollections of Texas " give a graphic and lively idea of the state of society , and the dangers-that environ the settler in that country . The troubles and the difficulties experienced by

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      workSnZ ^ V' ^ ' * . • - >• .: [ . neYiHS te ^^ ^ orlc-theinan . SW 8 ieipWe ; stock' of thrifty hoardheart ^ a ; ihB :: ^ wing ^ ckness of . the SSftSTS ^ * 10111 ' ^ P ^ 'deferred , are , &ll %$ && £ ¦ && * V ^ ld / , « Craig iMan arS * J ° f re 88 es ver 7 interestingly ; : and SLS ^ - ' Mi 8 ^ Strieiland ' 8 ^ ueeis ; . o if SUS- andin . adifferent > but hi sher ™ & e iP ? Perheafcd Lord Carlisle Aiuivamsie

      * ,. " . on Pnrva " u \) f £ . ' ' v , * .. u . on iS ? " - 7 * * : I ) e Quincey . The other conof rafe 54 - ^ age niMt' : > sto . thepoUtics nfti '— 8 lve Ol » r readers the opportunity ^ mferC& ° ** 2 brief ^ oS « 7 m March Gales and tho Government' : "now * $ ? T f ihe franchise lisa thing SlJ ^ :, ^ done ^ and even the thk& SSSrfT ^ ghm L () rd Jo ^ Uus . sea s pled ge to bring in a measure next session r " . T a ? . of great positive value , seeing that S —? n , like ] y t 0 be a puissant Mt ! *!^ 1852 l but Sir James ' GrahamtKe

      , /» o ; wm " atev ' aud ,- ; 8 o ; far ; as ; : can afpresent be seen , only other possible Minister , is scarcely ? J * W . Pl edged to a . similar course ! A great difficulty in advocating extension of the franchise has hitherto been , that the principle was not favoured . by . any statesman or party whom the public had come to l 6 ok on as a competent orlikel y man for office .- It is impO if- 8 r v to . ^ r-estimate the . launch forward wmch the question must have received , among so very " practical" a peopled ourselves , bv

      u ? aavrag now . become , plain that the only possible Ministry is one' pledged to a New . . . !• In , a single , sentence let usindicate a more general resultof the recent imbroglio , and the revelations it forced out . . ^ Politics , properly bo called , ' have once more received life and earnestness ; the days' of fiddle-faddle are drawing to a close , and soon men will again beBtrivinginearhest - forthings worth striving for . At last we can fix . the . ' date of "the good- time coming : " we predict that it will commence in 1852 , and the blame be our own if we do not make cleaner and quicker work ^ wtime !? ' -i ¦ ¦

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      : •¦ .: : < p l - RIGHTS OF WOMJSN . ^ Thaponstitutional . Convention of . the state of Indiana has i recentl y been engaged in the periodical work of revising the Constitution . The Hon . Robert Dale . Owen , , son of the philanthropist , took' an active and a diatin' guiBhedpaffTm' the course of the proceedings , for tbVpurpose of inducing the Convention to recognise the right of married women over their own ; property , whether owned' by them before marriage or afterwards ; and also . to admit them to-greater equality in other

      reflpecta ^ oth-social and political . . -The result was , that the proposal waB defeated by a small majority ; hut the ladies , of the State feel so deeply , indebted to Mr / Owen for his exertions , ' tha ^ a committee , comprising the wives of the leading ^ men of Indiana , has . been formed , for the purpose -of .-presenting ' , him with ' a testimonial , in commemoration of his exertions . Mr . Owen has receiyed the following interestingletter from a lady , with reference to : the aubject . It shows that our American cousins are a little ahead of us in this ,. as in many other questions : — ¦ ; ..:.. ¦ , . J . ; . ¦ ' . ;¦ ; ¦ ; IndianapolisFeb . 28 th 1851

      , , . DEAaSiBj - ^ Thoughperaonally a' stranger ( to you , I take the liberty . to send you a circular , which I have no doubt will be ; gratifying . to your parental affection , i ItMs a token ' of respect bestowed on but fey ^ men ; in this ' CQuntry ~ takmg'&lV the circum- ' s ^ oes ^ p ^ ether | , I iiB lIey : er it 'har . no parallel '; Sand yet if is ; richli merited by the noble , spirited . and . persevering efforte of your distinguished son to procure the adoption , by the constitutional convention , of a section proposing ; to seoure to the married womeu of . Indiana independent right to property ; Thoughthia fiistand enljghtenedmeasure , so evidently m accordance with the . spirit of the age , did not becomo a part of our organic law ; its agitation is 'dearly one of the foot-prints of pro ' - cress , and we are well- assured- that the rights WB

      ask will , ' ere long , beguaraiiteedto us b y lekialatiye enactment .. The failure of , the section referred to ,, is mainly attributable to the exertions of the lawyers , in . and out of the Convention . ; They carefully mustered * their , forces , and donned their brazen armour , to . resist this dreaded innovation on' the common law , as the knights of old prepared to en : counter the fabled dragon . . Green be their laurels ; they were honourably won in a contest with women . -I hope our "Testimonial" will evince to'the world , and particularly to the states of this union , which havtfadopted this measure , that the women of -Indiana . have . the sensibility to appreciate tho kindness " of tKeir benefactors , and the spirit and good taste to reward it . .. ¦ , . . . ' The mnjor piece in the proposed sarvice will bear the following inscription : — ' ¦ •¦ ; -

      ' Presented to the honourable ' Itobert Dale Owen , by the w » raen of Jridiana , ; in acknowledgment of his true and noble advocacy of their independent rights to property , , . in > the constitutional Convention of the State of Indiana , convened at Indianapolis , 1850 . " : - . The minor pieces will bear a suitable inscription .

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      FATHER GAVAZZl'S THIRTEENTH ORATION ON SUNDAY AT THE PRINCESS'S CONCERT HALL . , f CLERICAL FINANCE IN .. ITALV . " . ; . , : The ' subject of the eloquent patriot ' s address on this occasion involved &uch a multiplicity of local details and allusions to strictly national usages'that the greater portion of what he said would require explanatory comments' to make its vigorous and telling truth 8 . intelligible to the . British public . The prolific abominations of pluralism and nepotism were held up with masculine energy by this Italian reformer , whose views on ecclesiastical revenues bo

      the extreme length of the most stringent advocates among ourael y e for rigorous scrutiny into the budget of the . . church . The origini and development of several great householders and princely . families in the Roman States was traced to priestly peculation ; few , indeed , being the aristocratic , names in the muster roll of that effete and degenerate , as well aa servile aud illiterate nobility , which are no » stamped with ihe ignominious brand of Papal nepotism . ' The oppressive operation of the tithe system as affecting agricultural interests in Italy , was skilfully demonstrated , and , particularly in Piedmont , \ where the parliament of the : country , was ' now ' engaged in a fierce struggle with vested wrongs in the effort to

      liberate the territory : ( torn an incubus which every enlightened kingdom in Europe had flung off ; as the preliminary to . national improvement . The speaker advocated a government provision for theprieBthoon , in heu of the capricious and disproportioned incomes derivable from , fluctuating sources of revenue , involving the cares and . solicitudes . of worldly lucre discreditable to clerical . pursuits ' and = the .. sacerdotal character . A regulated allowance , under the supervision of . the public , was the true substitute for . the present vicious-arrangement ; productive as it was of swarms of consecrated idlers , who fattened on the industry of the people in unprofitable sloth . The statistics of the clergy were here entered upon , and forcible proofs . adduced to show what a hideous

      excrescence upon the social , body that ^ class of the community had become . In the city of Rome , with a population oM 70 , 000 ( of which 6 , 000 resident Jews and a fluctuating mass of strangers , nearly of the same amount , formed part ) there were besides 1 , 400 nuns , a clerical militia of 3 , 069 ecclesiastics being one for every fifty inhabitants , or one for eyery twenty-five male adults ; while in . the ,, pro vmces there were towns where the proportion was still greater , being . , one to . ' every twenty ... The church property formed a capital of 400 , 000 millions of francs , giving 20 , 000 .. millions per annum , while the whole revenue of the state was . but eight or nine million of dollars , a sum disastrously absorted in the payment of cardinal ostentation , in purveying to . the pomps ofi a scandalous court , ! or m supplying brandy to Austrian brutality . To su Pr port such a ajstem is was necessarv to keen 11 . 000

      of the pop ^ ajm ; in , prison , and send . into ; exile oO . OOO of its ' . best-educated and most valuable inhabitants . ' Chiem di la&ri ! chiesa di carnelici ! chiesa di desordiav ! He drew a vivid picture of the squalor aud desolation resulting from this op-

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      probnpus : state ofr thing , throughout the misgoverned territory of Borne . But in dealing with the finanwarrbUennewdf the pip ' al ' rule the government lottery was . the ' Maiteii rabBae which the orator inveighed against -with-the-most fearful denunciation . It wa 8 , iri > ttothi .. a > di 8 fflal spectacle to behold month after month tbe * pomp and show with which the authoritfe * thought fit to exhibit before a deluded ' mob' the drawing- of their , pernicious stakes , while , as Kin better derisi on * the balcony from which the prizes are proclaimed is decorated with crimson arras bearing the once glonous monogram of

      ¦ ¦ . " ' ¦ • ... ¦ S . P . Q > . B . ... . ... To brutalise into paltry gambler * the old masters of the world seems a jest full « f sardonic scorn , but who would not gamble when a Pope blesses the board and a Cardinal sits as croupier ? The pulpit is not allowed to touch-on thin tabooed topic 0 / the thousands who cannot read alphabetical cnara < r ters Rome not one is found ignorant ( for lottery purposes ) of Arabic' numerals , while for those ' who can read there is published the famous "Book of 8

      SlTfV ^ , 8 ppr , opriate auxiliwy : » legalised witchcraft , a book sold in wheelbarrows at every ! r » ' v u ' , ch , ch doors ' ofJen the onlybook £ il » S * H'F WhMea New T « "ament isun . known . Tnis "dreambook , " printed « by imtho . ' ho nk *^ ^ o ' f * J ^ a ? 8 " or tbe : vari 0 U 3 ha ^ SKw ? dMtry ¦ " ? England ; and the faith of Sw ki 18 . noranM ln its ma 8 revelations is discreditable to our commoa manhood . ^ Yhne the M ° , S " u " ? and genius are on the *^« , ^ is blasphemous book ' s circulation , is unblushingly

      proii l L . mantiene ; I mali i beaegni ¦ *> i- ™ & . un gran bene . Col libro = de Sogni . Lines which may he hastily rendered , though few . things ( except . bi ^ oD s ) gain by . translation : — Bless the ?• bookv . and the law of the lottery , And the ruler , who regulates , Rome ; . In proof that he has not forgot her , ho /¦ , Prints for her . people this "tome . " Oh , ye donkeys of Tiber ! how can ye all ¦ Join in dissatisfied bray ; -: ' : ' i ¦ When ye ' ve got to your nynds in this manual Such a marvellous manger of hay ? '

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      DRURY LANE THEATRE ; ; A . crowded audience assembled at this house on Saturday evening , ' attracted , by the announcement of'i new drama , from the pen of ¦ Mr . BourcicauH . When the curtain . drew up , however , we found our'aelvei ^ treated to the opening scene of that venerable acquaintance , Simpson and Co , At first the audience did not know what to make of U , but the moment Mr . Simpson made his appearance , and announced that .. the bank had discounted all the paper of the firm , and thus never stood higher—a storm of 'disapprobation burst forth , ' whichsbowed that , in Drury-laheat ' Bll events , Simpson ' and Co . waVdecidedly at a idiscouni . : After " aorne delay the

      stage manager made his appearance , and stated that the / sudden indisposition of Mrs . Nisbet , who was to h ' aive played the principal character , ' was the cause of the substitution . This , however , was not satisfactory , and , at length , Mr , ; Arideraoa himstlf ^ pacified the clamorous audionce , by announcing that Miss Fanny Viriing had undertaken to read the character if they pleased to accept the : first representatton under such obviously unfavourable condltloni . Tbh was ' receivetf with universal applame , and , time , having been given for the neces-• wyf ^ W ' . ? aud otnet . preparations , the new piece . proceeded . " The Queen of Shades possesses all the neatness , point , arid skill ; in construction which

      characterises the productions of the , French school , and-raany parts ef the dialogue exhibit the piquancy and smartness for which ; Mr . Bourc ^ cauU is sp ^ well known , but the story itself ; is essentially too Blender , to maintain any enduring interest , the scene is laid in Russia , and the plot turns on ; the . loves of the niece of the Princess Beredlna and Count Klamberg , mixed up with which are the fortunes of various o ^ her peraonages , all strangely held together by a tradition , that .. the . Pfincess , is in ' possessibn of a ring which , turned round , after naming certain cards , ' will infallibly bring' luck to the , possessor .-• Thesp cards are the . three , the . ten , and the QUeen ofspades . Katinka 'Nelidorf , the niece .-havine re .

      pulsed , mbwj ( otciibly , the iadVances , q | i'the ' Czar , ' leaves tKeipourt ; . disguised as her aunt , " with a ' hump andalimp ;;{ or , her . ; country seat ' , at , which , and subsequently ; the fat ' o-iable ; of . Carlgbad , ' the action takes ' . place * Count Klamberg ; having challenged the Prince of Moskaii , hi& colonjel , and meetiu g a refnsal , strikes him , and is condemned to death for a violation of military law . He is confiaed in a salt minej under the care ' of Ivan ( Mr .- Anderson ) , a serf , sraitten with the love of gambling , ' and who consentsto suffer the Count to escape , on condition of getting possession of the magic ring .- This , however ; is overheard by the Prince , who , in time , forces it from Ivan , . and imagining , himself sure to break the . bank , makes enormous stakes with the Count

      , and loses . The aecret being that the ¦ three Cards named were tbe . favpurite ones . of the Princess Elizabeth , and whenever she betted ' ou them > the courtiers let her win . Of course , outside of the magic circle of the court , the charm was powerless . Mr . Anderson was very effective as Ivan , and , con . sidering the difficulties under : which Miss F . Vining laboured , her . success was .. moat creditable . Both Mr . Anderson and Miss Yining were recalled at the . end of the first act anil at the close , and warmly applauded . ; : = The manager announced the repetition of the Quiijt of Spades amid unanimous approval . The entertainments closed with the gorgeous spectacle , of Azael , which continues to , attract large houses . ' ¦' . •

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      SOUTHTVARK INSTITUTION . —We V 18 Ued thlg iffi stitution on Tuesday eveniBg , for . the purpose of witnessing a panorama upon a new principle , by Mr . J . J . Clarke , and so far as we were capable of judging , every objection seemed to be removed from thfi . opticaLinstruraent .. . employed und-the future limit to ita power appeared to be transferred from the instrument of the artist , who might be employed in painting the various subjects which may be illustrated : ' The advantages gained by this method of illustration are that the heavy expenditure , consequent on setting up the other machinery "' of panoramas , moved in the ordinary way is obviated , and the views may be exhibited in the longest theatre , or [ smallest chamber with equal facility . The illustration of the Orleans pictures , though mere sketches , showed what can be done , and the entertainments gave full satisfaction to a crowded audience .

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      Nottingham . —On Thursday week last a vestry meeting was held in St . Mary ' s Church for ; tho purpose of hearing the report and passing tho accounts of the Highway Board for the past year , and al 80 for the election of their successors . At ' the appointed time the vestry room was excessively crammed ; and hundreds oould not gain admission . Miv Wall was duly , elected chairman , and opened the buBiness by plodging himself to act impartially . A motion was made for adjournment to the Town Hall , and earned unanimousl y . The Hall became crowded , and after some little . delay , the Clerk to the . Board read the report , which was extremely lengthy , and fully detailed the proceedings of the Board during their term of office . Several

      questions were asKed ; and explanations given by the Chairman to the late Board ( Mr . Sweet ) i whioh proved satisfactory to the whole , of " the mooting , with the exception of two individuals , - who endeaveured very hard to raise a factious-opposition ; i but as both the parties were well known to'the audience they were both treated with cool indifference . —On the motion of Mr . Roberts , seconded by Mr . Loverseed , the report was adopted , and an unanimous vote of thanks given to the late Board for the strict attention they had paid to the interests of the'ratepayers . —Messrs . Moore andBeecroft were appointed to audit the' accounts and the following gentlemen were elected for the year ensuing } tiz . I : Messrs . Smith , Sweet , Hart , Dann , Hardy ' , ' Mott / Gloyer , Beck , Ellis , Thurman , Carter , and Parkin . —On the motion of Mr .-Beck , seconded by Mr . Beecroft , an unanimous vote of thanks was given to the chairman ,

      who responded , -and the meeting broke up . —T—1 ° the above list we . recognise the names of several old and tried friends of popular rights ; Mr . Sweet has served that office for eight ' years previous , Mr . Mdtt for seyeralyeare , as- also have' Messrs . Hart , Smith , Ellis , and others . —The Board met for the first time on Friday week , ' when Mr . Councillor Hardy moved , and Mr . Smith seconded , . " That the late Chairman , who had presided over their deliberations for the past three years , be respectfully requested again to fill that situation ; " whieh , on being put , was carried unanimously . '—The Board is now composed of eight Chartists ,, two Conservatives ,, and two eentlpmon who usually vote witE the Whigs , genUeme . m An-American ' paper . states that ( ienewl Tom - Thumb wa 8 lately ^ ^ arrested in Sayannah , Snd fined ar ? at * uKvT W T ***™ meail 8 ' . ^ at we cTPi ! td U s > . SlaVe Of «« ^ follies

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      oS sias easil 7 ropaired ; the ^ j ^ EPf ^ AWhbs'abb : women fathers «—Wh » * ul .

      Qubbb REPLV .- "John , why don ' t you atop ci-ying , and go to sleep ? What do you want * " " Vm got the beller-ache-that ' s what I want ! " . ' . , Postage .-It is , not very : agreeable to receive letters , relating only to the interests of the writers , upon which , you have postage to pay . Catching a HBiRKss .-lt is said that , before you can reach , an . heiress , you ' ve got to go into quarantine to half-a-dozen old aunts , to get properly wn ! K ^ " / " ? ' asks , very indignantl y , if the I 8 ii ?{ i arllament are not counterfeit , why should there be such a difficulty inpassinR them « CHBBBjDI ,. iNBUMBr , . Heffh - u , ffh ^ ^ cheerfully , tuck 9 . up his . leeves in earnest , and -in *

      SvZ'X V * man t 0 ¦* "Nr m the worlds ¦ Timid Pboplb—a lover about , to pop the ones-« r ^ ? wt 0 -. ^^ t Uke to . W bH Si and a steamboat passenger with a cholera case oh board ? rtft a ' Mr * * : Sto ^ " ls about ** . 000 , 000 . below the ten mUhen 8 at which it had been customary t » ffi , N ^ # ° tbe Cali u fornla mine ' i ^ 850 k « f w- i . t paper ? are boa 6 t > ne of an invention by wbch leather can . be tanned . in ten minutes We have Seen the human , hide , however / tanned in hve . Our ichoounaster used to do it occasionally in two . ¦ . ' ¦ *

      Genthel PEopw . -The young lady who let her mother do the iromng fo ? fea ? of siding her hands ; . the miss who . weara thin shoes on a rainy day ; the young gentleman who is ashamed to be seen walking with his father . ¦ ¦ .. ^ fA ^ residing at Strabane has ' sent to the Exhibition a knitted linen lace scarf , containing twelve and a quarter miles of , thread , and 3 475 . 0 W stitchea .,-It is nine feet ten inches in lensrth , and three feet wide , and is only five and three-fourth ounces in weight . ' " ¦ ¦ A sneaking , dirty fellow being pursued by s , constable , wished to disguise , himself . A wag gave tunithe following : advice :- ^ . Wash youraelf , and hold up your head , and I asaure you nobody will ever suspect who you are . " . ¦ . i

      Indolence is irksome , intemperance is injririous .-and ignorance is intolerable . Happy is that family that abounds not in too great affluence , and that 13 sumcienuy removed from the reach of poverty . — ihales , ' , - ¦ .. ¦ . i . - . , " ' ^ 25 ; - ^ ? sin B ' R Ps , alm 9 « t church begaa m 1559 . - Sometimes , at Paul ' s CrossV mahy ' thou-Band persons sang together . For the benefit of those who could , not read , the clerk . repeated the stanza threo times .. ' . ¦» ., - Iris announced that the French ciergy intend sending to LpBdon . during the Exhibition , some of the ' moat distinguished membera" of their body . ! The Abboa I ? . ei ? uer ' ry and Debplace are ^ appointed to preach in different chapels of the Metropolis . >

      a is a lact . not a little interesting te Englishmen , and , combined with our insular station ih that bighway . ; . of nations ,, the Atlantic , not a little explanatory to our commercial eminence , that London occupies nearly the centre of the terrestrial hemispnere . r-ont John Hbbschel . . : !' -Thb Alphabet . —A school boy being askedo repeat twenty-six words , beginningsuccessively with letters ot the alphabet , in one sentence , said— "A boy cannot dig easily for gold ; hence , if just keeping lead melted needs oxygen , put qnicksiiver , rapidly saturated , timidly under vitriol , when rtebecs yearn zeolites . " ' ¦

      ¦ Jack nd the Doctob . — -SWrfrfs' Doctor ( lookine learned , and speaking slow ) :- "Well , Mariner , which tooth do you want extracted ? Is it a molar or an incisorV '—Jack ( short and sharp ) : "It ' s in the upper tier , on the larboard side . Bear a hand , you swab ; for its nipping my jaw like ' a big lobster . ' .,,, „ . _ Cors , Duty . -A correspondent of the ' Timet Bnows tnat a OSi per quarter dut y on corn would cause a me of an eighth of a penny per lb ., thereby causing a . lqss to the labourer ' of li : 8 d . ' on every sovereign which hii spends for the staff of life , instead of 10 d .. This , " the writer truly says , " should ; be- known from the Land ' s-end tofJohn U Groats . ' ¦ ¦ . ¦ . , Smemjno and Tastino .-A fastidious boarder , at a ¦ ' ' . cheap . _ » establishment , lately appeared at tha

      caoie , wnen a rather unsavoury ham : presented itself for discussion ; It looked well ; but , said tha boarder oh . s host , "How horribly ' it m £ \» l "Well , " replied his keeper , "Whato' that V 'Take hold , man ; . you come to the- table to eat you r victuals , notto itnell ' em / 1 , '• :. BbhAVWURAT GHukcH—One of the prisoners in gaol was soliciting a missionary to visit the place , and preach to the prisoners on Sunday , and ureed . aB an iB . ducement , that he would find his con ? r ! ea * tion better behaved ; than some of ' his own church njembers-for , said the prisoner , •« none of us are guilty of jumping up and leaving the bouse during : service , as is often the case in churches , to the great annoyanceor the ministers . " " ^ 6

      Rare Birds . —A pious soldier ; an' eeoriomical sailor- ; a nch author ; an impartial- critic ; an inconsolable widow ; a happy old bachelor ; anu ' neensonous old maid ; a moderate reformer ; an undue sanguine protectionist ; a peace-making lawyer ; a clergyman who practices all he preaches ; a physi . cian who does not kill more patients than he cures a smoker who is not just onihe brink of leaving off : a well-fed boarder ; a . cheerful tailor ; a lean butcher ; a silent barber ; and a successful soli digger . ¦ . ¦ , .. . .. ; ...... '

      Steam Carriage for Ordinary Roads , —At St . Etienne ,. ih France , a new steam carriage has been constructed for ordinary roads . The carriage went through all the streets of the town with the greatest facility , under the most perfect control ofthe > man , sitting in front , turning it to the right or left , or sending ltbackward or forward , as he pleased . The cost of conveyance by this machine , will not ! it ia calculated , be more , than one-half of that of tha ordinary mode of conveyance . .

      INGUSH AND AMERICAN RIVERS . ; .. • ¦ '¦ In England rivers all are males—For instance , Father Thames ; WhoeVer in Columbia sails ,. Finds them ma ' mselles or dameB . > Yes—there the softer sex presides , . '• Aquatic , I assure ye ; ' ' ¦¦ '•' . " And Mrs . Sippy rolls her . tides . . . , ' . '; . ; Responsive to Miss Souri .. " . . ''; Ignorant Orators and Authohs . — " It is the calamity of the working classes , " says the Neifcastla Chronicle , " that most of those who speak arid ' writo of their condition never studied their literature , homes , teachers , and amusements ; aod . themen who have not done . this may be classical scholars , clever debaters , brave soldiers , andfineeentlemen . hiit Hipit

      are not fit and proper persons to legislate for tha people . They ' speak of a clas-a which they know not , and never will know , until they visit themin their homes , factories , and haunts . " My Mother . —It has been truly said :- " The first being that rushes to the recollection ' of a aoWier or * sailor , in his heart ' s difficulty , . is his mother . She clings to his memory and affection , in the midst of , all the forgetfulness and hardihood induced by a roving life .- The last message he leaves is for her ; hia last whisper breathes her name . The mother , as she instils the . lessohs of piety and filial obligation into the heart of her' infant son should always feel that her labour is not in vain . Shemay drop into the grave , but she has left behind her influences that will ' work for her . The bow is broken , but the arrow' is' sped and will do its office . "

      . Singular Chinese Sentence . —Mr . Lintoa lately made a communication to the Asiatic Society of London , descriptive of . a mode of punishment pe » culiar to the criminal code of the Celestial Enipire A Chinese merchant , accused and convicted of having murdered hia wife , was sentenced to'die by the total deprivation of sleep . The execution took place at Amoy , in the month of June last . The condemn ! ™ ptoced-mpnsonunaer the surveillance of S 2 BSa *« as : 8 fi ?* £ ^ LXKiats ^ l ^

      wouidputanend ^ his exiBtence' ' ' y thSSTf UBm .-Tb . ere was once an old lady aitS k T t 0 a ^ ndert > ul oW a 8 e , and re-S Si " ' aftie 8 and iU ^ cheerfulness . Her neir , thinking she was too bug " witherine out " went o visit her near , about her hundredth yXr Whether it ™ that he m » Baturally or habitualfy an early riser , or could-not sleep , of mornings-for ¦ H ' -Wn g Of his . inheritance , he paid , her very ' early visits to her , room t 6 inquire if she" slept' well . , £ ha wa " . shrewd observer , arid determined he should bet up by tiroes . ^ At three o ' clock in ? the-nlQjS ^ ani sue kept awake on purpose ) , she rang ^ KerjMOio- ^ lently , arid down came the half-dre& * iir ^^ wwnt £ ; heir . . "My dear madam ,. ! hope you , ar . $ » ttip ©?* She bade him come neaK Slie laughcd . ^ in ' 'h |^^ eJg and said , " It ' was the first' of April H& . 'Npw . -itfbalr S Hfe and jollity was here—to maKo-te j heir ^ n ^ ryr y [ tool in her hundreth year A ^^ . | | l

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      PPBLICATIONS RECEIVED . The Girlhood of Shakespeare ' s Heroines . Tale T . Meg and Alice ; the Merry Wives of Windsor . By Mart Cowden Clarke . London : W . H . Smith and Son , Strand . ' .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 5, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1620/page/3/