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      XEEPIN BTEPl . ^ tow ^^ S ^""" **** * lre ! the world keeps mowing forward , \ ike an army marching by , S you not its heavy foo ^ I That resoundeth to tne s * y . . « told spirits bear the banner-& ) SnKfS esgchantthe 80 Dgt&SSSESS + m . r £ &m soldiers , we march forward j ^ you linger , or turn hack , To must took to get a jostling . While you stand upon the track . Keep in step !

      «< eood neighbour , Master Standstill , Giieson itzsibgoes , \ nt omte sure hut he is dreaming la Vis afternoon ' B repose . .. Nothing good , "he says , " canissue From thi 3 endless' moving on ;' Ancient laws and institutions Ate decaying , or are gone , tfe are rushing on to ruin TTith our mad , new-fangled way . " ¦ while he speaks , a thousand voices , As the heart of one man , say , " Keep in step 1 "

      Gentle neighbour , will you join ns ? Or return to " good old ways ? " jake again the fig-leaf apron Of old Adam ' s ancient day 3 : Or become a hardy Briton-Beard the lion in iris lair , iud lie down in dainty slumber , ffrapp'd in skin of shaggy bear-Bear the but amid the forest , Skim the wave in light canoe ! Ah ! I see you do not like it : Then , if these " old ways " won't do , Keep in step !

      Be assured , good Master Standstill , All-wise Providence designed Aspiration and Progression For the yearning human mind ; Generations left their blessings In the relics of their skill , Generations yet are longing For a greater glory still ; And the shades of onr forefathers Are not jealous of onr deed—We but follow where they beckon , "We but go where they do lead I Keep in step !

      One detachment of onr army May encamp upon the hill , While another in the valley , May enjoy " its own sweet will r This may answer to one watchword , That , may echo to another ; But in unity and concord , They discern that each is brother . Breast to breast they ' re marching onward , In a good , now peaceful way , You'll he jostled if you hinder , So don ' t offer let or stay-Keep in step !

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      fclJe ,- or , Clubs and Coteries : a Novel . By the ¦ sthor of ' The Age of Pitt and Fox . ' 3 toIs . fcLou : Skeet . S hero of this autobiographical novel has evidently Vacated for the express purpose of recording the Mirations of the author himself on public men , life , rarliameut , and society . The Btory is sub-M y to this object , and must not therefore be criti-Sioo severely ; it is enough to say that it naturally Bars the end . The merit of the book does not lie Jfc ; . ; h in its plot as in the real knowledge evinced we writer ; beth of the men and the society he

      M * about , and the story itself , no doubt presents > Kmrate sketch of the temptations which besets j li aspirants to public or professional life . : « 3 hero of the book is a younger son of an old | K > family , provided for sufficientl y by an uncle wirings him up . The bar is his profession , politics pursuit ; he is brought into Parliament through Kpinion formed of his abilitiesby Lord John Row-( Russell ) and the interest of the Duke of Fleet-( Bedford ) . The period over which the actual m extends begins with the latter days of the

      Ke-• y and ends with the time of the first Reform msry . The leading subjects of the tale are TYyn-¦ s experience at the Temple as a law-stndent , in -Seal circles as a listener and talker , in Parliament m rising speaker ; and his attachment to Lad y ¦ eMowbray , whom he finally marries . m * e have intimated , however , the author is much ¦ e occupied with Club 3 and Coteries' than his ft ; and the names of the characters described are Binlv veiled , that he might almost as well have ! en them at once from the ' Court Gnide . '

      Re-¦ lowing the recent expulsion of Lord Fahnerston 4 n office by Lord John Russell , and his return of Vompliment by unseating the whole of his quondam sBigaes , our readers will feel interested by the Bwiag sketch of the ex-Foreign Secretary , attri-I 4 pd to the bte Premier : — Bnonjst the pupils of Mr . Canning who were inclined to tfBD n reform , Yiscount Pallarston was in some respects

      ^ fcost remarkable , from his union of many qualities not fwftrond together , lie possessed many accomplishments , jMHnj ; him to fill with effect a leading department of \ jm * . His reputation with the country in those days was [• oJii gu a 3 it deserved , for in the early part of his vi'tie sacrificed too much to soeial enjoyment , being i - ¦ c » at in those graceful pursuits which impart more VIo the PW 30 n than power to the will . But his nature EjHeoniascnh&eto sink beneath the ftowerv hondare nf

      gMon-iMe life , and applying to affairs he took them for his s » ne Popular with both sides of the House of Com-* 3 , ' I T ™ ^ tokenless , at once affable and vaunting sj Wpart , he could alternately conciliate or command as i * cy required . With the advantages of official expe-£ * . be had aho some of the main qualities requisite for : X ,, i 17 m » reti « n oneofhis contemporaries , he had 3 fil £ 7 f n ? Stewart ' s teaching a certain large . M & i , enab 1 ^ . t <> Jook beyond precedents Se

      »« . «* « f «** him undeSd and some ^ EW // - ' th V * lvnd sochl im P « se 3 which TiBSKiVSW ^ S- As fl ° enfm the cant of 5 M £ f ? I ea th u J md Wlthout committing himself to * Rrhi M- ° "f bred M th 8 old Pittite school . Hh "W * mu . a liveliness of fanCy as is rennisite fnr . Wn .

      f »' iT in ¦« i 1 haran P - He could sparkle with M tlfir , % ^ sc ' mtiUated , but never fhshed fMnuJ f -, - ' and was conversant with all gK ™» ° « compilation and selection necesssary for parliv SBa ?^ . Then , his fine presence , his buoyant 'mil- ! * " ^ nndonbudmanliness , excellently H * "ueu mm before a popular assembly like the Commons 1 f tear of P nb 5 ic life » the P anEs of ambition , the s « oi coiupetitorship , never soured him into moroseness , « WMc-jed him into a mere thing of formula , like a ¦* " « . hunter after power . Though his thinking was ;{* r ordinal <» profound he could spice his

      common-« ~ T * o much piquancy , and dress up parliamentary ^ MLcnL !! l f- muchs ° , nding rhetoric , and then rattle W ^ concerted p ^ ces with such swashing spirit that he ' * mteFrr * ?¦ calnovices int 0 the idca tbathe ^ asa J * BorTWrk "Ung f high moral PnrP ° se , he was only a de-» tv th ^ ' n l more caIcalated to attain present dK fitw tS ? T renown - On t ° e whole he was iKSSdSiw * d a . faction than rule a nation ; for wiJw 5 E T ? 8 and the P « den ^ of events '^¦ f ^ um or ^ l ^ """ "W " . he was not of an order ft £ Jffirjta andestablish empires . If tnnbles * AS by tL ° Ji ! . 0 Ter ^ n to such a man would be » W ' as'VFrSiZ ^ -M amily motto being read con . « fAt oSTS ftv st is Rtestimonyto the ^ M-ethe sta ' esinin tnn more eas J to crnsn than to im St ? w 2 S S ? s ? , TT of-himself ! Such a WfcMe ' foKwi s / P athle s of others to make Mm of

      im&iSTS - , p 5 ^ i « 4 jau ^^~ m ^ &IRSL" ** 8 hows a f — ^ Setu ^ S tri ^ John Rowland , as he was r # = J ? abiiiS ^^ f and the circumstances of l MM the pcera ^ J ' s r c 0 . . " ^ on w an iUustr { oug woaid never naU ^ If . opinions a consequence *» - Uebad atSStfimS rth and a Sreat historic felPpas fw- ^ S ^ wS'lF ™? ' butthey were « ot of that ym ^ ^ Person " It " ^ Carries Eviction i «^ the aSSe ? JtZ **^ ' ^ Maclau rin w « .. M > ewhentt f ( £ ^ J' P ^ We that the day lue

      ?• jMpnue mteres » snf « , « - wm S P « y , and per-^ ssas&SP *? - - U \ * * w Y n the great political celebrities of W ^ andmy Terv LI »* rod « ced to Lord John ' « 7 » m feeling was that of extreme

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      disappointment . I felt at once disposed to pin with those who scoffed at the idea of such a man ever beoomingHhe leader of the Commons of England , or a Prime Minister of the British empire . But after a little while , I changed my first opinion , and felt that there was unmistake foroo of character in that defined outline of the face—that wellchiselled mouth with its finely cut lips , around which a Blightly sarcastic smile played at times , while in the searchingly inquisitive glance of the oyes there was intellectual power and vigour of will . In short , I thought , on looking at the young nobleman , of Dryden's lines on Shaftesbury : — A fiery goul which working out its way Fretted the pigmy body to decay . And o ' er-informed its tenement of clay , lord John Rowland seemed then in very poor health , his cheeks were sunken , his face pale , and he had a short phthisical cough ; certainly in appearance , he was the very last person that any one would suppose was destined appoi ent . I t once disposed bin with those

      The applause of listening senates to command . 17 e were now at the dinner table , and Lord John began to display his mental character in a way that rivetted my attention . Ilia conversation was most interesting in its kind though that kind was neither brilliant nor profound bis memory seemed stored with a variety of curious facts which threw light ia various directions on society . Sometimes it was a story showing the mercantile value of certain popular works , and he would cite for his informant bookseller in Paternoster-row ; or perchance he would mention some commercial anecdote , which ho had learned from a Russian merchant ; or some personal history which he had from the proprietor of a leading newspaper His facts were happily selected , and told in a pithy , un pretending style , occasionally dismissed from the company ' s notice , with a short trenchant aphorism . r '

      With another extract we conclude . It relates to a man whose name is held in detestation by a large mass of the people , as one of the most Unscrupulous and tyrannical Ministers this country ever had . It is , however , valuable as illustrating the fact that force of character is the true source of success in life . The conversation takes place at a dinner party ;—From the men of the present day , the conversation turned towards departed politicians . Lord Caatlereagb ' s character was discussed ; and I was surprised to find that Lord Lingard , Sir F . Bennet , who fnr many years had been his prominent opponent , and Sir Charles North , rated him so highly . It was admitted by them , all , even by Lord Lingard , that Castlereagh was grossly ignorant of the affairs of Europe ; bat his personal courage , combined with his gravity and fascinating manners , had impressed both Lineard and Bennett with the same views of him .

      " A braver man never lived , " said Lingard ; " his personal courage was matchless ; He was perfectly civil and never worked himself up , as others do , into fits of audaeity He was alwaj s the same . " " By Jove ! " said Bennett , " if Louis the Sixteenth had had Castlereagh for his prime minister , the affairs of all Europe might have \> een changed . " " That proves nothing in favour of Castlereagh , " I remarked . " It was Pascal who said , that if the nose of Cleopatra had been an inch shorter , the destiny of the world would have been altered . I confess that I never could conceive Lord Castlereagb to have been such a formidable man as you all appear to think him . " " Because , Mr . "Wynville , " said Sir Charles North " you were never parsonally in contact with him . You taka your opinions of him from the newspapers , from Tom Moore ' s witty squibs , from Byron ' s sarcastic allusions to him . But if you knew the man , you would hold another opinion of him . "

      " See wlnthe did , " said Bennett . "He began life as Mr . Stewart , an Irish Radical Reformer . He beat the Hills out of Downshire—I remember the time well He was then looked to as the chief of the Irish Reformers . Pitt put his eye on him . Before he wag thirty years old he was the leading minister in the Irish Parliament . He confronted all the bullies that infested that den of political bravos . He put them all down . He circumvented the Irish Protestant leaders , and cajoled all the Catholics . He bullied all the bullies , and did it like a gentleman . In short , he extinguished the Irish Parliament . He then came over here ; and after the Union , all the Irish leaders

      were of Tery little weight or influence in the new state of things . Lord Clare , the big : Tory bully of Ireland , was quietly flapped down by the Duke of Bedford ; and so with many others of the local great men of Ireland . But Castlereagh went ahead here ; a few years saw him Secretary of State ; and from 1812 to the day of his death , he was leader of the House of Commons , and kept his party well together . See what strong qualities of personal ascendancy were required to do all that !" " These are the kind of men who govern , " said Lord Lingard * " one man with Castlereagh ' s vigour of will is worth fifty of your clever , eloquent , accomplished speakers , like Lord Harrowby or Lord Dudley . "

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      Bleak House . By Charles Dickens . No . I , London : Bradbury and Evans . Iu keeping with a late spring , Mr . Dickens has at length put forth the ' two green leaves' which he promised at the close of ' David Copperfield , ' and have since been anxiously looked for by his countless admirers . He has at length re-established his monthly relations with them , and for some twenty months at least they will enjoy the pleasure of his welcome periodical visit . At this time of day , we need not tell our readers that Dickens is more than a popular writer—he is an earnest and practical reformer . The charms of his style—the exercise of that wonderful power of creating character , and of awakening the most varied emotions of which our nature is susceptible , which makes him the Shakespeare of our own age , are subservient to a hi gh sense of duty on the

      part of the possessor of these rare endowments . His works are not fictions written for mere amusement or recreation . They are instinct with great and noble sympathies , elevated by having a purpose . ' Bleak House' is an attack upon one of the monster evils of English society—the Court of Chancery . Its leading incident is a pet Chancery suit , one of the greatest Chancery suits known '—itself a monument of Chan , eery practice , ' * in which every contingency , every masterly fiction , every form of procedure known ia that Court is represented over and over again '— ' a suit such as could not exist out of this great and free country . ' How the personages introduced in the first number are bound up with this suit , it is impossible to guess , but sufficient is apparent to promise a superabundance of material to work upon ; and in such hands , who can doubt the result ?

      Here is the introduction to the Court in which the cause of ' Jaradyce v . Jarndyce' is nourished for the benefit of the lawyers : — This is the Court ef Chancery ; which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire ; which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse , and its dead in e ^ ery churchyard ; which has its ruined suitor , with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress , borrowing and begging through the round of every man ' s acquaintance ; which give 3 " to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right ; which so exhausts finances , patience , cour ag e , hopeso overthrows the brain and breaks the heart ; that there is ' not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give—who does not often give—the warning , "Suffer that

      any wrong can be done you , rather than come here " Who happen to be in the Lord Chancellor ' s court this murky afternoon besides the Lord Chancellor , the counsel in the cause , two or three counsel who are never in any cause , and the well of solicitors before mentioned ? There is the registrar below the Judge , in wig and gown and there are two or three maces , or petty-bags , or privy-purses or whatever they may In , in legal court suits . The * o are all yawning ; for no c umb of amusement ever falla from Jiesdtce and Jabsdtce ( the cause in hand ) which was squeezed dry years upon yeara ago . The short-hand writers the reporters of the court , and the reporters of the newspapers , MwamWy decamp with the rest of the regulars when Jarndyceand Jarndyce comes on . Their places ^ are a blank . Standing on a seat at the side of the hall , the better to peer into the curtained sanctuary , i 3 a little mad old woman in a squeezed bonnet , who is always in court , from its to its

      setting nsinsr , and always expecting some incomprehensible judgment to be given in her favour . Some say she really is , or was , a party to a suit ; butnoono knows for certain , because no one cares . She carries some small litter m a reticule which she calls her documentsprincipally consisting of paper matches and dry lavender . A sallow ' Prisoner has come up . in custody , for the halfdozenth time , to make a personal application "to purge huusef of hu contempt ; " which , bring a solitary surS executor , who has Men into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pretended that ho had ever any knowledge , he is Dot at all likelv ever to do . In tne meantime his prosnects in life arc ended Another ruined snitor , who porlodioally appears from Shropshire , and breaks out into efforts in address the Chancellor at the close of the day ' s business and who can by no means be made to understand that thp Chancellor is legally ignorant of his existence af'er making it desolate for a quarter of a century , plants bimgelfin ^

      good place , and Keeps an eye on the Judge , ready to c-ill out " My lord ! " in a voice of sonorous complaint , on the instant of his rising A few lawyers' clerks and others who know this suitor by sight , linger , on the chance of his furnishing some fun , ' and enlivening the dismal weather i little . Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on . The scarecrow of a suit has , in course of time , become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means . The parties to it understand it least ; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes with out coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises children have been born into

      Innumerable the cause ; innumerable young people have married into it ; numerable old people have died out of it . Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndvce and Jarndyce , without knowing how or why ; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit The little plaintiff or defendant , who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled , has grown up , possessed himself of a real horse , and trotted away into the other world . Fair wards of court have f-ded into mothers and grandmothers ; a long procession of Chancellors has come ia and gone out ; the legion of blls in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of

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      mortality ; there are not three Jarndyce left upon the earth , perhaps , since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew hia brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery-lane ; but Jarndyce and Jarndyce stills drags its dreary length before the Court , perennially hopeless . Jarndyce and Jarnd yce hat passed into a joke . That is the only good that has ever come of it . It has been death to many but it is a joke in the profession . Every Master in Chancery has had a reference out of it . Every Chancellor was " in it , " for somebody or other , when he was counsel at the bar . Good things have been said about it by blue , nosed , hulbous-shoed old benchers , in select port-wine committee after dinner in hall . Articled clerkg have been in the habit of fleshing their legal wit upon it . The last Lord Chancellor handled it neatly , when . eoMfeelinij Mr . mortality : there are not three Jarndvce left unon fhl

      Blowers , the eminent silk gown , who said that such a thing might happen when the sky rained potatoes , he observed , " or when we get through Jarndyce and Jnrnd yoe , Mr . Blowers ; " —a pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces , bags , and purses . How many peopleout of the suit , Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwholesome hand to spoil and corrupt , would be a very wide question . From the Master , upon whose impaling files reams of dusty warrants in Jarndyce and Jarndyce have griml y writhed into many shapes ; down to the copying olerk in the Six Clerks' Office , who has copied his tens of thousands of Chancery-folio-pages under that eternal heading ; no man ' s nature has been made the better by it . In trickery , evasion , procrastination , spoliation , botheration , under false pretences of all sorts , there are influences that can never come to good , The very solicitors * boys who have kept the wretched suitors at bay by protesting time out of mind that Mr . Chizzle , Mizzle , or otherwise , was

      particularly engaged and bad appointments until dinner , may have got an extra moral twist and shuffle into themselves out of Jarndyce and Jarndyce . The receiver in the cause has acquired a goodly sum of money by it , but has acquired , too , a distrust of his own mother , and a contempt for his own . kind . Chizzle , Mizzle , and otherwise , have lapsed into a habit of vaguely promising themselves that they will look into that outstanding little matter , and see what can be done for Drizzle—who was r . ot well used—when Jarndyce and Jarndyce shall be got out of the office . Shirking and sharking , in all their many varieties , have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause ; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil , have been insensibly tempted into a loose way of letting bad things alone to take their own bad course , and a loose belief that if the world go wrong , it was , in some off-hand manner , never meant to go right . Thus , in the midst of the mud and at the heart of the fog sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Cnau ' eery .

      Mrs . Jellyby , ' & lady of very remarkable strength of mind , who devotes herself entirely to the public , ' in a variety of schemes—finel y christened by the general term 'Telescopic Philanthropy '—represents a very large class of people in this country , who will scarcel y like the manner in which Mr . Dickens holds the mirror up to nature . Chapter IV , would be a very nice little tract to give away to philanthropic ladies—young and old—at the doors of Exeter Hall during the May meetings . Here is a glimpse at the menage of Mrs . Jellyby , which is situated in Thavies Inn : — .

      i . £ ^? , w slr m £ of hlgh Ilouse 3 » like an oblong cistern to hold the fog . There was a confused little crowd of people principally children , gathered about the house at which we stopped , which had a tarnished brass plate on the door with the inscription , Jkutbt . ' " Don't be frightened ! " said Mr . Guppy , looking in at the coach-window . One of the youns Jelly by s been and got his head through the area railings !" " 0 poor child , " aaid I , " let me out , if you please !" '' Pray . 'be careful of yourself , miss . The young Jellybys aro aways up to something , " said Mr . Guppy , I made my way to the poor child , who was one of the dirtiest little unfortunates I ever saw , and found him very hot and frightened , and crying loudly , fixed by the neck between two iron railings , while a milkman and a beadle with the kindest intentions possible , were endeavouring to drag him back by the legs , under a general impression tnat his skull was compressible by those means . Aa I found ( after pacifying him ) that he was a little bov . with a

      naturally largo hend , I thought that , perhaps , where his head could go , his body could follow , and mentioned that the best mode of extrication might be to push him forward This was so favourably received by the milkman and the beadle , and that he would immediately have been pushed into the area , if I had not held his pinafore , while Richard and Mr . Guppy ran down through the kitchen , to catch him when he Bhould be released . At last he was happily got down without any accident , and then ho began to beat Mr . Guppy with a hoop-stick in quite a frantic manner . Nobody had appeared belonging to the house , except a person in pattens , who had been poking at the child from below with a broom ; I don't know with what object , and I don't think she did . I therefore supposed that Mrs . Jellyby was not at home ; and was quite surprised when the person appeared in the passage without the pattena , and going up to' the back room on the first floor , before Ada and me , announced us as , " Them two young ladies Missis Jellyby ! " We passed soveral more children on the

      way up , whom it was difficult to avoid treading on in the dark ; and as we came into Mrs . Jellyby ' s presence , one of the poor little things fell down stairs—down a whole flight ( as it sounded to me ) , with a great noise . Mrs . Jellyby , whose face reflected none of the uneasiness whicli we could not help showing in our own faoos , as the dear child ' s head recorded its passage with a hump on every stair—Richard afterwards said he counted seven besides one for the landing—received us with perfect equanimity . She was a pretty , very diminutive' plump woman , of from forty to fifty , with handsome eyes , though they had a curious habit of seeming to look a long way off As if—I am quoting Richard again-they could see nothing nearer than Africa ! a " I am very glad indeed , " said Mrs . Jellyby , in an agreeable voice , " to have t !> e pleasure of receiving you I have a great respect for Mr . Jarndyce ; and no one in whom he is interested can be an object of indifference to me .

      We expressed our acknowledgments , and sat down behind the door where there was a lame invalid of a sofa Mrs . Jellyby had very good hair , but was too much occupied with her African duties to brush it . The shawl in which she had been loosely muffled , dropped on to her chair when she advanced towards us ; and as she turned to resume her seat , we could not help noticing that her dress didn ' t nearly meet up the back , and that the open space was railed across with a lattice-work of stay-lacelike a summer-house . The room , which was strewn with papers , and nearly filled by a great writing-table covered with similar litter was , 1 must Bay , not only very untidy , but very dirty . We were obliged to take notice of that with our sense of si » hf even while , with our sense of hearing , we followed " the poor child who had tumbled down stairs : I think into the back kitchen , where somebody seemed to stifle him .

      But what principally struck us was a jaded , and unhealthy-looking , though by no means plain girl , at the writing-table , who sat biting the feather of her pen , and staring at us . I suppose nobody ever was in such a state of ink . And , from her tumbled hair to her pretty feet , which wore disfigured with frayed and broken satin slippers trodden down at heel , she really seemed to havo no article of dress upon her , from a pin upwards , that was in its proper condition or its right place . " You find me , my dears , " said Mrs . Jellyby . snuffing the two great office candles in tin candlesticks which made

      the room taste strongly of hot tallow ( the fire had ^ ono out . and there wag nothing in the grate but ashes , a bundle of wood , and a poker ) , " you find me , my dears , as usual , very busy ; but that you will excuse . The African project at present employs my whole-time . It involves me in correspondence with public bodfes , and with private individuals anxious for the welfare of their species all over tho country . I am happy to say it is advancing . Wo hope by this time next year to have from a . hundred and fifty to two hundred healthy families cultivating coffee and educating the natives of Boorioboola-Gha , on the left bank of the luger .

      The dinner hour of the establishment is nominally five , but as Mrs . Jellyby says , « We dine at all hours . ' At last , however , it is served up , and Soon after seven o ' clock we went down to dinner ; carotully , oyMrs . Jellyby ' s advice ; for the stair-carpets , besides being very deficient in stair-vrires , were so torn as to be absolute traps . We had a fine cod-fish , a piece of roast beef , a dish of cutlets , and a pudding ; an excellent dinner if it had had any cooking to speak of , but it was almost raw The young woman with the flannel bandago waited , and dropped everything on the table wherever it happened to go , and never moved it again until she put id on tho stairs . The person I had seen in pattens ( who I supposed to have been tho cook ) , frequently came and skirmished with her at the door , and there appeared to be ill-will between thorn . l

      All through dinner ; which was long , in consequence of such accidents as the dish of potatoes being mislaid in the coal-skuttle , and the handle of the corkscrew coming off , and striking the young woman in the chin : Mrs . Jellyby preserved the evenness of her disposition . She told us a great deal that was interesting about Boorioboola-Gha and tho natives ; and received so many letters that Richard , who sat by her , saw four envelopes in the gravy at once . Some of the letters were proceedings of ladies' committees , or resolutions of ladies' meetings , which she vead to us ; others were applications from people excited in various ways about the cultivation of cotfoe , and natives ; others required answers , and these she sent her eldest daughter from the table three or four times to write . She was full of business , and undoubtedly was , as she bad told us devoted to the cause . Esther Summerson , the heroine , promises to be one of the author ' s finest creations . The world of

      fashion introduces us to Sir Leicester Dedlock and his lady . Sir Leicester is onl y a baronet , but there is no mightier baronet than he . His family is as old as the hills , and infinitely more respectable . He has a general opinion that tho world might get on without hills , but would be done up without Dedlocks . He would , on the whole , admit nature to be a good idea ( a little low perhaps when not enclosed with a parkfence ) but an idea dependent for its execution on your great country families . ' Lady Dedlock ' haB been for years at the centro of the fashionable intelligence , and at the top of the fashionable tree . '

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      For months tens of thousands of wis tful t «* ad * will follow with interest the fate and fortunes of th dramatis persona , who are clustered round the great central cause of' Javndyce » . Jarndyce . ' ¦

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      RECEIVED . The Master Engineers and their Workmen , Three Lectures By J . M , Ludlow , Esq . Lond on : Bezer . Tht Bookcase . Vol . 1 . Across the Rock y Mountains . By W . Kelly , Esq . London : Simms and M'Intyre . The Biographical Magazine . No . III . London : Passmore Edwards .- —[ The present number contains a well written and exceedingly interesting memoir of Percy B , Shelley Which is worth the price of the whole . ] The Gardeners' Record , No . I . For March . London * Groombridge and Co . —[ This now candidate for popular favour , is under the management of Mr . J . T . Neville Secretary to the Royal South London Floricultural So ' ciety , and seems admirably adapted for the purposes in view . ]

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      . ASTLEY'S . A grand historic and equestrian spectacle , entitled "Tanored , or the Triumph of the Crusaders , " ha 3 been produced on a scale of magnificence for which this theatre is so justly renowned . The tale is so well known as to render a detail of the plot and incidents unnecessary . Considerable praise is due to the management for the effective manner in whioh this piece it put upon the stage : each

      scene 13 an imposing tableau , and the gorgeous dresses scenery , elephants , zebras , < fcc , remind the spoetator of the palmy days of Palestine , and the chivalry of the crusaders . Messrs . Perris and llustleby ably impersonated Tanqred and the renowned Godfrey de Bouillon . Miss Fenton acted in her usual clever style , and tho spectacle was enlivened by the drolleries of Barry and the bewitching archnesB of Mrs . Beacham . Some excellent tumbling by the Nicolo Family followed , and after the usual scenes in the circle , the entertainments concluded with the laughable farce of " No . "

      ST . JAMES'S THEATRE .-THE HUNGARIAN MUSI

      CAL COMPANY . Th . , com any has given the first concert of their series in . this fashionable theatre to a very aristocratic audience , amongst whom we noticed her Grace the Duchess of Somerset , his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the couates 3 Buol-Sohauenstoin , Marquis d'Azeglio , the Sardinian minister , Viscountess Palmerston , Lady Ashburton . Prince of Nassau , Lord Cranborn , &o . .

      DRURY-LANE THEATRE . The manager of this establishment brought forward the first of his promised novelties on Saturday night , in the shape of a grand opera in four acts , entitled the " Sicilian Bride , the musio by Mr . Balfe , tho libretto , originally written in the French language by M . St . Georges , translated into English by Mr . Bunn . The performance of this work occupied the entire evening , its more than ordinary length precluding the necessity of other entertainments . The house was crowded as might have beon anticipated . Although we are not prepared , after one hearing , to rank the " Sicilian Bride " among Mr . Balfe ' s best works , we must admit that it contains some of his best writing . More correct and effectivo execution would doubtless brine

      out a great number of points completely lost in the weakness of the Drury-lane band and chorus . It was a mistake , moreover , to consign so laborious and difficult a part to a debutante like Miss Crichton . She , however , must not bo discomfited . In the midst of all her stage-awkwardness , enough of intelligence was exhibited to show that practice and study may enable her to obtain everything that ia wanting ; while her singing , unequal as it was , at periods reached a high degree of expression and refinement . Mr . Sims Reeve worked zealously in the cause , and may be considered to have been the mainstay of tho piece . Mr . Whitworth displayed his accustomed intelligence , activity ) and musical feeling in an up-hilJ , and by no means agreeable part . Of the other characters nothing remains to be

      addod . The opera was placed upon the stage in a liberal and efficient style . The scenery was beautiful , the costumes and appointments appropriate , the supernumeraries abundant and well trained . In short , no efforts wore spared to insure suceesa ; and , not to speak of the frequent applause and encores , if the final incidents of the performance—an unanimous call for Mr . Balfe , who came forward and was enthusiastically cheered ; a summons for the principal artists ; and another for Mr . Bunn , who , after the applause had subsided , expressed his gratitude to the audience in a short and emphatic speech—if theBe incidents may be presumed to constitute success , the opera of the " Sicilian Bride " must be chronicled as perfectly successful .

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      Disasters of the French Armi is Aigiees . —We have just reooived the following afflicting accounts from Bougia , the exactitude of which there is unfortunately no reason to doubt . The expeditionary column of Gen . Bosquet , after having defeated the vain attempts of Bou-Burghia , remained in its position in tho very heart of Cabylia , about twenty-flve miles from Bougia , whence it was able to ob « serve all that was going on in the country , On the 18 th the weather began to set in very bad ; the rivulets wero swollen by the heavy rains ; the communications between the town and the camp were interrupted , and the troops began to be in want of provisions . During the night of tho 21 st thero was a very heavy fall of snow ; in some places it was six feet in depth , and covered the tents of our soldiers . On the 22 ud an order was given to strike the camp , and the

      troops commenced their march towards Bou ^ ia . The cold was very severe , and the men , overcome by privations and fatigue , had lost their habitual vigour , and fell dead along the road . The column was thrown into disorder , and a disaster soon occurred similar to that which was experienced eight years ago by the column of General Lovassour , in the Bou-Thaleb . In the evening of the 22 nd some stragglers began to arrive afc Bougia , and the accounts which they gave threw the town into the greatest consternation . Measures wero immediately taken to render assistance . Independently of the resources at the command of the military , an appeal was made to the inhabitants . Mules , horses , and every means of transport , were put in requisition ; many of the inhabitants left tho town , provided with torches , in search of our unfortunate soldiers

      , and every house was open to receive them as they might arrive . Fires were li ghted in the streets , soup and hot wine wero prepared for them . What is very remarkable is , that the Kabyles never sought to profit by this disaster , but , on the contrary , wherever they met witli straggling soldiers , they assisted and brought them to Bougia , as well as they could do it . The official report will soon make known the loss of the French column . At first it was estimated at 300 men at least , but nothing positive is yet known , as Btragglers are constantly arriving at Bougia . Several have been placed in the hospital with their limbs frost-bitten . Tho loss of officers will be small ; the only

      one known to have perished is M . Laure , an assistant-Burgeon , who fell a victim to his courageous devotedness , having been drowned in saving tho lives of a oaptain and two soldiers . Genorals Bosquet and Oamiiv did not reach Bougia until the night of the 23 rd ; they did everything that it was possiblo to do under such circumstances . General- Jamin . arrived to-day at Algiers . This event changes nothing in the situation of the afiairs of Kabyliaevery army in the world has met with similar accidents ; and it is a further proof of the necessity of establishing good roads on all points which our columns arc obliged to pass over to secure tho submission and tranquillity of the country . —Akhbar .

      Tub English ABUoin . —The following is an extract of a letter from a British resident at Leghorn , dated Feb . 20 , 1852 .- —' They are talking of making all the British take out permissions from the police every six months , and some every three months , to remain here , and every time the permission is renewed there is about 5 s . 6 d . to pay , and every one of a family to have a separate one , which would come to bo a considerable tax . Tneir object is twofold First , to raise money to support the Austrians ; and , second , to have it in their power to send any away when their leave is out . Tho old merchants who have been born and lived always here are quite indignant at this . There was a public meeting at the Consulate to-day about it . " Commission op Lunacy on a Chancery Prisoseb . —Ou the 5 th inst . a writ de hmatico inquirendo was executed at

      the Southwark Literary Institution , Borough-road , South * wark , before Mr . Commissioner Winslow , and eighteen special jurors , respecting the state of mind of John Price , Esq ., aged eighty-four , totally blind , lato of Margate , in the county of Kent , but now an inmate of the Queen ' s Prison , confined for contempt of the Court of Chancery , a gentleman possessed of property of the valuo of £ 80 , 000 . The commission had been issued by Mr . John Wild Price , the only son of the unfortunate gentleman , with a View to his liberation . The jury returned a verdict— - " That John Price is now of unsound mind , and incapable of managing himself and his affairs , and has been eo since the 1 st of Oc ° tober , 1843 . " Loud Campbell ' s Anti-Catholic Vioilascr . —The opening of the Norfolk circuit last week was distinguished by a

      religio-political inoident—a rare and undesirable variance from judicial monotony . A few years ago Mr . Scott Murray , tne high sheriff , was " perverted " to the Romish faith , and he had appointed Mr . Morris , a Roman Catholic , who like himself , had seceded from the church of England , to bo the judge ' s chaplain . In delivering his charge , Lord Campbell took oo casion to say that "the high sheriff , without meaning in tho slightest degree to bo guilty of an impropriety , and , indeed , being informed it had been done in other counties , has appointed a chaplain of his own rclipion , and that chaplain has appeared in the garb of his order , in accompanying the high sheriff and hor Majesty ' s judges from the

      coming place whore the sheriff meets them to the place where we now are . Gentlemen , that I do nob approve of ; and I think it my duty to say that I hope such an occurrence will not bo repeated . " The grand jury , at tho close of the day , in making their presentment , desired to express their respectful thanks for his lordship ' s observations on the . subject of the attendance of the chaplain and assured him of their unanimous and entire concurrence in the sentiments addressed to them by his lordship , Since then Mr . Scott Murray has addressed a smart epistle to Lord Chief Justice Campbell , showing a number of instances in which Roman Catholio chaplains have been permitted to attend the judges . , i . [ i i , , I

      Secession op a Catholic Priest . —On ; Sunday evening the Rev . G . Evison , late a priest of the Church of Rome , renounced the doctrines of that communion in the church of St . Paul's Barmondsey-at which numerous similar senes have taken place of late ' . Tho rev . gentleman was late chaplain to the Roman Catholic congregation at Portsea , 6 fc 1 r a t

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      A Blush is the complexion of virtue . f ^^ Y ' -The best kind of glory is that which is reflected irqm honesty . habUin f SHIPt ~ " ' sn )' P * composed of a single soul ia * Con \ ^ They w ' n 7 » y a . re sood resolutions like fainting ladies ?—wh 3 fe t ? rryinB out - —They shn . fi j ? osfc P Per punishment for quack doctors ? DEwcIo ns ^ , nfined to the P / H-ory . and mistake L , " ave n Pretty girl open tho front door , A Hint To t" cousin > always take a seat W LUas — In ridiD £ on tho " ' *••»" In case of a collision i V front of » fat oW Ron-tanm . Pursuing lSoSno ? re the hnrt wonderfully . Euclid by thf Si !?! U 7 NDEa P . mcBWiBS .-Stndytag got her arm around your wfft a < loff-necke ( 1 frock haa » arasan ?^ j- *• ™» - aZSX" " lmVS «^ 7 s , 4 re . f s ^ -sraear M ¦ £ »« wfs The ( j REBK Slave . —An American on beine -wk ^ il w he liked the denuded statue of the Greek Slaw ^ S £ }* " ? the Crystal Palace , renlied . " I reokon < CZu ?* tod at 8 lie

      rahed , cotton was dreadful scarce . " ^ waS . " / dutiful form is better than a beautiful face- a beautiful behaviour is better than a beautiful form It gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures ; it « ' the finest of the fine arts . ae Good Advice . — «¦ I say , " said a dandy to an intelligent mechanic "I ' ve got aa idea ia my head . " " Welt , replied the other , " if you don't cherish it with great car . ; , it wm die for want of companions . " A Conservative . —Mr . Horace Greely , in a speech de * livered a few weeks ago , compared a stubborn " Conservav ! l k ° . \ horae on board a ferry-boat ; "the home may J" t J » oatmoves 0 D > and tlie animal w 5 til *'' aoim

      Truth is considerably cracked up as a virtue , and yet we Know of nothing that would sooner make a nuuanee of a man . bpeak the truth of everybody you meet , and where would your bed be ? In the mud-gutter about half the time . Prisoners in FRANCE . -The "Times" says it has taken some pains to ascertain the number of persons arrested iu France within the last few weeks , and it is assured by the best authorities , speaking on sufficient evidence , that the number probably reaches 100 , 000 nir ^ . T fw--Groce is , in great measure , a natural gift , elegance implies cultivation , or something of a SiSWW | : acter - A rustic , uneducated girl may be well-traiued ** elegant woman m « st be accomplished and JE 2 ? T ~" By sls caU 8 es a foo ] may to kii ° ™ : — Anger without cause : snpp . fh miHinm- « m < u . « i «—

      , without motive , inquiry without an object putting trust a MendS / oe " " ^ k ^ Capacity t 0 dist ™ e uish h-wem DRonwicn SALT .-The brine-springs from wlnCl » this salt is extracted appear inexhaustible . It wag made at the time ot the Roman invasion , and they still yield 70 , 000 tona annually 40 , 000 tons are used for domestic purposes , and tor agriculture , the remainder in chemical processes . HTLE 8 .-A Quaker , vindicating the pertinacity of his sect in refusing to give titles to men , gave thntwhinuical account : I had the honour , " said he , " one " day to be in company with an excellency and a highness . His excellency was the most ignorant and brutal of his species , and his highness measured just four feet eight inches without his

      JFbmaw Lnflubnce .-I have observed that a married , man , falling into misfortune , is more apt to retrieve his situation in the world than a single one , chiefly because his spirits are soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments , and his self respect kept alive by finding , that although , all abroad be darkness and humiliation , yet there is a little world of love at home over which he is a monarch . Little Kindnesses . —Small acts of kindness , how pleasant and desirable do they make life ! Every dark object is made light by them , and every tear of sorrow is brushed away . When the heart is sad , and despondency site at the entrance of the soul , a trifling kindness drives despair away , and makes the path cheerful and pleasant .

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      EXTRACTS FROM " PUN'OH . " Political Cricket . —The celebrated cricketer , Manners , is going to have an innings at last . ADis-appointment . —The appointment of poor Bis . as Chancellor of the Exchequer . A SOM FOR THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER .- — Deduct Sir Charles Wood from Benjamin Disraeli , and show that a just Income Tax remains . Something- Like a . Brother . —Flora : " That ' s a very pretty waistcoat , Emily V—Emily : " Yes , dear . It belongs to my brother Charles . When he goes out of town ho puts me on the free list , as he calls it , of his wardrobe . Isn ' t it kind ?" Characteristic Fact . —So desirous is little Nap . of imitating his great uncle in every possible particular , that we understand he has reoently declared his intention of ia future regularly wearing his coats out at Elba ! Our Lady of Atocha . — The Queen of Spain has offered her robes and jewels , worn when struck by the assassin , to our Lady of Atocha . But why not the whalebone stays that defended tho mortal attempt of the dagger ? Believing , as we do , that whalebone stays have had so many victims , slowly killing thousands of young women , we confess we should like to Bee an offering of that valuable work of whalebone tbat has saved the life of one . Political On-dits . —Mr . Disraeli , immediately on receiving his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer , sent round the corner to a book-stall for a copy of Walkinghame ' s Arithmetic . A pencil and slate , in the course of the evening , were ordered by the Right Honourable Gentleman . The Marquis of Salisbury repaired to Downing-street , ia order to procure some impressions of the Privy Seal . Lord Malmesbury has remained at home since his nomination to the post of Foreign Secretary , notwithstanding the very general supposition that he is abroad . . Sir John Pakingten has beon occupied in making the requisite arrangements for rendering his seat in the Colonial Office comfortable , as he finds it somewhat harder than the County Bench .-Lord John Manners has been surveying his family tree previously ts entering on the duties of his high berth , as Chief Commissioner of 'Woods and- Forests . The Earl of EgHnton has buckled on Ws armour to enter the lists as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland . Considerable astonishment is expressed at the fact that Colonel Sibthorp has no place in the Cabinet .

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      An Oppressed Mind . —It is very seldom that hardworking people commit suicide—suicides being one of the accompaniments of soft hands and indolence . The best thing a girl can take for an oppressed mind , is a husband . An old maid with " nothing to worry her , " will be aa melancholy as dyspepsia—marry her , however , and make her tho mother of four romping boys , and she will be as cheerful as sunshine . An Anti-Garotte Weapon . —Mr . Blissetfc has just registered an " anti-garotte , "—a portable and convenient weapon . It is in fovm a small constable ' s Btatf , but it contains inside it a blue light . This light is revealed by unscrewing the top—always to be done when alone in a dark road or street ; and when assailed you have nothing to do but" punch" the assailant on the head , face , or body ; and the weapon will" blaze away" at him , in a mannev that he won ' t sland Ion ? . GLASs . ~ Window-glas 3 was not employed in England until the year 1557 ; and ten year 3 later it was still so scarce that , according to the family recordsof the Duke of Northumberland , the glass windows of Alnwick Castle were removed whenever the family happened to be from home . No other substance has tended more to advance science and add to the comfort and happiness of man than glass . What the microscope has revealed , what astronomy has disclosed , what chemistry has taught , we owe directly or indirectly to its use , and without it half the refinement and enjoyments of civilisation would be lost . Colt ' s Pistols . —At the trial made by the American Board of Ordnance . Colt ' s holster pistol was fired 1 , 200 times , and hi * bale pistol 1 , 506 times , cleaning but once a day , when the Board determined that no further trial was necessary , and reported that neither of the pistols appeared to be injured by the firing . The penetrations of Colt ' s holster pistol were found to be through seven inches of board , and bis belt pistol through six inches . And from a trial recently made at Woolwich , under the direction of Col . Chimbers , R . A ., it appeared that even by men unaccustomed to the use of ttiis particular arm , great precision of firing coiild be attained , as with a small revolving belt pistol , at a distance of fifty yards , out of forty-eight shots , twenty-five bullets too ' * effect , within a space of one foot square , and of them , thirteen hit tho bull ' s-eye , which was only six inches in diameter ; the whole number of shots striking the target . Women and Men . —Women , and especially young women , either believe falsely or judge harshly of men in one thing . You , young loving creature , who dream of your lover by night and by day—you fancy that he does the same of you ! lie does not , he cannot ; nor is it right he should . One hour , perhaps , your presence has captivated him , subdued him even to weakness ; the next he will bo in the world , working his way as a man among men , forgetting for the time being your very existence . iPossibly if you saw him , his outer self hard and stern , so different to the self you know , would strike you with pain . Or else his inner and diviner self , higher than you would dream of , would turn coldly from your insignificant love . Yefe all this must be ; you have no right to murmur . You cannot rule a man's soul—no woman ever did—except by holding unworthy sway over unworthy passions . Be content if you lie in hm heart , as that heart lies iu his bosom—deep and calm , . ts bflatingsnnseen , uncounted , oftentimes unfeU ; but Still giving life to bis whole being . —The Head oftheianuly . Tub Cost of Policb in Large Towns . -A report recently presented to tha Sheffield Town Council by the Watch Committee , state ? , that the cost per man of the police foree in Birmingham , is £ 02 10 s . 4 d . ; in Leedi , £ 00 Gs . lid . ; in Bradford , £ 45 4 s . _ 6 d- ; in Newcastle , £ C 3 10 s . 7 = ) . ; in Manchester , U 1 Gs . ; id Hull , 45719 s . \ U 5 and in Sheffield , £ 48 18 a . lOd . per annum . In Leeds nnd Sheffield the cost per man is considerably reduced by the earnings of the force ; but whilst in the former borough , the net annual cost per man is& 57 14 s . 3 d ., in Sheffield it i 3 but £ 32 Is . 7 d . In proportion to population the police force of Birmingham is as 1 in 7101 ; of Bradford . 1 in . 1 . 0 / U ; of Newcastle . 1 in 1 , 058 % ; of Manctvster 1 ia C 81 J ; " of Hull , 1 in 592 J ; and of Sheffield , 1 in 1 , 1101 .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 13, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1669/page/3/