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      NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WORDS AND PHRASES . Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases , with Examples of their Colloquial Use , and Illustrations from various Authors ; to which are added , The Customs of the County . By Anne Elizabeth Baker . Two vole , post octavo . John Russell Smith , Soho-square , London . A compubtb dictionary of archaic and provincial words we shall pro"bably never have , but each addition to this class of literature must be of -value . Miss Baker ' s volumes contain upwards of five thousand words and phrases , about two thousand of which have not previously been published . It is said Sir Walter Scott once paid half-a-crown to" a labourer for the word " whemmel . " This , no doubt , was a fit of facetious gratitude the Wizard delighted to indulge in . The anecdote , however , illustrates the comparative

      value of a word , in season , to an author . Language is progressive , and it is not only curious but highly interesting and most instructive to trace the change and growth of our mother-tongue even through a limited period . Many words and phrases common to the literature of past ages have been banished from schools and polite circles—¦ we must seek fbr them in the secluded villages and hamlets , or dredge them from the slums of society . Shakspeare has been a . puzzle to " the learned " down to this day . It may be news to the schoolmen to learn that the 4 f uneducated" throughout the length and breadth of the land can read him , and can understand his language-without note or comment . Miss Baker proves this lay showing that many of Shakspeare ' s words and phrases are in dailyuse by the peasant population of Northamptonshire .

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      / ' " * & ^ EKCH Ali ^ SHJPP ]^ Q ACT . The Merchant Shipping Act , 1 S 54 , with an Introductory Summary , # c . By William Digby Seymour / Esq ., M . P . W . G . Benning and Co . "Until , the passing- of the Merchant Shipping Act , introduced by Mr . Cardwell , the shipping trade was fettered and annoyed by the amount of legislation which it had endured . There were eleven acts in full force for the regulation of navigation , and in every case whieh occurred it was necessaryto refer to each act to see how one modified another . That evil was obviated by . Mr . Car&yell , who undertook the Herculean labour tff sifting , " arranging , ' condensing , and amalgamating them all in to pne act , clear , but by no means concise . Mr Digby Seymour bas further , improved this , by publishing , in one volume * the-Act , with an explanatory summary , copious notes , and . statements of various cases referred to the several partSi Such & . work was . much wanted : it has been carefully compiled . Mr . Digby Seymour is entitled to "the gratitude of the large body of British Shipping ^ r'aders . , . . , ,.,, ,.

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      : ^ ...:. ' ,, BOOKS ON OUU TAKLE . The AnfcSalbatariarvDefenceless ; dry the Sabbath Established upon the Ruins of the Objections of its Enemies . By the Rev . J . G . Stewart . Nisbet and Co . Poems . By Matthew Arnold . { Second Series . ) i'v ' - - : i Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . Detached Thoughts and Apophthegms , extracted from some of the Writings of Archbishop Whatety . ( First Series . ) . . . Blachad « r and Co . Jerusalem Revisited . By Wl H . Bartlett . A . Hall , Virtue , and Co . Logic for the Young : consisting of Twenty-five Lessons in the Art of Reasoning , selected from the Logic of the Rev . Isaac Watts , D . D . By the Author of " Logic for the

      Million . Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . Miscellanies , Criticaly Imaginative , and Juridical , contributed to Blachwood ' s Maqazine By Samuel , Warren , D . C . L ., F . R . S ., &c . 2 vola . William Blackwood and Sons . The French Prompter ; a General Handbook of Conversation , in English and French . alphabeticall y arranged ; with a Key to French Pronuncintion . ( Fifth Edition . ) By Mons . Le Page . Efflngham Wilson . The Juvenile Treasury of French Conversation . By Mons . Le Page . Effingham Wilson . Tlie French . School ( Part I . )— -L'Echo de Paris ; a Selection of Familiar Phrases ; loith a Vocabulary . ( Twenty-second Edition . ) By Mons . Le Page .

      Effingham Wilson . The FrenchSchool ( Part I . )—Gift of Fluency in French Conversation , a Set qf Familiar Exercises . ( Tenth Edition . ) By Mona . Lo Page . Effingham Wilson . Le Petit Causeur ; or , First Chester ings in French : being a Key to the Gift of French Conversation . ( Fourth Edition . ) By Mons . Lo Page . Effingham Wilson . Finishing Exercises $ n French Conversation ; being a Key to I ? Echo de Paris . By Mons . LoPago . EffingUam WUson , Some Memorials qf John Hampden . ht 3 Party , and his Times , By Lord Nugent , ( Third Edition , revised , with a Memoir ' qfthe Writer . ) Chapman and Hall

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      Powora has doubtless boon the moans of producing tliia movement nnwards . The Ohauoollor of the Exchequer ' s admirers and haiierors-on in the Olty declare that thoro will bonoloan—tha . t thowar , in a proportional ratio , costs no more tlwn the camp at Ohobham —< weejp £ men ' s Itves—and that wo aro in the most flourishing financial condition . Parliament meeting this next week will probably have a temporary effect one way or the other ; but , with oar present House of Kopreaontatives , the Ministry has bub little to fear , and spOojisola will hold up . Railway shares aro not over bright . Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company liavo declared their dividend , of flvo per cent ., and ono nor co » t . bonus . Mining shares and Crystal Palaco are Hat nt » d neglected . Good accounts have been rccoivod and published from the Peninsular Mining Company and some of th « Virginian Goia-washin K Companies . % J 0 Turkish 0 per cent . Hortp is still at an alarming discount , without any apparent reason . They improved slightly at tho Urat rlso iu Consols , but aro again weakly . The » Vr cent . Consolidated «»] tyw rly dividend off . Oonsola opened thin morning » t 0 » 8 , o ;» 4 . and oloaodat ttJA , sellers . N £ ftSnla « T"J % i Eastern Counties , hi , 114 , Groat W ^ Lfrn ™" a £ l 8 ? 1 A stock , 7 B , 70 ; B stock , 12 !) . 120 Groat Western , 704 . 71 i Lancashire and Torkahtro . 72 * . 7 a i

      London and Brighton , 104 , 108 ; London and ¦ Birmingham , PDA , 100 : London and South-Western , 82 , 83 ; Midlands . 681 , 00 ; North Eastern ( Uorwloks ) , 75 , 7 ( i ; Oxford , "Wolvorhampton , and Worcester , SO , 314 j South-Eastern , 50 , 00 ; Antwerp and Rotterdam , 0 , 04 ; Eastern of franco , 3 l | , 31 J ; Groat Western of Canada , l (( i , 17 * ; Northern of France , 34 i , a * Ji Paria and Lyons , 194 , 105 pin . ; Paris « nd Orleans , 45 , 47 ; Paris and Jftouon , 37 . 30 ; Western of Eranoo , * 4 , 5 * pm . j Agua Trias , j , I j Brazil Imperial , 24 , 3 ; St . John del ltoy . 32 , JH ; JiinnroB , H , »; Pontgiboaud , lfli . XOjt ; South Australian . 14 , 1 } j Wallers , 1 . 4 i London Chartered Hank of Australia , 21 , 22 x . all ; Oriental llivnk , 37 , 30 ; Union Kank of AuHtralia , 07 , 00 ; Australian Agricultural , 85 . 37 s Crystal Palace , 2 i , » i ; General Sorow Stoain , Hi , W | iVorth Uritlyh Australasian , i , { , Peninsular and Oriental , 87 . 074 ; Scottish Australian Investment , l | , Ifi South Australian Land , it ;! , ;) r > .

      MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Friday Evening , December 8 , 18 IJ 4 . Ton Funds have made n most decided aud » toady advance since last wook . The Austrian treaty with the -Western

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      LYCEUM . —AGGRAVATING SAM . On Wednesday a Mystery , in . two acts , entitled Aggravating Sam , was pioduced at the Ltcbcm Theatke . To attempt an account of the plot would be idle—it ¦ would be almost incomprehensible . The main point is , that Sam Naggiri * ( Mr . Charles Mathews ) relieves an otherwise unoccupied raind , by annoying not only everybody who comes in his way , but everybody into whose way he cart come . Fortune appeal's to enjoy the fun , and favours him . Thus , in one fortunate morning ' , a most improbable substitution of paletots puts Sum into possession of tvvo or three facts , which sal ) se < j . uen { ly enable him to aggravate at least a dozen utter strangers , and to engage the affections of Clara Biffin ( Miss Oliver ) , who possesses a considerable fortune . Sam then humourously moralises on the fact , that he has been aggravating everybody all day ; that they all hate him ; and that in spite of them all , he is defeating their plans by marrying the girl and obtaining the fortune . The author being called for , Mr . Mathews explained-that the author ¦ wished his name to be known , and the audience wished it also— -but

      he would not tellit— 'just to aggravate them . The piece is an adaptatioa of Uri DrQlede Pislolet , by MM . Tarin and De Leris . It is one of those performances every minute of which brings a shower of brilliant impossibilities of incident , and a greater shower of practical realities of . laughter . Charles Mathews is , of course , deliciously unaniiable ; and Miss Oliver , from excess , unatniably delicious . Miss Harriett Gordon made her debut , and met with considerable approbation for ' her thoroughly assured mastery over a reluctant lover . The song about Mexico is as destitute of point as it is unnecessary to the piece . B .

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      MR . ALBERT SMITH . The war , which seems , during the past month , to have , paralysed the theatrical managers , has stimulated Mr . Albert Smith . " Mont Blanc" is on view again at the EarpxiAN Hall , with an almost complete change of " scenery" " performances" to attract the public . Wisely retaining his Ascent of the Mountain , Mr . Albert Smith has otherwise altered and renewed his programme . He now takes his visitors to Switzerland through Holland andup the Rhi nehe gives them a new moving panorama of the route painted by a German artist , as well as new views in Switzerland painted by Mr , Beverley . Some of these last are as striking and beautiful as any of the pictures which have preceded them ; and parts of the panorama—especially those in which the lighting mo 3 t

      assists the effect of the painting—are really excellent specimens of the best kind of scenic effect . The very large part of the eutertainment , which depends entirely on Mr , Albert Smith , has been as thoroughly renewed as the pictures . New characters , jokes , and songs appeal to old visitors to como again . One of the best of these songs is a comic description of the Rhine , sung to the liveliest of tunes with the happiest rapidity of utterance—tho panorama moving on as the pictorial accompaniment and illustration to each verse . There are other things in the entertainment as good as this in their way—but it is needless for us to point out what most of our readers will doubtless discover for themselves . "Vyhen we have helped in announcing tlie fact that " Mont Blanc" is again to be seen , we have done our part—all the rest Mr . Albert Smith can easily do for himself . n .

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      CORN MARKET . Mark Lane , FrWny Evening , Doo . 8 . Tho Whoafc trade remains in an iuaotlvo state . Old Foreign him b « on in rather moro request and at rather hlKhor prices . Now Foreign can only bo sold Ly Hubintttlug to lower nrtaus , whl « U holders aro not willing to do . 'Jl'ho arrivals

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      Discoveries in Chinese ; or , the Symbolism of the Primitive Characters of the Chinese System of Writing . By Stephen Pearl Andrews . Trilbner and Co . Glossology : being a Treatise of the Nature of Language and on the Language qf Nature By Charles Kraitsir , M . D . ( Second Edition . ) Trilbner and Co . " Flax and Hemp , their Culture and Manipulation . By Sebastian Delamer . G . Eoatledge and Co . Odds and Ends , from an Old Drawer . By "Wardua Retuyw , M . D . G . Roixtledge and Co . Hogg ' s Instructor . JTo . 18 . James Hogg A Boy ' s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia ; or , Herberts Note-booh . By William Howitt Arthur Hall , Virtue , and Co . The Dream of Pythagoras , and other Poems . ( Second Edition , revised and enlarged . ) By Emma Tatham . Longman and Co The Trapper ' s Bridge and White Stone Canoe . By Percy B . St . John .

      Ward and Lock . Students Abroad : their Romance and Real Life . By Richard B . Kimball . Ward and Lock Sharp-eye ; or , the Scout ' s Revenge . By James "Weir . m Ward and Lock .

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      Gowk * against the Grain . —The Lord Provost of Glasgow has called a public meeting of the inhabitants for the evening of Friday week , to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament to prohibit the distillation of grain . Tmk Tyjwb SmrwftioWs Struck The strike aeoma at an end- Mossra . Smith , have set on their men at the old wages—86 s . per week , na alao have Messrs . Laing and Messrs . Morrison and Fawcaa . It ia thought that the South Shields masters will be able to follow thia example .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 9, 1854, page 1172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2068/page/20/