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THE EAitL OF DTJNDONALD.*
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IAfe and Death . In dying , all death ceases ; Life lost , our life increases . Affinity . ( Italian . ) , • . The deformedeverthe conformed meet ; '" " '| f he dwarf finds a wife . in the neighbouring street . ' . > ' Punishment . When stair 3 are washed , the top comes first , And the lowest step is cleansed the last : The highest rogues should be foremost cursed , But npw small rogues into prison are cast ; While the title , the cross , the riband , the star , Are heaped on chief scoundrels in peace and in war . The Vine . Four bunches of grapes doth the good vine bear : The first is for thirst , take a hearty pull ; The second for health , to yarm the blood . And in northern climes it is ever too cool ; The third is for friendship , love , and joy , To bring back to the man the dreams of the boy ; The fourth is only , O drunkard ! for thee . _ Though every good fellow may taste it thrice , To teach him a little more humble to be , And not pester his neighbours with silly advice . JLove Immortal . . A mother ' s love is never cold ; A mother ' s love is never old : A mother ' s love is ever true , "A mother ' s love is nine times new . Drinking . To him who is fond of drinking God always gives enough . For if there is not beer or wine , there is ever the waterrtrough . JBlood and JBravery . Patrician blood , without a soul divine , Is like a lightless lantern in a mine . Impunity . Whoso deals with apes and priests , Finds that he never can punish the beasts . Solitude . The more thou deemest thyself alone , The further thou art from solitude ; Thydevil will come if thy angel has flown , ¦ Thyjmgel if thou thy fiend hast subdued , . Reverence . ¦ . . - ¦ . . Honour the old man ' s hair of show , If thou wouldst thyself the o . ltL man grow . . , . - ¦'¦ ' . . ; Official Religion-. ¦ ' . For every egg they give to . the liOrd , ' ~ The king ' s servantsrob the peasant of two ; : Arid sometimes they rob the peasant of ten , And give the 1 / oril the shells to chew . ' ¦ ' . , . . : ' ¦ . ¦ Laborious Trifling . . How wise are they who spend coal and candle , To change a house-beam to a besom-handle ! Human Infirmity . Why murmur at the folly of the sagest among men ? You often find in nettles the egg of the wisest hen . These renderings make no pretensions whatever to literalness . We have attempted to give the substance , the Bpirit . Rough , as our translations may be , there will probably be seen a better proverbial philosophy gleaming through them than is contained in Mavtia JFarquhar Tupper's huge heap of imbecilities . - Did the great Martin ever read any proverbs except his own P If he had he would , no doubt , have discovered that a proverb should be pungent with pith and meaning , instead of containing no pith or meaning at all . HOW TO GET A PLACE . * Peace and quietness aro bauished . for ever from official life : up to the present time , nothing but the mysteries which surrounded public departments , and the intricacies of the path % o the fountainhead of patronage ^ of which official reserve has kept . so studiously the secret , has saved our great public dispensers from the deluge of importunity , These barriers are now thrown rudely down by Mr . Boulger ; and not only is every possible mtbrmation concerning the number , nature , and value of Government appointments given for threo-and-sixpence ; nob only are the official almoners ruthlessly pointed out by the linger of publicity to the gaze of the hungry multitude , but rules for the best mqans of worrying a minister are laid down with gravity nnd pitiless " exactitude , The " stereotyped answer " is to bo disregarded ; the candidate must ask specifically for some pliico , and not be put off . ff He muBfc got hjs friend to apply again and again , not minding being consldorod importunate , and should have his application backed by a second or third influential friend j in uhorfc , ho should apt ccaao , when onco ho has determined to try his fortune in this way , to press his request till he obtains the desired » om , inivntionf " Imagine the effect of such words as those , circulated ns they will bo by tens of thousands , upon the mind of a still'Vexcd politician 1 ono who , postered at * he is , nnd with terrible examples on his mind of ouo or two determined u » kers , has still rubbed his hands at the thought , " What would this como to if they only knewP" Ho will « iiy , lf Are thd sweets ofoflicte worth all thisP-No : Perish putronugel Perish'jobs' ] Xet who will huvo my place , only let mo flee away ond be at rest . "
The publication of a handbook of the'importunate , or applicant ' s guide , will , perhaps , have the ; effect of destroying that system to which it was called into being to minister , and into whose holiest places it has penetrated- The unhappy possessor of patronage , if he would preserve the balance of his mivid , must either so rearrange his system / that the path pointed out by Mr . Boulger shall lead to certain exclusion , or he must abandon bis loaves and fishes to the competition of the ruthless public . Nothing but their ignorance ^ hitherto saved him . Now that the labyrinth can be threaded for three-and-sixpence , and the poisoned cup of mendicancy for ever presented to his lips , he has no choice but either to baffle his pursuers by fresh intricacies , or renounce the objects of his strong affection . ' „ , , » ¦ ¦ ¦ , On what principle the patrons of the law offices have been spared , unless it be from a fellow-feeling for his kind on the part of the author , we are at a loss to understand . The establishments ot the Courts of Common Law , Chancery , and Probate are , we should suppose , as much public offices as any others ; but we can only congratulate the superiors of those departments on their escape , and assure them that their secret shall never be divulged by its . Mr . Boulger ' s book is very carefully compiled , very accurate , and very useful in many respects . It will command a large sale ; statisticians , economical politicians , and administrative reformers will buy it , in addition to the thousands who have so long been waiting for a guide to the penetralia of the public service .
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A lSuOJx . of adventures ol the once aasnmg . uora , mow eighty-five years of age , and that book an autobiography , is necessarily replete with heroic interest . We regret to add that it is little to the credit of the British Admiralty . Next to the treatment of Nelson , nothing was ever more disgraceful to that body . England is little indebted to her politicians for her triumphs , whether on land or sea . Her brave men unwillingly employed , and inadequately assisted , but daringly determined to serve their country at all odds , despite the treachery of factions at home , have done the deeds to which , she owes her . safety or supremacy . The Earl of buudonald wili be numbered among the most valiant and the most wronged of our naval heroes . Ho > long will the incornpetency of our official authorities , and their jealousy of the truly great in those who serve them , continue to reflect shame on our national annals ?
In this volume , we find the affair in the Basque Roads with Lord Gambier placed in its true light , and our autobiographer Vindicated on unimpeachable evidence . ... It was one of the most striking schemes ever proposed , for the destruction of the French estacade that then threatened to baffle all attempts to disturb their position . But Lord Cqehrano had been appointed to the stern duty from ministerial necessity , not choice ; and when he arrived at the fleet found himself received with jealousy by many of the officers , who were not willing to-be superseded by one who was the junior of every one of them . Lord Gambier ' s conduct was disgraceful , such that Lord Cochrane was determined to oppose the vote of thanks to him in Parliament . In consequence , he was compelled to
demand a court-martial , which was so conducted as to be a blot on the face of our history . However , here we have the true tale at last ; and learn that sooner or later the Muse of History is inevitably just . The deeds of the Earl of Dundonald are in accordance with those of his ancestry . Tradition , ho begins with telling us , has assigned to the Cochranes a derivation from one of the Scandinavian sea-rovers , who , in a remote age , settled on the lands of Renfrew and Ayr . Robert Cochran , Earl of Mar , mason and courtier of King James III ,, who wasi murdered by the nobility , was also his ancestor , a man much maligned , but evidently of commanding talent and patriotism . Ho makes a point of importance , in his introductory chapter , of showing the connection of the family with the Stuarts , and their adherents . The autobiographer himself was born December 14 , 1 . 775 , at Annsfiold , in Lanarkshire j his
father was Archibald , ninth Earl of Dundonald , and his mother , Anna Gilchrisf ) , daughter of . Captain Gilchrist , a distinguished officer of the royal' navy . Of the ancestral domains , the present Earl never inherited a foot ; the whole having been expended in the defence of the Stuarts , and swallowed up by mortgages . His outset in life was that of heir to a peerage , without other expectations than those arising from his own exertions . His father was of a scientific turn , and , to retrieve the family estate , ventured into manufacturing projects , which proved ruinous to him . In 1782 , Lord Thomus visited with his father James Wutt , then residing at Hands , worth , near Birmingham . They discoursed on the illuminating property of coal gas , a fact which the Earl had discovered in a tar kiln at Uulross Abbey j but neither then thought of turning 1 it to practical account .
Owing to the family ruin , the education of the present Earl of Dundoimld was irregular and deficient }¦—it was altogether imnedod by his removal to London . Our seaman was now started in life , and indeed had also procured for him at the flarno time i \ military commission ; , bu , t ho preferred the naval sorvioo . An offer of hia undo to' receive him on board his frigate- was accepted j the Eux'l of Hopotoun considerately
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* Tha " Master Key to JPubUa Offices , and ( Jandidxttott' Complete Xmtrvotioiu By John Boulger , Esq ., JJurrTsboriftt-Law , Editor of the Qlvil Servico Oasptto , &o . lloulaton and Wright .
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la The Leader and Saturday Analyst . [ Jan . 14 , 1860 .
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* Tho Autobiography < if a Seaman . By Th ' pVnue , Tenth Earl of Dundoimld , G . O . P .. AtlmiraK of tho Xtpa , jCloar-Aamiral of the Jploot , &o . Vol . 3 ,. Itiohurd Bentloy .
The Eaitl Of Dtjndonald.*
THE EAitL O ! F DUNDONALD . *
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 14, 1860, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2329/page/20/
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