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THE ACBES ASD THE HASDS . - BT _DUOA-SSIS . " " _5 * _eartl _ji ** tbeLord ' s , and the fulness thereof . " Says God ' s most holy word : The water hath fish , and the land hath flesh , And the air hath manv a bird ; And the soil is teeming o ' er the earth , And the earth hath numberless hands ; Tet millions of hands want acres , While millions of acres want hands . Sunli ght and breeze , and gladsome flowers , Are o ' er the earth spread wide ; And the good God gave these gifts to men—To men who on earth abide ; Tet thousands are toiling in poisonous gloom , . And shackled with-Jroo bands , "While millions ef hands want acres , And millions of acres want hands .
2 fever a rood hath a poor man here , To p lant with 3 grain of corn , . And never a plot where his child may cull Fresh flowers in dewy morn ; The soil lies fallow , the weeds grow rank , . Yet idle the poor man stands ! Ah ! millions of hands want acres , And millions of acres want hands . —Mark Lane Express .
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EKGS AXD THRONES ARE FALLING . BT THE BET . J , C . LORD , D . D . ( From an American Agrarian Reform Journal , enti tied Tlie National Reformer and Pittsburgh , ( Penn sylvania ) Saturdao Afereurv . J
lungs and Thrones are falling , The sound comes o ' er the sea , "Deep unto deep is calling , " Td the conflict of the free , A \ t the voices of the nations , like the roaring of a . flood , * Th » "sun is changed to darkness , the moon is changed to blood . " The word of power is spoken In accents loud and long , The iron chain is broken Irom the ancles of the strong . The hlkd nnd beaten giant is staggering up at length , And the pillars of his prison house begin to _feefhis
strength . To exile goes the King , The Throne is in the street ; , The royal floors are echoing The sounds of plebeian feet . O ' er gilded rooms and halls of state the common people throng , Half fearful of the spectre yet , that haunted them so long . The purple robe is riven , Ay , crushed beneath the tread Of masses hunger driven , Demanding work and bread . And death is riding grimly forth and terror by his side , With blood-stained war and pestilence and famine hollow-eyed .
The Powers of Earth are shaken From the Danube to the Rhine _, Old Germany is waking , Like a Cyclop from his wine . And dark his brow with hatred , and red his eyes with wrath , "While he scatters his tormentors , like pigmies , from his path . The famished Celt is crying , ' * Ann , brethren , one and all ;" The Saxon Lord is flying , To castle , keep and wall . Unhappy Ireland grasps again the old detested bands , And lift ** towards the indignant heavens her bruised and bleeding hands .
The Seine is running red Throogh the capital of France , Over ramparts of the dead The cry is still advance ! "With pike and gun and paving stone and red flag flying high , The sons of Labour take their stand to conquer or to die !
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OP FEANCOIS-RENE , VISCOUNT DE _CHATEAUBELUVD . London : Simms and _M'Intyre , Paternoster-row . The publishers ofthe " Parlour Library " encouraged by the success of that popular series , have been induced to commence a new Tenture , which they entitle "The Parlour . Labrary of Instruction . " The first volume has just appeared , and contains the "whole of the first , and the commencement of the second •" book" ofthe Autobiography of Chateatj bkiaxd .
The Hig h-Priest of Legitimacy— Chateaubkia > _t >' s name is known even -where his works are unknown , or at least unread . Thousands , therefore , to whom his name is familiar , must naturally be desirous of knowing something of his history—a history strangely chequered b y prosperity and misfortune , renown and suffering . Ofthe order ofthe aristocracy , and belonging to one ofthe most ancient families of Brittany , _Chateaubriand , the last of ten children , was born at St Malo , on the 4 th o f Sep--tembcr , 1768 . An affectionate nurse dedicated him to " our Ladv of _Nazareth , " and made a
row that he should wear in her ( the said "Lady ' s" ) honour blue and white , until he was seven years of-age . Chateacbeiaxd _' s ¦ Either—who was eaten np by one passion , the pride of ancestry—is represented by his son in a most unamiable light .. His mother— -with many ' * admirable qualities' *—appears to have beeu verv like a fool in the management of her household affairs , connecting therewith a strong infusion ofthe scold ; humbled by her morose husband , she appears to have made her inferiors pay for her humiliation , _ChateauiRiAxnsays : "My father was-the terror of the servants—my mother their scourge . "
The son of "the . hi g h and mighty Lord , _PiEx-e de _CHATEAfcimiAT-iD , Chevalier , Count of _Combourg , Lord of Gaugres , Plessis _L'E pine , Botdet , JMestroit in Dol , and other places , " was brought up in this way : I grew np in the midst of my family without study of any kind . We no longer inhabited the house where I was born . My mother occupied an hotel in the Place St . "Vincent , almost opposite the gate of the town which communicateswiththe Sillon . The _blackguards ofthe town became my mo 3 t intimate friends : I thronged the court-yard and the stairs of our house with them . I resembled them in every
respect . I spoke their Language ; I had their appearance and manners ; I was ciad like them— -with coat unbuttoned and bare to the breeze . __ Sly shirts were filling into rags ; I never had a pair of stockings which were not full of holes ; I dragged after me tattered slippers , down in the heels , and which dropped from my feet" at every step ,. , 1 frequently lost mv hat , and sometimes my coat . My face was daubed , scratched , and bruised , and my hands were black with soot . My appearance altogether was so odd , that my mother , " in the midst of her anger , could not refrain from laughing and exclaiming , _"Howuglyheis . "
_Notwithstanding this picture of wretchedness _thehistory of _Chateaubriand ' s boyhood is very interesting . Here is a precious specimen of the "f-unfl y pride and arrogance ofthe Chateaubriands : — One morning I was eagerly pursuing a game of prison-bars in the great court-yard ofthe college , when a message was brought " me that some one wished to see me ; I followed the domestic , to the outer gate . There Ifounda stout man , with a red face , a brusque and impatient manner , a stern voice , carrying a stick in his hand , and wearing a black pernkebadl y curled , a torn cassock tucked up through his pockets , dirty shoes , and stockings with holes in the heels . ° « Yon little scamp »• _s _^ a he « are ym _ _% _ Chevalier de Chateaubriand of Combouro- v *
" Yes , sir , replied I , rather stunned by his address . "And I , " replied he , alnioBt foaming , " amthe last ofthe eldest branch of your family . I am . the Abbe de Chateaubriand _^ of La Guerande . Look at me wclL " The proud abbe * put his hand in the pocket of an o'd pair of plush breeches , took out a mouldy crown of sis francs , wrapped ina piece of filthy paper , threw it in mv faoe and nroceeded on his way on foot ,
_muttcriii-r his matins with a furious air . I learned subsequentlv that the Prince de Conde had caused an offer to be made to this clownish vicar of the office of preceptor to the Duke de Bourbon . The _an-osant priest replied thatthe prince , the possessor of tfie barony of Chateaubriand , ought to Know that the heirs o ' f the barony might have preceptors _the mselves , but wcrenot the preceptors of others . Those haughtv aristocrats then little thought _***¦ soon the conceit was tote tafeea out of
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them . A few years afterwards , that on which they had prided themselves , they were glad tb conceal . - Their aristocratic disdain was a poor defence against the unloosed wrath of the multitude . Originally intended for the navy , then for the church , _Chateattbbiand would be neither sailor nor priest , and at last—somewhat reluctantly—entered tho army , in whioh he did not see service . "When the old government was broken up , his soldiership—never more than a sort of boys play—came to an end . At Paris , where , notwithstanding his youth , he led the life of a solitary , he was regarded as a simpleton by Ma dashing elder : brother . At Versailles he was _^ regented to the King , and , for the first'time , saw the Queen . -. » _-. _-Z . . . - .. .. . . . _ .
MHJISXVI _, AXD UARIB _AXTOISETIE . _ When ifr- was announced thatthe king had risen , those who were not presented withdrew . I felt an emotion of vanity ; not that I was proud of remaining , but ! should have been humiliated to be obliged to _retired The door of the sleeping apartment of the king was thrown open , and I saw the king , according to the . usual custom , complete histodetthat is to say , take his hat . from the hand ofthe first nobleman in waiting . The king advanced , on his way to * maS 9 ; Ibowed ; the Mar-pus de Diiras mentioned my name : — ' . ' " Sire , the Chevalier de Chateaubriand . " - The lung looked at me , returned my salute , hesitated , and seemed about to stop and speak to me .
I should have replied with confidence my timidity had vanished . To address the general' of the army , the head ofthe State , Appeared to me a very simple matter ,. without my being able to - account ior this feeling . The king , more embarrassed than I , and finding nothing to say , passed oh . Oh ,, vanity of human destinies ! This sovereign , whom I saw for the _Srst _thne-r-this monarch' so great and'jowcrful —was Lonis XVTi within six years of his scaffold . ' _Andtbis new courtier whom he scarcely glanced at , was commissioned to search for , and separate his remains from amidst the .. surrounding bones ; and after having been , on proofs" bf nobility , presented to" the - descendant' of St : Louis' in - his earthly greatnets , _wds destined , upon proof of fidelity , one day
to be presented to : his < lust . Double tribute of respect to the twofold royalty of the sceptre and thd palm . . Louis XVI . might have repliedio ' liis judges in the words of scripture-7- " I have done many good works ** amonj * - you , for -which _ottheso-do ' you stone me ?" - _" '¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ - j . ' We now hastened to the gallery , to be in the queen ' s . way whenshoreturned from chapel . She soon appeared , surrounded by a numerous and glittering retinue . She made us a most queenly reverence 7 -she seemed as if enchanted withilife ; and those fair hands , which then supported with so much grace the _sceptre of so many lungs , were fated , before being bound by the exeeutioner , to have to patch the rags of her widow ' s weeds as a prisoner in the Conciergerie . ¦
, .- . _B— " ¦• . ' . Here is a striking , picture of—J * BESCH SOCIBIt AT THE BKOINNKG OF THB REVOLUTION . - * At this period everything which related to mind or morals was deranged—the inevitable symptom Of an approaching revolution . Magistrates blushed to have to wear the robe , and turned into ridicule the gravity of their fathers . The Lamoignons , the Moles , the Seguiers , the _D'Aguesseaus , wished to combat and refused to judge . The presidents ' wive 3 , ceasing to play the part of venerable mothers of families , glided from their gloomy hotels . to seek for brilliant adventures . The priest from the pulpit
avoided using the name of Jesus Christ , and spoke only of the legislator , of Christians ; one ministry fell after another ; power slipped from _evjery hand . The highest Ion ton was to be American in town , English at court , Prussian in the army—to be everything , except Preneh . Everything that was said , everything that was done , was only one series of inconsistencies . People affected ts retain the existence of secular abbes , and yet renounced religion ; no one could be an officer unless he were noble , and yet nobility was scotited ; equality was introduced into the drawing-room , and blows of the cane into the camp .
I cannot better paint the society of 1789 and 1790 than by comparing it to the architecture of the times of Louis XII . and of Francis L , when the Grecian orders began to blend with the Gothic style ; pr , rather , by assimilating it to a collection of the ruins ' of all nations , heaped up pell-mell , after the Reign of Terror , in the cloisters of the convent of the little Augustins . Only the remains of which I speak were living and ever-changing . In every corner of Paris there were literary re-unions , political societies , and theatres . The future celebrities wandered through the crowd without being known , like souls on the borders of . Lethe before having enjoyed'the light . I Saw the son of Marsha * Gouvion-St . Cyr , perform a character on the theatre ofthe Marais ,
in "The Culpable Mother" of _Beaumarohais People rushed from the club of the Feuillants to the club of the Jacobins , from balls and gaminghouses to the groups of the Palais Royal from the tribunes of the National Assembly to the tribunes held in the open air . Deputations of the people , cavalry piquets , and patrols * of infantry , passed and repassed in the streets ; Beside a man dressed as a Frenchman , with powdered hair , sword at his side , hat held under his arm , pumps and silk stockings , walked a man with short-cut hair , without ' powder , wearing the English frockcoat , and the American cravat . At the theatre , the
actors published the news , and the pit thundered out , patriotic couplets . Pieces adapted to the times attracted crowds . An abbe would appear on the stage ; the people would shout " coxcomb ! " and the abbe would reply , " Gentlemen , long live the nation ! " People hastened to hear Mandini and his wife , Yiganoni and Rovedino , sing at the Opera Buffai after having heard Ca ira shouted with stentor lungs ; and went to admire M adame Dugazon , Madame St . Aubin , Carline , the little Oliver , Mademoiselle Contat , Mol § , Fleury , and Talma , wbo was then making his debut , after having seen Favras hung .
The- promenades of the Boulevard du Temple , and of that of the Italians , surnamed of Coblentz , and the alleys of the garden ofthe Tuileries , were crowded with gaily-dressed women . Three ' young daughters of Gretry _' s were particularly conspicuous—white and red as their dresses . All three died soon after . "She fell asleep for ever , " said Gretry , when speaking of his eldest daughter , " seated on my knees , as lovely as during her life . " A crowd of carriages swept along the thoroughfares or splashed the sans culottes , and the lovely Madame de Buffon mig ht be seen seated alone in a phaeton of the Duke of Orleans , which was drawn up opposite the door of some club .. ! The taste and elegance of the aristocratic portion
of society were to be met with at the hotel of La Rochefoucault , ' at the evening parties of _Mesdames de Poix , d'Henin , de Simiane ; de Yaudreuil ; , in several drawing-rooms of the . higher magistracy which had remained open . At the houses of Monsieur _Xecker , M . le Comte de Montmorin , and those of the several ministers , were ! to he met ( along with Madame de Stael ) the Duchess d'Aiguillon , Mesdames de Beaumont and de Serilly all ihe new celebrities of' -France , and all the liberty of the new manners . A shoemaker , ih the uniform of an officer of the _National Guard , took the measure of your foot on his knees ; the monk , who , on Friday , was clad in his white or black robe , wore on Snnday it round hat arid the
habit ofa- citizen ; the capuchin , staved , read the newspapers in the taverns ; and in a oircle of madcap women appeared a nun gravely seated . She was some aunt or sister who had been driven from her mon astery . The crowd visited the convents , which Were open to Iho world , as travellers wander through the abandoned halls of the- Alhambra _at-Grenada , or-pauso beneath the columns of the temp le ofthe _§ ibyl at Tibur . For thc rest , plenty of duels and amours , prison acquaintances , ; and political fraternities ; mvsterious rendezvous amidst the rums , beneath a cloudless sky , in the midst of the calm and the poetry of nature ; solitary , silent , and secluded walks , mingled with oaths
of eternal friendship and _undying tenderness pledged amid the low deep murmur or a flying world , to the distant sound of the crumbling fabric of society , which threatened in" its fall these happy ties thus placed at tbe mercy of events . "When any one _draanneared . for twenty-four hours , their friends were not certain whether they should ever see them more Some plunged into , the path of revolution ; others meditated _civil-war ; others set out for the Ohio , to -, which they had despatched before them plans of princely chateaux , -which they meant to build amongst the savages ; -and others _againpro-Sed to foin tho p rinces . _MfftSSLEife _adventiircr
ta joyous 1 mood , often without the _^> hayingasou in their pockets ; the royalists affirming thattheafiair wouldend , oneof thosefinemomings , bv a decree of parliament ; the patriots , quite as buoyant in their hopes , announcing a _mgn of peace and of happiness along with liberty . They sung" The holy candle of Arras , And flambeau of Provence , Their li ght , though boasting small icU . il , Are kindling round us France . And smee their flame we dare not touch , We'll snuff it vet , or hope as much . ' -And this was the way tficy Yttdged of Robespierre anu 1 Mirabeaii ! iA a
We shall return to this volume in next Saturday ' s Star . In the meantiine we earnestly advise all who have a shilling * to spare ti ) make themselves acquainted with this portion of Chateaubriand ' s Autobiograp hy . All who read the first volume will be anxious for the speedy _appeavauceof its successors .
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CHARTIST TEACTS FOR THIS TIMES . No . I . Why are we Poor ? What do the Chartists want ? B y the Kirkdale Chartist Prisoners . London : J . TVatson , 3 , Queen ' 8 Head-passage , Paternoster-row . Manchester : A . Heywood . Leeds : Joseph Barker , Wbrtley , Nottingham : Sweet ; and all Booksellers . We recently informed our readers that Messrs . Wesi , White , and Leac h ( the
talented and incorruptible ChartiBt leaders , at present sun ering in Kirkdale prison for ithe " crime" of advocating the rights of . the people ) , were about to commence the publication of a series of "Tracts for the Times ;" Our announcement is fulfilled . No . I . ofthe projected series is before us , and a careful perusal thereof enables us to declare it _^ orthy of the taleits and reputation ofits authors , whothus'intimate tbeir intentions : —
Li the series of tracts which we intend to publish , we shall endeavour to lay bare the various causes that have led to the social inequality which inflicts so much misery on the mass of mankind . ¦ The authors of these tracts , having to . endure the same privations as their brethren , and being at present the _irinktfesof a gaol , for the prominent position they occupied among their fellow sufferers , have resolved to devote the leisure which this circumstance affords them , to vindicate their principles , and defend themselves from the calumnies which the _hire-, ling press of . the Whig and Tory faction have so unsbrupulously heaped upon thera , as well as to give an exposition of the _^ feelings , wants , and wishes of that numerous body of intelligent artisans termed _Ciubtists , as an answer to the oft-repeated , queries of the wealthier _claases-r- _^ Whati do the Chartists want _f . ' and of the operative—Why are we Poor ? ,
Our friends truly observe . that the 'fruitless in _surrections of , and revolutions . effected by , . the working classes , toolamentablyprove "the ignorance of the people in the science of Government , " seeing that after , pouring out their _bloodj and winning victory through _^! fearful pains and perils , they have contentsd _themaelV _' es _wfn getting rid of one set of evil governors to make way for others equall y vicious , leaving the-same causes in operation which they had previously hazarded their lives to uproot . " To assist in dispelling this fatal ignorance , is the object ofthe Kirkdale prisoners . We add a few additional extracts : —¦
A PEOMJi CASNOT REBEL . The democracy of Europe , notwithstanding the abuse heaped on them , are not accountable for the bloodshed and . deplorable scenes of v iolence which have" lately occurred , to the disgrace of thoso _iwho promoted it . - ' The ' pcople of those countries have been termed rebellious , but a people cannot rebel . It is those despots who set np their own will against the wants and wishes of . a nation that truly merit the term rebel , and should be treated as such .
" . " * " THE _MIDMK- . CI . AS 8 BBFOKJIERS . These facts ought to arouse ' the people to concentrate then' energies for a thorough reformation of the system ; not the paltry and all but useless _tamperings of Hume , Cobden , and Co .: not the _clipping and cheese-parings of Free Trade , Financial _Jtefoirm , and the remission of a few taxes fer the , substitution of others ;—but a . mighty national effort for the total annihilation of aristocratic and monied predominance , root and branch . * This alone is worthy . the . intelligence of a great and enli ghtened nation ; all the attempted patch-work of our parliamentary reformers being merely a tub to the whale .
SHE PABLIAMENT . Our parliament , which should - _" epreseht tho wisdom of the nation , and should be occupied in devising the best means of applying tbe national wealth to the welfare of all , ia . merely a committee which sits to concoct arbitrary rules for the supposed aggrandisement of their order , and , we have reason to suppose , have neither inclination nor intelligence to discharge their proper functions . It is useless to expect any amelioration bo long as itis composed of such materials , and it is therefore necessary that such an alteration shall take place in its composition as shall make it the index of the national will ahd the exponent of its wants and wishes , instead of being , as at present , the most formidable obstacle of ail improvement .
"We wish , " say our friends , "it to be plainly understood , that our chief object is to direct the attention of the working classes to the subject of social reform , so that on the attainment of political power , they may know how to use it for their advancement'in the scale of progression . " And we wish them success . Let the local Chartist Committees order— -and pay for when ordered—a quantity of this tract , and ensure the sale thereof . There ought to be no difficulty in organising ( remember , Carnot " organised victory " ) , a sale of twenty thousand copies within the next fourteen days . We have reason to believe that the succeeding tracts will well repay the encouragement which the working men will , we hope , give the authors , b y their patronage of No . 1 .
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The Speech of Daniel Whittle Harvey , Esq ., when M . P . for Colchester , on moving for a Select Committee , to inquire into the Crown . Lands , delivered in the Ilouse of Commons , March 20 th , 1830 . London : Bidgway , Piccadilly ; and E . Wilson , Royal Exchange . _Judging by the newly-written - * Introduction , ' ' we conclude that his speech has been printed for the twofold purpose of , first , reminding the public that Mr . Daniel Whittle HarveV is still open to an engagement on the popular side , provided the terms are liberal ;
and , second , adding to the stock of information on the subject ofthe management , or , rather , infamous mismanagement , of the Crown Lands . As regards Financial Reform , Mr . Harvey mig htdo the state some service were he in Parliament at this moment , but we should not anticipate great things from him when more important questions come before the Legislature , as come they must . Mere tax-reducing Reformers will , ere long , find their level , and then certain characters , who are at present more popular than ever Mr . _HAkyEY was , will be seen in all their littleness .
We fancy , however , that the ex-Member for Colchester has small chance of getting into Parliament after his extraordinary treatment of the Radicals of Marylebone , At any rate , he must no more try his hand in that borough . As regards the " . Speech" before us , we can very cordiall y recommend it to our readers , and the friends of Financial Reform generally ; throwing , as it does , lig ht upon a mass of abuses which , "to be hated _needbut to be seen . " ' Mr . Harvey ; , on making his motion , was defeated , but in the minority there voted with him , Lord AHhorpe ( afterwards _iEarl Spencer , ( since deceased ) , Lord G-. Bentinck "
( deceased ) , Sir F . Burdett ( deceased ) , two of the Dundases , Lord Ebrington , ( now Earl Fortescue ) , Sir James Graham (!) , LordHowick ! ( now Earl Grey ) , Cam Hobhouse (!) , Lord Morpeth ! ( now Earl of Carlisle ) , C . Wood ( . ' ) , and Lord John Russell (!!!) . The Whigs were then out of place , when they acquired power they took up the investigation which had been demanded b y Mr . Harve y . The Whig inquiry resulted in nothing ; and from that time to the present the abuses laid bare in the speech under notice , have gone on multip l ying , until now the subject is again referred to a Committee , to be burked as before , unless the public determine otherwise .
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An Unsophisticated Genealogy of Her Majesty , Queen Victoria , vith singular and remarkable Anecdotes of her Ancestors . York ; H . Roberts , 31 , Hig h Peter-gate . London * S . _Y . Collins , 39 , HolyweU-street , Strand . Tins fourpennyworth of reall y useful knowledge is a vast improvement on the slobbering stuff vomited by the " regular" chroniclers and compilers of royal histories . The " sovereign people" will do well to consult thepageB of this pamp hlet . We recommend it not the less heartily to all those who take delight in tracing the stream of regal virtue to its source 1
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• _WitECK OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP OFF THE ESSEX COAST . —NEARLY TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST . Harwich , Sunday , Three p . m . —We havo to record one ofthe _moSt-fri ghtful catastrophes that probably ever occurrod on this part Of the English coast , yiz ., the total loss ofa large" emigrant ship on the Long Sands , with nearly 200 ' souls on board , during the tempestuous and fearful' weather . on-Wednesday last , . Thegale _comuw-nccd in tho earl y part of Wednesday morning , the wind blowing from the south-west , and as the day advanced the violence of the Storm increased , and continued till between six and seven' "O ' clock in ' tlie evening . A heavy _sno * r . Btor-n followed and lasted fill midni ght . : During . Thursday news reached'this _harhm-v r . t
several vesspls having been wrecked on tho Long Sands . Tho first tidings communicated tlie loss of a Dutch Indiiiman , named the D _^ _-le '' Captain Laws _, bound from . Antwerp to Havaiinah , the crew of wliich ( with the exception of one poor fellow ) , were picked up by her Majesty ' s revenue cutter Scout , and landed hero . . - A large schooner shared a similar fate on the same sands , with the loss of every soul of her crew . Seven or eight total losses were also . reported- asi-having happened on the adjacent shoals , and it was hoped that these formed the oxtent of the disasters .. Late on Friday night , however , her Majesty ' s revenue cutter : Petrel brought the melancholy intelligence of the appalling loss of an emi grant ship on the 3 < ime sands , and that nearly 200 beings had perished with her . Only _foiir of the many on board survived , whom the Petrel had rescued ..
Owing to the exhausted condition of the poor fellows , who had been exposed to'the storm in the rigging for forty-eight hours , it was not till yesterday that the correct details could ; be elicited from them by Mr . Bdlingsiley , the agent to . _Lloyds at this port , " . ' and the assistant-agent , Mr . Oppehheiin , to whom tho reporter is indebted for the subjoined details : — * . _> The ill-fated vessel was the bark Floridian _, 500 tons , burden , -Mr . E .. D . Whitmore , master ,. from Antwerp . She wa 3 : the ; property of . Mr . E . D . Hulbert , bf New York , ' . and > ad' been ohartered by a'German company for the cdnveyance ' of emigrants to the United'States . 'She was announced to sail from . Antwerp last - Thursday-week ,, but for
some reason she was delayed till tfiei following Sunday , when . she left that , port and _proceeded down the river . She , however , did not finally take her departure from the coast until Tuesday last . The ninnbor of emigrants - that had taken a passage by her at Antwerp , andJiad gone on board before she weig hed anchor , is stated to have been from 176 to 200 . They comprised young , respectable German agricultural labourers , with their wives and families and many mechanics . Amongst the number on board were from-fifty to sixty women and between twenty and thirty children . Tho shi p was worked . by a crew of nearly . twenty , part of whom were Englishmen , commanded by a Captain Whitmore , a surgeon being on board to . attend the emigrants . It was late on Tuesday evening when the Floridian put
out to sea . The weather was exceedingly fine , and the wind being fair all bade well for a pleasant run through the Channel . . The : course taken after clearing the Flemish banks ( so say the surviving seamen ) , was westward for tlio Straits of Dover . The weather continued favourable up to twelve o ' clock , when tho wind shifted round to the southwest , blowing very hard , with a fall of hail and snow , which was : so heavy that it became impossible , to see the length of the vessel . They tacked ship and bore to the north-westward , until four o clock on Wednesday morning , and' then altered their . course . Captain Whitmore had charge of the watch up to four o ' clock , when he went below , tho chief mate succeeding him in cbarge of the next watch .
Daybreak brought fearful weather ; the wind had sprung up terrifically , -with a great fall of snow , and a heavy rolling-sea : The ship kept on her course , the intention being to make for the South Foreland light , running / under reefed foresail , foretopmast staysail , and the main spencer . Although the storm increased in fury almost every hour , no alarm . was manifested for the safety of the ship until about three o clock , when ( according to the statement of one of the seamen saved ) the chief mate expressed some misgivings as to the course they wero then pursuing , and , calling to the second officer , requested him to take charge of the watch while , ho went below to " look into his coast pilot directory . " Scarcely had he quitted his post before
the shi p struck with terrific force ; so great , indeed , that , her planks and false keel immediately rushed up alongside . A scene of horror instantly presented itself on dock ; the emigrants hastened on the deck in _fi-antic dismay . Within a few moments of the vessel striking the sea broke into her hull , blowing up the hatchways , and sweeping many of- the poor creatures overboard , while others were drowned in their berths , being unable to rise from the effects of sea sickness . Captain Whitmore , perceiving the inevitable destruction of his ship , gave orders to his men to launch the boats . The first boat broke adrift the moment it was launched , and , it is said , capBized directly with two men who were in it . The moment the second boat was lowered the captain
jumped into it with Mrs . Whitmore ( his wife ) . This led to a desperate rush towards the craft . Some twenty or thirty poor creatures , men and women , leaped from the quarter-deck of the foundering ship into the boat ; the result was , that it also instantly capsized , andthe whole party were precipitated overboard and lost . The crew took to the rigging , to which they lashed themselves , and upwards of 100 ofthe emigrants congregated on tho quarter-deck . Here they had not been more than an hour before the ship broke in two , amidships . The mainmast fell over the side with a fearful crash , and a tremendous sea carried away the whole of the quarterdeck with the mass of human beings on it . A frightful shriek filled the air , and the next moment
the unfortunate creatures were struggling in the deep . By great efforts eight or ten were rescued by the men who had secured themselves inthe rigging . The moment the ship broke in two , her cargo , mostly merchandise , floated out and intermingled with the drowning sufferers . For some time men , women , and children were to be seen floating about on the packages . Ere night had set in , however , all had disappeared . Thc then survivors , about twelve in number , continued in the rigging ofthe foremast , which , with the fore part ot the vessel , was all that remained ofthe wreck , the whole of the night enduring the greatest suffering . ( The sea kept breaking over- them , and the cold being most intense rendered their condition mostpainful . When Thursday morning broke it was discovered that six had died in the course ofthe night : they had been
frozen to death , and their bodies were dangling in the rigging . All that day the same fearful weather existed , and not the least aid could be rendered those who still existed in the rigging . They could See vessels passing at a distance , but they were too far off for tno crews to observe their situation . Thursday ni g ht and the greater portion of Friday passed away , yet no help came . Only four now remained , three sailors and one passenger ; the other two were frozen to death in the course of thc preceding day and night . About seven o ' clock great was their joy at perceiving the approach of a vessel , which proved to he her Majesty ' s revenue-cutter Petrel . sThe crew belonging to her , by direction of the commanding officer , lowered their boat and pushed off to the spot , the heavy surf beating round tho wreck m such a manner as to render tne
running of the cutter alongside the wreck exceedingly dangerous . After considerable difficulty the poor fellows were got off and taken onboard the revenuecutter , where everything was done for their comfort .. They were in a deplorable state of exhau 97 tion and partly bereft of their senses . Their hands and feet were severely , frostbitten , ' and how they escaped with their lives appears most remarkable . The Petrel made for this port' with all sail , and arrived ahout eleven p ' _nlock at night . -Mr . _Uilling--sley , Lloyd ' s agent and Vice-Consul for the Belgian government , afforded the poor fellows every attention that was possible by placing them in comfortable quarters . The names of the seamen saved are Henry Hill , William Harry _. ' and a Swede , name
unknown . The fourth is one of the emigrants , apparently a mechanic , He has been deranged ever since he has'been landed . From accounts received from Bri ghtlingsea , a small fishing _villago near Wivenhoe , we hear that a Colchester vessel lost five hands in an attempt to rescue , some of the sufferers . The noble fellows saw the quarter deck carried jiway with the emigrants on it . They immediately pushed off in their boat with a view of saving some of them , but had scarcely got a few strokes when a heavy sea caught their craft , upset it , and the whole of them met with a watery grave . The Long Sands form a very extensive shoal some distance outside thewell-known channel known as the Swin . In length they are between nine and ten miles , and their breadth averages from half a mile
to a mile and a half . They are about twenty miles from this port , and their other extremity about thc same distance from the North Foreland . It is a matter of some surprise that the ill-fated vessel should have made such a course as to touch these sands . It is affirmed that she must have been a number of points out of her track in _making for the Channel , for , even boisterous as the wind was , it was not in a direction likely to hasten the striking of the ship on these shoals . The opinion here given by competent parties is that the melancholy catastrophe is entire ' y attributable to a want of judgment on the part of the commander . At this port he wa 3 well known , and was _generally considered an experienced mariner . It is worthy-pf remark , howeve _** _,, that American commanders ih coining from _foreign northern ports generally steer a course nearer the English . coast' than _thenforo propov _aid 8 & fe _ohannel .
Upwards of 200 vessels started ou Saturday morning for the spot where the _WJJeck Ues , with a view of picking up ' what portion < of her cargo inight be floating about . Sovoral revenue , _cutteM also
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_proceeded to the scene to proteot it from the ravages oi the wreckers . " .. . A report had been received by tho Preventive Service , tbat fifty bodies had been found along the , _coast towards Southend , but we havo had no means of ascertaining its correctness . . Harwich , Mospat . —Incessant have boen thc inquiries here as to . whether any more of the unfortunate creatures had been preserved ; with the exception , however ; of the four poor fellows taken from the _rigging by the Petrel revenue cutter , every human being © a board perished , numbering in all' 1 _' 71 _soiils . " The depositions of thesurviving _sei-men of the Floridian have been taJtes by the _authorities of the port , and from them wo _usAhst ah _authpniri _* detail of the circumstances attending the ship ' s loss . It may bore be stated that their names are Heary Hill , Ephraiin Stockbridge , a man of colouK and William Harv .
The crew , with Captain "ffhrtmore , ( who had his wife on board , ' ) amounted to fourteen , the names of whom were Wm . Viley , chief officer , of New London ; _w- ? _r ' cdo _^ _-a 0 ' - _* - known , second officer ; James Williamson , steward ; Itichard Ferdinand , cook ; Charles Barrett , John Tillman , Peter Davis , John Dutch , Edward Woody , Charles Thomas Balwith , and the above _mentioned survivors . i _? ? 8 - - -J- struc _^* ' the " terrified emigrants rusUedqudeck , and a scene of .. heart-rending character ensued . .. The poor creatures ran about in almost frantic confusion . The ship continued striking the-shoal , and Captain Whitmoro _finding , by sounding the pumps , that she had bilged , signalled a barque ( which afterwards proved to be the Dyle ) about three miles off for assistance . -The captain findingbthe broken
, y fragments that were coming up each side / that the vessel was brenkin g up , directed the boats tb be launched .-His intention was to tako the passengers to thc barque . Two , named Charles Barrett and John . Tillman , got into the first boat lowered , to bale out the water she had shipped ; The passengers , however ; got hold , of her , and were hauling the boat alongside to jump in ; but Barrett , apprehe ' nsivo . of her being stove in , cut away the pninter ,, ahd the boat driuedastern . " The life-bont , capable 6 f containing about twenty persons , was then launched , Captain Whitmore _^ directing the men to-stand by , so as to prevent too many" getting into her . He was this first to enter , with the intention of assisting his wife into the boat . The emigrants , however , conceiving that it was his intention to abandon them and the vessel , rushed , hoadlonr * ——— — —
_, , .. . .-- _ _y ¦ over the quarter-deck into the boat . It ivas instantly filled , and the next moment sho TCas , capsisod , and all wero drowned—thecaptaiu and the chief mate , who had gone to assist the _passengers : into' the boat , disappearing with the rest . Mrs . Whitmore , who had been unable from the pressure to get in , was on tho quarter-deck , and witnessed the fate of her husband . To : the remainder of the ship ' s company it was evident tliat most ' : of . ' thoso on board , about 150 , would perish , as they felt and saw tho _vessel fast breaking up . The . sea was lashing the ship on all sides , the water" liad burst np her hatches , and her cargo of boxes , cases , & c , were washing about her decks in all directions , Breaking many of the passengers' legs , who : as they fell were by the next , sea washed overboard and lost . As a last recourse
it Was resolved to cut away the main anoTinizen mast . ; She had heeled over on one side , and it was hopodit would bethe _ihc-ans _bfBaving her , but no axes could be . found . The . rigging was separated with ah idea that the masts , not having the necessary stay , would go over , hut they held on for halfan-hour afterwards , when the shi p wont in two , and the main and mizen mast , yielding by the . board , fell with a loud crash . Many of the emigrants wero crushed to death by their fall , and . . others were knocked overboard . Hill , Hary , Stockbridge , with another seaman ,, named Davis , and four or five passengers , had taken to the fore-ri gging . Previously they had placed ' several women and children under the forecastle and in the cook-house , so as to prevent their being crushed to death bv the _lioavv
floating masses oti deok . The emigrants huddled together on the poop . Those in the forecastle , cook , and round-house were speedily drowned by the sea tearing tbem away , and sweeping them overboard . For some time Mrs . Whitniore was observed in the centre of the group of unfortunate creatures , on the poop _ . Sho had her hands crossed on her boaom , ana , with her head raised to heaven , appeared to be in deep prayer . Some wero in a kneeling position , while others were shouting for help from the barque at a distance . ' . Their fate was speedily sealed . Withhva short time a terrific sea rolled on to the wreck , and , at ono swoop , carried
the entire poop overboard . At least from eighty to a hundred and twenty unhappy creatures were upon it , and for a moment or so if floated like a raft . The next sea or so , however , turned it over , and tho living mass were struggling in the agonies of death . Semi" thirty or forty , among whom were several females , could be observed clinging to the floating packages of the cargo . As they rolled over , so the poor creatures struggled for a firmer hold . At length , from exhaustion , they sank and were drowned . Before night had set in , the wreck had broken in two , and the part which remained was the bow and the foremast , to which the survivors and Others clung .
The Floridianltruck on the outside of the Long Sands . The revenue cutters which have since arrived , report that not a vestige of the wreck remains the whole having been swallowed up in tho sands . As yet nono ofthe bodies have heen brought ashore . A great number have been seen floating , but the fact of most of them being naked , leads to tho presumption that thoy had been previously picked up and stripped of their clothing . Many ot tho passengers were known to have sums of money about their persons , some to the extent of £ 300 and - £ 400 . A largo number of wreckers were seen in the vicinity of the wreck , after the survivors had been taken off by the Petrel cutter , and , with the exception of some of the . cargo that has been landed at ltamsgate and Margate , no other portion has been
reported to the customs . The onl y emigrant saved , Wilhelm Nicro , having partly re ' eoyered his senses—the mind of the poor fellow being deranged , when rescued , by the horrible suffering he endured with three others in the riggmg of the wreck—was enabled to make the following statement to Mr . Opponheim , the interpreter to Lloyd ' s agent of the port , who handed it to the reporter : — " As far as I can recollect I sailed with about 160 of my countrymen , all emigrants from Antwerp , on the 25 th of " February , in the Floridan , for A _ew Yoi'k ; and stood out to sea-from Flushing Roads on tho 27 th . We had very rough weather , a succession of severe gales , and the greater part of the emigrants were down below , sick ; Suddenly on the evening of the 28 th , about
five o ' clock , we experienced a tremendous shock , and a general cry was heard , The ship is on shore —we are all lost ! ' I , and almost every one ofthe passengers rushed upon deck , when a scene of the greatest terror ' and confusion ensued . The ship continued to strike on the sand very heavily for a short time , when she broke up iii three pieces . A terrible and heartrending cry , whicli I shall never forget , was uttered by all , and the distress , and screams of thc . women and children who were on board nearly overpowered me ,, in my efforts to effect my own preservation . I was quite bewildered , and indeed I can scarcely remember what then took place _. for my senses were almost gone . I can recollect that the _greater part of the unfortunate victims wero crowded . on th 4 after-deck , whence ,
unhappily , I had the misfortune to see them washed away . They all met ' with a watery grave . Thc sea that broke over " us" was terrible . Twas left with eight others on the forepart ofthe shi p with a piece ot mast standing . We got up in the rigging , where I kept as well as I could . My sufferings were very severe from the intense cold , and a sail which was continually blowing about my . . head seriously bruised me . I managed to get' higher in the rigging , and I saw four of my fellow-creatures fall on tho following morning . I supposed that they had diedfrom the cold . , There wcro now only four of us left , and we continued in the rigging . All Thursday night and Fridav we had given up our lives as lost ' , ' when about five o ' clock on Friday evening we saw a boat making towards us . It had put oft'from
tho Petrel revenue cutter , arid by the humane awl praiseworthy efforts of the crew we . were miraculously preserved . We were taken on board the Petrel , which'landed us in Harwich harbour . I have ' since been lodged and fed by thc kind interference of Mr . Billingsley , Lloyds' agent and the Prussian Consul ; but I am still suffering muchfrom the exposure to cold , and from not having tasted any food nor had any rest for three days and three nights . .. . . . - The poof- fellow continues under the protection ofthe Yicc-Gonsul , and has received every medical and other necessary attention . But one opinion appears to be entertained as to the error which led to the lamentable . event , that it is alone to bo attributed to a false reckoning of the ship ' s course . Strange to say , the same remarks are applicable to the loss ofthe large Dutch vessel , the Dyle , wrecked on * tho same sands two hours after the Floridian had gone . on . She left Flushing
in company with the Floridian for the Downs , and was * the ves 3 el which Captain Whitmore saw at a ' distance when his . ill-fated vessel struck ,-and supnosed that their perilous , situation was seen , and that she had hove to . for their assistance . Such , however , was hot the case .. Mr . Laws , the captain of the Dyle , was unconscious of everything but his own _danger . His vessel struok on the sands about five o ' clock , and he , with hia crow , remained in the _tcar-a ofthe rigg ing nearly the same time as the poor fellows on the foremast of the Floridian , three days and nights ; but , althoug h their sufferings were considerable , thoy managed to procure provisions , whereas the others never tasted food or water the whole time . - The storm , it will be recollected , _blow from ., the south-west , directly off this coast , and consequently would tend to keep vessels from tho tjand than othorwise . ' A very strong current , however , set in on the sands ; and it is inferred that the Floridian was carried by the current on to tho spot .
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A _Fm-xcnMA ** at nis _Exotisit Studies . —Frenchman : Ha , my good friend , I have met with one difficulty—one very strange word . How vou call h-o-u-g-h ? Tutor : Huff . Fr .: Tm Men , huf : and snuff you spell _s-n-o-u-g-Ii , ha '—Tutor : 0 , iio , ¦ _wi / iss-n-u double f . The fact is , words ending in ough are a little irregular . —Fr .: Ah , very good ; 'tis beautiful language . II-o-u-g-h is huff , I will re « member ; and _c-o-u-g-h <¦ - •/ . Ihnve one bad cuff , lift I—Tutor : No , that is wrong . We say lauff , not cuff . —Fr .: Kauff , eh bten . Huff and ka ' uff , and _pardonnes moi , how yon call d-o-u-g-h ? Duff , ha—Tutor ; So , not duff , —Fr .: Kot duff ah 1 oui -1 understand—is dauf , hey ?—Tutor : No d-o-u-g-h spells doe . —Fr .: Dot . It is very fine ; wonderful language-,, it is doe : and t-o-n-g-h is _ too ,
cerinincment . my _neetstoaic was very toe , —Tutor : O , no , ' , * you shonld say tuff . —Fr .: Tuff ? And tho thing wrmer uses ; how you call hinf p-I-o-u-g-h _, pluff ? ha _T you smile ; I see 1 am wrong , it plauf ? A o . ? ah , then , it is ploe , like doe : it is a , beautiful language , ver' _Sne—ploc ?—Tutor : You arc still wrong , my friend . It is plow . —Fr .: Plow . ' Wonderful _InngUTige * _-, I shall understand ver' soon . Plow r do $ , kauf : and one more— _-r-o-n-g'h , what you call General Taylor ; ran / and ready _Z—Tutor : No ; rough spells ruff . —Ft .: Ruff , ha I Let me not forget . lt-o-u-g-h is ru ff , and _b-o-n-g-h is buff , ha I Tutor -. So , low . —Fr .: Ah I very simple , wonderful . language ; bat I have had what you call _e-n-o-u-g-h ; ha ! what you . call him ?—N . }' . Home Journal .
What is _inE Feminine or _Boak?—In a little school not a hundred miles from Brixton , the question was put " What is the feminine of boar V It went all rennd tlie class till it came to thc turn of the youngest . _f'Sow , my dear . " said the schoolmistress most confidently , « . « I am sure you can tell me what is tho feminine of hoar . " '' oh , ves , ma ' am , I know . " " What isit , darling ? " " Why please , ma ' am , the feminine of boar is a mnff . " California . —The Literary Gazette gives ( from Hamlet ) a capital motto for emigrants to California : — " A pick-axe , and a spade ; Ay , and a winding-sheet . "
A , Sikh ' s Difficult * : in CoMriiEHKNniNo Chihsti Asm . —The Moolraj lias written a . lettcr to General Whish , referring to the treatment which his brother-in-law received in _Edwardes ' s camp , and asks , "What is the reli gion that first seized , outraged , and wounded Lala Longa Mull—then cured him of his wounds , for the purposo of hanging him ?" More Fools They . —Tho poverty-stricken people of tlio diocese of Meath have through Bishop Cantwoll ' _s exertions , subscribed £ . 1 , 01 ) 0 in aid of the Irish fund for the support of his Holiness Pope Pius tho _Hinth . —Times .
Ancient , Musical Instrument . —The Eyyptian flute was only a cow ' s horn , with three or four holes in it ; and thoir harp or lyre had only three strings . Tho Jewish trumpets that made the walls of Jericho fall down , wero only rams' horns ; the psaltery was a small triangular harp or lyre , with wire strings , and struck ' with an iron needle or stick ; their sacbut resembled the zagg used at . Malta in tho present day , a species of bagpipe ; the timbrel was a tambourine , andthe dulcimer a liorizontal hari > with wire strings , and struck with a stick . liko the psaltery—such as arc seen about thc streets of Loudon in the present day . Lnagine the discord produced by 200 , 000 ot such instruments , while playing at the dedication of Solomon ' s temple . . . A . Reasonable Bequest . — " Sow put that ri ght back where _)* ou took it from . '" as the girl said when her lover snatched a kiss .
William the Co . v _< - _-u _** Ro i . —The human heads on which he trod were in his eyes a ground not sufficiently firm and secure ; he tormented himself about his own future years and thc fate of his children , and put questions concerning his presentiments to wise men , in an ago when divination was a part of wisdom . A Norman poet , almost cotemporary , re-Sresents him seated in the midst of his English and orman priests , and soliciting of them , with puerile importunity , a decisive exposition of thc fate of his posterity * At every word that fell from their lips , this great conqueror trembled beforo tUciu , as an Anglo-Saxon sort or citizen would have trembled in his presence . —Edinburgh Ifeview .
JUSTICE _INMSrENSAllLB . " The government ' s ungirt when Justice dies , : And constitutions are non-entities . "—Defoe . Tub Measurk or _llioui ahd Wrono . — . " It is the greatest happiness ofthe grcatcst ' number , that is the measure of right and wrong . "—Bentham . , Driven from their Country . — One million of Irishmen , within twenty-two years , have Often naturalised , as _citizons of the United States . . Cheap Beeu . —Mr . William Hay Smee proves that if all the taxes on beer were removed , and an equitable system of brewing and selling beer established ,
tho same ale that is now usually sold for Bixpcnoa per qunrfc would be twopence halfpenny . A Fair Demand . —The Constitutionel tells a story of an American young lady who has just been married to a , captain , in the navy . The bridegroom having been ordered to join his shin , thc bride wrote to the secretary of the navy , and referred , him to the 5 th verse of the 24 th chapter of Deuteronomy , v-hich says ; " When a man hath taken a new wife , ho shall , not go out to war , neither shall ho ho charged with any business ; but ho . shall be free one year , and shall cheer up his wifo which he hath taken .
IIomilitt . —Tho violet grows low , and covers ifcselfwith its own _Icavos ' . and yet of all flowers it y ields tho most delicious and fragrant smell : Such is humility . Very True . —Somebody says that females go to meeting to look at each other ' s bonnets . That ' s downright scandal ! . Thoy go to show their own . Man ' s Inconsistencies . —If a man would register all . his opinions upon , love , politics , religion , learning , & c , beginning from his youth , and so go on to old age , what a bundle of inconsistencies would appear at last ! A Good Housewife . —What a beautiful comment the following is upon a good housewife : — " To hear her converse , you would suppose she did nothing but read ; to have looked through thc department of her household , you would have supposed sho never read . " .
Hasty Bidding . —At tho late sale at Stowc , two supposed antique candlesticks wore put up at five * guineas , but Sir Anthony Rothschild outbid all competitors , and tho hammer foil to his bidding at £ 48 16 s . 6 d ; , whereupon a quiet-looking personage , under tlie auctioneer ' s rostrum observed , " I mad » and sold them for less than half the money . " Families of Literary Men . —With the exception of tho noblo Surrey , wo cannot point out a repre- * sentative in the malo line of any English poet . The blood of beings of that order can be seldom traced far down , even in tho female line . There ia no English poet prior to the middle of the eighteenth
century—and , we believe , no great author , except Clarendon and Shaftesbury—of whose blood we have any inheritance among us . Chaucer ' s only son died childless ; Shakspeare _' _a line expired in his daughter ' s daughter . None of the other dramatists of that age left any progeny ; neither did Raleigh , nor Bacon , nor Cowley , nor Butler . The granddaughter of Milton was the last of his blood . Kewton _, Locke , Pope , Swift , Arbuthnot , Hume , Gibbon , Cowper , Gray , Walpole , Cavendish ( and we might easily extend tho list ) , never married . Neither Bolingbroke , nor Addison , nor Warburton , nor Johnson _, nor Burke trasmittcd their blood .
The Use of Bread . —" What is the chief use of broad ? " asked an examiner at a recent school examination . "The chief use of bread , " answered the urchin , app arently astonished at tho simplicity of tho inquiry . " tho chief uso of broad is to spread butter , and treacle on . " . Is there Folk in the Moon ?—On a recent moonlight night , a mother had tho following ob * servation made to her by her son : — " It maun be a ' nonsense , mither , about there being folk , i' the "moon ' . " " What - _** svy , nvy man 1 " " Ou , _Wwxvi'i' _-t liow could they crush themselves thegither when it ia only _nalf-iuooii ? " Mamma ( gevwuiig _* ) , " May bo the folk are like spy-glasses , shut themselves in . " Female Reporters . —There is a description of trade confined to China , and highly characteristic of its social condition . A number of elderly- ladies , t generally widows , make it their business to collect I _frossins , on dits , and stories of ail sorts , with which
they repair to the houses of ibe rich , announcing by . beating a small drum , which they carry for that purpose , and offer their services to amuse the ladies of . the . family . When it is rqcolleeted that shopping , public ' assemblies , and even morning calls , arc ail but forbidden to the beauty and fashion of China by their country ' s notions of both propriety and feet , some idea may be formed of the welcome generally g iven to these reporting dames . They aro paid according to the . time employed , at tho rate- of about half-a-crownan hour , and are besides in the frequent receipts of presents—their occupation affording many opportunities of making themselves generally useful in matters of courtship , rivalry , and etiquette . On these accounts they generally retire from _business in easy _cirausaiances , but are said never to do i so unless obliged by actual infinaity ; and tha Chinese remark that theirs is tho only profession i to which its practitioners arc unifoaraaly attached by I inclination .
Fragrant Odour for Sick Rooms . —A few drops of oil of sandal wood , which , though not in _' _, _gencral use , may bo easily obtained , when dropped on a hot shovel , will diffuse a . most agreeable balsamic perfumo throughout tho atmosphere of sick rooms or other couaned apartments . - '¦ Widk Awake . —The Boston Times says : — " On Wodnesday * re shall issue a second edition , but no first edition . This reminds us of an honost Hibernian , who _calloil at our office with an advertisement , the pvico of which , he was told , would be seven shillings for the first time , und five for tlio second . "Faith , then , " said be , " I'll-have _rtm ihe second time . "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 10, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_10031849/page/3/
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