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_^ August 12 , 1848 . _yHE N 0 RTHERN gTAR s
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_jj-T EBlN REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD . Br _Teo-cas _Ho . _ , _ . _Xst Erin remember the d-ys ef eld , _ e ber _fsi-ble-t sens betr _ M her , ¦ Vf bf _ . _i-s-lftchl wore the collar of goli Which he won from her proud invader , - _Vfhes her kings with standard ef green nnfurl'd _,
Led the R „ _-Bran _ Knights to danger , 5 re the emerald gem of tbe western world Was set in tke crown of a str _ ger . 0- Longh 2 . agh ' i bank as the fisherman strays , When the clear cold eve ' s declining , He c- _ s the round towers of other days In tbe waves beneath hits shining _. Thus shall memory often In dreams sublime , Catch a glimpse ef the days thst are over ; Thus sighing look throug h the waves of Time Tor the long-faded glories they cover .
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_ANALOGIES AND CONTRASTS , OR , COM . PARATIVE SKETCHES OF FRANCE AND _ENGLAND . By tha Author oT _« The -Revelation * _ofRusda . ' London : T . C . Newby _, 72 , Mortimer . street . Cavendish-square . ( Concludin g nofiee . ) In selecting some further extracts from tbe infe _* resting chapter on 'Public Men and Political Parties in France , ' we n : ust again remind our readers _ihst this work W 2 s written hefore the revolution of February . Here is our author ' s account of that rery indifferent copy of 0 'Con _* -ei _ : —
ODILON BAUOT . _O-ilon-Bai-ot _, the leader of the Opposition—and _beloBglsg to that section of it termed the dynastic opposi . tioa—is , hewever , f-r frem fceing eith . r a deiperate Character or a revolutionist . On tbe contrary , wealth y , timid , and desirous of op-Loldin _? the _prefest family upon the throne , he has for rears cla _ _-eured for a _minlmon _. of reform , whicb would hardly bave been accepted as au . n . talmeat bj oar Basil _.-, reformers in the most unpropitioa . days of _ascendaat _toryism . Odilon-Barrot , aB advocate by profession , held a distk-gui _ ed place iu the opposition , under the restoration . At the outset ofthe revolution of 1 S _39 _, he was made _aecretsry to the musicipsl eon-mission , hs was the chief commliiionsr who escorted through Francs the fallen king , and lastly , prefect of the Seine .
Described by Louis Bi *_ c es half calculator , half enthnslsct , he is too honest ever to have coincided in the corrupt system he opposes , too irresolute to accept tha fall _consrqaenees ef bis opposition . His forehead Is high , his _conntsnance moody , iti _expressions sedate 8 nd _conten-plativa , hit voice sonorous , hi . manner _pompeus _. In the style of his oratory he somewhat resembles 0 uii 3 t . Like him , fond of _generalising , he -ff . ets _philosophio views . The rtflectiTe powers of his mind , almost to the _exclusion of tha _percsptiva , predominate to direct hiselcqu-. net , and in tht coots' ! of frequent digression , he is apt sometimes hopelessly to lose the thread of hit diioenne .
He shares with _Gu ' iot in demeanour , some _dlidalnfcln-ss and hauteur , only that what in Guisot is the result of contemptuous pride originates in _Odilon-Barrot in telt inflation , io that instead of being dignified he ii _pnind up , and if lest grave wonld be simply consequential . In point of talent , be is overmatched by the leaders of those parties who hare hitherto held office , but evea _ eng s equalling or snips-sing them ia ability , ccu'd never , on sccoast of several d . fielenci 6 S , make successful head against snch m _ n es Thiers or Guizot . He it neither aggressive nor bold _SDoneh to lead ah opposition _, and is wasting in that practicality commonly acquired by reutln _? , but of whi _ natural aptitude bo readily supplies tbe plice .
In 1 S 39 , O-ibn-Barrot , like Louis Philippe , Th ' _srs , 6-izot _, and _Cissimir Ferrier _, was panic-stricken at the first outbreak ef the revolntion . Ha did cot hail it fear--. _ssly _^ an _^ with open arms like Lafittc , Audry de _Puyrave _ u /_ nd D _. pont do l'Eure . Whenever a political storm has threatened , he has been accustomed to retire to his country teat near Pen . _Macguin * is described as witty and inconsistent , and , like Thiers , _ nscrupulonsly prone to participate in splendid despotism . ' _Bogeaitd is ' a vulgar bully , wbo . sometimes menacing even his employers , carries threateningly the hand begrime-, in pelf to the hilt of a sword tarnished with Algerian cruelties . ' Emilie ds Gisakdik is a literary bravo , who neither believes , nor affects to believe , in political integrity , His doctrine is , ' politically speaking , we are all knaves together . ' We must extraet the _following notice of j _B-BBTEB .
The _legi-. _i-O-tisU boast B _. rryer _, ona of the two most e _' oq _. est _m-in in Franc . — : he Catholio liberals , tbe other , in tbe Abbe L-C _3 rdair 9 . In Berryer , —perhaps tha first political speaker in the world , —is united voice , person art , _apti-a-ude , intellect , command of language , imagi-__ ion _, reason . In fact all that make great an oratoreicspt & cense . That which he advocates , narrow in its scope end trammelling to bi 3 genius , has nothing bnt misfortune to recommtnd it . Bat what cause is there , so averse to his own convictions , so d _. void of hope , that if hallowed by misfortune , B _ _-y _. r will not plead !
When the nephew ofthe asa ta whom the forlnces of tbe chief part of the chamber ot peers wa 3 owing , stood arraigned before that time-serving tribunal , -fee vic'im ofridfc-Jeead failure , ia aa iU-a-v ' _. sd attempt , li was B . rry _. r defending him , who magically transposed tha writh _ _j--ges into tfce plsce of the accused . _Thesemen , wbo had each taken their ten or a dozm oaths , ths unswtrv _' _og _legitimatist _thas apostrophised'Spe _ ki _ g on your own conscience and before God , ia tbe _prwence of us tclo knowyou , say , —if he had suec . __ . _ _. —if he had triumphed , — _, wonld hava denied hi . I woald have repulsed his advances , I would have refused b _! 1 participation in his poner I ' Too brief is the notice of
_ -K-N _ . II , His parole- d * tm _Cro _. nt , or ' prof _eision of a believer , ' was a moving and poetical expo titkra of the f __ i of what then _. ppeared en anomaly unheard of—r . pubiican _ca-Jholieism . The Abbe LimsnaU _, now advanced in years , is a man of unsounded benevolence and unquestionable genics . Both may be read in the expression of Iais deep thoughtful eye , in tte expansion of his venerable meditative brow _b-ith sre breathed in every page ofthe eloquence he has _ltf : on record . Our author has a _hijh opinion of Dupont de i'Eere . We give tbe following interesting notice of
THS ABAG 0 S . Impeding In aspect , tall of stature , with lofty forehead , Ecquiline nose , clss _. ical featcrts , voice fitted to convey the tboajhts ef a gigantic mind , and g ive utterance to the feelings of a heart as capac ! eu 3—tbo elder Ar-zo-o-y be sightly h _ rd in the chamber of _vtnal deputies and jobb ' ng placemen , _exposing the abuses of _government with infi-xible logic aad practical _argument , unexpected in one wrapped in abstruse contemplationfca _ d in measuring tbe _-hg- _> s ° ' s _' . Jn _psoe _^ _ating tte arcana of nature and _cailatiBg its eternal laws . At other _timts his denunciations _psal with a vehement _eloquence no less 6 tr & oge in the p hil . opber whose range ef thooght has been in the passionless domaia of mathematical and abstract _calculation .
His biography woald be a romaace , if the term _roman _i : _ he _a _^ pUc & bU . 3 £ _ qi *___ ts aad a life so classical , S . lected st tha age ot twenty by the Bureau des Longl . tades tt carry themerldian of Paris to the south of Spain , ie spent six months os a bleak mountain top to watcb the opportunity of an observation . Arrested as a epy , _detained as prisoner , and captured as a _boncsman , in the course of his mUsioB , neither peril nor privation _deterrtdfrom the prosecution of his seientifi . pursuits _-i ' _-ke Archimedes , fatally absorbed in tbe solution of a problem amid-t the sack of Syr-cuss , so Arago , a captive at Rob-s and Palamos , refused to escape—not to leave befeind him his _instiu-eesta and the result of his labours . When , years afterwards , the Algerian expedition was la contemplation , and ministers , admirals , and g & _serals were ai fcalt _, Arago was the only man In France who cot-Id determine the facilities or difficulties of landing , and de . ribs the lurroundint country .
Taken and enslaved , in the conrse cf his researches , by the _Al g „ ne corsair * , who obliged him to 6 erve as _"it-rpreter on b sard their ships , his _observaat eje had B . - . ei n _^ _ihing , and after bo long a period his _memory enabhd him , with _nndevlating accuracy , to give tbat in'ormation which consuls , merchants , and traders coal , no : famish , whose lives hed been spent in Algiers , _« r _P-. _s-ng b _. twesn that _itata an . their mother country . Tie Aragos , like trn 9 _cithsni of the old Greek republics , have been not only ever first to stigmatise the e -cro . cha . ents of authority , foremost to protect the _cp-P'eised , _ n _ vindicate tbe rights of their f _ ow-conntrytnm—hat , in the hour of armed resistance , ever prompt * _a i-entify themselves wiih _thatmavement which failure wo _ild have ma _. erebellion—to draw the sword and fling away the scabbard .
The elder Arago , in the heat ofthe contest during the tbree days of July , penetrated , accompanied by his yeathfnl toe—* t tha peril of his life then and of his h-adhereafter—amidst menaces and _imprtcations into the presence of the _rojalist commander , to endeavour to rcEtraia ths effusion of blood . Ths late Daks ef Orieans is w _.-H known to have owed hi . _1-f ,. , during the three days of July , to the _esertions ol the younger Arago , ( heading a band of armed _U'surgentf _. frora _whese hands ail the energy and cou . 1 eotth-irleader was requisite to extrica » the cap . * _lve prince .
At the trial of the minister , of Charles X ., the elder Arsgo generoHily withheld his damning evidence to save _^ eirliTe f . It was _Eienna the younger , who , braving P * int tna penalties , mainly ton-rived the _eicapa ofthe *•* _ blicaas condemned In tfee _enKphtd ' Atril .
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Tha _Aragoi whesa naaes we read foremost in tbe defence of the accused , in almost every political trial are near relatives in blood , who follow in the footsteps of their elders . The notice of Ledru Rollin is so exceedingly meagre as to be not worth extracting . The account of _Lainartine is full , but of his antecedents our readers have heen more than once infermed . He i _ estimated by our author as ' unquestionably , the first of all French dead or living poets . ' When speaking of Lamarline , the author of these sketches pays the following fitting tribute to our great poet
BYROx \ . * We have a Homer , a Dante , a Shakespeare , and a Byron furnished by thirty centuries and three people , but no fifth in their own or any other country to mate with thera . ' Again , in the first volume , page 143 , our author leniarks , ' The influence of Byron ' s writings has been inconceivable in Eastern Europe . Avowedly he has inspired a host o f poets , whe , in their turn , rousing as with a trumpet ' s voice , whole millions from the lethargy of ages , to consciousness of their condition , have inspired them with promising volition . '
We bave long believed Marrast a scoundrel , and the little that is said of him in this work confirms that belief . Still more unquestionable confirmation is being da _ supplied by passing _e-venls . The exeditor of tba National never deceived us . He was always a would-be aristocrat , and is at this moment of all enemies to the French Republic , by far the most dangerous . We copy with pleasure the following just appreciation of the talents and truthfulness of
LOUIS _Bt _ C , LoaiB Blanc—foimerly editor of the Boh Sehb , and already appreciated in his literary cbaracter in tbi * country—selected as a _meiinsa of attack on the _existing system , the psge of history hitherto neglected as inapplicable to such aggression . In that _contemporaneous reflection of the politlcrl life of his country , his 'SUloire de Dix arts' tho historian of still _palpitating event . , has succeeded io producing a work so novtl asd comprehensive in conception , to concise and ine'd in execution , tbat its judtl
ments , descending to posterity for ratification , wil . _ttanimit to its admiration ono of th > most . ____ who ahl . memorials oi the Intellect ef our age . Whilst developing thi strong tendencies , political , philosophic and , economical of its author , whilst avowing his b ' . al and riveting that vivid interest which the ephemera of the press peculiarly _Inspire , it is no lets _distinguished by _classic excellencies of construction and slyie , than by tbe impartiality wbich -Uc _. nnection with events , and lapse of interval t > -twe _ tbe narration and occurrence , has betn beld in . ispsnBsWe to secure _.
For though the judgments ef Louis Blanc may be arrai . ned by those whom he directly censures , all are forced to admit the jostle , of his praise _<~ r condemnation of third parties , and the even-handed fairness witb which , notwithstanding strong feelings as a partisan , ha .-timate _. the aots and character of friends and foes . Returning to the' Introduction * to these volumes , written subsequent to the February revolution , we find our author arguing that whatever shade of opinion or party may predominate , the Republic in some shape is inevitable for France , and hence may be regarded as indestructibly established . In the chapter from which _vjc hate quoted the above extracts , our author had written some
months before the revolution , that the overthrow of Louis Philippe ' s government would be * the least of the popular difficulties . ' The real struggle he predicted would be that of' Labour against the abuses of Capital , aud the tyranny of the shopocracy now oppressing operative industry . ' When the ' Introduction' was written , the struggle was going on . The events of the four days of June , and the 15 th of May , bad not then occurred , and our author was sanguine of a peaceable and happy solution of the great question of Labour ' s Emancipation . As a specimen of the sound and generous views entertained by him on this all-important question , we give the following extract ;—
CAPITAL ASD LABOCE . The _rebellion of labour against the tyranny of capital is as old as the history cf _eoc ' ely , bat the Ignorance of those rebelling , has te _ usually sue - as not to inspire capitalists with much solicitude for the future . The notions of the dradge underpaid , overworked , or both , wtre either to ubolUb . the servitude by charging place with _hht master , or by destroying machinery and capital . But the messes becoming wiser in out _geseratien , are conscious of the _absurdi-y of attempting to live without labour . They do not , as in the eld r . _vsintioa , like Russian serfs , er revolted negroes , believe that tiey can eat , drink , and te merry , lik > their lo _ g , wirh _. at labour , but insist only on a proper requital for it . And in the exaggeration of their principles , instead of _repudiating , rather sanctify work , end incline to demand that all shall bs forced to labour with them .
• To live working , or die fighting . ' was many years sines th 9 motto _inscribed on the red banner of tha _Lyoaese _oper _ tiTw , as tbe > v marched against the troops _. The operative masses , are also becoming too cognisant of the value of capital , to think of _destrey . ing r * . Their growing tendency is rather to acknowledge and lament its insufficiency , than to deny its use , or wish It dissipated . But instead of allowing It to remain in individual han _^ s , as a means of coercing labour , they conceive that it should be _accamulattd through association , and that labour should participate in its profits . Instead of the old Jack Cade spirit of destroying _machin-ry , and opposing implements and method ' , which economise teil , the trne theory is b . ing propagated tbat mechanical improvement msy be more effectually employed to faen . _S-, than it has ever been hitherto to oppress theoperativema 5 . es .
, Tke question ef the emancipation of labour , as urged by the classes _reprcseatiag it—divested of its former Buicidal and barbarous pretensions—is thereforo asBuming _plausible and perhaps feasible shapes , Hinutely investigated by writers ef intelligence and probity , they have conceived tbat tbey see to it a practicable and satisfactory solution , and that the remedies of _aanj Bocl-l evils lie rather ia economical innovation tban polltical change . At all events , they have Impress _ tha operatives with thie conviction . Monarchy ba 9 been swept away not ae she final cama , _SEd republic _established , sot as the ex . pected panaceaof wrong , but simply as the impediment to a great economical experiment , or as _affording facilities towards it . Nothing can prevent this experiment from _bslnjc made or _reBtwed , under different forms , until absolute failure _ all condemn , or success justif y , the expectations foBnded oa it .
Political diversion and opposition will only delay to render mora _swetplcg and calamitous to classes , transformations which might otherwise be _effected by coerrive compromise . We must not judge the practicability of realUlHg these views by the opinions of tbe chief part of our own press , cec-ssarily pr judlced in favour of tbe snpre . macy of capital—any more than by the enthuBiastio prognostications ofits advocates , Thongh no theory , howevsr promising , be safe until sanctioned by the test of experience , it must be admitted that tbe principle on which tbese views of coincident , social , end economical reform are founded—the principle of association—is confirmatory , as far as antecedents extend of the results anticipated .
Small _tirri-jriei ! , with scanty _populations , have by _ass _& ocl-tion of force , been able to over-run and subdue vast countries , _whose defensible resources were desultorily scattered . By association , the English soldier bas abundance of good food for thst number of pence which will hardly beep life and soul together In the isolated _arii-aa . By association , poor districts have magnificent roads and harbours , whilst in wealthy land ! the produce efthe earth wastes oa tbe spot for want of conveyance . By _aisoclation , the _ M _( UC of tbe club e _ . jr . ys for hiB tens of pounds luxuries and comforts h " conld not command for hundreds . By association , commu _nicalloB it maintained by _thepoet office , at the _chargfl o ' one-ptnny , with a regularity and speed which millionaires could not formerly _comsand .
It is ev _ asserted , and thera is aothing distinctly to _dbprevo tha conjecture , tbat by intelligently organis _> d association of whatever capital lies scattered through a poor country , would g ive a more effectivec _. m _bication tban in the _wea'tlrest community is spontaneo _usly effected , Organised association is therefore looked to as tht means by whieh the tyranny of capital may be limited , without for'going its bene 6 ts , by which the _expenditure may be reduced , the _oomforts and well-beiDg of the labouring classes augmented , and production increased . Appended to the second volumeis an ' Appendix ' of nearly a hundred pages on the important subject of ' Oar National Defences , ' considered in relation to the probabilities of a French invasion ; to our thinking the most rational and most able composition on this subject yet published .
In taking leave of this work we have but one regret to express—that the author did not omit--or considerably abridge—the chapters on Italian , Swiss , and Spanish politics , and instead , have added to the sketches he has given of the personal character , customs , and habits of our French neighbours . ' 'With his knowledge of France and French society we feel persuaded he might have added manv an interesting page , illustrative of the daily life of all classes of Frenchmen . For what he has done we return him our thanks , and we trust that , before long , we shall meet bim again in some work not le . valuable and interesting . We have mucb pleasure in warmly recommending the Comparative Sketches of France and _Eagland' to all lovers of liberal literature , friends to fraternity , and p ioneers of progress .
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The Childhood of Mary Lesson . By Mary Howirr . London : Darton . . J . cannot praise this little volume too much . It is decidedly the most charming child ' s story book W . read ; a book ' » _which mav be read witb pleasure and profit , by ' children of a larger growth than those for whom it is mainly intended . Mary Howitt ' _g fine descriptive powers shine in this volume ; and from the enthusiasm with which she
has painted the Fcenes of Mary Lesson ' s childhood we are led to more than half suspeCt that the recollections of her own early days have gone a long way tosupply the materials for this story-in fact , that Mary _Ilowitt was Mary Leeson . This fancv of ours derives strength from the fact that Mary ' Leeson ' . birthplace , though not named , is , from the description thereof , evidently Nottingham , and nearly the whole of the scenes in the young heroine ' s history belong to the romantic counties of Nottingham and Derby .
We must he excused from attempting any account of the history of Mary Leeson , for to do so would involve us in the task of repeating almost the entire story , and giving quotations we should not know where to stop with . We must , therefore , content ourselves with recommending all our adult readers to purchase this _wori as a holiday-gift , ' fairing , ' or birth-day present for their children or juvenile acquaintances . As we have before intimated even parents may read this book with advantage , and if tbey do so , will , we are confident , embrace Mary Howitt ' s -idea ofthe spirit which ought to direct the education of a child . '
We should add a word for the publisher . The binding and illustrations are worthy ofthe story . A prettier volume , internally and externally , never graced a child ' s library .
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Mathematics no Mystery , or the Beauties and Uses of Euclid . By G . J . Holyoake . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s-head-passage , Paternosterrow . Mr Holyoake b y his educational works bid 3 fair to win a national and well-deserved reputation . His ' Practical Grammar' has reached a fifth edition , and the work before us—having already attained a second edition—promises to be proportionably popular . We do not say equally popular , because we are aware that an idea prevails amongst the working classes , that the study of mathematics is only fitted for those who have more leisure and better
means of acquiring instruction , than falls to the lot of the great body of the people . We tbink a perusal of the first two or three chapters of this work would dispel tbat unfortunate error . It is true that those who are already adults , and engaged in wrestling with the difficulties of providing for a family , have other and more vitally important matters to engage their attention than the subject-matter of this book ; but we are persuaded that any young man . fired with a thirst for knowledge and the holyambition of achieving that power , which is the necessary result of knowledge , may acquire frem Mr
_Holyoake's work , at least such a general acquaintance with this important science , as shall enable him ' to distinctly understand the nature and application of mathematics — the process of geometrical reasoning—and the meaning of the technical terms now so frequent in the scientific lecture-rooiu , and in treatises on mechanics . ' The student , who learns thus much only can hardly take to himself the title of mathematician , ' but wha will dispute the utility of self-culture even so restricted ? In spite of Pope , a ' little knowledge' of any subject , is better than none at all .
In the preface , Mr Holyoake states his aims in writing this work have heen— ' 1 . To prescribe the limits of mathematical learning , defining what must be acquired and what may be neglected . 2 . The discussion of the supposed connexion between arithmetic and mathematics , and explanation of certain important distinctions generally confined to the class room . 3 . Presenting a history of the rise and progress of mathematics , somewhat more complete than previous ones . 4 . Extending the view of the utility of mathematics as a means of guaging the physical world . 5 . A development of the
argument in favour of this science , as a means of mental discip line , guarded from the arrogance and exaggeration which have so often destroyed its efficiency . 6 . An exposition of mathematical logie , and the true principles of science illustrating the value of the one and the simplicity of the other . 7 . The enforcement of natural geometry—resting it on the foundation of tbe common understanding , distinguishing its beauties and uses , adapting it to the wants of the many , to the capacities oi the young , to the aptitudes of the uninitiated , and the exigencies of men of business—tbe people of little time and a definite purpose . '
Like most of the publications issued by Mr Watson , this book is neatly got up , and published at a very reasonable charge . Self-educatora will do well to add this work to their stores of useful knowledge .
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PERIODICALS . \ . —The Ethnological Journal . Edited by Luke Burke , Esq . August . London : 12 , Red Lioncourt , Fleet-street . 2 . —The Family Herald . Part LXIII . London G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . 3 . —The Apostle , and Chronicle of the Communist Church . _Shirreffs and Russell , Douglas , _Isle-of-Man . 1 . The third number of this most interesting magazine opens with a continuation of the wonderful story of ' The Destruction of Atlantis , ' which includes an elaborate attempt te show that the continent of America was known to the ancient
Egyptians and other nations of remote antiquity . Without acknowledging ourselves converted to Mr Burke ' s theories , we must confess that our scepticism _isjeonsiderably shaken . According to this gentleman ' s interpretation of Plato , there once existed an immense island , named Atlantis , betweeen Europe and America , near the straits of Gibraltar ; the people of which island subdued many nations of Europe and Africa , and also a vast tract of the continent beyond the Atlantic , now called America ; and that after attaining great glory and power , this
island was destroyed by a combination of an earthquake with volcanic fires and the overflowing of the waves of the sea , and became submerged beneath tbe ocean ! Mr Burke also says , and promises to hereafter prove , thatthe ' 8 lcred isles of the west , ' wliich Hindoo mythology has filled with such marvels , are no other than tbe regions which we at piesent inhabit . He also promises to prove to British antiquarians that their own country possesses claims to high antiquity , which will , ere long , render its archaeology a stud y of the deepest interest .
Divested of Mr Burke ' s theory concerning the Amazons , we should not have much difficulty in crediting his version of the story of Atlantis . But however improbable the commonly-received accounts of the Amazons may be , we are not prepared to regard their history as entirely fabulous , and the traditions of their wars as only meaning the encroachments of the sea upoa the land . It would , however , be folly to pronounce judgment on these questions , until we have the whole of the evidence before us . Mr Burke pledges himself to prove , hereafter , ' by evidence the most varied and conclusive , that the Atlantic island did actually exist , and did actually perish in the manner related
by Plato ; ' and that this island called Atlantis , ' was not onlv a place of vast consequence in the remotest times , ' but that it was actually the aboriginal country of the intellectual races , and consequently the natural seat of empire , as well as the primary centre of civilisation . ' Mr Burke adds : — 'We shall also show that , at the era of its destruction , humanity was comparatively old ; that Italy , Greece . Asia Minor , Syria , & c „ had passed through several successive states of barbarism and civilisation j that the most extensive intercommunications existed between distant regions , and , in one word , that not only the first streams of knowledge , but some also of the earliest waves of conquest , had passed from
the west to the east . ' These are ' brave words ; ' and fer the sake of truth , human knowledge , and the interest we feel in Mr Burke ' s success , we heartily hope that the revelations of the future will make good the promises of the present . The article on' The Origin of Nations , by _Oeo . Ross , appears to us to be out of place in this magazine . If Mr Burke accepts the Mosaic account of
the Creation , the Tower of Babel , the Deluge , & c , away goes bis theory of Atlantis , and also his theory of the Geographical Distribution of the Primitive Races . ' ' The _« Origin of Nations \ would find a fitting place in such miserable , priest-inspired productions as Rollin's Ancient History , bHt is ridiculous in the Ethnological Magazine . Mr Burke must be consistent ; any attempt to establish his reputation on two opposite theories will bring him to the ground .
A continuation ( from the first number ) of the Fundamental Doctrines of Ethnology , ' introduces us to the editor's viewi on the subject of the Primi-
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tive Races of Mankind , their characters , distribution , and condition ; and also certain comments on the principles which regulate the transmission of qualities frora parents to offspring . Poets have placed the ' golden age' in the far distant past ; philosophers , on the other hand , have repudiated the poets' story as a fable : some of them predicting an age of gold' in the future . Without disputing the future , Mr Burke revives the poets' story of the past , which he supports by ( philosophical ) arguments not to be easily confuted . According io his theory , disease , want , and war , were unknown in the first ages of the world ; the primitive races were healthy , beautiful , sinless , and happy . They lived in a state of being where , according to
Byron—• All was peace , and innocence , and bliss . I wonder how thiy got through the twalv _. hours !' And according to Mr Burke such was the happy lot of the Atlanteans . Moore sings : — Oh ! had we s ome bri g ht little isle of our o * f n , id a blue snmmiir ocean far off and alone Where a loaf never dies in the still blooming bowers , An- me bee banquets on through a whole year of _flowers ; * Where the gun loves to pause
, With so fond a delay , Th-t the night only draws A thin veil o ' er the day Where simpl y to feel that we breath , that we live , is worth t _ beat joys that life elsewhere ean give' . ' Such a ' bright isle' must Atlantis have been . Would that it existed now ; how gladly would we fly to it from this land of knaves and slaves , and quit the occupation of
• Dropping buckets into empty wells _. And growing old at drawing nothing up . ' With cordial wishes for the success of the Ethnological Magazine , we heartily recommend thb number to our readers .
2.—The Best Articles In This Part Of The...
2 . —The best articles in this part of the Family Herald are those on ¦ Correct Speaking , ' « Eating and Drinking , ' and the ' Preservation of Health . ' The other contents are of the character usual to this entertaining periodical . We have room for only the following extract : —
Stahzas. ' Il Is Batter To Repose In The...
stahzas . ' Il is batter to repose in the earth betimes than to sit np late . '—Conversation between _ E _? or > and Rbodope , By Walte * Savags Landob _, in the ' Book of Beauty , 18 ! 4 . Happy are those who rest for ever Where waves the harebell amid the heather , Aad waters stray-. Happy are those who thus repose Ere yet ths dew from off life ' s rose H-s pass'd away _.
Happy are those who perish young , Ere yet remorso tbe heart has _wrunjr _, Or grief or sorrow : Who only take of life a si p , And slumber with a smiling lip Dreading so morrow , Happy are thsy . to know no thonght Of pleasure by pain dearly bought , Oa the world ' s stage ; 1 The fever-heat of hope and fear , ' Tae thousand ills all mortals bear , Not them engage . Their being paa . es aa the tone Wh _ on tho harp the hand Is thrown In idle mood ; Or as the sweat , cool _breezs of heaven In tropic climes at _s-nset given , Else vainly _wco'd ,
Happy are thej , _thua early blest _. Sleeping so young to dreamless rest , To _waka no mora , S » ve where , ell earthly troutle past , The eternal home Ib theirs st last , Beysn _3 Time ' s shore .
3.—A New Publication By Goodwyn Barmby, ...
3 . —A new publication by Goodwyn Barmby , devoted to his peculiar views , and containing a report of the general Yearly Conference of the Communist Church , together with articles on ' Woman ' s Industrial Independence , ' and' Pleas for Private Property considered and answered . ' The Apostle will be published gratuitously as often as the ' Communist Church Fund' may furnish the means for its publication .
Rotal Poiatecbnic Institution.—On Thursd...
Rotal _Poiatecbnic Institution . —On Thursday last Mr _Baggs gavo hia second lecture on the character of the Electric Eels , in the Chemical Theatre of this place . The lecture commenced by a series of galvanic experiments , showing the analogy between the power with which these wonderful ereatur _63 are endowed for the purpose of killing their prey ; he also stated that the eels now deposited in this establishment were the only living specimens in England , and , ho believed , in Europe . The simple aDd unaffected manner of Mr _Baggs ' s treatment of
the subject was very pleasing and instructive , conveying a good insight to his hearers of the phenomenon before them , _Hi ' b experiments were exceedingly interesting and were intended to illustrate the connexion between eleotricity and magnetism . He also exhibited numerous beautiful experiments to hia astonished audience , explaining to tbem the very simple apparatus by which the immense mass of cliff _, at Dover , was removed , and that in reality it would not be impossible that such an undertaking might be tff _. oted by menns of a power given to a creation so low in the scale of nature as tbe electric eel .
Gigantic Gas Mbtbr . —A gigantic d y gas meter has just been manufactured for Covent garden Theatre , at Mr Glover ' s iron works , 168 , D _. ury-lane . This meter is composed of two chambers , the upper one contains the machinery , the lower is divided into six compartments , viz , threo movable diaphragms and three fixed partitions . The gas enters at the inlet pipe , whence it passes to the bottom of the meter , and fills each compartment in succession . A continuous supply is kept up by the action on the movable diaphragms which acta upon the indicating machinery by means of a very simple and ingenious contrivance , which registers the consumption of gas with unerring accuracy on a plate of six dials and indexes of units to millions . The meter is capable sf measuring 6 , 000 cubit feet of ga . per hour , asd is
to measure the supply of 1 , 500 burners . Its weight i _ two ton - , ia sixteen feet in circumference , and nearly eight feet in height . The shape is a hexagon , with gothio _duras , executed in the firet style of art , and is _highly creditable to the taste and execution of Mr Glover , the Manufacturer . This colossal machine has been executed under the immediate superintendance of Mr Defrus , the inventor and patentee . _Tnu Cholera . —In the _Regiatrar-General ' _a report this week we find no less than twenty-one cases of cholera returned , while the _averaga number for the la _^ t fivo years is only five . On looking over the list we notice three deaths distinctly reported aB occur * ing from Asiatio cholera . One in St Giles ' _-in-thefields , the patient expired in thirty-eight hours after
the attack ; another in Bethnal-green , duration of illness sixteen hours . Diarrhoea at the present moment we . now is rery prevalent , at which we cannot be surprised when we take into consideration the meteorological pheno mens . In Russia the cholera still continues to increase ; And physicians appear aa muoh _puzzjed as ever what remedies to employ with a _prospect ' of success . Our own government is watch ing the progress of this disease , and is prepared to act with _eneray Bhould circumstances require it — Medical Times . Asiatic cholera . _sayB the Lakckt , is steadily marching westward , and it Beems now to be only a _question whether thia modern plague shall make ita appearance amongst us in tho autumn of 1848 . or th © spring of 1849 .
Life is a vast railway train , in which we are all compulsory passengers . On tbe outside is written— ' No stoppage by the way . ' We get in at the cradle ; and are put down at the grave , ' we have just time to change clothes in tha transit . Well , my boy , do you know what _syn-tas means ? ( said a schoolmaster to the ohild of a teetotallor _, Is « , sir ; the dooty upon sperrits . ' Thb Biter Bit—a man at Leith , by a trick , got twelve shillings from a boy in exchange for an old one pound note of tho Commercial Bank , which he no doubt thought valueless ; it turned out to be really worth a pound , and thus the sharper duped himself out of eight shillings . A private of tbe 30 th regiment , now stationed at Fulwood barra _ 8 , Preaton , has received fifty lashes for assaulting tbe colonel , and , in addition , he will bs imprisoned a year .
A seizure of pikes was made at Manchester on Saturday la . t , by the police , at a place where the manufacturers had taken them to be ground . It is believed that they were not intended for a local market , but were destined for Ireland . Tbe two men in whose possession they were found were set at liberty on Monday , on their own recognisances . At the late Sligo assizes two of th 8 grand jury quarrelled , and as an ' affair of honour' was apprehended , the aid of the Judge wa . called in . and the _belligerents bound in £ 500 each to keep the peace for seven years . _Aoepscolleotor of Westmeath was robbed a few days since ef £ 200 on tbe highway . He mode tbe loss known to s . me peasantry , wha pursued the robber , captured him , and he was hurried off to Mullingar , where the _assizes was proceeding . Here he was arraigned , ronvicttd , acd sentenced to transportation for life—the whole of these transactions occurring within twenty-four hours .
Thb Double M _. kdeb near Swansea —The high sheriff bas received a communication from the Secretary of State to the eff . ct that the liveB of the two men . Martin and Leary , who were sentenced to death at the late _assizjs by Mr Justice V . Williams , wi 1 be spared . They aro to be transported for life . Barricading . —a few days ago the Secretary of State gave orders for barricading with strong bars tke metropolitan police court * and stations ; and workmen were this day busily employed in doing eo . —
Middle Class Morality. Tricks Of The Bas...
MIDDLE CLASS MORALITY . TRICKS OF THE BASE BOURGEOISIE
We Take The Following From The Wreklt Di...
We take the following from the _Wreklt Dispatch , one ot the favourite journals of the ehopocracy •—a pew woi W 3 ok _BRcrcRAFr . we observe in tho August number of Amswoa . a ' 8 Magazine , a Tery excellent article by Mrs White upon tho tricks _prectised by tradesmen . This la _ y 8 ay _« : _ 4 In these days , when dceelt _developes Itself in the unwinding of a cotton . roel , and false mea . uro makes ItB way Into so smill a parcel as a piece of _taps—i-hen ma . nafactortrs , upon tbe principle (« re suppose ) that ' mony a mickle rashes a muckle , ' _mulot tbeir customer , of jards , and half yards , and even _infinltesslmal quantities , in ths jnst measurement of the articles purchased—and retailers , In Belf-defenee , play at _reprlssls with the public —Is ll to bs wondered at that _co-anago should occur in
greater things , und that the whole system of barter sbould be affected by a _Bimilur spirit of trickery , The petty traffickers in these small wares are , at least , as much sinned _agai _ t as tinning ; but competition , and the thir . t for gain , lev . l comparative distinctions ; and from tho silk mercer vrho permits his unsalaried shop . men te remunerate themselves out of the profits of estortlon , | to the baker who buries a sapernamerary ounce under the accidental crumbs in bis BCBle , —all are tainted with the same evil , till confidence in tbe fair dealing and honesty of tradesmen , as a class , is rapidly _woat-ing away , and shopping converted into little better tban an encounter with _-mooth-tongufld sharpers ; so that ladles set about that onco pleasant business with fear and trembling , convinoed that neither judgment nor experience oan save tbem from btiag duped either In the quantity , condition , or quality of their purchases . ' There is , unfortunatel y , a great deal of truth in these observations ; and thousands of tradesmen , who hold _thflr head high , and are deemed respectable fceyoDd tbe
_poBslblllty of impeachment , are culpable of the most paltry meannesses in order to reap a little additional profit . Tbe wholesale dealer mulct ! the retailer , and the retailer makes up for it by cheating his customers , This is the real English of the whole matter ; and tbere is no nsa In blinking tbe truth . Bnt let It not be supposed tbat the wholesale dealer is alone to blame , or tbat he gave the first encouragement to tbis system of Minute larceny . He saw the retailer practising It _ some Instances , and , feeling thnt times vrere _hr-rd , he thought be might as well himself e . dopt ths scheme . Bat , as Mrs White observes , ' of all tbe trickeriir of _tradescraft , perhaps those of drapers are the molt detestable : they are bo flagrant , and yet so paltry . ' It Is common enough to ticket a particular article outside tbe shop at a very low price ; and when the customer enters and r _qoires a few yards thereof , or perhaps the entire article itself , the _aervlng . man very composedly produce ! a _packegs from tbe shelf . That this Ib a very inferior _material is Immediately perceived ; but it is useless to say , ' I want the article which is mark _ la tbe window . ' The man
insists that there is no differ _tncu ; and if tho custon . tr be a lady or respectable women , it is ton to one tbat she will eooner put up with the imposture than wrangle abont it in the presence of several persons . Should the , however , manifest a spirit calculated to convince the mahogany-Jumper that she la not to he thus flagrantl y cheated , ha may perhaps begin to enact the bully ; and , in some instances , those _inBuHirable coxcombs have _grossly _lnsulte . 1 females by suoh _oenrse observations as , 'Oh I 1 dure say yon are nothing better than you shonld be ! ' 'Ah ! I can sea into yeur character plainly enough ; you are a shoplifter ! ' nnd infsm _> _us ailugions , oi direct charges of thit nature . Another i . _tvahnt trick _now-a-days , iB te substitute the ordinary i brie _, for foreign ones of high price , and impudently dispose ct them to ignorance and credulity as saoh . There is also
a practice adopted In even the first-rate bouses at the West end , ot marking the shillings in large aad very plain printed figures , and putting down tbe pence in a very minute styl > , or in faint pencil marks . Mrs White _aays— 'We know of establishments where ladies bave not only been refuaed tho goods priced in the _dindown , but _icpulted for not _buyiBg others offered at the same figure though of a most inferior description ; and we could take our readers to m re than one establishment ornamented with carpets , Corinthian eolnmns , and _plato-glass , where fivc . gninea shawls bave been sold for fifty , and Persian rabbit-skioB _, with real ermine tails , passed off on lady _purchassra , In the shape of muffs and mantles , for the regal fur itself . ' Fraud and trlokery ef this kind create fortunes , whilst honest industry cannot earn a crust ; and builds villas ,
while upright dealing Is unable to spare cash enough te hire a lodging at Gravesend for the season . Mrs White tells tho following story , for the trath of which she _vouohoa : — ' A lady with her husband entered a shop in the vicinity of London , where she was in the habit of making purchase , for her family , and requested to eeo some shawls . Now expensive shawls were not a part of stock ; _tivs guineas were the highest price tho ; kept , and these the lady did not think good enough . Sbe was a _ ed what price she thought of goi _ g to ; and the assistant , stepping back to thc _wareroon-, pre sen tl ) returned with one ofa different pattern , bnt of precisely the aomo value as the rest , wbicb he pretended to hare ha I in reserve ; and , unfolding it with duo empreuement , _baldly added £ 3 17 s . Cd . to the two guineas he had previously asked for the others . Tbe style being oao the lady admired , she at once purchased It . Had sot the young m _. n acted in this manner he would not havo sold
a shawl at all on that ocoar _ n ; and he wbb , doubtless , highly triumphant in the success of his knavery . Bat , what is the worst of all Is , that this kind of cbe-ting ceases to bo regarded by tbo tr _ e in its proper light ; and the _yoong man Blinded to , instead of being looked on as dishonest , was _doubtlesB praised as ' a devilisb , sharp , Bbrnwd , and business . like fellow . ' We oxpoct shortly to find the character a of a _. _slst _. nts In shops thus summed np when references are taken : — ' He is a most valuable servant , aud I abeuld not think of parting with him were I not going to retire from business . Take bim by all means ; he can cheat the most experienced lad y who ever went _shopping , and never will let any female leave the place until he has coared or bullied her into buying Bomething . He will p _ off ihe veriest _rabbisb as _ 09 _llev . s artideB , and is up to every move on tbe chess-board of Bbopcraft . ' To such a state of things we a , indeed , rapidly verging !
. From a notice of _AiNsivoRiua _Mao _ i _ in another weekly newspaper we give the following additional extract from Mrs White ' s article : — It has been found ( says the wrl'tr ) a good _spsculatioc to wilfully dam-go the oxtcrier of goods , in order tohav . it believed that they must be sold at a sacrifice . Ima gine a man getting up a managoable fire in his own premises , singeing the selvage edges ef silk and linen , _smearing sheeting and table cloths with mud and water , trampling bales of calico under foot , smoking the walls and roof of ths shop , and otherwise giving things the appenranoeof all but a fatal conflagration ! and yet the smouldering of such a roar to-vre has , on more than ene occasion , served to stimulate custom , and furnished thousands of dupes with imaginary prizes , to wbich tbe vary circumstance of tbeir being' damaged' only gives additional value .
Arrest Of Another London Chartistbow-Str...
ARREST OF ANOTHER LONDON CHARTISTBow-street , Saturday , Aug . 5 . —R . Crowe was charged with having , on Monday , used seditious language . —Policeman Biothers stated that on Monday laat he attended in plain clothes at a meeting in a houge , 83 , Dean-street , Soho , which was used for the purpose of Cbartist meetings . He was not present at the commencement of the meeting . When he arrived tbere were about 150 persons present , consisting of mechanics , women , children , and the lower older of Iri 3 h . A young man read some extraots from the papers . About ten minutes afterwards thn prisoner m . de a speech , in the course of which he used the following expressions : — ' The late _insurer tion in Paris has shown bow easily a crown can be crumbled . Now is the time to be ready—now is the
time to be resolute , and tbe gamo is our own . I do not care for those persons present who wear other people ' s _clot-os . I do not caro if what I say 13 criminal . I for my part shall do all in my power next _waak to put a atop to trade , and urge the Irish in London to rebellion . ' This last expression wao received with loud applause . —The prisoner asked whether the constable had taken notes of his speech ? —Brothers aaid , not at the time : he quoted entirely from memory . He was satisfied what he stated waa correct . —Tho prisoner said he denied the accuracy oi the constable's evidence . He bad not uttered the language imputed to him . —Serjeant J , Gray
apprehended the prisoner at his residence , 1 , Archerstreet , Camden Town . —In answer to the charge , the prisoner said the whole of the evidence , with very little exception , was entirely a fabrication ; He was only surprised that any magistrate could entertain a charge bo vaguely stated , and by a person who had taken no notes of the _proceedings . As he supposed , however , the case must go elsewhere , be shonld not call witneaees , or make any defence . —Mr Jardine ordered him to enter into hiB own recognizances in the sum of £ 100 . and to find two sureties of £ 50 each , to answer the _obaTge at the Central Criminal Court .
R_Pub_-Ca_Sm.—Frankness And An Unalterab...
R _ pub _ -CA _ sm . —Frankness and an unalterable sincerity are republican virtues . Where one man is bo far exalted over the heads of the community , there flattery and dissimulation will inevitably grow up . — Godwin Mr O'Flaherty , the aolioitor who defended John Mitehel , has gone off to America . Lewis Cocks , a convict in Milbank Penitentiary , has destroyed his life by hanging . Gretna Green Marriages oan never occur again . L . st week a Scotoh marriage bill waa read a third _tims in tbe Lords , which requires runaway couples
to reside a fortnight in Scotland before they can effect the hasty purpose whioh is said to be followed by a leisurely penitence . Remaerable Instinct . — A boy fell into the Tweed tbe other day and was drowning , when a cow in a mead .. * bellowed so loudly , and ran to and fro in so strange a manner that those at hand ran to the spot , and the poor little fellow waa taken eut of the water . He fell insensible immediately , a _. d died shortly afterwards . The Nbwry Examinbr is very angry ; with Mr J . O'Connell for his last peace promoting address , whicb that journal _saya is intended to grease the ropa that U to hang the Irish patriots .
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The Bibssbu British Constitution.—' Let ...
The _Bibssbu British _Constitution . — ' Let ca try , by tbe crit » rion of good f , ' oyerr , menc tbe _consti _* tution of _Grcai Britain . In tho first place , we hava no democracy , for the people are not represented _. In the second place , we have no aristocracy , or preeminence of the best , for tbe governors of tbe nation are the children of chance , and cot the choice of the people . In tha third place , the British _oonstitu' . ion is not monarchial ; for the government is committed not tothe guidance of one will , but to the contention at several . Since , therefore , it ia clearly demonstrated , that the Constitution , as it is called , is neither __ _monarob y , aristocracy , nor democracy , what i _, then ? io i 3 oligarchy , ncbhrarohv , tyranny , corruption , and anarchy . ' __ -- Review of the Constitution of Gr < at Britain , p /_ _67
_nfh _«_ i , ~ . L berty ,. ould ' _<* _«™ ry _mdividoal it on v _s'L _^ 3 ll 8 W ? coromoD ° _*™ - If _hXr ! _ , „ _£ am ° a _- ; P . « ° t _* lar branches , there bad 2 _« f t n v , none ' >» . since Buch a liberty only ag-5115 5 _ ffil tf tun v f th 0 Be wboare _«« p { _ii 6 ! f _ _« ___ . * ? J we * » n » disagreeable _subjeot _frnW _? __"» Rm __ a _. plent r arethe nat _« al _;„ JtB i ? . L J ? _5 : . wher 0 these abound , learning and aU the liberal arts will immediately lift _uptheii heads and _flonnsb—_ _1 < Hi . « i Elective P _ t < . * thb Goyerbmsnt . —It ia not because a part ot tho government is elective , that it . 9 less a despotism ; if the persons so elected possess , afterwards , aa a parliament , unlimited powers , election , » this oase , becomes separated from representation , and the candidates are candidates for _despotism . —Ri ghts of Man part 2 .
_DBtroTis _. t . Such a history as that of Suetonius , whieh give * us a succession ef absolute princes , is to mo an unanswerable argument againBt despotic power . Where the prince is a man of wisdom and _virtUBi it ib , indeed , happy for his people that he is absolute - but since , in the common run of mankind , fer one that is wise and good , you find ten of a contrary character , it is very dangerous for a nation to stand its chanoe , or to have ita public happiness or misery depend on the virtues or vices of a single person . Look into the history I have mentioned , or into any _eenes of absolute princes , how many tyrants must you read through before you come to an em . peror that is supportable . But tbis is net all —An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned , when converted into an absolute prince jive a man tbe power of _doiDg what he pleases with impunity , yeu extinguish his fear , and consequently overturn iB him one of the gre »{ pillar , of morality . —Addison .
_SOXNET TO _JOHH CBITCHLEY _PS 1 _NCE , Author of Hours with the Muses . Hail ! prince ofn-od _* mpo . t _ J thou wboee song S _* oft hath _charm'd mi in dull sorrow ' s hour : To grasp tby honest band I oft times long ; For few , life , _thse , have gained the _msgic _' power Of charming heart and mind : It is ft dower _WhlcV Natare only on a fow bestows , For fear tbat sho ths honour due should loss , Wbich frem her sons _shs claims . For poets ar ' a _Natures first f & v ' _rltes and their only care I » for thiir mother , —knowing well tbat she Is no croii _step _. _dams , but a _pan-nt kind , For ever striving to endow mankind With piaoe , nnd _love _. andhealth _, and liberty , Whose pioneers are poets suoh as tbee . — . _Swkefll __* , Geobge _Twinnirr
REFORM THE HOUSE . Reform th * House ! the taxes _cqualioe , Make the _Lsndown _ _s pay , the Labourer _cties , Who most reives , the wealthy . t the ero-. t , Should most contribute to support the state . Not so the _Minlatsrial miniom say , Ours is tbe right of power , jo cowmen clay , Toil f . r the Taxes still , plebtion elves , Nor vainly hope , we ll tver tax ourselves . Truth . —Truth can only be offensive to him whose conduct will not bear the test of _examination . — Oerrctld . 'A Roland por an Oliver . '—Although no _phrasa is in more common use , few are acquainted with ita origin . _Thecxpreesjon _s __ nifi . 8 the _girine cf aa equivalent . Roland and Oliver were two k _ is _> hts , _fsmous in romance ; the wonderful achievements of tho one cou'd only be equalled by those of the other . Hence the phrase , ' A Roland for an Oliver . '
A COT 1 MPOBABT 07 BOBSS . More than hall a . century _having e ' apsed ( says tha _Kilmabbock _Joubnal ) _sinca the tomb _cloied onr tba mortal rtm _ b of Burns the number of thoao nbo remember tbe event which aralienid tu . h strains of lamentation over Scotland must be few ; and itlll fewer will be the number of thoso who recollect him a young farmer in _Moisgiel . Though few and far between , . till thtre are force who remember him ere his poems were _issued from the Kilmarnock presB . Of these there is ons , and , _perhap « , the _on'y ene residing in this _neighbourhood , who knew the bard ere his aspiration 4 loathe , for _pulr au ! d Scotland ' s _seke , Some useful plan or boo & nvglit _rarke , Or write a _sanir at least . '
was orowned with success—knew bim wbm he was 60 muoh entangled with tho Mu __ li . s _btlleo , wbom ba Warn , _against Ro ! _j Mo . _sgle!—and drank veritable tod y with him in N _. nse _Tannock _' _s at that very sacrament which he has painted in colours of _uafadin _j _freshness , Janet Wjllie , relict of Mungo M Gann , who comes in for a passing notice in ona ofBurns _' s ephtlrs , is a native of Mao-bline , now in her eighty-fourth year , being _eileens , according to Scottish phraseology , with Join Armour , In her youth , we _d-jubt not that she was po . _sessad of considerable pcreoaal _attrsctlons , r . s her still straight , tall , and well . formed figure , aod regular features ,
indicate _; andthe fnotofb _ u married at the early age ef seventeen , rather corroborates such a _supposltisn . Her memory does ' not _soem muoh _impairtd , but moro early occurrences are _remembered better than more ncent _'ransaotionfl . Of _ciurxo . aftir sueh pains have heen taken in collecting everyth ' ng regarding onr _national poet , little new important information is likely to be obtained ; still her Impressions and recollections ar ; not without intern * , and throw some little inorerg _* _stonthe ' H _. lyFalr . ' J ; _an Armour , in the estimation of Jean Wjllie , was net b . raw woman—a mere bunt of a bodybut Highland Mary was in be _. u ' y far _surpassing J _? an Armour . Of tho four whom ha celebra _' _cs ia the
stanza' Miss Miller la fino , Miss _Murchlaad's divine , MIsb Smith sbe has wit , and MUs Btattl _. is braw ; There Is beauty and forluno to be got with Mi _^ _s Morton , — But Armour ' s tho jewel for me o' thim a ''Burn ' s had his jewel , but fow others wro of Burn . ' . opinion in this respect ; and hore alio Jmet _Wjliio dis . _sents . The Miss Smith was a sister of < hc James Smith to whom ono oftho very bnt o the epistles was written Miss Miilor married Dr _Mockeczlo , of Mouohline . Mis . Mortou was a . rats lass , and married _ Mr Patterson In the same town . ' The Holy Fair , ' she ia of opinion , was n ' . med ' The Holt _Faib , ' not from any wish to _ridicule it , but was naturally _suggested by tbo _circumseanco of _i-s being held in the _churchsard , the pla . _o wh . _re , on fairs , coopers deal . rs in ynm , lint v «_ ol , snd other articles , generally exhibited their goods for sale .
A PS 0 PHECY ! D 0 WSFALL OF KINGS—WAR—DEATH—TH ? ' MILLBNIUM ! The following lines , said to bo propbetin . have been current for many years in Germany : — ' 1 would not be a king in 1848 ; I would not be a soldier in 1849 : 1 would not be a _gravo-diseer in 1850 ; but I would be whatever you please in 1851 . ' Corious Epitaph . —The following is copied from a tombstone in Stirling churchyard : «• ' Oar life is like a winter day—Somo OBly breokfaat , enl away ; Others to dinner st _ , nnd arc full fod ; The oldest man but sups , and ( rocs to bed ; L . rge la hit debt who lingers out ths day ; Ha that goes soonest , has tha least to pay . ' _—Slirliitp O & sertier , Adam , ' said a gouty gentleman to a tri _. _Uy eou _, ' I would be on the tve to cane you , were I able . '
Paddy at thb Plough . —An Irishman , newly imported , made app lication to a farmer in _Kjlefor work . On being ashed if he could ' hold tbe _plough , ' Paddy said he could ' cfo ' that or _anything else . He was accordingly engaged , and rext d _. y bis master went with hira to the field to see bim & _mraenco operations . It was foon found that the Uibernian was new at the trade . ' Did you not tell me . sir , you could hold the p lough ? ' said the _masier . ' Arrah , ba aisy now , ' aaid Pat ; 'bow the d 1 can I hould it and two horses drawing it away f'om me ; but give it me into tbe barn , and , by J- _^ _ppers , I'll hould it with ever a boy . '
A Grateful _Irishiias . —Amonf . tbe O'Connell 3 professional reminiscences was the following _un-. qo instance of a client ' , gratitude . He had obtained au acquittal ; and the fellow , in the ex tacy of bis joy , exclaimed , ' Och , councellor ! I ' ve no way here to show your honour my _gratitude , but I wisbt I saw you knocked down in toy own parish , and may ba I wouldn't bring a faction to the re . _ ue ? ' Tailors asd Dcctohs . —A doctor ence returned a coat to a tailer because it _ did not exactly fit him . The tailor , afterwards seeins : the doctor at the funeral of one of his patients , paid to him , 'Ah , doctor , you are a happy man . ' ' Why so ? ' eequirtd tha doctor . 'B _ ause , ' said the tailor , ' you never have auy of your bad _woik returned on vour ba . de . "
ALL RIGHT . Mistress . — 'Didn't 1 _t-. ll you uot t . " tako the first and second floor ' s miik in the same basin ?' liai'd . — 'Please , ma'am , it ' s all right , I put a piece ef paper between 'em !' Cause and _Ei-fkct . —A lady in Fi _' _zroy-tquare haa a cat r , hieh in the course of last year broke fifty plates , six cream jugs , two brass candlestick ? , to rea soup tureens , filteen cups , and one p _^ ker—and haa eaten no less than thirty _chickms , two _street-bn-ads seven turkeys , tbree 1 _ _s of lamb , ten gooeberry pies , aBd three pots of preserved _aprh-ots . Nev r « tbeieos , Ibis oat ia the greatest _ v _ im _* -- M ' . h WW _» ook and all the servants _.
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 12, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_12081848/page/3/
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