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GLEE—THE MEN OF KENT . BX JESSE BAHMOKB . _lHien liberty was driven O ' er foreign realms to roam , By Neptune she was given Our island for her home . The Men of Rent had pitch'd her tent , As if by ancient charter ; And they had sworn , as freemen born , Their birthright ne'er to barter . Then your bumpers raise to your country ' s prais * , As queen of the ocean wave ; Be the standing toast , the-Iand we boast Of beauty and the brave . When hostile banners floated , And dangers gathered round ; To liberty devoted ,
The foremost they were found . The Men of Rent , with firm intern _^ Her sacred tree to nour ish , On field or flood would shed their blood , That liberty mi ght flourish . Then your bumpers raise , Ae , Now peace , her form displaying-, Smiles on their fertile plains ; They join , due homage paying _. In patriotic strains . The Men of Kent now dweU content ; But should their country need ' em , First of the free , they still will be The body-guard of freedom . Then your bumpers raise , &»
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_AKACBBOSTIC . ST A FOOTMAN . If s wery well to talk in praise Of Tea and Watw-drinking ways , In proper rime and place ; Of sober draughts , so clear and cool , Dipp'd out of a . transparent pool Reflecting heaven ' s face . Of babbling brooks , and purling rills , And streams as gashes from the lulls , It * s wery well to talk—But what becomes of aU such schemes , With ponds of ice , and running stream * _, As doesn't even walk *
When winter comas with piercing cold , And all the rivers , new or old , Is frozen fex and wide ; And limpid springs is solid stuff , And crystal pools is hard enough To skate npon , and slide;—What then are thirsty men to do , But drink of ale , and porter too , Ghampagneasmakes a £ 22 : Port , sherry , or the Khenish sort , And p'rhaps a drop of summut short—The water-pipes is friz 1 ¦ Hood ' s Magazine
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_COXJXGSBT ; or THE SEW _GENERATION . Ik 1 > . D'Israeli , Esq ., 1 LP . London : Colburn , Great Marlborough-street . { Continued from the Northern Star of January 4 th . J Cook LL , chap . L , opens with a political retrospect ef the state of parties in 1834 , in whieh vear the once popular Reform Ministry was upset , and the eagerlysought Refomied Parliament dissolved . The partial break-up of the "Whi g party at that period , the secession of Stanley and Graham , and the queer pranks of Chancellor Brougham , were , according to Mr . D'lsraeli , occasioned by the too great success of the party in the election of 1832 . There were too manv
placehunters and expectants to satisfy , who , being left unsatisfied , speedily became hostile to their own _chiefs—intriguers against the existence of their own parry . Li treating of the position of Sir Robert Peel in lS 3 i-5 , Mr . D'lsraeli takes a glance at the history uf the Tory party from the time of Pitt downwards . Piti is praised as the last of Tory statesmen ; the Duke , —though , as we have previously intimated , not considered by 3 Lr . D'lsraeli a great statesman , —is lauded as a great " military genius ; " but the Sidinouths , _Castlereaghs , _Vansittarts , and the rest of that gang , are consigned to a contemptuous infamy . The _following is a masterlv exposition of the " Condition of England" in 1816-17-18-19 : —
TBS . S . _VIX . _OV _CTTT-THBOAT CASTLEBEAGB " , Jfow commenced that Condition of England question , of whieh our generation hears so much . During five-andtwenry years every influence that can devdope tile energies and resources of a nation had heen aeting -with concentrated stimulation on the British Isles . National peril find national glory ; the perpetual menace of invasion , the continual triumph of conquest ; the most extensive foreign commerce that was ever conducted by a-single nation ; an illimitable currency ; an internal trade
supported by swarming millions , whom manufactures and inelosnrebills summoned into existence ; above all , the supreme controul obtained by man over mechanic power ; these are some of the causes of that rapid advance of material civilization in England , to which the annals of Die world can afford no parallel . Eat there was no proportionate advance in our moral civilization . In the hurry-• kurry of money-making , men-making , and machiuemaking , we had altogether outgrown , not the spirit , but the organization , of our institutions .
The peace came ; the stimulating influences suddenly ceased ; the people , in a novel and painful position , found themselves without guides . They went to the ministry ; they asked to be guided ; they asked to be governed . Commerce requested a code ; trade required a currency ; the unfranchised subject solicited his equal privilege ; suffering labour clamoured for its rights ; a new race demanded education . What did the ministry do ? They Mi into a panic . Having fulfilled during their lives the dories of administration , they were frightened because they were called upon , for the first time , to perform the functions of government . lake aU -weak men , they had recourse to what they called strong measures . They determined to put down the multitude . They flioaght they were imitating Jdr . Pitt , because they mistook disorganization for sedition .
Theirprojccts of relief were as ridiculous as their system of coercion was ruthless ; hoth were alike founded in intense ignorance . When we recall Mr . Tansittart with his currency resolutions ; Lord Castlereagh with his plans for the employment of labour ; and Lord Sidmouth with his plots for ensnaring the laborious , one is tempted to imagine that the present epoch has been one of peculiar advances in political ability , and marvel how England could have attained her present pitch under a series of _auch governors . j -We thank Mr . D'lsraeli for his exposure of the ruffianly government , which , at the period he speaks of , weighed like a nightmare on the heart of England _^ and , like a vampire , drained the blood of
the people . . Never be it forgotten that it was that _goverument who , having used as tools the brave seamen of Britain to crush the power of France , _vrhen no longer requiring their services flung them _ny thousands into the street ? , to perish of hunger , or die as Cashman died at the Old Bailey , hung on the ( _rallows for demanding bread 1—that it was that inlemal government who wisely and humanelyf when me unemployed demanded work and bread , proposed the setting ofEnglishmcntothe task of digging holes and filling them up again , as a sufficient panacea for the evils complained of !—that it was that accursed _fovcrainent who suspended the Habeas Corpus Act , and crammed the prisons with the demanders for a
radical reform of that House , the _con-uption of which " * as unblushingly proclaimed by one of the jury to be as " notorious as the sun at noon-day 3 "—that it Tas that atrocious government who passed laws to _Qsirm the people ; to prcventthom acquiring _aknowledge of the use of arms ; to fetter the Tight of assembling for the discussion of grievances ; and to _r-rcvent the march of inquiry and the progress of _knowledgchy restrictions on the press!—that it was feat truth-hating goFemment who plundered and _Srove Cobbett into exile , and condemned Carlile and ilie other advocates of free discussion to years of torturing imprisonment '—that it was that bloody government who sanctioned the horrible massacre
'a the people peaceably and legally assembled _« I ' cterloo , to perform a constitutional act" at of petitioning the Legislature ; and * ho imprisoned Hunt and others for being present at that meeting , so _. brntally and horribly VA down !—that it was that hellish government _»* n- ! oited the riotings at London , and Dcrbv , and * _Scotland—who hung Erandreth , Wilson , _iBaird , _^ _J- 'l y Thistlewood _, and their fellow _sufferers—deli _'W " _^ coding what they called "treason , " that _^ might murder patriots as V traitors ! " —that it v » the chief and _fchig 0 f that government—that r _** d mass of heartless sensualism—that beastlv _in-^ iion of all the devilries of kmgeraft , —Fum . tfie t ill T _^ 10 _*« # _«& the Yeoman Cavalry butchers _^ _^ -Manchester people , and sanctioned every atro-!< _. ;* . _* _" ? BJinisters , and who , at length , not daring _ttis .. . _mmiBu : rs , anu wno , at lengin , not oaring
, _'isa _? public gaze , shut himself np in his den , } j _£ _p at lu 5 t , llC died , rotting away inch by Inch ; tg « uh causing universal joy—millions invoking _**« _£ ° r 1 ton »>'— that the prime actor in the _« a » r _^ _™ government , the Irish snake _Castle-Pa _^ V _^ prcutieal confuter of the fabled deedsof St . S _^ _Sditslbyhisown hand , a self-murderer , " _cut-^ f CTrn throat at _Xorth Cray , in Kent ! " and , _issrj _^ _f _^ T l « it forgotten that there are yet alive I _tiotj _^^ niinions of that government on whom jus-« snii , wt ' ** i i done ; and in reward of whose crimes * 5 ft 5 _alJrald , Je too eood—a thousand-fold too merlC ?»? - _u 5 i 5 , _^ ML _'' ' _^ ' _^ radi ' _s _deansptuyn . of ti _& way in _^ h a _% _Ss _^ ere managed by the bribed supportera T } . _rJS defenders of the Castlereagh regime : — !!? % _Sttj _** B 5 _? bys , * indeed , at this period , one _emiejSSfif _rfi _liable to -that _fangus tribe , greatly disiin-« Haaj _< j T _-pelves . They demonstrated , in a manner _Ik _^ _'Jiirfj _^ _'incmg , that it was impossible for any _fe I « _dtr f _^ s any abiKry , knowledge , or virtue ; any f _^ _'Vi _io " ' _? n S of fancy or faculty of imagi" _" _Hai . if _"as not a supporter of the existing adminisfit faraBfD , _^? i , n l »« iched the management of a h the public wa » assured that the accuser
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had embezzled ; if any one complained of the conduct of a colonial governor , the complainant was announced as a returned convict . An amelioration of the criminal code was discowitenancea , because a search in the parish register of an _objure village proved that the proposer had not been born in wedlock . A relaxation of the commercial system was denounced , because one of its principal advocates was a Sociniau . The inutility of Parliamentary Reform was ever obvious , since Mr . Rigby was a Member of the _Ilonse of Commons . "We must quote the following truthful sketch of the Church-plundering , people-oppressing Whigs : —
It is in the plunder of the church that we must seek for the primary cause of our political exclusion and our commercial restraint That _unliallowed booty created a fac titious aristocracy , ever fearful that ' they might he called upon to disgorge their sacrilegious spoil . To prevent Ihis they took refuge in political religionism , and , paltering with the disturbed consciences or the pious fantasies of a portion of the people , they organised themselves into religious sects . These became the unconscious _Pratci-iana of their Ill-gotten domains . At the head of these reli .
giomsts they _hava continued ever since to govern , or powerfully to influence this country . They have in that time pulled down thrones ana churches , changed dynasties , abrogated and _remodeHed Parliaments : they have msffanchised Scotland and confiscated Ireland . One may admire the vigour and consistence of the Whig party , and recognise in their career that unity of purpose that can only spring from a great principle ; but the Whigs introduced sectarian religion , sectarian religion led to political exclusion , and political exclusion was soon accompanied by commercial restraint .
A pretty sgHad of hypocrite * these to set themselves upa « " Church Reformers , " " Free Traders , " and advocates of " Civil and Religious Liberty' " The Young _Engenders appear to be great admirers of George Canning . Of their favourite states man we ( hall have something to Bay in our next . ( To be continued . )
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THE ILLUilLNATED MAGAZINE . _-Jajtuxet . We are sorry to be compelled to enter our protest against the opening article of this month ' s number-Chap . IU . of Carieton ' _s tale of "Fatherland . To serve his own views , which must be of the most contracted order , theauthor has painted the discontented among the working classes ( by far the great majority of the working population ) , as being brutes and drunkards in the manufacturing districts ; and ruffians and incendaries in the agricultural . He has done more : he has placed in the mouths of the vilest characters , sentiments and phrases embodying principles sacred to freedom and justice . That incendiaries and poachers- _^ poaching we dee m no crime ; the _ poacher is the "illegal" asserter of a natural
and inalienable right )—widely exist , we have but too good evidence ; but that eitfier class understand the principles libelled by the author of " Fatherland , " we utterly deny . We feel warmly for the success of the IUuminated ; and for the sake of the magazine , we earnestly hope that Mr . Carieton ' s productions may be brought to a speedy termination , if thev bo of a class of which the present is a sample . There is a lachrymose article in the present number , entitled "Rr ral _FuneraLs—Past and Present , " invfhichtlic author laments the decline and fall of those heartless pageantries and glittering follies : , Royal Funerals ! The funeral of that rotten debauchee , George the Fourth , and his precious brother , the Duke of I . 0 . XL , _wci-c , it seems , models of perfection in the eyes of the author of thig jeremiad , " typifying tlw grief of the nation" at the loss of these worthies ; while the recent funeral of the late
Princess Sophia _^ winch was unfurnished with sonic of the usual trappings , and conducted with less of dignity than common on such occasions , excites the fierce ire of the author of the paper . Some of his animadversions may be well founded ; but we really think it would have been more in accordance with the declared objects of this magazine , if the lives and deaths , the births and funerals , of the poor—those on whom useless good-for-nothing princes and princesses feed and fatten , had been taken into tho author ' s consideration , and formed a subject for his pen . _ We gladly cut short these fault-finding remarks to give our meed of approbation to such articles as " Travel and Talk , " by LukeRodcn ; " Our Dream ;" "A Legend for Christmas Times , " by Angus Reach ; " The Adventures of a Scamp , " < fec . From " Travel and Talk , " by far the best contribution to the present month's number , we give the following extracts . We should premise that the sceneis "the Eternal City : "
CASTLE OF ST . _ANGELO . The round castle of St . Angelo , at _iho end of the bridge , has a very imposing appearance ; the square platform on which it stands is so mutilated and changed by buildings and garden walls that oue scarcely recognises its original form . "When Adrian , in the very height of the power , splendour , and extent of the Roman Empire , founded this mausoleum ( for such you are aware was its original destination ) , it was cased with marble , surrounded by innumerable columns and statues of exquisite merit , and had a dome surmounted by an enormous cone of brass , something-like a pine apple . At such a period , who that looked at the apparently immutable grandeur of that mighty empire , could have anticipated that it would be despoiled of its ornaments and turned into , a fortress ? Nay , that the very statues would be used in defence of it , and thrown down on the heads ot the besiegers . How beautiful were these statues may he judged by one of them recovered from the rubbish of the ditehthe celebrated Barherini _Taun , at Munich .
But who indeed cau look forward four hundred years a long immortality in the mutations of empires ! We seem destined to see changes as great several times in a century if the present ungovernable appetite for " Reformations" shall continue .
THE _VATICAJT . What an enormous mass of building is the Vatican ; it measures more than twelve hundred feet by a thousand feet ; the rooms are innumerable ; it is impossible to give even a passing glance at them ; they are reckoned byhundreds _^—I might almost say by thousands . I must confine myself to a very few of the objects of interest it contains . While my companions rambled about St . Peter's for the fifth time , in a sort of quiet fascination which seemed to occupy every sense , I strolled up the steps of its almost interminable staircase , which leads to the Vatican . It was one of the pubhc days , Avium the galleries of pictures and statues are thrown open to the people , hut a small number of whom , however , seemed inclined to take advantage of the permission .
The first thing which struck mo with surprise was , that there should exist so great a number of genuine authentic statues and busts of ancient personages , executed during their lite—domestic portraits , in fact , not only of the great men of antiquity and of their wives and children , but of the unknown vulgar . Portions of tombs and other monuments to the dead , with their inscriptions , testify again and again to the identity of the motives and feelings of the human race , in all ages and countries . There are epitaphs as tender as the connubial or parental feeling of modern times ' could inspire , and although the insincerity of such testimonials has passed into proverb , it is evident that they are often dictated by the most afi ' ectionate devotion ; one cannot read these inscriptions without a very vivid feeling of admission to the inmost sentiments of the men of other days . The large hiatus between Boman and modern history seems filled np , and our own Kings follow in natural succession the Emperors of Rome .
THE " TEL 10 W _TUtKB . _* In going to-day , from the Piazza del Popolo to St . Peter ' s , I noticed a long row of boys on the banks of the Tiber , near the bridge of St . Augelo , sitting on a high wall , and occupying themselves in angling ; I say angling—not fishing , for the prey was the rubbish floating down the muddy river—sticks , rags , bits of board , hay , straw , and a thousand other things were the reward of then- patience and industry ; from time to time , as a prize of greater magnitude or value was lifted aloft , o loud shout from _fhe others testified their delight , and showed their unselfish dispositions ; to be sure the party might hav _« been gregarious ,
and seeking then * prey in partnership ; hut when a thing admits of assigning two motives , let us take the best The amusement will give some conception of the beauty of the " yellow Tiber , " as it was called twenty centuries ago a more disgusting and filthy diteh cannot be found . It appears that these boys , like the chiffoniers of Paris , form a regular class of the population ; and it is strongly suspected that while some are fishing below , others are occupied higher up the river in throwing in the prey ; a very safe kind of robbery from its difliculty of detection , aud the impossibility of identifying the thief and the receiver of the stolen goods . *
We can give _ournnquahued approval of the illustrations to this number . " Our Christmas Dream , " by Phiz , is excellent ; but "Broad Lea Farm , " by Prior , is a gem of beauty . We should add that some clever reviews of new books conclude the present number .
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GEORGE _CRTJIKSHAUK'S TABLE BOOK . Edited by G . A . _a'BxcKEir . IU , Strand . We hail with pleasure the appearance of this new candidate for public favour , appearing as it does nnder the management of two such talented men aa the universallv popular George Cruikshank , and the author of the " " Comic Blackstone . " The illustrations are of the first order , especially the frontispiece , which is the most beautiful and elaborately-hmshed etching we ever remember to have seen . The literary portion is hardly equal to what we had expected from the pen of the editor ; the usual _aDowanccs , however , must bemade for the difficulties attending the " _o-ettin" out" of a first number . Doubtless , supported by the encouraging patronage of the public , miprovenient where required will speedily be visible , we quote two extract * : •—the rmxosopHT or cattle shows—pxize _pacphs .
The present is the age of enlargement . Shopkeepers make arrangements for the enlargement of their premises ; the legislature decrees the enlargement of prisons for debt- newspaper proprietors enlarge their sheets ; and , in order to keep pace with the enlarged views which are prevalent in the present day , the agriculturists have commenced permanently enlarging their cattle . Perhaps the remains of gigantic a nimals that geologists have occasionally li"hted on , mav be traced to some _antedUuvian cattleshow ' and our ancestors may haverushed toau exhibition
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of prize mammoths with the same eagerness we of the present day evince in running after overgrown beeves and alarmingly blown-out muttons . As we are informed that there is still " room for improvement , " we must presume that more extensive bullocks , and more extravagantly exaggerated sheep than any we have yet seen ,, are threatened by the Smithfield Cattle Club . To us there is something painfuUy pantomimic in the thought ; and we look forward to the possibility of the extinction of mutton chops , except as huge joints—a state of thingB which will be ruinous to the poor chop-house interest . ' Already does Brobdignagian beef choke up the entrance to the butcher ' s shop ; aud extensive indeed must be the scale upon which
the business of weighing it is conducted . It has occurred tons that the same care and expense which are lavished on the ihttening of animals might be beneficially applied to the feeding of our own species , and we should suggest that the experiment should be tried , by offering premiums for prize paupers . Overseers and relieving-ofiicers might be _jusfly proud of sending up favourable examples of what could be done by judicious dieting ; and the Poor-Law Commissioners would no doubt be glad of the opportunity of vindicating their system from the starvation stigma whieh is now generally attached to it , A fat pauper , labelled Bast Retford Union , would be the best answer that could be made to the reports which have gone abroad with reference to the workhouse regulations of the place
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CUTTING SOWN AN AKT 1 CLE . A Dialogue between an Editor and his Amanuensis . alitor . —Let me see . We have to fill a vacant space of half a page . What articles have we to select from ? _Amanuensis ( reading titles ) . — " Lines written to Kiug Charles the night after his execution . " " The Wars of the League , a tale of the Corn Laws . ' * " Stanzas addressed to a young lady on her having asked the author whether he danced the Polka S when he said , he did _notj and she recommended him to take some lessons , when he replied he certainly would . " . Editor . —The title of that would have answered the purpose if it had been a little longer . Proceed , _Ananuemis . —" love and Madness , by one who has known the One , and is still suffering from the Other . " " The Bell Eopes , a Sequel to the Chimes . " " A Sonnet . ? Editor . —Ah ! let us hear the sonnet . That will . . give ns the required quantity if the quality happens to suit . Head it out , if you please . _AmoHutneU ( reading ) .
TO THE DDKE OP WELLINGTON . " Thou art a famous general indeed . " Editor . —Everybody knows that . Cut it out . Amanuensis ( reading ) . "To thee the wreath of glory is decreed . " . Editor . —Very true ; but as that forms the rhyme to the previous line—it must come out . Amanuensis ( reading ) . "Not Hannibal , not Soult , not Marshal Jfey , Not Blueher , not Napoleon , not Dessais—" . Editor . —The reader will never take the trouble to untie aU those knots . Cut them . out . Amanuensis ( reading ) . "Not Alexander when he fought and won , Did do the noble deeds that thou hast done . " Editor . —That not being as it were tied to all the other 110 b , the first line must be omitted , and the second being dependent on it , must go too . Cut it out . . 4 « ia ) iuensis ( reading ) . " Great in the senate , _iireatcr in the field ,
In neither wert thou ever known to yield . *' Editor . —Poetically pretty , but historically false . lie yielded in the senate once or twice . Cut it out . Amanuensis ( reading ) . " Mercy 'tis known has ever been thy creed , Though none so well can make a people bleed . " Editor . —Capital ! Excellent ! An admirable article ! Amanuensis . —It's all cut out !!! Editor . —Yes ; but we can restore some of it . I have it . Begin with the first line and end with the last , commencing the latter with . " For" instead of" Though , " Prefix as a title the article— " Epigram on General Tom Thumb , ' * and read it to me . Amanuensis ( reading ) . EriGRAU ON GENERAL TOM THBHB . " Thou art a famous general indeed , For none so well can make a people bleed ;" Editor . —That reads very well . let it be put into type immediately .
[ . Erit AmanuemU . Editor | falls asleep over a pile of CorrespondenceJ We should add thattae Table Book is most elegantly got up , handsomely printed on fine paper , the cover only being a treat to look upon . We hope George Cmikshank ' s Table Book will be found on the tables of thousands of his admirers .
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DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING _MAGAZINE .-Jancart . This new Magazine is a " sign of the times . " Let sceptics doubt and croakers growl , questioning the progression of the human Tace : that progression IB rapidly emerging from the chaos of doubt , and becoming a " great fact , " which ere long none will dare to gainsay . But a few years ago the reading world was led captive by the magic pen of a Scott : and that world —( what a microscopic atom compared with the reading world of the present day !)—was moved to transport or to tears by the chivaJric doings and unmerited misfortunes or fictitious sorrows of gallant knights and ladies fair . All this
is changed . Now Charles Dictcns and oth « _rs like him have efFected a revolution in novel writing . It is the many , not the few , who now form the materials from which are quarried the heroes and heroines of fiction . It is no longer courtly intrigues and aristocratic broils which afford themes for the " peerage of the pen : " but , on the contrary , matter-of-fact struggles , about the genuineness of which there can be no mistake , —the struggle for life and right in which the mighty order of workers—no counterfeits , are the actors . It is not the rose-water sorrows of queens and ladies , but the scalding tear-drops of suffering women and martyred children , which , proclaimed by the novelist , now excite the sympathies of the vast and ever-increasing " raoe that read . " Truth is strange ! yes , is stranger than fiction , as now proven bythe " annals of the poor , " in our day , for the first time , fairly published in the sight of
earth and heaven . Surely the reign of wrong is drawing to a close ! Surely the day of suffering is coming to an end ! when those to whom heaven hath given the gift of g enius , no longer prostitute their powers to the service of falsehood and _tyranny , but use them for the god-like purpose of vindicating the truth , and smiting oppression from the heights of power to the depths of impotence . We have named Charles Dickens as one of the principal promoters of this revolution in literature : but we must not forget Thomas Hood , Douglas Jerrold , and many other kindred spirits . It is with this last-named gentleman we have now more particularly to do . His retirement from the editorship of the Illuminated Magaaint afforded us unmixed pain ; and we are sure excited the regrets of some thousands . It is , therefore , as may be supposed , with no ordinary feelings of pleasure that we hail hi 3 re-appearance as editor of the new magazine now under
notice . This magazine is intended to be devoted to the consideration of the social wants and rightful claims of the _Piopioj . In the language of the prospectus , " it is intended that it shall appeal to the heart * of the masses of England . " This is taking high ground : but we have faith that the Editor is a man fully capable of maintainingh is position . " It is our belief , " says he , " that the present epoch is pregnant with more human interest than any previous era ; as it is ab >© our faith that the present social contest , if carried out on all sides with
• conscience and tender heart , ' mist end in a more equitable allotment of the goou provided for all men . To aid , however humbly , in this righteous and bloodless struggle is a truer , a more grateful glory , wan any glory blatant in gazettes" We add , Amen I and may the success of Mr . Jerrold ' s present undertaking be every way commensurate with Ids hopeful aspirations , and the mighty good he sets himself to help to accomplish . The present number opens with a tale by the editor , entitled "St . Giles and . St . . James ' s ; " it is written in the author ' s best , inimitable style , and will stir the hearts of thousands . We give the
ISTSOOVCrilOM . Our first paragraph shall be a confession of ignorance , Tfe know not the genealogy of St . Giles . All we know is this . Our St . Giles was born—we can hardly 6 ay first saw the light—in Hampshire Hog-lane . "We believe that we arepretty sure of his father , but at once lose ourselves seeking his _grandsirei _AYc are immediately in a genealogical fog , without even a link ' s end from the Herald _' s-offlce to guide us . True it is , we might , if we would , sit contentedly down in the darkness , and our imagination , aided by obscurity—as men are apt to close their eyes when they would take a bright internal look might in a trice discover the family tree ; now complacently following its branches as they waved towards the court-end of the town , and now avoiding them as they struck towards Tyburn . Tfe might do this , for it has been done many a time , and for _only"so much hard cash-But can the femily of St . Giles fee us for the lahonr ? So . Then we trust we are not so wholly lost to the decencies
of life as to lie gratis . _JTevarthelesE , we owe some explanation to the polite reader , for that we have given typographical precedence to St . Giles to the apparent injury of St . James . _vTe think we have a just roast n for this . There appears to us—and sure we are the hi u opinion burns in the breasts of many most respectapk- people—more of the original animal man in'St . Giles thm in St . James . He seems to vindicate , and that brazenly , unblushingly , the baseness of his origin . He stands before us a creature of the earth ' _, or rather , of the mud of tho earth . If it be otherwise , then has st , Giles again and again been much _abusedj mistaken .
The very nakedness of St . Giles—according to our heraldry—makes him elder brother of St James . As we consider him , he is as much the elder , as the bare skin of man is older than than the silks and velvets , that have enwraptit . Hcmaybe ' _' amarkedaudbranded " vagabond ; but , nevertheless , he is the elder brother . Contemplating him , we behold in his wauts—in his fierceness , begotten of these wants—the proscribed from the confines of this world ' s Paradise . Consider the hiBtory of mnn . Your vagabond 13 lost in the shadows of antiquarian night —now , jour gentleman is a common-p lace of yesterday .
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Upon this philosophical principle do we place St . Giles before St , James , and believe ub , dear reader , for no catchpenny reason whatever . We do not say that a three-legged oaken- stool is a finer , more commodious chattel , than a gilded , chair ; but , in the genealogy of household moveables , sure we are it ranks . as the elder brother , . St . Gile 6 and St ; James ! Is it possible they can be brethren ? Every particlo of their faces , every atom of their covering , cries " . No ; " externally ,. as different as the aforesaid three-legged stool and glittering _chau *; and yet , in truth , of the same frame-work—the very same . Impossible ! Let us see . What a clumsy thing is this three-legged stool ! YThat heavy joinery work ; Surely it was shaped by au adze , and put together by some bungler , ignorant of the craft , Tf hat a piece of stark vulgarity !
How very handsome the chair of ceremony ! How soft to the touch—how pleasant to the eyel AU damask _, carving , and gilding . Well , . we , have _strfpt away the covering ; we have scratched a little of the gilding off , and what is thereheneath ! Why , oak—mere oak—a younger branch of the tree—a piece of kindred wood to the threelegged stool . The same material makes stool and chairbut then tho magical , delusion worked by damask , gold , and dainty carving ! In this way it is our hope to show St . Giles and St . James—to prove their brotherhood—their identity of material . We may , here and there , scratch a little of the gilding off one , but only to display the kindred nature of both . ' Thus , St . James may sometimes appear to be only St . Giles better stuffed , and with a brighter covering .
Into the tale of "St . Gihsand St . James , " it is not our purpose to enter , more than by remarking that ita object is evidently to contrast the misery and crime-creating influences of tho one with the Sybarite gorgeousness and _heartlessness of the other . The subject of the opening chapters is the finding , on a bitter winter's night , of an unfortunate child ( the " St . __ Giles " of the story ) and its supposed mother , freezing to death on a door-step . The watchmen , who have been aroused from their " slumbers , don't know what to do with the woman , because " she isn't dead , and she isn't a breaking the peace ! " It being too late to get her into the workhouse , she is taken to the w & tcbjiduse , where _aho dies . Here _!»¦ ¦ a burst of eloquence such as few men could pen , in denunciation of
MAN ' S INHUMANITY TO MAN . For an instant , the watchmen in silence gazed upon the babe . Even their natures , hardened in scenes of crime and destitution , were touched by the appealing innocence ef the child . " Poor littlo heart ! " said one . " God help it 1 " cried another . Yes : God help it ! And with such' easy adjuration do wo leave thousands and tens of thousands of human souls to want and ignorance ; doom them , when yet sleeping . the sleep of guiltlessness , to future devils—their own unguided passions . We make them outcasts , wretches ; and then punish , in their wickedness , our own selfishness—our own neglect . Wo cry "God help the babes , " and hang the men . Yet a moment . Tho . ehild is still before us . May we not see about it—contending for it—the principles of good and
evil ? A contest between the angels and the fiends » Come hither , statesman ; you , who live within a party circle ; you , who nightly tight some miserable fight ; continually strive in some selfish struggle for power and place , considering men only as tools , the merest instruments of your aggrandisement ; eome here , in the wintry street , and look upon God's image in its babyhood ! Consider this little man . Are not creatures such as these the noblest , grandest things of earth 1 ' Have they not solemn natures —are they not subtly touched for the highest purposes of human life % Come they not into this world to _gvate and dignify it ? There is no spot , no coarser stuIF , in the pauper flesh before you that indicates a lower nature . There is no felon mark upon it—no natural formation indicating the thief in its baby
fingersno inevitable blasphemy upou its lips . It lies before you a fair , unsullied thing , fresh from the hand of God . Will you , without an effort , let the great fiend stamp his fiery brand upon it ? Shall it , eveu in its sleeping innocence , bo made a trading thing by misery and vice ? A creature borne from street to street—a piece of living merchandise for mingled beggary and crime \ Say , what , with its awakening soul , shall it learn ! What lessons whereby to pass through life , making an item in the social Sum ? Why , cunning will be ita wisdom ; hypocrisy its truth ; theft its natural law of self-preservation . To lhis child , so nurtured , so taught , your whole code of morals , nay , your brief right and wrong , are writ in stranger figures than Egyptian hieroglyphics , and—time passesand you scourge the creature never taught , for the heinous guilt of knowing nought but ill ! The good has been a _snaled book to him , and the dunco is punished with the
jail . Doubtless , there are great statesmen ; wizards in bullion and bank-paper . ; thinkers profound in cotton , and every turn and variation of the markets , abroad and at home . But there are statesmen jet to come ; statesmen of nobler aims—of more heroic action ; teachers of the people ; vindicators of tho universal dignity of man ; apostles of the great social truth , that knowledge—which is the spiritual Hght of God—like his material light , was made to bless and comfort all men . And when these men arise—and it is worse than weak , it is sinful , to despair of them—the youngling poor will not he bound upon the very threshold of human life , and made by want and ignorance , life ' s _shame . aud misery . There is not ababe lying in the public street on its mother lap—the unconscious medicant to ripeninto the criminal—that is notaxeproach to th « State ; a scandal and a crying shame upon men who study all polities , save the ' politics of . the human heart .
We have left ourselves no space to do more than merely enumerate the titles of the other articles , most of which are of tho first order of Magazine literatur _* . "Shadows of coming events" is a most able political article , the entire of which could we transfer to our colomns , would express our own views on the _jjuestions on whieh it treats . " The finery of war" is sufficiently explained by its name , and is all that could be wished for on such a subject . " Recollections of Hazlitt" we have not found time to read . " A few words on early Shop-slmtting " ably advocates the cause _sought to be served . "A history for Young England" is the commencement of a series of papers , the first of which is interesting ,
chiefly for the extracts it contains from the writings of that great Englishman of whom our country may well be proud—Sir Walter Raleigh . Wc shall look forward to . the continuance of _tliis " History" with some interest . " The Hedghog Letters , " containing the opinions and adventures of Juniper Hedghog , Cabman , London , and written to his relatives and acquaintances in various parts of the world , are rich indeed . The second of these letters , smashing up the Puseyite system , is capital . If this Mngizine continues as it has begun , succeed it must . To believe otherwise would be to doubt the potency of truth and despair of the cause of humanity .
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LETTER OPENING AT THE POST OFFICE . Watson , Paul's Alley , Paternoster-row . This tract is mainly a reprint of an article in the _Westnamter . Review for September , 1844 , entitled " _Maszini and _^ the ethics of _ronracuNS . " There is also added to the reprinted article , a communication from Mr . _Maizini _, giving an account of the heroic brothers Bakdiera , with some particulars of their foul murder by the infamous Neapolitan Government . The tract is one of the best of the many excellent works : published by Mr . Watson , and
cannot fair , if widely circulated , to do good service to the cause of liberty _. The space occupied by the preceding reviews compels us to bo y ery brief with our remarks , and prevents us doing anything like justice to this welltimed publication . This , however , wc tho less regret soeing that the small sum of fourpence will put the reader in possession of the work itself . The _Weiimnsur _Rovitwer commences his masterly article With tho following plain-speaking introduction : —
We feel it Incumbent upon us to denounce , in the strongest language we can command , a principle of administration , which , if carried out , would be found subversive of all the moral obligations of society ; and yet a principle now openly advocated , not merely by political opponents , but in some instances by men with whom _wa have been accustomed to act , and a class of politicians standing well in the world's regard for public character and private worth . This is honest ; this is bold . The Weitmnster Review is in its party predelictions a mere Whig ; to denounce then its own party , and to hold up to deserved scorn and opprobrium tne chiefs of that party , who equally with they of the " adverse faction" have been guilty of violating the most sacred of the laws of morality ' s code , is a service done to truth and justice worthy of all commendation . Pity it is that the Review has found so few of the organs of public opinion to follow its noble example . The Reviewer proceeds ;—
We have long considered the state of our academical and university education to be the cause of half the errors committed in legislation ; but of all the evils to be traced to this fruitful source , none arc greater than the moral canker they occasion . The ethics of Archdeacon Paley and Professor Sewell , —political expediency on the one hand , and blind submission to authority on the other , — the transformations of Ovid and the history of Punic Wars , leave no place for the decalogue , or any sound interpretation of its moaning ; and the result in after life , when our high-born university graduates appear at the council board , is , as the world has _sten with astonishment , a formal recognition of _jettx _labcext as a fundamental maxim of state policy . The reports of the Committees of the two houses are ably eiftod , and the enormous crimes attempted to be justified , or at least apologised for in these _anameleM report * , aro brought clearly before the reader .
We are fully aware that those who prepared it ( the report ) , and those who signed it , so bewildered themselves by their own sophistries , that they did not , in fact , _weU know what they were about ; but we feel not the less necessity of stripping the principle advocated of all disguise , and we would present it to the reader in its naked hideousness . ¦ " i . monster of such frightful mien , As to be hated needs but to be seen . "
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Here , then , is the moral creed o English statesmen in the 19 th century ; or more correctly speaking , a portion of that craft of government which sets itself above all laws , human and divine . 1 . Theft is' permissible , when information , important to the public interest can only be obtained by stealing it from a letter . 2 . LTINO is permissible to conceal theft ; in the tacit form of resealing a letter , so that the fact of its having been opened may never be detected . 3 . _Forgeey . is permissible for the same object ; in the form of counterfeiting seals and imitating Post-office stamps .
4 _. Treacher * is _pcruussibloiu ' cascsof emergency . ' The servant may betray his master for the' public good ;' the confidential agent may act as a secret spy . The bearer of a written commumcation , comprising , perhaps , the lives and fortunes of individuals , may carry it direct to their bitterest enemies , and be honourably commended for his breach of trust , _5 . RoQDE . _MiKixo is also permissible ; for the arts of knavery aro somewhat distasteful to honest men , and forgery , in particular , is a skilled profession , which cannot he thoroughly acquired -ivithout many opportunities of practice . 6 . _Ttbahnous ikjustice is permissible ; in the form of secret accusations , and secret tribunals for trying a man in the dark , upon the evidence of stolen documents , of which the purport may be wholly misunderstood .
In using the word permissible , we have put the case less forcibly than we should have done , to place it upon its true merits . The business of a public office , like that of the Secretary of State , does not consist in the exercise of optional privileges . Sir James Graham , or Lord Aberdeen , when they opened Mazzini _' s letters , did so , not , of course , from motives of idle curosity , but from a sentiment of duty . Observe , then , where our moral legislators are leading us . It is the duty , say they , of a Minister , in certain _peases of emergency , ' affecting 'important pubhc interests , ' to _steai , to lie , to comhit _roRGEur , and tvbaknous injustice ; and to keep inconstant training a staff of knaves fit for similar acts of public servicef when not convenient to perform them personally .
So here wo have it proved , proclaimed , made " notorious as the sun at noon-day , " that we Engushmen live under a THING which maintains its power by thievery , lying , treachery , rogue-making , -and tyrannous injustice ! We shall presently show that MBRnEit is also chargeable to its account . Passing over the other portions of this pamphlet , we como at once to the proof of this charge . Our readers will remember the unfortunate expedition of tho Brothers BANDiERAfroni Corfu to Calabria , where they and their compatriots were brutally murdeml . _Itis proved , in the work before us , that through Mr . Mazzini' e letters , which were _villanously opened by the agents of Lord Aberdeen , our Government became acquainted with the facts of the intended expedition , which it should be stated Air . Mazzixi was doing his
utmost to prevent , foreseeing tho ruin that would , if persevered in , fall on the actors . The information obtained by such damnable means was communicated to the Austrian and Italian Governments . No information of this—no hint , was given to the patriots . On the contrary , it is shown , beyond doubt , by Mr . Mazzini , that the Neapolitan Government sent its vile agents to Corfu to lure the unfortunate exiles into the fatal trap set for them . The horrid plot too well succeeded , and the result our readers kuow . The blood of these martyred patriots is on the head of Lord _AmsRDiiE . v ; and were there justice to be had in England—did tho House of Commons really represent the people of England—beforo its bar Lord Aberdeen would be impeached , and this foul blot upon our country ' s honour would be fearfully but justly avenged .
This is not all ; it is now well known that the Polish Revolution , that struggle so heartily sympathised witli by the people of England , was put down , not by Russian force , but by British treachery !• The vile Whig Government , the hypocrites who at that very time were bawling for " Civil and Religious Liberty all over the World ! " and convulsing England from centre to circumference , with their rascally " Bill " agitation ; these scoundrels were at the same time in league with the ruffian Nicholas , imparting to him every particle of information they could obtain whieh would enable him to thwart the plans of tho Polish patriots . It is now equally well known that some hundreds of French , Spanish , Polish , German , and Italian patriots , have been consigned to dungeons , where many of them yet remain , betrayed by the hellish agencies employed by tho English Government to aid the propping up of the continental despotisms .
The brief memoir of Mazzihi contained in tho Reviewer ' s article is intensely interesting . While it exposes tho infernal means adopted by the continental despotisms to keep down liberty , it makes known also , the glorious spirit which , animating the patriots of nearly every nation in Europe , will never cease its labours till its ends are accomplished- —the regeneration of nations , and the universal overthrow of tyranny . The following is the affecting account givon by Mr . _Maxxvhi of the execution of the heroic martyrs ;—
The Bandiera and their seven companions died calm and intrepid , bearing witness to their faith , as becomes men who die for the Just and the True . One who was present at their last moments at Coscnza , on the 25 th of July , speaks of them as of saints , reminding one of the martyrs of the first ages of Christianity . The morning of their execution , they were found asleep . They paid almost minute attention to their toilet , as if they were about to accomplish an act of religious solemnity . A priest approached them : they mildly repulsed him , saying that , having sought to practise the law of the gospel ,
and to propagate it even at the cost of their blood among those emancipated by Jesus , they hoped more from their own good intentions than from his words . "Reserve them , " added one of them , " for your oppressed brethren , and _teavh them to be what the Cross has made them , free and equal . " They walked to _tlie place of punishment , conversing together , without agitation , without ostentation . " Spare the face ! " said they to the soldiers , who were making ready : "it was made in tho image of God . Viva _l'Italia ! " This was their last cry upon earth , God and their brothers will recollect it .
' If we have ' success , they wrote tome in their lastletter , on the 11 th of June , " hasten to join its . ' If we fall , tell our countrymen to imitate our exampU ; for life has heen given us to employ nobly and usefully , and the cause for which we shall have fought and died is the purest , the holiest that ever warmed the breasts of men : it is the cause 0 / Liberty , 0 / Equality , _ofHuMANITr , 0 / tft « iNDKrENDEKCE AND _UjilTT OF ItALT . " Mr . Maizini adds bitterly , " Such are the men against whom your government has leagued itself with Austria and tho King of Naples . " _is o ! Mr . Mazzini , the government of tho Aberdeen ' s and Graham ' s is not our government—not tho government of the people of England ; it is the government of the aristocracy and the profit-mongers ; but is no representative of the British people . By the people the liberticidal acts of the government are abhorred and repudiated ; and the actors execrated as not less the dishonourers of their own country than the foes of universal liberty .
Wo heartily commend this work to our readers , trusting that it will be circulated far and wide . Viva l'Italia ! While Italy continues to produce such sons as the god-like Bandiera , liberty can never be despaired of . 0 land of immortal glory , thy day is coming ! Popes and Kings shall strive in vain to prevent tin ' s resurrection , " The full noon of freedom shall shine on thee yet !"
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William TnoM . —The Inverury poet has , we observe from a notice in the Aberdeen Herald , gone to London to superintend the publication of a new edition of his works . The Loudon papers , particularly Punch and the Examiner , have done much to forward the interests of this unfortunate son of genius ; and we trust they will not lionise him too much , to the injury of his simple , unsophisticated tastes . and habits . Poor John Clare ( nowin an asylum ) never fairly relished his country life and humble cottage after his acquaintance with London ; and the Ettrick Shepherd ( who had always during his stay in the
metropolis , half a dozen dinner and supper parties on hand ) was certainly not the better for it . Tho strong , energetic mind of Burns , it will be recollected , was . not proof against the blandishments of fashionable society in Edinburgh . The efforts of the Mends of Thorn should bo steadil y directed towards a permanent provision for him in the shape of an annuity , however small . Ho is now approaching fifty years of age , and the "light of song" must soon begin to decay . Wc rejoice to hear , that by his first edition , and the kindness of friends , the poet has cleared above £ 200 . —Inverness Courier .
The Poet Tnou . —An Indian paper , just received has the following : — " An appeal to the generosity of the Calcutta community was made not long since by the Calcutta Star , and warmly supported by tho JIurkarti , in favour of the Scottish poet Thorn , of inverury , Aberdeenshire , who lias undergone much distress , owing to want of employment in his occupation of weaver . Scotland celebrates the memory of Bums with fetes and processions , leaving her living port to starve in a garret . We are happy to say that a considerable sum has been subscribed for Mi ' . Thorn ; in fact , upwards of £ 100 . "
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GiLi . r . _sriE thx _Bciiolar—Escato akd Capture . On Saturday last , Gillespie , who was arrested on suspicion that he was one of tho parties who broke into the shop of Mr . Grindal , grocer , _Wigton , was brought before the sitting magistrates , on Saturday last ' , and was fully committed to take his trial at the ensuing _assir-es . He was immediately conveyed to the lock-up , from which , notwithstanding he was legironed and a person in charge of him prior to his removal to gaol , he contrived to escape , and lor some time succeeded in evading the police . On Wedncsdav morning , however , he was discovered by lvent , iirBotchergate , with a woman _s cap and cloak on , and was immediately taken into custody and safely lodged ' in the gaol , where he now awaits his trial . He is supposed to have taken an active part in the recent _robueriss in tbi » city . —C ' _cirlMe Paper ,
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EXTRAORDINARY ADVERTISEMENT . The peculiarit y of the advertisements which . _sometimes appear both in the provincial and metropolitan journals , has often ' given rise to comment . W » think , however , that very f _« w . , amcing _^ i * can compete with the following , which appeared 10 an American paper more than twenty years since : _•» the sunscninr . R Behv _* determined not to move from this State , requests all persons indebted , te pay particular attention to his New definition of an Old Grammar , viz .: TRESES ! TENSE . I am * ) In want of money . Thou _artf > Indebted to me . . He isj J Shortly to be authorised for the waifc thereof , to take the body . Unless immediate payment is made , you must exportto take a lecture upon my new plural _. The Subscriber offers for sale , at his Store , two
rodssouth of the Fish-market , tho _following articles , vii .:
—t SOLID arguments . Hot oysters , boiled lobsters , ham and eggs , _butllf _" and cheese , & e ., ifcc . AGITATIONS . Cider , vinegar , salt , pickles , & c . grievakces . Pepper-sauce , mustard , cayenne-pepper , Ao . punishments . Rum , brandy , Ac ., < fcc ., Ac . nuTERFLUITIES . Snuff , tobacco , cigars , pomatum , Sic , extraordisabies . Sea-serpents' bones , wooden shoes , water witches , dsfc . N . B . —The above articles will bo exchanged for necessaries , viz . : — Bank bills at par , crowns , dollars , half ditto , quarter ditto , pistureens , ninepenny pieces , fourpenny , halfpenny ditto , or cents . terms of payment . One-half the sum down , and the other half on th _#
delivery of the articles . _rajoiuents oums , viz . . — Those indebted for Argument * Must not be Agitated ; Nor think it a Grievance If they should meet Punishment For calling for such Superfluities ; Nor think it Extraordinary That I find it Necessary To demand immediate Payment Am ' rew Suits . The smallest favour thankfully received . * Andrew Smith , t Any one tlie cap fits . ± llezcluuh Goddard _, Sheriff's Deputy .
> Losg Nap . — -A young American , who is travel _, ling in Europe , gravely announces in a letter , that Professor Van Grussclbach , of Stockholm , has brought to a state of pei'feetion tho art of producing a torpor in the system by the application of cold , of degrees of intensity proceeding from less to greater , so as to cause the human body to become perfectly torpid , in which state it may remain for 100 or 1 , 000 years , and then be awakened to a new existence ! _Auerxetiiy axd inn Yankee Captain . —An Ame
rican captain , being one _morning shown into Abcrnethy's consulting-room , immediately , in Yankee fashion , emptied the contents of his mouth upon tho floor . The man of medicine stared—keeping his hands in his pockets , according to custom , until tho patient should explain . ' ¦ What shall i do for my uyspepsy ? " asked the American captain . " Pay ma your fee , and I'll tell yon , " replied the doctor . The money was produced , and Abeniethy coolly replied , "Instead of spjttin < ryour saliva over my carpet , keep it to chew your food with . "
An Irish officeii dreadfully wounded in battle , vA he was lying on the ground near « . _suidisv who was making a terrible howling , exclaimed , " What do you malic such a noise for—do you think nobody is kiflod but yourself ?" A Sit " Bet . " —Miss Elizabeth Pcabody offered to lay a wager , on the Presidential election ,-with any eligible young man , viz ., that if Polk was elected , she was tho winner , and should have her opponent for a husband ; but if Polk were defeated , then he * opponent was the winner , and would be entitled to have her for a wife ! _Wuo can Beat it . —It is stated in the papers that a young wife in Lowell , Mass ., lias presented her husband with five children in eleven months ! An editor asks , " who can beat it ? " The Baltimore Sw » replies by asking , "In the name of Bedlam who would wish to beat it ?"
A _Coatriiiutiox to Chemical Science , —Mau Henry and Devcrgie profess to have detected _leaoV and copper in man . That there is lead , and in large * ( Hiantity , in the composition of many men , he woukj indeed be a leaden man who denied ; but beggars affirm that there are individuals in tho human family from whom they find it utterly impossible to extract copper \ TnE Salvation op me Country . —The skittle * playing came off with immense success . Sir Joseph ' knocked the pins about quite skilfully . Mastejt Bowley took an innings at a shorter distance _alsc- f aud everybody said that now , when a baronet and Mb son played at skittles , the country was coming round again as fast as it could come . —Bickens ,
Novel Mode op _Catcuixo Rabbits . —A corre _* . pondent of a contemporary says— " When I lived all Scaton Sluice , my companions and I used to go at nights with a dark lantern on Hartly Links , _nnd catch rabbits with sea-ferrets , as wc called them . We got large crabs ( commonly called dog-crabs ) from off the rocks ; we stuck a li g hted candle , about ono inch long , on the crab ' s back , and sent them into tho holes , before which we placed . 1 net . Before the crab got far into the hole , the rabbits came tappy » _lappy into tho nets . In this way we caught numbers of them in a short timo . " A Puzzler . — "Mamma , dosheep writo ? " "No , child . " " Then what do they have penB . for ,.. mamma ?"
I he Wat to serve a Fool . —A wight , rejoicing in the panic of Parkhurst _, has scratched his nanj _S on the windows of several of the first-class carriagesof the Greenwich Railway , and some wag has mado the very mortifying addition— " Since hung at Maidstone . " Both iiame and history have , on sonic of tho carriages , since been carefully obliterated , evidently by the hand of tho original offender ; for it is not likely that any Mend , however well-disposed , would volunteer such a service , and thereby run the risk of beine detected by tho Company ' s servants . _ORIflllf OF THE WORD TARIFF . —TllC llUZ 7 jing _natOQ " tariff" is derived from the town of farifa , at tho mouth of tho Straits of Gibraltar . When the Moors held possession of both the pillars of Hercules , it was here that they levied contributions for vessels entering the Mediterranean—whence the generic name .
AposTiiOpnE TO Gold . —God of the craven heart idol of millions , how splendid are thy temples , how * zealous are thy worshippers ' . They gather around . thy smile in tho morning , they leave not thy devotions at midnight ! Thou _smilest upon them , and _thoy grow mad in the midnight ol tllelr palaces They make themselves monarchs in fancy , and con--querors in dreams . Who can withstand thee ? Thon leadest the feet of beauty , thou dircctcst the arm of the brave ! thy pathway of triumphs , thy _presence the solace of power ! Thou silenced tho voice of eloquence when the Macedonian held thee up glittering before the eye of the orator ; and the mistress of the world rose before thee in tho balance ! Disposer of empires , thou spreadest over the world . Thy spell nerved the assassin and urged on the betrayer . Thy y ellow visage incited the spoiler when he sought thca on the crimson field , and mado himself red in tho carnage . In all ages thou hast triumphed . Whether
in the thirty pieces rewarding a Judas , or the sparkling crown on the brow of a tyrant ; always alik » invincible . The man of business bows obsequiously to thee . The man of fashion falls beforcthec , and the miser clothes thy garment as though it were thecurtains of heaven ! Thou hast a retinue of coaches , and an array of slaves . Thou hast a goal of a splendid misery , where the guilt makes her alliance with death , _'i'he virgin of the sanctuary fears not thy footsteps , and the shorn priest _ilies not the powes of thy _magic—Otsian . How to make a " _Gitt . "—Get ahcadof long hair turned up at the ends , and put it on a ehapeau Franem ; take a pair of _mustaeliios , an imperial and _eyeglass ; add to these a blue satin scarf , with a gold pin like a beadle's staff , braided coat , crimson waistcoat , ladies' boots , canary kids , a tremendous swagger , and a very small riding whip . Put these together oh a block , turn it into ltcgcnt-strcet about _thrift o ' clock , and you will have succeeded in making » perfect Guy . —Punch .
Benevolence . —Why is cold weather productive of benevolence ?—Because it make * people put thai ? hands in their pockets . Niogerism . — " I shall retire in € U § _wt > " as tjifl nigger said to the hurricane . An Error of the Press . —A _Cambridge paper , giving the conditions of a proposed prize for the best hexameter verses , says " the exercises are to be sent in bv the 31 st of March , and are not to exccetl owJ hundred- miles in length . "—These compositors will pO the death of us !
Wasp-like Wombs . — My notice was attracted to a lad v—no , not a lady , but to the waist of a lady boforomel Wasps and brush handles , but she was screwed up a few ! I can't begin to find a comparison for it . She was compressed into a _span—draifll \ ip almost out of sight—a perfect show . And this is what _fe called a good figure ! I don't know what sort of a figure _^ without a figure 8 . Well , some women m fools , if they arc women . I'd rather marry . a worn ** _lilvO a sugar hogshead than connect myself with suj ?& a _looKmg hour-glass . —Sam Slick . Good manners are the blossoms of good lense , and , it may be added , of good feeling too ; for if the law of kindness be written in the heart , it will lead to that disinterestedness in little as well as great thing *—that desire to oblige , and attention to the _gratine * _- tion of others , which are the foundation of _jood WW ? ncrs . —Locks .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 11, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_11011845/page/3/
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