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• ptfrp* October II, 1845. THE NORTHERN STAR. 3
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• Ptfrp* October Ii, 1845. The Northern Star. 3
• _ptfrp _* October II , 1845 . THE NORTHERN STAR . 3
Beauties Of Biron. So. Nv. "Childi Haboi...
BEAUTIES OF BIRON . so . nv . "CHILDI _HABOID . " The second canto of this magnificent poem was ¦ written in Greece in the year 1810 , when the poet was in his twenty-third year . At that time he appears to bave regarded the restoration of Greece as all bnt impossible ; hence the dejected and almost despairing tone of the following beautiful stanzas . A few years subsequently , Btrox had cause to change his opinions as tothe destiny of the Greeks , and what he did for them—devoting to their cause his fortune , his person , his sword , his life—is it not written on the hearts of freedom's sons in every clime ? Is not his nameiniperishably entwined with that of his passionately-loved
QBEECB ? Fair Greece ! sad relic of departed worth 1 Immortal , though no more ; though fallen , great ! _T ? ho now shall lead toy _acatter'd children forth , And long _accustom'd bondage uncreate ? Hot sneh thy sons who whilome did wait , The hopeless warriors of a willing doom , In bleak Thermopylae ' s sepulchral strait—Oh ! who that gallant spirit shall resume , leap from Eurotas * banks , and call thee from the tomb ! Spirit of Freedom ! when on Phyk _' s brow Thon _satfst mth Thrasybulus and his train , Could ' st thou forbode the dismal hour which now Vims the green beauties of thine Attic plain ? _Kot thirty tyrants -now enforce the chain , Bat every carle can lord it o ' er thy land ; JSer rise thy soul , bnt idly rail in Tain , Trembling beneath the scourge of Turkish hand , _JFrom birth to death enslaved ; in word , . in deed , un _mann'dt
In all save form , bow changed * and who Tbat marks the fire still sparkling in each eye , "Who but would deem their bosoms burn'd anew With thy nnquenched beam , lost Liberty ! And many dream withal the hour is nigh Thatgires them back their fathers'heritage : Tor foreign arms and aid they fondly sigh , Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage , -Or tear their name defiled from Slavery ' s mournful page Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow J By tbeir right arms fhe conquest must be wrought ? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye ? Sol True , they may lay your proud despoilers low , Bnt not for you will Freedom ' s altars flame . Shades of the Helots I triumph o ' er your foe ! Greece ! change thy lords , thy state is still the same ; Thy glorious day is o'er , but not thine years of shame .
"When riseth lacedsmon _' s hardihood , -When Thebes Bpaminondas rears again , When Athens * children are with hearts endued , "When Grecian mothers shall give birth to men , Then may-it thou be restored ; but not till then . A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; An hoar may lay it in the dust : and when Can man . its _shatterM splendour renovate , Recall its virtues back , and vanquish time and fate ? And yet how lovely in thine eye of woe , Landof lost gods and god-like men ! art thou I Thy vales of evergreen , thy hills of snow , Proclaim thee Nature ' s varied favourite now : Thy fanes , thy temples to thy surface bow , Commingling slowly with heroic earth , Broke by the share of every rustle plough : So perish monuments of mortal birth , So perish all in turn save well-recorded Worth ;
Save where some solitary column mourns Above its prostrate brethren of the cave ; Save where Tritonia's airy shrine adorns Colonna ' s cliff , and gleam along the wave ; Save o ' er some warrior ' s h ; _ilf-forgotten grave , Where the grey stones and unmolested grass Ages , but not oblivion , feebly brave , "Whilst strangers only not regardless pass , Lingering like me _. perchance to gaze , and sigh " Alas Tet are thy skies as blue , thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves , and verdant are tb y fields , Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd , And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds , The free-born wanderer of Ihy _mountain-air ; Apollo still thy long , long summer gilds , Still in his beam . Mendeli ' s marbles glare ; Art-, Glory , Freedom , fail , bul Jfature still is fair .
Where er we tread 't is haunted holy ground ; So earth ot thine is lost in vulgar mould , But one vast realm of wonder spreads around , And all tbe Muses' tales seem truly told , Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes onr earliest dreams have dwelt upon : Each hill aud dale , each deep _' ning glen and wold Defies the power which cruslfd thy temples gone : Age shakes Athena's tower , bnt spares grey Marathon The sun , the soil , bat not the slave , the same ; _Unchanged in all except its foreign lord—Preserves alike its hounds and h landless fame The battle-field , where Persia ' s victim horde First bowed beneath the brunt of Hellas ' sword ,
As on the mora to distaut glory dear , When Marathon became a . magic word ; Which utter'd , to the hearer ' s eye appear The camp , the host , the fight , the conqueror ' s career , The flying Mede , bis shaf tless broken bow ; The fiery Greek , his red pursuing spear ; _Jllounfcnns above , _JEarflfs , Ocean ' s plain below ; Heath hi the iront , Destruction in the rear ! Such was the scene—what now rcinaineth here % What sacred trophy marks the hallow'd ground , Recording Freedom ' s smile and Asia ' s tear ? The rifled urn * the violated mound , The dust thy courser ' s hoof , rude stranger ! spurns around .
Tet to the remnants of thy splendour past Shall pilgrims pensive , but unwearied , throng : JLong shall the voyager , with th' Ionian blast , Hail the bright clime of battle and of song 3 Long shall thine annals and immortal tongue Fill with thy fame the youth of many a shore ; Boast ofthe aged ! lesson of the young ! Which sages venerate and bards adore , As Pallas and the Muse unveil their awful lore . The above stanzas conclude our extracts from thc second Canto of Childe Harold .
An Acrostic. T Hou Bard Of Chartism, Acc...
AN ACROSTIC . T hou bard of Chartism , accept my humble praise : 31 eart-gratitude I yield for thy immortal lays . 0 h , that our tyrants would be warn'd by thee ! JJI ay they incline in time the slave make free . Ah ! would they listen to thy warning strains , S laves to -make men anil _ferealv tbEir galling chains ! C _an'st weild thy pen—make soft thc despot ' s heart ? 0 b , then , write on , and act the Briton ' s part , 0 urs be the task , for freedom boldly lights—P reserve us , heaven J in struggling for the right . JE ach one for liberty declare tlie world all o ' er , JR emove our fetters , or , " Slaves ! toil no more !" J . _Sha-a ¦ _lt- _'mJ _^ IP . ' _* - J .. _¦> .- _» . " _» 1 lit I _•** TiTT _~~* ¥ ** TT ~~~ l—¦ "I—n m m 1 _nrapi ¦¦ ¦ 1
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The Purgatory Of Suicides. A Pnisox Rutm...
THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Pnisox Rutme is Tex Books . By 1 ' hoius _Coorrn . the Chartist . London : J . How , 132 , Fleet-street A splendid address to " Mglit" opens the Fifth Uook—we can find room for onl y a portion of the stanzas : — Hail eldest Sight ! Mother of human fear ! Vague solitude where infant Man first felt His native helplessness ! Beneath whose drear And solemn coverture he , trembling , knelt To what in thy vast womb of darkness dwelt Unseen , unknown' - —but , with the waking Sun , Shouting , sprang up to see glad Xature melt In smiles—triumphantly his Jor-God run Up the blue sky—and Light ' s bright reign again begun ! Hail starless darkness!—sterile silence hail 1
vrouia that o er Chaos thy wide rule had heen Perpetual , and reptile Man ' s birth-wail Had ne ' er been heard—or , over huge , obscene , And monstrous births of ocean or terrene For ever thou hadst brooded—so that Light Bad ne ' er mocked mortals , cor the morning sheen Broke thy stern sigil to give baltful sight To man—whose lock upon his felloiv is a blight ; Season of sepulchred and secret sin ! Beneath thy pall what vileness doth Man hide , _Frsm age to age—the moral Harlequin Who dons the saint to pfcy tlie fratricide . Villainy ' s jubilee!—Crimes revel-tide . _'Whose murky archives opened would proclaim Ton ermined judge a gold-bought homicide—Ton priest an atheist—and hold up to shame Myriads of knaves writ" honest" in the roll of Fame !
The poet betlunlcs him of the condition of the tail ing slaves of his country , and their submission to oppression incites him to curse their pusillanimity . The allusion to Feost , that follows , Is Terr beautiful : — DarknessI thy sceptre still maintain—for thou Some scanty sleep to JEngland ' s slaves dosr bring ; Leicester ' s starved stocMngers their misery now Forget ; and Manchester ' s pale tenderling—The famished factory child—its suffering A while _eschangeth for a pleasant dream ;
Bream on , poor Infant wretch ! Mammon may wring JFrom out thy tender heart , at the first gleam Of Ii " ht , the life-drop , and exhaust its feeble stream ! Darkness . '—still ruTe—Ihat the Lancastrian hive Of starveling slaves may bless thee—for evil _tliey—With all their _wretchedness—desire to live ! Aye , _jaen desire to live—to whom the day Will bring again their woman ' s task—to stay At squalid home , and play the babe ' s meek nurse Till sound of factory bell—when they away 3 Instbaste , and hold the suckling to lift ' s source—Within the rails . ' r _pen their tyrants be my curse I
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Way , rather light that ewse on ye , yourselves—Ye timid , crouching crew I Is there no heart Among ye stung to see the puny elves , His children , daily ( lie—his wife dispart Her hair , and glare in madness t Doth the smart Of degradation cease to rankle in your veins ? Faint , though ye be , and feeble—will none start Unto his feet , and cry , while aught remains In him of life— "Death ! or deliverance from our chains !" Cowards!—do ye believe all men are like Yourselves!—that craven fear doth paralyse Bach English arm until it dares not strike A tyrant!—that no voice could exorcise Old Tyler ' s spirit—and impel to rise Millions omnipotent in vengeful ire ? Fool , that I am ! are there not hungry spies On every hand—who watch , for dirty hire , Each glance of every eye that glows with freedom ' s fire 1
Frost ! while I rave in darkness , thou dost feci The sun in yon far southern felon-land—But fcel _' _st , therewith , tby chain . Thy wound to heal 1 \ 0 help extends ! Poor victim I—sold , trepanned By hirelings of ths minion whose spite planned Thy death , aud built thy gallows—but , through fear Of Labour's vengeance , stayed the hangman's hand j Victim of thy heart ' s thirst with bread to cheer England ' s lean artizan , and Cambria ' s mountaineer ! How many a despicable sordid tool Of tyranny doth flippantly descant Upon thy deed—cleping thee " rebel fool , " And gallant Shell a "broil-slain miscreant "Who , had your cause aud yc proved dominant , Would loudly have extolled your fearlessness , And boisterously swelled the choral cbaunt Filled with the eulogy of your excess Of deep fraternal zeal to end Man ' s wretchedness . '
In the notes to this Book we find the following remarks on _Fnosr : — I write from no personal knowledge of John Frostforthe "Newport insurrection" occurred more than a year before I became acquainted With a single Chartistbut from the testimony of my eloquent and intelligent friend , Henry Vincent , who had witnessed Mr . Frost ' s upright discharge of duty as a magistrate , frequently partook of his hospitality , shared deeply his political views and purposes , and speaks enthusiastically ( I menn in private ) of the poor exile ' s generous sincerity and patriotic high-mindedness .
So Mr . Coor an _' s eloquent and intelligent friend , " _Henbt Vixcest , yet continues to " speak enthusiastically of the poor exile ' s generous sincerity and patriotic high-mindedness . " This is news to us . Mr . Cooper does well to add , however , that this enthusiasm on the part of the " political pedlar" is confined to " private" exhibitions . We should think they were particularly private . It may be true that _IIexrt Vixcest , tlie Chartist , frequently parcook of _Fkost's hospitality , and shared deeply his political views and purposes ; tut we are sure that IIexrt Vixcest , the bought and sold advocate of " respectable" reform , is utterly guiltless of now avowing any connection with , or admiration of poor Fnosi . This " respectable" mouther of
" moral" inanities , flimsy sentimentalities , and poetical puffery , whose hypocritical canting and whining about " " the blessings of religion , " draws down the applause of the oily black slugs of dissenting and teetotal platforms , would be shocked to hear thc name of Fnosi mentioned , and " the Charter " would cause bim to faint outright . We can assure Mr . _Coorun , who glories iu the name of " Chartist , " that his claiming the " eloquent and intelligent" for his "friend" will be deemed an unpardonable offence by that "respectable" gentleman : and thc offence will be not a little magnified , from the fact of Mr . Cooper reminding the world that the nowfrothy Mawworm , Vixcest , was once a Chartist , and a "friend" (?) of the " rebel" Frost ' s .
In another " note" on the Newport affair , Mr . Cooper offers some further remarks , which we feel bound to transfer to our columns . We must , however , dissent from the doctrine " tliat a resort to force , under any circumstances , is indefensible , either as a wise or a fust proceeding . " With all deference to Mr . CoorEit , this is " indefensible" nonsense ; and we wish he had left this " prison reflection" in the prison , and not brought it out with him , more especially as the very opposite doctrine is to be found more than once repeated in the poem before us * . — " Treason doth never prosper : what ' s the reason ? " For , if it prosper none dare call it treason . "
So says Sir John Harrington ; and , without asserting that it was morally or physically possible for the Welsh _emeitte of November , 1839 , to have succeeded—I shall not shrink to avow my convietion that the fated enterprize of John Frost , ivhich had for its object the _finfranchisement of every sane male inhabitant of Great Britain and Ireland , of twenty-one years of age , was equally as noble , although not so imposing , as the thriumph-in-arms of the Barons of Kunnymede—or lhe "Glorious Revolution " of _ItiSS . _Inflection—and , above all , prison-reflectionhas , indeed , done much to impress me with the belief that a resort to force , under any circumstances , is indefensible , cither as a wise or a just proceeding—but , for the life of me , I cannot subdue the feeling of an Englishman when the picture starts before my imagination of Hampden on Chalgrove Field "drawing the sword and throwing away the scabbard .- " And if Patriotism need not be
ashamed at the thrill of the blood which such a portrait enkindles—why blush 10 own admiration for the heroism of poor Shell—a youth of singular masculine beauty , and an enthusiast for the enfranchisement of Ids own orderwho loaded and fired his piece three times , with the greatest intrepidity , before he fell in the streets of Newport ? AVe do not write History like the glorious old Greeks , or the memory of siwh a hero would not be lost . Lost!—let me remember that a Nugent—to whom all honour!—lias had the moral courage to exert liimself , and successfully , fov the erection of a . column on Chalgrove Field , _atthebi-century of Hampden ' s death . —liny not a noble he found , in November 2039 , to commemorate Shell ' s fx . ll at Newport with equal earnestness ? Servility and Prejudice may be staggered at the thought nowbut what would have been thought of a column to Hamp . den , when the bones of Cromwell , Bradshaw , and Ireton had heen dug up , and were hung in gibbet-irons ?
The following allusion to the expatriated patriot Ems is pathetic and beautiful : — Ellis—my brother!—though but once in life I clasped thy hand—for oue hour ' s troubled breath neard thy tongue ' s accents—in the duugcou rife With sounds of maddened sorrow—yet , till death Hearse mc iu siii-nce , of my plighted faith To thee as to a brother , I will think : — And never—though it bring me direst wrath—That ihey xvave wronged th y innocence , will I shrink To tell thc _oTicrcssors whose revenge-cup thou dost drink .
A perjurer sold thee to the lordling ' s spite—The lordling ' s tenant-serfs dared not demur The verdict—for they marked his nod , though slight!—How sternly starless did lhe dread night lour On the low minions of tyrannic power When they , to exile thee—the wronged one—led ! * 'Twas such a night as this ; and grief s heart-shower Tiiese yielding eyes , in my lone dungeon , shed ' For , ' mid lhe clank of chains , echoed thy farewell tread ! And thou , all guiltless of the violent deed Wherewith they charged thee , as the new-born child!—And he , failing t' entwine the victor ' s meed Witli patriotic daring—deep-despoiled , Alike , of tbe sweet heaven that on ye smiled In your young love-ling ' s eyes—your toidows frowned Upon by . thc rude world—scorn ou scorn piled Upon jour memories , by each hireling , bound To fawn or bark as hc is bid—like the vile hound ' . —
Ihe poet sleeps and dreams again ; here is thc opening of his vision ;—Upon a bleak and barren plain , I dreamed That I emerged—where one tall pillar reared Its height until among tlie clouds it seemed To end . Yet , ' twas but mockery when I neared This lofty wonder—for its top appeared Beneath man ' s stature . Low , around the base , Lay broken sculptures of great names revered In times of old ; but ruin did dcl ' nce Tliem till they looked like memory in her burial-place .
And then another , and another stone Uprose , in the far distance—each the aim Vain-glorious of its founders making known _ilore by its wreck than record of the name Or deed it had beeu stablisht-d to proclaim . Food for despondence , thus , thc brooding mind Gathered with _scmblaut shapes that fleeting camo Athwart its vision : —for , as flits the wind , These imaged columns fled—or with new forms com bined . In allegoric lessons for the soul—Of Liberty , each marble fragment strewed Upon that plain , each pictured deed aud scroll , Told , as it lay in ruined pulchritude" She is . 1 goddess JMan hath oft pursued" Won seldom—and hath never yet retained "Her living presence ! " Dreary solitude O ' er all I saw in saddened vision reigned—Until a verdant mound my anxious spirit gained .
And , on the mound , methought a mystic cirque Of giant stones , in simple grandeur rose—HeseinMing Earth ' s first fathers' handy-work—Their temples , or their tombs . Of Freedom's cause—When Gallia's sous bound laurel on their brows Blent with the cak—full many a devotee—Self-exiled from the wrath of friends grown foes—In earnest converse seated seemed to be ' . Hid shadow of _tliathuge cairn ' s hoary majesty . A band of the French revolutionists are introduced , including Co _* - _* i > or . cET , Uczot , _Rolasd , Valaze , Lb Bas , and Babeuf . The _language of the several speakers is very grand ; we can , however , only find room for the following magnificent outburst , ofwhich Coxdorcbt isthc speaker : —
The spirit of Prometheus doth but sleep AVithin thc human heart , —lulled , drugged , and _di'OWSC Hy Power's _robedmed ' einers who keenly keep Watch o er its breathings , —and liave ever choused Their prey into more slumber , when aroused For a brief breath by _Freedom ' s vital touch , It started its sleek keepers , who caroused , Gaily , beside their prostrate victim ' s coueli—Thinking it safe , for aye , within their privileged clutch ' .
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The spirit of Prometheus doth but sleep . - Within man ' s heart : —the dark , blood . _fesding brood Of serpents that so hush around it creep , Now they perceive , with apprehension shrewd , Their Terror-Trinity of Crown , Sword , Hood—Is near evanishment , —may justly dread The ruthless vengeance in its waking mood Of the heart ' s Titan thought : —Up from its bed 'Twill spring , and crush the asps that on its life misfed The spirit of Prometheus doth but sleep : — The _Mindis tornado wakes , through earth , ev ' n now ! And soon it will to nought the fabric sweep , Of age-reared Priesteraft _, and its shapes of woe—Its Hell , Wvat ' a-God , and FeaT—that foulest foe Of human freedom!— " I will freely think !" 'Twill boldly tell the surpliced cozeners— "Lo ! " I dare your monster God!—nor will I shrink " His tyrant tortures to defy—ev ' n though I sink
"Amid the bottomless abyss of pain " Ye say He hath created for his slaves ! " There let him hurl me . '—und despite the _chaiu " That spiritually binds me under waves " Of liquid flame , —He sliall find ono who braves "His wrath , and hurls back hatred for a God " Who forms without their will His creatures—graves " Their natures on them—rules by his own nod "Of providence , their lives—and , then , beneath his rod"His scourge eternal , tortures them , witliout " Surcease or intermission !"—Endless fire For a breath ' s error—for a moment ' s doubt ' . — Infinite Greatness exercising ire Relentless on a worm!—Why ?—That the quire Celestial may His spotless glory sing—His attributes harmonious made by dire Infliction on his worms of suffering—And He Himself in joy extatic revelling !
Oh ! what a potent poison hath henumbod The human mind , aud robbed it of its might Inherent!—since , affrighted , cowed , begloomed , And stultified—this juggle of the Night It kneels unto , and calls " divinest light _!"—> But , it will soon tlie jugglers' toils outleap Who long , behind the altar of their Sprite Of blood , have played at terrible bo-peep With Man!—the spirit of Prometheus doth butslcep . ' ¦ For tbe remainder of this Book we must refer the reader to the poem itself , where they will find the lion-licking , lady-loving , Jew Jack-the-Giant-killcr Samsox introduced ; with sundrv anti-atheistic speeches on liis part , and sundry priest-frightening replies on the part of the revolutionary suicides . "We cannot afford room this week for further ex tracts , and , indeed , had we room , we should hesitate to add anything to the extract just given—a pieceWorthy of thc great _Shellei himself ! What higher praise could we award Mr . CoorEit ? None .
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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOKOctober . London * . Punch Office , 92 , Fleetstreet . " Return from a delightful trip on the Continent " forms the subject of the large steel engraving by Ckuiksiiaxk in the present number . It represents a party conveyed in an open boat from the Belgian packet to Dover harbour . Wind and waves combine to make all concerned supremely miserable , as is evident by the despairing faces ol the unfortunates , most of whom are engaged in " casting up their accounts . " The article thus illustrated is written by Angus B . Reach , who can write very cleverly , though bis pvesent production is by no means firstrate . The Editor contributes an irreverend and cockneyish parody on Golosmith's famed "Edwin and Angelina , " entitled "The Hermit of Vauxhall . " The " Legetid of the Rhine" exhibits , this month , symptoms of spinning on the part of the writer ; the present chapters are not good . The following article being brief , we give it entire : —
poetical invitations . If all the young ladies who sit down to a . piano to sing a song were to be taken at their words—that is to say , at the words of the poet , which , for the time being , they adopt as their own—much awkwardness might be the consequence . If the invitations that are frequently issued were to be literally accepted , we should have peoplo rushing to willow glens the day after an evening party ; or jumping into cabs and giving directions to the cabmen to drive " where the aspens quiver , " " down by tho shining river , " whither they had been requested to " bring their guitav" by some syren of last night ' s soiree . Four or five years ago it was customary to recommend a whole roomful of company to hurry " Away , away to the mountain ' s brow ! " and many of our readers will recollect being intreated to " leave the gay and festive scene" considerably before supper , and to " rove ' mid forests green , " for tho
purpose of watching the lingering ray " that shoots from every star ; " ivhich , as the stars happen to be innumerable , would have been a very endless business . To ask a gentleman to come and watch the rays that shoot from every star , is almost as bad as inviting him to come and count tlie " five million additional lamps" at Vauxhall , a task under which even Cocker must have fallen prostrate . The coolness with which a request for a meeting " by moonlight alone" is frequently conveyed may bo all very well in a crowded room-full of guests , but if the solitary interview wero to come off at the appointed hour , the strongest of female nerves might bo shaken . As thc invitation is general , any one present is at liberty to accept it , provided he fulfil thc condition of coming alone ; and if Spring-heeled Jack should happen to overhear the song , he might take it into his head—and heels—to keep the appointment .
Young ladies should be very careful in issuing notes of invitation to a moonlight soiree , for they do not know who may overhear thein , and attend the rendonvous . Tho Cock-lane Ghost , had ho been living when the song of ' Meet me by moonlight" was composed , would have been a very likely sort of gentleman to be waiting « ' in the grove at the end of the vale , " for the purpose of bestowing the sweet light of his eyes—glaring through two holes in a turnip—upon any one who had asked for it . We must say , we prefer the present system of writing songs with no meaning at all , to the old method of asking people to . 1 moonlight tete-a-tete , a meeting in " a tranquil cot at a pleasant spot , " or a _coiitiersasione " where the aspens quiver . " " You'll remember mc , " pledges you to nothing , unless a waiter sings it while you nod your assent , and a promise todo something " when hollow hearts shall wear a mask" is certainly void , for impossibility .
Thc illustrations are all excellent , and cannot fail to cause the realisation of the idea of " laughter _holdins both his sides . "
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PUNCH—Pakt LI . London : Punch Office , 92 , Fleet-street . " Merry and wise , " our hunch-backed friend maintains liis post as chief satirist of wrong , falsehood , and folly ; sparing no one , from the Queen on her throne , to the sycophant of the ¦ Morning Post . The recent royal visit " to Germany has afforded Punch matter for much "jest in earnest , " which the high and mighty of the land would do well to reflect on . We can assure their "high mightinesses" that , at auy rate , thepeople will not fail to reflect—and what
the result of their reflections will be , '' needs no ghost to tell . " In a number of the present Part is a double " cartoon , " entitled "An Historical Parallel ; or Court Pastimes , " in which Queen Elizabeth and her Court are represented as witnessing a bear-baiting , in 15 S 0 , and Queen Victoria as gazing upon the slaughter of the deer at Gotha , in 1 S 15 . Punch states that a book is in preparation for the use of the heir to the throne , in which the examples of his parents will be put forth in a series of easy lessons in one syllable , ofwhich the following is a specimen : —
The Deer is a poor weak Brute , which it is good to Kill . It was once the Plan to Hunt the Deer ; but it Huns so fast , that it puts one quite in a Heat to try to Catch it . A Prince should not get Hot , or be at much pains to Hunt the Deer , but should have the Deer all Caught , and put in a small Space , which they can in no way get Out of . Then the Prince should come with his Gun , and Shoot at the Deer , when he must Kill some . It is fine sport to see the Deer fall Dead in the Place , where they are all put so Close that a Prince , Shoot how he will , must Hit some of them . If you are a good Boy , you shall have a Gun , and some Deer to Shoot at with the Gun ; and then they shall be all put Dead in a Kow , for you to look at them . Oh . ' what nice Sport for a Prince of thc Dlood !
Here is a new and improved nursery rhyme for the young Guclphs : — Sing a song of Gotha—a pocket-full of rye , Eiglit-and-forty timid deer driven in _. to die ; When the sport was open'd , all bleeding they were seen—Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before a Quoeii ? The Queen sat in her easy chair , and looked as sweet as honey ; The Prince was shooting at thc deer , in weather bright and sunny ; The bands were playing Polkas , drcss'd in green and golden clothes ; The Nobles cut the poor deer ' s throats , and that is all Pmich knows !
The following is , wc fear , too _' good to be true , ne could forgive Prince Albert all his sins—including his hat-making , deer-slaughtering , and other offences perhaps still more heinous—if he would do the State the good service of making game of the v . racious and dangerous brutes described in thc following announcement : — Several of the Civic Companies have invited Prince Albert to a day ' s sport in the City . They have offered to collect in the area of the Stock Exchange all the bulls and bears that arc in the habit of prowling about thc
neighbourhood . As soon as these are despatched , a number of desperate Stags , that have been brought up expressly by the rjilways , will be driven from Capel-court into the interior , and his Koyal Highness will be armed with unlimited power to hunt down as many as he p leases . The following is excellent : — CUILVKES ' S SO . VG . FOIl THE COBCRG _GRKGOi : li _* S _>*« T . We ' re happy German children ; ' You praise our glossy hair , Our wreaths and pretty costumes , Our cheeks so fat and fair : Our little bodies never
Grew stunted at the loom ; . Our infant eyes ne ' er ached in The pit-seam ' s choky gloom . We never _sobb'd to sleep , on straw GloBii crouched for warmth , like vermin—' We are not English children ; Ko , Gott seydank , wc are German ,
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They say our _Bn-flish sijterff Are never blithe as we ; But , Queen ,, you look so gracious , That this can never be . They tell us tliey ' s ill nurtured , Of raiment scant and rude Not picturesque , as we are—A wild and wolfish brood ! Then bless good Saint Gregorius , That did our lots determine—We are not English children ; No , 67 oft sey dank , we are German When jou go back to England , You'll think on what you ' ve seen Then ask our English sisters To dance upon the green . Perhaps they'll look less savage , With seemlier clothes and food ; Perhaps with kindly teaching
You'll change their sullen mood 'i'ls sad that they should go in rags , And you , their Queen , in ermine—We are not English children ; No , Gott sey dank , we ' re German !
" Queen Victoria ' s Statue of Shakspeare" ia an excellent piece of satire , which , if Victoria read it , and if she has aught of sense and shame in her composition , must make her blush crimson to the eyes . One thing the tenant of Windsor Castle may be sure of , tbat reverence for tbat well-nigh worn out jugglery in Virtue , of wliich sho is permitted to live a life of splendid idleness and haughty isolation , is not on the increase amongst her "lovingsubjects' _^?) , but just the reverse . The other contents of this part we have not room to notice ; enough , that from tho first to the last page all is admirable , and worthy of all praise , the illustrations , too , this month are more than ordinarily excellent—we must particularly notice the portrait of the holy- mendicant , Bishop Bloomfieju ) . More it is not necessary we should say in praise and recommendation of the unrivalled Punch .
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HOW'S ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF BRITISH SONG-Nos . 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 . London : IIow , 132 , Fleet-street . These numbers contain Collin ' s elegant verses "To Fair Fidele ' s Grassy Tomb" ( set to music by Dr . Arne ) , Dibdin ' s famed "Farewell my Trim-built Wherry ;"" Black-eyed Susan ; " "Lovely Nan ;" " Crazy Jane ; " The Baby's Hushaby ; " andseveral other pieces of minor celebrity . The illustrations are most beautiful . The cheapness of tliis work is astonishing ; thus the first three of the above-named pieces are contained in a single number , which ( poetry , music , and illustrations ) is published for sixpence ! Wo again earnestly recommend this excellent work to all the lovers of British Song .
WADE'S LONDON _REVIEW-Ocioiren . London : C . B . Christian , Whitefriar ' s-street , Fleet-street . The contents of this month ' s number are : — " Ambition , a Greek tale" ( concluded ); " Vital Statistics *" " Parrot ' s Journey to Ararat ; -- " 11 Vagabondo " ( continued ) , * " _Michelet ' s History of France * , " " Railway Speculation ; " and " A Practical Survey of Ancient Coins . " Those contributions are ably written , but are almost all of a dry , and not generally interesting character . " II Vagabondo" is an exception , but his reminiscences this month exhibit him , with all his cunning , in the unenviable character o f a spooney ; we must not . forget , however , that even Gil Blas showed himself soft on more than one occasion .
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THE CONNOISSEUR . _—Octobeb . London : E . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street . The principal contents of this month ' s number embrace the following subjects : — " Royal Academy of Arts ; " "The Prima Donna ; " " The Decline of the Drama" ( concluded ); " British Arch-cological Institute ; " " Fine Art Commission ; " " Romer ' _s Physiology of the Human Voice ; " " Shaksperian Critics ; " and " Dramatic Summary . " Wehave read the whole of these articles with much pleasure ,
and we believe some profit ; and wc are only sorry that we have not space at command to give to out readers a specimen of tbe good things this number contains . Amongst its contents is an original ballad , thc music by S . Wtlde . The illustration to this month ' s number is a perfect gem—a lithographic portrait of _Muniixo from a painting by himself . H . C . Maguike is the artist who has drawn the copy , and a most exquisitely beautiful production it is . We must again express our approbation of the theatrical criticisms in this serial , which are penned by a master-hand .
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TnE FAMILY _IIERALD-Pauts XXVII . XXVIII . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . Wc have only room to say , that we have read the greater portion of the \ a \* vei contents of these two parts , and having so read , wo unhesitatingly recommend the Family Hex-aid as thc very best of the penny publications . More than that , we can conscientiously say , that thc Family Herald is far superior to many higher-priced publications . Its every page is filled with entertaining instruction , and instructive entertainment . No family should be without the Family Herald .
Memoir Of The Earl Spencer.
MEMOIR OF THE EARL SPENCER .
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Tho largest gifts of nature and the most esteemed results of education seem occasionally to be combined in the same individual , fov tht _pwvpose of enabling liim efficiently to discharge the duties of a situation to which by mere accident he may have been raised , _* hence it is by no means uncommon to find great lawyers on the bench , real statesmcu in the Cabinet , and learned divines in episcopal palaces . But no one eould seo ft heavy agriculturist leading tlic House of Commons without being convinced that , in that instance at least , original predilections and early habits had combined to neutralize the bounty of fortune . It was impossible to behold such a man enacting the part of a Minister of State without feeling that it was one of the oddest amongst the London
exhibitions . In its day it was a show that attracted all strangers ; and successive audiences have retired from the scene , frankly acknowledging that it was even more wonderful than thoy had expected . During oight-and-twenty years the subject of this memoir—being then Lord Althorp—held a seat in the House of Commons , and was a very active member of that assembly . There can be no doubt that when Lord Godericli resigned , the Whig opposition set up Lord Althorp as their acknowledged organ ; and , of course , every one re members that ho was the Ministerial leader in the Lower House , not only in the Governmciit of Lord Grey , but during thc first Melbourne Ministry . In that position he was placed with as slender personal
qualifications for thc post as ever fell to the lot ol mortal man , although no one will be disposed to deny that hc was a person of groat private worth ; that ho possessed some intellectual vigour , and was distinguished by many aimablc qualities ; but his attempt to be a leading Minister in a popular assembly partook so largely of the ridiculous that it reached the burlesque . In tracing out the strange career which led to these _absurd results it would not be very interesting to dwell upon the early history of thc noble Earl . One naturally desires to review the process by which a mighty intellect reaches maturity but to examine the advancement and cultivation of an ordinary understanding yields little profit and no entertainment .
Earl Spencer was born on thc 30 th of Ma ]* , 1782 . In due time hc went to Trinity College , Cambridge , where he obtained the . honorary degree of M . A . There was little chance that such a man could become a senior wrangler , or contend for classical honours ; if ; however , he hud graduated in a college instituted for the pnrposc of leaching the arts . of fattening oxen or breeding sheep , no man couM have carried off the prize from so great a proficient in those very useful matters as John Charles Spencer . But as tho qualities of- short-horned bullocks and black-laced rams have little connexion with Greek literature or mathematical , science , hc departed from Cambridge a very undistinguished student of that learned University . At the very earliest possible age he entered the House of Commons , having been elected fov
Okehainpton . While he sat for that borough it could not be said that he did anything iri the House di " Commons which reflected much credit upon , the choice of the electors who had returned him to . IJfir-Jiament ; he was , however , at that period § 0 very young a man that no very considerable displays of legislative ability could bo expected at his hands ' . But if his talents—such as they were—had npt yet begun to devclopc themselves , his ambition was more precocious , " and he off ered himself for Cambridge at the earliest opportunity that occurred . The death of Mr . Pitt led to a general election , but Lord Althorp ; . _* is candidate for his " alma mater " was defeated by a large majority , and he was fain to fall back upon the constituency which hc had previously represented . Iii thc same year a vacancy occurred for Northamptonshire , where a considerable portion of the estates of the Spencer family arc
situated . For that county . hc was returned after a severe struggle , and continued to represent it for a quarter bf a century . During the Fox arid Grenvillc Ministry the ofiicc which he first _held-under the Crown was conferred upon him . It was one of small importance—namely , . 1 Lordship ofthe Treasury ; but , every one knows , it belongs to that class of situations by means ofwhich the scions ofthe aristocracy arc usually initiated in the mysteries o f official life . From this timo forward be laboured with the assiduity and zeal wliich distinguished the leading Whigs of that period ; by which thev succeeded in gaining the confidence of a numerous " and powerful party 111 the House of Commons , while they attracted the support of the , Liberal and Reforming body throughout the country , In his hostUitv to the Duke ot lork , in the year 1 S 00 , Lord Altfiorp rendered himself rather conspicuous * , awl when that illustrious personage resigned the _cojuraaudof the
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army , ' the subject of this memoir concluded a long speeoh by saying "that resignation ought to occasion no regret , as his Royal Highness had lost the confidence of the country . " He also took that opportunity to denounce the " practice of conferring high office on persons of such exalted rank . The next series of debates in which he took a prominent part were those occasioned by the escape of Bonaparte from Elba , when he showed that which no one now will be disposed to call patriotism , in moving an address to the Prince Regent , praying his Royal Highness not to disturb the peace of Europe . The peace of Europe , however , was established upon a much broader basis than it could have been by the policy which Lord Althorp recommended ; and from the moment that tho war ceasedhis Lordshipin
, , common with the . other Whigs , took up the trade of worrying the Minister about economy and retrenchment . For some years they bad little else on which to ; found a series of clap-trnp speeches , and , to do them justice , they made the most of the plausible arguments with which the state of public affairs then furnished them . On his political and Parliamentary career , we may readily bestow all thc praise which consistency deserves ,- for whatever may have been his political vacillations at a later period of life , Ifc must bo acknowledged , that so long as the Tories remained in power hc was an uncompromising Whig . He deprecated a large naval establishment ; he clamoured unceasingly against the military force which it was thought necessary to maintain ; he opposed the Six Acts with as much enemy as was
possible in a man so phlegmatic ; he resisted the grant of £ 0 , 000 to the Duke of Kent on his marriage ; he moved for a repeal of the Foreign Enlistment Bill , and he opposed tho Irish Insurrection Act . But the subjeet upon which he most frequently submitted motions to thc House was the state of . the public finances : and , because lie took upon Jiini ' sc / f to censure the financial plan 3 of others , it was concluded that he was capable of propounding fiscal measures himself ; when Lord Gi'ey , therefore , came into power he selected Lord Althorp for his Chancellor of the _Exchequer * , and it is not easy to have imagined a more intelicitous choice ; for though he
possessed many qualities highly deserving of respect , and justly entitling him to the confidence of his party , that man could never have found himself at home inthe Treasury Chambers at Whitehall , whose tastes and knowledge almost exclusively qualified him for rural pursuits ; whose eye was better filled by the image ofa plethoric ox than a full exchequer , and who will be best remembered in the history of his race as the " Bucolic Earl Spencer . " Nevertheless he was an active member of Parliament , and we should needlessly extend the limits of this article if we were to follow him through every stage of his Parliamentary career , or even enumerate a tithe of thc occasions on which he addressed the House of
Commons . Events , however , with which he was intimately connected were assigned as the reasons for breaking up two Administrations—the first of _tliere was the Goderich Ministry , during which it was proposed to appoint Lord Althorp Chairman of a Finance Committee ; and that proposition led to tho resignation of Mr . Herries . This circumstance was stated to hethe proximate cause of LordGodevich ' s surrendering the seals of office . But ifc is well known that this was not the veal cause of thc Duke of Wellington's accession to power , and it is as certain that the removal of Lord Althorp to the Upper House was not the sole operative circumstance * which dissolved the first Melbourne Ministry ; yet his Lordship ' s name is in the popular mind most closely connected with both changes of Administration . Very
Very little more need be added respecting his conduct as an Opposition member ; he took an active part in promoting thc repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts ; he opposed " the grant of £ 2000 a year to the Canning family , and he supported a proposition for abolishing the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland . In 1880 hc became leader oftlie Ministerial party in the House of Commons , occupying , as already stated , the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer . As might have been expected , his first budget was full of blunders ; and , however startling these errors might be , they occasioned even less surprise than thc cool indifference with which hc retraced his steps for the purpose of correcting them . His influence , however , seemed scarcely to suffer ; for the Ministry to whicli ho belonaed enjoved the support of five hundred
members of the House of Commons . But even that vast majority melted away under the continued operation oftlie inconsistency which marked the character of Lord Althorp at this period of Jiis political life , * for his opponents charged him — and upon no weak grounds—with supporting questions in Opposition which he opposed during his tenure of office . Amongst the instances cited to his disadvantage were the assessed taxes , the extension of the elective franchise , the ballot , the newspaper-tax , the cheap pamphlet duty , military Hogging , and the pension list . Of the measures which ho supported and was instrumental in carrying , Parliamentary Itefovm . and the Poor Law Amendment Act may be reckoned the most conspicuous . Respecting tlic latter of these , public opinion lias been so ttnemiixocaWy expressed that any more
special reference to the subject in this place would be superfluous . But as to the Reform Bill , bis Lordship certainly seemed to bo tlio chief agent in carrying it through thc House of Commons . Technically speaking , Lord John Russell had " charge of the bill ; " but , to do Lord Althorp justice , he made himself perfectly master of its details , and the admirable good temper with which he discussed the whole of its provisions excited unqualified applause ; while the extraordinary powers of recollection which he , displayed while debating its details drew forth the most flattering compliments even from his opponents . And his success was the more remarkable when ire recollect that his temper was tried every night by the withering sarcasms of Mr . Croker , anil liis memory unceasingly tested by the indomitable industry of Sir Robert Peel .
Thc opening of the year 1 S _3-1 was characterised by the notable affair of "Who is the traitor ? " Mv . Hill , then member for Hull , having stated to his constituents that an Irish member , who had violently opposed the Coercion Bill , had gone to a Cabinet Minister and secretly urged him to pass it , as otherwise no man could Jive in peace in Ireland . Tin ' s created no little _excitemeut ; and Mv . _O'Coiwell , on the meeting of Parliament , demanded the authority from Lord Althorp . The noble lord said he should not act a manly part if he did not declare that he had good reason to believe that some Irish members who spoke and voted _agninst the bill bad used very different language in private . Mr . O'Connell started up , and accused Lord Althorp of shrinking . On which the noble Lord said , "Does tlio honourable and learned member accuse me of shrinking ?" Mr . O'Connell at once retracted the expression , and added , " 1 feel I ought not to use a harsh expression towards the noble Lord . " The rcsuit of thc affair
is in the recollection of every reader . After an _ inquiry by a committee into a specific charge against Mr . Sheil , tlio matter was supposed to have originated in misinformation , or misapprehension , and there it dropped . A more serious matter camo to embarrass thc Government . The manner in whieh they met Mr . Ward ' s " appropriation motion , " by proposing a commission of inquiry into the property and resources of the Irish church , led to thc retirement of Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham , to protracted debate , and produced ihat fierce and sudden assault from Lord btanley on his recent colleagues , which led Lord Althorp , in his quiet way , to tell him that he always had thought his genius would never have fair play until he became an Opposition orator . ! But the
debates revealed weakness in the Government , division amongst its supporters , and greatly damaged its moral power . Afterwards , Mr . Littleton , the Secretary for Ireland , became involved in a dispute with Mr . O'Connell . Hehad unadvisedly assured him , in a private communication , that the Coercion Bill would 110 t . be renewed , not being aware that Earl Grey contemplated renewing it . Tliis Jed to muchunplcasanS personal recrimination and explanation and ultimately Loid Althorp sent his resignation to Eavl _Gwiy _, _evci * _* , at ' tftv thu Ministry had vefused to accept Mr . Littletou ' s . This Jed to Earl Grey ' s retirement . In his speech , detailing the circumstances , ic termed Lord Althorp "thc leading member of Government in the Commons , on whom my whole" _confidence rested—whom I considered as the
right arm of the Government , and ' without whom 1 felt it was impossible that the Government could go on . " Earl Grey was . replaced by Lord Melbourne , and Lord Althorp was induced to retain his place as Chancellor ol ' the Exchequer . This lie did till the death of his father , on the 10 th of November , 1834 , and his own " consequent elevation to the peerage , which furnished an occasion , of which William IV . immediately availed himself , foivdeclaring thc Melbourne Ministry dissolved . Sir Robert Peel was summoned from Italy to face for a few months an adverse House of Commori , and when once ' more the Liberal-party regained-their scats on thc Treasury benches , no office wa _§ found in which Lord Spencer could assist liis _< 2 i «» irf « _-ii colleagues . Thus ended thc public caveer of the noble Earl , the close of whose natural life itis now our duty ' to record . Nine years ago hc gave up the hopes and fears of political existence , and though he _delivered two or three speeches
in the House of Lords - 'during that period , yet 111 s oratorv was for the most part confined to agricultural dinners , and tho distribution of . -prizes at ¦ Cattle Shows . _-Aniidst such scenes hc seemed precisely 111 that position for which he was intended by nature and qualified by education . His popular manners , _biii'ly frame , and unpretending exterior , would seem to justify tho saying , thai though he was a farmer amongstiords , hc was no lord amongst farmers ; that , on the contrary , he was most thoroughly one ot themselves , and quite to the " manner born . -there tbo imperfections -oiMiis husky voice were not criticised and the errors of his inconclusive logic were not felt ; his repetitions and stammerings , . his common-place sentiments , and clumsy style were either unperceived or indulgently forgiven ; while his _unfeigned kindliness of disposition , the ingenuous tone of his character , and the simplicity of his bearing were usually remembered to his advantage ; and should at a moment like _tjhe present iii no iwe _^ vftt fee forgotten .
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_DKOl'S OP COUF . OM _GENBKALLT ADMINISTERED BT FRIENDS . Having your health proposed at tho age of forty , aa a "promising young man . " , , Reading a newspaper on a railway , containing an account of " _five-aud-twenty lives lost" only the day before . Losing a heavy sum at cards , and all your friend * wondering how you could have been " such a fool . " Putting on a white neckcloth , which you fancy becomes you , and being hailed all tho evening as " waiter . " Publishing a novel which does not sell , and reading : in a review— " This work is equal to anything of Ainsworth ' s . " Breaking down before ladies in the middle ofa songr and a wag calling out " Encore . "
l Losing your latch-key , and wife and mother-in-law both sitting up for you . Having your gig nearly upset by an omnibus , and being abused by the conductor for not seeing " vera ye re coming to . "—Punch . _Veoetabu * Diet . —However much the discaso * amoiig the potatoes may distress the poor Irish during ; the following winter , it wiil not in the least alter the diet of the Great Agitator , whose living is very plain , having existed all Ins life upon cabbage .-Rjicl . Should _Cbomweu - have a Statue ?—Everybody is asking , "Should Cromwell have astatue ? " and echo is in all directions bawlingout , "Yes , of course . " lt is true that Cromwell cannot be traced back to Lady Rcdburga _, or proved to be a lincivl _deaccndaiot
ol Ethclsantha , the wife of Alfred ; but he certainly - played his part of sovereign as well as if he had been '' native and to the manner born" for it . We should like to know whether he has not as good a right to a statue as Richard the Third , who played Old Harry with the Tower bedding , and made Baudwiche » of the infant princes between a couple of feather beds . Nothing can palliate this romance of tho palliasse , and thereis no excuse for a downy uncle , who smothered the heirs to the throne in downy goose-quill . Hc made thc mattress and pillows of the young princes the means of bolstering up hia own title to the throne : aud his subsequent conduct was very disgraceful , for we defy any one to see tho play of Richard the Third without coming to the conclusion that Dick was a deceitful scoundrel . In fact , thc false front hc assumed has caused that article to bear the name of Dickey up to the present _ueriod .
Then , again , look at John . ' Wc should like to know what on earth he deserves a statue for . He was » fellow , according to Shakspeare , always putting out young princes' eyes with enormous pincers . His intimacy with Hubert was enough to condemn him in thc opinion of any well-regulated-minded individual . Henry the Eighth , too , ought to have stood at the bar of thc Old Bailey for sexigamy ; but wa think we have said enough to _sliow that there arc a few kings in our Hume and Smollett , who ought ta be deprived of statues , if merit gives any claim tothe distinction of being * ' done in stone" for the New Houses of Parliament . Cromwell was , until lltS elevation , a very respectable brewer , and at least Oil a level with Barclay , Perkins , or Mcux ; and though hc was not an entire sovereign , he is by no means to be thought small beer of by the true constitutional Englishman . -- Bid .
Eon Parliament . —A Cartoon . —The decorations of the new Houses of Parliament will be incomplete , unless they include a representation of Justice , who * is supposed topresidcovcrparl . anientaryproceedings . That thejib of justice , to use a nautical term , should _, have a _niediieviil cut , is highly necessary , for t \ v > considerations . In the first place , Justice , checJc-byjowl . as she will be with Chivalry , and otlier Gothic company , will otherwise resemble a denizen of tho waters out of its element . In the second , the Justicir of Parliament , for an obvious reason , should be delineated in a style approaching caricature or burlesque , which is precisely that of thc art of the middle * ages . For these good reasons , it is essential that Justice should grasp her scales and sword by a _niodo
of prehension practicably by no mortal ; and that those properties should be cumbersome and _awkwardloi'king in the extreme . There is a profundity ill representing her ns < i supernatural being , taking Jiohl of things in an impossible manner . On the same deep principle she should be drawn standing in au attitude which thc human mechanism does not admit of . There is another good reason , whicli we will not enlarge upon , why Justice should appear twisted in the British Senate . The tardigrade character of Justice ought further to be made _visiblcin her feet , which should be quaintly clumsy , and contorted to a degree involving lameness . The anatomical
difficulties which oppose these requisites arc to bo veiled with a profusion of drapery , which , as our sagacious ancestors well knew , will cover outrageous drawing . The face of Justice should bo that of a monumental brass , both on account of thc _lestheticiil character of the material , and the corpse-like attributes proper to Gothic sanctity . The cause of right and nature versus humbug , which Justice is ever trying , ought to be manifested by scrolls stuck into her scales ,-inscribed , of course , with old English characters Altogether , thc person of Justice should be deformed , * and her look old-maidish ; so that she may be devoid of thc Paganism of symmetry and beauty . —Ibid .
Tin * Force of Habit . —The Cdnopus , originally a-French vessel , has generally been the first in the races of the Experimental Squadron . Onr brave sailors saj- this isto be accounted for , by the fact of her being . 1 foreign ship , and having been taught from her cradle to run away at thc sight of an English vessel .- — Rid . Pvxcn ' s Political Diction-art . —Anarchy . —Thoentire absence of government : as , if the governor goes out for thc day , tho children arc left in . 1 state of anarchy . Persons living in anarchy are , as far as politics are concerned , said to be in a state of nature but they soon get into such a state of ill-nature , thatit is found necessary to place some control over _theni —Ibid .
Iiiisii Imagery . — " _Istisse Oratory . "—At a recent Repeal meeting Mr . O'Connell was described by one of the speakers ns " an oak oftlie forest , every Uah * of whoso head was sanctified . " We never saw an oak with a fine head of hair ; though it is , no doubt , possible ; for people arc talking a good deal just now about the curl in tho potato ; and if potatoes can be possessed of curls , we do not see why trees should not havo hair also . Wc can' scarcely sec how _O'Conncllis an oak of thc forest , though , in our opinion , hc seems to be most at home when in the Groves of Blarney . —Md .
MOB MELODIES . ( Extracted from the Ty » c Mercury . ) THE ANnOVER _AXTIIEM . [ For Two Voices . ) : 1 s " said or sung" by the _Uevs . C . Dodson nnd O , W _, Smyth . Tuxe—Gregorian Chant . Say lie was frolicsome sometimes , And staid too Ion ? at the " Bight Bells , " Ho cannot always count tlic cliimes , Whose heart not gall but liinilllCSS swells . The curate and myself , I wis , See nothing here that ' s much amiss . Admit that to his daughter dear lie sent by chance a dinner "hot , * The net was " charity" ' tis clear , And we still preach it ; do we not ? The rector and myself , 1 wis , See nothing but what's _jtood in this I
what ! deal wiih treats like this as crimes . ' Why ' tis no , question , e ' en at Koine , Xor in the columns ofthe Times That ' * ' Charity begins at Home !" Kcctor and curate , then , in this Can nothing see that ' s far amiss ' . Talk not to us of " _stinltin-, _* - hones <" There ' s much of " Gusto" in that ' sainc , Quite ( food enough for " Jacks "' and "Joans !" Just so thc Bishop likes his gamut And , therefore , he and we in this Sec nothing that ' s at nil amiss . Grantthat to inaid and matron both : lle was gallant ; is that _call'd " lewd 1 " _, It only proves he was not loath , Kind soul ! to soothe their solitude . The Curate and myself in this Can ' t , really , fancy aught amiss !
True he might say his prayers " twice over , " But why 011 this must scandal fall ? Attack , instead" _tlic'gi'aecless Hover IVJio never says his praj ' ers at all . Hector nor Curate can in tills - _Tind aught Unit is the least amiss ! _Newcastle , Oct . 1 , 1813 . i . \ : T .. 1 K Jmnsii FixAScijws . —The _ilctye _. w has a peculiar aptitude in managing - _money-.-- _* J-p 3 eph was ivisisuvor to Pharaoh , Daniel to Nebuchadn'eV-: _* i _' ,. _Mor-. lcjai to Artaxerxes , and Levi to Don Pedrolfic Cruel . Tim Moors who _Urst invaded Spain had _' a'h ' _Kraelity for tho Chancellor of the Exchequer , and-a gentleman of the same nation now lends money toiill the nations ofthe earth . " , > . ¦;
Positive and Comparative . —An attempt to poison yourself is a " rash" act ; but a slice of fried ba ' con ii " a rasher I" A showery day is " damp ; " but tho refusal ofa young lady to marry you is " a damper 1 " A sovereign short in weight is "light ; " but u'b unt for the conveyance of goods is " a lighter ! " What you attach to a . window is a- " blind ; " but a Hash . * . i ' lightning in your eyes is " a blinder ! " Prince Albert is called a " line" man ; but ono who ' iclincs metals is " a finer ! " A stiff old lady is " prim ; " but a child ' s spelling book is ' * a primer I " A cvackcilhcatlisa " soro" affair ; but a skylark is " asoarcr ! " A negro is a "black , * " bat one who cleans boots is " a blacker ! " A _capital 0 ia a "bold O ; " but thc member for Chippenham is a " Bolder O !"
How to Ukdkrstakd the _OnanEKCY _Qukstion _* . — Open your window at one end of thc room and your doov at thc other on a stormy day—and your knowleqe will be complete . —Joe Miller , _¦¦"' _-. '~
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 11, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_11101845/page/3/
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