Star. — London, England, 1830-09-21 00:00:00

LITERARY INTELLIIIRATE. Thr veto Monthly +'o•;rtsine of current month,contains many excellent articles; and, throughout the whole, which appear to us to he an unusually thick number of 200 pages, its Readers will find nothing devoid either of amusement or instruction. There is nothing in principle which we think it proper to condemn, except the paper on " Birmingham and Representation." We have seldom read a more flippant, inconsequential attempt at reasoning, than this essay. It for tunstely must rather prove favourable to the great cause of reform than the contrary. The account of " A C,ommers, or German Thinking Rout," is a verycharacteristic sketch of orgies, something similar to those which were not uncommon in ourTeutonie country but a few years back. Sketches from the Ganges," we are able to say, are not more lively titan correct ; and the " Recollections of Sweden" must delight all Reeder.. The papers on the French Clergy give, we believe, a fair ac count of a class of men in whom, although almost unfashionable to say it. there is much to censure. The " History of the French Revolu tion" Las many curious particulars which we have not before seen. Of poetry " The Fatherless," of T. Haynes Bayley, is a ballad of much feeling, and the Lyric Lays, as formerly, possess humour. We shall abridge an amusing paper called the " Female Quark," for our sample of the number THE FEMALE QUACK. I: k one of the many thousand mistakes of human creatures to hos gine themselves the greatest proficients in the very arts in which they are moat deficient ; and hence numerous poor innocent souls, who might glide down the stream of life unmolested and unmolesting, thrust them. ..elves forward with their own stupid delusion as the pilot, and, after wandering among the quicksands of public opinion, at hat find them selves wracked on the shoals of ridicule and contempt. The subject of this paper was an instance of extraordinary delu sion. Without the slightest knowledge of the subject, she fancied her. self vety far superior to Esculapius, or the more learned Galen of old, or of Chambers or Belford, of the modems. At the age of eighteen she resided in the country with her aunt, and here first were planted the seeds of that branch of science which she afterwards so splendidly developed. Her aunt, a good old lady, with an asthma and a bunnion toe, was the greatest quack in the parish. She had an album, but far different from the pulings of drawing.room poets or incipient rhymesters ; her album contained no love-enticing ode—no verses on a dead dove—no acrostic on the owner's name—no daub of a flower by Lucy Wilkins, or poem on a bee, by Henrietta Simpkins. No, her album was well-stocked with medical recipes, and every one in her neighbourhoodiknew, that to gain her favour she had only to take the hat doctor's receipts, and state her case. Her book was valuable certainly—to her invaluable ; morning, noon, and night, she studied; and feeling sure, poor soul ! that she alleviated the miseries of the poor, she instructed her niece to do the same, and kept her continually arrang ing the medicine chest, or rolling a pill. There is a charm over early womanhood, known only to those wbo have felt the Veen dart of love : the beautiful moisture glistening in the eye of early beauty—the well.turned fort:v.-the elegant, firm step— the conscious blush of innocence—these are the almost sure accompa niments of eighteen, and at this age women are the most seducing. Sophia languished a spinster until twenty-eight, when the blind god haring blinded a Major, the offer was made, affection declared, and they married. Her husband was a man of excellent disposition and quiet manners—one who, rather than have a quarrel, would do anything to avoid it ; he was the real peace-maker, religious, accommodating, and charitable. The fourth day after the nuptials, Sophia bought a medicine-chest, and began a regular book of receipts ; she now determined to study the various publications of the day—to regulate herself, husband, and household by the regimen prescribed in every medical book, which every medical man recommends, and not only follows, until gout, dropsy, bloated fatness, or cutaneous eruptions, force them into the starvation before forced upon the healthy,and before declared the only way to avoid the miseries now fallen on themselves. In the mean time, an active war was commenced on the cats; every new prescription was first tried upon those unfortunate brutes; some died, some fell sick, some ran away; and, at last, not a cat could be found near the habitation. " My dear," quoth she one day to the Major, " Paris says, that soups arc bad for digestion ; they weaken the power of the gastric juice, and therefore I shall have no more; believe me, they are only fit for thin Frenchmen and invalids, and certainly, as I believe every word in that excellent work, I shall hinder you from ruining your health; you know I understand these things." lier husband, who, with a moderate proportion of sense, was the greatest fool in existence, allowed himself to be henpecked, ruled, and commanded, like those shadows of men—" slaves." When Philips (I believe) wrote his trash upon spider pills, it chanced that a quotation from that nonsensical quackism was published in the Times. It asserted that fevers had been cured by the spider pill, and that in the West Indies, especially at Batbadoes, the medicine of the web had been used to great effect. This was quite enough for Sophia : she had often felt her husband's pulse, and with much gravity declared he had an intermittent fever whenever the moon changed ; and as she generally found it out about the period of the changes, it is more than probable that the moon affected her more than her husband. However, sick he was voted, and sick he was obliged to be. Spider pills were administered four times a day : the house was rummaged for webs ; and when, thanks to the cleanliness of the maid, the search was hopeless, Sophia founded a colony in her own bed-room, and desired the grocer to bring in cobwebs with his weekly bills: it is hard to say which of the two were the most disagreeable. In the mean time, the warlike preparation of a galvanic battery became in full force, and the poor husband was kept jumping and bumping upon a chair for half an hour every day, by the church dock. Fried fish was prohibited.— they were greasy ; and butter was only fit to grease cart wheels, and was, moreover, evidently an invention of Satan's to catch his friends be. fore the proper time. Every mode of preparing food underwent consi deration. Paris and Johnson, her two oracles, were rummaged from morning to night. Much doubt was occasioned by the very unsatis factory manner of settling what ought to be eaten at breakfast by Paris. One thing is certain, he does not recommend beef steaks and ale, as taken by the maids of honour in Elizabeth's time. Neitheris he altogether for the Marcus Antoninus system, who began with a dry biscuit ; whereas, in hot climates, cold water is recommended. Hew bread, spongy rolls, butter, milk, or cream, are all prohibited ; and much doubt exists if fluids, in any quantity, should be used. Sophia, after well pondering the subject, decreed that her husband should eat dry bread, in moderate quantity; and after that had been swallowed one quarter of an hour, a large cup of coffee, without any emollients, was allowed to be taken, Paris being of opinion that it is requisite to replenish " the loss which the fluids of the body have sustained by perspiration, as well as to rectify the quality of newly elaborated matter introduced into the circulation during sleep." All luncheons were dis carded ; she herself fortified nature during the day, but her husband was desired on no account to touch any thing. Spallanzani, Hunter, Alt , rnethy, and a tribe of other organizers of diet, were consulted, in order to make the dinner the most nutritious, and easiest of digestion. My reader has now the female picture, faithfully drawn, and shall now have some more digestible food fee the mind. It happened, about six months after her marriage, that the health of her husband made it necessary to retire into the country ; and as the louts who vegetate in those distant, hardly known parts, were unfit society for a woman of her talent, she decided upon a small village in Cumberland, not far from one of the lakes. The object of this situation was two-fold : her husband had kept before marriage a dog which had licked his chin. when he, thinking of his future happiness, disregarded his present, and cut himself when shaving. Now. as hydrophobia had been known to arise from a circumstance equally trivial—the Duke of Richmond's case. for instance—she led her husband every morning to the lake, to witness his approach to the water, and to note down carefully, every day, her opinion as to the result. Thus I find in the album, on a slip of paper wafered in, " July 2.—Am much annoyed—the Major made horrible faces on approaching the lake, which he said was occasioned by a fly—my gond gracious goodness me! what should I do if he were to go mad !" The second reason was, the solitude : there, in seclusion. she could watch the progress of his health there doat on his emaciated form—and there quack him to her heart's content. It happened in the village, that s young woman, who low fancied herself in a way to in. crease the parish stock, counted boa time as near, and felt certain that an anodyne draught foe which ahellhad the prescription, to be taken " pro re nate" (occasionally), would alleviate her sufferings : she sent the same to the village apothecary. It so happened that he had died an hour before, leaving ale' inhabitants to the care of GOD add Mrs. Bingham's medical knowledge. The poor creature, in the agony of child-birth, as she thought, sent her husband to Mrs. Bingham, re. questing her, for the love of Heaven, to send her the medicine. Sophia now thought her fame was established ; the medicine-chest was produced, the stuff mixed, and, being determined to do things se conduit' orlon, on the paper which enveloped the phial, she wrote— " To be taken at night," (and the " pro re nate" was translated) "for the thing born," which happened unfortunately to have evaporated into empty air. Well would it have been for the poor woman if she had only lost her child : she was now to lose her health. Another apothe cary was sent for, who lived about twenty miles distant, and he being in a hurry, and understanding that the rich lady knew all the medial terms, and the apothecary's art, and having approved of the anodyne, be wrote down, " Pergat cum mistura," meaning, " Lot her go on with the mixture." This, however, was too much for Sophia ; but unwil ling to appear ignorant, she determined it must be meant for, " let her be purged with a mixture, " and sent a wholesome dose of senna and salts, which carried the lady into the other world before salvation in the shape of a doctor could arrive. The whole blame was attributed to the poor apothecary, who was supposed to have bungled the busi ness, and she died, according to the coroner's language, " by the visi tation of GOD." The poor half-starved and whole-poisoned husband now drew to. wards his latter end; he was the mere skeleton of a tnan ; the ream. rectlon.men eyed him as he passed ; even the crows cawed the louder when he presented his carrion carcase; all hope was relinquished by the medical attendants, and Mrs. Bingham was left to her last resource. She had read, on some of the covers of the Eau de Cologne bottles, that a man wrapped in a blanket saturated with that inestimable perfume had actually recorned—at the last gasp 1 and to this she turned with all the ardour of hope. It was November, chill and cold ; the poor Major was drawn from his warm bed, where he might have died like a gentleman, into the centre of the room ; he was wrapped in the cold blanket, and thus would have terminated his miserable existence, but the wife, in the hurry of the moment, brought the candle too close to the patient, the spirit ignited, and the poor Major, who had stood fire, famine, and foreign foes, died by the fire of his own wife, who left him to be nosed In the lobby, although he certainly did not smell horribly in the natal. ROGUERY TAUGHT BY CONFESSION. BT PETER MBAR, JUN. A pious ostler, who did much repent Of all his sins—and they were not a few— Resolved one day to give his conscience vent, And get his wicked soul whitewashed anew. So rose betimes next morn, and quickly knelt Before a goodly priest with shaven crown, One who—although he ins village dwelt— Had stills taste for all the tricks of town. To him a free confession scon he made, And boldly vowed be ne'er would aim again ; Hoping the holy sire would lend his aid, From his polluted soul to wipe the stain. " Son l" cried the Monk, " although thy crimes are grog, Enough to damn thy wretched, sinful soul, Too much I fear there's one you do not state, And I, ere you're absolved, must hear the whole. " Say, by our Lady, did you ne'er beneath The manger, keep some tallow in a horn And did you never grease a horse's teeth, To hinder him from surfeiting on corn ?" " No, Father I no," he cried ; " I'm not involved In such a crime ; indeed, I've named the whole."—. So then the Priest his load of sin absolved, And home the Ostler steered with whitewashed soul. Just six months after this, the Ostler came Again before the Friar to confess; Acknowledging with penitential shame, His greasing horses teeth with great success. " Oh, wicked Son !" the holy Father cried— " Did you not tell me, when I saw you last, That you had never in your life applied Grease to a horse's teeth, to make him fast ?" " Yes, holy, Sir, I did, and then spoke true !" Replied the man of straw, with utterance quick " For, though it may seem rather strange to you, / never thew Aad heard of such a trick !' THE FINE ARTS. At the National Gallery, a notice is posted op there that « the rooms will be dosed from the 18th of the present month, until the let of No vember next :" this is the usual six-weeks' vacation. Ids rather strange that this collection, which has cost the nation so much money, should not even now, after so many years' delay, have had a proper suite of apartments provided for its reception. In their present lodging, how ever, they cannot remain much longer, as these premises will be wanted almost immediately, standing, as they do, in the way, and interrupting the line of impravemenu going on in Pall-mall. The collection has very recently been increased by " The Holy Family," by Sir Joshua Reynolds; and " The Market Cart," by Gainsborough ; both of which were in the most liberal manner presented to this establishment by the British Institution. Some other valuable acquisitions are expected; but it is not supposed any increase of its stock will take place until a suitable building shall be provided commensurate to the importance of the sub ject, and creditable to the character of our country. The Gallery of the British Institution, we find, is still open. We recently instal our belief that 3,0001. would be realised here, by the ex hibition of the celebrated portraits by the late Sir Thrones Lawrence, P.R.A. for the benefit of his nephews and nieces; we now find that the surplus will amount to more than we at first stated. A full-length por trait has been added lately—namely, the Duke d' Angouleme. The family likeness is very strong, indicating, it would seem, preponderance of the animal and selfish propensities, without any alloy of intellectual power; yet this is one of those persons for whose restoration the best blood in Europe has flowed in torrents. Among the works preparing for exhibition, which we bad not time to notice in a former article, is one by Mr. Etty , R.A. being the third of that series of the "Judith and Holofernes," which he was engaged to paint for the "Scottish Academy of Painting." The picture is not yet in a sufficient state of forwardness to admit of being criticised; but in point of design we should think it bids fair to Burma all his former efforts in historic art. The enlightened men of that Academy, who have had the discernment and firmness to discover and reward native talent in this high walk of the profession, deserve the thanks of every one who desires to see the liberal arts prosper among us. We have beard that the sum to be paid for the three picturss is 1,800 guineas. Of this sum 1,000 guineas have already, we believe, been paid out of the funds of their Academy. Those Scotsmen are not wealthy, as most of our Nobility and Gentry are ; but they have good taste, liberality, and judgment. it is with pain we have to contrast this noble conduct of our brethren of the North" with that of " the Royal Hibernian Academy." This latter, " though elder born," is in all respects of slower growth and less generous principles; they have not yet been able to at tract the public to their exhibition in su ffi cient numbers to realise more funds than are sufficient to keep the establishment from falling , into debt. This unhappy state of things, as our information states, is " owing to a low spirit of intrigue, which is dishonestly, and we hope vainly, endeavouring to wrest this institution from its original pur poses, and to place it under the controul of a small junta, consisting of one family, of little talent and less respectability, and one or two of their humble followers." In opposing the mean contrivances of that petty intriguers, the time of the honest and liberal men of the Academy is frittered away in a great measure, Instead of being devoted, as era, hour of it should be, to their progress in the art. We hope we shall not hear any more of such base proceedings • probably the parties would not like So appear unve il ed before the public. We return to the unfinished works :—Amongst them is a lap Panoramic View of Madras, now proceeding rapidly to a fi nish. The drawings are by Mr. Daniel, R. A. and he has got some clever artists to assist him, but we do not think it will be opened this season. The Colosseum still continues to attract whatever there may be of company in town. Since we tat saw it, the Swiss Cottage and its surrounding scenery have :been much improved, or, rather, they are completed, for they were not then finished. A Swiss peasant now waits on the company, in the appropriate costume of the Canton at Uri. We can fancy we are addressing a descendant of the immortal hero, Tell— Who, with the gen'rous rustics, sate On Uri's rocks in close divan; And winged that arrow, sure as Fate, That fixed the sacred rights of man. The conseevatorics are also in eacellent eoadition, which is the mote sur prising, as the greater part of the plants belong to the tropical climates, and tome 'even to the Torrid Zone. La Fontaine ala Versailles is universally, and, indeed, justly, admired ; bat, although the place is now, and has been, visited by a great deal of company, we fear the spi rited proprietors will not speedily get a return of cher outlay. We think they will have cause to remember the incapacity and blunders of that man Horner. - - Among the unfinished works of art, eolies progress, wrgis we may mention the arch before the nondescript Palace at Pint ; remains still in the state of a nett, ruin, and, from neglect, in not securing the joints from the action of the weather, we know it must be quite rotten by this time. It is woe& now about as many pence as it cost The public will, however, long regret that it never will be fin= , for the report goes to say that " it was to be ornamented with the heads of Mr. Nash, the fantastic architect, and the Members of the Committee of (at, ascertain witty bother called it, bad) Taste." Where those heads were to have been placed the report doth not say ; but it is in ferred that Mr. Nashl was to be as the keystone, where it wouldjhave served both for use and ornament.—Aforaiosp Paper. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Sept. 20. OLD COURT. CAPTAIN RZLIIIIMeII (with whom was Mr. Anor.vnus) applied to the Court to know when the trial of Captain Helsham, who stands charged with the wilful murder of Lieutenant Crowder, would take place ? It was desirable that the Counsel for the defence should know the day fixed, for the purpose of allowing them an opportunity of giving directions to Capt. Helsham's Solicitors to send to Boulogne for the evidence that was required as to facts. Mr. Justice BATLEY said as yet no commission had been issued by the Lord Chancellor. _ _ It was finally agreed to postpone the trial of the ease until next Sessions. Samuel Hodgson, a soldier, was placed at the bar on an indictment, charged with killing and slaying Susanna WHensie, on the 10th of July last. It appeared that on the 10th of July last, several children, amongst whom were the deceased, were playing in the Stable-yard, St. James's. They were amusing themselves by swinging on the chains which divide the footpath from the centre of the yard. The prisoner was on duty as sentinel at the time; he several times called out to them to desist; but as they did not appear inclined to obey his commands, he went up to deceased. knocked her off the chains, and kicked her violently whilst on the ground. The consequence was, that the poor child's skull was fractured so as to cause her death two days subsequently. Several witnesses were called and examined at great length as to the above facts; but, although several of the jurors on the coroner's inquest were amongst them, the case for the prosecution failed, on account of none of them being able to prove the identity of the deceased. The trial of APCarilig, the prisoner charged with the murder of his wife, is postponed until Wednesday morning. POLICE REPORTS. Bow.userv.—Butastr.--Yesterday, Masa:James Berry, a young man, was charged with feloniously intermarrying with Jane Jaques, his lawful wife, Charlotte, being at the time alive. Jane Jaques, a girl of about 19 years of age, aid rather pretty, de posed that she became acquainted, about twelve months ago, with the prisoner, and on the oth of April last she was marled to him at St. Mary's, Islington. In a very short time he began to treat her extremely ill, and she discovered that he had a wife living at the time he married her. She consequently returned to her friends, but he iU-treated her even there, and refused to let her have her clothes, so that she could not go to service, which was the only means she had of obtaining her living. The prisoner stood laughing at the bar while she was making this statement, and seemed to treat the matter altogether with great levity. The clerk of the parish in which the prisoner's first marriage was said to have been contracted, produced the Register of Marriages, by which it appeared that Thomas James Berry was married to Char lotte Jackson on the 4th of June,lB24, and to this entry the signatures of the bride and bridegroom respectively appeared along with those of the clerk and acetone's of the parish, who, it appeared, were the only witnesses, the clerk having given away the bride. The clerk was asked the question if he could identify the prisoner as the man who was married on that occasion ? and he said he could not. lie (the clerk) gave away many young women in the course of a year, and it was next to impossible that he could identify parties. The acetones* gave a similar account. Mr. HALLS asked if any one was present who could identify the sig. natures to be the handwriting of the prisoner, and was answered in the negative, upon which the worthy Magistrate observed, that the case must fail for want of proof, although there could be no moral doubt that the prisoner was guilty. The practice which prevailed in churches for the Clerk, and other persona employed therein, to act as witnesses, and the only ones, to marriages, could not be too strongly condemned. It operated very often, as in this case, to defeat the ends of justice most completely' and he hoped to see it t o tally discontinued. The prisoner must be discharged. Maket.aonouoti.STitsyr.—Blkn Hariell, Sarah diking, and John Wilkinson Allen, a carpenter, were placed at the bar, before the presiding Magistrate, F. A. Ron, Esq. charged on suspicion of stealing a gold watch, and several other articles of jewellery, together with 10L 10s. Mr. Curtis, of the firm of Harrison and Curtis, of Soho square, stated the following 3articulars relative to the robbery. On Saturday evening, about six o 'clock, Mrs. Curtis left her dressing room, with bee bureau and things secure, and after passing a few hours d own stairs and on her retiring to her chamber for the night, she discovered that her bureau had been forced, and a gold watch, a silver watch, two gold rings, some gold medals, ten sovereigns, some silver, a miniature, and other articles, had been stolen. Mr. Bates, an Inspector of the C di vision, was immediately sent for, and he, accompanied bp a Sergeant of Police, Lacy, No. 8 C, went to the house, and after having examined the premises and the parapet, the Inspector took the two female ser vants into custody. Mr. ROE inquired the ground of suspicion against the other prii. saner Mr. Bates replied that having fully examined the place, it was his firm opinion that those only intimately acquainted with the locality of the premises could have committed the robbery, and having questioned the parties be discovered that the male prisoner was in the habit of fre quently visiting the cook, Sarah Atkins, and his suspicion attached it. self more particularly to him, as in his examination he found the drawers had been forced with a chisel. He subsequently found a chisel on the parapet and two keys, and the chisel precisely fitted the marks on the bureau. Mr. Curtis fully concurred in opinion with the Inspector as to the ground of suspicion mains: the prisoners, from the circumstance that those drawers only had been forced where Mrs. Curtis usually deposited ha trinkets, and not one article of Mr. Curtis's had been stolen, although his diamond ring and other valuables were on his table. Mr. Ron inquired if it was possible, from the situation of the house, that any person could have got in at the window from the parapet ? Mr. Bata replied in the affirmative ' - ho could himself have got in that way; and the key and chisel were found near an angle where the footing was very narrow. Bk. Ron inquired whether the prisoners wished to say any thing ? The females totally denied the charge, and the male prisoner declared that he did not even know the prosecutor, Mr. Ron—That cannot be when you have been backwards and for wards to his house. Prisoner—l meen I had never seen him, nor did not know him by Bight. Mr. Ron—l believe you do not deny having been to his house to the servants lb_ _ _ _ . . . Prisms —I was there once or twice, I admit, bat I am entirely in nocent of this charge. I know nothing whatever of it. Mr. Bates inquired if the chisel produced was his ? The prisoner declared he had never seen b before. Mr. Box thought it a ease of strong suspicion, and ordered the pri soners to be remanded until Wednesday. DIIIIMJCZN CRIDIT...-A well-dressed man, about 50 years of age, with a pair of very large green spectacles, was c harged with being drunk and disorderly by West, a Police Constable. Mr. Ron—You are fined be for being drunk. Defendant--I am very sorry, but perhaps you will give me credit for the money. I had credit when I was here before, and I came and paid it honestly. Valentine, one of the officers, remembered the defendant's punctuality on the fanner occasion ; and the worthy Magistrate, with a smile, ob served he would try him again. The defendant promised to bring the money very soon, and was dig. charg ed. QUEII3O3QUAZZ....DAZING RosintaY.—Yesterday James Prier and /Board Camaelly, alias King, were charged with the following dada sebbeily at the shop of Mr. Jones, a pawnbroker, in the West-' mfamonmsel, vastly opposite Astley's Theatre It iNS:ei the evidence, that several persons bad seen the pri- Bones *boot Mr. Jones's shop, between seven and eight o'clock in die Wood, the shopman, beard one of the windows smadesdomd sea own and followed the prisoners, who ran down the York-road. Connelly ran into Mr. Smart's timber-yard, near the Wataleo-road, and afterwards got away from the shopman. A man, noosed Taylor, however, stopped him, when he drew a knitc and threat ened to stab him if he did not let him go, as he said he bad only broken a window. Ile behaved in the most violent manner, and assaulted Taylor, and bit him severely in the ann. Search was 'made in the tim ber-yard, and three gold watches were found hid in the yard. The pri soner Price was stopped by another person, and threw a watch into a garden, which was afterwards found. A number of witnesses were examined, who saw the prisoners break Mr. Jones's window and seise the watches. Three gold watches and one sliver one were produced, which Mr. Jones Identified as his property, and worth 3fil. The prisoners were fully committed for trial. Ainaexn lluanza--A man, named lifortios Flynn, was charged with the murder of James Parker, a carrier at Fulham, in the month of September Ina George Charles stated that the deceased was his brother-in-law, and about two years ago be came home about eleven o'clock at night. There was a row at a publie-hottee at Fulham amongst lane Irishmen, and the deceased was induced to go out to be one of the seconds. In a short time he was brought home most dreadfully beaten and kicked, and quite insensible, and was taken to St. George's Hospital, where be expired in about a week. The prisoner absconded at the time ; and yester day a man. who lodged with the prisoner, amused him of the mur. der, and he was given in charge. The witness made his statement at the wetchbouse. Mr. Gazooatz ordered the prisoner to be remanded, and directed the Inspector to make an application to the Coroner to know the remit of the inquisition upon Parker. Saturday, at Union Hall, at the instance of the Hon. Scarlet' , of the Society against Cruelty to Animals, the driver of the can of Wm. Harden was fined los. and costs, for having cruelly treated the boron with the bit, and whipping it on the head, while it was overloaded. The master was also deed in costs for not having a proper number on the cart. ORIGIA of the TRI-COLOURED INSIGNIA qf PRANCE. When Philip Augustus, King of France, instituted the college of the Echevins de Paris in the year 1190, he directed at the same time, that the city itself should thenceforward bear a coat of arms, consisting of a ship of silver, on a red field, the ground or chief of the shield to be of an metre colour, strewed with lilies ; 'melee an %oars d'aryent, elle tremor, sews de Aura de lys dor. The ship of silver was de. signed to imply, as Fclibieu has recorded in his history of the city of Paris, that Paris, being the mistress of all French cities, was a vessel of affluence and abundance. The chief or ground of these armorial bear ings represented the coat-of-arms at that time born t eB7 the French aown ; it was not confined to three lilies displa on a blue field, but was strewed with an indefinite number of flower. The colours peculiar to the city of Paris were consequently blue and red; it would have been natural, therefbre, for the militia of that m t . tropolls, or civic guard (garde bourgeoise), as it was called before the title of National G u ard was adopted, to have retained those colours.— But a green cockade was at first assumed by tMs corps; and it was, in fact, wan by the citizens when they appeared under arms on the man• log ot the 13th of July, 1789; on that very day, however, an order 01 the permanent council, which superintended the organization and arm ing of the civic force, and was under the presidency of de Flesselks, the Provost of the Trades directed that every member of the militia of the French capital should mount a cockade of rod and blue, as correspond ing with the colours peculiar to the city of Paris. We find it stated in the Mealiest of the twenty-third of July of the same year, that "u it is requisite every member of the said militia should bear some distinguish. ing symbol, the colours of the town hare been adopted by the general assembly; and for these reasons, every one will wear a red and blue cockade." The green cockade, as is mentioned in the official report of the taking of the Bastille, contained in the Allonitner of the some day, was abolished because the adherents of the Count d'Artois, (late Charles X) who was considered the principal mover of the conspiracy attributed at that time to the French court, rallied under a green co. lour. " Ritands," says the Morsiteur in another paragraph, "of pink and blue, b dft the colours of the city, are assumed as marks of distinc tion by the Mien isiesiy." Accords gds the teedueny of a variety of French writers, Lafayette, who wee oppolowd cainerander-in-chief of the militia of Paris on oh, fifteenth el July, was the party who introduced the use of the tri. coloured aukade this new symbol was, in all probability, brought forward by his en the day following, when he proposed that the corps should some the appellation of the " National Guard." This adoption tithe's three colours into the cockade arose from the blending of white, which was the royal colour, with the red and blue, which had been the ccdoun of the city of Paris. Regnault Warin, and others of Lafayette's biwaphers, claim the invention of the tricoloured cockade b of hero, and assert, that when he proposed its adoption, he remarked, " that it would make the tour of the world." The first official mention of this cockade, which became the national insignia of the French from the moment the Parisian militia assumed the name of the National Guard, occurs in the Moniteer's account of Louis the Sixteenth's appearance at the Hotel de Vile on the 17th of July, 1789. Bailly, then mayor of Paris, tells us himself, that he pre sented the "award* aus tress couleur." to the King, with these words.—." Sire, I have the honour of placing in your Majesty's bands the distinguishing symbol of the French." A few lines before, he had termed this symbol, " the Di-coloured cockade, which the Pariaians had borne ever since the revolution ;" by which be implied, ever since the sanguinary days of June, 1789 ; but in a subeequent page he is found designati the cockade as the " cooarda nationals." W. SCINTILLA?. ENHANMONIC Pun.—A Mr. George Sharp, commonly called by his friends 0 Sharp , loo king rather dull one evening in cam pany, a friend observed S was rather atom k e y. "Oh !" re plied a lady, " any one knows G Sharp is Alla* !" A village politician told his wife that the Low Countries lad risen (alluding to the disturbances In the Netherlands). " I am glad of it, exclaimed the old dame, " we shall not hear of the floods doing so much &snags again." One Mr. Washington Robey advertises in the Washing ton Daily National InteltigeNcer thus :—" Cain I Casa ! CASH ! The advertiser will give the highest prices for likely young negroes of both uses from 12 to 25 years of age. Any letters addressed to me, through the post - office, will be attended to." In the same paper there We two ot h er advertisements offering " Cash for likely young Negroes r The Countess Guiccioli was at this time about twenty, but she appeared younger; her complexion was fair, with large dark lan guishing eyes ; and her auburn hair fell in great profusion of natural ringlets over her shapely shoulders. Her features were not so regular as in their expression pleasing, and there was an amiable gentleness in her voice which was peculiarly interesting. Leigh Hunt's account of her is not essentially dissimilar from any other that I have ever heard or met with. He differs, however, in one respect, from every other; in saying her hair was yellow. Her destiny seems at present to promise that the interest for her is likely to be revived by another unhappy Eng , lish coonezion.—Galls Life of Byron. SPANISH PouTaxiss,—The Duke of Albuquerque when he visited the wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, the British Amb a s: sador at Madrid, in the reign of Charles the Second, said, " Madam, I am Don Juan de la Cueva, Duke of Albuquerque, Viceroy of Milan, of his Majesty's Privy Council, General of the Galleys, twice Grandee, the First Gentleman of his Majesty's Bedchamber, and a near kinsman to his Catholic Majesty, whom Goa long preserve ;" and then rising up, and making a low reverence, with his hat off, said—" These, with my family and life, I lay at your Excellency's feet." Tess JESUITS.—The sons of Loyola appeared in the world to render themselves masters of it. Th selected education for their Instrument of conquest. The Cardinal de Lorraine, who was their protector in France, procured them the privileges which their successors BM claim. In order to weaken the influences of the Universities, they announced immediately to the heads of families that they would gra tuitously teach all the pupils that should be confided to them. Many were seduced by this perfidious generosity. The National Col leges were deserted in consequence of it; and the University of Pa ris, which had reckoned as many as 30,000 scholars, sunk to belor: 3,000. However, it was false that the education of these new pro fessors was really gratuitous, as they pretended. They took amok means to indemnify themselves. They prevailed upon famihes to make donations in their favour. They spollaW property , they entrapped successions. Their riches soon became a sandal to hat rope. " These men," said 31. de Thou, " are born with a singular industry to wheedle men over. It is very pernicious to the French Re public to intrust them with the instruction of youth " The illustrious President was in the right, and history confirms the correctness of his judgment. Two Kings of France, Louis XII. and Henry IV. were excommunicated, the former by Pope Julius, the second by Status V. On the first excommunication not a single Frenchman stirn.4 ; on the contrary. all doubled their love and devotion to their King. The second took place 30 years afterwards ; but during the interval the Society of Loyola had possessed itself of the rising generation. The anathema which struck the best of Princes, caused Paris, Lyons, Marseilles. Toulouse, Rouen, Hants, Trove, Dijon, Angouletne, and a number of other towns, to rebel against him. Such is the power of education — such may be its rapid and fatal consequences.--D'Herbigny's Trea tise on Politics end Public Education. We tab the following from a work entitled " An Essay on the Cre ation of the Universe, and Evidences of the existence of GOD t" by Charles Doyne SUltry t " The Minuteness of Creation.—First, then. how small is the mite ! yet, on the application of the microscope it is seen to be an animal, perfect in its limbs, active in its motions; of a regular form, full of life and sensibility, and provided with all requi site organs. But Lenwenhoek tells us of insects seen with a :microscope of which 117 millions would only be equal to a mite, yet each of these animalcules is an organised body, provided with a heart, with longs. with muscles, glands, arteries, and veins, with blood and other fluids passing through them ! Insects of various kinds are discernable in the cavities of a common grain of sand. The mouldy substance on demi. bodies exhibits a region of minute plants. Sometimes it appears a for est of trees, whose branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits, are clearly die tinguished. Some of the flowers have long, white, transparent stalks. and the buds, before they open, arc little green balls, which become white. The particles of dust on the wing of a butterfly prove, by t h e microscope, to be beautiful and well arranged little fathers. By the lame instrument every hair of our bead is seen to be a hollow tube. The surface of our skin has scales resembling those of a fish, but pi minute that a single grain would cover two hundred and fifty, and a single scale completely covers five hundred pores wl.ict issues the insensible perspiration necessary to health ; consequently. a single grain of sand can cover 125,000 pores of the human body. From a lighted candle there issues, in a minute, more particles et light than Mere are grains in the whole earth ; how vast, then, the num ber that flows in a day. or a year, or a century, from that immense body the sun ! Who can tell where the grand chain of nature ceases tO exist r • The mite makes 500 steps in a second. Each drop of stagnant water coatairs a little world of animated beings that swim about then with as much freedom as a whale in the sea. Each leaf of a tree is colony of insects, resembling oxen grazing in large pastures. Ever! plant, every flower, affords food for millions of creatures. BIRTH. The 17th inst. at Pimlico-lodge, Mrs. J. L. Elliot, ors son. MARRIED. The 48th inst. H. H. Young. of Baltimore, United States, to Eli zabeth, eldest daughter of t►e late Rev. J. Cundale, of Kingston urn Thames. DIED. The 17th instant, Elizabeth, second daughter of Mr. B. Hewitt. of South Lambeth—At Wrexham, on the 17th inst. in the Sad year of her age, Charlotte, the wife of R. M. Lloyd, banker, of that place. Loinox : Printed and rubliebed by JOHN IUATNI, 4111160 ems Orrin!, No. 1, Plekett•pinee Temple Bar. Ca GI Re Vi eh INI Sir am • WI Ste ha Lie MA OP the