Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

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Scandal is a visitor who never calls without VI 011
work with her. Oi
A couple of young lovers, who, in the aPPrcic °f ta
of the sentimental novels, used to make a post °ibocOnot
old tree, christened it (very properly), "The 13r3vw p had 11 t,
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SERVING THE DEVIL.—An apprentice boy
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pleased his employer one day came in for a c'eb"'ced+
during the administration of which his master e
re
" How long will you serve the devil ?" The blojellt°
whimpering, "You know best, sir; I believe rai '
oo to

will be out three months !" °
MR JUSTICE HALM).hTOII. There bay° uicji
amusing remarks made in the literary gossipy ant
papers appear so to seek after n the w".- e 4
p - •desi,,
hood of Mr. Justice Haliburton, some facetionslY
his honour as Sir Sam Slick. The writers have c--Tholl'o
two. persons : one, our old friend the Clocknia:,,riof %
Chandler Haliburton, some time Chief Josue
n• • 11'n.
Scotia, and now candidate for the honour of reP-0
Launceston in Parliament ; the other, Sir firel/tAiblis'
burton, the present Chief Justice of Nova Scotia.---fr
-e4.

Circular, May 2nd. fterge; of
When Judge Howell was at the bar, Mr.
barrister on circuit, to play a joke, wrote an,t- iteleof
his hat, caput vacuum (empty head). The ha cot trtihe
about, exciting a smile on every countenance e%-L-patea„ief
the owner, who deliberately took it up and rettlie vlc
words, and, well knowing the author, addressca Ver
Juitice as follows :—" May it please your Wrd'hirotii,t;
protection (holding up his hat) ; for I find that 00,
Burgess has written his name my hat, and I hace •
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to believe that he intends to makein o$ with it. f 0:4'111
MEMORIES OF OLD ROME.--What a train e" fieb'
must pass over the mind. of the student.of RolllBc-1c,50
both past and present, as he walks through the his f 11,5
grand amid its comparative desolation, or eaten cis so4.r
of inspection through the surrounding suburbs. ~;00 reel'
he surveys each shattered ruin of some noble bannti; f°o-0
brated in its annals, will he re-people the scene !,,e's Ordro
whose names are chronicled in the most famous Pwolorof
world's history ; and the events with which thosefreiod.o
connected will rise up before him in all their :Etorlor
Every foot of ground is eloquent with thoctiol,l
rrhere is pointed out to him the tOiherell
presumed spot where the Roman populace, in the
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..Ighteous indignation, kindled at the alt esr iti
an insulted matron was sacrificed, rose np tbe,co,
e se boils
from his throne the last of their kini,s—h
filled with hordes of wild, ferocious, but°warlike hilt 10110
and the venerable senators waiting in their official 11°5
fate of the vanquished from the infuriated Gliollequeirr
traces out the localit!iwhere Coesar, th;e_gichnriseei:fsgen;aleol9o4,:ercipoesiliciefito,
torsef exleli
ted againstt beneathhej
et
tahhleoeud
saiagonfe daggers
his
cfoosue Brutusntrym valour,aen
• nnee, bo`:;;(14

infamy

of tradition

of a ri

upon anothc

tradition, opened, and then closed again,
-- ovelri;tbel
a self-immolating patriot ;he remembers that his r,
of the city the great Apostle of the Gentiles, ant thr°l3e
labourer, whose assumed successor now sits ebniddisge
the Seven Hills, suffered martyrdom at the.„, the
tyrant and fiend, and that thousands professil ,r
ie
tian faith yielded up their lives in every Vlalt
yin doothe amid alp roinio;,,,Te ocsettplei.mt t'i

V 1,31‘..111, UCCILLIJ, .114.4 L LIG I CJUIULU
—and, if he be an Englishman, he will not I—bn-o,o4`na
ancient British sovereign was led captive tbfb-cgllo
streets, exclaiming as he passed along and saw' le eeto
of the proud and haughty city, "How can a Ve°,,rble 6.0 i
of such magnificence at home envy me my of
of ).,4
in Britain ?" These, and many recollections ger .7,1
import, will crowd upon the mind of a still' 90e
meditates on what is left to recall the histories

with old Rome.—Art Journal.
• TEE GREAT EXHIBITION OF * * /331.18
the ttl
1861.
there should have been delays and hesitation bli,as
the contributors, when the Exhibition of 1851 "isDibl,.
course of formation, was only natural. A „crrent bel;°Do
thentowas not a subject upon which any appealo°' t‘
experience. No one knew hftt it ong.,e
exactly w tion- ofpf
expected to prove, or in what manner contribn se cCl
most. advantageously be prepared for the putir, A.% of
pearing in it. But now the case has assunleu acsob,,Y
entirely different. There can no longer exist nlifYAot
any uncertainty. Every person can understand As
of an Exhibition it is that the Society of Arts bti:ci`ctiS,,.,'-t''
and all who think of taking a part in it know' r Id I
they ought to send. The two years that preec,",et-oolcit'icil
the decennial Exhibitions, do not provide at a",i- 014
period for the formation of arrangements, auto be
realisation. These preparations are calculate t el:1°1
important in their effects than any others tbtlthey ?op;
dividual or each establiahment have ever made: ftfocottillef,
to be made, too, in addition to the eustomnrY
thought,yeaa le
and engagements of each; and there will not 1-tinief tb°
less
haimehoumnitooft thoseleove hfoarbittl7lGerl::,tras 111)°1 'on °. on'
Exhibit: to
.4c
next year an undivided attei,":,on 'lf they Pl.°P°s;icl
tributeat to the gatheriP; of i 861; let both art's° tienßti'tlrei
urers immeittadi
`'hen the :ntervalshall we feel
• e t
have passed away, joie, 0,
they Nv-'"
rl acknowledge the soundness of the f 000
-.6es upon them promptness as well as energy
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The Art Journal for May.
enter upon a course of rraebo