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LIFE" OF. CHARLES JAWS FOX.
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• _ ,
Ainong the many and sore troubles whieh em-
bittered Burns'' decline,the sorest (by his OW ac-
count) was the _dread of an unfavourable posthu-
mous reputation. -He apprehended that his faults
would be the most conspictions -features, of
_his
character, as they were to himself at the moment ; •
-and that the world could-not-Hilly sympathise in
his lofty democratic view of ilfan in Society. Never
,was a,-last estimate of self and one's kind more mis-
taken - The veriest pbdant _and puppy, wha dies
pitying the- werla for the struggle-it will have to.
get on without hiM, is not more. deluded in one
direction than Burns was in the opposite. He was.
not irrational, in his view,. however, though wholly
mistaken. Those wha surrounded-hinir_Were much.
engrossed with his faults
_towards the. close of his
life ; -and his views and. his opinions were treated
by his • emploYers, as well as others, with not only
displeasure but contempt. It Was ihtiniated to him
that "his business was to act;_not to' think." And
thiswas said, not as a cheek: upon political agita-
tion, or any extreme- demonstration of any kind;
but in- reply to a statement of his views which
had been drawn from him by accusation.
He did not desire a republic in Great Britain,
be, said, because Br-hens-have all the means of ra-
tional liberty and social welfare. -He wished for no
change in our form of government, but for a reform
of the " system_ of corruption between the execu-
tive power and the representative part of the legis-
lature, which boded no good to our. glorious con-
stitution, and which every patriotic Briton must
wish to see amended." After this, his " superiors"
could not denounce him as a republican) so they in-
formed him that his business was to act and not to
think ; and he, valuing kis thought, feared that
there would be no sympathy with it or him after
he was gone, and that he would be known by his
infirmities, if at all. On this day, the centenary of
his birth, the whole world that speaks or reads our
language is rejoicing because he lived and thought,
and told what he thought. The homage of united
kingdoms, of clusters of colonies, and of several
foreign nations is paid to his memory to-day. So
much for his posthumous reputatioh. As to his
being remembered by his faults, the, most touching
and &riots tribute of all is, perhaps, the teetotal
celebration Of the day. If he could but have fore-
known it in his hour of deepest remorse, what a
solace would this have been !—what a pregnant
reply to his worst misgivings.! There is •to be a
" tea banquet " in the Edinburgh. Corn' Ekehange
to-day, " under-the auspices of the Total Abstinence
Society," We-hear it with .gratitudeand glee. So
much for hiS being remembered only by his faults !
There could not have been a better conjunction
between the date and public affairs than that which
we witness; It could not. have happened better as
an express replyitaßurns' yearning. after sympathy
in his aspirations for society. The festival would,
no doubt, have been held under any condition of
public.affitirs. The, man binds us to him by so many
ties that we should have been ready with our hom-
age in the midst of a -war, or under a Pitt and
Eldon Gorernment,or under a return of the Stuarts,
or under a Republic—whether amidst the deepest
adversity,. or in a condition without a cared
The response of men's passions, sympathies, senti-
ments; to his song would have been loud and clear
amids any turmoil of conflict, or merry-making in •
peace and prosperity. But there is a peculiar apti-
tude in the spirit of the hour for honouring Burns.
His irrepressible thought about the mutual,relations
of men in society, and his clear view of the neces-
sity of. making their representation in Parliament
an honest one, are the very thought and the very
view which our minds are now occupied with, and
on which we are at present „daily called upon to
speak. So much for the symp,;.',, ,sT which he dared
not anticipate !
Far be it from us to dwell exclusively on the
Poet's darkest hours, or on the controversies which
embittered them. hen men talk of Burns they
do not (except, very naturally, in the United States)
consider whether he was a Republican, or a Whig,
or a Tory. They think of the Cottar's Saturday
Night, or of highland Mary, or of Tam o'Shanter.
They think of the dirge, the reaping-song, the war
hymn, the prayer, and personal penitence. They
think of the plea for, the weak, and the rebuke of
the haughty. They regard him as the poet, the
lover, the mourner, the wit, the comrade, the
sinner, the sufferer, rather than as the politician.
Yet, ie chief bond between him and ether men—
the grand security for his possession of the' sym-
pathies of all generations, is his estimate of Man as
Man, under all conditions.
Some may praise his " Republican boldness" of
speech, and others may exalt his generosity to-
wards the lowest and most helpless : his employers
might call him dangerous, and his fine acquaint-
ance might caution him against noticing the vulgar:
they have all agreed from the beginning, and all
men will agree to the end, in feeling to their hearts'
core his estimate of what is due to Man as Man.
One morning he shook hands with a peasant on the
Leith road, and talked with him some time, in the
presence of a fop, who afterwards rebuked him for
showing his friendship for a man dressed in home-
spun. " Why you fantastic gomeril," cried Burns,
" it was not the grey coat, or the scone-bonnet,
or the boot hose, that I spoke to, but the man
that was in them :" and he proceded to de-
velop his view of the comparative quality of the
three men who composed the group. His song, "Is
there for honest poverty," is the expression of his
daily habit of mind throughout his life.
The rank is but the guinea stamp :
The man's the gowd for a' that,
is the doctrine and the sentiment by which he lived,
and which made him the immortal poet he is. That
song is certainly the most widely known of his
pieces at present. Familiar as we all are with half-
a-hundred of his strains which range from lofty de-
voutnesS, through the whole series of affections and
passions, to the mosthomely fun, we all feel that that
song is the truest exponent of the man to the
greatest number of his kind. Under the virtual cen
sorship of his day, it was not permitted to be sung
in the streets of our northern toWns—a strange fact
to us now ! But it was sung in the reaping-field
and in the cottage ; and now it is known by heart
wherever our language is spoken and Lowland
Scotch is read. He made no secret of his having
achieved a personal discovery on the subject of that
song. He said, " I remember in my ploughbov
days, I could not conceive it possible that a noble
lord could be a fool, or a godly man could be a
knave. How ignorant ploughboys are !" In the
same way, the high-born and the pious (self-called)
could not, in those days, conceive of a peasant as
being wise, or a poor man dignified. This song is
an admonition as valuable for the one mistaken class
as for the other ; and who can say how much it may
have done towards bringing them into the happier
:understanding of our day ?
One of Burns' long-standing regrets was that he
could not enter Parliament. He had much to tell
there, and much to ask; and it might have been of
advantage to us in several ways if he could have
had the opportunity. That wish of his, and the rea-
sons for it, are natural recollections for us to-day,
when we are in the midst of an enterpriseto obtain
a voice and a hearing in the House of Commons for
men of Burns' class .He had perceived that, in our
country, while there is no obstacle to the entrance of
the low-born rich into society, and into Parliament,
there is great jealousy of the low-born who rise, or
are qualified to rise, by other powers than that of
wealth. Tho owners of boroughs in those days were
great men, whether they were born in the mansion
or the cottage ; but the poet, the scholar, the politi-
cian, was repressed by an insolent or a timid aristo-
cracy. Burns had keen reason to know this, and
his craving for an opportunity of utterance in Par-
liament was a natural consequence. We live in an
improved age, when there is a fairer field for desert,
without any fatal inquisition into origin. We live,
accordingly, under a growing necessity of admit-
tingro n
to the representation men whom Burns would
whatever
have called his equals before the law and the
thne ; d Btuorunss,
snaoidt onlyabou to
on this
iclaims
of suchmen is valuable
,
but on every other.
We have no right to appropriate it, however,
without being clear as to what he meant by peasant
life, when he its
asserted • claims. Its poverty was
obvious enough. On
this day hundred years, he
was born in a rick tt e y clay hovel, which was blown
down a few days afterwards, when he and his
mother were carried out into the
the ruins. But it did not follow
that this peasant
family would, like some of our country' neighbours at
this clay, ask whose son the Prince of Wales is, or
demand wages which will rise with the •
price of
bread, or insist that the Queen should " do some-
thing" for everybody who is badly off. Burns had

a father-who lead -with him, and a mother who
sang to him—sang songs which brought out the
poet and patriot elements in him. The Scotch pea-
santry' then- wet e at least as intelligent as our shop-•
keeping or best-artisan class now. When 'we . see
that our rural neighbours are as intelligent, we
shall delight in expressing their aspirations _in
Burns' words. Meantime, .the _way is more open
now than, it was then, while _we have not a pea-
iitn.:,-r*Y'reapable of his ambition. When he died it
was -asked, in all simplicity, by those :about"
door,'" And who be our poet now ?" - This need-
never be 'asked by. the pecisantrY of a later century.
As sure as they trseinto.ti capacity for seeing-that-
; • The pithlof sense and pride of4nrth • •
. Are higher ranks than a' that,
and•show their claim to equality before the law add'
'the government-the answer will be,." Burns shall
be your poet now."--haily News.

P.R.BS,ENT.

as many as 20 varieties of oranges, diffetiog in
'colour, flavour, and size, and among them all these
is not one that is not wholesome and agreeable to
the taste. One of the best is that called cam du:nong,
.or orange-sugar; it is .odoriferous, about the size
of the orange of Europe, but rather flattish in shipe;
- the inside .is of , ayellowish red 'colour. Another
-kind, rather inferior to. the"above in quality, but,
still very good, is the cam-sen, or orange of Para-
dise. The skin and the inside are of a pale red.
It has something of the stimulating -sharpness of
Vie lemon, but is milder and sweeter. The kind
which is superior to all the -others is the cam-tien,
or King's orange, .and, it is in fact, reserved for the
;e of the sovereign. There is. no formal prohibi-
tion against the cultivation of this orange, but it is.
necessary to keep it - secret, for if th tree were
discovered the owner would be compelled to deliver
up all its fruit to. the Prince. It is of the same form
and size as the turopean fruit;- the rind, whiea
green, and as fine as the, thinnest silk, is almost
transparent ; and the filaments of the inside, of a
rose colour, can lie seen through it. When- it is-
opened it imparts a delightful odour to the room in
which it has been eaten, and, lib fruit orthe speCies
has a more delicious fiaVour. _

TJI.E URE:4 T `EASTER N

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poop and masts, while separate contracts will pro-
vide for the rigging and sails and the cabin fittings
.and joiners' work. No money will be wasted in
the mere frippery-of decoration, though at thesaiue
time all the fittings will be of the best and. most
substantial kind and quite worthy the: position:
which the ship must occupy,. not only. in England,
but in the mercantile marine of the world. The
design for the poop is complete 'in all its details.
All of it will be constructed of iron, and some idea
of its size may be.gathered from the fact that the
chief dininc,. saloon, 120 feet long by 47 feet wide
and 9 feet high under. the beams, will be in that
part of the vessel. There is to be a large number
of bath rooms_ allotted. to each class of passengers,
all of which will be kept_ supplied with hot and
cold fresh and salt water. The contractors are to
commence their work on the 15th of February, and
are bound under penalties to complete all in five
months froth that date. The long-expected first
trial trip will therefore take place about the middle
of July, when it is intended to run out from Wey-
mouth to the middle of the Atlantic and try the
ship under all possible conditions of sail and steam.
This short voyage will probably occupy about six
days, for the lowest estimate yet made of her speed
allows her 17 knots, or about 18!-,;- statute miles an
hour, the speed of a Parliamentary train. What
may be considered as the commencement of
the work of fitting will be taken on Satur-
day next, when the large iron floating
Derrick launched last autumn Will be used
for the purpose of hoisting in 'the main - shaft
of the paddle engines and the rudder. The former
weighs no less than 40 tons, the latter 13, and each
of these ponderous masses of iron work have been
finished off with as much care and even neatness as
if they were intended for the works of a clock.
Both these:Will be deposited in the fore part of the
vessel in order to assist in bringing her more down
by the head when the blades of the screw are being
fixed. The. latter have not been attached to the
screw bars, as in case of ice during the winter
enough might have formed round them to have
held such a mass of the loose pack as with the flow
of the tide might have seriously endangered the
ship. Trotman's anchors, by which she is .now
moored, would never,' of course, have .given way ;
but the chains unquestionably might, and, once
adrift, she would instantly, in the nautical phrase,
" have taken charge of the whole river."
So much has been. truly said' and written as to
the importance of the Great Eastern in a mercan-
tile point of view that all have tacitly overlooked
how, as a vessel of war, she would, to this country
at least, be almost invaluable. In those ever recur-
ring estimates of our national resources with which"
two or three such vessels as the Great Eastern could,
afford in time in war is never alluded to, because
never suspected. Yet, in the construction of this
unequalled vessel, and forming a noble model on
which others may be built, our national resources
have, we believe, received such a development as
few at the first glance would perceive. The Great
Eastern, however, would make the fastest, strongest,
and most terrible of all war ships, if war instead of
commerce were to be her destination. Her carrying
power alone would be a most formidable element.
Ten thousand. fully-equipped soldiers, with all the
requisite materiel, and- even the due proportion
of staff and. field officers' horses, could be trans-
ported at once to any point of need with greater
convenience and in less than half the time now oc-
cupied by the fastest ships, as there would
,be no
delay for coaling. If even the least sanguine ex-
pectations as to her speed are fulfilled she would
be able to land a complete corps d'armee in India
within 40 days from the time of her leaving Eng•
land, while her vast space on deck would afford a
floating parade ground, on which recruits might be
drilled to a tolerable state of efficiency, even while
on the voyage. The ordinary delays of winds and
currents would so little affect her gigantic steam
power that the time of her arrival with such a
force might be calculated upon to a single day.
With such a rapidly moving fortress and camp
always at the control of the Government the effect
would be to economise, while it increased our war-
like resources, and, by reducing the distance to our
furthest outposts by one-half, bring about precisely
those results at sea which railways have already.
effected on land in military tactics. The difficulties
of the present means of oceanic communication
oblige the. Government to maintain larger forces at
all points of the empire than-are actually requisite
at one and the same time. With two or three such
vessels as the Great Eastern such a necessity would
be obviated for the future, and the Government
would have increased strength even at a reduction
of the present military establishments. Continental
nations are well aware that the secret of England's
weakness .as a military Power is not so much duof
to, the smallness of her army as in the necessity d
exist for obviating this necessity,or,
its dispersion. Once show that the ineaiLs: !.aetai
position as a military empire, able
transport_ an army of 30,000 men to any part of
Europe, will be second to none on earth. The
political results which would be certain to accrue
and
tenE day y s ato
from the Government having at its disposal such
a class of ships would be almost equally important.
It would then be, with a closely consolidated em-
pire, the power of Great Britain plus her colonies
and dependencies. M. Lesseps might sink all the
money in France in his Suez Canal, and. Mr. Buch-
anan assert American morality and manifest destiny
at the expenseitlnepea:\,tteh. P:whfveoiputpiolkaodfsi ::taNvhgeieerenactio•hlai
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never strive about a right of way when her quickest
have a higher continental position, and could
If when her own manufacturing
placed within her hands the means of
a safer, quicker, and. a better path, and
skill and
all in which none can follow her. twcapeoi andaffi
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vided only that the question of the Great Easter.-
speed be satisfactorily determined all the rest is a
natural sequence, the end of which we can no more
see now than from Stephenson's first locomotive
could. be predicated our present railway system.
The revolution -which a squadron of such vessels
would effect in war would be as great as their
results in commerce, and then we should for the
first time really see steam doing for the ocean what
it has already done for the land.
17)

ACCIDENT FROM CRINOLINE. —On Saturday
morning about half-past 11 o'clock, a somewhat serious
accident occurred to a fashionably attired female while
ascending the steps leading from Tooley-street to the foot i f
London-bridge. T h e lady in question had manly reached
Icltiiwn,sthfaotunthde,
the top of the flight of steps, when her foot caught in tl.e
front portion of her crinoline, and she fell violently forward,
striking her head against the iron railing anasd iifluii,nsg:_a
:—On
no means slight cut upon the chin. Before she could recover
herself or any one go to her aid she rolled down several of the
however,svtiecpt
ism, aon with
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withvlehde cnu),t• I mud.on
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• i off ry , and
she speedily sought refuge in a cab and was drivion amidst
the laughter of a gang of juveniles.
SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—During the week
win:oi ehead
Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, 2,874 ; on Mon-
day and Tuesday, free evenings, 2,819 • on the three stu-
dents' days (admission to the public, Gd
' .)1 780 ;
stu-
dents' evening, Wednesday, 430. Total, 0,903, one ,
opening of the Museum, 752,711. From the

-The preserves of Lord Portman, it appears, . .
ex-
tend from the parish -of Pylle some distance into
.the adjoining parish of Pilton, the gamekeeper, a
man named Stickland, residing in Pylle. Mr. Mien, -
Who preserves the game for the owner of any:ail:Ail-
ing estate, had a mutual understanding with his
lordship's gamekeeper that the-3, were to' protect
the game for each other when_necessary. ----41)Put
two o'clock on Saturday morning, Mr. Geo: Miell,
jun., heard the report of several guns in Lord Port-
man's wood, and very near to his father's residence.
He immediately told his father of it, and Mr. Miell
at once got up, and,_ accompanied_ by his sons _(Mk.
George Miell and Mr. Albert Miell) proceeded to
•the wood. On arriving there Mr. George Miell
went towards the upper side, leaving his younger
brother and a boy, who caine with them, watching
from another point, whilst Mr. Miell went to the
lower part of the wood. In a few minutes George
Miell came upon the track of the poachers, three in
iminber, -who • were going in the direction of the
spot where his brother 'and the boy stood. He
quickened his -pace, and soon reached the place
where_ he had. left his brother' Albert, and then
_turned round and Confronted .the. poachers, who •
were armed . with guns and bludgeons, • and
in the act ofceming out of the wood. At this time
the Drothers.Mielt were-about six -or seven yards
froin the peaehers, George standing-a little in trent
.of his brother Albert, and on seeing one' of the
poachers level his gun at them, the former (George
Miell) sprang a little on one side just as it was
.fired ; the consequence was, that his younger
brother received nearly the whole of the charge in
his left side. At the same time George Miell, who
carried his left arm in a sling, through injuries re-
ceived by the burstiHg of a gun some days before,
was also wounded in the elbow: The poacher who
tired the gun was identified by Mr. Miell as a
labourer residing in the village of Pilton, named
George. Hill ; but as soon as he noticed the effect of
the charge, he jumped over a gate and ran away.
Mr. George Miell then rushed at the other two, one
of whom levelled his piece, and swore with an oath
he would," drill a hole in him" if he did not stand
off: But young Miell, nothing daunted, went boldly
at his antagonist, pushed the poacher's gun aside,
and pulled the trigger, but the gun did not go off.
The poacher then managed to get hold of the gun,
and gave Miell. a violent blow with the barrel over
the head, causing the blood to flow copiously.
A desperate struggle' now ensued, and, .not-
withstanding the injuries and loss of blood
caused George Miell to feel faint, he -valiantly
closed with the poacher, took the gun from him,
and held the fellow until ' his father arrived.
The . second poacher was then secured, and he
'was ascertained to be also a Pilton labourer,
named Finning. The prisoner was taken by -Mr.
.Miell to his residence, and the third man (a
brother of Hill) escaped, but he was subsequently.
captured, as well as George Hill, who fired the
gun. The three prisoners have been examined
before the magistrates, and remanded until the
injured men are able to give evidence againstthem.
As soon as possible Mr. Albert Miell was carried
home, and surgical assistance obtained. It was
found that he was severely wounded froth the chest
to the hip on the left side ' • and there can be no
doubt he would have 'been killed instantly but for
the accidental ciyeumstauce of his having a. large
pipe-case, containing a tobacco pipe, in the left
breast pocket of his coat, where the main force of
the charge took. effect- , The' pipe-was smashed to
pieces, and the case completely riddled.
The other brother, Mr. George Mid!, received
several shots in the left arm. Both the injured
men are progressing favourably.