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like a•well-wiripped cur, and Would - have put his tail
betwane 'his legs, only he couldn't.
Ho ! ye 're here, are ye ?' says the praste.
"Not a word did the divil reply.
• " TheSdivil's iii it, but we'll find manes to make ye'
spake 1' and says he, ' Mike, be afther givin' me some
• wather ;" ,and Make gave his Overnice the weather, and
riverince blessed it, and -turned it to holy wather
intirely, and thin his riverince dipped. his hand into it,
gaie the divil a taste o'. it ; and.. didn't it go into him
like scaltiml broth ; be did, but it did ; and how he
?caret', and how be groaned, while. Mike and the praste
• larfed outright, and well they might.
" Now, thin, ye brinistone-stinkin' baste ! what have
ye got to -say for yersilf ?'
The unfortunate divil could orly :groan. Wid that
the praste give him a taste more of the wather.
" Spake, and be damned !' cried he. 'lt 's yerseif
that shall remiixtber comin' to. Ballyhaugh.'
" The poor divil ,Managed to. squake out,—' Let me
go ! let me TO ! and I 'll be on my oath niver to come
widin fifty mites of yer riverince again.'
Ye. will?'. said his riverince; yes. I dare say ye
'will; but, -do 'yer think 'l'm such a fool as to take a
• diva's oath?, not.l. I'll have yer bond; yes, yer bond,-
and brake it if yer'dare.'
• " The divil signified his willingness to Comply wid
amy tarms 'to •get free. - Mike wanted to try the effects
of the shillelagh on his skull•but the praste wouldint
• -have it- all; he had no objection to taze, but he didn't
like comniittin' raurther besides, his riverince had an
like
to. business, for he knew that rootin' out the divil;
uku oder ilt wades, made work. .
his by..the praste's desire, produced a skin, and
riverince sat himself down to write; and he wrote. an-
' NTaraint-aa longes a homily. He'tied the divil down
.1.11 all sorts of ways niver ag'in to show his nose in,
-13allyhaugh; there was all sorts of curses and anathemas
and the like; and he Made the divil promise to ate him
tiff. up if iver he bihke his 'bond. The like of this
vritin' ye'ivOn't often meet When it was finished,'
Ike gave it. to the divil to sign, and. what should he do to
42.ake the' barg'in more bindin'._ but open a -vein, and
write his divilish name wid his blood.
aft,Lind n6vv,' :said he,.to' be 'sure, kind sir, yell be,
assure lettin' me go? ome, undo the' halter, for -I
fortat.3"°, it begins to make me fale rather oncom-
be.bald thT 0 „ sure!' to -be• snre! says the :praste, and'
at -no *int behind him, pertindin' to undo the
hitt-tali! he took up his chopper and wid One
tune blow cut qifthe tip of the diva's tail Sathan gave-
a bilow that:would hava.quieted a thousand big roaria'
and widout so much as sayin'' good night to ye,
bounced through the •winder.-- The noise the divil made
.I.ove" Mike against the waif; and quite stunned the poor
,mld, hui.notbin' the baste could do hitd any effeet,on his'
' blessed riverince, who cried out, ;as the divil flew away,'
`‘,11:10. ha! me -bogy, there ye go wid yer tail offs but
'liver mind; there s plenty O'
.plaees where they:l*ton-
bit& spirits,` and wid. that his riverince
,Ticked • up the
WI, and he and Mike made thimselves- eomfortable,i and
ate:.their suppers quite well' . • • •
V0i;,11.n," continued Timi nnly to, tell yer
Pours that the ibleiSed 'jewel that yews been favolired
is the Wert'-tail that the devil' wore whin
he visited Mike Leary.on the-night the fameus sterna;
And, can'.yei•-hotiours concave. anythin"Mere precious
And liere- and herc it shall be as long
AL the •vvciild: stands
'• just "COUclude yer honours what, became
'ke, nail the' praste, ancrthe other paple: To begin
.wid 4.4 e ,halteri b, express- desire,-it- was. sent VI his
. at Rome, and:: hi,s holiness was-so delightediwid
, it, and s'O.sure: that ;it would'vut inte'the right 'rliad,
• 11414 he hung: himself- wid it. What- became 'tit' the divil
4w, Piver exactly, larntil but-'tis -quite
.sartin that
''2W.that'night he gas* beeti'so free wid, his personal
and mush more particular in the company;• •

NEW. NOLVTiILy. mAgAzthE.

-- • The " Ill=titilnori4' ,ip att,-lentertaining -quiz
.! on
Bohn Bull's well-known propensity. to ' grumble, •no
. I:flatter how little-eause hernayhaVe for querulOusnesS.-
;TO be abusing- somebody or soniething the live-long
i
411.'7,", says 'the-anther; .1, is ari :enjOyinent not- to; be
t:ssiSeaged 'With' byttose -who have once tasted . it ;• and
"e: Oasi",highest••in ;favour is that-which comes in
eiir )5, cost;' - - ' ..• . the,
,: l- ,aY requently, and affords us greatest.
umber of-occasions -for
_exhibiting uni. spleen. We
"v. a ',known • a Man': keep a three-legged stool. in -us
:u1(.137,
.for no earthly. pqrp9se-but!to knock-his shins
13-allgainst:and. '
to swear. at:: , Upon - the ”same'princiiile,-
tha4Si, PgoPle keep-cuts und'iltsgsin their houSes, that
, ..
itu,:eleelnar, ha*ioriiething to eltectitte!Thr every 'brolOn
and to tuff 'and' kiek Whenever, they meet t it
-.The stairs.- "'llum- Otous.aS•this.Passage -is, •it is still
. •v• Of truth as every one's experience-Ml.lst -con-
'nee him, " The- Rcibertses on their 'Travels' it; a
etch` .
b by Mrs.-
•Trollcipe, and possesses much of, her
.breadth
, 1 talretteness,`'but, at the same time, masculine
• '''tigat'of 'touch The " 'Gladness of :MaYr is a pia-
, T ttil.that Make; its appearance just at the right sea-
s-,'n, 71.1-be versification is correct, 'and .in . places sii-
. ...44tied, but there is_a little too much about I' zephrS,"
'°Tai''"and-"4lo*ers." -We -have a surfeit of such
sweets;'''ln 'the 'late ''" Prince Talleyrand" - we find
accounts :or: this 7 veteran' statesman's "eohtiersittions
respecting -the -t-e once-popular quack;--atilinecroinancer,
~ as he was considered':
at-the titne,--Connt Cagliostro,
.and Voltaire the • keen, teStless,- and malignant 4-
. .liression of Whose eye the rrince describes with, great
exiCinesi:. `These Talleyrand,- papers are • adroitly
Ivorlco, up, but we:suspeet that they must-not be. all
loelied oti:us-getpel;tritths. The facts 'related in them
stalti, tbe taken MA grano salis.. . The -";Bit .of Pre-
: ''"nient". is t.hold,- daShing sketch-of character; by, a
e°iftributor Who adopts the quaint soubriquet of Peter
mb
- riggina-.' ":Deceased People ./whom we meet Daily"
... ) :.
elmy • exceedingly. lively- little essay, containing
• wev
al l'iliat4ll:ft- 4s, expressed in a sportive vein. O.f,
-•taillett '.ltl'
Air. Q his' poem on " Lachrymoselihiters4'
the 04%'0,511ic!_, :1:1141a,•-very justly' denounces the folly,
sarcv,,,': 1 ,t.khiltud,-extravagance of -the writers of the
tk. tofllhis
P:rta'awac'tejjyY.Trbo,ll-ian'sch6°V6the ill Pr6s or verse.
school
the interests. of -.. our. national litera-
ls. nearly„, if . not :ignite, extinct.
; • (.1 1;10nt;--0r :Summer and-Winter," is bne of Mrs.
.. ;',':".!. s' entertaining, fictions. - It 4- entitled a lode
been and woilld have ,been- more effective had: it .not
."''n quite so sentimental. We
- srsilkhfly poem oh aldis:-Hope, the Fortune.teller :' -1-
I.fri• Hope,lhe fortune-teller, ' • . : - -' i
. Qtxll'doame-when'l was young; ' i•
.'.
' - " You,.” :she cried,-" will
-be a dweller • - '
Ali tho great and wise among.:
s- - On your-shoulders fortune" thrust is—,
- . Honours mote tharil can tea"— ; -.
4i,lA:lope, to dO herjuatice, _
'1 a•'' ' 4'4llY.tatks ,extremely well. .: . . • ,
, .
~
'''
,'''' '2 Pii:Sts_slie'eried,• "You're devilish clever;
'` • • Puskfor fame-and pocket pelf,. ,
', • Write k play and lay, for ever . ~ : ,
Billy ,Shakspears on the shelf.", . • . ~ ,
•, 'Tway done—the curtain 'rose, I nearly'
:, . Felt th 6 htitteli deck my broly— •,‘ -
; '.. ' Deuce Li bit,"l Wish sincerely ' .
' • ;,:•. Vis.,llope•had heard the row. • •
- . • .
. . ' :Eloquence, et her,.;suggeStion,
' !-" ..Conscious ioo that I .pOsess'il,
'. , ''4l'on-i6the important. question..: . . .
' • -- ' SriOn,the sovereign mob. address, ~ . •
•. , -,,§tange46 say. such storms assaird.ma, • - r
: • ..,; ,; t Sowers ,ot worse than hail or rain, • - -
•-..,',41;tny el cution faird:me—
,:':* , .
lirsi'm • --, ,ope,was out again.' ' ' , ''' • • ,
..'Whisp'ting then my.,Wondrons merit ~. —.
-1- • t. la4'd at eourt a leading place, , - • '
length contrived to. ferret . - I
4I l
--.,.... irst my Lord arid then his "Grace. ..
... ,
-Nuch they said conceit to soften—
.. Priirnises they made a few—
'
: Mrs: Hiipe, great peOple_often -
Humbug feels as hell as you,' -
, ..
-Oft' slie`ow.',4 the sex ,adored-me,..
clOaquering all where'eri cheSe, -
• Husbands, lovers, tho' they bc;red-me,
• __lsle'7er could such a smile oppase.
',,lex•lsebred by wives and misses,
. . ~„•
, When r carne to count,my game, ,
Quito as, many kicks as _kisses—.
' . Mrs. llope,, oh ! 'fie,, for shame l
• ' Wedded hliss, she now reported,'- -
' ..-.I should taste,iereneand true:; '. -: • '
' ' Trusting Mill, I proudly courted - . ~... , •••
' (Illittla stylish black-ex:A: i?rijo., -, • :
‘..- Tiletigh the fair could not refuse-me;:, . • .•
What the sort of wife She made, . . _ . .
t'•'''lf you wish to know,-excuse me-
Mrs. Hope's a cursed jade. . . . .. - . . .
: Thus with OA lesS.tarrididdlesi.
.•• .• • S'
till the gipsy wins her2way,
• ; nails, us
,all, and fondly wheedles
. ' .. Shallow, pates like mine astray.
Xatue AWL FashiOn thUS allure tii '
. Lions, lords, at routes to, meet, ~ . . •
'Then-blne'de;Als..oia`t6 enre'us---: ..
.
Mrs. 116010*airly beat.:
• _._.,.
-' Xl"?,:qidgirl,nn.recollection; - ,
.WhYlshiaildl,your-trieks resent,-
Si°nce I've form'd a new connexion— _
' - y„--Tharswarixiodes-t7iiiiiit-Coatent. -.
'' - Teary aPV:af you- fgo-blarney;. .y _. ~.. ,
Q
' . ll pug iwith her, lslwellsecure,. . . .-
In my little charnbre garnie— , ,
' • 4‘
"I tAirs; Hope; votre serviteue. , .
..„ .. .

•
Ativ.f Hrirs,ALi
1,11:211;B:` 7114.4;41P3- and -ingenious disguises_ 'by.,w. hairc.▪ h,
tor "ani 'contrives .to 'outwit the Duchess ot'Qm
Aou
'— 6 the restoration of tkeen
procure
S,favour towards him, are .oleverlydeSc:ribed,i.n
presen E-Chapter of the" Editor's
.4, ,Tames,Tamess „
Qidte'r,ie'lsl4.pr*stifigaiust, one pertion of this i▪
n-
s;`,7,-"tilat, namely, in which the fogtman Snen ,
deeeives tiroad daylight,
iri' stiinding close beside' her, _the latter's
ldratti, Abigail-311in. No woman who really
han,l,:a,thkn;"and'itrhb had seen him not once but a
1344PQ times,' could have been so deceived. " An
tor:ilet to -Master 'hattk'Waltofir is .0 "soit of pas:
the pen Of iohn gamilton. If
ttfretfTept; and ihr,g, some .ciimintnesses and
writtati°n3 expression, ihe poem is pleasingly
raft "1/. the praise of the bkl cockney Vier-•is. touch too- exaggerated. Isaak Walton was
is noTnusabs.the.useek;-Aptitej.43,anplt,„,' cr,esktp.rg:-.o4tr, it
the fashion tcrlAiir6thtttltfireiri the contrary,
E'xi,ths as sly, shrewd, and oily a man as ever perhaps
tnn._ ed) and never failed, in his peculiar unobtrusive
-iwiner) to look sharp after his own interests. " A

Few Passages on Dreams." is an agreeable, gossiping,
little essay. 'by, Mr. Charles Oilier, who alludes to
a ,me of the most remarkable • dreams recorded in
ancient'_ historY, but" makes no mention of that re 7
lated by Cicero—to the effect, that a man once
dreamt d that a friend and neighbour was
Murdered, aid .his body hidden in a cart which was
standing at the door of a particular _house. The
dreamer started up in a fright, dressed himself, and
the instant day broke hurried to the house indicated
in his vision, and there, sure enough,- ,found• the cart,
and buried in it, beneath 'a heap of -dung;` the body
of his murdered friend. This dream is perhaps the
most remarkable on record, and Cicero expressly
states that he had it on the authority of the dreamer
himself. " There are more things in, heaven and
earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philo-
sophy." In the " Elliston Papers" w‘ip find a curious
account of an eßistolary squabble between the great
lesiee of _Drury-lane and .the stall greater Edmund
Kean, when the latter first arrived in- London, and
was anxious to try his fortune as a tragedian on
the boards of • a metropolitan theatre. Elliston's
lofty disdain and Kean's bull-dog independence are
very ainiisin touches of character. " Oriana and
Yesperella" is A sort of allegorical story, the drift
of which, will not we fear, be sufficiently, obvious to
magazine readers. The follom Jug graphic little poem
(a portion of which -we _quote) is from the pen of
Mr. Charles Mackay :
Alone, amid a million souls;

•Romici.him the tide of people rolls ;
But lore and desolate is he,
None heeding What his lot may be— •
A drop of water in the sea.
'Mid all the crowds that round hiin swarm
He feels for him no heart will warm ;
There is not one that knows his name,,
Or cares to ask him, whence he came ;
His life or death to them the same.
The rich man's- chariot passes by,
And lacqueys. with a -saucy eye,
From outside plush, and inward meals,
Grin at.l-iim, -as the Tattling `wheels, -
Splash him all o'er, from head to heels.
He walketb on, a friendlesi boy, • -
With much-of hope, -with little:joy
..Elbow'd for ever by the proud,- •
• As if they grudged_the room
•-. To this mean mortal in the crowd.
Oe throUgh the busy mass he goes,
' But Whither beet he scareely knows ;
' 'Through lane and street, and park and square,
And looks at wealth-he may_not share,
Though he is hungry and half bare.
For him amid these houses small-
- . For;him amid•these mansions tall,
There is•not one, where he could go,
-And say, Lam a‘child of•woe,. , •
To cheer me let the wine-cup flow.", •
No ; he is friendless. and alone-- •
To no one are his sorrows known. _
His hope, or; joy, or grief, or fear,
There is not one; would care td hear,
- Or say the sivord, " Be thou of cheer!"
And evil thouebti will sometimes rise;
When flaunting wealth affronts,his eyes, ;. -•
Envy,, perchance, and discontent,,: .
That he into this world was seut--
No Peood'with all his evils,blent.
" No-good?" saith he. " Ails surely wrong;
. Fresh-health and youth-to me belong;
And.from endurance I can learn
Still•to endure and never turn
- From theligh.thoughts with which I burn."
And Still within himself he says,
• " Escl man mast pass his evil days—
• Each man should suffer ere his prime,
If-up the world's high Steeps he'd climb,
Some grief to fit him for his time.'
" I am not, all alone nor
The fage of Nature makes me
The brea,th,Of mern, the, evening's sigh,
"The contemplation of the sky,'
That fills iny soul with yearnings high.
, " The leafy glory of the wciods, •
• The •rushing of the mountain floods,
The windthat bends the lofty tree,
The roaring of the eternal sea,—
, All yield an inward joy to me.
" I find a pleasure in the sight
Of meadows green and corn-fields bright,
I find 'a pleasure in the lay
-Of birds that' hail the breaking day,
Or warble to the moonlight grey.
." If no man loves me' Nature's voice
Is kind, and bids .myheart rejoice; •
The path I go,.true souls •have trod,
'I will look. upwards from the clod;
With a firm ~heart, and trust in God."
And thus he walketh, hour by hour,
And ,darby day,-and gainetkpower
Over-himself,' and,worketh 'still, •
• Through storm or shine, through good or ill,
The one good purpose of his will.

TRADE WITH FRANCE.-
To THE EDITOR OF THE TDIEBi
Sir,—lt. is not our provinee to take part in public dis-
cussions ,upon Auestions of political econothy :..but we
are compelled, in
,self-clefenee, to refer to the.letter ,of
Publins," in the, Times of this day, on the subject of
" Trade with France,'.' which is. made the medium of an'
unwarrantable attack upon, us. -
" Publius" is, no
.doubt,. an interested party, who,
under the shelter of an anonymous signature, would fain
serve hiniself and other holders. of French brandy. To
do this, he adopts two means—argument, if his writing
:can be so
,called, tending to a reduction of the
duty 'On French brandy, • and thereby' to .enhance
ttuh e
British.value Opfic;tahuaute,a. article
view
wd
toi and
creating.abuse,a
greaterapplied
demand for the foreign. He, and these: interested with
him, or whose feelings he is engaged to represent, may.
justly feel alarm' at ",the continuallyutyfo
ning
-7°l ni pt in, quantity
.of in
the Frenelihrandy, which pays d .
face •ef a 'constantly. increasin g populationi::' and,
n'
having,little regard for truth or c.o,nsistency,
it
eacy,. he Should assign any but the real.cause,.fOr.such
be wondered at that, in the spirit of unscrupulous aodtvo to
Consumption; or that he should attempt to
put down successful competition; which is the real cause,
by vulgar abuse, Indeed,. so, reckless is.he, that, not
satisfied with anenslanght 'upon British distillers, he
even assails the:whole medical and.ehemical professions.
The simple, .truth is, that the .constantly increasing
demand for our patent brandy bus made an' important,
inroad upon the trade in foreign brandy; and that this,
with ,the ttloption_of oar patent :metallic-capsules, as an
effectual security- to the public• against the fraudulent
substitution of inferior spirits, has occasioned the utmost
uneasiness in those who deal in-foreign brandy,
That " Pubhua" is what we have described him to be
there cannot be a doubt. He asks for. a. reduction in.the
duty on trench brandy, not for the benefit of those. con-
sumers who 'will, at any-Price, indulge: their -taste .for
"the finest Cognac;" but for the purpose. of -effecting
"a conciliation of the powerful.agricultural interest" of
France: 'Generous Cosmopolite ! He is eager to seed.
fire every native interest (except that of .theholders .of
French brandy)
.at the, shrine of, foreign prosperity.
What to, him the grain of England. in competition with
the grapes of France P. ..If there ,be,sorrow,in our farm-
steads, will there not be joy in the vineyards -abroad ?
"Although our- farm is not mentioned ,by name,. yet,
as our patent brandy is the, produce of British grain"—
'as the trade description of it comes.- within the scope of
" high-sounding titles"-,-and •as its healthfulness and
genuine Purity, are .boriN out by, the "-testimony of
scientific men,". it is: barely . possible to suppoie that
."PubliuS"! did not.intend,. and deliberately perpetrate, a
personal attack upon us.; or that the passage. referred
to has not been, more or. less,. applied to us by :your
`readers, and the public generally, many, of whom are
unpossessed lof the absolutemerits of. the case.
We maintain, Sir, and ,we have . the .most incontro-
'vertible evidence ef: the .fact, that our patent. brandy,
distilled from-British grain,:is a purer and more whole-
• some spirit than Cognac or. other French, brandy. - This
has been ascertained. by the most careful analysis, made
-by chemical professors whose names rank with-the most
,eminent in the world-'-by -"scientific men," who were
anquesttonably paid, not any agreed • sure,., as as basely
insinuated by "Publius," for . the purpose_ of inflifenci ng
their 'opinions respectively; but according to the charge
made by
‘'them, for the time and. professional
bestowed upon the inquiry, as. a physician' a barrister,
or Any other-gentleman, would be paid forfirst-ratepro-
feasional services.: That the opinion of such a -person as
"-Publius " would conform with that of any purchaser,
at:a-given price, we have no reason to .doubt. .0n the
contrary, we-believe hint to be a commodity for any
market—at present disposable by ,the holders of, foreign
• brandy. •
'But "the gall -and wormwood" to " Publius" is, that
the genuine sad decided :testimonials in 'our favour have
had their natural effectnpon out sale. : They have led
to the- Useef our patent brandy by an, immense .nuinber
of private: consumers, among whom-the. greatest. -men of
the day'might be named ; and :to its being Trescribed
ittpreference to French brandy, by the highest
jmedical ,authorities: ..at.',Guy's' St. George's, and- the
i Westminster. hospitals ; ,at the Manchester, Bristol, and
:Brighton ;infirmaries ; and, in short, at- the principal
hospitalsaid public. institutions in England.
Free from the inseparable from French brandy,
and 'froniila itiStri righnt *nature, -we challenge competition
at home and and. Whilst we thus tear away the
Mask from "tiblitis," Controvert his statements, and re-
plidiate- his copclusionS, we say at once Alit fear of com-
petition doea not for a moment- influence uS. in writine,
this letter.. -The fashion for the use of French brandy is
rapidly passing away.., British. science. and British en-
terprise bove,succeeded in raising-the produce ofßritish
grain far,ia intrinsic value above- that of foreign gripes;
and however much the-duty on foreign spirits-may be re-
dueed,:we are 'confident- that such a reductiOn will not
pieventlhe -continued increase of demand.for our'Patent
brancly.-..7We are„Siro-Otir most obedient servants,
- • --J. t. BETS Tun.,. and Co.
7i•Smithfield-hars, Friday, April 36, 1844; .

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1.-Way, GEORGE NVINiAX.—It is with
tiegret'We record the desth of this ra,sPeCtal 14dy, ;who ex-
plied on Saturday last: at, .her ,residence, in-Green-street,
The decea:sed, wile was -daughter-of the late
li,ieutenant:zoeneral,:Francis Grant,: was born '9th August,
;765,i -and- married; 18th Deceitibr,-;17.90,].1.drct George
deurray,(the litte.Biehop- WA:D:l*dd%), 'uncle-tit-tho-re,:
nt Duke of Athol], by whom (who died in 1803) her Lk.")
dyship had issue the present Bishop of Rochester, late
Countess of Ilchester, Lady Frankland Russell, Hon. Miss
Murray, Maid of Honour to the Queen, and several other
children.