Star.
London, England, 1824-04-08 00:00:00

Now, on Palm Sunday, boys and girls. (youths and
maidens have now-a-days got above so childish a prac-
tice) may be met early in the morning, in blithe bat
breakfastless companiete sallying forth tosv:irds the
pretty cutlets aboui Hampstead and liigheate on the
one side of the water, and Camberwell and Gal ,ham on
the other—ail of which they innocently imagine to be
" the county"—there to spert away the pleasant hours
till diaper-time, and then return home with joy le their
hearts, endless appetites in their stomachs, and bunches
of the sallow willow with its silken bloom Ind, in their
hands, as trophies of their travels.
Nom, at last, the Easter week is an ivcd, and the poor
have for re:cc in the year the best of it—setting all
things but their own sovereign will at a wise defiance.
The journeyman who works on Easter Monday, even
tlipUgh.he were a tailor itself, should lose his caste, and
be sent to the Coventry of mechanics —es hetever that
may be. ti fact it cannot happen. On Laster Monday
ranks change places—Jobson is as good as Sir John—
the " rude mechanical" is " monarch of all he surveys"
from the summit of Greenwich-hill -and when he
thinks fit to say "It is our royal pleasure to be drank!"
—who shall dispute the proposition? Not I, for one.—
When our English mechanics accuse their betters of op-
pressing them, the said betters should reverse the cad
appeal, and refer- trem Philip where° Philip drunk ; and
then nothing mere could be said. But now, they have
no betters, even in their own notion of the matter. And,
in the name of all that is transitory, envy them not
their brief supremacy ! It will be over before the
end of the week, and they will be as eager to re-
turn to their labour as they now are to escape from
it: for the only- thing ,that an Englishman, whether
high or low, cannot endure patiently for a week to-
gether, is unmingled amusement. At this time, how-
ever, he is determined to try. Accordingly, on Easter
. Monday ail the narrow lanes and blind alleys of our
Metropolis pour forth their dingy denizens into the su-
burban fields and villages, in search of the said amuse-
ment—which is plentifully provided for them by ano-
ther class, even less enviable than the one on whose pa-
tronage they depend:— for of all callings, the most
melancholy is that of purveyor of pleasure to the poor.
During the Monday our determined holiday-maker, as
in duty bound, contrives, by the aid of a little or not a
little artificial stimulus, to be happy in a tolerably exem-
plary manner. On the Tuesday, he fancies himset
happy to-day, because he felt himself so yesterday. On
• the SN'egneiday he ciomot tell what has come to him—
but es cry ten minutes he wishes himself at home—
sehere he never goes but to sleep. On Tharsday he
finds out the secret that he is heartily sick of doing no-
thing, bait is ashamed to confess it ; and then what is
the use of going to work before his money is spent ?
On Fiiday he swears that he is a fool for throe in„ away
the greater part of his quarter's savings without having
anything to show for it—and gets gloriously drunk
with the.rest, to prove his words— passiog the pleasantest
tight of all the week in a watch house. And on Satur-
day, after thanking " his worship" f. r his good advice,
of which het does not remembei a word, he conies to the

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acttaminatiOrt that, after all, there is nothing like
working day long in silence, and at night spending
his earnings and his breath in beer and politics !—So
much for the Easter wetk of a London hnliday:rnaker.

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.But there is a sport belonging to Easter Monday,
which is not confined to the lower classes, and which
fun forbid that I should pays over silently. —lf the
reader has not, during his boyhood, I:informed the ex-
ploit of tiding to the turn-out of the stag on Epping
.Fore.t—following the hounds all day lag, at a respectful
distance—returning home in the evening with the loss :
of nothing but his hat, Ins hunting whip, and his horse—
not to meiaion a portion 4 his nether pCI bun—a nd finish-
ins, the day by joining the Lady Mayoress's ball at the
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.Mansloadwuse ; .if the reader has not done all this when
a.boy, .1 will nut tantalise him by expatiating on the su-
spertilxity of those who have. And if he has done it, I
..need'hot tell him that he has no cause toenvy his ft lend
who 'escaped with a flesh wound from the fight of Wa-
tt:4loo; for there is nut a pin to choose between them!
1 have little to tell the reader in regard to London
ex-
c:usively,this month: which is lucky, because I have
lart myself less than no space at all to tell it in. I must
mention, however, that now is heard in her streets, the
prettiest of all the cries which are peculiar to them—
., Come buy my primroses!" and but for which the
Londoners would have no idea that Spring was at hand.
Now, spoiled children make " fool*" of their Mammas
and Papas; which is but fair, seeing that the said
• Mammas and Papas return the compliment during all
the rest of the year. Now, not even a scr.ptical appren-
tice but is religiously persuaded of the mei its of Good-
iday, and the propriety of its being so called ; since
it procures him two Sundays in the week instead of one.
Finally, now, exhibitions of paintings coat the public
attention, and obtain it, in every qi•aitei ; on the prin-
ciple, I suppose, that the eye has, at this season of the
year, a natural hungering and thiistng :liter the co-
lours of the Spring leaves and flowers, and rather than
not meet with them at all, it is content to meet with them
on painted .canvas !
Tf.ST3 FOR COLOUIK

(::tuft MECrlAtilei 11.%;
Genuine Ultra Mai ,*frie.lo;es its colour when thrown
into concentrated nitric acid.
Callable is entirely soluble in liquid ammonia.
Madder and ('arsine Lakes are corn plinel y soluble, by
boiling them in colicentrated solution of ~oda or p.3tash.
Antwerp Mae should not lose its colour, when thrown
into liquid chlorine.
Chrome Ye.f!olu should not effervesce with nitric acid.
While Lcadis completely soluble in nitric acid, and
the solution should remain transparent, +k hen mingled
with a solution of potash.
l'Ontilion is totally volatilized on being exposed to
red heat, and should not impart a red colour to spirit,
of wine when dige-ted•with
RUINING OF SUGAR.

Pajot-des-Chaintes, of Paits, has, with great ad-
. vantage, lately applied Chlorine (jlte oxynturiatic acid)
to the bleaching of sugar. This fie effects either by
spreading the sugar in very thin strata on hair cloths
disposed round a ro-int into which the gas is admitted:
or by adding to a filtered solution of the sugar onc7fiitli
put, in volume, of liquid cliloriveloxymUriatic acid),
ant shaking them well together lit a cask: after which
it i. isniled with animal cliarcriA, filtered and again put
hack i.sto the task, and a sixth part of chlorine added.

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APIIIL IN LONDON.
(rfton THE NEW DIONVILY MAGL7.INE.)