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Tve us from doing any

thionzh strife or vain-

; that He may mercifilly renew a right spirit within
Id suffer us not to Rive way to a contentious one. It

will also contain inquiries as to the time when the sacred
text began to be the subject of the commentator, ,#ho gra-
dually debased its meaning by various steps, and at various
times, until the Christian era, when our Lord declared
that the Scribes and the Pharisees made the word of God
of none effect through their traditions. The many changes
Scriptural interpretation has undergone in the Jewish
Church, since the birth of Christ, will also be noticed.
The erroneous constructions, which the Seventy and St.

Jerome put upon the Heb:
pointed out. The different

Jewish litera-
ture, of which there are some most valuable, will be no-
ticed. The magazine will also contain articles on the Old
Testament institutions, as they are now observed by the
Jews throughout their dispersion. Their present state and
movements, in all places of their captivity, will also be
describPd

, &e. &c

Such a work as this must form a valuable auxiliary to
the Society for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews,
and every one who feels a desire for the welfare of that
remarkable and interesting people—and who does not—

will do all in his power to promote its circulation. The
various articles are written with Christian temper and
reat ability, and are therefore well calculated to
f the House of
mie time that they are also adapted to

with g

raise a spirit of inquiry among

Israel, at the

" build up the Christian in his most holy faith." 4 When
we find that there are at present in this empire upwards
of thirty clergymen of the Church of England descendants
of the Hebrew race, and about a thousand lay members,
it will be admitted that there is at once " a cause," and
sufficient encouragement to be up and doing. We are
gratified to perceive, from the pages before us, that during
the past year, through the instrumentality of the society
just mentioned, no less than one hundred and sixty-four
Jews were admitted into the Church of Christ by the sa-
cred ordinance of baptism, viz., at Amsterdam, 12, at

Berlin, 5,
at Cracos

at Frankfort

t Copenhagen, 1,
trg, 2, at Jerusa-

fen:: 1, Kalish, 1, Konigsburg, 3. Liverpool, 8, London,
41, Nottingham, 1, Province of Prussia, 17, Rhine Pro-
vince, 1, Silesia, 23, Strasburg, 1, and at Warsaw, 34.
And these converts are not among the poor and ignorant,
as is conassed by the Jews in Russia and Sir J. L. Golds-
med at a recent meeting, with becoming candour, said,

" out of the one handl
Berlin universii

nd forty-two professors in the
fourteen are Jews, certainly converted

ones, but still Jews

` The Greatest Plague of Life," or the Adventures of a
Lady in Search of a good Servant. London : David

&Tile, 80, Fleet-;tree

We'ha've been half killed with laughing at the-odd mix.
turo of caricature and truth contained in this little publi-
cation, of which the first part is just published. The
subject is an excellent one, and the authoress is evidently
well provided with materials ; and hits off in her banter-
ing way not only the vices and bad habits of servants, but
the weaknesses of managing mistresses as well. We anti-
cipate great amusement from her further adventures.
The work is illustrated in his inimitable way by George
Cruickshank, who will find in the subject rare scope for
his sketching abilities.

We are unavoidably compelled to postpone notices of
New Quarterly Review, Rowland Bradshaw, the

Dublin 1

Magazine, and

some others, which

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VARIETIES

A bilious citizen of " famous London town," being
sent down to Essex for his health, borrowed a farmer's dog
and gun for a day's sport. Ponto, in due time,. made a
point. The cockney, alarmed by his attitude, took him
in his arms, and carried him home, believing he had been
seized with the cramp

OLD (

The " Oki Doublets'

gh Clo

has dege-

which teased Coleridg

ludicro

what you call fic

by a Jew. He passed me several times crying out tor oici
clothes, in the most nasal and extraordinary tone I ever
heard. At last I was so provoked, that I said to him,
" Pray; why can't you say ' old clothes' in a plain way, as
Ido ?' The Jew stopped, at
me. said in a clear and even fit

` old clothes
ten times a minute, for -an hour together, you would sa,
Oqh Clo' as Ido now ;" and so he marched off. Coler-
confounded with the justice of the retort that
ye him a shilling—the only one he had.

very gravely at
" Sir, I can say
an : but if you had to say so

well as y(

idge was so
he followed

—" Old LondtotCries," Fraser's-Magazine.
BRAZILIAN TEA.—The avenue (of the Botanical Gar-
dens at Rio) which leads up from the entrance, is planted
on each side with the pine-like casuarina ; it is on a piece
of ground about an acre in extent, on the left-hand side of
this avenue, that the tea-plants grow which were imported
from China by the grandfather of the present emperor.
It was thought that the climate and soil of Brazil would
be suitable for its cultivation ; but the success of the ex-
periment has not equalled the expectations which were
formed of it, notwithstanding that the growth of the
plants and the preparation of the leaves were managed by
natives of China accustomed to such occupations. In the
province of San Paulo a few large plantations of tea have
been established ; that belonging to the ex-regent Feijo
containing upwards of twenty thousand trees. The pro-
duce is sold in the shops of Rio, and in appearance is
scarcely to be distinguished from that of Chinese manu-
facture ; but the flavour is inferior, being more of a herby
taste. It is sold at about the same price ; but it is now
ascertained that it cannot be produced so as to give a suf-
ficient recompense to the grower, the price of labour being
much greater in Brazil than in China; to remunerate, it
is said that Brazil tea ought to bring five shillings per
pound.—Gardner's Travels into the Interior of Brazil.

s'PON AT THE PRESENT SEASON wears its dirtiest,
dreariLbz., and most disconsolate garb. The streets are
slippery with black mud or blacker ice, a yellow halo sur-
rounds the gas lamps, even the bude lights look quenched
and uncomfortable. Cabmen, peevish at the paucity of
fares, curse with triple intensity the w9od pavement and
the luckless garrons that slide and stumble over it ; the
blue and benumbed fingers of Italian grinders can scarcely
turn the organ handles ; tattered children and half-
starved women, pale, shivering, and tearful, pester the
pedestrian with offers of knitted wares, and of winter
nosegays meagre as miserable as themselves. The popu-
lar cheerfulness and merry-making of Christmas-time are
over, and have not yet been succeeded by the bustle and
gaiety of the fashionable world. London is abandoned
to its million of nobodies ; the few thousands whose pre-
sence gives it life, are still on the list of absentees.—

Blackiiood's
THE MESS

Magazine.
as. CHAMBERS

-These two gentlemen are

known to all the world as the able editors and proprietors
of the Journal which bears theirname. For that publication
Mr. Robert Chambers wrote a number of interesting
Essays, which have just been re-published in a separate
volume. Those ez,.ays no doubt contributed greatly to
the popularity of the former successful work, and they are
to be followed by other writings from the pen octhat
gentleman. In the preface to the essays, Mr. Chambers
says of his early youth,—" My earliest aspirations were
towards literature. Books, not playthings, filled my
hands in childhood. At twelve, I was deep not only in
poetry and fiction, but in histories and encyclopaedias.
_

3y day and night I read, and duties required by parents
were grudged if they seplirateci. me from study.. Even my

by this passion, fOr I broke from home control at sixteen,
preferring the poorest life amongst books to all ordinary
courses of industry. • It was but a proper sequel to such
a beginning, that I should have scarcely reached man-
hood, when I had become an author."

To THE WORKING CLASSES.—Towns are always more
unhealthy than the country. In the country parts of
England and Wales one person out of every 55 people dies
every year ; and, in the towns, taken one with another,
one person dies out of every 38 people every year. If you
compare these numbers together, you will see the truth of
what we have said. All towns are not equally unhealthy.

One out of every 37 people dies every year in London ;
but in Liverpool one person out of every 28 people dies
every year. London is not a very healthy town, but if
Liverpool were as healthy as London, there would be 1800
vn

there would be 3600 lives saved

'ery year

very burying of these poor people costs £lB,OOO a year to
their relatives, besides all the trouble and sorrow and loss

caused by their aeatns. It is no wonaer toot mere are so
many burial clubs in Liverpool to help the poor to bear
the expense. There is also a great deal of sickness more
than there ought to be. It is not so bad for the working
men who live a good deal in the open air, but their wives
and children, who live at home, suffer prodigiously. It
has been calculated that there are no fewer than 100,000
cases of illness every year in Liverpool more than there
ought to be. You will now be able to nnderstand why
there are so many benefit societies and sick clubs ; and you
know best how much of your earnings goes to pay the ex-
penses of illness, and the doctor's bill. Some of you are
not even able to pay that. You are obliged to go to the
dispensaries, for there are above 50,000 sick relieved by
them every year. Do you know that work-people die at
a much earlier age in Liverpool than they do elsewhere ?
One-half of all the children born in Liverpool die before
they reach eight years of age ; but in London, which is a
healthier town, one-half the children born live to be 40
years old. Every young person who lives to be 20 years
of age, has the chance of dying twelve-and-a-half years
before his time, on account of the bad state of this town.
Now, nearly all these calamities fall on you, the work-
ing classes. People that live in the better parts of the
town are far more healthy and longer lived than you are.
In proportion to the population, nearly twice as many
people die every year in Vauxhall Ward, as die in Rodney-
street'and Abercromby Wards ; and in Vauxhall Ward,
people, taking young and old together, have the chance of
living eight years less than they have in Rodney-street
and Abercromby Wards. Of course all this sickness and
death costs a great deal of money.—Addreu of the
Liverpool Health Association.
FATIGUES AND FORTUNE OF BALLET 'PERFORMERS.

—Few of the amateurs, who, armed with double-barrelled
telescopes, contemplate from box or stall the agile bounds

any conception of the amount of labour and torture gone
through, before even an approach to perfection in the
Terpsichorean art is accomplished. Alberic Second, the
very witty author of a very amusing book (albeit in
thorough French taste) " Les Petits Mysteres de l'Opera,"
to whose pages Mr. Hervey confesses himself largely in-
debted, gives many curious details on this subject. An
immense amount of courage, patience, resignation, and
toil, is necessary, to become even a middling dancer.
The poor children—for dancing, above all things, must be
learnt young—commence with the stocks, heel to heel
and knees outwards. Half an hour of this, and another

species of martyrdom begins. One foot is placed upon a
bar which is grasped by the contrary hand. This is
called se casser, to break one's self. After this agreeable
process come the thousand and one steps, essential to aff

;ays an imaginary a

ranseusf

from whom M. Second professes to receive his informa-
tion, " are the agreeable elements of the art of dancing.
and do not suppose that these rude fatigues are of short
duration. They are perpetual, and on that condition
only does a dancer retain her activity and suppleness. A
week's idlciuss must be atoned for by two months' double
labour. The opera-dancer realises the fable of Sisyphus
and his rock. She resembles the horse, who pays with
his repose, his flesh and his liberty, the rapid victories of

I have seen Mademoiselle Taglioni,
after receiving a two hours' lesson from her father, fall
helpless upon the floor, and allow herself to be undressed,
spunged, and again attired, without the least conscious-

the race-course

• C., • CD.
ness a what passed. The agility and wonderful bounds
with which she, that evening, delighted the public, were
purchased at this price." Besides these terrible fatigues;
dancers often run serious personal risks. So, at least,
says the author of the " Petits Mysteries" who, as a
journalist and frequenter of the coulisses, is excellent au-
thority. He cannot resist a joke, but it is easy to sift the
facts from their admixture of burlesque exaggerations.

customs herself to real peril, as a sc
comes habituated to murder and pillage. She suspend
herself from wires, sits upon pasteboard clouds, disap-

dier in war

pears through trap doors, comes in by the chimney and
goes out by the window. In the first act of the Peri
there is so dangerous a leap, that I consider Carlotta
Grisi risks her life every time she takes it. Let M.
Petipa be once awkward, or even absent, and Carlotta will
break her head upon the boards. I know an Englishman
who attends every performance of this ballet. He is per-
suaded that it will be fatal to Carlotta, and would not for
the world miss the catastrophe. It is the same man who,
for three years, followed Carter and Van Amburgh,
always hoping that a day would come when the animals
would sup with their masters, and upon their masters."—
Blackwood.

nit new cover my white satin snoes, wmcn nut got
Ireadfully soiled with the mud in going to and from the
carriage on our wedding day. And besides, I had to clean
my white kid gloves, and to let them hang up all night so

before the morning. It was long past midnight before I
had finished the better part of what I wanted to do ; and
as I could hear Mary (who had been waiting up to clean
the room overnight so that she might have nothing to do
in the morning to prevent her being ready dressed long
before the visitors came) knocking the things about below
in a dreadful ill-humour at being kept up so late ; and as
it wasn't worth while having a fresh candle put up just to
do the few little odd jobs that remained, I rang the bell
for Mary ; and lighting mamma's darling little pet of a
camphine lamp, (drat the thing ! I wish it had never come
into the house,) went up stairs, taking my things with me.
When I got to my room, I hung my beautiful bridal robes

on the b-ack of a chair, and put-oui Edward's nice clean
white trousers ready for him in the morning. I could
scarcely keep my eyes open while Mary was undoing me,
and was so glad to get into bed, that I quite forgot, be-
fore doing so, to turn down the camphine law. But
just as I was dozing off, I remembered it, and tad Wry,
who was hanging up my things, to be sure and turn it
down before she left the room.; instead of which, the
minx, (who I'm sure was half fuddled at the time,) went
and turned the thing the wrong way, like a stupid; so

a state of bl

the world like the funnel of a steam-boat, and sendinf
out soot enough to have smothered a whole regiment

As I had got all the next day upon my mind, luckily I
awoke as soon as it was light in the morning ; and when I
turned round and saw my dear Edward's face an inch
thick of black, I really thought at first that I was in bed
with a filthy negro, So I gave him a good shaking, and
woke him directly ; and no sooner had he-rubbed his eyes

open and looked at me, than the brute burst out laughing,
and declared that I looked just like a chimney sweep. I
lm and jumped out of the bed just like light-
be allowed so

gave a s

an expression—

the beautiful clean dimity curtains, that had not been up
a week—find the white counterpane—and the toilet covers
and the window blinds—and the towels—and my face—
and my night-cap—looking just as if they had been all
washed in Indian ink ; and, what nearly drove me right
out of my senses—my beautiful white satin bridal robes
were actually the same as if some evil-minded person had
been dragging them just for the pleasure of the thing-7
up and down the chimney, and positively would have in-
duced one, at first sight, to believe that a body had been
led to the altar in bombazeen. I declare the beastly sooty
stuff was everywhere,—there was a shovelful, at least, in
my white satin shoes—and my white gloves were like black
kid both inside and out—and it-had even got right up my

_
—and I do verily believe that a quantity had gone
down my throat, for I generally sleep with my mouth
open. But what annoyed me so that I could hardly bear
myself, was that Edward kept chuckling at all my distress,
(just like a man—for of course he knew he wouldn't have
the cleaning of it.) But when I showed him the grubby
state that his ducks were in, I was glad to see how angry
it made him. And then of course it was all his mother-
in-law's fault bringing him her bothering twopenny-half-
penny lamps ; and I really thought I should have bee'

that the

next time he caught my dear, respected =mina in his
house, he'd pack her off with a flea in her ear ! And a
pretty situation I was in, to be sure. I daren't for the
life of me open my mouth, for fear that the hussy should
leave me at a moment's notice, at such a time when,- bad
as she was, it was impossible to do without her ; and there
were my bridal robes spoilt before my very eyes, and I
didn't know how on earth I was ever to receive my friends,
as I really hadn't a single thing to put on.—From " The
Greatest Plague in _We."