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7 daun.—Female Dress.—Bus
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WILLIS’S LKtTERS VllO.tt LOINDOX.
NUMB HR ONE.
What the writer ha* seen of this world fer twenty-fit
days.—The pasaeuge
ence between the Ami
officers.—The workix
ties.—Writing against
My Dear Morris—All I have seen of Eng
land fer the last twelve days, lias been the four
walls of a bed-roomi and, as all I saw of the
world fur the twelve days previous was the in
terior of a packet’s state-room, I may fairly
claim, like the razor-grinder, to have “ no sto
ry to tell-” Ton shall have, however, what
cobwebs I picked from the corners.
If the * Briltnnia’ had burnt on the passage,
and a phoenix had arisen from its ashes, the
phoenix would have been a well compounded
cosmopolite, for—did you ever see such vari
ety of nation in oue ship’s company, as this ?
POETRY.
From the United States Gazette-
HUES OK THE DEATH OF MARSHAL NEY.
«Itloirs and mingles in the air.
With that of lost Labedoveiie—
With iliac of him whose honored grave
Contain* ‘The Bravestof tiie Brave.'"—Byron.
Not only on the listed held,
Where war's dread trump is heard on l.igh,
Awl man rejoice their lives to yield,
It it the patriot's lot to die!
Bo* oft.o’ercnme by mighty wrong.
The rictim of th' oppressor’s bate,
Selected fi»m the noble throng,
He meets his sad but glorious fate.
Yet not in vain his blood is abed;
fls :h stern revenge the more endears
The memory of the faithful deed,
And hatl.es il in a nation's fears.
What though no monumental stone*
Records ihe Hero • cherished name !
'Twill lire when tyrant's nre unknown.
Emblazoned on the scroll of fame.
And if perchance, if after time
Man vindicates the rights of man,
ftanelting him to deeds sublime,
That ilame becomes a talisman.
And who that treads with fettered feet
The land such chieliain could not save.
But frets his heart indignant heat
For him, '■ Tee 11 rarest of the Brave."
E'en strangers, as they linger there.
Turn from even festive scene away.
To drop the tribute ofa tear
Upon thy grave, heroic Net I
The hoary sire, who would not know t
The story of thy tragic doom.
Has found at length, from all his woe.
Relief within the silent tomb.
And few of all tbe famous band,
Tim gathered at thy LEADER'S call,
The desolating power withstand
Of ilim whose sceptre governs all.
But while high worth the Brave endears,
Or pity prompt* the generous sigh,
Tltno hast, above thy great compeers,
A memory thit will never die! S. L.
Philadelphia, June, 1840.
•Ttiefrsveof this renowned warrior, who perished hy a
Ldieisl murder, to coufirm the reign of the twice rejected
|!<i:trai. i a said, to die disgrace of humanity, to be t.ill tin-
puked by any memorial:
"Yet for this want more noted, as of vorc
TheEttiar's pageant shorn of Brutus's bust
Did bin of Rome's best son remind her more."
‘Th* fstbrr of Marshal Ney died a lew years tintee. at a
I’*!* idvsneed age, without any poa live knowWge ot the
Isntkefhi. son, to whom he was tenderly attached. He
|o» tie members of his household mourning, knew that
I' -r terrible ereni had befallen him whom lie loved, but
Ibthare inquiry into wh.t he could not endure to hear.
THE HAPPIEST TIME.
B* X. A. BROWNE.
Wheaare we happiest T When the light of mo rn,
Wtkaa the young roses from their crimson rest;
Wksn rheerlal sounds upon the fiv ili winds borne,
'Till nun resumes his work with blither zest ;
While the bright waters leap from rock to glen.
Are we happiest then ?
Alu. those roses ! they will fade away,
And thunder tempests will deform the sky ;
Aid lammerheats l id the spring buds decay.
And the clear sparkling fountain may be dry,
A«i nothing beautiful may adorn the scene.
To tell what il hath been !
*r* we happiest t In the crowded ball,
, " hen fortune smiles, and (latter ei s bend the knee ?
Haw soon, how very soon such pleasures poll I
. Hsl must falsehood's rainbow-colouring flee !
Its poison flow’rets leave the sting of care!
Wc arc not happy there.
Arc we hippiest when the evening hearth
hnrtlea with its crown of living (lowers :
hen poeth round the laugh of artless mirth,
-And whan Affection from her bright urn slioweis
tier richest balm on the dilatingheart T
Bliss ! is it there thou art ?
Qk.no ! not there. Tt would be happiness
Almost like heaven's it might always be.
lsosehrows without one shading of distress,
Aad wanting nothing but eternity ;
»«they are things r.r e , r tli, and pass away—
They must—they mu.t decay!
irosi I'oiccs must grow tremulous with yenrs ;
...oie smiling brows must wear a tinge of gloom ;
»wie sparkling eyes be quenched in Utter tears,
,*A'd. at last, close darkly in the tomb :
* ksppiness depends on them a'one.
How quickly is it gone !
"Tea ate we happiest then 1 O, when resigned
To whatsoe'er our cup of life mny brim ;
we can know ourselves but weak and blind
Creatures of earth ; and trust alone n Him
''kogitetli, in hi* mercy, j^y or pain ;
On ! w** are happiest then.
LOVE’S LIKE A PLOWEII.
?*'Wi like a flower that blossoms in May,
A-v*** for an hour, then withers away;
.PjUlow that hovers around her repose,
**oud o'er the sunbeam—a thorn to the rose.
*Tis pleasing.
Though teasing,
Appeasing
® . . Then freezing,
r ?‘**ing alike to the grave and the gay;
'Tis trying,
’Mid sighing.
And crying,
i s Then dying.
Jlike a blossom that withers awav.
From England, JG From Mexico,
Scotland, 6 West Indies,
Ireland, 3 East Indies,
Wales. I British Guiana,
Canada, S Guatimala,
United States, 3? Denmark,
France, 4 Poland,
Spain, 1 Germany,
Of the Germans, 2 were from Hamburgh, 1
from Radon, l from Lit hoc, 2 from Bremen, ami
1 from fleinault. Mr. Robert Owen was one
of ihe Scotchmen, and he was the only one on
board, l fuhey, for whom fame had made any
•treat omlay of trumpeting. Six clergymen
(!!) served as our protection ngainst the icebergs
I doubt whether the Atlantic bad, ever before,
such n brottdwtikc of divinity drawn across it
Probably, the true faith was in some one of
their keepings!
I wish to ask a personal favor of all the
friends of the Minor who are in the offices of
American Custom Houses, viz. : that they
would retaliate upon Englishmen in tho most
vexatious manner possible, tbe sill}’ and useless
imp"diuients thrown in rite way of passengers
landing at Liverpool. We dropped anchor
with a Custom House steamer alongside, and
our baggage lay on deck two hours, (time
enough to be examined 'twice over) before it
was 5 ransl'erred to the government vessel. We
•ntd our baggage were then taken ashore, and
1 mded at a Custom House. But not to be ex
amined there ! O.t, no ! It must be put into
carts, and carried a mile and a half to another
Custom House, and there it tvould be deliver
ed lo us, if we were there to see it examined !
We landed at ten o’clock in the morning, and
with my utmost exertions, I did not get my
baggage tid three. The cost lo me, of pnr'er-
nae, fees, etc., was three dollars and a half, be
sides the theft of two or three small articlos be-
longmg to my child. I was too ill to laugh,
and I therefore passed the matter over to resent
ments. I trust my particular share will be re
membered in the coming wars of Oregon.
During t*>e fmr or live hours that I was
playing ibe hanger-on to n vulgar and saucy
custom house officer at Liverpool, one or two
contrasts crept in at my dull eyes—contrasts
between what I bad left, and what was before
me. The most striking was tier utter want of
hope in the countenances of the working class
es—the look of dogged submission and animal
endurance of their condition of life. They
act hke horses and cows. A showy equipage
goes by, and they have not the curiosity to
look up. Their gait is that of tired donkeys,
saving as much trouble at leg lifting as possible.
Their mouths and eyes are wholly sensual. Ex
pressing no capability of a want above food.
Their dn ss is without a thought of mure than
warmth a"d covered with dirt. Tln ir voices
are a half-note ahove a grunt. Indeed, com
paring their condition with the horse, I would
prefer being an English liorseto being an Eng
lish working-man. And you —ill easily see the
very strong contrast there is, between this pic-
ture, and tnal of the ambitious and lively work
ing men of our country.
Another contrast strikes, probably, nil
Americans on first landing—that of female
dress. The entire absence ofthcornamental—
of any thing indeed, except decent covering—
in all classes below the wealthy, is particular
ly English and particularly un-American. I
do not believe you would find ten female ser
vants in New York without (pardon my nam
ing it) a ‘'bustle.” Yet I saw as many as two
hundred women in the streets of Liverpool, and
not one with a bustle ! I saw some ladies get
out of carriages who wore them, so that it is
not because it is not the fashion, but simply
because the pride (of those whose backs form
but one line) does not outweigh the price of the
bran. They wore thick shoes, such as scarce
ly a man would wear with ils, no gloves of
course, and their whole appearance was that of
females in whose minds never entered the
thought of ornament on week days. This tri
fling exponent of the condition of women in
England, has a largo field of speculation
within and around it, and the result of philo
sophizing on it would bo vastly in favor of our
side of the water.
As this letter is written on my first day of
sitting up, and directly against the doctor’s or
ders, you will give my invalid brain the credit
of coming cheerfully into harness.
Y our’s fuithlully N. P. Willis.
lovely rural beauty of England, the first impres
sion which lasts one, like an encbmtel memo
ry through life. Notwithstanding tbe great
speed.<he cars ran so evenly on their adrmra-
ble rails, that there was no jar to prevent
one’s sleeping or being comfortable, and I
awoke from a very pleasant dream to find my
self in London.
As I was dressing to dine out on the follow
ing day, I stopped tying my cravat to send for
a physician, and here, if you please, we will
make a jump over twelve days, and come to a
blight morning when I was let out for a walk
in. Regent-street.
It is extraordinary how little the English
change ! Regent-street, after four or five years,
is exuctly what Regent-strest, was. The men
have tbe same tight cravats, coats too small,
overbrushed whiskers, and look of being ex
pressively wvshed. The carriages and horses
are exactly the same. The cheap shops have
the same placard of “ selling off” in their
broad windows. The blind beggars tell the
same story, and are led by the same dogs ; but
what is stranger than all this sameness, is that
the ladies look the same ! Tbe fashions have
perhaps changed—in ihe milliters’simps ! But
the Englishing that is done to French bonnets
after they are bought, or the English way in
which they are worn, overpowers the norelty,
and gives tbe fair occupants of the splendid car
riages of London the very same look they had
ten years ago.
Still, they are some slight differences obser
vable in the street, and among others, I ob
serve that the economical private carriage call
ed a ‘'Brougham,” is very common. These
are low cabs, holding two or four persons, with
a driver, and perhaps a footman in livery on
the outside seat, and one horse seems to do the
work as well as two. This fashion would ho
well, introduced into New York—that is to say,
if cur city is ever lo be well enough paved to
make a drive anything but a dire necessi y.—
The paving of Lottdbn is really most admira
ble. Vast city as it is, the streets are as smooth
as a floor all over it, and to ride is indeed a
Iuxuiy. The break neck, bat jamming
and dislocating jolts of Broadway must seem
to English judgement an inexcusable stain on
our public spint. And, appropos of paving—
the wooden pavement stems to be entirely out
of favor. Regent-street is laid in wooden blocks,
and in wet weather (and it rains hero some
part of every day,) it is so slippery that an
omnibus which has been s'opprd in going up
ihe street is with difficulty started again. The
horses almost always come to their knees,
though the ascent is very slight, and the foils ot
cart and carriage-horses are occurring contin
ually. Nothing seems to “do’’1ike the McAd-
tim pavement, and wherever you find it in
London, you find it in as perfect order as the
floor ot a bowling-alley. I see that all heavy
vehicles (by the way) are compelled to have
very broad wheels, and they rather improve
the road than spoil it. A law to the same
eflect should be passed in New York, if it ever
has a pavement worlh preserving.
Observing Lady BlessingtonV flmUWa
equipage standing at the door of tbe Cosmora-
ma, I went in and saw her Ladyship for a mo
ment. She said she was suffering from recent
illness, hut I thought her looking f tr better than
when I was last in England. Her two beau
tiful nieces were with her, and Lord
Let me make a whole letter about the evening
of which I thus “did” jhe Doctor.
I do not often pulp very hard at tbe price
of a till"" I want, but jhe charge of eight dol
lars (a guinea and a half) for n seat to see one
opera—in the habit as 1 am editorially of pav
ing nntliing for the samp commodity—certain-
ly mad* me say “eliem 1” The seat 1 gu| for
this little price wits in rite middle of the first
bench behind (he orchestra, in the pit—that is
to say one of- tbe “stalls” or elbow-seats into
which the first four or five benches of the pit
are divided. “The pit” so called, which is
separated by a bur from these privileged seats,
is so uncomfortable find crowded, that, in my
weak condition, I could not venture it, especi
ally with iho risk of standing all the evening.
oned her charm. The bill I .held in my hand
declared t^at with five nights ot this engage
ment she was to t ike final leave ol the slave
—and I was sorry she bad waited till the world
thought it was time! Queen Y'ictoriu leti tbe
opera before the curtain drew up for Iter to ap-
f,eur ’ •
And now having made rather a long letter,
I’ll go out for mv siioit walk. Adieu for to
day.
Your’s fititfifully, N. P: Willis.
Country Newspateks.—Le! no firmer and
no other man—(says the Family Visitor,) re-
inquish the newspaper published in his own
neighborhood, for the sake of taking some oth
er larger cheaper, or more popular paper, pub*
So, away went iho price of— many a good j fished abroad. The new-puper published in
thing you can lit nk of ! If 5 had been charg
ed for the moisture of the English climate be
cause my hair curls tighter here than in Amer
ica, I should not have lelt more like scratching
my head after the payment.
No one is admitted to the London opera ex
cept in fuil drcs3, but I took my cloak on mv
arm, fearful of the draught of cold air that
comes over the warm pit when tho curtain k is
lifted. The door-keeper stopped me. ‘*You
cannot wear your cloak in, sir !” said lie.—
“But I am a sick man, and require it.” “A-
gainst the rule, sir 1” “It is very hard that one
who has a stall to himself and no one to incom-
mude, should not be allowed to keep himself
from taking cold V’ “Can’t be done, sir !*’—
So saying he took off my cloak; apd charged
me a shilling for taking care of it! Some nice
things about England !
I found myself seated between a !udy in full
dress and a very fine, aristocratic looking old
man, whose seat was el. gnntly cushioned, and
who evidently hud it by the season. He turn
ed out be a useful neighbor, for overhearing me
asking a questim) of the musician before me
which showed that it was my first appearance
jt the opera, lie remarked to me that I was
apparently a stranger, and seemed to tnko
great pleasure in pointing out lo me the nota
bilities of ibe siage.attd audience. I am glad
to mention it as an exception to the usual Eng
lish reserve.
The opera was the “Roberto D-;vereux” of
Donizetij, and Uwprima donna (who played
“Queen Euz ibeth”) was a novelty in London,
Madame Rossi Cacciu. It was her second ap
pearance. J\Iy first impression of Iter was ve
ry unfavorable. Site came forward in a solo
in which she drew her voice so sharply fine
that it pricked the ear uncomfortably and, in
the red hair and other unbecomingables of
Queen Elizabeth, her looks, (which are half
the music,) were also against her. As the plot
deepened, however, she showed a passionate
ness of acting, which helped both voice and
beauty, and 1 began to discover that she had a
mouth like a crack in a rose leaf, big eyes full
of daiktiess, and a voice lliut was mellow
when she forgot the audience. She was im
mensely applauded ; but I assure you I thought
her very inferior to Pico, buth as an actress and
Ok j, .
ll %| ,e s . tike a bark that is borne on the eea,
Jut] ‘"at' the tempest and strives to be tree;
IfvitrluVth® hark that is tossM up and down,
‘ d 'pun the sand, leaves the lover 10 droni
'Tis pleasing.
Though teasing.
Appeasing,
,T hen fizzing.
J ‘like to the lair and the bravo,
Tis iryiag.
Mid sighiug,
■And crying,
• Then •tying.
•■*n a hark tt,at is tossed on the wave.
NUMBED TWO.
Departure from Liverpool—Prire of the trains—Effects of
travelling upwards of forty mites an hour—rural beamy
of England—Arrival in London—Regent-street—Men—
Women—Carriages— Shops—Beggars—Sameness—
Fashions—"Brougham”—Cabs—The pavement of the
streets—Difference between London mid New York in
this particular—Wooden pavements in wet weather—
Omnibusses—Lady Blessington’s equippace—The chief
of the Parisian Police—Hia personnl appearance and cu
rious career—An American Belle—Her ndmirera—Drol,
leriet—The most celebrated notability of the season-
ttc.etc.
London, July, 1.
My DEAr. Morris—Having some dtriny tn
giving my lutle Imogen her fi-st English din-
i ncr, we suved our passage by half a minute,
and were off from Liverpool at 4 precisely.—
Tito distance to London is, I believe, 220
miles, and we did it in five hours—an accel
eration of speed which is lately it.troiluced tip-
on English railway*. There are slower trains
on the same route, and the price, by these,
is less. There are also three or fo"r different
kinds of cars to each train and at different pri
ces. I clmnced to light upon the first class,
and paid 5t£ for two places—my nurse and
child counting as one. I understand, since,
that many gentlemen and ladies of the most
respectable rank take the second class cars—
(as few Americans would, 1 am sorry to say,
though there would be two degrees still below
them.)
The travelling at forty odd miles the hour
gives one’s eyes hardly time to know a tree
from a cow, but here and there I got a distant
view in crossing q vallev, and recognize tho
and the celebrated Vidocq (for this was what
they had come to sec.) was showing them the
disguises he hud worn in his wonderful detec
tion of criminals, the weapons be had taken
from them, and the curiosities ot his career—
himself the greatest. I looked at the prince of
Policemen with no little interest of course, after
reading his singular memoirs. He is a flit man,
very like the outline of Louis Pliillippc’s figure,
and his head, enormously developed in the per
ceptive organs, goes up so small to the top, us
to resemble tin pear with which the King of
the French is commonly curicatured. Vidocq**
bow to me when 1 came in was the model of
elegant and respectful suavity, but I could not
repress a feeling of repugnance to him, never
theless.
I made a couple of calls before I went home.
The chief topic of conversation at both houses
was the charms and eccentricities of an Ame
rican belle who has lately married into a noble
family. Site seems to have enchanted the ex-
clusivenes by treating them with the most tin-
deferential freedom. A few evenings, ago
she chanced to be surrounded bv a half dozen
high bred admirers, and conversation goingrath-
cr heavily, she proposed a cock-fight. Divid
ing the party in two sides, she tied the legs of
the young men together, and set them to a
game of fisticuffs—ending in a very fair repre
sentation of an action between beligerent roos
ters ! One of her expressions was narrated
with great glee. She chanced to huvu occasion
to sneeze when sitting at dinner between two
venerable noblemen. “La!” she exclaimed,
“I hope I didn’t splash either of you !” I have
mentioned only the drolleries of what I heard.
Several instances of her readiness a#d wit
were given, and as those who mentioned them
were oftke classshe is shining in, their admiring
tone gave a fair reflection of how she is look
ed upon—as the most celebrated belle and no
tability of high life for the present season.
Yours faithfully, N. P. Willis.
NUMBER THREE.
Ta-liont in the Sjlpbidn.—Price of an opera ticket.—Nice
things about Enclnnd.—A useful neighbor.—An excep
tion to a general rule.— Donizetti's .opera of Roberto
Devereux—First impressions of ltossi Caccin.—Mori-
ani.—The Q.ueen at the opera.—Prince Albert.—King
ot Belgium.— Ladies of tiie Bedchamber.—Maids of
Honor.—The Royal atmosphere.—The Vennese dancers.
—The Queen's admiration of the little magicians.—
What it coats beauty to slay in the world.—What I misl
ed in Taglioni-—tier last" appearance upon the stage.
&c., Ac.
London, Juiy 3.
My Dear Morris : I was taking my slow
paced walk yesterday afternoon, on the sunny
side of RcgL'iit street, thinking of little except
the sort) iron-wires not yet physicked out of my
brain, when, in a shop-window I chanced lo
sny a placard of the opera. In largo letters I
read “•Tagi.ioni in the Sylfhide !” 'If you
remember my description, in “Pencillings by
the way,” of the very first performance of this
ballet, ('which I had the good fortune to witness
ten ortwelve years ago on my first arrival in
Paris,) and my enthusiastic description of Tag
lioni, you will easily fancy how my blood was
stirred with the chance of re-seeing ihe en
chanting picture—the same ballet with the
same matchless woman as the enchantress. It
was five o’clock, P. M.—within an hour of my
prescribed bed-time—and the opera commen
ces at eight and lasts till twelve—but / went.
a singer.
iioni.m, me laments tenor, lias the person
of a ship’s boatswain and a voice as exquisite
ly sc ft as an Eoliun harp, and (with one’s eyes
shut) be is a singer who gives one delicious en
joyment—but 1 will not bother you with more
about the opera.
As the curtnin fell after the first act the men
in the stalls all rose to straighten themselves
and take a stare over the bouse; and for the
first time it occurred to nte to enquire if the
Queen Was present. “You are looking straight
at her Majesty,” said my neighbor; “site
is taking to one of the ladies of her bedcham
ber, and Prince Albert is in the back of the
box, talking lo tbe King of Belgium.” Tho
box I was looking into was directly at the end
of the stage lights, and of course very near
me. I had seen the Queen con.e in without
recognizing her though 1 Intd studied her face
at Court when I was presented to William IV.
some years ago, and of course see portraits of
her every day. Stic looked fur younger and
prettier than any picture 1 know of her, and
her manner to her Maids of Honor, and their
evident ease, made it look precisely like a most
agreeable party. There was no mark to dis
tinguish the box site occupied, and the fact is
that I bad insensibly looked more at the Queen
than at any body else, thinking Iter a remark
able pretty girl and feeling more curiosity to
know who she was than who were in the other
boxes ! I trust the Royal atmosphere forgave
my profane admiration !
At the close of the second act, the Vennese
Dancers tripped upon the stage. These, as
you know, are twenty or thirty children, appa
rently from five years o'd to ten, who diess
and dance like full grown dancing-girls, and
produce astonishing effects by their well-drilled
combinations. They ore curiosities, if it wore
only for the robust developemcnt of their little
bodies. Seen through a magnifying glass,
their short petticoats, etc., would hardly look
decent i but as children the plumptitudes
which they expose by every movement are
humorously beautiful. They must have been
drilled with wonderful patience to make such
sudden and exact transitions. At one instant
they pile Up into a bower—the next they are
revolving in a many spoked wlael—the next
they are braiding themselves in a complete
waltz. They seem to swallow each other and
rc appear, multiply and diminish, swim and
flv, with a onc-m ndedness, a grace, and case of
countenance and motion that is wholly incom
prehensible. And withal, their little faces nre
as round and rosy as Cupid s in a picture, and
they look so happy that it is contagious. I
quite made my well bred neighbors stare with
my un-Lmidon-y laughter. Perhaps 1 should
have been excused, however, if they had looked
nt tho Queen, for Her Majesty quite leaned
out of her box, kept time with tho music with
her head and bouque', and watched the little
magicians with a continued smile throughout.
The curtnin drew up at lust, for the “Syl-
phide,” and Tag'ioni glided to the chair of her
sleeping lover. I looked at her lady-like face
with the same feeling of admiration for its mod
est unconsciousness as before, but- 1 —alas ’ for
what it c°sts beauty to stay in this wicked
world ! ^ would not record, if I were writing
for a paper that would ever reach her eye, how
much I missed from her shoulders, how much
front herlimhs, how much—but I will not dwell
upon her losses. She was herself in all her
swift motions—in all her more powe ful efforts.
It was in the slow poisings, in the pirouettes,
in those parts of the dance which require more
than mere graceful baunds over the stage, that
site showed where the lessened muscle had less-
otie's own County is always, tis a general rule,
more valuable than any other—if it be for noth
ing but the advertisements ; uyo, the somewhat
abused and much neglected advertisements,
are a thermometer of the business of a place,
and often the key which opens the door to ex- j
cellaut bargains. It is of no little consequence 1
for the farmer to know what is going on in his 1
market-town—the competition in selling goods i
and the competition in buying produce—the j
changes in business operations—the settlement j
of estates—the sale of farms, stock, See. See.-— |
We venture to say, there is no man who may j
not every year much more than save the price !
of subscription to his neighboring newspaper, |
from its advertising columns alone; and on lies j
ground exhort all to patronise their own news
papers. This should be done al.-o for weigh
tier reasons, one of which we will name; the
mammoth weekly stteeLs of the citi -s being fur
nished at a price with which no country printer
can compete, (for one reason, because made up
generally from the matter once used and paid
for in the daily paper-',) are encroaching large
ly upun the country newspapers, thus discoura
ging improvement and enterprise, and gradual
ly bringing the whole country under the influ
ence, and in some sense the control of the
leading cliquts in the cities Thus a tone is
given io the morals, llie politics, and the hab
its of the country—and we hesitate not to say,
that the preppntlerence of this influence is bad.
Tue- people of the country get full enough of
this influence through their own papers; und
if they would not see the complete supremacy
of the cities over the moral and political desti
ny of the country, let them support the country
newspapers. Take the city papers if you can
afford it, and a3 many of them as you please:
but first see to it that you have your own home
paper as a regular visitor to your fireside.—
Support them first and liberally, und they will
hardly fail to support your interest.
[Barnstable Patriot.
THE END OF FOUR GREAT MURDERERS..
Happening to cast mv eyes upon a prints I
page of miniature portraits, I perceived that
tue four personages who occupied therour most
conspicuous places, were Alexander, Hanni
bal, Catsar, and Bonaparte. I had seen
the same unnumbered limes before, but never
did the same sedations arise in my bosom, as
my mild glanced over their several histories.
Alexander, after having climbed the dizzy
heights of liis ambition, and with his temples
bound with chaplets dipped in the blood of
countless millions, looked down upon a con-
qut-red w'rld, and wept that there was not an-
otner world tor him to conquer, set a city on
li re, and died in a scene of debauch.
Hannibal, after having to the astonishment
and consternation of Rome, passed the Alps,
and having put to flight the Armies of the mis
tress of the world, and stripped “three bushels”
of golden rings from the fingers of her si uigh-
tered knights, and made her very foundations
quake, fled from his country, being hated by
those who once exultingly united ms name to
that of their God, and called him Hanni Baal,
and died at last by poison administered with
liis own hands, unUnieuted und unwept, in a
foreign land.
Ccesar, after having conquered eight hun
dred cities, anti dyed Ins garments in the blood
of one million of hi.s toes, after having pursued
to death the only rival be hud on earth, was
miserably assassinated by those he considered
his nearest friends, and in that very place, the
attainment of which had been bis greatest am
bition.
Bonaparte, whose mandates kings and
popes obeyed, after having filled the earth
with tiie terror of his name—after having del
uged Europe with tears and blond, and clothed
the world in sackcloth, clothed his days in ion«-
ly banishment, almost literally exiled from tho
world, yet where he could sometimes see hi*
country’s banner waving o’er the deep, but
which did not or could not bring him aid.
Titus these four men, who from the peculiar
situation of their portraits, seemed to stand the
representatives of all those whom the world
calls great—these four, who, each in turn, made
tho earth tremble to its very centre, by t eir
simple tread, severally died—one by intoxica
tion, or, as some suppose, by poison mingled i;i
his wine—one a suicide—one murdered by his
friends—and one in a lonely exile 1" “How
are the mighty fallen !”
CONSISTENCY.
We are great admirers of consistency in pub
lic men. The unity of a life begun, continued,
and ended in ihe resolute assertion of a great
and true principle, is a noble morul spectacle.
We like to know where to find a man, and
what to expect of him. We love to feel assur
ed that wliat he means he will say, and what
he says be will do, that his principles of action
are stable and rooted in his convictions, and
that liis pasi gives a reliable pledge of liis fu
ture. But this lias nothing to do with the per
tinacious dulness that never changes an opinion.
If frequent and sudden changes of opinion are
a presumptive Indication of intellectual infirmi
ty, an obstinate resistance to the adoption of
new opinions, as new facts came to light, is
downright stupidity ; and the attempt to hide
or gloss over one’s mental changes is a despi
cable moral paltroony. We know not a mean
er cewurdice than that which makes a man
ashamed of seeming wiser at fifty than he was
at forty. The true consistency fur A statesman
sthe consistency, not of this year’s words, with
Inst year’s words, but of this year’s acts with
litis year’s convictions. In fact, an honest man
need never trouble himself about consistency
at all. Plis honesty will insure Iris consis
tency, so far as consistency is a fit virtue for
fallible beings. Let any man keep a clear,
open mind, and habits of frank speech—-seek
ing the truth, and speaking the truth, from day
to day, and from year to year—and though lie
live to the age of Methuselah, without once
tliinking about his consistency, his life wilt look
consistent enough at last.—London League.
The way to be happy.—Happiness is al
ways to be found if we only condescend to
p ck it up seed by seed. As none of its ingre
dients should he thought too minute to be gath
ered and added to niicstore, so none should be
deemed too insignificant for distribution to oth
ers. Occasions for conferring great benefits do
not often occur, and when they do it may not
be in our power to bestow them ; but the little
services and gratifications which every current
day places within the reach of the humblest
member of society will constitute, if vve oil
throw our share in the common stock, no in
considerable aggregate of human enjoy meals
and mutual good will.
WOMAN.
A writer in Blackwood’s Magazine writes
in the following strain:
Great, indeed, is the task assigned to wo
men; who can elevate its dignity? Not to
make laws, not to lend armies, not to govern
empires; but to form those by whom laws are
made, armies led and empires governed ; to
guard against the slightest taint of bod'ly infir
mity the frail and yet spotless Creature whose
moral, no less than physical being must he de
rived from her; to inspire those principles, to
inculcate those doctrir.es—to animate those sen
timents which generations \et unborn and na
tions yet uncivilized si a 1 leant to bless; to
soften fitmncas into mercy and c.t is’cn hon
or into refinement; to exalt generosity into
virtue; by a soothing care to allay the an
guish of the body nml the far worse anguish
of the mind; by lief tenderness to duarm
passion; by lwr purity to triumph over sense;
to cheer the scholar sink'ttg under his toil; to
console the statesman for the ingratitude of a
mistaken people; to be tho compensation for
the hopes that are blighted, for friends
that are perfidious, for happiness that passed
away. Such is I er vocation—the couch of
the tortured sufferer—the prison of the de
serted friend—the cross of the rijecied savior
—these are theatres on which her grea’est tri
umphs have been achieved. Such is her des
tiny—to visit the forsaken, to attend to the
neglected, when monarchy abandon, when coun
sellors betray, when justice pi'Vsccutes, when
brethren and discip.’es flee, to remain unshaken
and unchanged ; and to exhibit i:i thi' lower
wcrIJ a typo of that love, pu.'e> constant ai d
inefftble, which in another world we are taught
to believe the test of virtue.
Silence is one great art ol conversation.-—
He is not a fool who knows whan to hold his
tongue; and a person may gam sens", elo
quence and wit, who merely says nothing to
lessen tho opinion which othe rs have ot these
qualities io themselves. Hazlitt.
A Greek maid, bo’/ig asked what fortune she
should bring her husband, answered, “ I will
bring him what is mo'e valuable than any trea
sure—a heart unspotted and virtue without a
stain, which is all that descended t,o me from
my parents.” t!o\y beautifully expre«3(:y.
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to wor
ship it at the expense ot truths ah t a
that goes on in conlinuiiy ; and all customs are
not alike beneficial to us. When the king of •
Poland had received Livonia-from the Czar
Joint Brazilowitz, lie wished to abolish the cus
tom of whipping ihe peasants ! -r their faults;
but they, insensible of the favor, threw them
selves at his feet, and begged that he would a!-,
ter nothing in their ancient customs.
LAY OF THE LEVELLER.
BT BARKY CORNWALL.
•‘The king he reigns on a throne of gold
Fenced round by his right divine ;
The baron he sits in his castle old,
Drinking nis ripe ted wine :
But below, below, in his ragged coat,
The beggar he tuneLh a hungry no:e
And the spinner is bound to his weary thread*
And the debtor lies down with an aching head.
So the world goes,
So tiie stream flows ;
Yet there's a fellow, who nobody knows.
Who maketh all free,
By land and sea,
Who inaketh the rich like the poor to flee*
The lady lies down hi her warm white lawn.
And dreams cf her pz inted pride ;
The milk maid pings io the wiid-eyed dawn
Sad songs on the cold hill's side ;
And the bishop smiles, as on high he sits,
On the scholar who writes and stares by fit5,
And the girl who her nightly needle plies.
Looks out for the source of life and dies.
So the woild goes,
So the stream flows ;
Yet there's a fellow whom nobody knows,
Who maketli ail free,
By land and sea,
And force th the rich and the poor to flee.
SLAVERY 1N T NEW JERSEY.
The Supreme Court of New Jersey have
in the case of the slave William, given a unan-*
imous decision, with the exception of Ihe Chief
Justice, in favor of sustaining the law of slave
ry as it existed prior to the adoption of the new
Constitution. Judge Nevios gave u written
opinion to the eflect as follows :
1st. Tnat the relation of master and slave
existed by Jttw at the adoption of the Constitu
tion in IS44.
2d. That that Constitution has not destroyed
that relation or abolished slavery,
3.1. That the coloured man, William, should
be remanded to the custody of the defendant.
Tne opinion of the Judge went to show that
from the earl'est times the institution of slave
ry was recognised in New Jersey. As early
us 179S, tho Legislature declared by statute,
that every negro then a slave should remain a
slave, till regularly manumitted according to
the terms prescribed oy law, and this court has
frem lime to time protected the claim of tbe
master to the slave.
In 1S20 tho Legislature adopted a plan for
the gradual abolition of slavery, in.'which the
relation of master end slave was again recog
nised, and under v 1.1 It slavery hag nearly dis
appeared, the number being reduced, according
to the late census, to 674, who have, according
to the net, u legal claim on their masters for
meintninance in case of inability to support
themselves, unless tho law is rendered nuguto.
ry by the new Constitution.
Likeness of Gen. Jackson.—Mr. Sully, the
well known and justly distinguished artist of
Philadelphia, has just finished a truly admira
ble full length and life-size portrait of Gen.
Jackson. It is from cu original by Mr. S. and
tbe dress is tbe U. S uniform, ovgr which is
thrown in easy and graceful style, a milit«y
cloak. The effort is of the highest order of art,
and may well be regarded as one of Solly’s hast.
The likeness, the coloring, the general effect,
t:fe all adima.hje;^Y; ^
