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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11569 ***
+
+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 19. No. 547.]    SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1832    [PRICE 2d.
+
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+
+
+
+WILTON CASTLE.
+
+
+[Illustration: Wilton Castle.]
+
+Here is one of the ivy-mantled relics that lend even a charm to romantic
+nature on the banks of the Wye. Its shattered tower and crumbling wall,
+combine with her wild luxuriance, to form a scene of great picturesque
+beauty, though, as Gilpin observes, "the scene wants accompaniments to
+give it grandeur."
+
+These ruins stand opposite to Ross, on the western bank of the Wye. The
+Castle was for several centuries the baronial residence of the Greys of
+the south, who derived from it their first title, and who became owners
+in the time of Edward the First. It may therefore be presumed to have
+been one of the strongholds, in the great struggles for feudal
+superiority with Wales, which were commenced by Edward, whose "active
+and splendid reign may be considered as an attempt to subject the whole
+island of Great Britain to his sway."[1] Or, in earlier times, being
+situated on the ancient barrier between England and Wales, it may have
+been a station of some importance, from its contiguity to Hereford,
+which city was destroyed by the Welsh, but rebuilt and fortified by
+Harold, who also strengthened the castle. The whole district is of
+antiquarian interest, since, at the period of the Roman invasion,
+Herefordshire was inhabited by the Silures, who also occupied the
+adjacent counties of Radnor, Monmouth, and Glamorgan, together with that
+part of Gloucestershire which lies westward of the Severn. The Silures,
+in conjunction with the Ordovices, or inhabitants of North Wales,
+retarded, for a considerable period, the progress of the Roman victors,
+whose grand object seems to have been the conquest of these nations, who
+had chosen the gallant Caractacus as their chieftain, and resolutely
+exhausted every effort in defence of the independence of their country.
+
+    [1] Mackintosh's Hist. England, vol. i, p. 247.
+
+The present demolished state of the Castle is referred to the Royalist
+Governors of Hereford, by whose orders it was burnt to the bare walls
+during the reign of Charles I. in the absence of its then possessor, Sir
+J. Brydges.
+
+The scenery of the WYE, at this point is thus described by tourists:
+"From Hereford to Ross, its features occasionally assume greater
+boldness; though more frequently their aspect is placid; but at the
+latter town wholly emerging from its state of repose," it resumes the
+brightness and rapidity of its primitive character, as it forms the
+admired curve which the churchyard of Ross commands. The celebrated
+spire of Ross church, peeping over a noble row of elms, here fronts the
+ruined Castle of Wilton, beneath the arches of whose bridge, the Wye
+flows through a charming succession of meadows, encircling at last the
+lofty and well-wooded hill, crowned with the majestic fragments of
+Gooderich Castle, and opposed by the waving eminences of the forest of
+Dean. The mighty pile, or peninsula, of Symonds' Rock succeeds, round
+which the river flows in a circuit of seven miles, though the opposite
+points of the isthmus are only one mile asunder. Shortly afterwards, the
+Wye quits the county, and enters Monmouthshire at the New Wear.
+
+The Rev. Mr. Gilpin, in his charming little volume on Picturesque
+Beauty,[2] has a few appropriate observations: after passing Wilton--
+
+    [2] Observations on the River Wye, &c. By William Gilpin,
+    M.A.--Fifth Edition.
+
+"We met with nothing for some time during our voyage but grand, woody
+banks, one rising behind another; appearing and vanishing by turns, as
+we doubled the several capes. But though no particular objects
+characterized these different scenes, yet they afforded great variety of
+pleasing views, both as we wound round the several promontories, which
+discovered new beauties as each scene opened, and when we kept the same
+scene a longer time in view, stretching along some lengthened reach,
+where the river is formed into an irregular vista by hills shooting out
+beyond each other and going off in perspective."
+
+We ought not to forget to mention Ross, and its association with one of
+the noblest works of GOD--honest John Kyrle, celebrated as the Man of
+Ross. Pope, during his visits at Holm-Lacey, in the vicinity, obtained
+sufficient knowledge of his beneficence, to render due homage to his
+worth in one of the brightest pages of the records of human character.
+
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+
+
+"MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS"--EGGS.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+In a paper on the _Superstitions of the Sea_, a few years ago,[3] I
+slightly alluded to the nautical belief that the appearance of the
+Stormy Petrel, and other marine birds at sea, was often considered to be
+the forerunner of peril and disaster; and as your excellent
+correspondent, _M.L.B._, in a recent number, expresses a wish to know
+the origin of the _soubriquet_ of _Mother Carey's Chickens_, which the
+former birds have obtained, I now give it with all the brevity which is
+consistent with so important a narration. It appears that a certain
+outward-bound Indiaman, called the _Tiger_, (but in what year I am
+unable to state,) had encountered one continued series of storms, during
+her whole passage; till on nearing the Cape of Good Hope, she was almost
+reduced to a wreck. Here, however, the winds and waves seemed bent on
+her destruction; in the midst of the storm, flocks of strange looking
+birds were seen hovering and wheeling in the air around the devoted
+ship, and one of the passengers, a woman called "Mother Carey," was
+observed by the glare of the lightning to laugh and smile when she
+looked at these foul-weather visitants; on which she was not only set
+down as a witch, but it was also thought that they were her familiars,
+whom she had invoked from the _Red Sea_; and "all hands" were seriously
+considering on the propriety of getting rid of the old beldam, (as is
+usual in such cases,) by setting her afloat, when she saved them the
+trouble, and at that moment jumped overboard, surrounded by flames; on
+which the birds vanished, the storm cleared away, and the tempest-tossed
+_Tiger_ went peacefully on her course! Ever since the occurrence of this
+"astounding yarn," the birds have been called "Mother Carey's Chickens,"
+and are considered by our sailors to be the most unlucky of all the
+feathered visitants at sea.
+
+    [3] See Mirror, No. 205, vol. xi.
+
+To turn by a not unnatural transition from _birds_ to _eggs_, permit me
+to inform your Scottish correspondent, _S.S._ (see No. 536,) where he
+asserts that the plan of rubbing eggs with grease in order to preserve
+them, "is not so much as known in our own boasted land of stale eggs and
+bundlewood;" that the said _discovery_ has long been known and practised
+in many parts of old England; and that the repeated experience of
+several friends warrants me in giving a decided negative to his
+assertion that eggs so prepared "_will keep any length of time perfectly
+fresh_." If kept for a considerable period, though they do not become
+absolutely bad, yet they turn _very stale_. I happen to know something
+of Scotland, and was never before aware that the raw clime of our
+northern neighbours was so celebrated for its poultry. _M.L.B._ is
+certainly misinformed in speaking of the trade in _Scotch_ eggs to
+_America_. The importation of eggs from the continent into England is
+very extensive: the duty in 1827 amounted at the rate of 10_d_. per 120,
+to 23,062_l_. 19_s_. 1_d_.; since which period there has, we believe,
+been an increase. The importation of eggs from Ireland is also very
+large. If _S.S._ resides in London, he may have occasion to sneer at
+"our boasted land of stale eggs;" but he should rather sneer at the
+preserved French eggs, with which the London dealers are principally
+supplied.
+
+VYVYAN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CURFEW BELL.
+
+(To the Editor.)
+
+
+In addition to the remarks made by _Reginald_, in No. 543, and by
+_M.D._, and _G.C._, in No. 545 of _The Mirror_, let me add that the
+Curfew is rung every night at eight, in my native town, (Winchester,)
+and the bell, a large one, weighing 12 cwt., is appropriated for the
+purpose, (not belonging to a church) but affixed in the tower of the
+Guildhall, and used only for this occasion, or on an alarm of fire.
+
+In that city the Curfew was first established under the command of the
+Conqueror, and the practice has continued to the present day. I have
+been assured by many old residents, that it formerly was the custom to
+ring the bell every morning at four o'clock, but the practice being
+found annoying to persons living near, the Corporation ordered it to be
+discontinued.
+
+To such of your readers who, like myself, are fond of a solitary ramble
+along the sea shore by moonlight, I would say, go to Southampton or the
+Isle of Wight; take an evening walk from Itchen through the fields to
+Netley, thence to the Abbey and Fort ruins, under woods that for a
+considerable distance skirt the coast; or on the opposite side, through
+the Forest of Oaks, from Eling to Dibden, and onwards over the meadows
+to Hythe: there they may, in either, find ample food for reflection,
+connected with the Curfew Bell.
+
+Seated on a fragment of the towers of Netley Abbey, whose pinnacles were
+so often hailed by seamen as well known landmarks, but whose Curfew has
+for centuries been quiet, the spectator may see before him the crumbling
+remains of a fort, erected hundreds of years ago. On the left is an
+expanse of water as far as the eye can reach, and in his front the
+celebrated New Forest,--
+
+  Majestic woods of ever vigorous green,
+  Stage above stage, high waving o'er the bills;
+  Or to the far horizon wide diffus'd,
+  A boundless deep immensity of shade--
+
+the scene of William's tyranny and atrocity, the spot where his children
+met their untimely end, and where may be seen the _tumuli_ erected over
+the remains of the Britons who fell in defence of their country.
+
+In the deep recesses of a wood in the south-east prospect, the eye may
+faintly distinguish the mouldering remains of the Abbey of Beaulieu,
+famed in days of yore for its Sanctuary, the name of which is now only
+recorded in history. Even the site of the tower is unknown, whose Curfew
+has long ceased to warn the seamen, or draw the deep curse from the
+forester.
+
+There they may
+
+  "On a plat of rising ground,
+  Hear the far off Curfew sound,
+  Over the wide watered shore,
+  Swinging slow with sullen roar."
+
+The Curfew is rung at Southampton, Downton, Ringwood, and many other
+towns in the west, every night at eight.
+
+P.Q.
+
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+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SPANISH SCENERY.
+
+
+The following is from the delightful pencil of Washington Irving: it
+will be seen to bear all the polish of his best style:--
+
+"Many are apt to picture Spain to their imaginations as a soft southern
+region, decked out with all the luxuriant charms of voluptuous Italy. On
+the contrary, though there are exceptions in some of the maritime
+provinces, yet, for the greater part, it is a stern, melancholy country,
+with rugged mountains, and long sweeping plains, destitute of trees, and
+indescribably silent and lonesome, partaking of the savage and solitary
+character of Africa. What adds to this silence and loneliness, is the
+absence of singing-birds, a natural consequence of the want of groves
+and hedges. The vulture and the eagle are seen wheeling about the
+mountain-cliffs, and soaring over the plains, and groups of shy bustards
+stalk about the heaths; but the myriads of smaller birds, which animate
+the whole face of other countries are met with in but few provinces in
+Spain, and in those chiefly among the orchards and gardens which
+surround the habitations of man.
+
+"In the interior provinces the traveller occasionally traverses great
+tracts cultivated with grain as far as the eye can reach, waving at
+times with verdure, at other times naked and sunburnt, but he looks
+round in vain for the hand that has tilled the soil. At length, he
+perceives some village on a steep hill, or rugged crag, with mouldering
+battlements and ruined watch tower; a stronghold, in old times, against
+civil war, or Moorish inroad; for the custom among the peasantry of
+congregating together for mutual protection, is still kept up in most
+parts of Spain, in consequence of the maraudings of roving freebooters.
+
+"But though a great part of Spain is deficient in the garniture of
+groves and forests, and the softer charms of ornamental cultivation, yet
+its scenery has something of a high and lofty character to compensate
+the want. It partakes something of the attributes of its people; and I
+think that I better understand the proud, hardy, frugal, and abstemious
+Spaniard, his manly defiance of hardships, and contempt of effeminate
+indulgences, since I have seen the country he inhabits.
+
+"There is something, too, in the sternly simple features of the Spanish
+landscape, that impresses on the soul a feeling of sublimity. The
+immense plains of the Castiles and of La Mancha, extending as far as the
+eye can reach, derive an interest from their very nakedness and
+immensity, and have something of the solemn grandeur of the ocean. In
+ranging over these boundless wastes, the eye catches sight here and
+there of a straggling herd of cattle attended by a lonely herdsman,
+motionless as a statue, with his long, slender pike tapering up like a
+lance into the air; or, beholds a long train of mules slowly moving
+along the waste like a train of camels in the desert; or, a single
+herdsman, armed with blunderbuss and stiletto, and prowling over the
+plain. Thus the country, the habits, the very looks of the people, have
+something of the Arabian character. The general insecurity of the
+country is evinced in the universal use of weapons. The herdsman in the
+field, the shepherd in the plain, has his musket and his knife. The
+wealthy villager rarely ventures to the market-town without his trabuco,
+and, perhaps, a servant on foot with a blunderbuss on his shoulder; and
+the most petty journey is undertaken with the preparation of a warlike
+enterprise.
+
+"The dangers of the road produce also a mode of travelling, resembling,
+on a diminutive scale, the caravans of the east. The arrieros, or
+carriers, congregate in convoys, and set off in large and well-armed
+trains on appointed days; while additional travellers swell their
+number, and contribute to their strength. In this primitive way is the
+commerce of the country carried on. The muleteer is the general medium
+of traffic, and the legitimate traverser of the land, crossing the
+peninsula from the Pyrenees and the Asturias to the Alpuxarras, the
+Serrania de Ronda, and even to the gates of Gibraltar. He lives frugally
+and hardily: his alforjas of coarse cloth hold his scanty stock of
+provisions; a leathern bottle, hanging at his saddle-bow, contains wine
+or water, for a supply across barren mountains and thirsty plains. A
+mule-cloth spread upon the ground, is his bed at night, and his
+pack-saddle is his pillow. His low, but clean-limbed and sinewy form
+betokens strength; his complexion is dark and sunburnt; his eye
+resolute, but quiet in its expression, except when kindled by sudden
+emotion; his demeanour is frank, manly, and courteous, and he never
+passes you without a grave salutation: 'Dios guarde à usted!' 'Va usted
+con Dios, Caballero!' 'God guard you! God be with you, Cavalier!'
+
+"As these men have often their whole fortune at stake upon the burthen
+of their mule, they have their weapons at hand, slung to their saddles,
+and ready to be snatched out for desperate defence. But their united
+numbers render them secure against petty bands of marauders, and the
+solitary bandolero, armed to the teeth, and mounted on his Andalusian
+steed, hovers about them, like a pirate about a merchant convoy, without
+daring to make an assault.
+
+"The Spanish muleteer has an inexhaustible stock of songs and ballads,
+with which to beguile his incessant wayfaring. The airs are rude and
+simple, consisting of but few inflexions. These he chants forth with a
+loud voice, and long, drawling cadence, seated sideways on his mule, who
+seems to listen with infinite gravity, and to keep time, with his paces,
+to the tune. The couplets thus chanted, are often old traditional
+romances about the Moors, or some legend of a saint, or some love-ditty;
+or what is still more frequent, some ballad about a bold contrabandista,
+or hardy bandolero, for the smuggler and the robber are poetical heroes
+among the common people of Spain. Often the song of the muleteer is
+composed at the instant, and relates to some local scenes or some
+incident of the journey. This talent of singing and improvising is
+frequent in Spain, and is said to have been inherited from the Moors.
+There is something wildly pleasing in listening to these ditties among
+the rude and lonely scenes that they illustrate; accompanied, as they
+are, by the occasional jingle of the mule-bell.
+
+"It has a most picturesque effect also to meet a train of muleteers in
+some mountain-pass. First you hear the bells of the leading mules,
+breaking with their simple melody the stillness of the airy height; or,
+perhaps, the voice of the muleteer admonishing some tardy or wandering
+animal, or chanting, at the full stretch of his lungs, some traditionary
+ballad. At length you see the mules slowly winding along the cragged
+defile, sometimes descending precipitous cliffs, so as to present
+themselves in full relief against the sky, sometimes toiling up the deep
+arid chasms below you. As they approach, you descry their gay
+decorations of worsted tufts, tassels, and saddle-cloths, while, as they
+pass by, the ever-ready trabuco slung behind the packs and saddles,
+gives a hint of the insecurity of the road.
+
+"The ancient kingdom of Granada, into which we are about to penetrate,
+is one of the most mountainous regions of Spain. Vast sierras, or chains
+of mountains, destitute of shrub or tree, and mottled with variegated
+marbles and granites, elevate their sun-burnt summits against a
+deep-blue sky; yet in their rugged bosoms lie engulfed the most verdant
+and fertile valley, where the desert and the garden strain for mastery,
+and the very rock is, as it were, compelled to yield the fig, the
+orange, and the citron, and to blossom with the myrtle and the rose.
+
+"In the wild passes of these mountains the sight of walled towns and
+villages, built like eagles' nests among the cliffs, and surrounded by
+Moorish battlements, or of ruined watch-towers perched on lofty peaks,
+carries the mind back to the chivalric days of Christian and Moslem
+warfare, and to the romantic struggle for the conquest of Granada. In
+traversing these lofty sierras the traveller is often obliged to alight
+and lead his horse up and down the steep and jagged ascents and
+descents, resembling the broken steps of a staircase. Sometimes the road
+winds along dizzy precipices, without parapet to guard him from the
+gulfs below, and then will plunge down steep, and dark, and dangerous
+declivities. Sometimes it straggles through rugged barrancos, or
+ravines, worn by winter torrents, the obscure path of the
+contrabandista; while, ever and anon, the ominous cross, the monument of
+robbery and murder, erected on a mound of stones at some lonely part of
+the road, admonishes the traveller that he is among the haunts of
+banditti, perhaps at that very moment under the eye of some lurking
+bandolero. Sometimes, in winding through the narrow valleys, he is
+startled by a hoarse bellowing, and beholds above him on some green fold
+of the mountain side a herd of fierce Andalusian bulls, destined for the
+combat of the arena. There is something awful in the contemplation of
+these terrific animals, clothed with tremendous strength, and ranging
+their native pastures in untamed wildness, strangers almost to the face
+of man: they know no one but the solitary herdsman who attends upon
+them, and even he at times dares not venture to approach them. The low
+bellowing of these bulls, and their menacing aspect as they look down
+from their rocky height, give additional wildness to the savage scenery
+around."
+
+(From _The Alhambra_, or _New Sketch Book_, to which we propose to
+return in a _Supplement_ in a fortnight.)
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+ANECDOTE GALLERY.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE UNLUCKY PRESENT: A TALE.
+
+
+A Lanarkshire minister (who died within the present century) was one of
+those unhappy persons, who, to use the words of a well known Scottish
+adage, "can never see green cheese but their een reels." He was
+_extremely covetous_ and that not only of nice articles of food, but of
+many other things which do not generally excite the cupidity of the
+human heart. The following story is in corroboration of this
+assertion:--Being on a visit one day at the house of one of his
+parishioners, a poor lonely widow, living in a moorland part of the
+parish, he became fascinated by the charms of a little cast-iron pot,
+which happened at the time to be lying on the hearth, full of potatoes
+for the poor woman's dinner, and that of her children. He had never in
+his life seen such a nice little pot--it was a perfect conceit of a
+thing--it was a gem--no pot on earth could match it in symmetry--it was
+an object altogether perfectly lovely. "Dear sake! minister," said the
+widow, quite overpowered by the reverend man's commendations of her pot;
+"if ye like the pot sae weel as a' that, I beg ye'll let me send it to
+the manse. It's a kind o' orra (_superfluous_) pot wi' us; for we've a
+bigger ane, that we use for ordinar, and that's mair convenient every
+way for us. Sae ye'll just tak a present o't. I'll send it ower the morn
+wi' Jamie, when he gangs to the schule." "Oh!" said the minister, "I can
+by no means permit you to be at so much trouble. Since you are so good
+as to give me the pot, I'll just carry it home with me in my hand. I'm
+so much taken with it, indeed, that I would really prefer carrying it
+myself." After much altercation between the minister and the widow, on
+this delicate point of politeness, it was agreed that he should carry
+home the pot himself.
+
+Off then he trudged, bearing this curious little culinary article,
+alternately in his hand and under his arm, as seemed most convenient to
+him. Unfortunately the day was warm, the way long, and the minister fat;
+so that he became heartily tired of his burden before he got half-way
+home. Under these distressing circumstances, it struck him, that, if,
+instead of carrying the pot awkwardly at one side of his person, he were
+to carry it on his head, the burden would be greatly lightened; the
+principles of natural philosophy, which he had learned at college,
+informing him, that when a load presses directly and immediately upon
+any object, it is far less onerous than when it hangs at the remote end
+of a lever. Accordingly, doffing his hat, which he resolved to carry
+home in his band, and having applied his handkerchief to his brow, he
+clapped the pot, in inverted fashion, upon his head, where, as the
+reader may suppose, it figured much like Mambrino's helmet upon the
+crazed capital of Don Quixote, only a great deal more magnificent in
+shape and dimensions. There was, at first, much relief and much comfort
+in this new mode of carrying the pot; but mark the result. The
+unfortunate minister having taken a by-path, to escape observation,
+found himself, when still a good way from home, under the necessity of
+leaping over a ditch, which intercepted him, in passing from one field
+to another. He jumped; but surely no jump was ever taken so completely
+_in_, or, at least _into_, the dark as this. The concussion given to his
+person in descending caused the helmet to become a hood; the pot slipped
+down over his face, and resting with the rim upon his neck, stuck fast
+there; enclosing his whole head as completely as ever that of a new born
+child was enclosed by the filmy bag, with which nature, as an indication
+of future good fortune, sometimes invests the noddles of her favourite
+offspring. What was worst of all, the nose, which had permitted the pot
+to slip down over it, withstood every desperate attempt, on the part of
+its proprietor, to make it slip back again; the contracted part, or
+neck, of the _patera_, being of such a peculiar formation as to cling
+fast to the base of the nose, although it had found no difficulty in
+gliding along its hypothenuse. Was ever minister in a worse plight? Was
+there ever _contretemps_ so unlucky? Did ever any man--did ever any
+minister, so effectually hoodwink himself, or so thoroughly shut his
+eyes, to the plain light of nature? What was to be done? The place was
+lonely; the way difficult and dangerous; human relief was remote, almost
+beyond reach. It was impossible even to cry for help; or, if a cry could
+be uttered, it might reach, in deafening reverberation, the ear of the
+utterer, but it would not travel twelve inches farther in any direction.
+To add to the distresses of the case, the unhappy sufferer soon found
+great difficulty in breathing. What with the heat occasioned by the
+beating of the sun on the metal, and what with the frequent return of
+the same heated air to his lungs, he was in the utmost danger of
+suffocation. Every thing considered, it seemed likely that, if he did
+not chance to be relieved by some accidental wayfarer, there would soon
+be _death in the pot_.
+
+The instinctive love of life, however, is omni-prevalent; and even very
+stupid people have been found, when put to the push by strong and
+imminent peril, to exhibit a degree of presence of mind, and exert a
+degree of energy, far above what might have been expected from them, or
+what they were ever known to exhibit, or exert, under ordinary
+circumstances. So it was with the pot-ensconced minister. Pressed by the
+urgency of his distresses, he fortunately recollected that there was a
+smith's shop at the distance of about a mile across the fields, where,
+if he could reach it before the period of suffocation, he might possibly
+find relief. Deprived of his eyesight, he acted only as a man of
+feeling, and went on as cautiously as he could, with his hat in his
+hand. Half crawling, half sliding, over ridge and furrow, ditch and
+hedge, somewhat like Satan floundering over chaos, the unhappy minister
+travelled with all possible speed, as nearly as he could guess, in the
+direction of the place of refuge. I leave it to the reader to conceive
+the surprise, the mirth, the infinite amusement of the smith, and all
+the hangers-on of the _smiddy_, when, at length, torn and worn, faint
+and exhausted, blind and breathless, the unfortunate man arrived at the
+place, and let them know (rather by signs than by words) the
+circumstances of his case. In the words of an old Scottish song,
+
+  "Out cam the gudeman, and high he shouted;
+  Out cam the gudewife, and low she louted;
+  And a' the town neighbours were gathered about it:
+        And there was he, I trow."
+
+The merriment of the company, however, soon gave way to considerations
+of humanity. Ludicrous as was the minister, with such an object where
+his head should have been, and with the feet of the pot pointing
+upwards, like the horns of the great Enemy, it was, nevertheless,
+necessary that he should be speedily restored to his ordinary condition,
+if it were for no other reason than that he might continue to live. He
+was accordingly, at his own request led into the smithy, multitudes
+flocking around to tender him their kindest offices, or to witness the
+process of release; and, having laid down his head upon the anvil, the
+smith lost no time in seizing and poising his goodly forehammer. "Will I
+come sair on, minister?" exclaimed the considerate man of iron, in at
+the brink of the pot. "As sair as ye like," was the minister's answer;
+"better a chap i' the chafts than die for want of breath." Thus
+permitted, the man let fall a blow, which fortunately broke the pot in
+pieces, without hurting the head which it enclosed, as the cook-maid
+breaks the shell of the lobster, without bruising the delicate food
+within. A few minutes of the clear air, and a glass from the gudewife's
+bottle, restored the unfortunate man of prayer; but, assuredly, the
+incident is one which will long live in the memory of the parishioners
+of C----.--_Chambers' Edinburgh Journal._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE NATURALIST.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LOUDON'S MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY.
+
+
+Sundry and manifold are our obligations to this delightful Journal. From
+the Number (26) for the present month we glean the following:
+
+_The Gurnard and Sprat._
+
+Mr. J. Couch, in an interesting paper on the fishes of Cornwall, has the
+following notes:
+
+"Ray observes that the word gurnard, which may be regarded as the
+English term, is derived _a grunnitu_, from grunting like a hog. In
+this, however, I venture to think this eminent naturalist mistaken.
+Pengurn is the ancient Cornu-British name for these fishes, and
+signifies hard head; and its English translation is now sometimes given
+to the grey gurnard. From the Cornish word _gurn_ (hard), I therefore
+derive the name, as descriptive of the head of these species. This is a
+common fish at all seasons; but in December and January it sometimes
+abounds to such a degree, that, as they are not much esteemed, I have
+known them sold at thirty for a penny. It keeps near the bottom
+commonly, at no great distance from land; but sometimes multitudes will
+mount together to the surface; and move along with the first dorsal fin
+above the water: they will even quit their native element, and spring to
+the distance of a yard; thus imitating the flying gurnard, though not to
+the same extent. In summer they are found basking in the sun, perhaps
+asleep, as they will at times display no signs of animation, until an
+attempt is made to seize them.
+
+"In reference to some observations by Mr. Yarrell, in the _Zoological
+Journal_, relative to the distinction between the sprat and the young of
+the pilchard and herring, I can state that Cornish fishermen term the
+young of both the latter fishes sprats; but, how far this should go in
+determining the judgment of a naturalist will appear, when I add that I
+have never seen above one specimen of the genuine sprat in Cornwall, and
+that was brought me by a fisherman, to be informed what fish it was. In
+taking fish out of his net by night, he felt it to be neither a pilchard
+nor a herring, and supposed it something rare."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+STRUCTURE OF BIRDS.
+
+
+Birds may be said to constitute an isolated class of beings. They are
+distinguished by certain characters from all other animals: their
+classification does not pass into any other, and cannot, therefore, be
+consistently introduced into the supposed chain or gradation of natural
+bodies.
+
+The skeleton or bony frame of birds is in general lighter than in
+quadrupeds. They have the largest bones of all animals, in proportion to
+their weight; and their bones are more hollow than those of animals that
+do not fly: air-vessels also enable them to blow out the hollow parts of
+their bodies, when they wish to make their descent slower, rise more
+swiftly, or float in the air. The spine is immovable, but the neck has a
+greater number of bones, (never less than nine, and varying from that to
+twenty-four,) and consequently of joints, and more varied motion, than
+in quadrupeds. The breast-bone is very large, with a prominent keel down
+the middle, and is formed for the attachment of very strong muscles: the
+bones of the wings are analagous to those of the fore-legs in
+quadrupeds, but the termination is in three joints or fingers only, of
+which the exterior is very short. This will be better understood by the
+annexed:
+
+[Illustration: Skeleton of a Turkey.]
+
+The muscles that move the wings downwards, in many instances, are a
+sixth part of the weight of the whole body; whereas those of a man are
+not in proportion one hundredth part so large. The centre of gravity of
+their bodies is always below the insertion of their wings to prevent
+them falling on their backs, but near that point on which the body is,
+during flight, as it were, suspended. The positions assumed by the head
+and feet are frequently calculated to accomplish these ends, and give to
+the wings every assistance in continuing the progressive motion. The
+tail also is of great use, in regulating the rise and fall of birds and
+even their lateral movements. What are commonly called the legs are
+analogous to the hind legs in quadrupeds, and they terminate, in
+general, in four toes, three of which are usually directed forwards, and
+one backwards; but in some birds there are only two toes, in others
+three.
+
+Birds exceed quadrupeds in the quantity of their respiration, for they
+have not only a double circulation, and an aerial respiration, but they
+respire also through other cavities beside the lungs, the air
+penetrating through the whole body, and bathing the branches of the
+aorta, or great artery of the body, as well as those of the pulmonary
+artery.
+
+Birds are usually classed according to the forms of their bills and
+feet, from those parts being connected with their mode of life, food,
+&c. and influencing their total habit very materially.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE RHINOCEROS BIRD.
+
+
+This curious bird is of the order _Picæ_, or Pies, and of the genus
+_Buceros_, consisting of birds of rather large size, and distinguished
+by the disproportionate forms of their beaks, which are often still
+further remarkable for some kind of large prominence on the upper
+mandible. The most conspicuous species is the _Buceros Rhinoceros_ of
+Linnæus, commonly called the Rhinoceros Bird.
+
+[Illustration: The Rhinoceros Bird.]
+
+Its general size is that of a Turkey, but with a much more slenderly
+proportioned body. Its colour is black, with the tail white, crossed by
+a black bar: the beak is of enormous size, of a lengthened, slightly
+curved, and pointed shape, and on the upper mandible, towards the base,
+is an extremely large process, equal in thickness to the bill itself,
+and turning upwards and backwards in the form of a thick, sharp-pointed
+horn, somewhat resembling the horn of the rhinoceros. The use of this
+strange proboscis is by some supposed to be that of enabling the bird
+more easily to tear out the entrails of its prey; but others affirm that
+it is not of a predaceous nature, feeding only on vegetable substances.
+This bird is principally found in the East Indian Islands. A remarkably
+fine specimen was preserved in the Leverian Museum.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SKETCH-BOOK.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+RECOLLECTIONS OF A WANDERER.
+
+_A scene on the coast of Cornwall._
+
+
+A short time before my departure from the hamlet of Landwithiel,[4] I
+was awoke early one morning by the roaring of the wind in the huge old
+chimney of my room--the whole tenement, indeed, occasionally shook as a
+violent gust swept down the valley, tossing the branches of the stout
+old tree before the door to and fro in a way that threatened at last to
+level them with the dust. The very briny scent of the atmosphere
+convinced me there was some sea running in the bay; and it was the more
+unexpected as we had had no tokens of a storm for several days previous.
+From the peninsular situation of this county, surrounded on almost every
+side with the restless ocean and exposed to the wide sweep of the
+Atlantic, it may be supposed that storms are of frequent occurrence. As
+on the present occasion, they often come with little or no warning; and
+the effects of a hurricane in the distant main, far outstripping the
+wind, sometimes rolls with tremendous fury towards our western shores,
+on which the sea is encroaching in every part.
+
+    [4] See "Recollections of a Wanderer," _Mirror_, Nos. 430-475.
+
+Landwithiel was a wild little place. It was essentially a "fishing
+village." The people ploughed the deep, not the land; and the constant
+exposure--blow high, blow low--on the restless sea, endued its
+inhabitants, and the Cornish fishermen generally, with a fearlessness of
+danger and boldness of character almost unequalled in these islands. The
+lives and pursuits of the two great classes in this county--the maritime
+and mining population--are widely opposite to each other. The one class
+pass their existence on the stormy waters of the deep, whilst the other
+labour far below the surface of the earth; each being continually
+exposed to numberless perils and dangers.
+
+When I descended below I found my host already astir; so after attending
+well to the inward man, I lost no time in starting towards the harbour.
+As I formerly described, this comes abruptly in sight round a sharp
+angle, at some elevation from the beach. On the upper part of the
+descent the road was flanked on each side with a row of cottages, the
+street being so steep that steps were formed in many parts to aid the
+progress of the passenger. This gave an air of singularity and wildness
+to the place, which was aided by the boldness of the surrounding
+scenery. The street bore all the marks of the occupation of the
+inhabitants--nets hanging to dry--strings of fish--an old oar--or a
+"fisher's wife" broiling fish for her husband's breakfast--met the eye
+on either side.
+
+On clearing the street, I observed a larger throng on the old pier than
+was wont to gather there on ordinary occasions. There was obviously some
+unusual subject of interest agitated amongst them; so I turned from my
+course and joined the group.
+
+A gale is an important event in a fishing town. Independent of the
+interest naturally felt for the various craft belonging to the place
+which may happen to be afloat, there may be wrecks or other marine
+casualties to excite the interest or cupidity of the observer.
+
+There was a tremendous tumbling sea rolling into the little bay, when I
+drew towards the pier. At the further end was a group of persons in
+earnest conversation, whom I distinguished as the knowing ones and
+long-heads of the place; while their younger companions were engaged in
+parties walking briskly to and fro on the pier. A tier of boats had been
+carefully drawn up high and dry beyond the wreck left by the last spring
+tide. Four or five, however, were afloat, and lurching heavily alongside
+the pier, whither the tide had not long reached; the wind rattling
+amongst the masts, shrouds, and half-bent sails of some craft which had
+just run in for shelter from the impending storm. My recent adventure
+had made me pretty well acquainted with most of the persons around: and
+I learned that a _ground swell_ had been observed along shore the
+preceding night. This phenomenon is generally occasioned by a storm in
+the Atlantic, with a westerly wind; and it affords to the old fishermen
+an almost certain indication of approaching foul weather.
+
+"A stiff bit of a gale, this same, Master Charles," said an old tar,
+giving an energetic jerk to his trousers, "Ay, ay, old boy," he replied,
+"this wind is not blowing for nothing, you may take my word for it; but
+if the Jane and the Susan hove in sight I'd not mind a bit for all that;
+we've not a stick afloat but her."
+
+"What! is Sam Clovelly[5] out this morning, Helston?" I anxiously
+inquired of the pilot, who was a manly, excellent sort of fellow. He had
+grown grey with service, and there was something in the steady eye and
+calm decision of his look that marked him out as no common character.
+
+    [5] See _Mirror_, No. 475. "Dawlish's Hole."
+
+"Yes, sir, we have no tidings of him yet, and the sky looking as black,
+yonder, as the face of a negro; but we'll hope that he's run out of
+harm's way before now."
+
+As the morning waxed apace, the interest in the fate of the Jane and
+Susan became more evident amongst the by-standers. Every stick that came
+in sight cut out conversation; but many an eye was cast anxiously to
+windward in vain for poor Sam Clovelly and his brother Arthur, who had
+been out since the preceding night. Presently the two little orphan
+sisters of the missing men came upon the pier, and Helstone, the pilot,
+and some of the others anxiously endeavoured to cheer and console them.
+
+"I'll be bound they've run for ---- port long ago, darlings, so don't
+cry now, Jane; the old craft's stood many a stronger breeze than this;
+now, wipe your eyes, there. Poor things," he said, turning to me, as the
+children went farther on the pier, "their two brothers are the only
+friends they have got in the world, and if they are gone who is to take
+care of them? Their father, old Sam Clovelly, was lost--I recollect the
+time well--somewhere off Milford; leaving his wife, with two stiff tidy
+bits of lads, and likely to increase the family; well, sir, she took to
+her bed, with the shock, and never rose from it more, after giving birth
+to these two little girls, leaving poor Sam and Arthur to struggle on
+like a cutter in a heavy sea. But God Almighty never deserts the
+innocent, sir--you've seen that, I dare say? Sam's been a steady lad,
+and has prospered, and he and Arthur have never forgotten their mother's
+dying words, and have been very kind to their sisters; but, come what
+will, the orphans shall never want a friend as long as Charley Helston
+has a home or a bit of bread to offer them."
+
+We now again reverted to the state of the day. As the gale swept on,
+numberless craft were running along the coast towards ---- port, for
+shelter. A crack Fowey-man now making a board till she "eat out" of the
+wind a North-countryman right ahead--now with her helm-a-lea, and now
+careering along with a heavy following sea on either quarter--kept our
+attention on the alert. Presently a steamer came in sight bearing up
+across the bay towards ---- Head. The white rush of steam from her
+safety-valves was well made out by the blackness of the windward
+horizon; and contrasted with the dense puffs of smoke from her funnel,
+which were instantly dispersed or carried in heavy patches to leeward.
+The glory of modern discoveries is unpopular with our coasting-seamen,
+and the mate of a coaster, who was watching her movements, observed that
+"we should not have a lad fit to hand a sail or man a yard soon with
+their cursed machinery."
+
+As she passed on her course "cleaving blast and breaker right ahead,"
+with her weather-wheel often spinning in the air, and as the sky
+darkened and the waves roared louder, I thought with deep interest on
+what might even now be the fate of those, without whose friendly aid I
+should have been lying on a rocky pillow and seaweed for my shroud, near
+Dawlish's Hole. The weather now became entitled to the formidable name
+of a storm, but some time had yet to elapse before darkness added its
+horrors to the scene of desolation.
+
+Heavy masses of breakers were continually striking the pier-head with
+fearful crashes; now bursting over, amid seas of spray, with resistless
+impetuosity, drenching every one under its lee; now recoiling for a
+brief moment, as if to gather strength, leaving a smooth, hollow waste
+of oily sea--like the treacherous pauses of human passion,--and then
+returning with wilder haste and tenfold added fury to the onset.
+
+The morning was waning away. I left the pier, and bent my course away
+from Landwithiel.
+
+The path I pursued led along the summit of the cliffs; oftentimes
+winding so close round the edge of a projecting acclivity, that it
+required a clear head and a steady foot, for one false step would have
+been instant destruction. The coast below me was justly entitled to take
+its place amongst the finest rock-scenery in the island; and exhibited
+in its grandest form, the peculiarly wild and picturesque nature of the
+coast of Cornwall. After working my way against a head-wind for three or
+four miles, I took shelter in Dawlish's Watch Tower, an old half-ruined
+building, which commanded an almost boundless look-out. Nearly right
+opposite to this station lay the Wolf-stone, an insular, and almost
+inaccessible rock, which rose in deep water about three-quarters of a
+mile from land. Whilst scanning with my glass the windward horizon, I
+accidentally rested on this islet, and I had not looked long before my
+gaze was rivetted to it. Two individuals I fancied were standing near a
+pole which was erected on the highest point. These lone and unusual
+tenants of the sea-birds' home were obviously, from their motions, much
+agitated. A heavy driving shower, for a few minutes, wrapped it in mist.
+When this cleared off, the black and dreary front of the Wolf-stone
+became dimly visible through the tumultuous assemblage of gigantic
+breakers, that were every instant grappling with the steep which defied
+them. Another minute's observation and I was running at my utmost speed
+back to Landwithiel. The captives could be no other than Sam and Arthur
+Clovelly.
+
+My arrival caused universal stir and interest in Landwithiel. The
+Dasher, the best sea-boat in the harbour was instantly manned, with
+directions to pull to Carn Cove, almost opposite the rock, whither the
+rest of the men rapidly proceeded along the heights. Helston and myself
+also went thither to consult in the first instance, as to the best plan
+for relief; for no boat could live, in such a day as this, within some
+distance of the rock.
+
+The anxious group gathered on the edge of the cliff; and while a white
+flag was running up a boat's mast which we had erected on the tower, we
+cheered loudly and repeatedly to assure the distant captives that aid
+was nigh.
+
+"It is Sam--God be praised," sang out Helston, who was steadily looking
+out through his glass--and every one crowded around. "And is Arthur
+there too, Charles?"--"Yes, I see.--Death! I thought that wave would
+sweep over all. Now they wave their neckcloths--they beckon us to use
+haste. High water is drawing fast on, and what man ever lived on the
+Wolfstone in a spring flood. They wave again; sing away there, my lads,
+cheerily!" and a tumultuous shout of human voices again mingled with the
+blast.
+
+Almost every eye was now cast out for the Dasher, and she was seen
+pulling with great difficulty--for a handkerchief of canvass would have
+been madness--towards the shelter of a projecting mass of rock, in Carne
+Cove, in the comparatively smooth water behind which, Helston and myself
+were enabled with some difficulty to get aboard. It was a moment of some
+excitement. Accustomed from childhood fearlessly to brave an element
+they might truly call their own, the gallant little crew steadily seated
+themselves, and taking off their hats manfully answered the encouraging
+cheers from aloft. The men now shipped their oars, and all having been
+made snug, I seated myself in the stern-sheets, near Helston, who had
+taken the helm. There was something fine in his weather-beaten
+countenance, and grey hair streaming in the breeze, as he steadily
+scanned the dark masses of the distant Wolf-stone--he was a true seaman.
+
+The Dasher was a boat that would live in almost any weather on this
+coast, head to wind; but when she was put about, there was no little
+danger of her being pooped in a heavy following sea. Ours was now the
+former case, and as the crew put her through the contending sea, which
+at every stroke hit our bows and soaked us with spray, I anxiously
+consulted with Helston on the best means of shipping the captives on
+making the Wolf-stone. Keeping his eye fixed on the rock, which was
+grimly visible on our larboard bow, he shook his head as the portentous
+darkness of the sky again claimed our attention. "If we had been delayed
+a quarter of an hour longer they would have been food for fishes;" I
+remarked, "but it will be close run; our men are doing all that strength
+and skill can do, but it avails little when opposed to such a power as
+this."
+
+"Never fear, sir, we shall do yet--you are not so cool as I--how should
+you? when I have braved the storms of nearly sixty winters:--but the
+Wolf-stone's a spot, I will frankly confess, with which I had rather
+make acquaintance with a clearer sky and a flowing sheet, than on such a
+night as this. Just give a look-out a-head, sir," he added, as we were
+mounting a heavy sea, "and tell me how things are aloft on the rock."
+
+However formidable this dreary steep might have appeared at a distance,
+now we were drawing near to it, the wildness and sublimity of the scene
+surpassed my calculations. The fugitives, who by their gestures were
+urging us onward, had been driven for shelter to a hollow on the leeward
+side of the rock, which indeed was almost the only spot that now
+afforded an asylum from danger. The waves as they came rolling onwards
+with aggravated force from the main, ever and anon burst against the
+isle with terrific violence, now breaking into gigantic masses, then
+driven in columns of sparkling spray to a vast height in the air, and
+now closing on every side around their victims. The isle, indeed,
+appeared to be menaced with total annihilation.
+
+As we could now distinguish both the brothers, we instinctively cheered
+them on drawing towards the landward side of the rock. They were
+compelled every minute to crouch and cling to the cliff under which they
+had taken shelter, as a huge wave burst below their feet, and struck
+them in its upward violence. The Wolf-stone could no longer raise its
+head in dominion over the main. The surf ran so high immediately around
+it, that to approach at all closely would only have ended in the
+destruction of every soul. We, therefore, hailed them as we stood under
+its lee, and found that in consequence of their having remained almost
+all night on this dreary spot, drenched with wet, and chilled with cold,
+any effort to swim through the surf would probably be fatal in their
+exhausted state. What then remained to be done? We had ropes on board
+which would be of infinite service, could we only devise means to convey
+them to the rock. At this juncture, the services of my old
+Newfoundlander, Retriever, came forcibly to my mind. The poor animal had
+refused to be separated from me when we embarked, and lay at my feet in
+the boat. On his exertions therefore depended the lives of our friends.
+He soon understood the task he was to perform, and in another second was
+dashing onwards through the waves. An affecting scene now took place
+between the brothers, as to who should first avail himself of the
+approaching aid. A gigantic rush of tide, which almost swept entirely
+over the rock, told them, however, that time was precious. But Sam was
+firm. The younger brother then plunged forward and was soon drawn safely
+on board. He informed us, as Retriever again swam away with the rope,
+that he feared his brother was much more exhausted than himself. With
+breathless interest, therefore, we watched Sam tie the rope round his
+body, and enter the water. The violence of the gale, at this instant,
+compelled us to stand further off the rock; indeed, within a few minutes
+we foresaw that its presence would only be indicated by a low black mass
+indistinctly seen, amidst the boiling and restless waves of the ocean;
+an appearance, I was told, which it only presents in the most violent
+storms. Poor Sam, now seen, now lost, amid the foaming ridges of the
+sea, came gradually along till within about forty paces from the boat,
+when it was evident his strength had failed him. An arm was shot into
+the air, then his head and shoulders rose rapidly, and there was a
+sudden blank in the waters. "Pull away, my lads, for your lives," we
+shouted, "or he is gone!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"It was a hard run thing, I reckon, sirs," said Mr. Habbakuk
+Sheepshanks, who was rather top-heavy that evening, to a numerous party
+who were assembled round his capacious hearth at the "Ship-aground,"
+"but all's well, they say, that ends well, so we'll even drink the
+health of the brothers in a glass of the free genuine Cognac." "What is
+that you say!" said the exciseman....
+
+VYVYAN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LONDON AND THE PROVINCES COMPARED.
+
+
+It is the nature of prosperous communities, and the fashion of modern
+times, to centralize too much their numbers and their powers. But the
+question of distribution and proportion is almost as important in
+politics as that of production itself. Money and manure are not the only
+things which are the better for being spread. London and the country
+would both be gainers by transplanting bodily, a hundred miles off, some
+dozens of its streets--inhabitants and all. There are whole counties
+which we should like to colonize with the surplus talent of the
+metropolis. That surplus talent comprises scores of men, waiting on
+Providence, feeding on foolish speculations, hanging on the skirts of
+some frivolous circle, doing nothing there, or worse than nothing,
+spoiling and wasting daily, who, planted out into a sphere of more
+favourable opportunities, are capable of being a blessing to a
+neighbourhood. However, it is not a case for violent measures. We do not
+propose that London should be compressed into _London proper_,--within
+the bills of mortality; or that its clubs should be called out on
+country service. Patriots, philosophers, and diners out, rusticating by
+royal proclamation, and under the _surveillance_ of the police, would
+not come with a temper very suitable to our purpose. An experiment of
+that sort was made under more likely circumstance, and failed;--as all
+experiments must, which seek to remove the symptoms, instead of trying
+to act upon the cause. It was in vain that James I. pulled down the new
+houses as fast as they were built; and that Charles I. ordered home the
+country gentlemen.
+
+Although there seems something artificial, and almost monstrous, in the
+actual size of London, the means which have led to this result are
+altogether natural. Indeed, whatever forcing has been at any time used,
+or prejudice fostered, has told the other way. Nothing has existed which
+can be called a court or courtiers for the last two hundred years; and a
+sort of feudal feeling still keeps our squires faithful to their halls.
+Two exceptions only can be set down to our institutions. The distinction
+of local courts obliges the English Bar to reside near Westminster; and
+the duration of a modern session substitutes a house for the family of a
+Member of Parliament, in the place of lodgings for himself. Under these
+circumstances, as "the wen" has not been produced, so is it not likely
+to be dispersed by any direct legislative application. To say the truth,
+the grievance, in our opinion, is not in the _absolute_, but in the
+_relative_ amount of the wealth, intelligence, and virtue, squeezed
+together on those marvellous square miles upon which the capital stands.
+We do not grudge it the pretty country which is hid under its basement
+stories, any more than the social activity and happiness which live
+along its crowded streets. We serve ejectments upon nobody. The only
+question is, whether some would not do well to move of themselves. Among
+the hopes and objects by whose influence 1,200,000 human beings are
+collected on the same spot, a certain proportion will be found, which
+have not been at all,--and more still, which have not been very
+judiciously or magnanimously, considered. There are many in the higher
+classes of its inhabitants especially, who, we suspect, on examining
+into their principles and habits, will have some difficulty in
+satisfying themselves that they have not chosen ill for their real
+happiness; and, for all real usefulness, a great deal worse. But the
+mistaken notion which most strips the country of its natural guardians,
+is the fallacy, on the part of young and sanguine dispositions, of
+believing that the motives and sphere of individual action rise in
+proportion to the apparent magnitude of the scene. These are the
+absentees most to be regretted. In the single line of professional
+practice, and in its most successful instances, that may be the case.
+But in taking ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, and in every other of
+the varied departments of social duty, the sphere of useful action,
+however nominally extended, will be found to be strictly and
+substantially reduced.
+
+There can be as little fear that London will ever want any of the
+elements of an enlightened and well-constituted community, as that it
+will not be large enough. It is very different with the provinces. The
+capital offers so many real, and still more, so many plausible
+attractions to all that is active and refined, as well as to all that is
+idle and selfish in human nature, that a long list of supernumaries and
+expectants is sure, in every case, always to be at hand. It is the
+lottery into which the credulous are eager to put in;--it is the theatre
+on whose stage ambition and vanity are impatient to appear;--it is the
+land of Cockayne, in whose crowded mazes the selfish escape from every
+duty, and reduce their intercourse with their fellow-creatures to the
+sympathies of visiting and of shopping. It is the seat also of liberal
+society, and independent existence, among the friends and occupations of
+one's choice. Lord Falkland, the love of his age, admitted, that
+quitting London was the only thing which he was not sufficiently master
+of himself ever to manage without a struggle. In this state of things,
+it is plain that nobody can be of such consequence there but that he is
+easily spared. The death of a town wit is handsomely celebrated, if it
+furnishes five minutes' conversation for the table where he dined the
+day before. He is replaced with the same regularity and indifference as
+fresh snuff is put into a snuff-box, or fresh flowers are set out upon
+the epergne. Nobody misses him. The machine goes on without perceiving
+that the blue-bottle or the gnat has fallen from its wheel.
+
+The vastness and multiplicity and complexity of the organization by
+which the movements of the capital proceed, as it were mechanically, do
+not act merely by diminishing the general importance of individuals to
+the system. Except in the case of very happy, and universal, and flowing
+natures, or under the influence of accidental counteractions, a personal
+risk, between extreme vagueness and extreme narrowness of character, is
+incurred by the individual himself. In respect of employment, the
+division of intellectual labour is so complete, that most persons in
+such a situation are tempted to do their own piece of work, and no
+more;--to rest satisfied with manufacturing the pin's head which happens
+to have fallen to their share. Does a London life tend to quicken the
+moral pulse and expand the heart? The forms of society are thrown into
+too large a scale, and its pace is too rapid, to afford an opportunity
+for the sort of intercourse by which alone a real acquaintance with,
+understanding of, and affection for, each other can be obtained. No
+means exist of getting there at any thing further than talents in men,
+and beauty or accomplishments in women.
+
+Qualities which can be exhibited as a show are discovered and
+appreciated accordingly. But wisdom and virtue, which are to the mind
+what breath is to the body, have no part assigned or assignable to them
+on such a stage. A man may pass a life in London without an occasion
+arising by which his neighbours can learn whether he is an honest fellow
+or a rogue. The consequence is, that a good deal of such a man's moral
+nature gets imperfectly developed, and dies away. The appropriate object
+is not brought sufficiently close and home to him to stimulate and call
+forth his latent powers. Charity is perhaps better off than most. By a
+satisfactory compromise, it falls into the hands of a mendicity society.
+But there are other virtues which do not admit of being compounded for,
+and their burden transferred to a committee, for two guineas a-year. In
+these cases the moral tax is too often evaded altogether. We are well
+aware that men of pleasure are far from being the only persons who have
+turned into a maxim of life the sentence which the Duke of Buckingham
+passed upon the dog which barked after him,--"Would to God you were
+married and settled in the country!" It is evident that the word
+_provincial_ is often felt, by characters of a higher strain and object,
+to imply an imputation or admission of mediocrity. Now, greatly as
+nations differ, it is generally admitted that all capitals are pretty
+much alike. It follows therefore, that the characteristic spirit and
+principle of a nation do not appear there to most advantage. Enow worthy
+representatives of that spirit and principle are doubtless there; but
+they are there too much as though they were not. It is an atmosphere
+which no individual powers can penetrate, and where it needs more than
+an ordinary sun to make itself felt or seen. We are satisfied that, on a
+just estimate of the whole case, the provinces, as distinguished from
+the metropolis, would be found in many instances, perhaps in most, to be
+the home which a wise lover of himself, and a sincere lover of his kind,
+would do well to fix in;--not indeed as the scene of a brilliant or
+sybarite existence, but as the post of that salutary influence which
+sinks deepest; and of that usefulness and happiness which last the
+longest; as most visibly incorporated with, and represented by, our
+fellow-beings.--_Edinburgh Review._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+INFANCY.
+
+(_From the Feuilles d'Automne of Victor Hugo, translated in the Foreign
+Quarterly Review._)
+
+
+  In the dusky court,
+  Near the altar laid,
+  Sleeps the child in shadow,
+    Of his mother's bed:
+  Softly he reposes,
+  And his lids of roses.
+  Closed to earth, uncloses
+    On the heaven o'erhead.
+
+  Many a dream is with him,
+  Fresh from the fairy land,
+  Spangled o'er with diamonds
+    Seems the ocean sand;
+  Suns are gleaming there.
+  Troops of ladies fair
+  Souls of infants bear
+    In their charming hand.
+
+  O, enchanting vision,
+  Lo, a rill up-springs,
+  And, from out its bosom
+    Comes a voice that sings.
+  Lovelier there appear
+  Sire and sisters dear,
+  While his mother near,
+    Plumes her new-born wings.
+
+  But a brighter vision
+  Yet his eyes behold;
+  Roses all, and lilies,
+    Every path enfold;
+  Lakes in shadow sleeping,
+  Silver fishes leaping,
+  And the waters creeping,
+    Through the reeds of gold.
+
+  Slumber on, sweet infant.
+  Slumber peacefully;
+  Thy young soul yet knows not
+    What thy lot may be.
+  Like dead leaves that sweep
+  Down the stormy deep,
+  Thou art borne in sleep,
+    What is all to thee?
+
+  Thou canst slumber by the way;
+  Thou hast learnt to borrow
+  Naught from study, naught from care;
+    The cold hand of sorrow,
+  On thy brow unwrinkled yet,
+  Where young truth and candour sit,
+  Ne'er with rugged nail hath writ
+    That sad word, "To-morrow."
+
+  Innocent, thou sleepest--
+  See the heavenly band.
+  Who foreknow the trials
+    That for man are planned;
+  Seeing him unarmed,
+  Unfearing, un-alarmed,
+  With their tears have warmed
+    His unconscious hand.
+
+  Angels, hovering o'er him,
+  Kiss him where he lies.
+  Hark, he sees them weeping,
+    "Gabriel," he cries;
+  "Hush," the angel says,
+  On his lip be lays
+  One finger, one displays
+    His native skies.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+STATE OF SOCIETY IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
+
+
+The following exhibits but a lamentable picture of the "milk and honey"
+of this favoured land:
+
+"The morals of the colony of New South Wales are of an exceedingly
+depraved description. It is so far from being a country where men begin
+a new life and enter upon a fresh course with resolutions of amendment,
+that the testimony of all respectable men examined on the subject unites
+in asserting that the habits of the freed men, even of those who have
+acquired property and have families, are of the most dissipated
+character. Of the emancipists, to whom grants of land have been made and
+who are often wealthy, very few, not more it is said than half a dozen,
+can be selected whose lives are not of a vicious description, who do not
+indulge in dishonest practices of one sort or another, and who have not
+risen to wealth by fostering and practising some species of villany.
+These men procure convicts to be assigned to them, who become members of
+the families, and assist them in carrying on their various frauds. In
+Sydney the grog shops are very numerous, and grog shops are receiving
+houses. A constant trade in stolen goods is going on between Sydney and
+the remotest parts of the colony, and even between Sydney and this
+country. The convicts in remote settlements have no means generally of
+indulging in licentiousness, but they see constantly before them the
+freed labourer who has, and they burn to enjoy similar privileges: and
+should their place of occupation be too remote from a theatre of
+indulgence, they get a week of holiday at Sydney, where they arrive in
+numbers, and, for the time they stay, wallow in every species of
+debauchery. In such a state of society the public standard of morality
+must necessarily fall to a very low degree. The leaven spreads from the
+corrupted part into the whole mass. Just as the slang of London thieves
+is become the classical language of Sydney, so do necessarily a
+familiarity with crime, hatred to law, and contempt for virtue, make
+their way into the minds and hearts of those who are untainted with
+actual crime. So far from a reformation being even begun in New South
+Wales, it would seem that roguery had been carried a degree beyond even
+the perfection it has reached here. Property is very insecure in Sydney,
+and the most extraordinary robberies take place. Mr. James Walker, in
+his evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, says 'the
+colony has a curious effect upon the most practised thieves in this
+country; one of the most experienced thieves in London has _something to
+learn_ when he comes out there; probably he would be robbed the first
+night he came into his hut.' This was the answer given by an experienced
+settler to the question, whether he thought any considerable degree of
+reformation took place among the convicts residing at a distance from
+Sydney. It is nearly impossible that it should be otherwise. The master
+can only punish his servant by travelling with him some twenty or thirty
+miles to a police magistrate, by which he loses his own time, the labour
+of his servant, perhaps for months, if he is condemned to a road gang,
+and after his return has little advantage from his services.
+Unwillingness to work for a master who has been the cause of his
+punishment is a difficult feeling to counteract. The convict has the
+game in his own hands: he either does no work, wounds himself, falls
+sick, or perhaps, and it is not uncommon, spoils either the materials
+entrusted to him, or the tools which have been put into his hands.
+
+"Mr. Busby, when asked respecting the prevalence of bush-rangers, who
+are escaped convicts and others who have taken to the bush, says, in his
+Evidence (5th Aug. 1831,) that within the last twelve months, or two
+years, bush-rangers have been so numerous that it was scarcely possible
+to travel a hundred miles on the road without being stopped: there was
+scarcely a newspaper, in which there were not two or three instances of
+persons, of every rank, being stopped. It was quite an unusual thing
+formerly--but of late there has been a regular system of highway
+robbery. The laws that have been enacted to put down this horrible state
+of things, will serve for an index of the condition of the colony. They
+do away with every appearance of personal liberty. 'One act empowered
+magistrates to issue a warrant, authorizing constables to enter or break
+into any house, within their district or county, by day or night, at
+their own discretion; and to seize any person they might suspect to be
+highway robbers or burglars; or any individual in the colony, without
+any warrant or authority, may take another into custody, on the mere
+suspicion that he is a convict illegally at large: if it appear to the
+magistrate that he had a just or probable cause for suspicion, he is
+justified in doing so. The onus of proving that he is not a convict
+illegally at large, is thrown upon the suspected person, and if that is
+not established to the satisfaction of the magistrate, he is liable to
+be retained in custody, or sent to Sydney to be examined and dealt
+with.'
+
+"The number of executions in New South Wales in the year 1830 exceeded
+the whole number of executions in England and Wales, in the same year;
+which, taking the proportion of the populations of the countries, makes
+capital punishments upwards of three hundred and twenty-five times as
+frequent as in the mother country. This horrid fact is pretty well, of
+itself, an answer to all argument drawn from the idea of Reformation.
+But direct testimony is abundant. Major McArthur, the son of one of the
+wealthiest and most extensive settlers in the colony, and to whom it
+owes so much for its present progress in production and commerce,
+states, 'It is painful to know that those whose sentences have expired,
+or to whom pardons have been granted, seldom or ever incline to reform,
+even when they have acquired property. Intoxication and fraud are
+habitual to them; and hardly six persons can be named throughout the
+colony, who, being educated men, and having been transported for
+felonies, have afterwards become sober, moral, and industrious members
+of the community. Crime is of constant occurrence, and so completely
+organized, that cattle are carried off from the settlers in large
+numbers, and slaughtered for the traders in Sydney, who contract with
+the commissariat. It is not, therefore, the vicious habits alone of the
+town which are to be dreaded, but the effects that are communicated and
+felt throughout the country. The agricultural labourer is encouraged to
+plunder his master, by finding a ready sale for the property he steals,
+and whenever his occupations call him to the towns, he sees and yields
+himself to the vicious habits around him. He returns intoxicated and
+unsettled to his employer's farm, and incites his comrades to the same
+sensual indulgences, with equal disregard of the risk and the
+consequences. To these causes the present vitiated and disorganized
+state of the convicts in New South Wales is chiefly attributable; and
+the extent of the evil maybe in some degree estimated, when it is stated
+_that the expense of the police establishment amounts to more_ than
+20,000_l_. per annum for a population of 40,000 souls."
+
+_Foreign Quarterly Review._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE GATHERER
+
+
+_Premiers._--The following list of premiers, from the accession of
+George III. to 1832, with the number of peers created during their
+respective premierships, may be acceptable at the present period:--Lord
+Chatham, 9; Lord Bute, 9; George Grenville, 4; Lord Rockingham, 4; Duke
+of Grafton, none; Lord North, 27; Lord Shelburn, none; Mr. Fox, 7; Mr.
+Pitt, 90; Mr. Addington, 24; Lord Grenville, 3; Duke of Portland, 4; Mr.
+Perceval, none; Lord Liverpool, 50; Mr. Canning, 7; Lord Goderich, 6;
+Duke of Wellington, 2; and Earl Grey, 25.--W.G.C.
+
+_Peers_.--Number of peers (in the present peerage) created by each
+sovereign, from the reign of Henry III. (1264) to the accession of his
+present majesty:--Henry III., 2; Edward I., 7; Edward II., 6; Edward
+III., 1; Henry VI., 5; Henry VII, 1; Henry VIII., 6; Edward VI., 2;
+Mary, 2; Elizabeth, 8; James I., 15; Charles I., 10; Charles II., 16;
+James II., 1; William III., 7; Anne, 14; George I., 15; George II., 20;
+George III., 145; George IV., 46. W.G.C.
+
+_Theatrical Property in France_.--A dramatic author in France is
+entitled, every night that his play is performed, to a fixed sum per
+act, viz. 10 francs, for Paris; 5 francs for the large theatres in the
+country; 3 francs for the second-rate provincial theatres; and 2 francs
+for the third-rate. A bureau is established by government, to receive
+the contributions, and any manager neglecting to make a return, is
+punished by a heavy fine; the amount of which goes to the author. The
+advantages arising from this system are also enjoyed by the widow and
+children of the author. It is calculated that the author of the _Ecole
+des Viellards_, derives nightly, from the performance of that piece, in
+Paris, and the provinces, about 500 francs. Scribe, a successful
+_vaudeville_ writer, is in receipt of a handsome income; and Merle was
+able, from the contributions upon his pieces, to open the Port St.
+Martin Theatre, upon a liberal scale, and thus to lay the foundation of
+a brilliant fortune. T. GILL.
+
+_A Magdalene_.---A French bishop preaching, exclaimed, "A Magdalene is
+present, she is looking at me, I will not mention her name, but I will
+throw my book at her." He then raised his arm as if to put his threat
+into execution, when all the women in the church ducked their heads.
+"What," said he, "all Magdalenes." SWAINE.
+
+_Unwelcome Title_.--Charles Incledon, the vocalist, being asked if he
+had ever read Murray's _Sermons to Asses_, replied, "he had not, he did
+not like the book, the title was too personal."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset
+House.) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic, G.G.
+BENNIS, 55, Rue Neuve, St. Augustin, Paris; and by all Newsmen and
+Booksellers._
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement,
+and Instruction, by Various
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+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page305" name="page305"></a>[pg
+305]</span>
+<h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+OF<br />
+LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+<hr class="full" />
+<table width="100%" summary="Volume, Number, and Date">
+<tr>
+<td align="left"><b>Vol. 19. No. 547.</b></td>
+<td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1832</b></td>
+<td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>WILTON CASTLE.</h2>
+<div class="figure" style="width:80%;"><a href=
+"images/547-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/547-1.png" alt=
+"" /></a> Wilton Castle.</div>
+<p>Here is one of the ivy-mantled relics that lend even a charm to
+romantic nature on the banks of the Wye. Its shattered tower and
+crumbling wall, combine with her wild luxuriance, to form a scene
+of great picturesque beauty, though, as Gilpin observes, "the scene
+wants accompaniments to give it grandeur."</p>
+<p>These ruins stand opposite to Ross, on the western bank of the
+Wye. The Castle was for several centuries the baronial residence of
+the Greys of the south, who derived from it their first title, and
+who became owners in the time of Edward the First. It may therefore
+be presumed to have been one of the strongholds, in the great
+struggles for feudal superiority with Wales, which were commenced
+by Edward, whose "active and splendid reign may be considered as an
+attempt to subject the whole island of Great Britain to his
+sway."<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href=
+"#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> Or, in earlier times, being situated
+on the ancient barrier between England and Wales, it may have been
+a station of some importance, from its contiguity to Hereford,
+which city was destroyed by the Welsh, but rebuilt and fortified by
+Harold, who also strengthened the castle. The whole district is of
+antiquarian interest, since, at the period of the Roman invasion,
+Herefordshire was inhabited by the Silures, who also occupied the
+adjacent counties of Radnor, Monmouth, and Glamorgan, together with
+that part of Gloucestershire which lies westward of the Severn. The
+Silures, in conjunction with the Ordovices, or inhabitants of North
+Wales, retarded, for a considerable period, the progress of the
+Roman victors, whose grand object seems to have been the conquest
+of these nations, who had chosen the gallant Caractacus as their
+chieftain, and resolutely exhausted every effort in defence of the
+independence of their country.</p>
+<p>The present demolished state of the <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+"page306" name="page306"></a>[pg 306]</span> Castle is referred to
+the Royalist Governors of Hereford, by whose orders it was burnt to
+the bare walls during the reign of Charles I. in the absence of its
+then possessor, Sir J. Brydges.</p>
+<p>The scenery of the WYE, at this point is thus described by
+tourists: "From Hereford to Ross, its features occasionally assume
+greater boldness; though more frequently their aspect is placid;
+but at the latter town wholly emerging from its state of repose,"
+it resumes the brightness and rapidity of its primitive character,
+as it forms the admired curve which the churchyard of Ross
+commands. The celebrated spire of Ross church, peeping over a noble
+row of elms, here fronts the ruined Castle of Wilton, beneath the
+arches of whose bridge, the Wye flows through a charming succession
+of meadows, encircling at last the lofty and well-wooded hill,
+crowned with the majestic fragments of Gooderich Castle, and
+opposed by the waving eminences of the forest of Dean. The mighty
+pile, or peninsula, of Symonds' Rock succeeds, round which the
+river flows in a circuit of seven miles, though the opposite points
+of the isthmus are only one mile asunder. Shortly afterwards, the
+Wye quits the county, and enters Monmouthshire at the New Wear.</p>
+<p>The Rev. Mr. Gilpin, in his charming little volume on
+Picturesque Beauty,<a id="footnotetag2" name=
+"footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a> has a few
+appropriate observations: after passing Wilton&mdash;</p>
+<p>"We met with nothing for some time during our voyage but grand,
+woody banks, one rising behind another; appearing and vanishing by
+turns, as we doubled the several capes. But though no particular
+objects characterized these different scenes, yet they afforded
+great variety of pleasing views, both as we wound round the several
+promontories, which discovered new beauties as each scene opened,
+and when we kept the same scene a longer time in view, stretching
+along some lengthened reach, where the river is formed into an
+irregular vista by hills shooting out beyond each other and going
+off in perspective."</p>
+<p>We ought not to forget to mention Ross, and its association with
+one of the noblest works of GOD&mdash;honest John Kyrle, celebrated
+as the Man of Ross. Pope, during his visits at Holm-Lacey, in the
+vicinity, obtained sufficient knowledge of his beneficence, to
+render due homage to his worth in one of the brightest pages of the
+records of human character.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>"MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS"&mdash;EGGS.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+<p>In a paper on the <i>Superstitions of the Sea</i>, a few years
+ago,<a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a><a href=
+"#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> I slightly alluded to the nautical
+belief that the appearance of the Stormy Petrel, and other marine
+birds at sea, was often considered to be the forerunner of peril
+and disaster; and as your excellent correspondent, <i>M.L.B.</i>,
+in a recent number, expresses a wish to know the origin of the
+<i>soubriquet</i> of <i>Mother Carey's Chickens</i>, which the
+former birds have obtained, I now give it with all the brevity
+which is consistent with so important a narration. It appears that
+a certain outward-bound Indiaman, called the <i>Tiger</i>, (but in
+what year I am unable to state,) had encountered one continued
+series of storms, during her whole passage; till on nearing the
+Cape of Good Hope, she was almost reduced to a wreck. Here,
+however, the winds and waves seemed bent on her destruction; in the
+midst of the storm, flocks of strange looking birds were seen
+hovering and wheeling in the air around the devoted ship, and one
+of the passengers, a woman called "Mother Carey," was observed by
+the glare of the lightning to laugh and smile when she looked at
+these foul-weather visitants; on which she was not only set down as
+a witch, but it was also thought that they were her familiars, whom
+she had invoked from the <i>Red Sea</i>; and "all hands" were
+seriously considering on the propriety of getting rid of the old
+beldam, (as is usual in such cases,) by setting her afloat, when
+she saved them the trouble, and at that moment jumped overboard,
+surrounded by flames; on which the birds vanished, the storm
+cleared away, and the tempest-tossed <i>Tiger</i> went peacefully
+on her course! Ever since the occurrence of this "astounding yarn,"
+the birds have been called "Mother Carey's Chickens," and are
+considered by our sailors to be the most unlucky of all the
+feathered visitants at sea.</p>
+<p>To turn by a not unnatural transition from <i>birds</i> to
+<i>eggs</i>, permit me to inform your Scottish correspondent,
+<i>S.S.</i> (see No. 536,) where he asserts that the plan of
+rubbing eggs with grease in order to preserve them, "is not so much
+as known in our own boasted land of stale eggs and bundlewood;"
+that the said <i>discovery</i> has long been known and practised in
+many parts of old England; and that the repeated experience of
+several <span class="pagenum"><a id="page307" name=
+"page307"></a>[pg 307]</span> friends warrants me in giving a
+decided negative to his assertion that eggs so prepared "<i>will
+keep any length of time perfectly fresh</i>." If kept for a
+considerable period, though they do not become absolutely bad, yet
+they turn <i>very stale</i>. I happen to know something of
+Scotland, and was never before aware that the raw clime of our
+northern neighbours was so celebrated for its poultry.
+<i>M.L.B.</i> is certainly misinformed in speaking of the trade in
+<i>Scotch</i> eggs to <i>America</i>. The importation of eggs from
+the continent into England is very extensive: the duty in 1827
+amounted at the rate of 10<i>d</i>. per 120, to 23,062<i>l</i>.
+19<i>s</i>. 1<i>d</i>.; since which period there has, we believe,
+been an increase. The importation of eggs from Ireland is also very
+large. If <i>S.S.</i> resides in London, he may have occasion to
+sneer at "our boasted land of stale eggs;" but he should rather
+sneer at the preserved French eggs, with which the London dealers
+are principally supplied.</p>
+<p>VYVYAN.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>THE CURFEW BELL.</h3>
+<h4>(To the Editor.)</h4>
+<p>In addition to the remarks made by <i>Reginald</i>, in No. 543,
+and by <i>M.D.</i>, and <i>G.C.</i>, in No. 545 of <i>The
+Mirror</i>, let me add that the Curfew is rung every night at
+eight, in my native town, (Winchester,) and the bell, a large one,
+weighing 12 cwt., is appropriated for the purpose, (not belonging
+to a church) but affixed in the tower of the Guildhall, and used
+only for this occasion, or on an alarm of fire.</p>
+<p>In that city the Curfew was first established under the command
+of the Conqueror, and the practice has continued to the present
+day. I have been assured by many old residents, that it formerly
+was the custom to ring the bell every morning at four o'clock, but
+the practice being found annoying to persons living near, the
+Corporation ordered it to be discontinued.</p>
+<p>To such of your readers who, like myself, are fond of a solitary
+ramble along the sea shore by moonlight, I would say, go to
+Southampton or the Isle of Wight; take an evening walk from Itchen
+through the fields to Netley, thence to the Abbey and Fort ruins,
+under woods that for a considerable distance skirt the coast; or on
+the opposite side, through the Forest of Oaks, from Eling to
+Dibden, and onwards over the meadows to Hythe: there they may, in
+either, find ample food for reflection, connected with the Curfew
+Bell.</p>
+<p>Seated on a fragment of the towers of Netley Abbey, whose
+pinnacles were so often hailed by seamen as well known landmarks,
+but whose Curfew has for centuries been quiet, the spectator may
+see before him the crumbling remains of a fort, erected hundreds of
+years ago. On the left is an expanse of water as far as the eye can
+reach, and in his front the celebrated New Forest,&mdash;</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Majestic woods of ever vigorous green,</p>
+<p>Stage above stage, high waving o'er the bills;</p>
+<p>Or to the far horizon wide diffus'd,</p>
+<p>A boundless deep immensity of shade&mdash;</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>the scene of William's tyranny and atrocity, the spot where his
+children met their untimely end, and where may be seen the
+<i>tumuli</i> erected over the remains of the Britons who fell in
+defence of their country.</p>
+<p>In the deep recesses of a wood in the south-east prospect, the
+eye may faintly distinguish the mouldering remains of the Abbey of
+Beaulieu, famed in days of yore for its Sanctuary, the name of
+which is now only recorded in history. Even the site of the tower
+is unknown, whose Curfew has long ceased to warn the seamen, or
+draw the deep curse from the forester.</p>
+<p>There they may</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"On a plat of rising ground,</p>
+<p>Hear the far off Curfew sound,</p>
+<p>Over the wide watered shore,</p>
+<p>Swinging slow with sullen roar."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>The Curfew is rung at Southampton, Downton, Ringwood, and many
+other towns in the west, every night at eight.</p>
+<p>P.Q.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>SPANISH SCENERY.</h3>
+<p>The following is from the delightful pencil of Washington
+Irving: it will be seen to bear all the polish of his best
+style:&mdash;</p>
+<p>"Many are apt to picture Spain to their imaginations as a soft
+southern region, decked out with all the luxuriant charms of
+voluptuous Italy. On the contrary, though there are exceptions in
+some of the maritime provinces, yet, for the greater part, it is a
+stern, melancholy country, with rugged mountains, and long sweeping
+plains, destitute of trees, and indescribably silent and lonesome,
+partaking of the savage and solitary character of Africa. What adds
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page308" name="page308"></a>[pg
+308]</span> to this silence and loneliness, is the absence of
+singing-birds, a natural consequence of the want of groves and
+hedges. The vulture and the eagle are seen wheeling about the
+mountain-cliffs, and soaring over the plains, and groups of shy
+bustards stalk about the heaths; but the myriads of smaller birds,
+which animate the whole face of other countries are met with in but
+few provinces in Spain, and in those chiefly among the orchards and
+gardens which surround the habitations of man.</p>
+<p>"In the interior provinces the traveller occasionally traverses
+great tracts cultivated with grain as far as the eye can reach,
+waving at times with verdure, at other times naked and sunburnt,
+but he looks round in vain for the hand that has tilled the soil.
+At length, he perceives some village on a steep hill, or rugged
+crag, with mouldering battlements and ruined watch tower; a
+stronghold, in old times, against civil war, or Moorish inroad; for
+the custom among the peasantry of congregating together for mutual
+protection, is still kept up in most parts of Spain, in consequence
+of the maraudings of roving freebooters.</p>
+<p>"But though a great part of Spain is deficient in the garniture
+of groves and forests, and the softer charms of ornamental
+cultivation, yet its scenery has something of a high and lofty
+character to compensate the want. It partakes something of the
+attributes of its people; and I think that I better understand the
+proud, hardy, frugal, and abstemious Spaniard, his manly defiance
+of hardships, and contempt of effeminate indulgences, since I have
+seen the country he inhabits.</p>
+<p>"There is something, too, in the sternly simple features of the
+Spanish landscape, that impresses on the soul a feeling of
+sublimity. The immense plains of the Castiles and of La Mancha,
+extending as far as the eye can reach, derive an interest from
+their very nakedness and immensity, and have something of the
+solemn grandeur of the ocean. In ranging over these boundless
+wastes, the eye catches sight here and there of a straggling herd
+of cattle attended by a lonely herdsman, motionless as a statue,
+with his long, slender pike tapering up like a lance into the air;
+or, beholds a long train of mules slowly moving along the waste
+like a train of camels in the desert; or, a single herdsman, armed
+with blunderbuss and stiletto, and prowling over the plain. Thus
+the country, the habits, the very looks of the people, have
+something of the Arabian character. The general insecurity of the
+country is evinced in the universal use of weapons. The herdsman in
+the field, the shepherd in the plain, has his musket and his knife.
+The wealthy villager rarely ventures to the market-town without his
+trabuco, and, perhaps, a servant on foot with a blunderbuss on his
+shoulder; and the most petty journey is undertaken with the
+preparation of a warlike enterprise.</p>
+<p>"The dangers of the road produce also a mode of travelling,
+resembling, on a diminutive scale, the caravans of the east. The
+arrieros, or carriers, congregate in convoys, and set off in large
+and well-armed trains on appointed days; while additional
+travellers swell their number, and contribute to their strength. In
+this primitive way is the commerce of the country carried on. The
+muleteer is the general medium of traffic, and the legitimate
+traverser of the land, crossing the peninsula from the Pyrenees and
+the Asturias to the Alpuxarras, the Serrania de Ronda, and even to
+the gates of Gibraltar. He lives frugally and hardily: his alforjas
+of coarse cloth hold his scanty stock of provisions; a leathern
+bottle, hanging at his saddle-bow, contains wine or water, for a
+supply across barren mountains and thirsty plains. A mule-cloth
+spread upon the ground, is his bed at night, and his pack-saddle is
+his pillow. His low, but clean-limbed and sinewy form betokens
+strength; his complexion is dark and sunburnt; his eye resolute,
+but quiet in its expression, except when kindled by sudden emotion;
+his demeanour is frank, manly, and courteous, and he never passes
+you without a grave salutation: 'Dios guarde &agrave; usted!' 'Va
+usted con Dios, Caballero!' 'God guard you! God be with you,
+Cavalier!'</p>
+<p>"As these men have often their whole fortune at stake upon the
+burthen of their mule, they have their weapons at hand, slung to
+their saddles, and ready to be snatched out for desperate defence.
+But their united numbers render them secure against petty bands of
+marauders, and the solitary bandolero, armed to the teeth, and
+mounted on his Andalusian steed, hovers about them, like a pirate
+about a merchant convoy, without daring to make an assault.</p>
+<p>"The Spanish muleteer has an inexhaustible stock of songs and
+ballads, with which to beguile his incessant wayfaring. The airs
+are rude and simple, consisting of but few inflexions. These he
+chants forth with a loud voice, and long, drawling cadence, seated
+sideways on his mule, who seems to listen with <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page309" name="page309"></a>[pg 309]</span>
+infinite gravity, and to keep time, with his paces, to the tune.
+The couplets thus chanted, are often old traditional romances about
+the Moors, or some legend of a saint, or some love-ditty; or what
+is still more frequent, some ballad about a bold contrabandista, or
+hardy bandolero, for the smuggler and the robber are poetical
+heroes among the common people of Spain. Often the song of the
+muleteer is composed at the instant, and relates to some local
+scenes or some incident of the journey. This talent of singing and
+improvising is frequent in Spain, and is said to have been
+inherited from the Moors. There is something wildly pleasing in
+listening to these ditties among the rude and lonely scenes that
+they illustrate; accompanied, as they are, by the occasional jingle
+of the mule-bell.</p>
+<p>"It has a most picturesque effect also to meet a train of
+muleteers in some mountain-pass. First you hear the bells of the
+leading mules, breaking with their simple melody the stillness of
+the airy height; or, perhaps, the voice of the muleteer admonishing
+some tardy or wandering animal, or chanting, at the full stretch of
+his lungs, some traditionary ballad. At length you see the mules
+slowly winding along the cragged defile, sometimes descending
+precipitous cliffs, so as to present themselves in full relief
+against the sky, sometimes toiling up the deep arid chasms below
+you. As they approach, you descry their gay decorations of worsted
+tufts, tassels, and saddle-cloths, while, as they pass by, the
+ever-ready trabuco slung behind the packs and saddles, gives a hint
+of the insecurity of the road.</p>
+<p>"The ancient kingdom of Granada, into which we are about to
+penetrate, is one of the most mountainous regions of Spain. Vast
+sierras, or chains of mountains, destitute of shrub or tree, and
+mottled with variegated marbles and granites, elevate their
+sun-burnt summits against a deep-blue sky; yet in their rugged
+bosoms lie engulfed the most verdant and fertile valley, where the
+desert and the garden strain for mastery, and the very rock is, as
+it were, compelled to yield the fig, the orange, and the citron,
+and to blossom with the myrtle and the rose.</p>
+<p>"In the wild passes of these mountains the sight of walled towns
+and villages, built like eagles' nests among the cliffs, and
+surrounded by Moorish battlements, or of ruined watch-towers
+perched on lofty peaks, carries the mind back to the chivalric days
+of Christian and Moslem warfare, and to the romantic struggle for
+the conquest of Granada. In traversing these lofty sierras the
+traveller is often obliged to alight and lead his horse up and down
+the steep and jagged ascents and descents, resembling the broken
+steps of a staircase. Sometimes the road winds along dizzy
+precipices, without parapet to guard him from the gulfs below, and
+then will plunge down steep, and dark, and dangerous declivities.
+Sometimes it straggles through rugged barrancos, or ravines, worn
+by winter torrents, the obscure path of the contrabandista; while,
+ever and anon, the ominous cross, the monument of robbery and
+murder, erected on a mound of stones at some lonely part of the
+road, admonishes the traveller that he is among the haunts of
+banditti, perhaps at that very moment under the eye of some lurking
+bandolero. Sometimes, in winding through the narrow valleys, he is
+startled by a hoarse bellowing, and beholds above him on some green
+fold of the mountain side a herd of fierce Andalusian bulls,
+destined for the combat of the arena. There is something awful in
+the contemplation of these terrific animals, clothed with
+tremendous strength, and ranging their native pastures in untamed
+wildness, strangers almost to the face of man: they know no one but
+the solitary herdsman who attends upon them, and even he at times
+dares not venture to approach them. The low bellowing of these
+bulls, and their menacing aspect as they look down from their rocky
+height, give additional wildness to the savage scenery around."</p>
+<p>(From <i>The Alhambra</i>, or <i>New Sketch Book</i>, to which
+we propose to return in a <i>Supplement</i> in a fortnight.)</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>ANECDOTE GALLERY.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>THE UNLUCKY PRESENT: A TALE.</h3>
+<p>A Lanarkshire minister (who died within the present century) was
+one of those unhappy persons, who, to use the words of a well known
+Scottish adage, "can never see green cheese but their een reels."
+He was <i>extremely covetous</i> and that not only of nice articles
+of food, but of many other things which do not generally excite the
+cupidity of the human heart. The following story is in
+corroboration of this assertion:&mdash;Being on a visit one day at
+the house of one of his parishioners, a poor lonely widow, living
+in a moorland part of the parish, he became fascinated by the
+charms of a little cast-iron pot, which happened at the time to be
+lying on the hearth, full <span class="pagenum"><a id="page310"
+name="page310"></a>[pg 310]</span> of potatoes for the poor woman's
+dinner, and that of her children. He had never in his life seen
+such a nice little pot&mdash;it was a perfect conceit of a
+thing&mdash;it was a gem&mdash;no pot on earth could match it in
+symmetry&mdash;it was an object altogether perfectly lovely. "Dear
+sake! minister," said the widow, quite overpowered by the reverend
+man's commendations of her pot; "if ye like the pot sae weel as a'
+that, I beg ye'll let me send it to the manse. It's a kind o' orra
+(<i>superfluous</i>) pot wi' us; for we've a bigger ane, that we
+use for ordinar, and that's mair convenient every way for us. Sae
+ye'll just tak a present o't. I'll send it ower the morn wi' Jamie,
+when he gangs to the schule." "Oh!" said the minister, "I can by no
+means permit you to be at so much trouble. Since you are so good as
+to give me the pot, I'll just carry it home with me in my hand. I'm
+so much taken with it, indeed, that I would really prefer carrying
+it myself." After much altercation between the minister and the
+widow, on this delicate point of politeness, it was agreed that he
+should carry home the pot himself.</p>
+<p>Off then he trudged, bearing this curious little culinary
+article, alternately in his hand and under his arm, as seemed most
+convenient to him. Unfortunately the day was warm, the way long,
+and the minister fat; so that he became heartily tired of his
+burden before he got half-way home. Under these distressing
+circumstances, it struck him, that, if, instead of carrying the pot
+awkwardly at one side of his person, he were to carry it on his
+head, the burden would be greatly lightened; the principles of
+natural philosophy, which he had learned at college, informing him,
+that when a load presses directly and immediately upon any object,
+it is far less onerous than when it hangs at the remote end of a
+lever. Accordingly, doffing his hat, which he resolved to carry
+home in his band, and having applied his handkerchief to his brow,
+he clapped the pot, in inverted fashion, upon his head, where, as
+the reader may suppose, it figured much like Mambrino's helmet upon
+the crazed capital of Don Quixote, only a great deal more
+magnificent in shape and dimensions. There was, at first, much
+relief and much comfort in this new mode of carrying the pot; but
+mark the result. The unfortunate minister having taken a by-path,
+to escape observation, found himself, when still a good way from
+home, under the necessity of leaping over a ditch, which
+intercepted him, in passing from one field to another. He jumped;
+but surely no jump was ever taken so completely <i>in</i>, or, at
+least <i>into</i>, the dark as this. The concussion given to his
+person in descending caused the helmet to become a hood; the pot
+slipped down over his face, and resting with the rim upon his neck,
+stuck fast there; enclosing his whole head as completely as ever
+that of a new born child was enclosed by the filmy bag, with which
+nature, as an indication of future good fortune, sometimes invests
+the noddles of her favourite offspring. What was worst of all, the
+nose, which had permitted the pot to slip down over it, withstood
+every desperate attempt, on the part of its proprietor, to make it
+slip back again; the contracted part, or neck, of the
+<i>patera</i>, being of such a peculiar formation as to cling fast
+to the base of the nose, although it had found no difficulty in
+gliding along its hypothenuse. Was ever minister in a worse plight?
+Was there ever <i>contretemps</i> so unlucky? Did ever any
+man&mdash;did ever any minister, so effectually hoodwink himself,
+or so thoroughly shut his eyes, to the plain light of nature? What
+was to be done? The place was lonely; the way difficult and
+dangerous; human relief was remote, almost beyond reach. It was
+impossible even to cry for help; or, if a cry could be uttered, it
+might reach, in deafening reverberation, the ear of the utterer,
+but it would not travel twelve inches farther in any direction. To
+add to the distresses of the case, the unhappy sufferer soon found
+great difficulty in breathing. What with the heat occasioned by the
+beating of the sun on the metal, and what with the frequent return
+of the same heated air to his lungs, he was in the utmost danger of
+suffocation. Every thing considered, it seemed likely that, if he
+did not chance to be relieved by some accidental wayfarer, there
+would soon be <i>death in the pot</i>.</p>
+<p>The instinctive love of life, however, is omni-prevalent; and
+even very stupid people have been found, when put to the push by
+strong and imminent peril, to exhibit a degree of presence of mind,
+and exert a degree of energy, far above what might have been
+expected from them, or what they were ever known to exhibit, or
+exert, under ordinary circumstances. So it was with the
+pot-ensconced minister. Pressed by the urgency of his distresses,
+he fortunately recollected that there was a smith's shop at the
+distance of about a mile across the fields, where, if he could
+reach it before the period of suffocation, he might possibly find
+relief. Deprived of his eyesight, <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+"page311" name="page311"></a>[pg 311]</span> he acted only as a man
+of feeling, and went on as cautiously as he could, with his hat in
+his hand. Half crawling, half sliding, over ridge and furrow, ditch
+and hedge, somewhat like Satan floundering over chaos, the unhappy
+minister travelled with all possible speed, as nearly as he could
+guess, in the direction of the place of refuge. I leave it to the
+reader to conceive the surprise, the mirth, the infinite amusement
+of the smith, and all the hangers-on of the <i>smiddy</i>, when, at
+length, torn and worn, faint and exhausted, blind and breathless,
+the unfortunate man arrived at the place, and let them know (rather
+by signs than by words) the circumstances of his case. In the words
+of an old Scottish song,</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"Out cam the gudeman, and high he shouted;</p>
+<p>Out cam the gudewife, and low she louted;</p>
+<p>And a' the town neighbours were gathered about it:</p>
+<p class="i6">And there was he, I trow."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>The merriment of the company, however, soon gave way to
+considerations of humanity. Ludicrous as was the minister, with
+such an object where his head should have been, and with the feet
+of the pot pointing upwards, like the horns of the great Enemy, it
+was, nevertheless, necessary that he should be speedily restored to
+his ordinary condition, if it were for no other reason than that he
+might continue to live. He was accordingly, at his own request led
+into the smithy, multitudes flocking around to tender him their
+kindest offices, or to witness the process of release; and, having
+laid down his head upon the anvil, the smith lost no time in
+seizing and poising his goodly forehammer. "Will I come sair on,
+minister?" exclaimed the considerate man of iron, in at the brink
+of the pot. "As sair as ye like," was the minister's answer;
+"better a chap i' the chafts than die for want of breath." Thus
+permitted, the man let fall a blow, which fortunately broke the pot
+in pieces, without hurting the head which it enclosed, as the
+cook-maid breaks the shell of the lobster, without bruising the
+delicate food within. A few minutes of the clear air, and a glass
+from the gudewife's bottle, restored the unfortunate man of prayer;
+but, assuredly, the incident is one which will long live in the
+memory of the parishioners of C&mdash;&mdash;.&mdash;<i>Chambers'
+Edinburgh Journal.</i></p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE NATURALIST.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>LOUDON'S MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY.</h3>
+<p>Sundry and manifold are our obligations to this delightful
+Journal. From the Number (26) for the present month we glean the
+following:</p>
+<p><i>The Gurnard and Sprat.</i></p>
+<p>Mr. J. Couch, in an interesting paper on the fishes of Cornwall,
+has the following notes:</p>
+<p>"Ray observes that the word gurnard, which may be regarded as
+the English term, is derived <i>a grunnitu</i>, from grunting like
+a hog. In this, however, I venture to think this eminent naturalist
+mistaken. Pengurn is the ancient Cornu-British name for these
+fishes, and signifies hard head; and its English translation is now
+sometimes given to the grey gurnard. From the Cornish word
+<i>gurn</i> (hard), I therefore derive the name, as descriptive of
+the head of these species. This is a common fish at all seasons;
+but in December and January it sometimes abounds to such a degree,
+that, as they are not much esteemed, I have known them sold at
+thirty for a penny. It keeps near the bottom commonly, at no great
+distance from land; but sometimes multitudes will mount together to
+the surface; and move along with the first dorsal fin above the
+water: they will even quit their native element, and spring to the
+distance of a yard; thus imitating the flying gurnard, though not
+to the same extent. In summer they are found basking in the sun,
+perhaps asleep, as they will at times display no signs of
+animation, until an attempt is made to seize them.</p>
+<p>"In reference to some observations by Mr. Yarrell, in the
+<i>Zoological Journal</i>, relative to the distinction between the
+sprat and the young of the pilchard and herring, I can state that
+Cornish fishermen term the young of both the latter fishes sprats;
+but, how far this should go in determining the judgment of a
+naturalist will appear, when I add that I have never seen above one
+specimen of the genuine sprat in Cornwall, and that was brought me
+by a fisherman, to be informed what fish it was. In taking fish out
+of his net by night, he felt it to be neither a pilchard nor a
+herring, and supposed it something rare."</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>STRUCTURE OF BIRDS.</h3>
+<p>Birds may be said to constitute an isolated class of beings.
+They are distinguished by certain characters from all other
+animals: their classification does not pass into any other, and
+cannot, therefore, be consistently introduced into the supposed
+chain or gradation of natural bodies.</p>
+<p>The skeleton or bony frame of birds is in general lighter than
+in quadrupeds. They have the largest bones of all animals,
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page312" name="page312"></a>[pg
+312]</span> in proportion to their weight; and their bones are more
+hollow than those of animals that do not fly: air-vessels also
+enable them to blow out the hollow parts of their bodies, when they
+wish to make their descent slower, rise more swiftly, or float in
+the air. The spine is immovable, but the neck has a greater number
+of bones, (never less than nine, and varying from that to
+twenty-four,) and consequently of joints, and more varied motion,
+than in quadrupeds. The breast-bone is very large, with a prominent
+keel down the middle, and is formed for the attachment of very
+strong muscles: the bones of the wings are analagous to those of
+the fore-legs in quadrupeds, but the termination is in three joints
+or fingers only, of which the exterior is very short. This will be
+better understood by the annexed:</p>
+<div class="figure" style="width:40%;"><a href=
+"images/547-2.png"><img width="100%" src="images/547-2.png" alt=
+"" /></a> Skeleton of a Turkey.</div>
+<p>The muscles that move the wings downwards, in many instances,
+are a sixth part of the weight of the whole body; whereas those of
+a man are not in proportion one hundredth part so large. The centre
+of gravity of their bodies is always below the insertion of their
+wings to prevent them falling on their backs, but near that point
+on which the body is, during flight, as it were, suspended. The
+positions assumed by the head and feet are frequently calculated to
+accomplish these ends, and give to the wings every assistance in
+continuing the progressive motion. The tail also is of great use,
+in regulating the rise and fall of birds and even their lateral
+movements. What are commonly called the legs are analogous to the
+hind legs in quadrupeds, and they terminate, in general, in four
+toes, three of which are usually directed forwards, and one
+backwards; but in some birds there are only two toes, in others
+three.</p>
+<p>Birds exceed quadrupeds in the quantity of their respiration,
+for they have not only a double circulation, and an aerial
+respiration, but they respire also through other cavities beside
+the lungs, the air penetrating through the whole body, and bathing
+the branches of the aorta, or great artery of the body, as well as
+those of the pulmonary artery.</p>
+<p>Birds are usually classed according to the forms of their bills
+and feet, from those parts being connected with their mode of life,
+food, &amp;c. and influencing their total habit very
+materially.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>THE RHINOCEROS BIRD.</h3>
+<p>This curious bird is of the order <i>Pic&aelig;</i>, or Pies,
+and of the genus <i>Buceros</i>, consisting of birds of rather
+large size, and distinguished by the disproportionate forms of
+their beaks, which are often still further remarkable for some kind
+of large prominence on the upper mandible. The most conspicuous
+species is the <i>Buceros Rhinoceros</i> of Linn&aelig;us, commonly
+called the Rhinoceros Bird.</p>
+<div class="figure" style="width:40%;"><a href=
+"images/547-3.png"><img width="100%" src="images/547-3.png" alt=
+"" /></a> The Rhinoceros Bird.</div>
+<p>Its general size is that of a Turkey, but with a much more
+slenderly proportioned body. Its colour is black, with the tail
+white, crossed by a black bar: the beak is of enormous size, of a
+lengthened, slightly curved, and pointed shape, and on the upper
+mandible, towards the base, is an extremely large process, equal in
+thickness to the bill itself, and turning upwards and backwards in
+the form of a thick, sharp-pointed horn, somewhat resembling the
+horn of the rhinoceros. The use of this strange proboscis is by
+some supposed to be that of enabling the bird more easily to tear
+out the entrails of its prey; but others affirm that it is not of a
+predaceous nature, feeding only on vegetable substances. This bird
+is principally found in the East Indian Islands. A remarkably fine
+specimen was preserved in the Leverian Museum.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page313" name="page313"></a>[pg
+313]</span>
+<h2>THE SKETCH-BOOK.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>RECOLLECTIONS OF A WANDERER.</h3>
+<h4><i>A scene on the coast of Cornwall.</i></h4>
+<p>A short time before my departure from the hamlet of
+Landwithiel,<a id="footnotetag4" name="footnotetag4"></a><a href=
+"#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a> I was awoke early one morning by the
+roaring of the wind in the huge old chimney of my room&mdash;the
+whole tenement, indeed, occasionally shook as a violent gust swept
+down the valley, tossing the branches of the stout old tree before
+the door to and fro in a way that threatened at last to level them
+with the dust. The very briny scent of the atmosphere convinced me
+there was some sea running in the bay; and it was the more
+unexpected as we had had no tokens of a storm for several days
+previous. From the peninsular situation of this county, surrounded
+on almost every side with the restless ocean and exposed to the
+wide sweep of the Atlantic, it may be supposed that storms are of
+frequent occurrence. As on the present occasion, they often come
+with little or no warning; and the effects of a hurricane in the
+distant main, far outstripping the wind, sometimes rolls with
+tremendous fury towards our western shores, on which the sea is
+encroaching in every part.</p>
+<p>Landwithiel was a wild little place. It was essentially a
+"fishing village." The people ploughed the deep, not the land; and
+the constant exposure&mdash;blow high, blow low&mdash;on the
+restless sea, endued its inhabitants, and the Cornish fishermen
+generally, with a fearlessness of danger and boldness of character
+almost unequalled in these islands. The lives and pursuits of the
+two great classes in this county&mdash;the maritime and mining
+population&mdash;are widely opposite to each other. The one class
+pass their existence on the stormy waters of the deep, whilst the
+other labour far below the surface of the earth; each being
+continually exposed to numberless perils and dangers.</p>
+<p>When I descended below I found my host already astir; so after
+attending well to the inward man, I lost no time in starting
+towards the harbour. As I formerly described, this comes abruptly
+in sight round a sharp angle, at some elevation from the beach. On
+the upper part of the descent the road was flanked on each side
+with a row of cottages, the street being so steep that steps were
+formed in many parts to aid the progress of the passenger. This
+gave an air of singularity and wildness to the place, which was
+aided by the boldness of the surrounding scenery. The street bore
+all the marks of the occupation of the inhabitants&mdash;nets
+hanging to dry&mdash;strings of fish&mdash;an old oar&mdash;or a
+"fisher's wife" broiling fish for her husband's breakfast&mdash;met
+the eye on either side.</p>
+<p>On clearing the street, I observed a larger throng on the old
+pier than was wont to gather there on ordinary occasions. There was
+obviously some unusual subject of interest agitated amongst them;
+so I turned from my course and joined the group.</p>
+<p>A gale is an important event in a fishing town. Independent of
+the interest naturally felt for the various craft belonging to the
+place which may happen to be afloat, there may be wrecks or other
+marine casualties to excite the interest or cupidity of the
+observer.</p>
+<p>There was a tremendous tumbling sea rolling into the little bay,
+when I drew towards the pier. At the further end was a group of
+persons in earnest conversation, whom I distinguished as the
+knowing ones and long-heads of the place; while their younger
+companions were engaged in parties walking briskly to and fro on
+the pier. A tier of boats had been carefully drawn up high and dry
+beyond the wreck left by the last spring tide. Four or five,
+however, were afloat, and lurching heavily alongside the pier,
+whither the tide had not long reached; the wind rattling amongst
+the masts, shrouds, and half-bent sails of some craft which had
+just run in for shelter from the impending storm. My recent
+adventure had made me pretty well acquainted with most of the
+persons around: and I learned that a <i>ground swell</i> had been
+observed along shore the preceding night. This phenomenon is
+generally occasioned by a storm in the Atlantic, with a westerly
+wind; and it affords to the old fishermen an almost certain
+indication of approaching foul weather.</p>
+<p>"A stiff bit of a gale, this same, Master Charles," said an old
+tar, giving an energetic jerk to his trousers, "Ay, ay, old boy,"
+he replied, "this wind is not blowing for nothing, you may take my
+word for it; but if the Jane and the Susan hove in sight I'd not
+mind a bit for all that; we've not a stick afloat but her."</p>
+<p>"What! is Sam Clovelly<a id="footnotetag5" name=
+"footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a> out this
+morning, Helston?" I anxiously inquired of the pilot, who was a
+manly, excellent sort of fellow. He had grown grey with service,
+and there was something in the steady eye and calm decision
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page314" name="page314"></a>[pg
+314]</span> of his look that marked him out as no common
+character.</p>
+<p>"Yes, sir, we have no tidings of him yet, and the sky looking as
+black, yonder, as the face of a negro; but we'll hope that he's run
+out of harm's way before now."</p>
+<p>As the morning waxed apace, the interest in the fate of the Jane
+and Susan became more evident amongst the by-standers. Every stick
+that came in sight cut out conversation; but many an eye was cast
+anxiously to windward in vain for poor Sam Clovelly and his brother
+Arthur, who had been out since the preceding night. Presently the
+two little orphan sisters of the missing men came upon the pier,
+and Helstone, the pilot, and some of the others anxiously
+endeavoured to cheer and console them.</p>
+<p>"I'll be bound they've run for &mdash;&mdash; port long ago,
+darlings, so don't cry now, Jane; the old craft's stood many a
+stronger breeze than this; now, wipe your eyes, there. Poor
+things," he said, turning to me, as the children went farther on
+the pier, "their two brothers are the only friends they have got in
+the world, and if they are gone who is to take care of them? Their
+father, old Sam Clovelly, was lost&mdash;I recollect the time
+well&mdash;somewhere off Milford; leaving his wife, with two stiff
+tidy bits of lads, and likely to increase the family; well, sir,
+she took to her bed, with the shock, and never rose from it more,
+after giving birth to these two little girls, leaving poor Sam and
+Arthur to struggle on like a cutter in a heavy sea. But God
+Almighty never deserts the innocent, sir&mdash;you've seen that, I
+dare say? Sam's been a steady lad, and has prospered, and he and
+Arthur have never forgotten their mother's dying words, and have
+been very kind to their sisters; but, come what will, the orphans
+shall never want a friend as long as Charley Helston has a home or
+a bit of bread to offer them."</p>
+<p>We now again reverted to the state of the day. As the gale swept
+on, numberless craft were running along the coast towards
+&mdash;&mdash; port, for shelter. A crack Fowey-man now making a
+board till she "eat out" of the wind a North-countryman right
+ahead&mdash;now with her helm-a-lea, and now careering along with a
+heavy following sea on either quarter&mdash;kept our attention on
+the alert. Presently a steamer came in sight bearing up across the
+bay towards &mdash;&mdash; Head. The white rush of steam from her
+safety-valves was well made out by the blackness of the windward
+horizon; and contrasted with the dense puffs of smoke from her
+funnel, which were instantly dispersed or carried in heavy patches
+to leeward. The glory of modern discoveries is unpopular with our
+coasting-seamen, and the mate of a coaster, who was watching her
+movements, observed that "we should not have a lad fit to hand a
+sail or man a yard soon with their cursed machinery."</p>
+<p>As she passed on her course "cleaving blast and breaker right
+ahead," with her weather-wheel often spinning in the air, and as
+the sky darkened and the waves roared louder, I thought with deep
+interest on what might even now be the fate of those, without whose
+friendly aid I should have been lying on a rocky pillow and seaweed
+for my shroud, near Dawlish's Hole. The weather now became entitled
+to the formidable name of a storm, but some time had yet to elapse
+before darkness added its horrors to the scene of desolation.</p>
+<p>Heavy masses of breakers were continually striking the pier-head
+with fearful crashes; now bursting over, amid seas of spray, with
+resistless impetuosity, drenching every one under its lee; now
+recoiling for a brief moment, as if to gather strength, leaving a
+smooth, hollow waste of oily sea&mdash;like the treacherous pauses
+of human passion,&mdash;and then returning with wilder haste and
+tenfold added fury to the onset.</p>
+<p>The morning was waning away. I left the pier, and bent my course
+away from Landwithiel.</p>
+<p>The path I pursued led along the summit of the cliffs;
+oftentimes winding so close round the edge of a projecting
+acclivity, that it required a clear head and a steady foot, for one
+false step would have been instant destruction. The coast below me
+was justly entitled to take its place amongst the finest
+rock-scenery in the island; and exhibited in its grandest form, the
+peculiarly wild and picturesque nature of the coast of Cornwall.
+After working my way against a head-wind for three or four miles, I
+took shelter in Dawlish's Watch Tower, an old half-ruined building,
+which commanded an almost boundless look-out. Nearly right opposite
+to this station lay the Wolf-stone, an insular, and almost
+inaccessible rock, which rose in deep water about three-quarters of
+a mile from land. Whilst scanning with my glass the windward
+horizon, I accidentally rested on this islet, and I had not looked
+long before my gaze was rivetted to it. Two individuals I fancied
+were standing near a pole which was erected on the highest point.
+These lone and unusual tenants of the sea-birds' home <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page315" name="page315"></a>[pg 315]</span> were
+obviously, from their motions, much agitated. A heavy driving
+shower, for a few minutes, wrapped it in mist. When this cleared
+off, the black and dreary front of the Wolf-stone became dimly
+visible through the tumultuous assemblage of gigantic breakers,
+that were every instant grappling with the steep which defied them.
+Another minute's observation and I was running at my utmost speed
+back to Landwithiel. The captives could be no other than Sam and
+Arthur Clovelly.</p>
+<p>My arrival caused universal stir and interest in Landwithiel.
+The Dasher, the best sea-boat in the harbour was instantly manned,
+with directions to pull to Carn Cove, almost opposite the rock,
+whither the rest of the men rapidly proceeded along the heights.
+Helston and myself also went thither to consult in the first
+instance, as to the best plan for relief; for no boat could live,
+in such a day as this, within some distance of the rock.</p>
+<p>The anxious group gathered on the edge of the cliff; and while a
+white flag was running up a boat's mast which we had erected on the
+tower, we cheered loudly and repeatedly to assure the distant
+captives that aid was nigh.</p>
+<p>"It is Sam&mdash;God be praised," sang out Helston, who was
+steadily looking out through his glass&mdash;and every one crowded
+around. "And is Arthur there too, Charles?"&mdash;"Yes, I
+see.&mdash;Death! I thought that wave would sweep over all. Now
+they wave their neckcloths&mdash;they beckon us to use haste. High
+water is drawing fast on, and what man ever lived on the Wolfstone
+in a spring flood. They wave again; sing away there, my lads,
+cheerily!" and a tumultuous shout of human voices again mingled
+with the blast.</p>
+<p>Almost every eye was now cast out for the Dasher, and she was
+seen pulling with great difficulty&mdash;for a handkerchief of
+canvass would have been madness&mdash;towards the shelter of a
+projecting mass of rock, in Carne Cove, in the comparatively smooth
+water behind which, Helston and myself were enabled with some
+difficulty to get aboard. It was a moment of some excitement.
+Accustomed from childhood fearlessly to brave an element they might
+truly call their own, the gallant little crew steadily seated
+themselves, and taking off their hats manfully answered the
+encouraging cheers from aloft. The men now shipped their oars, and
+all having been made snug, I seated myself in the stern-sheets,
+near Helston, who had taken the helm. There was something fine in
+his weather-beaten countenance, and grey hair streaming in the
+breeze, as he steadily scanned the dark masses of the distant
+Wolf-stone&mdash;he was a true seaman.</p>
+<p>The Dasher was a boat that would live in almost any weather on
+this coast, head to wind; but when she was put about, there was no
+little danger of her being pooped in a heavy following sea. Ours
+was now the former case, and as the crew put her through the
+contending sea, which at every stroke hit our bows and soaked us
+with spray, I anxiously consulted with Helston on the best means of
+shipping the captives on making the Wolf-stone. Keeping his eye
+fixed on the rock, which was grimly visible on our larboard bow, he
+shook his head as the portentous darkness of the sky again claimed
+our attention. "If we had been delayed a quarter of an hour longer
+they would have been food for fishes;" I remarked, "but it will be
+close run; our men are doing all that strength and skill can do,
+but it avails little when opposed to such a power as this."</p>
+<p>"Never fear, sir, we shall do yet&mdash;you are not so cool as
+I&mdash;how should you? when I have braved the storms of nearly
+sixty winters:&mdash;but the Wolf-stone's a spot, I will frankly
+confess, with which I had rather make acquaintance with a clearer
+sky and a flowing sheet, than on such a night as this. Just give a
+look-out a-head, sir," he added, as we were mounting a heavy sea,
+"and tell me how things are aloft on the rock."</p>
+<p>However formidable this dreary steep might have appeared at a
+distance, now we were drawing near to it, the wildness and
+sublimity of the scene surpassed my calculations. The fugitives,
+who by their gestures were urging us onward, had been driven for
+shelter to a hollow on the leeward side of the rock, which indeed
+was almost the only spot that now afforded an asylum from danger.
+The waves as they came rolling onwards with aggravated force from
+the main, ever and anon burst against the isle with terrific
+violence, now breaking into gigantic masses, then driven in columns
+of sparkling spray to a vast height in the air, and now closing on
+every side around their victims. The isle, indeed, appeared to be
+menaced with total annihilation.</p>
+<p>As we could now distinguish both the brothers, we instinctively
+cheered them on drawing towards the landward side of the rock. They
+were compelled every minute to crouch and cling to the cliff
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page316" name="page316"></a>[pg
+316]</span> under which they had taken shelter, as a huge wave
+burst below their feet, and struck them in its upward violence. The
+Wolf-stone could no longer raise its head in dominion over the
+main. The surf ran so high immediately around it, that to approach
+at all closely would only have ended in the destruction of every
+soul. We, therefore, hailed them as we stood under its lee, and
+found that in consequence of their having remained almost all night
+on this dreary spot, drenched with wet, and chilled with cold, any
+effort to swim through the surf would probably be fatal in their
+exhausted state. What then remained to be done? We had ropes on
+board which would be of infinite service, could we only devise
+means to convey them to the rock. At this juncture, the services of
+my old Newfoundlander, Retriever, came forcibly to my mind. The
+poor animal had refused to be separated from me when we embarked,
+and lay at my feet in the boat. On his exertions therefore depended
+the lives of our friends. He soon understood the task he was to
+perform, and in another second was dashing onwards through the
+waves. An affecting scene now took place between the brothers, as
+to who should first avail himself of the approaching aid. A
+gigantic rush of tide, which almost swept entirely over the rock,
+told them, however, that time was precious. But Sam was firm. The
+younger brother then plunged forward and was soon drawn safely on
+board. He informed us, as Retriever again swam away with the rope,
+that he feared his brother was much more exhausted than himself.
+With breathless interest, therefore, we watched Sam tie the rope
+round his body, and enter the water. The violence of the gale, at
+this instant, compelled us to stand further off the rock; indeed,
+within a few minutes we foresaw that its presence would only be
+indicated by a low black mass indistinctly seen, amidst the boiling
+and restless waves of the ocean; an appearance, I was told, which
+it only presents in the most violent storms. Poor Sam, now seen,
+now lost, amid the foaming ridges of the sea, came gradually along
+till within about forty paces from the boat, when it was evident
+his strength had failed him. An arm was shot into the air, then his
+head and shoulders rose rapidly, and there was a sudden blank in
+the waters. "Pull away, my lads, for your lives," we shouted, "or
+he is gone!"</p>
+<hr />
+<p>"It was a hard run thing, I reckon, sirs," said Mr. Habbakuk
+Sheepshanks, who was rather top-heavy that evening, to a numerous
+party who were assembled round his capacious hearth at the
+"Ship-aground," "but all's well, they say, that ends well, so we'll
+even drink the health of the brothers in a glass of the free
+genuine Cognac." "What is that you say!" said the exciseman....</p>
+<p>VYVYAN.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>LONDON AND THE PROVINCES COMPARED.</h3>
+<p>It is the nature of prosperous communities, and the fashion of
+modern times, to centralize too much their numbers and their
+powers. But the question of distribution and proportion is almost
+as important in politics as that of production itself. Money and
+manure are not the only things which are the better for being
+spread. London and the country would both be gainers by
+transplanting bodily, a hundred miles off, some dozens of its
+streets&mdash;inhabitants and all. There are whole counties which
+we should like to colonize with the surplus talent of the
+metropolis. That surplus talent comprises scores of men, waiting on
+Providence, feeding on foolish speculations, hanging on the skirts
+of some frivolous circle, doing nothing there, or worse than
+nothing, spoiling and wasting daily, who, planted out into a sphere
+of more favourable opportunities, are capable of being a blessing
+to a neighbourhood. However, it is not a case for violent measures.
+We do not propose that London should be compressed into <i>London
+proper</i>,&mdash;within the bills of mortality; or that its clubs
+should be called out on country service. Patriots, philosophers,
+and diners out, rusticating by royal proclamation, and under the
+<i>surveillance</i> of the police, would not come with a temper
+very suitable to our purpose. An experiment of that sort was made
+under more likely circumstance, and failed;&mdash;as all
+experiments must, which seek to remove the symptoms, instead of
+trying to act upon the cause. It was in vain that James I. pulled
+down the new houses as fast as they were built; and that Charles I.
+ordered home the country gentlemen.</p>
+<p>Although there seems something artificial, and almost monstrous,
+in the actual size of London, the means which have led to this
+result are altogether natural. Indeed, whatever forcing has been at
+any time used, or prejudice fostered, <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+"page317" name="page317"></a>[pg 317]</span> has told the other
+way. Nothing has existed which can be called a court or courtiers
+for the last two hundred years; and a sort of feudal feeling still
+keeps our squires faithful to their halls. Two exceptions only can
+be set down to our institutions. The distinction of local courts
+obliges the English Bar to reside near Westminster; and the
+duration of a modern session substitutes a house for the family of
+a Member of Parliament, in the place of lodgings for himself. Under
+these circumstances, as "the wen" has not been produced, so is it
+not likely to be dispersed by any direct legislative application.
+To say the truth, the grievance, in our opinion, is not in the
+<i>absolute</i>, but in the <i>relative</i> amount of the wealth,
+intelligence, and virtue, squeezed together on those marvellous
+square miles upon which the capital stands. We do not grudge it the
+pretty country which is hid under its basement stories, any more
+than the social activity and happiness which live along its crowded
+streets. We serve ejectments upon nobody. The only question is,
+whether some would not do well to move of themselves. Among the
+hopes and objects by whose influence 1,200,000 human beings are
+collected on the same spot, a certain proportion will be found,
+which have not been at all,&mdash;and more still, which have not
+been very judiciously or magnanimously, considered. There are many
+in the higher classes of its inhabitants especially, who, we
+suspect, on examining into their principles and habits, will have
+some difficulty in satisfying themselves that they have not chosen
+ill for their real happiness; and, for all real usefulness, a great
+deal worse. But the mistaken notion which most strips the country
+of its natural guardians, is the fallacy, on the part of young and
+sanguine dispositions, of believing that the motives and sphere of
+individual action rise in proportion to the apparent magnitude of
+the scene. These are the absentees most to be regretted. In the
+single line of professional practice, and in its most successful
+instances, that may be the case. But in taking ninety-nine cases
+out of a hundred, and in every other of the varied departments of
+social duty, the sphere of useful action, however nominally
+extended, will be found to be strictly and substantially
+reduced.</p>
+<p>There can be as little fear that London will ever want any of
+the elements of an enlightened and well-constituted community, as
+that it will not be large enough. It is very different with the
+provinces. The capital offers so many real, and still more, so many
+plausible attractions to all that is active and refined, as well as
+to all that is idle and selfish in human nature, that a long list
+of supernumaries and expectants is sure, in every case, always to
+be at hand. It is the lottery into which the credulous are eager to
+put in;&mdash;it is the theatre on whose stage ambition and vanity
+are impatient to appear;&mdash;it is the land of Cockayne, in whose
+crowded mazes the selfish escape from every duty, and reduce their
+intercourse with their fellow-creatures to the sympathies of
+visiting and of shopping. It is the seat also of liberal society,
+and independent existence, among the friends and occupations of
+one's choice. Lord Falkland, the love of his age, admitted, that
+quitting London was the only thing which he was not sufficiently
+master of himself ever to manage without a struggle. In this state
+of things, it is plain that nobody can be of such consequence there
+but that he is easily spared. The death of a town wit is handsomely
+celebrated, if it furnishes five minutes' conversation for the
+table where he dined the day before. He is replaced with the same
+regularity and indifference as fresh snuff is put into a snuff-box,
+or fresh flowers are set out upon the epergne. Nobody misses him.
+The machine goes on without perceiving that the blue-bottle or the
+gnat has fallen from its wheel.</p>
+<p>The vastness and multiplicity and complexity of the organization
+by which the movements of the capital proceed, as it were
+mechanically, do not act merely by diminishing the general
+importance of individuals to the system. Except in the case of very
+happy, and universal, and flowing natures, or under the influence
+of accidental counteractions, a personal risk, between extreme
+vagueness and extreme narrowness of character, is incurred by the
+individual himself. In respect of employment, the division of
+intellectual labour is so complete, that most persons in such a
+situation are tempted to do their own piece of work, and no
+more;&mdash;to rest satisfied with manufacturing the pin's head
+which happens to have fallen to their share. Does a London life
+tend to quicken the moral pulse and expand the heart? The forms of
+society are thrown into too large a scale, and its pace is too
+rapid, to afford an opportunity for the sort of intercourse by
+which alone a real acquaintance with, understanding of, and
+affection for, each other can be obtained. No means exist of
+getting there at any thing further than talents in men, and beauty
+or accomplishments in women.</p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page318" name="page318"></a>[pg
+318]</span>
+<p>Qualities which can be exhibited as a show are discovered and
+appreciated accordingly. But wisdom and virtue, which are to the
+mind what breath is to the body, have no part assigned or
+assignable to them on such a stage. A man may pass a life in London
+without an occasion arising by which his neighbours can learn
+whether he is an honest fellow or a rogue. The consequence is, that
+a good deal of such a man's moral nature gets imperfectly
+developed, and dies away. The appropriate object is not brought
+sufficiently close and home to him to stimulate and call forth his
+latent powers. Charity is perhaps better off than most. By a
+satisfactory compromise, it falls into the hands of a mendicity
+society. But there are other virtues which do not admit of being
+compounded for, and their burden transferred to a committee, for
+two guineas a-year. In these cases the moral tax is too often
+evaded altogether. We are well aware that men of pleasure are far
+from being the only persons who have turned into a maxim of life
+the sentence which the Duke of Buckingham passed upon the dog which
+barked after him,&mdash;"Would to God you were married and settled
+in the country!" It is evident that the word <i>provincial</i> is
+often felt, by characters of a higher strain and object, to imply
+an imputation or admission of mediocrity. Now, greatly as nations
+differ, it is generally admitted that all capitals are pretty much
+alike. It follows therefore, that the characteristic spirit and
+principle of a nation do not appear there to most advantage. Enow
+worthy representatives of that spirit and principle are doubtless
+there; but they are there too much as though they were not. It is
+an atmosphere which no individual powers can penetrate, and where
+it needs more than an ordinary sun to make itself felt or seen. We
+are satisfied that, on a just estimate of the whole case, the
+provinces, as distinguished from the metropolis, would be found in
+many instances, perhaps in most, to be the home which a wise lover
+of himself, and a sincere lover of his kind, would do well to fix
+in;&mdash;not indeed as the scene of a brilliant or sybarite
+existence, but as the post of that salutary influence which sinks
+deepest; and of that usefulness and happiness which last the
+longest; as most visibly incorporated with, and represented by, our
+fellow-beings.&mdash;<i>Edinburgh Review.</i></p>
+<hr />
+<h3>INFANCY.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>From the Feuilles d'Automne of Victor Hugo, translated in
+the Foreign Quarterly Review.</i>)</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>In the dusky court,</p>
+<p>Near the altar laid,</p>
+<p>Sleeps the child in shadow,</p>
+<p class="i2">Of his mother's bed:</p>
+<p>Softly he reposes,</p>
+<p>And his lids of roses.</p>
+<p>Closed to earth, uncloses</p>
+<p class="i2">On the heaven o'erhead.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Many a dream is with him,</p>
+<p>Fresh from the fairy land,</p>
+<p>Spangled o'er with diamonds</p>
+<p class="i2">Seems the ocean sand;</p>
+<p>Suns are gleaming there.</p>
+<p>Troops of ladies fair</p>
+<p>Souls of infants bear</p>
+<p class="i2">In their charming hand.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>O, enchanting vision,</p>
+<p>Lo, a rill up-springs,</p>
+<p>And, from out its bosom</p>
+<p class="i2">Comes a voice that sings.</p>
+<p>Lovelier there appear</p>
+<p>Sire and sisters dear,</p>
+<p>While his mother near,</p>
+<p class="i2">Plumes her new-born wings.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>But a brighter vision</p>
+<p>Yet his eyes behold;</p>
+<p>Roses all, and lilies,</p>
+<p class="i2">Every path enfold;</p>
+<p>Lakes in shadow sleeping,</p>
+<p>Silver fishes leaping,</p>
+<p>And the waters creeping,</p>
+<p class="i2">Through the reeds of gold.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Slumber on, sweet infant.</p>
+<p>Slumber peacefully;</p>
+<p>Thy young soul yet knows not</p>
+<p class="i2">What thy lot may be.</p>
+<p>Like dead leaves that sweep</p>
+<p>Down the stormy deep,</p>
+<p>Thou art borne in sleep,</p>
+<p class="i2">What is all to thee?</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Thou canst slumber by the way;</p>
+<p>Thou hast learnt to borrow</p>
+<p>Naught from study, naught from care;</p>
+<p class="i2">The cold hand of sorrow,</p>
+<p>On thy brow unwrinkled yet,</p>
+<p>Where young truth and candour sit,</p>
+<p>Ne'er with rugged nail hath writ</p>
+<p class="i2">That sad word, "To-morrow."</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Innocent, thou sleepest&mdash;</p>
+<p>See the heavenly band.</p>
+<p>Who foreknow the trials</p>
+<p class="i2">That for man are planned;</p>
+<p>Seeing him unarmed,</p>
+<p>Unfearing, un-alarmed,</p>
+<p>With their tears have warmed</p>
+<p class="i2">His unconscious hand.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Angels, hovering o'er him,</p>
+<p>Kiss him where he lies.</p>
+<p>Hark, he sees them weeping,</p>
+<p class="i2">"Gabriel," he cries;</p>
+<p>"Hush," the angel says,</p>
+<p>On his lip be lays</p>
+<p>One finger, one displays</p>
+<p class="i2">His native skies.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>STATE OF SOCIETY IN NEW SOUTH WALES.</h3>
+<p>The following exhibits but a lamentable picture of the "milk and
+honey" of this favoured land:</p>
+<p>"The morals of the colony of New South Wales are of an
+exceedingly depraved description. It is so far from being a country
+where men begin a new life and enter upon a fresh course with
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page319" name="page319"></a>[pg
+319]</span> resolutions of amendment, that the testimony of all
+respectable men examined on the subject unites in asserting that
+the habits of the freed men, even of those who have acquired
+property and have families, are of the most dissipated character.
+Of the emancipists, to whom grants of land have been made and who
+are often wealthy, very few, not more it is said than half a dozen,
+can be selected whose lives are not of a vicious description, who
+do not indulge in dishonest practices of one sort or another, and
+who have not risen to wealth by fostering and practising some
+species of villany. These men procure convicts to be assigned to
+them, who become members of the families, and assist them in
+carrying on their various frauds. In Sydney the grog shops are very
+numerous, and grog shops are receiving houses. A constant trade in
+stolen goods is going on between Sydney and the remotest parts of
+the colony, and even between Sydney and this country. The convicts
+in remote settlements have no means generally of indulging in
+licentiousness, but they see constantly before them the freed
+labourer who has, and they burn to enjoy similar privileges: and
+should their place of occupation be too remote from a theatre of
+indulgence, they get a week of holiday at Sydney, where they arrive
+in numbers, and, for the time they stay, wallow in every species of
+debauchery. In such a state of society the public standard of
+morality must necessarily fall to a very low degree. The leaven
+spreads from the corrupted part into the whole mass. Just as the
+slang of London thieves is become the classical language of Sydney,
+so do necessarily a familiarity with crime, hatred to law, and
+contempt for virtue, make their way into the minds and hearts of
+those who are untainted with actual crime. So far from a
+reformation being even begun in New South Wales, it would seem that
+roguery had been carried a degree beyond even the perfection it has
+reached here. Property is very insecure in Sydney, and the most
+extraordinary robberies take place. Mr. James Walker, in his
+evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, says 'the
+colony has a curious effect upon the most practised thieves in this
+country; one of the most experienced thieves in London has
+<i>something to learn</i> when he comes out there; probably he
+would be robbed the first night he came into his hut.' This was the
+answer given by an experienced settler to the question, whether he
+thought any considerable degree of reformation took place among the
+convicts residing at a distance from Sydney. It is nearly
+impossible that it should be otherwise. The master can only punish
+his servant by travelling with him some twenty or thirty miles to a
+police magistrate, by which he loses his own time, the labour of
+his servant, perhaps for months, if he is condemned to a road gang,
+and after his return has little advantage from his services.
+Unwillingness to work for a master who has been the cause of his
+punishment is a difficult feeling to counteract. The convict has
+the game in his own hands: he either does no work, wounds himself,
+falls sick, or perhaps, and it is not uncommon, spoils either the
+materials entrusted to him, or the tools which have been put into
+his hands.</p>
+<p>"Mr. Busby, when asked respecting the prevalence of
+bush-rangers, who are escaped convicts and others who have taken to
+the bush, says, in his Evidence (5th Aug. 1831,) that within the
+last twelve months, or two years, bush-rangers have been so
+numerous that it was scarcely possible to travel a hundred miles on
+the road without being stopped: there was scarcely a newspaper, in
+which there were not two or three instances of persons, of every
+rank, being stopped. It was quite an unusual thing
+formerly&mdash;but of late there has been a regular system of
+highway robbery. The laws that have been enacted to put down this
+horrible state of things, will serve for an index of the condition
+of the colony. They do away with every appearance of personal
+liberty. 'One act empowered magistrates to issue a warrant,
+authorizing constables to enter or break into any house, within
+their district or county, by day or night, at their own discretion;
+and to seize any person they might suspect to be highway robbers or
+burglars; or any individual in the colony, without any warrant or
+authority, may take another into custody, on the mere suspicion
+that he is a convict illegally at large: if it appear to the
+magistrate that he had a just or probable cause for suspicion, he
+is justified in doing so. The onus of proving that he is not a
+convict illegally at large, is thrown upon the suspected person,
+and if that is not established to the satisfaction of the
+magistrate, he is liable to be retained in custody, or sent to
+Sydney to be examined and dealt with.'</p>
+<p>"The number of executions in New South Wales in the year 1830
+exceeded the whole number of executions in England and Wales, in
+the same year; <span class="pagenum"><a id="page320" name=
+"page320"></a>[pg 320]</span> which, taking the proportion of the
+populations of the countries, makes capital punishments upwards of
+three hundred and twenty-five times as frequent as in the mother
+country. This horrid fact is pretty well, of itself, an answer to
+all argument drawn from the idea of Reformation. But direct
+testimony is abundant. Major McArthur, the son of one of the
+wealthiest and most extensive settlers in the colony, and to whom
+it owes so much for its present progress in production and
+commerce, states, 'It is painful to know that those whose sentences
+have expired, or to whom pardons have been granted, seldom or ever
+incline to reform, even when they have acquired property.
+Intoxication and fraud are habitual to them; and hardly six persons
+can be named throughout the colony, who, being educated men, and
+having been transported for felonies, have afterwards become sober,
+moral, and industrious members of the community. Crime is of
+constant occurrence, and so completely organized, that cattle are
+carried off from the settlers in large numbers, and slaughtered for
+the traders in Sydney, who contract with the commissariat. It is
+not, therefore, the vicious habits alone of the town which are to
+be dreaded, but the effects that are communicated and felt
+throughout the country. The agricultural labourer is encouraged to
+plunder his master, by finding a ready sale for the property he
+steals, and whenever his occupations call him to the towns, he sees
+and yields himself to the vicious habits around him. He returns
+intoxicated and unsettled to his employer's farm, and incites his
+comrades to the same sensual indulgences, with equal disregard of
+the risk and the consequences. To these causes the present vitiated
+and disorganized state of the convicts in New South Wales is
+chiefly attributable; and the extent of the evil maybe in some
+degree estimated, when it is stated <i>that the expense of the
+police establishment amounts to more</i> than 20,000<i>l</i>. per
+annum for a population of 40,000 souls."</p>
+<p><i>Foreign Quarterly Review.</i></p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE GATHERER</h2>
+<p><i>Premiers.</i>&mdash;The following list of premiers, from the
+accession of George III. to 1832, with the number of peers created
+during their respective premierships, may be acceptable at the
+present period:&mdash;Lord Chatham, 9; Lord Bute, 9; George
+Grenville, 4; Lord Rockingham, 4; Duke of Grafton, none; Lord
+North, 27; Lord Shelburn, none; Mr. Fox, 7; Mr. Pitt, 90; Mr.
+Addington, 24; Lord Grenville, 3; Duke of Portland, 4; Mr.
+Perceval, none; Lord Liverpool, 50; Mr. Canning, 7; Lord Goderich,
+6; Duke of Wellington, 2; and Earl Grey, 25.&mdash;<span style=
+"margin-left:3em">W.G.C.</span></p>
+<p><i>Peers</i>.&mdash;Number of peers (in the present peerage)
+created by each sovereign, from the reign of Henry III. (1264) to
+the accession of his present majesty:&mdash;Henry III., 2; Edward
+I., 7; Edward II., 6; Edward III., 1; Henry VI., 5; Henry VII, 1;
+Henry VIII., 6; Edward VI., 2; Mary, 2; Elizabeth, 8; James I., 15;
+Charles I., 10; Charles II., 16; James II., 1; William III., 7;
+Anne, 14; George I., 15; George II., 20; George III., 145; George
+IV., 46.<span style="margin-left:3em">W.G.C.</span></p>
+<p><i>Theatrical Property in France</i>.&mdash;A dramatic author in
+France is entitled, every night that his play is performed, to a
+fixed sum per act, viz. 10 francs, for Paris; 5 francs for the
+large theatres in the country; 3 francs for the second-rate
+provincial theatres; and 2 francs for the third-rate. A bureau is
+established by government, to receive the contributions, and any
+manager neglecting to make a return, is punished by a heavy fine;
+the amount of which goes to the author. The advantages arising from
+this system are also enjoyed by the widow and children of the
+author. It is calculated that the author of the <i>Ecole des
+Viellards</i>, derives nightly, from the performance of that piece,
+in Paris, and the provinces, about 500 francs. Scribe, a successful
+<i>vaudeville</i> writer, is in receipt of a handsome income; and
+Merle was able, from the contributions upon his pieces, to open the
+Port St. Martin Theatre, upon a liberal scale, and thus to lay the
+foundation of a brilliant fortune.<span style="margin-left:3em">T.
+GILL.</span></p>
+<p><i>A Magdalene</i>.&mdash;-A French bishop preaching, exclaimed,
+"A Magdalene is present, she is looking at me, I will not mention
+her name, but I will throw my book at her." He then raised his arm
+as if to put his threat into execution, when all the women in the
+church ducked their heads. "What," said he, "all
+Magdalenes."<span style="margin-left:3em">SWAINE.</span></p>
+<p><i>Unwelcome Title</i>.&mdash;Charles Incledon, the vocalist,
+being asked if he had ever read Murray's <i>Sermons to Asses</i>,
+replied, "he had not, he did not like the book, the title was too
+personal."</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name=
+"footnote1"></a> <b>Footnote 1</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+<p>Mackintosh's Hist. England, vol. i, p. 247.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote2" name=
+"footnote2"></a> <b>Footnote 2</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+<p>Observations on the River Wye, &amp;c. By William Gilpin,
+M.A.&mdash;Fifth Edition.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote3" name=
+"footnote3"></a> <b>Footnote 3</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+<p>See Mirror, No. 205, vol. xi.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote4" name=
+"footnote4"></a> <b>Footnote 4</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag4">(return)</a>
+<p>See "Recollections of a Wanderer," <i>Mirror</i>, Nos.
+430-475.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote5" name=
+"footnote5"></a> <b>Footnote 5</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag5">(return)</a>
+<p>See <i>Mirror</i>, No. 475. "Dawlish's Hole."</p>
+</blockquote>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p><i>Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near
+Somerset House.) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market,
+Leipsic, G.G. BENNIS, 55, Rue Neuve, St. Augustin, Paris; and by
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
+       Vol. 19, Issue 547, May 19, 1832
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 19. No. 547.]    SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1832    [PRICE 2d.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+WILTON CASTLE.
+
+
+[Illustration: Wilton Castle.]
+
+Here is one of the ivy-mantled relics that lend even a charm to romantic
+nature on the banks of the Wye. Its shattered tower and crumbling wall,
+combine with her wild luxuriance, to form a scene of great picturesque
+beauty, though, as Gilpin observes, "the scene wants accompaniments to
+give it grandeur."
+
+These ruins stand opposite to Ross, on the western bank of the Wye. The
+Castle was for several centuries the baronial residence of the Greys of
+the south, who derived from it their first title, and who became owners
+in the time of Edward the First. It may therefore be presumed to have
+been one of the strongholds, in the great struggles for feudal
+superiority with Wales, which were commenced by Edward, whose "active
+and splendid reign may be considered as an attempt to subject the whole
+island of Great Britain to his sway."[1] Or, in earlier times, being
+situated on the ancient barrier between England and Wales, it may have
+been a station of some importance, from its contiguity to Hereford,
+which city was destroyed by the Welsh, but rebuilt and fortified by
+Harold, who also strengthened the castle. The whole district is of
+antiquarian interest, since, at the period of the Roman invasion,
+Herefordshire was inhabited by the Silures, who also occupied the
+adjacent counties of Radnor, Monmouth, and Glamorgan, together with that
+part of Gloucestershire which lies westward of the Severn. The Silures,
+in conjunction with the Ordovices, or inhabitants of North Wales,
+retarded, for a considerable period, the progress of the Roman victors,
+whose grand object seems to have been the conquest of these nations, who
+had chosen the gallant Caractacus as their chieftain, and resolutely
+exhausted every effort in defence of the independence of their country.
+
+    [1] Mackintosh's Hist. England, vol. i, p. 247.
+
+The present demolished state of the Castle is referred to the Royalist
+Governors of Hereford, by whose orders it was burnt to the bare walls
+during the reign of Charles I. in the absence of its then possessor, Sir
+J. Brydges.
+
+The scenery of the WYE, at this point is thus described by tourists:
+"From Hereford to Ross, its features occasionally assume greater
+boldness; though more frequently their aspect is placid; but at the
+latter town wholly emerging from its state of repose," it resumes the
+brightness and rapidity of its primitive character, as it forms the
+admired curve which the churchyard of Ross commands. The celebrated
+spire of Ross church, peeping over a noble row of elms, here fronts the
+ruined Castle of Wilton, beneath the arches of whose bridge, the Wye
+flows through a charming succession of meadows, encircling at last the
+lofty and well-wooded hill, crowned with the majestic fragments of
+Gooderich Castle, and opposed by the waving eminences of the forest of
+Dean. The mighty pile, or peninsula, of Symonds' Rock succeeds, round
+which the river flows in a circuit of seven miles, though the opposite
+points of the isthmus are only one mile asunder. Shortly afterwards, the
+Wye quits the county, and enters Monmouthshire at the New Wear.
+
+The Rev. Mr. Gilpin, in his charming little volume on Picturesque
+Beauty,[2] has a few appropriate observations: after passing Wilton--
+
+    [2] Observations on the River Wye, &c. By William Gilpin,
+    M.A.--Fifth Edition.
+
+"We met with nothing for some time during our voyage but grand, woody
+banks, one rising behind another; appearing and vanishing by turns, as
+we doubled the several capes. But though no particular objects
+characterized these different scenes, yet they afforded great variety of
+pleasing views, both as we wound round the several promontories, which
+discovered new beauties as each scene opened, and when we kept the same
+scene a longer time in view, stretching along some lengthened reach,
+where the river is formed into an irregular vista by hills shooting out
+beyond each other and going off in perspective."
+
+We ought not to forget to mention Ross, and its association with one of
+the noblest works of GOD--honest John Kyrle, celebrated as the Man of
+Ross. Pope, during his visits at Holm-Lacey, in the vicinity, obtained
+sufficient knowledge of his beneficence, to render due homage to his
+worth in one of the brightest pages of the records of human character.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+"MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS"--EGGS.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+In a paper on the _Superstitions of the Sea_, a few years ago,[3] I
+slightly alluded to the nautical belief that the appearance of the
+Stormy Petrel, and other marine birds at sea, was often considered to be
+the forerunner of peril and disaster; and as your excellent
+correspondent, _M.L.B._, in a recent number, expresses a wish to know
+the origin of the _soubriquet_ of _Mother Carey's Chickens_, which the
+former birds have obtained, I now give it with all the brevity which is
+consistent with so important a narration. It appears that a certain
+outward-bound Indiaman, called the _Tiger_, (but in what year I am
+unable to state,) had encountered one continued series of storms, during
+her whole passage; till on nearing the Cape of Good Hope, she was almost
+reduced to a wreck. Here, however, the winds and waves seemed bent on
+her destruction; in the midst of the storm, flocks of strange looking
+birds were seen hovering and wheeling in the air around the devoted
+ship, and one of the passengers, a woman called "Mother Carey," was
+observed by the glare of the lightning to laugh and smile when she
+looked at these foul-weather visitants; on which she was not only set
+down as a witch, but it was also thought that they were her familiars,
+whom she had invoked from the _Red Sea_; and "all hands" were seriously
+considering on the propriety of getting rid of the old beldam, (as is
+usual in such cases,) by setting her afloat, when she saved them the
+trouble, and at that moment jumped overboard, surrounded by flames; on
+which the birds vanished, the storm cleared away, and the tempest-tossed
+_Tiger_ went peacefully on her course! Ever since the occurrence of this
+"astounding yarn," the birds have been called "Mother Carey's Chickens,"
+and are considered by our sailors to be the most unlucky of all the
+feathered visitants at sea.
+
+    [3] See Mirror, No. 205, vol. xi.
+
+To turn by a not unnatural transition from _birds_ to _eggs_, permit me
+to inform your Scottish correspondent, _S.S._ (see No. 536,) where he
+asserts that the plan of rubbing eggs with grease in order to preserve
+them, "is not so much as known in our own boasted land of stale eggs and
+bundlewood;" that the said _discovery_ has long been known and practised
+in many parts of old England; and that the repeated experience of
+several friends warrants me in giving a decided negative to his
+assertion that eggs so prepared "_will keep any length of time perfectly
+fresh_." If kept for a considerable period, though they do not become
+absolutely bad, yet they turn _very stale_. I happen to know something
+of Scotland, and was never before aware that the raw clime of our
+northern neighbours was so celebrated for its poultry. _M.L.B._ is
+certainly misinformed in speaking of the trade in _Scotch_ eggs to
+_America_. The importation of eggs from the continent into England is
+very extensive: the duty in 1827 amounted at the rate of 10_d_. per 120,
+to 23,062_l_. 19_s_. 1_d_.; since which period there has, we believe,
+been an increase. The importation of eggs from Ireland is also very
+large. If _S.S._ resides in London, he may have occasion to sneer at
+"our boasted land of stale eggs;" but he should rather sneer at the
+preserved French eggs, with which the London dealers are principally
+supplied.
+
+VYVYAN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CURFEW BELL.
+
+(To the Editor.)
+
+
+In addition to the remarks made by _Reginald_, in No. 543, and by
+_M.D._, and _G.C._, in No. 545 of _The Mirror_, let me add that the
+Curfew is rung every night at eight, in my native town, (Winchester,)
+and the bell, a large one, weighing 12 cwt., is appropriated for the
+purpose, (not belonging to a church) but affixed in the tower of the
+Guildhall, and used only for this occasion, or on an alarm of fire.
+
+In that city the Curfew was first established under the command of the
+Conqueror, and the practice has continued to the present day. I have
+been assured by many old residents, that it formerly was the custom to
+ring the bell every morning at four o'clock, but the practice being
+found annoying to persons living near, the Corporation ordered it to be
+discontinued.
+
+To such of your readers who, like myself, are fond of a solitary ramble
+along the sea shore by moonlight, I would say, go to Southampton or the
+Isle of Wight; take an evening walk from Itchen through the fields to
+Netley, thence to the Abbey and Fort ruins, under woods that for a
+considerable distance skirt the coast; or on the opposite side, through
+the Forest of Oaks, from Eling to Dibden, and onwards over the meadows
+to Hythe: there they may, in either, find ample food for reflection,
+connected with the Curfew Bell.
+
+Seated on a fragment of the towers of Netley Abbey, whose pinnacles were
+so often hailed by seamen as well known landmarks, but whose Curfew has
+for centuries been quiet, the spectator may see before him the crumbling
+remains of a fort, erected hundreds of years ago. On the left is an
+expanse of water as far as the eye can reach, and in his front the
+celebrated New Forest,--
+
+  Majestic woods of ever vigorous green,
+  Stage above stage, high waving o'er the bills;
+  Or to the far horizon wide diffus'd,
+  A boundless deep immensity of shade--
+
+the scene of William's tyranny and atrocity, the spot where his children
+met their untimely end, and where may be seen the _tumuli_ erected over
+the remains of the Britons who fell in defence of their country.
+
+In the deep recesses of a wood in the south-east prospect, the eye may
+faintly distinguish the mouldering remains of the Abbey of Beaulieu,
+famed in days of yore for its Sanctuary, the name of which is now only
+recorded in history. Even the site of the tower is unknown, whose Curfew
+has long ceased to warn the seamen, or draw the deep curse from the
+forester.
+
+There they may
+
+  "On a plat of rising ground,
+  Hear the far off Curfew sound,
+  Over the wide watered shore,
+  Swinging slow with sullen roar."
+
+The Curfew is rung at Southampton, Downton, Ringwood, and many other
+towns in the west, every night at eight.
+
+P.Q.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SPANISH SCENERY.
+
+
+The following is from the delightful pencil of Washington Irving: it
+will be seen to bear all the polish of his best style:--
+
+"Many are apt to picture Spain to their imaginations as a soft southern
+region, decked out with all the luxuriant charms of voluptuous Italy. On
+the contrary, though there are exceptions in some of the maritime
+provinces, yet, for the greater part, it is a stern, melancholy country,
+with rugged mountains, and long sweeping plains, destitute of trees, and
+indescribably silent and lonesome, partaking of the savage and solitary
+character of Africa. What adds to this silence and loneliness, is the
+absence of singing-birds, a natural consequence of the want of groves
+and hedges. The vulture and the eagle are seen wheeling about the
+mountain-cliffs, and soaring over the plains, and groups of shy bustards
+stalk about the heaths; but the myriads of smaller birds, which animate
+the whole face of other countries are met with in but few provinces in
+Spain, and in those chiefly among the orchards and gardens which
+surround the habitations of man.
+
+"In the interior provinces the traveller occasionally traverses great
+tracts cultivated with grain as far as the eye can reach, waving at
+times with verdure, at other times naked and sunburnt, but he looks
+round in vain for the hand that has tilled the soil. At length, he
+perceives some village on a steep hill, or rugged crag, with mouldering
+battlements and ruined watch tower; a stronghold, in old times, against
+civil war, or Moorish inroad; for the custom among the peasantry of
+congregating together for mutual protection, is still kept up in most
+parts of Spain, in consequence of the maraudings of roving freebooters.
+
+"But though a great part of Spain is deficient in the garniture of
+groves and forests, and the softer charms of ornamental cultivation, yet
+its scenery has something of a high and lofty character to compensate
+the want. It partakes something of the attributes of its people; and I
+think that I better understand the proud, hardy, frugal, and abstemious
+Spaniard, his manly defiance of hardships, and contempt of effeminate
+indulgences, since I have seen the country he inhabits.
+
+"There is something, too, in the sternly simple features of the Spanish
+landscape, that impresses on the soul a feeling of sublimity. The
+immense plains of the Castiles and of La Mancha, extending as far as the
+eye can reach, derive an interest from their very nakedness and
+immensity, and have something of the solemn grandeur of the ocean. In
+ranging over these boundless wastes, the eye catches sight here and
+there of a straggling herd of cattle attended by a lonely herdsman,
+motionless as a statue, with his long, slender pike tapering up like a
+lance into the air; or, beholds a long train of mules slowly moving
+along the waste like a train of camels in the desert; or, a single
+herdsman, armed with blunderbuss and stiletto, and prowling over the
+plain. Thus the country, the habits, the very looks of the people, have
+something of the Arabian character. The general insecurity of the
+country is evinced in the universal use of weapons. The herdsman in the
+field, the shepherd in the plain, has his musket and his knife. The
+wealthy villager rarely ventures to the market-town without his trabuco,
+and, perhaps, a servant on foot with a blunderbuss on his shoulder; and
+the most petty journey is undertaken with the preparation of a warlike
+enterprise.
+
+"The dangers of the road produce also a mode of travelling, resembling,
+on a diminutive scale, the caravans of the east. The arrieros, or
+carriers, congregate in convoys, and set off in large and well-armed
+trains on appointed days; while additional travellers swell their
+number, and contribute to their strength. In this primitive way is the
+commerce of the country carried on. The muleteer is the general medium
+of traffic, and the legitimate traverser of the land, crossing the
+peninsula from the Pyrenees and the Asturias to the Alpuxarras, the
+Serrania de Ronda, and even to the gates of Gibraltar. He lives frugally
+and hardily: his alforjas of coarse cloth hold his scanty stock of
+provisions; a leathern bottle, hanging at his saddle-bow, contains wine
+or water, for a supply across barren mountains and thirsty plains. A
+mule-cloth spread upon the ground, is his bed at night, and his
+pack-saddle is his pillow. His low, but clean-limbed and sinewy form
+betokens strength; his complexion is dark and sunburnt; his eye
+resolute, but quiet in its expression, except when kindled by sudden
+emotion; his demeanour is frank, manly, and courteous, and he never
+passes you without a grave salutation: 'Dios guarde à usted!' 'Va usted
+con Dios, Caballero!' 'God guard you! God be with you, Cavalier!'
+
+"As these men have often their whole fortune at stake upon the burthen
+of their mule, they have their weapons at hand, slung to their saddles,
+and ready to be snatched out for desperate defence. But their united
+numbers render them secure against petty bands of marauders, and the
+solitary bandolero, armed to the teeth, and mounted on his Andalusian
+steed, hovers about them, like a pirate about a merchant convoy, without
+daring to make an assault.
+
+"The Spanish muleteer has an inexhaustible stock of songs and ballads,
+with which to beguile his incessant wayfaring. The airs are rude and
+simple, consisting of but few inflexions. These he chants forth with a
+loud voice, and long, drawling cadence, seated sideways on his mule, who
+seems to listen with infinite gravity, and to keep time, with his paces,
+to the tune. The couplets thus chanted, are often old traditional
+romances about the Moors, or some legend of a saint, or some love-ditty;
+or what is still more frequent, some ballad about a bold contrabandista,
+or hardy bandolero, for the smuggler and the robber are poetical heroes
+among the common people of Spain. Often the song of the muleteer is
+composed at the instant, and relates to some local scenes or some
+incident of the journey. This talent of singing and improvising is
+frequent in Spain, and is said to have been inherited from the Moors.
+There is something wildly pleasing in listening to these ditties among
+the rude and lonely scenes that they illustrate; accompanied, as they
+are, by the occasional jingle of the mule-bell.
+
+"It has a most picturesque effect also to meet a train of muleteers in
+some mountain-pass. First you hear the bells of the leading mules,
+breaking with their simple melody the stillness of the airy height; or,
+perhaps, the voice of the muleteer admonishing some tardy or wandering
+animal, or chanting, at the full stretch of his lungs, some traditionary
+ballad. At length you see the mules slowly winding along the cragged
+defile, sometimes descending precipitous cliffs, so as to present
+themselves in full relief against the sky, sometimes toiling up the deep
+arid chasms below you. As they approach, you descry their gay
+decorations of worsted tufts, tassels, and saddle-cloths, while, as they
+pass by, the ever-ready trabuco slung behind the packs and saddles,
+gives a hint of the insecurity of the road.
+
+"The ancient kingdom of Granada, into which we are about to penetrate,
+is one of the most mountainous regions of Spain. Vast sierras, or chains
+of mountains, destitute of shrub or tree, and mottled with variegated
+marbles and granites, elevate their sun-burnt summits against a
+deep-blue sky; yet in their rugged bosoms lie engulfed the most verdant
+and fertile valley, where the desert and the garden strain for mastery,
+and the very rock is, as it were, compelled to yield the fig, the
+orange, and the citron, and to blossom with the myrtle and the rose.
+
+"In the wild passes of these mountains the sight of walled towns and
+villages, built like eagles' nests among the cliffs, and surrounded by
+Moorish battlements, or of ruined watch-towers perched on lofty peaks,
+carries the mind back to the chivalric days of Christian and Moslem
+warfare, and to the romantic struggle for the conquest of Granada. In
+traversing these lofty sierras the traveller is often obliged to alight
+and lead his horse up and down the steep and jagged ascents and
+descents, resembling the broken steps of a staircase. Sometimes the road
+winds along dizzy precipices, without parapet to guard him from the
+gulfs below, and then will plunge down steep, and dark, and dangerous
+declivities. Sometimes it straggles through rugged barrancos, or
+ravines, worn by winter torrents, the obscure path of the
+contrabandista; while, ever and anon, the ominous cross, the monument of
+robbery and murder, erected on a mound of stones at some lonely part of
+the road, admonishes the traveller that he is among the haunts of
+banditti, perhaps at that very moment under the eye of some lurking
+bandolero. Sometimes, in winding through the narrow valleys, he is
+startled by a hoarse bellowing, and beholds above him on some green fold
+of the mountain side a herd of fierce Andalusian bulls, destined for the
+combat of the arena. There is something awful in the contemplation of
+these terrific animals, clothed with tremendous strength, and ranging
+their native pastures in untamed wildness, strangers almost to the face
+of man: they know no one but the solitary herdsman who attends upon
+them, and even he at times dares not venture to approach them. The low
+bellowing of these bulls, and their menacing aspect as they look down
+from their rocky height, give additional wildness to the savage scenery
+around."
+
+(From _The Alhambra_, or _New Sketch Book_, to which we propose to
+return in a _Supplement_ in a fortnight.)
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+ANECDOTE GALLERY.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE UNLUCKY PRESENT: A TALE.
+
+
+A Lanarkshire minister (who died within the present century) was one of
+those unhappy persons, who, to use the words of a well known Scottish
+adage, "can never see green cheese but their een reels." He was
+_extremely covetous_ and that not only of nice articles of food, but of
+many other things which do not generally excite the cupidity of the
+human heart. The following story is in corroboration of this
+assertion:--Being on a visit one day at the house of one of his
+parishioners, a poor lonely widow, living in a moorland part of the
+parish, he became fascinated by the charms of a little cast-iron pot,
+which happened at the time to be lying on the hearth, full of potatoes
+for the poor woman's dinner, and that of her children. He had never in
+his life seen such a nice little pot--it was a perfect conceit of a
+thing--it was a gem--no pot on earth could match it in symmetry--it was
+an object altogether perfectly lovely. "Dear sake! minister," said the
+widow, quite overpowered by the reverend man's commendations of her pot;
+"if ye like the pot sae weel as a' that, I beg ye'll let me send it to
+the manse. It's a kind o' orra (_superfluous_) pot wi' us; for we've a
+bigger ane, that we use for ordinar, and that's mair convenient every
+way for us. Sae ye'll just tak a present o't. I'll send it ower the morn
+wi' Jamie, when he gangs to the schule." "Oh!" said the minister, "I can
+by no means permit you to be at so much trouble. Since you are so good
+as to give me the pot, I'll just carry it home with me in my hand. I'm
+so much taken with it, indeed, that I would really prefer carrying it
+myself." After much altercation between the minister and the widow, on
+this delicate point of politeness, it was agreed that he should carry
+home the pot himself.
+
+Off then he trudged, bearing this curious little culinary article,
+alternately in his hand and under his arm, as seemed most convenient to
+him. Unfortunately the day was warm, the way long, and the minister fat;
+so that he became heartily tired of his burden before he got half-way
+home. Under these distressing circumstances, it struck him, that, if,
+instead of carrying the pot awkwardly at one side of his person, he were
+to carry it on his head, the burden would be greatly lightened; the
+principles of natural philosophy, which he had learned at college,
+informing him, that when a load presses directly and immediately upon
+any object, it is far less onerous than when it hangs at the remote end
+of a lever. Accordingly, doffing his hat, which he resolved to carry
+home in his band, and having applied his handkerchief to his brow, he
+clapped the pot, in inverted fashion, upon his head, where, as the
+reader may suppose, it figured much like Mambrino's helmet upon the
+crazed capital of Don Quixote, only a great deal more magnificent in
+shape and dimensions. There was, at first, much relief and much comfort
+in this new mode of carrying the pot; but mark the result. The
+unfortunate minister having taken a by-path, to escape observation,
+found himself, when still a good way from home, under the necessity of
+leaping over a ditch, which intercepted him, in passing from one field
+to another. He jumped; but surely no jump was ever taken so completely
+_in_, or, at least _into_, the dark as this. The concussion given to his
+person in descending caused the helmet to become a hood; the pot slipped
+down over his face, and resting with the rim upon his neck, stuck fast
+there; enclosing his whole head as completely as ever that of a new born
+child was enclosed by the filmy bag, with which nature, as an indication
+of future good fortune, sometimes invests the noddles of her favourite
+offspring. What was worst of all, the nose, which had permitted the pot
+to slip down over it, withstood every desperate attempt, on the part of
+its proprietor, to make it slip back again; the contracted part, or
+neck, of the _patera_, being of such a peculiar formation as to cling
+fast to the base of the nose, although it had found no difficulty in
+gliding along its hypothenuse. Was ever minister in a worse plight? Was
+there ever _contretemps_ so unlucky? Did ever any man--did ever any
+minister, so effectually hoodwink himself, or so thoroughly shut his
+eyes, to the plain light of nature? What was to be done? The place was
+lonely; the way difficult and dangerous; human relief was remote, almost
+beyond reach. It was impossible even to cry for help; or, if a cry could
+be uttered, it might reach, in deafening reverberation, the ear of the
+utterer, but it would not travel twelve inches farther in any direction.
+To add to the distresses of the case, the unhappy sufferer soon found
+great difficulty in breathing. What with the heat occasioned by the
+beating of the sun on the metal, and what with the frequent return of
+the same heated air to his lungs, he was in the utmost danger of
+suffocation. Every thing considered, it seemed likely that, if he did
+not chance to be relieved by some accidental wayfarer, there would soon
+be _death in the pot_.
+
+The instinctive love of life, however, is omni-prevalent; and even very
+stupid people have been found, when put to the push by strong and
+imminent peril, to exhibit a degree of presence of mind, and exert a
+degree of energy, far above what might have been expected from them, or
+what they were ever known to exhibit, or exert, under ordinary
+circumstances. So it was with the pot-ensconced minister. Pressed by the
+urgency of his distresses, he fortunately recollected that there was a
+smith's shop at the distance of about a mile across the fields, where,
+if he could reach it before the period of suffocation, he might possibly
+find relief. Deprived of his eyesight, he acted only as a man of
+feeling, and went on as cautiously as he could, with his hat in his
+hand. Half crawling, half sliding, over ridge and furrow, ditch and
+hedge, somewhat like Satan floundering over chaos, the unhappy minister
+travelled with all possible speed, as nearly as he could guess, in the
+direction of the place of refuge. I leave it to the reader to conceive
+the surprise, the mirth, the infinite amusement of the smith, and all
+the hangers-on of the _smiddy_, when, at length, torn and worn, faint
+and exhausted, blind and breathless, the unfortunate man arrived at the
+place, and let them know (rather by signs than by words) the
+circumstances of his case. In the words of an old Scottish song,
+
+  "Out cam the gudeman, and high he shouted;
+  Out cam the gudewife, and low she louted;
+  And a' the town neighbours were gathered about it:
+        And there was he, I trow."
+
+The merriment of the company, however, soon gave way to considerations
+of humanity. Ludicrous as was the minister, with such an object where
+his head should have been, and with the feet of the pot pointing
+upwards, like the horns of the great Enemy, it was, nevertheless,
+necessary that he should be speedily restored to his ordinary condition,
+if it were for no other reason than that he might continue to live. He
+was accordingly, at his own request led into the smithy, multitudes
+flocking around to tender him their kindest offices, or to witness the
+process of release; and, having laid down his head upon the anvil, the
+smith lost no time in seizing and poising his goodly forehammer. "Will I
+come sair on, minister?" exclaimed the considerate man of iron, in at
+the brink of the pot. "As sair as ye like," was the minister's answer;
+"better a chap i' the chafts than die for want of breath." Thus
+permitted, the man let fall a blow, which fortunately broke the pot in
+pieces, without hurting the head which it enclosed, as the cook-maid
+breaks the shell of the lobster, without bruising the delicate food
+within. A few minutes of the clear air, and a glass from the gudewife's
+bottle, restored the unfortunate man of prayer; but, assuredly, the
+incident is one which will long live in the memory of the parishioners
+of C----.--_Chambers' Edinburgh Journal._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE NATURALIST.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LOUDON'S MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY.
+
+
+Sundry and manifold are our obligations to this delightful Journal. From
+the Number (26) for the present month we glean the following:
+
+_The Gurnard and Sprat._
+
+Mr. J. Couch, in an interesting paper on the fishes of Cornwall, has the
+following notes:
+
+"Ray observes that the word gurnard, which may be regarded as the
+English term, is derived _a grunnitu_, from grunting like a hog. In
+this, however, I venture to think this eminent naturalist mistaken.
+Pengurn is the ancient Cornu-British name for these fishes, and
+signifies hard head; and its English translation is now sometimes given
+to the grey gurnard. From the Cornish word _gurn_ (hard), I therefore
+derive the name, as descriptive of the head of these species. This is a
+common fish at all seasons; but in December and January it sometimes
+abounds to such a degree, that, as they are not much esteemed, I have
+known them sold at thirty for a penny. It keeps near the bottom
+commonly, at no great distance from land; but sometimes multitudes will
+mount together to the surface; and move along with the first dorsal fin
+above the water: they will even quit their native element, and spring to
+the distance of a yard; thus imitating the flying gurnard, though not to
+the same extent. In summer they are found basking in the sun, perhaps
+asleep, as they will at times display no signs of animation, until an
+attempt is made to seize them.
+
+"In reference to some observations by Mr. Yarrell, in the _Zoological
+Journal_, relative to the distinction between the sprat and the young of
+the pilchard and herring, I can state that Cornish fishermen term the
+young of both the latter fishes sprats; but, how far this should go in
+determining the judgment of a naturalist will appear, when I add that I
+have never seen above one specimen of the genuine sprat in Cornwall, and
+that was brought me by a fisherman, to be informed what fish it was. In
+taking fish out of his net by night, he felt it to be neither a pilchard
+nor a herring, and supposed it something rare."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+STRUCTURE OF BIRDS.
+
+
+Birds may be said to constitute an isolated class of beings. They are
+distinguished by certain characters from all other animals: their
+classification does not pass into any other, and cannot, therefore, be
+consistently introduced into the supposed chain or gradation of natural
+bodies.
+
+The skeleton or bony frame of birds is in general lighter than in
+quadrupeds. They have the largest bones of all animals, in proportion to
+their weight; and their bones are more hollow than those of animals that
+do not fly: air-vessels also enable them to blow out the hollow parts of
+their bodies, when they wish to make their descent slower, rise more
+swiftly, or float in the air. The spine is immovable, but the neck has a
+greater number of bones, (never less than nine, and varying from that to
+twenty-four,) and consequently of joints, and more varied motion, than
+in quadrupeds. The breast-bone is very large, with a prominent keel down
+the middle, and is formed for the attachment of very strong muscles: the
+bones of the wings are analagous to those of the fore-legs in
+quadrupeds, but the termination is in three joints or fingers only, of
+which the exterior is very short. This will be better understood by the
+annexed:
+
+[Illustration: Skeleton of a Turkey.]
+
+The muscles that move the wings downwards, in many instances, are a
+sixth part of the weight of the whole body; whereas those of a man are
+not in proportion one hundredth part so large. The centre of gravity of
+their bodies is always below the insertion of their wings to prevent
+them falling on their backs, but near that point on which the body is,
+during flight, as it were, suspended. The positions assumed by the head
+and feet are frequently calculated to accomplish these ends, and give to
+the wings every assistance in continuing the progressive motion. The
+tail also is of great use, in regulating the rise and fall of birds and
+even their lateral movements. What are commonly called the legs are
+analogous to the hind legs in quadrupeds, and they terminate, in
+general, in four toes, three of which are usually directed forwards, and
+one backwards; but in some birds there are only two toes, in others
+three.
+
+Birds exceed quadrupeds in the quantity of their respiration, for they
+have not only a double circulation, and an aerial respiration, but they
+respire also through other cavities beside the lungs, the air
+penetrating through the whole body, and bathing the branches of the
+aorta, or great artery of the body, as well as those of the pulmonary
+artery.
+
+Birds are usually classed according to the forms of their bills and
+feet, from those parts being connected with their mode of life, food,
+&c. and influencing their total habit very materially.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE RHINOCEROS BIRD.
+
+
+This curious bird is of the order _Picæ_, or Pies, and of the genus
+_Buceros_, consisting of birds of rather large size, and distinguished
+by the disproportionate forms of their beaks, which are often still
+further remarkable for some kind of large prominence on the upper
+mandible. The most conspicuous species is the _Buceros Rhinoceros_ of
+Linnæus, commonly called the Rhinoceros Bird.
+
+[Illustration: The Rhinoceros Bird.]
+
+Its general size is that of a Turkey, but with a much more slenderly
+proportioned body. Its colour is black, with the tail white, crossed by
+a black bar: the beak is of enormous size, of a lengthened, slightly
+curved, and pointed shape, and on the upper mandible, towards the base,
+is an extremely large process, equal in thickness to the bill itself,
+and turning upwards and backwards in the form of a thick, sharp-pointed
+horn, somewhat resembling the horn of the rhinoceros. The use of this
+strange proboscis is by some supposed to be that of enabling the bird
+more easily to tear out the entrails of its prey; but others affirm that
+it is not of a predaceous nature, feeding only on vegetable substances.
+This bird is principally found in the East Indian Islands. A remarkably
+fine specimen was preserved in the Leverian Museum.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SKETCH-BOOK.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+RECOLLECTIONS OF A WANDERER.
+
+_A scene on the coast of Cornwall._
+
+
+A short time before my departure from the hamlet of Landwithiel,[4] I
+was awoke early one morning by the roaring of the wind in the huge old
+chimney of my room--the whole tenement, indeed, occasionally shook as a
+violent gust swept down the valley, tossing the branches of the stout
+old tree before the door to and fro in a way that threatened at last to
+level them with the dust. The very briny scent of the atmosphere
+convinced me there was some sea running in the bay; and it was the more
+unexpected as we had had no tokens of a storm for several days previous.
+From the peninsular situation of this county, surrounded on almost every
+side with the restless ocean and exposed to the wide sweep of the
+Atlantic, it may be supposed that storms are of frequent occurrence. As
+on the present occasion, they often come with little or no warning; and
+the effects of a hurricane in the distant main, far outstripping the
+wind, sometimes rolls with tremendous fury towards our western shores,
+on which the sea is encroaching in every part.
+
+    [4] See "Recollections of a Wanderer," _Mirror_, Nos. 430-475.
+
+Landwithiel was a wild little place. It was essentially a "fishing
+village." The people ploughed the deep, not the land; and the constant
+exposure--blow high, blow low--on the restless sea, endued its
+inhabitants, and the Cornish fishermen generally, with a fearlessness of
+danger and boldness of character almost unequalled in these islands. The
+lives and pursuits of the two great classes in this county--the maritime
+and mining population--are widely opposite to each other. The one class
+pass their existence on the stormy waters of the deep, whilst the other
+labour far below the surface of the earth; each being continually
+exposed to numberless perils and dangers.
+
+When I descended below I found my host already astir; so after attending
+well to the inward man, I lost no time in starting towards the harbour.
+As I formerly described, this comes abruptly in sight round a sharp
+angle, at some elevation from the beach. On the upper part of the
+descent the road was flanked on each side with a row of cottages, the
+street being so steep that steps were formed in many parts to aid the
+progress of the passenger. This gave an air of singularity and wildness
+to the place, which was aided by the boldness of the surrounding
+scenery. The street bore all the marks of the occupation of the
+inhabitants--nets hanging to dry--strings of fish--an old oar--or a
+"fisher's wife" broiling fish for her husband's breakfast--met the eye
+on either side.
+
+On clearing the street, I observed a larger throng on the old pier than
+was wont to gather there on ordinary occasions. There was obviously some
+unusual subject of interest agitated amongst them; so I turned from my
+course and joined the group.
+
+A gale is an important event in a fishing town. Independent of the
+interest naturally felt for the various craft belonging to the place
+which may happen to be afloat, there may be wrecks or other marine
+casualties to excite the interest or cupidity of the observer.
+
+There was a tremendous tumbling sea rolling into the little bay, when I
+drew towards the pier. At the further end was a group of persons in
+earnest conversation, whom I distinguished as the knowing ones and
+long-heads of the place; while their younger companions were engaged in
+parties walking briskly to and fro on the pier. A tier of boats had been
+carefully drawn up high and dry beyond the wreck left by the last spring
+tide. Four or five, however, were afloat, and lurching heavily alongside
+the pier, whither the tide had not long reached; the wind rattling
+amongst the masts, shrouds, and half-bent sails of some craft which had
+just run in for shelter from the impending storm. My recent adventure
+had made me pretty well acquainted with most of the persons around: and
+I learned that a _ground swell_ had been observed along shore the
+preceding night. This phenomenon is generally occasioned by a storm in
+the Atlantic, with a westerly wind; and it affords to the old fishermen
+an almost certain indication of approaching foul weather.
+
+"A stiff bit of a gale, this same, Master Charles," said an old tar,
+giving an energetic jerk to his trousers, "Ay, ay, old boy," he replied,
+"this wind is not blowing for nothing, you may take my word for it; but
+if the Jane and the Susan hove in sight I'd not mind a bit for all that;
+we've not a stick afloat but her."
+
+"What! is Sam Clovelly[5] out this morning, Helston?" I anxiously
+inquired of the pilot, who was a manly, excellent sort of fellow. He had
+grown grey with service, and there was something in the steady eye and
+calm decision of his look that marked him out as no common character.
+
+    [5] See _Mirror_, No. 475. "Dawlish's Hole."
+
+"Yes, sir, we have no tidings of him yet, and the sky looking as black,
+yonder, as the face of a negro; but we'll hope that he's run out of
+harm's way before now."
+
+As the morning waxed apace, the interest in the fate of the Jane and
+Susan became more evident amongst the by-standers. Every stick that came
+in sight cut out conversation; but many an eye was cast anxiously to
+windward in vain for poor Sam Clovelly and his brother Arthur, who had
+been out since the preceding night. Presently the two little orphan
+sisters of the missing men came upon the pier, and Helstone, the pilot,
+and some of the others anxiously endeavoured to cheer and console them.
+
+"I'll be bound they've run for ---- port long ago, darlings, so don't
+cry now, Jane; the old craft's stood many a stronger breeze than this;
+now, wipe your eyes, there. Poor things," he said, turning to me, as the
+children went farther on the pier, "their two brothers are the only
+friends they have got in the world, and if they are gone who is to take
+care of them? Their father, old Sam Clovelly, was lost--I recollect the
+time well--somewhere off Milford; leaving his wife, with two stiff tidy
+bits of lads, and likely to increase the family; well, sir, she took to
+her bed, with the shock, and never rose from it more, after giving birth
+to these two little girls, leaving poor Sam and Arthur to struggle on
+like a cutter in a heavy sea. But God Almighty never deserts the
+innocent, sir--you've seen that, I dare say? Sam's been a steady lad,
+and has prospered, and he and Arthur have never forgotten their mother's
+dying words, and have been very kind to their sisters; but, come what
+will, the orphans shall never want a friend as long as Charley Helston
+has a home or a bit of bread to offer them."
+
+We now again reverted to the state of the day. As the gale swept on,
+numberless craft were running along the coast towards ---- port, for
+shelter. A crack Fowey-man now making a board till she "eat out" of the
+wind a North-countryman right ahead--now with her helm-a-lea, and now
+careering along with a heavy following sea on either quarter--kept our
+attention on the alert. Presently a steamer came in sight bearing up
+across the bay towards ---- Head. The white rush of steam from her
+safety-valves was well made out by the blackness of the windward
+horizon; and contrasted with the dense puffs of smoke from her funnel,
+which were instantly dispersed or carried in heavy patches to leeward.
+The glory of modern discoveries is unpopular with our coasting-seamen,
+and the mate of a coaster, who was watching her movements, observed that
+"we should not have a lad fit to hand a sail or man a yard soon with
+their cursed machinery."
+
+As she passed on her course "cleaving blast and breaker right ahead,"
+with her weather-wheel often spinning in the air, and as the sky
+darkened and the waves roared louder, I thought with deep interest on
+what might even now be the fate of those, without whose friendly aid I
+should have been lying on a rocky pillow and seaweed for my shroud, near
+Dawlish's Hole. The weather now became entitled to the formidable name
+of a storm, but some time had yet to elapse before darkness added its
+horrors to the scene of desolation.
+
+Heavy masses of breakers were continually striking the pier-head with
+fearful crashes; now bursting over, amid seas of spray, with resistless
+impetuosity, drenching every one under its lee; now recoiling for a
+brief moment, as if to gather strength, leaving a smooth, hollow waste
+of oily sea--like the treacherous pauses of human passion,--and then
+returning with wilder haste and tenfold added fury to the onset.
+
+The morning was waning away. I left the pier, and bent my course away
+from Landwithiel.
+
+The path I pursued led along the summit of the cliffs; oftentimes
+winding so close round the edge of a projecting acclivity, that it
+required a clear head and a steady foot, for one false step would have
+been instant destruction. The coast below me was justly entitled to take
+its place amongst the finest rock-scenery in the island; and exhibited
+in its grandest form, the peculiarly wild and picturesque nature of the
+coast of Cornwall. After working my way against a head-wind for three or
+four miles, I took shelter in Dawlish's Watch Tower, an old half-ruined
+building, which commanded an almost boundless look-out. Nearly right
+opposite to this station lay the Wolf-stone, an insular, and almost
+inaccessible rock, which rose in deep water about three-quarters of a
+mile from land. Whilst scanning with my glass the windward horizon, I
+accidentally rested on this islet, and I had not looked long before my
+gaze was rivetted to it. Two individuals I fancied were standing near a
+pole which was erected on the highest point. These lone and unusual
+tenants of the sea-birds' home were obviously, from their motions, much
+agitated. A heavy driving shower, for a few minutes, wrapped it in mist.
+When this cleared off, the black and dreary front of the Wolf-stone
+became dimly visible through the tumultuous assemblage of gigantic
+breakers, that were every instant grappling with the steep which defied
+them. Another minute's observation and I was running at my utmost speed
+back to Landwithiel. The captives could be no other than Sam and Arthur
+Clovelly.
+
+My arrival caused universal stir and interest in Landwithiel. The
+Dasher, the best sea-boat in the harbour was instantly manned, with
+directions to pull to Carn Cove, almost opposite the rock, whither the
+rest of the men rapidly proceeded along the heights. Helston and myself
+also went thither to consult in the first instance, as to the best plan
+for relief; for no boat could live, in such a day as this, within some
+distance of the rock.
+
+The anxious group gathered on the edge of the cliff; and while a white
+flag was running up a boat's mast which we had erected on the tower, we
+cheered loudly and repeatedly to assure the distant captives that aid
+was nigh.
+
+"It is Sam--God be praised," sang out Helston, who was steadily looking
+out through his glass--and every one crowded around. "And is Arthur
+there too, Charles?"--"Yes, I see.--Death! I thought that wave would
+sweep over all. Now they wave their neckcloths--they beckon us to use
+haste. High water is drawing fast on, and what man ever lived on the
+Wolfstone in a spring flood. They wave again; sing away there, my lads,
+cheerily!" and a tumultuous shout of human voices again mingled with the
+blast.
+
+Almost every eye was now cast out for the Dasher, and she was seen
+pulling with great difficulty--for a handkerchief of canvass would have
+been madness--towards the shelter of a projecting mass of rock, in Carne
+Cove, in the comparatively smooth water behind which, Helston and myself
+were enabled with some difficulty to get aboard. It was a moment of some
+excitement. Accustomed from childhood fearlessly to brave an element
+they might truly call their own, the gallant little crew steadily seated
+themselves, and taking off their hats manfully answered the encouraging
+cheers from aloft. The men now shipped their oars, and all having been
+made snug, I seated myself in the stern-sheets, near Helston, who had
+taken the helm. There was something fine in his weather-beaten
+countenance, and grey hair streaming in the breeze, as he steadily
+scanned the dark masses of the distant Wolf-stone--he was a true seaman.
+
+The Dasher was a boat that would live in almost any weather on this
+coast, head to wind; but when she was put about, there was no little
+danger of her being pooped in a heavy following sea. Ours was now the
+former case, and as the crew put her through the contending sea, which
+at every stroke hit our bows and soaked us with spray, I anxiously
+consulted with Helston on the best means of shipping the captives on
+making the Wolf-stone. Keeping his eye fixed on the rock, which was
+grimly visible on our larboard bow, he shook his head as the portentous
+darkness of the sky again claimed our attention. "If we had been delayed
+a quarter of an hour longer they would have been food for fishes;" I
+remarked, "but it will be close run; our men are doing all that strength
+and skill can do, but it avails little when opposed to such a power as
+this."
+
+"Never fear, sir, we shall do yet--you are not so cool as I--how should
+you? when I have braved the storms of nearly sixty winters:--but the
+Wolf-stone's a spot, I will frankly confess, with which I had rather
+make acquaintance with a clearer sky and a flowing sheet, than on such a
+night as this. Just give a look-out a-head, sir," he added, as we were
+mounting a heavy sea, "and tell me how things are aloft on the rock."
+
+However formidable this dreary steep might have appeared at a distance,
+now we were drawing near to it, the wildness and sublimity of the scene
+surpassed my calculations. The fugitives, who by their gestures were
+urging us onward, had been driven for shelter to a hollow on the leeward
+side of the rock, which indeed was almost the only spot that now
+afforded an asylum from danger. The waves as they came rolling onwards
+with aggravated force from the main, ever and anon burst against the
+isle with terrific violence, now breaking into gigantic masses, then
+driven in columns of sparkling spray to a vast height in the air, and
+now closing on every side around their victims. The isle, indeed,
+appeared to be menaced with total annihilation.
+
+As we could now distinguish both the brothers, we instinctively cheered
+them on drawing towards the landward side of the rock. They were
+compelled every minute to crouch and cling to the cliff under which they
+had taken shelter, as a huge wave burst below their feet, and struck
+them in its upward violence. The Wolf-stone could no longer raise its
+head in dominion over the main. The surf ran so high immediately around
+it, that to approach at all closely would only have ended in the
+destruction of every soul. We, therefore, hailed them as we stood under
+its lee, and found that in consequence of their having remained almost
+all night on this dreary spot, drenched with wet, and chilled with cold,
+any effort to swim through the surf would probably be fatal in their
+exhausted state. What then remained to be done? We had ropes on board
+which would be of infinite service, could we only devise means to convey
+them to the rock. At this juncture, the services of my old
+Newfoundlander, Retriever, came forcibly to my mind. The poor animal had
+refused to be separated from me when we embarked, and lay at my feet in
+the boat. On his exertions therefore depended the lives of our friends.
+He soon understood the task he was to perform, and in another second was
+dashing onwards through the waves. An affecting scene now took place
+between the brothers, as to who should first avail himself of the
+approaching aid. A gigantic rush of tide, which almost swept entirely
+over the rock, told them, however, that time was precious. But Sam was
+firm. The younger brother then plunged forward and was soon drawn safely
+on board. He informed us, as Retriever again swam away with the rope,
+that he feared his brother was much more exhausted than himself. With
+breathless interest, therefore, we watched Sam tie the rope round his
+body, and enter the water. The violence of the gale, at this instant,
+compelled us to stand further off the rock; indeed, within a few minutes
+we foresaw that its presence would only be indicated by a low black mass
+indistinctly seen, amidst the boiling and restless waves of the ocean;
+an appearance, I was told, which it only presents in the most violent
+storms. Poor Sam, now seen, now lost, amid the foaming ridges of the
+sea, came gradually along till within about forty paces from the boat,
+when it was evident his strength had failed him. An arm was shot into
+the air, then his head and shoulders rose rapidly, and there was a
+sudden blank in the waters. "Pull away, my lads, for your lives," we
+shouted, "or he is gone!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"It was a hard run thing, I reckon, sirs," said Mr. Habbakuk
+Sheepshanks, who was rather top-heavy that evening, to a numerous party
+who were assembled round his capacious hearth at the "Ship-aground,"
+"but all's well, they say, that ends well, so we'll even drink the
+health of the brothers in a glass of the free genuine Cognac." "What is
+that you say!" said the exciseman....
+
+VYVYAN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LONDON AND THE PROVINCES COMPARED.
+
+
+It is the nature of prosperous communities, and the fashion of modern
+times, to centralize too much their numbers and their powers. But the
+question of distribution and proportion is almost as important in
+politics as that of production itself. Money and manure are not the only
+things which are the better for being spread. London and the country
+would both be gainers by transplanting bodily, a hundred miles off, some
+dozens of its streets--inhabitants and all. There are whole counties
+which we should like to colonize with the surplus talent of the
+metropolis. That surplus talent comprises scores of men, waiting on
+Providence, feeding on foolish speculations, hanging on the skirts of
+some frivolous circle, doing nothing there, or worse than nothing,
+spoiling and wasting daily, who, planted out into a sphere of more
+favourable opportunities, are capable of being a blessing to a
+neighbourhood. However, it is not a case for violent measures. We do not
+propose that London should be compressed into _London proper_,--within
+the bills of mortality; or that its clubs should be called out on
+country service. Patriots, philosophers, and diners out, rusticating by
+royal proclamation, and under the _surveillance_ of the police, would
+not come with a temper very suitable to our purpose. An experiment of
+that sort was made under more likely circumstance, and failed;--as all
+experiments must, which seek to remove the symptoms, instead of trying
+to act upon the cause. It was in vain that James I. pulled down the new
+houses as fast as they were built; and that Charles I. ordered home the
+country gentlemen.
+
+Although there seems something artificial, and almost monstrous, in the
+actual size of London, the means which have led to this result are
+altogether natural. Indeed, whatever forcing has been at any time used,
+or prejudice fostered, has told the other way. Nothing has existed which
+can be called a court or courtiers for the last two hundred years; and a
+sort of feudal feeling still keeps our squires faithful to their halls.
+Two exceptions only can be set down to our institutions. The distinction
+of local courts obliges the English Bar to reside near Westminster; and
+the duration of a modern session substitutes a house for the family of a
+Member of Parliament, in the place of lodgings for himself. Under these
+circumstances, as "the wen" has not been produced, so is it not likely
+to be dispersed by any direct legislative application. To say the truth,
+the grievance, in our opinion, is not in the _absolute_, but in the
+_relative_ amount of the wealth, intelligence, and virtue, squeezed
+together on those marvellous square miles upon which the capital stands.
+We do not grudge it the pretty country which is hid under its basement
+stories, any more than the social activity and happiness which live
+along its crowded streets. We serve ejectments upon nobody. The only
+question is, whether some would not do well to move of themselves. Among
+the hopes and objects by whose influence 1,200,000 human beings are
+collected on the same spot, a certain proportion will be found, which
+have not been at all,--and more still, which have not been very
+judiciously or magnanimously, considered. There are many in the higher
+classes of its inhabitants especially, who, we suspect, on examining
+into their principles and habits, will have some difficulty in
+satisfying themselves that they have not chosen ill for their real
+happiness; and, for all real usefulness, a great deal worse. But the
+mistaken notion which most strips the country of its natural guardians,
+is the fallacy, on the part of young and sanguine dispositions, of
+believing that the motives and sphere of individual action rise in
+proportion to the apparent magnitude of the scene. These are the
+absentees most to be regretted. In the single line of professional
+practice, and in its most successful instances, that may be the case.
+But in taking ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, and in every other of
+the varied departments of social duty, the sphere of useful action,
+however nominally extended, will be found to be strictly and
+substantially reduced.
+
+There can be as little fear that London will ever want any of the
+elements of an enlightened and well-constituted community, as that it
+will not be large enough. It is very different with the provinces. The
+capital offers so many real, and still more, so many plausible
+attractions to all that is active and refined, as well as to all that is
+idle and selfish in human nature, that a long list of supernumaries and
+expectants is sure, in every case, always to be at hand. It is the
+lottery into which the credulous are eager to put in;--it is the theatre
+on whose stage ambition and vanity are impatient to appear;--it is the
+land of Cockayne, in whose crowded mazes the selfish escape from every
+duty, and reduce their intercourse with their fellow-creatures to the
+sympathies of visiting and of shopping. It is the seat also of liberal
+society, and independent existence, among the friends and occupations of
+one's choice. Lord Falkland, the love of his age, admitted, that
+quitting London was the only thing which he was not sufficiently master
+of himself ever to manage without a struggle. In this state of things,
+it is plain that nobody can be of such consequence there but that he is
+easily spared. The death of a town wit is handsomely celebrated, if it
+furnishes five minutes' conversation for the table where he dined the
+day before. He is replaced with the same regularity and indifference as
+fresh snuff is put into a snuff-box, or fresh flowers are set out upon
+the epergne. Nobody misses him. The machine goes on without perceiving
+that the blue-bottle or the gnat has fallen from its wheel.
+
+The vastness and multiplicity and complexity of the organization by
+which the movements of the capital proceed, as it were mechanically, do
+not act merely by diminishing the general importance of individuals to
+the system. Except in the case of very happy, and universal, and flowing
+natures, or under the influence of accidental counteractions, a personal
+risk, between extreme vagueness and extreme narrowness of character, is
+incurred by the individual himself. In respect of employment, the
+division of intellectual labour is so complete, that most persons in
+such a situation are tempted to do their own piece of work, and no
+more;--to rest satisfied with manufacturing the pin's head which happens
+to have fallen to their share. Does a London life tend to quicken the
+moral pulse and expand the heart? The forms of society are thrown into
+too large a scale, and its pace is too rapid, to afford an opportunity
+for the sort of intercourse by which alone a real acquaintance with,
+understanding of, and affection for, each other can be obtained. No
+means exist of getting there at any thing further than talents in men,
+and beauty or accomplishments in women.
+
+Qualities which can be exhibited as a show are discovered and
+appreciated accordingly. But wisdom and virtue, which are to the mind
+what breath is to the body, have no part assigned or assignable to them
+on such a stage. A man may pass a life in London without an occasion
+arising by which his neighbours can learn whether he is an honest fellow
+or a rogue. The consequence is, that a good deal of such a man's moral
+nature gets imperfectly developed, and dies away. The appropriate object
+is not brought sufficiently close and home to him to stimulate and call
+forth his latent powers. Charity is perhaps better off than most. By a
+satisfactory compromise, it falls into the hands of a mendicity society.
+But there are other virtues which do not admit of being compounded for,
+and their burden transferred to a committee, for two guineas a-year. In
+these cases the moral tax is too often evaded altogether. We are well
+aware that men of pleasure are far from being the only persons who have
+turned into a maxim of life the sentence which the Duke of Buckingham
+passed upon the dog which barked after him,--"Would to God you were
+married and settled in the country!" It is evident that the word
+_provincial_ is often felt, by characters of a higher strain and object,
+to imply an imputation or admission of mediocrity. Now, greatly as
+nations differ, it is generally admitted that all capitals are pretty
+much alike. It follows therefore, that the characteristic spirit and
+principle of a nation do not appear there to most advantage. Enow worthy
+representatives of that spirit and principle are doubtless there; but
+they are there too much as though they were not. It is an atmosphere
+which no individual powers can penetrate, and where it needs more than
+an ordinary sun to make itself felt or seen. We are satisfied that, on a
+just estimate of the whole case, the provinces, as distinguished from
+the metropolis, would be found in many instances, perhaps in most, to be
+the home which a wise lover of himself, and a sincere lover of his kind,
+would do well to fix in;--not indeed as the scene of a brilliant or
+sybarite existence, but as the post of that salutary influence which
+sinks deepest; and of that usefulness and happiness which last the
+longest; as most visibly incorporated with, and represented by, our
+fellow-beings.--_Edinburgh Review._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+INFANCY.
+
+(_From the Feuilles d'Automne of Victor Hugo, translated in the Foreign
+Quarterly Review._)
+
+
+  In the dusky court,
+  Near the altar laid,
+  Sleeps the child in shadow,
+    Of his mother's bed:
+  Softly he reposes,
+  And his lids of roses.
+  Closed to earth, uncloses
+    On the heaven o'erhead.
+
+  Many a dream is with him,
+  Fresh from the fairy land,
+  Spangled o'er with diamonds
+    Seems the ocean sand;
+  Suns are gleaming there.
+  Troops of ladies fair
+  Souls of infants bear
+    In their charming hand.
+
+  O, enchanting vision,
+  Lo, a rill up-springs,
+  And, from out its bosom
+    Comes a voice that sings.
+  Lovelier there appear
+  Sire and sisters dear,
+  While his mother near,
+    Plumes her new-born wings.
+
+  But a brighter vision
+  Yet his eyes behold;
+  Roses all, and lilies,
+    Every path enfold;
+  Lakes in shadow sleeping,
+  Silver fishes leaping,
+  And the waters creeping,
+    Through the reeds of gold.
+
+  Slumber on, sweet infant.
+  Slumber peacefully;
+  Thy young soul yet knows not
+    What thy lot may be.
+  Like dead leaves that sweep
+  Down the stormy deep,
+  Thou art borne in sleep,
+    What is all to thee?
+
+  Thou canst slumber by the way;
+  Thou hast learnt to borrow
+  Naught from study, naught from care;
+    The cold hand of sorrow,
+  On thy brow unwrinkled yet,
+  Where young truth and candour sit,
+  Ne'er with rugged nail hath writ
+    That sad word, "To-morrow."
+
+  Innocent, thou sleepest--
+  See the heavenly band.
+  Who foreknow the trials
+    That for man are planned;
+  Seeing him unarmed,
+  Unfearing, un-alarmed,
+  With their tears have warmed
+    His unconscious hand.
+
+  Angels, hovering o'er him,
+  Kiss him where he lies.
+  Hark, he sees them weeping,
+    "Gabriel," he cries;
+  "Hush," the angel says,
+  On his lip be lays
+  One finger, one displays
+    His native skies.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+STATE OF SOCIETY IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
+
+
+The following exhibits but a lamentable picture of the "milk and honey"
+of this favoured land:
+
+"The morals of the colony of New South Wales are of an exceedingly
+depraved description. It is so far from being a country where men begin
+a new life and enter upon a fresh course with resolutions of amendment,
+that the testimony of all respectable men examined on the subject unites
+in asserting that the habits of the freed men, even of those who have
+acquired property and have families, are of the most dissipated
+character. Of the emancipists, to whom grants of land have been made and
+who are often wealthy, very few, not more it is said than half a dozen,
+can be selected whose lives are not of a vicious description, who do not
+indulge in dishonest practices of one sort or another, and who have not
+risen to wealth by fostering and practising some species of villany.
+These men procure convicts to be assigned to them, who become members of
+the families, and assist them in carrying on their various frauds. In
+Sydney the grog shops are very numerous, and grog shops are receiving
+houses. A constant trade in stolen goods is going on between Sydney and
+the remotest parts of the colony, and even between Sydney and this
+country. The convicts in remote settlements have no means generally of
+indulging in licentiousness, but they see constantly before them the
+freed labourer who has, and they burn to enjoy similar privileges: and
+should their place of occupation be too remote from a theatre of
+indulgence, they get a week of holiday at Sydney, where they arrive in
+numbers, and, for the time they stay, wallow in every species of
+debauchery. In such a state of society the public standard of morality
+must necessarily fall to a very low degree. The leaven spreads from the
+corrupted part into the whole mass. Just as the slang of London thieves
+is become the classical language of Sydney, so do necessarily a
+familiarity with crime, hatred to law, and contempt for virtue, make
+their way into the minds and hearts of those who are untainted with
+actual crime. So far from a reformation being even begun in New South
+Wales, it would seem that roguery had been carried a degree beyond even
+the perfection it has reached here. Property is very insecure in Sydney,
+and the most extraordinary robberies take place. Mr. James Walker, in
+his evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, says 'the
+colony has a curious effect upon the most practised thieves in this
+country; one of the most experienced thieves in London has _something to
+learn_ when he comes out there; probably he would be robbed the first
+night he came into his hut.' This was the answer given by an experienced
+settler to the question, whether he thought any considerable degree of
+reformation took place among the convicts residing at a distance from
+Sydney. It is nearly impossible that it should be otherwise. The master
+can only punish his servant by travelling with him some twenty or thirty
+miles to a police magistrate, by which he loses his own time, the labour
+of his servant, perhaps for months, if he is condemned to a road gang,
+and after his return has little advantage from his services.
+Unwillingness to work for a master who has been the cause of his
+punishment is a difficult feeling to counteract. The convict has the
+game in his own hands: he either does no work, wounds himself, falls
+sick, or perhaps, and it is not uncommon, spoils either the materials
+entrusted to him, or the tools which have been put into his hands.
+
+"Mr. Busby, when asked respecting the prevalence of bush-rangers, who
+are escaped convicts and others who have taken to the bush, says, in his
+Evidence (5th Aug. 1831,) that within the last twelve months, or two
+years, bush-rangers have been so numerous that it was scarcely possible
+to travel a hundred miles on the road without being stopped: there was
+scarcely a newspaper, in which there were not two or three instances of
+persons, of every rank, being stopped. It was quite an unusual thing
+formerly--but of late there has been a regular system of highway
+robbery. The laws that have been enacted to put down this horrible state
+of things, will serve for an index of the condition of the colony. They
+do away with every appearance of personal liberty. 'One act empowered
+magistrates to issue a warrant, authorizing constables to enter or break
+into any house, within their district or county, by day or night, at
+their own discretion; and to seize any person they might suspect to be
+highway robbers or burglars; or any individual in the colony, without
+any warrant or authority, may take another into custody, on the mere
+suspicion that he is a convict illegally at large: if it appear to the
+magistrate that he had a just or probable cause for suspicion, he is
+justified in doing so. The onus of proving that he is not a convict
+illegally at large, is thrown upon the suspected person, and if that is
+not established to the satisfaction of the magistrate, he is liable to
+be retained in custody, or sent to Sydney to be examined and dealt
+with.'
+
+"The number of executions in New South Wales in the year 1830 exceeded
+the whole number of executions in England and Wales, in the same year;
+which, taking the proportion of the populations of the countries, makes
+capital punishments upwards of three hundred and twenty-five times as
+frequent as in the mother country. This horrid fact is pretty well, of
+itself, an answer to all argument drawn from the idea of Reformation.
+But direct testimony is abundant. Major McArthur, the son of one of the
+wealthiest and most extensive settlers in the colony, and to whom it
+owes so much for its present progress in production and commerce,
+states, 'It is painful to know that those whose sentences have expired,
+or to whom pardons have been granted, seldom or ever incline to reform,
+even when they have acquired property. Intoxication and fraud are
+habitual to them; and hardly six persons can be named throughout the
+colony, who, being educated men, and having been transported for
+felonies, have afterwards become sober, moral, and industrious members
+of the community. Crime is of constant occurrence, and so completely
+organized, that cattle are carried off from the settlers in large
+numbers, and slaughtered for the traders in Sydney, who contract with
+the commissariat. It is not, therefore, the vicious habits alone of the
+town which are to be dreaded, but the effects that are communicated and
+felt throughout the country. The agricultural labourer is encouraged to
+plunder his master, by finding a ready sale for the property he steals,
+and whenever his occupations call him to the towns, he sees and yields
+himself to the vicious habits around him. He returns intoxicated and
+unsettled to his employer's farm, and incites his comrades to the same
+sensual indulgences, with equal disregard of the risk and the
+consequences. To these causes the present vitiated and disorganized
+state of the convicts in New South Wales is chiefly attributable; and
+the extent of the evil maybe in some degree estimated, when it is stated
+_that the expense of the police establishment amounts to more_ than
+20,000_l_. per annum for a population of 40,000 souls."
+
+_Foreign Quarterly Review._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE GATHERER
+
+
+_Premiers._--The following list of premiers, from the accession of
+George III. to 1832, with the number of peers created during their
+respective premierships, may be acceptable at the present period:--Lord
+Chatham, 9; Lord Bute, 9; George Grenville, 4; Lord Rockingham, 4; Duke
+of Grafton, none; Lord North, 27; Lord Shelburn, none; Mr. Fox, 7; Mr.
+Pitt, 90; Mr. Addington, 24; Lord Grenville, 3; Duke of Portland, 4; Mr.
+Perceval, none; Lord Liverpool, 50; Mr. Canning, 7; Lord Goderich, 6;
+Duke of Wellington, 2; and Earl Grey, 25.--W.G.C.
+
+_Peers_.--Number of peers (in the present peerage) created by each
+sovereign, from the reign of Henry III. (1264) to the accession of his
+present majesty:--Henry III., 2; Edward I., 7; Edward II., 6; Edward
+III., 1; Henry VI., 5; Henry VII, 1; Henry VIII., 6; Edward VI., 2;
+Mary, 2; Elizabeth, 8; James I., 15; Charles I., 10; Charles II., 16;
+James II., 1; William III., 7; Anne, 14; George I., 15; George II., 20;
+George III., 145; George IV., 46. W.G.C.
+
+_Theatrical Property in France_.--A dramatic author in France is
+entitled, every night that his play is performed, to a fixed sum per
+act, viz. 10 francs, for Paris; 5 francs for the large theatres in the
+country; 3 francs for the second-rate provincial theatres; and 2 francs
+for the third-rate. A bureau is established by government, to receive
+the contributions, and any manager neglecting to make a return, is
+punished by a heavy fine; the amount of which goes to the author. The
+advantages arising from this system are also enjoyed by the widow and
+children of the author. It is calculated that the author of the _Ecole
+des Viellards_, derives nightly, from the performance of that piece, in
+Paris, and the provinces, about 500 francs. Scribe, a successful
+_vaudeville_ writer, is in receipt of a handsome income; and Merle was
+able, from the contributions upon his pieces, to open the Port St.
+Martin Theatre, upon a liberal scale, and thus to lay the foundation of
+a brilliant fortune. T. GILL.
+
+_A Magdalene_.---A French bishop preaching, exclaimed, "A Magdalene is
+present, she is looking at me, I will not mention her name, but I will
+throw my book at her." He then raised his arm as if to put his threat
+into execution, when all the women in the church ducked their heads.
+"What," said he, "all Magdalenes." SWAINE.
+
+_Unwelcome Title_.--Charles Incledon, the vocalist, being asked if he
+had ever read Murray's _Sermons to Asses_, replied, "he had not, he did
+not like the book, the title was too personal."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset
+House.) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic, G.G.
+BENNIS, 55, Rue Neuve, St. Augustin, Paris; and by all Newsmen and
+Booksellers._
+
+
+
+
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+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page305" name="page305"></a>[pg
+305]</span>
+<h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+OF<br />
+LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+<hr class="full" />
+<table width="100%" summary="Volume, Number, and Date">
+<tr>
+<td align="left"><b>Vol. 19. No. 547.</b></td>
+<td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1832</b></td>
+<td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>WILTON CASTLE.</h2>
+<div class="figure" style="width:80%;"><a href=
+"images/547-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/547-1.png" alt=
+"" /></a> Wilton Castle.</div>
+<p>Here is one of the ivy-mantled relics that lend even a charm to
+romantic nature on the banks of the Wye. Its shattered tower and
+crumbling wall, combine with her wild luxuriance, to form a scene
+of great picturesque beauty, though, as Gilpin observes, "the scene
+wants accompaniments to give it grandeur."</p>
+<p>These ruins stand opposite to Ross, on the western bank of the
+Wye. The Castle was for several centuries the baronial residence of
+the Greys of the south, who derived from it their first title, and
+who became owners in the time of Edward the First. It may therefore
+be presumed to have been one of the strongholds, in the great
+struggles for feudal superiority with Wales, which were commenced
+by Edward, whose "active and splendid reign may be considered as an
+attempt to subject the whole island of Great Britain to his
+sway."<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href=
+"#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> Or, in earlier times, being situated
+on the ancient barrier between England and Wales, it may have been
+a station of some importance, from its contiguity to Hereford,
+which city was destroyed by the Welsh, but rebuilt and fortified by
+Harold, who also strengthened the castle. The whole district is of
+antiquarian interest, since, at the period of the Roman invasion,
+Herefordshire was inhabited by the Silures, who also occupied the
+adjacent counties of Radnor, Monmouth, and Glamorgan, together with
+that part of Gloucestershire which lies westward of the Severn. The
+Silures, in conjunction with the Ordovices, or inhabitants of North
+Wales, retarded, for a considerable period, the progress of the
+Roman victors, whose grand object seems to have been the conquest
+of these nations, who had chosen the gallant Caractacus as their
+chieftain, and resolutely exhausted every effort in defence of the
+independence of their country.</p>
+<p>The present demolished state of the <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+"page306" name="page306"></a>[pg 306]</span> Castle is referred to
+the Royalist Governors of Hereford, by whose orders it was burnt to
+the bare walls during the reign of Charles I. in the absence of its
+then possessor, Sir J. Brydges.</p>
+<p>The scenery of the WYE, at this point is thus described by
+tourists: "From Hereford to Ross, its features occasionally assume
+greater boldness; though more frequently their aspect is placid;
+but at the latter town wholly emerging from its state of repose,"
+it resumes the brightness and rapidity of its primitive character,
+as it forms the admired curve which the churchyard of Ross
+commands. The celebrated spire of Ross church, peeping over a noble
+row of elms, here fronts the ruined Castle of Wilton, beneath the
+arches of whose bridge, the Wye flows through a charming succession
+of meadows, encircling at last the lofty and well-wooded hill,
+crowned with the majestic fragments of Gooderich Castle, and
+opposed by the waving eminences of the forest of Dean. The mighty
+pile, or peninsula, of Symonds' Rock succeeds, round which the
+river flows in a circuit of seven miles, though the opposite points
+of the isthmus are only one mile asunder. Shortly afterwards, the
+Wye quits the county, and enters Monmouthshire at the New Wear.</p>
+<p>The Rev. Mr. Gilpin, in his charming little volume on
+Picturesque Beauty,<a id="footnotetag2" name=
+"footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a> has a few
+appropriate observations: after passing Wilton&mdash;</p>
+<p>"We met with nothing for some time during our voyage but grand,
+woody banks, one rising behind another; appearing and vanishing by
+turns, as we doubled the several capes. But though no particular
+objects characterized these different scenes, yet they afforded
+great variety of pleasing views, both as we wound round the several
+promontories, which discovered new beauties as each scene opened,
+and when we kept the same scene a longer time in view, stretching
+along some lengthened reach, where the river is formed into an
+irregular vista by hills shooting out beyond each other and going
+off in perspective."</p>
+<p>We ought not to forget to mention Ross, and its association with
+one of the noblest works of GOD&mdash;honest John Kyrle, celebrated
+as the Man of Ross. Pope, during his visits at Holm-Lacey, in the
+vicinity, obtained sufficient knowledge of his beneficence, to
+render due homage to his worth in one of the brightest pages of the
+records of human character.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>"MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS"&mdash;EGGS.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+<p>In a paper on the <i>Superstitions of the Sea</i>, a few years
+ago,<a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a><a href=
+"#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> I slightly alluded to the nautical
+belief that the appearance of the Stormy Petrel, and other marine
+birds at sea, was often considered to be the forerunner of peril
+and disaster; and as your excellent correspondent, <i>M.L.B.</i>,
+in a recent number, expresses a wish to know the origin of the
+<i>soubriquet</i> of <i>Mother Carey's Chickens</i>, which the
+former birds have obtained, I now give it with all the brevity
+which is consistent with so important a narration. It appears that
+a certain outward-bound Indiaman, called the <i>Tiger</i>, (but in
+what year I am unable to state,) had encountered one continued
+series of storms, during her whole passage; till on nearing the
+Cape of Good Hope, she was almost reduced to a wreck. Here,
+however, the winds and waves seemed bent on her destruction; in the
+midst of the storm, flocks of strange looking birds were seen
+hovering and wheeling in the air around the devoted ship, and one
+of the passengers, a woman called "Mother Carey," was observed by
+the glare of the lightning to laugh and smile when she looked at
+these foul-weather visitants; on which she was not only set down as
+a witch, but it was also thought that they were her familiars, whom
+she had invoked from the <i>Red Sea</i>; and "all hands" were
+seriously considering on the propriety of getting rid of the old
+beldam, (as is usual in such cases,) by setting her afloat, when
+she saved them the trouble, and at that moment jumped overboard,
+surrounded by flames; on which the birds vanished, the storm
+cleared away, and the tempest-tossed <i>Tiger</i> went peacefully
+on her course! Ever since the occurrence of this "astounding yarn,"
+the birds have been called "Mother Carey's Chickens," and are
+considered by our sailors to be the most unlucky of all the
+feathered visitants at sea.</p>
+<p>To turn by a not unnatural transition from <i>birds</i> to
+<i>eggs</i>, permit me to inform your Scottish correspondent,
+<i>S.S.</i> (see No. 536,) where he asserts that the plan of
+rubbing eggs with grease in order to preserve them, "is not so much
+as known in our own boasted land of stale eggs and bundlewood;"
+that the said <i>discovery</i> has long been known and practised in
+many parts of old England; and that the repeated experience of
+several <span class="pagenum"><a id="page307" name=
+"page307"></a>[pg 307]</span> friends warrants me in giving a
+decided negative to his assertion that eggs so prepared "<i>will
+keep any length of time perfectly fresh</i>." If kept for a
+considerable period, though they do not become absolutely bad, yet
+they turn <i>very stale</i>. I happen to know something of
+Scotland, and was never before aware that the raw clime of our
+northern neighbours was so celebrated for its poultry.
+<i>M.L.B.</i> is certainly misinformed in speaking of the trade in
+<i>Scotch</i> eggs to <i>America</i>. The importation of eggs from
+the continent into England is very extensive: the duty in 1827
+amounted at the rate of 10<i>d</i>. per 120, to 23,062<i>l</i>.
+19<i>s</i>. 1<i>d</i>.; since which period there has, we believe,
+been an increase. The importation of eggs from Ireland is also very
+large. If <i>S.S.</i> resides in London, he may have occasion to
+sneer at "our boasted land of stale eggs;" but he should rather
+sneer at the preserved French eggs, with which the London dealers
+are principally supplied.</p>
+<p>VYVYAN.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>THE CURFEW BELL.</h3>
+<h4>(To the Editor.)</h4>
+<p>In addition to the remarks made by <i>Reginald</i>, in No. 543,
+and by <i>M.D.</i>, and <i>G.C.</i>, in No. 545 of <i>The
+Mirror</i>, let me add that the Curfew is rung every night at
+eight, in my native town, (Winchester,) and the bell, a large one,
+weighing 12 cwt., is appropriated for the purpose, (not belonging
+to a church) but affixed in the tower of the Guildhall, and used
+only for this occasion, or on an alarm of fire.</p>
+<p>In that city the Curfew was first established under the command
+of the Conqueror, and the practice has continued to the present
+day. I have been assured by many old residents, that it formerly
+was the custom to ring the bell every morning at four o'clock, but
+the practice being found annoying to persons living near, the
+Corporation ordered it to be discontinued.</p>
+<p>To such of your readers who, like myself, are fond of a solitary
+ramble along the sea shore by moonlight, I would say, go to
+Southampton or the Isle of Wight; take an evening walk from Itchen
+through the fields to Netley, thence to the Abbey and Fort ruins,
+under woods that for a considerable distance skirt the coast; or on
+the opposite side, through the Forest of Oaks, from Eling to
+Dibden, and onwards over the meadows to Hythe: there they may, in
+either, find ample food for reflection, connected with the Curfew
+Bell.</p>
+<p>Seated on a fragment of the towers of Netley Abbey, whose
+pinnacles were so often hailed by seamen as well known landmarks,
+but whose Curfew has for centuries been quiet, the spectator may
+see before him the crumbling remains of a fort, erected hundreds of
+years ago. On the left is an expanse of water as far as the eye can
+reach, and in his front the celebrated New Forest,&mdash;</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Majestic woods of ever vigorous green,</p>
+<p>Stage above stage, high waving o'er the bills;</p>
+<p>Or to the far horizon wide diffus'd,</p>
+<p>A boundless deep immensity of shade&mdash;</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>the scene of William's tyranny and atrocity, the spot where his
+children met their untimely end, and where may be seen the
+<i>tumuli</i> erected over the remains of the Britons who fell in
+defence of their country.</p>
+<p>In the deep recesses of a wood in the south-east prospect, the
+eye may faintly distinguish the mouldering remains of the Abbey of
+Beaulieu, famed in days of yore for its Sanctuary, the name of
+which is now only recorded in history. Even the site of the tower
+is unknown, whose Curfew has long ceased to warn the seamen, or
+draw the deep curse from the forester.</p>
+<p>There they may</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"On a plat of rising ground,</p>
+<p>Hear the far off Curfew sound,</p>
+<p>Over the wide watered shore,</p>
+<p>Swinging slow with sullen roar."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>The Curfew is rung at Southampton, Downton, Ringwood, and many
+other towns in the west, every night at eight.</p>
+<p>P.Q.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>SPANISH SCENERY.</h3>
+<p>The following is from the delightful pencil of Washington
+Irving: it will be seen to bear all the polish of his best
+style:&mdash;</p>
+<p>"Many are apt to picture Spain to their imaginations as a soft
+southern region, decked out with all the luxuriant charms of
+voluptuous Italy. On the contrary, though there are exceptions in
+some of the maritime provinces, yet, for the greater part, it is a
+stern, melancholy country, with rugged mountains, and long sweeping
+plains, destitute of trees, and indescribably silent and lonesome,
+partaking of the savage and solitary character of Africa. What adds
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page308" name="page308"></a>[pg
+308]</span> to this silence and loneliness, is the absence of
+singing-birds, a natural consequence of the want of groves and
+hedges. The vulture and the eagle are seen wheeling about the
+mountain-cliffs, and soaring over the plains, and groups of shy
+bustards stalk about the heaths; but the myriads of smaller birds,
+which animate the whole face of other countries are met with in but
+few provinces in Spain, and in those chiefly among the orchards and
+gardens which surround the habitations of man.</p>
+<p>"In the interior provinces the traveller occasionally traverses
+great tracts cultivated with grain as far as the eye can reach,
+waving at times with verdure, at other times naked and sunburnt,
+but he looks round in vain for the hand that has tilled the soil.
+At length, he perceives some village on a steep hill, or rugged
+crag, with mouldering battlements and ruined watch tower; a
+stronghold, in old times, against civil war, or Moorish inroad; for
+the custom among the peasantry of congregating together for mutual
+protection, is still kept up in most parts of Spain, in consequence
+of the maraudings of roving freebooters.</p>
+<p>"But though a great part of Spain is deficient in the garniture
+of groves and forests, and the softer charms of ornamental
+cultivation, yet its scenery has something of a high and lofty
+character to compensate the want. It partakes something of the
+attributes of its people; and I think that I better understand the
+proud, hardy, frugal, and abstemious Spaniard, his manly defiance
+of hardships, and contempt of effeminate indulgences, since I have
+seen the country he inhabits.</p>
+<p>"There is something, too, in the sternly simple features of the
+Spanish landscape, that impresses on the soul a feeling of
+sublimity. The immense plains of the Castiles and of La Mancha,
+extending as far as the eye can reach, derive an interest from
+their very nakedness and immensity, and have something of the
+solemn grandeur of the ocean. In ranging over these boundless
+wastes, the eye catches sight here and there of a straggling herd
+of cattle attended by a lonely herdsman, motionless as a statue,
+with his long, slender pike tapering up like a lance into the air;
+or, beholds a long train of mules slowly moving along the waste
+like a train of camels in the desert; or, a single herdsman, armed
+with blunderbuss and stiletto, and prowling over the plain. Thus
+the country, the habits, the very looks of the people, have
+something of the Arabian character. The general insecurity of the
+country is evinced in the universal use of weapons. The herdsman in
+the field, the shepherd in the plain, has his musket and his knife.
+The wealthy villager rarely ventures to the market-town without his
+trabuco, and, perhaps, a servant on foot with a blunderbuss on his
+shoulder; and the most petty journey is undertaken with the
+preparation of a warlike enterprise.</p>
+<p>"The dangers of the road produce also a mode of travelling,
+resembling, on a diminutive scale, the caravans of the east. The
+arrieros, or carriers, congregate in convoys, and set off in large
+and well-armed trains on appointed days; while additional
+travellers swell their number, and contribute to their strength. In
+this primitive way is the commerce of the country carried on. The
+muleteer is the general medium of traffic, and the legitimate
+traverser of the land, crossing the peninsula from the Pyrenees and
+the Asturias to the Alpuxarras, the Serrania de Ronda, and even to
+the gates of Gibraltar. He lives frugally and hardily: his alforjas
+of coarse cloth hold his scanty stock of provisions; a leathern
+bottle, hanging at his saddle-bow, contains wine or water, for a
+supply across barren mountains and thirsty plains. A mule-cloth
+spread upon the ground, is his bed at night, and his pack-saddle is
+his pillow. His low, but clean-limbed and sinewy form betokens
+strength; his complexion is dark and sunburnt; his eye resolute,
+but quiet in its expression, except when kindled by sudden emotion;
+his demeanour is frank, manly, and courteous, and he never passes
+you without a grave salutation: 'Dios guarde &agrave; usted!' 'Va
+usted con Dios, Caballero!' 'God guard you! God be with you,
+Cavalier!'</p>
+<p>"As these men have often their whole fortune at stake upon the
+burthen of their mule, they have their weapons at hand, slung to
+their saddles, and ready to be snatched out for desperate defence.
+But their united numbers render them secure against petty bands of
+marauders, and the solitary bandolero, armed to the teeth, and
+mounted on his Andalusian steed, hovers about them, like a pirate
+about a merchant convoy, without daring to make an assault.</p>
+<p>"The Spanish muleteer has an inexhaustible stock of songs and
+ballads, with which to beguile his incessant wayfaring. The airs
+are rude and simple, consisting of but few inflexions. These he
+chants forth with a loud voice, and long, drawling cadence, seated
+sideways on his mule, who seems to listen with <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page309" name="page309"></a>[pg 309]</span>
+infinite gravity, and to keep time, with his paces, to the tune.
+The couplets thus chanted, are often old traditional romances about
+the Moors, or some legend of a saint, or some love-ditty; or what
+is still more frequent, some ballad about a bold contrabandista, or
+hardy bandolero, for the smuggler and the robber are poetical
+heroes among the common people of Spain. Often the song of the
+muleteer is composed at the instant, and relates to some local
+scenes or some incident of the journey. This talent of singing and
+improvising is frequent in Spain, and is said to have been
+inherited from the Moors. There is something wildly pleasing in
+listening to these ditties among the rude and lonely scenes that
+they illustrate; accompanied, as they are, by the occasional jingle
+of the mule-bell.</p>
+<p>"It has a most picturesque effect also to meet a train of
+muleteers in some mountain-pass. First you hear the bells of the
+leading mules, breaking with their simple melody the stillness of
+the airy height; or, perhaps, the voice of the muleteer admonishing
+some tardy or wandering animal, or chanting, at the full stretch of
+his lungs, some traditionary ballad. At length you see the mules
+slowly winding along the cragged defile, sometimes descending
+precipitous cliffs, so as to present themselves in full relief
+against the sky, sometimes toiling up the deep arid chasms below
+you. As they approach, you descry their gay decorations of worsted
+tufts, tassels, and saddle-cloths, while, as they pass by, the
+ever-ready trabuco slung behind the packs and saddles, gives a hint
+of the insecurity of the road.</p>
+<p>"The ancient kingdom of Granada, into which we are about to
+penetrate, is one of the most mountainous regions of Spain. Vast
+sierras, or chains of mountains, destitute of shrub or tree, and
+mottled with variegated marbles and granites, elevate their
+sun-burnt summits against a deep-blue sky; yet in their rugged
+bosoms lie engulfed the most verdant and fertile valley, where the
+desert and the garden strain for mastery, and the very rock is, as
+it were, compelled to yield the fig, the orange, and the citron,
+and to blossom with the myrtle and the rose.</p>
+<p>"In the wild passes of these mountains the sight of walled towns
+and villages, built like eagles' nests among the cliffs, and
+surrounded by Moorish battlements, or of ruined watch-towers
+perched on lofty peaks, carries the mind back to the chivalric days
+of Christian and Moslem warfare, and to the romantic struggle for
+the conquest of Granada. In traversing these lofty sierras the
+traveller is often obliged to alight and lead his horse up and down
+the steep and jagged ascents and descents, resembling the broken
+steps of a staircase. Sometimes the road winds along dizzy
+precipices, without parapet to guard him from the gulfs below, and
+then will plunge down steep, and dark, and dangerous declivities.
+Sometimes it straggles through rugged barrancos, or ravines, worn
+by winter torrents, the obscure path of the contrabandista; while,
+ever and anon, the ominous cross, the monument of robbery and
+murder, erected on a mound of stones at some lonely part of the
+road, admonishes the traveller that he is among the haunts of
+banditti, perhaps at that very moment under the eye of some lurking
+bandolero. Sometimes, in winding through the narrow valleys, he is
+startled by a hoarse bellowing, and beholds above him on some green
+fold of the mountain side a herd of fierce Andalusian bulls,
+destined for the combat of the arena. There is something awful in
+the contemplation of these terrific animals, clothed with
+tremendous strength, and ranging their native pastures in untamed
+wildness, strangers almost to the face of man: they know no one but
+the solitary herdsman who attends upon them, and even he at times
+dares not venture to approach them. The low bellowing of these
+bulls, and their menacing aspect as they look down from their rocky
+height, give additional wildness to the savage scenery around."</p>
+<p>(From <i>The Alhambra</i>, or <i>New Sketch Book</i>, to which
+we propose to return in a <i>Supplement</i> in a fortnight.)</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>ANECDOTE GALLERY.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>THE UNLUCKY PRESENT: A TALE.</h3>
+<p>A Lanarkshire minister (who died within the present century) was
+one of those unhappy persons, who, to use the words of a well known
+Scottish adage, "can never see green cheese but their een reels."
+He was <i>extremely covetous</i> and that not only of nice articles
+of food, but of many other things which do not generally excite the
+cupidity of the human heart. The following story is in
+corroboration of this assertion:&mdash;Being on a visit one day at
+the house of one of his parishioners, a poor lonely widow, living
+in a moorland part of the parish, he became fascinated by the
+charms of a little cast-iron pot, which happened at the time to be
+lying on the hearth, full <span class="pagenum"><a id="page310"
+name="page310"></a>[pg 310]</span> of potatoes for the poor woman's
+dinner, and that of her children. He had never in his life seen
+such a nice little pot&mdash;it was a perfect conceit of a
+thing&mdash;it was a gem&mdash;no pot on earth could match it in
+symmetry&mdash;it was an object altogether perfectly lovely. "Dear
+sake! minister," said the widow, quite overpowered by the reverend
+man's commendations of her pot; "if ye like the pot sae weel as a'
+that, I beg ye'll let me send it to the manse. It's a kind o' orra
+(<i>superfluous</i>) pot wi' us; for we've a bigger ane, that we
+use for ordinar, and that's mair convenient every way for us. Sae
+ye'll just tak a present o't. I'll send it ower the morn wi' Jamie,
+when he gangs to the schule." "Oh!" said the minister, "I can by no
+means permit you to be at so much trouble. Since you are so good as
+to give me the pot, I'll just carry it home with me in my hand. I'm
+so much taken with it, indeed, that I would really prefer carrying
+it myself." After much altercation between the minister and the
+widow, on this delicate point of politeness, it was agreed that he
+should carry home the pot himself.</p>
+<p>Off then he trudged, bearing this curious little culinary
+article, alternately in his hand and under his arm, as seemed most
+convenient to him. Unfortunately the day was warm, the way long,
+and the minister fat; so that he became heartily tired of his
+burden before he got half-way home. Under these distressing
+circumstances, it struck him, that, if, instead of carrying the pot
+awkwardly at one side of his person, he were to carry it on his
+head, the burden would be greatly lightened; the principles of
+natural philosophy, which he had learned at college, informing him,
+that when a load presses directly and immediately upon any object,
+it is far less onerous than when it hangs at the remote end of a
+lever. Accordingly, doffing his hat, which he resolved to carry
+home in his band, and having applied his handkerchief to his brow,
+he clapped the pot, in inverted fashion, upon his head, where, as
+the reader may suppose, it figured much like Mambrino's helmet upon
+the crazed capital of Don Quixote, only a great deal more
+magnificent in shape and dimensions. There was, at first, much
+relief and much comfort in this new mode of carrying the pot; but
+mark the result. The unfortunate minister having taken a by-path,
+to escape observation, found himself, when still a good way from
+home, under the necessity of leaping over a ditch, which
+intercepted him, in passing from one field to another. He jumped;
+but surely no jump was ever taken so completely <i>in</i>, or, at
+least <i>into</i>, the dark as this. The concussion given to his
+person in descending caused the helmet to become a hood; the pot
+slipped down over his face, and resting with the rim upon his neck,
+stuck fast there; enclosing his whole head as completely as ever
+that of a new born child was enclosed by the filmy bag, with which
+nature, as an indication of future good fortune, sometimes invests
+the noddles of her favourite offspring. What was worst of all, the
+nose, which had permitted the pot to slip down over it, withstood
+every desperate attempt, on the part of its proprietor, to make it
+slip back again; the contracted part, or neck, of the
+<i>patera</i>, being of such a peculiar formation as to cling fast
+to the base of the nose, although it had found no difficulty in
+gliding along its hypothenuse. Was ever minister in a worse plight?
+Was there ever <i>contretemps</i> so unlucky? Did ever any
+man&mdash;did ever any minister, so effectually hoodwink himself,
+or so thoroughly shut his eyes, to the plain light of nature? What
+was to be done? The place was lonely; the way difficult and
+dangerous; human relief was remote, almost beyond reach. It was
+impossible even to cry for help; or, if a cry could be uttered, it
+might reach, in deafening reverberation, the ear of the utterer,
+but it would not travel twelve inches farther in any direction. To
+add to the distresses of the case, the unhappy sufferer soon found
+great difficulty in breathing. What with the heat occasioned by the
+beating of the sun on the metal, and what with the frequent return
+of the same heated air to his lungs, he was in the utmost danger of
+suffocation. Every thing considered, it seemed likely that, if he
+did not chance to be relieved by some accidental wayfarer, there
+would soon be <i>death in the pot</i>.</p>
+<p>The instinctive love of life, however, is omni-prevalent; and
+even very stupid people have been found, when put to the push by
+strong and imminent peril, to exhibit a degree of presence of mind,
+and exert a degree of energy, far above what might have been
+expected from them, or what they were ever known to exhibit, or
+exert, under ordinary circumstances. So it was with the
+pot-ensconced minister. Pressed by the urgency of his distresses,
+he fortunately recollected that there was a smith's shop at the
+distance of about a mile across the fields, where, if he could
+reach it before the period of suffocation, he might possibly find
+relief. Deprived of his eyesight, <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+"page311" name="page311"></a>[pg 311]</span> he acted only as a man
+of feeling, and went on as cautiously as he could, with his hat in
+his hand. Half crawling, half sliding, over ridge and furrow, ditch
+and hedge, somewhat like Satan floundering over chaos, the unhappy
+minister travelled with all possible speed, as nearly as he could
+guess, in the direction of the place of refuge. I leave it to the
+reader to conceive the surprise, the mirth, the infinite amusement
+of the smith, and all the hangers-on of the <i>smiddy</i>, when, at
+length, torn and worn, faint and exhausted, blind and breathless,
+the unfortunate man arrived at the place, and let them know (rather
+by signs than by words) the circumstances of his case. In the words
+of an old Scottish song,</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"Out cam the gudeman, and high he shouted;</p>
+<p>Out cam the gudewife, and low she louted;</p>
+<p>And a' the town neighbours were gathered about it:</p>
+<p class="i6">And there was he, I trow."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>The merriment of the company, however, soon gave way to
+considerations of humanity. Ludicrous as was the minister, with
+such an object where his head should have been, and with the feet
+of the pot pointing upwards, like the horns of the great Enemy, it
+was, nevertheless, necessary that he should be speedily restored to
+his ordinary condition, if it were for no other reason than that he
+might continue to live. He was accordingly, at his own request led
+into the smithy, multitudes flocking around to tender him their
+kindest offices, or to witness the process of release; and, having
+laid down his head upon the anvil, the smith lost no time in
+seizing and poising his goodly forehammer. "Will I come sair on,
+minister?" exclaimed the considerate man of iron, in at the brink
+of the pot. "As sair as ye like," was the minister's answer;
+"better a chap i' the chafts than die for want of breath." Thus
+permitted, the man let fall a blow, which fortunately broke the pot
+in pieces, without hurting the head which it enclosed, as the
+cook-maid breaks the shell of the lobster, without bruising the
+delicate food within. A few minutes of the clear air, and a glass
+from the gudewife's bottle, restored the unfortunate man of prayer;
+but, assuredly, the incident is one which will long live in the
+memory of the parishioners of C&mdash;&mdash;.&mdash;<i>Chambers'
+Edinburgh Journal.</i></p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE NATURALIST.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>LOUDON'S MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY.</h3>
+<p>Sundry and manifold are our obligations to this delightful
+Journal. From the Number (26) for the present month we glean the
+following:</p>
+<p><i>The Gurnard and Sprat.</i></p>
+<p>Mr. J. Couch, in an interesting paper on the fishes of Cornwall,
+has the following notes:</p>
+<p>"Ray observes that the word gurnard, which may be regarded as
+the English term, is derived <i>a grunnitu</i>, from grunting like
+a hog. In this, however, I venture to think this eminent naturalist
+mistaken. Pengurn is the ancient Cornu-British name for these
+fishes, and signifies hard head; and its English translation is now
+sometimes given to the grey gurnard. From the Cornish word
+<i>gurn</i> (hard), I therefore derive the name, as descriptive of
+the head of these species. This is a common fish at all seasons;
+but in December and January it sometimes abounds to such a degree,
+that, as they are not much esteemed, I have known them sold at
+thirty for a penny. It keeps near the bottom commonly, at no great
+distance from land; but sometimes multitudes will mount together to
+the surface; and move along with the first dorsal fin above the
+water: they will even quit their native element, and spring to the
+distance of a yard; thus imitating the flying gurnard, though not
+to the same extent. In summer they are found basking in the sun,
+perhaps asleep, as they will at times display no signs of
+animation, until an attempt is made to seize them.</p>
+<p>"In reference to some observations by Mr. Yarrell, in the
+<i>Zoological Journal</i>, relative to the distinction between the
+sprat and the young of the pilchard and herring, I can state that
+Cornish fishermen term the young of both the latter fishes sprats;
+but, how far this should go in determining the judgment of a
+naturalist will appear, when I add that I have never seen above one
+specimen of the genuine sprat in Cornwall, and that was brought me
+by a fisherman, to be informed what fish it was. In taking fish out
+of his net by night, he felt it to be neither a pilchard nor a
+herring, and supposed it something rare."</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>STRUCTURE OF BIRDS.</h3>
+<p>Birds may be said to constitute an isolated class of beings.
+They are distinguished by certain characters from all other
+animals: their classification does not pass into any other, and
+cannot, therefore, be consistently introduced into the supposed
+chain or gradation of natural bodies.</p>
+<p>The skeleton or bony frame of birds is in general lighter than
+in quadrupeds. They have the largest bones of all animals,
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page312" name="page312"></a>[pg
+312]</span> in proportion to their weight; and their bones are more
+hollow than those of animals that do not fly: air-vessels also
+enable them to blow out the hollow parts of their bodies, when they
+wish to make their descent slower, rise more swiftly, or float in
+the air. The spine is immovable, but the neck has a greater number
+of bones, (never less than nine, and varying from that to
+twenty-four,) and consequently of joints, and more varied motion,
+than in quadrupeds. The breast-bone is very large, with a prominent
+keel down the middle, and is formed for the attachment of very
+strong muscles: the bones of the wings are analagous to those of
+the fore-legs in quadrupeds, but the termination is in three joints
+or fingers only, of which the exterior is very short. This will be
+better understood by the annexed:</p>
+<div class="figure" style="width:40%;"><a href=
+"images/547-2.png"><img width="100%" src="images/547-2.png" alt=
+"" /></a> Skeleton of a Turkey.</div>
+<p>The muscles that move the wings downwards, in many instances,
+are a sixth part of the weight of the whole body; whereas those of
+a man are not in proportion one hundredth part so large. The centre
+of gravity of their bodies is always below the insertion of their
+wings to prevent them falling on their backs, but near that point
+on which the body is, during flight, as it were, suspended. The
+positions assumed by the head and feet are frequently calculated to
+accomplish these ends, and give to the wings every assistance in
+continuing the progressive motion. The tail also is of great use,
+in regulating the rise and fall of birds and even their lateral
+movements. What are commonly called the legs are analogous to the
+hind legs in quadrupeds, and they terminate, in general, in four
+toes, three of which are usually directed forwards, and one
+backwards; but in some birds there are only two toes, in others
+three.</p>
+<p>Birds exceed quadrupeds in the quantity of their respiration,
+for they have not only a double circulation, and an aerial
+respiration, but they respire also through other cavities beside
+the lungs, the air penetrating through the whole body, and bathing
+the branches of the aorta, or great artery of the body, as well as
+those of the pulmonary artery.</p>
+<p>Birds are usually classed according to the forms of their bills
+and feet, from those parts being connected with their mode of life,
+food, &amp;c. and influencing their total habit very
+materially.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>THE RHINOCEROS BIRD.</h3>
+<p>This curious bird is of the order <i>Pic&aelig;</i>, or Pies,
+and of the genus <i>Buceros</i>, consisting of birds of rather
+large size, and distinguished by the disproportionate forms of
+their beaks, which are often still further remarkable for some kind
+of large prominence on the upper mandible. The most conspicuous
+species is the <i>Buceros Rhinoceros</i> of Linn&aelig;us, commonly
+called the Rhinoceros Bird.</p>
+<div class="figure" style="width:40%;"><a href=
+"images/547-3.png"><img width="100%" src="images/547-3.png" alt=
+"" /></a> The Rhinoceros Bird.</div>
+<p>Its general size is that of a Turkey, but with a much more
+slenderly proportioned body. Its colour is black, with the tail
+white, crossed by a black bar: the beak is of enormous size, of a
+lengthened, slightly curved, and pointed shape, and on the upper
+mandible, towards the base, is an extremely large process, equal in
+thickness to the bill itself, and turning upwards and backwards in
+the form of a thick, sharp-pointed horn, somewhat resembling the
+horn of the rhinoceros. The use of this strange proboscis is by
+some supposed to be that of enabling the bird more easily to tear
+out the entrails of its prey; but others affirm that it is not of a
+predaceous nature, feeding only on vegetable substances. This bird
+is principally found in the East Indian Islands. A remarkably fine
+specimen was preserved in the Leverian Museum.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page313" name="page313"></a>[pg
+313]</span>
+<h2>THE SKETCH-BOOK.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>RECOLLECTIONS OF A WANDERER.</h3>
+<h4><i>A scene on the coast of Cornwall.</i></h4>
+<p>A short time before my departure from the hamlet of
+Landwithiel,<a id="footnotetag4" name="footnotetag4"></a><a href=
+"#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a> I was awoke early one morning by the
+roaring of the wind in the huge old chimney of my room&mdash;the
+whole tenement, indeed, occasionally shook as a violent gust swept
+down the valley, tossing the branches of the stout old tree before
+the door to and fro in a way that threatened at last to level them
+with the dust. The very briny scent of the atmosphere convinced me
+there was some sea running in the bay; and it was the more
+unexpected as we had had no tokens of a storm for several days
+previous. From the peninsular situation of this county, surrounded
+on almost every side with the restless ocean and exposed to the
+wide sweep of the Atlantic, it may be supposed that storms are of
+frequent occurrence. As on the present occasion, they often come
+with little or no warning; and the effects of a hurricane in the
+distant main, far outstripping the wind, sometimes rolls with
+tremendous fury towards our western shores, on which the sea is
+encroaching in every part.</p>
+<p>Landwithiel was a wild little place. It was essentially a
+"fishing village." The people ploughed the deep, not the land; and
+the constant exposure&mdash;blow high, blow low&mdash;on the
+restless sea, endued its inhabitants, and the Cornish fishermen
+generally, with a fearlessness of danger and boldness of character
+almost unequalled in these islands. The lives and pursuits of the
+two great classes in this county&mdash;the maritime and mining
+population&mdash;are widely opposite to each other. The one class
+pass their existence on the stormy waters of the deep, whilst the
+other labour far below the surface of the earth; each being
+continually exposed to numberless perils and dangers.</p>
+<p>When I descended below I found my host already astir; so after
+attending well to the inward man, I lost no time in starting
+towards the harbour. As I formerly described, this comes abruptly
+in sight round a sharp angle, at some elevation from the beach. On
+the upper part of the descent the road was flanked on each side
+with a row of cottages, the street being so steep that steps were
+formed in many parts to aid the progress of the passenger. This
+gave an air of singularity and wildness to the place, which was
+aided by the boldness of the surrounding scenery. The street bore
+all the marks of the occupation of the inhabitants&mdash;nets
+hanging to dry&mdash;strings of fish&mdash;an old oar&mdash;or a
+"fisher's wife" broiling fish for her husband's breakfast&mdash;met
+the eye on either side.</p>
+<p>On clearing the street, I observed a larger throng on the old
+pier than was wont to gather there on ordinary occasions. There was
+obviously some unusual subject of interest agitated amongst them;
+so I turned from my course and joined the group.</p>
+<p>A gale is an important event in a fishing town. Independent of
+the interest naturally felt for the various craft belonging to the
+place which may happen to be afloat, there may be wrecks or other
+marine casualties to excite the interest or cupidity of the
+observer.</p>
+<p>There was a tremendous tumbling sea rolling into the little bay,
+when I drew towards the pier. At the further end was a group of
+persons in earnest conversation, whom I distinguished as the
+knowing ones and long-heads of the place; while their younger
+companions were engaged in parties walking briskly to and fro on
+the pier. A tier of boats had been carefully drawn up high and dry
+beyond the wreck left by the last spring tide. Four or five,
+however, were afloat, and lurching heavily alongside the pier,
+whither the tide had not long reached; the wind rattling amongst
+the masts, shrouds, and half-bent sails of some craft which had
+just run in for shelter from the impending storm. My recent
+adventure had made me pretty well acquainted with most of the
+persons around: and I learned that a <i>ground swell</i> had been
+observed along shore the preceding night. This phenomenon is
+generally occasioned by a storm in the Atlantic, with a westerly
+wind; and it affords to the old fishermen an almost certain
+indication of approaching foul weather.</p>
+<p>"A stiff bit of a gale, this same, Master Charles," said an old
+tar, giving an energetic jerk to his trousers, "Ay, ay, old boy,"
+he replied, "this wind is not blowing for nothing, you may take my
+word for it; but if the Jane and the Susan hove in sight I'd not
+mind a bit for all that; we've not a stick afloat but her."</p>
+<p>"What! is Sam Clovelly<a id="footnotetag5" name=
+"footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a> out this
+morning, Helston?" I anxiously inquired of the pilot, who was a
+manly, excellent sort of fellow. He had grown grey with service,
+and there was something in the steady eye and calm decision
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page314" name="page314"></a>[pg
+314]</span> of his look that marked him out as no common
+character.</p>
+<p>"Yes, sir, we have no tidings of him yet, and the sky looking as
+black, yonder, as the face of a negro; but we'll hope that he's run
+out of harm's way before now."</p>
+<p>As the morning waxed apace, the interest in the fate of the Jane
+and Susan became more evident amongst the by-standers. Every stick
+that came in sight cut out conversation; but many an eye was cast
+anxiously to windward in vain for poor Sam Clovelly and his brother
+Arthur, who had been out since the preceding night. Presently the
+two little orphan sisters of the missing men came upon the pier,
+and Helstone, the pilot, and some of the others anxiously
+endeavoured to cheer and console them.</p>
+<p>"I'll be bound they've run for &mdash;&mdash; port long ago,
+darlings, so don't cry now, Jane; the old craft's stood many a
+stronger breeze than this; now, wipe your eyes, there. Poor
+things," he said, turning to me, as the children went farther on
+the pier, "their two brothers are the only friends they have got in
+the world, and if they are gone who is to take care of them? Their
+father, old Sam Clovelly, was lost&mdash;I recollect the time
+well&mdash;somewhere off Milford; leaving his wife, with two stiff
+tidy bits of lads, and likely to increase the family; well, sir,
+she took to her bed, with the shock, and never rose from it more,
+after giving birth to these two little girls, leaving poor Sam and
+Arthur to struggle on like a cutter in a heavy sea. But God
+Almighty never deserts the innocent, sir&mdash;you've seen that, I
+dare say? Sam's been a steady lad, and has prospered, and he and
+Arthur have never forgotten their mother's dying words, and have
+been very kind to their sisters; but, come what will, the orphans
+shall never want a friend as long as Charley Helston has a home or
+a bit of bread to offer them."</p>
+<p>We now again reverted to the state of the day. As the gale swept
+on, numberless craft were running along the coast towards
+&mdash;&mdash; port, for shelter. A crack Fowey-man now making a
+board till she "eat out" of the wind a North-countryman right
+ahead&mdash;now with her helm-a-lea, and now careering along with a
+heavy following sea on either quarter&mdash;kept our attention on
+the alert. Presently a steamer came in sight bearing up across the
+bay towards &mdash;&mdash; Head. The white rush of steam from her
+safety-valves was well made out by the blackness of the windward
+horizon; and contrasted with the dense puffs of smoke from her
+funnel, which were instantly dispersed or carried in heavy patches
+to leeward. The glory of modern discoveries is unpopular with our
+coasting-seamen, and the mate of a coaster, who was watching her
+movements, observed that "we should not have a lad fit to hand a
+sail or man a yard soon with their cursed machinery."</p>
+<p>As she passed on her course "cleaving blast and breaker right
+ahead," with her weather-wheel often spinning in the air, and as
+the sky darkened and the waves roared louder, I thought with deep
+interest on what might even now be the fate of those, without whose
+friendly aid I should have been lying on a rocky pillow and seaweed
+for my shroud, near Dawlish's Hole. The weather now became entitled
+to the formidable name of a storm, but some time had yet to elapse
+before darkness added its horrors to the scene of desolation.</p>
+<p>Heavy masses of breakers were continually striking the pier-head
+with fearful crashes; now bursting over, amid seas of spray, with
+resistless impetuosity, drenching every one under its lee; now
+recoiling for a brief moment, as if to gather strength, leaving a
+smooth, hollow waste of oily sea&mdash;like the treacherous pauses
+of human passion,&mdash;and then returning with wilder haste and
+tenfold added fury to the onset.</p>
+<p>The morning was waning away. I left the pier, and bent my course
+away from Landwithiel.</p>
+<p>The path I pursued led along the summit of the cliffs;
+oftentimes winding so close round the edge of a projecting
+acclivity, that it required a clear head and a steady foot, for one
+false step would have been instant destruction. The coast below me
+was justly entitled to take its place amongst the finest
+rock-scenery in the island; and exhibited in its grandest form, the
+peculiarly wild and picturesque nature of the coast of Cornwall.
+After working my way against a head-wind for three or four miles, I
+took shelter in Dawlish's Watch Tower, an old half-ruined building,
+which commanded an almost boundless look-out. Nearly right opposite
+to this station lay the Wolf-stone, an insular, and almost
+inaccessible rock, which rose in deep water about three-quarters of
+a mile from land. Whilst scanning with my glass the windward
+horizon, I accidentally rested on this islet, and I had not looked
+long before my gaze was rivetted to it. Two individuals I fancied
+were standing near a pole which was erected on the highest point.
+These lone and unusual tenants of the sea-birds' home <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page315" name="page315"></a>[pg 315]</span> were
+obviously, from their motions, much agitated. A heavy driving
+shower, for a few minutes, wrapped it in mist. When this cleared
+off, the black and dreary front of the Wolf-stone became dimly
+visible through the tumultuous assemblage of gigantic breakers,
+that were every instant grappling with the steep which defied them.
+Another minute's observation and I was running at my utmost speed
+back to Landwithiel. The captives could be no other than Sam and
+Arthur Clovelly.</p>
+<p>My arrival caused universal stir and interest in Landwithiel.
+The Dasher, the best sea-boat in the harbour was instantly manned,
+with directions to pull to Carn Cove, almost opposite the rock,
+whither the rest of the men rapidly proceeded along the heights.
+Helston and myself also went thither to consult in the first
+instance, as to the best plan for relief; for no boat could live,
+in such a day as this, within some distance of the rock.</p>
+<p>The anxious group gathered on the edge of the cliff; and while a
+white flag was running up a boat's mast which we had erected on the
+tower, we cheered loudly and repeatedly to assure the distant
+captives that aid was nigh.</p>
+<p>"It is Sam&mdash;God be praised," sang out Helston, who was
+steadily looking out through his glass&mdash;and every one crowded
+around. "And is Arthur there too, Charles?"&mdash;"Yes, I
+see.&mdash;Death! I thought that wave would sweep over all. Now
+they wave their neckcloths&mdash;they beckon us to use haste. High
+water is drawing fast on, and what man ever lived on the Wolfstone
+in a spring flood. They wave again; sing away there, my lads,
+cheerily!" and a tumultuous shout of human voices again mingled
+with the blast.</p>
+<p>Almost every eye was now cast out for the Dasher, and she was
+seen pulling with great difficulty&mdash;for a handkerchief of
+canvass would have been madness&mdash;towards the shelter of a
+projecting mass of rock, in Carne Cove, in the comparatively smooth
+water behind which, Helston and myself were enabled with some
+difficulty to get aboard. It was a moment of some excitement.
+Accustomed from childhood fearlessly to brave an element they might
+truly call their own, the gallant little crew steadily seated
+themselves, and taking off their hats manfully answered the
+encouraging cheers from aloft. The men now shipped their oars, and
+all having been made snug, I seated myself in the stern-sheets,
+near Helston, who had taken the helm. There was something fine in
+his weather-beaten countenance, and grey hair streaming in the
+breeze, as he steadily scanned the dark masses of the distant
+Wolf-stone&mdash;he was a true seaman.</p>
+<p>The Dasher was a boat that would live in almost any weather on
+this coast, head to wind; but when she was put about, there was no
+little danger of her being pooped in a heavy following sea. Ours
+was now the former case, and as the crew put her through the
+contending sea, which at every stroke hit our bows and soaked us
+with spray, I anxiously consulted with Helston on the best means of
+shipping the captives on making the Wolf-stone. Keeping his eye
+fixed on the rock, which was grimly visible on our larboard bow, he
+shook his head as the portentous darkness of the sky again claimed
+our attention. "If we had been delayed a quarter of an hour longer
+they would have been food for fishes;" I remarked, "but it will be
+close run; our men are doing all that strength and skill can do,
+but it avails little when opposed to such a power as this."</p>
+<p>"Never fear, sir, we shall do yet&mdash;you are not so cool as
+I&mdash;how should you? when I have braved the storms of nearly
+sixty winters:&mdash;but the Wolf-stone's a spot, I will frankly
+confess, with which I had rather make acquaintance with a clearer
+sky and a flowing sheet, than on such a night as this. Just give a
+look-out a-head, sir," he added, as we were mounting a heavy sea,
+"and tell me how things are aloft on the rock."</p>
+<p>However formidable this dreary steep might have appeared at a
+distance, now we were drawing near to it, the wildness and
+sublimity of the scene surpassed my calculations. The fugitives,
+who by their gestures were urging us onward, had been driven for
+shelter to a hollow on the leeward side of the rock, which indeed
+was almost the only spot that now afforded an asylum from danger.
+The waves as they came rolling onwards with aggravated force from
+the main, ever and anon burst against the isle with terrific
+violence, now breaking into gigantic masses, then driven in columns
+of sparkling spray to a vast height in the air, and now closing on
+every side around their victims. The isle, indeed, appeared to be
+menaced with total annihilation.</p>
+<p>As we could now distinguish both the brothers, we instinctively
+cheered them on drawing towards the landward side of the rock. They
+were compelled every minute to crouch and cling to the cliff
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page316" name="page316"></a>[pg
+316]</span> under which they had taken shelter, as a huge wave
+burst below their feet, and struck them in its upward violence. The
+Wolf-stone could no longer raise its head in dominion over the
+main. The surf ran so high immediately around it, that to approach
+at all closely would only have ended in the destruction of every
+soul. We, therefore, hailed them as we stood under its lee, and
+found that in consequence of their having remained almost all night
+on this dreary spot, drenched with wet, and chilled with cold, any
+effort to swim through the surf would probably be fatal in their
+exhausted state. What then remained to be done? We had ropes on
+board which would be of infinite service, could we only devise
+means to convey them to the rock. At this juncture, the services of
+my old Newfoundlander, Retriever, came forcibly to my mind. The
+poor animal had refused to be separated from me when we embarked,
+and lay at my feet in the boat. On his exertions therefore depended
+the lives of our friends. He soon understood the task he was to
+perform, and in another second was dashing onwards through the
+waves. An affecting scene now took place between the brothers, as
+to who should first avail himself of the approaching aid. A
+gigantic rush of tide, which almost swept entirely over the rock,
+told them, however, that time was precious. But Sam was firm. The
+younger brother then plunged forward and was soon drawn safely on
+board. He informed us, as Retriever again swam away with the rope,
+that he feared his brother was much more exhausted than himself.
+With breathless interest, therefore, we watched Sam tie the rope
+round his body, and enter the water. The violence of the gale, at
+this instant, compelled us to stand further off the rock; indeed,
+within a few minutes we foresaw that its presence would only be
+indicated by a low black mass indistinctly seen, amidst the boiling
+and restless waves of the ocean; an appearance, I was told, which
+it only presents in the most violent storms. Poor Sam, now seen,
+now lost, amid the foaming ridges of the sea, came gradually along
+till within about forty paces from the boat, when it was evident
+his strength had failed him. An arm was shot into the air, then his
+head and shoulders rose rapidly, and there was a sudden blank in
+the waters. "Pull away, my lads, for your lives," we shouted, "or
+he is gone!"</p>
+<hr />
+<p>"It was a hard run thing, I reckon, sirs," said Mr. Habbakuk
+Sheepshanks, who was rather top-heavy that evening, to a numerous
+party who were assembled round his capacious hearth at the
+"Ship-aground," "but all's well, they say, that ends well, so we'll
+even drink the health of the brothers in a glass of the free
+genuine Cognac." "What is that you say!" said the exciseman....</p>
+<p>VYVYAN.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>LONDON AND THE PROVINCES COMPARED.</h3>
+<p>It is the nature of prosperous communities, and the fashion of
+modern times, to centralize too much their numbers and their
+powers. But the question of distribution and proportion is almost
+as important in politics as that of production itself. Money and
+manure are not the only things which are the better for being
+spread. London and the country would both be gainers by
+transplanting bodily, a hundred miles off, some dozens of its
+streets&mdash;inhabitants and all. There are whole counties which
+we should like to colonize with the surplus talent of the
+metropolis. That surplus talent comprises scores of men, waiting on
+Providence, feeding on foolish speculations, hanging on the skirts
+of some frivolous circle, doing nothing there, or worse than
+nothing, spoiling and wasting daily, who, planted out into a sphere
+of more favourable opportunities, are capable of being a blessing
+to a neighbourhood. However, it is not a case for violent measures.
+We do not propose that London should be compressed into <i>London
+proper</i>,&mdash;within the bills of mortality; or that its clubs
+should be called out on country service. Patriots, philosophers,
+and diners out, rusticating by royal proclamation, and under the
+<i>surveillance</i> of the police, would not come with a temper
+very suitable to our purpose. An experiment of that sort was made
+under more likely circumstance, and failed;&mdash;as all
+experiments must, which seek to remove the symptoms, instead of
+trying to act upon the cause. It was in vain that James I. pulled
+down the new houses as fast as they were built; and that Charles I.
+ordered home the country gentlemen.</p>
+<p>Although there seems something artificial, and almost monstrous,
+in the actual size of London, the means which have led to this
+result are altogether natural. Indeed, whatever forcing has been at
+any time used, or prejudice fostered, <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+"page317" name="page317"></a>[pg 317]</span> has told the other
+way. Nothing has existed which can be called a court or courtiers
+for the last two hundred years; and a sort of feudal feeling still
+keeps our squires faithful to their halls. Two exceptions only can
+be set down to our institutions. The distinction of local courts
+obliges the English Bar to reside near Westminster; and the
+duration of a modern session substitutes a house for the family of
+a Member of Parliament, in the place of lodgings for himself. Under
+these circumstances, as "the wen" has not been produced, so is it
+not likely to be dispersed by any direct legislative application.
+To say the truth, the grievance, in our opinion, is not in the
+<i>absolute</i>, but in the <i>relative</i> amount of the wealth,
+intelligence, and virtue, squeezed together on those marvellous
+square miles upon which the capital stands. We do not grudge it the
+pretty country which is hid under its basement stories, any more
+than the social activity and happiness which live along its crowded
+streets. We serve ejectments upon nobody. The only question is,
+whether some would not do well to move of themselves. Among the
+hopes and objects by whose influence 1,200,000 human beings are
+collected on the same spot, a certain proportion will be found,
+which have not been at all,&mdash;and more still, which have not
+been very judiciously or magnanimously, considered. There are many
+in the higher classes of its inhabitants especially, who, we
+suspect, on examining into their principles and habits, will have
+some difficulty in satisfying themselves that they have not chosen
+ill for their real happiness; and, for all real usefulness, a great
+deal worse. But the mistaken notion which most strips the country
+of its natural guardians, is the fallacy, on the part of young and
+sanguine dispositions, of believing that the motives and sphere of
+individual action rise in proportion to the apparent magnitude of
+the scene. These are the absentees most to be regretted. In the
+single line of professional practice, and in its most successful
+instances, that may be the case. But in taking ninety-nine cases
+out of a hundred, and in every other of the varied departments of
+social duty, the sphere of useful action, however nominally
+extended, will be found to be strictly and substantially
+reduced.</p>
+<p>There can be as little fear that London will ever want any of
+the elements of an enlightened and well-constituted community, as
+that it will not be large enough. It is very different with the
+provinces. The capital offers so many real, and still more, so many
+plausible attractions to all that is active and refined, as well as
+to all that is idle and selfish in human nature, that a long list
+of supernumaries and expectants is sure, in every case, always to
+be at hand. It is the lottery into which the credulous are eager to
+put in;&mdash;it is the theatre on whose stage ambition and vanity
+are impatient to appear;&mdash;it is the land of Cockayne, in whose
+crowded mazes the selfish escape from every duty, and reduce their
+intercourse with their fellow-creatures to the sympathies of
+visiting and of shopping. It is the seat also of liberal society,
+and independent existence, among the friends and occupations of
+one's choice. Lord Falkland, the love of his age, admitted, that
+quitting London was the only thing which he was not sufficiently
+master of himself ever to manage without a struggle. In this state
+of things, it is plain that nobody can be of such consequence there
+but that he is easily spared. The death of a town wit is handsomely
+celebrated, if it furnishes five minutes' conversation for the
+table where he dined the day before. He is replaced with the same
+regularity and indifference as fresh snuff is put into a snuff-box,
+or fresh flowers are set out upon the epergne. Nobody misses him.
+The machine goes on without perceiving that the blue-bottle or the
+gnat has fallen from its wheel.</p>
+<p>The vastness and multiplicity and complexity of the organization
+by which the movements of the capital proceed, as it were
+mechanically, do not act merely by diminishing the general
+importance of individuals to the system. Except in the case of very
+happy, and universal, and flowing natures, or under the influence
+of accidental counteractions, a personal risk, between extreme
+vagueness and extreme narrowness of character, is incurred by the
+individual himself. In respect of employment, the division of
+intellectual labour is so complete, that most persons in such a
+situation are tempted to do their own piece of work, and no
+more;&mdash;to rest satisfied with manufacturing the pin's head
+which happens to have fallen to their share. Does a London life
+tend to quicken the moral pulse and expand the heart? The forms of
+society are thrown into too large a scale, and its pace is too
+rapid, to afford an opportunity for the sort of intercourse by
+which alone a real acquaintance with, understanding of, and
+affection for, each other can be obtained. No means exist of
+getting there at any thing further than talents in men, and beauty
+or accomplishments in women.</p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page318" name="page318"></a>[pg
+318]</span>
+<p>Qualities which can be exhibited as a show are discovered and
+appreciated accordingly. But wisdom and virtue, which are to the
+mind what breath is to the body, have no part assigned or
+assignable to them on such a stage. A man may pass a life in London
+without an occasion arising by which his neighbours can learn
+whether he is an honest fellow or a rogue. The consequence is, that
+a good deal of such a man's moral nature gets imperfectly
+developed, and dies away. The appropriate object is not brought
+sufficiently close and home to him to stimulate and call forth his
+latent powers. Charity is perhaps better off than most. By a
+satisfactory compromise, it falls into the hands of a mendicity
+society. But there are other virtues which do not admit of being
+compounded for, and their burden transferred to a committee, for
+two guineas a-year. In these cases the moral tax is too often
+evaded altogether. We are well aware that men of pleasure are far
+from being the only persons who have turned into a maxim of life
+the sentence which the Duke of Buckingham passed upon the dog which
+barked after him,&mdash;"Would to God you were married and settled
+in the country!" It is evident that the word <i>provincial</i> is
+often felt, by characters of a higher strain and object, to imply
+an imputation or admission of mediocrity. Now, greatly as nations
+differ, it is generally admitted that all capitals are pretty much
+alike. It follows therefore, that the characteristic spirit and
+principle of a nation do not appear there to most advantage. Enow
+worthy representatives of that spirit and principle are doubtless
+there; but they are there too much as though they were not. It is
+an atmosphere which no individual powers can penetrate, and where
+it needs more than an ordinary sun to make itself felt or seen. We
+are satisfied that, on a just estimate of the whole case, the
+provinces, as distinguished from the metropolis, would be found in
+many instances, perhaps in most, to be the home which a wise lover
+of himself, and a sincere lover of his kind, would do well to fix
+in;&mdash;not indeed as the scene of a brilliant or sybarite
+existence, but as the post of that salutary influence which sinks
+deepest; and of that usefulness and happiness which last the
+longest; as most visibly incorporated with, and represented by, our
+fellow-beings.&mdash;<i>Edinburgh Review.</i></p>
+<hr />
+<h3>INFANCY.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>From the Feuilles d'Automne of Victor Hugo, translated in
+the Foreign Quarterly Review.</i>)</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>In the dusky court,</p>
+<p>Near the altar laid,</p>
+<p>Sleeps the child in shadow,</p>
+<p class="i2">Of his mother's bed:</p>
+<p>Softly he reposes,</p>
+<p>And his lids of roses.</p>
+<p>Closed to earth, uncloses</p>
+<p class="i2">On the heaven o'erhead.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Many a dream is with him,</p>
+<p>Fresh from the fairy land,</p>
+<p>Spangled o'er with diamonds</p>
+<p class="i2">Seems the ocean sand;</p>
+<p>Suns are gleaming there.</p>
+<p>Troops of ladies fair</p>
+<p>Souls of infants bear</p>
+<p class="i2">In their charming hand.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>O, enchanting vision,</p>
+<p>Lo, a rill up-springs,</p>
+<p>And, from out its bosom</p>
+<p class="i2">Comes a voice that sings.</p>
+<p>Lovelier there appear</p>
+<p>Sire and sisters dear,</p>
+<p>While his mother near,</p>
+<p class="i2">Plumes her new-born wings.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>But a brighter vision</p>
+<p>Yet his eyes behold;</p>
+<p>Roses all, and lilies,</p>
+<p class="i2">Every path enfold;</p>
+<p>Lakes in shadow sleeping,</p>
+<p>Silver fishes leaping,</p>
+<p>And the waters creeping,</p>
+<p class="i2">Through the reeds of gold.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Slumber on, sweet infant.</p>
+<p>Slumber peacefully;</p>
+<p>Thy young soul yet knows not</p>
+<p class="i2">What thy lot may be.</p>
+<p>Like dead leaves that sweep</p>
+<p>Down the stormy deep,</p>
+<p>Thou art borne in sleep,</p>
+<p class="i2">What is all to thee?</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Thou canst slumber by the way;</p>
+<p>Thou hast learnt to borrow</p>
+<p>Naught from study, naught from care;</p>
+<p class="i2">The cold hand of sorrow,</p>
+<p>On thy brow unwrinkled yet,</p>
+<p>Where young truth and candour sit,</p>
+<p>Ne'er with rugged nail hath writ</p>
+<p class="i2">That sad word, "To-morrow."</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Innocent, thou sleepest&mdash;</p>
+<p>See the heavenly band.</p>
+<p>Who foreknow the trials</p>
+<p class="i2">That for man are planned;</p>
+<p>Seeing him unarmed,</p>
+<p>Unfearing, un-alarmed,</p>
+<p>With their tears have warmed</p>
+<p class="i2">His unconscious hand.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Angels, hovering o'er him,</p>
+<p>Kiss him where he lies.</p>
+<p>Hark, he sees them weeping,</p>
+<p class="i2">"Gabriel," he cries;</p>
+<p>"Hush," the angel says,</p>
+<p>On his lip be lays</p>
+<p>One finger, one displays</p>
+<p class="i2">His native skies.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>STATE OF SOCIETY IN NEW SOUTH WALES.</h3>
+<p>The following exhibits but a lamentable picture of the "milk and
+honey" of this favoured land:</p>
+<p>"The morals of the colony of New South Wales are of an
+exceedingly depraved description. It is so far from being a country
+where men begin a new life and enter upon a fresh course with
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page319" name="page319"></a>[pg
+319]</span> resolutions of amendment, that the testimony of all
+respectable men examined on the subject unites in asserting that
+the habits of the freed men, even of those who have acquired
+property and have families, are of the most dissipated character.
+Of the emancipists, to whom grants of land have been made and who
+are often wealthy, very few, not more it is said than half a dozen,
+can be selected whose lives are not of a vicious description, who
+do not indulge in dishonest practices of one sort or another, and
+who have not risen to wealth by fostering and practising some
+species of villany. These men procure convicts to be assigned to
+them, who become members of the families, and assist them in
+carrying on their various frauds. In Sydney the grog shops are very
+numerous, and grog shops are receiving houses. A constant trade in
+stolen goods is going on between Sydney and the remotest parts of
+the colony, and even between Sydney and this country. The convicts
+in remote settlements have no means generally of indulging in
+licentiousness, but they see constantly before them the freed
+labourer who has, and they burn to enjoy similar privileges: and
+should their place of occupation be too remote from a theatre of
+indulgence, they get a week of holiday at Sydney, where they arrive
+in numbers, and, for the time they stay, wallow in every species of
+debauchery. In such a state of society the public standard of
+morality must necessarily fall to a very low degree. The leaven
+spreads from the corrupted part into the whole mass. Just as the
+slang of London thieves is become the classical language of Sydney,
+so do necessarily a familiarity with crime, hatred to law, and
+contempt for virtue, make their way into the minds and hearts of
+those who are untainted with actual crime. So far from a
+reformation being even begun in New South Wales, it would seem that
+roguery had been carried a degree beyond even the perfection it has
+reached here. Property is very insecure in Sydney, and the most
+extraordinary robberies take place. Mr. James Walker, in his
+evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, says 'the
+colony has a curious effect upon the most practised thieves in this
+country; one of the most experienced thieves in London has
+<i>something to learn</i> when he comes out there; probably he
+would be robbed the first night he came into his hut.' This was the
+answer given by an experienced settler to the question, whether he
+thought any considerable degree of reformation took place among the
+convicts residing at a distance from Sydney. It is nearly
+impossible that it should be otherwise. The master can only punish
+his servant by travelling with him some twenty or thirty miles to a
+police magistrate, by which he loses his own time, the labour of
+his servant, perhaps for months, if he is condemned to a road gang,
+and after his return has little advantage from his services.
+Unwillingness to work for a master who has been the cause of his
+punishment is a difficult feeling to counteract. The convict has
+the game in his own hands: he either does no work, wounds himself,
+falls sick, or perhaps, and it is not uncommon, spoils either the
+materials entrusted to him, or the tools which have been put into
+his hands.</p>
+<p>"Mr. Busby, when asked respecting the prevalence of
+bush-rangers, who are escaped convicts and others who have taken to
+the bush, says, in his Evidence (5th Aug. 1831,) that within the
+last twelve months, or two years, bush-rangers have been so
+numerous that it was scarcely possible to travel a hundred miles on
+the road without being stopped: there was scarcely a newspaper, in
+which there were not two or three instances of persons, of every
+rank, being stopped. It was quite an unusual thing
+formerly&mdash;but of late there has been a regular system of
+highway robbery. The laws that have been enacted to put down this
+horrible state of things, will serve for an index of the condition
+of the colony. They do away with every appearance of personal
+liberty. 'One act empowered magistrates to issue a warrant,
+authorizing constables to enter or break into any house, within
+their district or county, by day or night, at their own discretion;
+and to seize any person they might suspect to be highway robbers or
+burglars; or any individual in the colony, without any warrant or
+authority, may take another into custody, on the mere suspicion
+that he is a convict illegally at large: if it appear to the
+magistrate that he had a just or probable cause for suspicion, he
+is justified in doing so. The onus of proving that he is not a
+convict illegally at large, is thrown upon the suspected person,
+and if that is not established to the satisfaction of the
+magistrate, he is liable to be retained in custody, or sent to
+Sydney to be examined and dealt with.'</p>
+<p>"The number of executions in New South Wales in the year 1830
+exceeded the whole number of executions in England and Wales, in
+the same year; <span class="pagenum"><a id="page320" name=
+"page320"></a>[pg 320]</span> which, taking the proportion of the
+populations of the countries, makes capital punishments upwards of
+three hundred and twenty-five times as frequent as in the mother
+country. This horrid fact is pretty well, of itself, an answer to
+all argument drawn from the idea of Reformation. But direct
+testimony is abundant. Major McArthur, the son of one of the
+wealthiest and most extensive settlers in the colony, and to whom
+it owes so much for its present progress in production and
+commerce, states, 'It is painful to know that those whose sentences
+have expired, or to whom pardons have been granted, seldom or ever
+incline to reform, even when they have acquired property.
+Intoxication and fraud are habitual to them; and hardly six persons
+can be named throughout the colony, who, being educated men, and
+having been transported for felonies, have afterwards become sober,
+moral, and industrious members of the community. Crime is of
+constant occurrence, and so completely organized, that cattle are
+carried off from the settlers in large numbers, and slaughtered for
+the traders in Sydney, who contract with the commissariat. It is
+not, therefore, the vicious habits alone of the town which are to
+be dreaded, but the effects that are communicated and felt
+throughout the country. The agricultural labourer is encouraged to
+plunder his master, by finding a ready sale for the property he
+steals, and whenever his occupations call him to the towns, he sees
+and yields himself to the vicious habits around him. He returns
+intoxicated and unsettled to his employer's farm, and incites his
+comrades to the same sensual indulgences, with equal disregard of
+the risk and the consequences. To these causes the present vitiated
+and disorganized state of the convicts in New South Wales is
+chiefly attributable; and the extent of the evil maybe in some
+degree estimated, when it is stated <i>that the expense of the
+police establishment amounts to more</i> than 20,000<i>l</i>. per
+annum for a population of 40,000 souls."</p>
+<p><i>Foreign Quarterly Review.</i></p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE GATHERER</h2>
+<p><i>Premiers.</i>&mdash;The following list of premiers, from the
+accession of George III. to 1832, with the number of peers created
+during their respective premierships, may be acceptable at the
+present period:&mdash;Lord Chatham, 9; Lord Bute, 9; George
+Grenville, 4; Lord Rockingham, 4; Duke of Grafton, none; Lord
+North, 27; Lord Shelburn, none; Mr. Fox, 7; Mr. Pitt, 90; Mr.
+Addington, 24; Lord Grenville, 3; Duke of Portland, 4; Mr.
+Perceval, none; Lord Liverpool, 50; Mr. Canning, 7; Lord Goderich,
+6; Duke of Wellington, 2; and Earl Grey, 25.&mdash;<span style=
+"margin-left:3em">W.G.C.</span></p>
+<p><i>Peers</i>.&mdash;Number of peers (in the present peerage)
+created by each sovereign, from the reign of Henry III. (1264) to
+the accession of his present majesty:&mdash;Henry III., 2; Edward
+I., 7; Edward II., 6; Edward III., 1; Henry VI., 5; Henry VII, 1;
+Henry VIII., 6; Edward VI., 2; Mary, 2; Elizabeth, 8; James I., 15;
+Charles I., 10; Charles II., 16; James II., 1; William III., 7;
+Anne, 14; George I., 15; George II., 20; George III., 145; George
+IV., 46.<span style="margin-left:3em">W.G.C.</span></p>
+<p><i>Theatrical Property in France</i>.&mdash;A dramatic author in
+France is entitled, every night that his play is performed, to a
+fixed sum per act, viz. 10 francs, for Paris; 5 francs for the
+large theatres in the country; 3 francs for the second-rate
+provincial theatres; and 2 francs for the third-rate. A bureau is
+established by government, to receive the contributions, and any
+manager neglecting to make a return, is punished by a heavy fine;
+the amount of which goes to the author. The advantages arising from
+this system are also enjoyed by the widow and children of the
+author. It is calculated that the author of the <i>Ecole des
+Viellards</i>, derives nightly, from the performance of that piece,
+in Paris, and the provinces, about 500 francs. Scribe, a successful
+<i>vaudeville</i> writer, is in receipt of a handsome income; and
+Merle was able, from the contributions upon his pieces, to open the
+Port St. Martin Theatre, upon a liberal scale, and thus to lay the
+foundation of a brilliant fortune.<span style="margin-left:3em">T.
+GILL.</span></p>
+<p><i>A Magdalene</i>.&mdash;-A French bishop preaching, exclaimed,
+"A Magdalene is present, she is looking at me, I will not mention
+her name, but I will throw my book at her." He then raised his arm
+as if to put his threat into execution, when all the women in the
+church ducked their heads. "What," said he, "all
+Magdalenes."<span style="margin-left:3em">SWAINE.</span></p>
+<p><i>Unwelcome Title</i>.&mdash;Charles Incledon, the vocalist,
+being asked if he had ever read Murray's <i>Sermons to Asses</i>,
+replied, "he had not, he did not like the book, the title was too
+personal."</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name=
+"footnote1"></a> <b>Footnote 1</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+<p>Mackintosh's Hist. England, vol. i, p. 247.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote2" name=
+"footnote2"></a> <b>Footnote 2</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+<p>Observations on the River Wye, &amp;c. By William Gilpin,
+M.A.&mdash;Fifth Edition.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote3" name=
+"footnote3"></a> <b>Footnote 3</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+<p>See Mirror, No. 205, vol. xi.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote4" name=
+"footnote4"></a> <b>Footnote 4</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag4">(return)</a>
+<p>See "Recollections of a Wanderer," <i>Mirror</i>, Nos.
+430-475.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote5" name=
+"footnote5"></a> <b>Footnote 5</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag5">(return)</a>
+<p>See <i>Mirror</i>, No. 475. "Dawlish's Hole."</p>
+</blockquote>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p><i>Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near
+Somerset House.) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market,
+Leipsic, G.G. BENNIS, 55, Rue Neuve, St. Augustin, Paris; and by
+all Newsmen and Booksellers.</i></p>
+<hr class="full" />
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
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+WILTON CASTLE.
+
+
+[Illustration: Wilton Castle.]
+
+Here is one of the ivy-mantled relics that lend even a charm to romantic
+nature on the banks of the Wye. Its shattered tower and crumbling wall,
+combine with her wild luxuriance, to form a scene of great picturesque
+beauty, though, as Gilpin observes, "the scene wants accompaniments to
+give it grandeur."
+
+These ruins stand opposite to Ross, on the western bank of the Wye. The
+Castle was for several centuries the baronial residence of the Greys of
+the south, who derived from it their first title, and who became owners
+in the time of Edward the First. It may therefore be presumed to have
+been one of the strongholds, in the great struggles for feudal
+superiority with Wales, which were commenced by Edward, whose "active
+and splendid reign may be considered as an attempt to subject the whole
+island of Great Britain to his sway."[1] Or, in earlier times, being
+situated on the ancient barrier between England and Wales, it may have
+been a station of some importance, from its contiguity to Hereford,
+which city was destroyed by the Welsh, but rebuilt and fortified by
+Harold, who also strengthened the castle. The whole district is of
+antiquarian interest, since, at the period of the Roman invasion,
+Herefordshire was inhabited by the Silures, who also occupied the
+adjacent counties of Radnor, Monmouth, and Glamorgan, together with that
+part of Gloucestershire which lies westward of the Severn. The Silures,
+in conjunction with the Ordovices, or inhabitants of North Wales,
+retarded, for a considerable period, the progress of the Roman victors,
+whose grand object seems to have been the conquest of these nations, who
+had chosen the gallant Caractacus as their chieftain, and resolutely
+exhausted every effort in defence of the independence of their country.
+
+    [1] Mackintosh's Hist. England, vol. i, p. 247.
+
+The present demolished state of the Castle is referred to the Royalist
+Governors of Hereford, by whose orders it was burnt to the bare walls
+during the reign of Charles I. in the absence of its then possessor, Sir
+J. Brydges.
+
+The scenery of the WYE, at this point is thus described by tourists:
+"From Hereford to Ross, its features occasionally assume greater
+boldness; though more frequently their aspect is placid; but at the
+latter town wholly emerging from its state of repose," it resumes the
+brightness and rapidity of its primitive character, as it forms the
+admired curve which the churchyard of Ross commands. The celebrated
+spire of Ross church, peeping over a noble row of elms, here fronts the
+ruined Castle of Wilton, beneath the arches of whose bridge, the Wye
+flows through a charming succession of meadows, encircling at last the
+lofty and well-wooded hill, crowned with the majestic fragments of
+Gooderich Castle, and opposed by the waving eminences of the forest of
+Dean. The mighty pile, or peninsula, of Symonds' Rock succeeds, round
+which the river flows in a circuit of seven miles, though the opposite
+points of the isthmus are only one mile asunder. Shortly afterwards, the
+Wye quits the county, and enters Monmouthshire at the New Wear.
+
+The Rev. Mr. Gilpin, in his charming little volume on Picturesque
+Beauty,[2] has a few appropriate observations: after passing Wilton--
+
+    [2] Observations on the River Wye, &c. By William Gilpin,
+    M.A.--Fifth Edition.
+
+"We met with nothing for some time during our voyage but grand, woody
+banks, one rising behind another; appearing and vanishing by turns, as
+we doubled the several capes. But though no particular objects
+characterized these different scenes, yet they afforded great variety of
+pleasing views, both as we wound round the several promontories, which
+discovered new beauties as each scene opened, and when we kept the same
+scene a longer time in view, stretching along some lengthened reach,
+where the river is formed into an irregular vista by hills shooting out
+beyond each other and going off in perspective."
+
+We ought not to forget to mention Ross, and its association with one of
+the noblest works of GOD--honest John Kyrle, celebrated as the Man of
+Ross. Pope, during his visits at Holm-Lacey, in the vicinity, obtained
+sufficient knowledge of his beneficence, to render due homage to his
+worth in one of the brightest pages of the records of human character.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+"MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS"--EGGS.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+In a paper on the _Superstitions of the Sea_, a few years ago,[3] I
+slightly alluded to the nautical belief that the appearance of the
+Stormy Petrel, and other marine birds at sea, was often considered to be
+the forerunner of peril and disaster; and as your excellent
+correspondent, _M.L.B._, in a recent number, expresses a wish to know
+the origin of the _soubriquet_ of _Mother Carey's Chickens_, which the
+former birds have obtained, I now give it with all the brevity which is
+consistent with so important a narration. It appears that a certain
+outward-bound Indiaman, called the _Tiger_, (but in what year I am
+unable to state,) had encountered one continued series of storms, during
+her whole passage; till on nearing the Cape of Good Hope, she was almost
+reduced to a wreck. Here, however, the winds and waves seemed bent on
+her destruction; in the midst of the storm, flocks of strange looking
+birds were seen hovering and wheeling in the air around the devoted
+ship, and one of the passengers, a woman called "Mother Carey," was
+observed by the glare of the lightning to laugh and smile when she
+looked at these foul-weather visitants; on which she was not only set
+down as a witch, but it was also thought that they were her familiars,
+whom she had invoked from the _Red Sea_; and "all hands" were seriously
+considering on the propriety of getting rid of the old beldam, (as is
+usual in such cases,) by setting her afloat, when she saved them the
+trouble, and at that moment jumped overboard, surrounded by flames; on
+which the birds vanished, the storm cleared away, and the tempest-tossed
+_Tiger_ went peacefully on her course! Ever since the occurrence of this
+"astounding yarn," the birds have been called "Mother Carey's Chickens,"
+and are considered by our sailors to be the most unlucky of all the
+feathered visitants at sea.
+
+    [3] See Mirror, No. 205, vol. xi.
+
+To turn by a not unnatural transition from _birds_ to _eggs_, permit me
+to inform your Scottish correspondent, _S.S._ (see No. 536,) where he
+asserts that the plan of rubbing eggs with grease in order to preserve
+them, "is not so much as known in our own boasted land of stale eggs and
+bundlewood;" that the said _discovery_ has long been known and practised
+in many parts of old England; and that the repeated experience of
+several friends warrants me in giving a decided negative to his
+assertion that eggs so prepared "_will keep any length of time perfectly
+fresh_." If kept for a considerable period, though they do not become
+absolutely bad, yet they turn _very stale_. I happen to know something
+of Scotland, and was never before aware that the raw clime of our
+northern neighbours was so celebrated for its poultry. _M.L.B._ is
+certainly misinformed in speaking of the trade in _Scotch_ eggs to
+_America_. The importation of eggs from the continent into England is
+very extensive: the duty in 1827 amounted at the rate of 10_d_. per 120,
+to 23,062_l_. 19_s_. 1_d_.; since which period there has, we believe,
+been an increase. The importation of eggs from Ireland is also very
+large. If _S.S._ resides in London, he may have occasion to sneer at
+"our boasted land of stale eggs;" but he should rather sneer at the
+preserved French eggs, with which the London dealers are principally
+supplied.
+
+VYVYAN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CURFEW BELL.
+
+(To the Editor.)
+
+
+In addition to the remarks made by _Reginald_, in No. 543, and by
+_M.D._, and _G.C._, in No. 545 of _The Mirror_, let me add that the
+Curfew is rung every night at eight, in my native town, (Winchester,)
+and the bell, a large one, weighing 12 cwt., is appropriated for the
+purpose, (not belonging to a church) but affixed in the tower of the
+Guildhall, and used only for this occasion, or on an alarm of fire.
+
+In that city the Curfew was first established under the command of the
+Conqueror, and the practice has continued to the present day. I have
+been assured by many old residents, that it formerly was the custom to
+ring the bell every morning at four o'clock, but the practice being
+found annoying to persons living near, the Corporation ordered it to be
+discontinued.
+
+To such of your readers who, like myself, are fond of a solitary ramble
+along the sea shore by moonlight, I would say, go to Southampton or the
+Isle of Wight; take an evening walk from Itchen through the fields to
+Netley, thence to the Abbey and Fort ruins, under woods that for a
+considerable distance skirt the coast; or on the opposite side, through
+the Forest of Oaks, from Eling to Dibden, and onwards over the meadows
+to Hythe: there they may, in either, find ample food for reflection,
+connected with the Curfew Bell.
+
+Seated on a fragment of the towers of Netley Abbey, whose pinnacles were
+so often hailed by seamen as well known landmarks, but whose Curfew has
+for centuries been quiet, the spectator may see before him the crumbling
+remains of a fort, erected hundreds of years ago. On the left is an
+expanse of water as far as the eye can reach, and in his front the
+celebrated New Forest,--
+
+  Majestic woods of ever vigorous green,
+  Stage above stage, high waving o'er the bills;
+  Or to the far horizon wide diffus'd,
+  A boundless deep immensity of shade--
+
+the scene of William's tyranny and atrocity, the spot where his children
+met their untimely end, and where may be seen the _tumuli_ erected over
+the remains of the Britons who fell in defence of their country.
+
+In the deep recesses of a wood in the south-east prospect, the eye may
+faintly distinguish the mouldering remains of the Abbey of Beaulieu,
+famed in days of yore for its Sanctuary, the name of which is now only
+recorded in history. Even the site of the tower is unknown, whose Curfew
+has long ceased to warn the seamen, or draw the deep curse from the
+forester.
+
+There they may
+
+  "On a plat of rising ground,
+  Hear the far off Curfew sound,
+  Over the wide watered shore,
+  Swinging slow with sullen roar."
+
+The Curfew is rung at Southampton, Downton, Ringwood, and many other
+towns in the west, every night at eight.
+
+P.Q.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SPANISH SCENERY.
+
+
+The following is from the delightful pencil of Washington Irving: it
+will be seen to bear all the polish of his best style:--
+
+"Many are apt to picture Spain to their imaginations as a soft southern
+region, decked out with all the luxuriant charms of voluptuous Italy. On
+the contrary, though there are exceptions in some of the maritime
+provinces, yet, for the greater part, it is a stern, melancholy country,
+with rugged mountains, and long sweeping plains, destitute of trees, and
+indescribably silent and lonesome, partaking of the savage and solitary
+character of Africa. What adds to this silence and loneliness, is the
+absence of singing-birds, a natural consequence of the want of groves
+and hedges. The vulture and the eagle are seen wheeling about the
+mountain-cliffs, and soaring over the plains, and groups of shy bustards
+stalk about the heaths; but the myriads of smaller birds, which animate
+the whole face of other countries are met with in but few provinces in
+Spain, and in those chiefly among the orchards and gardens which
+surround the habitations of man.
+
+"In the interior provinces the traveller occasionally traverses great
+tracts cultivated with grain as far as the eye can reach, waving at
+times with verdure, at other times naked and sunburnt, but he looks
+round in vain for the hand that has tilled the soil. At length, he
+perceives some village on a steep hill, or rugged crag, with mouldering
+battlements and ruined watch tower; a stronghold, in old times, against
+civil war, or Moorish inroad; for the custom among the peasantry of
+congregating together for mutual protection, is still kept up in most
+parts of Spain, in consequence of the maraudings of roving freebooters.
+
+"But though a great part of Spain is deficient in the garniture of
+groves and forests, and the softer charms of ornamental cultivation, yet
+its scenery has something of a high and lofty character to compensate
+the want. It partakes something of the attributes of its people; and I
+think that I better understand the proud, hardy, frugal, and abstemious
+Spaniard, his manly defiance of hardships, and contempt of effeminate
+indulgences, since I have seen the country he inhabits.
+
+"There is something, too, in the sternly simple features of the Spanish
+landscape, that impresses on the soul a feeling of sublimity. The
+immense plains of the Castiles and of La Mancha, extending as far as the
+eye can reach, derive an interest from their very nakedness and
+immensity, and have something of the solemn grandeur of the ocean. In
+ranging over these boundless wastes, the eye catches sight here and
+there of a straggling herd of cattle attended by a lonely herdsman,
+motionless as a statue, with his long, slender pike tapering up like a
+lance into the air; or, beholds a long train of mules slowly moving
+along the waste like a train of camels in the desert; or, a single
+herdsman, armed with blunderbuss and stiletto, and prowling over the
+plain. Thus the country, the habits, the very looks of the people, have
+something of the Arabian character. The general insecurity of the
+country is evinced in the universal use of weapons. The herdsman in the
+field, the shepherd in the plain, has his musket and his knife. The
+wealthy villager rarely ventures to the market-town without his trabuco,
+and, perhaps, a servant on foot with a blunderbuss on his shoulder; and
+the most petty journey is undertaken with the preparation of a warlike
+enterprise.
+
+"The dangers of the road produce also a mode of travelling, resembling,
+on a diminutive scale, the caravans of the east. The arrieros, or
+carriers, congregate in convoys, and set off in large and well-armed
+trains on appointed days; while additional travellers swell their
+number, and contribute to their strength. In this primitive way is the
+commerce of the country carried on. The muleteer is the general medium
+of traffic, and the legitimate traverser of the land, crossing the
+peninsula from the Pyrenees and the Asturias to the Alpuxarras, the
+Serrania de Ronda, and even to the gates of Gibraltar. He lives frugally
+and hardily: his alforjas of coarse cloth hold his scanty stock of
+provisions; a leathern bottle, hanging at his saddle-bow, contains wine
+or water, for a supply across barren mountains and thirsty plains. A
+mule-cloth spread upon the ground, is his bed at night, and his
+pack-saddle is his pillow. His low, but clean-limbed and sinewy form
+betokens strength; his complexion is dark and sunburnt; his eye
+resolute, but quiet in its expression, except when kindled by sudden
+emotion; his demeanour is frank, manly, and courteous, and he never
+passes you without a grave salutation: 'Dios guarde a usted!' 'Va usted
+con Dios, Caballero!' 'God guard you! God be with you, Cavalier!'
+
+"As these men have often their whole fortune at stake upon the burthen
+of their mule, they have their weapons at hand, slung to their saddles,
+and ready to be snatched out for desperate defence. But their united
+numbers render them secure against petty bands of marauders, and the
+solitary bandolero, armed to the teeth, and mounted on his Andalusian
+steed, hovers about them, like a pirate about a merchant convoy, without
+daring to make an assault.
+
+"The Spanish muleteer has an inexhaustible stock of songs and ballads,
+with which to beguile his incessant wayfaring. The airs are rude and
+simple, consisting of but few inflexions. These he chants forth with a
+loud voice, and long, drawling cadence, seated sideways on his mule, who
+seems to listen with infinite gravity, and to keep time, with his paces,
+to the tune. The couplets thus chanted, are often old traditional
+romances about the Moors, or some legend of a saint, or some love-ditty;
+or what is still more frequent, some ballad about a bold contrabandista,
+or hardy bandolero, for the smuggler and the robber are poetical heroes
+among the common people of Spain. Often the song of the muleteer is
+composed at the instant, and relates to some local scenes or some
+incident of the journey. This talent of singing and improvising is
+frequent in Spain, and is said to have been inherited from the Moors.
+There is something wildly pleasing in listening to these ditties among
+the rude and lonely scenes that they illustrate; accompanied, as they
+are, by the occasional jingle of the mule-bell.
+
+"It has a most picturesque effect also to meet a train of muleteers in
+some mountain-pass. First you hear the bells of the leading mules,
+breaking with their simple melody the stillness of the airy height; or,
+perhaps, the voice of the muleteer admonishing some tardy or wandering
+animal, or chanting, at the full stretch of his lungs, some traditionary
+ballad. At length you see the mules slowly winding along the cragged
+defile, sometimes descending precipitous cliffs, so as to present
+themselves in full relief against the sky, sometimes toiling up the deep
+arid chasms below you. As they approach, you descry their gay
+decorations of worsted tufts, tassels, and saddle-cloths, while, as they
+pass by, the ever-ready trabuco slung behind the packs and saddles,
+gives a hint of the insecurity of the road.
+
+"The ancient kingdom of Granada, into which we are about to penetrate,
+is one of the most mountainous regions of Spain. Vast sierras, or chains
+of mountains, destitute of shrub or tree, and mottled with variegated
+marbles and granites, elevate their sun-burnt summits against a
+deep-blue sky; yet in their rugged bosoms lie engulfed the most verdant
+and fertile valley, where the desert and the garden strain for mastery,
+and the very rock is, as it were, compelled to yield the fig, the
+orange, and the citron, and to blossom with the myrtle and the rose.
+
+"In the wild passes of these mountains the sight of walled towns and
+villages, built like eagles' nests among the cliffs, and surrounded by
+Moorish battlements, or of ruined watch-towers perched on lofty peaks,
+carries the mind back to the chivalric days of Christian and Moslem
+warfare, and to the romantic struggle for the conquest of Granada. In
+traversing these lofty sierras the traveller is often obliged to alight
+and lead his horse up and down the steep and jagged ascents and
+descents, resembling the broken steps of a staircase. Sometimes the road
+winds along dizzy precipices, without parapet to guard him from the
+gulfs below, and then will plunge down steep, and dark, and dangerous
+declivities. Sometimes it straggles through rugged barrancos, or
+ravines, worn by winter torrents, the obscure path of the
+contrabandista; while, ever and anon, the ominous cross, the monument of
+robbery and murder, erected on a mound of stones at some lonely part of
+the road, admonishes the traveller that he is among the haunts of
+banditti, perhaps at that very moment under the eye of some lurking
+bandolero. Sometimes, in winding through the narrow valleys, he is
+startled by a hoarse bellowing, and beholds above him on some green fold
+of the mountain side a herd of fierce Andalusian bulls, destined for the
+combat of the arena. There is something awful in the contemplation of
+these terrific animals, clothed with tremendous strength, and ranging
+their native pastures in untamed wildness, strangers almost to the face
+of man: they know no one but the solitary herdsman who attends upon
+them, and even he at times dares not venture to approach them. The low
+bellowing of these bulls, and their menacing aspect as they look down
+from their rocky height, give additional wildness to the savage scenery
+around."
+
+(From _The Alhambra_, or _New Sketch Book_, to which we propose to
+return in a _Supplement_ in a fortnight.)
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+ANECDOTE GALLERY.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE UNLUCKY PRESENT: A TALE.
+
+
+A Lanarkshire minister (who died within the present century) was one of
+those unhappy persons, who, to use the words of a well known Scottish
+adage, "can never see green cheese but their een reels." He was
+_extremely covetous_ and that not only of nice articles of food, but of
+many other things which do not generally excite the cupidity of the
+human heart. The following story is in corroboration of this
+assertion:--Being on a visit one day at the house of one of his
+parishioners, a poor lonely widow, living in a moorland part of the
+parish, he became fascinated by the charms of a little cast-iron pot,
+which happened at the time to be lying on the hearth, full of potatoes
+for the poor woman's dinner, and that of her children. He had never in
+his life seen such a nice little pot--it was a perfect conceit of a
+thing--it was a gem--no pot on earth could match it in symmetry--it was
+an object altogether perfectly lovely. "Dear sake! minister," said the
+widow, quite overpowered by the reverend man's commendations of her pot;
+"if ye like the pot sae weel as a' that, I beg ye'll let me send it to
+the manse. It's a kind o' orra (_superfluous_) pot wi' us; for we've a
+bigger ane, that we use for ordinar, and that's mair convenient every
+way for us. Sae ye'll just tak a present o't. I'll send it ower the morn
+wi' Jamie, when he gangs to the schule." "Oh!" said the minister, "I can
+by no means permit you to be at so much trouble. Since you are so good
+as to give me the pot, I'll just carry it home with me in my hand. I'm
+so much taken with it, indeed, that I would really prefer carrying it
+myself." After much altercation between the minister and the widow, on
+this delicate point of politeness, it was agreed that he should carry
+home the pot himself.
+
+Off then he trudged, bearing this curious little culinary article,
+alternately in his hand and under his arm, as seemed most convenient to
+him. Unfortunately the day was warm, the way long, and the minister fat;
+so that he became heartily tired of his burden before he got half-way
+home. Under these distressing circumstances, it struck him, that, if,
+instead of carrying the pot awkwardly at one side of his person, he were
+to carry it on his head, the burden would be greatly lightened; the
+principles of natural philosophy, which he had learned at college,
+informing him, that when a load presses directly and immediately upon
+any object, it is far less onerous than when it hangs at the remote end
+of a lever. Accordingly, doffing his hat, which he resolved to carry
+home in his band, and having applied his handkerchief to his brow, he
+clapped the pot, in inverted fashion, upon his head, where, as the
+reader may suppose, it figured much like Mambrino's helmet upon the
+crazed capital of Don Quixote, only a great deal more magnificent in
+shape and dimensions. There was, at first, much relief and much comfort
+in this new mode of carrying the pot; but mark the result. The
+unfortunate minister having taken a by-path, to escape observation,
+found himself, when still a good way from home, under the necessity of
+leaping over a ditch, which intercepted him, in passing from one field
+to another. He jumped; but surely no jump was ever taken so completely
+_in_, or, at least _into_, the dark as this. The concussion given to his
+person in descending caused the helmet to become a hood; the pot slipped
+down over his face, and resting with the rim upon his neck, stuck fast
+there; enclosing his whole head as completely as ever that of a new born
+child was enclosed by the filmy bag, with which nature, as an indication
+of future good fortune, sometimes invests the noddles of her favourite
+offspring. What was worst of all, the nose, which had permitted the pot
+to slip down over it, withstood every desperate attempt, on the part of
+its proprietor, to make it slip back again; the contracted part, or
+neck, of the _patera_, being of such a peculiar formation as to cling
+fast to the base of the nose, although it had found no difficulty in
+gliding along its hypothenuse. Was ever minister in a worse plight? Was
+there ever _contretemps_ so unlucky? Did ever any man--did ever any
+minister, so effectually hoodwink himself, or so thoroughly shut his
+eyes, to the plain light of nature? What was to be done? The place was
+lonely; the way difficult and dangerous; human relief was remote, almost
+beyond reach. It was impossible even to cry for help; or, if a cry could
+be uttered, it might reach, in deafening reverberation, the ear of the
+utterer, but it would not travel twelve inches farther in any direction.
+To add to the distresses of the case, the unhappy sufferer soon found
+great difficulty in breathing. What with the heat occasioned by the
+beating of the sun on the metal, and what with the frequent return of
+the same heated air to his lungs, he was in the utmost danger of
+suffocation. Every thing considered, it seemed likely that, if he did
+not chance to be relieved by some accidental wayfarer, there would soon
+be _death in the pot_.
+
+The instinctive love of life, however, is omni-prevalent; and even very
+stupid people have been found, when put to the push by strong and
+imminent peril, to exhibit a degree of presence of mind, and exert a
+degree of energy, far above what might have been expected from them, or
+what they were ever known to exhibit, or exert, under ordinary
+circumstances. So it was with the pot-ensconced minister. Pressed by the
+urgency of his distresses, he fortunately recollected that there was a
+smith's shop at the distance of about a mile across the fields, where,
+if he could reach it before the period of suffocation, he might possibly
+find relief. Deprived of his eyesight, he acted only as a man of
+feeling, and went on as cautiously as he could, with his hat in his
+hand. Half crawling, half sliding, over ridge and furrow, ditch and
+hedge, somewhat like Satan floundering over chaos, the unhappy minister
+travelled with all possible speed, as nearly as he could guess, in the
+direction of the place of refuge. I leave it to the reader to conceive
+the surprise, the mirth, the infinite amusement of the smith, and all
+the hangers-on of the _smiddy_, when, at length, torn and worn, faint
+and exhausted, blind and breathless, the unfortunate man arrived at the
+place, and let them know (rather by signs than by words) the
+circumstances of his case. In the words of an old Scottish song,
+
+  "Out cam the gudeman, and high he shouted;
+  Out cam the gudewife, and low she louted;
+  And a' the town neighbours were gathered about it:
+        And there was he, I trow."
+
+The merriment of the company, however, soon gave way to considerations
+of humanity. Ludicrous as was the minister, with such an object where
+his head should have been, and with the feet of the pot pointing
+upwards, like the horns of the great Enemy, it was, nevertheless,
+necessary that he should be speedily restored to his ordinary condition,
+if it were for no other reason than that he might continue to live. He
+was accordingly, at his own request led into the smithy, multitudes
+flocking around to tender him their kindest offices, or to witness the
+process of release; and, having laid down his head upon the anvil, the
+smith lost no time in seizing and poising his goodly forehammer. "Will I
+come sair on, minister?" exclaimed the considerate man of iron, in at
+the brink of the pot. "As sair as ye like," was the minister's answer;
+"better a chap i' the chafts than die for want of breath." Thus
+permitted, the man let fall a blow, which fortunately broke the pot in
+pieces, without hurting the head which it enclosed, as the cook-maid
+breaks the shell of the lobster, without bruising the delicate food
+within. A few minutes of the clear air, and a glass from the gudewife's
+bottle, restored the unfortunate man of prayer; but, assuredly, the
+incident is one which will long live in the memory of the parishioners
+of C----.--_Chambers' Edinburgh Journal._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE NATURALIST.
+
+
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+
+
+LOUDON'S MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY.
+
+
+Sundry and manifold are our obligations to this delightful Journal. From
+the Number (26) for the present month we glean the following:
+
+_The Gurnard and Sprat._
+
+Mr. J. Couch, in an interesting paper on the fishes of Cornwall, has the
+following notes:
+
+"Ray observes that the word gurnard, which may be regarded as the
+English term, is derived _a grunnitu_, from grunting like a hog. In
+this, however, I venture to think this eminent naturalist mistaken.
+Pengurn is the ancient Cornu-British name for these fishes, and
+signifies hard head; and its English translation is now sometimes given
+to the grey gurnard. From the Cornish word _gurn_ (hard), I therefore
+derive the name, as descriptive of the head of these species. This is a
+common fish at all seasons; but in December and January it sometimes
+abounds to such a degree, that, as they are not much esteemed, I have
+known them sold at thirty for a penny. It keeps near the bottom
+commonly, at no great distance from land; but sometimes multitudes will
+mount together to the surface; and move along with the first dorsal fin
+above the water: they will even quit their native element, and spring to
+the distance of a yard; thus imitating the flying gurnard, though not to
+the same extent. In summer they are found basking in the sun, perhaps
+asleep, as they will at times display no signs of animation, until an
+attempt is made to seize them.
+
+"In reference to some observations by Mr. Yarrell, in the _Zoological
+Journal_, relative to the distinction between the sprat and the young of
+the pilchard and herring, I can state that Cornish fishermen term the
+young of both the latter fishes sprats; but, how far this should go in
+determining the judgment of a naturalist will appear, when I add that I
+have never seen above one specimen of the genuine sprat in Cornwall, and
+that was brought me by a fisherman, to be informed what fish it was. In
+taking fish out of his net by night, he felt it to be neither a pilchard
+nor a herring, and supposed it something rare."
+
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+
+
+STRUCTURE OF BIRDS.
+
+
+Birds may be said to constitute an isolated class of beings. They are
+distinguished by certain characters from all other animals: their
+classification does not pass into any other, and cannot, therefore, be
+consistently introduced into the supposed chain or gradation of natural
+bodies.
+
+The skeleton or bony frame of birds is in general lighter than in
+quadrupeds. They have the largest bones of all animals, in proportion to
+their weight; and their bones are more hollow than those of animals that
+do not fly: air-vessels also enable them to blow out the hollow parts of
+their bodies, when they wish to make their descent slower, rise more
+swiftly, or float in the air. The spine is immovable, but the neck has a
+greater number of bones, (never less than nine, and varying from that to
+twenty-four,) and consequently of joints, and more varied motion, than
+in quadrupeds. The breast-bone is very large, with a prominent keel down
+the middle, and is formed for the attachment of very strong muscles: the
+bones of the wings are analagous to those of the fore-legs in
+quadrupeds, but the termination is in three joints or fingers only, of
+which the exterior is very short. This will be better understood by the
+annexed:
+
+[Illustration: Skeleton of a Turkey.]
+
+The muscles that move the wings downwards, in many instances, are a
+sixth part of the weight of the whole body; whereas those of a man are
+not in proportion one hundredth part so large. The centre of gravity of
+their bodies is always below the insertion of their wings to prevent
+them falling on their backs, but near that point on which the body is,
+during flight, as it were, suspended. The positions assumed by the head
+and feet are frequently calculated to accomplish these ends, and give to
+the wings every assistance in continuing the progressive motion. The
+tail also is of great use, in regulating the rise and fall of birds and
+even their lateral movements. What are commonly called the legs are
+analogous to the hind legs in quadrupeds, and they terminate, in
+general, in four toes, three of which are usually directed forwards, and
+one backwards; but in some birds there are only two toes, in others
+three.
+
+Birds exceed quadrupeds in the quantity of their respiration, for they
+have not only a double circulation, and an aerial respiration, but they
+respire also through other cavities beside the lungs, the air
+penetrating through the whole body, and bathing the branches of the
+aorta, or great artery of the body, as well as those of the pulmonary
+artery.
+
+Birds are usually classed according to the forms of their bills and
+feet, from those parts being connected with their mode of life, food,
+&c. and influencing their total habit very materially.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE RHINOCEROS BIRD.
+
+
+This curious bird is of the order _Picae_, or Pies, and of the genus
+_Buceros_, consisting of birds of rather large size, and distinguished
+by the disproportionate forms of their beaks, which are often still
+further remarkable for some kind of large prominence on the upper
+mandible. The most conspicuous species is the _Buceros Rhinoceros_ of
+Linnaeus, commonly called the Rhinoceros Bird.
+
+[Illustration: The Rhinoceros Bird.]
+
+Its general size is that of a Turkey, but with a much more slenderly
+proportioned body. Its colour is black, with the tail white, crossed by
+a black bar: the beak is of enormous size, of a lengthened, slightly
+curved, and pointed shape, and on the upper mandible, towards the base,
+is an extremely large process, equal in thickness to the bill itself,
+and turning upwards and backwards in the form of a thick, sharp-pointed
+horn, somewhat resembling the horn of the rhinoceros. The use of this
+strange proboscis is by some supposed to be that of enabling the bird
+more easily to tear out the entrails of its prey; but others affirm that
+it is not of a predaceous nature, feeding only on vegetable substances.
+This bird is principally found in the East Indian Islands. A remarkably
+fine specimen was preserved in the Leverian Museum.
+
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+
+
+
+THE SKETCH-BOOK.
+
+
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+
+
+RECOLLECTIONS OF A WANDERER.
+
+_A scene on the coast of Cornwall._
+
+
+A short time before my departure from the hamlet of Landwithiel,[4] I
+was awoke early one morning by the roaring of the wind in the huge old
+chimney of my room--the whole tenement, indeed, occasionally shook as a
+violent gust swept down the valley, tossing the branches of the stout
+old tree before the door to and fro in a way that threatened at last to
+level them with the dust. The very briny scent of the atmosphere
+convinced me there was some sea running in the bay; and it was the more
+unexpected as we had had no tokens of a storm for several days previous.
+From the peninsular situation of this county, surrounded on almost every
+side with the restless ocean and exposed to the wide sweep of the
+Atlantic, it may be supposed that storms are of frequent occurrence. As
+on the present occasion, they often come with little or no warning; and
+the effects of a hurricane in the distant main, far outstripping the
+wind, sometimes rolls with tremendous fury towards our western shores,
+on which the sea is encroaching in every part.
+
+    [4] See "Recollections of a Wanderer," _Mirror_, Nos. 430-475.
+
+Landwithiel was a wild little place. It was essentially a "fishing
+village." The people ploughed the deep, not the land; and the constant
+exposure--blow high, blow low--on the restless sea, endued its
+inhabitants, and the Cornish fishermen generally, with a fearlessness of
+danger and boldness of character almost unequalled in these islands. The
+lives and pursuits of the two great classes in this county--the maritime
+and mining population--are widely opposite to each other. The one class
+pass their existence on the stormy waters of the deep, whilst the other
+labour far below the surface of the earth; each being continually
+exposed to numberless perils and dangers.
+
+When I descended below I found my host already astir; so after attending
+well to the inward man, I lost no time in starting towards the harbour.
+As I formerly described, this comes abruptly in sight round a sharp
+angle, at some elevation from the beach. On the upper part of the
+descent the road was flanked on each side with a row of cottages, the
+street being so steep that steps were formed in many parts to aid the
+progress of the passenger. This gave an air of singularity and wildness
+to the place, which was aided by the boldness of the surrounding
+scenery. The street bore all the marks of the occupation of the
+inhabitants--nets hanging to dry--strings of fish--an old oar--or a
+"fisher's wife" broiling fish for her husband's breakfast--met the eye
+on either side.
+
+On clearing the street, I observed a larger throng on the old pier than
+was wont to gather there on ordinary occasions. There was obviously some
+unusual subject of interest agitated amongst them; so I turned from my
+course and joined the group.
+
+A gale is an important event in a fishing town. Independent of the
+interest naturally felt for the various craft belonging to the place
+which may happen to be afloat, there may be wrecks or other marine
+casualties to excite the interest or cupidity of the observer.
+
+There was a tremendous tumbling sea rolling into the little bay, when I
+drew towards the pier. At the further end was a group of persons in
+earnest conversation, whom I distinguished as the knowing ones and
+long-heads of the place; while their younger companions were engaged in
+parties walking briskly to and fro on the pier. A tier of boats had been
+carefully drawn up high and dry beyond the wreck left by the last spring
+tide. Four or five, however, were afloat, and lurching heavily alongside
+the pier, whither the tide had not long reached; the wind rattling
+amongst the masts, shrouds, and half-bent sails of some craft which had
+just run in for shelter from the impending storm. My recent adventure
+had made me pretty well acquainted with most of the persons around: and
+I learned that a _ground swell_ had been observed along shore the
+preceding night. This phenomenon is generally occasioned by a storm in
+the Atlantic, with a westerly wind; and it affords to the old fishermen
+an almost certain indication of approaching foul weather.
+
+"A stiff bit of a gale, this same, Master Charles," said an old tar,
+giving an energetic jerk to his trousers, "Ay, ay, old boy," he replied,
+"this wind is not blowing for nothing, you may take my word for it; but
+if the Jane and the Susan hove in sight I'd not mind a bit for all that;
+we've not a stick afloat but her."
+
+"What! is Sam Clovelly[5] out this morning, Helston?" I anxiously
+inquired of the pilot, who was a manly, excellent sort of fellow. He had
+grown grey with service, and there was something in the steady eye and
+calm decision of his look that marked him out as no common character.
+
+    [5] See _Mirror_, No. 475. "Dawlish's Hole."
+
+"Yes, sir, we have no tidings of him yet, and the sky looking as black,
+yonder, as the face of a negro; but we'll hope that he's run out of
+harm's way before now."
+
+As the morning waxed apace, the interest in the fate of the Jane and
+Susan became more evident amongst the by-standers. Every stick that came
+in sight cut out conversation; but many an eye was cast anxiously to
+windward in vain for poor Sam Clovelly and his brother Arthur, who had
+been out since the preceding night. Presently the two little orphan
+sisters of the missing men came upon the pier, and Helstone, the pilot,
+and some of the others anxiously endeavoured to cheer and console them.
+
+"I'll be bound they've run for ---- port long ago, darlings, so don't
+cry now, Jane; the old craft's stood many a stronger breeze than this;
+now, wipe your eyes, there. Poor things," he said, turning to me, as the
+children went farther on the pier, "their two brothers are the only
+friends they have got in the world, and if they are gone who is to take
+care of them? Their father, old Sam Clovelly, was lost--I recollect the
+time well--somewhere off Milford; leaving his wife, with two stiff tidy
+bits of lads, and likely to increase the family; well, sir, she took to
+her bed, with the shock, and never rose from it more, after giving birth
+to these two little girls, leaving poor Sam and Arthur to struggle on
+like a cutter in a heavy sea. But God Almighty never deserts the
+innocent, sir--you've seen that, I dare say? Sam's been a steady lad,
+and has prospered, and he and Arthur have never forgotten their mother's
+dying words, and have been very kind to their sisters; but, come what
+will, the orphans shall never want a friend as long as Charley Helston
+has a home or a bit of bread to offer them."
+
+We now again reverted to the state of the day. As the gale swept on,
+numberless craft were running along the coast towards ---- port, for
+shelter. A crack Fowey-man now making a board till she "eat out" of the
+wind a North-countryman right ahead--now with her helm-a-lea, and now
+careering along with a heavy following sea on either quarter--kept our
+attention on the alert. Presently a steamer came in sight bearing up
+across the bay towards ---- Head. The white rush of steam from her
+safety-valves was well made out by the blackness of the windward
+horizon; and contrasted with the dense puffs of smoke from her funnel,
+which were instantly dispersed or carried in heavy patches to leeward.
+The glory of modern discoveries is unpopular with our coasting-seamen,
+and the mate of a coaster, who was watching her movements, observed that
+"we should not have a lad fit to hand a sail or man a yard soon with
+their cursed machinery."
+
+As she passed on her course "cleaving blast and breaker right ahead,"
+with her weather-wheel often spinning in the air, and as the sky
+darkened and the waves roared louder, I thought with deep interest on
+what might even now be the fate of those, without whose friendly aid I
+should have been lying on a rocky pillow and seaweed for my shroud, near
+Dawlish's Hole. The weather now became entitled to the formidable name
+of a storm, but some time had yet to elapse before darkness added its
+horrors to the scene of desolation.
+
+Heavy masses of breakers were continually striking the pier-head with
+fearful crashes; now bursting over, amid seas of spray, with resistless
+impetuosity, drenching every one under its lee; now recoiling for a
+brief moment, as if to gather strength, leaving a smooth, hollow waste
+of oily sea--like the treacherous pauses of human passion,--and then
+returning with wilder haste and tenfold added fury to the onset.
+
+The morning was waning away. I left the pier, and bent my course away
+from Landwithiel.
+
+The path I pursued led along the summit of the cliffs; oftentimes
+winding so close round the edge of a projecting acclivity, that it
+required a clear head and a steady foot, for one false step would have
+been instant destruction. The coast below me was justly entitled to take
+its place amongst the finest rock-scenery in the island; and exhibited
+in its grandest form, the peculiarly wild and picturesque nature of the
+coast of Cornwall. After working my way against a head-wind for three or
+four miles, I took shelter in Dawlish's Watch Tower, an old half-ruined
+building, which commanded an almost boundless look-out. Nearly right
+opposite to this station lay the Wolf-stone, an insular, and almost
+inaccessible rock, which rose in deep water about three-quarters of a
+mile from land. Whilst scanning with my glass the windward horizon, I
+accidentally rested on this islet, and I had not looked long before my
+gaze was rivetted to it. Two individuals I fancied were standing near a
+pole which was erected on the highest point. These lone and unusual
+tenants of the sea-birds' home were obviously, from their motions, much
+agitated. A heavy driving shower, for a few minutes, wrapped it in mist.
+When this cleared off, the black and dreary front of the Wolf-stone
+became dimly visible through the tumultuous assemblage of gigantic
+breakers, that were every instant grappling with the steep which defied
+them. Another minute's observation and I was running at my utmost speed
+back to Landwithiel. The captives could be no other than Sam and Arthur
+Clovelly.
+
+My arrival caused universal stir and interest in Landwithiel. The
+Dasher, the best sea-boat in the harbour was instantly manned, with
+directions to pull to Carn Cove, almost opposite the rock, whither the
+rest of the men rapidly proceeded along the heights. Helston and myself
+also went thither to consult in the first instance, as to the best plan
+for relief; for no boat could live, in such a day as this, within some
+distance of the rock.
+
+The anxious group gathered on the edge of the cliff; and while a white
+flag was running up a boat's mast which we had erected on the tower, we
+cheered loudly and repeatedly to assure the distant captives that aid
+was nigh.
+
+"It is Sam--God be praised," sang out Helston, who was steadily looking
+out through his glass--and every one crowded around. "And is Arthur
+there too, Charles?"--"Yes, I see.--Death! I thought that wave would
+sweep over all. Now they wave their neckcloths--they beckon us to use
+haste. High water is drawing fast on, and what man ever lived on the
+Wolfstone in a spring flood. They wave again; sing away there, my lads,
+cheerily!" and a tumultuous shout of human voices again mingled with the
+blast.
+
+Almost every eye was now cast out for the Dasher, and she was seen
+pulling with great difficulty--for a handkerchief of canvass would have
+been madness--towards the shelter of a projecting mass of rock, in Carne
+Cove, in the comparatively smooth water behind which, Helston and myself
+were enabled with some difficulty to get aboard. It was a moment of some
+excitement. Accustomed from childhood fearlessly to brave an element
+they might truly call their own, the gallant little crew steadily seated
+themselves, and taking off their hats manfully answered the encouraging
+cheers from aloft. The men now shipped their oars, and all having been
+made snug, I seated myself in the stern-sheets, near Helston, who had
+taken the helm. There was something fine in his weather-beaten
+countenance, and grey hair streaming in the breeze, as he steadily
+scanned the dark masses of the distant Wolf-stone--he was a true seaman.
+
+The Dasher was a boat that would live in almost any weather on this
+coast, head to wind; but when she was put about, there was no little
+danger of her being pooped in a heavy following sea. Ours was now the
+former case, and as the crew put her through the contending sea, which
+at every stroke hit our bows and soaked us with spray, I anxiously
+consulted with Helston on the best means of shipping the captives on
+making the Wolf-stone. Keeping his eye fixed on the rock, which was
+grimly visible on our larboard bow, he shook his head as the portentous
+darkness of the sky again claimed our attention. "If we had been delayed
+a quarter of an hour longer they would have been food for fishes;" I
+remarked, "but it will be close run; our men are doing all that strength
+and skill can do, but it avails little when opposed to such a power as
+this."
+
+"Never fear, sir, we shall do yet--you are not so cool as I--how should
+you? when I have braved the storms of nearly sixty winters:--but the
+Wolf-stone's a spot, I will frankly confess, with which I had rather
+make acquaintance with a clearer sky and a flowing sheet, than on such a
+night as this. Just give a look-out a-head, sir," he added, as we were
+mounting a heavy sea, "and tell me how things are aloft on the rock."
+
+However formidable this dreary steep might have appeared at a distance,
+now we were drawing near to it, the wildness and sublimity of the scene
+surpassed my calculations. The fugitives, who by their gestures were
+urging us onward, had been driven for shelter to a hollow on the leeward
+side of the rock, which indeed was almost the only spot that now
+afforded an asylum from danger. The waves as they came rolling onwards
+with aggravated force from the main, ever and anon burst against the
+isle with terrific violence, now breaking into gigantic masses, then
+driven in columns of sparkling spray to a vast height in the air, and
+now closing on every side around their victims. The isle, indeed,
+appeared to be menaced with total annihilation.
+
+As we could now distinguish both the brothers, we instinctively cheered
+them on drawing towards the landward side of the rock. They were
+compelled every minute to crouch and cling to the cliff under which they
+had taken shelter, as a huge wave burst below their feet, and struck
+them in its upward violence. The Wolf-stone could no longer raise its
+head in dominion over the main. The surf ran so high immediately around
+it, that to approach at all closely would only have ended in the
+destruction of every soul. We, therefore, hailed them as we stood under
+its lee, and found that in consequence of their having remained almost
+all night on this dreary spot, drenched with wet, and chilled with cold,
+any effort to swim through the surf would probably be fatal in their
+exhausted state. What then remained to be done? We had ropes on board
+which would be of infinite service, could we only devise means to convey
+them to the rock. At this juncture, the services of my old
+Newfoundlander, Retriever, came forcibly to my mind. The poor animal had
+refused to be separated from me when we embarked, and lay at my feet in
+the boat. On his exertions therefore depended the lives of our friends.
+He soon understood the task he was to perform, and in another second was
+dashing onwards through the waves. An affecting scene now took place
+between the brothers, as to who should first avail himself of the
+approaching aid. A gigantic rush of tide, which almost swept entirely
+over the rock, told them, however, that time was precious. But Sam was
+firm. The younger brother then plunged forward and was soon drawn safely
+on board. He informed us, as Retriever again swam away with the rope,
+that he feared his brother was much more exhausted than himself. With
+breathless interest, therefore, we watched Sam tie the rope round his
+body, and enter the water. The violence of the gale, at this instant,
+compelled us to stand further off the rock; indeed, within a few minutes
+we foresaw that its presence would only be indicated by a low black mass
+indistinctly seen, amidst the boiling and restless waves of the ocean;
+an appearance, I was told, which it only presents in the most violent
+storms. Poor Sam, now seen, now lost, amid the foaming ridges of the
+sea, came gradually along till within about forty paces from the boat,
+when it was evident his strength had failed him. An arm was shot into
+the air, then his head and shoulders rose rapidly, and there was a
+sudden blank in the waters. "Pull away, my lads, for your lives," we
+shouted, "or he is gone!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"It was a hard run thing, I reckon, sirs," said Mr. Habbakuk
+Sheepshanks, who was rather top-heavy that evening, to a numerous party
+who were assembled round his capacious hearth at the "Ship-aground,"
+"but all's well, they say, that ends well, so we'll even drink the
+health of the brothers in a glass of the free genuine Cognac." "What is
+that you say!" said the exciseman....
+
+VYVYAN.
+
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+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
+
+
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+
+
+LONDON AND THE PROVINCES COMPARED.
+
+
+It is the nature of prosperous communities, and the fashion of modern
+times, to centralize too much their numbers and their powers. But the
+question of distribution and proportion is almost as important in
+politics as that of production itself. Money and manure are not the only
+things which are the better for being spread. London and the country
+would both be gainers by transplanting bodily, a hundred miles off, some
+dozens of its streets--inhabitants and all. There are whole counties
+which we should like to colonize with the surplus talent of the
+metropolis. That surplus talent comprises scores of men, waiting on
+Providence, feeding on foolish speculations, hanging on the skirts of
+some frivolous circle, doing nothing there, or worse than nothing,
+spoiling and wasting daily, who, planted out into a sphere of more
+favourable opportunities, are capable of being a blessing to a
+neighbourhood. However, it is not a case for violent measures. We do not
+propose that London should be compressed into _London proper_,--within
+the bills of mortality; or that its clubs should be called out on
+country service. Patriots, philosophers, and diners out, rusticating by
+royal proclamation, and under the _surveillance_ of the police, would
+not come with a temper very suitable to our purpose. An experiment of
+that sort was made under more likely circumstance, and failed;--as all
+experiments must, which seek to remove the symptoms, instead of trying
+to act upon the cause. It was in vain that James I. pulled down the new
+houses as fast as they were built; and that Charles I. ordered home the
+country gentlemen.
+
+Although there seems something artificial, and almost monstrous, in the
+actual size of London, the means which have led to this result are
+altogether natural. Indeed, whatever forcing has been at any time used,
+or prejudice fostered, has told the other way. Nothing has existed which
+can be called a court or courtiers for the last two hundred years; and a
+sort of feudal feeling still keeps our squires faithful to their halls.
+Two exceptions only can be set down to our institutions. The distinction
+of local courts obliges the English Bar to reside near Westminster; and
+the duration of a modern session substitutes a house for the family of a
+Member of Parliament, in the place of lodgings for himself. Under these
+circumstances, as "the wen" has not been produced, so is it not likely
+to be dispersed by any direct legislative application. To say the truth,
+the grievance, in our opinion, is not in the _absolute_, but in the
+_relative_ amount of the wealth, intelligence, and virtue, squeezed
+together on those marvellous square miles upon which the capital stands.
+We do not grudge it the pretty country which is hid under its basement
+stories, any more than the social activity and happiness which live
+along its crowded streets. We serve ejectments upon nobody. The only
+question is, whether some would not do well to move of themselves. Among
+the hopes and objects by whose influence 1,200,000 human beings are
+collected on the same spot, a certain proportion will be found, which
+have not been at all,--and more still, which have not been very
+judiciously or magnanimously, considered. There are many in the higher
+classes of its inhabitants especially, who, we suspect, on examining
+into their principles and habits, will have some difficulty in
+satisfying themselves that they have not chosen ill for their real
+happiness; and, for all real usefulness, a great deal worse. But the
+mistaken notion which most strips the country of its natural guardians,
+is the fallacy, on the part of young and sanguine dispositions, of
+believing that the motives and sphere of individual action rise in
+proportion to the apparent magnitude of the scene. These are the
+absentees most to be regretted. In the single line of professional
+practice, and in its most successful instances, that may be the case.
+But in taking ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, and in every other of
+the varied departments of social duty, the sphere of useful action,
+however nominally extended, will be found to be strictly and
+substantially reduced.
+
+There can be as little fear that London will ever want any of the
+elements of an enlightened and well-constituted community, as that it
+will not be large enough. It is very different with the provinces. The
+capital offers so many real, and still more, so many plausible
+attractions to all that is active and refined, as well as to all that is
+idle and selfish in human nature, that a long list of supernumaries and
+expectants is sure, in every case, always to be at hand. It is the
+lottery into which the credulous are eager to put in;--it is the theatre
+on whose stage ambition and vanity are impatient to appear;--it is the
+land of Cockayne, in whose crowded mazes the selfish escape from every
+duty, and reduce their intercourse with their fellow-creatures to the
+sympathies of visiting and of shopping. It is the seat also of liberal
+society, and independent existence, among the friends and occupations of
+one's choice. Lord Falkland, the love of his age, admitted, that
+quitting London was the only thing which he was not sufficiently master
+of himself ever to manage without a struggle. In this state of things,
+it is plain that nobody can be of such consequence there but that he is
+easily spared. The death of a town wit is handsomely celebrated, if it
+furnishes five minutes' conversation for the table where he dined the
+day before. He is replaced with the same regularity and indifference as
+fresh snuff is put into a snuff-box, or fresh flowers are set out upon
+the epergne. Nobody misses him. The machine goes on without perceiving
+that the blue-bottle or the gnat has fallen from its wheel.
+
+The vastness and multiplicity and complexity of the organization by
+which the movements of the capital proceed, as it were mechanically, do
+not act merely by diminishing the general importance of individuals to
+the system. Except in the case of very happy, and universal, and flowing
+natures, or under the influence of accidental counteractions, a personal
+risk, between extreme vagueness and extreme narrowness of character, is
+incurred by the individual himself. In respect of employment, the
+division of intellectual labour is so complete, that most persons in
+such a situation are tempted to do their own piece of work, and no
+more;--to rest satisfied with manufacturing the pin's head which happens
+to have fallen to their share. Does a London life tend to quicken the
+moral pulse and expand the heart? The forms of society are thrown into
+too large a scale, and its pace is too rapid, to afford an opportunity
+for the sort of intercourse by which alone a real acquaintance with,
+understanding of, and affection for, each other can be obtained. No
+means exist of getting there at any thing further than talents in men,
+and beauty or accomplishments in women.
+
+Qualities which can be exhibited as a show are discovered and
+appreciated accordingly. But wisdom and virtue, which are to the mind
+what breath is to the body, have no part assigned or assignable to them
+on such a stage. A man may pass a life in London without an occasion
+arising by which his neighbours can learn whether he is an honest fellow
+or a rogue. The consequence is, that a good deal of such a man's moral
+nature gets imperfectly developed, and dies away. The appropriate object
+is not brought sufficiently close and home to him to stimulate and call
+forth his latent powers. Charity is perhaps better off than most. By a
+satisfactory compromise, it falls into the hands of a mendicity society.
+But there are other virtues which do not admit of being compounded for,
+and their burden transferred to a committee, for two guineas a-year. In
+these cases the moral tax is too often evaded altogether. We are well
+aware that men of pleasure are far from being the only persons who have
+turned into a maxim of life the sentence which the Duke of Buckingham
+passed upon the dog which barked after him,--"Would to God you were
+married and settled in the country!" It is evident that the word
+_provincial_ is often felt, by characters of a higher strain and object,
+to imply an imputation or admission of mediocrity. Now, greatly as
+nations differ, it is generally admitted that all capitals are pretty
+much alike. It follows therefore, that the characteristic spirit and
+principle of a nation do not appear there to most advantage. Enow worthy
+representatives of that spirit and principle are doubtless there; but
+they are there too much as though they were not. It is an atmosphere
+which no individual powers can penetrate, and where it needs more than
+an ordinary sun to make itself felt or seen. We are satisfied that, on a
+just estimate of the whole case, the provinces, as distinguished from
+the metropolis, would be found in many instances, perhaps in most, to be
+the home which a wise lover of himself, and a sincere lover of his kind,
+would do well to fix in;--not indeed as the scene of a brilliant or
+sybarite existence, but as the post of that salutary influence which
+sinks deepest; and of that usefulness and happiness which last the
+longest; as most visibly incorporated with, and represented by, our
+fellow-beings.--_Edinburgh Review._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+INFANCY.
+
+(_From the Feuilles d'Automne of Victor Hugo, translated in the Foreign
+Quarterly Review._)
+
+
+  In the dusky court,
+  Near the altar laid,
+  Sleeps the child in shadow,
+    Of his mother's bed:
+  Softly he reposes,
+  And his lids of roses.
+  Closed to earth, uncloses
+    On the heaven o'erhead.
+
+  Many a dream is with him,
+  Fresh from the fairy land,
+  Spangled o'er with diamonds
+    Seems the ocean sand;
+  Suns are gleaming there.
+  Troops of ladies fair
+  Souls of infants bear
+    In their charming hand.
+
+  O, enchanting vision,
+  Lo, a rill up-springs,
+  And, from out its bosom
+    Comes a voice that sings.
+  Lovelier there appear
+  Sire and sisters dear,
+  While his mother near,
+    Plumes her new-born wings.
+
+  But a brighter vision
+  Yet his eyes behold;
+  Roses all, and lilies,
+    Every path enfold;
+  Lakes in shadow sleeping,
+  Silver fishes leaping,
+  And the waters creeping,
+    Through the reeds of gold.
+
+  Slumber on, sweet infant.
+  Slumber peacefully;
+  Thy young soul yet knows not
+    What thy lot may be.
+  Like dead leaves that sweep
+  Down the stormy deep,
+  Thou art borne in sleep,
+    What is all to thee?
+
+  Thou canst slumber by the way;
+  Thou hast learnt to borrow
+  Naught from study, naught from care;
+    The cold hand of sorrow,
+  On thy brow unwrinkled yet,
+  Where young truth and candour sit,
+  Ne'er with rugged nail hath writ
+    That sad word, "To-morrow."
+
+  Innocent, thou sleepest--
+  See the heavenly band.
+  Who foreknow the trials
+    That for man are planned;
+  Seeing him unarmed,
+  Unfearing, un-alarmed,
+  With their tears have warmed
+    His unconscious hand.
+
+  Angels, hovering o'er him,
+  Kiss him where he lies.
+  Hark, he sees them weeping,
+    "Gabriel," he cries;
+  "Hush," the angel says,
+  On his lip be lays
+  One finger, one displays
+    His native skies.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+STATE OF SOCIETY IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
+
+
+The following exhibits but a lamentable picture of the "milk and honey"
+of this favoured land:
+
+"The morals of the colony of New South Wales are of an exceedingly
+depraved description. It is so far from being a country where men begin
+a new life and enter upon a fresh course with resolutions of amendment,
+that the testimony of all respectable men examined on the subject unites
+in asserting that the habits of the freed men, even of those who have
+acquired property and have families, are of the most dissipated
+character. Of the emancipists, to whom grants of land have been made and
+who are often wealthy, very few, not more it is said than half a dozen,
+can be selected whose lives are not of a vicious description, who do not
+indulge in dishonest practices of one sort or another, and who have not
+risen to wealth by fostering and practising some species of villany.
+These men procure convicts to be assigned to them, who become members of
+the families, and assist them in carrying on their various frauds. In
+Sydney the grog shops are very numerous, and grog shops are receiving
+houses. A constant trade in stolen goods is going on between Sydney and
+the remotest parts of the colony, and even between Sydney and this
+country. The convicts in remote settlements have no means generally of
+indulging in licentiousness, but they see constantly before them the
+freed labourer who has, and they burn to enjoy similar privileges: and
+should their place of occupation be too remote from a theatre of
+indulgence, they get a week of holiday at Sydney, where they arrive in
+numbers, and, for the time they stay, wallow in every species of
+debauchery. In such a state of society the public standard of morality
+must necessarily fall to a very low degree. The leaven spreads from the
+corrupted part into the whole mass. Just as the slang of London thieves
+is become the classical language of Sydney, so do necessarily a
+familiarity with crime, hatred to law, and contempt for virtue, make
+their way into the minds and hearts of those who are untainted with
+actual crime. So far from a reformation being even begun in New South
+Wales, it would seem that roguery had been carried a degree beyond even
+the perfection it has reached here. Property is very insecure in Sydney,
+and the most extraordinary robberies take place. Mr. James Walker, in
+his evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, says 'the
+colony has a curious effect upon the most practised thieves in this
+country; one of the most experienced thieves in London has _something to
+learn_ when he comes out there; probably he would be robbed the first
+night he came into his hut.' This was the answer given by an experienced
+settler to the question, whether he thought any considerable degree of
+reformation took place among the convicts residing at a distance from
+Sydney. It is nearly impossible that it should be otherwise. The master
+can only punish his servant by travelling with him some twenty or thirty
+miles to a police magistrate, by which he loses his own time, the labour
+of his servant, perhaps for months, if he is condemned to a road gang,
+and after his return has little advantage from his services.
+Unwillingness to work for a master who has been the cause of his
+punishment is a difficult feeling to counteract. The convict has the
+game in his own hands: he either does no work, wounds himself, falls
+sick, or perhaps, and it is not uncommon, spoils either the materials
+entrusted to him, or the tools which have been put into his hands.
+
+"Mr. Busby, when asked respecting the prevalence of bush-rangers, who
+are escaped convicts and others who have taken to the bush, says, in his
+Evidence (5th Aug. 1831,) that within the last twelve months, or two
+years, bush-rangers have been so numerous that it was scarcely possible
+to travel a hundred miles on the road without being stopped: there was
+scarcely a newspaper, in which there were not two or three instances of
+persons, of every rank, being stopped. It was quite an unusual thing
+formerly--but of late there has been a regular system of highway
+robbery. The laws that have been enacted to put down this horrible state
+of things, will serve for an index of the condition of the colony. They
+do away with every appearance of personal liberty. 'One act empowered
+magistrates to issue a warrant, authorizing constables to enter or break
+into any house, within their district or county, by day or night, at
+their own discretion; and to seize any person they might suspect to be
+highway robbers or burglars; or any individual in the colony, without
+any warrant or authority, may take another into custody, on the mere
+suspicion that he is a convict illegally at large: if it appear to the
+magistrate that he had a just or probable cause for suspicion, he is
+justified in doing so. The onus of proving that he is not a convict
+illegally at large, is thrown upon the suspected person, and if that is
+not established to the satisfaction of the magistrate, he is liable to
+be retained in custody, or sent to Sydney to be examined and dealt
+with.'
+
+"The number of executions in New South Wales in the year 1830 exceeded
+the whole number of executions in England and Wales, in the same year;
+which, taking the proportion of the populations of the countries, makes
+capital punishments upwards of three hundred and twenty-five times as
+frequent as in the mother country. This horrid fact is pretty well, of
+itself, an answer to all argument drawn from the idea of Reformation.
+But direct testimony is abundant. Major McArthur, the son of one of the
+wealthiest and most extensive settlers in the colony, and to whom it
+owes so much for its present progress in production and commerce,
+states, 'It is painful to know that those whose sentences have expired,
+or to whom pardons have been granted, seldom or ever incline to reform,
+even when they have acquired property. Intoxication and fraud are
+habitual to them; and hardly six persons can be named throughout the
+colony, who, being educated men, and having been transported for
+felonies, have afterwards become sober, moral, and industrious members
+of the community. Crime is of constant occurrence, and so completely
+organized, that cattle are carried off from the settlers in large
+numbers, and slaughtered for the traders in Sydney, who contract with
+the commissariat. It is not, therefore, the vicious habits alone of the
+town which are to be dreaded, but the effects that are communicated and
+felt throughout the country. The agricultural labourer is encouraged to
+plunder his master, by finding a ready sale for the property he steals,
+and whenever his occupations call him to the towns, he sees and yields
+himself to the vicious habits around him. He returns intoxicated and
+unsettled to his employer's farm, and incites his comrades to the same
+sensual indulgences, with equal disregard of the risk and the
+consequences. To these causes the present vitiated and disorganized
+state of the convicts in New South Wales is chiefly attributable; and
+the extent of the evil maybe in some degree estimated, when it is stated
+_that the expense of the police establishment amounts to more_ than
+20,000_l_. per annum for a population of 40,000 souls."
+
+_Foreign Quarterly Review._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE GATHERER
+
+
+_Premiers._--The following list of premiers, from the accession of
+George III. to 1832, with the number of peers created during their
+respective premierships, may be acceptable at the present period:--Lord
+Chatham, 9; Lord Bute, 9; George Grenville, 4; Lord Rockingham, 4; Duke
+of Grafton, none; Lord North, 27; Lord Shelburn, none; Mr. Fox, 7; Mr.
+Pitt, 90; Mr. Addington, 24; Lord Grenville, 3; Duke of Portland, 4; Mr.
+Perceval, none; Lord Liverpool, 50; Mr. Canning, 7; Lord Goderich, 6;
+Duke of Wellington, 2; and Earl Grey, 25.--W.G.C.
+
+_Peers_.--Number of peers (in the present peerage) created by each
+sovereign, from the reign of Henry III. (1264) to the accession of his
+present majesty:--Henry III., 2; Edward I., 7; Edward II., 6; Edward
+III., 1; Henry VI., 5; Henry VII, 1; Henry VIII., 6; Edward VI., 2;
+Mary, 2; Elizabeth, 8; James I., 15; Charles I., 10; Charles II., 16;
+James II., 1; William III., 7; Anne, 14; George I., 15; George II., 20;
+George III., 145; George IV., 46. W.G.C.
+
+_Theatrical Property in France_.--A dramatic author in France is
+entitled, every night that his play is performed, to a fixed sum per
+act, viz. 10 francs, for Paris; 5 francs for the large theatres in the
+country; 3 francs for the second-rate provincial theatres; and 2 francs
+for the third-rate. A bureau is established by government, to receive
+the contributions, and any manager neglecting to make a return, is
+punished by a heavy fine; the amount of which goes to the author. The
+advantages arising from this system are also enjoyed by the widow and
+children of the author. It is calculated that the author of the _Ecole
+des Viellards_, derives nightly, from the performance of that piece, in
+Paris, and the provinces, about 500 francs. Scribe, a successful
+_vaudeville_ writer, is in receipt of a handsome income; and Merle was
+able, from the contributions upon his pieces, to open the Port St.
+Martin Theatre, upon a liberal scale, and thus to lay the foundation of
+a brilliant fortune. T. GILL.
+
+_A Magdalene_.---A French bishop preaching, exclaimed, "A Magdalene is
+present, she is looking at me, I will not mention her name, but I will
+throw my book at her." He then raised his arm as if to put his threat
+into execution, when all the women in the church ducked their heads.
+"What," said he, "all Magdalenes." SWAINE.
+
+_Unwelcome Title_.--Charles Incledon, the vocalist, being asked if he
+had ever read Murray's _Sermons to Asses_, replied, "he had not, he did
+not like the book, the title was too personal."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset
+House.) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic, G.G.
+BENNIS, 55, Rue Neuve, St. Augustin, Paris; and by all Newsmen and
+Booksellers._
+
+
+
+
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