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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 20, November 14, 1840 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: March 18, 2017 [EBook #54388] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IRISH PENNY JOURNAL, NOV 14, 1840 *** - - - - -Produced by Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading -Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from -images generously made available by JSTOR www.jstor.org) - - - - - - - - - - -THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL. - - NUMBER 20. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1840. VOLUME I. - -[Illustration: MALAHIDE CASTLE, COUNTY OF DUBLIN.] - -An ancient baronial castle, in good preservation and still inhabited by -the lineal descendant of its original founder, is a rare object to find -in Ireland; and the causes which have led to this circumstance are too -obvious to require an explanation. In Malahide Castle we have, however, -a highly interesting example of this kind; for though in its present -state it owes much of its imposing effect to modern restorations and -improvements, it still retains a considerable portion of very ancient -date, and most probably even some parts of the original castle erected -in the reign of King Henry II. Considered in this way, Malahide Castle -is without a rival in interest, not only in our metropolitan county, but -also perhaps within the boundary of the old English pale. - -The Castle of Malahide is placed on a gently elevated situation on -a limestone rock near the village or town from which it derives its -name, and of which, with its picturesque bay, it commands a beautiful -prospect. In its general form it is quadrangular and nearly approaching -to a square, flanked on its south or principal front by circular towers, -with a fine “Gothic” entrance porch in the centre. Its proportions are -of considerable grandeur, and its picturesqueness is greatly heightened -by the masses of luxuriant ivy which mantle its walls. For much of its -present architectural magnificence it is however indebted to its present -proprietor, and his father, the late Colonel Talbot. The structure, as -it appeared in the commencement of the last century, was of contracted -dimensions, and had wholly lost its original castellated character, -though its ancient moat still remained. This moat is however now filled -up, and its sloping surface is converted into a green-sward, and planted -with Italian cypresses and other evergreens. - -Interesting, however, as this ancient mansion is in its exterior -appearance, it is perhaps still more so in its interior features. Its -spacious hall, roofed with timber-work of oak, is of considerable -antiquity; but its attraction is eclipsed by another apartment of -equal age and vastly superior beauty, with which indeed in its way -there is nothing, as far as we know, to be compared in Ireland. This -unique apartment is wainscotted throughout with oak elaborately carved, -in compartments, with subjects derived from scripture history, and -though Gothic in their general character, some of them are executed -with considerable skill; while the chimney-piece, which exhibits in -its central division figures of the Virgin and Child, is carved with a -singular degree of elegance and beauty. The whole is richly varnished, -and from the blackness of tint which the wood has acquired from time, the -apartment, as Mr Brewer well observes, assumes the resemblance of one -vast cabinet of ebony. - -The other apartments, of which there are ten on each floor, are of -inferior architectural pretensions, though some of them are of lofty -and spacious proportions. But they are not without attractions of a -high order, being enriched with some costly specimens of porcelain, and -their walls covered with the more valuable ornaments of a collection of -original portraits and paintings by the old masters. Among the former -the most remarkable are portraits of Charles I. and Queen Henrietta -Maria, by Vandyke; James II. and his queen, Anne Hyde, by Sir Peter Lely; -Queen Anne, by Sir Godfrey Kneller; the Duchess of Portsmouth, mistress -to Charles II.; the first Duke of Richmond (son of the above duchess) -when a child; Richard Talbot, the celebrated Duke of Tirconnel, Lord -Lieutenant of Ireland, general and minister to James II., by Sir Peter -Lely; the Ladies Catherine and Charlotte Talbot, daughters of the duke, -by Sir P. Lely; with many other portraits of illustrious members of the -Talbot family. The portraits of the Duchess of Portsmouth and her son -were presented by herself to Mrs Wogan of Rathcoffy, from whom they were -inherited by Colonel Talbot. - -Among the pictures of more general interest, the most distinguished is -a small altar piece divided into compartments, and representing the -Nativity, Adoration, and Circumcision. This most valuable and interesting -picture is the work of Albert Durer, and is said to have belonged to the -unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots. It was purchased by Charles II. for -£2000, and was given by him to the Duchess of Portsmouth, who presented -it to the grandmother of the late Col. Talbot. - -As already observed, the noble family of Talbot have been seated in their -present locality for a period of nearly seven hundred years! According to -the pedigree of the family, drawn up with every appearance of accuracy -by Sir William Betham, Richard Talbot, the second son of Richard Talbot, -Lord of Eccleswell and Linton, in Herefordshire, who was living in 1153, -having accompanied King Henry II. into Ireland, obtained from that -monarch the lordship of Malahide, being part of the two cantreds of -Leinster, in the neighbourhood of Dublin, which King Henry had reserved, -when he granted the rest of the province to Richard Earl of Strongbow, -to be held as a noble fief of the crown of England. It is at all events -certain, as appears from the chartulary or register of Mary’s Abbey, now -in the British Museum, that this Richard Talbot granted to St Mary’s -Abbey in Dublin certain lands called Venenbristen, which lie between -Croscurry and the lands of Hamon Mac Kirkyl, in pure and perpetual alms, -that the monks there might pray for the health of his soul and that of -his brother Roger, and their ancestors; and that he also leased certain -lands in Malahide and Portmarnoc to the monks of the same abbey. From -this Richard Talbot the present Lord Talbot de Malahide descends in the -twentieth generation, and in the twenty-fourth from Richard Talbot, a -Norman baron who held Hereford Castle in the time of the Conqueror. The -noble Earls of Shrewsbury and Talbot are of the same stock, but descend -from Gilbert, the elder brother of Richard, who was Lord of Eccleswell -and Linton, and was living in 1190. - -There can be no question, therefore, of the noble origin of the Talbots -de Malahide, nor can their title be considered as a mushroom one, -though only conferred upon the mother of the present lord; for Sir -William Betham shows that his ancestor, Thomas Talbot, knight and lord -of Malahide, who had livery of his estate in 1349, was summoned by the -sheriff of Dublin to the Magnum Concilium, or Great Council, held in -Dublin in 1372, 46 Edward III., and again to the Magnum Concilium held -on Saturday, in the vigils of the holy Trinity, 48 Edward III., 1374, -by special writ directed to himself by the name of “_Thome Talbot, -Militis_.” He was also summoned by writ to the Parliament of Ireland in -the same year. If therefore it could be ascertained that this Thomas -Talbot actually took his seat under that writ, it would be clear that his -lineal heir-male and heir-general, the present baron, has a just claim to -the honours and dignity which he has so recently acquired. - -The manor of Malahide was created by charter as early as the reign of -King Henry II., and its privileges were confirmed and enlarged by King -Edward IV. in 1475. This, we believe, still remains in the possession -of the chief of the family, but various other extensive possessions of -his ancestors passed to junior branches of his house, and have been long -alienated from his family. - -Among the most memorable circumstances of general interest connected -with the history of this castle and its possessors, should be mentioned -what Mr Brewer properly calls “a lamentable instance of the ferocity -with which quarrels of party rivalry were conducted in ages during which -the internal polity of Ireland was injuriously neglected by the supreme -head of government:--On Whitsun-eve, in the year 1329, as is recorded by -Ware, John de Birmingham, Earl of Louth, Richard Talbot, styled Lord of -Malahide, and many of their kindred, together with sixty of their English -followers, were slain in a pitched battle at Balbriggan [Ballybragan] in -this neighbourhood, by the Anglo-Norman faction of the De Verdons, De -Gernons, and Savages: the cause of animosity being the election of the -earl to the palatinate dignity of Louth, the county of the latter party.” - -At a later period the Talbots of Malahide had a narrow escape from a -calamity nearly as bad as death itself--the total loss of their rank -and possessions. Involved of necessity by their political and religious -principles in the troubles of the middle of the seventeenth century, -they could hardly have escaped the persecution of the party assuming -government in the name of the parliament. John Talbot of Malahide having -been indicted and outlawed for acting in the Irish rebellion, his castle, -with five hundred acres of arable land, was granted by lease, dated 21st -December 1653, for seven years, to the regicide Miles Corbet, who resided -here for several years after, till, being himself outlawed in turn at -the period of the Restoration, he took shipping from its port for the -continent. More fortunate, however, than the representatives of most -other families implicated in the events of this unhappy period, Mr Talbot -was by the act of explanation in 1665 restored to all his lands and -estates in the county of Dublin, as he had held the same in 1641, only -subject to quit rents. It is said that during the occupation of Malahide -by Corbet it became for a short time the abode of Cromwell himself; but -this statement, we believe, only rests on popular tradition--a chronicler -which has been too fond of making similar statements respecting Irish -castles generally, to merit attention and belief. - -Our limits will not permit us on the present occasion to enter on any -description of the picturesque ruins of the ancient chapel and tombs -situated within the demesne, and immediately adjacent to the castle; and -we shall only add in conclusion, that the grounds of the demesne, though -of limited extent, and but little varied in elevation, are judiciously -laid out, and present among its plantations many scenes of dignified -character and beauty. - - P. - - - - -SAINT BRIDGET’S SHAWL, BY T. E., AUTHOR OF “DARBY DOYLE,” ETC. - - -Amongst the many extraordinary characters with which this country -abounds, such as fools, madmen, onshochs, omadhauns, hair-brains, -crack-brains, and naturals, I have particularly taken notice of one. His -character is rather singular. He begs about Newbridge, county of Kildare: -he will accept of any thing offered him, except money--that he scornfully -refuses; which fulfils the old adage, “None but a fool will refuse -money.” His habitation is the ruins of an old fort or ancient stronghold -called Walshe’s Castle, on the road to Kilcullen, near Arthgarvan, and -within a few yards of the river Liffey, far away from any dwelling. There -he lies on a bundle of straw, with no other covering save the clothes he -wears all day. Many is the evening I have seen this poor crazy creature -plod along the road to his desolate lodging. There is another stamp -of singularity on his character: his name is Pat Mowlds, but who dare -attempt to call him Pat? It must be Mr Mowlds, or he will not only be -offended himself, but will surely offend those who neglect this respect. -In general he is of a downcast, melancholy disposition, boasts of being -very learned, is much delighted when any one gives him a ballad or old -newspaper. Sometimes he gets into a very good humour, and will relate -many anecdotes in a droll style. - -About two years ago, as I happened to be sauntering along the border of -the Curragh, I overtook this solitary being. - -“A fine morning, Mr Mowlds,” was my address. - -“Yes, sur, thank God, a very fine morning; shure iv we don’t have fine -weather in July, when will we have it?” - -“What a great space of ground this is to lie waste--what a quantity of -provisions it would produce--what a number of people it would employ and -feed!” said I. - -“Oh, that’s very thrue, sur; but was it all sown in pittaties, what -would become ov the poor sheep? Shure we want mutton as well as -pittaties--besides, all the devarshin we have every year.----Why, thin, -maybe ye have e’er an ould newspaper or ballit about ye?” - -I said I had not, but a couple of Penny Journals should be at his service -which I had in my pocket. - -“Och, any thing at all that will keep a body amused, though I have got -a great many of them; but among them all I don’t see any picther or any -account of the round tower ferninst ye; nor any account ov the fire -Saint Bridget _kept_ in night an’ day for six hundred years; nor any -thing about the raison why it was put out; nor any thing about how Saint -Bridget came by this piece ov ground; nor any thing about the ould Earl -ov Kildare, who rides round the Curragh every seventh year with silver -spurs and silver reins to his horse--God bless ye, sur, have ye e’er a -bit of tobacky?--there’s not a word about this poor counthry at all.” - -My senses were now driven to anxiety--I gave him some tobacco. He then -resumed:-- - -“Och, an’ faix it’s myself that can tell all about those things. Shure my -grandfather was brother to one of the ould anshint bards who left him all -his books, and he left them to my mother, who left them to me.” - -“Well, Mr Mowlds,” I said, “you must have a perfect knowledge of those -things--let us hear something of their contents.” - -“Why, thin, shure, sur, I can’t do less. Now, you see, sur, it’s my -fashion like the priests and ministhers goin’ to praich: they must give -a bit ov a text out ov some larned book, and that’s the way with me. So -here goes--mind the words: - - “The seventeenth ov March, on King Dermot’s great table, - Where ninety-nine beeves were all roast at a time, - We dhrank to the memory, while we wor able, - Ov Pathrick, the saint ov our nation; - And gaily wor dhrinkin’, roarin’, shoutin’, - Cead mille faltha, acushla machree. - There was Cathleen so fair, an’ Elleen so rare! - With Pathrick an’ Nora, - An’ flauntin’ Queen Dorah! - On Pathrick’s day in the mornin’. - Whoo!!! - County Kildare an’ the sky over it! - Short grass for ever!” - -He thus ended with a kick up of his heel which nearly touched the nape of -his neck, and a flourish of his stick at the same time. Then turning to -me he said, - -“I am not going to tell you one word about the fire--I am going to tell -you how Saint Bridget got all this ground. Bad luck to _Black Noll_ (a -name given to Cromwell) with his crew ov dirty Sasanachs that tore down -the church; and if they could have got on the tower, that would be down -also. No matther--every dog will have his day. Sit down on this hill till -we have a shaugh ov the dhudheen. In this hill lie buried all the bones -ov the poor fellows that Gefferds killed the time ov the throuble, peace -an’ rest to their souls!” - -“But to the story, Mr Mowlds,” I said, as I watched him with impatience -while he readied his pipe with a large pin. - -“Well, sur, here goes. Bad luck to this touch, it’s damp: the rain blew -into my pocket t’other night an’ wetted it--ha, I have it. - -Now, sur, you persave by the words ov my text that a great feast was kept -up every year at the palace of Castledermot on Saint Pathrick’s day. -Nothing was to be seen for many days before but slaughtering ov bullocks, -skiverin’ ov pullets, rowlin’ in ov barrels, an’ invitin’ all the quolity -about the counthry; nor did the roolocks and spalpeens lag behind--they -never waited to be axt; all came to lind a frindly hand at the feast; nor -war the kings ov those days above raisin’ the ax to slay a bullock. King -O’Dermot was one ov those slaughtherin’ kings who wouldn’t cringe at the -blood ov any baste. - -’Twas on one ov those festival times that he sallied out with his ax in -his hand to show his dexterity in the killin’ way. The butchers brought -him the cattle one afther another, an’ he laid them down as fast as they -could be dhrained ov their blood. - -Afther layin’ down ninety-nine, the last ov a hundhred was brought to -him. Just as he riz the ax to give it the clout, the ox with a sudden -chuck drew the stake from the ground, and away with him over hill an’ -dale, with the swingin’ block an’ a hundred spalpeens at his heels. At -last he made into the river just below Kilcullen, when a little gossoon -thought to get on his back; but his tail bein’ very long, gave a twitch -an’ hitched itself in a black knot round the chap’s body, and so towed -him across the river. - -Away with him then across the Curragh, ever till he came to where Saint -Bridget lived. He roared at the gate as if for marcy. Saint Bridget was -just at the door when she saw the ox with his horns thrust through the -bars. - -‘Arrah, what ails ye, poor baste?’ sez she, not seein’ the boy at his -tail. - -‘Och,’ sez the boy, makin’ answer for the ox, ‘for marcy sake let me in. -I’m the last ov a hundred that was goin’ to be kilt by King O’Dermot for -his great feast to-morrow; but he little knows who I am.’ - -Begor, when she heard the ox spake, she was startled; but rousin’ -herself, she said, - -‘Why, thin, it ’ud be fitther for King O’Dermot to give me a few ov yees, -than be feedin’ Budhavore: it’s well you come itself.’ - -‘Ah, but, shure, you won’t kill me, Biddy Darlin,’ sez the chap, takin’ -the hint, as it was nigh dark, and Biddy couldn’t see him with her odd -eye; for you must know, sur, that she was such a purty girl when she was -young, that the boys used to be runnin’ in dozens afther her. At last she -prayed for somethin’ to keep them from tormenting her. So you see, sur, -she was seized with the small-pox at one side ov her face, which blinded -up her eye, and left the whole side ov her face in furrows, while the -other side remained as beautiful as ever. - -‘In troth you needn’t fear me killin’ ye,’ sez she; ‘but where can I keep -ye?’ - -‘Och,’ says the arch wag, ‘shure when I grow up to be a bull I can guard -yer ground.’ - -‘Ground, in yeagh,’ sez the saint; ‘shure I havn’t as much as would sow a -ridge ov pittaties, barrin’ the taste I have for the girls to walk on.’ - -‘And did you ax the king for nane?’ sed the supposed ox. - -‘In troth I did, but the ould budhoch refused me twice’t.’ - -‘Well, Biddy honey,’ sez the chap, ‘the third offer’s lucky. Go -to-morrow, when he’s at dinner, and you may come at the soft side ov him. -But won’t you give some refreshment to this poor boy that I picked up on -the road? I fear he is dead or smothered hanging at my tail.’ - -Well, to be sure, the chap hung his head (moryeah) when he sed this. - -Out St Bridget called a dozen ov nuns, who untied the knot, and afther -wipin’ the chap as clean as a new pin, brought him into the kitchen, -and crammed him with the best of aitin’ and drinkin’; but while they -wor doing this, away legged the ox. St Bridget went out to ax him some -questions consarnin’ the king, but he was gone. - -‘’Pon my sowkins,’ sed she, ‘but that was a mighty odd thing entirely. -Faix, an it’s myself that will be off to Castledermot to-morrow, hit or -miss.’ - -Well, sur, the next day she gother together about three dozen nuns. - -‘Toss on yer mantles,’ sez she, ‘an’ let us be off to Castledermot.’ - -‘With all harts,’ sez they. - -‘Come here, Norah,’ sez she to the sarvint maid. ‘Slack down the fire,’ -sez she, ‘and be sure you have the kittle on. I couldn’t go to bed -without my tay, was it ever so late.’ - -So afther givin’ her ordhers off they started. - -Well, behould ye, sur, when she got within two miles ov the palace, word -was brought to the king that St Bridget and above five hundred nuns were -on the road, comin’ to dine with him. - -‘O tundheranounthers,’ roared the king, ‘what’ll I do for their dinner? -Why the dhoul didn’t she come an hour sooner, or sent word yestherday? -Such a time for visithers! Do ye hear me, Paudeen Roorke?’ sez he, -turnin’ to his chief butler: ‘run afther Rory Condaugh, and ax him did he -give away the two hind quarthers that I sed was a little rare.’ - -‘Och, yer honor,’ sed Paudeen Roorke, ‘shure he gev them to a parcel of -boccochs at the gate.’ - -‘The dhoul do them good with it! Oh, fire and faggots! what’ll become ov -me?--shure she will say I have no hospitality, an’ lave me her curse. -But, cooger, Paudeen: did the roolocks overtake the ox that ran away -yestherday?’ - -‘Och, the dhoul a haugh ov him ever was got, yer honor.’ - -‘Well, it’s no matther; that’ll be a good excuse; do you go and meet her; -I lave it all to you to get me out ov this hobble.’ - -‘Naboclish,’ said Paudeen Roorke, cracking his fingers, an’ out he -started. Just as he got to the door he met her _going_ to _come_ in. Well -become the king, but he shlipt behind the door to hear what ’ud be sed. -‘Bedhahusth,’ he roared to the guests that wor going to dhrink his health -while his back was turned. - -‘God save yer reverence!’ said St Bridget to the butler, takin’ him for -the king’s chaplain, he had such a grummoch face on him; ‘can I see the -king?’ - -‘God save you kindly!’ sed Paudeen, ‘to be shure ye can. Who will I say -wants him?’ eyeing the black army at her heels. - -‘Tell him St Bridget called with a few friends to take pot luck.’ - -‘Oh, murther!’ sed Paudeen, ‘why didn’t you come an hour sooner? I’m -afraid the meat is all cowld, we waited so long for ye.’ - -‘Och, don’t make any _bones_ about it,’ sed St Bridget: ‘it’s a cowld -stummock can’t warm its own mait.’ - -‘In troth that’s thrue enough,’ sed Paudeen; ‘but I fear there isn’t -enough for so many.’ - -‘Why, ye set of _cormorals_,’ sed she, ‘have ye swallied the whole -ninety-nine oxen that ye kilt yestherday?’ - -‘Oh, blessed hour!’ groaned the king to himself, ‘how did she know that? -Och, I suppose she knows I’m here too.’ - -‘Oh, bad scran to me!’ said Paudeen, ‘but we had the best and fattest -keepin’ for you, but he ran away.’ - -‘In troth you needn’t tell me that,’ sez she; ‘I know all about yer -doings. If I’m sent away without my dinner itself, I must see the king.’ - -Just as she sed this, a hiccup seized the king, so loud that it -reached the great hall. The guests, who war all silent by the king’s -order, thought he sed hip, hip!--so. Such a shout, my jewel, as nearly -frightened the saint away. - -‘In troth,’ sez she, ‘I’d be very sorry to venthur among such a set of -riff-raff, any way. But who’s this behind the door?’ sez she, cockin’ her -eye. ‘Oh, I beg pardon!--I hope no inthrusion--there ye are--ye’ll save -me the trouble ov goin’ in.’ - -‘Oh,’ sed the king (hic), ‘I tuck a little sick in my stummock, and came -down to get fresh air. I beg pardon. Why didn’t you come in time to -dinner?’ - -‘I want no dinner,’ said she; ‘I came to speak on affairs ov state.’ - -‘Why, thin,’ said the king, ‘before ye state them, ye must come in and -take a bit in yer fingers, at any rate.’ - -‘In troth,’ sez she, ‘I was always used to full and plenty, and not any -scrageen bits; and to think ov a king’s table not having a flaugooloch -meal, is all nonsense: that’s like the taste ov ground I axt ye for some -time ago.’ - -Begor, sur, when she sed that, she gev him such a start that the hiccough -left him. - -‘Ah, Biddy, honey,’ sez he, ‘shure ye wor only passin’ a joke to cure me: -say no more--it’s all gone.’ - -Just as he sed this, he heard a great shout at a distance: out he pulled -his specks, an’ put them on his nose; when to his joy he saw a whole -crowd ov spalpeens dhrivin’ the ox before them. The king, forgettin’ who -he was spaikin’ to, took off his caubeen, and began to wave it, as he ran -off to meet them. - -‘Oh! mahurpendhoul, but ye’re brave fellows,’ sez he; ‘who ever it was -that _cotch_ him shall have a commission in my life guards. I never -wanted a joint more. Galong, every mother’s son ov yees, and horry all -the gridirons and frying-pans ye can get. Hand me the axe, till I have -some steaks tost up for a few friends.’ - -So, my jewel, while ye’d say thrap-stick, the ox was down, an’ on the -gridirons before the life was half out ov him. - -Well, to be shure, St Bridget got mighty hungry, as she had walked a long -way. She then tould the king that the gentlemen should lave the room, as -she could not sit with any one not in ordhers, and they being a little -out ov ordher. So, to make themselves agreeable to her ordhers, they quit -the hall, and went out to play at hurdles. - -When the king recollected who he was goin’ to give dinner to, sez he to -himself, ‘Shure no king ought to be above sarvin’ a saint.’ So over he -goes to his wife the queen. - -‘Dorah,’ sez he, ‘do ye know who’s within?’ ‘Why, to be shure I do,’ sez -she; ‘ain’t it Bridheen na Keogue?’ - -‘Ye’re right,’ sez he, ‘and you know she’s a saint; an’ I think it will -be for the good ov our sowls that she kem here to-day. Come, peel off yer -muslins, and help me up wid the dinner.’ - -‘In troth I’ll not,’ sez the queen; ‘shure ye know I’m a black -Prospitarian, an’ bleeve nun ov yer saints.’ - -‘Arrah, nun or yer quare ways,’ sez he; ‘don’t you wish my sowl happy, -any how?--an’ if you help me, you will be only helpin’ my sowl to heaven.’ - -‘Oh, in that case,’ sez she, ‘here’s at ye, and the sooner the betther. -But one charge I’d give ye: take care how ye open yer _claub_ about -ground: ye know she thought to come round ye twice before.’ - -So in the twinklin’ ov an eye she went down to the kitchen, an’ put on a -prashkeen, an’ was _first dish_ at the table. - -The king saw every one lashin’ away at their dinner except Bridget. - -‘Arrah, Biddy, honey,’ sez he, ‘why don’t ye help yerself?’ - -‘Why, thin,’ sez she, ‘the dhoul a bit, bite or sup, I’ll take undher yer -roof until ye grant me one favour.’ - -‘And what is that?’ sez the king; ‘shure ye know a king must stand to his -word was it half his kingdom, and how do I know but ye want to chouse me -out ov it: let me know first what ye want.’ - -‘Well, thin, Mr King O’Dermot,’ sez she, ‘all I want is a taste ov ground -to sow a few pays in.’ - -‘Well, an’ how much do ye want, yer reverence,’ sez he, all over ov a -thrimble, betune his wife’s dark looks, and the curse he expected from -Bridget if he refused. - -‘Not much,’ sez she, ‘for the present. You don’t know how I’m situated. -All the pilgrims going to Lough Dhearg are sent to me to put the pays in -their brogues, an’ ye know I havn’t as much ground as would sow a pint; -but if ye only give me about fifty acres, I’ll be contint.’ - -‘Fifty acres!’ roared the king, stretching his neck like a goose. - -‘Fifty acres!’ roared the queen, knitting her brows; ‘shure that much -ground would fill their pockets as well as their brogues.’ - -‘There ye’re out ov it,’ said the saint; ‘why, it wouldn’t be half enough -if they got their dhue according to their sins; but I’ll lave it to -yerself.’ - -‘How much will ye give?’ - -‘Not an acre,’ said the queen. - -‘Oh, Dorah,’ sed the king, ‘let me give the crathur some.’ - -‘Not an _inch_,’ sed the queen, ‘if I’m to be misthress here.’ - -‘Oh, I beg pardon,’ sez the saint; ‘so, Mr King O’Dermot, you are undher -petticoat government I see; but maybe I won’t match ye for all that. -Now, take my word, you shall go on penance to Lough Dhearg before nine -days is about; and instead ov pays ye shall have pebble stones and swan -shot, in yer brogues. But it’s well for you, Mrs Queen, that ye’re out -ov my reach, or I’d send you there barefooted, with nothing on but yer -stockings.’ - -When the king heard this, he fell all ov a thrimble. ‘Oh, Dorah,’ sez he, -‘give the crathur a little taste ov ground to satisfy her.’ - -‘No, not as much as she could play ninepins on,’ sez she, shakin’ her -fist and grindin’ her teeth together; ‘and I hope she may send you to -Lough Dhearg, as she sed she would.’ - -‘Why, thin, have ye no feeling for one ov yer own sex?’ sez the saint. -‘I’ll go my way this minit, iv ye only give me as much as my shawl will -cover.’ - -‘Oh, that’s a horse ov another colour,’ sez the queen; ‘you may have -that, with a heart and a half. But you know very well if I didn’t watch -that fool ov a man, he’d give the very nose off his face if a girl only -axt him how he was.’ - -Well, sur, when the king heard this, he grew as merry as a cricket. -‘Come, Biddy,’ sez he, ‘we mustn’t have a dhry bargain, any how.’ - -‘Oh, ye’ll excuse me, Mr King O’Dermot,’ sez she; ‘I never drink stronger -nor wather.’ - -‘Oh, son ov Fingal,’ exclaimed the king, ‘do ye hear this, and it -Pathrick’s day!’ - -‘Oh, I intirely forgot that,’ sez she. ‘Well, then, for fear ye’d say I -was a bad fellow, I’ll just taste. Shedhurdh.’ - -Well, sur, after the dhough-an-dheris she went home very well pleased -that she was to get ever a taste ov ground at all, and she promised the -king to make his pinance light, and that she would boil the pays for him, -as she did with young men ov tendher conshinses; but as to ould hardened -sinners, she’d keep the pays till they’d be as stale as a sailor’s bisket. - -Well, to be shure, when she got home she set upwards ov a hundhred nuns -at work to make her shawl, during which time she was never heard of. At -last, afther six months’ hard labour, they got it finished. - -‘Now,’ sez she, ‘it’s time I should go see the king, that he may come and -see that I take no more than my right. So, taking no one with her barrin’ -herself and _one_ nun, off she set. - -The king and queen were just sitting down to tay at the parlour window -when she got there. - -‘Whoo! talk of the dhoul and he’ll appear,’ sez he. ‘Why, thin, Biddy -honey, it’s an ago since we saw ye. Sit down; we’re just on the first -cup. Dorah and myself were afther talkin’ about ye, an’ thought ye forgot -us intirely. Well, did ye take that bit ov ground?’ - -‘Indeed I’d be very sorry to do the likes behind any one’s back. You must -come to-morrow and see it measured.’ - -‘Not I, ’pon my sowkins,’ sed the king: ‘do ye think me so mane as to -doubt yer word?’ - -‘Pho! pho!’ sed the queen, ‘such a taste is not worth talkin’ ov; but, -just to honour ye, we shall attind in state to-morrow. Sit down.’ - -She took up her station betune the king an’ queen: the purty side ov her -face was next the king, an’ the ugly side next the queen. - -‘I can’t be jealous ov you, at any rate,’ sed the queen to herself, as -she never saw her veil off before. - -‘Oh, murther!’ sez the king, ‘what a pity ye’re a saint, and Dorah to be -alive. Such a beauty!’ - -Just as he was starin’, the queen happened to look over at a -looking-glass, in which she saw Biddy’s pretty side. - -‘Hem!’ sez she, sippin’ her cup. ‘Dermot,’ sez she, ‘it’s very much out -ov manners to be stuck with ladies at their tay. Go take a shaugh ov the -dhudheen, while we talk over some affairs ov state.’ - -Begor, sur, the king was glad ov the excuse to lave them together, in the -hopes St Bridget would convart his wife. - -Well, sur, whatever discoorse they had, I disremember, but the queen came -down in great humour to wish the saint good night, an’ promised to be on -the road the next day to Kildare. - -‘Faix,’ sez the saint, ‘I was nigh forgettin’ my gentility to wish the -king good night. Where is he?’ - -‘Augh, and shure myself doesn’t know, barrin’ he’s in the kitchen.’ - -‘In the kitchen!’ exclaimed the saint; ‘oh fie!’ - -‘Ay, indeed, just cock yer eye,’ sez the queen, ‘to the key-hole: that -dhudheen is his excuse. I can’t keep a maid for him.’ - -‘Oh! is that the way with him?--never fear: I’ll make his pinance purty -sharp for that. At any rate call him out an’ let us part in friends.’ - -So, sur, afther all the compliments wor passed, the king sed he should -go see her a bit ov the road, as it was late: so off he went. The moon -had just got up, an’ he walked alongside the saint at the ugly side; but -when he looked round to praise her, an’ pay her a little compliment, he -got sich a fright that he’d take his oath it wasn’t her at all, so he was -glad to get back to the queen. - -Well, sur, next morning the queen ordhered the long car to be got ready, -with plenty ov clean straw in it, as in those times they had no coaches; -then regulated her life guards, twelve to ride before and twelve behind, -the king at one side and the chief butler at the other, for without -the butler she couldn’t do at all, as every mile she had to stop the -whole retinue till she’d get refreshment. In the meantime, St Bridget -placed her nuns twenty-one miles round the Curragh. At last the thrumpet -sounded, which gave notice that the king was coming. As soon as they -halted, six men lifted the queen up on the throne, which they brought -with them on the long car. The king ov coorse got up by her side. - -‘Well, Dorah,’ sez he in a whisper, ‘what a laugh we’ll have at Biddy, -with her shawl!’ - -‘I don’t know that neither,’ sez the queen. ‘It looks as thick as -Finmocool’s boulsther, as it hangs over her shoulder.’ - -‘God save yer highness,’ sed the saint, as she kem up to them. ‘Why, ye -sted mighty long. I had a snack ready for ye at one o’clock.’ - -‘Och, it’s no matther,’ sez the queen; ‘measure yer bit ov ground, and we -then can have it in comfort.’ - -So with that St Bridget threw down her shawl, which she had cunningly -folded up. - -Now, sur, this shawl was made ov fine sewin’ silk, all network, each mesh -six feet square, and tuck thirty-six pounds ov silk, and employed six -hundred and sixty nuns for three months making it. - -Well, sur, as I sed afore, she threw it on the ground. - -‘Here, Judy Conway, run to Biddy Conroy with this corner, an’ let her -make aff in the direckshin ov Kildare, an’ be shure she runs the corner -into the _mon’stery_. Here, you, Nelly Murphy, make off to Kilcullen; -an’ you, Katty Farrel, away with you to Ballysax; an’ you, Nelly Doye, -away to Arthgarvan; an’ you, Rose Regan, in the direckshin of Connell; -an’ you, Ellen Fogarty, away in the road to Maddenstown; an’ you, Jenny -Purcel, away to Airfield. Just hand it from one to t’other.’ - -So givin’ three claps ov her hand, off they set like hounds, an’ in a -minnit ye’d think a haul ov nuns wor cotched in the net. - -‘Oh, millia murther!’ sez the queen, ‘she’s stretchin’ it over my -daughter’s ground.’ - -‘Oh, blud-an’-turf!’ sez the king, ‘now she’s stretchin’ it over my son’s -ground. Galong, ye set ov _thaulabawns_,’ sed he to his life-guards; -‘galong, I say, an’ stop her, else she’ll cover all my dominions.’ - -‘Oh fie, yer honour,’ sez the chief butler; ‘if you break yer word, I’m -not shure ov my wages.’ - -Well behould ye, sur, in less than two hours Saint Bridget had the whole -Curragh covered. - -‘Now see what a purty kittle of fish you’ve made ov it!’ sez the queen. - -‘No, but it’s you, Mrs Queen O’Dermot, ’twas you agreed to this.’ - -‘Ger out, ye ould bosthoon,’ sez the queen, ‘ye desarve it all: ye might -aisy guess that she’d chouse ye. Shure iv ye had a grain ov sinse, ye -might recollect how yer cousin King O’Toole was choused by Saint Kavin -out ov all his ground, by the saint stuffin’ a lump ov a crow into the -belly ov the ould goose.’ - -‘Well, Dorah, never mind; if she makes a hole, I have a peg for it. Now, -Biddy,’ sez he, ‘though I gave ye the ground, I forgot to tell ye that I -only give it for a certain time. I now tell ye from this day forward you -shall only have it while ye keep yer fire in.’” - -Here I lost the remainder of his discourse by my ill manners. I got so -familiar with Mr Mowlds, and so interested with his story, that I forgot -my politeness. - -“And what about the fire, PAT?” said I, without consideration. - -Before I could recollect the offence, he turned on me with the eyes of a -maniac-- - -“The dhoul whishper nollege into your ear. -_Pat!_--(hum)--_Pat!_--_Pat!_--this is freedom, with all my heart.” - -So saying, he strode away, muttering something between his teeth. -However, I hope again to meet him, when I shall be a little more cautious -in my address. - - - - -THE ELECTROTYPE. - - -An elaborate and very lucid article on the Electrotype and Daguerreotype, -being a review of “An Account of Experiments in Electricity made by -Thomas Spencer--Annals of Electricity, January 1840,” and of the account -of M. Daguerre’s discovery of Photogenic Drawing as published by -himself, has appeared in that excellent work “The Westminster Review” -for September. Our space not allowing us to enter so fully into details -as our admirable contemporary, we present our readers with as concise an -article as the nature of the subject will permit, confining ourselves for -the present to the Electrotype, as being less generally known, though not -less curious. - -The electrotype is another instance of the application of invisible -elements to the uses of man, by which powers and influences, of whose -nature he is as yet wholly ignorant, are made subservient to his -purposes, and obedient to his rule. - -To define accurately what electricity is, would be, as yet at least, -impossible. Many conjectures have been, are, and will be hazarded, but -the knowledge of its production, power, and effects, is only in its -infancy, and so full of promise of a gigantic growth, that time will be -better spent in its cultivation than in debating upon what it is. - -The truth of this proposition is fully borne out by the subject of our -present paper; for whilst many scientific men have been exhausting their -energies in the production of plausible theories upon the nature of the -electric fluid, other more matter-of-fact philosophers have addressed -themselves to its application; and whilst some of these devote themselves -to the developement of its motive powers, in the well-founded hope of -its superseding steam, others press its services to far different uses. -Amongst the last, Mr Spencer holds a foremost place. - -Before entering into the description of the electrotype, we must say -a few words on the subject of electricity to the less informed of our -readers. The electric fluid, as it is called, may be produced in various -ways: the most ordinary is by the friction of glass against silk, as -exemplified in the electrical machine, which is familiar to almost every -one. But galvanic and voltaic electricity is differently produced. In all -cases its production is the consequence of combination, but particularly -in the galvanic battery and voltaic circle. The latter, being Mr -Spencer’s apparatus, we shall briefly describe. - -An ordinary voltaic circle is formed by a plate of zinc and another of -copper being placed upright in a vessel containing acid or a saline -solution. Zinc is more oxidisable than copper, that is, it has a greater -affinity to, or inclination to unite itself with, the gas called -oxygen, the combination of which with the particles of metal produces -that appearance which is called “rust.” Whilst the zinc and copper are -separate, the oxygen of the fluid operates upon both; but if they are -united by means of a wire connected with each, the oxygen forsakes the -copper altogether, and proceeds with increased force to unite with the -zinc, and a current of electricity is immediately formed, which proceeds -from the zinc plate through the fluid medium to the copper, thence along -the connecting wire to the zinc, and thence round again in a constant -circulating stream, until the zinc has been entirely decomposed, or -oxidised. - -Electricity being thus produced by combination, its progress and effects -are marked by a wonderful power of separation or decomposition, which it -exerts upon substances brought within the circle; and this is the power -which Mr Spencer has turned to his use, the great object which he has at -present in view being the multiplication of engraved plates of copper for -the purpose of printing from. - -Every person who has seen metal of any description in a state of fusion, -must have remarked that it never forms a thin fluid such as water, -capable of insinuating itself into the smallest interstices, but is what -would be called _thick_ even at the fiercest heat, consequently incapable -of entering into such fine scratches as are necessary to be accurately -and clearly defined upon an engraved plate. Again, the contraction and -expansion of all metals by the application of heat and cold, would offer -an almost insuperable bar to the utility of casting, even if the fusion -could be rendered perfect. But the application of electricity removes all -the inconveniences, and opens a new field of science. - -Mr Spencer’s apparatus consists of an earthenware vessel, in which is -suspended another, much smaller, of earthenware or wood, with a bottom -formed of plaster-of-Paris. Into the larger vessel is poured a saturated -solution of copper (the copper being dissolved in sulphuric acid) -sufficient to rise up along the sides of the lesser one, which is filled -with the acid or saline solution intended to operate upon the zinc. The -plaster-of-Paris being very porous, allows the two liquids to meet in -its cells, but prevents them from mixing; by permitting them to meet, -however, the current of electricity is enabled to circulate through all. -In the larger vessel, and beneath the bottom of the smaller one, is -placed the copper plate from which the cast is to be taken, or upon which -the pattern is to be raised. It is suspended by the wire, which is to -connect it with the zinc, being fixed on the edge of the inner vessel, -in which is the zinc plate, suspended by its connecting wire. The two -wires are then brought into contact, fixed together by a screw, and the -voltaic circle is complete. The acid in the upper vessel attacks the -zinc, the electric current descends through the plaster bottom, thence -through the solution of copper, where its separating or decomposing power -is brought into operation, causing the infinitely minute particles of -copper suspended in the solution to separate from the sulphuric acid, and -descend upon the plate, through which itself proceeds to the wire, and so -round again. - -Now, here is probably the most wonderful part of the process. It is only -on the copper plate that the particles of copper, disengaged from the -solution, will descend and settle. If the copper be varnished, or covered -with a coat of wax, they will not deposit themselves or go together at -all; but where they find the clean surface of the metal, they at once -not only settle, but fix and adjust themselves in their proper forms, -building up as it were a metal structure, not eccentric or uneven, but -forming a correct plate of new metal, so pure, so hard, and so free -from defect or extraneous matter, that engravers prefer copper plates -thus formed to any other for working upon. But the perfection of this -operation consists in the wonderful accuracy with which the finest lines -of the most beautiful engravings are copied: the particles which float -in the solution are so indefinitely small, that they can enter into the -finest cuts, the slightest scratches; and as they undergo no process of -heating or cooling, their form is in nowise altered. - -We have already observed, that if the plate of metal be covered, -even with varnish, the particles will not descend or form upon it; -nevertheless, if some slight substance be not interposed, the depositing -particles adhere so firmly to it as to be inseparable, and it is upon -this property that one of the processes--that of engraving in relief on a -plate of copper--entirely depends for success. When a cast of an engraved -plate is required, the plate must be coated with bee’s-wax, mixed with -a little spirits of turpentine. It is laid on the plate in a lump and -melted, and when just cooling is wiped off, when, although apparently -clean, enough remains to interpose between the new and original plates, -and prevent a too strong cohesion. It is not necessary that the engraved -plate should be copper: it may be for instance lead or type metal, in -which case it need not be waxed, as the application of heat, expanding -the metals unequally, causes them at once to start asunder. - -A piece of wire having been soldered to the back of the plate, its back -and edges should be covered with a double coat of thick varnish, or it -may be embedded in a box with plaster-of-Paris or Roman cement. This -precaution is necessary, to prevent the plate from being inclosed, and to -limit the deposition to a proper extent. - -It may now be suspended in the apparatus, and the wires being placed in -contact, the operation begins. Particle by particle the new metal is -formed, until the plate is of sufficient thickness, when it is withdrawn, -and heat being applied, the two plates are separated, one being the exact -counterpart, in relief, of the other. Care must be taken in all cases to -change the solution of copper frequently, for by merely _adding_, the -separated particles of the sulphuric acid would accumulate to such extent -as to mar or injure the operation. - -From the plate thus formed in relief, as many casts as may be required -can be obtained, by making it the mould. - -To copy or multiply medals and coins the operation is very simple, for -a mould can be easily obtained by compressing the medal or coin between -two plates of milled sheet lead, and by varnishing the lead round the -impression, the deposit will be formed in the hollow only; and for -this purpose a very simple apparatus will suffice, and one that may be -very easily made. For the outer vessel an ordinary glass tumbler or -finger-bowl will answer; and for the inner, a cylindrical gas-glass, -having a bottom made of plaster-of-Paris. The solution of copper being -in the tumbler, and the acid with the zinc in the gas-glass, the mould -should be suspended by its conducting wire between the bottoms, the wire -of the zinc connected with it, and the operation will proceed. In all -cases it must be observed that the edge of the mould should be up, as, if -it be placed horizontally, extraneous substances, sinking by their own -weight, may be deposited upon it. - -To produce a raised design upon a plate of copper, or as it is rather -erroneously styled, “Engraving in Relief,” the operation is thus -performed:-- - -The plate upon which the design is to be raised having had the conducting -wire soldered to it, is covered with a coat of wax about one-eighth of an -inch or less in thickness, and upon the surface of this coat the design -is drawn. With a graver, the end of which must be of the form of a thin -parallelogram, so as to make grooves in the wax equally broad at the -bottom as at the top, the lines of the drawing are to be carefully cut -down to the plate; care being taken that the plate is perfectly cleaned -throughout each line, and also that the grooves are not narrower at the -bottom than at the top. In order to lay the surface of the copper at -the bottom of the grooves perfectly bare, the plate must be immersed -in diluted nitric acid (three parts of water to one of acid), and the -particles of wax that may have escaped the graver are driven off by the -fumes of the acid. The plate is then placed in the apparatus, the circle -closed as before, and the operation commences. As the particles of copper -require a metallic base, they avoid the wax and seek the metal in the -grooves; they there attach themselves to it, and to each other, until the -hollows are quite filled up, when the plate is removed. If the surfaces -of the ridges thus built up be not perfectly smooth, a piece of pumice -stone or smooth flag, with water, being rubbed to them, will soon reduce -them, after which the wax can be melted and cleaned off with spirits of -turpentine; and so firm is this formation of metal thus raised, both in -the adherence of its particles to each other and to the original plate, -that it may be printed from at any ordinary printing-press. - -One general remark applies to the production of electrotype copper, -and it is, that the strength and solidity of the formation depends -upon the slowness and deliberation of the process. The more slowly and -deliberately the particles separate from the solution and proceed to -their places, the more fitly they appear to take them up, and the more -firmly they adhere; whilst on the contrary, if the operation be hurried, -the metal is brittle, so much so as sometimes to powder under an ordinary -pressure. The thicker and finer the partition of plaster between the two -fluids, the more slightly are they connected, and consequently the slower -is the circulation of the electricity. The proper length of time to be -allowed for the process varies according to the nature of the work, and -the strength or solidity required. Forty-eight hours seems to be the -least time for forming a design in relief, and somewhat more than a week -for a plate with sunk lines. - -The laws which govern matter are mysterious. The entire of this process -is so wonderful, that to descant upon it would be unnecessary; and, after -all, it is but another step taken upon the path of science, each advance -upon which, whilst disclosing new scenes and greater wonders, is only the -needful preliminary to another which will display yet more! - - N. - - - - -THE FIELD OF KUNNERSDORF. - -(FROM THE GERMAN OF TIEDGE.) - - - Day is exiled from the bowers of Twilight; - Leaf and flower are drooping in the wood; - And the stars, as on a dark-stained skylight, - Glass their ancient glory in the flood. - Let me here, where nightwinds through the yew sing, - Where the moon is chary of her beams, - Consecrate an hour to mournful musing - Over Man and Man’s delirious dreams. - Pines and yews! envelope me in deeper, - Dunner shadow, sombre as the grave, - While with moans, as of a troubled sleeper, - Gloomily above my head ye wave! - Let mine eye look down from hence on yonder - Battle-plain, which Night in pity dulls-- - Let my sad imagination ponder - Over Kunnersdorf,[1] that Place of Skulls! - - Dost thou re-illume these wastes, O Summer? - Hast thou raised anew thy trampled bowers? - Will the wild bee come again a hummer - Here, within the houses of thy flowers? - Can thy sunbeams light, thy mild rains water - This Aceldema, this _human_ soil, - Since that dark day of redundant slaughter - When the blood of men flowed here like oil? - Ah, yes! Nature, and Thou, God of Nature, - Ye are ever bounteous!--Man alone, - Man it is whose frenzies desolate your - World, and make it in sad truth his own! - - Here saw Frederick fall his bravest warriors-- - Master of _thy_ World, thou wert too great! - Heaven had need to stablish curbing-barriers - ’Gainst thine inroads on the World of Fate! - O, could all thy coronals of splendour - Dupe thy memory of that ghastly day? - Could the Muses, could the Graces[2] render - Smooth and bright a corse-o’ercovered way? - No! the accusing blood-gouts ever trickle - Down each red leaf of thy chaplet-crown! - Men fell here, as corn before the sickle, - Fell, to aggrandise thy false renown! - Here the veteran drooped beside the springald. - Here sank Strength and Symmetry in line-- - Here crushed Hope and gasping Valour mingled, - And, Destroyer, the wild work was thine! - - What and wherefore is this doom funereal? - Whence this Tide of Being’s flow and ebb? - Why rends Destiny the fine material - Of Existence’s divinest web? - Vainly ask we!--Dim age calls to dim age-- - Answer, save an echo, cometh none-- - _Here_ stands Man, of Life in Death an image, - _There_, invisibly, The Living One! - - Storm-clouds lour and muster in the Distance-- - While, begirt with wrecks by sea and land, - Time, upon the far shore of Existence, - Counts each wavedrop swallowed by the sand. - Generation chases generation, - Downbowed by the same tremendous yoke-- - No cessation, and no explication-- - Birth--_Life_--Death;--the Stillness--_Flash_--and Smoke! - - Here, then, Frederick, formidable Sovereign! - Here in presence of these whitened bones, - Swear at length to cherish Peace, and govern - So, that Men may learn to reverence Thrones! - O! repudiate bloodbought fame, and hearken - To the myriad witness-voicéd Dead, - Ere the Sternness[3] shall lay down to darken - In the Silentness[4] thy crownless head! - Shudder at the dire phantasmagory - Of the Slain who perished here by thee, - And abhor all future wreaths of glory - Gathered from the baleful cypress-tree! - - Lofty souls disdain or dread the laurel-- - _Hero_ is a poor exchange for _Man_; - _Adders lurk in green spots_: such the moral - Taught by History since her school began. - Cæsar slain, the victim of his trophies, - Bayazeed[5] expiring in his cage, - All the Cæsars, all the sabre-Sophies, - Preach the same sad homily each age. - One drugged winecup dealt with Alexander, - And his satraps scarce had shared afresh - Half the empires of the World-Commander, - Ere the charnel-worms had shared his flesh. - - Though the rill roll down from Life’s green mountain - Bright through festal dells of youthful days, - Soon the waters of that glancing fountain - In the Vale of Years must moult its rays. - There the pilgrim, on the bridge that, bounding - Life’s domain, frontiers the wolds of Death, - Startled, for the first time hears resounding - From Eternity a Voice which saith-- - “ALL WHICH IS NOT PURE SHALL MELT AND WITHER-- - LO! THE DESOLATOR’S ARM IS BARE, - AND WHERE MAN IS, TRUTH SHALL TRACE HIM THITHER, - BE HE CURTAINED ROUND WITH GLOOM OR GLARE.” - - M. - -[1] A village near Frankfort on the Oder, in which Frederick the Great -was defeated on the 12th August 1759, in one of the bloodiest battles of -modern times. - -[2] An allusion to Frederick’s literary pursuits. - -[3] Death. - -[4] The Grave. - -[5] Bajazet II. - - - - -FINE LADS. - - -We have a mortal aversion to fine lads. And, wherefore, pray? Why, -because in nine cases out of ten, if not positively in every case, they -are the dullest and most insipid of all human beings: they are good, -inoffensive creatures, certainly, but oh, they are dreadful bores! If -you doubt it, just you take an hour of a fine lad’s company, with nobody -present but yourselves. Shut yourself up in a room with him for that -space of time, and if you don’t ever after, as long as you live, stand -in dread and awe of the society of fine lads, you must be differently -constituted from other men, and amongst other rare gifts must possess -that of being bore-proof. - -But, pray, what after all _is_ a fine lad? To the possession of what -quality or qualities is he indebted for this very amiable sort of -character? - -Why, these are questions which, like many others, are much more easily -put than answered. But, speaking from our own knowledge and experience, -we should say that it is not the presence, but the absence--the entire -absence of every quality, good, bad, and indifferent, that constitutes -the fine lad; and hence his intolerable insipidity. - -The fine lad is a blank, a cipher, a vacuum, a nonentity, a ring without -a circumference, a footless stocking without a leg. In disposition he -is neither sweet, sour, nor bitter; in temper, neither hot nor cold; -in spirit, neither merry nor sad. He is in fact, so far as any thing -positive can be said of him, a mere concentration of negatives. In person -he is neither long nor short, neither fat nor lean, neither stout nor -slender. There must in short be a total absence of all meaning, all -expression, all character, in the happy individual whom every body will -agree in calling a fine lad. - -Between the fine lad and the world the matter stands thus: the latter -finding him destitute of all distinctive characteristics, is greatly at -a loss what to make of him. It cannot in conscience call him clever, -and it does not like to say he is an ass, so it good-naturedly calls -him a fine lad, taking shelter in the vagueness and indefiniteness of -the term, since nobody can say precisely what a fine lad really means. -Unlike most other reputations, that of the fine lad is wholly undisputed: -it is generally bestowed on him by universal consent--no dissentient -voice--every body agrees in calling him a fine lad. This is well, and -must be a source of great comfort and satisfaction to the fine lad -himself. - -We have stated that nobody can say precisely what a fine lad really is, -and this is true, generally speaking. But there is notwithstanding some -degree of meaning attached to the term: it means, so far as it means any -thing, a soft, meek, simpering, unresisting creature, who will allow -himself to be kicked and cuffed about by any body and every body without -resenting it, and who will take quietly any given quantity of abuse you -choose to heap upon him. This we imagine to be the true reason why people -call him a fine lad, just because he offers them, whether right or wrong, -no resistance; hence it is too, we have no doubt, that he is so general a -favourite. - -As most people have a great fancy for having as much of their own way as -possible, and as they find themselves much jostled and opposed in the -indulgence of this laudable propensity by those who are bent on having -the same enjoyment, they are delighted when they meet with one who -readily makes way for them, and reward his simplicity by clapping him on -the head, and calling him a fine lad. - -The fine lad is a goose, poor fellow--no doubt of it--a decided goose, -but he cannot help that: it is no fault of his; he means well, and is -a most civil and obliging creature--all smiles and good nature. Being -in reality good for little or nothing, having no activity, no tact -whatever of any kind, the fine lad would in most cases be rather ill off -as regards his temporalities, but for his steadiness. He is generally -steady, and of sober and regular habits; and this, together with his -extremely civil demeanour and inoffensive disposition, helps him on, and -secures him in comfortable and respectable bread. You will thus for the -most part find the fine lad in a well-doing way--in a good situation -probably, and with every prospect of advancement. His employer likes -him for his integrity and docility. He confesses that he is by no means -clever, in fact that he is rather stupid; but, then, he is a fine lad. -This character he gives him to every body, and every body acknowledges -its justice, and calls him a fine lad too. - -Fine lads are in great favour with the ladies, and no wonder, for -fine lads are remarkably attentive to them: they make the best of all -beaus. Thus it is that you are sure to find at least one fine lad at -every tea party you go to. You know him at once by his soft speech and -maiden-like smile, and by the readiness with which he undertakes, and -the quiet gentleness with which he performs, the task of handing about -the tea-bread, and discharging the other little duties of the occasion. -At all this sort of work the fine lad is unapproachable--it is his -element--here, if nowhere else, he shines resplendent. High in favour, -however, as fine lads are with the fair sex, we have sometimes thought -that there was fully more of esteem than admiration in the feeling with -which they contemplate his character. They like his society, and have at -all times their softest words and blandest smiles ready for him; but we -much doubt if he is just the sort of man they would choose for a husband. -We rather think not. We suspect they see in his nature something too much -akin to their own, to allow of their ever thinking of him in the light of -a protector. - -The fine lad, however, _does_ get married sometimes, and in justice -to him, we are bound to say, always makes an excellent husband. He -is gentle, kind, and indulgent: for the fine lad generally remains, -in spirit at least, a fine lad to the last. So the ladies had better -take this into consideration, having our authority for so doing, and -henceforth look on fine lads with more seriousness than they have -hitherto done. - - C. - - * * * * * - -FIDELITY.--This virtue is displayed in the fulfilment of promises, -whether expressed or implied, in the conscientious scrupulous discharge -of the duties of friendship, and in the keeping of secrets. It is -therefore a great virtue, and may be used as a decisive test of -character. He who has it is entitled to confidence and respect; he who -lacks it merits contempt. If a man carefully performs his promises, -may we not confide in him? If he violates them, must we not despise -him? If we find a person is true to friendship, we may be sure that he -has just perceptions of virtue. If we find one who betrays a friend, -or who is guilty of any species of treachery, we cannot doubt that he -is essentially base and corrupt. To those who cannot keep a secret, -we commend an anecdote of Charles II. of England, which ought to be -engraved upon the heart of every man. When importuned to communicate -something of a private nature, the subtle monarch said, “Can you keep -a secret?” “Most faithfully,” returned the nobleman. “So can I,” was -the laconic and severe answer of the king. Let parents, who desire that -their children should possess the respect of the community and enjoy -the pleasures of friendship, take care to imbue them with fidelity of -character.--_Fireside Education, by S. G. Goodrich._ - - * * * * * - -ANECDOTE.--“Guzzling Pete,” a half-witted country wight, and the town’s -jest, came home one rainy Saturday night so “darkly, deeply, beautifully -_blue_,” that he went to bed with his hat and boots on, and his old -cotton umbrella under his arm. He got up about two o’clock the next -afternoon, drunk with last night, and took his way to the meeting-house. -Rev. Dr B---- was at his “17thly” in the second of six divisions of a -very comprehensive body of Hopkinsian divinity, when “Guzzling Pete” -entered the church with an egg in each hand. He saw as through a glass -darkly, and with evident commiseration, a man in black, very red in -the face, for the day was oppressively warm, who seemed to utter -something with a great deal of vehemence, while a considerable number -of those underneath him were fast asleep--among them Deacon C----, -with his shiny-bald head leaning against the wall. Pete, unobserved by -the minister, balanced his egg, and with tolerable aim plastered its -contents directly above the deacon’s pate! Hearing the concussion, the -worthy divine paused in his discourse, and looked daggers at the maudlin -visitor. “Never mind, uncle,” exclaimed the intruder: “jest you go on -a-talkin’--_I’ll keep ’em awake for you!_” By this time the congregation -were thoroughly aroused. “Mr L----,” said the reverend pastor, with a -seeming charity, which in his mortification he could scarcely have felt, -and addressing a “tiding-man” near the door, “Mr L----, won’t you have -the kindness to remove that poor creature from the aisle? I fear that he -is sick.” “_Sick!_” stammered our qualmish hero, as he began to confirm -the fears of the clergyman by very active symptoms; “_s-i-c-k!_--yes, and -it’s enough to make a _dog_ sick to sit under such stupid preachin’ as -your’n: it’s more’n I can _stand_ under! Yes, take me out--the quicker -the better!” - - * * * * * - -THE ASS.--The ass performs so many useful duties besides his _choragic_ -functions in our community, that he cannot be respectfully omitted. He is -called a bad vocalist, though some amateurs prefer him to the mule; but -he is perhaps underrated. There are many notes which alone are shocking -to the ear, that have in concert an agreeable harmony. The gabble of the -goose is not unpleasant in the orchestra of the barn-yard, and there are -many instances, no doubt, in which braying would improve harmony. If -one looks close into nature, he will find nothing, not even the gargle -of the frog-pond, created in vain. At Musard’s they often improve the -spirit of a gallopade by the sudden clank and crash of a chain upon a -hollow platform, with now and then a scream like the war-whoop of the -Seminoles. What the Italians understand, and what most other nations do -not, is the harmonious composition of discordant sounds. If a general -concert of nature could be formed, the crow as well as the nightingale -would be necessary to the perfect symphony; and it is likely even the -file and hand-saw might be made to discourse excellent music. But even in -a solo, the ass, according to Coleridge, has his merits. He has certainly -the merit of execution. He commences with a few prelusive notes, gently, -as if essaying his organs, rising in a progressive swell to enthusiasm, -and then gradually dies away to a pathetic close; an exact prototype of -the best German and Italian compositions, and a living sanction of the -genuine and authentic instructions of the Academie de Musique. - - * * * * * - - Printed and published every Saturday by GUNN and CAMERON, at - the Office of the General Advertiser, No. 6, Church Lane, - College Green, Dublin.--Agents:--R. GROOMBRIDGE, Panyer Alley, - Paternoster Row, London; SIMMS and DINHAM, Exchange Street, - Manchester; C. DAVIES, North John Street, Liverpool; J. 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