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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. 36, March 6, 1841 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: June 16, 2017 [EBook #54924] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL *** - - - - -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 36. SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1841. VOLUME I. - -[Illustration: THE OLD BRIDGE OF MILTOWN, COUNTY OF DUBLIN.] - -We have already taken occasion more than once to express our admiration -of the beautiful and varied scenery which surrounds our city on all -sides, and which presents such an endless variety in its general -character and individual features as no other city that we are acquainted -with in the empire possesses in any thing like an equal degree. Other -cities may have scenery in their immediate vicinity of some one or two -classes of higher beauty or grandeur than we can boast of; but it is the -proud distinction of our metropolis that there is no class of scenery -whatsoever of which its citizens have not the most characteristic -examples within their reach of enjoyment by a walk or drive of an hour or -two; and yet, strange to say, they are not enjoyed or even appreciated. -Some suburb of fashionable resort is indeed visited by them, but not on -account of any picturesque beauty it may possess, but simply because it -is fashionable, and allows us to get into a crowd--as our delightful -Musard concerts are attended by the multitude less for the music than to -see and be seen, and where we too often show our want of good taste by -being listless or silent when we ought to applaud, and express loudly -our approbation at some capricious extravagance of the performer that -we ought to condemn. The truth is, that in every thing appertaining to -taste we are as yet like children, and have very much to learn before -we can emancipate ourselves from the trammels of vulgar fashion, and -become qualified to enjoy those pure and refined pleasures consequent -upon a just perception of the beautiful in art and nature. Till this -power is acquired, our green pastoral vallies, our rocky cliffs, mountain -glens, and shining rivers, as well as our exhibitions of the Fine Arts, -and that pure portion of our literature which disdains to pander to the -prejudices of sect or party, must remain less appreciated at home than -abroad, and be less known to ourselves than to strangers who visit us, -and who in this respect are often infinitely our superiors. It is no -fault of ours, however, that we are thus defective in the cultivation -of those higher qualities of mind which would so much conduce to our -happiness; the causes which have produced such a result are sufficiently -obvious to every reflecting mind, and do not require that we should name -or more distinctly allude to them. But we have reason to be inspired -with cheerful hope that they will not very long continue in operation. -Temperance and education are making giant strides amongst us; and when -we look at our various institutions for the promotion of science, art, -and mechanics, all in active operation, and aided by the growth of a -national literature, we can scarcely hesitate to feel assured that the -arts of civilized life are taking a firm root in our country, and will be -followed by their attendant blessings. - -But it may be asked, What have these remarks to do with Miltown Bridge, -the subject of our prefixed woodcut? Our answer is, that in presenting -our readers with one of the innumerable picturesque scenes which are -found along the courses of our three rivers, the Liffey, the Dodder, and -the Tolka, all of which abound in features of the most beautiful pastoral -landscapes, we have naturally been led into such a train of thought by -the fact that we hold their charms in little esteem, and that few amongst -us have the taste to appreciate their beauties, and the consequent desire -to enjoy them. The Liffey may perhaps be known to a certain extent to -many of our Dublin readers, but we greatly doubt that the Tolka or the -Dodder are equally familiar to them; and yet the great poet of nature, -Mr Wordsworth, on his visit to our city, made himself most intimately -acquainted with the scenery of the former, and thought it not inferior to -that of his own Duddon, which his genius has immortalized. - -In like manner, the scenery of the Dodder, though so little known to the -mass of our fellow citizens, has been often explored by many British -as well as native artists, who have filled their portfolios with its -picturesque treasures, and have spoken of them with rapturous enthusiasm. -Thus, for example, it was, as we well know, from this fount that much -of the inspiration of our great self-taught imaginative painter Danby -was drawn; and though we could not point to a higher name, we could, if -it were necessary, give many other little less illustrious examples of -talent cultivated in the same school of nature. - -Amongst the many picturesque objects which this little mountain river -presents, the Old Bridge of Miltown has always been with those children -of genius an especial favourite, and many an elaborate study has been -made of its stained and timeworn walls. It is indeed just such a scene -as the lover of the picturesque would delight in;--quiet and sombre in -its colour, harmonious in its accompanying features of old buildings, -rocks, water, and mountain background; and, as a whole, impressed with a -poetical sentiment approaching to melancholy, derived from its pervading -expression of neglect and ruin. It is for these reasons that we have -given old Miltown bridge a place in our topographical collections; and -though many of our Dublin readers, for whom, on this occasion, we write -especially, may not fully understand our language, or participate in our -feelings, the fault is not ours: our object in writing is a kind one. -We would desire that they should all acquire the power of enjoying the -beautiful in nature, and, as a consequence, in art; knowing as we do -that such power is productive of the sweetest as well as the purest of -intellectual pleasures of which we are susceptible, and makes us not only -happier, but better men. - -We are aware also that some of our Dublin readers, whose tastes are not -uncultivated, but who have taken less trouble than ourselves to make -themselves familiar with our suburban localities, may think that we -speak too enthusiastically of the scenery of the Dodder river and its -accompanying features. But if such readers would meet us at Miltown some -sunny morning in May or June next, and accompany us along the Dodder -till we reach its source among the mountains--a moderate walk--we are -satisfied that we should be able to remove their scepticism, and give -them an enjoyment more delightful than they could anticipate, and for -which they would thank us warmly. We could show them not only a varied -succession of scenes of picturesque or romantic beauty on the way, but -also many contiguous objects of historic interest, on which we would -discourse them much legendary lore, and which we should lead them to -examine, offering as an excuse for our temporary divergence the beautiful -sound of Wordsworth to his favourite Duddon:-- - - Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce - Of that serene companion--a good name, - Recovers not his loss, but walks with shame, - With doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse. - And oft-times he, who, yielding to the force - Of chance-temptation, ere his journey end, - From chosen comrade turns, or faithful friend, - In vain shall rue the broken intercourse. - Not so with such as loosely wear the chain, - That binds them, pleasant River! to thy side:-- - Through the rough copse wheel thou with hasty stride, - I choose to saunter o’er the grassy plain, - Sure, when the separation has been tried, - That we, who part in love, shall meet again. - -Thus, as we approached towards Rathfarnham, we should ask them to -admire that noble classic gateway on the river’s side, which leads -into the deserted park of the Loftus family, and which in its present -state, clothed with ivy and hastening to decay, cheats the imagination -with its appearance of age, and looks an arch of triumph of old Rome. -We would then lead them into this noble abandoned park, still in its -desolation rich in the magnificence of art and nature; then we would take -a meditative look at its general features and at those of the grim yet -grand and characteristic castellated mansion which with so much cost it -was formed to adorn; and we should ask our companions, why has so much -beauty and magnificence been thus abandoned? Here in its silent hall -we could still show them original marble busts of Pope and Newton by -Roubilliac; and, in the drawing-room, pictures painted expressly for it -on the spot by the fair and accomplished hand of Angelica Kaufmann. But -the interest of those objects would after all be somewhat a saddening -one, and we should return to our cheerful river with renewed pleasure, -to relieve our spirits with a view of objects more enlivening. Such an -object would be that old mill near Rathfarnham, where paper was first -manufactured in Ireland about two centuries since. It was on the paper -so made that Usher’s Primordia was printed, and the Annals of the -Four Masters were written. The manufacturer was a Dutchman--but what -matter? At the Bridge of Templeoge we should probably make another short -divergence, to take a look at the old park and mansion of the Talbots and -Domvilles; and here, beneath a majestic grove of ancient forest trees, -we should show our companions the largest bank of violets that ever came -under our observation. But the limits allotted to this article will not -permit us to describe or even name a twentieth part of the objects or -scenes of interest and beauty that would present themselves in quick -succession; and we shall only say a few words on one more--the glorious -Glanasmole, or the Valley of the Thrush, in which the Dodder has its -source. Reader, have you ever seen this noble valley? Most probably -you have not, for we know but few that ever even heard of it; and yet -this glen, situated within some six or seven miles of Dublin, presents -mountain scenery as romantic, wild, and almost as magnificent, as any to -be found in Ireland. In this majestic solitude, with the lovely Dodder -sparkling at our feet, and the gloomy Kippure mountain with his head -shrouded in the clouds two thousand four hundred feet above us, we have a -realization of the scenery of the Ossianic poetry. It is indeed the very -locality in which the scenes of some of these legends are laid, as in the -well-known Ossianic romance called the Hunt of Glanasmole; and monuments -commemorative of the celebrated Fin and his heroes, “tall grey stones,” -are still to be seen in the glen and on its surrounding mountains. We -could conduct our readers to the well of Ossian, and the tomb of Fin’s -celebrated dog Bran, in which, perhaps, the naturalist might find and -determine his species by his remains. The monument of Fin himself is on -a mountain in the neighbourhood, and that of his wife Finane, according -to the legends of the place, gives name to a mountain over the glen, -called See-Finane. But there are objects of even greater interest to the -antiquary and naturalist than those to be seen in Glanasmole, namely, -the three things for which, according to some of these old bardic poems, -the glen was anciently remarkable, and which were peculiar to it: these -were the large breed of thrushes from which the valley derived its name, -the great size of the ivy leaves found on its rocks, and the large -berries of the rowan or mountain ash, which formerly adorned its sides. -The ash woods indeed no longer exist, having been destroyed to make -charcoal above eighty years since, but shoots bearing the large berries -are still to be seen, while the thrush continues in his original haunt -in the little dell at the source of the river on the side of Kippure, -undisturbed and undiminished in size, and the giant ivy clings to the -rocks as large as ever; we have seen leaves of it from seven to ten -inches diameter. We should also state, that to the geologist Glanasmole -is as interesting as to the painter, antiquary, or naturalist, as our -friend Dr Schouler will show our readers in some future number of our -Journal. - -But we must bring our walk and our gossip to a conclusion, or our friends -will tire of both, if they are not so already. Let us, then, rest at the -little primitive Irish Christian church of Killmosantan, now ignorantly -called St Anne’s, seated on the bank of the river amongst the mountains; -and having refreshed ourselves with a drink from the pure fountain of the -saint, we shall return in silence to the place from which we started, and -bid our kind companions a warm farewell. - - P. - - - - -NOTICE OF A SINGULAR BOOK ON FOSSIL REMAINS. - - -Most of our readers must have heard of the wonderful discoveries of -Cuvier respecting the extinct animals of a former world, and of the -sagacity with which that profound anatomist disclosed the history of -races, of whose existence the only evidence we possess depends upon the -preservation of a few bones or fragments of skeletons. The same subject, -which in the hands of genius has afforded such brilliant discoveries, has -also afforded wide scope for credulity, and even imposture. The bones -of the larger races of extinct animals were formerly believed alike by -the learned and the vulgar to be those of giants. Even as late as the -seventeenth century, learned anatomists believed that the bones of the -extinct elephant belonged to a gigantic race of men. In the year 1577, -some bones of the elephant were disinterred near the town of Lucerne, in -Switzerland; the magistrates sent them to a professor of anatomy, who -decided that they belonged to the skeleton of a giant, and the citizens -were so delighted with the discovery that they adopted a giant as the -supporter of the arms of their town, an honour which he still retains. -In the same century, some bones of the elephant found in Dauphiny were -exhibited in different parts of Europe as the remains of the general of -the Cimbri who invaded Rome, and who was defeated by the consul Marius -some time before the commencement of the Christian era. In this case, -however, the mistake was not allowed to pass unnoticed, and the surgeons -and physicians of Paris entered into a lengthened discussion respecting -the nature of the bones; and the works written on this subject, if -collected, would form a small library. - -The most extraordinary instance of mystification and credulity upon -record is to be found in the history of a book on Petrifactions, -published by a German professor at the commencement of the last century. -We quote the following notice of this very rare book from a French -publication:-- - -It is related in the life of Father Kircher, one of the most eccentric -of men, that some youths, desirous of amusing themselves at his expense, -practised the following mystification upon him. They engraved a number of -fantastic figures upon a stone, which they afterwards buried in a place -where a house was about to be built. The stone was found by the workmen -while digging the foundation, and of course found its way to the learned -Father, who was quite delighted with the treasure; and after much labour -and research, he gave such a translation of the inscription as might have -been expected from the whimsical disposition of the man. Kircher had been -a professor at Wurzburg where this anecdote became well known, and led to -another mystification of a much more serious nature, as it was pushed so -far as to occasion the publication of a folio volume. - -M. Berenger, physician to the Prince-Bishop of Wurzburg, and a professor -in the University, was an enthusiastic collector of natural curiosities. -He collected without discrimination, and above all things valued those -objects which by their strange forms seemed to contradict the laws of -nature. This pursuit drew much ridicule upon M. Berenger, and induced -a young man of the name of Rodrich to amuse himself at his expense. -Rodrich cut upon stones the figures of different kinds of animals, and -caused them to be brought to Berenger, who purchased them and encouraged -the search for more. The success of the trick encouraged its author; he -prepared new petrifactions, of the most absurd nature imaginable. They -consisted of bats with the heads and wings of butterflies, winged crabs, -frogs, Hebrew and other characters, snails, spiders with their webs, &c. -When a sufficient number of them was prepared, boys who had been taught -their lesson brought them to the professor, informing him that they had -found them near the village of Eibelstadt, and caused him to pay dearly -for the time they had employed in collecting them. Delighted with the -ease with which he obtained so many wonders, he expressed a desire to -visit the place where they had been found, and the boys conducted him -to a locality where they had previously buried a number of specimens. -At last, when he had formed an ample collection, he could no longer -resist the inclination of making them known to the learned world. He -thought he would be guilty of selfishness if he withheld from the public -that knowledge which had afforded him so much delight. He exhibited -his treasures to the admiration of the learned, in a work containing -twenty-one plates, with a Latin text explanatory of the figures. - -As soon as M. Deckard, a brother professor, who was probably in the plot, -was aware of this ridiculous publication, he expressed great regret that -the mystification had been pushed so far, and informed M. Berenger of -the hoax that had been played upon him. The unfortunate author was now -as anxious to recall his work as he had formerly been to give it to the -public. Some copies, however, found their way into the libraries of the -curious. - -Nothing can be imagined more strange than this book, whether we consider -the opinions contained in it, or the manner in which they are stated. -It deserves to be better known as a monument of the most extravagant -credulity, and as an evidence of the follies at which the mind may arrive -when it attempts to bend the laws of nature to its chimeras. Nothing can -be more absurd than the allegoric engraving placed on the title-page. -On the summit of a Parnassus, composed of an enormous accumulation -of petrifactions, we observe an obelisk supporting the arms of the -Prince-Bishop, and surrounded by Cupids and garlands of flowers. Above -the pyramid there is a sun surmounted by the name of the Deity, in Hebrew -characters. Different emblematic persons holding petrifactions in their -hands are placed on the sides of the mountain. At its base we observe on -the right a tonsured Apollo, who doubtless represents the Prince-Bishop, -and on the left we see the professor himself demonstrating all these -wonders; and also a genius, seated near the centre of the mountain, -is writing down his words in Hebrew characters. In the dedication M. -Berenger gives an explanation of these allegories. But what is still -more remarkable, it appears that even the engraver has amused himself -at the expense of the professor. What renders this probable is, that at -the base of the engraving are figured pick-axes and spades necessary -for extracting petrifactions, and along with them chisels, compass, and -mallet, the emblems of sculpture; and what is still more wicked, a bell, -the emblem of noise. - -The work is dedicated to the Prince-Bishop of Wurzburg, on whom were -bestowed the epithets of the New Apollo, Sacred Amulet of the country, -the New Sun of Franconia, and others selected with equal taste. The -most absurd flattery abounds in this dedication, of which the following -may be taken as a sample. “The opinions of philosophers are still -unsettled. They hesitate whether to ascribe the wonderful productions -of this mountain to the admirable operations of nature, or to the art -of the ancients; but, interpreted by the public gratitude, all unite -with me in proclaiming that this useless and uncultivated hill has -rendered illustrious by its wonders the beginning of your reign, and has -honoured a learned Prince, the protector and support of learning, by a -hecatomb of petrified plants, flowers, and animals. If it be permitted -to attribute these marvels to the industry of antiquity, I can say that -Franconia was once the rival of Egypt. By a usage unknown in Europe, -Memphis covered her gigantic monuments with hieroglyphics, and I do not -hazard an idle conjecture. I state without fear of contradiction, that -the obelisk which crowns this mountain exhibits in its petrifactions the -emblems of your virtues.” According to the author, the name of the Deity -in Hebrew characters indicates the zeal of the Prince for religion. The -sun, the moon, and the stars, his beneficence, justice, prudence, and -indefatigable vigilance; the comets, contrary to the vulgar idea, which -considers them signs of evil, foretell the happy events of his reign; and -the fossil shells represent the hearts of his subjects. - -It appears from the preface that M. Berenger had solicited and obtained -permission from the Prince-Bishop to publish his work. He confesses -that the greater number of philosophers and intelligent people he had -consulted were of opinion that these petrifactions were the products of -art; in opposition to this erroneous opinion, he asserts that he has -convinced the sceptics by taking them to the spot where he found his -curiosities. Their astonishment, he adds, and their unanimous and perfect -conviction, had given him the utmost joy, and amply recompensed him for -all his labour and expense. - -This work was to have been followed by others. It is divided into -fourteen chapters, each chapter being devoted to a single question. Most -of these questions are so extraordinary and so singularly treated of, -that one can scarcely believe that the author was in earnest. Thus, Chap. -4, The petrifactions of Wurzburg are not relics of Paganism, nor can they -be attributed to the art and superstition of the Germans during heathen -times. - -Chap. 5. The ingenious conjecture which attributes their formation to the -plastic power of light. - -Chap. 6. The germs of shell-fish and marine animals, mixed with the -vapours of the ocean, and scattered over the earth by the showers, are -not the source of the fossils of Wurzburg. - -Chap. 12. Our petrifactions are not the products of modern art, as some -persons have ventured to assert, throwing a cloud of doubts and fables -over this subject. - -Chap. 13. Grave reasons for considering our petrifactions as the work of -nature, and not of art. - -The absurdity of the arguments employed in the discussion of these -different propositions, exceeds all belief. For example, the author, to -refute the opinion of those who attribute these petrifactions to the -superstition of the Pagans, demonstrates that none of these specimens in -his possession are described in the decrees of the German synods, which -proscribed images and sorcery. Neither can they be considered as victims -offered to idols, for who ever sacrificed figured stones instead of -living animals? They are not amulets which Pagan parents hung around the -necks of their children, to preserve them from the charms of witchcraft, -for some of them are so heavy that they would strangle the poor infant, -and there is no aperture in any of them through which a chain could be -passed. Finally, what renders it impossible that these stones are the -remains of Paganism, is, that many of them are inscribed with Hebrew, -Arabic, Greek, and German characters, expressing the name of the Deity. - -This work, as we have stated, was suppressed when he discovered the cruel -hoax that had been played upon him. The work, in its original state, is -very rare, and is only known to the curious; but after the death of M. -Berenger, the copies which he had retained were given to the public by a -bookseller, but with a new title-page. - - S. - - - - -SONGS OF OUR LAND. - - - Songs of our land, ye are with us for ever, - The power and the splendour of thrones pass away; - But yours is the might of some far flowing river, - Through Summer’s bright roses or Autumn’s decay. - Ye treasure each voice of the swift passing ages, - And truth, which time writeth on leaves or on sand; - Ye bring us the bright thoughts of poets and sages, - And keep them among us, old songs of our land. - - The bards may go down to the place of their slumbers, - The lyre of the charmer be hushed in the grave, - But far in the future the power of their numbers - Shall kindle the hearts of our faithful and brave. - It will waken an echo in souls deep and lonely, - Like voices of reeds by the summer breeze fanned; - It will call up a spirit for freedom, when only - Her breathings are heard in the songs of our land. - - For they keep a record of those, the true hearted, - Who fell with the cause they had vowed to maintain; - They show us bright shadows of glory departed, - Of love that grew cold, and the hope that was vain. - The page may be lost and the pen long forsaken, - And weeds may grow wild o’er the brave heart and hand; - But ye are still left when all else hath been taken, - Like streams in the desert, sweet songs of our land. - - Songs of our land, ye have followed the stranger, - With power over ocean and desert afar, - Ye have gone with our wanderers through distance and danger, - And gladdened their path like a home-guiding star. - With the breath of our mountains in summers long vanished, - And visions that passed like a wave from the sand, - With hope for their country and joy from her banished, - Ye come to us ever, sweet songs of our land. - - The spring time may come with the song of her glory, - To bid the green heart of the forest rejoice, - But the pine of the mountain, though blasted and hoary, - And the rock in the desert, can send forth a voice. - It is thus in their triumph for deep desolations, - While ocean waves roll or the mountains shall stand, - Still hearts that are bravest and best of the nations, - Shall glory and live in the songs of their land. - - F. B. - - - - -PERIODICAL LITERATURE. - -THE POOR AUTHOR.[1] - - -How many a time do we take up the page of news, or the sheet of literary -novelty, without reflecting upon the nameless sources whence their -contents have been derived; and yet what a fruitful field do they afford -for our deepest contemplation, and our holiest and purest sympathies! -There may be there brought together, and to the general eye displayed -in undistinguished union, contributions over which the jewelled brow of -nobility hath been knitted into the frown of thoughtfulness, and side -by side with these, chapters wearily traced out by the tremulous hand -of unbefriended genius. Upon the former we do not mean to dwell, but we -_would_ wish for a few moments to contemplate the heart-trying condition -of the latter. - -It is hard to conceive a situation more replete with wretchedness than -that of the struggling man of letters--of him who has offered his _all_ -before the shrine of long-looked-for fame; who has staked health, and -peace, and happiness, that he may win her favour, and who nevertheless -holds an uncertain tenure even of his “daily bread.” He is poor and in -misery, yet he lives in a world of boundless wealth; but in this very -thing is to be found the exquisite agony of his condition. What though -haggard want wave around him her lean and famished hands, what avails -_that_? Write he must, if it be but to satisfy the cravings of a stinted -nature; write he must, though his only reward be the scanty pittance that -was greedily covenanted for, and when his due, but grudgingly presented -him. And then he must delineate plenty and happiness; he must describe -“the short holiday of childhood,” the guileless period of maiden’s -modesty, the sunshine of the moment when we first hear that we are loved, -the placid calm of peaceful resignation; or it may be, the charms that -nature wears in England’s happy vales, the beauty of her scenery, the -splendour and wealth of her institutions, the protecting law for the -poor man, her admirable code of jurisprudence. All, all these may be -the theme of his song, or the subject of his appointed task; but the -hours will pass away, and the spirits he has called up will disappear, -and his visions of happiness will leave him only, if it be possible, -more fearfully alive to his own helplessness--they cannot wake their -echo in his soul, and instead of their worthier office of healing and -blessedness, they render his wound deeper, deadlier, and more rankling. - -And who is there, think you, kind reader, that can feel more acutely -the sting of neglect and poverty than the lonely man of genius? Of him -how truly may it be said, “he cannot dig, to beg he is ashamed!” His -intellect is his world; it is the glorious city in which he abides, the -treasure-house wherein his very being is garnered; it is to cultivate it -that he has lived; and when _it_ fails him in his wintry hour, is not he -indeed “of all men most miserable?” - -But let us suppose that his prescribed duty is done, that the required -article is written, and that this child of his sick and aching brain is -at last dismissed; and can his thoughts follow it? Can his heart bear -the reflection that it shall find admission where _he_ durst not make -his appearance? He knows that it will be laid on the gorgeous table of -the rich and honourable. He knows, too, that it will find its way to -the happy fireside, the home where sorrow hath not yet entered--such -as once was his own in the days of his childhood. He knows that the -unnatural relation who spurned him from his door when he asked the bread -of charity, may see it, and without at all knowing the writer, that even -_his_ scornful sneer may be thereby relaxed. He knows----but why more? Of -_himself_ he knows that want and woe have been his companions, that they -are yet encamped around him, and that they will only end their ministry -“where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest!” - -This is by no means--oh, would that it were so!--an ideal picture. In -LONDON, amid her “wilderness of building,” there are _at this hour_ -hundreds whose sufferings could corroborate it, and whose necessities -could give the stamping conviction to its truth. We were ourselves -cognizant of the history of one young man’s life, his early and buoyant -hopes, his subsequent misfortunes and miseries, and his early and unripe -death, to all of which, anything that is painted above bears but a faint -and indistinct resemblance. He was an Irishman, and gifted with the -characteristics of his country--a romantic genius, united with feelings -the most tremulous, and tender, and impassioned. Many years have since -passed away, and over and over again have the wild flowers sprung up, and -bloomed, and withered over his narrow resting place, no unmeet emblem of - - “The poor inhabitant below!” - -but never has the memory of his sad story faded from us--never may it -fade! His lot was unhappy, and he “perished in his pride.” His reason -eventually bowed before his intense sufferings; and excepting the few -minutes just before his spirit passed away, his last hours were uncheered -by the glimpse of that glorious intellect which had promised to crown -him with a chaplet of undying fame. Even as it was, he had attracted -notice; his writings were beginning to make for him a name; and the Prime -Minister of England did not think it beneath him to visit his lonely -lodging, and to endeavour to raise his sinking soul with the promise of -almost unlimited patronage. But the restorative came too late: the poison -had worked its portion, and in the guise of Fame, DEATH approached; - - “And as around the brow - Of that ill-fated votary he wreath’d - The crown of victory, silently he twined - The cypress with the laurel: at his foot - Perish’d the MARTYR STUDENT.” - -We have nothing to add to this. Had we not hoped to strike a chord of -sympathy in our reader’s heart, we should never have even advanced so -far, or have uplifted the veil so as to exhibit the “latter end” of such. -Reader, in conclusion, you know not the toil, and trouble, and bodily -labour, and mental inquietude, that furnish you each week with the price -of YOUR PENNY! - - S. H. - -[1] The writer, as will be seen, has had in view solely the literature of -London. - - - - -PADDY CORBETT’S FIRST SMUGGLING TRIP. - - “Then on the ’tither hand present her, - A blackguard smuggler right behint her, - And cheek-for-chow a chuffle vintner, - Colleaguin’ join.”----BURNS. - - -No order of men has experienced severer treatment from the various -classes into which society is divided, than that of excisemen, or, -as they are vulgarly denominated, guagers. If, unlike the son of the -Hebrew patriarch, their hand is not raised against every man, yet they -may be truly said to inherit a portion of Ishmael’s destiny, for every -man’s hand is against them. The cordial and unmitigated hostility of -the lower classes follows the guager at every point of his dangerous -career, whether his pursuit be smuggled goods, potteen, or unpermitted -parliament. Literary men have catered to the gratification of the public -at his expense, by exhibiting him in their stories of Irish life under -such circumstances that the good-natured reader scarcely knows whether to -laugh or weep most at his ludicrous distress. The varied powers of rhyme -have been pressed into the service by the man of genius and the lover of -fun. The “Diel’s awa’ wi’ the Exciseman” of Burns, and the Irishman’s -“Paddy was up to the Guager,” will ever remain to prove the truth of the -foregoing assertion. - -But the humble historian of this unpretending narrative is happy to -record one instance of retributory justice on the part of an individual -of this devoted class, which would have procured him a statue in the -temple of Nemesis, had his lot been cast among the ancients. Many -instances of the generosity, justice, and self-abandonment of the guager, -have come to the writer’s knowledge, and these acts of virtue shall not -be utterly forgotten. The readers of the Irish Penny Journal shall blush -to find men, whose qualities might reconcile the estranged misanthrope to -the human family, rendered the butt of ridicule, and their many virtues -lost and unknown. - -On a foggy evening in the November of a year of which Irish tradition, -not being critically learned in chronology, has not furnished the date, -two men pursued their way along a bridle road that led through a wild -mountain tract in a remote and far westward district of Kerry. The scene -was savage and lonely. Far before them extended the broad Atlantic, -upon whose wild and heaving bosom the lowering clouds seemed to settle -in fitful repose. Round and beyond, on the dark and barren heath, rose -picturesque masses of rock--the finger-stones which nature, it would -seem, in some wayward frolic, had tossed into pinnacled heaps of strange -and multiform construction. About their base, and in the deep interstices -of their sides, grew the holly and the hardy mountain ash, and on their -topmost peaks frisked the agile goat in all the pride of unfettered -liberty. - -These men, each of whom led a Kerry pony that bore an empty sack along -the difficult pathway, were as dissimilar in form and appearance as -any two of Adam’s descendants possibly could be. One was a low-sized, -thickset man; his broad shoulders and muscular limbs gave indication of -considerable strength; but the mild expression of his large blue eyes and -broad, good-humoured countenance, told, as plain as the human face divine -could, that the fierce and stormy passions of our kind never exerted the -strength of that muscular arm in deeds of violence. A jacket and trousers -of brown frieze, and a broad-brimmed hat made of that particular grass -named _thraneen_, completed his dress. It would be difficult to conceive -a more strange or unseemly figure than the other: he exceeded in height -the usual size of men; but his limbs, which hung loosely together, and -seemed to accompany his emaciated body with evident reluctance, were -literally nothing but skin and bone; his long conical head was thinly -strewed with rusty-coloured hair that waved in the evening breeze about -a haggard face of greasy, sallow hue, where the rheumy sunken eye, the -highly prominent nose, the thin and livid lip, half disclosing a few -rotten straggling teeth, significantly seemed to tell how disease and -misery can attenuate the human frame. He moved, a living skeleton: yet, -strange to say, the smart nag which he led was hardly able to keep pace -with the swinging unequal stride of the gaunt pedestrian, though his -limbs were so fleshless that his clothes flapped and fluttered around him -as he stalked along the chilly moor. - -As the travellers proceeded, the road, which had lately been pent within -the huge masses of granite, now expanded sufficiently to allow them a -little side-by-side discourse; and the first-mentioned person pushed -forward to renew a conversation which seemed to have been interrupted by -the inequalities of the narrow pathway. - -“An’ so ye war saying, Shane Glas,” he said, advancing in a straight line -with his spectre-looking companion, “ye war saying that face of yours -would be the means of keeping the guager from our taste of tibaccy.” - -“The devil resave the guager will ever squint at a lafe of it,” says -Shane Glas, “if I’m in yer road. There was never a cloud over Tim Casey -for the twelve months I thravelled with him; and if the foolish man had -had me the day his taste o’ brandy was taken, he’d have the fat boiling -over his pot to-day, ’tisn’t that I say it myself.” - -“The sorrow from me, Shane Glas,” returned his friend with a hearty -laugh, and a roguish glance of his funny eye at the angular and sallow -countenance of the other, “the sorrow be from me if it’s much of Tim’s -_fat_ came in your way, at any rate, though I don’t say as much for the -_graise_.” - -“It’s laughing at the crucked side o’ yer mouth ye’d be. I’m thinking, -Paddy Corbett,” said Shane Glas, “if the thief of a guager smelt your -taste o’ tibaccy--Crush Chriest duin! and I not there to fricken him off, -as I often done afore.” - -“But couldn’t we take our lafe o’ tibaccy on our ponies’ backs in -panniers, and throw a few hake or some oysters over ’em, and let on that -we’re fish-joulting?” - -“Now, mark my words, Paddy Corbett: there’s a chap in Killarney as -knowledgeable as a jailor; Ould Nick wouldn’t bate him in roguery. So put -your goods in the thruckle, shake a wisp over ’em, lay me down over that -in the fould o’ the quilt, and say that I kem from Decie’s counthry to -pay a round at Tubber-na-Treenoda, and that I caught a faver, and that -ye’re taking me home to die, for the love o’ God and yer mother’s sowl. -Say, that Father Darby, who prepared me, said I had the worst spotted -faver that kem to the counthry these seven years. If that doesn’t fricken -him off, ye’re sowld” (betrayed.) - -By this time they had reached a deep ravine, through which a narrow -stream pursued its murmuring course. Here they left the horses, and, -furnished with the empty sacks, pursued their onward route till they -reached a steep cliff. Far below in the dark and undefined space sounded -the hollow roar of the heaving ocean, as its billowy volume broke upon -its granite barrier, and formed along the dark outline a zone of foam, -beneath whose snowy crest the ever-impelled and angry wave yielded its -last strength in myriad flashes of phosphoric light, that sparkled and -danced in arrowy splendour to the wild and sullen music of the dashing -sea. - -“Paddy Corbett, avick,” said Shane Glas, “pull yer legs fair an’ aisy -afther ye; one inch iv a mistake, achorra, might sind ye a long step of -two hundred feet to furnish a could supper for the sharks. The sorrow a -many would vinture down here, avourneen, barring the red fox of the hill -and the honest smuggler; they are both poor persecuted crathurs, but God -has given them _gumpshun_ to find a place of shelter for the fruits of -their honest industhry, glory be to his holy name!” - -Shane Glas was quite correct in his estimate of the height of this -fearful cliff. It overhung the deep Atlantic, and the narrow pathway -wound its sinuous way round and beneath so many frightful precipices, -that had the unpractised feet of Paddy Corbett threaded the mazy -declivity in the clear light of day, he would in all probability have -performed the saltation, and furnished the banquet of which Shane Glas -gave him a passing hint. But ignorance of his fearful situation saved his -life. His companion, in addition to his knowledge of this secret route, -had a limberness of muscle, and a pliancy of uncouth motion, that enabled -him to pursue every winding of the awful slope with all the activity of -a weasel. In their descent, the wild sea-fowl, roused by the unusual -approach of living things from their couch of repose, swept past on -sounding wing into the void and dreary space abroad, uttering discordant -cries, which roused the more distant slumberers of the rocks. As they -farther descended round the foot of the cliff, where the projecting -crags formed the sides of a little cove, a voice, harsh and threatening, -demanded “who goes there?” The echo of the questioner’s interrogation, -reverberating along the receding wall of rocks, would seem to a fanciful -ear the challenge of the guardian spirit of the coast pursuing his -nightly round. The wild words blended in horrid unison through the mid -air with the sigh of waving wings and discordant screams, which the -echoes of the cliffs multiplied a thousand fold, as though all the demons -of the viewless world had chosen that hour and place of loneliness to -give their baneful pinions and shrieks of terror to the wind. - -“Who goes there?” again demanded this strange warder of the savage scene; -and again the scream of the sea bird and the echo of human tones sounded -wildly along the sea. - -“A friend, avick machree,” replied Shane Glas. “Paudh, achorra, what -beautiful lungs you have! But keep yer voice a thrifle lower, ma bouchal, -or the wather-guards might be after staling a march on ye, sharp as ye -are.” - -“Shane Glas, ye slinging thief,” rejoined the other, “is that yerself? -Honest man,” addressing the new comer, “take care of that talla-faced -schamer. My hand for ye, Shane will see his own funeral yet, for the -devil another crathur, barring a fox, could creep down the cliff till the -moon rises, any how. But I know what saved yer bacon; he that’s born to -be hanged--you can repate the rest o’ the thrue ould saying yerself, ye -poor atomy!” - -“Chorpan Doul,” said Shane Glas, rather chafed by the severe raillery -of the other, “is it because to shoulder an ould gun that an honest -man can’t tell you what a Judy ye make o’ yerself, swaggering like a -raw Peeler, and frightening every shag on the cliff with yer foolish -bull-scuttering! Make way there, or I’ll stick that ould barrel in -yez--make way there, ye spalpeen!” - -“Away to yer masther with ye, ye miserable disciple,” returned the -unsparing jiber. “Arrah, by the hole o’ my coat, afther you have danced -yer last jig upon nothing, with yer purty himp cravat on, I’ll coax yer -miserable carcass from the hangman to frighten the crows with.” - -When the emaciated man and his companion had proceeded a few paces along -the narrow ledge that lay between the steep cliff and the sea, they -entered a huge excavation in the rock, which seemed to have been formed -by volcanic agency, when the infant world heaved in some dire convulsion -of its distempered bowels. The footway of the subterranean vault was -strewn with the finest sand, which, hardened by frequent pressure, sent -the tramp of the intruder’s feet reverberating along the gloomy vacancy. -On before gleamed a strong light, which, piercing the surrounding -darkness, partially revealed the sides of the cavern, while the far space -beneath the lofty roof, impervious to the powerful ray, extended dark -and undefined. Then came the sound of human voices mixed in uproarious -confusion; and anon, within a receding angle, a strange scene burst upon -their view. - -Before a huge fire which lighted all the deep recess of the high -over-arching rock that rose sublime as the lofty roof of a Gothic -cathedral, sat five wild-looking men of strange semi-nautical raiment. -Between them extended a large sea-chest, on which stood an earthen -flaggon, from which one, who seemed the president of the revel, poured -sparkling brandy into a single glass that circled in quick succession, -while the jest and laugh and song swelled in mingled confusion, till the -dinsome cavern rang again to the roar of the subterranean bacchanals. - -“God save all here!” said Shane Glas, approaching the festive group. “O, -wisha! Misther Cronin, but you and the boys is up to fun. The devil a -naither glass o’ brandy: no wonder ye should laugh and sing over it. How -goes the Colleen Ayrigh, and her Bochal Fadda, that knows how to bark so -purty at thim plundering thieves, the wather-guards?” - -“Ah! welcome, Shane,” replied the person addressed; “the customer you’ve -brought may be depinded on, I hope. Sit down, boys.” - -“’Tis ourselves that will, and welkim,” rejoined Shane. “Depinded on! -why, ’scure to the dacenther father’s son from this to himself than Paddy -Corbett, ’tisn’t that he’s to the fore.” - -“Come, taste our brandy, lads, while I help you to some ham,” said the -smuggler. “Shane, you have the stomach of a shark, the digestion of an -ostrich, and the _gout_ of an epicure.” - -“By gar ye may say that wid yer own purty mouth, Misther Cronin,” -responded the garrulous Shane. “Here, gintlemin, here is free thrade to -honest min, an’ high hangin’ to all informers! O! murdher maura (smacking -his lips), how it tastes! O, avirra yealish (laying his bony hand across -his shrunken paunch), how it hates the stummuck!” - -“You are welcome to our mansion, Paddy Corbett,” interrupted the -hospitable master of the cavern; “the house is covered in, the rent paid, -and the cruiskeen of brandy unadulterated; so eat, drink, and be merry. -When the moon rises, we can proceed to business.” - -Paddy Corbett was about to return thanks when the interminable Shane Glas -again broke in. - -“I never saw a man, beggin’ yer pardon, Misther Cronin, lade a finer -or rolickinger life than your own four bones--drinking an’ coorting on -land, and spreading the canvass of the Colleen Ayrigh over the salt -say, for the good o’ thrade. _Manim syr Shyre_, if I had Trig Dowl the -piper forninst me there, near the cruiskeen, but I’d drink an’ dance -till morning. But here’s God bless us, an’ success to our thrip, Paddy, -avrahir;” and he drained his glass. Then when many a successive round -went past, and the famished-looking wretch grew intoxicated, he called -out at the top of his voice, “Silence for a song,” and in a tone somewhat -between the squeak of a pig and the drone of a bagpipe, poured forth a -lyric, of which we shall present one or two stanzas to the reader. - - I thravelled France an’ Spain, an’ likewise in Asia, - Fal de ral, &c &c. - And spint many a long day at my aise in Arabia, - Fal de ral, &c &c. - Pur-shoeing of their ways, their sates an’ their farims, - But sich another place as the lakes o’ Killarney - I never saw elsewhere, the air being most charming, - Fal de ral, &c &c. - There the Muses came to make it their quarthers, - Fal de ral, &c &c. - An’ for their ray-creation they came from Castalia, - Fal de ral, &c &c. - With congratulations playing for his lordship, - A viewing of that place, I mean sweet Killarney, - That the music been so sweet, the lake became enchanted, - Fal de ral, &c &c. - -Early on a clear sunny morning after this, a man with a horse and truckle -car was observed to enter the town of Killarney from the west. He trolled -forth before the animal, which, checked by some instinctive dread, with -much reluctance allowed himself to be dragged along at the full length of -his hair halter. On the rude vehicle was laid what seemed a quantity of -straw, upon which was extended a human being, whose greatly attenuated -frame appeared fully developed beneath an old flannel quilt. His face, -that appeared above its tattered hem, looked the embodiment of disease -and famine, which seemed to have gnawed, in horrid union, into his -inmost vitals. His distorted features pourtrayed rending agony; and as -the rude vehicle jolted along the rugged pavement, he groaned hideously. -This miserable man was our acquaintance Shane Glas, and he that led the -strange procession no other than Paddy Corbett, who thus experimented to -smuggle his “taste o’ tibaccy,” which lay concealed in well-packed bales -beneath the sick couch of the wretched simulator. - -As they proceeded along, Shane Glas uttered a groan, conveying such a -feeling of real agony that his startled companion, supposing that he had -in verity received the sudden judgment of his deception, rushed back to -ascertain whether he had not been suddenly stricken to death. - -“Paddy, a chorra-na-nea,” he muttered in an undergrowl, “here’s the -vagabone thief of a guager down sthreet! Exert yerself, a-lea, to baffle -the schamer, an’ don’t forget ’tis the spotted faver I have.” - -Sure enough, the guager did come; and noticing, as he passed along, the -confusion and averted features of Paddy Corbett, he immediately drew up. - -“Where do you live, honest man, an’ how far might you be goin’?” said the -keen exciseman. - -“O, wisha! may the heavens be yer honour’s bed!--ye must be one o’ the -good ould stock, to ax afther the consarns of a poor angishore like me: -but, a yinusal-a-chree, ’tisn’t where I lives is worse to me, but where -that donan in the thruckle will die with me.” - -“But how far are you taking him?” - -“O, ’tis myself would offer a pather an’ ave on my two binded knees for -yer honour’s soul, if yer honour would tell me that. I forgot to ax -the crathur where he _should_ be berrid when we kim away, an’ now he’s -speechless out an’ out.” - -“Come, say where is your residence,” said the other, whose suspicion was -increased by the countryman’s prevarication. - -“By jamine, yer honour’s larnin’ bothers me intirely; but if yer -honour manes where the woman that owns me and the childre is, ’tis -that way, west at Tubber-na-Treenoda; yer honour has heard tell o’ -Tubber-na-Treenoda, by coorse?” - -“Never, indeed.” - -“O, wisha! don’t let yer honour be a day longer that way. If the -sickness, God betune us an’ harum, kim an ye, ’twould be betther for yer -honour give a testher to the durhogh there, to offer up a rosary for ye, -than to _shell out_ three pounds to Doctor Crump.” - -“Perhaps you have some _soft goods_ concealed under the sick man,” said -the guager, approaching the car. “I frequently catch smuggled wares in -such situations.” - -“The devil a taste _good_ or _saft_ under him, sir dear, but the could -sop from the top o’ the stack. _Ketch!_ why, the devil a haporth ye’ll -_ketch_ here but the spotted faver.” - -“Fever!” repeated the startled exciseman, retiring a step or two. - -“Yes, faver, yer honour; what else? Didn’t Father Darby that prepared him -say that he had spotted faver enough for a thousand min! Do, yer honour, -come look in his face, an’ thin throw the poor dying crathur, that kem -all the way from Decie’s counthry, by raisin of a dhream, to pay a round -for his wife’s sowl at Tubber-na-Treenoda: yes, throw him out an the -belly o’ the road, an’ let his blood, the blood o’ the stranger, be on -yer soul an’ his faver in yer body.” - -Paddy Corbett’s eloquence operating on the exciseman’s dread of -contagion, saved the tobacco. - -Our adventurers considering it rather dangerous to seek a buyer in -Killarney, directed their course eastward to Kanturk. The hour of evening -was rather advanced as they entered the town; and Shane, who could spell -his way without much difficulty through the letters of a sign-board, -seeing “entertainment for man and horse” over the door, said they would -put up there for the night, and then directed Paddy to the shop of the -only tobacconist in town, whither for some private motive he declined to -attend him. Mr Pigtail was after dispatching a batch of customers when -Paddy entered, who, seeing the coast clear, gave him the “God save all -here,” which is the usual phrase of greeting in the kingdom of Kerry. Mr -Pigtail was startled at the rude salutation, which, though a beautiful -benediction, and characteristic of a highly religious people, is yet too -uncouth for modern “ears polite,” and has, excepting among the lowest -class of peasants, entirely given way to that very sincere and expressive -phrase of address, “your servant.” - -Now, Mr Pigtail, who meted out the length of his replies in exact -proportion to the several ranks and degrees of his querists, upon hearing -the vulgar voice that uttered the more vulgar salute, hesitated to deign -the slightest notice, but, measuring with a glance the outward man of the -saluter, he gave a slight nod of acknowledgement, and the dissyllabic -response “servant;” but seeing Paddy Corbett with gaping mouth about to -open his embassy, and that, like Burns’s Death, - - “He seemed to make a kind o’ stan’, - But naething spak,” - -he immediately added, “Honest man, you came from the west, I believe?” - -“Thrue enough for yer honour,” said Pat; “my next door neighbours at -that side are the wild Ingins of Immeriky. A wet and could foot an’ a -dhry heart I had coming to ye; but welkim be the grace o’ God, sure poor -people should make out an honest bit an’ sup for the weeny crathurs at -home; an’ I have thirteen o’ thim, all thackeens, praise be to the Maker.” - -“And I dare say you have brought a trifle in my line of business in your -road?” - -“Faith, ’tis yerself may book it: I have the natest lafe o’ tibaccy -that ever left Connor Cro-ab-a-bo. I was going to _skin_ an the honest -man--Lord betune us an’harum, I’d be the first informer of my name, any -how. But, talking o’ the tibaccy, the man that giv it said a sweether -taste never left the hould of his ship, an’ that’s a great word. I’ll -give it dog chape, by raison o’ the long road it thravelled to yer -honour.” - -“You don’t seem to be long in this business,” said Mr Pigtail. - -“Thrue for ye there agin, a-yinusal; ’tis yourself may say so. Since the -priest christened Paddy an me, an’ that’s longer than I can remimber, I -never wint an the sachrawn afore. God comfort poor Jillian Dawly, the -crathur, an’ the grawls I left her. Amin, a-hierna!” - -Now, Mr Pigtail supposed from the man’s seeming simplicity, and his -inexperience in running smuggled goods, that he should drive a very -profitable adventure with him. He ordered him to bring the goods -privately to the back way that led to his premises; and Paddy, who had -the fear of the guager vividly before him, lost no time in obeying the -mandate. But when Mr Pigtail examined the several packages, he turns -round upon poor Paddy with a look of disapprobation, and exclaims, “This -article will not suit, good man--entirely damaged by sea water--never do.” - -“_See_ wather, anagh!” returns Paddy Corbett; “bad luck to the dhrop -o’ wather, salt or fresh, did my taste o’ tibaccy ever _see_. The -Colleen Ayrigh that brought it could dip an’ skim along the waves like -a sea-gull. There are two things she never yet let in, Mr Pigtail, -avourneen--wather nor wather-guards: the one ships off her, all as one as -a duck; and the Boochal Fadda on her deck keeps t’other a good mile off, -more spunk to him.” This piece of nautical information Paddy had ventured -from gleanings collected from the rich stores which the conversation of -Shane Glas presented along the road, and in the smugglers’ cave. - -“But, my good man, you cannot instruct me in the way of my business. Take -it away--no man in the trade would venture an article like it. But I -shall make a sacrifice, rather than let a poor ignorant man fall into the -hands of the guager. I shall give you five pounds for the lot.” - -Paddy Corbett, who had been buoyed up by the hope of making two hundred -per cent. of his lading, now seeing all his gainful views vanish -into thin air, was loud and impassioned in the expression of his -disappointment. “O, Jillian Dawly!” he cried, swinging his body to and -fro, “Jillian, a roon manima, what’ll ye say to yer man, afther throwing -out of his hand the half year’s rint that he had to give the agint? O! -what’ll ye say, aveen, but that I med a purty padder-napeka of myself, -listening to Shane Glas, the yellow schamer; or what’ll Sheelabeg, the -crathur, say, whin Tim Murphy won’t take her without the cows that I -won’t have to give her? O, Misther Pigtail, avourneen, be marciful to an -honest father’s son; don’t take me short, avourneen, an’ that God might -take you short. Give me the tin pounds it cost me, an’ I’ll pray for -yer sowl, both now an’ in the world to come. O! Jillian, Jillian, I’ll -never face ye, nor Sheelabeg, nor any o’ the crathurs agin, without the -tin pound, any how. I’ll take the vestmint, an’ all the books in Father -Darby’s house of it.” - -“Well, if you don’t give the tobacco to me for less than that, you can -call on one Mr Prywell, at the other side of the bridge; he deals in -such articles too. You see I cannot do more for you, but you may go -farther and fare worse,” said the perfidious tobacconist, as he directed -the unfortunate man to the residence of Mr Paul Prywell, the officer of -excise. - -With heavy heart, and anxious eye peering in every direction beneath -his broad-leafed hat, Paddy Corbett proceeded till he reached a private -residence having a green door and a brass knocker. He hesitated, seeing -no shop nor appearance of business there; but on being assured that -this was indeed the house of Mr Prywell, he approached, and gave the -door three thundering knocks with the butt end of his holly-handled -whip. The owner of the domicile, roused by this very unceremonious mode -of announcement, came forth to demand the intruder’s business, and -to wonder that he would not prefer giving a single rap with the brass -knocker, as was the wont of persons in his grade of society, instead of -sledging away at the door like a “peep-o’-day boy.” - -“Yer honour will excuse my bouldness,” said Paddy, taking off his -hat, and scraping the mud before and behind him a full yard; “excuse -my bouldness, for I never seed such curifixes on a dure afore, an’ I -wouldn’t throuble yer honour’s house at all at all, only in regard of a -taste of goods that I was tould would _shoot_ yer honour. Ye can have it, -a yinusal, for less than nothing, case I don’t find myself in heart to -push on farther; for the baste is slow, the crathur, an’ myself that’s -saying it, making buttons for fear o’ the guager.” - -“Who, might I ask,” said the astonished officer of excise, “directed you -here to sell smuggled tobacco?” - -“A very honest gintleman, but a bad buyer, over the bridge, sir. He’d -give but five pound for what cost myself tin--foreer dhota, that I had -ever had a hand in it! I put the half year’s rint in it, yer honour; and -my thirteen femul grawls an’ their mother, God help ’em, will be soon on -the sachrawn. I’ll never go home without the tin pound, any how. High -hanging to ye, Shane Glas, ye tallow-faced thief, that sint me smuggling. -O! Jillian, ’tis sogering I’ll soon be, with a gun an my shoulder.” - -“Shane Glas!” said the exciseman; “do you know Shane Glas; I’d give ten -pounds to see the villain.” - -“’Tis myself does, yer honour, an’ could put yer finger an him, if I -had ye at Tubber-na-Treenoda, saving yer presence; but as I was setting -away, he was lying undher an ould quilt, an’ I heard him telling that the -priest said he had spotted faver enough for a thousand min.” - -“That villain will never die of spotted fever, in my humble opinion,” -said the exciseman. - -“A good judgment in yer mouth, sir, achree. I heard the rogue himself -say, ‘Bad cess to the thief! that a cup-tosser tould him he’d die of -stoppage of breath.’ But won’t yer honour allow me to turn in the lafe o’ -tibaccy?” - -The officer of excise was struck with deep indignation at the villany -of him who would ruin a comparatively innocent man when he failed in -circumventing him, and was resolved to punish his treachery. “My good -fellow,” said he, “you are now before the guager you dread so much, and -I must do my duty, and seize upon the tobacco. However, it is but common -justice to punish the false-hearted traitor that sent you hither. Go -back quickly, and say that he can have the lot at his own terms; I shall -follow close, and yield him the reward of his treachery. Act discreetly -in this good work of biting the biter, and on the word of a gentleman I -shall give you ten pounds more.” - -Paddy was on his knees in a twinkling, his hands uplifted in the attitude -of prayer, and his mouth opened, but totally unable between terror and -delight to utter a syllable of thanks. - -“Up, I say,” exclaimed the exciseman, “up and be doing; go earn your ten -pounds, and have your sweet revenge on the thief that betrayed you.” - -Paddy rapidly retraced his steps, ejaculating as he went along, “O, -the noble gintleman, may the Lord make a bed in Heaven for his sowl in -glory! O, that chating imposthor, ’twas sinding the fox to mind the hins -sure enough. O, high hanging to him of a windy day!--the informer o’ the -world, I’ll make him sup sorrow.” - -“Have you seen the gentleman I directed you to?” said Mr Pigtail. - -“Arrah, sir dear, whin I came to the bridge an looked about me, I thought -that every roguish-looking fellow I met was the thief of a guager, an’ -thin afther standing a while, quite amplushed, with the botheration and -the dread upon me, I forgot yer friend’s name, an’ so kim back agin to ax -it, if ye plase.” - -“You had better take the five pounds than venture again; there’s a guager -in town, and your situation is somewhat dangerous.” - -“A guager in town!” cried Paddy Corbett, with well-affected surprise, -“Isas Mauri! what’ll I do at all at all? now I’m a gone man all out. Take -it for any thing ye like, sir dear, an’ if any throuble like this should -ever come down an ye, it will be a comfort an’ a raycreation to yer heart -to know that ye had a poor man’s blessing, _avick deelish machree_, an’ -I give it to ye on the knees of my heart, as ye desarved it, an’ that it -may go in yer road, an’ yer childre’s road, late an’ early, eating an’ -dhrinking, lying an’ rising, buying an’ selling.” - -Our story has approached its close: the tobacco was safely stowed inside, -in order to be consigned to Mr Pigtail’s private receptacle for such -contraband articles. Paddy had just pocketed his five pounds, and at -that moment in burst Mr Prywell. The execration which ever after pursued -the tobacconist for his treacherous conduct, and the heavy fine in which -he was amerced, so wrought upon his health and circumstances, that in a -short time he died in extreme poverty. His descendants became homeless -wanderers, and it is upon record, among the brave and high-minded men of -Duhallow, that Jeffrey Pigtail of Kanturk was the only betrayer that ever -disgraced the barony. - - E. W. - - * * * * * - -SPEED ON RAILWAYS.--In the first of a course of lectures on railways, -delivered in the early part of last year at Manchester by Dr Lardner, he -gave the following account of the speed attained by locomotive engines -at different periods: “Since the great questions which had been agitated -respecting the effect which an increased width of rails would have on -railway transit, and the effect which very large drawing wheels, of great -diameter, would have on certain railways, the question of very vastly -increased speed had acquired considerable interest. Very recently two -experiments had been made, attended with most surprising results. One was -the case of the Monmouth express. A dispatch was carried from Twyford -to London on the Great Western Railway, a distance of thirty miles, in -thirty-five minutes. This distance was traversed very favourably, and -being subject to less of those casual interruptions to which a longer -trip would be liable, it was performed at the rate of six miles in seven -minutes, or six-sevenths of a mile in one minute (very nearly fifty-one -and a half miles an hour). He had experimented on speed very largely -on most of the railways of the country, and he had never personally -witnessed that speed. The evaporating power of those engines was -enormous. Another performance, which he had ascertained since he arrived -in this neighbourhood, showed that great as was the one just mentioned, -they must not ascribe it to any peculiar circumstance attending the -large engines and wide gauge of the Great Western Railway. An express -was dispatched a short time since from Liverpool to Birmingham, and -its speed was stated in the papers. One engine, with its tender, went -from Liverpool, or rather from the top of the tunnel at Edge Hill, to -Birmingham, in two hours and thirty-five minutes. But he had inquired -into the circumstances of that trip, and it appeared that the time the -engine was actually in motion, after deducting a variety of stoppages, -was only one hour and fifty minutes in traversing ninety-seven miles. The -feat on the Great Western was performed on a dead level, while on the -Grand Junction the engine first encountered the Whiston incline, where -the line rises 1 in 96 for a mile and a half; and after passing Crewe, -it encountered a plane of three miles to the Madeley summit, rising 20 -feet a mile, succeeded by another plane, for three miles more, rising 30 -feet a mile; yet with all these impediments it performed the ninety-seven -miles in one hour and fifty minutes, or 110 minutes; consequently the -distance traversed in each minute was 97 divided by 110, or 52 ¹⁰⁄₁₁ths, -nearly 53 miles an hour--a speed which, he confessed, if he had not -evidence of it, he could scarcely have believed to be within the bounds -of mechanical possibility. The engine which performed this feat had -driving wheels of 5½ feet diameter; their circumference would be 17¼ -feet. Taking the speed at 53 miles an hour, it was within a very minute -fraction of 80 feet in a second of time. This was not the greatest speed -of the engine, but the average speed spread over 97 miles and there could -be little doubt that it must have exceeded sixty miles an hour during a -considerable portion of the distance.” - - * * * * * - -That man should be happy, is so evidently the intention of the Creator, -the contrivances to that end are so multitudinous and so striking, that -the perception of the aim may be called universal. Whatever tends to make -men happy, becomes a fulfilment of the will of God. Whatever tends to -make them miserable, becomes opposition to his will.--_Harriet Martineau._ - - * * * * * - - 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. 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