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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) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[Pg 281]</a></span></p> - -<h1>THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL.</h1> - -<table summary="Headline layout"> - <tr> - <td class="smcap">Number 36.</td> - <td class="center">SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1841.</td> - <td class="right smcap">Volume I.</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<div class="figcenter gap4" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/miltown.jpg" width="500" height="360" alt="The old bridge, Miltown" /> -</div> - -<h2>THE OLD BRIDGE OF MILTOWN, COUNTY OF DUBLIN.</h2> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[Pg 282]</a></span> -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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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:—</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce</div> -<div class="verse">Of that serene companion—a good name,</div> -<div class="verse">Recovers not his loss, but walks with shame,</div> -<div class="verse">With doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse.</div> -<div class="verse">And oft-times he, who, yielding to the force</div> -<div class="verse">Of chance-temptation, ere his journey end,</div> -<div class="verse">From chosen comrade turns, or faithful friend,</div> -<div class="verse">In vain shall rue the broken intercourse.</div> -<div class="verse">Not so with such as loosely wear the chain,</div> -<div class="verse">That binds them, pleasant River! to thy side:—</div> -<div class="verse">Through the rough copse wheel thou with hasty stride,</div> -<div class="verse">I choose to saunter o’er the grassy plain,</div> -<div class="verse">Sure, when the separation has been tried,</div> -<div class="verse">That we, who part in love, shall meet again.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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> - -<p class="right">P.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[Pg 283]</a></span></p> - -<h2 class="gap4">NOTICE OF A SINGULAR BOOK ON FOSSIL REMAINS.</h2> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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:—</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>Chap. 5. The ingenious conjecture which attributes their -formation to the plastic power of light.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[Pg 284]</a></span></p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>Chap. 13. Grave reasons for considering our petrifactions -as the work of nature, and not of art.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p class="right">S.</p> - -<h2 class="gap4">SONGS OF OUR LAND.</h2> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Songs of our land, ye are with us for ever,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">The power and the splendour of thrones pass away;</div> -<div class="verse">But yours is the might of some far flowing river,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">Through Summer’s bright roses or Autumn’s decay.</div> -<div class="verse">Ye treasure each voice of the swift passing ages,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">And truth, which time writeth on leaves or on sand;</div> -<div class="verse">Ye bring us the bright thoughts of poets and sages,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">And keep them among us, old songs of our land.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The bards may go down to the place of their slumbers,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">The lyre of the charmer be hushed in the grave,</div> -<div class="verse">But far in the future the power of their numbers</div> -<div class="verse indent1">Shall kindle the hearts of our faithful and brave.</div> -<div class="verse">It will waken an echo in souls deep and lonely,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">Like voices of reeds by the summer breeze fanned;</div> -<div class="verse">It will call up a spirit for freedom, when only</div> -<div class="verse indent1">Her breathings are heard in the songs of our land.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">For they keep a record of those, the true hearted,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">Who fell with the cause they had vowed to maintain;</div> -<div class="verse">They show us bright shadows of glory departed,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">Of love that grew cold, and the hope that was vain.</div> -<div class="verse">The page may be lost and the pen long forsaken,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">And weeds may grow wild o’er the brave heart and hand;</div> -<div class="verse">But ye are still left when all else hath been taken,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">Like streams in the desert, sweet songs of our land.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Songs of our land, ye have followed the stranger,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">With power over ocean and desert afar,</div> -<div class="verse">Ye have gone with our wanderers through distance and danger,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">And gladdened their path like a home-guiding star.</div> -<div class="verse">With the breath of our mountains in summers long vanished,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">And visions that passed like a wave from the sand,</div> -<div class="verse">With hope for their country and joy from her banished,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">Ye come to us ever, sweet songs of our land.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The spring time may come with the song of her glory,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">To bid the green heart of the forest rejoice,</div> -<div class="verse">But the pine of the mountain, though blasted and hoary,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">And the rock in the desert, can send forth a voice.</div> -<div class="verse">It is thus in their triumph for deep desolations,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">While ocean waves roll or the mountains shall stand,</div> -<div class="verse">Still hearts that are bravest and best of the nations,</div> -<div class="verse indent1">Shall glory and live in the songs of their land.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse right">F. B.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<h2 class="gap4">PERIODICAL LITERATURE.<br /> -<span class="smaller">THE POOR AUTHOR.<a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></span></h2> - -<p>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 <em>would</em> wish for -a few moments to contemplate the heart-trying condition of -the latter.</p> - -<p>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 <em>all</em> 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 <em>that</em>? 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.</p> - -<p>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 <em>it</em> fails him in his wintry hour, is not -he indeed “of all men most miserable?”</p> - -<p>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 <em>he</em> 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 <em>his</em> scornful -sneer may be thereby relaxed. He knows——but why more? -Of <em>himself</em> 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!”</p> - -<p>This is by no means—oh, would that it were so!—an ideal -picture. In <span class="smcap">London</span>, amid her “wilderness of building,” -there are <em>at this hour</em> 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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[Pg 285]</a></span> -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</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">“The poor inhabitant below!”</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>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, <span class="smcap">Death</span> approached;</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent5">“And as around the brow</div> -<div class="verse">Of that ill-fated votary he wreath’d</div> -<div class="verse">The crown of victory, silently he twined</div> -<div class="verse">The cypress with the laurel: at his foot</div> -<div class="verse">Perish’d the <span class="smcap">Martyr Student</span>.”</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>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 <span class="smcapuc">YOUR PENNY</span>!</p> - -<p class="right">S. H.</p> - -<div class="footnotes"> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> The writer, as will be seen, has had in view solely the literature of -London.</p> - -</div> - -</div> - -<h2 class="gap4">PADDY CORBETT’S FIRST SMUGGLING TRIP.</h2> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">“Then on the ’tither hand present her,</div> -<div class="verse">A blackguard smuggler right behint her,</div> -<div class="verse">And cheek-for-chow a chuffle vintner,</div> -<div class="verse indent5">Colleaguin’ join.”——<span class="smcap">Burns.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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 -<i lang="ga">thraneen</i>, 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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>“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 <em>fat</em> came in your -way, at any rate, though I don’t say as much for the <em>graise</em>.”</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>“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?”</p> - -<p>“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.)</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>“Paddy Corbett, avick,” said Shane Glas, “pull yer legs -fair an’ aisy afther ye; one inch iv a mistake, achorra, might<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[Pg 286]</a></span> -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 <em>gumpshun</em> to find a place of shelter for -the fruits of their honest industhry, glory be to his holy name!”</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>“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.</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>“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!”</p> - -<p>“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!”</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>“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?”</p> - -<p>“Ah! welcome, Shane,” replied the person addressed; “the -customer you’ve brought may be depinded on, I hope. Sit -down, boys.”</p> - -<p>“’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.”</p> - -<p>“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 <em>gout</em> of an epicure.”</p> - -<p>“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!”</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>Paddy Corbett was about to return thanks when the interminable -Shane Glas again broke in.</p> - -<p>“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. -<i lang="ga">Manim syr Shyre</i>, 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.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">I thravelled France an’ Spain, an’ likewise in Asia,</div> -<div class="verse indent11">Fal de ral, &c &c.</div> -<div class="verse">And spint many a long day at my aise in Arabia,</div> -<div class="verse indent11">Fal de ral, &c &c.</div> -<div class="verse">Pur-shoeing of their ways, their sates an’ their farims,</div> -<div class="verse">But sich another place as the lakes o’ Killarney</div> -<div class="verse">I never saw elsewhere, the air being most charming,</div> -<div class="verse indent11">Fal de ral, &c &c.</div> -<div class="verse">There the Muses came to make it their quarthers,</div> -<div class="verse indent11">Fal de ral, &c &c.</div> -<div class="verse">An’ for their ray-creation they came from Castalia,</div> -<div class="verse indent11">Fal de ral, &c &c.</div> -<div class="verse">With congratulations playing for his lordship,</div> -<div class="verse">A viewing of that place, I mean sweet Killarney,</div> -<div class="verse">That the music been so sweet, the lake became enchanted,</div> -<div class="verse indent11">Fal de ral, &c &c.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_287" id="Page_287">[Pg 287]</a></span> -judgment of his deception, rushed back to ascertain whether -he had not been suddenly stricken to death.</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>Sure enough, the guager did come; and noticing, as he -passed along, the confusion and averted features of Paddy -Corbett, he immediately drew up.</p> - -<p>“Where do you live, honest man, an’ how far might you -be goin’?” said the keen exciseman.</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>“But how far are you taking him?”</p> - -<p>“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 <em>should</em> be berrid -when we kim away, an’ now he’s speechless out an’ out.”</p> - -<p>“Come, say where is your residence,” said the other, -whose suspicion was increased by the countryman’s prevarication.</p> - -<p>“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?”</p> - -<p>“Never, indeed.”</p> - -<p>“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 <em>shell out</em> three pounds to -Doctor Crump.”</p> - -<p>“Perhaps you have some <em>soft goods</em> concealed under the -sick man,” said the guager, approaching the car. “I frequently -catch smuggled wares in such situations.”</p> - -<p>“The devil a taste <em>good</em> or <em>saft</em> under him, sir dear, but -the could sop from the top o’ the stack. <em>Ketch!</em> why, the -devil a haporth ye’ll <em>ketch</em> here but the spotted faver.”</p> - -<p>“Fever!” repeated the startled exciseman, retiring a step -or two.</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>Paddy Corbett’s eloquence operating on the exciseman’s -dread of contagion, saved the tobacco.</p> - -<p>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.”</p> - -<p>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,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">“He seemed to make a kind o’ stan’,</div> -<div class="verse indent5">But naething spak,”</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>he immediately added, “Honest man, you came from the -west, I believe?”</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>“And I dare say you have brought a trifle in my line of -business in your road?”</p> - -<p>“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 -<em>skin</em> 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.”</p> - -<p>“You don’t seem to be long in this business,” said Mr -Pigtail.</p> - -<p>“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!”</p> - -<p>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.”</p> - -<p>“<em>See</em> wather, anagh!” returns Paddy Corbett; “bad luck -to the dhrop o’ wather, salt or fresh, did my taste o’ tibaccy -ever <em>see</em>. 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.</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>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.”</p> - -<p>“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.</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288">[Pg 288]</a></span> -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.”</p> - -<p>“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 <em>shoot</em> 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.”</p> - -<p>“Who, might I ask,” said the astonished officer of excise, -“directed you here to sell smuggled tobacco?”</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>“Shane Glas!” said the exciseman; “do you know Shane -Glas; I’d give ten pounds to see the villain.”</p> - -<p>“’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.”</p> - -<p>“That villain will never die of spotted fever, in my humble -opinion,” said the exciseman.</p> - -<p>“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?”</p> - -<p>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.”</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>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.”</p> - -<p>“Have you seen the gentleman I directed you to?” said -Mr Pigtail.</p> - -<p>“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.”</p> - -<p>“You had better take the five pounds than venture again; -there’s a guager in town, and your situation is somewhat -dangerous.”</p> - -<p>“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, <i lang="ga">avick deelish machree</i>, -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.”</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p class="right">E. W.</p> - -<p class="gap4"><span class="smcap">Speed on Railways.</span>—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.”</p> - -<p class="gap4">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.—<cite>Harriet Martineau.</cite></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>Printed and published every Saturday by <span class="smcap">Gunn</span> and <span class="smcap">Cameron</span>, at the Office -of the General Advertiser, No. 6, Church Lane, College Green, Dublin.—Agents:—<span class="smcap">R. -Groombridge</span>, Panyer Alley, Paternoster Row, London; -<span class="smcap">Simms</span> and <span class="smcap">Dinham</span>, Exchange Street, Manchester; <span class="smcap">C. Davies</span>, North -John Street, Liverpool; <span class="smcap">Slocombe</span> and <span class="smcap">Simms</span>, Leeds; <span class="smcap">Fraser</span> and -<span class="smcap">Crawford</span>, George Street, Edinburgh; and <span class="smcap">David Robertson</span>, Trongate, -Glasgow.</p> - -</div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. -36, March 6, 1841, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL *** - -***** This file should be named 54924-h.htm or 54924-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/4/9/2/54924/ - -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) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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