opposition to the government. Though Dr. Lang,
the most popular representative of Sydney, has
come back to England, he has left in Mr. Went-
worth a rival and an opponent who seems equally
or more successful than the doctor in getting up
a general agitation and promoting the claims of
the people. If Mr. Wentworth fell a little into
disfavor by supporting the convict system, and a
measure for reducing the franchise, so as to be
below Dr. Lang on the poll, he still represents
Sydney, and has great influence from his wealth,
his activity, and his talents. It is plain enough
that other influential men in the colony are op-
posed to Mr. Wentworth; still, with a powerful
opposition in the Legislature, and a rapidly in-
creasing population (many of whom are not
familiarized with our laws, and most of whom
are daring men without many domestic ties), the
government, it may be apprehended, cannot be
very strong nor very safe; we do not mean for
the repression of offences against property and
life; almost every man has an interest in re-
pressing crime, and the efforts of government
to preserve property and life will be supported
by all.
We are not so sure, however, that in
other branches of the administration it will meet
with equal support, and from the incoming
strangers it can scarcely hope for any.

We may expect, indeed, that the influx of such a motley population would be to influence the old inhabitants and the colonists from England to rally round the government, and strengthen it all in their power. In the end that, probably, will be the consequence; in the mean time, however, old dissensions and old causes of complaint are not forgotten. There is a standing dispute in New South Wales between the popular representatives and the government, as to the appropriation of the public funds, and it is not likely to be diminished by the increased sums which now come into the hands of the government from the land sales and gold licenses, over which the popular body has no control, unless they were applied to the reduction of other taxation. Carrying on this dispute, Mr. Wentworth proposed, in the middle of July, to pass the Customs Act only for two years, on purpose to keep a control over the Executive. Subsequently, on August 18th, the same gentleman proposed to postpone the estimates for 1852 till December, in order to see what answer the ministry returned to certain remonstrances made by the colonists. On both these motions he was defeated; but, on August 21st, he carried a motion not to vote any further supplies after 1853, "unless a favorable answer be given by ministers to the grievance, remonstrance, and petition," of the colony. So far, therefore, the old colonists have not thought of making common cause with the government; and their proceedings, so far, tend to alter and disturb the political relations between the colony and the mother country.

communities safely through these new circumstances will be an arduous task, which must mainly be performed on the spot. The changes there, from the very large influx of people, will be very rapid; and they can scarcely be provided for unless the governing bodies and the leading men of the colonies are united, and have the power to act pretty much according to what the discretion of the moment may dictate. The progress of events there is much more rapid than even the improvement of communication, which has now shortened the time required ten years ago to communicate with them by more than one half; and the changes in the colonies cannot be successfully dealt with except by those who are able to deal with them at the very moment they occur.

PROSPECTIVE CHRONOLOGY.-From our own Clairvoyant.

1855. City Improvement Act passed.

1857. Temple Bar pulled down and Lord Mayor's Show abolished.

1880. Peace established with the Caffres-for a month or two.

1890. Library Catalogue of the British Museum completed-to the letter D.

1899. Sale of Uncle Tom's Cabin ceases.

1900. Colonel Sibthorp becomes premier, by virtue of his seniority.

1901. Attempted revival of Protection fails.
1953. New National Gallery opened.

1960. Beer Monopoly ends.

1975. Westminster Bridge rebuilt, and the New
Houses of Parliament finished.
1999. Railway accidents cease.
2000. Income-Tax removed.

Date not Fixed. Prosperity of Ireland begins.
Date too remote to be calculated. Publication of
-Punch.

Punch ceases.-.

HOW THE CONTINENTALS STOOD IN ARMS.-To a man

they wore small clothes, coming down and fastening just below the knee, and long stockings, with cowhide shoes ornamented with large buckles; while not a pair of boots graced the company. The coats and waistcoats were loose and of huge dimensions, with colors as various as the barks of oak, sumach, and other trees of our hills and swamps could make them; and their shirts were all made of flax, and, like every other part of the dress, were homespun. On their heads was worn a large round-top and broad-brimmed hat. Their arms were as various as their costume. Here an old soldier carried a Queen-Anne, which had done service at the conquest of Canada twenty years previous, while by his side walked a stripling boy with a Spanish fuzee not half its weight or calibre, which his grandfather may have taken at the Havana, while not a few had old French pieces that dated back to the reduction of Louisburg. Instead of the cartridge-box, a large powder-horn was slung under the arm, and occasionally a bayonet might be seen bristling in the ranks. Some of the swords of the officers Circumstances, therefore, are bringing on a had been made by our province blacksmiths, perhaps crisis in the political relations of New South of some farming utensils; they looked serviceable, Wales, which will require great discretion and but heavy and uncouth. Such was the appearance firmness in the governor of the colony and in the of the Continentals, to whom a well-appointed army was soon to lay down their arms. After a little exleading men to bring it to a healthy termination. ercising on the old Common, and performing the then Some similar circumstances prevail in the other popular exploit of "whipping the snake," they briskly Australian colonies. In all, the relations between filed up the road by the foot of the Kidder Mountain, classes and individuals have been altered and and through the Spafford Gap, towards Peterboro', disturbed by the gold discoveries and the influx to the tune of "Over the hills and far away."-Hisof a promiscuous population. To conduct these tory of New Ipswich.

Mrs. Biddy Chanticleer, scratches for her breakfast. 6. Chanticleer, Esq., from the top rail of the barn fence, becomes cognizant of the fact, and struts with dignity towards his little spouse.

Biddy. "Good morning, my dear."

On

"First, self-devotion: It has been the decision of all rooster-kind, for ages, and therefore cannot be denied, that the crowning virtue of the hen character is disinterestedness. A true hen should be patient, self-forgetful, obedient, tenderly solicitous for her husband's little wants, delighting wholly and solely in the graceful and pleasant duties that cluster round the domestic nest. the contrary, I find you thinking only how to gratify your own selfish tastes and desires, instead of displaying (as might naturally be expected) some little sense of loneliness and melancholy at your husband's absence; I return from a visit of nearly twelve hours, and find you literally rejoicing! Madam, I ask of you, is this true hen

hood?

"Second: A retiring position, a delicate shrinking from contact with the coarse and unsympathizing world, an exclusive indifference to all O. C., Esq. "Morning, madam; quite enjoy- without the sacred circle of the domestic nest. ing yourself, madam; of course, you are not On the contrary, I find you gadding among the aware of the fact that I have been up for more other hens of the yard, making appointments, than an hour, and have not yet eaten a mouthful? sending invitations. Again I ask of you, madam, Is this what I married you for, madam? [Gives is this true henhood? her a pointed salute on the ankle.] Where are your domestic qualities, madam? [Imprints a mark of affection on the top of her head.] Where was your smile of welcome when you saw me getting off the fence? I watched you, madam! Where was your tender female solicitude when you beheld me looking weakly for want of a little nourishment? Where, I repeat, is my breakfast?

Cock-a-doodle-do!"

Mrs. Biddy Chanticleer lays her first egg, and has invited two or three female friends to help cackle [O. C., Esq., being absent].

Mrs. Biddy. "Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut-a-a-a! cut, cut, cut-a-a-a-a-a-cut!"

Mrs. Partlett. "Qua, qua, qua, cut-a-a-cut!" Mrs. Penfeather. "Cluck, cluck, qua, qua, qua, cut, cut, cut-a-a-a-a-a-cut!" [Is interrupted by the sudden appearance of O. C., Esq., who has just returned from a stag party.]

O. C. "Cock-a-doodle-do! Now, may patience be vouchsafed me to ask of you, madam, what does all this mean? Here am I returning, careworn and exhausted, from the excitements and temptations of a delusive world, expecting to find repose and peace in the quiet of the domestic nest, instead of which, I discover you in the midst of riot and dissipation. Madam, insult not my penetration by denying it—I affirm that you are having a party!"

"Third Freedom from curiosity; a true hen never evinces the slightest interest in the affairs of her neighbors, scarcely in her own; she never inquires concerning the whereabouts or actions of her husband, being perfectly assured that, wherever he be, and however appearances at the time may seem to tell against him, he is ever acting with a view to the welfare of the domestic nest.

"On the contrary, what do I find to be the truth, in regard to yourself? Not a rooster raises his voice within half a mile of the yard, but you are able to name him; not a hen lays an egg, but you begin to cackle." Mrs. Biddy (meekly). "I've laid an egg! cut, cut, cut, cut, cut-a-a-a-a. No, I mean-yes, sir, we 've laid an egg.'

O.C., Esq. (with solemn animation). "You've laid an egg! And pray, where is the thing?" [Walks briskly to the nest, and takes a microscopic view of the object.]

Biddy. "Cut, cut-I mean will it do sir?" O. Č., Esq. "Humph-well, yes; very fair, considering; though, now I look more closely, I perceive that it is not precisely shaped; too short, madam, quite too short; not well finished off, by any means. And what do you mean, madam, by having the thing so much larger at one end than the other? Where, I ask, is your idea of symmetry! Zounds! madam, if this is the best you can do in that department, I shall lay the next myself."

Mrs. Biddy (with her claw in her eye). “ Please, I could n't help it. I didn't mean to." Mrs. Biddy (apprehensively). "Not at all,. O. C. Esq. (mollified). "Well, well, don't my dear; at least, that is, my friends were just fret your gizzard. You're no chicken, madam, going by, and stopped in quite accidentally, and to be so sensitive about a trifle only remember so-for you see, my dear, I've laid an egg! cut, my advice in future, and, above all, recollect that cut, cut, cut, cut-a-a-a-a-c—that is, at least-yes, the crowning virtue of henhood is disinterestedsir, we 've laid an egg!"

Three female neighbors simultaneously. "Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut-a-a-a-a-a-cut!"

ness."

Mrs. Biddy (meekly). "Have a worm, dear?"
O. C. Esq. (solemnly). "I will."

SCENE THIRD.

O. C., Esq., appears in the distance, parting with one of his numerous female friends; the tones of his voice fall faintly on Mrs. Biddy's ear.

should be the real pride and ambition of henhood. Mrs. Biddy C. has been setting for three weeks. Disinterestedness; a true hen glories in little crosses and trials; for, without temptations, she perceives that there can be no virtue; without trials, no patience; without affliction, no resigO. C., Esq. "And now, sweetest of hens, fare-nation, which is always so lovely in the female well! and may all the stars of heaven, and all the character. A true hen, situated as you are, saints of the barn-yard, meet to register the day fit to perfect her with trials, but, with that beauwould not only rejoice that Providence had seen when your smile first dawned upon my dreary life, and made me the happiest of roosters. Farewell." tiful self-abnegation which can never be too strenuO. C. wends his homeward way. "Good evenously inculcated by rooster-kind, would set herself ing, Jack; monstrous fine hen, that. Just been to planning new sacrifices; I say a true hen, in parting from her. Or may be you did not notice your situation, instead of sneaking from her little her points. Quite fond of me, too, I assure you. duties, would contrive some plan (if only by reachStill in tears, you will observe-ahem! Cock-a-ing out her head, and picking the earth around

doodle-doo!"

66

O. C. reaches the domestic nestMrs. Biddy (feebly). Oh, I'm so glad to have somebody to speak to. I haven't stepped off the nest, nor seen a creature, since sunrise. How do you do, my dear? Anything new going on in the yard?"

A long pause. O. C., Esq., appears to be suddenly overwhelmed with depression and silent gloom. Mrs. Biddy. "What's the matter, sir?"

O. C., Esq. (in a terrible voice, and walking like Othello). Matter! madam, behold!" [Inserts his bill under his left wing, and produces a rooster's tail feather.] "Do you recognize that, madam? Do you acknowledge an acquaintance with the chicken-hearted caitiff who dropped it? Are you aware that I found it within three feet of the domestic nest?"

Mrs. Biddy (languidly). "Did you? I didn't

notice it."

her) for supplying her husband's little wants." Mrs. Biddy (meekly). "Have a worm, dear?" O. C., Esq. (solemnly). "I will."

Select British Eloquence; embracing the best Speeches entire of the most eminent Orators of Great

Britain for the last two centuries; with Sketches of

their Lives, an Estimate of their Genius, and Notes
D. D., Professor in Yale College.
Critical and Explanatory. By Chauncey A. Goodrich,

Dr. Chauncey Goodrich, the Professor of Rhetoric at Yale College, has for thirty years been in the habit of inculcating eloquence by examples. "We took Demosthenes' Oration for the crown as a text-book in the senior class, making it the basis of a course of informal lectures on the principles of oratory." _For modern eloquence he chose some of the greatest English and American orators. The present volume is based upon his lectures as regards English speakers, with some extension of the speeches, and a recast if not a revision of the commentary.

Erskine. In the second class are Mansfield, Grattan, Sheridan, Curran, Mackintosh, Canning, Brougham. Some of the letters of Junius are included amongst the speeches for their force and finish. This selection proper is introduced by the speeches of previous orators, from Eliot and Stratford to Pulteney and Chesterfield. A notice of the life of each speaker, with an estimate of his character as a statesman and an orator, is prefixed to his orations; the subject of every speech is succinctly explained, and a commentary It is a good book for the student, and equally useful appended, at once historical, explanatory and critical. for the library, as containing in a single volume the cream of British eloquence, illustrated by a variety of interesting matter.--Spect.

O. C., Esq. "Peace, hen, and listen! while three classes. The first class consists of copious seThe orations in the goodly volume before us are of in calm but decisive terms I strive to impress upon lections of (not from) the speeches of the great orators your mind the enormity of your conduct. Has it-Chatham, Burke, Fox, Pitt, and, as an advocate, not been decided, I ask you, calmly, madam, has it not been the opinion of rooster-kind for ages, and is it not therefore undeniable, that (after disinterestedness) the one thing needful to the female character is excessive modesty? A true hen is so strictly and severely virtuous, that the slightest attempt at intimacy from one of an improper sex, though disguised beneath the specious mask of friendship, will excite in her breast the extremest aversion and horror. On the contrary, what do I find to be the case in regard to yourself? Only yesterday, on returning unexpectedly from a little party, I beheld you in animated conversation with my brother! Heavens! madam, am I to be longer the victim of such duplicity? No! sooner would I sacrifice at once the domestic nest, and fling thy lifeless body- -oh! oh! misery! violence! revenge! Frailty, thy name is hen!'"'

6

Mrs. Biddy gets fidgety on her nest. dear me, I'm so tired!"

do

Silence for half an hour.

"Oh

Mrs. B. (in gentle desperation). "My dear, you think you would mind looking to the nest a minute, while I run and pick a little bit of something? I haven't taken a mouthful to-day." O. C., Esq. (starting up in doubt). "Madam, have I heard aright? Do I understand that you have distinctly offered to shift upon your husband the little duties of the domestic nest? Are you going to step from your sphere, madam? Do you mean to be a hen's rights hen, madam?

Have I

not again and again impressed upon your mind, that female selfishness alone is at the bottom of these impious doctrines? And what, on the contrary, according to the decision of all rooster-kind,

How to make Money. By a Tradesman. How to invest Money. By Harriet Beecher Stowe. Birmingham: J. W. Showell, Temple-street. London: Arthur Hall and Co. 1852.

This little book, which should be in every man's waistcoat-pocket, contains the advice of a father to a son on the subject of money-getting. It briefly but effectually exposes the false morality of many of our commercial maxims, and lays bare the heartless oppression of which they are too often the sources. In this money-hunting age a manual that teaches the young to prefer a pure heart and a clear conscience to a full purse cannot be too widely circulated or too frequently read. The price of this neat little tract is subject upon which it treats. Upon the story by Mrs. next to nothing compared with the importance of the Stowe, "How to invest Money," we need say nothing:

the authoress of "Uncle Tom" commands a numerous

audience, and never fails to enlist their sympathies. A single envelope will contain this little treatise, which is not too long for a tradesman to read, however deeply engaged in business.-Tait.

LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.-No. 459.-5 MARCH, 1853.

MR. THACKERAY'S LECTURES. [WE have frequently copied from the New York corder, which is conducted by members of the Baptist denomination. It is, however, very far from being a merely sectarian paper, and always contains matter of interest to the literary community.

In the No. of the 22d of Dec. it thus speaks of Mr. Thackeray :-]

they read them? A critical lecture on Hamlet, or Re-Lycidas, or Ivanhoe would be stupid and unintelwhich the criticism was made. We venture to ligible to one who had not read the originals upon say that not one young lady in five hundred of those who heard these lectures had ever read one of Congreve's plays or of Fielding's novels. If she had done so in some sly corner of a library, she would not be very likely to acknowledge it to a male friend. What, then, will be the natural result of these lectures, endorsing and even exaggerating the literary merit of some of the most obscene of English writers? It will be to excite a tendency in the minds of the young to look into these creations of prostituted genius, that they may understand the grounds of the critic's admiration.

THE taste for lecturing among the New Yorkers seems to be on the increase. During the season, thus far, the city has been favored with several lectures, of a high order of merit. Mr. Bancroft and Dr. Hawks have spoken before the Historical Society, in aid of the fund for the erection of the contemplated fire-proof building for its library. Mr. Bancroft lectured upon Art, and, in so doing, gave some wholesome castigation to the prodigality Cheap editions of Smollett's and Fielding's nov and corruption of the city fathers. Dr. Hawks els have already been reprinted in this city, and spoke upon the history of the Mecklenburg Declara- we are told that Mr. Thackeray's lectures have tion of Independence, that most interesting event created for them an enormous sale. We see them in the career of North Carolina. The reality of in railroad-cars and on booksellers' counters, and this event has been denied by Mr. Jefferson, and we doubt not that the scenes of vice which they it is understood that Mr. Bancroft has shared, in portray with so much gusto have been made part, the scepticism of the great Virginian on this familiar to thousands of young persons of both point. Dr. Hawks went into a careful analysis sexes, who, but for these attractive lectures, would of the abundant evidence in favor of the declara- never have thought of reading these licentious and tion having been made, and detailed fully the facts immoral tales of a past age. What father or connected with it. Mr. Bancroft was present, mother would be willing to see a son or a daughand it can hardly be doubted that the able and ter engaged upon the pages of Congreve or Fieldconvincing argument of the lecturer will have an ing, that they might be able to test the correctinfluence in modifying his convictions on the sub-ness of the lecturer's critical judgment? Much ject. The rage of the town for a few weeks, how-indignation was a few years ago expressed against ever, has been the discourses of Mr. Thackeray a large publishing house in this city for flooding upon the English comic writers. They have been the country with French novels of a licentious and attended by large audiences, both at the time of disorganizing character. But nothing that Eugene their first delivery and in their repetition. Mr. Sue or Paul de Kock ever wrote can compare for Thackeray has great simplicity and terseness of unmitigated filth and grossness with some of these style, and writes with an idiomatic ease and free-novels which have been made the subject of critical dom which is as rare as it is beautiful. He has a commendation in this course of lectures. If Fieldsalutary horror of all cant and shams, and visits ing is commended under such circumstances, he with just reprobation whatever looks like hypocrisy will be read. or deceit. We were struck, especially, by the These lectures have already created a market absence of all that straining after effect which is for these works, and they are scattering their inso obvious in the most of our professional lecturers. sidious poison in thousands of families, and sapThe effect of this simple, direct mode of expression ping the virtue of thousands of young hearts. upon the audiences who have listened to him, has Genius is no excuse for perilling the dearest inbeen such as to justify his confidence in the good terests of society. It is said that Fielding has wit judgment of the public. It shows that distinct ut- and humor. So have the blackguards who haunt terance, a direct and simple style, and plain good the low theatres and drinking-houses; but shall sense, form the basis of a public lecturer's success. we risk the virtue of the young by taking them to The manner of Mr. Thackeray, both in style and the Bowery Theatre or the beer-shop, in order to utterance, we think better than the subjects which hear this wit and humor? It may be thought he has chosen. We regret that he should use his that we are unduly squeamish on this point, but fine powers of thought and expression for the pur- we ask any person who thinks us so, if he would pose of giving new celebrity and circulation to be willing to read aloud a play of Wycherley or a some of the most objectionable writers in all Eng- novel of Smollett to a sister, a daughter, or a son? lish literature. Wycherley and Congreve, Field-We care not for the genius of these men. They ing, Smollett, and Sterne, have been the subject prostituted the gifts of God to the basest purposes. of a portion of his lectures. These have been listened to by large audiences, mainly of young men and young women.

How, we ask, are these young ladies, who listen to his high commendation of the plays and novels of these writers, to understand his criticism, unless

They catered to the lowest passions of human nature for gain. They were willing to taint virgin purity and adorn the profligate by the gifts of genius, for the paltry pittance which they often spent upon fallen beings whom their writings and example had helped to make vile. We say that

a man of genius, like Mr. Thackeray, has no right | have no doubt as good and orthodox men as he is to disinter these loathsome books from the graves have not hesitated in a past age to do so. This is to which the public conscience of a past age had moreover no test of the morality of a book. There consigned them, and serve them up as the mental are many things proper to be read and known, aliment for the young, the impressible, and the that are not proper to talk, or read aloud about, in pure. a promiscuous gathering of old and young, men and women.