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died at last, and the nation began to breathe freely. | presented to the queen was by far the most splenThe brief reign of Edward was marked by non-in- did that had ever been published." It is quite terference with the Bible, the people were left to clear. from the circumstances connected with this themselves, and the demand for the Scriptures publication, that it was not undertaken by royal greatly increased; and with it flourished the art command, and that Elizabeth had no property in it of printing. It was, of course, the interest of those whatever. It did not cost her a shilling, nor was engaged in this business to supply the popular the printing of the sacred volume any exclusive demand, and that demand emphatically expressed privilege in the crown printer for the time being. itself in favor of the work of the poor hunted exile. The history of the Bible-printing patent is not During this reign, Tyndale's Bible was printed the least curious or valuable part of Mr. Andermore than thirty times, while of that with Cran- son's work. mer's revision, only half the number was called for.

Elizabeth was economical in her expenditure, and unwilling to call often on the commons for Mary ascended the throne, and hastened to undo supplies; but, in order to have money to reward the work of reformation as far as in her lay, and her favorites, or rather to put them in the way of had it been the work of her predecessors, she getting it themselves, she hit upon the unfortunate might have succeeded. But it was divinely plant- expedient of granting monopolies by patent to cered, and too deeply rooted in the soil to be serious- tain parties, who then farmed or sold them. This ly affected by any changes of earthly sovereigns or evil grew to such an extent that parliament was dynasties. The storm of persecution, however, obliged to interfere. Salt, coal, leather, cloth, blew fiercely. From 800 to 1000 learned Eng-steel, lead, tin, glass, Spanish wool, and Irish lishmen, as well as multitudes of others, were obliged to fly to the continent. A'Lasco, with 157 Poles and Germans, Italians and Spaniards, French and Scotch, all of one faith, left the The and arrived off the Danish coast; but they were not suffered to land, though driven by stress of weather, because they had not signed the Lutheran Confession of Faith!

At home, the new queen, unchastened by adversity, let slip Bishops Gardiner and Bonner, who began to lap blood greedily. "Men and women, of whatever character or condition, even the lame and blind, from the child to the aged man, who had any conscientious opinions, not in harmony with the old learning-all were appointed unto death." In less than four years, it is calculated, that 318 persons perished either by fire, or starvation, or slow torture, or confinement in noisome dungeons. This mortality was greatest in places where the. Scriptures were most read. Sometimes a lot of human beings, in one instance to the number of thirteen, was consumed on the same pile! The surrounding population assembled in thousands "to strengthen themselves in the profession of the gospel, and to exhort and comfort those who were to die." Any persons having books containing "heresy, sedition, or treason," and not immediately burning them, were, "without delay, to be executed according to martial law." At a burning in London, when proclamation had been made, strictly commanding that no one should speak to, or pray for the martyrs, or say, "God help them," a heroic minister cried out-" Almighty God! for Christ's sake, strengthen them!" Immediately with one voice, the whole multitude loudly responded, "Amen! Amen!"

yarn, were thus converted into monopolies for the benefit of individuals. Sir Thomas Wilks was the first who obtained a patent as queen's "printer of the English tongue.'

This naturally alarmed the Stationers' Company, who complained, "that it would be the overthrow of the printers and stationers within the city, in number 175, besides their wives, children," &c., causing "an excessive price of books, and false printing of the same;" and farther, "John Jugge, besides the being her Majesty's printer, hath gotten the privilege for the printing of Bibles and Testaments, the which was common to all the printers."

On the 28th September, 1577, one Barker obtained the extensive privilege of printing the Old and New Testament, of whatever translation, with all notes and comments! In eighteen months, this gentleman expended £30,000 on issues of the Scriptures, so great was the demand. From 1560 to 1603, there were 130 distinct editions of Bibles and Testaments. All this time, the crown did nothing except impose a heavy tax on the purchaser of the Word of God.

We have now arrived at the accession of James, who became the first king of 'Great Britain." Before noticing his connexion with the English Bible, we may as well glance for a moment at the progress of the cause in Scotland.

This country came in for its share of the early importation of Tyndale's New Testament, through the instrumentality of "divers merchants." As usual, the printed word was soon followed by the living voice. Nowhere were the laity more ready to receive the truth, and nowhere was the hierarchy more embittered against it. Hence a series Such dreadful deeds passed not without retribu- of persecutions, whose history is full of the deeption, even in this life. During Mary's reign the est interest, but so well known that we need not Bench of Bishops had put to death five of their attempt to detail any portion of it here, even if our own number, including Cranmer. But, in a little space allowed. The last words of Patrick Hamilmore than the same time, thirty of themselves died ton at the stake were-" How long, O Lord, shall "by the visitation of God;" and such was the darkness cover this realm! How long wilt Thou mortality among the priests generally, that "in suffer this tyranny of man!"-He did not suffer it divers parts of the realm, no curates could be got-long. In 1535, the Scottish parliament passed an ten for money."

In 1568, the tenth of Elizabeth, the first edition of the Bible, superintended by Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, was published. It was revised from the preceding versions by him, in conjunction with certain brethren of the bench and others, and hence called "the Bishops' Bible." "It was a decided improvement on the whole. The copy

act, requiring all persons having the Scriptures to give them up to their ordinary, under the penalty of confiscation and imprisonment. The prohibition was renewed by proclamation in May, 1536. But parliaments, however chosen, must ultimately obey the popular voice. A few more martyrdoms, and Scotland will be free.

On the 1st of March, 1539, the inhabitants of

the most learned men in the kingdom were engaged on it four years; the revision of the translation by twelve of their number, occupied them nine months more; and the sheets were two years in passing through the press. The twelve revisers had 30s. a week each while at work in London; but "before they had nothing."

Fife and Mid-Lothian saw a large fire blazing on the king nor the bishops paid anything for the acthe esplanade of the castle of Edinburgh. Five complishment of this great work. Forty-seven of of the best subjects in Scotland were then consumed in that fire, in the presence of their king, solely because they had read "the book of heresy," which, as one of their executioners said, had "made all the din in the kirk." But Beaton and his party labored in vain that "the New Testament in the vulgar tone should not go abroad;" for in 1543, the parliament enacted "that the Scriptures might be read by all, without any lim-issued in 1611. itation," the prelates, of course, protesting, since they could do no more.

It is remarkable, that "no Bible even so convenient as that of an octavo size, had been printed in Scotland till 107 years after Tyndale's New Testament had been first imported." The Bible, printed on Scottish ground, was not published till seven years after the death of John Knox.-(It is little more than sixty years since the first Bible was printed in America.)-The first Scottish edition of the Scriptures was published at £4, 13s. 4d., and yet the Bible was in almost every house! The fact was, that the English monopoly led to constant importations from Holland; and the superiority of those printed there, is attested by no less an authority than Laud. He said, "the books which came from thence were better print, better bound, better paper, and for all the charges of bringing, better cheap." Such was the working of the patent!

James' characteristic progress from Edinburgh to London, furnished no favorable omen of the spirit in which he was about to assume the awful responsibilities of his office as the vicegerent of God in church and state; in which light he himself regarded it. He hunted most of the way, conferring honors so profusely, that when he reached the capital, he had dubbed 150 knights. During the ensuing summer, the plague broke out, and 6385 persons died in London alone; and ere the year ended, the mortality reached 30,000. Yet James and his merry party kept hunting all the time, and as he and his retainers proceeded from place to place, they brought the plague with them wherever they came.

The AUTHORIZED BIBLE was finished and first

"This venerable translation," says Greenfield, "which has been universally admired for its general fidelity, perspicuity, and elegance, was corrected, and many parallel texts added, by Dr. Scattergood in 1683; by Bishops Tenison and Lloyd in 1711; and afterwards by Dr. Paris at Cambridge. But the latest and most complete revision is that made by Dr. Blayney in 1769, in which the errors found in former editions were corrected, and the text reformed to an unexampled standard of purity."

The cost of the revision in 1611 was £3500, which was paid neither by the church nor the state, but by Barker, the patentee, whose family and their offspring enjoyed this vast monopoly for 132 years, down to the 8th of Anne in 1709, during which time they had a pecuniary interest in every copy of the Word of God printed in England. Thus the public were heavily taxed, with the disadvantage of bad and incorrect printing into the bargain. In a number of impressions they left the word "not" out of the seventh commandment, for which they were fined by Laud.

The monopoly, however, has been defended by lawyers, and even judges, on the plea that the copyright of the Bible was in the crown; because, as they alleged, the translation was made at the king's expense; which notion Mr. Anderson has shown to be a pure historical fiction. The present admirable, though not perfect version, made its way without any act of parliament, proclamation, or canon in its favor; and, in about forty years, gradually superseded all others. This result was accomplished by no human authority, no king, parliament, church, sect, or party. To none of these The king's expenses were extravagant in the does the Bible belong. "It is the property of the extreme. His journey to London and coronation people"-their book. Royal authority, whether cost £30,000, an immense sum in that day. He for or against it, has proved utterly impotent. God spent £40,000 in feasting ambassadors; and himself worked with it, and none could effectually though he sold a number of peerages for consid- hinder. Even the London Polyglot, "the most erable sums, and created an order of hereditary complete collection of the Scriptures ever pubbaronets, for which he got £1000 a piece, yet he lished, and far surpassing all former works of the was plunged so deeply in debt, that the very shop- kind, was published by the people and for the keepers would not give credit to the palace. " My people." lord-treasurer was much disquieted to find money to supply the king's necessities, and protested he knew not how to procure money to pay for the king's diet!" In these circumstances, his majesty was not likely to advance funds for the translation of the Bible.

The number of Bibles and Testaments printed in English from 1800 to 1844 has been estimated as follows:

9,400,000

4,000,000

9,000,000

The British and Foreign Bible Society has
issued
Printed in Scotland independently,
General sales besides these,
Or, in round numbers, 22 millions.
The British and Foreign Bible Society, up to
May, 1844, received £3,083,436, 18s. 3id., and
expended £3,036,698, Os. 3d.

He has, however, the merit of acceding to the proposal for a fresh revision of the Bible, made by Dr. Rainolds, a man of high character, and the most eminent for learning in the kingdom; with whom also, and not with the king, originated the determination to exclude marginal notes from the Since the year 1800, four millions sterling have new version. His majesty approved also of the been spent on the sacred volume in the English selection that had been made of translators, and tongue. It appears now that nearly one million of ordered the bishops to promote the poorest of them this has gone into the pockets of the privileged to livings as soon as they could, and also to contri- printers, over and above the fair profits of their bute money for the expenses of the work ;-which trade! When the patent expired in Scotland, last request they all totally neglected! Neither Bibles became very cheap, and the British and

Foreign Bible Society found it expedient to reduce their prices. But this, in six months, involved them in a loss of £13,000!

"Meantime, the free trade prices in the North could not remain a secret, and before the close of the year the people of England were paying for their English Bible from 150 to 200 per cent. more than in Scotland!"

TRUTH AND BEAUTY.

Oh, sad divorce! the well-spring of our woe,
When truth and beauty thus their bond forget,
And Heaven's high law is at defiance set!

BEAUTY and Truth, in Heaven's congenial cline, Inseparate seen beside the Almighty throne, Together sprung, before the birth of time, From God's own glory, while he dwelt alone ;These, when creation made its wonders known, Were sent to mortals, that their mingling powers What did the London committee now do? Of Might lead and lure us to ethereal bowers. course they agitated the country, and petitioned But our perverse condition here below parliament to save their constituents, and the Chris-Oft sees them severed, or in conflict met; tian public at large, from such an enormous tax on the Bread of Eternal Life, of which they were the official guardians; and availed themselves of their extensive organization and metropolitan posi-'Tis this that good of half its force disarms, tion to do the work of reform effectively. Nothing And gives to evil all its direst charms. of the kind. The secretaries came forward, and See truth with harsh austerity allied, begged "most distinctly to say that they would not Or clad in cynic garb of sordid hue; touch the question of the monopoly at all!" Why See him with Tyranny's fell tools supplied, not? Did not the monopoly touch the society? The rack, the fagot, or the torturing screw, Did it not raise the price of the Scriptures 150 to 200 per cent., for the benefit of private individuals, What wonder, thus beheld, his looks should move Or girt with bigotry's besotted crew; to the great detriment of the cause of truth? Yet, Our scorn or hatred, rather than our love? strange to say, the auxiliary societies were equally apathetic. Not one in London, Dublin, or Edin- See beauty, too, in league with vice and shame, burgh moved. And lending all her light to gild a lie; The society was not to have the glory of this Crowning with laureate-wreaths an impious name, great reform. They were "too many" for GoD Or lulling us with syren minstrelsy to work by. In perfect harmony with the whole To false repose when peril most is nigh; history of the English Bible, marked all along by Decking things vile or vain with colors rare, independence on official authorities or institutions, Till what is false and foul seems good and fair. the monopoly was brought down by three private Hence are our hearts bewildered in their choice, individuals! These were-Mr. Childs of Bungay, And hence our feet from virtue led astray; Dr. Thomson of Coldstream, and Dr. Campbell of Truth calls imperious with repulsive voice London. The latter gentleman threw all his char-To follow on a steep and rugged way; acteristic energy into the movement, and by his While Beauty beckons us along a gay accurate calculations, and powerful appeals through And flowery path, that leads, with treacherous the press, contributed largely to rouse the public

slope,

mind. Monopoly was compelled to capitulate, To gulfs remote from happiness or hope.

and the patentees suddenly reduced their prices Who will bring back the world's unblemished

to less than one half.

Now the press sends forth of copies of the Scriptures in English," 19,000 every week, 3000 every day, 300 every hour, or five every minute of working time!" When this fact is considered in connexion with the increasing predominence of the English language throughout the civilized world, the vast extent of our empire, the rapid growth of our colonies, and the probability that many of them will yet become independent nations, it is fitted to awaken deep solicitude in the Christian mind-to produce an almost overwhelming sense of responsibility, and to call forth the most strenuous exertions, that wherever the accents of our noble language are heard, there the English Bible may be known and valued as the Rule of Faith.

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youth;

When these two wandered ever hand in hand;
When truth was beauty, beauty too was truth,
So linked together with unbroken band,
That they were one; and man, at their command,
Tasted of sweets that never knew alloy,
And trod the path of duty and of joy?
Chiefly the poet's power may work the change;
His heavenly gift, impelled by holy zeal,
O'er truth's exhaustless stores may brightly range,
And all their native loveliness reveal;
Nor e'er, except where truth has set his seal,
Suffer one gleam of beauty's grace to shine,
But in resistless force their lights combine.

Blackwood.

"Not one hour of the twenty-four," says Richardson, not one round of the minute hand of the LORD, My voice by nature is harsh and untunadial is allowed to pass, in which, on some portion ble, and it is in vain to lavish any art to better it. of the surface of the globe, the air is not filled Can my singing of psalms be pleasing to thy ears, with accents that are ours. They are heard in the which is unpleasant to my own? yet though I canordinary transactions of life; or in the administra- not chant with the nightingale, or chirp with the tion of law-in the deliberations of the senate-blackbird, I had rather chatter with the swallow, house, or council chamber-in the offices of private yea rather croak with the raven, than be altogether devotion, or in the public observance of the rites silent. Hadst thou given me a better voice I and duties of a common faith."

Be ours the endeavor that the volume which contains the inspired record of this faith, shall not only be maintained in its supreme authority at home, but borne on the tide of emigration to every land, till it do for the new and rising nations of the west and south still greater things than it has done for Britain!

would have praised thee with a better voice. Now what my music wants in sweetness, let it have in sense, singing praises with understanding. Yea, Lord, create in me a new heart (therein to make melody,) and I will be contented with my old voice, until, in thy due time, being admitted into the choir of heaven, I have another, more harmoInious, bestowed upon me.-Fuller.

CHANGING CARS.

JEAMES ON THE GAUGE QUESTION.

| Craddle, with rose-colored Satting & Pink lace hangings, held up by a gold tuttle-dove, &c. We had, ingluding James Hangelo's rattle & my um

MR. PUNCH has received from that eminent rail-brellow, 73 packidges in all. road authority, Mr. Jeames Plush, the following letter, which bears most pathetically upon the present Gauge dispute :

"You will scarcely praps reckonize in this little skitch the haltered linimints of 1, with woos face the reders of your valuble mislny were once fimiliar-the unfortnt Jeames de la Pluche, fomly so selabrated in the fashnabble suckles, now the pore Jeames Plush, landlord of the Wheel of Fortune public house. Yes, that is me; that is my haypun which I wear as becomes a publican those is the checkers which hornyment the pillows of my dor. I am like the Romin Genral, St. Cenatus, equal to any emudgency of Fortun. I, who have drunk Shampang in my time, aint now abov droring a pint of Small Bier. As for my wife that Angel-I've not ventured to depigt her. Fansy her a sittn in the Bar, smilin like a sunflower-and, ho, dear Punch! happy in nussing a deer little darlint totsy wotsy of a Jeames, with my air to a curl, and my i's to a T!

"I never thought I should have been injuiceed to write anything but a Bill agin, much less to edress you on Railway Subjix-which with all my sole I abaw. Railway letters, obbligations to pay hup, ginteal inquirys as to my Salissator's name, &c., &c., I dispize and scorn artily. But as a man, an usbnd, a father, and a freebon Brittn, my jewty compels me to come forwoods, and igspress iny opinion upon that nashnal newsance—THE BREAK OF GAGE.

"An interesting ewent in a noble family with which I once very nearly had the honer of being kinected, acurd a few weex sins, when the Lady Angelina S- daughter of the Earl of B-cres, presented the gallant Capting, her usband, with a Son & hair. Nothink would satasfy her Ladyship but that her old and atacht famdy-shamber, my wife Mary Han Plush, should be present upon this hospicious occasion. Capting S was not jellus of me on account of my former attachment to his Lady. I cunsented that my Mary Hann should attend her, and me, my wife, and our dear babby acawdingly set out for our noable frend's residence, Honeymoon Lodge, near Cheltenham.

We got on very well as far as Swindon, where, in the Splendid Refreshment room, there was a galaxy of lovely gals in cottn velvet spencers, who serves out the soop, and 1 of whom maid an impresshn upon this Art which I shood n't like Mary Hann to know-and here, to our infanit disgust, we changed carridges. I forgot to say that we were in the secknd class, having with us James Hangelo, and 23 other light harticles.

"Fust inconveniance; and almost as bad as break of gage. I cast my hi upon the gal in cottn velvet, and wanted some soop, of coarse; but seasing up James Hangelo (who was layin his dear little pors on an Am Sangwidg) and seeing my igspresshn of hi- James,' says Mary Hann, instead of looking at that young lady-and not so very young, neither-be pleased to look to our packidges, & place them, in the other carridge.' I did so with an evy Art. I eranged them 23 articles in the opsit carridge, only missing my umbrella & baby's rattle; and jest as I came back for my baysn of soop, the beast of a bell rings, the whizzling injians proclayms the time of our departure-& farewell soop and cottn velvet. Mary Hann was sulky. She said it was my losing the umbrella. If it had been a cotton velvet umbrella I could have understood. James Hangelo sittn on my knee was evidently unwell; without his coral: & for 20 miles that blessid babby kep up a rawring, which caused all the passingers to simpithize with him igseedingly.

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"We arrive at Gloster, and there fansy my disgust at bein ableeged to undergo another change of carriages! Fansy me holding up moughs, tippits, cloaks, and baskits, and James Hangelo rawring still like mad, and pretending to shuperintend the carrying over of our luggage from the broad gage to the narrow gage. Mary Hann,' says I, rot to desperation, I shall throttle this darling if he goes on.' 'Do,' says she- and go into the refreshment room,' says she-a snatchin the babby out of my arms. Do go,' says she, youre not fit to look after luggage,' and she began lulling James Hangelo to sleep with one hi, while she looked after the packets with the other. Now, Sir! if you please, mind that packet!-pretty "Sick of all Railroads myself, I wisht to poast darling-easy with that box, Sir, its glassit in a Chay and 4, but Mary Hann, with the hob-pooooty poppet-where 's the deal case, marked stenacy of her Sex, was bent upon Railroad arrowroot, No. 24?' she cried, reading out of a travelling, and I yealded, like all husbinds. We list she had.-And poor little James went to set out by the Great Westn, in an eavle Hour. "We didnt take much luggitch-my wife's things in the ushal bandboxes-mine in a potmancho. Our dear little James Angelo's (called so in complament to his noble Godmamma) craddle, and a small supply of a few 100 weight of Topsanbawtems, Farinashious food, and Lady's fingers, for that dear child who is now 6 months old, with a perdidgus appatite. Likewise we were charged with a bran new Medsan chest for my lady, from Skivary & Moris, containing enough rewbub, Daffy's Alixir, Godfrey's, with a few score of parsles for Lady Hangelina's family and owsehold. About 2000 spessymins of Babby linning from Mrs. Flummary's, in Regent Street, a Chayny Cresning bowl from old lady Bareacres (big enough to im- "As James was asleep, and I was by this time mus a Halderman,) & a case marked Glass,' uncommon hungry, I thought I would go into the from her ladyship's meddicle man, which were Refreshment Room and just take a little soup; so stowed away together; had to this an ormylew I wrapped him up in his cloak and laid him by his

sleep. The porters were bundling and carting the various harticles with no more ceremony than if each package had been of cannon-ball.

"At last-bang goes a package marked Glass,' and containing the Chayny bowl and Lady Bareacres mixture, into a large white_bandbox, with a crash and a smash. It's My Lady's box from Crinoline's!' cries Mary Hann; and she puts down the child on the bench, and rushes forward to inspect the dammidge. You could hear the Chayny bowls clinking inside; and Lady B.'s mixture (which had the igsack smell of cherry brandy) was dribbling out over the smashed bandbox containing a white child's cloak, trimmed with Blown lace and lined with white satting.

mamma, and went off. There's not near such | not be allowed to wait upon them, or bring them good attendance as at Swindon.

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"We took our places in the carriage in the dark, both of us covered with a pile of packages, and Mary Hann so sulky that she would not speak for some minutes. At last she spoke out

"Have you all the small parcels ?"
"Twenty-three in all,' says I.
"Then give me baby.'
"GIVE YOU WHAT?' says I.
"Give me baby.'

"What have n't y-y-yoooo got him?' says I.

"OMussy! You should have heard her sreak! We'd left him on the ledge at Gloster.

"It all came of the break of gage.”—Punch. GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.

any refreshment, if hungry from the insufficiency of their meals. Their dresses are to be such as a young lady can afford upon twenty pounds a year, finding herself in everything but her victuals, and not having, by half, as much of those as she can eat.

Thus, it may be hoped, will governesses be provided with qualifications high enough, wants few enough, and spirit humble enough, to meet the views of any lady in the land.-Punch.

MUSICAL BEDS.

THERE is a paragraph in the Nonconformist, which states, that some genius has invented a musical bed, that begins to play a tune directly you lie down, and can be wound up to play another tune when you are desirous of waking.

We

There is one advantage about a bed of this deIN furtherance of the objects of this most useful having it well aired by means of the favorite airs scription, namely, that you can always rely on charity, it is in contemplation to establish a school, of some of the most popular composers. for the purpose of preparing young ladies destined should think, however, that there must be some to be governesses, for the situations they are in-tact required in adapting the musical compositions tended to fill. The necessity of teaching those to the required purposes. It would be very injuwho are to be teachers, and of instructing the gov- dicious, for instance, to attempt to send any one to erness how to govern, is obvious; the pupils, ac- sleep with a quadrille of Musard, while to try and cordingly, will learn all the modern languages and wake any one up with a bit of Sebastian Bach, or accomplishments-geography, astronomy, the use a morceau of Juvenile-England classicality, would of the globes, and so much of moral philosophy as be equally preposterous. The invention certainly includes the true principles of education. But as opens quite a new field to many of those longthe social position of a governess is a peculiar one, haired and turn-down-collar composers, who will being, as a novelty, rather uncomfortable, though, now have a splendid chance of bringing their comlike a certain process to which eels are subjected, posing talents to bear upon those who are solicitnothing when anybody is used to it, one great object of this school will be to familiarize the pupils are several rising young men, who have been rising the sometimes-obstinate Morpheus. There with the life they may expect to lead. Its ar- ing for the last twenty years, who are admirably rangements will therefore comprise a system of adapted to the task of setting four-posts and French training calculated for the inculcation of an bedsteads to somniferous music. We presume amount of practical as well as moral philosophy that the idea has been taken from the Chamber adequate to this purpose. concerts, which have recently become popular. To the institution will be attached a servants' Considering the awful infliction it is, to be comhall, wherein, at stated times, will attend a num-pelled to hear the music of certain persons whom ber of footmen and other menials, to intercourse we could but will not name, the addition of their with whom the future governess may be habitu-music to a bed might turn it into a regular lit de ated, and whose insults and impertinences she may justice, or shocking instrument of cruelty. learn betimes to put up with. A nursery will also be connected with it, in order to exercise her patience in the management of refractory children, at which probation the students will take turns. The children will be selected from the most purseproud families, and their mammas will drop in every now and then, daily, and reprimand and find fault capriciously and unjustly with their preceptress, so as to inure her to such treatment. Some charitable ladies of great style in the vicinity of Russell Square, have volunteered their services in this particular. One of these ladies will, moreover, preside regularly at dinner to teach the lan-ster, and suffocate the cymbals with our gooseguage of looks, that the learner may understand, feather bed. We should recommend that, if the from a glance, when she is to refuse wine, or to decline another helping.

Evening parties will be given occasionally, in the schoolroom, and to them will be invited a number of agreeable men, that the "young persons" may know how to behave in society; that is, to hold their tongues and sit still. For the due enforcement of these proprieties, one of the ladies aforesaid will also be present, accompanied by her daughters, by whom the scholars are to be studiously snubbed, by way of a lesson to them in meekness under contumely. The novices, during leisure hours, are to sit in separate apartments, accessible to all the servants, who, however, will

up at any hour, comprises a march, with drum and The arrangement by which one is to be woke cymbal accompaniments. Such a charivari might not be always very welcome when it came; for, though one often goes to bed with a very valiant determination to get up very early, it is extremely natural to alter one's mind by the morning. If we often get angry with the person calling us, and disturbing our rest, what should we say to the drums and cymbals going through a regular march, at a most unseasonable hour? For our own parts we should muffle the drums at once with our bol

pose

principle is carried out, the airs chosen should be
appropriate to the kind of beds they might be
adapted to. "Oh rest thee, babe, rest thee, babe,"
would do very well for an infant's cot, while
Rise, gentle Moon," would be suited to the pur-
of waking a celebrated alderman.-Punch.
A CHEAP TRIP.-Upwards of 7,000 tons of
gravel have been shipped from New York since
September last for the purpose of beautifying the
parks and gardens of London. According to this,
a Yankee domiciled in London would be able to
tread again his native soil without going any fur-
ther than Hyde Park.—Punch.

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