cross buns for breakfast, on Good Friday, prevails in some parts of the country, yet it is in London that it is most rigidly adhered to; and poor, indeed, must that family be, that is doomed to pass the day without the accustomed treat. The pastry-cooks never think of selling any thing else but buns on Good Friday, and from break of day until midnight, the cries of "one a-penny buns; two a-penny buns; one a-penny, two a-penny, hot cross buns," re-echoes through the streets of the metropolis. The grand mart, however, is at Chelsea; the Bun-House there, on Good Friday, affords quite a treat to the cocknies, and is recommended to all strangers as one of the "sights of London," The shop is literally besieged the whole day, and, notwithstanding the presence of a number of constables to keep order, it requires the utmost exertion to get near enough to the window to obtain a supply of the favourite cakes. These buns have afforded a competency, and even wealth to four generations of the same family; and it is singular, that their delicate flavour, lightness, and richness, have never been successfully imitated. In this house are mementos of domestic events, in the first half of the last century. The bottle conjuror is exhibited in a toy of his own age; portraits are also displayed of Duke William and other noted personages. The model of a British soldier, in the stiff costume of the same age, and some grotto works, serve to indicate the taste of a former owner, to witness these princely imitations. At the end of the third Act, his Highness walked forward with dignified step, flourishing nis tomahawk, and cutting the air, exclaiming," Ha, ha-ho, ho!" Next entered a man with his face blackened, and a piece of bladder fastened to his head with gum: the Prince, with a large carving-knife, commenced his scalping operation, which he performed in a style truly imperial, holding up the skin in token of triumph. Next came the war-whoop, which was a combination of dreadful and discordant sounds: lastly, the Abyssinian banquet, consisting of raw beef-steaks; these he made into rolls, as large as his mouth would admit, and devoured them in a princely and dignified manner. Having completed his cannibal repast, he flourished his tomahawk, exclaiming "Ha, ha-ho, ho!" and made his exit. Next day, the manager, in the middle of the market-place, espied the most puissant Prince of Annamaboo selling pen-knives, scissars, and quills, in the character of a Jew pedlar. "What!" said Kemble," my Prince, is that you ! Are you not a pretty Jewish scoundrel to impose upon us in this manner ?" Moses turned round, and with an arch look replied, "Prince be d-d, I vash no Prince; I vash acting like you. You vash Kings, Princes, Emperors to-day-Stephen Kemble to-morrow; I vash humpug-you vash humpug-all vash humpug." and were, perhaps, intended to rival the Useful Domestic Hints. neighbouring exhibition at Don Saltero's. The present proprietor of the Chelsea Bun-House, relates, with exultation, that George II. had often been a customer at the shop; and that his late Majesty, when Prince George, and often during his reign, had stopped and purchased his buns. The late Queen, and all the Princes and Princesses, have also been among his occasional customers. ALL HUMBUG. WHEN Stephen Kemble was manager in Newcastle, and the houses were rather flat, no less a personage arrived in town than Prince Annamaboo, who offered his services for a very moderate consideration. Accordingly the bills of the day announced, that between the Acts of the Play, Prince Annamaboo would give a lively representation of the scalping operation; he would likewise give the Indian war-whoop, in all its various tones, the tomahawk exercise, and the mode of feast ing at an Abyssinian banquet." The evening arrived, and many people attended PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN A THUNDER STORM. FERGUSON, in his introduction to Electricity, says, "persons who are fond of shooting ought never to go out with their guns when there is any appearance of thunder, for as all metal attracts the lightning, if it should happen to break upon the gun barrel, the man who carries the gun would be in the most imminent danger of his life. If he see a thunder cloud near him, the best thing he could do would be to set the gun upright in the ground against any thing that would keep it in that position, and run from it as fast as possible; and then, if the thunder should happen to break upon the gunbarrel, it would run down thereby to the the ground. "As water is a conductor of lightning, a person whose hat and clothes are well wetted will be in less danger from lightning that may break upon his head, because most of it will run down to the ground by his wet clothes. No person ought to go near trees, or stand below FOR A COUGH. OXYMEL of squills, two ounces; syrup of poppies, one ounce: two tea spoonsful thrice a day. The Gatherer. their tops in the time of thunder, for if it should happen to break upon the top of the tree under which he stands, the tree would conduct the lightning to his body. When it thunders, people in a room should keep as far from the walls as possible, especially from that wall in which the chimney is, because, when lightning comes down a chimney, it generally "I am but a Gatherer and disposer of other spreads about the adjoining wall. And it would be advisable for them to put the money out of their pockets. In short, they should have no kind of metal about them if they can help it." J. A. C. RECIPE FOR BURNS AND SCALDS. TAKE an equal weight of coarse brown sugar and good sized onions, shred and beat them together in a mortar to a pulp, and lay on the part affected. In violent cases it will be necessary to repeat the above poultice daily. HENRI. TO DISTINGUISH A SOLUTION OF : 1. TASTE the solution; Epsom salts are bitter; oxalic acid extremely sour.-2. Pour a little tincture of litmus into the solution if Epsom salt be present, the blue will be turned to red.-3. Tincture of cabbage, or any other vegetable infusion, or a slip of litmus test-paper, are all acted upon by the acid, (which changes their colours), but not by the salt. What a pity it is, that people should poison themselves by swallowing the acid instead of the salt, when the method of distinguishing them is so easy!-Chemical Recreations. FOR WASHING CHINTZ, So AS TC TAKE two pounds of rice, and boil it in men's stuff."---Wotton. QUIN meeting two coxcombs one day in Observ'd, with regret, that they both "Indeed you judge right," replied one, you must know, 66 Our physician advis'd, and to-morrow we go Out of town to enjoy the pure air, and to drink Asses' milk every morning for breakfast." "I think A much shorter method I could recommend," Said Quin very drily, "to you and your friend;' To drink it in London?"" How so?" IRISH ADVICE. W. S. "O, dear Mamma," said little Ann, "The ice I was induc'd to take By that kind Irish gentleman, Has really made my stomach ache." Without first taking off the chill.” THE TWENTY-FIFTH OF BY A TENANT. THAT when a lady's in the case, Was once a doubt with me, friend Gay; TO CORRESPONDENTS. When some of our more recent contributors are informed, that we are now inserting communications which we have had by us for several months, they will, we hope, be less clamorous for the appearance of their own favours; and such is the case. Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,) and Sold by all Newsmen and Booksellers. place where Henry V. signed a treaty with Charles, king of France, to whom he gave peace in exchange for his daughter Katherine, an event which is noticed. by Shakspeare in his play of Henry V. This treaty which is called the "Treaty of Troye" is a very memorable one, since it recognized the claim and title of Henry V. to the crown of France, as will. be seen by the following clauses. "Article VI. After the death of king Charles, the crown of France with all its rights and dominions shall remain to the king of England and his heirs. "Article VII. As the king of France is frequently rendered, by his infirmity, in 289 capable to reign, the king of England shall from this day be regent of the kingdom, and govern it according to justice and equity, with the advice of the princes, peers, barons, and nobles of the kingdom.' This treaty was signed the 21st of May, 1420. During the memorable campaign of 1814, Troyes was taken by the allies, retaken by Buonaparte, and again occupied by the allies. It contains a population of 27,000 persons. PERAMBULATION OF PARISHES IN ROGATION WEEK.* (For the Mirror..) THE perambulating of the boundaries in Rogation week is of very ancient origin, and is one of those old usages which is still retained by the reformed church. Previous to the Reformation, the parochial perambulations were attended with great abuses, and, therefore, when processions were forbidden, the useful part only of them was retained. We appear to have derived it from the French, for we find that Mamertus, bishop of Vienna, first ordered them to be observed about the middle of the fifth century, upon the prospect of some particular calamity that threatened his diocese.+ In Gibson's Codes of Ecclesiastical Law we find, that, by an injunction of Queen Elizabeth, it was ordered," that the people shall, once a-year, at the time accustomed, with the curate and substantial men of the parish, walk about the parishes as they were accustomed, and, at their return to church, make their common prayers, provided that the curate, in the said common perambulation as heretofore, in the days of rogations, at certain convenient places, shall admonish the people to give God thanks in the beholding of God's benefits for the increase and abundance of his fruits upon the face of the earth, with the saying of the 104th Psalm, &c.: at which time also the said minister shall inculcate this and such like sentences, Cursed be he which translateth the bounds and doles of his neighbour,' or such other order of prayer as shall be hereafter appointed." There does not, however, appear to be any law by which the observance of this custom can be enforced, nor can the ecclesiastical judges oblige the churchwardens to go their bounds. This is a growing evil, which can only be remedied by an act of Parliament. 6 Parishes in London generally have their bounds perambulated yearly; but many large parishes, on account of the See Mirror, No. 29, for an account of this custom. Le Comte Annal. Eccles. Franc. tom. 1. p. 285. inconvenience, have their bounds perambulated only once in six or seven years, or as custom of the parish leads them. Many distant villages, and remote from London, seldom, if ever, perambulate. Lambeth, a very large parish, has its bounds perambulated every seven years. Dr. Lysons, in his Environs of London, "Middlesex," vol. iii. p. 80, states, that the parochial perambulation existed some little time before the Reformation; and gives a full account of a fray and dispute with respect to boundary, between the perambulators of Isleworth and Heston, parishes in Middlesex, which, perhaps, though lengthy, may hereafter not be unacceptable to your readers. PAULINUS. LIFE IS A CHASE. No one simile so well exemplifies human life as that of a chase. The hunter's rising early in the morning, his anticipating, in idea, the pleasures of the chase, his impatience till he finds the game, are not ill emblems of a young man just entering upon life, elate with hope, impetuous, and ever in quest of new adventures. As in life, so in the chase, there are the pursuers and the pursued, or the oppressors and the oppressed. "Beasts their fellow-beasts pursue, And learn of man each other to undo." The different dispositions and capacities of men, seem to be properly enough displayed by the difference of steeds on which the sportsmen are mounted. There are your steeds of strength, fit to carry weight, slow and sure, resembling your men of phlegin and gravity, calculated for the drudgery of business. There are your high bred, high mettled tits, that beat the field with a light weight, and above ground, not unlike your men of genius, whose imagination will make wonderful excursions; " will glance from earth to heaven, from heaven to earth," but cannot brook the fatigue of a long or close application. In short, there is as much variety in horses as men, and as little judging of one as the other by appearances. The nature of the passions is admirably well held forth by a pack of dogs. When the game is first started, the dogs commonly pursue it for some time with great impetuosity, which sportsmen term a burst. This is commonly succeeded by cold hunting: thus when the violence of passion is abated, consideration takes place. Sometimes indeed the chase is nothing more than an arrant burst; and how many men, or rather bipeds, are there, so eagerly bent upon prejudicial both to himself and others, BON MOTS. To the Editor of the Mirror.) SIR, IT were a pity with a channel of celebrity so respectable as the MIRROR, that any novel bijoux deserving perpetuity should be limited to the scope of its utterance, which notion induces me to mention a few bon mots, vouching at the same time for their originality, and trusting the example may elicit many good sayings from others, for such are occasionally within every one's cogni the gratification of their passions, that they hurry themselves out of life, without ever giving themselves time to think? the office of the huntsman seems to be parallel to that of reason. It is his part to encourage, or check the dogs, as he sees occasion, to remark their good or bad qualities, to pay due regard to those which he can confide in, and to give those that he cannot, the discipline of the whip. It is hers to observe the good or bad tendency of the passions, to encourage their virtuous, to check their vicious propensities, and to keep them all within their proper bounds. Man (it is true) meets with numberless misfortunes, but does he meet with more than the hunter? or is his happiness more precarious? what set of men suffer more than the hunters, from the inclemency of the weather? when the weather will permit them to hunt, how frequently are they disappointed of game? if they find game, what number of causes frequently concur to prevent its pursuit? if a bad scenting day, the dogs cannot run; if they run, what accidents is the sportsman subject to? with some, their horses tumble, others tumble off their horses. Sometimes their horses are tired, sometimes bemired. In short, if we view the chase, as we frequently do life, only on the dark side, we are apt to exclaim in a moralizing strain, that the hunter as well as man, is "of few days, and full of trouble." But place them in another light, and view them only on their bright sides, or through the medium of a flow ing bowl, we then join in the jolly cho"Who are so happy, so happy as Does not the same generous emu- I WAS once in a party rather rudely lation that fires the man, animate the brushed by Mr. Rogers, of punning nohunter? how jealously do they strive to toriety, who was hastening to present outstrip each other in the field? nor can refreshment to my sister, and on his it be denied that this generous emulation pausing to make the amende, I told him sometimes degenerates into envy. The he used me as if I was worth nothing, more disingenuous will secretly chuckle, which apparent slight he very happily when they see a brother in tribulation, or retrieved by smartly rejoining, "You ingloriously lagging behind; others re- cannot be worthless." pine at the chosen few whose lot it is to come in before themselves at the end of rus, we." the chase. It must be confessed, the pursuits of mankind are so numerous, that we cannot find a parallel for them all among hunters. But the resemblance of the hunter and man is in no instance more striking, than in the conclusion of their respective pursuits. They are equally enraptured upon success, and chagrined upon disappointment. In either case they seem to have equal reason on their side, the objects of their pursuit being generally of equal value. If in some instances the acquisitions of the men are preferable to those of the hunter, in others, they are more zance. With thanks for the polite attention you have already shewn your communicant subscribes herself, JANET. THE miserable appearance of the ponys used by the post lads in their vocation to and from the grand depository of epistolary lore, led me to remark, to a friend, that their uniform proportions would lead to the conclusion, that they were all cast in the same mould," true," he replied, "they are intended to go between the posts." The next I scarcely know how to give you, as it may be thought rather un feminine. |
