most amusing of the articles is the following letter from Littel did I Think wen I hadvertized in the close, and husbands, was turms not to be sneazed at. S rite to the Outlandish Seckertary, and he was so kind grant. Give the wretched; and, by the cessation of many kinds of labour, becomes a periodical time of distress in most European countries, and, most of all, in our own. And ought this to be? It seems a law of nature in these northern climes that all land animals should in winter herd and congregate for mutual aid, and the mitigation of common hardship. The birds fly in flocks, and strange kinds mingle. The very wolves prowl in bands. Amonging to yung wimin to find them vittles, and drink, a civilized men only, there seems no idea of combin ation to ward off evil. Well may the poor of wealthy countries envy the dormant animals their snug winter habitations, and stores of provisions. The wise man in the fable became a philosopher from observing and following the instincts of animals; and that would be a foolish squirrel or marmot, which did not store nuts in a plentiful autumn, or make hay when the sun shone, (as marmots literally do,) and thus provide for itself and those of its household. But the sun of labour | has been chill, and its fruits scanty of late years in this land; and though kindness, consideration, charity, alms, are all sorry substitutes for what "should be the rewards of independent labour, and the accumulations of industry, they are at this season to be encouraged, and even enjoined as duties, by every sanction which gives man a claim on man. He must have a hard heart, an imperfect sense of justice, or a dull imagination, who can at this time of the year sit down night after night in the glow of a good fire, without once thinking of the suffering of tens of thou.. sands of his deserving fellow-creatures, from pinching cold alone; and that is but one evil of those that go in clusters. Let one, in these intensely cold nights, conceive the alternative mentally debated by many a poor mother, of laying out her last few pence on coals or on potatoes; probably ending in dividing the fractions of her purse into the lowest possible values by which comforts may be purchased, in a land where coined money is in use. Such difficulties are, we fear, of more frequent occurrence than those by which they are neighboured,-of whether the lady shall give the preference to the opera-house or the private party, or go to both-and whether she shall wear, in this cold weather, her velvet robes, or those of French silk. There is something-there is much, radically, inhumanly, sinfully wrong in a social system which we dare to call Christian, and which we pretend is rooted in and buttressed by Christian Institutions. BOOKS OF THE MONTH. HOOD'S COMIC ANNUAL Commences with a comical preface, in which the author denies his comic decease, which was more than insinuated by Miss Sheridan. "The lady," he says, "must be content 'to live and let live; those who have persisted in throwing the pall over me have neither gained their end nor mine." The cuts, though som cof them are exceedingly clever, are, as a whole, inferior to those of Miss Sheridan's Comic Offering, the literary contents better. Among the Wen this coms to hand, go to No. 22 Pimpernel Pla And Mind and go betwext Six and Sevin, For your e sake; cos then the Fammily's having diner. keind love to betty Housmad, and say I am saf of my gu ney to forrin Parts, and I hope master as never Mist ti wine, and brot them into trubble on My acount. But did not like to leav for ever and ever without tretting a Frends and feller servents, and drinking to all there Lir wells. In my Flury, wen the bell rang, I forgot to tak My own Key out of mysis Tekaddy, but I hope sum "T had the thought, and it is good hands, but shall be oblig to no. Lickwise, thro my Lowness of Sperrits, my lov Hares quit went out of my Hed as was promist to be to Gorge, and William, and the too Footmen at the Ne dores. But I hope and trust betty pacified 'em with lox? her hone, as begd to be dune wen I rite from dover. Mary! wen I first see the dover wite cliffs out of s wat with Squeemishness, and Felings, I all most repent givin Ingland warning, And had douts if I was goin ! better myself. But the Stewerd was verry kind, tha could make him no returns, xcept by Dusting the Shi; him, and helpin to wash up his dishes. Ther was 7 moor young wimmin of us, and, By way of passing o tim, We agreed to tell our Histris of our selves, taken b turns. But they all turned out, Alick! we had all lift @ account of Testacious masters, and Crustacious missis and becos the wurks was too much for our strenths, l betwixt us the reel truths was beeing Flirted with, as unprommist by Perfidious Yung Men. With sich es impls befor there Minds, I wonder sum off them ị unprudent enuff to listen to Salers, whom are covere with Pitch, but famus for not stiking to there Wurd Has for mee, the Mate chos to be verry Partickle wan nite, Setting on a Skane of Rops, but I giv Lin his Anser, and lucky I did, for Am infourmed he has Go too more Marred wives in a state of Biggamy Than Goodness wan can marry in New Wurlds without my Since I have bean in my Present Sitiation, I have bad be tween too and three hoffers for My hands, and expex tiza every Day to go to fist-cuffs about Me. This is sumthang lick treetin wimmin as Wimmin ougt to be treetid. of your sarsy Buchers and Backers here as brakes prors like pie-crust, wen it is made Lite and shivvry, And than laffs in your face, and says they can have any Gal round in Square. I don't menshun names, but Eddard as drives: # Fancy bred, will no wat I mean. As soon as ever the Botes rode to Land, I don't agrivate the truth to say the was half-a-duzzin Bows a-peace to Hand us out to she. and sum go so Far as say they was offered to thro' Specks ing Trumpits afore they left the Shipside. Be that as a May or may Not, I am tould We maid a very pritty site all Wauking too and too in our bridle wite gownds, with the Union Jacks afore us, to Pay humbel Respex to Kornel Arther, who behaived verry jentlemanny, and Complementid us on our Hansome apearences, and Purlitely sed he wisht us All in the United States. Servents mite live Long enuff in Lonnon without Being sich persons of Distinkshun. For my hone Part, cumming amung Strangers, and Pig in Pokes, prudence Dicktated not to be askt out. At the Terry furst cumming in, howsummever, All is setlid, and the Match is apruved of by Kornel Arther and the Brightish goverment, who as agreed to giv me away. Thems wat I call honners, as we usid to say at wist ladies," he says, " are imprisoned in stays, and in stays so stiff that to embrace them is like embracing an oak. They stand as bolt upright in this cuirass, as our mulberry-trees with wooden fences put round them when they are still tender. This cuirass renders them as stiff and unbending as a hedge-stake, while our ladies are soft and flexible as a silken cord." During his exile, the Count, infinitely to his honour, obtained a subsistence by teaching the Italian language. This, and other modes of introduction, threw op several English houses to him; and he gives the indoor picture rather cleverly, both of the gentry who enjoy all the luxury and refinement of the opulent nobility, and of the better class" His sketch of this class offers a fair and agree able specimen of a work, which is but the more pot for ita blunders, and cross-range of Englah arts and corrie AN EXGLIH TILLA 22 Of course you and betty will xpect me to indulge in Per. ried. a a TV horses, and the chimie Logan ters ride like fl das for neatly dressed when fa never quarrel with their a the colour of rss and Caree eye" The Count in his praise, and 44 my it to of th all THE AND EDINBURGH WEEKLY MAGAZINE. CONDUCTED BY JOHN JOHNSTONE. THE SCHOOLMASTER IS ABROAD.-LORD BROUGHAM. No. 23.-VOL. II. SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1833. NOTES OF THE MONTH. January takes its name from Janus, the doubleaced gate-keeper of the gods, and the presider wer the Temple of Peace. 1 is the coldest ature. month of the natural, and should be the warm- rds that never leave us are now gathered in • By a series of observations it has been ascertained, that on the avetre, the coldest day of the year is the 12th of January, or New Year's Day, ohi style. PRICE THREE-HALFPENCE. by the severity of the frost. The wag-tails, the wrens, the red-breast, and often the king-fisher, and all the little mute song-birds are flying about in every direction in search of food, through the short sun-shine of the winter's day. Birds in cages are now coming into song; and towards the end of the month, the throstle's note may occasionally be heard. But the out-door glory of January is the Frost, whose silent breathings, even in a single night, change our English or Scottish neighbourhood to Lapland or Bussia. What beautiful, though fantastic and grotesque creations! wilder and more lovely in their jew.. elled splendour than all the wonders of eastern enchantment—" pearly drops and silver plumage, of which it is the pride of art to make, but the faintest imitation. How resplendent a small glade, rich in tall and straggling plants, when struck with frost! But even the commonest field or hedge.row, waxes gorgeous in its winter jewellery. The gemmed, flexile sprays of a single stalk of rye-grass, seem to taste, undebased by sordid associations, worth a prince's ransom. FROST. The Frost looked forth, one still clear night, I will not go on like that blustering train, Then he went to the mountain and powdered its crest, Of the quivering lake he spread A coat of mail, that it could not fear All pictured in silver sheen! This is but the bright view of the heart of winter, a season which aggravates every misery of most amusing of the articles is the following letter from the wretched; and, by the cessation of many kinds of labour, becomes a periodical time of distress in most European countries, and, most of all, in our own. And ought this to be? It seems a law of nature in these northern climes that all land aniLittel did I Think wen I hadvertized in the mals should in winter herd and congregate for Tims for annother Plaice of taking wan in Van Demon's mutual aid, and the mitigation of common hard- Land. But so it his, and hear I am among Kangarooses ship. The birds fly in flocks, and strange kinds and Savidges, and other Forriners. But goverment ofermingle. The very wolves prowl in bands. Amonging to yung wimin to find them vittles, and drink, ani civilized men only, there seems no idea of combin. close, and husbands, was turms not to be sneazed at. Sei ation to ward off evil. Well may the poor of rite to the Outlandish Seckertary, and he was so kind as wealthy countries envy the dormant animals their grant. snug winter habitations, and stores of provisions. The wise man in the fable became a philosopher from observing and following the instincts of animals; and that would be a foolish squirrel or marmot, which did not store nuts in a plentiful autumn, or make hay when the sun shone, (as marmots literally do,) and thus provide for itself and those of its household. But the sun of labour has been chill, and its fruits scanty of late years in this land; and though kindness, consideration, charity, alms, are all sorry substitutes for what "should be the rewards of independent labour, and the accumulations of industry, they are at this season to be encouraged, and even enjoined as duties, by every sanction which gives man a claim on man. He must have a hard heart, an imperfect sense of justice, or a dull imagination, who can at this time of the year sit down night after night in the glow of a good fire, without once thinking of the suffering of tens of thou.. sands of his deserving fellow-creatures, from pinching cold alone; and that is but one evil of those that go in clusters. Let one, in these intensely cold nights, conceive the alternative mentally debated by many a poor mother, of laying out her last few pence on coals or on potatoes; probably ending in dividing the fractions of her purse into the lowest possible values by which comforts may be purchased, in a land where coined money is in use. Such difficulties are, we fear, of more frequent occurrence than those by which they are neighboured,-of whether the lady shall give the preference to the opera-house or the private party, or go to both-and whether she shall wear, in this cold weather, her velvet robes, or those of French silk. There is something-there is much, radically, inhumanly, sinfully wrong in a social system which we dare to call Christian, and which we pretend is rooted in and buttressed by Christian Institutions. BOOKS OF THE MONTH. HOOD'S COMIC ANNUAL Commences with a comical preface, in which the author denies his comic decease, which was more than insinuated by Miss Sheridan. "The lady," he says, "must be content to live and let live;' those who have persisted in throwing the pall over me have neither gained their end nor mine." The cuts, though som cof them are exceedingly clever, are, as a whole, inferior to those of Miss Sheridan's Comic Offering, the literary contents better. Among the Wen this coms to hand, go to No. 22 Pimpernel Plaits, And Mind and go betwext Six and Sevin, For your on a sake; cos then the Fammily's having diner. Give my keind love to betty Housmad, and say I am saf of my gunney to forrin Parts, and I hope master as never Mist the wine, and brot them into trubble on My acount. Bat I did not like to leav for ever and ever without tretting my Frends and feller servents, and drinking to all there fair. wells. In my Flury, wen the bell rang, I forgot to taki My own Key out of mysis Tekaddy, but I hope sum wan had the thought, and it is good hands, but shall be oblegad to no. Lickwise, thro my Lowness of Sperrits, my lox of Hares quit went out of my Hed as was promist to be gv to Gorge, and William, and the too Footmen at the Next dores. But I hope and trust betty pacified 'em with lot of her hone, as begd to be dune wen I rite from dover. Û Mary! wen I first see the dover wite cliffs out of site. wat with Squeemishness, and Felings, I all most repentid givin Ingland warning, And had douts if I was goin to better myself. But the Stewerd was verry kind, tho' I could make him no returns, xcept by Dusting the Ship for him, and helpin to wash up his dishes. Ther was 50 moor young wimmin of us, and, By way of passing our tim, We agreed to tell our Histris of our selves, taken by turns. But they all turned out, Alick! we had all lift of account of Testacious masters, and Crustacious missises, and becos the wurks was too much for our strenths, but betwixt us the reel truths was beeing Flirted with, 23. unprommist by Perfidious Yung Men. With sich elimpls befor there Minds, I wonder sum off them was unprudent enuff to listen to Salers, whom are covered with Pitch, but famus for not stiking to there Wurds Has for mee, the Mate chos to be verry Partickkr wan nite, Setting on a Skane of Rops, but I giv him his Auser, and lucky I did, for Am infourmed he has. Got too more Marred wives in a state of Biggamy Thank Goodness wan can marry in New Wurlds without mates Since I have bean in my Present Sitiation, I have had be tween too and three hoffers for My hands, and expex the every Day to go to fist-cuffs about Me. This is sumthing lick treetin wimmin as Wimmin ougt to be treetid. Na of your sarsy Buchers and Backers here as brakes promes like pic-crust, wen it is made Lite and shivvry, And then laffs in your face, and says they can have any Gal round tas Square. I don't menshun names, but Eddard as drives the Fancy bred, will no wat I mean. As soon as ever the Botes rode to Land, I don't agrivate the truth to say their was half-a-duzzin Bows a-peace to Hand us out to shor and sum go so Far as say they was offered to thro' Specking Trumpits afore they left the Shipside. Be that as it May or may Not, I am tould We maid a very pritty site |