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Advent of the Mosquito
11 50
Again the gaunt mosquito comes,
That brigand albs night
With nil his starving family,
To put my dreams to flight,
And try and settle his 'mall bill,
And take a draft at sight!
I hear again the dreadful sound
That tell• sae who is nem;
I hear Inns wind hit horrid horn.
And whet his poisoned spear:
He sounds the battle blast, and aht
I feel that he it here!
I beat the air. I seem to wage
With friends an an idle feud:
my hope•, like poor Oahelies.
Are blasted in the bud;
I'm vanquished in a single rotund,
And he attains "fires blood!"
In vain the rank cigar! smoke.
Quite wild and desperate grown;
I try in vein to drive him out.
And shut the window down;
For still I bear those tranquil pipes
Monotonously drone!
Like Cook amai; the cannibals,
'N. , wriest. to appeal.
Or like a mummy wind myself
In sheets from head to heel;
The hungry wretch has picked me out
To male himself a meal!
❑i< Pucker, like a burglars drill,
Would pierce on iron door!
lie loves, as Alexander clid,
To wilde . in !mama gore!
Like Everett, l,c is always dry,
Like Cobb, a perfect bore.
But. es, his feu t! may not suffice
All merit to ellhee;
For sinner never vet was born
Without some spark of grace;
philanthropby,
ile loves She human race!
Ho cameo by night, a• angels do,
To chant Id. loathing hymn;
He hovercth over the baby's coucb
lust like the cherubim,
By day lic wadeih in the swamp;
Ilia legs are long and slim.
Old bear me to some frozen waste,
Where .pnLtr tempests blow:
On irmn oil I %Olt gaze onneoved,
Or fireenlntul's glare of snow,
And be content to pars my' days
Among tbe I,:r.rinitnnuat
For the Spy
An Australian Sketch.
11 ELBottRNE
The view from a ship at anchor in ll.ob
sons Bay is very beautiful. To the West
ward are the Barrabool Hills, with their
fields of wheat shining like molten gold in
the sun, And the dim visiun of Mount Mace
don faintly looming afar. At the water's
edge lies Williamstown, just far enough off
to !rave its deformities hidden by the friendly
cloah of distance ; to the east Sandridge
and its busy cluster of boatmen, the far
fame l "Station Peak" in the lack ground,
and in front Melbourne itself, with its grown
up daughter, Collingwood, looking (thanks
to the rising ground co which it is built) a
good deal bigger than it really is.
The lack of church steeples and other
prominent architectural points gives the
stranger who sees Milbourne for the first
time an unfavorableitnpression. When you
approach most large cities, the monotony
of the roofs seems to be broken at intervals
by domes, towers and spires, but in Mel
bourne the sharpest eye can only detect two
little dome•topped towers, one square tower
and a very moderate spire. The two domes,
somewhat like magnified pepper boxes,
belong to the Cathedral, a venerable and
exceedingly dirty edifice, presided over by
an excellent, though rather slow-coach body '
of divines, assisted by a staff of subordinate
curates, who are serving their apprentice
ship here, and occasionally doing journey.
work in country parishes. To a stranger it
seems odd to see a regiment of soldiers
marsh gravely into church, the privates ,
taking seats reserved for mem and the
officers mingling their Rd coats among the l i
congregation. They have a clerk here too,
a stout man with a hoarse voice, whose face
reminds you of Old Port. Every little while
as occasion requires he fires off e. loud
Amen, with a sharp report, a.a if he was a
musket. The music is very good indeed.—
The minister, who to-day is one of the ap
prentices entertains us with a short sermon
upon 'Wars and Rumors of Wars" not mulch
to the edification of the soldiers, who Sit bolt
upright behind their stiff stocks and dont
appear as if they understood a word about
it, with the exception of the drummer, who
takes copious Mates on the head of his drum.
So we get through the .service, the officers
c:mo out from the congregation holding
their cocked hats high above their heads
lest the fur receive damage, the regiment
forms into marching order, the organ strikes
up and so does the band and away we all
go, Sonic to Rink and some to "The Girl I
left hehiud me."
Thp square tower belongs to St. Paul's
church, situated pear Prince's Bridge which
crosses the )Farm yarn, and which (the
bridge) is to the inbahitants of Melbourne
the most wonderful piece or architecture in
the world. It is a simple bridge of two
arches, built orstone in a Tory plain style,
but as there, is no other stone bridge in the
Colony and it cost a great dual of money,
they think there is nothinglike 4.r.nywhere;
lam sonowhat of their opinion. The spire
visible from the Bay belongs to St. Peter's
church, the prettiest ecclesiastical edifice io
Victoria, situated at the bead of Great
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CIIEAtP AS RE-11)114G, Welt ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLYNIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 7 , 1860.
Bourke Street and cn the dividing Hoe, so
to speak, between. Collingwood and Mel
bourne. These three .churches are of the
Church of England or Episcopal persuasion
and are the only churches of any architec
tural beauty in tlse eity with the exception
of a fine Roman Catholic Cathedral, which
has as yet no spire, and to raise money for
the erection of which every person who
enters the doors is summarily "boned" fur a
shilling.
Melbourne boasts of several suburbs—
Heidelberg, Richmond, Cullingwood, Prah
ran, St. Kilda, &c., some of which are
beautifully situated and present a great
number of pretty private residences, general
ly in the villa style, with an acre or so of
ground, and inhabited for the most part by
the better class of storekeepers, merchants
and professional gentlemen. Of the sub
urbs, St. Kilda is the moat aristocratic, be
ing situate on the sea-beach, and is conse
quently quite a fashionable resort in the
summer season. There are one or two large
female academies here, and we sometimes
see the pupils taking a dismal walk along
the beach, under guard of a file of teachers.
There is also a debat ng society in this se
lect retreat, where the questions of the day
are discussed in a. learned manner by the
St. Kilda youth. The land question seems
to be a favorite topic with these young
aspirants for fame. It has long been a
ratata questio with the heads of Govern
ment.in Victoria and consequently affords
an ample field for the exercise of the
juvenile debater. One evening while I wos
sitting among the audience, an amused
listener, one young gentleman, who had
been carrying all before him in the full tide
of declamation on this inexhaustible subject,
proposed, that in order to encourage the
sale of waste lands in the interior, all per
sons should be permitted to buy land at the
rate of Five Shillings per acre, not in less
quantities than one hundred and sixty acres,
on a credit of two years, provided within
that time each pjrchaser should fence in
his allotment with a good and substantial
two rail fence. Ijaving struck out this idea
our young orator panstd. I could see that
the Commissioner of Crown lands himself
was impressed, the ladies, especially the
speaker's two maiden aunts, were in rap
tures, and the debater was proceeding to
enlarge upon the manifold advantages of
su 311 a system, when au old hand behind
me, who hadn'tany respect for persons, and
Looked as though he had bean on a spree for
a week got up and asked-" Where the devil
the wood was to come from ?" On the
interior there are almost interminable plains,
without a stick of timber.) I really felt for
the young fellow. Ile collapsed in a minute
and the Commissioner breathed freely
again
Upon another occasion I heard thou
mannikins (not one of wbutn was over six
teen years of age) gravely debating whether
the best interests of society did not demand
that every man should marry. I have no
doubt that the spinster portion of the audi
ence at once decided this 9uestion in the
affirmative in their own minds, but I ques•
Lion how far they would go in allowing these
juveniles the full acceptation of the term
bfAV.
In the year 1853 there wee not a single
public library of any note in Itlelbourne.—
There is a small one belonging to the
Mechanic's Institute, a species of Lyceum,
which is well conducted and pretty well
patronized. There were few private libra
ries numbering more than three or four
hundred volumes. Still it was not to be
expected that in the infancy of the Colony,
and especially a Colony where the main end
was money-getting, that much attention
should be paid to such things. The new
corners thought of other things besides books
and rending, and the old residents,
_princi
pally convicts, had no taste for them. But
as people began to settle and make Aus
tralia their home for life, the habits of old
began to come back, and the Mechanic's
Institute has now a library numbering four
of five thousand volumes. These however,
are mostly works of the lighter 'character.
Of valuable works of reference there are
comparatively none.
Collingwood and St. Kilda each boast
their circulating library and reading room,
both upon rather a small scale; and there
is a fair attendance at the reading rooms.—
The slight demand for valuable works, and
the groat distance from England render th e
price of books very high, and any increase
to either public or private libraries is neces
sarily very gradual, The news-room is the
most frequented. Every man loves to hear
from home and read home news, and the
rooms which keep files of the leading foreign
papers are crowded every night,
There is a Sacred Music Society here, but
it languishes. The Australians are not yet.
as a body sufficiently cultivated to enjoy the
higher class of music, whether vocal or
instrumental. The singers themselves are
inefficient and the conductor, whoever he is,
is by no means capable of undertaking a
conductor's duties. I went one night to hear
the "Messiah" performed. The room was
moderately filled. The overture was pretty
well played, though of course both that and
the subsepieni choruses lacked the power
which forms a leading element in their
grandeur. After the first recitative and
aria, the orchestra ran away and started off
into the opening symphony of the awning
chorus, "And the glory of the Lord." The
conductor ran after them with hi; baton
and tried to catch up with them. The
singers having a few bars rest counted ac
cording to the conductor's time and came in
three bars behind of the orchestra, which
created a delightful confusion. There was
nothing left but to try it again. So nil be
ing brought up to the starting point the
word was given and the orchestra led off
again. The chorus didn't mean to be too
Into this time, so the altos came in a bar too
soon, and the rest of the parts having their
cue from the altos came in too. rho-chorus
and orchertra each thought themselves
right, and neither would give in to the
other, and so on they went, consequently
the chorus got to the winning post first, and
the orchestra a bar behind. But it did just
as well for the audience, for they applauded
vociferously. As for the conductor, he was
distanced at an early stage of the heat, and
bet a bar or two frantically after they had
all done.
A few of the solos were Very well sung.
The Hallelujah chorus went off very well,
with the exception of a slight error made
by the violincello player, who got hold of
the music of "All we like sheep," and played
that chorus perseveringly to the end. He
got through long before the rest of them,
and had time to wipe his spectacles and
take a pinch of snuff with the air of a man
whose trials on earth are ended.
The crowning feature of the evening was,
to me at least, the magnificent recitative
and Bass Solo "The Trumpet shall sound."
There was not a trumpet player in all Mel
bourne, and so an obliging young amateur
volunteered to play the accompaniment on
the flute. Shade of Handel!
The taste for ballads and song music has
led to the establishment of many curious
places of entertainment, totally unlike any
thing we have in America. They are called
"Free and Easies," and are generally held in
a room belonging to or connected with some
second or third rate public house. Of course
the main object of the publican is to sell the
greatest possible quantity of grog. Some
hire quite a corps of performers, and think
the increased attraction amply repays the
increased expense, while the majority sim
ply hire a pianist to accompany the songs,
and a waiter to supply the. liquor, leaving
the company to their own resources as to
the songs themselves. A pianist at a place
of this description has no sinecure. He
Must be thoroughly acquainted, practically
if not theoretically, with his instrument,
and must be able to modulate into any key
at a moment's notice, for every man sings
She song ho knows best in the key which
suits him best, so that if he finds the first
line to high for him becomes down a note or
two without any premonitory symptoms, and
often sadly disconcerts hie necompanyist un
less he is a thorough master of the art of
"ramping." Frequently the pianist plays
an introductory symphony and the singer
starts off half a tone higher or lower, in
which event the only resource of the accom
panyist is to hammer the right key into him
by drowning his voice if possible, or try to
get into his key with as little disorder ns
may be, for the pianist is invariably blamed
as "a. muff" if he fail to hide the at tist'e
deficienoies. It is not, however, an easy
matter always, to drown the singer's voice,
especially if be is an old band or a sailor,
for in either*case he shuts his eyes and open
ing his mouth shouts with stentorian voice
that "Be-et.sy—was—a—cha-n.a n-rming
maid;"—no human effort can drown his
voice; you might as well try to outroar Xi.,
agara.
The favorite air seems to be Ben Bolt. I
have heard of him so often and from so
many different people that I have often
heartily wished that be had been laid under
the "stone of granite so gray" in place of
the fair Alice, before he was ever permitted
to afflict humanity with his yarn. I consid
er him worthy to go down to infamy in com
pany with "The Old Folks at home." The
last mentioned family and Ben Bolt have
retarded the onward progress of music at
least half a century;
The English are the great patrons of this
species of amusement, and they have a va
riety of self-glorifying songs which are sure
to call forth thunders of applause. I used
to think my own countrymen were slightly
given to bragging, but since I . have resided
in Australia I have had reason to change
my opinion, and I think I may safely say.
that n beery Englishman, for downright ri•
dieulons self-conceit, beats us hollow.—
There is a song of which the first words is
as follows, which never fails to awake slum
bering John Bull to a sense of his own
greatness:
There's a land that bears a noble name,
Though but a little spots.
'Tin the first on the blazing scroll of fame.
And who shall aver (I'm not.
"Knock that chip off my shoulder"—says
the schoolboy.
Let a stout, porter-bloated Englishman
sing this song in a grbff bass voice to a com
pany of his countrymen, accompanied by an
energetic pianist, and give all the country. I
men privilege to join in the chorus, and you
will see as pot.valiant a orowd as ever oam
phone shone upon, fully able to 'thrash all
the world and the '3lerikins beside—"and
who shall aver they are not?"
Let us go to Brown's free and easy, at the
Corkscrew Inn, in King street. After hear
ing Ben Bolt, the White Squall, and one or
two other songs, a coupler of diggers an
nounce to the gratified audience that they
will favor theta with a .duett. - After quali
fying themselves for the exertion by a nob
bler each, and rolling up their sleeves aas
though, they were going to fight each other.
digger No. one throws back his head, and
commences in a stentorian voice. "De-e-
ser-er-ted by-y the way-ay- - ning moon." I
Digger No. 2.—" Hold a rainnit aim"—
(Pianist perplexed,) "Now ire away."
Digger No. I.—" Who goes there?"
Digger No. 2.—" Wot yer 'bout, that don't
come next."
Digger - No. I.—"A friend," (sotto voce,
"why don't you sing.")
Digger No. 2.—" But should some hap
less"—. (Pianist stops.)
Diggers, in. unison—(lo Pianist).—"W'y
in 'ell, don't you play?"
Pianist insinuates in mild terms that it is
totally impossible to accompany two per
sons when singing in different keys. This
is incomprehensible to the diggers, but it
being evident that there is a screw loose
somewhere they mercifully forego the duett,
and invite the company generally to take a
drink, to which invitation they cordially re
spond.
Let us leave the Cockscrew and go to the
"Union," in Great Bourke Street. This is
the fashionable resort. You can get a sher
ry cobbler here if you like. There is an
American barman here, and plenty of Amer
icans in the room. The barman is acquaint.
ed with all the mysteries of whiskyskins,
brady smashes, gin cocktails, and the vari
ous beverages known to Young America,
nor is he ignorant of the merits of Colonial
drinks, spiders, stone fence and shandygaff.
We procure our cobblers, they are very
good, but lack one essential ingredient—
ice. Sometimes wo have a little, and then
it sells for about a dollar a pound, at re
tail.
Let us listen. "The Chough and Crow"
—and very nicely sung. Now a. pause—
Who is this lady in a modest flame colored
satin, with a bright, intensely bright red
turban on her head! That is Madame
Squallini Carandini, the Melbourne pet. See
how stormily the citizens receive her.—
Hark! the opening notes of "Ali! non
giunge." She sings it pretty well, but it
doesn't troika a corresponding fervor in the
bosoms of the audience. Their mingling is
done with the grosser materials of brandy
and water. She feels the lack of enthusi
asm and by a poetic license much in vogue
here glides gradually off into Ben Bolt.
There she touches them. That blue sbirted
fellow eating bread and ham in the corner
sits paralyzed, and holds his uplifted jack
knife with a bit of ham on it, in nn eestacy
of enjoyment. Having heard the air before
we listen with tolerable composure, but the
audience, stirred from their apathy, rise en
mane and shout out the concluding line in
unison.
"Ben Bolt or THE SALT SE A WAVE."
Catharine Hayes is singing nearly oppo
site. Let us go over and hoar. Not a very
full house. Music as an art is not well ap
preciated here. People would rather go to
see Jabobs the Wizard juggle, with his in
exhaustible bottle. "But," says Fogy who
"does" the theatricals for the Argus, "we
of Melbourne have some tnste. See the
crowds which went to see Miska Ilaager,,the
violinist."
True, Fogy, but they didn't go because
they loved music, or truly appreciated the
artist's skill. They had heard that he jug
gled curiously with the violin. They had
seen people juggle with cups and balls, and
cards, and inexhaustible bottles, but they
had never seen anybody juggle with the vio
lin before, so they went to see Mieka Hau
ser, and they thought he did it very well.
Do you suppose that one of Haydn's
Quartettes, or Beethoven's C. Minor would
attract tut audience? a few would go to hear
them if they became fashionable, bu t u tterly
unable to appreciate such works. The Mel
bourne aristocracy go to hear Catharine
Hayes, for the same reason that our upper
tandem do—fashion's sake. Do you suppose
thal old Pogrom, who thinks of nothing but
the rise in flour, and characterizes Alboni
as "the fat woman" cares anything about
the opera except as a thing demanded from
him by his social position as the father of
the young P's and the husband of Mrs.-P ?
What is Pogram Juuior doing there in the
lobby? Is he listening to the music, or is
he arranging with young Noodle about that
hundred he lost at vignt-et-un last night,
and praying "an extension" as the brokers
have it. lam afraid that Mrs. P. herself,
obese and good natured as she looks is
secretely yawning behind her fan, wishing
herself in the Pogrum bed. Fashion and
art are the same every where, but Fashion
is seldom prone.to love art for its own sake.
Even here in the Theatre Royal in the
Metropolis of the Antipodes the same truths
prevail, and people, sit and stare and flirt
and yawn in the same style as at home.—
The Melbourne ton go to the Opera, where
one Artist sings in French, another in
Italian and Elvin& mourns the infidelity of
Amine in the best cockney vernacular.*
The few ladies sit and yawn in solitary
grandeur in the boxes, stare at each other
and criticise Mies Clark's new bonnet and
wonder bow many sheep her cloak is worth,
and the patres familiar get together in the
lobby and discuss the ministerial policy and
"Murphy's new Scab Act." The critics
and music lovers sit in the pit and enjoy
the Ah I non ginage, which being harpily
finished we go to the Albion and to bed.
Melbourne was laid .out by Governor
Flinders in a rectangular shape, wills streets
running due North and South and due East
and West. The streets which run Easterly
n have often men Norma and La Paonamt,ol■
in four different langnegee. and mime of the effeet.‘,
noPenielly In daett and tr o passages, were particular
ly Materna.
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had narrow lanes behind each, for stable
-conveniences and the like, but the immense
rise in property caused by the gold dis
coveries rendered these lanes too valuable
to be reserved for any such purposes, and in
a few of them a good deal of business is
done. In Flinders lane for instance are the
offices of some of the leading mercantile
houses. Elizabeth street is the main street,
running Northward from the river, and is
rife with public houses. All the streets
running North and South are two chains in
width and might be made noble thorough
fares. Across these run the streets and
lanes before mentioned, the lanes taking
the name of the streets to which they
formerly belonged, as Collins street little
Collins street, Great Bourke street, little
Bourke street and so on. Following the
northerly extension of King street we come
to Batman's Hill about a mile from the
river, where an arrangement of flags and
balls informs all Melbourne whenever a
bark, ship, or steamer has arrived or is in
sight. Farther on, on the other side of the
bill, is North Melbourne, a suburb fast
becoming incorporated with Melbourne pro
per, and already boasting two or three pret
ty churches. Still further on we come to
the University, a fine collection of buildings,
surrounded by beautifully laid out groun , ls.
I can not speak as to the quality of the
instruction imparted to the Melbourne
youth. I have no doubt but there in an
efficient staff of professors, but in the news.
papers one Professor Hearn seems to be at
the head of most, of the sciences. He
copies the professorship of mental ploiloso
ploy in the University, but we find him one
evening delivering a lecture in the Mechan
ics' Institute on the nature of the Gases, on
another occasion addressing a public meet
ing on the Rights of Labor, entering into
controversies with Divines on disputed points
of theology, recommending Triangle's new
edition of Euclid, and writing a cheerful
disquisition on the Greek Particles.
Near the University is a fine Cemetery,
containing about forty-six acres, in which
each religious denomination has its appoint
ed quarter, and sectional distinction is kept
up even under ground.
To a stranger the streets of Melbourne
present a strange and curious appearance.—
The buildings are of the most varied char
acter—the wooden shanties of old Mel
bourne side by side with the stone architec
ture of later days—within a few yews some
very fine buildings have been erected, five
or six new banks, and several blocks of stores.
New Houses of Parliament have been re
cently finished in tasteful style, but as a
general rule the public buildings are no or
nament to the city. The much vaunted
Town Hall is a hideous piece of architecture,
and looks somewhat as the St. Nicholas might.
if painted black.
In Melbourne every tenant or lessee pays
half the expense of paving in front of his
building, if he doesn't care to pave it the
corporation won't compel him to do so.—
Consequently the side-walk is broken up in
; to little intervals of mud and stone, ex
tremely detrimental to well polished boots.
Generally those whom business compels to
go into the streets wear knee . boots of ja
panned leather, so that a few moments im
mersion in the flowing gutter removes all
the mud. India-rubber overcoats have al
most entirely superseded umbrellas:
It seems very odd to see drays drawn by six
or eight bullocks in the street, and to bear
the shouting and whip-wacking of the dri
vers—to see red shirted diggers riding hor
ses at full speed and shouting with all the
force of their lungs—to see on one side an
Australian aboriginal with his boomerang
and spear, and on the other side a little boy
petitioning to be allowed to black your boots
for a penny—to see the troopers come into
town escorting a huge wagon full of gold
dust—but the strangest of all sights is an
Australian wedding among the lower class.
The amiable landlord of the North Star
one day mentioned to two or three of us as
an inducement to stop a day longer in his
house, that a couple were to be married next
morning, so we staid to see the fun. in
Australia when parties aro married accord
ing to the Church of England form, the cer
emony must take place before twelve o'clock
at noon—and about eleven the happy bride
groom, who had previously been a sailor
and was now a digger . , drove up in great
style to the door of the Hotel. A friend who
came to sot as groomsman and see fair play
soon arrived in n dog-cart, bringing with him
largo supplies of cakes, boiled hams, &c.,
without which he evidently thought the mar
riage would be null and void. They went
into the private tap-rootn together and were
rapturously received by the bride, who was
dressed to a fearful extent and who held be
tween her delicately gloved hands a pewter
utensil containing a pint of shandygaff, of
which shesid the bridesmaid amicably par
took: Oa the arrival of the groom he imme
diately erdored "nobblers of old Tom" all
round which being accordingly produced he
proposed as an appropriate hymeneal toast,
"Liere's luck." Full justice having boon
done to this sentiment, and the courage of
the bridegroom having been further stimu
lated by a private nobbler at the bar, the
party took their places in the vehicles pre
pared and departed for the church, leaving
the edibles in charge of the landlord. The
bridegroom was evidently a little frightened,
but the bride was an old stager at this sort
of thing, haviou been married twice before.
s rid went into action with the composure of
a veteran.
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The actual ceremony we did net see, but
shortly the groomsman and bridesmaid re
turned alone, and after fortifying them
selves in the usual manner, disclosed the
fact that after the knot was tied the bride
groom in his exhibition of spirits bad up
set the dog cart and spilled his newly ac
quired treasure into the mud, bat that no
serious damage was done—This fact was
soon proved by the arrival of the groom and
bride in woful plight, the mud of Melbourne
being of a peculiarly tenacious character,
and in the present instance plastering the
newly married couple from head to foot.--
They were attended to the door by a select
committee of the Melbourne loafers, who
expressed their gratification in unmeasured
terms, and for whom the bridegroom, with
characteristic liberality, “shouted".
We didn't see the wedding party again
until evening when an agonizing noise of
fiddles and a barrel organ was heard up
stairs, and the compliments of the pair
were conveyed to the company in the house
by the landlord, and we were cordially
invited to assist nt a dance to be held in.
I honor of the occasion, and for which pur
pose the fiddles and other inArtunents of
torture had been collected. We accepted
the invitation. Oct entering the room we
I found the groom dressed in a blue coat, an
lextreme white shirt with a vast expanse of
collar, and a bright red silk handkerchief
round his neck. The bride was dressed in
white, with pink cotton gloves as a relief of
colour. Her hair, which was—let us speak
modestly—of a bright auburn was curled by
'the barber's art into various little nobs and
also tied with pink ribbon, which 'imparted
a delicate bloom to the cheek of the twice
widowed bride. There were three or four
other ladies in tile room, one of whom I
recollected as having condescended to do a
little washing for mo at the reqfiest of the
landlord, and another who was interested
in a mangle over the way. The other two
were strangers. Several individuals of the
masculine gender were also present, one of
whom was a sailor. This gentleman was
kind enough to favor us with Black eyed
Susan which ho sang with a voice like a
strong gale, greatly to the satisfaction of the
company, who joined in the chorus with a
vigor that made the very glasses rattle.—
On our arrival obviously the first thing to
do is to take a drink all round, including
the Indies; to do these latter justice 'Sey
require but little persUasion, and tlie wash
erwoman in particular disposed of belt a
pint of in and water without exhibiting the
least emotion. After.the drink we all stand
up• to dance. What tho figure is no mortal
man nor woman can tell. Wo all arrange
ourselves in line of battle, the ladies' on one
aide, gentlemen opposite. The fiddles being
brought up within .half a tone of the barrel
organ off we go all together. First a species
of advance and retreat, then' another ad
vance and.cross over, advance and retreat
and then advance and cross back again, and
that.compriees the whole figure. At what
stage of the tune to cross over we are tot al
ly unable to find out, the ladies' seeming to
be governed by no particular rule, eo eve
all dance away, advance and retreat as the
rest do, but I am ashamed , to say without
that vigor of heel-which characterizes the
other dancers, the -bride in particular foots
it like an etherial , elephant, and the wash*
erwoman, affected pbisibly- by the gin,
dances to a time of her own, leaving her own
timc,for crossing °iterated pursuing her own
figure with a total disregard of -any•differ •
once of opinion on the pin of the other
i dancers. We ourselves dance on until reit •
1 cly to drop with fatigue, for it would be con
aidered as nn intentions: aright it we were
ito leave off before the rest, so we foot it
I patiently until a final fling or two and the
lexecution of a species of pigeonwing by the
bridegroom closes the affray. - -
To recruit their strength after the engage
mental! Imndstake a drink, and Mr. 730w10s
("Mary Ann's young man, him as works in
the foundry and machine shop in Flinilers
lane,") afflicts us with a song known as the
White Squall, accompanied by an accordion.
the barrel organ not being in this instance
available. Then comes another drink and
another dance, and so on, niternations of
dancing, drinkingand singing until a game
of kiss in the ring is proposed; when fearful
leaFt we fall victims to the lasherwoman.
or the proprietress of the mAnglo, both of
whom have evidently bed enough gin, we
retire, spite of an invitation to •:ptop and
'ear Tom 'Arris sing Ben Bolt and then take
another drink." Our entertainer, who con
siders listening to Ben Bolt and nobblerizing
to be the height of human gratification. is
astonished at our early departure, but ws
put it on the score of a journey in the morn
ing, and the last we see of him he is taking
a private drink with the washerwoman, and
touching glasses with her with that innate
politeness which marks the Australish
character. As we go up stairs to bad we
hear a faint echo
.0t ibis *ea IT., wave."
The Philosophy of Whist.
'•Let mo start with the declaration that
whist inoludes a large range of high quali
ties, and a great extent of acquirement.—
The great whist•player must have patience,
charity, forgiveness, forLearance, prompti
tude, considerable readiness in emergency.
fortitude under calamity. a clear faculty to
calculate probabilities, an admirable aleat
ory. and a spirit at ones self-reliant and
trustful. Not alone must be Le graced I y