Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844

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See No. 343, Blackwood's Magazine, p. 534, Vol. lv.

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Table showing the number of committments for serious crimes, and population, in the year 1841, in the under-mentioned counties of Great Britain;—

I.—PASTORAL.

II.-AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTURING.

III.-MANUFACTURING AND MINING.

—PORTER'S Parl. Tables, 1841, 163; and Census 1841.

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Table, showing the comparative population, and committals for serious crime, in the under-mentioned counties, in the years 1821, 1831, and 1841.

I.—PASTORAL

II.—AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTURING.

III.—MANUFACTURING AND MINING.

—PORTER'S Parl. Tables, and Census 1841.

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Table showing the Population in 1801, 1891, and 1841, in the under-mentioned counties of Great Britain.

—Census of 1841. Preface, p. 8 and 9.

5

ALISON on Population, ii. Appendix A.

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Commitments:—

8 Strike.

9 Strike.

PORTER'S Parl. Tables, xi. 162.—Parl. Paper of Crime, 1843, p. 53.

7

Statistique de la France, publiée par le Gouvernement, viii. 371-4. A most splendid work.

8

Fever patients, Glasgow, 1836, 37.

—COWAN'S Vital Statistics of Glasgow, 1388, p 8, the work of a most able and meritorious medical gentleman now no more.

9

Dr Alison on the Epidemic of 1843, p. 67.

10

Captain Millar's Report, 1841, p. 8.

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Viz., in round numbers—

England,    30,000

Ireland,    26,000

Scotland,    4,000

60,000

12

——Lactuca innatat acri

Post vinum stomacho.—HOR.

13

Vide THUCYDIDES, Book iv. chap. 15.

14

"Virroni muræna datur, quo maxima venit Gurgite de Siculo: nam dum se continet Auster, Contemnunt mediam tem eraria lina Charybdim." JUVENAL, Sat. v. 99.

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Thus far the courtesies of fiction. But for those who prefer historical fact, it may be interesting to learn the authentic details of the interment of one whose posthumous destinies seemed to share the incompleteness of his baffled life. In order to avoid the contestations arising from the transit of a corpse through a foreign state, Nignio di Zuniga (who was charged by Philip with the duty of conveying it to Spain, under sanction of a passport from Henri III.) caused it to be dismembered, and the parts packed in three budgets, (bougettes,) and laid upon packhorses!—On arriving in Spain, the parts were readjusted with wires!—"On remplit le corps de bourre," says the old chronicler from which these details are derived, "et ainsi la structure en aiant été comme rétablie, on le revétit de ses armes, et le fit voir au roi, tout debout apuyé sur son bâton de général, de sorte qu'il semblait encore vivant. L'aspect d'un mort si illustre ayant excité quelques larmes, on le porta à l'Escurial dans l'Eglise de St Laurens auprez de son père."

Such is the account given in a curious old history (supplementary to those of D'Avila and Strada) of the wars of the Prince of Parma, published at Amsterdam early in the succeeding century. But a still greater insult has been offered to the memory of one of the last of Christian knights, in Casimir Delavigne's fine play of "Don Juan d'Autriche," where he is represented as affianced to a Jewess!

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The slang term applied to the mechanics and labourers, a numerous and (at elections especially) a most important class in New York and Philadelphia.

17

The name of General Jackson's country-house and estate.

18

To German ears—to SEND A BASKET—is to REFUSE A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE.

19

May we for HULDRE read HULDREFOLK; and understand the following, or the Folk of HULDRE? Huldre means the Gracious Lady: she is a sort of Danish and Norwegian Fairy-Queen.—See GRIMM'S German Mythology, p. 168. First edition.

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The Brothers GRIMM: Introduction to the Irish Fairy Tales.

21

The Brothers GRIMM: Introduction to the Irish Fairy Tales.

22

See The Dwarfs upon the Maple-Tree, and The Dwarfs upon the Crag-Stone, in the former paper.

23

Of Professor Wyes.

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For LESSMANSBORN, i.e. LESSMANN'S WELL.

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"Part fenced by man, part by the ragged steep That curbs a foaming brook, a GRAVE-YARD lies; The hare's best couching-place for fearless sleep! Where MOONLIT FAYS, far seen by credulous eyes, ENTER, IN DANCE!" WORDSWORTH.—Sonnet upon an ABANDONED Cemetery.

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LUNEVILLE.

27

BASSOMPIERRE.

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Mémoires du Maréchal de BASSOMPIERRE: Cologne, 1666. Vol. I. PP. 4-6. The Marshal died in 1646.

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EPINAL.

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Exactly so, the hairy THRESHING Goblin of Milton—at going out, again:—

"Till, cropful, out o' door HE FLINGS." He, too, is paid for his work, with ——"his CREAM-BOWL, duly set."

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Memoirs of the Marquis of Pombal. By J. SMITH, Esq., Private Secretary to the Marquis of Saldanha. Two vols.