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PART II . Wes ^ Uderoteonrcolnmiisthiaireektothorepub ticationof a few gemsof American poetry , which , we teliere , hare not hitherto appeared ia any English publication . For these poems and songs we are indebted prinoipallj . to Tovng America , the organ of the American Agrarian Reformers : and that ably and Jflnsstiy-conducted journal , theifiw Tort moans . A . DREAU OF SPMHEB . BTJOHH O . WBITTJS * . Bland « the morniDg breath of June The Soutfe-wert breezes play ; . Andthroug h its base , the Winter noon
, Seems warm as Summer * day . 'The jnow-pfanied Angel of the Uorth Has dropped his icy spear ; Again the mossy earth looks forth . Again the streams gush clear . Thafex his Utt-side cell forsakes—The mnskrat leaves his nook . The bine-bird in the meadow brakes Is singing with the brook . - "Bear up , O Bother Batnre ! " cry Bird , breeze and streamlet free , ** Our Winter voices prophesy Of Summer days to thee !"
-So , in those winters of the soul , By bitter blasts and drear O ' erswept from Memory ' s frozen pole , Will sunny days appear . Beviving Hop * and Faith , they show The soul its living powers , And how beneath the Winter ' s snow Lie gems of Summer sowers ! Tbe Night ta Mather of the Bay , The Winter of the Spring , And ever upon old Decay The greenest mosses cling . Behind the cloud the starlight lurks , Throath showers tbe anabeams tall ; For God , who loveth all Hia works . Has left His Hope with aU ! We know not the name of the author of tha fol 3 iwuigUn . es : —
OUR ABORIGINES . Hera Nature long maintained her right , And owned each tawny child That rov"d with footsteps free and light The solitary wild ; Ana nere tney built their structures proud , And deem'd their titles grand , If or knew the ocean ' s swelling flood Wash'd any other land . A bark that told of stranger might , They hastened to adore . And thought a visitant of light
Had sought a ruder shore ; They showed their wealth of glittering spoil , And gems that brightly shone , ITor dream'd the eye that scann'd their soil , Wu marking oat its own . They then had rulers , laws and land —• And tchere are they to-day f See bright domes that glittering stand , Where each rude villsge lay . A stately ship with noble crest , Sails slowly , proudly on ; . And from tbe river ' s shaded breast , The light canoe Is gone .
What tombs were there ; the valleys teach Where many a grave-yard hides , And mountains show the bones that bleach , And whiten on their sides . Fair Flora leads her guiltless train In Spring , shave the braves , And farmers heedless scatter grain Upon their nameless graves . Where are the chiefs who urged their mta , With patriotic breath , To hurry fearlessly again To victory or to death t The din of aims no more tbey hail : The battle song is still : t hear no clangour in tbe vale , No echo on ths hiiL
Awhile they struggled for their right , But found resistance vain , And yielded to superior might , With calm and cold disdain . To distant wilds of which they heard , Tbey took their journey slow ; Still trusting in the faithless word Of a triumphant foe . They asked the foe those wilds to leave . Where friends for years had l » in ; That tbej in Autamii ' s sober era Might visit them again .
And when the leaves begun to fade , At midnight hush they crept . To see the tombs their fathers made , And where their children slept . When last they came , the fertile scene A Krter truth reveal'd . The bills were clotb'd in verdure green , The forest was a field ; They gaz'd a moment in dismay Upon the treeless plain , Then hmried silently away , And ns ' er return'd again .
The paleface sought their western home , ( It seems hut yesterday !) And lo ! the forests that they roam'd . Are pass'd like mist away . The son that never saw the ground , In mildness or in wrath , Son gazes , brightly , boldly down , Upon the Indian ' s path . . And still their less ' niog bands retire , And yield in silence more ; Till they hare lit their council fira On tbe Pacific ' s shore .
So song of joy , no tale of mirth . From one sad lip has roU'd ; Since hut upon their native hearth They saw the ashes cold . She heroes of the bow and cbaso Grew fewer every day , The spirit of a tameless race Is pasting swift away . Where ' er the white man ' s footsteps go , Or stranger syren ' s sing , They vanish like the mountain snow Before the breath of Spring .
LYDIAN NAMES . xr iron HcvrtEi sraocaasT . " How can the Red Man be forgotten , while so many of our States and Territories , Bays , Lakes , and KiTtrs rare indelibly stamped bynames of their giving !" If e say tbey have all passed away , That noble race and brave ; 'ffhat their light canoes have vanlsh'd Strom off the crested ware , 'Shaft 'mid the forests where they roam'd , there rings no hunter ' s shout * Sat their name is on your waters , Te nay not wash it out . * Tis where Ontario ' s billow ,
Like ocean ' s surge is curl'd , Where strong Niagara ' s thunders wake The echoes of the world . Where red Missouri hringeth Rich tribute from the west , And Rappahannock sweetly sleeps Oa green Virginia ' s breast . Ye say their cane-like cabins . That clustered o ' er the vale , Have disappeared , as withered leavtl Before the autumn ' s gale ; Bat their memory livelb . on your bills , Their baptism on jour shore , Toarererlastingrirers speak Their dialect of yore . Old Massachusetts wean it Witkin her lordly crown ; And broad Ohio bears it
Amid his young renown ; Connecticut hath m-eath'd it Where her gniet foliage waves . And hold Kentucky breathes it hoarse Through all htr ancient caves . Wachusett hides its lingering voice Within his rocky heart , And Alleghany graves its tone Throughout his lofty chart . Monadnock , on his forehead hoar , Doth seal the sacred trust ; Your mountains build their monument , Though ye destroy their dust . To-morrow ( July 4 th ) is the anniversary of the glorious Declaration of American Independence . The following is a song of' 76 : —
SOSG OF THE VSRMOSTBES . So—all to the borders 1 Yermonters , came down , With jonr breeches of deer-skin end jackets of brown ; With your red woollen caps and your mocassins . Wne To the gathering summons of trumpet and drum . Come dawn with your rifles!— let gray wohT and fox , Howl on in the shade of their primitive rocks ; Xet the bear feed securely from pig pen and stall , here ' s two-legged game for your powder and ball . On onr south come the Dutchmen enveloped in grease , And arming for battle while canting of peace ; Oa onr east crafty Meseecb has gathered hie band To hang up our leadirs and eat out our laud . Ho—all to the rescue ! for Satan shall work So gain for the legions of Hampshire and York ! They claim our possessions—the pitiful knaves , The tribute we pay shall be prisons and graves !
Let Clinton and Ten Broek with bribes in their hands Still seek to divide us and parcel our lands , We ' ve coats for our traitors , whoever they arethe warp is of / eotters , the filling of far 1
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- Does . tb * " old bay state ?" threaten ! Does Congress complaint' Swanna Hampshire in arms , on our borders again ! - Bark the war-dogs of Britain aloud ou th » lake \ Let 'em come-what they can . they are welcome to take What seek they among us t The pride of our wealth Is comfort , contentment , and labour and health , And lands which , as freemen , we only have trod . Independent ©* all , save the mercies *! God . Yet we owe no allegiance ; we bow to no throne ; Our rukr it law , and the law is our own ; Our leaders themstlvea are our own fellow-men
, Who can handle the sword , or the scythe , or the pen . Our wives are all true , and our daughters are fair , With the * blue eyes of amiles and their light flowing hair ; . All brisk at their wheels till tbe dark even . f all , Then blithe at the sleigh-ride , the busking anl ball I We ' ve sheep on thehill . sides , we've cews on the plain ,. And gay-tasseled corn-fields , and rank growing grain * There are deer oa the mountains , and wood-pigeons . fly From the crack of our muskets , like c ' ouds on the sky .
Like a sunbeam the pickerel glides through his pool ; And the spotted trout leaps where the water * are cool Or darts from his shelter of rock and of root At tke beaver ' s quick plunge or the angler ' s pursuit . And ours are tbe mountains which awfully rise ¦¦ ' - Till they rest their green heads on tbe blue of the skits ; And ours are the forests uuwatted , unshorn , Savs where the wild path of the tempest it torn ., y And though savage and wild be this climate of ours , And brief be our season of fruits and of flowers , Far dearer the blast round onr mountains which
raves , Than the sweet summer zephyr which breathes over slaves . Hurrah for Vermont 1 for the land which we till Must have sous to defend her from valley and hill ; * Leave the harvest to rot on ths field where it growl , And the reaping of wheat for the reaping of foil . From far Htchiscoui ' s wild valley , to where Poosoomsuck steals down from his wood-clrcled lair , From , Shoetfcook , river to LuUtrlock town—Ho—all to the rescue 2 Yermonters , come down ! Come York or come Hampshire—come traitors and knaves , If ye rule o er our land , ye shall rule o ' er onr gravel ; Out vow is recorded—our banner unfurledlu u . o namn ( ifVwm <>»» , » o tlery all Hie woildl * * " Rather than fail , I will retire with my hardy Green Mountain boys to desolate caverns of tho monotains , and wage war with human nature at large . "—Ethan Allen ' s Letter to Congress , March 9 , 1781 .
Pity that the victories , of the Vermonters , pity that the triumph of the American arms over British despotism , produced no happier results than the partial liberation of the white- men , leaving their black brethren still bound in the fetters of slavery . We hare several times given specimens of Greenleaf Whittier ' s anti-slavery lyrics ; the following noble outburst is well worthy of this chief of American poets : —
YORKTOWN . BT J . O . WBITTIEa . Dr Thtcher , surgeon in Scammel ' s regiment , in hit description of the aiege of York town , says : — " The labour on the Virginia Plantations is performed altogether by a species of thehuman race cruelly wrested from their native country , and doomed to Perpetual Bondage , while their masters are manfully contending for freedom and the natural rights of man . Such is the inconsistency of human nature !" Eighteen hundred slaves were found at Yorktown , after its surrender , and restored to their cutters . From Yorktown ' s ruins , ranked and still , Two lines stretch far o ' er vale and hill :
Who curbs bis steed at head of one f Harkl the low murmur : Washington ! Who bends his keen , approving glance Where down the gorgeous line of Franco Shine knightly star and plume of snow ! Thou , too , art victor , Rochambeau ! The earth which bears this calm array - Shenk with the war-chargo yesterday , Plowed deep with hurrying hoof and wheel , Shot-sown and bladed thick with steel ; October ' s clear and noonday sun - Paled in the breath-smoke of tbe gnn , And down Night ' s donble blackness fell . Like a dropped star , the biasing shell .
Now all is hushed : the gleaming lines Stand moveless as the neighbouring pines ; While through them , sullen , grim and slow , The conquered hosts of England go : O'Hara ' s brow belies his dress . Gay Tarieton ' s troops ride bannerless : Shout , from thy fired and wasted homes , Thy scourge , Virginia , captive comes ! Nor those alone ! with one glad voice Let all tby sister States rejoice ; Let Freedom , in whatever clime She waits with sleepless eye her time , Shooting from care aad mountain wood , Make glad her desert solitude-While they who hunt her quail with fear : The New World ' s chain lies broken here !
But who are they who , cowering , wait Within the shattered forlress-gate ! Bark tillers of Virginia ' s soil , Classed with the battle ' s common spoil , With household stuffs , and fowl , and swine , With Indian weed and planters ' wine , With stolen beeves , and foraged corn-Are they not men , Virginian bom ! Oh ! veil your faces , young and brave ! Sleep , Scammel , in tby soldier grave ! Sons of the North-land , ye who set Stout hearts against tbe bayonet , And pressed with steady footfall near The moated battery ' s blazing tier , Turn your scarred faces from the sight , let shame do homage to the Right !
Lo ! threescore years have passed ; and where The Gallic timbrel stirred the air , With Northern dram-roll , and the clear , Wild horn-Wow of the mountaineer . While Britain grounded on that plain The arms she might not lift again , As abject as in that old day The Slave still toils his life away . Oh ! fields still green and fresh in story , Old days of pride , old names of glory , Old marvels of the tongue and pen , Old thoughts which stirred the hearts of men , Ye spared the Wrong ; and over all Behold th * avenging shadow faU ! Your world-wide honour stained with shame—Your Freedom ' s self a hollow name !
Where ' s now the flag of that old war ! Where flows its stripe * Where burns its star f Bear witness , Palo Alto ' s day , Dark Vale of Palms , red Monterey , Where Merle Freedom , young and weak , Fleshes the Northern eagle ' s beak ; Symbol of terror and despair , Of chains and slaves , go seek it there ! Laugh , Prussia , midst tby iron ranks ! Laugh , Russia , from thy Neva ' s banks ! Brave sport to see the fledgling born Of Freedom by its parent torn ! Safe now your Speilburg ' s dungeon cell , Safe drear Siberia ' s frozen hell : With Slavery ' s flag o ' er both unrolled , ' What of the New World fears the Old ! The author of the following indignant protest is unknown tons : —
THE SLAVE-DEALER . Still dost thou scorn the fetter'd victim ' s cries , And feel no pang of grief , no blush of shame 1 Host know how generations long « haIl rise , And cast their scorn and loathing on tby name , And curses heap upon tby felon fame ? Go , wretch , and still aronnd tby temples bind * Wreaths won at lfolocb ' s foul infernal gams In life , abhorred and hated of mankind , And then in death to be to infamy consigned . Blood ' s dark eternal stain is on thy soul ' . say , didst thou bring it from tbe battle plain , Where drum and tramp in stormy concert roll , And ,. cannon peal the death-kneel of the slain ,
Who , winning fame , deem not they die in vain ! Where warrior plumes and flashing banners wave , And death and glory hold divided reign ?—Where strong contend with strong , aud brave with brave ? No , tyrant ! 'tis the blood drawn from the shrinking slave ! In tbe still watches of tbe midnight hour , When all but thee repose in tranquil sleep , Do'h not Remorse assert her scorpion power ! Do not fell memories o ' er thy spirit sweep , And fiends aronnd tby cench their vigils keep ! 0 * doth not hope depart , and wild despair Toss thy torn soul upon its raging deep f And do not shadowy spirits of tbe air Stretch their dim hands to Heaven , and VeDgeaDCfi CAll from there ! Ah ! hear ' st thou not the helpless and the weak ?
Say , hear ' st not thou tby victims round thee cry ! The trembling daughter ' s wild and maniac shriek , The mother ' s shriek of frantic agony , The infant ' s wail , the father ' s stifled sigh ! Say , guilty man , dost hear those sounds again , Sweeping the arches of the midnight sky , The mingling of all cries of human pain , With ringing of the lash and clanking of the chain ! Ha ! shrink ' st thou not ! Ah ! wait till death shall fling Around thy couch sepulchral shadows drear , And lay his hand upon thy heart , and ring Thy spirit ' s knell within thy startled ear ! Then ihou shalt tremble with a mortal fear , And then again in spectral phalanx there The forms of all tby victims shall appear , Joy oVr thy doom , exult in thy despair , laugh at thy dying cries , and mock thy dying prayer
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The following lines describe the escape from the wroth ' of aI band of stares ;— - A HTlfN , OF LIBERTY .
ax-inoxASL . nAMis . Hight reigned with stars , and shade , and dreams , and silently unfurled Hsnspell of witchery around the weary-bearttd world : The leaves were sHU the waters muts , the watchman slept ; the belli Of midnight lulled the stars to rest , then hushed its billowy swell :: "Ehe blessed angelSleep . caree down , and soured , with . loving care An opiate from bis crystal urn upon the dswy . air s . in Van ' s hushed bosom Love and Hate . anA Joy aad Sorrow , lay hike foes on blood . wet battle-fields , who waka to strife with day .
when , lo ! like shadows through the gloom ,, a weak yet daring bandt Stalked wearily , with voices muteand bright , bare blade in hand . ' Their robes wert-neat , their feet ware toan , their faces . darkest tan * Yet flashing eye aud Searless brow revested the godlike Man . From Carolina ' s , fersr-swamps , from . Geosgia ' s slavecursed sod , From fetters oaths limb and soul , tbsoogh bandied foes they trod . For Freedom , with her mother roicei had led them on afar—Their path the trackless wilderness , their guide the Northern Star .
Like Israel through the opening waves of Egypt ' s bloodred sea They stemmed Niagara ' s rushing tide—those noble ones were mm . ' ¦ " : , ' . They stood , redeemid and disenthralled , upon tbe wave-. washed sod , And proudly , grandly claimed again tho birthright gift otOcd . ' - . ' , - . j The Cataract lifted up afar its solemn-sounding voice , And bade them in tbe glorious dawn of Freedom '! day rejoice ; And thus their song of jubilee rung forth , and rose on frfeh ; While all the morning stars bora on its echoes through the sky . ¦' We are free I wears free ! wo »» o # r « o ! ~ As the stars that tread the skies ; And joyously , oh fiod ! to Thee Our triumph-hymn shall rise ;
For Thou bast led us on , Through solitude and night , Till Freedom ' s blessed home is won , And vain tbe Foeman ' s might . The chains are cast aside : Tbe oppressor ' s reign is o ' er ; The dungeon floor shall be purple dyed With our blood and tears no more . With heart and voice we raise Our hymn , oh God ! to Thee ; Rstsund thou Earth and Sky our songs ,
We are free l wears free ! WB ABE FMI ; That Triumph hymn I it dieth . not : it lonndeth not is * ain ,: It echoes now with thousand tongues o ' er many a Southera plain ; Its words in every chainless blast , and free bright rivet roll ; God giveth it a voice to speak through silence to the soul : Its thrilling spell is felt where ' er the slave-marts darkly stand ; 'lis mightier far than Charleston gyves , than Texan whip and brand :
It nerves tbe arm , it lights the eye , that spiritrouiing breath , It fires the heart with high resolves of Liberty or Death . Oh ye who riot on the toil of God ' s down-trodden poor , Beware , One judgeth in the Earth , whose hand is swift and sure ; Already muffled thunder-tones at dead of night resound ; Already waketheEarthquake throes beneath iyour trembling ground ; Though hireling priest and watchman lift the cry of * all is well , " Ere long red Ruin ' s lava-tide from earth and sky shall swell .
The Hatter from the vengeance then aad not the Slave will flee ; Be warned of God , be warned of Han , and set the bondman free ! We must postpone till onr next a glorious collection of Agrarian songs and other patriotic pieces . We close this week ' s collection with the following seasonable lines : —
THE EVENING WIND BT W . C . SBTANT . Spirit that breathes through my lattice , thou That cool ' at the twilight of the sultry day , Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow : Tbouhait been out upon the deep at play , Riding all day their wild blue waves till now , Bougbenlog their crests , and scattering high their spray . And swelling the white sail . I welcome thee To the scorch'd land , thou wanderer of the sea ! Nor I alone : —a thousand bosoms round Inhale thee in the fulness of delight ; And languid forms rise up , aud pulses bound Livelier , at coming of the wind at night ; And , languishing to bear thy grateful sound ,
Lies tbe vast inland stretch'd beyond the sight , Go forth into tbe gathering shade ! go forth , God ' s blessing breathed upon the fainting earth ! Go , rock the little wood bird in bis nest ; Curl the still waters , bright with stars ; and rouse The wide old wood from his majestic rest , Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange deep harmonies that haunt his breait . Pleasant shall be tby way where meekly bows The shutting flower and darkling waters pass ; And 'twizt the o ' er-shadowing branches and the grass . The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thea ; thou shalt kiss the child asleop , And dry the moiiten'd curls that overspread
His temples , while his breathing grows more deep ; And they who stand about the sick man ' s bed Shall jay to listen to thy distant sweep , And softly part his curtains to allow Thy visit , grateful to his burning brow . Go ! but the circle ot eternal change , That is the life of nature , shall restore , With sounds and scents from all thy mighty range , Thee to thy birth-place of the deep once more ; Sweet odours in the sea air , sweet and strange , Shall tell the home-sick mariner of the shore ; And , listening to tby murmur , he shall deem , He hears the rustling leaf and running stream .
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Heb . Majestt's Toeatbb , notwithstanding tbe strength ot the talent of opposition at Govent Garden , basks in tbe sunshine of regaland aristocratic patronage , while no intermission of tbe popular furore in favour of tbe Swedish cantatrice has , at yet , exhibited itself ; on the contrary , on the nights of Mdlle . Lind ' s performance places are obtained with the greatest difficult ; and at the most exorbitant prices . Mr Lumley is reaping a rich harvest from his spirited exer . tions , which leave nothing to be desired by the most enthusiastic habitues of this establishment . Jenny Lin J is engaged for Manchester , and mattes her first appearance at the Theatre Rojal for two nights , about the end of
August ; she will be assisted by Lablache and others , Liverpool and Birmingham will also be visited . by her , unless Bonn ' s action , with its damages laid at £ 10 , 000 , cause any alteration in her movements , As the matter stands at present , the Drury Lane lessee ' s case cannot come on for hearing until Christmas . —At the : ItoTAL iTAtiiN Opbba , Grisl , Mario , and Ronconi , have been delighting crowded audiences by their magnificent talents in Verdi ' s opera of * J . Due Foscari . '—That highly talented actor Bouffe has concluded bis engagement at the St James ' s , and is to be succeeded by the eminent French tragedian , Mdlle . Rachel , who has been engaged by Mr Mitchell for a series of performances , understood not to be included in the season ' s subscription . — Droby Lake , it is settled , reverts again into Bunn ' s bands ;
but , prior to opening for the regular season , has been let to Jullien for a short period , for promenade concerts and bal masques . —Mr Webster is still running Bell's comedy of' Temper ' at the Hathabket , giving revivals , and presenting that charming and fascinating actress , MrsNisbett , on alternate nights , ia most of her favourite characters—Madame Vestris and Charles Mathews are fulfilling an engagement at the Princess ' s , which sadly needed some attraction on the departure of Mr Macready and Mrs Warner , who , if we except Mrs Stirling and Compton , leftas meagre a company behind them as any that could well be attached to a theatre wishing to keep its doors open . —The patrons of that favourite house , the Anurni , have been presented with a new corned ; from the . pen of the veteran dramatist , teake , made up of strieUy EngUah « takw '« l , called' The Title Deeds . ' It is admirably suited to the talented resources of this establishment , and must be pronounced a highly
successful effort , reflecting credit alike upon its author , and the directress , Madame Celeste . —The Lyceoji , prior to the note < £ preparation being heard for Madame Vestris ' s campaign , is occupied By a company exceed , ingly limited a < s to strength , under the management of Mr L Levy . _ After a short vacation ; Mr F . Cooper has reopened ' the Stband , for the pwformance of vaudevilles . A Miss Holmes , a promising young actress , made her de & ut on Monday evening last , and was well received , —The Qoeen ' s , adhering to the low-price system , is doing a moderate business , with . its usual attractions of melodrama and hurletta . —At Astley ' s , the new spectacle , "The Storming of Quito , " every evening attracts crowded houses , Mr W . West acting very eiketively as Ro ' . la . Several new feats of equitation have been added to the Scenes of tbe Circle . The various sub . urban entertainments continue to enjoy , during this splendid weather , a more than average share of public patronage .
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WILLIAM B 0 BE .:, " On . itbe morning of the -18 th of December there is a considerable crowd round the avenues of Guildballti . An obscure bookseller , a man of . no substance or respectsbility iBa . worldly eyes , is tohe tried for libel . KOend * Ms wares in a little shop iaithe Old Bailey , where there are , stwngely mingled , twopenny political pamphlets , and ohtharmless folios the * the poor publisher keeps . l ° * his especial redding ai he sits im his dingy back parlour . The doockeepers and officers of tbe court scaroelyiknow what UJgoing to happen ;; forvthe table within the . bar has not the usiwl covering of crimson baize , but ever and anon-, a dingy boy arrives wlthau armful of boo ! f « -of all ages and sizes , and the whole table is strewed with dusty and tattered volumes thaWhe ushers are quite sure have
no law * within their mauldyjcovers . . Amiddle-aged . man —a Wand and smiling nsan * -. with a half sad , half merry twinkle in his eye—a seedy man , to use an expxmstav word } whose black coat ; i » swow ) rouB brown and thread . bare—takes his place at the table , and begins to ,. turn overs- tho books which * were his heralds . Sir Samuel SUepherd , the . Attorney . General ; takes bis seat , and looks , compassionately , as-was-his nature to doj . at the pale man in threadbare black . Mr Justice Abbott atrives- indue time ; a spacial ^ jry is sworn ; the-pjeatl : ing * are opened ; the Attorney : General states the case against William Hone , for printing and publishing an impious and profane libaLupon . the Catechism , theLord's Pnaien and the Ten Qommandments , thereby bringing intooentempt tbe Christian , religion . 'It may ha said . '
argued the Attorney SenMaJi 'that the defendant ' s ob . jpcb was not to produce this effect . I believe , that he meant it , in one sense ,, as- a political jquib ; bat his- responsibility is not ike less . '; As the Attorney Generis ! proceeded to read passages from the parody upon the Qatecbism , the crowd in const laughed ; the bench was indignant ; and tho Attorney-General iaid , the laugh was the fullest proof of the baneful effect of the defendant's publication . And so the trial went on In the smoothest way , and the . ease { or the prosecution was closed ,. Hhen the pale man in bktak rose , and with a faltering voice set forth , the difficulty he had in addressing the Court , aad howhisp 6 yertypiisv , eatedhlthobtainingcounstI .. As 4 now he began to ' warm intb * feeltal of what he thought his wrongs ; bis commitments ; his hurried calls to plead ;
the , expense of copies of the informations agsJnst him ; —and as Mr Justice Abbott , with perfect gentleness , but with his cold formality , interrupted him , the timid man , whom all thought would have mumbled forth ' a hasty ' defence , grew bolder and bolder , and ' a short time had possession of bis audience as If be were ' some well-graced actor' who was there to receive the tribute of popular admiration . ' Titty , were not to inquire whether he were a member ' of the Established Church o ' r ' a Dissenter ; It was eneugh'that be professed himself to be a Christian ; and he would be bold to say , that he made that profession with a reverence for- the doctrines of Christianity which could not be exceeded b y any perssn in that court . He had his books about hia , and it was from them that he must draw bisdefence . Thi-y
had been the . solace of hit life . He was too much attached to his books to part with them . As to parodies , tbey were as old at least as the invention of printing ; and he never heard of a prosecution for a parody , either religicusor any other . There were two kinds of parodies ; one in which a man might convey ludicrous or ridiculous ideas relative to some other subject ; the other where it was meant to ridicule the thing parodied . The latter was not the case here , and therefore he had not brought religion into contempt . ' This was the gist of William Hone ' s defence . To show fully how this argument was worked , —with what readiness , what coolness , what courage , —would be to transcriba the trials of three days ; on the first of which the defendant spoke six hours , on the second seven hours , and on tbe last eight
hours . It was in vain that the Attorney General urged that to bring forward any previous parody was tbe same thing as if a person charged with obscenity should produce obscene volumes in his defence . It was in vain that Hr Justice Abbott repeated his wish that the defendant would not read such thing * . - On be went till interruption was held to be in vain . It was worse than vain ; it was unjust . Truly did Hone reply to Mr Justice Abbott , 'My Lord , your Lordship ' s observation is ia the very spirit of what Pope Leo the Tenth said to Martin Luther , — "For God ' s sake don ' t say a word about the indulg-nces and the monasteries , and I'll give' you a living ; " —thus precluding him from mentioning the very thing in dispute . I must go on with those paro . dies , or I cannot go on with my defence . ' Undauntedly he went oo , from the current literature of the time , such as grave lawyers read in their few hours of recreation , to the forgotten volumes of old theology aad polemical controversy , that the said grave lawyers of
modern days are accustomed to regard as useless lumber . The edltorof' Blackwood ' s Magnzuw' was a parodist , —he parodied a chapter of Ezekiel ; Martin Luther was a parodist—he parodied tbe first psalm ; Bishop Latimer was a parodist , and so was Dr Boys , Dean of Canterbury ; the author of the 'Itolliad ' . was a parodist ; and so was Mr Canning . Passage after passage did Hone read from author after author . He thought it B-as pretty clear that Martin Lutber did not mean to ridicule the Psalms that Dr Boys did not mean to ridicule tha Lord ' s Prayer ; that Mr Canning did not moan to ridicule the Scriptures . Why , then , should it be pre . sumed that he had such an intention ! As soon as he found that his parodies had been deemed offensive , be had suppressed them , and that he bad done long be . fore his prosecution . It was in vain that the Attorney-General replied that Martin Luther was a libeller , and Dr Boys was a libeller . The judge charged tbe jury in vain . William Hone was acquitted , after a quarter of an hour's deliberation .
"But Guildhall ' sawanother sight . ' With the next mornong ' s fog , tbe fiery Lord Chief Justice rose from his bed , and with lowering brow took his place in that judgment-seat which be deemed had been too mercifully filled on the previous day . The mild firmness of the poor publisher , and his gentlemanly sense of tho absence of harshness in the conduct of his first trial , had won for him something like tespect ; and when on one occasion Mr Justice Abbott asked him to ferbear reading a particular parody , and tbe defendant said , 'Tour Lordship and I understand each other , and we have gone on so good-humouredly hitherto , that I will not break in upon our harmony , ' it became clear that the puisne judge was not tbe man to enforce a verdict of guilty on the second trial . Again Mr Hone entered tbe
court with his load of books , on Friday , the 19 th Dec . He was this day indicted for publishing an impious and profane libel , called 'The Litany , or General Supplication . ' Again tbe Attorney-General affirmed that whatever mig ht be the object of the defendant , the publication bad the effect of scoffing at the public service of the Church . Again tbe defendant essayed to read from his books , which course he contended was essentially necessary for bis defence . Then began a contest which is perhaps unparalleled in an English courtof justice . Upon Mr Fox ' s Libel Bill , upon ex-offialo informations , upon his right to cop ies of the indictment without t'Xtravagant charges , theaeieoOan * battled hi * judge , imperfect in bis law , no doubt , but with a firmness and moderation that rode over every attempt to put him down . Parody
after parody was again produced , and especially those parodies of the Litany which the Cavillers employed so frequently as vehicles of satire upon the Roundheads and Puritans . Tbe Lord Chief Justice at length gathered up his exhausted str ? nglh for hit charge ; and concluded in a strain that left but little hope for the defendant : 'He would deliver the jury his solemn opinion , as he . was required by act of Parliament to do ; and under tbe authority of that Act , and still more in obedience to his ' conscience and his God , he pronounced this to bo a most impious and profane libel . Believing and hoping that they , the jury , were Chris , tians , he had not any doubt but that thoy would be of the same opinion . ' The jury , in an hour and a half , returned a verdict of Not Guilty .
"It might have been expected that these prosecutions would have here ended . But the chance of a conviction from a third jury , upon a third indictment , was to be risked . On the 20 th December Lord Ellenborbugh again took bis seat on the bench , and the exhausted defendant came late into court , pale and agitated . The Attorn « y-General remarked upon bis appearance , and offered to postpone the proceedings . Tho courageout man made his election to go on . This third indict , ment was for publishing a parody on the Creed of St Athanasius , called ' The Sineeurist's Creed . ' After the Attorney-General had fiaished his address , Mr Hona asked for five minutes' delay to arrange tho few thoughts be had been committing to paper . Tbe Judge refused the small concession , but said he would postpone the
proceedings to another day if the defendant would request tho Court so to do . Tbe scene which ensued was thoroughly dramatic * 'No ! I make no such request . My Lord , Iamvery glad to see your lordship hero to-day , becausa I feel I sustained an injury from your lordship yesterday—an injury which I did not expect to sustain . .. « .. If his Lordship should think proper , on this trial today , to deliver his opinion , I hope that opinion will bo eoolly and dispassionately expressed by his Lordship .. „„ . My Lord , I think it necessary te make a stand hero , I cannot say what your Lordship may consider to be useessary interruption , but your Lsrdship Interrupted me a great many times yesterday , and then said you would interrupt me no mora , and yet your Lordship aid interrupt ma afterwards ten times as much Gentlemen , H is jou who are trying mo to-day . His Lordship is no judge of me ; You are my judges , and you only are my judges . His Lordship sits there to receive your verdict ,
...... I will not say what his Lorcship did yesterday ; but I trust his Lordship to , day will givo his opinion coolly and dispassionately , without using either expression or gesture which could ba construed as conveying an entreaty to the jury . to think as he did . I hope the jury will not be . bisceobcd into a verdict of guilty . ' The triumph of the weak over the powf rlttl was complete . ' The frame of adamant and soul o , f lire , ' as the biographer of Lord Sidmouth terms the Chief Justice , ' quailed before the indomitable courage of a man who was roused into energies which would seem only to belong to the master-spirits that have swayed the world . Yet this was a man who , in the ordinary business of life , was incapable ' of enterprise and persevering exertion ; who lived in the nooks and corners of his ' antiquarianism ; who was one that even his political opponents came to regard as a . gentle and innocuous hunter after " all such reading as [ was never read ; " who in a . few yearsgavo up his politicn 1 altogether , and , devoting himself to his Q | d poetry and
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M » old divinity , passed a quarter of a century after this conflict , in peace . witK all n >»» Mnd , and died the snb-edl-Vir . of a ' religious ' journal . ' IHwas towards the clots of this remarkable trial that the-J ! udg « , who came eager to condemn , suedfdVpity . tohiritttanded victim . , " T *> a > fMidant quoted Warburton and . TiUotson as doubters of the Athanasian Creed . ' Even his Lordship ' s fatfwr , tho Bishop of Carlisle , he beiievcd , took a similar view of ths , h »» nn , , ndthen theJud solemnly said , ' WhWover iVtSrS wm ' * w »**»»> y »« a ? 0 * » r 8 he v „ , ™„ "TS * Wsheiief and his opinions ....... For common delicacy forbear / - ^ 0 , my Lord , Nsbal ! certainly forbear . ' era » n «~ i . 7 ' T ' ¦ « . „— . . . » . , _~ . i . T * . » ravo and temperate was the-ebosga ^ ¦ ^» + »*
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Ttohellraan ; of ^ appears tq be a walking tnewspaper , for he is aU must usniy employed to , make announcements-of the s tate of different ; corn-markets , for . which th « mililera appear highly onendeotat him . Araanin New York turned his son oufc oftfoors latelyv because ho wquldn . ' * pay him h ouse-rent . A istriking instance , says the Philadelphia S pitit of ' nav / fl &> tal affection . . . ¦ ¦¦ . •¦'
The British and Foreign . Institute , of wh-oh Mr Buckingham was resident director , has been dissoItoiJ . . The British authorities-is Orissa bestow atnually atgnant of 36 , 000 rupees to support the templs-of the destroyer , Juggernaut . ' : [ pe Duke of Wellington has-declared in Parliament that " Idolatry , is the established religion of Icdia ! " ] The Queen of Spain is said to allow ' her husband i &§ a day as pocket mnaey . It is far too nuch for ijBUoh agoose . "
¦ The King of Swedes has ordered that members of the Society of Friends can give their declaration thus : — "I declare , and solemnly assure , ' . ' ' which is to be accepted as if-an oath / bad been dulyonade . '" Larnin , "— " C \ m in spelling come up and re . eite . " •* Teth 'ir . '" 'Monti , spell * # «• . ' *• '" F X . " "Right . Next spoil seedy . " "GO , " " Right again . Class can go . out . "—Boston , Noiioa , The Queen of Spain is learning , to drmsix-inhand . Eggs bare lately been imported into-Liverpool , from Lisbon . There are SSO . OOOtseeds in the capsule of a tobacco plant . A vessel , whicbihas arrived at Swansea from the West Indies , has . brought a turtle weighing more than 300 lbs . - * ' ' _ Ray , the celebrated botanist , counted 33 , 060 seeds in the head of a poppy .
# The Shipping , Gazette states that ibis intended to increase the wages of petty officers ittithe navy . Large shipments of new potatoes- have lately been made from the Scilly Islands to the ports in the west of England . Some seed ) potatoes have been received at Fortsmouth from Chili . ¦ A Preston-paper mentions that an egg , shaped like a kidney potato , with a small stalk attached to it , has been laid by a ben , belongiag to a gentleman of that town . ; , . ; The sugar erops in the Mauritiws have been very large ; and the quantity of prosbce shipped has nearly doubled that exported- three or four years
since . ...-.. •• - . The Roman Catholic . Archbishop of Dublin has expressed the strongest disapprobation of priests attending political meetings , or publicly expressing an opinicn on public matters , A Brussels paper says that , two convicts threw themselves out of a railway train , whilst it was in full motion , between filoemendael and Aeltree , and effected their escape . A German poet of some celebrity , Herman Ma lire , asserts that he has discovered a method of teaching young children to read , by which he undertakes in six hours to teach tbe most stupid child the art of reailing fluently and correctly . A hen and a hen partridge have laid their eggs in
the same nest , in a farm yard near Beauty , Inverness . shire , and a fierce war is waged between them for tbe right of sitting on the eggs . A French surgeon asserts , that by exposing men and animals to a galvanic current from Clarke ' s magneto-electric apparatus , hehnssucceededin rendering them as insensible to pain as if they had inhaled sulphuric ether . During a hailstorm at Berlin , on the 2 dth ult . „ 11 , 000 squares of glass were broken ; and it was necessary to fetch glaziers from Magdeburg , as those of Berlin had neither tbe glass nor the time requisite to execute all the repairs . Tbe Garrows , a tribe of mountaineers inhabiting the hills on the borders of the province of Assam , readily eat putrid meat , but refuse to drink milk ,
which they think unwholesome . A lady residing near Newcastle lost some time ago a valuable piece of lace from the lawn , but it was lately found , coiled in the bottom of a sparrow ' s nest , which had been built in a large wall pear-tree . The Shah of Persia has conferred ^ the order of the Lion and the Sun on a French p hysician named Cloquet . as an acknowledgment of bis services during tbe prevalence of the cholera . Mr Chilton , Q . C ., of tho South . Wales Circuit , will succeed the late Mr David Leahy as Judge of the L mbeth and Greenwich District County Court . The title of the newspaper to be started for the voluntary dissenting interest in Scotland in Septem her next , is to be the Scottish Press .
On Wednesday week the lion Adolphus , the smallest of the two in Mr Tyler ' s collection of wild beast ; in the Surrey Gardens , died after an illness of only two days . There is a place in Dutchess County , N . T ., where the children are so fat and greasy , that they have to be roiled in sand to keep them from slipping out oi bed ! Wives who do not try to keep their husbands will lose them . A man does the' courting' before marriage , and the wife must do it after marriage , orsome other woman will . Fover , it is said , is alarmingly prevalent among the lower classes in Manchester . A meeting of tho members of the Manufacturers ' Association was held on Wednesday week , at which it was agreed to commence working four days a week until the next meeting , which will be in about three weeks .
Wanted , a few party cries for the approaching general election . Persons possessing any of the above articles , cither new ones or old , if in good condition , and net too much used , will meet with an immediate sale for them by applying at Westminster , to the door-keepers ol the 11 . of 0 . N . B . Separate entrances for parties with Wh'g and Tory cries . A quantity of old cries to be disposed of . — Punch , Attempts have lately been made to grow rice in the salt marshes watered by the Rhone , near Aries , and the crop promises a very abundant harvest . Donizetti , the composer , will soon quit the lunatic asylum where he has been confined , and will henceforth xeeitte in Paris , under the ewe of hia nephew . The prize offered by the Carnarvon Eistevod . for tho best poetical description of . thunder , has been , awarded to Mr O . W . Thomas , London . There were-52 competitors . .
. The Grand Duke Constantino of Russia is expected to visit the manufacturing districts , white on his way to Scotland , for the purpose of enjoying the sport of deer-stalking ac Blair A ihol ^ . Parasols have lately been fitted with rings ofi vulcanised India-rubber , which are so elastic that Wiot expand when the parasols are opened , and ngtUiy com press the ribs when they arecloaed . The Pope has appointed to the command ol hno gendarmery of Rome , Prince GabrielbS . a distinguished oilier , who , in . the rank oi Captain , followed the Emperor Napoleon through the Russian campaign . Letters from Russia state that the trans ^ Caucasian provinces , have been ravaged by locusts . The quantity was so . iramense tuatv the peop le collected them in , heaps covered them with straw , and bamedthem .
Among the additional estimates for miscellaneous services we perceive that the sum of £ 5 , QeO is proposed towards defraying the expenses of an appropriate pedestal for the equestrian statue oi the i » uko of Wellisgton . , , r . ' A Practical Man , " waiting to the Morning Chronicle , suggests that the best lnoiuimcnt fi > r Caxton would be a ¦ «• Caxton Hospitai" for decayed prioters . It Might be erected amoag the buildings of the intended improvements in "Westminster ; and raight afford an asylum , for a certain proportion of decayed literary men as well as painters . tho lato
The coroner ' s jury , who sat oa railway bridge accident , were entitled , by law to an . allow . , ance oi' about £ 33 for their time , but il ^ y directed theivforeman ( Sir E . S . Walker ) to return it to tke borough fund . —[ Wouldilnot have be * n better ap , plied had it been appropriated to the Mends o § the sufferers ? 1 M . Aim <> Martin , one of the oldsat editors , of tho Journal < la Debate , a » d formerly one of th * Secretaries of the Chamber of Deputies , and U \ t « ly conservator of the library of St Genevieve , tW a few days aso , and was interred in tho oeraetery of Mont Parnasse * after the i ' wnoral service had been performed at the church ot St Germain do Prea . M . Aime Martin married the widow of Bernardin de St Pierre .
The lung of Sweden has conferred tho insignia in diamonds of the order of the Polar Star upon his Excellency Count de MoHko , late Minister Plenipotentiary from Denmark to tlio Court of Sweden , and who now tills the sswne functions at tho court of France . ¦ The corn looks beautiful j and of potatoes there , is every promise of a beautiful and uncontarainated crop . —Carlisle Patriot , ' The wheat looks very well , and the ear is just , beginning to flower , 'i'he potato crop is magnificent , and free from d ' . scasc—Jersey ' i'imes . Upwards of 8 , 00 , 0 quarters of grain arrived at Perth last wek . at two Bm & s ' m tid ««
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¦ ¦; Vy *}™ "" > Mr , Lwoh HuNr . —On Friday Mr Leigh Hunt received a letter from Lord John Ru * . sell , communicating the fact , thai it had been decided lo confer on him . a pejision of £ 200 per annum . . A Willino Wife . —A -few days ago a fisherman was summoned to the police court charged with being drunk . Ha , wife , who appeared for him , said that when ; he was sober-he was one of the quietest men in the would : but when-. he . got drunk " , puor fellow , he did not know what he wa * doing . He wag fined 5 s . and costs , when his wife , l 6 vin % soul , said , " You must take me for it , for he ' s gone otlt fishing . ' —Liverpool Cotsrier .
Royai . Visimo Scow . AHD .-It is said tobe ; her Majesty ' s intention to proceed to Scotland before the endoftheseasen . . Russian PoJATOKS . —An arrival of potatoes from Russia has just taken place at the port of Bristol by a vessel arrived from Odessa , having ten casks of tho vegetable on board , the growth of that country . March or Imellect . —A correspondent sends U 8 the following , whic ;> he states ia » ' true copy of an inscription on » sign-board in a small village not a hundred miles from the city of York :- ~ " Reydia writghtin , an nrethmittick taute hear ackordin too therkuldesof'gramer . Alsoe red rutes red herio , an poetarterssmall bear an traycellan all kindes ot vegeytebels solde hear bye yore humbel sarvenfc J— -G— .. ' »•
Fhr BiBKaHiKAD Docks . —Livkbpooi ,, Monday . — An important announcement has been mado heretoday with regard to the Birkenhead Docks . Tb « woods and Forests , which formerly promised the strand , have-now laid claim to the margin of the Wallasey Pool , on which the docks are erected The 8 ° * " ™? ' - » ' 8 o , - wtich promised a subsidy of *«» , «» tp aid the works , now states that it has not tne requisite power ; and consequently , the company has determined to close the works . The corporation of Liverpool have also put in a claim to the strand . ¦ .. . , ScoosDB . iH 3 .--A correspondent informs us , that on Monday ' three individuals were taken into custodj in jilasgowyaecused of having , on that and the precedingdTiy , been caught sprinkling a potato field with vitriol ,, in order to raise a panic , and the price of grain . !> ' this is true what do their abettors deserve ?"— Caledonian Mercury .
. O'CoKKSBt ' s Household . — AtDerrynane House chapel , macs is celebrated every morning by the Rer . J . O'Sullinan , who resides in the Abbey . On the right of the altar is a large chair or pew , where Mr O'Connell used to sit . It has a back seven feet high , anditbis pew is now covered with black olotb the door fastened , and no one is to enter i t again . Lambs . K » bskd at a Dog —A few days sincesonie sheep died on a farm near Coventry , and seven lambs were left without their parents . About ; tbe same time a lasge bitch , of the shepherd breed , had a litter of whelps , which were immediately drowned , and the lambs wore placed under her care . The bitch immediately adopted her new charge , and now suckles and nurses them with the greatest fondness . Tub . sate Thomas Hood . —Lord John Russell has announced her Majesty ' s intention Of conferring * pension of £ 100 a year upon the children of this highly-gifted but unfortunate author .
# LuoeuRx for the Royal Navy . — On Saturday , in consequence of the difficulty experienced in procuring men accustomed to the sea to complete the erev » of the Queen , Caledonia , Howe , and St Vincent , of 120 guns each , now lying at Spithead , orders were-received at tbe naval rendezvous , ' Tower-hill , t » enter landsmen for the service , between 19 and 2 £ years of age , aad not less than live feet six inches in height . ( SfiSBNwicii Hospitai ,, —The names of several distinguished officers are mentioned for the vacant governship of Greenwich Hospital , amongst ethers , those of Sir Edward Codrington , Sir George Cockbum , and Sir S . Byam Martin , all of the senior list . Sir Edward Codrington is considered likely to succeed to the appointment .
ExrRAonnixARr Heat of inn Wbather . — On Monday the barometer at the Royal Humane Society ' s seceiving-house , in Hyde Path , stood from eleven a . m . to five p . m ; in the sun at 101 degrees of Fahrenheit , and in the shade at 83 degrees . Reduction is the Price op Bread . —On Tuesday there was a reduction of one halfpenny in the price of the 41 b . loaf of wheaten bread throughout the various metropolitan districts , the high priced bakers < jhargi n ? Hd ., second quality Aid ., and household 9 J . and 8 | d . the 41 b . loaf . Rye bread is 7 d . the 41 b ., and Indian bread 2 J . the lb .
Fju . of a Graw Lorr . —Some days ago one of the lofts ot a granary at Craigio gave way , and fell to the ground floor , with all its accumulated treasures , in one promiscuous uproar . W e believe more granaries throughout the country bare fallen within the last six months than during the previous sixty years—certainly no proof of the scarcity m > loudly asserted te exist in the land . —Perth Advertiser . Rscni'iriifG ix ins CouMnr . —The recruiting parties in Essex have received orders to commence the enlistment of infantry recruits for tho term of 10 years , at the same age and standard as before , under the new act upon the subject , which temved the Royal assent last week . The term for the cavalry aud artillery is 12 years .
A Godmandizer . —There was found dead lately on tliebanks of Puhjanny , olios the Water of Badenock , near Drumlanford-house , a crafcy heron , the stomach ef which , when examined , actually contained the amazing number of 39 fine burn troucs . Sioared . VhDiciNEs . —A singular mpde of preparing medicines appears to have been recently adopted in France , by covering tbe most nauseous descriptions of them with sugar in a confectioned and highly finished state—so as to represent sugar-plums and comfits , and to deceive any person as to their exact quality and real substance . This is now extended trom small kinds of confectionary to articles of a larger description , equalling the siz * ot sugared almonds , ns they are called , and containing a very considerable quantity of the medicinal properties which it may be intended to incorporate , or rather , conceal therein—and in this state imported in this country for use .
Consecration of tub New Colonial Bishops . —On Tuesday the four new Bishops of Melbourne , Ade * laide , Capo Town , and Newcastle , were publicly consecrated in Westminster Abbey , previous to their departure for their respective dioceses , in the presence of a numerous assemblage of persons . Fusesal oi Dr Lynch . —At one o clock on Wednesday the remains of this gentleman were deposited in their last resting place , in the Cemetery , Lower Norwood . The funeral was strictly privcte . Extraordinary Crop of Apples . —Jas . Crosby , sen ., has growing in his orchard at Holme , near Burton , a small apple tree , and upon i > ne of its branches , which is only five feet in length , there are one hundred and fifty-six apples , all of which appear to be in a healthy and growing state . —Kmdal Memiry . New Routs to Lakh Superior . —The British
government , have established a semi-monthly mail to the Copper Mines on Lake Superior , on the north side of the Jake . The conveyance leaves Toronto on the 13 th and 28 tb of each month , and takes passenigers through in sixty hours to SaultSte . Marie , by ; way of Lake Simcoe , to Sturgeon Bay on Lake Huron , and thence to Owen ' s Sound , and then to the SauJt . 2 his is 450 miles nearer than by Lake Erie . A Hit at Ms Jobs O'Coxkell , tiiuNkw Leader , —Leader , quotha 1 A leader , look ye , gentlemen , is one that leads , A national leader is one that leads a nation . But a fat young gentleman offive-and thirty , without eloquence to sway the multitude , or passion to . stir them , or imagination to . elevate them , or humour to please them , is he a leader ?—Nation .
DEAiB ^ oa tHB Elephant tub Ssurey Gardens . —On Tuesday morning the female elephant , se long a favourite with the visitors of the'Surrey Gardens ,, expired after a comparatively short illness . A liARoa Eoo . —We wereshowayesterday alien ' s egg ol uaasual size , laid in ihe yard of Mr Gray ' s millj , , Pollard-streei , Ancoats , on Monday last . Its cLseumfcn'nce , round the middJe , is six inches ; round , tbe ends , 7 i inches ; sold- it weighs three ounces , —Manchester Guardian . TiHft ; Maim . —A bill broughiia by the SecretaryatrWamnd the Judge Adxocatc-6 ener . il suspends the making of lists and the ballots and enrolments of th > snilitia of the United kingdom until the 1 st of October , 1848 .
Singular Freak op Lionising . —On Saturday sjArning last a larjie ashitree , growing by the road , aear Garstang , was completely stripped of its loaves on one side by lightning , leaving the other as green and luxuriant as ever .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 3, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_03071847/page/3/
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