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Jeptember 9,1848. THE NORTHERN WAR;
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Jeptember 9,1848. The Northern War;
Jeptember 9 , 1848 . THE NORTHERN WAR ;
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Come and barken to my dirge , 'lis of « martyr I would chant ; One , who the reign ef right did urge' Asd bade the rale of wrong , avaant ! The sabbath dawn'd : bis way he took , To where hit brother men had presa'd , Thtre to obey Cod ' s holy took , And cured keep the day of rest . Tha better day , the better deed : ' He and hi * fellow slaves were wronged , Victims eftyrtxay ud greed , And for a' better time' they longed . Of lives and rights , protectors paid ,
What did they oa that holy day t To serve their God t—Gave Justice aid ! Who asked it , tbty did maim or slay ! Beneath their blowa our brother fell : An' honest man'hi slaughtered lay ; AmartyrM patriot as well , Aad grryhalred aged parents ' stay . 'The nnrdsrcrt were welcome made Within the temple of the Lord : . Ah ! wellmay we its priest ambnld , Than HtQ-fieEd more to he abhorred . 0 S let a monument Em reared , To tell the virtue of the dead ; And vita of his assassins seared , Under whose hands his spirit fled . -Tbe Priests and Herods of bis time ,
This manly youth have made a martyr , Because he sought the right sublime , Inscribed upon the People ' s Charter
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Simmondst Colonial Magazine . September . London ; Simmonds and Co ., Barge-yard , BucklersbuTj . A further and spirited exposure of the Vancouver ' s Island job ; and articles on the' Advantages of Perpetual Peace ; ' the 'Manufacture of Sugar , and Management of Land in the West Indies ;' ' State of Agriculture ia the British Possessions in the Straits of Malacca ; ' and 'Sugar Cultivation in Cuba , ' are amongst the contents of this number of the Colonial Magazine . ' From an account of * A trip to Adam ' s Peak , Ceylon , ' we give the following extract : — adam ' s peak .
At dawn of day , we started for the Peak , and ascend , leg about a quarter ef amUe higher up the steep acclivity witnessed one of the most imposing scenes that eye srer saw . In the rear of us , and far below our position , were seen to aa incalculable distance on ocean of white revolving clouds , lying over tha bills In the back ground , their outlines distinctly defined , asd vaulting one above the other ia endless succession ; now half exposing to tight the wooden crown of a peak , now qoite concealing others in their fleecy io'ds as if drowsy nature atUI was jelling on its expansive downy bed . We were here entering the very heart of a wilderness , where every step we advanced revealed the traces of herds of large elephants eithtr in the road , being intersected at intervals of twenty or thirty yards , by tracks , or fn the recent
deposits lying in our way ; just as if they had preceded us the minute before ; and this , strange as It may seem , up to within a taile of the very peak . How the teunwieldy moasters cam move on the precipitous drcliviths of these mountains , is f 9 me a matter of astonishment ; but yet they do , and that where the light frame of a man would find it difficult to maintainits gravity . Sow the silent , solemn majesty of the toll trees , again farming a lofty arcade over our path , rising still higher and higher at wa advance , Imnreuea one with the idea of these fa . comparable scenes . About two miles further np , the enermont height upon which one stands at Kirlehelle , on the very brink of an abyss which yawns below , and between him and an adjoining peak , whose rocky crest looks bleached by the vicissitudes of time , would theck
weak nerves toincalge the desire ef locking down far mere than five minutes . A stone thrown from this , may be heard rustling among the trees for some time , as it gravitates to the bottom , and a whosp or cill hi re-echoed s dcxni times by every reek , which teems to scowl on you , and threaten to let loose the genii inhabiting the angry cavet . Advancing after the short pause here , which gives you time to take breath , and with it , U you can , a glass of brown stout , yon get or stoutly np the some , snd more difficult interminable heights , till abont three miles progress brings yon to Diebetbme , where , on a patch of table-land , cevered with beautiful green sward , and encompassed with the range cf hills which frequently are teen from the mott d ' ttoot parts of the island asd at tea , yen now reach the
dilapidated bungalow of that name , from whence , for tht first time , is viewed the widely-worshipped aad far . famed Adam ' s Peak . Imagine yon see before you to the tost , peering in the air , as if snspenSed bat ween heaven aad earth , a bare dark rock , which fancy pictures to ba tome huge eagle ' s nest , and within pistol-shot , hat in reality at the distance of four English miles from yon yet , up a steeper and more rugged path than ever , barely wide enough for one at a time to pass , and expressly sow termed in Cingbalese , Aakatse Gowe , or literally , sky league , and jon can form a pretty fair conception of the sublime picture . From this yon dip into tha woods again , and Iote sight of the peak , winding your way down narrow avenues , and natural causeways , fonsed of fragments of granite lying in the order oi
stairs rill you reach a Sit table rock at apltce called Gettanpaane , and after that an immense black marble slab , to the fall width of a ravine extending at right ingles across jour path and colled Gaipahoore , or stone raft , clear streams of watsr coxing out of its fissures as If rent in several places by its own ponderous weight or some great convulsion of nature . * * * Here the actual ascent to the Peak commences , by a chain on the Uft of yon , to run up a small rock , again you advance a few paces by a alight bend to the right , and again a few paces more ; yon stop to look around , amtsed at the fearful elevation oa which jou stand ; a wide , vast vacuum , whichever way you turn year sight , presents itself . Tour guide won ' t let yon stay—be hurries yotron lest a blast of wind unexpectedly coming
might , in se Hiement , sweep you into eternity . You get on again to a couple of chains more that lead you over another slightly elevated rock , and yon land just before the iron ladder , on either tide of which hangs a bunch of large , iron chains , the link , varying In t'zs from six to eight iaches in length and proportionally wide . The ladder lies at the north-west face np a perpendicular ascent to nearly forty feet of a bare rock , with nothing mora than a wide gulf yawning all around you . The steps of the ladder are about four inches broad , barely sefficient for the toes to rest on , and about eighteen inches long , closely rivetted te the rock so at to prevent their moving . The chains dangle in groups of ten or twelve , and the wind at times , in sportive mirth , tosses them shout , and makes them clang so that you might
hear it , I am told , a mile off . Having gained the summit by these means , yon light on a , sort of terracs enclosed all around by a three feet and a half wail , giving it the appearance cf a small battlement . In the centre of the area Hands a block of black marble , about eight feet high and between twelve and fifteen feet long , the diameter of which again is about eight feet from side to side . This again is eormounted by a small flat tile covering , supported by four comparatively slender wcoden pUlait resting on amsuive rough wooden frame for its bate , on the block , forming a sort of canopy over the sacred foot indented oa it . The impression is nearly five feet asd a half long , and proportionally broad . Old Baddhoo would teem to have taken the stride northward ; the area Is about seveity . five feet by thirty in diameter , and
next to the block upon which the indentation Is marked , stands a bell suspended to a wooden post , abont ten feet high ; on the block of marble near tha bell is a dirty wooden shrine , besmeared with the oil of ages , that tbe devoteesfasrnduring tbe worship ; and scattered near and about itmay bs seen a few pieces of coppsr coin . Lavishing so much filthy lucre it to propitiate Sanaa Devio , without whose tutelary protection yon couldn ' t for the world get to the Peak . Oa the south-vast of tbe block , and within tbe wall stands a long room , built of masonry , and covered with tiles . This Is probably the * beautiful pagoda' whieh PhU & tethet says formerly stood on the top of tilt hill , and waa the abode of Bttde ? hoo . No ' cistern of . water railed upon two large stones stands in the midst of the plain on the Peak , on one ef
which stones is a footstep . ' There it bnt the one block ot marble in the centre , upos which is tbe natural indentation , the greatest piece of absurdity that ever was p timed open humsn credulity as the memorial of an historical fact , arts the exposition of an extravagant fiction . Thlngt have been tadly altered at Sammanelle Skipade , or as the Moors call it , Bawsdam . malle , or father Adam ' s hill , since Bsldteat and Talentyn wrote . Diego deConto ' s idea of the hl'l separating into two topi , on one of which is the sacred footstep , may per . haps be accounted for by another distinct b'll rising south-east of Adam's Peek , and called Koentdla-parra ,
which hot a woody cr < tt of its own , but slightly infer for in height to that of the sacred hill , and forming the adjoining link in the range of heights that extend from north to south , almost In a line with Adam's Peafe , on the north of which stands , jutt abont the ssme dlsUsce from it as the other , another equally conspicuous tornmit , Bennehanwenelle . True , there is an excellent spring of water , so cold that it snakes yoir teeth ache , ruing out of the crevices ef the rock outside the wall , on the east tide of the Peak ; but this surely never was within the precincts of it . Ia tee room jast mentioned , the priests whs assemble during the great festivals , raslde till they are over , and abtsdon it again till the
next season . * * Fancy yeurself perched upon the dizzy height , a magnificent prospect at every point of the compact , ext ; ndi > jg In the south-west till tbe l ' gbt bine horizon , shade ! by a deeper on'l ' ne , which marks the bouuOarj ofthecooitby the blue waters of the tea , limits the extent of yoa ~ vision ; and the undulating meoataln
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' opsin thensrth east , extending for bsysnd the range ef Ambegunowe , where the dotted surface , with light green patches , reveals to sight the coffae estates that stand in that direction ; ia the north-west the lofty height you have just traversed ; and oa the east the tranecindant beams of tha sun diffusing their gorgeous light over tbe lesser eminence as they rise to gild tht firmament , end you can form but an imperfect Idea of the grand panorama of natare Ijing stretched below and btforeyou . Description mutt ever fall short of the reality . This number commences tbe fifteenth volume ; a fact which sufficiently proclaims the well-deserved popularity of this very useful periodical .
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The Reasoner . Put XXVIII . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . Mr Holyoake has thought our remarks on the part of the' Beasoner * last noticed in these columns wor thy a' leader *—reply , under his own hand and seal . Of that reply we may say , as we personally said to Lord Palmerston , at the close of his defence at Tiverton—' we are satisfied '—satisfied that there needs no rejoinder from us . Nevertheless as we entertain sentiments of respect for Mr Holyoake which we certainly do not entertain for the Foreign Secretary , we wiU do the editor of the Reatoner the courtesy of noticing one or two points in his ' reply . ' We quote
AN EXPLANATION—MESSRS O ' CONNOR AND FOX . The Rsseosra bears evidence that 1 da not hesitate to object to Mr For , where I see broad ground ot dissent . I am not the whelcsole eulogist of the member for Oldham , any more than I em the wholesale center of Mr O'Connor . So far from being disinclined to praise Mr O'Connor , I with I could always pralte him , at he exercises great influence over the working classes —aad it would ba better for my order ceuld I of tenet op . prove Mr O'Connor ' * leadership of them .- I with Mr Fox had net remained tllcnt when the Sua was at * tacked far what I regard as its courage and liberality , in advertising Psine's workt . Ko man could have castigated that pitiful intolerance better than Mr Fox .
"We next quote an extract in which it will be seen that Mr Holyoake has misapprehended our meaning : — The Slit- says It Is ' sorry to see me coquetting , if not wora , with Malthuiisnism . * Coquetting i * here used in the tents of political pandering . I quote a new writer on Malthuslanism — it cannot ba from ourisilty for information , for refutation , or frcm some partial conviction : it tnuit be from insincerity , asd for a vena ] end . We are inclined to admit that the word coquet , ting was not well chosen , nevertheless we demur to the meaning put upon it by Mr Holyoake—certainly not our meaning . When we expressed sorrow
that Mr H . was ' coquetting , if not worse , with Malthusianism / we meant that we were sorry to see him devoting whole pages of the Reavmer to the dissemination of doctrines which he knew to be < damnable , ' or worse , that he had even become a convert to those doctrines . * Curiosity for information' is certainly a sufficient motive for the reading of any book , but not for public quotation , unless the person who quotes is prepared either to acknowledge his adoption of the sentiments quoted , or avowedly quotes for the purpose of refuting the arguments in the matter extracted . Now , Mr Holvoake has done neither . He has neither
declared himself Malthusian , nor Ahti-Malthusian . But then there may be ' partial conviction . ' That is . he is suspended ( like the tomb of Mahomet ) between two principles . We see our way now ; Mr Holyoake is not so insincere as to be a coquet with regard to Malthusianism , nor is he warm enough to be a lover of that charming ism . He will aud he wont . Courage , man , you are too coy . The object of your half-love is either the beauty painted by admirers , or the incarnation of abomination drawn by enemies . If assured of the former , for . ward without faint heart ; but if reflection con . vincestheeof the latter , backward and renounce partial convictions .
Mr Holyoake says : 'It does not follow that the propounder of damnable doctrines' is ' cold-blooded . This ' confounding the tendency of principles with the intension of the advocates is the besetting sin of the Northern Star . ' The * besetting sin' of calling things by their right names is likely to stick to the Northern Star . We had spoken of ? the damnable doctrines propounded by the cold-blooded political economist Mill . ' In reply we have been privately informed that Mr Mill is in private life a very estimable and truly benevolent man . We have been informed of several instances of his liberality which certainly do him great honour . But we did not speak of Mr Mill , as a' cold-blooded' man . Surely Mr
Holyoake does not require to be taught the difference which is not always , bnt too often , found between the public and private characters of men . The teacher of good doctrines may be a ' coldblooded' man ; and a good man may , by propounding ' damnable doctrines . ' prove himself a ' coldblooded' political economist . The Emperor of Russia has the reputation of being an admirable husband and father , and , for any thing we know to the contrary , may be in the habit of disbursing large sums in acts of private benevolence ; but will the editor of the Reatoner require us to enter into proofs of the justice of our denunciation of Nicholas as a 'coldblooded' tyrant ? So far as we know , Thiers may be
a very honourable and amiable character iu private life , for we know nothing of his private history ; but , judging him by his public career , we must be permitted to hold him np to execration as an unscrupulous and heartless scoundrel . Mr Holyoake prides himself ou bis anxiety to he just . We believe him ; but we also worship Justice , and , therefore , we call a spade a ' spade , ' and a scoundrel a ' scoundrel . ' We have nothing to do with the private characters of public men . We judge them by the effects of their words and acts upon society , and whether they are bookmakers or lawmakers , tyrants or the tools of tyrants , we speak of them as our sense of justice dictates tons .
Giving an account of a recent visit to Bristol , Mr Holyoake says : — On ont night before my lectures were delivered , a friend announced them in the Chartist Hall , when Mr Clark took up the Ncbthbsh Sioa , and read the notice ofmj to which I replied in the last Btisoxu . ' This , ' said Mr Clark , ' is the Mr Holyoake , whom we are invited to hear lecture . Instead cf going , let ut subscript the admission towards Br M'Dotuli'a defence . ' This course they took . I am not sorry that I should be a meant of adding to Dr It'Douail ' s Defence Fund , but I am sorry that Chartism , under tho guidance of Mr Clark , has risen no higher in Bristol than to told that man disqualified to address them who bat the independence to recommend an improvement in their well-intentioned but impotent policy .
We are sorry that Mr Clark took tbe course above stated . If , indeed , a working man , having only twopence to spare , communes with himself as to whether he shall expend that twopence in paying to hear a lecturer—not of his own party—or in helping to add to a fund necessary for the defence of a leader of his own party , whose personal liberty is in peril , we think he acts both justly and rationally if he decides to give his twopence to the fnnd for the defence of his imperilled friend . But we are sorry
that anything we have sam of Mr Holyoake should induce any of our readers to mark him out for proscription in any sense or form . We cannot agree with him in all things ; we think him sometimes mistaken , and often politically not 'np to the mark . ' Bnt we know him to be an ardent worshipper of truth , and imbued with a sterling sense of honour . In proof of this last virtue , we quote the following article from the number of the Reasoner published en the 30 th ult .:
—THE CBABTUT PB 160 NBB 3 . Last week I refused two requests to lecture on Moral Force Bsfortnaticn fn the provinces . Now that the government are putting down the Chartists with an unscrupulous baud , jl think it only good taste to pause iu en . foreingjtbo theory ofpersuasion , as onecannct do it withont coademningby implication those who have adopted maxims of force , aud they will bs aisalled with sufficient severity by their enemies , without having tho difficulties of tt-elr position sugmented by their friends—who agree with their o ' rgect ( imilioration ) but differ from their cream of seeking it .
For tbe some reason I discountenance as far es I can , the holding of Chartist meetings anywhere , unless for the defence of tbe imprisoned Political meetings for the furtherance of physical force enly increase their danger , and those in favour of moral force add to the obloquy under which they labour . After tbe misrepresentations by the Mo & nins Cbbotricu cf the Farringdoa Hall maetinr , there is good reaioa to doubt whether Fatsell ever uttsted tbe words which Pokch caricatured , and for which Mr Fussell has been imprisoned . The Daiw News has told us that the Tikes has put into the month of Lord Ashley one half mere than he hat spoken . And if a lord is not respected by his political opponents , the Chartlttt have little to hope ; Words were atcribed to Mr Ernest Jones which even the government reporter proved he never said .
The Makcbbsth News , which enjoyed ubiquity and something more : it appeared not only in two place ? , but in three places at once . As tho Hauchesieb New ; It was a Radical journal . And as soon as that edition was strock eff , a Tory leader was written , end it appeared ( all ether matter rema ' ning tho same ) as th-j Makchbsteb Stasdabd , a Conservative piper . Thirciy , a local Chanist leader was created to supply tha pltci of the Tory one , audio ! it was maamorpheted into the ' Qldha * . Newt . Tihea I was in Old .
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o ^ L ^ ., * e , l ! oa , n , W 8 P » P er anaouneed that Mr ueorge White , of Bradford , had delivered a lecture in the . ^ . w t ^ utet he ™ tt « Snndsy before my arrival , 2 * -SI ! * . 8 d * " * «» msgUtrates rearrest him , ^ Jt *** " bravadoes ; and that a report of bit 2 SL iT ^ ' WflW tbe magistrates . Having acceinpanied Mr White to Mr Letch ' s in Manchester the 7 ™? «« lecture , and converted opon it , I doabted the truth ef tu . report , and I . ought Mr White to ques-TVm * » - !/"" on th 0 Manchester and Leeds line at Hebden Bridge the following Sundsy , when I found th f" * atMr wwt 9 -U was , that the right to arm was in hit opinion , eonttitutional , aud for giving inch advice he could dare the magittrates to arrest him . A very dlffcient thing from the sentelett bravado ascribed tehira .
The government , in condescending to accept tbe evidence of Powell , degrade themselves . Tbis man joint the Cnartittsln order to betray them , and stimulates the treason he charges upon them . Whatever punishment they deserve he cerUiui y deserves too . In what way are the people to be elevated by example , if the govern , meat connive at this treachery and duplicity ! On what principle will you condemn the Chartists for falling upon erroneout means of obtaining iheir objects , if the government will accept any means , fair or foni , of securing theirs !
Truth / tsld Ernest Jonet , in hit letter to Ctief Justice Wilde , in one of those fine tentencet whieh he occasionally ntttrs , < Trtvh plays upon an Iron harp . ' This harp hat taeantouchad oi late by fingers of fierce Misery ; and if it hat produced strange tonnes , most unwelcome to the ears of easy people , let them not interpret the voles of want into the voice of anarchy . Let not juries lend themselves toi > willingly to those coercive retaliations in whieh tbe sole genius of our government lies . Lit them remember that political concession , education , and emplojmtnt will set all things even , more honour , ably aud permanently than any species of imprisonment wUI .
Daring my first tonr In tbe North I saw but one pike blade . I kntw where it was concealed . On my second visit to tht North , three weeks ago , I went and took it from itt hiding place , and purchased it , I was anxious te possess a tingle specimen of the instrument recently proposed to supersede the syllogism In political advo . eacy . It wat my Intention to produce it at my Rhetoric Class next sessions . Hare I not as much right to do a danger scene at the City Mechanics' Institute , as Eimnnu Burke in the House of Commons ! Carefully planted in my carpet big , and capped with cork to prevent it perforating the sides , I carried it with me
everywhere . I was not far from Ashton when the late disturbance took place . At I spoke in the hall in which Dr M'DuUsll tpoks the night before his address , and on the same topic , I have expected to be confounded by officials not remarkable for discrimination . Had it so happened , what a fine paragraph for the Tikes would have been manufactured , out of the fact that a Moral Fores Lecturer had been seised with a pike in hit carpet bag ! How plausible , and yet how false ! How true in fact , and yet hew false in inference ! I believe there ore many prions suffering imprisonment at thit time on ns better foundation than wonld have existed here . G . J Holyoake .
Tbe course adopted by Mr Holyoake , as set forth in the above article , does him great credit , and we are sure will be appreciated by those Chartists who most differ from him as to the question of' means . ' It is our belief that the next time he visits Bristol he will find the Chartists ef that place better disposed towards him ; willing to listen , and as willing to oppose , in the spirit of free and fair discussion , should he propound doctrines by them believed to be false , or give expression to sentiments hostile to their ideas of justice or propriety .
The general contents of this part of the Reasoner are morevaried than usual , and , perhaps , more interesting . Mr Cooper ' s Orations on the French Revolution deservedly occupy a prominent place . In the articles by Mr Linton in reply to Mr Chilton on the subject of' natural rights , ' Mr Linton has decidedly the best of the argument . When Mr Chilton made his Quixotic attack npon ' natural rights'he must have been' hard-up' for a subject for his pen . Of bis argument * it might be remarked , as Byron observed of a similar reasoner , though upon another subject . — ' When Bisbep Berkeley said there was no matter , It mattered very little what he ( aid . "
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The Republican . September . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . This is an excellent number of the Republican , containing well-written articles on 'Aristocracy , ' the'People's Charter , ' 'Poland , ' ' Italy , ' & c , & c . In our foreign page will be found an ' Address of the Polish Emigration' extracted from this number . We quote extracts from a powerful and eloquent article , or oration , by Joseph Mazzini , which originally appeared in his paper , the 'Italia del Popolo , ' 'Italy of the People , ' published inMilau until Charles Albert ' s cowardly , if not treacherous , capitulation . The address was intended to be spoken in commemoration of the martyrdom of the brothers Bandiera , murdered by the tyrant of Naples , with the connivance ot the British government , in 1844 .
TO TUB WK 0 BX or THE HiBTYBS OF C 38 EBZA , * J 01 Y 25 TH , 1814 . When I received from yon , 0 yenng men ! the charge to pronounce in tbis temple a few words sacred to tho memory of tbe brothers Bandiera and their martyr com . panlons at Cosenza , I thought that ptrstpi some one ef those who heard me might exclaim with noble indignation , ' To what ead are these laments for the dead ? The martyrs of Liberty can only bs worthily honoured by winning the battle they have begun . Cosenza , the land where they died , is a slave ; V nice , the city which gave them birth , hemmed in by foreigners . Let us emancipate tfcem , and from tbis moment no sound bo on eur lips , bnt that of war . ' But another thought arose and said to me , why are net we victorious ? Why is it that ,
while the north of Italy combats for independence , Liberty perlthet in the south t Why hit that a war which ought to have leaped with a lion ' s bound to tbe Alps , drags along for four months slowlj and uncertainly as tha crawl of a scorpion girt by a circle of fire t Why is it that the rapid powerful intuition of the genius of a People risen again to life has tnnk into tbe weary and incapable fancy of a sick man turning in his bed ? Ab ! if we all had risen in theholinest of thatidsa for which our martyrs died , —if the Labarum of their faith had gene before our young men in their battles , —if Tilth that collected unity of life which was so powerful in them we bad made of every thought an action , of every action a thought , —if their last words , devotedly harvested in our minds , bad taught ut that liberty and independence areoneaadthe tame thing ; that Odd and tbe People .
that Country and Humanity are inseparable terms in any nndertak ng of people who wish to become a Nation —that Italy cannot be unless the be One , holy through the equality and love of all her sent , and great through her worship of the eternsi truth , by her consecration to a high mission , to a moral priesthood among the Peoples of Europe , —we should today have victory , not war ; Cosenza wonld not be condemned to venerate in tecret the memory of the martyrs ; the dread of teeing them profaned by the insults of tbe foreigner would not withhold Venice from honouring them with a monument ; and we , assembled hero , might witbont uncertainty at to our fate , without any clond of ssdnrss upon our front , gladly invoke their tacred names , and ssy to those fore , running souls , r / joice , because your brethren have incarnated your ideal , and are worthy of you !
Kotyet , 0 young men ! is their adored conception re . splendent , pure , and perfect , upon your banners . The sublime programme which they dying bequeathed to the nascent Italian generation , it not yours somntilated and torn to fragments by falsa doctrines that , elsewhere , overthrown , have taken refuge amengtt ut . I look and see an agitation of separate populations ; an alternation of generous raging aad of unworthy quiet , of free cries and fermnlas of servitude , in all parts of our Peninsula ; but where is the heart ef the Peninsula ! Where is the unity cf this unequal , manifold movement ?—where is the dominating Word of these hundred voices of ministers of divers counsels , ever crossing each other , misleading and sednclog the multitude ! I beer talk , usurping the national omnipotence , of a Northern Italy , of a League of States , of a Federal Pact among princes ; —fciu » shere is Italv ! Where is the common couutry
which tbe Bandieras saluted at tbe initiator for tbe third Omt , of an era of European civilisation ! * * * * You are twtnty-four millions of men , endowed with active , splendid faculties ; you have traditions of glory which the nations ot Europe envy ; before yeu stands an imraf n * e future ; your eyes beheld tbe fairest sky which it known to Europe , and around you smiles the loveliest nature that Europe can admire ; and jou are encircled by tbe Alps , and by the sea , these outlines drawn by tbe finger of God for a giant people . And such you ought to be , or else net be at all . Nat one single man of these twenty-four millions shall remain excluded from the fraternal psct which yeu frame not ona glsnee w hich is
not free shall be r & hei to contemplate tbis heaven . Be Rome the sacred ark of your redemption : the temple of your nation : has it not already been twice the teaiple of the dtst nies of E jropa ! In Rome two extinct worlds , the Pagan and the world of the Popes , He superposed one ontheotherllkeadoublejewelln a diadem . Create a third werld vaster than the two ! Prem Rome , from the Holy City . from the City of Love ( Amor—Rams ) , the purest , the wlsett amongttyou , elected by the vote and strengthened by the inspiration of a whole peep le , shall dictate the pact by which you shall be bound as one , snd represented in the future alliance of peop les . Until then you have no country , or you have it contaminated .
Beyond the Alps , beyond the see , stand other peoples fighting , or maklcg ready to fight with yeu , the sacred battles of Independence , cf Nationality , of Liberty ; other peoples who tend by different ways to the self-ssme end -erfcctlbility , association , the foundation of an authority which ehall put au end to moral anarchy , which shall re-hnlt earth and Heaven , and which men may
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love and follow unblntbl . igly and without remone , Lwgue yourselves with then »«» they alto unite with yen . Invoke them not if your own arms can vanquish ; but tell them that tbe hour is aboi " to strike for a rerrioie conflict betwrearlgbt and bllna force , and that at that hour you will be with all who a dvance uader the same banner . * » # Wrath , pride , ambition , the de ^ u-e of material prosperity , are weapone common to both peoples aad their oppressors ; and besides should youhy thelrald conquer to-day , you would fall back again to-mevrow . Bat
rsiBCiw . Es belong to tbe people alone , an * their opp ressors will not find arms wherewith to oppsse them . Reverence enthusiasm J Adore the dreams of the virgin tonl , and the visions of the first days of youth , because these dreamt of earliest youth are tho fragrance of paradise , whieh tbe soul retains in Issuing from the bands of its Creator . Respect , before all thlnits , your © wn > conscience ; haieon your lips tbe truth which God ho * placed in your heart ; and harmoniously uniting in all that tends to the emancipation of our soil , even with those who dl „ cnt from krm ^ b and boldly promul gate your faith
These words , 0 young men ! the martyrs of Cosenza would tell jon , werB the , . till Hvieg among you . And here ' w , „! i , P » . ' » « dbyourlove , thelrholy sculs are appeased r call upon you to receive them into your ble , w ., « l ! ep B ? Aem M *»««»•• . against storm , which still await us , but which , with the names of the martyrs upon our lips , and their names within our hearts , wo shall yet ov . roome . , , J * ° \ b * w , tl > Jon and bleu our Italj ' . July 26 th , mis . JtarahHin .
* Cosenza In The Kingdom Of Naples Where...
* Cosenza In the kingdom of Naples where the u : udleras Peru murdered .
The Family Herald. Part Lxiv. London: G....
The Family Herald . Part LXIV . London : G . Briggs , 421 , Strand . The lovers of the romantic and mysterious will find a rare treat in the story of The Black Cabinet , ' in course of publication , in this periodical . The other contents are of the usual character—diversified and entertaining . Pressed for room , we can only give the two following extracts : —
EPIGRAM . From the French of Rousseau , The world is but a comic plsy , Where men thtlr varied parti essay . In drett dramatic , oaths boards Strut bishops , ministers , and lords ; While wo poorp'ople sit below , Despised , though paying for the show , For which wo are allowed to hiss , Whene ' er the farce isplayed amiss :
IMPROMPTU , ON SEEING THE 'HELEN Oi CANOVA . ' U « ri 6 u !« d to Byron ) In this beloved marble view , Above the workt and thoughts of man , What Nature could but would not do , And beauty and Canora can , Beyond imagination '! power-Beyond the bard ' s defeated art , With immortality her dower , Behold the Helen of the heart 1
The Illustrated Song Book. Nos. I., Ii.,...
The Illustrated Song Book . Nos . I ., II ., III . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage . This bids fair to make the neatest song-book we remember to have seen . Each number contains a careful selection of songs , duets , and glees ; with an appropriate toast or sentiment attached to each . An illustration , neatly executed , heads the first song in each number . The printer has done his work well .
Publications Received.—Bird's Philosophy...
Publications Received . —Bird ' s Philosophy and Religion of Shakspeare . Holyoake ' s Logic of Facts . Peerage Jobbery . Gray ' s Lectures on the Nature and Use of Money . The EthnologicalJournai . Emigrant ' s Guide to the Cape of Good Hope .
The Late Mr Councillor Briggs, Of Sheffi...
THE LATE MR COUNCILLOR BRIGGS , OF SHEFFIELD . We are requested to publish the following correspondence between Mr Councillor Ironside , oi Sheffield , and the Poor Law Commi'sioners , respecting the medical treatment of the late Mr Thoims Briggs , while in the insane ward of the Sheffield workhouse : — Shiffield , July 8 th , 1848 . Gesuihew , —On the 18 th ult . Mr Thomas Biggs , an esteemed frlead of mine , and a brother member of the Town Council , exhibited symptoms of insanity , was taken to the insane ward at the Shtfn * ld workhouse in the evening ef that day , and died at three o ' clock in the morning of the 20 tb . I only ascertained that he was there on the 19 -h and wished to see him . but it was
thought better not . Tbe inquest was held in the afternoon of the 20 th . I attended . The evidence given by the medical men was ef a general nature as to bis treatment . I wished to put s , mo questions as to tbe particular mode in which he had betn treated , but refrained from a with not to appear publicly at questioning tbe mode adopted by the medioal men . Oa the 28 h nit , I wr ^ te t » tbe Board of Guardians , requesting them to be good eaough to let me have a copy of the medical treatment of my friend , after his arrival at tbe workhouse . Not having received any answer whater < r , I tbit day waited on one of tbe guardians to inquire , and he informed me ( non-officlally ) that my application waa not acceded to .
May I therefore beg of you to get me tha information I want , if jou have the pi-wer so to do . I have urgent restons for making this request . Tours , faithfully , Isaac Ibomsidb . The Poor Law Commissioners ,
Poor Law Board, Somerset House, Jaly 18t...
Poor Law Board , Somerset House , Jaly 18 th , 1848 Sib , —I am directed by tbe Poor Law Board to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8 th Inst ., in which jou state tbatyou are desirous of obtaining information aa to the medical treatment ef tbe late Mr Thomas Briggs , who ditd on the 30 th ult ., in the insane ward , at the Sheffield workhouse . Tbe Board will communicate with tbe Guardians oi the Sheffield Union on tho nu'j ict of your application . I am , sir , your obidlent servant V . O Lomley , Assistant-Sec . To Mr Isaac Ironside , Sheffield .
Poor Law Board, Somerset House, 1st Augu...
Poor Law Board , Somerset House , 1 st August , 3848 Sia—I am directed by the Poor Law Board , with rcfoeenoe te your letter of the 8 ' . h ultimo , to inform you that they have communicated with tha Guardians of the Sheffield Union on the subjsct of it ; and haviag learnt from them that Mrs Briggs ia quite satisfied with the treatment wilch her deceased husband , Mr Thomas Briggs , received at the Sheffield Workhouse , the Board are of opinion that any further inquiry U unneoessaiy . I am , Sir , your obedient servant , Bb » ihoto « , Secretary . To Mr Isaac Ironside , Shiffield .
Sheffield, August 2ad, 1848. Gehtlemeh—I...
Sheffield , August 2 ad , 1848 . Gehtlemeh—I am in due receipt ef your letter of the 1 st instant , as also that of the 18 h u't . Mr Briggs wat highly beloved by tbe poor of Sheffield , and deservedly so . Knowing the great pn judiot that exists amongst the people against tbe pauptr madhouse , I purposely refrained from putting any question at tbe inquest which might have tbe iesst tendency to excite suspicion that the treatment was improper . 1 even stated that I bo . lieved all bad done what they thought to be the best la tbe case . I did not dream for a moraent that my application for se simple a thing as a copy of bis medical treatment , would be so uucourtcously treated as not to bo noticed , and ultimately refused . As it Is so , my oplnien with respect to bis treatment is now changed It was not for any private purpose that I made tbe application—it was with a view to the public good . I Intended to have tent a copy ef the treatment to Dr GorsellU of Wakefield , and one or two others , and to request their opinion upon it . What sre the facts f A man Is pursuing bis ordinary avocations on the Saturday—taken on Sunday afternoon to tho workhouse , and dies early on Tuesday morning If all was right in bis treatment , why so much trouble in keeping it back ? I will tell you . I am informed that toon after he was admitted , an opiate of double strength was given htm ( to a man labouring under inflammation of the brain ) , and it sent him to eletp . Ia the morning he awoke and had some breakfast , and then went to sleep again in a letfaarglo state . In the course of tbe day be waa bled ! pretty pro / aaoJy for a man ia bit statu , and died in a few hours from rbeer exhaustion , Of course ! This it why tbe treatment is kept back , in my opinion , It will not bear the light . I look upon tho death of Mr Briggg as tho natural reiult of his treatment by the workhouse authorities . God preserve mo and mine from tbe authori-des . ' Of course neither you nor the Stuff ! -Id Board can now complain of any steps I raey tbke with reference to giving publicity to the case , and using such comments as may appear necessary . Tours faltfcfjlly , To the Poor L » w Board , Isaac Ibohside .
Incxndiab? Fire In Noiiisoham.—On Sunday...
IncxNDiAB ? Fire in Noiiisoham . —On Sunday morning , soon after one o ' clock , a fire broke out in a stackyard situated in the Sand-fields , on ? of the suburbs of this borough , and which has resulted in the almost total destruction of two stacks of excellent hay , one weighing upwards of twenty tons , the property of Mr William Sinclair , and the other belonging to Mr Humphrey Page , which weighed more than three tons , Noaoonsr were tho flsmes perceived than the police on duty in various parts of the town ran to the scene of the disaster , and the
fire brigade , under the command of Inspector Meldrora , having conveyed thither two of their best engines , great efforts were made to prevent tho extension of the fire , but notwithstanding thoir exer tions a very small portion only of toe hay was re » euad from tbe flame ? . The polio have laarned sufficient to convince thutn that the firo was wnsed by an incendiary , and thay two now in nsrsuit of the guilty party , wish a g ^ odprospact of « facting his eapti . ro . The damage ( upwards of £ 100 ) ia covered by u » insurance in tha Notfeityjhamshfco and Derbjshire Fireoffi « ,
The Incurable Incapables. (From John Btd...
THE INCURABLE INCAPABLES . ( From John Btdl ) h JK ^ n " ^ I 8 0 Te , r ! the whits-bait dinner baa t , .. i Mimetcrs have been summoned to the bar of public opinion by the hon . Kember ' for Buck , laoy ; Parliament is to be prorogued on an eariv da » to hSa LWW'' "PoXK wStl n to his wife at the seaside , to say that she may expect him amidst h « shrimps and children by Thuwday ffhlftW ' ' M T , Willi " mBand Bellamy , S tn ^ W ! fct # S *? 8 of * another place , ' hope at last that the House u nit to sit for this whole Parliament without onoe rising ; TiMBsanpn ' e . meats are preparing for a holiday , so is everybody and eyerythiDfj that asffera from icoggpeeches and late deliberation j newsmen are gnrtef ul , and tbe eountay breathes .
Whatever may Be said of the proceedings of Par-Jnmeat daring itsflrsfc nine months' sitting , no comp ! amt aft least canj * audeof its inactiTity during the 1 m | week . John- Boll { not we , tha other John ) Rratefnlly ackoewledVea the addition oi tm millions to tho burden which our wfortunato namesake already bean on his broad and capacious baefc . John is a strange fellow , lie- growl * and grumbles at a tnfls , and he will spends bw wlsole fortune upon a hobby . It suits bis fancy to hare the Whigs in office , and he does not mind in these the hardest times , spending twice ten hundred tbousaad pounds to eratify the whim . That the desire is a mere whim , asd nothing else , anybsdy may ascertain by stopping to inquire at the next street . Nobody believes in Whig opmpetenoy . Everybody feels indignant at Ministerial feebleness . The other day it was tha fashion t ©
say that the Whigs are no financiers , but in other re . speets a very sensible , useful sort of folk . Now they get credit tor nothing at all . They bungle . everything . Try them on any ground , and they cannot get on . If they touch sugar , they etiok like flies in treacle ; if they think of sanitary reform , Lord Morpeth gets knee deep in the sewers , until Mr Henley or somebody else takes pity on the sufferer and hauls him up ; if they propose to reform corrupt practices in naughty boroughs ; they estreat the House of Lords to save them from the consequences of their own advice ; and if they ask indemnity from Parliament for breaking a law , they profess themselves unable to say why they broke it , or if called upon to amend the law so broken , swear that though they teed the indemnity , yet the law has been safe from any infraction whatever .
How long matters are to proceed in the present lively fashion , it is impossible to predict . It is vastly pleasant and profitable , no donbt , to the parties concerned , for a Whig family to take the affjira of the nation into their hands , but if the nation submits te the constitution of the firm , it has » t least the right to have Us basinets well done , and its affairs kept out of confusion . There is one great disadvantage in a ' happy family . ' It may be seen in the happy family exhibited in a cage at the corner of Trafalgar-square . Tho animals are so perfectly happy , that they are positively ; fast asleep . Rats lie on the bosoms of oats , and singing birds roost on puppy dogs ' noses . The
sttrring-up of the exhibitors pole has no more effect on the blissful creatures' repose , than Disraeli ' s bri » k practice will have upon the equanimity of our friends . The one set of animals get their meat and sleep , the other share the public contributes * , and think they do enough for the public in condescending to accept it . Whilst tbe public are satisfied that all wisdom and virtue dwell in Whig abodes . Ministersarenardly to blame for indulging tbe notion . Probably when the ten millions added by the government to tbe national debt in the short space of two years , shall , in the course of the next two years , amount to twenty , tbe public will arrive at a different opinion . Meanwhile , hurrah for taxation !
Mr Disraeli charged the government the other day with not taking the initiative in ; m ) practical and necessary measure , er when they did take tbe initiative , with submitting their views in so crude a state that Parliament was obliged either it remodel them with great pains , and at great ldaa of time , or to reject them altogether . Lord John Russell met theaocusation by denying the necessity of his intro duciug any measures at all to tbe bouse , and by refurring , for his justification , to Sir Robert Walpole , the father of William Pitt , and to somebody else wht se name we forget . Why did the Prem er not go at once back to the enviable and irresponsible times of Canute the Great , ? A policeman mightju * t a * well excuse himself for not taking a midnight housebreaker into custody on the plea that it had
been the invariable practice of ancient Chsrlies to retire to their boxes for tbe night , the very moment the parish clock struck eleven . Ne man kno vs better than Lord John Russell that we live in very dif ferent times to those which he points out for his imitation and model . The Parliament of England is not the same assembly , the people of England are not the same peop ' e Tbe Minister who carried the Reform Bill , must carry his vision forward from that event , not backward . If he has renounced the doc t in-of 6 : » Uty , he cannot surely askns to be bound by rules and customs actuating Ministers living whei Reform was not , when the peop ' e were a nullity , and Whig Ministers more Conservative than Tories of to-day . Society has not stood still ; wants have not diminished ; the necessity of moulding the powers we have called into being , and of regulating the machinery which we have set in motion , grows hourly more imminent . We have done too much to
let things take their course . We have opened the eyes of the people far too wide , if light is not to be granted now for direction and solf-gevernreent , We cannot halt mid <* av in our progress . We have uprooted interests , triflid with the Constitution , legislated , and legislated again , with unwearying pertinacity . Better had we sat with our hands bafore us and done nothing ; but having moved , we dare not stop . Great and enlightened measures for tbe main * tenance ot the conn try ' s prosperity , for the education and happiness of tbe people , must be submitted to the country without much loss of time . Constituted as we are , auoh measures must emanate from the government , or not at all . Talk not , great Minister of Reform , of what Sir Robert Walpole did , but do what you are bound to do . my lord , in the midst of the difficulty and confusion into which the tinkering propensities , tbe wilful and mischievous practice , of you and your associates have finally conducted us . Do it , or place the helm in firmer hands !
Trades, Delegate Meeting.—On Thursday Ni...
Trades , Delegate Meeting . —On Thursday night a meeting of delegates , appointed by the Metropolitan Trade Societies , was held at the Craven ' s Head , Drury-lane , for the purpose ef receiving the report of the committee elected to draw up a constitution for the trades of London-Mr James O' Leary in the chair . —The secretary read tbe report , of which the following are the principal features : —That it is deemed necessary to establish a'Trades' Association , 'in order to work out an amelioration in the condition of the people by legal and constitutional means ; that parliamentary approbation be requested for the rules ; that the land ought not to be possessed exclusively by a fractional portion of the community ; that the laws
which fix tbe price of gold , and restrict its expansion , should be repealed , and a representative currency issued ; that machinery should be taxed for revenue purposes , and foreign manufactures equalised in price to our own in the home market ; that education and employment be provided by the government for the people . It then goes on to recommend that home colonies should be established on the waste lands in the United Kingdom , and that the elective franchise be given to every man 21 years of age , and concludes by suggesting a graduated property tax , in lieu of other imposts . The latter part of the document merely contained rules for the formation of the association . The further consideration of the report was adjourned to a future meeting .
The Collikuv Explosion at Leith . —The inquest on the ' . unfortunate men killed by tbis calamity , terminated in a verdict of 'Accidental Death . ' It has often been attempted to be shown that the neglect to use Davy lamps by the colliers , is not fairly attributable to the men themselves , but is indirectly at tbe suggestion of the employers , although to save themselves from odium they have them on the premises ; but in this case no ground for surmising such a course seems to have originated . It is to be lamented , however , that the use of the lamps is so constantly neglected
Committal for Murder . —Mrs Mary Lightfoot , wife of Henry Lightfoot , of Quarry , bank , near Dudley , lias just been committed by the district coroner , Mr T . M . Philips , on a charge of administering arsenic to ber husband , which caused his death . It was proved on the inquest that the prisoner had been seen in familiar intercourse with a man not her husband , during his illness . Arsenic was found in the body of the deceased on apost mortem examination being made , aud altogether the circumstances were of so suspicious a character , that , after an adjournment , the coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of Wilful murder against the wife , who has been committed to take ber trial on the charge at the next Staffordshire assizes . On Lightfoot ' s death his wife obtained a sum of £ 4 . for his burial from an Odd Fellows' club , of which her husband was a member . —Banbury Guardian .
Mr John Lynch , solicitor , formerly clerk to the Tralee Savings' Bank , has been sentenced to fourteen years' transportation , for embezzling the sum of £ 20 , 000 , the properly of the bank . During a trial at Newcastle a publican gave it as his opinion that an old man was not drunk , because , though he had had drink , < lte was qualified to call for liquor and pay for it . ' An Ecclesiastical Diiover . — ' Wc hem-, on very good authority , ' says the Tablet , 'that Dr TJllathrone has arrived iij London with the hulls from Romef '
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' We Cull The Choicest.' A Corrupt Parli...
' We cull the choicest . ' A CORRUPT PARLIAMBKT . Are they fit to be the legislators of a whole people who themselves know not what law , what reason , what right and wrong , what crooked and straight , what licit and illicit means ; who think that all Dower consists in outrage , all dignity in tbe parade of inso * leace ; who neglect every other consideration lor the corrupt gratifioati „ n of their friendships , er the pro . secution t . f their resentments ; who disperse their own relations and creatures through the provinces , for the sake of levying taxes and confiscPting goadsmen , for the greater part , most profligate and vile , who buy up for themselves what the * r > r ^ nd to
expose tor sale , who thence collect an exorbitant mass of wealth , which they fraudulently divert froa the public service ; who ( bus spread their pillne through the country , and in a moment emerge from penury and rags , to astate of splendor and wealth r Who could endure such thievish tervants , such v cegerants of their lords ? Who could that the mas en and Ae patrons of a feinditti could be the proper guardians of liberty ; or who would suppose that he shoulflever be made one hair more free by such « set of public functionaries ( though they mieht amount to five hundred , eleeted i „ tbis manner from the counties and boroughs ? when among them wha are the very guardiane of liberty , and to whose custody it is committed , there rsnst be so many , who know not either how to use or to enjoy liberty , who neither understand the principles nor merit thepos session ?—bfiHon .
THE BIORGBOISJJ . Edmund Burke had a rooted contempt for thecha . racterand profession of a merchant . 'Do not talk to me , ' said he once in the Hang * of Commons ' o the liberality and patriotism of a merchant : his ' oo is his gold ; his country his invoice ; his desk hi altar ; his ledger bis Bible ; his church his exchange and he has faith is none but his banker . ' When he made a speech , which waa well received from'he hustings of Bristol , at the time ef the rupture between this country and America , poor C who was one of the candidate ? , was standing by hil side . Equally avewe with Mr Burke to the American contest , but master of no other language than the short vocabulary of the counting-house , he cried , ' I say ditto to Mr Burke ; I say ditto' to Mr Burke /
THE LITTLE SEED . A little teed , at random thrown Upoa tht world , one day A moment up in air wat blown , Then goatly borne away Unto a desert drear and wide , Glese by a mountain side . The seed lay there for many days , Unnoticed and alone , Amid those cold and ragged ways , By briars overgrown ; Yet rain from beaven , and balmy air , And sunbeams cbeer'd it there . It rooted in tbe solid ground , fat forth Its stem snd leaf , And , throning tendrils round and ronnd . It grew beyond belief ; And , wax ng stronger every hour , Brought forth a lovely fl iwer .
I : blo 8 ? om'd tbsra so sweetly mild That song-birds ttay ' d ttxirflight , Id wonder that tbe desert wild Produced so fair a sight ; Tbe briars envying all the while Its perfume and its smile . Bat winter came with s ortn anj snow ! Tbe floweret droop'd its bead ; And tbe briars dash'd it to and fro Until tb .-y dt-tm'd it dead ; Laughing , as round tfcem day by day , Its scatter ' d siedlets lay . Bisma > 'd were tfeey wben spring appeared , And , crowned with myriad flowers , Each stem , in UveUnees uprear'd , Ddded their rugged poiters . In vain tiny strove ; for every tpring Brought forth itt blossoming .
Tbe flowers now climb the mountain tide , Acd on tbe esmmit smile ; Whilst < At the plain in modest pride They bloom for many a mile ; And not oae tborn now meets tt . o view , Whtre late tbe briars grew . And thus a thought may live and grow , Though cast on desert soil , And o ' er tha exrth its beanty throw By long and patient toil ; Though Envy ' s frown will oft essay To take Its light away , Yes ! it will smile and spread its flowers , Pespite tbe fiercest storm ; And mid tbe tempest and tbo showeri Uproar its lovoly form ; Like many a troth which rmilcs Btreno Amid lift )' * darkest scene . Thus , breathing to tho world around
Ita swe < ts through many a day , It shall adorn the humblest ground , And bless tbe lone'i-pt way ; Whilst they who shutm'd the budiiog flower Shall praise it In itt blooming bear . Edmund JeadlU ,
UBsnir . The hue-and-cry of liberty is never raised under certain auspices but to cover the designs of slavery . BISTORT . History is a Ion ? and gradual ascent , where great actions and characters in time leave borrowed pomp behind , atd at an immeasurable distance bolow them . STUPIWIT . Stupidity has its advantages as well as wit . If a man strikes his hand against wood or stone , he himself will ba the suffarer . MASKIKD Mankind , above aH things , hate to bs made the dupes of doubtful professions of wisdom and benevolence .
THE QRBAT AND IBB LIIILB . ' The political struggles of a great character are for the future rather than the present , as the petty squabbles of parly are for tbe present and never for the future . —Foster ' s Lives of British Statesmen .
MARIE-ANTOINETTE . From hrr first arrival in France , at the ago of fifteen , Marie . Antoinette bad resn an oVj ctof dlsiik « both to the Court and to tho people . Even tbe mind of ber young husband was to palsaned against her , thnt until some time after he attended the throne , he refrained from all marital Interojnrse with her . She was conti « nually accused both of criminal levity , and of intrigues in tho interest of Austria . During th « first ytars of her marriage she lived in great unhappintss and ro . stralnt . The Impwltnco she manifested at the strio * etiquette observed In the Court of Franc ? , which stopped ber at every step sho mtde , assisted also to render ber distasteful to tho form * ists who fill = d if . This eti . quotte wai of an incredible minuteness , and enthralled
ber from ber rising in the morning till her gttting Into bed at night . Tho following quotation from Madame Campin may giv > some id > : a of it : — ' Tho dressing of the Princess was tho very pink of ctiquitte ; everjtbieg In it was strictly regulated . The L * Jy of Honour and tho Lady of the VTardrobe , both , if they w . ro present together , assisted by th * first attendant and two ordinary attendants , performed the principal service ; tut there were dlatUctions between them . Tho Lady of the Wardrobe h * nded the petticoat and tha gown . The Lady of Henourp-ured out water to wash tho bands , and pat oa the chemise . When a Princess of tke Royal Famllj was present at the dressing , tho L » dy of Honour yleldea to her the latter function , tut did not ; Uld it directly to the Prlaoenes of the blood ; ia such c « e tbe
Lidy of Honour returned tho chemise to the first / emmsde . chambre , who delivered it to the Princes cf the blood , Esoh of theae ladies scrupulously obscmd these useg- 'B , as having tho character of rights . It happened one winter's mirnhg that tho dAupbinces was willing ts receive her chvmis ? , which I held ready unfoidid , when tbo Lady of Honour enured , hastcnad to take off her gloves , and took the cbetniec from my hundi . At this moment aknick is heard at the door ; it is opined , and the Duchess of Orloans inters . Sho removes her glows , and advances to take the rhemiao ; bn : theLidr of Honour must not deliver It to her . She returns it to ms , and I prevnt i' to the Duchess . A * aK a kcoek is heard ; it Is M . \ demo , the Countess of Erors . « : the Duchess of Orleans fumndera < ober tba chetnse . _ All
this time tbe Qa . en h standing with hoi arms crossed upen ber breast shivering wlta io " . d . M » a & mo pwestves her unplestant portion ; and contmtuis herself with throning aside her haa ' ikerohief " , aad rot ainin » herg ! ovea , she puts on the chemise , and ss sludges u -, knocks Oorrn the Qwen ' s head drcm . ' Tb * latter smiUU to dugu ' . as her veniion , but she rou'teved several < imes boiwecu her teeth , Def « tal >'« . flow tirwows /'—Vol . i . py . RT , 98 . In tbe following p » Re , AUdame Carnpin very fin . sibly remark" , ' Tkis etiquette , which , in the domaatio life ef our Princittts , and led them . to havo themselves treated as divinities made tlnw in th-ir ,, „ Mie hfe v ; c tinn of any rt-lmloii . In th ? palace ot V r , aillcs , lLric Antolnottu f ) und a nm : tltudo of established aud revered usages wfcicb eprourcd to feer insufferable . '
MsMonAnLB SAiiNO cp KosciusK-i . —Wfefn the brave Pot «« wrived at Cracow , wLcra the revolution commenced , be made the little band of patriots under his command tho following heart stirring speech : — ' We are not s ! rou « enough in number to bo victorious , but wc are stum ;; enr-uga to die with honouj in defending our counti }'!' JuDQK 9 .- 'Wba > , shent ' erca !! is that upon ibe penob . in bur cown , t . nd bur pelt , aad but black cap ? V by many ( quosh MorftXu bur is ano d woman "'" .. ' «« ber nap upon bur cushion , and theni bur ell * tha shawry bur trean twain .-A LcamADmttum um Old IVoven .
Reukmber Tiu ? .-Oneh' ) ui '* pafltmsobrt . . Y look , ing into iso rights of things , is . wore hfc „ y t ; male men act -i »« h Hood scan , and witb tff j « taan w ! . o !< j t flars spent in ciamsrons raj ] : 8 j , —u » Mv « .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 9, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_09091848/page/3/
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