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A WORD TO KINGS. BT W. C. BE!RiBT. Here ...
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THE KHIKDALE PRISOXEKS. Shall we, the he...
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The Haunted Druggist. By Buz. London : "...
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The Cotton Manufacturers', Managers, and...
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An amateur naturalist offers a reward to...
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THE BRITISH EMPIRE. BIG BRITAIN—versus L...
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"Chartist Tracts for the Times."We under...
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The Clergy; is the Oldes Time.—A young L...
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OLYMPIC. Ok Monday night a little piece,...
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COLOSSEUM. This has, ever since our firs...
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. During th...
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THK LAXD. The land or earth in any count...
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Febtmam 10, 1840- _ The Northern Star. 3
Febtmam 10 , 1840- _ THE NORTHERN STAR . 3
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A Word To Kings. Bt W. C. Be!Ribt. Here ...
A WORD TO KINGS . BT W . C . BE ! RiBT . Here as I by my fireside sit , And meditate my rhymes . Across my busy brain will flit The tidings of the times ; And as along my memory runs The news each moment brings , Iran out tho whirl of thought is spun This counsel unto kings : Beware ! kings , beware ! Heed the game ye play : Kings , the world is moving , * Stand out from the way .
At last from Prussia's royal lips , Lot honest truth be heard—A people tire of paltry knaves , Who break too oft their word 1 ; The perjured faith of duped " fifteen Must pass with " forty-eight ; The future holds more Marches yet , If wisdom come too late . Beware' kings , beware ! Heed the game ye play ; Kings , the world is moving , Stand from out the way .
Weak Austria , plant on swords your throne , Hay out your bloody game , Your triumphs Freedom laughs to scorn ; The end is but the same , Each time the sybil comes for more ; Denied her present due , Vienna yet will have her rights , And kings her vengeance too . Beware ! kings , beware ! Heed the game ye play , Kinga , the world is moving , Stand from out the way .
You llapshurghs and you Brandenburghs , Are things we prize , no doubt , Force not the world to find such things , It well can do without ; Gagged tongues and censor-shackled thoughts No longer now you rule ; Be wise , and see that these are times When rulers must to school . Beware ! kings , beware ! Heed the game ye play ; Kings , the world is moving , Stand from out the way . Bourbon of Naples , when shall time Your bloody rule forget ? Aud dream you there shall come no hour To pay Messina's debt ? Hate reapeth hate—blood cries for blood ! Shall not that cry endure ?
The avenging furies on the track , Or swift , or slow , are sure . Beware ! kings , beware 1 Deed the game ye play ; Kings , the world is moving , Stand from out the way . The times are gone when history By kings alone was made ; Thc ' present has some paiis , 'tis plain , By nations to be played . Woe , woe to those by whom their path—¦ Their fated path—is crossed ; A scaffold once a Bourbon trod—A head a Stuart lost . Beware I kings , beware ! Heed the game ye play ; Kings , the world is moving , Stand from out the way . —Birmingham . Mercury
The Khikdale Prisoxeks. Shall We, The He...
THE KHIKDALE PRISOXEKS . Shall we , the heirs of Freedom , now repine , though cast like pearls before a herd of swine ? Though lingering in a dungeon , yet shall we Yield up one jot ? No'Shade of Liberty , Deign still to guard , inspire , and warm our hearts , That we may nobly still perform our parts . And may we bravely prove in after years , That tyrants' chains for us contain no fears . But thai we may continue firm and true , And show there still exists a "faithful few . "
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Periodicilis. Con Oregon, The Irish Gil ...
PERIODICiliS . Con Oregon , the Irish Gil Bias . London : W « S . Orr , and Co ., Amen-corner ; Dublin : J . M'Glashan . In a preliminary address , from the author of this work to the public , he remarks that "His native bashfulness , and other things of the kind , might have deterred him from giving those papers to the world ; or , at least , like his old friend Talleyrand , the publication might have been delayed till long after his demise ; but he has been converted from these intentions by remarking that modesty is about as much cultivated now as astrology ; and that
as a writer of memoirs is certain . of being attacked , vilified , and , to use a beautiful native expression , 'bally-ragged , ' by the press , it is just as well that he should be to ' the fore , ' to attack , vilif y , and ' bally-Tag' in his turn . " This is candid and sensible . The work is to appear in monthly parts , and as , up to this time , we have only seen the first part , we cannot as yet say much about Con and his confessions— " barring '' that he seems to possess the right stuff for a story-teller . To give our readers a taste of Con ' s quality , we have extracted most of the first chapter , from which ther will learn
HOW COX ' S FATHER LEFT HMSEIJ ? A LEGACY ! I was born in a little cabin on the borders of Alcath and King's County ! it stood on a small triaiinular hit of ground , beside a cross road ; and although the place was surveyed every ten years or so , they were never able to say to which county we belonged , there being just the same number of arguments for the one side as for the other ; a circumstance , many believed , that decided my father in his original choice of the residence ; for while , under the " disputed boundary question , he paid no Kites or county cess , he always made a point of voting at both county elections 3 This may seem to indicate that my parent was of a naturally acute haylt : and indeed the way he became possessed of the bit of ground will confirm that impression . "
A neighbouring farmer— -Harry M'Cabedies without a will . Of two sons the younger had 'listed , and gone to India . On the night of the old farmer ' s death , the eldest son , Peter M'Cabe , roused up Con ' s father to seek his assistance to construct a will in the name of the deceased . In the following extract it is the aid Peter M'Cabe who speaks in tho first paragraph : — " Listen to me now , Corny , I want ye to help n \ e in this business ; and here ' s five guineas in goold , if ye do what I bid ye . Tc know that ye were always reckoned the image of my father , and before he took ill ye were mistaken for each other every dav of the week . "
"Anan ! " said my father : for he was getting fri ghtened at the notion , without well knowing why . " Well , what I want is , for yc to come over to tho house , and get into the bed . " " Not beside the corpse ? " said my father , trembling . " By no means—but by yourself ; and you re to pretend to be my father / and that ye want to make yer will before ve die : and then I'll send for the
neighbours , and Billy Scanlan the schoolmaster , aaifye'll tell him what to write , laving all the farm and everything to me—ye understand . And as the nei ghbours wfll see yc , and hear yer voice , it will never be believed but it was himself that did it . " " The room must be very dark , " says my father . " To be sure it will , hut have no fear ! Nobody will dare to come nigh the bed ; and ye'll only have to make a cross with yer pen under the name . " "And the priest ? " said my father . :
. 3 Iy father quarrelled with him last week about & C Easter dues ; and Father Tom said he ' d not give him the « rites ; ' and that ' s lucky now ! Come along now , quick ; for we ' ve no time to lose : it niust be all finished before the day breaks . " ily father did not lose much time at his toilet , for % just wrapped his big coat ' round him , and slippg on his brogues left the house . I sat up in the to ^ tet and listened till they were gone some OUiiUtes ; and then , in , a , costume as light as my Pint ' s set out after them , to swatch the course of t ^ e adventure . I thought to take a short cut and he w . i . re them ; but by bad luck I fell into a bog hole , and only escaped being drowned by a chance . As it * H when . I reached the house , the performance had
^ f ^ y begun . 1 think I see the whole scene this instant before f * . « J * 8 , as I sat on a little window with one pane , r "at a broken one , and surveyed the proceeding , f- *» ' a lanrc room , at one end of which was a bed , ? f { ' - * ade it a table , -with phvsic bottles and spoons , « -u tea-cup ; a little farther off was another tabl « , r ^ 'iK-b . sat IiihV Scanlan , with all manner of ¦ ^ g materials before him . The country people .-awo , sometimes three , deep round the walls , all - 'tiitlv eairer and anxious tor the- coming event . « w ium » if went from place to place , trying to PsaV t hls ?" > and occasionally hel p ing the coma ^ iVT wllis sy—which was supplied with more than ^ . cd lioeraUtv . * " "* my consciousness of the deceit and trickery
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could not deprive the scene of a certain solemnity . The misty distance of the half-lighted room ; the highly-wrought expression of the country people ' s faces , never more intensely excited than at some moment of this kind ; the low deep-drawn breathings , unbroken save by a sigh or a sob—the tribute of affectionate sorrow to some lost mead , whose memory was thus forcibly brought back ;—these , I r epeatit , were all so real , that as I looked a . thrilling sense of awe came over me , and I actuall y shook with fear . . . ....
A low faint cough , from the dark corner where the bed stood , seemed to cause even a deeoer stillness ; and thenjin a sdence where the buzzing of a fiv would have been heard , my father said , " Where's Billy Scanlan ? I want to make my will !" " ' ' s here , father , " said Peter , taking Billy by the hand , and leading him to the bedside . " Write what I bid ye , Billy , and be quick , for I hav ' n ' t a long time afore me here . I die a "ood Catholic , though Father O'Raffcrty won ' t ° ive me the ' rites . ' " ° A general chorus of muttered " Oh , musha , musha , was now heard through the room ; but whether in grief over the sad fate of the dying man , or the unflinching severity of the priest , is hard to say . _ " I die in peace with all my neighbours , and all mankind !" Another chorus of the company seemed to approve these charitable expressions .
" I bequeath unto my son Peter , —and never was there a better son , or a decenter boy '—have you that down ? I bequeath unto my son , Peter , the whole of my two farms of Killimundoonery and Knoeksheboora , with the fallow meadows behind Lynch ' s house ; the forge , and the right of turf on the Dooran hog . I give him , and much good may it do him , Lanty Cassarn ' s acre , and the Luary field , with the lime-kiln ; and that reminds me that my mouth is just as dry ; let me taste what yc hare in the jug . " Here the dying man took a hearty pull , and seemed considerably refreshed by it . " Where was I , Billy Scanlan ? " says he ; " oh , I remember , at the lime-kiln : I leave him—that ' s Peter , I mean , —the two potato gardens at Ifoonan ' s Well ; and it is the elegant fine crops grows there . "
" An t you gettin wake , father , darlnr ? says Peter , who began to be afraid of my father ' s loquaciousness ; for , to say the truth , the punch got into his head , and he was greatly disposed to talk . "I am , Peter , my son , " says he ; "lam getting wake : just touch my lips again with the jug . Ah , Peter , Peter , vou watered the drink ?" " No , indeed , father ! hut it ' s the taste is leavin ' you , " says Peter ; and again a low chorus of compassionate pity murmured through the cabin . " Well , Pm nearly done now , " says my father , " there ' s only one little plot of ground remaining ; and I put it on you , Peter—as ye wish to live a good man , and die with tho same easy heart I do now—that ye mind my last words to ye here . Are ye listenin' ? Are the neighbours hstcnin' ? Is Billy Scanlan listenin' ?"
"Yes , Sir . Yes , father . We ' re all minding , ?' chorused the audience . " Well , then , it is my last will and testament , and ra-y— -give me over the jug "—here he took a long drink—" and may that Blessedliquour be poison to me if Pm not as eajjer about this as every other other part of my will ; I say , then , I bequeath the Utile plot at the cress-roads to poor Con Cretan , for he has a heavy charge , and is as honest ana as hard-workin g a man as ever Iknew ;—Be a friend to him , Peter , dear ; never let him want while ye have it yourself ; think on me on my death beef whenever he asks ye for any trifle . Is it down , Billy Scanlan ? The two acres at the cross to Con
Cregan , and his heirs in secla sedorum . Ah , blessed he the saints ! hut I feel my hearttighter after that , " says he : " a good work makes an easy conscience ; and now I ' ll drink all the company ' s good health , and many happy returns—" What he was going to add there ' s no saying ; but Peter , who was now terribly frightened at the lively tone the sick man was assuming , hurried all the people away into another room , to let his father die m peace . When they were all gone , Peter stepped back to my father , who was putting on his brogues in a corner ? Con , " says he " ye did it all well ; but sure that was a joke about the two acres at the cross ?"
" Ofcourse it was , Peter ! says he ; " sure it was all a joke for the matter of that ; won ' t I make the neighbours laugh merry to morrow when I tell them all about it ! " You would ' nt be mean enought to betray mo ?" says Peter , trembling with fright . " Sure ye would ' nt be mean enough to go against yer father ' s dying words ! " says my father , "the last sentence ever he spoke ; " and here he gave a low , wicked laugh , that made myself shake with fear . " Very well , Con , " says Peter , holding out his hand : " a bargain ' s a bargain ; yer a deep fellow , that ' s all ! " and so it ended ; and my father slipped quietly home over the bog , mighty well satisned with the legacy he had left himself . And thus we became the owners of the little spot known to this day as Con ' s Acre j of which , more hereafter .
The Haunted Druggist. By Buz. London : "...
The Haunted Druggist . By Buz . London : "W . Strange , Paternoster-row . A burlesque on the latest ( would that we were sure we might say the last , ) volume of trash coined from the muddled brains of Dickens . The following is a very fair imitation—we can hardly say caricature—of the commencement of the Haunted Man : — What every one says ought to be true ; What every one savs may be true ; What every one says
might be true ; What every one says should be true ; What every one says is true ; What every one says must be true ! And every one did say that he was a Haunted Chemist and Druggist . Every body knew it ; every body said it ; every body thought it . You should have seen him in his back parlour , alone , staring into the fire , —though what he expected to find there , always was and will be a mystery , —his feet on the fender and his led ger before him . You should have seen him alone In that back parlour .
When the twilight duskened round that room . When shades of departed patients glimmered out on the wall ; When blue pills became blue devils , black doses black demons , and castor oil assumed the form of gentleness ; When the Chemist ' s bottles besan to shine , making the passer-by now blue , now red , now yellow , and now green , a face of prismatic colours ; When the ' prentice boy packed up the bottles and the pill-boxes in the basket for his nightly round , and blessed his lucky stars and empty pockets that he was not doomed to take their contents ; When the streets began to darken and daylight to vanish ; When the old cat started on its evening ramble ; When the muffin-boy commenced his tinKlinir walk and envied the toastin ? before the
fire that his muffins would undergo ; When the actor , muffled up , hastened through lanes that seemed to lead nowhere , and vanished through a door that closed by a dead weight and pulley ; When genteel comedy slunk through back slums with a baud-box under her shawl ; When crowds congregate atthe gallery door ; When p laybills are thrust in your face ; When lamp-lighters , like Will-o ' -the-wisps , g lide here , there , aud everywhere , with long ladders , through crowds , and never jostle any one ; When milliners' girls , who have toiled all day over finery they are not to wear , wend their way with large baskets to large houses they are not to enter ; When trampers knock at the Workhouse door ; When bakers do sit down and do cast up accounts ; When shopboys begin to take
advantage of the early-closing movement ; When weary outcasts of a sunny clime totter beneath their heavy organs ; When the Chelsea steamer is moored for the nig ht ; When cooks with large baskets are seen emerging from area-steps , and policemen are looking round the corners ; When odd boys ride quickly ouodd horses to the Sun Newspaper Office ; When the blurred Sun goes down and the curd Moon comes up ; When snow falls on the tips of noses and the lashes of the eyes ; When sailors sail on and sea-serpents glide o er the deep ; When fishing smacks dot the sea , intent on cultivating the acquaintance of the finny tribe , and light-houses stand like the policeman at Heme Bay—solitary and watchful : and birds strike against the electric wires on a railway and fall dead . - —When , when ,
when ! Oh ' ¦ Then—then—then , you should have seen this Chemist in his back parlour-alone—staring into the fire—alone ! He was a sight . ' The above , if it had been written "by Charles Dickens "—and something very like the above was very lately written by that author—would be pronounced " fine writing by some folks . From such authors and their admirers , Good Sense deliver us .
The Cotton Manufacturers', Managers, And...
The Cotton Manufacturers ' , Managers , and Spinners' New Pocket Guide . By John Moss . London : W . Strange ,
Paternosterrow . This little volume contains examples of the various calculations connected with the machinery of a Cotton Mill , throug h all its operations , from the raw material to the loom ; together with rules whereby to find the speed of any shaft , drum , wheel , sp indle , or roller connected with machinery .
An Amateur Naturalist Offers A Reward To...
An amateur naturalist offers a reward to the man who will furnish him a live specimen of the " brick bat . "
The British Empire. Big Britain—Versus L...
THE BRITISH EMPIRE . BIG BRITAIN—versus LITTLE BRITONS . k . mxCHMAH ' s TT 1 SW OF E . \ 0 LAXD * 8 SOCIAL STSIEM . ( From Michelet ' sMstory of the French Revolution , ) The British Empire is indeed a grand world ! But what is an empire ? An harmony of nations . It is a thing slowly , wisely , and firmly founded , on necessary relations , and founded especially , if it is to be lasting , on the benefits conferred by the conquerors . Such was the great Roman empire , which has covered the world with its monuments , and left everywhere high roads and laws for nations . Such were not the settlements of the Venetians , Portuguese , and Dutch ; those glorious little nations ,
which with nothing did such immense things , have nevertheless been unable to found anything . You have , I know well , what they had not , your triplicity of powers , —agricultural , industrial , and naval . These are certainly very powerful means . And yet how does it happen that , having them , you have succeeded so little in taking root . In no part { executing the United States , founded at a different perioo , under a religious influence ) in no part have you taken deep root in the earth . I see you everywhere on the surface of the globe ; but firmly rooted , —nowhere . The reason is that you have been everywhere , gathering and sucking the substance of the earth , but implanting nothing , no sympathy , no thought . Having brought no moral idea witlxvou , vou have founded nowhere .
Your India , for instance , one of the finest empires thatthe sun has seen , —what have you done wjth it ? It has withered in your hands . You remain exterior to it ; you are a parasite body that will bo cast off to-morrow . You found that marvellous country provided with commerce and agriculture . . . Yet what now remains to be exported , except opium ? But of all the English countries , the one that has suffered the most is assuredly England herself ! Here , the bankers willlaugh , and so will ^ the lords perhaps , and with them a few hundred thousand men , —the vampires of England . . . Yei , but twenty millions of men are weeping , and those men are England herself 2 There is no instance of a people so indefatigable
and industrious , having , after the most desperate efforts , maintained for fifty years , purchased only misery and famine . It was the opinion of Europe in 1789 , and one that Burke publicly professed : " That in England property was divided more equally than in France ;" and one of the best informed members of the Constituent Assembly observed , that at that period " most of the English are land-owners . " This was , pernaps , an exaggeration . But , what is certain , is , that small landed-proprietors were then innumerable ; that one met everywhere with the modest and quiet cottage , that humblo yet charming habitation , which , exhibited to us so many times in novels and engravings , had made us all in
love with England ; add , moresver , the affecting accessories of a quiet , homely , moral , and laborious life , the Bible read in the family circle , the virgin vine and the rose-tree overhanging the'low porch , the handsome yet serious girl spinning on the threshold amidst her young bro ' thers , and the sports of those fine children , vying in colour with the carnation , and full of life . Oh ! many years ago , I still saw something like this in the best preserved districts of England , and I was so affected by it as to forget our wars , and , I confess , to rejoice that the invasion had not taken place , nor gone to trouble that peaceful world . . . I thanked the ocean ! I was wrong . The invasion would have saved England . It would at least have forced her to stop
and reflect on the brink of tho terrible abyss into which she has blindly plunged . It would have forced the aristocracy to grant something to the people , to relax somewhat of their barbarous obstinacy . Let us add one word to make this more evident . Landed property , entirely aristocratical , as we know , contributed in 1700 one-sixth of the public expenditure , one-ninth in 1793 , but only or j twenty-fourth from 1816 to 1842 ! The rich paid less and leas , and the poor more and more , and slaved more and more . At tho peace , strange to say , the aristocracy granted relief * only to itself , none to the people who had so heroically laboured , and supplied by their mortal labour the forty billions
required by the long war . What a terrible tax on hatred , pride , and the mad spirit of rivalry ! Go on , John Bull , keep up the game , thy honour is staked not to give it up . Work , pay , and double thy stakes , thou obstinate gamester . Rule , Britannia , rule ! . . . Work—work thyself to the hone ! Rule , Britannia ! And add to thy work two hours more , —four hours , nay meal time , and the hours of rest 1 Friend , add , mor :-over , thy wife and children , and , by way of loan , add also the work of thy children unborn ; and who will be born poor and bent double with debts . . . Rule , Britannia ! and die , all of you , in order that France may die !
Alas ! you unfortunate , obstinate people , much good have you done yourselves with your hatred and scorn ; and all that on the word of your enemies aud
ours . I have wept bitter tears over the miseries of our enemies . Indeed , how can we help weeping when we see the best part of England , her moral treasure , the family , annihilated ! I speak not of those monstrous Babels of manufactories , where prostitution has ceased from very exhaustion . I allrde to the agricultural districts . What is more lamentable than to meet , in the fields , on the richest estates in the world , those mendicant labourers , working in a dress-coat , wearing the cast-off clothes of the rich ; to meet on the roads crowds of children , sold and hired , transported from one county to another in harvest tune , to work the ground by the day , —all together pell-mell , girls and boys , a filthy " troop , !
miserably piled up in waggons This warfare against infancy is atrocious ! Yet such is the spectacle now presented by England . The burden wnich went onfalling fromtheiichupon the poor , from man to woman , falls from her upon the child . The child , worn out and corrupted before his existence , cannot live . Under this lugubrious spectacle of juvenile misery and promiscuous intercourse , there is a terrible sentence , more than the end of a society—the extermination of a race . No remedy will cure this . England will neither be willing nor able to alter . Electoral reform has made no difference ; neither has the Income Tax ; and Free Trade will not succeed any better ; food will become cheaper , but wages will lower .
How should the material change ? The soul has remained ever the same . Far from diminishing by the excess of misery , the national malady , that satanical spirit of pride , does but increase . Not one of them would wish for fcquality ; they are all aristocratical in heart . This prodigious hard-heartednoss is a terrible spectacle . Wealth is ever going on concentrating itself in fewer hands . The progressive diminution of wages , and the clearness of provisions , go on prolonging work , excluding the means of saving , and depriving the workman of the short leisure moments which allowed some moral culture , might raise him from Ids degradation , open for him the path to distinction , the road to political power , and the ri ght to that power .
What means that immense and ridiculous distribution of Bibles to a people who no longer read , have no longer any time , and often no longer any power to read ? Their Bible , alas ! in these days , it is in the corrosive liquor which restores him for a moment , intoxicates him , and procures him oblivion . Head ! mark ! learn ! These are empty , odious words : he wants to remain ignorant . The whole hope of the aristocracy is , that those millions of men who are dying , and who arc replaced only by dy ing children , will die at least in silence , peaceably , and without any disturbance . That population , it is true , having never been very warlike since the fifteenth century , but which formerly boasted , not without reason , -of its physical
strength , now feels Hsclt ieeoic , attenuated , ana worn out in body and soul . I here allude to the manufacturing population in particular . As for the strong and intelligent workmen , whom England still possesses in great numbers , two things are contending against them : — First , they receive no moral culture , no light from without ; the clergy , even on their own lands , neglect them entirely ; and the radicals , who communicated with them ten years ago , have now separated from them , and , through fear , have joined the Conservative party . Secondly , these workmen are unable to find any impulse within themselves ; there being , as Ihave said , no time for reading and reflection .
There is another cause of decline which deserves to be examined . England ' s superiority long proceeded from this cause : that the men of the different classes wcrethero less specialised than on the continent ; the gentleman , by his strong plain food , and violent exercise , was akin to , and often stronger than the workman ; and the latter , by his biblical culture , and the interest he took in public affairs , was not far removed from the gentleman . In the English navy , even at the present day , among the builders , pilots , and first-class sailors , you will find
very often these two men in one—a complete impersonation of the two classes in equilibrium , who , without being a scientific scholar ( like the French engineer ) , has much practical knowledge , and at the same time a workman's energy . This happens only in the navy , and in workmen of a superior order ; but the bulk of the working classes , that prodigiously numerous multitude , ever increasing , has entered a different path . The complete man , the mental and physical equilibrium , formerly common in that class of people , isbecoming more scarce day '
every . . ,. . The extreme division of labour has specialised the workman , and penned him up in this or that narrow suhere and made him a thing isolated m his action and capacity , as imp otent m itself , if separated from the whole , as a wheel apart from a machine . They are no longer men , but portions of men , who
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link then- action together , and work like a single engine . This continuing , has gradually created strange classes of men , sickening to the sight , because one perceives in them at the first glance , the ugly impress of a narrow speciality of work ; that is «™ * v ? m lct "unction of personality to some miserable detail of industry ; and from these fixed and perpetuated deformities result races , no rWfi ? T V ' S ™ <« of Briton ' s and Saxons , but tribes of pale cotton-spinners , races of humpbacked blacksmiths , and , in the diversities of the blacksmith , secondary races , sadly characterised . Aristotle , m his politics , says , as a calculating naturalist , noting exterior signs : " The slave is art ugly man ; ' and doubtless that slave of antiouitv
was ugly , bent , and often made hump-backed bv his burden ; but yet , with all that , he varied his labour exercised his different physical faculties , preserved in . them a certain equilibrium , and remained man he was the slave of a man . But what , alas ! shall we say of him , who , bound down to some minute occupation , the same , and the same for ever , the serf of a miserable product of manufacture , is the slave of a pin , the slave of a ball of cotton , & c , Ac . And then how many slaves , moreover , has this single pm , m its different parts , head , shank , point , & c , who , doing but one single thing , must confine their activity and their mind to that measure ! Such is tho great and terrible difference between the Englishman and the Frenchman . The Englishman is a part of a man . This part may be sometimes an admirable workman , of singular utility and efficacy : no matter , it
IS Still onl y a part . Whatever he may do , he is relative ; he exists by relation to one common action , —a machine—a thing . This is a life of things , not a life of man . Man , personality ( except tho voluntary relations which it gives itself and chooses for itself ) , is an absolute being—a God . Society , far from being an education for the Englishman , or adding qualities to his nature , has even taken from him that basis which bears qualities , and forms their substratum—the integrity of being . Tor the Tronohman , on the contrary , it has Strengthened the fundamental unity ; and , through all our misfortunes , moral miseries , and others , it has constantly endowed , augmented , and strengthened him , as a complete man . The French peasant , as a soldier , a small landed proprietor ; under various denominations , has bocome man more and more .
"Chartist Tracts For The Times."We Under...
" Chartist Tracts for the Times . "We understand that No . I , of a series of Chartist Tracts for the Times , edited by George White , John West , and James Leach , at present confined in Kirkdale gaol , is in the press and will be published bylthe latter end of this month . No . I . is entitled : "Why are we poor ? What do the Chartists want ? " We anticipate that these tracts will deserve and command an immense circulation .
The Clergy; Is The Oldes Time.—A Young L...
The Clergy ; is the Oldes Time . —A young Levite—such was the phrase then in use—mi ght be had for his board , a small garret , and £ 10 a year , and might not only perform his own professional functions , mi g ht not only bo the most patient of butts and of listeners , might not only be always ready in fine weather for bowls , and in rainy weather for shovelhoard , but might always save the expense of a gardener or a groom . Sometimes the reverend man nailed up the apricots , and sometimes he curried the coach-horses .. lie cast up the farrier's bills . He walked ten miles with a message or parcel . If he was permitted to dine with the family , he was expected to content himself with the plainest fare . He might fill himself with the corned beef and the carrots , but as soon as the tarts and cheesecakes
made their appearance , he quitted his seat and stood aloof till he was summoned to return thanks for the repast , from a great portion of which he had been excluded . Perhaps , after some years' service , ho was presented with a living sufficient to support him , but he often found it necessary to purchase his preferment by a species of simony , which furnished an inexhaustible subject of pleasantry to three or four generations of scoffers . With his cure he was expected to take a wife . The wife had ordinarily been in the patron ' s service ; and it was well if she was not not suspected of standing too high in tho patron ' s favour . Indeed , the nature of the matrimonial alliance connexions which the clergymen of that ago were in the habit of forming , is the most
certain indication of the place which the order hold in the social system . At Oxonian , writing a few months after the death of Charles II ., complained bitterly that not only the country attorney and the country apothecary , looked down with disdain on tho country gentlemen , but that one of the lessons most earnestly inculcated on every girl of honourable family , was no give no encouragement to a lover in orders , and that if any young lady forgot this precept , she was almost as much disgraced as by a . i illicit amour . Ch . rendon , who assuredly bore no ill will to the church , mentions it as a sign oi the confusion of ranks which the great rebellion had produced , that some damsels of noblo families had bestowed themselves on divines . A waiting-woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson , Queen Elizabeth , as the head
ot the church , had given what seemed to be a formal sanction to this prejudice , by issuing special orders that no clergyman should presume to marry a servant g irl without the consent of her master or mistress . During several generations , accordingly , the relations between priests and handmaidens was a theme for endless jest , nor would it be easy to find in the comedy of the seventeenth century a single instance of a clergyman who wins a spouse above the rank of a cook . Even so late as the time of George II ., the keenest of all observers of life and manners , himself a priest , remarked , that in a great household the chaplain was the resource of a lady ' s maid whose character had been blown upon , and who was therefore forced to give up hopes of catching the steward . —Macaiday s History of England , Tun Bonoucii of Harwich . —At the election
which took place m 1837 , the three candidates , Messrs . Ellice , Hemes , and Tovor , had polled seventy-four votes each at half-past three o ' clock in the afternoon : there was only one voter left to poll , and how this casting vote was obtained is thus described by Mr . Joseph Parkes : — " There was , " says he , " an intention of petitioning in 1837 , by Mr . Tower ; and I know that one man had £ 500 for the casting vote at that election ! I know it had been offered to Mr Tower and refused by him , and that half the votes had been bought on each side for the two sitting members , and I have reason to believe that'the man had £ 500 "—neither more nor less . Thus it was ( continues the News ) , that Messrs . Hemes and Ellice' were duly elected by a majority
of one vote over Mr . Tower . But this was a mere trifle . It was not until 1841 that bribery really began in Harwich . Then they disdained hundreds , and counted on nothing less than thousands . '—and they got tho money , too . —Daily News . Tnu Irvixcites . —The body of religionists in London popularly known as Irvingites ( a title , however , which they indignantly repudiate , although they revere the memory of Edward Irving ) , are at this moment very active . Within tho bounds of the metropolis they have seven churches—a sort of imitation of the seven apocalyptic churches ; and ] S cwman > stvect , where Mv . Irving used to preach , is a sort of Jerusalem . Here , once a month ,
representatives from these seven churches assemble ; and although the reputation of the party is associated with ideas of fanaticism and absurdity , tho proceedings of the managers and leaders are characterised by much shrewdness and worldly wisdom . Mr . Drummond , formerly of tho banking firm of Drummond and Co ., but now a country gentleman , and one of the members for West Surrey , is understood to be still connected with thebody , which is actively endeavouring to increase its influence by the accession of other names of repute . —[ The person here mentioned is the cranky genius who , last session , run a-muck at the Northern Star , but only Bucceedcd in making himself ridiculous . ]
The Boiler Divorce Case . —PmL . VDELrniA , Jan . 22 . A decision has at length been given in the Butler divorce case , b y the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the city and county of Philadelphia . The decree of the Court was delivered by Judge King , senior judge of the court ; and that decision is in favour of Mrs . Butler . The document road by the Judge is of great length , but the whole may be summed up in the following brief sentence ; —The court decrees that it will not give any final decision in relation to the divorce prayed by Pierce Butler against his wife , Francis Ann ( Fanny Kemble ) Butler ; and that the matter shall and may be sent before a jury in the Court of Common Pleas , there to be tried , and final issue given . The decree has given evident satisfaction to the public of this city . Large Scvtiie Factort im America . —The scythe manufacturing establishment of Reuben B . Dunn ,
Esq ., at Xorth Wane , in Maine , is the largest of the kind in the world . The establishment consists , besides warehouse , furnishing shops , & c , of three principal buildings for manufacturing , two of which are 144 feet in length . In these , and in departments connected With the establishment , arc cmployed about 100 men , many of whom have families settled atthe place . A flourishing village has grown up within the last few years , and is rapidly increasing : 12 , 000 dozen scythes are annually manufactured , to produce which are required 450 , 000 fl ) s . of iron , 75 , 6001 bs . of steel , 1 , 200 tons of hard coal , 10 , 000 bushels of charcoal , 100 tons of grindstones , and half a ton of borax . This last article is used in the process of welding . Mr . Dunn is erecting additional works in the vicinity , which will bo soon completed , when he will be enabled to turn out 17 , 000 dozen scythes annually . This establishment is now more than double the extent of any other in the world—none even in England being found to compete with it . — -AW York Fanner and Mechanic .
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Olympic. Ok Monday Night A Little Piece,...
OLYMPIC . Ok Monday night a little piece , described in the play . bill as a ' classical drama , ' was produced at this theatre * under the name of The Hemlock Draught . It is an adaption , by Mr . John Oxenford , from a French piece , originally produced some years ago at the Odeon , in Paris , and performed last year at the St , James ' s Theatre . The plot is simple enough . A young Athenian , Clinias , disgusted with the world , has resolved to terminate his existence on the evening of the day in which the action of the piece occurs , by the . fashionable means—a draught of hemlock . He has lately became the possessor of a beautiful and high-souled slave , whom at first
he holds but lightly , in consideration of her casteao lijhtly as to make her the subject of * wager between two of his friends , Cleon and Paris , to be won by him who shall first win the lady ' s love . A keen encounter of wit ensues between the fair slave and these reckless wagerers , in the course of which they become really so e namoured of her as to come even to blows , and her cries bring Clinias to stop the fray . Moved by her story , he resolves to make her free , and restore her to her country and family ; but by this time he has become enamoured of her charms , innocence , and virtue , while her gratitude for his generosity has assumed a warmer character . Still , however , he persists in his fatal purpose . Bidding her an eternal adieu , and uttering his wish that she may be happy with whose heart is not
one wasted and withered like his , he is raising the poisoned cup to his lips , when her cry of ajony , and passionate avowal ot her love , wrest his tund , and change at once the whole current of his feelings . At this juncture the two friends make their appearance to know the result of the lady ' s choice . Clinias tells them that , being unable to chdosa either of them , she had been under the necessity of choosing him . The piece is well put upon the stage , with a characteristic fixed scene , awarding to the approved notion of Athenian habits , and on the whole was exceedingly well acted . Mr . Benjamin Barnett afterwards made his rbst appearance in the character of Monsieur Jacques . He was received in the most favourable manner , and recalled at the end by the undivided verdict of a very full house .
Colosseum. This Has, Ever Since Our Firs...
COLOSSEUM . This has , ever since our first visit , been with us a favourite place of resort . There is a fullness and completeness in the conception and execution of all we see , that renders a charm to the whole . The Cyclorama of Lisbon , before and after the earthquake in 1755 , which is added to the establishment , is no exception to the general plan . It consists of a continuation of scenic representations of the Ill-fated city , opening with a morning view of the sea at the mouth of the river Tagus—the waters , still and deep , with scarce a ripple on their surface , have a softness not to be met with on our more northern coasts . The boats near the banks , and the vessels in the distance , give the picture the air of life itself . The
atmosphere is mild , and so beautifully ar « the li ghts and shades towards the horizon interwoven and tinged , that you watch them as earnestly as you would one of our fine autumn sunsets over the lakes of Cumberland . Suddenly you command a view of the river filled with . merchantmen , and the houses and palaces on the banks , represent a delightfully situated city , in all the enjoyment of commerce and luxury . Some of the churches and public buildings are of a noble and commanding appearance ; and as you cast your eye over the city , you pay the artist ( Mr Bradwell ) , a merited tribute 01 respect , for his care in the arrangement of heights
and distances ; the most minute objects are proportioned with care . This we deem an indispensable requisite for all paintings consisting of mixed oh . jects . The artist , too , has managed to give to the houses and public edifices , a solid foundation—you see them as if they were built , and not painted . The scene in the Tagus during the tremeur of the earthquake , is fearfully grand . Fancy five majestic vessels struggling for life , from the momentary inundation of some fifty feet of water , rockirg from a subterranean and sub-marine shock , that rends and closes walls in a breath , and buries a solid city in some six or seven minutes . The desolation of the
few remaining inhabitants , who have escaped with life only to know despair , and the full-volumed fires burning red and leisurely , as if their cvork of destruction was finished , whilst the few shattered and blackened walls , the last wrecks of sunny grandeur , give to the spectator an impression to be reflected upon and remembered . The fate of Lisbon has commanded homage from the pens of Montgomery , Coleridge , and Byron , and we surmise that the fine scenic representation , which we cannot describe , might have been enjoyed by all of them . The hall ,
from which the paintings are viewed is chaste , varied , and beautiful . « The School of Athens , ' * Apollo and the Muse » , ' painted by Mr . Horner , and copied from the cartoons of Raphael , are a study . The rewiain-> ng portions of the Colosseum , which we recently noticed , remain unchanged . It is with satisfaction that we know that our recommendation has caused not a few country friends to visit the Colosseumall of whom have said their time ani money were never better appropriated , and we again say to our country and town readers—do likewise .
Royal Polytechnic Institution. During Th...
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . During the past week , Dr . Ryan has been engaged in delivering a lecture at the above named establishment on heat , the laws of combustion , and the best mode of obtaining artificial light . —Doctor Bachoffner is still engaged in his admirable hctun ; on the Electric Light , and he still fears it cannot be brought within a fair amount of £ . 8 . d .-There are also some additions to the dissolving views , more particularly an authenticated view of California , which has been kindly allowed to be copied and exhibited hy one of our most eminent publishers , for whom it was drawn . It is said to give a very good representation of the new El Dorado . —Doctor Bachoffner , however , observes , that too much faith should not be given to the accounts which are daily published from the American papers , observing , that it is not always gold that glitters . The institution has been constantly crowded since Christmas .
A Xcw York Paper Mentions The Arrival Th...
A Xcw York paper mentions the arrival there of an enormous boa-constrictor , thirty feet long , which was caught in Africa , in a rope-net , and the capture of which occupied 126 negroes seven hours . The showmen of America have had a keen contest for this creature . Van Amburgh offered 7 , 000 dollars for it , but its owner will not take less than 10 , 000 dollars . Politeness is like an air-cushion—there may he nothing solid in it , but it eases jolts wonderfully . The rig ht hom Sir U . L . Bulwer , K . C . B ., who lately represented her Majesty in Spain , has been appointed to succeed Sir 11 . Pakcnham as British Minister in the United States . - Sir It . Pakcnham , who has long been a dip lomatic servant of the Crown , will retire upon a well-earned pension . It is understood that tho differences with Spain which have led to a suspension of diplomatic relations are in process of amicable adjustment .
A Considerate . Policeman . —Uol-st the Co ts I before voir Begkv . —The Halifax new borough police have printed instructions that their duty is to prevent offences . One of the body ( who , though a teetotaller , is somewhat of a rum subject ) tho other day carried out his instructions in a rather novel manner . Two drunken fellows were quarrelling in the street , and from words were proceeding to blows , when the gentleman in blue came up . Without drawing cither staff or snaps he marched up to the irate combatants , and , tapping one of them on the shoulder , said gravely , " You haven't either of you fourteen shillings that you can spare , have you ? " This broad hint at " penalty and costs " brought the two to their senses . They remembered that they could not afford the luxury of a street row , and so they went away in peace . —Halifax Guardian .
How Courtship ix CnixA " GoEsioPoT . "—Essau Ackum , a young Chinaman , now employed by Labrcy , Scholes , and Co ., tea dealers , Manchester , has ' furnished the Manchester Guardian with au account of a Chinese wedding . " If , " says he , " during your courtship any pot or earthen vessel is cracked or broken , it is considered a bad omen , and one that is never disregarded . Should tho young gentleman , therefore , while in the house of the lady ' s parents , hear or see anything of her that is not to his mind , he generally manages ( by accident , of course ) , to break his tea cup—and so break oft the match . " . The " Expedient Stomach Warmer . —This " new thins , " for such ( begging Solomon ' s pardon ) wc ventimTto call it , is a sort of hollow breastplate for the belly ( don't laugh ) , with separate reservoirs for lime water ; and when you have a fancy for bringing the two together , you can enjoy a good warmin * ; even our temperance friends , therefore , who repudiate " cold within , " may now indulge ia " warm without ! " What a comical age it is t—
Gateshead Observer . Charcoal ground to powder is one of w best things ever discovered to clean knives ^ Ibis , is a late and valuable discovery .
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Thk Laxd. The Land Or Earth In Any Count...
THK LAXD . The land or earth in any country or neighbourhood , with every thing in or on tho same , or pertaining thereto belongs at all times to tho living inhabitants of the said country or neighbourhood in an equal maiinor . For , there is no livin- but on land , and its productions , consequently , what WO cannot live without , wc have the same property in as in our lives . —Thomas Spence . The earth is the habitation , the natural inheritance , of all mankind , of ages present and to come - a habitation belonging to no man in particular , but to every man ; and one in which all have an c'JiiaJ riffht to dwell . —John Grau .
Confession . —Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong . It is but owning what you need not be ashamed of , that you now have move sense than you had before to sec your error ; mora humility to acknowledge it ; and more grace to correct it . Human Bubbles . —People who endeavour to attract that attention by dress which they cannot obtain hy their intrinsic worth , resemble the soap balloons blown by children ; the thinnest bubbles are invested with the brightest colours . Tarnation Ciikap . '—The Leeds Intelligencer says — " Wc learn from the United States that an American newspaper is about to publish Mucaulay ' s IKstory of England in two numbers of the paper , at tho cost of 3 d . Tho book is published here at 32 s . Immortality . —Some of the houses in Edinburgh
are eleven stories hi g h , and in one of these , near that exquisite green slope from the castle esplanade , Johnson visited Boswell ; and here , also , David Hume , the historian and philosopher , resided for many years , till he removed into the oldest- stmaro of the new town . A recent traveller , toiling up the stairs , asked an old woman who was conveying a pitcher of water to her aerial domicile in ' the building , whether she could tell him in which story-David Hume lodged ? " Dawvid Hume 1 Dawvid Hume . '" replied the old woman , " 1 hao been hero this echteen year , and never mind sic a nm .. c . Dawvid Hume is no on this stair . " " Mother , " said a little boy , the other day , " why are orphans the happiest children on earth V * " They are not , my child ; why do you ask that question ?"— «* Because they have no mothers to spank ' em . "
" So you would not take me to bo twenty . '" said f t young lady to her partner , while dancing tho polka a few evenings ago ; " what would vou take me for , then ?— " Tor bettor , for worse ! " replied he . An attorney , ( says Sterne , ) is to a barrister what an apothecary is to a physician ; with this difference 1 ' , however , that your lawyer does not deal in scruples . Irish Tongues Wanted . —Amongst the latest ; commercial news from the West Indies is the following startling announcement : — " Tongues . Irish . are wanted , there being none of this description in the market
. [ The O'Connells should export their tongues , there being no further demand for them in the liome market . ] Sjiakspbahe Amekicaniseo . —An American paper translates a passage of Richard the Third into tho Yankee tongue , thus : — Ncow is the winta uv cour discontent Med glorious surama by this son o' Yock , An' all the cleouds thet leowred upon coin * hcouso In the deep buzzum o' the oshin buried ; Keow air cour brows beound 'ith victorious wreaths .
Eour broused arms hung up fir monimuncc , Eour starn alarums changed to merrv meeting , Eour drefllo marches to delightful measures ; Grim-visagcdwarhetlismcuthcdliiswriiikledfront , An' ncow , instead o' mountin' barcbid steeds , To fright tho souls o' ferrlo adversaries , He capers nimly in a lady ' s chamber , To the lascivious pleasin' uv a loot . The B-etotssestativb System ecenis to be gaininw ground in England . The good and respectable title " of " Reporter" is being rapidly merged in "Ilepr scntative of the Press , aud it was only last week that the death of a traveller for a soda water manufactory was announced as that of a " representative" of the firm .
Sensible People . —A public meeting of tho principal inhabitants of Cape Town has petitioned tho Queen against tho project of sending convict " exiles" from England , to the Capo of Good Hope . On the Picture ov a Sun . —( On the picture of a very young Nun—not reading a devotional book , and not contemplating . i crucifix ~ placed beside her . ) So young—too young—consign'd to cloistral shade , Untimely wedded—wedded , yet a maid ! And hast thou left no thought , no wish behind , No sweet employment for the wanderiiiff mind , — Who would be proud to waft a sigh from thee , Sweeter than aught he steals from Arabv ?
Thou wort immur d—poor maiden—as I cuess In the blank childhood of thy simpleness ; " Too young to doubt , too pure to bo ashamed , Thou gavest to God—what God had never claimed , And didst unwecting sign away thine all Of earthly good—a guiltless prodigal ; Tliclavgc ' vcversion of thine unborn love Was sold to purchase an estate above . Yet by thy hands upon thy bosom prest I think indeed thou art not quite at rest ; That Christ that hangs upon tho sculptured cross Is not the Jesus to reueeni thy loss ;—Nor will that book , wbato ' er its jingo contain , Convince thec that the world is false and vain . Even now there is a something at thy heart That would be off , —but may not , dare ' not start . Yes , yes , —thy face , thine eyes , thy closed lips prove Thou wort created to be loved , and love . —Hartley Coleridge ,
The Electric Telegraph . —I heard an old and a new joke cut upon the subject of the electric telegraph t ' other morning . The old one was , that it was a shocking affair ; but the now one , uttered by a , youii £ f lady , pleased me better . She s :-id , " I don ' t like the idea of intelligence being communicated by the agency of sparfo . Sparks have no right to divulge secrets . The next thing they will do will be to kiss and tell . " Au Irish dragoon , on hearing that his widowed mother had boon married since he quitted Ireland , exclaimed , "Murtber ! I hope she won ' t have a son oulder than mo , if she docs 1 shall lose the estate !" What is the difference between the Guard of a Coach and the Guard of a Harem ?—One takes care of tho Mail * , and tho other of the Female * .
A Possible Hesult or Study . —A man may study a thing till ho believes it . Creech died a Lucrcti . "n ; Burckhart and Browne were Mohammedans . S ; 'le , the translator of the Koran , was suspected of being an Islamite . —Byron . Wishing for the Press . —Oye poets and nrosers , who aspire to write in the miscellanies , and above all , O ye palpitating untried , who meditate the offer of your maiden essays to establish ' periodicals , take care , pray yo take care to cultivate a good plain , bold , round text . Set up Tomkins as well as Pope or Drydcn for a model , and have an eye to your pothooks . Sonic persons hold that tho best writers are those who write the best hands , and I have known
the conductor of a magazine to bo converted by a Grabbled MS . to the same opinion . Of all things , therefore , bo legible ; and to that end practise penmanship . If you have never learned , take lesson * . Be sure to buy the best paper , the best ink , the best pens , and then sit down and do the best you can : r • school boys do—put out your tongue and take pains . So shall ve happily osesipe tho rash ejection of a jaded editor ; so having got into your hand , it is possible that your head may follow ; and , though last , not least " , ye may fortunately avert those awful mistakes of tho pross , which sometimes ruin a poet ' s stiblimost effusion by pantomimically transforming his roses into noses , and his angels into angles , and all his happiness into pappiness . —/ . W .
Thoro is a town in the West Biding ot lorkshiro remarkable for the singularly hard names of its inhabitants . In one street tho brass-nlatc on a house door intimates that the dweller within is the proprietor of the name of Flint . The door-plate of the next house is inscribed Harder . The Actor ano the Bisitor . —Joe Haines , the comedian , who died 1701 , was no less celebrated for his facetiousness and wicked pranks than for his acting . He was arrested in the street , for a debt of £ 20 , by a couple of bailiffs , as the Bishop of Ely was passing in his coach . "Ah ! " said Joe to the bailiffs , " hero ' s my cousin , the Bishop of Ely ; let mo but speak to him , and he'll pay the debt . " The baUuts thought they might venture , as they were
within three or four yards of him ; so up goes Joo close to the coach , and taking off his hat , the bishop ordered tho coach to stop : while Joo , thrusting Ids head in at the window , said softly , " My lord , here are two poor men who have such great heavy scruples of conscience , that I fear they may hang themselves , and I beseech your lordship to speak with them . " " Certainly , ' * ' said the bishop , and calling to the bailiffs , said , * " You conic to mc to-morrow morning , and I'll satisfy you . " The men bowed and went away , and Joe , hugging himself with this fallacious device was permitted to go free . In tho morning the bailiffs , expecting the debt and charges , repaired to the bishop ' s , where being introduced , " Well , " said the bishop , " what are your scruples of conscience ? " " Scruples , " said the bailiffs ,
" we have no scrup les ; wc arc bailiffs , my lord arrested your cousin , Joe Haines , for £ 20 . Your lordship promised to satisfy us to-day , and we hope your lordship will be as good as your word . " The bishop , reflecting that his honour and name would be compromised if he refused to pay , was reluctantly obliged to discharge the debt and costs . The Use and Abuse of Wit . —When wit is unpen erted , it lightens labour , makes the very face of cave to shine , diffuses cheerfulness among nien , multiplies the sources of harmless enjoyment , gilds tho dark things of life , and heightens the lustre of tho brightest . If perverted , wit becomes an instrument of malevolence ; it gives a deceitful colouring to vice—it reflects a resemblance of truth upon error , and distorts the features of real truth hy falsa lights .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 10, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_10021849/page/3/
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