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      October 10,1846. The Northern Star. S »^...

      October 10 , 1846 . THE NORTHERN STAR . S »^ 1 ii ¦! m il mi nun -

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      The Maid Of The West. Bt Zkkz8t J0he5. O...

      THE MAID OF THE WEST . BT ZKKZ 8 T J 0 HE 5 . Oh ! Shame on the slave , who betrayed thee , l ? or grandeur , and power and pelf ; Who marred the bright image he made thee ; A trsitor to thee and himself ! He found thee , —a desolate maiden ; He wooed thee—through long stormy years , And won thee—from thoughts sorrow-laden , To p lunge thee again into tears . 0 „ g lory so near consummation , A sp irit—so certain to win , To pour all this cold desolation : — » Twas pity— 'twas reason— 'twas sin ! Aid , shame on those heartless spectators , "Who witnessed oppression ' s career ! Nor saved thee from false Liberators , "Who freed thy -worst foes from their fear .

      "While , cheated by policy ' s barter , E ' en those , who would punish the deed , Surrendered the crown of the martyr , To him , who the torture decreed 1 But judgement , shall come , though belated , Down-striking him , never to rise , JJot honoured enough to be hated : Then hate not the thing they despise . * By his grave shall no wanderer sit weeping , Untroddtn its grasses so gray ; "While the winds of oblivion come sweeping , His lost name away and away . The child , in its tongues ' s broken sweetness . Would have lisped to its mother that name ; The bard , in the spirit ' s completeness , Had sung it — — to share in its frame !

      That name would hare paralyzed faction , In senates , when party ran high ; The soldier , when rushing to action . Had fonnd a strange charm in the cry . All this has his folly surrendered ! AH this has his tre -son denied ! And now , when life ' s connt shall he tendered , Hell die , as all traitor * bars died . Oh ! Thou werft thine own treasure ' s rifler , — To blot thy long life ' s crowning page ; Oh ! couldst thou not , traitor , and trifler ! Respect thy grand , grey-headed age ! But learn thou , e ' er passing the portal

      "Where scern holds the key of thy gravel That the Moid of Ihe West is immortal , And thou—art a poor , dying slave ! "What f Thoughtst thou , frail waif of an hour ! To still the proud poise of the free i Death only has compassed that power , — Sot thou—nor a miZtim like thee ! Oh I then , with its fetters about thee , This thought shall thy broken heart sere : To know—she goes conquering wiihout thee , 5 or casts back one glance on thy bier !

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      SOHGS FOR THE PEOPLE . so . xxm . A STATE ABOUT THE QUACK PATRIOT AND HIS

      REPEAL DELUSION . ( 'Which will he found to sing very -well to the tune o "CHowIan * M'FiggC" ) Come , III tip ye a stave—if I can—Ahont that old catamaran ! That * s him they « all Dan , The Bi ^ BeggarmaB , TOo clones ye all oat ernj year . That ' s clear , Through priestcraft , delusion , and fear . And sure 'twere a dntifol tatV ,

      To tear off the onld -villain ' s mask , And expose nun . to view , In his own colours true , That no more in your smiles he may hash , The onld wasp 1 So well jist start the end of his cask . " Well , ifs done ; an' what is * t ye behold ! Who nerer a thing :, sore but gold ; The greedy onld elf , His whole life ' s aim is pelf , A Patriot ! nothing but self .

      But self , He ' s as much one as china is delf ! TThen . Erin ! I think of his greed , for thee , this poor heart oft does bleed , And often I pray . That may eoon come the day , "When we'll get him laid past on the ihelf , The onld elf . As rapacious a * one of the Gnelph ! Thou Wretch ! with heart flinty and cold To sell thy poor country for gold ! Why for so many years , 'Hid her sighs and her tears , Tour Tribute down lib ' rally told ,

      Se hold , Ay , or faith ye'd ha' gave her a scold ! Though famine he strides now so gaunt , And no cry it heard 'round but want , "With jour beagles again , Ye're at sweet Derrynane , And capital sport yell have there , Oh ! rare , Enjoying the fresh mountain air . Thejil he hungry at Gahirciveen , But of course you'll have none of it seem .

      While up at the Hall , They'll have roast , boiled , and all , An'the port too , to wash down all clean , between , Ay , an'jolly good stuff too I ween . Faith Bepale ' s been se * r best payin game , Tho' I fear it will damage ye'r fame , For your name it must stink . In the nose now I think ! When one counts up yer ill-gotten wealth , by stealth , Bnt the Hint '« in a had state o' health !

      Arrah ! where ' s the Repale now ? all ham Tour Parliament too ! all a sham !! Thou Old Man of Sin , Thy Repale was the TIX ! Poor Erin how sadly ta ' en in , je have been , By this villainous Old Man of Sin ! You may croak of ye ' r new moral force , An preach up decate till yer hoarse , It ' s easily seen , What your motive has been , Of Ireland you ' ve been quite the curse , Or worse , With your fingers ne ' er ont of her purse .

      O'Higgins ! thee onward I'd cheer , To expose this old fox without fear . That Erin ' s each son May see she ' s been DONE , To the tune of some thousands per year , And steer , Of this "hoary old sycophant" clear ! O'Connor ! 'tis only to thee , The people must look to he free , Heaven strengthen thy arm , And shield thee from harm , And spare thy life , happy and long , "Very long , So with this wish I finish my song . Tom Pm .

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      The Aristocracy Of England. A History Fo...

      THE ARISTOCRACY OF ENGLAND . A HISTORY FOR THE FEOPLfc . By Jons Hampden , Junior , London : Chapman , Brothers , 121 , Kewgate Street ; Effingham Wilsen , Royal Exchange . IXo . V , j If there be one thing , says John Hampden , more ominous than another in opening a book of the peerage , it Is the queer look of the armorial escutcheons by which the aristocratic families are distinguished : —

      EUIILEMS OF THE XATCRE OF AH 1 ST 0 CKACT . The whole emblazonment of aristocracy is one manifesto of savage barbirism , brute force , and propensity to robbery and plunder . What are these objects on their shields i Daggers , swords , liuns' heads , dogs' heads , arrowheads , hoars' heads , caunon balls , clubs , with a medley of stars , moons , and unmeaning figures , Whatarethe crests of these arms ? Lascivious goats , rampant lions , fiery dragons , and griffins gone crazed ; bulls'heads , blockheads , arms with uplifted daggers , beasts with daggers , and vultures tearing up help ! ess birds . What , again , are the supporters of these shields t What are the emblems of the powers by which thay are maintained and upheld ! The demonstration is deeply significant . They are the most singular assemblage of all that is fierce , savage , rampageous , villanoas , lurking , treacherous , bloodthirsty , cru j , and bestial in bestial natures . They are infuriated lions , boars , and tigers ; tbcy are raging bulls , filthy

      goats , horrid hyenas , snarling dogs , drunken bears , and mad rams ; they are foxes , wolves , panthers , everything that is creeping , sneaking , thievish , and perfidious . Kay nature cannot furnish emblems extensive enough , and , so startup to onr astonished sight the mosthideous shapes Of fiendlike dragons aud griffins , black , blasted as by infernal fires ; the most fuliginous of monsters ; and if the human shape is assumed for the guardians and supporters Of aristocracy , they are wild and savage men , armed with clubs and grim with hair , scowling brute defiance , aud seeming ready to knock down any man at the command of their lords . Ay , the very bird , of prey are called in ; and eagles , vultures , cormorants , in most expressive attitudes , with most ludicrous embellishments of crowned heads , collared necks , escutcheoned sides , and with hoisted wings and beaks of open and devouring wrath , proclaim the same great truth , that aristocracy is of the class of what the Germans call Jtai & Mturen , or robberbtasts—in our vernacular , touts of prey .

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      Onr anther again reiterates that the " pureblooded , " " ancient" aristocracy of the present day are a mere bastard brood , who cannot even trace their descent trom the Norman robbers : —

      THE " TIME-HONOUKED ARISTOCRACY . But the fact is , that none of our nobility have titles of any such date . Their ancestors were too insignificant at that time to acquire the smallest title . Our very oldest titles are those of the baronies of Le Despencer , De Eos and Hastings , who figured chiefly in the time of the weak Edward II . These are not of 1066 , the date of the Conquest , but of 1264 , in the latter end of the reign of Henry III ., and actually of Edward I ., that is , nearly 200 years after it . This , however , would have been something of a descent , had it been a clear and unbroken one ; but all these baronies are what are called restored ones ; that is , they are titles which , for want of a true genealogical descent , had fallen into desuetude ; but which , in order to fill up the aristocratic order , hare been given to some family that could make some sort of

      a claim , be it the vary lowest and most serpentine imaginable . Thus that of the Le Despencers has gone wandering in search of an owner from H 00 , when tbe last Earl Le Despencer was beheaded , by Edward III ., for his treason , till 1788 , during which it lay in abeyance , that is to say 388 years . Through this long period , if we are to believe the heralds , the blood of the le Despencers had meandered from this sister and that cousin , to this great-grand-son or that great-grand-daughter ; and in the conrse " of this tour had skipped tfrora the L * Despencers to " the Nevilles ; from the Nevilles to the Fanes ; from the Fanes had made a vault to the Dashwoods ; and from the Dashwoods had leaped to the Stapletons ; in plain fact , had wandered , curvetted , dodged , made curious winding pilgrimages , but had notdescended at alL

      In the same manner the barony of Hastings , from the same date till 1841 , or 577 years , had gone all about the country , yet never got lost . It had passed , or rather the blood of Hastings had , through the Le Stranges , Telvertons , Stubbses , Lewknors , Cokes , Wodehousos , Calthorps , Xorths , Stylmans , PraUs , Watlingtons , Delavals and atlast into the veins of one Jacob Astley , " in whose person her present Majesty was pleased to terminate the abeyance , he being one of the heirs of Sir John Hastings , who was summoned to parliament by Edward I . " In this transaction we hardly know which most to admire ; tbe admirable qualities of noble blood , which for 577 j ears can make such extraordinary rambles , leaps , strolls , turns , andtwinings , besides many a game of hide and seek , and yet preserve itself distinct and uncontaminated , or the easy faith of her Majesty , who could take it

      all in . If it be a wise child that knows its own father , wbat wise people must those Hastings be ! But the history of the De Ros family is the same . The descent winded from the De Roses to the Manners , the Cecils , and back to the Manners again ; then to the Yilliers , Dukes of Buckingham , till it was finally extinguished on the death of the second duke , no pretence for its continuance being found even bj the amazing sagacity of the heralds . The only claimants then were the heirs of Bridget , wife of Sir Thomas Tyrwhit , of Kettleby , and Frances , wife of William Lord Willoughby , the only sisters who left issue of one of the Earls of Rutland . In short , it was so completely a bad business , that the claims were disallowed , and all pretence of the baronial blood fell till 1806 , when George III ., having the advantage of the light of our enlightened age , in the course of his 523 restorations and creations , was pleased to discover it again .

      Such is tbe poor hocus-pocus of aristocracy . It is surely the most precious humbug under the sun . What , however , knocks the whole pretensioussystem completely on the head is , that George III . manufactured , as may be seen ia any book of the peerage , no less than 522 peers ! In reviewing the "Dukes , " after showing up the Seymours , our author has another word concerning CHARLES THE SECOND ' S BASTaBDS . Next in succession to these came the bastards of Charles II ., as dukes , of whom the nation was saddled with six . Four of those whose descendants still hold that title , were the Dukes of Richmond , St . Albans , Grafton , and Buccleugh . Tbe Duke of Richmond was the son of his mistress , Barbara Yilliers , made by him Duchess of Cleveland . This ' son was the product of the most open and profligate double adultery , Charles being

      married , and this mistress being the wife of one Charles Palmer , who was promoted to the earldom of Castlemain , as the price of his wife ' s prostitution . St . Albans was the son of tbe actress Nel Gwynne ; Grafien , the son of Charles ' s French mistress , Eerouaille ; and Buccleugh was Charles ' s reputed son , the Duke of Monmouth , Monmouth ha ring married the heiress of Buccleugh , and taken the name . The Duke of Monmouth was the sen of one of Charles ' s earliest mistresses , one Lucy Walters , who was abandoned by him and died in destitution iu France . Such was the loose character of this Lucy Walters , that it was very doubtful that Charles was tbe father of Monmouth at all , but was confidently attributed to a brother of Algernon Sydney . On such dubious and scandalous extraction sit the honours of our nobility ; such is the descent of the chief dukes of England .

      The most remarkable feature in the modern lists ' of the peerage , is the vast number of lawyers , or descendants of lawyers ; a long list of these cormorants is given . "Thelvery land groans under its monstrous host of lawyers . Like the reptile curse of Pharaoh , they enter every man ' s house , and come up into every man ' s kneading trough and moneybox . Their parchments are a net that is cast over every acre of land in England ; their red tapes binds the limbs of every man in the country . " >" ot the least useful and interesting part of this work is the l'sts of patriots , philosophers ; poets , inventors , discoverers , statesmen , authors , and other celebrated characters , which shows at a glance the number of each sprung from the people and those sprung from the aristocracy . These lists alone show the worthlessnessof an aristocracy , and the propriety of annihilating such , a class as being both " useless and mischievous . "

      ABISIOCRACIES HATE RUINED ALL COUNTRIES . Turn your eyes , however , in what direction you please , and there lie the examples of aristocratic desolation . Who ruined the intellectual states of Greece ? The aristocracy which assumed their management . Who betrayed the Roman republic , and converted it into a despotism , from which hour the national decline commenced ! The aristocracy , with the Cssars at their bead . In vain the first successful traitor fell by the hand of the indignant Brutus : there were plenty of his fellows to succeed him . Rome became imperial , and perished . Turn your eyes , however , nearer to your own times , to Spain , What has reduced that country to the anarchy and misery of the present time ! The pride , the luxury , the ambition , and the effeminate sloth of thearistocracy .

      From the hour that South American gold poured into Spain , the Hidalgoes grew into a condition of haughty voluptuousness , that sapped the productive power of the country , and hastened on a rapid declension of national wisdom , simplicity , and industry , from that time to the present . In this corrupt sloth , knowledge was neglected . Lord Byroa , when there , found the lady and the lady ' smaid equally ignorant . The people of Spain are universally described as a fine people . They have shown that tLey possess the elements of freedom and vigour in no ordinary degree , by the bloody resistance they have made to repeated tyrants , and the decision with which they at once pulled to the ground , in that so-called superstitious country , the great , corrupt system of monkery . But the nobles!—When Lord Wellington entered that country

      as a saviour , there could scarcely be found a man of that class who understood the duties of a good general ; and as an order they were feeble , disunited , and far more greedy of English gold than desirous of the aid of English arms . They were at the same time too stupidly proud to act under the direction of our more experienced commanders . Their armies were scattered before the French like autumnal leaves , and their country might have lain under the feet of the foe for ages , had not other nations fought the battle for them . The whole class was torn to pieces with cabals aud factions . They were at once ignorant , extravagant and covered with

      debt ; and were for ever craving after our gold , though they hated our heretical persons . From that hour it has continued the same . The Spanish people , brave and independent , find no able leaders in this corrupted class , and they have not yet advanced far cuongh to free themselves from them ; and anarchy and continual revolution and counter-revolutions go on . In the meantime they fight against any immediate oppressor , and when the enemy disappears , return cheerfully to the cultivation of their soil . No people live so lightly as they . They possess their soil , and are therefore always ready to rise from their temporary troubles under their fine climate . It is the government that is ruined , not the people .

      Turn to Germany . There the nobles had long undermined the ancient freedom of the empire . Every petty count aspired to be a prince . He severed his little territory from the government of the whole ; set up a separate independence—the right of the axe and the gallows till the country , dissected into two thousand little states , fell a ready prey to Napoleon . He swept away a host of tyrant nobles , and the country is all the better for it . Look again at Sweden . That country was , and is , Iu the hands of a swarming nobility . This nobility , at the approach of the Russians , sold the fortresses and Strang position in Finland and Pomerania for money ; which thus " became lost t * the country for ever , and which loss they had then the meanness to make one of the charges against their king , Gustavus IV ., for which they deposed him , and adopted Bernadotte . The country is still oppressed by the incubus of this nobility , which

      usurps all honours , offices , and emoluments ; and the nation groans and declines und « -r th » m . On the contrary , Norway , though subjected to Sweden , by the arrangements of the great European powers , has with a brave spirit resisted all Swedish attemp ts to bring it into the same aristocratic subjection . It arose in arms , compelled a free representative government , and abolished aristocracy . The lands and government are in the hands of the people ; and what are the consequences ? Agriculture and trade- flourish , and the nation , according to Mr . Laing , presents the most singular contrast to Sweden . Iu the one country there is an air of neglect and decay ; iu the other , of comfort and prosperity . In fie one , of crime and misery ; in the other , of virtue and enjnym ent , Mr . Laing pronounces the Norwegians to be through this their wise and stout decision to govern themselves as they act for themselves in private life , the most h-. ippy and flourishing of European nations .

      Look finally at France . Every one is familiar with the dreadful condition to which iu proud and imbecile aristccracy reduced it . Every one knows in what a storm oi

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      blood and terror the oppressed people arose and took an eternal vengeance on their oppressors . If we read the accounts of France , just previous to the Revolution , we cannotavoid . being struck witha terrible . similarity of circumstances and features with those of our own country now . In conclusion , John Hampden , junior , comes to the remedy—that remedy is

      UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE * Till we obtain the frauchise we obtain nothing ; when we obtain that we obtain everything . Every petition , every demand , however stern or resolved , that asks for anything short of the universal franchise , is the perpetration of an absurdity , and the greatest of all absurdities He is just as wise who asks short of this , as if he prayed the Fope to abolish the Catholic religion , or a Jew to give you all he is worth . The aristocracy have usurped the House of Commons—for what ? Just for this purposeof resisting the proper demands of the people—of maintaining and perpetuating all the evils for whose removal you pray . It is truethe people , combining on some great e uergency—driven , as it were , into this combination by lime desperate pressure—may alarm the aristocracy into > me individubl concession , as in the case of the Reform Bill . But this is a stupendous exertion , a violent and

      owvulsive sort of action in the political system , which wrests only , at the point of famine or national ruin , its own rights from the usurping party . Public opinion is said , in this country , to be the actual ruling power ; but it is a fitful and irregular power . Like the Indian , or the boa-eonstrictor , it is aroused to action only by hunger or by imminent impending danger ; at the smallest return of ease it pauses ; it becomes drowsy again , and the mischief goes on for another period . If publie opinion really rules , it should lift itself to the necessary height of command , and do its work effectually . That would save us all much trouble . There is but one perfect permanent remedy—but one means of absolute cure for our perpetually recurring evils : We must have these usurpers out of the people ' s house , and rule in it ourselves ! and this is to be done only by insisting on tbe franchise , the whole franchise , and nothing but the franchise .

      We have now gone through this work , and can conscientiously pronounce it one of the best works ever issued from the press . Since ' * Paine ' s Rights of Man" there has not appeared so formidable an assailer of the aristocratic principle ; and since the publication of the celebrated " Black Book" there has been no such exposure of aristocratic rapacity and "villainny . What William Ilowitt did for priestcraft , John Hampden has done for lordcraft , and his book will be " a heavy blow and sore discouragement" to the Raub-thiercn . We earnestly recommend this book to our readers , and those of them who cannot afford five shillings each for its purchase let them subscribe sixpences or pennies each , and by means of clubs obtain it for their instruction . No Chartist Society , or Working Men ' s Reading Room , should be at least without one copy of "The Aristocracy of England . " We are tempted to give one more extract , which we recommend to all parents and teachers of youth

      as A CATECHISM PROPER TO BE TAUGHT IN EVIRT SCHOOL . "Who laid the foundations « f our fr « e institutions , parliaments , repressntation , and trial by jury ! The old Anglo-Saxon people . Who destroyed these to a great practical extent , and rent the soil from its ancient possessors by the introduction of feudalism ! The aristocracy of the Danish-Normans . Who attempted to wring the Magna Charta from King Jo n , and failed ! The barons . Who won it ! The bowmen of England , who drove John and the barons too , and their invited French king , before them , and compelled Henry III . to give them a still better charter .

      Who tore the kingdom to pieces by cruel wars and wranglingsfor the crown , till the reign of Henry VII . ! The aristocracy . Who , meantime , cultivated the ground , originated trade , " raised the country in wealth , strength , and respect , spite of its internal aristocratic dissonance ! The people . Who trembled before the Tudori , and became their instruments even to the commission of systematic murders in Scotland and at home ! The aristocracy . Who made the Tudor Elizabeth tremble in the midst of her haughtiness , and retract her arbitrary commands ! The people in their parliament . Who joined with the Stuarts to destroy the liberties of the nation , and to rule by aTstanding army f

      The aristocrrcy . Who put down king and aristocracy , and made the first example in the world of a headless king , for the warning of bad menarchs , and the encouragement of injured nations ! The people of England . Who recalled the debauched Charles II . to this country , and bargained with him for their own profit aud the popular wrong ? The aristocracy . Who again drove the Stuarts form the throne ? The people . Who got the credit of it ! Seven bishops , whose "Diana of the Ephesians , " the church , was in danger by the king ' s plan of restoring Popery , and some dozen or two of the aristocracy , who called in the Dutch king to rule and rob him .

      Who , from that time _ to 1815 , went on spending the national funds in foreign wans , for the establishment of foreign tyrants , till the cost of bloodshed amounted to three thousand millions ! . The aristocracy . Who , meantime , ' raised the wind ! Who ploughed and sowed , dug and hoed , spun and wove , and sailed and traded , and raised England to such a pitch of power and wealth as withstood all immediate ruin , but left an awful heap of debt to look at ! Tbe people of England . Who planted America ! The people . Who lost it !

      The imbecile aristocracy . Who invented all improvements in agriculture , mechanics , and manufactures , which ingenuity produced national wealth ? Who made roads , cut canals , called into knowledge and use gas and steam ; built steam-engines snl steam-sbips ; laid down railroads and put in motion spinning-jennies and power-looms , the grand sources of our national ascendancy ! The People . Who invented the National Debt ? The Abistocbact ! 1 !

      We feel bound to notice the conduct of the public journals as regards this work . The newspapers have been dubbed the " best public instructors , " but most of them might be more truly called the " worst public misleaders . " True , some few exceptions have favourably noticed this work ; for instance , the Morning Advertiser , Nonconformist , Dispatch , Brighton Guardian , KentHerald . ' . Nottingham Review , Nottingham Mercury , and People ' s Journal ; but the great mass have passed it over in silence , as the best method of lurking it . These " best possible burkers " include all the daily press , excepting the Advertiser The Adas has denounced it as " a shocking bad book , " and the delicate sham-radical Spectator has repudiated it as " a low book ! " But this conduct

      of the press-gang towards the people ' s friends is quite in keeping with the way they treat the people themselves , witness their burking of the great Chartist meetings now being held in London and the country . The Cnwn and Anchor meeting of between two and three thousand persons ( to say nothing of the hundreds who could not gain admission ) was never even noticed in the "bloody old Times" as Cobbett well called it . The meeting of two thousand good men and true , who have sworn to have tlie Charter , last Tuesday at the Eastern Institution has also been completely burked . Well , we will yet make these rascals do us justice . If they cannot hear us , our voice shall be raised ten-fold stronger and louder , until we force these traitor-journalists to

      give us the justice of publicity . And now we take leave of this work , calling on the people to be true to themselves , and to remember , in the words of John Hampden , junior , "thatthe good and the salvation ot the world always come , and always have came , from the Hot . Christ came thence : the greatest sages and philosophers , the true founders and builders of national wealth and glory—of the power and happiness of man , have come thence in all ages . Thr Peoplr are the fruitful soil of all genius , of all imagination , of ' all constructiveness , of all valour , daring , enterprise , and success . The Aristocracy aro the mere vermin that ride in the lion ' s mane , because they have cleverly located themselves out of the reach of his paws !"

      Fatal Accident Os Boakd A Steamboat. — On

      Fatal Accident os Boakd a Steamboat . — On

      Tuesday An Inquest Was Held On The Body ...

      Tuesday an inquest was held on the body of Jolin Hurst ,. fireman on board the Little Western , Rainsgate steamer . From the evidence of Mr , Hudson , assistant surgeon on board the Dreadnought Hospital-ship , it appeared that the deceased was received on board on Monday , the 28 th ult ., suffering from severe injuries on his face . On examination it was ascertained that the bones of the face and nose were broken , and a large hole was in the skull above the nose , penetrating to the brain . A large piece of tbe bone of the skull had also entered the brain , causing inflammation , from which death ensued . John Robertson , iirst engineer on board the Little Western ,

      deposed that on the day of the accident they had made their last trip for the season , and were going to their moorings at Deptford for the winter . When off the Custom Ilouse , the engines were stopped , but they went on ahead immediately afterwards . Deceased was wiping the oil off the engines , when the crank of the shaft came in contact with his head , crushing it between the shaft and the beam . Witness did not see the accident occur , but saw the deceased falling . The engines were instantly stopped , and the nature of the injury having been ascertained they came at full speed to the Dreadnought , when deceased was put on board . —Verdict , ' Accidental deal !) , ' £ i &

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      THE DEATH OF THE DEMOCRAT . BT JULIAS' HARNEY . [ The following lines were suggested by the notice winch appeard in last Saturday ' s Star of the death ot a trerman democrat named D . IImmkg . Tho deceased was " every inch a Man ; " he acted upon the principle , "All men are brethren : " and through hte and at his death proved himself one of the heroband whom no tyrant can rule , and no priest deceive . 1

      Atr— The burial of Sir John Moore . To battle for right , and to pluck down wrong , The democrat arm'd for the struggle ; He defied the scourge of oppression ' s thong , And he laugh'd at foul priestcraft ' s juggle . With courage undaunted he fought the fight , Dnappall'dby pain or danger ; His arm was strong in the cause of right , And his heart was to fear a stranger . Struck down by the merciless dart of death , His brave spirit no priestcraft could smother . For he cheerily cried , with his latest breath " . Fear nought if you love each other . " Let justice and truth , till life ' s pulse shall cease , " Be the unfailing aim of your minsion , " And like mine , your last thoughts shall be thoughti of peace , " And jour hopes shall be bright and Elysianl "

      Though dark is the night of our present woo , There is coming a glorious morrow When the deeds of such men as our brother laid low Shall relieve mankind of their sorrow . Link'd hand with hand , we swear o ' er his grave To manfully struggle unitod , Till this earth shall be freed from tyrant and slave , And this world of wrong shall be righted . If our fate be to fall on battle-ground , For justice and freedom contending ; Or fast by the chain of the tyrant bound , Our course in captivity ending ;—Or with loving and loved ones by our side ,

      Whose heart-heaving sighs speak their mourning ; If we live as As lived , we shall die as hi died , All priestly terrors scorning ' .

      Theatre Royal, Martlebone. On Monday Eve...

      THEATRE ROYAL , MARTLEBONE . On Monday evening we had the pleasure of attending this western temple of the Muses , and sitting under the shrine of Shakspcre , 'Otway , Byron , and other celebrated dramatists so graphically depicted by the artist ' s pencil on the ceiling of the house . We witnessed the representation of that domestic drama which excited such a thrilling interest some time since at the Surrey Theatre , and which appears destined to do the same in this more western hemisphere—called "Genevieve , a romance of real life . " Mrs . Campbell , as the heroine , was all that could be desired , and sustained her well merited high reputation , as the " Prima Donna" in domestic tragedy . She was ably supported by Messrs . Cowle and Harrington in the serious portions of the drama , whilst T . Lee , Biddle and Miss Martin , kept the house in a rear in the comic

      scenes . A new farce was nest produced under the attractive name of " Miss Martin ' s Kiss , or 'T was I . " The scenes are laid in " La Belle Prance . " The plot is as follows : The mayor and commune of a French village , in order to support and reward maiden chastity , offers a prize of a wreath of white roses , together with a purse of one hundred crowns , to the maiden who shall have lived fifteen years without forfeiting her virtue , or receiving a kiss from any man . Proclamation to this effect having been made , an urn is placed on the table , from which the several papers are drawn , and the prize is declared to have been won by Georgette ( Miss Martin ) , which much raises the ire of Madam Mag ( Mrs . Lickfold ) , a maiden lady of a certain age , the village scandal-monger , who is determined to see if her tongue cannot prevent the brow

      of the fair Georgette from being graced with the chaplet of roses . The next scene is the cherry gardens of Monsieur De Lorme ( Mr . Lickfold ) , which the cottage of Madame Mag overlooks , aud in which Georgette is discovered gathering cherries on a ladder , when De Lorme enters , and commenees romping with the beautiful Georgette , and at length insist upon stealing a kiss from her lips , Madame Mag during this time being watching from the window , makes her presence known by " a hem , " much to the discomfiture of the youthful rompers , and Georgette fearing that Madame Mas will carry the intelligence of her romp with De Lorme to her faithful swaine , Marcel Margot ( Mr . T . Lee ) , a village simpleton aud gardener employed in the grounds of De Lorme , dashes dovra a beautiful rose just presented to her by De Lorme , at this moment Marcel enters with the news that

      Georgette has had the prize awarded to her . Georgette and Marcel leave to proceed to the public place , at which the chaste virgin is to receive the crown of honour , and Madame Mag , with a determination to prevent its accomplishment . In the meantime , Madame De Lorme ( Miss E , Hodson } enters , and De Lorme , to confute the scandal of Madame Mag , plays over again upon his wife the romp he had previously enacted with Georgette , much to Madame De Lorme astonishment , who declares she ban " not had such a chaste salute since the day she became a wife . " The next scene is the road leading to the "Place de Triumph , " in which Georgette is seen and heard instructing the simple Marcel in his lesson , and the reply to any accusation Madame Mag might make , which is simply that he is to answer all questions and charges , with the simple response— " It was 1 , " which , on her

      promising to be his henceforth , he undertakes to do . Proceeding onwards he meets Madame Mag , who commences her tale of scandal , that Georgette had been kissed in open day in the eherry garden , < fcc , dsc , when impelled by the dumb motions of Georgette , who has closely followed on the heels of Madame Mag , he , in the most rueful and doleful accents , exclaims , " It was I ; " but , by the arts of Madame Mag , he is thus made to criminate himself with Madame De Lorme . We now come to the " Place de Triumph , " at which the mayor , commune , baroness and villagers are assembled , to give to maiden chastity its due reward . Proclamation having been made by thecrier ( Mr . Robberds ) , to anyone who know any cause why the award should not then be made , Madame Mag steps forward , but her charge is immediatel y met by Madame De Lorme , who exclaims , "You may cease your scandal—It was I , " Madame Mag determined not to

      be wholly defeated , makes charges against the chastity ol Madame De Lorme , and insists upon Marcel Margot being called to substantiate her charges ; on Marcel ' s entree he is seized and shaken by Monsieur and MadameDu Lorme , and consequently when questioned he is found to have forgotten his lesson , and , in an affrighted tone , replies" It was not I ; " much to the relief of Georgette . Madame Mag is then declared to be the mischief-maker and scandalum magnatum of the village , and in order to secure peace and domestic bliss for the future , poetical justice is done her , she is drummed out of the village . The roseate wreath is given to Georgette , and Marcel is blessed with her hand and heart , whilst Madame De Lorme solicit another "chaste salute" from her husband . The characters were most ably sustained by Mr . T . Lee , Mia , Martin , Mr and Mrs . Lickfold , Mr . Biddle , and Miss E . Hodson ,

      Iu the course of the farce , a duett , describing the duties and joy of wedded life , was sung by Miss Martin and Mr . T . Lee , with much humour , and honoured with a unanimous encore The house was convulsed with laughter during the performance of the farce , and at the fall of tbe , ' curtain , the applause was unanimous , long and loud . The faroe cannot fail to prove a lasting card to the enterprising and justly popular lessee . The evening ' s entertainments concluded with " Th * Union Jack , " in which Mr . J , Douglass ably sustained the character of Joe Hatchway . The audience by their loudly expressed approbation declaring him to be " every inch a sailor . " The house was well attended , | and at half-price was literally a bumper .

      Mysterious Death. — On Tuesday Afternoon The

      Mysterious Death . — Tuesday afternoon the

      Inhabitants Of Brighton-Street, At. I'An...

      inhabitants of Brighton-street , at . i ' ancras , were thrown into a state of alarm , by the screaming of a female , who was calling out" Murder , " and exclaiming that her husband , Mr . John Tugday , had shot himself at his house , the Green Man beer shop . Crowds of persons assembled on the spot , and the poor woman was supported to the house in a fainting condition . On entering the skittle ground at the back part of the premises Mr . Tujjday was discovered lying on the ground presenting a horrid spectacle , his head being shattered to pieces , evidently from

      the effects of a pistol shot , and his brains scattered about the place , but a pistol was no where to be found . In the course of the day a female made herself very conspicuous , by saying it was not the act of the deceased himself , and she knew the party who shot him . Information was communicated to the police , and inquiries wore instantly made , and the woman alluded to was taken to the station house , and this matter will shortly be investigated . As far as it appears at present , this man shot himself while in a state of despondency , from his business not succeeding .

      Accident o . v inn Leeds aud Bhadfoud Railway . —On Saturday last , when one of the morning trains from Leeds for Bradford had arrived near Kirkstall Forge , the engine-driver perceived a man walking on the line at a distance of eighty yards iu advance . He immediately sounded the whistle twice , but as the man took no heed he let off the steam and reversed the motion of the engine , yet all was to no purpose * , before the train could be stopped , tho man was knocked down , and the whole of the carriages passed over him . Ilia death was instantaneous . He was a labourer employed on the line . Verdict— " Acci dental deiMx "

      Attempted Suicide bv a Female at Lo . vdo . v Bridge . —On Tuesday afternoon , an elderly , respectable individual jumped ihtS the river off the London Bridge Steam-boat Pier , whilst apparently waiting the arrival of a steamer . The assistance of boat and waterman was very speedily obtained , but before she could be reached tho steersman of a below-bridse steam-tug , culled tho rover , threw out a hook attached to a rope , by moans of which he caught hold of her dress , and hauled her on board , apparently dead , but by the means of the usually applied restoratives she ultimately recovered .

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      Prospkctivb Opbnino Of Railways.—The New...

      Prospkctivb Opbnino of Railways . —The Newcastle and Berwick , between Newcastle and Morpeth , is announced to be or ened in the early part of the ensuimr month , and the whole line is expected to be finished by February next . The bridges over the Tyne and Tweed , now in course of erection , will occupy two years at least ere they can be opened . The extension of the North Shields line to Tynemouth will be thrown open to the public in a few weeks . The Whitehaven and Harrington Railway is in so forward a state as to promise its opening for public traffic in the early part of October . The South Devon will be opened on the atmospheric principle of traction in about three months . The engines at thExeter

      e and Countess ffeir stations are completed , and have been tried ; the valves are being fixed to the tubing , and the connecting pipes for the engine will be forthwith laid down . The Bridlington Branch , of the Hull and Selby , extending from Hull to Bridlington by way of Beverley and Driffield , a distance of 31 miles , is appointed to be publicly opened on Tuesday , the Cthof next month . The Margate line , a branch of the South Eastern from Rams ^ ate is on the eve of completion , and will be thrown open to the public m a few days . The Hertford branch of the Eastern Counties was opened on Tuesday as a double line . The Bedford branch of the London and Birmingham will be completed the first week in October . —Mining Journal .

      A Ca « tio » to Omhibus Iravellbrs by Night — An old trick of the omnibus conductors has lately come in vogue , respecting the change which they give . A number of instances have occurred where a party has , on leaving an omnibus at the West-end , handed the conductor half-a-crown , upon which he immediately takes a coin from two different pockets , hands it to the passenger , jumps up on the monkeyboard , and cries "All right ; go on . " On the party looking to see if they have the right change , they sometimes find to theircost , that they onlv receive a shilling and a farthing . The principal victims are females .

      The Mekai Tunnel Suspension-dridge . — The foundation stone of this stupendous work across the Menai Straits , was laid on Friday last . The erec xf i Dr'dge is expected to occupy three years No less than 210 vessels laden with foreign merchandize and provisions of evervsort , arrived in the port of London Monday and Tuesday . Increase of Incrndiary Fires . —For the last month , scarcely a day has passed but tho principal insurance offices have received accounts from their agents , of the most disastrous incendiary fires occurring in the different parts of the country , more cs . pecially in Essex and Suffolk . In those counties barely a night passes but the country is illumined

      by the burning of agricultural propertv , and the greatest alarm now pervades these districts . The most alarming feeling naturally exists amongst the farmers of this country , and in many places they have forme' ! themselves into a society for " the better protection of their property . The village of Soham has again been the scene of an alarming fire . No spot in England has suffered so much from acts of incendiarism as this parish , and during the last four months , more than one-third of it has been consumed . The perpetrators , in some of these cases , are alledged to be mereladg of amiserab' . e half-starved appearances . Three of them have been committed to Chelmsford lor trial at the next assizes .

      Governorship op Bombay . —The Worcester Herald says that Sir Dennis La Marchant , Bart ., one of the members tor Worcester , is spoken of for the post of Governor of Bombay . Anti-Malthusianism . —The wife of a peasant at Caen , has just been delivered of three healthy male children . Two years ago she had two female children at the same birth , making fire children in the two years ' . Food for the Irish . —A statement has appeared in some of the papers that the " mills at tho Royal William "Victualling Yard were immediately to commence grinding , night and day , Indian corn for the distressed Irish . At present no corn has been ground nor has any yet arrived for grinding . Everything , however , is ready , we believe , for proceeding wi'h the grinding when any com is received . —Plymouth Journal .

      Pauperism in England and Wales—The tenth annual report of the Commissioners describes the pauperism of 1843 as "amouting to one-tenth of the population . " In their eleventh report , referring to the winter quarter ending March 25 , 1814 , the Commissioners tell us : — "The number of n-w cases in the other three quarters may be safely estimated at half a million , so that the number of persons relieved in England and Wales in the course of the parochial year 1844 may be taken at about two millions , or nearly one-eighth part of the population . " There is to us a solemnity in this announcement like that of a funeral knell , —the knell of a nation . Oneeighth part of the population of England and Wales paupers in a year of railroad activity , and with wheat at 51 s . 5 d . per quarter I To what gulf , are we hastening !

      Lieut . WArner's Loj ^ g Range . — -An officer of artillery has been selected , with the consent of both parties , to test the merit of Lieut . Warner's inventions both of the shell and long range ; the Treasury have appropriated the sum of £ 1 , 500 to defray the expenses of the experiment . Cost of the Aimr and NAvr . —Tho expenses of the Army and Navy for the present year is £ 10 . 840 , 000 , being £ 5 , 180 , 000 more than in 1835 . and this is without any reference to the interest of the Nation Debt , incurred for military expenses in

      former years . The population of the United Kingdom is now probably about twenty-two millions . The impost voted for war during the past Session is about eight shillings and sixpence on every man , woman and child in Great Britain and Ireland . The total burden upon each individual for the year , is about fifteen shillings and fotirpence ! and if to this be added each one ' s proportion of the interest for the debt produced by war , about one pound per head must still be added ; the grand total being little , if anything short of £ 40 , 000 . 000 sterling !

      A Fortunate Parish . —In the proceedings at the City revision , a curious circumstance transpired in reference to the parish of St . Mildred , Bread-street they have had no occasion to levy a rate for the las four years . It is said that there are now between 1 : 000 and 8000 journeymen tailors out of employment in London . The members of the Tailors' Society receive , in such circumstances , 88 . or 10 s . weekly . Fearful Situation- —As a pump-maker , named Bradford , at Kingston , flereforshire , was filling a bucket at a bottom of a well , a depth of twentyeight feet , the aides gave way and engulfed him ; hut in the falling of the mass , three large stones formed a sort of triangu ' ar arch over the poor fellow ' s head , and were thus the means of saving his life . Six hours elapsed before he was got out .

      Rice and Turnips a Substitute for Potatoes . —Thronghout Scotland the entire potato crop being unfit for human food , and abandoned almost wholly by all classes of society as dangerous even to be given to stock , the use of rice and turnips in equal quantities has been recommended as a wholesome , substantial , and palatable food for rich and poor , and as a substitute for potatoes . Blended together , and seasoned with butter , lard , or dripping , the compound forms a most agreeable dish , The turnips and rice should he boiled separately , and when the former are well freed of water by pressure , and thoroughly mashed , they should then bo mixed .

      Tub Daoenham Murder . —Since the verdict in the above affair was returned , a number of officers of the polico force have held frequent communications on the necessity of adopting further measures to secure , if possible , the apprehension of the parties implicated in the brutal murder of poor Clarke . The result was , that tho leaders in the movement forwarded a memorial to Scotland-yard a memorial expressive of their anxiety to procure a united expression of the sympathy of the force , by a , general subscription , for the purpose of offering a further reward for the discovery of the actors in the late tragedy at Dagenham , and requesting the opinion of the Commissioners as to the legality of such a course . A favourable answer was returned in reply , and the subscription is now in course of collection .

      Extension and Completion of tub Overland Route to India , and the Whole Eastern Archipelago . —We belive that we can safely affirm , that the East India Company have given their sanction to a line of railway across the southern continent of India , with the view of facilitating our intercourse with tho East , with China , and with our Australian possessions . The forthcoming report of Mr . Sirams suggests the necessity of intersecting the presidencies of Madras and Bombay by a line of railway , and thus

      brin » in" within a month or six weeks' journey to EnMand the most distantpossessions in the southern hemisphere . If this project be carried out , it will change the commerce of the whole world , and consolidate our vast and scattered fragments of empire into something like a tangible whole . To reach China in one month , Australia in six weeks , and to traverse the Mediterranean , the Indian Ocean , and the vast sweep of waters in the southern hemisphere in tho same space of time , may truly be said to be a grand gigantic scheme . have issued

      Short Time . —The Halifax millowners a notice , that if the operatives shall signify their desire for such an arrangement , they will commence running " short time , " and reduce the hours of labour from twelve to eleven , making a proportionate reduction of wages . ( The " Halifax millowners" are wise in their day and generation ; but tho " operatives" are wiser , aud not to be gulled by such clumsy tricks as this . Short Time , to give it fair play , must be general , and enforced by the law ! The operatives are coutent to leave the question of wages to bo settled by the general effects of such a measure . They will make no such fools' bargains as that offered by the " Halifax millowners . " !

      DieeovEiir op Human Bones . — On Saturday , as the labourers were employed digging the foundation for the new infirmary in Short ' s Gardens , at the rear of St . Giles ' s Workhouse , they discovered a quantity of human bonts and tho remains apparently

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      of coffins . The ground was formerly occupied by the & deadhouse of St . Giles ' s Workhouse , and dwelling--houses in Short ' s Gardens , and it is supposed thafrfc the remains thus discovered must be those of pcr--sons who have died and been buried within the * workhouse . ^ Exposure op Human Remains . —Throughout the * » , !?» S ? i Sunda y- great excitement and disgust p .-r- - Tailed the neighbourhood of the Caledonian-road , Js-. voMnf h lden " li > n ?> ai ) d K »« K ' 8 "road , on the disco-. J ^ tLl f , some ^ ne 3 and pieces of coffins exposed 1 in the public thoroughfares of these localitiesuudoran

      , ^ Zt ° Ti , f a m 0 it T pici 0 V s and mysterious-, character . Ihe secrecy observed in bringing the * remains to the various spots has been such L almost-i entirely to prevent the detection of the parties who . have been guilty ot this gross act . In Albion-street Caledonian-road , a-cart-load of earth was shot on Saturday in the middle of the road , which is in course ! of construction , and emitted a most disgusting effluvium , but was not noticed to contain the remains of'I human beings . The stench caused an examinationto be made , and several other portions of coffins half ! rotted and human bones were found . In Bath-street

      and River-street , two new streets in the course of T formation on the north side of the Regent ' s Canal ,, upwards of two or three waggon loads of black earth * t intermingled with human bones have been deposited I in these streets , and men have been employed to sift ; the ear h for the purpose of mixing portions of iu vrithlinie . The bones left in the sieve , composing , * all parts of tho human frame , were thrown on one i side aed partially buried under" day . Dbath op Sir Charles WoMKiBr , Bart . — T » Is ~ venerable baronet expired on the 3 rd instant , at Iubt

      seat Wolseley Hall , Staffordshire , aged 78 . He v ? as theheadof one of our oldest Saxon families , nad during his long career had ever been the champion of the people and staunch advocate of civil and reiigi"H ? , * 10 " 1 ? ? "d progress . His political con nediou . with Birmingham , and his consequent pro ecutioB » by the government of that day are still famil ' ac . Aa . a landlord , he wa « much beloved and respected . Sr . Michael ' s Mount . —It is rumoured the Queen has offered £ 55 . 000 for St . Michael ' s , Mount , but . that the sum asked is 75 . 000 .

      Nautical Facts . —The average number of wrc-uksT of . British merchant ships in a year is 600 ! Thes average sum lost above two millions and a half sterling The average of lives lost , the lamentable : number of 1 , 560 ! but the wrecks of fifteeen out of ; every twenty . ships are attributed to some incompetency or other en the part of tbe master . Railway ; Employment in Edinburoshire . —The ~ number of men at present employed in the construction of railways within the county , an d the Edinburgh Water Company's works , amounts to 3 , 509 . Of these 2 , 486 are at work on the Hawick branch of the North British Railway .

      The New Money-Order Office Aldir'Oatbhebbt . — A . very extensive building V as been erected in Aldgersgate-street . near the French Protestant Church , the internal fittings of which will be completed by Christmas next , when the wl ole businessofthe Money Order Department , at present transacted at the the General Post Office , St . 'Martin ' s-Ie-Grand , will be removed to this building which is to be styled the Chief Central Money-Order Office . , A Gam j , S H ° use recently established at Newcastle-upon-Tyno , and which proved a great temptation to the young men of the town , was forcibly entered by the police , and the money , implements of play , and keeperof thepremisessecured , and carried before the magistrates who inflicted a fine . f John Harden , pauper of the Limerick Union , died in this workhouse , a mere skeleton , from physical exhaustion , and after nine weeks' abstinence from solid food .

      The Industrial Schools . —There is an immediate prospect of industrial schools being established in Edinburgh . The British Museum . —The exterior works of this building are now in a very advanced state . Onlytwo of the Ionic columns of the peristyle , and th » completion of the pediment of the central portico , are wanting to perfect the facade of the principal front . Representation of North Lancashire . —There is some talk of requesting Sir Robert Peel to allow himself to be put in nomination as one of the candidates for the northern division of the countv , at the next election . Van Diemen ' s Land . —A vessel has arrived from Launceston , with 2 , 848 bags of wheat , and in addition to a quantity of bark and gum , 20 logs oi ' ma * hogany , the production of the colony .

      Rise in the Price of Bread . On Mondav morning all the principal bakers at the west-end " of London raised the price of their bread from 9 d . to & Ad . the 41 b . loaf . The continued rise in the price " of bread , together with the scarcity of potatoes , has caused great consternation amongst the labouring population . Quebec . —A Winter Scene . — The winter markets at "Quebec are very curious , every thing ia frozen . Large pigs , with the peculiarly bare appearance which that animal presents when " singed » htand in their natural position on their rigid limbs , or

      upright in corners , killed , perhaps , months before . Frozen masses of beef , sheep , deer , fowls , cod . haddock , and eels , long and stiff , like walking sticks , abound in their stalls . The farmers have a great advantage in this country in being able to fatten their stock ^ uring the abundance of the summer ; and . by . killing them at the first cold weather , they keep frozen , to be disposed of at their pleasure during the winter . Milk is kept in the same manner , and sold by the pound , looking like lumps of white ice . —Hochelaga .

      A Good Beginning —We have " great pleasure in stating that the funds of the Repeal Association are , for the future , to be devoted exclusively to the purchase of meal and Indian corn , which are to ba distributed amongst the poorer class of Irish . Mr . O'Connell has given notice of a motion to the above effect , and there is not the slightest doubt that , with , his powerful influence , the resolution will be carried into execution directly . The weekly rent has already risen . —Punch . _ Tight Lacing . —A learned doctor , referring totight lacLg , avers that it is a public benefit , inasmuch , as it kills all the foolish girls , and leaves all the wise ones to grow up to be women . Steeple Chase . —A steeple chase for 1000 guineas is fixed to come off on the 4 th ef November next , between Captain Wm . Peel and Mr . Hope Johnstone , over a sporting country to be selected by Lord Maidstone .

      Irub . —Cruelty to animals is one of the distinguishing vices of the lowest and basest of the people . Wherever it is found , it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness—an intrinsic mark , which all the external advantages of wealth , splendour , and nobility , cannot obliterate . A Rotal Marriage . —The daughter of the Queen of Madagascar has lately espoused a Frenchman , M . Maxirae Lepellier , who is the possessor not only of a princess , but of one of the largest beef-salting establishments in the country .

      The Scrrw . —Mr . F . P . Smith , the talented inventor of the screw-propeller , has been appointed by the Admiralty to superintend at all their establishments the fitting of the screw machinery in all vessels fitted with a screw-propeller . Odd Thefi , —Some thief obtained access to the tower ot Crowle church last week , and stole the hands from the parish clock . The Rev . Mr . Duncorabe , the vicar , has offered a reward of £ 10 for the discovery of the offender . Wild Dogs . —Dreadful havoc has been committed among the sheep flocks of Van Diemen ' s Land by wild dogs . Ono farmer has lost 2000 sheep , and another 7000 . The French newspapers state that almost all the fish this year have quitted the coast of France and betaken themselves to that of'Scotland ,

      Convent . —A convent , the inmates of which consist often or twelve sisters of charity , has been esta « blisheel in Bloomsbury . The dress of the sisters is entirely ot * black . Besides administering religious consolation , they dispense temporal necessities to the sick poor . Cheap . —A bird-catcher in the vicinity of Seven Dials , London , announces that he will provide sportsmen with birds , including powder , shot , and the use of a deg and gun , at the rate of two shillings per dozen bitds , which he will convey to the required distance . In the garden of the city prison , Lincoln , is a dahlia eleven feet high . A hop-grower of Shobdon , Herefordshire , ha » grown this year a hop measuring 7 inches long and 5 inches wide .

      Famine in Skye . —Petitions to government are getting up throughout Skye in order to give timely warning of the famine that is feared . Tho potatoes are getting worse , although in but too many places here , indeed in all , they suffered enough before to render them of little use to people , or even to animals . Herrings are also very late in making their appearance . Locusts '—A specimen of this celebrated species of insect was caught the other day in a field near Broxburn . It is about two inches in length , and altogether is very like an enlarged grasshopper , having the same long and powerful legs , and large brilliant ey « s , but with rather more brown in th © colour of the body .

      Ballooswo . —Mr . Green , the son of the famoua English aeronaut , made an ascent at Berlin , on Saturday week , accompanied by Baron d'Ohsson , the Swedish minister . After remaining up for upwards of an hour , they safely descended at about three leagues ami a half from the capital . According to the Nonconformist , the human race would be extinct in eleven years , if the genera J mortality of the human race was as great as it w ini th © English garrisons in Jamiuea , { ong ^ ,, p ° > « and elsewhere . Pleasant news this for reciuits .

      About two hundred persons have been recently vict Sed in Paris by an ingenous swindler , who cHvcred panels filled with sand . at then- houses , nd ohoril two francs for the carriage . In tho " parish of Llanogwad , North Waes , there arc throe overseers of the poor , all of whom , this i car are widows . What are the bachelors about f

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 10, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_10101846/page/3/