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1 1^12 ,1847. The Northern Star, 3
1 1 ^ 12 , 1847 . THE NORTHERN STAR , 3
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""" ' THE BATTLE . ( From The Labourer for June . ) m , ^ ar-steeds are trampling , the bayonets are bare , tad the banners of battle are red in tbe air : Hurrah ! J here nishes the flame—and there circles the smoke 1 ^ . l the army awoke—at the lond cannon-stroke . « ' 5 ow rise toyonr duty and march man by man , i < And ruin , and slaughter , and crash all you can . "Hurrah ! "For this is the glory of war 5 " fbae bends the long host in its scarlet array . « ar stretching its deluge of glitter away ; Hurrah ! trbecoirass and helmet are flaring in b * gbt ; j * y Heaven ! but it is a magnificent sight , i « battalion and squadron are moving amain ¦ rotte battery ' s song and the brawn strain . Hurrah !
For this is the beauty of war . 2 nd opposite , sullen and shadowy and vast , j jjjndmasterless , motionless multitudes massed ; Hurrah ! rpt shudder there crept through that great living wtdge . j ( 5 the first flame broke from the battery ' s edge ; jiiea all was steady and still as death , And million lungs drew one long breath : Hurrah !
For this is the moment of war > . Boa you nrght see the long streaky lines dart fhere tho shot drove right through the multitude ' s heart ; Hurrah ! And a sudden pit dug in that human floor ffhere tbe shell dropped downward and burst and tore ; And the shrieking here—and the booming there , *—Ifith a hell oa the earth and a hell in the air , Hurrah ! For this is the music of war . They stood their ground for a time like men ; Tfhere a rent was made it was closed up again ; Hurrah ! Sat every moment more thick and fell Ciae the arrowy sleet of the shot and shell , — And heads were turned backward and cries grew loud . And they swept away like a greatblack cloud . Hurrah ! For this is the panic of war .
Then at once all the thousand battalions enlarge , As that army pours down its magnificent charge ; Hurrah ! And the fugitives stand in their panic aghast , like stubble mown down by die great ; kingly Hast ; Wild bursts the loud cheer—but , destroyers , beware ! Here cometh that leader » f leaders ;—Dispaib ! Hurrah 1 For this Is the crisis of war . And the peeple are turning and standing at hay Jihind ramparts of dead—a brave garrison they ! Hurrah ! $ fow , Courtier ! your plumes sbsuld be wings in your need , And , Knight of St George ! give the spurs to your steed Tom * bright silken bravery scatters the plain like gossamers strewn by the round summer-rain . Hurrah ! For this is thn triumph of war .
At the close of the day when the tempest was laid , treat masses were moving about in the shade ; Hurrah ! Aad broke o'er the field abroad deluge of light , Asd a thunder was thrown on the pause of the sight ; Ibey clanged all their cannon , and prophets were they Of ages of peace beneathldberty ' s sway ! Hurrah ! For that was the ending of war . Erhiit Jokes .
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IIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE . Juke . London : Simmonds and Ward , Barge Yard , Bucklersbury . The present number of this nseful magazine contains the usual amount of interesting matter , on a variety of subjects connected with our colonial emlire . The most important articles are those on "SierraLeone ; " " The Manufactore of Sugar ;" "Statistics of Van Dieman ' s Land ; " "Discoveries in Australia ; " and " Colonisation and Currency . ' . ' We must not omit notice of onr old friend Sampson troum , whose Cockneyish . and . withal , humourous
letters , descriptive of « - Life in the Jungle " of Ceylon , are sufficiently amusing . The article on "Colonisation and Currency , or what might be done with the Waste Lands of Ireland , " is one of the " signs of the times ; " another proof that the conviction is becoming general that the restoration of the people to the land , and the land to the people , is the great step necessary to be taken to accomplish the amelioration of the condition of . the masses . This article , is particularly curious and interesting , Bot only on the ground of its merits , but also because ofits appearance in a magazine devoted to Colonial interests . ^ and , consequently , a favourer of extensive emieration .
Re People's Journal Part Xvii. London: J...
Re People ' s Journal Part XVII . London : J . Bennett , C 9 , fleet-street . Articles of a very superior character , with illustrations eqnallv good , combine to make this part a very good specimen of " The People ' s Journal . " In another column we have given an important article , extracted from this part , on "Small Farms and Spade Husbandry . " Amongst the most interesting f the contents we notice a paper on "Manchester , fcvHepworthDixon ; "Social Problems ; " "
Sanitary Legislation ; " and the "Treatmentof Crime , " By Loid Nueenfc . Joseph Mazzini contributes an article on "Nationality and Cosmopolitism . " The article contains opinions we must dissent from . Both Communism and Fourierism find defenders in this part against the assaults of Mr Mazzini . A jess poetical , or more rational defender of Communism , than Uoodwyn Birraby , is sadly wanted to make Communism understood . Is there no " competent person" to undertake the task ? What saji the Editor of the Seasoner ?
An excellent poem , entitled "The Little Moles , " by Charles Mackay , we must find room for in an early number .
The Family Herald.—Vol. Iv., Part 49. Lo...
The Family Herald . —Vol . IV ., Part 49 . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . The fourth year ' s collected numbers of this pnhlieation make up a goodly and handsome volume , well worthy of taking its stand by the side of its three year's predecessors . In the course of the past twelve wraths we hate so repeatedly asserted and exhibited the worth of the contents of this volume as to render any lengthened remarks now perfectly unnecessary . Suffice it to say , that for original criticism and aound taste the volume of the " Family Herald , " just completed , is inferior to no current publication , and , indee-l . in many respects is unrivalled as an instructor and entertainer of " The Million . " We can eaascienticusly recommend this volume as a valuable addition to the library of every man , be he rich or poor . As regards price , it is , we believe , the cheapest of the cheap ; but its cheapness is its least recommendation .
Part 49 is tbe first part of a new volume , which has csmmenced in a manner well worthy of the chancier of tills publication , provins that the resources of the " HeraldV conductors are inexhaustible . The essays by the editor are as original , suggestive , and curious as ever ; and the romances , tales , and miscellaneous utilities , and jocularities are equally good in their way . The commencement of anew volume affjrds readers a favourable opportunity for forming a direct acquaintanceship with the "Family Herald , " and judging ( of ita merits ) for themselves .
Be Jsdhmd Florist. — June, Nottingham. R...
Be JSdhmd Florist . — June , Nottingham . R . Sutton . London : Simpkin , Marshall andt / 0 . We are glad to note the success of this publication , asevidencedby the fact that the present isa double number ; a proof that the demand for the information it supplies is greater than can be . provided within the limits of the space and price originally faced oy tiie editor . This month ' s number is a valuable ax-Bennyworth for any one who has a garden and desires its proper cultivation . The " Midland Florist is another proof of the advance of that public opinion which aims at relieving the masses from the unmuisatedslaverv of the manufacturing system . * ora
longtime nasUhepeople of this country "naveerrea and strayed like lost sheep " from the bountiful lap of nature ; the re-action has now commenced , and most terminate in the return of large masses of the people to ihk LASB , not as feudal serfs as of yore , batas cultivators in their own right , and eBjr . yers of thosohlessings which nature , with their help of their own strong arms , will provide tor them . Speed the day .
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fte MneS * Locate—Edited ** W" Da Jane . Is ! eof Man : Daniells . 4 , Post Office-place , Douglas . Several ariitks of more than ordinary importance to miners arc contained in this number . We particularly notice the articles on CWara Addison s " Plan for preventing the loss of life ra coal *» " <* . " Mr Commissioner Treraenheere ' s Report ; l ne -Miner ' s Deputation to London ; " and a very praiseworthy show-up and cut-np of that " ph ilanthropic humbug , that sentimental bastard son of Vulcan , that Sara Slick thorn Elibu Burritt . This week or next , sccording as we may have room , we shall § ootc several things from this number of the " A 0 / 0 " eate ; " a publication whi li , as a most earnest , faithful , and able representative and defender of the interests of the slaves of the mine , deserves their undivided and hearty support .
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Mackenzie ' s RaZvoay Monthly Time and Fare Taties * Advertiser and Stranger ' s London Guide . —London £ : Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street . Each succeeding number of this most isefnl sheet exhibits improvements upon its predecessor ; for instance , in the present month ' s number the traveller may at one glance satisfy himself as to the route from London to Eihnbur-rh . the moment of time he will reach that city , and the exact fare b y the several modes of conveyance . This information could not be obtained in any other Railwav Guide , without consulting a bewildering mass of " tables , better calculated to mystify than inform . " Thoenormous success of this penny sheet is well deserved ; it is to the interest of the public that its circulation should distance that of all competitors .
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MARINO FALIERO . Do not- the following words apply to a cla « s nearer our own time and our own homes than the Venetian aristocracy of 1355 ? - do they not picture the past and present of the English aristocracy ? Bstttr biiw dawn befors the Hun , and call A Tartar lord , than these « wo ! n silk-worms masters . Tie first at least was man , aad used his sword As sceptre : tbsse nnnjinlj creeping things Command our swords , and role us with a word As with a spell . In the assembly of the conspirators Birirau , who subsequentl y through weak-mindedness betrays his confederates , pleads against the universal massacre of the aristocrats , and says that There might be some , whose agt and qualities Might mark them tut for pity . To this appeal Calssdaro replies in the following glorious and unanswerable outburst : —
Yes , such pity As when the riper hath been cat to pieces . The separate fragments quireiing in the son , In the last en-rgy , o £ vcnomous lift , Deserve aad have . Why , I should think as iss * Of pitying some particular fang which made One in th * jaw of the swoln serpent , as Of saviag «¦• of these ; th § y form bat links Of one long chain ; one mass , one breath , one body They eat , aad drink , and live , and breed together , Revel , and lie , oppress , and kill in caatsrt , — So let them die as sue .
Daoollno enforces the same arguments-Should ens tarrire , Be weald he dangerous as tbe wbo } e ; it is not Thsirnamber , be it teas or thousands , but The spirit of this aristocracy Which must he rosttd ont ; and if there were A single shoet of the old tree in life , 'T wonld fasten in the soil , and spring agaia To gleomy verdure and to bitter fruit . * * * It is tbe cauis , and notour will , which asks Such actions from ear hands : we'll wash away All stains in freedom ' s fauatain .
_ The Doge shrinks at first from consigning the entire of his own class to destruction . His conscientious scruples are- thus answered by Israel Bbrtdccio , chief of tbe conspirators : — Ten have seen blood in battle , shed it , both Tour own and that ef others ; eta yoasbriak then From a few dropsfrom veins ef hoary vasspires , Who but giro back what they have draia'd from millitBSt Subsequently at . ( the moment fixed for the outbreak , when the Doge is left alone in his chamber in the Ducal palace—his nephew having left him to sound the great bell of St Mark ' s , the signal of the insurrection—the old can in his soliloquy thus decides thequeation above discussed : —
What Are a few drops of human blood ! 'tis false , The Wood of tyrants is not human , they , Like to incarnate If oloebs , feed on oars , TJutil ' tis time to give them to the tombs Which they have made so populous . When all has failed , and the conspirators having been arrested , and put to the torture , are , finally , brought up for judgment , the following colloquy ensues between Bexistesdi . the chief of the Council of Ten , and Israel Beritjccio : — Bin . — -Say what was your motive ! I . Bex . . Janice ! Bes . What
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I . BlE . —So my life grows : I Was bred a soldier , not a senator . Bes . —Perhaps you think by this blunt brevity To brave y onr judge * to postpone the sentence f I . Baa . —Da yon be brief as I am , and , believe ma , I shall prefer that mercy to yonr pardon . Bek . —Is this your sole reply to the tribunal t I . Bis . —Go ask year racks what tbey have wrong from ns Or place us there again , we hare still some blood left . And some slight sense of pais in these wreneh'd limbs :
Bnt this ye dare not do ; for if we die there—And you have left us little life to spend Upon your engines gorged with pangs already—Ye lose the public spectacle , with which Ton would appal yonr slaves to forth er slavery t Groans are not words , nor agony assent , Nor affirmation troth , if If store ' s sense Should overcome the soul into a lie , For a short respite—most we bear or die t Bes . — -Say , who were your accomplices t I . Baa . — Tbe Senate ! Ben . —What do you mean f I . Bit ——— Ask of the suffering people , Whom your patrician crimes have driven to crime
Philip Calssdaro » next questioned , and ex * pressing his contempt for his judges is threatened with renewed application of the torture to make him rep ' y to the questions of the court ; on which he asks— Will my avowal on your rack Stand good in law f Ben . --- ——— Assuredly .
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Gal . —* ¦ Whoe ' er The culprit be whom I accuse of treason f Bin . — -Without doubt , he will be brought up to trial . Cat ,. —And on this testimony would b » perish f Ben . —So your confession be detailed and full He will stand here in peril of his life . Cal . —Then look well to thy proud self , President ! For by tbe eternity which yawns before me I swear that thou , and only thou , shall be The traitor I denonnce upon that rack , ¦ If I be stretched there for the second time . The brave conspirators are doomed to instant death and ordered to be gagged . * to prevent them addressing the people . The wretched Bebthak , compelled to appear as a witness against his comrades , as they are about to be led to execution , solicits them to pardon his fatal weakness : —
Say yoa forgive-me , though I never can Retrieve my own forgiveness—frown not thus ! I . Baa . —I die and pardon thee ! Cal . —( Spittingat Mm ) I die and scorn thee ! The Doge ia next brought forward to hear and meet his doom , and comports himself with all the death and pain-defying majesty which waste be anticipated from the character of his previous life . The last scenes with his wife and judges are not to be easily effaced from the memory of the reader . The Doge ' s final address , in which he prophesies the fate of Venice , is fearfull ) eloquent and sublimely terrible . The whole is too lengthy for extract , we give the conclusion : — * # * * When Smiles without mirth , and pastimes without pleasure , Youth without honour , age without respect , Meanness aud weakness , and a sense of woe Gaia ' st which thou wilt not strive , and lor ' st sot
murmur , Haremsds thee last and worst of peopled deserts , Then in the last gasp of thine agony , Amidst thy many murders think of mine ! Thou den o . 'drankards with thS blood of princes ! fleheaa of the waters ! Thou sea Sodom ! Thus I devote thee to the infernal gods ! Thee and thy serpent seed ! IHsre the Doge turns and addresses Ihe £ woutwne \] Slave , do thine office ;
Strike as I struck the foe ! Strike as I would Have struck those tyrants ! Strike deep as my curie ! Strike—and but ance ! In 1355 Mar iso Faubro and his compatriots perished beneath the hands of executioners . Feur hundred and sixty-five years subsequently a g lorious poet , born in a strange land , but by sympathy * ' akin to all the universe , " rises up to avenge them ! Verily , " They never fail whe dia Ia a great cause !"
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Plato observed that the minds of children were like bottles with very narrow mouths ; if yon attempt to fill them too rapidly , much knowledge wan wasted and little received . The glory of treat men ought always to _ be measured by tho means of which they have availed themselves in its acquisition . There is no disguise that can long conceal love where it does exist , or feign it where it does not . It is reported that Alfred Tennyson has a new P ° An American paper has this advertisement : " Two sisters want watting . " . , ., . . * The camel is the only animal that cannot swim . Pis -m extraordinary fact , that the moment itloses its ! oottn < uu a stream it turns over and makes no effort to prevent itself from being drowaed .
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T . S . DUNCOMBE . M . P , ( From The Sm , » f June 7 th , )
Throughout the whole of his parliamentary career Thomas Slingsby Duncombe has proved himself to b»—in word and act , ia heart l and soul—a Tribune of the People . Among all the distinguished Reformers of our generation he is conspicuous as about tho most consistent and the most chivalrous , xlence it IB that Mr Duncombe hasacquiredsuch universal popularity ; hence it isthat in all the mutations of political partizanship , in all the fluctuations of public sympathy , and in all the ' changes of the supreme government , his name has continued to be the object of national respect , and in a ereat measure too of national affection . Even the nickname which has fallen upon hire in the excitement of electioneering enthusiasm , and
which sticks to him like a burr , is in some sort a tolerable indication that he is a favourite with the multitude . "The Finsbury Pet . ' But Thomas Duncombe is more than the Finsbary Pet : he has . by his courageous and unflinching conduct as a liberal legislator , ensured for himself the admiration of every sincere and earnest lover of constitutional Reform . Both as a parliamentary debater and as an advocate of those whoseextremelowlinesadeniesthem all except such generous and spontaneous assistance as that continually bfiorded by the hon . gentleman the member for Finsbury—as an assiduous committeeman , and as one whose name is perpetually recurring in the division lists , Mr Duncombe is eminently entitled to the enviable consideration he has nowfor
a considerable period enj ,. ye . . On Thursday evening last , in the course of his luminous and masterly speech upon Convict Discipline , Sir G . Grey paid a ' deserved tribute at once to the judgment and the humanity of Mr Duncombe . We were ourselves particularly gratified with these observations of the Home Secretary , from a vivid recollection of the circumstances to which they referred , as well as from a consequent remembrance , that in regard to those very circumstances the honourable representative of Finsbury had received a rather churlish and supercilious rebuff from the government . Indeed , the complimentary allusions of Sir G . Grey can scarcely be considered as other than an act of expiation , or , perhaps , weshould say of compensation ,
for the unmerited manner in which his original proposition was received . It cannot be forgotten lhat we are referring to the terrible narrative of cruelties and brutalities detailed in the House of Commons by the hon . member for Finsbury several months back , and which narrative he declared to be a by no means exaggerated description of the conduct habitually practised by the subordinate officers to the wretched criminals incarcerated in the hulks . It cannot be forgotten , because the miseries depicted by Duncombe on that occasion produced throughout the country the liveliest feelings of horror and indignation , nor cannot by possibility have escaped the recollection of the public that notwithstanding thehon . representative for the metropolitan borough adjured the
eovernment to investigate the circumstances which he declared to be of continual recurrence in the hulks , and to discover , by the inquiries of intelligent commissioners , whether or no his allegations were founded in truth or misrepresentation , his demand was rejected , his assurances were slighted , and it was even determined that no Hulks Committee should be constituted , because it was maintained , forsooth , that inquiry implied an anticipatory conviction of guilt ! Upon these frivolous and erroneous grounds Mr Buncombe ' s very rational and humane demands were rejected , and so the matter continued apparently in abeyance until her Majesty ' s Secretary for the Home Department explicitly acknowledged , on
Thursday evening , that the fullest investigation had been made into the declarations of the hon . gentleman , and that after a cursory glance at the voluminous reports transmitted for his examination by Captain Williams , "he had no hesitation in saying that there was ample ground for many of the statements which had been broughtforward as to the abuses existing in the hulks . " With such an amende honourable Mr Duncombe must be personally satisfied ; but we doubt not but that in his generous estimation the parties principally aggrieved in the transaction are the convicts themselves , and that to thase convicts , therefore , the administrative assistance should be immediately directed .
Beyond the gratification that mu-t he experienced by the hon . gentleman the representative of Finsbury , at the prospective prevention of the cruelties inflicted upon th ;> se unfortunate wretches whose temporary homes are the hulks , must be the consolatory reflection that in time those hulks may be altogether tenantlesj . Earnestly , then , do we congratulate Mr Thomas Slingsby Duncombe upon the eulogistic remarks which fell on Thursday evening from the lips of the Home Secretary . Those expressions embodied in their very brevity and simplicity a pantgyric upon the Parliamentary career of the member for Finsbury ; and in such a panegyric we are certain that the multitude will coincide with cordiality , for Thomas Slingsby Duncombe is—and deserves to be—a national favourite .
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WEsnassrER Mektal Improvement Socreir . — The discussion on the Government Plan ot Education was resumed on Saturday evening , June 6 th , at the Temperance llall , Broadway , Mr Cathie in the chair . Mr Stall wood reviewed the arguments ad * vsneed by tho several speakers on the previous evening , and concluded by avowing his preference of a secular over a religious education , and a State education in preference to one left entirely to the voluntary principle , as it was quite evident , so long as the latter principle prevailed , an immense number of the people would remain uneducated altogether . —Mr Cathie said , as regarded scriptural education , he did not think some of his predecessor ' s arguments would go for much . Taking Chambers' statistics for bis
guide , he was justified in stating that the Irish people , with all their superstition , were better educated , or , in other words , th ; re were not so many uneducated , in proportion to their numbers , as there were in England . —Mr Brocms said he had asked the previous speaker , when be was alluding to the writings of Percy Byshe Shelley and Byron , to point out the inelegam-y ot'dictv n , or the immorality , contained in the works of th se authors , ' but Mr Cathie had failed to produce a single quotation ; but he would tell them , or rath r . give them , one strong argument against scriptual education—it certainly did not inculcate kindn ° : B of feeling , as did the writings of Percy Byshe Si eV . ey . He contended that no government had any right to educate the people
in either politics or theo ' ojy . The teacher ' s duty wm simply to give the inliments , and leave the pupils to find theolozy and politics for themselves , lie emphatically denied tl e right of any government , or any ona else , to teach the infant mind either Christianity or materialism—prose ' ytism was not their business . As maturity dawned , truth would force itself on the human mind ( Loud cheers ) . — Mr Trunible said he entirely differed with the last speaker , as he contended it was the duty of a father to find food for his child's mind , quite as much as it was to clothe his body or feed his stomach , aud , looking on the governme ; t in a paternal sense , he thought it equally its duty to see that the country ' s laws ware wisely and justly administered .
Notwithstanding the defects of the government plan of education , he could not altogether support voluntaryism , as he found , in the midd e of the nineteenth century , large numbers of the peo le still without educationstill plunged in the very depths of ignorance . He thought the government guilty of tyranny when it undertook to give education to Protestants , and refused it to Catholics . Jews , and those they pleased to denominate Heretics ( Loud cheers ) . For his part , he would appro ! riate the revenues tf the Church , and with them e lucate the people . To use the langnai > o of Dr HoOa— " Better have an impoverished hierarchy than an immoral , uneducated people" ( Great applan e ) . —Mr Bowler said , when he first went to Liverpool he found a Liberal corporation
in existence ; that c r ; ontion adopted a system of education in the school * , that all creeds partook of ; but , alas ! a bigoted corporation succeeded , and reverted to narrow sectarianism : the consequence was , that the consciences of tie parents constrained them to keep their childien from school . Did not this apeak loudly in favour of a secular system of education ? ( Cheers . ) He contended that , as all were compelled to pay towards the government scheme of education , so should all be allowed to partake without prejudice ; and he knew of no better plan of preventing religious feuds , and creating a kindly fraternal feeling , than to permit of all being educated together , which could only be done under a secular
system of education ( Loud cheers ) . The evils of a religious education were but too apparent . Had sectarianism not led to burnings , bloodshed , and destruction of human lives innumerable ? ( Hear . ) Secular education was the plan to create £ Oid feeling , peace , and happiness ( Loud cheers ) . —Alter a few words from Mr Tilling , Mr Walford replied , refuting very cleverly the arguments put forth in opposition to his opening speech . The meeting was then adjourned until Saturday ( this evening ) , June 12 th , at eight o ' clock precisely , whan MrStallwood will open the following question : " The Merits of the several Candidates aspiring to the honour of representing Westminster in Parliament . " . _
Singular Incrbask or Gbaik . —Lord Kenyons lodge-keeper , in the autumn of 1815 , sowed one grain of wheat in grass land j the produce from this was Ci 5 grains ; these were re-sown that autumn , gram by grain , on a space of ground eight yards by forty one , these produced in 1816 a bsautiful crop , amounting to ten quarts ; theje were also sown grain by grain the same year , and when reaped and cleaned in September last , the produce was nine measures and a half , thirty-eight quarts to the measure . What does Mr M althus say to this ? Does the principle ot p a pulation proceed in the same geometrical ratio ?—From an Old Nenupaper . The inhabitants of " Stony Batter , " near Dublin , have applied to the street commissioners for leave to change the name of that locality to " Palmerston Place , " as the value of their proprrty has been lessened by tho oldncss of the former designation .
Philosophy triumphs easily over evils passed , and evils to be ; but present evils triumph over philosophy . I
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Havingat lastfinished with " the Chambers '" and pretty well finished them by convictiiig them of tlse grossest inconsistency , the .. 'rounds nf . il proofs of the conviction being furnished by themselves ; having proved on their own evidence the immense advantages of tile smalt farm system , and the capabilities of that system to ensure the comfor t- and happiness of the cultivators of thesoi ! , —we may now without further notice consign W . ft , or at least the productions of his pen , to that nameless place which hia initials direct to . This column being now at liberty for other matters , we this week commence the
carrying out of an idea we have entertained for some time past . . Beitkiiowfitlicntoout'rendeti ? , tlmtwt ; purpose to cive weekly a column of" extract" from some useful book , of a character wi km la ted Cm instruct the inquirer ; not oraitthigUio design of combining as far as possible entertainment uitli instruction . We shall not confine ouraelviw to any patticularbranchofliteraturebtitslinllcndeavotii'to " cull the choicest" from all books coming under our notice . We purpose to extract liberally from the works of that great Englishman , William Ct-bbett . We shall have an eye to tha wants ol' our Laud readers , and occasionally give a column of matter useful to the farmer , gardener , and housewife .
We last week promised to give an extract from certain astounding revelations contained in recent numbers of Howitt ' s Journal , unvi-j ^ n-i some of the dark crimes of one of the debatable princes ol Germany . The following is the ' promised extract : — CASPAE HAUSER , THE nEREniTAtV PRINCE or BADEN . Kaspar , or Caspar Hnuser , the Nuremberg foundling , wasebserved in the evening of Whit-Won day , th' - 2 G : ! i of May , 1828 , standing against tho wall in tint Unsclilltt market-place . The citizen , an inhabitant of th « marketplace , who first observed him , was struck by his singular appearance . It was that of a peasant youth , clad in thv peasant costume , and holding in his hand a letti-r addressed to the captain of the fourth squadron of thi :
sixth regiment of ltjeht horse , lying there . Bfing conducted to Wm by this i * ootl citiz'in , am ! questioned by him who and what he was , it bscame evident that he was almost wholly incapable of sprech , was thorough ! - ignorant of everything in life , and strange in his belia . vioiir . To all questions he answered , " From Rrgcns . burg , " or " Job , tosais nit , " in the di .-. lect of Bavaria , " 1 don't know ;¦ '' and yet on pen and ink being put before him , he wrote in a tolerably legible bund , his nnrae , '• Kaspar Hauser . " All endeavours to draw from bini , however , whence he came , where Ire had lived , or any other matter connected with himself , were rain . He appeared to be from sixteen to seventeen rears of age . He was of middle size , broad-shouldered , and of a perfect regulrrity of build . His skin was white and Hue ,
bis limbs were delicately moulded , his hands small and beautifully formed ; and his feet , which were as softia texture and finely shaped as his hands , bore not tho slightesttrace cf having been compressed in shoes , Hv showed the utmost abhorrence of all food or drink , except dry bread and water . His speech was confined to a very few words , or sentences in tbe old Bavarian dialect , as "Seuta toahn , wie met Vottt Wahn is : " " I wish to be a trooper , as my father was . " He exhibited tho most utter unacquaintanee with the commonest objects and most daily appearances of nature , and a total indiffrr * ence to the comforts and necessities of life . In his wretshed dress was found a handkerchief marked K . H . ; and he had also in his pocket a manuscript Catholic
prayer book . The writer of the letter which be bad brought in his hand , professed to be a poor labourer , and the father often children , and said that the boy had been left by his unknown mother at bis door ; that he had taken him in , and brought him up secretly , teach , iug him reading , writing , am * . Christianity , The letter was dated 1828 , from the Bavarian frontiers , but the place not named . Within it was another letter , i mporting to be from the mother , and written in Roman characters , saying that the boy was born on the 30 th of April 1812 ; that his mother was a poor maiden , who could not support him , and bis father a soldier in the sixth regiment of light horse , now dead . That she requested the labourer to keep him till he was seventeen , and then seni him to the regiment .
The whole of the story was soon felt to hang very badly together . It was not likely that a mother , detirmining to expose her child , would lay it at the door of a poor labourer witli ten children , and expect him to keep it sevsnteen years . It was less likely thut any poor la bourerin such circumstances could or would so faithfully support a burden of this kind for so many years , and then so punctually convey him to tho place appointed . Besides , what metive could the man have for concealment ! The mother might have , but what could the poor labourer have ! If he had received the child , he would most likely have let him run about with his own ten . But to shut him up in a dark den , and there for seventeen years feed and visit him , was a piece of labour and mjstery which no common labourer would ml . ject himself to . There was evidently a nobler pnrenuiro , and another story , for which this was but a clumsy substitute .
He was handed over by the cap ' nin of horse to the police the very evening that he was found , and he was treated by them as a helpless person from some unknown place . The greatest curiosity was excited regarding him , as soon as tliecase was known , and BurgermeisterBinder especially exerted himself to penetrate the mjstery which surrounded him . The result of much inquiry , partly from himself , and partly from circumstantial evidence , was , that he had been kept from his childhood in a dark , subterranean place , where hecould not once stretch htm . self properly , it was so small , and there he had remained clad only in a shirt and trousers , and fed on bread and water Occasionally he was attacked with very heavy
sleep , and on awaking from these peculiar sleeps he found that his clothes had been changed , his nails cut , and the place bad been cleaned out . His only amusement was playing with two wooden horses . For some time , however , before ho was carried off to Nuremberg , the man who tended him , but whose face he never saw , had corns frequently into his cell , bad guided his hand in writing with a pencil on paper , which had delighted him very much , and had taught him to say he would be a soldier as his father had been ; that he was from Regensberg ; and " I don't know . " At length * ' the man , " as ho always called him , came one night , carried him out cf bis dungeon , made him try to walk , on which he fainted , and at last brought him to the gate of Nuremberg .
Every circumstance testified to tho truth of these factp . He stumbled slowly forward in attempting to walk . He appeared to have no guidance or control of his limbs . His feet , which had never been used to boots , were now thrust into them , and evidently gave him tbe greatest torture . Walking occasioned him to groan and weep . His eyes could not bear the light , but became inflamed ; and the formation of the bones and muscles of his legs demonstrated that he had sate all his life along . At first he had no idea whatever of the qualities of things ; nor of distances . He was delighted with the flame ef a
candle , and put his finger into it , At the police office ho exhibited so symptoms of interest in anything , of confusion , or of alarm . Feigned cuts were made at him , and . thrusts , but he did not even wink in consequence . The sound of bells made no impression on him ; but on drums beating neav . bto ) *>« was Vhrwri into oonvnkiong . © From tho police-office ho was removed to tho prison for vagabonds and beggars . Here tbe keeper at first regarded him as an impostor , but soon found him actually to be in tho state of a little child ; aad the jailer ' s children played with him , and taught him to speak .
The public curiosity regarding bim and his story grew , and numbers flocked from all sides to see bim . They brought him toys . Ton Feuerbach visited him after he had been considerably more than a month in Nuremberg , and found his room stuck all over with prints and pictures which had been given him , and money , playthings , and clothes lying about in regular order , which every night he packed up , and unpacked and arranged every morning . He complained that the people teased him ; that he had head-aches , which he bad never known in his cell .
• On the 18 th of July he was released - from tho prison , and given into the care of Professor Daumer , who under , took to bring him up and educate him ; and ' an order rr is issued by the magistrates that ho should not be interrupted by any more visitors . Here being shown a beautiful prospect from a window , ho drew back in terror ; and when afterwards he bad learned te speak , and was ashed why be did se , he said it was because a wooden shutter seemed to have been put close before his eyes , spattered all over with different colours . His sense of smell was most acute , and often gave him great agony . Ho could not bear to pass through or near a churchyard , because the effluvia , unperceived by others , affected him with horror . He was extremely amiable , and attached himself with the utmost affection to the Professor and Mrs Daumer .
On the 17 th £ Octeber he was found bleeding , and insensible , from a dreadful wound in the forehead , Id a cellar . He was supposed to be dead ; but he finally re * covered , and stated that " the man" had entered the house in the absence of the family , having his face blacked , and had wounded him ; how he got into the cellar lie could not tell , In his delirium he had often said , " Man come—don't kill me . 1 love all men—do no one anything . Man , Hove you too . Don't kill—why man kill !" Strict official inquiry was made into thecircuantanees , but no further light was thrown upon them . It was evi . dent , however , that some diabolical mystery hung over him . There wore powerful enemies somewhere , and it was now evident that they had taken alarm . The public curiosity had spread far and wide the fame of this strange youth , and it was evident that he might yet re *
collect things which might lead to a detection of his origin . Amongst those who now became deeply interested in him was Lord Stanhope , who undertook the whole charge of his education , and remeved him to Auspach . Ilerehe wns placed for awhile as clerk in the registrar ' s office of the Court of Appeal ; and ho was quietly performing his duties when Lord Stanhope began to talk of adopting him and bringing bim to England . This most probably scaled his fate ; for one evening , December 14 , 1833 , as he wns returning from the offic * , a stranger ac costed him in the street , and on pretence of giving him news from Lord Stanhope , and iatclligenco regarding his origin , induced him to accompany him into the castle gardens , where he suddenly stabbed him in th * left side . Hauser had strength enough te reach hopie , and to utter a few indistinct words , when he fainted , The police were instantly summered , but before tber arrived
Havingat Lastfinished With " The Chamber...
Kaspar Hauser was dead , Ko trace of themurderei oouW bo found . The belief throughout Germany is , that the nnfor * tunate Caspar Hauser wasjhe truo heir of the throne of Baden , a son of the Graad-DiilcR Karl and the adopted daughter of Napoleon , Stonlinnie Tascher . In his \ Journal , William ijowiit gives conions ntmii Irom a certain German workpublishedsecretly , which extracts , accompanied by a mass of circumstantial evidence , strongly bears out the popular bsliel of the German people respecting Hauser . Furthermore , the horrible persecution and final assassination or Hauser is shown to have been but one of a
series of crimes , almost equall y revolting , committed by the same parties . The celebrated Bavarian judge , Von Feuerbach , deputed by the king of Uavaria , instituted a rigid inquiry concerning Caspar Hauser , but was compelled to close that report in tho following remarkable words i— " There are circles ' of human society into which the arm of justice darts not penetrate ] " Feuerbach , nevertheless , continued his individual scrutiny into this mysterious history , and it was said had mads curious discoveries , whicii ho was likely ono day to publish . This , however , was prevented by the timely and sudden death of Feuerbach . " His relations seem to entertain but little doubt of the nature of his fatal disease !"
The entire of this strange history , which would occupy the best part of n page of this paper , will be found in numbers 19 . 20 and 21 of Jfow ' M ' s Journal , and tiluo the Part ( No . 5 ) for June . To that publication we refer the curious , who will find therein new weapons for the war against Kingcraft .
I Eisii Portrait Of Daniel O'Connell. A ...
I EISII PORTRAIT OF DANIEL O'CONNELL . A most rcmnrkablo , if not extraordinary , letter appears in the Nation , of Saturday last . J > , is from the pen of the celebrated Father Kenyon , and is addressed to the editor as one of the accredited leaders . of the loting Ireland party . The rev . gentleman upens his battery with a fierce denunciation .. f , and protest against , a resolution proposed by Mr Smith 0 ' Btien at a recent meeting of tho counci I ol the ' ' Confederation , " pledging the body to join in a national demonstration of honour to tho remains of M r O'Conncll-a course altogether repugnant to t . lio feelings of the writer , for the reasons hereinafter stated , without reserve or qualification , or " mincing of the matter " : —
'' Your weeds of mourning and Mr O'Brien ' s resolution imply and express that Mr O'Connell ' s demise has been a great tos » to Ireland , and that a tribute of National r « spoct ia due to hi *; remains . I do not believe in the truth of tbe tact ; I deny the justice of the debt . " Mr O'Connell ' s death , in my deliberate opinion , has been no less whatever to the Irish nation . On tbe contrary , I think that Mr O'Connellhas been doing before his deat !' , and was likely to continue doing as long as he might live , very grievous to Ireland ; so that I account his death rather a gain than a loss to the country . He was the vaunted leader , the prime , mover , the head and front , tbe life and soul of a system of policy at once so servile and despotic , so hollow and so corrupt , so
barefacedly hypocritical and dreadfully demoralizing , that the very organs of the government ta which it pander ? d lauRlied it into scorn . That his ' slavish minions , his selfish followers , or his deluded dupes , should have deemed his death a loss , I was prepared to learn ; but that the Irish Confederates whom he intuited , spurned , and would have hanged—the representatives of the manhood of the nation which he had degraded into brutish beggary—lhat these should adopt the error , and make it tbe foundation of a further and more fatal mistake , this was an event for which I was utterly unprepareda midnight inundation from which I know not where * o hope for shelter . All seems confusion , and it is intensely dark .
It you justly respect a man , he must be respectable in his totality . If a nation justly respects bim , he matt be a benefactor , a blessing to that nation . O'Connell it not * s « ch . He bofooled this country before bis dttth , and he die ^ politically impenitent . Ireland , therefore , owes him nothing but forgiveness . If she gives him more , and to the extent to which she shall give him more , then in that proportion will she unsettle the principles « f public morality , incapacitate herself from rewarding honesty and fidelity , and brand hcreelf with in . famy throughout the coming years .
If an apprehension of exasperating dissensions turned your heads astray , I would solemnly submit to your immediate consideration thnt such apprehensions belong to that class of temporary expedients , involving a dereliction of principle for a hope of present good , in which Mr O'Connell himself lived , and moved , and had his bein ? , and of the utter vanity of which his fate is a most signal warning . I believe in that sentiment of Carlyle ' s—the solitary light is jour last dark number—that every cause , " so far as it is true—no farther , yet precisely so far—is very sure of victory : the falsehood of it alone will be conquered , " So bare nil Mr O'Connell ' s mtike * shifts , those emanations of super-Iiuman prudence for which he was so magnified by his worshippers , ended In bitterness and untimely ashes . They were conquered by
an overruling Providence . Over and above tbe essential emptiness of ynur hops •—over and above the danger inherent in every deviation from right , I can even see staring into my face an over , whelming vanity , a manifold and manifest peril in th * policy you have adopted . You assist in creating anational demonstration of grief at O'Connell ' s funeral . If he merits tbot to-day , why did you oppose bim yesterday ? Out of your own mouths , verily , you shall be ecnd ' . mned , How could you avoid seeing that Conciliatl n- 'Iall , and its no principles , and its hereditary des * pctism , and its slavery , and its sycophancy , and its corn ptisn , and itsno-drop-ofblood-but-every-ounce-of-flesb theory , audits barefaced beggary , but will suck fresh vitality from your tainted characters ! If your
resolution was just , if your grief was called for , such imminent danjer might almost warrant you in suppressing it ; but tbityou should court the risk of such an enormous expsnse of consistency and equity , —that you should court it for the express purpose of inducing your country , long treated as a hound by O'Connell , with more than a houndish servility to howl ovsr his bier , —this is that midright inundation from which I see no way to escape , So far I have addressed m . jself to you , Sir , and to the council of the Irish confederation , arguing on our common principles , But I will notconclude withoutappealing to tho Irish public at large . Is it possible that this nation can remain infatuated for ever ? O'Connell has boasted that h « guided us , and his toadies hare voucbe ' . every word he told us for 50 years . "Well , then ,
let us look about and calculate our obligations for the lorviee , Whither have wo been guided ? Inhere and how has lie left us f IVe have been guMed , step by step , elf-hoodwinked , to such an abyss of physical and moral misery*—to such a condition of helpless and hopeless de . gradatici , as na race of mankind was ever plunged ia siace tfce creation . TVe are a nation of beggars—meaa , shameless , lying beggars . And this is where O'Connell bai guided us . But it will be said that he could not help this , I deny it . No man ever enjoyed or abused such n s lurces as , in the cxtravagrance of our devotion , we lavished on O'Connell , Since I was able to think or act as a man , till within a twelvemonth , he had mo , with all that God gave me , of thought , and goefls , and life , at his prnmaiid . And my case was the case of millions .
Had O'Connell been moald in a juster type—had hi cultivated the virtnei which it wns bis duty to cherish , of Integrity , frugolity , sincerity—had he studied his plans miturely , and pursued them consistently—had he been liberal of judgment , and sparing in equal proportions of moneys , of censures , and of praise—had he cultivated disinterestedness amongst his followers , and selected his counsellors from the ranks of honesty and virtu" , ' there is no destiny too glorious to which be might not have conducted Ireland . But , unfortunately for his fame , and tor his country , he was a mere timeserving politician—a huckster of expediencies . He said thin ; e , and did them not . He issued orders , aud jeered
the men who obeyed him , as the powder . monkiei of Csrk can testify . Ho patronized liars , parasites , and bullies . He brooked no greatness that grovelled not at bis feet , fife conducted a petty traffic in instalments , Ho boasttd . He flattered grossly , and was grossly flattered , "Heforestalled his glory ; and enjoyed with a relish a reputation that he forgot to earn . Above all , he was unsteady , because he was unprincipled . Tbe gentry of Ireland could never unite with him , and no man in Ireland could calculate upon bis policy for a month , Thus tho lives , and loves , and treasures of this trusting land were frittered into nought—thus were aur resources squandered , our hopes thus levelled to tbe
grave . I deny not the good paints of O'Connell ' s character ; and , if I do not emunerato them , it is only because all his points—good , bad , and indifferent—have been extolled over frequently and overmuch . He was , all in all , « n crancl homme manqne , possessing great elements of greatness , but alloyed below tho standard . He faded ia his mission , and he deserved to fail in it . The real liberators of nations bare steered a straight course . Instead of stultifying ourselves by another national de . monstration , we should rather study tbe ways of Providence for ' our instruction , and leara from the signal failure of O Connoll a greater confidence in God ' s truth , and less trust in mau'k devices .
The Bloom Of The Hawthorn Was Never Know...
The bloom of the hawthorn was never known to to be more beautiful than is the case at the present moment . . 'According to the bookef Japhet . reoentlypublished , Nneniah , the daughter of Enoch , was 580 years old when she was married to Noah . Thia is an example that should give courage to tho old maids of the present day . Tho AitwJoi-kStandard says that a confectioner ol that city has discovered a method of making ice creams b y steam , and hopes to be enabled to supply them at half the former prices . A Neapolitan newspaper lately contained an advertueuent from a , poet , who undertakes to furnish in lour-and-twenty hours , a comedy ; in forty-eight , a tragedy or a libretto ; and in sixty-two , a novel , in strophes of six lines , " with any letter of the alpha * tet lef t out , at pleasure of tho customer .
The Irish judges have postponed tho summer assizes io October , in consequence of the prevalence of typhus fever throughout the country . The editor of tho Boston Post says— "All that is ne'essary for the enjoyment of sausages at breakfast , is nmMenee . "
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„ A Fwck 120 Mans Loko.- The Niagara. Ma...
„ FwcK 120 Mans Loko .- The Niagara . Mail , Canada West , of the 19 th ult , states :-A trei .: cn-. Imis iiviriigration of ;> iepoi )•« . Sunday last . Tliuywpir « : rosa * in ? the Mficara frum bafnre nino in the n > .. ni « ng until past one in the afternoon ; and taking th- <» .- - * > a . of flight alSO miles an hour , the Hock urns ' , kve been nywiirda of 120 miles ir . lenelh . Emigrant Chorciu's . —A London church-builder provides • - '< od and iron churches for tra tisnii-simi to ihe colM-ies . lie offers a church , with stained plsss windows , bfll , etc , capable of sentini ; 800 pi : ??> ns . for 500 -iiir . t-as ; but if you car not afford to btr s church , i . ! . ' will lend vou one " m biro . "'
Mii . k a > d Pigs , —Tlit' quantity of it ' ii'k Uwrih into LtviTpw ! by n . i . ! w ; i , v it- citorincu-, awl wi'i : "] ' to make up fur '!; c ! n ? s o ' f rcvriitiecrii . isMi ' «; tl- . ¦!!> nihilaion of Irish pips , wWc tarriace ; - ? - * - 'd fe *• : •• ¦ > iy to yield an hxinnc of many pou / id * ' a v . 'cek .--7-. ' ' , . '« ir' - pool Mercury . Tin ; EMVKncft "V Rt ;« . y . ' . ami rnr . Ezu . v . v ? ' . y . a —Wc f-tinlo from th *> S / K-ner C ' aselie : —'' ll i- ' ' ^ id that the'Emperor Nichols- is . vbout- to ib ai > »¦¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ of generosity towards such Polos as h ' -tvc lect . tvuidemned lor politi . ni oft ' .-Dees . Those who have ui-mi exiled to Sinerin , and v . hi . sc estates have b < : cn e « aliscuted , . are'to be allowed to return into the liingdou * , and re-enter into possessiMi of their proiwry . [ Fudge . ]
As inisn Rhmedt . —A gentleman observini- an Irish servant girl who was left , bunded , placing tha knives and forks on the dinner table in tho same awkward position , remarked to her that she was layinir them left handed . " Oh , indade , " snvs she so I have ! Be plased , sir , to help me to turn i-ha table round . " Extraordinary . —A sow in Henloy . in-Arden , on Tuesday last , farrowed eleven young pigs , of which the filth was born with the chest open , sons topfford a full view of the heart and lunge , whicii wci ** in their proper places ; but the entrails were all outside , thous-U quite perfect , and placed in the natural order . 1 lie aniraul was never perceived to move , but the heart heat for on hour and a half , r , nd the lungs tor lour hours and a half , after its birth .
J'BEKUASosRYis Prossia .-TIic principal Lodge o * the Freemasons of Breslau has struck out of its laws the clauses which preseribc'l that no prrsoa could bo received a Mason without belonging to the Christian religion , and which particularly inteidicted the admission of Jews . His Royal llk-lin ** - the Prince of Prussia , Grand Master of all the Mt-sonio Lodges ' of the Kingdom , has consented to this modification of the laws . Mr O'Cosskil . —The admirers of Mr © Cornell have resolved to honsitir his remains with a grand and solemn funeral procession through London , should they ( as it is expected they will ) pass through m roti ' e for Ireland ; and the Roman Catholic clorssy intend , it is said , to havo a solemn high mass and requiem performed over them in MoorOelds chapel .
A Toad in a Dole . —A correspondent of the Fifeshire Journal states that he lately saw a toad dm ; out of a garden , after it had been buried , in an earthen pet , deep below the surface , for the ¦ space of two years and eight months . It was alive , and apparently none the worse for its long and solitarv confinement . Covbred Street Arcades at Paris . —A huge company , with a capital of 50 , 000 , 000 f ., ha ? just been formed , for constructing a series of passages converts from the Boulard St Denis to tho Pine ' do Chatelet . The company to be called C . des Gaknet du Commerce . White Crows . —The rookery at Castledykcs has become quite fsmousfor its white crows . " It has again produced one this year , which was caught on the Kingholm-rond . It is a handsome young bird of a pure cream colour , —Dumfries Courier .
Skrksade to Jemey Lind . —At ten o clock on Friday evening , a party of . fifteen gentlemen , members of tho German Vocal Club ( Liedcrkranz ) , repnired to Mile . Lind ' s residence at Brompton , and having ebtained admittance to the garden at the back of the house , they executed several beautiful serenade airs in a very superior and musician-like manner . Mile . Lind walked into the garden , and thanked tho gentlemen for their unexpected attention . Stroko Brisk — ' Wine of four men" is the name given to a kind of wine made at a place called Wititenhaisen , in Germany . The reason of this name is that " it takes one to pour it out , one to drink it , and two to hold the man while he swallows it . "—New York Mirror . Dv Chalmers —The public funeral of this great and good man took place last week , his last remains being interred in the New Southern Cemetery at Grange .
A Vviss Priest . —A German priest was walking in procession at the head of his parishioners over cultivated ileitis , in order to procure a blessing upon the crops . When ho came to one of unpromising appenranco , he would pass on , faying , " Here prayers and singing will avail nothing ; this must liave manure . " Fever is Glasgow . —It is indeed racing at a fearful rate , and no sufficient accommodation is yet provided . Up to the 26 th ult ., there were 417 cafes on tho lines of the district surgeons of the poor alone . On that day there were SB cases of fresh Hues i This simple statement carries its own tale . — Glasgow Gazette .
Intiikpiditt or Quekn Isabella . —The Faro of Madrid , informs us that Queen Isabella is as intrepid a horsewoman as she is a skilful driver . " Lately ( says this journal ) there arrived at Aranjurz several English , Norman , and other foreign horses , of which two were chosen for tho Queen , who immediately mounted one of them , without beingat all acquainted with its qualities . " A more decided instance of her intrepidity has been related in the saloons of iMadrid . One of the dragoons of her guard was thrown by a vicious horse . The Queen ordered a side-saddle to be put upon tho animal , and mounting it , brought it in less than half an hour under perfect subjection . Improvements of Gbbejswich Hospital . —Workmen are employed , by order of the Commissioners of
Greenwich Hospital , in the demolition of the Ship Tavern , the Lord Lignnior ' s Head , and other buiidngs in Fisher-lane , Greenwich , to form improvements in the line of , and in addition to , the river frontage of Greenwich Hospital . The New Omcss of the Treasury at Whitehall—The erection of the new offices of the Treasury at Whitehall has been completed , and the wholo of the scaffolding removed . Tho new building completes the whole of the course of buildings of the Privy Council , Board of Trade , and Home and Treasury offices , formerly an unseemly edifice , but now presenting a fao .: do of elegant and elaborate architecture , in keeping with the magnificent structure of the new Houses ef Parliament , and a great additional ornament to Whitehall .
Typhus FsvEn . —Ia order to aid as much as possible the prevention of infection from typhus fever , we ? resent the following simple and efficacious recipe of > r J . 0 . Smith , for which he was paid £ 5 , 000 by Parliament : — ' Take six drachms of powdered nitre ( saltpetre ) and six drachms of sulphuric acid ( oil of vitriol ); mix them in a teacup . By adding one drachm of the oil at a time , a copious discharge of nitrous acid gas will take place . The cup to be placed during the prepatation en a hot hearth or a plato of heated iron , and the mixture stirred with a tobacco pipe . The quantity of gas may bo regulated by lessening or increasing the quantity of ingredients . The above is for a moderate-sized room ; half the quantity would be sufficient for a small room . Avoid as much as possible breathing the gas when it first rises from the vessel . "
Manchester.—A Singular Case Of Swindling...
Manchester . —A singular case of swindling has been brought before the magistrates . A Young German giving the name of Adolphus Schutz , was the prisoner , avid Mr Beswick , chief superintendent of the Manchester detectivejpolice , stated that he had reason to believe the accused went , some time ago , to the bank " of Messrs J . H . Stemefz and Co ., Vienna , and obtained a letter of credit upon houses in England for 20 , 000 florins ( - £ 2 , 000 . ) and upon this letter there was , as usual , the names of several houses in this country to whom the holder war . entitled to apply , as convenience might d . tate . Amongst these names were those of Mr Shi . isitch . London , and Messrs Merck , merchants , Cross-street , Manchester . When he obtained a letter of credit .
it now appeared that he had pilfered blank forms for others from tho same house , and that ho had filled one of them up , forging the names of Stemeta and Co ., and taking ono of them to Mr Shusesitch , in London , got £ 1 , 900 advanced upon it . tic had then gone to Manchester , obtained £ 1 , 000 from Messrs Merck , and from thence went to Liverpool and engaged a passage in U \ e Cambria , for Boston , U . S ., which should have sailed on Saturday , but was detained by low tides till Monday . In the meantime Messrs Merck had obtained information that he had drawn to the amount of his credit in London , and upon their information Mr Beswick had sent an officer to Liverpool , who apprehended himi The prisoner had to be examined throug h the medium of an interpreter , and acknowledged the offence , stating that he had been robbed of the first sum of
money in London , and had been driven m this way to commit tho forgorv . In the course- of the esamination this difficultv arose to the prosscution-that no one could swear which was the forged and whicii the real letter of credit , and Mr Maud ( tho magistrate ) said , in thia dilemma he would remand him , to see if witnesses could be procured ; but he couUL not commit him to the assizes for trial without some one from Vienna to swear to tho writing of Stemetz and Co , Our reporter states , it has transpired that tho prisoner had power to draw in thirteen large cities in different parts of a route from Vienna to England , and that by means of another forgery he had drawn to the full amount of the genuine letter of credit at Aix la Chapelle . He had an accomplice when he arrived at Manchester , who escaped to London , as it is supposed . It has further transpire * that he had transmitted £ 1 , 000 to friends in Vi » nn » , and this money , it is expected , will to reeovtrtf , i Very little money was found in his possession , . ^ j ^' . ¦ ti' *''"
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 12, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12061847/page/3/
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