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Jjtu 3j851. M The Northern Star. 3
JJTU 3 J 851 . m THE NORTHERN STAR . 3
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X 05 D 0 X BY LAMPLIGHT . « -,- **> "lands a singer in tbe street , , lrvTan audience motley and meet ; Tktrt him lowers the London night , fjjd aroJind the lamps are flaring bright ¦ a- minstrelsv may be unchaste—-tT- much unto that motley taste , : 1 a loud the laughter he provokes from those sad slaves of obscene jokes , n at ° manya passer by > vriio as he noes turns half an eye T see the human form divine Thus Circe-wise changed into swine !
Make up the sum of either sex That all our human hopes perplex , -ifith those unhappy shapes that know The shent streets and pale cock-crow . And ean 1 trace in such dull eyes Of fireside peace or country skies ? ^ nd could those haggard cheeks presume jo memories of a May-tide bloom ? Those violated forms have been The pride of many a flowering green ; And still tbe virgin bosom heaves Tfitft daisy meads and dewy loaves . Hut Stygian darknessreigns within , The river of death from the founts of sin ; And one prophetic water rolls Its "as-lit surface for their souls .
I will not hide the tragic sight—Those drowned black locks , those dead lips white , "Will rise from out the slimy flood , And cry before God ' s throne for blood I Those stiffened limbs , that swollen face Pollution ' s last and best embrace , Will call as such a picture can For retribution upon man . Poems by G . MEREDITH .
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Krtnresof ^ ral Life Austria Hunra From the German , hy Mar y Nor-* Jy . Three vols . London : Bentley . TriE ^ E volumes are translated from the Geri « n ' of Adalbert Stifter , and contain six tales , ^ ome oi them rural ^ undoubtedly pre-Liinates - hut an exhibition of German manners , wfth a metaphysical delineation of iculiar characters , seems more an object of Ac author than a mere picture of what is iuHv understood by life . ' AMaa the Jew , ' indeed , has nothing to do with Germany , ex-¦ £ . « that a Moorish Hebrew , after having been - 'in lered by the authorities , and losing his
. { rife throug h her terror of the Bey ' s soldiers , -aires from Africa to a solitary valley in that Jautrv . with his little blind daughter . « The jlochwald' ( hig h forest ) is a tale of the wars £ Gustavus : a father sends his two daughters mo tbe further solitudes of the forest , while > . -. remains to defend his castle , and , in the ^ chot , kills the lover of his eldest daughter , id is himself killed by the enemy . « Castle Crazy' is a wild story , half Irish , half Ger-0 Mi ; the heir to the estate being compelled .-. swear that he will write his own
autobiopsphy , to be deposited in the mumment-; jamber , and , harder task perhaps , will read 3 the autobiographies of his predecessors . jhis part of the subject is not badly worked , 3 a brief sketch of the family history ; but Jie story really turns upon the attachment of 2 claimant to the property of an innkeeper ' s ^ ug hter , and his success both in law and love . Olaroshely' is a strange tale of the love , 3 arriage , and separation of a Hungarian able and his wife , and their Tetmion years Afterwards ; the reader , contrary to custom , Ws . kept in a mystery which is all the while ieartothetwo principal actors , 'TheVil-\ - > i on the Heath' is hardly a story at all :
i vouthful peasant leaves his home to push 35 fortune , and there is a cart account of his -jaiilv during his absence , and an allusive resrence to the career of Felix on his return . ' My Great-grandfather ' s Note-book' consists iwperly of three tales . First , there is the sixovery of the manuscript—a literary arti-£ h whicD . may Have more novelty for the Germans than for us . There is then the story of Ae great-grandfather ' s father-in-law ; and , aially , that of the great grandfather himself , siring an account of his practice as a conntry livsician , and of his love and marriage .
Considered as composition , the hook is very d » le . It hears throughout much of German irish and German simplicity , with a feeling ? hich if too quiet for pathos is very near it . late for eranudft this descrip tion of the death of his wife hy the father-in-law of the physi
aan . "Dovon know what in mountain districts is railed a ' timber duct ? You can scarcely have seen as ? , since it is not needed here , where the forest Ujiteare broad and smooth . It is a rude sort of : « , hollowed out into a groove , and used to remove is wood which is cut down in the forest . Someises these rafts are laid upon the ground down the sustain sides ; sometimes they are stretched like biges across ravines and clefts ; and they can , » i * n necessary , be filled with the rippling snow s , by means of which the blocks of wood are dtift « i away more quickly . It was one fine Sepsaler morning that my wife begged me to make
in excursion across the mountains , and to take her * it « me , —she had not been out with me for three Icsrs , having within that time borne me a child , a isle daughter- I joyfully assented to her wish ; tit ; prepared for the " expedition ; and we rambled v . < Lisa that day that she gathered some clusters Heirfweis , which she twined round my hat . On raarainst home we mistook our way , deceived by iia jiinuaritv between the mountain passes . We fended the bed of a dried up torrent , with * McL 1 was perfectly unacquainted , not knowing 'Lftiicr it would lead us down into the valley , or aideiiiy break off over a perpendicular steep , and issobibre us to retrace our steps . And this last
Jrtre . 1 to be the case ; for just as we turned round Sfi corner of a rock , we saw the blue void suddenly tyfn Wore us ; the path of the stream had broken 83 , and opposite ns gleamed a perpendicular wall K" chalk , tinged with a pale reddish hue by the Qjs of the declining sun . But there was one of ~« e timber ducts I have described stretching fcross the chasm from the spot whereon we stood to fe summit of this chalk wall . I was a little rj riled , and looked round at my companion ; but | -e * as delighted at finding it possible to proceed ; ^ 1 we accordingly began to examine the raft » 3 see whether it were iu good condition and capites of bearing the weieht of two persons . That
s had teen used lately was evident , for the hollow K tht > groove bore traces of having been fresh ^ bbed , and stakes and blocks , such as are required >' ¦* pushing the felled trunks along , -were still filtered about ; besides , the foot-prints which had pluced us to follow the dried current led close up ' nhe raft . Whilst hesitating , we beard a noise as ii footsteps from a trench on one side , which hip . « no we had not noticed ; and in a few seconds a ^ in , whom I at once recognised as one of the 'ooi-cntiers who ply their laborious trade in this a-niifcaa district , emerged from the trench . He j uried a leathern sack , and an iron dish , also his ^ ' ¦ lis-ladders , and a mountain-staff , which was , * - Usual , very long , and armed with an iron point f"J » mppling-hook . lie started with surprise at
- - ^ 5 human beings on this wild spot . I explained ¦* awi that we had lost our way , and that we were jasous io ascertain whether the duct was passable , *» coa ' . d safely serve as a bridge for two persons . - doubt of that , " he replied ; "fire of my « aara , ! es have been across it scarce a minute ago ; J *^ forced to turn back because 1 had left this . ^ a b ehind , at our fire-place . They are waiting ! ' : * ne on yonder rock-wall ; you shall hear £ ~« directly . " And here he raised that strange ^ d shout peculiar to mountaineers ; the tones Start ** ' ' ** back fr 0 m n 11 the cIeftS iB tte mi ~ . jw-ood , and were answered by another similar . ' ^ ; reechoing in like manner from the rocks £ iri - * ?** soIemn » itwas almost sublime , to t . Uih wild trnnal mnsin amid thnsp rumored
-7 , '"* * Jth the twilight drawing round ns ! I ^ . ; imposed that we should all three cross the ^ ;« whether . To this he agreed ; adding , that i V , ! j St : ' ^ the lady between us , and that we v - l" !' . , , rry hl 3 alpinestaffhorizontally , ! holding i- ~ J ^" - :, nd he the other , so that slie could cling io , ' ; ^ ? haiiisicr , and feel herself secure . The tar * ' !' - ' 8 " 0 insisted upon carrying herself : and is' - ... '? " ? ^ another , we stepped upon his aiounti- ' £ *• ' ich showed like a line drawn across i w , ? 'r- eTEn 5 n S iwiligut . But as we strode along , UV"' " ear t « e clatter only of the wood-cutter ' s ^ tJ : S ! i 0 es . . notthe lighter tread of hers . We v Wif a * " ' ^ wa y * rom tne cn (* ° ^ tne ra ^ r » fiji » > , j w ood-cutter said in a low voice , " Sit " -ati ' t a felt , the staffgrotving lighterin my hand—*• o lT ? nicUj round—imagine ! I saw only the - c ^ . atter - A horrible thought came ; I knew no ' y fees ceased to feel the ground ; the pine-
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trees flickered to and fro like torches before my eyes . Iknew no more *" Here the Colonel was silent . I thought at first he was only taking breath ; but on looking round , I saw through the half-light that tears were chasing each other down his white beard , and that he kept himself thusperfectly still to prevent my remarking it . Xeither could I have spoken a word ; my heart too seemed broken . I now understood why he had drawn down the window-curtains , I would not distress the old man by taking notice of his grief , but kept my eyes averted . After a while he passed his sleeve over beard and face , and , with perfect composure , continued thus— - "She was lying crushed in the depth of the hollow . Silently
sacrificing herself , as was her wont—uttering no cry , lest she should endanger me—she had fallen down . Not even the wood-cutter had guessed her situation until she let go the banister which we had made for her , and began to feel in the air with her hand , lie then called to her to sit down , —but it was too late . Like a white handkerchief , he said , it had all passed before his eyes , and then he saw me alone . And I too seemed tottering , and should have fallen likewise , if he had not given me a violent push , which made me stagger forward over the few remaining steps on the timber-duct , and at the end flung me down upon the heap of wood which had been conveyed across the ravine during the day . "
The Law, As The Exemption Of Scienttfic ...
The Law , as the Exemption of Scienttfic and Literary Societies from the Parish and other Local Rates . By G . Taylor , Esq ., of the Inner Temple . London : Crockford , Essexstreet , Strand . "When the statute 6 and 7 "Vict ., c . 36 , was passed , it was hailed as a great boon to the Scientific and . Literary Societies of this country , upon whom rates frequently pressed very heavily . Various circumstances have , however , contributed to prevent all but a very small minority of these Institutions from enjoying the exemption created by that Act .
Among these circumstances , perhaps , the fear of litig ation with the Local or Parochial Authorities was not the least influential , ^ on account of the opposition to which such claims not nnfrequently gave rise , on the Law first being brought into operation . As everything in English Jurisprudence is guided by precedent , and lawyers settle all disputed questions by reference to ' cases , ' those who undertook the task of pioneers in obtaining decisions on the controverted points , had to hear the cost of these ' cases , ' and of the judicial
interpretations of the Law , which will henceforth govern the Bench in future disputes . Mr . Taylor has done good service to the Secretaries , Managers , and Committee men of Mechanics ' Institutions , Lyceums , Athenceums , and Literary Institutions , b y the issue of this succinct and admirably arranged compendium of these decisions , and of the Law on the subject , accompanied as it is by practical directions to these Societies , as to what constitutes the claim for exemption , and the mode by which it is to be obtained . Tbe work is , in
fact , destined to be a standard one on the subject , and to be equally an authority with the profession and the public . The reports of the two important cases of the Royal Manchester Institution and the Manchester Concert Hall , are exceedingly valuable and important . Mr . Taylor , in a concluding section , on * The Policy of the Statute , ' states that in its present shape it is exceedingly defective , and that the practical result is , * a few large Societies , perhaps least deserving , and certainly least needing , the exemption , obtain it . ' It appears to have been even doubted by Lord Denman , whether Mechanic ' s Institutes were included by the words of the statute . "We
do not , however , concur in the conclusion drawn by Mr . Taylor , from the ' grievously ineffectual' nature of past Legislation , namely ; that we ought to repeal the Law entirely . There are too few facilities given to Educational Institutions in this country . Instead of lessening we would multiply them , and if there be anything unequal or exclusive in the present statute , we would amend and extend its operation , so as to include all the Institutions which can come fairly within the scope of such a law . In the meantime , we confidently recommend Mr . Taylor ' s careful aud excellent digest of tho law on the question , as an indispensable work to the Managers of these Institutions .
The Golden Horn; And Sketches In Asia Mi...
The Golden Horn ; and Sketches in Asia Minor , Egypt , Syria , and the Hauraan . By Charles James Monk , M . A . Two Vols . London : Bentley . Mr . MOJJK appears to he a pleasant , unesacting man , with a turn for wild fowl shooting , a disposition to make himself at home with people , and a willingness to look at the antiquities he has come to see ; but his taste and acquirements do not fit him to travel with advantage in regions which have been so
thoroughly explored as those which he visited . Had he been the first to bring back an account of buried Egypt , or to follow the track of the Israelites through the Wilderness , and to describe Mount Sinai , or even had Jerusalem been less thoroughly hacknied in plans , panoramas , guide books , illustrations , and what not , the hook would have possessed interest by imparting knowledge . For nearly all that is peculiar in the historical characteristics of the countries Mr . Monk traversed he is indebted
to other writers ; and as these are given in quotations the reader has nothing hut fragmentary bits , selected rather to meet the impressions of an individual at the moment , than to convey a complete , though second-hand idea . His own descriptions of what he saw are neither interesting in their substance , nor vividly described . Tbe exceptions to this remark are the tour from Jerusalem to Damascus , by Nazareth , Tiberias , and the country lying on the Eastern banks of the sea of Tiberias and the upper part of the Jordan , which has a little novelty , as it is rarely traversed on account of the risk , or when some accident gave Mr , Monk a view of Oriental life under a peculiar aspect . Such was this picture of the Constantinopolitan Turks during the evening of the Hamazan .
But , hark ! the cannons " sound the knell of parting day . " The muezzins from the galleries of the minarets , with musical and sonorous voices , proclaim the evening prayer— " Ev-Allah I Praise be to God ! The day of humiliation is past ; the toil and labour is over , the hour of feasting and of revelry is at hand . " So external sign marks the inward satisfaction of the Mussulman . Forthwith his pipe is lighted , a cup of coffee is brought to him ; silent as before he puffs away ; tbe smoke curls round his ample beard and mustaehios , but yet he ceases notdense volumes succeed each other
, in rapid succession . Methinks now the muscles of his face begin to relax , but his eyes are fixed steadfastly on the ground , or gaze on vacaney . The hour of perfect freedom from restraint is not yet come . Short is the twilight of an Eastern clime . From day tonight , from light to darkness , is but a short step . Already the galleries of the minarets are illuminated with thousands of lamps , and the interior of the mosques is brilliant with suspended lights . The sight which presents itself an hour after sunset is -worthy of an Eastern fairy , tale . The deep blue waters of the Golden Horn reflect tbe
unwonted gleam m its glassy mirror . Innumerable flitting lights are seen on the shores of the Bosphorus , aud in the streets , which are usually deserted after t ' : e first hour of night , borne by the devout Moslem as he returns from the mosque , or perchance by some reveller who intends to spend the night before the door of a coffee-house , where , during the Ramnzan , he is always sure of finding a goodly company . The singer , the reciter of poems , the storyteller—all are there ; their object is to beguile the tediousness of tbe hours of dark * ness . To an attentive audience the story-teller is relating feme tale which seems highly to interest his hearers . The injured Hassan , the faithless bride , the perjured Giaour , are subjects which for
a moment excite the ire and arouse the indignation of the Mussulman . He curls his beard , his eve flashes , his breath is hurried and audible . But the tale is ended ; vengeance and death have seized their victims . Allah Eerim . ' God is great and mercifuU Anon all excitement ceases , and as the reciter concludes tbe narration , tbe Moslem has regained his usual quiet and passive demeanour . Many are the tales of war , and strife , and successful adventure , which serve to while away the midnight hours , and amuse the attentive listeners . The caTl to prayer after midnight has no effect in warnin « r many " of the flitting hour , the coffee-houses are nol deserted , the task of the story-teller remains
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unfinished . Thus passed in revelry , interrupted only by devotional forms , the night succeeding the first day of Ramazan . Feasting and merriment prevailed in the houses of the rich ; the salutation at the doors of the Faithful , announced by the loud beating of a drum , sounded incessantly in my ears ; nor was it till long after I had retired to my couch , though not to re » t , till I had heard the l » st sammons to conclude the final meal at daybreak before tho rising of the sun , that I fell into an agreeable slumber , no longer broken by the inharmonious sounds of drum and fife , which , together with a multitude of human voices , had so long frighted away soft sleep from mj eyelids . An accident in descending the second
cataract on the return , gives interest and some novelty to that exploit . The next morning our boat was thronged about sunrise with about forty or fifty natives , whose duty it was to assist the rais in guiding the vessel in its passage down the rapids . At least three times that number were bent upon assisting in the operation , and it was no easy matter to eject a score or two of useless hands before pushing off from the shore . A dozen sturdy Nubians took to the oars , and at length to our great relief the Babel of tongues on the boat and from the shore ceased as we rowed swiftly down to the falls . The rowers struck up the usual boat song , and as we approached the first fall , the song was repeated with lied ith
increased energy , and the oars p w greater force , so as to give tho steerage full power even when descending tbe rapids . It was a grand sight , perhaps somewhat more imposing from thefcelmg that danger lurked around us , to wateh the vessel dash down the cataract through the boiling foaming waters , to all appearance powerless and borne forward to almost certain destruction upon the red granite rocks in front of it , when in an instant the direction of the boat was changed and the prow turned to tbe left of the receding rock , as we came again into smooth water , where the oars were instantly in requisition to give steerage way for the second fall , which though smaller than the former had rather a sharper turn towards the left . A few vigourous strokes sufficed to bring us to the top of the fall when shouts from the fore part of tho boat announced that all was not right . The vessel did not respond as she ought to the rudder , and the next
instant she struck , and was firmly on the rocks . In a moment some half-score oi the men were in the water and on the rocks , and by great good fortune , notwithstanding the impetus of the water which came with almost irresistible force against the boat , succeeded in pushing her off srern foremost , the men clinging to the sides as she swung rapidly round entirely at the mercy of the stream , which carried her twenty yards further down upon a small reef , entirely conceftled beneath the water . 'We very narrowly escaped being capsized for we remained firm aground for several minutcs , until a great portion of the men got on shore , and by means of ropes fairly hauled the boat off the rocks , when , to our no small relief , the remaining part of the cataracts was safely passed without any further adventure : but had we remained for half an hour , the boat would in all pl' 0 « bability have gone to pieces on the rocks , and all our effects on board been lost .
The Girlhood Of Shakespeare''S Heroines....
The Girlhood of Shakespeare' ' s Heroines . Op helia , the Rose of Elsinore . By Mary Cowden CLARKE . W . H . Smith and Son , Strand . This charming and instructive series of tales is conducted in the same spirit and characterised by the same exquisitely feminine genius and discrimination we have alread y so frequently eulogised . The peculiar circumstances which predisposed the gentle Ophelia to the lunacy so pathetically and graphically described by the simile of * sweet hells jingling out of tune , ' are admirably imagined by Mrs . Clarke ^ and wr ought oat with artistic fidelity and skill .
The Difficulty Solved, Or The Government...
The Difficulty Solved , or the Government of the People by themselves . By Victor Considerant . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage . Some time since we noticed the political theory of Direct Government , as propounded byM . Rittinghausen , who is either its author , or the representative in the press of the Cologne Democrats , among whom it originated . M . Rittinghausen seems to have made an earl y convert of M . Considerant to his views ; and we have the result in the work before us
translated from a series of papers in the Democratic Pacifique , the journal which was edited with such consummate ability in Paris , by M . Considerant , until the affair of June 1849 compelled him to fly , in order to escape the mockery of a trial by , and the tyranny of , a sentence from his political enemies . We have already sufficiently acquainted our readers with the nature of this new theory of political government , and need only add , that those who wish to study the subject in its various phases , will be gratified by the perusal of M . Considerant ' s luminous exposition .
The Home. Parts I And Ii. Edited By Rich...
The Home . Parts I and II . Edited by Richakd Oastler . London : No . 2 , York-Street , Catherine-street , Strand . We have already so fully expressed our views as to the principles and objects of Mr . Oastler's valuable periodical , that it is unnecessary to repeat them . Aa it progresses we think the paper improves in respect of variety and interest without any sacrifice of directness of purpose or any compromise of principle . Those who wish to learn what can really he said on the side of Protection to Labour hy a strong minded sincere man , who does not mince matters to please patrons , nor palter with truths to serve party exigencies , cannot do better than order * The Home . '
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED . The Reasoner . Part II . Vol . XI . Edited by G . J Holtoikb . London » Watson . The English Republic . Edited by W . J . Linton Part VI . London : Watson .
Directions For Voters. July 20.—Last-Day...
DIRECTIONS FOR VOTERS . July 20 . —Last-day for county voters to send in their claims to be registered , in tho form required by the Registration Act ; and for city and borough voters to pay their poor rates and assessed taxes , which became payable previously to the 5 th January last . July 31 . —The occupation of leasehold premises must commence on or before this day , in order to qualify the occupier to have bis name inserted on the following year ' s register . ( For freeholds and copyholds six calendar months previous are sufficient . ) New occupiers of £ 10 houses or premises , or joint occupiers where the rental is £ 20 or above , should see that their names are properly inserted in the first poor's rate made after this date , or they will lose their ri « ht to be registered nest year . Electors entitled in respect of any rights reserved by the Reform Act , must be qualified on this day , as if it were the day of election .
August 3 and 10 . —( Two Sundays next after 31 st of July . )—Lists of county and borough voters to be fixed on church doors . Every elector saouia personally examine these lists , and satisfy himself that his name is included therein . August 25 . —Last day for making objections to county and borough voters named in the lists , and for borough voters omitted therein to send in their claims . Such claims must be transmitted to the overseer of the parish or township ( or in case of freemen , to the town clerk ) , stating distinctly the particulars of their qualification , placeof abode , < fcc , in the form required by the Registration Act . next
September 7 and 14 . —( Two Sundays preceding September 15 ) . —Lists of objections to county and borough voters , and of claims for insertion on borough voters' lists , to be fixed on church doors . Claimants and objectors should personally examine these lists , as omissions therein would be fatal . September 15 and October 25 . —Revising barristers will hold their courts between these two days inclusive , first giving three days' clear notice . Memorandum ,- * -All claims , whether for counties or boroughs should be made in the precise forms contained in the schedules to the Registration Act ; and it is extremely advisable that , wherever practicable , societies and district associations should engage a professional agent to attend to the requisite formalities , and to support claims and objections in the revising barrister ' s court ; all which may , by proper arransement , be done at a very moderate expense .
Mm. Ledru Rollin, Mazzini, Huge, And Bav...
MM . Ledru Rollin , Mazzini , Huge , and Bavasz , are said to have issued a manifesto " Aux populations Roumaines , " exhorting them to unite for the overthrow of tbe Czar and the Emperor of Austria : the former of whom is described as " a living lie ;' the latter as " a deceiver everywhere , a tyrant everywhere . " The address ends thus : "Trajan's bridjre has only its extremities on the two banKs of the Danube ; it is the symbol of the present state of things . New arches must be raised by your hands ; such is your task for the future . " —Xonconforndst .
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ROBERT OWEN'S PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS . Presented by Lord Brougham on the 3 rd of Jul
y . TW TJrnnr , yf H ? u ; able ^ ° S P iritual ^ iSnld , the , United Kingdom " of Great Th ? ChiS r n knd i tt Parliatn < ttt assembled . The Petition of Robert Owen Sheweth , That your petitioner has devoted a long life , under most favourable opportunities , to investigate the ouaea watch produce a „ d through succeeding ages reproduce the miseries of the human race . That througn the knowled ge of the new and all important science of ' « the influence of circum-! u ! L ? T . t orevil t 0 raan ' " » e "as discovered the causes of those evils , and the meana by which those causes may be removed , and in future pre . rented . r
'I hat , this discovery having been made , the longer continuance of ignorance , disunion , poverty , vice , crime , and all their attendant miseries , will depend upon the will of the authorities who possess the direction of the physical and mental powers of society . That your petitioner is fully prepared to develop this new science , and tbe practice which will necessarily emanate from it , to scientific and experienced men of business in the various great departments of life , who are competent to unite combined objects upon an extensive scale , to produce great aud extraordinary valuable results .
That there is nothing wild , visionary , or impracticable , in any part of the statement now made ; but , on the contrary , these results have been carefully deduced from facts unknown to change , and several of them have been confirmed by long practice and an experience among all classes in many countries such as has seldom been acquired under equal advantages . Therefore , your petitioner , —for the continuance of peace and the immediate and future interest of all classes , from the highest to the lowest in this Empire , earnestly entreats your Ri ght Honourable House to appoint a Select Committee , to investi . gate , and report to your Right Honourable House , on the measures which he will explain to this committee to accomplish these results , without disorder or loss to any parties , but most beneficially for all , And your petitioner will for ever pray , & c . Robert Owen .
ROBERT OWEN'S PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS . Presented by T . S . Buncombe , Esq ., M . P ., on the 16 th of June . To the Honourable the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled . The Petition of Robert Owen , Sheweth , —That your petitioner , after much study and long experience , under singularly favourable circumstances , has perfected a mental discovery weich is calculated to produce the most important and lasting benefits to the present generation and to all future generations .
That this discovery is immediately applicable to all nations and people , and will , in the shortest time practicable , and in the most peacable and orderly manner , relieve them gradually from poverty , crime , and bad habits ; and will give them health , wealth , knowledge , wisdom , good habits , union , and happiness—all of which will increase through every succeeding generation . That in this statement there is nothing wild , visionary , or impracticable ; bnt , on the contrary , that the principles on which the discovery is made are unchanging laws of nature , and the practice the most simple that the human mind can well imagine , and easily to be executed by the population of the world as soon as it shall be explained to them .
That this discovery , which appears to be providential , or in the due order of nature as to time , is necessary to calm men ' s minds from their present irrational excitement on religion , morals , laws , governments , commerce , education , and the peace of all nations and cordial union of all individuals . That that which without this discovery appears to be as impracticable—and before itsdiscovery , is as impracticable—as it was before the means had been discovered , that two persons should be able to communicate their thoughts to each other in a second of time when thousands of miles apart , will be ascertained to be a science equally perfect as that of electrical telegraphic communication ; and , like all the laws of nature when fully comprehended , easy and beautiful for practice .
That , as your petitioner is now or advanced age , and cannot expect a much longer extension of vigorous and useful faculties , or , indeed , of life itselfhe earnestly entreats your honourable house to appoint a committee or commission , or to devise some better mode , thoroughly to investigate the principles and practices of the science which he will disclose to parties so appointed—a science which will effect more for the permanent prosperity and well doing of the human race than all other sciences
united ; for without the knowledge of this new mental discovery but a comparatively small portion of benefit can be obtained from the physical sciences which have been discovered ; because this new science can alone give union and abundance of wealth , and insure by the most simple practical process , a valuable and good character and permanent happiness , to all nations and peoples . And your petitioner will ever pray , Robert Owen .
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Patent Law Amendment Association . — On Tuesday evening a public meeting of tho members of this association was held at the Belle Sauvage , Ludgate-hill , to consider the New Patent Law Amendment Bill now progressing through Parliament , and to take steps to secure the abandonment of certain clauses , ' which it was stated threatened to render the operation of the law highly injurious , both to inventors and the public and to hasten tho enactment of a real Patent Reform Bill . Mr . Alderman Sidney , M . P ., occupied the chair , and observed that though he was very little acquainted with the na ' . ure of the patent Jaws , he felt the greatest pleasure in presiding on this occasion , as he should bo enabled to glean much information , which would be of use to him in his place in the
House of Commons . He could not but regard the present patent laws as being in a most anomalous condition , and calculated to produce great evil , not only to inventors , but to the public generally , The present system had the effect of " tying up " the talent and genius of the country , and it was next to impossible for an inventor to obtain a remuneration for his labour . Instead of making patents expensive , government ought to give every possible protection to inventors , exacting only such a sum as would defray the incidental costs . He would ask why the cost should be so enormous in this country , considering that tho cost of a patent in Belgiam , Franco , Denmark , and America , did not amount to more than ^ 610 ? He contended that the patent laws were altogether defective , and he
did not know any subject which required more attentive consideration on the part of the government . Mr . Shepherd proposed the first resolution to the effect that , it having been already acknowledged by government and the public that the patent laws require amendment , the meeting was of opinion that the bill now before Parliament should effect an efficient amendment forthwith , and that if this be not done , inventors who had previously registered and exhibited new inventions at the Great Exhibition , undvy an implied promise from the government , that the attainment of letters of patent would be rendered less costly , would be subjected to the injustice of having been induced to publish their inventions without reasonable
means Of protection from the Legislature . " The motion was seconded by Mr . Kcene , and supported by Mr , Roger .- - , and after some discussion was carried . A resolution was then passed , " That it was contrary to the interests of the inventors and the public that the new' patent law , which proposed that a patent should be granted in consideration of a series of payments , should require from tllO inventor more than a few shillings in the first instance , 80 as to cover the expense of recording his demand , and that if the protection of patent rights in courts of law be not rendered more certain , the law would still remain in , i very defective state . " It was next resolved , " that the foregoing resolutions be embodied in a petition , and presented to the House of Commons , " and the meeting separated .
Cholkba in the Canaeiks . —Intelligence has been received that the royal Hr . izilian mail steamer Sovern , Which left Southampton on the Gth of Jiine , arrived at Santa Cruz . Teneriffe , on the 19 th of June . She learned there that the cholera had suddenly broken out in the Grande Canary , and that Santa Crux was nn infected port . The Severn , thereiore , not being able to obtain a clean bill of health if she received anything from the shore , t ook her departure for St . Vincent without mails , passengers , or cargo , to prevent being delayed by quarantine at the Brazilian ports . The Spanish mail steamer Hibernia , bound from Cadiz to Cuba was at Teneriffe at the samo time as tho Severn , and left without communicating with the shore for the same reason .
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The Wish . —Whenever the wish is father to the thought , it will be a ( p ) parent . The population of Naples amounts to 416 , 475 souls ; viz .. 203 , 483 males , and 212 , 992 females . Con . —Why is hive like a Stilton cheese ?—Because it is one of the mitcy-est things in Nature . It is easy to exclude the noon-tide light , by closing the eyes ; and it is easy to resist the clearest truth , by hardening the heart against it . Uomility must be a vevy glorious thing , since Pride itself assumes it . Pride must be something deformed , since it dares not show itself naked , and is forced to appear in a mask . Comfort fok the Wealth * . —He who succeeds to his father ' s reputation must be greater than he , to be considered as great ,- but he that succeeds to his father ' s riches will have to encounter no such deduction .
Very Good . — "How do you do , sare ?" said a Frenchman to nn English anquaintance . "Rather poorly , thank vou , " answered the other . " Nay , my dear save , " said the Frenchman , "don ' t thank me for your illness , I cannot help it . " "Not Drunk "— "Yer drunk again , hey ?—" No , my love ( hiccup ) , not drunk , but slippery ( hiccup ) . The fact is , my dear , somebody has been rubbing the bottom of my boots ( hiccup ) till they are as smooth as a dim pane of glass . " Crime in Lonbun . —The Recorder of London remarked last week , that however many foreigners there might be in > his country , he had got none ol them in the calendar ; and , he was happy to add , a smaller number than usual nf his own countrymen .
A Dbaf Nigger . — "Why am vou like Tom Moore ? ' said Congo , shouting into Quaco ' s ear . " Who am Tom Mosre ? Me nebber heard of him . " " You rigrorumus , him mighty big Irish poedry man . "Me don ' t know ; Congo , give it . up . " " Why because you are debarred of hearing ( de bard of Erin ) . " Mental Cultivation . —The real object of education is to give children resources that will endur « as long as life endures ; habits that will ameliorate , not destroy ; occupations that will render sickness tolerable , solitude , pleasant , age venerable , life more dignified and useful , and death less terrible . —Rkv . Sidney Smith .
Census or Cornwall . —The increase of population in Cornwall does not exceed 12 , 000 , whilst in each of the three previous periods of ten years the excess had uniformly been 40 , 000 . The births , however , from 1841 to 1850 , have exceeded the deaths by 47 , 500 . Emigration is suggested as the cause of the reduced proportion of increase . A Lazy Parson . —A clegyman dwelt in a quiet , rural district , where laziness is apt to grow upon a man . One day his excellent spouse remarked to him at breakfast , " Minister , there ' s a bit of butter on your neckcloth . " " Weel , Weel , Janet , my dear , " slowly responded the worthy pastor , " when I get up , it'll fa' aff . "
A Ohinbse Winow being found fanning the tomb of her deceased husband , and being asked the cause of so singular a mode of showing her grief , accounted for it by saying that lie had made her promise not to marry again while the mortar of his tomb remained damn ; and , as it dried but slowly , she saw no harm in aiding the operation . Cotion . —A gentleman is now living in South Carolina , who helped pack the first bag of cotton sent to Liverpool from the United States . The consignee of this lone bag of cotton informed the merchants who sent it that he could not sell it , that it was valueless , and advised them to send no more . We now export some two millions of bags every year . — New York Post .
Californian Gold . —A most extraordinary story is told in the New York Papers of the discovery , in California , of quartz rock producing upon 103 lbs . of quartz thirty-six one pound bars of gold . More than two tons weight of this valuable rock , is said to be in sight , the estimated value of which is 5 , 000 , 000 dollars . The value of 2 000 , 000 dollars , it is said , can be got out in a month . The discovery of coal beds in Oregon is confirmed . The Solar Eclipse of this Month . —The solar eclipse which will take place on the 28 th July , 1851 , will be partial in Great Britain , but total over a large portion of the European Continent . The eclipse will commence here at three minutes past two o ' clock in the afternoon , and terminate at a quarter-past four . Magnitude , eight-tenths on the northern limb .
Yankee Politeness . —David Crockett , says the Boston Transcript , used to say o < the late Philip Hone , with whom he was in Congress , that he was the perlitest man he ever knew . "Cause why , " said the colonel , " he oilers puts his bottle on the sideboard before he asks you to drink , and then turns bis back so as not to see how much you take ! This , " adds tbe colonel , "is what I call realperliteness . " A Definition . — " Mother '" said James , " what is the meaning of donation ? You have been preparing all this week for the donation party , and 1 want to know what it means . " "Why , jemmy , " s » icl Johnny , " don ' t you know what donation means ? I
do ! do means the cake , and nation means the people , and they carry tbe cake to the minister ' s , and the people go there and eat it . " James was enlightened . TAXATION . —The proportion of direct taxation in this country is less than a « y country in Europe . Out of £ 50 , 000 , 000 , only £ 10 . 000 , 000 are derived from direct taxes , while £ 40 . 000 , 000 are derived from Customs , Excise , and Stamps ; that is , twenty per cent , of the whole is derived from direct taxes , and eighty per cent , from indirect taxes ; while in Belgium direct taxes are thirty-seven per cent , of the whole in Holland thirty-five per cent . ; in France thirty-five per cent . ; and in Prussia thirty-seven per cent . — Economist .
Woman . —A correspondent of the New York Era thus shows how confiding innocence is oft imposed upon : —" A Woman , " he says , " may not be an angel , though she glides through the mazes of the dance , like a spirit clothed with a rainbow , and studded with stars . The young man may behold his admired object on the morrow in the true light of reality , perchance emptying a wash tub in the gutter , with her frock pinned up behind—her hair mussed and mossy , except what lies in the bureau ; and her whole contour wearing the appearance of an angel rammed through a brush fence , into a world of wretchedness and woe !"
Poor Weak W » man . —Miss Susan Nipper , who lives in a small tenement , a lone woman , was quite '' fluatrated " the other morning by an early call from a bachelor neighbour . " What do you come here after ? " said Miss Nipper . " I come to borrow matches , '' he meekly replied . — " Matches ! That ' s a likely story . Why don ' t you make a match ? I know what you come for , " cried the exasperated old virgin , as she backed the bachelor into a corner . " You come here to hug and kiss me almost to death . ' But you shan't—without you ' re the strongest , and Lords knows you are !" Domestic Happiness . —The great end of
prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild , and acclamation cannot exhilirate ; those soft intervals of unbended amusement , in which a man shrinks to . his natural dimensions , and throws aside the ornaments and disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless encumbrances , and to lose all effect when they become familiar . To be happy at home is the ultimate reeult of all ambition , the end to which every enterprise and labour tends , and of which every desire prompts the execution . It is , indeed , at home that every man must be known by those who would have a just estimate of his virtue or felicity . —Dr . Johnson .
v Vhistling for the Wind . —There is nothing annoys sailors during a breeze so much as whistling . They say , in their superstitious way , that it is like tempting the devil for a storm . We have been told by a friend , that once , when he was at sea , he stood on the quarter deck whistling a favourite air , when he noticed the captain InoKed askance at him . Unable to discover the reason , he politely asked hiw in what way he had offended ? It was blowinsr a stiff gale at the time , and our friend observed to the captain , " that whenever he whistled it appeared to disconcert him . " " My dear fellow , " replied the com mandcr , " yon are welcome to whistle 88 much & g you please in fine weather , but we sailors have seme very queer notions ; and when there is any wind like this we don ' t like any more called . " "Sauce for the Goose , Sauce for the Gan-Ja _ l ~?_ C . .., % _ ~ . nn »; n _ t .: n In — sll *** . ] n ft * . H der—A plain farmer meeting his landlord
* . . " , a Conservative peer , thought it a good opportunity to apply for a reduction of rent . His lordship , drawing himself up , and assuming an air of astonishment , read poor Triptolemus a lecture on economy and retrenchment . "You must live a little less expensively , " said the noble landowner ; " cut down yourestablishment . It will be lime enough to talk of reducing your rent when you ' ve reduced your style of living . " The tenant was not in the least disconcerted . "Nay , nay ! " he retorted , "if you come to that , my lord , it ' s not t' tenants only that mun cut doon their living -, you landlords mun come down a peg . Folks tell lees o' ye , or there ' s some on ye lets t' big wheel oweMuti t' little un ; an' if there ' s to be ony comin ' doon , we mun all come doon togither . " The noble lord turned on his heel . He had got one homethrust , and had no stomach for another .
A Cheat Ouiv / ittrd . —A Dutch widower , Out West , whose better half departed on a long journey to the spirit land some months a : ; o , determined , tho other day , to consult the " Rappers , ' ] and endeavour to obtain a spiritual communication , feeing anxious respecting the future state ot" his wife . . These " Rappers , " be it known , were not tbegenuine ¦ " mediums , " but a bogus kind—adventurers endeavouring to reap a harvest out of the late mysterious developments . After the usual ceremonies , _ the spirit of " Mrs . Hauntz" manifested , by raps , its willingness to converse with her disconsolate spouse . " Yes , dearest , it is ' your own wife , who " "One tarn lie , you devil of a ghost ! " interrupted Hauntz , starting from his seat , " mine frau speak notting but Deutch ; and she never said tearest in her life . It was always 'Hauntz , you tief ! ' or 'Hauntz , you tirty sebkamp ! ' " and the Dutchman hobbled from the room , well satisfied that the " Rapping spirits " wete all humbugs .
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Beware ot Guinea , Foreign-named Quacks , who Imitate this Advertisement . Pains in the Bach , Qravel , Lumbago , Rheumatism , Oout , Indigestion , Debility , Gonorrhoea , Stricture , Gleet , die . DR . BARKER'S PUBIFIC PILLS ( of which there are useless imitations under other titles ) have in many instances effected a cure when all other means had failed , and arc now established , by the consent of every patient who has yet tried them , as also by the facultv tiumselves , as the most safe and I'fficaclous remedy ever di .-covered for discharges of any kind , retention of the urine , and diseases of the Kidneys and Urinary Organs generally , whether resulting from imprudence or otherwise , which , if neglected , frequently endingin st . no in the bladder , and a lingering death { For Gout , Sciatica , Rheumatism , Tie Doloreux , Erysipelas ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 12, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12071851/page/3/
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