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" " THE SPIRIT OF KONARSKI . h , following is * n English poom read by Captain L "" gtolsinan , ( at the request of the Peet , ) at the Obs ** . Anniversary of the Polish Revolution ot 1 SS 0 , Sixteen - ^ ^ jjov ember , 1846 , at the Bedford Arms on ** „ , chailotte Street , Bedford Square . ] < r « vem ,- ' ' ___
. God who ruleth earth , andby this earth of his , * "" jjjjaw of duty , by deed and sacrifice , A" - ^ fgat n anus ' s msrryrdom , our exiled hopes and Avi v , an vet shall rise again and trample down her foes , ^ obie -sis helmed crown , by Kosciusko's sword ,. Slavonian glorynd b roud recoi d
he oW , a y our p BJ ^ vrAeroes , by tiie cross , the death we endure . *^ i » * * rtMUiv mar seal the tomb , the resurrection's TB 0 OS ^ * tare , oj . ffsrsaw and by Wilna , by the dungeon and the " . take . torture , tresson , exile , our spirits cannot quake : ® Poland shall be free , be one ; her triumph is not far , £ ! jLemother * teach their babes to pray to God against the Tsar .
5- onr deep memories of wrong . hy alt we hope or daret /; tn in God incarnated in action everywhere , * jj ^ jly thoughts , and nightly dreams , by lifelong reso' late » iu , , o 3 never tired endeavour—God ' s vengeance to fulfil . ry the holy bond of peoples , by the many ' giinst the few , Ti fjnunanh y and prosrrts , by onr trust in God—thetrue , ¦ ar the thorny wreath , the shame , the scourge , by the hepe that understands , jrthe giant of the future , the missovern'd of aR lands , $ r f te scoundrel Courts of Europe , diplomatising ' rieht , fivthe Austrian Assassin—aye ! by the Muscovite ; j ^ Frar . ce and England's "juste-mttieu , " and infamy of trade ; * rehave sworn our Poland shall be free , it cannot be unsaid .
By Praga , and by Spielberg , and the far Siberian graves . By the execrable deom " on foot" to the agony that craves gome mitigation , by the flames pour'd in the knouted back , 3 y the fierce mental spasms and tbe corporeal rack . By onr Apostalate of Pain , by tbe Ashes of the Dead , Jy Poland , and by God , —the arrowy doom is sped ; Aye ! Sooner shaU the shadow on the dial travel back , Than Fate retrace her prophecy of Poland ' s glorytrack !
And Wilna was his altar ; even Russian gaolers there fjors'd the barbarian epaulettes : —0 God ! fulfil our prayer ; g God ! to thy martyr's memory upbuild the only tomb—Hit Nation's freedom!—We await the promise of thy doom . W . I . L .
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Lait's Edinburgh Magazine.—December, Edi...
lAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE . —December , Edinburgh : W . Tait , Prince ' s Street . London Simpkins , Marshall , and Go . As usual , tiie political article of this magazine is the worst in the number ; the other contents are , however , interesting , and some of them more than usually so . Mrs . Gore ' s story of " Temptation and Atonement" is concluded . The poems of Franz Dingelstedt , a poet belonging to the " Young Germany" party , an exile from Iiesse Cassel , are noticed at considerable length , and very favourably . "
Difficulties of a Theory of Husband-catching , " is a p easant article directed against the ambition for display , and the desire of luxury , which so largely enters into the composition of the modern English ? osiery . The concluding- volumes of " Lord Nelson ' s Letters and Despatches" are reviewed at great length . The reviewer truly describes Nelson as " the greatest of Ensland ' s naval commanders , and the only one of the number in whom -were united the bold , chivalrous spirit of the northern sea-kin * -, with the consummate skill of the modern tactician . "
The daysof " political economy appear to be numbered . The defection of the Mornina Chronicle , the now great ' champion of the small farm , or rather , small landed proprietary system , has b ^ en followed by the desertion of Tail , now ranged on the side « . f common sense , and common justice . Three remarkable articles are contained in this number well deserving the attention of our readers , who we hope milmakelt their busiuessto perusethem . The first of the articles we allude to is entitled " Letters from the West of Ireland , in which the writer admirably shows np some of the acts of besotted tyranny which have procured Jbr the Irish landloids a world-wide infamy . The * mi- > erable poverty too of many of the Irish landlords is a curse on the land with which
-they are connected . Their estates mortgaged , they are mere receivers of rent for absentee usurers , who reside in London or on the continent . These Shylocks ( the mortgagees , & c . ) intent only on their plunder , will abate not one jot oi their demand , and consequently the unhappy tenantry are subjected to the most grinding oppression . The conieqnence is that * ' The rights of property in Ireland have not been in greater jeopardy than they are at this moment , since the great Cromwell confiscation . " Something must be done at once ( says the writer in Tail ) . "for the people are not just in a humour to see all the corn and the cattle taken out of the country and . starve . " More nower to them ! The second of these articles is on " Celtic Tenures
and Highland Clearings ; " the principal object of which is to show that , whereas the Highlanders of Scotland are as distinct a race from the Lowlandcrs , as the Japanese from the Dutch , and possess customs having with them all the force of law , they have , notwithstanding , been subjected to Lowland Jaw , for the purpose of plundering them of their landed rights , for the advantage of their merciless and infamous landlords . The writer shows that feudalism and danism were two widely different systems . Under the former system the Lowland and English tillers of the soil were mere serfs or slaves , who were merely permitted to cultivate the ground as a privilege granted to them by the baron ; under the sy stem of clanism , the chief was regarded not as the
proprietor of the land , bat merely as the leader of the people . The Highland chief might be a tyrant , despotic and crael to his followers , bat he could not drive them off the land . "Within the last fifty years , however , the Highland peojfle have teen driven from their homes by fire andsword , backed by "the law , " and deprived " of the land- which themselves and their ancestors had held for centuries ; and which were theirs , not only in every sense which justice can admit of , but also theirs in r'g ht of law—the law which had governed iheza for centuries , tbe custom of their country and race . The great Sutherland clearings are cited as a signal example of the outrages to wliich tbe Hig hlanders have been subjected . This article in many respects excellent , is
mothers very faulty ; for instance , the writer asserts , that " the sheep-farming system has been advan- Ugeotis to the community ' at large , as well as a great gain to the Highland landlords . " _ The direct reverse of this hos been proved beyond dispute by the "Jima Commissioner . " 3 lis eomparision of the two counties of Caithness and Sutherland must be fresh in the recollection of our readers , who will remember that he proved the immense superiority of the former over the latter , not only as regards the number and condition of the populatioi , but also in every other respect , save one , that Sutherland was naturallv the richest county of the two ; in spite of which , thanks to the sheep-farmim * system , it had miserably degenerated by the side of the better managed conntv . The writer of the article in Jait says , " that thoug h we think a system of adjustbefore the
ment of riffhts ought to have been adopted clearings commenced , we think it would now be * 09 late . " We don't , tetter late than never ; the sooner the " adjustment" begins , the better . The writer in Tail thinks that the only remedy for the evil new is " a stringent application of the Poor Law ; cempellina Highland proprietors to provide frr the surplus papulation . " We think a much better remedy wouid be to restore to the people the hind plundered from them ; and we are persuaded that as soon as a Parliament assembles in St . Stephen ' s , faithfully representing the people , such a restoration will be enforced , and Sutherland and his fellow robbers will be compelled to disgorge . We now come to the third , and by far the most remarkable of the ' * three articles , " the one on The Law of Primogeniture . " We request the attention of oar readers to the following extract : —•
Tie first glance at the composition of society in England discovers a f . arful inequality of conditions . The most sumptuous luxury ate the most squalid misery mtet the eye at every step in our great cities . In no Earupean country , incepting Russia , is there to be seen *» and , wealih in the vic-wiiy of such wKtchedpovtrty . fc was this alarming aspect of our society that . ed - ^ "W to despair of the fatere destini es of Emrland . 11 evil that i » increasing day by day , aswamiiac-*« - « are developed and small farms amal gamated to-5 ta > w . Capitalists are nmctrous , aud money is often a ?«* S » the market : yet i-auperism abounds , and the « Wu- cm , barely obtain the . HeCeSSariCS Of Ms . lB * «? prcf , ss 5 cn , trade , or occupation , time is an over-* ± * m > S jwsure ofcorr . pttition . The snpply ot « . w , ^ rther mental er phys ;« a ) , manifestly U greater thau ^ saunu . !
, fc 3 tS « d economists profess lo point out the sources o . ^ okiI w ^ Uhj the accumulation of which is their test «* the jT csptritv of a nation . Thehapp icesEofapcople , ^ g from their social well-being , enters not into their ^ Mtniplation . Tried by the former standard , England Ka acs pre-cBinent ; but if by the latfar , die ranis be-- ?» many of the continental states . If bappmessis the ^ auu otSect of nations , a * it is » f individual " , then ta system- arotiwbfst adapted to obtain . ta * t mutt .
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The want of free trade could notaceonnt for this- for trade on the Continent is mon , restricted than it has ' ever been with us . Free trade alone , although it will greatly , will not per manentty } benefit the mass of the labouring population - because tbe supply of labour will speedily exceed the Increased demand , whatever that may be assumed to be and reduce wages in proportion to the reduction of the various articles of subsistence . We , however , conceive it to be a great boon to the wealthy classes , and capable of
becoming one to the whole nation , if connected with a distribution of landed property , which would inevitably follow from a repeal of the laws relating to entail . Population , under the most favourable circumstances will doubtless press npoa the means of subsistence ; but the operation of this law of nature may be ameliorated by provident arrangements . To induce habits of fore , thought and a high standing of living amongst the people , is , we maintain , the only mode of permanently securing their temporal happiness and well-heing , as it is the only practical method of checking their too rapid in .
crense . It is a great and vulgar error to confound national prosperity and national happiness . The distribution rather than the amount of wealth among a people , contributes principally to geneaal happiness . There can be no doubt that our couatrv has added to its riches during the present century ; but it is very clear that tiie well-being of the bulk of the community has not increased in a corresponding ratio . The returns of the Income Tax prove an immense advance in the national wealth since the conclusion of the war . Nevertheless , the condition of the labourer ha * deteriorated ; while that of the capi . talist has improved . Between capital and labour there is a great gulf fixed , and while tbe one ascends in tbe social scale , the course of tbe other is one continued descent .
Reader , mark this : —Luxury and misery are increasing day by day , " as manufactures are developed and small farms ama l gamate together . " "The want of Free Trade could not account for this . " " Free Trade ' alone , although it will greatly , will not permanently benefit the most of the labouring population ; because the supply of labour will speedily exceed the demand , and reduce wages in proportion to the reduction of the various articles of subsistence . " Very true friend Tait ; as Southey says " these are truths and weighty ones : " but why . when far seven
years the Chartists advanced such arguments against the falkelesof the free-traders , whvliad thev not then the support of Tait ? "Why did Tail then month after month denounce the Chartists as " impracticub ' . es , " •« public disturbers . " and '' Tory tonls ? " The writer in Tait says " In producing the present state of things , we , without hesitation , declare the law of Primogeniture to be the principal asent . " lie contends for its repeal and predicts the eoid that must follow ; in support of his argument he refers to the past and present condition of France : —
Look at France , at the period of the Revolution , and mt the present day . In 1789 France was rotten to the core . Governed by the creatures of an imbecile monarch , the nation groaned under the despotism , without the glory , of former reign . The aristoeratical principle of primo ^ enitui e was in full force , and the land was consequently in the possession of a small section of the people , large farms were the result ; and under that boasted system , the soil of France , barely maintained her population , amounting at that time to twenty-fire million- ) . By the last returns the French people exceed thirty-three millions , and , nevertheless , the supply of food is fully equal to the demand .
France is . beyond all question , more prosperous at this momml than at any former period of her history . _ The imports published by official authority show how superior is the present to the formerstate of her people , two-thirds of whom are now eisp ' . oyed in tbe cultivation of the land . This happy result has been chiefly obtained by the subdivwion of the large estates , and the greater attention shown to the culture of the small farms in which they are now divided . The serf has become in many instances the owner of the soil , for tilling which he formerly was . hired . His own pergonal interests are now affected by the produce of tbe land . He no longer toils for wages and the profit of another man , but for hii own direct and immediate advantage .
The following should be read and reiterated whereever the people assemble in workshops , or public meetings;—Our present agricultural and manufacturing systems are rapidly driving all competence , or , in other words , all small capitals out of the field ; and , in the process of time , we shall have no middle class , properly so called , nothing but lords and serfs , great capitalists and paupers . This is an evil that seems to belong to the manufacturing system , and for that reason we should guard against becomin ; mere manufacturers—the journeymen of Europe . With all our love of free trade , we cannot disguise from ourselves the conviction , that society , in an exclusively manufacturing people , is liable to subdivision into masters and woikmen , cotton lords and
operatives . We cannot easily reach the seat of this sorial evil ; because the rich man , who can afford to wait for his proSts , mustalwavs overcome the competition of the comparatively s-mall cpitalists , whose wants are urgent , und admit of no delay . But , in agriculture , the i ca « e is widely different ..:. The small landed proprietor ; can successfully compete with the capitalist , because his ; returns are immediate . Neither in France nor in Tus- cany , Switzerland , or Belgium , do we find large farmers ' driving small ones out of the market . By a system of j co-operation , the humbls proprietors of land can pur- ' chase or hire any expensive machinery for the proper ] culture aud draining of their farms . In Tuscany one- ]
half of the population consists of the families of landed proprietors , living on their own agricultural produce . In France two-thirds of the nation are employed on the soil : and the owners and cultivators of land being nearly equal in social position , and frequently identical , the necessary result is , that society presents no immense chasms as in England . You rarely see there , or in any country where the land is subdivided by the equal succession Of Children to the property of their parents , one many rolling in luxury and surrounded by a swarm of labourers , who have nothing but their daily bread , and little of that . An estated gentleman is a rarity in France or Switzerland , but , on the other band , deep , degrading poverty is still more rare .
Here is an answer to the knaves and fools , who pointing to Ireland , confound the small tenant with the small proprietor—two very different classes : — The positions of the small tenant , and small propriator , are totally different ; and yet it has been too much tha custom to confound these two classes . The unhappy condition of ihe Irish people is often referred to the subdivision of farms , which , for political and other purposes has taken place here . Jfow the truth is , that in Ireland there ar * only nine thousand landed proprietors in a population exceeding eight millions , Protestant ascendency has there co-operated with the law of primogeniture , in throwing the land into the hands of , comparatively speaXing , a few individuals . Here is a " silencer" for the ' over-population ''
moutaers : — We are gravely told , that one source of our distress arises from over-population . No doubt the people are too numerous under the present feudal system ; but how would the case stand , if , by the abolition of the law of primogeniture , the land of the country was gradually subdivided into small propsrties ? Have we not a right to conclude that here , as in France , the soil , by more careful husbindry , and more general culture , would produce sufficient to " maintain a population far more numerous than ours is at present ! If France now supports in comfort and plenty , a population exceeding by one-third the oumber or * her people in 1789 , by means of the equal division of tht laud , why should not our country be rendered capable of maintaining a similar ratio of numerical increase ! Until wehave imitated tbe French in this respect , it is somewhat premature to talk of emigration on alarms scale , of sending our people by thousands to Canada or Sew 2 ealand . Let them BO when there IS a
real necessity , not a factit ious one , as at the present tune . Sufficient tor the day is the evil thereof . Of course Chartism is noticed : — The disturbances in the manufacturing districts in 1 S 12 may be traced , in a great degree , to the general sentiment than prevalent , —that the labour of the working man is not sufficiently remunerated , in a system which labour has accumulated for the benefit of capitalists . Chartism is but the expression of the growing discontent among the masses , at tho indifference entertained by the higher classes for the welfare of the lower .
Chartism Is a hig her manifestation © f the mind of the " million" than the writer in Tait imagines ; but let that pass . The article on the whole is excellent . Reprinted as a tract , with a few notes from a Chartist pen . the article in Tail might be circulated amongst tho people , and , we are confident , would he productive of the best possible results . For this anti-Primogeniture article we will wish Tait a happy new year . "
Simmond's Colonial Magazine. December. L...
SIMMOND'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE . December . London ; Simroends and Ward , Barge Yard , Bncklerstury . . , . .. ., . This number contains several articles worthy the attentive perusal , and serious consideration of the Sesman , the merchant , and the emigrant . Amongst t ? e principal articles are "On the necessity for svini communication between the West Indies and fhtrnited States - " "The Whale Fisheries of Great Britain ltd ' ihe United States ^ " Posirion and Prospects of the Cape Colony ; " "Notes for EmieraiiUt to New Brunswick ; " and a - Vint to the New Zealand chiefs H eki and Kawiu from which we give the following notice of Mrs . iieki : — her brothershe
I went to see Harriet , his wife , and ; was undergoing the operation of having hervch . n tattooed , and ue was the operator . He is exceeding slultol in ibis way . She is a woman of e « -lleut proportions , aVout two or three and twenty ; her manners exceedingly a .. reeab ! e , ni » h a quiet pleasing smile in the expression of her Hos . She has lost one tooth out of tbe upper aw , and her clothing was English print , with a native mat thrown loosely over her shoulders . When a girl she is « aidtobave been very attractive ; so much so , that a cantain of a merchant offered htr lelaUcns £ "" 0 iniaoney to be allowed to marry her . tt » e has been well educated by the missionaries , she is her husband ' s secretary , writes all his letters—in feet she is , there ean be no auestton , a superior woman for a native 1 me * bir retuwoKf-om churcaon , * Sua 4-j 1 , her dreeswaa plain ,
Simmond's Colonial Magazine. December. L...
but her tout-ensembU the picture of neatnsss . She had a Testament in one hand , while the other held an umbrella , with which she sheltered herself from the heat of tbe sun . At the time of my visit to her house she was bath ing her swollen chin with rum . I asked her if she drank it ; she said no , she did not , but that it relieved the pain of her chin , though she much disliked the smell of it . Strans-e it is that although the writer tells us many things of what Ileki said and did , he gives not a word describing this formidable chief—the Wallace of his country ; with whom we unhesitatingly express our sympathy , although we must deplore the sacrifice of life in what must prove a vain struggle for tbe natives , and which , while it lasts , inflicts much
suffering en our own countrymen . Mr . Ilooten concludes in this number his veiy interesting " Rides , Itambles . and Sketches in Texas . " The great object of Mr . II . ' s articles hat been "by the detail of abundant facts , gathered from a woful experience in the persons of the dying , the dead , the shattered in constitution , the ruined , and the . disappointed , " to warn the English people against being misled by shameless writers and unprincipled agents into leaving their native country for that " burning wild , " that den oi" lurking savages , reckless outcasts , and fell diseases "—Texas . Mr . Ilooten has well proved his case , and for the signal service he has done by exposing the truth where so much falsehood previously abounded , we thank him .
Tiie Almanack Of Toe Month — No?. 11 And...
TIIE ALMANACK OF TOE MONTH — No ? . 11 and 12 . London : Punch Office , 85 , Fleetstreet . Wearesorry to announce tho conclusion of this publication . The reason assigned is , that the editor ( G . A . aBeckct ) is connected with as many other works as he can devote time to . The editor adds , " The pain of parting is considerably alleviated by the knowledge , that if we do not meet our readers in this shape , we do in some two or three others ; and we may . perhaps , have more time to spend with them altogether , by not having to run away , as it were , to change our dress so frequently . " The two numbers before us are as full of fun as " an egg ' s full of meat . "
Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine. Nov...
DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE . November , December . London ; Pur . ch Office , 85 , Fleet Street . As Gilbert a Beckett confesses it has been with him , so we fear it is with Douglas Jerrold , lie hn * " too many irons in the fire ; " and hence is not fully aware of the contents of his magazine previous to it . < publication . Surely the Editor would not have allowed the article , " Time versus Labour , " in the November number to have'disgraced his magazine , had he seen it in manuscript . The thing pretends t << be an argument against the Ten Hours' Bill , the agitation for which is represented as enmity against tlte ministry and manufacturers . The miserable " argument" is that " wemust first have cheap bread and
commerce free ; the market of the world for our woollens and our cottons , and then ic , & c , dsc . Why , the fool , have we not " cheap bread" and " commerce free , " as much as we ever shall have ? But it is a mere waste of ink to answer an ignoramus who represents a body of wretched weavers makin » speeches and petitioning against a Ten Hours' Bill We hope that , for the sake of his own character , Douglas Jerrold will look sharp after his contributors , and allow no more rubbish of E . M . ' s to be published under the sanction of his name . Angus Reach terribly cutsjup the old feudal freebooters . "It is n pretty patent fact , that not a few of the ' great old families ' of England would be , at this present moment , ' great old families' in ^ Norfolk Island , had an effective system of metropolitan and detective police existed in the times of their founders—the Burkekimented days of chivalry . " Very true , but Angus
Reach pneeeus to laud the proh'traongers of the pre-, sent day at the expense of their aristocratic predecessors ; thus "The merchant , now-a- days , enters upon a speculation — the feudal gentleman rode a foray ; he of the counting-house has dealings with of er counting-houses— he of the castle had dealings yith other castles ; but they were confined in most cases to the pillaging line of business . The man of the ledger eolkots his debts—the man of the lance gathered in his black mail . " All this is mighty fine , but the difference between the two is more seeming than real . A . Reach quotes approvingly the profit-monger ' s motto , "Buy in the cheapest market , sell in the dearest ; " but " buy in the cheapest market . " means rob the producer of his toages ; "sell in the dearest market , " means cheat the consumer of his money . Really it appears to us that it may be truly said of both classes— " tanta-ra-rara , rogues all !•»
In "these numbers we have continuations of the Editor's story of " St . Giles and St . James , " containing many Jerrold genu . "The advance of the Masses ; " "Social Barbarisms ; " "Night Fair in Alexandria ; " -and some other articles are worthy of commendation . On the other band , there are some specimens of philanthropic twaddle , of which " Divinity ; froni Rags" may be taken as a sample , not worth the room they" occupy . We give the following lines from the December number , not very confident that they will be found readable in the south , although they cannot fail to be appreciated in the far north : —
'JUSTICE . —A REVERIE . BT WILLIAH THOM . Ance wild in woods wi' brither brute , Men hunted day by day ; An ' reive , wi' fell and fitrce dispute , The wolf ' s half-worried prey . Then roughest ruggers ruled the fray , - Fouk awn'd nae ither micht ; An' Justice daui'd nocht word to say , But noo and than ' * Guid nicht 1 " An * slecpit syne . Bauld man grew bigger and got breeks
An' haul'd their huts thegither ; Syne cultivated hail and leeks , An' ate nae ane anither . The heart leant brither-like to brither—Love ruled wi' little fyke ; An * lasses lauchiu ' , tauld their wither That they " be't do the like , " An buckled syne . Aye , lighter , aye—ilk glimmer threw A britcher gleam beyon' it ; Frae holes to huts , huts houses grew , Man shaved an' wore a bonnet ; The gudewife wi' sic power enthronat , An' bnirnie on her knee ; Whilk she could either scaul or scone it , Just as the case micht be ,
An' daut it syne . Ane hunder years , an' mair than that ) Had drousy Justice snor'd ; Till fouk in very peace ( crew fat , In very easdom smor'd . At last an' lang , wi * ae accord , Upon a summer night , They loudly on the lady roar'd , TVha wauken'd in a fright , An' woimert syne . The dosen'd goddess e ' ed the fouk , An' fairlied at their fury ; Glour'd wi' a face as braid ' s our clock At bonuie Inverury . " What would ye m . o , ye sons o' muck "Wha reive me o' my s ! e « pij » ' % May ha'f the wari ' s uuholy luck Fast haud ye in its keepin ' , An'rotyesyne !"
A stark auld man , toom , dour , an' thin , Stood talesman hythe " vote , " His banes stared ' neatli his withei'd skin , An' time had bored his coat . " Our kirk , '' quoth he , " endures a spot Upon her fair repute , An' water winna wa « h the blot , Kor Gospel wring it out , Its sicltar syne . " Our fa ' en guides nae rackt an * rung An' pouch' . ! the sl ; tv « -won plack ; In very kernal Conscience flung , An' wail'd , " Fie ! send it hack . " We'll gie on earth our wealth—our vneack , We'll gar our bairns gang duddy ; Ere we connive wi' heathen Black , *; God send ilk wight a wuddy !
An * hang * im' syne , Now merry Justice held her sides To keep her ribs frae rackin *; She leucl : until her e ' en ran tides , Her very saul was sliakin * . Sac funny were the thoughts that wauken To hear the duildy crew"What slave , " qua'she , " tholes ha'f sic '" whaekin ' As whacks dealt down on you , - Aye silent syne !" "Osetknae sair for siller ' s birtb .
Aye pouch—but binna spcerin '; There ' s nae ae bodle tracks the earth That has nae brought a tear in—Think ye yon holy house ye'r rearin ' Will spotless pennies pay it ?< When some are nawin '—some are shcarin Some aremakin'liayyef , To sell it syne !"
Punch—Parts Lxiv. Lxv. London: Punch Off...
PUNCH—Parts LXIV . LXV . London : Punch Office , So , Fleet-street . " The Snobs of England , " Ihe " Spanisk Ballads , " and an immense variety of satirical hits at all offenders , from Louis Philippe down to Urantley Berkeley , combine to fill these parts with matter rich and racy for the laughter-loving public . In the illustrations , the "King of the Barricades " figures largely and beautifully ! Really , we tremble for i '« iic 7 t lest tho artful dodger of Ihe Tuilleries should , in his wrath , inflict upon our hump-backed friend that worst punishment—the dewratioa of the " Legion of Honour ,
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'K ^^ -P-w 'V . -VI . London : J Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternosterrow . These two parts , containing much valuable matter , close the first volume of the Reasoner , A new series commenced on the 2 nd inst . On tho new plan , the Rea soner is to consist of one carefully written article each week ; each number will aim at exhausting its particular subject , thus presenting a weekly series of essays which niny be consulted lon <> after their publication . The hist leaf of each number is to be devoted , like the " Annals of Industry , " in the People ' s Journal , to the proceed inns of
Communist and other societies , and may bo separated when the volume is to be bound . The first number of the new series is ' a neat , ' eight-paged pamphlet , the appearance of which prepossesses us with the belief that the new series will he more successful than the old . The subject is ' The Society of Theological . Utilitarians ; " the principles , aims , and constituion of which are set before the public . We s » not meddle with this society bevond extracting the following paragraph from the account before-tw , which treats in a common-sense liko manner , a sublet on which , oflate , many conceited men have talked and written a fri ghtful amount of nonsense : —
The parts of Wat Tyler , of Tell , and of the American Revolution , under similar circumstances may he played again . This much must be premised to anticipate the charge of want of manliness and self respect which must He at the door of all Ethics without such provision . It is clearly understood that no intellectual progress can come offorco—that men are not improved by the sword , and that the sole advantage to be gained by this course is the " removal of an obstruction" to the opsration of reason , and then it must have this absolute justification —the utter self-evident impossibility of removine tho obstruction hy moral means . In some countries of Europe , where tyrants rule and espionage prevnils , it is as fatal to liberty to avow it . as in Great Britain it is to draw the sword for it . Under some circumstances moral force is as suicidal of llbuity as physical force under others . The ^ title of the essay in the second number , issued this week , is , " Communities without cost . "
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. Rbal Taktan Toddy . —The Highlanders , from habit , invariably mix their toddy twice as strong as the Luwlandera . I was once sitting on the box of the Aberdeen and Banff coach ' , one very cold , morning , when we stopped at a small inn to change , horses , and Charley informed me we could get a " drap o ' real gude whiskey there , " wishing to knew whether I would prefer it "heeland or lowland fashion : " " for ye ken , " continued the smiling Jehu , ' " ihe heciander says , a ghi ^ s o' whisky and a glass o ' water makes very nood lawhind . toddv—but a glass o' whisky and a j . hss o' whisky dings a ' , for making it real tartan toddv . "
Wood fob Coffi : s . —Old maids should be buried in crab tree ; old bachelors , in elder tree ; married peopln , in penr tree ; ehrono ! o »)' sts , in date tree ; bricklayers and plasterers , in lime tree ; pugilists , in box-wood ; school-masters , in birch ; cowards , in trembling aspen ; and the honest far , in sturdy oak . A Great Makaoek of Cnii . DRBs . — " This ' celebrated Mrs . Pipcliin was a ' marvellous ill-favoured , ill-conditioned old lady , of a stonpinj * figure , with a mottled face , like bad marble , a hook nose ; and a hard grey pyo , that looked as if it might have been hammered atop an anvil without sustaining any injury . Forty years at least hail clasped since the Peruvian mines had been the death of Mr . Pipehin ; but his relict , still wore black bombszeeh . ofsnch a
lustreless , deep , dead , sombre shade , that gas itself could'nt light her up after dark , and her ' presence was a quencher to any number ol ' candles . She was generally spoken of as " a ( rreat manapjer" of children ; and the secret of her management was , to . qive them everything that they diiln ' tlike , and nothirg that they did—which was found to sweeten their dispositions very much . She was such a bitter old lady , that one was tempted to believe there had been some mistake in the application of the Peruvian machinery , and that all her w « . ters of gladness and milk of human kindness had been pumped out dry , instead of the mines . The eristic of this ogress and ' childqueller was in a steep bye-street in Brighton ; where the soil was more than usually chalkv , flinty , nnd
sterile , and the houses were move than usually brittle and thin ; where the small front-gardens had the unaccountable property of producing nothing but marigolds , whatever was sown in them ; and where snails were con > tantly discovered holding on to the street doors , and other public places they were not expected to ornament , with the tenacity of cupping"hisses . In the winter time the air could ' nt he sot out of the castle , and in the summer time it could ' nt be iiot in . There was such a continual reverberation of wind in it . that it sounded like a great shell , which the inhabitants were' rbligedtn hold to their earsni {> htand day , whether they ' liked it or not . It was not , naiuraliy , a frc : » h-sn > cilinj , ' -house ; and in the window of the front parlour , which was never opened . Mrs . Pipehin kept a collection of plants hi
pots , which imparted an earthy flavour of . their own to tiie establishment . However choice exam pies ot their kind , too , these plants were of a kind peculiarly adapted to the embowerment of Mrs . Pipehin . There were half-ii-dozen specimen : ) of the cactus , writhing round bits of lath , like hairy serpents ; another specimen shooting out broad claws , like a oreen lobster ; several creeping vegetables , po :-se . ! seil of sticky and adhesive leaves ; and ono uncomfortable Hower-pot hanging to the ceiling , wliich appeared to have boiled over , and tickling people underneath with its Jong green ends , reminded them of spidersin which Mrs . Pipchin's dwelling was uncommonly prolific , though perhaps it challenged competition » till more proudly , in the season , in point oi' earwits . "—Bonibcvand Son .
The Lkttkr W . —A cockney philologist says that the letter w enters into tiie composition of a woman in all the relations of her life , —e . g ., wife , widow , wirgin , and tuixen .
WILLIAM COBBETT AND SIR WALTER
RALEIGH . Scexb—The other World . ( From Punch . ) Ci-BBETT . Oh ! There you are , Sir Walter . Come , shake hands . My crow ' s p lucked at last . I u < ill speak to you , now . Ralhigii . And right welcome , Master Cobbctt . You have been wont hitherto to use scurvy language of me ; why , I know not ; and civilities have been scant between u * . I rejoice to think tliey shall be frequent henceforth . Cubbktt . Yes , yes . To tell you the plain truth , I could not bear the sight of you . Dnn't loi-k so black ; but it was you who colonised Virginia , and introduced into Ireland that vile , watery , rotgut thing , - the potato .
Ikiitioii Nay , the ^ e be strange reasons for sulky looks . Did 1 not , by the one act , add to our empire a fair territory , fertile in all manner of grain , well watered , ana ' as Muster liariot doth still " opine , rich in precious metals ; and by the other , brin ;; into our Britain a dalicnto fruit , rishfc flavourous and wholesome for confections and sweetmeats ? Coisbeti . Fiddlc-dc-diddle ! Raleioh . Truly you trouble me much , Muster Gobbet . But why your wrath n « ainst that wholesome root , the openawk , as the savages called it , but which we named after the Spaniard , ' potato' ?
CoiniKrr . Wholesome root ! Don't put me in a passion . Do you know that jour precious ' wholesome root' has become the food of two-thirds of Ensland , Ireland , and Scotland ? It is ' pigs ' meat , and lias made pics of the poor people who use it . I did all 1 could , I told all sensible Englishmen , those who tiiok in my Register , what it would come to . It ' s true I didn't use the gallipot phrases that these Oxford and Cambridge doctors , in their black gowns and coivjurine caps , have dosed people with till Ihcir stomachs misjht have turned nt the gibberish if not at tint tldvg itself—your precious potato I mean . 1 didn't write such nonsensical words as your solamims
and tubors , and albumen , and protein , and fibrim , but I said in ; plain Hampshire English , that potatoes were rubbish , that living on them would turn our apple-cheeked , big-boned , farming men and women into windy , herring-guttt d , lantern-jawed sneaks I said it ,-aud it has come to pass . Ralkigh . But I looked not on them save as a thing good for confections , to be baked in p ' ns , as quinces and such fruit ; and tho ' you speak but scurvilyoftliem , l » tnio tell you that theyJ > e marvellous , refreshing and pleasant , eaten sopped in win * , which ih . th take off a coldness belonging to them when raw . Nay , they may , to give them " a better grace , be stewed with prunes . '¦ ¦ . '
Cobbktt . What is the man talking of ? I spoke about potatoes , and not apples . I tell you , people have sunk andstink since potatoes were first planted in Lancashire in lf 20 . And now , instead of good wheaten bread and wholesome streaky bacon , they taste nothing but your cutsed root from year ' s end to year ' s end . But the mischief ' s done , and at an end . Tho potatoes are ruined , stock and seed ! I won't toll you in tho outlandish sallimaufry what has done it ; but it ' s done , and my corn , Cobbett ' scorn , Indian
corn—Ralkioh . I know it well . Lane brought me sundry plants thereof from the colony , which 1 p lanted side by side with my first potatoes , in my garden at Youghall , in Ireland . ' . ' Cobbett . Didyou ? Well then , I almost forgive you tiie p otatoes . But my corn is coming over by ship-loads , to drive the beggarly , watery , waxy potato nut of the fields , where , please the pigs , they'll never be seen again j or , if seen it will be only to please ihe pigs—for tin ; labourers won ' t touch ; em when they learn what ' s good for them . So , here ' s my hand , Sir WiiJiam Ralegh , and I forgive you the potatoes .
> The'Irishman aw > the Sus-kiai . —A gentleman , indisposed and confined to his bed , sent his servant to sec what hour it was hy a sun-dial wliich was t ' astened in his garden . The servant was an Irishman , and being at a loss how to find the time , carried the sun-dial to his master , saying . " Here , sir , now look at tijourxfilS . j [| is a perleot mystery to mo all 0 Y © i \
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t ** * * r *^ s a * s s- ^ r * - * * *•* * ****** * t *¦*¦*•**•*•* , * * -f * * . *«** , / s ^ w ^ * s * j How to obtain Sleep at'Will .- —The following itthe grand secret which has been prescribed at a guinea to each patient : —You are to shut your eyes , and . endeavour to fancy , a column of smoke rising from the nostril . The attention being diverted t » this , breaks off the current of thought , - and you are asleep .. —Library of Secrets and Wrinkles .. .... Rights op Wombs—Mrs . Acton , the ( German ) wife of an Englishman resident at Berlin , and who was lately expelled from that city , has just pubiUheu a work , entitled "' My Emancipation and Expulsion from Berlin . "
Aou of tub Eabtii . —The Rev . Dr . Burton lecturing at Leed # , on " The ' wonderful Antiquity ol the Earth . " stated , that at first tho revelations of teolo ^ y were considered to be inconsistent with the Mosaic account of the creation ,. but'it should be remembered that the first verse of Genesis contained an independent proposition , having no relation to time , but merely asserting that God was the creator ot all thingi . lie observed that we must believe thai before the creation of ; Adam millions of ages had elapsed . Tub Command of the Army in India . — -It is understood mat Lieutonant-General Sir WiiJiam Gonime , Governor and Commander-in-chief at , the Mauritius , will succeed to the command of the Army in India , on the retirement of Lord Gough .
Iikst English Newspaper . — Tho Morning Chronicle mentions a receiii discovery by Mr . Watts , of the British AJufenm , that the celebrated English J ' ercurie , ofloSS , is a forgery , and that consequently the origin of newspapers in this country is still involved in ob ? cui it * . PoucKMA . x ' a Kemcho . n . —An officiiil inquiry hn > , been made to amongnu . the polite force of Liverpool as the religious tei . ets held by iach member of it respectively . Goon , —The directors of tho Eastern Counties Rail ways have issued an order , that all shipwrecked mariners ( duly identified as such ) shall have a free pass along the line . Raoow ) Schools . —Thenunberof llagged Schoob in the metropolis is rapidly increasing . Another establishment has just been added in King Edwardsirci-l , Mile-end , New Town . •¦
Eauly Leabnkiis . —A number of young men in Glasgow meet at an early hour in tho nio-nim / , foi the purpose of improving their minds . Those lali pay a fine , which goes to the purchase of books . " iMORM . NO foSl" UltlTiCISM . —DOMBKY AND SoS —Three parts . of Air . . Charles Dickens's now work have appeared : As yet there is nothing in it eithei novel or interesting . It is a reehaiiffie ' o ' . sumo of hi . « former garbage , and has neitner salt nor pepper to make palatable . What has as yet been dokoi out is stale and insipid . Ovuiflowing- or tub Nile . —Info , niation has just been received from Egypt , by a respectable mercantile house in Belfast , tiiac the overflowing of the Nile has carried 93 villages in Lower Egypt , with all the produce they contained , including a large quantity of flux .
AJo-suiel Cower Okk . — The workmen at tintunnel at , Mussgit-l , near Maueliline , have , within tiw last few days , discovered h rich vein of copper ore . — Ayr Advertiser , A You . ng Criminal . — T ! e y . mth named Seddon , or Siddous , who was tried at tli ..- last Liverpool Assizes , on a charge of murdering a blacking boy at Manchester , anil acquitted , was tried at the Manchester Borough Sessions o : i Wednesday for theft , and found guilty on two indictments . The Keeurderseiittnecd him to ten years' transportation for each olfcncc . Bujr , tub Authoij of " Tub Grays . "—Better late than never : Robert Blair , ike author of" The Grave , " died exactly one hundred years ago , and it is now proposed to erect a monument' to him in the churchyard of AtheUtaue-foial , East Lothian , of which he was parish minister , mid in which capacity he was succeeded by the celebrated John Home , author of "Douglass . "
Rough and IIjjadv . —In speaking of General Taylor ' s cognomen ef " Rough and Ready , " the Mor ning _ Advertiser says that while the General Very sufficiently bears out tiie first epithet , he seems to find some difficulty in justitying the s-econd , I ' assr UMiNinusL'S and a Cheap Tared ! Delivery Company are about to be established in Liverpool * . Tho latter company states in its prospectus that it willjdeiiyer parcels weighing from 3 ibs . t : > 18 . bsany whuru within fuur miles of their offices for horn Id . to 4 i ' . Victory of Factory Gibls . —Most of the factory ladies as Sam Slick culb ihem , at Nos > au , U . S ., have objected ' to work by ciimihi light . The agents rel ' iked to let them out of the yard till bell-time ) b ut the girls eventually iriuinpheu . A Whale , —A very large whale ran ashore near Touletvcauim : . ' days ago , ami iVJi an easy prey lo the villagers , li was upwards ' of sixty feet iu length , una yielded several tons of oil . —lueirness Cunrhr .
1 'Y . eb 1 ' kaok is Dknmakk— 'I he lung of Denmark has publishod an edict , 'declaring the trade between his dominions ; . nd China to be free . This abolishesme monopoly of . the Danish Asiatic Cumpaov , wtiith has hitherto paid large sums to the King for the privilege . V ' ebv Titorfitt . —The Duke of Lucca has suppressed all games of . hazard in his dukedom ; ami has directed that tho casino erected at ( he baths o ; Lueea , for the convenience of strangers , be eonveitu ! into a reading-room , & a ., as well as that at Viareggio . General Tom Thumb is about to visit Halifax Ho h-is announced his intention of holding t » t levees in the New Assembly # ur . m , IJitrriaoji-road .
To Sjiukebs . —A KnighD of the plough , not lift ; miles Irom the farm of Ingliston , alter receiving hi ? " dear won penny lee" at last term , resolved on having a spree with his comrades . In the height of hW merriment , sorrow took the place of joy , wl . en lit discovered that he had lighted his pipe with a £ onot-, 'Jhs Floods m Viuscb . — No fewer than l . oOU ca .-ks of wine have been picked up ilimg the banks of the Suanc , which had been carried away by the laio inund itio . s in France . liLucTitii ; TKLhCitiAriia . —It is and that Government will probably cause ihu exten ion of tiie electric telegraph communication to the royal palaev and government ulh ' oes . . Folicb . —In London tnere are 3 , 000 policemen , i r 110 constables to one magi > trate : in Liverpool 700 policemen to one magistrate ,
Use of Tobacco . —1 find that a sine mode oi tin vim : all animals out of a hole is to smoivc tobacco into it . They appear quite unable to stand the smell , and bolt out immediately in the face of dog or man , rather than put up with it . Tobacco smoke wiU also bring a ferret out of a rabbit hole , whei . everything else fails to do so . —Ut . John ' s Wild Sports of the Highlands . Infant Schools . — At a public meeting in Birmingham , on Friday last , steps wore taken towards ( Stablishiug thirty infant schools in the borough . 1 ' ajuiame . vtary Ex !> b . \ sks . —The Parliamentary ex-I enses alone in establishing the London and Birmingham Hallway were ^ £ 050 per mile ; those of the Great Western , £ 1 , 01 ) 0 per nille . Railway Notices . —A daily issue of the London Gazette was necessary , in order to enable railway & omp uiies to comply with the terms of » he standing ciders directing the publication ot their respective parliamentary notices therein .
lMMOVISMEM OF FltEXCII SlIEEP . — SoillC sllCCp haVo bv'cn purchased iu AfoUiitoulLsliire for shipment to France , where attempts are being made to improve the native breids by crossing with the E ; ij ; - liah loug-wuolled hhiep . Malt Tax . —If all the taxes on beer were repealed , tho same ale now purchased for Otl . per Quart would be 2 d . ; and porter , now 4 d . per quart would be lid . Mr . W . li . Sua ; on the Repeal of the Malt Tux . To Make a Cihup Stew of SoLts axd Ells . — Someofouficcrets for cheap cookery having met with unbounded applause , we ado to them the following : —Take an old pair of boots , and put them in a irying-pan with lard , aid stew them till the ' uppers" come oil ; add pepper and salt , and you w ill . have some fine sole and ( h ) eel soup . —Library of Hicrets and Wrinkles . Irish Loud Mayou . —Sir Gjorge Carroll , the new Lord Mayor of L -ndon , is by birth an Irishman .
J kwishj-Shkbiff . — Baron Meyer de Rothschild has been appointed High Sheriff for Buckinghamshire . Jua . ' . ra Adv . —" Thine reepcctfully" siill continues to send hiaepistles into Utiey and that neighbourhood , purporting to r , ive information "to your advantage , on the , receipt of 20 s . " The Otley " calves" however are wide awake , and Joseph will receive no orders on " Whitechapel . " Finding this to be the ease with some whom he has several timesaddressed , lie has taken up a new styl « , and says , i ! he does not receive the twenty shillings , lie will furnish inloiniation to their " disadvantage . " Fokkign Bricks . —a parcel of 30 , 000 bricks has arrived by a ves ? el from Hamburgh ,. and another ol 40 , 000 , by the Cataiimi , from Antwerp , both cargoes being destined for re-exportation . Goethe . —The German diet proposes purchasing the house of Goethe at Weimar , that it may be preserved tor the gratification of posterity .
Scolds Bev . aiik » . —The ducking stool , a relic ot by-gone times , and dread of all sheens , has , by direction of the mayor of Ipswich , been nainted , renovated , and suspended over the staircase of the Town Hall of Unit town . Decisive Vkrdict aoaixst tub Arcii-bbkb . —In acknowled ging recei pt of tiie unanimous report of the Institute of Architects , against placing the "W ellington statue on the triumphal arch , Lord Morpeth expressed his gratification in finding that the opinion ot the institute agreed with that entertained by the government . Tliu Robbery . of Cracow . —Ife is asserted that Count Kollowrath , one of the Austrian ministers , was so strongly opposed-to tho recent incorporation ot Cracow with the Austrian dominions , that he has tendered his resignation ia consequence of the adoption of that measure . A Shield for the Prixce of Walhs . —The magnificent shield which the King of Prussia has des-
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tined as a present for his godson , the I'rir . ce ot Wales , i-i now almost * completed , and will bo soon ' orwarded to its destination . ' The design Is after a drawing of Cornelius ; the model was made hy tho sculptor Fischer ; and the ' ' whole lins b .-en chiselled with groat skiil by M . Mertens . Diabolical Attkmpt to Blow up a H <> u-b . : Abnut live o ' clock on Sunday morning last , a most diabolical attempt was mnde to . blow up with gunpowder the house of Mr . Thomas Bertwistlc eai ' - penterandh , use builder . Uoltnn-stre ' et . Bnrv . su d also a cottage at the back . It app . Mrs , that ll tew minutes pn-vinus to the explosionMrs . 'Burtwktle .
, hearing some persons under the wim ' ow , aw . ike her husband , who ^ immediatel y sot out ol'k-d , am ! ' . blowing up the slide , saw three men rim from near t e window ; in a short lime afterwards tho oxi-hni ,,,, lookp ' aee . On Monday , the magistrates wmt to view ihe premises , which are in a dieadfully sliartcrcd condition , the hack . * : nd i ' mut windows beiu ^ blown ottt : the pin-lour floor and flags in the lob'y * ¦ vcre also Mown up , together with all dm furniture . Prbvidentiallv . no li ves were lost ; aUhotiirh there wr » fifteen pawns in the two houses . A reward of £ 100 has been nfleivd by the inhabitants of Bury for the apprehension of the r-ffenders .
Wbstminst . 'ii BniDtiE . —The ! relaying of toe foot pavement on this bridge and the wooden r-awpit is proceeding very rapidly , and it is expected th . v ilw bridge will he re-opened to the public in a forti iglr . Tiik CnoLKR . v has been ra-jing in Bagdad si ' ee the cunmt-nffiment ot" the Ramaz-tii . It broke bur , with irreat violence at the very outset , and the popular festivals cawed it to spread in such a manner that n less than a fortnight 4 . 500 persons had faffen vi ' cfims , ( housih a third mirt of the inhabitants had fled . AtU ' Cious Act of Cuiiklty . —An act of the most
diabolical cruelty was perpetrated on the li'tht of Friday or Saturday morning 1 -. > t , in a stable beb n ? - ing to . Mr . White , of the Anchor Inn . Oombehay , by which a valuable hor . « owa ^ dastioyed , under lior-I'ible suffering . The malicious perpetrator of ihe deed inflicted .-a wound on the animal ' s , hi a ! wi'h an instrument supposed to be a pickaxe , of which the nninial died . On bein » dis * seoted ,: i spike-nail , seven inches in lon-. th , was found in it- stomach . A lane reward is announced for information leading to a discovery of the barbarous offender .
C . ifaiu . — Lieutenant-General Sir Beij-uiiin D'Urban has received the appointment of Cnmman- ' - ' cr of the Forces in Canada , and prrcfeds th-fra with his excellency the Earl of Elgin , the Govern r-Gener .-il . Schools op Design * . —It is stated .. that schools of Icsi ' . 'ii will probably be established at Dublin and Belfast . Gukkk CuniiAXTS—The crop of currant * » ro \» n this year in the Morca and Ionian Islands , is s . rid to be the laraest ever known . Life , —It appears , that anion-j 3 . 125 pevs . - . rs deceased , an average ot ' only one is found to att :. '; n the aan of 100 years . Jkn . ny I . ixo is said to have been engaged at Vienna fW four months , at the salarv of 100 , 001 ' r . ( £ 1 . 000 )
Tub Fopr has oftVrrd a gold medal , value , 1 , 000 dollar : ' , forthebpsr- plan of crossing the great Appennine . barrier between Anconaand Rome . Railways—There arc no fewer than ftfty-sixapp ! :-eations toTarlinmentfor new railways , and extensions of existing lines , in Norfolk and Suffolk . Tiik Pope A oak . —Since the accession of the present pope , the Jews of Rome have bi en allowed to open shops and reside in other , places besides the Ghetlo or Je « ry . Monster Thai-tick . —An order has bem givon by Hie York and Newcastle Railway Company , within the last few days , for three miles of trucks !
Wo . voKiivuL—if TitUK .- 'On Urn night of the ith ultimo , when near Girgenti and Seia ' -jca ( Sicily ) , the master of a merchant vessel-saw issuing from the sea an immense flame , with a laiye quantity of smoke , jn the midst of which wer-- elobea of fire , which fell at a great distance , and wi'h considerabo noire . The flames appeared to be a mile ia circumference . Gosssir in " IIion Life . " —It is Mid < ll : \ t the validity of the marriage of the Marquis »> f T * eeda !« ' ! , father of the Marchioness of Douro » nd the Countess of D . ilhousie . is disputed by a lady who claims to
have been previously married to the Marquis by the ' . 'iw nf Scotland . Should this claim be mab ' -ished , it in understood that the succession of the title would be altered , as the legitimacy of an ekk-r brother would be established . A Mayor ' s Titiik Pig . —In P , riil < rewnter , his wm < - "hip the mayor has . nothing but the tithe " . / all the pigs horn within the borough . " This impost is paid in kind . Tiik Qu . iKi . ns . — ' 1 he society of friends has entered into a subscription of £ 2 . 000 in Dublin to rebeve the wants of the poor , and the same body in England have also subscribed £ 20 , 000 for the like purpose .
Vikn . va , Nov . 19 . ' —The ansas ' -in Reined , who for his attempt to murder the Emperor , was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment in the celebrated , fortress of Munkats , in Hungary- , died there a mouth ago . . " Incivkask of the Aumy . —On dit , ami very confidently too , in certain military circles , and t-ln-ie is i _ o he a very considerable increase in the Army . Estimates— ' fifteen regiments it is said , or twelve thou--and men . Gratuitous MAnni . ioss at St . John ' s , Cleekkx * well . —On Monday morning , pursuant to a notice , ¦• onie weeks finee issued by the Rev . Hugh Hughes , the rector of St . John ' s , Clerkenwell , that , marriages wnn'd be celebrated by him gratuitously between parties who were too poor to pay the marriage fees , the Rev . Gentleman . - . ( tended to perform the ceremony . Only two couples availed theros Ives of the benefit thus ottered . . . ¦
Death of the wife of tiik l & tk Ihomas Hood . — _ We resret that we have to announce the decease of the widow of the" Into'Thomas Hood , th . ; celebrated humourist and poet . The public are aware that Mr . Hood ' s life was closed in the midst of much physical suffering and much mental anxiety ; and there is little doubt that the unwearied exertions of Mrs , Hood , her unceasin ? attendance nn her husband ' s de-ith bed , and the "rietand trial which preceded and followed her b- roavement , have been the immediate- ' cause of the disease which has thus prematurely terminated her existence . She expired on the morning of Friday , the 4 th of December .
Catching a Tartao . —We have heard the following account as current in Bradford . A Methodist lecal preacher , residing iu or near Horton . on returning home one night during tho week v . as attacked by a thief , whi'n , after a desperate struggle , the thivf rifled hU pockets of some pence . The preacher , in the stnijr » le , tore away the coat-lap of the highwayman , and , taking it home , found on inspection that there was in the pocket a purse with £ 3 10 < . in it . The Prussian Police . —A Brussels journal publishes a letter from Coblentz , dated the 29 th n ' t ., announcing that the Prussian police , not being disposed to allow Mr . d'l ' . zstein , an opposition member of the Chamber of Deputies in B = hK-h , to travel iu the territories of Prussia , has given ordi-rs to al keepers of inns and other houses of pnlv'ie entertainl nient , to announce immediately his arrival , whether by night or by day . Every contravention of this order ' will cause the keeper the loss of Irs licence .
Shocking Acciuxst . —Last week by the bursting of a cannon at Kuncorn a boy named John Ueati-n Inid his head nearly severed fiom bis b-.-dy . The cannon was fired on the occasion of his employer ' s mi minis . Tuk Enclosure in St . James ' s Park . —Op Saturday , in consequence of repeated complaints to the Coumissioners of Woods and Forests , and the collisions between individuals and the natrkiopets of the ornamental pleasure grounds in St-. James ' s Park , respecting theri ^ ht of admission , instructions < x < i ; o given them that tliey were only to pirvrnt persons in a ragged or very dirty condition fri > m enifrinsr , or who are not decent in appearance or behaviour ; they Ave also not to allow hesuars . or persons w it h bails on their heads , or with parcels < w p .-iW ' .-Hts "' . 'in inconvenient size , such as would obstrr . ct tbe public walks , to enter the enclosure .
BjKMlstflMM Mvsical Kkstivai .- — »" e- --lo . ivistand that the net proceeds of the l » t »* Music ; - ! Festival amount to the sum of . £ 5 , 503 5-i . 1 T < I .. a ie .-nlt r eost {• ratifying as regards the interests of a va'iir . b' . e institution . Mr . Macubaby has been performing smv . fl of htS most popular characters at Plymouth to crewded audiences . l . MPBOVKMKXTS IX TUK PoST-OvFtOK . —la tll'r C <> u' * Se of a few ( lays cnu . ^ idrralilc illr-nttim ; . * * will lake i-la ^ o in St . MarVinV' e-Grantl , asul which , thmmli eli'MIy preliminary , will tend materially to facilitate the daily duty . BlSTHKSK OF THK LaWiCWNO Cl . ASSl ' S AT . IJKttLIK . — 'V \\ e Ahe-la-ChiifoUe Onz-Ate , of the 39 th nil ., slates that so great is thedisticss of the hibourim : classes at Berlin , tlr-t they are e nipi-llfd to pawn almost cvervthinc thev possess tonroeuru bread .
k Steambr ' os FitiK . —Plymouth , Dei ' . f > — A very disastrous fire oeeun-rd this tnorains in Catwater , Plymouth , tvi Uy , ; y <\ the line sti-aaicr Shannon . Commander I , M' -i ' mtt , belonsim : to the Briti-har-d Irish and City of Dublin Steam Company , 'i he steamer was greatly damaged , and . a laigv quantity ot tho Siooils on board wis ( U'st . > uye-A . The vessel bad to be scuttled to put 6 > ut the Ihinvn . LoiiP DusDUKALn ' s Waq Plas . — We understand that the Scientific Commission , appointed _ to examine anil decide on tho merit * of l ) i- < L-niship ' s discovery , is occupied with the investigation ( 'fits rinciple j which neither trenches on Ciptain Wartermed
ner , nor on the ingenious invention gun c . itton , butis , in regard to tho latter , of a totally different -nature , d't tnn cxplcihs instamav-e ^ usiy , like ihe fnlvauic spark , whereas h ; s Lordslu ,. » discovery effects a continuous evolution of" intensely powerful elastic products—liltcthc unrtmittim . ' generation of steam from ' boilim . ' water , the c-hYct of which has been rendered familiar to the public by the steam gun ( or tube of the ingenious Mr . Perkins ) , from which a stream of shot , followed each other in close succession , pass through the atmosphere with less opposition , and consequently transport their overwhelming effect to a greater distance than shells , or shot propelled , singly from artillery .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 12, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12121846/page/3/
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