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      SUNRISE COMES TO-MORROW . ( From a small volume of Poems entitled Reverberations . ) True it is that cloud and mist Biot the clew blue weather ; True that lips that once hive kissed Come no more together . Trne that , when we would do good Evil often follows ; True that green leaves quit the wood Summers lose their swallows . True that we must live alone , Dwell with pale dejections ; . True that we must often moan Over crushed affections .

      True that Mart his queen awaits ; True th « , sad and lonely , "Woman , through her prison-grates , Sees her tyrant only . True the rich despise the poor , And the poor desire Food still from the rich man ' s door , Fuel from his fire . True the pliant—but , if more true , I would not deplore it . If au Eden fade from view , Time may jet restore it . Evil comes and evil goes , But it moves me never : For the Good—the Good—it grows , Buds aud blossoms ever .

      winter still succeeds to Spring , But fresh Springs are coming ; Other birds are on the wing , Other bees are humming . 2 have loved with right good will , Mourned my hopes departed , Dreamed my golden dream , and still Am not broken hearted . What if cherished creeds must fade ? Faith will never leave us ; God preserves what God has made—. Nor can Truth deceive us . let in Light—the holy Light 1 Brothers ; fear it never ; Darkness smiles , aud Wrong grows Right-Let iu Light for ever !

      Let in Light . ' "When this shall be Safe and pleasant duty , Hen in common things shall see Goodness , Truth and Beauty .

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      The Characteristic Features of some of the " Principal Systems of Socialism . By E . V . Kealb , Esq . London : Tupling , Strand . 2 he Christian Socialist . Part IX . London * . Tupliug , Strand . Tracts by Christian Socialists . Nob . VI ., VII ., VIII . JLondou : Tupling , Strand . This list proves that the Christian Socialists are actively engaged in the propagation of their views through the medium of the press . Belonging , as tbe leading members of the

      party do , to the educated and the professional classes ,, they are fully aware of the power of that mightiest of all modern powers , and they torn them to admirable use . It is b y a change of public opinion alone , that such a change in the principles and institutions of society as $ hey advocate can be effected ; and in proportion to their influence over the minds and the affections of their fellow citizens , will the j practical results of their labours become j manifest .

      We have , on various occasions , expressed the gratification vre have experienced from the appearance and the perusal of the writings of this new school of Socialists . It is not without its defects . Among those the most prominent is a tendency , in doctrine , towards Sectarianism , and to lay too much stress upon particular Ecclesiastical systems , as contradistinguished from religion . But this tendency is , upon the whole , tolerably well counteracted hy the catholicity of the writers , and scarcel y deserves mention , compared with the undoubted good they are doing b y familiarising their own class with the facts , opinions , and principle which constitute the staple of' Christian Socialist , ' literature .

      For instance : the hulk of the wealthy and ' comfortable' classes can have scarcely any idea whatever of Socialism in the abstract , except that at the heat it is very Utopian , visionary , and impracticable in its proposals ; and that even where you admit the good intentions of its amiable but deluded propounders , any attempt to carry their systems into effect would lead to wholesale spoliation , immorality , blasphemy , and anarchy . It has been the habit of all sections of the British

      Press to associate Socialism with everything crude , impracticable , irreligious , and mischievous , and the bulk of readers who take their opinions on trust , have , of course , with unresisting passivity , imbibed the ideas thus habitually incalculated . This constituted one of the strongest barriers to the progress of the new social philosophy among those classes , without whose cordial appreciation and assistance any general or permanent introduction of new societarian institutions will be impossible . To these classes the appearance of such a book as Mr , Scale ' s lecture on

      'the characteristic features of some of the Principal Systems of Socialism * will have all the effect of a revelation . They will find that a scholar aud a gentleman—a man of fortune and family , and of high professional standing , who has everything to lose , and nothing to gain by ' anarchy' and 'levelling / so far from considering that these socialistic schemes are dangerous , and ought never to be named to ears polite , treats them with a patient and discriminating , analysis and criticism ; the resalt of which we have 'in the lecture , ' and which , if read with the attention it deserves ,

      will most undoubtedly put to flight * the gorgons and chimera ' s dire , ' conjured up by the ignorant and mendacious scribes of the newspaper and periodical press . In fact , though the pamphlet is a very . brief one—a merit in many cases , and , perhaps , peculiarly so in this—we do not recollect any single work in which the essential features of St . Simonianism , Fourierism , and Owenism , with that variation of tbe latter introduced by Mr . Greaves , called

      * Sacred Socialism , ' are so accurately and ao satisfactorily pourtrayed . With Mr . Neale ' s lecture in his hands , the student who may de-Bite to learn more of a new philosophy , which , -we have no doubt , is ultimately destined to change the whole face of society , has a trusty guide and hand book , which will be of the utmost service to him ; while those who have been accustomed to see Socialism dressed as a species of * raw head and bloody bones , ' will . find sufficient in its pages to undeceive them .

      As a ' Christian Socialist , ' Mr . Neale thus criticises the various systems he passes under review : — Socialism , as I conceive it , is essentially the expression of the feeling of the brotherhood of all men among each other . But , as brothers become such by being the offspring of a common parent , Socialism has , as its natural foundation , the belief of the relation of all men to God as to their Common Father , whom they regard with reverential but impbcit trust , wMIe , on tbe other band , it involves an earnest effort on the part of those who acknowledge this relation to secure to each other all

      requisite facilities for tbe harmonious development of the faculties with which they are severally endowed ; to guarantee to each a full participation m the enjoyments which the goodness of God has attached to our earthly existence , and to treat each other with that friendly deference which true affection inspires ; thus proving themselves brothers m deed , not only in name . Nov , each of the systems to which I have called your attention furnishes a valuable contribution to the complete expression of one or other of the different positions which

      Socialism , if thus conceived , involves . The hierarchical svstem of St . Simon grew out of tbe proposition that the unity of the human race arises from their common relationship to a Divine Father , while it was intended as tbe means of securing to each the power of developing and exercising all the faculties with which he was endowed , and participating in -the enjoyments which would thus be placed within ¦ s is reach . Fourier assumes as the foundation oi his system ao unbounded trust in the wisdom and srcodness of tbe Divine Parent of mankind , while

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      his combinations of series supply tho machinery by which the harmonious development and active exercise of the faculties of each member of the human race should be secured , and furnish the key to the solution of the most difficult problem with which Socialism as a practical system has to deal , the means of converting all labour from a toil into » pleasure , and thus annihilating the gulf which in the world of unorganised labour for ever separates rich from poor . The Socialism of Mr . Owen has the merit , and it is not small , of bringing prominently forward the . unselfish bases of all true Socialism , by proposing as the principle of union an absolute community of property , an absolute equality of the outward means of enjoyment , an unhis combinations of series supply tho machinery by

      conditional surrender of those personal possessions on which we at present set such undue value , and of which we make so unsocial a use . Mr . Owen would remove the temptation to this abuse by removing the subject matter in which it arises . He would effect by the law of the society that which according to my idea of the true social constitution should ha left to the voluntary action of the individuals composing it , and in so doing would , as I believe , arrest the intellectual progress of mankind , and interfere with that natural training for social virtue which the parental relation supplies . Communism seems to me as much to overstep the true province of law in its social aspects , as our present individualism falls short of those limits . Still it

      must never be forgotten that the unselfish readiness to work for ethers as much as for ourselves , the spirit which finds an utterance in the well-known formula "de chacun selon ses capacites a ehaeun selon set besoms ; ' * this feeling , of which Communism is intended to be the expression , is the true ideal of all Socialism . The social principle indeed requires , in my judgment , a readiness to award advantages to other men in proportion to the benefits we derive from their exertions , but It equally demands of us not to claim any superiority of advantage ourselves . God gives us all our powers freely , and freely we should be willing to use them for the good of our fellows . lastly , as tbe Communism of Mr . Owen expresses the state to which , in proportion as men are

      actuated by social feeling , they will voluntarily tend , as does the Socialism of Mr . Greaves point to tbe feeling which lies at the botton of this Communism ; namely , the greater value to be set on the physical , intellectual , and moral attainments of men thanon their outward possessions , and theimportapce to each individual of maintaining a chastened spirit of self-control as the perennial spring of that trustful cheerfulness and active goodness which Socialism should produce . The remarks which I have made upon the systems of the Social "Reformers with whom we have beeuoccupiedto night , must serve as my justification for claiming the epithet Christian as the proper distinctive adjunct to Socialism , and calling upon all

      Socialism to announce itself as Christian , if it would be at once truly social and historically just . We have in these systems the theories of four independent , fearless , original minds , earnest in their own views , propounding them as exclusively the truth on the questions to which Socialism relates . Now if we are not to commit ourselves to any one of these teachers alone , if we assume that each one saw some side or portion of social truth ; if , therefore , we are to seek for a principle which shall harmonise them among themselves , I know not where we shall find one unless we accept as true that profound saying of the gospel , which I select as pre-eminently expressive of the tone of many others of the Christian precepts : " Except ye become as little children ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of God . " For consider what , according to

      these several authors , Socialism demands : —A fearless trustfulness towards God , a readiness to be guided by our natural superiors , a disposition for enjoyment , a general feeling of interest in the objects around us , an absence of the pride of outward distinction , a readiness to be satisfied with the exercise of our powers as such without troubling ourselves as to the reward ; all these are qualities which according to one or other of our Socialist philosophers , are to make up true Socialism . And do not these constitute the very essence of childhood in its healthy manifestations , that is the essence of that character which Christianity eighteen centuries since declared to be an indispensable condition of man ' s true well being ? I aay then , if as Socialists we would be just , we must acknowledge Socialism to be the offspring of Christianity .

      The 'Christian Socialist' is the weekly organ of the party , and contains interesting notices of the progress of the bodies in connexion with the ' Society for Promoting Working Men ' s Associations , ' intelligence of associative and cooperative progress at home and abroad , essays , correspondence , and original articles , elucidatory of the - views entertained by the conductors , and the party of which it is the special organ . In the present part a tale called , the 'Nun ' s Pool , ' is commenced from the powerful and graphic pen of the author of' Alton Locke , ' which promises to be full of interest , and the incidents of which occur at the period when the royal wifekiller undertook the reformation of tbe Church in England—an object which it may be fairly assumed was secondary to plundering it .

      In the tracts before us we find some Tamable truths admirably told . That on * Prevailing Idolatries , ' No . 6 , is deserving of the widest possible circulation , as touching the very root of the difficulties by which we are surrounded , and laying bare , with a skilful but firm hand , the shams and pretences by which , in the midst of superabundant means , to produce universal wealth , prosperity , and contentment , the people of , this country are made and "kept poor , miserable , and vicious . From this tract we . conclude our notice . The analysis are palpable and striking : —

      When the lightning fires the hut of a savage who has just wit enough to feel that there are beings mightier than himself—he sees in his misfortune but the wrath-stroke of a Thunder-God , whom , perhaps , in future he willstrive to appease by timely rites and sacrifices . The Mussulman , again , struck by the like disaster , will be found humbling himself in passive resignation before the will of God , never dreaming that tbe mighty powers of nature are to be overcome by man . Yet , in some countries of Europe or America , every child-almost will tell you that a rod of metal would have averted that destruction , by securing a channel for what he has learned to term the electric fluid or force ; and the mere mention of the event will probably call up the recollection of those achievements of modern science which have made the savage ' s Thunder-God humbly

      to obey man ' s bidding , so as to fetch and carry for him the most trifling and the most solemn messages with unheard-of rapidity , through earth , air , or water , from one end of the globe , if need be , to the other . In his conquering progress through the realm of nature , man , in our days , has tamed and subdued the giant powers of steam , gas , electricity , light , far more thoroughly than of old the beasts of the field ; harnessing one to his car , making another his torch-bearer , a third his messenger , a fourth his draughtsman . Are these to be his last conquests ? Are there no worlds remaining unsubdued ? In the realm of society are there no firegods or gods of darkness before whom we heathenishly worship ? no giant powers which yet blast and crush us , and of whose workings the most pious seem onlyable to say in mere Mabommedanfatalism , It is the will of God f

      We are not satisfied unless the gas-pipes , carried through every street , make day of night throughout every town of England . Are we to remain satisfied whilst society is parcelled out into darkness and light , as really as the period of earth ' s revolution round her axis , whilst a few privileged classes live as it were in the full day-glare of publicity , or in the mellow twilight of comfort , and the masses on the other hand grope unheeded in almost unbroken night , save when some writer goes forth to thread the gloom , his paper-lantern in his hand ? How often have the correspondents of the Morning Chromde on Labour and the Poor , waxed eloquent over the difficulties , over the newness of their task ? And even to the transient ,

      fitful light shed by them across a portion of the thick outer darkness , how few eyes yet are open , how few are yet able to receive it I The rich man going forth among the working classes is truly like one who steps forth into the street at night from the glare of a ball room . Of the want and hunger , of the suffering and brutality that wander or cower iu the darkness , his dazzled eyes now refuse to bear himwitness ; now , maybe , exaggerate the glimmering horrors of the sight . Do we not need a thorough and constant ligbtingup of the night-side of English society ? Is there no power to be discovered and applied for this purpose ? And when people mutter in reply commonplaces about the one half of the world not knowing how the other half live , what

      are" they but worshippers before the shrine of some God of Kight ? AVhy is the whole machinery of retributive justice to be set on foot , if one wretch stabs another , to investigate every circumstance of the crime , and yet thousands are to perish slowly of bad air , bad food , starvation wages , without scarcely ever an inquiry ? Why is a poor man to tramp through the country in search of work , unable to learn even from one parish to another , except by askino- on the-spot , what is the demand for labour , and what are- the wages given , —whilst horse-races , cricket , and Towing matches are daly chronicled in prinfr wbitefc the fluctuation of consols affords a sunrcient staple for the second edition of a London journal , and all wholeiale prices at every market of

      The English Republic. No. 8. London: Wat...

      The English Republic . No . 8 . London : Watson . The present number opens with a paper from Mazzini , entitled ? God , ' the second of a series on « the Duties of Man . ' We need not tell those who are acquainted with the writings of tbe noble Triumvir how admirably it is written , or that it is instinct with the genius and purity of thought which characterises all that comes from his pen . While to those who have been led by the stupid and vile calumnies of the Absolutist press to regard Mazzini as anti-religious , and anarchical in spirit and purpose , we could not commend any more certain correction of the error into which

      tbey have been led than a perusal of this article . "No doubt those who think that prieatianity and Christianity are identical' will be horrified by it ; but Mazzini is too religious to be of the religion of the priests , and we hope that the people will in time learn from his vivid and loving tuition to ' believe in God the Father , Intellect and Love , Creator and Educator of Humanity , ' and to join in that work of « emancipation and progressive development / to promote which is the peculiar mission . of the writer . An article on the 'Direct Sovereignty of the People '—atopic to

      which we have more than once recently directed attention , shows conclusively that the principle is not a new one , as M . Eettinghausen supposed , but was laid down by Ronsseau ninety years ago , and adopted by tbe Jacobin Convention of l'ftKJ , though it did not thoroughly carry it out . The other articles are distinguished by the same uncompromising —perhaps bitter and defiant tone , which has been one of the prominent features of the periodical since its commencement . Mr . Linton has no mercy for the weaknesses of humanity , or the expediences of an extremely

      artificial and complicated state of society , with all the diverse and conflicting influences -which thence arise to operate on the will of individuals . ' Whoever is not for us is against us , ' is his motto ; and as teetotalers always strike hardest at moderate drinkers , so does Mr . Linton lay on most lustil y upon those who approach nearest his own political creed but who , either from want of conviction or , other causes fail to go the full length he does . So far from complaining of this , we believe it

      to be , not only creditable to the individual , but highly useful to society . There is , unfortunately , too great a tendency to tamper with principles—to ' run with the hare and hold with the hound ; ' and we are all the better for the utterances of an earnest , extreme , and unswerving mind , who in the spirit of the ancient Israelite has sworn , ' As for me and my house we will serve the truth and the Republic' We therefore wish success to the labours of Mr . Linton and his colleagues .

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      any importance reach the merchant at his home Or countin g-house every morning ? Why is not labour to nave its acknowledged markets , its regular pubv i- u not tue mc of wa S es in tne roeanest anghsh hamlet a subject of greater importance to J " English people than any quotation of Alabama Ptate Stocks or Spanish Passives ? Are we to wait in order to see our way in this darkness of the labour-world till it lights up with an explosion ? Again , when electricity was discovered to be a force subject to definite laws of action , and . the lightning to be only one of the manifestations of that force , —did men rest satisfied with the discovery ? Was it even enough to have shielded the dwellings of their fellows against the storm ? Did any « B „ . ^ . „ .... , nmo ^

      not other discoverers arise , and boldly make use of that very force for purposes of human fellowship , so as to " annihilate space , " as the hackneyed phrase is , by means of the electric telegraph ; at all events , so as to convert distance of space into nearness of time between man and man ? And are not hundreds of busy brains still at every moment , in all parts Of the world , scheming new applications of electro-magnetism ? And the more the powers of nature grow upon our opening sense , do we not see the more that they are powers destined for our service , apt instruments of all good in the hands of those who understand and wisely wield them , only destructive to those who mistake them , distrust them , play the slave before them , forget man ' s

      holy mission as king of God ' s earth under his Father ' s eye ? Then why is it , that worshipping no Thunder-God , so many of us still fall down and worship before the grim idols of Famine , Pauperism , Speculation ? Why is it that the wise who have traced these effects to their causes , Who have investigated the laws of political economy , and are able to lay down as an axiom that " wages depend upon the demand and supply of labour , " have done yet nothing or next to nothing for the application of those laws even to purposes of social preservation far less of social advancement ? . Nay , how is it that the very discovery of those laws has but given a new [ name tO the old idolatry , and that grown up Englishmen and Frenchmen of the nineteenth

      century as blindly worship supply , and demand , as if a student of physios were to worship the Ley denjar ? Surely I exaggerate nothing . A man earns one shilling a day by labour , whilst it would cost him one shilling and sixpence to keep up the strength requisite for that labour . Good people think it quitehumble and Christian to say " It is the will of God ; " perhaps to add a little in charity to those inadequate wages ; at all events bid bim to be content with his lot , and pass on , perhaps to return again with more bread-tickets . The economist in due time passes by , inquires into the reason , —finds that it is because there are a dozen men wanting the same employment , —expresses the result in a scientific form : " The supply exceeded the demand —the price of labour fell . " Aye , just as the electric fluid struck the house , and it was burned . But why should the supply exceed the demand , inv

      friend ? Why should the electric fluid strike the house ? What if there might be a conducting rod , down which the death-dealing force should pass safely ? What if the force in itself were capable of benefit instead of death , if properly bandied ? aye , and of all prodigiousness of good . And do you not feel it to be so in reality ? Is there . anything more monstrous , more self-repugnant , more fit to make those who see nothing beyond , doubt of all things in earth and heaven , — than that supply , supply of anything save poison or gunpowder , or some other form of death itself , should ever be a cause of ruin ? That one class sjould be ruined when there is too much corn ; another when there is too much sugar ; another when there is too much calico ; a fourth when there is too much labour ; and that at last one even should complain when there is too much money * Too much corn , with the shrieks of Irish famine still

      raging m onr ears ! Too much sugar , with every child in Christendom crying out for more ! Too much calico , with half the world unclad savages Too much labour , with fifteen millions of acres of waste lands at home , and whole half continents abroad scarce tenanted by roaming barbarians ! Too much money , when to make money is the absorbing pursuit of well nigh all <

      Tail's Edinburgh Magazine, For August. L...

      Tail ' s Edinburgh Magazine , for August . London : Simpkin , Marshall , & Co . This is one of the most readable and instructive numbers of this popular magazine we have seen for some time . It is opened by a spirited pleading for the legal and authoritative settlement of that secular and unsectarian system of the Scottish Universities , which has in times past made them so useful , in spite of the existence of tests opposed to the free spirit of the age . As these tests are either practically inoperative , or , when enforced , produce hypocrisy or public injury , the sooner they can be totally abolished , the better for all

      parties . "Craigallen Castle" increases in interest with each number , while under the heads- of "Eastern Travels of tbe Season , " and " " The Goth and the Hun / we have sp irited abstracts of some of the papular publications of the day . The latter is an especially interesting paper on the recent struggle for Hungarian independence . " The vault Hoysb Bell , " * is a capitally told ghost story

      which ends as it ought to do ; and The Bishops and their Incomes , 'lis a story which shows up a nest of monstrous corruption ana shameless robbery , which ought not to be p ermitted to scandalise the Christian world . From the very interesting series of papers under thehead of the " Working Man ' s Way in the World " we take the following description of the barricades , and the "Revolution of i 1830 . How soon the same scenes may be

      reenacted in the streets of Paris , no one knows . In 1830 , Charles the 10 th was driven into exile , but the people were mocked with the monarchy of Louis Philippe instead of the Republic they fought and bled for . Ia 1848 feey

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      drove the so-called « Citev * King " from his throne ; but they have got only a flominal , and , 5 *? a V eritaWe Republic in its place . 1 „ t- uot * 0 Bner ~ will show whether ttifit mocking and shala is deBtined to contiuuQ or I am ^ - KS 7 ohjiion op 1830 . glorious daw *!!? Vr n tthe , history of tue tnree 33 o 0 f J > ty . French revolutions are so I El £ the "faction of moderu readers that which all th ^ dlly , 8 pared the «<* hal of events knnt t n 0 al * e t 0 recur t ° a * tto time of day Ketn , ? LT !\ wUere t 0 lools *«¦ Wat I corns mv ^ r i ' ela v tion to them is J ' What con-SSi f Bd those of my old " comrades with For mv nwn ? i occasion l am acquainted . stan ^ L fi arfc ' l muBi C 0 Efeflfl that , notwith-I - _ . x '* Z th <> warnings received , the Rflvnlnli ™ hu . „ .

      EvTil . f ^ ' t ° der-clap , and overthrow fSfon VW f ° J Parisianso ' ciety . The first Sttf ^ W go » fron was on the fr „ m ? L ° i th 2 Lth ' when > returning homewards shonS ? Ue dU lm ^ ' I was turned back from a K ™ fcI wa . nted t 0 make » and advised to conr ££ L J ° < - ln another dhection , as a bar-S nr K f ° - * in ffly P - J had ne *<* r neara ot barricades , since so familiar in French h „ ° nTJt . Bome fcime before I could comprew m 7 v , goin S - 0 n reaching tbe Pont h . T th f . J ged on the Quai des Augustins , ) I udo some difficulty from the crowd in crossing the o i ; ( , 5- m tne centre of which I witnessed a sngnt fracas between the populace and the troops m tue broad road leading to the Tuileries : the soldiers didnotfire , however , but , advancing slowly witb level bayonets , turned the mob in another direction

      , wben i got at length tomy lodgings , I encountered N , who was uneasily pacing my room , where he had been waiting an age , he said to see me , AH his republican blood was on fire , and every interest in life had vanished , save the inter « ; of the French Revolution , which he de ^ Glared . had begun , and would prove the dawn of a new era of liberty for the world . I was amazed at his frantic enthusiasm , and he not less so at my almost perfect indifference . His object in calling on me was to induce me to aaasist him in gathering a body of our countrymen , whom he said might collect together in the course of the night , and who might signalise themselves and render good service in the cause of freedom . I declined having

      any tmng to do with such an unprofitable speculation , and when asked my reason , frankly avowed my decided aversion to close intimacy with cold steel or hot lead , especially when nothing was to be got by it . I spoke with tbe utmost sincerity , as I really felt the full force of the reasoning of Shakspeare ' u fop , who , "but for those vile guns , would himself have been a soldier . " " Were it a bout of fists or staves , " said I , " I should have less objection ; but I really have no inclination , notwithstanding my regard for you , to set myself up as a target for the benefit of the French republic —if it is to be a republic , of which I am not at all certain . " He assured me that it must be a republic—that nothing else could follow the triumph

      ef the people , which was inevitable ; and that , France once a republic on & settled and stable foundation , would draw all the nations of Europe after her , Britain not excepted . In the hope of diverting his attention from a subject on which I saw he waa too much excited to reason calmly , I inquired for his wife and children . He said he had placed them in a place of safety , and bidden them farewell—perhaps for ever . The interests of the cause he had embraced were , if not dearer to him than they , of more importance to humanity than they to him or he to them , and to those interests he had devoted himself . When he found that I would take no active part , be asked if I would oblige him in another way , and , upon my assenting ,

      said perhaps he would put me to the test ; then taking the addresses of such of our old companions as 1 could remember , he took bis leave . I saw that , though angry at my determination , he had foreseen it , aud was not greatly disappointed . I walked out in the cool of the evening , and endeavoured to get to the Palais Royal , where there had been fighting in the afternoon , but was prevented by the builders of a barricade in the Rue St . Honore , Who compelled me to assist in the labour of digging up the paving-stones and camming them into a water-cart , one end of which had been staved in . I worked at this employment for an hour ; and then , fearing another similar

      engagement , returned home . That desperate measures were resolved on was too plain to be doubted ; and I retired to my domicile with the conviction that something tremendous was at hand . Here I found a note from N , requesting to see mo immediately at the Rue Git le Cour . I went to tbe address indicated—there being no impediments—and found him , with a number of others , some old acquaintances , employed in melting lead , casting bullets , and cutting slugs " three picas thick " for want of sufficient bullet moulds . I was requested to lend a hand in the good work ; and not thinking it proper to object to this department of war , I remained till dawn casting and trimming musket-balls for the use of the patriots .

      I went to bed early on the morning of the 28 th to dream of " battle , and murder , and sudden death , * ' and awoke at a late hour with the opportunity of witnessing the verification of my dream if I chose . My . landlord had not opened his shop , but had disappeared early in tho day . I had to get my own breakfast , the garoon , too , having vanished ; after which , not being able to rest at home , I was about to sally out in the direction of the distant shouting and rattle of musket-shots , when 1 heard tbe measured tread of soldiers in the rear of my dwelling . I ran up stairs and mounted to the top of the house , where , much to my astonishment , I found the missing garcon , surrounded by a store of bricks , stones , broken bott'es , and other

      condiments of the sort , with which he was prepared to pepper the soldiery as soon as they came within shot . As it happened , to my intense satisfaction , he had no use for them . The advancing column crossed the Pont Neuf , and were immediately received on the other side with a volley of similar collectanea , liberally administered from every root and window . A few shots were fired , whether by them iu return I could not make out . They plainly took more care to avoid the compliments they were met with than to resent them . They proceeded to the Hotel de Yille , and after a few minutes' fighting , which I could hear distinctly enough , though I could see nothing , they drove out the insurgents . I passed a miserable and anxious day . Wretched

      within doors , where , from restlessness , I could neither act nor reflect , and apprehensive and bewildered without , a thousand times I wished myself a Frenchman , or that I was a hundred miles away . The noise of the tiring , aud the distant roar of a sea of angry sounds , continued almost without intermission the whole day . The tri-oolour flag was hoiisted in various quarters , and waved gallantry from the summit of Notre Dame , while the tocsin pealed incessantly . Late in the afternoon the troops took up a position on the quay between the Pont Neuf and the Pont des Arts , where , being backed by buildings belonging to the government , they were exempt from the contributions of lumbering sundries everywhere rained upon their heads

      by the citizens . No serious attempt was made by the populace to dislodge them ; but in the course of tbe night they retired into the . LOUVre . The fighting seemed to have ceased as by common consent , about sunset ; and the tumultuous outcries had sunk to a subdued and ominous murmur —an unintermitting stream of dull , portentous sound , without a pause . As it grew dark I shut myself up in my room , and , having tasted nothing since the morning , began rummaging my cupboard for provisions . I had just laid some bread and preserves , sour cheese and a bottle ot bear on the table , when in bounced N in a bath of

      perspiration , swathed in a blue blouse , and black as Erebus with dust , dirt , and gunpowder . He ba > . l been fighting all the rooming in the Hue St . Antoine , in company with a lot of brave fellows , he said , who held life as nothing in the cause of liberty . They had defeated the French general , and repulsed a heavy column of troops by an incessant and deadly fire , with but a comparatively trifling loss to the patriots . "I am come to you , " said he , " for refreshment . There has been little eating and drinking among us to-day ; and 1 would not touch what our starving band wanted more than I did . "

      I pointed to the viands , which he attacked with a true republican appetite . " Think of that infernal braggart , E si" said he . "I found bim , by your direction , last night , and he mouthed and talked big , and promised to meet us at the rendezvous , and I gave him the pass ; but the scoundrel never came . I called again to-night on my way to you , Nobody had seen him all day . I mounted « w troisieme , and knocked at his door . Not a sound in return . I peeped through the key-hole ; the key is in the lock . The beggarly skunk has locked himself in the dark ! The window-shutters are closed ; the wretch is in bed , shaking with fear t I heard him turn and gasp with affright ! Faugh !" " You forget , * ' said I , " that he is seven men in one ! You surely can't expect the proprietor of seven languages , and of a world of accomplishments beside , to expose the casket of such precious treasures to the chances of war ?"

      " Bah ' . " he returned , " this is no time for joking . Let him rot . I would break in and unkennel him ; but the hours are too precious . By the way , have you seen anything of Dick D—— ? There ' s the metal of a man in that boozy little blockhead , after all . He has been out at the work , but missed us somehow . I could not teach the dolt to pronounce the pass , and so consigned him to the care of Franks . - I fancy both found the mosna of guisling somewhere , for Franks showed without him , and ; was not sober enough to give any account of his companion . That scarred old trump has not opened I his lips the whole day save to admit a cartridge ,

      Tail's Edinburgh Magazine, For August. L...

      The young fellows are infatuated with hi , „„¦• and nonchalance . But I must he Z and ST there is no time to lose . " P and doi "S " Won't you rest ? An hour or two ' s sleep—" " Not a wink till tbe work is done . If you choose to Pome with me you shall see something worth looking at . What say you ?" " I have no objection , if I may rel y on your s afe conduct . "

      " That you may , and shall have it . Come . " 1 doffed my coat in obedience to his instructions , and put on a blouse in which I had been used to work at case . We descended the stairs , and proceedmg along the quay to the secret depot of the night before , were admitted at a signal given bv my companion . It was a sort of cellar , hot as ah oven , and crammed with fellows naked , lite the bakers of Paris , to the Waist , making bread , as they termed it , for military digestions ; or , in other words , casting bullets for the next day ' s operations . ? - ; was enthusiastically received , and introtrodueed mo as a friend to the cause . We made but a brief stay ; and each charging himself with a couple of bags of shot slung over his shoulders with beneath

      straps the blouse , set off to consign these indispensable provisions to the caterers for the banquet of the morrow . AiTu * } was ^ "Ms-clear , 8 ta „ y and , did beyond description ; and a light refreshing breeze displayed the flag of freedom as it curled and undulated gracefully in the quiet sky . We crossed the narrow bridge to the church of Notre SV * ° , / £ that t 0 tno right passed over Pont d'Acole to the Quai de la Grive , and thence through sundry tortuous windings to the Rue St . Antoine t te the spot where the victorious stand had wh ^ . ^ ? ga . ID 8 Uhetro ° P theiino . Everywhere barricades met the eye , either completed or »» ^ l . „ con 8 tfuction , and at every barricade we were challenged by sentinelswho . with at . ™ in

      , band , kept scrupulous watch . We had but to show our burdens to be received with a very sicnihcant welcome , and assisted over the unsainly obstacles m our path . Upon arriving « t the spot where the affray had been hottest , at the rear of a barricade near the Place de la Bastiie , the si ght of many lying dead , and the dismal groans of wounded men , in a great measure cowed the enthusiasm I was beginning to feel . Some of the supposed dead men , however , began to move and stretch their limbs ; tbey relieved my mind considerably by their yawning , and gave me reason to hope that the casualties had not been bo numerous as I feared . From the writhings and groans of two poor fellows who Jay on a pallet in an open doorway , I made up

      my mind that it was better to be killed than badly wounded in affairs of the sort , and further came to the conclusion that 1 had done right in declining the risk of either . N relieved me of my burden of bullets , which , as it weighed near a quarter of a hundred weight , I was nothing loth to lose , and proposed that if I did not chooso to remain , which he would not press , he should conduct me home again by a different route . I asked him what was his candid opinion of the prospects of the patriots . " Four hours ago , " said he , " I had someldoubts of tbe issue ; now I have none . The worlt , in fact , is already done . The troops are disheartened and disgusted ; there are many of them who have not fired and will not fire a shot against us . They have

      abandoned the advantages they had won ; and , ensconced in three or four central positions , wait only to be driven out by our combined attack . There are some thousands of barricades already up , and thousands wore will be finished in the morning ; and you will see there will hardly be occasion for a dozen of them . " I offered to leave him with his warlike comrades , and return by myself , as I could see no danger in so doing ; but he preferred accom . panying me , and we set off together in a northwesterly direction , making very slow progress , however , from the frequent challenges we encountered , and the barricades , most of which we had to surmount . It was altogether a novel , curious , and ominous scene . For the

      greatest part of our route the whole adult population seemed to have assembled in the narrow incisures formed by the barricades . The utmost silence compatible with the utmost activity prevailed . Men and women , haggard age and robust youth , wrought together at theit strange employment with a vehemence and celerity that seemed to monopolise every faculty of mind and body . Under the direction of the grim and grizzled old soldiers of the empire , and animated by the example of the students and well-dressed youth of the capital , they dug and hewed , and sawed and hammered , and piled and built in decorous order by the light of flaming torches without parley or questioning . Here a group assembled round a

      flambeau blazing over a blacksmith ' s anvil were seen repairiug muskets aud carbines ; and there a little squad of grinning gamins , who had got possession of an antique rusty bayonet of a century or two ' s date , were mounting it upon a shaft vet green from the country-side . Wherever we went , the scene , though differing in detail , vias the same in character . The swelling murmur that , like the distant roar of angry ocean , never for an instant ceased , challenged the ear to recognise its utmost limits , and ' * gave dreadful note of preparation " tor a strif « plainly destined to be decisive . After something more than an hour ' s walking and scrambling we found ourselves in the vicinity of the Marche des Innocens , at a spot where the

      troops had suffered severely from the tempest of tiles , stones , and heavy masses hurled upon them from tho roofs of a lofty and narrow thoroughfare . Several crushed and lifeless bodies lay heaped together iu the shaddow of a tall building , and three badly bruised and wounded men lay languishing on rude couches under the care of women—the wives and mothers of their antagonists . Thence we made our way to the Pont au Change , where I took leave of my companion , and , crossing both bridges , returned to my lodging , and , with my mind made up as to the results of the coming conflict , to Led , aud at last to sleep . All the world knows how the bloody game was played out and won on the 29 th ; how the third

      day of the Revolution rewarded the gigantic exertions of the second , and avenged the insulting aggressions which characterised the first . The day of popular vengeance had come , and , what rendered its triumph terribly sure , every patriot knew it , and was eager to inflict his share . Along the same routes followed by the troops of yesterday poured the angry masses of to-day . Headed by the students of law and physic , on came the multitudinous bodies of successful combatants against an army of hireling opponents , who individually bore them no ill-will , aod who , famished and worn out with fatigue , promised but a feeble resistance . The multitude that , abandoning their cherished barricades , swarmed over the bridges and through a

      thousand avenues upon the Louvre aud tbe Tuileries , by mere momentum alone might have driven their antagonists from the city . They were received by a smart firing , but the reception they met with was the cold and formal eSort of duty and discipline , hardly of determined hostility , much less of enthusiastic valour . Tho Louvre was first carried , the sudden abandonment of which originated a panic among the defenders of the Tuileries . Confusion , almost amounting to a perfect rout , speedily followed , which might have ended in a massacre of the troops but for the valour and coolness of the Swiss in the gardens , who effectually covered the retreat . The people , having , in the consciousness of their irresistible strength , refused an armistice and

      disdained a parley , where , before the close ef the day , conquerors on all sides ; and now it remained to see what they had got by it- Nobody , however , yet knew that the business ol fighting was over , it was thought that the king , who during the three days had been amusing himself with cards and masses—short rubbers and long prayers—at St . Cloud , might at length wake up , and , by inarching troops and artillery upon the capital , endeavour to re-erect his shattered throne . There was now on all sides as much talking as there had been fighting before . The friends of a Republic were loudest in their declamations , but they had not an atom of real influence . The ordonnances were repealed on the 3 Qth , but it waa too hue , the Tflowwcby had been thrown out of the window , and it was no use now to think of walking down stairs . The populace shouted for Lafayette , and the Republicans ( those , at least , who knew nothing of

      stato plots and intrigues ) bellowed with all their might , "Vive Lafayttel" Lafayette came , in a shower of blossoms and perfume , and brought in his hand—not a Republic , but the Duke of Orleans , who , as lieutenant-general , assumed tbe government . This was on the last day of July . The 1 st of August was a day of rejoicing ; on the 2 nd , the old priest-ridden King abdicated ; and a very short time after , the very next day , if I recollect right , the scurvy rabble of Paris , wibh the natural instinct of the canaille of all countries and timesthe instinct of the mongrel cur who mauls and mutilates the vermin which the mastiff slayslaunched their ragged tries upon Rambouillet , whither he had retired from the : tumult he was too i senseless and feeble to cope with , and brutally i drummed and terrified him out of that lastJtefuge , to seek an exile's home where his successor sought it with far less ceremony seventeen years afterwards—in the land of his hereditary foes .

      The barricades all disappeared , and the shops opened in astonishingly quick time after the accession of the new monarch , for such he became within a few days .

      New Ikclosdrb Act.—By A New * Inclosure ...

      New Ikclosdrb Act . —By a new * Inclosure Act just issued ( 14 and 15 Yic , cap . 54 ) the following places may be enclosed : Hadleigh Common , in Essex ; Hainworth and Lees , in York ; East Anstey in Devon ; Pitfold Manor , in Surrey ; Letton Common and the Fleete , ih Hereford ; Skidhorke-cum-Salifleet , in Lincoln ; South SomercotGB , in the same county ; Uudgurett , in Sussex ; Bentley , in Southampton ; Westhall , in Suffolk ; Ayle * ford in Kent i and Edgeware , in Middlesex . This is the [ second , iuclosure Act of the late session .

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      It Is Wiser To Prevent, Than To Revenge ...

      It is wiser to prevent , than to revenge n quarrel . ^""• snoNsANSWEUKD . — " Is your watch a lever ?" m « t » 'V > e 8 , l have t 0 leave her at the watchmaker s once a week for repairs . " RubinLn pf er 80 tl Io 1 ki ,, S himself in a glass like - £ 2 n « fc . - ° ° thu Island of Juan Fernandez ? S T of ail ue s « rveys . m - nS ^ ' owl ? 3 cl 1 difference is there between a pinch and a punch ?—D'ye sWe it nn ? — Aa mnoh difference ** there is between !' " ^ > A 8 WUCU lr the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St . Peter ' s is ever bmlt in London , on what ground will it be erected ?—On the ground oi Indulgence . —Ihmch . Greater

      A Difficulty thas Marriage —4 young man who has recently taken a wife , says he did not find it as hard to get married as he did to buy the furniture . CHiKlTABLE DONATION . —By an awkward typographical error , a daily journal announces that a gentle * man has given " 00 guineas " towards a certain object . KEnNKMENi . —The latest advance in refining the English language is , instead of say ing he "is raising old IJarrv , " to remark that he is " elevating ancient Henry , " A Good Spt-oiass . —A roan in a neighbouring town , who had a good spy-glass , looked at his third cousin through it , which brought him as near as a first cousin . T as AsTRosQiiBBVozy . isv . —Little Soy : "What ' s the use of an eclipse ? "—/ htfrononwr : •« Oh 1 I dont know ! It gives the sun time for reflection . —Punch .

      A Powerful Author . —a writer , in describing the last scene ot Othello , has this exquisite passage : —• '' Upon which the Moor , seizing a bolster full of rage and jealousy , smothers her . " Emulation looks out for merits that she may exalt herself by a victory . Envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by a defeat . Robberies in Paris . —The Prefect of Police ia Paris has , with the view of preventing robberies , issued an ordinance , prohibiting the sale , or the CS » posing for sale , of keys apart from their locks . * Asti-Tempebawce Bottek . — "Digby , ' will you take some of this butter ?"— " Thank you rearm , 1 belong to the Temperance Society , and can ' t take anything strong . "

      Another Mrs . Paminoton . —A cook , famed for her frequent failures in attempting hard words , being about to purchase a saucepan , asked for one lined with " emanuel , " as "she preferred it for cooking . " American Railways . —The whole number of railways in the United Slates is 335 , measuring 10 . 287 miles in length , and constructed at a cost of 306 , 607 , 954 dollars , or about £ 62 , 000 , 000 sterling . Puritanical " Discipline . "—From communi " cations appearing in the Arbroath Guide , it appear * that the Kirk Sessions there are inflicting " discipline" on persons found guilty of walking on Sundays ; —Scotsman . Has ant body Seen Him ?—In a southern paper we find the fallowing advertisement : — " Run away from his mother , a negro boy of light complexion , six feet high , forty years old , weighing 170 pound , and wearing long hair . "

      The Crystal Palace . —The value of the goods deposited by the various exhibitors in the Crystal Palace is estimated at the enormous total of fifty millions sterling , and the interest on that sum for six months , at 5 per cent ., would be £ 1 , 250 , 000 . A Stream op Music—A little boy , oncoming home from church , where he had seen a person performing on an organ , said to his mother , " Oh ! mammy , I wish you had been at church to-day to see the fun ; a man was pumping music out of an old cupboard 1 "

      Execution in Prussia . —The first exeeution of capital punishment , in Prussia , has just taken place in coafoiraity with the prescriptions of the new penal code , which excludes publicity , The sentence was carried out in the prison court , in the presence of persons deputed to witness the act . Barclay's Brktvkby . —In order that foreigners may form some idi-a of the extent of English breweries , we may mention that the seven JurgC CASKS at Messrs . Barclay ' s brewhouse , known as the " " -Seven Sisters , " hold each 3 , 600 barrels , or 120 , 000 gallons , making in all 907 , 200 gallons , and these ; are frequently emptied in three days . The Offspring of Soldiers . —It is a singular fact , stated by Mr . Marshall , in his work on " Enlisting , " & c , that of the children of soldiers-a very small proportion reaches the age of manhood ; and those who survive are commonly stunted in their growth , and often scrofulous .

      The Eclipse . —A cockney conducted two ladies to the Observatory , to see the eclipse . They were too late , the eclipse was over , and the ladies disappointed . " Oh , " exclaimed our hero , " don ' t fret : I know the astronomer very well , he ia a polite man , and 1 am sure he will begin again . " A Win » y orator in the iSew York legislature , after a lengthy effort , stopped for a drink of water . "I rise , " said Bloss , "to a point of order . " Everybody stared , wondering what the point of order was . * ' What is it ? " asked the Speaker . "I think , Sir , " said Bloss , "it is out of order for a windmill to go by water . "

      A hint to Traveiakbs . —A passenger -in the third class train by the Bristol and Exeter Railway , on being remonstrated with by a fellow passenger for swearing , became exceedingly abusive , and was consequently given in charge at the Bristol station . He was taken before the magistrates , who fined him 15 s ., in addition to ^ which he forfeited his fare to London . The Ox < d Puritan Stock . —An American ' orator , in a late speech , speaking of the settlers of New-England , said , " They were the pattern-men of the world ; not aggressive , not submissive , not hostile , not servile ; doing right , demanding right ;; they were the men who would never wield the oppressor's rod , aud would go mad at the touch of his heel . "

      Small , yet Preciotjs . —A drop of wate ^ . a tear , a dew-drop , a pearl , a crystal . A drop of water for the fainting traveller pa tear of sympathy

      A Cheap Trip io the Exhibition . —A . . labouring man , residing at Iluddersfield ,. lately made a cheap and quick journey from that town to the Ex hibition . He left on the night of the 22 nd ult . for Eondon , with only a few sandwiches ,, and a shilling in his purse , afterpaying his fare ef 5 s . for a . thirdclass railway ticket . He paid his shilling on Wednesday to see the Exhibition in the Crystal Palace ; lie ate his " grub" ia the building , drank from the Crystal fountain , returned home that night , ai . d resumed his work on Thursday morning , without having spent a farthing for either lodgings , eating or drinking during the fifty hours he was from . home . Miscellaneous Statistics , —The lishlwg of the

      General Post Office with gas , cost £ 3 , 04 fr ' n 184 i i last year , it cost only £ l , 4 So , owing to the reduction of price , from competition . —The total qwmtity of wheat imported into the Unitad Kingdom during the second quarter of 1851 , was r , 097 , 569 quarters ; Of wheat flour , 1 , 359 , 100 quarters ; of barley , 314 . 878 quarters ; of oats , 359 , 853 quarters . —The number of sentences of transportation in Great Britain in 1845 , was 3 , 152 '; in 1849 , 2 , 813 . ; in 1850 , 2 , 256 . The number actually transported in the same years , was respectively , 1 , 3 ? 8 , 1 , 3 . ^ 1 , and 2 , 389 . The number in the hulks has risen from 3 , 773 in 1 S 48 > fee 6 , 191 in the- present year , ln the last twelve years there baie been 12 . 98 S sentences of transportation in Irelaad , and 7 , 21 * actual

      deportatWft 3 ' „ .. T . -i ., L " French Spokek Here . ' -It is said that a worthy citizen of our county town brought back with him , on his return from an Exhibition trip , a cord , bearing the words . " Idon . parle Fr & ncais , " which be duly displayed m his shop window , after the fashion of his . metropolitan , brethren ., A wag , having wagered on the success of his movement » entered the sho ? one day , aad requested that h might be permitted to inspect the " Ici on pari Francais" when the good cit . blandly informed him , that " from the great demand for ' them in London he had not been able to get a parcel cfoten , but expected some fine ones in a few days . " Th upshot may readily bo gugssed , and we hardly nee say that the card was , quickly withdrawn . —ih ' r « mingham Mercury , . :

      Partjcuiau Reasons sob , Polling Down the CRvsTiv Palmje . —That having accidentally product d a handsome building—which any metropolis might be proud of—is no reason at all why it should be preserved . That London , ia fact , has so many handsome buildings that an additional one is not in the least wanted . That the building , bea ~ u { ilul as it is , is a perpetual eyesore in the eyes of Belgravia , and blocks up the view from the garret-windows oi the houses opposite . That it would be ' pe'te ^ T ridiculous to maintain a building which oolj too * six mouths building , when there are the ~ the parliament which ' are . not . fimshed jrt j ^ . lapse of as many years . lij " J . B . uich ^ oUid be tained , would only cost M . «» , « f , j uge 8 0 f a downright absurdity by *» "JSJ'JW 00 , 000 . parliament , which havJjp ^^ if source of That , above all , , . *» ° t 0 \ x ^ t he win ows , temptation to the h » w ** vu u — Punch .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 16, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_16081851/page/3/