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Yen , I am oae for your contempt . Tour lordly icofting born—By Wood tha heir of your proud raeen , By birthright , lord , your scorn ; Pate doomed not my ancestral blood Through noble vein ! to flow , My fathers , lord , were honest men—I '< d low , my lard , I ' m low . Ho—no—my lineage cannot mount To one who slew bis way Frem beggary to cursed rule
On Hastings' murderous day ; No fendal plundering *—Norman wrongs My race ' s records show—My fathers only fonghtfor rights—I ' m low , ay lord , I ' m low . I boast no scoundrel ancestry Like those your grace ' s pride , Sings * favourites—honest men ' s disdain—At courts who fawned and lied ; No diplomatic cheat can I , My race ' s glory show—My fathers knew not how to Ik ~ - I'm low , my lord , I ' m low . He unearned heritage I own
Of park and ancient hall , My hard-won wages , lord , alone My own of wealth I caU ; I cannot claim the bought respect That want to wealth must show—1 am but honoured for my worth—Tra low , my lord , I ' m low . Of honest men I ' m not the ( corn—I sever , lord , hare striven To prostitute to my own gain Power by the nation given ; The records of my life , my lord , So corn-tax votes can show , My luxury never starred the poor—Tra low , my lord , I ' m low .
So lackey dogs me with respect , That paid for Pd disdain—For fawning menials at my heels Men look , my lord , in vain . Of human farms , thank heaven , not one My livery ' s shame can show—My pride in man ' s contempt garbs none- ' I ' m low , my lord , I ' m low . I cannot boast of uselessness , For no man doing aught , I earn my living with my bands , Disdaining aught for nought ; . For that I win I labour pay . My every <|» y can show , I'd scorn to live on others' toil—Pm low , my lord , I ' m low .
And yet . my lord , though arrange it be , J , whom yoa high deride , Tour cuff , your scorn , your social drudge , I too , lord , have my pride ; Yes , proud of some things , too , dare I Front pride vrita pride ; ay , though With nought that nukes you nobles high—I ' m low , my lord , I ' m low . I'm proud that , with undoubting trust , My word ail men can take ; That woman ' s heart I never won—Won villain-like , to break ; That upright , spite of poverty . To no man aught I owe ; Tbat duns and debts are yours , not mine , Though L my lord , am low .
I ' m proud in honest labour , lord , My useful days go by ; That no white , weak , unhorsed hand , No silken palm have I ; That for tbe right Pre ever stood , Aa far as right I know ; Nor urged a wrong for private gain—Though I my lord , am low . TheW things are poor in your esteem ; And yet I rank ( hem more In mine , ay , than the prou Jest name . That Norman blood e ' er bore ; Nor would I , for your worthlessness , My scorned worth barter , though Ten times your vaunted rank I won—Though I my lord , am low .
No , keep your pure , your Norman blood , Tour eorenetted shame , Light weigh a hundred coats of arms Against an honest name ; Despite your scoffs , despite your scorn Poor worth , I ' ve learned to know , May well look down on titled sasme—Ay , though , my lord ' tis lew . Greemeieh .
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REVELATIONS POUTIQTJES . LES TROIS VIGTIMES . Pas lb Coins ua Willbbod . [ Political Revelations . The Three Tutim . By the Count deWillbrod . ] London : Armaud , Itathboae-place . { Continued from the Star of October 9 th . ) The death of PaulDidier does not conclude ibis history . The circumstances which preceded , and those that followed , this terrible tragedy , were too extraordinary and inexplicable to be suffered to fall into oblivion . Didier did not carry his secret entirely rwknown to the grave—and there were many , very many , besides him , implicated in his schemes . Whilst the authors of those rigorous orders , the
framers of the telegraphic dispatches , sought to bury the affair in silence , the blood of the victims cried aloud for vengeance ; the survivors of the vanquished party caused agitations in the press , as the tribunal , in the courts of justice , and the conflict between the victims and the executioners , between the Whitessnd fee Sluts , caused mutual recriminations and unexpected revelations . The results of the plot of 1816 , are aptl y figured rathe fortunes of two men who took leading parts iu that drama—M . Decazes and General Donnadien . Each of these men holds the thread of the intrigue , and all the evolutions of the conspiracy . And by the circumstances which now surround them , history will judge of the facts of the case .
The favour lavished on M . Decazes since the revelation of 'July , ' points oat M . Decazes as the representative of the party which triumphed on the 9 th of August , and forwhose success he bid for fifteen years treacherously pared the way . In the disgrace which General Doanadieo has met with , he . on the contrary , represents the vanquished party ; the party faithful to the elder branch of the Bourbons . The latter is laid on tbe shelf—disqualified for employment , by the unfortunate celebrity his Conduct and his writings provided for him in the affair of Grenoble . The former is made Grand Referendary of the Chamber oi Peers , and is the bosom friend oftheTuilleries—the object of private benefaction and put lio liberality . How ia it that the one
is disgraced on / account of the fidelity and zeal shown to the elder branch of the Bourbons , and the other , who , at the same time , apparently exhibited yet greater ardour in the cause , has been so generously rewarded by the party to whom he showed thegreatest enmity ? We can only arrive atthe conclusion that , the services rendered to Louis XVIIL byDeeaze ? , were false , treacherous , and timeserving ; in short , that he was one of those of whom Didier spoke in his last hour . ' when he warned the King to' mistrust men uho had two oaths ia their mouths . ' _ Innocence courts inquiry ; guilt shuns the eye of day ! Since 1816 , Donnadien has never suffered an epportunity of mentioning the facts ofthaterato escape . WhilstDecazeshas ever purchased silence by all the means at his command .
In a letter that M . Simon Didier , son of Paul Didier , aduressed , onthel 7 th of May , 1841 , to the editor of the Cowrier deVIsere , and in which he replies indignantly to the charge of that journal , that his father ' had endeavoured to establish a jacquerie in 1 S 16 , ' we remark the following passage : — And even if my father , without the participation of — ... . -, with wham , ( according to as / mother } , he passed several hours in conference before the final outbreak , had wished to heist upon the throne , was it necessary to destroy the instruments of his elevation f Machiavel gives this advice , and we sow see tbat if thepolicy be somewhatungrateful , it is not bad . At a trial at Grenoble , November 13 th , 1841 , it was fliclareo , that Simon Didur ' s letter contained nothing criminal . Erasures were , therefore , unnecessary—but the Court was anxious to give no pretence for bringing
an action against him . But , although Didier fell a sacrifice , his children and friends have , since the revolution of' Jnlv , ' been more fortunate . Every meraber of his family has bin loaded with honours ; his name has proved a Protecting talisman to ell who cculd call themselves his accomplices , and even the murderer Fieschi , profitted by the halo which surrounded the memory of Didier , to call himself one of the rebels of 1816 , and obtain a share in the general favour- Nor'have the minor actors In the tragedy been forgotten ; the Sums dispensed by tbe budget to the widows and children of the condemned criminals of 1816 , amounted by the 1 st of July , 1841 , to- 13 , 601 f . in the department of Isere alone !!
Such was the conspiracy of 1816 ; and to resume onr narrative by a general reflection , we must add toat the death of the unfortunate men who were then Bednced and led astray by the Orieanist faction , rests on the head of M- Decazes , whose foot was , at * n after reriod , dipped in the blood of the Duke de Berri .
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THE WESTMINSTER AND FOREIGN QTTAR . TERLY REVIEW , fcfr ^ tgff ? Luxforo % Wfaitef « a »« te » fc ^ m ™ . u . The confenttof this number are generallr * ood . The article entitled , ' . Improvement of UadeTpro perty , has disappointed Us , because only dealing mthmattersof third orjTourth-rate interest , in connXajSh . & ° ^ H oa of ** - -We Writer £ tei 5 ? . f . tore «« rf to " Crests of ffnSJSw ft ' - * P" ** ? Stance , notwith . 2 Sf . ? . ! Jl \ ck ' ^ mak «» TOnw admissions , which ! S ?^ W ^ » the 'B « M of Mca » Publication as SK J 2 ^^ r Review . For instance , after stating , „ n ! i J ! eKn \ ^ nsumption requires an additional V f ^ - ' 000 - 000 ' 2 , 000 , 000 ouartflw of wheat , the reviewer addsthat increase of two
, an basnels an acre on the land at present cultivated , would supply the above mentioned demand , and such an increase he believes may be easily obtained by improved cultivation . 'In spite ot Free-Trade arguments ; improved tillage , we are told , would era . ploy a population at present pauperised ; and an exchange of manufactures for agricultural produce might be effected at home , to such an extent as to insure a sufficient supply of food , and increased employment in manufactures . The reviewer adds , tbat it is uncertain whether the requisite supply of agricultural produce can , under present circumstances , be obtained from abroad , and even if it can , that it is Equally aueertain that forei * n countries wilt accept
' the produce of onr industry in payment for the corn which we require , sin «« Aet / ftaeenoui % automow »/ ac turefor themselves . ' These are strange truths to be preached , or atleastacknowledgedby theFwinwufcr Review , the great champion of the Free Traders , who have so pertinaciously insisted that England is not a corn-growing country , but is intended by nature to be the workshop of the world . When the Morn vag Chronicle is teen advocating & small farm proprietary , and the Westminster Review equally zealously calling out for home cultivation ; when , in short , we see Free Traders preaching Chartist 'Anti-League ' doctrines , we may indeed exclaim , ' wonders will never cease / Truly does Cjmsuss Mackat sing
that—* Ever the truth comes uppermost , And ever is justice done !' 1 Wit and Humour'is a chatty , pleasant review of Leigh Hunt's book bearing that name . A review of Lord Csnmu / 8 Life of Lord Seiners' the celebrated Whig , is followed by a well-digested exposure of the system of' Irish Municipal Government , ' wbich , it is plainly shown , requires a sweeping and immediate reform . ' Colney Batch Asylum' is the name given to an interesting article on the treatment of the insane . The article entitled , 'Natural History of the Creation , ' fails to throw much light upon that vexed question . The reviewer avows himself a partisan of the 'Vestiges . '
The notices of * Foreign Literature , ' are fuller in the present than in someof the preceding numbers , although still of unsatisfactory brevity to us . Hmnkich liEias has published , in a substantive form his -poem of Atta Troll ; ' fragments of which appeared six years ago . We are sorry to read that' it was the author's intention to work out his idea more fully , but he never could realise his laudable design , and his poem shared the fate of all the great works of the Germans , snshas the Cologne Cathedral , Spelling ' s Godhead , the Prussian Constitution , dec—it was never completed . Immature as it is , he now presents it to the public , with a jesting hint at a sad and too sufficient apology . Poor Hsiicxis stricken with paralysis , beyond all recovery . * The
Reviewer favours his readers with a part of Heine s carious and characteristic preface , ( why did he not give the whole t ) which we transfer te our columns ; 'Atta Troll ' was produced in the autumn of 1841 , at a period wbea the great heterogeneous mob of ties bandea together against me , had not quite ceased their hurly-burly . It was a huge uproar , and truly I could uot have supposed tbat Germany produces so many rotten apples as were then shot at my head 1 Our fatherland is a highly . faronred land ; it grows no citrons , indeed , no golden oranges , and the laurel waxes but slowly and stuntedly on German ground ; but in the article of rotten apples its exuberance is most satisfactory , as all our great poets have bad cause to sing or say . In that same furious melee in which I was to have lost both crown and head , I lost neither ; and tbe absurd charges , by means of which the vulgar were stirred op against me , have miserably fallen to the ground
without its being necessary that I should stoop to refute them . Time undertook tbe task of my justification , and I must own with gratitude , that the respective German govetuUKUts have done much for me in this respect . The decrees of imprisonment that on every point of the German frontiers longingly await the poet ' s return , are duly renewed every year at the hallowed yule geajoa , when the little candles shine cheerily in the Christmas-trees . These perils by the way have cured me of all wish to visit Germany ; so I celebrate my Christoases in a foreign land , and there too I will end my days in exile . Meanwhile the brave champions of light and truth , who accused me of fickleness and servility , pass thtir days securely in the fatherland , as snugly-endowed placemen , or as officials of a guild , or as assiduous frequenters of a club where every evening they regale patriotically on the vintage of father Rhine , and on sea-girt Scbleswig-Hblsteinish oysters .
'I have had my reasons for noting above the exact period when ' Atta Troll' was composed . It was the time when what is called political poetry was in full bloom . The opposition , as Huge says , sold its leather and became poesy . The Huses were formally enjoined no longer to go about dallying and trifling , but to enlist in the service of the fatherland as eieandieret of freedom or as washerwomen of Christiano-Gertnau nationality There arose , especially at that period , among tbe Teuton bards , tbat vague , fruitless pathos , that useless entbnsiasm , that plunged headlong , in scorn of death , into au ocean of common-places , and which always reminded me of the American sailor who was so hyperbolically devoted to General Jackson , tbat he flung himself from the main tap-gallant mast into the sea , crying mi * 1 die for General Jackson ! ' Though we Germans had then no fleet , yet had we man ; an impassioned sailor
who died for General Jackson in verseand prose . Talent was then a very unlucky gift , for ic brought on its possessor the suspicion of want of character . Eavious dullness had at last , after ages of research , discovered its grand weapon against the insolence of genius ; it bad invented the antithesis ol talent and character . The mass of the public felt almost personally flattered when theyheardit laid dowa tbat respectable people are in general very bad musicians , whilst , on the other hand , good musicians are usually anything bnt respectable people—the main thing , however , In this world , is respectability , not made . The empty head now prided itself on its full heart , and sentiment was a trump card . The reign of the ju | t was about to begin in literature . I remember a writer of those days whose chief merit ia his own eyes was that he did not know how to write ; for his leaden style he was rewarded with a silver beaker .
By tbe immortal Gods ! it behoved at that epoch to defend the imprescriptible rights of mind , the autonomy of art , the sovereign independence , of poetry . As this defence has been the great business of my life , I have leis than ever lost sight of it in the present poem , which both in tone and substance , was a protest against the plebiseita of the tribunes of the day . And , in fact , the first fragments of it that appeared immediately stirred up the bile of your men of character , yeur high-souled Romans . They accused me of attempting , uot only a literary , bnt a social re-action ;> and even of casting scorn on the sacrosanct principle ef human progress . As to the aesthetic value of my poem , I let them then , and I let them now , say of it what they please . I wrote it for my own amusement , in the capricious and fantastic style of tbat romantic school in wbich I passed the pleasantest
years of my youth , until I ended by thrashing the master thereof . In this respect my poem potsibly deserves con . damnation . But thon liest , Brutus , thou liest , Cassias , and thou too liest , Asinius , if you assert that I aim my ridicule at those ideas wbich are a precions and hard won treasure of mankind , and for which I myself have striven and suffered so much , No , it is just because those ideas stand full before the poet ' s eyes in all their g lorious lustre and grandeur , tbat be is seized with irresistible laughter , when he marks how clumsily and coarsely they are apprehended by his shallow contemporaries . He makes merry then as it were at the tern , porary bearskin that invests those idras . There are mirrors so awry that Apollo himself would appear in them a caricature . We laogh in tbat case atthe caricature , not at the god .
From a notice of a work entitled ' Domestic Historv of the Russians under Alexander and Nicholas , ' by " J . n . ScHNHZMR , a Frenchman , to give the following extracts : —
BUSSIA . The Soman sway never extended to the north of Europe and Asia . That cold and silent regien remained inaccessible to the ancients , who were accustomed to the cheerful sunshine and a sky almost always cloudless . It was shrouded from them in a veil of mystery , and dreaded by them ai the home of magic powers ; and if they knew by report that it contained precious metals , they never thought of possessing themselves of treasures which tbey suppose * were guarded by monstrous creatures , griffins , dwarfs , or giants , and tribes to wbem their imagination , or rumours propagated by design or fear , attributed the strangest and most repulsive forms . Thus , then , the eagles of the Cajsars nevtr penetrated those regions , whilst the Germanic invasion , which was destined to renovate tbe Roman world , flowed in quite another direction . That it did indeed slightly touch the
still sparse population of ancient Sarmartia , was owing to tbe adventurous spirit of some of its wandering sons true knighterrants , always accessible to the allurement of booty or warlike glory , andjearing nothing for any danger or any distance . These Normans having established themselves in Novgorod and Kief , influenced , of course , in some degree , the habits and social organisation of those localities ; but their numbers being comparatively small , tbey soon merged in the Slavonic race , which af ter the lapse of a century retained few traces ef its contact with the Teuton stock . As for the third element , Christianity , it was not from Home , the common metropolis of the west , that Russia received it , but from Constantinople , tbe masters of which city , disregarding the essence of that law of charity , had converted it into an instrument of despotism , whilst the clergy had paralysed its generous force by their idle disputes about barren
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subtleties , so that" the spirit of truth , inherent in the Gospel , was smothered in the universal formalism .. Europe felt no interest in Russia when tbe latter was over-ran by the Mongols— ; . No appeal was made to the valour of the warriors of the west , tbey were unmoved by tbs news of the Mongol invasion , and saw in it noTeason for undertaking a era-¦ ade to wbich tbe Church cared not to invite them . Yladimiria and Muscovy , remote provinces of Kief , reoently founded ia the midst of Finnish populations addicted to Paginiim , were at the most known only by name ; besides which , schismatics were , in the eyes of the heroes of the cross , scarcely Christians . The Russians were completely overthrown in two battles ( 1221 and 1237 ) , and subjected to the dominion of the Golden Horde and the Khan of tbe Steppes . Then ensued a
prostration which lasted two centuries , and left profound traces It . the character of that people , European in origin , as well as the Celts and Germans , but which bad been already fashioned to oriental slavery by its connexion with Byeuttlum , and on which its conquerors imposed , in a still higher degree , the immobility of Asiatic usages . Subsequently a long and bloody struggle took place between the Muscovites and the Poles , in which the latter won province after province from their rivals , and at lastjbecame masters of their most venerated sanctuary , the Kremlin of Moscow . But—A marvellous resurrection , begun under I van HI .
TaisUievitch , continued under Ivan IV . Vassilievitch , surnamedthe T « rrib ! e , and consummated under the Tsars of the Honse of Bomanof , revealed a new power to tbe astonishedgaieof Europe . With wonder shebiheld the blows which those Motcovites , but recently the humble subjects of the Mongols , now dealt out to all their enemies , the Poles , the Swedes , and the Tartars of tbe Crimea , vassals of Turkey . Thenceforth It was no longer possible to ignore their existence ; the name of Christians could no longer be refused to those vanquishers of the Infidels , marching beneath the banner of the cross ; and Europe carried her condescension towards tbtm so f » r as to solicit their alliance against the common
enemy , the Ottomans . The ambitious Puss laid the foundation of Russia's greatness . Peter the Great marked out for Ruisla the plan of her policy ; to command the course of her own rivers ; to keep the Baltic open to her vessels ; to confine the Swedes to their peninsula , and weaken Poland by fomenting its intestine divisions ; to profit as much as possible by the decadence of the Ottoman Empire , and attract within her sphere the Christians of Asia subject to the Tnrks and the Persians ; to extend still further her influence and her views of a future commerce with a part of tbe world with which she was in contact along a vast line of frontier ; lastly , to contrive that she should be reckoned for something in the affairs of the west , so
that tbe Tsar might cast a certain weight into the balance wherein are weighed thelutirests of the great sovereigns of the great Christian family : such was tbe programme already devised by Peter , amidst the almost inextricable embarrassments in which his passion for reforms bad sntsngled him in tbs interior of his empire . It was reserved for a woman and a foreigner , Caibbbink II ., to complete the work commenced by Piter . " The partition of Poland was a first revolution in the European system ; Catherine prepared another that is still imminent , by the humiliation of Turkey , and its extinction as a power . " The following describes the actual position of Russia : —
Russia is a world in itself . Its extent is more than half that of Europe , more than ten times that of Prance , In Asia it is prolonged without interruption over another territorial surface , forming a third of tbat division of the globe . To speak more exactly ; the surface of European Russia is nearly five millions and a half of square kilometres ; that of Russia in Asia Is hardly less than fifteen millions ; and that of American Russia is about one million ; total , twenty-one millions of square kUomttres , or more than the double of Europe ( the whole sutface of wbich does not comprise ten millions of square fcilometres ) , and nearly a sixth of tbe whole habitable globe . No doubt the Russian possessions in Asia and America , situated under an inclement sky , are nothing bnt a colonial territory still in so desert a state that if we suppose
the whole population , space even in its western and southern regions , to be spread over all its vast extent , we should not even find three inhabitants to the square kilometre , whilst the proportion is nearly twelve in European Russia , and in France sixty-five . But this colonial territory is contiguous to the mother country , and fonas with it one unbroken whole . A fifth , at least , of Siberia is susceptible of good cultivation , and the earth there contains the treasures tbat most tempt the cupidity of man , not to mention platino , and what are called the common metals , thtugh in reality tbey are much the most precious . In European Russia tbere are vast tracts void of culture and inhabitants ; yet it contains on the whole about fifty-six millions of souls ; and to give an idea of the importance to wbich this new
world , still so imperfectly peopled , and partly plunged in the torpor of barbarian life , may rise at no distaat day , we need only say tbat the births are to tbe population in the proportion ef one to twenty-three or twenty-four , whilst in France the proportion is only one to thirty-four or thirty-fire , and that the annual increase of the population by births exceeds two millions , whilst among us it has not yet rtached one million . Snch is the rapidity with which the Russian population augments , that less tban a century , not so much perhaps as eighty years , will suffice to double it , tbat is to say , to change its sum of inhabitants from sixty to 120 millions . And even then tbe last limit will certainly not have been reached , for great is the fertility of the Muscovite soil , great the variety of its productions , and fruitful in resources the genius of its people . Thongh wanting tbe creative
faculty , we cannot deny them a marvellous aptitude for all kinds of work , and an extreme facility of imitation . Remarkable for their native vigour , they easily accommodate themselves to all situations . Placid in temper cheerful , and inaccessible to the thought of danger , tbey are at the same time greedy ot gain , habituated to suspicion as well as to submission , and have all the defects that flow from that source , —craft , love of intrigue , a moral suppleness equal to their manual suppleness , and which unhappily never hesitates at a lfc or an act of dishonesty . Russia is the seat of a young , active , stirring , ambitious civilisation , which every day achieves some new step in advance . It is , moreover , united , compact , subject to one law , a living law in some sort , and to which religion , still In possession of ail its . poiver , notwithstanding its wast of enlightenment , lends the full force of its potent sanction .
' This empire , placed on the confines of Europe and Asia , ' says ML de Bonald , ' presses on them both at once , and never since tbe Romans has any power shown a greater expansive force . So it is in every state in which the government is enlightened and tbe people barbarous , and which combines extreme skill In the prime mover with extreme docility In the instrument . ' This is moat true ; and beholding the colossal proportions of an empire endowed with such expansive power , it has been asked , with much show of reason , what are Prance , Great Britain ( isolated from her immense colonies ) , Germany , Italy—what are all those old seats of a perhaps decrepit civilisation in comparison with this theatre of a new , active , exuberant , energetic life ? What is to be the future of this gigantic power ?
What we do very well understand , is the alarm at this moment manifested in all parts of Germany . The knot of the Russian question Is evidently Poland . * * It has been well said by an anonjmous writer—Que of two things will happen , eitber Poland will remain an ulcer and a danger for Russia , or it will become a great danger for Europe . Let us translate this proposition into other terms . With respect to Poland , the Emperor of Russia Is engaged in a great work of assimilation , begun before the invention of Panslavism , but which this novelty tbat has recently emerged above the European horizon , and which certain Poles have caught at with unexpected ardour , may efficaciously aid . The emperor will succeed in his task or he will not . In the latter case we shall perhaps witness the fulfilment of M . de Chateaubriand ' s
prediction : 'The Muscovites will only cure themselves of Poland by converting it into a desert . ' But before the silence of death shall brood over an immense mass of ruins , bow many convulsions will have preceded tbe catastrophe , and to what fresh embarrassments will a righteous retribution have condemned the three partitioning powers 1 In the former case , that is if the work oi assimilation succeeds , either by the triumph of Panslavism directed in accordance of the views of Russia in concert with a part of the Polish nobility , er by tbe system hitherto pursued ( in which the refractory nobles are altogether passed over , and the Tsar acts iu preference on the middle and lower classes , which regard htm with less aversion ) , will not Russia have achieved a vast advantage t Will she not have worked her way close to the
very heart of Europe ? And when tbe kingdom of Poland shall have become the advanced guard of tbe Muscovite power , then decorated with the title of Empire of tbe Slavons , how will it be then With Galicia and Posen , countries more hostile to the Germans tban has been commonly supposed , notwithstanding tbe benefits tbey have received from them ! Does any one imagine that these other fragments of tbe old re . public of Poland will hang back , and be content to bend beneath the German yoke , so abhorrent to their race f Is it not to be feared that tbe whole monarchy of the Jagellons will then be reconstituted in favour of a people , until that time , the inveterate foe of the Polep , but which shall have skilfully profited by the incurable levity of the latter , and the inconsistent and unstable character of the Slaves in general ! No doubt this great
empire of the Slaves , supposing it should arise , would exist but for a time ; no doubt its creation would , even more tban the long-projected and still apparently remote acquisition of Constantinople , augment that principle of dissolution to which we have already alluded as lurking in the frame of the Muscovite colossus ; but meanwhile what would have become of the balance of power in Europe i E-penally , bow could unfortunate Germany preserve herself from the talona of the double-headed eagie , that never loose their hold on tho quarry they have once elatch . d ! The mere apprehension of such a danger , —chimerical , we would fain hope , as yet , bat which nevertheless involves no impossibility , and wbich begins to occupy the serious attention of Germany , —attests the power of that divine Nemesis which visits with vengeance every misdeed of nations as well as individuals *
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There are further extracts given in the review , for which , we cannot afford room . r The original work seems to bo well worthy the attention of " all thinkers . ¦ . Notices of several other works , EnBUehandfoxeign , are contained m this number , which concludes with a list ot the election returns of the two last general elections , of considerable value for reference , showing the number of members for each county , city , Ac , tbe number of registered electors , and the . votes recorded for each candidate in the elections of 1841 and 18 * 7 .
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* On signing the project of partition , in 1772 , Maria Theresa added the following words in her own hand : 'Placet , since so many men , andmenof 8 neh understanding , require it of me ; but long after I am dead will be seen what results from this violation of all that has hitherto been regarded as just and sacred . '
Simmonds S Colonial Magazine. October. L...
Simmonds s Colonial Magazine . October . London : Simmondsand Co ., Barge-yard , Bucklersbury . Articles on the ' Progress of Discovery in South Australia , 'the 'Geology of Prince Edward Island / the Mineral and Affricnltural Resources of Malacca , ' Australia and its Characteristics , ' and' Prison Discipline in Van Dieman's Land ; ' will be found well worth perusal by all interested in our colonial empire , -though not inclined to accept Dr Roiph's natural and effectual remedy for national distress , namely , Colonisation , we can heartily sympathise with most of his views respecting the colonial office and the designs of our grasping manufacturers The hmnbug of negro conversions is well shown up by W . SHRBEVB . in his account of Sierra Leone . We wish our . Exeter Ilall philanthropists would take note of the following : —
In bringing to a conclusion these brisf pages on the Colony of Siena Leone , it is a matter of the deepest regret to think that after so many years of exertion how little in reality have our humane and benevoknt efforts for the welfare of the African race succeeded or an-< wered the desired end of tbe projectors of them ; for when we come to reflect upon the immense expenditure which has been lavished with an unsparing band to destroy that inhuman traffic in man , the maintenance of a naval squadron to guard tbe const , the costly civil ex . penditure , the magnificent salaries of Us officers , the sickness and tbe mortality which has removed so many
excellent men from the scene , our hopes almostlangnisb and tbe heart seems to sink in despair of ever effecting any real or permanent good in the retention of this illstarred settlement . As for the Colony ever having been a profitable settlement to tbe British Crown , is entirely out of the question ; its revenue being far short of an equality with its expenditure— 'A molehill to a mountain , an Ossa to aw art ; ' nay , at the present day , it cannot pay the salaries of the officers by wbich it is governed ; indeed this expectation has , I believe , never been entertained . The cause » f humanity Jn the behalf of the benighted African , alone tbeprimary object sought for , and to accomplish this , immense sacrifices of life and wealth have been the consequence , but with success truly disheartening .
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. October. Lond...
Tait ' s Edinburgh Magazine . October . London : Simpkin and Marshal ) , Positively , we are tired of reading the nonsensical rubbish given to the world by that queer genius , De Quincey , who occupies some sixteen pages of this number of Tail with his outrageous balderdash . Miranda : a tale of the French Revolution , ' promises to be a well-told story . Of course , we do not expect Mr St John to impart to his readers any very profound views of the mighty struggle his tale is to illustrate . Historians having made a ' raw head and bloody bones' romance of the French Revolution , it is not reasonable to expect that novelists will promulgate any thing nearer to the truth . We have been much p ] eas « d with the ' Descriptive Sketch of tbePmin ^ bf BandeikunaV The poem byW . C . Rennet , which will be found in another column , we extract from the present number of this magazine—a poem well- worthy of the applause of all haters of class-domination .
The People's Journal. Part Xxii. London:...
The People ' s Journal . Part XXII . London : J . Bennett , 69 . Fleet-street . The most interesting article in this part of the People ' s Journal , is that entitled'Co-operative Life in America , ' from the pen of the celebrated H . Greely , editor of the NewYobk Tribune , which we shall try to find room for in our next . The other contents of this part are of the usual character .
Tbs Family Hbbald. Part £3. London: G. B...
Tbs Family Hbbald . Part £ 3 . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . Having in our last number recorded our undiminished approval of this well-conducted periodical , it is unnecessary to say more than that the present part is fully equal to those which have preceded it . There is , however , one word of fault-finding we must append . We notice in number 229 , a poem , entitled TheMitherless Bairn , taken unacknowledged from the poems ofWnxuu Thom , the Inverury poet , This is unfair , though of course , so far at least as the editor is concerned , unintentional .
The Miners Advocate. September. October....
The Miners Advocate . September . October . Edited and published by William Daniells , Douglas , Isle of Man . A searching review of Mr Commissioner Tremenheere ' s Report , ' upon the state of tbe population in the mining districts , ' and several other matters of considerable interest to miners , constitute the attraction of these two numbers of the Advocate . A publication well worthy of extensive public patronage .
The Herald Op Co-Operation. October. Rob...
The Herald op Co-operation . October . Robin son , Douglas , Isle of Man . ^ This number of the organ of the Leeds Redemption Society , contains an article in reply te Mr Maizini ' s strictures en Communism , report of a meeting of tbe society , a discussion on Communism , between Gocdwyn Barraby and several opponents , with other matters , readable and interesting .
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Father Mathew is going to teetotalise the Americans in the spring of 1848 . The annual soiree of the Manchester Athcnteum is fixed for Thiirsday , the 18 th of November . Archi . bald Alison , Esq ., the well-known historian of the French Revolution , is to preside . The Scientific Congress now sitting at Venice has resolved that its sittings in 1818 shall be held at Sienna , and in 1849 at Bologna . Mr Moylan , the judge of the Westminster County Court , has decided that leaving a summons at a club house , even if the party summoned have no fixed place of residence , is net a sufficient service . A wag in Pennsylvania not long since purchased a fine horse ; returning from a ride a few days afterwards , he said he had discovered a quality in this animal which added fifty dollars to its value : —it shyed at a bum-bailiff .
No fewer than 220 clerks , besides messengers and others , are employed in the money-order department of the London post-office ; and upon au average 10 , 000 letters of advice are received every morning . At the Westminster County Court it has been decided that a servant has no right to refuse to shake mats on a Sunday , unless she has made an express agreement with her mistress to tbat effect . It has been calculated that there are now about 108 , 000 women servants in London . The Company of Chinese Actors have left New York for London , There are 202 insurance offices now in existence in Great Britain .
A traveller on the York and Newcastle Railway says he was lately detained at Sessay twenty-seven minutes . Oa inquiring the cause , he learned that the Lady Mayoress ( Mrs Hudson ) had sent by telegraph for a pine apple , and that the train was waiting its arrival , that her ladyship might not be disappointed ! It is stated , on the authority of the Continental papers , that the government of Russia is about to exempt for ten years the fishermen of the northern coastof that country from the payment of all duties on the salt employed in the preparation of the
produce of their fisheries . At the County Court held at Barnard Castle , a few days ago , it was decided that a publican could not recover for spirits sold out of the house iu quantities less than one pound sterling in value . Many publicans have the insDression that this law merely relates to spirits sold in the house . A gold mine has just been discovered in the government of Irtusk , in Siberia , in which this metal is found in a state of complete alloy with silver , a mineralogical fact which is extremely rare .
A St Petersburg !! letter states that tbe amount in value of the corn exported from Russia since the last harvest is 32 , 891 , 662 roubles , equalling about
132 . 000 . 000 f . For a negro to emigrate from Maryland is an indictable offence . To emigrate to Ohio or Indiana is a penal offence . The bailiff of Melbourne lately impounded a stray beast , and having invited a number of his friends to a neighbouring ' public' to enjoy themselves at tho expense of the owner of the animal , was somewhat mortified to find that he himself was the victim . A pair of moose deer , from Java , have arrived in London , the first of the kind , it is said , ever brought to England alive , They are about six inches high , in condition , and will no doubt excite the attention ol naturalists .
Three Jews , each of mature size , applying to hire a gig for a distant journey in one day , were remonstrated with by tbe ewner of the horse , at contemplating such a journey ; upon which one of them replied , ' Vy , ve ' ve all got vipu !' At the Devizes petty sessions , a few days since , a roan was sentenced to pay a fine of 20 s . for having assaulted a young woman , by kissing her without her consent . The ladies will be glad to learn that amongst tbe new lists of patents is one for retaining the waist of the human body in a desirable form , without producing any inconvenience resulting from tight lacing . The crop of apples has been so abundant in Normandy that in many orchards the branches of the trees have been broken by the weight of the fruit .
The thin outside rind of cucumbers scattered about the floors of apartments iufested with cockroaches will extirpate them . The remedy is simple , and worth atrial . Among tbeDyaks in Borneo , a man is not allowed to marry until he has obtained the head ef at least one human being .
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Letters On Grammar. No. 8. To The Workin...
LETTERS ON GRAMMAR . No . 8 . TO THE WORKING CLASSES . MtDbab , FawHus , It only remains for us now to conuder the Cases of the Personal Pronouns . These are the same as in the Nouns . As the Pronouns change their forms , it will be requisite for me to give yon a table oi them , which you will read over until yon are perfectly acquainted with its contents .
1 st . Person . Case . Singular . t ? laral . Nam . I -yye $ ** ' To me To us Pass . Mine Ours Obj . Me Us 2 nd . person , Norn . Thou You Dat . To thee To you Pass . Thine Tours Obj- Thee Yon
3 rd . Person Masculine Norn . He They Dot . To him To them Pm - His Theirs % "• Hira Them 3 rd , Person Feminine Norn . she T > at . To her Poss . Hers Obj . Her 3 rd . Person Neuter .
Nom It Bat . To it Poss . Its . Obj . It The plural is the same for the three genders . I wish you to remark , especially with regard to the Nominative and Objective cases of Pronouns , that the Nominative is the subject , the Objective the object of the Verb ; because there are very few of what are called ( perhaps ironically !) the educated classes ,
who do not constantl y blunder in the u 8 C Ol tile Objective case : especially when they attempt to join pronouns of different persons together—for instance , you may constantly hear such phrases as ' I think there will be enough of it for you and I . ' « I told her you and me were going there to-morrow ; ' The first of these sentences is wrong , because the parties speaking are those for whom there will be enoughthey are the oejecf ' , not the subject of the Verb . The first sentence should therefore be , ' I think there will he enough of it for you and wie . '
In the second phrase , / should be substituted for me , because' uou ond I * are Yhe sw & jecis of the Verb , ' we are going there . ' There are , however , two yery simple ways of ascertaining whether ^ you are using the right cases of the Pronoun . Either reverse the two pronouns , and put the first person before the second , or use the plural instead of the two singular pronouns . In either way you will be able immediately to discover an error ; for even those who would be stupid enough to make the mistakes of which I have given you examples would not say , * I think there will bfl enough of it for J and you , ' or ' I teld her us were going there to-morrow .
You may , therefore , be sure that if the plural pronoun sounds incarrectly , the singular must really be inaccurate , although the number of ignorant people who use it have made it common . Relative Pronouns relate to a word , or a phrase in some other part of the sentence : when we assert a thing , this word or phrase usually goes before the pronoun ; when we are asking a question , it is generally contained in the reply . but Ibfty are catted Relative because they must relate to some such word or phrase , and can no more exist without it than a child can exist without parents . The Relative Pronouns are who , which , and that . Who is applied to separate and distinct persons
o or women , but not to bodies of men nor even to little children ; because it seems to suppose reason and responsibility . Which is applied to irrational and inanimate things . That is a very useful relative , since we apply it equally to persons and things , in the singular and in the plural—to individuals and societies , we sometimes use it even with the other relatives , as , ' WhoihatMs witnessed the deplorable state of the peasantry can avoid desiring a more rational legislation ?' The relative pronouns are the same in the singular and the plural : rvho has the following changes
in its cases : — Nom . Who Bat . To whom Poss . Whose Obj . Whom . You will observe that the great distinction between the personal and the relative pronouns arises from the circumstance that whilst the personal are never found in the same part of the sentence with the nouns for which they stand , the relative are generally close to those nouns , as' The man who does his duty is respected . ' 1 The ship which I saw . '
1 The child that you mentioned . ' Like some other English words , that is sometimes one part of speech , sometimes another j it is always a relative pronoun when you can turn it into who , or which without making nonsense of the sentence . 'The tyrants that ( who ) desire to enslave will be compelled to bow to our power . ' There is another word which seems to be a species of mongrel relative , since it supplies the place
of noun and relative . It is What t as' This is what I toiled for '—or , ' This is ( the object which ) I toiled for . ' But as it should be our aim , in sludyiug grammar to acquire tbe power of expressing our ideas clearly , we should never use any word , however sanctioned by habit , if it makes our meaning doubtful . The sentence ' All remedies have been tried but what are calculated to do permanent good , ' would be much clearer if we wrote'All remee dies have been tried but those which m calculated
to do permanent good . The third kind of pronouns are termed Adjective Pronouns , because they do the double duty of standing for , and qualifying the noun . There are four sorts of adjective pronouns , called possessive , distributive , demonstrative , and indefinite . The first of these , the possessive , is sufficient for our consideration this week ; since it is a very important section , containing that little word for which , according to the acute observation of your friendPhilodemos , ' Mankind has so profound a veneration ; the monosyllable my . The ^ ossessiie ^ ronowis imply property . They are my , thy , his , her , Us , our , your , their .
These are , indeed , very similar to the possessive cases of personal pronouns . But you must remember that the personal pronouns are substitutes for nouns ; Hie possessive adjective pronouns are added to them . Tims in , ' His duties are well perform ^ , ' his is & possessive pronoun ; bnt in' This hat is his * it is a personal-We frequently add the words own and self to possessive j and self to the objective case of p ersonal
pronouns ; when we do so , it appears to show a species of opposition to somebody else ; the sort of spirit , in fact , which actuates a child who sees its mother angry with a brother , or sister , and EX . claims 'I'm very good , motherf implying that somebody else is not so . ' I live on my own land !' supposes that this is not the general state of affairs ; ' 1 myself m answerable for it , ' seems to imp ly , and am quite competent to meet inquiry . '
However , I trust the day is fast approaching when the former sentence will have lost the charm of singularity ; when the mass of the working classes will cultivate their own land , and live on , and enjoy the fruits of it . I am , vour very sincere friend , M . M . P .
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Thk Electric TaLKORiPH ihthb Umitbd Stats * . __ It appears that at tho present time there are 1 575 miles of telegraph in the United States on Professor Morse ' s system , and that ^ OY ^ miles more are in process of construction , and which , it is expected , will be completed in one year , so that in tho year 1848 there will be 6 , 540 miles of telegraph iu the United States and Canada . A Swob Coach Pun . — A passenger , considering that a stage coach was travelling particularly slow , inquired what name it went by ? ' The Regulator , * said the driver . ' Ah , ' said the gentleman , I thought so ; for I observe that every other coach goes byitV . . ,, . . married
Magic op the Rikg !—A couple were lately by a clergyman near Bridgewater ; but , by some mishap , the unfortunate damsel had the ring put upon the wrong finger , and the wrong hand . So un . happy was she at tho mistake , that she could not iest ; and late in the evening she called on theofficiatingclergyman before she could ] consent to acknowledge herself a happy bride ! Nutrimbkt in Cofpbe . — M . Rayen , from elaborate experiment , shows that coffee slightly roasted is that which contains the maximum of aroma , weight , and nutrition , He declares coffee to be very nutritious , as it contains a very large quantity of azote ; three times as much nutriment as tea ; and mora than twice the nourishment of soup ( bouillon ) . Chicory contains only half tbe nutriment of coffee . M . Rayen has also succeeded in obtaining from coffee an extract in the form of a white cry stalinc substance , capable of giving a deep green colour to 5 , 000 times its weight of water or spirit .
Ekobmsds Svbpsnsion Bmdob is EmoABY . —The Pesth suspension bridge , over the Danube , designed by Mr Tierney Clark , and now nearly completed , « 1 . 200 feet long , in three spans ; the centre span being 600 feet , the side spans 300 feet each . The chains are being made in England ; the granite for the piers was brought in immense blocks , some of them from twelve to sixteen tons weight each , from Linz , in Upper Anatria . The contractor for the cofferdams , & o „ was an Englishman , as wore iha principal workmen , and all the machinery has been supplied from , this country . The total cost of the bridge , aa we understand , will be 4600 , 000 . —The Builder . Tub Latb Captain Stirhho , op the * Timrs . 'Capt , Stirling , late one of the leader writers of the
Times newspaper , died at an advanced age , a few days ago , at his residence at Knightsbridge . This gentleman ' s leaders obtained for the Times the name of the ' Thunderer . ' They were full of vigour and always te the point . The late Daniel O'Connell was his principal target , and the arrow of Mr Stirling , never missed the bull ' s eye . The mortality of the Times office , in a very short space of time , is worthy of notice . It has of late years lost by death Mr Thomas Barn as , the principal editor , whose talents as a writer were well known ; Mr Bacon , the subeditor , a very clever writer ; Mr Alsager , whose city article was so much admired and sought for ; the next was the great pillar of the establishment . Mr John Walter , whose biography appeared in tho Times
a few weeks since , His most intimate friend and companion in sickness . Captain Stirling , did not survive him above a month . Reporters in the French Chambkk op Depdtikb . —We would direct the attention of Mr Barry to the accommodation afforded to tho representatives ef tbe press in the French Chamber of Deputies . Two galleries in the second story , lacing the chair , are devoted to the reporters of all the papers except the Moniteur . These two gallwie * actommoMo mote than forty persons . The reporters are seated at writing tables , at which paper , pens , and ink , are
8 » pphed to them . They have at their command two officers of the chamber , and two closets in which to put their hats , umbrellas , dec . A third gallery , at an equal height from the ffoor of the chamber , and capable of accommodating about twenty persons , is appropriated to the editors who may desire to witness any particular part of the debate . Besides these three galleries , accommodating more than sixty persons , the reporters and other persons connected with the Moniteur ( about twenty in number ) are admitted by tickets delivered to them at the commencement of the session , according to a list made out by a committee of members and journalists . —* Globe .
Freemasonry . —A man mu't be a poor creature tbat can't invent a hoax . For two centnries we have had a first-rate on , and its name is—Freemasonry . Do you know the secret , my reader , or shall I tell you ? Send me a consideration and I will . But stay , the weather being so fine , and the philosophers , therefore , so good tempered , I'll tell it yon for nothing : whereas , if you become a mason , yoa must pay for it . Here is the secret : —When the novice is introduced into the conclave of tbe Freemasons , the grand master or his deputy leeks very fierce at him , and draws his sword , which makes the
novice look very melancholy , as he is not aware oi having had time as yet for any profaneness , and fancies , therefore , that somebody must have beea slandering him . Then the grand master or his deputy cites him to the bar , saying . ' What ' s that yoa have in your pocket V To which the novice replies , ' A guinea . ' * Anything more V ' Another guinea . ' ' Then , ' replies the official person , in a voice of thunder , ' fork out . ' Of course , to a man coming sword in hand , few persons refuse to do that . This forms the first half of the mysteries ; the second half , which is by much the more interesting , consists entirely of brandy . —De Quinceu .
Fudge . —The word Fudge was hardly enough for our great lexicographer to notice . It was known , however , to our language long before his friend , Goldsmith , made such ample use of it in his ' Vicar of Wakefield ; ' for D'Israeli says that in ' Remarks upon the Navy , ' published in 1700 , is the following anecdote . — ' There vias , in our time , one Fudge , captain of a merchantman , who upon his return from a voyage , how ill so ever his ship was fraught , always brought home his owners a good cargo of falsehoods ; so that now , aboard ship , the sailors , when they hear a great falsehood told , cry out , 'You fudge it . " — Poyndcr ' s literary Extracts ( New Series ) .
Remedies aoaikst Moths . —It is an old custom with some housewives to throw into their drawers every year a number of fir cones , under the idea that their strong resinous smell might keep away the moth . Now , as the odour of these cones is due to turpentine , it occurred to Reaumur to try the effect of this volatile liquid . He rubbed one side of a piece of cloth with turpentine , and put some grubs on the other ; the next morning they were all dead , and , strange to say , had voluntarily abandoned their sheaths . On smearing some paper slightly with the oil , and putting this into a bottle with some grubs , the weakest were immediately killed ; the most vigoreus struggled for two or three hours , quitted their sheaths , and died in convulsions . It wa » soon abundantly evident that the vapour of oil ef spirits of turpentine acts as a terrible poison to the grubs .
Perhaps it may be said tbat even this remedy is worse than the disease ; but , as Reaumur justly observes , we keep away from a newly-painted room , or leave off for a few days a coat , from which stains have been removed by turpentine . Why , therefore , can we not yearly keep lor a day or two , from rooms that have been fumigated with turpentine ? It is , however , surprising how small a quantity of turpentine is required . A small piece of paper or linen just moistened therewith , and put into the wardrobe or drawers for a single day , two or three times a year , is a sufficient preservative aphinst moths . A small quantity of turpentine dissolved in a little spirits of wine ( the vapour of which is also fatal to the moth ) will entirely remove the offensive odour , and yet be a sufficient preservative . —Glasgow Constitutional .
A Cool Hand . —The city chamberlain ( Mr Clark ) , in early life , had chambers adjacent to the Old South Sea House , he was aroused from sleep by the alarm ot the well known fire , when the four corners of Graccchurch-street , Leadenhall-street , Bishopsgate-street , and Cornhill were in flames together . He went to the fire himself in the hope of being useful , before which bo heard another lodger in the same set of chambers call from his window to the firemen , to inquire how long they thought it would be before the fire could reach that quarter , to which he was answered that it might be four hours ; upon which he quietly went to bed again , and was fast asleep when the chamberlain returned in the morning . — Poynder ' s Literary Extracts .
National & ocim fou the Abolition of Buhuls in Towns . —A society under this title has been es-Wished in Londonfor the purpose of demonstrating to the public tho necessity of speedily abolishing or restricting within the narrowest limits the immoral and pernicious custom ofburyingin towns . Although a vast mass of very important facts is on record , a great majority of the public is not yet roused to a sense of its danger . The society , therefore , proposes , by a plain statement of facts , to extend the knowledge ot the injuries inflicted upon the living , and the insults offered to the dead . British Anti-Statb Church AssociATioM .-Itappears that the West Riding is to be thestarting point of a winter campaign in favour of the principles of Ihis society , and that a soiree is to take place in Leeds onthe 27 thinst .
< Pbkvbktiok of Railway Accidents . —The necessity for some means of communicating with tho engine driver in case of any accident to a railway tram has at length been officially recognised by the authorities of the Great Western , who have issued a circular announcing their intention to adopt the following plan for facilitating this object ; -A mnH , to bo called ' a travelling carriage porter , is to aceompany the train , and will occupy nseat on the tender , from which be is to keep a steady and vigilant look out on both sides and along the top of the carriages , eo that he may at once observe if any accident should occur , and communicnte with the engine-man . Poor-Ratbs in Prbstok . — Such is the pressure upon the office for relief , in consequence of the short time , or no time , at many of tho mills , that the next six months' poor-rate is expected to be two shillings in the pound . This is a sreat increase Iran sixpence to eightpenoo , as formerly .
Pabuambnt standsporoguedftOtatttQ Wtueftlie present month to the 11 th of November .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_16101847/page/3/
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