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Forei' / n Reminiscences . By Henry I & ihara Loito Holland . Edited by Ms son , Henry Edward Loud Holland . Longman and Co . The late Lord Holland , by Iris good humour , good taste , and good dinners , long made his residence at Kensington , the resort
of all the most distinguished men of his own time , and of many who yet remain to remember the charm he spread over his parties b y his own graceful , courteous , but unaffected manners . But , Lord Holland was not only fund of collecting literary men , and especially "Whi g writers , about him , —be was an author himself , and as this work shows , possessed of many of the hig hest qualities .
The work contains shrewd and observant , ret genial criticisms , on the persons who ylaved sueh important parts in history at the end of the last century aud the commencement of tho present . Most of the personages of whom we have sketches , have been already drawn by numerous other hands , but it appears to us that some of Lord Holland ' s portraits are more truthful than their predecessors , because more homely , and less ambitious . He first visited the continent in 1701 , when yefc a mere youth . He was , however , naturally
very forcibly impressed with the magnitude of the events which characterised the outbreak of the first French Revolution . Uf those who diitiuguished themselves on that terrible arena no one , iu the earlier scenes , stood oat more boldly than Alirabeau . Lord Holland thus describes him : — 1 arrived at Paris not long after the death of 3 Iirabeau , and soon after the acceptance of the constitution by Louis XVI , The designs of Miraheau to coalesce with the Court party , or at least to check the revolutionary spirit , were more than suspected before his death . He was in a constant siate of intrigue with a ' . l parties , and parricalarly with Monsieur ( Comic de Provence , and afterwards Lewis XVIII . J la rbe business of Favras . The Duke of Levi was the channel of communication between him and Monsieur in that mysterious and disgraceful aivair . Yet the s-Iicitude of tlie people during his illness was unabated , and
stories almost incredible of the attention of the populace , iu preventing the slightest disturbance in the street where 2 / eVasJring ill , wens related in all societies with that delight snd admiration which dramatic displays of sentiment never fail to excite : ia Paris . Tbe shops and quays were crowded with his portraits and busts . A stranger could discern in bis physiosuamy nothing but visible marks of ' debauch / vanity , presumption and artifice , which ; w < re Straus ingredients in his composition ; but the Parii-ians , yet , s-fnnned by his eloquence , and 'dazzled hv his " splendid talents , seemed to dwell
Ecu the representation of his largo features , poektfraied face , and frizzled hair , with fond compla-Ictncy mingled with regret , lie was certainly an ^ extraordinary man . That bis powers would have | be < n equal , as has often been suggested , either to Icbeek or to guide the subsequent course of ti \ e § . Trench Revolution , may nevertheless be very qucs-Itiociable . He was thought to be , and probably was , ^ T » - ry corrupt ; but an exemption fro m that vice was | the * solitary virtue which gave individual * , and lJ « . K ? -p . 'erre in particular , any ascendancy in the fliii' -r and more stormy seasons of that frightful
jljeno-J . Mirabeau had the talent , or at least the | | t r ; i-k and contrivance , of appropriating the ideas Sand labours of other men to his purposes in a ftTery extraordinary degree . I have been assured by Wow ( . > amont ) who knew him intimately , and acted sforajliort time as his secretary , that not only the iJ-t-j'Orts he made , but the speeches he delivered . aJRvre often written by others , and read by him in g ihe morning , or even run through and adopted by glim ( as I have seen briefs by oar lawyers ) while ill- was actually speakiu ? . Tbe various imprisonibents and embarrassments to wbich his disorderly * slif < - and licentious pen had exposed him are well
fiv . own . The prosecution against- him in England " | ivas the malevolent contrivance of a crazy and ffhiiLless servant , who falsely accused his master of 'llavmjr robbed hitn . There was nothing remark-^ alile : ii th-it incident , bnt the public and warm tessttimoiiy of Sir Gilbert Elliot and Mr . Burke himself l Mn favour of a man whose influence on the French KEt-- » lntion was afterwards so conspicuous , and Eirljor-e-1 is principles and iniinor . il life furnished so [ Senile a theme for invectives against it . The vanity j | pf Mirabeau exposed him . it is said , to a droll reprr < -of . At some important political crisis , he was "paescanting in society on the qualities requisite in a 5 S Iftl *! ' ?* r \ mm » __ . __>* -k « £ ** I * it avahva + »* a m * . — . ¦ -rmvm \* 1 w * Atltl tMX l l-iUlt ilie UIC alliu
. ^ * * . U ^ . ^ Ul SIVWU , UIC d » 3 CIIII'J £ t ifiiv' nation , from the difficulties in which they were UDvolved , vi » ., great knowledge , great genius , acjfjtniaianee , and perhaps connexion with tbe upper pranks , some common feelings with the lower classes , [ S p ' 'wer of speaking and of writing eloquently and Sreadily , frrailiarity with tbe world , the popularity K ) f a martyr from recent prosecution , and many ambers , which it was obvious e : ; ou _ 'h that he thought |» er ? united in himself . " All this is true , " said a friond , " but you have omitted one of his qualities . " |? . Vo—surely ? what do you mean ? " " . Should he poi , ' replied the same sarcastic friend , * ' be very Snick pitted with the sraa ' . l-pox V "
i Here is a new light thrown on the character j ttid motives of the famous Etjuilite . father of the Kiag , who , disguised and terrified , under fiie unromantis name of Smith , fled from "pr ance to die at Claremont , a few months Jince . Perhaps not one of the revolutionarj Celebrities has been painted in blacker colours mn the Date of Orleans . Lord Holland is poiiinion that the "Devil is not so bad as e is said to be " : —
m 1 believe that no man has lived in my time whose ^ i ^ : ; tcter kis been more calumniated , or will be Sgoi- jui ^ reiiresented to posterity . * * His cav-^»;* " and countenance , though the latter was dfsfiurvj » . y carbuncles , were prepossessing , and ir " s » aiir . trs " were perfect . His superiority in those asp ects , as well as command of money , excited we jealousy of the Court . His popularity at » jr ;< , t !; .: » JuJiiium P-iridis , was perhaps sufficient | » aceanjj ; for * nc first esn-. iKgement of the Queen . j * * Many womanish artifices were resorted to to W ' ' » ¦ » , to fpoil his amnfemests , to int' -rrupt his ^ r -i < - ' - , : md to expose him to those small moriifica-^ - 's wmeb , in all countries , are apt to awaken jgt r- --sen » uent of weak minds as much or &** than serious aud to which
injuries , an || fcrava « sni importance is always annexed in ^¦ w « evea by ] iersons otherwise of some sense and gSP ^ jawuiity . * That bostiJJty , however , in which | g- Coan , not the D , d : eof Orleans , was the aggresl £ c ! , v Iw ! lie ; 1 " * confined f > petty warfare . In Mb " * ! : Ce of . ' -- ' « cy and truth , the most malignant ifif- '' * . ^ cowardice were propagated and coun-| « t-a-. ic «> . | \ , j -i Qacca a <]( | j , 7 , rtj against the gjr-V ' Orleans , ou his return fr .-m the fl ^ et in ¦ a- ' . ** ' , 1 '' ave beard well-informed Frenchmen as-S ^* ui < visit to England and predilection to bur B " - '* ? iiLVii tutnurfL Anqlormnit , for the studious K ^ ii > r c } ^ ^ . om ^ ot ! l tlje ousjness ; in , i the g's ^ inents of his native court , and to tlie disgust » ieit at the direct and indirect slights put upon S "; . -It the same time it must be acknowledged ^ - his taints were far from respectable . There W- ' * had-Srst eneaged him in the Kerolutwn urere
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dissatisfied at his absence in England , to which the SfT 2 S ^ S _ ^ «?™ Pr «*^ the-ctiiaIme _ ac-s of Lafayette after tho Oth of October , had driven him . iney considered it as a pusillanimous desertion , and incessantly urged him to quit a retirement winch assumed the appearance of an ignominious , though voluntary , exile . To those remonstrances he reluctantl y yielded , though if the Court would havebeen prevailed uponto appoint him ambassador m London , he distinctly offered to remain . Admiral Payne , who conducted him ia a small boat to his yacht off Brighton , assured me that the Duke of Orleans , on taking leave , grasped his hand with much emotion , and , with tears in bis eyes : said , " If I consulted my inclination or my safety I should stay in your happy country , but 1 am told I am bound in honour to return ; for that reason , aud that reason only , I go . dissatisfied at bis . ihcpnon ; n-c i i * . _ _ , - , ,,
Yon , my dear Payne , will recollect that I am not blind to my situation , nor to the scenes I am going to encounter . I shall do no good to anybody , i shall lead a dreadful life and I shall probably perish among tbe first , or , at least , very soon . " Before leaving France , he had made some very slight advances to the Court , but such as showed that if he and his friends had bean secured from persecution and revenge by being admitted into a due share of power , he was not unwilling to co-operate in preventing matters from coming to extremities . lie renewed these offers when in England , and before his return . * * After the return of the Kin ? from Varennes , it is said that be declined tho President ship , and was unwilling to take any forward part . * * Talleyrand , who knew him well , and who in a joint work with Beaumetz , which was never published , shortly afterwards delineated his character , described him to me as indifferent alike to tbe
pursuits of pleasure or vanity , ambition or revenge , and solely intent on enjoying ease and preserving existence . He was so jaded ( si * blase , «» komme si desabuse , that he had outlived even the necessity of emotion ( le besoin de s ' emmivoir . There is , indeed , reason to suspect that the persons instrumental in creating and preserving his personal influence in Paris , were active agents in the municipal cabals and revolutions which preceded and accompanied the 10 th of August and the 2 nd of September 1702 ; and true it is , that the only party which showed the least disposition to identify itself with his interests , or to concert with him , consisted of a portion of those to whose language and manoeuvres the horrors even of that
last day are mainly attributed by well-informed authors . Some of them , and Danton in particular , were not unwilling , in concert with the Duke of Orleans , to save the life of the King , and by a junction with the Brissotinsand moderate republicans , to put a stop to the excesses of the populace , provided tltey could obtain an oblivion and impunity for all that had hitherto passed . But republicans and philosophers were as unreasonably hostile and nearly as blindly improvident wl-erever the Duke of Orleans was concerned , as the Royalists themselves . Scruples , honourable no doubt , but highly unseasonable , and not altogether consistent with their own conduct before and daring tbe 10 th of August , made the friends of Roland , Brissor »
and Guadet , revolt at any thing like coalition with men covered with the blood of their fellow-citizens , though such a junction was the obvious , and perhaps the solitary , method of preventing the effusion of more . Danton and hia followers , who had so largely participated in the crimes of the Terrorists , were compelled to proceed with their associates , when tbey despaired of obtaining impunity from the triumph of the mnro moderate and numerous but less popular party in the Convention . The Doke of Orleans could " not have saved the King by voting against his death ; and he more certainly than any one man in tbe Assembly would have accelerated his own by so doing . On tho other hand , he wa * also the one man in that assembly , on whom ,
had any counterrevolution occurred , the Royal vcn ? eance would most unquestionably have fallen without mercy . Such considerations would not ir e'gh with a Cato , bnt tbey were calculated to sbafee the constancy of ordinary men . The Duke of Orleans bad , therefore , at least as much excuse for the vote he gave as the 360 who voted with him ; and those who hold regicide to he the greatest of possible crimes , have nevertheless no right to select him as the greatest criminal . He was well aware of the peculiarity of his own situation . Of that I have seen some curious proofs in a short narrative wrifien by Mrs . Eilott , who had , I believe , lived with him , and who , on the score of old acquaintance , prevailed on him to save through his garden
at Monceaux . and at no small peril to himself , the . voiwiser Chancency , who was implicated in the affair " of tbe 10 th " of August , and-who , as was ' ju-tly observed by the Duke in his hearing , so far from * incurring any risk to serve him , would have been among the first to urge his execution . He was to my knowledge , among the last to relieve the subsequent distresses of his generous benefactress , Mrs . Elliot , or to mitigate tbe censures « ilh which it was the fashion in most companies throughout Europe to visit the name of the Duke of Orleans . That Prince perished soon afterwards on the scaffold , and disproved one of the imputations cast upon him by the composure with which be met his fate .
Lafayette is cleverly sketched , especially in the credulousness which induced him to put faith in tho King , of whose sincerity Lord Holland hy no means raises our estimation Without being habitually the liar and deliberate faith-breaker that our Charles the First was , it is evident enough that he held the obligation of either word or oath lightly enough when it suited his purposes . Lafayette was , however , then as always , a pure , disinterested man , full of private affection and puMic virtue , and not devoid of such talents as
firmness r . f purpose , sense of honour , and earnestness of zeal wi ' ll , on great occasions , supply . He was indeed accessible to flattery , somewhat too credulous , and apt to mistake the forms , or , if I may so phrase it . the pedantry of liberty for the substance , as if men could not enjoy any freedom without subscribing to certain abstract principles and arbitrary jests , or as if the profession and subscription , nay , the technical observance of such tests and principles , were not , on the other band , often compatible with practical oppression and tyranny .
The heroine of romancisf s , Marie Antoinette , is not less tenderly treated by the Whig nobleman , either as to her beauty or her virtue . As I was not presented at court , I never saw the Queen but at the play-house . She was then in affliction , and her countenance was , no doubt , disfigured by long suffering and resentment . I should not , however , suppose that tho habitual expression of it , even iu happier 'casons , had ever been very asm-able . Her beauty , however extolled , consisted , 1 suspect , exclusively , in a fair skin , a straight person , and a stately air , wbich her admirers termed diguity , and her enemies pride and disdain .
As to her conjugal virtue we are told : — Madame Campan ' s delicacy and discretion are not only pardonable but praiseworthy ; Jmfc they are disingenuous , and her memoirs conceal troth < well known to her , though such as would have been unbecoming a lady to reveal . She was , in fact , the confidante of M- » rie Antoinette ' s amours . Those amours were not numerous , scandalous , or degrading , hut . they were amours . Madame Campan , who Jived beyond the restoration , was not so mysterious in conversation on these subjects as she is in her writin gs . She acknowledged to persons who have acknowlcdsred it to me , that she was privy to the intercourse between the Queen and tbe Due ce
Ooignv . That French nobleman , from timidity of character and coldness of con-titution , was not sorry to withdraw himself early from so dangerous an iiirhrnc . Madame Campan confessed a curious fact , namely , that Fersen was in the Qu-K-n ' s fcoiKfa ' ror bed-chamber , Me-d-tete with her Majesty on the famous night of the 6 th of October . Be escaped observation with considerable difficulty in a disguise which she ( Madame Campan herself ) procured for him . This M . de Talleyrand , though generally somewhat averse to retailing anecdotes disparacimr to the Royal Family of France , ha ? twice recounted to me , and assured me that he had it from Madam Campan herself .
Here is another glance at Royalty—the King of Denmark of that day : — The Crown Prince ( afterwards Frederick TI ) , iicpbcw of our king , was the ostensible head of the government . The " incapacity of his father was acfcnowlrdged , and tbough he continued to sign the edicts and public instruments , he was not permitted to lake any part in the deliberation upon them , nor were any of his acts deemed valid , unless countersigned by his son , whom the council had in truth invested with all the functions of royal authority In fa -t the royal signature was preserved as a medicnl rather than political expedient . The object was to Iramonv ami soothe the feelings of the deposed monarch , not to give any validity to acts which without reference to such formality were recognised bv
the courts of justice , and obeyed by the people . When first iet ' asile , he had bitterly wept at beine no lower a lih ' J , and adduced as a proof of the misfortune which had befallen him , tlwt he had no lonVeranv papers to sign . To satisfy him , they were afterwards offered him for signature , and he never deelinel annexing his name to all that were presented to him , from a fear Oi losing that , his sole remaininff , but , h his view , distinctive p .-crogative of RovaUy . It happened once or wiccfro :., some motive « f convenience or accidrat , that the Crown Prince put his name to an instrument before it was sent to his Royal father for fau signature- ; the jealous old Monarch perceived it , and when the next paper was brought , he , to . the surprise a : d consternation of the courtiers , signed " . Christian and Coma , " waiic-iously observing ' , that he was once
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sole proprietor of lis firm , but be found it was now a partnership , and would spare his associates the trouble of addinjr their names . His insanitv was tht-ougbout of a playful rather than a malignant nature . When it was the policy of the Queen Dowager , his step-mother , to maintain him in the exercise ot his functions , she used to exhibit him at card parties in public . It is usual in the North of Europe to score with chalk , but his Majesty on such occasions diverted himself with employing it in a less decorous manner . He would draw the most obscene figures on the green baize , and wink to the by-standers , whenever the Queen Dowager , with an averted face and affected carelessness , rubbed out the obnoxious .
representations with her cards , her hands , her handkerchief , a napkin , or anything which she could with some appearance of absence pass over them for that purpose , lie continued for many years to dine occasionally in public . Though the foreign ministers were cautioned neither to provoke nor to remark any of his peculiarities , he not unfrequently succeeded in disconcerting them . He would , for instance , ask them to driuk witie , and then throw the contents of his glass in the face of the page behind him , and when by this , and the addition of sundry grimaces , gesticulations , an . l antics he had provoked a smile , he would suddenly assume a grave and solemn countenance , and a « ldressing the minister opposite say , " Monsieur l
envovc parait fort gai ? y a-til antique chose qui I amuse f-je le prie de m ' enfaire part . " Such was the innocent nature of tho royal insanitv . It is a satire or a commendation on the institution of Monarchy to remark that under this absolute Irmce . whose childishness amounted to imbecility and lunacy , the commerce , agriculture , and prosperity of the kingdom continued to improve , the people were relieved from the ancient feudal burthens winch oppressed them , tranquillity was preserved , justice purely and impartially administered , and even the foreign policy conducted , throughout a period of unexampled peril and confusion in Lurope , in a manner wbich , when the insignificant resources of Denmark are considered , must , be acknowledged to be creditable and even glorious .
\ Ve conclude with one extract relating to JVapoleon , which ia peculiarly deserving of the attention of his nephew at the present moment : — Nothing could exceed tho order and regularity with which his household both as Consul and Emperor was conducted . The great things hs accomplished , and the savings he made , without even the imputation of avarice or meanness , with ihe sum comparatively inconsiderable of fifteen milions of francs a year , are marvellous , and expose his successors , and indeed all European Princes , to the reproach of negligence or incapacity . In this branch of his government he owed much to Duroc . It is said that they often visited ihe markets of
Pans ( les halles ) dressed in plain clothes and early in the morning . AVhen any great accounts were to be submitted to the Emperor , Duroc would apprize him in secret of some of the minutest details . li \ an adroit allusion to them ov a careless remark on the points upon which he had received such recent and accurate information , Napoleon contrived to impress his audience with a notion that tbe master ' s eye was everywhere . For instance , when the Tuileries were furnished , the upholsterer ' s charge . , though not very exorbitant , were suspected by tbe Emperor to be higher tian the usual profit of that trade would have warranted . He suddenly asked some minister who was with him how much the egg at the end of the bell-rope should cost ?
" j ignore , was the answer . — " Eh Men ! nous verrons , " said he , and then cut off tho ivory handle , called for a valet , and bidding him dress himself in plain and ordinary clothes , and neither divulge his immediate commission or general employment to any living soul , directed him to inquire tbe price of such articles at several shops in Paris , and to order a dozen as for himself . They were one-third less dear than those furnished to the palace . The Emperor , inferring that the same advantage had been taken in the other articles , struck a third off the whole charge , and directed the tradesman to be informed that it was done at his express command , because on inspection he had himself discovered the charges to be by
onethird too exorbitant . When afterwards , in the height of his glory , he visited Caen with the Empress Maria Louisa , and a train of crowned heads and princes , his old friend , M . Meahin , the Prefect , aware of his taste for detail , waited upon him with five statistical tables of the expenditure , revenue , prices , produce , and commerce of tho department . " Cestbon , " said he when he received them the evening of his arrival , " nous et moi nous ferons bien de Vesprit sur tout ccla demain av , Conscil . " Accordingly , he astonished all the leading proprietors of tho department at the meeting next day , by his minute knowledge of tbe prices of good anil bad cyder , and of the produce and other circumstances
of the various districts of the department . Even the Royalist gentry were impressed with a respect for his person , which gratitude for the restitution of their lands had failed to inspire , and which , it must be acknowledged , the first faint hope of vengeance against tlieir enemies entirely obliterated in almost every member of that intolerant faction . Other princes have shown an equal fondness for minute details with Napoleon , hut here is the difference . The use they made of their knowledge was to torment their inferiors and weary their company —the purpose to which Napoleon applied it was to confine the expenses of tbe State to the objects and interests of the community .
That is the reason why he has left so many enduring monuments of his reign in France . His nephew should take a hint . Better spend money in that way than in sausages and champagne .
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Robert Owen ' s Journal . London : Clayton aud Son . Part II . In noticing this journal last week we were compelled to omit an extract we had marked for quotation from want of space . It will , we think , be interesting to our readers to know the views of a man like Mr . Owen , ou the controversy which has for the last few months created so much public excitement . We , therefore , take the subjoised from his address " to the Hierarchies of the Churches of Rome , England , and Scotland . '' If we do not mistake , there are principles enunciated in it which raise more radical and profound questions than any yet propounded by cardinals , bishops , or p riests , of any scot or creed whatever : —
The churches and states over the world have hitherto been the two great classes of circumstances which have formed the character and created the condition of the populations under tlieir government and control . And what are the characters , and what is the condition , of all people , at this day ? The people have been systematically trained , educated , and placed , from their birth , to become irrational , insane , or mad ; and , in consequence , they have made tho earth into one great lunatic asylum , divided into so many large open cells ; t ' . e occupiers of each , opposed , furiously or with less violence , to all the others .
There are the cells or dens of the Pagans , of Fo and Confucius , of the Jews , of the Miihomedans , of the Christians , and of Infidels ; making , by the errors forced into tbe mind of all , a Babel of opinions , feelings , and conduct , and thus producing a pandemonium , or a too perfect heil , upon this earth which , fortunately for the human race , is destined in future to become a paradise , without anv cells for lunatics or madmen . Your churches and all the churches and states in the world have been fully fried and fairly weighed in the balance , and one and all have been found to be wofullv wanting in all the essentials to unite mankind and to make them good , wise , and
happy * The course of all shurches and states , in the direction which they have hitherto run , has terminated ; tbey can continue it no further , without churches , states , and people , —from being partly irrational , insane , or mad , becoming altogether the victims of uncontrollable madness . The svstem itself , which has created the churches and states of the world , and has given them thendirection to the present time , is worn out ; it can work advantageously for men no longer . Another svstem , therefore , is now required , to terminate this pandemonium , and to commence this happy future state of justice to all , and ot universal cbaiitv , kindness , and love . In this new svstem of happiness for our race , a new direction Will be given to the preaching of the churches and to the practices of states . individualism
As the principle of evil , leading to and universal disunion and falsehood , is the foundation on which tho superstructure of this old , worn out , irrational system has been constructed , —tim new svstem about to bo introduced will be based on the " principle of truth and goodness , which will lead d- ' rect to knowledge , unity , chanty , kindness , and love , and its whole superstructure will be combined to ensure the permanent wisdom , excellence , and happiness of our race . The churches of the world arc as wen adapteil to become churches in which truth , Knowledge , union , wisdom , may be taught , as to teach iahcaood , ignorance , disunion , and the performance of senseless and injurious ceremonies . You essentially aid to govern and form tne characters of the most advanced nations of the world .
This is freely admitted ; and you are therefore called upon to commence this great change , and i taceably , in union with existing governments , to
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lead onward and become an example to the less advanced of other parts of our globe . Buttho mummeries of all . tbe religions of tho Sdof ^ l r l > e made t 0 ceilS 0 ' iorco ™* termiimion . 8 ment 3 mSt no * ° ' 0 Ught to a space ? im consi ( Icred that '" ere can bo no limit to That there can be no beginning or end of time ? - . ? . „ t ' ii i tt | , Wcr 8 B is ful 1 of "" created and indcstiutbDle elements , possessing unchanging internal qualities , and an All-contrdling Power ? wfiioh without ceasing composes , decomposes , and recomposes eSenccs ? - ° mdkS * animat 0 an , i inanimiUe That to this day mrm knows nothing of this Great Controlling Power of the Universe , except from the fl ?! 7 ' , , e seos mit "" perfectly upon this ^™ , i * m V ' , finite ) '' lcss t ,, il " « gK « a of sand compared with the hosts of those mamuW < rtofaf » wiiieii
are revolving in unlimited space ? a . i . . , if ( ; i i J llain ' under such considerations , ? 1 " l " nal ; * nd '" sane , as to suppose that the little human insects upon this less than a grain of sand gloiie , can do any kind of good or harm , or service tnrvw " Ul ' ' 0 il 6 Utlkuown Powcl ' of the The supposition that your voices , genuflexions , anil senseless Ceremonies , can be more important totiiat lower which pervades the Universe and gives motion , life , and mind throughout it , than tho noise and actions of the smallest and most insignificant insects can ha to you , is proof to demonstration that you have , by some new creation of external circumstances , to be brought out of the irrational state of mind and condition in which past unfavourable and f . ilse trainings have pl .-iced vou . lou have
been taught to call this Universal Power , which , to our senses , appears eternally io compose , decompose , and recompose the elements of the Universe , God , or some term of similar import . It is a word , or a term , which through past a"cs has been made to divide and brutaluc the human race . You cannot , by any means within your power , do the slightest good to that incomprehensible Power ; but yoa . roay make use of the word , name , or term , to do incalculable mischief to man ; and hitherto that has been your application of it . Sec what madmen it makes of you all to-day . Used as it has been , it can only make men into fools or hypocrites , and all hypocrites are fools . And all tbe actions of all men to-dav are most foolishly irrational . There are none thinking or acting right— no not otic .
And the Churches and States of the world are , through tho errors of their instruction , the immediate cause of tho incongruities in mind and practice and of the present gross irrationality of the human race . These truths arc now thus told and published to the world , to become new circumstances , to open the mental eyes of all , and to induce all to aid in preparing the population of the world to become rational and to commence the system of universal happiness for man .
Romanism, Ihe Religion Of Terror. By S. ...
Romanism , ihe Religion of Terror . By S . P . Day . Loudon : Truelove , 22 , John-street , Fitzroy-square . Mr . Day was formerly a Monk of the order of the Presentation , and , therefore , knows what he writes about . Making every allowance for the natural zeal of a convert , and the repugnance which men must feel towards doctrines that they once sincerely believed , and have subsequently discovered to be falsehoods , we should suppose that the terrible picture drawn by Mr .
Day , of the religion he has abjured , is correct . Running over the long catalogue of successive and sanguinary massacres , under the sanction , and in the numo of religion , one's Wood runs cold to think of the incalculable evil and misery which credal dogmas have inflicted upon humanity . Mr . Day commences with the Emperor Theodosius , who made public profession of Christianity in the year 331 , and brings the history down to a recent date . Here is a sample of his statements : —
Lloi-enttc , m his history of the Inquisition , gives tho following summary of individuals who were sacrificed to the rage of the " mitred autocrat of creed and cross " : — Condemned and burnt 31 , 912 Burnt in effigy 17 , 095 Placed in confinement , with rigorous punishment 291 , 450 Making a total of 311 , 057 Ltarcntte is an excellent authority ; for when the French obtained possession of Spain under Joseph Buonaparte , he obtained peraiission to examine the secret archives of the holy office . The Jesuit iMoravy also paints the character of the " infernal tribunal" in a masterly style . His description of an execution is truly awful . " Heretics , " he observes , " are burnt , having first been strangled , if they are not Jews , for in that case they are burnt alive . " Of this let me give you a direful instance : —
When Philip of Spain was allied to Elizabeth , daughter of Henry II . of France , he could devise no better spectacle wherewith to resale his youthful bride and queen than what is called an . ditto da Fe . The prisons of the Inquisition were searched , and a certain number of victims produced . On that memorable occasion the seat of the chief inquisitor was elevated above those occupied by the king and queen of Spain—an emblem not easily mistakc ; ible . At length the mournful procession advanced , with solemn s ^ ep and slow , bearing the standard of Dominic in the van j and so dense was the crowd , that many of the condemned passed close to the chair of slate , where sat , in all the glistening pomp of royalty , the regal bride . Among the rest was one
whose peerless charms far excelled the courtly pageantry that surrounded her . Young in years , of seraphic beauty , with heaven-lit eye , and modest , pensive aspect ; her raven tresses , falling on her bosom in lovely negligence , half concealed tho majesty ot * her form , as well as the deep emotions her soul's anguish painted on her cheeks . She was a Jewess ! Scarcely arrived at full bloom , the cankering worm was preying on the fair flower , and threatening it with speedy dissolution . There was a melancholy in her bearing which discovered the agony of her heart . She halted as she passed before the throne of the female sovereign , and thinking that sympathy for her sex would create pity for her wretchedness , shrieked out in the fervent eloquence of grief , " Mercy , mercy . ' great queen . ' I am about ) to be burnt aiivo for profensinp the only religion I was ever taught . Save me for the love of
God ! " The young bride was deeply affected by a scene so tragically touching . She glanced at the king , and then at the chief inquisitor ; but felt it were vain to intercede for her release . The procession moved on . The sacrifice was completed . And Elizabeth declared in her dying hour , that she heard distinctly in her cars the screams of tho burning Jewess : " Misericord / a par amor di Dios . " ' " My God , " exclaimed Constantino of La Fuente , " were there no Scythians or cannibals into whoso hands to deliver me , rather than to let me fall into tho power of these barbarians . " Some one exclaimed , during the bloody days of the great French Revolution , "O Liberty , what crimes are committed in thy name . " With far greater , reason may we exclaim upon surveying such cruelties as I have adverted to , " O Religion . ' what enormities have been perpetrated in thy name !"
When we add to the horrible persecutions ju ? t particularised , the extensive massacres in Paris and the provinces of France in 1572 , duvinii the pontificate of Gregory XIII ., who with Charles IX . assisted at and encouraged them ; tho diabolical cruelties which disgraced the reign of Louis XIV ., when Catholic soldiers would bind Protestant mothers to posts , and let their sucking infants lie languishing in their sight for days and nights , crying , mourning , and gasping for life ; tb « civil wars : n France , during the seventeenth century , carried on by Louis XIII . when over a million of men lost tlieir lives , and when , during its progress , nine cities , four hundred villages , two thousand churches , two thousand monasteries , and ten thousand houses , were burned or demolished . Alluding to the king , Madame de JMotteville says : — " What gave him the greatest pleasure was his * thought of driving herotics out of the kingdom , and thereby uni-inn !; it of
the different religions which corrupt and infect the church of God ; " tho massasres in the Netherlands , in consequence of the edict of CIwIcb V ., wben full one hundred thousand persons were banged , beheaded , burned or buried alive ; and , finally , the persecutions during the roign of Mary in England , when nearly three hundredindividual ' s were offered as holocausts at the blazing shrine of tho Romanist religion ! When we sum up these bloody deeds and cruel punishments , besides others of more recent date , all perpetrated with the view of crushing free opinion , and building up upon another Golgotha , a sceptred power and priestly supremacy , which claimed two worlds and aped omnipotence ! can we fairlv conic to any other conclusion , than that Romanism is pre-eminently the Religion of Terror ! Like the votaries of Islnmism , the Popes have carved their prophet ' s words on the devouriiiir sword , and fancied they were fulfilling a high behest !
Mr . Day concludes thus , wc hope prophetically : — It is cheering to the earnest friends of humanity and progress , that a bold front is being presented to papal inteferenee and priestly rule . The Pope may hence learn the popular English sentiment with regard to his claims as the vieeregent of Almightincss , and the estimation in which Englishmen hold scarlet hats and red stockings , and every other trumpery , from the crozier to the jewelled
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crown . And Jot high and low Church parties likewise learn a practical lesson , and take a timely warning , from the present c . vcifccl condition of the public " mind . " Coming events oust their shadows before i" And those interested priests who procure memorials to the Throne numerously signed , and have " God save the Queen " struck up and sung as a finale to the devotions of tlieir church , which they now imagine built upon a rock , may yet find to their dismay that the present movement is not so much Protestant in its conventional sense , as it is Protestant in a social , _ moral , and political one ; and that what they consider a rock , against which storms may r , igo and spend their furyin rain , was merely a mountain of sand to be washed awav by the first popular billow that should strike again ? t it . " The out * worn rite , tho old abuse The good held captive in the use , Tho pious fraud transparent erown
„™ ... Of wrong alone , those wait their doom , from that groat law H Inch makes the past time servo ' to-dav And fresher life the world shall draw From their decay , " Let us hail tho present universal demonstration against popery , and regard it apart from all s . « i > tammsm , as tangible evidence of that indomitable love ot liberty and truth , which reign ' s supremo in millions of hearts . LH us view it as pr « phedea ! ota new and orilliant era in tie world ' s bistorv , wbicliis . aboutto dawn upon its darkness—as the cycle of a change sublime , which will sweet , through the earth , when every valley shall be ex-Jilted and every lull and mountain shall be brought 1
ow , hough tyranny and error shall ilourUh like " a green bay tree , " yet those adventitious circumstances which administer to their growth and expansion will speedily be removed , and leave ihem dry , sapless , and withered , ready to be prostrated by the first angry breath of heaven . Liberty and Truth will be uppermost one day » They coiit lin within themselves the germs of their own immortality as their oppositea inherit tho princinies of their dissolution . That which is natural is alone permanent . " Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while , but at length they arc overturned by the continual and silent proffers of truth ; as the grim statues of Copar have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest trees , whoso seed was sown by the wind in the ruined walls . "
The Operative. Nos. I., Ii., And Iii, G,...
The Operative . Nos . I ., II ., and III , G , Berger , Holywell-street , London , Amoxg- the now periodicals which 1851 has brought forth we have great pleasure in noticing The Operative , a weekly magazine , of which au advertisement appears in another column . From the three numbers which have already appeared , it seems well calculated to represent the views of tho Amalgamated
Society of the Iron Trades , ( by members oi which it is conducted ) , aud to forward the great work of Industrial Co-operation . As well as its graver matter , it also contains tales evincing considerable literary power , well-written reviews , and good popular poetry . We are always glad to hail an efficient coworker ia the cause of the people , and hope that The Operative may obtain the support it deserves .
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Adelphi. One Of Those.Adolphi Melo-Drama...
ADELPHI . One of those . Adolphi melo-dramas , whose intricacy of plot is not to be unravelled except by proficients in tho mysterious arts of Adelphi construction , was produced at this theatre ; last night . It is founded upon the . drama of Paillasse , which for tho last three months has been played with success in Paris , and in ils English dress is called Mphegor the Mountebank ; or , the Pride of Birth . Bclpbegor ( Mr . Benjamin Webster ) , a mountebank of the true Dulcamara school , so far as his professional life is concerned , but a doting husband and kind parent , has married Madelcinc ( Madame Celeste ) , who has borne him Henri ( Miss Ellen Chaplin ) , and
Loutse ( Miss Stoker ) . Tho period of tho drama is 1814 , and Buonaparte having abdicated the throne of France , and tho Bourbons returned , myriads of French imigrees are about to claim their confiscated estates . Madeleine , it appears , is the child of a titled follower of tho house of Bourbon ; and before tlie exile of her parent , has been left by him in the cure of some person , from whoso custody she is taken to be made tho bride of Belphegor . With him she has lived comfortably enough , but with secret repinings at the humble destiny to which she is consigned . And now the Chevalier do Rohic ( Mr . 0 . Smith ) stops upon the scene as the person wlio many years before had been employed to convoy Madeleine to hev place of refuge . This is a villain of the orthodox sort , who , upon the restoration of
the Bourbons , conceives the design of passing ; Madeleine off as the daughter of the Duke do Mont " buzon ( Mr . II . Hughes ) , a noble who has also committed two children to the custody of De Rolac during the perils of the revolution . ' Do llolac ' s object is a participation in the estate , and he also betrays the sinister design of netting tho marriage of Madeleine and Belphcgor dissolved , in order "" that he may possess her himself . By the vilest arts De Rolac contrives to make Madeleine desert her husband , and convey her to the palaeo of tho duke , where she lives in splendour , and tries to forget hollow born husband . But love is strong with her , and she finds her new existence a burden to her . Belpbegor , in tho meantime , h .-is become a heartbroken wanderer , when accidentally meeting D >>
Itolac , in a scuffle which ensued , the latter artfully contrives to place in the other ' s pockets papers describing tho possessor of them as a convict escapod from the galleys . These papers arc found upon Belphcgor , and he is about to lose his life , when soma new evidence points out the guilty party to be De Rolac , who , when he finds further evasion to ho useless , makes a confession of his crimes , and discovers that Belphcgor , and not Madeleine , is tho child of the Duke de Montbnzon , Tbe retributive justice may bo conceived . Belphcgor is the heir to the dukedom and estates of Montbazon , and Do Rolac pays the penalty of his crimes . In the underplot , Ajax ( Mr . Wright ) , a kind of factotum of Relptw . gov in tho monntcbankish art , is adopted by
the Baron de Montroukde ( Mr . P . Bedford ) as his son , to further the attempts of the latter to regain his property , which had been confiscated by the Republicans , but in those aristocratic pretensions he is constantly receiving a chock in the person of Nini ( Miss Woolgav ) . Tbe character of tno wife of Pail * lasso , devoted to her husband in spite of the remonstrances of her family , is sustained with great force by Madame Celeste , and two comic parts are introduced which are not in tho French original , aud which are highly amusing in the hands of Mr . Wright and Miss Woolgar . Indeed , tho whole company is employed to give effect to the numerous dramatis persona , but the real interest of the piece centres in the character of the mountebank .
Olympic. A Two-Act Piece, Described As A...
OLYMPIC . A two-act piece , described as a comic drama , was produced on Monday evening with success . The scone is laid in the family of a wealthy cottonspinncr , one of whoso sons is enamoured of a young girl employed confidentially in tho establishment , whose beauty , virtue , and general worth fully justify his attachment . Another son is married , but to a young lady of superior condition . She , however , has laid herself open to misconstruction with regard to the attentions of a former admirer , a fashionable rake , but is shielded by the fiancee of her brother-in-law , who is ignominiously dismissed on suspicion of being the really guilty person . At this point , an eclaircissement occurs , and all ends happily , the would-be seducer being summarily
" warned off the premises , " the wife pardoned for her involuntary offence , and tbe young girl made happy by being united to her employer ' s son . This put / rc melo-drarna ( which is called ^ that glitters is not gold ) is of a sentimental cast ; the dialogue has much point ; and the characters are well marked out , although the brevity of tho piece docs not afford much scope for the author ' s skill in this respect . It embodies the strength of the company . Mr . W . Farren 'ent his aid as the father and head of the firm . Mrs . Stirling acted , as she always d'ies , with pathos and tuct as the young girl ; and M ss Louisa Howard not only looked very pretty but also performed with much feelim ? as the wife , Mr .
Leiah Murry developed his artistic power by his performance of the young lover ; but his assumption of the local manners aud dialect , though very cleverly maintained , is an anomaly ; for wealthy young manufacturers do not talk broad Yorkshire or Lancashire patois . Tho comic portion of the affair fell to Mr . Conipton . The drama was announced as being from the pen of Mr . Thomas Morton . The fairy tale of * Prince Dorus , or the romance of the nose , was presented for the sixteenth time , in which we were delighted at witnessing the re-appearanco of that charming and graceful dausucse , Madllc . Adele , after her severe domestic calamity . She was well received , and her difficult , yet talented pas , was rapturously encored .
Royal Polytechnic Institution. Mr. Peppe...
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Mr . Pepper , the chemical lecturer at this establishment , has been engaged in delivering a lecture " on Fire and its Antagonists . " The learned Professor commenced by observing that it was chiellv intended for a . juvenile auditory , and , therefore , any Iwielhcned preface would be unnecessary . Tho audience were then reminded that the principle eillcd Fire had always been invested with a mysterious dignity , and was worshipped by the Persians , Chaldeans , and tho Magi as a deity—a God ; that Aristotle considered it as a component pait of the globe , and classed it with tho earth , air , and water , ca ' . ling these all elements . The sources Tot
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Fire wore then demons rated , and every thing tho lecturer seemed to touch , oven water , was consigned to tvio dominion of Fire . Various combustions , on a large scale , then followed ( one flame was twenty feet in length ) , also the magnificent tiro cloud , with its beautiful rolling ami undulating flamethen came four of diflV-ren ' t colours , and , last of all , hre was sent about tho various parts of the room by trams ot gun cotton , reminding us of tho passago of electricity . But the lecturer did not vet quite end his discourse . The anfiirorists ofFiro were next cxplaincd-water did not a , » , ear to be of much use ; wneu once Firo was ' , „ ' the as . umdanfc little could be done to counteract it . The cse ' usion of oxygen , o : the air , nnd tho use of carbonic acid gas wore the clitt : f : i « eucios which annihilated ( lame ; and as a final expci-hoeui ; a large quantity of carbonic' acid gas was collected hi a cistern , aud taking aiiv .. nMire of the proper time , the lecturer hailed it out with a nail , ii ' isl succeeded in exr / tistiithinn- a
large bonfire by pouring into it the whole contents of tbe listen 1 .. The lecture was attended by a most crowded audience who greatly applauded tho learned gentleman ' s discourse .
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A Onk.V.Imirn .—There Is A Boy In Tiviii...
A OnK . v . imirn . —There is a boy in Tiviiina . aged ten years , who is so uncommon tall that lie ciitUKit icll when his t"cs nre cold . CoxuNouiiM . —Why is a lady ' s hair like Hiw latest new .-, . '—Because in ihe morniiit ; wc a ' wavs ii " . dit in papers . A snw mode of dispersing mobs has been discovered , said to . sup . -i . ic . lc in ,, necessity of a military force—it . is , to pass round a contribution box Bb sot angry tiwt y , m cannot make others as vou wish Ihem to be , siiuc you cannot make yourself what ymi wish to be . It is a doubtful point whether a blind man could be made liable for his bill payable at sight . — I ' unck ' s Almanack . How to Mark axd Losk FimraDs . —Winc and good dinners make abundance of friends ; but in the time of .-ulvcryiry not o e is to be ("• mid .
, . ** ' " j 0 nK - — " ' " * physician cannot obtain recovery of his fees , id though be may cause the recaverv of his patient . " Ookstiik flour you have been sconri-glonU nice , Bridget V— " Inilade , an' it does mann—just as nice as if i hadn ' ta touched it—I didn't hurt it at all , at all . " " Woetn voir know ibis boy to be ray son from his resemblance ( o me ? " asked a grn Jcmaii . —Mr . Currau replied , " Yci , sir ; tho maker ' s name is stamped upon ihe blade . " Fancy is a buiteriiy , which mu-fc he delicately handled -, if ru ; e rimers tamper with it , the bloom is rubbeilorf , and the « ay insect perishes . The United Service ( lazette reports the strength of the British army lo le 12 : j , 7 i ) 3 men o ; all arms , hesides . w . OtiU of pensioners , yeomanrv , « tc .
I ' Ai'ri-: itK-. M . —the siatcments of numbers in each Union of tlw Metropolis show a decrease of nearly 3 i \ 0 Ul ) from tltuse of last year ! Pauperism continues to decline in many parishes of England . The pcrfumo of a thousand roses soon dies , but the pain caused by one ol their thorns remains long after ; a saddened remembrance in the aids ! of mirth is like that thorn ainnmi the roses . Gas 1 ' ii'F . s . —Ir . is o . s'iimued that there are upwards of one thousai . ti five hundred mites of gasni . 'iin-i ramifying thr ; ii | riiotit the streets of London . We arc inclined , however to think that even this is too low an estiuwe . —Builder , Si'eakiso Yoi'ii Mimi—A pedagogue threatened to punish a pupil who had called him a i ' col behind his hack . — " Don ' t , d > n ' t ! " begged the boy . " I won ' t do so niiuin , sir , never . 1 never will " speak what 1 think ag .-in in my life ' . "
A Dkau Wife . —A gentleman just married told a friend that ho had that morning laid out three thousand pounds in jewels for his dear wife . " Faith , sir , " said he , " I see you arsno hypocrite , for she is truly your dear wife . '' A mbmbku uf ihe Connecticut Assembly moved for leave to bring in a bill for extending the powers of justices . Another requested , as a previous motion , that a statuie might be passed to extend their ccyxtcities . Buhkk and Dr . Joitxsox . —Br . Bobertson observed that Johnson's jokes were the rebukes o ; the riitliti ous , described in Scripture as beiny lil-e excellent oil . " Yes , " exL-lat-ned Burke , " oil of vitriol !"
LiFi ! , —Thousiii wn seemed grieved at the shortness of lite in general , we are wishini ; every peri' d of it at an end . The minor b-ngs to be at age—t i ¦ en to be a iumi of business—then to make » p an c > satethen to arrive at honours—then to retire . —Ani'isos . An old m-iid wa . i ttlliui ; her age , which , sin : said , was just thirty-six years . A gentleman in company doubted tlw truth uf li .-v statement , but wa .- , corrected by her brother , who suit ! it must bo true , for she had told the story f . r ten years . Dhkinition' or 1 'l-skvism . — The late facetious Sy-iney Smth , when asked to define Puseyism , remarked thai it was a mixture of posture and imposture , flexions -and genuflexions , of bowing lo the tast and curtseying to the west , with an immense amount of man-mi ! iii : crv .
Im-: t'ori ' i . ATiox of the city of New \* < irk on the ' 1 st of June last , was about r > 2 , 0 D 0 . Adding to this Brooklyn and the circumjacent places , which as properly belong to New York as Maiilmttanville . the result is a meirop : diiasi population of nearly 7 : r \ 000 , or three quarters of a million . iVfivia Way of IIksigni . vc Office—7 he p-vrisb clerk of Westcote , near Stow-on-the-Wold , Ics resigned his office . His mode of proceeding was placing the fbllo-. ving notice on the church door" This is to give notice ¦ fwt I shan ' t bo dene any longer , so yuu be at liberty to get another . " -Mrs . Pautj . vgto . v mid a criticism the other dav , in which a writer was ( -liaised with " neglecting the antecedent . " -- "Tina ' s just like some stuch-u ? ' aristocrats that I know , " said the old lady ; " ti ^ y always neuloct thiiir aimis , and other relations ' . oo , if they batmen to he poor , "
Di : i'A . ttTuuB vtioM PimimvE Ri-t / b . — The Society of Friends h-ivo aaived to place siom .:. over the graves of tlieir deceased relatives of Bishs'jswcarmoulh , with the initials of their names in . ' cribed upon them in tho . vime way as a stone was placed over Ihe grave of their founder , George Fox at his decease . HnoAn SirouxuKiis . —It was proved at Paris , in lSlo , during the occupation of that city , that a body of British highiamlors or lowlaudcrs , si .-i-uliug " shoulder to : shoulder , '' stretch over ui (; ro j .-uvrad than a similar number of inhabitants , s . diers or civilians , of any other nation in Europe .-sir F . Head .
A Dbspkbatk U . -vnr . KTAKlN'G , —There is a divine out west ( says an American paper ) trying to persuade girls to forego marriage , lie might « . s well try to persuade ducks that they could find a substitute for water , or ross' uds that there is sono-iaing better for their cumpWxion than sunshine Tho only convert he has yet made is a single lady , aged sixty . BlUTISIT AND FoilEIGN' BlMF . SociF . TY . —At the usual monthly meeting of the cammittce of fin above society , it was stated that , by dint of unweari-d exertion , ' , i , 2 \ 1 district associations h « d been formed in Great Hrifcain alon?—ithas circulated dut-icg the last forty-five . veins in m than twenty-three million copies of the Scrijituiis . promoted tho translation and printing of the sanvd volume into 110 different lanenages or dialers , and expended nearly £ 3 , 500 , 000 .
Glass roar hi : I ' . m . acf . of Inbustjiv . — The , ftnhlud glass f » r M < . . ''xum ' s huiWins , « rites tha Commissioner of the Mining Chronicle , will * eigh 4110 ton ? , requiring ; f it * manufacture upwards of 000 tons of sand and other materials , and about 3 , 000 tons of coals . Tbe average quantity of coal required for the manufacture of glass is eight times the bulk of the . ttla .-s produced , or from Tifio 8 tons of coal for one ton of --lass . Tir-r-ERAUY HoNC-un . —A gentleman from Irelsmb on entering a London tavern , saw a countryman of his—a Tipperary squire , sitting over his pint of wine in the coffee-room . " Blood an' ountls ! my dear fellow , " said he , " what are you about ? For the honour of Tipperary don ' t be after sitting over a pint of wine in a bou « . c like this . "— " Make yourself aisv , countryman , " was the reply ; " it ' s the seventh 1 have had , and every one in the room knows it . "
Black not Giiki : n . —Said a gentleman the . other day to a servant at the hotel where he was slopping — "Bless mv soul , Sambo , how black you are ; how in the name of wonder did yon get so hlacl :. —' ' Why , look ' a here massa . de . rcasom am dis—de day d ' is child was born derc ; was an eclipse . " Ebony received a shilling for his satisfactory explanation , " and after grinning thanks , continued— " I tell vot- whit it is , wassa ; ills nigger may be black , but he aia ' t sreen . no how . " A TllAVr . LI . KR . ASP T . V . AJIXED lLlWKKK . — A young man , lately arrived in one of the iiorther-i parishes ot Ayrshire , from England , where he had hawiced tea and accumulated some monev and a vast fund ot conceit , w « s one dav lecturing to a sroup of admirers upon inductive philosophy . A by .-tander asked if he wa * acquainted with Ihicon ? - " Bacon , sir , said the man of knowledge , witlm contemptuous smile , "yes , I have often got it to my breakfast when I wasinEm ; land . "
Kajl-way Tkaffio . —The published ( . radio returns of railways in the United Kingdom during ( he li'ity-uitie weeks of the last year , ciitling the 7 ih of December , shows tf-. nt the augresate receints amounted to £ 12 , 030 , 170 on 0 , 210 iniks of railway . For the corresp' -nditig period of 18-10 , the receipts " amounted to £ 10 , 397 , 000 on 5 , 100 miles , showing an increase in the sro . 's receipts of £ 1 , C *? 57 " . , or 15 . 8 per cent ., ami in the mileage at the end of the forty-nine weeks of l , i ! Su miles . The nvirage receipts por mile for ( he forty-nine weeks iu 1850 , amoiinfn ! to £ 2 , 111 , tun ) in the corresponding period
oHol . ) to £ 2 , 183 , showing a falling off in the ivceipts per mile of £ 72 , or on l y s S per i .-c :: t . on an increase in the mileage of 20 . 0 percent .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 18, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_18011851/page/3/
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