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October 18, J8ah ^ ^ THE NORTHERN STAR,
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EOSSUTIT. TO THE PRESIDES! OF TRANCE. Ha...
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A Refutation of the Charge of Imposition...
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The Christian Socialist. Part II. London...
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October 18, J8ah ^ ^ The Northern Star,
October 18 , J 8 ah ^ ^ THE NORTHERN STAR ,
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Eossutit. To The Presides! Of Trance. Ha...
EOSSUTIT . TO THE PRESIDES ! OF TRANCE . Hast thou forgotten , thou more vile Tian » c wn 0 clun S ^ elen ' siste Rather than fall among the brave ! Hast thou forgotten so thy flight , -When sparing Philip ' s peaceful might , Bisdain'd to hurl thee to thy grave ? ftirsotten the chain ed eagle , borne stolen bv ridicule and scorn Up Boulogne ' s proud columnar hill ? Twice traitorrere a nation ' s trust nais'd thee a third time from the dust For what ? - to be a traitor still .
The hands that thrust thy uncle down , And threwinto his face his crown , Con temptuous , were held forth to thee : Aot for thy valonr or thy worth , Believe me , were those hands held forth . So , but from joy that thou wert free . O brow of 4 ( rass ! 0 heart of stone ! Dost thou of Europe ' s sons alone Repel the exile from thy shore , Whom Plague's implacable disease , Whom murderous men , tempestuous seas , Had spared , whose wrongs far worlds deplore . Him , when the sons of Is ' mael saw , The man who gave free men the law , They stopt the camel-train to gaze ; For in the desert they had heard The miracles of Kossuth ' s Word .
The myriad voices of his praise . Him , ever mindfnl of her trust , America , the firm , the just , Beneath her salutary star Invokes , and bears across the main . Until his native land again Avenges an unrighteous war . England ! I glory tbat mine eyes First opened on th y sterner shies , - "Where the moat valiant of mankind Bear gentlest hearts ; I glory most . At the proud welcome on thy coast Of him , the brave , the pure , the wise My Eng land ! look across the Strait ! Behold the chief whom thousands hate ,
But fear to touch ; because the Czar 2 Joda at him from his saddle-bow , And says , " If any strike a blow Against my slave J rush to war . " Safe art thou , Louis ' . . . for a time . . Hut tremble , . never yet was crime , Beyond one little space , secure . The coward and the brave alike Can wait and watch , can rush and strike . . Which marks thee ? one of them , be sure . Some men love fame , despising power , Well sheltered from its sultry hour ,
And some love power , despising ; fame ; Among the crowd of these art thou , And soon shalt reach it . . but below , A Jellachich ' s and Georgey ' s name . October 7 . Walter Savage Lakdob
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A Refutation Of The Charge Of Imposition...
A Refutation of the Charge of Imposition and Fraud , recently made at the Police Court of JJirmingham , against the JBaroness Von Beck , based upon Authentic Documentary Evidence . Collected by Constant Dbrra i > e Moeoda , London : Bentley . Some weeks ago our police reports gave an account ' of the strange proceedings connected with the seizure of the Baroness von Beck , at Birmingham , as an imposter , and her consequent death at the moment she was to have ken placed before the magistrate . M . Derra , who acted as ber secretary , -was seized at tbe lime time , as an accomplice in the imposture ,
whatever it was , but was set at liberty immediately after the death of the Baroness , with an admission that lie , at least , belonged to a highl y respectable Hungarian family , and was not personall y cognisant of any fraud . There the matter appeared to be hushed up , as far as the prosecutions were concerned , and there , to all appearances , they intended it to rest . There were , however , even at that stage , aome facts which pointed to a mystery that required clearing up ; and , fortunately for the deceased lady , she has found in her secretary and Mr . Bentley , the publisher of her Memoirs , able and zealous defenders of her character and
memory . The case , as stated in the publication at tho head of this notice , is supported by ample documentary evidence of the highest description , and though all the facts may not vet be disclosed , the narrative leads irresistibl y to the conclusion that the lady called the Baroness von Beck was treated , on at least very slight grounds , with a harshness and violence which led to her death , and is in its circumstances without airy-parallel in this country . TVe regret this the more , inasmuch as Mr . Dawson Was prominently mixed up in the proceedings , which , as related by ALDerraand M . Kaszonyi , were more fitted for the meridian of Naples thsu an English town . It has yet to he proved
that the lady was guilty of any deception , in calling herself hy the name she did . The only ground for the allegation is , the statement of AL Hajnik , in the Police Court—that there was no such person as the Baroness Von Book ; whereas , the documents now published prove that she was addressed by that title by ffl-iiiy Hungarians of high rank , amongst Others Count Paul Esterhazy , a letter from wh « m of the most respectful terms , and in a manner thoroughly confirmatory of her own representations , as to the services she rendered iu the struggle for Hungarian independence . M . Gorski , aide-de-camp to General P i , in " a declaration " states : —
Oa the 2 ~ th of July , whilst travelling as aide-de-GEup Iroiu Glauscnuerg to Szegedin , 1 found H-idame von Meszlcnyi , Kossuth ' s sister , in Arad , 2 i whence I travelled with her to Szegedin ; and SU ; also spoke of the merits of the deceased liiroiicss von Back . Lastly , on tbe 27 th of July , I a -compauied Kossuth ' s mother from Oroszbaza to Arad ; on which occasion also the Baroness von Back was frequently remembered . AU the abovementioned persons knew her , and entitled her Baroness Beck .
It is desirable that Kossuth , on his arrival in this country , should set this matter definitivel y at rest , for the character of M . Pulsky , bb agent in this country , sadly needs a derisive and prompt vindication from the s-rious charges involved in the singular narrative of the two witnesses we have mentioned . Instead of resembling j ; nything that could have tak- ^ n p lace in a matter-of-fact t > . vn like Birmingham , aud under the forms of English law , it reads like a story of the Inquisition in Venice or Madrid , in the palmy dava of that institution : —
After briefly describing the first appearance of the Baroness , or alleged Baroness , in Birmingham , the interest which she excited , her serious illness , aud her removal to the house of llr _ Tyndell , the writer proceeds : — On the 23 th of August , the Baroness was so far recovered , that she was present at a soiree given l ' v Mr . Tyndall ; and even felt able to comply with lie deiire of the company , that she would give them a specimen of the Hungarian national dance . Or . the following evening , August 29 th , there was also a party at Mr . Tyndall ' s , and everything went on pleasantly till about nine o ' clock . Mr . Tyndall tbeu enteredand summoned his lady and her sister
, fiom the parlour , informing them that bis sister , Xrs . Ryhnd , had been taken ill . There were three Hungarians in the company at this period—the Baroness vou Beck , M . Constant Derra , and il . Da-jiel von Kayzonyi . Derra was seated at tlie Piano , playing some Hungarian airs , and the other two were coiivtrsinir . As soon a-s Mrs . Tyndall at : d her sister were removed , ilr . Tyndall came to Drrra , touched Mm on the shoulder , and requested hi m to step into another room , as there was a genth-aian there who wanted to speak to him . Derra immediately obeyed the summons ; but no sooner * js he outside , and the door shut , than he was Seized bv two noliccmen . hurried along the passage ,
a : ; i thrust into a cab , which was waiting . All his deaiauds for explanation , as to the nature of the cUrge upon which he was arrested , were treated *•' - ' : > contempt and insult . The cab drove off to the P' ^ ice station in Xew-street , where he was searched hip a thief , and his letters taken from him to the I ' aiabtr ' of s " w , two of which were never returned . A ' ur this operation , he was conveyed to the cells lr Aloor-sirect , where he was locked up . The B roness and Kaszonyi were still in the room , l ; :.: iTi ;! g nothing of what had befallen Diura . - &'•«« ten tniiiutcs or a quarter of sit hour after J !; 5 removal , Mr . Richird Peyton approached the Baroness and politely olfercd her his arm , inti-
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mating his wish to speak to her in private . She accepted his support , and left the room , when the same scene was played over again . She could not sneak . English ; and it is easy to conceive the terror of a helpless woman , thus dragged from tbe midst of a social assembly , where , the very moment before , she had been treated with all possible respect and attention ; dressed as she was for an evening party , and infirm in health , suddenly , and in ignorance of her alleged crime , carried ofi to prison .
The whole of this scene appears at first reading incredible . A little further on it is stated that , by some means , the host was induced to conceal from his unsuspecting guest the designs of her accuser , — « to lead Mr . Hajnik into the garden himself , —widen the opening in the window-curtains , and stand by while the domestic circle was overlooked , and the helpless woman who had long been a member of it marked and noted by Hajnik . ' This mysterious visit , —this night arrest—so far as appears in these papers , without warrantwithout stating a specific charge—without offer to accept bail for an appearance in the morning , —surely all these strange and secret
proceedings had reference to some other motive than the charge that the lady sold a romance for a true story , —and which it has been thought convenient carefully to conceal from the public . One result of these proceedings , however , does come to light in the papers before ns , and seems to indicate the direction in which motives might be sought . The papers of the Baroness were seized , —and have since been kept by some one : —and the parties to this pamphlet even complain that the abstraction and retention of these documents have deprived them of the most important means of here proving her innocence . —But , to the story : —
Kaszonyi was still in the parlour , completely ignorant of what had taken place , nor had he the remotest hint of it until Mr . Tyndall , after deposing against the prisoners , suddenly entered the apartment , and said : "Gentlemen , we have all been mistaken in the Baroness von Beck—she is no Baroness . " Kaszonyi took this for a jest , and thinking it rather out of place , replied , " Je trouve cette farce bien drole . " Sir . George Dawson , however , assured him that it was no jest , for tbat both Derra and the Baroness were at that moment in prison . Kaszonyi astonished and indignant at what he deemed the falsehood and treachery practised upon his friends , demanded the nature of the charge
against them , the name of their accuser , and the place of their imprisonment , intending to do something , though he knew not what , for their defence . Neither Mr . Tyndall , however , nor his friends , would answer any of Kaszonyi ' s questions . All he could extract from them was to the effect that he would know all about the matter at eleven o ' clock the next morning . Kaszonyi then left Mr . Tyndall ' s house , and went into Birmingham to make inquiries concerning his country people . He walked about the town till eleven o ' clock at night , seeking for information respecting the place of their imprisonment , but - without success . Finding all his efforts in vain , he then returned to his hotel . '
M . Derra continues the narrative . — Placed in a miserable cell , my brain on fire , and my bosom bursting with shame and rage at the fri ghtful outrage inflicted on me , I walked up and down like a wild animal in its cage . I felt as if my very heart would break with the anguish of my wrongs , and the sense of my hel plessness . I had not a friend near me , to whom I could apply for advice or assistance ; I was completely surrounded by the toils of my unknown enemies . I thought of mj aged parents , and pictured to myself the fatal shock it would be to them to hear that I had been dragged to an English prison . I thought of my father , smitten to the grave with sorrow at the disgrace of his son , and it almost made me mad . I
could hare shouted aloud with desperation , and had the means been at hand , I fear I should have been tempted to do myself a deadly mischief . I know not how the hours passed—they seemed to me then to stretch themselves out into ages ; and now that I look back upon the whole , it is like a hideous dream . At length the morning began to dawn upon this ni ght of misery . The violence of the tempest that raged within me began to abate ; I could think of my position with something like calmness . I sat down * upon the wretched bench that served for a bed , and tried to comprehend the circumstances of the last few hours , and to discover if possible the cause of my captivity . Whilst reflecting upon these subjects , my attention was attracted
by a low mournful sound , which seemed to proceed from the cell adjoining that in which I was confined . I had been aware of this noise all night , though I was so distracted with my own passion * , that it did not excite my special notice . It sounded like the voice of a human being in distress . I approached the partition and listened attentively , and soon distinguished the voice of the unhappy Baroness . She was groaning weakly , and praying that some Christian . would g ive her a glass of cold water for Christ ' s sake ! and send her a physician , as she was dying . She spoke German , and therefore was not understood ; but I heard a rough voice cry to her several time to be quiet . I begged the keeper very movingly to allow me to go out of
my cell for a few minutes ; he did so , and accompanied me himself . I looked into the Baroness ' s cell : she was sitting upon the side of the bed . I was astounded at the change which had taken place in her appearance since the last evening ; her face was shrunken and unnaturally pale . She swayed from side to side , unable to sit in an upri g ht position , and kept up a continual low wailing . As soon as she saw me through the grating , she beckoned me to stay , arose from the bed , and staggered to the wall , against which she supported herself whilst she crawled to the door outside which I was standing . "I am falsely chargid with being no
baroness , " she said ; " and they say that we are impostors . " Her voice was altered and wild , and she sobbed convulsively when she had uttered these words . She then cried out , " Send me a physician —I am dying—a little water I a little water J for Jesus' sake !"—The keeper , Joseph Yates ( let his name be recorded with honour ) , was kind enough to procure her a glass of water , which she had prayed for in vain in her own language for nine hours and a half . I then returned to my cell , to await the investigation , which I was informed would take place at eleven o ' clock before the town magistracy .
The death of the unfortunate lady in the ante-room of the court is followed by the examination and acquittal of M . Derra : —and then , the whole matter is hushed up . The statements of this pamphlet , so far as they can be tested , sustain themselves , —and the letters are iuferentially contradictory of the statements on the other side . We lay before our readers , to he received as they may choose , one of the speculations of tbe pamp hlet which undertakes to expose the springs of the proceedings against the Baroness : —
There is reason to suspect that a plan was concocted with tbe utmost secrecy , and that extraordinary exertions were used to collect every scrap of evidence which could tell against the Baroness , with the intent of making a fatal swoop upon her on the evening of the 29 ih . There is also reason to suspect that the most extraordinary efforts were made to lull tbe Baroness into entire unsuspiciousness of what was intended . She was not once asked for her credentials . She was surrounded with the most flattering and apparently hospitable attentions . She was deprived of all possible means of defending herself , whilst a barrister is brought down results i f all this
from London , armed with the eaoer industry . The charge is proceeded with whilst the woman lies dead m the court ! The magistrates discharge the other person accused with Iier , on the ground that there was no evidence against him . The advocate then begs tiiat tfiepapirs of ihe deceased may be given up to him , stating , with a supernatural clairvoyance , that they contained the p-irticulars of a conspiracy among tbe Hungarians . They are given up to him ; and , by a strange sympathetic action , her lodgings in London are visited at the same time , and her keys taken away . That those papers contained a plot , rests upon the mere assertion of the Baroness ' s accusers . That thev
contained most important proofs of her integrity , is very certain ; such proofs as would have tffectually ' demonstrated it to the world . The judgment of those who knew most about the Baroness ' s afiaira is , that the whole process had for its object to discredit her as an authority on Hungarian ^ flairs be fore t ' jo British public . This looks extremely probable , when thi' declared enmity between he ' r and certain individuals is considered . Indeed it is impossible to believe that all this mighty preparation , this hunting up of evidence , that secrecy ami finesse that simulation of kindne-s , that feverous
excitement to have all ready by the 29 th , which the very dates of lteters read against the Baroness betr-iy could have been deemed necessary , were she the wretched , illiteitae , and depraved woman which tier enemies repres < -nc her . Instead of moving heaven and earth for her destruction , a breath wnuld have swept her way . But she was making her wav with the public ; * he was about to publish i * new work , which mig ht hapl y be made the vehicle ' 7 ,, ,. , cseiitine :. t . It must not come out ; she mo < Tbe atianmtfeed 5 «« J ' Z must be d ? - ne t 0 ™ . sl . her at * blow . That Mio most extraordinary ners asions were used to foduce the gentlemen at Snoiu-liam to act as they did is pretty plain : on
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no other grounds can their conduct be accoui . 'ted for . ThB ends Of justice « -ould have been abundantly answered by taking the Baroness into custody on the morning of the investigation , but to take her from the midst of an evening party would give more eclat to the ven geance she had provoked . Had the Baroness been warned of what was in preparation , she would have communicated with friends willing and able to defend her ; therefore she was to be kept in the most entire ignorance of the coming accusation .
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Rambles through Borne . By the ChevalibB de Chatelaw . London : Hope & Co . Most writers about Home fall into raptures about its antiqutty—its palaces , pictures , aud sculptures . The Chevalier de Chatelain takes a matter-of-fact view , and presents us with a description ofthe ' eternal city , ' very different from that ofthe sentimentalists , antiquarians , and artists , who usually undertake the task . As some of his recollections are derived-from a sojourn in Borne twenty years ago , it is possible that they niay now be out of date , even in a city which is subject to the rale of an infallible and immutable papacy . But the pleasant style and lively nature of the sketches carry the reader agreeably along . Here is a description of the muchtalked of Corse-, verydifferentfrom tbe ordinary ideas Englishmen hare gathered of it from other tourists .
When you hear of the Corso , at Rome , as tho rendezvous of the nobility , who drive up and down in elegant equipages countless in number , you naturally fancy a superb avenue , well aired , and bordered , as in most of our southern towns , with verdant trees and magnificent cofSa—those temples of fashion and pleasures ; and you even perhaps go tho length of imagining that , as it is without question the native land of music , snatches of delicious symphonies will reveal the taste of a melodyloving people , or that , at any rate , at some distance both youth and childhood would each be partaking of the amusements of their ages , and that it was the very place to enjoy , at the- decline of day , the cool freshness of the breeze , and to witness the
parting beamsof thesun .... Well , then , good people , pray undeceive yourselve 8 .. "When , six weeks after my departure from Prance , I was told " There is the Tiber , " I perceived a river of no great breadth , that I crossed by a bridge , rather ill-built than otherwise , after having looked with disgust on two horrible statues of saints , the modern production of a would be sculptor , who had been entrusted to decorate the bridge . On the right I behtld the Castle of St . Angelo , the Vatican , the sublime Basilica , and the mournful Monte Mario , with its black cypresses . On the left I perceived some abrupt hills , some kind of marshes , and a number ef ruins of old castles , held sacred among artists , under the title of Foussin ' s buildings ., Then appeared a
desert of a street , two miles in length ; then the Porta del Popolo , the piazza of the same name , that is ornamented by a superb obelisk , and disgraced by two fountains , the sculpture of which is an insult to all good taste ; and lastly , a street almost as long as tbe first , but much narrower , and overshadowed by tall houses , several of which are styled palaces , —this , thi-y told me , was the Corso . The equipages form two lines , that cross each other , and continue circulating after passing the goal . The whole population of Borne being thus crowded into one narrow neck , the foot passengers are well nigh trodden underneath the hoofs of the horses , luckily not much given to capering ; but in summer this conglomeration of human
beings occasions an excess of heat and dust that is scarcely endurable . "But at least , say you , in the midst of all these disagreeables , the rich alone surely have the privilege of dispersing mud and dust to the baser orders on foot . Wrong again , Side by side with a prince , or evert an ex-majesty ! comfortable ensconced in an elegant equipage , behind which are clustering a whole swarm of lackeys , strangely accoutred , you perceive a cobbler diaened out in his Sunday clothes , and proud as a peacock in the midst of his radiant family , seated on the well-worn cushions of an old caliche , drawn with difficulty by two Rosinantes at the last gasp . Three or four of his apprentices are stuck up behind to personate lackeys . It is amusing to watch
the airs he gives himself ; how he surveys , from top to tos , the stranger whose boots he blackened that same morning , and how his robust helpmate , vastly proud of the new net of green ribbons on her head , is minutely criticising the dresses of neighbouring marchionesses and countesses . Should the carriage by chance be obliged to stop , or should some Croesus call for an ice to dispel his ennui , then immediately the cobler loses no time in sending a deputation to the retailer of wines , and , while the melancholy lord of millions is picking at an ice , or tasting his orgeat glace , an enormous flagon of Bomanesco , borne in triumph iu the midst of his neighbours , serves to quench the thirst of father , mother , children , lackeys , and coachman , until it is fairly emptied . The merriment that presidesattheselibationsthrowsahalo of gaiety over its immediate vicinity , tbat contrasts forcibly
with the mournful gravity of all the rest . In the midst of this carousal the carriages of the cardinals may be distiuguished by their massivoness , their redness , their old fashioned gilding , and the multitude of lackey shanging behind them . Nearly stifled within the depth of his carriage , his eminence can only throw a side-long glance at tho fair ladies who pass and pass again ; hut , on the other hand , he enjoys the wondrous satisfaction of hearing the drums beat , and seeing the soldiers turn out of the guard-house to present arms to him , all of which is not without its value at Rome . In tbe midst of all this , what be . 'oinea of the exquisites ? Doubtless they are capering round those carriages best filled with inmates of the softer sex , or are galloping at full speed in the English fashion , at the imminent risk of breaking their necks . No such thing . It is not in the Corso the same as in tbe Bois de
Boulogne in France , or Hyde Park in England . Those who require riding on horseback , either from want of exercise , from habit , or from vanity , must rest content at Borne with creeping behind the equipages—and the number of such persons is very limited . By far the greater portion of young men of ion ton , after having slowly paced the old Corso ( infra muros ) , come and place themselves right and left on the Piazza del Popolo . There they stand , crossing their arms , twisting their gloves , pulling up their cravats , and pirouetting abruptly on their heels , as if some one had called to them from behind , though they know such is not the case , and bowing every minute to the ladies that pass them , happy if they receive in return a smile or a glance which can be perceived by their rivals . Night comes on and thoy retire , for the most part exceedingly bored ; but they have shown themselves-and at Rome this is the main point .
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The Christian Socialist . Part II . London : J . Berger , Fleet-street . The following extract concludes our notice of the as yet little known * Island of Bark . ' By the way , as touching the colonization and lordship of Sarh , I find that the first recorded occupant of this isle was a bishop , a certain Saint Maglorious , who But , for an ensample to bishops , iet me quote the guide book , which doubtless is true to the letter . " In a . d ., 588 , St . Sampson was bishop of Dol in France ; and his diocese , being a small one , was augmented by the addition of Guernsey , Jersey , and Sark . He , being a pious man , gave his whole heart to the work of his bishopric , and because he could not bestow as much
attention and care on these islands as he wished to do , he appointed an assistant and successor in the person of St . . Maglorious . This latter , an equally holy man , devoting himself to the work of an evangelist , resigned his bishopric , and went to Sark , which he chose for a place of retirement , for meditation , and for prayer , before he entered on his ministry . " Just a thousand years after this , when the monastery which old Maglorious had built hero bad crumbled to dust , and all priests and pirates who in turn held rule of the island , had in turn disappeared , Queen Elizabeth granted the possession of Sark to a certain Heller de Carteret of Jersey , and by her letters patent , the present Seigneur holds it . This first lord of Sark
was a true king-man , for he left his own fine seigneury of St . Ouen in Jersey , to colonise this wild island , and so fairly did he set it in order for his posterity , that ho was soon exporting corn from the little harbour , for an approach to which , he bond through the hard rock-wall of his new domain , the tunnel through which to this day , the traveller generally enters Sark . But in course of time , a De Carteret arose who took unto himself debts , whereupon the Seigneury was sold to one Mr . Milncr , " whose next heir becoming Bishop of Gloucester , sold it" again . So the last person who sold Sark was a bishop ; I note him , as ft token of changed times , and m inglorious contrast with old-Maglorioiis .
But now if any servant of God would buy the lordship of Sark , not as a speculation , or as a good property , but that he might set himself to work in right earnest to do his duty to the island , and to make all men therein do theirs , - —what mig ht he do ? Great things I believe , just nothing leas than first making a model colony , or parish , or community , for the whole world loimitate ; and , secondly , making this island one of the richest and most populous p laces on earth , —making it to atone for the dark deeds of tho old pirates , whose stronghold it was in the dark ages . But fine fellows they were 1 doubt not , —true steel , but twisted , like- a gun barrel—worth , the handful of them , fot ^ courage , half the landlords and cotton-lortl 3 j , and , ail the slop-sellers in Britain .
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What raw materials , tllODjoi" the fabrication of a Paradise , are therein Sark ? Much many ways , STa uff ^ vonffi ^ ' not much i » tellecLuy ^ S . i- i . n y Tlt ^ , e to be "" Ported and grown . Jo ! a teat tTt l * ^ P" ™ , » nd they liveoften to a great age ; , the womeu ( aa i 8 the case whereever in hatl-civilised communities , man's help-T £ lL f ^ 9- hM , " * , cribbed in the loweKj Satmosoher ^ Tl' ins - teau ^ ^ ing freedom in thm ? , fh „ ^ , oftl ! , P ilflt ») are stunted and ugly , though . the little- girls are generally very pretty ' l 7 oVL \ TifV ^ k ^ S ^ tie of the £ i ^ tf ^ * httl e in its vices as £ K « 1 . reftn ? ment 8 . Traditionally accustomed to an almost absolute monarchical rule , they K £ ti & # 1 > and t 0 8 * report and S fectioum return for leadership . Thev would nro .
til « nfl ! r " atjeal 0 U 3 at fi ' ' * of a foreigner ( l e ., one not a native ofthe Channel Islands ) coming among them as their lord ; if this iealousv SrTin * r * "W" ** -bt the mlnsS wauts . The parliament of forty tenants , the machinery , though it be , of an hereditary aristocracy , contains within itself the germs of a republican government , whioh mi ght hi developed bv oegreVs ftffin , Thur ^ T - Thu « Seur hSf holding in his hands the title to his £ > wer against tJT £ n ? ithout ' «» igl > t delegate more or hll ° L ^ . h c nty l 00 lher * Within his realm , as t- rt mgl 1 ^ tedfor it- ^ till , having raised to his own level m education good men of his coislanders , he m ight finally abdicate into their hands on patent , thai they should elect their own seigneur , and so perfect the little republic . . lhere is at present very little money in circulation m Bark . All rents and tithes , as I have said , are paid m kind . - there is scarcely anv hired labour :
moii neips nis neighbour , and receives help in turn . This little point would be good seed for a fine harvest of associative growths . You may perhaps be puzzled to discover what ale the physical advantages which fit Sark for a field of human industry . Its shallow soil and rock-girt coast do not seem to promise much , either in the way of production , or of distribution and reception Now you are well aware , though Sark men we not , that a deep , inexhaustible soil is not the true foundation on which human food is to be built . Hunan bodies are the Stuff of which human bodies are to he made ; sewage manure is the transition state of the material , the vehicle through which the human spirit is to animate the earth . Inhabitants and worker * then , are what Sark wants to make it grow
food . It wants an importation from some of tbe rich streets , and from a poor yard and alley or two that you and I know of in a certain city , —a little fresh blood and life to quicken its heart and to consume its own produce on its own surface . But do not suppose that I want to make a mere agricultural colony of the island . Work is to be found for the increased population , which ousht soon to bo far more numerous than the land would require , even when it was all converted into a teeming garden . Kow the universal wealth of Sark is probably considerable , as tbe primitive rocks of which the island is formed are interlaced with veins in every direction , and some of these must contain metal . — Mines have been worked here in old as well as in recent times , and much silver , copper , and lead have been brought to light . These , however , have been closed either from want of capital , or from
E artial exhaustion , so we will not consider this ranch of industry at present . Sark , however , is more richly provided with ono great source of wealth , than almost any other piece of land in the World of equal size : this is , its water power . —One of tho great sources of the wealth of England is its coal . Sow the value ot coal consists in its being a reservoir of force , by means of which the same results may be obtained , as by so much human muscle , without the necessity of feeding it . —Sark , it is true , has no coal to work steam engines , nor has io any rivers , scarcely anything that can be called a brook to turn a water wheel . But it has its tides , such tides as scarcely any other spot under her Majesty ' s Crown can boast . The Bay of Fundy has it ' s rise aud fall of three score or more of feet . But that is not within a day ' s water distance of both London and Paris . The tides of Sark rise
and fall from thirty to forty feet ; and the water being deep all round the island , the form of the shores is the very best for rendering this vast power available . Just conceive the huge upheaving force which through all time has been quietly working away round this island , utterly neglected , as it is everywhere else by man , who as yet is only half awake , There is scarcely any limit to the amount of work to be got out of the sea jiere . Here it is lifting up , through forty feet perpendicularly , twice daily , any number of thousands of tons weight you like to mention , the whole of which , instead of idly dancing about tbe din ' s , is ready to set cotton , silk , or flax-mills working like glory . But every wave that ripples or rushes rolling against the coast is lifting a score of times in every minute the weight of its whole mass through a height varying from an inch to a fathom . Not only again does the tide heave and life , but , in come places , where smaller islets cling about the small mothe .-
lsles , with a channel between , it rushes to and tro unceasingly in currents , to which , all mill races you ever saw , are mere trickles . There it flows , the life-blood that mi g ht be of whole generations of throbbing machinery . And even if all this were not enough , there is no place better fitted than Sark for making the wind do service . Hero it stands towering four hundred feet above the sea surface , with the idle , reckless wind sweeping over it unopposed . How strange is it that this power so willing , and so able to serve , has never bcon set to any work except to move ships , and to grind corn , and in some few places to pump water : there is some strange traditional indolence in the human faculty of adaptation . Here , then , are the means for enabling the lord of Sark to find work for his companions , and helps for them in their work , for enabling tho future population of Surk to do service for the world outside , while it maintained its own internal life by co-operative industry .
These are the capabilities of Surk , but before all these could be developed , humbler industry must bo encouraged . The men would have to be induced to take some really productive employment instead of tho miserable substitute for labour called fishing , in which the excitement of danger , alternating with the patience of laziness , takes the place of the energy and persoverancepvopev to human toil . There is at present but little communication with Guernsey , the nearest inhabited island , almost none with any other place : the only traffic being by means of a small sailing boat , which is of course dependent on the caprices of the wind . The day is nearly come when tho elaborate clumsiness of masts and sails will be discarded from our sea bouts . Steam ,
till a mightier and more convenient power is revealed , must do all our locomotion by sea as well as by land . ' One of tho first things tbe lord of Sark would have to do for his domain , would be to establish a small steamer for facilitating communication with the markets in the other islands . Sark is oi all others the island which requires to bs set free from the tyranny of the winds by the use of steam . There are so many rocks in the sea around it , that the navigation by sail is by no means safe . Steam would reduce these inconveniences to a minimum . I feel this keenly , for this is the third day that 1—wanting to get to Guernsey , which is only six miles off , and of whoso town I can see every house from my window—am detained here weatherbound . This is positively wicked in tho year 1831 .
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Taking hoiss . — A great many years ago , when there were slaves in Massachusetts , and some of the beat men in the community owned them , therewas a clergyman in a town in Essex county , whom we will call Mr . Cogswell , who had an old and favourite servant , by the name of Cuffee . As was often the case Cuffee bad as much liberty to do as he pleased as anybody else in the house , and he proba 1 ly entertained a high respect for himselt . Cuffee , on the Sabbath , might have been seen in the minister ' s pew , looking round with a grand air , and so far as appearance indicated , profiting quite as much by his master ' s preaching as many others about him . Cuffee noticed one Sunday morning that several gentlemen were taking notes of the sermon , and he determined to do the same thing . So , in tho afternoon , he brought a sheet of paper , and pen and ink . The minister , happening to look down into hie pew , could hardly maintain his
gravity when he saw his negro " spread out" to his task , with one side of his face nearly touching the paper , and his tongue thrust out of . his mouth . Cuffee kept at his notes , howev . r , until the sermon was concluded , knowing nothing , and caring as little , about tho wonderment of his master . When tho minister reached home he sent for Cuffee to come into his study . — " Well , Cuffee , " said ho , " what were you doing in meeting , this afternoon ?" " Doing , inassa ? Taking notes !** was his reply . — " You , taking notes ! " exclaimed tho master . "Sartin , massa ; all the gentlemen take notes . ' ' — " Well , let me see them , " said Mr . Cogswell . Cuffee tl ereupon produced his sheet of paper , and his master found it scrawled ail over with all sorts of murks and lines , as though a dozen spiders , dipped in ink , had marched over it . — * ' Why , this is all nonsense , " said the minister , as he looked at the " notes . " - Well , massa , " replied Cuffee , "J thought so all the time you was preaching . "
Hesse Darmstadt . —A fatal catastrophe attended the final meeting of the general assembly of German Catholic associations , held at Mayence , on the 10 th 0 \ October . Whilst one of the members was making a speech a cry o fire was heard to issue from tho hod y of tho crowd . It seems that one of the gas lamps having been accidentally broken a slight escape of gas caused au explosion . The gas was immediatel y turned off , but the si g ht of the fire had created a panic amongst a part of the crowd in one ofthe naileries . A rush was made for tbo staircase , which became so crowded that several persons were Miftocatod before it was discovered that nil fear of fire was over .
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I HotrseHOtD Woiids . — "Mamma' I want some more bread and bmter . "—Punch . A Goon Man suffers evil , and does good , - a bad man suffers good and does evil . Tub Libs is but an index ot the heart , - the one tells where the other may be found . It is stated that the largest sum of money ever given for a diamond was £ 150 , 000 . SBt : r-Ki « owxEi » GB . —Few men know enough to know that they know but little . Ambhioh . —The tallest trees are most in tber power of the winds ; and ambitious men ofthe blasts of fortune . Con . —Why is a beefsteak like a locomotive en « gine ?—Because it ' s of little use without it ' s tender . —Punch .
A GsNTtaMAN . — " I say , Bill ; Jim ' s caged for stealing a horse . "— " Satye him right ; why didu't he bay one , and not pay for it , like any other gentleman ?" Flattery . —Our flatterers will tell us anything sooner than our faults , ot what they know we do not like to hear . Woman . —Let a woman be decked with all the embellishments of art and nature , yet , if boldness be read in her face , it blots out all the lines of beauty . Crbdw . — "Mr . S— , is your customer B a man to be trusted ? "— " I know of no one more so . He is to be trusted for ever , - he never pays . '' Akbcdotkop Dr . Ahernethy . —Lady ( affectedly : ) "Wherein the name of wonder , Doctor , could I have got such a nose as this ?"— Doctor : " Out of the decanter , Ma ' am . "
Extravagance . —Those who outlive their incomes by splendour in dress or equipage may be said to resemble a town on fire , which shines by that which destroys it . . Bgmiuu . —The total population of Belgium on the 31 st December , 1850 , amounted to 4 , 407 , 241 . In 1849 it was 4 , 370 , 882 . The increase , therefore , is 36 , 359 . Stodt . —In studying , read aloud : the matter is thus twice conveyed to the brain—by the eye and by the ear , and effects a more lasting impression upon the mind . Con . —Why are sheep supposed to be great gamesters ?—Because the young ones are seen to gambol ( gamble ) , and many of the old ones are black legs . Sincerity is to speak as we think , to do as we pretend and profess , to perform and make good what we promise , and really to be what we would seem and appear to be .
TJPHIOHT AND Downright . —There is a Quaker in Philadelphia so upright that he won't sit dowu to bis meals , - and so downright in all his acts , that he never goes up stairs , but lodges in the basement . Awkward , YkiiY . —There are three or four things which it looks very awkward for a woman to do , viz . —to whistle , to throw stonesat a cow , smoke a cigar , or cliwfe a garden fence . Agricultural Prqdvcb . — During the last eighty years , but more especially during the last twenty-five years , no less a sum than £ 64 , 000 , 000 a year has been added to the agricultural produce of Great Britain . Longevity . —The people live uncommonly long at Vermont . There are two men there so old that they have forgotten who they are , and there is nobody alive who can remember it for them .
Suoar . —M- Boissenofc , a distinguished chemist at Cbalon , has , it is said , discovered a mode of refining sugar by which the use of animal charcoal is replaced by that of a less costly article , river sand . Branding Deserters . —A surgeon writing to the "Times , " asks if there is any law for branding a deserter . \ Ve beg to inform him that we know of no such law , and that if there is any it must be a brand new one . —Punch . Comfort in a storm is best insured by taking shelter in some friend ' s house about the time he is going to dinner , making him bring out his best port , and cracking walnuts by the fireside afterwards . — The Month .
A Marriage Portion . —A Greek maid being asked what fortune she would bring her husband , replied " I will bring him what gold cannot purchase—a heart unspotted , and virtue without a stain , whioh is all that descended to me from my parents . " Gold .- —Notwithstanding the immense supplies of gold from California , the bullion in tbe Bank of Enjrlniul has decreased in the two years about £ 2 , 000 , 000 . Our sovereigns have been exported to France , to be there recoined . A Puntctuation Pozzlb . —*** of my existence , give me an em , ~ W said a printer io his sweetheart . She immediately made a — at him , and planted her ^ Sr between his i i ' s . * ' Such an outrage , " saidFaust , looItin gff at her , "is without * || . " A WiDowBR , —A gentleman was awakened in tbe night and told that his wife was dead . He turned round , drew the coverlet closer , pulled down his night-cap , and ' muttered , as he went to sleep again , " Oh , how grieved I shall be in the morning !"
Popbbt . —An ingenious wanderer has been lecturjng in Kirkaldy on " Popery , illustrating his subject by dissolving views of the rites , & c , of the Roman Catholic Church . Be OanERLT . —Order and distribution , and singling out of parts , is the life of despatch ; £ 0 as the distribution be not too subtle ; for he tkat doth not divide will never enter well into bu-iness ; and he who divideth too much will never come out of it clearly . —Bacon . "Positive . "—An elderly miss was heard to
exclaim , while sitting at her toilet the other day , "I can bear adversity , I can encounter hardship , and withstand the changes of fickle fortune ; but O , to live , and droop , and wither , and die like a single pink , I can t endure it , and what ' s more , I won t !" Astronomic ^ - Wit . —A person on remarking the brightness of a moonlight n ' uhfc , with the usual observation of" How bright the moon shines to-night !" was answered by a punster with " I should wonder if it didn ' t . "— " Why ? " said the other . — ' * Because , " said he , "that ' s the same moon that a month ago took all the shine out of the sun .
A Round for an Olivbr . —A smart young student of anatomy remarked , in the hearing of his sister , that the reason there were so many old maids in the world was owing to their tight lacing , which so hardened their hearts as to make them impenetrable to tho shafts of Cupid . ' . » And tho reason there are so many old bachelors , " retorted the sister , "is because of their tight strappingthey cannot get en their knees to declare their passion . " No more Grey Hair . —The Kensington instantaneous hair-dye is easil y applied , and imparls to the hair and wbiskers a natural and becoming black , without injuring the skin , or ( unless tbe application be very clumsily managed ) dirtying the shirt-collar . Sold wholesale and retail hy Messrs . Warren , Russell , and Wright ( successorsto the late Robert Warren ) , 30 , Strand ; and applied by
Private Tommy Jenkins , of the Metropolitan shoeblack brigade , at his place of business , Prince ' sgate , Hyde-park . —The Month . " There ' s Poison ia the ( Tea ) Clt ! "—Hamlet ' s Mother . —Thero is a spurious tea sold , called " lie ten , " which ia simply tea dust and sand mado up with rice-water . Thus , when a lady enters a grocer ' s shop , and asks for a pound of " genuine " tea , the worthy grocer smiles , and thinks nothing of deliberately giving her the "lie . " The grocers may almost be called " The Poisoners of the Nineteenth Century . " If they continue in their present deleterious practices , they should uo classed with chemists , and prevented from selling greon tea , as chemists are prevented from selling arsenic . In short , wo now move —and wo hope aome influential member will second our motion next session—that " The
Act for tbe Prevention of tho Sale of Poisons " be applied most stringently towards grocers , or else , our word for it , wo shall not have a single washerwoman alive next year . — Punch . As Attempt to Pieasb Evkkvbody Successful . —A reverend gentleman here , well known for his Christian virtues , was some time ago presented with a Geneva cloak and bands , by a poition of his hearers ; the remainder would neither subscribe to nor even countenance such abominations , requestin * their pastor not to don tho Popish garb . The other party insisted as stoutly that his reverence
would assume the pulpit-gown which they had presented . Peace with consistency being a leading feature in the reverend gentleman ' s character , he hit upon a scheme that would hush all bickerings on the subject—tho plan being neither more nor less than by appearing one-half of the day in his new canonicals , and the other half divested of these exterior trappings ! The plan has succeeded admirably—all parties being highly pleased with the arrangement ; and we congratulate lhe reverend gentleman on heinga better tactician than the unfortunate painter . —Montrose Standard .
Spinning . —A machine , recently patented by Mr . Kirkman , of Liverpool , is , perhaps , tho most important improvement since tho days of Arkwright , and bids fair to create a perfect revolution in cotton , wool , and flax-spinning . It exemplifies a new principle , and in a great measure supersedes the old . The machinery is very simple and inexpensive , and will produce move yarn , of a much better quality , in tho same space , and with the same power . By this new principle , Mr . Kirkman professes to , and does actually , put a regular and
permanent twict in rovings and yarns : both ends being held fast , and neither end of the roving or yarn turning round . This has hitherto been held , even by practical men , a physical impossibility . In worsted-spinning , the importance and superiority of Mr . Kirkman ' s process will be more manliest than in cotton-spinning ; the staple , being longer , requires loss twist , and , with a never-fading independent taking up power , any quantity of work desired may b * tuvned off wish the greatest possible regularity .
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I MMM « Tub Discovery or Gold itr Australia . —At the forthcoming Cabinet Council the recent discovery or gold in Australia wi'J form one of the chief topics of discussion , wiA a view to send out by thfl next mail instructions to the governor as to th 9 course ho shall adopt with respect to the gold fields ^! t * , last Daoket tVom Australia brought dis « Mii ? n * u 0 r tlle . 8 » 'ninent from the governor , derh-rtf 6 Pyrt'M'nw ' of the discovery of gold , and 2 £ ^ S" M , fc he ( th 0 governor ) ha ' d adopted to fn ^ T ™^? Cr 0 WI f the ri « ht t 0 a *« oW i aud also nih ^ T tfe 1 ? PH of Australia from ' going t ? Brthurrt . He also states in his dispatches that ha has not Buffioient force at his command | " enable him to carry his orders into effect . It is stated ia circles likely to be well informed on the matter that Lord Grey ( the Colonial Secretary eSe ? r agrees with the Governor of Australia in the propriety of securing the proceeds of this El Dorado
to the Crown , and that he will bring the matte * before his colleagues at tho next Cabinet Council . •—Sunday Times . ....... . ' The Gkeat Exhibition . —We learn that knighthood has been offered to Mr . W . Cubitt , the corn * missioner superintending the erection of the building , to Mr . Paxton , and Mr . Fox .
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DE . BARKER'S PURIFIC PILLS ( of which there are useless imitations under other titles ) , have in many instances effected a cure when all other means liad" failed , and are now established , by the consent of every patient who has yet tried them , as also by the faccits thimselves , as the moat safe and effica » cious remedy ever discovered for discharges of any kind , mention of the urine , aud diseases of the Kidneys ana Urinary Organs generally , whether resulting from imprudence or otherwise , which , if neglected , frequently end in stune in the bladder , and a lingering death' For Gout , Sciatica , Rheumatism , Tic Doloreux , Erysipelas , Dropsy , Scrofula , Loss or Hair or Teeth , Depression os Spirits , Blushing , Incapacity for Society , Study or Business , Confusion , Giddiness , Drowsiness , Sleep without Refresh , - meat , Pear , Nervousness , and even Iuaanity itself , when , as 18 often the Case , arising from , or combined with Urinary Digeasas , they are unequalled . By their salutary action on Acidity of the Stomach , they correct bile ana
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IHJPTURES EFFECTUALLY ; and V PERMAiNERTLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS ! - Da . GUTIIREY . still continues to supply the afflicted with his celebrated remedy for this alarming complaint , w ich has never failed in etfeeth g a perfect cure . It is applicable to every variety of Single and Double Rupture , in male or female of any age , however bad or long standing ; ia ciisynnd painless ia application , causing no inconvenienca or confinement , ifcc- ; and will be sent free by poittoany part of the Kingdom with lull instructions , rendering failure impossible , on nceipt of seven sh ; liings in postagj Stamps , or by post-office order , payable at the General Post-office . Addiess , Henry Guthrey , M . D ., U , Hand court , Hot born . London . A great number of old Trusses and Tcstiinoni . ds have been left behind by persons cuied . as trophies of the success of his remedy , which may he seen by any sufferer .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 18, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_18101851/page/3/
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