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May 25,1850. The Northern Star; 3 !
May 25 , 1850 . THE NORTHERN STAR ; 3 !
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TEE POPULAR PRINTS . Sews , mews ,-bring me the news , — - w , ninineindarIaies 3 issadandvexational . ToW ^; Bews ,-nastewiththe . news , — ^ broadsheet of politics , social and national . J * 3 nFea « acquaintance brings 307 for tbe Jb owVi fe Star-VgU stni vrins me from uad-, . . SmetowiJeawaySnriday-Tthebetterday % bTnevrsless I should ; soon be verging on ^ en brinfnie , it matters not , one of those darling prints - - - ' i
" , . „ ,. ; .,. „ , _ .. -nabiin ' s rf « g > «* witt its gem-studded pages ; Jtdbn ' s . whose crimson hue , Stamps it a brother trne ; Or BeMioldVa iUumining the darkness of ages . Vews , news , —bring me tbe news , — ^ ichembracesap rincipal , ' stern , non-concessional , jfeWS , news , —bring me the news , — tfje broadsheet of politics , social , and national , j am told with a sneer , I ' m a Chartist and Democrat , " . - Cranted . I seom to give truth a denial . AiSce is ban'd by fie sleek-sMn'd aristocrat ,
3 Wca . __*_ t- _* _ # st * a Anrl AOtiba + rt ha Intra ! 4 ud the people have yet to find cause to be loyal . t ^ ral point the callous brood gorgd with the sweat and blood , Drain'd from the hearts of the want-stricken toilers . ,, Vengeance ! for centuries nnrst : men shall thy thunders burst ? £ nd scourge from earth ' s feir fields its polished despoOers . . Sews , news ,-bnng me the news , — for all peace with the proud must be henceforth conditional . .. . . .. with the
Sews , news ,-haste news , — Ihe broadsheet of politics , social , and national . Shall we bendslavishstmatthefeetiof " gentility ?" 2 fo . Knowledge has gone on in its godlike commission ; . , . , , And manhood stands forth , proud of heaven s nobility , .. . . . . . And blushes to think on his former submission . -Hen speed on , ye heralds . bright , scatter your mental light , - .- . -.-, And fear not the fruits of the truths you have spoken ; ¦ . And soon shall the shout go forth , — Thundered from south to north , — " Britons ! arise ! see , your fetters are broken ! 2 fews , news , —bring me the news , Ever welcom'd by me with a passion devotional . Sews , news , —haste with the news ^ rffith its banner of Red—both social and national . Edinburgh . Jiicss Habshess .
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SHE BEART'S TBE APPROVING PLACE "The leathern cap may cover worth As well as princely plume . "
BT 3 . B . M ' KESZIE . Let others boast of wordly fame , Of honour , title , race The outward form is btuYthe name The heart' s the approving place For . richesmay , With fortune ' s ray , : Of changeful , fluttering wane , O ' erclonded he With misery , Tet the heart doth still remain .
What though the outward garb be torn , A wreck of shattered * oe , There's many a tinsell'd noble born , Whose heart ' s his greatest foe . E ' en honest ton ; He fain would foil . Prom gaining its reward , ins cankered heart , Can scarcely part , With what his serfdom stored .
The outward form may glittering shine , With ostentatious show , Tet still the heart doth inward pine , Ifhonesty ' safoe . Your heart ' s reliance , Hay bid defiance , To the proudest head on earth , If labour's name , Your wealth can claim , And honesty your worth . ¦ Give me the man of honest worth , Though rough his outward form , Howe ' er so lowly he by birth , fle'Jl conquer riches scorn . Fortune may frown ,
Bis hopes to drown , In this wide world of strife , Yetdauntingly , And vauntingly , He conquers to the life . ! A palace may with lustre bright . Appear a home of mirth , Yet still false honours' rueful might Hay reign instead of worth . The honest soil Of labour ' s toil To sight may lowly seem , Yet joy abounds , And mirth surrounds , The hearth where worth ' s supreme
Then why should worth unheeded lie , Whilst titled vice doth reign ? Come rouse ye , break triumphantly , Oppression ' s direst chain ; In freedom's cause , We'll crush those laws , That shame our native land , Then Liberty , Fraternity , And worth triumphant stand .
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The National Instructor . No . 1 . London : Published by W . Eider , 16 , Great Windmill-street . "We have received tbe first number of ibis new candidate for public patronage , too late to do store than announce the fact of its appearance . We may add ; that it is neatly printed , audits columns give promise of a judicious varietya blending of the entertaining with the useful . The contents include the first of a series of
papers on tbe "Progress and Effects of steamdriven Machinery ; " an article on the . poet Wordsworth ; Chapter 1 of a story entitled "The Secret f and the first four pages of the "life and Adventures of Feargus O'Connor , 2 % , M . P . " We must postpone extracts , " with the exception of the following paragraphs fiom the Editor ' s opening-address : — That there may be no mistake as to our objects , * e have distinctly to state , that in politics we shall advocate tbe adoption , unmutilated , of the
"People's Charter ; " because Political Rights inhere in the nation , and the nation is composed of lafividnals , no one of whom has a right , to exclude pother from the franchises common to all . In Social Science , we shall base all propositions on the broad scriptural and unassailable ground , that the Sand is the creation of the Author of the Universe , sad that , while man has a fair claim to all that he ^ ndaally produces , he has no rig ht whatever to a Ppropriate to his own use that which God gave for
These two departments of human thought , leading to human action , are , though separate in their" external aspect , identical in essence . The Political Reformer strives to win for the masses tho possesion of political power . The Social Eeformer « shes to show them how that power may be used Ja tet beneficially for themselves and the community The "Xahosah IxsruucxoB" will aim at representing and reconciling both . It will be , essentially , * journal of political and social progress ; not as Jsasured by the opinions adopted after reading the Ton es" but as laying the foundations , broad and « fe , of those great and holy principles of society , 'Jon which alone human communities can defy all « e mutations of ages and races .
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Historic pages from the french revolution of fe-BfiUARY , 1848 . By Louis Blakc . loudon : Tribune Office , Wellington-street North , Strand . ** o weeks ago we promised to return to this }*& I we now do so , our object being to bring kfrrethe readers of this journal the author ' s J ^ 'strerable refutation ot the lie respecting ®* authorship of the Ateliers Nationaux ,
ite-2 * and reiterated in the Times , and other ^ ous journals . . Our enemies" observes Louis Blanc , „ kd vainly attempted to rob us of the affeet aof the people ; so they next determined j ^ in us with the middle class , by attri-«~?§ the creation of the ateliers nationaux to e liUiembourg ; an infamous lie that no one *)*? have believed who had ever read my v ^ JPgs , but which , it was considered , might adv antageously palmed off upon the ignottarvf *^ majority . Twenty times , from « umae or the press , have I refuted this
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falsehood , and challenged anyone to contradict ' me publicly , nor has any one dared to do so . If more be required , here are proofs clear as the midday-sun . " Louis Blanc goes on to ^ row that ¦ ¦ ' .. ' IHE AIEUEBS HAXIOXACX WEBK OBOAHISED BT '
. ; M . MARIS . July 5 th , 1 S 48 , Si . Francois Arago was examined by the committee of inquiry respecting the ateliers nationaux , and replied : "It was M . Marie who was occupied in the organisation of the ateliers nat ionaux . .. ¦ -v < r- ' -, ¦¦;< It , was , in fact , M . Marie who organised these workshops , and gave the direction of them to one M . Bmile Thomas , a ridiculous , low fellow , who puffed up with an importance he never really .
possessed , indulged in a vulgar disposition to traduce principles which he had not the capacity to understand , and did not hesitate to attack , me , without having the power to introduce me * to reply . "Well , in his deposition " of July 2 Sth , 1848 , M . Emile Thomas says : " * I have never spoke to M . Louis' Blanc in my life ; I don't know him . " - ' He continues " while I was at the atelier I saw M . Marie every day , often twice a-day ; MM . Becurt , Buchez , and Marrast almost every day ; IsawM . Lamartine only once , M . Ledrn Bollin never , nor M . Louis Blanc , never saw M . Flocon nor M . Albert . '
This director of the ateliers nationaux had already said , in his deposition of the 28 th June , 184 S . " 1 have always gone with the mayor of Paris against the influence of MM . Ledru Kollin , Flocon , and others . I was in direct hostility with the Luxembourg . I openly opposed the influence of M . Louis Blanc . " ^ - "Now , there is not a single deposition in the whole three volumes of the inquiry to weaken the force of these most clear and positive official declarations . Let them search all the archives and all the poisoned weapons so g ladly seized upon by the counter-revolution to " injure me , and they will not find a single declaration that tends , in the least , to point me out as the originator , organiser , or even approver of the ateliers nalionavx .
To the evidence already adduced , Louis Blanc adds the official acts and decrees from the ilfoniteai" , proving " beyondthereachofdoubtthat the project oftheJletiersNationaiurwas entirely a scheme of Marie ' s , and was as entirely carried out by that traitor , and his instruments ; Although one of the Provisional Government , Louis Blanc was not even consulted in . the matter . Theresolntions , "heobserves , " were come to at a sitting to which they took care not to call me . " : if it be urged , that although the AteUers Nationaux were established withouthis sanction , they were , at least , established on his principles—that assertion is at once disposed of by showing that IHE SO-CAUED " ' XAHOKAI * " WERK HOI SOCIAL
WORKSHOPS . She social workshops that I proposed , were intended to bring together all the workmen of the same trade . The national workshops , such as they were . under M . Marie , exhibited a number of workmen gathered together indiscriminately from every variety of trade , and all employed at the same kind of work . ' In the social workshops , such as T had proposed them , the workmen would form a sort of joint-stock company with the government , but would work for
their own common profits : that is , with all the ardour of self-interest united to the powerful influence of association , and , that feeling of honour termed esprit de corps . "" In the national workshops of M . Marie , the state acted merely as employer , and the workmen as hired servants . 2 fow , as the labour wasteless ,, a mere pretence , and in most respects quite new to the' workmen , the government was . consequently only squandering its finances by giving a premium to idleness , and alms to the poor under a pretenceof
wages . . The social workshops , according to my proposals , would have formed families of workmen , united bv the firmest bonds of solidarity , having the strongest interest to be industrious , and therefore productive . The national workshops under M . Marie , were but a tumultuous assembly of proletarians , bound together by no tie , but a sort of military discipline , under chiefs bearing the strange but characteristic title of brigdiers , and for whom . nothing was . done but to give them food for want of knowing how to occupy them .
Louis Blanc proves still more—that the ateliers nationaux were established for the purpose of undermining his influence ; in fact , were created for the purpose of placing an army at the disposal of the enemies of Socialism . Even Lamartine has written , that " ihe ateliers nationaux formed , till the ' meeting of the Assembly , a sort of check to the sectarian workmen of the Luxembourg , and the seditious workmen of the clubs . Far from being in the pay of Louis Blanc—as it has been said—they were inspired by the spirit of his adversaries . " . Louis Blanc pays the following eloquent tribute to the lofty principle and sterling pa- , triotism of the delegates of the Luxembourg- ^
It is important to observe / that" the delegates of the Luxembourg have never received a farthing ;" Their mission was ever and entirely gratuitous : insomuch that it was the cause of their greatest privations-and most severe troubles—most of them being dismissed by their enraged employers , and followed up by a most barbarous and unrelenting persecution . Combinations were formed against these advocates of the' poor , in order to deprive them of the bread of labour ; and their consequent distress was afterwards shamelessly used as an argument against them . " "What has become now of all your deceptive theories V said some to them . " You are told , of the organisation of labour ; the advantages of association are held up to you ; the speedy abolition of nroletarianism is promised you—mere rhetorical
flourishes , Utopian dreams , Will-o ' -the ^ wisps , by which you are led away , naked and famished , into the land of chimeras . Come to yourselves again , miserable beings ; turn a deaf ear to the fascinating , but empty , sounds of such orators . Remember that poverty is the inevitable lot of the greatest number . Were ever your sufferings greater ? Do you not hear the cry of your children , or see the pale cheeks of their mothers ?" Such were the words of men who , with cool calculating cruelty , shut up their capital , went about complaining of loss of credit , suspended the works they had commenced , and refused to undertake that which was offered them , in order that they might bring about the evils they had foretold ; and lent themselves to the basest tricks in order to prevent the realisation of ideas that they had declared impracticable—the hypocrites ?
But the people were not to be deceived . Neither threats nor promises , artful advice nor prolonged distress , could shake the calmness with which the representatives of the corporations of the Luxembourg held their solemn hunger council-meetings And we , who were daily witnesses of this heroism , whose only reward was in its holy enthusiasm , were deeply affected with admiration and respect . Sighminded men , accept this testimony from one now in exile , the emotions of whose heart were all known to you . Jn the midst of all my afflictions and solitude I have yet one source of happiness that neither fortune nor my enemies can take away—it is the pleasure , the glory , of being loved- by such men as you . We close this subject with the following extract from Louis Blanc ' s eloquent
MOTES ! AOA 1 SS ! THE CAttMMATOHS . After all-these overwhelming evidences of the feise & ood of the accusation brought agaiaafc me , and after my having so repeatedly and publicly proved this falsehood , that I should still have been made the victim of such a slander , shows the immense power of calumny when we see all shades of oppressive parties equally making use of it . 'Hie ateliers nationaux wasted the public money , humiliated the labour by proffering him the bread that he wished to gain for himself ; they brought discredit upon state-interference with labour ; and ,. instead of forming associations of labourers , they raised battalions of men paid to be idle , composing an
anomalous army , that would one day have to be disbanded at the risk of civil war ! The flimsy logicians of the laissez-faire system were delighted to attribute to us all these evils . "What a splendid opportunity for the supporters of the old political economist ideas to excite public opinion against us by pointing to these ateliers nationauxaa a complete application of the Organisation of Labour , and yet they were at best but a bungling parody on it ! The imposture was unmistakable in its tendency : It furnished our adversaries with the opportunity of saying , for want of argument , " What usereasoning about it ? Have we not here one fact in' answer to all your theories V But was there not enough to confound the most impudent calumny in the associations that
did take then- origin fromthe Luxembourg , as that of the tailors—that of the spinners—of the lacemakers , and the saddlers , which were all so radically different from the ateliers nationaux ? And yet so much determination of villany and falsehood has been employed to confuse the public mind in this respect , that even now there are persons who confound the present working men ' s associations , that arose solely out of the Luxembourg , with the oteKert notionou * . though these exist no longer , and those are prospering , and , thank Heaven I wdl centom to prosper . Add to this the volnptanr silence I have so long imposed upon myself ; for , bemg the object of an unjust accusation , I thought that he to whom it really applied would hare made it a point
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of honour to acquit me of it . He thought , fit , for his own interest , to keep it silent , and I , too , for his interest , thought fit to be silent on the subject , until official documents broughtithe truth to light . Since that time the ' pefsonage ' ofwhom , I speak , and who was once my , colleague ,, has placed his signature beside those who proscribed me } - Cruelly have I expiated my scruples of delicacy ' . But no matter !< I am not a man to repent of that .
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The WnrrsuN Homdats . —During the last week preparations on an extensive scale have been making in the metropolis and the suburban towns . and- villages to gratify the curiosity of the sightseeing crowds , who at this season of the . year _ perarabulate the streets , overburden the steamboats , fill the omnibuses , and rush in thousands to have a trip on ' * . the rail . " Greenwich on this as on similar occasions in ' previous years was one of . the principal points , of attraction . From an . early hour a continuous stream of human beings floa'ed down the river , poured alone the road , and swept down the railway , and by mid-day the fair , the park , the streets , and Blackheath were covered with gaily dressed and lighthearted persons anxious to see and be seen , and enjoy the pleasures of Greenwich fair and all its
various amusements . Brighton , Gravesend , Dover , Richmond , and , as the sportsman would say , other outlying localities , had their attractions and their visitors . All the metropolitan railway stations were crowded with passengers hustling and elbowing each other in order to secure the first and best seats , and it may with truth be said that " in the memory of the oldest inhabitant" no preceding Whit-Monday exhibited more numerous or ( apparently ) more happy crowds of persons proceeding in all directions to enjoy a holiday . The various exhibitions in the West-end at present open were crowded to overflowing throughout the day . A vast number of holiday folk visited the National Gallery , the Zoological Gardens , the British Museum , Westminster Abbey , and the other principal public buildings . ' The various panoramic and scientific exhibitions received also an unusually large share of public patronage .
LYCEUM . A burlesque a prqpiM of current events and those which 1851 maybe expected to bring with it , was played here last night for the first time , under the tile of Novelty Fair ; or , Hints for 1851 . The piece was successful ; and after the leading actors had made their bow in front of the curtain , Mr . Albert Smith , responding to a call from the upper boxes for the author , ' went through a similar ceremony
STRAND . An entirely new and original Satirical and Politico-Economical Whitsun Morality was produced at this pleasant little theatre . The piece may be described as a City Axticit dramatised—its whole aim being to prove that if the diggins in California continue to be worked as at present , . a sovereign will hardly be worth its weight in bread . It is entitled the PMlo : sopher ' s Stone . . The . scenery does the highest credit to a painter and a commedian somewhat new . on tbe London boards—Mr . W . Shalders . The acting was as effective and amusing as the materiel allowed , and the piece was put on the stage in a style quite equal to what might have been expected in a larger and more pretending arena .
ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE . The succession of great events which have resulted in the supremacy of British rule over the whole surface of India , from the conquests of Olive and the tragedy of the Black-hole , have each in their turn proved a fertile subject for the illustration of the stage . Whatever may be the next dramatic representation drawn from India , it will not exceed in interest the now old spectacle of The Afghanistan War , or tAe Revolt of Calul , and British Triumphs in India , which was revived at this highly popular place of amusement . The main events of this portion of British' history are strikingly rendered by Mr . Batty ' s playwright , as well as by his unique corps
dramatzove engaged m the spectacle , and that the resources of a vast establishment have been lavished upon their representation in a manner which entitle the proprietor ' s enterprise to unreserved commendation . The leading characters were extremely well supported ; the tableaux brilliant ; and the auditory , who were very numerous , highly delighted . The remaining performances which gratified the holiday visitors consisted of a series of feats of equitation , relieved by the drolleries of Messrs . Barry and Wheal , and of the laughable farce The Two Qregories , Barry ' s antic performance upon the first fiddle ] was as inimitable in its way as any of the single-string peculiarities of Paganinn
MARYLEBONE . This house was opened for the Whitsuntide holidays on Monday evening , and was attended by a numerous audience . The leading feature in the attractions of the bill of fare was the re-appearance of Mr . G . V . Brooke , tbe eminent tragedian . The performances commenced with Shakspeare' » tragedy of Ring John , in whichMr . Brooke sustained the part of the recreant usurper of his brother ' s throne . The entertainments concluded with a serio-comic fairy spectacle , founded on a tale of Alfred Crowquill's and written by Mr « . E Sterling , entitled ihe Woodman's Spell . This afterpiece introduces a variety of elphin scenery , enchantments , reyels , and fairy dances , and to such afforded much satisfaction and merriment to the auditory , who conducted themselves , considering that tbe occasion was a Whitsuntide saturnalia , with comparative , propriety and decorum throughout the entire evening .
SURREY . : Thls theatre famished the holiday folk with an abundant bill of fare , in which two or three , of the productions were novelties , at least on this side the water . The first play was entHed 3 fatilda ; or Lugarto , the Jhulatto , a translation from the French of Eugene Sue , and bearing indubitable marks of its origin . The plot turns upon the power obtained by the Mulatto ( Mr . T . Mead ) over Gontran de Lancy ( Mr . T . Shepherd ) , who had confided to him certain secrets , which give rise to many interesting incidents . It was received with great applause . The Ethiopian SerenadersofMr . G . W . Pell , before and after the Extravaganza of The Ihret Princes , entertained the company with their negro songs . The entertainments concluded with the Contrabandist , in which was some excellent dancing by Mr . Flexmore , the author , assisted by the corps de ballet .
SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS . The season opened on Monday at this highly popular place of resort , the vast numbers that thronged the grounds on the occasion testifying at once to the excellent taste of the metropolitan sight seers , as well as to the confidence which they repose in the talent of Mons . Jnlien , under whose auspices the season has commenced . The entertainments were varied and attractive , and included , in addition to the musical performances , the Grand Dioramic View of the Passage of the Alps by the French Army under Napoleon . The display of fireworks , which closed the entertainments , was most brilliant and artistic .
CREMORNE GARDENS . These gardens opened on Monday evening with more than their usual eclat , under an unclouded sky , and were crowded with company from an early hour . With the beauty of the grounds the public are already acquainted . The " Polycrome Palace of Pavia" is intended to eclipse all previous efforts in architectural scenic illusion . The illuminations were profuse and tasteful , and there was a complete round of the amusements incidental to places of out of door entertainment ,
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Goon aione is all powerFulf and alone necessary . . Evil is but a huge accident in the world : and that is why its fate is' ever to be vanquished . Now , while the victoriesbf good are definitive , the defeat of evil is irrecoverable -. printing will ever remain , tor--tore wdl . hever ; be reestablished ; nofc the fagot of the inquisition be relighted . - Religions have ceased to make martyrs , politics-must soon : cease to make victims . —Louis Blanc . . >; . ; Rating SursaAOB is not manhood- suffrages Whoever is supreme over the administration of the taxes will be lord of the , ratebook . . ..:,.. ' In Si . Ives market , last ; week ,. a good calf ,-a ^ eek old , was sold for the sum of one shilling . ' Mr . Booth , of the Angel Inn , East Retford ; has found in a brocello cabbage a ' hedge sparrow ' s neSt . 7 ;•* . ' " .- ¦ : ¦ . - . .- a . • ' , : ? - : - ¦¦ ¦
¦ Tmi R & mi Schooimastbr'Agais .-. ^ « . ' That ' s the big A , the king of the alphabet , the leader of the host ,. and mineral of all- the letters —see how he stretches out his two legs , as much as to say — ' Tlirip up my heels , if you can . ' Terry :- ' Ah !' Good boy . ! that ' s the very ways of that ; you'll be a great scholar ! Keep your finger oh him , and remimber . that A stands for Attintion , that ypii must always pay to me , and Arithmetic - that you'll soon come to , with Algebra , a while , and Admiration , that your mother will be in when she sees what laming you ' ve got . Wait till you get into ; history , and then you'll see what a tenouvmed warrior Alexander the Great was , though nothing to some of our ould Irish heroes . Many's the good thing this letter has
done ; when you go home , look at the gable-end of your father ' s house , and you'll see , it ' s copied from the letter A . '; We must give another-specimen of the' Irish Tutor , ' which is in regard to the letter WT-. — 'Double yew / Terry : ' Double yew !' ' That ' s right , anyhow , bedad 1 It's progress yer making . See , my dear , therayson that he ' s called Double yew is because it takes two of-his neighbours to make him up to what he is , only they should have called him . Dpuble y j but they were not , so . partv cular in thim times as ., we are now , and sowe can ' t help ourselves for the times gone-by . He stands for Wise , that I mane you to be ; and'Witty , as I think ye are ; and Wig , suchaslhave on my head , and
it ' s nearly worn out it is , ' and I want a new one badly , enough ; and Whiskey , that , brings many a . dacent man into trouble , and : makes us see double ; and Water ,- that ought always to be mixt with it , especially for faymales ; and . World , that ' s too hot for some people , and too could for others ; and Writing , that you'll be in soon , if yer father don't forget the slate ; and Wrestling , you ' re so fond of . ' Terry grins . " . : v- • Kicking at Nothing , —A shrewd farmer , in the Vermontshire legislature , . declined answering the speech of a member who was remarkable for nothing but his frothy and pugnacious impudence and selfconceit , thus { . I * Mr . Speaker , I can ' t reply to ' that ere speech , for it always wretches me terribly to kick at nothing . " . T
Odillon Barrot . —This . man , a lawyer , without ideas of influence , consequently had neither enemies nor jeaMsrivals , M . Odillon Barrot owed his being leader of the dynastic opposition to his mediocrity ; had he been ever so little worthy , of ; it , the- honour would have been . envied him .-riouta Blanc- ' Thb Ectbcjs of ; 3 hot OS THK FlBU > , OF BATTIE . —You San form no idea of the storm- of- balls arid shells which crossed each other in their , deadly course . Before and around the spot on which Field * Marshal Radet 2 ky was standing , . the heavy . IDIbi shots ploughed up the ground , tracing in one place a deep furrow , and cutting down a tree like stubble in another . It is remarkable how each kind of missile has its own characteristic . There is the
tremulous howl of the large round shot , the whistle of the musket ball , the hiss of the shell , like that of . the Catherine-wheel . fire-work , and then its detonation as it bursts . Of these last , many \ which fell amongst us missed fire , and many exploded harmless in the air , but where one fell and did its office the effect was fearful ; One such : 'struck an officer is the breast , exploded at that instant , struck down a man to the right and left , and cut off the upper part of the officer ' s body , in such a fashion that his frightened howe galloped off some distance ' ; with the feet of the corpse in the stirrups . Such are the spectacles which a field of battle occasionally presents . Not far off laid a Piedmbntese artillerist who had been struck on the forehead by a spent 81 b . shot .
which remained in the wound : A hussar had been killed at the same instant with his horse by a shot which had passed through the neck of the latter j they had sunk together , the rider still in the saddle , and the sabre still in his hand . The sudden col lapse of a man in full vigour is what is most fearful to behold . One sinks without a groan , another jumps high from the ground with a shriek , falls over , lies stiff , and is dead ! I saw a Granzer from the Banat , with a ball in his forehead , falter a few paces , leaning on his onusket like a drunken man , and then , after a faint whisper about his home , expired . Over the town the cannon smoke had spread a colossal canopy , which floated motionless above the roofs like the crown of the Italian pine trees .-iSeenes / rom ihe Life of a Soldier in Active Service in
1849 . . The expense of a copy of a will from Doctors ' Commons entirely depends on the length of it—about id . for every seventy-two word . s . It is stated that the dehts affecting the Mountcashel estates amount to £ 275 , 000 . A Fact for NAiuaawsis . —About six weeks ago a party obtained possession of a leveret . Having a cat which had a number of kittens , the young hare was placed among them . Puss made no distinction between it and her own family , but nursed it with the same tenderness . When shifting her bed , she carried the young hare carefully by tbe back ; it however did not relish this new mode of transit for some time . The leveret died ( he other day ,-having been ,
it is supposed , destroyed by a strange cat , to the great grief of its adopted mother .-Getting out of- a DiFFicutxr . — A clever amateur theatrical performance was late given at the Theatre Royal , Bath , when an amusing occurrence took place during the enactment of the well-known farce of Diamond Cut Diamond . Captain Seymour and Captain Howard had to fight a duel , but the pistols having , we suppose , a strong desire to keep the peace , refused to " go off . " After several ineffectual attempts to produce & report , Mr . Callahan , who represented Captain Seymour , threw the house into convulsions 0 ! laughter , b y suddenly coming forward and exclaiming , " Ladies and gentlemen , I am supposed to be killed . " And he placed himself on the ground—theatrically dead accordingly . Curious Epitaph . —The following curious
inscription appears in the churchyard , Pewsey , Dorset ' shire : —here lies the body—of— . Lady O'Lioneygreat niece of Burke—commonly called the sublime , —She was—bland , passionate , and deeply religious ; —also , she painted—in water colours—and sent several ' pictures—to the exhibition . —She was first cousin—to Lady Jones;—and of such—is the kingdom of Heaven . At the present mement thirty-eight persons are incarcerated in Nottinghamshire alone , through the game laws . Their prosecution has cost £ 200 ; and twenty-fire wires and seventy-nine children are , in consequence of their imprisonment , receiving parish relief . •' ¦ ' There are now in the gaol of Ennis 518 prisoners , three times the number for which it was built . The great majority of the unhappy prisoners are charged with stealing turnips , potatoes , and other articles of food , and about a moiety of the remainder
with'beggary . - -- .-It is said that a certain lady , the wife of an M . P . not a hundred miles from York ,, asked if there was notanetolmrfo / jis / lto be had in London , called gutta percha soles . An editor , away down east , who served four days on a jury , says he is so full of law that it is hard work for him to keep from cheating somebody . ; Choice of a Profession . —An old farmer in Cumberland once called his numerous children around him , aud asked eacb . of them what he would be . The elder : replied that he would be a farmer ,-like his father ; the second , that he would be a sailor ; the third , that he would be a draper ; and so on . At last it was the turn of the youngest child to make his selection 5 and he said , " Oh 1 I'll be an executor . " This answer excited some astonishment ; and the child ,-on being asked for his reason , said , "Oh ! an executor must be a thriving trade , for I have observed that ever since father has been an executor we have had meat every day in the week for dinner . "
Boroer Doctors . —When the " Great Unknown " was travelling in Northumberland , his servant was taken ill , and the village surgeon sent for . When this worthy made his appearance , he was at once recognised as a quondam horse-doctor in Melrose , whose sole qualification to cure the ills which human flesh is heir to consisted in his having crossed the Border . When rated by Sir Walter for his presumption , he confessed that he had killed a good many of his patients ; but added ) with naivete which must have won the heart of any Scotchman , more especially so national a man as Scott , " Ay , sir , but it'll be lang before it mak ' s up for Flodden . " " Sergeant Cockle , who was a rough , blustering fellow , once got from a witness more than he gave . In a trial of a rightto a fishery-, he asked the witness , " Dost thou love fish ? " ¦ - " Ay , " replied the witness , " but I donna like cockle sauce with it ?"
The term "' * Brothbr Jonathan . " — General Washington placed great confidence in the good sense and patriotism of Jonathan Trumbull , who , at an early period of the American revolution , was Gorernor of the State of Connecticut . In a certain emergency , when a measure of great importance was under discussion , Washington remarked , "We must consult Brother Jonathan on the subject . " The result of that consultation wasfavourable . Thus , from tho constant use of the expression , " We must con : suit Brother Jonathan , " which soon passed from the armytothe people at large , we received from the English that appellation which has stuck' to us as closely as their "John Bull" to them . —A Lift for the Lazy ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 25, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_25051850/page/3/
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