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Segfehber26,1846. The Northern Star. M ^
SEgFEHBER 26 , 1846 . THE NORTHERN STAR . M ^
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A YAIIKEB'S KOTION ABOUT ENLISTI 35 G DJ THE MEXICAN WAR , ( from the People ' s Journal . ) Thrash away ! you'll have to rattle On them kettle-drums o' yourn , — . 'Taint a knowing hind o' cattle That is ketched with mouldy corn . Put it stifF , you filer feller ; Let folks see how spry you be ;—Guess you'll toot till yon are yeller 'Fore yon git a-hold o * me ! That ere flag ' s a leetle rotten Hope it aint your Sunday's best ;—Fact ! it takes a sight o ' cotton To stuff ont a soger ' s chest . As for war , I call it murder , —
There yon have it plain and flat ; I don ' t want to go no further Than my testyment for that : God has said so , plump and fairly It ' s as long asit is broad ; And you ' ve got to gitnp airly If yon want to take in God . 'Taint your eppylettes and feathers Make the thing a grain more right ; 'Taint a-folloring your bell-wethers Will excuse ye in His sight : If ye take a sword and dror it . And should stick a feller through , GoT * ment aint to answer for it , God 11 send the hill to yon . What's the use ©' meeting goin ' Every Sabbath , wet or dry , If it ' s right to go a-mowing
Fellow-men like oats and rye ? I don't know but what it ' s pooty ( pretty ) Trunin' round is bobtail coats , — But if s corns Christian dooty To be cuMin' folks ' e throats ! Want to tackle im in , do ye ? I expect you'll have to wait ; When cold lead puts daylight through ye , You'll begin to calkylate . Jist go home and ask our Nancy Whether I'd be such a goose As to jine ya—guess she'd fancy The etarnal bung was loose ! She wants me for home consumption , Let alone the hay ' s to mow—If you ' re arter folks o' gumption
You ' ve a darned loag way to go ! Come , 111 tell ye what I'm thinkiu ' Is our duty in this fix . They'd ha' done't * . s quick as winkin ' In the days ef seventy-six : Clang the bells in every steeple , Call all true men to disown The traducers of our people , The enslavers of our own ; Let our dear old Bay State proudly Put the trumpet to her mouth , Let her ring this message loudly , In the ears of all the South : — " I'll return ye good for evil , Much as we frail mortals can , But I won't go help the Devil Makin ' man the curse of man ; Call me coward , call me traitor ,
Jist as siuts your mean idees—Here I stand a tyrant-hater , And the friend of God and Peace 1 "
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Simmonds's Colonial Magazine. September....
SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE . September . London : Simmonds and Ward , Barge-. yard , Bucklerebury . Thi * number opens with a highly laudatory account of the life and services of Baron Metcalf , sometime governor of Canada , and recently deceased . In Charles Hooton ' s" Rambles and Sketches 5 n Texas , " -we have an amusing account of Texan electioneering . "Progress of Discovery in Australia , " announces the return of Dr . Leichardt to Sydney , from his overland expedition to Port Essingion ; and gives an interesting account of his discoveries . According to the writer in the Colonial Magazine , these discoveries are of the first importance , — " Dr . Leichardt has discovered an Australian paradise . He has disclosed to the Colony , and to the empire , treasures which , though held for
more than half a centurv , neither colony nor mother country was at all conscious of possessing . He has brought up from the depths of primeval solitude , whole regions of wealth , incalculable and ineshausti-BlL He has found out a homestead vast enough to lodge a nation , with resources affluent enough to secure to that nation a high and a permanent prosperity . " -In the "Reminiscences of the Island of Cuba , " the author defends the existence of slavery , and mercilessly assails the Eserter Hall " Abolitionists . " While quite agreeing with the author in his denunciations of the fanaticism of some , and the hypocrisy ef others , who make Exeter Hall ringwith
their clamourings against black slavery , while they at the same time are the oppressors of their white brethren , we cannot go with him in extenuating black slavery , the thing is indefensible and infamous —" whatever is morally wrong , cannot be politically right , " The slaves themselves by their insurrections in Cuba and America , have proved that they are not contended with their bonded condition ; and the terror which exists among the planters , who fear a repetition of the St . Domingo rising , proves that they are conscious of the insecurity of their " peculiar institution . " We select two or three extracts for the benefit of the aforesaid
EXETER-HAIX nCMBUGS . And some of these men are what you call Saints . They subscribe largely at meetings , where they frequently bawl themselves hoarse . But what matters it to the manufacturer of white lead or devil's dust , whether one or two hundred ef his workpeople are consigned to a premature grave 1 He has not to bear the cost of their interment—if interred at all ; their families must shift for themselves , for there are thousands ont of employment ready to £ 11 their places . This is a melancholy but a true picture of servitude in Happy England , and it forcibly strikes me that there is but very little difference between Slavery and Servitude .
If the slave has to labour because , like a horse , he has been purchased for hard cash , the clerk , the mechanic , the labourer—in short , all those , no matter their station in society , who sell their services and bodies for a certain sum payable quarterly , monthly , or weekly—are bound to give their time and services to their taskmasters , many of whom are so grasping and hard-hearted that they almost begrudge them the seventh day . If the slave be indisposed , the master purveys the doctor and the medicaments : on the other hand , if the faithful clerk or mechanic fall dangerously ill , his pay is stopped , for some one else mnst fill his place , and he may go to the hospital , or pay bis doctor , if he has the means ; if Ids malady prove a lengthened one , he finds himself , on recovery , out of a situation , with empty pockets . Such is T . ot the casa with the negro slave , who only returns to labour when the physician has pronounced his recovery as beyond the possibility of a relapse .
It generally happens that those who are the least informed upon any given subject are the most stubborn on all its bearings . I recolU-ct the time I was as obstinate as yourself . Thus , we have read ( for I never would waste my time by listening ) the speeches of a parcel of maw-worms in the now , we believe , ruined Exeter Hall , declaiming , as if they wished to hurst blood-vessels in so holy a cause , against the horrors endured by their " poor black brethren" in the West Indies . We do not believe that any of these fanatic ? ever honoured the Tropics by their presence , or else they would not utter such abominable falsehoods . "When 00 we hear of . Missionaries , or those who uphold such idle fellows , going down an English coal-pit in order to pay a visit to those who toil in darkness in the intricate galleries which they have formed in the bowels of the
earth T Do we ever hear orations in favour of large subterranean passages , where the maxims of Christ arc utterly unknown to many ! No ; they either find the descent too perilous , or else these coal-pits are too near the scene of action . And then it is so easy to depict the sufferings of Week brethren who live so many thousand miles distant from the longitude of Exeter Hall . Doubtful persons would require too much tiae to visit the Plantations in the Tropics ; whereas ihay could £ ui their way to the coal-pits in the North , if they chose to sift the truth of the reports regarding the sufferings of their fellow-countrymen , if charity began at home . If it is fashionable to subscribe immense sums of money to Missionary and Bible Societies , it is uwfastdondAe to relieve the wants of our starving poor at home .
Our Saints carry apathy for their countrymen and Europeans in general to a great extent . We hear of Hussian vassels , of Poles sent to Siberia ; but no one preaches in fevoor of these white slaves , whose iot is Certainly that of the accursed : all their energy is displayed for the most degraded species of the human race ^ who repay the so-called benefits of freedom with utter contempt and a direct refusal to work . This number is the first of the ninth volume of this very useful and successful magazine .
The People's Journal. Part Vm. London • ...
THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL . Part vm . London J . Bennett , 69 , Fleet-street . We have already quoted largely from the numbers composing this Part of the People ' s Journal , tor instance , that excellent article from the pen of William Uowitt , " A Word for Thomas Gray , the Author of the General Railway System , " and the sensible article On "The Jury for the reward of Workmen . " This Part contains a portrait of Father Mathew , with a memoir by William Hewitt . The other illustrations are copies of Daydon ' s picture " The Death of Dentatus" Sir J . Reynolds' picture of "The Infant Hercules , " and Ary Stheifc-r ' s picture of " Faust perceiving Margaret for the first time , " and besides these , a ^ repreientation of" The Scott Memor ' a ' , b ^ inburgh . " The whole of the illustrations are truly beautiful , but they lack something , namely , a few
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vrords descriptive of the subject , and also a few word concerning the painter . " The Infant Hercules , '' "The Death of Dentatus , " and "Faust perceiving Margaret , " together with the view of the "S « ott Monument" are all faulty in this respect . One or two of these have been subsequently described in numbers which win form portion of the next Part , but we submit that it would be much more satisfactory to the readers to have the explanation accompanying the engraving . Besides the articles above emunerated , William Hewitt contributes articles on
"Military Flogging , " and other subjects . ; Mary Howitt contributes some ' sweet poetry . Miss Mar tineau contributes some of her pleasing and instructive essaysand sketches . Joseph Mazzini gives the first of a series of articles entitled " Thoughts upon Democracy in Europe . " We shall watch these articles , and , if necessary , have our say upon them when brought to a conclusion . The other contents of this part , both prose and poetry , are mostly worthy of warm commendation . We select the following extracts : — .
William Howrrr on militarv flogging . Bat it is not the ladder , the lash , and the back cut to shreds , and to tha very bono , which reveal to us the extent of the brutality of this punishment . Mr . Erasmus Wilson has opened up tons a deeper horror , a more terrible revelation of agony . He says , that in examining the back" On raising tbe muscles or flesh from off the ribs and spine , 1 found a part of the decperlay er of muscles , viz ., that which lay in contact with the bones , in a state of disorganisation , and converted into a soft pulp . * * The cause of the pulpy sofUniny Jbetietie to have teen the excessive contraction of the muscles taking place during the agony of punishment . The excessive contraction would produce laceration aud subsequent inflammation of the muscles , and tbe inflammation instead of being reparative , would , in consequence of the depressed state of the powers of the nervous system of the sufferer , be of the disoi ? anising kind , which results in pulpy softening .
Well might Mr . Wilion calls this "a new discovery , such as he had never seen before , though he had opened more than a thousand bodies ; a fact not stated in any book thathe knew of extant , and which could hardly hare been expected from such a cause . " It Is a new and terrible discovery , that such is the agony inflicted by this punishment , that it rends and reduces the muscles to a pulp ! And yet this man never uttered a groan ! Such is the power of the will , that the poor fellows exposed to the gaze of their comrades- ' suffer their very muscles to be torn with agony , jet | jwill not yield one groan ! Are sueh unheard of horrors to continue a day longer » Are they to be perpetrated in the midst of the British people , and on those who win with their lives those territories and those glories ( so called ) for which lords are created , and a nation ' s thanks are given .
Such is the brutality ; now look at the unequal texture of ourhomanity . Wegrieve over the lashes inflicted on negroes , and purchase their exemption from it at the rate of twenty millions of money . We traverse the whole earth to christianise and humanise . We take under the projection of our tender mercies the very brute animals in our streets . If this man had been a dog who dare have used him thus ! The doc has a whole act of parliament to himself . No man shall torture him ; no man shall even draw him in a cart . The soldier of this country has not even the consideration of a dog . " Is thy servant a dog V Well were it for tho British soldier if
he could claim that rank . If a set of men had taken a dog , and in some secluded court stretched it out on a ladder upon a wall , and with a relay of brawny farriers had thus mangled and slaughtered it , what a burst of execration there would have been against them ! What monsters , what inhuman wretches they wonld have been prononnced . ' The society for the Protection of Animals would have fastened upon them . Is man , then , is that noble creature , the soldier who dies under the lash without a groan , the only animal which has no protection in England f ITo ; a thousand generous hearts rise indignant at the fact ! This revolting barbarity cannot aud will not longer be tolerated .
The following is from Harriet Martineau ' s " Sur vey from the Mountain . "
AMERICAN SHAREHOLDEBS . In . the midst of the vigorous bwting up for troops in the United States , for the Mexican war , the most warlike city , New Orleans , puts forth a caution against all talk of employing free people of colour in a war of invasion , though these people be patriotic and substantial citizens . The objection is that if men of African complexion are employed as soldiers now , the Americans would have no plea against the employment of a similar force by Great Britain , in case of a war between the two countries . " It is distinctly understood , " says the newspaper , " that if ever the English land a regiment of Mucks in this country , we can grant no qu-irttr to prisoners . It will be a war of extermination , marked with blood
at every step . And we mnst be careful how we set the precedent , when we march into the territory of another power . " He is the downward course of error and sin marked with a clearness not to be mistaken . There was first the error of transporting men from their natural circumstances for the convenience of men more powerful : then slavery becoming mere aggravated with the advance of time and civilisation : then of the necessity of a tyranny at first unthought of : then the natural consequence—fear ; and from fear a contemplated cruelty and savagery under which society dissolves itselt into its elements , and states become the lair of ferocious beasts . The first step in wrong should bo dreaded as fatal as much by society as individuals .
We rniderstaad that an enormous number of the monthly parts of this publication are every month sent to America—another proof of the extraordinary anddeserved popularity attained bythis true People ' s Journal .
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fp * We are compelled to postpone til ! next week the continuance of our review of "The Aristocracy of England . "
English Snobs On The Continent.
ENGLISH SNOBS ON THE CONTINENT .
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BRUTAL IGXOBAUCE OF BRITISH ARISTOCRATS AND SH 0 P 0 CRAT 3 . ( From Punch . ) We are accustomed to laugh at the French for their braggadocio-propensities , and intolerable vanity about la France , la Gloire , l'Empereur , and the like ; and yet I think in my heart thasthe British Snob , for conceit and self-sufficiency and braggartism in his way , is without a parallel . There is always something uneasy in a Frenchman ' s conceit . He brags with so much fury , shrieking , and gesticulation ; yells out bo loudly that the Franeais is at the head of civilization , the centre of thought , & c ; that one can ' t but see the poor fellow has a lurking doubt in his own mind that he is not the wonder he professes to be .
About the British Snob , on the contrary , there is commonly no noise , no bluster , but the calmness of pro found conviction . We are better tban all the world ; we don't question the opinion at all ; it's an axiom . And when a Frenchman bellows out , "La France , Monsieur , la Fiance est a la tele du monde civilise . ' , ' we laugh goodnaturedly at the frantic poor devil . We are the first chop of the world ; we know the fact so well in out secret hearts , that a claim set up elsewhere is simply ludici eu « . My dear brother reader , say as a man of honour , if you are not of this opinion ? Do j . ou think a Frenchman your t qual ! You don't—you gallant British Snob—you know you don ' t : no more , perhaps , dues the Snob jour humble Servant , brother .
And I am inclined to think it is this conviction , and the consequent bearing of the Englishman towards the foreigner whom he condescends to visit , this confidence of superiority which holds up the head of the owner of every English hat-box from Sicily to St . Petersburg , that makes us so magnificently hated throughout Europe as we are ; this—more than all our little victories , and of which many Frenchmen and Spaniards have never heard—this amazing and indomitable insular pride , which animates my lord in his travelling-carriage as well as John in the rumble .
If you read the old Chronicles of the French wars , you find precisely the same character of the Englishman , and Henry V ' s people with just the cool domineering manner of their owu gallant veterans of France and the Peninsula . Did you ever hear Colonel Cutler and Major Slasher talking over the war after dinner % or Capta ' n Boardr-r describing his action with the Indomptable " Hang the fellows , " says Boarder , " their practice was very good , 1 was beat off three times before I took licr . " "Cuss those carabineers of MtihawJs , " says Slasher , " what work they made of our light cavalry ! " implying a sort of surprise that the Frenchmen should stand up against Britons at all ; a good-natured wonder that the blind , mad , vain-glorious , brave , poor devils , should
actually have the courage to resist an . Englishman . Legions of such Englishmen are patronising Europe at this moment , being kind to the Pope , or good-natured to the King of Holland , or condescending to inspect the Prussian reviews . When Nicholas came here , who reviews a quarter of a million of pairs of nioustncbios to his breakfast every morning , we took hiin off to Windsor and showed hiin tKO whole regiments of six or eight hundred Britons a-piece , with an air as much as to say , — "Their , my boy , look at that . Tbose are Englishmen , those are , and your master whenever you p lease , " as the nursery son ? says . The British Snob is long , long past scepticism , and can affoi-c * to laugh quite good-lmmouredly at those conceited Yankees , or besotted little Frenchman , who set up as raonels of mankind . TItey forsooth !
I have been led into those ri marks by listening to an old fellow at the Hotel du Nord , at Boulogne , and who is evidently of the Slasher sort . lie came down and seated himself at tbe breakfast-table , with a surly scowl on his salmon-coloured blood shot face , strangling in a tight , cross-barred cravat ; his linen and his appointments so perfect y stiff end spotless and everybody recognised him as a dear countryman . Oidy our port wine and other admirable institutions could have produced a figure so insolent , so stupid , 80 gentlemanlike . After a while our attention was called to him by his roaring out , in a voice of plethoric fury , " 01 "
Everybody turned round at the o , conceiving the Colonel to be , as his countenance denoted him , in intense pain ; but the waiters knew better , and instead of bring alarmed , brought the Colonel the kettle . 0 , it appears , is the Preach for hot water . The Colonel ( though he des-
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pUe 8 ithearffly ) thinks bespeaks Slanguage remarkably well . Whilst he was jinhaUng nil smoking tea , which went rolling and gurgling down his throat , and hissing over the " hot coppers" of that respectable veteran , a friend joined him , with a wizened face and very black wig / evidently a Colonel too . The two warriors , waggling their old heads at each other , presentlyjoined breakfast , and fell into conversation , and we had the advantage of hearing about the old war , and some pleasant conjectures as to the next , which they considered imminent . They psha'd the French fleet ; they poohpooh'd the French Commercial Marine ; they showed how , in a war , there would be a cordon ( a cordong , by—) of steamers along our coast , and byready at a minute to land anywhere on the other shore , to give the French as good a thrashing as they gotiu the last war , by— . In fact a rumbling cannonade of oaths was fired by the two veterans during the whole of their conversation .
There was a Frenchman in the room , but as he had not been above ten years in London , of course he did not speak the language , and lost the benefit of the conversation . "But oh , my country ! " says I to myself , "it ' s no wonder that you are so beloved ! Iflwerea Frenchman , how I would hate you !" That brutal ignorant peevish bully of an Englishman is showing himself in every tity of Europe . One of the dullest creatures under Heaven , he goes trampling Europe under foot , shouldering his way into galleries and cathedrals , and bustling into palaces with his buckram uniform . At church or theatre , gala or picture-gallery ,
hit face never varies . A thousand delightful sights pass befora hU bloodshot eyes , and don't affect him . Countless brilliant scenes of life are shown him , but never move him . He goes to church , and calls the practises there degrading and superstitous , asifnt ' s alter was the only one that was acceptable . He goes to picture-galleries , and is more ignorant about art than a French shoeblack . Art , Nature , pass , and there is no dot of admiration in his stupid eyes ; nothing moves him , except when a very great man comes his way , and then tbe rigid proud self-confident inflexible British Snob can be ae humble as a flunky , and as supple as a harlequin .
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us * PROTECTIONISTS POLICY . The Morning Post publishes , as a leading article , the following
SI'CLARATIOX OF CONSERVATIVE POLICY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FAIR TRADE AND EQUITABLE TAXATION . • ¦• „; The abolition of all Excise Duties on domestic productions and manufactures , and tbe consequent consolidation of the Customs and Excise , together with the reduction of the Coast Guard . The admission of colonial wheat , pulse , and flour , at a statistical duty of 6 d . per quarter , and 6 d . per barrel . The reduction of duty on tea to 1 b . per lb . The reduction of duty on tobacco to Is . per lb . The reduction of duty on colonial sugar to 5 s . per cwt . Ditto on foreign ditto to 10 s . per cwt . REVENUE COMPBKSATION . Fixed duty on foreign wheat of 5 s . per quarter .
Fixed duty on other foreign grain and pulse , 2 s . 6 d . per quarter . Fixed duty on foreign flour , 2 s . Gd . per barrel . Restoration of the duty on foreign cotton wool to 3 s . per cwt ., as an equivalent for the Excise on soap . The charge for postage to commence at one penny for a quarter of an ounce , instead of half an ounce , to make up for tbe loss of Excise on paper , which has always been a tax on education and litir ature . REASONS FOR REMOVAL OF EXCISE DUTIES ON nOMK PRODUCTIONS , AND ADJUSTMENT OF REVENUE DUTIES .
As long as Income and Property Tax is imposed , which , together with the burthen of the Poor Laws , falls principally on the landed proprietors and agriculturists , foreign imports , competing with oar domestic productions , cannot be admitted without paying a revenue duty . The reduction of duty on tea , tobacco , and sugar , would not eventually yield less revenue , owing to the increased consumption , whilst the comforts of the poor would be greatly enhanced , and our commerce extended , especially with China , and the inducement tfi smuggle put an end to .
The loss of revenue on the Excise duties would be compensated fur by the duty on foreign wheat , pulse , flour , and cotton wool , together with an increase in the Post Office revenue , which would be equivalent to the loss of the Excise on paper , to which would be added the enormous saving in the expense of the collection of the Excise duties , as well as in the reduction ef the Coast Guard establishment . Since 1842 nearly five millions sterling of duties on foreign imports have been reduced for the chief benefit of the manufacturers , while the Exci-e duties have been retained , and the Income and Propertytax imposed . Five millions have been taken off and five millions laid on without any benefit to the poor man .
The proposed revenue duty on wheat would be about ten per cent . ; on colonial sugar , about fifteen per cent . ; and on foreign , thirty per cent . ; making an average of twenty-two and ahalf per cent ., whilst the present duties are respectively about forty-five per cent ., and seventy per cent .
The Duke Of Richmond And His Scotch Tena...
THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND HIS SCOTCH TENANTRY . The annual agricultural meeting of the Duke of Richmond ' s tenantry at Fochabers was held on Tuesday last , at Gordon Castle . The show yard was formed in one of the parks , aud was very numerously attended by the yeomen of the surrounding districts . The animals exhibited were of a very superior character . In the afternoon about 300 of the tenantry sat down to dinner , to which they had been invited by the noble landlord , under a spacious marquee which had been erected on the castle lawn . The Duke occupied the chair , and in the cour-e of the proceedings adverted to the recent changes , and the consequent alteration in the relative positions of landlords and tenants in the following terms : —Tie would not , however , under present
circumstances , say , that the price of corn might not be kept up for a short time . Foreigners were quite unprepared for the great change . This time last year they had ho idea that protection would be removed , and that circumstances might , in some measure keep up the price . The failure in the potstoe crop , in Ireland , and throughout the country , would also tend to the same result , but he felt that it was not possible that with even the greatest energy the farmers of this country would be able to compete with the foreigner who had no taxes to pay . When he recollected that many now present a few years ago came forward and signed leases under the firm impressions that the Corn Bill was to remain entire , but now that through treachery and double-dealing it had been abolished , he felt that he would be incapable of holding up his head among them did he not now tell them that should any of his tenants
wish to relinquish their farms , by giving intimation of their intentions to either of his managers , he would at once relieve them of their obligations ; more than that , he would cause an estimate to be made of the unexhausted permanent improvements t !; ey had made upon their farms , and repay them the amount . ( Loud cheers . ) lie felt that this was only justice . He should , however , regret parting with any of his tenantry , many of whom had cultivated the same soil for a very long period , but he could not feel satisfied were they to remain and injure their own prospects or those of their family . ( Cheers . ) Be hoped that his prohecics of the evil of the measure would not prove correct , but although he had patiently listened to all the arguments which had been advanced in favour of the abolition of protection , his objections to the measure were not removed .
[ Hie Duke seemed to have been very well received by the party , although the way in which he proposes to meet the new circumstances in which they are placed is not to our taste . Why should his tenants be required to leave their farms ! If his predictions turn out to be correct , are there no other means of redressing the injury that may thereby be occasioned to the tenant ? The apparently frank and generous offer of " Ills Grace" is , in fact , assumed as a sort of blind to the real selfishness which lies below it . Of what use would it be to the Duke of Richmond , to insist en his tenants keeping terms which would lead to their ultim ate ruin and his loss ?]
Suicide Ex A Drunkard In Liverpool.—On Fri
Suicide ex a Drunkard in Liverpool . —On Fri
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day morning , a baker named Charlton , the proprietor of a very extensive business on the London-road , strangled himself in a paroxysm of drunkenness . He had scarcely been sober for the last five months ; and on Thursday night went to bed quite intoxicated , His wife awoke ataut five o ' clock in the morning , aud found a handkerchief tight round his neck , with the other end fastened to the bedpost , and the unfortunate wretch quite dead . An inquest was held , and the Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity , caused by excessive drinking . " The Censor in Spain . —Spanish newspapers are at the present time two-thirds blank paper * , for the Censor" Breathes o ' er the page his purity of soul , Corrects each error and refines the whole "by dashing out whole sentences . Thus , the Espectador conies out after this fashion : —
" All true Spaniards and thus our beloved country The Infanta by her marriage in our next . " Very eloquent these blanks ! What ti umpet flourishes do they give of freedom!—Punch ,
Day Morning, A Baker Named Charlton, The...
PROGRESS OF THE AGITATION FOR THE CHARTER . . Alre . ady the renewened agitation for the Charter , is loroing itself on the attention of the press of the country . Our readers will peruse with pleasure the following article from the Norfolk News and Norwich £ ' ««? , on the great meetim-s recently held in the Utyot Norwich , for the adoption of the National Petition = —
THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER . Although we do not profess an unhesitating allegiance to all the details of the " five points , " and tl . ere are some unhnppy associations with the words "Charter " and " Chartist , " which wejshouid be glad for the people ' s sake to bury in oblivion , wc cannot sutfera petit ion from the working tnen 0 f Norwich on this subject , to go to Parliamen t w'thoutan expression of our hearty assent to the elaim of the petitioners to a share in the franchise . The natural right of every man of sound mind to be represented in Parliament , wa are not called upon to discuss . The question may perhaps admit of dispute , and it would occupy us too long to sift it . Besides it is not necessary to do so , for , if not by nature , certainly , according to the spirit of the British constitution , every
SUCll man is entitled to a vote . The recognized principle that taxation and representation sbonld be coincident , confers upon all taxpayers , that is every body , an equal right to a voiee at the hustings . If not under every form of Government , certainly under a representative form , and especially under tho English form , where tbe advantages of representation have been go fully tested and so universally admitted , and where the theory of representation stands upon so broad , so intelligible , so just a basis , it ; would be difficult , if not impossible , to raise any objection even apparently valid , to so reasonable a demand as that of the Norwich petitioners , so fir as the mere right is concerned . We have never yet seen the attempt made , sure we are that if made it would prove unsuccessful .
The opponents of an equal , suffrage do not deny the right , but take refuge in the plea of inexpediency . They talk of the danger of making the ignorant multitude electors . What ! Inexpedient to be just ? Dangerous to do right ? Safe to postpone reason to fear * Pru dent to reject claims admitted to D 9 valid ? Wise to commit against millions a wrong which cannot on clear grounds be defended ? Certainly , if tho unrepresented had not possessed more wisdom and prudence than the favoured classes , the obstinate denial of a just equality would long ago have displayed itself even more palpably than now , to be in the highest degree inexpedient anil unsafe . It is humiliating to have to argue at all about
the expediency of justice .. It is a reflection upon tin morality and the good sense of the community that con . venieuce should for a single moment be placed in opposition to truth . Theory and practice are not more indis . silubly connected in physical than in moral and political science . If representation be good for people wort ! . £ 10 a year , or possessing an income of forty shilling * for land , it cannot but be good for those whose habitations are humbler , or who do not happen to be freeholders at all . TheprtHcipfe of representation not being founded on a property qualification , the injustice , and consequently the inexpediency of a property test is a » clear as a methemotical demonstration ,
There is no difficulty , however , in meeting our antago . nists on lower ground . They contend that tho people must be prepared for freedom by previous intelligence ; we affirm , on the eontrary , that nothing fits the people so much for liberty as the enjoyment of it . It is civil privilege that makes the good citizen , rather than the citizenship which entitles to civil privilge . To keep a subject in serfdom till he be ready to be made free , is to limit the tyro to the river ' s brink until he can learn to swim . Are we asked for proof ! Look to the negroes of Jamaica . Until their recent emancipation they were the most degraded of their species . Now , in a few short years , they may safely be compared for intelligence , for morality , for order , with any population in tha world . Apprenticeship was tried in this case as a safety valve against the too rapid expansion of their state . It was
soon discarded by common consent as a worse than useless precaution , and almost at a bound the benighted Africiia passed from the brutal penalties of an animal existence to the dignity ns well as the { status of a man . As his chains fell , his brain expanded . When the lash was withdrawn , his temper became bland , his passions wensoothed , sullenncss gave tvay to alacrity , and alacrityheralded intelligence and industrial skill . From freedom , as a cause , came mind , the social affections , religious and moral aptitude , everything , as the effects . Shall we now be foolish enough to invert the natural order , and expect grapes from thorns , or figs from thistles ? The people , whatever their virtues er defects , are what our institutions have made them . Retain the institutions in statuouo , and amelioration is out of the question .
But we are ready to take lower ground still , and to assert that the people are . attbismoment . even in thesense of our opponents , prepared for the liberty of self-government . Our legislature , however imperfect , has permitted much . The nobler parts of our Constitution have allowed to grow amidst the masses , an irregular and uncultivated perh-ips , but still a vigorous intelligence . Our modified freedom in religion , in trade , in civic rights , have nutured amongst the many in the lowest stratum of society , an amount of mental power , too strong by half for the re . strictions in which they are bound by the timid few . Erlong , we venture to predict , the elasticity of the popular mind will snap the fetters of inequality , if a sense o ! justice do not first untwist them . Prepared ! Who an the foundation of o « r national greatness ? Who product our wonders of manufacturing skill ? Who make our steam engines , our railroads , our marvellous fabrics of iron , copper , cotton , silk , and wool ? Who fill the whole eartl !
with the products of their industrial labours 1 Who traverse the seas , populate our colonics , found empires , and grow suddenly , as if by an instinctive power of aggregation , into mighty nations \ Who have exhibited an almosl miraculous ability in self-instruction , secular and reli gious ? Who first detected the sophistry of protection : raised up , unassisted , all over the land , churches , chapels , schools , colleges , mechanic , literary , and philosophic institutions ? Who have salaried , at an enormous cost , ministers , schoolmasters , teachers , missionaries , foreign and domestic ? Who have sent the gospel to the remotest lands , and put the Bible in every man's hands . Who , but the uncr franchised majority of the English people . And shall we fear the concession to such a people of a fur less , degree of social advancement than tliatconferred upon the unhappy negro ! If the British nation be unprepared for the suffrage , we must in vain eitpect to see a fit preparation , until man can be endued with an angelic nature .
But it may be said the very lowest orders of the people did not schicie those results . Well , and what then ? These are the average results , and it is for the whole people that the franchise is claimed . We are not called upon to emancipate only tha vicious or the ignorant , but all . It is for the whole , as a whole , that the demand is made . It is unphilosophical and unjust to legislate for exceptions . If the mass be sound under present circumstances , it will surely remain sound in a healthier condition and with fairer prospects . If now our countrymen are , on the whole , asintelligent . aslong suffering , as moral as the privileged class , they will not become less so when raised to tbe rank of citizens .
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Couut Tie Montemoim And General Cabrera ...
Couut tie Montemoim and General Cabrera arrived in London on Saturday viii Dover . His Royal Highness is residing for the present at the Brunswick Hotel , Hanover-square , and leads a very retired life , though he is supposed to be concerting measures for carrying out the declaration contained in his address to the Spanish people . The following minute and unflattering portraits of these two worthies , are from the description issued immediately after theirescape , by the Prefect of the Soiv at GUer . The Count is des ' - cribed as follows : — "Ago 28 years , height 1 metre 65 centimetres ( 5 it . II in . English ) , black hair and eyebrows , narrow and round forehead , brown oyes , large and long nose , a little bent on one side , middlesized mouth , black beard worn en collier , round chin ,
oval face , and dark complexion . The upper lip and the teeth slightly project , and which is more visible when talking ; speaks French with facility , but with a strong foreign accent ; the knees turned in , which is more particularly apparent when walking ; holds himself very erect ; a turn in the left eyeball , showing at times the whole of t' -e white ; wears his hat inclined to the right side , and over the eves . " Raman Cabrera is thus described : — * ' Born at Tortosa ( Cata-Ionia ) , age 33 years , height 1 metre 03 centimetres black hair and eyebrows , ordinary forehead , grayish brown eyes , middle-sized nose , mouth rather law , beard black and rather thin , roir ., d chin , oval face , dark complexion . His eyebrows are bushy , and come close to each other ; has a small scar on the forehead , over the left eye ; legs slightly bent ; never looks a person in the face w hen addressing him . ''
Suicide of a Soldier , —A soldier of tlicd-lth regiment , cut his throat with a razor , in ( he Uelfasf barracks , on Sunday week . The deep incision was immediately stitched by the regimental surgeon , and hopes were entertained of his recovery ..- He died , however , after two days of extreme suffering , lit had solicited his brother to purchase his disch * rg < - from the army , but without success . This disappointment caused the rash act . A RomiKnr FrustuMTKO Tiinouoii Fear . —Tho excise-office connected with tho Loehriu disullei-y i : i Gilmo rc-phico was surreptitiously entered on Wednesday evening week last , by means of breaking some panes of glass in one of the windows . While looking about , loses if anything else could be added to
the plunder which they had collected , before making : tlicircxit tbey would seem to have been attracted by a largo package , securely wrapped up , and apparently placed with great care in a quiet noekock of the apartment . Curious to know what was in it , they immediately unloosed the cords aud unfolded the sheeting , when , to their extreme horror and alarm , the pale visage of a human form was revealed . Without waiting another moment , they appear to have darted out of the window , perfectly terrorstricken at the sight , leavinsj all their booty behind . It turns out that what excited their alarm was the model of a statue , which an artist had left for safety with some of the officials connected with the distillery , while he was on a short tour on the continent . — Scotsman ,
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Removal op tub Ccivict Smith to tub Millbank Pbison . —In the course of the afternoon of Saturday , Mr . Cope , the governor of Newgate , received from the Ilome Office a reprieve , and also the order for removal to the Mill bank prison for John Smith , who was found guilty of the wilful murder of Susan Tolliday , at the Guildhall Coffee-house , on Saturday ; the 1 st of August . Although it was generally understood that the life of the wretched man would be spared , still the reprieve in which it is officially set forth that the sentence of death is commuted to a ^ milder punishment had not been previously received .
Accident Caused bt the Whistle of a Steam-Ekoine . —On Sunday evening , about six o ' clock , an accident , attended with serious consequences , happened to a lady and gentleman named Marks , residing at No . 7 , Rodney . terrace , West , Mile Endroad , near the Maryland Point Bridge . Mr . and Mrs . Marks had been out for a drive , and <¦ were' returning' over the above bridge , when the engine driver of one of the trains blew of his steam , ' and the shrillness of the whistle caused the horse in the chaise to start off at a furious rate . The wheel came in violent contact with a lamp-post , and both Mr . and Mrs . Marks were thrown out of it . They were picked up in a state of insensibility , and were subsequently removed to their residence in a flv .
SiiDDKM Dbath in a Railway Train . — On Wednesday week , Daniel Trinder , Esq ., land-agent to the Earl of St . Germans , left Cirencester by the mail train for Port . Eliot , where he was expected to hold the annual Court . He was apparently in perfect health when he left the station at Cirencester , but on opening the carriage at Swindon he was found a corpse . —Devmport Chronicle . Cospkssiok of as Incendurt . — Elizabeth Barkitt , a native of Titmarsh , Northamptonshire , who had lived . in the service of Mrs . Gray , and her son Edward , at Buslimead , about ten weeks , hasmado a full , confession of having set fire to the promises oh the 1 st inst ., by which the following property was destroyed , viz : —A barn , containing the produce of fifteen acres of barley , several sacks of old beans , a quantity of dressed barley , a dressing machine , and other implements , a wood barn full of wood , shelter
hovel , a stack of wheat , the produce of six acres , a dove house , and thirty tame pigeons . A searching investigation was made by Superintendent Jebbett immediately after the fare , which being closely ¦ bllowed up , and the prevaricating stories of the servant , together with the difficulty of approach by a tranger to the spot where the fire broKe out , suslicion attached to her , which she perceived , and her nind at last became so overburned with her guilt , 'hatsho could bear it no longer , and made a confession of the whole circumstances , and said that she felt much happier . The girl stated that she set fire to the barley in the barn by putting a lighted match between the boards . She could give no reason why she had done it , and afterwards felt very sorry . She was taken before G . P . Livius , Esq ., on Thursday and committed for trial on her own confession . — Bedford Mercury .
Two men were killed at Newwark on Wednesday week , by the sudden falling in of a large quantity of earth , upon which they were at work . Two others were severely injured . A Goon Example . —At the audit appointed for the payment of the rents by the occupiers of the allotment land at Redditch , the Eon . R . H . Olive , the proprietor , very generously ordered that one-half of the amount of rent should be returned inconsequence of the failure in tbe potatoe crop . —Coventry Herald . Wilful Damage to Public Baths . —At Marylebone police office on Saturday , William Bardwell , an architect , was fined £ 4 for having wilfully damaged one of the baths at the Public Baths in Georgestreet , New-road , by pouring some ktrong acid on the enamel , which caused it to peel off .
A case of some interest to the Theatrical profession was tried at the Southward Court of Requests , on Friday last , Mr . Osbaldeston , manager ot the Victoria Theatre , summoned Mr . Fredericks late of his company for £ 3 , the value of an actor ' s privilege card of admission for the season , which it was alleged had been sold to him . The defence was that such tickets were a part of the perquisites of the profession , and that it was not customary to pay for the privilege . The commissioner decided in favour of the plaintiff ' s claim , and it was stated that the defendant is likely to appeal to another Court . An attempt is making to establish a club in London , to be called the " Whittington Club , " for " the operative portion of the middle classes , "—clerks , shopmen , and the like . The institution is to combine the advantages of a litwary institute , a clubhouse , and a place of amusement .
ELECrmc Telegraph from London to Livstar-oofc . The London and North Western Railway Company have , during the last three months , been testing a newly invented electric telegraph , at the London end of their line , and the experiment having proved satisfactory , they are making arrangements to lay it down along the whole of their line , from the metropolis to Lancashire . There are twenty-five daily newspapers published in Paris , iten in London . Above 50 , 000 soldiers are in the receipt of pensions From the extraordinary heat of the season the trees in the boulevards of Paris , the leaves of which had begun ( to wither , are now pushing forth fresh ones . Some chesnufc trees in the Place Royale afford the singular spectacle of ripe fruit , yellow leaves , large blossoms , and fresh green leaves , all at the same time .
Such is the scarcity of fruit on the Wolds and in the Clays in the neighbourhood of Caister , Lincoln * shire , that from upwards of one hundred apple trees in one orchard , the owner has not obtained a single peck of fruit . In January last there were as many as 16 , 310 lunatics and idiots chargeable to the poor-rate in England , and 1 , 205 in Wales . A Free-Trade Association is about to be formed at Brussels . The extensive cotton mills of the Messrs . Lees , of Asbton-under-Lyne , in which there are upwards of 2 , 000 power JoonjSi commenced working short time on the 14 th instant .
The * punishment peculiar to the naval service of their country , that of being lashed to the rigging hand and foot , was undergone by one of the sailors of the Sardinian Corvette L'Aurora , on her arrival at Woolwich on Friday last . Tho poor fellow remained " 'twixt heaven and earth" suspended in the fore shrouds for four or five hours , and appeared from his writhings and contortions to be suffering considerably . Adulteration of Milk . —It came out in evidence in a case brought before the Police Court , London , on Friday , in a disputed debt between two dealers in milk , that the defendant had paid between £ 200 and £ 300 to the plaintiff for milk , which he had had of him , to the extent of 26 , 000 barn gallons , but in that there were 2 G . O 0 O quarts of water , besides the colouring ! He swore as an honest man that he had seen him put it in .
Remarkable Puoduce op Potatoes . —A gardener of Driffield , named Robert Pickering , who is an extensive grower ot potatoes , remarked amongst a flat ot kidney potatoes last year one particular plant , commonly known & s a " bastard , " which he was about to treat as a cumberer of the ground ; howover , curiosity induced him to spare it in order to ascertain the kind and produce . On taking up that root , last autumn , he was surprised to find that it had produced nearly half a peck of fh / flt-rate quality , and of a kind which he had never seen before , having been produced by a " potato-apple , " ' As ho
had thus gratuitously obtained so fine a kind , he was resolved to propagate it , and consequently , at the proper time , he planted the whole of the root upon a park of a plot of ground , on which the previous season , the whole potato crop had failed , and literally rotted in the ground . Last week , he found that the root had produced no less than eight pecks , and would , no doubt , have produced many more had the sets been placed at a greater distance , the tops being so large as to preclude , in a great measure , the free access of rain , air , aftd light . The Hotels at New York . —The hotels , at this
season , are curious pictures ot hie . At least , they would be curious to European observation . The Astor-house alone , which is the principal hotel , dines daily from -150 to 500 persons—almost all of them strangers in town . The house itself , is like a small town , and Us entries and corridi-rs are thronged like squares and streets . Almost every human want is supplied under its vast roof . Its basement is occupied by apothecaries , tailors , barbers , booksellers , jewellers , perfumers , baths , and newspaper-dealers . Its principal Hoar , has six or seven public parlours on the . front , and two vast dining-rooms on the rear . The ladies' drawing-room is decorated with frescoes and velvets , mirrors , and costly drapery , and furnished in a style of sumptuous ek-ganoedisregard
, of expense , "Hops , " or house-balls , arc given by the proprietors during this gay season , and few of the guests are exclusive enough not to share in the amuselueiit . Dancing acquaintances are as easily made as at a private entertainment . The music is good , and the ball winds up with a , luxurious supper , and all without any extra charge in the bill . To a people as gregarious as the Americans this kind ot thing is exceedingly captivatinc , and , to come to New York and " stop at the Aster , " on their v-ay from the springs , is to tho many the best feature of tho summer ' s diversion . There arc private parlours to be had at these hotels , of course , at three dollars extra
per diem , but they are little called for . The regular price is two dollars a day , ail things included ; and whether you arc on the first floor or the seventh , in a room by yourself or with six ethers , the price is tlicsame , the best rooms being only reserved for ladies and those who travel with them . The daily dinner is a very profuse and sumptuous affair , and ; is it is a good scene for display , ithns fallen naturally into a custom to dress gaily for the table—making altogether a scene , at the very day table of _ three o ' clock , scarcely inferior to a Lord Mayor ' s dinner . —Correspondent of the Morning Ghroniele . Seeking Situations in London . —There are arways some thousands of young persons seeking situations
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m the Great Metropolis , without friendlofila ^ j / to guide or assist them . I was so situaWd fltf * " f once and'there fore can feel for sueh . Piwor < l l good advice to them : -Strictly avoid mMl ^ x and register offices , which profess to oHHfeV : situations , but commences by draining youoiferfii ^ ITL 1 fc « Tl : , These me . " vrofmItS # yo ^ name on their books to get you a 8 ituatftnr ^ eJ iSHL 5 " power nor intention , . mtfPT advice , advance no money to any of these gentry , but answer advertisements and make enquiries of respectable parties in your trade or profession , who , though perfect strangers , will give yeu good advice . I have known lately of swindlers advertising to get premiums from young men on pretence of teaching
them surveying , and engaging them on railwava for India . A friendof mine searched into this scheme , and found that numbers of young men had been swindled out of £ 5 , which , perhaps they had raised * with difficulty . —The People ' s Journal . The Canterbury Union , according to the Kentith Observer , are in a happy state of confusion respecting their accounts , The late clerk ' s accounts are u ° * complete , certain vouchers , which . had . been inqu n ' " for , not being forthcoming ; whilst oneofthereli cr * ing officers is a defaulter to a considerable amount . One of the Gloucester Railway Police , has beet committed on a charge of felony , for stealing seven pairs of boots and shoes , from packages entrusted t the company , in their capacity as carriers .
CoxcBAhBD Trbasuue . — Some alterations bP . fi found necessary to an ancient dwelling-house in m High-street , Andover , the workmen , in rerooi ^ g the bricks from the bottom of a chimney , vej * £ agreeably surprised by several gold coins of srir * antiquity . It is conjectured they were conctal y ! oy tho removal of a brick and replacing it nearly tw * centuries since . Two of the pieces are about , UB - size of the present half-crown , but much tbiitt ?^ , ' they were coined in the reigns of James 1 , anu Charles 1 ., and arc in good preservation , having apparently lain dormant almost from the time of their issue .
. Phenomenon at Waintbrolch , Monmouthshibb . — On Monday the beos and wasps congregated from , east , wost , north , and South , and engaged in deadly warfare . They appeared in swarms as far as the eye could see , and . the ground for a large space underneath , was covered with the dead , mostly waspff . Property left ik Public Vehicles —Since the 22 d of May last , up to the 8 th mat ., 89 umbrellas , 63 parasols , 61 coats , 7 parcels , 3 pocket books , -11 cloaks , 8 opera glasses , a prize oar , and 326 anicles of different descriptions , have been left in cabs ana hackney coaches . Education ofthb Poor in Laubbth . — Last Monday , two new schools wereopened for the gratuitous education of the poor in Lambeth , one a school for boys in connection with Saint Mary ' s district chapel , the other a species of ragged school in Palace-yard , opposite Lambeth church ; for the education of all persons above ten years of age .
The MABquEBS o * SLioo . Earlof Lucan , and five other noblemen and gentlemen have come to _ London for the purpose of obtaining interviews with Lord John Russell and the heads of the government relative to the potato disease in Ireland , and ; the mos t ^ effectual method © f employing the famishing poor ,. Progress of the New Palace . —In the House of Lords , to which , more particularly , attention is nove directed , the works are making rapid progress . The >; ceiling and upper part of the walls are finished , and carvers and joiners are occupied in every corner of
the place in fixing the wainscot fittings , both in thej House and lobbies . Those in the former are most * elaborately carved out of the solid , arid reflect great credit on the workmen . The decorations will be gorgeous—dazzling . The ceiling , formed inte deeply sunk panels , is covered with gold and colours . Under each wall-piece ; from principal timbers , is a sculptured canopy and niche , solidly gilt where finished , between which occur the windows , to be filled with stained glass ( six on each side ) and compartments for fresco . —The Builder .
There have , in the present month , been , or are to to be , no fewer than five congresses of scientific men or artists holden in various parts of Germany , where it has riot yet been considered a sign of wisdom to laugh at such things . At Jena , the meeting of philologists and archaeologists , the literary congress at Dresden , that of scholastic professors at Mayence , the assembly of architects at Gotha , and that of the naturalists at Kiel , are so many testimonies to the spreading conviction in favour of these forms of mental association . —Atkenceum . Romford . —Incendiary Fire . —We regret to state that another incendiary fire took place on Friday la » t , on the premises of Mr . Shnttleworth , of Great Wavley , containing three stacks of corn . Thre « men are in custody , and there is strong suspicion attached to them , as they were seen near the stacks a few minutes previous to the fire breaking out , by Mr . Shuttleworth himself . —Ipswich Express ,
Incendiarism , at Wadhdrst , Sussex . — Hannah Baldock , 16 , was fully committed by the magistrates at Tunbridge Wells , on Thursday last , on a charge of settine fire to a wood lodge and faggot stack , tha property of her master , Mr . Overy , of Little Dartfate ' s farm , Wadhurst . —Maidstone Gazette . Fatal Accibentofp Battersea . —On Tuesday morning , the following distressing accident occurred on the river Thames , near Battersea . Four persons hired a small boat at Westminster for tbe purpose of proceeding to Richmond for a day ' s pleasure . It was also observed that the parties did not thoroughly understand the management of a boat . They ,
however reached as far as Battersea , when they rowed athwart a barge , named the Sarah , which was lying at anchor . One of the parties moved from his seat , and the little boat instantly capsized , and the men were thrown into the water . Their shrieks at the moment were truly dreadful . Two of them succeeded in grasping hold of the cable , and were rescued by the bargeman , named J . Packer . The other two , named James Gascoine , aged 24 , and George James , aged 32 , residing in Clerkenwell-green , almost instantly sunk , and were never seen to rise again . The drags wereused for some time , but in vain . The boat was picked up and conveyed home by a fisherman .
Cheap Newspapers . —A well-wisher to the Ion don Pioneer asks us which ia the cheapest newgpa per , Our reply is , the Newt of the World . We be here it to be not only the cheapest , but the be * general newspaper in the united kingdom . Its pric " is threepence . The Northern Star is an excellen paper , as a political newspaper . It advocates the rights of labonr with a zeal and honesty that do crer dit to the writers , whoever they are , We are sorry that it cannot reduce its price to subscribers . The Northern Star is sold at fivepence . We believe the time is not far distant when nearly all the weekly newspapers will be sold at three-pence or threepence " halfpenny . —London Pioneer .
The "Godless" Colleges . —A paragraph has been pretty generally copied from an Irish newspaper , to the effect that the Council of Cardinals had denounced the colleges commonly known as ' * the Godless ; " and that there was no reasonable doubt that Pope Pius himself would concur in their measure of condemnation whenever the subject was officially brought before him . This statement , however , has been contradicted by the Nation ; which affirms , " on the highest authority , " that the ieads of the Catholic Church in Ireland have received no communication to this effect , or "tending to that direction , " and that , judging from tho liberal policy of the Pope , such a decision is wholly improbable .
Remarkable Phenomenon . —Tho sea , at a short distance from the coast here , has presented some remarkable appearances during the present week . On Tuesday last , about four o ' clock in the afternoon , abont low water , the sea , for about thirty yards from the shore , and al « ng the coast from the cove to the bay of Nige , appeared of a purple colour , and continued to darken as the afternoon advanced . Out informant , who , with a large number of fishermen , observed the appearance , thinking it might arise from any reflection of the sky , went out in a boat and examined the water . To his astonishment , he found tho boat actually in a sea of purple , and tha water of a glutinous nature , containing so much colouring that it actually dyed red whatever object
it touched . No effluvia could be perceived arising from the water . As the tide rose , the coloured water packed closer in shore , aud continued to become darker and darker . Next afternoon the same appearances were observed to occur , but not to such an extent . Wc wish some of our scientific fvienda would afford us a clue to the cause of this phenomenon . Nothing of the kind seems ' ever to have been observed in this quarter before , although , perhaps , in other places such appearances may have been witnessed . We may state that , on Monday , the fishermen between this and the cove observed the sea nt about 70 or 80 yards from the shove , breaking out in dark spots , which may be supposed to have multiplied nnd magnified till ' they presented the
appearance above-men tinned . —Aberdeen Herald . Destitution . —At the Pett y Sessions of this town , Oil Tuesday last , a wretched looking girl of the name of Bridget Spelman , appeared to answer the complaint of Charles Blake , Esq ., of Merlin Park , for a malicious trespass . Mr . Blake ' s wondranger , Campbell , stated that a few days ago he caught the girl stealing three turnips , one of which she was in the act of eating when caught by him . He also stated that the girl waa after going through the potato fields , and trying to pick up any small potatoes that might have remained on the ridges after the pickers ) had not eaten
— " she was crying and said she any food that day , and only took the turnips to cat them . " Tho maaistrates , after reading the half , starved girl a lecture on morality , so far as concerned the protection of the rich man ' s property , , dismissed the ' case . — Galway Mercury . [ Thus it is always 1 " Protect property " is the leading idea of the age . For mere wealth there is everywhere a superstitious reverence , for the producer ofweaM there is neither respect nor protection . When shall we have magistrates who will read the . rich lectures on morality ,, and insist oa the imperative duty of protecting life , In preference to anything else ?) tajt
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 26, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_26091846/page/3/
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