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Mabch 29, 1845. . THE NORTHERN STAR. 3 ¦...
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PUNCH'S LETTERS TO HIS SON. By Douglas J...
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THE ORPHAN; oh, MEMOIRS of MATILDA. BrEu...
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THERESE DUNOYER; OR, THE MANOR HOUSE OF ...
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THE GAZETTE OF VARIETY: A MISCELLANY OF ...
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THE EDINBURGH TALES-Part. II.—Cosducted ...
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VACHER'S PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION. London...
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GOOD! A PROPOSITION ON THE NATIONAL DEBT...
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TWEDDLE'S YORKSHIRE MISCELLANY AND ENGLI...
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EltHfflATlo!/.—One thousand and eighteen...
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A BOWL OF "PUNCH," FRESH BREWEDs i "PAni...
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Mabch 29, 1845. . The Northern Star. 3 ¦...
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The following beautiful song , or rather the second , third , and fourth stanzas of it , appeared in a late number of the Nation . The author happens to be a friend of oars ; and aware that the song appeared imperfectly in the Nation , wc now give it entire . The song commences with 4 he stanza previously omitted .
TOUSG KATE OF GLENKEEN . By the banks of the Barrow residing Are girls with the dark raven hair , And where the Blackwater is gliding , The maidens are faithful and fair : But of all Erin ' s pure-hearted daughters , 111 tell yoa the one who is queen . She dwells by Agivey * s bright waters , The lovely Young Kate of Glenkeen . She is pure as the dew-drops that cluster Round the heath-bell that blooms on Slleremore And her eye hath the diamond ' s lustre That studs the grey breast of Bengore : Then her voice , the soft south is not sweeter , When breathing o ' er spring ' s robe of green , And Errigal ' s fawn is not fleeter Than lovely Young Kate of Glenkeen .
The snow I hare seen freshly fallen On Slemish ' s top as I stood ; The wild rose I ' ve seen on Slieve GaUen ; Just cleaving its emerald hood ; And that snow from the cloud newly driven , And that rose of the mountain so sheen , Are the colours that nature hath given The cheek of Young Kate of Glenkeen . lis sweet when the sun is saluting The heights of the misty Knockladelis sweet when his first ray is shooting
Through lonely GlencuUen's green shade ; But 0 ! there ' s an hour that is sweeter , When the star of the evening is seen , And its bright twinkle tells me I'll meet her . The lovely Young Kate of Glenkeen . Cubeew
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Punch's Letters To His Son. By Douglas J...
PUNCH'S LETTERS TO HIS SON . By Douglas Jeehold . London : OrrandCo ., Paternoster-row These admirable satires on the crimes and frauds , -the -falsehoods and hypocrisies of " civilised" life , are a reprint fromthe ' pages of our old friend Punch The author ' s style and talents are by this time so -well known to our readers , that it would he superjluous to 3 o more than give his name . "Wc may , however , add , that these letters , appearing as they did at a time when Punch was not so well known as now , will in all probability be new'to a large number of Mr . Jfbbold ' s admirers . To all such wc strongly recommend the book . Though any extract for which we can afford room can scarcely g ' vethe reader a better idea of thegood things in this w ) k than would a single plum the richness of a Christmas pudding , wc must nevertheless give the one plum , referring our readers to the book itself if thev would revel in the sweets of ihe entire feist .
JPmid advises Lis son as io his choice of a profession He reviews the church , the law , the healing art , the army , and the professions of labour ; all these he rejects : all these he advises his son against , and in Conclusion urges upon him to take « p THE PROFESSION OF " XOTHTXG . " Again , then , I say it , my son , be Nothing ! Look at the flourishing examples of Nothing about you ! Consider the men in this vast metropolis , whose faces shine with the very marrow of the land , and all fordoing and being Uotbing ! Then , what ease—what unconcern—what
perfect dignity in the profession ! Why , dull-brained , hornhanded labour , sweats and grows thin , and dies consumptive , whilst Jfothing gets a redder tinge upon its cheek , a thicker wattle to its chin , and a larger compass of abdomen . There are hundreds of the goodly profession Of Nothing , who have walked upon three-piled velvet from their nurses' arms to the grave : men , who in the most triumphant manner vindicate the ingenuity & f the human mind for enjoying and possessing every creature-comfort of existence ; not even a conjuror , nay , sometimes not even a police-magistrate , can discover how thev get it .
# * * Yon will , in your progress through life , be called upon to wonder at the discoveries of Galileo , who swore that the world moved round the sun—and then , or I mistake , that the sun moved round the world ; you will htar a great deal of Homer and Shakspeare , who shaped out worlds upon paper , and begot men and women with drops of ink : folks win talk to you upon the discovery of the circulation of the blood , and other gossip of the like sort , demanding your admiration , your homage , for what they will call the triumph of human genius . Fiddle-de-dee I What should yon care how the world moves , or whetherit more at all , so you move well in it ! As for Homer and Shakspeare , tlie first was a beggar , and for the secondfor the great magician , who , as people trill cant to you , has left immortal company for the spirit of man in its
weary journey through this briery world—has bequeathed scenes of immortal loveliness for the human fancy io delight in—founts of eternal truth for the Bps of man to drink , and drink , and for aye be renovated with every draught—he , this benefactor to the world , could not secure a comfortable roof from the affections andgratitude Of men , for the female descendant of his flesh , who withered from the world , almost an outcast and a pauper ! Now , the man who can Urea long and jovial life upon Kothing , has often ( by some strange wizard-craft ) the wherewithal to bequeath to his heirs . As for literature and science—tales of fairy-land , and the circulation of the blood—be it your care to make Nothing your Ariel ; and for your blood , heed not how it passes through your heart , so that as it flow , it be enriched with the brightest and strengthened with the best . Be a successful Nothing , mv son , and be blessed !
The Orphan; Oh, Memoirs Of Matilda. Breu...
THE ORPHAN ; oh , MEMOIRS of MATILDA . BrEuGKXESpE , PabtsII . jIIL , IV . j , V . London : T . C . Ifcwby , 12 , Mortimer-street , Cavendishsquare . This is another of the many popular works so tastefully " got up" by the enterprising publisher whose name stands at the head of this notice . The first part we noticed some time ago . In the parts before mis commenced and continued the e ^ toordinary narrative of the heroine , whose confessions form the subject matter of the work . We must decline giving Wi opinion on this famous novel until the whole is before us , beyond observing , that so far as the narrative has yet progressed itis sufficiently exciting and interesting . We had marked a lengthy extract for insertion which we are compelled to omit through want of space . The Orphan is published in monthly Shilling parts , tmOifiilly and beautlfidlv illustrated byRoBEBT Chcikshank .
Therese Dunoyer; Or, The Manor House Of ...
THERESE DUNOYER ; OR , THE MANOR HOUSE OF TREFF-HARTLOG . Bx Etoexe Sue . London : Cleave , Shoe-lane . Onr acquaintance with the works of Eugexe Sox is , as vet , too limited to warrant us expressing , nay , even forming an opinion on his merits as an author , and the tendency of his writings . Certainly we have risen from the perusal of his Therese with feelings of disappointment . The style of the author is fascinating in the extreme , and there are scattered through file volume passages of poetical beauty truly captivating ; yet , in spite of aU , we are shocked and pained at the conclusion the author brings us to . What good end he could have had in view in the production of such a work , we are at a loss to imagine . To us
it appears to be a work just fitted to make the superstitious , and the siekly-sentimentaL still more hopeless fools than they may already be . Of course we speak of the work as a whole : * there are passages suggestive of moral lessons equal to anything we have ever read . Let us particularly notice chapter xxL , entitled " The Attic . " In this chapter is described , in touching , nay , even sublime simplicity , the sufferings oftheindustrionspoor—and that accompanying " soul of goodness" which , animatingthousandsof theheroic children of Labour , jpronipts them to feel for the sufferings of others , inducing them to succour the ¦ wretched , at the expense , to themselves , ofa deprivation of the commonest necessaries . We would fain have given this chapter , but it is far too lengthy for
the space we have at command . Beautiful and good are many portions of this work , but what avails this , when the denouement , on which necessarily hangs the moral of the whole , is both frightful and unsaggestive ( so far as we can see ) of any good conclusion . But the denouement is of no negative character ; on the contrary , we are made to see positively , and p lainly enough , the triumph of Yillany , and the irretrievable ruin of virtue . We may be told that Et / Oese Stje paints his characters and depicts his scenes to the life ; and that the "poetic justice " awarded by authors to their ideal characters , good and bad , is at best but pleasing' fiction . It may be so . It may be , —we believe it really is so . — £ hat ike
world of life ig a- Very different world to that which poets and novelists dream of . We are conscious that in the werldof stern realities it is too often the j & W aad the Nicholas ' s , the virtuous and good , and not the Ralph JKcBehfg , the base and villanous , who Wl & e to a miserable end ; * it is not always so ,. but is so too often : yet no one would wish that Dtcseits fiad written his excellent work other than he has wm . We laney H is something more than mere national prejudice y ^^ makes us cling to the Engushrather thantheFrenchfictionist . ItBonly jusfiee to the pnWislier to say , that this edition is well got np . The illustrations are numer fus and good , and the print excellent . Its cheapness Kastomslung ; Hie work , complete , may be had , we beheve , for eighteen-pence .
The Gazette Of Variety: A Miscellany Of ...
THE GAZETTE OF VARIETY : A MISCELLANY OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AND AMUSING LITERATURE . Vox .. H .-London : Cleave , Shoe-lane . Our readers may remember that the first volume ot this publication received our unqualified approval , and we have now much pleasure in bearing testimony to the worth and value of its successor . The second volume is more than equal to the first . It contains nearly 500 lanre octavo pages filled with matter not only readable , but no inconsiderable portion of the choicest description . It may be necessary to add , that the Illustrated Family Journal , the first number of which wc noticed two or three weeks ago , is the successor of the Gazette of Variety , or rather a continuation of the Gazette , with new attractions ; and such attractions as are not to be met with in any similar publication .
The Edinburgh Tales-Part. Ii.—Cosducted ...
THE EDINBURGH TALES-Part . II . —Cosducted bx Mrs . Johnstone . Tait , Edinburgh . These delightful tales become more and more interesting . Of the three contained in this part wc confess to haying , as yet ( from want of time ) , read only the first—Governor Fox , with whose eccentrici ties we have been greatly amused . We know nothing we have read for a long time past , even the profess edly comic , so well calculated to " set the table in a roar , " as Mr . Richard Taylor ' s narrative of the strange doings of the intolerant , yet withal liberal , Governor . He is the very personification of old English prejudices , feelings , and , we will add , virtues ; and we can promise the " new generation " rare entertainment from an acquaintance with his vagaries . We give an extract ;—
We were now at the most ticklish time of the war near its tremendous close . The funds were tumbling down every day ; and in one of the few anxious days that preceded thebattleof Waterloo , I saw the Governor arrive very early from Kochester , on foot ! in a plight that I shall not easily forget . He came directly to my lodging . He had been on the road from midnight . On foot ! Ay , and why not f—Is it for beggars to ride a-horseback , sir ? Don't you see how those d—d stocks are
tumbling down . Let Master Pitt look up now , I bid him , to his Act of 1797—his paper rags . Not but that 1 could weather it for myself , if tlie trifle widow Walpole intrusted to my management , were once secured in hard gold . Thank God , I can handle a pickaxe , a spade , or a skull on the Thames yet * , but a widow , and a gentlewoman , cheated , or bubbled in trusting to Stephen Fox!—all she had scraped up for seven years , to give Ned his schooling , without being beholden to these Northamptonshire Sons , her husband ' s relations , who have neither conscience nor bowels . It is enough to drive a man mad .
You have not invested Mrs . Walpole ' s slender funds , I trust ? No J roared the Governor , save in those Wasted English funds : down one-fourth , Friday , down one-sixteenth , Saturday , down one-eighth , yesterday . The vitals are eaten out of old England by subsidies , loan-contractors , and Jew-jobbers . J have walked up to London , sir , with this hazel-stick in my band , and a couple of clean shirts , and my prayer-book , in this bundle , to begin the world again . Can your landlady let me have any dog-hole of a garret at 2 s . 6 d . a-week , or so . I can't promise more at first . I have written to Bamboo to take the lease of my DOS , which he always longed for , and Sam off my hands . An idle man has better chance ofa job about London , where there are so many coal-lighters , and so forth , than down yonder . G overnor Fox , you amaze me . ' Amazed to see an old man , a fool , aud a beggar ! ha ! ha 1 ha!—from having been a credulous idiot !
There was something terrific in his laugh ; but Governor Fox was too firm-spirited long to give way to this wild mood . Have I any claim to Chelsea , or Greenwich , think ye ? —My pipe is what 1 shall miss the most—no luxuries now . 1 hope the Lord will call mc home , however , before old age and frailty drive Stephen Fox on his parish , with all his cousins grinning at the Governor . In the mean time , can your landlady let me haven garret ! I must have my billet settled for the night , before I look about me . I can make my own bed , buy and cook my own victuals , wash my own shirt , and keep my place clean myself . You can answer to her , I suppose , that I am a man of sober , regular habits , who attend Church , arid pay my way as I go . —I can surely make my bread , were it but selling mackrel—what the deuce should I let down my heart for ? * * # But having secured my
billet for the night , I must be off to my broker . I have written to him by every post : —always down , down , doivn . Last night he rather advises selling . If I have one five guineas , ay , or five shillings , of reversion , after paying my just and lawful debts , by Jove , I'll hoard ! I'll lock ' em in my old sea-chest , which I bought when a boy at Halifax , for a a dollar and a half . It can now hold all my worldly goods—I must send it up cheap by the wagon . —But I must be off : the broker , that puppy Pantague , urges selling out to-day . Next mail will bring us down , perhaps , a whole per cent . —perhaps ten , or blow us out of the water altogether , —who can tell ? who can tell ? If I had taken Cobbctt ' s advice and warnings now , and laid up a few guineas % —Where is there a Cockney scribbler among them , with their Tines and their Chronicles , ever showed how fast this country is going to the devil , so satisfactorily and clearly as the old sergeant ? ~
I accompanied the Governor to his destination , though he assured mc there was no danger of leaving him alone . Your turtle-feeding Aldermen may go after their lost pluras , to feed the great fishes . I will neither drown like a blind puppy , nor hang myself like a nigger in the sulks . I can work , sir . There -was already an unusual buzz in the streets . I held the Governor fast by the arm , to detain him a few more minutes from his broker , # # # I held him the faster ; men , boys , women , were now all hurrying to and fro , or collecting in groups , with eager speech and animated looks , on every side ; carriages and horsemen hurried along , some east , some west . News certainly had arrived ; express came hot after express ; but no bulletin had yet been sent from Downing-street to the City . A dreadful defeat , it was whispered about , had been sustained by the Allies , —the ruin was total , —of Europe , and of Governor Fox . The morning papers were all doubt and mystery .
Let me off , man , —if I don't sell out to-day , I may hang myself at night , for I never can face Rochester . They'll be at twenty-five to-morrow . We shall have French Assignats for old English guineas , by Jupiter ! We had something like a struggle when he offered to break off , Remember , I protest : * # * Hark It was the roll of a distant gun : —another , and another . The Governor was a little deaf even then , on one side of the head ; but when the rejoicing boom rolled majestically up the river from the Tower guus , there was no longer doubt . The exulting shouts of the gathering
multitude—the outburst of all the bells in London , told the same tale : —a splendid , a decisive victory ! The newsmen blew their horns . " Three per cent , better already ! Hey , Governor ! " was my rising cry to the now stunned capitalist , —stunned but for five seconds . We went along and heard the first confused tidings of the Field of Waterloo , Eighteen or eight-and-twenty thousand human beings had there bitten the dust , —what an image is that homely one of mortal agony!—and London was in a frenzy of joy , and the funds up , I cannot tell how much , in one hour . What histories were that day in men ' s faces ! The Edinburgh Tales have our hearty recommenda tion .
Vacher's Parliamentary Companion. London...
VACHER'S PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION . London : Vacher and Sons , 29 , Parliament-street . This appears to be a very useful little work , containing correct lists of the House of Peers and House of Commons , the places the latter represent , the town residences of both , with other useful information . To ensure accuracy , the Companion is published monthlv .
Good! A Proposition On The National Debt...
GOOD ! A PROPOSITION ON THE NATIONAL DEBT—Br Luke James Haxsabj ) . Mr . Hansard ' s " good intentions" almost disarms criticism , still we shouldbegladif , for his own sake , he would surround his propositions with less of mysticism , as he would then have a far better chance of being understood than he now has . Here—so far as we can understand it—is his present scheme , viz .: — to create ia Government notes the sum of £ 372 , 920 ,-37319 s . 6 d ., in payment of the National Debt , and for the relief of the national burthens : these notes to pass as currency , and to be accepted by the people as the representative of the value of a national Government . This proposition has
appeared , in substance , a thousand times before ; and however " good" Mr . Hansard may consider it , those who know anything of the question of currency , know what the effect that such an amount of "money" (?) would have on all contracts , prices , and debts . The remedy would be worse than the disease . The National Debt must be "liquidated" in another and far different manner . Mr . Hansard's proposition is simply tub sposge , wrapped up in a heap of " Government notes . " Now , il wc are to use the sfoxoe , let us at all events do it openly . We have had bitter gibes and jeers for the "drab-coloured repudiates of Pennsylvania ; " but their practice was . honesty iiself compared with that of Mr . Hansard .
Tweddle's Yorkshire Miscellany And Engli...
TWEDDLE'S YORKSHIRE MISCELLANY AND ENGLISHMAN'S MAGAZINE . No . IU . London : Brittain , Paternoster-row . The first number of this magazine was noticed by us on its appearance ; the second number never reached us ; and the present number , which we should have received in January , only came to hand last week . There is some good readable matter in this number , including several poetical pieces of a fair average merit . From this qualified / praise we must , however , except a simple but pretty poem by that truly clever man Jons Cbtxchlbt Fbsscb ; a , production his well worthy of well-earned' popularity The poem is too longfor extract , otherwise we should have been tempted to transfer it to our columns .
Elthfflatlo!/.—One Thousand And Eighteen...
EltHfflATlo !/ . —One thousand and eighteen" emigrants , shipped by Messrs . Harnden and Co ., sailed from Liverpool for the United States , in the Governor Davies , Cambridge-, and Yorkshire , on the 13 fch , 16 th , and left inst .
A Bowl Of "Punch," Fresh Breweds I "Pani...
A BOWL OF " PUNCH , " FRESH BREWEDs i " PAnilES" I'OB THE GAIXOWS . NjvWSVENDER . — " Row , my man , what hit ?" Boy . — " I iionts a mllustratcd neivrpaper with a norrid murder and a likeness in it . " "When the miserable man Tawcll heard the deathshriek of his victim—when lie hurried from the cottage , leaving a corpse upon the floor— the iniquitous effect of his crime was , by no moans , wholly developed . He fled a murderer ; blood was upon his ' head ; and conscience , like a fiend , crying to him . But the evil—the enormous evil doiie to society—was not wholly accomplished . The traders ' in blood and horror—the butchers of the press , for truly they are sound to stimulate and feed the curiosity of society with pictorial illustrations of murder—and the world was to be familiarised with atrocity . And then camethc disgusting , degrading exhibition on the davs of trial .
A well-dressed mob , jostling and elbowing to look upon a murderer—to listen to the most sickening details of hypocrisy and crime—as a matter of agreeable and healthful excitement . The tears that trickled down the innocent nose" of Mr . Fitzroy Kelly when , wrestling with his swelling heart , he touched upon the domestic history of the prisoner , were to the audience much more delicious , more exciting too , than the emotion of any other actor—say the highest —at a play-house . Well , the murderer is convictccl-r is sentenced to be killed by the law . The law hangs the assassin as a punishment and an example : as an expiation of a wrong suffered by the dead—as a warnning to the living . Now ^ what a mournful , miserable blunder is this public killing of a man for the alleged purpose of teaching the sacredness of human life We subjoin an instance of the great moral good—by way of example—to be obtained from the punishment of death . The following is extracted from the Morning Post : ~
The exasperation of the inhabitants of Gra vesend , where the parents of the murdered Sarah Hart reside , is so great against Tawell , that parties have been already formed to go to Aylesbury to be present at his execution . How greatly must" the parties" be edified ! Will they visit Aylesbury , awe-stricken , to . be admonished by a terrible ceremony ? Why , no . The parties will be pleasure-parties . And for their exasperationtheir virtuous resentment—we have little doubt they will compound between that and a little agreeable excitement . The pleasure-vans of Hampton-court will , it is OUT belief , not contain more jovial merrymakers than the gallows-vans of Gravesend . In what a serious , teachable frame of mind will these pilgrims congregate before the gaol of Aylesbury ! By the way , it appears that tho worthy denizens of the town were about to be defrauded of one of their most valued immunities . We give the subjoined from the Times : —
In the town of Aylesbury , for ages pastj Friday has been the execution-day ; and great surprise , if not dissatisfaction , has been expressed by some of the inhabitants , because Tuesday had been named . The last man who was hanged at this town suffered for murder about eight years ago , prior to whieh no such penalty was paid for many years ; yet the townspeople say , " We always hang on Fridays , up there , facing the Town-hall , with a scaffold we keep on purpose . " Thus , when a hanging can be had , tho Aylesbury people will have it on a Friday ; even as , doubtless , they stickle for pancakes on Shrove-Tuesday .
Poor Sarah Hart ! Miserable victim ! Nevertheless , we question if her death by the hand of a murderer may be considered as so great a social injury as that inflicted by the execution of the assassin . On one hand we have a fellow-creature murdered—on the other a multitude brutalised . Tawell growing grey at Macquarrie Harbour , would do far less evil than Tawell hanging at Aylesbury .
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Field-Garden Operations, For The Week Co...
FIELD-GARDEN OPERATIONS , For the Week commencing Monday , April 1 st , 18 ti . [ Extracted from a Dour of Actual Operations on five small farms on the estates of Mrs . Davies Gilbert , near Eastbourne , in Sussex ; and on several model farms on the estates of the Earl of Dartmouth at Slaithwaite , in Yorkshire , published by Mr . Nowell , of Farnley Tyas , near Huddersfield , in order to guide other possessors of field gardens , by showing them what labours ought to be undertaken on their own lands . The farms selected as models are—First . Two school farms at Willingdon and Eastdean , of
five acres each , conducted by G . Cruttenden and John Harris . Second . Two private farms , of five or six acres : one worked by Jesse Piper , the other bv John Dumbrell—the former at Eastdean , the latter at Jevington—all of them within a few miles of Eastbourne . Third . An industrial school farm at Slaithwaite . Fourth . Several private model farms near the sameplace . Theconseeutive operations in these reports will enable the curious reader to compare the climate and agricultural value of tho south with the north of England . The Duav is aided by "Notesand Observations " from the pen of Mr . Nowell , calculated for the time and season , which we subjoin .
" Can you keep a pig f You will find a pig the best save-all that you can have about a garden ; and he will pay you well for his keep . " —TheBev . R . W . Kyles'Lecture . Note . —The school farms art cultivated by boys , who in return for three hours' teaching in the morning , give three hours of their labour in the afternoon for t & e roaster ' s benefit , which renders the schools sewsupportino . We believe that at Farnly Tyas sixseventht of the produce of the school farm will be attigned to the hoys , and one-seventh to the master , who will receive the usual school fees , help the boys to . cv . ltivate their , land , and teach them , in addition io reading , writing , die , to convert their produce into bacon , by atteivding to pig-keeping , which at Christmas may be divided , after paying rent and levy , amongst them in proportion to their services , and bemadethisindirectly to reach their parents in a way the most grateful to their feelings . ]
SUSSEX . Monday—Willingdon School . —Boys harrowing , and drilling ground for white carrots . Eastdean School Boys digging , sowing oats and tares mixed , carrying manure , planting potatoes . Piper . Assorting potatoes . Dumbrell . Digging , heifer carrving
manure . Tuesday— Willingdon School . Boys sowing white carrots . Eastdean School . Boys digging , clearing weeds and stones , and rolling for barley . Piper . Weeding wheat . Dumbrell . Digging , heifer carrying dung . Wednesday— Willingdon School . Boys harrowing , and rolling ground for Peruvian barley . Eastdean School . Boys carrying tank liquid to the mangel wurzel and carrot ground , weeding tares and wheat . Piper . Weeding wheat . Dumbrell . Digging , heifer carrying manure . Thursday— Willingdon School , Boys sowing Peruvian
barlev . Eastdean School . Boys digging for barley , planting potatoes , weeding tares and wheat . Piper . Hoeing wheat . Dumorell . Going a journey . Friday— Willingdon School . Holyday . Eastdean School . Holyday . Piper . At church on Good Friday , and says " he lias never seen a bad one yet . " Dumbrell . Good Friday . Saturday--Willingdon School . Boys rolling wheat . Eastdean School . Boys thrashing and clearing oats , chopping the straw , clearing out pails , piggery , and school room . Piper . Digging ground after turnips . Dumbrell . Harrowing peas , fallow , aud wheat , clearing away rubbish .
YORKSHIRE . Slaithwaite SeJtool . Eleven to thirteen boys occasionally at work , preparing ground for oats . James Bamford , sowing and harrowing oats , spreading manure , removing clay , sowing peas and beans , mixed together , for soiling cattle , C , Varlcy , digging for oats , mixing cow and privy manure together . John Bamford , forking up , beating the soil fine , picking the coueh grass roots . COW-FEEDING . Willingdon School , Cows fed on white turnips and clover hay . Dumbrell's . Cows stall-fed with turnips , mangel wurzel , and straw . One cow and heifer fed with turnips , carrots , and straw .
The Farmers finding their Tosgues . —At the Wingerworth Farmers' Club the other week a Mr . Brotaerton , in proposing the toast "Success to Agriculture , " thus delivered himself amid the hearty plaudits of hie brother farmers : — " Of the advantages of conibiningtheory with practice in the cultivation of the laud , few persons now-a-days will have the hardihood to dispute . But , great as the advantages to be derived from the application of science to the art of farming may be , unless preceded by other considerations , they must , to you , as tenant farmers , be comparatively useless . I am . aware that in most of the fanners' clubs which have been establisbcd . in different nails of the conntrv . great anxiety has been
evinced by certain parties to exclude the discussion of what they call " obnoxious subjects , " such as rents , leases , and game . ( Cheers . ) I think it perfectly right that these things should be discussed . These are times when farmers must speak out , not only about guano aud drilling , but about land agents , land valuers , and game preservers—and indeed it would be no compliment to a landlord to suppose that he would wish you to keep silence upon those topics Avhich affect the privileges and just rights of your occupation , and more especially upon . those grievances which it may be in his power to alleviate or remove ; for if it be desirable to discuss the expediency of the introduction of a new " drag" npon
the land , surely it is equally desirable to discuss the propriety of taking an old one off it , and one too which is much more obnoxious than ' even the new one isboneficial . ( Cheers . ) If it be desirable to introduce a new praser © nthe . land , is . it not e qually ao to remove those older pressers which operate upon the farmers ' pockets rather than oh bis land ? . The first of these obstacles to improvement ' upon which I shall offer an observation is the tenure ofland , and upon this subject I will quote the opinion of one who is much better entitled to your consideration' than any unsupported opinion of mine onsucbi a subject could possibly be—I mean Mr . Low , " the Professor of Agriculture in the "University of Edinburgh , who , in a work just published , " Qn Landed Proper ly a " the Economy of Estate ;* . " savs . "Not even the ac «
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• cumulation of capital , to the degree of stocking the tarms . ot the country , will avail for giving to agriculture the means of successful cultivation and improve ment , the owner of this capital must have tlie means ot employing it with advantage , bv security 01 possession , by the privileges required for the proper management of his business , and by that fair and ement exaction upon his industry , which will enable him to employ his capital with a profit . " Now , gentlemen , is not this perfectly true ( hear , hear ) ? And yet there are not a few landowners who seem to think that it tenant-farmers can pay their rents and just rub along , they have no right to expect more . Tell a landlord—of course there are exceptions , but the exceptions prove the rule-that particular tenant
any is making a profit , and he will immediately think , and not unfrequently act upon the thought , that the farm has been let for too little rent . Now let us see what has been the effect of these notions amongst the landowners of England . Upon this point Mr Low says : —In the finest parts of England funds have been progressively accumulating for stocking the farms to a degree unknown in any other country m h-urope ; but the essential conditions having been too often wanting , of security of possession , and a beneficial connexion between the landlord and the tenants , agriculture has remained comparatively fixed , wbde every other branch of industry has been advancing . " Compare this stationary state of agriculture with the progress of other branches of British
industry . Mr . Low says : —" The manufacturer of cotton , of wool , of iron , has tho assurance that the machine which he constructs and improves for the purposes of his trade is his own , and that the more uerlect he can render it the more profitable will the use of it become to him . The farmer who lays out capital on the great machine on which his all depends —the earth which be tills—has often no such assurance . It IS the property of another , who In the end will profit by all the improvements which the skill of a temporary possessor can make upon it . The manufacturer receives directly the profit of his stock in trade ; the fanner must share those profits with another , who undergoes no part of the labour and risk ; his industry is fettered by conditions imposed
upon no other class of traders ; and the inconvenience of obtaining returns for a present expenditure more slowly than in any other profession are frequently aggravated by the uncertainty whether he will ever have the power of recovering the capital advanced . " We hoar % great deal about " mutual confidence , " "tenures , " "tenantrights , " and so forth . Listen again to Mr . Low : — "The only fitting security for a man who has capital to employ in the cultivation and improvement ofland is a written covenant , subsisting for a definite and adequate period . Tenancy at will , it must be apparent , so much extended over the richest parts of England , is in no degree an adequatesubstitute for tholease . insuringtothe tenant jus ri ght of possession for a determined period . Habit ,
indeed , may reconcue the tenantry of a country to such a specics . of tenure , and a kind of confidence may arise that a tenant will not be capriciously dispossessed , nor an unfair advantage taken of his expenditure : but this confidence , however great , is not to be compared , as the means of inducing men to expend capital on land , with that sense of security and independence which is the soul of industry and exertion . It is impossible to divest the tenant-at-will of the knowledge that every improvement which he makes upon his farm gives it a higher value to another , and adds to the means of raising the rent against himself . " —Who can doubt the truth or the justice of these remarks ? We now come to the subject of rents ; and upon this point the Professor observes : — " The tenant who
takes land , and the landlord who lets it ; should so adjust the vent , that the tenant shall be able to bear the pressure of deficient crops , or of low prices arising from favourable ones ; and no prudent man ought to contract for a rent which will not allow him to meet that coutuigency of Ms trade which arises from a fluctuation in the amount and price of his commodities * * * . The landlord who would secure a prosperous tenantry , and improve his estate , must not trust to his per centage or bounty on an audit day , but must place his tenants in the condition which will enable them to fulfil the obligations under which they engage in virtue of a fair and well-considered covenant . " These remarks have evident reference to corn-rents , and upon this subject just allow
me to state the relative positions in whieh English and Scottish farmers are placed to each other ; the Englishman paying a fixed money rent , the Scotchman a corn-rent . We will take a farm of 200 acres at 25 s . an acre , money price , which , farmed upon the five-course system , will , I suppose , have about 40 acres of wheat in each year . Adopting the general notion that wheat must pay the rent , then it will require at least two-thirds of the wheat crop upon the forty acres to satisfy the landlord for the rent of the whole farm . Let us now see how a corn-rent will bear upon landlords and tenants . The English landlord asks , as I have before supposed , 25 s . an acre for his 200 acres , and the English tenant accepts the offer . The Scotch farmer , on the other hand , bargains
with his landlord to give him four bushels of wheat , or half a quarter of an acre . Now , supposing that these bargains are entered into . with wheat at 50 s . a quarter , as long as this price continues , all parties , both Scotch and English , stand upon the same footing , paying 25 s . an acre vent . But let us suppose that wheat falls to 40 s ., how will matters be then ? Why , the English farmer will continue to ' pay 25 s . an acre , whilst the Scotch farmer pays 20 s . —a difference , be it observed , of £ 50 upon the 200 acres or of 25 s . an acre on the 40 acres growing zvheat , ' Ten shillings a quarter is , however , by no means the limit of the fluctuation to which the farmer is liable . In 1835 the average price of wheat for the whole year was under 40 s . a quarter . At that time the tenantry of England held their farms at a rent calculated upon the understanding that wheat was to sell for 60 s . at least , which price it was believed the Act of 1828 would secure . We all know the distress which then
overtook the English farmers , as proved before the committee of 1836 . But we also know that the Scotch farmers , paying corn-rents , who were examined before that committee , gave a very different account of their condition : ana one of the most intelligent farmers in the county of Haddingtonshire has since stated that he cleared more money from his farm in 1835 than iu any year siuce . ( Hear , hear . ) And the difference in the state of things in England and Scotland was caused by the difference in the terms of renting ; for whilst the Scotch farmer paid £ 400 to his landlord , the Englishman paid £ 600 . In fact the English farmer is now paying three times as much rent for his land as his grandfather paid about ft ) years ago , whilst his wheat is actually selling under the price of that period . ( Cheers . ) Now , gentlemen , these are facts which demand very serious reflection ab your hands , and I think these farmers' clubs may be made very useful instruments in leading to a right understanding both upon these and "various other topics in which your interests are concerned .
English Sheep . —It is worthy of remark how steadily the sheep of England have increased , both in number and weight , as the breed has beenimproved , and the mode of supplying them with food better understood . In 1608 , Mr . Gregory King calculated that there were in Great Britain 12 , 0 Q 0 , 000 sheep ; in 1741 , the number increased to 16 , 040 , 000 ; in ltfi , according to Arthur Young , the number was 25 , 589 , 754 ; in 1820 , Mr . Lucock estimated them to be 26 , 148 , 403 ; in 1834 , Mr . M'Culloch stated them to be 32 000 000 , and tho value of their wool « £ ? , 000 , 000 ;
and not onl y have they during this period thus nearly trebled in number , but they have at the same time nearly doubled their average weight . In 1710 , according to Mr . Davenaut , the average weight of black cattle was only 3701 b ., of calves 50 lb „ of sheep and lambs 48 lb ., butit'is now calculated by Mr . Youatt that the average dead weight of the cattle sold at Smithfield is 656 lb ., of calves 1441 b ., and of sheep and lambs 90 lb . ( "Youatt on Cattle , " p . 257 . ) In 1732 the number of sheep and lambs sold at Smithfield was 514 , 700 ; these had increased to 1 , 647 , 316 in 1835 and 1854320 in 1813 . .. . tt
, ,, ^ _ ,. Warming Cottages . —The last subject to which I shall advert is a simple method practiced in the north of France for warming cottages . In that part of France the chimneys and fire-places arc usually placed in' the walls which separate the apartments ; this is done with a design of heating the adjoining room , and is effected in a cheap and easy manner . In tho wall which . separates the kitchen and the room , a square opening is cut before the fire-place ; the wall on each side is sloped outwards into the room to cast the heat about the room from a square piece of cast iron which is well fastened in the
opening with , mortar , to prevent the smoke from entering .. From the great temperature that the plate acquires , a stream of warm air is continually passing off from it into the apartment . In many cases a , wooden press is placed before the iron plate , with folding doors , which serves as a warm closet to dry or air clothes , and also to prevent more warm air than is requisite . By this simple contrivance a small cottage , consisting of two apartments , is kept comfortable at the expense of ono fire : furniture is preserved from damps , beds aired , and clothes dried , when the same could not be done out of doors . — Fawners' Gaxetle . .
Tussac Grass . —The Marquis of Downshire communicated the following result of Mr . Blacker ' s attempt to introduce the cultivation of the Tussae grass into Ireland : —I think it will be interesting to your lordship , and perhaps to others interested in such matters , to know that I have succeeded , in getting about' eighteen , or twenty plaits of the Tussac grass from a very small quantity of : the seedigiven me , by . the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland . One might perhaps , be deceived ; ih regard to the plaintj as itg appearanci'is not known ; but ; haying given a'few seeds'to different gardeners ,
and the ' Bamfe ' pknt having made . its appearance in each case ; I , think ; , it may confidently be . considered tO / haye bMnrproduced from the seed . '' I am not botanist en' 6 ; ughVto ' : describe it ' accuratelf i 'b'iit it seems to "m 6 ' , to' ' 'diviaii ' 'in'the stent something like the grass commonly : called . Spritt ; but . when . the leaves part , ; they seem inclined to grow-long , narrow , arid pointed ; in some degreeresembling ' the ' leaves ' of a pink , but ' in mihiatureffor ' none of the plants are above an inch high . Having only ventured , a few seeds , at the , late season I . sowed them , I am in hopes to hare great success with the remainder .
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Graham ' s' Parliamentary Mistake . —Sir James Graham has brought one good bill into the Housenamely , the bill to abolish the payment of fees to clerks of the peace and magistrates' clerks . This bill i » the one white spot in Graham ' s official life ! and , like one white hair in a black cat , spoi ' s what would otherwise be all of one colour . —Punch . Foundation of the Long Debates . —On ascertaining the foundation of Parliament , gome " skeletons with very long jaws" were found . How strange that the members of that and the present period should have been distinguished by the very same feature!—Ibid . IsffALUBLK Test . —As there is a quantity of bad money about , we cannot caution our readers too much against the risk of tendering any suspicious coin . The best way to try its value is to offer it to thcXord Mayor , and if is returned to you , you may be sure it is bad . —Ibid .
The IffirocEiTCE of Making Monet . —A night or two since , Peel quoted with admiration the axiom of Dr . Johnson , that " very few men are more innocently employed than in the accumulation of property . " Struck by the profound beauty of this truth , we understand that several tradesmen are about to have it written in letters of gold above their doors . Among those about to adopt it we have heard the names of Moses and Son , Morrison and Co ., and several distinguished keepers of marine stores . —Ibid . Fanct Portraits of Messrs . Plbmptee and Spooker . —The following little burst of bigotry occurred the other night in Parliament on the part of two worthies , named respectively Spooner and Plumptre . Their names are singularly appropriate : Spooner
meaning something- more tnaa spoon , while the Plumptre produces fruit of a very common and stony description . The following were substantially the terms in which these two curiosities of the " collective wisdom" debated the question of Sunday railway travelling :--Mr . Plumptre referred to the practice of excursion trips on Sundays . Hundreds and thousands of persons were frequently carried into towns and suburbs on the Sabbath , to an extent which , in a Christian country , it was fearful to contemplate . Mr . Spooner earnestly concurred , and expressed his pious horror at such a " desecration of the Sabbath . " Mr . Plumptre added that it was quite horrid . He had sometimes , as he wasriding by in his carnage , seen several people walking about on Sunday , breathing the country air , who must have
come down by the railway . He ( Mr . Plumptre ) really shuddered at the impiety . —Mr . Spooner fully concurred . It was tlie " pleasure trains" he particularly objected to . Business trains might be necessary , for pecuniary interests might be at stake ; but pleasure-trains , for a parcel of people who only had recourse to them for relaxation , were an abomination , which in a commercial—he begged pardon , he meant to say a Christian—country we ought not to tolerate . —Colonel Sibthorp said , that if they stopped railways they ought to stop omnibuses on Sunday . —An Honourable Member asked the gallant Colonel whether he would also stop all the clocks on the Sabbath ?—Messrs , Plumptre and Spooner having turned up their eyes and held up their hands in an attitude of horror , the subject dropped without any attention being paid to their recommendations . —Ibid %
Aid for ike Light-fingered . —A curious mechanical Mnd is daily exhibited at the Polytechnic . Its extraordinary powers have , wo understand , excited the admiration , among other lady visitors , of Mrs . Tyrwhitt and Miss Osborne . The curiously felicitous movement of the fingers insetting an article elicited a thrill of applause from the coterie . The Anti-Railroad Mania . —Sibthorp says that there is no truth in the fad (?) that there is such a thing as a civil engineer . They are aU tho greatest vagabonds , he declares , that the whole world can produce .
TARIFF ITE 3 I 8 . - " Take the duty off lard ? Take the duty off grease . ? If you do 'twill be hard—Our rents will decrease !" Sir Robert , however , with nonchalance whistled , While the hair of the " farmers' friends" awfuUy bristled ! " Leader" not a Leader . —What are the Westminster constituency about ! The deputation concerning improvements in that city , which went up , the other day , to the Premier , was headed by Captain Rous . The old Lmater was not in the body at all .
SAYINGS AND DOINGS . A flat discrepancy we note Between tho Premier's speech and vote , The " Health of Towns' Bill" he commends , And owns that , to effect its ends , Each house should have free light aud air in't ; But , notwithstanding this , he don ' t Take off the window-t & x—and won't ; Isn't Joseph Surface here transparent . ' Simple— -very simple Diet . —Mr . Currie , the homoeopathic doctor , whose successful treatment of his patient with aquapura is recorded in the report ofa late coroner's inquest on the body , has since had an audience with Sir James Graham at the Homeoffice , when an interesting conversation took place . Sir James Graham asked the learned doctor whether it was really true that he had kept his patient several days on cold water ; and being assured that it was
the fact , and that tho system was capable of general application , the right honourable gentleman immediately gave him an important office in the Poor Law Commission . Sir James Graham observed that it had hitherto been the system of Poor Law Guar , dians to throw cold water externally upon applicants for relief ; but that to use so economical a fluid internally , as the staple of nutriment , was a happy thought worthy of this inventive age . —Great Gvn . A Royal File . —As many persons , more particularly those from the country , have set their wits to work to guess the use of the long spike which protrudes skyward from the centre of the bald pate of the Duke of York's statue , they are hereby informed that it has been considerately placed there ( not as a lightning conductor , as generally supposed ) for the creditors of his highness to file their bills upon . — Ibid .
AsTOMSnriSO " Coolness . —During the recent terrific conflagration near Greenwich , some firemen were actually observed seated in the midst of the blazing manufactory coolly mending their hose . Very like Fact . —The testy lodger at Mrs . Tomkins's says that the baby downstairs is a cryi ' no- nuisance . A Rational Inquiry . —The House of Commons has now for some days resolved itself into a committee of " "Ways and Means ; " but everybody is asking what it means by its ways . Wc should say that many of its members' means ought to place them above some of their strange ways . . How xo get a . Watch . —First policeman to second . " What ! been in the force three months , and haven't got a watch ?"—Second policeman to first : " I haven't been on night duty yet . "
The Galvanic Ring . —That lover of science , Lord Brougham , has , like a good judge , g iven a fair trial to the galvanic ring , and has ( the guinea feeing paid ) certified to the effect that the rapid twitching . of his nasal organ has much abated since he w ore one therein . —Bill Sykes states that his hand was so much swollen from exposure to the weather that he could not get it into a moderate-sized gentleman's pocket , but since he has worn the ring he has been enabled to insinuate it into a lady's reticule . He does not , however , attribute this to any virtue the ring may possess , or any sympathy between the ring and himself , but thinks the effect may be accounted for—although he cannot account for the possession of the ring—by attributing the abatement of the
swelling to the fact of the ring not haying been paid for ; the prigging of a piece ot beef , he assures ns , gets rid of waits and hunger , and he does not see why a swelling may not be got rid of by the application of a stolen ring . —A celebrated staymaker at the "West-end is about to take advantage of the principles evolved in the galvanic ring , and stays are forthwith to be lined with copper and zinc , with , for safety sake , a brass tag to the lace as a conductor . —Sheets of copper and zinc miwf be shortly introduced as bed furniture , or this new scientific cure for all diseases will have been treated but as a half dose for poor suffering credulity . Why not likewise provide for the inner man 1 Ostriches have now their galvanised iron , why not man his galvanised sandwich ?—Great Gun .
IIUME-OLOOY ; OR , PARLIAMENTARY EcONOMT . — -We have been favoured with the following account of the intention of the member for Montrose to move for the subjoined returns : —1 . A return of all the cats , both toms and otherwise , includingtheir kittens , and what number to each cat , doing duty or being kept at the various Government offices , with a view of ascertaining the quantity of cheeie-parings and skim-milk consumed by that class of stateemployes . 2 . A return of the number of minutes per night of Parliament sitting that each member ( with the exception of himself ) m in his senses , and of how many speeches ( if anv ) are made during that same period . 3 , A return of himself for Montrose , at any and every new election , whether any other candidate be or be not better Qualified . fThis is a leetle touch ofthehon . members
Scotehmodesty . ] 4 . A return of allmembcrs to their mpGctwj homca ( as many , at least , as have any ) during the Easter recess , with a view that the country in general may be permitted a little recreation after reading the late dull and heavy debates . 5 .: A return of all the Pennsylvanian bondholders who have been paid their dividends , to ascertain whether * those remaining unpaid stand inany proportiottito the unpaid Greek bondholders of formerdays ,,, Llms return to be made without pwy udico . H ( TO - * ; thev uut loffwood in port wine . Is that wnat ayes ) 5 JS !? lSr "Nonsensc my son , gotobed ' Tni'Ki &^ An itinerant blind and teetotal fiddler , whose = wife also is a tectotaUer , having his twenty-second child presented to him by the midwife , the other day , exclaimed with dolorous facetiousness , " Wiat'the ' i ^« a gain ! how often must I take it ?"
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Seimbn ' s Wuongs . — " he Merchant Seamen ' s Fund —The following memorial to the Board of Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations , adopted bv the Ship-masters , Mates , and Seamen of the Port of Glasgow , in public meeting' assembled , has been forwarded to us for publication : — That your memorialists have peruscu th e report ot the select committee en the Merchant , . bs .-uncn ' s Fund , and while they acknowledge the desire evinced by the members of that committee to pay every attention to their claims , and those of their brethren ot the united kingdom , yet that committee , as the memorialists humbly conceive , have omitted some important matters , tho adoption of which has been very generally insisted on in petitions and . memorials from the principal ports of the united kingdom : and your
memorialists are fully persuaded that the omission of the said claims will have a direct tendency to diminish the satisfaction felt for the concession ot other claims , and leave a door open for complaints W future . Your memorialists beg leave to make thfl following suggestions- . —That whereas a number ot the native-born seamen of these realms take service in colonial vessels , thereby forfeiting their claims on the Merchant Seamen ' s Fund , the memorialists suggest that all moneys paid by , or appropriated to , the rcliet of seamen abroad , be consolidated and made common with the general fund iu the mother country ; and if no such fund exists in the said dependencies , the seamen so serving shall be entitled to relief from the home fund , provided always that tho seaman contribute his montldy payments regularly to the Merchant
Seamen ' s Fund ; the neglect of such payment to involve the forfeiture of whatever he may have contributed to it at a previous period . And that , whereas a number of native-born seamen of these realms take service under a foreign flag , your memorialists would suggest that the same privileges should be granted to such seamen as to those sailing under a British flagSj provided always that such countries are at peace with Great Britain , and that such service is strictly confined to the mercantile marine of said countries . That your memorialists respectfully submit , that when the Act 4 th and 5 th William IV . was enforced , a great number of old seamen were obliged to contribute for a longer or shorter period to the Merchant Seamen ' s Fund , who , in the course of nature , could not contribute for a sufficient time to enable them to
rate as full members . For this hardship no remedy Was applied by the aforesaid Act ; nor does the fifteenth clause of the report of the select committee meet this difficulty ; and your memorialists pray that your honourable board do reconsider the said clause , and make such amendment thereon that aged seamen or their widows shall receive such pension and gratuity as they may in j ustice he entitled to . That your memorialists respectfully submit , that in case of seamen serving in her Majesty ' s navy , or ( in the event of hostilities ) in private ships of war , the chances of accident are immeasurably extended , and bear no comparison with the casualities common to service in the mercantile marine . With a view , therefore , of keeping the Merchant Seamen's Fund exonerated from the responsibility in the event of hostilities , the
memorialists pray that , in any clause relating to service , in public or private ships of war , it be distinctly provided that the widows of those lulled or drowned in the services aforesaid , or such persons as by casualty are disabled in such services aforesaid , shall in no caso receive relief from a Fund applicable only to seamen serving in a peaceable occupation . That a gratuity be awarded to the wives of such seamen as may be captured in the merchant seamen ' s service . That your memorialists respectfully submit , that a majority of Riggers , Rope , and Sail Makers , ke ., who have been at sea long enough to entitle them to be full members , and to receive benefit from the Merchant Seamen ' s Fund , in the event of accident , would gladly continue the payments of their montldy duties while employed on shore , if the Act would
allow them . Your memorialists arc cognisant of the fact , that many neglected seamen , who from mfirmity were unable to continue at sea , have forfeited their claims upon the Fund , in consequence of working on shore in one or other of these capacities . The memorialists humbly suggest , that a certificate be granted to every seaman , at the time he pays his money , on the principle that has been already laid before the select committee on the 26 th day of June last , by one of our body ; and tlie memorialists are also of opinion , that that part of the report by the select committee , which proposes to exclude all widows under the age of forty-five from participation in the benefits of the Fund , is unfair as regards the parties concerned ; inasmuch as the widow of forty-five has generally a a family so far advanced towards maturity , that they
are able to give their mother very efficient assistance ; whereas , in the case of the widow of thirty years , more or less they are very often encumbered with a young family , the ' eareof which presses severely on the young mother ; preventing her , through sickness and other , causes , from making those efforts for her own and her children's maintenance which she might do under more favourable circumstances . The memorialists are further of opinion , that all widows , and children of ship-masters and seamen , who have paid seven full years to the Merchant Seamen ' s Fund , should be supported by that fund , no matter by what death , violent or natural , their husbands or fathers may have died . Taking this view of the above-mentioned clause , the memorialists pray that it may be reconsidered , and reconstructed in such a manner as may
secure to the young widow with a family some participation in " the benefits derived by the fund . Your memorialists observe , that , in the report of the select committee nothing is said regarding the seamen having a voice in the election of their trustees . The complaints against this irresponsible body were general , and have been alluded to in all the petitions and memorials presented to your honourable board , and to the honourable the House of Commons , on the subject of the Merchant Seamen ' s Fund . Your memorialists acknowledge with gratitude the liberality of the select committee , in recommending to her Majesty ' s Government to free the Merchant Seamen ' s Fund from the enormous expenses entailed on it by its present mismanagement ; yet your memorialists would most respectfully submit , that much
abuse may be perpetrated under the new Act , if the ship-owners who contribute nothing are permitted to recommend to her Majesty ' s collectors whom they please as proper objects for pensions or gratuities ; while the seamen , who contribute three-fourths , are refused a voice . Your memorialists therefore humbly pray your honourable board , that the power ot election bo vested solely in the ship-masters , and such seamen as may , by their payments , rank as full members , viz ., such as have contributed for seven years to the fund . Also , that an account of the general income and expenditure , and of the particulars of income and expenditure in each port , be furnished annually . — And your memorialists will ever pray .-AncHD . M'Intosh , Mastei-Marincr , Chairman ; J . S . Fildks , Secretary .
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BANKRUPTS . ( From Tuesday ' s Gazette , March 251 ft , 1845 . ^ John Chrisp , Great Tower-street , wine-broker—William Ilodges , lung ' s Head-yard , Duke-street , Bloomsbury—Samuel May , Myddleton-street , Clerkenwell , watch-manufacturer—Thomas Overeud , Walcot-square , maltster—Wuliam Elworthy Jarman , Exeter , confectioner—Charles Mai ' tyn , Durham , linfen-di ' aper—James Jones , Chester , fellmonger—Matthew Coffee , Liverpool , victualler—John Biky , Liverpool , merchant— "William Lcdiard , Wellington , Shropshire , coach-proprietor—Benjamin Robinson , Bur . ton-upon-Trent , draper . DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS . G . Newton , Seaham Harbour , Durham , hosier , first and final dividend of 3 s lOd in the pound , any Saturday , at the office of Mr . Baker , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . T . Worsley , Stockporlj Cheshire , hosier , final dividend of Is Ojd in the pound , any Tuesday , at the office of Mr . HobsonManchester . •
, J . V Davis , Bromley , Kent , innkeeper , first and final dividend of l | d in the pound , any Wednesday , at the ofiice of Mv . Follett , Sambroolucourt . Basin « haU-stveet . V . Hart , Cambridge , perfumer , fint dividend of 8 d in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . FoUett , Samhrook-eburt ; Basinghall-street . T . Rohinson , LtadenhaU-street , taUow-merchant , third dividend of | d in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . FoUett , Sambrook-court , Basinghall-street . DIVIDEND * . April 18 , 1 . J . B . Isaac , T « psham , Devonshire , shipowner —April 16 , J . Norbury , Macclesfield , Cheshire , innkeeper —April 15 , H . P . Watkins and J , limes , Manchester , lead * merchants—April 15 , A . Wyse , N . Baker , and W . S . Bentall , Newton Abbott , Devonshire , bankers—April 15 , U . Allinson , Whitehaven , ironmonger . Certificates to be grinted , unless cause be shown to the conteatv oa the day of meeting .
April 17 , J . W . Robson and J . Barrow , St . Ann ' s-place , Liniehouse , patent pump-manufacturers—April 17 , C . Sneezum , Wynyatt-street , Clerkenwell , licensed victualler —April 18 , V . Chandler , Minories , chemist—April . 14 , Kj Allinson , Whitehaven , Cumberland ,, ironmonger—April 17 J . Whitlow , Manchester , laceman .
PARTNBBSHIPS DISSOLVED . - J . Newman and J . It . Watt , Watliug-strcet , Git }' , stationers-R . and R . Walker , Blue Pitts , Lancashire , cotton . sninners-P . Blyth , A . Hamilton , -and W . irv . ^ . -ss , Little Britain , feather-dressers ; as far as regards W . Hughes—IT Reyiier and IV . Clegg , Oldham , Lancashire , cottouspinners-E . Ginger and H , Tisdall , Bedford , dyers—B . Aspland and s . Collins , Brownlow-street , Holborn , printers—J . Sims and J . Hyett , Frainilodo , Gloucestershire , barge-owners—T . Otter and T . Oldman , Gainsborough , Lincolnshire , attorneys—W . B . Morgan and J . r . Bond , Angel-court , Throgmorton-street ,.. City , . stocfc brokers-W ., G ., and T . C . Edtuett , Maidstone , wooUeu . drapers ; as far as . regards W . Edmett—J " , and B .-Luun and R . G . Cunningham , Stalcybridgo , Cheshire , smiths ; as far as regards R . G . Cunningham-J . ' Bnce and J . Burton ; Exeter , coach-proprietors— J . Clarke ; ana » . Bovce . Peer-lane , Great Tower-stroet , City ,
wme-coppew—J . ind . N .. Wright ,. Morpeth , Northumberland , » ron-mer . ohants-i-W . Clark , W . Anderson , and J . J . Humble / Mick . lev-., Colliery ,, Northumberland , coal-owners ; aa far as regard * VT *^ J . Huinble-S . BUis and'M . Noton , Salford , lanbashire ; fronfoiinders—J . Mellor , . iun ;< aud J ... Green , ' -Mytholm ' Bridge , -Yorkshire , scribbling-mulers—D . SU' vanus and A . Shore , High-street , Whitecb & pel , drapers—T . iinndi'E . Wright , Brighton , muslcrsellers—J . and F , ¦ Alexander , Chippenham , Wiltshire , grocers—T . Arden and T ; Fannin , Liverpool ,. salt-proprietors—W . Hood and O . Y . Bidoiit , Holborn-hill , City , rectifiers—W ; Evans and G , Liberty , Piccadilly , linen-drapers—O . Masonvand J „ Holt , Manchester , paper hanging-manufacturers—Gi JenkiuSOU , S . Hughes , and T . TUlotson , Bradford , Yorkshire , livery stable-keepers—C . J . and H . V . East and W . Landon , SackviUe-street , PiccadiUy , drapers—J . Craven , G . Craven , jun „ and J . Hardman , Wakefield , ' Yortahire , djers—P .. L . Lee , W , Haigh , and Co ,, Woniack , teedj , Stock * 1 brokers .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 29, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_29031845/page/3/
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