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^ KKS £ i ? Lmrs FAREWELL TO HIS WIPP ANHOTJE PREYIOTJBTO mSEXECuS . PaMwelL fareweftmydear good wife , to tb . ee t ^ iSPr " % 5 ^ " * neart «« w . Kor that I must die ; but , Oh Vlove , thatwe _ - _ _ .- " Must meet no more . Death had no terror , and my lieart forgot , ^^^^ - ^^^ --thou dost livein ine--¦ Eager to he just , it moved , andreckoned not ^ ¦ ¦ .. ; The loss of thee , cut tears avail not now , we ne ' er sTiall meet , One utfle hour wiU see us far apart ; & o , let . the grief-dew , glist'ning on this sheet , Speak ; for my heart , ^ y ^ eart is fir too fall , and bound about mthtoo strong sorrow , to findveut iawfe . -Though soft nnaghnnga struggle to be out lake prisoned birds . Aslremember all that thou hast been .
TVhen mine own heart was in its palmy days . Blooming on my bosom , like a flower unseen , " But felt always . But . I forbear ;; why should Idisentomb The sleepmg happiness that marked the past 1 Wiiy harrow up my heart to re-illume "What cannot last ? Allttesewefelt—all these we feel no more : ^ Oar honied partnership is broken up , -tad . fate hath filled , unto the running o ' er , Abittereup . And I would drink it , too , without regret ; Would the too human portion of my soul , looking heavenward , once for all forget
The love it stole . A few words more—and then , no more but death llj darling little ones I leave with thee ; Teach them to shield mynameirom slander ' s breath , i Their sire dies free 1 Give Bans this ring , it bears his father ' s seal , He need not fear to use it ; o ' er the earth Good men shall honour it , and he shall feel Pride in his birth . This watch I leave to Richard—let him know That it was by me at my dying hour ; This diamond stud to Ida , with its glow like a young flower . Heave this chain to Alfred—let it be The _ only chain his freeborn neck shall bear TeU him his father died , his spirit free
As mountain air . And now , my wife—my own , my faithful wife— - The ring of our betrothal—here it is—Upon it , lor thy constancy through life , I press one kiss . Hiss thou it off , and , when we meet above , Thou'lt give it back , with many moretotell ; Once more , adieu , my first , my only love—They come—Fabbwelx . I Annfield Pottery , Glasgow . "Wm . Lyle
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THE DEMOCRATIC ItEYIEW OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY , AND LITERATURE Edited by G . Julian Habney . - No . 2 , " July . London ; 5 , T ^ ine Office-court , Fleet-street . The articles in this number of the Democratic Meview are numerous and -varied all , however , breathe one tone , that of stern hatred of oppression , and an enthusiastic devotion to the holy canseof Justice . FolloudngtheEditor ' s Letter to "the "Working Classes , Mr . Alfred "Waxtok contributes another admirable QBlStle "To the Trades of Great Britain and
Ireland . " The Letter from , the Paris Correspondent ofthe Review , on the "Present Poetical Aspect , and Prospects of France , " contains some striking revelations of the -wonderfcl progress of Democratic Socialism , and Industrial Emancipation , in Paris , and the principal cities of France . A second letter from " Terrigenous" forcibly asserts , and maintains , the original commonality of Land . An elaborate "Political and Historical Review " ofthe principal occurrences of the month of
June , includes reflections on Mr . Hume ' s motion for Parliamentary Reform , and the princnp 4 debates in"bofiinouses ; also on the popular movements , both political and social , abroad and at home . The infernal conspiracy © fine j & rench rakrs against Democracy ; the atrocious bombardment of Rome 5 the struggles ofthe German Democrats ; fhe War in Hungary , & c ., & c ., are amongst the subjects reviewed in this article . From an ably-writ ten paper , bearing the signature of " One of ' The Men of the Future ! , ' " we select Hie
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5 I 05 AHCHT . The only pretence for a Monarchy that approaches feasibility , is the similarity of that form of government to the patriarchal , or family system , which existed in the infancy of society—such , for instance , as that of Abraham , Lot , & c—and it is argued that this family system has been transmitted from age to age , until it has reached our era . . Allowing this , which is the most favourable position in which the monarchial system can be placed , let us examine the grounds on which its chums rest . Society , like individuals , has its non-age , and the superior organisation of man enables him to preserve the experience ofthe preceding generation . Thusthe youth of twenty is capable of
, attaining a general knowledge of the . acquirements of his progenitors ; and the varied knowledge thus accumulated from generation to generation , leads to results that would exceed the belief of our ancestors . "What would the simple and unsophisticated peop le who lived in the time of Alfred the Great , think ofmodern railways and steam-boats ? So doubt if such applications of mechanical power had been projected in their day , the projectors would have been deemed iusane . It is clear that as the experience of society leads to improvements not conceived possiblein its earlier stages of existence , that the same rule should hold good m ail arrangements that concern the welfare ofthe people . That there was a time when the inmankind
experience or hrutality of required a strin ^ cBc , or despotic form of government , might he disputed , but if admitted , the continued existence of such institutions under totally different circumstances , permits of no defence . "What should we think of a body of men who would now propose the abolition of steamboats , railways , canals , and macadamised roads , and a return to mountain tracks and pack horses ? And what should wedo if the same parties insisted on carrying their propositions into practice ? However preposterous such ideas , they would be less so than the demoniac efforts now making by the Continental despots to stay the march of governmental improvement , and turn back the tide of popular progress .
But even the pretence that Monarchy is a type of the patriarchal system , cannot be sustained . A natriarch , or head of a family , u 1 supposed . to m-Kst himself in the welfare of the , ' iriobi family This is not the case in our modern Monarchies , hut notoriously thereverse , the mass of the people being coerced and plundered as serfs , and outlaws , and the fruits Of their industry wasted in not and extravagances by the rulingf few . But this is rat the darkest phase hi which to view the evil results of irresponsible governments . It is not mereljrtne ¦ Wealth which they absorb to themselves without rendering an equivalent to society , . tot-fonMiae heaviest charge against them . It is the obstructive tiower which thevuossess and use to stay the
onward march of social progress , and the development " of the vast wealth-which exists in an uncultivated soil , and in the ' sinews ' of the unemployed people , the power / which , keeps the masses in a state of semibarbarism , ignorance ,, and poverty , at the same time that there areabundant means at hand to feed , clothe , and educate theni , and elevate them to . their proper Twsitioh in . the social scale-thc power by which they have seized on the means of existence * the land , arid on all that appertains thereto ,, thus leaving the people . houseless , landless , paupers , on their native soiL . \ . " .. . ' VA " Of course this is not the sole -work , pi the monarchs , or crowned heads , yet it is perpetrated Under the cloak of Monarchy , for kings cannot imst without hosts of satellites , who profit by their
- proximity to the throne / and vow . everlasting and u : disinterested loyalty to the monarch . They are r " loyalwluTst they fatten on the spoil of the people , ? $ but become the veriest rebels whetf they are de-? r ^ l ^ Sred free access to the national ^ esh-pot . The UH ^ ruth of thishas been recently exemplified m Canada , Ulirhere the loyalists , vpar . excellence , pel ^ her ^^ acious Majesty ' s rBepresentaUve- the Earl of ^ plg iri , withmudandrotteneggs , fordeprivmgthem ^^ f , what they considered , then- Iawfulprey . Uy ffi ^ fce-by , this specimen of Canadian loyalty wui DC TOfbund afair sample of the sack , as their loyalty hoth | ^ n England and elsewhere may be ! measured by the HRamount of plunder which they may extract from the fPPneopIe , ¦ under the protection of royalty . -
P The " league Of kings" may for a whife steinthe g . * torrenti bruVthe ^ necessities of f numanityi and- na-Kvtuie ' s inexorable demands , will still go on accumur ' latin * until everv vestige ofthe life-destroying and ^' hrataHsingpowel- of iyrants is extinguished for ever . = The handwriting is on the wall , what pity that the ? blinduess and ol'Stinacy of rulers exclude irom their
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counsels the Uaniels who can interpret it On their IT ^ fu rCStS tne ; f « P ° ^ mty . ; As ' thev sow , so shall they reap . It is to + e regretted that thev stulchng so tenaciously to the worn out relics o " f the past , and by opposing their stubborn wUl to the njtelhgence of the people cause so much blood 1 o 5 ~; ftwJ ? ^ ° ? Slt ! oa is f « t " e ; : the people areno longer subservient and iinreasonmg slaVes . of 1 S ;^ i ; S ? y- Atonal tract , pamphlet , or fe ? ft *^ f *^ of Democracy ^ ^* ad . optional steppmg-stdtie by which'the people wiU oltimately reach the goal of freedom , P ¦ The " Manifesto of the Red Republicans of viennany Js a starin g and eloquently written document We give the fbllewing extracts : —
THB PBOLETABIAS EEVOLUIIOS . ., The timehas arrived for the decided , the out-andpntreTOliitionaiy democrkts to . thj-ow their irords and thevr acts into tiie sea \ e ¥ ot history . The cowardly , and dirty work of the / counter-revolution rs terminated , and we are at the commencement of an entirely new , a whole revolution . The liberties wrung from _ the governments in February and March , of which theoour ^ eou , more especially the t » erman bourgeois , is fond of boasting , are now happily entirely destroyed . The caricature ; of a constitutional Monarchy , that abortion . of a halfrevelution . has been obliged to give way to the aVsolutishi that precededihe days of March . The
treason of Ifovara makes Italy share the fate of Germany . The Only people thatstiJl unfold the hanner of revolution , are the Magyars . They are the connecting link between the old and the new re- ^ volution , and will render possible the new victorious rising of the people in neighbouring Poland , in Germany , and even in Italy ; The stream iof revolution has nib from West to East , and is on the point p f rushing back in a strong-tide to -its home . If , in its course round the world , it ; again touches the West , it will not be left , like the first time , with a passing greeting and a secret " shudder , but men wul lay a fast hold on it , and sink it into the deepest layers ofthe popular mass , to stir up there * from a new state and a new humanity ..
Our party date the European Revolution not from February , but from June . " The battle of June is the birthday of the Red—of our Republic . This later more terrible struggle , threw that of February into the shade . The revolution of February effected a momentary change in the form of the government , and the persons composing the Executive ;; but the insurrection of June aimed at a transformation of the social system itself . The revolution of February was sure of success , as it contented itself with removing the first stone that obstructed its path ; the insurrection of June could not . ensure success at the onset , as it declared war against the present infamous state of " society . In the revolution of February all parties " coalesced against one , that of the dynasty of Julyjv in the battle of June , one party , ; that . of tie Socialist : Democrats , fought against all the others . The battle of Jane is a sure
pledge ot liberty . Its greatest result is , however , mcontesfably the conviction that we cannot obtain one inch of ground for the realisation of our views and plans by the slow and quiet path of reforms ; that we have enemies opposed to us , who regard all means available to put down our party , and against whom we must consequently employ , all means , without pause or weakness ; that we cannot realise the principles of our party until the present condition of society is completely uprooted and destroyed . The battle of June has split humanity into two great camps , between which neither reconciliation nor indifference can exist ; and for this reason it is the commencement of our revoIution- ^ -of the revolution of the' Proletarians . "We shall always stand in opposition to all so-called Peinocrats who cannot determine to draw the last consequences from this revolution .
All parties now agree that the insurrection in Hungary is not a national movement , hut a European revolution . Magyars , Germans , Frenchmen , Italians , fight the war of extermination against the united absolutism ofthe eastern powers . This struggle has procured an army for the revolution which will seek battle-fields and" laurels in every land of Europe . The Hungarians' war has proved that one man on the side ofthe revolution is worth ten hirelings in the pay of Absolutism . The Hungarians have taken the initiative in the great worldwide war which the dying spasnis of Absolutism have called forth . They have relieved France of its post in the history of the world . Russians and Magyars will meet in deadly conflict for the possession of Tienna . The result of the struggle wiU decide the future fate of Germany . It is therefore imperious that it should be the battle-cry of the German revolution .
Following the above is a copy ofthe speech of Akmahd Baebes , on the occasion of his trial for an alleged attempt to overthrow the French Constituent Assembly oh the-15 th of May , 1848 j delivered in , the . ] presence of his Judges of the High Court at Bourges ; DOW first published in the English language . Critical notices of several new works conclude the contents of this-number of the Democratic Review . ; ; ^ ;
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Mackenzie ' s Educational Wouks . 'Manor ' s Spelling Book , Part I ., with all the cuts . Manor ' s Spelling Booi , complete . London : 5 , Wme-office Court , Fleet-street . These arc other two of the remarkable series of cheap School BooTcs which wc noticed a few weolcs ago . They show the advancing spirit of the age has at last reached this important branch of social happiness . "What the ' FamiVy Herald , Reynolds ' s Miscellany , send other similar works , were to weekly : entei * taining reading , so these are to school hookstwice the excellence , twice the- quantity , at
less than a sixth of the usual price . Battledores , hom-hooks , penny , twopenny , threepenny , and sixpenny primers are rendered contemptible , in comparison with these hooks now before us . The first part contains ample spelling lessons from one syllable to seven . . The reading lessons arc plentiful , and admirably progressive ; besides the little stories there , are " Lessons on Natural History , " " Select Fables , " "Industry and Indolence contrasted , a tale by Dr . Percival , ^ and "Moral and Practical Observations , " to be committed to memory . In fact , seventy-one pages of good , plain , clear printing , in a stiff wrapper , for the
same amount as our untrading clergycharge for a peep into that , " house of God" called St . Paul ' s Cathedral . The ' comtlete book—in addition to what we have noticed—has Dr . Eraxkles ' s Advice to Young Tradesmen ; PHILLIPS ' S Golden Rules ; ' Scripture , Eomau , and Grecian names , accented j r Words of the same sound , but different signification ; Introduction to the Arts and Sciences Outlines of Geography ; Chronology : The Universe , Select Toetry , Rules . for ; Spelling , ' Grammar , Bules for Reading ,. Spechnens of Writing , Efehch and Latin . Phrases , } . Arithmetical
Tables '; the . Chui-cn , Watts'Sj and PHILLIPS ' Social Briton ' s Catechisms ; list of the British Itfbnarchs , " and Prayers for all occasions . This ^ work , now sold regularly by the ^ Booksellers at eig hteenpence , is here , in llAGKENziE ' s series , charged less than a fourth of that price . We db ' not know how this is managed , butiflJe " fact ; isbeforeom ' eyesV , ^ hen a pevSon sacrifices personal interest , aridbfeaksthrough an old expensive track f to Jwxfa ^ Ks ^ llqw-: ihen , he deserves support , and ve . feel confi . dent success ' wili attend these cheap : and excel lent School ^ Books . : ?; . t - ;¦;
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THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . BT THOitAS MARTIN TTHEEIER , Late Secretary to the National Charter Association and Rational Land ( Company * CUAPIER XIII . I heard as all have heard life ' s various story , And in no careless heart thin scribed the tale ; But , from the sneers of men who had grown hoary : In shame and scorn , from groans of crowds made . pale By famine , from a mother ' s desolate wail O ' er her polluted child , from innocent blood Poured on the earth , and brows anxious and pale With the heart ' s warfare , did I gather food To feed my many thoughts ; a tameless multitude .
Shelley . .. Julia , Arthur , Mrs . Elhinson , and air . Burke were tie usual occupants of the mess-room when the weather was not sufficiently calm to be on deck . Mr . Weeks and the purser were generally 1 on deck with the captain . Mr . Burke was a tall , sallowlooking man , remarkable onlyfor his . devotion to the table and his careful superintendence of the " ship ' s cook—he seldom spoke except at table , and then only relative to the good or ill-qualities ofthe viands ; after dinner he returned to the cabin , to sleep away the' time until the next mealiwas . an-. nounced . Mrs . Elkinsonlwas likewise accustomed to an afternoon siesta : so that . Julia and Arthur were generally left alone during the time-between
ine ainner and tea bells . It was during these intervals that Arthur confided to Julia the minute particulars of his history ; the dreamings of his boyhood—the reveries of his apprentice years—his struggles with poverty in the metropolis—his entrance into political hfe ^ -the exciting scones that Occurred in Birmingham—his unjust accusationhis flight , and the awful details of the shipwreck ; these events , told in . " the eloquent and' impassioned manner which Arthur could so well employ , were sweet but strange music to her . ears—like Desdemona , she loved him for . the . dangershehadpast , ' and he loved her that she 'did ' pity . him . In her eyes he became a hero of romance , ' and' ; longed to know the principles of Chartism and the motives of
its persecutors ; her heart truly informed her that the first were good and noble , or Arthur would not have adopted them , and the yindictiveness and injustice or the latter were then apparent . In forcible language did Arthur depict to her the wrongs endured by the people through unjust legislation , and the simple but complete means of remedy propounded by the Charter . , " look around , ' . ' said he , at the close of one of their conversations , " on the myriads of our fellowbeings who yearly perish from hunger ; or diseases brought on by hunger , whilst the boards of pampered idlers groan vjith , the weight of every excess . View the dymg thousands vrho Feel that their lives might be prolonged by a few drops of those
generous liquors which are maddening and destroying thelivesof their possessors . See the thousands of honest artisans through whose ragged garments every winter's wind pierces like a dart , while yon sleek _ trades are well clothed in the raiment the others have created . Observe yon group . of haggard females , compelled to desert their infant offspring , and sacrifice the joys of maternity at the shrine of tho Factory Moloch . Glance ' at ' that crowd of women-men , inverting the order of Nature , and performing a mothers duties—nay , look not steadily at them , or their wan faces will blush with shame and anger . Trace tho career of those deserted babes—see their stunted frames bending beneath their protracted labour , and their infant
blood poured forth like water , that our mulownera and manufacturers may become refined and luxurious . Gaze upon the white hairs of those ancient labourers , the venerable of the land , who after producing more wealth than would have kept themselves and their families in affluence—cheated of the result of their labour—are compelled to enter that hell upon earth a Uniou "Workhouse , or turned adrift on life ' s dreary common , to starve and die . " Julia shuddered at these harrowing pictures , hub alas ! their truth could not be gainsayed . " Does not such a state of society , " continued Arthur , " need a change—a state where honest Industry starves , whilst bloated Idleness pants from excess—where Virtue and Patriotism hide their
heads in hovels which shake beneath the carriage wheels of the sycophant and the sensualist—where millions are yearly wrung from the life ' s blood of the poor , that cormorant bishops and pampered parsons may preach the doctrine , that the rich man cannot enter into Heaven , and that passive obedience is the grand injunction of God ? A state where ermined judges and silk-gowned counsellors sit in state to distribute the mockery of justice to him whom their laws have rendered criminal , and where more money is yearly extracted from the marrow of her sons , for the detection and punishment of crime , than would , if properly applied , for ever banish crime from the land . Yes , Lady Baldwin , it is for teaching these truths that I am rendered a fugitive from justice , an exile from my native land . " , ""Vet , " said Julia , " surely it is but the designing few who support these monstrosities—the maw-.
rity of the upper . classes need only to have . them pointed out to take steps for their removal ? " "Ah ! Lady Baldwin ; your charity leads you to judge them too favourably .- Wrapped up in the mantle of their own selfishness , they heed not the destiny of those beneath them—they tread on a slumbering volcano , the lava of desolation surrounds them , hue they have grown accustomed to the scene , and walk in fancied security . Providence , they say , has destined the many to poverty and labour , and it is useless for them to repine , and with this blasphemy on their lips they dismiss the subject , and proceed with their routine of existence—pleasure without enjoyment , revelry without mirth ; If , perchance , one of their order should inr terest himself in so vulgar a subject , he is dubbed an eccentric or a monomaniac , and his presence is shunned as a bore . " -
" But the middle class , " said Julia , " surely thej should aid the working men in so noble a struggle —their interests are similar ?" " No ^ dear lady , their interests arc not similar ; they are as distinct as the positive and negative poles of an electric battery ; they apparently belong to the same body , they are influenced by the same causes ,-but the effects on each are widely differentthe interest of the working ' man is to sell his labour at the most profitable rate ; the interest pf the other is to reduce it down to starvation point : the one is benefitted by the whole of his order being well employed and well paid ; the object of the other is , by the introduction of machinery , and the encouragement of pauper immigration to tho large
towns , to cause a redundancy of labour in the market , that he may work upon the fears of the sensitive and the Weak , and purchase their labour at his own price . Prior to the passing of the Reform Bill , there was one sole point of similarity in their interests—both were equally disenfranchised : but when , by aid of the energy of tho working- men , they achieved that measure , the chain of the labour slave was rivetted still firmer ; the employer was politically free , but the brand-mark was still deeper engraved on the brow of the employed ; the ladder by which the middle class had risen was thrown down as useless , and they had ever since endeavoured , by every means in their power , to ally themselves to the upper class , and to buildup a
wall of separation between them and the working men . Selfishness is their ruling , principle , —gold , the idol of theh- worship ; to this divinity all must bow and bend . The shopkeepers and small tradesmen alone have a common interest with the working men , but they ,. too , are either so immersed in . the hard struggle for bread that they heed not the sure method of obtaining it through good and cheap govcttimebt , or so lamentably ignorant that they -sell their birthright for a mess of potage . " . Juliarephcd not , tut sighed deeply , her visions of the brightness of human nature were fleeting fast away , out centred still more firmly in the one , to her mind ; perfect specimen before her , ' Arthur continued * . " No , fair lady , redemption for the working classes must spring from themselves alone ; long experience has shown in every instance
the credulity of depending upon others ; and even among working men there are grades of aristocracy , who look down with contempt upon their equally useful , brethren , who earn a few shillings less per week than themselves . v Thus does-the principle of aristocracy penetrate even into the heart of demoi cracy , " robbing it " of vitality and strength , and causing the day of its deliverance to be afar off , for , of all enemies ; the most deadly are those within our own ranks . But perhaps , " . said . Arthur , mournfully , ¦ ' it is a portion of our . destiny that by sorrow , suffering , and persecutiori / agaih and again renewed , can " we alone ' be fitted * for the enjoyment of calm ahdpbaceful liberty . " " ' . ? ' " ' V . / , V' v ; ' ¦ ' ¦ There was something in-the tone and manner , of Arthur that went to the heart of Julia , —she answered not , but thought of her own , bitter lot , and that for-her there was no ultimatum of enjoyment .:
With 1 such ' Conversations ; as . these did they wile away the tedium of the voyage . Julia drunk in the words of Arthur asfrom ' a fount of inspiration . ^ -his sentiments became her sentiments , —his feelings her feelings , —and oh !; how grateful to Providence would-she have been i £ his lot , though . oneVbf poverty and danger , could have been shared by her also . Wealth and titles , what . gaudy , trappings-ye are •^ how" brilliant , but" how unsatisfactory ! ' Your , votaries rush' through'every' danger—dare every disgrace—spare neither age / nor sex , friend nor foe
to clasp themselves myour embraces , and when success has crowned their exertions ; they find too late that your folds are venomous , and your embraces . en gender satietyand disease . Poor Julia ! she sought not wealth riortitlesj—a victim to family ambition , she musV pay the penalty / . of others' vices . ' Poor players on tturgreat stage of humanity- ; we strut and fume away through our allotted parts , and vainly imagine that we are free agents and could apt otherwise than necessity has determined for us . An atom Strugg ling against a universe—a feather
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against the wind that wafts it—yet have we seen the . feather , coquette-like , fluttering between contending breezes , as if choosing its own coursepleasant delusion , flattering to our vanity , but fatal to our happiness . Julia North , or rather Lady Baldwin , thinks that she could give up wealth and title to reside in a cottage with the chosen of her heart—that her destiny is in her ; own hands—that she has to choose between love : on the one hand , virtue and matronly pride on the other . Poor moth fluttering around the light , thy destiny is irrevocably fixed , thy mingled yarn is nearly spun , the sister fates will spare ye hot . ¦ '••¦( To he continued . )
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, -- .. '"«* P ^^— - THE DEFECTIONS OF THE LONDON PRESS . ( Fromihe People ' s Advocate and New South-Wales : \ Vindicator . ) i ..- ~ . It is now nearly forty years since the iwo greai poets , Byron and Moore , visited the editor 0 ? the Examiner , when suffering incarceration . for , the political independence of that journal . The Siory op Rimini , was conceived and executed , we believe , by Leigh Hunt ; in'Surrey gaol . Our desire is to direct the attention of our readers for a moment to the Examiner ' s' course from that landmark in its history . ' ^ — ' Persecution assailed it , but the Examiner was steady in its political faith . The storm passed , and the gallant ship , with its freight of mental life and activity , proceeded onward , still proudly breasting the waves of corruption and power . For forty
years tho Emnmer has been " seen by Europe in the vanward of liberty—an ardent and effective promoter ofthe " good old cause . " A clear and commanding intellect has been displayed'in its advocacy of popular rights , winning ^ for it a " stirry place " in the fourth estate , while its steady adherence to truth has secured to it the public regard and confidence ; But alas , its present conductor has stooped to the patronising hand of government ! - ^ the Examiner can no longer be . reckoned in the service of those who are struggling to he free . The pride of man's mind is too great to allow it unhesitatingly to acknowledge a master—to stand up " at once the unblushing apologist for the ~ powers that be ; but the evil leaven is at work ; its late articles show , though as yet but faintly , the pervasion of
the moral poison . We could ev . cn bear with the truth-distorting , villany-breathing , blood-jocose , liberty-vituperating articles of the Times , if we had not to bear with the defections of those veteran journals whose names are grown , as it were , household synonynies of justice and freedom . We remember O'Connell ' s red nomenclature of the Times , and we remember tlie raw-head-and-bleody-bones that glared upon our childhood from out the stories of the old nurse , and we prepare ourselves to . encounter all maimer of dazzling monstrosities ^ We know its pestilential nature and we" walk through its atmosphere with tho plague-preventer at our bosoms . Looking at the London press , it is impossible to : suppress pur fears for the public good , and our apprehension of public , evil . The jaundiced views taken of the late tremendous events in France—the kaleidoscopic pictures of those fearful and
all-important occurrences presented to the world—the tortuous misrepresentation of what the French had rendered clear and plain , and the ungenerous and untruth-loving interpretations of the mystical there and dimly seen—all these things have a portentousncss in their hazy aspect , which must cause deep anxiety to the well-wishers of British journalism . Nor to us , the colonists of New . South Wales , is this anxiety the least groundless ; our caterers for English news pounce on all the worst portions of the unseemly patchwork ; every bad product of perverted zeal and talent seems to be relished astonishingly by our local journalists . They think , perhaps , that their popguns will be the more formidable for having some smell ofthe powder and shot from the cannon of the Times . In this they are not wise in theirgbneration ; the people of this young country , with all their apathy and " intellectual barrenness " ( as the Herald calls it ) arc attest for truth ,
Poisosous Nature Of Efflvtijl Prom The D...
Poisosous Nature of Efflvtijl prom the Dead . —Mr ; Mackinnon , M . P ., at a meeting respecting burials in towns , stated tke following fact : — " A lady having died , her body was placed in a coffin , upon which was nailed a . plate , describing her virtues , age , and station in life . The nails fastening this plate wore ,, unfortunately , so long , that they passed through the wood and lead of the coffin , which caused the effluvia of the body to escape , and the gas proved of so noxious a nature that tour of the deceased ' s daughters , who inhaled it while pining over the coffin , died within a fortnight afterwards . Workhouse Tesi . —The number of vagrants relieved during the six months ending March , 1849 , in tho workhouse of Sunderlandwas 582 . at a cost
, of £ 0 9 s . Id . The number relieved during the previous" six months , ending September , 1843 , by the relieving officers , out ofthe workhouse , but nearly all in Bishopwearmouth , was 5 , 206 , at a cost of upwards of £ 120 . Tlve difference arose from the plan now adopted in giving relief to vagrants , which is this : —When vagrants apply for relief at the workhouse ( where alone it can be given ) , they are taken to the bath-room , made to strip , and have their clothes examined . After receiving a cold bath , they are furnished with a clean night-gown and a bed . . In the morning they are made to rise before six , and in the first place ,, are reconducted to the bath-room to dress . -The males are then employed two hours breaking stories , and the females an equal time picking oakum : after which' they are
supplied with a breakfast , and are then seen- out ofthe town by . one of the porters . It is rarely that a second application is made by them . Numbers of the applicants have even refused to receive the relief administered in this way , and have left the premises muttering curses loud and deep against all who have participated in establishing such a test of pauperism as a bath . The mere saving , however , in the amount of relief secured by the change is very trifling compared with the cost these vagrants otherwise entailed to the union , from their not un « frequently being taken ill at the "lodging houses " where ' they were temporarily located , themselves and families , in . such cases , becoming chargeable for months , and in many instances permanently , owing to the difficulty experienced in ascertaining their settlements .
Lusus Nature—Wo have to record alusus nature , of which , in modern times , the Sicilian twins Ritta-Christina and tho Siamese brothers were the most memorable instances . At Ecrncghem , a village three leagues from the toyrn of Bruges , forming nearly the central point between Bruges , Thourout , andOstehd , were born , oh the 28 th ultimo , two children of the female sex compactly united to eacli other . The two bodies join at the sides ; the ligature union beginning a little below the right breast ofthe one and the left breast of the oilier , and continuing as far as the navel , so that the children do not look each other in the face , but are turned
one towards the other in an oblique position . Their heads , aims , thighsj and legs are perfectly free , and they have the proper use of . all theiv limbs , and their position is such as to permit ; their mother to nurse both at the same time without difficulty . The curate of the parish baptised theni the day of their birth in the names of Mario and Sophie . The parents are poor servants , working and residing in a small farm held by an old bachelor . The husband's name is Tanghe ; his wifcj aged about thirtyeight years , -has four children . This birth has made some considerable noise in the neighbourhood , and tho curious already begin to besiege the farmhouse where it took place . ' ' ¦' ¦¦•¦¦
A Notorious Buboiah , named Phillips , confined at Charlestown , Massachusetts , revealed to the warden . and marshal the hiding-place of a rich booty on the banks of the river , and they , took him to the ' spot ' ma cab . The three dug deeply into the earth by turns , ' until they had made a large pit ; and Phillips then tumbled the warden in upon the marshal , and made bis escape » Tub Marble Anon at Buciuxgham iPalace . — Preparations have commenced for the removal of this celebrated arch , which will be re-erectcd at the principal entrance to the Home Park at - Windsor Castle . ' > :.- - . . ' . ¦¦¦ ' ¦¦ . '• , :.- ' ¦
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The late Mr . Youatt , in one of his orations to the members" of the Veterinary College , observes— " that by the im . proveinents in modern chcmisU-y , the medical profession are enabled successfully to-treat diseases which , were previously supposed as" ' within the" reach ' of medicine ;" This truth hasten ' manifested for many-years , 'but in no instance of greater importance to mankind than . by the discovery of Blairfs Gout and Rheumatic Pills . Corn ' s and Bosions . — " Paul ' s Every Man ' s Friend ; " for the : cure of . Coras . ' : and Bunions ; has : been so" long before thepublic-rso highly approved of ,, that it is scarcely necessary to ' say anything in its praise / ' We can say : that . where ' the directions have- been -properly . ' atteiided to , we have never known it to fail giving relief , and hi most cases lias proved a complete cure , without any ofthe painfid and dangerous operations of cutting and filing so generally made USD of by . Corn Doctors , who style themselves J'Chiropodists , " ' ., v '; V "" . ' : " ' •' = •¦>' . ' " ' '' ' ' . ' "' - , " '¦ ¦ > ' ¦ ¦¦ ^\ ; _ . ; . ' Ifow To ' cujffiBr HottoivAf ' s Pitts a Dbobdebed state op . the Bowels . —Thousands of lives might ,. be ' saved by adopting the following means : —To eschew the use of fruit ,
vegetablesj ' pash'y , eggs / thefat of nieat ,-sauces , wine , beer , and spirits , . and . to avoid committing any excess . To cleanse well the stomach , liver , and bowels , and purify . the blood ' of all impurities , " which mil be effected by taking five or six bf- 'Hollovray ' s gills night and morning foriifteen days , and then for some little time two or three doses a week . Thus the liighes ' t " state ' , " of health will be obtained , and even cholera prevented ; - The same precautions should be taken in cases of ordinary . bowel complaints . - * ' : i .. : ' - . ( .. AYorth a ,. Guinea . —Mr . Thomas E ' eathcrstone , ' the respected Secretary . of ; the Sheffield Temperance Society , having suffered severely from tooth-ache , was cured by the use of Braiide ' s Enamel , upon which , ' he wrote to . tho proprietor to the * following effect : —' 'I , would have given a guinea for such " a curc ' -as ' tliis '" -And there are thousands now enduring torture , who , if they knew the advantages really 'derivable"from the" us ' o . of this preparation would buy . ' agdinea ' s ' worthfor a ' shilling , ' aiid-put aneud to their sufterings . " Thev are , however , many impositions afoot , tnatpeoplereluctantlvplace confidence , whore it may justly be bestowed . i i ' ¦ i I
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Tub Magpie ' _ a"v . o the Parso . v .. —I have been half tempted to believe that the magpie first suggested to tyrants , the first idea of . having a tithe-Satin " clergy .: The magpie devours the corn and grain " so does the parson . The magpie takes the wool from sheep ' s back ; so does the parson . The magpie devours alike the yountj animate and the eggs ; so does the . parson . The magpies clack is everlastingly going ' ; so is the parson ' s ., The magpie repeats by rote wordsthataretaughtit ; sodoesiheparson . Themag pie is always skipping and hopping , and peeping into other nests ; so is tho parson . The magpie's colour is partly black and white ; so is the . parson ' s . Tho greediness , impudeuce , and cruelty of magpies are proverbial ; so are those of the parson . I was saying the other day to a farmer , that , if the boroughmongers had a mind to ruin America they would another time , send over five or sis good large flocks of magpies , instead of five or six of their armies . — William Cobbett . " ' '
The Atken < eum shows how our postmen put a girdle round about the earth : " The letters now po . ated in Great Britain exceed 330 , 000 , 000 annually , a number which , taking the average length as five inches , if laid ' ehd to end , would reach 26 , 040 miles , a distance greater than tho circumference of tho earth . " Names . —Christian names , as well as Surnames , are often exposed to most ludicrous corruptions . A good stoiy , m point , is told by "the Doctor . " "A gentleman , called Anketil Gray , had occasion for the certificate of his baptism : it was known at what church he had been baptised , but on searching the register there , no such name could be ; found ; some mistake was presumedthereforenot in the
, , entry , but m the recollection ofthe parties , and many other registers were examined without success . At length the first register was again referred to , and then upon a closer investigation ; they found him entered as Miss Ann Kettle Grey ! ..-:.. Mb . Hudson's Testimonial . —For this testimonial under £ 16 , 000 were subscribed . This was paid into the York Union Banking Company , to be presented by the Committee for the testimonial to Mr . Hudson , but the honourable gentleman thinking " delay ' s are dangerous , " took the money out , and applied it to the purchase of Albert-gate House , which is reported to be now for sale . —ffcrapath ' s Journal . Suggested Legislation fob America . —The
enactment of no laws either by Congress or State Legislatures , which shall grant special privileges : The greatest good to tho greatest number should be the object of all Legislative Action . The acknowledgment of the Natural Rights of alt , regardless of Colour or Clime . A Free Elective Franchise—Free Schools and a FREE SOIL . Direct Taxation for the incidental expenses of Government . The reduction of the salaries of public officers , where too high , and a mora economical Administration of Government . —More protection to Labour and . less to capital . —Land Limitation . —Homestead Exemption —and the reduction of the hours of Labour in establishments chartered by Law .
The Medical Times recommends a " student clause "to the medical bill : — " Be it enacted—that no student shall Along the streets at midnight with a pal Swagger , cigar in mouth , on mischief bent , On pain of being styled a rakish gent . " In society , as actually organised , each is false to all , and all are false to each ; but the source of the universal falsehood is > that every ono is false to himself—is false to his individuality as an individual . Earnest Men are never offended that others who differ from them the widest in opinion should be earnest ; but they are offended that the earnestness of others should treat their earnestness as folly and guilt . The Principal Evil . —Some , however , of the
most honest and fearless of the Radicals have shown the institution of private property in the . soil to bo what it really is , namely , an evil of the first magnitude , and one the abolition of which must be an early fruit of the political enfranchisement of the people . —S . Bower , A Scriptural Sqad . —The imposition of baptismal names has frequently been influenced by some whim of the parents . At Charlton , county Kent ,: three female children , produced at one birth , received the names of Faith , Hope , and Charity . A peasant , residing in a village on the South Downs , in Sussex , once presented an infant at the font , and desired the officiating minister . to give him the name of
Acts . the clergyman , puzzled at the suggestion of so strange a name , inquired how it was spefii , and whence it had been selected . The honest man replied that it was a Scripture name , and as his four former children bore the names of Matthew , Mark , Luke , and John , he should like to have this one christened "Acts ! " The intention was , however , overruled , and a more regular appellation conferred . Unfortunately for the poor child , the circumstance was not forgotten in his after life ; and as he had two younger brothers , named , respectively , Richard and Thomas , the roguish urchins of the village used to annoy the whole family by the following rigmarole : —
" Matthew , Mark , Luke , and John , Acts 6 'Postles , Dick , and Tom !" There might be some hope of our amendment if we would but confess our faults ; as a man must be awake that tells his dream . —Seneca . Luther used to sat— " In the name of God begins all mischief . " All must be fathered upon God . Force Justified . —If a robber invade my house , or a murderer attack my family ,, shall I hot use force against him ? If in my own defence I am compelled to slay him , is not this a righteous act ? Is the evil less , when the , robber calleth himself a legislator—when tho assassin is a minister ? Shall the one be "justifiable homicide , " and the other be branued as " rebellion ?"
woman ' s Temper . —No trait of character is more valuable in a female . than the possession of a sweet temper . Homo can never bo made happy without it . It is like the flowers that spring up in our pathway , reviving and cheering us . Let a man go home at night , wearied and worn by the toils of the day , and how soothing is a word dictated by a good disposition . ' It is sunshine falling upon his heart . He is happy , arid the cares of life al' 6 forgotten . A sweet temper has a soothing influence over the minds of a whole family . Where it is- found in a wife and mother , you observe kindness and love predominate over the bad feelings of a natural heart . _ Smiles , kind words , and looks , characterise the children , and peace and love have their dwelling there . Study , then , to acquire and retain a sweet temper . It is more valuable that gold ; it captivates more than beaxity , and to the close of life retains all its freshness and power . •'
The Land Common Property . —The land or earth , in any country or neighbourhood , with everything on the same , or pertaining thereto , belongs at all times to the living inhabitants of thosame country or nei g hbourhood in an equal manner . For there is no living but on the land and its productions , consequently , what we cannot live without , we have the same property in as in our lives . — Thomas Spence . It is in the daily occurrences of mere commonplace life , with all its mixture of foll y and impertinence , that the proper exercise of virtue lies . — Carter .
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CURE OP RIEBUMAmi AND RHEUMATIC GOUT . Extract of a Letter from Mr . Thomas Brunton , Landlord of A the Waterloo Tavern , Coatham , Vorksliire , late of the te life Guards , dated September ' 28 th , 1848 . Sm , —For a long time I was a martyr to Rheumatism and id Rheumatic Gout , and for ten weeks previous to using « y 0 " * medicines I was so bad as not to he able to walk . 11 had tried doctoring and medicines of every kind , but all to O no avail , indeed 1 daily got worse , and felt that I must it shortly die . From seeing your remedies advertised in the ie paper I take in , I thought l would give them a trial . I did d so . I rubbed the ointment in as directed , and kept cab- rbage leaves to the parts thickly spread with it , and took k the Fills night and morning . rn three weeks I was enabled d to walk about for an hour or two in the dssy with a stick , ; , and in seven weeks I could go anywhere without one . I am a now , by the blessing of God and your medicines , quite well , I , to
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x'ux'AK . PARR'S LIFE PILLS . Which are aclcnowlcged to be all that is required to conquer Disease and Prolong life . ¦ jfegJwfe ^ iUiiyp Parr introduced to King Charles I . —( See " Life and Times of Thomas Parr , " wliich maybe had gratis of ail Agents . ) The extraordinary properties of this me'dicina are thus described by an eminent physician , who says : — " After particular observation of the action of Parr ' s Piias , I am determined , in my opinion , that the following are their true properties : — " First—They increase the strength , whilst most other medicines have a weakening effect upon tlie system . Let any one take from three to four or six pills every twenty four hours , and , instead of havuig weakened , they will be found to have revived the animal spirits , and to have imparted a lasting strength to tlie body . " Secondly—In thou operation they go direct to the disease . After you have taken six or twelve pills you will experience their effect ; tlve disease upon you wiU become less and less by every dose you take ; and if you will persevere in regularly taking Irom three to six pills every day , your disease will speedily be entirely removed from the system ...... ivithem fair trial
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i . AN ElytECTUAL CURE FOB riJLlitf , I' , < . ABERNETHI'S PILE OINTMENT . What a painful and noxious disease is the Piles ! and , comparatively , bow few ofthe afflicted hare been permanently cured by ordinary appeals to medical skill ! This , no doubt , arises from the use of powci-ml aperients too frequently administered by the profession ; indeed , strong internal medicines should always be avoided mail cases-of this complaint- The proprietor of . the above Ointment , after years of acute suffering , placed himself under the treatment of that eminent surgeon , Mr . Abernetby ; was by him restored to perfect health , and has enjoyed it ever since without the slightest return of the disorder , over a period of fifteen ' years , during winch time the same Aberiiethian prescription has been the means of healing a vast number of desperate cases , both in and out of the proprietor ' circles offriends , most of ivhich cases had been under medical cave ; and some of them tor a very considerable time . Abernethy ' s Pile Ointment was introduced to the publicby the desire of many who had been perfectly healed by its application , and suice its introduction tlie fame of this Ointment has spread far and wide ; even the medical profession , always slow aud unwilling to acknowledge the virtues of any medicine not prepared by themselves , do now freely and frankly admit that Abernethy ' s Pile Ointment is not only a valuable preparation , but a never failing remedy in every stage and variety Of that annallinff malady .. ; , , ¦ ' - ¦' . ' . ' ' ¦ '' - » . ^ Sufferers from the Piles wul not repent giving tli & 0 ' mtmei \ t a trial . 'Multitudes 01 cases of its efficacy might be produced , if the nature of the complaint did not render those who have been cured , unwilling to publish their names . Sold in covered Pots at 4 s . 6 d ., or the quantity of three 4 s . Gd . pots in one for lis ., with full directions for use , by Barclay and Sons , Farringdon-strcet ; Edwards , St . Paul ' s Church-yard ; Butler , i , Cfieapsine ; 2 >' ewbery , St . Paul ' s ; ' Sutton , Bow Church-yard ; Johnson , C 8 , CornhiU ; Sanger , 150 , Oxford-street ; YTillouguby and Co ., fil , Bishoppgate-street Without ; Owen , 52 , i Mnrchm 6 iu > street , Burton-cvesent ; Bade , 39 , Goswoll-StreOt ; Prout , 223 , Strand ; Hannay and . Co ., 03 , Oxford-street ; Prentice , 84 , Edgeware-road ; and retail by all respectable Chemists and Medicine \ enuors in London . V Re sure to ask for " AUGHSF / EHY'S PILE OINTMENT . " The Public are requested to bo on their guard against noxious Compositions , sold at low Prices , and to observe that none can possibly be genuine , unless the name of C . King is printed on the Government Stamp affixed . to each pot , 4 s . Gd . ; which is the lowest price the proprietor is enabled to sell it at , owing to the great expense oftlie Ingredients .. .. - , 0011 ns AND BUNIONS .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 30, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_30061849/page/3/
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