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PART II . _WethaUdetoteoaroolni _niB _ttbationof » fewgemaof American poetry , which , wa believe , have not hitherto appeared is any English _pnjdication . ¦ For these _poemi and songs we are _InleUed principally to Yoitng America , the _OTgU Of tie _Aha _eswn Agrarian Reformers ; and that ably and _tewetly-conducted journal , the New York Tribune .
A DBEAH OF SDMMEB . by » bk e . wBirau . Bland as the morning breath of June The South-west hreexes play - And , through its base , the Winter noon 8 eems warm at 8 ummer * * day . The snow . plnmtd Angel of the North Hat dropped his icy spear ; Again the motr __ r _eaith look * forth , Again the _ttreamsgniu clear . The fox Ms hill-side cell forsakes—The _matkrat leaves his nook , The _Wue-Wrd in tke meadow brakes It singing with the brook . " Bear up , O Mother Haturer cry
: Bird , breexe and streamlet free , " Oar Winter voices prophesy Of Summer days to thee r * 80 , in those winters of the soul _. By bitter blasts and drear 0 * er « we _> t trom _Ueasorj _* * frozen , pole , Will _unnydaya appear . Reviving Hop * and faith , they Shaw The tonl IU living power * , And how beneatb the Winter ' s snow Lie gems of _Sammer flowers ! Tbe Night U Mether of tbe Day , The Winter of tbe Spring , And ever npon old Decay The greenest mosses cling . Behind the cloud the starlight lurk * , Through showers the tunbeami _faD For God , wbo Ioveth all lib _werkt _. Has left Hit Hope with all ! ;¦
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Tbey then bad rulers , Iawt and _land—Jsdteh « rt < if * tkcf 6 _J-4 af * See bright donee tbat glittering _ttand , "Where each rode Tillage lay . - A stately ship with noble crest _. Sails slowly , proudly on ; And from the river ' s shaded breast , The light _eanoe Is gone . -W hat tombs were there f the valleys teach "Where many a grave-yard bidet , And mountain ! show the bones that bleach , Aid whiten on their sides . fair flora leads her guiltless train In Spring , above the braves , And farmers heedless scatter grain Upon their nameless graves .
Where are the chiefs who urged their ass , Witb patristic breath _. To hurry fearlessly again To victory or to death I Tbe din of arms no more they hall : The battle tong U ttill : I hear no clangour in the vale , No echo on the MIL Awl-t ile they struggled for their right , Bnt found resistance vain , And yielded to superior might , With tsalm and _<» ld disdain . TO Distant wild * « f which _tJaasy _heani _, Tbey took their journey slow ; Still trusting in the faithless word Of a triumphant foe . They asked tbe foe those wild * to leave _.
i Where friends for years had lain ; That they in Autumn ' s sober eve Might visit tbem again . And when the leaves begun to fade , At midnight hash they crept , To tee tbe tombs their father * made _. And where taefr children slept . When last they came , tbe fertile scene A bitter truth _reveal'd , The hill * were cloth'd in verdure green , I The forest was a field ; ! They gas'd a momeBtin dismay ' . Upon the treeless plain , I Then harried silently a _* ay , jg And ne ' er _retnrn'd again . _| The paleface sought their _wntera home , I ( _Itseemahatyestexday !) ¦ ' ¦ Aad lo ! the forests that they 'd & _TtllT 11 Till 1
_= roam , , gjE * _- ; SUaMU * r * _I'T " —J ITTIIH *¦¦» Jjp : Are passM like mist away . i * g ; The tan that sever saw the ground , % In milainess or in wrath , ! > Row gazes , brightly , boldly down , g . _. Upon the Indian * * path . p And still their _Iess ' ning bands retire , m And yield in silence more ; g Till they have lit their council fire m On the Pacific ' s shore _, g Ho song of joy , so tale of mirth , H From one tad lip hat roll'd ; If Since last upon their native hearth g They taw the ashes cold _, g The heroes of the bow and chase p Grew fewer every day , g ! j Tbe spirit of a _tamelest race
Ta passing swift away . Where ' er the white man ' s footsteps go , Or stranger syren ' s sing , They vanish like the mountain snow . Before tbe breath of Spring ,
j INDIAN NAMES . » T UDI 4 _BDKTIET SIQOOXIaaT . : " How ean the Bed Man be forgotten , while to aanyof onr States and Territories , Bayi , lakes , aad JUrers , areindslibly stamped by names of tbeir giving 1 Ye say tbey have all passed sway , Tbat noble race and brave ; j That their light canoet have vanish'd [ From off the crested wave , That ' mid the forests where they _roata'd , Tbere _xingt no hunter * * shout ; Eut their name U on 3 out waters , [ Te may sot wash it out . ! 'lis where Ontario ' s _fafliow _.
Like ocean ' * surge is curl'd , Where strong Niagara ' s thunder * wake The echees of the world . : - _rVhereredMitsoaribriugeth Bicn tribute from the west , I Aad Happabanuocktweetly sleeps I Oa green Virginia ' s breaBt . I Te say their cane-like cabins , I That clustered o ' er the -vale , 1 . Have disappeared , at -withered leave * i : Before the autumn ' s gale ; % But their memory liveth on your hills , I Their baptism on your shore , I Tour ererlastingrirers speak [ Their dialect of yore . Old _HausaiAusettai wear * it _Wiuin her lordly _srotra ; And broad Ohio bears it
Amid his young renown . Connecticut hath wreath'd it
; Where her quiet foliage waves , And bold Kentucky breathe * it hoarse I Through all her ancient caves . I . Wachusett hides iu lingering voice I Within his rocky heart , I And Alleghany graves its tone a Throughout his lofty chart . if _Monadnock _jOU his forehead ho & _r , § Doth seal ths sacred trust ; I Your mountain * build their monument , Though ye destroy their dust . _To-inorrow ( July 4 th ) is the anniversary of the glorious Declaration of American Independence . The following is a song of 76 : —
SONG OF THE TERMONTERS . Ho—all tothe borders ! _Vermonters , come down , With your breeches of deer-skin and jackets of brown ; . With your red woollen caps and your mocassins ,, come To the gathering summons of trumpet and drum . Come down witb your rifles!—letgray wolf and fox , Howl en iu the shade of their primitive rocks ; Xet tbe bear feed securely from pig-pen and stall , Here ' s _tito-U-gged game for your powder and ball . On Our south come the Dutchmen _enveloped in grease , And arming for battle while canting of peace ; On our east crafty _Ucseech bas gathered bis band To hang np our leaders and eat out our land .
Ho—all to tbe rescue ! for Satan shall weric No gain for the legions of Hampshire and York ! They claim our possessions—the pitiful knaves , The tribute we pay shall be prisons and graves ! let Clinton aud Ten Broek with bribes in their bands Still seek to divide ns and parcel our lands , We ' ve coats for oar traitors , whoever they are—The warp is _offoatftcrs , the filling of tar !
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Bon the " old bay state- tare * ten ! Dot , Conrreis complaint - Swarm * Hampshire In arms oa our borders stain I Bark the war-dog * of Britain aloud on the lake ! let ' em come- _^ what ' they can they are welcometotake WhatBeek they among u «! Theprlde of our wealth Is comfort , contentment , and labour and _healttT And land * whieh , as freemen , we only bave trod Indepeudentof all , save the _mercW £ 5 . ' Yet we _oweno allegiance ; webow _tonothrone-Ournlerljla-v _. andthelawi . onrown ; ' * Our leader , themselves are oar _ownfellow-men , _Whocanhandle the sword , or th . _Kythe , or the pen . w 1 ti , , 1 b e _^* Utra 8 ' _" _^^ _ghtew uefdr , _m Sr . e 5 M mSU * ttelr li * eow '
ThJS r _* ' tteir whMU m th _* , dMk « W _»* _WJ . Then bhthe at the _. _leigb-ride , the busking and ball ! "We ' re sheep on the hill-sides , we ' ve etWon the plain , _^ d _sray-t «« eIedcom . fieWs andrank __^' wtoggrate , mere are deer on the mountains , and wood . _pigeoni 3 From tbe crack of our _mntkets , like elouds on the ky . _Kke a sunbeam the pickerel glides through bis pool ; And the spotted trout leap , where the water , ar . cool _. Or dart , from his shelter of rock and of root At tke bearer ' s quick plunge or the angler * * _p-jnolf . And ourc are the mountains whitm awfully rise Till they rest their green head * on the blue of the _tkiea ; And ours are the forests unwasted , unshorn , Save where tke wild path of the tempest is torn .
And though savage and wild be this climate of our ., And brief be onr season of fruits and of flower * , Far dearer the blast round oar mountain * which
raves _. Than the sweet summer zephyr which breathes over ¦ lave * . Hurrah for Vermont ! for the land which we till Must hare Mm to defend ber from _valisy and hill ; Leave the harvest to rot on the field where it groin , And the reaping of wheat for the reaping of fots . Prom far Michiscoai _' s wild valley , to where _Foosoomtnck steals down from his wood-circled lair , From Sbocticook river to Imtterlock _tOITOHe—« 11 to the _racuet Terawnters , come down ! Come Tori *« come Hamp » _t »* * re—come traitors and knaves ,. If ye role o ' er our tow * , ye shall rule o ' er our gn / ttt ; Our tow is r « cor <" e 3—our _bani-ur _nnfsrleii—Iu the name cf V « rmout wo defy all _Um world _l _"** '
* •* ' _« .- _^ w thau fail , I wiU retire with my _btrily Green Mountain "boys to desolate cavernt of tbe _raotmtslcs _, _mio * tcage teat * _tai'U « w > . a _£ : > ui _& ri _zt _Jo *_ _- _ ji _* . ''» "iCth _* m Mltu ' n Letter to _Congrcas _, March 8 , 17 S 1 . Pity that the viciories , ofthe Vermonters , _pisy that tbe _ttiumpbof the American arms over British des _ _Kitu .- } ai ,. ptoduoei 3 . -so happier results than tb _« _P'ittiit ! ' liberation cf the white men , leaving tbeir biatis brethren _sts / I bound iu ihe loiters of slavery . We bave several time * given _apecimensef Gri ' i-. _nk-if Whittier ' s anti-slavery lyrics ; the following noble outburst is well worthy of this chief of American poets : —
YOBKTOWN . at 3 . « . WHITTISB . Br Thacher , surgeon in Scammel ' * regiment , in hi * description of tbe siege of Yorktown , sajs — " Tbelabour on the Virginia _Truntatiosi it ptrfonned altogether by aatpeciesof _thehumanracBcruelly wrested trom their satire _coontry , and doomed to Perpetual Bondage , while their matter * are manfully contending for freedom and the natural right * of man . Such is the inconsistency of human _aatore _!** Eighteen hundred slaves were found at Yorktown , after it . surrender , and restored to their masters _.
From Yorktown a ruins , ranked and ttill , Two line * stretch far o ' er rale and bill : Who curb * hi * steed at head of one 1 Hark ! the low murmur : Washington ! Who bendski * keen , approving glance Where down the gorgeous line of France Shine knightly star aad plume of snout Thou , too , art victor , _Bochambeaa 2 The ear th wbich bear * thi * calm array Sheok witb the _war-ckarge yesterday , Flowed deep with hurrying hoof and wheel , Shot-sown aud bladed thick with steel ; October ' , clear and noonday sun Paled in the _breath-annoke ofthe gun , Aud down "Sight ' s double blackness fell _. Like a dropped star , the biasing shell .
Now all it hushed : the gleaming line * Stand moveless as the neighbouring pines ; While through them , sullen , grim and slow , The conquered hosts of England go : OHara ' t brow belies his dress , Gay Tarieton ' s troops ride bannerieis : Shout , from thy fired and wasted hornet , Thy scourge , Virginia , captive comes ! Nor those alone ! with one glad voice Let all tby sister State * rejoice ; Let Freedom , In whatever clime f She waits with sleepless eye her time , Shouting from cave aad mountain wood , Hake glad her desert solitude-While they who hunt her quail with fear : The New World ' * chain lie * broken here !
But who are they wbo , cowering , wait "Within the shattered _fokresi-gate ! Bark tiller * of Virginia ' s soil , Classed with tbe battle ' s common spoil , With household stuffs , and fowl , and swine _. With Indian weed and planter a * wine _. With stolen beeves , and foraged corn-Are they sot men , Virginian born ! Oh ! veil your faces , young and brave ! Sleep , Scammel , in thy soldier grave ! Sons ofthe North-land , ye who set Stout hearts against the bayonet , And pressed with steady footfall near The moated battery ' s blazing tier , Torn your scarred face * from the sight , let shame do homage to the Bight 1
Lo ! threescore year * bave passed ; and when The Gallic timbiel stirred the air , With Northern dram-roll , and the clear , Wild horn-blow of the mountaineer , While Britain grounded on tbat plain Tbe arms she might not lift again _. At abject at in that old day The Slave still toils his life away . Oh ! fields still green and fresh in story . Old days of pride , old names of glory , Old marvel * ofthe tongue and pen , Old thought * which stirred the hearts of men , Ye spared the Wrong ; and over all Behold th' avenging shadow mil ! Yonr world-wide honour stained with shame—Your Freedom's self a hollow name !
Where * now the flag of that old war f Where flows its stripe ? Where burns its star f Bear witness , Palo Alto ' * day , Bark Vale of Palms , red Monterey , Where Merio Freedom , yonng and weak , Fleshes the Northern eagle ' * beak : 8 ymbol of terror and despair , Of chain * and slaves , go seek it there ! Laugh , Prussia , midst thy iron ranks ! Laugh , Russia , from thy _Heva's banks 1 Bt ave sport to see the fledgling born Of Freedom by it * parent torn 1 Safe now your Speilburg ' s dungeon Cell , Safe drear Siberia ' s froxen hell : With Slavery ' s flag : o'er both unrolled , What of the New World fear * the Old 1 The author of the following indignant protest is unknown to us : —
THE SLAVE-DIALER . Still doit thou scorn the fetter'd victim ' * cries , And feel no pang of grief , no blush of shame t Dost know how generations long shall rise , And cast tbeir scorn and loathing on thy name , _ And curses heap upon thy felon fame ! 60 , wretch , and still around thy temples bind Wreaths won at Moloch's foul infernal g « ns In life , abhorred and bated of mankind , And then in death to be to infamy consigned . Blood ' s dark eternal stain is en thy soul 1 ' Say , didst thou bring it from tbe battle plain , Where drum and trump in stormy concert roll , And cannon peal the death-kneel ofthe slam , Who , winning fame , deem not they die in vain t Where warrior plumes and flashing banners wave , And death and glory hold divided reign ?—Where strong contend with strong , and brave with brave ?
No , tyrant ! ' tis the blood drawn from the shrinking slave ! In the still watches of the midnight hour , When all but tbee repose in tranquil sleep , _Botit not Remorse assert her scorpion power ? Bo not fell memories o ' er tby spirit sweep , And fiends around tby ceuch tbeir vigils keep ? 0 _< doth not hope depart , and wild despair Tost tby torn soul npon its raging deep ! And do not shadowy spirits of the air Stretch their dim hands to Heaven , and vengeance call from there J Ah ! hear * st thou not the helplesBand the weak f
Say , hear _* 6 t not thou thy victims round thee cry 1 The trembling daughter's wild and maniac shriek , The mother ' s shriek of frantic agony , The infant ' s wail , tbe father's stifled sight _/ Say . ga ' altj man , dost hear those sounds again , Sweeping the arches of the midnight . say , The mingling of all cries of human pain , With ringing of the lash and clanking of the chain ! Ha ! _shrink _' st thou not ! Ah ! wait till death shall fling Around tby conch sepulchral shadows drear , And lay his hand upon tby heart , and ring Thy spirit ' s knell within thy startled ear ! Then thou _shalt tremble with a mortal fear , _ai-ndthea again inspfctral phalanx there tbe forms of all tby victims shall appear , Jov « . _^ _J doom ' t m thy despair » Laugh «* , J J B cries » mwktt , J _dyi _«> gpwy _« r
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Hie following lines describe the escape trom tbe _MUti of a band of slaves : —
A HTMN OF LIBERTY . * I TaoKAB L , B \ mi | . Night reigned with stars , and ( hade / and dreams , and silently unfurled ' Her spell of witchery around the weary-hearted world ; : The leaves were still . , the waters mute , the watchman slept ; the bell Of midnight lulled the stars to rest , then hashed i t * billowy ( well : . The blessed angel Sleep came down , and poured , with loving care , An opiate from hi * crystal urn upon the dewy air : In Man ' s hushed boiom Lave and Hate , and Joy and Sorrow _. lay Like foes on _blood-wet battle-fields , who wake to strife witb day .
When , lei like shadows through the gloom , a weak ye * daring band Stalked wearily , with voices mute and bright , bare blade in hand . Their robe * were rent , their feet were torn , their face ( darkest tan , Yet flashing eye and fearless brow revealed the godlike Man . From Carolina's _fevsr-swamp _* _, ham Georgia ' , riaveeursed sod , From fetters on the limb and soul , through bandied foes they trod . For Freedom , with her mother voice , had led them on afsr—Their path the trackless wllderneu , their guide the _NoithernStar .
Like Israel through tbe opening wares of Egypt ' s bloodred sea , Tbey stemmed Niagara ' s rushing _tite—those noble one * were _aaaa . They stood , redeemed and diientbraUtd , upon tke wave * washed sod _. And proudly , _granny claimed again the birthright gift . of God . . , „ The Cataract lifted up afar its _solemn-soundf og voice , And bade them in the glorious dawn of Freedom ' , day rejoice : And thus their song of jubilee rung forth , _and rose on high ; While all tht morning _ttMibon OB ill ecbosi through _the » ky , - _Ve are free tw * are treat _wearefree ! - As tbe start tbat tread the skits ; ' Andjoyoutly . _ohOodttoThee Our _triumph-hjmn thall rite _.
For Thou hatt led ns on , Through soHtu 3 s and night , Til ! Freedom ' s _olejiieal ha > aie i * won , And vain the f _ootcaa _' _s might . Tbe chains are cant aside ; Th * _oppreaior ' s rtign is o ' er ; " . _" •» dungeon ?! v > or shall * - _* pv . _y- a > ! 9 _\ ty . i , With ' oar blood Had _tasaw _«•> me- ¦ ¦ .. "With heart anil _noice iv * _raslso ' Our hymn , oh _Oaadi to _The-a ¦ v ' a _raeund thou Bivtb und Sky ajur vet , t ., Tfe are freof _usort ' ' m ! its \ fj . _j-mr
That Triumph hymn ! it distil not : it _soundesh not In _vainj : It echoes now with thousand tongues o ' er many a Southern plain ; It * words in every chainlets blast , and free bright river roll ; Qedgivethita volceto ( peak through alienee to the sonl : Its thrilling spell is felt where ' er the _slare-marts darkly stand ; 'lis mightier far than Charleston gyves , thin Texan whip and brand : It nerves the arm , it light * the eye , thst spirit routing breath , It fires the heart with high resolves of Liberty or Beath . Oh ye who riot on the toil of Ood ' s _downtrodden poor , Beware , One judgethin tbe Earth , whose band it swift and sure
Already muffled thunder-tones at dead of night resound ; . Already wake the Earthquake throes beneath iy our trembling ground ; Though hireling priest and watchman lift the cry of' * all it well , " Ere long red Ruin's lava . tide from earth and sky shall well . The Kaifter from the vengeance then and not the < 5 laM will f lee ; Be warned of God , be warned of Man , and set the bond * man free ! We must postpone till oar next a glorious collection of Agrarian songs and other patriotic pieces . We close this week ' s collection with the following seasonable lines : —
THE EVENING WIND . BT W . C . BWAHT . Spirit that breathes through my lattice , thou Tbat cool ' st the twilight ofthe sultry day , Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow : _Tbouhait been ont npon the deep at play , Riding all day tbeir wild blue _WBVCS till nOW , Roughening their crests , and scattering high their spray-And ( welling tbe white sail . I welcome the . To the scorch'd land , then wanderer of the sea ! Nor I alone : —a thousand bosoms round Inhale thee in the fulness of delight ; And languid forms rise up , and pulses bound Livelier , at coming of the wind at night ; And , languishing to hear thy grateful sound ,
Lies the vast inland _itretch'd beyond the sight , Go forth into the gathering shade ! go forth , God ' s blessing breathed apon the fainting earth ! Go , rock the little wood bird in bis nest ; Curl the still waters , bright with stars ; and rouse The wide old wood from his majestic rest , Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange deep harmonies tbat bannt bis breast . Pleasant shall be tby way where meekly bow * Tbe shutting flower and darkling waters pas * ; And 'twlat tbe o ' _er-sbadowing branches and the grass . The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee ; _thon shalt kiss the child asleep , And dry the moiBten'd curls tbat overspread
His _templeB , while bis breathing grows more deep ; And they who stand about the sick man ' * bed Shall joy to listen to thy distant sweep , And softly part his curtains to allow Thy visit , grateful to his burning brow _. Go ! but the circle of eternal change , That is tbe life of nature , shall restore , With sounds and scent * from all tby mighty range , Thee to thy birth-place of the deep once more ; Sweet odours ia the sea air , tweet and strange , Shall tell the home-sick mariner of tbe shore ; And , listening to thy murmur , be shall deem , He heart the rustling leaf and running stream .
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Hea Majesty ' s _TnriTBe , notwithstanding the strength of the talent of opposition at Govent Garden , basks in the sunshine of regaland aristocratic patronage , -while no intermission of tbe popular furors in favour of the Swedish cautatrice has , as yet , exhibited itself ; on the contrary , on the nights of Mdlle . Lind ' * performance places are obtained with the greatest difficulty , and at the most exorbitant prices , Mr Lumley is reaping a rich harvest from Us spirited exertions , which leave nothing to be desired by the most _enthasiastictaMftufofthis establishment , Jenny Lind is engaged for Manchester , and makes her first appearance at the Theatre Royal for two nights , about the end of
August : she will be assisted by Lablache and others . Liverpool and Birmingham will also be visited by her , unless Bunn ' a action , with its damages laid at £ 19 , 000 , cause any alteration in her movements . As tbe matter stands at present , the Drnry Lane lessee ' s case cannot come on for hearing until Christmas . —At the Royal ItalUh _Oroat , _Grisi , Mario , and Ronconi , have been delighting crowded audiences by their magnificent talents in Verdi ' s opera of - _* I Due _Poscari . '—That highly talented actor Bouffe has concluded his engagement at the St Jimeb _' s , and is to be succeeded by tbe eminent French tragedian , Mdlle . Rachel , who Im been engaged by Mr Mitchell for a series of performances , understood not to be included in tbe season ' s subscription . _—Dauav _Lihi , it is settled , reverts again into Bonn ' s hands ;
but , prior to opening for the regular season , has been let to Jullfen for a short period , for promenade concerts andbalmasques . —Mr Webster is still running Bell ' s comedy of' Temper' at the Haihaeket , giving revivals , and presenting tbat charming and fascinating actress , _MrsNisbett _, on alternate nights , in mostofher favourite characters—Madame Vestris and Charles Mathews are fulfilling an engagement at the _Pawcuss _' * , which sadly needed some attraction on the departure of Mr _jfacready and Mrs Warner , who , if we escept Mrs Stirling and Compton , _leftas meagre a company behind them as any that could well be attached to a theatre wishing to keep its doors open . —The patrons of that favourite house , the Aoeuhi , have been presented with a new comedy from tbe pen of tbe veteran dramatist , Feake , made np of strictly English materid _, called * The Title Deeds . ' It is admirably suited to the talented resources of this establishment , and must be pronounced a highly
successful effort , reflecting credit alike upon its author , and the directress , Madame Celeste . —Tbe Lyceum , prior to the note of preparation being heard for Madame _Vestris ' s campaign , ia occupied by a company exceedingly limited as to strength , under the management of MrL . levy . —After a short vacation , Mr F . Cooper has _re-opened the ST . BA . Nn , for the _putfatmauce of vaudevilles . A Miss Holmes , a promising young actress , made her _dtbut on Monday evening last , and was well received . —The _Qoejn ' s , adhering to the low-price system , is doing a moderate business , with , its usual attractions of melodrama and burletta . —At ASMEl _' _s , the new spectacle , "Ihe Storming of Quito , " every evening attracts crowded houses , Mr W . West acting very effectively as Rolla . Several new feats of equitation have been added to the Scenes ofthe Circle . The various sub . urban entertainments continue to enjoy , during this splendid weather , a more than average share of public patronage .
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From Mr Knight ' s History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace , we take the following _acoonnt of the memorable trials and acquittal of WILLIAM HONE . " On the morning of the 18 th of December there is a considerable crowd round the avenues of Guildhall . An obscure bookseller , a man of no substance or respectability in worldly eyes , is to be tried for libel . He vends his wares in a little shop in the Old Bailey , where there are , ' strangely mingled , twopenny political pamphlet * , and old harmleii folios that the poor publisher keeps ' for his especial reading at he sits in his dingy back parlour , The door-keepers and officers of the court ( careely'know what is going to happen ; for the table within ' the bar has not the usual coveringof crimson baize , but ever and
anon adingy , boy arrives with an " armful of books of all ago and ilias , and the whole table is strewed with dusty and tattered volumes that the usher * are quite sure have no law within tbeir mouldy covers , A middle-aged man —a bland and smiling man—with a half sad , half merry twinkle in his eye—a _teedy man , to use an expressive word , whose , black coat is wondrous brawn and _thtt-adbsre—takes bis place at tho table , and begins to . turn over the books which were bis heralds . Sir Samuel Shepherd , tbe Attorney General , takes his seat , and looks compassionately , as was hit nature to do , at the pale man In threadbare black . Mr Justice Abbott arrives la due tithe _; , a special J < i * jls » wo »; tke plead _, logs are opened ; the Attorney General states the case _agalntt William Hone , for printing and publishing an
_impleusaad profane libel upon the Catechism , tbeLord ' * Prayer and the Ten Commandments , thereby bringing into contempt the Christian religion . . 'It may be said , argued the Attorney General , "that the defendant ' * object was not to produce this effect . -1 believe that ; he meant It , in one tense , as a political squib ; but bis responsibility is . not the less . ' ; As the Attorney-General proceeded to read _pass _* g « sfrom the parody upon tbe Catechism , the crowd in court laughed ; the bench wat Indignant ; and the Attorney-General said , the laugh : wat the fullest proof of the baneful effect ef the defendant ' s publication . And to the trial went on in tbe smoothest way , and the case for the prosecution wat cloud , . Then the pale man in black rose , and . with a faltering voice tet forth the 4 'fficutty nebadin a « dTe « ing the Court , and
_faowhiiporertyprtrentedbim obtainiogcounsel . And now he began to warm in the mltal of what be thought hit * " _™«« : -Mii ' . commitments : hit hurried callt to : nlead > the expeme of copies ofthe informations against htm ; —and as Mr Justice Abbott , with perfect _gentlsnesi , bnt with hit cold formality , interrupted bim , the timid mas , whom all thought would have mumbled forth a hasty defence , grew bolder and bolder , and in a short time had possession of his audience as if he were ' some well-graced actor' who was there to receive the tribute of popular admiration ' 'They were not to inquire _ivhflther he were a member of the Established Church or r > _Vliw- / - ¦ : _*«; it was enough that he professed himself la- _Xvt _aCiuitttiau ' , and he would be bold to say , that he _aivm ih _' _-. _' _jwofestton with a reverence for tht doctrines
td' ¦ Lijjristia ' ' . ly whieh could not ba ? . _mceeded by any !> _t-. * w iu th-i . ii _cout ' _- v He hud hit bov & i nb _*>* vt bim , and 5 V wau from th ' _tin ic . ' . i . _*• . _*; . muf . t _druw bis . _dtfuvicii , Tiny hnd beta thu solace of hit life . He ••'' if . ' _-w _nwoh ai .. _tscuod to his hooks to putt wiih tbem . As to : p * r « d _' e «_ Ihey wero at _vldat least _a-i the _invention of _priiitJoj- ; and he never heard of a _pronecutlon for a parody , * ith « v rellgisusor aay othtr . There were tiro ltinds of parodies ; one in which _n man might ; _cchki-j _IuHIoj-ou . * or r idiculous ideas relative to some other subject ; _t-hfi <> _$ m nbere it was meant to ridicule tbe thing _paroilisd , The latter was not the case here , and therefore he hnd not brought ' religion into contempt . ' This wat the gist of William Hone ' s defence . " To show fully how tbisargu . ment was worked , —with what readiness , what coolness ,
what courage , —would be to transcribe the trials of three dty _*| on the first of which the defendant spoke sis hours ; on the _tacond seven hours , and on the last eight hours . ' It wat in vain that the Attorney-General urged that to bring forward any previous parody was tbe same thing as if a person charged with , obscenity should produce obscene volumes in his defence . It wat in vain that Mr Justice Abbott repeated hit wish that the defendant would not read such things . On he went till in . terruption wat held to be in vain . It was worse than vain ; It wat unjntt . Truly did Hone reply to Mr Justice Abbott , « My Lord , your Lordship ' s observation ii ia the very spirit of what Pope Leo the Tenth said to Martin Luther , —" For God ' s sake don't say a word about the indulgonces and the monasteries , and I'll give you a
living ;"—thut precluding him from mentioning the very thing in dispute . I must go on with those _paro > dies , or I cannot go on with my defence , ' Undauntedly he went on , from the current literature ofthe time , such as grave lawyers rend in their te * hours of recreation , to the forgotten volumes of old theology aad polemical controversy , tbat tbe said grave lawyers of modem days are accustomed to regard as useless lum . ber . The editor of' Blackwood ' s Magazine * was a parodist —he parodied a chapter of Ezekiel ; Martin Luther wat a parodist—he parodied the first psalm ; Bishop Latimer was a parodist , and so was Br Boyi , Bean of _Canterbury ; tbe author of the ' Rolliad' was a
parodist ; and so wat Mr Canning . Passage after passage did Hone read from author after author . He thought it was pretty clear that Martin Lutber did not mean to ridicule the Ps alms ; that Br Boys did not mean to ridl . cule the Lord ' s Prayer ; that Mr Canning did not mtan to ridicule the Scriptures . Why , then , should it be presumed tbat be had such an intention ! As soon as he found that hit parodies had been deemed offensive , he had suppressed them , and that he bad done long before his prosecution .. It was in vain that the Attorney . General replied that Martin Lutber was a libeller , and _BrBoyawata Ubtto . The judge charged the jury In vain . William Hone was acquitted , after a quarter of an hour ' s deliberation .
" Bnt Guildhall' taw another sight . ' With tbe next mornong ' a fog , tbe fiery Lord Chief Justice rose from bit bed , and with lowering _bro _ wtook bit place , in that judgment-seat which he deemed had been too mercifully filled on the previous day . The mild firmness of the poor publisher , and his gentlemanly seme of the absence of harshness in the conduct of his first trial , bad won for him something like respect ; and wben on one occasion Mr Justice Abbott asked him to ftrbear reading a particular parody , and the defendant said , ' Tour Lordship and I understand each other , and we have gone on so _gbod-humonvedly Mthetto , that I will not break in upon our harmony , ' it became clear that the puisne judge was not tbe _mua to enforce a verdict of guilty on the second trial . Again Mr Hone entered the
court with hit load of books , on Friday , the 10 th Bee . He was this day indicted for publishing an impious and profane libel , called « The Litany , or General Supplication . ' Again the Attorney-General affirmed that whatever might ba the object of tbe defendant , the publication had the effect of scoffing at the public service of the Church . Again the defendant essayed to read from his books , which course he contended was essentially necessary for his defence . Then began a contest wbich is perhaps unparalleled in an English oourtof justice . Upon Mr Pox ' s Libel Bill , upon _ex-oj | icio informations , upon his right to copies ot the indictment without extravagant charges , the defendant battled his judge , imperfect in his law , no doubt , but with a firmness and moderation thatrode over every attempt to put him down . Parody
after parody wat again produced , and especially those parodies of the Litany which the Cavillers employed to frequently as vehicles of satire upon the Roundheads and Puritans . The Lord Chief Justice at length gathered up bis exhausted strength for hit charge ; and concluded in a strain tbat left but little hope for the defendant : * He would deliver thejury hit solemn oplnbn , as he was required by act of Parliament to do ; and nnder the authority of that Act , and still more in obedienoe to his conscience and his God , he pronounced tbis to be a most impious and profane libel . Believing and hoping that they , the jury , were Chris _, _tians , he had not any doubt but that they would be of the same opinion . ' Thejury , in an hour ond a half , returned a verdict of Not Guilty .
"It might bave been expected that these prosecutions would have here ended . But the chance of a conviction from a third jury , upon a third indictment , was to be riBked . On the 20 th December Lord Ellenborough again took his seat on the bench , and the exhausted defendant came late into court , pale and agitated . Tbe Attorney-General remarked upon his appearance , and offered to postpone the proceedings . The courageous man made his election to go on . Tbis third indictment was for publishing a parody ou the Creed of St Athanasius , called ' The Sinecurist ' _t Creed . ' After tbe _Attorney-Genural had finished bit _addvets , Mr Hone asked for fire minutes' delay to arrange the few thoughts be had been committing to paper . The Judge refused tbe small concession , but said he would postpone the
proceedings to another day if the defendant would request the Court so to do . The scene wbich ensued was thoroughly dramatic . 'No ! I make no such request . My Lord , Iam very glad to see your Lordship here to-day , because I feel I sustained an injury from your Lordship yesterday—an injury which I did not expect to sustain . If his Lordship should think proper , on this trial today , to deliver his opinion , I hope that opinion will be coolly and dispassionately expressed by his Lordship My Lord , I think it necessary to make a stand here . I cannot say what your Lordship may consider to be necessary interruption , but your _Ltrdship interrupted mo a great many times yesterday , and then said you would interrupt me no more , and yet your Lordship did interrupt me afterwards ten times as much Gentlemen , it ia vou who are trying me to-day . His Lordship Is no
judge of me ; You are my judges , and you only are my judges . His Lordship sits there to receive your verdict , „; ... I will not say what his Loro ' _ship did yesterday j but I trust his Lordship to-day will give his opinion coolly aud dispassionately , without using either expression or gesture which could be construed as-conveying an entreaty to the jury to think as he did , I hope the jury will not be beseeched into a verdict of guilty . ' The triumph of the weak over the powerful was complete . ' The frame of adamant and soul of fire , ' as the biographer ofLordSidmouth terms the Chief Justice , quailed before the indomitable courage of a man who was roused into energies which would seem only to belong to the master-spirits that have _sivnyed the world . Yet this was a man who , in the ordiuary business of life , was incapable of enterprise and persevering exertion ; who lived in tbe nooks and corners of bis _antiquarianlsm ; who was
one that even big political opponents came te regard as a gentle and innocuous hunter after " all such reading as was never read ¦ _ " who in a few years gave up his politics altogether , and , devoting himself to his old poetry and
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his old divinity , pasted a quarter of a century after this conflict In peace with all mankind , and died tbe _tub-edltor of a religion * journal . - It was towards the close of this remarkable trial that the _Judg < _% who came eager to condemn , sued for pity to hit intended victim . The de * feniant quoted _Warburtori ana Tillotsph as _dpubters of the _Athananian Cread . ' _Eveii hi » Lordship ' s father , the Blshep Of Carlisle , he believed , took a similar view of the _Creid . ' And then the Judge solemnly said , "Whatever that opinion was , be was gone , many year ago , where he has had to account for his belief and his opinions ....... For common delicacy . 'forbear . '— ' O , my Lord , I tball certainly forbear . ' Grave and _^ teniperate was the charge to tbe jury tbi * day ; and in twenty _minutet they had returned a verdict of Not Guilty . " . :
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The bellman of Barnsley , says the Sheffield Iris , appears to be a walking newspaper , for be is almost daily employed to make announcements ofthe state of different corn-markets , for which the millers appear highly offended at him . A man in Kew York turned his son out of doors lately , because he wouldn't pay him house-rent . A strikin g instance , says the Philadelphia Spirit , of pan _renf a ! affection . The British and Foreign Institute , of wbich Mr Buckingham was resident director , baa been dissolved . _: The British authorities in _Orissa bestow annually a grant of 36 , 000 rupees to support the temple of the destroyer , Juggernaut ! [ The . Duke of Wellington has declared in Parliament that " Idolatry is the established religion of India 1 " ] The Queen of Spain is said to allow her husband - £ 10 a day as pocket money . It is far too much for such aeoose .
.. The King of Sweden has ordered that members of tbe Society of Friends can give their declaration thus : — "I declare , and solemnly assure , " which is te be accepted as if an oath had been duly made . " J _^ armW— " Class in spelling come up and recite . " _"Yeth'ir . " _» ' John , spell effects . " "FX . " " Right . Next spell seedy . " "CD . " "Right again . Class can go ont , "—Boston Notion . The Queen ef Spain » learning to drive six-inhand ; - ' - ¦ ' ¦ " Eggsbave lately been imported into Liverpool , from _f _/ isbon . There are 350 , 000 seeds in the capsule of a tobacco plant .
Ave 8 sel , whioh has arrived at Swansea from the West Indies , has brought a turtle weighing more than 300 Ibo . Ray , the celebrated _twiuui-i , ~» . niw nQ . _nnn aaad * in the bead of a poppy . Tbe Shipping _Gasette states that it is intended to increase the wages of petty officers in the nary . Large shipments of new potatoes have lately been made from the Scilly Islands to the ports in the west of England . Some seed potatoes hare been received at Portsmouth from Chili . A Preston paper mentions that an egg , shaped like a kidney potato , with a small stalk attached to it , bas been ' aid by a ben , belonging to a gentleman of that town , The sugar crops in the "Mauritius have been very large ; and tiie quantity of produce shipped has nckrlv _doubled t ! rst _exported three o : c four years
since . . The Roman Catlioiio Archbishop c ! Dublin has expressed the strongest disapprobation oi * _prieate attending political rteetings , or publicly expressing an opinion ou public matters . A Brussels paper says that two oonvicts threw themselves out of a railway train , whilst it was in full motion , between Bloemendael and Auhn : ? , and effected their escape . A German poet of some celebrity , Herman Ma lire , asserts that he has discovered a method of teaching young children to read , by whieh _ he undertakes in six hours to teach the most stupid child the art of reading fluently and correctly . A hen and a hen partridge have laid their eggs in the same nest , in afarm yard near Beauly _,
Inverness-Bhire , and a fierce war is waged between them for the right of sitting on the eggs . A French surgeon asserts , that by exposing men and animafs to a galvanio current from Clarke ' s magneto-electric apparatus , he bas succeeded in rendering tbem as insensible to pain as if they had inhaled sulphuric ether . During a hailstorm at Berlin , on the 25 th ult ., 11 , 000 squares of glass were broken ; and it was necessary to fetch glaziers from Magdeburg , as those of Berlin had neither the glass nor the time requisite to execute all the repairs . TbeGarrows , atribe of mountaineers inhabiting the hills on the borders of the province of Assam , readily eat putrid meat , but refuse to drink milk , wbich tbey think unwholesome . A lady residing near Newcastle lost some time ago a valuable piece of lace from'the lawn , but it was lately found , coiled in the bottom" of a sparrow's nest , whioh had been built in a large wall
pear-tree . The Shah of Persia has conferred the order ofthe Lion and the Sun on a French physician named _Clo-Siet , as an acknowledgment of his services during e prevalence ofthe cholera . Mr Chilton , Q . C ., of the South Wales Cirouit , will succeed the late Mr David Leahy as Judge of the Limbeth and Greenwich District County Court . The title of the newspaper to be started for the voluntaiy dissenting interest in Scotland in September next , is to be the Scottish Press . On Wednesday week the lion _Adolphus , the smallest ofthe two in Mr Tyler ' s collection of wild beasts in the Surrey Gardens , died after an illness of only _twodsys . There is a place in Dutchess County , N . Y ., where tbe children are so fat and greasy , that they have to be rolled in sand to keep them from slipping oat of bed !
' Wives who do not try to keep their husbands will lose them . A man does the ' courting' before marriage , and tbe wife must do it after marriage , or some other woman will . Fever , itis said , is alarmingly prevalent among the lower classes in Manchester . A meeting ofthe members of the Manufacturers ' Association was held on Wednesday week , [ at which it was agreed to commence working four days a week until the next meeting , which will be in about three Wanted , a few party cries for the approaching general election . Persons possessing any of the above articles , cither new ones or old , if in good condition , and net too much used , will meet with an immediate sale for them by applying at Westminster , to the door-keepers of the H . of C . N . B . Separate entrances for parties with Whig and Tory cries . A quantity of old cries to be disposed of . — Punch , Attempts have lately been made to grow rice in the
salt marshes watered by the Rhone , near Aries , and | the crop promises a very abundant harvest . Donisetti , the composer , will soon quit the lunatio asylum where he has been confined , and will henceforth reside in Paris , under the care of his nephew . . The prize offered by the Carnarvon Eietevod , for the best poetical description of thunder , has been awarded to Mr 0 . W . Thomas , London . There were * 3 competitors . The Grand Duke Constantino of Russia is expected to visit the manufacturing districts , while on his w & y to Scotland , for the purpose of enjoying the sport of deer-stalking at Blair _Athol . Parasols have lately been fitted with rings of vulcanised India-rubber , which are so elastic tbat they expand when the parasols are opened , and tightly compress the ribs when they are closed . ; The Pope haB appointed to the command of the gendarmery of Rome , Prince Gabrielli , a distinguished officer , who , in the rank of Captain , followed the Emperor Napoleon through the Russian
campaign . , Letters from Russia state that the trans-Caucasian provinces have been ravaged by locusts . The quantity waa bo immense that the people collected them in heaps , covered them with straw , and burned them . Among the additional estimates fer miscellaneous services we perceive that the Bum of £ 5 , 000 is proposed towards defraying the expenses of an appropriate pcdeBtal for the equestrian statue ofthe Duke of Wellington . "A Practical Man , " writing to the Morning Chronicle , suggests that the beat monument for Caxton would be a " Caxton Hospital" for decayed printers . It might be erected among the buildings of the intended improvements in Westminster ; and might afford an asylum for a certain proportion of
decayed literary men as well as printers . The coroner s jury , who sat on the late railway ] bridge accident , were entitled by law to an allowance of about £ 32 for their time , but they directed their foreman ( Sir E . S . Walker ) to return vt to the borough fund .- [ Would it not have been better applied had it been appropriated to the Inends of the sufferers ?! ., _ . ... ... , _ , M . Aim 6 Martin , one of the oldest editors of the Journal des Debats , and formerly one of the Secretaries of the Chamber of Deputies , and lately conservator of the library of St Genevieve , died a few days ago , and was interred in the cemetery of Mont _Parnasse , after the funeral service had been performed at the church of St Germain de _Preu . M . Aime Martin married the widow of Bernardin de St Pierre .
The King of Sweden has conferred the insignia in diamonds of the order of the Polar Star upon his Excellency Count de Moltke , late Minister Plenipotentiary from Denmark to the Court of Sweden , and who now fills the same functions at the court ol France . < The corn looks beautiful ; and of potatoes there vs every promise of a beautiful and nncontaminated crop . —Carlisle Patriot . The wheat looks very well , and the ear ib just , beginning to flower . The potato _orep is magnificent , and free from disease , —Jersey _Tjoiei , Upwards of 8 , 000 quarters of grain arrived at Perth last week , at two successive tides .
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_PkmuN to Mr _Lbioh . _HoN-r .-On Friday Mr Leigh Hunt received a letter from Lord John Rii * . ¦ el ) , _communicating the "fact , tbat it had been decided to confer on him a pension of- _« 200 per annum A Willing WiMj . _ A few days ago a fisherman was summoned to the police court charged with being drunk . _^ Hi 8 wife , who appeared for him , said that when he was sober he was one of the quietest men in the world : but when he got drunk , poor fel . low , he did not know what he was doing . He was fined 5 s . and costs , when his wife , loving bouI , said "You must takeme for it , for he ' s gone out fishing . _* Courier ¦ "" ' ¦ ¦
—Liverpool . Royal Visit to Scotland .-It is said to be her Majesty ' s intention to proceed to Scotland before the end of the season . Rossiah _Potaxoks , —An arrival of potatoes from Russia bas just taken place at the port of Bristol by a vessel arrived from Odeasa , having ten casks of the vegetable on board , the growth of that country , MiRoa of Intellect . —A correspondent sends m the following , which he states is a true copy of an inscription on a sign-board in a small village not a hundred miles from the city of York :- " Reydin writghtin , an arethmlttick taute hear ackordin too the rhuldes of gramer . _AIboo red _rutea red _herin ,
an poetarters small bear an traycell an all kindes ot _vegeytebels _solde hear bye yore humbel _sarvent j g . " Thb BiRKENnEAD Docks . —Liverpool , Monday . — An important announcement haB been made hereto * day with regard to the Birkenhead Dock's . The Woods and Forests , which formerly promised the strand , have now laid claim to the margin ofthe Wallasey Pool , on which the docks are erected . Tht government , also , which promised a Bubsidy of Ja- . t 50 . 000 to aid the works , now states that it has not the requisite power ; and consequently , the com * pany has determined to close the works . The corporation of Liverpool have also pnt in a claim to the strand .
ScouNpRBLB . —A correspondent informs us , thatoa Monday " three individuals were taken into custody in Glasgow , accused of having , on tbat and the pre * ceding d * j \ been caught sprinkling a potato field with vitriol , in order to raise a panic , and the price of grain . V this is true what do their abettors beserve ?"—Caledonian Mercury . _O'CoNXKLia ' a Household . — At Derrynane Uous 4 chapel , _massiBcelebrated _^ ve ry morning by theRew J . O'Sullivan , who resides in the Abbey . On tht right ofthe altar is a large chair or new . where Mr
O'Connell nsed to sit . " It has a back ' seven fee *! high , and this pew is now covered with black olothi _* v-. " _^ _--- — - _»^ -v . Mi . a , '« _ij _ jiv' ( mo n » -i . " _. _x-Vaa"Oi . ~ * v- »___ ttiu _. ¦ Lambs Ndrskd bt a Don . —A few days _sincesomt _Bheep died on a farm near Coventry , and seven Iambi were left without their parents . About the' same , time a large bitch , of the shepherd breed , hada littef of whelps , which were immediately drowned , and tht lambs were placed under her care . The bitch immediately adopted her new charge , and now suckles aad nurses tbem with the greatest fondness .
Thblatb Thomas Hood . —Lord John Russell _hal announced her Majesty ' s intention of conferring A pension of £ 100 a year upon the children , of this highly-gifted bat unfortunate author . _Landsurn fob thb Royal Navt . — On Saturday , in consequence of the difficulty experienced in pro * curing men . accustomed to tho sea to complete tbe _croirr- of the Queen , Caledonia , Howe , and St _Vincant , of 120 _j _^ na each , now lying at Spithead , order ! were received at _iha naval rendezvous , Tower-hill , to c : ter _landsmtifl for the _Bei-vice , between 19 and 29 rears of _» $ _>} , sad not " _ess than f « vo feet sue inches In height .
Gke 8 NW ! . ; _u _Hosi'iiA'r .. —The names of _several dlaf * tinguisbed ofb ' _cers art _nicntiwed for the T & canfc ga » . rerflRhip . of'Greenwich _HospiiaJ , -amongst others , those of Sir Edward Codrington , Sir George Cock * . burn , and Sir S . Bj am Martin , all of tbe ? nn \ m list , Sir Edward Codringtiwi k _cousidered likely i * _K'O *' ceed to the _appointment . ExTRAORDIaNART H ) _BAT 01 ' "iHl * WE > . _* _fHXH _.--Oll MoHL * day the barometer at the Royal Humane Social _?' * receiving-house , in Hyde Park , stood from eleven a . u _* to five p . m . in the sun at 101 degrees of Fahrenheit ,, and in the shade at 83 degrees . Reduction _ih ihe Price o _? Bread . —On Tuesday there was a reduction of one halfpenny in the price of the 41 b . loaf ol wheaten bread throughout the variona metropolitan _districta , the high priced _bakerscbargine lid ., second quality 9 _ d „ and household 9 d . and 8 Jd . the 41 b . loaf . Rye bread is 7 d . the 41 b ., and Indiaa bread 2 d . tbe lb .
Fall of a Grain Loft . —Some days ago one ofthe lofts ol a granary at Craigie gave way , and fell to tht ground floor , with ail its accumulated treasures , in one promiscuous uproar . We believe more _granaries throughout the country have fallen within the last six months than during the previous sixty years—certainly no proof of the scarcity so loudly asserted to exist in the land . —Perth Advertiser . Recruiting in ths Country . —The recruitinK parties in Essex bave received orders to commence tbe enlistment of infantry recruits for the term of 10 years , at the same age and standard as before , under the new act upon the subject , which received the Royal assent last week . The term for the cavalry and artillery is 12 years . A _Gobmansizbb . —There was found dead lately on the banks of Pulganny , alias the Water of Badenock ,
near Drumlanford-house , a craigy heron , the stomach ef which , when examined , actually contained the amazing number of 39 fine burn _trouts . Sugared Medicines . —A singular mode of preparing medicines appears to have been recently adopted in France , by covering the most nauseous descriptions of them witb sugar in a confectioned and highly * finished state—so as to represent sugar-plums and comfits , and to deceive any person as to their exact quality and real substance . This is now extended _, from small kinds of confectionary to articles of ft larger description , equalling the size ot sugared almonds , as they are called , and containing a very considerable quantity of the medicinal properties which it may be intended to incorporate , or rather , ' conceal therein—and in this state imported in thin country for nae .
CoNSBOBATIOaV OF IHB NBW COLOWAIa BlSHOPS . —Ofl Tuesday tbe four new Bishops of Melbourne , Ade * laide , Cape Town , and Newcastle , were publicly con-.. _secrated in Westminster Abbey , previous to their de * parture for their respective dioceses , in the presence- - of a numerous assemblage of persons . Fonsral oy Dr Lthch . —At one o ' clock on _Wednes * daythe remains of this gentleman were deposited in t their last resting place , in the Cemetery , Lower Nor * wood . The funeral was strictly private . ExT . RA . ORn _ N _ . iAT Crw o _? Apples . —Jas . Crosby , | sen ., has growing in his orchard at Holme , near . "
Burton , a small apple tree , and upon one of its s branches , which is only five feet in length , there are a one hundred and fifty-six apples , allot which appear r to be in a healthy and growing state . —Kendal $ Mercury . New Route to Lake Superior . —Tbe British go- * - vernment have established a semi-monthly mail to o the Copper Mines on Lake Superior , on the north h side of the lake . The conveyance leaves Toronto on n the 13 th and 28 th of each month , and takes _passea _* , ;* _gers through in sixty hours to Sault Ste . Marie , by y way of Lake Sitncoe , to Sturgeon Bay on Lak « « Huron , and thence to Owen ' s Sound , and then n to the Sault . This is 450 miles nearer than by Lakt ; t
Erie * * A Hit at Ma John O'Connell , thb New _Lkadsb _,, \ , —Leader , quotha ! A leader , look ye , gentlemen , il-ilone that leads . A national leader is one that leads Ie a nation . But a fat young gentleman _offive-andid thirty , without eloquence to sway the multitude , e , or passion to stir them , or imagination to elevate te them , or humour to please them , is he a leader 1— - Nation , Death of the Elephant ai sbb Surkkt Gardens , » . —On Tuesday morning the female elephant , so so long a favourite with the visitors of the Surrey ay Gardens , expired after a comparatively short ire illness . A Large Eao . —We were shown yesterday a ben ' s _n ' _t egg ol unusual size , kid in the yard of Mr Graj ' gj ' 8 mil ) , Pollard-street , Ancoats , on Monday last . _Itslts circumference , round the middle , is six inches ; _: s ; round the ends , U inches ; and it weighs _thretret ounces . — Manchester Guardian .
The Militia . —A bill brought in by the _Secretary-ryat-Warandthe Judge Advocate-General suspendsnds ! the making of lists and the ballots and enrolments _ois oil the militia ofthe United Kingdom until the IstoBtol ! October , 1848 . . Singular Fbbak op Lightning . —On _Saturdardai | morning last a large ash-tree , growing by the _roanoadl near _Garstang , was completely stripped of its _leaveavei : on one side by lightning , leaving the other as _greeireeii and luxuriant as ever .
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Royal Polytechnic Institution-. —The highly _iay in teresting lectures of Doctor _Bachheffner on the ape a {; plication of electricity te telegraphic purposes so _rao re cently given in the abovenamed _estabUshmentoentl have led to the introduction of a series ofworkinrkini models of Cook and Wheatstone's electric telegraplraptl and the electro-magnetic clocks of Mr Baines , thi , th : property of the Electric Telegraph Company , an , am as these modeU are used and exhibited by two _asaiswaisi ants ; of , the company , who attend daily for that pnt put pose , the working of this extraordinary and valuabluabi _jinnlicfltion ia thus practically laid before the _publpubll
-more particularly as the simple yet lucid lllustriustn tions of Doctor Backhoffner on this subject must vust full in the recollection of the numerous _visitorsitorai this institution . _Thishighly interesting trust , the learned _profesaor will be induced at no very distant period . There are also tkr a week some most interesting and hires on Chemistry , by Mr Noad , who himself well qualified for this science , bis being highly agreeable , and the matter for this popular institution . Mf Gifford , to tho establishment , has a moat admirable engraved on cornelian , of the elephant the 11 th of June , and which is now exhibitinpn gallery of the Royal Academy .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 3, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_03071847/page/3/
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