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      F Lottrp Unite In Timthe August 5, 1848....

      August 5 , 1848 . - THE NORTHERN STAR . 3 ¦ ~ _^ _^ -i i ii——¦¦ _i-.-. —ii _. iii ¦ i ¦

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      The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls....

      THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA ' HALLS . BT THOK 1 S 2 _. 0 . XE . Tbe harp tbat once through T _ a ' _s _halls Tbe soul of _mniic shed , Kow hangs as mute on Tara _' _i walls , " ' As if that soul were fled : — ~* " So sleeps the pride of former days So glory ' s thrill is o ' er ; And hearts that ance beat high for praise , - * fow feel that pulse bo more ! Ko more to chiefi and ladles bright The harp of Tara swells ; The chord alone that breaks at night Its tale of ruin tells u—* t _« Freedom now so leidem _wates , The only throb she gives , Is when some heart indignant breaks , To show that still ihe llvei .

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      ANALOGIES AND CONTRASTS , OR , COMPARATIVE SKETCHES OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND . By the Author of ' The Revelations of Russia ' London _; T . C , Newby _, _*** 3 _, _Mortinerstreet , Cavendish-sqnare . ( Continuedfrom our last . ) The author of this work contends for the found and generons policy of abstaining from interference in any political movement which , not calculated to weaken England , might conduce to the advantage of Francs . He sees no objection to France annexing to her province of Algeria anj portion of Morocco _ivhich a fair casus belli might give her a fair claim to . lie _argues for the extension of Franee to the

      Rhine , and even to the Scheldt , provided the inhabitants of these territories are willing to become French ; and he would willingly _ _a France the _possessor of the Balearic Islands , if legitimately purchased from Spain . French ambition directed to a practical object would no longer intrigue for a barren supremacy in the court of Spain , or the councils Of Greece , Turkey , and _Ej-ypt ; and hostile rivalisaft ' on with Great Britain in China and in Polynesia , would be abandoned for more profitable employment . In the present Btate of the world ' jealou _ y of French aggrandisement and power can only arise from c _. wvdice , ignorance , or folly , or originate in an invidious prejudice which no Englishman would dare to - ___*

      The second volume of these' Sketches' opens with an account of Lotus _Pmm-fB ' _a parentage , education , life , and character . We extract the following aotics of the celebrated case of

      X-KIA STE _ . The memoirs of If aria Stella have heen declared libellout and _toppressed , bet never confuted . It Is wellkno _ tbat -he claims to bs the child of the heiress of Penthlevre ( who had previously only given birth to females ) by the _Duie of Chartres , ( afterwards Eg-lii . her husband , who In his ambitious anxiety for a _xatlt heir , had prepare * a boy to substitute for the ohlld about to ba torn , in case it shonld not prova a mile . This changeling , the son of Cbiapplnl , the executioner and jailor , the author asserts to be Louis Philippe—hertslt the daughter of Egaliie

      The fact that there were at ona time thirteen tadirl-< 3 ual « , each cla _ un _$ te be the _Dinphin , son of Louis the Sixteenth , supposed to have perished in the Temple , asd that the _preleaslos of most of them was supported by a strong _lO-. n _. u to the B . urbon family , which probably suggested th * imposture , _rasdered it easy ta throw discredit on the story ef _l-aria Stella , and reduced to slight importance _nerper-onal resemblance to tbe family with which she claimed kindred . The ntter dissimilitude of Louis Philippe in fettnre en- in character to every branch and member of the Boarfeon family—the failure of hit partt « aui to meet and expose the fallacy of Maria Stella ' s charge—are far more significant features ofthe case . *

      For those who have been accustomed to regard her claims at no better-bunded than the pretentions of the thirteen _inrpersenators cf Louis tht Seventeenth , It may cot be uBinteret-lng to learn that ths obtained , notwith-¦ landing the energetic opposition of Louis Philippe , a _fiec-iiou ia ber favour from a native tribunal , Ih June , IS .., by a decree of the Episcopal court of _Faenza , to which Lady Ktwborough Sternberg had made 4 ppl __ t . ro , tte entry in the baptismal refister cf the priory church of St Stephen , pop . and martyr , at Modig-tana _, bearing date the 17 th of April , 1773 , and declarisg -Carta Stella Petrenilla to have been the daughter of Lawrence Ghlipplai and oi Yic ___ ia Diligenti , wn formally altered , and the wai therein inscribed instead , & t ehild of the Count and Countess of Jolnvillt , the name under which _E'lliies ( then Due de Chartr . t ) and his prin . « ii travelled . We give some further quotations from this _

      _-tp-LOUIS-PEltirfS ASD CHAEETTE . _Das-Ooxier , witb whom Louie Philippe escaped to the Austrian head quarters at Hons . tired on by D _. _reusfs battalion ss he fled , was _iswiguing to raise him to the throne . He had written to propose bim as sovereign ot France , to the sob of iha tx-priTatesrsman , the _eountrygentl-m & a and Y _. ndeaa chief Charette . Ths _nneoinproaisicg Ch & rett _* , who entered ___ nt « _i with the white p _ mB waving from his hat , to treat from _eo . u _. 1 to equal with the revolutionary _aaihcritles _, who hsd scattered likt chaff tke hosts of tke Brnnswicke , Cohnrgs , and Bakes of York , —Charette , wbo having only thirteen follot- _ i , __*_ s _ m _ lo _ to give np the _contest—replied _ as to the _resegaie _ mmand _ r . — Ssinte Plaive des Lonps , 21 st Nov ., 1795 . Dub DrJ . oc-.--s , < Tell the ion of Egtlii . toba d _. . d . ( Signed ) * Chevalier Chamttx . ' _to-. s-rHi-. _r-.-E ' s toctbfcl _irtbiocss .

      "When his brothers and mother were removed beyond the power of his countrymen he was not only willing but anxious to bear arms ag » inst them . In August , 18 : 8 , he landed at Gibraltar , to give military assistance to Prince Leopold of Kaplet _, as regent of Spain against th e French . In 1809 . he set on foot _iatrigues with the view of being sent with a Cat-Ionian army , as Regent of Spain , to Invade the French territory . On the 21 st ef Msj . 1810 . -ft-r hi- marriage with the _P-incs-S Amelia of _"SapUs , he landed at Tarragona for that purpose . But here he found that Lerida had fallen , and that the army of _O'Donnel ( Count of _Lafbitpal , whose son was afterwards csp tured and shot , by Z umalscarregul in the Carlist war . ) fc-fl been defeated . This would not suit TJ . ; b-« . s He dld ' nt like it . As a biographer . aye , 'he

      resisted the temptation cf once more resuming his place at the head of a brave army , and declining the favour _, fcc , re-embarked for Cadiz . ' At Cadiz , he was _requested ta quit Spain , bnt urging the invitation he had receive-, through a Don Manuel Carserero , neglected thit tug . gt . tion , and after pertttaciously contending for three months for a _cemmand against bis countrymen , pleaded hit own cause at the bar of the Cortes , with so touch _eloentnee , that he was rewarded by a formal refusal , and obliged on the Sri of October to return to Palermo . Frem Lonis the Eighteenth he accepted tbe mission to combat the _rricolonx _andtr the white cocksde—a mission which the rip id rMvC-ton oi the ; fj al _ttoopi to _^ P ° - Uon , aad tha di-frae __ l flight of Louts , _cauied -dm to abandon . Hit i-tcllaatlon prompted him to oppose * he __ p _ r __ ts , —hit _judgment to retire to Twickenham .

      Th ? fact of _Loois-Phiiipp- 's never having borne arms against his countrymen , io pompously set forth in 18 Sfl , was therefore due at leist as r _ c _ to the prudence of ottH-rs as to his own patriotism or foresight . _ 18 . 8 . he _aetniDy c __ l - in „ to the secretary at war , that Sir Hugh _Dalr . mple had thwarted an his pro . _jtcts in Spain . _CoUingwood wrote to him , ' tbat thoso princes who have borne _arsst against their country have ___ _=. b _ a hsppj in thtir object i and the _Duke of _WeUingtoa not only dissuaded him from that Step , but was _setna-ly instrumental in preventing him frem obtaining a comma-id against the French in Spain .

      litre can be no doubt of Lours P _ nLi- _ a's complicity in Dimkr ' s conspiracy . His _treason and ingratitude to Charles X . cannot be questioned . ___ The _25 _? a-.. ination ofthe Duke de Bern excited suspicions _sgainst him which were never wholly dispelled ; and the suicide or murder of the Prince de Conde affixed a stain to his reputation which has not , nor never can be effaced . _lOUIS-fHl-I-FE ' S AVASIC _. The young prince , whose lavish generosity had been festered by an _ambliions father and preceptress , who saw in _pro-igalitr , a means tf popaUrlly—having win . dered in Germany , where road-side notices f yrbade ' vagrants and emigrants to tarry more than a quarter of an feoar , '—thence into Switzerland , _whsra the naonks -R the St Gothard refused him admittance on account of bis hu : _nb ! e attire , aad where absolute poverty oblieed fcim to seek a livelihood as _ttecher—instead of _acqalring

      in f ach a 6-hooI a practical _ ruowle _5 ge of tbo mi » -rl- » which tke distribution of wealth may alleviate , and the taodtrata expenditure at which all enjoyments , not purely imsginary , may be procured—learned only to wer . _eiip , _ hit 6 od the gold by whose privation he had s _. _ftered , and came , when the richest man in Europe , to

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      unite in time the avarice ofthe miser to tho monev lander ' s avidity . /' LOUIS-FBI !__ AWD _B-NJASCIH COS _ 1 KT . Benjamin Constant , inpurably addicted to gamin * died almost ia actual privation—driven shortly _prevlous to hU death , amidst signs of external opulence , actuallj to traak _hts fast oh a dry crust and water , Advantige was taken of his ptnury to press on him , through his l « dy , by the instrumentality ot the Qaeen ofthe French the sum of £ G . 000 as a present from the civil Ust . B _ _' . jsmiu Constant se far forgot what wai owing to himself as te accept , under the promise of secrecy , from a _polltlosl adversary that gratuity , but not _f-uffictently wbat nnS _» -. I- - > ... . _ .

      was due to his country , to allow the gift to influence his political conduct . He took for an aet of magna _, nimity what _Louis-rhilippe only Intended as a _brlbs . _» Hd that sovereign , stung to fiad the conditions not complied with , whicb , ia his view of the case , the acceptance of his largesse implied , caused it to be pub . _lUbed te the world , tacked to the calumny that it was the price stipulated by Benjamin Constant lor the abandonment of prinoiples undeviatlngly sustained in the / ace of strong temptstioa during a long life , This disclosure wat the death of Benjamin Constant , whe never afterwards held np his head .

      POBT « AIT OF _LOCIS-PHIIIPrr . Unlike all the Bourbons , L . _nis . _PMlipp _. In per _ n it said to resemble the family of Chtappini . Middle sized , and now o . ese , bis aspect is strikingly plebeian hit physiognomy rather intelligent than intellectual , that is to ssy , more indicative of _panetration than ef the combinstion of perceptive and reflective power . Its expression—if not flattered by the painter—was in former years mere nobis than at present , though perhaps even now tbe uneeasing caiicature of whioh _ht has been the objeot leads one ta imagine , in ths deepening lines of age , the signs of self-complacent _gaila _, which perhaps have no existence but in association or fancy . The resemblance ef kit face aad head to a pear and tbe ingenious use made of that likeness in a celebrated trial , are well knowB _populsrly to have earned for him the nickname of * La poire . '

      The "Political Comedy oftho Spanish Marriages ' is an amusing chapter—another illustration that ' truth is strange , stranger than fiction . ' A chapter on' The Swiss Question' is followed by one on' Italian Aff lira ; ' passing by thesis we come to the chapter on ' Public Men and Political Farties in Franca . ' This portion of tbe work exhibits the celebrities of Franoq as they were , or aa they appeared to be , before the revolution of February . _Guizir , Thieeb , Berries , Lamartikk , _Odiixok Barrot , Ledrc Rem . Lauennais , Louis Blanc , and others who have recently lost or acquired power ,

      are described in this chapter . The portraits of Thiers and Gciz _ are powerfully drawn , particularly that of Gm _ 6 T The description of Guizot is a masterpiece of writing . It is singular that our author should have prophecied the present position of Thiers . _« When , ' says he , ' those events take place , of whicb , if the writer mistakes not , a little bird sings just now , it i . possible that Thiers is the only ene of the four [ tbe other three are Guizot , Mois _. and Dx _BseouE , ] who stands morecbance of fi _. uriog again in public life than the surviving ministers of Charles X . ' We transfer to our _oohunts the' full-length _pertraite' of

      6 UIZ } T AHD TBIESS . Both ere historians , both orators , both refusing to participate in the struggle of July , both subsequently profiling by It , both ministers , both party leaders , both » . iters for a paper founded in the interest of iha Orleans dynasty , and now devoted to ita downfall , both lnstrnment-1 in tbe rise of their royal master , both in turn duped by tim—tbe one—Guixot , short and slight of statute , the other , Thiers , hardly reaching with his shoulder the marble of the tribune . Gui _. ot at Ghent daring the hundred days . Guizot in the three days of _Jsly , at Audry de Payravean ' s _, who boldly flung the gauntlet in the face of monarchy , reading the draught of a protest in which he proposed to sign that they 'were boenden by their duty to the king ( _Ciiarles X . ) ' Thiers , during this time , _refuse-taking at H ? . _ ama de Gourchamps . in the valley of Mont .

      morency . Guizot , since the death of Perrler , notoriously the most steady and _onflinchlcg advocate of the encreachments of power _. The attribution to him of the stern precept—Soyez inpitoyables ! Be merciless I if no better authenticated than the ' up guards aad at them' of the Duke of Wellington , 'lagarde mturt mais nt ss rend pas' oi Cimbronne , or the 'Due d'Orleans la tneilteure des Rcpwliques ' jot Lafayette—is characteristic of his repataii-n . ' La travail est un . rein , ' Labour it a bridle , is another of tbe harsh apothegms which it is lest doubtful that he uttered .

      -Thiers , ' bitterl y observes c _« adversary—and bis friends cannot gainsay tteeallegsti . n , 'Thiers—bas identified his nasae with tbe state of siege of Paris , with tbe exploits ofthe Bue Transnenain , with the incarcerations of If ont St Michel- witb the laws on association , on street eriers , on the courts nf assize , aad on the _joernals , with every measure which has trammelled French liberties , tended to _degrade tbe press , to corrupt juries , to deci mate patriots , to dissolve the National Guard , to demoralise the nation . ' * Both have b _< en doubly inconsistent , but bere all point of rtsemblance ceases , _ead tbere remains no trace , in continuing their _port' _-itufe _, only features of dlsslml . iitndt . Short end slight In stature , Qui _ t Is not _usdigaifled in aspect .

      The melancholy sh & deeloudlng a noble forehead—tbe cold , disdainful smile of a drily chiselled Up , _givs to bis features an habitually austere _expression , which a flashing « ye _detpen * into ener-y . Crave in deportment , harsh in _manser , peremptory in gesture , dogmatical in tone , be seems—In voice full , clear , affirmative , and devoid of modulation—less to persuade than to impose a cosvictioD , or dictate an idea . Aged if not old—for tenure of office seven times repeated , and now consecutively continuing in its sixth

      year , between a resolutely-willed master , insatiable majori ies , and a threatening people , does net _re-javenate —that stern , contemptuously self-possessed , and careworn figure woald be more then dignified . Tbe pale and bllisus countenance , contracted lip , ascetic sar _* _o-tm , snd doctrinal sententious _spsecb , would conjure up one of those famous doctors of Geneva , who , after vindicating human thought _agaiajt Rome , doomed Seivetus to tbe stake—if the schoolmaster aad pe __ ant were not more forcibly presented to our though t * .

      Rising , In fact , into notice as professor and political _ditciple of Rover Collard , another professor , everything about Gu z ) t—style , elocution , and oratoryare redolent of the dictatorship of the professorial ohair . There is , indeed , more ef tbe acerbity of the vindictive pedagogue , irritated iato severity by scholars to whom he has been preaching patience and forbearance than of the minister ' s unscrupulous ambition , in that dereliction of principle by which , after _streLUously upholding , daring a whole life , representative form s , be bat ean . ; into thc officious tool of monarchical encroachment

      If Guizot be tha _pedagogus , Thiers is thoroughly the Frenohman of onr old comedies and popular _prtjadice—not _impetuoatlT e _. _raegt , as b „ l ( a century of revolution and reaction have made the Frenchman now , —but as our playwrights caricature , bio . from the monarchy , —Icqus-ions , frivolous , versatile , and vivacious . * * * Thiers , far from exhibiting the deportment of the statesman , seldom rises even to the dignity of the

      man . Ths _oosquelte and blouse would befit bim better than the toga . Restless , ardent , voluble , full of gesticulation , be to the precise type of those Parisian boys overill - posts , annoying pasters . ? , and ripe for all imagi - nable miichlof . Guizot plumes himself upon the strict integrity of his p rivate conduct . Disinterested amidst corruption and opportunity , no breath of suspicion bas ever tainted hit fair fame , and he derives from ofaee neither personal nor family advantage .

      O . tentatiouslyiBcorruptible—with Roman self-denial , he leaves his nearest kindred placeleis and almost _indigent—and he has never been benefitted in fortune by the immense _petroasge passing through bis hands during some twelve years heha 3 conducted or formed part of the administration—a patronage of whicb in England we can form no adequate Idea , bat which , In a country whose civil government is carried on at five or six times tbe expense , aBd with fifteen or twenty times the number of officials of that of Great Britain , sometimes in a single year places three , four , five , and even ten thousand offices or promotions at the disposal ofa minister .

      Thiers , on tbe contrary , has accumulated vast wealth , in which he luxuriates witb the keen sense of enjoyment of a new Pericles in the modtrn Athens . Tbat fortune , of which the foundation was laid by tbe prinoely generosity of L-fitte , he has the reputation of having swelled ta colossal proportions by means illegitimate if usual amongst bis colleagues , Suspicious predilection forthe m anipulation of secret «_ rvic _ money , for centrol ofthe telegraph , and speculations on the Stock Exchange , are held to account for the worldly prosperity ofthe statesman , # * * A ministerial psper _ob-erv . d on ft certain occasion in 1839 , that Madame Thiers wore a diamond necklace , worth several _thoasand pounds , the gift of Queen Christina . Guizot , on a subsequent occasion , refused a ' most with reproof a similar present from the Dey of Touts

      , ... Bat though Guizot enjoys the reputation of nnshake . able _civU probity , and though Thiers be accounted anything but over-scrupulous , this distinction is exactly re-Terssd In th-lr respective political _Oh-TaOlSM . Guizot , as a politician , is profoandly dishonest , whilst with Thiers no stlf _ baseme _ . t has ever sufficed wholly to extinguish , but only to obscure his politioal Consistent io the _dereliction of Ms early convictions , or at least of tbe qpinlons he had recorded—tbat is to Uy lnotber words , persevering in dishonour— Guizot has done more than all other ministers put together t _» render venal tha Chambers , ani corrupt the electoral

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      t m Ab » ndonlng constitutional theories as the price or office , he ha . be . oiia the willing and even zealous instrument of a policy not only hostile to thoir _derelopement , bowerergradual , but directed totbelr actual frus-Aft * eTentaal subversion . After teaching and preaching " for to maBy years the K i . ' i __ ° free _Bwnment , only for its own sake to De limited or _rettrloted—when driven to elect between ireeaom in a different degree , and attained by another process than hit own , or a _retura to arbitrary and _wormeawn . j _. Um . _, which ho had taught to be pernicious 111 fxp _; _uaded to be _nnstabls-Gulzot chose absolutism , ana took up heartil y Its tendency . Unable to restrain _« _ir __^' , ccordin 8 _«<> b _» s early theories , a sovereignre-! ___ __ _ _* . f M to _" _-n . _^ re signed hi . will _" 2 i _ __ * ! _k _^ _tt'e of a _royalmaster . Tt ,. _ _-- _ a * - _» _wjiiiujaBWfi

      a , * t tu * . ° ° f Gu , " . whcn he looks round him disdainfully , _ that of one who has carefully weighed , tested and determined the v _ l . „ the price of adversaries and colle- gu-, , whose votes he has dene so much to render marketable . Hard , uni mpressionable , and cold , _Gu _'_ ot seemed difficult to bead , ai a bar of stubborn iron . The supple Thiers _enrvtd , on the contrary , like the pliant bow which a strong hand inclines . S tep by step , witb s tarched and grave _eomposu _., _ain , imperceptibly , tbo solemn ouizot—whose temper seemed incompatible with monarcMes and courts , as tbe aust . _refigura of John Knox with the pageantry _surroundlag Mary—declined into the abject _.. rvitor of a dynasty from tbe lofty altitude to whioh he had raised his professorial chair , when doctorlally lecturing , so to say , from cabinet and sonata and practicaU y developing , as minister or party leader , political views on which be bad philosop hically theorised .

      Thiers , tha keen oppreoiator of Danton , the panegyrist of the rei gn of terror , fell on the firs t smile of Louts Philippe at the feet of the citizm king . His Majesty had no courti * r more servile , no _ssrsitor more daringly offi . fi-ious ; the enemies of his government no more for - midable persecutor . Whether aoting with military promptitude , striking with military severity , upholding arbitrary laws _erganislne tbe secret service , or imparting te the police an _aotivlty unknown since the days of the Empire and of Fouche , more devotion could not be evinced .

      Gnlzot labouring , In his literary oareer with _apposite _tingioneie of _purpoie _, will _naver be pre-eminent . Thiers , if he bad written in the sincere spirit ofthe historian , might have beqaeated a monument to the admiration of posterity , hut inspired rather hy the motives ofthe partisan and politician , he records the past as an advocate not as a judge , and to acquire popularity bas misapplied the genius by which a lasting tame might have been achieved . Neither Thiers nor Guizot ars remarkable as orators ner can either be termed positively " eleq _. ent after such men as Ber ry er the advocate , or Lacordaire tbe preacher .

      Guizot , pedantio , starched , and artificial—even in the inornate simplicity he affects—would ntver secure a tistener er move an auditor , but for the prestige of learning with an assembly _-lagnlarly deficient , ( although exceptionally comprising capacity and knowledge so fsalted}—but for tbe faith with wbich timid conservatism regards him as the Moses chosen to lead It through the howling wilderness of innovation , and above all bnt for ths party at his back and the Interests of which he it tha _baantr . Cold , dogmatic , rational , he addresses the chamber as the pedagogue his scholars , and generalising upon facts , addresses but one argumint , false or true , to tbe comprehension of his auditor , reproduced under innumerable forms and repeated till imprinted on their habitual inattention _.

      Thiers , perfectly natural , is perhaps the only orator in tbe French chamber who speaks as be converses . Entertaining and witty , a brilliant master of sophism and of argument—his speeches never weary , whilst not unfrequently be strikes bome tothe feelings of his auditors , and carries with him friends and adversaries . The influence of _Galaat , more due to accident than to capacity , is ia a great _mes . _urs tbe result ef the unyielding exterior by whicb his pliancy has been masked and oovered . A knot of placemen aHd electors , dispensing or

      enjoying the rnlnons patronsge of the state , constitute an oligarchy in disguise , tbe natural accomplice of monarchy . Guizot has been tho casual link of their collu sion , Ko extraordinary genius is required , because a common interest and a oemmon danger suffice to keep together that _fafinitesaimal minority oftheFrtnch people — tbemajority ofthe French representatives and electors _. But though in thus far _eplwmerally borne outthough ca _. _BilIy meeting with apparent confirmation , tbe - . heeriej of Guizot were always of a nature essentially Inapplicable to France in a permanent manner .

      Far from evincing genius in their combination , he di d not even give proof of common sense . HU judgment approached rather to that of children who build ap for the morrow tiny houses of shells and taad on the sea beach still wet with the receding tide , than to tke forethought ofaltiebiiieu devising tho _extinction of feudality , or tbe sagacious daring of a Pitt adventuring successfully on an appalling struggle , and comprehending tbat it admitted of no compromise . » # » Impractical in ' _views , without fortitude to sustain tbem , wanting in forethought and deficient in will , what bas he of the qualities , which for geed or evil _characterise the great minister , or make the statesman famous !

      Pliant where seemingly obdurate , intriguing where oust ere . infirm of purpose wbere apparently most _usjleldiog , he bas descended step by step from constitutional convictions to dynastic partisanship , from dynastic partisanship into senile * agency , from servile agency into Infamous connivance , and through that c » nntvance , tot * tbe _ab-icsttOB even of the dignity of manner by which he masked so long bis gradual and utter subserviences . _Whenevtr he passes from tbe political _soene probably it will ba into oblivion , unless in as far as bis name may be preserved by connection with the magnitude of

      ths calamity which sweeps away the system with which he is identified . Perishing , as politically his credit must , in the vain endeavour to stay and retrograde the irresistible advance of progress—in tbe insane attempt to check its march , by linking the right hand of _constitntioBal government la that of tottering absolutism , he will be regarded , not as a Mllo crushad by the oak ' s rebound , but _tiaply as the unscrupulous tool broken in the hand' of a crafty and _ocvetous old man , wham the fracture of the instrument on wbich he leans cannot fail seriously and ptrhaps fatally to _iejure .

      Franco will recall , that forthe sake of power Guizot abandoned those constitutional principles he understood so well and taught so long , that he sacrificed to the interest of tho honse of Orleans tbOBe of Franoe , and broke np that alliance with Great Britain of which he onee appreciated so keenly the value . It will bt _remsmbtred that he connived with Russia , Austria and Prussia in tbe suppression of Cracow , with Austria and the Jesuits against Swiss Independence , that In opposition to the sympathies of a wbele nation he supplied the anti-liberal party with money in Spain , with arms in _Switzerland , and that in open chamber he _discouraged the liberal conduct of tbe Pops .

      It will recall , that , flinging even tha formal gravity aside hy whieh he had ones imposed on friends and foes , he derogated into equivocation , trickery , and falsehood , until through each rent of the imposing garment in which he hsd b . en robed so long , appeared to all men's eyes the m 6 _ BtA _+ _dUd of & -fly & l _ _. _«_ _¦ . S _ 4 a __ dL _ g In tbe mantle of a Cato . Guizot is not , In the estimation of the Republicans , a man ol courage . His most menacing expression is held rather to be the pedagogue ' s severity than the _ster & ness of the terrorist . Tblers , whose political principles have inconsistently oscillated between the democratic equality of the Republio aod the ' glorious despotism of tbe _-Sftpi . _e , has based U > political views on a _foundatloa far more secure than _Galzjt , because in accordance with the prejudices of a large majority of the French paople .

      It is nnqaesUonable _, that soeial equalisation , with Republican forms and a war policy , have almost equal and quite irresistible attractions for the masses . It cannot fairly be doubted by _SBy one closely studying the French people that bath will gooner or later ba adopted _. To these military instlnois Thiers has always bean anxious to appeal . The guidance of victorious hosts bas been amongst the most ardent of his politioal _aspi . rations . He has evidently dreamed of seeing renewed tke days when a commissioner , uoiti . g in bis person the whole functions of aa _Aulic council , accompanied the Republican armies of the Sambre , Rhine , and _Meuse He emulates , no doubt , th _» career of St Just , no less energetic and daring at the military tribune than in the convention . Only tbat , far frem imitating the uncompromising _iategrity of the stern R _. _pneUcan , Tblers would unquestionably have purchased the opportunity of national and personal glory by subservience to any

      system . Want of space has compelled the omission of a portion of the picture of Guizot . and also certain reflections of our author , which should bo read in connexion with his account of _Thibrs We have , howe ver , quoted sufficient to justify the assertion that the portraiture of Guizot is a _masterpiecB . As to Tbi-bs , we think our author has overrated that showy rather than brilliant scoundrel ; who , more for t unate than Guizot . has not deserved his better fortune . We cannot see that Tmkbs has anything in common with St Just . The immortal republican W _68 the very antipodes of the living adventurer . Si Just _wauuure ; Thiers is corrupt . Si . J va was a warred against

      hero _iffi a coward . St Just kings , and proclaimed tbe great truth , that to reign _ Self a crime ; ' _Thibbb betrayed the people to _Saltl _trlifo " feinK , and bu , * P _^^ _ft ' his treason . St Just was the champion of the _suffering ind the oppressed , and terrible only to the oSiow and torturers of the people ; _Tbmb has Sen terrible to the people whom he had betrayed , S & SS _Sown himself the advocate of privilege oppression , and legal rapacity and cruelty . Si Jd » t _Sacrificed his own reputation and his life in bis _el-SStvOTetto multitude ; Tbr _» _, heedless of reputltion . . till lives to _aacrifice the many to his own hut for plunder ard _pewer . The memory of Sr Just . __ , !;__ hii traduce ... in holy and honoured b y a ll oi

      overs of _justice ; the memory of _Thbm . m spite hia panegyrists , will be aceowed and ab _^ 'ed . _tEs www will be _flonclBded ia oor a « S _nanfor .

      Analogies And Contrasts, Or, Comparative...

      _Z-M Purgatory of Suicides . A Prison Rhyme in « n Books . By Thomas Coopbb , the Chartist . _£ f ! _"rt Edition . London : J . Watson , 3 , . aeon s . lead Passage , Paternoster . row . Our estimate of this remarkable work is so well-Known to the readers of this journal , that anything use a review of this new edition would be quite superfluous . * Namerou 8 unartistio rhymes and other * . _„ ' * 8 wel 1 aB misP" _* _ints , which are to bs found '„ - v ? _^ edition , ' have been corrected in this ; which contains also & few additional notes

      some intended for the instruction of ths reviewers of the first edition . No deubt the critics will feel much obliged to Mr Coopbb . The prinoipal improvement of this edition on its predecess .. is that it ia published at something less than half the original price . We do not mean to say that this poem was not worth the seven shillings and sixpence charged for the first edition , oa the contrary , we tnink its worth was not , and is not to be eBtim . ted by mere ' Billet ; ' but our meaning is , that in its

      present cheaper form , it will be more accessible to the working classes . _Perhape it will ba aa well to add , that for popular convenience this work may be obtained in sixpenny parts , aa well as in the shape in which ic is beloro u . — a neatly bound volume . Serious political differences with the author not prevent us repeating good wishes for th lation ot this wonderful poem ; whioh we earnestly recemmend to all our friends and retders , who ma y up to this time be unpossessed of a copy ofthe Purgatory of Suicides .

      » Maria Sttlla Originally Appeared At Th...

      » Maria _Sttlla originally appeared at the age of sirte b upon the s'ige at Florence , where she married Lord Kewrorough , and after bis decease a _Livonian nobleman , Baron _Sternberg , son or nephew to the famous Baron of that n « aje _, put to death by tbe JSmpresa Catherine , tor the pracdeo of setting up false lig hts on his patrimonial _islind of _Digoe , to lure _Tessels to thtir destrucUon . It has been urged thatthe stery of her parentage msy feave originated to the degradation consequent on _Chisppim ' s o _. cupaUen _, whicb in Italy trenimits an hereditary taint , and his anxiety to free his daughter from a _stigxn __ whicii would have prevented even htr education for the sL-ge . Itis farther proTen , that at ths death of Chiappini , she claimed in court , aa a child of tbe deceased her al are of his property . Bat this will n _«; account for the euddea accumulation fcy a common hangman , of property which enabled him to give Hula Stella an expensive education , aad to divide , _txclu . ing her , a handsome competent )* amongst III _ihildrsn . Her weakness , inconsistency , and _Ingratifc _ d . , toon disgusted all wbo took her cause in band , but we cann _. t , with the page of history before as , consider Vitte oaalltiss as disproof cf her Boerb _ orlgla .

      * Yucoahm Wasau,

      * _YucoaHM _wasau _,

      Po L? Lc 'F° R Workers. The Reasons Why ...

      Po l _? lc ' f ° _Workers . The Reasons why John Dobeon the Weaver , had to send his child to bed without a supper . London : W . Strange , Paternoster-row . Decidedly this is one of the most instructive _publieations we have seen for many a day . Por one penny the working man may learn the causes , political and social , of tho degradation of himself and bis clasj ; and wh y , in the expressive words of the title of this tract , he has to send his child to bed without asnpper . ' The Jucid explanation of the papermoney and loan-mongering system is truly valuable _, and calculated to work great good in the way of veritable popular enlightenment . All' workers' will do well to make acquaintance with this very excellent ' tract for the times . '

      Periodicals. I. —The Reasoner, Part 27. ...

      PERIODICALS . I . —The Reasoner , Part 27 . London : J . Watson , 3 , . ueen _' _t-head-passage , Paternoster-row . 2 . —The English Patriot and Irish Repealer . No . 2 . Manchester : J . Leaoh , 73 , Rochdale-road . d .-m Truth Teller . No . 1 . Stalybridge : B . S . Tre a nor , _Melbourne-street . l . —Mr Holyoake has lately been ' lionising in the provinces , _^ delivering lectures in Lancashire and Yorkshire in illustration of his peouliar views on theology , politics , _ .. One of his subjects appears to have been ' Imperial Chartism , ' and although we

      have not a line of hia lecture , it is easy to divine its character from the comments it provoked on the part ofsome of his honest' whole hog'listeners . At Rochdale , ' ono man , ' saya Mr Holyoake , ' whe sat before tne , said to a friend before him , ' Yon chap ' s a Whi g . ' Another remarked 'Yon leeturer wants to bring us over to the New Move , but is won't do . ' A t hir d said , ' I think he ' s paid by the guverment . ' Acquitting Mr Holyoake ef any connexion with 'the euverment , ' we are not sorry to learn that tbe Rochdale lads were rather too far north for bis 'new move reasonings .

      Mr Holyoake omits no opportunity of lauding tbe half Cbartist member for Oldham , or of having ' & slap' at the whole Chartist member for Nottingham . Wben speaking of his visit to Oldham , Mr H o lyoake takes occasion to praise Mr Fox for bis boldness , before his election , in identifying himself with the principles of the celebrated author of the ' Rights of Man . ' _Yerygoid . But , how ia-it that Mr Fox has negleoted opportunities of identifying his name with the principles of Thomas Paine sinco his election ? We have a distinct recollection that , on two or three occasions , Lord Arnndel and Surrey , Mr Drummond , and others , have brutally assailed the proprietor of

      this paper , for advertising Thomas Paine ' s works . These opportunities should havo been seized npon by the ex-oracle of the National Hall to prove his own courage and honesty , by lifting up his voice in condemnation of these cowardly assaults upon the memberfor Nottingham . Such a course the member for Oldham would have pursued , had he , in tbe words of Paine , been 'bold enough to be honest—and honest enough to be bold . ' As an instance of the pugnacious propensity cf our ' mildest , meekest man' to hare' a slap ' a t Mr O'Connor , when opportunity offers , we seleot the following : —

      Speaking of the ' mountain breezes' familiar to all who aie acquainted with Hebden-bridge and ita romantic neighbourhood , Mr H . says : — ' I t hi n k the Hebden winds , O'Connor wind 3 , or winds belonging to the late National Convention—they bluster bo . ' T h i s s trik es us as r a ther more pit iful t han witty ; but tastes differ . The editor o f t he Reason er , who seems to have been destined as a politician , to ' sing small , ' reminds us of tbat sentimental worthy who entering a place of public refreshment , desired that his favourite beverage might be supplied to him ' as cool as a zephyr and as mild ae milk , ' on whicb some 'National Conventionist'disgusted with this _mawkishnees , blustered out ; ' Waiter , bring me a tumbler of brandy , as hot ashand as strong as d n !'

      The ' Moral Remains of the Bible , ' and ' Rudiments of Rhetoric , ' by the editor , and the accounts of tbe * Rise and Progre . B of the Swies Republics , ' by Mr Collet ? , will well repay attentive perusal . But what does Mr Holyoake mean by introducing tbe chapters from Mill on ' Population , ' with a flourish of editorial approbation ? The damnable dootrines propounded by the cold-blooded political economist , — Mill , entitle him to the _exeorations of the working classes , as we Bball tske an early opportunity of showing . What hallucination can nave induced Mr IIoltoakk to applaud suoh doctrines we cannot imagine . We do not say this to excite prejudico against h im or the _Rbasoner ; but w e are su r p rised and sorry to see him coquetting , if not worse , with tha t vile creed of the _Mammon-gorgere—Malthusianism . We are obliged to the Reasoner for tho following translation of a letter from the pen of _Geoeoe Sand , published some time since in La Vraie Rbpdbliq _ —f * The True Republio' ) .

      LE PIHE C 0 HMDNI 8 M _ . I do aot complain of _beieg persecuted , because that would be very pnerlle , especially in a moment when all _SoolallstB are entrapped os state criminals ( many more important : than myself ); it appears to me sufficiently logical that the reaction should enfold me in its system of _reprobation ; hut the moans employed are eo varied , so irregular , so Ingenious , that it is proper to place them in their historical light , aBd share them with you . For example , bere in Berry , ao romantic , eo mild , eo good , so calm , In thi . oonn'ry I so tenderly love , nnd where I haTe sufficiently proved to the poor and simple that I know my duty towards tbem , I am I above all others , nm looked npon as the eaemy of the human race ; an- if tbe republic has not performed its promises , It la evidently t who am the cause of It .

      I have . pct . rc . ry been able to comprehend how I could have played so great a part without suspaoting It myself . But at length it bas beea txpl-ined so smBciently to me that I can no longer _wltbhol - my assent to the evidence . First , then , I am associated in the conspiracies of an abominable old man whom we call ia Paris Father Communism , and who has prevented the bourgeoisie from con . tinning to overwhelm the people with ktndna . s and bene _, first . This miserable wretch bavin ; discovered that tbe people were nearly famished , hit npon a plan to diminish tbe publio charges . It was this : to slay all oblldren trader three years , and all old men above sixty ; th . n he wishes that no one should marry , but that all should live after the fashion of the beasts of the field . So much for a bsginBt-ff .

      Afterwards as I am a disciple cf' Father Communism , ' I have obtained from M , le due f Rollin , that all tbe vines , all the lands , all the meadows of my canton shall be given to me , and that I intend to take possession immediately . I shell establish there tho _oltiaen ' Communism , ' and when we havo killed tbe children and old men , when we have established In all families the law of the beasts , we shall give to eaoh labourer bix sons per day , and perhaps less , while they lire as they can and we make merry at their expense . Do not believe that I exaggerate , or | _. a * —tbis is textual . It is better yet , Since the affair of the 16 th of May , when , as every one knows , the executive commission bad proclaimed M . Cabet King of France , I have cau _. ed tbe best deputies to be put into the Donjon of Vincennes , and oven my best friends ; so tbat a brave farmer for one of tbem desired , moreover , sot for tho first time , to bury me alive in a ditch .

      It is thus , In fact , tbat our mild and goad peasants of ( be Back Talley are taught politics . Ic might be imagined , if we did ' not know them , that all these follies were born in their enperatltlons brains . Bnt nobody knows their good sense and intelligence better tban I , Only tbey aro credulous , Ilka all who livo afar fr . m facts , and tbey add fact , to those things they are told . Who undertakes to teach them so faithfully , and give thorn all this moral and philosophical Instruction 1 It would seem to me easy to name the professors of tbls new social science ; for within tho three days that I have returned Into tho eonntry , I know these fathers of tbe people , and tho ol ject of their oivillsational predioations But it is of little consequence whether it be this man or that . That which is important is , ih . t the fact is produced at the same hour in all France , and that by an admirable manoeuvre of the _dynastlo bourgeoisie , the same explanation of Communism Is spontaneously spread at tbe moment of the eleottons , with the same accompaniment of veracity and delicacy of benevolence ,

      In 1789 there was a fantastic tirror , which propagated Itself aa au electric current from one end of Pra nce to the other . Everywhere the arrival of _trlgsndi wbb announced—tbe tonnB were _barrio-de _. —tbe _praeants hid themselves among their corn . Here , they still call this ' the year of great fear . ' Tbe brigands were waited for —they came not . Will , 1818 will have been a second

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      year of fear . We have dreamed of _Commt-Bi-t aathrc . pophagl , and , what is better , seen them . E _» ery eandldate placed on the _indea by the _wa-Monnatr _.., if he belong to any shade of republicanism , is transformed inte a Communist In the eyes of the scared populations . We know semerepubllcani _anthsoolaliits , who w . re stranded _ _Communists ;' some editors of the At _ _l __ ( Workshop ) who have been overtaken and _ooavlcted of _Communism . As the rural populations , andeven thos . of certain towns had never heard this word pronounced , , it was necessary to explain it by some p _ lpi .. l _ _ act Thus citizen _Sueh-a-ono beats his wife . Surely no 1 he _wonld _soonercut off his own arm . —Oh ! do not _b-lleve It he flatters her in publio , but he makes a martyr other in private . And good 9 » d , wherefore does ha this !—B &

      oame he is a _CemmuniBt . Another has devoured the dowry of bis wife . But he is not married , and never has been ! Exactly so : be was married , and he was not ; ho Is a _Communist , —As to tbe third candidate , take care ! tbls Ib a man of Iiedru _Bollln , who is a _Csmmunist , — But the fifth is recommended from M . Lamartine . So much tbo worse : M . Lamartine is a Communist , all the provisional government is Communist ; select only _those men of tbe locality who have never set foot in Paris , and consult us again ; for there are a grsat many hidden who will be discovered by time . —But tbe sixth candidate , wbo is a workman , bo will please us well . He ia the worst of all , he gets drank from morning to night , and leaves his family to die of starvation—he is in debt—he reads books and knows how to write—he is a threefold Communist . —

      Wbom then shall we trust ? Trust us only , for tbe Com _manlBt is everywhere . The Country is in danger . If you do not take care , one of these mornings the divisl > n of land will he proolalmed—the six sous per head—your wives and children will bo seized , and all this because you have voted badly . History will ene day enregister this _ourious phaso of our Revolution . Posterity will _soarcoly bu able to boliev-It . From to . _day , however , ne oan call in testimony of it all tho candidates elected or nen . eleoted in France . Somo havo succeeded only by inventing and accrediting thOSO vapid extravagances—others , because Ihey have sucoeeded in baffling them . The majority have bsen forced t . swear . _espsct to _fam'Iy and property , as If family and property had run a veritable danger . AU the republicans who have _snco _. od _ d ean say if the aoeuuUon of C _mmunlsm has not been employed to baffle them .

      If this imputation and tho imbecile calumnies attached to it have served only to falsify the election of the _natlenal representation , tho evil would bo sufflelentlj great . But tbey have produoed _nnother-whlch is not less . Tbey have bewildered , abused , spoiled , bratlfltd la some sort tbe human species . They have caused the entranco of fear , distrust , bate , _in . _ul- _- _, menace , in the _masntra ol the populations the most calm by temperament and the best disposed at the outset of the Revolution . Tbey have spoiled the spirit ofthe people of the provinces , at tbe moment when its _intelllgrnce Has abont to develop and open itself ts tho knowledge of its rights . Tnsy hava soiled and stained whst God has made the purest and most beautiful , ths oonseknee of the simple man ; they have troubled and hallucinated what he eoniervsd as the most poetio and impressionable , tbe imagination ef the simple man ; they bavo saddened and _demsralised that which God has blessed among those things the most holy and the mo _. t respectable , the life of tho simple man ;

      Astonish yourselves , hereafter , ye teachers , generons and candid , if , after having greatly insulted and _meaao . d the republicans , th * Paopls , disabused , turn against you to demand an acoonnt of its reason and its dignity , of its right and its justice confiscated to year profit ! And if it be rude , whom naturo has made ao patient—if it be brutal , who was ce mild—If it be furious , who was so good—will you say that this is the effect ef republican ideas and manners ? Happily , the people is better than you , and will pardon you , but you play a hesvy stake with it , and we fear muoh having one day to defend you , you who now endeavour to unloose it against us .

      Behold where we are , my dear Thore , At Paris we are faotions when wo are socialist . In the _provinoos , we are communist when we are republicans : and when we ro socialist-republics-., oh ! then we drink human blood , murder little children , beat our wives—are bankrupts , drunkards , robbers—and we risk being _aesa . Bloated , at tbe corner of a wood , by a peasant who believes yon run mad , because bis master ( bourgeois ) , ot his priest ( eure ) have set him his lesson . Thus it goes in France , the Sr _. t year of tho democratic and social republio . We bave devoted our fortune , our Uf ., and our soul to this People , whom tbey wish to lead to treat as at wolves . _G-eosqx Sand , May 2-tb , 18 . 8 .

      Since the insurrection of June La Vbaib Rbpob-__ . b has been suppressed , and its editor , tho talented and demooratio patriot Those , has been for more than a month past the inmate of a dungeon ; one of the sad consequences of popular ignorance andthe fatal' moderation' ofthe victors of February .

      2 . —The editors of this publication seem determined to prove themselves ' bold enough to be honest —and honest enough to be bold / But in the bold course they are pursuing , will they be upheld by np pular support ? Unless they are , they will bs sacrificed . The contents of this second number ot the Emolish Pa . mot are interesting , and ably written , and fully enforce the motto selected by the editors , viz : ' As Labour is the source of all wealth , so is the juat distribution of its productions the only true foundation of national greatness 1 '

      3 —Another penny publication , with the significant and appropriate motto : — ' You shall know the truth , and the truth shall make you free . ' Thoroughly Chartist , and heartily contending for real justice to Ireland , this publication has claims upon the support of both English and Irish Democrats . The artiole entitled ' Do tbe Working Classes want the Charter V is a spirited appeal to the proletarians whioh we trust they will answer ai their safety , happiness , and honour demand . This number also contains _artioles on the arrest of Dr M'Douall , Ireland , ic . dsc . We commend the Tbuth-Tbli . hr to all lovers of the truth in Stalybridge , Ashton , and th e surrounding neighbourhood . Tbe more such publications multiply the more rapidly will the principles of Democracy progress , ' conquering and to conquer . '

      Brutal Buffoonery. On A Correspondent Of...

      BRUTAL BUFFOONERY . On a correspondent of the Dailt Nkwb comp l a inin g of the charge of two shillings admission to the gallery of the Old Bailey during the late Chartist trials , Punch delivers himself of the following brutal j _ e : — THEATRE ROYAL , OLD BAILEY . The performers , both in tbe Dock and on the Bench , ars extremely costly to the country ; and as the principle of paying to enter Courts of Justice is , it Appear ., fully recognised , It shonld either be abandoned altogether , or thoroughly carried eut . If followed ap with skill and energy , a profit might ba realised sufficient to pay th * _ojst of criminal _prosecadons , especially if the working 6 f this plan were intrusted to tbe parent of public eoonomy , Mb Home . _Meantime , wa would modestly suggest that a programme of each day's performance should be published , bb at the other theatres ; something after this fashion - . —

      CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Immense Attraction ! First Appofirance of tha Lo __ D _Cuiep Justice this Session !! Ma Seb-E . _* _ Wilkins in two new Pieces ! It _Triumphant success of the A . xobhe _.-Gknesai . !!!! The _Porformanc 8 will _coramenco with a NewTrial , bo entitled

      SEDITION ; 0 *| 'HE CABINET _HAKEB OF C-EBKENW ___ _--R-E ' -. First Conspirator ... Mb Ibbf _^ eos ruaers _, ( Who wil ba assisted on this occasion by hia five Infant Prodigies , with real daggers , ond now pinafores . ) Second Conspirator ... Ma P . Lionet . Other Conspirators ... _Msssas V-bnok _, Wi-mams , Suabfe , & o . Counsel for tho Prosecution Sia J . Jkrvib . The part of Counsel for the Defence by Ma Seb-babt _TTl-KIHS , First Jadge Sia Thohas _Wudb , Sacond Judge Ma _Bahosi Pabkb . First Alderman 1 in full < Ma Sidney .

      2 nd Alderman ) costume ( Sib 6 . _Cabbol _.. Cleric of Arraigns ... Ma S _. _BAionT . Crier Ma Habkeb . Policemen , Witnesses , Penny-a-liners , ko . ko . kc

      AFTEB WBICH , THE BATTLE OF BONNER'S FIELDS ; CS , THE CHA & _T-B AND NO _SUBR-ND-B ! The Charter , bv an isvimble PEBFOBKEa . First Ranter Mb _Ebnest Jones . The other Characters bb above , Gallery , 2 s . _Jury-ln-w-iiini ?; Bosres _, it . ' , Stalls , one GnlneB each , to be eng _. ged at the prinoipal Police Stations . — N . B . No Half-price —Distinguished foreigners may securo _saats on the Bench f . r tbe Season , at twenty pounds _B-piece .

      TO-MOBBOW , A CA 8 E 0 ? MURDER OF THRILLING INTEREST ) BT AN _ENTIBELT NEW COMPANV . Support tie British Drama ! Coma early !! We think Punch must be at his wits end , when he oould find no other subject to jest with than the sufferings of human beings , who—however much he may be opposed to tbeir principles—aro undergoing the law ' s penalty for their opinion .. A charge lor admission to publio courts of law is an abuse deeerv . ng the keenest satire and deepest reprehension ; but when we reflect that before trial FusseU was grossly caricatured in order to ensure hia conviotion , we think there is no one possessing a calm and dispassionate judgment , but would turn from the paragraph above quoted in disguBt at the morbid mind ot the writer

      . .. .. -,. „ . We find no fault in calling the Old Bailey a Theatre Royal . The proceedings in courts of law too generally are little better than a farce .

      Mak This Most Bnutal-Bears, Woljes, Tige...

      Mak this Most _BnuTAL-Bears , _woljes , tigers dogs , and even cats , will courageously defend each Other , when assaulted , and lose thetr livesim vindic .. tion of their own kind . Man fights with man , an . for _biie eombatB hia owb _likenou .

      #At F$ Aim Jtannes

      _# at f _$ aim _jTannes

      • We Cuuthe Chokett. '

      • We cuUthe chokett . '

      How The Monet Goes. We Are Paying Thousa...

      HOW THE MONET GOES . We are paying thousands a year to _thedVscendauta of the demireps and Moll Flagons who infested and pellut-d the court of Charles II . Is _thatright ? Wo are also paying for the immoralities of William IV . Ia "that right ? We have been paying two thousand pounds a year , ever since 1798 , to the Prince ef Mecklenberg Strelitz What are his claims upon England ? What did he ever do for his money ? We are paying a little , but a little too much , for the peccadilloes of the late Duke of Sussex . And who is Augusta Arbuthnot that we should even pay her £ 100 a year ? Or Arabella Bouverie , tbat she should

      have £ 3001 Or Augusta Brudenell , who gets -. 902 and why tho odd two ? We have been paying £ 10 per annum to the Hon . G . A . F . Sraythe ever since he was ten years old . What has he done for hie country at those tender years , and wbat baa ho done _S . ' _iW _' Reil _* y _hM £ 222 during the life of Helena White granted by George IV . Why was it _wL- ! ra ntfor own life ? And wh 0 » He , ena White t _ me _Schomberg , a Dutchman , get 8 i 62 880 a year because he is lucky enough to be the grea . _great-great nephew of a soldier of fortune who waa killed when fighting for William III ., 160 yearn _sinee . And _theusands , and teDs of thousands , and hundreds of thousands are regularly thrown away , year by year , in other abuses of the same kind .

      LOBD CHATHAM ON _BESISTANCH TO OPPRESSION . The liberty of the subject is invaded , my lords , not only m our distant provinces , but at home . The people are loud in their complaints ; they demand redress ; and until the ir juries they have reoeived aro redressed they Will neyer return to a Btate of tranquillity . Non ought thet ; for is my judgment , my lords , and I speak it boldly , better were it for them to \ erish in a _glerious contention for their right . i than to purchase a slavish tranquillity at the expense of a single iota of the Constitution .

      JOHN LITTLEJOHN , John _Litthjohn was staunch and strong , Upright and downright , scorning wrong ; He gave good weight , and p » id his way , He thought for himself , and he siid his Bay . Whenever a rascal strove to pass , Instead of silver , money of brass ; He took his hammer , aBd _oaid , with a frowaj ' The coin is spurious , nail It down , ' John LlttUjohn was firm an _& true , You oould opt cheat bim in ' two and two ;' When foolish augurs , might and main , D _. rheoed and twisted tho clear aad plain , He saw through the mazes of their _tps _. ch The simple truth beyond tbeir reach ; And crushing their logic , said , with a frown , ' Your coin is spurious , nail it _dotvn . '

      John Llttlejohn maintained the right , Through storm and shine , in tbe world ' s des p i t e When fools or _ajuckB desired his rote , Dosed bim with arguments , learned by rote , Or by coaxing , threats , or promise , tried To gain bis support to the wrongful side ; ' Nay , nay , ' sold John , wiih an angry frown , 4 Yonr coin is _sparious , nail It down . ' When told that kings had a ri _? ht divtoe , And that tho peopls were herds of awins _. That nobli'B alone were fit to rule , That tha poor were unimproved by school , That _ceas less toil was the proper fate Of all but the wealthy and the great ; John shook his head and swore , with a frown , * The coin is spurious , nail It down . '

      When told that events might justify A false and crooked _policy , That a decent hope of future gocd Might excuse departure from rectitude , That a He , tf white , was a small _offanos To be forgiven b ) men of sense ; * Nay , nay , * said John , with a sigh and frown , * The coin is spurious , Ball it down . ' When told from tba pulpit or tbe pr _. B _. That _htaten was a plac . of --. olualveness , That none but these could enter there , Who knelt with the orthodox at prayer , And held all virtues ont of their pals As idle works of no avail ; John ' s face grew darh , ob he swore , with a frown , ' The coin is spurious , nail it down . '

      Whenever tho world our eyeB would blind Witb false pretences of such a kind _. With humbog , can * , and bigotry , Or a specious , shani , philosophy , With wrong _ _res . ed up in tbo guise of right , And datkneiB passing itself for ligbt ; Lot us imitato John , and exclaim , with a frewa , ' The coins aro spurious , nail them down . ' Natiomal Pr __ ritt . — . ' The peaoe and prospe * rity of a nation will always depend upon uniting , as far as possible , the _heads , hearts , and hands of the whole people , and on improving , not debauching their morals . '—Lord Bollingbrohe ,

      Robespierre ' s Aims . — 'Robespierre's doctrine was , that the revolution ought to change altogether the material and moral condition of the labouring classes ; whereas , en the revolutionary side of the Assembly the grand affair was to transfer to the rich , orafty , active shopocracy , the authority hitherto usurped and monopolised by the nobility and _olergyi ' —Bttonarotti . SOUS INCIDENTS OV BA & EIOB ' _-JeXECDTION . In conclusion ho spake and behaved himself so , without any show or fear of affectation , that ho _mored znn-h commiseration , aad all tiat saw him confessed ( hat his end was , as far as man can discern- every WBy perfect . It will not be amiss to Bet down some few passages of divers tbat I have heard . The morning that ho went to

      execution there was a cap of excellent sack _brought to Mm , and being asked how he liked it , ' A _» the fellow / said be , ' that , _dricklngof St Giles ' s bowl as be went to Tybutn , said , that wa » good drink if a mau might tarry by it . ' As he went from Westminster hall to tbe gatehouse , he spied Sir Hugh _Baetsov . in tbe throng , and _calling en him prayed he would see him die to-morrow . Sir Hagh , to make sure work , got a letter from Seeretary Lake to the sheriffs , to sea him placed conveniently , and , meeting them a < thoy came near to tbe _leuffold , delivered his letter , but tbe latter , by mishap _, had left his spectacles at hom _., and put the letter in his pocket . In the meantime , Sir Hugh biing tl-. ru 6 t by , Sir Walter bade him farewell , and said , ' I know noc what shift you will make , but I am sure to have a place , ' When the hangman a > ked his forgiveness , bo desired to see tbe axe ; and , feeling tho e < - _' g 8 , he said tbat it was a sharp medicine to cure him of all his diseases and

      miseries . When he laid down some found fault that Ms _faco was _westward , and would have bim turned . _vVborc upon rising , he said , ' Ic was no grea : matter which way a man * , head stood so bis heart lay right . ' He had giren orders to the _executioner that after soma short m & ditatlon , when he stretched forth his hands , he should dis patch him ; after once or twice puttiag forth his hands , tbo follow , ont of timoro . _BnDBS ( or wQBt other _cau . t ) _, forbearing , he wai fain to bid him _sirlko , and ao , at two blows , he took off bis he _< 3 , though he sttned not a whit _atttr the first . The people were much Bft ' actod at tho light , iQ . OHucii that odd w _. b _hcud to anj . no h _. d not such another head to cat off . _Auothir wished tbe head and brains to be upon S . N . ' s shoulders . There was great means made for his life ; and I hear th Queen wrote very earnestly to the King as he _tcndir _. d her bealth te spare bim , ter tbat sho bad _received groat good by his receipts . —Jo * " ! Chamberlain , Esq , to Dudley Carleton , London , Oct . . 1618 .

      He had the favour to die a gentleman ' s deatb , and to be beheaded . His end was , by the general report of ail that were present , very Christian-like , and so full of revolution as to move all men to p'ty aod wonder , la geing from the prison to tbe _scaffold , _amongtt others that thronged to tie him , oae od man t _ c was bald pressed forward , insomuch as Sir Walter Kaliegb teok notloe of bim and asked him whetbe . be would h-va aught of Ofa . ! To wboui the old man _aeswered _, ' Nothin * ' but to see bim , and to pray to God to bave mercy upon his soul . ' * I thank thee good t ' rlend _, ' r _. pli _ Sir Walter , ' aad I am sorry I have no better thing to give thee ; but take thiB _nightcap' ( which was a very rich one that he wore , for he had had two tits ofa fever ) -for thou bast more _nt-d of it now than I , —lieu Thomas Lorhing to Sir _Thmas Pueiering London , A 0 » . 3 , 1618 .

      A R _. _paoor of _Foppeit . — Dean Swift waa a gres . _' enemy to extravagance in dress , ond particubrly to iha * destructive ostentation in tha middling cle _. ' . _ea , whicii led thorn to make an _appnarauce above their condition in life . Of his mode of reproving _tfela foil ) in tcoi . p _. _isans for whom he had an esteem , the _followi _. g instance has been lecorded - —When George Faulkner , the printer , returned from London , where be had betn _» ul citing sub . _scriptious for his edition ofthe Doan ' _s _woiks , be went to pay his respect to him , _drtB 6 ed in a laced _weUtcrat _, a bag wig , and other foppmies . 8 _nif ; received him witb tho same ceremony as If he had _bien a Btr _. ngtr . ' And pray , air , ' said he , * what are your cemmaBds with me l I thought it was my duty , sir , ' rep ied George , ' to wait

      upon you immediately upon toy oniv . il from London . ' Pruy , sir , who are you ! ' ' _Georifo Faulkner , tho printer , sir . " 'You Georpo _Faulku _. r _, the pr ' . _ntar ! Why you ara the most impudent , _bare-laovd _scoundrel of an Impostor I ever met with ! George . Faulkner ia a plain , sober clf ' zen , ana would never trlik himself out in laco and oher fopperies . Get jou gone , you rascal _, or I will imm'diatelj tend jou to the Houso ef Cometh ) -. ' A * ay _wrntG . orge as fast as he could , and having changed hia dr . _ss , returned tothe Damtry _. _whe-t be waa received with tho _greatest cordiality . 'M y fume ) , Guorgo , ' says ihe Dean , ' I am glad to . eo _ u r . waed safa from London , Why , there has been ( in _frepu-cnt fellow with me juBt noiv , dressed in a lacs _waUtooot , aud be wotl 1 fain pass him . e f iff for you , but I soon eent

      bim away with a fl : a in bis ear . T . ras . s and Slaves . — When a free people crovoa , like oatat U , to be loaded , the next at band , no ma-ter whOi mounts them , and they soon fei 1 tbe whip » nd the spur of their tyrant : for a tyrant , whether prince or minister , resembles the devil in many respect . — partic _. la ly in this . De is often both the tempter and tormentor . He _suakefi the eriminal , and b « pu & uhes the _nvat _^ Lvrd Mingiroh ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 5, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_05081848/page/3/