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_~^ VETS ON THE DEATH OF AXLES ** DAVENPORT . SI A BROTHER BAUD ASS _SHOEUAtEB . rlorv ! 0 glory to the truly great , "Who when death comes , can die as all should die ; _i conscience pure—their crowning victory ! d rone who knew bestowing blame or hate : * " -These are they who deserve our homage high , TieroeS—how low so e'er have been their statela whom the best encomiums should await , 1 _wil'l _** "* _" * * ° "ie ri ! 'bt manfully ! j -ike a max has Davenport not died ! _^ „ - k ' r . d friends miu'str _ing to his last few needs , 1 j , e _s _» _cainj—so inward fortifiedlbs _*•»* " ¦ 'bread drawu—his labour gone through quite—While the fine finish all the past exceeds , _T-n . _nothing yd appears to cause the least a Aright . yv _; lie o f whom I speak , my humble friend , s i » oer . too , philosopher—and more :
Thus to the last courageously him bo : e _, _^ . 3 niade tlie honcstalways be his end . What he had thought , and taught of , heretofore , Was now his turn to practise—to commend _jjv ' s on u example . " See' if you'd attend , " _So mfcht he say , " I sro the road before ! *' Arta in" * " they'll take bim where he _ivislieu to be—* E * -en by to-morrow ' s mid-day , where tlie flowers "STill grow , as conies the _-Spring lime , lovingly , Anl charming all , who wandering near , may know The dust imprisoned there , had once the power—Mute as it is—the boldest truths to show
* Th _; reader will remember some verses of the now _ggnirt _& l Davenport , which were printed in the Star a iu tucks ago , expressive of hh _wirti to be buriei in _jscsal Green Cvinetry ; in which be speaks ( as descriptirr of the scene ) of " _Tii- * ? ror . ps of flowers that sweet , vet gaudy , wave , And iTeaitiiug rich perfume from every grave /' r _.-r' _* ai * s it is needless to say , that the allusion here ma jt is to _ihis circumstance .
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_ALLEX DAVENPORT . Altai DtU'C TDort is dead , iiis dealli for some time expected by himself and friends took place on Sundav last , November 29 tk . As the great mass of our readers can onlv have known Alien Davenport by name , or rather bv his poei ' Cil and prose writings in the demoeraticjonrnals . some account ol his iitc will be _interestim _* _. Fortunately the materials are at _baiul , Jlr . Davenport _1-aving abmt eight een months ago published an _auto-Kocrapliv , from wlilch vre extract the following narrative --
—I was oora May 1 st , 1775 , in the small and obscure Tillace ot Ewen , which is on the boundary line which sepirates the county of Wilts from that of Glo'stcr ; about three miies from Cirencester , and somewhat more than a mile frjm the source of the _Thnmus , on the banks of which stream stands tbe cottage in wbich I was born . That famous river , which is only a mill stream from its source to Cricklade . in Wiltshire , is called the Terns , from Cricklrde , to Oxford the Isis , and from Oxford to _lusidon the Thames , where it becomes a mighty and nia' sstie liver , bsariug the wealth of all : he nations of the earth , oa its proud and ample bosom . Consequently I came into existence , while the revolutionary war of America was raging in all its maddening fury , and which terminated , after seven years _glorious struggle , in the iB _* * epe : ] denre , and final separation from the mother country ; and would now be , if not for that pla _* nie spot , hir black slaves , the envy of Europe and the admiration _tfthewurl . ! * - _"* * *
I never was jn any school , for tlie purpose of _instruciign _. inallmy lite . I had to get the very alphabet by cjtrfiia _^ - a letter at a tine as I best could from other children , who bad learnt them at school of some old villa-re daaie , although my father , with the exception of the jiars . _n ami the squire , was allowed to be tbe best scholar in ibe _village ; but bis whole time was occupied in one _continued _struggle , having had nothing but the products _Olhis J « ly labour to providefor himself and his numerous _fitniiy , six boys and four girls ; and who instead _cftl- _'VOiis _, ! what little time he had , after his daily labour was dsne , to the education of his chil " ren , was _obliged to mend their shoes , or card wool for my mother to spin ou the following dav fov at that time the
spuming _jcnsies had made mi' little _progress ; oat as they _advanced every vestige of that beneficial domestic manufacture which had been a little mine of wealth to the pjor cottager , was for ever annihilated ; tlie loss cf wjicli he has never ceased to deplore . Thus has tha invention of machinery sunk both the agricultural , aad mancfiictural labourer to a state of abject _slavery and _"bopsls-ss misery . But let me not here be misunderstood ; 1 do not consider machinery itself an evil , it is like water , a _supreme good , if rightly directed , but in its " present state it isa life destroying scourge ! Whereas , wereall the manufacturing machinery made public property , and made to work / or , insteadofa _ Q _* aui 5 t the vforkinjr classes , it woul 1 be one ofthe greatest blessings that genius ever "bestowed I
In iny early chilauood I took great deliglit m making little implements of husbandry ; such as ploughs , harrows , _ip'id-s , rake 3 , wiudjnill _* _- , water-mills , & c ., & c ., all capable ef being put iuto aeii < _5 n , and performing tlieir din ' ereiit _.-pei-ations ; so much so that the wheelwright of tiie viihije stood by aud saw with astonishment my little ploujh turn over the mould as completely as those which he himself had _rn _^ de . But as 1 _iirew older , my greatest ambition was toac quire the art of reading and writing ; and the method which I employed to attain that favourite object is Hardly _woi't ; _. relating , oniy that it shows what ingenious devices an active miud , endowed with some sparks of nature ' s ir . * , nil ! bave recourse to , in order : o facilitate its progress iu tiie pursuit of knowledge , wbea instruction of every kind is so denied . The plan pursued in the lirst in-taace , was this ; I learnt , as most children do , a number ot son _ 's by heart , and havimr acquired , as best I could , a knowledge of all tbe letters in ' the alphabet , 1
save ! all my _ha'ipfciice and bought up all the printed _solids tbat I c ? uld Sim * -, and began with those that _appesredthe must easy ; my ntw process of education . I _jx-jce « _-ird "to match all the wo : ks in my printed songs , vsitfc those I bsd previously stored in my mind , and by _TtEiemb-. ring tiie words thii learnt , by comparing notes , 1 _fcce . vtiieai again whenever they met iny eye . Uy this method the eye became the pupil ofthe ear , _= nd with both _faculties coin _' _-inrd , I made such rapid progress , that I o ;; eu surprised and astonished my young companions , who c- _* uiu uot comprehend how I _obtaiued _knowicoge . He r . c _^ 'iired tbe art of penmanship by similar mean * -, iie * next attempted the _composition of a son ? . _jj . _-ivins succeeded and annexed _ t _« it the _na-nc « j f a popular tune _, he stuck it up against a tree ii th- iiiiidle of the vilkg <* , ami in a day or two had tic _M' _" .- _" * mc delight io hear it sung by many a lad and ! _-. _";«
_Wiit-n about twelve _vcars old be went to live with a " *• . _•" . ! naan farmer , " in llie character ol a groom . and iu li . at occuption achieved considerable skill in irr « 3 nai :. _"* hip . Subsequently be was einrdoyed by a Jlr . 1 , - awrencc , *» veterinary s « r _^ eon , oi ' Cirencester , ami , _wiiile in tbat _employment , be acquired a good deai * f _I . _* , _* al fame as " a clever " rough rider" ; unl breaker-in ofyoung horses . liai Ad n wanted to see tlie world , and sighed for _liurrtv ; one ruoriiiiif , therefore , he stuie away fnini his _finpl-Tor ' s hou _** e and betook himself to the road , towards i _' rjst'iJ , with the intention of becoming a sailor :-nd _helpin-r to fig ht ' -the battles of bis country" on tha ocean . Alien was . at that time , a
" _"I' _-uvim . " oftlie "old school , " " and _tbougnt , ai ttat _iha " . that _evervtbinjt that was undertaken by £ !!« k : « d was ri _^ ht ; just , and pi oner ; and thai every oticr « at ; =. n tbat opposed ber was wrong and dtsTvc-d timstisement . And tbat France who had just killed ber kiiis _? , exileJ her nobles , and reviled and d _* _'SC- _' _-r ? . ted the . Christian religion , was very wicfccJ _iedctJ ; and 1 sLonted " Church and king as _iondaad as ion-as any priest or lord in the kingdom . And believed that England was not onlyjusti-• n , d , but that it was licr bounden duty to put < . own _, audifi _^ - _"ibl-3 W exterminate such a _ucs' -eratc nati ., n ot levellers , _blasiditmers , and regicides ; And that was the feeling of nii _. c tenths of thc people ol
_Enslniid at tneiieriod of 1 T 04 . Fate , however , would not permit Allen to be a sailor , iie was accosted by a recruiting party who _e-xpeliatedon the delig htful life of a _lisht d agoon , at tlie saire time proffering the significant shilling . Alien accepted and besanie one of a regiment ot _liuLt _c-valvv called " Windsor Forresters , _n sort of poetical _Jiaiiie which bad its due weight with our hero . Ik * did not , however , find things quite s _*> pw .-li .-a . as h _= had expected , and he narrates several _aiumv-incw- which caused liini n « _s email amount ot misfrr . _U /* s .: ent . _a winter with his rci . 'imcnt in
_Siawfw . ] . In the spring of 1705 the n » Hnent was _KiiibVtii 10 Edinburgh , a place which afforded ami _aJ-uw- auce of materials for poetry . _]" the _sI *« ng ol _iT-ii ' th- rc-iment was encamped in fc-nts by the _seasi'on _* , r . car Dmibar _, and h _«* r _* e the soldi * rs spent a tt ' _jst wretched _exi--toice—literally starvin _" . in the an _' _mm , the _rciment marched to Perth and reinsinc . i ficre till the Spring of 17 _U 7 , when _Mirling _hwuc thc place of location , the assistance otitic _siil-lji-n hh ,- required to ovc / awe Uio peop le ol that _f-ut -fib . were disposed to resist the drawings lor the iailiii-u Subsequently the _regiment marched to _•**«• " r isen . Jn the spring of 171 * 9 .
1- _•« , . of a partvap _p-inted to escort a number o K ** te _pris-. _n-rs _, wtoiiad been tried for fci r'h treason , ¦• ' _-iii :: U-. ii coiicenicd in tha Irish rebellion of lt ' Jd . T ivese bitten iu all , and occupied five coaches . - _* • _-. _¦* : « i .., , were the celebrated Arthur O'Connor and _Wd i ! : _, j . . The f * rmer , uucle to -Mr . Feargus O'Con" ¦ " _•* ¦ Un . C _/ . _anist leader and proprietor of the Northern - * * . > r . "¦ ' - 'i _{« i _* i-, tioriofUicsc _iirisoners was fort George , a * ¦ _**¦'•¦ _? i * . _nit > iu the very heart of the _Highlands . _J-M-ir- ,.. Iliarcll Wi . } , sa an extensive view ot _theceletTiuc _KuMwbM hills . And when we arrived at the _for"' _¦¦ M tV . ufc _wccnuid { _aiutly discern the city of Inver" _^ ¦ ba _forticis , as we appraaclied it , had somewhat * ilf ; " 'W * _ii-4 iice « f a _gretii bill , and semied quite harm's '; lu * . - Aba , the drawbridge was drawn up , aud we _*** - _*•« He _pt-aiicrous gates , tbe interior presented a
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little tdwn , _vnth most formidable fortifications . Our prisoners were conducted along the ramparts , till thes _eame _oppositetheir place of confinement , where a temporary brid ge was suspended from the rampart to the _BMond floorof the building over which tbey _wwe carried where we lost eight of them for ever . ti _« ? _^ erJ ee . ' _H . _* MW « a iDg . he learned himself the trade ot slioeinalung _, with some assistance from two _generoui working men who kindly afforded him instruction in the " craft . " He subsequent ! v settled down to the trade , aud continued to work at it until within a short tinm of his decease . In the year 1 S 00 the regiment was marched to Warwick , and there disbanded , peace having been made with the French government .
Alien was now cast upon the world , Iris whole foptune but five pounds , at a time when the quartern loaf-w as one shilling and tenpencc halfpenny , and every other necessary of life in like _proportion . After some time Allen got job work from a master shoemaker at Cirencester , but at starvation price . * * . In 1 _S 01 he came to London , and got work of a _iMr . _Uarding , in the Edge-ware—road . Allen toll ' s a sad 8 ory ofthe misfortunes of this worth y man ana his family , whose afflictions , _thou » h undeserved , appear ta be of the most poignant character . For one of his subsequent employers , Mr . _Bainbritlge , he worked tor the term of eighteen years .
In 1 S 05 Allen was converted to the democratic faith , as expounded in the " Speaccan _System . " " This was the title of < t work b y the honest " and indomitable Thomas Spence , containing a new administration of the landed property of the kingdom ; his trial in Westminster Hall for sedition , and a great numberof letters on various subjects , , all calculated to Improve the condition of mankind , and if reduced to practice wouid comparatively make the world a paradise 2 1 read the book , and immediatelv became
an out and out Spencean . 1 preached the doctrine to my _sbopmatcs , and to everybody else , wherever , and whenever 1 could find au opportunity . 1 had been a . sort of Whig reformer before ; but 1 new saw clearly , that all Whig , Tory , or even _Radical Reformers , were as rushlights to the meridian sun , in comparison with that proposed by the clear beaded , and honest hearted Thomas Spence . And I told all the reformers that I met with , that no other reform was worth fighting for , but they generally laughed at me , and called me a visionary . ' *
Atthe annual meeting of tbe Polish Democrats on Sunday last , November 29 tb , the following _rcsoluli-us were unanimous ) v adopted : — "It was not till the 1-kh of August , 1 _SU , that 1 made my debut in the character of a poet , ltben wrote a poem on the _crand fete in the parks , in celebration of the general peace ; and sent it to the Sunday Paper , the News . And on the following Sunday , 1 had the extreme gratification to behold tiie poor little bantling—my first born , clad in a robe s of typographical splendour , 1 immediately sent another poem , entitled the " Congress" but that was reieeted . This again cooled down a little of my poetic enthuiasm ; and it was not till ISIS , that I made another attempt te figure in print . 1 had
nowbecome a desperate politician , and in the January ol that year I sent a little poem entitled the " Topic " to Sherwin _' s Register , a very fiery political publication ; it was immediately inserted , and a succession uf other articles followed ; but it was gently hinted thar pieces in prose would bo preferred . 1 took the hint , ami tried my hand in that department ; and if the promptness with which all my articles were printed , be any proof of success , 1 was eminently successful . Sometimes 1 occupied half the space of the Register ; and the signature of "A . D . " became very popular . 1 attended all the great political _meetings in Spa-fields , in Smithfield ,
ami wherever and whenever any such meetings took place , whether within doors or in the open air . During thc perilous years of ISIS and 1819 , 1 strained every nerve , and called every faculty into action , to inspire the people with thc spirit of Reform and to expose the deceit , the treachery , and the base doings of the higher powers , with the Lords aud Commons , under tbe suspension of the habeas corpus . 1 was not content with writing to periodicals alone , 1 printed and published in 1819 . a sort of dramatic poem , entitled . ' Kings ' or * _Legitimacy Unmasked , ' at my own expense . The bookscJers thought it tuo strong , and refused io sell it in their shops ; and whenever it was exposed it was suppressed by tbe police . "
In 1 S 19 he made the acquaintance of Mr . Hunt , Dr . _Watson , Thistlewood , Preston , and all the outand-out radicals of that radical period ; but the Spcneeaus were hi- * favourite party . This party , under the guidance ot the two Evans ' s ( who were iniprisoned in llorsenvmger Lane gaol for preaching the d _.-ctrines now proclaimed on every Chariist platform ) , held their meetings in Arthur-street , Princes-street ; Allen joined tlieir society and became oue of its regular speakers . Allen also took an interest in trade matters , and speedily acquireo the confidence and respect of his " shopmates , " a portion of whom he for a long time represented as their delegate in the Trades' organization . In 1820 Allen warmly espoused the cause of the _persecuted Queen Caroline , and _somesong _* he wrot _« in her behalf were extremely popular .
¦ lie continued writing on subjects _mterestiig to the working classes in several popular periodical * -. In 1 S 27 he published a small volume of poems under the title of the " Muses Wreath . " This is new outol print . Iu 1830—31—32 , when co-operative , projects were largely engaging popular attention , he was enua « _etl insomtt uf these , and took a warm iuteve _** t in Mr . Owen ' s celebrated labour exchange scheme , which , was ai tbe outset attended with such seeming prospects of success . As is well known , however , thc schtiue tailed , and Al ' cn ' s hopes were withered . Subsequently he occupied his leisure time in writing a-iketeh of the " L fe of Thomas Spence , " and various poems . In 1 S 3 C he completed his "Life of Spence , " which he subsequently published . A fen copits of this work are , we believe , stiil to be had ; the
reader will find therein an outline of the Spencean system ; " which" say ' s Allen in his autobiography , * ' Is that all the land , rivers , mines , coal-pits , & e ., be made public property , and be administer * . don tbe principle of Agrarian equality I To abolish all sorts (¦ ' " taxes , whether imposed by the church or the state ; to pay ali ciiueh and state exueusts out of the rental ol the land , < _S _* c ., and to return the surplus , whatever it may bt * , in equal shares , to every man , woman ., and child , in the kingdom . This p lan of holding aud adimiilstcriiig the lauded property of this country , is not now thought near so wild ami visionary as ft w ; is forty years ago , when poor , but honest Thomas Spence , wits sentence I to a year's imprisonment , and * _ty pay a Sue of twenty pounds toaurJord tiu > Kin" "'
About this time , Alien Davenport was elected a member of the " Tower-street Mutual Instruction _Si . cietv . " In 1838 , he commenced _publishing a volume of hi * - poems iu _twopenny number * : under the title of Urania - _notwithstanding many discouraging diiliculties this publication extended to ten number--, when the author was compelled to cease from his labours , not for tli 3 want of matter , out _throm-h the want of means to proceed , lie subsequvntiv published a little poem , called the "English _Ltftilutions . "
The Chartist Agitation found Allen Davenport too far advanced in the vale of years to take a very active part therein , nevertheless there was scarcely anv meeting of importance that he did not attend ; one of the last of such meetings was the celebration by the _(" iccuwich , Deptford , and _Lewishani Chartists of Thomas Paine's birth-day , when at the pub-• ic supper held on that occasion at filackhcath , Allen Davenport- presided . One ut" the last of his poetical compositions was a ballad , entitled " O ' Connorville" ' . in praise .. _* f-the Chartist _Co-opeiative Land Plan , which was published in she Shir of tho 'Bib of _August last . Within a week or two of his death , he published a little work , entitled the " Origin of Man , and the i ' _rogress of _Soci-tu . " which we have not seen .
\ Ve should have stated in an other part ol this sketch that Allen Davenport like ni 0 _!* t other men , had in his youth-lime his love-fits ; his passioii , _however , appears to have teen always under _tliegaiuasieeofliisstiwii-ei' reason , tho philosophy of which is unquestionable , but but no matter . In tiie year 18015 , he married an industrious and amiable " woman . His , wife died in 1 S 16 , she does not appear to have _b-unc- liini any children . The illness which brought him to the grave was _nw-: mioned bv an internal disease of a very painful
nature although wasted t'J a mere tKCiewu iu _* = uy weeks before he died , and utterly prostrate m body , his mind was strong and unclouded by doub _" . or lear to the last moment of his existence , iiis peace oi mind in his last hours si » _naliy refuted the lodge so _iJu-a manufactured concerning the " death-beds _i . f _tboac who have had the sense and courage to cast oil' the influences of priestcraft . " The mind ' s calm sunshine , and the heart ' s felt j" _3 _" . , - ., Is virtues * _priza ; And was Allen Davenport ' s stay in the hour of _dilution .
Prom the time betook to hi * bed a number of irk ™" railed round him , and by their kind _ass . stl _, ce _uida-pealsto the publie , the means were pro-S _^ _ilch subsist ence was ensure , Mj bun diirii . _P the remainder of his career . Like tne _gitat _S' _^ Jld Allen Davenport _^ _/^ J _^ us probably not to leave _sufhe . ent ot e ghtlerin _dus \ to nice ; his funeral expenses ; should _g to * be so , doubtless the democratic : public « _IItiinmcdmteiv furnish the means to liquidate the unavoidable coit of his obsequies . , ... If in the list of poets , we cannot rank A en Dave nport very high , we may at least award to Him devoted to the advance of virtue , intellect , an ** u _* --50 _Jn _, . V _* a man aud a patriot , he well earned the Sm of his contemporaries , and his « _w **» _£ to be _.-raiefuily and proudly remembered by the peo Se as _thenime of another of the great nob es of _Itnre , who , with Shakespeare and Darns , 1 > ne and Spence , have sprung irom the rank s ol l . tOour . _-vyr- _Sii-c" thc above was in type , we have received the Keasoncr , from which we extract the following : —
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DEATH OF MR . _DAVBUPOKT . Mr . Bendall observed a change in Mr . Davenport on Saturday , and on Sunday morning , about nine o'eloek , he died . He preserved hia serenity to the last . Dr . Viettinghoff , Mr . Macdonnell , and other medical gentlemen , frequently saw him— and he continued to receive the attention of his friends . The recent Ball for Mr . D . _'s benefit was unsuccessful , and the expenses ef the burial will have to be horn by friends , who will please to forward to the Reasoner Office , Ilall of Scienee , City-road , Finsbury Ilall , Bunliillrow , Gould Square Mechanics' Institute , such contributions as tiiey can afford—as besides the burial of s * me . mark of esteem is due to Mr . Davenport ' s constant attendant . Received—W . D . Saull , 10 **; W . Bendall , 10 s . ; collection on Mr . llolyoake _' s announcement on Sunday evening , Hall of Science , City-road , lis . 3 d .
At the same time that the Reasoner came to hand we received the following
( FROM A _COKRESrONDKNT ) . On last Sunday morning , about nine o ' clock , the long expected death of Allen Davenport took place under as little suffering as possibly could he supposed . The writer i f this saw him about the same hour on thc Saturday eveniiijj previous , and then he expressed _hims-clf as if conscious that life could not remain with him long—his appetite was fast failinghe could not allow himself to be held up in lied even to take any _nourislinipnt , and death , ho said , would be welcome . His mind was still as clear as ever ; and _SDeakinsf of the small work of his " On the
Origin of Man . and Progress of Society ; " which had just been printed for him . he seemed much gratified it had thus been cot before the world . He also spoke with marked satisfaction of the friendly notice of the same which had then , also , just appeared iu the Reasoner , anil said Mr . Holyoake had been very kind altogether . Mr . Ilarncv had called on him many times ; indeed , it may be said , to the credit of the London Liberals , and likewise those in the country , much timely assistance had been afforded him , and _wanting which he must have closed his old eyes in some dreary receptacle for the pauper !
The Funeral of Al ! en Davenport will take place on Sunday ( to-morrow ) , at Kcn ? al \! _rccn . The funeral procession will stavt from the Ilall of Science , City-road , at one o clock precisely . Mr . Devonshire Saull , as was bis last request , will speak over his crave , and Mr . Holyoake will deliver a discourse upon his death , at the Hall of Science , in the evening .
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_Michelet . —Michelet is no more : the stubborn foe of the Jesuits , the eloquent and erudite , though somewhat mystic historian , the revered professor of _the-Collvgede France . In his recent work , LePeupIc , Michelet recounted the circumstances of his early life , lie was born in 1 T 9 S , in the choir of a Parisian nunnery , which , he tills us , " was occupied , not profaned ; " by the types and workmen of his father ' s printing esahlishment . The printers , however , met the same fate as the nuns ; if the revolution routed tbe one . _Napoleon proscribed the other . And at last the Emperor limited the number of printers to sixty , _obliging them to obtain the authorisation of the government in the shape of a brevet . This mingled tvranny and monopoly of the press still continues .
Michclet ' s father , unable to employ workmen , set the whole family to compose , and the boy thus learned to put words _together before he had ideas . Sufficient time was still found amidst the labour ofa printing : office , for those of _juvenile education . Itmay be here ¦ emarked , that several ofthe eminent French writers of the time were originally compositors in a printing office . _Leroux , editor of Le Globe , and celebrated as a Saint Simoninn , was one . Y _<* ung Michelet , though pinched by hunger , and scarcely clad , was able to t nter the Colleee of Charleniasne , and partake of the _advantatjes of a Parisian university education . Such were the facilities of
education , from which poverty was not excluded . In 1821 , Michelet became professor himself . In 1 S 27 l _* e publise his Precis d'Histoire _Moderne , which , as well as his Precis d'Histoire Romaine , is an admirable school book . A translation of Vieo , with a preface , published the isame year , showed how ardently his studies were turned towar _d s philosophy : and this procured him the post of professor ofthe Ecole Normale . In 1837 he quitted this school , when the " eclectic spirit became dominant there . " lie then obtained a place in the Archives , and in 1833 was elected Prolessor of History in the Colle « e of France . This position he preserved till his death , which _touk place a few davs back . —Daily News .
The Effects of Shot ox _laox \ essei . s—A very alarniimr accmnt has been brought- hy the officers of the Gorgon steam vessel of the effect produced on the hulls of the Harpy and Lizard iron steam-vcs-els by the shot from the batteries of Rosas , in the River La Plata , the result being quite dif _ferent from that expected . Instead of a clean fracture , large splinters of iron flew about in all diiect _' ons on the hull _beint ! struck , rendered the danger fiom this cause tenfold move imminent than that produced bv the shot itself . Several splinters of " this kind struck from thc hull of the Harpy , have been brought home by the officers of the Gorgon , and , _nmont-st the rest , " the splinter from the _anple iron , which caused the death of Mr , Barnes , the clerk in charge . The results constitute a drawback against thc use of iron for vessels of war .
Professor Schonbeix ' s Gux-Cottox . —The legal representative ol ] Professor _Schotibein ha * written a letter to state that the Messrs . Ilall . of Lombardstreet , and Favershain , Ken - , a leading house in the powder trade , have _arranged with Dr . Schonbein for manufacture of this invention under the patents he has secured . The firm in question , which carries on extensive operations for the piihlic and foreign countries as also contracts with Gov rnment , have tried and tested the new substance severely ,
and they have been induced to undertake the manufacture of it conjointly with gunporvder . In order to carry out the agreement , extensive arrangements are being rapidly matured fm- the manufacture of the cotton by thc firm ; and tn meet the objections . " that the substance maybe mistaken for unprepared cotton . " it has been determined , in compliance with Dr . Schonbein ' s suggestion , it shall be issued to the public in a dyed state , variety in the colours serving to indicate the different uses for which it will he intended .
_Yaxkej ! Notion's or I _hee Trade mm K _** _gland — The New York Journal of Commerce calculates on the United States driving the British out of their own provision market . It says : — "An _English merchant , who is here buyinc bread stuffs , says that American flour barrels are cffcctfiig a great revolution in the trade there . The practice from time immemorial , has been to sell Hour in very larae and inconvenient bags , and the trade has been cmlined to the millers and the mcalmen . Hut __ the ureat beauty land convenience of the American _^ flour barrel- * lias brought grocers to buy up the business : and he says thnt now he has orders for fifty barrels a week from dealers who never before sold flour at all . The English cannot counteract this ; for they have no free splitting ash or other timber from which to make these beautiful barrels . So we think the repeal of the English Corn Laws will be something to us—yes * , everything to us—a home market for the simply of IS OOfhOOO mouths .
The ltni > K . \ i , Rest- — ' 1 hronghont Ireland the collection of the repeal rent his been suspended . The wards of of Dublin send only a few shillings each . The London wards do not contribute enough to pay the salary of Mr . W . J . 0 | Connell , the Inspector of Wardens ; and in Cork , Limerick , and the groat town-vthroughout the country there is a distinct determination to contribute no more till the repeal _aiiitation be resumed , and place-hunting abandoned . Thc Nation . Americas Tracedt . —The late high life tragedy at _Richmond is drawing down plentiful comment on the " Lynch law , of which it is such a _striking exemplification . The young and pretty wife of a very wealthv voung man ( Mr . Myers ) was detected by her
own father in a culpable correspondence with a gentleman by the name of Iloyt . Thc husband was informed of it , the lady remonstrated with , and the lover warned ; but thc intimacy was persisted in ; and though no proof of positive guilt had come to light , ilia injured man resolved to take retribution in his own hands . Accompanied by his brother and another gentleman , all armed , Mr . Myers entered tiie bed-room of Mr . Hoyt early in the morning , and , with pistol in hand , demanded of him that he should skn a bond to leave the town never to return . This Mr . Iloyt ( though abed and unarmed ) refused , and Mr . Myers then shot him through the head , as ho lay on his pillow . The three delivered themselves up to iustice . and the trial came off , resulting in their
acquittal \ The Richmond Times concludes its report ofthe trial with a declaration that "the result was nn irresistible "impulse ot public opinion , " and that , " when it was ascertained , snch a burst of applause took place as wc never heard in a court of justice . " _Daiuxg _Robiibh-i at Gateshead . —On Saturday last , two persons having the _ap-icui-auce and address of gentlemen , went into the Half Moon Inn , Gateshead , and ordered dinner , but being told that the usual ordinary would be ready nt two , they consented to wait , and lifter drinking a gla _** s of whiskey went out . Iu half an hour thoy returned , each _brin-ring with him a top coat , which they left down stairs to dry . They afterwards joined the regular customers at the ordinaryseemed quite at home , and drank
, and talked with all around . In a short time one of them went to Miss Murray , and with great politeness requested that lady to oblige Jiim with twenty pounds in notes in exchange , tor that amount in gold . Miss _Murrav consented , and proceeded to her room for that purp ose . On her return she said she coald only favour him with two five-pound , notes , which were accepted . B oth almost immediately afterwards left the house , and in about a quarter of an hour Miss Murray , having occasion to go to her room , discovered one of her drawers open , and that it had been robbed of upwards of thirty-live pounds in gold Information of the robbery was given to the police , and on Monday morning the men , who are named Shaw and Woi ' d . were apprehended .
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New Way op _Porma on a Stamp . —The otter p f n ! e ttle _Sh'I-presented a letter at the Cuckney 1 ost Office . There beincr no stamp upon it , the postmaster inquired whether _s-ho had not brought a penny . "No , " she replied , " Father has put the stamp inside . " Trau of Handel . —Dr . Morrcll , who furnished Handel , with _thepoairy of many of his oratories related to Mr . Taylor , that one fino summer morning , he ( Dr . Morrcll ) was aroused out of bed at five o ' clock by Handel , who came in his carriage a short
distance from London . The doctor went to the window , and spoke to Handel , who would not leave his carriage ; Handel was at that time composing an oratorio . When the Doctor asked him what he wanted , he said : " What is de meaning of devord billow ? " ( which was in the oratorio the Doctor had written for him ) . The Doctor , after laughing at so ludicrous a season for disturbing him , told him that billow meant a wave- —a wave of the sea . " Ob , de vave , " aiu Handel , and bade his coachman leturn without addressing another word to the Doctor .
'ELTIIE , 1 IELTIIE , AND _HAI"TINE 3 SE A _KYGHTE MERHIE CONCJElTTE . ( Prom the _Coiin ' o _^ _-l _' maiiac *; . ) In Tiiglawle ' s fam'd -Metropolis There dwelte _inne dnyes of yore , A wondrous greate Philosophi'r , Uppu inne a _secsndu rlore . His lcrniiige was _prodigious , Aud oltc myiihto he he sme , Wasting ye _invdnyuhte ruehlyghle , o ' er Ye Penny Maguzene . _Eftsoons his fame came to yc cares Of one steept to hys chinne . Iune 6 iekncr-te anil inne miserie , And shoekinge short of thine . He liad been jilted by ye mayde Who sholile Imvo been hys spouse , He'd yc _huinhajtoe inne hys loyncs , Yfl Sh <» Wfi * n in l _* i . _i linncr .
So he Foughte out ye sage ' cello , Resolved to t'lUe advise , And didde for ye Philosopher Ye myildel belle ringe twyce . Ye sage came down immediate-lie Ye _soundes telle onne _liyn eanv Inne trothe ye great Philosopher Didde tliyliUe it was hys bcerc . Buttvhenne lie saw ye _Ittvalcde , And lerot wliattc he dlddc lackc-.. Ye sage he kindlie ashed hym Uppe to his two _paire backe . For , like a nutte , ye sa _^ e was kinde Attehearte tho ' roughe inne _hushc , And to anlixion kepte hys euros Open from tenne tille duske . So he ve sorrie Invaltde
With everie kmdnesse trcted , lie drewe a trunke from neathe hys bedde , And begg'd he wolde be seated . " _Jfow lette me hcare from thee , " he seddc _, " Thy sorrowfullu reporte : Tho' yffe ' tis hinge , " observed thc sage , " Be _pleea'd to eutte itte sliorte . " Thonne _bricflic spoke yo _Invnledo , " Ye _. vretche who to thee comes Is sulferinge _bytterlio from Love , Lumbagoe _, r . nd _ycl'unmu-s . " " Jiutte , " suid ye great Philosopher , " Whittle _scekest thou ofir . ee ? Thou arte n mar . ne withu whom I feare , Ill ' s nearlie alle U—P . "
" . Oh no ! " exclaim d ye Iuvalcde , "You'll clere me from this _messe , Yffe you'll tell me ye Way to _Weltlte , And llelthc , and Ilappincsse . " " l feare / ' sedde ye Philosopher , " Thatt ' s more thanne I caiine doo _* . To solve so deep a _prohlcmnie , boye , . llequires a pype or two . " He fill'd hys bowle , therine _puft'c and thought , And mutter'd "No ! that ' s notteittt ! Y ' . j wnye to Wclthe ' . —Yes ! lette mee see 1 _I'feckins ! boye , I , ve got itte !" " Markc welle ma wordes ; " then sedde ye sage " Yffe thou _dustlong-c for rytches ,
A quack Lyfe Pille withe _goldewille hlle Ye Pochettes of your liritches . " _"iiostesureiie , " cried ye _Invulede , " Thatte is ju ways to _"IVc-lthe ; Bulteoh ! thou create Philosopher ! Whiche is ye waye to Ilelthe . " " Thalte _' s quicklie tohie , " returned yo sago , " Ye Quauke l'ille , wheunu you make itte , Lette others swallowc !— -buttc be sure , Jfeverro _yoursclfe to take itte . "
" Oh lerned sage ! " yc * youthe _exclaim'd , _•* 'i " oy words I'll live tobless ! Eutte oni' more _i | _ue-stion stillu _rflinaiiGS , Ye waye to Ilappincsse . " " Ylie that you'd know , " n plied the sage , ' Withe thee this m . ixiiiime carrie ; As you wolde ledo a huppy lyfe , Take my advise—Do ' nt marrie !" Yc _Iuvultde returned home , And liv'd to be four seote , _Atmsst ne ei » h : ol ' _-jnlne , and died A h _.-ippie _batelu-lurc . A New Ti _.-ahe —A m : > , n is doing a smashing business by _ieuiiiu n « st coaches run over him , and then commencing . suits f or dama ** cs . He has cleared 1 , 172 dollars in the last nine months . — American Paper .
CoscnEss op _EQUEsniAS' Aromi . vatiojjs . —As the Wellington Statue is to come down , and to take its stand on the parade ofthe Horse Guards , it strikes us that it would be a good arrangement to collect on the same snot ail thc _equestrian statues now disfiguring different parts of the metropolis , and to put tlte _Wellington Grenadier at the head ofthe awkward squad . They would make a rare troop , " some in rags , some in bags , nnd sonic in velvet gowns ;" some bareheaded with flowing curls , some in cocked hats , some coated and booted , sonic in toga and sandals , looking in their dingy drapery like some ragamuffin riding a gentleman's horse in default of a groom . —Examiner . _Xew Vocaihilaky . —When a Yankee meets a Mexican on the borders of the two countries , and blows the -Mexican ' s brains out . it is called signalising himself . If lie chances to get his own brains * blown out he then immortalizes himself .
It ' s ali . the same . — 1 want a ticket for William Rica , " bawled out an honest son of Erin , as he presented himself at the ticket ollice of the Lowell depot . " Well , William Kica , " responded the ticket vender , " wJere do you wish a ticket for ?" " Och , " replied I ' at , " that ' s not my name , sure ; it ' s to William Rica I want to go . " He was told there was no such place on the like . Put gazed with a look of surprise for one moment and drew his greasy bundle still closer under his arm . At this critical moment one of his countrymen , who had listened to this dialogue at a distance , pushed his way up to his confused brother , and whispered in his ear that the place was _Billericn . ' ' Och , " says Pat , discovering his blunder , and again addressing the ticket master , " It ' s all the snine , Bill Rica I am for , bad luck to your nick names . "
Uatiier Doubtful . —An old woman was naked what she thought of one of her neigh bourn of the name of Jones , and with a knowing look , replied : — " Why , I don ' t like to say anythimr about my neighbours ) but , as to Mr . Jones , sometimes 1 think , and then again I don ' t know—but after all I rather guess he'll turn out to be a good deal such a sort ofa man as I take him to be !" The _llKCTf . n and ins Stick . —Tbe Rev . William Albermarle Gator , Rector of Carshalton , have been fined £ 4 for cruelly healing a boy of fourteen , whose crime was this—he played at "hockey" before the good man ' s door ! "The boy ' s clothes , " says the papers , " were taken oii'in Court , and his back exhibited several large bruises , evidently caused by violent beating . " In the hidden day the wand of the priest burst into sweet smelling blossoms , but the stick of Parson Gator bears , a :- _gardonoi's would say , a very different sort nf ' blow . "—Punch .
I he Railwav Ki . vo on _Hokseuacic—A correspondent of a conservative contemporary narrates an amusing anecdote , in which Mr , Hudson , M . P ., figures in a new character—to wit , as a second John Gilpin . The world has no doubt heard that tho honourable member has been on a visit to the Duke ol Cleveland , at Ruby Castle . During his stay there , he accompanied his grace ' s pack of hounds , mounted on a full-bred hunter . In the midst of the chase an " outcry wild" was raised , and the writer of the paragraph , on looking round , discovered Mr . Hudson , mounted on his steed , which was going ata
breakneck pace , lie was " witkout his hat — evidently very uncomfortable" —with < oo much steam up , " but ' " apparently on very affectionate terms with his horse , " in plain language , wo suppose , clasping its neck most lovingly to save him from a fall John Gilpin acted to perfection ! How long could Mr . Hudson have sustained the character , rand with what _t-aletv to his bones , is unfortunately still undetermined , as one of the gentlemen present " rushed forward , and with some difficulty succeeded in stopping him in his flight , " and , we may add , saved the monarch the humiliation of an overthrow , —Newcastle Advertiser ,
Impudent Hckki-uy . —When England sees Austria running off ivith Cracow , and will net trouble itself to run alter tbe offender , wc think the least it could do would be to cry " Slop thief !" Carroll , Mayor . —Whereas it . is thought expedient , for the more commodious passing and repasing of passengers within the boundaries of thcuity , to institute a more rigorous watchlulnessoii tho part of the Police ; they—the Police—are directed to take up all parties who shall be found TOSSING inthe public streets . But—the Police are fo understandthat this _Urderapplies only to vagrant men and boys , and not in any way to Bullocks . ( Signed ) " Mtrowcther , Clerk . Guildhall , December 2 , IS 40 .
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-T _* r rr < _r- * r r f * J _*' Groceries for the Million . — An association has been formed in Boston to supply -groceries nt . wholesale price . It is styled "' 'Ihe Working Men ' s Protective Union . " A . "Templar" lias written to the Time * to state that ; the reader of the Lessons for the day in the Temple Church omits all 3 uch passages as seem to him indelicate . Most Importan t — The Queen and Prince Albert continue to take their accustomed early walks in the gardens and _nlensure-grounds attached to the palace . *— Court Gazette . Tni ! Cai . um . viatou of the Chartists . —Mr . T . B . Macaulay _, M . P ., is said to be employed in writ mi g a new History of Ennlanil . Win * not Skize the Law ™ . ? . —No Io * - * . than 40 , 000 leeches have been seized in Paris as unlit for medical use .
_IIon-ey . —The supply of honev is _imprpcedontfilly abundant .. In Woodlands , Shropshire , fifteen hives produced 1 , 680 . lbs . Shocking . Dkatii . —A young man and a boy residing at Llanerigg , Cumberland , died a few days ago , from the bite of a mad cat . Miss IIawbs _, the celebrated contralto singer , is about to be married to a pentlonian of fortune , who holds the position of one -oftlie Tithe Cnmmisioners . _Danoers of _Gcn _' -cotton . —On the Uth . at Kronigsberg , six ounces nf explosive cotton _lmvinti _Income heated to sixty degrees ccnr , igrade ( _liO _Fahrenheit ) _, spontaneously exploded in the laboratory of Dr . Keich , and blew out the whole of the window-frame and glass . Mr . Rowt _. anp _ITili .. —Mv . Rowland Hill has !> een npp _ninti-d Secretary fo the Postmaster _General at n salary of £ 1 , 200 a-year . The _appointment is a permanent _eme , but Colonel Maberlcy still continues to be Secretary to the Post-o'fire .
A New Infernal Machixb . —As Mrs . , of Worn , in lhis"coutifcy , ' was lacing her slays on Wednesday morn ins last , the lace broke , when a severe shock was experienced by the lady bruising her back and sides as though gunpowder had _expl' _-ded near her On cximination , it was found the lane was made from thc material now so much the subject of conversation , " gun cotton , " and had been sent by some friend , in an envelope , to the lady in question , as a new invention for which a patent had been obtained . Great _Rusni . _vo Match for £ 20—On Mondav the quarter ofa mile race between Johnson of Holloway , and Mills of London , eairo off in _ihoNorfhroad . Islington . At the start , Mills got the lead , whieh ho kept for 100 vards . Iiis opponent then came up , and both men made a _struggle for the caol _, which Johnson reached first , and won the match .
An Extraordinary Offence . —Somo time ago . a denizen of tbe good town of Kendal who was rather addicted to Bacchanalian revelries , on returning late to his home found his wife seated by the fire _, anxiously awaiting his arrival . As is too often thc case under such circumstance * -, thc intemperate husband at first assailed his wife with hard words and t ' tien proceeded to harder blows . On the good woman mildly remonstrating with him , and _allegim that she had said nothing to provoke his anger , hi ; retorted , '• _Nea . I knaw thou ' s sed nowt , but thou ' s n thinkin * devil _!*' Kersall Moor . —This spot , which for nearly 100 years , has been used as a racecourse , is about to be adapted to other uses . _S-rorrAoi-: of Factories at PRRgTO * _- . — During lastweek no less than 13 cotton mills have been closed nt Preston , in consequence of water having been let off from the canal , from which several mills are supplied with water .
Inn Game Law * * . —During the past week unless than thirteen prisoners were committed to thc House of Correction in this town by the Biiekinahamshife _magistrateR , charged with poaching and trespassing in search of game , viz ., two for one month , five for two months , two for three months , and four for six weeks . Curious Relic—A * * * old quern lias been found at Beverley supposed to have been one ofthe domestic _utcn-dls used by the ancient Britions for grinding , or _ratltcr piwdering their corn to _sepcrate it from the husks or chaff . It is of rude and simple construction , the centre being hollowed out . ofa circular shape , and somewhat _rescmblnig an inverted _ptim-h bowl . It -Is conjectured to be nearly 2 , 000 vcars old . ' _p _.-V Crack Shot . —On Friday la t , while Mr . _Gttnsod , of Penrith , was out shooting , nine birds rose all at one time , and out of the nine he brought six to the around with a _sinirlc barrel .
Lkad Mi . vixc in Dkrbysiiiri _* . —Some doubts arc entertained that this branch of our national wealth and resc . - iiirc s is , in this district , on the decline ; Most of the mines are flooded with water , and others are to a great degree exhausted . Representation <> f _Mancukstkr—A requisition toLord Lincoln to allow _hiim-clf to be put in _nnn-iinfttioti as : i candidate was put forth on Monday , which received in a few hours tlte _signatures of n large number of thc most respectable _individu-. ils and firms in the town : Tin ; Bench asd tup . Bar . —At the Stafford Sessions Mr . _Ne . ile , the barrister , having lost , a cause _, and with the eaupe , his temper , indulged in a violent attack upon the Bench , during whieh he denounced its decision as absurd , unjust , ' monstrous , and outrflflcoti . ? .
_T-. _- . V . Gnr . AT "Rv . itats . — "Bristol , Nov . 28 . —There seems to bo now no hspp , from the infelbgcncc which readied this city last night , of the Great Britain lifting _irnf , off from her present position on the sands in Dnnd _' . 'um Ray . Important to Railway Gf . xts . —Mr . _Commissioner Bnrge lias suspended _forci-jiite n months tho certificate of Mr . W . II . Tempest , la _' c of Leeds , Sharebroker , who had engaged in railway transactions without adequate capital . _Smithi-ihlu Club Cattle Show , —The preparations arc now completed fm- the ensuing show , which take ? place next week . . The last day for receiving stock will be next Monday ; the award of the judges will he made on Tuesday , and the show will be open for the remainder of tho weed ; .
Russian Soloieks . —The German Journal of Frank fort states _tliiittliesohlicrs oftlie garrison of Warsaw life inthe habit of assisting organi'od bands of robhers , in plundering travellers on the high road from Warsaw to St . _Petei-sburgh . Some time back , says this journal , some Cossacks entered the hon « c of an aged L'enfleman near Warsaw , and , after binding the servants , robbed him of all his money and jewels . Tiik Wbatiii ; r i . v Scotland . —So far as the season has advanced , neither storm of wind nor rain , worthy of remark , has visited this part oftlie country , although other portions of the kingdom have been less fortunate . Tiik _Wkatiier is Cu . \ snBr < LAXD . —During thc week the weather has been unusually stormy , and the fall of rain lias been such as to suspend most of the Agricultural operations .
Lauour UKouinED for Raii . w . ws . —At the meeting of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company , on Wednesday last , Mr . Ilonldswortii , the chairman , calculated that thc railways for which _lcgi-lative sanction has already been granted , and which are nut formed , will rcquire _ lho employment of 500 . 000 mon for ten years . A Woven _Mopse . —A few days ago a weaver _, named Peat , in the employ of Messrs- Dover Younghusband , and Co ., wollen manufacturers , Millbeck , near Keswick , actually wove a live mouse into bis cloth ; but whether thc unfortunate little animal had dropped from the ceiling or had made it * way up from the floor is _altogether a mystery . The little captive , however , was taken out alive from its woolly not , and restored to liberly . Cmi . ni , Ai . vs . —Place your hands or feet in warm water for five minutes , and then plunge t ' iicin in cold water . The application not only cures bat _prevpnfscliilhl _.-iiiiM
_huiiTiit-K RKivt'CTiox in tub PmcKov Bread . —On Monday _. _noarly all the bakci-s at the west end of the metropolis ) reduced the price of their bread , _fivtn Sd . and lid . to * 7 < l . and li | d . t he 4 . 1 b . loaf . Many nf them inthe neighbourhood of St . Giles ' s are charging as low as Cd . _Sl't ' _At'txa Out . —In a letter to the Nation , 'he Rev . John Kenyon , a Catholic priest , talks of " desperate infamy lowering over the close of O'Connell ' s career , " and contends that it i _.- > time for Ireland to snid * . iimf . liPT londnr
- " Plenty to Do . '—We undcr-tand that- a meeting of spinners and manufacturers was held hi > t night at Ashton , at which it was agreed to try short _, time , for a limited period—that period to be extended should ihe market continue io exhibit thc same depression as at present . —Manchester Examiner , November 28 . Anotiijtv _Nkw _Bmpcii * across tub _Thames . —Application is intended to be made to Parliament next session , for leave to construct a bridge from the church at Lambeth , to thc opposite shoro at West minster .
Wisdom i . v Yoiiksiiiiie .- —It is pleasant to learn there is much less litigation in Bradford than formerly . In tho attorney ' s _olltces- it is well known that common law practice is greatly on the decline . The business nt the Conrt-liou . _* _-c , Bradford , is also much on tho ilccrcase . Public _Bakinc Company at Worcestki * . —Another very numerous meeting was held at Worcester on Monday , for the purpose of establishing * a public baking company in that city . Tiik Unicoun Found . —A few clays ago , while the workmen nn the Newcastle and Berwick _Itailway were excavating a _portinu . of the line near to Bothcl Castle , they found ' a . skeleton of an animal having a single horn grow-in * : from thccenlteof the forehead . The workmen made a present of it to Mr . John Cragg _" , _wntcliniaker , Morpeth , a _ivcll-kiu . _wu naturalist .
Tin : Convict BAniiKit , wo understand , is about , to receive a five pardon , on condition of not returning to England . _l-MpaitTANT to Bone Colli _. _'ctoi' - _* . —An advertisement has been presented at the ollice of the Connitutionnel—announcing the sale , by public auction , St . Denis , of furniture , painting ? , _cngravingB , and
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bones of the ancient kings of France , collected at the pewod ofthe violation of the tombs at St . Denis . A mom sb . the latter articles are the hones of _Pop-n _* ie » Bref ; Philip [ e III ., suvnamed the Hardy ; and John Tristan , the son of Saint Louis ; a hand of Louis-XII . ; hair of Margaret of Provence ; a portion of the mbe cf Madame Louis of France , the * duighitrof Louis XV . ; and the skull ofthe Abb _& _SiiKcr . Terms , cash _. The Latest Novelt y at thk Victoria Theathi-. — Weaie credibly informed , says the Sunday Times , that Mcssis . __ Pickford have taken the Victoria Theatre , win , h is to be speedily convened into agcueial goods and parcels depu _' . " Tiik Scott-Mo _sujust—Wc understand that the corners ol moulding !* , and pieces of corbel heads in several of the _; galleries of this splendid work of art have been chipped off , whiles letters have been rudely carved into the stone in different parts ofthe building . Wc can scarcely find words sufficiently strong t . n driiniince the conduct of the individuals who have
been guilty ol ' sueb Vandalism . — Caledonian Mercury . Arctic _Kxi-hditiok . —The Trneloyo , Captain Parker , ' lie _iai-tuf the whalers from Davis' Straits _. arnvcd at Hull on Monday night , the 23 d instant , with two ii-h , about 20 tun ' s of oil , and reports that no _intellig-LCf * what ' .-ver had _bci-n heard during the season ol the Terror , _cc-mmanded by Sir John Franklin , and tin ? Erebus , in the command of Captain Crozier , ihe vessels sent out by the Admiralty in the _sjuimot 1 _S-15 to seek a north-west passage . Tiik Skttin « _-in i > f _WiMun . _*— On Saturday night there was a heavy fall of snowin _Squill Lancashire , followed by a . . severe frost , which still continues .
Alah . mi . vo _I-n-iiVALi _' _-KCE oi > - I " eveb .--TJ ) c _village or Upton , near Blewsbtuy , Burks , has had an awful visitation by the spread of a contagious fever . It first manifested it-elf about a month ago in a cottager ' s family , and such has been its rapid and _extensive sore :. d since , that up to Saturday Insb no fewer than . " 2 deaths had arisen in consequence , and these out nt a village ¦¦ opuhition of 150 . Thk Wbatiiiui im Liveiu'ool . —Winter has s , t in upon us i . i right good earnest . The country a round us is covered with sno . v , and the frost is so severe that the skaters have been enabled to enjoy tlieir sport . _fouTircuES' * Potato ks . — On Monday severl tons of potatoes , ex Royal Tar , from Lisbon , were sold by public auction at Keeling and Hunt ' s , Pudding Lane , being the first impi . _rtitiibii . in any quantity , of this vegetable from that kiiiL'dom .
buiiMAHLNB lKLi : o'i * i'u . —The submarine telegraph was laid across 1 ' ortsmoutb Harbour on Saturday , from the Watering Island in the Dockyard , to the steps at the Royal Clarence-yard . Death of Captain Mandy _, " R . N . —This _gcnth-it . an , so well known in the _seientitio world by his inven-• i _' . _ins , mure particularly hisli _' o rope , for savitijt shipwrecked mariners , died on Thuisday week , after a severe illness , in the _TCfli year of his age . Another Convert t _« i Rome . —Mr . Henry P .. wnall , sun of Henry l ' ownall . Esq ., magistrate for the _I'Otinty of Middlesex , and who formerly _oppos'd Mr . Byng at the election for that county , has just joined die Roman Catholic Church . Scarcity op Eggs . —During this week there has beui a remarkable dearth ol _Cjjga , which were nut- to lie obtained at any price is many parts oftlie town .
Ami ; hica > - Lynch Law . —In a iate trial for murder in Illinois , it is stated by the reporter that there was no _donl-. t as to the truth op the charge , but the counsel for the prisoner assumed that " there were individuals in every community who ought to be I ; ih'd . and that the murdered man _belonged to that ci _* . _* ¦'« . " The prisoner was acquitted . The coroner ' s report of another murder in Kentucky state ' s that the body hdd SO wounds with a bowie knife , and a pistol shot _tlirouj-h the head . Sons op I . _hjuutt . —A secret society has been _organised in Kentucky for political objects . It is called the " Sons of Libertv . "
Kaih . t 0 l" 5 i . yo . —The clerks of three . of the streets of New York most crowded with shops , not long since published a circular addressed " to the ladies , " rei | U ( . _'ftiiii . their aid in their attempt to induce their masters to close the shops at eight in the evening . The Mgnatures of all the shop-masters havo since been uutained , and the new arrangement has _goue into o , oration . _Amkhican Ruffians . —The Governor of Illinois enti .-n .-d _Nnuvoo , on the 23 th of October , with two hundred men and two field pieces to put down the in » l > of Anti Mormons , who were there holding rule in defiance ef all law . The chief of the mob , General lli _' _dcl'man , met the Governor with a much larger force , and openly defied him , declaring that tiiey were " freemen , " and should do as they thought lit ; and that , if hu _' _w-mtcd a fight , " the boys were on hand , any hour . " Tho Governor decided to leave his force tinder arms t . _i quell disturbances till the _meeting of the _legislature , when the policy ot carrying _things to i . _xtiemiiv will be canvassed .
A How . _—Tlu- _Pittslmrj ; papers state that the members of the city council "had a row" on their adjournment from the council room , which " resulted in a geneval light "—the subject in dhpute beui" the oputiiu < £ ofa now street . Santa Anna ' s Lkg . —A letter " rem Mexico , published iu a New V .. rk paper , d > scribes the re ¦ inter ' imnt tf Santa _Ann- ' . ' s leg " by theauthorities . " It was exnuiiiuti and kicked about tho slice ' s when he was driven from power , but finally " appropriated" by a speculator to keep in pickle for future exhibition . ( Jn the remainder ' s late return to power thc lost leg was reclaimed , and _rospt-ctfiilly : _c"St-puIotuvod . _I ' _ltooiiKssi . vo _IJackwakds . —It is announced ns a n « _.-w ! , U : i _> of" _progress , " by a Boston paper , that a negro servant ofa wealthy family in tha t city has been ecu ( villi an addition to hi * , dress which Loks like an approach to a livery .
Emigrants . —The ship Fairfield , from Liverpool , arrived at . New York , with 23 . J . _s-t _.-crage p ' n _* _seii _';* :: r ? i mid had had four births aud five deaths on bWd din-ills' the voyage . Tnu I ' uniTAss —The annua ! public _thanksgiving established by thcl _' tititan settlers of Now _Ei-gland is _h-coming a national festival This autumn the Governor of Kentuck y has issued his prcclnsiialion Im- i ' s observance , and this makes eleven , states which join in it on the same day . Diikahful Diutii . —On Wuilnesdav forcnonu . a
man mimed . Joseph Reynold , _a-: ed twenty-one years , _cNpii'cd in the accident ward of Guy ' s Hospital ' , The _iinfortuu- 'U .- man wns employed ut a lime _vai'ii in iVckhaiu , and whilst engaged in his usual occupations he was . * ciz d with an epileptic fit and fell into a deep 'inie pit . lie remained in thai state for in ; nly a quarter of _* n hour , when he was found by ne oft' _-c workmen lying at the bottom of the pit covered with lime , and " IV ' _iglul ' uUy burnt ov _.-r the hack 'Mid lower extremities by the action of the lime , which happened to be in a heated condition .
Suuiikn Dkatii at a IIaii . way Station - . _—qh Tuesday illuming , a gentleman named Francis , a solieito . \ of Monument Yard , London , left _Hastings , with nis daughter , to _^ o to London , but on their arrival at the Brighton terminus , Mr . Francis , who , we understand , was between six . y aud seventy years of _asie , was taken suddenly ill , and before medical _ass . stance could he procured he was a corpse . Tin : Brazilian Sugar Tr . _' . de —A c . _'r- 'O or two of new l ' iiiz ' _ii'ui _su- ; ar , imported under the new law of last session , may be expected in Liverpoul very shortlv .
t SixuL'L . iit BiitTii . —On Monday last , at . Castlcharrisoii , near Charievi'l-. _' , Mrs , M / llanviihan , lilt * wife of a poor peasant , wns safely delivered ot a female _cl . iid , _haviii" three heads , _perteetiy formed , and on the ieft hand , which was more than double the _sizo ofthe right , six lingers . 1 c was at first supposed _tllC child was still born , but after a short time animation appeared , and it is at presell" likely to do we ; i . Dr . ¦ ¦ jii _lliv _.-n , of Chiirievilic , has been in constant attendance on the pour _wutiieu , and owing to his _exm-llons she is considered out of danger . On a previous confinement she was delivered of a son who had an enormous head . 1 ' louohs _t ' _-ou Elei'Iia . _mts . —At the Nonin » ton a . _ _-ricullural meeting , Air . Rice , M . l- ., mentioned that Mr . liausomc had . received orders from Ceylon to make some ploughs for elephants .
' ('•• a . Di : ty' Agitation .- — A deputation from the Anti-Tea Duty party , at Liverpool , arrived iu TViv _mhidnuu on Monday , ; : nd commenced the agitation in that town . __ Collision ubt' . vekn , *• . _Ljvmu'OOL _Strahi-K a . VD Scotch Brio . —On Saturday morning , between three and four o ' clock , the Queen steamer , from Liverpool , rau into the Jane Archbohl brig , laden with coals , from _Sci'tltind , as thoy were both going up the Lilley . Thu crew of the brig were resetted with great difficulty , as she almost- immcdialy sank . A Vessel was run down off Easthournc about ten P m . on Saturday last , by a shi p supposed to _hnve been laden with iron . The crew , five in number , reached the slime about midnight , _having just saved themselves Cram drowniuy .
i ' mziv Cattle . Tlio City of London , Aberdeen _slcani-sltip , came up the river on Wednesday , with two hundred and fifty bead of cattle on board , among them arc nine fat oxc : \ of enormous dimensions intended for the Smithfield Club Cattle show . A ClllLIl _Lt- _'t'T IX A llAMrr . lt AT Miss _BUKDEII Coott _' s . —The body of a malt * child was found at the door of Miss Coutt ' s house in Stratton-streot , on Saturday evening . The body was placed in a hamoer ¦ _vr-mped in a _lii . on napkin . The parties who loft the body have not been dUcovcvcd . Melancholy Dkatii by Kike . —Mrs . Violet Ccrderi . y , aged _eijthty , a widow of independent means , residiiiir at 12 . _rt _' inccs Itmv , Leicester Square , on _l-Yiday last accidentally fell into the lire-place Her clothes ignited , from the _eui-cts of which she died on _Walursdav .
Tiik Caki . tos Cum . — -. Ihe improvement * * n * nv going on at this clubhouse , will be on a magnificent scale . The buibiin _^ will be considerably enlarged , and on the completion of the whole will present a front ' _aii'cr than that of its nuisbbour , the llcforni
Club . Tiie Lady _IWiit-u . _' -Wo hear the information for poaching against the _Duchessof Marlborough has been defeated in a technical point of law . The statute , not looking to a violation of its provisions * by females , only introduces the mascular _gendoc "he , " and therefore ' - ' she . " the Duchess , escapes its o peration ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 5, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_05121846/page/3/
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