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The following stanias by an old friend a...
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THE SPIRIT OF FREEDOM. A .rt-th like the...
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SOXG OF AN OLD SCOTCH CHARTIST Tbe warld...
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THE LABOURER. AMmtMy Mxgatineof Polilict...
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THESE ARE THE CHAMBERS' OF Wi*. I Wehave...
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IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDSSPADE HUSBANDR...
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* These and the preceding cak'usuiioni r...
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Marietta
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A five-sbilling piece of Charles II. was...
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Smiotjb FiRi.—On Wednesday mornini;, Bho...
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"Tn Tim*."—The Times of Wednesday came o...
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And Be Her Tuneful Laureates And Upholde...
And be her tuneful laureates and _upholders , Who do not feel as If they had a Spring Pour , down their shoulders ! Let others eulogise her floral shows , From me they cannot win a single stanza , I know ber blooms are in foil blow—and so ' s The influent .. Her cowslips , stocks , and lilies ofthe vale , Her honey-blossoms tbat yon hear the bees at , Her pansies , daffodils , and . primrose pile , Axe things I sneeze at ! I _' airis tht vernal _quarter of the year ! And fair its early buddings and ita blowings—Bnt just suppose cow _omption ' « seeds a p pear With other sowings ! Tor me , I find , when e as t ern winds a re hi gh , A frigid , not a genial iutpiratioa : Ifor can , lite iron-chested Chubb , defy in inflammation .
TART HI . ' The Spring , which has thus far thrown cold water npi npon 1 S __ 7 , render * the reprint of tbe following lines j « a _jashableand appropriate : — 8 PB 150 . A HEW VEE 8 IOW . BT THOMAS S 00 D . Bam . The air bites shrewdly—it Is very cold . Hor . I t is a ni pping and an eager air . _jffamW . _•• C-me . _oentltSpring ! ethereal « 3 __ n « t come ! " , Oh ! Thomson , void of rhyme at well at reason , How coaldst thou thus poor human nature hum ! . . There ' s no snch season . The Spring ! I shrink and thudder at her name ! For * why , I find ber breath a bitter blighter ! And snfier from her . Tote * as if they came From Spring the fighter . Her _prsiiet . tben , let hardy poets sing ,
Smitten by breezes from the land ofplagut _. To me all vernal luxuries are fables , Oh ! where ' t the Spring In a _. _ e _ m __ c leg , Stiff as a table's ! I li _ rp in spiny . —I wheeze and cough ; And quake with ague , that great agitator ; I f or dream , before July , of leaving efi My respirator . What wonder if in May itself I lack A peg for laudatory verse to bang on t—Spring ! _t __ d and gentle !—jes , a spring-heeled Jack To those ba sprang on . In short , whatever panegyrics Ue In fulsome odes too many to be tited , The tenderness of Spring it all my eye , And that is blighted !
The Following Stanias By An Old Friend A...
The following stanias by an old friend and contributor in the land of the Shamrock , possess sweetness - _ i simplicity . — LINES TO THE STARS . Bonnie , twinklin starnies , Sae gentle , and sae bright , Te wooe me , and ye win me , Wi * your saft and silver light , Nowpeepln o'er the mountain—Now glancia in the stream-Now _kiitin the red heather bell , A ' wi ' _your wiasomt beam . ' Bonnie , twinklin starnies , Sae gentle , and sae bright , Ye wooe me , and ye win me , Wi ' your saft and silver Bght . Bonnie , twinklin starnies , When _gloamin sheds its tinge , And strings tht chrystal dew-drop Around the gowan's fringe , How often do I linger ,
Wi' -ten and anxious eye , To watch your bonnie faces Come glintin frae the sky . Starries , twinklin starnies , Sat gentle , and tae bright , Ye wooe me , aad ye win me , Wi'your _isft and silver light Bonnie , twinklin starries , Bright guardians o' the skies , How can wa dream o' wickedness
Beneath yonr sleepless eyes 1 Oauld and _pnlseleis is the heart . And deeply fraught wi' guile , That does na fed the " lowe o * love , * When ye look down and smile . Bonnie , twinklin starnies , Sae gentle , and _sasjbright , Ye wooo me , and y t win ma , Wi' your saft and silver light . Our next poet shall introduce himself : — "The writer of these imperfect lines ia an uneducated me-8 ___ tic , and about six months ainee was a resident
in the United States of America , where he exerted hia mental powers in the glorious work of arousing the slambering energies of the working classes to _ssert their just rights , and rise above the degradation too often attached ts their order by the more fortunate of the human family . He is thankful that his eSbrts woe not altogether useless ; and seeing your journal , and deeming it a beacon-light tothe neglected artizan , he would lay this small offering at the foot of light ' s altar . God speed the day when the down-trodden artisan shall stand forth as a child of Freedom and the nobleman of Nature !"
THE HUMAN MIND . By Joseph H . Bon __ K , The human Mind—that glorious power That makes a lord of Man—What chains can bind ita upward flight Since first iu life began ! lake the sun-daring Eagle , high It soars on upward wfcg , Scorning tht blaze of forked bolts , It hears the tempest sing . With Newton—' mid the boundless bree It tracks the comer , car—Or gazes with t _ u _ ri __ i _ g eye Upon each burning star ! Or with the soul of Franklin strong ' ,
Watches the lightnings fly In awful beauty from their homes , _Acrota the stormy sky . It penetrates earth ' s darken'd ban-Where lurk the weds of death , la roaring . Etna ' s fiery gulph And pestilential breath 1 It lands the elements in bonds , Or rules the raging flood . How wond ' rous it thy power , 01 Mind 2 Bright attribute of God ! Tht gloomy tyrant on his throne Wonld curb its onward Sight , But it quails sot to ibe clash of spears Amid the Shock of fight ;
The dungeon cannot qaench its ray , I t speeds fo r ever on Prompting to mighty de e d s t he soul Of some young Washington ! It sails npon the winds of heaven The dreadful deep it braves , And fearless in the face of death Rides the Atlantic waves-Its spacious wihgs embrace the globe Pree as the realms of air . lye may not set—or footprint pitts Ons spot , bnt rr is—there ! It grows and strengthens with our years , It yields to Culture ' s sway , And , like the Roman Vestal ' s lamp ,
Bums ever , night and day . 01 guard it safe—oh cherish It For 'tis a holy -relet not earth ' s cloudy vapours dim , Or bidite light expire ! Corrupt it net with gold—or power With _prids—or passions dark , Perchance thy soal ' s tternal fate _IDuigs on that mystic spark _. Make ita sacred thing to thee In waking—or repose And it shall in thy af t er years Blo s som a s Sharon ' s rose ! Art thou a titled lord of earth ! Ar t thon his vassal low f What matter—in thy bosom ' s shine This quenchless lamp shall glow-When midnight lifts her stormy flag OrLuna _mU-ly beams ,
The mind takes up her _P-grimagt In the wild land of dreams . If in tiie lowly vale of Lift . It be thy lot to toil , To build the hark—dr raise the cot , To tors the fruitful soil , — Thy h one st labonr canno t dim Its bright aspiring beam , A Mak thon art , tha * p rouder ones Far leu , would bid thee seem—Awaken from the dust—and rise Thon art ho _ssksilkss clod , The night of wrong to _knowledge yields Thon art—a child ot God I Go—dad tby mind with eag le ' s wings , Char g e ' mid t he d a rkness brave " Unto the rescue be tby cry " I die not thus—a sir . ve ! 1 " Bristol , April , 18 . 7 .
The above lines speak for themselTei . If J . H . Butler ean write such , he has erery encouragement to try to mitigate by nis own efforts the great misfortune of non-education . He should forge for himself the arms to achieve his deliTeranoe from the wndage whieh appears to be his lot . Welcome to the poetical scullion who _riuga the glories of Monsieur Soyer .
THE _SOXBH SOUP-FEEDERS . IIohsiujb SoT _ a's _Honx- __ _.. __* , Bo . At Ba « iac _ -W-AHADB . —This kitchen will be open this day for the preparation of the various _strtt of food used at the _Mencecity institution . The children of the schools , oakum
The Following Stanias By An Old Friend A...
pickuM , and knitters , will be set down at two o ' clock to { - /«_ . Atolsdan to be present , sixpence , —DuiUn Paper * , _Jfiwday . April 19 , 1847 . Soyer , the Model Kitchen , Barrack Royal , And Esplanade—all finel y sounding phrases ; The coo k , the cauldron , and the place of trial , ' Where want is pat through all iu novel graces , Tfaencoms-01 histe ye to the exhibition ! Even now theheuy ' t calls are mostuproarious 'Tis only " slxptnee " to obtain admission , To see how sonp o ' er hunger proves victorious ! Conld ever WombweU , in Ms days most mighty , With lion , tiger , wolf—to fierce bewitehin ' _. Boast such a gormandizing to delight ye , As in this _savonry-smelling sonpery kitchen I Hen is the place to eure the stomach grnmbltr _. S o lank , so _woa-begone , so spirit-sunken ; He whom tht slightest smell of whiskey tnmbltr ,
w ould tend off tumbling like a sot when drunken Come , and behold ! such fussing and such feeding ! The famished Irish helped in way most clever : 0 'tis a sight , all otber sights exceeding ! And if you miss it now you'll miss it ever ! " AU in a row , ** like to the marvellous story That charmed onr childhood in the blackbirds cook i n g Dishes galore in order placed before ye , And two eyes ravenous on each dish down looking Aud from these dishes gushing forth such vapour , Heither of flesh nor fish—a mystic scenting ; And every spoon all eager for a caper _. To dash therein , aud try its rib-cementing I Aad 'tis but" sixpance , for a gent or lad > , To see this greater wonder than Killarney ; The wretch as happy mad * at any Hay be ,
The while the cook displays hit Gallic 'blarney . '* " A broth of boy , " indeed , is be , this Soyer ( A very _god-send to tht Irish nation ; Injtoo _. of imp commissioned to up buoy her _. And coax her onward with his stent salvation ! Tben _csme—0 ! quickly come ! 'tis timt to enttr ; The curtain draws—the hunger bites exceeding ; Tis only " sixpence "fbryou to adventure—To match these Irish in their hour of feeding 1 Soixa's Poetical Scu __ iok .
The Following Stanias By An Old Friend A...
E Labour ' s toll to Mammon , _stheming— . What shall fall to Labour ' s s h ars ! Think npon the hour of harvest-Little months shall ask ftr bread- * Bnt the wain goes past thy cottage , To t he farmer ' s _rlchhomt-stsad . Dies away tht children ' s laughter-Hungry hearts are tame and still—And the autumn ' s on the forest , And the winter ' s on the MU . Then , amid t h e d eso lation , Stand—a helpless human thing ; Cry : ' We are a glerioas nation ! Love the chnrch ! and serve the king ' . '
Th en toi l on wi t h brow of a n g uish , Prom the cradle to thy grave : Oh , if that be tod ' s in t en t ion , -fan is hut a wretched slave . ' But they tell mt of a _gutrdon , Won by Labour ' s thrifty toil , And how he who folds the farrow , Should be owner of the soil . How the means for man's redemption , In bis own possession rest , How the country can bt happy , And ths people can be blest . And how some have chosen wisely , And how some have acted right : How the taverns grow move empty , And the cottages more bright .
And how these are proud as _monaroks , Living gaily on their own , ' With their freehold for their empire , And their fireside for their throne , Where the corn-land * ' pleasant tillage , _Orer-waves the graceful hill , Aad a _wood-emboised village , Rises at _O'CoK-O-tvus . And they beckon to their brothers , Who are still in slavery ' s wake , To be striving and be stirring , For their own—their children's sake .
People , rise ! and arm thee well ! Hope , that care cannot dispel , Self-reliance , firmly wrought , Wisdom by Experience taught , Thrift and order , courage true _. These aro arms to lead ns through ! Wield them now—as yon would drlvt Onward ! 'tis the time to strive !
The Spirit Of Freedom. A .Rt-Th Like The...
THE SPIRIT OF FREEDOM . A _. _rt-th like the sigh of a summer's soft . reece , Is waftin . afar o ' er tha nations of earth , And staves of each clime tho * divided by teas , Proclaim to earth ' s tyrants the right of their birth ; That breath it the spirit of freedom ' s own voice , Resembling tbe deep distant sigh of the tea , Itt language it nature ' s—let nations rejoice , And join bands in union—all , all mutt be free . Tbat spirit bath breathed thro' tbe ages that's goat , la accents prophetic to slumbering man , Itt predictions unheeded now come rolling on , like the storm tbat bursts from a deep cradled calm ; II ( peaks to the nations , and tyranny groans , 'Tit greeted by nature ' s fair nobles thathe , Theproud ontt of earth aghast quake on their thrones , For freedom ' s own spirit saith man mutt be frtt . Tho' war and ita horrors frown dark o'er tbe world ,
And Inst and ambition lay wait for their prey , Soon , toon 'neath tbt banners of freedom , unfurl ' d , Shall _mtnarcbt and brigands be chased for away ; The heyday of despots shall sink down in night , For dark are the deeds of tbeir _rerelront glee _. While truth o ' er the nations it pouring iu light , Tbe spirit of freedom saith all must be tree . Beneath freedom's altar , sect , party , and caste , And men of all countries and colours must kneel , Sing loud the last dirge ofthe miseries past , And breathe tbe tweet anthem of freedom's proud weal . Tben welcome fond freedom , slaves rouse and rejoice , And let not a mountain , a hill , o r a sea , Divide yon in brotherhood—behold ye tbe choice _. To sink nnder cbains , or be happy and free ! Greenock . _Johh P _ acock .
We have mislaid the letter accompanying the following lines , but we have an idea that the writer ofthem ia John Ackroyd , Thornton , near Bradford .
THE LA-ID . A SOHO . I singof the Lind , t he d e li g h t ful old Land , The kindest employer , the trustiest friend , Whose toils are the sweetest , and give in return , The best sort of wages , health , fruitage , a nd corn Oh give me , oh give me , a portion of soil , Where for mine and myself , I may cheerfully toil , Then , though gold-hunters fail , and their commerce decline , The Land , and its life-giving stores will be mine . Ob , give me my acres , and then I shall be , With labonr and health , independent and free , Free , free , from tbe wants and tbe fears of tha slave , And frte from the grasp of the tyrant and knave .
Then may I my banner unfurl to the sight , And defend what is true , and support what is right—And the objects and aims of my being pursue , . Nor fear what oppressors and tyrants can do , I am not . ambitious , I wish not for more , Than to plough my own soil , and to reap my own store , ind _alittle to spare when each want ia _redrw & 'd , And leisure for thought , recreation , andreBt . Ob , tbat eacb lonely child of the world ' s weary throngs , Had one green lovely spot to flee to from hit wrongs , Where bis trampl'd affections might flourish and bloom , And his heart mount in song to his happy home .
Soxg Of An Old Scotch Chartist Tbe Warld...
SOXG OF AN OLD SCOTCH CHARTIST Tbe warld ' s a ' gane gyte , I ween , Sin * days tbat I ha ' e min _' , There ' s nae sae _mackle happiness , At _us'd to be _langsyne . When ilka bodia bad a hame _. Apart frae dale and gloom _. Unlike the black _ n __ _"low _'_ leak , 0 ' t _ i «_ ar _ , _-iflsometo _... Nae cottage bere , nae shaded grove , Or wimplin'burn it teen ; Nae throstle sings itt e ' eaing tang On tufts o * ivy green ; Nae ingle-side tae _cbterie-like , _Atwbar my mltber spun , Or , wbar the lint and corn deckt , My hither , plot o' g ran The bills where aft I herded kye ,
And wbar mybairnhood grew , Ha - wither'd neith oppression's ban ' And darken'd in my veiw . The cottar's tkippin' lambs ha'e fled , The flowery mountain ' s side ; And s-onld'ring low , ma _ g thisela lit , Tbe cot , the cottar . pride . Bnt better days I hope to see , Wi' yean no far awa ' , When freedom woa _. and p eace begun , Shall reign among ut a ' . When _mither-nature ' s _nnrtlag-hreatt To a ' alike laid bare _. Shall ha ' _t nae _ttepbairn-born-raee Exeladed from ber care .
Wben happiness like heaven ' s rain On a'alike shall fa' , To cheer the peasant ' s bumble cot , As well as lordly ha ' , Wben Britian ' t and when Erin , isles United true shall be , And heaven , sun thine on Stem as The happy and tbe free . Till then , ye _patriots a few , 0 ' > octal brithers leal ; Tfha's motto is tbe People's Bights , Wba ' t aim the gen ' ral weal , May heaven speed y our e ff o r t s all To g i _' e the world relief , And bleu wi'health aad happineit , Four glorious Chartist-CMef .
Surn-fl-oj-. Last , not least , we conclude this Feast of the Poet with the fallowing poem , extracted from this month ' s number ofthe Labourer : —
A 60 N « FOR HAT . BX _IBH-ST _JOlltS . Spring it come , and tbadts depart Lighter beats each human heart ; _Ghost-like mow—it fleeting slew , And tbe green _tpring-graaet grow . S t re a ms that long bare crept like slavu _, D a s h a lon g t h e ir gallan t waves : Han , that wonderest by tbe brink , Pause upon tby way , and—think . "Every bud it filled to bursting Witb its _futare fruit and flower ; Hearts of men 1 are je not thirsting For the fruits ef Freedom ' s h oar ! Bee ! the fields are turning fairer , And tbe skies are mora divine ; Ob ! what glorious growth shall ripen !
Oh ! what glorious light shall thine J And s h a l l manin s l a vish darkness , Moulder downward to the sod ! God made earth aa earth for freemen : Thon ! be worthy of tby God ! All tbat beauty of creation _. On the hills , and windt , and waves _. All its endless animation Wat not—was notmtant for slaves I See the sower freely striding Witb tht seed-sheets round him wound , And tbe gold grain-corn abiding In the treasure-clasping ground . See the furrows open kindly Where tbe earth witb generous sap Like a mother _nurseth blindly Fairy- growth on dark-brown lap . Th i nk ! of a l l t he . treasnre teeming Ia tbat earth , and sea , aad air , —
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The Labourer. Ammtmy Mxgatineof Polilict...
THE LABOURER . AMmtMy _Mxgatineof Polilict , Literature , etc . London : Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Windmill-street . The number for May of this Tery successful and popular magazine contains a rich variety of interesting matter , both in prose and poetry . The usual Eoetical contribution by Ernest Jones , which we ave transferred te our columns , speaks for itself ; " good wine needs no bush . " From an eloquent and ably-written letter to Lord John Russell , we give the following extracts : —
TUB _FHASK OF POLITICAL PARTIES . Sines the meeting of Parliament we have narrowly watched yonr erery move , and , without a single exception , they have been one and all governed by the old and debating policy of catering for party support . Your Poor Law has been emasculated by your mode of appointing guardians from that very chug from whom you have been compelled to admit tht poor invariably receive insult instead of relief . But as Irelaud has no hope from your policy , we hail this lesson of self-reliance taught to the Irish people , while we warm you of its evil consequences , Indeed , my Lord , it would appear as though English duty to Ireland was confined to the en . list-lent of Government support , without any the slightest rtference to the nation ' s welfar e , as one moment ' s reflection might have taught yen that yonr mode of appointing POOR LAW QC AEDIANS will and must result in deadly feuds between the IRISH OPPRESSOR AND THE
POOR OPPRESSED ; and pardon us , m y Lord , if , from past _experience of your policy , we arrive at the _concln . sion , that such was your object in submitting to tbe con . ditioD , a conclusion based u p on t h e f act , that the principle by which England has invariably _governtd , not onlv Ireland but her own people , at home and abroad , bat been « DIVIDE ETIMPERA . " But , my Lord , we would caution you against pushing this principle NOW TOO PAR ; for , believe os , however unpalatable tbe assu . ranee may be , the mind of man has gone beyond the limits of party e _ pt _ ien _. « , class necessity , and ministerial intrigue , and that ; sooner or later , you will be forced to yield ungraciously , because tardily , or to surrender ig . _nominionslj , because defeated . Tour whole policy during the present _session bas been precisely what we predicted in December last _; before your views were known . But , iny Lord , wa were prepared ftr it ; we rightly estimated that it would be a faithful reliante upon tha old Whig tactics , without the slightest reference to PLAGUE ,
PESTILENCE , or P AMINE , GOVERNMENT , CHAR ACTER , or NATIONAL HONOUR . And wert we not justified ia the estimate f Have you not endeavoured to turn famine to Whig purposes by allowing tho Irish landlords to aU but dictate thtir own terms ! and have jou not blighted your Educational grant , by excluding from itt I n fl uence t he very clas s whi ch you and your organs aver ttand most in needof it ! Thus youhave used Famine as a political bait to catch the Irish landlords , andan exclusive system of education to entrap the professors of pure Protestantism by patronage , and the Wesleyan Methodists by insulting the Catholics . Do you yet indulge in the exploded notion , my Lord , that because oae Mammonspeculator can affect Europe by a tingle OPERATION ; that because a ctuple of Jew houses can enable yon to
cany on your system for yet a little longer ; that beeause a few gorged idlers , s p ecu l atin g in human mis e ry , c a n sustain you by their speculations in human fears and susceptibilities ; that because one idle capitalist can re * gulate the domestic affairs and the comforts , nay , doom to starvation and the grave the thousands who create his riches and minister to his absurd , unmanly , and un . christian luxuries ; tbat because one Church has assumed to itself the _exclusive prerogative of the salvation of soils ; that because ont woman swears impiously to preserve the intolerance , s u p remacy , and domin i on of tbat p am p er e d Churc h ; that because one man and his strvile place-hunting followers sae their own supremacy in deference and subserviency to these several corporations tf speculators , that all unitedly can much longer hold
the vast corporation of men and mind , intellect and ne . _cessity , in base and servile submission t Believe us , my Lord , tbat the cold and lifeless bodies of men , women and children , prematurely cut off by tbe blight of Misrule , in t he bud o f li fe , the prime of manhood , and winter of old age , are more portentous and significant omens that those eked by cunning priests and hired soothsayers out of the smoking entrails of wild birds and wild beasts , and on which , in oldtn times , the fame of tyrants , the fata of nations , and history of empires has been founded . My Lord , even the mind of Ireland is _beginning to awaken from the influence of the cawing of crows , the croaking of ravens , and the howling of wild beasts ; aad pray do not lay the flattering unction to your soul , t h at b ecause y o u have ME S MERISED THE CHARMER you hava captivated tbe Irish nation ,
or spell-bound reason—no , my Lord , t he min d of man is a s ' the mainspring of thought and action ; the great juggler failed to lure the fancy of a starving people by the old appliances of his art , yet so much wisdom have his tales of necromency taught , that the deceived will now turn it to a better purpose . My Lord , your friend and coadjutor it merely SHAMMING ABRAHAM , as military men characterise such a timely retreat ; aud no worn-out actor better understands tht value of absence than does Daniel O'Connell , Yon wi ll read of hi s m i racu l ou s recov e r y , of his reappearance and his enthusiastic reception after a pilgrimage to tht _Reforming Pope , and yoa will hear your erery measure , which he feared to oppose , characterised in hit best style tf bestiality , thould the next harvest promitt a more _^ profitable return than the last . MT LORD , HE FLED TO AVOID THE RESPONSIBILITY
OF MEASURES WHICH HE WAS PLEDGED NOT TO OPPOSE ; HE WILL COME BACK AND DENOUNCK THEM . He fled to allow his son ths opportunity of conciliating the Young Ireland party ; he fled to avoid an exposure of the accounts of his show box ; he fled because he wu not equal to the emergency h » created , and lest his confiding dupes should insist upon his making ENGLAND'S WEAKNESS IRELAND'S OPPORTUNITY . Hy Lord , you revel In political venality while the most valuable portion of a wholt nationcursed by yonr sway—is perishing of want . Wt read of t housan d s of famished Irishmen , women and children , lying uncovered in the churchyards , while you are
talking of educating the growing generation in the exclusive fail-, the maintenance of which has betn the cause of to much ignorance , crime , and cruelty , whichyou and yonr supporters vainly hope to perpetuate for no better purpose tban to insure your etntinntnee in office . That , my Lord , is t he grand , the all-absorbing question whir- now _lnonopolites yourevtry thought , and regu . _latet your every act and vote . But do not deceive yourself , my Lord ; the universal shout from every in . suited freeman ta England , and from the SURVIVOR in Ireland at the next general election , will be , _« ' DO WN WITH THE BA S E , BLOODY , and BRUTAL WHIG 3 !" So that you seemy Ltrd , i f t he Ju gg l e r has fled , he hae
, left us words of FEARFUL HATE TO CONJURH
WITH . * # * How could you insult the famishing with the unchris . tian mockery of a FAST—the very enemy ,, tho deadly enemy from which they are struggling to release themselves f Didyon fast , my Lord 1 and did you pray t and if you did pray , whether was it for abundance for tbe hungry , or that it might please God to preserve tho Irish landlords to your kindly use , so as in due time you may enjoy the fruits of their corruption ! My Lord , as we predicted , yon have lost a great opportunity . In the littleness of your nature , you have looked upon the few Irish landlords as Ireland , and , upon your timeserving , supporters in the House of Commons as Europe ; but , believe us that a tide of Mind is pressing upon the barriers ef Coiruption with an ungovernable and irresistible force , which , if . not met aud directed into suitable channels , will overwhelm you and the system of which you are the advocate . Continuations of the " Confessions of a King ;"
The Labourer. Ammtmy Mxgatineof Polilict...
' _^ _WHH _& M . _' of the Working daises ; " "Tbe _RoManeeof a People »» '" ike Jetty Young Poacher ;" an article on "The Land ; " and a Letter from an Agrieultwal Labourer , " are amongst the attractions of this number . The next number will complete the first volume , and will , we understand , contain an excellent -portrait of T . S , Duncombe , the people ' s Parliamentary _lfiftdor ,
These Are The Chambers' Of Wi*. I Wehave...
THESE ARE THE CHAMBERS' OF Wi * . I Wehave already shown to onr readers the Cham * bers' of 1847 , * we now refer to tho previous opinions of these changeable economists . Whence thk wonderful _chaage ?]
Improvement Of Waste Landsspade Husbandr...
IMPROVEMENT OF _WASTE LANDSSPADE HUSBANDRY . ( Fromthe _hftrmation for the People , No . 72 J [ _Ctnh ' nved / Vom _ew-lMt . ] V- __ u _ o ? tub _PnonucK . —The land thus managed will certainly produce , by means ofthe extra industry of the family , and at a small expense , a most important addition to the income which the cottager may derive from his ordinary labour , For
instance—... Per Annum . 1 . Tha orchard , after the trees become fruitful , will probably yield ... ... _jg l lo 0 2 . Three roods of turnips and potatoes . 00 3 . Eighteen bushels of barley , at 4 s ... IIS o _ . The Cow and Calf ... ... ... 7 * 0 5 . Hogs S 00 6 . Poultry and eggs ... 2 0 0 Total ... £ 21 2 0 Where wheat cau be raised instead of barley , the profit would be still more considerable . Opinions will differ much regarding the value put on each article ; but that is of little consequence , as the total cannot be accounted too high . ' Time _Required for C . L « u _* f » . Q the Land . —
The quantity of land intended to be cultivated will not materially interfere with the usual labour of the cottager . It will only require to be dug once , and is then fit to be cropped . It is proposed that only nine roods shall be annually cultivated ( the remaining three roods being under clover and rye-grass ) , and nine rooods may be dug in the space of about £ 58 hours , or at the rate of 62 hours per rood . This may be done at by-hours ( more especially when the family of the cottager shall be somewhat advanced , and _consequently more able to furnitb assistance ); but supposing that the digging , manuring , harvesting , Ac , will require twenty entire days per annum ,
in addition to the by-hours , and allowing sixty days for Sundays and holidays , there will remain 285 days for the ordinary band-labour of the cottager , which , at ls . 6 d . per day , would amount to £ 217 s . 6 d . ; the earnings ofthe wife and children may , at an average , be worth at least £ _ per annum more . This is certainly a low calculation , considering bow much may be got during the hay and corn harvests . But eren at that moderate estimate , the total income of the family will be as follows : — 1 . Produce of tbe form , ... £ 21 2 0 2 . Labour of the cottager , ... 21 7 S 3 . Earnings of the family , ... . 00
Total , £ 46 9 « Runt and Balance of Income . —The rents of cottages and of land vary so much in different partB of the kingdom , that it is difficult to ascertain an average . But ifthe cottage shall be stated at £ 9 per annum , the land at 25 s . per acre , and the orchard at 10 s ., the whole will not exceed £ 715 s . The cottager will also he liable to the payment of seme taxes , say to the amount of £ 15 s . more . Hence the total deductions would be about £ 9 , leaving a balance in favour of the cottager of £ 37 , 9 s . 6 d . Considering the cheap rate at which he is furnished with a quantity of potatoes , equal to several months ' consumption , and with milk for his children , surely with that balance he could find no difficulty not only in
maintaining himself and family in a style of comfort , but a _ o in placing out his children properly , and laying up a small annual surplus , that will render any parish assistance , either in _sicKness or old age , unnecessary . _Advantages . —The land possessed by the cottager would be completely cultivated , and rendered as productive as possible . The dung produced by the cow , pigs , do ., would be amply sufficient for the three roods under turnips and potatoes , which would after . wards pro-luce—1 . Tares ; 2 . Barley ; and 3 . _; _. lover ; with a mixture of rye-grass in regular _succession , without any additional manure . Ihe barley should yield at least 18 bushels , besides 3 bushels for seed ; and if wheat is cultivated , in the same proportion . ' The milk , deducting what may be necessary for the
calf and for the cottager ' s family , might be sold in its original state , if there shall be a market for it ; or converted into butter , for the purpose of supplying the neighbouring towns or villages . Such cottagers , also , might certainly send to market both eggs and poultry . It is hardly possible to suggest a measure more likely to promote the benefit ol a numerous and valuable body of people . The system of keeping cows by cottagers , which has been found so advantageous in the grazing districts , may thus be extended over the whole kingdom : and indeed , if the above plan is found to answer , in place of four or fire acres emp loyed in feeding a single cow , it would be much better , even in the grasing counties , to restrict the land to a smaller quantity , under a tillage mode of management .
# Itis of infinite consequence to establish the practicability of this _Byst <* m , as the means of removing a most unfortunate obstacle in the improvement of the country . It is well known to be the only popular objection to the enclosure of our wastes and commons , that , while unenclosed , a number of cottagers are enabled to keep cows by the means of their common rights , and that their cows disappear when the commons are enclosed . But it so small a portion of land as 31 acres , when improved and properly cultivated , can enable a cottager to keep a cow to more advantage than with a right of common , which can hardly be doubted , as he is enabled to provide winter as well as summer food , there is an end to that obstacle to improvement . Indeed , if sufficient attention be paid to the principles above detailed , the situation ofthe cottager , 'instead of being deteriorat e d , would be materially bettered by the enclosure ; and his rising family would be early accustomed to habits of industry , instead of idleness and
Tice . I shall conclude with asking , if any one can figure to himself a more delightful spectacle than to see an industrious cottager , his busy wifeand healthy family , _living ia a comfortable house , rented by himself , _oultivating his little territory with his own hands , and enjoying the profits arising from his own labour and industry ? Or whether it is possible for a generous landholder to employ his property with more satisfaction , or in a manner more likely to promote not only his own but the publie interest , than by endeavouring to increase the numberjof such cottagers , and encouraging , by erery means in his power , the exertions of so meritorious and so important a class of the community .- " To the article comprehending the above account , there is added an appendix containing a letter from Sir Henry Vavasour , describing the field gardening on his estate . We extract from it the following
passages : — "I bave for some years encouraged my cottagers in -ork-hire in this mode of managing their small garths or gardens , which are in general Irom one to three acres . I have now an opportunity of stating the husbandry ofa poor industrious _eottager ~ garth . As the man can neither read nor write , these particulars have been transmitted to me from his own mouth ; and as I saw his land almost every day during the last harvest , I can vouch that this account is not far from the truth .
Produce value , A , a . r . 241 Bushels of potatoes , tli 0 e 13 0 « 0 Ditto ef carrots , COO 010 6 Quarters of oati , at 44 s per quarter , 11 0 0 6 t 20 _. Load of clover , part in hay , part eut green , 12 0 0 1 0 10 Turnips , 1 0 . 0 0 0 20 In garden-stuff for tha family , namely , beans , peat , cabbages , leeks , * e „ _« 0 0 0 80 _» --- « -- _ i _& tm——mmm £ . 400100 Deduct rant , ..... £ 9 9 t including tht S eeds , lie , 8 S 0 [ houit . Talue of labour , 10 10 0 — Produce before stated , £ 33 3 . £ 54 $ _t
23 2 0 ¦ i ¦ —— _nitj Profit , * £ 80 18 0 if told at market , exelusive of butter . I . His stock wu two cows and two pigs ; one of . his cows had a summer ' s gait for twenty weeks , with his landlord : The laud was partly ploughed and partly dug with the spade , _tultivated ( the ploughing excepted ) by the man , his wife , and a girl of about twelve years of age , in their spare hours from their
daily hired work , seldom a whole day off , except in harvest : made the rent in butter , besides a little used in the family . The man relates that he thinks he clear ., one year with another , from the three acres , about £ 30 . The daily wages his family , earns nearly keep them . It is very evident that this man clears , from his three acrei * , mere than a farmer can possibly lay by from more than eighty acres of land in the common husbandry of the country—paying for horses , servants , die . ; and it must be obviouB to every one how great the advan tage must be to society iu cultivating land in this manner .. It would hare
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taken more that half the quantity ef his three acres m pasture for one cow at grass during half the year ; whereas ( excepting the summer's gait for one ofhis cows , as mentioned before ) his stock ef i _* ° cows and two pigs is kept and carried on the whole year , ihe family lives well ; and a handsome Kim hasbeen __ yearly saved , to place out two wns , and supply them with clethes , washing , dsc . " ( _TobiMntmtied . )
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A _five-sbilling piece of Charles II . was sold at Col . Durrant _' s sale , on Monday last , for £ 155 . This was Simon ' s celebrated trial-piece , with the inscription oh the rim , and the identical coin presented by Simon himself to Lord Chancellor Clarendon . It was bought by a Mr Bale . Among the numerous deaths recorded in the country papers , that of the Waterford Freeman , for some time a diligent recorder of tho deaths of others , is mentioned . A famine of subscribers , and a consequent destitution of the supplies , necessarily proved fatal . It was a repeal journal . . Edward Mansell , a painter , twenty-three Tears of age , died at Manchester , a few days age , of
hydrophobia . He was bit in the hand by a dog , and slightly in the lip by a oat , with both of which he was playing about Christmas last , and the Burgeons could not say whether his death arose from the bite of . the cat or the dog , or from both . The Irish Poor Relief Commissioners state , in their first report , that , between the J 7 th of February and the 10 th of April , in the shape of circulars , instructions , reports , eorrespondenee , &* ,, they have consumed _fourtun ton * of paper I ** - dentist in the New York papers advertises that he inserts . teeth on the atmospheric pressure principle . Mr Etty sold his picture of Joan ef Arc on Friday , at the private view of the Royal Academy , for th e large sum oi 2 , 500 guineas .
It is supposed that in England the letter Q , is always followed by U . Not so in Scotland , for in a Gl a s g ow p aper , we find mention made of the Rev . DrM'Qhrae . A Wigan auctioneer _advertised , en the walls , for public sale , last week , sundry silk dresses , _merinooi , ( fee , winding up with \ " one bottle of rum , one bottle of whisky , and several other articles suitable for tadiet . " {\) The annual Polish Ball , at Willis ' s Rooms , is fixed to take place on Friday , the 21 st instant . The Edinburgh Stock Exchange has petitioned government for the suspension for six months of the Bank Act . Some curiosity has been excited at Cork by the arrival , from New Orleans , ofa ship wholly manned by blacks . '
There is now an arrear of . 55 _cauBes standing for hearing in the Courts of Chancery . At Newark , the other day , Thomas Dring , a sheemaker , aged 22 , bought some French mercury in order to charm his sweetheart . He first , however , experlmeated on himself , and so effectually , that he died in consequence . - A Dutch paper asserts that a woman , named VandervlieB , haB lived without | any food or drink since 1820 . She is now nearly sixty years of age , and has been attacked with an illness whioh is expected to
end fatally . The Prussian Consul at Rio has presented a splendid edition of the works of Frederick the Great to the national library . If Frederick had nor fought better than he wrote , no one weuld have thought his works worth publishing . Un the third publication ofthe banns of a marriage at _Benohley Parish Church lately , a young woman me , and said , "I forbid the banns . "— "Why ?" asked the clergyman . ¦ , _** Because I want him my . self , " was the reply ; " and I hold in my hand his written promise of marriage to me . "
A requisition is in progress to Lord George Manners to come forward for Cambridgeshire , in the place of Mr Eaton , who retires on aceount of illhealth . ' A Paris paper says that a rumour prevails that Mehemet Ali , in imitation ofthe Emperor of Russia , has offered toexohange two millions sterling worth of corn against French Treasury Bonds . Miss _Cushmanhas been lying very dangerously ill at Seaforth Hall , the residence of James Muspratt , Esq ., where Bhe arrived a few days age from Ireland .
Reman relics have been discovered on the works of the Wilts , Somerset and Weymouth Railway , _consistingof skeletons and urns . An Indian paper mentions , as a curious instance of the mutability of human affairs , that tke state barge ofthe late Ameers of Scinde is now employed in carrying cargoes of mud . The people of the state of Vermont have resolved tbat no license shall be granted for the sale of intoxicating drinks , except for medicinal purposes . The Russian government has ordered the pawnbroking establishment of St Petersburg to grant loans on the security of houses and lands . Alexandre Dumas is said to be preparing for his new theatre a drama , in fifteen acts , the performance , of which is to last for three consecutive nights . A college is about to be established in North Wales , to be called the "Powis College , " as a testimonial to the Earl of Powis . The site is not fixed upon .
A fatal murrain is stated to be very prevalent among the horses in the counties of Haddington , Berwick , and Perth . Shooting at a target with a pea rifle is said to be a favourite amusement of the ladies ut the Emperor of Delhi ' s harem .
RALLY BOUND YOUR CESSPOOLS . A BONO FOR SIS _J _ _. _ R . Parishioners of Pancras , and of St Marylebone , And _VTestminsttr aad Pimlico , strike boldly for your own ! Come forward , mtn of Southwark , too—a slave is he who slinks— . And rally round your _cesspools , and your iswers _, and your sinks _. From Paddington's fumed terminus to Chtlsea . farthast bound , * Loud let each vestry ' s trumpet bray , each parish t eosin soun d ; For _vesttd rights and hit ' rests m a ke a ste rn and v al iant stand , Ere the Health of Towns Bill shall become a statute of the lard .
Tht citizens of London bold , t heir t eeth had bat to s h ow , To frighten from tht battle-field the sanitory foe : As far as thej ' r e concern 'd thit most obnoxious measure ' s dropped , And Dr Seuthwood Smith and Co . ' s pernicious tonrst it stopptd . Whatdettrtyt Typhus , like the wind , shall rovel fret , Miasma roam through court and lant with fullest liberty , And Fleet-Btreet , at heretofore , for ever in repair , Exhale its cavern'd essence with Death to load the atr t
Shall they lord it o ' er our gutters ! our free drains shall they invade ! S hall our lib e rt y ' s last remnant be thus shamefully betray'd . ! Uo , we'll not be tweet and clean by the . _oa-pultlon of a bill . * ffhat Briton but would toorn to wash his hands against his will ! No : battle for your cinder-heaps , your gullyhole , and slush ; To the rescue of your ihambleB and your charnel-houses rush , ... _( Thtugh with each breath fell Pestilence , aeanwhile , eaeh freeman drinks , ) And rally rtund your cesspools , an d your sew e rs , and
your sinks . ¦ _Pwwh _. The King of Naples has granted a full pardon to thirty-six prisoners , and reduced by one-half the Eeriods of punishment of ten others . In the first atch were includad fire persons condemned for political offences . Lord Campbell iu his Lives of the Chancellors , tells a story of Mr Clarke , a benoher of Lincoln ' sinn , who , being told ot the hardship of excluding a Jewish gentleman frem the bar , exclaimed—* " Hardship !—no hardship at all . Let him become a Christian and be d—d te him . " A youth , in Manchester , who visited a penny show , where a murder was enaeted , had his imagination so interested and horrified , that he has since become _iniene .
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_Smiotjb _FiRi . —On Wednesday mornini ; , Bhorylv after three o ' clock , afire , which was attended with the most disastrous consequences , broke out upon the premises situate at 12 , Catherine Wheel-alley , _Biskopfate-street , in the occupation of Mr John Campbell . It originated in the first _fleor . from » spark having shot frem a lighted candle , and , falling upon tbe bed , tbe same was speedily in a blaze . At that time Mrs Campbell was in the bed asleep , and it was not until the fire had eneireled htr that ihe became aware of the outbreak . The poliee , who were passing down the court at the time , instantly ran into the building , and the poor woman was rescued , but net before she wasmost frightfully humid _, so mueh so that the ikin on her back when she moved
hung down like a sheet . The fire , after some difficulty , was extinguished , not , however , until the bid and bedding were destroyed , and the premises injured by water . FRieHWUL ACCIDMI IN THB _EdO-WAbH-BOAD . — On Wednesday afterneon , between three and four o ' clock , an accident of a most frightful if not fatal character occurred to Richard Briggs , aged forty , a carpenter , in the employ of Mr King , of Gold Hawk Cottage , Shepherd ' s-bush , who at that time was proceeding along the _Edgware-road on an omnibus , when being in an almost insensible state of intoxication , he fell from the box , thus fracturing his left arm , breaking a leg , and other serious injuries . He was removed to the Middlesex Hospital , and placed under the care of Mr Dixon , the house surgeon , but remains in a very dangerous condition .
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"Tn Tim * . "—The Times of Wednesday came out with a doublesupplement full of _^ advertisements-. This publication contained the enormous number of 2 , 062 advertisements , including two hundred and ninety-seven for situations , the , latter , occu pying between five and til columns . The duty payable en these advertisements is £ _! . _ 13 s . We believe the circulation of The Timet now is about 26 , 000 per diem . * Well may the French express their astonishment * t this monster establishment , the business department of whioh is conducted with _, all the ease imaginable . _* _-5 rii 5 r _^< o » Gazette . * Our contemporary is several thousands undtr . _the
_markr-Tlnts . Nkw P _ A _ s .-Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton hw two now plays rendy for representation , whioh he offered to Mr Webster , of the Haymarket , and whiolJ . hare been written fer Mr Maoready . ¦ Factoribs . —It appears from a document issued by ordeiNof tbe House ot Commons that the total . number of persons employed in factories was as follows : — Cotton factories , England , 2 * 77 , 028 ; Scotland , 35 , 110 ; Ireland . ., 183 ; grand total , 318 , 327 ; Woolle _ ,-England , 62 , 687 ; Scotland , 9 , 367 ; and Ireland , 1 , 082—grand total , 73 , 408 . Worsted—England , 51 . 797 ; Scotland , 143 ; Ireland , 238—grand total . . 2 , 178 . Flax . —England , 19 , 840 ; Scotland , 21 . 330 : Ireland . 17 . 088-craud total , 68 , 528 .: Silk
—England , 43 , 600 ; Scotland , 1 , 01-7 ; Ireland , none —grand total , 44 707 . Does and Dbdmusbs . —An order is said to exist * that , on the northern terrace of Windsor Castle * neither dogs , drummers , nor private soldiers shall be allowed to walk . From this order are excepted _dogf belonging to the royal household , and soldiers wearing good conduct stripes . A Ntw Dociob . — The Parisian papere give an _account of a woman who prescribes for the sick according to the , smell and appearance of their hair , no matter where her patients may be . She also tells the seat of their disease , and prophecies its result . She sits all day in a twiliitht room , with a physician 'to write her prescriptions in form ; and she is consulted
by _viBitovafrom aU parts of the world . . . _.. Singular Oooirbbmcc—A gentleman well known , residing at Welling , in Kent , has rendered Canarybirds so familiarised to the garden that a couple built themselves a nest in a bush , and the hen began to sit upon four eggs en the 13 th ult ., and , notwithstanding the severity of the weather , three young birds were hatched on the 27 th . Street Law . —Owing to the crowded state ofthe th o r o u g hf a r e s in P a ris , an ordonnance of the prefect of police calls upon pedestrians to keep always to the right hand on the footpath . Dwnbt o *? thk Ass . — A person informs the ; Christian people of St Louis , that he will sell * superior Maltese Jack , and reoeive in payment good _, or negroes ! ' _- .. •*
A Runaway _Apprentic- is thus described in an American paper : — " He is thick-set , usually wears a glazed hat five feet high , andiron-shod shoes with _, cross eyes . " A _Spo-tbd Child .-- * An American paper _men _^ tions that a spotted child waa lately deserted in the streets of New York . It was a little girl about sixteen months of age . About one half of her body waa ofa fair complexion , tut the remainder was of ft rich copper colour , and the dark spots were all covered with long white hair . In the centre of her forehead was a round dark spot , and the same hue covered the breast and legs . The countenance of the child was beautiful , and her health seemed to he perfectly good . ' New Coinaob . —A new coin is about to he struck
—a two-shilling piece ; to be called Queens , or Victorias , or _Yictorines , as her Majesty ' s pleasure may direct . _Nxvsr too late ro _L-Arm . —Some people scorn te be taught ; others are ashamed of it , as they would be of going to school when they are old ; but it is never too late to learn what it is always necessary to know '; and it is no shame to learn so long aa we are ignorant—that is to say , so long as we live . ' Gabmo _Nbwbpapbr . —An advertiser in the North British Mail proposes to establish a Gaelic newspaper '' for the purpose of diffusing general intelligence among the Gaolic population in the Highlands of Scotland . " Could this benevolent speculator devise means for teaching the Highlanders to read the
English papers his object would be much better effected . A _Pro-imc Cow . —Mr Tyler , of Llancagee , inthe parish of Llangarren , Wales , has a eow with three calves , two bulls and a heifer . They are now a fortnight old , and all doing well . _PosT-OmcK . —Later Rhcbptioit of Lxttbrs . — On Saturday , a _notice _^ in accordance with what we announced some days since , was issued by the General Post-office , that on Wednesday the receiving-bouses in London will be kept open till six o ' clock , p . m ., instead of half-past five as hitherto , for the receipt of inland , foreign , colonial , or ship letters . After half-past five , payment of the late fee of one penny will be required , either in coin or a stamp . Otherwise , such " late" letters will be detained till the next despatch .
Birthday o _ the Dcke op Wblunotok . —Saturday was the birthday of the Duke of Wellington , on which day he completed his 78 th year . RoBBKRr i » thh 2 nd Life Guards . —On Saturday information reached the various police stations that a wholesale robbery had been committed on the band ot the 2 nd Life Guards , by a man named William T . White , aged 22 . It seemed that he had free access tothomu 8 ical department , but , on the mustering of the band , it was ascertained that White had deserted , and taken with him various musical instruments , and gold _laos of great value . Thb N * w Hooth op Lords . —Mr Barry , the
_architeetef this very beautiful building , has given a sly but very severe dig at the peers , for he has so constructed tbe upper house that none ofthe speeches of their lordships are audible in any part of it . The peers can neither hear each other , nor hear themselves , nor be heard by any one else ; so that , according to Mr Barry ' s plan , a debate has been treated as a thing to which it is worth no one ' s while to listen . Considering what a common habit it haa been for several of their lordships to talk at the same time , this new acoustio regulation will be found very convenient , ior they can all speak at onee without disturbing each other , or creating the smallest confusion . —lunch .
Opbninq or the Ei _. om Eailwat . —Tuesday the branch line ofthe London and Brighton Coast rail * way to Epsom was completed , and will be opened on Monday next to the public . This direct railway to Ep < x > m is within ten minutes' walk of the course . German Emigration . —The New York packetship Ilendrik Hudson , Capt . E . Knight , was hauled out of the London Docks , and then taken in tow by a steamer , with 380 emigrants , principally Germans , who intend to settle in the United States and Canada . It is expected that 13 , 000 more will sail from the port of London during the next three months .
_Dbscbst op ihb Balloon . —On * Monday night the balloon which ascended from the Reyal Standard gardens , Shepherd ' _s-walk , City-road , crossed and recrossed the river Thames four times . The balloon finally descended in a turnip-field in the parish of Raynam , between Dagenham and Romford . Illnbbs op thi Kimo op Holland . —Aeentleman while passing the other day through the Hague , was informed on the best authority , that the King of Holland had experienced another attaok of palpitation ofthe heart , and that the state of his health inspired much alarm . Sailins or thh Britannia . — The British and North American Royal Mail-steamer Britannia sailed on Tuesday at noon , with the usual mails and about . 0 passengers . The specie she took out , it appears , was about £ 1 . 0 , 000 , a further sum of _lOf _. OOQ _" . having been _rolanded again after shipment .
Thb Great Britai - Sieambb . —We learn that on the spring tide of Saturday last the Great Britain , as soon as the water was about three-fourths up , rose with it until high water , when she appeared from the shore to be nearly level . This must be hailed as a good sign . Rb _ omxus ik Prussia . —In consequence of a request from the Prussian government , the Saxon cabinet has just sent to Berlin Professor Wtygandt , head of the bureau of Stenography of Dresden , and throe of the short-hand writers under his orders , to reeognise _. at the General Diet of Prussia , a similar bureau of . tonography : the one now at work there does not at present appear te give satisfaction .
Boebmia . —Pragub . —Tho peasants of Bohemia refuse to submit to the oorvoe . This question will attraot the particular attention of the Diet , whioh was to be opened at Prague on the lst ef May . German _Emi « b _ hon—Hamburg , April 28 . —Ott Monday and Tuesday last four large ships , with 2 . 000 emigrants on beard , sailed from Hamburgh for New * York . They are mostly labourers and working men . One vessel was full of womainr _ U " youog children . Taieeb FieHTwe—Tib Shiva Revivid . —Toa new feature in military warfare amongst the Americans thi Dundee manufacturers are indebted f 6 r a coasiderable consumption of their m anufactures . A large order was given in New York for linen to make bags , whioh wore filled with saud , each soldier turns it as a shield when attacking a fortress .
Tsa End op ihb Wow . d .-Thb New Plmiei .-Wegive the following from the Ata , York Sun- — " If it be true that this planet , which could not oncebe dearly seen by ordinary telescopes , can now he seen almost by _. the naked eye , it certainly is rapidly approachin g tbe earth , and is , therefore , a comet , not a _nlanet It is said to travel towards the earth at a rate of a million and a half milea in two hours . We believe that this announcement , now going the rounds of all the papers , is not verified by actual _observatioa It seems to be an idle story , circulated by some wag , who might have made it more alarming by adding' Philosophers expross apprehensions ofits coming in contact withourearth , and , being a very large body , it may annihilate our globe , and thus fulfil the _prediotisns of the _Millerites . " We make this _sugges _* tien for the benefit of editors . "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 8, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_08051847/page/3/
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