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October 10,1846. THE NORTHERN STAR.
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October 10,1846. The Northern Star.
October 10 , 1846 . THE NORTHERN STAR .
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THE MAID OF THE WEST . BT 2 KHZ 8 T JONX 8 . Oh ! Shame on the slave , who betrayed thee _. For grandeur , and power ana pelf ; "WbO marred tbe bright image he made thee ; A traitor to thee and himself ! He found thee , —a desolate maiden ; He wooed thee—throug h long stormy years , And won thee—from thoug hts sorrow-laden _. To plunge thee , again into tears . On g lory—so near consummation , ' A spirit—so certain to win , To pour an this cold desolation : — Twas p ity— 'twas reason— _'twas sin ! Aid , shame on those heartless spectators , Who witnessed oppression ' s career ! 2 for saved thee from tilse Liberators , Who treed thy worst foes from their fear
While , cheated by policy ' s barter _. E ' en those , who would pnnisb the deed , Surrendered the crown ofthe martyr , To him , who the torture decreed ! But judgement , shall come , thtra-h belated , Down-striking him , _nevsr to rise _. Not honoured enough to be bated : Then hate not the thing they despise . By his grave shall no wanderer sit weeping , _UntTOudiniUgmst-s so gray ; While tbe winds of oblivion come sweeping , His lost name away and away . Tbe child , in its tongues '* broken sweetness , Would nave lisped to its _xnntfaer tbat name j The bard , in tbe spirit ' s completeness , Had sung it —— to share in its frame !
That name would bave paralyzed faction , In senates , when party ran bigb ; Tbe soldier , when rushing to action , Had found a strange charm in the cry . All this basbia folly surrendered ! All this has bis tre son denied ! And now when life ' s count shall be tendered , He'll die , as all traitors bave died . Oh ! Thon wert't thine own treasure ' s rider , — To blot tby long life ' s crowning page ; Ob 1 eonldst thon not , traitor , and trifler ! Respect tby grand , grey-h « aded age 1 Bnt learn thon . e ' er passing the portal "Where scorn hoLls tbe key of tby gravel That the Maid o / tte Best is immortal , And thou—art a poor dying slave !
"What f Tfaonghtst thou , frail waif of an hour ! To still tbe proud _pulao of the free ! Death only has compassed that power , —¦ _2 fot thon—nor a million like thee I Oh ! then , with its fetters about thee _. This thought shall thy broken heart sere : To know—she goes conquering without theo _. Nor casts back one glance on thy bier !
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SONGS FOR THB PEOPLE . KO . IXXH . A STATE ABOUT THE QUACK PATRIOT AND HIS
REPEAL DELUSION . _{ TCiich will he found to sing very well to ths tune o _"OTtowlani M'Figg . " ) Come , 111 tip jb a stave—if I can—Abont that old catamaran ! That ' s him they _oaU Dan , The Big Beggarman , Who clanes ye all out _evory year , That's clear . Through priestcraft , delusion , and fear . And sure 'twere a dutiful task ,
To tear off tbe ould _villain ' s mask , And expose him to view _. In his own _coloura true _. That no more in your smiles be may bask , The ould wasp ! So well _jist start tbe end of hi * cask . "Well , it ' s done ; an' what is ' t ye behold ? Who ner « r a thing , sore , bnt gold ; Tbe greedy ould elf _. His whole life ' s aim is pal *" , A Patriot ! nothing but self ,
But self , HeV as much one as china is delf ! When , Erin ! I think of his greed , For thee , this poor heart oft does bleed , And often I pray . That may soon come tho day , When we'll get him laid past on the shelf , TheouUelf . As rapacious as one of the _Guelph ! Thou Wretch ! with Heart flinty and cold To _seli tby poor country for gold ! Why for so many years , J Mi < l ber sighs aad her tears , Tour Tribute down lib _' rally told ,
Se bold , Ay , or faith ye'd ha ' gave her a scold ! Though famine he strides now so gaunt , Ami no cry is heard 'round but want , With yonr besgles again , Tc ' re at sweet _Derrvnane , And capital sport yell have there , Oh 3 xare , Enjoying the fresh mountain air . They'll be hungry at Cabirciveen _, But of eonrse you'll bave none of it seen
WJiikupattheHaH , Th _«^ H nave roast , _nonea , and all , An ' tbe port too , to wash down all dean , between , Ay , an' jolly good stuff too I ween . Faith Repale ' a been ve _' r best payin game , Tho' I fear it will damage ye ' r fame , for your name it must stink , In the nose now I think ! When one counts up _yer ill-gotten wealth , by stealtb , But the Hint ' _s in a bad state o' health !
Arrah ! where ' s tbe Repale now ? all bam Yonr Parliament too ! all a sham !! Thon Old Han of Sin . Thy Repale was tie TIN ! Poor Erin how sadly ta ' en in , je have been , By this villainous Old Man of Sin ! Ton may croak of ye ' r new moral force , An preach up decate till yer hoarse , It ' s easily seen , "What your motive has bsen , Of Ireland you ' ve been quite the curse _. Or worse _. With your fingers ne'er out of her purse .
_O'Higgius ! thee onward I'd cheer , To expose this old fox without fear , That Erin's each son ihy see she ' s been DONE , To tbe tune of some thousands per year , And steer , Of this "hoary old sycophant" clear ! O'Connor ! 'tis only to thee , The people must look to bt free , Heaven strengthen tby arm , And shield thee from harm , And 3 pare thy life , happy and long , Very long , So with this wish I finish my song . Toh Pas .
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THE _ARISTOCRACY OF ENGLAND . A HISTORY FOR THE PEOPLh . By Johh Hampden , Juuior . London : Chapman , Brothers , 121 , _Ivewgate Street ; _Efiiaghnm Wilson , Royal Exchange . LNo . V . J If there be one thing , says John Hampden , more _ominwus than another in opening a book ofthe peerage , it is the queer look of the armorial escutcheons by which the aristocratic families are distinguished : —
EMBLEMS OF THE NATURE OF AMSIOCBACT . The whele emblazonment of aristocracy is one manifesto fcf savage barbarism , brute force , and propensity to robbery and plunder . What are these objects on their shields ! Daggers , swords , lion ? ' heads , dogs' heads , arrow-heads , boars' heads , cannon bails , clubs , with a med . ley of stars , moons , and unmeaning _figures . What are the crests of these arms ? _Lascivious goats , rampant lions , feryfiragons . andgriffinsgonecrazed ; _buUs'heads , block-Leads , arms with uplifted daggers , beasts with daggers , and vultures tearing up helpless birds . What , again , are the supporter- ! of these shields ? What are the emblems of _thepows by which they are maintained and upheld ? The demonstration is deeply significant . They are tbe most _singular assemblage of all that is fierce , savage , rampageous _villanous , lurking , treacherous , bloodthirsty , cruel , and bestial in bestial natures . They are infuriated lions , boars , and _tigera ; they are raging bulls , filthy
goats , horrid hyenas , snarling dogs , drunken bears , and mad rams ; they are foxes , wolves , panthers , everything that is _n-eeping , sneaking , thievish , and perfidious . _Xay nature- cannot furnish emblems extensive enough , and , SO start up to our _astonished sight the mosthldeous shapes of fiendlike dragons and griffins , black , blasted as by infernal fires ; the most _fuliginous of monsters ; and if the human shape is assumed for the guardians and supporters of aristocracy , they are wild and savage men , armed with dubs and grim with hair , scowling brute defiance , and seeming ready to knock down any man at the command of their lords . Ay , the very birds of prey are called in ; and eagles , vultures , cormorants , in most expressive attitudes , with most ludicrous embellishments of crowned beads , collared necks , e _^ cutckeoned sides , and with hoisted wings and beaks of open and devouring wrath , proclaim tbe same great truth , that aristocracy is of the class of what the Germans call _RxvhJJiitren , or robberbeasts—in our vernacular , bsasts of prey .
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Our anther again reiterates that the " pureblooded , " " ancient" aristocracy of the present day are a mere bastard brood , who cannot even trace their descent from the _Gorman robbers : —
THB " TIME-HONOURED " ARISTOCRACY . —' But the fact is , that none of our nobility have titles of any such date . Thar ancestors were too insi gnificant at that time to acquire tha smallest title . Our very oldest titles are those of the baronies of Le Despencer , De Ros and Hastings , who figured chiefly in the time ofthe weak Edward II . These are not of 1066 , the date of the Conquest , bnt of 1264 , in the latter end of the reign of Henry III ., and actuall y of Edward I ., that is , nearly 200 years after it . This , however , would have been some _, thing of a descent , bad it been a clear and unbroken one ; but all these baronies are what are called restored ones ; that is , they are titles which , for want of a true genealogical _deacent , had fallen into desuetude ; but which , in order to fill up tbe aristocratic order , have been given to some family that could make some sort of
a claim , be it tha very lowest and most serpentine imaginable . Thus that of the lie _Despeneera has gone wandering in search of an owner from 1100 , when the last Earl Le Despencer was beheaded , by Edward III ., for his treason , till 1783 , during which it lay in abeyance , that ie to say 388 years . Throug h this long period , if we are to believe the heralds , the blood of tbe Le Despencers had meandered from this sister and that cousin , to this great-grand-son or that great-grand-danghter ; and in the course " _nt this tour had skipped { from tbe _Lo Despencers to " the Nevilles ; from the Nevilles to the Fanes ; from the Fanes had made a vault to tbe Dashwoods ; and from the _Dasbwooos had leaped to the Stapletons ; In plain fact , bad wandered , curvetted , dodged , made curious winding pilgrimages , but had not descended at all . ¦
In the same manner the barony of Hastings , from the same date till 1841 , or 577 years , had gone all about the country , yet never got lost . It had passed , or rather the blood of Hastings had , through the Le Stranges , Yelvertons , Stubbses , Lewknors , Cokes , Wodehouses , Caltborps , KoTths , Stvlmans , Pratts , WatlingtouS , Delavals _. and atlast into tbe veins of one Jacob _Astley , " in whose person ber present Majesty was pleased to terminate tho abeyance , he being one of the heirs of Sir Jobn Hastings , who was summoned to parliament by Edward I . " In this transaction we hardly know which moit to admire ; the admirable qualities of noble blood , which for 577 tears can make such extraordinary rambles , leaps , strolls , turns , and twinings , besides many a game of hide and seek , and yet preserve itself distinct and uncontami nated , or the easy faith of her Majesty , who could take it
all in . If it be a wise child that kuuws its own father , what wise people mnst those Hastings be ! But tha history of the De Ros family is tbe same . The descent winded from tbe De Roses te the Manners , the Cecils , and back to the Manners again ; then to the _Yilliers _, Dukes of Buckingham , till it was finall y extinguished on the death of the second dnke , no pretence for its continuance being found even by the amazing sagacity of tbe heralds . The only claimants then were the heirs of Bridget , wife of Sir Thomas Tjrwhit , of Kettleby , and Frances , wife of Willi im Lord Willougkby . the only sisters who left issue of on * of the Earls of Rutland . In short , it was so completely a bad business that the claims were disallowed , and all pretence of the baronial blood fell till 180 C . when George III ., having the advantage of the light of our enlightened age . in the course of his 522 restorations and creations , was pleased to discover it again .
Such is the poor _hocus-poeus of aristocracy . It is surely the most precious humbug under tbe sun . What , however , knocks the whole pretensions system completely on the head is , that George III . manufactured , as may lie seen in any book of the peerage , no less than 522 peers ! In reviewing the "Dukes , " after _showing up the Seymours , our author has another word concerning CHARLES THE SKCO . VD ' s BASXABDS . Next in succession to these came the bastards of Charles II .. as dukes , of whom the nation was saddled with six . Four of those whose descendants still bold that title , were thr . Dukes of Richmond . Pt . Alban * , Grafton , and Buccleugh . Tbe Duke of Richmond whs the son of his mistress , Barbara _Villier ? , made by him Duchess of Cleveland . This ' sou was the product of th « most open and profligate oouMe adultery , Charles _bt-ing
mavried , and this mistress being the wife of one Charle 3 Palmer , who was promoted to ihe earldom « f Caat _' emaiu , as the price of his wife ' s _prostitution . St . Albans was the son of the _actress Nel _Gwynne ; _Grafsun , the son of Chsrles ' s French mistress , K « rouaille ; and Buccleugh was Charles ' s reputed son , the Duke of Monmouth , Monmouth having married the _heiress of _Buccleugh , aud taken the name . Tbe Duke of Monmouth was tbe ien of one of Charles ' s earliest mistresses , one Lucy Walters , who was abandoned by _hi-n and di'd in destitution in France . Such was the loose character of this Lucy Walters , that it was very doubtful that Charles was the father of Monmouth at all , but was confidently attributed to a br . ither of Algernon Sydney . On such dubious and scandalous extraction sit the honours of our nobility ; iuch is the descent of th « chief dukes of _England .
The most remarkable feature in the modern lists ofthe _peerage , is the va 3 t number of lawyers , or _descendants of lawyers ; a long list if these cormorants is given . _"The'very land groans under its monstrous h 03 t of lawyers . Like the reptile curse of Pharaoh , they enter every man's house , and come up into every man's kneading trough and _moneybox Their parchments are a net that is cast over every acre of land in England ; their red tapes binds the limbs of every man in the country . " >" ot the _letst useful and interesting part of this work is the lists of patriots , philosophers , poets , inventors , discoverer ? , statesmen , authors , and other celebrated characters , which shows at a glance the number of each sprung from the people and those sprung from the aristocracy . These lists alone show the _worthlessnessof an aristocracy , and the propriety of annihilating such a class as being both " useless and _miscuiev jus . "
ARISTOCRACIES HAVE RUINED ALL COUNTRIES . Turn your eyes , however , in what direction yon please , and there lie tbe examples of aristocratic desolation . Who ruined the intellectual states of Greece ? The aristocracy which assumed their management . Who betrayed the Roman republic , and converted it into a despotism , from which hour tbe national decline commenced ! The aristocracy , with the Cssars at their head . In vain the first successful traitor fell by the hand of the indignant Brutus : there were plenty of his fellows to succeed him . Rome became imperial , and perished . Turn jour eyes , however , nearer to your own times , to Spain , What has reduced that country to the anaichy and misery of the present time ! The pride , the luxury the ambition , and tbe effeminate sloth of the aristocracy _.
From the hour that South Amtirican gold poured into Spain , the Uidalgoes grew into a condition of haughty voluptuousness , that sapped tbe productive power ofthe country , and hastened on a rapid declension of national wisd'im , simplicity , and industry , from that time to the present . In this corrupt sloth , knowledge was neglected . Loid Byron , when there , found the lady and the lady ' smaid equally ignorant . The people of Spain arc universally described as a fine people . They have shown that ibey possess the elements of freedom and Tigour in no or-• 1 _'nary degree , by the bloody resistance they have made to repeated tyrants , and the decision with which they at on _* : e pulled to the ground , in that so-called superstitious country , the great , corrupt system of monkery . But the nobles !—When Lord Wellington entered that country
as a saviour , there could scarcely be found a man of that class who understood the duties of a good general ; and as an order they were feeble , disunited , and far more greedy of _English gold than desirous of the aid of English arms . They were at the sams time too stupidly proud to act under the direction of our more experienced commanders . Their armies were scattered before the French like autumnal leaves , and their country might have lain under the feet of the foe for ages , had not other nations fought the battle for them . The whole class was torn to pieces with cabals and factions . They were at once _ignorant , extravagant and covered with
• lent ; and were for ever craving after our gold , though tli « y hated our heretical persons . From that hour it has continued the same . The Spanish people , brave and _in-lependent , find no able leaders in this corrupted class , and they have not yet advanced far enongh to free them-S ' lvis from them ; and anarchy and continual revolution and counter-revolutions ko on . In tbe meantime th -y fight ag _.-iinst any immediate oppressor , and when the enemy _disappears , return cheerfully to the cultivation of their soil No _people live so lightly as they . They possess their soil , and are therefore always ready to rise from their temporary troubles under tlielr fine climate . It is the government that is ruined , not the people .
Turn to Germany . There the nobles had long _underraim-d the ancient fieeoom of the empire . Every petty count aspired to be a prince . He severed his little territory from the govtrnmtut of the whole ; set up a separate independence—the right of the axe and the gallows —till the country , dissected into two thousand little states , fell a ready prey to Napoleon . He swept away a host of tyrant nobles , and the country is all the better for it . Look again at Sweden . That country was , and is , la the hands of a swarming nobility . This nobility , at the approach of the Russians , sold the fortresses and strong position in Finland and Pomeranin for money ; which thus became lost te the country for ever , and which loss they had then the meanness to make one of the _chaises against their king , Gustavus IV ., for which tliey deposed him , and adopted Bernadotte . The country is still oppressed hy the incubus of this nobility , which
_usvrfis all honours , offices , and emoluments ; and the nation groans and declines undir tht . ni . On the contrary , Norway , though subjected to Sweden , by the _arrangement of U . e great European powers , has with a brave spirit resisted all Swedish attempts lo bring it into the same aristocratic subjection . It arose in arms , compelled a free representative government , and abolished aristocracy . The lands and government are in the _htinds ofthe peonl *; and what are the consequences ? Agriculture and trade flourish , and the nation , according _i « Mr . _Laing , presents the must singular contrast to Sweden . In the one country there is an air of neglect and decay ; in the other , of comfort and prosperity . In t _o one , of crime and misery ; in the other , of virtue and e » j-ym ent . Mr . Laing _pruiiaunces the Norwegians to be through this their wise ani stout decision to govern themselves as they act for themselves in private life , the most happy and flourishing of European nations .
Look finally at France . Every one is familiar with the dreadful condition to which its proud and imbecile aristocracy reduced it . Every one knoWB in what a storm of
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blood and terror tbe oppressed people arose and took an eternal vengeance on their oppressors . If we read the accounts of France , just previous to the Revolution , we cannot avoid being struck with a terrible similarity of _circumstances'and features wiih-those of- our -own country now . In conclusion , Jobn Hampden , junior , comes to the remedy—that remedy is
UNIVBBSAt SUFFRAGE . Till we obtain the frauchise we obtain nothing ; when we obtain that we obtain everything . Every petition , every demand , however stern or resolved , that asks for anything short ofthe universal franchise , is the perpetration of an absurdity , and the greatest of all absurdities He is just as wise who asks short of this , as if he prayed the Pope to abolish the Catholic religien , or a Jew to give you all he is wortb . The aristocracy have usurped the House of Commons—for what ? Just for this purposeof resisting the proper demands ofthe people—of maintaining and perpetuating all the evils for whose removal you pray . It is truethe people , combining on some great a ncrgency—driven , as it were , into this combination by lime desperate pressure—may alarm the aristocracy into ime individual concession , as in the case of the Reform Bdl . But this is a stupendous exertion , a violent and
_Convulsive sort of action in the political system , which wrests only , at the point of famine or national ruin , its own rights from tho usurping party , Public opinion is ¦ . lid , in this country , to be the actual ruling power ; butit is a fitful and irregular power . Like the Indian , or the boa-constrictor , it is aroused to action only by hunger or by imminent impending danger ; at the smallest return of ease it pauses it becomes drowsy again , and the mischief goes on for another period . If public opinion really rules . It should lift itself to the necessary height of command , and do its work effectually . That would save us all much trouble . There Is but one perfect permanent remedy—but one means of absolute cure for our perpetually recurring evils : We must bave these usurpers out of tbe people ' s bouse , and rule in it ourselves ! and this is to be done only by _insisting on the franchise , the whole franchise , and nothing but tbe franchise .
We have now gone through this work , and ean conscientiously pronounce it one of the best works ever issued from the press . Since " Paine ' s Rights of Man" there has not appeared so formidable an _sssailer of the aristocratic principle ; and since the publication of the celebrated " Black Book" there has been no such exposure of aristocratic rapacity and _villainny . What William Ilowitt did for priest-Craft . John Hampden has done for lordcraft , and his book will be " a heavy blow and sore discouragement" to the _Raub-thieren . We earnestly recommend this book to our readers , and those of them who cannot afford five shillings each for its purchase let them subscribe sixpences or pennies each , and by means of clubs obtain it for their instruction . No Chartist Society , or Working Men ' s Reading Room , should be at least without one copy of " The Aristocracy of England . " Wo are tempted to give one more extract , which we recommend to all parents and teachers of youth
as A CATECHISM _PROrEH TO BE TAUGHT IS _IVBRV SCHOOL . Who laid the foundations of our free institutions , parliaments , _representation , and trial by jury ! The old Anglo-Saxon people . Who destroyed _thesi _> to a great practical extent , and rent the soil from its ancient possessors by the introduction of feudalism f The aristocracy ofthe Danish-Normans . Who attempted to wring the Magna Charta from King Jo n , and failed t The barons . Who won it f The bowmen of England , who drove John and the baroui ton , and their invited French king , before them , and compelled Ilenry III . to give them a still better charter _.
Who tore the kingdom to pieces by cruel wars nnd _wianglingsfor the crown , till tbe reign of Henry Til . ? The aristocracy . Who , meantime , cultivated the ground , originated trade , raised the country in _wealth , strength , and respect , spite of its internal aristocratic dissonance ! The people . Who tremoled before the Tudors , and beoame their instruments even to the commission of systematic murders In Scotland and at home ! The aristocracy . Who ma . le the Tudor Elizabeth tremble in the midst of her haughtiness , and retract her arbitrary coinmantis ? Tho peopitf in their parliament . Whojoinrd with the Stuarts to destroy the liberties ofthe nation , and to rule by a standing army ?
The aristocrrcy . Who put down king and aristocracy , and made the first example in the world of a headless king , for the warning of bad monarebs , and tbe encouragement of injured nations ? The people of England . Who recalled the debauched Charles II . to this country , and bargained with him for their own profit and the popular wrong ? The aristocracy . Who again drove the Stuarts form the throne ! The people . Who got the credit of it ? Seven bishops , whose " Diana of tbe _Ephesians , " the church , was in danger by the king ' s plan of rsstoring Popery , and some dozen or two of the aristocracy , who called in the Dutch king to rule and rob him .
Who , from that time __ to 1 S 15 , -went on spending the national funds in foreign wans , for the establishment of foreign tyrants , till the cost of bloodshed amounted to three thousand millions ! The aristocracy . Who , meantime , * raised the vcind ? Who ploughed and sowed , Aug and hoed , spun and wove , and sailed and traded , and raised England to such a pitch of power and wealth as withstood all immediate ruin , but left an awful heap of debt to look at 1 The people of England .
who planted America ! The people . Who lost it ? The imbecile aristocracy . Who invented all improvements in agriculture , mechanics , and manufactures , which ingenuity produced national tvealth ? Who made roads , cut canals , called into knowledge and use gas and steam ; built steam-engines and steam-ships ; laid down railroads and put in motion spinning-jennies and power-looms , the grand sources of our national ascendancy ? The People .
Who invented the _riatioaal Debt ? Ths Aristocbact III We feel bound to notice the conduct of the public journals as regards this work . The newspapers have been dubbed the " best public instructors , " but most of them might be more truly called the " worst public _mialeaders . " True , some few exceptions have favourably noticed this work ; for instance , the Morning Advertiser , Nonconformist , Dispatch , Brighton Guardian , Kent Herald , ' _, Nottingham Review , Nottingham Mercury , and People ' s Journal ; but the great mass have passed it over in silence , as the beat method of burJdny it . These " best possible burkers " include ail the daily press , excepting tbe Advertiser The Aths has denounced it as " a shocking bad hook , " and the delicate sham-radical Spectator has
repudiated it as " a low book ! " But this conduct of the press-gang towards the people ' s friends is quite in keeping with the way they treat the people themselves , witness their burking of the great Chartist _meetings now being held in London and the country . The Crown and Anchor meeting of between two and three _thousand persons ( to say nothing of the hundreds who could not gain admission ) was never even noticed in the " bloody old Times" a _» Cobbett well called it . The meeting of two thousand good men and true , who have sworn to have the Charter , last Tuesday at the Eastern Institution has also been completely burked . Well , we will yet makethe .-e rascals do us justice . If they cannot hear us , our voice shall be raised ten-fold stronger
and louder , until we force these traitor-journalists to g ive us the justice of publicity . And now wc take leave of this work , calling on the people to be true to themselves , and to remember , in the words of John Hampden , junior , "thatthe good and the salvation ot the world always come , _.-ind always have came , from the Hvt . Chri ? t came thence : the greatest sages and philosophers , the true founders and builders of national wealth and glory—of the power and happiness of man , have come thence in all ages . The People are the fruitful soil of all genius , of all _imagination , ol ' all _constructivencss , of all va our , daring , enterprise , and success . The Aristocracy are the mere vermin that ride in the lion ' s mane , because they have eleverly located themselves out of the reach of his paws !"
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Hurst , fireman on board the Little Western , _Ramscate steamer . From the evidence of Mr . Hudson , assistant surgeon on board the Dreadnought Hospital-ship , it appeared that the deceased was received on hoard on Monday , the 28 th ult ., suffering from severe injuries on his face . On examination it was ascertained that the liones of the face and nose were broken , and a large hole was in the skull abovo the nose , penetrating to the brain . A large piece of the bone of tlie skuli had also entered the brain , causing inflammation , from which death ensued . John Robertson , first engineer on board the Little Western ,
deposed that on the day of the accident they had made their last trip for the season , and wore going t _<> their moorings at Deptford for the winter . When off the Custom House , the engines were stopped , but they went on ahead immediately afterwards . Deceased was wiping the oil off the engines , when the crank of the shaft came in contact with his head , crushing it between the shaft and the beam . Witness did not see the accident occur , but saw the deceased falling . The engines were instantly stopped , and the nature ofthe injury having been ascertained they came at full speed to the Dreadnought , when deceased was put on board . —Yerdict , ' Accidental death . ' i : * _^ ai
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THE DEATH OF THE DEMOCRAT . bt man _DABirar . wln 7 . | , e an 9 no ° , ' i _- S Hn _? s _*? _" _* _jested by the . notice of _SelSK " _^ Satu _«* _ay ' 8 Star of the death ? _Sv « . ev ; ery inch a Mas ; " lie noted upon m and 7 _i £ ' < a u " brethren : " t ] _™ _fr End " _' _wU " death proved him 3 elf one of _& ° h _<™ - ceive " ] n ° " * can rule ' and no P rie 8 t d 8-
A \ r—The burial of Sir John Moors . To battle for right , and to pluck down wrong , The democrat arm'd for the struggle ; He defied the scourge of oppression ' s thong , And he laugh'd at foul priestcraft ' s ju ? gle . With courago undaunted he fought the light , Unappall'd by pain or danger His arm was strong in tho cause of right , And his heart was to fear a stranger . Struck down by the merciless dart of death , His brave spirit no priestcraft could smother , For he cheeril y cried , with his latest breath " . Fear nought if you love each other . " Let justice and truth , till life ' s _pulss shall cease , " Be the unfailing aim of your mission , " And like mine , your last thoughts shall be thoughts of peace _.
" And jour hopes shall be bright aid Eljsian !" Though dark is the night of our _prasent woe , There is coming a glorious morrow , When the deeds of such men as our brother laid low Shall _reliuve mankind of their Borrow . _Link'd hand with hand , we swear o ' er bis grave To manfull y struggle united , Till this earth shall be freed from tyrant and slave _. And this world of wrong shall be _rightod . If our fate be to fall on battle-ground , For justice und freedom contending ; Or fast by the chain of the tyrant bound , Our course in captivity _anding ;—Or with loving and loved ones by our side ,
_Whoseheart-heavlng sighs speak their mourning ; If wo live as At lived , we shall die as h * died , All _pritstly terrors scorning .
Theatre Royal, Martlebone. Oa Monday Eve...
THEATRE ROYAL , MARTLEBONE . Oa Monday evening we had the pleasure of attending this western temple of the Muses , and sitting under the brine of Shakspere _, Otway _, Byron , and other celebrated dramatists so graphically depicted by the artist ' s pencil on the ceiling of the house . We witnessed the representation of that domestic drama which ezcitdd such a thrilling interest some time sines at the Surrey Theatre , and which appears destined to do the same in this more western hemisphere—called "Genevieve , a romance of real life . " Mrs . Campbell , as the heroine , was all that could be desired , and sustained her well merited high reputation , as the " Prima Donna" in domestic tragedy . She was ably supported by Messrs . Cowlp and Harrington in the serious portions ofthe drama , whilst T . Lee , Biddle aud Miss Martin , kept the house in a rear in the comic
scenes . A new farce was next produced under the attractive name of "Miss Martin ' s Kiss , or 'Twas I . " The scenes are laid in "La Belle France . " Tho plot is as follows : The mayor and commune of a French village , in order to support and reward maiden chastity , offers a prize of a wreath of white roses , _together with a purse of one hundred crowns , to the maiden who shall have lived fifteen years without forfeiting her virtue , or receiving a kits from any man . Proclamation _t'i this effect having been made , an urn is placed on the table , from which the several papers are drawn , and the prize is declared to have been won by Georgette ( Miss Martin ) , which much raises the ire of Madam Mag ( Mrs . Ltckfoldj , a maiden lady of a certain age , the _villnge scandal-monger , who is _determined to see if htt _toncue cannot prevent the brow
of the fair _Georgette from being _graced with the chaplet of rotes . The next scene is the cherry gardens of Monsieur DeLorme ( Mr . LiukfoiU ) _, which the cottage of Madame Mug overlooks , and in which _Genrgntte is discovered gathering cherries on a ladder , when De Lorme enters , and _commences _rotipintf with the beautiful _Georgette , and at length insist upon stealing a kiss from her lips . Madame Mag during this time being wntching from the window , makes her presence known by " a hem , " much to the discomfiture of the youthful rompers , and Georgette fearing that Madame Mag will carry the intelligence of her romp with De Lorme to her faithful swaine , Man-el Margot ( Mr . T . Lee ) , a village simpleton and gardener employed in the grounds of De Lorme , dashes down a beautiful rose just presented to her by Dk Lorme , at this moment Marcel enters with the news that
Georgette has had the prize awarded to her . Georgette and Marcel leave to proceed to thepublic place , at which the chaste virgin is to receive the crown of honour , and Madame Mag , with a determination to prevent its accom . plishment . In the meantime , Madame De Lorme ( Miss E . Hodson ) enters , and De Lorme , to confute the scandal of Madame Mag , plays over again upon his wife the romp he had previously enuctod with Georgette , much to Madame De Lorme _astonishment , who declares she has " not had such a chaste snlute since the day she became a wife . " The next scene is the road leading to the "Place de Triumph , " in which Georgette is seen and Heard instructing the simple Miircel in his lesson , and the reply to any accusation Madamo Mag might make , which is simply that he is to answer all questions and charges , with the simple response— "It was I , " which , ou her
promising to be his henceforth , he undertakes to do . _Proceeding onwards lie meets Madame Mag , who commences her tale of scandal , that Georgette had been kissed in open day in the _ehi-rry garden , < fcc , & c , when impelled by the dumb motions nf Georgette , who has closely followed on the heels of Madame Mag , he , in tbe most rueful and doleful accents , exclaims , " It was I ; " but , t > y thearts of Madame Mag , hois thus made to criminate himself with Madame De Lorme . We now come to the "Placode Triumph , " at which the mayor , commune , baroness and villagers are assembled , to give to maiden chastity its duo reward . Proclamation having been made by thecri _( r ( Mr Robbcrds ) , toany ' one who know any cause why the award should not then be made , Madame Mag steps forward , but her charge is _immediatel y met by Madame De Lorme , who exclaims , "Youmay cease your scandal—It was I . " Madame Mag determined not to
be wholly defeated , mnkes charges against the chastity of Madame De Lorme , aud insists upon Marcel Margot being called to substantiate her charges ; on Marcel's entree he is seized and shaken by Monsieur and _MadnmcDa Lorme , and consequently when questioned ho is found to _IlllVO forgotten his lesson ,, and , in an affrighted tone , replies" It was not I ; " much to the relief of Georgette . Madame Mag is then _declnred to b « the mischief-maker and scandalum _maioiatum of the village , and in order to secure peace and domestic blifs t ' orthe future , poetical justice is done her , she is drummed out of the village . The roseate wreath is given to Georgette , and Marcel is blessed with her hind and heart , whilst Madame De Lorme solicit another " chaste salute" from her husband . The characters fere most ably sustained by Mr . T . Lee , Misi Martin , Mr . and Mrs . Lickfold , Mr . Biddle , and Miss E . Hodson ,
Iu the course ofthe farce , a duett , describing the duties and joy of wedded life , was sung by Miss Unrtin and Mr . T . Lee , with much humour , and honoured with a unanimous encore . The house was convulsed with laughter during the performance of the farce , and at the fall of the ( curtain , the applause was unanimous , long and loud . The farce cannot fail to prove a lasting card to the enterprising and justly popular lessee . The evening ' s entertainments concluded with " Tlit Union Jack , " in which Mr . J , Douglass ably sustained the character of Joe Hatchway . The audience by their loudly expressed approbation declaring him to be " every inch a sailor . " The house was well attended , _| and at half-price whs literallv a bumper .
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thrown into a state of alarm , by the screaming of a female , who was calling out " Murder , " and exclaiming that her husband , Mr . John Ta < i ( lay , had shot himself at his house , the Green Man beer shop . Crowds of persons assembled on the spot , and the poor woman was supported to the house in a fainting condition . On entering the skittle ground at the hack part of tho premises Mr . _Tuadiiy was discovered lying on the ground presenting a horrid spectacle , his head being shattered to pieces , evidently from
the effects of a pistol shot , and his brains scattered about the place , but a pistol was no where to be found . In the course of the day a female made herself very conspicuous , by saying it was not the not of the deceased himself , and she Knew the party _wlio shot him . Information was communicated to tlie police , and inquiries were instantly made , and the woman alluded to was taken to the station house , and this matter will shortl y bo investigated . As for as it appears at present , this man shot himself while in a state of despondency , from his business not succeed ins .
Accident ox TnR Leeds and _BrtATVi-oin ) Railway . —On Saturday last , when one of the _luwiiiiii ! trains from Leeds for Bradford had arrived near _Kirkstall _Fot-fje , tho engine-driver perceived a man walking on the line at a distance of eighty yards in advance , lie immediately sounded the whistle twice , but as the man took no heed lie let oil' the steam , aud reversed tlh > motion of the engine , yet all was to no purpose ; _beiornthc train could be stopped , the man was knocked down , and the whole ot the carriages passed over him . J lis death was instantaneous . lie was a labourer employed on the line . Verdict— " Acci dental dc _» . * b . "
Attempted Suicidb by a Fkmaib at London Bridge . —On Tuesday afternoon , an elderly , _respectable individual jumped into the river _otf the London _Kr ' ul » c Steam-boat Tier , whilst apparently waiting the arrival of a steamer . The assistance of boat and waterman was very speedily obtained , but before she could be reached tho steersman of a bclow-bridge steam-tug , called the rover , threw out a hook attached to a ropo , hy means of which he caught hold of her dress , and hauled her on board , apparently dead , but by the means of the usually applied restoratives she ultimately recovered .
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Prospective Opening op Railways . —The Newcastle and Berwick , between Newcastle and Morpeth , is announced to be oi ened in the early part ofthe _ensuing month , and the whole line is expected to bo finished by February next . The bridges over the Tyne and Tweed , now in course of erection , will occupy two years at least ere they can be opened . The extension of the North Shields line to Tynemouth will be thrown open to tlie public in a low _weeka . The Whitehaven and Harrington Railway is in so forward a state as to promise its opening for public tralhc in the early part of October . The South _IJeyon will be opened on the atmospheric principle of traction in about three monthsThe engines at
. the Exeter and Countess _Weirstations are completed , aud have been tried ; the valves are _beiii" fixed to the tubing , and the connecting pipes for the _engine ot the Hull and Selby , extending from _fi _„ 3 toBrW-\ W on by way of Beverley and Driffield , » distance ot 31 miles , is appointed to be publicly opened on Tuesday , the Gth of next month . The Margate line a branch of the South Eastern from Ramsgato is on the eve of completion , and will be thrown open to the pubhc inn few days . The nertford branch of the Eastern _Countiea was opened on Tuesday as a double line . The Bedford branch of the London and Birmingham will be completed the first week in October . —Mining Journal .
A Caution to Omkibus Travellers by Nionr — An old trick of tbe omnibus conductors has lately come in vogue , respecting the change whioh they give . A number of instances have occurred where a party has , on leaving an omnibus at the West-end , handed the conductor ha ! f . _a-crown , upon which he immediately takes a coin from two different pockets , hands it to the passenger , jumps up on the monkey _, board , and one . " All right ; go on . " On the party looking to see if they have the right change , they sometimes find to theircost , ihat they only receive a shilling and a farthing . The principal victims are females .
The Mknai Tunnbl Suspension-bridge . — The foundation stone of this stupendous work across the Menai Straits , was laid on Friday last . The erection of the _bridge is expected to occupy three years . No less than 210 vessels laden with foreign merchandixe and provisions of _evervsort , arrived in the port of London , on Monday and Tuesday , Increase or Incendiary Fires . —For the last month , scarcely a day has passed but the principal insurance offices have received accounts from their agents , ofthe most disastrous incendiary fires occurring in the different parts ofthe country , more especially in Essex and Suffolk . In those counties barely a night passes but the country is illumined
by the burning of agricultural property , and the greatest alarm now pervades these districts . Tbe most alarming feeling naturally exists amongst the farmers of this country , and in many places they have _forme-1 themselves into a society for the better protection of their property . The village of Soham has again been the scene of an alarming fire . No spot in England has suffered so much from acts of incendiarism as this parish , and during the last four months , more than one-third of it has been consumed . The perpetrators , in some of these ca ? es . are alledged to be _merelads of amiserable half-starved appearances . Three of them have been committed to Chelmsford lor trial at the next assizes .
Governorship op Bombay . —The _Worcester Herald says that Sir Dennis La Marchant . Bart ., one of tho members tor Worcester , is spoken of for the post of Governor of Bombay . Anti-Malthusianism . —The wife of a peasant at Caen , has just been delivered of three healthy male children . Two years ago she had ttvo female children at the same birth , making five children in the two years . Food for the Irish . —A statement has appeared in some of the papers that the " mills at the Royal William Victuallinc Yard were immediately to commence grinding , _ninbt and day , Indian corn for the distressed Irish . At present no corn has been ground nor has any yet arrived for grinding . Everything , however , is ready , we believe , for proceeding wih the grinding when any corn is received . —Plymouth Journal .
Pauperism in England axd Walks —Tho tenth annual report of the Commissioners describes the pauperism of 1843 as " amouting to one-tenth of the population . " In their eleventh report , referring to the winter quarter ending Mareh 25 , 1844 , the Commissioners tell iiBt— "Tho number nf n w cases in the other three quarters may b _« safely estimated at half a million , so that the numberof persons relieved in England and Wales in the course ofthe parochial year 1 S 44 may be taken at about two millions , or nearly one-eighth part of tbe population . " There
is to us a solemnity in this announcement like that of a funeral knell , —the knell of a nation . Onoeighth part of the population of England and Wales paupers in a year of railroad activity , and with wheat at 51 s . 5 d . per quarter ! To what gulf arc we hastening ! Lieut . WArner ' s Lose Range . —An officer of artillery has been selected , with the consent , of both parties , to test the merit of Lieut . Warner's inventions both of the shell and long range ; the Treasury have appropriated the sura of £ 1 , 500 to defray the expenses of the experiment .
Cost of the Army and Navy . —Tho expenses of the Army and Navy for the present ' year is £ 16 S 40 _. 000 , _being £ 5 , 180 , 000 more than in 1 S 35 , and this is without any ref ' _erense to the interest ot the Nation Debt , incurred for military expenses in former years . The population of the United Kingdom is now probably about twenty-two millions . The impost voted for war _dsiring the past Session is about eight shillings and sixpence on every man , woman and child in Great Britain and Ireland . The total burden upon each individual for the year , is about fifteen shillings and fourpence ! and if to this be added each one ' s proportion ofthe interest for the debt produced by _wav , about one pound per head mu _< t still be added : the erand total being little , if anything short of £ 40 . 000 . 000 sterling !
A Fortunate Parish . —In the proceedings at the City revision , a curious circumstance transpired in reference to the parish nf St . Mildred , Bread-street they have had no occasion to levy a rate for the las four years . It is said that there are now between T 000 and 8000 _journeymon tailors out of employment in London . The members of the Tailors' Society receive , in sach circumstarces , 8 s . or 10 ? , weekly . Fearful Situation—As a pump-maker , named Bradford , at Kingston , Ilereforshire , was filling a bucket at a bottom of a well , a depth of twentyeight feet , the sides gave way and engulfed him ; but in the falling of the mass , three large stones formed a sort of triangu l ar arch over the poor fellow's
head , and were thus the moans of saving his life . Six hours elansed before lie was got out . Rice and Turnips a Substitute for Potatoks . —Throughout Scotland the entire potato crop being unfit for human food , and abandoned almost wholly by all classes of _society as _dnnsernns even to be given to stock , the use of rice and turnips in equal quantities has been recommended as a wholesome , substantial , and palatable food for rich and poor , and as a substitute for potatoes . Blended together , and seasoned with butter , lard , or _dripptns , tbe compound forms a most agreeable dish . Tho turnips and rice should be boiled separat _.-ly , and when the former are well freed of water by pressure , aud thoroughly mashed , they should then bo mixed .
The Daoeniiam Murder —Since the verdict in tho above affair was returned , a number of _oflicers ot the policf force have held frequent communications on the necessity of adopting further measures to secure _, if possible , the apprehension of the parties implicated in the brutal murder of poor Clarke . Tho result was , that tbe leaders in the movement forwarded a memorial to Scotland-yard a memorial expressive of their anxiety to procure a united expression of the sympathy of the _fo'ce , by a general subscription , for the purpose of offering a further reward for the discovery of the actors in the late tragedv at ihgenhaui , and requesting the opinion of the Commissioners as to the legality of such a course . A favourable answer was returned in reply , and the _subscrip tion is now in course of collection .
_Extension and Completion of the OvBrtUND Route to India , nnd tbe Whole Eastern Avchvpela « o . —We belive that we can safely affirm , that the East India Company have given their sanction to a line of railway across the southern continent of India , with the view of facilitating our intercourse with the East , with China , and with our Australian possessions . Tbe forthcoming report of Mr . Siinins suggests the necessity of intersecting the presidencies of Madras and Bombay by a line of railway , and thus bringing within a month or six weeks' journey to _England the mnst distant possessions in the southern liomisohcro . If this project be carried out , it will
change the commerce of the whole world , and consolidate our vast and scattered fragments of empire into something like a tangible whole . To reach China in one month , Australia in six weeks , and to traverse the Mediterranean , the Indian Ocean , and the vast sweep of waters in the southern hemisphere in tho same space of time , may truly be said to be a grand gigantic scheme . Short ' Time . —The Halifax millowners have issued a notice , that if the operatives shall signify their desire for such an arrangement , they will commence running " short time , " and reduce the hours of labour from twelve to eleven , making a proportionate reduction of wages .
[ The " Halifax millowners" are wise in their day and generation ; but tho " operatives" are wiser , aud not to be gulled by such clumsy tricks as this . Short Time , to give it fair play , must bo general , and enforced by the law . ' The _operatives are content to leave the question of wagns to be settled by the general effects of such a measure . They will make no such fools' bargains as that offered by the " Halifax millowners . " ] _Discovbuv op Human Bosbb . — On Saturday , as the labourers were employed digging the foundation for the new infirmary in Short ' s Gardens , at the rear of St . Giles ' s Workhouse , they discovered a quantity of human bonos aud the remains apparently
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coffins . The ground was formerly occupied by the ) _deadhouse of St . Giles's Workhouse , and dwelling .. houses in Short ' _a Gardens , and it is supposed that ; tne remains thus discovered must be those of perworkhouse * T _° " _^ * _° d bee " " ricd with _A n ther _wlSoFsir HuMA _? _««»» _-Throughont the " Sled tl en . _? fe u J _ex i ? itementa " d di 38 » _8 t P _^' Hni M _^ S V ) Urhood , 0 tthe Caledonian-road _Isverv of hint _^ 'k " ?* Kin K _* a- _™ d , on the dW k ? Wte _DuEhTneb _£ ? e 9 and _P ieoe 8 _ofeoffinsexposed character _ToTiSj 1 _Sff £ i _^ _Z remains to the various spots has been _Joh _™ J \ Jf _£ entirely to prevent the _dWiontfYetaS _^
_Caedonian-road , a-eart-load 0 f earth was shot on Saturday inthe middle ofthe road , which is in coarse of construction , and emitted a most _disgusting effluvium , but was tot noticed to contain the remains of human beings- The stench caused an examination to be made , and several other portions of coffins half rotted and human bones were found . In Bath-street and River-street , two new streets in the course of formation on tho north side of the Regent ' s Canal , upwards of two or three waggon loads of black earth intermingled with human bones have been deposited in these streets , and men bave been employed to sift the earth for the purpose of mixing portions of it with lime . The bones left in the sieve , composing all parts of the human frame , were thrown on one aid * and partially buried under clay . '
_DilATH OF SlH _GiTARXES _WoiBSLET , BART . — _TlllS venerable baronet expired on the 3 rd instant , at his « e « t Wolsoley Hall . Staffordshire , aged 76 . He was the head of one of our oldest Saxon families , and during his long career had ever been the champion ofthepeopleand staunch advocate ofciviland religious liberty and progress . His political connection with Birmingham , and his consequent pro ecution by the government of that day are still famil _' ar . Aa * o « i _was rauch bf 5 l <> _fed and respected . Sr . Michael ' s Mount- —It is rumoured the Quenn has offered £ 55 . 000 for St . Michael ' s , Mount , but that the Bum asked is 75 . 000 . Nautical Facts . —The average number of wrecks of British merchant ships in a vear is 600 ! The average sura lost above two millions and a half sterling ! I ho average of lives lost , tlie lamentable number of 1 , 560 ! but the wrecks offifteeenout of every twent y . shijjs are attributed to some incompetency or other en the part of the master .
Railway Emplotmeot _ht Edixburoshire . —The number of men at present employed in tbe construction of railways within the county , an d the _Edinburgn Water Company ' s works , amounts to 3 , 509 . Ot these 2 _. 48 C are at work on the Hawick branch of theNorth British Railway . The New Monet-Order Office _Alpkrsoatb-• trekt . — A very . extensive building Was been erected in Aldgersgate-street . near the French Protestant Church , the internal fittings of which will be completed by Christmas nest , when the wl ole business of the Money Order Department , at present _^ rang _, acted at the the General _Pbst _office , St . ; Martin ' s-le-Grand , will be removed to this building w ' _iich is to be styled the Chief Central Money-Order Office . A Gaming House recently established at Newcastle upon-Tyno , and which proved a great temptation to the young men of the town , was forcibly entered by the police , and the money , implements of play , and keeper of the premises secured , and carried before the magistrates who inflicted a fine .
> John Harden , pauper of the Limerick Union , died in this workhouse , a mere skeleton , from physical exhaustion , and after nine weeks ' abstinence from solid food . The Industrial Schools There is an immediate prospect of industrial schools being established in _Edinburgh . Tire British Museum—Tlie exterior works of this building are now in a very advanced state . Only two of the Ionic columns of the peristyle , and . th . 9 completion of the pediment of the central portico , are wanting to perfect the facade of the principal front _. _RisrBKSBNTATioiT of _North Lancashire . —There is some taik of requesting Sir Robert Peel to allow himself to be put in nomination as one of the candidates for tho northern division of the countv , at tho next election .
Van Diemen ' s Land . —A Vfssel has _arrived from Launceston , with 2 . 848 bags of wheat , and in addition to a quantity of bark and gum , 20 logs of mahogany , the production of the colony . Rise i . n- the Prick of Bread . On Monday morning all tbe principal bakers at the _wost-end of London raised the price of their bread from 9 d . to did . the 41 b . loaf . The continued rise in the price of bread , together with the scarcity of potatoes , has caused great consternation amongst the labouring population . Qukbsc . —A Winter Scene . — The winter mnrkets at _"Quebec are very curious , every thing is frozen . Large pigs , with the | e _.-uliarly bare appearance which that animal presents when singed , stand in their natural position on their _rij : id limb ? , or upright in corners , killed , perhaps , months before . Frozen masses of beef , sheep , deer , fowls , cod . haddock , and eels , long and stiff , like walking sticks ,
abound in their stalls . The farmers have a gr _„ 'at advantage in this country in being able to fatten their stork during the abundance of the summer ; and by killing them at tiie first cold weather , they keep frozen , to be disposed ot at their pleasure during the winter . Milk is kept in the same manner , and sol . ! by the pound , looking like lumps oi white icc . —IIochelaga . AGouD Beginning—We have ' . erf at pleasure in stating that the funds of tho Repeal A _.-sociation are , for the future , to be devoted exclusively to the purchase of meal and Indian corn , which are to be _distributed amongst the poorer class of Irish . Mr . O'Connell has given notice of a motion to the abovo effect , and there is not the slightest doubt that , with his powerful influence , the resolution will be carried into execution directly . The weekly rent lias already risen . —Punch .
Tight Lacing . —A learned doctor , referring to tight Inci . g , avers that it is a public benefit , inasmuch as it kills all the foolish girls , and leaves all the wise ones to _jjrow up to be women . Steeple Chase . —A steeple _cliase for 1000 guineas is fixed to come off on the 4 th of November next , between Captain Wm . Peel and Mr . Hope Johnstone , over a sporting country to be selected bv Lord Maidstone . Tkue . —Cruelty to animals is one of the distinguishing vices ofthe lowest and basest ofthe people . Wherever it is found , it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness—an intrinsic mark , which all the external advantages of wealth , splendour , and nubility , cannot obliterate . A Royal Marriage . —The daughter of the Queen of Madagascar has lately espoused a Frenchman , M . Maximo Lepeliier , who i * the possessor not only ot a princess , but of one of the largest beef salting establishments in the _onuntry .
The Screw . —Mr . F . 1 . Smith , the talented inventor ofthe screw propeller , has been appointed by tho Admiralty to superintend at all their establishments the fitting of the screw machinery in all vessels fitted with a screw-propeller . Odd _TiiKFi . —Seme , thief obtained access to the tower ot _Ci'ou _' . _' e church last week , and stole the hands from the parish clnrk . T '/ . c R _> : v . Mr . Duncombe , the _vii-ar , has offered a reward of £ 10 lav the discovery of the _oflciittci-. Wild Dogs . —Dreadful havoc has been committed among the sheep Hocks of Van Diemen ' s Laud by wild do _.-s . One farmer has lost 2000 slieep , and another 7000 . The French newspapers state that almnst all tho fish this year have- qiiitrcii the const of France aud betaken themselves to that ufScnilaml . Convent . —A convent , tho inmates of which consist often or twelve sisters of charitv , has _bson
established in _Rloomsbury . The dre .-s of tho sisters i » entirely of b !; _icic . Besides _administering religions consolation , they _dispense temporal necessities to the sick poor . _CaiiAt' . —A bird-catcher in the vicinity ot Seven Dials , London , _antintinces that he will provide sportsmen with birds , including powder , shot , and the use of a dog and gun , at the rate of _t-vo shillings per d"zen biuls , which ho will convey to the required distuuee . In the garden of the city prison , Lincoln , is a dahlia eleven i ' ect high . A hop-grower of Shnbdon , Herefordshire , has grown this year a hup measuring 7 inches _long and 5 inches wide .
Famish i . v _Pkyk . —Petitions to _government are getting up _throughout Sine i » order to _aivc timely warning of the famine that is feared . Tho potatoes are gettiim w ;> rso . although in but too mauy . places here , indeed in all , they suffered enough before to render them of little use to people , or cwm to animals _, lh'vriugs are also very late in making their
appearance . Locusts —A specimen of this celebrated species of insect was caught the other day in . a field near Broxburn . It is about two inches In _length , and altogether is very like an enlarged grasshopper , having the same long and _powerful . lei ; a , and large brilliant ey _. s , but with rather mose brown in the colour of the body . llALioosiNO—Mr . Green , the sou of tho famous _English aeronaut , made au asccut at Berlin , on Saturday week , aceompam d by Baron d'Ohsson , the Swedish minister . Alter rcmainins up for upwards of an hour , they safely descended at about three leagues and a half from the capital . According to the Nonconformist , the human race would bo extinct in eleven years , if the general mort ; _vlitv of the _liunrnu _tv . co was us great as it , is ill Mia English _pni-risiKis in Jamiiu . ii , _ijoutf lvoni :, Ceylon , ami elsewhere _Plca-ant mews this lor recruits .
, About twr ( hundred per . son- have , been recently victimized in l '« r « bv il " _ingosiiwis _swii dUi , _* no ir ) med parcels tilled with sand _« their houses , SXi ! iwo trancs f or _. ho _oar-iaao . I . S . c pari » l » of Llane , \ v _. ul , North Wa « , there nro _tbiec overseers of th , poor , all o whom this vt ir are widows . What are the bachelors about ?
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 10, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_10101846/page/3/
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