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¦ _"*^ THE BATTLE . ( From Tie _Xaicmrtr for June . ) _-ar-steeds are trampling , the bayonetsare bare , _^ . _^ banners of battle are red in tbe sir : i * thB Hurrah ! -. _flashesthe flame—and there circles the smoke ! _^ flMflie snny awoke—at tbe loud cannon-stroke . _« « rise toyoiw duty and march man by man , _''" . _jnin , and slaughter , and crash all you can . **** "Hurrah ! "For this is the glory of war !" _f . _aebends the long host in its scarlet array , _St _fetching its deluge of glitter away ; P * Hurrah ! _jajriss sndhelmetare flaring in light ; _^ HelT £ n ! but it a a magnificent sight , _« tatl j } 5 onand squadron are moving amain _*'»•„ . lattery's song and the brazen strain . _&* " Hurrah !
For this is tbe beauty of war . 8 opposite , sullen and _shadoiry and vast , i _aasterless , motionless multitudes massed ; J ** Hurrah ! te _ihndder there crept through that great living itBge , ( be first flame broke from the battery's edge ; _jLjH _wassteadyana still as death , i _^ in ulion lungs drew one long breath : _•** Hurrah ! For this is the moment of war . _j _^ _p yon might see the long streaky lines dart _fjjge the shot drove right through the multitude ' s hfsrt ; Hurrah ! U * a sudden pit dug in that human floor * ln _* the shell dropped doavnward and burst and tore ; bo t h * shrieking here—and thebooming there , — fith abdl on the earth and a bell in the ah * , Hurrah !
For this is the untie of war . _fljfj stood their ground for a time like men ; _jliere a rent was made it was closed ap again ; Hurrah ! Jut _frerr moment more thick and fell ( _fcgethe arrowy fleet of the shot and shell , — Ind heads were turned _bsckavard and cries grew lond , In * they swept away like a great black cloud . Hurrah ! For this is the name of war .
Jlrti at onre aU the thousand battalions enlarge , _ji that army pours down its _magnificent charge ; Hurrah ! _jnS the iusitires stand in their panic aghast , _jje _«* _nbblc mown down by the great , kingly blast ; _flHSonr _** * the loud cheer—bnt , destroyers , beware _Qoscometh that _lsadtrtf leaders : — Datura ! Hurrah ! For this is the crisis of war . _jg * the people are taming and standing at bay j _^ tnd r amparts of dead—a brave garrison they !
Hurrah ! f _, « , Courtier ! four pluses shtuld be wings in yonr need , _jsJ , _Knight of St George ! give the spurs to _ysar steed 1 Tear bright silken bravery scatters the plain _jjj foi saraers ttrswn by the round summer-rain . Hurrah ! Por this is thi triumph of war . _iitie close of tht day when the tempest was hid , _f-estraas'es were moving about in the shade ; Hurrah !
is * brose o ' er the field a broad deluge of light , _lnJ a thnader was thrown on the pause of the night ; _Tfefjclsneed all their cannon , and prophets were they of sea of peace beneath Liberty ' s sway ! * Hurrah ! For that was the ending of war . Eauisx Johis .
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Hmmonds's Colonial Magazine. Jtrse Londo...
_HMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE . _Jtrse London * Simmonds and Ward , Barge Yard , Bucklersbnrv . Tbe presen t , number of tWsaseful _magazine _conklni-the _usn-il amount of interesting matter , on a nriety of subjects connected with onr colonial em . lire . The most important articles are those on SierraLeone ; " "The Manufacture of Sugar ;" "Statistics of Van Dieman ' _a Land ; " "Discoveries is Australia ; " and "Colonisation and Currency . " fe must not omit notice ef onr old friend Sampson first ™ , whose Cockneyish , and , withal , humourous fetters , descriptive of ' ¦ Life in tbe Jangle " of
Ceyba , are sufficiently amusing . The article on _"Coloni-Btion and Currency , or what might be done avith fiie _Waste Lands of Ireland , " is one ofthe " signs of £ » times ; " another proof that tbe conviction is _teeominc general that the restoration of the people fa the land , and the land to Ike people , is the great Hep necessary to be taken to accomplish the _ame-Ssration of the conditien of the masses . This uticle , a particularly curious and interesting , sot only on the ground of its merits , but also _fec 3 uWofit 8 appearance in s magazine devoted to Colonial interests , and , consequently , a favourer of stensive emigration .
Ut People's Journal. Part Xvii. London: ...
Ut People ' s Journal . Part XVII . London : J . Eamett , 69 , Fleet-street . Articles of a very superior character , with _illustrafiffls equally good , combine to make this part a very sod specimen of "The People ' s Journal . " In mother column we have given an important article , on-acted from this part , on "Small Farms and Spade Husbandry . " Amongst the most interesting tf the contents we notice a paper on "Manchester , iy _HepworthDixon ; " SocialFroblems ; "
"Sanitary Legislation ; " and the " Treatment of Crime , " by Lord Nueent . Joseph Mazzini contributes an article on "Nationality ' and Cosmopolitism . " The tm ' cle contains opinions we must dissent from . Both Communism and Fonrierism find defenders in this part against the assaults of Mr _Matzini . A less poetical , or more rational defender of Communism , flan ( _JoodavjD Barraby , Ib ssdly wanted to make Communism understood . Is there no " competent person" to undertake the task ? What say a the Editor ofthe Eeasmer ?
An excellent poem , entitled '' The Little Moles , " It Charles _Mackay _, we most find room for in an early number .
Tke Family Herald. —Vol. Iv., Part 49. L...
Tke Family Herald . —Vol . IV ., Part 49 . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . The fourth year ' s collected numbers of this pnbliafionmnkeup a goodly and handsome volume , well * ortsy of taking its stand by the side of its three year's predecessors . In the « inrse of the past twelve months ave bave so repeatedly asserted and exhibited the worth of the contents of this volume as to render ay lengthened remarks now perfectly unnecessary . Suffice it to say , that for original criticism and sound taste the volume of the "Family Herald , " inst completed , is inferior to nn current publication , Md , indeed , in manv respects is unrivalled as an instructor and entertainer of " The Million . " We can conscientiously recommend this volume as a valuable addition to the library of every man , be be rich Or pcor . Ae regards price , it ia , we believe , the cheapest of the cheap ; but its cheapness is its least recommendation .
Part 49 is tbe first part of a new volume , which has commenced in a manner well worthy of the cha-1 racier of this publication , provJn ? that the resources of the " Herald ' * ' conductors are inexhaustible . The essays by the editor are as original , suggestive , and enriousas ever ; and the romances , tales , and miscellaneous _ntilities , and jocularities are equally good in their way . Ihe commencement of anew volume afiords readers a favourable opportunity for formal" a direct acquaintanceship with the "Family Herald , " aud judging ( of its merits ) for themselves .
37rf Midland Florist. — June, Nottingham...
37 rf Midland Florist . — June , Nottingham . R . Sutton . London : Simpkin , Marshall and Co . We are glad to note the success of this publication , _aacvidencedby the fact that the present _isa double Bomber ; a proof that the demand for the information it snppb ' es i * greater than can be provided within tie limita of the space aud price originally fixed _bj the editor . This month ' s number is a valuable _six-PSnnyworih for any one who has a garden and desires itsnroner _cultivation . The "Midland Florist" is
another proof of the advance ot that pnblic opinion _v-hich aims at relieving the masses from the unmitigated _slavery cf the manufacturing system . For a Efflg time past , the people of this country "haveerred tod strayed like lost sheep" from the bountiful lap of nature : the re-action has now commenced , and » nst terminate in the return of large masses of the People to the Laxd , not as feudal serfs _aaof yore , ontas cultivators in their own right , and enjojers of * boseb ! eshi' * _-3 which nature , with their help of their own strong arms , will provide tor them . Speed tbe day ,
The Timer's Advocate— Edited By Wm. Darn...
the timer ' s Advocate— Edited by Wm . Darnells Jane . Is _' eof Man : Daniells _, 4 , Tost Office-place , Douglas . Several _arifchs of more than ordinary importaucc to miners are contained in this number . We particnlarly notice the articles on _Ciptara Addison s ' * Plan for preventing tbe loss of life in coal mines ; ' _-MrCumiaissionerTremeubcere ' s Report ;* Ihe Minefg Deputation ta London : " and a vcrv _pnusc--"• roriliy _show-un and _cut-uo of that " philanthro pic humbug , thai ' sentimental bastard f » on cf Vuican , that Sam Slick sham Elibn Bnrritt . This weeKor next , _-xcording as wc m ay have room , wc shall _jnote several ifciszs from this number of the " Advo-*« te ; " a publication whi-h , as a most earnest , faith-• _ul , and able _representative and defender of the _mkres-ts of the slaves of tbe mine , deserves theit _undi-Tlded _andhearty support .
The Timer's Advocate— Edited By Wm. Darn...
_Ifccimrt ' e _' s Bailtoay ifonihly lime and Fare Tahiti * Advertiser and Stranger ' s London Guide . —London /' E : _Mackanae , HI , Fleet-street . Each succeeding number of this most useful sheet exhibits improvements npon its predecessor ; for instance , in the present month ' s number the traveller may at one glance satisfy himself as to the route from London to Edinburgh , the moment of time he will reach that city , and the exact fare by the several modes of conveyance . This information could not be obtained in any other Railway Guide , without consulting a bewildering mass of tables , better calculated to mystify than inform . The enormous success of this penny sheet is well deserved ; it is to the interest of the public that its circulation should distance that of all competitors .
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A Second Selection Will Conclude Onr Ext...
A second selection will conclude onr extracti From MARINO FALIERO . Do notthe following words apply to a class nearei mr own time and our own homes than the Venetian irietocracy of 1335 ? -do tbey not picture the past md present of the English aristocracy ? Better bow down before the Hub , and call A Tatter lord , than these swoln silk-worms masters I The first at least was man , amd used bis sword Ac sceptre : _thtae _unminlj creeping things Command oar swordi , _ani rale us with a word At with a spell . In the assembly of the conspirators Bertram , who mbseqnently through weak-mindedness betrays his _"Onfederates , pleads against the universal massacre if the aristocrats , and says that There might be some , whose age and _qualiliti Might mark them out for pity .
Yes , lueb pity As whe * tha viper hath been cut to pieces _. The separate fragments quivering in the sun _. In the last energy _^ venomons life , _Deierre sad have . Why , Ithould think •¦ sea * Of pitying ionae particular fang whichmala Oat in ths jaw of the _smila serpent , as Of sarin g one of these ; 'they form but links Of one long chain ; " one mass , one breath , one body ; They eat , and drink , and lire , and breed _together Revel , and lit , oppress , and kill in cencsrt _, — . So let them die as tne .
Daqolixo enforces the same argument : — Should « n # survive , Ht would be dangtrous at the whola ; it is not _Thtir _oanfcer , bt it teas or thousands , but Tht spirit of this aristocracy Which most be rootsd out ; and if there wen A single shoot of the old tree in lift , 'T would fasten in the soil , and spring again To gltemj _vsidurt and to bitter fruit . • • • Itis the cauit , and notour will , wbich atki Such actions front _tnr bands : we'll wash away All stains in freedom ' s ftantain _.
! The Doge shrinks at first from consigning the entire of his own class to destruction . His conscientious scruples are' thus answered by Israel Bericccio , chief of the conspirators : — _Ttuhave seen blood ia battle , shed it , both Your earn and that of others ; can yoa shrink then From m few drops from veins of hoary _vaupirss , Who but give back what they have draia'd iron millions 1 Subsequently _atjthe moment fixed for the outbreak , _whenlhe Doge is left alone in his chamber in the Dacal palace—his nephew having left him to ¦ _onndtbe great bell of St Mark ' s , the signal of the insurrection—the old can in his soliloquy thus decides the question above discussed : —
What Art a few drops of human blood ! 'tis false , Tbe Hood of tyrants is not human , they _. Like to incarnate tfolocbs , feed on ours , Until 'tis time to give thus to the tombs Which they have _»» de so popnlou . When all has failed , and the conspirators having been arrested , and pnt to the torture , are , finally , brought up for judgment , the following colloquy ensues between Benistbkdb , the chief of the Council of Ten , and Israel _Berttccio : — Ban . —Say what was your motive t I . Bt * . _Juttice ! Best . — — What
Your object ! I . BM . Freedom 1 Beit . Yon art brief , sir
I . _Bw . —So my life grows : I Was bred * soldier , not * senator . Bin . —Perhaps you think by this blunt _brivity To brave your judges to postpone tbe sentence f I . Bin . —Bo you be brief as I am , and , believe mt _, I shall prefer that mercy to your pardon . Best . — It this your sole reply to the tribunal ! L Bn . —Go ask yonr raeks what they have wrong from ns . Or place us there again , we have still some blood left _. And tome slight sense of pain in these wrench'd
limbs : But this ye dare not do ; for if we die _there—Andjou have left _uslattlelife to spend Upon your engines gorged with pangs already—Ye loss the public spectacle , with which You would appal your slaves to further _slaysry ' . Groans are not words , nor agony assent , Nor affirmation truth , if Nature ' s sense Should overcome the soul into a lie , For a short respite—must we bear or dit t Ban . —Say , who were your accomplices ! I . Ban . — Tht Senatel
Bek . — What do you mean f I . Bra — — Ask of the Buffering people _. Whom your patrician crimes bare driven to crime . Philip Calehdaro is next questioned , and expressing his contempt for his judges is threatened with renewed application of the torture to make him rep _' y tothe questions of the court ; on which he asks— Will my avowal on your rack Stand good in law t Ben . Assuredly . Cal— ———— Whoe ' er
The culprit ba whom I accuse of treason ! Ban . —Without doubt , he will be brought up to trial . Cal . —And on this testimony would bt perish I Be * . — So your confession be detailed and full He will stand here in peril of bis life . Cal . —Then look well to thy proud self , President ! For by tht eternity which yawns before me , I swear that thou , and only thou , shall ba The traitor I denounce upon tbat rack , If I be stretched there for the second time .
Tbe brave conspirators are doomed to instant death and ordered to be gagged , * to prevent them addressing the people . The wretched Bertram , compelled to appear as a witness against his comrades , as they are about to be led to execution , solicits them to pardon his fatal weakness : — flay yon forgive me , though I never can Retrieve my oavn forgiveness—frown not thus I I . Bbk . —I dit and pardon thee ! Cat . ( Spitting at him ) Idle and scorn thtt ! The Doge is next brought forward to hear and meet his doom , and comports himself with all the death and pain-defying majesty which was to be antici-K ted from the character of his previous life . The it scenes with his wife and judges are not to be easily effaced fromthe memory of the reader . Tho
Doge ' s final address , in which he prophesies the fate of Venice , _isfearfullj eloquent and sublimely terrible . The whole is too lengthy for extract , we give the conclusion : — * * * * When Smiles without mirth , and pastimes without pleasure , Youth without honour , ago without respect , Mtanneu and weakness , and a sense of woe Gaia _' st which thou wilt not strive , and _dar'stnot murmur , Hare made thee lastand worst of peopled deserts , Then in tbe last gasp of thine agony , Amidst thy many murders think of mine . ' Then den o _? drunkards avith tbe blood of princes ! _fieheas ofthe waters I Thou sea Sodom ! Thut I deroto thee to tbe infernal gods ! Thee and thy serpent teed ' .
{ Bert On Dogb ramsand addrtsits tne _ficecuttoncr . ] Slave , do thine office 1 Strike as I struck the foe ! Strike as I would Have struck those tyrant *! Strike deep as my curie ! Strike—and but tnce ! In 1355 Marlvo Falibro aod his compatriots perished beneath the hands of executioners . Feur hundred and sixty-five years subsequently a glorious poet , born in a strange land , but by sympathy " akin to all the universe , " rises up to avenge them ! Verily , " They never fail who die In a great cause !"
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Plato observed that the minds of children were likebottles with very narrow mouths ; if yon attempt to fill them too rapidly , much knowledge was wasted and little received . The glory of great men ought always to be measured by the means of which they have availed themselves in its acquisition . There 13 n o disguise that can long conceal love where it doe 3 exist , or feign it where it does not . It is re ported that Alfred Tennyson has a new poem in the press . An American paper has this advertisement : " Two sisters want tvashing . " The camel is the only animal tbat cannot swim . It is an ex traordinary fact , that the moment it loses _ttstcotin _* in a stream it tuna over and makes no effort to prevent itself from bsingdrowaed .
T. S, Dua'combe, M.P. < (From Thestin, O...
T . S , _DUA'COMBE , M . P . < ( From TheStin , of June 7 th . ) Throughout the whole of his parliamentary career Thomas _Slingsby Duneombe bas proved himself to be—in word and act , ia heart and soul—a Tribune of the People . Among all the distinguished Reformers of our generation he is conspicuous as about the most consistent and the roost chivalrous , ilence it is that Mr Duneombe has acquired such universal popularity ; hence it is that in all the mutations of political partizanship _, in all the fluctuations of public _sympalhy , and in all the changes ofthe supreme government ' _, his name has continued to he the object of national respect , and in a _ureat measure too of national
affection . Even the nickname which has fallen upon him in the excitement of electioneering enthusiasm , and which sticks to him like a burr , is in some sort a tolerable indication that he is a favourite with the multitude . " The Finsbury Pet . '' But Thomas Duneombe is more than the Finsbury Pet : he has , by his courageous nnd unflinching conduct as a liberal legislator , ensured for himself the admiration of every sincere and earnest lover of constitutional Reform . Both as a parliamentary debater and as an advocate of those whose extreme _lowlinessdenicstheifi all except such generous and spontaneous _assistance as that continually ufforded by the hon . gentleman the member for Finsbury—as an assiduous committeeman , and ns one whose name is perpetually
recurring in the division lisls _, Mr Duneombe is eminently entitled to the enviable consideration he has now for a considerable period _onj-. ycd _. On Thursday evening last , in the course of his luminous and masterly speech upon Convict Discipline , Sir G . Grey paid a ' deserved tribute at once to the judgment and the humanity of Mr Duneombe . We were ourselves particularly gratified with these observations of the Home Secretary , from a vivid recollection of the circumstances to which they referred , as well as from a consequent remembrance , that in regard to those very circumstances the honourable representative of Finsbury had received a rather churlish aud supercilious rebuff fromthegovemment . Indeed , the complimentary allusions of Sir G . Grer
can scarcely be considered as other than an act of expiation , or , perhaps , we should say of compensation , for the unmerited manner in which his original proposition was received . It cannot be forgotten that we are referring to the terrible narrative of cruelties and brutalities _detailed in the House of Commons by the hon . member for Finsbury several months back , and which narrative he declared to be a by no means exaggerated description of the conduct habitually practised by the subordinate officers to the wretched criminals incarcerated in the hulks . It cannot be forgotten , because tho miseries depicted by Duneombe on that occasion produced throughout the country the liveliest feelings of horror and indignation , nor cannot by possibility have escaped the _recollection of
tpe public , that notwithstanding the hon . representative for the metropolitan borough adjured the government to investiga'e the circumstances which he declared to be of continual recurrence in the hulks , and to discover , by the inquiries of intelligent commissioners , whether or no bis allegations were founded in trnth or misrepresentation , his demand was rejected , his assurances were slighted , and it was even determined that no Hulks Committee should be constituted , because it was maintained , forsooth , that inquiry implied an anticipatory conviction of guilt I upon these frivolous and erroneous grounds Mr Duncombe ' s very rational and humane demands were rejected , and so the matter continued apparently in abeyance until her M » _jestj ' _s Secretary for
the Home Department explicitly acknowledged , on Thursday evening , that the fullest investigation had been made into the declarations of the hon . gentleman , and that after a cursory glance at the voluminous reports transmitted for his examination by Captain Williams , "he had no . hesitation in saying that there was ample ground for many of the statements which had been broughtforward as to the abuses existing in the hulfo . " With such an amende honour _, able Mr Duneombe must be personally satisfied ; but we doubt not but that in his generous estimation the parties principally aggrieved in the transaction are the convicts _themselves , and that to those convicts , therefore , _theadministrativeassistanceshould be immediately directed .
Beyond the gratification that mu-t be experienced by tbe hon . gentleman the representative of Finsbury , at the prospective prevention of the cruelties inflicted upon _tfr-se unfortunate wretches whose temporary homes are the hulks , must be the consolatory reflection that in time those hulks may be alto * gether _tenantlcs" . Earnestly , then , do we congratulate Mr Thomas Slingsby Duneombe upon tbe eulogistic remarks which fell on Thursday evening from the lips of the Home Secretary . Those expressions embodied in their very brevity and simplicity a _pantgyric upon the Parliamentary career of the member for Finsbury ; and in such a panegyric we are certain tbat the multitude will coincide witb cordiality , for Thomas Slingsby Duneombe is—and deserves to be—a national favourite .
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Westminster Mental Improvement _Societt . — The discussion on the Government Plan ot _Education was resumed on Saturday evening , June _btb , at the Temperance Hall , Broadway , MrCath-ein the chair . Mr Stallwood reviewed the arguments advanced by the several speakers on the previous evening , and concluded by avowing his preference of a secular over a religious education , and a State education in preference to one left entirely to the voluntary principle , as it was quite evident , so long as the latter principle prevailed , an immense number of the peoide would remain uneducated altogether . —Mr Cathie said , as regarded scriptural education , he did not think some of Iu b _predecessor ' s arguments would go for much . Taking Chambers' statistics for his
guide , he was justified in stating that the Irish people , with all their superstition , were better educated , or , in other words , _th-n-0 were not so many uneducated , in proportion to their numbers , as there were in England . —Mr Brit me said he had asked the previous speaker , when he was alluding to the writings of Percy Byahe Shelley and Byron , to point out the inelegancy of dictv n , or tbe immorality , contained in the works of th se authors , but Mr Cathie had failed to produce a single quotation ; but he woild tell them , or rjth r give them , one Btrong argument against _scriptu al education—it certainly did not inculcate kindn- s of feeling , as did the writings of Percy _Byshe S * _elley . tic contended that no government bad any right to educate the people
in either politics or theo ' oiy . The teacher ' s duty was simply to give the ludiments , and leave the pupils to find _theology and piliticB for themselves _, lie emphatically denied t' e rightof any government , or any one else , to tfach the infant mind either Christianity or _nratorialisra—proselytism was n _<* t their business . As maturity dawned , truth would force itself on the human mind ( Loud cheers ) . — Mr Trumb ' . e said he entirely differed with the last speaker , as he contended it was the duty of a father to find food for his child's mind , quite as much as it was to clothe his body or feed his stomach , and , looking on the governmc t in a paternal sense , he thought it equally its duty to see that the country ' s laws were wisely and _jusily administered .
Notwithstanding the defects of tbe government plan of education , he could notaltogether support voluntaryism , as he _foHud _, in the midd ' e ofthe nineteenth century , large numbers ofthe peo . . le still without educationstill plunged in the very depths of ignorance . He thought the government guilty of tyranny when it undertook to give _education to Protestants , and refused it to Catholics , Jews , and those they pleased to denominate Heretics ( Loud cheers ) . For his part , he would appro * riate the revenues at * the Church , and with them elucate the people . To use the language of Dt Hoo _' _t— " Better have an impoverished hierarchy than an immoral , uneducated people" ( Great applai e ) . —Mr Bowler said , when he first went to Liver ; oo he founda Liberal corporation
in existence ; that cr . oration adopted a system of education in the school ' , that all creeds partook of ; but , alas , a bigoted corpnration succeeded , and reverted to narrow sectarianism : the consequence was , that the consciences of tl e parents constrained them to keep their childi en from school . Did not this speak loudly in favour of a secular system of education ? ( Cheers . ) He contended that , as all were compelled to pay towards the government Bcheme of education , so should all be allowed to partake without prejudice ; and he knew of no better plan of preventing religious feuds , and creating a kindly fraternal feeling , than to permit of all being educated together , which could only be done under a secular
syiitem . of education ( Loud cheers ) . The evils of a _religious education were but too apparent . Had sectarianism _notled to burnings , bloodshed , and destruction of human lives innumerable ? ( Hear . ) Secular education was the plan to create vovl fooling , peace , and happiness ( Loud cheers ) . —Alter a few words from MrTilling , Mr Walfoid replied , refuting very cleverly the arguments put forth in opposition to his opening speech . The meeting was then adjourned until Saturdav ( this evening ) , June 12 tb , at eight o ' clock precisely , when Mr Stallwood will open the following question : " The Merits of the several Candidates aspiring to the honour of representing Westminster in Parliament . " . , _„ ff _tOtkliaaMMi "'* _** _» •** •**• _ y _+ T _*** 9
_SmooiAR Incbeasb of Gems . —Lord Ivenyons ' lodge keeper , in the autumn of 1815 , sowed one grain of wheat in grass land ; the produce from this was 645 grains ; these were re-sown that autumn , grain by grain , on a space of ground eight yards by fortyone , these produced in 1810 a beautiful crop , amounting to ten quarts ; these were also sown grain by grain the same year , and when reaped and cleaned in September last , the produce was nine measures and a half , thirty-eight quarts to the measure . What does Mr Malthds say to this ? Does the principle ol _papulation proceed in the same geometrical ratio ?—From an Old Neu : spaper . , , The inhabitants of " Stony Batter , " near Dublin , have applied to the street commissioners for leave to change the name of that locality to " _Palmerston Place , " as the value of their property has beon lessened by the _oldness of the former designation .
Philosophy triumphs easily over evils passed , and evils to be ; but present evils triumph oyer philosophy . ' .
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Having At Last Finished With "The Chambe...
Having at last finished with "the Chambers '" and pretty well finished _Jheniiby convicting them of the _grossest'inconBistehcy , the grounds and proofs ofthe conviction being furnished by themselves ; having proved on their own evidence the , immonse advantages of the small farm system , and the capabilities of that system to ensure the comfort arid happiness ofthe cultivators of the soil , —we may now without further notice consign W ., C ., or at least the productions of his pen , to that nameless place which his initials direct to . This column being now at liberty for other matters , we ( his week commence the carrying out of an idea we have entertained for some time past . Be it known then to our readers , that we purpose to give weekly a column of" extract" from
some useful -book , of a character calculated te instruct the inquirer ; not omitting the design of combining as far as possible entertainment with instruction . We shall not confine ourselves to any particular branch of literature but shallondeavour to " cull the choicest" from all books coming under our notice . We purpose to extract liberally from the works of that great Englishman , William _Cebbett . We shall have an eye to the wants of our Land readers , and occasionally give a column of matter Hseful to the farmer , gardener , and housewife . We last week promised to give an extract from certain astounding revelations contained in recent numbers of ffowitt ' x Journot _, _unveS _' _im , * some of the dark crimes of one of tho detestable princes of Germany . The following is the promised
extract : — CA 8 _PAE _HADSEB , THE _HEBED'TAHY MINCE CF BADEM . Ka _* _-par , or Caspar _Ilausor , the Nuremberg foundling , was Mbserved in tho evening of _Whit-Momlay , the 2 Gth of May , 1828 , standing against the wall in the UnscliltU market-place . The citizen , an inhabitant of tho marketplace , who first observed him , was struck by his _singular appearance . It was that of a peasant youth , clad in the peasant costume , and holding in his hand a letter addressed to the captain of tbe fourth squadron of thu sixth regiment of light horse , lying there . Bting con . ducted to him by this good citizen , and questioned by him who aud what he was , it became evident that be was almost wholly incapable of _speech , avas thoroughly ignorant of everything in life , aad strange in his
_behaviour . To ' all questions he _answerct _) , Prom _Itegensburg , " or " , Joh _twainiM , " in the dhlect of Bavaria , " 1 don't know " and yet on p * n and ink being put before bim , he wrote in a tolerably legible band , his name , * ' _Kaspar _Ifciuscr . " All endeavours to draw from him , however , avhence he came , avhere he bad lived , or any other matter connected with himself , were vain . He appeared to be from sixteen to seventeen years of age . He was of middle size , broad-shouldered , and of a perfect regularity of build . His skin was white and nne . bis limbs were delicately moulded , his hands small and beautifully formed ; and his feet , which were as soft in texture and finely shaped as his hands , boro not tbo _slighteattrace of having been compressed in shoes . He showed the utmost abhorrence of all food or drink , except dry bread and water . His speech was confined to a very few atords , or sentences iu the old Bavarian dialect , as " _Betita wahn , wle _mei Volta Wahn is : " " I avish to be a trooper , as my father was . " He exhibited the most
utter _unacquaiatance with the commonest objects and most daily appearances of nature , and a total indifference to the comforts and necessities of life . In his _wretched dress was found a handkerchief marked K . H . ; and he had also in his pocket a manuscript Catholic prayer book . The writor of the letter which he had brought in his hand , professed to be a poor labourer , and the father often children , and said that the boy had been left by his unknown mother at his door ; that he had taken him in , and brought him up secretly , teaching him reading , writing , and Christianity . The letter was dated 1828 . from the Bavarian frontiers , but tbe place not named , within it avas another le'tcr , purporting to be from tho mother , ond written in Roman characters , saying that the boy was born on the 30 th of April , 1812 ; that his mother was a poor maiden , who conld not support him , and his father a soldier in the sixth regiment of light horse , noav dead . That she requested the labourer to keep him till he was seventeen , and then sen-1 him to the regiment .
The whole of the _storj was soon felt to hang very badly together , It was not likely that a mother , determining to expnse her child , avould . lay it at tho door of a poor labourer with ten children , nnd expect him to keep it seventeen years . It was less likely that any poor labnurerin such circumstancesC'Uld or would so faithfully support a burden of this kind for so many years , and then so punctually convey him to tho place appointed . Besides , what metive coaald the man have for concealmimt ' The mother might have , but what could the poor labourer have ! If he _h-ad received the child , he would most likely have let him run about with kis oaan ten . But to shut him up in a dark den , and there for seventeen years feed and visit him , was a piece of labour and mjstery which no common labourer would » _uhject himself to . There was evideatly a nobler parentage , and _anothsr story , for which this was but a clumsy substitute .
He was handed over hy the cap'nm of horse to the police the very evening that he was found , and he was treated by them as a helpless person from some unknown place . The greatest curiosity was excited regarding him , as soon as the cate was known , and _BurgetmeUta-r Binder _especially exerted himself to penetrate the mystery which surrounded him . Tho result of much inquiry , partly from himself , and partly from citcumstanti . il evidence , was , that he had been kept from his childhood in a dark , subterranean plaee , where fcecou'd not once stretch himself properly , it avas so small , and there he hnd remained clad only in a shirt and trousers , nnd fed on bread and water . Occasionally he was attacked witb very heavy
sleep , and on awaking from these peculiar sleeps he found that his _cloilu-s had been changed , his nails cut , and the place had been cleaned out . His only amusement was playing with two wooden horses . For somo time , hoar ever , before he was carried off to Nuremberg , the man who tended him , but whose face he never saw , had com * frequently into his cell , bad guided his hand in writing with a pencil on paper , _ivliich had _delighted him very much , and had taught him to say he avould bo a soldier as his father had been ; that he was from Itegensbctg ; and" I don ' t know . " At length " the man _/' _ashealwayn called bim , came one night , carried him out of his dungeon , made him try to walk , on which he fainted , and a ' last brought him to the gate of Nuremberg . ¦
Every circumstance testified to the truth of these facts . He stumbled Bloavly forward in attempting to walk . lie appeared to have no guidance or control of his limbs . His feet , avhich had never been used lo boots , wero noav thrust into them , and evidently gavo him the greatest torture , Walking occasioned him to groan and weep . His _cytB could not bear the light , but became inflamed _» nd the formation of tho bones and muscles of his legs _demonstrated tbat he had fate all his life along . At first he bad no idea whatever of the qualities of things ; nor of distance ) , ne was delighted with the flame of a
candle , and put his fingrr into it . At tbo police office he exhibited no symptoms of interest in anything , of confusion , or of alarm . Feigned cutB were made at him , and thrusts , but he did not even wink in consequence . The sound of belh made no impression un him -, but on drums beating near him , ho was thrown into convulsions . _jJ _& From the police-office he avas removed to the prison for vagabonds and beggars . Hare the keeper at first regarded him as an impostor , but soon found him actually to be in the state of a little child ; and the jailer ' s children played avith him , and taught him to speak .
The public curiosity regarding him and bis story grew , and numbers flocked from all sideB to seo him . They brought him toys . Von Fouerbach visited him after he had been considerably more _tliaia a month in Nuremberg , and found his room stuck all over avith prints and pictures which had been given him , and money , playthings , and clothes lying about iu regular order , which every night he packed up , nnd unpacked and arranged every morning . Ha complained that the people tca-ied him ; thathehadhead-aches , which ho had never known in his cell .
On ihe 18 th of July ho was released from the prison , and given into the care of Professor Da _' umer , who undertook to bring him up and educate him ; and an order Wis issued by the magistrates that he should not be Interrupted by any mors visitors . Here being _shoavn a beautiful prospect from a window , he drew back in terror ; and when afterwards he had learned te speak , and was asked why he did so , he said It was because a wooden shutter seemed to have been put close beforo _hia eyes , spattered all over avith different colours . His sense of f mell was most acute , and often gave him great agony , , ne conld not bear to pass through or near a churchyard , because tho effluvia , unperceived by others affected him with horror , ne was extremely amiable , and attached himself with the utmost affection to the _Professor and Mrs Daumer .
On the 17 th ef October he was found bleeding , and insensible , from a dreadful wound in tho forehead , in a cellar . He avas supposed to be dead ; but he finally recovered , and 6 tated that " the man" had entered th _« house in the absence of the family , having his face blacked , and had wounded him ; how he got into tha cellar he could not tell . In his delirium he bad often said , " Mas come—don't kill me . 1 love all men—do no one anything . Man , I love you too . Don't kill—why man kill !" Strict official inquiry was mode into the circumstances , but no further light was _throavn upon them . It was evident , however , that some diabolical mystery bung over him . There were powerful enemies somewhere , and it was now evident that tbey had taken alarm . The public curiosity had spread far and _avida the fame of this strauge youth , and it was evident that he might yet
recollect things which might lead to a detection of his origin . AtnonRstthose whonow became deeply interested I in him was Lord Stanhope , wbo undertook the whole charge of his educatiom , and removed him to Anspaeh . ncre he avas plaoed for aavhile as clerk in the registrar ' s office of tho Court of Appeal ; nnd he was quietly performing bis duties when Lord Stanhope began to talk of adopting him and bringing him to England . This most probably sealed his fate ; for one evening , December 14 , 1833 , as he was returning from the oftica , a stranger accosted him in the street , and on pretonce of giving him news from Lord Stanbopo , and intelligence regarding his origin , induced him to accompany him iato the caitlo gardens , avhere he suddenly stabbed him in ths left side . Hauser had strength enough te reach borne , aud to utter a few indistinct words , when ho i ' aiutei . The police were instantly summoned , but before they arrived
Having At Last Finished With "The Chambe...
Kaspar _Hauser was dead , No trace of . the murderer could be found . _/ , The belief throughout Germany is , that the nnfor-* n j P ai" Hauser was the true heir of the throne j iTi a 80 n of the - Grand-Duke Karl and thaadopted daughter of _Napoleon , Stephanie Tascher . In his Journal , Willia m J / awitt ¦ giwa _' copion * mtracts trom a certain German work publishedseoretly _, which extracts , accorapanied by . a mass of circumstantial evidence , _strongly bears out the popular belief ot the German people respecting HaiiRer . _Fm-: thermore , the horrible persecution and ' final assassination ot liauscr is shown to have been but one of a
series of crimes , almost equally revolting , committed by the same parties . The celebrated Bavarian judge , Von Feuerbach _, deputed by the king of ' _-Bavaria , instituted a rigid inquiry _ewecrninj' Caspar Hauser , but was compelled to close that report in the _followins remarkable word .-: — " There are circles of himan society into which the arm of justice dares not penetrate !" . Feuerbach , nevertheless , continued his individual scrutiny into this mysterious history , and it was said had made curious discoveries avhich he was likely one day to publish . This , _however , whs prevented by the timely and sudden death of Feuerbach . "His relations seem to entertain but little doubt of the nature of his fatal disease I "
. 'The entire of this strange history , which would occupy the best part of n p ; _ige of this paper , will be found in numbers 19 . 20 and 21 of _Hoxvitt _' s Journal , and also the Part ( No . 5 ) for June . To that publication vae refer the curious , who will find therein new weapons for the war _against Kingcraft .
Risii Portrait Of Daniel O'Connell. A Mo...
RISII _PORTRAIT OF DANIEL O'CONNELL . A most remark-able , if not extraordinary , letter appears in the Nation of Saturday last . It is from the pen of the celebrated Father Kenyon , and is addressed to the editor as one of the _accredits _eadcrs of the Young Ireland party . The rev . Kcntloman opens his battery with a fierce denunciation SV _£ _lE _« M ? . aga , nst ' a resolution proposed bv Mr Smith 0 Brien at a recent meeting ofthe council ot the" Confederation , " _pledKing the body to join in a national demonstration of honour to the remains of _MrO'ConneW-acnuvso altogether repugnant to the _feclins-a ofthe writer , for the reasons hereinafter stated , without reserve or qualification , or " mincing of the matter " : —
" Your weeds of mourning and Mr O'Brien ' s resolution imply and exprt-ss thut Mr O'Connell ' _s demise has been a great loss to Ireland , and that a tribute of National respect U due to bis remains . I do not believe in the truth of ihe fact ; I deny thu justice of the debt . " Mr O'Connell ' s death , in my deliberate opinion , has been nn less whatever to the Irish nation . On tho contrarv , I think tbat Mr O'Connell has been doing before his deaf- , and waB likely to continue doing as long at ho might live , ver _; grievous to Ireland ; so that I account his death rather a gain than a loss to the country . He was the vaunted leader , the prime mover , tho head and frent , the life and soul of a system of policy at once so servile and despotic , so ho'low and so corrupt , so
barefacedly hypocritical and dreadfully demoralizing , that tho very organs of the government te which it pandered laughed it into scorn . That his slavish millions , his selfish followers , or his deluded dupes , should have deemed his death a loss , I was prepared to learn ; but that the Irish Confederates whom he insulted , spurned , and would have hanged—the representatives ofthe man . hood of the nation which he had degraded into brutish beggary—that these should adopt the error , and make it the foundation of a further and more fatal miitakc , this was an event for which I was utterly unprepareda _midaight inundation from which I know not where fo hope for shelter . All seems confusion , and it ii intensely dark .
If you justly respect a man , he must bo respectable in his totality . If a nation justly respects him , he ' mutt be a benefactor , a blessing to that nation . O ' Connell is not such . He befooled this country before his death , aod he died politically impenitent . Ireland , therefore , owes him nothing but forgiveness . If she gives him more , and to tbe extent to which she shall give him more , then in that proportion will she unsettle the principles « f public morality , incapacitate _ba-rself from rewarding _honesty _snd fidelity , and brand herself with infamy throughout the coming years .
If an apprehension of exasperating dissensions turned your heads a * -tray , I would solemnly submit to your immediate consideration that sueh apprehensions belong to that class of temporary expedients , involving a derelic . tton of principle for a hope of present good , in which Mr O'Connell himself lived , and moved , and had bis being , and ofthe utter vanity of which his fate is a most _signul warning . I believe in that sentiment nf Curlylc _' s—the solitary light is jour last dnrk number—that every cause , " so far as it is true—no farther , yet precisely so far—is very sure of vietory : the falsehood of it alone aaiii be conquered . " So bave all Mr O'Connell's makeshifts , those emanations of super-human prudence for which he was so magnified by his worshippers , ended in bitterness and untimely ashes . They avers conquorcd by » n overruling Providence . Over and above the essential emptiness of your hope —over and above the danger Inherent in every deviation from right , I can even see staring into uvj _facs an ovar .
whelming vanity , a manifold and manifest peril in the policy you have adopted . Tou assist in creating a national demonstration of grief at O'Connell ' s fmural . If he merits that to . day , why did you oppose him yesterday 1 Out of your oavn mouthB , vetily , you shall be ci ndomned . How could you avoid seeing that Conciliati n . tlcUl , nnd its no principles , and its hereditary despotism , and its slavery , and its sycophancy , and its corn ptien , and its _no-drop-of _blood-but-every-ounce-of-flesh _tl-eory , and its barefaced beggary , but will snek fresh _Ti'ality from your tainted characters ? If your _resolute was just , if your grief was called for , such imminent danger might almost warrant you in suppressing it ; but _thi . t yeu should court the risk of such an enormous expinse of consistency and equit } , —that you should court it for the express purpose of inducing your country , long treated as a hound by O'Connell , with more than a _hoiuidlsh servility to hoavl over his bier , —this is that _mldi _. ight inundation from which I seo no _aray to escape ,
So far I _havu addressed mvself to you , Sir , and to the council of the Irish confederation , arguing on our common principles . But I will not conclude without appealing to tho Irish public at large . Is it possible that this nation can remain Infatuated for over « O'Connell has boasted tbat he guided us , and his toadies have voucle i every avord he told us for 50 years , Well , then , let us look about and calculate our obligations for ths servic , 'Whither hav © we been guided ? Where and how has he left us ! w * e have be « n guided , step by step , self-hoodwinked , to such an abyss of physical and moral misery—to such a condition of helpless aad hopeless de . gradation , as no race of mankind was ever plunged is since the creation . We are a nation of beggars—mean , shameless , lying beggars . And this is where O'Connell lias guided us . But it will be said that he could not help tl . il . I deny it . No man ever enjoyed or abused such rri uirces as , in tho oxtravagranco of our devotion , we lavished ou O'Connell . Since I was able to think or
act as a man , till witbm a twelvemonth , he had mo , with _allthat God gave me , of thought , nnd gosds , and life , at his er-Qmatid . And my case was the case of millions . Had O'Connell been mo « ld in a juster type—had he cultivated tho virtues which it avas his duty to cherish , of _Integrity , frugality , sincerity—had he studied bis plans maturely , and pursued them consistently-bad be been liberal of judgment , and sparing in equal proportions of moneys , of _censuros , nnd of praise—had he cul . _titafid disinterestedness amongst his followers , and selected his counsellors from tho ranks of honesty and virtu " , there is no destiny to _» glorioi : » to avhich he might not have conducted Ireland . But , unfortunately for his fame , nnd for his country , be was n mere
timeserving politician—ft huckster of expediencies , ne said things , and did them not , Ho issued orders , aud jeered the men who obeyed him , as the _powder-monkies of C _* i-k can testify . Ho patronized liars , parasites , and bullies . He brooked no greatness that grovelled not at his feet , glle conducted a petty traffic in instalments , He _boastsd . He flattered grossly , and was grossly _flattered . _"Ke forestalled his glory ; and enjoyed avith a relish a reputation that be forgot to earn . Above all , he was unsteady , because he was unprincipled . The gentry of Ireland could never unite with him , and no man in Ireland could calculate upon bis policy for a month . Thus tbe lives , and loves , and treasures of this trusting laud were frittered into nought—thus wore _« ur resources squandered , our hopes thus levelled to the
grave . I deny not the good points of O'Connell ' s charaoter ; and , if I do not enumerate them , it is only because all his points—good , bad , and indifferent—have boon extolled ovee frequently " and overmuch , He was , nil in all , im grand hommc _rnanqvi _, possessing great elements of greatness , but alloyed below the standard . He faded in his mission , and he deserved to fall in it . ¦ The real liberators of nations have steered a straight course . InBtead of stultifying ourselves by another national demonstration , we should rather study tho ways of Providence for ' our instruction , and leara from the signal failure of O _. Connell a greater confidence in God ' s truth , and loss trust in man ' s devices .
The Bloom Of The Hawthorn Was Never Know...
The bloom of the hawthorn was never known to to be more beautiful than is the case at the present moment . 'According to the _booksf Japhet , recently published , Naemah , the daughter of Enoch , was 580 years old when she waa married to Noah . This is an example that should give courage to the old maids of the present day . The New YoAiStandard says that a confectioner of that city has discovered a method of _making ice creams by steam , and hopes to bo enabled to supply them at half the former prices . A Neapolitan newspaper lately contained an advevtiseaent from a poet , who undertakes to furnish in four-and-twenty hours , a comedy ; in _forty-eight , a tragedy or _« . libretto ; and in _sixty-two , a novel , in strophes of six hneB , " with any letter of the alphalet left out , at pleasure of the customer .
The Irish judges have postponed the summer assizes to October , in consequence of the prevalence of typhpi fever throughout the country . The editor of the Boston Post says— "All that , is necessary for the enjoyment of sausnges at breakfast , II confidence-. "
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A Flock 120 Mans Losa.- Tho Niagara Mail...
A Flock 120 Mans Losa .- Tho Niagara Mail , Canada West , ofthe 10 th . ult . states V-A trem . cn ' dnus _uumigratton of _pi-pons trom tho Adjoining bta . _ts took p , ace on Sunday fast .. _TJr « r wen crossmj * the _^ iaitfara . from batons nine _j „ the morn _. ne U _i'f Von . i aft r °° _V _™' _•¦•¦>•>• Uwspeel nf . fligbt at oOrailes an _y how , tho Hock must have been upwards ol 120 miles n : _length . Emigrant Churches . —A London church-builder provides av .-od and iron churches for transmission to
the _co- _' onies . He offers a church , with stained glass windows , hell , lie ., capable uf scalin < 800 persons f or 500 _guineas ; but if yon cannot .-. fiord to buy a church , he- will lend you one " on hire . " __ . MiuiASD Pigs , —The Quantity of milk brought into _Livi-rp ' jol by railway is enormous , and will help to make up for the loss of revenue caused by the anniinlarini ) of Irish pigs , whose onrriago used formerly to yield an income of many pounds a week . —Liverpool Mercury . Tun Ejni'Knonop Russia and the Exiled Poms . --We _q-ioto from the _Spencr Gasetle : —'' lt is said ' -hat thai Emperor Nicholas is about to do an act of
_generosity towards such Poles as have been condemned inr _politiva ! off _.-nces . These who have been exiled to Siberia , and whose e .-ta ' _tes have been _conhi-catci ) , are to bo allowed to return into the kingdom and re-enter into _possesbisn of their propertv , [ Fudge . ] r v An Inisu Rkmedt . —A gcnileman observing an Jr « n servant _cirl who was left handed , placing the knives and forks on tho dinner table in the same awkward _portion , remarked to her that she was laying them left handed . •« Oh , indacle _, " says she so I have ! Be _plased _, sir , to help me to turn the table round . "
_Extbaobdikary . —A sow in _Ileiiley-in-Arden , on Tuesday last , farrowed eleven young pigs , of whioh the fifth was born with the chest open , sons to afford a full vicav of the heart and lungs , whioh were in their proper places ; but the entrails were all outside , though quite perfect , and placed in the natural order . The animal was never perceived to move , but the heart beat for an hour and a half , and the lungs for four hours and a half , after its birth . Fmkmasonkt in _rBcsBJA . —The principal Lodge of the Freemasons of _Breslau has struck out of its laws tho clauses which _prescribe-. ! that no person _, could be received a Mason without belonging to the Christian _religion , and which particularly interdicted * he admission of Jews . His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia , Grand Master of all the Masonic Lodges ofthe Kingdom , has consented to fhis modification ofthe laws .
Mr O'Con . nkll . —Tbe admirers of Mr OConnell have _rest'lved to honour his remains with a grand nnd solemn funeral procession through London , should they ( ns it is expected tliey will ) pass through en route tor Ireland ; and the Roman Catholic clergy intend , it u said , to have a solemn high mass and requiem performed over them in _Mooi-h ' elds chapel . A Toad is a _IIoie—A correspondent ofthe Fifeshire Journal states that he lately saw a toad dug out of a garden , after it bad been buried , in an earthen pot , deep below the surface , for the space of two years and eight months . It was alive , and apparently none the worse for its long and solitary confinement .
_COVKIIKD SlRBET _ABCADES AT PARIS . —A _bllgO company , with a capital of 50 , 000 , 0001 ' ., has just been formed , for constructing a series of passages couverts from the Boulard St Denis te the Place du Chatelet . The company to be called C , _des Qalcriet du Commerce , White Cnowi . —The rookery at Castledykes has become quite famous for its white crows . It has again produced one this year , which was caught on the _Kingholm-road . It is a handsome young bird of a pure cream colour . —Dumfries Courier .
_Serenade to Jenet Lind . —At ten o ' clock on Friday evening , a party of fifteen gentlemen , members ofthe German Vocal Club ( Liederkranz ) , repaired to Mile , Lind ' s residence at Brompton , and having obtained admittance to the garden at the back of the house , they executed several beautiful serenade airs in a very superior and musician-like manner- Mile . Lind walked into the garden , and thanked the gentlemen for their unexpected attention . Siroko Drink—'• Wine of fourmeD" is the name given to a kind of wine made at a place called Witzenhaisen , in Germany . The reason of this name is that " it takes one to pour it out , one to drink it , and two to hold the man while he swallows it . "—New York Mirror . Dr _Chaimbrs —The public funeral of this great and good man took place last week , his last remains being interred in the New Southern Cemetery at Grango .
A Wise Priest . —A German priest was walking in procession at tbe head of his parishioners over cultivated fields , in order to procure a blessing upon the crops . When he enrne to one of unpromising appearance , he would pass on , faying , "Hereprayers and singing will avail nothing ; this must have manure . " Fever in Glasgow . —It is indeed raging at a fearful rate , and no sufficient accommodation is yet provided . Up to the 26 th ult ., there were 41 T cases on the lines of the district surgeons of the poor alone . On that day there were 38 cases of fresh lines ! This simple statement carries its own tale . — Glasgow Gazette ,
_iNTRBr-IDlTY OS _QuEKJf _ISABBLIA . —The Fan , ct Madrid , informs us that Queen Isabella is as intrepid a horsewoman as she isa skilful driver . " Lately ( _siiys _^ _this journal ) there arrived at Aranjncz several English , Norman , and other foreign horses , of which two were chosen for the Queen , who immediately mounted one of them , withoutbeingatall acquainted with its qualities . " A more decided instance of her intrepidity bas been related in the saloons of Madrid . One of the dragoons of her guard was thrown by & vicious horse . The Queen ordered a side-saddle to be put upon the animal , and mounting it , brought it in less than half an hour under perfect subjection .
Improvements op Greenwich Hospital . —Workmen are employed , by order ofthe Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital , in the demolition ef the Ship Tavern , the Lord Ligonier ' _s Head , and other buildngs in Fisher-lane , Greenwich , to form improvements in _tlicline of , and in addition to , the river frontage of Greenwich Hospital . _Tna New Offices op ihb Treasury at Whiten > . _Li—The erection of tho new offices of the Treasury at Whitehall has been completed , and the whola of the scaffolding removed , The new building completes the whole of the course of buildings ofthe Privy Council , Board of Trade , and Home and Treasury oflices , formerly an unseemly edifice , but now presenting a _fagade of elegant and elaborate architecture , in _kepfiing with the m ? . gnificent structure ofthe new Houses ef Parliament , and a great additional ornament to Whitehall .
_ln-iius Fever . —Ia order to aid as much as possible the prevention of infection from typhus fever , wa present the following simple and efficacious recipe of Dr J . C . Smith , for which he was paid £ 5 , 000 by Parliament : — "Take six drachms ot ' powdered nitrb ( _saltpetre ) and six drachms of sulphuric acid ( oil of vitriol ); mix them in a teacup . By adding one ; draehni of the oil at a time , a copious discharge of nitrous acid gas will fake place . The cup to be placed during the preparation on n hot hearth or a plate of heated iron , and the mixture stirred with a tobacco pipe . The quantity of gas may be regulated by lessening or increasing the quantity of ingredients . The " ali 0 YO is for a moderate-sized room ; half the quantity would be sufficient for a small room . Avoid as much as possible breathing the gas when it first rises from the vessel . "
Manchester. When He Obtained A Letter Of...
Manchester . When he obtained a letter of credit , , it now appeared that he had pilfered blank forms fop c others from the same house , and that he had filled 1 ono of thom up , forging the names of _Stemets and _i Co ., and taking ono of them to Mr Shuscsitch , in n _Locdon , got £ 1 , 900 advanced upon it . He had then n gone to ' Alanchester , obtained £ 1 , 000 from Messrs a Merck , ami from thence went to Liverpool and en _« i _« gaged a passage in the Cambria , for Boston , U . S .,., which should have sailed on Saturday , but was de- _etamed by low . tides till Monday . In the meantime e Messrs Merck had obtained information that he had id drawn to the amount of his credit in London , and id upon their information Mr Beswick had sent an in officer to Liverpool , who apprehended him . The _io prisoner had to be examined through the medium iu of an interpreter , and acknowledged the offence , _e , stating that he bad been robbed of the first sum of of
Manchester . —A singular case of swindling has been brought before the magistrates . A Young German giving the name of Adolphus Schufz , avas the prisoner , and Mr Beswick , chief superintendent of the Manchester detective ' _police _, stated that he had reason to boliovo the accused went , some time ago , to the bank ' of Messrs J . II . Stemctz and Co ., Vienna , and obtained a letter of credit upon houses in England for 20 , 000 florins ( £ 2 , 000 , ) and upon this letter there was , a 3 usual , the names of several houses in this country to whom tho holder wa *; entitled to apply , as convenience might d _' _jtate . . Amongst these names were those of Mr Shi _esitch , , London , and Messrs Merck , merchants , Cross-street , ,
money in London , nnd had been driven in this way ry to commit the forgery . In the course of the _exanii- unatlonthis diffieu ' Itv arose to the _prosecution-that at no one could swear which avas the forged and which ch the real letter of owdit _, and Mr Maud ( the _magis-istrate ) said , in this dilemma he would remand him _. in , to see if witnesses could bo procured * , but ho couldild not commit him to the _assizos for trial without somene one from Vienna to swear to the _avritnig ot _otemetaetsi and Co Our reporter states , it has transpired tbafaati the prisoner had power to draw in thirteen largergei cities in different parts of a route from Vienna ta tec England , and that by means of another forgeiar he h « had drawn to the full amount of the genuineTettetteii of credit at Aix la Olmpelle . lie had an _accomplicdicii when ho arrived at Manchester , who escaped to Lomoni don , as it is supposed . It has further _transpireiircii that he had transmitted £ 1 , 000 to friends in Vienntnnii and this money , it is expected , will ho _recoveitfii _^ j 1 Very little money was found in his possession .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 12, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_12061847/page/3/
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