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      On Hasting * ' murderous day ; Fo feudal plunderings—Norman wrongs My r » ee _'» _records show—My fathers only fought for rights—I ' m low , my lord , I ' m low , I boaxt no scoundrel ancestry Like those yonr grace ' s pride , Sings * favourites—honest men ' s disdain—At _cOnrts who fawned and lied ; Ko diplomatic cheat can I , My race ' s glory show—My lathers knew uot bow to lie— . I ' m low , my lord , I ' m low . "So unearned heritage I own

      Of park and ancient bait , Hy _bard-won wages , lord , alone My own of wealth I call ; I cannot claim the bought respect That want to wealth must show —* I am bnt honoured for my _worth—Fm tow , my lord , I ' m low . Of honest men I ' m not tbe scorn—I never , lord , have striven To prostitute to my own gain Power by the nation given ; The records of my life , my lord , Ko corn-tar votes can show , Hy luxury never starved the poor— - I ' m low , my lord , I ' m low .

      Ko lackey dogs me with respect _. That paid for I'd disdain—Por fawning menials at my heels Men look , my lord , ia vain . Of human farms , thank _hearen , not ores Hj livery ' s shame can stow—Hy pride in man s contempt garbs none—I ' m low , my lord , I ' m low . I cannot boast of _uselessnesi , Por no man doing aught , I earn my living with tny bands , Disdaining acght for nought ; For tbat I win I labour pay . Hy every day can show . Fd scorn to live on others' toil—I ' m low , my lord , I ' m low .

      And yet . my lord , though strange it DC , I , whom yon high deride , Tour scoff , year scorn , yonr social drudge , I too , lord , hare my pride ; Yes , proud of seme thing- , too , dare I Front pride with pride ; ay , though With nought that makes yoa nobles high—I ' m low , my lord , _Pm low . I ' m proud that , with un'ioubtiog trust , Hy word all m « B ean take ; That woman ' s heart I never won—Won _viUain-Iike , to break ; That upright , spite of poverty , To no man auib * I owe ; That duns and debts are yours , not mine _. Though I raj lord , am low .

      I ' m proud in honest labour , lord , My useful days go by That no white , weak , nuhorned band , Ko silken palm bave I ; That for the right I ' ve ever stood , As far as right I know ; Kor urged a wrong for private gain-Though I , my lord , am low . These things are poor in yonr esteem ; And yet I rank them mure In mine , ay , than the proulest nsma That Norman blood e ' er bora ; Kor wonld I , for yonr worthiessness , Hy scorned worth barter , though Ten times your vaanted rank I won—Though I , my lord , am low .

      Ko , keep yonr pare , yonr Korman blaod , Yonr _corenetted sbame , Light weigh a hundred coats of arms Against an honest name ; Despite yonr scoff * , despite yonr scorn , Poor worth , I ' ve learned to know , _M-. J well look dona on titled - " same—Ay , though , my lord ' tis lew : Greenwich .

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      REVELATIONS POL 1 TIQTJES . LES TROIS VICTIME 5 . Par h Comte b * _Wolbrod . _VPotiticalRevelations . The Three Victims . Bythe Count deWillbrod . ] _London : Armand , RathboHe-pl * ee .

      ( Cta & _nueeZ _/ _romineSiaro / October Sth . ) Tbe death o f _PaulDidisr does not conclude tbis history- Tbe circumstances which preceded , snd those that followed , this terrible tragedy , were too extraordinary and inexplicable to be suffered to fall iato oblivion . Didier did not carry his secret entirely unknown to tie grave—and there were many , rery many , besides him , implicated in his scheme * . "Whilst the authors of those rigorous order ? , the framers of the telegraphic dispatches , sought to bary the afikir in silence , tha blood of the _"rictims cried

      aloud for vengeance ; the survivors of ( he vanquished party caused agitations in the preBsyas the tribunal , in the courts ofjustice , and the conflict between the victims and the executioners , between the _Whitesznd the Blues , caused mutual recriminations and _unex-. pected revelation ? . The results of tbe plot of 1816 . are aptly figured inthe fortunes of two men who took leading parts in that drama— M . Decazes and General Donnadieu . Each of these men holds the thread of the intrigue , and all the evolutions of the conspiracy . And by - the circumstances which now surround them , history will _jedre of the facts of the case .

      The favour lavished on M . Decazes since the revolution of 'Jnly , ' points ont M . Decazes as the _representative ofthe party which triumphed on the 9 th of August , and for whose success he bad for fifteen years treacherously paved the way . In the disgrace which General Donnadiea has met with , he , on the contrary , represents the _vanqeished party ; the party faithful to the elder branch of tbe Bourbons . Tie latter is laid on tbe _shelf—disquaii--fled for employment , by the -unfortunate celebrit y his -conduct and his writings provided for him in the affair of Grenoble . The former is made Grand Referendary ofthe Chamber oi Peers , and is the bosom

      friend of the _Tnilleries—the object of private bene--faction and pat lie liberality . How is it that the one is disgraced on account of the fidelity and zeal shown to the elder branch ofthe Bourbons , and the other , who , at the same time , apparendy exhibited yet greater ardour in the cause , has been so generously _tb warded by the party to whom he showed the greatest enmity We can only arrive at the conclusion that the ser--vicea rendered to Louis XVIII . by Decazes , were false , treacherous , and time-serving ; in short , that he was one of those of whom Didier spoke in his last honr , * w * ien he warned the Kin ? to' mistrust men _uno had two oaths in their mouths '

      Innocence courts inquiry ; guilt shuns the eye of day . ' Since _1 S 16 , Donnadiea Las never suffered an opportunity of mentioning tba facts of that era to escape . " VfbilstDec << zes has ever purchased silence by ali the means at his command . * * * ? Is a letter tbat M . Simon Didier , son of Paul Didier , addressed , on the 17 th of May , 1811 , to the editor ofthe Courrier de PLere , and in which he re-Elie s indignantly to the charge of that journal , that is father 'had endeavoured 0 establish a jacquerie in 1 S 16 , ' we remark tke following passage : —

      And even if my father , without tbe participation of » - . with whem , ( according to my mother ) , he passed several hours in conference before the final oat . _"breai , had wished to hoist- upon the throne , was it necessary to destroy tbe instruments ofhis elevation ? _Machiavel gives tbis advice , and we now see that if the policy be somewhat ungrateful , it is not bad . At a trial at Grenoble , November 13 ; b _, 18 il , it was declared , tbat Simon _Diditr ' s letter contained nothing criminal . Erasures _wtre _, therefore , unnecessary—bnt the Conrt was anxious to give no pretence for bringing an action against him .

      But , although Didier fell a sacrifice , his children and friends have , since the revolution of * July , * been more for tunate . Every mesber of his family has been loaded with honours ; his name has proved a protecting talisman to all who conld call themselves his accomplices , and even the murderer _Fieschi , profitted by the halo which surrounded the memory of Didier , to call himself one of the rebels oi 1 S 16 , and obtain a share in the general favour . Nor have the Biinor actors in the tragedy been forgotten ; the sums dispensed bythe budget to the widows and children of the condemned criminals of 3816 , amounted by the 1 st of July . 1811 , to 13 . C 01 f . in the department of Isere alone !!

      Such was the conspiracy of 181 G ; and to resume onr narrative by a general reflection , we must add teat the death of the unfortunate men who were tben seduced and led astray by tke Orieanist faction , teats on the head of M . _' _lV-caze . " _* , whose foot was , at an after period , dipped ia the blood of the Duke de

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      TflE WESTMINSTER AND FOREIGN _OTT 4 R . TERLT REVIEW : 'October . Lonaot i- G Luxford , Whitefriara-street . ' * The contents of this number are genetallv eood but do not include , anything of striking . _imnA _rtlncB ' The article entit : ed , - Improvement of Landed Pro * perty , has _disappointed hs , because only dealing with matters of third or _fourth-rate interest , in con * _nexion with the cultivation ofthe soil . Tbe writer _S ? 5 SS ¦ ifl ° P mar ' "nportance , notwith * _^ _^«^* he .. B , Ae " 80 m 9 _-utaiwoM . which read _attangelym the pages of such a publication as the Westminster _]} eview _ For instance _^ after stating that the pressnt consumption requires an additional supply oi from 1000000 to 2000000 uarters of

      .. ,, q wheat the reviewer adds , that an increase of two _oastels an acre on the land at present cultivated , would supply the above mentioned demand , and such an increase he believes may be easily obtained by improved cultivation . 'In spite of Free-Trade arguments ; i mproved tillage , we are told , would employ a population at present pauperised ; and an excna . ige of manufactures for agricultural produce might b 3 effected at home , to such an extent as to insure a sufficient supply of food , and increased employ ment in _manufactures . The reviewer adds , tbat it 13 nncertain whether tbe requisite _sooply of agricultural produce _c-n , nnder present circumstances , be obtained from abroad , and even if it can , that it is equally uncertain that _foreign countries will accept

      ' the produce ofour industry in payment for the corn which we require , s " nce they havenow began to _manufacturefor themselves . ' These are strange truths to be preached , or atlea » tacknowledgedby theWestminster Review , the great champion of the Free Traders , who have so pertinaciously insisted that England is not a corn-growing country , but is intended by nature to be the workshop of the world . When the Morning Chronicle is seen _advocating a small farm proprietary , and the Westminster Review equally zealously calling out for borne cultivation ; when , in short , we see Free Traders preaching Chartist -Anti-League' doctrines , we may indeed exclaim , ' wonders will never cease . ' Truly does _Cbahles Mackay sing

      that' Ever the truth comes uppermost , And ever is juitiee done !' Witand Humour'is a chatty , pleasant review of Lugh Hunt ' s book bearing that name . A review of Lord Campbell ' s Life of' Lord Somers' the celebrated Whig , is followed by a well-digested exposure of the system of' Irish Municipal Government , ' which , it is plainly shown , requires a sweeping and immediate reform . * Colney Hatch Asylum'is the same given to an interesting article on the treatment of the insane . The article entitled , 'Natural History of the Creation , ' fails to throw much Iirht upon that vexed question . The reviewer avows himself a partisan of the' Vestiges . "

      The notices of * _Foreign Literature , ' are fuller in the present tban in _someof the preceding numbers , although still of unsatisfactory brevity to us . Hkixrich _UEisahas published , in a substantive form his posm of * Atta Troll ; 'fragments of which appeared six years ago . We are sorry to read that' it was the author ' s intention to work out his idea more fully , but he never conld realise his laudable design , and his poem shared the fate of all the great works ot the Germans , _Bucha-i the Cologne Cathedral , _Schilling ' s Godhead , the Prussian Constitution , & c—it was never * completed . Immature as it is , he now presents it to the public , with a jesting hint at a sad and too sufficient apology . Poor Hkisb is stricken with paralysis , beyond all recovery . ' The Reviewer favours his readers with a part of Heine ' s curious and characteristic preface , ( why did be not give the whole ?) which we transfer te eur columns ;

      'Atta Troll was produced in tbe autumn of 1841 . at a _period whea tbe great heterogeneous mob of foes banded together against me , had not quite ceased their hurly-burly . It was a haga nproar , and truly I could not bave supposed that Germany produces so many rotten apples as were then shot at my bead I Onr fatherland is a _highly-faroared land ; it grows no citron » , inaeeJ . no golden oranges , and the laurel waxes but slowly and _stuntedly on German ground ; but in the article of rotten apples its exuberance is most satisfactory , as aU our great poets have had cause to sing or say . In that same furious melee in which I was to have lost both crown and head , I lost neither ; and the absurd charges , by means of which tbe vulgar were stirred np _agsinst me , have miserably fallen to tbe ground without its being necessary that I « hould stoop to refute

      them . Time undertook the task of my justification , and I must own witb gratitude , that the _respective German governments have dons much for m « in tbis respect . The decrees of imprisonment tbat on every point ofthe German frontiers longingly await the post ' s return , are duly renewed evtry year at thehallowed yule season , when the little candles shine cheerily in tbe Christmas . trees . These perils by tbe way have cored rae of all wish to visit Germany ; so I celebrate my Christmases in a foreign land , and there too I will end my days in exile . Meanwhile the brave champions of light and truth , who accused me of _fickltuess and servility , pa 3 s thtir days securely in the fatherland , as snugly-endowed placemen , or & s officials of a solid , or as assidaon * frequenters of a club where every evening they regale patriotically on the vintage of father Bhine , and on sea-girt _Scbleswig-Ho ' steinuh oysters .

      ' I have had my reasons for noting above the exact period when 'Atta Troll' was composed . It was the time whea what is called political poetry was in fnll bloom . The opposition , as _Huge says , sold its leather and became poai _* . Tbe Muses were formally enjoined no longer to go abont dallying and trifling , but to enlist in the service ofthe fatherland as _tioandieres of freedom er as washerwomen of Cnrutiano German nationality . There arose , especially at that period , among the Teuton bards , tbat vague , fruitless pathos , that useless enthusiasm , that plunged headlong , in scorn of death , into an ocean of common-places , and wbich always reminded me of the American sailor wbo was so hyperbolically devoted to General Jackson , tbat he flung himself from the main top-gallant mast into the sea , crying cut' I die for General Jackson ! ' Thoogh we Germans had then no fleet , yet bad we many an impassioned sailor

      who died for General Jackson in verseand pros ? . Talent was tben a very nnlncky gift , for it brought on lis posscsior the _suspicion of want of character . Envious dull * nos * had at last , after ages of research , discovered iu grand weapon against the insolence of genius ; it had invented the antithesis of talent and character . The mass of the pnblic felt almost personally flattered when they heard it laid down that respectable people are in general very bad musicians , whilst , on tbe other band , good musicians are usually anything but respectable _people—the main thing , however , in this , world , is respectability , not manic . The empty head now prided itself on its full heart , and sentiment was a trump card . The reign of the just was abont to begin in literature . I remember a writer of those days whose chief merit ia his own eyes was tbat be did not knowbow to write ; for his leaden style he was rewarded with a silver beaker .

      By tbe immortal Gods ! it behoved at _that'epoch to defend the imprescriptible rights of mind , the autonomy of art , tbe sovereign independence of poetry . As this defence has been tbe great business of my life , I bave le'B tban erer lost sight of it in the present posm , wbicb both in tone and substance , was a protest against the ptebiseita ef the tribunes of the day . And , in fact , tbe first _fragments of it that appeared immediately stirred np the bits of yonr men of eliaracler , yeur _high-sonled Romans . They acensed me of at tt rapt ing , not only a literary , bnt a social re-action ; and even of casting scorn on the _sacrosanct principle ef human progress . Asto tbe _»» thetic value of my poem , I let them then , and I let tbem no-r , say of it what they please . I unite it for my own amusement , in the capricious and fantastic s _' yle of tbat romantic school in rrhicb I passed the pleasantest

      years of my youth , until ! enfieu by thrashing the master thereof . In tbis re * pectmy poem possibly deserves con . demnation . But thon liest , Brutus , thon liest . Cassias , and thon too liest , Asinius , if yon assert that I aim my ridicule at those ideas wbicb are a precious and bard iron treasure of mankind , and for which I myself bave striven and suffered so ranch , Ho , it is just because those ideas stand full before the poet's ejes in all their glorious lustre and grandeur , that be is seized with irresistible laughttr , when he marks bow clumsily and coarsely thpy are apprehended by bis shallow coBtem . poraiies . He makes merry then as it were at tha tem . porary bearskin that invests those ideas . There are mirr-rs so awry that _Apolla Limsalf . would appear in them a caricature . We laugh in thai case at tbe carisa . tore , not at tbe god .

      From a notice ofa work entitled ' Domestic Historv ofthe Russians under Alexander and Nicholas , " by " J . II . Scbkitzur , a Frenchman , wo give the following extracts : —

      RUSSIA . TheKoman sway never extended tothe north of Europe and Asia . Tbat cold an * silent region remained inaccessible to the ancients , wbo were accustomed to the cheerful sunshine and a sky almost always cloudless . It was shrouded from tbem in a veil of mystery , and dreaded by them as the home of magic powers ; andif they knew by report that it contained precious metals , they never thought of _possessing themselves of treasures which they supposed were guarded by monstrous creatures , griffins , dwarfs , or _gisnts , and tribes to whem tteir imagination , or rumours propagated by design or fear , attributed the strangest and most _repulsive forms . TuM _. then _, the eagles ofthe _Casais never penetrated

      those regions , whilst the Germanic invasion , which was destined to renovate the Roman world , flowed in quite another direction . That it did indeed slightly touch tbe _siill sparse population of ancient _Sarmartis , was owing to the _anYtntnrous spirit uf some of its wandering sons true knigbterrants , always accessible to the allurement of booty or _warlike _' glory , _aud ' earing nothing for any danger or any distance . These Normans having established themselves in Novgorod and Kief , influenced , of course , in some degree , tbe habits and social organisation of those _localities ; bnt thtir numbers being comparativel y small , tbey soon merged in the Slavonic race , wbicb after thc lapse of a century retained few traces ofits contact tvith the Teuton steck . As for the _tKird element , Christianity , it was not from Some , the common

      metropolis af the west , that Russia received it , but from Constantinople , tlie masters of which city , disregarding the essence oi tbat law of liharity _, had converted it into an ins trument of despotism , whilst the clergy had paralysed its _geaeroai force by their idle disputes about barren

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      subtleties , so that tbe spirit of troth , inherent In tht Go-pel , was smothered in the universal formalism . ' ° : Europe felt no interest in Russia wben the latter was over-ran by the Mongols—Ko appeal was made to the valour of the warriors of the west , they were unmoved by the news ofthe Mongol invasion , and saw in it no reason tor undertaking a orusadeto wbich the Church cared not to invite them . _Ylsdimlrla and Muscovy , remote provinces ofEief , recently founded in the midst of Finnish populations addieted to Paginiim , were at the most known only by name ; besides which , schismatics were , in tbe eyes of the _heross of the cross , scarcely Christians . The Russians were completely overthrown in two battles { 1224 and 1237 ) , and subjected to the dominion of the Golden

      Horde and tha Khan ofthe Steppes , Then _enBueda prostration which lasted two centuries , and left profound traces it , the character of tbat people , European in oririn , as well as tbe Celts and Germans , bnt wbich bad been already fashioned to oriental slavery by its connexion with _Byztntium , and on which its conquerors _Impo ' _-ed _, in a still higher degree , the immobility of Asiatic mage " . Subsequently a long and bloody _atrupgle toch place between the Muscovites and the Poles , in wbich the latter won province after province from their rivals , and at last | beeame masterB of their most _renerated sanctuary , the Kremlin of Moscow . But—

      -A marvellous resurrection , begun under Ivsn III . _Tassilievitch , continued under Ivan IV . Vassilitviteh , surnamedthe Terrible , and _consommated under tbe Tears ofthe House of Romanof , revealed a new power to the astonished gare of Europe . With wonder _sko beheld the blows which those Mo _* covites _, but recently the humble subjects of the Mongols , now dealt out to all their enemies , the Poles , the Swedes , and the Tartars ofthe Crimea , vassals of Turkey . Thenceforth it was no longer possible to ignore their existence ; the name of Christians could no longer be refused to those vanquishers of tbe Infidels , marching beneath the banner of the cross ; and Europe carried her condescension towards them so f » r as to _lolic _' t their allianee against the common

      enefrby _, the Ottoman * . f The ambitious _Pbtsb laid the foundation ot Russia ' s greatness . Peter the Great marked ont for Rmsia ihe plan of her policy ; to command the course of her own rivers ; to keep the Baltic open to h « r vessels ; to confine the Sweies to their peninsula , and weaken Poland by fomenting its inteifine divisions ; to profit as much as possible by the decadence of the Ottoman Empire , and _atinct within her sphere the Christians of Aria subject to the Tnrks and the _Persians ; to extend still further her influence and her views ofa future commerce with a part of the world with wbicb sbe was in contact along a vast line of frontier ; lastly , to contrive that sbe should

      be reckoned for something in th > affairs of the west , so that ths Tsar might cast a certain weight Into the balance wherein are weighed the interests of the great sovereigns of the great Christian family : such was the programme already devised by Peter , amidst the almost inextricable embarrassments in wbich his pasefon fer reforms had entangled him in the interior ofhis empire . It was reserved f or a woman and a foreigner , _Catdbbisb II ., to complete tbe work commenced by Pbteb . " The partition of Poland was a first revolution in the European system ; _Cjtbubwb prepared another that is still imminent , bythe humiliation of Turkey , and its extinction aa a power . " The following describes the actual position of Russia : —

      Russia is a world in itself . Its extent is more than half that of Europe , more than ten times that of France . In Asia it is prolonged without interruption over another territorial surface , forming a third of tbat division of tho globe . To speak more exactly ; the surface af European Russia is nearly five millions and a half of square kilometres ; tbat of Russia in Asia is hardly less than fifteen millions ; and that of American Russia is about one million ; total _twenty-one millions of square kilometres , or more than the double of Europe ( tbe whole suiface of wbich does not comprise ten millions of _iquare kilometres ) _, and nearly a sixth of the whole habitable globe . Ko doubt t _* * e Russian possessions in Aaia and America , situated under an inclement sky , are nothing but a colonial territory still in so desert a state tbat if we suppose

      the whola population , space even In its western and soathern regions , to be spread over all its vast extent , we should not even find three inhabitants to the square hUomelre , whilst tbe proportion is nearly twelve in European Ruesia , and in Prance sixty-five- But this colonial territory is contiguous to the mother country , and forms with it one anbroken whole . A fifth , at least , if Siberia is susceptible of good cultivation , and the earth there contains the treasures tbat most tempt tbe cupidity of man , not to mention platina , and what are called the common metals , _tfaangh in reality tbey ar _« much tbe most precious . In European Rusiia there are vast tracts void of culture and inhabitants ; yet it contains on the whole about fifty-sis millions of souls ; an ! to give an idea ofthe importance to which this new

      world , still so imperfectly peopled , and partly plunged in tbe torpor of barbariaB life , may rise at no distant day , we need only say that the births are to the population in the proportion of one to twenty-three or twenty . four , whilst in France the proportion is only one to tbirtyfour or thirty-fire , and that the annual increase of the population by births exceeds two millions , whilst among us it has not yet reached one million . Such is the rapidity with which tbe Russian population augments , tbat less then a century , not so much perhaps as eighty year * , will snfficB to double it , tbat is to say , to change its sum of inhabitantsfrom sixty to 120 millions . And even tben tbe last limit will certainly not have heen reached , fer great is the fertility of the Muscovite soil , great the variety of its productions , and fruitful in resources the genius of Its people . Though wanting the creative

      faenlty , we cannot deny tbem a marvellous aptitude for all kinds of work , and an extreme facility of imitation . Remarkable for their native vigour , they easily accommodate themselves to all situations . Placid in temper cheerful , and inaccessible to the thought of danger , they are at the same time _gteady of gain , habituated to susp icion as well as to submission , and have all the defects that flow from that source , —craft , love of intrigne , a moral suppleness equal to their manual _suppleness , and wbich unhappily never hesitates at a li : or an act of dishonesty . Russia is the seat of a young , active , stirring , ambitious civilisation , which every day achieves some new step in advance . It is , moreover , united , compact , subject to one law , a living lawinsome sort , and to which religion , still in possession of all its _poiver , notwithstanding its want of enlightenment , tends the full force of its potent sanction .

      ' This empire , placed on tho confines of Europe and Asia , ' says M . de Bonald , 'presses on thera both at onee , snd never since the Romans has any power shown a greater expansive force . So it is iu every state in whicb tha government is enlightened and the people barbarous , and which combines extreme skill in the prime mover with extreme docility in the instrument . ' This is most true ; and beholding the colossal proportions of an empire _endowr-d with such expansive power , it bss beon asked , w > th much show of reason , what are France , Great Britain ( isolated from h « r immense colonies ) , Germany , Italy—what are all those old seats of a perhaps dec _: epit _cirilisation in comparison with this theatre of a new , aetive , exuberant , energetic life 1 What is to be the future of this gigantic power !

      What we do very well understand , is the alarm at this momeBt manifested iu all parts of Germany . The knot of the Russian question ia evidently Poland . * * It has been well said by su anonymous writer—One of two things will happen , either Poland will remain an ulcer and a danger for Russia , or it will become a great danger for Europe . Let ns translate this proposition into other terms . With respect to Poland , the Emperor of Russia is engaged in a great work of assimilation , begun before ths invention of Panslavism _, but which tbis novelty that has recently emerged above tho European horizon , and which certain Poles have caught at with unexpected

      ardour , may efficaciously aid . The emperor will succeed in his task or he will not . In tha latter case we shall perhaps witness tbe fulfilment of M . do Chateaubriand ' * prediction : ' The Muscovites will only cure themselves of Poland by converting it into a desert . ' But boforc thc silence of death shall brood over an immense mass of ruins , bow many convulsions will bave preceded tbe catastrophe , and to what fresh embarrassments will a ri-hteous retribution bave condemned the three partitioning powers I In the former case , that is if the work of _atsimiiatien succeeds , either by the triumph of _Panslavlem directed in accordance of the views of Russia In cono . rt

      with a part of the Polish nobility , er by tbe system hitherto pursued ( in which the refractory nobles are altogether passed over , and tbe T-ar acts in preference on the middle and lower elapses , which regard bim With less aversion ) , will not Russia have achieved a vast advantage ! Will she not have worked her way close to the very heart of Europe ? And when the kingdom of Poland shall have become the advanced guard of tbe Muscovite power , then decorated with the title of Empire of tbe Slavons , how will it be then with Galicia and Posen , countries more hostile to the Germans than has been commonly supposed , notwithstanding the benefits they have received from them ! Does any one imagine that these other fragments of tbo old re > pnblic of Poland will hang back , and be content to bend beneath the German yoke , so abhorrent to their race ! Is it not to be feared that the whole _monareby of tbe Jagellons will then be reconstituted in favour of a people , until tbat time , tbe inveterate foe of the Pole * ,

      but whtch sball have skilfully profited by the Incurable levity of the latter , and tbe inconsistent end unstable character of the Slaves in general ! No doubt this great empire ef the Slaves , supposing it should arise , would exist but for a time ; no doubt its creation would , even more than the long-projected and still apparently remote acquisition of Constantinople , augment that principle of dissolution to which we have already alluded as lurking in tbe frame of the Muscovite colossus ; but meanwhile wkat would have become of the balance of power in Europe ? . _Especially , how could unfortuuete Germany preserve herself from the talonB of the _doublo-headed eagle , that never loose their hold on the quarry they have once clutched ! The mere apprehension of such a danger , —chimerical , we would fain hope , as yet , but which ncverthtl * BB involves no impossibility , and which begins to occupy tho serious attention of Gtrmany , _^—attes tB tho power of that divine Nemesis which visits with vengeance _tve-ry misdeed of nations as wt _> _U as inr . _ividuols . *

      Revelations Pol1tiqtjes. Les Trois Victi...

      There are further extracts gW « n in the review , for which we cannot afford room . The original work seems to be well worthy the attention of all thinters . notices of several other works , Eneliahandlbreign , arecontained in this number , which concludes with a - ° ' ,- " e election , returns of the two last general elections , of c onsiderable value for reference , showing the number of members for each contity , city , & c ., _thenumbsr of registered electors , and the votes re-Jill e _** ch cano _» date in the elections of 1841 and 1 & 7 .

      » On Signing The Project Of Partition , ...

      » On signing the project of partition , in 1772 , Maria Theresa added the following words in her own hand : 'Placet , since so many men _, endmenofsueh understand . in , require it of me ; but long after I am dead will be seen what results from this violation of all tbjft has hitherto beea regarded as just and sacred . '

      Siflii-Umife S Colonial Magazine. Octobe...

      _Siflii-umife s Colonial Magazine . October . London : _iimmondsand Co .. _Barge-yaH , _Bucklersbury . Articles on the Progress of Discovery in South Australia , 'the ' Geology of Prince Edward Island , ' tue Mineral and _Agricultural Resources of Malacca , ' Australia and its Characteristics , ' and Prison Discipline in Van _Dif man ' s land , ' will be f ound well worth perusal by all _interest in our colonial empire . Though not inclined to accept Dr _Rolph ' s natural and effectual , remedy for national _distreSB , namely , Colonisation , we can heartil y sympathise with most of his views respecting the colonial office , and the designs of onr ( -rasping manufacturers The humbug of negro conversions is well shown up by \\ . Shrkrve , in his account of Sierra Leone . We wish oni ' Exeter Hall philanthropists would take noto of the following : —

      In bringing to a conclusion these britf pages on the Colony of sierra _Leotte , it is a matter of the deepest regret to think that after so many years of exertion how ldtls in reality have our humane and benevol . nt efforts fer the welfare of the African race succeeded or an . swered tho desired end of the _proctors of tbem- fer when we _co-ne . to reflect upon the immense expend ' iture which has been lavished with an unsparing hand to de . _stroy that inhuman traffic In man , the maintenance of a naval squadron to guard the const , the costlv civil expenditure , the magnificent _sularifs of its officers , the sickness and the mortality wbich haB removed so many excellent men from tbe » cen « , our hopes almo _* tlani : uiah aud the heart seems to sink in despair of ever iftvcting any rial or permanent good in tbe retention ofthis Illstarred settlement . As for the Colony ever having been a profitable settlement to tke British Crown , is entirely out of the question ; its revenue being far Bhort of an

      equality nith its expenditure— ' A cole bill to a mountain , an _Ossa to a wart ¦ * n-y , at the present day , it cannot pay the salaries of the officers by which it is governed ; indeed tbis expectation has , I believe , never beea entertained . The cause _» f humanity in the behalf ofthe benighted African , _alons theprimary _objectsought for , and to accomplish this , immense sacrifice * of life and wealth bave been tbe consequence , but with success truly disheartening .

      Tait's Edinburgh Mioazins. October, Lond...

      Tait ' s Edinburgh Mioazins . October , London : Simphin and Marshall . Positively , we are tired of reading the _nonsensical rubbish given to the world by that queer genius , De Quincey , wbo occupies some sixteen pa _? es of this number of Tait with his outrageous b lderdash . Miranda " , a tale of the French Revolution . ' promises to be a _well-told story . Of course , we do not expeot Mr St John to impart to his readers any very profound views of iho mighty _struggle his tale is to illustrate . Historian * having made a ' raw head and bloody bones' romance of the French Revolution , it is not reasonable to expect that novelists will promulgate anything nearer to the truth . We have been much pleased with the ' Descriptive Sketch of the Province . ofBundelkund . ' __ The poem by W . C . Benner , which will be found in another column , we extract from tho present number of this magazine—a poem well worthy ofthe applause of all haters of _class-dominution .

      Thspboplb'sjoubmal. Part Xxii. London: J...

      _ThsPboplb _' _sJoubmal . Part XXII . London : J . Bennett , 69 , FlceUtreet . The most _interesting article in thin part ofthe People ' s Journal , is that entitled 'Co-operative Life in America , ' from the pen of the celebrated II . Greely , editor ofthe _Naw ioHK Tribumb , which we shall try to find room for in our next . The ether contents of tbis part are of the usual character .

      The Family _IiEBALD . Part 53 . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . Having in onr last _numbor recorded onr undiminished approval of tbis well-conducted periodical , it is _unnecessary to say more than that the present part is fully equal to those which have preceded it . There is , however , one word of _faulr-finding we must append . We notice in number 229 , a poem , entitled TheMtherless Bairn , taken unacknowledged from the poems of William Thou , the Inverury pcet . This is unfair , though of course , so far at least as the editor is concerned , unintentional .

      Thk Misers Advocate . September . October . Edited and published by William _Daniells , Douglas , Isle of Man . A searching review of Mr Commissioner _Tremonheere ' s Heport , ' upon thestate of the population in the mimxig districts / and several other matters of _considerable interest to miners , constitute the attraction of these two _numbaraofthe . _fldDoco ' e . A publication well worthy of extensive publio patronage .

      The Ubbald of _Co-opkratiok , October . Robin son , Douglas , Isle of Man . _^ This number of the organ of the Leeds R : demption Society , contains an article in reply to Mr _Mnzzini _' _sstrictures en Communism , report of a meeting of the society , a discussion on Communism , between Got dwyn Barmby and several opponents , with other matters , readable and _interestins .

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      Father Mathew Is Going To Teetotalise Th...

      Father Mathew is going to teetotalise the Americans in the spring of 1848 . The annual soiree of tbe Manchester Athemeum is fixed for Thursday , the 18 th of November . Archi . bald Alison , Esq ., the well-known historian of the French Revolution , is to preside . Tbe Scientific Congress now sitting at Venice has resolved tbat ita sittings in 1818 shall be held at Sienna , and in 1849 at Bologna . Mr Moylan , the judge of the Westminster County Court , has decided that leaving a gammons at a club house , even if the party summoned have no fixed place of residence , is n « t a sufficient service . A wag in Pennsylvania not long since purchased a fine horse ; returning from a ride a few days afterwards , he said be had discovered a quality in this animal which added fifty dollars to its value : —it _shved at a bum-bailiff .

      No fewer than 220 clerk ? , besides messengers and others , are employed in _themoney-order department of the London post-office ; and upon an average 10 , 000 letters of advice are received every morning . At the Westminster County Court it has been decided tbat a servant has no right to refuse to shake mats on a Sunday , unless she has made an express agreement with her mistress to that effect , It hat been calculated that there are new about 108 . 000 women servants in London . The Company of Chinese Actors have left New York for London . There are 202 insurance offices sow in existence in Great Britain .

      A traveller on the York and Newcastle Railway says ho was lately detained at Sessay twenty-seven minutes . On inquiring the cause , he learned that the Lady Mayoress ( Mrs Hudson ) had sent by telegraph for a pine apple , and that the train was waiting its arrival , that her ladyship might not be disappointed ! It is stated , on tbe authority of tho Continental papers , that the government of Russia is about to exempt for ten years the fishermen of tho northern coastof that eountrv from tbo payment of all duties

      on the salt employed in the preparation of the produce of tbeir fisheries . At the County Court held at Barnard Castle , a few days ago , it was decided that a publican could not recover for spirits sold out of the house in quantities less than one pound sterling in value . Many publicans have the impression that this law merely relates to spirits sold in the houee . A gold mine has just been discovered in the government of Irtusk ; in Siberia , in which this metal is found in a state of complete alloy with silver , a mineralogical fact which is extremely rare .

      A St Petersburgh letter states that the amount ; in value of the corn exported from Russia since the last hams ' , is 32 , 891 , 662 roubles , equalling about 132 000 , 0001 . For a ne ? ro to emigrate from Maryland is an indictab'c _oilencfc . To emigrate to Ohio or Indiana is a penal offence The bailiff of Melbourne lately impounded a stray beast , and having invited a number of his friends to a neighbouring' public' ta enjoy themselves at thc expense of the owner of the animal , was somewhat mortilkd to find that he himself was the victim . A pair of moose deer , from Java , havo arrived in London , the first o f the kind , it is said , ever brought to England alive , Thoy are about six inches hi _^ h , in condition , and will no doubt excite thc attention ot naturalists .

      Threo Jews , each of maturo size , applying to hire a gig for a distant journey in one day , were reraen-¦ tvnteil with by the owner of the horee , at contemplating f > uch a journey ; upon which ono of them replied , ' Vy , ve ' ve all got vipa !' At the Devizes petty sessions , a few days since , a man was sentenced to pay a fine of 2 Qs . for having assaulted a young woman , by kissing her without her consent . Thc ladies will be glad to learn that amongst tbe new lists of patents is _odo for retaining the waist of the _huiapri body in a _deairablo form , without _producing any inconvenience resulting from tight lacing . Tho crop of apples has been so abundant in Normandy that in many _orchavds tbe branches of the trees have been broken by the weight of the fruit ,,

      The thin outside rind of encumbers scattered about the floar 9 of apartments infostud with cockroaches will extirpate them .. Tlie remedy ia simple , and wcrth a trial . Among tho D . vaks in Borneo , a man is not allowed to marry until he has obtained { he , head 9 l i \\ i least « ie _Jiumaa being _.

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      Letters On Grammar. No. 8. To The Workin...

      LETTERS ON GRAMMAR . No . 8 . TO THE WORKING CLASSES . _MrDsiR Fstnim , It only remains for us now to _consider the Cases of the Personal Pronouns . These are the same as in the Nouns . As the Pronouns change their forms , it will be requisite for me to give you a table of them , which you will read over until you are perfectly acquainted with its contents .

      1 st . Person . Case . Singular . Plural . Nor n . I - _**' Dat . To me To us _Posu Mitie Ours Obj . Me Us 2 nd . PERSON , Norn . Thou You Dat . To thee To you Poss . Thine Yours Obf Thee Yoa

      3 rd . Person Masculine Norn . He They Bat _> To him To thera Poss . His Theirs Obj . Him Them 3 rd , Person Feminine Norn . She DM' To her Poss . j _] Obj . Her 3 rd . Person Neuter . Nom It

      Dal . To it Poss . Its Obj . It The plural is'the same for the three genders . I wish you to remark , especially with regard to the _Nominative and Objective cases of Pronouns , that the Nominative is the subject , the Objective the object of the Verb _; because there are very few of what are railed ( perhaps ironically 1 ) the educated classes , wbo do not constantly blunder in the use of the

      objective case : especially when they attempt to join pronouns of different persons together—for instance , you may constantly hear such phrases as * I think tbere trill be enough of it for you and / . ' ¦ I told her you and me were going there to-morrow : ' The first of these sentences is wrong , because the parties speaking are those for whom there will be enoughthey are the object , not the subject of the Verb . The first sentence should therefore be , ' I think there will be enough of it for you and me . In the second phrase , / should be substituted f or me , because' you and I' are the subjects of the Verb , ' we are going there . '

      There are , however , two very simple ways ot ascertaining whether _^ you are using the right cases of the Pronoun . Either reverse the two pronouns , and put the first person before the second , or use the plural instead of the two singular pronouns , ln either way you will be able immediatel y to discover an error ; for even those who would be stupid enough to make the mistakes of which I bave given you examples would not say , ' I think there will be enough of it for / and you , ' or ' I told her us were going there to-morrow . You may , therefore , be sure that if the plural pronoun sounds incorrectly , the singular must really be inaccurate , although the number of ignorant people who use it have made it common .

      Relative Pronouns relate to a word , or a phrase in some other part of the sentence : when we assert a thing , this word or phrase usually goes before the pronoun ; when we are asking a question , it is generally contained in thc reply : but tbey are called Relative because they must relate to some such word or phrase , and can no more exist without it than a child can exist without parents . The Relative Pronouns are who , which , and that , Who is applied to separate and distinct persons o or women , but not to bodies of men nor even to little children ; because it seems to suppose reason and responsibility . Which is applied to irrational and inanimate

      things . That is a very useful relative , since we apply it equally to persons anil things , in the singular and in the plural—to individuals and societies , we sometimes use it even with the other relatives , as , ' Who that has witnessed the deplorable state of tbe peasantry can avoid desiring a more rational legislation ?' The relative pronouns are the same in the singular and the plural : who has the following changes in its cases ;—Nom . Who ' Dot . To whom Poss . Whose Obj . Whom .

      You will observe that the great distinction between the . _perMHa / and the relative pronouns arises from the circumstance that whilst the personal are _neuer found in the same part of the sentence with the nouns for which they stand , the relative are generally close to those nouns , as—• The man who does his duty is respected . ' The ship which I saw . 1 The child that you mentioned . '

      Like some other English words , that is sometimes one part of speech , sometimes another ; it is always a relative pronoun when you can turn it into who , or which without making nonsense of tho sentence . The tyrants that ( who ) desire to enslave will be compelled to bow to our power . ' There is another word which seems to be a species of mongrel relative , since it supplies the place of noun and relative . It is What : as' This is what

      I toiled for * -or , ' This is ( the object which ) I toiled for . ' But as it should be our aim , in studying _graamiar to acqu're the power of expressing our ideas clearly , we should never use any word , however sanctioned by habit , if it makes our meaning doubtful . The sentence ' All remedies havebeen tried but what are calculated to do permanent good , ' would be much clearer if we wrote'All remee dies have been tried but those which are calculated

      to do permanent good . The third kind of pronouns are termed Adjective Pronouns , because tbey do the double duty of standing for . and qualifying the noun . There are four sorts of adjective pronouns , called possessive , distributive , demonstrative , and indefinite . . . t The first of these , the possessive , is sufficient for our consideration this week ; since it is a very important section , containing that little word for which , according to the acute observation of your friend Philodemos , « Mankind has so profound a veneration ; the monosyllable my . The possessive pronouns imply property . They are mythyhisher , Us , our , your , their .

      , , , These arc , indeed , very similar to the possessive cases of personal pronouns . But you must remember lhat the personal pronouns are substitutes for nouns ; the possessive adjective pronouns are added to them . Thus in , ' His duties are well performed , ' his . is a possessive pronoun ; but ia' This hat is his ' jtisa /> cr * ona * _. We frequently _£ < ld the words own and self to _posscsahe ; and self to the objective case of personal

      pronouns ; when we do so , it appears to show a species of opposition to somebody else ; the- sort of spirit , in fact , which actuates a child who sees its mother angry with a brother , or sister ,, and exclaims 'I ' m very good , mother ! ' implying that sometody else is not so . I live on mv own land !' supposes that this is not the general state of affairs ; ' 1 myself am answerable for it , ' seems to iniplv , ' ami am quitecompeknt to meet inquiry . '

      However , I trust the day is fast approaching when the former sentence will have lost the charm of singularity ; when the mass of the working classes will cultivate tbeir own land , and live on , aud eiy ' oy the fruits of U , I am , your very sincere friend , Mi M . F *

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      Tns Etkctaic Tblhoraph In Thr Usitko Sta...

      _Tns _EtKctaic _Tblhoraph in thr _Usitko Statbs . —It appears that at the present time there are 1 , 575 miles ot telegraph in the United States on Professor Mwse ' _s system , and tbat 4 , 074 miles more are in process of construction , and which , it is expected , will be completed in one year , so that in the year 1818 there will bo 0 , 549 miles of telegraph in tba United States and Canada . A Staor Coach Pom . —A _pa-sanser , considering that a _stase coach was _travellinc particularly slow _, inquired what name it went by ? The Regulator , ' said the driver . ' Ah , ' said the gentleman , ' I thoueht « o ; for I observe that every other coach goeslyitV _n § k , ... _^ married

      Magic of thb Riso !— A couple were lately by a _clergyman near Bridgewatrr ; but , by some mishap , the unfortunate damsel had the ring put upon the wrong finger , and the wrong hand . So unhappy was site at the mistake , that she could not teat ; and late in tbe evening ; she called on _theofflcifttingclersvman before ? he could'consent to acknowledge herself a happy bride ! _NurniMB _.-r m CpmE . —M . Itiyen , from elaborate experiment , shows that coffee slightly roasted is that which contains the maximum of _anims _, weight _y and nutrition , _^ He declares coffee to be very nutritious , as it contains a very largo quantity of azote ; three times bs much nutriment as tea ; and mora than twice the nourishment of soup ( bouillon ) . Chicory contains only half the nutriment of coffee . M . Rayen has also succeeded in _obtainint ; from coffee an extract in the form of a white crystaline substance , capable of giving a deeo green colour to 5 , 000 times its weight of water or spirit .

      Enormous Suspension Brwob is Huxoart . —The Pesth suspension bridge , over th ? D _snube , designed by Mr Tierney Clark , snd now wa * iy _cororleted , i » 1 200 feet Ion ? , in three spans ; the centre _ooan being 600 feet , the side spans 300 feet each . The chains are being made in England ; the granite for tho piers was brought in immense blocks , some of them front twelve to sixteen tons w . _% ht _rach . from I . iuz . iu Upper Austria . The contractor for the _enff-rdams _, & c . was an _Englishman , as were the principal _workman , and all the machinery has _bi . < cii supplied front this conntry . Thc total cost of the bridge , as we understand , will be £ 600 , 000 . —The Bwlder .

      Tnie Lath Captain Stihuno , cf the ' Timrs . _'Capt . Stirling , late one of tho leader writers of the Times newspaper , died at an advancer ! age , a few days ago , at his residence at _Knightsliridae . This _gentleman ' s leaders obtained for the Times the namer of tho ' Thunderer . ' They were full of viuour and always to the point . The Iato Daniel O'Connell was * his principal target , and tho _arrcw of Mr _Stirlin" * _nevprmissedthe bull ' s eye . Thc mortality of the Times office , in a very short space of time , is worthy of notice . It ba * of late years l _« st by death Mr Thomas Barne-, tho principal editor , whose _talent _* - as a writer were well known _; Mr Bacon , the subeditor , a very clever writer ; Mr Alsager , whose city article was so much admired and (• ought for ; tbe next was the great pillar of the establishment . Mr John Walter , whose biography appeared in the Times a few weeks since . His most intimate friend and

      eonipriRion in sickness Captain Stirling , did notsur » vive bim above a month . _Rkportkbs is thb _Fnuscn Chamr . _* " _** _opDkputiei —We would direct the attention of Mr Barry to tha accommodation afforded tothe representatives ef the press in the French Chamber of Deputies . Two galleries in the second story , _facins : the chair , are devoted to tha reporters of all the papers except the Moniteur . Those two galleries accommodate more than forty persons . The reporters are , seated at writing tables , at which paper , rcn » , and ink , are _B-pplied to them . Thoy have at their command tw »

      officers of ths chamber , and two clo _.-ets in which to put their hits , umbrellas , &> . A third g "> HeTy , at an equal height from _theflw of the chamber , and capable of accommodating about twenty persons , ia appropriated to the editors who mny desire to witness any particular part of tbe debate . Besides these Ihre © _gftlUrios , _accommodating mere than _sixtv persons , the reporters and other person 3 connected with the Moniteur ( about twenty in _number ) are _admitted by tickets delivered to them at the commencement of the session , according to a list made out by a committee of members and journalists . — Globe .

      Fheemasosuy . —A man mint be a poor creature that can't invent a hoax . For two centuries , we hive had a first-rate on , and its name is—Freemasonry . Do you know the secret , my reader , ot shall I tell you ? Send me a cons ' iWation and I will . But stay , tho weather being so fine , nnd the philosophers _, therefore , so good tempered , I'll tell it you for _nothinz : whereas , if yeu become a mason , yoa must pay for it . Here i _< the secret . —When the novice is introduced into the conclave of the Freemasons , the grand master or his deputy U > ks very fierce at him , and draws his sword , which makes ihe

      novice look very melancholy , aa he is m > t aware of having had time us yet for any _profaneness , and fancies , therefore , that somebody must have been _alanderina him . Then the grand master or his deputy cites him to the bar , sayine , ' What ' s that yoa have in your pocket V To whieh tbe novice replies , 4 A guinea . ' _ 4 _Anythinz more ? ' ' Another guinea . * 'Then , ' replies tbe official person , in a voice of thunder , 'fork out . ' . Of course , toa man coming _Bword in hand , few persons refuse to do that . This forms tbe first half of the mysteries ; the second half , which is by much tlie urore interesting , consists entirely of brandy . —De Qninccy .

      ' FuDQE . —Tfte word _Fttdoe was hardly enough for our great lexicographer to notico . ' It was known _, however , to our language long beforo his friendr Goldsmith , made such ample use of it in his ' Virar of Wakefield ; ' for D'I .-r . » eli savs that in ' Remarks ? upon the Navy . 'published in 1700 , U the _following anecdote : — ' There was , in our time , ono Fudge , captain ofa merchantman , _\< ho upon his return from a _voynsje , how ill so ever his ship was fraught , always drought borne hi 3 owners n good _caivjo nf falsehoods ; so that now , aboard shin , the sailor- ' , when tbey hiar a great fatsehrod told , cry out , 'You fudge it . "Pounder ' s Literary Extracts ( New Series ) . lli'MEDiiis _aujuxst Mollis . —It U an old custeni with Some housewives to throw into their drawers

      every year a number of fir cones , _nndar thc idea that their strong _resineus smell might keep away the * moth . Now , as the odour of these cones is due te turpentine , it occurred to Reaumur to try the . effect of this volatile liquid . He rubbed oho s'de < _-f a piece of cloth with turpentine , and put some cnibs on the other ; the next morning they were all dead , and , strange to say , had voluntarily abandoned their sheaths ; On smearing some paper slightly with the oil , and putting thi » into a bottle with some _grnbs r the weakest were immediately killed ; tbe most vigorMis struggled for two or three hour ? , quitted their sheaths , and died in convulsions . Ic _rra _* soon abundantly evident that the vapour nf oil of spirits ot " tuipentine acts as a terrible poison to the grubs . Perhaps it mav be said t _"> at tven Ibis remedy

      _iswoise tban the disease ; but , as Reaumur justly observes , we keep away from a _neiviy-painted room , or leave off for a few days a coat , iroin which stains have been removed by turpentine . Why , therefore , can we not yearly keep lor a day or two . trom rooms that have been fumieated with turpentine ? I" is , however , _surprising how small a quantity of turpentine is required . A small piece of paper or linen just moistened therewith , and put into tiie wardrobe or drawers for a single day , two or three times a year , is a sufficient preservative njainst moths . A small quantity of turpentine _dissolved in a litt ' e > spirits of wine ( thc _vapt . ur of which is also fatal to the moth ) will entirely remove the offensive odour , and yet be a sufficient preservative . —Gknnoiv Constitutional .

      A Cool IIasd— Thc city chamberlain ( Mr Clark ) _, in earlv life , fiad chambers adjacent to tlte Old South Sea House , he was aroused from sleep by tha alarm ot the well known fire , when the four comers of Gracechurch-strcet , _Lcudenhall- _'treet , Bishopsgate-street , and Cornhili were in flames _together _, lie went to the fire himself in tbe hope of being useful , before which be hoard another _kdgor iii tha ? auio set cf chambers cail from hi ? window to tha firemen , to inquire how long they thought it would ba before the lire could reach that qsarier , to which ho was answered that itniight befimr hours : upon wbich he quietly went io bed aguin , and wns fast asleep when the chamberlain returned in tho morning . — Pounder ' s Literary _Eximgls .

      _ISatio . vai , _SociBir tor thk Abolition cp _Bcmais in Towns . —A _todety under thw title _lu _* _brtn vsblibhcd in London for the purpose of demonstrating to the public tbo necessity of speedily _abolishing or rcstriciin _^ wishin the narrowest limits the immoral and pernicious custom of bur ) ing in towns . Although a vast mass itf very important facts is on record , " a great majority of the public : s not ret _rr-usrd < o a sense of its _iSftnier ; The _sociot v , therefore , proposes , by a plain _statement of facts , to extend the _knowleduoot ' _thoin _' _inks _ir-flicied upon tho living , and the inHiUs offered to the dead . _Britoh _Ami-Statk Chuhcii A _ssociatio : _! . -It appears that the West Riding is to be the _stiirt ' _n-r _noint of a winter _campaign in favour of t he |> i inciples r . f 'his society , and that a soiree h to take p lace in Leeds on the 27 th inst .

      PiitYiXTiuN op _iiAiuui _AcciDtsT ? . —Hie _ncccs-9 ity for some means of commutiiiuttiiii ; with _inu engine driver in case of a » v accident to a railway tram has at _length been officially recognised by tlie sutho . _rilies of the Great Western , who havo wind a _> _i-ircular Mnouncim ! their intention to adopt the toliowine Plan for facilitating this object :-A man . to bo called ' a travdling _oarringo porter , ih tn nm . ni . n « nv the train , and will _oMcpyaaatoiijlicUmw , fro ::, which bo is to heap a steady and _xw . hn \ loos out on Loth sides and along tht- lop uf thc ( -tn : n _$ _vs , so thut ' 'C may at oneo observe ii any _awuiwit si :. uJU occurand communieato with the _cnginr . maii .

      , PooR . _ItATBS is _rnsi-TOS . — iscch is thu ; _-r _..-M ; re upon thc office for relief , in consrquenco of the _.-Ih . _i-b time , or no time , atuiHny of the mills , that tl .-. ' _nrxfi six months' poor-rate is expected to betwoMliillings in tlip pound . Tin ' s is » < _-n at acreage from sixpence to eightpence , as formerly . Pabmameni stands jrorogued from the 12 th 01 the , presort _mnih lo tlte Hia vi A ' oveui _^ r ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16101847/page/3/