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December 16, 1948. The Northern Stxr. 3
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MEMOIRS 0 ? CITIZEN CAUSSIDIERE , _Ex-PrfiectofPoUceandRepresenUtrT'j of the People . London : R . Bentley , New Burlington [ Second notice . ] We continue our extracts from this interesting work . L'Ami du Peuple ' _a critirisrn precludes the necessity of comment in this place . In our first notice ire extracted an account of tbe apy Delahodde . Here is an account of another spy who made AS Cr-X * TO ASSASsn-iTI . THE _DDXC OF B _3 BDEAVX _,
Charles March *] , arrested after the _eTen . ? - ofthe 15 h Of May , was brought before M . Creanleux , and set at liberty on hia _denisl that ha acted as a spy . He was always to bs found in tha Sails des Pat Ptrdut , aad _entsrerl familiarl y into every conversation . One day ha came up to _m- _> , desirous to enter Into _eonversatioa . - Yon are Charles March * * , ' I said . * I am , ' he replied . ' Ton _aronuaib-r 55 J . Ba i if then as sooa as possible . ' I ¦ warned H . L » BJChtj'gaelin , two or three days after _, wards , to be on his guard against t _* io cffieiouineu ot ¦ thia amiable citic-n _, who endeavoured to pump and then « o betray him . Under Lonis ' Philippe , Charles If _srchal tendered his services to If . _Dtlew-rt , then Prefect of Police Hs eff _jed to _assauinate tht Dake of Bsrdeanx for a million of franc * . I am st man , ' he write-, « of « ood education and _tngigiig _bimsm J I-h _« u « r _« lB
grana style—on an aristocratic leali—snd shall get In . ttoductd _tabim . I shall by _degms became Intimate With him . Opportunity and my own courage will do the rest . ' Oa the margin of this letter I read the following note In the handwriting of M . _Dalenert : —« If this villain repeats hia demand , hava hiss arrested _ImTuedUttlj . * My reason for xnaHog thlt _ttTelatlim is , that Charles Uarehal had tbe _Impudenca to Mllclt the post of secretary at the Prefecture , and to demand a pension from the National Assembly oa tha pita of having been Imprisoned for political offences , and tor haviag rendered _Bervieet-. tho cause of tha Republic . It ia trne that ha was sentenced to imprisonment forp _** Mi _* Mn *» a pamphlet again .: _LoalaPaWppe _. bntbU trial proved that ha waa lu the _ps ) of the Court , Thia attack against his royal _-c _ro-ector _orlglnatad in a _refmisito giro him a sum of _ncn-y he bad demanded .
Cifczen Caussidiere gives the following affecting account of the
ubiiatio _** er lonis _rHiurre ' _s noma . Our first act at the Prefecture was to tet at liberty aU those _citfcins who had bees _imprisoned by tbs Monarchy for political offences ; and onemoniBg they waited upon ae in a body , a drum at their bead , and " waring a fi _* « g , tha fmblem of their wretched fata m political prisoners . "ffi ; h what joy I embraced thssa noble victims ! How miny old facet did I recognise , farrowed aad oare-worn " bjIoe _** imprisonment , bat thtir spirits ante aa yonte--t-l «» _—<* - Hatty of them entered the rants of the MonUgnafda . It was touching sceno that , within the _« ad asd _tcourafol walls of tha Tttttctnre .
Many of thete brave Republicans had been incarcerated for ten years . Wa embraced them as brothers risen from tbe grave . We questioned them on their _safferings and ihtir _pTeteat confidence and cot-rag * . This scene of -fraternity waa one of my few bsppy moments at tht Profectu-e . It encouraged ma la my labours . I taw a rtH 8-ec _* oured , not a red or a white Republic Bat my illusions wera shortly to he trodden nnder foot by tba -enemies ofthe revolution ! We next make a brief extract _concerning
. au > . To diltingnlth thete ot ray men at tha Prefectur * who were on ralitary service . I made them wear a red ash snd a bra-sirs . The _brossart was a distinction of authority . Tha red colour alarmed many timid person * who _always pay more attention to tha form than fte substance . Some distinctive sign waa necessary , to aveid blunders _, end the _intreiuctloo of dishonest men amongst our tody . R « _d , tha symbol oi unity , did not mean that we tad sanguia & Tj view * . Except when In tbe combat , I "havegenerally found republicans men of hurrane and gentle manners , while many who adopt white for their colour , often conceal , under that pure and snowy covering , vindictive and cruel passions . Read history . We next select an extract describing the
_ntanao or the -axis or uiiBtr . The _ootiryeofiie seemed inclined to make concessions io tie'droit de la blouse . ' E _* ilp »» sloBS were oa ths decrease . Paris had a certain festive air about it ; soma cf the theatres presented pttriotie plays ; the song of the _M-rselllais * repeated night after night at the ThefttreNational , by the energetic talent of Mademoiselle E * chel , excited a holy enthusiasm . The people were invited as guest * to bthold the _masterpieces of CornaUle nd cf Toltsire . It msy he said that never did tbe Iheatre _National beast of a mere attentive or better _, conducted audience . It was ths least that ceuld be done to mitigate their smSerings by a few hoars ef honest and _levating amusement . Tha toog of the Girtmd ' ms blead-Inr with tha Chant dtsMontagnardt . waa lifee the pro .
pfcetic announcement of a fusion of all interests and opinion , which in its _eetion was ta attttoy , for years to come , 11 feelings of hatred snd _enalty , Paris breathed freely . _Trets of liberty wera planted in every c ! ttrict . The bourgeoisie , the _Jfatisnal Guard , and tha workmen , _jjyaredin these processions . The clergy wera always _iavittd to attend , and speak word * of peace an 4 of conciliation . Bands cf military _mtuio and choral singers atdded to the splendour of the * e popular ceremonies . It _aeemeiai if tha tree of liberty waa never more to be _tprinhlei with blooi . Sad illusion * , too soon destroyed ! The Prefecture of Polica inaugurated one of thefint trees of liberty . My speech to tbe enthatjasue _moltitBda that crowded arouad me , if cot spoken in set phrases _itnd ehoice sentences , came directly from my
heart-Like tbe priest ofthe Redeemer , I alto preached fraUr . sity , that _Imfgbt assure them that the Prefecture , farsurly a place of terror to the people , was henceforth the _aaactuary of permanent juVice , and coald in future { aspire fear oaly in those wbo thould break the laws of ihe land . The moit ardent indications of sympathy , the deepest emotions and promises of fraternity , hailed my words . Those men of the barricades awore , with tears in their eyes , to contribute towards the police of coneilUtloa 1 was endeavouring to establish , and they encouraged me in tha fulfilment sf ths duties imposed me by my sense of duty , and the public exigencies . A few days afterwards I wu invited to attend with a detach-Bent of Montagnards the plaatfaig of a tree of liberty in the courtyard of the Opera Haute . The orchestra and _ehoruste of thit theatre wera assembled , and performed
_varlons patrfotio airs during the _ceremonj . The cl-rgy bad been invited to beitow "their _thsiing npon tha tree . A . numerous aad brilliant company , grouped in the windows « i the surrounding houses , formed a rich frame to tbe f _ceae In the eeurt-yard . A portion of the enclo--rure _wateccapled by a detachment of National Guards and my _Mosttgnarda , who had made themselves a lit'It lass warlike in _apoearanca than usual . Ledra _BaUia , st that time Minister of tha Interior , made a speech in oralis of the arts , and on tha necessity of their _oo-operatiag in the work of the Republic , a speech which was loudly applauded , and followed by tha chorus of tho Ciroodins . Desirous of addressing tha asiembly likewise , I did so and commenced as follows *— 'Apret la Qiroads , la _Hontagne '— ' After the Oironde , tha Moan tain . '
Citken Caussidiere ' s account ofthe propagandist expedition to Belg ium throws new light on an affair which has been so much canvassed , hut hitherto so little understood . Ledru Rollin has had the entire blame of that expedition laid to his account , bnt it would appear tbat the blame is due tothe' moderate ' majority of the Provisional Government . We suspect that the same party conld explain the ' snare better than either Fosse , or those Fosse accuses of treacbeiy . Here is Citizen Caussidiere ' s Account of
_tna _xxriomo * to bimiuj- . The Belgiane , especially , numbered stroag in Paris , -and they soon- re » l » ed to retain to their _coantry in _-crmed _haflot to _BwpagaU R-nnMlean principles . Be ' _gram seemed half IncHaeeltoMowthe example of France , and to establish a democracy . _Citfctn Biervacq _autsmbledtogethtr about two thousand of his compa _. triors who Incessantly requested means to enablo them ts depart . 1 notified teH . _ledruRollto . thalitoi » t-r of the interior , tbe importunate _aolicItatloBS to which I _jT-xexposed . _HotoId _-aathathaahonW _consnlthiacoU _le- _* u-. s ,. for that h _» _eould do nothing _wlthoat their _oonlent . Some daya _pasiad . Tha Belgians tanamore _presiin * than ever in their demands to obtain _miecU _Stattoanu . Tht _mialtter at length declared thatthe tri
_Fren-i government could not bind itself to * » Mf _tens _ofanaturato eaclto alarm In B-Jglum . with which iSL tt " « tert * teed _wicable . relation ,, that th . S £ * thlj could do was to give a gratuitous _pamge to _aUTtuci aa _wtradetUous of returning to t _^ mn , Ja t _thattbaj would hava noshing _furthw to do in _£ e _Sat _^ . _Itaaj _^ ropcaedtoM . _L-draa . lUn _^ cua th . SancU _^ . _houldhTvaa _pproved o ! and encour . f « d . _mob Sonar , movement , to give thoBelgUn . the _™ 0- « r aU 8 _» 2 00 ) MunWp-i Gawds , _wha wera good _soldUrs , and _L _* a « ad , _totLrdi . Infae _* , th . _ex-Municipal _* 3 uard . SS _55 _T-ft * . ¦« « " ¦ " L 00 , J m , 00 _hf * _Snt _IrinToat the raoolleetioaaof tha put by soma brilliant ! _SL-T Tbeyhad notbirg to do , and two er three of S _ScJ _jwbom I broached the subject , _asiured m . _Sth _fa-readiaaitu I communicated tha r « olatfcms of _tttvSn _^ _tha Be _^ _aVnutatlo H _, _^ -f that
_-»«« H * , to _«» i . ttheo . _Iranstfranldy avow per _SinalSfiSte _« Sa _atroaglj inclinedI no * W « _- Sl _^ _St _dds _expedlUon than to refute . « t « _° « to if The deputa _-i-ffl wUhdraw . very Uttle p _eaied , and _rswctfng it . I looked npon it as a faUare . and _SoaSf ro more about it , when I was waited upon b , _S £ -Sot , haai engineer of tha Northern RaUway . S _-, 1 . Xin f . it-.- < _* - « i a certain Fotie demanded a _!?^ He laid that ho was proceeding with a de _tach-;„*? - / - £ « \ ta proclaim the Republio la Belgium . _Z ___ _% S ? Sl _?* Sl do anything of the _aort unl . r . I _^ 7 « d direct _initrocHona to that _. ffec t from the I * r 1 JSS * _Ialw _t" <> i « _m _«***« te ordert t 0 _Prefecmro Of Poli _^ I *« 8 _^ _„ bring him to emZ _™ J _^ t _£ _rTvoZ at the Hotel de TJIe , In ec *
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_largt room whet * auy _ptnems wtrt _ouiy writlaf _Oittsta Mtrcisr _-rfdrcued Fom at follows — ' I ts _ _ x by tha Prefect of Pollot to tall jou tbat _naleai you follow ma _ImmsdiaUly to render an account of tha object of _yaurjeurn- y . he will prevent yenr departure . ' At thtie words _Cittua Baches said to Mereier _, ' Hath I not so loud , I entreat you ? It la worthy of remark that at _Mercler entered M . Bachtxgtva Foiie two bank notes and a litter of credit on a _Bruiels hanker from M . _Lsmardne . Moreover , whilst Pjsi * was oa Us way to the Prefecture , he told Meroler that he had tbe _sopport of HM . _Ltmartina and Marrait to organise thli movement . Perhaps the news of tba inturrcction at _Berlin , wbere Itwas said tha R'pahllc had beea declared , hsd moved tha Hotel da Villa . It appears , betides , that all iha agenta of the Hotel deTiUo were awate of tbit ex . _psditloa . As they w _« r _« leaving the Hotel de Ville ,
Meroler and Foiie met Co ' _snel Bsy , tbe governor of tha Hotel , and Foua atked him if hs oould not provide him with muskets . _Citicsn Bey seemed by no means aitoilshedat ths request , bat simply replied that he had already distribu ted all the weapons at his disposal , and that _conttqqently he conld not at present give bim any . The Sieur Fosse made similar statements to myself , adding tbat he had bad an interview with M . _B-jtide , and had obtained hit content . He tho wed me tha letter of erailt hs had received from M . Buchea , and rentwed his rtqaeit for a spscial train . Ha had to meet the Belgians that very evening at the railway station , where he had appointed to join them , and he _desired absolutely to start that _rery day . I told him to return in two hones , and had aU his movements watcbed . I wished to consult the Minister of the Interior , but he was at osuncll , and I could not obtain anjthing from him . At the appointed hour Foiie returned coca more
to request _psrmtHion to leave . I _tcarosly knew how to act , to I took Foils along with ma to the Minister of the Interior . Af'er waiting an hour , H . Ledru Rollin ' s secretary Informed _ms that tha members ot the government were to attend a popular _repreientation at < he Thcatrt _Nutloxal , and that I thould probably find the Minister of ths Interior thera . I wat now at last obliged , far fear of countermand tor orders beyond mj jurisdiction , to gramt the permission required . Meroler , whom I had instructed to keep an _eyeontheia'lway . _itation , _csmeand informed ma that the d-parmre belt had rung , and that the st & tlon was crowded with Belgians . A train had been prepared for the two detachments . I tay two , became tha fifteen hundred _B-lgtau who lift w tre _dirldbd amongst
themsolve * , thoie commanded by Biervacq aceuiing Foisa aid bis party of ha * _ing told themielvei to tha Priuee of Orange ; these , on tbe other hand , declared tbat Bier _, vacq and hit companions supported tha bad oause . A violent dispute aroie , and it was with difficulty that a fight was _prevaatsd ; thty threatened to set fira to the station aod called out for _ispira ' e train * . Citizen Mer . der , In the presence of the principal director of tha rail _, way , addrened a few _ene-gstto words to them , and whether frem their fear or tbeir good sense , these men , so load in their demands bnt a tew momenta before , agreed to leave in tha lime train . A second detach _, ment Iefs on the following day . Tha details of that adventurous expedition ara well known , the _Belgians procuradsrmion their way ai soon as tbey had left
Ii lie behind them . The muskets in their _potieislon had beea almost all captured by them , and wera destined ts arm the National _fiutrdi of the frontier . Oa the _arentog of tbe 28 th of _Msros , a colomn about 1 , 100 _stroBg , took tba direotion of Menln , parpo _* iog to enter Beldam by _Courbecqae ; bat whether from unforeseen difficulties , treason , or fatality , tbey ta traced their steps in the direotion of _Mouscron _, a patsaco well defended by the _royalist troops . In open _daylight they entered and searched tha oa » tom-hea » o , whtca was deserted ; aud they had tha audacity to enter tha Belgian territory , when areglmtnt of iafantry , of light dragoons and artillery , suddenly appeared and opposed them . A brisk fire wat kept up on both sides for more than au hour , although tha brave workmen , isolated , wtre compelled to _teparate and fight as sharp _, shooters , to avoid tbe ravages cf the grape sbot . Thty regained the French territory , leaving abont a _ckzen of the enemy dead , aod about as _msuy of their
owa parry on tbe field , with about fira . _aud-twenty wounded on both tides . They had lo fact fallen into a regular snare . Fene accuses B ervacq , _O'Sellton , * aud _D-. le * tr * s with having acted the part ol _agentprovooaleurt , bnt tbey ara in prison , and aaier a _teaceuce of capital punishment , nor is it usual for governments to give salaries to agenta whose position might compromise them , end lead to revelations . Wa do not , however , mean to imply that Fosse was guilty of this crime ; it is much more probable that _aoma secret agent , whoia name hai not transpired , had informed tbe Belgian go . versmeat of what was going on , and that the latter bad taken its measarss accordingly . However this may be , the remnant ot this _melanesoly expedition returned to Paris In a mnch mors pitiable plight than tbey l . _ft It . They were lodged for a few days in the ' Otierae des < 3 res , ' wbere rations wera allowed them . Thus ended _thbaffiir _, the responsibility of which still bangs over other heads than those of the real instigators .
Here we conclude our extracts from the first volume _. The second volume sketches the history of the Revolution from the 16 th of April to the 29 th of August . The commencement of the plots of the _reactionists , and the oounter-efforts of tbe democratic clubs , excited considerable agitation early in April .. This state of things led to an interview betweeH _CAOS-lPrESB x ~< _MsuaTzi-a . This excitement of the public mind waa a can-Usual source bf anxiety to the men of the Hotel ae VUIe . I , with others , beheld wltb sorrow tbit complicated and dangerous stats of things . It wat with repugnance that the thought flished across my mind , that toon perhaps reason aud justice would perforce have recourse to violence .
I _caliel upon some devoted friends waa had _lauasaca with thd baurgeoitie , to inpreii it upon them how much it wat their interest to maintain peace , and to show theso that tbey thould not compromise tbe Government , by forcing it into a retrograde Una ot policy . I had a conversation on the _subject with M . lamartine , who _casaa to see me , Hs expressed to me his f « _ara of the Intentions of tho people , I told hira the / would alwajsbe fonnd _msgnanlmoui , provided thepromiies qf February were kept ; and that , with the assistance of my friends , I _heped to prevent them from retorting to false and precipitate measures . Imuit aid , that I pressed him warmly to join the democratic minority of the Provisional Government , so as to establish an equilibrium which waa indispensable to the _luccess of the revolution .
He replied that he would think of it . M . Lamartine and myself agreed on many point !; for instance , on all questions respecting order , and the general interests of tho public , though our principles wera not the same . Ha seemed to fear the enfranesiiemeot of tha working classes , _wh-. lst I desired by e , very prac : _icafele extension to abolish class interest ! . There are few practical men who have made a _serioui _stuty of the social _tuettions sow meoted concerning the working classes . The majority of new political aad social problems are often discussed by the workmen , witb a power of resiontag which woald at _tiaes bring our statesmen to a _standstill . I do not hesitate to asurt that that man is _Ignorane or superficial , who wonld condemn or desire to adjourn io many _imp-rioui mea-• ores .
We gave in our last a ridiculous story concerning Gamier Pages . "Wo will now extract another . On the occasion of the extraordinary affair of the ] 6 th of April , there occurred the following exhibition of _fliasna paort' pas ** ih vox _poruiiaiTi . WhUst thess cries wero utterel ef * Dowa witb the Communists , ' the cortege , as It passsed , shoated 'long lift to tbe _democratic Republic ! Jong life to l 9 _uls Blano I long lif * to Ledru Roltin I' M . _Garnier Pages , who has always had a moit unhappy paiiion for popularity slipped in between hia two colleagues , wio were thus chesreti by the people . , and passed hi » arm thiongh that of Ledru Rollin . The latter attempted to shako him off . « , -non ton , wUl jou not give mo your arm 1 ' said Gamier Pages . If you gave me your hand oftener at the council table , ' replied Ledru Rollin , ' you would have a b'tter olalm to my arm in public .
"We quote Citizen Caussidiere ' s opinion as to the value of a
_HiTlOHil flUUD . Our neighbours _acroit the Channel cannot un _2 ers ' _aDd tha Institution of tha National Guard . They are of opinion that a wise government should disband it enttt-elj . ana entrust tha safety of the capital to a Standing army within tba walls . _Beiidea the great number of _troopt that inch a system wonld render _necniary , tbe people , if th » y thoug ht themselves justified in bringing aboat a revolution . _wculJ _fiad arms somehow or ihe othtr and every : hing woald be made use of as a means of attack . A horrible clril war would be the result , which woald terminate only when thera wera ns mora combatant * . Cause tbe acta of tha gevernmint to bs in accordacse with the gentral will , and jou may loch np your _muiketa without fear ef disturbsnoes . We quote the following extract on the subject ofthe 'NationalWorkshop * ' and the 'Commission of Workmen . ' It sufficiently answers _« ie calumnies directed against those truly noble patriots
10 UIS SURC ABO _alBHT . The _reactlonista , already powerful , _aooaied Looii _BJans and Albert of agitating andattempiing to trouble sodetj . They sent In the ! r resignations as Presideat ana _VIOB'PrsiIdent of the Luxembourg . Ho fond * had been allowed th * m to facilitate a _systen of _anociation between the working _classet ; whilst the national workshops , under the direction of M . Bmils Thoma » , aod under the patronage of M . Marie , absorbed enormous sums , witbout any other result than tbe demoraliia tion sf the citiz-ns . Louis Blanc was always strenuously opposed to these _work-Bopi , which employed fifteen thousand men at _nielesa embankments ; his opposition , however , has not _prevented tbe responsibility of tbe national workibopi betai * thrown , most unjustly , upon hit shoulders . He was also accused of living sumptuously at tha Palace of the Luxembourg , _notwithitandlng that his e « - * This _namo should ba printed _Smmhoxb . —Ed ,
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_pnies wire to small that M . Oarnler Fag st thought at lo addrtw somi observation * t » hia and Albart on what h * styled their parsimony . Neither af th _« m spent , ( a tnth _, mora than two _frinca and a half for their dinner . ' It has tha appearance of a « fleetion upon your colleagiis , ' tatd U , Gamier _Fagea , and on _thaeiaenies tbey are obliged to incur . ' 'It Is vary wall for job aad jour colleagues who receive bankers and millionaires at guests at your table , ' _Louli _BlanoJjKp-rtedtohaverepltacVto entertain handiomely , but I—coaitantly with workmen titling _oppoiito to me , who often stand iu need of the _osmmon _neceinrUg ot life—I could not , withont insulting their misery , make a display of a _aamptuoos table . *
A faw days before the el . ctions I wai invited U B dinner at If . _Cremiiux ' _i , where I fonnd MM . Lamorlolere . Btdsta , _Eiienae Arago , Louis Blanc , and Albert . _Itald to tbe latt , that M . Grandmti-r > il had _oomplslned of tbe bad faiaof tho Luxembourg , assarting that the emp'joyes kept a far better table . 'It is true , ' replied Albert _^ * we _endearour to live as ¦ imply u pouible wa conld not And It in our hearts to live _tusptaouily when the people are suff « ring . ' This incident reminds me ef another . At thli very tarns dinner at II . _Cre-nleox ' s , a great deal was taid about the daja of February . Etienne A * a _; o addressed _Lsmoriclere _re-pectlng the affair of the _Palaii _Rojsl . Tho Ganeral avowed thit be was then In a _mostc-itlo I position , and that If It had aot been for ihe timely aiei"
tOBOOOf Etienne Arago he mi ght hare f » redbadlj _< A great deal wai taid about the chances of that day , and _Laaoricisraobserved , 'Hatters would aot bava taken the turn they did , 111 had not met with io much hesitation at Conrt . ' He then told how , on the _24 'h of February , at aboat eleven o ' clock in tbe _momiag , he waited apon the King to _Mcshe ht * eiders . His U * jetty seemed muoh catt dowa , and referred him to tbe Dake of Nemoari . The _futsre Regent , more undtelded and more terrified tbaa the King , refuted to hava _recourse to auy extraordinary measure * . It wai tbit want of _Intirac _tiosi that paralysed the zeal of tbe General . 'All tbe
zeal in tbe world would hava been of bo avail , ' _returned Albert . ' Everything- was prepared for success . Tfae secrat _socutUs wonld have stirred np tbe military population of Pails . Aftar the massacre on the Boulevard _det _Capneusi , the lntargenti were determined to _conqwr or die . The soldiers of Louis Philippe , in oase of a deadly-bought victory , would have had to walk over corpiei and rains . ' I _tupportid Albert ' s opinion . After what I myself bad been a wi taeii to , the Isiae oould not have been doubtful . If tbe straggle had been prolonged fer a few dayt more , it would only hava tended to establish the enfranchisement ofthe people on a firmer bull .
We shall conclude our extracts for tbis week with the following account of the popular _manifesta * tion on
thi _nrniHin c _* hat , Tha demonstration , which cumbered one hundred and fifty thousand citizens , on arriving at tho Punt de la Concord * , foroed tlie passage , wbioh wai kept by a de tacbment of tba National Gourd . The enthusiasm wbich tbii immense column received all along its pas . sage , —a burning tun , the abstinence from food since eight iu tbe morning , the electric principle which olrcn . lates la all great masses , tha patriotic shoots , —all tended to Inoreaie ths general excitement , when , about two o ' clock , tbe advanced ranks presented _themsolves at tbe gates ofthe palace of tbe Assembly . They hsd not , however , any premeditated plan of actios . Tbere were more than ont hundred different _tastltutet in the procession , each with itt own banner and own leader-,
who would aot according to their own view Of the case , and according to circumstance *; they were , however , ao far agreed that tbey wished to Impart a democratic Impulse to the Chamber , which had already betrayed itt reactionary . tendencies . ' At first , net more than one hundred men entered the co . art . yard to preisat the petition , bat the numeroqi corporations , collected _together at tbe other extremity of the column , endeavoured to force their way to the Chamber , or at least to approach it ai near ai poillb ' e . This csuwd a pressure of the _JivJn-f msu , which _gradasJly swelled onwards to the principal entrance . The only way to have stopped this l ' ving s _« a of human beings would have baen to have prevtnted them from crouing ths bridge , by placing a _somcient force tbere . The _spsct before the _Hoase of Assembly woald then have remained clear . The few
guards on dnty at tbe entrance kept their footing as long aspoislblt ; bat tbe progressive crush beoame _sogrsat tbat tha iron railings gave way , and the _coart-yard was immediately inundated by tbe crowd . Another clrcum . stance admitted five hundred at one rash . One of the soldiers oa dnty in tba court-yard having by accident lst his musket f ill . It _wsnt off . Tbis incident oansed a scene of Indescribable uproar , and cries werauttered , ' They are assassinating oar brethren ! ' which cry was transferred from mouth to month , from phalanx to phalanx , at far as the Plaoe de la Cmcorde , The whole crowd now precipitated itself towards tbe doors of tbe palace , and many of them were 1 lie-ally suffocated . It was soon known tbat the sbot fired wai the result of accident , but the people exclaimed , ' The military tben have their _musketi loaded ! ' The Sail * des Pas Perdus
wasoocopUdby a knot of _oonspioaons politicians of every faction , who farmed a little ohanber _, as it weie , of their own . Many of them addreiied the people in vehement _laxgasgs . _General Coartaii wai stopped here for seme length of time , and he wat violently demanded to explain bit intentions . Thus ~ . _^ o , ne _aooiared that if , in bis capacity of general , he wat ordered to beat tbt rappel aa a signal for firiog upon the citizens , he should at onoe give In his resignation . After bis departure a compaay of one hundred men were admitted by the gato that _opeat upon the quay , and wera ordered to clear the Salle des Pas _Perdns ; but they were soon compelled te withdraw . Similar soenes wera enacting in different parts of the hall of the Assembly , tbe interior of which wore quits a dramatic appearance . Daring the speech
ef U . W / _olowskl , shouts and the hum ef many voices wtre heard approaching nearer and nearer to tha Chamber , and on tbe report of the musket every one thought that a conflict bad commenced . The tumult ont of doors soon drowned tha voices of the representatives ; tho entrances to tbe galleries were bant open with a tremendous crasb , and men in _bloaiei _rnihed in , waving fljgs and shouting ' Vive la Polognt . ' * Many of them slid down the columns , and placed themselves on the benches of tbe representative * . Tbe _pesplo now ponred in ' , headlong at every entrance ; tbe galleries wtre ¦ o crowded tbat they ' . groaned under the weight . A tank burs « , aBd tbe water flooded one ofthe passages , Tbe whole building cracked again , and threatened te involve all in one oommon rain . The great gates ofthe semicircle wera at length thrown open , and gave admittance to tha multitude and their leaders- Tha people were now masters ef tha Assembly . After the petiiion bad
beea read , with the various episodes recorded in tbe HotUTioa , another attempt wai made to olear the hall . All tbs Issues and passages were crowded with _cltlzsna eager to enter . At the same _Uma a report was spread that a battle hsd commenced ob the quays , aad that in a few minutes tbere woald be a general _masiacre . Huber then mounted the tribane , and declared that the National Alterably was dlisolved . The deputies now flew in every direction , some towards the house of tbe Presideat , whilst othera sought shelter in the ranks oi the National Guard , wbo were muttering itroag outside . Oa the desks , la the tribune , en the benches bf the adjacent rooms , tha members of the _different clubs were basil * ' engsgtd . writing out lliti of names to constitute a new _Provlilonal Government- Various groups took Ihe direction of tha Hotel de _Tiile . Gradually the Chamber thinned , aad some _buodreds ot the people alone remained , when the _Hsttsaat Guard entered at quick march , and reinstated the representative ! In their seats ,
About five o ' clock , wbilit one body of tbe Republicans was advancing towardi tbe Hotel de Ville , tho Prefecture was Invaded by a crowd of some two hundred persons , _d-claring that the Government and tho AseemWy bad _beendlMolved . They _demaadedarms . It was a mo . ment of Indescribable confusion . Every one teemed to have gone mad . ' Some of these new comers made their way to my cabinet , and announced to me tba formation of a new government . 'Yoa are to be one of tbem , ' hay _axetalmed , — ' come and show _jonraelf to tbe paopW— _« I am ' I _tspUei , ' Prefect of Pctioe here , and when I shall have received orders from a duly constituted government , I -ball theH see how te act ; at present , I must requeit _jott to withdraw . ' I endeavoured to de . tcend the itairosie Into the _court-jard , tkat I might do mybeit to _w-eitabllih order . I . ' pn * on myiaehand took my _labre . and at the moment , I dare lay , cut a _ra as staircasewhich
sorry fi _^ u soldier . On the , was crowded with men demanding arms , one of thsm pointed tj the door ofa hall which _seived as pur arsenal , and exclaimtd 'there ara arms there . ' - 'If you repeat that again . ' I aaid , 'I . ball _pa » * , » word _throughj our body '—U pon tbit ho aid no more ; and with _tbeairiitanoeoftha Republican guard I cleared the ftf _* " _* I gave strict ordera that not a soul thould be _da" _^ unlets hi belonged to _taeeitabliiiment _, under any pre , text whatever . By these means I saved the _^ teewe , which continued under arms all nlgbt . The Fire Brigadeand Guardians wero also armed , and we _eicspea another _tnvaitoa . I wat extremely _aorry _^ hear tbat the preetactt of tba National Asiembly had been violated ; and loudly manlfaited my _dliiatlifaction . A _cerioa whe was aU thU time in my cabinet heard me exclaim ,-. ' Tha aot of . folly that ba » uetn committed this day may _ptrbapi prove a death-blow to the Bepublio . ' ( To be concluded in next Saturday ' s Slar . ) '
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Simmonds a Colonial Magazine . December . London _Si-nmonds and Co ., Barge Yard , Bucklersbury . The' Projected purchase of Cuba by the American Government , ' ia the . subject of one of the principal articles in the present number of this magazine . There can be no doubt that sooner or later tbe Americans will annex Cuba , ' and something mere . ' An interesting article on Arctic Discovery ' tells how the bold Northmen of Scandinavia , discovered and colonised Iceland and Greenland . The ultimate fate of the Norwegian settlers in Greenland , is terrible to contemplate .
It would Bean that the Inhabitants of the most _weitera settlement of the two were * sorely Infested with a wild nation , ' with whom tbey had maintained constant warfare , and on whom they had bestowed the _contemptuoai Wto Of _jBfcrwh _' nji _, M _dwarh , _whloB ta
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ltagtb ended huhtlr total extermination , and tha it - struotlon of tha ooot flooriiblag Colony , Tb » fete of . the _eattern lettlement , was if _podlble , Hill _aioreappsl . ling . _Theieveattenth bishop wai proceeding in IBM ) from Norway , to takepaneisioa of his tea , whoa , _aloasf at tha and ot his voyage , hit wis Stopped by that impasv _s » ble barrier of ice which has from that moment _ibn * ' oat from the werld the unfortunate colonisers' ofE . _sfr Greenland , It li _inppoieo , _bowrver , that the Colony continued to flourish for at least 150 yeart after all com . _munlcatlon with them had ' oeaied , ' _ane , for aught we know to the contrary , Greenland ii net yet wholly _deitttata of its old Norwegian . Inhabitants . '
There are good grounds for believing that centuries before the time of Columbus , the continent of America was discovered by the Northmen of Iceland . It is supposed tbat Newfoundland ' er Labrador was the part visited . There is no authentic information of any settlement having been planted , although recent discoveries in Newfoundland would seem to indicate the remains of an ancient colony . This number contains several ether valuable and interesting articles on colonial and commercial subjects .
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4 Prisoner oi * Stat * . ' — This is the title affixed to a portrait of Mr G . B . Mullins , surgeon , one of the victims of the Powell Ploi . ' The portrait was drawn by another of the victims—Mr W . Dowling , the artist . The friends of the unfortunate young man pronounce tbe portrait an excellent likeness , and we can testify to the superior manner in ¦ which the lithographer has performed his part of the work . Mr Watson , 5 , Queen _' _s-head Passage Paternoster Kow , has kindly consented to act as publisher . The price is a mere trifle . When we add that any profit on the sale will be paid over to the sorrow stricken paren ts of the martyr , we doubt not , that we have said sufficient to induce a large number of our friends and readers to become purchasers of this interesting memorial of one of the latest victims of Whiggerv .
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THE RATIONAL MODE OP PERMANENTLY AND PEACEABLY ADJUSTING THE PRESENT DISORDERED STATE OF EUROPE . ( Concludedfrom our last . ) Law 4 . " All children from their birth shall be under the especial care of the township in which they are born ; but the parents shall have free access to them ut all times . ' *
SEASONS FOB THIS LAW . There are many important causes to render this law necessary . lst . The affections of parents for their own children are too strong for their judgments ever to do justice to themselves , their children , or the public , in the education of their own children , even if private families possessed the machinery , which they never do , to well manufacture character from birth . 2 nd . Children in small numbers can never be p laced within the proper machinery te well form their physical , mental , moral , and practical characters , and make them full formed men and women .
3 rd . The townshi p , as the general parental authority over all , has a much wider and deeper interest in the formation of the character of each child , than , its immediate physical parents ; for the well being , peace , and happiness of the township , and its federative townships , extending to the widest circle , depend upon the character formed for each member of each township .
4 th . A superior rational character can never be formed hy one or two , or a few being trained in a confined p lace and in private . To form a superior and useful character , in man or woman , suitable machinery must be devised ; and every age will require ] at stated intervals , a . change of this machinery , to suit the growth ofthe physical and mental powers , as well as the propensities and other qualities of humanity .
Although the children will not be trained and educated by their parents , as in the present state of society , which unfits them for members of a pure democracy , yet the parents will have free ' access to them at all times , and will see them trained and educated to become , in disposition , habits , manners , temper , and _ludamonfc . an „„ , _* . — :..- t- _a — a — l : _* . —r r— -ii ; formation of character could give , that there would arise a feelinar and consideration between the parents and children very superior to the frequently silly affection aad . desire for injurious partial privileges , on both sides , which are now so common throughout all classes . The present family training well prepares the children to take advantage of all out of their immediate familv circle . But there is no fear
so unfounded , as the writer experienced during thirty years ' practice upon a large scale , as that this new and superior formation of character will weaken the best affections between parents and children . And certain it is , that a pure democratic character can never be given b y family training . Law 5 . ' All the children in the townshi p shall be trained and educated together , as the children of the same family ; and shall be early taught to comprehend the laws of God , and thus learn to know themselves—decidedly the most important of all knowledge .
REASONS FOB THIS LAW . To form superior men and women , they must be trained from their birth alike , without partialities of any kind , and without the desire of being better treated than any others of the same age , or to have anything which all the others have not . All the children ofthe township being trained and educated together , proper machinery for the formation of character may be created upon the scale best adapted to secure the qualities of mind and body most beneficial for the individuals , for the townships , and for the circle of townships , to their widest extent .
But that which will be soon discovered to be the most essential element in the formation of character , is to enable children at an early age to . "know themselves , '' and to comprehend what human nature is » "When they shall be taught to understand the causes of their formation , of their feelings , of their opinions , and of their conduct , they will then "know themselves / ' and what humanity is , through a know _, ledge of the unchanging laws of God . By children being enabled to ascertain this knowledge for themselves , through-an accurate investigation ofthe facts on which the
knowledge is based , their minds will be made rational , wbich no minds have ever yet been ; the necessary consequences of which will be , that all anger , ill-will , envy , jealousy , and every repulsive feeling between themselves , and for the human race will die a natural death * and instead of these evils to man , a new spirit of knowledge , sound judgment } charity , and kindness will be made to pervade the mind and direct the conduct of every one . The laws of man have created every kind of repulsive and irrational feeling from man to man ; the laws of God will change these for feelings the most
attractive and rational , The laws of man create crime , and then punish it in the individual , whose character they have previously formed to commit the crime . The laws of God prevent crime ; and render individual punishment unnecessary , and individual reward unjust . The laws of God early instilled into the mind , and fully understood , will make the individual a rational being ; and then , without trouble _» r expense to society , he will always feel , think , and act rationally ; and thus all the cumbrous machinery and expensive * paraphernalia 8 now most ineffectually applied to prevent crime by
punishment , will be superseded . Every punishment of an individual b y society is a direct crime against the laws of God ; and if there were any justice in punishment , the society , rather than the individual , ought to suffer ; for society has the power to form tho character of the individual , but the individual has not the means to form the qualities of society . Law 6 . " Every _individual shall be encouraged to express his feelings and conviction ? , as by the laws of God he is compelled to have them , and thus to speak the truth onl y on all occasions . ' ' ¦ * REASONS FOR THIS LAW : "While society shall be based and constructed
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on the laws of men falsehood mast be , of necessity , the language of the human race , as it ever has been , and is to this day . These laws are-tbe father of all lies , and the cause of all deception , cunning , and fraud . So long as the causes which render the language of falsehood [ unavoi-iable shall be permitted to form the ¦ _aharaetw and govern the affairs of mankind , it _as-a- waste ef words , most childish and worse thai * usehs » to expect that virtue can be kmvmy or _ehawtypractised . There must be _subottintrfaf _KMWea to produce ciime , falsehood , and _uoohanlafeleness among- men- these causes
are the- ever _^ moralising laws of man . There are eijuaMy certain and fixed causes wbicb can alone ever produce truth , and good and kind conduct itt alL Until the genuine-language of truth 8 ba 31 beeoro & alone the language of mankind , it wiili be most irrational to expect an open , _honesfe character to be formed , or any real _knowledge of humanity attained , while exhibited under the veil of falsehood , in all men and women , as they are now formed by and placed ia society . The world , created by the Jaws of men , has ever been and now is a compound of falsehood , and consequent deception ; and is governed , in
consequence , alone by force and fraud ; the strong ever deceiving , or forcibly oppressing the weak . This state of gross irrationality must continue until the authorities which influence the destinies of nationscan be convinced of the miseries generated by falsehood and deception ; and of the happiness which will arise to all from the language of truth , and the conduct of open , straightforward honesty . Law 7 . "Both sexes shall have equal education , rights , privileges , and personal liberty ; their marriages will arise from the general sympathies of their nature , uninfluenced by any artificial distinctions . "
REASONS FOR THIS LAW . The entirel y new practical arrangement of society , created b y the exchange of men ' s for God ' s laws on the one hand , and by the _iliirni . table progress of science , increasing so enormousl y the power of producing wealth with ease and pleasure , on the other , will render an entire change also necessary in the condition of women , and at once make it the permanent interest of both sexes , that a _iust and
lull equality should be now prepared , that the happiness of both may be largely increased , and be continuall y progressive . In the new constitution , based on the laws of God , this change ia provided for under new arrangements , devised to remove the causes of differences in marriage , which , under the existing system , are innumerable ; scarcel y any will remainnone , indeed , that can destroy confidence and friendship between the parties , should it be beyond their power to retain their feelings of
love . Under the ignorant laws of men no arrangements have been made by any lawgiver in any code extant to unite the sexes without producing more crime and misery than virtue and happiness ; nor can any arrangements be made under those laws which ao unite them _. At this day the hidden vice and misery , false _, hood and _deception , created solel y b y the errors proceeding from men s laws , are most appalling , * and if the sufferings thereby produced especially to the finest formed in body and mind of the female sex , were not thus
hidden , and were made public , they could not be longer permitted if it were known that they are necessary results of false and most injurious _legislation , emanating from the . grossl y mistaken first principles on which the present system of society over the world is alone based and supported . In a pure democracy , there will be no motive to sexual crime , and soon sexual disease will be eradicated from society . Marriages will be formed , as the laws of God unequivocall y direct , at a proper period of life , under such arrangements as will be the most likely to
prevent ill-assorted unions and to insure the greatest permanency of the first natural affections between the parties . As a constitution of pure democracy will incondition through life , according to age and capacity , the field of choice for the parties will be greatly enlarged , and the real character of every one in tha townships will be accuratel y known from birth , through every stage of life , and as the language of the townships will be
alone the language of truth , there will be no deception before marriages , ' . to destroy mutual confidence , as so generally occurs under the present system , after marriage . The law of God is , that humanity is compelled to like or love that which is agreeable or lovel y to the peculiar combination of qualities given by God to each individual at birth , and as cultivated b y society , and to dislike or loathe those qualities which are made to be disagreeable or hateful to the instincts or natural feelings of the samp , individual .
Any arrangements of i gnorant men which contravene tbis universal . and unchanging law of God , are sure to produce physical and mental disease , crime , and misery , to a fearful extent . And , whatever ignorance may say to the contrary , the laws of men have , in every country , in all ages , opposed this law ofnature which changes not ; and , by such irrational opposition to the laws of God , have created and forced upon the human race more disappointment to natural innocent good feelings , more loathsome afflicting diseases , more
unnatural crimes , more murders , more disordered imaginations , and more insanity , than the human mind is capable of full y apprehending , or supposing to be possible , so cautiously are these dreadful evils veiled from public disclosure . The remed y for these diseases of bod y and mind , is to abandon the laws of men on this subject , to stay their endless practical evils—evils often producing , to the female sex especiall y , more agonising mental suffering than their nature can endure ; so that they are compelled to terminate them by suicide .
Who can estimate , who can compress within the limits of the most comprehensive powers of his imagination , tbe extent of the excruciating suffering experienced at this moment , from these ignorant- sexual laws of man attempting to contravene the laws of God ? Those who , through their knowled ge of the anatomy of the human frame , and their professional duties , are necessaril y made acquainted with a small part only of these scourges of deceived humanity , could a tale unfold—were they but placed under circumstances that would permit them to disclose their secret
knowledge—that would appal the stoutest hearts , and make them wonder that humanity has so long endured the irrationality of appearing to be blind to this great insanity , now prevalent throughout the world , but carried to all manner of excesses in large towns , and especially in the most populous cities . Let the inexperienced inquire of the police authorities in London , and other large cities , and of those who have charge of lunatic asylums ; and , if not deterred from speaking out , these persons
can well paint the desolation made of the finest feelings , faculties , and powers of humanity , by the yet untaught authorities of the world blindl y forcing the most unjust and cruel laws of men to govern hitman destinies , instead of the all-wise , good , and most merciful laws of God or nature ; thus making men to be less rational , and less capable of wisely directing their natural instincts than all other animals , who obey no priesthood , but the laws of their Creator . Robert Owen . London , December 1848 .
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8 sme New-York printers talk of establishing aa American newspaper _iflPwis . . . . , , Silk Grown ii Sydney . —An institution hai beea founded at Sydney for the purpose of _promotiog ths produce of-. ilk in New South Wales . A Pr ' _-uwo _Bjan . —Mr Knowlei , of _Wrington , hssin his possession the produce of _oce bean , 100 pods , producing 316 beans . GuiTi PsKcai . —A vessel arrived U « l week from Singapore brought 4294 packages , 710 lumpf , and 10 , 441 blocks of gutta percha . A wheat staok built fourteen _yeats since is now _standing at _Lnsobeiter . iu Durham .
union _uor Sn » s * _, ora . — ' _Uoioa is not slwayif _gtreDjfth , ' as the sailor observed when he _, s * w the purser mixing his rum with water . _HeadQuastbrs . —An officer _bsing intoxicated , att old soldier observed , he waa afraid ( hers was something wrong at ' _haad quarters . ' _M-toi'iawsa Ann- Povetmn . —The number of magistrate * for Stockport is seventeen , the number of policemen eleven . _Lonukvity—There died io Diind-dk lately an old woman , n » med Jane Crolly . who bad attained tho _extrordin & rj age of 111 y « ar » . Impjbtawom or Bos » bjm _<* b .--A vessel arrived . from Hamburgh has brought the large quantity of 300 bundles of horseradish as a portion of net cargo . Cbim * Commiwsb Cibbk . —Mr Peregrine Bird * , succeeds the lite Mr Edward Courten > y as Chief Clerk in the House of Lords .
FtAIUHY like GtJMi . _PsucBA—Flattery is tho gutta purcha of sooiety . The _lowest understanding * are _most capable of receiving it ; but , even then , it will not adhere when it _becomes too warm . _Pehsiokb — Major General Edward Parkinson and Major _General Philip _Bainbridge hara respectively succeeded to the pension of £ 100 ptr annum . Ah _£ oed PiBrr . —A few Sunday- ) niece there _wert five persona attending divine _Btrvice at Di-ewortb , whose united ages amounted to 404 years Cuib _** ih * b _Blsbjiro am > Malkdiciion . —At a _suppr-r held Ust week in this place , by a number of Welchmen , one of the guests , who was a shoemaker , gave the _folloWag toast : — ' Hers his good helth ta my _trate , and to h— with coota pert-ha . _'— _Dtiblire Wierld .
• _Tshkt Lind . — -It is said that tbe munificent _Janny Lind intends to transmit the set proceed * of ber provincial tour , calculated at six thousand pounds , to Stockholm , for the completion of the hospital commenced under her _audioes . A Quick Passage . —Tie North British Ditty Mail states that the _sorew-steamer Fire Queen recently made the passage from Ayr to Glasgow , a distance of Heventy two miles , in four hours and » half , _exolusire of stoppages : the latter part of tha * pa-saga steaming a heavy river current . Opium . —The quantity of opium imporied for ten months , ending 5 th November , 1846 , was 63 . 670 hs ; 1847 , 109 , 275 ! _cs ; 1848 , 100 441 lbs . The quantities charged with duty for home consumption daring the _s » mo periods waa-ia 1846 , 24 276 Ibs ; 1847 , ' 3 & . 85 Blbs tin 1818 _, 50 , 430 _'b _.-.
A few days ago a pensioner , TeBiding-at Carlisle , cut out of his left arm a flattened piece of lead , about the siz * of sixpence , being a portion of a ball whioh shattered the upper bone at the battle - of _Waterlao _, he being at the time in the seventy "third Regiment . Expoiw of Potatoes _tbou Puma _—Cons : d ? rabJi quantities of potatoes , continue to be shi pped for London and Glasgow , and tbe exports of grain consist of 300 quarters of barley aud 200 quarters of _wheat . _—Abrtfam Warder . Runaway _Husbaudb . — -There are at present eighty families dependent upon the _Leicester Union , _whois fathers have deserted tbem , and gone to America or elsewhere , leaving them to be supported at tie public ; _exnense .
Na Go!—At a rf cant sitting of the Chipping Norton County Court , a plaintiff waa told he was ' nonsuited . ' At this he became nonplussed ; and the meaning being explained to him , he at last appeared to comprehend it , and _thoa expressed hia _tranalation of tbe term : — * Oh I no go you mean . ' _Equimb _Suioi 02 . ~ -On Tuesday wet . li a cart hona belonging to Mr Gsor _^ e Trencbard . ef Chard , which wbb fastened to the manger by a chain , hung itself by having got its hind leg over the chain , and ao _pressing the head under the bedy dislocated the neck . —Exeter Gazette . Church _PATBorfAOE . — "Within the last five years the Rev . J . P . Eden has been _presented to four be * neuces in succession , by the Bishop cf Durham . Thd last is Bishop Wearmouta , value £ 2 , 0 x 0 a year I Thus it is the Edecs have greatness iorced upon them ..
• Thb Giobious Uhchbtaisty . '— -At the recent _Herefordshire Quarter Session * , a man _wai acquitted upon a charge of felony , _teoause be was indit ted fM etesling ' Bank note ? , ' in _.-tead of _naming the bank to whioh they belanged , aa th « term ' Bank notes ' only applies to Bank of England notes . _^ _^ . ' l _& J ? _5 _^ Hi . S _^ B _A _^ T ' _^ -5 aJ of _tie name of named Bourke , near Castleconneli . B-Jurke caught the deoeased-in tbe act of stealing bis turnip . * , and struck him with a two-handed wattle on the need , which immediately deprived him of life . These aots of murderous barbarity are now becoming very
common . Ohb op tub Honebt _Jhkt Oiasv—A _secure of sweets , or bon-bons , was made lately in the market of Montrose , wbicb , on examination , were found to oontain forty-five per cent , of flour , _eighteen per cent , of platter of Paris , and oa ! / thirty-seven of sugar . The whole stock wss immediately thrown into the river , and tbe confeotioner is to be further punished . Ancibnt Goidbh Bbacbirt 8 . — -Tho Gr . r . Bs states that a golden bracelet worth about £ 20 . which is thought to have been _deprsited at the time of the conflict ( between the Romans and the boss of the British King _Cunobelin , _wsb lately found by a ploughman on the estate of Mr B . Fox , near Wendover , Bucks , and is to ba presented to the British Museum .
A mw Catholic _Chpbch —Tbe rpening of the new Roman Catholic church , Liverpool , took place on Monday week . This edifice has' been upwards of three yeara in coarse of erection , and is tbe first in Liverpool in connexion with the order of the _Jssuita . The building , which is an exdeedirgly Urge one , will coat , when completed , upwards of £ 30 009 . Pohoh at thb _AnTipoDES . —Recent accounts irom tbe antipodes announce the face that the cultivation of opium has been commenced in the distriot of Western Australia , with present _aucces * . of no mean amount , and a prospect of an important _festnre arising thereby at ns distant period in the growing trade of our colonial empire in that part of tho word . The quality ia rcnor _' ed ii be _renr high
Patent Stbkl Pbnb — In the use of tbe beat steel pens the nibs are constantly undergoing oxidation , weir to a fine point , acd in a short time become useless , _Drs _BaWington and Spurgin _hzve taken eufc a patent fer the application ot ' a piece ef zino to tha nib , whereby a galvanic action takes place , and tho zino alone being destroyed , the nib ofthe p . n ii worn only to the extent of tha { notion _omsionec . in _writing A _soientifio acquisition bas just been made by M . Andrand , the engineer , so well _known by his works and experiments on oompresBed sir . At tbe _i-hop of & dealer in _second-hand articles , he _riiacorercd and
purchased tbe electrifying maohme—still , Bfter a lapse of nearly oij * bty years , ih an excellent state of preservation—ot Benjamin Franklin , wbioh is _supposed to have been made at Philadelphia . Cobx tob tub _TooiHiena . —Takea piece of sheet zinc , about the siza cf a sixpence , and a piece of silver , say a quarter of » dollar , place them _together , and hold tbe defective tooth _between or coptiguou' to them ; in a few minutes the pain will be gone as if by magic The zino and silver acting as a galvanio battery , will produce on tbe _serves of the tooth sufficient _eleotricity io establish a current , and consequently to relieve tbe pain .
A Miitakb . — - A humorous error took place ua I love affair at Philadelphia . A couple of yenns * folks : s agreed to elope together , and by some atrange mistake . e in the preliminary arrangement , the male lover put it his ladder up to tbe window next to that where his is sweetheart slept , which prored to be that where her it mamma , a handsome widow , reposed . Sh » turned id the mistake to her ad vantage , got _ints his arms , re- eturned his embracea , was borne by him to the car- . rris > ge , and by preserving a becoming silence until til daylight , kept hira in einr , and then , by the be potent power tf her _blandishmeuis , aotually charmed ed him into _motrimony _nish herself .
_pKOVBgsioifAi . Toast * . —At a town in Derbyshire , re , south of Wirksworth , tbe clerk and sexton ef ef the parish ohurch were , a few days _ain « e , each pre- _e-Bented with a half sovereign : the former , as bis fee ' ee for having officiated at a _ohristeninf * : the latter , for for hit services at an interment . A jollification followed ed the same evening , when , among otber toasts patriotic , io , _oonviml , and sentimental , the clerk arose and with . ith . an expression of countenance indionting the moat 03 t unbouaded philanthropy , ( gave ' May Prorideaoe toe speedily increase our poou ' ation , ' t ) wbich the maa ian of spades and _mattrtki , with a grave looking ing face becoming the sentiment he wai abwt to give ivo utterance to , proposed as an _aiuendiSBot , ' Asd . may nay tbe same Providence speedily send them all to to rest . '
_Sdmbthino WoNDSRPDi' .--Thee 5 ibihis _Jareckt . a i . a Pol ' nb refugee , states , _through the SrjN / th & t be has has i made a _disoavery in tbe sciences , ol the greatest im- im- parlance to mankind , and , feeling certain of tbat tbat i importance , he desires _tomako it pubic . He wishes sues i to communicate it to a oompany of the learned , tfj , to I w : om ho will _. he says , bo prep- ted ' to demon 8 trate _, rate by irrevocable preefs _, the univer * sl . « y _¥ tem-th ' a two two > _extreaes—infinity—oau-e * primitive ot iho _dilTer-iiTer . euco of the sexes—of mirage—of _tlet trioity , —heat—tatlight—magnetism—he nature and form & _tiaa of _thef thee celestial bodies—prinoiple of life—causes of choleta ; era ;; in fact , he will ' give solutions to _allphen-menafiena * , whiclH until _now _» nere _ccnaide-fid tho , _taj-A-Mta _tikti t _* science . '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 16, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16121848/page/3/
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