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" THE PROMISE OF THE _PRESENT . " _£ The following lines are extracted from apoem ¦ bearing the above title , and which was delivered before the Philalathean Society of Hanover _College , Indiana , nt the annual commencement , August 17 , 1 S 4 _G , by W . T . Galhigher . The prediction of the poet has already been partially realized ; the complete fulfilment- is to come—come it _tw'H . ] - Have we not paltered , trifled , slept ? Are we prepared to do , or dare , Por ri ght , for conscience , for the fires Of Freedom , what they dared , and did , our noble sires ?
The Pieomisk of lire Present ! Hour by hour Isee the _tr ngrowing of a perilous pow _' r , whose mightiest energy , whene ' er it come , Will strike ihe pale and startled nations dumb . Not here—not here alone , Pants the torn bosom for a better day , But wheresoe _' er the light of truth hath shown , In the Old World away . Patiently , well and long Tie many for the few hare _toil'd in sweat , — "Nor deeming rightly ofthe accursed wrong , But feeling that not j / ct Had come the day of reckoning and -wrath . But now beside the lone and desolate path Of slave and peasant , —where the nee-swamps spread , _<> where his bone and crust the Chartist hath , Or where Hibernia ' s sons in bondage tread .
Or by the Danube ' s icy wave , or where The dnsky Syrian roves with bosom bare , — Wftere ' er a proud and trampled spirit bleeds , A desperate purpose nerves for desperate deeds ; And outraged millions , rising from the dust , Place in on-iookin * HeaYn their hope , their _trust And pant to mingle in that glorious fi ght , "Which shall beat down the "Wrong—lift tip the Right . The Toiee of Senates , and the breath of Kings , Order and law , shall then . be fragile things , — For , as Serce tempests , lashing as tbey sweep Tumultuous billows on the sounding "Deep , Strike down the mi ghtiest fleets , and scatter wide The proudest armaments its waves that ride , — So human passions , of terrific birth , Shall & wcep and desolate the broad green Earth , Until the fight be fought , and victory won , And Equal Justice smile on all beneath the sun .
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SONNET . ( From the _JJcasoner . ) To the memory of Count Louis Bathyany , murdered at Pesth , on the Sth of October , 1819 , by order of Marshal Haynau , accused of having been infidel to the Emperor of Austria and faithful to the People of Hungary . Thou art our brother now : —The manifold And cruel sins inflicted by thy race , Patrician , upon ours , shall have no place Hereafter in our minds : bat in the fold Of our rough hearts , in which arc nursed the old And sacred fires , there shall be lasting trace Of thy proud name—which time shall not erase "Nor future wrongs freeze in Oblivion cold . Tor thou hast died beneath tbe fangs of those , 'Twcen whom and ns is natural , deadly strife , The _Wood-Gorged , pr iest-crowned , Anarchs , OUT fell foes .
Thus , by thy death , which vindicates thy life , Installed in tbat Companionship , art thou , Of those who suffer—We are _bredtren now . _EncESE
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THE ILLUSTRATED ATLAS AND _MQDERN HISTORY OF THE WORLD . Edited by B . _MosTGOHEEr _ATartix , Esq . Parts XII ., XIIL , XIV , and XV . London : J . and F . Tallis , 100 , St , John-street . These parts of the Illustrated J Has contain maps of 'England and "Wales , ' ' Scotland , ' « Holland , ' 'Europe , ' United States / ' Turkey in Asia / 'Syria , * ' and'Asia , '—all most faithfully and beautifully executed . The letter-press , though condensed into small space , contains a mass of valuable , statistical , and general information . When completed the Illustrated Atlas will be . of great value as a ¦ work of reference .
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The Beasoner . Edited hy G . J . Holyoake . Parts XXXEL , XL ., XLL , XLU . London : J . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster Row . These Parts constitute the first four of a newseries of the Beasoner . To Reformers who agree with Air . Holyoake in his fullest assertion of the right of private judgment , hut -who dissent from some of his views on theology & c , this publication will be more attractive than it - was In times past , when it was more polemical and less political than it is at present . It is pleasant to see a teacher of progress progressing ; a sight not always to he met with .
The orations , articles , & c , on the death of Henry HeUierington _, form a striking feature of £ he Parts under notice . The report of Mr . Coo per ' s " Funeral Eloge " contains an interesting summary of the eventful history of the true and tried patriot who commenced his public career as the Poor Man ' s Guardian , and ended his mortal race while occupying the sacred position of a faithful and p hilanthropic Guardian ofthe Poor .
Although Henry Hetherington had esperi-¦ enced many trials and misfortunes , he had also had his victories ; and in his death he was signally fortunate in leaving behind him faithful and talented friends , willing and able to do justice to his memory . The admiration ofthe readers of theReasaner must be paid both to the deceased patriot , and to those who so "worthily dedicated their talents to vindicate his reputation , and make known his claims to the eratitude of his countrymen . In these Parts will be found a scries of abl y written articles by a writer who takes the
signature of "Eu gexe ; " his articles combine with the enthusiasm of youth , that solidity which usually belongs only to those of mature awe and experience . The articles of this \ vriter on continental politics and thc Factory Question arc worthy of special commendatiOD . Other writers mig ht be singled ont for notice , _ _we will name only one , W . J . Lixxox—the Murat of the Beasoner corps . Mr . _Lisiox is nofriendof ours , but that shall notpreventus
_thanking him for his chivalrous and untiring pleading for the Romans , Hungarians ,, and other " oppressed nationalities , " against the cruelties , and crimes , and treacheries , and hypocrisies of Tsar , and Kaiser , and perjured president , and palavering Palmerston , and r ) ettifo _«< nng , p itiful peaccmongcrs . If we may for the moment adopt a vulgar but expressive _^ _ericanisin , _vhich , indeed has become pretty _veil _An-Ufied _, _—we " go the whole hog" with W . J _.-Lixtox against all and sundry of his _^ _nrmpnfs . in his manly vindication of those
who havedared to draw the sword for Liberty and Justice ; and his equally praiseworthy denun ciations of aU who hare been _parties—dire _cay or _isdirecflv—**> _& c temporary overthrow of the brave and suflering patriots of the continent ' The following article , b y a writer with a _sisnaturc unknown to fame , is briefly as well as eloquently written ; two reasons for quoting it entire : — THE STOXE BREAKER . , _DiiicatiJ , _tiMotd permits , ™ , to tie _Fnoids cf Order .
Tt would seem that the wrongs ofthe labourer will _.. iprbe redressed . Many things are brought to _^ _fboth _Sofandevil , but he still lives uncertain _^ _henioUw lhis means of existence constantly in were ; bur , Ji ke jno " cll bas been _accom-;™ n _^ r « i _« t _™ _tment . He shll _gather the sinau wmie
_„„ _Kted-bandfnl from tho half-barren rocR _Lfe oppressor consumes the produce of _fat-mea-STwed lands and fertile valleys . He stdl shanks to the da * at the frown of affluence-besotted , twofaced aiSocnce , who promises him _soimueh , . and eiyes S so Btle ; who smiles on him when he is needed , _> a fmvrns on him when he is not needed . _fpS frow-b eaten , broken-hearted fellow ; for Uom _tlJ ™ "bt of science shineth not ; to whom art _gfcSwn ; whose being , from _^ . _^ cradle to the Hire is < = brv . naeam darkness and despair , let me _fe _^ _eT Alas ! that face , it should be in bar _iony and proportion , but itis low and deformed
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That body should be erect , and full of force and life , but itis bowed down and spiritless ? I should-be comely and well c ! othi-d , bnt it is filthy and ragged ! Dear friends of order , look on hira ; do not at least contemn him , for be has been , all through this pittiless winter day , breaking stones to make smooth the road that yonr carriage wheels might glide along smoothly . Look on him ; if you do not , he will not mach need it ; for he is uot like the l & zzaroni you may have encountered in your travels . He will not crawl , whine , and beg for a little charity . Look on him , and fear not . He has a very _unpleasing countenance , it is true ; but it does not brood murder , as you might well suppose . Itis the expression of despair which his visage always wears when , as is the
case now , his children at the hovel yonder have eaten np seven days' food by the end ofthe fifth . He calls it being " eaten « ut cf house and home I" You should visit that which he calls bis house and home . You should see his wife and children ; endeavour to spy in upon them without their _knowledge . You would then be bitter able to form a true notion of them . You might then be led to think some means might be provided to make their condition less dreadful . It might so strike you . When the children sobbed and screamed for bread , you might think they needed and ought to hare ofit : and seeing the mother sunk down , exhausted , on her bed of straw , with the squallid infant at her breast , you might , from your knowledge of nature , be convinced tbat she sank down for want of proper
nourishment . Friends of order ! if the smallest particle of the labourer ' s heart be good ; if there be left inbjm aught of parent or husband , if the fell sco urge , povtrty _, has not bereft him entirely of his common nature , be _cannot quietly endure a sight like this . If nobility , the boasted attribute of humanity , ever were his , to what a worthless dreg it must be reduced I If he were ever clothed in native majesty , it Las Ion * been displaced by infamy . But we will return to him . "We left him breaking stones ' on . the Queen ' s highway . " : ""'' ;
There _ he is , all alone , _unheeded and ' _unpitied , plying his sledge-hammer with what strength-he has left . He seldom lifts his head , except , perchance , as some one of your wealthy famines , lounging in their carriage , rash past him . The night is already set in—cold , piercing winds and drenching rains , that nil his bones with aches and cramps , are gathering all around . Alas ! poor labourer , whither will he go ? Your splendid villas , oh , friends of order ! adorning the hill , side along the road , are aU lit up with fire , and candle , and lamp . It is your dinner hour . Savoury roast meats and choice wines load you tables , and the laugh and the jest , soft music , and graceful song are yours . But what is all this feasting and merry-making , to the starving labourer , but a mockery and a taunt ? What but a demonstration that you have won the victory ? What but tbe manifestation of the fact , tbat by you he bas been despoiled ?
He goes towards hi 3 wi e and children who are anxiously awaiting his approach . His way lies through the dark lane . Oft he stumbles in tbe unseen ruts , knee deep in mud and water , made by the waggon wheels , Clogged is every step he takes , and ofthe _well-nish sinks in despair , for thc fiend , hunger , has not been idle with hira . " Quit thy muddy path , " the fiend whispers in his ear , " there is the rich man's garner , taketby fill , poor man , and thy necessities be thy justification . " The lock is broken , the store gained , the sack is filled , and the deed done !
| Friends of order ! you know the rest . You will sit in judgment upon him for this ; and , with one voice , cry " away with him into slavery . ' " Look on this picture , oh , friends of order ! consider it ; and then ask yourselves whether all this machinery , this order of which yoir are the pillar and capital—this church , parliament , throne , country b / _rase _, Sessions-house , and model prisonmight not be made to produce some result for the labourer less _hiteful to humanity than this his present lot—a so-called independent manhood , without recompense , without comfort , with the gaol on the one hand and the poorhouse on the other—and an old age , for those who reach it , of discomfort , disrespect , and hopelesswretchedness . What you are required to do , let it be said , is to be done for justice , not for charit y _^ You are required to make paupers men , not men paupers . Christopher .
Were we captiously inclined we might pick a good many holes in the pages of the Beasoner , but there is one good reason why Ave should forbear : the matter we disapprove of bears but a small proportion to that which has our full approbation . Though not a flattering , this is an honest tribute to the merits of ( the new series of ) the Beasoner .
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The _XJxbridge Sp irit of Freedom .. Conducted by Wokking Men . No . VIII . November . London : Watson , QueenVhcad Passage . This number ofthe Spirit of Freedom is , like its predecessors , rich in the eloquence of truth outpoured in the defence of Liberty and Justice . Our friends Massey , _Uymtli ,, and others , abate nothing of their vigour ; on the contrary , they seem to progress in strength as they advance in the work of their mission . The following extracts will exhibit the spirit ofthe articles from which they are selected : —
THS TRIUMPHS OF LABOUR . Labour is glorious , it has changed the savage glen into a fruitful , civilised country , and covered it with countless monuments of art ; it was the . labour of countrymen that bas given Britain her illustrious position among the nations , and won fur her tbe proud boast tbat tbe sun never sets upon her dominions . Our countrymen , by their labour , have built our Londons , our _Manchester , our Birminghams , with all their magnificent churches , splendid mansions , gorgeous palaces , institutions , asylums , hospitals , noble balls , schools , aud stately athenaeums , mechanics' institutes , & c- They have sweated at the forge , and swelted at the furnace , and experimentalised in the foodies garret : they have given us the
printing press , the steam engine , the telegraph ; they have laid all nature under tribute to do our bidding , made God ' s lightning our messengers ; at our command the leviathan steam engine starts with the strength of a thousand horses in his iron sinews , and draws passengers and merchandise at the rate of forty mile * an hour ; they have almost superseded manual labour , and , in many instances , entirely ; by . machinery they have filled the pocket ' s of the rich , and rendered the poor poorer ; they have created another aristocracy , more odious and more powerful than the feudal one , one ever ready to coin their treasures out of the heart ' s bkod of the toiler , by crushing hb
energies and destroying his independence for ever . Our countrymen have bought , by the pangs of their sore travail , every gem in the bauble crown which rests on the brow of England's queen , her bed , the silken hangings and golden trappings of her throne , her palaces , her propertv , all have been wrung from the sinews ar . d hones of labour ; the men who have filled our armies and armaments , marched over burning plains , and ploughed the raging seas , conquered Hindostan , and won Trafalgar , have sprang from the ranks of labour ; aud such are some of labour ' s gland achievements ; and yet , with all our victories we are slaves—the slaves of monarchy , of _eristocracy , of priestcraft , of bad laws , and of ignorance .
We have not room to extract from the articles on Organisation , & c , & c ., —very ably and boldly written . We conclude this notice with the following spirited sentences addressed
TO 1 AMARTIXE . You may set yourself up to be the counsellor of the people , M . de Lamartine , but you are not the manyonr soul has a sublime sneaking for royalty , even to the lip-worship of tbat offal remains of the empire-Louis . Napoleon ; you might have breathed the breath of life into tbe repu blican present ; you have been the murderer of the future : you might have guided the free steps of a happy people up the transfiguring mount of the To-Gome . You have left them dragging the car of misery in thc ruts of past generations , misery is within their-walla , misery is _wiihiu their hearts , and instead of bidding their little ones to love all men as brothers , the torch of revenge is lighted , a mist of blood is in their eyes , it is the blood of their brothers of Rome , of Paris , of _Itadstadt , aud Vienna ; and they bequeath to them the bloody heritage of retribution—retribution that will arise , stalk forth from the graves ofthe dead , and cholera-like , avenge their wrongs upon the peace of the living .
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Reynold ' s Political Instructor . Edited by Gr . W . M . _"UeyjjoIjDS . London : J . Dicks , 7 , Wellington-street North . We have to welcome a new publication devoted to the instruction of the people , and the advocacy of their rights . We g ive the Editor ' s opening article in fall : — THE REVIVAL OF A _TTOBKIXG-CIASS AGITATION . The history of nearly every moral agitation and of every movement accomplished by means of physical force , shows that after the immediate object has been cither partially or wholly gained , the middle classes
have reaped the greater advantage , and the toiling millions havei ' seen thdr own material interests neg lected—their wrongs unredressed—tlieir rights unrecognised—and tbeir claims disregarded . In a wo ; d , ihey have been cheated with the shadow , while the middle classes bave grasped thesubstance . Then , too , tbe middle classes have proclaimed the necessity of desisting from any further agitation , on the plea tbat absolute tranquillity becomes necessary for the revival of trade ; and if the working classes have persisted in continuing tbe agitation , they have been denounced as disturbers ofthe peace—inveterate mal contents—and incorrigible foes to order , —while mid-
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dle-class juries have been called upon to become the media of dealing forth the vengence of sanguinary and barbarian laws . It is indeed a painful -fast that the middle classes have too often proved themselves as hostile and as oppressive as- the Aristocracy towards the industrious millions;—and _theiefoi-ethe sons and daughters of toil must at least be upon thiir guard , if not actually animated with suspicion , whenever they are called upon to give their adhesion to a political movement which originates with the middleclasses .
Of all such movement ? which have taken place within the present century , that of the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association appears to offer tbe best guarantees for sincerity of purpose , unflinching determination , and breadth of fundamental principle ; and in n . y opinion it deserves the strenous support of all true patriots and honest Reformers . But as the objects of that Association are defined and limited , it must necessarily expire when its mission is accomplished ; and as the working classes demand more than it undertakes to procure for them , a well organised agitation should at least be in embryo , if not in actual existence , to perpetuate the moral struggle of democracy against class legislation and of right against wrong , until the full measure of reform be obtained and the regeneration of society be accomplished .
Moreover , for the reasons allleged at the outset , the working classes must be careful how they compromise their claims by throwing themselves heart and soul _luio a movement which is _professedly instituted to obtain for them less than the amount of those claims . They should support that movement to the utmost of their power : but they should not , by abandoning a legitimate agitation within their own sphere , lead the world to suppose tliat they have enteredinto any compromise to take less than all ! they were wont to claim . They shonld assume ttr . it imposing attitude which seems to say to the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association , " "We go with you hand-in hand as far as you are _travelling , because our journey lies along the same road : but we tell you honestly and frankly
beforehand that we do not intend to stop at tbe same mile-stone where you propose to halt , inasmuch as _wearehoand to _trareion to the end . " For it cannot be for a moment admitted nor tolerated that any Association organised by the middle classes shall settle the privileges and define the rights of the working classes . ¦ Indeed , if any one section of the community ought to hare the power of establishing the nature and equilibrium of the governmental and administrative institutions , that section assuredly consists of the industrious millions , who are not only tbe numerical majority , bnt are likewise the origin of all wealth and the producers of everything necessary for tbe support and enjoyment of life . ) Again , the working classes have much to agitate
for , in which they do not receive any sympathy from the middle classes . I especially allude to the rights of labour , the evils of competition , the measures regulating the periods of labour in factories , and all the varied grievances of coal-miners-, stockingers _, cutlery manufacturers , potters , weavers , agricultural labourers , & c . die . But I need not enter into any detail of all those points on which there now exists a war to the knife between those wbo work and those who give work—between those whose capital is money and those whose capital is _labour—between those who revel in luxury and those who starve . It is sufficient for the present purpose to know and to feel that inasmuch as a vast proportion of the wrongs and sufferings of the working classes emanates directly from
the avarice , injustice , neglect , and ignorance of the middle classes , it is useless to look for total redress to this latter section of .. society . No middle-class movement , therefore , can ever lead to results calculated to give entire satisfaction to the working classes ; and this fact constitutes perhaps the strongest argument that can be advanced to show the necessity of the . working classes maintaining an incessant , but peaceful and _constitutional agitation of their own , deqrite of and in addition to any other agitation which may bs concurrently instituted by the middle classes . That an union between the two classes is most desirable , no one will attempt to deny : but an union canuot possibly be otherwise than transitory so long as the one clas 3 is resolute on _stopping at a certain defined point and the other is equally determined to push the work of progress on to the extent indicated alike by reason and justice . Thus , an union between
the two classes may now take place , under the auspices of Sir Joshca _Walmslby , with a view to wrest from a reluctant Ministry certain measures of reform : but _when-once that point shall have been gained , the coalition must inevitably cease—one party _nlapsinginto quiescence , and the other still magnanimouslv toiling on in the cause of progress . A trite simile will not be here out of place . The millions are starving and exclaim , " We have no bread ! " Forth come certain individuals of the middle-class , saying , " We will agitate in order to obtain you half a loaf . " To this the working-classes should reply , " f We will certainly join you in the endeavour to obtain that half-loaf , because it is better than none : but _inasmuch as the whole loaf is oar just right and what we have always claimed , we shall peipetuate the agitation , vtitfi or without you , until we have obtained it . "
To my mind the various arguments which I have thus ventured to throw together , are conclusive in showing the necessity of a revival of that workingman ' s agitation which under the good old Saxon name of Chartism has already more than once convinced a tyrannical oligarchy that the millions feel their wrongs and have become impatient under them . And tbat the demands of the working-classes may be fully understood , —and that they may stand forth in juxtaposition with any petty concessions which a fri ghtened Ministry may within a short time be _disposed to grant . —I think that these demands should be recorded as follows : — 1 . Universal Suffrage . 2 . Vote by Ballot .
3 . Annual Parliaments . 4 . Equal Electoral Districts . 5 . Paid Representatives . 6 . No Property-Qualification . 7 . The Recognition ofthe Rights of Labour . 8 . The Abolition ofthe Law of Primogeniture . It will be seen that two principles are here added to those contained in the noble document called the People ' s Charter ,: and I thus annex them because the events of 1848 brought one of them so pro ' - miuently before the eyes of the world , and because the other is so intimately connected with the causes of the wide-spread pauperism existing in this country . For the Rights of Labour may bo summed up in the axiom that " there should be a fair day ' s wage lor a fair day ' s work ; and that every man able and wilting to -Kovk , should have work found for him . " As for the Law of Primogeniture , it is abhorrent to those principles of common justice and common sense
which proclaim that" tbe earth belongs first uf all to those who are upon it ; and that every one is entitled to receive a subsistence from the earth , before any one individual has a right to more . " But the laws of entail , of mortmain , and primogeniture , instituted for the purpose if retaining wealth in particular chaimels have been ably defined as measures that " prevent the natural circulation of property-obstruct the coming _together of land and useful Labour—and OF thus hindering the production of food from advancing at the same rate as the production of people , spivad pauperism and misery over the face of the country . " I have now stated my opinions in behalf of a revival of a working man ' s agitation ; and I have recorded the principles on which I think that agitation should be based . Bat I must emphaticall y declare that 1 contemplate only a legal and constitutional agitation , —adopting those means and having recourse to tho _= e expedienis which are comprised within the mcanim ? or the terra— " Moral Force . "
Sir Joshua Wauisley , the Member for Bolton , mu 9 t now be considered the Leader of the Middle Class Movement , This' gentleman is thoroughly _hon'standan undoubted _Liberal ' _TXindeed , he himself has admitted in the admirable speeches which h « bas delivered at recent public meetings ,, that hegoes beyond the _principleset forth ill the " profession of faith" promulgated by the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association . ' Sir Joshua is a man of business-habits , shrewdness , tact , and indomitable perseverance : he is straightforward in his character and . his speeches ; snd his acquaintance with the real . wants and interest of the masses is apparent in the mode in which he addresses them from the platform . His votes in Parliament have always been on the right side ; and it should be recorded that he was one of the fifteen who sunported _Jlr . O'Connor ' s motion for the . People ' s Charter last session
Mr . Feargus 0 Coxxor , the Member , for Nottingham , is the Leader of the Working Class Move ment . To the cause of the sons of toil lie has devoted the best years of his life : day-and night has he sewed ttem with energy , fidelity , and intelligence ;—and the best proof of his patriotism is to be found in the feet tbat he has _beenimweariedlv , shamefully , and atrociously maligned by the illiberal portion of the public press and by the upholders of existing abuses . Him whom the people love , the Aristocracy are certain to hate * ,-and therefore the hated of the Aristocracy and of that large portion of the press which the Aristocracy can command , is sure to be a man whose talent , integrity , and influence are an object of dread on the rart of despots . _Geohge W . hi . RKV . vor . ns .
Ably-written articles on the " "Wants and Claims ofthe Miners / ' " Universal Suffrage , " "the Aristoeraeracy , " "tho People , " & c , together -with Chapter I . of "A 1 _$ QW History of England" will be found in this number , which is also embellished with woo _? I-cut portraits of Sir Joshua Wawisiey , M . P ., and Feakgus O'Connor , M . P . An exceedingly cheap and good pennyworth of political information ; this publication gives promise of a long and successful _cftYGCr .
5 _^ - Since the above was put into type we have received No . II ., which we observe contains valuable articles on Chartism ( by the
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Editor ); "The Monopoly of the Land ;'' " The rise and progress of Human Slavery / ' "Lord John in the Lion ' s Skin , " && , & c , together with a life-like portrait of Mr . Q . Thompson , M . P . for the Tower Hamlets .
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The Champion of what is true and right for the good of all . Ashton-under-Lyne : Hobson , Old-street , Manchester : Heywood , _Oldham-street ; and John Heywood , Deansgate . This publication , at once "R adical and Religious in its tone , is devoted to the cause of the Factory Workers . It appears to he under the influence—and , perhaps , the editorship—of the llev . J . R . Stephens . Amongst other contributors , we observe the esteemed name of Richard Oastlek , who has contributed to the first number an article on * The Politics of Christianity . '
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Davids Sli ng at the State Church Goliath , by Geokge Hows . London : W . Strange , 21 , Paternostor-row . Mr . Howa d edicates his " Sling" to the Right _Egv . Father in God , the Lord Bishop ot Lincoln after the following manner : — How dare your Spiritual Lordship call yourself a minister ot the reli gion of Christ ? If Jesus were at this moment to demand an account of your stewardship , how blanched would your cheek become ! \\ here would you hide your guilty head ? Surrounded
as you are by all the paraphernalia of infidelity to the meek and lowly Jesus ; to wit , your purple and tine linen , your palaces , your equipages , your luxuries , your immense wealth ; surrounded as you are by all these unmistakable evidences of your infidelity , do you ever think of the roan of sorrow and _acquainted with grief , who had not where to lay his head ? Do you ever dream of the poor English heathens by whom you are surrounded , and whom you rob to maintain _yourself in your infidel splendour ?
The character ofthe " Sling " may he understood by the following ( not very smooth ) stone , flung at
PRIESTS AND _BOtBRS . Be not deceived by their soft words , their sublime prayers , their imposing ceremonies , their loud protestations , their eloquent- discourses ; I declare to you , that in spite of all these external appearances to lead the people astray , they know and believe in their heart of hearts that it ' s all a mummery—a stage play —a make-believe , to " awe and govern" the people , and line their own pockets . This is as true as that God has ordained , that they , for their hollowness , iniquity , and pride , shall be speedily annihilated . Bravo , David ! " U p , and at them !"
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SUNSHINE AND SHADOW ; A TALE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . BV THOMAS ' MARTIN WIIEKIER , Late Secretary to the National Charter Association and National Land Company . CnXPtm XXXII . She was a thing like thee , that seemed Almost too glorious for desire ; Aud all of which romance had dreamed , Tamed all that passion meant to fire . Look round—and where the bright—the holy—• The dawn-star ! fallen from the skies ! And after vice and craftier folly , Where nobler natures weep—despise .
In that false world to which thou ' rfc chained , Who sins not is too tame to reign ; And custom in an hour hath gamed , What vice for age had stormed in vain . And duller , colder sins shall mar The gloss upon thy spirit ' s pinion ; This sorcerer world but makes the star It most invokes , the most its minion . And all thc pleasures which possess theo But dim thy heart while they caress thee ; And truth will lose her virgin beauty ; And art shall mould itself to duty ; And all that fashion bids thee follow , Leave love foresworn and friendship hollow . I would not meet thee when some years
Have taught thy heart how folly sears , And trifles now so tempting fluttered Away the youth they but embittered , When all our fancies most adore , Cling round that joyous form no more . Lytton Bulwer . The clock has just struck eight , the night is cold and dri 2 zling , the wind sweeps in fitful gusts through the streets , and is heard moaning as though in grief _at-nature ' s desolation ; in the parks of St . James and Hyde , tho region around seems dull and untenanted , but it is hi g h noon in Belgrave-square , — gilded lacqueys are hurrying to and fro , the carriages are setting down their richly dressed occupants at a mansion whose blazing lights and
bustling appearance seem to indicate that some unusual revelry ' sinking place within ; two policemen are at the door to keep order among the rival servants , each asserting their owner ' s claims for place and precedence ; the stately groom of the _chambers is bawling the names of thc titled visitors as they are ushered into tho splendid suite of rooms ; the mistress ofthe mansion , the beauteous Clarence Fitzherbert , now Lady Maxwell , is busily employed in receiving her guests , and going through tho routine of aristocratic ceremony ; how changed from the _pure-hoarted g irl of our former chapters , —the simplicity of girlhood no longer hangs around her , she has emerged into tho blaze of resplendent womanhood , —she is the fashionable leader of the ton , —the
cynosure of all eyes , and thc admired talisman that attracts a thousand beating hearts , —her brow seems loftier , though paler , than of yore , and her voluptuous form , attired in all thc splendour of lace and jewels , seems to dazzle the beholder , yet a careful scrutiny of her countcnanco would show to the most inapt observer that all is net peace under that gay exterior , —her eye no longer swims in thc liquid light of unafibcted happiness , —her footsteps have not the lightness of their former tread , —her gaze , when unoccupied with receiving the meaningless compliments of the gay flutterers who surround her , is absorbed and vacant , —she is the splendid mistress of a gorgeous mansion , not the loved wife of a happy home . _^ Her husband , Walter North , now a peer of
thc realm , has been elevated to the Upper House with the title of Lord Maxwell , as a reward for his subserviency , to the Whig Cabinet ; his quondam friends and supporters , tho Corn Law League , occasionally receive his support , but in all essential respects he has become a mere tool of tho ruling faction ; his services arc ever at tlieir command , and his mediocre abilities better suited to the dull region ofthe Peers than to the more active arena of tlie so-called House of Commons ; his father-in-law and the Earl of Atfcringham are both immured in the tomb of tlieir ancestors , and in right of his lad y he has become possessor of their extensive domains ; his career has been one complete gleam of sunshine ; the height of his aspiring hopes has been attained ,
and his whole soul glories in his success , still his happiness is not without alloy : his lady has twice brought him a son and heir , but death has claimed tliem as his prey , and his ambition frets and chides itself , that whilst every cottage on his extensive domain is crowded with starving children , whose parents waste their strength in vain efforts to support them , whilst his baronial hall , where more food is wasted than wonld supply the wants of the whole hamlet , is destitute of a child t © share its plenty , or transmit thc honours of the lord to succeeding generations . - Marrying from motives of pvide and ambition—destitute of the genuine feeling of lOYC , — when a fow short months had passed , passion was exchanged for satiety , —home ceased to have charms
in his eye ; used to the active pursuits of trade he could not enact the simple hut dignified part of a country gentleman , and thc retirement of Newland Hall ( for the fond father had insisted upon their living with him whilst in the country , ) was too'irksome a restraint to be long endured by one whose every wish had hitherto been gratified . Attendance to his parliamentary duties being a valid excuse , his home was but seldom visited , and speedily quitted , without any symptoms of regret , and his once flattered bride , the lovely Clarence , , in the depth of her heart was forced to admit that she had pledged her affections to ono who was careless of the value of the offering ; vainly did she try by evef-y solicitude in her power to charm back his wayward heart , but
immersed in business or pleasure , he heeded not her attractions ; and love for her father , whose declining health would not permit his removal to London , still kept tliem estranged from each other until the death of Lord Fitzhcrbert , when they removed to their town establishment in Belgravesquare . Devotedl y attached to her father , Clarence mourned his loss with no common grief , —he was to her a doar companion and a sincere friend , —and when bereft of him-she felt still more keenly the unkindness of her husband ; but once introduced into town life , the novelty of the scene—the glitter and refinement . with , which , she . was surroundedawakened the dormant _passions of her soul , and she
plunged recklessly into its whirlpool of gaieties , and sought to hide her domestic grief in the chaos of dissipation . Young and lovely—admired and flattered by all—sho strove , amid bustle and gaiety , to fill that void in her heart which unrequited love gave birth to , but in vain did she seek to satisfy its cravings ; in tho dance and the carousal she was the giddiest of the gay , but in her deserted chamber she felt all the lone bitterness of a slighted heart . True , she was flattered and caressed , and many were the voices that whispered to her of love—false , adulterous love—but though the fulsome adulation gratified her newly awakened vanity , and whilcd away the tedium of thc hour , it never reached her heart , —her education had boen too pure , —her na-
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ture too _unsophiscated , for the poisou to sink deep or the careless husband might have recked his inattention to his fair bride . If ourfashionable novelists paint truly thc scenery ot high life , how vapid and unsatisfactory are its pleasures !—how fruitful its tendencies for vice and crime , gilded though thoy be by artifice and refinement . Love—genuine love—can scarce survive in its baleful atmosphere ; virtue is scorned , or treated with _rifjicule--still its outward show is maintained , out , into all hotbed productions , its blossoms are false and deceitful , calculated to please the eye and gratify the palate , but unsubstantial and worthless , compared with the genuine fruit . Yet these ave our legislators and rulers-theso aro those who govern by tight divine , whose authority . so to dn it
is treason to question . On the night with which our chapter commences Lord Maxwell had taken for the first time his seat and the customary oaths , on preseating himself as a member of the Upper House , and a brilliant assemblage ( so called , we presume , from the jewels that sgarkled among them ) was met at his residence to congratulate him on the auspicious event . But , alas ! the lord of the mansion appeared not—hour followed hour , and his carriage came homo empty , the servan ts being unable to trace their master . He had ordered his carriage at the Reform Club-house , at eight o ' clock , intending to walk thither from the House of Peers . Elevated with tho new honour which had been conferred upon him , and having partaken freely of wine , he had fallen in with a fair Cyprian and thus occupied was
, attacked by a maniac , robbed , and left bruised and insensible ; the girl having given the alarm he was conveyed to tho nearest doctor , and some hours elapsed before he was sufficientl y recovered to make known his name or residence . Header , the schoolfellows had once more met . The peer had encountered the outcast—tho favourite of fortune had sunk beneath the hunger-smitten rage of his quondam acquaintance . What a tangled web of arbitrary arrangements do tho affairs of this world appear . Good and Evil , Right and Wrong , arc so mingled together , that we cannot trace the principle that governs it , nor find the clue to its varying threads . Causo and Effeet seem to have abandoned their unity , and the whole to be composed of vast fragments of one mighty chapter of accidents . We
see vice triumphant , and Virtue in adversity ; Genius in rags , and Mediocracy in power . How calculated is this to raise a doubt of the superiority of intellect over instinct , and to make us sceptical of the existence of a beneficent superintending Power . In e ° rid of Nature all is harmony and beauty —all is iu accordance with known natural laws ; the planets roll through space without infringing on each others' spheres ; the seasons rise and fall in due succession—every tree , every plant , is placed in a soil and situation suited to the _^ developement of its peculiar properties ; all is order—all is regularity . But when we turn to man , how sad is the contrast . Boasting of the lights of revelation and p hilosophy , proclaiming himself an emanation from the Deity , he spreads around himself chaos and
confusion . With bitter malignity he seems to delight in heaping evils on his own head and on those of his brethren ; the fair world around him he curses with his passions , until he makes it one scene of desolation . He dwells in an atmosphere of corruption , and calls it a metropolis of civilisation . He shuts out the pure light of heaven , and defiles the very air he breathes , in-order that he may _hav-e tho pleasure of paying physicians to torture and to rob him . He invents laws innumerable , and by his devices renders it impossible for them to be obeyed , in order that he may have the malicious satisfaction of punishing those that break them . He places power in the hands of those whose interest he makes to abuse it . He invents a religion , which , professing peace and goodwill , spreads warfare and animosity wherever- it penetrates . He delights in war and massacre , and worships it under the guise of patriotism and glory . He denies instruction , yet punishes ignorance . He brutalises
his fellows , and then scoffs at their want of refinement . In a word , he makes a man a monster , and then shrinks in torrorfrom his own handiwork ; and not content with these evils , bv his false training he sophisticates his mind , and makes thought—that living God—an incarnate demon , torturing bim With a continuity of suffering , adding to present torments the memory of past evils , and embittering them with the prospect of a still increasing future store , until he renders himself a fit inmate for his priest ' s hell , and the earth a fit dwelling for such a demoniac being . While humanity is so constituted , —whilst those who would fain improve it , and bid the Evil Spirit avaunt , arc treated as fanatics and impostors , who can but despise himself that he belongs to such an insensate herd , and count it wisdom to join in the wild revel of humanity , rob and despoil all who come within his reach , wrap himself up in the mantle of selfishness , and laugh at thc mingled foll y and atrocity by which ho is surrounded ? ( To be continued . )
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_EOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . _CnEMISTUV OF FOOD , An instructive lecture on thc above named subject has heen given by the chemical lecturer , Mr . Ashley , at the Royal Polytechnic Institution . The lecturer started by first of all leading his hearers to comprehend the importance of respiration and the operations that were carried on during its action . Respiration , ho stated , was nothing more that combustion and the whole source of animal heat . The constituents of food he classified under tho bond , elements of respiration of heat affording const * _-, _tuonts , and elements of nutrition , those necessary to the formation of flesh , muscles , & c . Amongst the former were classified fat , gum , sugar , and many similar compounds daily consumed in articles
of diet—thc latter class comprised those substances of more complex natures , generally containing nitrogen , as fribrine , caseino , albumen , blood , ifcc . After briefly adverting to other points , the lecturer more particularly directed his attention to bread as an article of food , pointing out the _natuve of flourthe process going on during its preparation for our tables , and ending hy enumerating and showing the modes of detecting various impurities sometimes found in flour and bread , placed thereby the fraudulent vendors—amongst these were mentioned chalk , gypsum , and other foreign matter , common to flour , known as seconds and " thirds , and which had , in somo instances , been known to produce serious consequences . The lecture was well attended , and the lecturer greatly applauded at tho conclusion .
_ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE . The Prophet still continues to be . the chief attraction at this theatre ; the part of Von Bomb being sustained by Mr . Barry , tho well known clown of this establishment . The return of Mr . Barry from his American to his old quarters has heen ' hailed with great delight by thc frequenters of this fashionable and favourite place of amusement . He docs not depend upon grimace to please bis audience , but upon pun , repartee , and living sallies of wit , which are the more highly relished , interspersed as they are with a fresh importation of Jonathan _sins . On Monday night a now piece from the pen of the veteran Moncrieff , founded on the life and
adventures of Mr , Brigfs Housekeeping and llomkecping ( illustrated in Punch , ) was produced lor tho first time . This piece , which might not inaptly be termed abroad equestrian farce ( both the ' ring and stage being employed in its representation , ) kept the audience in a roar of laughter from the vise to the fall of tho curtain . The eccentric Mr . Briggs , who is the dupe of a builder and horsedealer , was admirably personated by that clever actor , Mr . Crowther _, who plays a round of diversified characters , from the hardened villain to the simpleton of sixty , with equal success . Mr . Barry deserves equal praise ns Nhnrob Nosebag , the horsedealer . This piece will , wo have no houbt , have a long and successful run .
" SEW STRAND THEATRE . Mrs . Glover , tIio has accepted a temporary engagement at this house , made her first appearance on Monday ni ght as Mrs . Heidelberg in the " Clandestine Marriage , " well known to all playgoers as ono . of her chief parts . Mr . Fan-en played Lord Ogleby , and-, the combination -of these veteran artistes , who have delighted the public for so many years , drew a crowdcii audience ; and so great was the manifestation offoelin'r on this occasion that it
elicited a special acknowledgment from Mr . Farren . Anadaptatiou from the French vaudeville " Lo Pot aux Roses " followed thc comedy . It is the piece in which Ravel created much mirth at the . St . James ' s Theatre by the use of the military instrument called a " Chapoau Chinois . " Tlie jingle however , rather offended than pleased the 'itrand audience ; and as the piece becomes puposeless if this particular joke misses its effect , a decided expression of disapprobation _folloired the fall of the curtain as a matter of course . ¦ . '
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_Paddi- Ivei . lt's Last . —It has lately been demonstrated by . this erudite physiological reasoiier , that the Magyars of Hungary are descended frora a tribe which emigrated from Cork shortly after the battle of Mullaglimast , and that their ancestral namo was no other than Maguire ! A _Dju-Aorui , ' _EswiicjaussT of the Knee _Cuhed by IIolm > way ' s Ointment and Pius Abraham Banks , an elderly nian , ' living near the Dry Creek , South Australia _, had such a pnhiful affection and enlargement ofthe knee , that ha _licspaived of » ver recovering the use of the joint , the numerous remedies that ho made trial of failed even to mitigate tiie disease , iii this suflering and hopeless _coudi . tion he _« vas advised to try _HoUowav ' s Ointment and Tills j he commenced a rcgnlav application of them , which , in a _siioi-t time ,. eft ' eeted a complete euve . The Adelaide Observer , ofthe 25 th of March , 1848 , published this as oue among thc many cures , effected in South Australia by theso invaluable medicines .
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# The Moderates . —Moderation is kindred to selfishness . ' It excites little sympathy , and no enthusiasm . Moderation and mediocrity arc twins of the same ignoble parentage . Moderate men are the neuters , whom Solon punished by his laws , and . whom Dante placed among _unmeaning sights in tho last sad receptacle of fantastic mortiility . —George Nnsor . ' ggffl KxiTTrso was unknown in England until tha middle of the sixteenth century . It is said , that one William Ryder , an apprentice on London Bridge , seeing at the house of an Italian merchant a pair of knitted worsted stockings from Mantua , took the
hint , and made a similar pair , which he presented to William , Earl ot Pembroke , in 1504 , and that these were the first of the kind made in England . 2 , 300 _siiiK worms produce one pound of silk ; but it would require 27 , 000 spiders , all females , to pro « ducc one pound of web . A cow eats 100 lbs . of green food in every twentyfive hours , and yields five quarts , or 10 lbs ! of milk . Dr . BnioiiT published a case of an egg producing an insect eighty years after it must have been laid , Natural _Rioht op ah Me . v to BnEA » . —The earth in its natural state is capable of supporting
but a small number of inhabitants compared with what it is capable of doing in a cultivated state . And as it is impossible to separate thc improvement made by cultivation from the earth itself upon which that improvement is made , the idea of landed property arose from that inseparable connexion ; but it is nevertheless true , that it is the va " _« e of the improvement only , and not the earth itself , that ia individual property . Every proprietor , therefore , of cultivated land owes to the community a ground rent , for 1 know no better term to express tho idea by , for the land which ho holds . —Paine ' 3 Agrarian Justice .
The Harvest Moon . —A money-hunter being about to marry a fortune , a friend asked him how long the honey-moon would last . He replied , "Don ' t tell mo of the honey-moon ; it is harvestmoon with me . " Cunrotis—if true !—A German writer observes , in a late volume on tho social condition of Groat Britain , thero is such a scarcity of _thievessia England that they are obliged to offer a reward for their discovery . Tho New England Washingtonian states that Mr . Tefft , of Savannah , has a collection of 35 , 000
autographs . Among them is a letter from Kosciusko to the wife of an officer in Charleston , closing with aa affectionate inquiry as to her husband ' s health ; "for , " writes Kosciusko , "if he is dead , I wish to marry you , as I have always been one of your particular admirers ; but if he is alive and well , pray give my compliments to him . " Every law in which the people have not concurred , and which emanates not from them , is null . Democracy is labouring at tho heart of humanity , and it is only present circumstances which prevent its utterance from a million silent lips .
Gross Intolerance . —The chaplain of the Edinburgh gaol has resigned his situation , having _gona over to thc Free Church . His congregation had a conscientious desire to follow their pastor , but tho intolerant gaoler wouldn't allow them ! The Real _ahd tub Ideal . — "Ah ! J'OU don't know what muthical cnthuthiath ' th , " said a musicmad miss to Tom Hood . " Excuse , me , madam , " replied tho wit , " but I do . Musical enthusiasm is like turtle-soup ; for every quart of real , there are ninety-nine gallons of mock , and calves ' -heads in proportion . ' A swarm of bees contains from 10 , 000 to 20 , 000 in a natural state , and from 30 , 000 to -10 , 000 in a hivo . Thehe _aue six or seven generations of gnats in a summer , and each lays 200 eggs . There ARE about 9 , 000 cells in a square foot of _honcv-conib . 5 , 000 boes . weigh a pound .
A WORD TO SLUGGARDS . Idler , why lie down to die ? Better rub than rust ; Hark ! thc lark sings in tho sky , " Die , when die thou must , Day is waking—leaves aro shaking Better rub than rust . " He who will not work shall want , Nought for nought is just ! "Wont do—must do , when he can't " Better . rub than rust . " Bees are flyinjr , sloth is dying , " Better rub " than rust . ' * '
V ery True . —Some descendant of Solomon has wisely remarked , that those who go to law for damages aro sure to get them ! A _Definition . —Voltaire defines a physician to bo an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle—viz ., to reconcile health with intemperance . Rather too Deep . —Tho Atlantic Ocean is estimated at three miles , and the Pacific at four miles deep . Wide Awake !—Fish arc common in the seas of
Surinam with four eyes , two of them on horns which grow on the top of their heads . * * * Very early one morning Gaino rose and going to where the cow was stalled , saw the sow lying on its fat belly beneath , with the teat in its mouth , milking , milking with all its might , and grunting complacently at thc larceny The sow had fattened on stolen milk Many are the fat swine , and only fat at the expense of poor defrauded cattle . To Clever Youxo Ladies . —Don't let the keys of the piano-forte make you forget thc keys of tho store-room ; or tiie enlightenment of your understanding prevent you from inquiring tho price of candles . Evbby pound of cochineal contains 70 , 600 insects boiled to death , and from COO to 700 thousand lbs . are annually brought to Europe for scarlet and crimson dyes .
Death . — " The Sense of Death is Most _isr _Aitreiiesion . "—Tho act of dying would scrm to bo pleasant ; it is like thc benumbing of the mental and bodily faculties which precedes sleep . _Lamentations , therefore , over the dying , especially if they be loud , arc not only unavailing , biit painful . It would seem that death by the _guillotine docs not extinguish life at once ; thc body and head bothlecl _, it is said , for more than ten minutes after separation . Hanging and drowing arc easy modes of getting rid of life , therefore , as compared with decapitation . Some surgeons have fancied the dissevered head and trunk might be re-united ; and it is on record that n soldier who had his nose bit off and
spat in the gutter at night , went next morning , and having found that part of his fiice , put it oh a sain with complete success . Lord William Russell , before his execution , expressed a conviction that to _luse a head , was no greater pain for a man than to lose a tooth . The American journals announce that the wife of a machinist , named Andrew Thomson , at _Trenlon , New Jersev , has become heiress to a fortune of £ 100 , 000 sterling , by the death of a relative in this country . ] 3 e Civil . —" _Dccvil , indeed ! " said a primitive country _schoolmistress to ono of ker pupils , as she heard [ ho little girl designate his satanic majesty "devil . " "Deevil , indeed !—set him up with fine names—ca' him dcil , its guid enueh for him , "Edinburgh Witness .
HOW TO GET OVER THE _JLlliD " _iVoIIDS . — " Sliip the hard words , honey dear , " said an Irish schoolmistress to one of her pupils , " they ' re only the names of some foreign country , an yc ' s never will be in ' em . " A Smuggler ' s Trick . —It was stark calm ; and as the fog cleared up a little I saw I was lost in the very jaws of a ship of war , and I almost gave up all for lost . However , as they wove lowering their jolly boat to board me , I sculled off to thorn , all ' alone in my little punt , and asked tho people of tho ship if they know what was good for ttio measles . ' I * could hear tliem _toilet from stem to stem . A big fat man ihey called the doctor , told me to keep my patients warm and to give them hot drinks . It was enough ; they took care not to come near tho Peggy Ann lhat time—Gesners Nova Scotia .
A Gentle Hist . —A spruce young man ,. gallanting his inended , was conversing on tho late " turnout" -when he remarked that ' " he wished he was able to support all the factory girls in Lowell for six months , he would do it to prevent their returning to the mills . " His fair one , more limited in her desires , replied with a sigh , "Ah , Seth , X wish you were able to maintain one of them . "—American Paper . Mr . Mayo , in his amusing work " Tho Philosophy of Living , " states , as an instance of the tendency Of man , as well as other animals , to imitation , that " if , when throe or four persons are sitting at a
table and engaged in conversation , you , seemingly without design _. lako up the snuffers and slowly open tliem to the utmost , ' and shut them several times , one or two of the party will immediately fall into ah imitative yawn . " The late Lord Courtney , who was of a very old family , having married a Miss Clack , of much inlerior birth , a conversation took p lace on the disparity ofthe connexion , between a lady who was related to his lordship and tho late Bishop of Exeter . " What ' is your db ' ceUou ' . " asked thc Bishop . " Want of family , " answered she , " 'Want of family ! " replied he ; " "Why , the Courtneys may date from the Conquest , but the Clacks are as old as Eve . "
• Mex of genius arc often dull nnd inert in society ; as the blazing meteor , whim it descends to earth , is only a slonc . To Cure Smoky ! Ciiimxeys . —Lay the five , as usual , with coals and sticks , but be careful not to light it . This has seldom been known to fail , while it is , at thc same time , a _. grcat saving of fuel . AxonLS . —A vagrant called at a house on Sunday , and begged for some cider . Tho lady refused to give him any , and ho . reminded her of the oft-quoted remark , that she " _initrht entertain an angel unawares , " "Yes , " _said'she , " but angels donot go about drinking cider oa Sundays , "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 17, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_17111849/page/3/
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