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forei gn Reminiscences . By Henry Richard j Loito Holland . . Edited by his son , _ilcnrj Edward _LoedHollasd . Longman and Co . The late Lord Holland , hy his good huoour , good taste , and good dinners , long lade his residence at Kensington , the resort fall the most distinguished men of his own inic , and of many who yet remain to reacmher the charm he spread over his parties iy his own graceful , courteous , hut unaffected nauners . But , Lord Holland was not only ,. \ vl of collecting literary men , and especially , rin * g writers , about him , —he was an author liinself , and as this work shows , possessed of nany of the hig hest qualities .
Tlie work contains shrewd and observant * rot genial criticisms , on the persons who slaved snch important parts in history at the » nd * of the last century and the commencement > f the present . Most of the personages of rhom we have sketches , have been already Irawn hy nnmerons other hands , hnt it _appears to us that some of Lord Holland' s porraits are more truthful than their predecessors ,
ccause more homely , and less ambitious . He rst visited the continent in 17 * 31 , when yet a f . ere youth . He was , however , naturally cry forcibly impressed with the magnitude f the events which characterised the outbreak f the first French Revolution . Ofthose who _istinguished themselves on tbat terrible arena io one , in the earlier scenes , stood ont more _if . ldlv than Afirabeau . Lord Holland thus describes Mm : —
I arrived at P aris not long after the death of _llirabeau _, and soon after tbe acceptance of the oustituuoii by Louis XVI . The designs of Miafieau to coalesce with the Court party , or at :. ist to check the revolutionary spirit , were more bun suspected before his death . lie was in a contaut state of intrigue with a _' _-l parties , and partiularly with Monsieur ( Comte de Provence , and net-wards Lewis XVIII . ) in tbe business of Favras . 'he Duke of Levi was tbe channel of communiat _' wi between him and Monsieur in that mysteions and disgraceful affair . Yet tbe _s-dicitude of lie people during his illness was unabated , and tories almost incredible of the attention of the _no-, wi u . *> _iiimwiu _ui" v _«« v— — - - " — - _i
_^ ulace , iu preventing tbe slig htest disturbance in be street where he was lying ill , were related in 11 societies with that delight snd adiniratien which Iramatic displays of sentiment never fail to excite b Paris . Tbe shops and quays were crowded with lis portraits and busts . A stranger conld discern n his _physiognamy nothing bui visible marks of [ ihauch _. _' vanity , presumption and artifice , which rcre strong ingredi ' _-nts in his composition ; hut he Pari _.-ians _, jet , stunned hy his eloquence , and aizled by his splendid talents , seemed to dwell ii the representation of his large features , pockretted face , and frizzled hair , with fond complaency mingled with regret _, lie was certainly an
- inordinary man . That his powers would have teen equal , as has often been suggested , either to ( heck or to guide the subsequent course of the French Revolntion _, _mny nevertheless be very _aueslOMbla . He was thought to be , and p robably was , _rery corrupt ; but an exemption from that vice was Sic solitary virtue which gave individuals , and Bolf-pierre in particular , any ascendancy in the _jaii-r and more stormy seasons of that frightful _JK-riod . Mirabean had the talent , or at least the trick and contrivance , of appropriating tbe ideas ind labours of other men to his purposes in a rerr extraordinary degree . I have been assured by ine ( Dumont ) who kuew him intimately , and acted
or a short time as his secretary , that not only the _cport-i he made , hut the speeches he delivered , fere often written hy others , and read by him in ie morning , or even run through and adopted by lim ( as I have seen briefs by oar lawyers ) while e was actually _speakhur . The various imprisonlents and emba _* Tassmcnts to which his disorderly ft * and licentious pen had exposed bim are well Ln > wn . The prosecution against him in England _vns the malevolent contrivance of a crazy and atthless servant , who falsely accused his master of i . i » _-jiit- robbed him . There was nothing remarkih ' e iii that incident , but the public and warm testimony of Sir Gilbert Elliot and Mr . Burke himself n favour of a man whose influence on the French Revolution was afterwards so conspicuous , and _those Ins principles and immoral life furnished so
_jfenile a theme for invectives against it . The vanity © f Mirabean exposed him . it is said , to a droll _re-In-oof . At some important political crisis , he was _gf ecantinc in society on the qualities requisite in a piaster ia extricate the crown , the assembly , and pie nation , from the difficulties in which they were Involved , viz ., great knowledge , great genius , aejjmintance _, and perhaps connexion with the upper ¦ "ranks , some common feelings with the lower classes , j * _p-iwer of speaking and of writing _eloquratly and | eadi ! y , familiarity with the world , the popularity jjpf a martyr from recent prosecution , and many ptlers , which it was obvious _enough that bethought _j _jere united in himself . "All this is true , " said a "f riend , " but you bave omitted one of bis qualities . " _j"Xo—surely ? what do you mean ? " " Should he ¦ not , ' * replied the same sarcastic friend , " be very bach pitted with the small-pox ? " * .
I Here is a new light thrown on the character | aud motives of the famous Egtdlite , father of tie King , who , disguised and terrified , nnder { tbe unromaDfje name of Smith , fled from [ _France to die at Glaremont , a few months since . Perhaps not one o f ibe revolutionary _jt -lebrities has been painted in blacker colours j thna the Duke of Orleans . Lord Holland is | ° f opinion that the "D evil is not so bad as N is said tobe " : — I bel _' cre that no man has lived in my time whose char acter bas been more calumniated , or will be _^ ore misrepresented to posterity . * * Ilis car-* i & _se and countenance , thon h the latter was
disfigured bv carbuncles , were prepos sessing , and h ' s _-timers ' were perfect . Ilis superiority in those j _** speets , as well as command of money , excited _*'* _v-alousv of the Court . Ill ' s popularity at j- *'* - ** -.-, the Jwlkium Paridis , was perha ps sufficient t « _acconut for the first estrangement of the Qnecn . * Manv womanish artifices were resorted to to _"•"¦• s liiai _, to spoil bis amusements , to interrupt his _Il'i-tics , and to expose him to those small _mortifica-*'' - _'« $ which , in all countries , are apt to awaken _*¦* ¦ * resentment of weak minds as much or ffl' _-re than serious injuries , and to which an _£ _**' . ravagant importance is always annexed in _franee , even by persons otherwise of some sense and
_(*«** na _ i « , ity . Tiiat hostility , however , iu winch _t'l'i Court , not the Bale of Orleans , was the _aggres-* _*" . was by no means confined ti petty warfare . In _utSt _oee of decency and truth , the most malignant _•" _- _¦• • • _u- _ges of cowardice were propagated and _eouni _^ _u-iee-lhr the Qaeca and her party against ihe _£ <*• - <• of Orleans , on his return fnm the fleet in *' . ' _* I have heard well-informed Frenchmen asc ** _- " ' e bis visit to England and predilection to our " ages , then termed " Anglomania , for the . studious CXi -iu _> i on of _hun from both the business and tbe _* iiu- _-ements of his native court , aud to the disgust _p felt at the direct and indirect slights put upon "I , ' * - At the same time it must be acknowledged *••;¦* . his habits -were far from respectable . Those _* " ¦ ' ¦ > lad first engaged him in the Revolution were
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dissatisfied athis absence in England , to which tho remonstrances _. andsomepretend theactualmenacos , of Lafayette after the 6 th of October , had driven him . They considered it as a pusiUanimous desertion , and incessantly urged him to quit a retirement which assumed the appearance of an ignominious , though voluntary , exile . To those remonstrances he reluctantly yielded , though if tho Court would havebeen prevailed upon to appoint him ambassador in London ,. he distinctl y offered to remain . Admiral Payne , who conducted him inn small boat to hi 3 yacht off Brighton , assured me that the Duke of Orleans , on taking leave , grasped his hand with much emotion , and , with tears in his eyes : said , "If I consulted my inclination or my safety I should stay in your happy country , but I am told I am bound in honour to return ; for that reason , and tbat reason only , I go . dissatisfied athis absence in En < -l . -in <* l + / , _» 7 _. j _* i . _+ _* . _»
You , my dear Payne , will recollect that I am not blind to my situation , nor to the scenes I am going to encounter . I shall do no good to anybody , I shall lead a dreadful life and I shall probably perish among the first , or . at least , very soon . " Before leaving France , be had made some very sli ght advances to the Court , but such as Bkowed that if he and his friends had been secured from persecution and revenge by being admitted into a due share of power , be was not unwilling to co-operate in preventing matters from coming to extremities . lie renewed thde offers when in England , and before his return . * * After the return of the Kine from _Varennes , it is said tbat he declined tbe President ship , and was unwilling to take any forward part . * * Talleyrand , who kuew him well , and who in a ] oint work with Beaumetz , which was never published , shortly afterwards delineated his character , described him to me as indifferent alike to ihe
pursuits of pleasure or vanity , ambition or revenge , and solely intent on enjoying ease and preserving existence , lie was so jaded [ si blase , un hommc si desabusc , that he had outlived even the necessity of emotion ( Ze besoin de s ' emouveir . ) There is , indeed , reason to suspect that the persons instrumental in creating and preserving his personal influence in Paris , were active agents in the municipal cabals and revolutions , which preceded and accompanied the 10 th of August aud the 2 nd of Septemher 1792 ; and true it is , that the only -party which showed the least disposition to identify itself with his interests , or to concert with him , consisted of a portion of those to whose language and manoeuvres the horrors even of that
last day are mainly attributed by well-informed authors . Some of them , and Da-ton in particular , were not unwilling , in concert with the Duke of Orleans , to save the life of the King , and by a junction with the Brissotinsand moderate republicans , to put a stop to the excesses of the populace , _provid'id they could obtain an oblivion and impunity for aU tiiat had hidierto passed . But republicans and philosophers were as unreasonably hostile and nearly as blindly improvident wherever the Duke of Orleans was concerned , as the Royalists themselves . Scruples , honourable no doubt , but hig hly unseasonable , and not altogether consistent with their own conduct before and during the 10 th of August , made the friends of Roland , Brissot ,
and Guadet , revolt at any thing like coalition with men covered with the blood of their fellow-citizens , though such a junction was the obvious , and perhaps the solitary , method of preventing the effusion of more . Danton and his followers , who had so largely participated in the crimes ofthe Terrorists , were compelled to proceed with their associates , when they despaired of obtaining impunity from tbe triumph of the more moderate and numerous but less popular party in the Convention . The Duke of Orleans could not bave saved the King by voting against his death ; and he more certainly than any one man in tbe Assembly would bave accelerated his own by so doing . On the other hand , he was also the one man in _tnatassembly , on whom ,
had any counter-revolution occurred , the Royal vengeance would most unquestionably have fallen without mercy . Such considerations would not weigh with a Cato , but they were calculated to shake the constancy of ordinary men . The Duke of Orleans had , therefore , at least as much excuse for the vote he gave as the 300 who voted with him ; and those who hold regicide to be the greatest of possiblccrirrc 3 , have nevertheless no right to select him as the greatest criminal . He was well aware of the peculiarity of his own situation . Of that I bave seen somecurious proofs in a short narrative written by Mrs . EHott , who had , I believe , lived with him , and who , on the score of old acquaintance _, prevailed on him to save through his garden
at Monceaux , and at no small peril to himself , the vonnger _Chaiicency , who was implicated in the affair of the 10 th of August , and who , as was _justly observed by the Duke in his hearing , so far from incurring any risk to serve him , would have been among the first to urge his execution . He was , to my " knowledge , among the last to relieve ihe subsequent distresses of his generous benefactress , Mrs . Elliot , or to mitigate the censures with which it was the fashion in most companies throughout Europe to visit the name of the Duke of Orleans . That Prince perished soon afterwards on the scaffold , and disproved one of the imputations cast upon him by the composure with which he met his fate .
Lafayette is cleverly sketched , especially in thecredulousness which induced him to put faith in the King , of -whose _Bincerity Lord Holland b y no means raises our estimation . Without being habitually the liar and deliberate faith-breaker that our Charles the First was , it is evident enoug h that he held the obligation of either word or oath lightly enongh when it suited his purposes . Lnfayette was , however , then as always , a pare , disinterested man , full of private affection aud public virtue , and not devoid of such talents as
firmness of purpose , sense of honour , and earnestness of zeal will , on great occasions , supply . He was indeed accessible to flattery , somewhat too credulous , and apt to mistake the forms , or , if I may so phra ? e it . the pedantry of liberty for the substance , as if men could not enjoy any freedom without subscribing to certain abstract principles and arbitrary jests , or as if the profession and subscription , nay , tbe technical observance of such tests and principles , were not , on the other hand , often compatible with practical oppression and tyranny .
The heroine of romancists , Mane Antoinette , is not less tenderly treated by the Whi g nobleman , either as to her beauty or her virtue . As I was not presented at court . I never saw the Queen but at tbe play-house . She was then in affliction , and her countenance was , no doubt , disfigured bv long suffering and resentment . I should not , however , suppose that the habitual expression of it , even in happier seasons , had ever been very agreeable . Her beauty , however extolled , consisted , I suspect , exclusively ,. in a fair skin , a straight person , and a stately air , which her ad-| mirers termed dignity , and her enemies pride and disdain .
As to her conjugal virtue we are told ' . — Madame Campan ' s delicacy and discretion are not only pardonable but praiseworthy ; but thoy are disingenuous , and her memoirs conceal truths well known to ber , though such as would have heen unbecoming a lady to reveal . Sbe waB , in fact , the confidante of M _* rie Antoinette ' s amours . Those amours were not numerous , scandalous , or degrading , but they were amours . Madame Campan , who lired beyond the restoration , was not so mysterious in conversation on these subjects as she is in her writings . She acknowledged to persons who have acknowledged it to me , that she was privy to the intercourse between the Queen and the Due de
Coi- _* ny . That French nobleman , from timidity of character and coldness of _constitution , was not sorry to withdraw himself early from so dangerous an intrigue . Madame Campan confessed a curious fact , _namclv , that Fersen was in the Queens boudoir or bed-chamber , tete-a-tete with her Majesty on the famous night of the 6 th of October . He escaped observation with considerable difficu ty in a disguise which she ( Madame Campan herself ) procured for him . This M . de Talleyrand , though _«* enerallv somewhat averse to retailing anecdotes _Sisparac _' ing to the Royal Family of France , has twice recounted to me , and assured me that he had it from Madam Campan herself .
Here is another g lance at Royalty—the Kino- of Denmark of that dav : — o m The Crown Prince ( afterwards Frederick TI ) , nephew of our king , was the ostensible head of the government . The incapacity of his father was _acknowled ged , and though he continued to sign the edicts and public instruments , he was not permitted to take any part in the deliberation upon them , nor were any of his acts deemed valid , unless _couHtcrsijrned by his son , whom the council bad in truth invested with all the functions of royal authority . In fa-t the royal signature was preserved as a medic al rather than political expedient . The object was to humour and soothe the feelings of the deposed monarch , not to give any validity to acts which without reference to such formality wero recognised by the courts of jastice , and obeyed by the people .
When first _* et aswe , _nettaa bitterly wept at being no longer a king , and adduced as a proof of the misfortune which had befallen him , that he had no _iou-rer any papers to sign . To satisfy him , tbey were _altertvards offered him for signature , and he never decline d annexing his name to all that were presented to him , from a fear of losing that , his sole remaining , but , ia his view , distinctive prerogative of Rovaky . It happened once or twice , from some motive _* f convenience or . accident , that the C rowa Prince put his name to _anmstrument before _itWscnt to his Royal father for _lms . gnature the jealous old Monarch perceived ic , and when the ne- paper was brought , he , to the surprise and consteimtion of the courtiers , signed « C n * . sto aud _Co'i-a , " _inahciously observing , that he wa 3 ouce
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sole proprietor of h s _firm , but he found it was now a partnership and would spare " his associatesi the trouble of adding their names . His insanity , was throughout of a playful rather than a malignant nature . Wiien it was the policy of the Queen Dowager , his _step-mother , to maintain him in _theexerciae of his functions , she used to exhibit him at card parties in public . It is usual ia the North of Europe to score with chalk , but his Majesty on such occasions diverted himself with employing it in a _lesa decorous manner . He would draw the most obscene figures on the green baize and wink to the by-stauders , _whenever the Queen Dowager , with an averted face and attccted _ci _relessness , rubbed out tho obnoxious —tl— _-J-7 rrr ~ .
representations with her cards , tier ! hands ; her handkerchief , a napkin , or anything wliich she could with some appearance of absence pass ' over them for that purpose . He continued for many years to dine occasion ally in public . Though tho foreign ministers were cautioned neither to provoke nor to remark any of his peculiarities , he not unfrequentl y succee ded In disconcerting them . He would , for instance , ask them to drink wine , and then throw the contents of his glass in the face of _jj- _? :, £ e be ' llnd nira * and _vnen ty this , and the addition of sundry grimaces , gesticulations , and antics he had provoked a smile , he would suddenly assume a grave and solemn countenance , and addressing the minister opposite say , "Monsieur ~ j _^ ' —*¦»» r r" * J $ 'ui / muiuui l
envoyc parait fort gai ? y a-til quelque chose qui i amuse ?—jc le pvie de m ' en faire part . " Such was the innocent nature of the royal insanity . It is a satire or a commendation on the institution of Monarchy to remark that under this absolute Prince , whose childishness amounted to imbecility and lunacy , the commerce , agriculture , and prosperity of the kingdom continued to improve , tho people were relieved from the ancient feudal burthens which oppressed them , tranquillity was preserved , justice purely and impartially administered , and even the foreign policy conducted , throu"hout a period of unexampled _yei-il-and confusion in Europe , in a Banner which , when the insignificant resources of Denmark are considered , must be acknowledged to be creditable and even glorious . - ¦ ¦
We conclude with one extract relating to Napoleon , which is peculiarly deserving of tho attention of his nephew at the present moment :- — _Nothing could exceed the . order and regularity with which his household both as Consul and Emperor was conducted . The great things be accomplished , and the savings he made , without even the imputation of avarice or meanness , with the sum comparatively inconsiderable of fifteen tnilions of francs a year , aro marvellous , and expose his successors , and indeed all European Princes , to the reproach of negligence or incapacity . In this branch of his government he owed much to Duroc . It is said that they often " visited ihe markets of
Paris ( les Italics ) dressed in plain clothes and earl y in the morning . When any great accounts were to be submitted to the'Emperor , Duroc would apprize him in secret of some of the minutest details . By an adroit allusion to tbem or a careless remark on the points upon which he bad received such recent and accurate information , Napoleon contrived to impress his audience with a notion that the master ' s eye was everywhere . ' For instance , when the Tuileries were furnished , the upholsterer ' s charge ? , though not very exorbitant , were suspected by the Emperor to be higher than tho usual profit of that trade would have warranted . He suddenly asked some minister who was with him how much the egg at tho end of the bell-rope should cost ? " f ignore , " was the answer .- — " Eh lien I nous
verrons / said he , and then cut off tbe ivory handle , called for a valet , and bidding him dress himself in plain and ordinary clothes , and neither divulge his immediate commission or general employment to any living soul , directed him to inquire the price of such articles at several shops in Paris , and to order a dozen as for himself . They were one-third less dear than those furnished to the palace . The Emperor , inferring that the same advantage'had been taken in the other articles , struck a third off the whole charge , and directed the tradesman to be informed that it was done at his express command , because on inspection he had himself discovered the charges to be by onethird too exorbitant . When afterwards , in the
height of his glory , he visited Caen with the Empress Maria Louisa and a train of crowned heads and princes , his old friend , M . Mechin , the Prefect , aware of his taste for detail , waited upon him with five statistical tables of the expenditure , revenue , prices , produce , and commerce of the department . " _Cestbon , " said he when he received them the evening of . his arrival , " vous et moi nous ferons bim de Vesprit sur tout ecla demain an _Conscil . " Accordingly , he astonished all the leading proprietors of the department at the meeting next day , by his minute knowledge of the prices of good and bad cyder , and of the produce and other circumstances
of * he various districts of the department . Even tbe Royalist gentry were impressed with a respect for his person , wliich gratitude for the restitution of their lands had failed to inspire , and which , it must be acknowledged , the first faint hope of vengeance against their enemies entirely obliterated in almost every member of tbat intolerant faction . Other princes have shown an equal fondness for minute details with Napoleon , but here is the difference . 'The use they made of their knowledge was to torment their inferiors and weary their company —the purpose to which Napoleon applied it was to confine tbe expenses of the State to the objects and interests of the community .
That is the reason why ne has left so many enduring monuments of his reign in France . His nephew should take a , hint . Better spend money in that way than in sausages _ciud champagne .
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Robert Owen ' s Journal . London : Clayton and Son . Part II . In noticing this journal last week we were compelled to omit an extract we had marked for quotation from want of space . It will , we think , be interesting to our readers to know the views of a man like Mr . Owen , on the controversy which has for the last few months created so much public excitement . We , therefore , take the subjoizaed from his address " to the Hierarchies of the Churches of Rome , England , and Scotland . ' * . If we do not mistake , there are princip les enunciated in it which raise more radical and profound questions than any yet propounded b y cardinals , bishops , or priests , of any sect or creed whatever ' . —
The churches and states over tho world hare hitherto been the two great classes of circumstances which have formed the character and created the condition ofthe populations under their government and control . And what are the characters , and what is the condition , of all people , at this day ? The people have been systematically trained , educated , and placed , from their birth , to become irrational , insane , or mad ; and , in consequence , they have made the earth into one great lunatic
asylum , divided into so many large open cells ; the occupiers of each , opposed , furiously or with less violence , to all the others . There are the cells or dens of the Pagans , of Fo and Confucius , ofthe Jews , ofthe _Mahoraedans _, of the Christians , and of Infidels ; making , by the errors forced into tbe mind of all , a Babel of opinions , feelings , and conduct , and thus producing a pandemonium , or a too perfect heil , upon this earth which , fortunately for the human race , is destined in future to become a paradise , without anv cells for lunatics or madmen .
Your churches and all the churches and states in the world have been fully tried and fairly weighed in the balance , and one and all have been found to be _> wofullv wanting in all the essentials to unite mankind and to make them good , wise , and fwDpy The " course of all _shurches and states , in the direction which they have hitherto run , has terminated ; tbey can continue it no further , without churches , states , and . people , —from being partly irrational , insane , or mad , becoming altogether the victims of uncontrollable madness . The svstcm itself , which has created the churches and sta tes ofthe world , and has given them their direction to the present time , is worn out ; it can work advant ageously for men no longer . to
Another system , therefore , is now required , terminate this pandemonium , and to commence this happy _fiitsi-o state of . justice to all , and oi universal ' charitv , kindness , and love . In this new svstem of happiness for our race , a new direction will be g iven to the preaching of the churches and to the practices of states . As the principle of evil , leading to individualism and universal disunion and falsehood , is the foundation on which the superstructure of this old , worn out , irrational system has been « o « it » . _" ~ t _" v new system about to be introduced will Jp based on the principle of truth and goodness , whioh will lead direct to knowledge , unity , charity , _ktnaness , and love , and its whole sup erstructure will be combined to ensure the permanent wisdom , excellenceaud bappincis of our race .
, The churches of the world are as well adapted to become churches in which truth , knowledge , union , wisdom , may be tau ghr , as to teach _ialfehood , ignorance , disunion , and the performance ot senseless and injurious ceremonies . ' .,, _ . tha You essentially aid . to . govern and form tne characters of the most adyanced nations ofthe This is freely admitted . ; and ¦ ¦ you are therefore called upon to-. commence . this great change , ami _leaceably . in union with existing governments , to
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lead onward , and become an-example to the less advanced of other parts of bur _globef " ' ' I Bat the mummeries of all the " religions of the world must now be made to cease ; the force _ nd fiaud of all governments must now be brought to a termination ., ° space ? ° _^ a 8 idere _^ thafc _ttero _W _*>•• ° _*•«*•* to That there can be no beginning or end of time ? - That the universe is full of uncreated and indestructible elements , possessing unchanging internal qualities , and an All-controlling Power which without ceasing composes , decomposes , and recomposcs these elements into endless animate and inanimate existences ?—That to this day man knows nothing of this-Great Controlling Power [ the Universe , except from the few ettects which ho . sees most imperfectly upon this speck of a globe , infinitel y less than a grain of sand compared with the hosts of those magnificent globes which are revolting in unlimited ?
space And can you remain , under such considerations , so irrational and insane , as to suppose that the little human insects upon tins less than a grain of sand globe canjio any kind of good or harm , or service of any kind , to this Grout Unknown Power of the Universe ? . The supposition that your voices , genuflexions , and senseless ceremonies , can be more important to that Power which pervades the Universe and gives motion , life , and mind ' throughout it , than the noise and actions of the smallest and most insignificunt insects can _bs to you , is proof to demonstration that you have , by some new creation of external circumstances , to be brought out of the irrational state of mind and condition in whioh past unfavourable and fvlse trainings have placed you .
You have been taught to call this Universal Power , which , to our senses , appears eternally to compose , decompose , and recompose the elements of the Universe , God , or some term of similar import . It is a word , or a term , which through past ages has been made to divide and brutalise the human
race . You cannot , by any means within your power , do the sli ghtest good to that : incomprehensible Power ; but you may make use of tho word , name , or terra , to do incalculable mischief to man ; and hitherto that has been your application of it . See what madmen it makes of you all to-day . Used as ifc has been , ifc can only make men into fools or-hypocrites , ahdriU ' liypocrites are fools . And all the actions of all men to-day are most foolishly irrational . There are iio ' nc thinking or acting right—no not one . And the Churches and Slates of tho world are , through the errors of their instruction , the immediate cause of the incongruities in mind and practice and of the present gross irrationality of the human race .
These truths _sre now thus told and published to the world , to become new circumstances , to open the mental eyes of all , and to induce all to aid in preparing the population of the world to become rational and to commence the system of universal happiness for man .
Romanism The Religion Of Terror. B Y S. ...
Romanism the Religion of Terror . B y S . P . Day . London : Truelove , 22 , John-street , Fitzvoy-square . Mb . Day was formerly a ' Monk ofthe order of the Presentation , and , therefore , knows what he writes about . Making every allowance for the natural zeal ofa convert , and tho repugnance whicli men must feel towards doctrines that they once sincerel y believed , and have subsequently discovered to be falsehoods , we should suppose that the terrible picture drawn b y Mr . _Dtiy , of the religion he has abjured , is correct . Eunniug over the long catalogue of successive and sanguinary massacres , nnder the sanction ,
and in the name of reli gion , one ' s blood runs cold to think ofthe incalculable evil and misery wliich credal dogmas have inflicted upon humanity . Mr . Day commences with the Emperor Theodositis , who made public profession of Christianity in tho year 381 , and brings the history down to a recent date . Here is a samp le of his statements : — Ltorcritte , in his history of tho Inquisition , gives the following summary of individuals who were sacrificed to the rage of the " mitred autocrat of creed and cross : — Condemned and burnt 81 , 912 Burnt in effigy 17 , 095 Placed in confinement , with
rigorous punishment 201 , io 0 ) Making a total of 341 , 067 Llorentte is an excellent authority ; for when the French obtained possession of Spain under Joseph Buonaparte , he obtained permission to examine the _Sicret archives of the holy office . The Jesuit Moravy also paints the . character ofthe "infernal tribunal" in a masterly style . His description of an execution is truly awful . Heretics , " he ob . serves , " are burnt , having first been strangled , if thoy are not Jews , for in that caso they are burnt alive . " Of this let me give you a direful instance : —
When Philip of Spam- was allied to Elizabeth , daughter of Henry II . of France , he could devise no better spectacle wherewith to regale ' his youthful bride and queen than what is called an Auto da Fe Tbe prisons ofthe Inquisition wero searched , and a certain number of victims produced . On tbat memorable occasion the seat ofthe chief inquisitor was elevated above those occupied by the king and queen of Spain—an emblem not easily mistakc ; iblc . At length the mournful precession advanced , with solemn stop and slow , bearing the standard of Dominie in the van ; and so dense ivas tho crowd , thafc many of * the condemned passed close to the chtuv of state , where sat , in all the glistening pomp of royalty , the regal bride . Among the rest was one
whose peerless charms far excelled the . courtly pageantry thafc surrounded her . Young in years , of seraphic beauty , with heaven-lit eye , and modest , pensive aspect ; her raven tresses , fulling on her bosom in . lovely negligence , half concealed the majes ty of her form , as well as the deep emotions her soul ' s anguish painted on her checks . She was a Jewess ! Scarcely arrived at full bloom , the cankering worm was preying on the fairfiower , and threatening ifc with speedy dissolution . There was a melancholy in . her bearing which discovered the agony of her heart . She halted as she passed , before the throne ofthe female sovereign , and thinking that sympathy for her sex would create pity for ber _wretchedness , shrieked out in the fervent
eloquence of grief , ' Mercy , mercy ! great queen ! I am about to be burnt alive for professing tlie only religion I was ever taught . Save me for ' the love of God I" The young bride was deeply affected by a scene so tragically touching . She glanced at the king , and then at the chief inquisitor ; but felt it were vain to intercede for her release . The procession moved on . The sacrifice was completed . And Elizabeth declared in her dying hour , that she heard distinctly in her ears the screams of the burning Jewess : " Msericordia por amor di Bios /" " My God , " exclaimed _Constantine of La Fuente , " were there no Scythians or cannibals into whose hands to deliver me , rather than to lot me fall into the power of these barbarians . " Some one
exclaimed , during tho bloody days ofthe great French Revolution , "O Liberty , what crimes are committed in thy namo . " With far greater reason may we exclaim upon surveying such cruelties as I have adverted to , " O Reli gion ! what enormities have been perpetrated in thy name !" When we add to the horrible persecutions just particularised , the extensive massacres in Paris anjl the provinces of France in 1572 , durin _? tho pontificate of Gregory XIII ., who with Charles IX . assisted at and encouraged them ; the diabolical cruelties ; which disgraced tho reign of Louis XIV ., when Catholic soldiers would bind Protestant mothers to posts , and let their sucking infants lie languishing in their sight for days anil ni ghts , crying ,
_mourningj and gasping for life ; the civil war 3 in France , during tbe seventeenth century , carried on by Louis XIII . when over a million of men lost their lives , and when , during its progress , nine cities , four hundred villages , two thousand churches , two thousand monasteries , and ten thousand houses , were burned or demolished . Alluding to the _kintr , Madame de Mottcvillo says : — " What gave him tlie greatest pleasure was his thought of driving heretics out of the kingdom , and thereby purging it of the different religions which corrupt and infect the church of God ; " the massacres in the Netherlands , in consequence of the edict of Charles V ., when full one hundred thousand persons were hanged , beheaded , burned or buried alive : and , finallv , the
persecutions during the roign of Mary in England , when nearly three hundred individuals were offered as holocausts at tho blazing shrine of the Romanist religion ! __ When we sum up these bloody deeds and cruel punishments , besides others of more recent date , all perpetrated with the view of crushing free opinion , and building up upon another Golgotha , a sceptred power and priestly supremacy , which claimed two worlds and aped omnipotence ! can we fairl y come to any other conclusion , than that BomnnUm is pre-eminentl y the Religion of Tenor ! Like the votaries of Islamism , the Popes have carved tbeir prophet ' s words on tho devouring sword , and fancied they were fulfilling a high behest !
Mr . Day concludes thus , wc hope prophetically : — - It is cheering to the earnest friends of humanity and progress , that a bold front is being presented to papal intefereh ' ce and priestly rule . The Pope may bcncc ' learn the . popular . English sentiment with regard to his claims as the vicercgenfc of _Alrcig ' _-tiiioss , arid the ' estimation in whicR Englishmen hold . _scarlet hats and red stockings , and every other trumpery , from the crozier to tho iewclled
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crown . And let high and low Church parties likewise learn a practical lesson , and take a timely warning , from the present excited condition of tlio puhlic mind . " Coming events cast tbeir shadows before ! ' ' ' And those interested priests who procure _memorial to the Throne numerously signed , and havo "God save the Queen" struck up and sung a 3 a finale to the devotions of their church , which they now imagine built upon a rock , may yot find to their dismay that the present movement is not
so much Protestant in its conventional sense ,, as it is Protestant in asocial , moral , and political one ; and that what thoy consider a rock , against which storms may rage and spend their fury in vain , was merely a mountain of sand to bo washed away bv the first popular billow that should strike against it . " The out-worn rite , tho old abuso The good held captive in tho use , The pious fraud transparent grown Of wrong alone , These wait their doom , from that great law Which makes the past timo servo ' to-day ; And fresher life the
world shall draw _Froifltheir decay . " Lot U 3 bail the present universal demonstration against popery , and regard it apart from all _ai-ctamnisin _, as tangible evidence of that indomitable love of liberty aud truth , which reigns supreme in millions of hearts . Let us vicsv it as prophetical ofa new and brilliant era in tbe world ' s historr , which is . about to dawn upon its darkness—as tho cycle of a change sublime , which will sweep through the earth , when every valley shall ho exalted and every hill and mountain shall bo _urou-jbt low . Though tyranny and error , shall nourish like "a green bay tree , " yet those adventitious
circumstances which administer to their growth and expansion will speedily be removed , and leave them dry , sapless , and withered , ready to he prostrated by the first angry _breatii of heaven . Liberty and Truth will be uppermost one day ! They contain within themselves the germs of their own immortality as their opposites inherit the _princioles of their dissolution ., That which is natural is alone permanent . ' . ' Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while , hut at length they are overturned by the continual and silent proffers of truth ; as tho grim statues of Copar have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest trees , whoso seed was sown by tbe wind in the ruined walls . "
The Operative. Nos. I , Ii., And Iii. G....
The Operative . _Nos . I , II ., and III . G . Berger _, Holywell-streefc , London . Amon g the now periodicals which 1851 has brought forth we have great pleasure in noticing The Operative , a weekly magazine , of which an advertisement appears in another column . From the three numbers which have already appeared , it seems well calculated to represent the views of the Amalgamated
Society of the Iron Trades , ( by members of wliich it is conducted ) , and to forward the great work of Industrial Co-operation . As well as its graver matter , it also contains tales evincing considerable literary power , well-written reviews , and good popular poetry . We nro always glad to hail an efficient coworker in tho cause of tbo people , and hopo that The Operative may obtain the support it deserves .
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Adelphi. One Of Those Adelpbi Melo-Drama...
ADELPHI . One of those Adelpbi melo-dramas , whose intricacy of plot is not to be unravelled except by proficients in tho mysterious arts of Adelpbi construction , was produced at this theafcre * _, iast night . It , is founded upon the drama of Paillasse , which for tho last three months has been played with success in Paris , and in its English dress is called Belphegor the Mountebank ; or , the Pride of Birth . Belpbegor ( Mr . Benjamin Webster ) , a mountebank of the true Dulcamava school , so far aa his professional life is concerned , but a doting husband and kind parent , has married Madeleine ( Madame Celeste ) , who
has borne him Henri ( Miss Ellen Chaplin ) , and Louise ( MtS 9 Stoker ) . The period of the drama is 1 S 14 , and Buonaparte having abdicated the throne of France , and the Bourbons returned , myriads of French c » ri _ r 8 esare about to claim their confiscated estates . Madeleine , it appears , is the child of a titled follower of the house of Bourbon ; and before the exile of her parent , has been left by him in the care of some person , from whoso custody she is taken to bo made tho bride of Belpbogor . With him she has lived comfortably enough , but with secret repiniugs at the humble destiny to which she is consigned . And nowthe Chevalier deRolac ( Mr . 0 . Smith ) steps upon the scene as tho person who many years before had been employed to convey
Mndeieme to her place of refuge . This is a villain of the orthodox sort , who , upon the restoration of the Bourbons , conceives tho design of passing Madeleine off as the daughter of the Duke de Montbazon ( Mr . II . Hughes ) , a noble who has also committed two children to the custody of De _Rolac during the perils ofthe revolution . Do Itolac ' s object is a participation in the estate , and ho also betrays the sinister design of yetting the marriage of Madeleine and Belphegor dissolved , in order that ho may possess ber himself . By the vilest arts Dc Rolac contrives to make Madeleine desert her husband , and convey her to the palaco of tho duke , where sho lives in splendourand tries to forget her
, Jow born husband . But love is strong with her , am ! siie ends her new oxistence a burden to her . Belphegor , in the * meantime , has become a heartbroken wanderer , when accidentally meeting De Rolac , in a scuffle which ensued , the latter artfully contrives to place in tlie other ' s pockets papers describing the possessor of them as a convict escaped from the galleys . These papers aro found upon Belphegor , and he is about to lose his life , when some new evidence points out the guilty party to bo Dc Rolac , who , when he finds further evasion to ho useless , makes a _confession of his crimes , and discovers that Belphegor , and not Madeleine , is the child of the Duke do Montbazon . The retributive
justice may bo conceived . Belphegor is the heir to the dukedom and estates of Montbazon , and Do Rolac pays the penalty of his crimes . In the underplot , Ajax ( Mr , Wright ) , a kind of factotum of Belphegor in tho _mountcbankish art , is adopted by the Baron de Montroula . de ( Mr . P . Bedford ) as his son , to further the attempts of tho latter to regain his property , which bad been confiscated b y the Republican ? , but in those aristocratic pretensions ho is constantly receiving a check in the person of Nini ( Miss Woolgar ) . The character of the wife of Paillasse , devoted to her husband in spite of the remonstrances of her family , is sustained with great force by Madame Celeste , and two comic parts are introduced which are not in the French original , and which are hi g hly amusing in the hands of Mr . Wright and Miss Woolgar . Indeed , tho whole company is employed to give effect to the numerous dramatis persona , but the real interest of the piece centres in the character of tho mountebank .
Olympic. A Two-Act Piece, Described As A...
OLYMPIC . A two-act piece , described as a comic drama , was produced on Monday evening with success . The scene is laid in tbe family of a wealthy cottonspinner , one of whose sons is enamoured ofa young girl employed confidentially in the establishment , whose beauty , virtue , and general worth fully justify his attachment . Another son is married , hut to a young lady of superior condition , Sho , however , has laid herself open to misconstruction with regard to the attentions of a former admirer , a fashionable vake , but is shielded by the fiancee of her brother-in-law , who is ignominiously dismissed on suspicion of being the really guilty person . At this point , an eclaircissemtnt occurs , and all ends happily , the would-be seducer being summarily
" warned off the premises , " the wife pardoned for her involuntary offence , and tbe young girl made happy by being united to her employer ' s son . This petite _melo-drama ( which is called All dial qlitters is not gold ) is of a sentimental cast ; tbo dialogue has much point ; and the characters are well marked out , although the brevity of the piece . does not afford much scope for the author ' s skill in this respect . It embodies tho strength ofthe company Mr . W . Farren lent his aid as the father and head of the firm . Mrs . Stirling acted , as she always _d-ies _, with pathos and tact as the young girl ; and M _' . ss Louisa Howard nofc only looked very pretty but al-o performed with much feeling as the wife . Mr .
_LDii » h Murry developed Ins artistic power by his performance of tlie young lover ; but his assumption of the local manners' and dialect , though very cleverly maintained , is an anomaly ; for wealthy young manufacturers do not talk broad Yorkshire or _Lancashire patois . Tho comic portion of the affair fell to Mr . Compton . The drama was announced as boms from tho pen of Mr . Thomas Morton . The fairy tale of Prince Dorus , or the romance of t ' _tenojc , was presented for the sixteenth time , in whicli we were delighted at witnessing the re-appearance of that charming and graceful dansuese . _Madlle . _Adele . after her severe domestic calamity . She was well received , and her _dimcuit ; , yet talented pas , was rapturously enoored _.
Royal Polytecnnic Institution. Mr. Peppe...
ROYAL _POLYTECnNIC _INSTITUTION . Mr . Pepper , the chemical lecturer at this establishment , has been engaged in delivering a lecture " on Fire and its Anta gonists . The learned Professor commenced by observing that it was chiefly intended for a juvenile auditory , and , therefore , any lengthened preface would bo unnecessary . The audience were then reminded that the principle cilled Fire had always been invested with a my * ,-terioiis dignity , and was worshi pped by the Persians , Chaldeans , and the Magi as a deity—a -God ; that Aristotle considered it as a component part of tlie globe , and classed ifc with the earth , air , and water , calling these all elements . . The sources lot
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- _—• - —¦——¦¦** Fire were then demonstrated , and every thin ** tho lecturer seemed to touch , even water , was _consig ned to the dominion of Fir .. . Various combustions , on a lar _ e . soa ' e , then followed ( one flame was twenty feet in length ) , also the magnificent firo cloud , with its beautiful rolling and undulating flamethen came four of different colours , and , last of all , tiro was sent about , the various parts of the room by trains of gun cotton , reminding us of tho passago oi electricity . But the lecturer did not yot quite end Ins discourse The antigonists of Fire next lwnter
were _cxplame-- did not appear to be of much use ; when once Firo was in the ascendant ; little could be done to counteract it . The _cxclu' _-ion ot oxygen , o . tho air , and tho use of carbonic acid gas were the chief ig . 'nctcs which annihilated ihmo _* and as a himl experiment ; a _largoqiiantitv of carbonic acid gas was collected in a cistern , ami _takin « advantage ofthe proper time , the loetmvr bailed it out ; with a pail , _»¦»! . succeeded in _cxt'tiguHiiing a large bonfire by pouring into it the whole contents of the cistern . The lecture was attended by a most crowded audience who greatly applauded tho learned gentleman ' sdi _^ coursc .
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A Grenadier. —There Is A Hoy In Indian")...
A Grenadier . —There is a hoy in Indian ") , aged _fci-n years , who is so uncommon tall that he cannot tell when his toes are cold . Conoxdkum . —Why is a lady ' s hair like tha latest news ?—Because in the morning we a ' ways find it iu papers . A sew mode of dispersing raol > 3 has been discovered , said to supersede t , he _~ necessity ofa military force—it is , to pass round a contribution box . Ba sot angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be , sim : e you cannot make yonrsolf what you wish to be . It is a doubtful point whether a blind man cauld be made liable tor » i . _i bill payable at si » ht . — Punch ' s Almanack . °
How to Make and Losb Friends . —Wine and good dmtiers make _abundance of friends ; bnt in the time of adversity not o : p is to be fund . _Li-oAii Lottu . — A physician cannot obtain recovery of his fees , although he may cause the recovery of his patient . " Doks tiik floor you hare been scouri .-g look nice , Bridget ?"— " Imlad _.-, an' it does marm—jast as nice as if I hadn ' t a touched it—I didn't hurt it at all , at all . " " _Woctn vou know this boy to be my son from his resemblance lo me ? " asked a gen _lemati .- —Mr . Curran replied , " Yes , sir ; tho maker ' s name is stamped upon the blade . " _Faxct is a butterfly , which must be delicately handled ; if m e fm _^ rs tamper with it , the bloom is rubbed off , and th « _g-. iy insect perishes .
The United _Service Gazette reports the strength of the British army to ho 12 ; l _, TC 8 men of all arms , besides 55 , 000 of pensioners , yeomanry , « tc . _Paui'biusm . —The _siatemcMs of ' numbers in each Union of tho Metropolis show a decrease of nearly 30 , 000 from those of last year ! Pauperism continues to decline in many parishes of England . The perfume of a thousand roses soon dies , but the pain caused by one ol their thorns remains long after ; a saddened remembrance in the midst of mirth is like that thorn _amonir tho roses .
Gas _Pii't's . —It is estimated that there are upwards of ( mo thousai . d five hundred miles of _gasmain-i ramifying throughout the streets of London . We ave inclined , _howeviw . to think that , even Una is too low an estimate . — -Builder . Sfkaki . no _yduk Aii . M _>—A pedagogue threatened to punish a pupil who hud called him a fool behind his back . — " Don ' t , dm _' t ! " begged the boy . " I won ' t do so again , sir , never . I never will speak what I think again in my life !" _ADkau Wife . —A gentleman just married told a friend that he had that morning laid out three thousand pounds in jewels for his dear wife . " Faith , sir , " said he , " Iseo you arsno hypocrite , for she is truly your dear wife . ' '
A member of the Connecticut Assembly moved for leave to bring in a bill for extending tbe powers of justices . Another requested , as a previous motion , that a statute might be passed to extend their capacities , Buhke and Dr , _JoiiNaoi- . —Dr . Robertson observed that Johnson ' s jokes were the rebukes ot the righteous , described in Scripture as being lihe excellent * _, oil . " Yes , " exclaimed Burke , " oil of vitriol !" _Lii- _' k . —Though we seemed grieved at the shortness of life in general , we are wishing every period of it at un end . The minor bmgs to be at age-r-then to be _amaii _ofbti'iness—then to make up ati estatethen to ariivs at honours—then to retire . —Abuisox . An old maid waa telling her age , which , she said , was just thirty-six years . A gentleman in company doubted the truth of her statement , but was corrected by her _hrot'ier , who said it must be _tru-. _* , for she had told the story IV ten years .
Definition of i _' usinisM . —The late facetious Sydney Smith , when asked to define Puseyism , remarked that it was a mixture of po 3 ture and imposture , flexions and genuflexions , of bowing t > the east and curtseying tu the west , with an immense amount of man-millinery . The _l-oPULATios of the _cityof New York o ; i the 1 st of June last , was about 520 , 000 . Adding t » this Brooklyn and the circumjacent places , which as properly belong to New York as Manhattanvillc . the result is a _mctrop'ditau population of nearly 750 , 000 , or three quarters of a million . _JXi-YKL Way op Rksignixc Offics —Tliepirish clerk of Westcnte , near Stow-on- the-Wold , has resigned his ottiee . His mode of proceeding WAS placing the follo « vSnfr _notice on the church door" This is to give notice that I shan ' t he clerk any longer , so yon he at liberty to get another . "
Mrs . Partington read a criticism the other day , in which a writer was charged with " neglectir . _^ tlie antecedent . "—'' That ' s just like some stuck-up aristocrats that I know , " said the old lady ; "they always neglect , their aunis , and other relations too , if they happen to be poor , " _Di' 1 'ahtuuu from I'ltiMmvi" Rui , e . ~ The Society of Friends have agreed to place stones over the graves of their deceased relatives of Bishopwcarmouth , with the initials of their names inscribed upon them in the same way as n stone was placed over the grave of tbeiv founder , George Fox , at his decease .
Broad _Siioui-ukrs . —It was proved at , Paris , in 1815 , during the occupation of that city , that u body of 13 'itish highlanders or _lowlanders , _standing " shoulder to _Moulder , " stretch over more giound than a similar number of inhabitants , soldiers or civilians , of any other nation in Europe . —Sir F . Head . A Di * sr _* -iuT "" Undertaking . — -There is a divine out west ( says an American paper ) trying to persuade girls to forego marriage . He might as- well try to persuade dueks that they could find a substitute for water , or rose' _uds that there is something better for their _complexion than sunshine . The only convert he has yet made is a single ladv , aged sixty .
_BniTisn and Foreign _Bidle Society . —At the usual monthly meeting of Ihe committee of tin-above society , it was stated that , by dint of unwearied exertion , 3 , 217 district associations had _baen formed in Great I ' ritain alone—it luu circulated _dnviog the last forty-five years mora than twenty-three million copies of the Scriptures , promoted the translation and printing of the sacred volume into MO different lancuages or d ' _aiads , nnd expended nearly
£ 3 , 500 , 000 . Glass vor thk i \> .:.. _" , cB or _Lvjjustby . — Tbe finished glass for Mr , i '" . „ ton ' _s building , writes tho Commissioner of tho Vowing Chronicle , will weigh 400 tons , requiring for its manufacture upwards of 600 tons of sand nnd other materials , and about 3 , 000 tons of coals . The average quantity of coal required for the manufacture of glass is eight times ( he bulk of the glass produced , or from _7- to 8 tons of coal for one ton cf _stlass . Tippbraby Honour . —A gentleman from Ireland _, on entering a London tavern , saw a countryman of his—a Tipperary squire , sitting over his pint of wine in the coffee-room . " Blood an' onnds ! my dear fellow , " said he , " what are you about ? For the honour of Tipperary don't be after sitting over a pint of wine in a house like this . "— " Make yourself aisy , countryman , " was the reply ; " it ' s the seventh I have had . and even one in the room knows it .
Black not Gbesn . —Said a gentleman the other day to a servant at the hotel where ho was stopping — "Bless my soul , Sambo , how black you are ; how in the name of wonder did you get so black . — " Why , look ' a here nmssa . de reasom am dis-de day dis child was born drre was an eclipse . * Ebony received a shilling for his satisfactory explanation , and after grinning thanks , continued— " I tell you what it is , massa , * dis nigger may be black , but he ain ' t green , no how . ' ' A Tiuye _ u : r and _Leaded Hawker . — A voune man , lately arrived in one of the northern " parishes of Ayrshire , from England , where he had hawked tea and accumulated some money and a vast fund of conceit , was one day lecturing to a group of admirers upon inductive _philosophv . A bvstauder asked if he was acquainted with Bacon ?—•• Bacon , sir , said the man of knowledge , wttu a . con . cmntuousmile
, " yes , I have of ten got it to my brenkfast when I was in England . " Railway _Tratfic—The published traffic returns of railways in the United Kingdom during the « 'rty-nine weeks of the last year , ending the 7 th of December , shows that the _aggtegate receipts amounted to £ 12 , 030 , 170 on G _. 210 miles of railway . For the corresponding period _<> f 1810 , the receipts amounted to £ W , 3 'jf , G 00 on 5 _. IG 0 miles , showing an increase in the _gro . - . _* - receipts of £ 1 , 038 57 '' , or 15 . 8 per cent ., und in the mileage at the end of the forty-nine weeks of 1 , 080 miles . The average receipts per ruiie for the _fovty-niue weeks in _ _^ _* y < c . \ * i _? v _^* v amounted to £ 2 , 111 , ami in tho corresponding \ 0 _flS _^^ L _& 'U 7 _^ of 1840 to £ 2 , 183 , showing a falling oft' in tl __^(^ - _^ - _^^ ceipts per mile of £ 72 , or only 3 3 per c « "t . _jQ ) tt _^) _«\^ , _N _^ . , _>! i !{ increase in the mileage of 20 . a per cent . _# _FtM _& r _&^&** _££ _iwikfkW
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 18, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_18011851/page/3/
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