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      Songs For The People Ho. Xxx. A Song Add...

      SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE HO . XXX . A Song addressed to

      THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS , On the occasion of their First Annual Festival to celebrat * the Anniversary ofthe French Republic , at the White Conduit Tavern , April 21 st , 1 S _16 . Air— _"Aidd Lang Syne . " All hail . Fraternal Democrats , Ye friends of freedom hail . _l Whose noble object is—that base Despotic power shall fail . _Chgbc-s . —That mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong , Shall from this earth be hurled , _An-I peace , goodwill , and brotherhood , Extend throughout the world . Associated to proclaim The equal rights of man .

      Progression ' s army ! firm , resolve d , On ! forward lead the van . Till mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong , Shall from this earth he hurled . And peace , goodwill , and brotherhood , Extend throughout the world . To aid this cause we here behold , British and French agree , Spaniard and German , Swiss and Pole , With joy the day would see . "When mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong

      Will from this earth be burled _. And peace , goodwill , and brotherhood , Extend throughout the world . We now are met to _celebrate The deeds of spirits brave , "Who struggled , fought , and Med , and died _. Their misrul'd land to save . For mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong From Prance they nobly hurled _. And wonld have spread Democracy Throughout tbis sea-girt world .

      Though kirgs and priests might then eombine To crush sweet liberty , We tell them now that they mnst how , That man shall yet he free . That mi Ires , thrones , misrule and Wrong , Shall from this earth be hurled _. And peace , goodwill , and brotherhood , Extend throughout the woild . Oh ! may that period soon arrive , When kings will cease to be , And freedom and equality Extend from sea to sea . Then mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong Will from this earth he hurled , And peace , goodwill , and brotherhood _. Shall reign throughout the world . Somers Town , John Abnott . September , 1546 .

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      so . XSXI . "ALL MEN ARE BRETHREN . " A . SOSG FOR THS FRiTEP . _N'AL _DKHOCP . ATS . BT _JUIIAX HABXET . Lin commencino _; the following song I intended it to " be sung , if worth _sinain ? . to the air of * ' Roderieh Tich" * Alpine dhn" ( the Boat Son ? in Scott ' s " Lady of the Lake" ); I fear , however , that in the course of its " manufacture" I have managed to spoil it for that air : the critics who hare " music io their _SOHfa" wili decide . *] Hail to the flat : of Fraternity flyiBg ,

      ' * _Xail'd to the mast" our bright banner waves , " _Kicsly and lordly brigands defying _. Breaking _< , _ur fetters , we scorn to be slaves . From the north to the southward , The east to the westward , The nnion rally-cry rins near and far ; Till all the nations round , TiU the whole earth resound , "AllMenare Brethren ! hip ! hip ! Hurrah !" "By the scourge of oppressors long we've teen driven , Lone have we bent ' neath the yoke and the chain Oar labour , onr _blosd , our lives have been given To pamper the tyrants wbo scoff at our pain . The earth they have plunder'd , Mankind they have snnder'd , _JTation ' gainst nation excited to war . Bnt no more disunited , Our wrongs shall be righted , " All Hen are Brethren ! hip ! bin ! Hurrah V

      Tremble , ye purple-dad , princely oppressors ; Woe to ye , haughty and _^ old-grasping lo rds ; _Oars'd be your false-hearted priestly abettors-More fatal their frauds than yonr blood-reeking Like tbe cataract dashing-, { swords . The avalanche crashing , Tbe on-rushing millions shall scatter you far . Like the hurricane roaring , Tb eir voices _? re soaring : " All Men are Brethren J bip J hip ! Hurrah J " As bright as the sky when the tempest is ended ; As fair as the earth when the winter is o ' er—Shall glory and freedom for ever be blended , When the dark freezing reign of oppression ' s no The happy communion , [ more . Of nations in nnion , The ser ; ent of selfishness never shall mar . Then sing , brothers , sing , Let tbe chorus lond _ring . " AU Men are Brethren ! hip ! hip ! Hurrah J "

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      the Foets until we have concluded our review ' The Aristocracy of Ensland . "

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      The Art5t0c1acy Of England. A History Fo...

      THE ART 5 T 0 C 1 ACY OF ENGLAND . A HISTORY FOR TOE PEOPLE . By John Hamp den , Junior . London : Chapman , Brothers , 121 , "Newgate Street ; Effingham "Wilson , Royal Exchange . LNo . TII . ] Oar author divides his history into three divisions ; the first commencing with the conquest , and ending frith the Wars of the "Roses , during the chief portion of which time the aristocracy were the dominant po _*** er in the State , overawing , and even unmaking and making tbe kings of England , and _oppressing the people at their will . In thesecond division , during the _rehjns ofthe Tadors and Stuarts , tbe _recal power achieved a complete triumph over the aristocratic : the nobles were humbled to the dust : but

      for this humiliation they indemnified themselves by plundering both church and people , which , the better t-enable themselves to do . they hesitated at no set of baseness to conciliate the crown as" the parasite . , jackals , and _bravos of the ruffianly nionarchs of tbe Tudor and Stuart lines . We now come to the third epo _; h of this history of rascality , whieh the author _cal ' -s the " "Mole-period of the Aristocracy , " in allusion tn tbeir undermining system of sapping tbe libertie *! of the country , and the underground policy tiny have acted upon for getting into their own hands the emoluments of tbe state and the wealth of the people . This third period of the aristocracy commenced in 1658 ; when tbey found , after two revolntions , that the _hish-handed . bullying system , would bo _longer serve them . It is superfluous to add , that this third period of aristocratic misrule has not yet terminated .

      ' * With the revolution of 1633 commenced the _xeSgn of humbug- " All power was declared to emanate from the people ; the constitution was declared fre _» and glorious ; and John Bull , tickled with this stuff , resigned himself to the tender mercies of the _aris to crac y , who have from that time more tightly bound and successfully fleeced him , than the sa me class were able to do even in the day 3 of a king making "Warwick , and Lord-Protector Somerset . Tbe parties of Whigs and Tories now started into being - , and these two make-believe factions have continned io govern the country between them , down to the present hour . Our author denominates Whig and Torv the 'Locust" and the " Palmer-worm : "

      and , quoting the Bible , says , — "That which the paimer-wTjrm hath left , hath the locust eaten ; and that which fhe locust hath left , hath ihe cankerworm eaten ; and tbat which the canker-worm hath left , hath the caterpillar eaten . '—Joel , c . i ., 4 . Which , being interpreted , meanetb : * That which the Tory hath 1- ft , hath the Whig eaten ; an d th a t which the Whig hath left hath the parcon eatcth ; which the parson hath left , hath the lawyer eaten . '" The rei « n of William the III , exhibits the usual rapacity on the part of the courtiers and aristocracy generally . The Whigs loaded themselves with grants of _forfeited estates in Ii eland , and crown property in

      _England . In this reign many of the aristocracy played the part of base traitors , by keeping np a correspondence ] with the expelled James , at tbe same time that they arere in the service of William , and receiving British pay . In Anne ' s reign the country was governed by bed chamber women ; and as usual , the -vilest corruption was in the ascendant , but that corruption was perfected in the succeeding reign under the management of Walpole , who made it his boast that " everv man had his price . " A specimen is given bj Dr . King , in his Political and Literary Anecdotes , of the masterly manner in which Walpole silenced any opponent by the lo'ic of his country ' s money . * _" *

      BUTISG VOTES IX THE HOTjSE OF COMMONS . Ke wanted to carry a question in the Ilouse of Commons , to which he knew that there would be great opposition , and which was disliked by some of his own dependents . As he was passing through tbe Court of Requests he met a member of the contrary party whose avarice he imagined would not _rrject a large bribe . He took bim aside and said , " Such a question comes on this day ; give me your vote , and here is a bank-bill for £ 2000 ; " which he put into his hands . The member made him this answer . " Sir Bobert , you have lately served

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      some of my particular friends ; and when my wife was lastat court , the king was very gracious to her which must have happened at your instance . I should therefore . iMnk in _^ elf verv _un-rateful ( putting the biU into his _pocket if I were to refuse thefavour you are now pleased tO aSK IQCi ... _Walpole's successor declared " that it was impossible to gDvern Lngland , but by corruption . " On this principle all succeeding administrations , Whig and Tory , have acted most faithfully . Inth e r e i gn of William the III . was began those continental wars , in which tbis countrv was almost continually engaged down to tbe year _1 S 15 , The folly ofthe nation in submitting to these wars , and the knavery of the aristocracy in prompting them , is forcibly _ shown in the following extracts : —

      • _AnisiocRATic-innE _wahs . The aristocracy may he said to have lived and fattened on the Wood of the whole world . Wars of all kinds , and for all pretences , warsfor the balance of power in Europe ; wars of aggre-sion and slaughter of the natives in America , India , and Africa , have been a source of maintenance to the vast broods of the aristocracy , who did not find the whole land rental of _England enough for them . Wehave fought for anybody , and everybody—for anything or for nothing ; for * Germans , Spaniards , Portuguese , Dutch , Belgians ! for any people that were too cowardly or

      effeminate to take care of themselves ; for the maintenance of despotism and popery all over the continent ; and for this John Bull not only has had to pay , but yet owes a debt of eight hundred millions . The most amazing thing in nature is , that _through all this long reign of deception and plunder , debt and degradation , the English people—a most active , matter-of-fact , and intelligentpeople—should bave been deluded to the ruiu of their finances , and to exclusion from the constitution , by the mere aristocratic bird—calls of glory ; liberty , and a national constitution , the envy and ' admirationof the world I Bm _' every sensible man who looks well into the actual state of facts will see

      that this constitution has long ceased to exist ; that there is no such thing as the British constitution according to the popular idea of it ; that the people have no house , and the monarch little or no political existence . We will go a little nearer , and trace some ofthe most _strikingmenns by which this grand delusion has to this hour been so successfully kept up , and by whicb the aristocracy bave contrived in reality topossess themselves of every thing in this country ; and of the church and ths state ; the House of Lords and Hou « eof Commons ; the sovereignty in the cabinet and the possession ofall offices ; the army and tbe navy ; the colonies abroad and the land at home ; in a word , of every thing in England but the debt which they have bestowed on the people , and left thwn to pay , and the trade which they despise , yet continue to extract the sweets of through the medium of taxation , in office salaries and pensions .

      The eighteenth chapter is devoted to an exposure ofthe nature and cost of our wars since tbe revolution , and a most valuable exposure it is . From this chapter we shall cull two or three extracts : — WHT THERE WiS NO " DKBl" BEFOBK THK REVOLUTION , wnr WE HAVE A " debt" now . And here let us again impress it firmly on the mind and memory of the reader , that before tbe revolution we had no public debt . With a'l the long , mighty , ! and bloody wars in which England had _bsfore been engagedwhether the crown and aristocracy were tearing the vitals ofthe land , or seeking for glory , plunder , and fresh _territory in France—we had never accumulated a debt . And why i For the simple reason , that till that piriod the aristocracy had to pay for the war charges as well as all others : and had they _accumulated a debt , they

      knew tbat they would have to pay that too . But the infamous bargain with Charles II . for his restoration , which wehave explained , altered this situation of things altogether . The aristocracy threw the burther .- from thems lve « upon the people , and tlien it became not only a matter of indifference how much was _vpfiit , aud how much debt was incurred , but an actual mitter of profit , forthe more war the more employment for them :: nd theirs . ; the more expenditure the more _peculation . _Accordingly William of Orange had not been long on the throne before the continental w : ir , into whieh hii accession led ns , began tobe _v-.-ry expensive ; aud in the eight year of his rci _^ n , that is , in 11 * 96 . his _ministers _propose the sure and bold scheme of creating a d bt ; thnt is , of _forestalling the year ' * revenue by borrowing money upon state counters or Exchiq » er idlers , bearing interest _, an' secured on supplies voted in sureeeding sessions .

      This was the commencement and first creation of that mode of forstalling the revenues whicb has grown to so anormous an _exti-nt , and produced a debt of eight hundred millions in less than a liuu _. ' r-d an . l fifty years , To plana the selfish care of the aristoertcy on the one hand , and its jclrish _recklessness on the other in their-truli _^ _i's < _-ar _^ t . > avoid landing it » elf with debt , _uiiiie it was _boUi-d to pay it , and its care to load the people with debt when the people became bound to pay it , and they the aristocracy , were for the most part the receivers of and gainers by it;—let any man only reflect for a moment , that from the hour that tho aristocracy came into this country with the Conquerer , till the revolution , 022 years , they fought snd scrambled , even for the crown , but shunned a debt actually far more than they shunned the

      devil ; but , from the revolution to the end of the last war , 127 years , they spent three thousand three hundred and eighty-three millions in war taxes , and piled up a debt Of eight hundred and thirty-four millions ! If any poor man , ay , or any man , wants to know how tbis wicked waste and extravagance has affected him , and does hourly affect him and his children , let him look at the cost of articles of life before the debt began , and what that cost is now . Let "him trace the growth of the debt and the growth of the cost of the _necessaries of life , and he will s _? e that _i-m has kept pace exactly with the other . He will see tbat for _eve-y man murdered by the aristocracy in the continental wars , and for every pound of debt laid on the nation to pay for it , Providence , with a rigorous hand of retribution , has laid on the lives of us , who

      suffered this to go on , a tax of dearness and scarcity . We have suffered our aristocracy to destroy life by millions abroad by our money , and the means of life to us , the per . mitters , have been made , in a direct and progressive ratio , more difficult of access . Wheat , that in 16 SS was about 46 s . per quarter , and sometimes much less , not more than 2 _Cs ., gradually mounted with the debt , till , in 1793 , it valued 127 s ., and at the end of the war was still , with all our increased foreign supplies , 116 s . - Meat rose from lid . per pound to 9 d . and ls . ; butter from 3 d . to Is . Cd . and 2 s ; cheese from Id . and 3 d . toCd . andls . ; peas from 2 d . a bushel , till , in 1800 , they were 13 s . 5 J . ; besr from os . lOd . a barrel to 20 s . 4 _ii . ; candles from 6 s . Sd . per dozen pounds to 10 s . Cd . ; coals Irom 34 s . per chaldron to 51 s . 7 d . ; shoes from 4 s . to 1 * 2 * . ; clothing , and all other articles , in like proportion , especially _hause

      rent . SUBSIDIZING" COSTI . YBNTAI . Cl'T-THROATS . If the history of our continental subsidies and their application ceuld be written in its naked reality , and as itis ridiculed on the continent , it would present a revolting and humiliating scene . The hard-earned money wrung from our own brave and hard working people , till they rose in their misery , and even threatened king and government trith destruction , went to be divided among * t a host of despots and harem slaves , lt went to pamper tbe sloth and lust of whole styes of great

      Westphalian boars , and other Gar man . twine . Il went to pay the debts and mistresses cf men that were loathed by their own people as mousters of sensual filth , and gravelling petty princes who had not a soldier to bring into the field , such was the ignorance or the criminal _carlesslcss of our Government , received large sums with which they satisfied greedy concubines and long-waiting creditors , and then plunged into still deeper sensual mire , in reliance on the lavish , _unscrutinisiug and exhaustless subsidies of England . The stories of such facts that are circulated in Germany , are painful to English ears .

      Those princes ihat did bring men into the field , such as the He .-sians , Brunswicktrs _, & c ., —the llenscheu-Vcrkuufer , or Man-sellers , as they are styled by their own people , were rapacious beyond all example . During the American war , we had employed th _^ se Hessians , Hrunswickers , and the like , at a cost that t-xcitcd general indignation . Besides paying £ 7 10 s . for every man , the Duke of Brunswick , who furnished only 4084 men , had an annual subsidy of £ 15 . 919 . The Landgrave of Hesse-Cnssel , who furnished 12 , 000 men , had £ 10 , 281 a-year ; tbe hereditary Prince of Hesse , for his miserable quota of 6 SS men , h = d his £ 0 , 000 a-year ! And besides this , we were bound to defend their territories from all attack ! >* ay , besides their annual subsidies , Brunswick was to receive double subsidies for two years after his troops were dismissed ; and tbe _oflnrs , like advantages . In abort , these "Mansellers bad sold their slaves—the offscouving

      of their population , not raised as now by conscription , but raked together by any means , —something dear , about 17 , 000 mercenaries , costing us a million and a half yearly . In Ihe-French war our bargains witb these people wire equally absurd . The Hessians had the like proportion of pay and subsidy ; and the Duke of Brunswick , lor his wretched knot of 2 , 289 min , his £ 16 , 000 ayear subsidy ! But , as we have said , this was not all;—we paid 'he Great Powers to our own actual mischief . We paid the Emperor of Au 3 iria from two to four millions yearlv . The Austrians were , perhaps , the most

      honest in thecause of all the Germans , andfought very doggedly , but with little judgment , and less success . They were so slow that they were actually useless in auy attempts to co-operate with them . Nelson , who was sent to assist the South of Italy , in conjunction with them , in 1794 . was driven almost frantic by them . " This army , " said he , "is slow beyond all description , and I begin to think the Emperor is anxious to touch another five millions of English money . As for these German generals , war is their trade , and peace is ruin to them ; therefore , we cannot expect that they shall have any wish to finish the _isar .

      The subsidizing of Austria continued up to 1797 , in which year we find in April a vote of £ 2 , 000 , 000 to the Emperor , £ 1 , 200 . 000 having been sent him only in _No-Ttinaer previous ! and in the following _Octobsr he made ptace with Buonaparte , at Campo Fonnio _, and his estates became subject to French levies , which our money went to pay- Agaiu , encouraged by a promise uf money , the Emperor Francis declared war in 1809 on Buonaparte . This was done in May ; and in October of the same year , in about five months , Buonaparte was in the Emperor's capital , and levied £ 3 . , 000 of English money on him for the _expenses of ihe war . "

      Russia we subsidized _afcthe rate of from two to three millions a-year . In 1799 , we were paying the Emperor rani £ 112 , 000 _a-montb , witb which money he built and _repaired men of war , and in the _following year swept

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      with them our merchantmen out of the Baltic and Northern Seas ; and we find the king of _England announcing to bis Pwlhment in April , 1801 , that his late subsidized ally "had already committed great outrages on the ships , persons , and property of his subjects , " having made a league with our enemies of Sweden and Denmark to do all possible mischief to our trad .- and people in the north , and to cut off from us all necessary supplies of corn thence ! This was madness enough on our part , but was far from the worst . We were not only subsidizing all , even the smallest powers of Europe , such as Sardinia , at £ 400 , 000 a-year , but we were actually in league with all the most confirmed villains in it , down to tho very Day of Algiers , who was , in fact , licensed by us to practice his Corsair atrocities on Christian nationB . THE MOSEY OP THB ENGLISH PEOPLE EMPLOYED TO

      AID THB DESTRUCTION OF I'OLAND _, At the very annonncement of our coalition against France , who were our allies 1 _Trussia _, Itussia _. and Austria , thc very powers that for years we have so vehomently taunted with the violent dismemberment of Poland . In 1793 , when _wd had issued high-sounding manifestos . * , that we and our allies were going to chastise thc French for their crimes and their robberies , and our Duko of York had advanced into the Netherlands to meet those allies , where were they ! Busy in robbing and dividing Poland amongst themselves ! "The arguments used by tho spoilers ,, ' says the historian , "threw ridicule anddiscredit on our manifestoes , and made the French believe that the coalition alao meant to plunderand partition Franca ''

      It was a melancholy farce . We were pretending to enf # rce justice on a great nation , in company with the most notorious robbers In all Europe . This , unfortunately , however , was but one _occasion of this kind ; a still worse oceurred in 1791 . The allies were again preparing to make a grand stand against the French in the Netherlands . The king of Prussia , who had in reality been tampering with the enemy for a separate peace , declared , that unless he had a grant immediately of £ 2 , 200 , 000 , he would march off . The money was granted , as money always was , if asked for , even under the most suspicious or absurd circumstances as the present , and he did march off still , and to some purpose . He did not appear in tbe field at the time appointed with the allies , and it was found that he was gone into a still more disgraceful

      one . Kosciusco , the brave Polish patriot , had roused his countrymen for a last effort against their oppressors , our own dear allies , and with our money Frederick had marched off , joined the Russians , and , defeating Kosci usco , made the third , and final partition of Poland 1 In the meantime , our army in the Netherlands , in conse-¦ equence of this desertion of Prussia , suffered great slaughter and repulse . We had , indeed , not only paid our £ 2 , 200 , 000 for the extinction of Poland , but for the slaughter of our own troops ! Pew , when they lament the fate of Poland , and denounce in terms of deepest contempt both Russia aud Prussia , its violators , are aware that we were the unremonstrating allies of these

      caitiff powers , and that our money , the troops raised and paid by us , and whicb , without this money , could not have stirred a foot , went to do this disgraceful work , making England an active and eftU'ieut partisan in it , nay , the most efficient of all , for without our pay they could not have effected it . Having effected it , the king of Prussia , wh } , as we have said , was at the very moment we paid him this £ 2 , 200 , 000 tampering with the enemy , immediately made peace with him ! Such was the manner in whicli our reckless ministers , with tbeir eyes open , were duped out of their money for purposes most disgraceful to our name ; and such were the _m-n whom they were morally trying from year to year to bribe to the deliverance of themselves .

      The nineteenth and twentieth chapters contains further _exposures of political corruption from the time of the " Glorious " Revolution" of 1688 . Our reforming friend : * the Whigs are handsomely showed np . Their plunder of tbe public fully equalled anythin ? _perpetrated by the Tories , and to them we owe the chief of the despotic acts which have rendered our _blessed " constitution" so complete a farce . They _repeatedly superseded tlie Habeas Corpus Act , * they passed the _Septennial Act to establish seven instead of three years parliaments ; and to thera we arc indebted for tho Riot Act , which has been so often employed to stifle the voice of the people . In the .-e chapters U contained some " spicy" anecdotes ofthe moral doings of the lib . aged Guelphic breed . Gcor ; e I . had , besides English ones , two German _mistscsses * —

      In the distHrbancrs connected ivith the South Sea Hubble , in whicli we have seen that these _German Indies , who . by the _luv . were Very u _/ ly , were so _conspicuous , the mob one day surrounded the carriage of one of ihem with gr : _' _-it demonstrations of violence . She put out her li- ail , : _in < i in her tir _.-k _' -n English said— ' * Why do you abuse us , good peoples ? Weai _' _eCi . me for all \ OUr goods 1 To which a fellow most aptly replied— " Yes , curse you , and for all our chattels too I " We have all heard Geor » e III . trumpeted for his domestic v ' rtues , more particularly for

      " That household virtue , most uncommon , Of constancy to a bad , ugly woman ' . " But the light shed by John Hampden , jun ., reveals some ugly facts , perhaps not very widely known . Thus we hare an account of the bible-loving king ' s _Quaker dearie , Hannah Lightfoot , w h ich a cc o unt proves George to have been a bigamist . There is considerable doubt that Queen Charlotte was the _lecal wife of George III ., if she was not , all her children were bastards , and consequently the ri-ht of Victoria to sit on the throne is , to say the _lea-t , questionable ! But whichever was the legal wife , one thins is certain , _Geors-e III . had two wives . By Hannah ' Lightfoot he had several children . Itis

      said that a son of George and of Hannah Lightfoot was retained about court and advanced to the rank ofa colonel , when the Princess Amelia , daughter of George and Charlotte , became attached to him , and George had the horror to discover that , unaware of the relationship , his favorite daughter had privately married her half-brother ! So much for royal morality . It is unm cessary that we should go into the history of the notorious : Prince William , afterwards William IV * ., and the unfortunate actress Mrs . Jordan , left to perish in poverty , and find a foreign crave ; the scandal ofthe Duke of York and Mrs ' . Clarke , and tbe boundless and costly amours of the modern Tiberius , George IV . with his Mrs . Robinsen , Mrs . Fitzherbert , Lady Jersey , & c ., & c .

      The frightful corruption carried oh by ministers and the aristocracy generally to make and keep the House of Commons a mere place of traftiick through which the money of the people was infamously obtained , and afterwards as infamously expended , we cannot go inte , but we will just quote from a speech by Chatham , denouncing

      _PAKLIAMEJCTARY CORRUPTION * . In 1770 , Chatham , in a fit of virtuous indignation , exclaimed , " The minister who is bold enough to spend the people ' s money before it is granted , _eren though it be not for the purpose of corrupting their representatives , deserves death ! " And on finding opposition to inquiry into government profusion , he made this remarkable declaration . " Does tht- king of _En-fland . want to build a palace equal to his rank and dignity ? Docs he want to encouragethe polite and useful arts 1 Does be mean to reward the hordy veteran who has defended his quarrel in many a rough campaign , whose salary does not equal that of some of your servants ? or does he mean , by

      drawing the purse-strings of his subjects , to spread corruption through the people , to procure a parliament , like a packed jury , ready to acquit his ministers at all adventures ! I do not say , my lords , that corruption lies here , or that corruption lies thtre , but if any gentleman in England were to ask whether I thought both houses of parliament were bribed , I should laugh in his lace , and say , " Sir , is it not so ?" The agitation for a reform of parliament which commenced ahout this time our author briefly sketches down to the carrying of the Reform _Ilill , of which he quietly says * . —'' John Bull got a paper document called the Reform Bill , and fancied it thc genuine title to his estate . " ..

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      THE FAMILY HERALD . Pari 40 . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . Besides the continuation of Eugene Sue ' s new and interesting . vork , Martin the Foundlinq , there arc several tales and articles of considerable interest in this Part . We have selected some extracts from two articles on France and Frenchmen by the Editor , which our French friends would do well to ponder on . There is , at least as regards the people , an universal desire iu this country to regard this Frenchpeople as our " natural friends , " with pain , therefore , we view those outbursts of _national vanity which Michf . let has so foolishly published , and the Editor ofthe Family Herald so properly castigated _, lt is only fair to add the confession , that in the course of their history , Englishmen have been as great fools a _^ regards this nationality humbug as any people on the face of the earth ; but that delusion has lost its charms on tbis side of the channel , may it soon be as harmless nn the . other side .

      _PItAJJCE-A FEW HINT SRESPECTING OUR GALLAST NEIGHBOURS . Of all nations in the Western world , the French have thc highest idea of themselves . National vanity seems so natural to a Frenchman that he never perceives tiie absurdity nf which ha is guilty when he speaks of Franco in thc impassioned language peculiar to his countrymen . He seems to think that we foreigners ought to feel as he docs in reference to French superiority , and even to envy him the glory of bsinjj a son ofl ' i-anee . To pit France agaiust tlie world is so fiimiiitir to a Frenchman that lie takes it for granted that France alone is epiuil to all the rest . " The day the world conspires to conic and take a close view of France , " says Michelet in his People , " will be hailed by our soldiers as the finest in their lives . " A

      curious boast for an historian , who ought to know , lit least , that the most heroic deeds of Franco wero accomplished under the auspices ofan _Italiiin chief—a Corsican master . If France was then the centre of the world , Italy was thecentre of the " French army . Could France produce an Emperor ! " Ah' . my hope is in the flag , " says this worshipper of Mars , ' * that it may save Frauce the France of the army . May our glorious army , urioi which the eyes of the world are fixed , maintain itscl pure ! " " Holy bayonets of Frauce I watch that r . ethin ;

      The Family Herald. Pari 40. London: G. B...

      h _™ L- r _^ e . that 8 _lorJ _* ' imo _» netrable to every eye , now ol _hh " h _* _-t ° Ve > ou * ' ThU * W *»» _W _^ onh « s h , ghcst heels , his very stilts . ' This new _««> £ _Tsal S , ° ' thU Wrt lltu W Of a _jihilosophieal church , t « h c _* -ar _** cteristic of thegreat nation ; and moreover " ; snow , whence the greatness ofthe nation is derived ' _i on " the hope ofthe nation rests . _Vfho but a * renolimnn could say Amea to such a prayer * And yet tins same Frenchman calls France the universal nation ' _fording to him France writes books for all the world _, ine English scarcely write anything _now-a-day » but articles In Reviews . As for German books who reads them but Germans ? " The French do not read them evidently ; but this only shows the greater universality of the Gur nan mind , for Germany reads French English , and German hooks , while France reads French hooks only , and simply believes that they are the onlv books worth reading ! Yet all ils philosoph y is borrowed from Germany . It is impossible to get political truth

      lrom a Frenchman . Apparently he seems to be blinded by _hispatrie mania , his unreasonable love of country _, which goes so far beyond the limits of politeness , as to make him speak disrespectfully of every other country out ing own . And yet , great as this nation is , according to _Aiichelet himself , in the book above quoted , " the people are all slaves . His book is divided into chapters _, the first treats of the bondage of the peasant ; the second tiie bondage of the worliman ; the third of the bondage ot tne artizan ; thc fourth of the bondage of the manufacturer ; tho fifth of the bondage ofthe tradesman ; the siuh of the bondage of the official ; the seventh of the bondage of the rich man and the burgess . Now , what isleftfor Liberty , who has taken up herahode in France The France of u Frenchman ' s worship is an ideality . It bas no existence . Whenever he comes to describe the real France faithfully , his ideal disappears . It is a phantom which his patriotism has conjured up .

      France defeats its own ends by bepraising itself . "Who has a literature « " says Michelet , a member of the Institute , a teacher of adults . " Wbo still sways the mind of Europe ? We , weak as we are are . Who has an army ? We alone . England and Russia , two feeble bloated giants , impose an illusion on Europe . Great empires—weak people ' . Let France be united for an instnnt—shc is as _stron-t as tho world ! The first thing is that bafore the crisis ( the coming battle ) we should reconnoitre ourselves well , and have not as in 1792 and in 1815 , to alter our line manoeuvres and system in presence of the enemy . The second is that we should trust in France , and not at all in Europe . " It is a pity that France is in Europe . Why do not tho French Geo . graphers make it a distinct quarter of the world ? or why don't they compose their maps like the Chinese , France in thecentre a great nation , and the Barbarians outside occupying little corners ?"

      To crush all nations seems to be a favourite idea . " Have we not armies and fortresses enough , " gays Michelet , " to pen them up and watch them till a favourable opportunity occurs to crush them altogether V It Is melancholy to fee a great man , for be is a great man , indulging in such murderous expectations ) . It is the moral weakness of his mind , and it ia the weakness of France . ' The day when France , remembering that she was and must be ( doitelre ) the salvation of the human race , surrounds herself with her children , and teaches them France , as faith and religion , she will find herself living , and solid as the globe . " So says Michelet ; a most theatrical claptrap for Frenchmen : England does not talk in this manner . England makes fun of herself under the portly personification of John Bull , whom sheim ; it ! 'Vith all the good humour , simplicity , and

      credulity of an easy , fat , well-fed , old gentleman , without any pretensions whatever . Britannia , no doubt , blows a little on her couch , as she rules the waves on a bale of cotton , and the British lion sometimes wakens up in a Bentinck oration , and shakes his mane and gives a noble roar , as any Other Hon might do in the zoological gardens for the amusement of the public ; but __ we never heard of any English madcap ever proposing to teaeh _England as a faith and as a religion , or boasting gravely that England has been and must be ( two very contradictory assertions ) the salvation of the world ; nor does any British philanthropist ever suggest the idea of collecting all the children of Great Britain , from one or two years , to sit together before _special education begins , and learn nothing- but England ! " Oil I ' onn ' _apprendraitrien autre que la France . "' Poor little dears !

      If France thinks that by such manners she can com . mend herself to the world as tho leader of civilization , she 13 mistaken . The truth is , that Frenchmen have lost _character and influence by this very Bpirit , They did not _speiik and write thus in the middle ages , when _prance was comparatively greater than she is now . In the days of Abel-aril anil Ramus they were more co 3 mopo . litan _. _and-therefbre greater . Instead of rising in power and influence by becoming Frenchmen , they have fallen . England and France , however , have in a limited capacity a mission of immense mundane importance

      England has the greatest navy—France the grtatest " army . France by laud , and England by sea , have for some time past been all-powerful in civilization . Any man who is reasonably disposed , and not converted into a fool by petty patriotic vanities , may easily perceive that England and France hold two ofthe very first olaces in tbe arena of civilization . Germany ought to be as . sociated with tiiem . These three nations cannot he mistaken—Germany for abstract thought ; France , for popularizing that thought ; and England , for practically attempting it .

      Michelet compares France and" England to the two electricities , posiivc and negative ; and had he reasoned throughout this singular book of " Tho _Teople " upon this hypothesis , he had done well ; but he only acknowledges it with an apparent show of candour , and then immediately returns to the abuse of England , as if it were painful to him , even for one minute , to suffer England to share with France the glory of giving salvation to the genrehumain ( human race ) . We hope that there is no such jealousy in England , and that we are perfectly willing to share with all nations the honours competed

      for ; indeed , the more wo know of other nations , tho more we shall be convinced that they have all been contributors to thc great work ; and so beautifully has thc whole arrangement been made , that even the black man , the doomed slave o" the white , comes in for his prize , as bavins hi an hour of white barbarity and darkness preserved tlie light of science , trimmed its lamp , and handed it westward and northward , whither it was at first _commissioned . Humanity and charity will at last regard all nations as one , and annihiliate petty national jealousies in the idea of the universal nation of man .

      Tiie Reasoner. Part 3. Edited By G. J. H...

      TIIE REASONER . Part 3 . Edited by G . J . Holyoake . London : G , Watson , 3 , Q ueen ' s Iiead Passage , Paternoster-row . There are several well-written articles in this Part , amongst which we most particularly single out an article on " The Duty of Inquirers after Truth . " The Editor gives his readers some reminiscences of his early acquaintances amongst public men , and amongst them figures Mr . Georgb Combe , the wellknown author of " the Constitution of Man , " and Professor of Phrenology . This gentleman figures anything bnt creditably in the pages of tho Reasoner , Tlie narrative ofthe Editor ' s early disappointments in iiis intercourse with such *' _philanthropists" (?) as

      Combe , tells funnily enough for tlie reader , but the circumstances narrated must have been " nae fun " to Ct . J . 11 . at the time . Amongst the selected matter will be found a reprint of the pith of tho celebrated pamphlet " Killing no Murder" by Colonel Titus , whicli is said to have caused the death of CnoMWKLL through the anxiety it _occassioncd that distinguished usurper . To those who have not read the pamphlet this reprint of extracts will be highly interesting . Some day wc may dish up somo of the tyrant-hating colonel ' s arguments for the readers of the Star . There are several articles we should like to quote—or quote from , but wo can find nothingsufficiently brief as well as suitable for our columns but the following beautiful lines : —

      ELEGY OX TIIE DEATH OF DK . _CIIAJfiVING . I do not come to weep above thy pall , And mourn the dying out of noble powers ; The poet ' s clearer eye should see , in all Earth ' s seeming woo , thc sued of Heaven ' s flowers . Truth needs no champion : iu the infinite deep Of everlasting Soul her strength abides , From Nature ' s _ht-art the mighty pulses leap , Through Nature ' s veins her strength , _unilying , glides . Peace is more strong than war , anil gentleness , Whom force were vain , makes conquests o ' er the wave ; And love lives on , and hath a power to bless , When they who loved are hidden iu the grave . The sculptured marble brags of death-strewn fields , And glory ' s epitaph is writ in blood ; But Alexander now to Flato yields ; Clarkson will stand where Wellington hath stood .

      I watch the circle of tho eternal years , And read for ever in the storied page One lengthened roll of blood , and wrong , and tears , — One onward step of Truth from age to age . Tlie poor are crushed ; thu ti rants link their chain ; The poet sings through narrow _diingt-oii-gnites ; Mini ' s hope lies quenched ; -and lo ! with steadfast gain , Freedom doth forge her mall of adverse fates . Jlen slay the prophets ; fagot , rack , and cross Make up the groaning records of the past But Evil ' s triumphs are her endless las 3 , And sovereign beauty wins thc soul at last . No power can die that ever wrought for Truth ; Thereby a law of " Nature it became , And lives unwithcred iu its sinewy youth , _AVhen ho who called it forth is but a name . J , lt . Low EH . _~ _TTTIOTI « _lr" _- _~»^~«»'''''" _' _^>™'" '' _^'' J _'" _fc'l '' _' '' lllllll "' _^^™ ' _^ '

      Totatoes In Bread.—The Magistrates Of Forfar Have Sent A Notice To Every Baking Establishment

      _Totatoes in Bread . —The Magistrates of Forfar have sent a _notice to every baking establishment

      Within Tlieir Jurisdiction, Prohibiting ...

      within tlieir jurisdiction , prohibiting them fron > . _us mg potatoes in the manufacture oj their _bre-jd during the ensuing year ,

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      Erasers op Railw & _ts . —The extensive range of stabling and coachhouses attached to the Bell and Crown Inn , Holborn , are being converted into dwelling places , the introduction of railways having taken all the coaches off the road Uiat used to stop at this inn . There are , in or near London , 41 _Charles-streets , 29 Church-streets , 21 George-streets , 28 Highstreets , 28 John-streets , 35 _King-streets , 23 Newstreets , and 23 _Queen-streets . Novel Imposition . _—A number of men , dressed as Armenians , are now going about professing to sell , _onffe Ub _?* ' b , wucli _**? raai , y instances turns real articl y COl ° Ured t 0 imifcate the

      i ; n „ _J _-m TM _™™ r Co _* trast .-When the line of rail is completed between Berwick and Newcastle , the journey from Edinburgh to London will be a matter of fifteen or sixteen hours . Little more _t * _^ o _, 7 . ..

      _ New Political Societv . —A new political association the motto of which is "All men are Brethren , " has lately been formed in London , and is daily receiving new accessions to its numbers . The p rinciples of the Association are of the most liberal kind—one of its chief characteristics is , that it is not confined to Englishmen , but c om p re he nds among its members men" of all countries and climes . Am o n g i ts o fficers ar e G e rm a n , Frenchmen , Greeks , Spaniards , Italians , Poles , and even Russians . The motto on the card of admission is printed in the German . French , Greek , Spanish . Italian , and Polish languages . The Society holds its meetings weekly , when speeches are made and patriotic songs sung in the native language of the various members . One of the objects of this Society is to promote the

      cause of a universal _fellowship—with which view it is intended to celebrate in turn all the great triumphs of p o p ular p rin c i p les which h a v e b ee n ac hiev e d either in Europe or America . —Morning Advertiser . A Minaturb Newspapkr . — In Alyth , a tillage in the north of Scotland , there is a regular weekly newspaper published , price one halfpenny , and about half the size ofan ordinary street ballad . It is entitled the Alyth Recorder , * nd as ifc takes a brief notice of what occurs in the district , is chiefly in tended to ' * be transmitted by letter to friends at a distance . " It records the fairs , public meetings , accidents , weather , births , marriages , and deaths , taking place in Alyth ; together with occasional anecdotes , s cra p s of ve r se s , and riddles . —Glasgow Citizen .

      Singular Bequests . — The w i ll of M a r y A nne Johnson , late of Well-walk , Hampstead , spinster , who died on the 6 th ult ., passed tbe seal of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury , on the 1 st instant . The personal estate of the testatrix is sworn under £ 25 , 000 . The will contains the following" bequests . * " I give to my black dog Carlo an annuity of £ 30 a y ear during the dog ' s life , to be paid half-yearly . Unto each ofthe cats , Black y , Jemmy , and Tom , I g ive an annu ity of £ 1 0 a y ear for th e t hr e e c a t s , to be paid half-yearly . Margaret Potson and Iiarriet Holly , my mother ' s old servants , to take charge ofthe dog and cats . "—Query—What will the authorities at the Legacy Duty Office do ? As it respects " Legacy Duty , " the legatees are certainly "strangers in blood" to the deceased , and in that capacity are liable to a duty of ten per cent , on the value of their life interest ; but tbe Legacy Duty Act , ou the other hand , says nothing about duty payable on legacies bequeathed to dogs and cats .

      The subscription to the Wilderspin testimonial amounts to £ 1 , 000 . " Dikd fob Love , "—About a month ago , a man was found in the iiois de Bnlogne , having committed suicide ; but it has only been just ascertained that he wns a native of Berlin , named Kaufman , lie was a distinguished poet , who had translated intu German the plays of Shakespeare and the poems ol Burns . He left his own country in 1343 , upon the recommendation ofthe celebrated pianist Liszt , and at . Paris became affianced to a young German lady . She , however , died suddenly , andherlos 3 rendered life insupportable to him . Only two days be ore the fatal act . he had accepted jtlie appointment of tutor in a hi g h famil y at Paris , with a sal a r y of 2 , 000 f ., besides tis board and lodging . Among his papers were found two plays in manuscript , and the commencement of a translation of Dante ' s Divina Comedia _. —Galignani '

      Spring Again . —From the extraordinary heat of the season the trees on the boulevards of Paris , the leaves of which had begun to wither , are now pushing forth fresh ones . Some cbesnut trees in the Plane Royale afforded the singular spectacle of ripe fruit , yellow leaves , lar g e blossoms , and fresh green leaves , all at the same time . Fatal Accident . —On Saturday afternoon , a fatal accident occurred to a fine young man , a coalwhipper , named Sullivan , off Stone Stairs . Ratcliff . He was p racti s in g in a sm a ll skiff f o r a rowin g match , when his frail bark was upset by the swell of a steamer , and the unfortunate man Jo _^ t his life in consequence . A Fact fob _Fbeb-tradebs . —The Leicestershire Mercury states , that the operative framework knitters of Desford and other villages in the county have deserted their stocking frames and betook themselves to the woods to gather blackberries , for which ther find a ready market in Leicester , and realise more by this means than they can at their usual

      occupation . The Wellington * Statue is at length finished . When we state that from the body of the horse to the ground , about nine feet intervene , and that tbo knee joints are as large in circumferance as the body ofan ordinary man , some idea may be formed ofthe magnitude ofthe proportion , both ofthe horse and rider . The weight of metal in the statue exceeds forty tons . The entire weight of the statue , carriage , & c , will exceed sixty tons , and about thirty of the most powerful dray horses will be employed to drawit . , from Mr . Wyatt ' _s to the triumphal arch at Hyde Park-corner .

      New Hulks for Friendly Societies . —By the 13 th provision of act of last sessions ( Oth and 10 th Vic . c . 27 ) , wliich Act is to be construed with and-as part ofthe Acts relating to Friendly Societies , 10 th Geo . 4 , cap . 50 , and the 4 and 5 Win . 4 , c , 40 , it is enacted that after the passing of this Act , the _registrar of Friendly Societies in England , Scotland , and Ireland , shall not certify the rules of any friendly society , established after the passing of the Act , for the purpose of securing any benefit depending on the law 3 of sickness orniortnlity , unles s s uch soci e t y s h a ll

      adopt a table which shall have been certified to be a table which may be safely aud fairly adopted for sucb purpose , under " the hand of the actuary to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt , or of some person who shall have been at least five years an actuary to some insurance company in London , Edinburgh , or Dublin , and the name ol" the actuary by whom any such table shall have been certified shall be set forth in the rules and printed at the foot of all copies of sucb table printed for the use of the society .

      Mr , Wakley , has received several letters from ladies , many of them of rank and title , offering to co-operate in purchasing the discharge of Cook , Matthewson , and other witnesses examined at the inquest on White , the soldier , who was _' rl _^ ged to death at Hounslow . Human Depiiav'ty . — There is now exhibiting at Valencia , says the Espanol of Madrid of the i > th , a child fourteen months old , half of whoso body is black and half white , covered with extraordinary marks . Its leys arc deformed ; one of its arms ia nearly in the natural state , but the other is like- that of a monkey .

      A Fact , next to a Miracle . —There is now living at Farrington _Gitrney a young woman , named -. Comber , aged about 20 years , _dausliter uf _J-itiie- _* CVmber , . stonemason , who has not tasted a morsel of solid fond for the last nine years . In or _absut the year lS 37 _she had a sister die , and tlie occupation of her mother required her absence daily from home , leavinir thc present afflicted _dau-jliter in the house with the corpse . It is conjectured that this circumstance affected her mind , and worked upon her nerves so strongly , that it induced her aflliction .

      She in a short time gradually weakened and took to her bed , where she was seized with locked-jaw , and irom that time to the present she has not opened her mouth . The only substance which has been taken into her stomach is fluid , which is passed iuto her mouth with a spoon through a small opening where a tooth is missing . And although lying iu this state for such a leng th o f tim e , she has grown nearly six inches in length ; she is quite sensible , happy , and resigned , and appears to be often engaged in prayer . —Plymouth Journal .

      The _SciiooLMASTEr . t Wasted—Six marriages were solemnised at our _parish church ou Sunday last , and , outof the .: twelve newly-married persons , only one could write his name . Of the twelve witnesses to tbe ceremony not , one could write . Thus , of twentyfour whose signatures should be in the register , twenty-three bad to affix marks . —Preston Chronicle . Incendiary _Fiiib at Ciiai , k _, —On Sunday morning , betwecr . six and seven o ' clock , a fire broke out on the _Parr , ona g e F a rm , adjoining the high road at Chalk , np ar Gravesend , in thc occupation of Mr . Lake , w ' aicli destroyed a large burn containing about sixty ( _j _' . iartcrs ol * barley , that had just been threshed , together with a sack containing six quarters of tlie same , grain .

      _"HVoiiLK _Genkbosity . —At a recent meeting of the Town Council of Dingwall , on an interesting discussion , relative to the potatoe _disense , _Pruvo-t Cameron stated that Mr . Maihcson , of the Auehany and the Lowes , was prepared , without reference to other arrangements , to order Indian corn to the

      Erasers Op Railw&Ts.—The Extensive Range...

      _' n _/? 10 / 00 t 0 . ** - _" * hand t 6 supply the defi-! _« _25 £ ? St 5 r inevitable frora thedi 9 temp much _fnL rff AftWAT E : ? « KSiOK .-On Monday last vn of twe ? _» ± 78 ! XC ted in th ! s _ciU bv the arri-4 000 ! Sund _^ IA r . _? _'V , brin _P " n _« _"" _*«« than SfcffB _fr _^^ 50 ° _^ achcrs and _theJ sLSfo _^ BSo , fn n Ut _^ " _^ _F _^ ** sfsting of 58 _lEge S _^ TT ™ ' Ti * 1 % _cnSmes . -Glouce 7 S u _^ _al & nd propelled _^ own _^ t _na _^ _rfTt Iar _" swimming-bath , now _™ , m £ L « ™ _-- * a _* fP ° n «> each , continues to attract numerous visitors .

      Rural Fbtb at Drayton _MAN-on _.-On Wednesday last the labourers employed at Dravton Manor , with their wives and children , amounting to about 230 persons , partook ofan excellent dinner provided for them by Sir R . Peel . Bkxlky Fair . —The pleasant fair held at Bexley , i n Kent , twelve miles from London , ended on Tuesday , To Star Gazers . —The planet Saturn , is now visible on clear nights , in the south-eastern quarter of the heavens , between ten and eleven o'clock . Foot Rage . —On Tuesday the one mile foot race tor £ 5 , between Langford , of Holloway , and Mills , of Camden-town , waa decided in tho _llolloway-road , and the latter pedestrian came in the winner by fifty yards , going over the one mile of road in five minutes and ten seconds .

      Dbath of tot ? Bishop op St . AsAPn . —The Right Rev . William Carey , D . D ., bishop ofthe Welsh diocese of St . Asaph , expired on Sunday the 13 instant , in his 77 th year , at his town residence in Portland place . ' _Increasr of SuicnjKs . —During the first sir months of thi *} year the suicides , acc » rdint » to the return for the western districts of Middlesex , have more than doubled tbe suicides in those districts during the corresponding period of last year . FutfBRALOF Lord Metcalfe . —On Tuesday affcernoon , the mortal remains of Charles Theophilus , first and last Baron Metenlfc . were consigned to then-last resting place , at Winkfield in Berkshire .

      We are happy to learn that Colonel Drummond , of the Coldstream Guards , and nephew of Vice Admiral Sir A . Drummond , of _Meggineh . has established his claim to the cfi ' ef'ainship and the arms and supporters of the ancient house of the _Drummonds of Concraig . —Perth Constitutional . [ _Uow easily the " snob" of the Perth Constitutional is made "happy ! " ! Destructive Fire at Dover . —On Saturday afternoon , a bout t h ree o ' clock , a fire b roke out amon some wheat and fodder stacks , near Charlton bricK fields , Charlton Bottom , Dover . In about an hour after the alarm had heen given , the fire-engines arrived upon the spot : but water could not be

      obtained in quantities sufficient to enable the men to bring tbem into play ; though , certainly . Mm fire had attained too great a height for it to have been effectuallv _resisted , even if water had been abundant . By h » . lf-past four o ' clock , the whole of ten stacks ( six of which were of wheat , and four of fodder ) were completely enveloped in flames , and but a very' triflii-g portion of the proper ! v was saved . Fortunately the wind , which blew stiffly during tbeconflarratiori . was in such a direction as to prevent the fire from being communicated to some new _cottases in close proximity to the stack , or , in all probability , a much greater loss of property would have ensued . The origin ofthe fire is vet much involved in _dotibt .

      Omnibuses for tiie Mn . r . nur . —• Last ] week a more than ordinary degree of curiosity wai created at the Bank of _England and tho Royal Exchamre _, arising from a number of omnibusesappearing at various intervals during the day before these places , on which were placed ] n _laiseaii'l leeiblo _ohnrnotora tho _wnrda , " From tbe Bank to Ilaoknev . 3 d . " On inquiry ifc appeared , that latterly the Eastern Counties Railway have undertaken to convey passengers to Tottenham and back for 6 d .. being a distance often miles , wbich has had the effect of _causing the omnibuses to perform the jnurnev very often with a solitary passenger . Whether it arose from the novelty , or from other ewes , the threepenny omnibuses were speedily filled ; and it is stated , that if the _experiment should prove to be _successful , the same scale will be adopted with respect to the numerous suburban points connected with the metropolis , while for distances not exceeding one mile the charge will ba reduced to one penny .

      New Postal Arrangements . —Negoeiations are in _prosress between the Post-office authorities , and the Directors ofthe North Western Railway , by which mail trains will run from London to Liverpool under five hours . Fleet Street after being partiallv closed tor five weeks , for the purpose of being re paved , was on Monday arain opened throughout the entire linp . The stone pavement just laid down , will , it is said , last for 20 years , Monet Orders . —The money order office , nV . the branch establishment of the General Post Office , Charine-cros _* , is now removed to that part of the building recently used as a sorting room forthe Lond on d i s trict p ost , where in future all applications for the issue and payment of money orders must be

      made . TnE Italian Opera at Covent-Garden Theatre . —Tt is said , among the vocalists already engaged lot Covent-garden Theatre are Grisi , Mario , Persiani _, Ronconi _. Tamhurini . and Madame Viardnt . M . Costa has selected SO instrumentalists for his band , and GO singers for the chorus , whose engagements for three years have all been signed . A Railway in TurtKEr . —The Journal ties Chemhis de Fer states on ths authority of private correspondence from tlie East , that the Turkish Divan is at present occupied with the question of establishing railroads in Turkey . The Schoolmaster in the Coal M : nes . —Two schools , o n the Norm a l principle , are about to ba established at Cramlinirton Colliery , for boys and girls ; and already an efficient master and mistress have been engaged .

      On Saturday , a wedding , that was on the point of b _.-ing celebrated between a young person of the Rue des Saint Pore * , and a youiur man in the service ofa chocolate maker , was suspended by an event of a very opposite nature . The union of the young people had the full consent of all parties , excont the second husband of the mother of the intended bride , who sternly objected to it , and declared that it should be prevented by some dreadful catastrophe . The nuptial party , however , was assembled , and on tho point of proceeding to tlie mayory , when the obdurate father , in-law seized a knife and stabbed himself ' . vith it twice in the breast . lie was ab nit to repeat the strokes , when his wife wrested tlie knife from him . His wounds are severe , but are not considered dangerous . The following strange paragraph appears in the Droit : — " There _> is at this time , * as a guest at the hotel of the _Fniscati baths , at Havre , an Englishman , of most extraordinary eccent _* _-icitv . According to a

      positive convention botween him anil liis landlord , every dish served at his table , and of wliich he has partaken , is immediately aftev his meal gathered up and carried in a boat thirty or forty fathoms out to sea , and thrown overboard as food for th * fishes , tha Englishman retiring to an upper room , and ascertaining by a telescope that his _nvdevs arc strictly obeyed . Large joints of beef , lurkics , fowls , inshorfc everything , from the soup to the _d-.-sscrt _, inclusive , is cast into the deep . " - [ A fool and his money are sooa parted . 1 Revival op Richmond Fair—This fair , wliich , after having been annually kept for many generations , was abolished towards the c _' _ose of Queen _Elizabeth's reign , was revived , with the sanction of the proper authorities , on Monday last , and closed on Thursday . The novelty of thc fair drew a large concourse of persons from all parts of the surrounding country , and on each of the three days duvin : wbich it lasted , a great many individuals were attracted to it from London .

      The Cobden Testimonial fund has this week reached £ 73 . 400 . , ; Mr . Justice Williams died on-Monday evening , after an illness ofa few hours' _d-irati-ai , nt his country residence , Livermere Park . Bury . He was pre . muted to the bench about twelve . wars ago , by the Whigs , and showed his gratisin _' . e to his masters by the manner in whieh he auminwicivd " justice ; _^ to the Dorchester Unionists , shortly aftor UU elevation . His conduct on that occasion *• damned him to everlasting fame . " and his death will create a vacancy for another Whig lawyer , and a general - ' move up " among tlie legal oiricors of the party . Lucky \\ hi ? s _* j ! _IIki-kal . of the Malt Tax . —The numbers of tha East Kent Agricultural Protection Society met at Canterbury last Saturday , to consider how far the Malt Tux affected the interests of agriculture . The

      meeting was numerously attended by the _lamlWda and tenants of tin ; district , and the chair was occupied by Sir Brook V . Bridges the President of the Society . The meeting was addressed by Mr . Plumptre , M . P ., Mr . Deedes , M . P ., and others , and a committee was appointed to confer with thc Coniral Board of the Society for thc Protection of British Industry , as to tho best means of obtaining relief from the burden of the Malt 'fax . Mr . _Deedcs in the course ofhis remarks observed * . that Sir James Graham once said that the Malt Tax could not survive a repea l of tho _Curn Laws a single year . ( Hear , hear , hom _* . ) Now , as the Right lion . Baronet had Iv _. 'en mainly instrumental in repealing the Com Laws , it followed asa matter of coune chat when the oep _.-rhinHy presented itself" he would side with them in obtaining tlie _rcliuiviil ofthe Malt Tax . ( Cheers . ) Now ot } he sneakers suggested any substitute for tho obnoxious

      _inipo-t . „ , „ . w _„„ _— SOMB OF TUB _EmCTS OF Mil . < _£ _COSXOH 3 _OIUC on Small Fakms .-A Mr . Charles Newman _Riding nu . iv _Trou-C , _Norwwh _, dibbled some wheat last autumn _aocordimt t » Mr . O'Connor ' s directions , and S _i- -rained a i-izo lor the very _supenqc crop " f _whcaChe had from one gram soyeyal _^ . _pecimlofrcvonty-lWooaw , _^ _e-u-s Also , Mr . _Tlu _. s . Reynolds ot _IMiilauvlahia , near Norwich , had froiri thirty to sixty-three cars to the « ra ' n several of which wore six inches Ion : * , tha straw was _estirnaced te pay more than -the costs ot the crop .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 19, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_19091846/page/3/