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      The Emigrant. '. Sat •Sh .E Sat Alone In...

      THE EMIGRANT . ' . sat sh . e sat alone in a trelfised "bower Andgi And gar'd o ' er the dark ' ning deep ; id the _ind tiw hwly calm of that twilight hour Came Came o'er his heart like sleep ; _; _dreaijie dreamt ofthe " banks and "bonny braes , *' ad glahad gladden'd his childhood ' s early days . ad thejnd there alone in sadness he sat—He— - He—a boy whose path had gone or _thej ' cr the fields and flowers of joy , which fate , like Like a mother , had smiled upon ; _; _thoojje thought ofthe time when Ms hopes had winlefflWjnemory to grief like a syren sings . is _ho'His home had beea on the stormy shore Of A Of Albion ' s mountain land ; is eai _jfis ear was tuned to the breaker ' s roar And And he lov * d the bleak sea-sand ; he toi the _torrenft . din and the howling breeze , J all Vd all his souls' wild sympathies .

      icy 1 They had told mm tales ofthe sunny lands Thi That rose over Indian seas , ben Where gold shone spai _* kJing from river sands Ant And strange fruits Dent the trees . , adl ; hadluj _^ hini away from his cluldbood ' s hearth , 5 t < hits tones of love , and its voice of mirth . dw Sow the frniti and the river gems were near , An Andbe stray'd ' neath a tropic sun ; at 1 But the voice of promise that thriU'd in his ear At At that joyous hour was gone ; _ieU thehopesle had chas'd - " mid the hush of night , _assj _pasi _^ d away like the firefly ' s light .

      lei He mnrmnr'd not , but the big tear roR' d F From his eye with feverish start ; On Consumption ' s hectic -plague-spot told 1 The tale ofa broken heart : oji boy knew he was dying , bnt the sleep uldeath is bliss onto those who weep . )! 0 ! alone he stood , gazing long , 1 Where the homeward vessels lay , a Chaang sad thonghts with some oU song , And wiping his tears away ; hid the heart that , "lay in -bis weary breast , _tite the dove ofthe deluge , _pin'd for rest H He died ; but memory's wizard power , With its ghostlike train , had come T To lus dark heart ' s nuns in tliat last hour

      And he murmur'd , "Some , home , home . ' " sd li £ . j his spirit _passed , with a happy dream , lie a"f , e a bird in the track ofa bright sunbeam . C 0 ! talk of spring to the trampled flower ; Of light to th * i fallen star ; ( Of glory to those who in danger ' s hour Lie cc-M on the field of war : ' _-- ¦ 3-- ye nsock the exile's breast when ye tell _>¦ a ; v _a-sgln hut the home where it loves to dwell . George S . _Udssei .

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      ¦Flltjie Travellers' Magazine. "No. I-, ...

      ¦ fllTJIE TRAVELLERS' MAGAZINE . "No . I-, ' , 1 vse . London : T . C . Newby , 72 , Mortimer-« _arect , Cavendish-square . 1 This is a new candidate for public patronage . The iV !! iV ! l u » hig from the prospectus will explain the views i-f _i-f its projectors : — _fVtJianing our title sufficiently eiplains the nature of cu cur i * riodical , without further esordium , we wiR briefly & _dobi _? our intentions : —To publish , on the first of every a _-sroth , a magazine , through the pages of which a new and ai ¦ _Sftrt line of communication between traveBers abroad—:: _i-arfllt-rs at home—ihe " uttermost parts of the earth _"s isa ' Jar own firesides , will be established . Being weH a _BTKHtof the Uvcly interest with which the public regard i _jhri-ercgrinations of our travellers , froni " Indus to the

      I I ' _l-le , " and how deeply the periodical press is indebted to _: _t-rgvrilt-rs for the most interesting papers pubUshed , we i irf amazed to thuik that amidst thefuUtideof periodicals rrViicing under various titles—the organs of society or < see!—there is not one magazine npon which a traveller ¦ aa boldly lay hand and say , "Here ' s a page for me . " And so firmly do we feci convinced that such a periodical is actually required , that even now , at the eleventh hour , Tit nsolve to start "The Travellers' Magazine . 5 * It wiU _i-cntain reviews , notices of such new works as we consider _•¦ _.. riby of attention , and any information we may deem _liatvre-tiiig and useful to young , and perhaps to old _travellori . _"flThen we consider how far our national prosperity has _advanced , and is still advancing , let ns candidly acknowledge how much we are indebted for the position

      » e hold among the nations of the earth , to thc traveller—At- enterprising British traveller—braving _dangersieorning privations and difficulties innumerable—explorhig new realms hitherto deemed barbarous , inaccessible , or _rnirked upon the map of the world as unknown . Tiie opening address is on the subject of languages , _sk-wing the necessity of some one universal _lanraage _1-eing adopted by all nations—first , in addition io , anil finally to supersede the discordant tongues which now divide mankind . The vrriter shows that : lie idea commonly entertained that a knowledge of French . will be quite sufficient to conduct the traveller at least through Europe is erroneous , for that " ven in Spain , _Portucal . and Bavaria , the French

      _iiiguage is understood but by "very few of the inha-Santsof those countries ; and that in Austria , Huncm * , and other countries French is hardly more known than English . He states that "it is a fact , hat ever since the high and palmy days of Napoleon ' s role tie French _langoi _^ e has Wn mine-wane , ami iecrcascs in _Erarope daily . " He remarks—Ihe confusion of tongues has , from the earliest ages , _l-rn the greatest barrier between the savage and civilised au ; . and to this day it is a _sl-umhling-hlock in the path of _iq . hilxm'aiiopjst—apitfallatthefeetofthepoUticianiain _£ iceberg "before the traveller ; _stiR we are firmly _'Evinced that the day is not for distant when aU those _isniers which obstruct the free intercourse of nation

      aid- _i _. ation and man with man will cease to exist To accomplish this end he proposes the following 'Ian ;—let new schools , new colleges , new institutes , be _estaibfhed throughout the land ; invite professors , and - -achers , and masters of every language to reside under & ir roofs . Let the youth of this generation and the . sing generation acquire ft <» e languages , and , that difi- nlty bring overcome , convoke a solemn assembly , caU - i ** tiier thewisemen , _graminarians , writers , andreaders _, ian thc north , south , east , and west , to London or Paris , - - - Berlin , or Vienna , and letfliose wise men confer

      toi- _' _& _u and finaUy frame a new language , destined to _kxoie the nniversal language of aU men of every caste , _i ' mvx , and creed , upon the earth . Let the new nniversal " _asuagebe acquired in our new schools and colleges ; >• _wac-hers ana missionshe sentto alllands , so that every _^• _jlc may acquire the _onirersaf language ; and thus a _a- tat and wonderihl change in the . condition of man will _feiroaght about . For when the veil of ignorance falls - ¦ " a the eyes of the savage he will perceive that he is " _^ _ked _, and hasten to clothe his outward and his inward _£ _»; and the gaffing yoke of despotism , and _snpersti"aa . and bigotry drops from the necks of every people , "Ma thev look upon the broad banner of a free press .

      These arc the right sort of views to enunciate at _Sinim ; they show that the _Trovtilers ' Magazine , " _- _¦ _ifudi non-politic al , -will take its place as one cf _•» pioneers of the army of " progress . " fiuiwill those - views be ever realised ? We have 'ierrent faith that they will ; but we fear the day ¦ ki will sec that realisation is distant . One thing _' ttrtahi , that ifthe priests can help it , that day _* _35 never come . Should the suggestion above "made * ~ _er be attempted to be earned out , the priests of all _Simulations will be sure to rise against it en masse . _•^ tk _oldfndse about tiie Tower of Babel will be _^ ealcdto for _' proof that the scheme is " impious ¦* i "blasphemous : " future Ixguses and OCon * _5 is will _m-mliinft to denonnee it as a " gigantic

      ¦ Kme of godless education ; " and there will be no -4 of imitatois of " John of Tuam" and his worthy ' - ¦ fa-rues , to exclaim that religion will be lost u _Pledge be once allowed to take the place of lgnor-* •** . Wc Dlame govermnents for not leading the _^¦ a- ¦ over wliich they rule in the path of _improve-P * : but may it not sometimes be the case that _^ _K-vs of State -would do more for _manfandthan _^ uow dare to do , if they werc unshackled and N from priestly and aristocratical influences ? r >» . will place at your command the means of _ac-Nn ? knowledge , " say the present Government ol _^ _Uands tothe Irish ; adding , " we will meddle _^* - * itli the faith of any sect , only taking : care that _feathers we pav out of thc funds supplied by all , N no t be made the " _mstrvonents of proselytiang

      * *•»}• particular sect , or sects at all . " Here is a _f ' _- _^ iion , hist , rational , and rig ht : an honour to _^ _' •• _evirnmentmakin-jit . _«* _Xol" bellows tie _^ wit wicsts " we wili have none of your unsecta _*» _^ uvation . Give ns tiie colleges ; give ns thc * - «? : Jet m appoint the teachers , and we wJl take r- _* ta the waters of knowledge shall only pass _^ -h our priestly sieves . If so , well ; but if not : _* t « war to the knife with the Saxon ! Down _£ •? - » ' _iutriguintr , ' « corrupting , '' ' godless , _mfi-?• _'• •• n _fi-natlonaX , ' _anti-Cathohe' _schemel-; ; _j-nlrls exhibition , willany sane man venture to ; _«* » l « t the priests ar « changed ? -that they arc - _^•• luiie intolerant bigots , the grasping , hberty-! . _r-HH-utin _:,, know ] ed e-hating set they ever were ? ' _}* hen the fashion of late years to teach tiie « ni » _-UBi _rapitalktsand _money-moiigei-s are the ; - .- real , or , at feast , the onlv formidable enemies of ! The

      _^ >" : « i"JiLcrightsofman . Wretched delusion _, 'f- " _^ aennffle _rocracy , aswcll asthe power ef kings a _^ _toc-i-afe isluilt upon , and exists throug h the ; _**«•«• of the millions . That ignorance is per-L _™ _o * l'riestmft : and the priests are _every-^ _T ar < h-enemies and the untiring conspirators •« _>* ttlle euli ghtenmenfc of the many . Therefore : _>?*? *» e most formidaUe enemies of freedom , V . I *" ? , 1 , e -uost difficult barrier to the progress ot '" _w-ttid . _( _V _^ nm to the Traveller / Magazine . _Wchave _«*• number several most interesting and amusing ' ., ' r * ' ' e complete , more to be continued , ihere . _ff « itnres and scenes in Belgium , Syria , Arabia , . -J _« _'uia , ] Ja ] V f Demerara , and _Austi-alia ; together - . "" tiees of several new works , foreign _corre-™ enee e . _y , iany of tiie _contribntors are well _f *» to the reading * world as wrifere of _firsr-rate - > > and . « o far as we havcthcCmeans of judging ,

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      _™ _$ y _^^ mo _^ tliS _W _^ f { _wWchk 0 _^^ _monimiesj aas our hearty commendation . their conti * ihnHntic . _^^;„ - _» r _.. ¦ ~~

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      _tnfT \ _- C L 0 _^ _GAZINE-Jvse London : Simmonds and Ward , 18 , Cornhill . "Mr \ f < n , open 8 _with tLe continuation of _toins £° _lTr " _*««&» S _^ _teW and con ' 5 _TJ 2 I _CVnP ac _?? of tfle sudden death of a young and beautiful Englishwoman , who had W * n ~ _out newly transplanted to Sydnev from her native home . The Hon . _Caikb Ccshi _' xg contobutes a paper " On the peculiar Geographical _-FSr ° » _af Uni _9 » c _^ _A CharacteScs of _-c-gypt , and a most valuable paper itis , eivin" as it fcf _* _^^ ' _*&* _^ _fte _phyfflstate of Kj _? _? 0 Stl -2 _? tr ctlveand interesting to _theEnchdi reader . We give the followin g extract :- S the _sartow

      ov- of the juie . The cul _& vable soil of "E gypt consists exclusively ofthe amtvium of the Nile . At the summer solstice , the . Vile oegins to rise , its waters being swollen by the rains of Ahyssmia and of interior . \ _frica , which fill _theconflueut streams of which the Nile is formed . What make these tarns isa subject of much speculation in the books . The old theory was , that the vapours of ' the Mediterranean , ofthe Ked Sea , and of Egypt , being earned south bv the prevalent north wind of Egypt , and being arrested , at length , hy the Abyssinian mountains , were there dissolved into ram . Themodern theoryplaces the rain in the same quarter , but finds the origin ofthe vapours , which form the rain , in the evaporations ofthe Indian Ocean , carried inland by the north-east monsoons , and in those ofthe

      Atlantic , carried to the same point by the south-west winds ofthe South Atlantic . However this may be , the visible fact is , that now , as for ages back , the "Site , rising annually , hrings down with it a mass of alluvial earth , by which its beds and its banks are themselves gradually raised every year , until , as already observed , they are now , and for many centuries have been , above the level of the surrounding desert . This alluvial earth of itself constitutes , in the first place , the actual soil of "Egypt , superimposed upon the substratum ofthe primeval sands ; in the second place , it makes an annual addition to the superficies of that soil ; in the third place , hy spontaneous filtration , it dinusesits fertilising influence under ana through the soil for a considerable distance ; and , finally , all these operations are promoted and regulated by means of embankments and canals , and hy the

      personal labour ofthe cultivators in the irrigation of the land . In examining , then , the valley of Egypt , we have , beginning at its mouth , in the first place , the Delta , traversed by numerous streams and canals , with , more _especially the two branches of the Site leading to _"Rosctta and Pamietta respectively , the whole of which is a vast alluvial plain , bounded on two sides by the desert ; and we have , in the second place , above Cairo , the single stream of the Nile , and the alluvial soil on its hanks , bounded hy tbe mountains interposed between fhe river and the deserts . Of course , it is not to be supposed that in this valley _theifileJias fixed banks of long formation covered with gods and trees . Groups of palm trees , acacias , and others , occur continually , to be sure , and , at tiie proper season , the land is covered with verdure ; but the banks are continually changing their direction , as well as gradually rising in height from year to year .

      " Notes of ah Excursion to the Summit of Adam ' s Peak , Ceylen . " is the most interesting account wc have ever read of the ascent to that famous spot so renowned for its natural wonders . The writer , from personal observations , demonstrates the palpable imposition ofthe " sacred footprint "—another little bit of priestly fraud , manufactured to " astonish the natives , " and prop np the trade of clerical jugglery . "An Account of the Liberated African Establishment of St . Helena" gives some curious particulars ofthe natives of the countries on the Congo _lliver , Angola , Benguela , and other parts of Africa . Several other able and useful articles are contained in the present number , which is onc of thc best we have seen , aud must do much to strengthen the character of this useful publication .

      The Illuminated Magazine - Jpxe. London:...

      THE _ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE - Jpxe . London : 1 , Crane-court , Fleet-street . The first number of the new series of this magazine had our warm approval , hut how much more worthy of tliat approval is the number or volume before us . We speak of the "literary contents—for as regards the distinctive character for illustration on which this magazine originally started , the title of "Illuminated " has become a -misnomer , and almost a dead letter , the number for the present month having but one illustration , and therefore in tbat respect having no better claim to the title of "IKmninoted" than several other similar publications . In one sense , however , the number before us is better "illuminated" than several of its predecessors— "illuminated" with _sems of fiction and romance worthy of

      the best days of this periodical . The principal con- ; tributors are , Miss Louisa Stuart Costello , Mrs . CiROUSEWBrrE , _"Mr . James Smith , Mr . _Hoxi , Mr . R . B . _Kxowles , Mr . Angus B . Reach ; the author of "Passages in the Life of a Cosmopolite , " and list , not least , Fba * sces Bbown ( the blind poetess of Stanorlar ) . "The Black Velvet Collar , " by Miss Costello , will he relished by many , though we confess wo have read many things of thc author ' s that pleased usmuchbetter . _"Thefiispiration of Genius" is one of Mr . Smith ' s pleasing sketches . " Stories of Advertisements , " by Mr . _Hcsr , is entertaining . " The Past , the Present , and the Possible ; or , Passages in the Life of a Cosmopolite , " is a lengthy article , devoted to a consideration of the " Tropical Emigration" scheme . Mr . Etzl-er and his friends may consider themselves under an obligation to the writer of this article for his able and candid

      exposia tion of their views and plans . A " Cosmopolite" is not exactly an enthusiastic admirer of Mr . Etzler and his plans—he offers objections and corrections , dictated by common sense , aided by a personal knowledge of the tropics , at the same time hc connrms much that is advanced by the emigrationists as to the salubrity and fruitfulness of the country they have selected . Of Mr . _EizLER _' sschemes , his " Satellites , " "Flat-bottomed Ships , " "Burning Mirrors , " "Floating Islands , " & c ., " Cosmopolite" justly remarks" lt is no evidence of practical sagacity when an inventor proposes to go away in a distant wilderness to introduce machines which would . be invaluable in a country [ like this ] where the physical arts have made the greatest progress . " He adds * . — We would beg to suggest to the members of the committee , that it would be as well to introduce the " Satellite'' . ji « t in England , and thereby realise an amount of capital which would very much facilitate the emigration

      plan . There is something like sense in this . By thus doing , Mr . _Etziiu and Ihis friends would do more to convince the sceptical than they will ever do by mere declamation on the beauties and enjoyments of tropical paradises , though they talk and write on the subject for fifty - " / ears . It will not do to object that the cost of working the machine would he too great in this eountiy . Surely the believers in Mr . _Etzueu wonld find the money for that purpose , at least * quite as readily as they now find money to work this machine at some future indefinite period , and in a country far from this , where , when once ihe _workingmanislocatedjshouldhebe disappointed , he may find it no easy matter to return to old England . But , besides that confidence in Mr . Etzlbb

      would necessarily result from the working ofthe * Sattellite" in this countiy , another consequence would be , that , if only half what Mr . Etzlee has told us be true respecting this machine , the profit that would result from its working would "be _enonnoua , anil thus might be realised , as "Cosmopolite" remarks , " an amount of cap ital which would very mucli / acilitatethe emigrationplan . " -.. « _,., We advise those who are members of the Tropical Emigration Society , or those who think of hecomin _<* -members , foread this article in the Illuminated Magazine . A " Cosmopolite" is "himself an advocate of emigration—and to Venezuela too , amongst other _counfrics : but we cannot say ; that his views and ideas have at all mitigated our dislike to aR emigrationschemes . Onthecontrarv , hehasratherstrengtn

      cned our aversion . Thc main value of the article of a " Cosmopolite is the admissions made as to the progress and ( future ) practicability of the principle of " co-operation . Reviewing -the success of the joint-stock speculations of the present time , he infers "that confidence is increasing between man and man ; that knowledgethe basis of confidence—is largely on the increase ; and in proportion with the increase of knowledge will be flie extension of combination , rendermg operations on a gigantic scale , hitherto impracticable , easy ot accomplishment . " Be adds : — It must be obvious that if three or four persons can work in partnership with greater advantage than working separately , threeor four dozens , or hundreds , or thousands , could do the same thing , provided a sufficient amount of

      confidence _cristed , as well as intelligence . Andif houses of business , composed of several partners , can have establishments in various quarters of the globe at once , ivith the partners acting in unisou over the stretch of broad seas , there can be no reason why intelligence and trust should not extend the principles to large joint-stock companies . The perception of this has always existed m individuals , if not in masses ; and the principle hasbeen enlarged on hy _varions persons , in the proposition to hie in social communion instead of detached _dwelhngs-Jforcllv , in the "Basiliade ; " Sir Thomas More , in to _"Utlpia ; " 'he - _»*• de St . Simon , Charles lour . er , Kobcrt Owen , and others ; and sonic attempts have been made to particularise it , but hitherto « itliout success , for the ohvious reason that all the experiment- - have hetw made with grown people , not trained up **» children , and therefore of incompatible habits .

      ,.,, __ Speaking of a certain " experiment" wliich has been _"oing on for some time past m tins countrj , ue

      says : — _\ fter many trials and disappointments , success win ultimately he attained , because it is based on a great truth , yet only attainable through a long course of previous education . . If Charles _Rosexbltio , Esq ., will tell us what lie means , or what lie is aiming at in his 'Le * _sur < ; Hours of a Modern Philosopher , " we will then ; tell him what we think of his reveries . We have tried in vain to extract a meaninst from what he has written : either we are very dull , or he is very / fa / ' . " _Sea-sidc Sketches , " by Ascrs B . Reach , ; -is an

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      beauty and purity of the writing , andKy _toause Bui ?* _ff < , UC _^ 1 x . th J ""* P _» K FufSs that hkJ < _fn ? A S n 0 th , " , he _Preaent _»*»«* iw that has afforded us so much pleasure as this little w _'» TT ; _^ nderi F production , when the " sunless state of the writer is considered . This tale of rf « 2 V s * s on s wwth fa p Ul 0 re _* an the cost £ _K aga n f' _^ _r-T' _?' " t _' lat _^ its literary contents this number ot the Rlumixxaud shows a great improvement on its predecessors for many months past ; and we sincerely hope the effect will be a proportionate improvement in its circulation .

      Young Ireland. Mb. . Punch (Of Puxich) T...

      YOUNG IRELAND . Mb . . Punch ( of Puxich ) to Mr . Davis ( of the Nation ) " sir , —The custom of the British press gives us leave to address great public characters . Any day in the week you may read specimens of such letters , which a regard for the national welfare induces individual patriots to send forth . Thus it was that Junius ( altogether without his Grace ' s concurrence , no doubt ) wrote tp the Duke of Grafton : thus did Mr . Mac _Jveill only yesterday address the Duke of _Wellington : thus , weekly almost , Lord John or Sir Kobcrt , or some great political authority , receives favours , per the Dispatch newspaper , and signed by the tremendous Publicola . In the same wav let Punch be permitted , Citizen Editor , tnannmaflb it .

      1 write not to Davis , of whom I never heard until now ; but to the great leader of the Irish nation . " I had never heard of " -rim either until I found in your last week ' s paper that you were the man . The pathetic row between yourself and O'Connell you describe as 'the greatest peril thc Association ever knew . ' Had there been a collision , you say that 'the forces would not have been unmatched . *' 'Extremelanguage was used , ' you add , ' andBome of it to us . ' Now the extreme language was used to Davis : therefore Davis is the Nation newspaper : therefore a row with Davis was the greatest peril the Association ever knew : and therefore , your forces not being unmatched with Dan ' s , you are equal to that illustrious leader . AUow me , asaconMre , te

      congratulate you upon this prodigious elevation you have attained—a position which has never before been achieved by a literary man . "Nor is it likely that a man of your genius will stop at mere equality . You and Dan onlv meet to repeal thc Union : that point gained , you give pretty broad hints you will leave the Liberator behind . ' Some Repealers think , ' you say , 'that Repeal is , nnder no circumstances , wortli a drop of human blood , ' That ' hint at Dan ' s unreasonable _squeamishness . 'Others , ' you say , 'have no particular objection to the sacrifice of life ; ' and you call npon your people to ' organise ' at some not distant annivereary , and to separate only in triumph . " Fools that English statesmen are , and ignorant of the state of affairs in Ireland ! It is Dan we fancv

      is still regnant . We don't know that you have come quietly in and deposed him . ' How the deuce shall we appease the old fellow ? ' says Peel to me . 'How the dickens , Duke , are we to satisfy lum ?' sajs I to an illustrious warrior . We arc all thinking about O'Connell , when—fiddle-de-dee—the pea is not _underthatthimblefataH . ItisnolongerDan , _butDavis "Nor can the country he sufficiently admired and complimented which has chosen you fw ite leader . Your pretensions for it aud yourself are so moderate —your schemes of GovevMnentso wise , practical , and sound . Since the time of Marat , there has not been a statesman like you . It is quite agreeable to think thc great philosopher has not lived in -vain , and to contemplate the Christian beauties of your political scheme .

      " I wanted to have been present myself at the Martyr ' s Levee , and had ordered a new suit of green and gold for the occasion ; but somehow , when I came to put it on , the people here laughed at me . Judy quizzed my foraging-cap ; my dog Toby snarled and bit at the gold lace on my legs ; and as for the coat , found the collar of it so uncommonly tight and choaky about the throat that I couldn't help thinking—well , never mind what . I sold the things a bargain to Madame Tussaud , and they are to figure in the patriot room betwixt the immortal Thistlewood and the spotless victim of Charlotte Corday before-mentioned . Well , the Martyr ' s Levee has passed off brilliantly enough without the presence of Mr . _Pimcfc at the Rotunda ; but grander than the

      Rotunda , or Dan in his chair ; or thc' bugles of the people ; ' or the countless millions niarshalled to welcome tlieir martyrs ; is your article in the _iVatt ' on . " Be dad , dear sir , it beats everything—it beats Dan ' s best . ' We had , ' say you , ' the elements of a National Convention , whose taxe 3 the people would pay ; round whose war-flag tae people would rally ; who could negotiate , legislate , battle and triumph !' We niiot ' it do all this , say you , but we don't choose it . Davis lets off the Imperial Government just at present . Thank Heaven we have breathing-time ! "' The garrison of Dublin , ' you go on to say , ' was paraded . Its cartridges were ready , its battalions

      concentrated , to meet unarmed citizens , viceroy of the Alien ! your precautions were cowardly . ' This is notmerely fiue eloquence , but veiy noble courageous conduct , too . I like the spirit of the fellow who goes up to a soldier , and shakes his fist in the tyrant ' s face , exclaiming— 'You dastardly coward ' , yon armed ruffian ! you miserable bully ! I could thrash you if I liked , hut I don ' t choose ; ' for though the soldier has precise orders not to move out of his place , yet it is evident lie mfont move , the blood-thirsty assassin !—and what right has he to be interposing his great bayonet and cartouche-box in the society of peaceful men ?

      "That you are peaceful there can be no doubt . For , though you say you might set up a war-flag , and levy taxes , yet you don't—and though you say ' 0 , men of Ireland , will you not unite , organise , and meet us at some not distant anniversary to separate only in triumph . ' Yet , have us fixed that anniver sary ? No ; and it is manifestly gross cowardice to prepare against it . Though yeu call the Lord Lieutenant * Viceroy of the Alien , ' which means that the Queen is an alien , yet , does it Mow that you are disloyal ? He is an oppressor , tyrant , rascal , liar , blood-thirsty murderer—Saxon , in a word—who savs so .

      "Ah 3 deal' sir , don't fancy we are at all indifferent to your wrongs . Europe must contemplate with horror the atrocious tyranny under which you labour . Three or four hundred thousand of you can't meet as in other countries , aud hurl defiance at an iniquitous government—but troops must get ready tlieir cartridges forsooth I You can't make little attempts to disunite the empire , but some of you are clapped into prison . Every nation and every regular Government in Europe must look down with profound pity upon this tremendous oppression , and join with you m yonr appeals for hberty . That appeal , by the wav , ia perhaps the richest morceau of all : " ' 0 liberty , liberty ! for which Sarsfield fought , and Tone organised ! Liberty gained at Clontarf and Dungannon—lost by division—come , come quickly , we are athirst for freedom ! '

      " Come quickly , thou celestial nectar-bearer ; Mr . Davis , of the Nation , is thirsty ! and what is the draught to sooth his parched vitals?—no half-andhalf hberty—no small-beer freedom . Mr . Davis likes a rosier liquor . He means blood!—OUt With the Word at once . Every man has his taste , * and why baulk this Christian philosopher ? This Protestant logician wants back the liberty which Sarsfield fought _for- _^ beisg neither more nor less than James thc Second . This peaceful leader wants the liberty for which Tone organised . Mild word ! Tone organised the Croppy and Tory cut-throats ; he ' organised' the Catholic pikes which massacred at Wex & rd ; and the Protestant torches which Sred the hospital at Enniscorthy : he ' organised' a French

      invading arm v , which was to bring freedom in its train , as is tiie wont of French armies to do : and he 'organised' the slaughter of thirty thousand men in his countiy by pike and gun—the horrible and unheard-of tortures—the bigotry , ruffianism , and cowardice—the lies and treason—and that legacy of hatred which a dying war always leaves behind it , and wliich great spirits , like that of Davis , are eager to share . "If your darling Napoleon , ia whose camp Tone ' organised , ' had heen brought over to Ireland by that skulking martyr , it is possible that the country would not have enjoyed its monster meetings ; that Mr . O'Connell would not have been allowed to levy his

      rent , or to wear his Irish crown ; and that we should have lost that inestimable benefit—the pleasure of reading thc Notion newspaper . " What would have been your vocation then , and what the bent of your sublime genius ?—but why ask ? Mr . Davis , of the Notion , was not born then . Mr . Davis is a young gentleman , no doubt , who was not breeched very long before the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act . The leader who is to rocastire strength with O'Connell has not had a beard very long ; and began to shave a good forty years after Tone , the organiser , had used his last razor . But why meddle with edged tools ?—it ' s dangerous work !

      " In the mean time , and until young Davis has mastered old Dan , let us see fairly the state of things : —The Irishmen assemble hy millions , and the British tyrant does nothing . O'Connell rcips and levies tax , and the British tyrant : ' let him . Davis calls the Queen an alien ; the _n-my cowards ; instigates ' triumph '; has no _objection to blood ; incites , infuriates , simple folk ; and the British tyrant has not a word to fling at him . If his eloquence should bring about commotion , be the blood ou the British tyrant ' s head , not on Davis ' s . I feci assured that this is the feeling of every just man in Europe ; and that all governments admire _j * our orderly spirit , would court vour peaceful alliance , applaud the infallible means by wliich you would secure your national prosperity , and detest the monstrous despotism which bows your meek spirit down .

      " Farewell , dear Sir . Continue to rouse patriotism , and to benefit yonr country . It is a sweet place now ; but , ah ! what a Paradise it will be , if you can realise vour delightful plans regarding it l— Punch .

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      V ./^-Garden Operations. Tor The Meek Co...

      v . _/^ -GARDEN OPERATIONS . tor the Meek commencing Monday , June 2 ith , 1844 . tExtracted from a Diaut of Actual Operations on five small farms on thc estates of Mrs . Davies Gilbert , near hastbourne , in Sussex ; and on several model forms ou the estates of the Earl of Dartmouth at Slaithwaite in lorkshire , published by Mi- . "Nowell , ot barnley lyas , near Iludclersfield , in order to guide other possessors of field gardens , by showing them what labours ought to be undertaken on their own awls , ihe farms selected as models are—First . Two school farms at WiUingdon and Eastdean , of

      five acreseach , conducted by G . Cruttenden and John Hams . Second . Iwo private farms , of five or six acres : onc worked by Jesse Piper , the other by John Dumbrell-tlie former at Eastdean , the latter at Jevington—all of tliem within a few miles of Eastbourne . Third . An industrial school farm at Slaithwaite . Fourth . Several private model farms near the samepJace . The consecutive operations in these reports will enable the curious reader to compare the climate and agricultural value of the south with the north of England , fhe Diary is aided by _"Notesand Observations from the pen of Mr . Nowell , calculated for the time and season , which we subjoin .

      * ' The wisest men—the greatest philosophers—after in vain seeking for happiness in every variety of pursuit , have found it in the cultivation oftho ground . " Note . —The school farms are cultivated by boys , wh * in return for three hours' teaching in the morning , give three hours of their labour in the afternoon for the master s benefit , which renders the schools _sEiFSUPPORTISG . We believe that at Farnly Tyas sixseventiis of thc produce of the , _sc / _ioot farm ivill be assigned to the boys , axid one-seventh to the master , who will receive the usual school fees , help the boys to cultivate their land , and teach them , in addition to reading , ivxiting , < fcc , to convert tJieir _^ ro ( i _« c ( 3 _t _» ito bacon , by attending to pig-keeping , ivhieh at Christmas . xmg be , divided , after paying rent and levy , arMxxgst them in proportion to their services , and bemadethusixulirectly to reach their parents in a way the most grateful to their feelings . ]

      SUSSEX . Mosbay— Willingdon School . Boys rolling and harrowing ground for swede turnips ; a little shower . Eastdean School . Boys hoeing potatoes and turnips , gathering weeds from the rows for the pigs . Piper . Digging tare ground . Dumbrell . Thatching hay stack . Tuesday—WiUingdon School . Boys drilling in swede turnip seed . Eastdean School . Boys hoeing , digging , gathering roots and stones , breaking clods . Piper . Cleaning _piggery , removing dung to the mixen . Dumbrell . Digging and drilling turnips , watering , gathering tare stubble for the cows to lie upon . _Webtsesday—lMfnodon School . Boys drilling swede turnip seed . Eastdean School Boys digging , mixing tank liquid with mould , and putting it into tiie drills , aud sowing white turnips . Piper . Turning the mixen . Dumbrell . Digging , drilling turnips , watering , collecting stubble fbr cows to lie on .

      _inuasDAY— Willingdon School , Boys doing the same as yesterday ; another little shower , _^ _astcfean School . Boys digging , planting cabbages , bearing manure , and watering them . Piper . Digging tare ground . Dumbrell , Digging tare ground , cutting off turnip seed pods . Friday— MK % dc > n School . _Bojra digging in swedes , _fiastdcan School . Boys planting , and manuring cabbages . Piper , Digging . DumbreU . Digging up tare ground . Saturday— WiUingdon School . Boys sowing white turnips , on failure of mangel wurzel crop . East-< tem \ School . Boys planting cabbages , weeding lucerne , cleaning pails , piggery , and school-room . Piper . Hoeing potatoes , studying how to get manure for next wheat season . _Dwmlrell . Wheeling out manure , sowing turnip seed in the tare ground for second crop .

      YORKSHIRE . Slaithwaite School . Ten boys digging up tare ground , gathering roots . C . Varley , preparing ground for cabbages , manuring for swede turnips , digging , transplanting swedes , earthing potatoes .

      COW-FEEDING . Willingdon School . Cows stall-fed on tares and clovei Dimibrett ' s . Two cows stall-fed with tares . Slaithivaite School . Cows stall-fed on tares and rye . C . Varley ' s . Cows stall-fed on peas and grass .

      NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS . The Cow is Harness . —Jesse Piper ' s arguments in favour of it . — " " As I am myself a cripple , and can draw none , so , by learning her to draw , she performs my part . Some persons may say , does it not hurt the cow in her miik ? In the way that I do it , on the contrary , it does her good , for 1 never let her do a strike of work without paying her well for it . It would he a veiy hard tiling if I could not afford her sixpennyworth of food , when she earns me two _shillingis , and that she will . do in two hours ; then , if _Ihaclnotgotthecowto doit , I must have hired a man , who would expect two shillings per day , and he could not in the whole day draw up as much manure as my cow in two hours . M . "Valcourt , in

      reference to this subject , says—In the French translation of the essay I have just read with much interest , I find Mr . Blacker has touched the _targetat the circumference , but not at the centre , point blank ; he has only glanced at half the advantage to be derived by the small Irish farmer from the housefeeding of cows . The milk is an advantage ; the dung is still greater ; but the third—which Mr . Blacker has not mentioned—is the labour , though moderate , which the cow performs when harnessed with a collar—not with a yoke j for two cows , harnessed either abreast ov one before the other , will draw his horse hoe , his harrow , liis roller , or dungcart . A cottier who has only four , or even three acres , will have plenty of fodder for two cows in thc stable

      to do his tillage , and draw his manure , his crop , and his firing . Mr . Blacker will see , in the east and south of'France , cows thus harnessed . In the south they are all yoked ; but in the east and in my province of Lorraine they have only a collar , which answers much better . It is true that a cow which works constantly eight or nino hours a day , stops giving milk , * but provided she works only from two to four hours a day , and that not every day , and that she is well fed , she will give almost as much milk as if she did not work at all ; and she will give more milk after having a day ' s rest : and a cottier who has only four acres will not have occasion to employ two cows daily . When a pony rests , it does not bring any thing in ; whereas , when a cow rests , its milk increases . It has been observed in Lorraine

      that cows are more active than oxen ; and that , harnessed with collars , they walk as quick as horses . The cottier , when he sees the work two young cows can do when kept in the stable all the year round , will take care to provide plenty of good nourishment for them both winter and summer : for when poorly fed , they neither can work well nor give plenty of milk or manure ; and a cow , with a suitable saddle , can carry considerable weight—for their legs are short and thick , and their spines strong . But , to feed cows well , the cottier must , as soon as he has a yard of ground vacant , dig it , manure it , and transplant on it ( summer or winter ) cabbages or other plants , according to the season ; and , at the same time , as much care must be taken of the dunghill as

      of the cow—for manure is the foundation of all pro ductive agriculture in Europe . For this reason tho _eettier's wife should let nothing be lost which ean increase the dung hill . The children of the cottier , as soon as they can walk , should be accustomed to carry sometliing to the dunghill ; it would be an occupation for them ; and they should be praised , and told— "You have worked well , * here , my child , is the best potatoe for you , because you brought enough to bring up four potatoes . " And let every child have its own bit of garden . The Cottager ' s Pet , or Pio , —Of a pig , the first fruits or product of the allotment garden , it is the fashion among political economists to speak in terms

      of disparagement . Now whatever might be the superior profit to the cottager of saving the money wliich he spends on his pig , and buying his bacon in the market , this , as it never has been and never will be so saved , we may dismiss . In the mean time , his E ig , besides its usefulness , is also a real pleasure to im . It is one ofhis principal interests in life . He makes sacrifices to it . He exercises self controul for its sake . It prevents him living from hand to mouth , stup idly careless of the future . I am persuaded tliat a greater act of cruelty could hardly be perpetrated than the discountenancing of this praetiee , or rather amusement and enjoyment among the poor . —Sir H . Dovk ' s Report .

      Field _Gabdesisg- at Slaithwaite . — The Sussex returns have been instrumental in producing the following surprising results in a single year . F . Thymic , Esq ., in awarding the Earl of Dartmouth's prizes to the field gardeners , said he gave with the greatest pleasure the first prize ever distributed there for spade husbandry . He awarded it to John Sykes for wheat , who , although the place where it was grown was lately an old stone quarry , yet he had , by liis industry , raised from a quarter of an acre 7 _J 5 fts _., wliich was equal to 2 , 9801 bs _., or six quarters and two bushels ( _GOft > . to the bushel ) to thc acre , and all tin ' s was accomplished by the spade !! To John Bamford he awarded the second prize , xvhose produce was forty six bushels to the acre , and , considering the situation ofhis land , was quite equal to that of the successful

      competitor for thc first prize . Ihe third candidate was C . Varley , whose produce averaged forty bushels to the acre . James Bamford had , during the year , raised two crops . On one plot of ground peas and beans mixed had been sown ( be soiling in March and April , whicli were cut in July , and produced thirty tons to the acre of green food . Turnips werc then sown , which werc in part gathered under Ms oxvn ins pection that day , and weighed , yielding , on calculation , ten tons of bulb and twelve tons of top , and better turnips he had never seen . At Farnley Tyas he said it gave him sincere pleasure to award tbe prize to a hard working labourer , Daniel Wood , who had produced 2103 bs . of potatoes from a single roil of land worked by the spade . Mr . Bamford produced his balance sheet , worked out in a very superior manner , from which it appeared that this _extraovdinaiT fltiajitify of labour bestowed upon the _Jaiul

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      will decidedly pay . It was proved in the clearest manner , that in an unfavourable season like thc last , the labouring man may secure his 2 s . per day , besides a moderate profit at the end of the year . This is more than corroborated by Mr . Thornton ' s experience , on employing the paid labourer ut liis model farm at Paddock , near Huddersfield , and after the most careful and rigid investigation . Hence it follows , that the land may most safely be made use of as a savings' bank for labour , and a secure refuge for unemployed manufacturers .

      Industrial Farms And Cottage Allotments....

      INDUSTRIAL FARMS AND COTTAGE ALLOTMENTS . During the severe distresses of the manufacturing operatives in 1842 a method was adopted in the township of'Favnley Tyas , near this place , which , werc it more generally followed , might , I believe , in a considerable degree mitigate their sufferings , by providing partial employment on the land during any future failure of their usual occupations in manufacture . At the request ofthe learned chairman of this meeting , I shall endeavour to give a statement of our proceedings on that occasion , and some account of an experiment in spade agriculture of considerable interest at that time to us , and which hereafter may be of some use to thc community at large . The plan I am about to describe may be said to be a modification of the allotment svstem . now _introducing with such

      unwearied zeal by the Labourers' Frieud Society , and by many benevolent individuals into the agricultural as well as into the manufacturing districts of this country , and may , I think , become a useful auxiliary to that excellent system , and beneficial to a class it cannot reach , for after an extensive introduction of allotments there will always be found , particularly in manufacturing districts , multitudes ol persons , who , either from inaptitude in agricultural labour—from _deficientprudence—or othercauses , cannot be trusted with an independent holding , still , when placed under a committee of intelligent persons , as we are about to propose , they may gain their daily bread , upon an emergency , without becoming burdensome to the parish , or forfeiting that spirit of independence which was wont to be considered as the pride of the

      English peasantry . On receiving a grant from the London Relief Committee , several friends met together to dispose of it , and finding that the persons who would have to apply wanted work , not parochial relief , we determined that it , as well as all monies wc could raise by subscriptions or loans amongst ourselves , should be laid out in providing them witli labour , and in a manner as consonant with their feelings , and as little degrading as possible to them ; to dole it out we knew would destroy their self respect , and to place _l'CSpcctablo , decent , orderly workmen on the roads , could not lie thought of with any satisfaction ; we therefore determined at once to place them upon thc land , and to submit it fairly to the test of experiment , whether their Labour so applied , and paid for at the usual rate , might not return its value in agricultural produce ,

      and , converted into money , be re-applicd in the same way in furnishing occasional employment in future , should it be necessary to do so . In favour of our argument , we had before us the evidence of an excellent lad }* , Mrs . Davis Gilbert , that her cottage tenants at Eastbourne had , upon poor land and on small plots , supported themselves , gradually improving in their circumstances for the last eleven years ; and wc thought ourselves warranted in the conclusion , that if they liad succeeded in doing so as individuals , we , asa committee , by judicious management , might do the same in degwe , making due abatement for our increased altitude and difference of climate . Thus encouraging ourselves , we formed a society , the leading rules of which society arc , that the fund received from the Relief Committee , as well as all donations ,

      shall never be divided , but shall be applied from year to year in finding work in an Industrial Farm , till they are exhausted , and that the spade labourers shall be under the direction ofa superintendent , who shall receive for his services a certain _percentage upon the amount of produce sold , and not of money expended , and under the control of a Committee of Xlanagement . liaving therefore obtained grants from the Relief Committee , and raised a sum of money , & c , in aid thereof , . we proceeded to lay it out in the following manner . We borrowed two fields of two acres each of an occupying tenant , who was receiving little benefit from it , altogether overrun as it was with gorsc _, brambles , & c ., upon Farnley Moor , in a high , cold , bleak situation , and laying at such an inclination that it could not be ploughed at all ; one of these

      fields was of most irregular surface , in short ot a very forbidding aspect . We had several offers of land of a better descri p tion , but these fields were preferred in order to convince neighbouring occupiers ofthe value of spade labour , carried on under great disadvantages . Wealso accepted thc offer of another field at a distance from the former , of about one aero , in a very exposed situation ; and in both instances agreed to pay rent , taxes , & c , during four years , and then to restore them to the tenant , in a better condition than they were received , and laid down in grass : they were afterwards divided into lots of one-eighth of an acre each . These lots were let to dig or trench to the unemployed manufacturers as they successively applied for employment . We broko ground in the month of November of last year , by paring off the turf and

      trenching into ridges thc ground for potatoes uown to the subsoil ; the prices for trench work of course were variable , but averaging about £ 4 10 s per acre . It was very gratifying to see sometimes about twenty men and boys , busily employed , working cheerfully together in one field , and not less so to find several companies of boys from different families , of from thirteen to sixteen years of age , employed upon a joint lot , a task voluntarily undertaken by tliem for the assistance of their respective families at home ; the men did their work well—gave little trouble to the superintendent—and after a time assumed the healthy appearance ofthe farmer , and in their transition from thc manufacturing to the agricultural labourer , or did not appear to suffer inconveniencethev easily fell into agricultural habits , and wcre soon

      very expert in handling the spade or thc hoe , assuring us that they preferred this kind of labour to any other . We proceeded heartily with our work , met frequently together , aud encouraged the men in thek labours , till the month of March this year , when wc had trenched three acres for potatoes , 2 a . Or . lOr . for turnips , and digged over U . la . I 3 r . for oats , when ouv men , in part , were removed and employed by Lord Dartmouth , the sole proprietor of the township , in breaking up , by the spade , ground , from which a wood had been removed for that purpose . I must here however digress , to make a remark as to an unexpected result which already flowed from our Industrial or Labourers' Farm . No sooner had we commenced digging our fields , than a neighbouring farmer commenced ploughing a very rough field ofhis ,

      lying very near to ours , with all dispatch , after it had remained almost useless to him for a great number of years , determined that he would not be outdone by us , and it has yielded him , I am happy to say , in return , a fine crop of oats : one part ofhis field , however , he found it impossible to plough ; he therefore re-let it to two young men , who proceeded to dig it with very great industry , and it has borne them the finest crop of potatoes I evor saw ; since wliich time , they have taken the whole field , and become allotment tenants to liim , and will doubtless better accomplish with the spade what he had attempted with thc plough , manifestly shewing that where an Industrial Farm is undertaken , it will act as a stimulus to the

      regular farmer , and a preparation of the labourers for small tenancies , or gradually lead the way to the introduction of Cottage allotments . The disadvantages of exposed situation , poor soil , Ac , were not alone what we had to contend with ; our manure was to draw from a distance of four miles up steep hills , wliich added materially to our expenses ; various other impediments were found ; however , we had a favourable seed time , * the soil , by exposure to the frosts during winter , was found in excellent tilth : suffice it to say , that our crops have turned out wil , and exceeded our expectations , and now are principally converted into money , and I am happily enabled to produce the following balance sheet on thc- present

      occasion . _EXPEN'DED , £ s . il . Manual labour . „ .,..,......,..,..... 36 8 3 Farm-yard manure , Sic 11 11 2 Seed oats _} _* " 3 Team work , leading manure il 12 C Potatoes borrowed for seed 6 0 0 Kent and taxes , one year 9 3 0 Superintendent ' s salary 5 0 0 Guano 1 18 0 Total 80 16 8 lo balance , profit .......... 2 14 £ 82 18 0

      PKOnFCJtD . £ s , ( 1 . To "Potatoes sold , & C . 42 18 9 „ Turnips sold ( crop deficient ) 5 10 o „ Potatoes reserved for sets 4 \\ 3 „ Oats 11 0 0 „ Potatoes on loan , repaid ...... „ .. „ . „ . 6 0 0 „ Half manure in the land 10 S 4 „ One-tliird guano ditto 0 l 2 ° „ Fotatoes unsold 116 0 " £ 82 18 0 ACCOV'ST 05 ' 0 AP 1 TAL TO TUT THE EXPERIMENT . £ - 8 . O _. From the London "Relief Committee , grants 40 0 0 Tlic Earl of Dartmouth ' s donation » " » Loanofseed , money , d , * c ., maidoftln _> expei _* imwit 3 a IC _»

      XbO 16 S Thus then , under every possible disadvantagesuch as unfavourable climate—poor soil—lying at a considerable elevation , and at a great distance from manure , and a partial failure in our turni p crops , still we have paid part of the advanced capital , and are about to pay the whole : and shall then nave remaining the original capital received from the Manufacturers' Relief Committee and from other quarters , besides a small profit , either invested in the land in tho shape of manure for the ensuing crop , or in _roc-nev , or produce . * which had it not been distributed for it s equivalent in labour , would have been totally lost or nearly so ; for supposing that our unemployed men had been turned out to shiver on thc road >< dc breaking stones , tlieir labour wonld have been worth little or _noihiiiff , besides which jnst so _imieh worh

      would have been taken from our regular highway labourers , and they must have sought for employment elsewhere . We have at this time labourers trenching our oat stubble for potatoes next year , paid by the very money re-produced from that grant . And we purpose taking a crop of oats after our potatoes of this year , and then , should all or greater part of our operatives be employed in manufacture , we shall Jay down the greater part of our farm with clover or grass seeds for the year following , and in such a case keep our money in reserve ; or if necessary , we may procure other land , on thc same conditions as before , break it up for potatoes , and proceed in this manner year after year , until our £ 45 of clear capital be consumed , which we cannot after this experience havethe least fear of . —An Essay on Farms of Industry , by John Nowell .

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      A Study From Nature —Thc Beautiful Statu...

      A Study from Nature —Thc beautiful statue of the " Greek Slave , " by Mr . Power , has excited such universal admiration , that a companion to it , we understand , will shortly be exhibited by thc sameartist , under the title of " The American Slave . " It is the fi gure of a negro , with hia hands fastened with a chain , on the manacles of whicli is cut the American Eagle . Round his back is wrapped the national flag , on which the stripes arc cou & _pie-iftwdj displayed . The crouching attitude of the _figure is most wonderfully depicted , but the statue is most to be admired for its powerful truth and unaffected simplicity . We have been assured by gentlemen , who have had opportunities of judging hy frequent visits to the Land of Liberty , that they have never seen anything so wonderfully true to nature . —Punch .

      The Irish . Martyrs . —O'Connell and his brother martyrs have experienced tlic most touching proofs of the sympathy of their countrymen . As mementos of what the martyrs suffered whilst in gaol , they have received _fvoin \ _avTO \ is parts of Ireland everything to cat and drink . There is no doubt that ' whilst in prison , much of their martyrdom , like that of St . Lawrence , came from a gridiron . —Ibid . Wit of the House of Lords . —When Brougham thc other night attacked the Duke of Newcastle for interrupting the Duke of Wellington in his speech on the Maynooth Bill , Lord Lyndhurst tugged Brougham familiarly by thc skirt oi * the coat , observing , " _Newcastleis warm ; he is flaring up : don't add fuel to the fire . "— " I can't help it , " replied Brougham . — " My deari ' cllow , " continued Lyndhurst , " adding fuel to the fire is in this case literally taking coals to Newcastle . " Thc joke was too - > owcrlnl for Brougham to resist ; so he laughed , and sat down . — - lbkl .

      Ihe _Ruun'o Passion . —The lawyers have had a part of Lincoln's-inn-squarc laid out as a gavden ; simply because , as lawyers , they like to make the most of all that ' s green . —Ibid ,

      ON AN M . r . WUO KECE . NTLY OCT HIS ELECTION AT THE SACRIFICE OF HIS POLITICAL CHABACTER . His degradation is complete , His name with loss of honour -branding' : When lie resolv'd to win liis sent , He literally lost liis standing .

      ¦ _fAaUAH-SSTABV DEBATES . Our fathers fought to publish tiie debates , And thought in that to gain a bit of freedom ; But now their sons have lost it to thc states , Uy making them a ileal too long to read ' em ! A Double Imposition ' . —At the recent Oxford commemoration , the Kev . Mr . Sewell , on the " ecclesiastical antiquities of Ireland , " observed that the celebrated stone in thc coronation chair at Westminster Abbey is an imposture , it is only a copy of the original stone on which the Irish kings sat , and which Mr . Sewell said was still on _Tara-hill . Very possibly Mr . O'Connell sat upon the genuine stone on the occasion of his monster meeting . I i' such was the ease , it proves clearly that in England an imposture has been put upon the public , and in Ireland a " great impostor" has been put upon the stone . — Great Gun .

      A Feeling Observation . —His Grace ot Newcastle declared in the House of Lords , during the debate on the Maynooth grant , that the measure , if carried , would affect thc " right of succession . " This _H * _fery true , * for if , on the Maynooth bill the Ministry had been thrown out aud a Tory Cabinet formed , the Lord of Clumber might have succeeded tlic present "Premier , although such an occurrence would not be very probable . I'etticoat Tactics . —An ex-sergeant of thc Guards advertised last week for employment to drill a ladies ' school . The conjunction of Mars and Venus within the precincts of thc schoolroom might cause some embarrassment to Mrs . Backboards . At all events , she had better keep her " eyes right , " and her pupils in "close order , " ot some nnemorning they may " march" without her " word of command , " and take the route to Gretna in quick time . _Doctoks Differ . —The state physicians do not

      agree in their prescriptions for Ireland . The May . _uooth plaster , says Doctor _Vccl , is the soothing system , and will conciliate the excited patient . Doctor Wellington has reduced him , as the licro of Waterloo says , to thc last stage of weakness bv removing all thc inflammatory symptoms , and now the weak must not be persecuted . '' The Irish arc too strong , let us not provoke them , " cries out Peel . " The Irish are utterly prostrated , let us be generous , " cries out the duke . _FoniuN-ATE Escape . —His Royal Highness Prince Albert was on Monday week conducted by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen to Bridewell . As there was no specific charge against the prince to warrant his detention , lie was speedily liberated . MwtKLY a Suggestion * , —Would it not be « propos of Sir R . Peel , who has shown himself so expert at flaying the public with his iuconic-tas , to become a member of the Honourable Company of "Skinners ?"

      Rather Doubtful . —The repeal oi the auction duties is said to be producing a sensible effect upon the trade of auctioneering . Wc cannot well understand how this can be , unless auctioneers' heads are thicker than other people ' s , since the knocking-down system is more calculated to produce a " senseless '" effect . Arch-buy . —London and Waterloo Bridges were highly vexed when they heard that suicides were about to bring Hungerford Suspension into fashion . No wonder their jealousy should be aroused at a rival who could gratify the taste for suspension and drowning at thc same time . TnE CoTTON-srixxER i . v Disguise . —All declare Peel sustained his character at her Majesty ' s ball better than any other gentleman . No doubt he did , and it is not at all surprising , _considering the extensive practice he has hau in making himself appear what he really is not .

      A Two-hundred Pouxd CHARACTER!—The Duke of Brunswick was awarded damages last week in the Sheriff ' s Court against thc Lancaster Guardian for libel . The jury considered the character of his Serene !?) Highness to be worth £ 200 . Rather a light character this—for the claimant to a throne . Bal Costume . —It appeal's , by some of our contemporaries , to be considered an act of . amazing condescension in her Majesty to wear at the bal costume a dress o _{ "British manufacture . It may certainly be most gracious on her part to take anything from John Bull beside his money ; but as a heavy blow and great discouragement to our delight at witnessing some sign of a rising feeling in favour of the manufactures of her native countiy , we find that the dress was made and supplied by Vouillonand Lauve , so that the lion ' s share ofthe money was appropriated to foreigners . We suppose that among tne " distressed English needlewomen" none could be found deserving of the patronage of her Majesty .

      Judicial Irreverence . —Thc lute Chief Commissioner of Bankruptcy , Sir C . F . Williams , was noted for his shallowness of intellect and egotism . Upon ono occasion a witness , who presented himself to be sworn , stood in a careless , lounging attitude , whereupon tho little grcatmsm _bouncinj-ly . exclaimed , "Sir , your position is neither respectful to mc nor to your G—ill " Absence of Mind . —A man on board a steam-boat , intending to step up to the captain ' s office and pay his fare , stepped up to a young widow aiid began to pay his _addx-esses to her .

      " A W _ife is a Blessing . "— ' ' Wiie ! why m the name of goodness did you not make the washerwoman put starch in mv shirt-collar ? " " Why , my dear , " said the wife , I thought it a useless waste of the article , for I can get yonr choler np so easy without it !" Removed from Danger . —At a late railway explosion the fireman was the only onc who escaped ; he was blown so far from the place tliat he was completely out of danger . A _Stomacihjr . mi Swiss Patriot } sm . —The Swiss Diet , during the late civil war in Switzerland , found great difficulty in quelling the lawless fanatics . A correspondence has since been carried on between the Swiss Diet and the Poor Law Commissioners at Somerset House—resulting in an arrangement to put the _PoorLaxv Diet in operation at any future disturbance , wliich will , we have no doubt , speedily " wtt

      down" any riotous feeling . . Irish Wit . — " Arrah ! my boy , and what might they have axed ye to ate ? " exclaimed one Irishman to another as he came out of a railway _committeej'oom , wliere he had been to give evidence . " Nothing at _alf . This is not the Rump Parliament , any how . " A Roaihno Orator . —Mr . President , I shall no / remain silent , sir , while I have a voice that is not dumb in this assembly . Thc gentleman , sir , cannot expostulate this matter to any future time that is moresuitnble than now . He may talk , sir , of the Herculean revolutions , where republics are hurled into Arctic regions , and the works of centuries refrigerated to ashes—but , sir , we can tell him , fatigably , that thc consequence therefrom multiplied snbterraneously by the everlasting principles tended for thereby , ean no more shake this _resolutiow than can the roar of Kigary rejuvenate around walls , or the howl of the midnight _tcmneatconflawaff the marble statue into ice . That ' s just what em .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 21, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_21061845/page/3/