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TOE PRACTICAL BAKER London: Cleave, Shoe...
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THE HAND-BOOK OF GRAMMAR: FOR TIIE USE O...
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J^^ Er21,1846 • The Northern Star. _ ___...
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_~~ I _^ _-rn-SATlON BETWEEN DAN * ANDHIS A _COJtTEiw g 0 JI JQm John . ¦ Fatber » —j fear that delusion is gone , *' ihe era ' of plunder is over and done , It **** ! 0 { pore humbug is cover'd with shame , T _* _' ? . of free booty are _spoil'd of their game ; l ! ? - - me bad yon know my exertions were great , Ti" * . _kgg discnssion and binder debate , T * f _^ _jjowed to take place wonld bring to tba light _^ _i « ds we ' re most anxious to bury in night . _^ - _"L pierd bUad and th' exertion hast cost Tfce _nv _hsrdfcnocks , while my temper I ' ve lost , _^^ _uxrnrag a * au 8 e which every day grows worse ; _^• _L _^ - _jjiog lmean on old Ireland ' s scant purse , _Tt _* e < _\ l were is scarely enough to afford For s w _eieep barking a bone from onr board . Dab .
John , I _aHoir there are grounds for yonr fears , _^ _rffll weft dissemble , and make what appears _»*• _' ! Lst _pra _» e * be bwt in a lucrative way , _** " j . foes may insult ns , and Bay we betray T vnts ol old Erin—the cause of Repeal ; T 6 e nrtle we care what their spleen m 3 y reveal , _^" thoug h we re not free like others to tell , ft we feel to have a country to _selL B _Sn » tronBge of Whigs' bribe , pension , and place , Th _^ _Sce of our treason is flung in onr face ; I _^ _nP mstter—' tis sweet , and _Wbiggism 'a _ow-Mend , _^ _Lpesi » was bnt started to work the same end . w _llsm-P _** _- " le Wn **> ' base , brutal , and bloody , _^ np at the Hall we play " Punch and Judy . " _JoHIt .
_, , _^ _j . _nneqnall'd in scheming and cunning , _TaTwi-er unening , the game yon see running—Voa convert to advantage whatever is borne _d 9 _anootnflawing stream or tbe whirlpoor « turn _, r _taoi- * _yovfn secured Whig favour and pelt c tcs "tnTtbs for your sons , whom yon love aa yourself Batcsn ne keep these , and the people still cheat , _tjk rent gather stiU and "Young Ireland" defeat ? Ot most we submit tr * make peace witb a gang _TOom I wish it were possible for me to hang 1
Dak . _TfceToung spawn of Ireland , rebellious and vain , _pjK-srded , as felons must ever remain , _tfc eould not succeed in our schemes with such ease . U thwarted by them and their bothering ways , _jt _^ s the best plan to get rid of snch folkinch daring free spirits would not bear the yoke . jig say that the country is leagued on their side ; jot no matter how true , it must be denied . _^ hae are _thoae in the country who firm yet remain , Cho _ttalously struggle to prop np our _reign—^ hoodwink the people and make them believe , ¦ s >' re honest and true , and we ne'er deceive .
John . _TourtaH and invention can wonders produce , _jIfBj gestion of mine may be also of use , -jilt 'moral machine' which has done ns snch good la expelling the ' Hall' that fiery young brood vjjMbe work'd ' gainst tbe people— 'twill puzzle their brains , _-fithinfineaeemesmeric 'twill cast them in chains ; 16 m easily well make th « n to serve our own ends , la _coHerting the rest and supporting our friends . Dab-.
" ¦ Jour a ' vice is most shrewd and well to be known , ni me it , I think , in " a case of my own . ind now that we ' re talking I'll teU yon a fact—I fear that e ' relongl'll be decentl y whack'd . racing , of coarse , in discussion reliance , resigns O'Connor has bid me defiance . This stern denouncer to confront I'm afraid , Hell dishonour your daddy and ruin our trade . lie ' moral . force * engine we'll level'gainst him , ] And then there ' s no doubt but his jacket well trim . Ti ? apparatus well fashion the best in this realm , And engineer Tox shall be plac'd at the helm , IB fir * on the people , and bowl till I ' m hoarse , - _SiiDSt Chartist , torch , dagger , and ' physical force , ' _"ffiile Tox plays the engine , and shouts witb an oath Be at bim ye whore- « ons—ye _* renot worth egg-broth , M then tbere ' sno doubt but tell fee ns of Mnrse fir a' sousing * he'll get from cod moral force . ' P . SKXTH , KiUaloe , Ireland ,
Songs For The People. So. Xxti. Our Chee...
SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . So . xxti . OUR CHEER . BT _"EEHEST JOSES . Hurrah 1 for each gallant defender , Who stands like a man for the right , with— " Tbe Charter I and never surrender _T While yet there's a foeman to fight . "Man-worship let freemen despise , And leave it for tyrant and slave ; But honour is due to the wise . And glory the right of the brave ! We'd envy not those who inherit The paradise priests never knew , 1 / justice were rendered to merit , And all men were given their due . Then , if ye scorn treason and fear , And value faith , courage and honour , Come , Chartists , aid join in a cheer , Tor DH 5 C 0 MBE ana _TEARGCS _O'COSSOB
To Michelet, On His "People." So. Xav11....
TO MICHELET , ON HIS "PEOPLE . " SO . XAV 11 . i praised thee , llichelet , whom I saw ii Season ' s feast , by Eight and law . _Sust then , when Discord ' s voice bath ceased , An * when the faggot fails tbe priest , IS present Frenchmen , like all past , frr for a lap of blood at last ? Walter Savage Lakdob
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Tbe Family Herald. Parts 41, 42. Lon-&: ...
TBE FAMILY HERALD . Parts 41 , 42 . Lon-& : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . It is impossible in a mere notice io give onr _KJfcrs anything like an idea of the rich ' store of ffifaEaliyn and amusement contained in tbe two pits before ns of the Family Herald . "' Let those _raSm-ip who never read before , " and they will learn _fflfccmselves , _tuevalaable return a penny a week _« D _luing them . " Martin the Foundling , " by « _gaeSne , romances , tales , moral essays , poetry , w _^ _vjEceipts , science , art , statistics , riddles , wit , J * mib and clever answers to correspondents , and , » % '" leading articles " snch as no one but tbe _•"¦ _aitwof the Family Heraid can write , all combined , _P-sat a distracting Yariery of instruction and en-« t * UEnient beyond 'our ability to describe . We _?« ii . e following extracts from an article by the _^• SiT , on that subject interesting to every one : —
BOOTS AND SHOES , ASD TEXDER FEET . ¦ e have no corns npon our fingers , nor bunions upon "J " -ioiiltiers . We are not afraid to touch a hard _sub-^¦ _R-suh our hands , nor even to encounter a justle in J * street with our arms . But how vesy cautiously all _« _Hfeny and most ofthe young people avoid any colli-• a * _i'h their little toes I "Take care of my corns , *' _p * * _* _*• _*• matron at ber needle , when she seesher son or _^" _eabout to place a stool or chair close beside her . I ** _J touch in agony . "Why shonld the foot be _re-*^ t _» so very low and pitiful a condition , when it is
¦ " _•" Bia support of the body ! It reminds one ofthe ll * ahnral labourer who stands at the very " bottom of ' ssaal scale , npon whom all society depends for snb--aic * ., a ! id who , notwithstanding aU this , is the most f _** 4 _ssd and afflicted member ofthe community . _& all parts of the body , the feet have made _thesmalliPTCjrtss in the arts of comfort . Tbe stocking is the J luxury which distioguishe 3 the modern from the _fcut foot covering . Even the Greeks and the Romans * _*" -s = 3 . The Bmnan senators were _Wellington boots . _3 ° _*< re a badge of _senatorial distinction , and came _""iiian half way np to the knee . * .. _- _ #
__ _' _*•* _- •* _J * richest and the poorest _amongstus experience the r _^ _is of a leather shoe . Sometimes we are so pinched , _r * _* are fevered all over—ws can neither walk nor _ ET * atheladies cannot rest ia their pews at divine _jr" _- " * for the aching of their corns . Sometimes they _^ to a sli pper _ahoe , but when tiiey have a boot tbey _^" perfect agony , " as they call it , and can neither *** : responses , » ay amen to the prayers , nor listen _^ _Stnnoo . They can do nothing but think ofthe * _T ~ _J shoemaker , who has taken them in once more , _gj _^ - _^ -aaed them that the leather would stretch . At _^ _tunes we are not pinched , but the soles are not j _™ y rat , and they wear to one _nde . The shoe - i _* _atWavd more than the foot ; the foot gets twisted ¦ _fe wL i * tlle Peat toe has nothing to rest upon , and . _ _"fllefoot and ankle are inflamed with the awkward-• _^ — -w- _« uu 9 inueareinuai * aeu wiuj _liibavT _&
_niuug _jsjj * _* Position . We then rail against the _ignortU _T _i _^ _ole trade : " They don ' t know even how to -t eat a * oanal * 'a- will warrant anything . He will warl t _'" _^ _fUchwill no t go on . They have such _^ ™ asserting the perfection of every shoe they Hon * ltSu yfor Set themselves at times . Weremero-*• Mite < _^ casion . Hsin S aH wr strength to no purpose "*¦* % n _^ that we lla , i oes P oten * and _» after trinS _" J ii , t . P < :, - * l , | ab * on to the forehead with the useless ef' _^ _uSi _^ " _* ** " ¦¦ witll _3 rew ; b * lttbelastword tDat """ aa _iTT _^* _^ _"s was , that he had no doubt in bis '• a * _fjjf " _*^ an excellent fit . It was impossible be * " _*•* - _PrA ' tneiue ! i 5 ore , what could be more cor-*" - * ' lit , i _** th 0 tt Shtwe ceuld swell out _atplea"Wa-,,,. _* _""abitions frog . We know not , but he _^• _fJa-j * afess _¦* bat _*" e _hai 1 mafle a b ] nnder * II is % 1 _„ _™ _^ batyou can get two boots alike , one is ali - _Idu tl 0 rl l roader than the other ; but the _makar ¦ ' _*** _fa _^ _""** _^ _Possihle , for Uiey are made on " _st _«^ . - He means a pair of las ts made fellows _, y 3 _smjji * mtfe _delusion , you may make a large shoe < ffle on the same last , A . little more stretch
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mg ofthe leatheum one case than tbe other makes all the drf & renceyou complain of , and then When the leather ia _retaeved from _thepressure , it gradually runs to it . nl tural « . ze . The stretching of leather Is a favourite tteory of the shoemaker , wherewith he comforts hi * , customers , and promotes the cultivation of corns and bunions . _> ever believe it ; never trust to the tee as they call thestretcher . Toumay as well trust to the stretching of an Indian rubber garter , wbich will stop the cir . _culationof yonr blood for ever , before it give way even one quarter of an inch , which it will not recover when the force is removed . When your boot is too tight , you get it put on tbe tree , anditfeels much easier , when you t t
ry , onagain . Away , you walk , quite relieved and overjoyed ; but in a few hours you are as miserable as ever . _Perhaps your foot has swelled , says the bootmaker , put it on tbe tree all night . Tou have it put on the tree all night , and it comes home comfortable again but the comfort is of short duration , and you find , to your sorrow , that though leather will stretch if you force it , it will also unstreteh when the force is withdrawn . It is better to trust to the unstretching of leather . The shoemakers understand this too , Therefore , when the shoe is too large , they say it will close npon the foot , the leather will contract . They areright . it does contract , more Surely than it stretches , and much more comfortably to the poor feet which it encases .
The ladies are particularly fond of having small feet to show , and will endure almost any punishment merel y for the imaginary pleasure of being thought to possess them . They wiU be squeezed , and pincbed , and tormented for a month , rather than for one second of time an unshapely figure of a foot should chance to peep out from beneath the drapery in which they are enveloped . Only look atthe soles of a woman ' s shoe , and you may see the reason wh y she is always , in large towns and cities , and in high life , so had a pedestrian . Tf oman is formed by nature to walk as man , and she dots walk as well in humble life . She tramps barefooted to church in Scotland for miles without a sigh or groan , and sits down by tbe burnside to wash her feet and put on her stockings and shoes before she enters the sacred pile . It is then ¦ he begins to limp and bait , tbeu tbat she shows symptoms of pain in walking .
It was so once , but fashion is gradually diminshing the number of such rustic scenes , and bare toes are becoming almost a r & rity . But bare toes were good toes , —the toes that could walk five or six miles to church and back again , aud think nothing of it . Whereas half a mile is too much for a shod metropolitan dame , with hard corns on the outside of her toes , and softcorns between them . There is little doubt that tightness of shoeing has incapacitated woman for walking . * * » Tbe fashion ot wearing things to fit close , is a most uncomfortable fashion for all parties . It is a most
troublesome fashion for the tailor and tbe dressmaker , and it is particularly troublesome to the public , as the ¦ lightest deviation from a good fit is a source of great annoyance when the clothing is tight . Tbeloose dress that requires no fit is convenient for all parties , and is by far the most picturesque and dignified . Tbe shoemakers of large towns have escaped many of tbe troubles to which the fitting trade is liable , by making for the shops and not for the customers . The fault lies , not in the workmen , bnt in tbe masters or cutters , who , as a body of man , require much instruction , under smart discipline , in the art of boot and shoe making .
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and tha two former invariably has ( if married , ) a loaf per day for their family , and a half er quartern of flour on Saturday . This is certainly not sufficient for days and nights of actual toil , whereby every domestic comfort , rational amusement , recreation , and even health is sacrificed ; working , as they are doomed to be , in a close unhealthy atmosphere , most frequently under ground , without any ventilation or free current of air to take off the carbonic gas which is engendered by fermentation . This he inhales , and the consequence is he soon becomes a prey to disease , premature old age creeps on , by tbe time and often before he has reached the prime of life . Ton seldom see journeymen bakers of any advanced age about the streets of London . I have known many instances of healthy young men from the country being obliged to return to tbeir native place , after becoming a victim to this infamous system of slavery , so productive of disease , and which h « 3 eventually carried tbem from the land of the living .
The above is a frightful picture of white slavery Why do not the Exeter Hall philanthropists open their mouths and their pockets , and raise their voices and exert their energies , to reform this horrible system of oppression ? They " compass sea and land " to find objects of sympathy , yet they are blind to this enormous oppression under their very noses , and which even their morning's hot rolls should sufficiently testify to them . We have not room to quote Mr . Read ' s suggestions for the doing away with the worst part of slavery—night-work ; but there can be no doubt tbat the suggested better system might be carried out with injury to no one , and immense be * nefit to the journeymen bakers . We hope the operative bakers will arouse themselves , and insist upon an amelioration of their condition . We recommend this little book to our readers .
The Musical Herald. Parts 5, 6. London: ...
THE MUSICAL HERALD . Parts 5 , 6 . London : G . Biggs , 431 , Strand . This is an excellent companion to the abov <> publication , and all who have " music in their souls " should hasten to purchase the ** Musical Herald . " Both the " ¦ music" and the " musicalliterature " claim our warmest praise .
Toe Practical Baker London: Cleave, Shoe...
TOE PRACTICAL BAKER London : Cleave , Shoe Lane . This Utile sixpenny publication professes to teach the art of managing and manufacturing , all sorts of bread : also the method of preventing sour bread . With this portion of Mr . Read ' s book we shall not meddle , but we feel ourselves bound to give the following extract illustrating the WRONGS OF THE OPERATIVE BAKERS . In the first place , the poor operative baker , or rather slave , is obliged to revrse the order of nature , by seeking rest wfaeu he should be receiving mental and moral improvement ; and when the rest of his fellow-mortals retire to receive nature ' s balmy and restorative cordial , sleep , be has to commence operations for the next day ' s slavery : surely man wss never ordained for tbis , and that , in a civilised country , professing liberty and freedom . Such a stubborn fact is , however , undeniable , nay , daily practised in this huge metropolis . The clock strikes eleven ; tbe shops are nearly all closed , the lively bustle ot the day is over ; lights appear in the different _chambsrs , for the purpose of rest ; all nature courts repose ; but the poor emaciated baker is either demanding ad . mittance at his master's door , or with hurried footsteps endeavouring to reach it , so as to commence bis toil and continued round of slavery , having previously walked perhaps two or three miles , the distance from his
residence . We will suppose the sponge to be ready at tbe time of his arrival so as be may commence operations , but this isnotalways the case , he is often obliged to wait , sometime an hour or more , before it bas " turn'd tbe Eecond time , " -when he bas a laborious part to perform , which is termed " making dough ; this is in general done by two persons , the second and third hands , whilst tbe foreman is preparing for another batch . I have seen two persons make sixteen and eighteen bushels of dough at one time , which is three sacks of flour , and very frequently two sacks or two and a half , this last is very general . To have an idea of this part
ofthe business , a person should picture to himself a man , or two men , being elbow deep in a large thick mass , lifting and turning it from side to side , in doing which tbey are obliged to employ the whole of their strength , he may tt en form some opinion of making dough ; this operation lasts from half to tbreeparts of an hour , when it is past twelve o ' clock , at wbich time , if his circumstances permit , be will partake of a little refreshment , and then lie on the boards for two or three hours whilst tbe dough is proving , frequently this is the only rest which a baker obtains for six consecutive nights , Saturday being tbe only time he can enjoy rest like other men . But the foreman cannot obtain the short rest
which his helpmates have on each night . He is obhged , at intervals , to attend to the heating ofthe oven and prepare it for the batch , and on him rests the responsibility of every thing being in due time , therefore he has constantly to be on the alert , and to awake those under bim when tbe dough , is sufficiently . " _forward" te be taken irom tbe trough , which being done , it is weighed off in pieces the required weight , moulded , or made into a square or round form , and placed in regular rotation on tbe boards . When the whole is disposed of in this manner , the oven is swept out and made ready to receive it , each of those pieces which are previously weighed is again moulded , or shaped to the desired form , and set in the oven where it remains to be baked ; during this time be bas to make bis rolls , cottage bread , twists ,
& c , and also perhaps make anotbsr piece of dough preparatory for the second ; tbe whole of this must be done whilst the bread ' s baking . Tbe batch is now to be " drawn , " tbat is , taken out of the oven , carried into the shop and duly arranged ; the oven is again heated for the rolls , dec , to be baked , nor must they fail of being in the shop by eight o ' clock or a quarter before , or tbe consequence to the man is , that he is probably discharged at the expiration of his night ' s slavery without any previous notice . There is no time now for the baker to get his breakfast he must " make time" to get it whilst tbe batch was baking ; he has customers to supply -with hot rolls , or else a heavy load of bread is on his head to supply some chandler ' s shop . By tbe time he returns from
this excursion , there is another lot of dough ready for a second batch , which has to undergo the same process as before . In the interval which follows , he has to fetch , attend , bake , and carry home dinners to their respective owners , when if there is not a third and fourth batch in preparation , he may get a chance of having a comfortable meal ; if otherwise , he has scarcely time to swallow one in this case ; that is , if there are three or four batches , he may probably leave work by seven or eleven o clock , it is often twelve , especially Saturdays , when he has the last mentioned nnmber . This statement principally affects the " underaeller ' _s" men , wbich is the low-priced baker ; but with men in tbe employ of the full-priced baker ; it is somewhat different , for instead of having three or four batches per day ,
they may occasionally have two , and the remainder of the day you may see tbem pacing tbe _Btreets of Iondon with a large basket of bread thrown across bis back , and often another banging on his arm . Amongst the trade persons so employed are termed donkeys , and Christian ponies , certainly not inappropriate namet . They may manage to have finished their rounds by four or five o ' clock , and in some instances by three , when , after his return , he has to prepare for his next day ' s labour , and attend to the dinners of thosefashionable customers who dine late , whilst occasionally through the day , or after he has returned from his rounds , he has to amuse himself with the manufacture
of * few small goods , when it is likely he may leave work by five o ' clock 5 should he after this wish to see any friends or have any amusement , he must do so at the expense of his rest . This is often the case , and many never lie down in a bed but once in a week , _sleeping only on the boards . Sunday is no better . In London , the mass of the people being either too poor , or being otherwise unable to cook for themselves , the weight of duty of roasting meat falls to tbe bak « r . While one part of soeiety is either _dashhui along in carriages , or walking to church , and another part is either remaining at home in a comfortable state of domestication , or perhaps taking the air in thep » rks , the poor wretch of a baker is hard at work in his
den . Pretty considerable hot work this . No rest even on Sundays , till half the day be done . At four or five o ' clock , bebas to set his sponge for tbe next day ' s , but more properly the same night and next day ' s labour . After the statement whieh is now given , many persons will naturally say , he is well paid for this excessive toil : they will however find it the reverse ; neither is there any extra pay for the Sunday portion of bis labour , except in some few instances the master allows him a _diauer . The general rate of wages given is , for a foreman , £ 1 to £ 1 10 s . ; second hand , 16 s . to £ 1 Is .: third hand . 10 j . to Us , besides what bread they may require ,
The Hand-Book Of Grammar: For Tiie Use O...
THE HAND-BOOK OF GRAMMAR : FOR TIIE USE OF TEACHERS AND LEARNERS —Br 6 . J . Holyoake . London ; J . Watson , 31 , Queen ' s Headpassage , Paternoster-row . We shall be 3 t in brief terms explain the nature and object of this work by quoting the author ' s explanation : — The Hand Book of Grammar , which is a Sequel to ' Practical Grammar , ' and designed for the 'use of Teachers and Learners , ' is founded upon the principle , so well laid down by Dr . Borrow : —
'Precepts bave no vehement operation upon the fancy and do doon fly tbe memory . But example , like a picture exposed to sense , havingjthe parts orderly disposed and completely united , contained in a narrow compass and perceptible at one _glance—easily iasinuates itself into the mind and durably :-rests therein . This is the most facile , familiar , and delightful way of instruction . ' The * Sequel' contains 300 _Questions deduced from Practical Grammar , ' to enable teachers to exercise their pupils , or , as the case majfjbe , the pupils to exercise themselves .
• Bight Orders of Graduated Exercises , ' are constructed , embracing the Definitions and a brief epitome of the principle of Grammar aud Composition . In definitions lie the theory of grammar . The object has _buen to present these so condensed as to be brief—so classified a » to be clear—so enforced as tobe indelible . The wholeare illustrated—uot by the insipid examples peculiar to school books , but by 150 of the most instructive sentences which I have been able to select from tha productions of wits , philosophers , moralists , and poets . We need only add that the "Hand-book of Grammar , " which may be had for ten pence , is a very necessary and useful little work , well worthy of universal ciroulation . Mr . Holyoake is about to introduce Euclid to "the million , " bavins ; commenced the publication ( in threepenny weekly numbers ) of a work , intiiled "Mathematics no Mystery . ' ,
Macke?Jzie*S Monthly Railway Time Tables...
MACKE ? _JZIE _* S MONTHLY RAILWAY TIME TABLES ; ADVERTISER , AND STRANGER'S LONDON GUIDE . The above title explains the leading features of this publication ; but we should add that it also contains a list of steamboats ; cab fares ; railway omnibus offices ; theatres ; places of amusement ; excursions ; pasport office ; holidays at public offices ; monthly fairs ; Post-cffice regulations ; monthly fashions , < fec . The whole is printed on a mammoth sheet for ONE PENNY ! What traveller , or visitor to the great metropolis will be without " Mackenzie ' s Railway Time Tables" after this announcement ?
Thomas Paine. From The Manchester (N. Ii...
THOMAS PAINE . From the Manchester ( N . II . ) Democrat . Ton Paine . We perceive that some of our newspapers are for making a hero of Tom , and immortalising him . Poor fellow ! hiB immortality , in no s _* mse oftlie word , is to be envied . The above paragraph we find in the Exeter News Letter , a paper that professes great sympathy for those under the bonds of oppression . Yet itis ready to sneer at the memory of a man who did more towards the universal freedom of his kind than any other man that ever lived ! "Tom Paine , " that " poor fellow ! " did more to eff * » ct the " glorious Revolution" than any other man of those glorious times . _Washingtonled our troops to battle , but who prepared the minds of those troops for battle * Who prepared the minds ofthe people for the change ? Who proved to them that the people were the
sovereigns—the source of all power ? In one word , wh . waa it that procured that Revolution in Opinion in our country , that preceded the Revolution in _Govera-merit ? Who , but" Tom Faine V His works — "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man "have done more toward liberalising the acts of Government , and disseminating among the people a knowledge of their own rights , than any other works ever written before or after our Revolution . And how much soever we regret his anti-religious works , from the bottom of our heart we pity the man who , in this land of equal laws and equal rights , can deliberately have it in his heart to sneer at the memory of Thomas Paine . True he wrote against our religion and its forms—but still , had it not been for his political writings , we much doubt whether we should have had any religion at the present time , except as it bad existence upon the Statute Book of England . — Young America .
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Scandalous Ooibaok . —A most wanton outrage was perpetrated at the chapel of Broughton on Furnass , last week . Some miscreants smashed seventy panes in the windows of the edifice . The large window just above the altar suffered the most injury _, no less than twenty-five squares being broken . Not satisfied with having broken the windows , they next proceeded to attack even the mansions of the dead , and threw down four tombstones and one headstone ; and , in fact , tbe cbapel and the burial ground attached to it presented much the same appearance as they might be supposed to have done had they been visited by a tornado .
Fires asd Pbobablk Less of Life . —On Wednesday morning , shortly after two o ' clock , the premises belonging to Mr . J . H . Munday , oil and colourman , situate at 5 , Duke-street , Back-road , St . _George _' sin-the-East , were discovered by the police constable on the beat to be on fire . An immediate alarm was spread , and the inmates having been aroused from their slumbers , they succeded in effecting a safe retreat , when thefire was extinguished . A boy named John Mahony , five years of age , whose parents reside at Vine-street , Millbank , by some means got in contact with the fire in the room , and his clothes speedily became ignited . His screams brought several persons to his assistance , when the flames were found monnting over the child's head . They were extinguished as early as possible , but not before the poor boy was frighfully burnt over the body . He was taken to the Westminster Hospital , where he remains without the last chance of recovery .
Manslaughter from Reckless Driving . — On Wednesday evening , an inquest , adjourned from the previous Thursday , was resumed and concluded before W . Payne , Esq ., City coroner , at Guy ' s Hospital , on the body of Thomas Roberts , aged 33 , a harness-maker in the employ of Mr . Wheatley , the omnibus proprietor at Greenwich , who was killed through the reckleBS driving of a man named Thos . Henry Lankford . On Monday , the 9 th instant , the deceased , who had been supping with some friends , was standing in the road way , near the railway terminus , Greenwich , between eleven and twelve _o'clouk at night , conversing with some of the party , when a tilted cart , belonging to Mr . T . Henry Lankford , an egg-merchant in the Borough , passed along at a
rapid rate , knocking the deceased and another person , named Maloney , who was with him , down . An effort was made to stop the cart , but the driver , owing to the rate at which the horse was going , was enabled to get off . A day or two after , however , the cart was seen in the neighbourhood ot Deptford , and identified as the one which caused the accident , and Mr . Lankford also identified as having been at Greenwich and Woolwich on the same day with the vehicle . The deceased , who at the time was the worse for liquor , having been seen by a local surgeon , was brought to the hospital , where he died the next day from fracture ofthe skull . The Coroner having summed , the Jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter against Thomas Ilenry Lankford , " who was committed to Newgate for trial .
Extensive Forgeries . —The post master at Barnett who has absconded after having committed forgeries on the Post-office by means of fraudulent Post-office Orders , is said to have carried off not less than £ 4000 in this way . Fall of a Railway BniDOE . — Three men were killed last week by the fall of a railway bridge near Reading , on the Berks and Hants line ofthe Gi eat Western Railway . A verdict in each case was returned of "Accidental death , " but not without some strong remarks from the Jury on the culpable neglect with regard to the erection of bridges on this line , as no less than four lives have been lost , and other accidents occasioned .
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_HoMR-RAnuH for thk Million . —Among the enormous benefits of free trade is a tremenduous influx of horse-radish , which is arriving daily by ship-loads at the tustom-house . Getting the horse-radish is one ? _nu _? * ° _™ rds Rett'ng the roast beef to eat with it . ibis is like a friend of ours , who has got a banker ' s book , and now wants nothing to make it complete but a large balance . —Punch . Good . — ' Get up , husband , ' said a lady to her liege lord , the other morning , ' daylight is breaking . ' ' Let it break , ' said he , it don't owe me anything . ' Cause of Irish Suffering . —Some one attributed the wants of Ireland to absenteeism , a resolute punster declared that the misery of the Irish arose not from absent-tec-ism , but from absent dinnerism . _Daouerkotyi-e —A woman ** heart is the only true place lor a man ' s likeness . An instant gives the impression , and an age of change and sorrow cannot efface it .
_LinERALi-rr of Louis Piiilippi ! . —The Canterbury _Journalises that a French brig , lying at Erith , is taking in a cargo of 4 , 000 barrels of gunpowder , of English manufacture . It is , however , the intention of Louis Philippe ( a certain event occurring , ) only to borrow the same ; as he hopes to be able to return the gunpowder to the English , with the additional compliment of lead . —7 * « ncA . Cure for Rats . —Well , ho was down in the country , and bis money ran out ; and the landlord of the inn charged him 3 s . for a damp bed , and 3 s . for a poor breakfast , and when he looked at the bill he was amazed at it ; but he was more amazed still to know how to pay it . So he called up the landlord , — " You ' ve rats inthe house , " said he . " Oh I ' am
about ruined by them , from the slaughter-house over the way . " " Why don't you banish them ? " "I'll give you a gold guinea , " said he , " if you'll tell me how " " Done ! " said my father . "You may risk your , existence there won't be one inthe neighbourhood , slaughter-house and all , in a week . " The innkeeper was like to go out of his witswith joy . ' - 'Then , " said my father , " nothing like doing business , discharge that bill and give me the balance . " He got the 15 s . and tho innkeeper was all mouth and ears . " " The first rat that comes , " said my father , '' charge him 3 s . for bed , and as much for breakfast , and as soon as he gets home to his companions , and the thing pets wind among them , they'll never frequent the house more !"
The Eartii belonos to all . — " The earth is the habitation the natural inheritance of all mankind , of ages present and to come ; a habitation belonging to no man in particular , but to every man ; and one in which all have an equal right to dwell . "—John Gray . The Ancient BrW 0 S 9 * lived in communities , forming villages in the woods , during the summer , for the purpose of hunting and pasturage , as their chief food was flesh , milk , berries , fruit , and leaves ; and in winter tbey moved tn more mountainous districts , aa _heins healthier and drier . Some writers have thought
the natives ate raw meat , exuding the blond by pressure : others , that it was baked amid headed stones , The huts in which the people lived were of a cone form , and covered with boughs , grass , mud , clay , or turf . They had chairs and stools : skins and their mantels served , for bed clothing . Wooden bowls , platters , and articles of common pottery , formed their domestic utensils . The dead they buried with their most appreciated articles , from an idea of their wants in a future stat " _' : sometimes the body was burnt and the ashes deposited in \ um . —Mackenm ' s History of England .
A Brotherly Difference . —A provincial paper says " There is a sensible difference between the letters of Mr . Grantley Berkeley and his brother . " It is 'he only thing , then , in the difference between them that is sensible . —Punch . Qualifying for a Robber . —Cartouche , the _notorions French robber , who flourished in 1 _^ 89 , being told that a young man was desirous of becoming a member of his band , took hii .-i nnder examination , and , asking him where he had served , was answered , - Two years with an attorney , and six months under an inspector of police at Paris . " ' Then , " said Cartoche , with transport , ' * I shall consider it the same thing as if you had rode all that time in my troop . " And the _yonas _' man took rank _accordincly .
A Dutch Wedding . —The party consisted or some twenty or thirty persons—bride and bridegrr _. om both in deep _-raournin-r , the latter In black gloves—little children who would not be kept still on their little bench , but ; lounged up to the ; knees of tbe older people and gave just as much trouble , as if they had been at home—men who sate or stood as they pleased , with their hats on or off , as seemed good to them . The civil part of the ceremony had been transacted elsewhere : so we c > me in but for the exhortation . This was delivered by a comely pastor , who arriving in his cocked hat , hung it up in the pulpit ere he began to hold forth ; and realiy to judge from the time he took , and the energy he bestowed on the subject , cannot have left out one duty great or small . For three mortal quarters of an hour did his homily last . Let me not be irreverent , however : — -there was one kindly creature in the party , ofthe tearful class
whom the exhortation entirely succeeded , ana who weptherself into something like hysterics . The bride and the bridegroom sate still , and looked , I must say , dogged , rather than submissive . Both were singularly plain—I say singularly , because I have rarely seen so many handsome , well-grown men , and fair women , as since I have been in Holland . The servant of the sexton ' s house , through which you must pass into the church , was worth the whole party put _together as a picture : an elderly woman , with a clear waxen . _complexion , deep gray eyes , soft dark eyebrows , and white hair , vary neatly arranged within the wire _, stiffened border ofa rich lace cap ; her clean dimity jacket , with a gay calico handkerchief by way of apron , making up a capital painter ' s figure , as she stood looking through the screen , and criticising the whole performance , methought , with a _shrewd and professional expression of countenance . — People ' s Journal .
United States Soldiers . —( By J . G . Whiter the American poet . )—They look out with _honeBt citizen faces under their leathern vizors ( their ferocity being mostly the work ofthe tailor and tinker , ) and I doubt not , are at this moment as innocent of blood-thirstiness as _yondtr worthy tiller of the Tewksdury hills , who sits quietly in his waggon , dispensing apples and turnips , without so much as giving a glance at the _procession . Probably there is not one of them who would hesitate to divide his tobacco-quid with his worst enemy . Social kind-hearted , psalm-singing ,
sermon-hearing , Sabbath-keeping christians ; and yet , if we look at the fact of the matter , these very men have been out the whole afternoon of this beau * tiful day , under God ' s holy sunshine , as usual at work as Satan himself could wish , in learning how to butcher their fellow creatures , and acquire the true scientific method of impaling a poor forlorn Mexican on a bayonet , or of sinking a leaden missile in the brain of some unfortunate Briton , urged within its range by the double incentive of _sixpencelper day in his pocket , and the cat-o ' -nine-tails on his back!—People ' s Journal .
A Great Comfort . —A tremendous fog on the 3 rd rendered the Wellington Statue quite invisible . Speaking * or Posterity . —During the delivery of one of those tedious and interminable speeches which are sometimes inflicted upon the Ilouse of Representatives in America , as well as in our own House of Commons , a member , who had eccupied the floor for several hours , was called to order , on the ground that his remarks were not pertinent to the question before the house . " I know it , " said he , " 1 am not speaking for the benefit of the house , but for posterity" - "Speak a little longer , " said John Randolph , in an under tone , " and you will have your audience before you . " call mother ?
nosET . — " Why does father honey " asked a small boy of his brother . "Can ' t think , Sam , ' cept its becos she ' s got sick a large _emno in her head . " Novel Race . —Great excitement prevailed lately in New York , in consequence of a match " lor speed "—which came off there in the course of the past month , between a gentleman and his * ' running accounts . " The gentleman beat the accounts hollow —so much so , indeed , tbat he couldn't stop himself again , eventually ran " clean out of sight , " and entirely disappeared . Wanted an _Imertretkr . —One W . W . Broom , who has often victimised us before , sends us a _pnper covered with blue marks , which ho evidently intends us to read . We want old Cobbett again , who used to admonish his correspondents to learn to write before they began to contribute . An editor of an Lie
of Man paper has some correspondents who take birds , deep their feet in ink , and make them walk over the paper , and then dispatch it as an article to the editor . Mr . Broom , we suppose employs one of these claw-footed amanuenses . A gentleman skilled in obscure calligraphy , and who has voluntarily devoted great attention to Mr . Broom ' s MSS ., reports that Mr . B . intends astounding things about next spring—the particulars cannot be made out—but we hereby inform all almanack compilers , that something excruciating is in contemplation , ii'hieroglyphicscan be trusted . N . B . Mr . Broom will please to observe , that no paper from him can in future receive attention , unless plainly written . He must take " six _tasons !'—The Reasoner . [ We hope some—not a few of our " correspondents" will profit by the above hints . —En . N . S . ]
H ' he same in Scotland . —fhe Americana are so inquisitive that Dr . Franklin teils ns , when he travelled in America and wished to ask his road , he found it necessary to save time by prefacing his questions with * My name is Bonjamin Franklin , I am by trade a printer , I am coming from such a place , and am going to such a place ; and now tell me which i 3 my road . " Siu Christopher Hawkins , Bart . —The late worthy baronet of Trewithen , who possessed immense estates and great borough influence , was well known for his parsimonious habits ; and the following quaint lines , written by some facetious person on the wall of his demesne , aro still remembered in Cornwall : — A large park with no deer , A _laige cellar with no beer , A Urge house with no cheer , J * , B . —Sir Christopher Hawkins lives here ,
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Cosr of mE Leeds Penes Fobce . —The cost incurred in the maintenace of the force , during the year ending August last , was £ 0 . 078 10 s 10 d . _Capiaim Warner ' s _"Loho Rakoe . " —• The Post says that a trial of this destructive engine has been made . The greatest secrecy as to the locaZeofthe experiment was observed , and none but the inventor , Colonel Chalmer , and two or three other individuals , were present . It is said the experiment was quite successful . Funeral of the Author of the Wom > " Teetotav "—On Sunday , the remains of Richard Turner were intered at Preston , ground having been purchased for that purpose through the exertions of a few zealous friends ofthe temperate cause . William Llotd Garrison , the anti-slavery lecturer , left Liverpool for Boston recently .
A Historical Character . —Died , in August last , in the vicinity of Baton Rouge , says the Boston Mail , Madame Majocchi , wife of the _witness in the famous trial of Queen Caroline , of " nonmi recordo" memory . Majocchi found England too hot for him after the trial of the Queen ; but it was not known to what part ot the world he betook himself . By the above we presume he is still living in the United States . A Public _GAiv . _—The Law Times calculates that the profession will lose £ 80 . 000 per annum by the operation ofthe new Small Debts Act . The Diamond Mines in Braril , of which so much was said some time ago , turn out to be not worth the working . Comino Events Cast their Shadows Before . — It is rumoured that there is again a probability of an increase in the _rbyal famil y . Early Closing or Shops . —The linen and woollen drapers and hosiers of Halifax have commenced closing their shops at seven o ' clock in the evening .
The Gun Cotton and the Board of Ordnance . —The Board of Ordnance has rejected the proposal for the use of Sehonbeia ' _s gun cotton in the British army . The "Oldest Inhabitant" of the town of _Ivnaresborongh—Mr . Matthew Pearson—breathed hii last on Thursday , in the one ' hundred and fourteenth year of his age . He could well remember many curious incidents in connexion with the Scottish Rebellion in 1745 , and maintained his faculties to tbe very last . The Mator of Leeds . —It is not true that Mr . Luccock has been re-electeil Mayor of Leeds . The new Mayor is Charles Cascoigne Maclea . _Siiaksfere ' _s Descendants . —A Nottingham paper says : — " There is now living in the village of Beeston , the wife of a meebanic , a daughter of the late Mr . William tlart , and sister to Mi . Thomas Hart , of Tewkesbury , lineal decendants of Shakespere .
Nothing and Nobody . —Last week two lads were carried before the Mayor of Hull , charged with disorderly conduct . One nf them described himself as being " nothing , " and the other as being employed by " nobody . " Misletoe . —An experienced agriculturist mentions as a caution , that if misletoe , when rejected from its p la _.- * e in the house , be thrown , as is a frequent custom , into the foul yards , the cows will eat of it , and the _consequences will be that they will slip their calves .. Great Printing Press . — Messrs . Dryden , the celebrated engineers , are now employed in the construction of a printing machine tor the Times , warranted to produce twelve thousand impressions uer hour , or the almost inconceivable number of upwards of three sheets per second !
Rocks Blasted by Exploding Cotton . —A letter from Stuttgard ofthe 2 nd November says : "On Thursday last experiments for blasting rocks in the tunnel of Laupen were made with exploding cotton , and were _eminently successful . New _ArpLicATior * or thk Electric Telegraph . — On Thursday a workman left the Chesterfield station in a railway carriage , taking his day ' s dinner with him , but on reaching his destination , he left his beef , potatoes , and cabbage in the carriage . Having communicated his loss to the station clerk , the telegraph was set to work , and the answer quickly obtained _, stating that the dinner wa 3 found , and that it would be sent back by the next train . Suriiev Zoological Gardens . —Extensive . alterations have commenced here . A new entrance , with Gothic lodges , a terrace walk 300 feet in length and 25 in width , with fountains , statues , Ac .
An Aojd Bird . —A magpie died on the 5 th of thw month , which has been in the possession of Mr . James Hagger , of Great CheBterford , for nineteen years . Felony by a Bankrupt . —On Saturday a reward of £ 50 was offered for apprehension of Francis Syder , a grocer and draper , carrying on business at Wells at Fakenbam , in Norfolk , and Hitchin , in Hertfordshire , who is charged with felony , he not having surrendered to be examined by the CoramiBssioners under a fiat in bankruptcy . Crewb has been made a port town . Public Works . —The number of persons employed on public works in Ireland , for ihe week ending 8 th Nov ., was 150 . 208 . Thomas Moore , the celebrated Irish poet , is much recovered—L . _tnerick _Ctironicle .
A . Rich Robber . —Last week . Charles _Donnellan , who has been convicted and sentenced by the magistrates ef East Ham for stealing cabbages , was discharged from Ilford gaol , where were found upon hia person 1 bag containing £ 95 in gold , another having £ 21 5 s . in gold and silver , and also Bank securities for £ 5 o 0 . The Bet of Tunis is on a visit to France . Shortening -the Hours or Labour . —Messrs . Bell , the proprietors of extensive potteries at Glasgow , have consented to shorten the hours of labour from 11 to 10 hours a day . Foreign Potatoes . | The arrivals of potatoes from abroad during the past week , have included French , Russian , and Spanish potatoes in large quantities . The Railway to Bradford running from Bletcliley , on the London and Birmingham portion of the North Western Railway opened this week .
Establishment of an English Journal in Roue . A n English newspaper has j ust been started at Rome . It is entitled the Roman Advertiser , and apears once a week . The editor is a Mr . Ilemans , but the proprietors appear to be all Italians . [ Australian BisHornics . —The diocese of Australia is to be divided into three , by the erection of two new bishoprics , one at Melbourne , for the district of Port ' Phili p , and the other at Morpeth , for the northern division of New South Wales . Sanitary Condition of the Metropolis . —The Committee of the Health of London Association are persevering with theirinquiriesinto the sanitary condition of the metropolis . TnE Price of Gin is likely to be raised , in _consequence of the distillers having made three advances , amounting in the whole to one shilling a gallon . Westminster Bridge is to bo re-opened for light carriages , omnibuses , « fcc . The present structure will not be removed until the new bridge is completed .
Death of a Pugilist . —On Sunday morning Edward Neale , the celebrated pugilist , aged 51 years , expired at his _residence , the Rose and Crown Inn , Norwood , Surrey . Captain Sir Edward Parry , the celebrated Polar voyager , is to succeed Captain Carter , as superintendent of Ilaslar Hospital . Don Carlos is residing at Genoa . General Reduction in Steam-boat Fares . —On Tuesday , in consequence of the competition existing on the river Thames , the fares of nearly ail the steamers underwent a permanent and very extensive reduction . The fares are now , consequently , between
Gravesend and London , 6 d . each person , " between Woolwich , Greenwich , and London-bridge , 3 d . and 4 d . ; between the latter pier and Chelsea , 3 d . ; and between London-bridge and Nine Elms Railway _station , 2 d . ; a similar fare is also all that is charged for conveying passengers between _Hungerfovd-market and Chelsea . Other boats ran during Tuesday between London and Westminster bridges at the extraordinarily low fare of one halfpenny each person . HoRBiBLK . —A French paper states that a butcher at St . _Etienne lately sold his wife , to whom he had been very cruel , and then wanting her back , deliberately murdered her purchaser .
Hydrophobia . —No death from hydrophebia has been registered in London during the last three summers . _Maukmoisellb Rachel has contributed 1 , 000 francs towards the relief of the sufferers by the late inunda tion in France . Good Suggestion . —The Westminster Review contends that the penny stamp should be removed from newspapers , and p laeed upon a wrapper or envelope , franking those required to be sent through tho post . Negro Astronomy . — " I say , Baa , " said a negro to a compeer , " where dodat comet rise at ? " "Him rises in de 46 th meridian ob de frigid zodiac , as laid down in the comet almanack . " " Well , and whe / e do him set , Bar . " "Set ,, you black feol , him don't set dowhere . When bim get tired ob shining , bim creep into him hole .
_Ilio-n Time for Women to Study Politics . —Bonaparte once at a party placed himself directly before a witty and beautiful lady , and said very abruptly . " Madam , I don't like that women should meddle with politics . " " You are very right , General , " she replied , " but in a country where women are beheaded , it is natural they should desire to know the reason . " Tun Ways of Women . — Young girls from fourteen to seventeen , are i ' ond of aping the woman in their dress , and are partial to long shawls , which give the
young things a matronly appearance . When they become women in reality , they are rather too apt to go upon the opposite tack , and to assume the dress and airs of the girl . Taking it Easy . — "When , a stranger treats mo with want of respect , " said a poor philosopher , "I comfort myself with the reflection that it is not myself that he slights , but my old shabby coat and shabby hat , which , to say tho truth , have no particular claim to adoration . So if my hat ami coat choose to fret it , let them , but it is nothing to me . Colloquy . —The following colloquy took place between inquisitive gontleman and his butciici
an bov _;— "What are your politics ? " said the gentleman . " The queen's , sir . " " What are the Queen ' s . "
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' M ° A ' J **' " .. "Wnat ' vour nanie " " Mv _nan-e , " said the boy . is the same as father ' s . " "And what is ha name ? " said the gentleman . " It is the amo ?« w ? _- ! Then wbat are both your names V Whoy they are both alike , " said the boy . Tha gentleman turned on his heel , and the boy shouted Anything more , sir 1 " AN _OldDbfault _er—Mp . O'Connell has beea _pested again as a defaulter in the city of Dublin _Thetwelvemonths'billhegave for Seal has bt come due , and been sent back marked " No effects " This is not the first by many which has been dishonoured in a similar way . The honourable gentleman has been endeavouring to renew the bill , but his credit is so shaken , that he has great difficulty in _inducing people to accept anything . —Punch . The Sufferers _ry the Destruction of thb
Garrick Theatre . —The most generous sympathy is being exercised towards the performers of the late Garrick Theatre , by their professional brethren at the City theatres . Benefits in aid of the fund collecting for their relief have taken place , while others are about to come off . TnE CnoLEBA has extended its ravages from Persia to Bagdad , In that ) city about ono hundred victims to this disease were , by the last accounts , perishing daily . Fourteen hundred persons in all bad then been carried off . _FisniNo . —The fishing by the long line along the cost of the Cuningham district of Ayrshire and off Arran this season , has been an average one compared with former years . Canada is shortly to be annexed to the United States by magnetic telegraph wires , the contract for a line from Buffalo to Toronto being taken at one hundred and twenty-five dollars a mile—4 , 000 dollars the entire distance .
A Steam-Boiler burst at Serel in Canada . Several persons were badly scalded , and five , including : a fireman and stoker , have since died . Recent Gales have done much damage to the shipping in Canada . Fatal Accident near Hyde Park , > n Tuesday morning , a young lady was knocked down by one of the Brentford omnibuses . She was taken to St . George ' s Hospital , in the immediate vicinity , butlifa was found to be already extinct . Suicide at Brighton . —On Monday evening , % young woman , decently attired , and apparently about 23 years of age , drowned herself by jumping off tha pier . Thk _Armv in Canada . —Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin D'Urban will , it is understood , according ; to the present arrangements , proceed to Canada as commander-in-chief , in the room of the Earl of Cathcart .
Bal Masque in a Cavern . —A Bal Masque took place on Monday evening , in a cavern 180 feet below * the surface of Blackheatb , supposed to have beea constructed by the Danes . The " Light of all Nations . "—The little thafc was lately seen of the sun has entirely disappeared within the last few days . An alarming rumour pre * vails that he has been totally " used up" by the Daguerreotypes . —Punch . Gold versos Steel . —The tool which the Emperor Napoleon used to coerce Spain was the _aword . Alas I it is now—blunt I—Punch . Suicide with Gun Cotton , —An account is given in a French journal , of a gentleman committing suicide by cramming his ears full of the cotton and igniting it with his cigar ! The Prince of Saltlkoff , from Russia , has arrived in town , aud purposes to make a tour through the country .
Employment on the River . —At a meeting of the coal porters and coal whippers , held on Monday , in the Temperance Hall , Waterloo Road , one of the speakers said that tiiere were 2 , 000 men engaged on the coal barges along the river , whose wages varied from £ 2 . to £ 1 15 s . a week . The Duchess of MarlboroHgh _' _s recent game-killing feat at Blenheim is likely to become the subject of an 'nvestigation before the Magistrates and Commis-. ioi ; rs of Assessed Taxes . It is stated that { ha Duchess is about to be charged in double duty for killing game without a certificate , and that she ia also charged with an offence against the game _laivs in having killed _fgame , not being authorised by a certificate so to do .
A Young Giast . —Ifold Frederick of Prussia could but revisit this terrestial aiobe , where , by his tyranny , he contrived to make so many of his fellow creatures miserable , he would , we doubt not , endeavour to kidnap a certain youth in Kirkby Ireleth . This lad , whose name is John' Harrison , and who works at the slate quarries , is only 15 ye . irs of age , and yet he weighs 13 stone , and stands six feet twoinches high ! There is so much sickness and distress in Liverpool that the payments for the support of the poor are from £ 70 to . £ 80 a week more than they _wereafc this time last year . More Eiflosions . —There has been discovered a kind of explosive paper . The Berkeley Brothers , in the letters they have written to one another , have certainly availed themselves of this discovery . — Punch .
The Cheap Omnibus System . —A number of omnibuses yesterday started from between the Bank and Brompton , at the extremely low fare of 2 d ., being considerabl y less than one halfpenny per mile . A gentleman , complaining ofthe scarcity and proportionate insolence of female servants in Port Philip , mentioned that eight of these " helps" were married out of his service in tho same number of months . —Port Philip Patriot . Australian Superstition . —On the demise of one
of the tribe , his arms , war instruments , and personal property , are placed , at sun down , on a funeral pile with the body ; a circle is then described around the tomb , within which no one is allowed to _intruda but the priest ; who , when the s etting sun proclaims the approach of evening , " places a lighted torch in the hand , at the same moment igniting the pile ; ha waits till its flickering light vanishes ; his eyes are then directed to heaven , and on beholding the "first" ' star in the sky , he exclaims , '' There he goes with his fire-stick ' . "—Hodgson ' s _Reminiscenees of Australia .
Public Abattoirs , or Slaughtering Ilousr . s . — It is intended to apply during the ensuing session for an Act for the erection of slaughterhouses tor cattle , sheep , and pigs , on the north , " south , east , and west of London , at such localities as may be contiguous to the existing railways , and adjacant to established markets , and on the most extensive scale , so as to afford ample accommodation . The Poles . —A grand ball and concert , in aid of the Poles in this country , was held in tlie Guildhall on the 18 th instant . Mr . Templeton has returned to London after a very successful trip to America .
Mrs . Lover , wife of Mr . Samuel _Laver , died oa Tuesday morning , in Baker-street , after a short ill * _ness , leaving two daughters to lament lierloss . Mr . Lover is in America giving his Irish Evenings with great success . London and York Railway—On Wednesday , the cuttings tor this line commenced with extraordinary activity at the north end of Barnsbury Park and Islington . An Ugly Customer . —A creature very similar t » the _ouranu "butang , but bigger , bolder , and more manlike , is said to exist in the mountains beyond Westernport , in Australia Felix . Insurrection of Young Scotland—Fifty-two boys have been expelled from George Heriot ' s Hospital at Ediburgh for insubordination .
Deaths and Births . —The deaths registered in the metropolitan district during the week ending Nov . 14 , were : —Mules , 4 G 7 ; females , 449 ; total 016 ; being below the average both ofthe last five years , and five aiitmns . The total number ot births during the same periofl were : —Males . 709 ; females , 600 . Thk Trade with Amkrica—There are now ninety packet-ships trading between New York and Europe ; fifty-two of them sail to Liverpool . . Lord Tetnium , who is a " Plymouth Brother , " preaches when in town in a small chapel in Raw * _Btorn-street , Islington . Deserters . —In a recent number of the Port Phili p Herald , more than two columns are filled with notices of'dessertion from the 99 th regiment . Trial for _Wiuchcraft . —A Baltimore paper of September , reports the acquittal of Matilda Cordery , charged with practising witchcraft and conjuration in fcbat citv .
Public Baths and Washhouses in Worcester .- — At an adjourned annual meeting of the Worcester corporation , held at the Guildhall , Worcester , on Monday , Mr . Arrowsmith brought before the oouncil a motion for the establishment of public _b-vths and _washhoses for that city , which was unanimousl yagreed lo . Palaf _' iX , the old Saragossa " war to the knife '" leader , has been dismissed from the command ol' the-Queen of Spain ' s body guards : his presence made the-French ambassador uncomfortable . Prince Albert Drunk . —A country paper states that at a late agricultural dinner , _Priseo Albert was drunk with enthusiasm . King _Leo-mld has become very _unpopular in Belgium . Various carricatures had beea published since his return in ridicule of him ) which- have greatly aunoyed his Majesty . Hull
"Put not your trust in Princes . " —The Advertiser represents this maxim to be as applicable to King Hudson as to Louis Philippe . r Madame Abchard . —The nurse of the king Ot Rome , the son of Napoleon , died at Lagny on tne 16 Pb ? mdmt Polk . - The Baltimore Clipper says , that President Polk drinks his _orandy as regular aa hi A °£ ; Sis—According to the Rev . R _* . Mont / roniery ; Sundry _nilnj travelling is atmospherical _" _dSluTIL is said that 17 , 000 sacks of sawdust are -innualW consumed in London for stuffing dolls . Mouiso _" _HELriNG Malthus . -In ten years Morisen paid for Government stamps tor Ins piua Accident from MAonWBRY .-On Wednesday , a boy had three of his finaers jammed oft by the machinery at tho York Saw Mills , _Westminster road .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 21, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_21111846/page/3/
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