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Apml 24,1847. - THE NORTHERN STAR. ^ 3
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The "great talk" at Westminster; the Ger...
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Apml 24,1847. - The Northern Star. ^ 3
Apml 24 , 1847 . - THE NORTHERN STAR . _^ 3
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After long delay and repeated postponements , we this week make ' a desperate attempt "* to clear off amass _oftnanucript bearing the " outw ird and visible form" of " Poetry ; " but , forthe most part , we regret to say , containing but little ofits" in J _^ rd and spiritual" essence . "We cull the choicest . '
LABOUR'S HOLIDAY . Aib— _«• Lucy , ily _Fan'rite Bird " The vernal season bow draw- near , The earl ; _bmls their green unfold , Stem Winter ' s vapours disappear , And Sol emits a brighter gold : But vain for ns his lengthened sway , Our labour meets no holiday—Holiday , holiday , Our labour meets no holiday , Oar labour meets no holiday . In vain for ns the Cn rets bloom , In rain the songsters fill tbe grove , The meadows breathe tbeir rich per ume , And Nature's bosom glows with love : _Thesieken'd eye but tarns away , It bring * to a * no holiday—Holiday , ic . Long b & vewebr & vM the _seasons ' rage ,
The Summers' five , the Winters' cold , At length appears a brighter psge _. The _promis'd blessing long foretold ; Then , brothers , hope—prepare the way To keep tbe _tbadWd holiday-Holiday , & c . Th" Egyptian darkness breaks and flies , EnlightenM millions join in _thronus , While earth and air , and leas and skies , Re-echo with the Chartist song " , Hair Freedom shows no distant raj , Prepare to meet the holiday-Holiday , ic . Then shall commence tbe reign of Right , The chain-gall'd we _ lth-rre _ tor smile , Cow'd tjrants stand deprived of might ,
And peace and plenty fill the isle . Rise , brethren , rise , no more delay To nsher Freedom's holiday—Holiday , & c . Tben shall tbe soil itsfruits increase , Obedient to the tillers' care , Fair Commerce spread hf r tails in peace , And aU shall iu her blessings share . _Restor'el Astreabold tbe sway , And mjii-ds keep tbe holiday—Holiday , & c . - Leicester . T . E . Sh-BT
The "Great Talk" At Westminster; The Ger...
The " great talk" at Westminster ; the German prose-poem of the King of _Prussia ' on the blessings of a safe admixture of _constitutional huinbt' _? with { he good old ** right divine ; " the _cnt-tbtoat doings of our precious kinsmen , the Yankees , in Mexico , enacting , with the _assistance of the cruelly-wronged Mexicans , the grim farce , of tbe Kilkenny cats"the two armies cut to pieces ; " domestic horrors , murders and executions '; the never-ending columns of Irish misery ; tbe efforts of oar countrymen to redeem themselves from thraldom by the triune
talisman of " Charter , Land , and Labour Bank ;" these , with innumerable "accidents by _flood and field , *' forming the staple ofa public journal , command so much of our space as to leave us room for not more than a tithe ofthe pieces not positively bad , with which we bave been favoured by contributors . Of course we have no room for critical comment , desirous as we are of giving as far as possible , " the thought * that breathe and words that burn" of Others . A WEEPIXG MOTHER TO A SLEEPING CHILD .
Vide " the Manufacturing Districts of England . " Sleep on a little longer , child , nor beed the Factory bell , Sounding clear this dark cold morning , like some funeral knell ; ' * 1 have not thebeart to rouse thes from tby bard but welcome bed , Sleep on a Iii tie longer—rest tby weary , aching bead . I will not break thy slom ' oer , for I grieve to see thee go To thy labour of a morning , ere the cock begins to crew . I saw last sight thy stunted limbs were tottering and weak , Thine eyes have lost their sparkle , and the bloom has left thy cheek ; Nevermore among tiie daisies with the gayest wilt thou skip , Thy forihead barns like fire , tbere is fever on thy lip . Sleep on a little longer , though tbe dreadful bell bas
rung , And tbe tyrant of tbe mill has called with stern and iron tongue , He has feasted on tbe droppings of tbat pure white brow of thine ; Be would wring tby young and throbbing heart to fill bis glass with wine . Sut a kinder Master ' s waitibg , to bear thee far away To a better land tban ibis , where tby kindred angels play—Where rest is everlasting—where sorrows ne ' er began , And little children live secure from heartless , tyrant
man . Yet I aas loth to lose thee , my own , my darling child , And the anguish of my bosom speaks in language vex'd and wild" O Go 1 ! spare me no longer _^ than my infant draws ber breath , Let ns both be clasped together ia the friendly arms of Death !'' M . W . Ta 0 « B __ .
The Voice Of A Slave. Near To A Poor-Law...
THE VOICE OF A SLAVE . Near to a Poor-Law Bastile of tbe land , Where _stexid a thousand starvelings grim and gaunt , Dread spectacles of Hanger ' s iron band , Craving for food to stay the stings of Want , — One slave I taw—alone he stood apart , With keen eyes gazing on the famish'd crowd , Pale were hi * looks—he bore tbe haggard mark Of slavery—and o ' er bis mind a cloud Of woe seem'd brooding miserably dark , His bosom felt—while thus be breath'd aloud!—•¦ Whence , mighty God , doth this huge misery spring ? This vast amount of hydra-headed woe ! This fierce starvation—pestilence and crime—That like a delage o ' er this nation flow ! _Bfi-Old the millions starve—bear ye tbe cries Of helpless infants—pierced with bitter stings O / coldand Hunger ! Hear a mother ' s sighs _.
A father ' s prayers—deep groans and _mnnnnringi . Ascend from earth to heaven , and rend the skies . Oh ! whence , ; reat God _, this troubled state of things 1 " Witb deepest sorrows every bosom fill _. And hearts in secret many a heartfelt sigh ; Each loving life , alas ! bnt finds it still Hard—bard to live—and still as hard to die ! Robb'd of the blessings , God , which thou hast given To all alike witbia tby changeless plan : Bounteous as the balmy air of heaven , We starve—and life , tho' but a narrow span , Appears an age—wben man is blindly driven To carte his birth and hate his fellow man ! " At vermin to some filthy carcase clings ,
From which th y sprang—and torture and devour , So to the earth dug curies—priests and kings , Gods in _themselves—implacable in power ; Toils-ten—to snch—submissively have bow'd , Even as the savage to bis idol bows , la violation of tby great laws , God—For which they weep an ocean's depth of _wosSj While tyrants tremble ' neath a catalogue Of gory crimes staxap'd npon their brows ! "Some strange anomaly roles tbU fearful age ; Ills sweep the world as billows sweep tbe tea ; And man , long bound itt error ' s iron cage , Like tome wild bird , is panting to be free ! Too long hath he remained tbe passive slave Of bis oppressors—those who hold the reins Of mighty empires—too long knelt to crave
Those rights wbich be by Nature ' s order claims , And , ere . life ' s noon hath dawn'd , a starveling ' s grave Receives him . _morderM _, dragg'd to death by chains ! "And not oae land stands all alone the prey To tyranny—all nations of tbe earth Groan under huge monstrosities—which they Themselves bave brought , and foster \ 1 iato birth ; Disease aad Famine—deadly Hate and Crime—Besiege the world—with tbe fierce fiendish clang Of War ' s wild tumult , heard in every clime . When—when , ob , Gad ! will Freedom ' s morning dawn , And thou behold , ia Reason's palm ; time , A nobler _creatore in thy creature man \" Greenock . j 0 HK p . coc _ .
Song. Tu*S_ — « _. Hdn' * A Mm /Or A' Tt...
SONG . _Tu _* s _ — « _ . Hdn ' * a Mm / or a' ttat . Tbe miUions toil—the millions starve As if high Heaven had will'd it Our cup of woe does overflow Aa if the fates bad fili'd it . We toil , we moil , from dawn to dark , To earn a bare subsistence ; Our curse upon tbe idle drone , Who sport * oa our existence t Tbe millions toil—the millions starve , -lid earth ' s exuberant treasure ; And , Strang * to say , the rich and gay Hara nought to mind bat pleasure ; Thej tell us Nature form'd us slaves , Nor e ' er the act lamented ; To work and want , witb clothing scant , And forc'd tobe contented .
The millions toil—the millions starve , Tbe wealthy disregard us ; We till the soil , we mock tbe toil , Should Justice but reward us . But no ; we wear the brand of shame —• We ' re haggard , low , and voteless ; Nor , yet content , the knaves are bent To make the aged collets . Tbe millions toil—tbe millions starve , Bat Heaven shall be the avenger ; Tbe time shall come , the tyrant ' s doom Shall cheer the hapless stranger ;
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Tes , Labour - aona ( hall make them quail , For each shall aid hit _neighbour ; W _/ il break tbeir bands—we'll claim our lands , Then Ure upon our labour , ! Edinburgh , J , H __ bkh- » .
Faitewbll To Eetn ! Farewell, My Dear Er...
FAItEWBLL TO EETN ! Farewell , my dear Erin , thou "gem of tbe ocean , * Farewell to tby vallies and green-shaded groves , This heart that now _bsats , shall first cease its motion , Ere the exile forgets the land that be _luves _. Farewell , ye fair scenes , where in youth I _defeghted To trip o'er the verdant and _daiiy-clad lawn , Where with friends who by kindred ' s fond ties were united , I ' ve watch'd tbe wild gambols of tbe _light-bounding faun .
Alas ! I am doom'd from my dear friends to sever , And cross the rough ocean in _ssarch ofa home , For the hearth that once blazed is now quenched for ever By the band of a tyrant , wbo claims it bis own . Cease , my heart , cease this strife , nor call on the thunders Of Heaven , to _avenie tbe felt tyrant ' s decree , Whose mandate went forth , and tba homeless in numbers Were sent to seek shelter 'neath the cold lea __ -ss tree . Wh _ t pen can pourtray the _contending emotion * Tbat fili'd the sad breasts of these children of toil ,
As they _wandered forth by the shores of the ocean—That cast up its waves on their dearly _lov'd soil ! The clouds tt . at o'ersbadowed the high-crested mouu . tain , Surcharg'd with the waters thatdelnge the earth _. Were n : > t dirk ' » the hearts of these wanderers , whose fountain Of tears were destroyed in tbeir force to get birtb , Oh when shall those scenes bs unknown in our nation , Oh wben shall this rule of _curs'd _Trranny cease _. And man look on man as the same by creation , And live in s _* veet concord together itt peace . ? Griv-n . " F . B .
To Erii-R. "Alas, Poor Country! Almost A...
TO _ERII-r . "Alas , poor country ! Almost afraid toknoiv _iUelf . " Degenerate sons of theland of my birth _. You once had a chivalrous mind , And wept o ' er tbe Heroes that ' s sleeping in _dea'h _, Whose deeds in each heart were eosliria _' el ; You sang of their virtues—their saflvTVOgspourtray'd—From the picture my bosom recoil'd , And I vow'd to avenge them , by lending my aid To Liberty's favonrite child . What change has come " 'eryou , led , beedlessand blind By vile , sordid , hypocrite knaves 1 Disperse the dark cloud tbat o ' _ershadows eacb mind , 2 fo longer be sycophant -. laves ? Cea > e servile _shouting - why crawl on the earth , Descendants of "United men , " Whose blood cri _ . _sontd deep the green fields of their
birth—Who dare shout for royalty tb : n % Tour fathers for Freedom have shed their _hearts'bloorl In years but recen'Jy gone by , Firm as their own native mountains tbey stood , Determined to conquer or die ; And they swore by the _blus vaulted heaven above , Wbilst the green flag waved proud on the gale , That the tyrant land robbers should tbat day be drove From each sweet-scented meadow and vale ' . Bar _ sl- _* y . Michael _SeoS-VE ,
Moral Musings. " Man Is Made To Mourn.''...
MORAL MUSINGS . " Man is made to mourn . ''—Job . " Man ' s made to mourn . * ' O melancholy truth ! Hath Nature stamped him with ber seal of woe 1 Or strews the thorns around the path of youth , Which must perforce to glo « my Sorrow grow ! Must tbe hot waves of tribulation flow ? Must the black fiend of Discord ever reign T Boundless Creation generously answers No ! While rolling spheres , in sweet harmonic strain , Echo the shout from _mountain , flood , and plain . Nature ! tbou common mother , great Divine !
Thy gifts are scattered with a bounteous hand ; Then why should man , ' mid cares and trouble , pine , Where Plenty reigns throughout a smiling laad , And Nature links within a golden band H < r choicest treasures for the use of man 1 Y > -t doth he mourn as on a barren stand , And Discontent stands foremost ir the van , While hireling priests proclaim it Heaven ' s primeval ban . " Mao ' s made to mourn , " but not destined hy Fate To languish 'neath oppression , toil , and pain ; 'Tis man who doth life ' s thousand ills create , — 'lis man who is unto himself a bane , Riveting Custom ' s adamantine chain , Whicb . like some dire incubus , ever stands , Exulting o ' er the mangled and tbe slain , Rending asnnder Nature ' s social bands , Till monarchs , nobles , serfs , are slaves to her commands
" Man ' s made to rooarn " beneath a weight of woe , Which he increaseth still with studied care ; Intemperance bath been his deadly foe : Not satisfied with Nature ' s bill of fare , He taxes Arttogild _thepois ' _nous snare , Where hissing serpents ' mid the banquet glide , Emitting death from their noisome lair , Tainting tbe current of life ' s purple tide , Blasting the father ' s hope , tbe doting mother ' s pride . *' Kan's made to mourn " beneath excessive toil , Labour exacted for a scanty fare , Shorn of his birthright , alien on the soil , Which Nature gave him as her rightful heir ; But gaunt Oppression placed his standard there , Whence plagues , more fatal than Pandora , hurled , Witb moral poison , taint tbe ambient air ; But Hope her cheering banner hath unfurled , Aud , free untrammell'd Thought shall renovate tbe world .
Then tarn , ye sons and daughters of dis tress , From the old world and each alluring toy ; Take the fair path that leads to Happiness , Where social pleasures reign without alloy , Warming eacb breast witb pnre ecstaticjoy , Where Virtue wrestles with a giant ' * might , 'Gainst se _' _-fh demons , wbo would fain destroy Tbe heavenly lustre of communal light , And keep the trammelled world in ignorance and night Cbeam . J . Bl _ ck * bi .
The Might And March Of Intelligence, The...
THE MIGHT AND MARCH OF INTELLIGENCE , The love of Right is spreading To Earth ' s remotest bound , And Truth at length is shedding Her 'itutrious lays around ; Tho mist of by-gone ages Is vanishing away , The Mind ' s progress presages A brighter , fairer day : Intelligence is on her march , like ocean's surging swell ; Nor dungeons , racks an _ scourges , ber growing might can quell _.
To keep the mass in i norance Has been all tyrants' aim , Tbat they might have a safer chance To play their crafty game ; But , despite all the cunning schemes Of each despotic knave , The damn of Freedom , faintly gleams To cbeer tbe injured slave : Intelligence is on her march , aad / fore her might mu 6 t fall Oppression , wrong , and tyranny , and slavery and thrall .
Tes , Freedom ' s dawn i 9 breaking O ' er every land and sea , The millions are awaking From sleep and apathy ; The long dark reign of terror Is drawing near its _cIobb , And _Superstition ' s error Is in its dying throes : Intelligence is on her march , and 'fore her mighty away Old mystic rites , and craft and cant , alike will pass away _.
And unjust systems that have long Disgraced History ' s page , Intelligence's floofl-tide strong Will sweep them off tha stage ; Tears , monarchs , despots , by bar might Will from their thrones be hud'd And Justice , Liberty , and Right , WiU reign throughout the world . She ' s on her march , go aid her , ye men of heart and mind _. In this her hallow'd mission , to reforaate mankind . Derby . J . Edwards ,
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The Parlour Library. Vol. Ii. Memoirt Of...
THE PARLOUR LIBRARY . Vol . II . Memoirt of a Physician , by Alexander Dumas . London : Simms & _M'lntyre , Paternoster-row ; and 26 , Donegal-street , Belfast . We took np this volume with no very friendly feel ings towards Monsieur Dumas , who is undoubtedly the generalissimo of literary coxcombs ; and our first impressions of these " Memoirs" were not calculated to dispel our prejudices . Although entitled " Me * tnoira ofa Physician , " tho Physician we cannot find , notwithstanding wehave carefully read from the
beginning tothe end of these 316 pages . True , the volume before ns is only part 1 of these "Memoirs , " and bearing in mind the frightful length to which French romances usually extend , we suppose we must have patience , trusting that some half-dozen , or eight or ten volumes hence , all mysteries will be cleared up , and weshall understand what at present •* passeth all understanding . " This is a true character of , at least , the _opening portion of the volume , wherein we have introduced to us a magician who professes to _exemplify the transmigration of souls , as taught by Pythagoras ; onr conjuror claiming to have been a denizen of earth on many previous occasions , oueof tfcese , _Qcejialgna being ao _fatUckaaUw _tiaw «_
The Parlour Library. Vol. Ii. Memoirt Of...
Archimedes , though the time of this story a pommencement is laid in the year 1770 . . The magician deals largely is mesmerism , and iB iii league with some old sinner , who is for ever boiling his pot in quest of "the elixir of life . " He fortels future events and after performing a series of tricks almost worthy ofthe far-famed Wizard ofthe North , ho encounters Marie Antoinette , on her entrance into France to marry the Dauphin ( afterwards L ouis XVI ., ) and reveals to that ill-fated princess hor future deom . Of course it is not a very difficult thing nt this time of day for Monsieur Dumas to make his conjurors predict the fate of Marie Antoinette !
Thus much for the Devil and Dr _Faustus part of this volume , which , had it contained nothing better , we should soon have tired of ; but it does contain something better . The principal scenes are laid at Versailles and Paris , in the last years of the reign of Louis XV ., and the author makes his story the medium of exhibiting the horrible depravity or the court , and the _appaUins misery of the people which immediately preceded the great convulsion ot SJ . The heartless sensualism of Louis , the _degrading reign of the royal harlot Dubarry , the _h _allowmas and wickedness of the aristocracy generally , the sapping
and raining efforts of the philosophers , at tbe _fuait ot whom figure Rousseau and Voltaire ; and the murmurs of the despairing people—the mutter ' _uigs of the coming storm—these pass before us , pictured , we must confess , by a master-hand . At the conclusion of the volume we are introduced to an old man , whom we imagine mnst be * Jean J . -. _cques Rousseau himselt . Whateverdislike w may have felt towards Monsieur Dumas , and notwithstanding the rather ridiculous necromancy witli wliich the volume opens , we must say , that we shall wait with impatience tor the continuance of this story , which is promised at an early
period . , . This volume exhibits some neat improvements in its outward appearance , as compared with its predecessor . Truly the Parlour Library is a marvel ol cheapness ; in that respect it ( as the Yankees Bay ) " whips all creation . " The next volume of this series , to be published on the lst of May , wi . l be from the pen of that popular favourite , Mary Howitt .
Public Amusements .
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Exeter Hall.—The Musical World Is, At Th...
EXETER HALL . —The musical world is , at this moment , uuu _* _iuiUy prolific in _presanting to the public eminent m _* -u and women , wtose genius will not be r _.-ccived and applauded by a London audience for a fe * v short weeks , to give place to other stars , and then forgotten ; but the enduring triumphs achieved by a _Mendelssohn , a Lind , and , we may add , an Album , are likely to »; ain tor these highly-gifted names a fame as enduring as Genius —which is akin to Divinity—must and ever will command . Who has not heard of Mendelssohn ? What
Wellington teas , as a military leader , this eminent am amiable man is as the first musical composer of the day . And how vast tie comparison ! The _nmiiou of the one that of a _blood-ttain _. d warrior—the other , a glorious worker in the mighty cause of Progress—for who can deny tbat the direct influence of Music is other tban to soften tbe obdurate , cheer the weary , and even to civilize the roughest of mankind ? Hear "hat the immortal William puts into tbe mouth of Caliban : Bs not afraid ; the isle is full of noises , Sounds , and sweet airs , that give delight , and hurt
uot . Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments "Will bum about miuo ears * ? * * that , when I _wak'd _, I cried to dream again . What was true in _Shakspeie ' s day is not the less so in ours—human nature is ever tbe same ; and what thc great bard describes in ths above quotation , Science and Art have in our own time absolutely verified . The oratorio of " Elijah , " tho work of Dr Mendelssohn , was performed a few evenings _sinci at Exeter Hal ) , for the first time in London . The _magnificent Hal ! nas nerer known to be so crowded ; nnd the _enthusiastic plaudits bestowed upon tbe truly gifted composer were _sincere , _an _> l prolonged for some minutes . The text of the oratorio , entirely _compoaedof _pia-ages from Scripture ,
unbraces four principal events , viz ., the fearful judgment af the drought which lasted three years ; the raisin ); to life tbe widow ' s child ; the assembling of tbe prophets of Baal at Mount Carmel , witb their appeal to B _ _-il ; and the sacrifice of Elijah , its acceptance , and the departure of the prophet , aud bis subsequent translation to heaven . Ur Phillips opened with a declamatory recitative , au unprecedented novelty . Miss Birch acquitted herself with ber usual _success ; and all the artists and the chorus were evidently " well up , " although tho work had been but once rehearsed . Our regret is that these fine and instructive compositions are sealed books to the industrious millions ; but the Sacred Harmonic Soeiety has _already achieved much , and deserves the greatest praise and _infinite honour for introducing to the public some of the finest musical productions extant .
ADELPHL—A little piece , called " an entirely new opera buffa apropos sketch , " bas been ptoduced here under the title of "Jenny Lind . " The farce is of tbe most meagre description , and tbe laughter which occasionally attended the performance was owing solely to the grotesque acting of Mr Wright , who , disguise 1 as the "Swedish Nightingale , " played a succession of antics more grotesque tban artistic . The " plot" is suggested by the anxiety existing amongst the managers of the London theatres respecting the arrival of Jenny Lind . The directors of the rival opera houses , and of Drury
Lane , are awaiting the advent of the fair prima donna at an hotel at Dover ; and the fact of her expected arrival being known to tbe Innkeeper ' s son and niece , she assumes the character of the "Swedish Nightingale , " and by practising on the credulity of the managers , succeeds , at the expense of those gentlemen , in filling her pockets witb money . The piece may be described as successful , inasmuch as tbe audience laughed loudly and frequently . It would be unfair , in noticing this trifle , to pass over another piece , on the same suggestive subject , which has been some nights before tbe public at the
LYCEUM—entitled "Jenny Lind at Last . " Tbe principal difference here consists iu tbe heroine being the unintentional means of deceiving a London manager in search of stars , and who mistakes an English lady for the expected singer . The identity of the manager is unmistakable , and was sufficient to insure the success of the piece without counting tho inimitable acting of Mrs Keeley , who is even more than herself in her caricature of the Italian schoolof singing . The dialogue is smart , and abounds in as many pointed _alluslous to passing events as can very well be crammed into one act . The mistake ofthe lady in construing the manager ' s offer ofa theatrical engagement into a real-life one ofa different kind , affords an opportunity of which good and sufficient use is made .
Danar-Tah_—It Is Stated We Are To Lose T...
Danar-tAH _—It is stated we are to lose the gorgeous spectacle of The Desert . It appears that Mr Hughes bas entered into a series of provincial engagements , which it is impossible to postpone ; and tbat his establishment leaves Drury-lane about tbe end of next week , LtceeM . —It is reported that when the term of Mr and Mrs Keeley ' a management expires Madame Vestris and Charles Matthews will succeed them . _Oltmpic . —This evening , wo have much pleasure in announcing an amateur dramatic performance , for the benefit of the Printers' Pension Society , will take place at this theatre . Colinan _' s comedy of the " Poor Gentleman , " and " Luke tbe Labourer , " are the pieces selectedfer representation . The theatre will be open to the public as usual .
jENsr Lind . —Tbe long-disputed question of the visit of the eminent Swedish vocalist , _Jeuoy Lind , to this country , it at length get at vest in a mo _» t _satisfactory manner , and in a manner , too , to delight all lovers of musio who are anxiously waiting to hear this renowned singer . On Saturday sbe arrived in London , and was present at tbe performanceat her _Majesty ' s Theatre that same evening . She reached town late in the day , Mr Lumley having preceded her by some hours in the journey . This far-famed vocalist is a lady « f kindly _connte nance , fair hair , and fresh complexion ; her eyes are soft and mild , and tbe expression of her face is intelligent and ingenuous . The Italians have a phrase , votto seiolto , to indicate the combination of intellect and truthfulness which it manifested in her features ; and the Germans generally term it freundlich . Neither words have a
bteral meaning in English , as applied to human expression ; but ability and candour arp their synonyms in our tongue . Jenny Lind is of the miJdling height , well formed , and of tome seven or eight and twenty years cf age—at far at appearances can be credited . Her aspect is pleasing ; her most prominent character seams te . be modesty . In her deportment sbe bas the air and bearing of a perfect lady ; tbat is to say , the is calm quiet , and perfectly self-possessed in manner and address , with that " most excellent thing in woman" —a voicetoft , low , and sweet . It is believed that the will makr ber debut in about a week . The likenesses that have been published of her seem to have succeeded in representing the general style and character of the face and figure . The opera in wbich sbe will make her first ap pearance before an English audience at her Majesty '!* Theatre is said to be tbat of Roberto il Diatso ' . o .
A Pbssy Chinese Publication.—A Recent Wr...
A Pbssy Chinese Publication . —A recent writer on China says , " For 22 cash or tseen I purchased an elegant book , filled with choice subjects of the graphic art , as patterns for the use of the young needlewoman . She is assumed to be poor , and hence the little manual is priced at about one penny of our money . It bas a cover ofa fair yellow , studded witb spangles of gold , and contains between two and three hundred figures , culled frem the varied stores of nature and art . In fact , the objects are so well selected and so numerous that they might serve aa
illustrations to a small encyclopaedia . One acquainted with Chinese literature and natural history might deliver several lectures with this book before him . The meadow , the grove , the brook , the antiquary ' s museum , and the pages of mythology , with the adornments of the house and garden , are all laid under contribution . The book is said to bo for the use of the person who belongs to the green uindow , which U a _ . e i - _* et for the dwelling of a poor woman ; whilei the red gallery denotes the residence of a rich female . "
The Duko de Rianzares , husband of the dowager queen otbpain , has become a naturalized _Freachman , wnnltottto oi ttw Duke de Montmoro ,
Itiksfi Are The Cflambek. * Of 18«. Iweh...
itiKSfi ARE THE CflAMBEK . * OF 18 « . IWehave already shown to our readers the Chambers' of I 8 i 7 ; we now refer to tbe previous opinions of these changeable economists . Whence this wonderful change ?]
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IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDSSPADE HUSBANDRY . ( From the Information for the People , No . T 2 . ) [ Continued from our last . ] In connection with the protection of river banks , we may say a few words on the method of gaining land from rivers and tidal estuaries . This maybe done if the river appears to strangle over an unnecessarily wide space , and brings down quantities of mud so as to produce impediments to navigation , 'fhe process usuallv followed with most advantage , is to run out at intervals short rows of stakes , matted with twigs , calculated to catch the confluent particles of mud , bnt to allow the water to pass through . A sediment is thus gradually formed between the rows ;
in time , it rues above the wafer , and ultimately forms a green proluctive surface . When the water is affected by the tides , a row of loose stones laid between high and low water-mark will similarly catch mud and sand , and while forming new land , will , by narrowing tbe channel , give greater impetus to the stream , and help to deepen its bed . When done on a _prcatsca ' e , the bed ef the river is scooped by mechanism , and the rubbish brought up may afterwards assist in elevating the newly-formed banks . In point of justice to all parties , any of these processes of river-bank improvement should be done on both sides ofthe _riverat the same time ; for if effected only on one side , tho water may be driven tothe opposite _> hore , to the serious damage of the land in that quarter .
SPADE n _* Ji BAM ) nT . Tbe reclaiming and culture of small pieces of land by means of the spade and other _inatrutuenta o ( manual labour , is usually spoken of under the name of spade _husbandry ; but is also sometime * called cottage-farming , or field gardening—the operations of the culturist bearing an intimate resemblance to those applied in ordinary kinds of gardening . The apparatus supposed to be employed by the cottage farmer is simple and unexpensive . It consists of two or three spades of different sizes , a pickaxe , three-pronged digging-fork , hoes , rake , light harrow which he can draw , scythe , reaping-hooks , hay-forks ,
_fl-iil , wheelbarrow , & c _, according to means . It is of _areat importance for the cottage farmer to ho able to sharpen or mend his tools , and for this purpose he should have a grinding-stone and small forge , also *< ome carpenter ' s tools . No horse or paid servant is kept . All the work is done by the manual labour of the farmer and his family . The only live stock is a cow or cows , pigs , and poultry . The homestead consists of a cottage witb several apartments—a cowhouse , pig-stye , and barn . The size of the farm is supposed to vary from four to six or eight acres , and to be laid out in six or eight distinct fields , properly fenced .
_TBESCHIKO . The basis of cottage farming is deep trenching with the spade ; but before regular trenching can commence , the land , if in a rough state , must be cleared and drained . We have already shown how these preliminary operations are performed on a large scale , and they may very easily be modified for manual labour . Suppose the pntch of land is part of a moss , dig open drains round it to draw off tho water ; scarify the surface with the spade , and burn tbe heaps of turf ; scatter the ashes on the land along with any sandy material or lime which can be procured , and then delve all from one end to the other . This process will cause a large portion ofthe mossy fibre to secay _. and ihe exposure tothe atmosphere and dra _i ningwill be found to meliorate the soil . In twelve months , the face of the land wiil be more like earth and less like peat than it was at the time of delving .
If the land be choked with stones cr roots , all these encumbrances should be removed to the depth to which you design your _trenching should go ; and the sooner you get rid of them the better . The whole ground should be free of everything which can present the slightest impediment to the spade . Stones of even an ounce in weight should be removed . Where Bubdraining is required , the stones maybe employed to lay in the drains . With respect to the first crops taken from the delved field , it will depend on the natural fertility of the ground and other circumstances . If the land be comparatively dry and fertile , as , for instance , the forest land of North America , a good _melioratine and opening crop is potatoes ; but in the case of poorer soil , manuring will
be required , and the first crop may be grass . If the land can be conveniently partitioned into separate fields , a different crop may be taken from each , thus commencing a regular rotation . In proportion as the upper layer of earth is meliorated and exhausted , it will be necessary to go the deeper down . On large farms , certain fields are occasionally left fallow , that is , doing nothing , unless it be gathering what strength can be procured from the atmosphere . In cottage farming , this wasteful practice must be unknown . Instead of trying to recruit the land by giving it a rest , you must recruit it by turning up thc
layer of mould immediately below that which has been affording nourishment to your crops . Thisstratum , which we shall call layer No . 2 , extends from 0 to 18 inches below the surface , supposing you to have been employing a nine or ten-inch spade . It is , generally speaking , neither soil or subsoil , but partakes of the qualities of both ; and after two or three year * . ' cropping , will be found to have imbibed a share of the manure delved in for the crops . The art , then , consists of raising up this layer No . 2 , and turning down No . 1 in its stead . By doing ao , perhaps manuring may be ommited for a year , and , at any rate , a light manuring will suffice .
In some districts the depth of available soil may not be so much as 18 inches , the layer beneath being rock or chalk , in which case _thestirring of the soil cannot be carried deeper , unless at an immense cost of labour ; but in the greater number of instances , the soil rests on a till or _clayey-hardiah substance , usually called subsoil ; and this , which we may call layer No . 3 . must be stirred and gradually brought up in aid of the upper soils . As mentioned under the head Subsoil Ploughing , the proper method of nourishment consists of first stirring or breaking up the hard subsoil . Get down to it , and go over it with a pickaxe . Next year it may be incorporated with layer No . 2 , and in two or three years the whole three layers may be indiscriminately mingled
or made to change places . Such is the principle of trenching , by whioh three layers of soil are alternately , or at proper intervals , compelled to do duty ; and thus a farm of six acres , by being , as it were , three storey deep , is practically as extensive as one of eighteen acres but one storey deep . When we add , that whi ' e the plough leaves lumps of earth unbroken , aud comparatively useless to the cvop , the spade dashes and pulverises the whole soil , bringing all into effective play on the roots , the value of spade over plough husbandry will be at once apparent . Another important advantage of deep trenching with the spade , is the turning down and destroying the larva ) of insects and seeds of weeds which may be about the surface ; aad it will be found that the first crops of trenched ground are always remarkably free of these nuisances .
The process of trenching to effect these important _advantages is no doubt very toilsome ; this , indeed , is a fact not- to be concealed ; but , without almost constant labour , and labour in which a pleasure is taken , cottage farming will generally come to nought ; and he who is disinclined to undergo the tvouble , should not commence tbe undertaking . To render the work as easy as possible , it should be methodic , and bit by bit , and always the more the ground is tilled , the less difficult will the trenching be .
_G-NKIUI , MANAGEMENT . Whether the land of a cottage-farmer be part of a reclaimed bogor waste , or a section of fertile soil , or whether it he hia own property , or rented , he must necessarily exert unremitting industry not only in digging and trenching his email fields , but in all the ordinary routine of manuring , cropping , and in attending to the other affairs ofhis establishment . To procure manure in sufficient abundance , he must keep one or two cows and a pig , and into a pit adjoining the cow-houpe all the solid refuse , including all that may be collected frora the family , must be removed . The urine from the cow-house should be collected in another pit , or in a barrel sunk in the ground , protected from the air . This will be found
a most valuable liquid for throwing over the land , to excite a young growing crop . While on the subject of manures , it cannot bo out of place to mention that most surprising results have been effected in agricul . ture and market-gardening by the use of night-soil In some foreign countries , where this is well _underl stood , the night-soil is carefully saved , and to destroy its offensive effluvia , is mixed with gypsum or earth ; forafewshovelsfttl of earth thrown over it at once ' removes all _offensiveness in this respect , besides being otherwise useful . So little thought and trouble ar * usually taken in Britain to preserve this material tor manure , that for the use of enterprising agriculturists , quantities are now imported from France in a dried and prepared condition .
_ihcre are otker means of increasing the quantity [ of manure . From every piece of ground a quantity j of rubbish may be collected , as withered leaves , stalks , clipping of branches , roots , <_ c . Improvident persons burn much of this refuse , but we strongly advise the cottager or gardener never to burn anything , except it be stumps of trees or _p'eccsot branches as fuel . Collect all the inferior stuff into a heap , to which scrape or carry all tlie mire that can be gathered from the pathways , and the whole will make a compost dung-hill ; a pailful of cow urine thrown occasionally over the heap will be a valuable addition , and so likewise will be a shovelful of nightsoil . A Uule lime will hasten tho rotting of any compost . If properly managed , in twelve months all will be rotted , and then be _^ in taking from one end for manure . To the other extremity you may keep adding new matter that is collected . The treatment of the ordinary dung-pits is to be on the same plan . J . Q not remove tlte manure till it has lain a sufficient
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length of time to decompose , but keep taking from one that is ready , while another ia collecting . { To be continued in our next . )
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• 'Every individual possesses , legitimately , the thing which his labour , his intelligence , ( or more generally , ) which his activity has created . " T _ " \ P __* . _ ' _'P le is incontestible , and it is well to remark that it contains expressly an _acknowledgment of the right of all to the soil . F « £ tMl has not been created by man , it follows , frora the fundamental principle of property , that it cannot belong to any small portion of the human race who have created it by their activity . Let us then conclude tbat the true theory ol property is founded on the ' creationof the thing possessed . '" — 1 % Phalange The Saxon government has determined that corn flour , and pulse , frora foreign countries passing in transit on the Elbe to Saxony , shall be admitted till the end of September , free from duty . '
Mr Herbert , of _Muekross , in the county of Waterford , has sold his hounds , and devotes the weekly sum which they cost him to the relief of the poor . The municipal authorities of Berlin lately announced to tho King of Prussia , their desire togive a grand banquet to the members of the Diet ; but the king replied that , as such distress existed , it would be batter to employ the money for more useful objects - It is said that some merchants in London , desirous of promoting the _cultivation ofthe potato , have agreed to furnish several farmers in Perthshire with seed , on condition that the latter furnish the ground , manure , labour , <_ c , and that the crop be equall y divided be- ' tween the two parties . Grass lands , in Scotland , have been let for the present season at higher rents than have been obtained tor many years .
_„/ _FhL _' 8 O ? _^*"_ aha . ' ' _- ered . in consequence of thedearness of food , an increase of salary shall be given to the masters of Jewish as well as of Christian schools . It is said that _negotiations are about to be entered into between , ranee and _Prussia , for a treaty tm * tinprotection of literary property on the _sam « basis as that contracted about , ) a year ago between Prussia and England ., A mechanic of Carlsruhe has just invented a new locomotive , by which _fteep gradients of _twenty-t-vo feet in one mile may be surmounted ; and the adoption of such an engine would facilitate tbe construe tion ofthe proposed line from Carlsruhe to Switzerland . An excavation was lately made in the Stradella Fortuna , at Pompeii , in presence of the l _' rince Oscar Frederic ; when various utensils in _bronze and glass were found—and near a human skeleton , a beautiful cameo of onyx representing the bust of a woman .
M . Scipio Voipicella , it is announced , has discovered in the same city the column which Robert of Anjou erected to commemorate his interview with Andre of Hungary in 1333 . _According to Vasari , the sculpture of thc monument is most miraculous workmanship for the age . It is probable that the bas-reliefs are from the _. _lesigns ot Petrace , who sojourned at Naples from 1311 to 1343 ,-aud they were executed by Masaccio . " Bless me 1 " exclaimed an old lady , throwing down the newspaper , and wiping her spectacle * " here is John Doe and Richard Roe at law again—they ' ve had a suit reg'lar every year or so , for more ' n thiity years , to my certain knowledge !" Love » ne human being purely and warmly , and you will love all . The heart in thia heaven , like the wandering sun , sees nothing frora the dewdr _.-p to the ocean , but a mirror which it warms and fills . —/ "im Paul .
At the Preston Sessions , Mr Marshall wound up his summary to _theju-y with these remarks -, — " You cannot have any doubt as to the prisoner ' s guilt ; his very countenance would hana him . " In the Uigh Court of Justiciary , recently atEtlinburgh , a juryman , who had attended the court in a state of intoxication , was fined £ 20 . The Pacha of Damascus lately issued a proclamation , enjoining the women of that city to be more strictly veiled when they went abroad , and declarinu thathe would cut off the noses of all who disobeyed his orders . A Prince Consort , says the Cambridge Advertiser , belongs to no estate , to no _cla-s , to no fraternity , — unless , in the _wagdshness of our humour , we shall dub him an Odd-Fellow . At Luton , Bedfordshire , a tradesman has produeed quite a flutter amongst the bachelors , by sticking in his window the following notice : — " Good Ladies , Is ., lasting ditto , ls .. 6 d . per pair . "
A number of _fishing-boats from tho Aberdeen anl Banffshire coasts , have left for the _We-t Highland * . to prosecute the lobster an ' . coil fishing . A baker of Berne , in Switzerland , ia said to havesucceeded in making very palatable bread from Iceland moss . From a scientific analysis of this b _ea-l , it appears tbat out of 120 parts , it contains __ 1 _ of fecula or nutritive matter . A chemist of Vienna has provluced bread from oilcake—tbe refuse of the colza seed , after extractim . the oil—which is both agreeable and nutritive , ami costs only one halfpenny per pound .
A correspondent assures us ( Leeds Jfirciiri _;} th atsr . particular are the managers oftlie Cambria steamer in respect to colour , that a black cat , with some mulatto kittens , found in the hold previous to tin vessel ' s sailing , were immediately flung overboard ! _According to an American paper , a slave at Charleston lately whipped a female slave so cruelh that she died ; and the court which tried him foi the murder , acquitted him on the ground thathe hap obeyed the orders of his mistress ! The whites of Mercer _coun'y , Ohio , will not permit the coloured people to have grain ground n < their mills .
Two harvest-mice placed in a 6 cale will only weigh down a single halfpenny . Prizes were lately offered by the French Government for the composition of _religious and mora songs , and no fewer than l , t 00 competitors entered the lists . On the _Lond-m and South-Western Railway , ali seed , meal , corn , or other provisions forwarded b ;> thc relief committees , is carried free of charge . In London the Bread _League has commenced operations in right earnest , and its doors ore be sieged with customers . [ TIhb ib another heavy blow at the monster Monopoly . ] A statue of the Queen , which has been executed by Gibson , at Rome , is expected to arrive in this country by the Tiger steamer , at the port of South ' _ampton .
... Measures are n _'*> w in progress for blending thc Irish medical staff with the _English . This arrange * ment has fur some time past been in agitation . Itsadoption has , however , at length been _dtfitiitoh decided on , and it will be brought into operation at as early a period as possible . Monsieur Soyer , on his way from Dublin to London , visited Liverpool and Manchester , and inspected the soup kitchens of these commercial towns , as wail as the different kitchen departments of the several
unions . Is it not 3 candalous to consider that a Prims Minister could raise within the year , as I have seen it done , a hundred and twenty millions sterling to shoot the French ; and we are stopped short for _watst of a hundredth part of that to keep the English liviug ?—Carlyle . _Fiwte , diniii - ' at the house of Mrs Thrale , found nothing to his liking , awl sat in expectation of somo better coming up . A neck of mutton , being tbe last thin " , he refused it , as he had the other dishes . As it hoirererumi
tho servant was taking awiy , , ers-anding that there was nothing more , ho called out to him , " Hollo , John ! bring that back a >; aiii ; I now find it neck or nothing . " A correspondent of the Times says there is no truth in the report so currently circulated , that the buchess ot Montpensier is enceinte . It is true that the young duchess has _changed recently in appearance , but this change is merely the result of obesity , which is tlie family complaint , and wliich in hor Royal Highness , case threatens to assume no ordinary developnv nt .
A man , named Mick _Dempsey , died at Drumming Park , county Longford , last week , at tlio advanced age of 115 years . There is at present living at Mulryard , within four miles of Keady , county Armagh , a hale , ruddy , cheerful patriarch in the 103 rd year ofhis age . Tho Ilouse of Assembly at Jamaica hns voted £ 2 , 000 towards mitigating tbe distress in Ireland and Scotland . Ireland sent to _Barbadoes 65 years ago £ 20 , 000 when the above island was desolated by a hurricane . . The West Indian theatres have opened their doors for benefit performances to relieve the destitute in Ireland and in tho Scottish highlands . There ave no means for the edu"ation of our race _, which can in any _de-rcc be compared to a domestic life in Us purity . Domestic life in its essence is a bond of love , and through this a divine institution to beget love . — Pestalozsi .
It is reported that Dr _Oschatz has di covered the art of making very good paper from wood , without the aid of nitric acid or great mechanical fon : e . When any plan ot National Education is proposed in England , it always receives an _oppo-iriim which may be illustrated by the fable of the Old Man and h _' i 3 Two Wives ; one pulls all the black hairs out ol his head , the other all the white , until , in a very short time , the poor roan is left without any hair at all . Those beings are only fit for _scuitude who like nobody , arc like nobody , and are liked by uobody . — Z ' _uittierman . Aii inhabitant of the French colony of Senegal lately advertised for sale an excellent Maltese ass for which he w ; is willing to take slaves in payment Asses would thus seem to bear a higher value than men in Senegal .
A little girl walking in the cemetery of Pere-hi Chaise , Paris , and reading one after another the praises upon the tombs of those who slept beneath , exclaimed , ** I wonder where & _U the sinnet 9 x 9 buried l *
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Thb Price of a . L __ _ot _* RK _„" B _Swrw . —The ill-paid man has usually become au inferior workman . Of thia the following homely illustration _. mentionodat a lato farmers' club , is an instance : — Whilst inspectingafirm in one of these pauperised districts , an able _agriculturist could not help noticing the slow , drawling motions of one of thc labourers there , and said , "My roan , you do not sweat at thit work . " " Why no , master , " was the reply , " seven « hi | _line _ a week isn't sweating wages "—Hampshire Telegraph . Dkmocbacv i . v New Tork . —The _'Democratic '
city government of New York , it is said , let out of the " city prison on Black well ' s Island , sixty convicts , on an election day , in order that thoy might vote against giving cc ' uur <* d people the right of _suffrai-. t Thirteen of these " ' worthies' were arrested by Alderman Benson and Justice Merritt , on the r way to the polls Christian Citizen . Si . voui . _ r Will . —A person lately deceased in Bradford , after providin _? for the apprenticing of his three son ? , _bequeathed £ 500 to llis widow , but on condition that she marry before six months after his decease . She is very good tonkin * :, and will have no difficulty in _complying with his injunction .
Pkice op Wheat is England . —On strikin _? tho averages the price of wlieat in Hants , Dorset , and Wilts , is at present 18 s . a quarter higher than at any corresponding period since the new mode of taking the corn returns has been adopted . CobivLadsn Ships—The total number of ships laden with foreign corn entered inwards in the yea _ 1 S 16 , at tim porta ofthe United Kingdom , w . _is 4 C 97 . The following were the quantities imported ia British ships-.-Wheat , 663 , 601 qrs . ; barlev , 70 , 805 qrs . ; oats , 321 , 206 qrs ; beans and pens , ' 240 598 qrs . ; maize and buckwheat . 47 , 113 qrs . ; flour , 815 , 273 _cwts . ; oatmeal , 1 , 393 cwt . _*> . ; Indian-corn _, meal , 170 cwts . There were impivrtetl in foreicn ships : —728 , 220 quarters of wheat ; barley . 237 , 579 qrs . ; oats . i 52 S 32 qm . ; beans and pea ** , 2 . 14 111 qrs . ; rye , 70 qva . ; maiz _* and buckwheat , 73 . 705 qrs . ; flour , 1 930 . 783 cwts . ; and of Indian corn and meal , 2 , 165 cwts .
_CniNEss ScoAti . —The importation of pu . ar front tbe Chinese empire , and more particularly t ' r » m the new British settlements in that part ot the world , ' . xeites a great degree r , f interest . Tbe vessel _liaboa , arrived in the St _Ivitherir . e ' _H Docks , from * hp port ¦ if Canton and t he new British settlement Victoria , respectivelr , hia _brpusrh : 1 600 bags from the former dace , and 7 833 _Iiul's of sugar from the latter . PUR *! - ' . Ol' _C-KASL 1 SKSS UNDER DIFFICULTIES .- * We have readut a clear stream—the Clitumnusbeing a " mirror" _a- > well as a " bath , " for " beauty ' s _youtiEe 3 t _daughters , " but never heird ofa river being turned into a _shaving glass , until Sunday last , when
some friends of ours surprised a mm busily occupied in shaving himself in ono of the meadows on the hanks of the _L well , by the help ofhis ima » e reflected in the stream , lie had cleared away half the crop , and proceeded gravely to clear away the other , in spite of their laughter . —Liverpool Times . Parliamentary _ELBCTOKs _. —The bill prepared and _brought in by Sirde L . Evans and Sir B . Hall "to regulate the times of payment of rates and taxes by parliamentary electors , " consists of one clause , which _. _U'clarea that- rates nnd taxes payable on or before October 11 th in the _precedina year must be paid to entitle parties ti bs on the list of voters for any city , town , or beir . iu » h in _EnuUnd .
_YrnK-Hins _Bakki-T' _* ri--A barrister ofthe northern circuit had occi - fi-m to attend the Heading assizes the other day , in the capacity _«< f _witnegi in ahorse cast ? , The learned jnd _^ e ( Vlaule ) _suggested that barristers generally were not supposed to knew much of the merits of horsoa . Tlw _-A-ittesstlierenpon replied , " But youc lordship must recollect that I am a _Yorkshireman . " To this the counsel engaged ia the cause added , " Yes , my lord , the "Y orkshire barristers know a _s-ooddcal more about horses thin they do about law . " ¦ Tub New Potato Crop , —We are enabled to make the gratifying and important announcement that three successions of _potatoes , _brought to maturity ia the forcing-house at Pitfour Castle , by Fir J . * j . Richardson ' s gardener , have all preduced sound crops . There was a slight taint upon the _four-g tubers at an early stage , but tbat gradually disappeared .
_Rkprksbntati- )* * - of Grbe . vwich . —We understand that in the event ot a vacancy occurring in the _representation of Greenwich , ic is the intention ofa portion of the constituency to put in nomination David Williams Wire , Esq ., of _ tonehouse , Lewishnm . Death of as M . P—Thomas Martin , _E-q ., M . P . for Galway , is _report _<* d dead of fever . A _L'ttlb ' too Bad . —A _gentleman of Albany recently m . irried a lady reputed to h * rich , wh > tinned out to be poor , ar . d s tne seven hirdred _dollars in debt , which he had to liquida'e . Siie assured him , However , for his consolation , that the debts wi re contracted for dry goo ls . which she _liotisjlit to captivate _^ iim . Only think of a fish paying for thi houk with whi _.-h he was caught ! British Museum—The n >*\ v hall of tim national _esttblishment was on Monday last _optned to the public .
Total Loss of ths Brio _Casxixq ot Ft **" . — A despatch has been received at Lloyd ' s irom tho b _' _orei'n-nfiice , _encli ) _- > _ini a . copy of a despatirh from _, lier Majesty ' s Chari ; . _il'ArFiir < js in Chili , announcing thc nerclmnt brig ' Canning _hjivinif been _de-trnyed ! > y Sre , in the Straits of _Maaellnn , on th- 16 . h ot December last . Ca-penter and two men supposed to be drowned . Follow ! _Folliw !—At Elgin _jiropnsalshave been issued for the establishment of a Work inn Men ' s Prevision _Assi / ciation—the capital to be £ 1 . 000 , in _slmres of £ 1 , By _purchrtsin-, ' for cash in the hem _m-nkets , the promoters expect ' to .-upply meal wh < -at , bread , and groceries , a ' , pricas b _>* iow the current one" - - . A _b-ikitij-re-tatjlt'timeMt is ir . c ' ud-d in the prop .-s-. ls .
Extknsivk _ltrniU'i'V . —A lew days since the counting-house of James _Ms-nison and Co ., 23 , St _Maryit-Ililf , Thames-street , w _.-i * plundered of a t ' n cash box . containim ? GO South-Eastern Railway _alinre _* -, 25 faff Vale Railway shares , and 10 Parts and Lyon ; £ 072 in notes ai . d bills of _exchanj-e , as weil as several bill stamps , signed J . Morrison and Co , payable to Jones , Lloyd , and Co , ami not filled up . Woman B _. oui . c with a Dea _*> Child . —On Saturday , a woman , named Ritferty , was found _bejiginsia _Castle-strcet , Dublin , _wi'h a dead child in her arms , Sta . i _* . v . \ _tio- _«* . — I ' wo deaths from _starvation are
reported to have occurred in Inverness;—the parties , a mother and _daughter , were formerly in better circumstances . They made no complaints , and were found both dead in bed . Early Musuiwohs . —A splendid dish of mushrooms , from 2 _£ inches in diameter , were on Wednesday gathered on the cstato of Obadiah Williams , jun ., Esq ., of _R-umlbay , by Wm , Wood-ill , a brass founder in the employ of Mr Clayton , at the _Wellington Foundry . Refuoij for _Dischiuokd Prisoners . —We understand that it is in eontemplation , in Somerset , to erect an asylum for prisoners after they Jiav . saved out the terms of imprisonment awarded fur their offence .
Distressing _Occl-rrexce . —A most _distreising event connected with the _losu of the Tweed WcsC India mail packet , occurred at Southampton nbout a week since . A poor woman , the wife ot one of the crew of that ill-fated vessel , tbe mother of six children , and _severni months aelvanced in pregnancy , droppvd down dead on _heins ; told abruptly by a ne . glib .-ur tli it tho Tweed was lost , and that all hands had perished , What render J the circumstance the more affecting is , that the husband arrived saf ' e ' y at Snitliampton in the Avon packet on _Thurselay iast , bein _^ o ; u ; of the persons whose lives were so providentially saved . Short I ' imb . —Several of the Belfast spinning mills have been nut upon short _tii-nc . Litehaky Institution . — A literary institution , called " The Athense . im , " was opened at _Pauley on Tties _. lay .
Tub Dlkb avd tub _Ql'acks _—Obiervin ? the name of his Grace the Du ' _-ee of _Wellington advertised the other day a ? , ihe patron and swallower of the pills of one ot the pe * . citetous tribes of London medical quacks , we used the iiberty of askin *; the _illustriuus Deike whether his > ' race gave authority fur tha publication , aud the tdllawini : characteristic i- ;> ly _wu-i received in course of post ¦ — " _Str-ithHeldsave , April 10 , 1847 . —F . M- the ' Duke of _Welliiiatmi ' prcsunts his compliment to Mr M _\' ab . lie has received his _letter . The Deike knows _nothing et' the person alluded to , or his pills . No individual of his _cl-ua has authority to use the name of the Duke of Wei * _itnt ' to'i in any manner . "— Gkogm Constitutiona ' .
Ihk Boy Dkan—This ill-lated youth ( only thirteen years of _aj-e ' _, whose name is so notorious Irom . his _aileaed participation in theruurdtr ofthe " blacking boy" at ( _rreeiihays , wan on Monday _brought up at tlie New Bailey sessions on a charge of _obtaining at lleaton _Norris , on the 13 th of March , by false and fraudulent pretences , a quantity of money _, ll > ur , and ¦ . r . iceries , the property of liiram Wakefield . He was found _guilty , and sentenced to sis mouths' irapri onment in _Lancanier Castlo , and was ordered to be once whipped , lie is also to bo kept in solitary confinement for fourteen days , TiibD . vii _/ s Ows . —A letter from St Pctersburgh , dated the 2 nd , announces that the Emperor ol _Kussiit is siriously ill , and ihit his journey to Wavswr is indefinitely postponed . _EMAxcu-ATiox .-In 1846 . 1 . 010 slaves wero emancipated at Martinique , 1 , 115 at Guvlaloupe , lit ta French Guiana , and about 300 at Bourbon .
A Man Shot bv a Pw . —At-W days ago , abiut seven o clock , the eldest . on ( about twenty-three years of age ) of Mr Amos , farmer , near tho Cuckoo in Spalding , It-it a gun heavily loaded _standiur . iu the _-cjrufct- of the b . irn ; during his absence ( which _i-oulii acuee ' y exceed t- _'n miuutcs _) several p ' _^ sentered ; and whi ' _tt tlicy were being driven out , oue ofthem knocked down the gun , which immediately expbded , and the unfortunate individual alluded to being not more than four feet from thu niuR ' e , the whole o f the charge entered a little below the _c-alf uf hU ri _ Ut lei , whiuh . _vtaa dceadlull _** laccrAt _. * _.,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 24, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_24041847/page/3/
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