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_A VOICE FROM THE OCEAN . JOHN MITCHEL TO mSc 6 _* rj 5 TRT . ; ni land of my fathersI—dear tome of my heart ! 0 when shall day break on the night of thy gOITOV _T _. - ' . _-::- - , ; - ' " . - . ' ' 0 when from thy stores , shall oppression depart , , And my tears cease to flow , -when I think on thy morrow ! ; - , Ttfa 3 in -rain that I lov'd thee with frenzied devotion , •; - ¦ _indstrovetodisseverthy blood-reeking chains _;—jjjat I swore * ° avenge thee , —to make thee * a nation , ; v f 0 T time has but quickened , not _lesseped thy
How I hoped against fate , —for I knew not despair lad , in fancy , I saw myself bask in thy smile - ''' Bnt the phantom has flea , with this warnine — "Beware ! 6 ' But the caution is scorned by thy captive exile . 01 why art thon stiU in th y conrieils _divided mo sigh oer yonr long usurped rights unrestorea : . .,. ° , when division stands trembling , abashed , and derided ; And shrinks ' neath the gleam of thy conqueror ' s sworn Can thy freedom be purchased ?—Then , count not tbe cost !
Bas that fervour been chilled ; once so warm on thy lips ; . ¦ ¦ -. That de meteor-blaze of thy Meagher seems lost In the depths of thine apathy ' s growing eclipse ! Thy brightest , and boldest , —the chief ofthe brave , "Who had witnessed the cup of thy miseries fill , — Prom their surf circled homestead , a raft on the wave , Shall condemn thee , —and weep , —tho * they eline to thee still ! . * - - ¦ ¦ ° "Forthe few who had burst from their fetters to guidethee , Are far on the billow , or laid with the dead ; - ¦ Then frown not my conntry , tho * thus do 1 ehide thee , And point out the path in which freedom should tread !
Can I love thee the less , tho' thy faults I deplore ; "Whose griefs I had shared , and remembers the while;—Tho' my cheeks shall be blanched , on a far distant shore , . __ Unknown , and uncared-for , a homeless exile ! Ah ! no , " my loved conntry;—thy weeping , and sighing , Shall break on mysoul in its deepest repose ;—Which shall echo the curse of thy hungered , and dying , Nor be hushed till my dream of existence shall close ! "Long , long , must the night be , which morn never brightens , And cheerless the heart overburdened with woe . But cease , not for ever , your quarrels , and fightings , And Erin is more than a match for the foe !
Then , arouse thee Once more ! and in hope fix thine anchor , And the prayers shall be thine of the great , and the good . ' Be , " "Onion , " thy watchword _'—resolfe but to conquer ! Then , onward , for Erin ! aad God give thee speed ! Edinburgh . James Harkkess .
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The "Works Of Francis Rabelais.. Transla...
THE "WORKS OF FRANCIS RABELAIS .. Translated from the French . By Sir Thomas Urqtjhabt , and Mottecx "With explanatory notes , & c ., & c . A new and revised edition . Two volumes . London ; BT . Cr . Bohn , York Street , Covent Garden . A "sew edition ofthe works of Rabelais is an event in the history of literature . Hitherto these works have been limited to the libraries of the few ; now they may find a place on the book-shelves of the many . That Rabelais will
be understood and admired by "the million " is , however , not "very likely . The subjects which occupied his pen have lost their interest for all hut the student of history j and the grossness of "his ideas and language will certainly not recommend him to the reading and thinking men of the people of this age . Bnt let us here do justice to the great satirist . His style , so offensive to us , was by no means so to his contemporaries—it was the manner of the age in which he lived ; and we may add , continued to be the manner of authors even until
times nearer to our own than to his ,- —as those can testify who have read the writings of Swift , Smollett , and many whose works were written within the last hundred years . It should be added thathis . fablee , and his buffooneries , were necessary guards in his war upon the priests , who assuredly would have committed himte the flames , had he dared to have uttered , in p lainlanguage , one-half of the severe truths he gave expression to through the medium of his fantastic fictions . Taking into account these
circumstances , it will be seen how unjust it would be to try Rabelais by the standard of modem literature . Those able to distinguish the spirit from the letter , will read and admire his genius , wit , penetration , and love of liberty ; and will do homage to the man who , so far back as the 15 th century , laid bare the corruptions and crimes of the Papacy , and wielded the scourge of satire to inflict justice on hypocritical , persecuting priests , profligate statesmen , and tyrannical kings .
As we have not space to attempt an examination of ihe wonderful histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel , we shall merel y extract a Bhort passage or two from the very brief record of the author _s life .
- A 3 . ECD 0 TE 3 OF RABELAIS . A famous author writes , that he was bred up in a convent of Franciscan friars , in the Lower Foicton , aud was received , into tbeir order . . Wliich convent can be no other than that of _Foutenay-le-Comte , where he proved a great proficient in learning ; insomuch that , of the friars some envied him , some through ignorance thought him a conjuror , and , in short , all " hated and misused him . A monk relates that he was put in pace , that is between four walls with bread and water , in the said convent , for some unlucky action . . By tradition it is said that on a day when the country people used to resort to the convent church to address their prayers , and pay their offerings to the image of St . Francis , which stood in a place somewhat dark , near the porch , "Rabelais , to ridicule their superstition , privately
removed the saint s image , and placed himself in its room , having first disguised himself , ' hut at last too much pleased with the awkward worship which was paid him , he could not forbear laughing , and made some motion ; which being observed by his gaping staring worshippers , they- cried out ; — "A miracle ! my good lord Saint Francis moves ! " Upon which an old crafty knave of a friar , who knew stone and the virtue of St . Franc ' s too well to expect this should be true , drawing near , scared " our sham saint out of hig hole : and , having caused him to be seized , the rest of the fraternity , -with their knotty _cordsonhia bareback , soon made him' farow be -was not made of Stone , and Wish be had been as hard as "the image , or senseless as was the samt ; nay ; turned into tbe very image of which he latel y was the representation .
' Some _schobua _^ _-ragowjasioned an extraordinary d _^ ermthe city of MontpelUe r , _Antony _Duprat , Cardinal , Archhishopof Sens , then Lord ChanceUor of France , caused the nniversity to he deprived of part bf Its privileges . "Upon this hone was thought fitter to be sent to Paris to solicit their " restitution , than our doctor , who by his wit , learning , and eloquence , as also by the friends which they had purchased him at court , seemed capable to obtain anything . "When he arrived at Paris , he found it was extremely d _^ cnlt to gain access to the chancellor , who was so incensed that he refused to heir anything in behalf of the university of MontpeUier . So Rabelais , having vainly tried to be admitted _^ at last put on his red gown and doctor ' s cap ( some say . a green gown and a long grey beardl and thus
accoutred came to the chancellors palace , " on bt . Austin ' s key , bat- the porter and some other servants _"mistook him for a madman : so "Rabelais" having , in a peremptory tone been « ked who he was , let his impertinent querist know , tbat he was tbe _gentle"¦ _Baa who usually had the honour io flay bnllcalves ; and that if he had a mind to be first flayed , _jj e had best make haste and strip-immediately _, then being asked some other qustions , he answered _^ latin , which the other understanding not , one of the chancellor ' s officers , who could , speak that tongue , was brought , who addressing himself to our _wctor in Latin w *«' answered , by ' Mm ' in ( Greek , * "ieh the other understanding as little-as the first _** » latin , . a third .= 7 iras fetched who'could speak _^ k ; bnt . he ,, np * . JH > oner spoke in ; that language to _•^ elaifj , but was answered by him in Hebrew , and
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one _^ who ; d flebrew being with , much diffi _* _^ . procured Babelais spoke ' to ; him iri " Synac'i thus having _. exhaustedall ' thelewning ofthefamily ; the chancellor , who was told that ' there was a merry fool at his gate who had outdone every one , not only in _languages , but in smartness o * repartees , ordered him to . be brought in . , It was a littleWore dinner . ¦ Then _JRabelais _shiftingtheTfarcicalscene to one more serions , addressed himself to the chancellor with much respectVand having first made his excuse for his forced buffoonery , in a most cloquene and learned speech , so effectually ' pleaded the cause of the university , that , the chancellor , at . once rayishedand persuaded , not only promised the restitution of ' the abolished privileges , ' but made the doctor sit down ' at table with him , as a particular mark of hisesteem : '¦' ¦ _•; - _^
These volumes are supplementary to Mr . Bohn _' s well-known : «« Standard Library ; ' " and like' that popular series are remarkable for' neatness and - cheapness . Admirably engraved portraits of Rabelais and Sir Thomas TTrqtjhakt , add to the value of this edition ;
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Literary- _Institutions • their relation to Public Opinion . By Cr . J . Holyoake . 'London : J . "Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage '' _Patenioster-row . Twelve months ago , the London Literary and Scientific Institution offered a ; p _rize'fbr the best Essay on the Characteristics and Advantages of Literary and Scientific Institutions- - their . claims to the support of society , and the best means of extending _flieir Usefulness . " It was expected that each writer would make the Institution which offered the prize the
model upon which he would descant . ' Mr . Holtoake , not considering the model exactly perfect , -preferred to take , an independent course . Under these circumstances , it iis hardly necessary to add that tiie prize did ' not fall to Mr . Holyoake . But the adjudicators , ( Dr . Southwood Smith , George _Groxe , aud James W . Gilbart ) , specified this Essay , in their adjudicatory sentence , among " the very creditable performances exhibiting separate passages which they should be glad to single out for rewaid . "
Although not a •' prize essay , ' ' this little work contains many prize truths , as two er three extracts will show !—Whether we will or not , this question of popular education is every man s business . It takes a cholera to convince iis tbat we have an interest in the purity ef bur neighbour ' s habitation ; the course of his life , and the state of his health ; but when some profound folly meets with public applause , or some profound charlatan carries away a nation ' s suffrages , we find that a moral or ' political cholera prevails , in which we ' may read our interest in the purity of our _neighbours information , and the state of his understanding . But we are slow to recognise this truth , which is the first perfect lesson that civilisation teaches a people .
Tell the untaught that , without knowledge , though they move in the ranks of gentlemen , that they wear the badge of theplebian and the fetters of the clown . That intellectual bondage is worse than physical ; because the physical chain is rivetted by Others , tbe mental hy ourselves . That the ignorant man is ever at the mercy of educated opinion . Tbat , to be truly free , we should be in a condition to dare the judgment of the wise . That , while it is deemed honourable in man or woman to war against political tyranny _^ -which ia but tbe Tulgar , the serf form of freedom—it must be nobler to war against the despotism of ignorance ; for the sceptre of incapacity may wave over a world of slaves , when mitres and thrones have passed away .
All subjects -which promise interest , either in their nature or their treatment , should be admitted into the Institution . Politics are admitted into a few Institutions , and a dignitary of the Church has very properly stepped forward to recommend its more general admission . The time will come when theology also will be recalled . It is impossible that these Institutions should have been popular while excluding the most popular and vital topics which agitate men . Besides , men will not always
tolerate the discredit it puts upon them , to be told that passion is so strong and reason so weak that they must , like children , be forbidden certain things—that , in fact , they have not the good sense to consider among themselves the most vital questions of life . Moreover , while snch a subject is excluded the functions of these Institutions is not fully performed . These institutions ought not to be content to keep men as children , but to aim at converting children into men .
"We conclude these extracts with the following charming passage : — - ' How deeply , how gratefully ,, does the present essayist remember the generous attentions of those who gave their time , the long evenings through , year after year , to communicate to him and other poor youths that knowledge whieh has made him at peace with himself and the world , and given into his hands , in some measure , his own destiny , and made him a participator in the kingly pleasures of intelligence . Tbese teachers were mostly of the working classes themselves ; but being somewhat informed
they have since merged into the class of emigrants whom misery annually drafts off into foreign lands as their knowledge made destitution or dependence insupportable . ' Some have "since perished amid Canada ' s snows-and under Trinidad ' s burning sun , where no kind voice was near ! to whisper the soothing word , or kind hand to wipe the death damp from the brow ; but memory , more grateful than fate , follows them over the distance of time" and place , and ! pours over their graves ' the gratitude which words could not convey for the light which they threw over the chequered paths of his life .
Considerable good may be effected by the circulation of this essay , particularly amongst the members , officers , and patrons of "Literary and Scientific Institutions , " "Mechanics ' Institutions , " and " Mutual Instruction Societies . ' '
Poems. By Johit Taylok. London: Xr. Thom...
Poems . By _Johit Taylok . London : XR . Thompson , Little James-street , Gray ' s-innlane . " The New Poor Law forms the subject of a poem " in four books . " A shorter production , intituled "The Heroine of Rochester , " celebrates the bravery of a young girl , who risked her own life to save that of an infant who had fallen into a well sixty-three feet deep . The following are favourable . specimens of the author ' s poetry : —
Let riches' minions riot on their spoil , Whilst England ' s nobler sons are doomed to toil ; Bnt ' tis not _Nature ' s doom , as Byron says , Bat man s , that will not tread in Nature ' s ways . The reckoning day will come-hor distant far"When tbey shall mount in great Bellona ' s car : * Unsheath their swords , and bind their sabres round , And war re-echo back the dreadful sound . " Yengeance is ours ! " aloud they'll raise the cry , As each oppressor s number'd days draw nigh . From fallen despots thissad warning- take , ' That those have died , who did prepare the stake And seal the warrant for another ' s doom—They ' ve paid the forfeit in their own dark tomb . Behold the giant poise his . dreadful lance , In civil war—with grim and motley chauce , Divide the spoil a nation has for years
Amass'd by old men ' s blood and children s tears , And see the strong , athletic , idle thrown , Through children ' s labour , and the mother ' s groan Then fierce rebellion stalks with rapid strides , And revolution on the whirlwind rides— . ; . The whirlwind of the people ' s passions rise , And shouts of starving mortals fill the skies"When hungry famine opes its yarning jaws , And fierce starvation ; 'with its thousand claws , Fixes its deadly fangs fast on its prey—' ¦¦ ¦ Then death with all its horrors rules the day . For empires greater far than England ' s been Have sunk to nought—no vestige now _is : seen Of all their _greatness- ' -but , in tracing through _Hist _' ry ' s pages , on the fall ' n tyrants brow Is written there , in language chill and deep , Oppressors with the once-oppressed sleep .
"Woman , thy virtues who hath yet defined , Or known the depth of thy maternal mind , That is so true to nature's impulse ' giv ' n ' Earth ' s brightest ornament , a star in heav ' n - Whose lustre far eclipses all the rest , ' " When virtue shines : supremely in the breast . Of purest worth that angels veil to see ' . , ; The love that mores thy bosom , kind and free Without a cloud to shade one single ray , •' That perfect shines in clear meridian day , To guide the steps of _strong-r-offrerring man , When join'd with " Thee" in matrimonial ban .
Thatsacred tie , which brings a world of lore _OhVirtue ' s wings—that sweet celestial dove , That hovers round the matrimonial pair , With alia guardian angel ' s heav'hly care . Beauty hath charms , but virtue yet hath ; more , The one soon fades , the other stillin Btore . Renews , till death shall close on beauty , s strife _^ . * _Tis virtue ' s charms that dp adorn the . wife , - In youthful years , or age ' s _mverspap'Tisbidyvfrtuenmkes _herTjlestto ' man -, Beauty may please , but virtue bears the palm , ¦; . " _- Beauty hath storms , butivirtue ; dwell 8 incalm . _i : ; 'Tis man s to , prize those virtues dear to all— . -.. . a ¦ ' , i A : _^ . J . '•; --- * . *¦* ' M ¦ * ¦ * * - . "_ ' " * - " ' _i
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Iu beauty ' s train , a man may sudden fall ) A victim to . . _a . charmth ' at _^ often leads /"" " ¦' " *' ' i His mind astray' _' ahd sinks _^^ in darker deeds ''" _, ' 1 'flis _' so nl _, . which should have chose that _> nobler part Where virtue blends with beauty—both impart ' The charmsthat _sink . the . deepest in the heart . S i _., Mr . Taylor' is evidently ; a man of feeling heart and generous patriotism ; but wo iniaginethat he-would be able to express his very laudable sentiments with inpre effect in prose than in poetry .
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This gigantic / exhibition hasi ' _- ' put forth new attractions . ' The _piiblic interest' miinifested in the fate of Sir J . Franklin has induced- the production of a scene in I the Polar- regions ; which , though on a Bmallscale , is highly effeotive . . The icy monotony of the landscape is relieved by Esquimaux halting to rest the reindeer which have , been drawing them over the ; slippery tract in a sledge , polar bears , a wolf-dog , and' other indigenous animals , skilfully introduced and-grouped . ' : The sky displays the beautiful evening tints peculiar to those _, latitudes while the distant hills are tipped with a scarlet hiie , reflected from above . This tableau will give many a sTCctator ' amorec ' neerful'notiori of these inhospitable ' regions-thati they have been accustomed jto associate l
with them . ; ; In pleasing contrast to this is a picture giving _^ a vivid notion of _Chinese . river life . It is a view ; of r Tchin-shan , or the Golden Island , which rises put of tlie Yang-t 8 e-kiang , the grandest stream of the whole' Eastern -hemisphere . ' The' hustle of this scene presents a contrast to the comparative solitude of ; that we have just noticed . ; Life in every form of activity _ia-here seen . In the foreground is an imperial messenger halting to . be ferried ; across the water ; boatmen , mandarins , hawkers / crowd the shore , whUe the river iscover ' ed with' boats of all sorts , tbeir crews in active employment . ' The island , itself ,: with , a splendid pagoda icapping an eminence , adds materially to the gorgeous variety ofthe scene .
There is a third view , Ketley Abbey , which also has its attractions . All these ' are the production of Messrs . Danson and Son . Lastly , ' there is a model of a silver mine the miners in motion , and the different operations . going on in a manner that gives a good insight into that sort of underground labour . ' " ... , The other exhibitions are still seen tb as great advantage as ever , "The . view of Paris by moonlight —a marvel of panorama painting and ; mechanical deception—the . stalactite _cavernB , the grand sculpture saloon ,, the' Arabesque . Aviary , the // Swiss Cottage , and Alpine Landscape , with the mountain torrent ; which . i 8 more real than simulated—for the water is genuine West Middlesex— -and the Conservatory , form an array of exhibitions which cannot fail tO ; attract- every new comer to London ; for surely nearly every inhabitant and habitual visitor to the ' metropolis must bare . " already had . a delightful lounge in the Colosseum again and again .
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NEW STRAND THEATRE . : The -performances at this home have lately gained much . interest from' the circumstance that Mrs . Glover will , take her farewell of the stage on the termination of her present engagement , and that she is therefore going through a series of her favourite characters . One of these is the Widow Green , in Mr . Sheridan _Enowles ' _s Love Chan , which she still enlivens with all that force and freshness which the employed when she first created the part . The senile gallantry and confidence of Sir William Fondlove are admirably represented by Mr . W . Farren , for whom the character" was originally written ,
though it wasfirstplayed by the late Mr . Strickland . The gay Neighbour Constance allows Mrs . Stirling to put forth all her point and vivacity ; and Mr . Henry Farren ,, whodoes . not lack substance ; though he might gain in culture , ' represents with much effect the rustic heartiness of Wildrake . The cast is completed by Mrs . Leigh Murray and Mr . W . - Farren , jun M who ably sustain the more serious characters of Lydia and , Master Waller . , The style in which this lively comedy is dressed and mounted might serve as a lesson to establishments of greater size and pretensions than the little "band-box" of the Strand .
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Dr . Bachhoffner has just commenced his second lecture on scientific recreation . This gentleman commenced by explaining the laws of nature governing many curious phenomena , and involved in many of our most common and- every day amusements . The boy's nicker is made at . once a- pbilosophicaL instrument ; vand the experiments brought forward to explain and exhibit the manner of its action , were of the highest importance and value . Taking advantage of the same law , the doctor . performed Some singular experiments , at first sight seemingly the very acme of " conjuring dexterity , " which , " however , upon explanation , resolved themselves into the most simple contrivances , dependent
upon their action by thesame principle as the " nicker " of i bur boyhood ; the * J atmospheric pressure , " which , in fact , by the bye , tends remarkably to show the _^ misnomer of ¦¦ nicker , " as applied to this peculiar ; contrivance . ; The , experiments in elucidition of the laws , governing the sensations of heat and cold , were most remarkable ; in some 'instances , the results were * truly startling . The burden of many a wager was here introduced , _Vplacinga'kettle of boiling water on the hand , " and the causes of such accomplishment fully explained . The most peculiar experiment was one we will endeavour to . describe . A small apparatus having two cylinders connected by means et a handle , was placed upon the table , arid a small quantity of cold : water introducedin each ; the covers being screwed down , the machine was handed for
inspection , and to the astonishment of all present , one of the vessels had become so exceedingly hot as to prevent its being retained in the hand , while the other was so cold as to become in a like manner equally uncomfortable . A result , so peculiar , seemed to be , at . first sight , beyond the power even of magic , arid curious beyond , the boiling point of : water , while its neighbour , in connexion , and distant only two or three' inches , had become so intensely cold as to' freeze the ' moisture of the' room upon its surface like hoar frost . _; In these experiments the learned professor explained he had taken advantage of the facilities offered by the patented aparatus of Mr . Masters , Regent-street , that gentleman having applied the principle to a number bf useful contrivances exhibited on the entire table .
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Forthcoming Ministbhial , Concessions . —Rumours as . to ministerial activity during the session are multiplied and repeated ; but we do not discern anything very new , or anything of greater mark than the rate-paying suffrage ; Ministers are going to _supersede . every sort of agitation—with an imitation of each : the Charters , big and little , are to be superseded by a sort of new Whig charter ; the Law Amendment Society is to see its work done—or shelved—by official hands ; the Keeper of the Great Seal consenting , perhaps as the only _hbjie of being allowed to keep that great seal ; the . Society for the Reform of Colonial Government is to be outdone by concessions of local . independence to colonies tbat will purchase it byunderlaking-. to pay their own way ; the _Firiancial'Reformers are . to be baulked by a spontaneous reduction of the army—a dozen or so
of regiments clipped at the ends ; ' the scandal of Rajah Brooke is to be smothered under a measure for discontinuing the _desppratelyinconvenient pracr tice of giving'lavish head-money for the capture of pirates . Mr . Villiers is to move the address inthe Commons—a sign , some say , that the Clarendon influence is in ; the ascendant among ministers ; while others interpret it to be a . sort of rebuff to Mr . Cobden and his new agitations . Ministers "drawthe line" at Charles Villiers . Sir James "Oiike / the late Lord Mayor , whose popularity , will not easily be outshoner-tbe creditable . ' and goodnatured colleague of Lord John Russell in the representation ofthe City-is to secohd ' theaddress . Thus it would seem that ministers are decidedly making ready for a popularity hunt . May it meet what 8 ucces 8 . itde 8 erves _.--- _<&> ectator . _.- :. ...
Foheion Provisions . — The severity of the frost and the general inclement weather during the greater part of the last week , and particularly in the earlier portion ofit , have caused the arrival of cattle and provisions of all kinds from the central and other states of , Europe , usually supplying-us with cattle and provisions of various kinds , to be of the most limited possible character : The usually numerous arrivals on Thursdays were limited last weekun that day to one from Holland , whickwas from _Maaslnys , by the . steamer Sir Robert Pee ] , Rotterr
usually trading . to and from Harlingen and dain | arid , on the _following day , generally . also a busy oiie , ' there _werenb arrivals of the kind . Ihe steamer from _Osterid on that day was freighted unusually heavy with" general merchandise , as-the port of Antwerp had become closed , in ; consequence of which _> it was subsequently announced that the steamer usually running to and from Antwerp being detained there by the frost , the usual departure from'London on Sunday morning could not take place , ¦
¦' An-Awectionop ' the Livee _AND'KlDNETS CUIIED BT Houowat's Pills , at _Shinet , New South " J ; — Extract , of a letter from J . K . Heydon , of Sydney , dated Sept . 80 th , 1848 . - ' "To Professor . HoUoway , — Sir , —I nave the pleasure to inform you that Stuart A ; Donaldson , t . sq ., an eminent merchant and agriculturist , also a magistrate of tfiiitown _, ' purchased of nie " . fourteen " p 6 iii < ls worth of jour medicines , to forward to hit iheep stations IU New England ; in _cimeequencebf an _extraordinaryecure effected . by your , Pills in ten dais on one , _ef his overseers of an affection 6 f the * llVer knd _Wdneys , after the best medical advice ; -followed far . months / had failed .- ( SighedJ J .. K . _Heidon . " . . _; . , , . "•; . * ... _; , _; .: , •;• , ¦¦¦ . ¦ : ' . '•• : '"'" .
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MR . COBDEN , _AT-. SHEFFIELD . t ;«; Mr . Cobden arrived here on Tuesday , on a . visit to the _coasttinent freeholders of the-West Riding at Sheffieldi _« ind its neighbourhood this morning ) -and was received everywhere _witri the' _itfoaticprdml and enthusiastic greetings . , ¦ It , was _halfrpaBti-twelve when the train entered the station at _iSheffield , and the company assembled to receive him included Edward ; sB jHi * ,. ( _Ejq ; i ; of _W Vale _,:, Richard .: So ) lyi Esq ., 'and Messrs . Thomas _Outes i Thomas" Tucker , Yebmans _. ahd Broadhead . The _belia : df trie old parish cliurcK of St _^ Peter-rung _jfa _^ peal at the moment in . honour of the ; _events and ; sdme Iadie 8 a 8 ' wellai _;' ge _^ _ge _^ a _« _g _|«> of ' the _' . hbri . _^ _ipent therremainder : of the day at Fir "Vale .. !! _|
The , meeting in'the evening took . place in the saloon o ([ the Music-Kali ; a spacious , lofty ' : an . d elegant room , capable of accommodating from 1 , 500 to 2 , 000 persons ; It is the largest , room in the town that could he _obtwnisd _^ ahd _^ as it ; was felt 'tliat the number of persons who desired _" to [ be _; present _woiild far exceed the limits of the building , it had been _arhnged _^ that _^ price _^ should ' beaffiMd ;; tb : the ' ; tick ! ets of admission _^ for the purpose of giving the committee some control over the matter . _Fpr'this purpose a charge of sixpence was affixed for ' entrance to the
body of the saloon , of a shilling to tlie platform ; or orchestra , where Mr . * Cobden and his ' friends were toibe 8 eated ,, ahd of threepence each ; tp .. the , gallery occupying the further end ' ot _theisalbon . h This management prevented much'of the crash and con . fusion of an ordinary meeting , but _stillas the tickets bad all been disposed of so early as _, ten o clock this morning , and the committee of management bad been induced to make a slight further issue to meet ths pressing anxiety and demands of influential friends subsequently ¦ applying for admission , the _saloonjwai _^ _excsedihgly _^ rpwaed ; ' , ' ' _Vj' ' , I
Oh entering the saloon of the . Music-hall about seven o ' clock , the ben . member for the West Riding of Yorkshire ' was ; received with the heartiest _ahd most enthusiastic burst of cheering ., The chair was taken by Edward Smith , Esq ., of Fir Vale , and Mr . Cobden occupied a seat _athis right hand . ; : _, The Chairman reminded' the meeting . that the object of it was to receive the hon . and 'distinguished member for _the'West Ridirigi and- to express sympathy with hira in his patriotic ' arid philantropic objects , especially in regard to financial reform , the _evtensionof the suffrage , the land arid building society movement , and the maintenance bf peace . ' He concluded by calling
upon—Thomas Birks , Esq ., Mayor of Sheffield , who moved thefirst resolution « . — ' That this meeting conaider it to be one of the most important duties bf the House of Commons to enforce-the strictest economy in the public expenditure , so ' as to reduce the oppressive burden of taxation as far as possible ; and that the efforts of the financial reformers in parliament to obtain such reduction deserves the energetic support of the nation ;'" - Thomas Dunn , Esq ., alderman , 'seconded the
motion , which was carried with loud cheering . William Fisher , Esq ., merchant , moved the second resolution ' . — _- ' That , in the judgment of . this meeting , a _laree extension of the elective franchise is desirable ,, and might , with true '' wisdom ,, be granted b y the' leg islature ; and that , meanwhile , well ' construed and prudently managed / societies for facilitating the purchase by the industrious classes of forty shilling freeholds in land or buildings , are likely to ibe attended with great advantage , both social and political _^ to the country . *
Alderman Thos . Ra . wson Barker , the late mayor of Sheffield , seconded the resolution , and it was also agreed to with loud cheers . : Richard Cobdbn , ; Esq . _yM . P ., ; was then introduced by the chairman , and on presenting himself in front of the orchestra , was welcomed , with the most enthusiastic .. plaudits . The hoh . member spoke for an hoar and , forty minutes , and his speech was frequently interrupted by bursts of cheering .
Richard Sour-Esq .- then moved a vote of confidence in the hon . member , couched iii the following terms : — -- - That this meeting would express its strong and grateful sense of the invaluable services of Richard Cobden , - Esq . ; in the cause of free trade , of public _eeonomyi of _peaeefand of financial , parliamentary , and - colonial- reform : and that it resolves ; to spare _na exertions to maintain him in the representation of the West Riding , a post which he bas filled so much to the satisfaction of his
constituents /; ;' _..-. ..,..: / _.,-, - ; :., ; _- ; - --. / . This resolution haying , been !* seconded , was received , as the previous ones had been by the meeting , with the utmost enthusiasm , and carried without a dissentient voice . —The business ' concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman , and the meeting concluded at twenty minutes past ' ten o clock .
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. PARLIAMENTARY-AND FINANCIAL REFORM . Lynn . —A meeting was . held on Monday evening at the Temperance Hall , Lynn , to discuss the principles and objects of the National Reform Association . The chair was taken by Mr . Miles . . Mr ; i _M'Entbeb explained the _^ principles j of the National Reform Association ; and on referring to the abuses which their labours contemplated removing from the statute book of England , said , look to our court , supported in profuse and . grotesque extravagance , ' not to sustain the true dignity of the sovereign , but to afford places to the aristocracy . Look to the . cost of our executive , amounting to £ 1 , 686 , 735 , and compare it with . the American execative , which is -SI 6 , 885 , aiid say if the superiority of our system of government is proportionate to the difference of cost . Look to our colonies in a state
of universal and just discontent ; kept in that _state at an enormous expense to this country , that Down . _ing-stteet may furnish aristocratic governors to people who would ; gladly , pay . all expensesi of self-government , if permitted to do so . i Look at our fighting establishments , that since 1815 cost the country nearly -6500 , 000 , 000 ; and that , since 4688 have caused Great JBritain an expenditure-in taxes and loans of two thousand millions , which , according to tlie income tax estimate of the value of landed and other property ! would pay a twenty-five years' purchase for the whole island of Great Britain . Look to our church establishment costing ten millions annually , not including the Irish ' Church , while the coat of all the Christian churches bf all
denominations throughout the'world amounts to only * S 9 , 949 , 000 . 'In reference to the cry for protection , he said , the protectionists say they and the farmers are in the same boat . True ; but the farmers' doall the work to keep the craft afloat , while the landlords get all the rations and pocket all the pay . , Let the farmers get a free trade in land , to which they are fully entitled , as well as a free trade in corn , and then , and not till then , will they get a fair chance by being , put on a fair footing with , the other interests in the country . As for the cry of restoring protection , they might as well invite last , Christmas to spend a pleasant week with next as to ask the legislature -bf ' _this country again to impose a tax on the food of the people .
Arrangements were entered into for establishing a Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association in Lynn .
The Arctic Expbdition.--Capt. Manby Rece...
The Arctic ExPBDiTioN .--Capt . Manby recently suggested to Sir , James Ross such an addition to the steam-boats employed-in the 'Arctic Expedition ' as would enable them to be used alternately as steamboats or sledges . This the captain proposes to do b y means of broad-rimmed wheels , so , constructed as tb admit of their being substituted for the paddle boxes when required . Sir James Robs replied to Capt . Manby : — " Capt . COllinson is to command the expedition , and does not intend to tako with him . the steam-launches . " , In ; consequence , we learn , Capt . Manby having confidence in the practicability of his plan , has resolved to , construct a model of such ayessel as he recommended ; and he purposes to _Bubinit the same , together with some new projects for saving tho lives of _^ sailors , to the
commissioners appointed for the promotion and exhibition of the works of art of all nations , in 1851 . ... ' . PBOTECilON OF BUCKINOHAM PALACE FBOM _LlOHTNiNoi—The many awful examples of the effect of Jightiiing in the destruction of ships and buildings , and more especially in the example recently afforded at 'Osborne , where ; the portion of the building unprotected sustained damage , whilst that portion to which Sir ' William Snow Harris ' s' conductors were applied entirely escaped , have induced a royal summons to- the celebrated inventor of the lightning conductors to consult the arohitect of the Buckingham . Palace- -improvements' on the -best -mode of
insuring the . safety of that ; extensive pile ox buildings from visitations of that destructive elemonitl : , Fires " im London ' . " _DiiaiNd . _1849 .--The annual report of tho Fire Brigades , of the outbreak' of con ; _, flagrations in themetrbpolis and its suburbs , during the past year , was issued on Monday' by its superintendent , : ; . _Thetotol number appears to havebeeii 835 , _involving the de 8 teuotion , of . between : j 40 () and 600 _hpusesl _^ Although _^ an inpreasp bve . r _., _theprevious years ; the lo 88 * bf prbperty ' , ' in ,= 'the' aggregate , has not been so great . 'K' _^ tates that twenty persons lost their lives _afcthe fireB . 'XX : ' - ' , _¦ _"•' / '" 7
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¦ ' _W , : . I T _^ Kaj r _^ pf 10 ,- P " _easanl _> piacei ' "W _esVaquaro Lambeth , ; and _| yS * . Green _pfj _. _Hanover-street _*< . Walworth ' the t _' w ' 6 prisoners apprehended . in , London , 7 _tandi in " whose houses a ' _quantity of _ijliielclbth , and other stolen property were found , underwent , an examihaitioh / b ' efdfe the _Ltieds jjiistice _; on Friday arid'Saturday ; la 8 t ..:: They ? had : been given up ' b ' ythe _ihagistrates of Lambeth Police Office , and brought , to Leeds by . Inspector'Child pf . the Leeds police , and Sergeant Goff of the Lambeth police . In addition to : _ithese prisoners ; six < others , apprehended ; in Leeds , viz ., Joseph Kitchin , ' Matthew , Sellers , John Akeroyd , William RKpdesy _. Bdnjamin Wooller , and Christopher Petler , ' i f ere at the . same , tirae charged
with being _concernod in : several robberies which have recently : taken place in : _Leeds . ' _-iThp cxamihation was continued throughout'the , Whole of Friday and Saturday ; the evidence ' taken _la ' _gainst the prisoners being of a very " \ voluminous ; "desoripti 6 n . Three separate _charges . were entered-into , with the view of showing that one or . other i of the prisoners were implicated _; in tbem , . I either : of the actual thieves , br as receivers of the stolen property . , ' The first was the -robbery from the house of Mr . William Wood ; of Chapel _Alei'tbn , wliich took , plica on th ' eafternoPn _' of'SUnday , the 16 th _ofl . Januai x . Mr . and Mrs . ' Wood had attehdedohurch that after- " noon , after . which they called , at . rthe _. house of Mr . Shiers , _$ relative : . but iat . fi ve o ' clock Mr . ' -Wood
called at hig own house ; to see if _allwasright , and when he left toreturh to-his " relative ' s house , he desired Mr . _HenderBon _' , _' a neighbourj' , tb , ' look to his house ; - -About half-past six o ' clock Mr . ' Henderson heard some one _breaaingup tho kitchen fire _. and oh his shouting ' * holloa , " he heard the heavy footsteps of two persons , descending the _staircaee and on going : outside saw a light suddenly withdrawn from the back bedroom , he then rah round to the , ' front door , and found it open . Mr . Wood was sent-for , and ; it was found that from a tin bpx placed in ! a drawer in the back bedroom the . following articles of silver had been stolen : —five table spoons , six teaspoons , one pair : of _siigar'tongs , and a butter knife with a pearl handle . ; . , : | O C' I : The second case gone into , was the robbery of the
warehouse , bf Mr . , James Jackson ,: a commission agent for woollen cloths , situate'in _Bishopsgatestreet . This warehouse was entered ¦ by means of skeleton " keys between Saturday ' ' the- 6 th , and Monday , the 8 th of _Octbberlast , and three ends of riflegreen and three ends of black woollen cloth , worthabout £ 50 , stolen . : ¦• _^ The third charge had reference to the robbery of cloth from the warehouse' of Mr . Benjamin Barker , cloth merchant and manufacturer at Quebec . BetWeeii Saturdayafternobii , Dec ! 22 nd , and Monday morning , Dec . 24 th , the warehouse was entered by . meansof Skeleton keys , and on examining the stock it waB found that twelve ends of woollen cloth , worth £ 120 , had been stolen . "
Mr . Bead , chief constable , produced all the articles' found upon the' prisoner Kay , and . in his house ; aud also about ; twenty yards of woollen cloth i cut up into short lengths of about two yards , which had been found in the house of the prisoner Green ; and then the examination proceeded . ; As to the robbery of plate from Mr . Wood ' s house , no evidence ' was adduced to implicate the prisoners William Green and . Benjamin WoOller . ' It seems _, that Mr . Read , having obtained information of stolen property having been' sent to London , requested the superintendent of tho Midland station , in Leeds , to inform him Of any parcel whicli might be left , for transmission to the address of Thomas Kay , Thomas Wright , or William Green , in London .
This led to the detention of the parcel containing platoon tho night of Friday last , which was addressed to Mr . Thomas , " Wright , Pleasant-place , West-square , Walworth . . This -parcel , on being opened , was found to contain : all the plate Btolen from Mr . Wood ' s house , soldered upiri ' a long small tin case . This parcel was forwarded by the early train on Saturday morning , delivered to _iSiy , and then taken by the police as . stated above .: When Kay was taken into custody he said the parcel belonged to a lodger of his , but he neither produced or gave any other information respecting him . The largo sum of money found in Kay ' s house' was found in a woman ' s pocket , placed on the top shelf of a cupboard , against the door of which . the bedhead
was thrust so as to render it inaccessible . This was the principal evidence adduced against Kay . A boy named Henri Tim , of Chapel Allerton , swore positively to have seen the prisoners Rhodes and Akeroyd and another man loitering about Mr . Wood ' s house from half-past two till after four o ' clock on the afternoon on which the robbery was committed , and one of them watched into the passage leading to Mr . Wood ' s house door . , The evidence against , the prisoner Sellers was that of Mr' Woodlock , the parcel clerk at the Midland Railway , station , who identified him is the man who had . brought the . parcel containing the stolen place to ; be conveyed to London , when he was very particular in inquiring when ic would arrive in
town , and when it would be delivered . Then , as to the prisoner Kitchen , it was proved that he and Kay were acquainted with each other , and that the latter had frequently visited the Rising Sun Inn , kept by Kitchen _s father . In addition to this the name of Richard Kitchen was written upon the outside cover of the parcel containing . the stolen plate ; and a letter carrier , named Stewart Smith , stated that he had frequently delivered letters addressed , for the prisoner Kay , to the care of Mr . Kitchen , Rising Sun Inn , Marsh-lane , Leeds . He particularly remembered two letters which he delivered about Christmas Day , both having the Walworth postmark on , the one being directed ' " Thomas Kay , " and the other "T ; Kay" only .. On one of these
occasions he saw the prisoner Kay at the Rising Sun Inn . The phl y further evidence adduced against Kitchen , was . that given by Mr . W . James , superintendent of the Leeds police , who stated that on Mr . Read and himself going to apprehend Kitchen on Sunday morning ,- at his house in Stoney Rock , they met with him in company with Sellers , tho man who took the parcel to the railway station . •• • The Mayor then charged the prisoners . Seller admitted that he had delivered a _pai'eel on the Friday at the railway station , but he said it had been given him to carry by a gentleman he met near the Griffin Inn ; Boar-lane . As to the robbery he could call witnesses to ; prove he was elsewhere
at tho time it was committed . Rhodes and Akeroyd also said they could prove an alibi ; * and Kitchin said he knew nothing at all about the transaction . The two cloth robberies were next gone into . Mr . Jackson identified four of the pieces of cloth found at Green ' s house , as part of that which had been stolen from his warehouse , and his testimony was confirmed by Mr . Thomas Gamble , of Furnley , the maker of the cloth . Other ; pieces were also identified as a part of what-had been stolen from Mr . Barker ' s warehouse , being sworn to by . Mr . Barker , and Mr . Hawksly his assistant ' ; ' Mr . Jas . Wade , a cloth dresser ,, and Mr . Hargreave , a cloth drawer in the employment of Mr . Wm . Avens , by whom the cloth had been finished .
Sergeant Goff , Who found part of the cloth at Greens house , stated tbat tbo prisoner said he had had it in his possession for six months . He also stated that in a drawer in one of the bedrooms of the house he found a letter bearing the Marsh-line , Leeds , post-marl *? and written by a person who signed •¦ Yours respectfully , Barney . ' ? This Barney Green said was a lodger of his , and that the portmanteau in which the cloth was found belonged to him . In the course of the proceedings Mr . Ferns applied to the bench to order part of the moneyfound
in Kay s house to he given up to him for the purpose of paying a quarter ' s ront oi his house , now due , of supporting his wife and two children while he was in prison , and of payingthe expenses of his defence . He thought , as he would have to remain some months in prison / forty pounds would be necessary . The Mayor _conferredswith the . justices , aud then said , that they . should order thirty pounds to be paid to him out ofthe gold in ; Mr . Read ' s possession . . Sergeant Kinnieb , of the Kennington police force , stated , that , on the 12 th' _irist ., he searched / the house of Green at Walworth . Green had then been
taken into custody ; but his wife was in the house at the time . He found , in one of the drawers in tho bedroom , four short lengths of woollen cloth , three black coats ) and nine _paira of _trowsers , w _' i _' c _' l Mrs . Green said belonged to a lodger , whom she called " Barney . " Witness said ,. he _knewi-Barney well , and had often seen him in London , in company with Green . He had also seen Kay and Green together frequently . At the close of the examination , on Saturday , the Mator said the evidence did not reach the prisoners Wooller and Petler ; and ,: therefore , they must be discharged .. As to the prisoner Kitchin , the evidence was also very slight , and' he would be discharged out of custody , on entering into his own recognizances in * the sum of £ 50 , to appear at any time when . called for . All the other prisoners ; Kay , Green , Sellers , Akeroyd , and Rhodes , he should remand for further examination .
Leeds , _Mondat .- —At . the Leeds : Court House , this dav , , Thomas Kay , William Green , Matthew Sellers , John Akeroyd , and William Rhodes were brought up for final examination . No'further' witnesses , beyond what were examined on Friday and Saturday last , wero palled . The prisoners said , nothing whatever in . answer to the charges made against them . Mr . Ferns , solicitor , applied to "the bench to order the large sum of money , the rings , watches , and other articles of value , found in the ; possession ofthe _nrisoner Kav . to be' _- elVen up to him , with the
exception of the prbpertv identified as having been stolen . The Mayor sa _' id : tbo magistrates would take the application into consideration , ' -and'he would mention their decision another day . All the five prisoners were then committed for trial at the next Yorkshire Assizes , Akeroyd and-Rhodes on the charge of having stolen the plate from ; Mr . Wood ' s house-at Chapel Allerton ; and - the"'bth ' ers with having feloniously'received , thb said plate ; and also a ' quantity ' ofolbth , stolon from the * warehouses of Mr . Jackson and Mi * . Barker , of Leeds . " '
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! _. _GoyiBNMKNT _.-r-The art of ruling has been a '' craft rather thanaseience _; for _^ thomostpartan- enormpus imposture rather than a substantial " or genuine reality . : Potentates have too often been monsters- or fools ihermirte aiid _scarlet ; ,. their _scepltres have heen ;; the ' wind of a juggler ; their , pioneers or viziers have proved selfish satellites , glorying more or less in the sable livery , of Satan ; - constitutional assemblies ! hare been cunningly contrived ' machineries- ; for fleecing and ' peeling an enlightened gaping public '; so that / through nearly the whole . of this . notableproce 8 s , verv little else has been necessary than felicity , of fortune , dexterity of hand , some personal courage , and much matchless impudence .. Yet it-has all won and worn the venerable and dignified appellation of government in the page of history . —Eclectic Review .
Thk Biter Bit . —Mr . Curran oiie day inquiring his master ' s , age from a horse-jockey ' s servant , found it almost impossible to extract an answer . *« Come , come , friend , has he not lost his teeth ?" "Do you think , " retprted the fellow , " , that I know his age as he does , his horses , by the mark of his mouth ! " The laugh ; , was against Curran , but he instantly recovered— "You were very right not to try r friend ,-for you know your master _^! a great bite ! " . •; : ' ¦ - " _-- _. '¦ : . ¦ •; : ¦ Baron \ _CtbxciJRRt and Blankets . —He _saya . the old gentleman was successful in the banking ' and woollen busines _8- _^ -read blnnketting . Soon after he became Lord he happened to witness some pantomime ' of "Don _Quixote , " in the Dublin . Theatre , and attracted notice by the stentorian peals of his laughter when Sancho was tossed in the blanket .
Next morning tho newspapers produced these rhymes : — •" " Cloncurry ! Cloncurry I " _i Why in such a hurry , To laugh at this comical squire _? Though he is toss'd high , : _rc-f You cannot deny v _.-, ' - ¦ That blankets have , toss'd yourself higher . " —QuarterlyReview . '¦" . 7 . 7 . ¦ , . ' ¦ : '; . _'¦¦ . " / - 'It , was : the' laudable ambition of Cotton Mather to say , '" He did not know of any person in the world who had done him any ill office , but he had done him a good one for _itl " . The true sign of a great poet , or of any great
author , is , hot that he is without faults , but that he makes you love his faults in spite of yourself . _; Thb spell of royalty has been broken ; None can feel themselves equal to the execution of a great design who have not Once witnessed with firmness and equanimity its failure . One of the most striking attributes of great genius is , that nobody can see or divine how it comes by its knowledge . A ' man used to books , and really well-read , can find out the pith of a book without reading ic through pge by page . He knows where the novelties will be , just as a good fisherman knows where the trout or salmon lie , and goes there , whilst a novice is splashing and thrashing where there never was a fish since the Creation . '¦ ,
Thekk is one department in which the female judgment isfar superior to that ofthe male , and that is in judging of [ _ordinarycharacter . They do this by an unfailing instinct or intuition ; and tbat Providence should so privilege them is easily to ; be accounted for . They especially need this safeguard . It is . therefore , a mairfm with me always to take the female opinion of character , when given without passion or pique . THE PEASANT ' S EPITAPH . Hard by lieth Timothy Clow ; _, ' Confirmed was his fontal vow I Alway to his " pastors , " and eke to his " masters , " Through life he made , " duly , " his bow . At ten , with plough and with wain , He worked on the shelterless plain , 'Mid rain and sleet , till his hands and feet , Were covered with boil and blain !
At twenty , Love ' s pleasing smart Throbbed keen through his simple heart , So he married—and , then , -went whistling again . O ' er the hill , with his humdrum cart . At thirty , when sorely rack'd With rheum , and his children lack'd Both raiment and food , his " pastor" so good , For charity , gave him—* tract ! At forty—lo ! dull decay , Came on , and his locks grew grey ; So his " master , " at length , in whose service his strenth
He had wasted—turned 7 dm away ! At fifty , when sorrow gave ' To Death the poor worn-out slave , For his worth they allowed him—a Bastile shroud ! For his bones—a parish grave ! Cooper ' s Journal . ¦ ¦ "William Jones , . Cause of National Misery . —If men consider the happiness of others , or their own ; in fewer words , if they wero wise , ho state would lie depopulated , no city pillaged , not a village would be laid
in ashes , not aifarm deserted . But there always havo been , and always will be , men about the despot , who persuade him that terror is better than esteem ; that no one knows whether he is re . verenced or not , but that he who is dreaded has indubitable proofs of it , and is regarded by mortals as a god . By pampering this foible in tho prince , they are permitted to come closer and closer to him , and from the indulgence of his corrupted humours they derive their wealth and influence—W . T . Landor .
Tithes . —An artful rector said once to a man who occupied his own land— ¦• Iu my opinion , farmer / were you to remove the stones from this ground , drain it , dung it well , and thoroughly plough it , you mi g ht raise much better crops . " " True , sir , " said the farmer , " you are quite right ; and if you will take this ground off me , and do all you recommend , I'll ask no rent—I shall be satisfied if you will give me the tithes . "—Truster ' s Memoirs ,- ¦ : ¦ ¦ _.-. Rich and Poor . —The rich must be convinced that ! while they live sumptuously , and while the poor are fed with a few of the scanty crumbs which
fall from their table , they act quite contrary to the tenor of that gospel which- they say they believe . It is not in nature or reason to say that one man should destroy twenty-thousand a year , and another should be left without the common necessaries of life . No ; every creature which nature has formed with a mouth and digestive powers , has an equal right to participate of her blessings . — Candid Philosopher , What is the best definition ofa " mean man ?"A maii who values everything higher than he does his own honour and character , which he values _atnothing , '•
The Marriage Ring is placed on the left hand because it is much less used than the right , arid therefore the ring was leas liable to he bruised or broken . Forthe same reason , the fourth finger was chosen , which is not only less used than either of the re & t , but is more capable of preserving / a ring from bruises ; having this one quality peculiar to itself , that it cannot be extended but in company with some other finger , whereas the rest may be singly stretched out to the full length and straight-¦¦ ¦
_ness . •• -- Causes of War . —It is apparent , that lust of power , and the senseless quarrels of princes , are generally the causes of war , and ofthe devastations arid slaughter of their ' subjects attending them . About a hundred years ago , the King of Pegu made war against the King of Siam , with an army of above one million of foot , two hundred thousand horse , five thousand elephants , three thousand camels , Ac . The cause of this war was to take two white elephants from the King of Siam ; and to do
the like from the King ot Pegu , the Kings , ot Arrican and Tonga waged war with him . Solomon ' s Seal . —There is a plant in old-fashioned gardens , of which the vulgar name is " Solomon ' s Seal , " its virtue is , that a leaf of it applied to a " black eye" takes away the discolouration sooner than any other " recipe . " How it got the name of "Solomon ' s Seal , " Heaven knows . But as " Solomon ' s Seal' was potent in curing the outbreaks of . " malignant spirits , " or outrageous genii , it does not sort so ill .
: Good _i-amu is like fire . When you have kindled it , you may easily preserve it ; but if you once extinguish it , you will not easily kindle it again ; at least not make it burn as brightly as it did . r-Plutarch . ' Birds , when in contact with man , soon understand their mutual relations wonderfully well , That they soon arrive at a knowledge of a gun and its perilous qualities is generally admitted . . But lam sure tbey go beyond this . In many situations I am convinced wild birds _ithoui Sunday , _. _andTeel secure that they will not be shot at nor disturbed on that day . It was only after long observation I admitted the ' possibility of this ; but I could ; not . resist the constant evidence of my own eyes . This remark maybe only , perhaps , true of the north of . England , where Sunday is kept like a fast day , and whore
even angling or a game at football — which in the south are thought nothing of — are * accounted a n outrage on public decorum . " ¦ TnR Hindoo Religion . — The Hindoo religion probably spread over tho whole earth . There are signs of it in every northern country , and in almost every system of worship . In England itis obvious ; Stonehenge is evidently ono of the temples bt Boodh , and the arithmetic , astronomy , astrology the holidays , games , names of the stars and figures of the constellations ; the ancient monuments , law ? , and coins ; the language ' s . of the different nations , bear thestrongest marks of the same original . The Brahmins of the sect of Brahma were thei truo _a-urhorsof the' Ptolemaic system ; the BoodhistF , followers' of BuUha ' , ' the -authors ofthe Copernican system ; * as' : well as ' of the ; 'doctrine of attraction ; anil probably the established religion of the . . GreeK § , and the _EleiiBinian mysteries , . were only . vanet . es ot the two different _secta _.-Forbes' OrientalMemoir . _* .
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