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October 26 , 1850 . THE NORTHERN STAR . I I " ' i _^ _^ _^
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THE POOR MAN TO HIS SON . Wort , work , my boy , be not afraid , Look labour boldly in the face ; Take np tbe hammer or the spade , And blush not for yonr humble place ** Earth was first conquered by . tbe power Of dailv sweat and peasant toil , •_ . ,
And where would kings hayefowi d theirau _«~ , If poor men bad not trod the soil * Hold ud your brow in honest pride , Sncb hinds are _sap-ve ins that provide The life-blood of the _Nation s tree . There ' s honour in the _toilingpart , That finds us in _the-furrowed fields ; Ifc stamps a crest upon the heart "Worth more than all your quartered shields .
There s glory in the shnttle ' s song—There s triumph in the anvil ' s stroke ; There ' s merit in the brave and strong , ¦ Who dig the mine or fell the oak . "Work , work , my boy , and mmrnrar not , The fustian garb betrays no shame ; The g rim of forge-soot leaves no blot , And labour gilds the meanest name . There s duty for all things , ray son , "Who act their earthly part aright ; Tbe spider ' s home threads must be spun—The bee sucks on 'twixt flowers and light The hungry bird his food must seek—The ant mast pile his winter fare ; The worm drops not into the beak , The store is onl y gained by care .
The wind disturbs the sleeping lake , And bids it ripple pure and fresh ; It moves the green boughs till they make Grand music in their leaf y mesh * . And so tbe active breath of life - Should stir our dull and sluggard wills , For are we not created rife . . .. * "With health that stagnant torpor kills ? I doubt if he who lolls his head "Where Idleness and Plenty meet , Enjoys his pillow or his bread , As those who earn the meals they eat . And man is never half so blest As when tbe busy day is spent , So as to make his evening rest A holiday of g lad content .
God grant thee but a due reward , A guerdon portion fair and just , And then ne ' er think thy station hard , But work , my boy , work , hope , and trnst ! Eliza Cook .
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Hoy ally and Republicanism in Italy ; or Notes and _documents relating to ihe Lombard Insurrection , and the Royal War of 1818 . By Joseph Mazzixi ! London : Charles Gilpin . TflEBE is a power of reasoning in Mazzini , an unsullied moral purity , a chivalrous veracity and frankness , an utter abnegation of self , and a courage that has stood tiie _sererest trials , whicli command not only respect , but ¦ veneration . He belongs to the martyr age of Italian liberalism , and possesses himself the highest qualities of the martyr .
His declared object in publishing the small Tolume before us is , to correct public opinion in England as to tne Italian movement , in which , he took part . But it is a statement of principles rather than a narrative of details . It is always dignified in tone , often singularly eloquent , and substantially it contains a little which would he likely to draw forth an expression of willing disagreement from any welledueated , high-minded , liberal Englishman . M . Mazzini thus declares his reasons
WHriHEGOVERSSIEXTOFITALTSHODIJ ) BE _BEPDBUCAX . The Italian tradition is eminently republican . In England , the aristocratic element has a powerful influence , because it has a history ; well or ill , it has organised society ; it has created a power , snatched from royaltv , by conquering guarantees for the rights of the snbject ; it bas founded in part the wealth and ths influence of England abroad . The monarchial element has still great influence over the tendencies of France , because it also claims an important page in the national history ; it has produced a Chariemange _, a Lonis XL , a Napoleon ; it has contributed to fonnd the nnitv of France ; it has shared with the
communes the risks and the honours of the struggle against feudalism ; it has surrounded the national j banner with a halo of military glory . What is the his- j tory of the monarchy and of the aristocracy of Italy ? What prominent part have they played in the national development ? "What vital element have they supplied to Italian strength , or to the unification of the future existence of Italy ? The history of our royalty , in fact , commences with the dominion of Charles V ., with the downfall of our last liberties —it js identified with servitude and dismemberment —it is written on a foreign page , in the cabinet 3 of France , of Austria , and of Spain . Nearly all of them the _igsue of foreign families , viceroys of one or other ofthe great powers , onr kings do not offer the
example of a single individual redeeming by brilliant personal qualities the vice of subalternity , to which his position condemned him—not a single one who has-ever evinced any grand national aspiration . Around them in the obscurity of their courts , gather idle or retrogade courtiers , men who call themselves nolle , bnt who have never been able to constitute an aristocracy . An aristocracy is a compact independent body , representing in itself an idea , and from one extremity ofthe country to another , governed , more or less , by one and the same inspiration . Our nobles have lived upon the crumbs of royal favour , and if , on some rare occasions , they have ventured to place themselves in opposition to the monarch , it has not been in the cause of the nation , but of the foreigner ,
or of clerical absolution . The nobility can never be regarded as an historical element : it has furnished some fortunate Condotieri , powerful even to tyranny , in some isolated town ; it has knelt at the feet of the foreign emperors who have passed the Alps , or crossed the sea . The orig inal stock being nearly everywhere extinct ; the races have become degenerated amidst corruption and ignorance . The descendants of our noble families at Genoa , at Naples , at Venice , arid at Rome , are , for the most part specimens of absolute i ntellectual nullity . _Almosteverything that has worked its difficult way in art , ia literature , or in political activity , is plebian .
In Italy the initiative of progress has always belonged to the people—to the democratic element . It is through her communes that she has acquired all she has ever had of liberty . Through her workmeo in wool or silk , through her merchants of Genoa , Florence , Yenice _, and Pisa , that she has acquired her wealth ; through her artists , plebian and republican , from Giotto to Michael Angelo , thatshe has acquired her renown ; through her navigators—plebian—that she has given a world to her humanity ; through her Popes—sons ofthe people , even they—that until the twelfth century _shs aided in the emancipation of the weak , and sent forth a word of unity to humanity . All her memories of insurrection againsttheforeigner are memories of the people : all that has made the
greatness of our towns , dates _almostalwaysfromarepublican epoch : the educational book , the only book read by the inhabitants of the Airs , or the _Transteverin _, who can read , i 3 an abridgment ofthe Ancient Koman Republic . This is the reason why the same men who have so long been accused of coldness _^ and had , in fact witnessed , with indifference , the aristocratic and royal revolutions of 1820 and 1821 , arose with enthusiasm , and with a true power of sell sacrifice , at the crv of St . Mark and the Republic ! God and the People ! These words contained for them a guarantee . They awoke in them , even unconsciously to themselves , t ' se all-powerful echo of a living past , a confused recollection of glory , of strength , of conscience , and of dignity .
"With such elements , how would it be possible to fonnd a monarchy , surrounded with an aristocracy ? How can one speak of a balance of powers , where there are but two forces-foreign , absolutism , and the people ? How could one organise a constitutional monarchy where the aristocracy is withont a past , and where royalty inspires neither affection nor respect ? M . Mazzini repeatedl y declares that the republican—or , as he calls it , the nationalparty are not responsible for the disunion _vhieh , at a time when the whole nation was armed against the foreigners , and might have driven
them from the country , turnedits forces against its own citizens . He g ives proof that his own advice was for union till the day of ¦ vi ctory , and not till then for discussion as to what party shonld reap its fruits . Whether to monarch , or to people , he affirms that he was ready to submit : he asserts repeatedly that it was only after having been betrayed that the national party set np for themselves ' and . he expresses his belief that even now when a nnion of princes has been seen to be impossible , the leadershi p of a single prince jouldbe accepted by all , supposing snch a _describe _^ ° ' He thus
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IHE REPUBLICAN PARTT A 5 D THEIE DETRACTORS . They have said , and they say again , without taking advantage ofthe favourable position in which events have p laced them : —Let the nation arise ; let her make herself mistress of her own territory ; then , the victory once gained , let her freel y decide who shall reap the fruits" Monarch or people , we will submit ourselves to the power she herself shall organise . Is it possible that so moderate and rational a proposition should he the object of such false interpretations , in a country which reveres the idea of right and of self-government ? Is it possible that its leaders should be the object of so much calumny ? _> ni , nmninTPIS P 1 HTT A _\ TI _THEn mmn i nn ...
It is time that these calumnies should cease . It matters little to us , who act as onr conscience dictates , without troubling ourselves as to the personal result ; and to whom faith and exile have given the habit of looking higher than the praise or blame of this earth . But it should be recognised as most important , by all who believe that political questions agitated by whole nations , are questions eminently religious . For religion , to all those who see more in it than the mere materialism of forms and formula ; , is not only a thought of Heaven , but the impulse wliich seeks to apply that thought , as far as possible to government on earth , our rule of action for the good of all , and for the' moral development of humanity . Politics then are like religion—sacred ; and all good men are bound to see them morally respected . Every question has a right to serious , calm , and honest discussion . Calumny should be the weapon of those only who have to defend not ideas , but
crimes . It is immoral to say to men who have preached clemency throughout the whole of their political career , who have initiated their rule by the abolition of capital punishment , who , when in power , never signed a single sentence of exile against those who had persecuted them , nor even against the known enemies of their principles : — " You are the sanguinary organisers of terror , men of vengeance and of cruelty . " It is immoral to ascribe to them views which they never bad , and to choose to forget that they have , through the medium ofthe Press here and elsewhere , attacked and refuted those communistic systems and exclusive solutions which tend to ' suppress rather than to transform the elements of society , and to say to them , " You are Communists , you
desire to abolish property . It is immoral to accuse of irreligion and impiety , men who have devoted their whole lives to the endeavour to reconcile the religious idea , betrayed and disinherited by the very men who pretend to be its official defenders , with the national movement . It is immoral to insinuate accusations of personal interest and of pillage , against men who have serenly endured the sufferings of poverty , and whose life—accessible to all—has never betrayed either cupidity or the desire of luxury . It is immoral continually to proclaim—as the act of a whole party—the death of a statesman 'killed by _^ an unknown hand , nnder the influence of the irritation produced by his own acts , and by the attacks of another political party , many months before the Republican party recommenced its activity in Italy .
M . Mazzini charges no direct treachery against Carlo Alberto . He declares him to have been himself the victim of the weakness whicb . caused others as well as himself so much loss and misery . For the impossible political project of a Kingdom of the North he was content to surrender the grand . reality of a "Dnited People -wMcli fate had p laced -within his hands .
CHABLES ALBERT . Genius , love , " and faith were wanting in Charles Albert . Ofthe first , which reveals itself by a life entirely , logically , and resolutely devoted to a great idea , the career of Charles Albert does not offer the least trace ; the second was stifled in him by the continual mistrust of men and things , which was awakened by the remembrance ofan unhappy past ; the lastwas denied him by his uncertain character , wavering always between good and evil , between to do and not to do , between daring and not daring . In his youth , a thonght _. not of virtue , but of Italian ambition—the ambition , however , which may be profitable to nations—had passed through his soul like lightning ; but he recoiled in affright , and the rememhrance of this one brilliant moment of his
youth presented itself hourly to him , and tortured him like the incessant throbbing of an old wound , instead of acting upon Mm as an excitement to a new life . Between the risk of losing , if he failed , the crown of bis little kingdom , and tbe fear ofthe liberty which the people , after having fought for him , would claim for themselves , he went hesitating on , with this spectre before his eyes , stumbling at every step , without energy to confront these dangers , withont the will or power to comprehend that to become Kins of Italy , he must first of all forget
that he was King of Piedmont . Despotic from rooted instinct , liberal from self-love , and from a presentiment of the future , he submitted alternately to the government of Jesuits , and to that of men of progress . A fatal disunion between thought and action , between conception and the faculty of execution , showed itself in every act . Most of those who endeavoured to p lace him at the head of the enterprise , were forced to agree to this view of his character . Some of thoso intimate with him went so far as to whisper that he was threatened with lunacy . He was the Hamlet of Monarchy .
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_1 A 1 _IABTISE S VIEWS OF _ITAUAS 1 _XDEPESDESCE . The war between the two principles was general in Europe—the enthusiasm excited by the movements in Italy , especially the Lombard insurrection and the prodig ies of the five days , was immense ; and Italy could , had she willed it and known how , have drawn thence sufficient force to counterbalance all the strength of hostile reaction . But to do this , it was necessary , whatever the mean policy of the Moderates might fear , to give to the movement a character so audaciously national as to alarm our
enemies , and to offer the most powerful element of support to our friends . Both felt the time was ripe , and began to believe that Italy would be but Italy , and not the Kingdom , of die North . I remember the consoling words Lamartine addressed to me , at his house on the eve of my departure for Italy , and in presence , amongst others , of Alfred de Tigny , and of the same Forbin Janson whom I was afterwards to meet preaching the papal restoration , and getting up various petty conspiracies and ridiculous intrigues at Rome . . .
** The hour has struck for you , " said the minister , " and I am so firml y convinced of it , that the first words with which I have charged Monsieur _d'Harcourt for the Pope are these ; Holy Father , you know that vok ought io le Vie President of the Italian Republic . " But Monsieur _d'Harcourt had quite other things to say to the Pope ' , on the part of that faction which involved Lamartine in its snares whilst he imagined that he could control it . For myself I attached no importance , except as a symptom , to
these words of Lamartine , a man of impulse and of noble-instincts , but unstable in belief , without energy lor a fixed purpose , and without real knowledge of men and things . He was indeed the echo of a tendency all powerful , in those moments of excitement , npon the French mind ; and every reawakening nationality , every political programme , which , if not absolutely republican , was like that , at least , ofthe Italian constituent , would have compelled tlie support ofthe most hesitating government in France .
From great things great things are born . The dwarfish conception of the Moderates froze up all souls , and imposed an utter change of polities upon France . The Itaua _**? P £ OM . e was an ally more than sufficiently powerful to preserve the Republic from all danger of a foreign war ; a Kingdom of the North , in the hands of princes little to be relied upon , and hostile , by long tradition , to the Republicans of France , did but add a dangerous element to the league of kings . The French nation became silent , and left its government free to exist without any foreign policy , and to leave the destinies of the republic to the impenetrable future . The incidents described in most detail are
those immediately preceding and following the fatal surrender of Milan ; and it is impossible not to be struck b y the contrast of the- Iloyal and the Republican party . But passing this ignominious period , there ought to he small difference of opinion in a free and educated country as to where the right , lay in the subsequent Roman struggle . What sensible or honest Protestant would not sympathise with the indignant eloquence of this earnest Italian protesting . against the flimsy oratory of a Jesuit Frenchman ?
mazzini to moxtaiembebt . Tou base your argument upon the void ; you discuss that which was , not that which is . Tho Papacy is dead , choked in blood and mire ; dead , because it has betrayed its own mission of protection to the weak against the oppressor . dead , because for three centuries and a half it has _prostuuted itself with princes ; dead , because in the name of ecrotism and before the palaces of all tho _^ corrupt , hvpocritical , and sceptical governments , it has for ? he secondtime crucified Chr _« fc ' _^ _A *™!* has uttered words of faith which it , did _** _&& believe : dead , because it has denied human liberty soulsdeadbe
and the dignity of our immortal , - , - cause it hai condemned science in Galileo , philosophy in Giordano Bruno , relig ious _aspn-ationm Jonn Huss and Jerome of Prague , political life by an anathema against the rig hts of the people , civil lire by Jesuitism ; the terrors of the Inquisition , and the example of _corruption , the life ofthe family by confession converted into a system of espionage , and by division introduced between father and son , brother and brother , husband and wife ; dead , for the princes , by the treaty of Westphalia ; dead , for the peoples , with Gregory XI ., in 1378 , and with the commencement of the schism ; dead , for Italy , since 1530 , when Clement VII . and Charles Y „ the
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Pope and the Emperor , signed an infamous compact , and extinguished , at Florence , the dying liberties , as to-day you have attempted to ( extinguish her rising liberties in Borne ; dead , because the people has risen , because Pius IX . has fled , becauso the multitude curses him , because those very men who for fifteen years have made war upon tho priests , in the name of Toltaire , now hypocritically defend them , bucause you and yours defend them , with intolerance and h y force of arms and declare that the Papacy and liberty cannot live side by side ? Tou ask Victor Hugo to point out to you an idea which has been worshi pped for eighteen cen-Tl _ J it _ ti . . 77
turies . It is that idea which you have declared irreconcilable with the Papacy , and which was breathed into humanity by God ; the idea which has withdrawn from Catholicism the half of the Christian world—the idea which has snatched from you Lammcnais and tho flower of the intellects of Europe—the idea of Christ—that pure , hply , and sacred liberty which you invoked for Poland some years back , which Italy invokes for herself to-day , under the form , and with the guarantee of nationality , and which you cannot pretend to be good for one country and bad for another , unless you believe it a part of religion to create a pariah people in the bosom , of humanity .
Very admirably and nobly written are M . Mazzini's later remarks , on the Republican and anti-papal administratian of Rome , and the coldness it met with in England and elsewhere . It is hard for a people to struggle , suffer , and bleed alone , yet hold themselves in this temperate attitude . It is not generous , as M . Mazzini too truly complains , in a nation having the enjoyment and the consciousness of liberty herself , to wait until the hour of victory has sounded for another nation before she stretches out a sister ' s hand towards her , WHAT IDE REPUBLICANS DID AND ENGLAND MIGHT _UAVE DONE .
I affirm tbat with the exception of Ancona , where the triumvirate were obliged energetically to repress certain criminal acts' political vengeance , the republican cause was never sullied by the slightest excess ; that no censorship was assumed over the press before the siege , and that no occasion arose for exercising it during the siege . Not a single condemnation to death or exile bore witness to a severity which it would have been our right to have exercised , but which the perfect unanimity which reigned amongst all the elements of tho state rendered useless . I affirm that , except in tbe case of three or four priests , who had been guilty of firing upon our combatants , and who were killed by the people during the last days of the siege , not a single act of personal violence wa 3 committed b y any fraction of the population against another , and that if ever there was a city presenting the spectacle ofa band of brothers pursuing a common end ,
and bound together by the same faith , it was Rome under the republican rule . The city was inhabited by foreigners from all parts of the world , by the consular agents , by many of your countrymen ; let any one of them arise , and under the guarantee of his own signature , deny , if he can , the truth of what I say . Terror now reigns in llome ; the prisons are choked with men who have been arrested and detained without trial ; fifty priests are confined in the castle of St . Angelo , whose only crime consists in their having lent their services in our hospitals ; the citizens , the best known for their moderation , are exiled ; the army is almost entirely dissolved , the city disarmed , and the " factious " sent away even to the last man ; and yet France dares not consult in a legal manner the will of tho populations , but re-establishes the papal authority by military decree . I do not believe that since the dismemberment of Poland there has been committed
a more atrocious injustice , a more gross violation of the eternal right wliich God has implanted in the peoples , that of appreciating and defining for themselves their own life , and governing themselves in accordance with their own appreciation of it . And I cannot believe that it is well for you or for Europe that such things can be accomplished in the eyes of the world , without one nation arising out of its immobility to protest in the name of universal justice . This is to enthrone brute force , where , by the power of reason God alone should reign ; it is to substitute the sword and poniard for law—to decree a ferocious war without limit of timo or means between oppressors rendered suspicious by their fears , and the oppressed abandoned to the instincts of reaction and isolation . Let Europe ponder upon these things . For if the light of human morality becomes but a little more obscured , in that darkness there will arise a strife that will make those who come after us shudder with dread .
The balance of power in Europe is destroyed . It consisted formerly in the support given to the smaller states by the great powers ; now they are abandoned . France in Italy , Russia in Hungary , Prussia in Germany , a little later perhaps in Switzerland ; these are now the masters of the continent . England is thus made a nullity the celsa sedet Eolus in arcc , " which Canning deli ghted to quote , to express the moderating function which he wished to reserve for his country , is now a meaningless phrase . Let not your preachers of the theory of material interests , your speculators upon extended markets deceive themselves ; there is history to teach them that political influence and commercial influence are closely bound together .
Political sympathies hold the key of the markets ; the tariff of the Roman Republic will appear to you , if you study it , to be a declaration of sympathy towards England to which your government did not think it necessary to respond . And yet , above the question of right , above the question of political interest , both of which were of a nature to excite early the attention of England , there is , as I have said , another question being agitated at Rome of a very different kind of importance , and which ought to have aroused all those who believe in the vital principle of reli gious reformationit is that of liberty of conscience . Tlio reli gious question which broods at the root of all political questions showed itself there great and visible in all
its European importance . The Pope at Gaeta was the theory of absolute infallible authority exiled from Rome for ever ; and exiled from Rome was to bo exiled from the world . The abolition of the temporal power evidently drew with it , in the minds of all those who understood the secret of the papal authority , tbe emancipation of men s minds from the spiritual authority . The principle ' of liberty and of free consent , elevated by the Constituent Assembly into a living active right , tended rapidly to destroy the absolutist dogma which from Rome aim 3 more than ever to enchain tbe universe . The high aristocracy of the Roman Catholic clergy well know the impossibility of retaining the soul in darkness , in the midst of light inundating the
intelligences of men ; for this reason they carried off their Pope to Gaeta ; for this reason they now refuse all compromise . They know that any compromise would be fatal to them ; that they must re-enter as conquerors , or not at all . And in the same way that the aristocracy of the clergy felt this inseparability ofthe two powers , the French government in its present reactionary march , has felt that the keystone of despotism is at Rome—that the ruin of the spiritual authority of the middle ages would bo the ruin ofits own projects—and that the only method of securing to it a few more years of existence was to rebuild for it a temporal domination . England has understood nothing of this . She has not understood what there was of sublime and
prophetic in this Cry of emancipation , in this protestation in favour of human liberty , issuing from the very heart of ancient Rome , in the face of tho Vatican . She has not felt that the strugglo in Rome was to cut the Gordian knot of m oral servitude against which she has long and vainly opposed her Bible Societies , her Christian and Evangelical Alliances ; and that there was being opened , had she but extended a sisterly hand to the movement , a mighty pathway for the human mind . She has not understood that one bold word , " respect for the liberty of thought , " opposed to the hypocritical language of the French government , would have been sufficient to have inaugurated the era ofa new religious policy , and to have conquered for herself a decisive ascendancy upon the continent .
The writer of such passages as these may nevertheless he of good heart , Like Knox and Wickliffe , Huss and Luther , M . Mazzini is no maker of ephemeral arrangements and compromises ; hut , like them , lie is the uncompromising asserter of principles , and the creator of a national sentiment , that will in time give law to the makers of such arrangements . Looking to the yet weak and timid condition of public opinion in Raly—looking to the narrow provincial views which still hamper general society—above all , looking to the limited power of its princes and prelates , and to the imbecile and demoralised characters of
its Pio Nonos and Antonellis , there is no hope of any immediatepolitical settlement , theattainrnent of which need make it worth while for M . Mazzini to compromise or abandon for a moment his most extreme political opinions Nothing is to he accomplished at present ; and he is therefore more usefull y employed in rallying his party by fervent reiteration of his p rinciples , and in forming a pure and elevated public sentiment alike hy his precepts and his example , as one of those iron men who are able to beard tyranny and profligacy even while they stand alone , the apostles of reformation , the originators and heralds of after change . -
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; SADLE R'S WELLS THEATRE . . tW _- < lfJfi f _' / " Measure has been revived Isabe 1 _^ h , _V Mi 8 S G 1 yn - in the _characto _«* _™« _£ » 7 ! r . i _* opportunity of displaying her S 3 toth [ f 8 t T and impressive _Nation , 22 , hV * Tsts of grfef whtonv interrupt the _ITlill _v . de P ° rtn _* ent of the stately maiden aie _^ given with great force . . Mr . Marston , as the _Knn-A _! I veryurbane and sensible interpreta-3 . J *? , L , f _cha _^ cter , which contrasts well with the rugged Angeloplayed by Mr . George Bennett . 1 _™^ -JT nge an effective Dogberry , is well ? _ft ° f _?^ _^ part of _Elbow » _» weaker edition of the same character , and Mr . F . Younge exhibits much quiet humour as the Clown . The afterpieces at baoler s Wells seldom form a main feature in an evening s entertainment , but a new _vetite comedv .
07 'ft ' 7 * biu' } m 2 > entitled the Teacher Taught , is worthy of mention . A staid youth with a dissipated father proposes to reform the latter by marrying _£ ! to * y <» "ig lady , while ho consents to take to himself the young lady ' s aunt as a means of assisting the match . In the progress of the scheme the young man falls in love with the juvenile , and is converted from pedantry to animation , and the elderly maiden is consigned to the parent . The delineation of a classical scholar is not very accurate , inasmuch as the youth is made to talk of Socrates as an " ancient father" hut tha _mMtmo .
13 pleasantly conducted , and the piece has the advantage of very livel y and spirited acting . Mr . Hoskins , who plays the young pedant , is one of the most useful performers of the establishment . Here his quiet assumption of gravity is highly ludicrous , but generally his line is the rapid and eccentric , to which he always gives effect by his unceasing flow of spirits . As a Shakspearian fop he is also valuable , and of his talent in this way his Lucio in Measure for Measure is a good specimen .
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Mr . George Barker has commenced his second lecture ori tho subject of " Tho Ballad Music of Great . Britain . " The subject is troated by tho lecturer in " a popular and agreeable manner , and gives an outline ofthe many advantages to be obtained by the cultivation of this charming science to all classes of society , and being the most rational way of spending the leisure hours . Tho illustrations given in the course of his lecture were well selected and highly appropriate , and was received at tho termination of his labours by the unanimous applause of his audience . Among tho ballads which appeared to attract greatest attention we noticed the following— "Friends of my Youth , " "The Rose of Cashmere , " " Wreck of tho Emigrant Ship , " & c .
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PARLIAMENT AR Y R EFO RM MEE T ING A T THE LONDON TAVERN . National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association Rooms , " 11 , Poultry . Sir , —My attention has bsen called to a leading article in the Northern Star of this day's date , in which the writer , whilst commenting on the meeting on Monday last , at the London Tavern , makes the following statement : — "The Chairman , so far from rebuking _euch unmanl y interruption , took part with those who gave it . " If , by this , it is meant to insinuate that I took any part in the interruption , I beg to say the statement is totally untrue . I am , sir , your obedient servant , To the Editor of the Northern Joshua Walmslev . Star , Oct . 19 th . [ Tho meaning of the passage which has drawn forth this note is perfectly clear , It is not stated that
Sir Joshua Walmsley took part in the interruption , but that , so far from rebukingthe interruptors , and as chairman , exerting himself to procure a fair and uninterrupted hearing for Mr . O'Connor , he "took part tvith those who gave it . " We refer to the report of the Daily News for proof of that fact . At the conclusion of Mr . O'Connor ' s speech , Sir Joshua rose and , in a very warm manner , expressed his disapproval of the views of that gentleman . If this was not taking part with the interruptors , we do not know tho meaning of words . At all events , we beg to assure Sir Joshua that we faithfully expressed the conviction made upon our own mind at the timo of the occurrence , " and , as journalists , "Nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice . "—Ed . N . S . ]
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SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS . The adjourned quarter sessions for the county of Surrey commenced , on Monday at the Court House , Newington Causeway , before Thomas Puokle , Esq ., and a full bench of magistrates . The calendar contained tho names of forty-eight prisoners . Robbery . —James Stroud , 23 , was indicted for stealing , at Bermondsey , a watch , a pair of stockings , aiid other property , belonging to William Farning . —The prosecutor , a young man in tho employ of a butcher at Bermondsey , said that the prisoner was also in the same service prior to the 17 th of September , aud slept in the same room with him , On that day he absconded , when witness found that his box had been broken open , and that his watch and other articles had been stolen . —Mary Pearch , a
lodgingrhouse keeper in the City-road , said the prisoner formerly lodged at her house , and on the nig ht of the 17 th ult . he came to her and handed her an old-faBhioned silver watch to take care of . He slept there that night , and on the following morning he went away , but returned shortly afterwards for the watch . A few days . after- that she received information of the robbery , and as soon as the prisoner came to her again she sent for a policeman and gave him into custody . Witness produced a pair of stockings which he left with her , and which the prosecutor identified . —In defence , the prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery , and said what the female stated was false . —Tho JU 17 found him Guilty , and the Court sentenced him to six months' imprisonment with hard labour .
Two Old Offenders . —W . Bramley , 16 , and T . Mitcham , 16 , were indicted for stealing 159 yards ol cotton print from the shop door of Mr . Henry Hayman , a linendraper , at Clapham , his property . — Alfred Spier , a constable of the V division , deposed that on the evening of the Gth inst . be saw the prisoners in the _Wandsworth-road , and , knowing thorn to be old thieves , he followed them to Clapham , where he saw . Bramley approach the prosecutor ' s door , when he snatched the piece of print from tho door way , and joined the other prisoner , who took ifc from him . ' They both ran away , but witness pursued them , and after a smart chase secured them . —Prosecutor identified the printed cotton as his property . —The jury found them Guilty . Sentence three months each at Brixton , and to be privately whipped .
Railway Robberies . —George Rees , a carman in the emp loy of Mr . Henry Smithers , town carman , was indicted for stealing twenty eggs , tho property ofthe Brig hton and South Coast Railway Company . The jury returned a verdict of Guilty , but strongly recommended him to mercy on account of his previous good character . —The Chairman ordered him to bo confined in the county gaol twenty one days , with solitary confinement . William Humphreys , 22 , and George Butler , 31 , were indicted for stealing a purse containing five shillings and sixpence from the person of Frances Greenwood , in the booking-office of thc London and South Western Railway Station , in the Waterlooroad . —The Chairman said that such robberies had
become very frequent , and some example must be made to put a stop to them at railway stations . He should sentence Humphreys to nine months hard labour nt Brixton , and Butler to six months at Guildford ; and should they be ever convicted before him again , he should certainly transport them .
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Snip on Fire at Malta . — "We regret to state that early on the morning of tho 8 th of October the fine new barque Secundus , belonging to tho " Societa di Navigazione Maltese , " was discovered to be on fire in Valletta Harbour , Malta , Wc observe by the official statement of the secretary to the company , Mr . Luigi P . Vella , that the vessel was read y to leave for Constantinople , when on the morning of the above day the persons in charge on board wero alarmed by the appearance of smoke , and on calling for help it was promptly rendered by Captain Olivari , and the crew of the Sardinian schooner Zenobia . The officers and seamen of the French steamer Sesostris arrived soon after , with fire engines and buckets , followed by Lieut . Harvey and a party of
seamen from her Majesty ' s ship Ceylon . Mr . Napier , the master-attendant of Malta Dockyard , also came with an engine . Water by these means was introduced into the vessel , hut finding that , after two hours of continual exertion , the fire could not be effectually overcome , it was determined upon to take the vessel into shallow water , and bore her , which was soon done by a great number of boats , towing her to a proper place . The vessel was then bored in several parts , and the fire extinguished by the water let in ; The damage is spoken of as not being of much consequence , and that the repairs were already begun , which it was hoped would be finished in ten days . Much praise and many thanks are due to tho parties who rendered their assistance on this disastrous occasion , among whom the names
of Mr . Gacace and Mr . G . Darmanin , and tho shipbuilders , German and Mirabitur , ought not to be omitted , since they , by their advice and co-operation , contributed materially to tho saving of the barque Secundus . Rear-Admiral Harvey was alongside the vessel , and _staying some hours watching all the operations . Various aro the surmises as to the cause of the fire . The cargo was partly composed of Malta flag-stones , but some iron bedsteads have been consumed by the burning of the straw in whioh they were bound , besides the destruction of several sofas and chairs . The vessel was not insured , but we hear the cargo was , to a limited extent , at Mai a . The number of attorneys and solicitors at present in London , WeBtminBter , and Southwark , and their enYirons , ifl 3 , 209 only ,
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An Evergreen—a man who does not learn by experience . A dandv is a chap that would be a lady if he could ; but as ho " can t does all'he can to show the world that he is not a man . Be not affronted at a jest . If one throw salt at thee thou wilt receive no harm , unless thou hast sore places . What is it that most bothers a cabinet maker ? —Putting a leg to the multiplication table ; What kind of essence does a young man like when he pops the question _?—Acqui-escence . A BESTOBATivK . « -The ladies who faint on being " proposed to , " can be restored to consciousness by just whispering in their ears that you were only joking . A Yankee editor says he ' like to died a larfin ' to see a drinkin' chap tryin' to pocket the shadow of a swineine sign for a pocket handkerchief . "
Church Flunketism , and Patronage . —Seven hundred pounds a-year are paid to tho vice-chancellor ' s mace-bearer , and £ 40 to the Greek professor at Oxford . Sistem . _*— " What is system ? " asked a young lady of a man of letters . " It is , " replied the scholar , " a faggot of ideas , well arranged , and neatly bound together . " Law , like a razor , requires a " strong back , " keenness , and an excellent temper . —N . B . Many of those who get once " shaved with ease and expedition , " seldom risk a second operation .
A difficulty . — " Mike , why don't you fire at those ducks , boy—don't you see you have got the whole flock before your gun ? ' '— " I know I have ; but when I get good aim at one , two or three others will swim right up betwixt it and me . " Dead , and a live . —A . lady of rank complaining that her husband was dead-to fashionable amusements'he replied , " But then , my dear , you make me alive to tho expense . " _Tro-BD ARiSTOcaATS .-It is surprising what an influence titles have upon the mind , even though these titles be of our own making . Like children , we dress up puppets in finery , sand then stand in astonishment at the plastic wonder . —Goldsmith Oh ! there ' s not in the wide world a pleasure so sweet Ab to sit near tho window and tilt up your feet ; Pull away at the " Cuba , " whose flavour just suits , And gaze at the world ' twixt the toes ofyour boots . —Yankee Blade .
Algernon Sidney , in a letter to his son , says , " That in the whole of his life he never knew one man , of what condition soever , arrive at any degree of reputation in the world , who made choice of ,, or delighted in , the company or conversation of those who in their qualities were inferior , or in their parts not much superior to himself . " __ ' " Shabby Gentility" is to the social life what " Brummagem" wares are to the things they imitate . In both cases there is elaborate workmanship bestowed on a worthless material , to produce the
result which the honest Jew desired , when he directed that his mock silver spoons should be stamped with a " dog , which is to be made as much like a lion as possible , " At a debating club the question was discussed , whether , there is more pleasure in the possession or the pursuit ofan object . " Mr . President , " Baid an orator , " suppose I was courting a gal ,. and she was to run away , and Iwas to run after her , wouldn t I be happier when I catch'd her , than when I was running after her . "
Patents . —The cost in France is £ 12 and upwards ; in Spain , £ 10 , £ 30 , and £ 60 ; in the Netherlands and Belgium £ 6 to £ 30 ; in Austria , £ 0 _lCs . 8 d , with lis . 8 d . a year additional ; and in America , £ 63 . 10 s . ; while , in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , it is no less than £ 300 ! " Evbrtman is a volume , if you know how to read him . " True ; but some can claim to be such only upon the principle that " a book ' s a book , although there is nothing in it . A negro may be considered a black-letter volume , we suppose , and a rogue in irons a well bound one . Teeth Sharpening . —A housemaid who was sent to call a gentleman to dinner , found him engaged in using his tooth-brush . " Well , is he coming ? " said the lady of the 'house , as the servant returned . "Yes , ma am , directly , " was the . reply , "he ' sjust sharpening his teeth . "
An inebriate Irishman , on being kindly questioned in a very narrow lane across which he was reeling , as to the length of the road he had travelled , replied : " Faith ! it ' s not so much the length of it as the breadth of it that's tired me . " : Two little girls , one the daughter of a wealthy brewer , the other of a gentleman of small fortune , were disputing for precedency . " You arc to consider , miss , " said the brewer ' s daughter , " that my papa keeps a coach . " " Very true miss , ' was thc other ' s reply , " and you are to consider , likewise , that he also keeps a dray . " London Wells . —In reply to an inquirer , the deepest well in London is that sunk by Messrs . Combe and Co ., the brewers , which measures 522 feet . •' ' The next is at the Excise Office , 500 feet . The well at Meux _' _s brewery is 425 feet deep ; that at Messrs . Elliott ' s , Pimlico , 308 feet . The Trafalgar-square well is 3 S 3 feet deep , and the well at _Kensington new workhouse , 370 feet . —Builder .
Good Advice , —Judge Burnet being applied to by an old farmer for his advice in a law-suit , heard his case with great patience , and then asked bim if he had ever put into a lottery ? " No , sir , " said the farmer , " I hope I have too much prudence to run such risks . " '' Then take my advice , my good friend , and suffer any inconvenience rather tban go to law , as the chances are more against you there than in any lottery . " Past and Present . —In the ninth century it was an established custom in the north , that all the sons of a king , except the eldest , and the chief nobility , should be fuvnished with ships properly equipped , in order to carry on the profession of piracy , which in those days was held in high admiration . —Smollett . [ The princes and the aris ! : ocrary of the nineteenth century have an easier and less hazardous mode of plundering . ]
An Affectionate Son . — A country bumpkin , whose habitation is not far from this immediate locality , was called upon a short time ago by a neighbour , to inform him of a domestic calamity—the loss of his mother . The bereaved son was found at his breakfast ; when the following dialogue took place : — " Hai bin- thee , Jim , oive gotten sad news for thee —thee mother ' s jed . " "Jedr mon didst say ? well , wait a bit , till I finish my porritch , and I'll mak tho a pretty blaat . " — Macclesfield Courier .
WANTED TO KNOW . If steam ships are used in navigating the " sea of troubles . " If ships in " stays" are addicted to " tight lacing . " If it is owing to the rate of interment being cheap that so many are buried "in oblivion . " Whether the sun shone during the " dark ages . " Whether the " tale" which the ghost of Hamlet's father could unfold , was "founded on fact . " The elevation of tho " pinnacle of fame , " above the ocean . The extreme length of the " Long Parliament . " If hydropatic treatment would be likely to cure the " eruptions" of Mount Etna .
A Hint to Householders . —An experienced burglar once confessed that , for the street door , a chain is a more perplexing obstruction than locks bolts , or bars ; both at windows and doors , bells are a serious disturbance ; but worst of all is a little yapping dog , that does not attack intruders , but runs away barking . * Intelligence of the Dog and Elephant . —Ihe dog is the only brute animal that dreams , and he and the elephant are the only quadrupeds that understand looks ; they are the only animals that—besides man—feel sorrow ; the dog the only quadruped that lias been brought to speak . _Leibuifz bears witness to a hound in Saxony that could speak distinctly thirty words . " Tear-Bottle . —It is a custom among the Chinese to have a tear-bottle . When two ladies or females of
the lower rank quarrel , they go before a magistrate . A tear-bottle is given to the individual who says she is aggrieved , and if she can fill it with tears , the magistrate says , " I perceive you have been harshly treated . I shall award a great punishment to the one by whom you have been oppressed . " If she can only half fill it , the punishment is reduced one half , but if she cannot shed one tear , there is no punishment at all . " TnE Eleventh Commandment . — Archbishop Usher was wrecked on the coast of Ireland , in a wild and desert place . Ia his distress , he went to the
house of an ecclesiastic—a man reserved and prudent almost to distrust—and to conciliate his feelings , alleged his sacred character . The ecclesiastic , in a tone hardly civil , refused to believe him , and said lie would answer for it he had never known how many commandments there wero . " I can prove to you , " said the archbishop , with mildness , " that I am not so ignorant as you think ; there , aro eleven . ' "Eleven ! " answered the ecclesiastic ; " very well , tell me the eleventh , and I will give you all the help you need . " "Here it is , " replied the archbishop : " A new commandment give I unto you , that ye love one another . "—John xiii . 3 d ..
Rejoice not at Misfortune . —Never rejoice at another ' smisfortuebecauseitmay turn out to your advantage . In some parts of Germany they make use of the following saying , " My corn is ripening , " which a person will repeat who has the prospect of something proGtable occurring to him . Once while a surgeon and a carpenter were taking a walk together , they observed at some distance a small village , known to them both , on fire . The carpenter pointed to it , and said to his companion , "My corn is ripening ; " for he concluded that if the old houses were burned , new ones would require to be built ; but , as he looked intently at tho conflagration and not at the road , immediately after this befell into a ditch and broke his arm . •¦ Ah ! " said the surgeon , "it appears to me that my corn i 8 aiready ripe . '
„ Thirty-Fifth Edition, Containing The Remedy For The Prevention Of Disease. • Illustrated With Twenty-Six Anatomical Coloured Emmnrinirx Nn Stppl.
_„ Thirty-Fifth Edition , _Containing the Remedy for the Prevention of Disease . illustrated with Twenty-Six Anatomical Coloured _Emmnrinirx nn Stppl .
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CURES FOR THE UNCURED ! HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT . An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or King ' s Evil . Extract of aletter from Mr . J . II . Alliday _, 209 High-street , ¦ Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1 S 50 . Sib , —My eldest son , when about three , years of age , was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , which after a short time brokeout into an ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrofula , and prescribed for a considerable time without effect . The disease then for years went on graduall y increasing in virulence , when besides the ulcer in the neck , another formed below the left knee , and a third uuder the eye , besides seven others ou the left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During the whole of the time my suffering boy had received the constant advice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides being for several months at the General Hospital
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 26, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26101850/page/3/
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