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KOSSUTH . Death in the _hattle is not death ... Deep , deep may seem the mortal groan , let sweeter than an infant's breath . Is Honour ' s , on that field alone , mere Kossuth call'd his spirits forth Aloftfrom Itaua * f ' s heaving breast- ; They quell'd the South , they shook the _aorth , They sank by fraud not Btvength _represt . If freedom s sacred fire lies _quencht , 0 _En-dand ! was it not by thee ? Ere from sach hands the sword was wrencht Thine was the power to shield the free . Bar-sells _erewhile might -raise their mst Proud as the older of oar land , Altho' I find but in the best The embroider'd glove of Sidney ' s hand .
B achel may mourn her children now ... From higher source her glory springs , "Where Shakspear crowns Southampton's brow Above the reach or gaze _of kings . Hussells ! where ? where ? To waver high Faction the slender twig may place , And cover , when that twig shall die , With plumes as dark its dark disgrace . Drive the drear phantom from my sight , O Kossuth ! Bound our wintery shore Spread broad thy strong and healthy light , And I will tread these weeds no more . "Walter _Savaoe _Lasdob .
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Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate , or Hints on , thc application of Logic . By Geouge Jacob Holyoake . London "Watson , 3 , Qneen's Head Passage , Paternoster "Row . Although there axe many wlio dissent from "Mr . _Holyoate _' s theological and political views —some regarding him with horror as an ultra leretic , others -with regret , condemning his " very mild , " and far too " moderate"' political sentiments ; all who have read his educational works will admit them to he worthy of the suffrages of the people generally . In the columns of this journal we hare , on ether occasions , testified to the merits of Mr . Holjoake's " Grammar , " " Mathematics , ' ' " Logic / ' & c , _amtiio-ff we "have much pleasure in _recommending this little volume as a valuable and interesting addition to its instructional predecessors .
Those really in search of instruction , relative to the art of public speaking , will find much to aid them in this volume . Others , who have no ambition to shine on the public platform , may , nevertheless , find matter in these pages from which to derive information and entertainment . The most captious critichowever willing and able to find fault—could not pronounce this a dry hook . He who reads the first page , will read to the last The work is divided into thirty-four chapters . Instead of giving a mere list of the subjects treated of , we extract the following passages : —
PKEMEDITATIOS . There is every -reason to believe that the greatest masters of oratory have been most sensible of the value and have most practised pre-meditation . It is only the young would-be speaker who expects to he great without effort , or whose vanity leads him to impose upon others the belief that he is so—who aSectsto despise thc toil of preparation . One of the _bioirraphers of Ganning tells us that it is remarkable , that with his broad sense of great faculties in oihere , he was himself fastidious to excess about the slightest turns of _expression . He would correct his speeches , and amend their verbal graces , t ill he nearly polished out the original spirit . He was not singular in this . Burke , whom he is said io have closely studied , did tbe same . Sheridan always prepared Ms speeches * . the highly-wrought passages in the speech on Eastings' impeachment were written beforehand and committed to memory :
and the differences were so marked , that the audi- j ence could readily distinguish between the extemporaneous passages and those that were premeditated . Air . Canning ' s alterations werefrequently so minute and extensive that the printers found it easier to _recompose the matter afresh in type than to correct it . This difficulty of choice in diction sometimes springs from Vembarras des _richesses , but ofteaer from poverty of resources , and generally indicates a class of intellect which is more occupied with costume than ideas . But here are three instances which set all popular notions of verbal fastidiousness by the ears : for certainly Burke , Canning , and Sheridan were men of capacious talents * , and two of them , at least , present extraordinary examples of imagination and practical judgment , running together neck and neck in the race ef life to thc verv * 2 oal .
»> e owe the low state of oratory in this country to a great extent to the false comteropt for " cut and dried speeches , " till ifc has come to be considered a sign of weakness for a man to think before he speaks . Archbishop " _iVhately has wisely cautioned young preachers against concluding that because the Apostles spake well without premeditation , that others will speak so , unless , like the Apostle- ? , they are specially inqnred . Perhaps , although we use the term , we never have
had oratory in England . There is an essential difference between oratory and debating ; oratory seems _sn accomp lishment confined to the ancients , unless the French preachers may put in their claim , and some of the Irish lawyers . Mr . Sheil's speech in len t was a fine oration ; and the boobies who _tauuted lain for having got it hy rote , were not aware than in doing so he only wisely followed the example of Pericles , Demosthenes , Lycias , _Isocrates _, Ilortensius _, Cicero , Caesar , and every other great orator of antiquitv .
Amid the applause iu this chapter bestowed upon premeditation it would not be just to omit tbe ridicule with which it has been visited by the Rev . Sidney Smith . " It is only by tbe fresh feelings of the heart that mankind can he very powerfully affected . What can be more ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation and fervour ofa "" _" " wkold ? turning over whole pages of violent _passions , written out in German text ; reading the t " "ope 3 aud apostrophes into which he is hurried by " - _^ ardour of his mind , and so affected at a precon-* _Je"feJ line and page , that he is unable to proceed _Rv farther . " ' True , "it is only by the fresh feel-? £ s of the heart that mankind can be very
_power-* _- _*! J y affected . * " But nature is always fresh—and he " _* _*«* reproduces nature will always affect . Macready "" fever stabbed his daughter to preserve her honour . ** t every man is moved at his Tirginius . As " Hiello , Macready ' s "indignation" at Jfago is thirty years old , yet we are as much affected by its iutens't y as on the first day when he displayed it . The speech of Antony over the dead body of Caesar was . \ written iu German text" in the days of Elizabeth _« was " cut and dried" 200 years ago . Yet , whatever our _satii-ieal canon may say to the contrary , it ce ases not toaffect us now . A great idea well ex-Pressed , or a deep feeling naturally powtrared _, is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever , " ¦
.-, PUBLIC MEETIXCS . , IJpon the general rules proper for conducting a _rebate it is hardly possible to enter . Even public
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_ineetings _^ in _^ his country are conducted on the _crudest principles ' . " * "If ihen * were commonly intelligent , _and-m _** nywere disposed to * take part inpub _*; Be ' meetihg 8 , it ., wouldbo impossible -that any business could be transacted under several daya . 'i The assumption that every man Has aright to be heard , conld not' be acted upon if half who usually attend public meetings" were to enforce that '" right . " When a speech or lecture is debated , each disputant expects to occupy the same time as the . speaker which often prevents more than one being heard in reply . But a Snort time for-several might be fixed , and thus - combine discipline with disputation . Brevity of time would induce directness and brevity
of speech—it is not the work of any one speaker , but the work of many to attack the whole lecture , and each should select a leading point , and ten minutes would afford time for a very effective objection , if one could he raised . At public meetings , where many opposing parties often struggle to be heard , confusion , delay , and illfeeling might he obviated , hy each party pre-appointing a representative of ability , in whom confidence could be reposed to speak on their behalf , and by those calling the meeting being niade acquainted with , and consenting to the arrangement , the views of half-a-dozen parties conld be advocated , when the views of one aro heard but inadequately and impatiently now .
DISCIPLINE . —ANECDOTE OF CURRAN . From Demosthenes to Curran , the personnel of orators has illustrated the triumphs of application as much as the triumphs of genius . " One day , an acquaintance , in speaking of Curran ' s eloquence , happened to observe that it must have been born with him . " " Indeed , my dear sir , " rep lied Curran "it was not ; it was born three and twenty years and some mouths after me ; and , ifyou are satisfied to listen to a dull historian , you shall have the history of its nativity . When I was at the Temple , a few of us formed a little debating club . Upon the first night of meeting I attended , my foolish heart throbbing with the anticipated honour of _bein-r styled 'the learned member that opened
the debate / or * " the very eloquent gentleman who has just sat down . ' I stood up—the question was tbe Catholic claims or the slave trade , I protest I now forget whieh , but the difference , you know , was never very . . obvious—my mind was stored with about a folio volume of matter , hut I wanted a _preface , and forwantof aprefacethe volume was never published . I stood up , trembling through every fibre ; but , remembering , that in this I wa 9 but imitating Tully , I took courage , and had actually proceeded almost as far as 'Jlr . Chairman . ' when , to my astonishment and terror , I perceived that every eye was turned upon me . There were only six or seven present , and the room could not haye contained as many more ; yet was it , to my
panicstruck imagination , as if I were the central object in nature , and assembled millions were gazing upon me in breathless expectation . I became dismayed and dumb . My friends cried ' hear him ! ' but there was nothing to hear . My li ps , indeed , went through the pantomime of articulation , but I was like the unfortunate fiddler at the fair , who , npon coming to strike up the solo that was to ravish every ear , discovered that an enemy had maliciously soaped his bow . So you see , sir , it was not horn with me . However , though my friends despaired of me , tho cacoethesloquendi was nofc tobe subdued without a struggle . I was for the present silenced , but I still attended our meetings with the most laudable regitr laritu . and even ventured to accompany the others
to a more ambitious theatre , the club of Temple Bar . One of them was upon his legs ; a fellow of wbom it was difficult to decide whether he was most distinguished for the filth of his person or the flippancy of his tongue—just such another as Harry Flood would have callad ' the highly gifted gentleman with the dirty cravat and greasy pantaloons . ' I found this learned personage in the act of calumniating chronology by the most preposterous anachronisms . He descanted npon Demosthenes , the glory of the Roman forum—spoke of Tully as the famous contemporary and rival of Cicero—and , in the short space of one half hour , transported the straits of Marathon three several times to the plains
of _Thermopylaj . Thinking that I had a right to know something of these matters , I looked at him with surprise . When our eyes met , there was something like a wager of battle in mine ; upon which the erudite gentleman instantly changed his invective against antiquity into an invective against me , and concluded by a few words of friendly counsel ( hotresco referens ) to ' orator mum , ' who , he doubted not , possessed wonderful talents for eloquence , although he would recommend him to show it in future , by some more popular method than his silence . I followed his advice , and , I believe , not entirely without effect . So , sir , you see that to try the bird the spur must touch his Hood .
" The discovery , on this occasion , of his talents for public speaking , encouraged him to proceed in his studies with additional energy and vigour . The defect in his enunciation ( at school he went b y the cognomen of ' stuttering Jack Curran' ) he corrected by a regular system of daily reading aloud , slowly , and with strict regard to pronunciation , passages from his favourite authors . His person was short , and his appearance ungraceful and without dignity . To overcome these disadvantages , he recited and studied his postures before a mirror , and adopted a method of _gesticulation suited to his appearance . Besides a constant attendance at the debating clubs , he accustomed himself to extemporaneous eloquence in private , by proposing cases to himself , which he debated with the same care as if he had heen addressing a jury . We conclude these extracts with two anecdotes from the chapter on
_PLEASAXTIH * . A comedian went to America , and remained there two years , leaving his wife dependent on her relatives . Mrs . F tt expatiating in the green-room on the cruelty of such conduct , the comedian found a warm advocate in a well-known dramatist . " I have heard , " says the latter , "that he is the kindest of men ; and I know tbat be writes to his wife every packet . " "' Yes , he writes , " replied Mrs . ¥ ., " a parcel of flummery about the agony of absence , but he has never remitted her a shilling . Da you call that kindness ? " " Decidedly , " replied the author , " _unreini _' tlni _** kindness . " Here the wit turns upon words .
Goodrich relates a converse instance : — " I once heard of a hoy , who , heing rebuked hy a clergyman for neglecting to go to church , replied , that he would go if he could be permitted to change his seat . 4 But why do you wish to change your seat ?' said the minister . ' Tou see / said the boy , * I sit over the opposite side of tbe meeting-house , and between mc and vou there ' s Judy Tiears and Mary Staples , and half-a-dozen other women , with their mouths wide open , and they got all the best of tho sermon , and when ifc comes to me its pretty poor stuff . '" _^
Lays Of The Revolutions, And Oilier Poem...
Lays of the Revolutions , and oilier Poems . By the Rev . John Jeffrey . London TV . S . Orr and Co ., Ainen-corner .
Ax honest priest is ahout as rare as an honest journalist ; we were , therefore , agreeably surprised , in taking up this volume , to find therein the revolutionary cause advocated by one who combines , with the character of poet , that of preacher of thc Christian Faith . We will not flatter Mr . Jeffrey , hy telling him that his effusions attain to the standard of poetical perfection ; hut , we may do hira the justice of assni-ing our readers , that these Lays deserve to he read wherever exist men who value the blessings of Freedom , and aspire to break the chains of oppression .
I Mr . Jeffrey manfully avows that all his sympathies are on the side of the people , of whose final triumph—despite the present reaction—he has neither doubt nor fear . It is much , too , to Mr . Jeffrey ' s credit , that he dares to denounce the vile Journals of this conntry , that have been "found willing to prostitute their pages to the approhation of re-actionai * y crime . " AH the pieces we should desire to extract are too lengthy to quote entire . We take the following stanzas from the War Cut of toe _Romax Issobkeciionisis . ** Rise , Romans , rise at last , Craft ' s Kingdom now is past ; Brook no delay ! "Lombard blades long ago , Swifter than whirlwinds blow , Swept from Milan the foe ; j
"Why should we stay ? Dares the false Pontiff shed Tears for the tyrants dead ?* Dares he thus stain Basely thc tripple crown ? _lirotbers!—then , smite it down , Though his Swiss bandit ' s frown , — "" Let the blows rain ! " Rise , then , for Fatherland ; In rock-like phalanx stand , - ¦ Cowards no more . Rise in colossal might , Rise till the storm of fi ght Wrap us in lurid light Where cannons roar !
" In this greatDawn of Time , In this great Death of Crime , Quit us like men ; B y our deeds , b y our words , By our songs , by our swords , Use all against the hordes , _: . - Sabre or pen !
* 1 _' opeKuiis reported to have wept , - . when - he . hear that the Ausuians had been driven out of Milan . ; > •
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" From the old Roman graves " ¦¦ * ¦ _' .. . ''* Ghost on ghosfcbeckon . ing-. waves - "" - ~ " ; - ¦ - •• -. . .. ' _Folio ;*** us far / ¦ ... - > , v _, . "Follow ! ' we follow ttiein / : Sprung of their herd-stem , ' . ' _- :: ' . "' : ' " ' Grasping _^ Fame ' s diadem / ¦ ' ¦ "•' , like a bright star ! _.. ; _¦• • ' Moro than Fame , —Duty calls Trumpet-tongued from the walls ¦ -. * : Girding great Rome ; Battle for Truth and Faith , _> Battle , lest hostile scathe _Crush'u ' s , or fetters swathe Free hearth and home . 'Till the last tyrant flee , ' Till in young Italy
Slaves are unknown ; ' Till ancient priestcraft fall , 'Till Austria ' s minions all Stain neither hut nor hall Hovel nor throne I " Hark ! how God ' s thunders roll , Booming from pole to polo Of the wide world ! ' Old lies are crushed for aye , New truths assume their sway , Bright shines the flag of Day O ' er night unfurled . '
" Tower , then , the barricades 1 Flash forth the lightning blades ! Romans ; awake ! Storm as the tempests burst , Down with the brood accursed ! Sparks long in silence nursed Etna-like break ; And ihat volcano ' s thirst Seas cannot slake !" "We add a few verses from the poem on
THE FALL OF HOME . It is ended—all is over—heroes' blood has poured in vain ! " Brutal force resumes its sceptre , throned on piles of freemen slain ; ' Shortly the interregnum lasted , like a fount of golden light Flashing momentary splendour , ere enjrulfed in ancient nig ht ' . Ifc is ended—all is over—and the young Republic ' s doom Is to sink , transfixed by traitors , into its ancestral tomb , And the fingers crusted with its blood , the hands that dealt the blow , Wait to swathe the corpse for sepulture and _*** orms before they go . It is ended—it is over- —and the despots of our
timo , Now may lead their hordes to soke with gore all battle-fields of crime ; For Reaction ' s arm has triump h'd underneath the towers of Rome , . And the liberty of Europe flees its old immortal home . * * * * One deep groan for Oudinot the false—ay , falsest of them all ! He has entered Rome by grovelling , as when the reptiles crawl ; He has entered Rome by dint of lies , and not by dint of sword ; He has lied to her and Europe—ho has lied in deed and word .
Go , then , Oudinot ! and finish what is happily begun ; Weave a web of lies to hide from men the deed of darkness done , Hurry back the ancient tyranny , and summon Pius home—On tho swords of French-born Cossacks throned above the enslaved of Rome I So the pageant vanishes amid the whirlwind of their curse , And the Roman masses wei gh the woe , and future vengeance nurse _d * But one farewell shout re-echoes , like the rushing Of a river : "Death to the Frankish brigands—the Republie live for ever . ' . "
"We have very great pleasure in recommending this little volume to our readers . We trust it will find a wide and well-deserved _cir-r culation .
The Miners Of Yorkshire. To Thk Editor O...
THE MINERS OF YORKSHIRE . TO THK EDITOR OF THE SORTHERN STAR . Sir , —By allowing this appeal to the Miners of _Yorkihire a place in your valuable paper , you will oblige , yours , & c , _Gborbk Brown . Fellow Miners , —Once more I would draw your attention to this short address , and _ingoing so I can assure you I do it with no other intention than a good will towards you , the employed and also the employer ; and if I can possibly do anything to elevate you from the awful calamities to which , as a body of miners , you have been , of long standingsubjected to , I think it my duty to do so ; viz ., the preservation of your valuable and useful lives and health—also your masters' capital .
And although tbe above lines may appear to many of you of a light nature , yet , they are of such importance that it behoves every master and miner in Great Britain to exert themselves , diligently , on behalf of the above objects : that is , the lives and health of the miners ; and , also , the coal-owners ' capital , and especially the former . It may not yet he known to a large majority of the miners of Yorkshire that the lives of the miners ot Great Britain are being sacrificed , with an auuual increase , chiefly arising from—first , a defective system of ventilation ; and , secondly , from the frequent
habit of our coal owners drawing , or taking their works to greater distances , from one shaft to another , than what their imperfect mode of ventilation will allow ; and which generally bad system of ventilation—first , causes or admits of an accumulation of hydrogen , carbon , and other gases , as to render such mines , not unfrequentl y , very unsafe ; and ) consequently , not only places the lives of tbe miners in great danger , but also greatl y impairs their health ; and secondly , not unfrequently damages or destroys , to a great estent , the coal owners' capital through explosions taking place in tbeir respective
mines . But as our _object is not so much to offer any remarks on the present mode of ventilation ; but believing , as I do , that the miners generall y , in Yorkshire , are not more fully acquainted with any ( or rarely ) steps which of late have been , or are about to be , brought forward in the present session ot parliament ; having for its object the enacting of some Government measure for the purpose of facilitating and establishing some better mode or system of ventilation in this country , and for the preservation of the lives . of the miners generally . And for this purpose , last session , government appointed a Coraraittee in ' the House of Lords—Lord Wharncliffe- in the chair—for the . purpose of examining coal masters , Government Commissioners ,
mine agents ; miners , & c , in order to gain all the information possible on the best mode of ventilation ; also the consequences of , and the evil tendency the present system of ventilation had on the health aud lives of the miffers generally ; and ascertain the opinions of scientific gentlemen as to the best mode of improving ventilation in mines , & c . And after some weeks of energetic labour on this most important question , I am g lad to say that the general evidence , opinions , facts , & c , coincided in one opinion that some better system of ventilation ought , without any further delay , to be put in operation by a Legislative _lav >; and carried out b y the appointment of some persons qualified to inspect mines , and see that , whatever laws should be pasted , they be fully carried out :
The miners , relying upon some such measure being adopted , are about to have a Bill presented to the Houseof Commons , the first or second week after Easter } backed up by their petitions from tbe counties' in the North , viz ., Northumberland , Durham , Lancashire _^ & c . ; and , in order that this may hot be lost sight of , they will , from each of these counties , send to London a deputation of miners at tbat time , to form a sub-committee with those members of Parliament favourable to such measures . I have been intreated by those counties , several times , to awaken and acquaint the miuers of Yorkshire on those important things , but knowing well the miners of Yorkshire are not united , generally , as
are the miners of the above counties ; and « majority of them have no , or little , understanding with each other on those life and death questions as they ought to have ; rievertlieles * tbey are subject to the like accidents , & c , and ; ' consequently , are iu as much need of some better mode of ventilation as any county in the whole _coaliiig districts . I helievethat you are aware of the necessity of your assistance being brought into action at this time , with your petii tions' and also of forming a part of the sub-committee hr the House of Commons / but ifyou should still continue to rest eontent with your present awful _pocitioD ' , and _teitfani in a burning 8 mP "•"• 'he **' . » _hf hoat is ready to save you , allow me to say you will not be worthy the name of Englishmen . "
. I conclude . these few remarks _boping that tbe miners of ' this _/ county will lose no tipae ,- _especially * inthe Barnsley District , in getting up their peti-
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_^^ t _^^ _^ on _as poBlibU seeing the time js . so short . Iain , yours truly , X : i hi * -: _' _••) , _» ' _W : _hl' : hiri : _;; J ; Gkorgb Brown . ; ' Brandy Carr ; . Wakefield , -March 12 ; 1850 . : i :: P . _S '—Copies of printed petitions canbe had or Mr-Mi Jude , Barrai Bridge , Newcaatle-on-Tyne . N , _Bi--I _shouldbeglad _tohaveopinions of miners , generally , oii . this subject , Direct , George Brown , care of Mr .. W . Bowman , Nortbgate , Wakefield , grocer . .
Lancashire Aw Cheshire M /To Thk Bditor ...
LANCASHIRE _aW CHESHIRE M / TO THK BDITOR OF THE NORTHER'S' STAR . _^ Ma , —The last delegate meeting of the miners Of those counties , was held at the Horse Shoe , half way between Ashton and Oldham , when the following resolutions , among others , were agreed to : — f hat only two of the agents attend \ the county meeting every fortnight , as it will be a saving of expense in railway fare , and also enable we two other agents to attend to places that may urgently require their services on that day . — " That we , the miners of Lancashire and Cheshire , who are now m union , do hereby agree to meet the other C 0 ! l ! ir , Or distrlcts of miners in England , Scotland , and Wales , in conferenceto endeavour to . form a
, National Unton amongst » U the miners of the united kingdom ; but this meeting respectfully request the miners of Durham and Northumberland , to fix the time of conference , and to give every district in the united kingdom not less than a month ' s notice of the time of meeting . Also , that it is our desire that the first conference be held in Lancashire . "— «• That D . Swallow be one of the deputation sent to London on the subject of government inspection of mines and collieries , and that the other party be elected at the next county meeting ; and districts desirous of proposing a can . didate , are desired to send in their proposition in writing next time . "— _<• That Charles Meadowcreft _, aud D . Swallow , be appointed lo draw up a petition , to be submitted to the next county meeting for approval or otherwise . ' "
It was also deemed advisable thai a special delegate meeting of the miners of Wigan and the mrrounding districts , should be held , for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of holding a general public meeting of the miners of St . Helen ' s , Haydock , and all around Wigan , on some future day , half way between St . Helen ' s and Wigan . Several letters were read from members of parliament , promising their aid and assistance in obtaining government inspection over mines and collieries . The delegate meeting was adjourned until Monday , April 1 st , to be holden at the Amen Corner , Rochdale , at ten o ' cloek in the morning .
Coppui ., near _Chobxey . —I opened a new lodge at this place on the 23 rd , and enrolled upwards of thirty members . A number of new members were also enrolled at the George Inn , Chorley , on the same nig ht . _Jf there is any persons or districts who would wish to furnish rae with any information , shall be obliged lo them if they will do so . Yours , & c „ D . Swamow . No . 25 , Sidney-street , Bolton .
THE AYRSHIRE MINERS . These miners held their fortnightly meeting at _Huodstone-bridge , ' on the 18 th inst . The meeting _vras a very enthusiastic one , and there seems to be a determined spirit of perseverance amongst the miners of this district ; there was an increase of members reported . Tbe meeting was addressed by several of the members , detailing their grievances in feeling and forcible language , on tbe necessity of government inspection of mines and collieries , the benefits to be derived frsm a general union , & c . Amongst other resolutions of importance , was one
appointing an agent to visit all the collieries in this county , with a view of getting them all into the union as speedily as possible . The meeting pledged themselves to do all in their power to secure government inspection over mines and collieries , by getting up petitions , subscriptions , & c . The minerB of thia county hold a delegate meeting every Saturday evening , at-six o ' clock , at the bouse of Mr . Sheaden ' _s , Innkeeper , Hulford . The public , meeting adjourned until Monday , April 1 st ., at Hoodstone-bridge , commencing at five o ' clock , p . m ., when as many of the miners from the surrounding neighbourhood as can conveniently do so , are requested to attend .
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" Peculative Economy . "—Baron Alderson on PosT-0 * " * "ici * Wages . —On Saturday last in the case of a prisoner named Worrall , who pleaded guilty to having , at Warrington , stolen money letters , the property of the Postmaster General , witnesses were called who gave the accused a most excellent character . One of them , a clergyman , stated that the prisoner had for a series of years borne the character of a consistent professor of religion ; since his committal he had visited tho prisoner in gaol , and found him overwhelmed with grief and shame , and in a conversation thc prisoner attributed his error to the temptation to which ho had been exposed . In answer to a question from Mr . Baron Alderson , the postmaster of Warrington stated that the prisoner , who was a married man , was employed in the post-office at 9 s . Gd . weekly wages . The highest wages given were £ 70 per year , but persons
receiving this sum were government servants ; the prisoner was his private servant . Baron Alderson : " Then he had access to all money letters , having only 9 s . 6 d . per week . It is had economy not to put a man out ofthe way of temptation by giving him wages to enable him to live . decently . You have a set of regulations , which you think cannot he violated without detection , ami these are administered by persons you do not sufficiently pay , and the consequence is , that they are not worth anything . This conies of such economy , which is the worst species of peculation perhaps . Hero is a young man , marrying on 0 s .. Gd ; a week , and trusted with access to money , and who cm wonder at what happened ? Bub we can't help it . Lot him stand down . " On Monday morning the prisoner was brought up to ¦ receive tho sentence of the court . Baron Alderson , who addressed him in a mild tone , said . " The safe transmission of letters in a
commercial country like this was ot tho greatest importance , and must bo insisted upon by law . He regretted much the low rate of wages given to persons in post-office ? , for , considering the facilities which such persons had to open letters and appropriate the . contents , he could not help thinking that the parties who advised such scanty remuneration took a wrong view of the subject , and did not observe that good policy which would be advantageous for the community . The prisoner had received a good character from a clergyman , and he had since shown contrition ; yet such an offence could not be passed over without severe punishment . What he ( the learned judge ) would do in the case would perhaps be the better for the prisoner than any other course . He must be transported for seven years , but ho should recommend that in the first instance he should be sent to the Pentonvillc Penitentiary . Tho prisoner could not redeem his
character in this country , in which he might find it impossible to obtain employment if set at liberty ; but by good conduct he might , where he would be sent to , again become a useful member of society . " Curb of Smoky Chimneys . —I beg leave to say my experience is corroborative of the efficacy of the system of contraction at tho bottom ofthe flue , find tho reverse at ' the . top : I have ' tried it in many cases for the 'last dozen ' years , and it has invariably succeeded . The lust euro I effected on this principle was a drawing-room chimney of a detached cottage , wheroihe draughtdown , thechimney was so strong _asto drive , the flame as well as smoke into the room . _Tliepliiri I adopted was to cut into the back of the chimney immediately above theiircplace , and insert two chimney-pots—a small and a large one , appl yingthe email end of the least downwards , nearest the fire , and tho larger one in the same manner in that , which carried it to where tho flue was of its _regularize . —Thc Builder ,
Special Plead _, _iso , —It is stated to be the intention of the government to put an end to " special pleading" in the Superior Courts at Westminster , by bringing forward : a measure in the IJouso of Commen 8 , to ; abolish the form of pleading to actions and thereby to diminish the present great expenses in law proceedings . . *
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_fTif p iln _^ Lamartln 0 ' Wni 5 n » _rita- ** of the Provisional Government , made the following speech to the people pf Paris :- « What would you have said , citizens , had _anyfbne told you , three dava ago , that you would have _^ _erthiWn iukm _^ lrthy destroyed oligarchy , and obtained universal suffrage in the name , of mankind , acquired : all . the rights of citizenship , and founded the republic—that republic , tho _tlistant dream of all those who felt her name written in the innermost recesses of their conscience like a crime ? And what a republic ! no longer one like those of Greece and Rome , containing aristocrats and plebians , masters and slaves not like the aristocratic . republics of modem times containing citizens and beggars—men greater or
less in t he eye of the law , a people and a patriciate ; but an equal republic in which there is no longer aristocracy or oligarchy ; neither greater nor lesser , patricians or plebians , but a republic in which there is but one people , composed of the universality of citizens , and in which public right and power are composed solely of the right and voice of each individual summed up in a collective power called the government of the republic , and returning in laws , popular institutions , and benefits ofthe people from whom it emanated . Had you been told this three days ago , you would havo
said , ' Three days ! three centuries will be required to accomplish thia mighty undertaking for humanity ! ' Behold , what you declared impossible has come to pass ! Here is your work amidst this tumult ; these arms , these dead bodies of the martyrs to your cause . You would bo unworthy of these gifts of Heaven , ifyou knew not how to contemplate and value them . "—So spoke Lamartine then : does he Bay _•« What a Republic" now ? A TBMrERAKCB _Toasi . —At a convivial meeting of teetotallers in Charleston , a sprightly orator gave as a toast— ' * the Mississippi of Men—the Father of Waters—Father Mathews . "
" Birds of a _Featubr _, "—one Duck was , this we _« k _, charged beforo my Lord Judgo with stealing the hens and pigeons of one Crow . Of course , a counsel was found with sufficient brilliancy to pronounce it a " fowl affair . "—Gateshead Observer . . Companions in _JLife _anu Deatu . —In the year 1798 , there were two men in the parish of St . Dominicl ; , Richard Ilill , and Richard Nattle , who become fellow servants __ at nalton Barton , near Callington , and after having lived together for three years , each took a wife of the maid servants of the same house ( two sisters ) , and the master provided the wedding dinner for both parties . Since that time , those men have laboured together for upwards of thirty years on Halton quays . They both joined a sick club in the parish on the same day , and died both on the same ni ght , and were buried at St . Dominick on the same evening ( of the 13 th
inst . ) side by side in the same grave , the ono aged 76 , the other 73 years . _—Devonport Telegraph . * Mistbb , where are you going with that horse ?" asked a gentleman of a suspicious-looking man , whom ho met on horseback . " Well , I haint a going nowhere with him , " said the other , * ' but he is a going somewhere with me . " " Great age" this we live in . Peop le don't laugh now-a-days—they indulge in merriment . They don't walk—they promenade . They never eat any foodthey masticate it . Nobody has a tooth pulled—it is extracted . No ono has his feelings hurt—they arc lacerated . Young men do not go courting the girls —they pay the young ladies attention . Is is vulgar to visit any one—you must only make a call . Of course , you would not think ot going to bed —you would retire to rest . Nor would you build a house —you would erect it . No Englishman dies exactly _paor , for he leaves his shares in the National Debt to his children I—
Punch . Venice . —Most truly did Byron call Venice " a fairy city of the heart . " It is indeed a place of enchantment , the chosen epotand dwelling of romance —something more akin to the imaginings of the poet , than tlie common-place realities of actual life : a city rising out ofthe sea—without streets , without noise of carriages , dust , dirt , or any of the thousand annoyances and discomforts of other townsa city without dry land . There is something in the very idea which charms and delights the imagination . And such a city — such magnificent palaces , churcheB , and converts—such spacious quays , and
flights of marble steps—such glittering Oriental splendour — such beautiful , affecting , and picturesque decay ! The dark water flowing between and around ; flashing , and sparkling , and reflecting all objects as in a mirror , binds Venice with beauty . A lamp burning in a wet dirty street is a very common-place object , * but the same lamp , casting a long line of tremulous light on dark waters , becomes beautiful and poetical . And thus it is with Venice . The blue Adriatic still loves his spouse , and mourns . over her , arid decks her with loveliness , of which the despots , who have taken all else , cannot despoil ber .
Present to a Schoolmistress . —The mistress of a parochial school in this county , retiring from her charge , has been presented , says a contemporary , with *' a handsome lady ' s companion . " Wo leave tho reader to guess what that may be . How to Solicit Subscriptions . — In the first place I advise you to apply to all those who you know will give something ; next to those of whom you are uncertain whether they will give anything or not , and show thorn'the list of those who have given ' . and , lastly , do nofc neglect those who you
aro sure will give nothing , for in some of them you may be mistaken . He said he would take my advice . He did so , for he asked of everybody , and he obtained a much larger sum than he expected . — Franklin ' s Autobiography . _. Wht are soldiers like blacksmiths ? Because they are always drilling and filing , A Mr . John Jonks , writing , on the 27 th ult ., to his "dear Betsy , " a pretty Cheshire Abigail , subscribed himself her " true lover , John Jones , -with 2 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 kisses ' . "
"Sir , tou are no gentleman . " "That may be , sir , hut my wife says that I am a gentleman , and I shall certainly believe my own wife before you ; for if a man cannot believe his own wife , pray , who can he believe ?" Indictment of " The Good Old Times . —The Rev . Sidney Smith , after exclaiming—The good of ancient times let others state , I think it lucky I was born so late , goes on to remark * . — " It is of some importance at what period a man is born . A young man alivo at this period hardly knows to what improvements of human life he has boon introduced ; and I would bring before his notice the following eighteen changes , wbich havo taken place in England since I began to breathe the breath of life—a period
amounting now to nearl y seventy years . Gas was unknown—I grouped about tho streets of London in all but the utter darkness of a twinkling oil lamp , under the protection of watchmen in their grand climacteric , and exposed to every species of degradation and insult . I have been nine hours in sailing from Dover to Calais , before the invention of steam . It took me nine hours to go from Ta _\ mton to Bath , before the invention of railroads ; and I now go in six hours from Taunton to London ! In going from Taunton to Bath , I suffered between 10 , 000 and 12 , 000 severe contusions , before stone-breaking Macadam wns born . I paid £ 15 in a single year for repairs of carriage springs , on the pavement of London ; and I now glide , without noise or fracture , on
wooden pavements . I can walk , by the assistance of police , from one end of London to the other , without molestation ; or , if tired , get into a cheap and activo cab , instead of thoso cottages on wheels , which the hackney coaches were atthe beginning of my lifo . I had ho umbrella ; they were little used , and very dear . There were no waterproof hats , and my hat has often been reduced by rains to its original pulp . I could not keep my small clothes in their proper place , for braces were unknown . If 1 had the gout , there was no colchicum ; if I was bilious , there was no calomel ; if I was attacked by ague , thero was no quinine . There wero filth y coffeehouses , instead of elegant clubs . Gam 6 could not be purchased . Quarrels about uncommuted tithes
were endless . The corruption of Parliament before Reform was infamous . There were no banks to receive the savings of tho poor . Tho poor laws were graduall y sapping the vitals of thc country ; and whatever miseries I suffered , I had no post to whisk my complaints , for a single penny , to tho remotest corner of tho empire ; and yet , in spite of all these privations , I lived . on quietly , and _. am now ashamed that I was not moro discontented , and utterly surprised that all these changes arid inventions did not occur centuries ago . I forgot to add , that as the basket of stage coaches in which luggage was then carried had no springs , your clothes wore rubbed all to pieces ; and that , oven in tho best society , onethird of the gentlemen , at least , were always drunk . "—[ Very true , all this , so far as concerns the Sidney Smiths , the " round , fat , oily men of God , " and thc wealth-devourers—but non-producers —generally . But to tens of thousands of workers
and producers , these improvements have been in vain ' . For instance , what has gas , steam , elegant club ** , - " Reform , " -to ., Ac , done , for the"improvement of tho condition of . agricultural labourers ? We know , what the poor law reform ( lauded by Sidney Smith ) has done for them . Wo know , too , what " saving banks " havo done for the workers of Rochdale , and elsewhore . —En . N . S . ] No man has a right to do as ho pleases , except " when he pleases to do right . Time , wnicii is absolutely necessary forthe formation of intimate friendships in the higher classes , is not requisite among the humbler _ordors . The soul forms more ties and relationships in one week among the men and women of nature than in ten years among thoso of society . "¦ . In _rraonis ' _o the eyeholes of needleB by . hand , children , who are the operators , acquire' such dexterity al to bo . able to punch ono human hair and thread ; ifc with , another ,. for the amusement , of visiters . ' "" . " . ' . " . '" '
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£ A 1 U . Extract of a Letter fr _» m Mr . J . H . _Alliday _, 2 tiJ , High-street Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1850 . - ; Sir _*— My eldest son , when about three years of ago , was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck ; , winch after a short time broke out 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 four years weut on gradually increasing in virulence , when besides the ulcer in the neck , another formed below the left knee , and a third under tlie eye , besides seven others on the left arm , with a turnout between the eyes whioh wag expected to break . During the whole of the time my suffering boy had received the constant advice ofthe most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides being for several months at the beneral Hospital , where one of the surgeons said that ho
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Ip Mankind are liahle to one disease more than anothw , or if there are any particular _attections ofthe human body we require to have a knowledge of over the rest , itis _cestainly that class of disorders treated of in the new and In proved edition of the "Silent " _" riend . " Tho authors , la thu 3 sending forth t * the world another edition of their medical work , cannot refrain from expressing their _gratification at the continual success _attsnding their effort _^ , which , combined with the assistance of medicines , excl { U sively of their own preparation , have been tiie happy cauM of mitigating and averting the mental and physicalmiseries attendant on those peculiar disorders ; thus proving the fact ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 30, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_30031850/page/3/
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