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Beauties Of Byron. Ko. Xxv 111. "The Sie...
BEAUTIES OF BYRON . KO . XXV 111 . " THE SIEGE 0 * 1 " _COKDfTH . " The great critic _Jefpbet bas pronounced this poem jo be " a magnificent composition . " For ourselves " , we cannot rate it very hhjaly , _althoagb . it contain * _jasch beautiful poetry , as the following extracts will _teitifj : —
_COBI . NTH . Many * _ranish'd year and age , And temperfs breath , and battle ' s rage Have swept o'er Corinth ; yet she stands , A for tress form'd to Freedom ' s hands . The whirlwind ' s wrath , the earthquake ' s shock , Have left untouch'd her hoary rock , The keystone ofa land , which still , Though fali _' n , loeka proudly on tbat hill , The landmark to the double tide That purpling rolls on either side , As if their waters chafed to meet , Yet pause and crouch beneath her feet .
But could the blood before her shed Since first Timoleon's brother bled , Or baffled Persia ' s despot fled _. Arise from oat the earth which drank The stream of slaughter as it sank , That sanguine ocean would o ' rfiow Her isthmus idly spread below : Or could the bones of all the slain , Who perish'd there , be piled again _. That rival pyramid would rise More mountain-like , through those clear sides , Than yon _tower-capp'd Acropolis , Which teems the very clouds to kiss .
- G 1 XEK _KIOST _SCESE . T is midnight : on the mountains brown The cold , round moon shines deeply down ; Blue roU the waters , blue the sky Spreads like an ocean hong on high . Bespangled with these isles of light , So wildly , spiritually bright ; "Whoever gazed upon them shining Andturn'd to earth without repining-, Nor _wish'd for wings to flee away , And mix with their eternal ray ? ¦ The wares on either shore lay there Calm , clear , and azure as the air ; And scarce their foam the pebbles shook , Bat murmured meekly as the brook .
The winds werepillow'd on the waves ; The banners _droop'd along their staves , And , as they fell around them furling , _Aboie them shone the crescent curling ; And that deep silence was unhroke , Save where the watch his signal spoke _. Save where the steed neigh'd oft and shrill , And echo _answer'd from the hill , And the wild hum of that wild best Rustled like leaves from coast to coast , As rose the Muezzin ' * voice in air In midnight call to wonted prayer ; Itroee , that chanted mournful strain , like some lone spirit ' s o ' er the plain :
Twas musical , but sadly sweet , Such as when winds and harp-strings meet , And take a long unmeasured ton _^ Te mortal minstrelsy unknown . It _seeta'd to those within the wall A cry prophetic of their fall : It struck even the besieger ' s ear With something ominous and drear _. An undefined and sudden shrill , Which makes the heart a moment still , Then beat with quicker pulse , ashamed Of tbat strange sense its silence framed ; Such as a sudden passing-bell Wakes , though hut for a stranger ' s knell .
QBIECE AKD HE * . ANCIENT HEB 0 _JS . Behind the camp—before him lay , la many a winding creek and bay , Lepanto ' s gulf ; and , on the brow Of Delphi ' s bill , unshaken snow , High aud eternal , such as shone Through thousand summers brightly gone , Along the gulf , the meant , the clime ; It wiU not melt , like man , to time : Tyrautand slave are swept away _. Less form'd to wear before the ray ; Bnt that white veil , the lightest , frailest , Whieh on the mig hty mount thou haQest , "While tower and tree are torn and rent ,
Shines o ' er it * craggy battlement ; In form a peak , in height aelond _. In texture like a hovering shroud , Thus high by parting Freedom spread , As from her fond abode she fled , And _lingerM on the spot , where long Her prophet spirit spake in _seng . Oh ! etiU her _itep at moments falters O ' er witherM fields , and rnin'd altars , And fain wonld wake , in souls too broken , By pointing to each glorious token : Bnt vain her voice , till better days Dawn in those yet rememberM rays , Which shone npon the PersiaBflying , And saw the Spartan smile in dying .
The chiefs whose dost around him slumbtr'd ! Their phalanx marsbali'd on the plain , Whose bulwarks were not then in vain . They _felldevoted , but undying ; The _' very gales their names _seem'd sighing ; The waters munnur'd of their name ; The woods were peop led with their fame ; The silent pillar , lone and grey , Claim'd kindred with their sacred clay ; Their spirits _wrapp'd the dusky mountain ,
Their memory sparkled o ' er the fountain ; The meanest rill , the mightiest river , Boll'd mingled with their fame for ever . Despite of every yoke she bears , That land is glory ' s still and their * *! lis stai a watch-word to the earth : "When man wonld do a deed of worth He points to Greece , and turns to tread , So _caaction'd , oa the tyrant ' s head : He looks to her , and rashes on Where Rfe is lost , of freedom won .
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SONGS FOB THE PEOPLE . XO . IV . THE LIGHT OF THE "NORTHERN STAB . " By the last Bard of Breffni , If the Prince of Wales but an eye-tooth cat , If the Princess Royal sp—s , _TwiU be known o ' er the land ere the sun goes down , Thro' each servile cringing news . _HewcvBdoIing- they tell it a dote but sneeze , Or a beggar his lady scare ; While the poor , by thousands , might starve untold , Were it not for the Northern Star ! While Whigs and Tories with factieus views By craft in turn prevail _. Neglecting , or but at best , eonftue The down-sliding public weal : To the dubious future in vain we look _. Till shining , like light from afar , Comes the ever-unerring prophetic truth In the light ofthe Northern Star !
The oolher , who far from the light of day , Gropes on in the gloomy mine ; The weaver , wko toils thro' the long lone night , Lest hungry children pine ; The _pale-faceoTsIavss who pant for air Where wheels and engines jar , Find not one friend to speak their woes Save the voice ofthe Northern Star ! While landed peers and merchant kings O ' er their hoarded miUions brawl , Their slaving serfs ( whose toil and skill Produce their millions all ); Tho " , year by year , of their earnings _rabVd , To tell their -wrongs aoac dare _Sava that _—* M—*¦* , _*—g friend to truth _. The Tefulgent Northern Star . _»
Bright Star of hope , whose enlishf _ning mje Illume the poor man ' * mind , 'Ittlhe now perceives the craft profound That long did bis senses blind ; Knaves preaching patience to wretches _orosh'd Neath-Power ' s gory car , ¦ WIU be laughed to scorn by men grown wise In the light of the Northern Star ! long , long may the light of that Sta » expose The schemes of tyrants grim , Aad shine thro' the mist of the poor man ' s woes , A fiery pillar to him ! leading te liberty ' s promised land , Now faintly seen afar ; ¦ While tyrants crouch , like owls struck blind , In the light of the A ' _ortAsrn Star !
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Parliament _naring w-assembled , and the questions already mooted therein being of the utmost importance , and involving the necessity of our reportins the debates at great length , we are compelled , for the present , to curtail our " Reviews . " ] _TAITS EDINBURGH MAGAZLSE-Fhwabt Edinburgh : W . Tait , Prince ' _s-street ; London , Simpkin and Marshall . Tait opens this month ' s number with a well-fimed ttiircU-reasonedarticleonthe war question , entitled •* War -with America : Are we not Brethren ? " We
wall by to find room for this article , or the most of __ > next week . A good review of " Campbell ' s Lire f English Chancellors" follows . " Our Hearth and Homestead" is the review of an excellent work bearing that title , b y _Jous -bus , author of "The Old English Gentleman , " " The Stage Coach , _"< fcc A portion of the story appeared in _thisma _^ aane some-Sung more than twelve months ago—rather a long time to elapse between the commencement and the conclusion . Sir Thomas Dick Latjdeb . concludes" in this number his Highland tale , " Lore , Jealousy , and Teogeance . " Tno * u Es Qoixcex contributes an
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article on " The Antigone , of Sophocles . " Colonel Jeraso * continues his .-American romance - " _Tonn » _*& £ _T _^^ f _^^ to _^ _uSng ifB a"The Lyric Poetry ef Germany . " The writer consider ; _Kloktock to have been much over-rated . Huv" Messiah' is pronounced to be a failure , or at least as not giving him any claim to rank with _Vuwu , and _Mtltos . Gibim gets a good word as " a rery fair German Anacreon / _a very _igtriotic Prussian grenadier , a Tery kind-hearted man , and a Terr _deroted semnt of ft . Muses » A knot oVgeM young poets at Gottinget . associated under the title of the CoH , «« n Bisnd » and largel y _influencedIby _KwrsiocK , find honourable mention , particularly Holtt . Burgee b described as " one ofthe most perfect masters of the _rmd ballad style that any language possesses . " _. The writer then gires a short analysis ofthe poetical characters of Goeihk and _fccHiiUB . W « extract a portion of his remarks on
GOETHE . Kething , in our opinion , has hurt the reputation of Ooethe more in this country than his having been brought forward principally in two characters , where , whatever be his merits , he was certaialy far from firstrate . Ooethe is neither a first-rate dramatist , nor a first-rate novelist ; and yet any unstudied J » hn Bull , who knows the great Olympian of the German Pnrnassus by name , knows also that he is the author of ** Faust , " and of « Werther , " and of"Wilhehn Meister ; " and knows , perhaps , nothing more . But _"Famst , " with all its high peetie excellencies , is , as a drama , only a second-rate
production . It is pieced together with too obvious coolness in some place * , and wants a perpetual current of action , and a continuity of interest . " Wilhelm Meister , " the British reader thinks , —and he is no bad judge in such matters , —is flimsy and trifling , and wants *> glowing and vigorous reality . So far , therefore , as his carrent translated works go , Soetheeannot be highly estimated by the general English reader ; and the fact of the matter really is , that , like Ovid , Horace , Robert Burns , Beranger , and all great lyrists , Goethe ( for he is a truly g reat ljrist ) can be read and relished perfectly enly in his own admirable tongue .
The writer goes on to say , that "it is in the capacity of a luxuriant lyrist , and in this capacity only , that Goethe is entitled to take _hisstand among the great poets of all ages and nations . " Tha writer concludes his _, analysis by saying : — " Goethe was as great a lyric poet as pure polytheism and the philosophy of Epicurus would allow a naturally great mind to be ; what he wanted to make him perfect was , a few chapters of Seneca , and a slight tincture of Christianity" (!!) . Schiller was a man of a different stamp , and seemingly a greater favourite with the writer in Tait— " a poet of deep moral feelings , and with Christian and _evangelic sympathies decidedly strong . " The writer thinks that , as in the case of Goethe , bo the character by whieh
SCHILTjH Is most generally known in this country , is not that in whieh he has achieved the highest and most unquestioned _excellenee . Schiller ' s Wallenstein is piled np with too much architectural weight in many places , to be a good specimen of the drama ; many of its most attractive beauties . are more lyrical and oratorical than dramatic ; and , generally speaking , we are inclined to suspect that Schiller was both too much of a systematic deliberate German , and too much the victim of _exolosive inward intense emotion , to he unable of reaching tha highest point of dramatic excellenee . As a lyrist , however , after the impetuosity of his first apparition becomes a little more sukject to control , we have no fault to find with him ; and most justly does he merit tliat extensive popularity which he has achieved in competition with the master genius of Goethe .
The '' national" poets ofthe years of the rising of Napolbox—K . 0 BXEB and Schbnkesdorf—are next glanced at . Uhland , the representative of the . " romantic-school , " follows ; and then the writer comes to the poets of the " New Age , " _Herwegu _* , Freili-«! Uth , _Fallbrslebbn , Prutz _, and others . Tho writer gives an account of the infamous frauds and perjuries of the German despots , particularly the late ting of Prussia , in the matter of the promised " constitutions , " & c ., with which our readers must befamiliar . The consequence , as regards poetry , has been " that , the poets of ths day hare become the great prophets of the political opposition , and what St . Paul and the Apostles were formerly , ' the ringleaders of sedition among the people . '" In proof of tbis , an effusion by Prom is given , entitled , "The Story that ' s not true "—very good , but too lengthy for ns to extract . The writer concludes with the following prophetic words on
THI COKING « BMtAH XIVOT . CTION . Ths Czar Nicholas looks like a cwr and speaks like a exar , and uses the knout like a ciar , and no man mistakes him ; so also Austria , "honest old Austria , " sits spread out with a quiet breadth of contented Conservatism on her green gossiping prater at Vienna , and her likewise no man mistakes ; but Prussia , prating magnificently about her Protestantism , her _iuteUigeuce , her high pressure education , her Zolluuions , her _Germaaism , and Liberalism of all kind * , is , when yeu anatomise her closely , a hideous compound of pedant , preacher , and comedian , of coward , slave , and mab . What is to be the end of these things no man knows . For ourselves , we shall not be surprised if the German Lyric Muss , having now at length , in her youngest incarnation , become decidedly political and practical , should quickly learn to indite in a ¦ Said of a more potent virtue , and more perilous coneection than ink . There were songs , « Uo , and tare ones sung at Paris , in the year of grace one thousand ttvenhuulredand ninety . two .
Punch-:Partly. London: Puneh\Office, 85,...
PUNCH-: _PartLY . London : Puneh \ _Office , 85 , Fleet-street . This part commences the tenth volume of our facetious friend Punch , and affords sufficient indications that the volume now commencing will , to lay the least , be not one w ( A ) it inferior to its predeces sors . We hare already given numerous extracts from the numbers making up this part , including that excellent and eloquent protest against legal murder , "The 'Moral Lesson' of the Gallows , which appeared in this paper of January 21 th . As a further specimen ofthe literary merits oftbis part , we give in onr "Tit Bits" column a capital imitation of the famed fable of the " Cameleon , " which every schoolboy has read and admired , and which adults cannot forget . The " illustrations" to PuroA ' s witticisms are as racy as erer . Wemust particularly single out _KcssEiiapplyingforaplaceinttiecharacterofapage ,
and the Queen answering— " I ' m afraid you are not strong enough for the place , John . " Also "The Ministerial Crisis , " a capital caricature ; _Pwtth is represented as the owner of a penny peep-show , with master John Bull as a little bey having a sight . " Showman : 'Onyour right you will perceive a Prime Minister a _Bolishingof _hitself ; and over your left is another Prime MinLttera _Bolishing ofthe Corn Laws . ' Matter John Bull : ' But wliich is the Prime Minister V SJiowman : Whichever you please , my little dear . You pays your money , and you takes your choice . '" Perhaps still better is the " Artful Dodger . ' - ' Peel , as the "Artful Dodger , " and Russell , _asjthe unfortunate " Oliver Twist "—the former addressing the latter says , " Oh , how jolly green you must be to think jou could form a Ministry I" The figure of Peel in this caricature is above all praUe . The other illustrations are all rich and racy , but must be seen to be understood .
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THE ALMANACK OF TIIE MONTH . Edited bt G . A . a'Bkcxbii . London : Punch Office , 85 , Fleet-street . The first number of this admirable " review of everything andeverybody" "kepttheword of promise to the ear , " and now , the second number , unlike the weird sisters , fulfils "it to the hope . " All that the first number led us to hope for is realised in the contents of its successor . The " Almanack of the Month" is now a faite aecomplie .
After " Some account of February" ( a queer aooonntitiB ) _, wehave " Tha Great Event of the Month , " which it * , of coarse , tha opening of Parliament . The narrator of this great event says , very truly , that the Royal procession ib "inferior as a show to the Lord Mayor ' s , which has the extra advantage of being a sort ofthingth & tevery one is allowed , and expected to turn into ridicule . " Still , the opening of Parliament , ini eluding the " Royal Speech , " is , after all , equal , to ' most of the pantomimes . ' We can only give tho names of a few of the principal of the contents , such as "The Debut o f the Month" ( the Dog Entile at Astley ' s _); "The ; Piay ef the Month"jthe two Misses Ccshman , as Romeo and Juliet ) ; " The Exhibition
of the Month" ( the Art Union Cartoons ); " The Great Nuisance of the Month ; " " London by N'ght " ( as seen atthe Colosseum !); " Memorable Days of the Month ; " " The Book of tha Month ; " and " The abuse of the Month . " Most ofthe articles are of a comic character ; but this last named is a serious and appropriate article on the great abuse of the past month , —the legal murders at the Old Bailey and Horsemongcr-lane . We had marked a somewhat lengthy portion of this article for extract , but we find we hare not room for it . We have , how-OTer , extracted several tit-bits , which will be found in their appropriate place . We must not omit the Mowingstriking portrait of
- " THS KAN WHO WAS TE _» T S 1 A * IT . " It strikes u * that Lord John ltuaiell is amazing ly like the " Carrier" in Mr . Dickens' CrUket . He has bsen all kis life " very near it . " He was nearly losing his ministry several times daring the long . Whig , sticking-p laster administration . He was nearly losing his elec tion in the City , only winning it by a miserable majority of two or three . He was very nearly writing a good _trsgedy , and was as near ajwar with France as he eould be . Be was very nearly whining the Chinese war , only the Tories came in and reaped all the benefit of it . In the same
way , he was very nearly proposing the repeal ofthe Corn Laws ; but Peel has since quite cut the corn from under his feet The same with the timber—the sugar duties : —Lord John was near them all ; but Peel , it is confessed ; in all financial reforms , was always much nearer . Again —he was very nearly coming into tbe ministry on the last occasion , and we have ne doubt will be very nearly coming in again , bat if he dees come in , it will be the merest accident that he does not very nearly lose it . We are only afraid _posterity will say of Lord John , "He was not a gr . eat man , but he was very near it . "
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WADE'S LONDON _REVIEW-Februaot . London : C . B . Christian , Whitefxiaro-street , Fleetstreet . In this number wt hare a continuation of the editor ' s romance , " Thc Phases of Love . " Tbe chapters before us are mainl y occupied with tlie heart-stirring , narrative of an unfortunate gypsywoman , who has been rescued from death , and subsequently from insult by tlie heroine of the itory , . _ffeairiee , a Spanish lady . Thus far the story is well told , if it has a fault it is not in the quality , but the quantity doled out mouth by month ; but wc suppose tbis must be submitted to , otherwise the reader could not be furnished with that " variety" which , we _beliere , _maga-jine-readers look for . This storv ' is made
the vehicle , for expressing many bold and beautiful thoughts , such only as a writer possessing noble sympathies and a cultivated mind could give expression to . There is no complete portion of the story sufficiently brief for us to afford room for as an extract . RumouraversthatColonel _TnousoNisoneofthe writers in tbis magazine ; if so , there can be no _diffieulty in assigning the pithy article "On the Duty of a Ministry" to his pen : —its tone and aim our readers will not need to be informed oi . " Hope and Memory " an allegorical poem , by J . G . Grant , is really a rery pretty production , and rery superiorto the generality of magaiine poetry . A pleasing feature in this Review is the re-production of old and curious works , which from their scarcity , or from the fact of their being locked up in languages known only to the few , renders them ( the said works ) unknown to the many . One of such works i ' _b reproduced—at
least in its outline and essence , if not in full detailin the number before ns . This curious old work is the " Daphnis and Chloe" of _Losous , an old Greek _roniancist of the calamitous times that succeeded the death of Theodosius . We had marked an extract illustrative of the translator ' s happy and eloquent style , which unfortunately we are compelled to omit through want of room . Our readers will do well to procure the " London lleTiew _, " and read the story themselves . This number also contains the conclusion ofthe " Life of Liszt , " the celebrated pianist and composer , and the commencement of a sufficiently startling story , entitled " The Mysterious Visitor , " written with the avowed purpose of exhibiting to English parents the danger and folly of sending their children to France and other continental countries to be educated . Notices of new works and theatrical entertainments conclude this number .
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THE CONNOISSEUR-Februabt . London : E . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street . This number of the "ConneiBseur" contains several excellent essays , critiques , notices , & c ., on subjects connected with tho Fine Arts , Music , and the Drama . The opening article , or es ? ay on " Form in Composition" is somewhat too profound for the general reader , but doubtless will be read with much interest by the class to whom it is addressed . "The Study of Music" is an article all may understand , and many may profit by , particularly those of tha uninitiated who are disposed to throw away their money in learning to perform on the Spanish guitar or other instruments , and accomplishing the art of singing musically in " six lessons ! " We hare
before spoken of the excellence of the dramatic critiques , or , rather , criticisms on acton , in this publication . In the present number there is an admirable article on the performances of the _Misses Cushiiak at the Haymarket Theatre , where , our readers may know , the eldest ia performing the part of Romeo , and the youngest _Julitt , to crowded , and , we believe , admiring audiences . We should like to transfer to our columns the greater part of this critique , but the necessity of paying attention to , ani criticising the performances at St . Stephen ' s , leaves us no room to do juctico to subjects which we
must confess are much more to our taste . An article on the " Art Union Cartoons , " with several others , we hare not roem to particularise , are contained in this number . Last , not least , we must notice the magnificent engraving of Raphael , from a portrait by himself . Nature , the painter , and the lithographer hare here combined to present a face which must haunt the thoughts of ladies by day , and their dreams by nights Had we Arnold ' s choice , rather the face of Raphabl than Achilles should be ours . But it is useless for us to prate ; let the reader turn to the " Connoisseur" if he would drink the draught of beauty .
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NO VOTE ! NO MUSKET !! 8 _TAF _* r 0 RD 8 HIRK POTTERIES . A numerously attended publio meeting ofthe inhabitants of Hanley and Shelton was held on Tuesday evening week , in the Christian Brethren ' s Meeting Room , for the purpose of recording their protestation against the threatened embodiment of the militia force . Mr . Henry _Mawdesh / was unanimously ealled to the chair . Mr . Edward Humphreys moved the first resolution in an argumentative and manly speech ; seconded by Mr . Charles Heath , and ably and eloquently supported by our venerable old friend Daddy Richards . Mr . John Moss then moved the petition , which was ably seconded by Mr . J . Yates , and carried unanimously , " that the petition be sinned by thc chairman , and sent to T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., for presentation . " The feeling seemed to be unanimous to suffer imprisonment rather than disgrace themselves by wearing a military uniform .
FBR 8 H 0 RE . At the weekly meeting of the Perhore Chartists , held on Tuesday evening week , it was unanimously resolved to get up a petition to Parliament against the embodiment ofthe militia , several members declaring that if drawn , they would at once declare themselves Chartists , and , of course , dangerous persons ; , and would , if necessary , suffer imprisonment rather than fight against their fellow men . A vote of unbounded confidence in that tried and faithful friend of the working classes , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., was carried by acclamation .
LEEDS . A pnblic meeting respecting the embodiment of the militia , was held on Tuesday evening week , in the Bazaar , Mr . Councillor Brook in the chair , when resolutions were moved and seconded by Messrs . Harris , Hewitt , Shaw , Child , Firth , and Brownridge _, protesting against the enrolment , and a petition agreed to be sent to T . S . Duncombe , Esq , M . P ., for presentation to the House of Commons .
BRISTOL . A great public meeting was recently held in Bristol in tha large room , Broadmead , for the purpose of agreeing to some proceedings in opposition to the contemplated government measure for the enrolment of the militia force of the kingdom . Notwithstanding the exceedingly unfavourable state of the weather the immense building was , by the appointed hour , crowded in _« Tery part ; indeed , it is not often that wc see so large and enthusiastic a meeting . The chair was taken by R . Charlton , Esq ., who delirered a long and eloquent speech , depicting the injustice and horrors of war , the frauds and debaucheries of the _enlistmentsystem , and the horrible tyranny practised in the army . Speaking of the anticipated
embodiment of the militia , the chairman said : — Depend upon it , if the militia was once called out , military men would adhere to it as a means of recruiting the army erer after . Military men knew how to work that out—they had done it before ( hear ) . The plan was to make the militia discipline unduly irksome by the severity ofthe drills , the useof the lash , < tc . While the life of the militia soldier was thus made a painful one , prospects were held out to him to induce him to enlist in the line , such as higher pay and greater indulgence . Thus , by driving on the one hand , and drawing on the other , he was led to enlist into the line . To so great an extent was this the case , during the last enrolment , that from a single militia regiment , in the course of eleven years , 18 , 000 men
volunteered into the line—volunteered it might be called , but it rery much reminded him ofa picture which they sometimes saw in the print-shop windows , into which a man held up a cudgel over the head of another , and addressed him thus— " There is no compulsion , only jou must" ( laughter and cheers . ) They might depend upon it that , with all its abominations , the Ipresent recruiting was preferable to the militia system . He hoped that by the expression of popular opinion the minister might be led to abandon it . But should he not , and should it , in the face of all remonstrance , become the law of the laud , it would then become a serious question to consider what course it behoved them to take . A poor but honest working-man had told him that if he should be drawn
he would go to prison ; and from what he knew of his character , he believed tbat he wonld do so ( loud cheers ); Sure he was that they would find imprisonment in the gaol incomparably less irksome than imprisonment in a barracks ( cheers ) . Any man of . Christian feeling would be _incomparatirely more happy in serving bix months on the New-cut or at Lawford ' _s gate , than in being enclosed in the barracks at _Horfield , with the red lash hanging over liim and learning to degrade himself and butcher his fellowmen ( cheers ) . And if any of those present should resolve , neither by themselves nor a ' substitute _, to learn
to slaughter their fellow-creatures , but to go peacefully to prison and suffer the penalties of the law , thoy would carry with them the sympathies and the prayers of all sincere Christians ( cheers ) . And , in carrying out that great Christian precept , rather to suffer wrong than to do it , they could cheer each other by the language of encouragement which one of the Christian martyrs addressed to his brother martyr at the stake , " Be of good cheer , brother Ridley , for this day there is lighted up a candle in England which , with God ' s grace , never shall be extinguished . " Th » chairman resumed his seat amid prolonged cheering .
Resolutions weremoTed , seconded , andsupported by the Rev . John Burdcr , the Rev . J . J . Wait , R . _Norris , Esq ., H . C . Howell , Esq ., the Iter . W . Lucy , Frederick Wills , Esq ., the Iter . T . E . Thoresby , and Mr . N . Pearce . All the speeches were excellent and eloquent , and elicited the most enthusiastic app lause . We giro the following extracts from the _iipeech of R . Norris , Esq .: —Man possessed inalienable _rights , of which no government had a right to
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deprive him ; The right to worship his Creator , ac cording to the dictates of . his conscience , was one of mem . I he right to say whether he would or would not , at tlie will of an officer , put a fellow creature to death , was another . ( L < md cheers . ) He could see no reason why i _, e should not have as great a hatred of putting a Frenchman to death as of putting an _Englishman -to death . ( Hear , hear . ) He held ne differences of nations . God had made of one flesh every country of the world ; he ( Mr . N . ) recognised in every man a brother , and wished to exercise towards all a brother ' s love . Many persons in England held the ieehng—and he was glad to see that they were increasing in numbers and importance—that war was incompatible with the precepts of the New
Testament . He should like to ask the government what right it had to make him do that which he , in his conscience believed to be sinful , and to do which he knew would bring upon him tlie anger of his Maker ? ( Cheers . ) Should he obey man or God ! The principle to which he had adverted was recognised by some nations—by one it certainly was . If a man in America declared tliat he conscientiously objected to war , lie was freefrora all compulsory service , and from all penalties in consequence of his refusal . Why should they not have the same privileges in England ? No man ought to be compelled by any government to take up arms against his eonscience . ( Cheers . ) There were many sorts of governments ; some were republican , and avowedly wcre influenced
by the will of the people ; others were mixed , having representatives of the people , whose measures were regulated b y the lords and the crown ; others , again , were despotic , and only governed by their own will .. The government which embodied the will of the whole , or nearly the whole of the male population of the land , might righteously do that which a government of one or of a few would hare no right to do . If any one said to him that they ought not to resist that which the government of the country had enacted , his answer would be that the _gorernment represented virtually a rery small number of persons . There were about a million of electors , and seven millions of male adult ? , so upon this showing it at once appeared that the one-seventh made the laws which
were to govern the other six-sevenths . One man made the laws for seven men , the six having no voice in the matter . With these facts before them , and bearing in mind too that the greater part of the boroughs were under the influence of the aristocracy —so called—he would ask what kind of legislation could they expect for the people ? ( Hear . ) Would it not erer be the case , as long as the nature of man remained unchangcd- _^ tl tat the interests of the mil lions would be neglected , and those of the few advanced ? ( Great applause . ) From these and other facts , he believed that the people would continually be troubled with inrasions of their rights , until some organic reform took place in the . representation ( cheers ); and apart from _ererything like
violenceapart from all appeals of physical force , ho would say —Let the principles of the People ' s Charter be considered by all the friends to the liberty of their country . ( Applause , and slight disapprobation . ) He was glad to know that the principles of peace were being generally adopted , and that associations had been formed in this city and elsewhere , not to proride substitutes , but to sustain those who go to orison , and endure the utmost extremity which the law could enforce . That was the course ho recommended every lover of peace to _pursue . ( Cheers . ) He knew not what was the punishment of the law , neither did he care ; that principle he had resolved to act upon , and , with submission , he desired to be drawn . ( Continued applause . ) Nathaniel Pearce , formerly a soldier in the 63 rd regiment , who , in a long ; and clever speech , of which our sDace will not permit of our attempting a report .
detailed some of the ricissitudes of a soldier ' s life . He stated the military life to be in peace one of extreme labour , and in war one of privation , danger , and suffering . He described the horrors of a battle , and the devastating influence of war upon the commercial prosperity of a country . The working men of this country were now labouring three days in every week to pay the interest on the war debt . Since in 1815 we had spent five hundred millions in war , and had slaughtered countless thousands . The lash was still in Uf * e in the army , and there had recently been somo appalling cases of its use . He was g lad that a new feeling was growing up in the country ; meetings had been held at Birmingham , Liverpool , and elsewhere , and the people had determined not to fight . He hoped ali present , had made up their minds to keep a conscience roid of offence , sheathe the sword , and spare mankind . ( Cheers . )
ALTA . A public meeting of the inhabitants of Alrawas held in the People ' s Hall , on Tuesday evening , Jan . 27 th , for thc purpose of considering the best means to be adopted | to prevent the raising of the militia . Mr . Andrew Mc'Kenzie was called to the chair . Accounts of meetings , relative to the subject of the militia-raising were read from tho Northern Star , as also an article from the _Aimeon / _ormist ; after which a resolution was passed , en which a remonstrance is to
be founded , to be sent to Sir Robert Peel , urging him not to raise the militia force ; and a petition to Parliament , pray ing them to abolish altogether the Militia Law . The meeting was one in which the greatest interest was felt . The hall was crowded , and the discussions on the various topics that came under their consideration were carried on in the best spirit . At twelve o ' clock the meeting broke up , when all dispersed , thoroughly convinced , not only ol thc injustice ofthe Militia Law , but also of the inhuman and unchristian practice of war .
LIICESTBR . One ofthe largest and most spirited meetings held in this town _was convened in the Town-hall , on Monday evening , to consider thc propriety of petitioning against the calling out ofthe militia , and for the adoption ot treaties with foreign nations for the settlement by arbitration of all quarrels whicli may arise . Mr . Alderman Ellis ( deputy-chairman of the Midland Railway Company ) was unanimously called to preside . Mr . W . E . Hutchinson ( town councillor ) moved the first resolution , condemning all war as inconsistent with Christianity and productive of great moral injury , and asserting that nations ought to settle their disputes by other means than force of arms . The Rev . J . Stevenson seconded the resolution , which was agreed to unanimously . Mr . Joseph Sturge , of Birmingham , amidst much
cheering , moved a resolution , stating a number of objections to the war-like movements of the government . He drew attention to the unconutitutionalness of a standing army in time of peace , and to the wise jealousy of our ancestors respecting it , and in a speech of some length advocated passive resistance to military service ; and subscriptions for the families of those who Buffered ibr such resistance , in preference to payments to clubs for substitutes . He concluded amidst much cheering , Mr . J . Pcgg , an operative , seconded the resolution ; and stated that lie had resolved neither to serve nor to subscribe ; which dieted general applause . The chairman stated that he had been three _timca drawn for the militia , and on refusing to serve , was each time distrained for the amount , sheep haring been taken from him .
After the adoption ofsoraeothor resolutions , and a petition founded on them , the meeting broke up .
SOWRRBT ASD BOTUKD . At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Sowcrby and Soyland , held in the Association Room , Long Royd , on Sunday , the 1 st February , the following resolution was adopted : " That in the opinion ot this meeting the contemplated embodiment of the militia force is an act of tyranny towards tho unrepresented classcB of the community , violating the first principles of justice ; and that it would stamp the working classes with eternal infamy if they allowed it to be carried into effect without protesting against it by the strongest effort the law and
constitution allows . And that this meeting further believes that the alleged cause for this tyrannic act , viz ., Iho prospect of war with America relative to the Oregon territory , is one in which their best interests are perilled , which can only tend to throw into confusion the dearest interests of tho empire : and that they will not allow their family tiea to bo torn asunder , their domestic comforts to be invaded , nnd their liberty sacrificed , in order that their brethren in America may be slaughtered , and a fresh impulse given to despotism and misrule . " At the conclusion a vote of thanks was given to the chairman , and the meeting separated .
HANCHIBTER . A large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of Manchester was held this evening ( Monday ) , at the Corn Exchange , with a view to pass resolutions condemnatory of the proposed enrolment of the militia . The Rev . Wm . M'Kenwtook thechair . He said , one ground of his objection was , that the militia system was calculated to excite and foster a war spirit , and to throw back the spirit of civilisation . The military spirit was a bad spirit . They had endearoured in their Sunday schools to teach this , —to show that the soldier was not the hero he had been generally represented to be . He could easily imagine the child , playing with its father ' s aceoutrements , and listening to his stories of drills and field days , induced to forget the lesson of good thus instilled in the moment of excitement , and he did net wish that their work should be thus put aside . The
inducement to our gorernment , he had heard it stated , for wishing to raise this force , was to spare troops for the colonics . . This colonial system , he feared , was the excuse for erery aggression upon our rights —( hear , hear)—for taxation , for commercial restrictions , and for oppression . ( Cheers . ) Colonies ! What had we to do with colonics , if thoy were to be a perpetual burthen ? Give us free-trade and free intercourse with erery country as well as with our colonies , and gire to the colonists the same ri ght , and then there would be no need for _expensire military establishments , but all would flourish alike , and all be interested in each other ' s prosperity . But hitherto , our colonial system had been only a system of taxation . It had been made only the means of proriding for a young aristocracy , at our expense , who had not thc _mairlines * to earn their own bread b y their own labour . With respect to tho reasons why gorernment were about calling out the militia , it
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occurred to him that they had a difficulty in getting soldiers . * ' Thc people were '' getting' too sober ' atid 'too thoughtful-to enlist . ( Hear . ) Let people be compelled to go out , however ; let them go to drill , and their present , habits mig ht be made to undergo a _cliiiniso . it was this lie feared , and this he did not _wibIi to expose them to . ( Cheers . ) lie objected to war , on thc broad ground that it was opposed to the whole spirit of Christianity . ( Hear , hear . ) They might be told that they wero not patriots , that they had not love of countrv ; but ho replied that their country was tho world ! ( Applause . ) Their patriotism waa the pure spirit of philanthropy , embracing all wen , _whaterer their country , or ereed , or condition . ( Cheers . )
R . Charlton , Esq ., of Bristol , moved the first resolution . After dwelling on the hardships suffered by recruits , he said—In some districts of Gloucestershire the recruiting seijeant might whistle from morning till night , and scarcely get a , recruit . This was one reason why government might wish to havo the militia out ; and another was , the extraordinary mortality in the army in India and China . It was calculated that the 7 £ > th Highlanders , in India , would be thinned to such a degree that , in December next , not more than 200 out of the 900 men would ba left . ( Hear , hear . ) It was a most shocking thing that these recruiting Serjeants , acting in , and making the most lavish use of the Queen ' s name , should be allowed to go forth , first debauching the youth of tho
country , and then entrapping and sending them into lasting slavery . ( Applause . ) One of the worst evils of this system was the tax it was upon the working class . It was said in favour of it , that it dwelt with all classes of men alike ; but was it dealing with all alike to make the poorest labourer pay the same for his substitute as the richset merchant ? ( Hear , hear . ) Having got men into the militia , it was said that they might please themselves about going into the regular force . But this was a pretext that must not be allowed . Let men once get into the militia _, and a system would- be brought to bear , which would
soon cause numbers to enlist into the regulars . One _meanB was , the better pay which would be offered . It was calculated that , one way or other , 18 , 000 men in the last war were induced to " volunteer , " as it was called , into the army . It was said to bo their own voluntary act ; but it was , in truth , as much a voluntary act as was that which a man did because he could net help himself . The system reminded him of that put in practice by the policeman , who said , "There ' s no compulsion , but you must . " ( Laughter and applause . ) He concluded by moving — " That this _mneting regards the proposed measure te enrol the militia of Great Britain for immediate
service , as bung not only opposed to the dictates and sp irit . of Christianity , but as calculated to awaken the jealousy , and to increase the military armaments of other nations ; te produce ' irreligion , internpwance , and immorality in the community ; to augment the already excessive military burdens of the kingdom ; to press with peculiar hardship upon the poorer classes ; to affect the prosperity of th _» country , and to fester a military spirit , baneful in its principle , inconsistent with _natire British liberty , and _unsuited to the spirit of the times . " ( Cheers . )
Mr . John Jefferson , Secretary ofthe London Peace Society , seconded the resolution . The Militia Act gave the Queen power to enrol and embody such a force at a fortnight ' s notice . The government had already made provision for calling out the militia ; they had given notice to the lord lieutenants for the staffs to be ready , and the lists were out to be filled Hp of all persons liable to serve . What could this mean but that the militia was to be enrolled ? According to the Quoen _' s speech , there was no likelihood of war , nor was there , according to Sir R . Peel ' s speech , any prospect of sedition or disturbance at home . There was no knowing , then , what was the object of government in calling out the militia . It had been said that the militia were not to be called
out fur the usual term of twenty-one days , but for three years at a time , and tnosewlio _Uiuugixt . pivpm were to hare the privilege of _rolunteering into tha line . Then , again , orders were giren to hare 42 , 000 suits ef military accoutrements ready by the spring . These clothes wore wanted for somebody—( near , hear , and a laugh)—and the number strikingly corresponded with the number that would have to be called out of the militia for the first three years . He advised them not to join militia clubs , because they were held at public-houses . But there was another _msde of going to work . Let them operate upon the legislature , which was the only way to atop the evil . Mr . Duncombe and Mr . Bright had asked if the militia wcre te be called out this yc & r , but
could not get a direct answer . Sir James uraham was proposing to bring in a bill to embody the existing Militia Acts , but this act might _propsse the three years' permanent service , and the peop le of Manchester might be called together in a few weeks , again to oppose such a bill . If they were , let them not stop short , but hare all the Militia Acts abolished , and no new one enacted . ( Cheers . ) At present all the power given by the Militia Acta was to call out the militia for twenty-one days . He called attention to the militia oath . He hoped there were many present who objected to any form of oath . ( Hear , hear . ) This oath was another form of that employed in the line , by which a man swore to do as his superiors should order him ; in fact , it was taking . an oath to
submit themselves to the most abject slaveryslavery both of soul and body . It was not their question , once having taken this oath , whether that wliich they were ordered to do was right or wrong . The Duke of Wellington said the army knew better than to entertain an opinion npon a political question , ( " Hear , " and a laugh . ) A body of men wero once marched to the boundary of an unhealthy district , and mutiniod rather than enter . They had promised to obey their superiors , and six of _fhe ringleaders , kneeling on their own coffins , were deliberately shot . ( " Shame , shame ! " ) Would the meeting consent to be forced into such slavery as this ? ( Loud cries of " No . " ) Now , what did they mean by not serring ? Did they mean they would not serve in the militia personally —( " No , we won't "or did they mean they would each find a substitute ? ( " No , no ; we'll do neither . " But the Act provided _forcompulsory measures being adopted unless
a substitute were found , and this militia system therefore was worse than the enlisting system . ( Hear , hear . ) What wages were they to have ? A shilling a day , or rather , deducting id . for linen , die ., they had 8 d . a day : could they not make more of themselves than that ? ( Laughter . ) How much would they send out of this to their wires and families ? ( Applause and laughter . ) Why , according to the New Poor Law , if their wivos and families became chargeable during their service they were liable to be made to repay th * amount . ( Shame . ) And if they had not the money the guardians had power to hare it deducted from their wages . ( Shame , and great sensation . ) He concluded by calling upon the _pecple to nerve themselves to this service and tell the gorernment they would hare no more war ; and if the British gorernment gave up the system of standing armies and of war , depend upon it all others would follow tbe example . ( Loud cheers . ) The resolution was carried by acclamation .
Mr . Benson then read a petition , founded upon the resolution , to the House of Commons . Mr . Prentice moved the petition . He said it had been stated by Mr . Jefferson , that fhe people called Quakers wcre exompted from taking oaths , and from serving in the militia . Now ho should like them to inquire how it was they had this exemption . ( Hear , hear . ) And it would be instructive to them to take home the reason . It was simply because they exercised what was called passive resistance . ( Cheers . ) Why was it they would not bear arms ? Because they conceived it to be wrong ; and , believing so , they did not bear arras , but suffered themsolves to be sent to prison instead . ( Applause . ) They were called upon to consider the 'ballot . What ballot ?
( Applnuse . ) They were told they could not have the power to vote at elections by ballot , because it was sneaking aud un-English ; but was it not far more sneaking and un-English like to enlist men , and compel them to become soldiers by ballot ? ( Cheers . ) Why aid they not adopt the more manly course in this system of choosing men publicly ? If they had the men in every street drawn up in line , and chose from them , they would hare no cripples or inefficient men ; why not adopt it , then ? Because there might be a shriek from some boy in the crowd , " Tou are taking my father I" and the men of Manchester , haring the sympathies of men , might not allow a father to be taken from his child . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , if the people wcre prepared to do as the Quakers did , there was a _suggestion he bad to make to government—it was to whisper in their ears that they might get
together the militia , but that , when they had got them together , " would they act ? " ( Loud cheers . ) If they had militiamen , thoy would bare anti-corn-law men , anti-union men , and anti-state-church men , and universal suffragists ; but if they wero called upon to go against any of these movements , could it bo expected they would act ? ( Loud cries of " No , " and a voice " No rote , no musket ! " and cheers . ) Yes , that should be the answer . If they were called upon to fight , let them say , " You would not trust me to rote , and I will not fig ht your battles . " ( Cheers . ) The Rev . Dr . Beard seconded tho motion , and it was supported in an eloquentspecch by the ller . E . P . Hood , and agreed to unanimously . The Rer . Dr . _Massie then proposed an address to tho Americans , as brethren deprecating war , and it was seconded and carried by acclamation . The meeting separated at a late hour .
" No Vote , so Muskbi . "—[ From a Correspondent . ]—In a __ shop window in St . John-street , West . Ssuithfield , is exhibited the following protest : — " This is to certifv , that I will neither be a manslayer , nor learn the art and mystery of the profession at the bidding of any man , or any combinations of men called governments , and ( as in consistency bound ) am equally resolved not to find a substitute to aet the criminal for me . Further , that in my humble opinion , any man who voluntarily permits his bones and muscles to be used by his follow men as a mcro machine for any purpose their _wisdem or folly may suggest , can only be regarded with pity or contempt . —( Signed ) C . Hook . "
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THE POLITICAL CAMELEON . Oft has it bsen my lot to see ' As great a fool aa fool couul D 9 ( Attending- meetings , with a shout , That 'twould be bettor Peel were out ; While others noisily maintain They ' re glad that he is in again . One would at once refuse submission , And one would bow to his _ducisioh . Two politicians , each inclin'd , To be of quite a _diffsrent mind , _Begai to have a quiet chat On lometiinesthis , and sometimes that , _Discours'd awhile , with earnest xeal , About ttut bold Cameleon , Peel , Aud rery _unergetio grow Upon the subject of his hue . " A stranger animal , " cries one , " Sure never bask'd In fortune ' s sun :
A Tory ' s body , slow and long , A landlord's head—free-trader ' s tongue ; Its he . _-. rt to quick repeal inclined But for its-length of tail behind , Which checks its pace ; and then its hue , Did _aiiytbimr e ' er look so blue t " " Hold , there ! " the other quick replies , " lie's _grsen : I saw It with these eyes , As lute upon the ground he lay , Thrown over iu the oddest way ; Resigned—without a cause I
mean—Could anything be half se green !" " I ' ve seen him , sir , as well as you : I tell you that he look'd quite blue , When he awhile was in the shade , And I , John Russell , progress made . " '" Twas green , sir _; green , sir , I assure ye . " " Blue I" crieB the other , in a fury . So high at last the contest rose , They very nearly came to Wowb I When luckily they spied a third : To him the matter they _refarr'd ,
And begg'd he'd tell them if he know Whether the Peel was green or blue . " Sirs , " cried thc umpire , "cease your pother ; He ' s really neither one nor t ' other . I saw the animal one night , Viewed by tho House of Commons light ; I marked him well—I can ' t forget , For then he seemed as black as jet . You staro , my frltnds ! " " Indeed we do . " " 'Tis green . "— «< * Ti 6 black !"— " Nonsense ! 'tis blue . " " Suppose , as we are all in doubt , " Cries one , " at once we turn him out . " Before they'd time to do it quite ,
The Peel appeared—and lo ! ' twas white ! All stared—aud all looked wondrous wise , " My friends , " the sleek Cameleon cries , "You all are right and all are wrong , I ' m all by turns , and nothing long . 'Tis just according to the view , That I am black , or green , or blue , I but reflect es . ch passing ray That seems the brightest for the day ; And friends , I hold it no disgrace To suit my colour to my _plaee . " Punch .
Equestrian Fxats . —The French are always shooting _Abd-el-Kader ' s horse . This is done with the good-natured view of enabling the Emir to get off all the easier . —Ibid . Promotion fob Brougham .. —On the night of the _Addresia , _Brougham made a speech in the Lords , so entirely foolish and unreasonable , that it is said he is to'be made a Duke . —Ibid . Eaul Marshal of England—the getter-up of all state processions , who has the grouping of all the state _supenumeraries , and is , in fact , a sort of stagemanager to the Roval Household ,,, ThpV _. _jii-1 Mav . _ehai io iu « neau or tlio iicraliTB-ofhce ; but as Tery little head ia used in that office , the situation is a sinecure . The post is hereditary in the family of the Duke of Norfolk , whose illustrious name will live as long as peppers , and that sort of thing , hare the power of preserving it . —Rid ,
Alliteration Artpullt Applied . —Adored And Angelic Amelia , —Accept an Ardent and Artless Amorist ' s Affections ; Alleviate An Anguished Admirer ' _s Alarms , And Answer An Amorous Applicant ' s Avowed Ardour . Ah ! Amelia , All Appears An Awful . Aspect : Ambition , Avarice , And Arrogance , Alas ! Are Attractive Allurements , And Abase An Ardent Attachment . Appease An Aching And Affectionate Adorer ' s Alarms , And Anon Acknowledge Affianced Albert ' s Alliance As Agreeable And Acceptable . Anxiously Awaiting An Affectionate And Affirmative Answer , Accept An Ardent Admirer s Aching Adieu ' . —Albert—Albany , August .
Romantic Stort . —A young milkwoman , of the environs of La Baumette , newly married , was carrying the produce of her dairy to the market of Angers , when she found on her way a black cow fastened to a tref , and at a safe distance lay under another tree a largo bundle . Her curiosity was first attracted to the latter , which * she found to contain a beautiful babygirl , wrapped in fine linen and warm flannels . On further examination she discovered a purse , containing twenty-fire Napoleons , and an anonymous letter , intimating that the mother of the child was driven
by powerful considerations to part with it for screral years ; that the 50 () f . wcre for the person who would humanely _sapply her place , and the black cow was te afford the child milk ; adding , that every year the foster-mother should receive an ample sum for the maintenance and education of the child , until circumstances permitted its natural parent to resume tho oharge . The young milkwoman accepted the trust thus reposed in her , and , instead of proceeding to the market , hastened home with the foundling , the cow , the purse , and the letter . —French paper .
tit-bits prom thu almanack op the month . Posthumous Honours . —Sir David Wilkie ' s palette is placed in a frame beside his statue . When Lord Brougham ' s offigy is erected it is contemplated , on tlie same principle , to give incroased interest to the sculpture by the addition of liis lordship ' s tongue . Improvement op tub Month . —It has been at length determined to put the fountains at Trafalgarsquare to somo useful purpose , for the attempt to render thorn ornamental is now abandoned on all aides . The area is to be converted into a washing establishment for the poor , who will be allowed to resort to one of the ba ; ins as a tub for _cleansing , and to the other for rinsing . The steam engine will convey hot water into the former , and supply the latter
with cold , as usual . Soft soap will be supplied by the policeman on duty , whose civility has long been the admiratton of the whole neighbourhood . A lino will be brought from the coil of rope at the top of tho column , and made fast to the bridle of George thc _Fburth ' _s horso , for the purpose of drying the clothes ; and the animal himself will be let out as a clotheshorse , for airing the finer sort of things . It is also in contemplation to permit the use of the basins , at an early hour in the morning , ns public baths . The terms will be a halfpenny a plunge for grown persons , and three a-penny for children . A shower-bath under the Fountain will be charged according to time . Persons requiring the water warm , will use the right-hand basin ; those who are _disposod to take it cool , may go tothe left .
Mxmorable Dats op the _Mostbv—There are several days in the month of February that will always be memorable in history . The first event of any importance happened on the 2 nd , when tea made its dibits in England in the year 16 * 66 * . It is said "he must have bsen a brave man who first ate an oyster , " and there can be no doubt that she was a courageous old lady who first tried a cup of Twankay . Tlie 5 th of February will always be celebrated as the day on which Sir R . Peel was born in 1788 , and it is
a curious fact , that about the same time in the year 1816 he will be declared not to be borae by the Agricultural Protectionists . Thc 12 th will always be renowned as the day on which the national debt was first _incurred so far back as the year MOO . By a strange coincidence , the p laguo broke out in the same year in London . It would take up too muoh of our space to say what the national debt was , in tlie first instance , owing to . Some think that it originated in our having borrowed a sovereign from the House of Lancaster .
Look to tour Chbap Tea . — If you please , Mrs . Smith , mother says will you send her a few tea leaves V " Yes , my dear , but you must let me have them back again , as I always sells them . " Jokes in _Statukb . —Over an ironmonger ' s shop in the Strand may be seen a full-length statue of Justice holding a pair of _scalos , but unfortunately ono scale is erer so much lower than tlio other . It only requires the two scales being labelled " rich" and " poor , " and the satire on the present age is perfect . Extraordinary Crammer . —Sevoral ostriches hare
been sent as presents by tho Emperor of Morocco to Louis Philippe . The powers ot digestion of these extraordinary animals , since their arrival , have been Tery _sererely tested , for , on trying them with an official account of Marshal Bugeaud s victories , they actually swallowed it . For the future the Algerian dispatches are to supersede the ostriches' usual diet of tenpenny nails and door-knockers . Know Trtsklp . —It ' s all very well to say "Know thyself - , " but supposing yon never find yourself at
home , how are you to get an introduction ? GkrmanJ Politeness . — The Frankfort Journal gives the following anecdote : — " About a week ago the Duke of Nassau , while walking on tho banks of the Rhine , near Mayence _, asked a boatman whether the river continued to rise ? ' You , ' replied the man , using a term equivalent to calling thc Duke a stupid ass , ' hare been walking an hour here , and ask me whether the water rises 1 ' The Duke turned away laughing . * Do you know whom you hare been talking to V asked a second boatman to the first . ' No 1 who was he ? ' ' Why it was the Duke of
Nassau ! ' ' Well , I am glad I was not rude !'" SIMI'LB SOLUTION 0 ? THK BOUNDARr QUESTION _ENOLA-1 D AND AUEMCA . All obstacles would disappear If the two nations would combine
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 7, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_07021846/page/3/
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