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THE HOEY _ALLLISCE'OF _XATIOSS . ISnTATED FE 05 I BEBAXGEt . Insatiate War his " Woody wings _Knfarled , _Andfled the fields his demon hands had torn , And heaven 4 > orn Peace descended on the world ' -flinging around her flowers and ears of _conu _-Orsasa-Ott goddess , "hear , ye - nations , hear ! English , _Fi-eneh , German—aR contending lands—Term an alliance holy and sincere , -tod join , join hands ! = 0 man 5 poor lump of sanguinary mud : Open your eyes , and he no longer _fgjul-Why should ye rage and shed each other ' s blood _. Because some tyrant thinks his realm confined ? -Why , when heraounts bis chariot should ve cheer E ' though lis hot _wheels crush the trodden ' lands f form an alliance holy and sincere ,
And 30 m , join hands J " Lo ' . ' mong the com , now bruised and trampled down Ten ihonsana _roiaiershreathed fteir dying groan-- - ' And at each border , fort , _andfrontier town Theharren soil grows rich with ' _btnnan _tones ; The land war-torch , blazing for and near , Ha ? filled with terror aR the suffering lands . Torm an affiance h _^ y _ju , _a sincere , And join , join hands J - _jShonldmiDjons perish in their cursed strife , Still monarehs think their battles cheaply won ; What do they care for wasting human life 1 They gain a province and the thing is done 1 Then np to heaven their haughty heads they rear , And prate of glory to the bleeding lands . Form an alliance holy and sincere ,
And join , join hands ! " Why _shotdd your glory , founded on yonr woe , Dazzle your eyes , and yoke yon to their car ? Are ye the gainers hy fheir warlike show ? Fools that ye ' ve been , short-sighted that ye are , _THiy should these tyrants trouble thus your sphere . And with their quarrels decimate fhe lands ? Form an alliance holy and sincere , And 3013 a , join bands \ ' ¦ ' Yes , iree and happy let the world repose—Sheathed be the sword—and he the cannon dumb And let fhe memory of your former woes * Make yon the wiser in ihe days to come . " Then shidl - ripe corn-fields all yonr labours cheer , And therea vintage gladden all the lands . 7 _wm an alliance holy and sincere , And join , join hands 2
Tins 10 the nations spoke the . seraph Peace—The -vintage ripened and the rich corn _grew—Jlen bade their struggles and their warfare cease , And youths and maidens danced upon the dew . Then hear , ye nations ! hear , yepeqples , hear ) freedom and wealth shall gladden all yonr lands , "When that affiance , holy and sincere , Has joined all hands I
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XETEB , GIVE UP . Never pre np ! it is wiser and hetter Always to hope than once to despair : Fling off the load of Doubfs cankering fetter , And break the dark spell of tyrannical care ; _Screr give up : or the trarden may sink you ~ Providence kindly has mingled the Cup , And , in all trials or troubles , bethink you , The watchword of life must be , Never give up !
Sever give np 1 there are chances and changes Helping fhehopeful a hundred to one , Ana inrough fhe chaos High Wisdom arranges Ever success—if _yonll only hope on : _Jlferergjvenpl for ihe wildest is boldest , Knowing that Providence mingles tbe cup ; And of all _nsdms thehest , as the oldest , Is the true watchword of Never give up ! _Kever give up I—tho * the grape-shot may rattle , Or ihe full thunder-cloud over yon burst , Stand like a rock , —and the storm or the battle little shall-harm jou , though doing their worst Sever give up 3 if adveriaty presses ,
_Providence wisely bas mingled tht cap , And fhe best counsel , in all your distresses , Is the stout watchword of Sever give np !
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_COMXGSBY ; or , THE NEW GENERATION . Bv B . _U'lsnieu _, Esq ., M . P . —Loudon : Coloum , Great Marlborou _^ _-street . t & _mtmteil- from tne Northern Star of February 1 st . ) The opening chapters of the second _volume exhifeed _CosDcnsrBrarrireJat ! _Sfanchesfer , whither he has _feenledby _csriosity to see the won & era 01 the capital m manufactures . Mr . _D'Ishaeii paints the manu & iuruig system _socoufetw * de rose , thatweapprehend _fetii eniployeis and employed will be astonished at 1 e descriptions . The former will he mightily Slll-Hisd to loam ihat they arc the good and amiable assets represented ; while the latter will wonder how _Mr-U'Is'tii-LieYer came to dream of such happiness
_SOE their lot as hehas depicted . Aceordmsto Mr . _inisrij , fhe female wavers , working a thonsand « _Ss _^ . _% > nndred together in a room , are decked in " ted . _necl-Jaces , '' ' " some pretty , some pert , some _nseefalandjoeund , some absorbedin their occupation ; ¦ afetk serious seme , few sad . " Again , in describing lie locale of the elder Miixbase , we have pictured a ¦ ' psenvaJley , " " a broad _meadowland , " " and very _^ _dm trees ; " and here stands the -mill of _Osvuii _iimuxK . The workeis at this mill live in a " _pic-^ _Be-soe village" close hy , which Tillage has ite I " _* am room , " "library , " and " reading hall . " i _^* _arcitmulowner , itappeai * 3 , hadbuilt " churches , I _$# h ami institutes , " for the benefit of his
_ys & _s . lie had also built for them "bouses S 3 _cottaees on a new system of _rentila 35 . " iiadprovidea them with "garden allotment ; . " _^ _fsablished " singing classes / ' This "happy _^ f is _atuatcd three Tulles irom Bolton , but _Jlifher north , east , sonth , west , or whieh of the _S-aapdiatc points of the compass , Comngsby saitb _s _, __ A voyage of discovery , an ~ expedition in search _= * _-iKKEioii of the blessed , would surely be worth < s * liile of others besides Mr . © 'Israeli . Should _«?« " imr Bolton readers be disposed to make the ? _Me hope _tliey will let us know the result of their - % _& - The discovery of the much-sought
_north-^ I * _^* , would lye nothing tothe discovery of - _^ _t _fisraeli ' s I _^ meashire Eden . Alas ! for this i _^ an ' s _fauc-iful pictures , the stem realities of - _'iiaiflsfaeiuring _svstem . are too well known to need _Nacflatin-j in opposition to Mr . _O'lssAEifs _base-? _= i 2 oas . Before that gentleman again ventures a _~? _¥ _t ' _- '* Lancashire Me , we advise him to apply * _i { ffd _AsatET for a few useful facts ; and instead of _, _-aoentaiising at the _Manchester Athenasum with _*^ S _aiu } Co ., let him apply himself to the _Alan-^ F _* _workers , -visit iheir homes , and learn from _^ _JjPS _, male and lemale , the -workings ofthe sys-¦ _^ - _•^ mistakiiigly lands .
3 _™ _er AIuiimxk , even with all Mr . D'Iskaeu ' s ' _S " ° iyhe tramistakeable representative j !? order . " ¦ _Brious of tlie landed _aristoeiaey , _rs-act thdr _ijgnsire privileges he wars against , . _J- _^ _'nst the fact of hi s own exclusion from a par _d on iu those privileges . He denounces as _^ oas and monstrous that dukes and earls who _^ -i « - richer than we ( tbe mffloerats ) are " shonld _^ laakeK for the nation . He is not , however , l _^ d _toun ari _& oeiaev _, but is for what he calls " a " ¦ _*• * natural one " : — " i _SllCfEA ~* s _niEiS OF A " 5 ATCEAI _? ' _ABlSTOCHAQl , s _feluhere tou j-on _^ la y natural aristocracy f _^' - _'• _jasngsby . _^ _« DOB » those men-whom a nation recognises as the _i . " _^™ for - _"vtne , talents , and propcrty 3 and if you !!**! " ninli ; md standing in the land . They guide
opi-* _7- _* n _» i therefore ihey govern . I am no levdler ; I ' _*?& a an artificial equality as equally pernicious -with * _3 _Soas aristocracy -. botli _flepressingfhe energies , and ! _^* f the enterprise of a nation . 1 like man to be 7 i = _olly _Sree ; fi « e in Ms industry as wdl as his - ' ¦ " r _^* ¦ r « i < ler will observe that the most eminent for ' ' _{?* h _^ nh , and standing , are to be the aristocrats _«* _leou _,,,, lord ' s ) new regime . True , " virtue " 3 " aleiiis- " are not omitted , but these , we suspect , - ' - _'relofarc stand but a poor chance of enno-! ?! ; »«• _* h « i unaccompanied by " property , " We ¦ _-Jm _•« w oresj _;« t-hiiens of a millocrafspolitical _,
_^ h + Jv _* ° rSCI : S or THE _XXOUSB _TJEEBAGE . _v * "; ' _7 r n . _caiicdiusnTStTarliament , tliere were _i-. _V-f _^ ' Ian l _* oral _reersto be found , and even _& aL . ' { o t * their seats illegally , for they had heen % . 5 Wlho 5 e twenty-nine not five remain , and they , ' _* _« _. ., T'M'ds for 3 nstaate > are HOt _J fonnim nohiliry _Zij-t * Ea s _^ _Shpeerage to three sources -. the _spolia--1 > I i _, t 2 iard ) ' ° I ' en and _^ grant sa 7 e * ° f ite h 0 " ' ¦' / atLS * . ( rlfler _Stnarts ; and the borong hmongering _ir _^^^ _K- Those are the three main sources of _Nt _f . _^ 3 IMra _S _^ England , and , in my opinion ,
dis-* _k a ! " A SEC 0 SD _tEGIStiTIVE CHAHBER . ' _Z'i _nT ' a I , 0 Pnlar assembly elected by theflower of _x . _^ _fctipiiatc ? if predpitate , what senate ' ls _^* 3 . a 3 stm % so Chosen ? So , no , no ; tbe thing _[ % , " _**<*<* wA over again ; _theidea . of restrain' _^ -JuZfM _^ _*** weak _« an absurdity ; fhe _uuesji * A _^« _^^ ewanteaa & _eshiHnstrationjWeneed _^ _jj _^ present state of our own House of lords . 5 s * t _^^ S * , it has , in foc _^ announced itself as : _< _-W _<* / ZL 0 _* f _He _^ _stration of the decrees of your _W _ - * - _* ° wn ) oas _ _^ " _RSSa _?*^ the _"hereditaty _incora-* _^ _iavTi lil - - _'snashed , as _Broker Jonathan ff _. rJ , . ' Uie firsf . t _Jl . ~ . _^»* _= Bnt .. in the uu
_, __ , : _*^ eB _f _«* rat is madetoBroveJpomnchTor _*&** k % -u - _V * _V _* _^ _ntter _;* _oselesshcffl of a ¦ _^ uo _^^ tiTe oi _^ er ; _aadlthe Dembcrat will ' - _^• _Hiri _!* _? Snm " eht 7 to prove the . utferworth IP * Haw _^ _immense evil-of _^ any * aiistocracy , _l _^ ffi _^^ _d-lordsor _mm-lords . , . 7 - _^ _. _lii _t _^ f her fitter . _CoKivc _^ r enconnters _^ % fi _$ _^ _^ _e _dder IIiiibask . Of this _k _^ W * _"laaye-lovf of our here , flie _^ _r more anon .
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THE CHRONICLES OF THE BASTILE . T C ; 7 _Aew _» y , Mortimer-street , Cavendish-square . ' " ( Continued from the Northern Star of February 1 MJ Vhela Revohnion ! must be the involuntary ex . _R ation of all who read this most _exce £ _? o £ Fearful was the _si . rugg ] e , deadly the strife , The com B _^ T . e hf , f 1 l Wlll t _^ tlie _^^ tion of the _liated " - _£ ; M _tingfr ? -any a deed of horror was per-Petratedinihai ; Revolution which the loversofliblrty must ever deplore few conversant _^ with the previous _™ i IT _? _^ _^ _* ink , _>!? ho _Avill not regard that change as the _hajpiest event which the _humani-ace has yet witnessed . We hear much of the horrors of the _" mgn of ten _* oi _*; _» but let any one read tnis work , and then say whether that _ten-onsmwn *
not unavoidable , and the necessary consequence of the . _Unmiiable despotism which preceded the Revolution mstorians have counted the victims of the Revolutionary Tribunal ; but they have mostly been altogether sdent as to the number of victims who vear by year , for centuries , had been silently sacrificed _' in this accursed den ; th eir only offence that they had _incun-ed the dislike of the reigning tyrant , or some i _* oyalcom _* tesan or minister . Men were seized on the authority of a lettre-de-cachet , and without being aequainted with their alleged offence were immured in tiros homDledungeon _. _vheretheyremained duringthe will of their persecutors . If then * death was deemed more necessary than their continued incarceration , they were either secretly dispatched , or DUt into the
hellish _cadres , where death after a time relieved them of their Sufferings . Within forty-six ycar 3 , thenumberof pnsoners who mysteriously disappeared from _theBastUe , without any vestige remaining to attest their fate , amounted to two thousand : ; these being over and above the number of prisoners who during that time were liberated , or who died a " natural death . " It is fortunate for Captain Warxer that h » was not bom a Frenchman—a Frenchman , we mean , of a century back ; bad he been so unfortunate , his blowing-up discoveries would assuredly have blown him into the Bastile . In the reign of Louis _Quixze , an individual named Brus de _Cosdamise having invented a kind of exploding bullet , communicated his discovery to Monsieur de _SxrawEs , then lieutenant of Police , in hopes of inducing the Government to purchase the secret , but instead of which he was
shortly afterwards arrested and conveyed to the Bastile . Hence , he attempted to escape , and had succeeded in _lowering himself from the parapet of the towers , when ranortnnately the cord broke by wliich he hung suspended , and he fell into the diteh ; the sentinel fired at and wounded him , and brought him before the Governor , De _LinsEY , who Ordered him to he cast into the dungeon ofthe ditch for eight days , and to be fed only on half allewance of bread and water . The register does not state whether this unfortunate man was liberated ; the probability is , therefore , that he was either secretly murdered , or succumbed under the tortures to which he was subjected . This same Governor De Latjset was on the storming of the Bastile , on the 14 th of July , 1780 , hewed in pieces by the triumphant people . Righteous retribution . ' So perish all the accursed agents of tyranny !
» In the limits we are necessarily confined to , we have found it impossible to detail the plot of the Chronicles , we have therefore been compelled to leave it to the reader to judge of the work by the specimens we have from time te time given . In our last number we gave an extract descriptive of one of the modes of torture to which the unhappy prisoners were sometimes subjected . The following extract describes a successful attempt at escape from this accursed edifice ; an attempt but rarely made , or at least but rarely successful : —
THE _ESOiTE OP ST . XEU FROM THE _BASTOE . Judging of the height of the towers from that of his cell , from the number ' of stories , and the space between each , he calculated upon requiring about a hundred and twenty feet of rope , but great was his dismay when he discovered that every available article of wearing apparel that he possessed , added to the sheets and blankets of his bed , would nor , when twisted into strands of the requisite strength , make up more than half the necessary quantity ; _stiD , he wrought on , with increasing assiduity , until he had no more materials te woik with , save his outward
garments , the sacking of his bed , the slight cords that beia it together , and the bed-clothes themselves . In this dilemma , he feigned indisposition , in order to have a show of excuse for not getting up , and so far imposed upon Hu , as to induce this individual to supply him with an additional blanket and a coverlet ; these rapidly shared the fete of the others , so that on the fifth day from the commencement of his ta 6 k , he had , by weaving all these articles together in strips , into what is , by sailors , called "twice-Uud , " completed a rope of tolerable strength , and of fourteen lengths , each length averaging about five feet , # * *
As the only materials he now had at hand , to finish the rope , could not be used without attracting Ra ' s attention to their disappearance , St . leu found it necessary to fix npon a night for making the contemplated attempt purposing to attain the platform by means of the chimney . and thence , with the assistance of the rope , to decern ! into the great ditch , and gain the Seine through the small moat by which the former was fed . He had no time to wait for a favourable opportunity , wherefore as the nights at that season were veiy long , and very dark , be chose the following evening—the sixth after his interview with Julie _^—though tlie difficulties that threatened him were materially augmented by the feet of a large quantity of snow having fallen , rendering a discovery by the sentinels more to he apprehended : the die , however , was cast % be had gone too far to recede , and delay might prove fetal to his project !
That day fled , hut Slowly ; the night camts , and waned but more slowly still ! Would to-morrow never dawn ? oh yes ! the morrow came , and with it , snow and wind ! noon-tide too passed , and still the snow fell , and the wind blew ; night succeeded , with more snow and more wind 1 St . Leu watched the white fakes as they descended , and listened to the howling of the storm 5 the sound pleased him J Seven o ' clock struck ; his heart leaped : the time he had so anxiousl'f looked forward to had arrived . As soon as Ru had paid him his last -visit , St . leu took out the rope and examined it , length hy length , subjecting it to the heaviest strain he was capable of , with a view to test its strength the result proved satisfactory : to complete it was liis next task , and to this he applied himself
with an earnestness and an energy of purpose that the emergency increased tenfold . Every article in tlie cell , available as a substitute for yarn , now came into requisition : the sacking , of- his wretched couch—the old , and half-rotten green serge of the same that served for curtainfs—all that remained of his bedding , even to tlie tick ofthemattrass—his own outer garments—coat— -waist coat —• neckerchief—every shred Of raiment , was . turned to account ! He stationed himself near the narrow window of liis cell , and listened as he worked to the chimes that marked the fleeting hours ! eight o ' clock—nineten ! still his task remained incomplete ! eleven struckthen midnight 3 another half hour and all would be ready at lasthis work was- done !
Having again assured Mmsetf of the Strength Of his rope , as far as the means for so doing would allow , he coiled it over Ms left arm , breathed a brief prayer , and with a firm heart commenced his perilous adventure . * Wifn some difficulty , he forced his way np the narrow chimney as far as the elbow , where ihe obstruction existed which he had cleared away , as related in a former chapter * . here , over his head , an iron bar , similar to the one he had already hent aside , stopped his egress : however _, he at last succeeded in removing it also , and soon gained tlie aperture , above , which was scarcely large enough to afi ' ord his body a passage—indeed , had he retained his clothes , he could not bave got through it . Ho was rejoiced io find " that the storm continued with unabated violence , and that the . wind , -which blew most boisterously , came from the north-east , placing bim to
Jeward of the sentinels . The night too was very black , though the SHOW that had fallen—and which still continued to drift blinding !) - in every direction , save straight down—rendered surrounding objects perfectly distinguishable , so that he could even plainly see the sentry-boxes at the further cud of the platform : one of these stood not forty feet from the aperture he lay concealed in , wliich , fortunately for him , was situated at the angle the tower of the Bertaodiere formed with ihe niastmry that connected it with theJBaziniere , so that he could reconnoitre unperceived : the unlooked-for circumstance startled him at first , but a few minutes sufficed to restore his coinage , for he soon remarked that the sentinel had taken refuge within , learang- the road comparatively tree : hardly daring to draw breath , he gradually emerged fi-om his hiding-p lace , shivering and benumbed , and as the neighbouring clocks struck one , set his foot upon the platform : there was now no receding .
_vTith the stcalthiness of the cat , he crept on his hands and knees to the nearest embrasure , and , under cover of the piece of field-artillery with which it was furnished , proceeded to attach his rope tothe wheel thereof , taking the precaution to cast tlie coil over the battlements , ready for use . This operation occupied some time , for his hands and limbs were not only chafed , swollen , and lacerated , but deadened from the effects of cold , so that he could hardly use them : atlength , however , he completedhistask'in safety , andbaving ascertained that the rope was securely fastened , _captiously raised himself for the purpose of commencing hisfearfid descent , when the sentinel suddenly came out of his box and began parading theplatform / pasangback wards and forwards within twenty paces of the embrasure in which he _^ now again lay crouched , a prey to the severest mental and bodily anguish that can be conceived .
Twice , when the vigilant guardian's back was turned , did St . Leu creep towards the embrasure , with the design of placing that barrier between them , and twice was he compelled to forego his intention , for the soldier ' s wall * _iras so short , his face might be said to have been turned almost always one way : but Hesitation now was madness , for the SUCCeSS Of Ms attempt depended upon his decision and fiirmness ; taking advantage therefore of the same favourable opportunity that lad already twice offered itself , St . leu bounded towards tbe battlement , when a fierce gust drove the blinding sleet and snow into the sentry ' s face , causing him to turn suddenly round : he caught sight of the strange figure before him—the click of the mnsket—the qui-rlve told St . leu that he was'discovered . Dashing forwards—unarmed , naked , as he was ' begrasped -the . man by the throat—and a short but desperate struggle ensued , during which the musket exploded : placing his foot in the middle of the soldier ' s body , h " wrenched the weapon from his grasp , and swing-
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ing it over his head , with the butt-end laid him senseless at his feet :: the . next moment he hung suspended ill the ur ; he had commenced his frightful descent ! 2 & _-. _\*&* M _\\ \ e , _ftia other sentinels rushed to the succour of then- comrade , hut stupified b y exposure to the inclement night , looked about for the fugitive in everv directionsave the right one—discharging . tbeir plcces _' in the air , in order to rouse the garrison . The alarm now became general , though some time elapsed first , for the wind was so high , it drowned the vociferations ofthe soldiers on the towers—bawling out to their comrades on the roundaway—who knew not where to look , nor what to do , until one of them perceived a white figure dangling in _mid-way air , rapidly descending from the towers into tiie _dittb _, and at whieh he levelled hU musket , and fired , but Wltll _« out effect , although it served to put liis companions on the proper track .
bt . Leu had by this time descended more than halfway , but his position was frightful in the extreme ; having nothing to steady his . descent , he was swinging about backwards and forwards , in imminent danger of being dashed to pieces against the massive stone-work , and owed his safety only to his presenceof mind , which he still retained , -even at that critical juncture . His sole aim was to reach the ditcb beneath Wm , which he saw « 18 _fmen over , for the snow laid thick upon the surface of tbe iee ; he there tore continued lowering himself , heedless of the uproar , or of the strife of the elements that raged above , and around , and on all sides of him , his only fear being as to the strength of the rope , npon which tlie Strain Increased every moment , causing it now and then to crack , and reminding him of the frail materials that it was composed of , so vividly , that his fingers seemed to interrogate each thread , as if to ascertain the safety of that particular one on which his life was at that precise moment bung .
He had yet a distance of some twenty-five or thirty feet to descend , when to liis utter dismay , he came to the end of his rope—and at the sameinstanthefelt thatsomebody was puffing it above : a moment ' s hesitation only a moment ' s—but what a moment that!—he loosed his hold and dropped . ' a rush of air—a suspension of breath—a stunning blow , a sensation of his bones being all broken at once—and the next instant he was immersea in water , and mud , and ice , and snow , and blinding darkness ! But life—Ufe—was his only thought , notwithstanding ! He rose to the surface , and pushing aside the broken , jagged masses of ice , succeeded in gaining a footing upon a firmer part ; he had , however , escaped one danger only to encounter another .
He was yet separated from the small moat , which he sought to gain , by the whole width of the great ditch , into which he had fallen , and the space between the Bertaudiere and the Baziniere towers , a distance of nearly seventy yards , in traversing which his person WOUld offer a sure mark to the sentinels on the round-away , who were now aware of his position ; fortunately , however , the biting wind blew direct in their face , driving before it a shower of tiny , frozen arrows , that nearly deprived them of vision , the intolerable pain diverting their attention from the fugitive to themselves . St , leu scrambled for . wards on all-fours—the ice cracking , and bending , and breaking under him , until he reached the middle ofthe great ditch , when a shot from one ofthe sentinels—for he was now . within twenty yards of the round-away—took effect on his person , passing obliquely through the fleshy part of his arm . Regardless of the anguish , and of the additional danger to which he was now exposed , he started to his feet , bounded forwards , and reached the small
moat . This moat — which likewise formed the outermost boundary of the gardens of the arsenal—communicated with the Seine , and was about forty feet wide , and of the same depth as the great ditch ; over it , at about fourteen or fifteen yards fifom its point of junction with fhe latter , fell a triple draw-bridge , defended on the inner side by a corps-de-garde . Hearing the shots and the shouts of their comrades , the soldiers on duty here lowered the bridge and rushed , in amass , to the first outer court , in
order to learn the cause ofthe outcry ; they passed within twenty feet of the wounded and trembling fugitive , who , the better to conceal himself , crouched down into the snow ; he saw them run across the bridge , and heard their _halloos to their comrades—he heard , too , the chains of the great draw-bridge clank , and its ponderous hinges grate—he could see the flash and flicker of their torches , ana distinguish the hurried tramp of his pursuers' footsteps drawing every instant nearer and nearer ; then , a shout of exultation—they were on his track—the snow liad betrayed the direction he had taken !
life—life—liberty—Julie ! and again he rushed onwards—gasping—exhausted ! Another shout ! they were nearer . ' another effort , and he could place the massive outer wall of the Bastile between them and him ! On ! on ! on ! over the rotting ice , or immersed in the gelid waters that it covered ! now wading through them—now spramblting over the unsafe masses on its surface—or leaping and running when a footing offered ; but still on —on—on ! St . leu had now gained that portion of the smaller moat where it was traversed by the . outer wall of the Bastile , a small arch of about five feet in length—the thickness of the wall—forming the junction between it and the moat ofthe arEenal gardens ; But here—between
him and his liberty—a formidable barrier interposed _ifself , in the shape of a harrow-formed grating , fixed intp the arch and descending to within a foot of the water-mark , and at the bottom of which bristled 3 . ehevaux-de-frize he hesitated : it was only for a moment : the voices , and the tramp of footsteps in his rear told him he was lost if he paused longer ; he drew one long breath , burst through the rotten ice with his feet , and plunged ! a long halfminute followed ! a noise as of a thousand drums beating all atohce , or of as many guns going off . all at the same moment , filled his ears ! still he groped on beneath the water , guiding himself by the _hank-r—then his head touched a substance ; with his last remnant of strength , he forced upwards—he breathed again—the last barrier was passed—he was free !
We believe some fourteen or fifteen numbers of this work are published , of which we have as yet received but eleven : when the remaining numbers come to hand they shall he duly noticed . In the meantime , we earnestly recommend the Chronicles to the reading world in general , and to every lover of liberty in particular .
Punch's Complete Letter-Wrltett. By Dowl...
PUNCH'S COMPLETE LETTER-WRlTETt . By Dowlas Jerbold . Punch Office , Fleet-street . " It is an ill wind , " says the proverb , " that blows nobody good ; " meaning that most winds , however ill , do Wow some good ; and of this wc have an instance in the work before us . Too much of anything but good is , we fear , too chargeable to Sir James _Gruuji ; and not the least of the odious acts wliich will cause his name to be held in disreputable remembrance long _^ after Ms official career shall have ceased , will he his un-English and most infamous Post-office espionage . Atrocious and odious , however , as were the acts of the Minister in this particular matter , it is , we _belieTfe , to these malpractices , or at least the discovery of them , that the public are
indebted for the excellent letters which , under the ahove title , have been given to the world by Douglas _Jebhoij ) . These letters originally appeared in Punch ; but to those who have read them in their original shape , we beg to intimate that their re-nerusal in their present form wiU be found a treat which might hardly be anticipated ; for the fact is , that the' Complete letter Writer U now made really complete ; its attractions being greatly increased by the letters being collected and placed together . Those who had not the * , pleasure of reading the letters as tlfey appeared _, in Ptmch , will do well to purchase the volume without' delay ' We promise them that their only regret when " they come to -fie conclusion , will be that , instead of fifty letters , there are not five hundred of the like excellent qualify . "Where all are excellent it is impossibJe to _mngle
oafparticular letters for special praise . But as our readers will expect a _^ specimen of the contents , we select the following , by a guardian in reply to a young gentleman ( hi 3 ward ) , who has _ejeprossed hiri desire to enter tbe army . We cannot afford room for the young gentleman ' s letter , but we should premise that the writer expresses himself as being passionately enamoured of a soldier's life . It is not , he alleges , the outward trappings that attract him , ' but the abstract glory * . his heart throbs at the achievements of conquerors ; the game of war is a pastime for gods : he exults in the idea of death , in the bed of glory , and a whole country weeping over his ashes ; he wishes to see the sublime ¦ spectacle of a German review ; above all , after the fury of battle is passed , how glorious the privilege of suecourbig the wounded and protecting the helpless . In reply to these ravings we give the
_AXS-flrTa OF THE _GUAKMAN TO TnB T 0 DKG GENTLEMAN . My Bear Arthur , —1 thought more highly of yonr discrimination . I believed that you knew me better than to make so foolish a proposition . My opinions on war and its instruments are , I know , not the opinions of the world ; it would save the world—I am vain enough to think—much guilt , much mi 6 ery , if they were SOi _fou , doubtless , believe yourJetter tlie result of an honest enthusiasm ; aud yet , to ' my fancy , it is nothing more than the folly of a boy , who , unconscious of his prompter , writes with a fiend dictating at his elbow . Yes , my hoy , afiend ; he is too often busy among us—one of the vilest and most mischievous demons of all the
brood of wickedness . To be sure , he visits men not iu his own name—oh no ! he comes to them in the finest clothes and under the prettiest alias . He is clothed in gay colours—has yards of gold trimming about _^ him— a tine feather in his cap—silken Hags fluttering over himmusic * at his heels—and his l ying , swindling name is—Glory . Strip the thing so _calied , and how often will yon find the abhorred nakedness of a demon . Be assured of it , fife and drum make the devil ' s choicest music . He blows and beats—for , being a devil , he can do this at the same time—and makes the ¦ destructive passions of men twist arid wriggle in ' the hearts of even peaceful folk , and with the magic Of his tattOO drives them on to mischief . Ton know , people say I have strange , violent thoughts . Well I think every sheep whose skin is turned into drum _, parchment , has been sacrificed not to the gods but devil - ? . Ton tell me that you are smitten with glory in the abstract—with ite naked honour . Pooh Mike apoorrsonled footman , you are content to take the Wows for the fineness of the livery . - ' ¦ -- ; ; - _•••* - *
Yon say , that when you read the history of conquerors , _j-ou yearn to become a soldier . Well , I dispute it not ; there have been inen made soldiers by' tyranny and wrong , whose memories may , like the eternal stars , shine down upon us ; these men maybe envied . . Bnt I , too , have read the lives of _cow-merors ; and , as 1 lire , they no
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more tempted me to emulate them , than the reading of the _Newgate Calendar would make roe yearn to turn footpau orhous _e-breaket . At best , soldiers are the evils of the earth—the children of human wrong and human weakness . Understand me ; I would not have men ground arms , and , with _cuiakcr-like submission , cry " friend - ! ' to the invader . Aeverfhcless , do not let us prank up a dire necessity with all sorts of false ornament , and glorify wholesale homicide . You say war is the pastime of gods . ' Homer tells us as much . 7 And pretty gods they were who plavcd at the sport ! In my time , I have known many men who , for very humbl y imitating thein in some of their amusements , have died on the gallows or withered on board the hulks . I trust the time will come when it will bring as great shame to men to mimic Mars , as it now deals upon the other sex to imitate Venus .
You talk glibly enough of the bed , of glory . What is it ' : A battle-field , with _thoMsanfls blaspheming in agony about you ? Your ' last moments sweetened ,, it may be , with the thought that somewhere on the field lies a bleeding piece of your handiwork—a poor wretch in the death-grasp of torture ! Truly , that is a bed of greater glory which is surrounded by loving hearts—by _Uanfis uplifted in deep , yet cheerful prayer . There are thoughts , too—it is my belief—better , sweeter far than thoughts of recent slaying , to help the struggling soul from out its tenement .
You talk , too , of the nation ' s tears ! in what museum does the nation keep her pocket-handkerchiefs ? Depend upon it , nations that love to fight , are not the nations that love to weep . I grant it , many a fine , simple fellow , has died in the belief of being wept over by his country , who has nevertheless ' been shamefully defrauded of his dues . My dear boy , never sell your , life for imaginary drops of water . And then you rave about laurel—an accursed plant si . fire and blood . Count up all the crowns of Ca > sar , and for the honest , healthful service , of man , are they worth one summer cabbage ? You would wish to see the German review—you think it so noble a sight ? Be assured , if you can teach your eyes to look through the spectacles of truth , there cannot be a sadder , a more rueful exhibition—one reflecting more upon the true dignity of human nature—one more accusatory of the wisdom and goodness of man—than , thou sands of men dressed and harnessed , and nicely schooled forthe destruction of their fellow-creatures . All their
finery , aU their trappings , are to me but the ginicrackery of the father c-f wickedness , in my time , , 1 have seen thousands of soldiers drawn up , with a bright sky , shining ahove them ; and I have thought them a . foul mass—a blot—a shame upon the beautiful earth—an afiront to the beneficence of heaven ! But then , I have odd thoughtsstrange opinions . You say it will be sweet , the battle over , to solace the wounded . My dear boy , it will be sweeter far not to begin the . battle at all .. It may be very humane to apply the salve after you have dealt the gash—but surely it would be better wisdom , truer humanity , ' to inflict no hurt . And , in time , men will learn this truth ; they are learning it ; and as I would not see you in a profession which I trust is speedily becoming bankrupt , you will never , with my consent , purohaseinto the army . Tom . ' affectionate friend , Benjamin Ahpeace .
As a satirist of existing frauds awi _fottv & a , few , i _* t any , writers of the _present day can compete with Douglas Jehrold . This volume is another added to the list of his offerings , at the shrine of truth , and will be found ah excellent promoter of the good cause of right against . wrong . The letters arc illustrated by _KiMi-rr Meadows , whose cuts are admirably in keeping with the satire of the author . . We earnestly recommefid this work to our readers , and hope that it will have iin extensive circulation .
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THE PENNY NOVELIST , AND LIBRARY OF ROMANCE . Cleave , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street . Have our readers seen this publication J Doubtless some of them have , but in all probability not near so many as would have done had they been aware of its merits . The Penny Novelist is no new experiment , the success of which is yet to be tested * , its success is already proven , as the lour volumes already published sufficiently testify . The fifth volume is now in course of publication , and will be found fully equal , if not superior , to its predecessors . The most important of the contents of the volumes already published are the translations of Eugese Sue ' s works , wliich are fully and faithfully rendered into English . Of this great writer's works the volumes contain— The
Mysteries of Paris ; Paulia Monti , or , the Hotel Lambert ; The Salamander ; Arthur , or , The Journal of an Vnknown ; and The Wandering Jew , This last was commenced in the fourth volume and is continued in the fifth . We should state that the Penny Novelist is so printed that , at the conclusion of . a volume "The Wandering Jew" may be . separated from the rest of the . publication , each part forming two distinct works . This is a great advantage to those who may . desire to have this singular romance separate from the mis cellaneous" tales of the , Novelist . To attempt the slightest sketch of the varied and entertaining contents of the first four volumes , in . addition to the worto of Eugene Sue , . is . impossible , so numerous are the romances , novels , tales , & e ., of this
surprising work . Tho Novelist must be seen to be understood—once seen , it cannot fail to be read , and the reader commencing with it , will , we are certain , never tire of its . _entertainments . We , understand that the work is _stereotyped , ' and , _therefore , that the whole ofthe numbers from the commencement- may be had . To those who have not read , butwho are desirous of reading " The Mysteries ofParis" and the other works of Eugene Sue , we can confidently recommend these volumes / feeling assured that they will give unbounded satisfaction . ¦ While those who for the present arecontent to read the Wandering Jew , will do welHq procure the hack and current numbers containing it . The four volumes already complete may behad , handsomely bound , of the ' publisher . We shall return to a further examination , of the Pinny Novelist as soon as we can afford room .,
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_SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE-Feb . We have received this Magazine so late in the month as to render it impossible for us to do more than barely notice it . The present month ' s number opens with a most important article "On the Manufacture of Sugar , " _Jieir ig ' the prize essayby J . F _. Caroill , Esq ., to which was awarded the premium of £ 100 , offered by the Earl of ElWn , Governor of Jamaica . The fourth of the valuable essays on "The Whale and Whaling , " _Edwahd Wakefiei . d , 'Es ( 1 ., ' isgiven in this number , Tile truly entertaining " Journal of a Voyage to Port Philip " is brought to a close , * it is with regret we hid farewell
to so pleasing a writer , but we hope yet to hear , through this Magazine , something of his experience aa a colonial magistrate . The , _remauiingjjrincipal articles are , * 'Australia : Past , Present , and Future ;" "New Zealand Affairs ; " and "The Annexation of Texas . " "We should have much liked to have given some extracts from thearticle on " Upper California , " but our review page this week . w ; as already , occupied before the arrival of the Magazine . So far as we have found time-to peruse the contents of the present number , it appears to be fully equal to the best of its predecessors , lacking nothing , m talent and sound mforniation ; and not destitute of that variety usually _lookod for by the reader of the monthlies .
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Evils _Eesumixo _yHOM the ¦& _-amb Laws , _AmmEssiGn to Young Esgund—The Natiosal _Temperasce AnvocATE—Th e Commusisi _CnnoN-icw _* . These are each good in their way , and each worthy of perusal . Tho Communist Chronicle is a monthly publication , edited by Goodwin ; _Baumby , and published by B .. D . Cousins , No . 18 , Duke-street , Lincolii ' s-inn-fields .
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Publications Received . —2 he Christian Mythology Unveiled—The London Entertaining Magazine , part 3 The Dungeon Harp—Good / a Proposition on the National Debt—The Atrocities ' of the Dictator Rosas .
A Dowl Of " Punch," Fresh Brewed.
A dOWL OF " PUNCH , " FRESH BREWED .
"The Heahlll Of . Tue Uboujies.": The Gi...
"THE HEAhlll OF . _TUE _UBOUJIES . " : The gi'eat social difficult y that has beset » s in the amelioration . of the condition of the labourer , is at length solved ! Tothe Duke of Richmond , we believe , is to be attributed the happy- discovery . Doubtless , when the full success of the . plan is made manifest ; when , throughput the length and breadth of England , its wondrous agency is turning the huts of the labouring poor into ' abiding-places of substantial comfort- _^ ivhen it is calling smiles into the labourer ' s cheek , and putting flesh upon his bones , and giving him the erect bearing and independent look of God's piiniest work—Man ; then , we doubt it hot , ' other' claimants Bf the discovery will viae up , contesting with-the
Noble Duke of Richmond the originality of that stroke of philanthropic genius whicli has worked such . blessed wonders . It has been so with' the inventor of printing , * with tlie discoverer of the motive principle of steam . * Be it then our-rewarding task at _ancctc claim for Richmond his inalienable right to the gratitude of England ' s labourers . He has discovered the infallible remedy for all their social ills . It is simply this : it is todrinktheir health . * * *'' '' _"•' ¦' Mr . Lane tells us , that the Egyptian magicians enact their greatest wonders / with . merely a Bowl of water . The Duke of Riclinioiid performs his benevolent hocus-pocus with aghmof wine ! 0 , it is soothing to the soul , wearied and desponding from a contemplation of the crushing ills that nress the very manhood put of thousands . _ to see a
nobleman—p hilanthropic as Prbme'theus-r-rise in a tavern hall ; - tod . with a voice nvelodions-ai ten silver trumpets , give-r- "The Health ofthe Labourer !' . ' There is no mistaking the look , the presence of the man . ! He is rapt , sublimated by the greatness , of his mission ; , by the almost divine power of his discovery : " The Health of vhe Labourer _!"" ' _> Magical _ai-e _, the . syllables 1 What are they , Jn truth , hut as the _^ words of some spirit-compelling _wizard- _^ oihe political _ZVos _? Jcro _^ -that arc 110 Sooner _droppfid from the lips of the speaker thatithcy arouse a swarm of _genii-corking- vassals of benevolence Iand away th 1 ?? . ny to carry on their wings a healing balm to thousands and thousands ! ' So mighty is the necromancy of the toast , that * when uttered , it is easy for imagination to behold a very cloud of Aricis
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rising from the Freemasons' . Tavern . = East , west , north , and south tliey separate upou their glad mission . Some , carrying loaves— -some , meatr-some , kegs of nut-brpwn _ale-nrsome , hew raiment—and all of them alighting at the labourer ' s _fireless hearth , and calling cheeilulness and hope into his face , and making his gaunt wife and pallid little ones smile at the . niirac 2 e of sudden plenty . . . . What benevolent magic lies in that little sentence ,: " The Health of the Labourer ! " It is the "Open Sesame ' ¦ ' to the heart of the country . And even when the labourer fails to receive the _substanthiUwectncss of these fairy gifts , it is plain he is largely benefitted , though all unconsciously , by the magical toast . Therefore , let him take heart .
True it is , ' he may wither on seven shillings a week ; but then , does n ot a Duke drink his health ? and such condescension must move than double the miserable stipend . , .,,, '¦ Consider this , 0 labourer ! It is possible that all dav you have wanted food—at night you need shelter and firing . There are sullen thoughts clouding your brain ; thero is , too , a slow , withering heat at vour " _atftls , night is coming on , and you know not where to lay yonr head . This , it must be owned , is an uncomfortable plight ; nevertheless , you may shake off the misery like an ugly dream ; for know , you have heen toasted in a , London tavern . Yes at the Freemasons' the Duke of Richmond has given— " The Health of the Labourer !"
You are breaking stones in a Union ! yard . Let the thought ofthe toast touch your brain withmusic , and somehow try and hammer on the granite a grateful accompaniment to— " The Health of the Labourer ! " " ¦ . ¦ ¦ " '' . _' . Well , labourer , you fall sick ; it may be in the parish of Iver , in Buckinghamshire ; in the county of " the farmer ' s friend . " You are carted to Isleworth , and you ask for bread for yourself and wife . You cannot move ; bnt your wife , poor wretch ! has yet some strength , and so she is ordered to trudge from Hillingdon tb Uxbridge—and from Uxbridge back to Isleworth , having walked in the cutting
winter air , only _oncrand-twenty aides , before melting charity' gives her ah order for grocery , price three sliillings ! It is very wearying , it is sickening to the heart , it is enough to make you call upon , death to take you from thfit despot , fellow-man ; it iB _> ery wretched for you to wait the return of your wife on her hard pilgrimage of three-and-twenty miles . But take heart . ' Be of good cheer 1 Disease and famine have hold upon you ; hut let this thought make them powerless—all that can be done , is done for you ; for amidst hurrahs and cheering clamours , somewhere in London , they drink ' _, ' The Health of the Labourer !"
And , lahoviver , it may be yon are just turned in howlini | , wintei' tithe from a comfortable gaol . You were sent thitlier for _straying in search of work , that you might take your wife , and offspring from the union . You coidd not make out the offence ; but the magistrates , hawk-eyed , saw it , and you were sent to gaol . There , " you " slough" your labourer's rags , and are warmly clothed . Your sentence is suffered , and yon are discharged ; the warm convict clothing is taken from yo \ l , and yoviv khouvfev ' s tatters restored . You shiver at the gaol ' s threshold ; for the icy wind makes you know the difference between the snug garments of a felon and the threadbare raiment of a working-man . Well , you trudge on ; but you have palpitation at the heart , and it is sore _travelfins _* _- * with
you . At length you crawl into a wayside hovel ; and with one loaf ; in withering December , you fight famine for three days ; your feet becoming gangrened , with the blighting cold . Terrible thoughts must visit you in that lone hovel ; you cannot but hold awful communings with the midnight blast , howling , to your ears , _Kfce _. _nllmanit _!• about you . Nevertheless , you are not forgotten . No : wrong not humanity—landlordhumanity , and all its __ gushing impulses ; for though you are starving , perishing ; though yon are a piece of numbed , mortified , human refuse—a Duke remembers you , and gives " The Health ofthe Labourer !" And , labourer , you crawl from your hovel , and . are
taken tothe union . You die . You have been killed —murdered—by want and winter ' s cold . Yon are at length at peace ; and sleep the sweet sleep of death in a pauper ' s shell . Vou are earned to the pauper's ground ; and whilst the * priest utters the words that confound all things in one undistinguished heap of clay—the pomp and the poverty of life , its emblazonments and its miseries ; while he utters "Ashes to ashes , dust to dust , "' let your spirit in its upward flight be comforted for those of your earthly fellows you have left behind * , for still , still ' will be . drunk— ' * The Health ofthe Labourer !"
As some ducal landlords drink the health ofthe labourer while living , so , to make the heartfelt solemnity complete , a Doctor Cantwell should bury him when dead .
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A New Engine op Destruction . —A Mr . Beming , of Jersey , has , we understand , after a lengthened period employed in constructing an electric gun , succeeded in completing his object , which he denominates a " siva . " He has exhibited ii several times , and demonstrated its amazing effects , which are most destructive . The continuous and rapid flight of balls discharged is scarcely credible . The simplicity of this wonderful work of mechanical art , as a projectile , is such , that * it can be easily removed from place to place . It contains within itself the means of continuing to an indefinite period its power and capability of destruction .
Moke Wonderful than Ciiedible . —Some time ago , a paragraph went the round ofthe papere mentio ning , the discovery , by a Swedish doctor , ofa means of preserving animals for ages in a state of torpidity , from which at any time they could bo brought by certain applications again into active life . The following account , purporting to fee written by an eye-witness , we quote from an American periodical called the Magnet , where it is ' gravely set forth , without comment , under the head " Extraordinary Discovery : "— " Professor Yon Grusselbach , of Stockholm , has _vci"y lately brought to a state of perfection the art bf producing a torpor ofthe whole system , by the application of cold of different degrees of _intensity , proceeding from a lesser to a greater , so as to
cause the human body to become torpid , without permanent injury to any organ or tissue of the frame _. In this state , bodies may remain a _gi-eat number of years , and again , after a sleep , of ages , be awakened to existence , as fresh and blooming as they were when they first sunk into their frigoric slumber . The attention ofthe learned professor was first led to the subject b y findinga toad enclosed in a solid fragment of calcareous rock , ten feet in diameter , which , when taken out , shewed unequivocal _^ signs of life ; but it was supposed that the concussion caused by blasting tho rock occasioned his death in a few hours after . The opinion of Baron Gruithizen , geologist _tojhe Kiri" of Sweden , was , that it must have been in that ° situationfor at least seven thousand years ;
his calculations bemg dvawn from the different layers of sirata by wMchit was surrounded . From this hint the professor proceeded to make experiments , ' and after a laborious course of experiments for the last twenty-nine years of his life , he has at last succeeded in perfectingthis great discovery . No less than sixty thousand reptiles , shell-fish , < fee ., were experimented on , before he tried the human subject , TllC _pi'OCOSK 19 not entirely laid' before the public as yet ; but I had the honour , in company with a friend , of visiting the professor . I shall give a slight description of one of the outer rooms , containing some " of his preparations , Previous to entering-we were each furnished with an india-rubber bag , to which was attached a mask with glass eyes . This was put on to prevent the
temperature of the i'oom from heme-varied in the slightest degree by our breathing . It was a * circular rooni ; lighted from the top by the sun's rays , from which the . heat ; was entirely disengaged by its passage through glass , Ac , coloured by the oxide of . copper ( a late discovery , and very valuable to the professor )! The room is shelved all rouud , and contains nearly one thousand specimens of animals , & c . One was a Swedish girl , aged , from appearance , about nineteen years , who . was _. _consigncd to the professor by order of the Government , to he experimented upon , having been found guilty of murdering her child . With the exception of a slight paleness , she appeared as if asleep , although she has been in a state of torpor for two years . He intends , he says , to resuscitate hcv in five more years , and convince the world of the
soundness of his wonderful discovery . The professor , to gratify . us , took a small snake out of . his cabinet into another room ,, and idthough it appeared to _natobc perfectly _doadand rigid as marble , by application of a mixture of cayenne pepper and brandy , it shewed immediate signs , of life , and-. was apparently as active as over it . was in a . few minutes , although the professor assured us that it had been ini a state of torpor for six years . " —This narration' is decideillyinferior to the clever story about the inhabitants of the moon , which emanated from , brother Jonathan a few years ago as ! a veritablei scientific discovery ; ' ; But whether it is to ho ranked in the same category , ' or'in thatof those truths which ' are _, " stranger than fiction , ' ' our readers are left to determine in accordance with their , various ' experience and phrenological
developments . . " ' ! Restoration of _tiir * Portland Vase . _—Thepnbli _' c and connoisseurs will learn : with sincere gratification that this invaluable relic of antiquity , although so , seriously fractured aiid mutilated , is considered by _^ _Sir Henry Ellii ' to be capable , to . a certain extent , of restoration , SO as Still to remain extant in ' shapefor the admiration of : the . world of art . . / At a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries , on _Thursday _evening weeJjr , Mr . _Windusi ' aUhe close of the evening , addressing
the members' On the subject , said m reference— it was but _tooitrue that nothing could . restore to them , the vaseHtself ; but genume . copies had fortunately been made . The _lateTPichlcr ,. the eminent engraver of gems , struck with its beatity , moulded the vase at Rome This mould was put into the hands of Mr . _Tassie , and . after , » . certain . number ( only a few ) of casts were made , it was : _destroyed . A few „ of _, these casts are extant . _| The Marqiiisi of Exeter , ' Mr . A . Pcllatt , and _he'hiiuself ( Mr , Windu-s _^ , possess copies . His own he intended shortly to exhibit , together with
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a cast of the sarcophagus in wliich it was found , at the Polytechnicon . " Sir Henry Ellis stated that"the * British Museum had also one _*"*« f these copies ; which would , as _early iis possible , be exhibited -tothepublic . The vase , by Wedgewood , it _appeai-s , is * only a modern _conv aiid not east from the original . Sir Henry Ellis ' also stated that the vase had not sustained so much injury as was expected : that the principal figures were preserved , and two . persons , named Doubleday and Buldock , employed in - 'thc Museum , would be able to put it together again
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THE _SUHPUCE _( _JEEBllO-S- . ? .,,. By a Benedict . A VERT , pretty public stills making down at Exeter , About the surplice fashion ; And many bitter words and rude Have been bestow'd upon the feud , And much unchristian passion . For me , I neither know nor care Whether a parson ougbt to wear A black dress or a white dress ; - _Ffll'd with a trouble of my own—A wife who preaches in her gown , And lectures in her night-dress . Hood ' s _Jfaoazine .
Tiffi UST SROM Pinion . —The Chartist ranks feel so highly indignant at the conduct of one of their _fate lecturers , that they have determined on sinking a vowel in his name , which will render it M'J > o-all _O'Cosseia ' s _Buix-ism . —That Irishmen commit solecisms , or , as they are commonly termed , "bulls , " is , to use the words of Lord Colchester , when Speaker ofthe Bouse of Commons , on the sahject of selling of seats , as " notorious as the sun at noon-day , " but we certainly did not expect to find the " great Agita » to * " exhibit in one which even Sir Boyle Roche might have envied . While speaking in favour ofthe resolution preventing the Irish members from attending Parliament , he is reported to ha , ve said , " If it were attempted to bring in any measure injurious to Ireland , he would feel It his duty to go orer and to die on the floor of the House in carrying out a vexatious opposition to it . He would thai come back
to Ireland , and ask his countrymen , Are you for Repeal now ? '" Although O'ConneU , in his time , has performed many parts , we were not prepared to find that , like the ghost of Hamlet ' s father , his ap » pearance after death may be calculated upon . Subsequently he said that all tbe Irish representatives were ready to attend the House if circumstances required , and die at their posts . We think it will be a matter of congratulation to many ofthe tradesmen at the West-end if some of them remain in Ireland . " Boz" has given an , exccllent description ofthe partiality of Irish labom _^ rs to standing at their posts in St . Giles's , but wc opine they never had an idea of dying there , unless from the combined effects of shillelaghs and whisky . If this memorable tragedy is ever to be represented on the floor of thb House , we trust Fitzballwillhe engaged to give the adequate quantum of blue and red hre , and all other ingredients , to produce a due scenic catastrophe . —Satirist .
The Quintessence of Cast . — " Of all the cants in thia canting world , " said Sterne , "though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst , the cant of _criticise is the most tormenting . " What then would he have said had he lived in the present day , to have witnessed ihecantof hypocrisy and fanaticism united ? Messrs . Grissell and Petb haveprcsented every workman on the Brandon line of the Norwich Railway with a Bible and Tracts , and have also engaged five missionaries to preach to them on Sundays , and other days of the week . Is it during the day , or after the men have left work , that they are preached to ? Messrs . Grissell and Peto have long been , not only before the public , but before committees of the Houses of Lords and Commons , for the delay
in the re-building of the Parliament Houses ; and that delay was occasioned b y their sanction ofa system of tyranny into which it is not necessary that we should now enter . As , from circumstances which have come to our knowledge , we have reason to doubt of the _jyresentation , without a corresponding reduction of wages to pay for the books and the missionaries , we shall make inquiries on the subject . —Ibid . Cheap Imuqr . tauty .- ~ Tlie destroyer of the Portland vase , valued at upwards of one thousand pounds , has got no move punishment than tho smashers of a half-crown pane of glass ; in fact , not so much as the City smasher , tor the right honourable Michael Gibbs has " sent some of these , gentry to prison for six months , in default of bail . If a man can excite Europe , and hurl to "immortal smash" one ofthe most beautiful and valuable specimens of antique genius the country
can boast of—if he can live in history , be the " observed of all observers , " gain a lasting immortality for the _astomViwi < 7 low price of five pounds , or two months' imprisonment , there is little doubt but spirited young gentlemen who wish to adorn a page of ( newspaper ) history with their exploits , will now go a cheaper way to work and since Parliament has passed a bill that has been a " heavy blow and great discouragement" to _^ o _^ _-sat her Majesty , will now seek to achieve a deatldess fame by aiming at works of art . The aspirants , however , for a niche at Madame Tussaud _' s must not be suffered to obtain it for five pounds . Parliament having passed a special Act to protect her Majesty from potboyism , it had better do as much for works of art , or they may find , when too late , the smasher of the _Bai-berini vase will soon have rivals in the field . —Ibid .
Ax * Orthodox Fixish . —The illness under which the respected Eishop of Ely is labouring is , we perceive , apoplexy , which is reckoned the most orthodox disease for a Bishop , at any time , and therefore highly becoming liis sacred " order . " When the time arrives , as it must , for a Bishop to be translated tothe heavenly world , it is perhaps best that the attack which is to _schiI them to p aradise be sudden and speedy , inasmuch as such spiritually-minded men can have 110 reason to dread being cut off in the " blossom of their sins , " or brought to a quick account , seeing that , unlike the present Lord Mayor , they are naturally alwavs prepared for such contingencies . A short cut to the realms of bliss must he the best in the case of a Bishop . —Ibid . Kicked the Bucket . Here lies Joan Kitchen ; when her glass was spent _. She kicked np her heels , and wway _slus went .
AmewC- _.. _* ' Tombstone . — " Sacred to the remains of Jonathan Thompson , a pious Christian and an affectionate husband . His disconsolate widow continues to carry on thetripe-and-trotter business at the same place as before his bereavement . " v The Sais ' ts Ashamed . —Two cardinals found fault with Raphael for having in one "his pictures given too florid a complexion to St . Peter and st faul . " , Gentlenicn , " replied the artist , ill pleased with the criticism , " don't be surprised , I paint them ! just as tliey look in heaven . They are blushing with shame to see the Church , below so badly governed . " Punuc Baths for the Poon . _—From time immemorial England has been a maritime nation , but __ at present she displavs her affection for the sea with redoubled energy . * The temperance movement IS enough to convince any ' man ofthe futility of asking on all occasions for a go of rum or a go of any other
spirituous liquor , when he must reflect withm himself that now-a-days water ' s " all the go . " And when we remember , likewise , that legislators are proverbial for treating the people like so many pigs , we cannot be surprised at their at length proposing to ereet waslihouses for their convenience . This is refhaed satire . The notion of presenting a nan-starving population with tanks to bathe in , and . soap and water to scour their clothes with , is m fact tantamount to offering a man " a glass of water with the chill off and a cinder in it . "— Great Gun . Curious Dress . —A member of Parliament writes thus to the Times last week . — " Please to mention that I attended the gveat agricultuvalmecting in one your earliest impressions . " —Ibid . Sh * E . K _SATcmnjM is tobe raised to the peerage , b y which elevation the excellent baronet lipped to get rid of his not very euphonious name . And so he will ; but that wicked wag , Sir Robert Peel , has insisted on creating him Lord Bullock Smithy , of Bullock-Smithy , in fhe county of where is it ? So Sir Edward thinks his hat fits him as well as his coronet could do .
—Great Sun . y Character is * i Lavoh . —How much of character is there in a laugh ? You know no .. man . till . ' you have heard him laugh—till yon know when and how he will laugh . There are occasionsr _^ there a ' re . hu _moure when a man with whom we have been long familiar shall quite , startle and repel _usi by breaking out into a laugh whicli comes manifestly right from his heart , aiiu which ' yet we had ' never heard before . Even in fair-ladies with whom , I have been much pleased I havo remarked the same thing . _^ As in niany a heart a sweet angel slumbers unseen _tiUsome happy moment awakens it , so . there sleeps often in gracious and . amiable : characters deep , in . the , back ground - a quite-vulgar spirit , which starts ; into lite when something rudely comical penetrates into the less frequented chambers of the mihd . rrBlacfr _^ ooa * _Magaaine . . . _-. .- ; :. - ; _-: v .. _* < ¦ . ¦ . ¦ ¦ . ¦ .. < ..
_* Extraorwsaky . N arrative .. — 'Sh f Samso _^ _lTosw ) -7 V 7 Bes ' contains a scries of remarkable _pjjm under the following title , viz : '' . The Fenialo . Warrior :, an interesting narrative of-the . raftering , angular and surprisin" adventures of Miss Leonora huddons , who , led on by " patriotism , joined the Texan array under _' Gen . Houston _^ fought m tne _eyw . _raejmoi'aulc battle of San' Antonio , _iwhere she , after , seeing all her comrades slain , was shot . down , and left for dead ., Recovering the following . ' morning , she was captured by'the Mexicans , conveyed on board the , ship St ..
Juan > from which she . attempted to escape with the ,, surgeon in a storm , _; but !! being >; sobn missed from ,, the _. sbip , they _weye-pursuediby 7 . fiix men , in a . boat , _^ overtaken , aiid after , a terrible _stinaggles , _shejvas re-,: , ; captured , taken to , Vera 0 rU 2- _4 ied _^ behind a , cart , andraadetowalk from there ( barefooted , over burn- , ing sand , and . beneath , the tropical sun ) to the city of Mexico , a distance , of over , 250 . _nitlesj where . she ... ; was thrown into prisons _ftoiu \ _vhenee . she escaped , made ' a voyage to sea ,: _* and veturne _* d * _to ; _hw _friend in : this country in Match-lasti >! 5 Fvu \ _andiinteresting . ¦¦ ¦¦ particulars written hy herself . " A
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 22, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_22021845/page/3/
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