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"A feast of _nectar-d sweets Where no crnde surfeit reigns . " PABI JJ . We commence the second part of onr "Feast " ¦ wife the _BEATJTIES OF _BIROff . no . sn . "CBU 3 > S _VASoXAt . " We have now to introduce the reader to the second canto of "Childe Harold , " which opens -with the _uunuiua Bianzas
_^ . _suuuxm _, , as suwime as poet erer penned : *— r Come , Mae-eyed mala of heaTeul—but thou , alas ! Wdst never jet one mortal song _inspire—Goadess of Wisdom 1 here thy temple was , And is , despite of trap and wasting fire , And years , that bade thy worship to erpire : Bat worse than steel , and flame , and ages slow , Js the dread sceptre and dominion dire Of men who never felt the sacred glow That thoughts of thee and thine on polish'd breasts bestow .
Ancient of days ! August Athena . ' where , . _TThere are thy men of might I thy grand in soul ? _Gone—gUmmaring thronsh the dream of things that were : First in the race that led to GloTy _' s goal Ihey won , and pass'd away—is this the _-rAul * - ? A _school-bojr ' s tale , tlie wonder of an _hOUT 1 The warrior ' s weapon and the sophist ' s stole Are _songhtin vain , and o ' er each mouldering tower , j Dm mth the mist of years , gray flits the shade of power _. Son of the morning , rise 1 approach jou here 1 Come—hut molest not yon d _^? ei * . S £ les _* - " « a ' look on this _*^ t _» a nation ' s _sepulchrri ' Abode of gods , whose shrines no longer burn . Even gods must yield—religions take their torn : _* Twas Jove ' s— 'tis _JMahomsfs—and other creeds "WUl rise with other years , tUl man shall learn Taialy liis incense soars , his victim bleeds ; Poor child of Doubt and Death , whose hope is built on reeds :
Bound to the earth , he lifts his eye to heaven—Is't not enough , unhappy thing ! to know Thou art ? Is this a- boon _jsolrindly given , That being , thou wonld ' st be again , and go _. Thou know ' st not , reek ' _st not to what region , so On earth no more , hut mingled with the sides ? Still wilt thon dream on future joy and woe ? Regard and weigh jou dust before it flies : That little urn _eolfb more than thousand homilies . Or burst the vanish'd hero ' s lofty mound ; Far on the solitary shore he sleeps : He fell , and falling nations njourn'd around ; But now not one of saddening thousands weeps , 2 f or warlike worshipper his vigil keeps "Wheri _demi-goda appear'd as records teH . Tie-move yon skull from out the scatter'd heaps : Is thata temple where a Gad may dwell ? "Why ev * n the worm at last disdains her shattered cell
JLook on its broken arch , its ruin'd wall , ItS chambers desolate and portals foul ; Tes _, this was once Ambition ' s airy hall , The dome of Thought-, the palace of the Soul : Behold through eaeh lack-lustre , eyeless hole , The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit , And Passion ' s host , tbat never hrook'd control : Can all saint , sage , or sophist ever writ , _People this lonely tower , this tenement refit ? "Well did ' st thon speaft _, Athena ' s wisest son ! All that we know is , nothing can be known : "Why should we shrink from what we cannot shun S Eaeh hath his-pang , hut feeble sufferers groan "With biaiu-born dreams of evil all their own . Pursue what Chance or Fate proclaimeth best ; Peace waits us on the shores of Acheron : There no forced banquet claims the sated guest , But Silence spreads the couch of ever welcome rest .
Tet if . as holiest men have deem ' a there he A land of souls beyond that sahle shore , To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee And sophists , madly vain of dubious lore ; How sweet it were in concert to adore With those who made our mortal labours light ! To hear each voice we _fear'd to hear no more J Behold each mighty shade reveaVd to sight , The Baetrian , _Sainian sage , and all who taught the right In the original MS ., instead of the stanza just gnen , was the following ;—- Frown not npon me , churlish Priest / ihat I JLook not for life , where life may never be ; I am no sneerer at thy phantasy ; Thoupitiestme—alas 11 envy thee , Thou bold discoverer in au unknown sea , Of happy isles and happier tenants there ; Z ask thee not to prove a Sadducee ; Still dream of Paradise , thou know " t not where , Bat _hrrt-ttoo well to hid thine erring brother share .
We had purposed offering some remarks respecting onr object in printing these selections from Btros : want of " space , however , forbids us doing so at this time . We defer , therefore , onr intended remarks _-ontll we come to the conclusion of our extracts from " Childe Harold . " We now proceed to ihe continuation of onr extracts from
THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Prison Bhj-me _, in Ten Books . Bt Thomas Coofek , the Chartist * In the third hook , from which we extracted the address to the Snn , given in last Saturday ' s Star , Hie reader is introduced to those two notorious characters , Damned to everlasting fame , Judas and _Cas-oebeagh . Awful is the picture of the fast of these traitors : — Tongue cannot syllable the "blighting enrse . Stamped on that dern and desolate countenance ' . For mastery—despair , wrath , shame , remorse , Contended , in each petrilying glance , — And still their contest burning sustenance Drew evermore from the consuming blaze "Within z— " Mj fceing _' s ceaseless _heritance Is agony !"—seemed written ia that _gaze—3 n letters not a universe of joy could raze :
It was a look unique in wretchedness : Sneh ss , in land of penance , could be worn By none hut him who—in his heart ' s excess Of 21—Ms gust for guilt , engrained , _inborn"Bttxayed to shameful death , and vilest scorn © _firotehering priests , the Being who only sought To bless mankind and die ! The look of lorn -Remediless woe with whieh that face was fraught Seeded no speech to tell—it marked Iscariot , Ifert- Iseaxiot taught A space circled with snakes in deathly array _Bpreared—pofcting with forked tongues , where smote His breast , as on the rocky floor he lay In speechless agony—the suicide of Cray . _Ifearly the whole of this book is occupied -with the criminations and recriminations of the two traitorous suicides . Thus Judas commences , and _Castle-SEagh replies in the two following stanzas : —
Tile _panflar to the pomp-blown , Inst-swoln _Suelpb ; _Arisen 1 say , —avaunt J—betake thee hence 1 I Trill he fellow to Hell ' s inmost self-Bather than thee , with all thy guile prepense , — Thon double-dealer in each mean pretence lor _fo-rging fetters to thy fatherland SBer champion—first!—and then—tsroe subsequence Of falsehood ! tool , her slavery that planned , And for his guilty wages stretched his guilty hand ! Traitor , —that sold his country for a price-Traitor !—a price!—the prostrate shape outburst ;—ma I hetray my _faster , with device Of a . false kiss , nnto ihe foes athirst For his most precious blood , —my " heart endorsed , The while , with settlement of black receipt—The thirty silver pieces f —• Snake accurit !—
. Retorted Judas , —think not here to cheat Thy soul : my deed was foretoldhy the Paraclete 1 Judas palliates liis crime on the ground that he was the child of destiny : — God did appoint my SOUl 10 SlD i "CntoMshigli decree I bow : His drudge lam . His purpose answered— -I shall win if j seat in that bright realm where beam the seraphim ! On the other hand Cast £ eb £ aqii labours to excuse iis infamous career , by alleging that he was incited io Ms ambitious aims bj supernatural influences . He telfe the story of the " _Kadiant Boy" appearing to him once in the bed-chamber of an ancient castle in the north of Ireland , and again in the House of Commons after lie Md climbed the heights of power . We -must refer our readers to the poem forthe paxtienlars of this strange story . Here is a description of that bloated sensualist and royal brute , George 2 V ., put into the mouth ofhis former sycophant and ¦ dhtv tool _Castlebeagb : —
A living prey to Ms heart ' s vice—a sla * re * filth so abject thatthe worms , which now their hrave _Carousal hold amidst Ws putrid day , Find bim not more uncleanly than in life . * * * His _idngi-f course affords no trait Of nobleness : selfishness was rife As lust within him : lus soul a strife _-Ptrpetoal shewed the trampled human crowd To _hnfise more vilely still : while the knife _^ s » at their Terr throats his seofis were loud ,
iu he could see them bleed and die , —unmoved , un sowed . Be thirsted hat for power tt > wring - _from out hig sdbjicte' heart * the last life-drop- * -Ifit would minister to his revelling One guilty honr : ——a sot , a fop , He was by tarns : a blackleg , then—to groupe _Of Swindlers fugleman . '—becoming , soon , T & e god of earthly gauds , and to the top Of his -rain bent fooled on , hy each baboon , jelled with titles , that beheld the holy spoon » J . How , 132 , Heet « tsect . I _« nd * 3 n ,
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Bestow its unctuous virtue on his head , — And laughed to _seethe gew-gawplaced thereon , — The grown child ' s gew-gaw _i—while , in pomp outspread _. Peers , prostitutes , pimps , prelates , found his throne Kftelt blasphemously homaging the o'ergrown Monster of vice , —their grandeur fed , the while , With tears of starring thousands ! In the following stanzas Judas is addressing Castlereagh , recalling to the latter his hideous earthly career ;—
Hah ! how aloof Thou stood ' st from mercy , while on earth ! Disproof That millions starred and suffered , thy false _tongua forged , daily : not a tear-drop in behoof Of suffering from thy stony eyes was wrung For one of all the thousands that thy treachery stung ! Wilt thou deny that there is suffering—now ? Now f—while the worm of conscience thon dost feel f Th' undying worm ? Why , what is the weak woe Thy coward soul can bear , *—though Hell unseal Her quintessence of torture ! 'Twill be weal , Compared with aggregate of woe thy heart , Remorseless , wrung from millions whose appeal ToJRight was vain ' . —millions of sires whose part Of woe though first , was least : they left an after-smart
For whom ! Por millions oftheir starveling sons And famished daughters , —who still pine and moil By law : mere _skin-and-bone automatons ! Oh 1 serpent!—how my spirit ' s tide Uoth boil Against such viperousness as thine J * 7 * * * Hah I how they shouted while thy mangled clay Was borne unto its burial!—the few men - _j-vjom blood Oftheir old fathers , for one day , — Stirri _" 1 int ° more _thm 8 lavps * 0 h l { t _was _tt" « a—While tern ? _^ 2 ? * _**? * _T _* ° Of tby stern _tehC _^^ ' _^^ Z , Held up , and breathe * * , ff ot _^ _VrT IT tten Thy waking victims shovu 5 httve fiiled Death's maw ith the whole vermin brood thai * - _*««*«» ntals gnaw J * * * * A hypocrite thon wert in life * in death A coward * * *
* * What wonder , —though the _Guelph Oft spat upon thee , —tbat thou , still , the path Didst keep of fewuing ? Meanest , vilest elf , That ever played the tyrant , —loathe thy abortive self ! Most ofthis portion of the poem is powerfully written , but it strikes us that there is a too frequent repetition of "hell , " " snakes , " "tortures , " & c . The speeches put into ihe mouth of Judas we think -wonld have been more telling if somewhat curtailed , and more simple in their structure . We quote the conclusion of the book in which Cas _* $ i _£ » ej . gh , in the height of his agonies , imagines he sees again the "RadiantBoy , " no longer in the guise of a messenger of glory , but as a mocking fiend » _Thesestanzas are awfully beautiful , and excite the thrilling interest of the reader . Castlereagh giving utterance to his agony at the sight of the fiend , Judas exelaims : — Talse minion , hold . _< __ - ¦ -this region is exempt
from Earth's old dreams ; nought seest thou , but hast sold Thyself to falsehood till thy heart is bold To forge wild frauds ev ' n here ! Castiereagh replies : — Gurst Judas , tease Thy taunts !— I come , 'itsaith— 'thy heaven _t'unfold'Thy ancient heav ' n—the haggard , thougbt-wora face Of Pitt : that thou mayst dream old dreams of power and place !' Perditioned Jew!— -seest not the portraiture The fiend hath raised !—List what he _saith!—' Now
view The magic eye , once more , which cleft th' obscure ' Opaque of tby dull clay—his fit tool knew—1 Accepted thy meek offers to eschew 'Hash , youthful promises—and cheered with smiles , 'Prurient with place , the recreant to pursue ' His snaky course of patricide ! Kecoils Thy spirit from such vision of its patriot toils ? Host think it would recal the withering sneers 'Of Ponsonhy—or (" rattan ' s lightning glance' Till thOtt _wouldst quail with sense of ancient fears ? Courage ! thou thing of cut-throat puissance ! What of their sarcasm ' s empty fukm ' nance ? ' Thou wast a victor— _% > ite of all their gibes ! Thy country ' s suicide was won , '—Perchance ' Thy own for smallest sin Hibernia _' s tribes Will count—the hosts thou _sold'st to Pitt for traitor bribes !'
Vile Jew ! why dost thou scoff with hellish glee ? Hark!— 'tis the Fiend , again— ' Would ' st gaze On Brandreth ' s gory head ?—I'll bring it thee , Fresh reeking from the scaffold , with the glaze ' Of death still in its eyes 1 Hah ! thou shalt craze ' With joy , gloating thy fill npon that throat—• The mangled throat of Thistlewood!—Pourtrays It thy own wound ?— Stifle the troublous thought' And once , again , upon thy spy-trapped victim gloat !' The Fiend ' s fierce eyes—how gleefully and fell They glister—like the eyes of Earth ' s -rile things - That hunt for blood ! Again it gaifb , * How well The eyes of Castles and their _glisterings' Edwards' and Oliver ' s—o ' er traffickings Of blood for gold—thon dost remember *—Start . ' _Jfotnow;—for , swift , thy Radiant _angel ' 6 wings Shall toil to bring—that thou mayst mock its smart _« With life's . old relish—Caroline ' s lorn broken heart !
' Gloat—gloat thy fill upon each torturous pang ! ? Dost shrink ?—Courage!—they wereher _dyingmoaDB ! ' The music thickens : — 'tis the sabres' _elang Mingles with shrieks;—and , now , a peal of groans Comes up from Peterloo ! What , though the stones ' Would rise and curse—were tby vile image there !—• Thon shalt have joy in listening to the tones , Renewed in Hell , of Hunger ' s loud despair!— - — -i Hark ! what wild choir breaksforth in anthem debonair * Behold—thy Radiant angel bath called Up « Thy bread-taxed victims , in their lank away ; And , with the hunger-bitten weavers' troop , Thy fatherland ' s crushed children leave decay I ' All rise—and hymn thy glorious deed at Cray !'Hell-Fiend , avaunt!— And forth the minion
fled—Shrieking with horrid madness ! Me , dismay And terror woke ; and , ftom soul-quelling dread Set free , I blessed the morn , upon my prison-bed . We have a word or two to say respecting certain remnants of " original pieces" not noticed inthe first part of our " Feast . " The lines " To _LraERtr " we would gladly have given , if conscientiously we could have done so , had it been only to encourage the writer—wha _-jwafesses to be a , " Manchester Millboy , " —to further efibrts . The piece contains some good lines , aiid some poetic thoughts not properly expressed ; butit is too faulty as a _XOSls ts _g ™ _Felicity to . Let the " Mill-boy" try again . That "Music is the food oi Love , " we will not attempt to dispute ; bnt certainly the lines thus entitled are not fit food
for our " Feast . " What we have said of the Millboy ' s " poetrv applies to the piece ftom Glasgow , entitled " The _' Twilight . " The other piece , by the same author , is too tame on such a subject as " Freedom ' s Approach . " . ¦ A . C _, of Glasgow , Bends ns some lines m praise 01 "Glasgow ' s bonny Green : " and although that honoured spot is , we believe , chiefly famous as a "drying ground" for auld wives' claes , still we would willingly have given it a chance of such fame as our columns may confer , had "A . Cs" lines been poetry , which niifortnnately they are not . The lines are Simple and correct , and repeated by a child at a family party would pass muster very well ; but they are not of
sufficient merit to warrant their insertion in a public journal : "A . C . " must try again . We have received some lines from John Peacock , of _Port-Glas-§ ow , to the memory of that genuine poet , but unappy and unfortunate man , Robert _Taxxahu'x . Poetic the lines arenot ; and our judgment bidsns rejeetthem ; buton the other hand , the writer ' s motives are " so excellent , and our feelings are so in nnison with Ms own , that we find our judgment succumbing ti ) oar feelin « s—and so , at the risk of displeasing the critical , we determine to give a few of Mr . Peacock ' b verses , hoping that the next piece he favonts us with will be so far an improvement on his present production that we mav be able to give it entire .
TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT _TAHNAHIII OI Scotland , thou hast blamed and praised Thy native sons of genius far ; And sculpturM monuments have raised In pomp to men ot blood and war . Xong thou hast twin'd the laurel ' s wreath Around tbe image rock-carv'd bust Of many _ahaTd , long locked in _diath , And mingled with their parent dust ! Bnt , ah , no monument hath _reav'd To he whose deep impressive strains , In native language long endear'd , Breathes sweetness o ' er the hills and plains _. He who hath long _foi _* gotten been ; "Whose songs the hreasts of aU _dotb fill "With noble feelings , _tietp _% s & _&«»—The long neglected Tannahill .
When Scottish peasant , prince , and lord , Conjoin'd to praise old Cailas bard * , " To bards , " the toast went round the board j For Tannahill no voice was heard j T care not though a poet ' s worth Is blazoned not by cold carv'd stone ; But would his name have usher'd forth , As one of nature ' s nobles gone , Why , Scotland , hast thon honours paid To some on thy poetic list , Yet sunk beneath a nameless shade Thy first and brightest melodist t When thy sons met at festive throng , Why did each lip rest mute and stiU , And scorn to name thy son of song— . Thy dear departed Tannahill ! His life was hat a fickle dream
Of sighs ana smiles , of joy and car ** Oft sunk , by self-nnrs'd feelings keen , Beneath the grasp of wild despair . Alas ! he but too keenly felt The pangs of misery and woe j Until st last o _' ercome , he knelt To _seEdestructlon ' _e reckless blow .
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No classic lore made & ir his lot ; He _own'd no title , wealth , nor soil ; But born within a straw thatch ' ! cot —• The son of penury and toil . Should no vain edifice be rear'd To bis lov'd name and memory ! Still , still , his melodies endear'd , A lasting monument will be , We believe we have now disposed of all the " original" pieces received _ifrom our friends and readers Itis a subject for congratulation that we have had a greater number of amateur poets competing for admission to this quarter ' s " Fea 8 t" than to the one preceding . But if the quantity of _poeti-y received has been greater , we cannot say that the
quality exhibits a corresponding improvement . We ¦ wish our poets would try their hands at subjects more inspiriting than those thejr usually adopt . Ours is not the party , and this is not the paper , for _lackadasical versifying . We want something patriotic : _something to " stir the blood like the sound of a trumpet" in vindication of universal Liberty , and in furtherance of her good cause . In short , we want the Nation ' s poetry without the Nation ' s bigotry . What say our friends—have they the spirit within them ? If so , let it have utterance . Let them read Thomas Cooper ' s Purgatory of Suicides , and take courage bv his example . He is the first who has really given to the world Chartist poetry , worthy of the name j wc trust , however , that he will not stand alone . We have spoken of Thomas Coopeb as the only Chartist poet , and we have said this "with the full
recollection of the " Mob Melodies" Thomas _DoimiEDiv , Esq ., editor ofthe Tym _J / _erairy ( formerly editor of the Northern Liberator ) , for these reasons ; first , that the " Mob Melodies" are , with one or two exceptions , decidedly less poetical than many of the same author's prose productions . In this T , Double-DAT is not singular . Thomas Paine and Thomas _Cakmke are great examples Of trUO poets , _notieCOgnised as such by the world , because their true poetry has net been set forth in the form of verse . Secondly , theauthor of the "Mob Melodies" shrinks—at least so it appears to us—from avowing himself to be , what formerly he hesitated not to acknowledge _himse lf— a Chartist ; for we see he adopts that ridiculous and stupid designation of " Complete Suffragist . " Notwit _£ st * -iig this , we feel called upon to give a specimen ol _* _'fwo of Mr . Doubiedai ' s " Melodies : "
. THE FACTORY CHILD . " _Tvi ? atymore kill ' em j " Every Man in his Mnmour , 1 _VSS- " LANGOLEE . " "( Then first these young eyelids to nature were _open'd , They closed in delight , as they open'd in joy , The _floww in the meadow—the tree" in the forest—* All nature ' s luxuriance h _*« _l charms for her hoy . From grey morn to e ' en , 'mid the valleys I wander'd ; The streamlet I _follow'd , or _travers'd the plain , _Andwondertf ( how simple . ' ) _whatoot-W be their _iheauing , _Yfho talk'd of " the world , " and its " sorrows and pain . " The song of the shy-lark to me then was music , As wildly he _caroV'd aloft in the shy ; Or the throstle ' s , when , nun-like , she chanted her
vespers , In the deep-wooded _gleu as the _er _' ning drew nigh . "Twas music to me , the Slill voice ofthe streamlet , As , purling , it wended its way thro' the dale Now , shrinking , in shade , from the sun ' s noontide ardour ; Now silvery-bright , in the moon-beam bo pale . Oh ! days made of _hea-rti , and all-heavenly tWKAvffed "With joys such as beings in Paradise linow J Oh ! dajs made of heav ' n , all too soon to be shrouded In nus _' _rj _' s dim pall and the dark veil of woe 1 Oh 1 days made of heav ' n , tho' now lost , not forgotten ; Still _cherish'd , tho' ne ' er to be look'd on again : Since ye have departed , I now kno W their meaning , Who talked of " the World , " and its " sorrows and pain . _**
Ify sun-shineis , now , the pale lamp , that with radiance like death , lights the task of an early despair . My music is , now , the harsh steam-engine ' s , hissing , That drives on the woof ot my sorrow and care ; My flow'rets are , now , the coarse tints that are scatter'd Amid the vile threads of the web that I weave ; ify home is the gloom of that Factory Prison , "Where childhood must pine , lest oppression should grieve . No Sabbath to me brings its bright , hallow's , morning ; The chime of no village-bell calls me to pray ' r ; No peal rings for me , hut the knell that still bids me To curses andblasphemy—waitings and care ; Where the hand of the task-master ' s ever in motion , Where the thread of a life is but measm _/ d and sold ; Whereiron is all thatshould know and feel for us ,
And the heart's blood of childhood is _harter'd for gold Oh I hear me , ye _flow-rs , that first oped on my boyhood ! Oh 1 hear me ye streams , whose first music I heard ! Oh ! hear me , ye wild woods , where earliest I wander'd ; AU , all ye delights that this bosom first _stirr'd . : ' . One breath of your fragrance , ye _flow-ret 3 , but send md ; Te streamlets , once more , be yonr melody . _nigh- _; - _¦ - '•' ¦ Ye wiWwoodsX _^ v' _^ fop _^ _foment ware o ' er me , ' . And ' guilefromroy senses the Den where I die \ T . D . THE POACHER . "To push the priviliges of property beyond _theiimits of common sense , is to endanger the fabric by a vain attempt to exalt it , "—Reflections on the Game Laws .
TUSE— "MOM . B . OE IN THIS MOBN 1 NG . '" They feast , and they snore , whilst we hunger and toil ; They rejoice in the title of "lords ofthe Soil . " Nay , as " _iords of the Soil , " not content with their share , They resolve to be " Princes of Powers of the air !" Not content with th « ir reign o ' er the wet and the di _* y , Their dominion would have all that cretp or that fly ; But their " High and low" are no more than a name , And we swear there shall always be " Jack and the Gamei " Seethe Pheasant rise stately , all glistening like gold ! See the Covey , alarm'd , flnsh'd in fear from their hold ; See the Woodcock , alone , from the well-head take wing ; Prom the grass-tangled bank see the Leveret spring _. Who ' s the Hearer , the Tender , the Feeder of those i 'Tis the Woodman who plants , and the Ploughman who
sows , Por here "High and low" are . no more than a name , And a field there will always be , " Jack and the Game . " A " Poacher ' s" a title—a " Lord" is no more ; And both have been won by brave fellows of yore ! The Mitre ' s the Bishop ' s—the Crown is the King ' s ; But who ever saw " goods and chattels" with wings ? Then scour out your "barrel—your powder keep dry I There can he no Manorial Rights" in the sky : For there "High and low" are no more than a name , And not half so well sounding , as " Jack and the ( lame l "
Do ye preach up " the Peacer do ye threaten "the Law , " .. ' If a cover we heat , or a trigger we craw . Bemember the time , in its ripeness , may come , When your ears may be stunn'd by the roll of the drum To fight for your fields , shall it then be our will , Or to bleed for the birds we ' re forbidden to Mil f Not while " High and low" is made more than a name , And the lawyer dares stand betwixt" Jack and the Game . " _Whenya ' ve tied down the eagle with parchment and wax , And , by law , made the wild swan his pinion relax 1 When the crane and the wild duck ye stop on their way ,
_Arifl set up a turnpike , the woodcock to stay , — When this ye have done , we shall yield , as We must _. The privilege true , and the heritage just ; But till then , " High and Low" shall be only in name , And we swear , there Shall always be " Jack andthe Game . " T . D .
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THE PEOPLE'S GUARDIAN , AND LEEDS sanatory JOURNAL . Leeds ; W . LonBdale , 37 , Nile-street ; Pontey , _KM'gate . We have received the 1 st and 2 nd numbers of this cheap and excellent publication , and we feel bound to award it onr hearty commendation . Its getting up is highly creditable to the editor , and nearly every article evidences the genuine talent of the several contributors . We notice amongst the other contents the first two ofa series of letters on the Land , written
fey a practical "small-farm" agriculturist , who , though not of the working class , is one of their most devoted friends . The second title of this publication bespeaks its object , that of arousing attention to the present unwholesome and unhealthy state of L _^ eds , and obtaining a much needed sanatoiy refoi _*^ . Excepting Bradford , we know of no town _*^ ore filthy in its streets and disgusting in i . t « 5 fttmesphere . Agitation for a reform is therefore , much needed ; and this little publication is well-tijned and may do much good . We trustthat the men of Leeds wili give their support to the Guardian , and not only tVey , but the men . oi ' Yorkshire generally ,
A _Djsmei > Stomach , —Cobb _jjJxrsAORnWAnT bt Holloway's Pills 1—Mrs . _Aikj nBj widow ofthe late Captain Aikins , residing _^ _fjonnanght-terraoe , _Edgware-road . This lady ' _^ 4 _^^ _^ India , where her liver and stomach ho _^ become diseased , so mucH so that she could _scarcel- _^ _-jf ™ the slightest food on her stomach . She was _^ l— weak and debilitated , and suffered eontinnr _^ y from j _^ head-aches , he »» _es a nervousness and . _lowness of spirits . In six weeks _, however _wondo _* rf « i it . -mav _niwivar she was restored
to a high _sta _^ f health by this unmalled medicine , which js a certain remedy in all liver , bihous , _and Stomach c _omplaints , however bad the case may ne . _^ Ha _^ _fpi op _"Noifflwo . "—Bin rather _singnhtf _" that _h'jadreas of people boast of being shareholders in va rious railway _liaeB that are at present omy _Pitted , and have not been before Parliament , we sho * aid like theso parties to inform us how tnejr can be shareholders Of what does not yet exist , _w } d */ hether they consider their tenures ffrm ? Like Macbeth and the dagger—their grasp is _yiflionaiy . — _#
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THE LETTERS OF A SE £ ASEN AHIA _?{ TO HIS
SOU . _LITTEB HI , Tlte socialaspect of things . Men go without food for days now . They did not do so in my time . Tliere are people in fertile and _populous counties , bustling and wealthy communities , in thriving towns and great and opulent cities , who exist from year to year on food which , in point of quality , would have been deemed inferior , and in average quantity deficient , and wholly _inadequate to the support Of life , in the short season of dearth and scarcity , to whieh I have alluded in a former letter , and which was then the occasion of mobs and murmurings , which reached the gates of the palace , and alarmed the wealthy of the well-to-do of all grades . It would almost seem as if the . _famiUarity with unexampled misery was increasing the power of endurance , and inducing a cententedness unworthy of the English character , and not hitherto found in connection with extensive physical deprivations .
Now this is greatly to he deplored ; and what does it au prove ? Much . It shows that if there has heen progress in some things , there has been retrogression in more important things , if the present generation has reason to be proud of some advantages , evils are working then-effects up on large numbers of thepeople , which , in times within my memory , would have rendered the existence of society a problem , and been deemed too urgent and appalling to admit of an hour ' s delay in their condition , But it is unnecessary to insist upon the deteriorated social Condition of the people . No one attempts to deny
the notorious fact . It must be Very Obvious and alarming indeed to have arrested the attention of the legislature in the manner it has done of late . Be assured _, it is not because the privileged orders are better disposed towards the hum Wer classes , than they ever have been , that commissions have been appointed to make inquiries touching theii sanatory condition , The independent attitude of a portion of the press has doubtless had a large share in calling attention to that condition ; but its sheer and naked hideousness chiefly has forced upon publie attention a subject at no time welcome or attractive . The fact , however , that the commissions assert , and the
legislature all . but confess , their utter inability to administer a remedy , is suggestive of many important considerations _. It would appear by this that Government is simply an executive power , and the admitted existence of evils which legislation cannot remedy , while it disposes of all claim on the . part of class legislation to be viewed as anything but impertinence and tyranny , points to the true source of all genuine reformation and just authority—the peoplo themselves , This admission of the inability of all legislation to reach a condition of things so unnatural , and altogether so portentous of danger , as has been disclosed by late reports of parties who would willingly gloss it over if their fears would allow them—this acknowledgment , of more than a tacit character , of imbecility and impotence , ofthe _jnadeijimcj ' of legislation to the discharge of its _-jifoper functions , _lsacuriou 6 and significant gaf . ! ' * ' upon a cla 68 _« elected legislature , and certainly forms the most I
cogent reason that could be urged for placing the eleetoVal power in the hands of thepeople . It is not at all wonderful—nothing else indeed could be expected—that a government , appointed as the British Government is , should be incapable of removing evils which lie beyond the pale of its safe and legitimate action ; hut that the legislature / the embodiment of a nation ' s sagacity and wisdom—the intellectual instrument , so to speak , whose peculiar province and object it is to contrive plans and means of securing the ends of soeiety and the happiness of thepeople—that this body , or institution , or instrument , or whatever else it may be called , should be admitted to be inadequate to its functions , and yet allowed to exist , is one of those anomalies whieh may be defended by prescriptive reference and rule , but admits of no explanation . It is not , _iioivever , so incomprehensible , whan we _con-jider that no interests are understood or cared for in the British legislature , hut those of the classes to which its members individuall y belong .
We are _$ thus brought to the political view of this subsubject . And here it is obvious , even from their own acknowledgment , that no government or legislature appointed under a _restvicted franchise , can do anything toward * remedying the appalling social evils , whose existence is so notorious , and whose operation is so fearful , whether contemplated in reference to the every _, day suffering endured , the injury to national character and morals , or the _cxplosiveflia _& _j-jrt and power in process of accumulation at the base of the soeial fabric . "What boots the atfected sympathy of such men as Lord John _Itu 6 _sell ? what is the value of his late-adopted
views , ana his reluctant and wheedling iteration of the fact that , the working man has not had his fair share of the advantages of increased and ever-increasing wealth ? What would my Lord Ilussell consider a fare share ; and how would he propose to secure that share 1 Bah I this man must kuow that he has not the capacity , eren had he the desire— -which he equally _wellknows he has notto suggest , a means of securing a more equitable distribution of that wealth , whose inconceivable accumulation is ouly paralleled , by the enormous aggregation of social misery and mischief which so remarkably keeps pace with it . .
- , _Withv _» deteriorated social condition , then , enduring the pressure of greater physical suffering than , by universal admission , was known to any former period , are the people at the present time in a political position of greater advantage , or which cau warrant a hope Of better things , than the one in which they found themselves thirty or forty years ago ? They certainly arc not . With a partially unshackled press , an extended franchise , a reformed pailiament , what has been , or can be , done for those who toil for their daily bread ? "Worse than nothing , It . was a grand error on the part of the labouring population to assist tbe Whigs in their struggles for the Reform Bill not only because they might have had the sagacity to perceive that that party had no aim or ambition unconnected with self-aggrandisement and the sweets of office , but because it left a struggle to be renewed with a more ini'U terate cunning , and less open and honourable enemy , with resources extended by experience and the benefits of a course of legislation directed to the intrenchment of party interests and connexions in the meantime .
How shamefully have the Whig party disappointed the expectations of the people : and yet , how foolish was it to expect any good from the infamous and contemptible pack of _hucksterersl How absurd to imagine that the legislation of men appointed by the non-productive would tend in anyway to the benefit ofthe productive classes , The clear , obvious , direct , and now painfully-felt effect of sueh _legislation is , to depress and injure the workersthe labouring or productive classes . The cheap , unrestricted competitive system is unquestionably—and I may have an opportunity of proving this to your satisfac tion—the main cause of all the misery endured and deplored , and political powr was , and is , only sought by the non-producers to procure for their favourite system and philosophy a larger sphere of operation .
Who , at this time of day , requires to be told that the landlord , the farmer , the merchant , the master tradesman , the shopkeeper—the capitalists of all grades and distinctions—look alone to enlarging their incomes by the only method really available or capable of answering the end , that of reducing the value to the _fofcourcr of that labow whence all their incomes are truly derived , and upon which they are all contingent , and even dispensing with that labour altogether when they can conveniently do SO , leaving those thus driven from the field of labour the choice of starvation or the workhouse ? And how , until the _legislation of this class of people is entirely stopped , or boldly encountered and checked , by the labourers acquiring the balance of representative power , can the devastating progress of physical suffering , moral depravity , and all social evils _bestayed ortumed ?
The natural tendency of this legislation is towards revolution , by producing wider extremes of affluence and poverty , and a larger aggregation of the varied evils which flow from this prolific and polluted course . Ardour in the pursuit of wealth , the desire of gain and rapid accumulation , are the most prominent of all the characteristics of the English people ; and at no period of our history has such _seope been given for their exercise as of late years j and the result is seen inthe deteriorated condition of the people . Thi 3 circumstance OUght to excite reflections in the minds of all . What may be the
ulterior consequences of persisting in a career , which so certainly leads to mischief , is a question not for statesmen alone . All the productive classes would do well to moderate their desires , and endeavour to procure for the working people a larger and more equitable share in the distribution of that wealth which , by being at present so unequally divided , makes this country the wonder and the reproach of nations . For their own sakes—for the sake of the stability of the system , which gives them the lion ' s share , they ought to consider seriously how this might be done , but they will not .
They have become alarmed , however . They cannot shut their eyes to the palpable fact , that , with the increase of productive power the deprivations of the people have increased in a ' commensurate _deijiee . The shrewdest among them perceive the ' tendency of things , and would fain . conciliate and divert popular feeling and attention . They appear anxious to break the force of a catastrophe which their fears conjure up , looming like a storm in the distance , and which they ennnot hope to avert . Pear , be assured , is in great part the origin of tbat solicitude and sympathy for those classes of the people who were erst designated as the swinish multitude , and by other appellations equally graceful and _cretiiti , _! _- _^ \ o thcS _6 Wiio Uttered them . Who hat * the temerity to apply such appellatives to any class of their Mow creatures now ? Ah ! a
crisis is too imminent at the hest , and too neat at all times to render the use of such language in any . degree safe or prudent , It is not because the people have more political power , or that few men have the courage of Burke in _thegedays , that such apfell * tiv « s are uncommon ; but neither ignorance nor boldness , intrenched behind rank and privilege , can now afford to be so foul-mouthed . The pressure of other than political evils aud deprivations have shown the privileged orders that they stand upon a minB which trifling irritation might help to spring , and thus involve them in utter and awful ruin . Having referred to the nature , and indicated- —merely indicated—the source of the afflictions ( if the people , let us consider the remedial plans and movements . * •
It is to remedy a condition of unexampled social disorganization that so many nostrums have been concocted and gravely propounded of late . Viewed merely in relation to their variety , one might he warranted in _sajingthat the subject has receited no small degree ofattention . . It has given _riseto _immense-rhut to . a grsat . extent yery absurd speculation . AU . sorts of . people have come with their fractional offers of aid , as expressed in their _sevural
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plans and suggestions * , but the truth is , if this social disease is understood , none of the . physicians—and they are legion—pretend to have discovered a cure : they would merely administer febrifuges and opiates , * , they xvantto compose the patient , and trust to time and the natural elasticity ot a pretty strong , though severely tried constitution , to throw off its impurities , and regain ite vigour without medicine . Pew of them profess to know anything whatever of the origin or nat'ire of the disease for which they would prescribe , * they do not pretend to have taken a diagnosis , or to be in the least degree competent to do so ; but they wish to be serviceable . They are benevolent : it ' s a fashion now to be so , and as well be outof the world as out or' the fashion , as the apothegm has it .
Imagine a host of physicians at the bed-side of apatient _, and that patient John Bull—the physicians are the political and social _pill-makers of all characters , and wiih various crotchets and pretensions . " Give him better quarters , " says one ; "Give him more air , " says another ; " Wash him , for God ' s sake , " cries a tliird ; "He must have two shirts a week , and a change of clothing ) " cries a fourth ; "Give him a bath , " chimes in a fifth * , " lie must come out of , that dark damp house—pull it down 1 " cries a dapper little gentleman to whose innocent imagination the thought never once occurred of how or where , except in the filthy habitation he wants pulled down , the patient is to be placed . Now all these suggestions may be good enough in themselves , and valuable as mere sanatory recommendations , if the means existed to render them practicable or effective ; but what but caviare can they he to the patient ? He wants food chiefly provided him , with a sufficient and permanent supply—not the _iutermittenthunger-ana-burst supply of the Corn law people , and you will have done something towards his relief—provide him with the means of removing , and he
will remove of lus own accord , and be very happy to do so , in a more airy and comfortable abode . Do not credit the reports oi his filthy habits—furnish him With tho means , and you will find that he will , in a short time , and as if by magic , become as healthy , and cleanly , and respectable a person as you affect to wish him . Do all this , I would say to each and all of tha physicians , and you have done something to entitle yourselves to the patient ' s gratitude , and to a character above that of the empiric . You Will perceive b y this concluding bit of metaphor that my notions and your own are not much akin regarding the floating regenerative plans of certain tea-supping philanthropists , the agreeable benevolent talk of men of
soft tongues , smooth faces , and hands as smooth , Such hnmanity is too watery—sueh philanthropy too cheap . There must be sacrifice and self-denial , at which these perfumed _agitatovsandphilanthropists would stare , before a tittle of the wretchedness can be removed , whieh they affect to deplore . Despite of all their pleasant talk and childish schemes , vice and misery , and wretchedness and destitution , Will go on—the black volume of wave willgain in accumulative bulkand turbid foulnessevery day , until it rolls in desolation over the land , if other men do not make timely and serious efforts to turn and stop the innumerable streams and currents by whish this wave is fed .
Wall the empiricisms , ho wever , that ofthe league , from its _bol-lnfiS- * and magnitude , is the most apt to deceive , and is in all respects the most _dangerouo , I will consider its pretensions in a future letter . lit the meantime I am , & c ., . Jicoa Th-jsi _*? .
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_DHAin op a Chancert Prisoner . —On Monday evening Mr . Payne held an inquest in the Queen ' s Prison , Southwark , on John Leadman , aged 10 , a prisoner therein . Deceased was a native of Barnsley , in Yorkshire , and was committed in August , 1844 , by fice-Chancellor li . Bruce , for contempt , in not putting in his answer in a suit in Chancery , he and
other defendants not having the means to do it . On his admission he was weak and low-spirited , he was immediately removed by the surgeon into-the . infirmary , where every nourishment was afforded him , but he gradually sank under mental anxiety , and expired on Saturday . The deputy-governor stated , it was customary every three months for a Master in Chancery to visit the _pviswi , to ascertain if any Chancery prisoner who had not the necessary means , wished for nis discharge . If so , funds to sue in forma pauperis were granted by the Lord Chancellor . Deceased had repeatedly been asked to avail himself of such to purge himself of his contempt , but he refused . — Globe .
TuusDm-sronu . —Rochester , Sept . 22 . —Yesterday evening , between six and seven o ' clock , this neighbourhood was visited by a fearful storm , wliich fortunately was but of short duration . The vivid flashes of lightning were followed by thunder claps loud and deep , and accompanied by a heavy shower of hail and rain , during which _ayoungman named Catt , a briekmaker , about twenty years of age , lost his life . . He left Strood at about the commencement ofthe storm , on his way home to Cnxtone , a village on the bank of the Medway , about three miles above Rochesterbridge , and before he had proceeded one-third of the distance lost hislife . The corpse was found early this morning by a labouring man in the employ of Mr . William Manclark , near whose farm the melancholy catastrophe ocmirrod . Thi electric fluid appeal's to
have struck the . unfortunate man on his head ; one side of the face being much burnt , his hat and clothes rent open , and his shoes torn into shreds . Melancholy _AcciWKT .- ~ On Thursday last , at one of the pits belonging to the Glangarnock Iron Company , on the farm of Hyeholra , in the p . irish of Dairy , which they are at present sinking down to the ironstone , two men—a father and son—of the name of Muiv , of the relative ages of forty-five and twenty years , After charging the shot , were ascending the shaft in a waterbHcket , when James Muir , thefather , looked down to see if the straw would ignite , when the mid partition took hold of the back part of his head , and tore him out ofthe bucket .. He fell to the bottom , and the shot exploding , he was killed on the spot . The son held on by the tow and was saved .- — Scotsman .
Sudden Death . —On Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr . Garter , the coroner for Surrey , at . the Duke of York , Swan-lane , Rotherhithe , on the body of Mr . Charles _Devines , aged 55 , a timber measurer . It appeared that , on Friday last , the deceased was employed in measuring the cargo of oiie oftlie Baltic vessels , and appeared in excellent health and spirits suddenly he was observed to Stagger and fall , and upon one of his assistants going to his aid , he appeared wholly insensible . A surgeon was sent for , who immediately attended , bnt pronounced tbe deceased quite dead , probably from the rupture of a blood vessel . The jury returned a verdict in _accordance with / the medical evidence .
_S-jtcroE prom _AjpECTio . v for a Horse . —A municipal guard , in barracks at the Barriere d'Enfer , was about a year back taking out his horse for exercise , when the animal , being of a fractious temper , took the bit between his teeth , and ran away . Theridor endeavoured to pull him In , but in vain , and at last they both came down with violence . The man had his leg broken , and the horse was much injured in the back . The former was , after a time , sent to Bonne for _* the benefit ofhis health , and the horse got so much worse that it was found advisable to sllobt him , The man returned after some months , and was _seized with the most lively grief when he found that the horse , for which he had a great affection , was dead . His own life became , in consequence , a burden to him , and a few days ago he went down to the stall where the animal used to stand , and , putting a pistol to his head , blew ont his brains _.
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LivEnrooL Corn AIabret , Mosdav Sept . 22 . — The arrivals from Ireland of wheat , oats , flour , and oatmeal , are to a fair amount during the week . Of foreign produce and manufacture , the imports consist chiefly of about 20 , 000 _hrls . of flour from Canada , about 8 , 000 brls . from tie United States , and one cargo of Indian corn from the Black Sea . In the early part of the week the weather , whieh for three weeks previously had SO faYOUred US , became broken , and we _haye since had an untoward time lor the completion of harvest . It is estimated . that nearly one-fourth of the grab crops of the United Kingdom yet remain to he secured . The business in this market during the week has been extensive , and prices _generally nave dally _improrctJ . . The principal
transactions have been on speculation ; middling , quality of Baltic and Mcditerraiyeaii / _wly-at _, in bond , which , ten days _agfl waa sold at 5 s . Cd . to 5 s . 9 d ., has since been disposed of at 6 s . 3 d . to Cs . 6 d . . per 10 , lbs . * "Dnited States flour , in bond , has also had a great share of attention , and the late prices paid were 25 s . to 26 s . per brl . The cargo of Indian corn , reported above , has changed hands at 25 s ., and 480 lbs . in bond . The Town ' s millers and dealers have taken to a moderate extent of both wheat and flour , pa } ing an advance on Tuesday's prices of 3 d . to id . per bushel on old , and about 2 s . per bushel on Irish new wheat . An improvement of 2 s . per sack and brl . has been obtained on flour . . Oats and oatmeal have each been in reouest ; the former has advanced 2 u ,. pev DUBnel ,
and meal about 2 d . per Wi . The market has been well cleared of peas , at an advance of 4 s . to < 5 _s . per qr . Barley is held for higher prices , but the demand has been only limited . Beans and Indian corn have each commanded only 2 s . per qr . more money . _MASCfi-ae-ren Corns _Mabket , _Sa-TCRJUT , SEPT , 20 . -The weather during the week having bee _^ exceedingly wet and unfavourable for securing the late harvest eaused an animated demand to be experienced _SrflouSe Stocks Of whidi / _ftiel _e in first hands Sir in consequence , reduced to a narrow compass , hctora were enabled to realize a material advance on _cSeneyFor both oats and oatmea
SeSS . S _^ C a _neto inquiry , at improved rE . At our market this morning , _the-wather _harine assumed a , more settled appearance , there was lias excitement in the trade , v a fair amount , of business , however ,-ocenmd in vfheaV and all _deicrintions must be noted 3 d . to id . per _TOlba . dearer . Flour , continuing in steady request , Commanded an enhancement on the rates obtainable on this day se ' n night of 2 s . to 3 b . per sack on good middling qualities and Is . to 2 s . on extra-superfine sorts . Oats were held firmly for an advance of Id . per 451 bs . ; arid oatm _& l , meeting a good inquiry , - "fas fully lg , _pW Vm higher . 7 : .
_; . , Richmond Cobk _Mabket , Sem . * 20 > _-Ws _hM a fair supply of grain in our market to-day . -f Wheat sold from , 7 s . to 8 s . 6 d ; 1 j . oats , ' Ss . to 4 s . ; barley , 4 b . to 4 » V 6 d . ; _Tbean »/ e » . 3 d . to 5 » . _ed . ' per _Jmshel .
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To tub _HmmvAim _UNfimsciMxii 1 - pereon desirous of gratifying , his _-brntt earning , at the same time ; a _handsomi has now _ahiopportpnityjof obtaining ] _ployinent as master of a . unipn ¦ workh tion within tolerably wide . limits will and eveiy facility will be afforded to e and , in case of exposure , punishment _, retainer . is also offered to any barns bullying and insulting witnesses , and 1 upoD _. ' to act in , a judicial capacity , therewith his forensio function , accord strnctions _. of liis . employers . For pai at a certain office , Somerset House . —1 A Good _DatVSpobt . —We ' undersl the civic companies have invited Prim day ' s sport in the city . They have ' offi
in the area of the Stock Exchange all bears that are in the habit of prowl neighbourhood . ¦ As soon as these are number of desperate Stags , that have up expressly by the railways , will be _Capel'Conrtinto the interior , and his _Rt will be arnied _' with unlimited power to 1 many as he pleases . - The lame ducks 0 ; be reserved for the last , as an especial large room at Lloyd ' s has been fitted up for , the occasion , so that his Royal Hig put to no inconvenience or fatigue , in I leisure from a magnificent throne ere largest window .. Weippert ' s band will b ance . In fact , nothing has been ncglec this " civic battue" worthy of the _« 0 i whom it _Jiaa heen provided , —Ibid .
_Bubma'g AFRrcjA . —The French papers in Africa , hint very strong ! v that it is ii geaud ' s ambition to he crowned Monarch As he will want a title , we suggest lie wi " the Fire-lung of Algeria , " A _DAINTI DISH To SET . BJ 5 _FOBE A < J"J _** £ Sing 11 song of Gotha—a pocket-full of rye , _Eight-and-forty timid deer driven in to die ; When the sport was open'd , all bleeding they w Wasu't that a dainty dish to set before fl QUflOll The Queen sat in her easy chair , and look'd a honey : _TheTrince was shooting at the deer , iawe . _itl and sunny ; Tlie bands were playing _Tolkas , dress'd in j golden clothes _; The nobles cut the poor deer ' s throats , and t I-imcft knows !
A New Political _Dictionary . —Advocate ,. Latin words ad , to , and vocan , to call ; b $ i advocate is at the call of any one who necda vices . The early Koman advocates profe plead gratuitously , but some of _themwei-c tected in taking fees indirectly , by making no but" leaving it to the generosity" of their cm Clients were " expected" to give somethin advocate , and were no doubt considered t acted shabbily if they shirked it ; so that 1 regular charge -was made , and some ofthe barristers used to receive so much a head i many as chose to take shares in these joii advocates . At length the gentlemen of thc lone-robe became greedy , and it was found n <
tolimit their fees ,- the maximum of which w at ten thousand sestertii , which the classical may at his leisure reduce to six _^ and-eight Tlie advocates were paid generally in asses , 01 and they paid those aaaea their clients usual . } same metal . The fees were always payabl * . the cause was pleaded ; and it was a rule tha advocate died , or did not , or could not , or woi attend lo his duties , the sum be had received no case to be given back again . "NoilW turned" was the motto ofthe Roman as well a English barrister . —Agent , is a-gent acting 1 ' ov s gent , and is derived from the Latin word age ing , because an agent is often doing his princ —Agrarian Laws related to the public land : Spurius Cassms , who was called spurious to
guish him from the genuine Cassvus , was tu poor man ' s friend who proposed an agrarian la 1 which piece of patriotism he was tried , conde and put to death in no time . Subsequently , pronius Gracchus , who was the Lord Ashley day , carried an agrarian law founded on the allotment system ; and he was murdered in ai tion row , as a reward for his good intentions _, brother , Caius Gracchus , who wished to see th settled on their own land , got settled hhusel : shindy , when putting up for the tribuneship . Roman radicals passed agrarian laws , but Radii was so unfashionable that its adherents got a nated very rapidly . The professed object of thi rian law was to divide the public land anion poor , so that every Roman should grow his ow We , as the people of Cos reared tlieir own lei ¦ —Ibid . "
_Appbophiate _Decohatioxs . _*— A showy line 0 thercocks has been erected along - the new Hoi Parliament . We detected " speaking likeness particular members in many of them . In 0 perfectly traced the profile of Lord Brougham , another the wig of the present Lord . 01 ian « This new style of portraiture is eapitally ndap such a building ; and as it is closely allied Gothic , it is perfectly in character with the features that are prominent in the decorations future St . Stephen's . —Bid .
The Saxe-Goiha _Buicheky . — A bad e . _vcus the expediency-mongers , is better than 110116 ; " A slavish writer in the slavish Herald , " says temporary , " sneakingly apologises for the cm of our Queen , by saying that she was the guest chief slaughterman at Gotha , and was the obliged to be present at the sport he had proviill her entertainment . " If -we were invited 10 tt chop with Giblett , the butcher , surely we shorn be expected to visit his slaughtcv-h-jUB-i ' . THE ASnOVER BON _GlOVMa _* - . Scene . —Grand Banquetting Sail in the _WdtkhdVLtei _QiOMKtii and ihe Ladies of the . Court ( yardJ anvered . ¦ Grand Chorus—Omnes . Merrily pass the thick soup round ,
Quaff the pump in sparkling measure , love and skillagalee abound , Give the night to joy and pleasure , Blest communion , Here ' s the union , Such a masteris a treasure . [ Da ( I _Solo _. —Don Giovanni . Come , place thy hand in mine , love , And gently whisper " yes , " Those beauteous eyes divine , love , Were meant but mine to bless . No more the dull mop twirling , Or the greasy _dishclout furling , "With the streams thus early purling , Imy suit with rapture press J
Chorus of Paupers ( without ) . Grind and grizzle and grizzle and grind , Bones may ache but a dinner they find , We envy the rain , for that can mizzle , _TYhilst we are doomed to grind and grizzle . Recitaiive . —Giovanni . In Vain they pick and choose—I say , to joke ' ei-ei They know they cannot choose but pick the _oaia Such jojs with my seraglio I share ' em , And nothing shall froni _thiTmy harem scare ¦ _•* i » i * Air . " . Ah ! what means this sudden darkness , , - . . Sure some danger hovers near *—* Fes , my race I see is ended , furies _icah the truth appear ? ( Gong _itmids . The Power of Investigation rises inin of blue fire and red tape , _wilA demon reporters ir a twice ) . _Cnoruso / Demons .
Don Giovanni , get out , get out , Don Giovanni , get out , ( Grand ; _folitoxtt of PuMic £ a ! posure axid _Genei _' _-wa nation . ) . . Joeiei 1 - ¦ Thavbuino in " Less than no _Time-k * Majesty is apparently resolved , if , during henci 1 for travelling , she should ever visit the _dedes ! to be overtaken by the Simoon . At least _wetve so conclude , judging from tho announcementnt effect that last Saturday the opening ofoit Majesty ' s Railway took place at _Gosport . rfc . railway extends from the terminus oi _thehei Western line at Gosport , to the Royal C C , Victualling Establishment , and is intended tit ,
tate the Royal visits to thc Isle of Wight . , passes throuah the fortifications , and is al a 7 hundred yar 3 s long 1 and it was kindly _SUgglgg ! Princo Albert . " Its cost is a mere trifle , only ly .. After this we may not despair of seeing a m mi railroad laid down in the large banqueting ig Buckingham Palace and 'Windsor Castle , le , convenience of the Queen ' s children , in OTO 0 f « C . the dreadful fatigue of a walk . Wehear-fii _* -. scarcely credit the rumour—that a tunnel al s 3 that of Mr . Brunei under the Thames , is m mi plation from Portsmouth harbour to _psbomrni in the Isle of Wight direct ; md it is furthrt that nothing but * nature herself can _w" *¦ _' water " - on the scheme . — Ibid . 7 _
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 27, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_27091845/page/3/
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