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TO THE PEOPLE . -,.. _w'ul --i * a- _shsk _* . s the _trenViin ; leaf , i ~ : - . s fcea ' th aud _vigour to the stem ; - _J ' r . _-ico ot ' tyrE : jts aa 3 t D - brief , 1 _"Ir-. a ri ; ht tho' crushed , shall _c-orue again , rli i _^ _rjo SCV c ' _eud , with darkened look , 1 _j'jv h , T 1 S s _^ s _pen _^ ed for a time ; T _^ e ! lig htning ' _sflssh _, who would cot brook , _^ _ui after meet the bright sunshine . _s c-. cdom _' s onward coarse may seem lo _tsear the low'ring aspect dim , _ju : le _f-rcpar _' d to help the stream , i oi en ' -he tide ; o sink or Bwim .
_ re glorious day shell soon appear , V . _'htn liberty with magic spell , 5 < _: a'l _« :-. she the _earth-raad- lords with fear , And strike the _blsody tyrants' knell . V . ' . riling myriads , know your pow ' r 1 Arise fr _^ m ' _nefith the _oppressors' heel ; A- < ert jour birthright from this heur , Aid labour for tbe common weal . Ta spirit of the times with mLjht , Oils on unceasing for each slave , _To _strike with energy for rig _* 3 t _, Aad win the ! aur : _ls of tte brave . K . W . M .
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_STZZA FOR THE RULE OF THE WHIGS ! Air— ' Old Rosin the Beau ? _!_ -. matters now stand in this iil . faled realm , When old comrades will give us the slip , We ar : _strangely compelled t _^> put men at the helm , To prevent them from scuttling the ship . CIR ' v think , for a moment , if Basse'l were out , no * - wild he'd ba running hi § rigs ! Abo *' . popular rights he would moke such a rout'Tis lucky we ' re ruled by the Whigs .
Tie Church — can yoa doubt what her Sanger would fee Wire ths Tories el _present in power ! Lord John , or hi ? friesds , we should certaiely see & :. _acking her posts erery honr . Ba' £ S _ong as the Bishops may help out his lease , B ? won ' t injure a hair oi their w \ gg > _'sy , h even proposes their list to increases '" huzza for the rule of tha Whi gs ! Ii Sre ; were at large , how he'd lay down the law Oa the cures he lor Ireland bad found ; Atd swear thst ho never _wotld rest till he saw 3 er Est * blighment raz .-d to the ground . But Oi _^ y , while in _cSlcre _, etts _maQjd and _csttua _. Like a small _feird asleep in the twigs ; Aad Ward , in the _Cammcns , is _tquilly damn—So huzza for the rule of the * Wh igs ! If any : f ns had made war on Repeal
With the weapons that Clarendon tries , West shrieks of insigcant invective from _Shiel At the wrongs of Old Erin would rise . Bt millions of noisy Milesians back ' d From the peer to the _pessant thst digs—How w .-. uld _Managhan murmur that juries were paea'SSo buzz * fer the rule of the Whigs ! On AHias and Chartists to hear them declaim , _Toa'd think _Castlereagh come from tha dead , _Thoaih the mixture of metaphors isn ' t the same , Ani the courage and coolness ere fled . 3 _at the Whigs are becoming respectable men As auy that ever kept gigs , They are _practisinj now all they preached against then— . Sa hczz 3 far the rale ef the Whigs I
Go ob , _taj gcod lacs--never think of retreat , Though _anne-j'd by a rqaib or a squirt ; Yen ' _re fulfilling the fate such _impsstors should mest , And eating your bushel of dirt . Tber . swallow it fast , for yoar hour may aot last , We shall soon , it it pleases the pigs , _Cire your places to men of a _different east , And get rid of the rule of the Whigs 1 mF . Kivno- ' _s _ifagasmc .
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ImOGIES ASD CONTRASTS ; OR , _COMrpARAriVB SKETCHES OF FRANCE AND I ENGLAND . By the antlior of ' Revelations of I Russia . ' London : T . C . Newby , 72 , Mortimer-? street , C & _vendish-Equare . ; We feel great pleasure ia welcoming & new work from the author of the ' Revelations of Russia . ' -pis sound principles , cosmopolitan sympathies , and , febeve all , his earnest regard for truth , make him a kfe guide , a trusty adviser , snd best possible _in-Itractor . ' i This book , which , almest in erery page predicts the
_irktiDiUtion of February last , was , as wc know , in bane of preparation many months before that _ftitasrraphe . It is trae it needed ' no ghost come fretn the gri T e , ' or other extraordinary power , _snperrstural or natural , to predict thak Louis Philippe ' s f . " stein of corruption , craft , and lies , mast , some day cr other , perish of its own _rottenness . Still had this _Fcrk been published , 55 it was ia the press , b efore t h e -evolution ef February jit would hare beea considered i _remarkable production , and must bave excited a _eejree of interest scarcely inferior to that excited iv the author ' s * Revelations of Russia . '
JU it is _. th ' u work possesses no Blight value , E & _ouing as it does , what waa the damnable system of _govern-Esnt established by _Lorns Philippe _, a n d wh a t wthe condition cf the great mass ofthe French people . As ths tills betokers , a considerable portion of this work ia appropriated to showing tha resem * fcisnce « or contrasts of England and France , in their political _iustiluttonij social condition , material and intellectual power , and national characteristics . The pacts of contrast are pretty generally understood ; est it will astonish many ofthe English readers of taa work ti leam how -eery much their French _raigbbours resemble themselves , notwithstanding ue : of contention asd national [ some have asserted , t . _stural , ] enmity . Another portion is deToted to
_iJ-ereinal sketches of Louis _Philipfc , and the _celefcritia oi Fiance , fcoVn' dynastic * and revolutionary . Tae foreign policy of France ( under Louis Philippe ) occupies some chapters , and includes certain strikm revelations of tha Spanish marriages . One object | _oi the author , predominant throughout this work , is 1 lie proEotion of fraternal relations between France _X . & England , ss the great pledge for tbe ' advanoevxivX of all nations ; an object which must command tha good wishes of all trae friends to _progrers _Atheorysoraei'rhatnoreljbtttto our thinking pErfectly Bound , is broached by our author , to the eff e ct that the social comfort and happiness of the people depends everywhere upon their political freedom ; that men consume more varied and better food , live
_linger , atd enjoy in a higher degree the advantages ol civilisation , in proportion to _tieir command over the government . It has been said , that the vices or "irtues of a state are the effectfl of ita legislation ; to tie same cause onr author traces the miserable er _Kmfortsble condition ofthe mass of the psople , in the several sUtes of Europe and America . We postrone the _nathcrs _iEtroductton , ' written since the Revolution of February ; we _aball revert to it when " _^ e Lave done with the bulk of the work . He is well acquainted nith the French people , having , both as an _eauestrian and pedeitrian , travelled through and
_seen ' the greater part of Fr & nee . He made one . _joarney , tbe length of five hundred miles , on foot . ¦ He haa b = en a traveller by the diligence and other 1 modes of _conveyanse , and bas made not less than 1 twenty distinct visits to that country . He has kept 1 company with the aristocrat , the bourgeois , the _artisun , the peasant , the soldier , the smuggler , and the ( _titamoishunter . He bas been favoured with the ( friendship or acquaintance of the Orleanist , the _legitimist , tha Republican , the bigot , the infidel , ithe speculator , acd the Com nnist . He has _bxn _EPKssnt at _marriaieH , _christeningei and burials ; he tha seen ali _cla-seslive , and many Frenchmen die .
Two _n-v-iens , _siys oar author , play in our own timeB _i * greater par : in tfce old world than the Greeks or ! Roman 3 in the world of antiquity . Page upon page 1 follows m prooi of thi 3 assertion . We quote the i following : —
_HSDriX P _1 CC 2 ES 3 . From _censtitationtl forms of government , from the _r _^ _ode _Vapoleoj , free trade , aad anti-slavery agitation—Efrom tte _extension of the _pres » , tho _eitahlUhment of _fclankf— f fom tbe Invention of the rail , the Itean . boat , tthecotton . mil , snd the elet trie telegraph down tothe _cdsgaerr-i-j-p , and the painless _operation—nineteen' tWcntie hj of _ttiesa discoveries and institutions Khich ee _. _nitknt : h ~ tnm cf aetual _drilles ' _-ion , sre d ue to the _llnglo-Sas 115 or the French . France re = eab ! _es Great Britain in the extent and _cconcentratitmof its population , and shares with Great IHnUin { in lesser degree ) the advantage of having tcer frontier guarded by natural defenc s . In the cold world , Fracce is only second to Great Britain in "ne extent ( f its commercial navy , of ita foreign _csmllnerce . ht manufacture * , in the quality of food _Cttflsnined by its population , & o ., & o . Our author
.. _^ _Frsneh only « len »! re race _bejldei tbe _^ _Aajlo-Saion , which has achieved _retponsible _geTern-» = at . The _na-i -nal miad ef France , as evinced in _itg lltera-. —' -hai necessary rtealt either of its aptitude or of _»* 5 _cultivation , o- of both—csn alone compete with that W Great Bri _.- _sio . Taken as s whole—scientific , _imagi-$ _ative , and _launtri-wbat literature ( _setiiag _aiida tha _! cn _3 ! ifh ) ean b _*> _pleefd before it . Prance , _thi-r . fon . _' , either in intellect or education and ia the _ausfcor ' s belief in both , must be ranked with Great ioiiliiD , at tha bead of all _otisr nation ! .
_znreATijjf . _.-.. ' l _" cre rEa"y may exist a _greater amount of ; - " -- r _u-Qoranc ? in Frarjee than is to bt found in certain _« _o _& Qivite _Btatia , the is still , in the _aggregate possession of erder of knowledge , far in the advance of thoie _^ ! rI *»» which In tke general diffuEion of its medi-- * y . raaj- _cUia _or € r aer _tbe saa * _taperlwitj which
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the ChlneBe _ntight reasonably arrogate above themselves . Franca is _farthermors di 8 _tinjruith _? d from all other continental states b y the Impartial _aimintBtratioK . of the law , which—opaniy KarkeiaMe in the cast of Europe—ig uotorious ' _iy _ltablj to _ikfl-ieac-e In it * e : ntr « l _etatea , not _excjptinj Prussia , and despite the B * l ; * _-lncdatory dictum of its sovereign , in his speech ct the opening oftbe Diet . ¦ Franc ? , therefore , taken as a state , and tha Frenoh _peopla _es _acommunlt .- _, can only be _likened to tbe taipire and _peaple of Great Britain , in the superiority of their position ( relative to the remainder of Europe ) in point of wealth , power , and intellizenco . _i \ _sm . _-r _ _-- _ - __ _-
_rSASCS AND EN 6 L 4 _ND C . _iMPAEID , Fraasc esc _.-e'is in most fhiDgs all the great European _potvtrs combise _3-, but whsn we contrast France with Great Britain , we find her _es f n behind Great Britain as she is iu auvance of other Continental itates . Thus Franco escecda tha three powers in the extent of her trade . Great Britain ia her commerce dounles France . France doubles the thre _; powers in tbe extent of her naTy . G .-est Britain more than _trebles France . In the _tstenicf its middle plane , Francs trcee . _ls the Continent : Franca ha ? 1 , 1 G 4 , 009 Bubjects erjoying an income _ab ' _-ve £ 21 . Great Britain bas more than two millions and a qia » ter enjoying upwards of £ 40 . annual ! v .
Is ths quantity of food oon ; umed by its population , FrsnCJ averages double the quantity of wheat and _coubla the quantity of sugar consumed by the _population of the _ate ' _.-lattly _gavemed states : in France 3 al pounds of wheat , and G tu 7 l pounds of sugar are consumed per hesd . In the United K'Dgdotn 33 C pounds ( and takm » OHlv Great _BntsiB _, HO pounds per head of wheat ) and 19 pounds of _sujrar , are _eonsumtd . During 1 S 47 . . £ 05 , 000 . 000 have been raised In France . The revenue of Russia , Prussia and Austria , whose sub . iect 3 are still more severely taxed in proportion to their
ability to pay , is collectively £ 48 000 , 000 . The Unitea K _ngdosi levies only fifty millions of taxes ; but as its income is computed at 553 millions , and that ot Frnnce hi S 20 Bullion !; of pounds sterling , it _Ib _obvlouB that Great Britain c _< -. uld without greater pressure raise double the _present revenue of France . [ It should have been , stated , however , that many subjects of local or special taxation in Englar . d are in France discbarged by the Government ; were everything brought to a comparative Bceonnt , it _wc-u S be fonnd , we think , thatEagland pays the mest . *]
It is also worthy remark , that In Raseia more than a third ef the whole revenue is derived from the brandy farms ; whieh , when the \ ow price at wbich it is sold , the profits of the brandy farmers , and the produce of illicit distillation are _ttk-n into account , suppose the consumption of a prodigious quantity of ardent spirits . If we turn nett to _Fruesia , attempted to ba impoBtd on ns as a specimen of model administration , we find twenty . four pints of _distilled _liquor the share oi each individual ; whilst in _Ireland , the land of whiskey , the
_arsrage —nine _baforo Father Matthpw B reign—is since only about seven ; and In the United Kingdom , including London with ita gin palaces , something under _g ' x and s half . If we draw a line through Europe , _separatee the Western and constitutional from the absolutely governed states of the Cintre and of the East , we shall find that cur British exports to Holland , Belgium , Spain , Pjrtugal , and France , _notwithstanding tbe illiberal tariffs of France and Spain , _arereg-e tbree shilliD . se for each individual , whilst for Central and Eastern Europe only one shilling andeiehtpence _.
To the Russian empire our exports are eightpence and a fraction for each inhabitant . The distinctions of individual character between the Englishman and the Frenchman though considerable , are yet less than divide the English from all other continentals .
TBE F 5 _ESCU AKB ENGLISH PEOPLE . Fire and water—light and darkness—black end white —have so long been held as less antithetical _tfiaa French and English character , that we are apt to allow these profound _analoe , its to escape ns , whilst tempted to assign an ncdue weight to trivial contradictions . Many foreigner ! , it is true , are less unlike ns In externals , but on matare investigation none will be _feund mere to resemble us in _cssentiale than ihe French . The Butchman's phlegm , the German ' s _meditativeness , the Spaniard ' s gravity , the Turk ' s _eedateness , appears at first sight more _conionent with British earnestness than the vivacians levity ofthe Frenchmen ,
Yet is this frivolity of form exponent of more real frivolity ! Far from it . In the tenons energy of his _pnrsaits , and in their practical and expressive character , the Frenchman alone bears auy likeness to the Briton , The German ' s tendency to barren _spsculation , the Spa . nlard ' s atolid conceit , the Turk ' s barbaric pride , the _Duchman ' a contractive _egatism , are mere fitted to denote a want of maturity in the national mind , _ead in . _dlcath-e of less real erftvlty than the _elaraoroOB » l « a _. city exhibits with which the French pursue important objects . The Spaniard and the Moslemln solemnly trifle away existence over the cigaretlo or chibouqi \
The German muses awa ; its most intellectual portion in _gratifying a _sensation by tbe _cultivation of harmony , or in _wearing an entangled web of words in a pedantic attempt to _generalise and classify , Tbe more _praolcal Hollander—covetous of his riches and jealous of his liberties , but regarding wealth as an end and only com _prehending freedom in itg personal applies tion—restricts his activity within the most Belfkh limits . Bnt can It be said—If we judge by _retults , the truest of all teste "thatthe grave _demeaaonr of any of these nations essentially as much assimilates to the energetic seriousness of the population of these islands , even as the volatile enthusiasm and noisy earnestness of the French !
The French and English people , though in nothing more distinct than ia their _religiess _, are still both alike , _laaceetsible to pliuiibility in religion . All the graces of a Krudener , and all the genius of a Hlttkiavitch , would not in this direction be more effective than the vulgar energy of an illiterate , or the vehemence of an insane impostor ; feccsuee the national lucidity of intellect discerns at once that no effort of reason can ever solve , or render _through any conceivable hypothesis less _asteundteg , —the awfu l mystety of first causes . Hence the resolute rejection of that wbich never can te proven from intermixture with fects cf which tbe demonstration lies within human compass , by both people , and tbe _COiuCidint liability of the few amongst the Anglo-Saxon _racs to _accspt religious theories the raost extravagant ,
Oar author maintains that the ctuvalronj spirit more extensively pervades the French and English than other people , excepting , perhaps , the Swedish and Norwegians ; this spirit—one of the most _powerfal levers which ever moved humanity—is inherited in France and England , no less by the lowly than by the malted .
_cai-VtLSV Op THB FBEKCHHi . M . However rude , vicious and _brotaliied that _'proletalre ' may seem , wfeoie vindictive envy of all above him is stamped in the hahituil expression of Hi countenance , he is still capable , if you appeal to his honour , of tbe utmost magnanimity . In the very midst of riot and txciteasent , when compensating himself—armed , triumphant and in rags , — by a day of anarchy for years of undoubted misery and supposed oppression , not one bat a hundred instances are on record of his generosity to a fallen foe and his abstinence from tempting appropriation . That soldier whose temperament the Strife heats into blood-thirstiness , in whom the traditions of French armies inspire thethlrst for plunder , & u 4 whose natural impetuosity unfits him for prolonged
endurance or exertion , is yet seen merciful in the battle and on the breach , 6 trictly honest in his charge , and patient when suffering privation and fatigue . But with both the soldier and the artisan these qualities are elicited by an _sppeal to his _chivalric or patriotic feeling . Three times ont of five your life and property is safe if you have the _presence of mind to place it under tbe safeguard of _biSkOU'ur , When meditating violence or spoliation address bim in his character of Frenchman and the chances are that he will forego hi 3 purpose to act as he conceives a Frenchman ought to act . Amidst thc weariness snd hunger of the marcb , in tha winter ' s mow or the desert's land , tbe _invocatien of honour , ef patriotitm and _elory , arrests his _nmrmurs end supplies tte place of
warmth , shade , water , _uiead and sinew . The very expression of the druaken operative or soldier , when reeling In the kennel he strikes his breast and hiccups out ' Je suis F r-r _r- ravcaisl' is but the grotesque expression of a charaelMistie which universally pervades end elevates hit people . Even in the prison and the bagnio , amongst those whose hand Is against society , and whom society bas stricken , crime and its consequent dfsgrace have rarely wholly smothered the feeling which redeems this degradation . The convict boaBts of bis nationality , he shows a rough good faith to bis comrades , and though he is insensible te tbe mark ol the hot-Iron which brands bim with his shame , he feels snd _rtBtnts at an Indignity the accusation of being a mtrucbard' or 6 py upoa his fellows .
A _rEJTCEAK STOal . * It was three days after the destruction of the Chateau de la . _Penissure , ' said the Informant ofthe writer , ' that after being eighteen bomb on foot , I crept into the oven Of a _Hltteirie ( farm house ) in wbich the fanner s wife _COUCeaUd me , as a picket of gendarmerie and a detachment of the line were iu tb = _e-Macent village . _Wfcilst I was asleep two soldiers came down to the farm house , and it SO happened that the farmer '* sister seeking & dry laggot from the oveB , and not feeing aware that I was in lt , screamed so loud oa perceiving me as to attract their attention . Before I knew where I was I felt myself _cragged out by the legs , disarmed and bound . There
were but two women and a boy upon the farm , snd my case _eeetned hopeless as the _soldfera drove me before 1 them with fixed Bayonets towards tbe village-. ' j Brigand ! ' eaid one , a corporal— * not bo fast ; if you attempt ! o swerve right or left , I'll send a charge of lead _, through you . ' I ' Blanc lee , ( greenhorn ) ' I replied , « I am no more a _brigand _tbaa _youraelf . I was a soldier and I saw blood ' drawn before yon ever bandied a mnsker . Ton would no ' , botb together hove maittred me now , if it had not been for that woman ' s treachery , —ftr so at that monent I believed . ' . .
• You are a braggart , ' replied _tbecorperal , and I htve a _ert & t mind if you repeat jour words to put a sword into your hand , end take yon over again or run you through the body . ' Try ' said I . ' No sooner said than done . Taking his companion ' s sword , ke warned him to shoot me
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through the head if I attempted to escape , and then handing it tu me , ha drew his own and loo _« d tho well rope with which hehad _bonnd my arms . You know , sir , w a " a t 0 ySl * U 4 rd l had le ! irnca th 0 nao of thB etocl _- we did not fight long 1 promise you . Once , twice , 1 m _' _,, 1 . ran him tbT ° _vfr the arm . The other levelled bu musfce-t , but the wounded man called shame upon bim thatit W 8 . an affa : c of _^ Tkcn he shall fight me now . ' _nlT , I ' _J- a !
Commenting on the abominations ofthe papsport ¦ system , our author tells a story of a traveller sent sixteen miles , on foot , in the custody of a _corporal's _pnard , because his eyebrows were not a 3 described » the _passporl-W . Pa _« hg over the _particulaw ot this story we select another equally good .
_PASSPOKTs . A sp ' _uster lady , _appljlng forcer pasport _, ar . d disposed to be _facertou ' , rrm < irks aloud to her companion that the functionary before them reminded hrr of the apothecary in Romeo and Juliet . This observation , if apt , U in this respect inopportune that it is perfectl y understood by the employe who not only bas studied the English language , but being a zealOUB partizan of tho romantic ( as distinguished from _theclci-gio ) drama , is deeply read In _gbaU _; sp » ar _? , and f _= eU in no wise fl-iUered by the _comparisen the fair stranger has instituted . But tho means of retribution are in ids hands , in the 6 hape of a pen and a _printed form , which , after polite inquiries as to the lady ' s name , age , destination . & e ., ho _proceeds to fil up un il he eotn _« to the s ' lgnalement or personal description , often considerately left In blank In a female ' s passport . Hire , in characters as dark as Guyofs encre de to petite vertu could make them , he inscribes his revenge .
To the horror of tbe lady who bad been so satirical on the outraged empUye , Bhe found when the document was handed to hor , that he bad thus depleted her . Hair , false ; forehead , low ; eyebrows , dyed ; eyes , small , greenish ; nose , flat Inez cpate ) and _completion tanned ( teinl _basane ) . Her ape , which had been set down ae she had given it . at thirty-five years , was accompanied by the remark ' looks _fi'tr-tbree . ' And worse than all , tbis libel which the victim was bound herself to exhibit throughout _France—lita all libels ( at _leist according to tho view taken by tbe British law ef these matters ) wis heightened ia malignity by the fact tbat its truth was undeniable .
Oar author maintains , that though modern Gaul scarcely deserves the title of' _BellelFrance' it ia still the finest country of the European continent . In the cotiaitien of its people a _Btriking inequality exists betw « in its town and rural population . The real French people—the people which thinks , feels , and acts , is confined to the cities . In the fol owing : extract we aremade _tocornprehend why universal suffrage has resulted in the election of tke present rascally Assembly . It must be borne in mind thatthe following _passages were written some months before the late revolution . Hr Smythe , in hit historic sketches , gives a characteristic dialogue between an ultra-liberal _depu'yandsn English Radical , In which the former is utterly astounded to hear bis English host advocating ; universal fuffrage , vote by ballot , aad liberty _ofinstrucsloa , which In France , the most thorough going partisans oftbe old Bourbon monarchy would eo eagerly accept _.
la point offset , the legitimists , wbo In the co ' utona of the Gazette be Fbance and the Qdotidiebre ( before the fusion of the royalist organs ) called with apparent Inconsistency for measures seemingly so _llbrral—and the liberals of all shades of opinion repudiating them—acted ou an identical conviction , that of the Ignorance and unfitness ofthe _msjoiity to preeerve even the liberties it had acquired . Universal _iuffeflge , ll Is believed by the Intelligent of all parties , would even now in France rapidly conduce to the restoration of absolutism and o _. church-domination . The poor snd Ignorant cultivator furnished with a vo : e weald resign it through tigotry or indiff ronce directly
or by the intermedium of his wife , Into the hands of the curate , government functionary , major , or of the wealthiest man in his village . For one vote gained to the liberal cause in the towns , three might be lost In the country ; and when it is considered that the two _succes . _e ' xve constitutional g & _vernmcnls which France has had , have fonnd means ( by the application to its forms of that system of centralisation bequeathed to them by tbe Empire , ) not only to arrest in a great measure the progress of r . form , but often to _encroech upon Its conquests ; U may be judged in how far the national liberties wonld be at tha mercy ofthe crown wben armed with such an accession of its strength _.
According to onr author , the natives of Bntanny are renowned for their stupidity . A sergeant of the French Army thus describes them . — ' V 7 heE these Bretons arrive as conscripts the Beet thing done ii to burn tbeir olothes _, cat close their hair , snd 603 k them _fur whele hours In soap and water ; after some weeks we succeed in teaching them to distinguish the right le _? from tho left , and by dint of care , we develope their intelligence at _length to the level of that of an average _trooper ' e horse , yet with time , sir . these very men make tbe best , steadiest , and _stancbest men in tbe whole army , excepting the Inhabitants of the Ardech _? . ' This review will be continued in the Stab of Saturday next .
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Sketches of Ber Majesty ' s Househtld . Iondon : W Strange , 21 , _Paternoster-row . This _elegant _li'tle book contains fall particulars of the _ofhess which constitute tbe royal establishment , the salaries attached to the various appointments , the amount of pensions npon retirement , or superannuation 1 & c , & ot Professedl y this b ook firms , and , indeed , is— ' A Guide to Situations in the Sovereign's Domestic Establishment ; ' but is also something more—a guide to the people in their search after the truth respecting the fripperies and follies of monarchy , and the cost of those trappings to the community . Monarchy is no doubt a very wise and excellent institution . If any one doubts the ' wisdom' or the ' excellence , ' _histery will dispel those
_dnubts . From the time of Nimrod to Saul ( appointed King of the Jews under rather peculiar circumstances , _—videl _Samdei ,, chaps , viii ., ix ., x ., ) from tbe timo of Saul to Hebod , from the time of Tiberius to the bastard Noams ? William , and from his time to that of tha _baatard-begetter , ' Fum the Fourth , ' all history proclaims the wisdom and the virtue of kings . The humanity , chastity , sagacity , and moderation cf kings all men acknowledge ; and the happiness of the nations over which they have ruled , never knowing want , war or slavery , sufficiently teatitles to the ' wisdom' of those remote ' ancestors ' who first abdicated tbeir own sovereignty to make way for the majesty of kings ! Still , with all our admiration for royalty , and our special veneration for
the Queen of these realms , _itgtrikes us that mnnarchy would lose nothing of veritable majesty , and on r veneration wonld not be at all weakened , if instead of nearly _of-100 _, 000 being yearly expended upon the sovereign ; a decent allowance—say _something like the American President ' s salary—were voted annually by the Parliament , and what is now lavished upon the drones of the court employed in raising the people from fqnalid misery , to eemfortaWe / weAl-re quited labDHr . We cannot see tbat ' Bedchamber Women , ' * Lords in Waiting , ' ' Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber , ' ' Gentlemen _Uahera of tho Privy Chamber' ' Grooms of the Privv Chamber . ' ' King ' s
of Arms and Heralds . '' Page 3 of the Back Stairs , ' ' The Gentlemen of the Wine Cellar , ' ' The Hereditary Grand Falconer , ' and some scores of similar officials are necessary for the comfort or dignity of the monarch , or at ali calculated to strengthen that attachment to the monarchy which , nn Joubtedly—we have the declaration of noble lords and _M-P- _' _afor it —throbs in the breast of every' free-born Briton !' The court jester has been long banished from the presence of royalty , why should the Poet Laureate remain f Or if Words worth is a necessary appendage , why should S **** ***** be defrauded of his due ? A shocking bad Parliamentary buffoon , might make a very respectable court
fori- , L _^ In this book , Johs Bell may learn how the money goes . T 8 ke a few items : —The BaroDesB Lehzen , £ 400 a year . Lady Wildb £ 1 , 000 a year . This lady is the wife of tbe merciful and impartial Lord Chief Justice Wildb , who enjoys a salary cf £ 8 . 000 yearly , and who is also enjoying the prayers _^ the wives and children of certain viotims of Whiggery , at present located in Westmintt 3 r Bridewell and elsewhere . Earl Spkkceb _, Lord Chamberlain , £ 2 . 000 _yearlv . Lord Edwabd George _Fitzillan Howard , Vice " Chamberlain , £ 924 yearly . Wo pass by the Mistress of tbe Robes , the Ladies of the Bedchamber , the Maids of Honour , the Bed chamber Women , & e _., & o . Eight Lords in Waiting [ including a Lord Byron . ' ] £ 702 per annum each . Eight Grooms in Waitin ? , consisting of Baronets' and ' Honourables . ' (!) £ 33512 s . 6 d . per annum each . The Master of the Ceremonies _* 300
per annum . Four _Geutlemea Ushers of the Privy Chamber , each £ 200 yearly . Passing over a host of Gentlemen Ushers . Daily Waiters , Grooms of tho Privy Chamber , Quarterly Waiters in Ordinary _, and Grooms of the Great Chamber , we notice' Eight Sergeants-at-Arms , whose _duties _. at the time of their in titntion by Richard I ., were to ' capture any t * _aito-s about the Court , and other great offenders _, and to hold watch outside tbo King ' s tent , dressed in complete armour , and armed with a bow and arrows , a sword , and ll e mace ef office . ' We have no room to notice the Pages of the Back Staii 8 , the Pages of the _Prerenea , the State Pages , P age ot the Cham b ere , the Pcet Laureate , & i . We may state that the Examiner of Plays , that \ i , the Censor ef the Stage , wbo bold : * H' appointment in the gift of the Lord Chamberlain , enjoys a salary of £ 400 per annum . The situation is , at present , held by Mr John _Mit cheix _KtusLS . However poorly her Majesty's subjects may be attended to by the medical officers ot Poor Law _UsionB . ifc will beeomesatiB & etion to such
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parties to learn that , in tbat respeot , her Majesty is pretty well attended to . Tbe Roval Medical Esta blishment _consols of Two _Piyuiciana ' in Ordinary , fi ; e _PnvB'cans Extra : Minary , two Physician-accoucheurs , a Physician le the Household , two _Sergeant Surgeons , a _Surgenn _accoucheur , a Surgeon to the Household , four Surgeons Extraordinary , two _Adothecanea to the Person , three _Apothecaries to ihe Household , two Apothecaries Extraordinary , two S _« r eon Dentists , a Dentist to the Household , an Aurisr , au ( _buhst , and _Surpeon-Chiropodist ; besides tiro / _. _pothrenriea to her Majesty in tbe Isl e of Wight ! We shall leav e th * Master of the Tennis Court , tho Keeper ofthe Swans , and her Majesty ' s Bands of Music , and c > mo at once to tho Lord
Steward ' s Department . The present L ' ird Steward , Earl FoiiTEscuB .. receives £ 2 , 000 per annum . Lord Arthur _Mabcus _IIjli ,, Treasurer of tho Household , £ 904 cer anaum . Tbe _Comptroller of tbe Houoch- li , £ 904 yearly . Colonel Bowles , Master of tho Household , £ 1 . 158 per annum . There are a host ol C erks of the Ki ' _-chen ; the present Clerk Compfol'er , who was _t ' oTaerly a _( _O'tiaan to Lord _UxuniDGH , receives £ 700 ay ear . Tee number of cooks , and , as Jack _would civ : l thtm . ' cook ' s mates , ' almost defy enumeration . Tha Chief Cook receives £ 700 a-year . The Gentleman of the Wine , and Beer Cellars ( _sayint * nothing nboatY- omen (!) and Groom (!) _rere-vea £ 500 a-year . _Lsuvini ; unnoticed a host ol subordinates , we come to the Master of the IL _. r _^ e _T--: e pre ent ' Master' is the Duke of Norfolk , who enjoys * sahry of £ 2 , 500 a-year . ' Tho privilege of having ibe use ot a Coachman , four Footmen , and half _a-dcz : * iiGro ms , belonging to the _Sovereign and
paid for out of the Civil List , haa always been enjoyed , and never waived bv a Master of tho Horse . When theDuke of Montagu held ihe appointment , be r « tber exceeded the prescribed numbtr . He had four Footmen , whose salaries were £ 53 per annum each : one Coachman at £ G 5 ; one Stable-helper at £ 30 ; and _tix _Ga-oan , at £ _( S 0 a yeareach ; thussaving , in wages to his servant ' s , no less than between £ G 00 and £ 700 a-year > ' \ he > a _' ary cf Chiel Equerry and Clerk-Marshal , ia . £ 1 , 000 a-year . The four Equerries in Ordinary receive £ 7-50 a-year each . Earl _GiuKvaL-e , the Muster 0 ' the Buck _IlMnds _, receives £ 1 700 a-year . The office of Hereditary Grand _Faloiner is _fiile ;! by tho _Duko of So Alban ' s at a salary of £ 1 200 a-ycar ; ' but , aa her Majesty _poiaesaea not a single hawk , the _Dakt- ' _s knowledge ot falconry has never yot been called into requisition . We may , therefore , term tho appointment a perfect sinecure , ' We mu 3 t refer the reader to th-3 work itself for
information _respecting the _Grntleraen-at-ArsTB , the Yeomen of t-10 Queen ' s Guard , _dsc . Prince Albert in Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle . ' There are no duties to be performed , an ! the office is , consequently , 3 sinecure , wiihasalary of £ i , 120 a-year . ' Prince Albbrt is also _Raiser of tbe Home Park at Windsor , with a _silary of £ 500 a-year , and the privilege of turning out tograzMn tlie Park , a certain number of sheep and cattle , which is a source of considerable profit . Hia Royal Highneea is also Ranger of th e Great Park , with extensive and profitable privileges . It is generally known tint the & um allowed to her Majesty for her privato use ( ' Privy Purse' ) ia
, £ 60 , 000 a year . The Keeper of Her Majesty's Privy Purse ( whose duties comprise little more than signing a few checks , _ocoa-ionally , upon _Measrs _Coutta , her M aj est y ' s bankers , ) ia Mr _Geobge Edwabd Anson , formerly private secretary to Prince Albert ; he has a salary of £ 2 . 000 a year , w i th lodgings in Windsor _Cast ' e ; and holds , in addition , the situation of Treasurer to his Royal _HigbneBS Prince Albert ; Treasurer and Cofferer to the Prince of Wales ; and is also one of the youthful Prinoe ' s Council of the Dachy of Cornwall . The Hon . Mrs _Aason 18 one of the Bedchamber Women , a sinecure office , with a salary of £ 300 a year .
It is only fair to state , that the extravagant salaries we have enumerated , attached to offices which , in man y i csl _ancea , are perfeot sinecures , strikingly contrast with the shabby salaries paid to the lootmen , coachmen , and ' inferior servants' ef the Royal Household , who , _aiEce the present _Bovereign aBcended the throne , have been _subjacted to a system of oheese-pariag , candle-scraping , pinch-guteconomy , which if not inspired by brown bread Joseph , musttaking into account the ' tottle of the whole '—have afforded great satisfaction to that warm-hearted philanthropist , and gigantic reformer I Our readers will now bave an idea of the contents of this book , but the book it _* elf must be read by all who wish to know how the money goes ; how it is that the English _peaple pay £ 385 , 000 yearly for the support of their Chief Magistrate , whilst tho Americans only pay £ 6 , 000 a year for theira !
The monarchy U no doubt the most valuable of our institutions , and her _presen _*; Majesty the best _pos si ble sovere ign still there are few who reading thin work will hesitate to come to the conclusion with Burke , that' We have expensive formalities—solemn , plausibilities—which tend rather to the disgrace than the ornament of the State and the Court . '
On The Hest Form Of Relief Io The Alu-Lo...
On the hest _form of Relief io the _AlU-lodied Poor . By G . _PouleUScrope , MLP . _. F . R . S . London : J . Ridgway . Piccadilly . Mr Scrofe profe ? _s ? 9 to be an advocate of the * Rights of Industry , ' but of these riehts ho haa but very crude acd imperfect notions . His * beat form of Relief ia but a tinkering of tbo present system , and contemplates no method of abolishing pauperism . It is true he advocates the cultivation of waste lands , but only as a means of obtaining some return for the outlay in the shape of relief . He Eeems to have no idea of _transforming wretched paupers into independent yeomen ; yet , with _thecommt-nd ofthe poor
rate s , we would undertake that transformation . We agree with Mr Scrope as to the folly of _putting unemployed m n into uniforms , or setting them to work at the unproductive labour of which we have recently seen examples in France , Prussia , and Ireland ; and we also agree with him , that it will be time enough to think of colonisation after no have fully developed the resources of the national territory , but not before . Bat we respectfally submit to Mr Scrips that he has not solved the problem of how to reconcile the rights of industry with the claims * of capital , the stability of government . , and the order of society . Mr ScROPB must try again .
Signs Of The Times, Or The Signal Rocket...
Signs of the Times , or the Signal Rocket ; dedicated to lord John Russell . By a Poor Shoemaker . Ham merBmith : W . Tuck , Dorville ' _s row . A Christian address " , which we are afraid Lord John Rua & KLu ia not Christian enough to profit by _.
The English Patriot And Irish Repealer. ...
The English Patriot and Irish Repealer . No . I . Mancheater : J . _Leaoh , 73 , _Rsohdale-road . This is the first number of a new weekly penny political paper , edited _. _as we understand , by our old and staunch democratic friends , Geo White , John West , and James Leach , assisted by the well known Irish Repealer , G e o , Ahchoeacon . Any publication edited by working men , and devoted to the interests of their order , always bas our best wisheB . It , however , too often happens that the conductors of such publications fall into one of two errors ; they either mistake coarseness and violence for strength , or fall into the still worse delusion of attempting by maudlin wordmoogerine to imitate the ' refinerasnt _' o / th _^ ' higher
orders . ' We are happy to say that both these faults have been avoided in tbe publication before us , in which strength of argument is combined with eloquence of language—not wanting a spice of witwhilst certainly thero is no approach to that maudlin balderdash in which certain would-be ' respectable ' politicians are apt to _indulge . The ' Opening Address , ' and the articles on tbe ' Rights of Labour , ' 'The Reign of Terror , ' 'The Mysteries of Government / ' Organisation , ' &> a ., & o „ are worthy of the editors , and promiso well for tbe future of this periodical We wish ' The English Patriot and Irish Repealer' every _suocess . It ought to sell fifty thousand copies in _Lancashire akno . More power to ye , boys !
Whigs In Office And Out Of Office. To Jo...
WHIGS IN OFFICE AND OUT OF OFFICE . TO JOHN BULL . Sir , —It is I believe the general opinion of Conservatives , tbat in the present state of Ireland , it is fortunate the Whigs are in _povjer * , _became , had they been in opposition , they would most probably bave acted as they did ia 1844 , when the trial of the late Daniel O'Connell was the subject of their violent declamation against Ministers . I happened yesterday to meet with the Times of 20 th Feb ., 1844 , in which there is a full report of the speech of Mr Macaulay on the state of Ireland , and a more mischievous one was never uttered in Parliament , It well deserves perusal , as it shows in what manner Whigs will sacrifice everything to party sp irit ; and it is curious , in bo far as many of his strongest censures are directed against measures which are imitated by a Whig Government .
I shall conclude with a single quotation of a passage applied to O'Conneil ' s trial . Mr M . asks— ' Was it possible on this trial between relig ions ; was it possible in this trial between races , to have a fair trial by a Jury which it is admitted was exclusively Protestant ?' I am , Sir , your most obedient servant , C .
Roval Arsenal Woolwich.— Daily Comp Lain...
Roval Arsenal Woolwich . — Daily comp laint s are made by visitors , who wend their way from the great metropolis to Woolwich to visit the Royal Arsenal , but _Vfhich , owing to the order of the authorities of the Royal Artillery , is kept closed against them . The Royal arsenal was closed during the late Chartist riots ostensibly to prevent any coup de main on the part of those agitators , and since that time has been kept closed . Hundreds of persons are daily refused admittance— Sun d ay Paper _, xn Lubin , Poland , 150 villages have had all their _growing crops destroyed by a recent hurricane . A great number of cattle and hones were also destroyed .
The Unopposed Incapables. (From The John...
THE UNOPPOSED INCAPABLES . ( From the John Bull . ) If an Ethiopian had been dropped in the Bouse of Commons on Monday iMt _, and informed that English _Ministcra could not gcL * on for want ofa vigorous opposition , the gentleman in blaok would , in all probability , have asked if all the _grumbling and complaints which he heard ou all sides we _* -e _sy many cvidenoes of approval nnd _Buppart . The moment Lord John Russell , on the day referred _tj , acquainted hon . gentlemen with his intentions for ' short remainder ofthe session , he certainly received - _^^ _TTL _^^^ - _^^^^^^ - _^ - _** ---mmmm ___________
opposition enough to make a government for life , if _oppssition be _icd * _-ed essential to ministerial stability aud strength . The plain _: ruth is , that yeur incompetent and slothful boy gets on _naither with _ftosgiue nor by _gentle _paltings oa the head . Force has no mare _effect upon him than upon the donkey ; _persuation not half so much . Thc sight of a carrot _h-. _s been known to work wonders upon the brut ? . No prosDcct of provender , however extensive and t _« rr . _p-.-in « , haa ever been kuown to put elasticity into the _hoela , or practical ability into t he head , ofa thorough _, _eroin ? Whig .
There 13 a vague but a very amusing belief afloat , that ibisimpostible to do without the present _govei-nment _, _b-samfie , if you _upsat it , there ar e no set of men able to take the vacant place ? . _Baforc such a _conviction takes permanent hold of the public mind , we should like to know if any dozen average clerks have been tried ; if the man who pulls the wireH of the fantoccini haa been applied to ; if the be 3 t patients of any lunatio asylum have had a fair chanoe of competition ? We undertake that the hon . member for Maccksfield shall furnish _uj , a t an hour ' s notice , with a Chancellor of the Exehequer , able , at _ieaifc _, to propose an increase of the _Inci'Uietax to meet ; - fearful deBcioncy , and to withdraw his
proposition immediately afterwards ) , upon the ground that no deficiency exists at all . We are ourselves prepared to make puppets which shall answer the string m effectually as Lord Morpeth replied to the demands made upon him from all quarters in tho matter of the Sanitory Bill ; and we will back , at any odds , the sojourner at llanwell against the Minister , who , only a day cr two ago , authorised tbe C us t om Hous e , without knowing it , to admit Dutch refined sugar at 24 s . 81 . per cwt . instead of at C 3 i , and British West Indian Muscovado at 13 s . per cwt ., instead of at 153 . 91 . Will anybedy take the bet ? Will her gracious Majesty suffer the _experiment to ba tried ?
One thing is very evident—at least to us , and it cannot fail iu time to became clear enough to the public at large . If the affairs of the country can be satisfactorily managed by the present administration , then Mr Cobden and Mr Hume are not bo wrong after all when they complain of tho heavy salaries of our _nEmerous officials . Take the Chancellor of the Exchequer from Downing street ; deposit him in Cornhill , aud see if you can get a guinea a-week for him at any _respeotablo retail house , supposing that he ' finds himself . ' Is Lord Morpeth bo knowinc in Ms sanitary doings that any nightman would ba _disponed
to take him on even at a gift ? It is rather hard to make the oountry pay so dearly for its luxuries . Men of great families and of high descent become frightfully expensive commodities , if we are to pay them six or seven thousand a-year only to laugh at ( hem . There is not a man , be he of what party he may , in the House of Commons , who is nut , at this moment , obuokling or sighing at the incapacity of our rulers . If incapacity in these piping times is all we need for carrying on tbo government , ihen , in tho name o f free trade , get it at the lowest figure , buy it , as you do your corn and sugar , in the very oheapest market :
That we _uball do any better next session than we have done this , it is ridiculous to suppose , Ministers are not going to school in the interim . Sir Charles Wood doea not meditate n oourge of lessons on the rule of three direct * , Lord Grey and Mr Hawes have no intention of devoting themselves to moral philosophy and the science of ethics . Lird Palmerston is proverbially incorrigible , and the Premier , of course , thinks he has nothing to learn . Bnt what study and what improvement could alter the cruel necessities of the case ? What instruction can avail a set ot men playing at legislation , and proving at every turn tbat they are not in earnest ? Had Lord John Russell meant at the commencement of the _sessi & _n to bring the Navigation Laws to the test , he had
ample opportunity for hia purpose . He withdraws the consideration of this question at the last hour , not because there has been no time for discussion , but because be has a paiaful _conecioUBneafl tbat a settlement ofthe business wouffl in some sort be a settlement of the Ministry , including himself . To do anything that may weaken the divisions of the Conservative party—that may possibly talfe former friends aud _pmeat _foea back from antagonism to close alliance is to risk _placa and power , loved and cherished by the spirit of _Whiggery beyond all qualities , human or divine . The rule applies to every ministerial movement . Th e q uesti o n is not wh a t will serve the country , not what ia it right between
man and man to do , but what will serve the government ) and what ic ia _expedient between that government and its miserable necessities t _) attempt to carry out . If the people of England are satisfied with these mo ' fc inefficient gentlemen , we have no right to complain , but , being taxpayers as well as our neighbours , it is undoubtedly competent for us to protest against a wanton waste of publio money . If noodles answer the country ' s purpose , let us pay noodle priee . It is monstrous to be told in the same breath that men are fit to govern the empire who are not qualified to keep a chandler ' s shop * and that men not qualified to keep a chandler ' s shop , are to be remunerated moBt munificently for their flagrant inability .
The Irish People Versus The English Pres...
THE IRISH PEOPLE versus THE ENGLISH PRESS-GANG . Iu an ar-tiole in the Atlas of Sunday last , on Ire Und , there is quoted , from a publication entitled ' The Irish _Moremeuts ; or Hints to Patriots and Pikemen , ' the following extract , with the additional comment . Whether extract or comment exhibits the greatest atrooity we leave our readers to
determine : — Does England imagine that an Integrity of the kingdom is necessary f She can tSmt it . She should effect it , and she muot effect it . Has she the means to _maintain the union and suppress sedition ? Ay ; and abundant ones , if she only please to employ them , A ton or two of gunpowder aud a coil of rope will do tha Job . All required is to take the bull by iho born . No more temparlslsg ; and whether the delinquent append to his patronymics aa M . P ., wear a surplice , or swagger in a barrister ' s gown—whether he bs a sucking traitor , or a matured remnant of ' 38—deal with him _& nd them with stern impartiality , If a clerical example must be mado , halt not between the ' the Hon of the fold of Judah , ' or tbe holy man of Strohestown , who complimented peor Major Mabon from the altar . If a briefless member of the bar , like Mr _Daheney , one whose _forensic existence
waB unknown to _Justlca _Lsfroy— should he still continue troublesome , send bim to join Mr Mitchel in Bermuda , It is _marvellous how pleasant lt ls for old acquaintances to meet in a new country . If a patriotic _rifla clab wish to try their hnndt , let thorn , in beBven ' _s name have a eby with a company of tbe line , or a troop of eavalry , Practloal instruction is worth a thousand _theories _. Shoot half-a-hundred of the fools who stand , and hang _baVf . B . QD 2 inof tho _hsavtB—the leader ? , of _coutB-e—wbo will ran away . Confidence will return ; _landowners will come back ; elderly gentlemen and ladles slumber without the npparitlon of Meagher of the sword standing at thilr bed-sides , with Old _Bell-the _* Cat'a twohanded _weapon , and giving a short notice for eternity to theso ud for inn ate unionists ; trade in Ireland ( almost now a forlorn hepe ) may revive a little , homicide will decrease , and ouralog from the altar must decline .
There is , in faot , nothing else for ns . We have the army and the law—we haTe the musket and the ropo . We have tried long enough the soothing system . It won't do . We mav appeal to Irish reason . There is no such thing . We may appeal to Irish gratitude . There is no such thing . There ia nothing intelligible and there is nothing _rcspeotable to bs found in Irish' patriotism . ' It means ' _nathing but violence ; it feels nothing but fury . It has no brain to reason with j it haa no heart to touoh . Wo may talk or good sense and good fteling ; but if they ever existed in Ireland they are new utterly extinct , like * Erin ' a honour and Erin ' s pride , ' which have a poetical reputation , but wbich , in reality , have long since b : en buried ; unless it be honour to shoot men in the dark , and pride to receive all possible obligations from another and then forthwith to blackguard him without stint and without remorse .
( From the Examiner . ) The Twas well describes the present posture of Youne Ireland a ? ' rebollion well in hand , ' rebellion on its haunches , rebellion gathered up , and ready for a spring . Hamstring it . Disable it in ita sinews . Cripple it forever . The leaders are few—leave them less . Their purposes are avowed—the alternative is the field or the gaol ; and committed as they are , they must be driven to the one unless the government mercifully bands them to the other .
• It Is Marvellous,' Remarks The Medical...
• It is marvellous , ' remarks the Medical Times , 'to what extent thc maniac will remain in awaking state without any apparent injury . A man never _elept , and yet he eojoyed good health , living till hia 73 rd year . He had a kind of dczing for about a quarter of an hour once a day , w hich was a ll t h e slumber he was ever known to take . ' The Leigh Peebaoe _CA'E . —Barnett , the principal witness in the late charge of murder against Lord Lelgb _, at War w i c k , died about fifteen miles from Manchester , on Sunday . The cause of death was icflimmatlon , produced by drinking intoxioating liquors . An elderly woman haa lost her life at Bradfiold St George , in Suffolk , from the sting of a bee in her thumb . Tbe medical witnesses at the inquest were of opinion thatthe sting had caused death by _producing _suoh a Bhook on tie nervous _Byatem aa to stop the action of the heart .
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' We Cull The Choicest.' De P)Ti5m.--Tuo...
' We cull the choicest . ' De p _) ti 5 M .--Tuo world is now o'd , nnd r . p * profit t by the lessons o f _experieoct . blie has _rteciJi voiy de . ) . _ci-M-ed , that _ddsriGvi-Jua is tha Rrand sour-Mr _,,- . Lm ' _-uaua _misfortune , the Pandora ' s box , outofwb ' cr every ** _oui'SB bas _iiisacd , and _-carcely left bone be ii-. _>*' _, Dog- ¦ potism , in its extreme , ia fatal to bum ? . n _'j-ivuiocsa * ;; and , in all its moditicatifinn , injurious . _T-it * * M '' it off it 0 u . 2 b . fc _tharefore to b-3 _sirspresced en t _* - _:-.. Hand I _slightest _appearancp . It should bo ths n _/ _icnviur of f every good man . aa fur a 3 his _ubiliiies v ., ' . ' . 're . ' -lid ,, to extirpate all arbitrary government fro- J , * . lobe . _, It _i-hould bs swept from the eaitb , ortran ,.. ;> u , . indor ¦ foot from China to Peru . But uo poiver !¦ ¦ _. _..-tpable 1 or crushing the Hydra , less tb « n the hen _i !" ' _-i arm . of a whole _psoole . —K > wx .
_ Wealth of a State —Tho true wealth of .: state is * n a numerous , free , hardy , _high-minn- _' , -dive nnd vmu . _iuspeople , in easy circumstHEc , -,. _.-. ; _houfc aa extreme inequality of properly ; a pc . * t .: b viu _^ means and l «! S , _n-0 for _mixing vrilh labon _, , _iiMirabie recvation ; and _wi-. h privatj 3 _industp ' ; , _> mpio _celebwtiosa . exciting all the qualities * . 'j .. ' , _-. _riify and adorn humanity , and that _ekvaie th . * Ar ,: . < _ctar of a nation _. Originality *— If we study great meow . * , _*; _-, _-, . ; find they _wereEotso much _distinguiehed by _m- : _* ! ity aa by ran _^ e or extent of tbought . If we - - . ire of them thai absolute originality wh _* ' oh _cc .-v . _a in weaving , like the spider , thoir web from 1 ! . -h- own bowels , wa shall not Eucceed ia obtain it . - - . No great man was _original , Lsaat of all docs _uruality consist in _unlikeneas ( 0 o _^ her men . A eu -f c . _* an is
a centre 01 things—seeing the wants of o : ! ,. r . lien , and shaWn : _* * fch _« r desires—adds also strenpi ' r _.-. ¦ arm to come at tbeir point . The greatest gemu -. * , tbe mat _indtrbled man—tha greatest por'lf in . ¦ ¦ _: in unison with his time and country . Their '? ,: man does not wake tip and _asy , 1 _will ' square ti -. ¦ _-uie—« ransack botany and discover another food .. an—I have anew architecture in my mind—I _-. ¦ . . _t ' _oroeee a new _organic _po _* _str . No ' . lie is ( or ' > _nby tha genius of his contemporaries . He eta--...-, where all the eyes of man look , and their _handn nil un . ut in tho direction in which he should go . lie ' '> _-.. , ¦ .. the materials ready to his hand—tbey have . mj . _K the _hille and bridged the rivers for his road . M- 'v _^ oots , women , h ave all _woiked for him , and be b . n _f-ritered into tbeir _lab-urs . Great _general power , w _* . rui _^ _ht almost say , consists in not being original x , __ ai ; , bus tothe greatest extent receptive . —Emerson .
A SUMMER'S EVENING SEOWE " ar . c . _pbincb . It was a summer ' s eventide , Soft , sweet , and oilen _% warm and mi / ii _* . ; And all the glorious landscape wide _. The lowly thorn , the tree of pride , The grass blades _marshall'd _sido by 51 .: Woro _thicker than the _fljldsof nij'h ' . Innumerable drop 3 oi light , Shed from a passing cluud and dun , That _j-surnoy'd towards the sinking •¦ . _i-.. On thc upper wind ' s impatient _wifij :, Aud _blash'd as it drew near the _prtetna of Its king .
Tbat brilliant baptism and brief , flung from the font of summer _skicv Cetmo with a fresh and full relief To all the countless shapes and _dje- _; That _upratg from earth's prolific vt < : And drunk the rich cougtnial rain & . For all the languid leaves _andflowEi * Iu tangled brakes and cultured Dorr In level Soles and hollow dells , By _wooielde walks and _nioisy weUe ; - The fair aad many-folded rose
Reclining in a proud repose , The liuihor bine and _Biubbem brier , Ths wallflower's _msss of cloudy fire ; Tho clover fill'd with honey deir—Things of familiar form and hue—Sent such a gust of incenso up From bell and _bosa _, from crown anu uuj ' _, A 9 _eeem'd to burden all the air With nature ' s breath of silent pr & _yr .- _. And sent tbat joyous draught of rain In sublimated _sheets back ta tha _ski-. _t " .. _"aio
A WeRn to the _Rdlbrs of Irelan ; _-. — The whole art of preventing a revolution , consists -simply in rendering the people happy . A happy people will never rebel , even if millions of authors _enifer-M _. ur to excite them . I challenge any person to eho _** _- * _- * me a single example in history , of a happy _ptopic rebel . _ling—Kotxebue ' s ' Travels in Italy . ' Union , our onlt Resoubcb . —Let the _oppi-trsied become as united and intelligent aa tbeir oppressors are , and they will receive their _redemption _without crime or bloodshed ; but if they will be _such fools as to imagine that kings or individual ruler * are the cause of their _slavery , there is no salvation _; W them . Tke real tyrants of all _countries are thoBe who would live without work , and _aocumulata lortuv-: _s out o £ other people's labour . The only _remedy _against them is to substitute for the _pretent ii _' . _* > wlutswiB others of a juat and beneficent _chancier It is plain that such institutions mutt enianui . _. Iiooa the whole people .
_VAEIETIE 8 CF _coMPLtXtoU IM TUE _UUMAH 1 UCE 9 . Southern Africa presents ns with many _strtniui ; illustrations Of the fallacy of tho theory of _climstu . > V e shall Content ourselves with citing two of the most remark _, able , viz , —those presented by the physical _rr-vu _' sarlties of the Hottentot * end _Boejesmans . These i > v _., races have been considered as one , but only by _thosj 11 uo be _« lieve in the great modifying power of cirr'iircs ' . onceg . They ara evidently distinct . Tke BO _^ _jerBtUUUS arc pigo _miea ; the Hottentots , where pure , tall and l : rh'e . Per « eons rf lnterm < . dlata stature are , of _ceurs ? , nipt with , becauoo two racoa so much alike in moat r < . _bs _scLs , re . siding near eaoh other , must necessarily hav ¦ _intcrmar . _rled in the course of ages ; but there is no conceivable reason why , except as dlstmct rants , tho cue _eLould be _ttGtlVOi r 08 tleBB | onaparailvel y bravo , and ol a atature _seldom exceeding four feet nine inches , nbil . the other
is tall , large , timid , and excessively sluggish . In moat other respects their organisation is _Bimili-i , ami they differ from all _oiher portions of mankind in tba nature of tho hair , and lu two remarkable peculiarities io t * _-o remain structure . They arc in tha midst of racea widel y differing from them : Negroes on tho one ban * , aud Caf . _fres on the other—bo ; h black , _vibllo the _Ho' . _' . e _^ _t-ats and _BoyosniEns aro simply of a light _; eiiowt » _t > VrowB , How can these facts bo accounted for except as differ _, encesofracel In central Africa , we find a further remarkablo Illustration , in the case of tho _pig-i-. y tribe called Doko , lately made known to Europe by tbo travels of Major Harris . This tribe is living to the noattuwest of Abyssinia , about three degrees north of the _Equator . They do not exesed faur feet in height , their _comjiiexlon is a dark olive , thoir hair is aot woolly , aad in tbe females reaches to the shoulders . They have thiil ; poutiag
lips , diminutive eyeB , and flit noses ; the men uive no beards , and they go perfectly naked . Their _ncila never pared , grow on their hands and foot like oag _' . _t's talons end are unployed in digging for ants . 'Tbry have no kings no laws , no arts , nor _aras ; _posaens _nsithtr flocks ner herds , era not _huBteri , no not cultivate thi' soiJ but subsist entirely upon frultn , roots , mice , serpents , rep . tiles , ants , and honey . ' AU these things th _* y _« at raw , for they are igaorant of the uso of fire . New , wi , y are these peop lo bo _different from all other races of men ? Why are they not as black as the Negroes ? Why have lhey not woolly hair ? Why aro they pigmies , -vhiio all the races around them ere tall and strong ? They are not a mere collection of outcasts , _reduced thus iow in the scale of humanity by disease or other acoia .. nts _, but
a numerous people of one distinct typo , _perfectly healthy , and as compute and _conelBtont in their _ranse as any other race whatever . If they waro onco other _Kiee , what circumstances can have reduced them thus low ? Tbeir climate bas no conceivable disadvantage wbich is not shared by a thousand other climates , yet thoy stand alone and distinct from all other races of mm . Let us now return to tbo continent of Asia , In _IuvUn wo find a vory mixed population , and eolour varies _grcutly , even from an European fairness to the jet black Of _tilB NGgrO , for this region has repeatedly been tho theatre oi northern Invasions . Thero are the strongest reasons for believing that moat , at least , of its aboriginal races _wtro perfectl y blaok . but of Caucasian forms , and _Individuals BO _dis . _tinguished may still be met with , espeebUy in the
southern _province . Tbe fact that tbe native ! of the _aoutu . ara generally the darkest _^ has be _> n i _^ su med as an evidence ofthe ift \ _cts of _tstnperatuie ; but a glance at tlie map will show thatthe northern pio _^ _iuuts mu 8 t have been infinitely more exposed to the incv . rsione of tho fair races than tha southern extrcmic , ) , and their population is , of course , far more mixed . We have already _a'luded to the _Uofcillas , an Afghan tribe , settled _durlDff tho Jong period of COO years la one of tho hottest regions of India , and which , nevertheless , still preserve their anolent peculiarities of fair hair and fair complexion , simply because they take a _priiie in marrying within thoir owu race , If this be matter of fact , it is vain to talk of the effects of tbe ciimate . And , after all , what la COO years when compared to the period during which tho Moors have maintained their fair complexion
in Africa . _Eiftno'opfail _JtxintaJ . _LiBKBTr in Russia . —It is not unusual for the Jtm « neror to 8 top and address a person in the street ; DUG the luckless individual has littlo to _buastot in SO fla ' , terine , a distinction ; in a moment he is arrested by one of the ubiquitous agents of the police , ana charred with the offence ot having addressed tha Emperor . He is authoritatively required to repeat the substance of what he had said , and a confinement o f some dayB inovitably follows : which the administration of a bribe , or the extortion of some powerful influence can alone terminate . This occurred te a
celebrated French actor who , having be & n ill , and unable to perform some time in consequence , was accosted b 7 tbo Emperor , who inquired after hia health , and urged him to resume his theatrical functions aa soon fa possible . The unfortunate actor was immediately arrested , and _hnd some trouble in getting liberated . The circumstance reached tha eara of the Emperor , who , wishing tomato " ™ some reparation , deisired to know in what manner he could oblige him . ' In nothing , Sire , ' replied the comedian , « but that your Majesty will never condescend to speak to me in the street again . -X */ e _«« Russia , by E . P , Thompson ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 29, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_29071848/page/3/
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