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      k THE ABSENT FATHER JVraa a Work eniiiled" The MiEer ' qf Deanhaugh , " lt , mo ' - , "what fcaka my dear father awa , When nunr-an . ' when mountain are fceapit -wi * maw ; When thick swirliii * < Irift tlaaas the dead saplesa earth , . - An' -a * thnqj | fc drear save oar \ ree cozy hearth V * "IT ^ young luTkdelammiea -wad dee wi'ibe cmld , Wert no for yonr father wha leads thema-fsuld ; His -voice is -weel ienned by ilk pair mither-ewe ; He s saving their lives while he ' s toiling for yon . " « ' ( En e ' er I ' m man mnckle , an" pair father spared , 111 mak ye -a leddy , an' faither a laird ; 151 brave iLe dour ¦ winter cm mountain an * lea , As' toil for ya baith , Tr tia hae toiled sae for me . "

      * ' Coma lay your wee head on yonr am minnie ' s knee , An * gaza in her face wi * yonr sin father ' s ' ee j The jaght settles down , O J 1 wish he -wore here ; Hark ! is me that Coilie ' a wr-wffJ Aiblins they ' re near . " The door gets a dlrl , an * Sees back to the to , "Ha him , see Ms clue bonnet -sra ^ rffs aff tha snaw ; 'I ' m here my wee son , an' my eouthie srweet dame , Dswn , Collie , be thankfu * we ' re a * now at hame . *'

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      THE GBATE OF GENIUS . A TALE . By J O . La 24 O 5 T . London : Strange Paternoster Bow . The author of this little work is well knows , a * 3 & any raie "by name , to our readers . His present production is another evidence of his sympathetic feelings , enlarged views , and literary qualifies Hons . His snbjeet is bo ! exactly a taking one , the chord struck being in a melancholy key ; though there are not "wanting plenty of admirers of "The Sorrows of Wener" and Sterne ' s Maria . " To alJ Each we . say here is a hook calculated xo excite yonr sensibilities , and at the same time improve yonr Leans .

      3 he hero of the story is a Scotchman , one Greorge Chisbolm , a native of Perthshire ; whose parents dying when he was an infant , was bronght up nnder the kind protection of . the " Tillage pominie , " by ¦ whom he was made an apt scholar , assisting his benefactor in the teaching of the BchooL The . "Dominie died when George was abont twenty vears of age ; he consequently had to proceed elsewhere to ** seek his fortune . " He , a& . " * rdiE 2 ly , as is the enstom " in such case made and provided , " proceeded 10 London , where he

      hope * i to earn his bread as a contributor 10 tbe liters "** ¦ *« of * ae day . Hi ? hopes -were blasted ; and too T > rt ^ nd to confess bis poyerty , want and hunger Soon in trodaced disease , and finally he was added 1 i the nu " raber ° victims who , with Otway and Chatterton ax , their head , have perched , victims of the present sj ** m ; whitening with their bones the pathway i * ae t £ fflPle ° f literary izme . Sub is the history , which aa the author tells us , quoting Syron , « ? "W who listen may fcelleTe ,

      ijflio t *?** it first had cause to grieve . " Ana it certainly ' tears" ^ semblance of Jdigm K ' pt t-nifi tala * Be that as it may , the . trials JfSrSL ^ i *•*¦ <*?«¦• ^ S ^ SSfS truths , and fright ! . ^ *^ « : *? ±° S tw wonder hut that the *»^ describes fiome of them sitnanons of the pennji . « aiio nnp ^ tromsed literary bread-seeker , in thai , h ««\<* ^^ ™ f "ffi& grandear and d « titmicn , ^ k 611 tearts and blighted hop ; ^—London .

      " SitUiUona in connexion » 5 a the press ar « at all times difficult to obtain j ja ^ unfortunately , poor George had neither the auihorit , " »« S patron , northereeommajdaaon of influential frio , ^ to sway , & Des-, tte doubtful , dedrion of those wh « adgi » t iave places open j or might , nnder oOier o " ^ SEMtances , have carved ont aomdhing for the destitute ^ assnger . Wimoat patronage , a smile and parting " c vl again , were the likeliest return * the poor Scotchma . ** ^^ d ^ t ' pate : for it would indeed be a task equalV ^^ « r afcompliehment to remove St . Paul ' * , bod . Vy , ° Si . liresent site , Trithont injury to the noble pOe , a * ™ S hy independent efiort , a lucrative aitnation t ^* *" * ith ^ e metropolitan press . So bleak and « &e 1 > 1 *** H » prospects held out to those ambitions of ct ™^ Mianee -with idia tetret ; ana befiommg , nnpatron w »» sndJoatBifoi ti »» nkaixd « nolBm « ito of tiieratatr » JjOndmi .

      " lake thousands "who enter the metropolis , fresh from thEit rural home * . George had , already , pictured success as the least « f bia returns , far coming so far to Thpppgt his . country ¦ sitii iis labours . ; The futore looked Bunny , hrishW and invitina ; and a Kvely imagi-Bation laad alrfcady strewed his path with flowers . Already , the honour-won ehaplet decked his brow ; and She blood rushed wsim through iU veinj , as- he thought of the applauee which thousands were preparing to award him , fcr past exertions ; and as a stimulant to fnture effort . Honour , and Fame , and Glory , * ere prominent in ttess ideal piintiBgE : nor was \ h »

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      climax finished e- ? en then ; for yet a nobler rewardiMMoETALiTi , beckoned him on ! But , alas ! the dreamer awoke to sad and colourless reality . A visit to the Hojt , at once told him that visions however lustrous in etherial imagery , were noi substantiated there The trade "was being overdone—to use a common and expressive phrase—and those publishers who might have closed with his proposal to produce something novel and likely to suit , were sickened at the prospect of having to combat with others , who by reason of their wealth and systems of perpetual puffing , were

      fast glutting the market with werks , having no recommendatory merit save aristocratic titles dandling to the writtra' names ; and the fact of their authors bfcing of a class high above the rank commonly gifted with genius I George waited on the publishers of respectable periodicals in -olh-es quarters of the town ; but thfcy were already full , * and really couid not accept contri "butiona from genius in trmable life , so long as the Berrices of my lord Fkecem and Sir Bibbleton Contraband—both memben of the Cabinet —were continued on the Rsfiew . Other

      exaited personages—being mentioned as regular contributors— -having names and titles equally appaliing to the ears of one who ctaiid only dream of such high , neh , and noble personages condescending to link sentences , ana to wield the pen for filthy lucre , the hope of literary emp-oymest for a pltbeian writer was small indeed . Of coarse , George Jell tbe publishers' ' reasons' to be unanswerable ; especially wisen the youth calculated the mflaenca which wit anu learning , and knowitdge , and , what not—tnjanating from the mireoted closets of M . P . ' s ., Peers , and Peeresses , mast command at all times , and in all circles . And , -wben the saleable character of the works , the

      Very tasteful arrangement , and beautiful superabundance of figures , and facts , rich sentiment , apt-simile , dripping Daggers , lace frills , flaming torches , diamond rings , sparkling wine , and pale faces , in all their vigour of fun and horror , —were considered , there couid be only small chance for tbe bnmbler claims of one so utterly ignorant of all these essential * to polite literature , j And , above all , seeing that the rusjor number of easusi readers can muster sufficitnt moral courage to dec de impartially ; while , testing the relatiTe merits of titled twaddler , and a poor countryman , with a vulgar name , who boasted no brilliancy save that derived from

      ** Spark o' Nature's fire . " " His next alternative was tbe Morning Press ; and , here , by dint of incessant application , he contrived with hundreds of ¦ occasional reporters , ' to earn a guinea ; say once in four weeks ; or thertabout : —for the Alalthusian ' evil , ' oTeT-popalstion , has filled nptbis opt-ning" aiso ; anA the poor bcribe has to thank his luck , ¦ when , ova of a bundle *! contributions only ninety-nine are i > jected' Sue many a despairing victim , has the Daily Press Baved by this ' encouragement ;*—many a

      thaiikful prayer has been wafted from the heart * of a starving family arwup , to Heaven for this guinea;—an- many grateful blesisiEgs have been showered on those , who—by official connection with the Daily Teesf , have a voice in its distriburien . But even here , cruelty and crime are not unknown ; and grovelling creatures , on a morning paper , have stooped so low as to rob the penuy-a-liner oi his guinea , by stealing the marrow from a contribution , ami dressed in other garb , obtaining its insertion / or themselves I Yet , to the credit of the British Daily Press , such crimes are rare . "

      We have no room for further extracts , hut commend the book useli to our readers . Though small in size this wurk is eminentlj calculated to add largely to the well-deserved popularity of its anttior .

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      IRELAND BEFORE i&D AFTER THE UNION WITH GREAT BRITAIN By R . Montgomery Mabtin , Esq . Fart I . London Orr and Co ., Paternoster Row . Tiiis is ' a work undertaken by tbe author for the purpose of refuting the charge * brought against England and the English Government by Mr . O'Connell and the advocates of Repeal generally . The writer , m his preface , alter quoting ait extract from the " Address to the Inhabitants of the Ckiun tries suhject to the British Crown , " in which is contained , in very forcible terms , the pith of the charges

      against England ; proceeds to say that : "It is due therefore to the character of England that these charges sbpnld be fully and minutely investigated . ' He therefore takes up the gauntlet thrown down by the Repealers , and * pledges himself to prove the falsehood of the allegations of O'Conne )! . Ojt readers will judge for themselves , from the following extracts , how far the writer has succeeded in his objaot . We must say that he shews fair p ' ay to his antagonists , by giving very fully , and iH their own precise language , the accusations which he purposes to repel . .

      The first : few pages give a sort of sketch of the ancient Irish , commencing with the landing ; of " Caesara , a nieoe of Noah , previous to the Deluge . " —( Fudge !) He then asserts that Ireland was one vast theatre of crime— " a horrible field of blood , " before the landing of the English ; and that it was to extirpate this state of crime , and redress the sufferings of the people , sunk in " deep degradation" by the tyranny and rapacity of their chiefs , that Henry was called in . Of course , Mr . Martin volunteers no defence of the crime which led to the invasion , nor of the giant crime which ihe invasion itself was . He Bhews that Ireland never had a " native Parliament , till England gave her one , " to be held at the will of the latter . He quotes a numbsr of records from the time of the landing of Henry ; in proof of this , from which we select the following extracts relating to : —

      POYNUSG ' S ACT . " A Parliament was summoned before Edward Poynings , Knight , the King ' s Deputy , and held at Droi * - byda . a . r > . 1495 , and an Act passed , since known under the nume of Poynirg ' s Act , by which it was provided that noPirit-unent be holden hereafter in Ireland but at such season as the King ' s Lieutenant in Council there first do certify to the King , under the Great Seal of the l&nd , the causes and considerations thereof , and all such Acts as to tbem seemeth should pass in tbe same Parliament ; and &ach causes , considerations , and Acts , affirmed by the King and his Council , to be good aud expedient for that land , and his licence thereupon , as well in affirmation of the said causes and Acts , as to summon the said Parliament under biB Great Seal of

      England bad and obtained ; that done , a Parliament to be had and holden after the form and effect storere-hearsed ; and if any Parliament be holden in that latid hereafter , contrary to the form and provision aforesaid , it shall be deemed void and of none effect in law . ' Tht > Lord Lieutenant or tbo King in Coaaail became by this Act the j ^ roposor of all laws to ba passed , and tbe dependence of the Irish Parliament was completely enacted , and declared by the Irish themselves . " Jn the ever earnest endeavours to influence the minds of the people of Ireland against the Bngliab , attention is repeatedly called to * Poyning ' s Act , ' as one of the cruel specimens of English domination ; but the

      crenmatances uuder which it originated are carefully omitted , and perfect silence as to the fact that it was at the time one of the moat popular Acts ever passed in Ireland , on account of the people being thereby relieved from thousands of local oppressions under the cover of Acts of Parliament ; while that eloquent and patriotic Irish historian , Mr . ODriscoll , thinks it would have been better for Ireland had Grattan left untouched Sir E . Poyning's Act . * This Act was modified in tbe third year of Philip and Mary , by the Governor and Council being : empowered to certify such other causes requiring legislation , -which were not foreseen at tbe beginning of the seBaion .

      " In fact , tb . 8 Irish Legislature was never considered independent of Great Britain ; and English Acts o ( Parliament , in which Ireland was named , were held to be binding . An Act was passed 10 th Henry VII ., a 22 , in the Irish Parliament , declining that' all statutes late made within the said realm of England , concerning or belonging to the public weal of the same , from henceforth be deemed good and effectual in the law ; and ones that be accepted , used , and executed within this land of Ireland , in all points , at all times requisite , according to the tenour and effect of the same , and ones that by authority aforesaid , that they and every ' of them be authorised , proved , and confirmed in this said land of Ireland . And if any statute or statutes shall have been made within this said land hereafter to tbe contrary , they and any oi them by authority aforesaid , be annulled , revoked , void , and of none effect in the law . '

      " From 1666 to 1692 , name y , fer twenty-six years , fhert was no regular , mxling of the Irish Parliament at all , so little was it considered a constituent assembly . Four sessions were held in the refgn of William II f . ; and from 170 S to 17 S 3 , it was only convened biennially . " Here is our author ' s version of the " Aot of Independence . " If it Jae tUaJtrnft version , a sorry sort of ~ lnuepanaence" it JgB ^ Auer stating that the period of England ' s ^ flHutfes was chosen for this outbreak , and : that troops were asked for by the Irish to defend the coast from invasion , well knowing that England had non ^ to spare , he adds the following account of ^

      THB VOLUNTEERS . " By the permission of England , 50 . 000 men , as if sown by Cadmus , instantly sprung into activity , and were no sooner organ ' zed than they commenced dictating to the Parliament , and threatening England with separation . His Mujesty accordingly , in 1782 , sent a message to tbe Irish Parliament , with a carle blanche , to fill np with Irish grievances . The Commons oi Ireland , under tbe influence of . the guns and sabres of the Volunteers , declared that sooe bat the K < ng , Lords , and Commons of Ireland , had powtr to make laws for Ireland . Mr . Gratton undertook to be the tranquilliser of his country , —and Ponyng ' s Act was modified , but not entirely repealed by the following Act of the Irish Parliament , x . n . 1781 , 2 Geo . HI . 21 and 22 , c . 47 , entitled " An act to regulate the manner of passing bills , and to prevent delays in summoning of Parliament . *

      " Sect . 1—No bills are henceforth to be certified to Great Britain but sach as have been approved of by both Houses of Parliament under the great seal of Ireland , without alteration . Sect . 2 . —Such Acts returned under the great seal of Great Britain , and not altered , shall pass , and no other . " Sect . 3—^ Nobill shall hereafter be certified for the holding of a Parliament in lri land . " ' Sect . 4 . —No Parliament shalt be held without license under the great seal of Great Britain

      The assent of : the sovereign under vbe great seal of England ( not of Ireland ) , was still required to any Acts passed by both Heuse 3 of the Irish Parliament . The Great Seal of England was responsible to the English House of Commons and not to that of Ireland . Neither was there any Irish Cabinet , The English Cabinet therefore , virtually and necessarily controlled all acts passed by the Irish Lsgislature . The Lard LituUnant and Chief Secretary were still nomiaated by and responsible to tbe English Cabinet . "

      FBTJITS OP THB " INDEPENDENCE . " , Mr . Grattan demonstrated that the Legfshture of Ireland neither possessed tbe substance nor the shadow of independence ; and on the 26 th February , 1790 , he asked , " Wbathas our renewed constitution as yet produced ? A place bill ? No . A pension bill ? No . Any gTeat or sood measure ? No . Bat a city police bill—ft press bill—a riot act—great Increase of pensions : fourteen new places for Members of Parliament , and a moat notorious and corrupt sale of peerages . Where will all this end P In 1793 , the House of Commons was sot fire to while the Members were sitting , and amidst the shouts of on immense and ferocious multitude , the Representatives has jnst time to escape , when the vast dome became enveloped in names , and , falling in , crushed everything beneath it "

      " Tne country was torn ( from 1782 upwards ) by factions and intestine feuds ; the whole island was kept in the most wretched turmoil , nights and day , by furious communities , under the designations of Patriots , Agitators , Right-boys , White-boys , Peep-oi-Day-boys , Conventions , Aggregate Bodies , Catholic Committees , Tarring and Feathering Committees , Defenders , Assassins , Honghers of Men and Honchers of Cattle , Associators , Whig Clubs , St . James's Delegates , Excbequerstreet Delegates , National Congresses , Emaueipators United Irishmen , Reformers , Revolutionists Societies of Peace and Societies of War , cam mvilis aliis !"

      ABSENTEEISM . " Absenteeism is a very old grievance in Ireland , even under a resident' legislature . ' " Legal enactments against absentees , from 1377 , to 1753 , all proved ineffectual . *• In 1773 , Mr , Hood attempted to revive the old laws against the absentees ; and in 1783 , proposition for ditto by Mr . Grattan ; both failed . "In 1797 , Sir John Vaadeleur proposed , in tbe IriBb House of Commons , to raise an annual revenue &t £ 240 , 000 by a tax on tbe property of absentees . The motion was not supported . " 1799 , Mr . Tandeleui'i similar motion met with the same result . "

      DID THE GOVERNXBKT COKSPIJtB THE "REBELLION ? , In the following extracts the -writer proves too much and at the same time too little . He proves the former by shewing that the government placed the country under martial law , and thus goaded to " rebellion , " the people of that unhappy wnntry , who whether their oppressors have been Saxon or Milesian , have most certainly suffered centuries of oppression and wrong . He does not prove enough , > by his Bilence on the employment , by the Castkreagh Government , of those Ieoariot sconndrela of whom the eternally infamous Reynolds was the chief , and Armstrong , " the hale old man'' ( monsterJ , who lately appeared at the Dablin Folioe Offioe , one of the gang . He forgets , * YoL il p . ISO ,

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      too , to defend or disprove the " pitch-caps , " " floa-{? . # *• ¦ * nd *' walkiag gallowses , " whiah had no little to do with " fosteving" and " extending" the " ¦ Rebellion . ' * " Then were the eyes of the Government opened to the danger of the crisis , and the Irish opposition were c ^ i to *> ermlt the passing of the ' Gunpowder Bill , by which only certain liconsed persons were autnorisad to import gunpowdet into Ireland . The Habeas Corpus Aot was suspended ; the Insurrection Act passed , and same of tha founders and promoters of the Society of United Irishman , ' Wolfe ToneHamilton

      , Rowan , Colonel Butler , and Oliver Bond , were pro-C 08 do 4 against by Government on charges of high treason . Did these acta hear the semblance of encou ranini ? rebellion for the purpose 0 {" carrying the Union ? •« Bat this was not the ouly step undertaken by thb BrjtiBh Government , and forced from the Irish Parliament , iu apite of those factious persona who contended that Ireland was tranquil , white the elumberiDg ¦ volcno was ready to burst beneath their feet . The ' Convention Bill' was passed , by which self-created conventions were dissolved , and the seizure of unregistered arms effected .

      " General Lake waa instructed te seiza arms in Ulster , and to disperse all tumultuous assemblies of t , er 4 * ns . though they might not be in arms , without wviisg fOr the sanction and assistance of the civil authorities , if the peace- of the realm or the safety of his Majusty ' a faithful subjects should ba endangered by ¦ waiting for such authority . ' There wero in TJlrter 99 iVO United Iriahiaen ; but by tbe tr . ( 1 efaM . Mftb ] e efforts at General Lake upwards of ste thousand stand of amis , aud many thousand pikes and other formidable v . eapo . 8 , were se zrJ ; ao that when the rebellion actually brok 8 out in the subspq ^ . ent year , not 30 , 000 out of 90 . 000 men could aassemb ! e armed . " THE CJBBUP 1 ' MEANS BY WHICH THE UNION WAS CVR 1 UED . " The writer roplea to this as follows : —

      " The lout :- < kBvre < i object of Parliamentary Reform was , to a certain extent , gained by the disfranchising of a number of notninatfon boroughs , tha possessors of which each received £ 15 , 000 . " " The -same plan of paying the proprietors of nomination boroughs was proposed in the discussion of the Lite ^ Reform Bill , and had it been effected , no one would have said that the Reform Bill had been ca-ried by bribary ami corruption ; yet it is asserted that the Union was carried by bribery and corruption , because the disfranchised proprietors of the Irish boroughs received . £ 15 600 each . Tola is not . surely , a fair

      charge te make as ? iUDst Mr . Pltf a government , fls to corrupt meana used in effecting the Union . It is asserted that Lord Castlereagh spent £ 2 , 000 , 000 in notorious and predicate bribery to c « ry th 6 Union . Nowtho surn actually paid away to tbe proprietors of nomination hovoughs disfranchised at the Union was £ 1 260 , 009 , at the rate of £ 15 , 000 for each borough ; and on the siime principle , and at even a higher rate of payment , Mr . Pitt projected parliamentary refona in England . What he had , therefore , proposed for Eugland , it would have been unjust to deuy to Ireland , when nomination borouehs were destroyed there . "

      We cannot , spare room to reply to the above , and shew as we might do that the writer has anything but fully combatted this charge . There were other monstrously corrupt means employed which he does not even glance at ; but we have not space at disposal to enter into the question at present . Mr . Martin conclude ? by detailing at some length the " benefits" which have resulted to Ireland from the Act of Union ; amongst which he enumerates the " Tithe Commutation Act" (!) and the "Poor Law" (!) He says : " That , previous to the Union , of three hundred membets of the Irish House of Commons , two hundred members ware stated to ba the nouaineea of private individuals ; that from forty to fifty members were returned by con-Btitnencies of sot more than ten persona each ; thut several boroughs had uot more than oue resident elector , and that out of three hundred members thus returned , one hundred and four were placemen and pensioners . "

      Such was Grattan's description after the establishment of the " glorious independence . " He adds that now " 96 , 000 electors are free to return 105 members to the Imperial Legislature , whether of the Roman or Protestant faith . " He says that those who complain of English domination " have two-thirda of the Parliamentary representation and the whole of the corporations of Ireland entirely within thoir own control . These : facts demonstrate that Ireland never was bo truly and integrally a kingdom as she is at this moment . "

      And yei , Mr . Martin , the great mass of the people are politically slaves-Hire denied the rights and franchises of freemen . ' ana this " most eloquent fact" remains unanswered , that tor uot more than thirty we « ka out of the fifty-two , they have not even third-class potatoes to vegetate upon ! Unhappy people of Ireland , ! no wonder you ory for Repeal . Thd wonder rather is , that you do not cry for the annihilation of your rulers and yourselves in ono common destruction , rather than remain upon your native soil the slaves mis-government has made you .

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      LIFE IN RUSSIA . [ From tho Review of "Be Curfcine ' s Empire of tfcv CZi . r , in Tait ' s Magazine for October , j

      THE APPROACH TO ST . PETERSBURG . " Nothing can be more melancholy than tbe aspect of nature in tbe approach to St Petersburg . As one advances up the Guif , tbe flit marshes of Ingria terminate in a little waving line drawn between the sky and the sea ; this line is Russia . It presents tbe appearance of a wet lowland , with , here and there a few birch trees thinly scattered . The landscape is void of objects and colours ; has no bounds , and yet no sublimity . It has just light enough to be visible ; the grey messy earth well accords with the pale sun which illumines it , not

      from overhead , but from near the horizon , or almost indeed from below , —so acute is the angle which the i oblique rays form with the surface of this unfavoured soil . In Russia , the finest days have a bluish dimness . If the nights are marked by a clearance which surprises , tbe days are clothed with an obscurity which saddens . * * - To reach St . Petursburg , you must pass a desert of water framed in a desert of pt at earth . ; sea , dhore , and sky , are all blended into one mirror ; but so dull , so tarnished , that it reflects nothing , "

      A SUMMER NIGHT SCENE . " The temperature of the : day had risen to fifty degrees , and nut withstanding the freshness of the evenins :, the a . mosDhere of the palace during the fete was suffocating . On rising from table I took refuu- in the emtnwjuro of an open window . There , completely abstracted from all that passed avuund , I was suddenly struck with admiration at beholding one of those effects of lisht which wo see only iu the north , during the nnyie brightness of a polar night . It was half-past twelve o ' clock , and the nights buying yet scarcely begun to lengthen , the dawn of day appeared already in | , be direction of Archangel . Tho wind had fallen : numerous belts of black and n . otionltRS clouds divided the

      firmament mio Zonea , each of wbicfa was irradiated with a light so brilliant , that it appeared liko a polished plate of silver ; its lustre was t ^ fljetod on the Neva , to whose vast and uurippled surface 1 c stave the appearance of a lake of milk or of mother-of-pearl . The greater part of Petersburg , with its quays und its spires , was , utjrfer this light , tavealed before my eyes ; it was a perfect composition of Breughel ' * . The tints of the picture cannot be described by words . The domes of the Church of Saint Nicholas stood in the relief of lapis lazuli against a sky of silver : the illuminated purttco of tiiB ExchaDge , whose Ian ; p . * u ere partially quenched by tbe dawning day , still gleamed 01 . the watur of the river , and was rifl .-cted—a peristyle of gold . "

      RUSSIAN BUGS . " Scarcely was I installed in rhia abode than ( the fatigno of the night hsving got the bott . r of my curio 3 ity , which usually impels me to salty forth aud lose myself in a large unknown city ) I lay do . vn , wrapped id a cloak , on an immense leather sofa , and slept profoundly during —three minutes J " At the eud of this time I woke in a fever ; and on casting my eyes upon the cloak , what a sight awaited them t A brown but living mass : things must be called by their proper name—I was covated , I was devoured with bugs . Russia is , iu this respect , not a whit interior to Spain ; but in tbe bouth we can both console and secure ourselves in the open air : here we

      remain imprisoned with the enemy , and che war is constquently more sanguine . I began throwing off my clothes ana calling fot help . What a prospect for the nit ; ut ! This thought made me cry out more lustily . A Russian waiter appeared . I made him understand that 1 wished to see h-s master . The master kt-pt me waiting a loug time ; and when he at length did come , and waa informed of the nature of wy troublo , be bsgan to Isngn , and soon left the room , telling me that I should become accustomed to it , for that it was the same everywhere in Petersburg . He first advised me , however , never to seat myself on a Russian sofa , because the domestics , who always carry about with them legions of insects , sleep on these articles of furniture . "

      [ The cart-whip democrats ( 1 ) of Cincinnati have the scoundrelism to talk about the stink of the black African as offending their republican ( i ) nostrils , and being a reason why he should be kept in a state of slavery 1 What will they say to the following account of the atinfe of the white Russian !]

      i HU 8 SIAN PERFUME . " In general the Russians cany about their persons a disagreeable odour , which is perceptible at a considarablfi . AiBtance . The higher classes Bmell of musk , the ( .-ornmon people of cabbage , mixed with exhalations of onions and old greasy perfumed leather . These smells never * ftry . " THE AUTOCRAT . ' The Em wor is above the usual height by half abead ; his figure noble , although a littie fat iff : he has practiBed from ^ 8 youth the Russian custom of girding the body above ttu ** loins to such a degree as to push op the stomach into & $ cheat , which produces an-un-

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      natural swelling or extension abont the ribs , that is as injurious to the heaith as it is ungraceful in appearance . This voluntary deformity destroys all freedom of movement , impairs the elegance of the shape , and imparts an aix of constraint to the whole person . They say that when the Emperor loosens his dress , Jthe viscera , suddenly giving way , are disturbed for a moment in their equilibrium , which produces an extraordinary prostration of strene'h . The bowels may be displaced—they cannot be got rid of . The Emperor has a Grecian profile—tbe forehead high , but receding ; the nose straight , and perfectly forme . ?; the uiouth very finely cut ; the face , which in shops is r ^ tber along oval , is noble ; t& 4 . whole air military , ant } r < i : her & itman than Slavonic . HU cwp :. j < o autt his attitudes . ^ re naturally iroposing . Ha expect * always to b » g ^ z-d « i , and never for a moment for (? r-tii »' ,. it he 3 s so . It may be even aaid that ho likes this homage of tho eyes . He passes the greatsr part of his ex . j-tencs in the open air , at reviews , © r in rapid juurueys .

      " I do tot say tbat tue physiognomy of this prince tacks candour , but it lacks nutural fxpr ^ as'on . Thas , tbe chief evil unier whicii R ; tss' ; i suffers , the . " . bset . ee of liberty , is depicted even on tbb countenance of it ? sovereign : he has pany masks , but do face . Seek foe the man , and you will always flnu the Emperor . '' . [ Tb <* re is m ich ' of truth in the following picture of " Con ^ titutiona . 1 " G vcrnmeuts . We iiv-under jnst such a . system of fraud , lies , and corruption in thi 3 England 01 our- ]; NICHOLAS ON ' . CONSTITIJIIO . NAL' GOVERNMENTS " Her j the Emperor iuK > rrm > t < 5 il himself , and looked at me attentivtiy . | I continued to listen without replying , and he proceeded : —

      " ' I can un ieratacvd R puUUc . tir-ain : it is a plain and straightforward form of govwnni-ut , or , at Uast , it might ba ao ; I cauiuadt-rstantl ubsi lute monarchy , for I am myself the hea < i of auch an order of things ; but I cannot understand a representative monarch : it is the Government of lies , fraud , and corruption ; and I would rather full buck even upon China than eve : adopt it . " I " * Sire , I have always regard «» l tupr&dentativo Government as a cstnpuct inevitable in curtuin communities at certain eposbs ; but like all othtir coin pacts . it does not soJve I questions—it only a'ljourns difficulties . ' i

      " The Emperor seemed to say , ' Go on . ' I continued : "It is a truce signed between democracy and monarchy , under the auspices of two jvery mean tyrants , fear and interest ; j ami it is prolonged by that pride of i 'tellect which takes pleasure in taking , and that popular vanity which satisfies itself on words . In short , it is ths aristocracy of oratory substituted fo ? the aristocracy of birth ; it is tbe government of th& lawyers . " I " ' Sir , yon speakjthe truth , ' said the Emperor , pressing my hand : ' I have bean a representative sovereign ;

      and the world knows what it has cost me not to have been willing to submit to the ex > g * nc es of ( his infamous government ( liquote literally ) . To buy votes , to corrupt consciences , to seduce some in order to deceive others ; all those means I disclaimed , as degrading those who obey as much as those who command ; and I h&ve dearly paid the penalty of my straightforwardness ; but , God be praised , I halve uone im ever with this detestable political machine . I shall never more be a constitutional king . { I hava too much need of saying all that I think ever to consent to reign over any people by means of stratagem aud intrigue . '

      " The name of Poland , which prftseuted itself incessantly to our thought * , was not once uttered in this singular conversation . " THE JRU 3 SUN SYSTEM . " The movements of the mou whom I met appeared stiff and constrained ;; every gesture expressed a will which was not their own . The morning is the time for commissions and j errands , and not one individual appeared to be walking on bia own account . I observed few good-looking woman , and heard no girlish voices ; everything was dull and regular as in a barrack . Military discipline reignsithroupheut Russia . * # * Fancy can almost descry the shadow of death hovering over this portion of the globe .

      " Now appears a cavalry officer pausing at full gallop to bear an order to some commandiug offices ; then a chasseur carrying an order to some provincial governor , perhaps at the other ' extremity of tbe empire , waither be proceeds in a kibhka , a little Russian chariot , without springs or stuffed seat This vehicle , driven by au old bearded coachman , rapidly conveys tbe cornier , whose rank would prevent his nsiug a more commodious equipage had he one at bis disposal . Next are seen foot soldiers returning from exercise to their quartnrb , in order to receive orders from tueir captain . This automaton population resembles one side of a chess-board , where a single individual causes tbe movements of all

      the pieces , but where ] the adversary is invisible . Ooo ' neither movea nor respires here except by an imperial ' order ; consequently j everything is dull , formal , and spiritless . Silence presides over and paralyses iif « . Officers , coachmen , Cossacks , serfs , courtiers , all seivanta under the same master , blindly obey the orders which they do not xHMtetstand . It ib certainly the perfection of diBcipJinei but the si « ht « c *« -i » jx ^ ocwoir aoernbt gratify me ; so much regularity can only ho obtained by the entire absence of independence . Among this people bereft ofj time aud of will , we see only bodies without souls- ; and tiemblo to think that , for so vast a multitude of arms and legs , there 13 only one head . "

      ITS BRUTALITIES . It is a common sight to see an underling of the Government , brutally and unmercifully beat any one who may off ; nd him ; the individual attacked not daring to offor any resistance . Of ond soano of this sort w « are told : — t *¦ " The passers by were in nodegree moved 01 excited by the cruelty ; and { one of the comrades of tho t , ufferer , who was watering bis horaea a few steps off , obedient to » sign i of the enraged reid-jagor , * -ipproaohed to hold his horsu ' B bridle during the udi = that he was pleased to prolong the punishment . In whar other country could a man of the lower orders ba fouid wbo would assist in the infliction of arbitrary punishment upon one of bis companions ?

      " The scene in question took place in tho finest $ ? . vt of the city , and at the busiest hour . Wben the unfortunate man was released , he wiped away the blood which streamed down his cheeks , remounted his E ? afc , aud recommenced hla ] bowB and salutations as usual . It should be recollected that this abomination waa enacted in the midst of a silent ) crowd . '' Here is another case : — " A small boat vras brought alongside by other pollca agents ; tbe prisoner was bound wim cords , his L « . Is were fastened behind £ tis back , nnd he was tfcruwu ¦>;; his face into tke boat . I This second rude shock w . 13

      followed by a shower of blows ; nor aid the tortur ? h ^ re finish . The sergeant ' , who had ue > ized the victim no . sooner saw him tl . us prostrate , than he jumped u ^ . u bis body , and begun to 6 t&rnp upon him with all U : n force , trampling him nnder lus feet as the « it « pes are trod in the wine-press . 11 had then approachaa tbe spot , and am therefore wituess of nil that I relate . D -. ring thishonibie torture , tie frightful yells of the vic ' -nn were at first redoubled j but when they began to grow fainter and fainter , I felt thai I could no longer command myself , and , having no power 10 interfere , 1 hastened away . " i

      ITS TEEB 1 BLE RESULTS . \ The Emperor having emancipated the serf-- on some domains whionjhe had purchased , the peasants on the Wolgai sent deputes praying tUic Father to purchase the lands co wiiich tluy were enthralled , and free their dsputies graciously ; out as he did not buy the estates , ho couid not emancipate them , though he wished , he paid , that mey all were free . The opnsequenoes as related to M . De Custine , were horrible . " « Our Father desires ) our delfveranet , ' cried the returned deputies en tb 4 borders of tb . 8 Wolga . ' Ho wishes for nothing but our happiness ; he said so to

      us himself : it is , then , oaly toe nobloa aud their agents who are our enemies , aud who oppose the tjooi designs of Our Father !\ Let as avenge the emperor > . ' After this , the peasants believed they were performing a pious work in rising jupon their masters ; and thus all the nobles of a caution , and all their agents , wure massacred , together with their families . They spi' -ed one and roasted him alive , they boiled anotcer iu a caldron ; they disembowel ed and killed in v . triuus othtjtways the stewards aud agauls of the estates ; ti-ry murdered all they met , | burnt whole towns , and . iu short , devastated a province ; not in the naiii- of Uberty ; for they do not know what liberty means , bein the name of deliverance and of the emperosr . "

      " As everything is in sympathetic accord , the immense extent of the territory doaa t ; ot prevent taints being executed from one end of Russia to tho orLi-r , with a punctuality , and 9 simultaneous correspondence , which is magical . If ever they should succeed m crtatina a real revolution among tbe Russian pe . pie , massacre would be performed with the regularity that marks evolutions of a regiment . Villages would change into barracks , and organised inmuer would rtaik fona armed from the cottages , form in line , and ndvuuce ui order ; in short the Russians would prepare fur pillage from Smolensk to Irkutsk , as they march to thb parade in Petersburg . " ;

      HORRORS OP DESPOTISM . " Bloody scenes are yet being daily renewed in vanous parts of the lame country , where public order has been , disturbed , and re-established in so terrific a manner . The Russian ! have no right to reproach France for her political disorders , and to draw from teem consequences favourable to despotism . Let bat the liberty of the press ba accorded to Russia for twenty-four hours , and we should learn things that would make ue recoil with horror . Silence Jbj indispensable to oppression Under an absolute government , every indiscretion if speech is equivalent to a crime of high treason . "

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      CHARGS OF FORGERY" AGAINST AN ATTORNEY . On Monday last , at the Magistrates Office , Court Heuse , Leeds , Mr . Thos . Walfcar , of Dewsbnry , sttorney-at-lTiW , was charged before George Goodman , Esq ., with having twice forged the aunmtare of Monagua Baker Bere . Esq ., one of the CommissionersIn the L- ^ eda District Com t of Bankruptcy , to an instrument puryorfciag to fc 8 » n interim order of protection from the Conrfc to an insolvent . Mr . Walker was approheci' ^! at Dtf-TsbTiry , on Svurfiay uftcru-. jn , by Mr . James , supsrintentle . 'v * . o f . ti ' . j L "da P' > 1 : ch ' iir . Blackburn , solicitor , « ' Las < is , waa tfc- -i ^ . torney tar tbe prosecution ; Mr . Bund , solicitor , of t . edp , and ilr . Schoies , solicitor , ' of I ) & wsbury > atterr :--A to waton the chss on th « prisoner ' s behalf . —The following evidence w »* adducefi : —

      George Newsume . of Batley Carr , deposed- ^ -I tive at . Biti ^ y Girr , an » t am a clo ' -hitr ; in August last 1 was in hii-GlVfiit circumshinces . 1 applied to Mr . Tiios . W .-, ] j ? - ; r , salieitor , cf D ^ wahury ; 1 told him I Waxi ;«< l to aee if I couui not net shut of n ; y debts , and a * k « ii him wbdi I should do ; ho saul hu risouid do is for suy for £ ib ; he said he would get me a protection , but 1 should have to keep out ot tfu . way fora week ; I was t « pay bim £ 2 down , and the reui .-uB v . ember , on wb ;« L < iu 3

      I ! -. 'gEB 1 i aowe s'iote papers , ar . i ; paid mm £ 2 again . t \ asw him asasn on Monday , tee 4 th , when I s ^ ir' to him tliat if he thou h ; I couui ? t £ my prottotii'n by coming to Leeds with him , I At-ui-. i come . Hesai- ; I had wtcer noi go to 1-certs , but he wouitl meet me at \ V fcsfiold . at two o clock in tba afturuuon , at the p-atlic house opposite the sessions h « uee , where he would give mo my . protection ; I went to Wnkefltld , and W 8 ite < i at tbe Railway Scatiou all the afternoon , uut'l ab . iut seven o ' cioek . hut did not se « him thsie . J saw huu the next day at Ddwabury , when he said . s" Well , I ' ve got yonr protection bore , * and he gavo me a piioes out of hia pocket-book , wuich he said was ru ' j yrctectinu . [ The documtnt was p ? uduced , and on bbing handed to the wituesa he ideiitifisd it as the >¦; nio which he had received from the prisoner 1

      Examination renamed—I kt-oiv tne paper ioi an alteration which was nude in it 5 .-Y Mr . Walktr in Wif presence : tba signature " hi . B . Ber © , " or \ . ho paper wben it was given lo me 1 ' the 5 th of Sopteuiber . Ho tald me then that lha hearing day was fixed fir , the 9 th of October , lasw the prisoner again on Su ' . uruay tho 7 th oi Octobt-r , when ht > tout me that my Louring day was pat off till U : t » llih ot October , I then liixed him what 1 should do , as my protection waa only lill th « 9 : h , an < i it w

      iet thtia have it ; I gave tam a sovereii ; u afc that time . On Wednesday , tbe 11 th , i mot tho prisoner by appointment at tie Griffin Inn , Lueiis , and afterwarrta Went to tbo Cumfc of Bankrup : « y , I wens Hrst into the room up stairs , and aftotwaru , itito that oown stairs ; Mr . Walker waa With me . It &&i about eleven o ' clock when we went , and i Btayed tiiere till about tbreo . I waa in the aaaie rsom with Irsorge Lister , another insolveat . I fauard his name eaL't'd , and saw him stand up at the desk ; my name was uoti called . B&fure leaviug the Gnnia , in the forenoon , X gave my protection to Waiker , . this rtqaest ; at that tune thoru was no writing on the back i > att of thQ pruicction . Walker fihed up sc-Mio writing at the baclC uart , and then eaid it would v ^ ant signing ft * tha

      dhxx , hearing day , and Lie would tak

      nro 8 s-exantinea by Mr . SCHOtES —It was the month of August wben I first applied to Air . Wal&er . i cant sty ho « y many papers 1 have signed ; there were ntora than one ; there waa no agreement in writing between me and \ V ; ilker ; no auch thing as £ 5 down and £ 5 ab tfie first hearing wcis ever mentioned , nor was say written agreement to that effect ever signed by me ; I never knew that aDy mfcrnorAinlum to that fiffijot ixA been prepared . I isevsi leceivaiV any other paper ifroaa WaJker but the one produced ; 1 am quite sure of Ifoafc . Walker did not demand any money from me when ka gave me my yrotectiou at Dawsbury ; _ ™ . ^ M . p » takui « -Balw »» B «« r » 4 HBBtir ««^ 6 setE = T * TaBn on& Ot the Commissioners of Bankruptcy for the Leeds" District . I have examined the paper now produced ; it

      purports to be an iaterim order of protection to George Newsome , antosoivent ; it has at the foot ef it the words " M . B . Bare . " It is not my signature ; nor was the signature murse by any person by nij authority . The endorsement at the back of it purports to be a renewal of . the protection , which ? a granted after the insolvent ' s first bearing for h ' s protection to tho day of his final hearing ; that also has the words " M . B . Bere , " which is not my signature , nor has it been made by my authority . The renewal , which is dUed up for the 29 th of November , is a day on which I do uot ait , being Wednesday , this interim order of protection , and the renewal , are boih

      in the usual forms of the Court , and have been Uaurd witnout my personal signature . No person has e . ny authority to siga . iny name—no one ever had . The paper now produced is the oue produced to me en the 24 th of October , by Qtdorge Newsome . I have bad several opportunities of seeing Mr . Walter Write , and I belie re the imitation of my eiguature to be in his band-writing . Mr . Walker was uot in Court on the 4 ca of S .-pteinber ; at least 1 presume so , for he was stiniinoned to appear , and on his name being called several times , ha did not answer . I wrote to Mr . Walker on Wednesday last , requesting him to attend the Court on Saturday to « xplalu these mattara to me , he did r . ofc aaoad .

      Charles Waterfield , Esq—I am one of the deputjfregiatrard in bne Lseds D strict Cju t of Bankruptcy ; X jiit iu Hr , Bsre ' a Court . A petition of GaorgeNewsomsr , rag-iieaier , of Bath-y , was filed in the Court previous to ths 25 ch of MiKh in this year , and on that day bis him ! pr--mction waa granted . No other petition frota any p « rsua ceiled Gsurge Newaome , has . taeJ rllsd in either Court ; since that time , i hava entered the name and number av . d every petition tiled in both courts siuca the Court was established . T&sr . a i » uo c-iitry ot any petition from George Newsoins , of Bitley ft-. tice the 25 - . h of March . George Newsome w ? 3 not caiied on hia petition on the 11 th of October *

      azi-G ? jrge Lists- was called on the lUh ; he received * renewad pro ' -ection on that day . Xhe Co « nmi 8 biOU 6 ' signs uil papers himself . 1 have not , since ths 25 th ot Slttreb , received / ttiy fees on bahalf of George Newar , ; uu , froai cither Mr W * lker or any one else . Fees wouJdl be payable » n Coait both when the interim order caa granten and wh ^ n it was renewed ; also on filing t- ' -a petition . I rsc-jtvtd the paper produced from Jot ta Brings , the usher of the Court , on the 24 th of October , aud abkyd Newiome , in tho presence of Briggs , if thai ; was the psper he L . ttd given to Briggs ; he said it was . This being the whole , of the evidence , Mr . Walker , after bein ^ cautioaed , said he should reserve any thing he had to say until another occasion .

      Ha was then held to bail , himself in £ 100 , and a surety in £ 100 , for his appearance at the next aou ' aea at York , to take his trial for for « ery .

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      Dreadful Galb on this Uwsb . Thames . —Abons one o ' clock on Friday niorniDg , tha atmosphere exhibited symptoms ot ao approaching storm , and sooa afterwards the indicatioaa were fully verified . It was hiKtt water at London-bridge a few minute 9 befure five o ' eloxk ; bat two hours previoaaly , tha wind , which toad been blowing fresh from about W . s . W ., inoreased to a perfect hurricane , aad tho shipping and small craft on the river have sustained considerable damage About half-past six b ' cleok the hurricane , which was accompanied with trcmeud .. us tqaails , waa at its height » when , eeveritl v . ss&is thai had befora held to their moorings , starred , and were driven with great force against ncrs of shipping on the northern shore . The tide

      t-j ^ 'io a greater aeight than any in the recollection of the oldest inhahiiantsi along the Vfater side . Purtunu . ely an extraordinary £ ood waa \ antioipated l and in many piacesr precaatioas were taken which nad the effect of materially lessening . the ^ injar / wh'oh must otherwiss have resulted . ' A great deal or vian . agjhas , however , been sustained , and prap * ny df-stroyed ,- in the warehoasea situated aloug both baaks of the river , t ^ om Woolwieh ' to Chelsea , Ti > e eteata navigation above bridge was stopped foe a considerable period , in conseqaehce of the impo&iibility of passing under some ot w ^ e bridges . lM » A . \ TiCiJ > E in lRELAND .... There , is a fearful , bat , fov tho most part , uDsnspeoted sacrifice othnnjaat lift- coutinually going on among us . TheFonndling Hospital wa , a cio ^ ed on . the 3 d of Qotober , 1838 , Uudr " during the five years that elapaed between that and

      the 5 d of theproaent inpnth , ao fewer thineigh ^ -six ; ,: i&quests have bten held a : the Bridewell on the bodies ' of deserted infants—that ia , in pbun KngliBh , no fewer than so many murders have been perpetrated , or permitted by taev . n . Bhap ^ y '' p » ir ^' : wl > ft ; briBn ^ KI ; : them into beiu >{! And yet Werea 4 | ui . ^ we tiea * f of i inquests without troubliug " oatsalyoti with a though ! of the iniquity or the guilt which et ^^ ngniry : implies ! Hal the number of deaA ? by bo ioean * 5 represent tho number of ^ helpless h ^ ipg ^ cart- pot . * 0 "' perish , or to take the chance of being : proTjd ^ ntialx ^•• •; .: ; picked up , lor at the last city rate' ^ Be 8 SM > ns--on 9 , siix-Hc sessions—tae appiioatio BS ''' by . ^ h ] WMW * W ( Sfi * .. for the suppon of mfdnfcs found deserted amounted to 3 o 3 I Daring the Sve years previous to tho closing of -i ; t I" scaling . Hospital the number ef roqaesUroa n ^ wLj-t ^ rn iufaata was forty-eight . —Gyrk Conslilution .

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      BHY 2 JES BY THE BOADSIBE"We ' re Josing . fast the good old days Of rattling -wheels and gallant greys ; ~ We " n losing fast the ln ? gaged roof , The whistling guard and ringing- hoof j The English stage and high-bred teams , Will soon exist out in our dreams ; And whirling mail or startling horn Ue r cheer ibe niaht , or rouse the mom .

      Ah 1 "well-a-day J no cracMng lash , Ko champing hit , no restaesa dash , Ko : " pull np" at the « Cross ' or " CJrown , " * Mid all ths gossips of the to wn ; Pot Time , with deep rail-roaded brow , Changes all things bat horBeslttfe ' - Tet who shall wish for nobleTp ^ pd ? Who -would iorego the rapid ktt&& ? Who Sat loves Bsanty wonld resign , " The winding road for formal" line V ^

      Tis joy to inonnt the lofty seat That bears Ti 9 from the city-street ; ¦ To lightly roll from pent-up smoke To sieging bird and tewering oak ; Scanning , despite our txyanding haste The forest dell and heath-clad waste . On throngh the valley , rich and rife With fragrant air and bloomine life ; Where the clear brooklet softly flows , Kiwnng the Hfly as it-goes ? - Where quiet herds lie down to crop The grass-blade and the cowslip drop Where thB low cottsge-tbatcb is seen , * Mid taulisg arms of jasmine green , And the wide flinging easement glass Shows the pet flower to all ~ who pass .

      Awsy * away ! one lingering look At valley , cottage , herds , and brook ; And bowling on , vre gain the hill Crowned "with the old church and the miD The sun-ray playB upon the spire , Tinging the cross -with glancing SrA . The south-wind freshens there , bot fails To turn the heavy sluggard sails ; The miller stands with peering eye , To see the famed Eclipse * go by : Sis next five minutes fairly lost 3 n - wondering what that chesnnt cost , And s ? kj they ' ve chsngM the clever bay That graced the pole the other day .

      Onward ! the tiny hamlet comes , The village nest of peasant homBS j The ploughman ' B cur wakes from his dose , With psrlring ears and sniffing nose ; The chOd npon the red-briek floor Crawls-quickly to the open door ; The old man and the matron stand With staring gsaa and idle hand , The maiden , smiling , nods her bead To ths blythe fellow dbnn'd in red ; 3 f » matter Trhai they have to do , They all must see the mail go through .

      The , inn is reached ^ host , men , and boys , Gather around -with bustling noise . ^ Few momtnts aerre—tiie harness bands Are Sung -eff asljy nsagic hands j The loosened nags are panting bard ; Seeking the well-known stable-yard ; Forth come the -wheelers—' glossy black—With bit in month , and cloth on back . Quick ! bring the leaden two bright roam As ever spurned the wayside stones . Each buckle tight—' tis done , " AH right j " The steeds are ready for their flight ; And old bluff Jehu once again Swings np to rule the whip and rein . ~ Onward ve hie , like shooting star , That runs &Q dazzling fleet and far , And 'worthy sight for kiag to see Are four boldceursers fast and free . '

      O , England ! many an olden tale ScaII yet , te told o er Chiistmas ale . By lips xmbom ; and they shall say What rare -works graced their fathers' day young boys shall chatter in the sub , And tell - © hat English steeds have done ; Boconls shall note tbe bye-eone age , And V 3 nnt the T ^^ t ^ h ^" English stage . Ah ! weH-a-day ! the glory ' s o ' er ,

      Soon steed and stage-shall be no more ; Ths roads that break onr fertile sod , ' Seem ail deserted and nntrod . Ah 1 grieTe I win , and grieve I Jnnst , To t "'" Hub mail-coacti cloud of dost , j To think thai I ehail neTer see The Kood-like team , « o faK and free ; Aad SnS old Tiaie , -with scowling hrow , Changing all things bat horses now . Eliza Coos .

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      THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE No . II , vol . 2 . TMb , like the last No . that we noticed , is mainly filled with the proceedings of rather Mathew . Under the head of ** Chronicle of Anti-Teetotal Sayines and DoingB , " the following choice bit is given from the Gospel Magazi ? ie . From which it appearB that Father Mathew is employed by " Avid Sarnie * " in hi 3 teertotaLmisaion : — " Who do yon think employs Father Mathew ? The DeviL {!) We are as great advocates of temperance [? J

      as he is;— £ Is this a specimen 7}—bnt tbe praahce nowa-dsys of an infliBcriiBinate mass assembling professedly to advocate the teetotal scheme , in ' ¦ a trap of the arch deceiver , leading men from one kind of sin to the embrace of another . The present pledge system , we have no donbt is a JRoraan Catholic marfflnTre , which iras concocted in the boUomless pit ! It -will haTe its day —rnnialeaga—be tned * a capital mbslUide for rrftpio «—li 8 lp on the cause o / tfae Mother of Harlotai—and bj and by htrrt Trim fearful eansegoenMi upon IU poor deladed votaries HI

      This ia * « newinoT « " of the " oaW tmray" that reallj -we wereiot prepared for J We * jw * yFknew that the Bhiines of Baechns were favourite resorts < or Aearch-teiaptei ; but wm eertafoly not prepared o . Hear that he had a partiality for fold water ? ot thw" he considered » teetotal leeturej ^ aMftthewitepL--dgeas * -good draw by which to flU his nets vrith vi l ^ ttJnB for ci that immortal fry

      Of . ^ Imost everybody born die" I Well , well , this does bang Banaghar ! Trash Greig and his brother bigots of the Dablin Pro testant Operative Assooi&tioa we fox onee bert hollow J

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      THE STOKESLEY NEWS , AND CLEVELAND -REPORTER . George Tweddell , Stokesley , North Rio ing . This is an interesting and well-conducted miscellany , published monthly , at ** the low charge of one penny . " In No . 10 is- commenced a series of letters on ihe People ' s Chartery nnder the signature of T . C&rrvrrighi ; a very appropriate name lor such a subject ; and in truth tbe writer seems to do justice to ibe principles of his elder and mightier namesake . From No . 10 we take the following : —

      THE MEMORY OF BT 7 HKS . We ' ve pledged to kings , we ' ve pledged to lords , Through dull routine we've ran ; Onr flask a bnaiper still affords To pledge the honest man . Onr round 1 claim , while to his shrine My heart instinctive turns , To give , for love of auld lang syne , The memory of Burns . While courage fires the Briton ' s soul , " While freedom nerves his . arm ; While country ' s love his hopes controul , Friendships his bosom warm : While worth and wit shall lustre shed . O ' er the soul that meanness spurns , This homage pay the mighty dead , The memory of Barns .

      His -was the boon , so rich , so rare , — An independent mind ; Stored With poetic boantiea fait , And . love for nnman kind : Bat now he sleeps his last long sleep , We grieve while nature mourns . With silence sad . and feelings deep , The memory of Bums . "We do not say that these lines are the best in the numbers before ns , bus they are tbe most to our taste . Here is an extract from "The Welshmen and the ToU Bars , " in No . 12 , ( for October ) . Some of the writer ' s animadversions are but too-wtll deserved .

      " Too many of the people are too ignorant to understand their Tights , and teo base to dare to assert them . Many will sign petitions without number , tor a r&dreas of grievances ; they will cheer at every public meeting for the principles of -virtue ; they will swear devotion to ttLB cause of freedom ? they will declare themselves ready to arm lor liberty , and -tristful for a contest with the whole tyrants of the globe ; they will call the most zealous of their leaders too lukewarm , and seem jaalous that any one should dig the grave of oppression but themselves ; and yet , when tbe hour of trial conies , when danger threatens , and when persecution is the patriot's portion , they meanly retreat from tho eminence on which they had taken their stand , and basely desert a cause in which they had ^ vowed to conquer op die .

      " Others there are , -who , unlike to angels' visits , are neither ' few' nor far between , ' who will not trouble themselves to examine into the cause of tbe national calamities ; not caving -whsther the liberties of their country are protected or destroyed , so long as they get their own brutal existence comfortably dragged over . These political sloths are ^ cite ready st all times to receive any benefit that may accrue from the exertions of their mnre industrious citizens , whem thay generally denounce and cry down as * dteffected subjects . " " There are others too , and their number is daily increasing , who perceive the causa of our ^ national distress , and are not slow to avew it * Men who know their rights , And knowing dare maintain /

      are the honest and intelligent portion of every age and dime . They have generally been persecuted by the bigoted and the knavish ; laughed to scorn by the witle&s , and the sport of every fooL They have , however , kept the lamp of freedom for ever burning , and it is this bright iLane -which -warms the heart ' s blood of the Welch yeomanry . Let us counsel them , however , against committing any outrage whatever . The tearing down of toll-bars is not so glorious as * tbe pulling down of strongholds' of a system which

      perpetuates ignorance , vice , and misery j nor is the burning of old thatched houses , during the shades of night , to be mentioned ia comparison with the open avowal of the great principles of Democracy , or Representative Government . Cleanse Vhe fountain , and the stream will soon be pure , let us strive to disseminate , on all hands , true knowledge on political subjects , —what ought to be done , and bow it may be achieved , and we shall serve the cause of justice and freedom better than by routs , riots , and rebellions . '"

      Most assuredly this little publication so honestly conducted , deserves support and we hope will obtain it .

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      Spain .-Maphid , Oct ; 23 . —The militia of Saragossa have sent forth a strong manifesto , to % Lo nuliha of the whole nation . It ia dated sho 12 * n instant , but has only lately arrived here , the usual QOUWAUueatiod being , of course , cut off .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 4, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1237/page/3/