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SOXQ OF THE SPIRIT OF POVERTY A Eone , a Bong , for the beldame Queen , A Qaeen that the world knows well , Whose portal of state is the workhouse gate , And throne the prison celL I have been croirn'din every land , With TtighUhartn steep'd in tears ; I ' Te & dog-Knavn bone fox my sceptre waad Which the proudest mortal lean . Ito gexal / ve&x in my tangled hair , No golden vest I own ; yo jadiant glow tints cbeek or brow , Yet say , who dares my frown ? 0 , 1 am Queen of a ghastly court , And tyrant rsriy I hold , Baiting human hearts for my royal sport
"With the bloodhounds of Hunger and Cold . My power can change the purest day From its first and beautiful mould , 3511 it hideth from the face of day , Too hidesus to behold . Jlsrk ye ths wretch who lias cloTen and deft The xknll of the lonely one ; And tpadl'd not st purpling his blade to the heft , jr To mate ; sure that the deedjwaa done . Fair seeds were sown in his infant breast , That held goodly blossom and fruit ; Bat 1 trampled them down—Man did the rest—And God ' s imaxe grew into the brute .
He oath been driven , and hunted , and scaurged , For the sin 1 bade him do ; He hath wrought the lawless work I urged Till blood seem'd fair to his 'new . I shriek with delight to see him bedight In fetters that f hirti f and glean j *« He is mine , " I shout us they lead him « at from the dnngeon to the beam . See the lean boy dutch hii rough-hewn crutch , With limbs all warp'd and wors , "While he hurries along through -a noisy throng , The ibeme of their gibing scorn . Wealth and care wtnld have Tear ' d him straigkt As the towaring mountain pine , Sat I nursed him into that halting gait , And wither ed his marrowless spine , »
Pain may be heard on the downy bed , Seating the groan of despair ; TotSvSznug shuns not the diadem'd head And abideth every where . Sul EJsorten'd breath md parching lip Are watdi'd by many an eye , And there is balmy drink to sip , ^ r \ rt tenderiands to ply . Come , come , with me , aid ye shall see "What « child 67 mine can bsar , Where * qxitili shadows thicken the light And foulness taints the air . Ee lieth alone to gasp and moan , While the « y"ppy eats his ie&b , With the old raja festering on his wound , For none " will give him Ireah .
O , carry him forth in a blanket robe , The Iflzii-honse is nigh ; Tha careless hand shall cat and probe , And strangers see Mm die . Where ' s the escutcheon of blaon * d worth ? TVno is heir to *^» famed rich Tnim ? Hi l is ! he is nine—dig a hele in th « earth , And hide him as soon as je can . 0 , I sm Queen of a ghastly Court , And the handmaids that I keep Are such phantom things as Fever brings To haunt the fitful sleep . See , see , they come in my haggard train , With jagg'd and matted locks Hinging round them as Tough as the-wild steed ' s mane , Or the black weed on the rocks .
They come with broad and horay palms ; They come in maniac guise . With angled chins , and yellow skins , And hollow staring eyes . They come to be girded with leather and lick , And away st my bidding they go , To toil where the soulless beast wtuld shrink , In the deep , damp csTeznsbelow . Ds&zhten of Beauty , they , like ye , Are of gentle womankind , Andwondetsotif little there be , Of angel form and mind . If I'd held your cheeks by u close a pinch , Would that flourishing rose be found ! If I'd doled you a crust out , inch by » n ^ h 1 Would yom arms lisve been so round ?
O , I am QTisen with a despot rale , That crashes to the dust ; The laws J deal , bear bo appeal , Though ruthless and unjust . I deaden the bosom and darken the brain , Wiih the might of the demon's skill ; The heart may struggle , but struggle in Tain , As I grapple it harder stUL 0 , come with ma and y « shall see , How well I begin the day , lor 1 * 11 Me to the hungrwst slave I hare , And snatch his loaf away . O , come with me and ye&hall-EEe , How my skeleton victims fall ; How I order the graves without a stone , And the coffins without a pall
Then a song , & song for the beldame Queen—A Queen that ye fear right well ; For my portal ol state is the workhouse gate , Ard my throne the prison cell . Eliza Cook
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GERMAN WAR SOh'GWhy knit ye Ihns daikly the brow of your might ? Why frown ye , and wDdJy stare ent in the night , Ye spirits who fear not the stranger ? The storm of oppression howls on , and the l oar Of h 5 a cce&n assaulting is j&cd on our shore—We shall meet , but despise not cur danger . His heD-flood now rages more dismal and dread ; Much blood of ott noblest has vainly been shed ; SQn cur straggles the stranger it scorning Yet vengeance , despair not , shall some frcm on high ,-Already its dawn breaks blood-red in cur iky—Snre red is the tint of the morning . And if courage and strength have avail'd us before , We will call on our strerjjUi and cur courage once
TBnrp—_ let the ship not be wreck'd in the haven . Arise , then , oh , yenth ! see the foensanis sear—Arise ! in a tempest cf heroes tppear 1 Who would now be a £ lumbtnsg cravtn ? And ice shall not waver , who , resolute here , Stand looking grim Death in the face without fear . The rights of our country protecting ; But freedom regain , and but blesrd Fatherland , Or die , &s the patriot dies , sword in hand , The life of the bondman rejecting . With freedom denied , what conld tempt us to live ? Or what has the world all-around us to £ ive For the boD of the ceuntry that feore us ? Yes ; free from the foe let our Fatherland be , Ox Ut us depart to our sires wio are free , And happy in heaven before us .
Then howl en , thou tempest 1 thai roar on thon seal Then tremble thou Earth ! fcnt no terrors have y « For spirits that never will falter , AH nature m » y fly iato atoms around , Bat , devoted to Freedom , we still shall be found Thus offering our blood it her altar .
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TAIT'S MAGAZINE . The Irish Trials and the " talks" of the " col-Ifictive -wisdom" have left ps no room lately to gire our usual Reviews ; and this week , what with Irish Excitements and Spanish Berolntions , we have not room for any rery lengthened comments upon the varied - matters which fill " the popular and wellerannned-pages of Taxf for the present month . __ Mrs . Gore ' s tale of " Blanks and Prizes" is contumed ; and bow fortHne having smiled upon her hero , we axe taken to court and introduced to that * first gentleman m Europe , " as his parasites delighted to describe Aim ;
that—** Charles to his cosnfay , and Harry to his wife , " B the Fourth . " We wonld gladly have transferred to out columns some of the graphic pictures of royal and arJBtocratical vice and frivolity drawn by Mis . G ., buthave not room . Schiller s ** L » y of the Bell" rendered into English , is a wonderful poem—giriBg , like Shakespeare ' s *• Seven Ages , " a eonsplete picture of life from the cradle to the grave It is too lengthy to give entire , and & portion « ould afford the leader no just idea of its bejwty . The
« new of the concluding volume of * TyuerB 5 ^ Jo £ Scotl » n d / ' ponrtrajB * deplorable state M ibsngs in that «> nntry in ihe days of the witch-^ fing ^ Eng Jamie , and fully justifies ihe remarks « tive reviewer , that the state of Scotland in the I » n « eenth , fifteenth , and sixteenth centimes is * imost identical with that of Afi ^ haniBtan in the Jpseni time . The reviewer adds tha-t , * It was 2 iimon that && peace and welfare of both ™ gaojBs CEngland and Scotland ) were finally oT ^ TJ —by the union of the crowns , followed by *» jajon of the kingdoms " . We give two ex-«* ctej 0 Ee fijustrative of the horrible ferocity
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of those titled scoundrels , the Scottish Aristocracy oT that time ; the other the abominable spirit ef intolerance and persecution exhibited by the founders of the Scottish Presbyterian Church in their fiendish l « TBeention « f tie unfortunate Catholics ; a spirit the continued existence of which has been very lately proven in the persecution of Paterson and others , and the frantic fanajicism of the Ron-Intrusion humbng : — THE 1 T 0 BDEB OF THE B BOKST EABL OF MPBBAY . " The reader may perhaps remember the utter destruction bronght by the Regent Murray upon the great Earl of Huntly ; his execution , and that of one of his sons ; the forfeiture of his immense estates , and the almost entire overthrow of his boase . It was now thirty years
Bince that miserable event : the favour of the king had restored the family of Gordon to its estate and its honours , and Buntly'a ambition might have been satisfied ; but tfie deep principle of feudal vengeance demanded blood for blood ; and there was not a retainer of the house of Hontly , from the belted knight that sat at his master ' s right hand to the serving-man behind bis chair , who did * ot acknowledge the sacred necessity of revenge . Time , which sof tens or dilutes most feelings , only added intensity to this ; and now when the hour of repayment waa come , the debt was exacted with fear ful interest The then Earlef Murray , a Stewart , and representative of the famous regent , was one of the bravest and hansomest men of his time ; a favourite at Court , md dear to the peeple and the Kuk , who still
looked fondly back to the days of his great ancestor . In deeds of arms and personal prowess , an old chronicle describes him as a sort of Am&dis ; " comely , gentle , brave , ana of a great stature and strength of body . " This young nobleman had princely possessions in the North , and for some years deadly feud had raged between him and Buntly ; but Lord Ochiltree , a Stewart , a firm friend of Murray , was at thisiime exertiDg himself to bring about an agreement between the two Barons ; and had so far succeeded , that Hurray , with a slender retinue , left his northt in fastnesses , and came to his mother ' s castle of Ducibristle , a short distance from the Qneensftny . Euntly , his enemy , was then at Court , in constant attendance upon the Sing ; and Ochiltree , who had communicated with him , and
informed him of Murray's wishes for a reconciliation , took horse and rode to Queensfeny , intending to pass to Duniferistle and arrange an amicable meeting between the > ival EjtIa To his surprise , ha feund that a royal order ha ^ been sent , interdicting asy boats from plying that day between Fife snd the opposite const . But little Eutpicion was occasioned ; he believed it seme measure connected With the hot pursuit then going on against Bothwell , and was satisfied to abandon his journey to Dnnibristle . This proved the destruction of bis poor friend . That very day , the 7 th of February , the King hunted ; and Buntly , giving out that he meant to accompany the royal cavalcade , assembled his followers to the number of fort ; horse . Snddenly be pretended ih&t certain news bad reached him of the
retreat of Bothwell ; txtorted from the KiDg permission to ride against this traitor ; and pasting Abe ferry , beset the bouse of Dnnibristle , and summoned Murray to surrender . This was refuted ; and , in spite of the great disparity in nnmbers , the Stewarts resisted fill nightfall , when Buntly , collecing the corn-stacks , or ricks , in the neighbouring fields , piled them up against the walls , commanded the house to be set on fire , and compelled its unhappy inmates to make a desperate sally that they might escape being burnt alive . In this outbreak the Sheriff of Murray was slain ; but the yeung E&rl , aided by his great stature and strength , rushed forth all burned and . blackened , xfth nis lot dbeautiful tressts on fire and streaming behind him , threw himself with irresistible fury on his
assailants , broke through the toils like a lion , and escaped by speed of foot to the sea-shore . Sere unfor * tu&ately , his hair and the silken plume of his helmet , b ! sze £ through the darkness ; and his fell pursuers tracing him by the trail of light , ran him into a cave , where they cruelly murdered him . Bis mortal wound it was said , was given by Gordon of Bnckie , who , with the ferocity of the times , seeing Huntly diavring back , cursed him as afraid to go as far as his followers , and called upon him to stab his fallen enemy with hiB dagger , and become art and part ef the slaughter , as he bad been of the conspiracy . Buntly thus taunted , struck the dying man in the lace with bis weapon , who , with a bitter smile , upbraided him " with having spoilt a better face than his own . " The cutery against this atrocious murder was deep and universal
ZHS SAT AGE JXIOLESAXCB OP TB £ " KIRK . " Bad the Kiik contented itself with its triumphs , and rested satisfied in the king ' s present dispositions , which appeared wholly in its favour , all things might have remained quiet : for the Catholics , convinced of the madness ol their projects , were ready to abstain from all practices inimic&i to the religion of the state , on the single condition that they should not be persecuted for their adherenee to the ancient faith . But the Kirk were not disposed to take this quiet course . The principle of toleration , divine as it assuredly is in its origin , yet so late in its recognition even amongst the best m « n , was then utterly unknown to either party , Reformed or Catholic . The permUsion even of a single case cf Catholic worship , however secret , —the
attendance of a solitary individual at a sitgle mars , in the remotest district of the land , at the dead boor of night , in the most secluded chamber and where none could ccme bat such as knelt before the altar for conscience * sake , and in all sincerity of soul , —snch worship , and Its permission for en hour , was considered an open encouragement of Antichrist and idolatry . To extinguish the maEs foT tvtr ; to compel its supporters to embrace what tie Kiik considered to be the purity of Presbyterian truth ; and this under the penalties of life and limb , or in its mildest form of treason , banishment , and forfeiture , was considered not merely praiseworthy , but s point of high religious dntj ; and the -whole apparatus of the Kiifc , the whole inquisitorial machinery of detection and perwcutioD , was brought to bear upon the accompluhment of these great ends .
It wa « insisted en , by the leading ministers of the Kirk , in a convention of the estates ¦ which the kiDg summoned at this time , that the strictest investigation should he made for the discovery and imprisonment of all suspected of heresy ; and that , under the penalties of forfeiture and banishment , they should be compelled to recant , and embrace the reformed religion . The severity and intolerance c £ such demand * will be best understood bj quoting the words of the original . The Kirk represented that , *• seeing the increase of Papistry daily within this realm , ' it was craved of his majesty , with his council and nobility at that tin . e assembled , " that all Papists within the same may be punished according to the laws of God and cf the realm . That the act of Parliament might , ipso facto , utrike cponsll manner of men , landed or unlanded , in i fnce or not , as it
at present strikes agaisst benefited persons . That a declaration be msdeagainstallJeroits , seminary priests , and trafficking Papists , pronouncing them guilty of treason ; and that the penalties of the act may be enforced against all persons who conceal or harbour 'ksii , not for three days , as it now stands , but for any fame -whatsoever . That all such persons as the Kuk had foond to be Papists , although they be not excommunicated , should be debarred frcm occupying any office within the realm , as also from accew ' to bis msjetty'a company , or enjoying any benefit of the laws . That npon this declaration , the pains of treason and other civil pains should follow , as upon the sentence of excommunication ; and that an act of council should be passed to this fffect , which ia the next Parliament should be made law . "
The terms of this sentence , in which not the whole Presbyterian sect , as represented by the General Assembly &f their Kirk , tut as an isolated provincial synod took npon them to excommunicate certain members of the Calhol : c Church , were very awfuL This little conclave declared that , in the nsm <> and authority ot the Lord Jesus Christ , they cnt off the Eaid persons from their cemmncion , and delivered them to Fatan , to the destruction of their fltsh : it added—tfcat the spirit might yet be safe , if it pleased Gh > d to reclaim them by repentance ; but pronounced , if unrepentant , their just
and everlasting condemnation . This sentence was commanded to be intimated in every Kirk in the kingdom . All persons , of whatever rank « x degree , were interdicted from concealing er holding communication with the delinquents thus delivered to the devil , under the penalty of being visited by the same anathema j and the synod concluded by exhorting the pastors to whom toe charge of the fioek had been entrusted , to prepare themselves by abstinence , prayer , and dilligent study of the word , for that general and solemn Fast which was judged most needful to be observed throughout the
land . " Australian Sketches" is a good readable paper . " Reminiscences of Mrs . Opie" is sad sttff to our taste . The review of one of the new novels entitled the ** Belle of the Family" is excellent ; the moral of the tale though severe J 3 useful , and affords the reader another lesson of the beart-crushiDg workings of the present social system , destroying in secret , as it does too often , even those who are apparently the "favourites of fortune . " How many "Belles" of "high life . " mi ^ ht save themselves from broken hearts and Eves of aDgnish knew they hut the philosophy of Burns' " Country Lassie" and dared to act upon it : — "O , gear will buy me rigs o' land , And gear will buy me sheep and kye ; But the tender heart o' leesome luve , The gowd and siller canna buy . W * may be poor—Bobie and I ,
- light is the burden luve lays on ; Content and luve brings peace and joy , What mair hae queens upon a throne ?" Among ihe poetry we have " The Song of the Starved by Law , " a very indifferent parody of the immortal » Song of . the . Shirk" "The Withered Flower , " sweet and pretty , A German translation of "The Exile of Erin , " which Thomas Carljle or Prince Albert "( the sublime and the- —!) may admire 3 bnt whichjbeing ignorant of the language of Goethe and Schiller , is denied to as . A "Sonnet to Richard Cobdcn" is a most abominable burlesque Take the following specimen : — 11 On ! high Apostle / in the holiest cause That Truth ( 3 ) and Merey ( 1 ) ever smiled npon (?) ? * * A blessed light from coming glorious years , Is flashing on thy fase ; thy Prophet eye , " ( I !) 0 dear ! 0 ! we dare sot go any further . Jest
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some of our zealous free-booting friends should charge us with having manufactured thiB precious doggerel for the purpose of bringing " Richard the Fourth" into coDtempt . Imagine the Chorley Millocrat arm-in-arm with Truth and Mercy /—and then the " prophet eye of the cast-iron phjz of the King of the LeagueM ! OTsut , Tait ; 'tie " too bad ' to so tickle the risibility of the naughty Chartists at the expense of the " Apostle /' The inimitable Bon Gaultier contributes another of Mb . capital miscellanies j the present consisting of dialogue sufficiently racy , mixed with poetry of the right sort . Laud the Spirit of the Nation if you please , gentle reader ; but commend ns to the Spirit of Bon Gauliier , for rollicking fun , and heart-melting pathos ; samples of which we will here extract . Our Glasgow readers will thank us for giving
THE SON » OF ST . R 0 IX 0 X . Air—St . Patrick was a gentleman . Yourh ' athen bards may rhyme and rant O'Castor and o'Pollux . But what were they , the britbers twae , Tooorauld freend St . Rollox ? What though they raise or lay the gales That Boreas baa begotten ; While oor St . Rollox guards oer bales O * calico and cotton i Then , brithers , join your saBgu wi * mine j Let's spend the nicht in fr « lics ; Well never want a patron saunt Sae lang's we ' ve guid St . Rollox ! Itae foreign eaunts will do fur biz ; CP them we * vehad jam satis :
What for should we no raise our saunls , As weel's oorain pitawties ? A Glesgie chap be was—nae waur—Nane o" your Romish fangle , And naetbingkent o' the Calendar , Though his mither keep ' t a mangle ! Then , blithers , join , fcc . His fa * ther had a wee pawn shop—His sfgn was three , not fear balls—Bis sisters twae , they used to stop Oot bye about the Gorbals . The Green has seen his bairns' pranks ; And aft my fancy gladdens , To thick by Mblendicar ' s banks He roamed , and the Cowcaddens . Thtn , brithers , join , &o .
He kent f u * well to wind and reel , Invented caumrio collars , And was the first that bauldly durst Singe muslin wi' het rollers ; Be search'd the land , and fund blackband , Made red the bellow's noses , And free his ain lang cbumley tap Got his apotheosis ! Then , britheis , join , &c Though altogether in the opposite vein , here is one of the most beautiful lyrics that ever came from a Scottish pen . "Thesubject was * poor girl whose lover had perished at sea , and whose reason had never recovered the shock . She used to Eit for hours upon the rocks , throwing wild flowers upon the naters , and searching for shells , which she fancied : were love-tokens Bent to her from him who slept amidst the depths of the ocean .
sow > . Oh , v ? eel I lo ' e amang the recks to wander by my lane , To hearken to the eurgee" sang , and thick on days laug gane ; For then I mind my Willie best—the love 'tween him and . me—I'm nearest there , where Willie lies , beneath the braid , braid sea . The spray fa ' s freshly on my cheek , ond cools my burnin' broo , But 'tis not for their callernees the glistenin * dxaps I lo ' e , For O , their touch upon my lips is balm fra heaven to me—They may be wet my Willie ' s cheek beneath the dark blue sea ?
And meny a true love-token still the waves atween ua bear—To warm my Willie ' s tangly bed I send him many a tear ; And aft I kto the siller shells that Willie fends to me , To tell me that he loes me yet , beneath the cauld , cauld sea . I pn * the violets frae the bask , and drap them on the wave , And a' to deck our bridal bed—waes me!—my Willie ' s grave ; And some be keeps , and some come back and bear his words to me , — " I ' m weaiyin' for tb . ee , Mary , love , beneath the lanesome sea . "
O , I am weary o' tfce light J They « ay my head Is wrang . To eee thee , Willie—hear tbee speak!—I ' m sick wi ' thinking lar . g . I'll but put on my bridal gear , and then I'll haste te tbee—And rett me on my Willie ' s breast , beneath the Iown , iown sea ! Not wishing to part with the reader in the " melting mood , " we close our txtracts with the
SOSO OF THE SECESSION . When the Ccck of the Kiik is forbidden to crow , Whtn the crowdy is scarce , and the stipends are low ; When lairds are rebellious , srd few of " oor friends " Are left in the Court of Cemmission of Teinda , When payment is afked of folicitors ' a bills , As a general principle—Take to the hills , With a down , down , derry down I Like cur fathers cf eld we thall march o ' er the green , With the blue Hag above ns—that never was eeen . W'H cant , and we'll rant , and condemn to the rope Both Proteitar-t . Presbyter , Prelate and Pope . The mountainous region is rich in " sma' stills , " No little indncuuent to take to the bills , With a down , down , derry down !
Come , put on the plaid that our grandfathers wore , And belt o ' er joor hurdiea the ragged claymore , Stick on the blue bonnet , the badge of the Whig , Siace the era cf Bothwell , the raid of the Brigg , And a csodfo ) of sulphur in powders or pills , 1 b a splendid pro-vision to take to the hills , With a down , down , derry down ! We'veuucked the old egg of Establishment dry ; We've ta'en the last pig from the parsonage stye ; We've gutted the manse , and we ' ve cut down the trees ; We ' ve d « lved up tiie garden , and smoked out the bees ; Axd feint & potatce txists in the drills For those that come after the lads of the hills . With a down , down , derry down \
The Non-IntrusioniFls should make the writer of the above their poei-laureat I We r * gret we can £ i ve icne of the dialogue , and only the above specimens of the poetic oat-ponrings of Bon EDd his " friends . " ThiB article alone mates the present DHmber of Tait worth all the money charged for it . Any further recommendation would be supeifluous .
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FRANCE . A writer in the Weekly Dispatch says , that the idea of Universal Siffrage is now very popular in France . Within the last five or six years the subject of Universal Suffrage has been frequently discussed , at pnbiio meetings , by the National Guards of Paris sad vhe £ re&t cities of the kingdom ; and electoral reform to a considerable extent—although not to the verge contemplated by the friends of an unexceptionable frsDchise—isnow occupying the attention of the most liberal deputies of the Opposition . M The most glorious achievement which a great people could possibly bring about , " said M . ODillbn Barrott , on a recent occasion , " is the complete and peaceful emancipation of the country : by meanB of electoral reform . It is towards political reform that all our endeavours should be directed ; for political reform invariably
leads to social reform , and the accomplishment of the two will be the signal for the triumph of democratic ideas . " A motion will be made this session relative to electoral reform , which of course the King's servants , called Ministers , will resist . Whether the King will yield to the voice of the Deputies , or not , matters but little ; the pressure from without is loo strong to be lovg withstood ; the French people knew their own power , and they only await the hour to rise , and the man to lead , to establish by foul means that freedom which they cannot obtain by fair ones . " The writer of the above adds some sound reasoning in reply to the opponents of 'Dniierfal ; Suffrage ; reasoning which should cause the conductors of the Dispatch , to blush for their ptirile sneers at Universal Suffrage and its advocates in this country .
SPAIN . Akother iNstBHEcuort—We gave in our latest edition of last week , a few brief particulars of the important movement in Spain ; information of which only reached us on Friday evening . We now present our readers with a detailed account of this new insurrection which , up to the time we write , bids fair to result in one universal explosion , scattering to destruction the monsters who have too long ruled by bloody means in that unhappy conn try . ThiB new insurrection took place oh the 28 th nit .,
at the important sea-port town of Alicant . The movement was complete , the military commander and political chief were surprised and arrested by the Custom-house Carabinien , and ia junta of government formed in the usual way . The cry of the patriots was , "Down with tyranny J" "Do » ra with the executioners I" " Down with the Government !" " Liberty and the Constitutional ^ taeen for ever I " It was reported that the Provincial Regiment of Valencia , stationed in garrison there , had joined in the insurrection .
This news reached Madrid on the night of the 31 st ult . We take the account of vthat followed the receipt of this intelligence from the correspondent of the Times : —
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Madj&id , Feb . 1—Since my letter of last night was despatched , serions events have taken place in Madrid , and v ? e learn that still more serious doings are m progress in the provinces . All was quite and fancied security at the hour of post , when a courier from Alicant , attempting to enter the city , was arrested , searched , and found with letters addressed to influential individuals here , informing them of a successful insurrection in Alicant on the 28 th ult ., in which the garrison had joined , surprised the military and civil governors , and declared war against Narvaesi and the existing Government . ( We owe this meagre outline to the Gazette of to-day , and know not whalt basner has been raised there in lieu of the situation actual } . This first announcement
of so alarming an occurrence sufficed to banish Bleep from the eyes of all concerned ; the garrison was put under arms , Narvaez , with his Generals and Minis ' tew , sat all night in council ; couriers were despatched on the instant to the Gefe Pdlitico 3 of murcia , Albacete , Valencia , Almeria , and Caatellon do la Plana , ordering the march of troops against Ahcant ; a list of sixty of the leading Progresista deputies and others was drawn up , and orders issued for the arreat of all who could be found . Senores Cortina , Madoz . Arquiaga , Lexin , Ors , Verdu , Garrido , and Garnica , and Benedicho , were raised from their slumbers by the Gefe Politico , and carried off to prison before daylight , where they are guarded , separately confined , and allowed to communicate with nobody . '
The entire garrison was placed under arms ; the military posts were everywhere doubled ; and durinc the uijjht a flying eolumn of troops left the capital with orders to proceed to Valencia by forced marches . The Gazette ^^ which followed theBO transactions is full of the most severe decrees , directed against the whole of the Alicante insurgents . The provinces of Alicante , Murcia , Albacete , Valencia , Almeria , and Castellou de la Plana , are ordered to be forthwith declared under martial law . The war steamer Isabella II ., brig Nervion , aad a schooner of war , are ordered to proceed immediately to blockade Alicante ; and the most infernal measures , with respect to the insurgents , are determined on , as the following instructions to the Captain-General of Valencia will show : — ;
" 1 All the chiefs , officers , and sergeants who belong to the army , provincial militia , national militia , carabiniers , or navy , who have taken part in the rebellion of Alicante , shall be shot , wherever they can be met with , upon the sole identification of then- persons , " 2 . If , after the insurgent troops of all arms have been invited to place themselves again under the loyal standard within a short space of time , which remains at the discretion of your Excellency to fix s they do not present themselves , they shall be decimated whenever they can be oome at , according to the regulations . " 3 . All ihe inhabitants who have taken part in the revolt at Alioant as leaders of the rebellion shall be shot . "
Here is old Renaults recipe to " shed blood enough" with ; a vengeance I Whether it will be effectual time will tell . Tho cowardly assassins at Madrid may perhaps find their bloody measures recoil upon themselves . Ob the moruiug of the 1 st , the Government issued a degree prohibiting the publication of any of the proclamations of the Junta of Alicante , or of " any news tending to encourage disobedience to tha laws ;" and ordering that any persons who act contrary to the resolution shall be considered as conspirators , and punished accordingly . This is tantamount to the absolute suppression of the press .
The Times correspondent Bays : — -The civil war may now be said to have fairly begun , and may be expected to proceed in the style of La Vendee , that is to say , ' •* no quarter . " A large party of officers and soldiers have gone forth from Saragossa after the street-shootings there by General Clavirria , and in despair have " taken to the road" as public robbers , obliging rich travellers and proprietors who fall into their hands to ransom themselves , and at once shooting all the pardoned Carlist officers who have taken part with Narvaez that came in their way . Another band of fifty robbers traverse Gallicia , near Pontevedra ; and a third , of seventy , appear to have taken and kept possession of Gallioia . Narvaez evidently expected nothing of the outbreak at Alicarit , for he was occupied in making himself " a gentleman of her'Majesty's bedchamber " the day before . '
Letters from Madrid , of the 3 rd , state that the Government journals declare that there was no idea , of seizing on Joaquim Maria Lopes , although his heueo waa ono of the * flrst searched on the eventful night before lust , when be fortunately happened to be really not at home , and still very prudently remains absent , despite the complimentary assurances of confidence and refepect on the part of the Powers that be . In these letters the tyrant Narvaez is described as being "in continuous rage , " and those whom he threw into prison may esteem themselves fortunate that he diet not order their execution also . To-day we hear that they are only to be exiled to tha Mariana Islands , and they doubtless will esteem themselves fortunate ia commuting capital punishment for banishment to the antipodes ; always supposing that the present Government remains in existence for a month or bo longer to carry out its threats .
Two regiments of infantry , one of cavalry , and a brigade of artillery were despatched thither from Madrid , on the night of the 18 : h , but Fernando Cordova , who had the command ot this moving column , was superseded by the personal intervention of Narvae * at the last moment . Letters from Madrid of the 4 th , state that the Government has resolved , after some days'delay , to brius SenorsCortina , Pascual Madoz , and the other deputies whom they arrested , to trial in the usual manner . Fernando Madoz was lucky enough to be out of the way , as well as Lopez , who is capitally rewarded for bringing Narvaez and Co . back , by their persecuting him within so short a time . The only ground of charge against them appears to be
that when the government , on learning of the Ahcant movement through a courier sent off by the Governor of Albacete , stopped the letters sent out to Madrid from Alicant by that day ' s mail , they found , or profess to have found , letters addressed by the insurgent leaders , to the leading progressists , deputies , announcing the fact of tho " pronunciamiento , " and tnclosing proclamations . Since their imprisonment they have partook of no food but that sent from their own bou&es , sealed up by their own friends ; for the chance of being poisoned 6 eems by no means to be considered as unlikely , and the late suddon death of the Infanta is suspected by many to be owing to such a cause . It is far from impossible that a movement will take place at Seville when the new 9 of Cortina ' s arrest arrives there .
It was currently rumoured at Madrid on the 4 th , that the troops under Cordova had given strong manifestations of dissatisfaction after they left Madrid . The soldiers who had eeryeJ since 1839 and who had been previously promised their discharge , demanded that that promise should be fulfilled . They were answered by a threat that any one showing discontent should be immediately shot . The colonel of one of the regiments was Bent back to Madrid under arrest , and escorted by a party of cavalry . It was also stated that the
Captain-General of Valencia had given information to the Government that the hucrta portion of the province of Valencia was in a state of excitement , which gave him -great uneasiness , and that General Roncali , before venturing to leave that city for Alicant , found it necessary to reorganize the national militia . The report was also renewed on the 4 th , at Madrid , that at Carthagena and Corunna , a pronunciamiento had also been made , but the Government prevented the circulation as far as possible of all information on the subject . We now turn to the movements of the patriots . It appears that D . Pantaleon Bocet , who is at the head of the insurgent junta , is a man of great influence in that part of the country , and of considerable talent . He was for some time a partizan of Don Carlos , during the civil war , and was second in command to Cabrera ; but he left tho Carlists before the war was over , and attached himself to the Queen's cause , to which he rendered great service . Ue was colonel of a cavalry regiment , and had latterly been appointed to command the Carbiniers of Valencia ; and had left that City a few days beforo the Alicante movement , at the head of a email column of 250 infantry and 80 cavalry of the Carabinier force , with the professed intention of suppres-Bing smuggling ; it appears , however , that this was only a blind for his real projects , and that he was in communication with the people of Alicante , and marched there on the 28 th ult . and formed his column
in the principal square ; the firing of a gun was the signal agreed upon for the breaking out of the revolt . At the sound of the firing , and the agitation it occasioned , the military and civil authorities hastened to the spot , and were at once made prisoners , and it is said that the military governor , Lasalla , was wounded . The Carabinists being joined by the National Militia , and sbm ? of the provincial Regiment of Valencia , and having obtained the password , proceeded , at once to the barracks of the latter regiment , and put the colonel and some other officers of that corps Under arrest ; disarming also such of the men as refused to join in the movement , and who were subsequently permitted to leave . A junta was then , formed , of which Colonel Bonefc was declared president , and D . Manuel Car reras , who is the acknowledged head of the Ultra-Exaltatos of that Ultra-Exaltado place , vice-president .
Here follows the . proclamation of the insurgents at Alicant ; which the Madrid Government prevented from being published in ! the newspapers : —
PR , 0 CIiA . MA . TI 0 K . " The monstrous genius of despotism , under the most horrible forms , has again appeared in our country , and treason and perfidy have at length thrown , aside the veil which concealed their objects from us : a deceitfnl reaction against the noble revolution of 1840 by those who , in returning once more to our country , found traces left of their disgraceful flight This concentrated their revived hatred to surprise and deceive
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our good faith , and the sacred words of reconciliation and respect became worda of perjury in ( heir mouths . But the party of the revolution of September was soon dismissed en masse from all public employments . They calumniated that revolution ! in the person of its most illustrious representatives , and the extermination ef all men whose existence ia incompatible with the existence of despotism was decreed . \ " A ministry -which can only be compared with the spirit of darkness , for it is ( the offspring ef falsehood , has insulted the Spain of September , has seized upon the Government , and has promulgated an ignominious municipal law , which has excited a revolution , and has insulted the law itself , ia depriving it of its most valuable provisions . i
" Abandoned by all classes of Liberals , tha miserable author of the Guireguay \ s about to beg tee rapport of the . Carlist party . Protected by monsters , -who are rebels to the constitution of ihe state , that party ia now re-organizing itself and its cause , and with this additional stimulus , threatens pur unhappy country -with a new civil war , with all its attendant horrors . But it is in vain . That city , on the walls of which are engrayed so many glorious recollections , and the soil of which has been ennobled by the blood of the martyrs of liberty , can no longer tolerate bo many insults , so much oppression , bo much ignominy . With their eyea fixed on the 1 st of September , the people this day once more raise the glorious standard which more tban once has led them to victory . Let all Liberals march with a firm step and without fear . They have only yielded for a moment to a division which the country has seen with grief , but which will not be renewed .
" Yes , Liberals I our triumph is certain . The whole province is up with ail its force . The glorious standard ef liberty floats on the impregnable ramparts of the citadel of St . Barbar ; all the forts are in our power ; the Carbineers of the province of Castellon , Alicant , and Carthagena have embraced with enthusiasm the popular cause , and rivals the patriotism and devotion of the provincial battalion and the national guard . " To avoid all conflict , the ^ civil und military authorities have been imprisoned in a safe place , The
electrical cry of ' Long live toe Queen r Long live Liberty , ' shall be repeated at once from all parts « f the Peninsula ; and Vive Bios , thiB time do one shall deceive us . The strong band of the people which haa taken up the gauntlet will not be put down till liberty has been confirmed by the laws , and by the reforms which the nation haa so many times called for in vain . We have no confidence in anything bat our own efforts , and in this way the revolution will not be circumscribed , as it had been to this day , to the displacing and replacing the employes in tbe public offices .
" To arms , Progresistas I Pawn with the ministry 1 Down with the Camarilla t Down with that which is called the law of the Ayuctamiestos ! Long live Liberty I Long live the sovereignly of the peeple ! Long live the constitutional Queen ! " President commanding the Province Panteleon Bonet Vice President i .... Cabreras Minister of the Junta ......... Sspana Secretary „ ,.. FRANCO . Alicant , 28 th January . " i The citadel of St . Barbara , which is in the hands of the insurgents , is very strong , and is well supplied with provisions and guns , but powder ia stated to be scarce . '
Damnable Doings at St . Sebastian . —On the 2 nd instant an extraordinary courier arrived here from Madrid , with despatches for Brigadier Baruacbea , who commands the province of Guipuscoa . He brought the tidings of the death of the Infanta Carlota , wife of Don Francisco de Paula , and a communication announcing that the Nationals of San Sebastian were to be disarmed within a short period . The period was certainly a short one , as this morning at daybreak , and before the gates of the city were opened , another courier arrived with the order
that the disarming Bhould take place on the receipt of the despatches by the General . The first act of the General on receiving his despatches was to order that the guns of the citadel should be loaded , and pointed on the town ; and his next , that the troops should assemble in their barracks , and remain uuder arms , and with muskets loaded and bayonets fixed , the whole of the day . The artillery wore also ordered to man the ramparts , and to stand to their guns with lighted matches ;—that all in fact , should be ready to commence hostilities at a moment ' s notics .
You may judge of the astonishment of the inhabitants of this remarkably peaceful town , on their going abroad , at witnessing such hostile preparations , and of their indignation at learning the cause . After having taken all these precautions , he communicated the contents of his despatches to the municipal authorities , informing them at the same time , that the arms of the Nationals should be given up within six hours , under pain of death . The Ayuntamiento was immediately assembled in tbe town-house ; and , as any resistance to- the order was out of the question , the Commandant of the battalion received instructions to have the arms sent in without delay . :
la addition to the preparations made in the citadel , barracks , and ramparts , for hostilising the town , a battalion was ordered to march from Hernani here , and the General awaited its arrival before entering upon operations . At the moment I write the disarming is being effected ; and crowds of men are harrying through the streets with arms and accoutrements , and flinging them contemptuously at the feet of the chief of the staff . The messenger who brought the despatches alluded to above announces that eight other messengers left Madrid at the same time with him for various points of the kingdom , with similar orders . The greatest excitement prevailed in St . Sebastian ; all are praying for the success of the new insurrection . , BLOOD I BLOOD ! BLOOD }
An attempt at Alcoy made nearly simultaneously with that at Alicant , is stated to have failed , by the Moderada accounts , which are the only ones published , and that some thirty persons were made prisoners there by the Government t / oops . Alicant is a place of 18 , 000 inhabitants , and Alcoy of 14 , 000 . The government ihas already issued an order for shooting all tbe persons taken at Alcoy , without any other ceremony than that of identifying them as being the j parties concerned in the attempt . The following is the decree sent from the War-office to the Captain-General of Valencia , General Roncali , concerning'the matter : —
"Excellent Sir—Her Majesty , whom God preserve , has learnt with satisfaction the ! loyalty with which the military commander and national militia of A ' cuy conducted themselves on the night of the 29 th alt . Hei Majesty desires that according to the royal order sent to you on tbe 1 st instant , the rebels who have been taken in tbe abortive attempt at Alcoy sball be shot , on their persons being identified as authors of the attempt < " Your Excellency will give me information for her Majesty ' s knowledge , of your having fulfilled this order without contemplation or consideration of any
kind ; and your Excellency will not be detained by fear of the reprisals that may be threatened by the insurgents of Alicant , since , although her Majesty will see with pain the victims that the rage of the rebels may sacrifice , the absolute necessity of the law and public vengeance and being a truth , weighs more on her Royal mind , being secure that tbe little blood shed before entering upon civil contests avoids much at a future period , and because the ! country requires that he who through misfortune or carlessr . ess incuts the iot of becoming a victim , shonld bnow bow to resign himself to become so when good results from it to the public cause .
" All which I say to your Excellency by Royal ordeT for its fulfilment and due effects , God preserve your Excellency many years . ( Signed ) "Manuei de Mazarrsdo . "Dated Madrid , Fab . 3 , 1844 . " The latter part of course refers to Lasalla , Ceruti , and the other military and [ civil authorities whom Col . Bonet made prisoners at Alicant at the first outbreak of the insurrection , ! and whom he will no doubt order to be shot by way of reprisal , as soon as he hears of a score or two of the Alcoy insurgents being disposed of in cold blood without trial or sentence . The war between the two parties will thus at once become one of ferocity and annihilation .
From the above it will be seen that all the prisoners taken at Alicant are ordered by the Government to be shot , upon simple identity , without even the semblance of justice , or form of trial . The cool manner in which ihe unfortunate authorities of Alicant who have fallen into the hands of the insurgents , and will certainly be put to death bj way of reprisal are left to their fate , ! is worthy of the editor of the Guireguay . The proceedings of the Governmcut are calculated of themselves to drive people to desperation . The insurgents know they have- no mercy to expect from such a Government , and they will fight to their last breath . It is better for them to die in what they consider a good cause than to be shot like dogs . I PbOGBBSS OP THE lNSt 7 BRECnON—CaBTHAGEWA IN Revolt—Telegraphic Despatch , Baionne , Fbb , 8 te . —Carthagena followed , on the 2 nd , the movement of Alicant . -
The Governor and several Chiefs were arrested by the insurgents . It is stated that the troops have joined them . j FtJBTHER PaOGBESS . —RlSlNGS IN VaLBWCIA , * CLetters from Madrid ou the 5 : h , confirm the intelligence given above of the revolt of Carthagena , and add that the Provincial regiment of Gerona , stationed at Carthagena , had joined in the movement , and that some 800 or 1 , 000 of the Barcelonese insurgents , made prisoners by tho government daring the late contest there , and who had been Bent thence to
Carthegena , had been delivered from their confinement and swelled the insurrectionary forces . There is also important news from Valencia , though the accounts received are somewhat conflicting . The account most credited is , that General Roncali had left , at the head of a column , to operate against Alicant , and that tbe Liberals both of the city and neighbouring towns had determined on rising as soon as he bad left : that he subsequently became aware of their plans , and returned to Valenoia , where a conflict took place , a&d several persona were taken
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and shot by Roncali , but that the militia of the villages in the Huerta of Valencia , joined by numbers of the townspeople , had formed a Junta somewhere in the neighbourhood . The Valencia movement will probably , at all events , divert the attention of General Roncali from Alicant , while that of Carthagena makes the present insurrection a serious one . It i 3 certain that the towns of Monorar and Petrel in tbe neighbourhood of Alicant , have joined in the movement . The Barceloneese liberated at Carthagena , were the prisoners taken by General Prim at Barcelona . The insurgents immediately placed arms in their bands , and as these men have now no mercy to expect , a desperate resistance may be expected from , them . It was rumoured in Madrid that Malaga had joined in the insurrection ; but that seems to require confirmation . It is also rumoured that Seville , which is known to be exceedingly opposed to the present Governmenthad effected a movement .
, On the afternoon of the 5 th , an extraordinary courier arrived at Madrid with despatches for the Government from Andalusia . The contents were not allowed to transpire ; from which , it is inferred , that the news was unfavourable , and the report was very current that it announced a movement in Seville and other parts of Andalusia . March of the Revolution . —Express from Fan * 3 . London , Wednesday Morning . —The accounts which are received from day to day from Spain , leave no doubt that the revolution in that country is spreading rapidly . It is evident , from the simultaneousness of the movements in parts of the country where the outbreak at Alicant could not have been known , that the movement was previously and extensively
OTganized , and that the calm whioh proceeded it , and which the Moderados flattered themselves ; waa one of resignation , was meroly one of preparation for a revolt . Tbe accounts which wo have received to-day shew that the insurgents are daily increasing in the strength Of their portion . The city of Murcia , after beiog evacuated by the authorities , has been entered by a body of insurgents from Carthagena , and has joined in tho insurrection . The town of Algesiras has also joined the movement ; so that nearly the whole province of Murciet , and a large portion of Valencia are now in the hand ? of ihe insurgents . But it is not to the south of Spain that the movement is confined . Accounts had also been received at Madrid of a pronundamenlo at Ponte Veidra , in Galliciaand tbe whole of that province is in a state
, of the greatest excitement . At Leon , a 9 soon as the events of Alicant became known , there was some attempt at a rising , and the cry was raised of " Long live Espartero ! " " Death to the Captain-General I " We have ascertained , too , that the French Government has received a telegraphic despatch , which announces that a conspiracy was discovered at Barr » oelona on the 2 ad , which was suppressed for a time , and that some of the insurgents had been immediately shot , by order of the authorities . This despatch haa been suppressed by the French Government , who publish none of the news from the Peninsula which appears adverse to the reigning tyrants , till they are forced to it . The city of Valladolid is known to be in a state of seige ; and it remained in that state by the last accounts .
POLAND . Persecution of the Communists . —A letter from Posin , of January 28 tb , in the Ausburg Gazette , says : — " It iB confidently stated that the principles of tbe French Communists have made their V ? ay into Poland , and that the investigation lately going ou in that country , has had reference to the Bpread of such ideas . A number of persons have been ^ nished to Siberia , and others have ( he into Pr In all cases those persons , when , takeu up , have been thrown into confinement . "
More Revolutions , —The Ausburg Gazette has the following from Be l grade , under the date of January 23 : — «• Letters from Jassy , received here to-day , state that great commotion existed there . The Boyards , irritated against the Hospodar , were op the point of rising ia revolt . Seditious writings had been disseminated among the people . A revolutionary pamphlet had found its way into the palaee of Prince Staurdza , and into the residences of M . Kotzebuo , Russian Consul , and of the Minister of the Interior . The latter was so alarmed by its contents that he immediately gave in his resignation ,, and his duties are now performed by a subordinate- officer . The disaffection , appears to be general ; the laws are disregarded , and the abdication of Prince Stourdea is hourly expected . At the same time , he is said to have sent expresses to the Russian Consul Dashkoff , whose presence may prevent an explosion . Letters from Bucharest announce also as imminent a
revolutionary movement there . Persecution of the Jews in Lithuania . —Warsaw , Jan . 22 . —An imperial ukase has been received ia . Lithuania , directing the authorities of towns and other localities inhabited by Jews , to transport those unhappy persons , amounting to 36 , 000 families , to adistance of twelve leagaes from their several actual places of residence . This cruel ukase was further to receive its execution before the 18 th inst ., so that , at a moderate estimate , 150 , 000 persons of both sexes , aad of all ages and conditions , are at this moment , ia the midst of all the rigours of a Lithuanian winter , expelled their houses , and forced to seek a restingplace in strange countries , and not merely among strangers , but among people predisposed to view them as outcasts and objects for extortion , persecution , aud violence .
SOUTH AMERICA . Texas . ^ Out dates from Galveston , Texas , are tothe 3 LaCof Dec . The all-absorbing topic is the annexation of Texas to the United States , and the movement seems to be very popular throughout the young republic It bad been brought before Congress , and the Houston Telegraph states that a joint resolution in favour of annexation was introduced ia the House of Representatives on Monday , Dec . 21 , and received the unanimous approbation of that body . On the 21 st of Deo . also , both Houses of Congress passed resolutions calling on tho President for all the correspondence in relation to the negotiations of Texas with England , France , and the United States , regarding her independence of Mexico . The President positively refused to comply , and branded the movers of the resolution with very severe reproaches . Great excitement was created in consequence .
Yucatan—We learn that General Rivera , waa elected President of the Republic at the election of December . The result occasioned very general demonstrations of joy throughout the island .
, FOREIGN MISCELLANY . The Land of the Free . —A New York paper , of the 10 th ult ., announces , in the following cool-drymatter-of-faot style , the intended execution of one human being for endeavouring to assist another in obtaining those rights whioh , according to the American declaration of independence , belong to all men ' .- — " Capital Punishment in South . Carolina . — Judge O'Neall sentenced a young man , named John L . Brown , on the 21 st ultimo , at Columbus , to be hung on the 26 th of April next , under a conviction of aiding a slave to run away H V—Morning Chronicle .
[ Can this be true ? Can it be that even the cartwhip scoundrels of South Carolina who desecrate the name of Republican—ean it be that even they have dared in the face of the universe to commit such a damnable outrage against the " rights of man" as the above ! 'Tis impossible ! Were it indeed true , tb » blackest despotism that ever sconrged Siberian wilds , were too good for such monsters . Americt has too many crimes committed against the principles of her boasted " Declaration of Independence " alreeady to answer for , without adding a crime so hellish as the above to the long list of her enormities . — Ed . N . S . I
Thb Bokhara Captives . —Captain Grover has communicated to us the following interesting intelligence , just received from Dr . Wolff . On the 8 th of December he reached Asbkalah ( ia Armenia ) , and thus describes what took place : — "At Ashkalah , I found again three Dervishes from Bokhara , who left Bokhara four months ago . I asked them whether they had seen at Bokhara some English" Travellers ! "• ¦¦ 11 Bokharalee . ^ - ' 'Yes , andit was reported for soma time that they had been killed , but there was no truth in it ; but one of them came from Kohan , with whom
the King of Bokhara was angry , believing that he did assist the King of Kohan , and therefore put both the tall aud short Englishman into prison , but let them out after some time , a&d they now teach the soldiers of Bokhara the European exercise . '" Dr . Wolff gives the names and places of abode of these Dervishes in Bokhara , and further states that at JSrzerum a Shekh of Bokhara , named Sohah Jemaad Addeen , of the family of Nakshbanchi , called upon him and said that he would find his friends aliveand pr omised him letters .
, The fall of snow at Eraarum has been extraordinary ; eight men were brought in dead , and guns were fixed every five minutes to direct travellers .- — Times % Tuesday . v
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Curious Phenomenon . —A good many years since a breast-wall or quay was built at Ardentallan , in Argylshire , for shipping stones from a quarry at which much work has been done . The quarry haa lately worked for the "repairs of ^^ the Caledonian Canal , and on the 23 rd ult . there were between 170 and 180 tons of dressed-stones lying upon the quay ready for shipment , when to the astonishment of the quarriers , the crane upon the quay was observed to
move and shake without any visible causey and some openings appeared at the surface of the quay , which were rapidly widening ; the men on tho instant cried out' for the foreman , who rushed to the spot , and saw the quay , with its crane and the cairn of blocks upon it , moving outwards from the shore , and sinking in the deep water ; and in less than two hours the whole had proceeded seaward about fifty yards , and settled with a depth of II feet water over them . The whole mass is now so completely absorbed in mud and olay , that althoughi the BeigE ^ of tlie quarry and materials could not be less ttan 20 feet * it has not lessened the depth of water at the entrance of the place . —Scotsman .
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Febbtjabt 17 , 1844 . THE NORTHERN STAR . i 3
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 17, 1844, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1252/page/3/
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