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THE DEATH OF THB PAUPER PEASANT . * BT CiMIiUl TOtTLXIH . * Princes and lordi may flduriBh or may fade A breath can make them tta breath has made ; But a bold persantryj tkeii country ' s pride , TStsn once destroy'd can never be supplied . ' Goldsmith Ye&th the summer ' s sun * n d the -winter ' s snow , Through , youth wid manhood ' s tims , He won by the toil that funoVd hia brow , Deep in his early prune , 2 £ e homely food and the garments rude , And shelter bom wind and weather ; "Up—ap vith . the « m , his wsrk ¦ was begun Ere the birds sprangSzam the heather . Plough—bow—delve away , The iarder the work the leas the pay ; T > 3 we not know
The world- goes bo ? Bat the shelter that kept out weather and winds , Had the magical name of Home ; A word that is dearer to English minds Than palace or lordly dome . There were garments rnde , and homely food , Fora little loTiBg band ; And a wife was there , once young and fair , To clasp theliorny hand . And bless it—through < Jad—that Its strength eould give , . Not store for old age—but the means to live 3 For the poor have hearts—and tia thought they know A feeling of joy from one of woe .
Old Agt—lie hath pass * d by years the span That the Psalmist , we know , measnreth out to mas ; And Fortune , the blind , for him doth rehearse The moarnf nl and terrible Hsmsn curse . His children have grown grey-headed—and died . Why doth he not lie in ths grave beside ? Tar England is bleak to tha poor and old , She knoweih do worth but th& worth of gold : She doth not attempt to understand The nob . e labour of head or hand ; Bet soul must be dead , if it never mounts To a HeaTea beyond " red-lined accounts . " And the horny hand is feeble now , And the full bright eye is dim ; And Mb scanty hairs are white as snow , And be totters in every limb . Tet may it not be , that memory
Lives through the wreck of years ? Does he call on Death , -with that gasping breath , And the fast descending tears ? O ! the world i » cold To tha poor and old ; Fox he cannot woik , and he doth not steal , And only the poor for him can feel 2 Tia Poverty gaunt the shelter gives , -i . TMi a iomcly conch spreads tbere : Thoagh she-can no more , and only lives Herself on the scantiest fare . Bnt « be haih kind words , that wakes the chords Of grateful tenderness ! O , spoils the least , of the -wealthy ' s feast , Would soothe tfee hours' distress J But the Xaw says , " 2 fs , It must noi be so ; Away from the scene that mirrors Home Away , to die parish werkhoose come 1 "
life ' s sands are ebbing few and fast : Thank God . he hardly knows at last The ' meaning of the words they say » ** Up—cp , Old Man J come—come away , Though cold and wet December ^ day i * But harsher than the melting sky The hearts that turn him forth—to die . A pauper dies—what matter where ? Or how he liTss , tbty little care . la Poverty so deep a crime ? Bears it the brand—the serpent ' s slime , So plainly marked , that by its side Ssesas fair the selEsh heart of Pxide ? Thai Idleness and L-axury Are worthier held than Poverty ?
2 ? oJ Honour to the stalwart hand . And honour to the labouring band > And though the Pauper ' s winding sheet is all Old England now «*» w mete To him who tili'd her fruitful soil , Till Age forbid the feaud to toil ; Iteep in the heart such things shall sink . — Deep in the hearts that feel and tft" ^ ., Until Opikios ' s mighty sway Shall wipe the Nation ' s stain away > AiKsicorOi ' s iLagaaxnt * Bee case reported in the Tima , December 1843 .
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WILD FLOWERS . Beautiful children cf the-woods and fields ! That bloom by mountain streamlets * mid the heather , Or into clusters , " neath the hazJs , gather—Or "where by hcary rocks you make your bielda , And sweetly ILurifth on through summer weather—I love ye all - ' Beautiful JB-swers ! to me ye fresher seem From the Almighty hand thai fashioned all . Than those that iLumh by a garden-wall ; And I can Image yon as in a dream . Fair , modest maidens , nursed in hamlets small—I love ye all Beautiful gems 3 that on the brew of earth Are fixed , as is a queenly diadem ; Though lowly ye , and , most without a same , Young htarts rejoice to see your buds come forth , As light erewhile into the world came—I lore ye all !
Beautiful things ye are , where ' er ye grow ! Ihe ' wfld red rose—the speedwell ' s peeping eyes—Oar-own blue bell—the daisy , that doth rise Wherever "mhp « ni » fall , Oi winds do blow ; Andthonsandb more , of blessed forme and dyes—I loTeyeall ! BfantiftJ zmzsBngsat tbe early dew ; Fanned in your loveliness by every brass , And shaded o ' er by green and arching trees ; I often wish that I were one of you , Dwelling afar upon the grassy leas— I love ye * B Be&ntifnl watchers ! day and night ye wake ! The evening star grows dim and fades away , And morning comes and goes , and then the day Within the arms of tight its rest doth take ; But ye are watchful whereso ' erwe atray—I lore ye all . '
Bsantifn ] objects of the wi ^ -bee ' s Jove J The wild-bird joys your opening bloom to see , And in your native woods and wilds to be , All hearts io Mature true , ye strangely move ; Ye are so phasing fair—so passing free— I love ye all l Be&BSfnj children of the glen and dell—The dinde deep—the moorland stretching wide , And oi the mossy f enntadn ' a sedgy side ! Ye o ' er my bean have thrown a lovesome spell ; And though the worldling , icormng may deride—1 lore je all . ' Rrtai XidioL
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"BEAUTIFUL EYZ 3 . " BEirnrcL eyes !—beautiful eyes ! What charms nnnumber"d around je rise Fragile and wft , ye ever prove The brightest links in the chain of love ; Plinty ana cola jauat be the htart , To -whom ye cannot » ome warmth iHSJfcjt Beautiful ey ** l Beautiful eyes !—beautiful eyes ! The joosg and fee old alike ye prise ; The choicest and brightest gems of earth
Compared with you are of nothing worth j lis ye are the charm whidniature gave , Far wosaa , dear woman , man ' s heart to Blvre ; Beautiful eyes J Beautiful eyes !—beau * ifal eyes ! "Whatmortal among ns your power denies ; Young Cupid ' s qniTtr Jiatb not a dart "Which pierces so qaickly trre depths of the heart , As the tale-telling glances which from ye steal , And the soul ' s best affections bo sweetly reveal ; Beautiful eyes 2
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AMERICAN STRIPES . Miss "Wkklifie , the daughter or the Pestmaster-( hneral , proposed " The American Fla * . the only thing American which will bear stripes . "— Globe , Saturday , Harch 23 rd . " With rooster-tail * and best gin-sling Fill hi gh , them Britishers I'll wipe , Our Dative flag , the only tiling - American which bears a staripe . " * Hold , net so fast , '' John Bull replies , " iFor though of speech -a pretty figure ) , There ' s one thing more which truth ' s « ters < yet See bear a stripe—a Yankee ' s nigger . " * CoektaO ; but the delicacy of the Americas ladies «» l * d than to adoptthe use of the word " rooster" for ^ j > en '« hnsBand—See Sam Slick * * account of hia in-*?«» whh thi Lo * eU factory girls .
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^ ISTlAKITY PBOTED IDOLATRY . Bj J ^ &iHEs SociHTfELt . GImeow : P ^ on and *^ e . London ; Watson . : ^ " Short and Easy Method with the Chris-| r *> M iLr . Soothwell styles his book , Is * sort of S §* V * e "writinga of Bobert Taylor and Richard " * 2 wl - pnncipallj the former ; embracing also ah ^ Z 01 "iB argnmeiita of DnprJs , with extractB irt ^ . works of ^ ir William Jones , and other k ^ - ^ jn aaeiiee . The getting up of Has digest » hA ^ <* e < iitable to the compiler j there is ^* » f qrtko cxhibited Uo iUtii&K tiw B »^ ,
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THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE—Mahch . Again we are in arrears with onr notice of this excellent Magazine , winch only reached us on the 26 th icBt . We bare only bad time to look at one or ; wo articles , and are therefore nnable to speak to its contents seriatim . We hope for the future to receive the Magazine earlier in tie month , ssd thus be ajforded theppportnEitj of down it that justice ¦ whi ch , under present cirenmstances , ifl impossible . The Editor , Douglas Jerrold , this month resumes his beantifnl allegory , the w Chronicles of
Clovernook , " -which , judging from a very hasty glance , appear , notwithstanoing the leDgtby and unavoidable ra >; peQ £ ina of the etory , to be as interesting and truth-telling as * rrcr . The prJDeinal ef the other artielep are Birmingham and its Vicinity , " ( which we shall notice next week ) ; "The Shawl Bnyer ;" "Thorp Clond ; or , the Monastery of Dove Dale f " Deal and ita Boatmen ; " u The Belles of England ;* ' comprising the DhcheFS of Richmond , and Duchess of Devonshire ; ** Sketches of Parisian Life , " & . c & . c We take our extract from the pen of Angus B . Reach , entitled : —
X TALE OF X TEA KET 1 LB—^ EPOCU I . Ox a winter's evening , nearly an hundred yean ago , the tea-board ~ wja laid out , and the window curtains closely drawn , in the humble parlour of a small house in the town of Gretnock . A tidy acUve matron was bustling about , slicing the bread and butter , and carefully measuring out the due modicum of the Chinese leaf , probably under the good old principle of "a spoonful per head , and one for the pot" A blazing lire gleamed and roared in the fnto , aid curled round the black sides of the kettle which reposed in tbe midst of it , like waves lashing tbe tides of a ship at ' sea ; and the fixe crackled , and the water boiled with a faintly heard poppling sound ; and a stream of
white "vapour cane whining out of the spout of the kettle with a thrill cheery hiss . Now the matron aforesaid aaw nothing particular in all this—tbe fire was burning , the kettle was boiling , and that was all —and the fire burned and the kettle boiled , just that tea might be made , and for ne other purpose or end whatsoever . There 'was nothing wonderful either in the one fact or the other . Kettles had boiled and fires had burned from tbe beginning ; and would probably do bo to the end of tbe chapUr . But the requisite "number of spoonsful bad been transferred from the caddy to the pot , and as tbe matron stooped to place it upon the hob , her eye fell npon a little urchin seated npon a stool of stunted dimensions , in the full glare of tbe blase , who , propping his furzy head upon his bands , and supporting both upon his knees , by reclining an elbow against each , was
intently gazing at tbe fire , and the kettle , and the steam , swallowing them with his eyes , and as much absorbed in fact , as the Peri might be supposed to have been in her momentary glance of heaven . The boy looked at the fire , and the mother looked at the boy . Was there ever sle na idle neer-do-weel in this warld as our Jamie 7 " —was the question which almost unconsciously , she proposed to herielt , A 3 it rose In her mind , her hand ( none of the lightest probably ) rose in tbe air ; and the next second would have seen it descend -with no contemptible force on the shoulders of the luckless urchin -when the door opened , ind a neighbonr gossip , . who had perhaps been invited to tea , entered . Tbe blow bung , like Mahomet ' s ccfno , suspended in mid air ; and the tongue was used instead of the fist Taming to the visitor , Jamie ' s mother said ,
> k Noo , Mrs . Baldezstone , did you ever sea the likes o ' that ?' The likes o' what , Mrs . Watt ?" " O our Jamie ;—look till the callan;—there hell sit , woman , glowring at the ketUe and the blaze till ye would think his very etn would come out o' Bia head . 'Beed I ken'na that ' s in the bairn— -whiles I think there's something unlucky in that glower . I hope nae 7 : mmgr hnf been throwing cantrips at him ; but and 'deed it ' s mair jqot likely . " " Hout , tout , voman , tha bairn ' s only 'warming Itself , " replied ihe -ft'ortfey Mrs . Balderstone , in a soothing tone , Warming itsel' I" reiterated her friend , " look till that glower o" his , anu" tell me if ye dinna think it ' s something by ordinar * . *'
And truth to tell there * was something peculiar in the glance of the boy ' s eyes—there was mind , active speaking mind , looking Uu ^ ngh it He seemed as one who gszed upon a vom ^ oDS vision , and whose every sense was bound np in I , * 18 display of gorgeous pageantry floating before him . i ^© bad sat watching tbe escaping steam , until the thi . % Taporo&s column had appeared to cast itself upwards & fantastic-chang ing shapes . Sometimes the subtle flsdd gathered in force and quantity , would gently raise <* v side of the lid of tbe kettle , emit a white puff , an d then let the metal fall with a low clanking sound . Tb vr » was fmter — firaiffOi in that watery cloud , But it'll the spout poured forth its regnlar -volume of white' *» j > ourshooting over the ribs of the grate , and citing and rolling in outlines as varying and quaint as uVue of a
Suddenly , to the eye of the half-dreaming boy > the steam appeared , instead of escaping up the chhiioey , to spread itself out in a dense volume before the fireplace . He gazed intently at the phenomenon—Indis tinct outlines , like the wavy robes of spectres , ahowe . 3 themselTea—floated dimly for an instant—then melted into tbe shapeless cloud . Again they re-appeared , and more distinctly than before ; and the spell-bound boy saw faces , some terrible , and others gentle and . mild , forming , and vanishing , and ogain re-appearing in that wonderful steam-cloud . He cased and gszed .
And as the dreaming boy saw this , an udbidden thought came upon his mind ; and lie knew that tbe fierce struggle m symbolical of
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INTELLECI WABRlKGiWITH THE ELEMENTS . And still he gazad—and lo , the discomfited demons , who lay at the feet of Intellect , overpowered , by ita might , faded , and resolved themselves andtbe ' ir writhing motions , into the waves of a mighty , heaving sea . and Intellect , in all its glorious proportions , grew dim , very dim , and its semblance changed ; and lo , it was a ship without a-sail , battling-with the fierce seas which came rolling on , one af ^ er another , throwing their foaming crests higher and higher . But gallantly rode that lone ship ; Against the fierce wind , against the rolling -waves , against the rushing tide , it battled sternly . Wind and waves and tide did their utmost ; but on , on , with a . fearful innate power moved the myBtic ship , dashing aside the white sparkling spray , and tearing through wave after wave , till the powers of the elementa felt themselves conquered , and the wind abated , the waves sunk , and the tide ceased to roll , and ttie low murmur of the settling Btorm proclaimed the triumph of the Ship of Intellect !
" Jamie ; Jamie , what ia'fc ye ' re thinking * o' ? " said a abrill voice . The vision vanished ; the waves , tha Bhip , melted away ; thesteam-doud dissolved ; the old fashioned mantelpiece , with quaint earring and blue painted tiles , appeared where it had been , and on the fire was the kettle still kissing away , and on the hob Bat the teapot simmering . Ye idle awky , » said the shrill voioe again— " if ever I fin' ye aitting" glowering at the fire when ye micht be doing something useful , de'il ' a in it if I don ' t gar je foel the wicht o' my ban ' . Sit in till ye ' r tea , ye graceless loon , and shak han ' a with Mistress Balderstone here . " The boy rose meekly and . did as he was told . Bis name Was Jamta Watt .
EPOCH II . * About the year 1815 , some seventy years after the vision of the tea kettle , a large dinDer p&rty was assembled at the house of an opulent Glasgow merchant . It was the dieary half hour between tbe arrival of the guests and tbe announcement of dinner . The . usual meteorological points had been duly discussed - and settled , and an uncomfortable dead silence ensued . A few attempts to revive conversation died away in halt ' - stifled remarks . - " Beally I think , " he said , «• we must have dinner , and let Mr . Norris reap the fruits , or rather the no fruits , of his dilatorinssa . More than half an hoar late , positively . " This was a relief . A few inward curses wero invoked upon the late Mr . Norris—the company filed off—and tbe all important matter of dinner commenced . 1 b was over before any one dreamt of bestowing another thought upon tbe culprit . :
" Hillo , mrriB ! " said the heBt , " where have yon been biding yourself V "Mr . Norris , Mr . Norris , come up here and be scolded , " added his good lady , holding up a forefinger threateningly . . *• Positively , " rejoined the criminal , " I hardly know what apology to make . I ' m afraid I ' ve been very much to blame . " " Yea , you have , " muttered a stout old gentleman , who had just cut his flcger when slicing au jraDge , and who was In consequence delighted to have a detent pretext for grumbling . "Cetne , come , " said the founder of the feaat—" a glass of wine with you , Norria , and then an explanation , as they say in parliament "
" Well , then , " said Mr . Norris— " although 1 know yon wilJ laugh at me . Yon are aware that I had \ o come up from Qreenock to-day , —but positively I am so angry with myself at my own credulity that " " Nonsense—nonsense . Go on , " interrupted the landlord . " Then here goes , " said the late gentleman , desperately . "Perhaps you know Millar of Dalswinton ?" " A crackbralned schemer , " said he of the cut finger . " Yon may well say so , " quoth a Dr . and Cr . sort of looking personage ; " he has a notion that he can drive ships Vhreugh the water by steam . Ha . ' halba !" " Ha ! >> a ! ha ! " laughed the company in chorus . " A likely project , " remaiked a matt 6 r-of-fact West India merchant : " I would ae soon believe that you could that you could " and the matter-of-fact
man hesitated for a simile . " Light Qiasgow with smoke instead of oil , " prompted a dapper gentleman near him . " Ha ! ha 1 ha ! very good sotion that , " chuckled the cut finger . " Or turn the ran into a portrait painter , and make him draw ainatures in thirty seconds each ! " added another gentleman of lively Imagination . "Ha ! ha ! ha ! " quoth the company at large again . "Hal ha ! " re-echoed the host ; " what an odd fancy to be sure I But I beg your pardon , Norria—go on with your confession . "
" I have had a foretaste of how yon will treat it , " replied that gentleman . " Never mind—I ought to be Ian ? bed at . WtlJ , Millar has a boat of this sew construction at Qreerock , or rather he bad one there , this morning , worse luck . Be was quite confident it would do—talked , in fact , of six miles an hour , with all the coolnea in life . Well , would yon believe it ? ho educed me Into embarking with bio at Qreenock , promising most faithfully to run me up the river and land me at the Bromlielaw by four o ' clock . Well , iff we set—the pier was crowded -with people laughing at us . " " Sensible people , too , " said the matter-of-fact man . "And I Bust acknowledge they had something to laugh at / ' reanmed tbe » rean > bo » t ioy » ger . " We did move at first ; but we hadn't got one hundred yards when the machinery broke . " " Of conrae , " said the cut-finger man .
" Well , then we had half an hour ' s hammering and serewiDg , with a fleet of boats round us , laughing at as all the time . One fellow in particular kept asking us , with such as infernal grin , if we didn't thick a steam boat could cross the Atlantic in ten days ?" " Knowing fellow , that , " said tbe host " At last we moved on—but it was only to break down again ; and so we paddled and stopped and hammered , and then paddled and stepped ood hatnoiered again , until it began to be very clear to me , that if I remained in my friend Millar's precious steam-boat until it reached the Broomielaw , I was likely to have a week ef it at least ; so after three or four hours of vexation , I got put ashore about three miles on this side of Grteuock , had to walk another three to the road , and stop there , tired and sold , till a stage took me op—and , here I am . "
" Served you right for listening to such fellows aa Millar , with their schemes , and their nonsensa , " remarked the sur'y gentleman with tbe cut finger . " But I say , Norris , surely Millar sees the absurdity of the thing himself , now at all events ? " inquired the landlord . " Not a bit , " replied Norris ; " he is more confident than eyei . " " The infatuatian of some men exceeds belief , " remarked the matter-of-fact personage , with an air of mixed profundity and pity . "Bat , Mr . Norris , how could you venture yourself into such a thing as that steam-boat ? " asked the pretty hostess , with a alight shiver of horrer .
" Never mind—never mind , " quoth her lord and master : " be is out of it now , at all events ; but he mutt have tome dinner ; ah ! here it comes—don't be modest , Norris ; 'fcw&sn't your fault , you know—come , make up for lost time , and never mind Millar and his steam-boats . " " Very good , " said the matter-of-fact man . " Let us give op steam and ^ team-boats , and talk of something rational " EPOCH nl . Years have rolled away , and the vision of the tea ketOe is realised . The " infatuation" of Mr . Millar , of Dalwinston , has produced its results . The stout old gentleman -with the cut finger is probably sleeping soundly in some quiet Glasgow churchyard ; but his ghost ought to be doomed t » drear penance for its presumptuous incredulity and Bccffing
Talk of pelitlcal revolutions ! they are netbing to tbe revolutions of science . Amid the roar of a conflict which shook Europe , the ancient dynasty of France fell prostrate , crumbled with the ruins of . its own Bastile . And now are new bastiles being created—new forts erected—the tools with which tyranny will play a future game where tyranny played its game of yore . The chains are again clanking on the people who once so nobly burst them . Bat there is no such reaction in the revolutioi'S of science . Tbe echo of the cheery hiss of the old tea kettle , when the boy Watt sat dreamingly listening to it , is to be beard in the loud roar of the Bteam-pipb—rising often above the din of wind and waters , and proclaiming to both that a mighty power 1 b battling with their fierceness .
Steam has made this old world of ours a new one . It makes ocean voyages pleasure trips ; it binds cities together , literally with iron bands ; it brings kingdoms into a * close oontignity as parishes . What does it not do for man?—Services the most mighty and the most trivial . It hurries him across the Atlantic in ten days , and grinds coffee in grocers' shops ; it has power enough to pump up -volumes of water from tbe bowels of the earth , and delicacy enough to drive a shuttle and weave fine linen . Mighty as is its strength , the childhood of intellect can guide it . Up and down fly the huge beams and cylinders with a force that hundreds of horses would in vain crack Binew and muscle to control j and yet , let there he bnt the touch of a guiding lever—tbe stopping of a -reive—demanding no more than a child ' s strength , and the vast moving fabric at once becomes motionless and passive—only so many tons of wrought and hammered meteL
And what a change his ( team made in the outward and visible appearance of our country—its coasts , its roads , its dties , and its rivers ? Bailroadj , we admit , are in an Bitiatic point of view , no great beanttflers of landscape ; but if any one can see a steam-engine , digging after it its huge train of matter , animate and in animate—whirling over tbe earth like a meteor over the t ^ aven—conveying its hundreds of men , women , and c »> iWten—and almost Btttiig time and space at defiance ^ y itB fiery rapidity and power } if any one
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can see thin , and not recognise in hia breast a higher , more sublime emotion * than the richest landscape can afford , he is only flt for trimming overgrown hedges , or laying eut cabbage gardens . Fancy an old gentleman of tUs Addisonian school ; fiaksal , precise , and little-minded ; taking an airing out of his grave , and laoking tot the lumbering coach , which an hundred years ago transported him in something like a week from London to York ; or the sober denizan of the metropolis of a later date , walking quietly to the
water-Bide to secure a berth on board a- Margate hoy . Would the worthy individuals in question recognise the world as the one they had been accustomed to , and its steamwhirled people as akin to the race of sober plodders which onpe peopled it ? Animal produces mental activity . Rapidity of locomotion—power over the elements of nature—re-acts upon us , and makes us more morally bold , more qulbk in thought and prompt in action . So steam haa revolutionised mental as well as physical things ^ -has invaded the realms , of mind as well as those of matter .
There is , to out thinking , something awfully grand in the contemplation of a vast ateam-engine . Stand amid Its ponderous beams and bars , wheel * and cylinders , and watch their unceasing play ; how regular and how powerful t—the machinery of a Iady ' 6 Geneva watch is not mars nicely adjurted—the rush of the avalanche is no » more awful in its strength . Old gotnic cathedrals are solemn , places , ' preaching solemn lessons , touch solemn things ; but id him who thinks , an engine-room may preach a more solemn lesson stilL It will tell him of mind—mind wielding matter at Its will—mind triumphing over physical difficulties—man asserting biB great supremacy— " intellect battling with the elements . " And how exquisitely complete Is every detail !—how subordinate every part towards the one
great < md I—how every little bar and screw fit and work together ! Yast as is the machine , let a bolt be but the tenth part of an inch too long or too Bhoirt , and the whole fabric is disorganized . It Is one complete piece of harmony—an iron essay upon unity of design and execution . There is deep poetry in the Bteam-englne —more of the poetry of motion than In the bound of an antelope , more of the poetry of power than in the dash of a cataract And ought it not be a lesson to those wbo laugh at novelties , aud put no faith in inventions , to consider that this complex fabrio—this : triumph of art and science—was once the laughing-stock of jeering thousands , and once only the waking phantasy of a boy's mind as he sat and in seeming idleness watched a little uolumu of vapour arising from the apout of a tea kettle ?
We think it would not hare been assuming too much of poetic licence , if the writer of the above , wbo has so truthfully depicted the pasted and the present , had attempted a shadowing forth of the fulute . He haa performed his task so well , so far as he has gone , that our only regret is that he has not carried us to Epoch IV . We agree with every word of thepsein sung in praise of steam ; but the author must be aware that while he has recounted the triumphs accomplished by steam there are songs of sorrow as well as gladness which echo roimd that mighty power ' s throne ! So far from the discovery of Watt being an unmixed Rood , it has been to millions an unmixed evil . By its agency , Science has achieved her mightiest triumphs , and Mammon
been gorged to its full : bnt alas millions of hearts have beeu crushed under its Juggernaut oar , and tens of thousands doomed to a life of toil , want , and hopeless disease ! To the few it has been a more powerful talisman than ever Eastern geni was fabled to command ; but to the many it hae been the heaviest curse that ever lighted on this earth . This is not the fault , of Watt ' s discovery ; but is to be ascribed solely to the cupidity of the master-class on the one-hand , and the ignorance of the slave-class on tho other . S ' . eatn may yet bo as all-powerful for universal good , aa hitherto it has been productive of all but universal eril . But this can only be when two things are accomplished to which the present age is fast advancing , and which we have fervent faith the future will tee fully realised : t . e . when on
the one hand governments responsible to all shall no longer legislate for classes , but for the protection of the entire community ; and en the other hand , the millions , become awakened to a knowledge of the great prinoiplees of social unity , shall " take their affairs into their own hands , " by labouring for themselves , instead of for gold-gorged capitalists . The means of attaining that consummation is only through the progress of knowledge . Tho pen and the press are the great emancipators , ana before their increasing might , ignorance and wrong must ultimately fall . Then shall Epoch IV . be accomplished ; the day-dreams of Watt become glorious realities ; and Steam , no longer the tyrant but the servant of the millions , become ono of the mightiest a ^ etita in promoting tbe happiness of the human family .
The price of the Illuminated is this month slightly raised ; but this is more than compensated for by the vast improvements prominently visible in every department . 1 st—We have the return of the Editor to his official duties , and consequently no small improvement in . the literary contents . 2 nd—a considerable addition to the quantity of matter , compared with all the preceding numbers . —3 rd—A marked improvement in the wood-engravings which profusely embellish the present number ; and , lastly , tbe commencement of tho promised illuminated engravings , which were all that was needed to make his magazine tho gem of th e moushlies .
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ADDRESS OF THE UNITED TRADES' ASSOCIATION OF BRISTOL TO THEIR FELLOW WORKMEN OF THE DIFFERENT TRADES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM . Committee Rooms , Crown and Dove , Bridewell-street , Bristol , Match 14 th . 1844 .
•« Union is moral power . " Brother Operatives , and Fellow Workmen . —We , the delegates acting for and on behalf of our several trades , and in connection with " Tbe United Trades' Association foi the Protection of Labour , " beg leave to address you with the most friendly and cordial expression of feeling , trusting you will consider the objects and motives which influence them in the propositions which they advance as conducive to the interest of all , and the injury of no one individual , whose living depends on manual labour .
Fellow Workmen , —In times such aa the present , when the most unfair systems of competition are resorted to , alike destructive to the interests of the middle and woiking classes ; when , machinery has Ita thousand arms daily stretched forth to grasp from tbe bands of the operative the labour which is the only source of his exifiteroe , and that of his wife and children ) and when also , by tbe surplus of labour in the market , you are dally exposed to the cupidity and avarice of tbe taskmasters and monopolist * , whilst the only resource left you—the producers of all real wealth—Is to drag out your wom-ont emaciated bodies to a poor law bastUe , Inhabit a pauper , tenement , and to tbe end . be consigned to a paupers' grave .
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This , fellow-workmen , is tbo real state of things as they at present exist . Such then being the case . Is this a time to look on with listless , nay criminal apathy , and make uo tffjtt to stein the mighty torrent whicb daily threatens to engulph you , and render your situation , already bad , deplorably worse ? We would ask , why are the working classes so indifferent to their own interests ? \ or why allow themselves to be the slaves and tools of those whose interest it is to distract and divide for their own base purposes 7 Why is there not a closer bond of union between operatives of all classes '? It is said , and that truly , that " Union la Strength " : the absence of which proves too truly the cause of oar weakness , and the sure and certain success of those whose attacks on our labour beings wealth and independence to them , and want and misery to us . 1
Do we not daily perceive that ! there exists a well organised union among the already powerful aristocracy ? and that the monopolist manufacturers and petty employers have their unions among themselves , besides the protection of the law ? And what protection has tbe Working classes ; or where is the union whicb should and ought to exist to afford him'that protection ? Unfortunately , there is none . Whilst the agriculturists have their associations , the steam lords and monopolists their associations , the Anti-Coxa Law League , and all { other leagues , each leagued in defence of their own peculiar right , whicb appears to be that of making labour the means of gratifying their avarice and cupidity , the working classes , the only portion of God ' s creatures that require the moat protection , has the least , and all for Ihe want of Union (— " a Union of all for the good of all . "
This , fellow-workman , is the Union which it is our object to promote among the working classes of tbe United Kingdom—a Union that will not interfere with the established usages of any trade or body of operatives . The Union we wish to see established among the working classes is one simple in its nature and construction , combining great utility with little expensegiving no cause for distrust , oor offering any chaace for peculation ; but that each and every trade shall stand by tbe other in time of trouble , or in defence of tbeli rights , and the resistance to reduction ; and like skilful surgeons , allay tbe irritation , oi effect a radical cure .
We consider that were the different trades throughout the kingdom to be unttad in their frespective localities , subject to a governing power , and represented by their delegates , with rules and regulations agreeable to law , each member subscribing a certain small sum weekly , then the officers and members dt each trad 9 , when attacked , would be in a position to procure legal advice and assistance , and protect their ! members from the rapacity of those who would be so ! unfeeling as to offer a further reduction of your already too much reduced wages . ; They would also be enabled to open marts and employ the poor working men who may have been compelled to del end themseVvua from the grinding oppression of tbe Jew Jobber and Money-monger , who , whilst starving tha working man , make the public pay forty or fifty per cent , to support themselves and thuir splendid establishments .
We trust , fellow-workmen , that'you may see these matters in tbe same light as we do ; taking counsel by the past , and hoping to act well for the future . Be up aid stirring ; for whilst you slumber mischief is on the wing . Misery and destitution stalks abroad with giant steps , and famine is on your track . Therefore , unite I Remember the motto : " United we stand , divided we falL' - Take advantage of tbe fragment of the lav left you , and unite legally and constitutionally fc-T the protection of your labour . By so doing yon will tender futile any further attempt to deprive you of aay poitioa of your only property and inheritance , " the reward of honest industry . " Hoping tha officers of each trade will immediately communicate with tbe Secretory , ! and render every assistance in carrying out so desirable an object aa an union for tbe protection of labour . We are . fellow workmen . On the part of oar respective Trades , Samuel Jacobs , \ n .. . . _ GEORGE BROl'GHTOK , j Cabl 06 t Maker 8 ' BeKjamin Esau . )* .. „ OEOHGE JEWK . 1 NS ) laUOrS ' George Strange , Tin-plate Workers . » K £ . }» -r —• Richard Heffer , Cork Cutters . Loft , Saddlers . ; Cuarles St&awbridge , Masons . James H \ de , Secretary .
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From the Lyndon Gazette of Friday , Marth 22 . BANKRUPTS . William Chapman , of 22 , York-place , . New-road , Mfvrylebono , Burgeon—Henry William Hemsworth , of Primrose-street , Bishopsgat « -street , wine merchant-Jonathan € rundry , of Harapstead , Middlesex , shoemaker —John Mews , of Linjley-plaee , Commercial-road Eist , hard confectioner—Frederick Ford and Frederick Riley Brocklehurat , of Bow-lane , City , wholesale stationers—Gaorge Wilkloson and Joseph Wilkinson , of Bishop Auckland , Durham , curriers—Robert Hurst , of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , draper— . Jobn Gowen , of P « irith , Cumberland , linsndraper—Theodore Frederick . Clark , of Liverpool , draper—John Stephenstn H » witt , of Manchester , victualler—Thomas Hodgson , of Thorntonin-Loiudale , Yorkshire , bricfemaker— Thomas Shilltto , of Leeds , chemist—Ebentzn Rogers , of Newport , Monmouthshire , fire-brick maker .
BIV 1 DENDS DECLAftRD . William Dunnett , of Manchester , commission-agent , first dividend of . 2 s in the pound , payable at 12 , Norfolk-street , Manchester , ou March 26 , or on any subsequent Tuesday . Michael CuHen , of Liverpool , merchant , fifth and final dividend of forty one-bundredtha of a penny in tho pound , payable at 19 , South Castle-street , Liverpool , on March 25 , or on any subsequent Monday . Robert Moon , sen , sad Robert Moon , Jan ., of Greenfield , Lancashire , manufacturers , second dividend of | d in the pound , payable at 12 , Norfolk-street , Man * Chester , on March 26 . or on any subsequent Tuesday . Jobn Sewell , of Charles-Street , Pa Jdiagton , viotniller , first dividend of 9 s in the pound , payable at 12 , Birubin-tane , City , on March 25 , or on any subsequent Monday .
R wland Evans , John Foster . Skinner Zacbary Langton , and Thomas Foster , ef Barge Yard , City , Kant India nierch / . nt ? . second dividend of is 6 d in the pound , payable at 12 , Birchin Lane , City , on Maicb 25 , or on any subsequent Monday . William Atherton , of Manchester , glass manufacturer , first dividend of 5 s 6 d in tbe poun £ , payable at 7 , Cbarlotte-atreet , Manchester , on March 26 , or on any subsequent Tuesday .
DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED IN THE COUNTRY . Samuel B « fcar , of Wrockwardine , Shropshire , mer « cer , April 18 , at eleven , at tbe Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham—William Bitch Price aud John Edwatda , of Shrewsbury , bankers , April 26 , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham—William Johnson , of Shrewsbury , leather dealer , April 19 , at eleven , at tt a Court of Bankrupt ? , Birmingham—Seth Flitcroft and Tbomas Musgrove , of Liverpool , grate manuf . icturera , April 9 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool . CERTIFICATES to be granted , unless cause be ihowa to tbe contrary on the day of meeting .
John Hurley , of West-mill , Newport , Tale of Wight , miller , April 12—Dancan Lomont , of the Grapes public house , West Smithfleld , dealer in foreign wines , April 12- * -William Fuller , of Co't * n-stireet , Poplar , coal merchant , April 12—James Judd and William Judd , of Romsey , Hampshire , meatmen , April 12—Henry Tisoe , Hertford , carpenter April 12—J . Bish WilllamB , of 138 , Ra « ent-street . stationer , April 12—Henry Soutngate , of 22 Fleet-street , auctioneer , April 17—John Stewart , of Hampton-street , Walworth . Hnendraper , April
18—George Hillier , of Sun-street , Bisbopsgate-street , varnish manufacturer , April 18—Charles White Taylor , of Epping , draper , April 11—Hewitt FyBh Turner , of Myddletou-street , Cterkenwell , painted ba ! z 3 manufacturer , April 18—James Sproule , of Liverpool , wine merchant , April 16—Charlas Reesby , of Stamford , miller , April . 19 . certificates to be granted by the Court of Review , unless cause be shown to the contrary , on or before April 12 .
Danald Nicholson , of Liverpool , batter—Jobs Henry Fuller , of Flixton , Lancashire , logwood grinder—Ephraini Brain , of Rodney-street , Pentooville , copperplate printer—Jess Luis Fernandas , of WakeSeld , corn miller—Jobn Donnelly , late of Newry , Armagh , Ireland , but now of Liverpool , merchant—Henry Slesingei and Joseph Sleslnger , of C ^ teaton-street , City , warehousemen—Joseph Ltonard Woodruff , of Great Missen den , Buckinghamshire , innkeeper .
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . John Blackburn , Christopher Stowell , and Isaac Fieldhouso , of Wibsey , Yorkshire , worsted spinners—Samuel Toptuai and Hugh Pricbard , of Leeds , photo * graphers—William Mareland and Frederick Kent , of Manchester , Women—Richard Evans , sen , and Richard Bvuns , jun ., of Liverpool , sugar refiners—William M'Intosh and Thomas Webster , of Kingaton-upon-Hull , wine nieichintg .
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From th * Gazette if Tuesday , Marth 26 . BANKRUPTS . Robert WebBter , victualler , Orfotd Matket- ^ -WilHani Goligbtly Kelson , builder , Canterbury—Thomas An * drew , victualler , Little Etrl-street , Soven Dials—Win . Lott , grocer , Ipswich—Edward Levy and Augustus L < svy , fruit merchants , Botolpb Lane , City—Isaac Elkersey , victualler , Liverpool—Jeremiah Williams , flaeael nunufacturet , Newtown , MontRdmeryBhire—Joseph Ridgway , fringe nvmufacturer , Chester—John Wilday , j un ., upholsterer , Nottingham—Robert Hitchcock , miller , Taunton—Samuel Bottiaon , -wine-merchant , Leamington Priors—Benjamin Pountain , wine * merchant , Darby .
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Lokdox Corn Exchange—Mokday—The demand for Wheat fresh up ruled excessively dull , and in , order to effect sales an abatement of from Is . to 2 s per qt * . was submitted to by the factors , without any progress being made . Foreign Wheat , both free ana in bond , at a decline of 29 per qr . from the prices noted on Monday last . The finest malting barley at fully last week ' s quotations ; grinding and distilling sorts were lower Is . per qr . Malt gave way Is . pet qr . Oata heavy at unvaried figures . Beans and Peas about stationary . Flour had a downward tendency .
London Smithfield Cattle Market , Monday , March 25 th . —7 'he Beef trade was in a depressed state , and the salesmen were compelled to give way in price quite 2 d per 81 ba ; however , a few of the very priraest Norfolk and Aberdeenshire Soots found buyers at 3 s lOd per 8 ! bs . The Mutton trado was in a very depressed state , and the currencies de « dined quite 2 J per 8 lbs ; the highest figure obtained for the best old Downs in the wool being 4 s 4 d per 81 b j ; those out of the wool selling at 3 i 8 d . Lambg ruled from 5 s to 6 . 3 per 81 bs . Prime Bmall Calvea supported their previous value . Figs at last week ' s quotations .
JJorougs and Spitalmelds—The arrivals of Potatoes at the waterside , in the past week , have consisted of about 3 , 100 tons , 400 being from Scotlaud . The best qualities are quite as dear , but othec kinds are mhch neglected . Borough Hop Mabket . —There oontinnes to be a very small quantity of all kinds of Hops on offer here , hence the amount of business doing is comparatively trifling . The market , however , u firm , and prices are steadily supported . Wool Market . —During the week , a very limited quantity of Wool has been imported into London . By private contract , the demand is tolerably aofive , and prices are steadily supported .
Tallow . —There is not the least alteration in this market since our last . The demand is steady , and prices firm . There are letters received this mornintj from St . Petersbnrgh up to the 2 nd ( 14 th ) last ; business had been done since the previous post to the > extent of 3 , 500 casks . The prices were firmer , and the quantity for shipment this year is fully expected to ba onfy 110 , 000 casks . Town Tallow is plentiful at 41 s 6 d . nett cash . Liverpool Cattle Market , Moiaur , March 25 . —We have had a larger supply of Cattle at market to-day than last week . Beef a little lower in price ; Mutton about the same . Beef 5 d . to 5 | d ., JMuttoa 6 £ d . to 7 d . per lb . Cattle imported into Liverpool , from the 18 th to tho 25 th of March : — -1 , 298 Cows ; 4 Calves ; 3 , 632 Sheep ; 136 Lambs j 6 , 328 Pigs ; and 29 Horses .
Manchester Corn Market , Saturday , March 23 . —No change was observable in the trade during tha week , and , although consumers' stocks are generally supposed to have become pretty nearly exhausted , no activity wag apparent in the demand for any article , and prices remained nominally as our preceding report notified . At our market this morning we experienced a continuance of the langour noted for-some time past , and a general on willingness on the part of the trade to increase their stocks . In either Wheat or Oats , the transactions being on the most limited scale , we cannot make any change in ouir quotations of those article * But Flour was purchased by the dealers and bakers to a moderate extent , at a reduction of Is to 2 s per s ** 1 ««* Oatmeal must be noted Is per load below the recent nominal rates 22 s 6 d being a full quotation .
Liverpool Corn Market , Monday , Mabch 25 . The week ' s arrtvalB of Grain , Flour , and Oatmeal to this port are / of moderate amount ; * rt , vutb . * continued lack of eaua ^ ry demand , and the utmost caution on tbe part of the loeal millers arid dealer in their purchases , prices for most of ihg leading articles of the trade have given way . Wheat ' must be quoted 2 d . per bushel , Roux Is . per sack , Oatmeal fd . to 9 A , per load cheaper than on this day se'unight . Choice mealing Oats have been held at 2 s . 8 d . per 451 bs ., but few of any description have been sold . Barley has met little inquiry , and may be bought at Is . per quarter below tho rates demanded last week . A few small lots of Beans have found buyers at the previous rates , which are also maintained for Peaa ; the letter , however , have gone off merely in retail . No transactions have occurred in the bonded market .
Richmond Corn Market , Sattodat , Mabch ^ —We had a tolerable supply of grain in ; ooriaarkeJ to-day . Wheat from Zs to # 8 3 d- ^ Oate 2 s M to S » 6 d . Barley 4 s t © 4 s 3 d . BeanB 4 s ,, 6 di / t 6 aa P » bushel . ¦¦ .., ^ -.- - - . ¦¦¦ ¦ <¦>¦
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jpet step by step ; the argument , consequently , has the appearance of having neither beginning nor end . This has arisen probably from an anxiety to cram as much as possible into a email number of pages . The objeci of thepresent work is , as stated by the title , to show the Heathen Origin of Christianity ^ Mr . Soiuhwell taking for his text a maxim of Chief Justice Coke ' sj that , ** To trace an error to its fountain-head , is to refate it . " Those who are familiar with the writings of Taylor and Cariile will find little or nothing new in this publication ; the main contents of which appear to be called from the celebrated " Dlegeses" of the former . But to others —and their name iB legion—who have not read those works , this cheap compendium will he found Very interesting In the absence of larger and more expensire publications , notwithstanding the drawback already pointed ont .
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THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE . This publication improves both in appearance and matter . Ho . 16 contains some good aninles . A Supplement to the Advocate , forming No . 9 of the Standard Temperance Library , contains a series of articles on "ancient wines , " highly interesting to the general reader , And of all-absorbing importance to teetotal advocates .
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LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MESMERISM : by John B . Do » d , of Boston , United States . This is a reprint from an American Edition of a course of lectures on Mesmerism , delivered in Boston ; and onr only wonder is , that asy body in England has been found foolish enough to attempt the circulation of a heap of tbe veriest trash , whether its philosophical or literary meritB are considered . The author is profoundly ignorant of the commonest prin ciples of science . As a sample of the best portion of the work , we content ourselves with the following extract , illustrative of the miracles of Magnetism : —
"Tour brain being magnetically subdued , it is worth hundreds of duUsrs to you . Ton are then ready for tbe day of distress . Come -what may—toothache , headache , tic dolereux , r . euralgis , or any pain of which you can conceive ; let some one mesmerise you and then wake you op , and tbe pain is gone . The whole process need not occupy more tbso tea minutes- Should you fall and break jour arm , then let some ooe mesmerise the torn only , which can be done in one minute . Ton are free from pain , and though in your -wakeful state , yet you can look quietly on , asd see the boues put to their
places . Tour arm can then be kt-pt in tbe mesmeric state , and thoroughly and rapidly healed without having ever'txpfcrtenced one single throb of pain . Or by simply mesmerising year arm or leg , you can sit in the ¦ waitful state and see them amputated , and feel so pain . But if you neglect to have your brain magnetically subdued , then -when the day of distress comes upon you , as it might xegnire several hours to put yoa into this state , it will then be too late to avail yourself of tbe blessings this Ecience is calnUtel to bestow .
•• It is not only a preventative of flta , insanity , and of the most frightful nervous diseases , and & safeguard against pain , but it will cure fits , if no congestion of the brain ha- ' taken place . It never fails to remove the ague act fever , however long it may have been npon tbe individual , and trill prevent any fevers prevalent lii northern climates , if tbe individual be mesmerised as soon as taken . " The above is assertion without proof , of which , by the bye , there appears to be more than a necessary quantum . There is , however , something in the
shape of " proof" given : for tbe lecturer states , that ** "A . surgical operation has just been performed in Lowell on a lady while in the mesmeric slate . A tumour was extracted frem the shoulder , where it -was necessary to cat to the depth of two inches . Dr . Sh&ttrick was the magneuzer , " and in the presence of several medical men of Lowell , one of whom was the operator , this tumonr was removed without the slightest sensation of pain . This was not done in a corner , but publicly , aud in the presence of several hundred spectators . "
The lectures are largely taken up with speculations rather connected with religion than any other subject ; -asd evidences of ihe truth of Mesmerism drawn from the aceonnt of the miracles recorded in the New Testament 1 all of which superstitious stuff we must leave to the Editors of the Movement to do . justice to , should they deem the wild and trashy ravines worthy of notice .
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ADDRESS OF 1 'HE ANTI PERSECUTION UNIOK TO ITS COLLECTORS AND FRIENDS .
The Committe of the Anti-Persecution Union havo pleasure in announcing that tiiey now have ready to i&eue Subscription Cards , in convenient oases . The cards are so contrived that the subscription given can b « properly registered in a moment—entirely supertjeaing the old and inconvenient subscription books . All Collectors , therefore , are desired to return to the Secretary their books made up to the day of sending , that the new cards and cases may be torwarded to them . Any person in town and country , willing to become a collector , may obtain a collector ' s card on application to tbe secretary , by giving a reference if tbe party applying is unknown to the Union . ; The Union would remind their collectors and
friends , that thepublished report of the trial of Mr . Paterson te the property of the Union ; and thoae who promote its , sale will not only diffuse the principles of the Union , but increase its funds . The trial is * hat of Mr . Paterson for Placard Blasphemy in London . A largb edition of it was generously presented to the Union , by W . J . B ., and its price has bsen reduced to 6 d . that its circulation may be extended . It contains niuety-two pages of the size of tho Movement , of the most extraordinary matter ever published ; and when it is remembered that the magistrates insolently Baid , that no reports of Mr . Patersoa ' s trial should appear by the press , it becomes every man ' s duty to disappoint such tyrannical malioe , by largely promoting ita diffusion .
... .. To imprison a man for the avowal of his opinions , and den ? him the privilege of being heard in hia own defence , is a double injustice that every man i 8 called upon to promptly and vigorously resist . It is only by bringing public opinion to bear on persecutors , tnat we can hope to annihilate the infamous race . In courts of law , the Wetherolls , Jardines , and judges , would behave as brutally as they do bigotedly , was it not for the consciousness that their deeds will be published to the world . It is for this reason that the' committee are prepariag the Scotch Trials for the . press . The Anti-Peraeoution Union cannot shorten th 6 imprisonment of the victims and can perhaps do but little to diminish the
torture they are subjected to ; but they can win for them the respect of all just men , and the gratitude Hitherto the Union has had an Indefinite constitution . Every person subscribing to its funds has been considered a member , but it has now been determined to issue Members cards at 6 d eaoh , by which persons taking th « m , Will become registered Members of the Union , Consciousness of this , it is hoped , will perpetually stimulate to active exertion , in promoting its objects . Members cards will be renewed quarterly—tne subscription will be at the rate of a . half-penny per week . The subscription cards , before Bpoken of , are for registering the larger donations of members , or contributions of indifferent persons .
Collectors can obtain Members cards to issue in their localities , on application to the Secretary .
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Wastb Land . — The largest quantity of waste ' land in any county of England is hi the North ' Riding or Yorkshire , there being no less than 132 815 j acres of common or waste land Out of 1 1 897 , 597 . — j Doncaster Chronicle . \ Mesmerism—On the 23 rd ulk Messrs . Hughes and Hagley illuminated the dim region of Hammersmith with a mesmeric lecture , in which the wonders of clairvoyance were surprisingly exhibited by a young gentleman , who on being blindfolded by a member of parliament , told all ibis votes for the next two sessions . We wpre not present ourselves tvt tbe lecture , but are indebted to " our reporter " for a faithful acoount of the proiijeedings . The following conversation took place between Mr . Hughes and the ** young gentleman" mesmerized for the
occasion : —Mr . Hughes—Can yiou see Sir Robert Peel t Young Gentleman—I can . Mr . Hughes—What is he doing ! Young Gentleman—He ' s looking at a map of Ireland , and se ' ra ' ching his head . Mr . Hughes- ^ Where Is Alderman Gibbs—and what is he about ! Young Gentl' man—He ' s in hi * study , with Cocker- before him , making two and two fire . Mr . Hughes—Where is Lord j Stanley ? Young Gentleman—In the sulks . Mr . Hughes—Where is Lord Brougham—and what is he doing ? Young Gentleman—He ' s in the Houae of LoTds ; now he ' s on the woolsack—and now he ' s in Lord Lyndhurst ' s lap . Fifty other questions were i put to the young gentleman , all of them involving much political and social importance , yet all answered with equal fidelity , and all giving equal pleasure to a numerous and respectable audience . —Punch .
Pompeii . —Several surgical instruments have been lately £ ug up at Pompeii , which bear a strong resemblance to those nsed for lithothomy in the prepent day . It is singular enough that among the vast number of relios brought from Egypt there is no trace of a surgical instrument , whilst so many have been found at Pompeii . ; Keep their Heads Cool—The Commissioners of Police have decided on an alteration in the hats of the police , which will be immediately adopted throughout tne force , and which will tend materially to add to the ease and comfort of the men whilst on duty , e * pecially in hot weather . The alteration about to be adopted consists of a perforated button , affixed on eaoh sido of the hat near the crown ; ihe hat having al 3 o an eyelet hole whore the buttons are affixed , so as to admit air , and thus keep the policemen ' s heads cool . —TVery necessary !]
America ( by out * Exprfs * Extbaorbinary ) . — Pennsylvama . —Rkpddiation . —At a meeting of the Drab-coloured men of Pennsylvania , the following resolution was moved by Governor Porter , and seconded by General Duff Green : —Resolved : " That we , the nnited band of Pennsylvanian repudiators , do hereby utterly discard , abolish , deny , and renounce the signs and symbols heretofore used as the ' Arms' of this State , and that in future * he same be , in lieu thereof , a statue iof Mercury , with the legend , Ba « ie is the slave who pays ! ' " Carried unanimously . —Punch . I
Sliding Scale ov the Press . —Dr . H . called at the Times office to inquire the price of inserting the death of a relative . " Ten shillings , " said a surly clerk . Dr . H . remonstrated , and said he had only paid seven for the last . "Oh , " j said the clerk , " that was a common death , but this is sincerely regretted . " " Well , my friend . "! said the doctor , laying down the money , " your executors will never be put to that expense . " —Sydney Herald . ' ¦ ' The Cottar ' s Saturd ay Night . " —Mr . Anderson of Perth , the celebrated sculptor of" The Deil ' s awa * wi' the Exciseman , " " Tam o'Shanfcer and Cutty Sark , " " Watty and Meg , ? Ac ,, haa again finished another group of figure * , viz ., Burns' Cottar ' s Saturday Nigbt . '' Mr . A . has given the poet ' s imaginings an embodyment by his chisel which none but a person possessing a poetical mind could accomplish . — Scotch Ref . Gazette . }
Abran . —The siBter of the young woman who turned insane and died in this island , in consequence of the smallues 3 of the party who Iwent out to meet her intended husband , was married jto that individual last week . —Ibid . \ Tdbnjng the Tables . —During the present week , in the Manchester cattle market , there were exhibited a number of very prime beasts brought from the vicinity ef London t From this extraordinary fact this inference may be drawn , that the London market is inundated with supplies , brought from all parts of the kingdom . This state of things is no doubt attributable to the quick transit by railways and steam boats . —Manchester Coutier , The Po * e and the Press . —The Pope has prohibited the Church and State Gaxette from passing the Roman frontier . ]
Factories Bill . —Wo are informed that a requisition to the Lord Mayo ^ is in course of signature , to call a Common Hall for the purpose ef petitioning the Queen to dismiss from her councils all persons who have publicly declared in Parliament their hostility to Christianity , by their advocating slavery in factories , and also to expposs their opinions of the inhumanity and ; cruelty / jf the Liberals and Leaguers in supporting any Ministers who apt against the common and universal feeling of humanity . —Journal of Commerce * f
Bobt . —Accident from Machinery .. —About twelve o ' clock , on Monday mornip g * a fatal accident occurred at the ' paper mills of Messrs . wrigley , Heap Bridge . A girl , about twelve years of age , went too close to a horizontal piece of machinery , called a willow , which caught hold iof her and killed her on ihe spot . I
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