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THE GABRET . Again do I Tint the » pot where my jontfc In poverty ' s school was a pupil » o long . I was then twenty-one , had a mistress , forsooth , Some rare merry Mends , and a passion for song . And scorning all sages and sots , and their cares , Content , unforetelling and envious of none , I cheerfully mounted op six pair of stairs : O , sweet is a garret at gay twenty one } A garret ; O yes , I announce it to alL I there bad my bed , poorly furnished and hard ; My table stood iere ; and there ' s yet on the "wall Threefonrtbs of averse from the coal « of the hard . Appear , O ye pleasures that Bailed en my prime , Ere yean , cold and quenching , had bade ye begone ! My watch has been pawned for you many a time . O , sweet is & gszret at gay twenty one ! And , first , my Irzette should arise at my call ,
With her dear little hat in her freshness and bloom Already , methinks , sfee has hung np her shawl O ' er the small Barrow window to curtain the room * She wore her nice robes with such elegant ease , . I respected each fold set so graeefnlly on ; Since then I found oat who paid for all these . 0 , sweet is a garret at gay twenty one * A table one day—twas a fortunate day—While my friends' ringing voices in ehorns arose , A shout reached even-up to onr garret to say , At Harengo Napoleon had vanqulsked onr foes . The cannons are heard : and we alter the song To the deeds of onr heroes , so glorionaly done ; Onr frontiers shall still be inviolate long ' O , sweet is a garret at gay twenty one 2 let ns go j for my reason too feelingly strays ; - Long gone is that time so regretted , bo dear : I would gladly exchange all the rest of my days
T ? or a month of the dsjB once accorded me here . While Glory , Love , Pleasure , can gaily dispose Of onr fast-fleeting moments , and Hope , like a sun , Cbter tie prospect of life and lighten the close , 0 , sweet is a garret at gay twenty oneJ Btranper .
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S 0 X 2 TETS , —TO THE STABS . Xe shining orbs that gem the brow of sight * Xo gas * on earth down from your radient spheTM , Whose every beam of sparkling lUStrOBS light QUAb ocean ' s wide expanse , and nightly cheers The mariner , —while o ' er the trackless seas The stately vessel in the course be steers . And bids the swelling canvas woo the bretze To waft him 6 *« the wave ; how lair appears , To the benighted traveller , who strays Beneath the gloom that shrouds the vaulted skies , The smiling glow of your hope—speaking rays That point the spot to which the wanderer hies . Hall ! burn ye gens , and beautify the night : Shine on ye sparkles of celestial light
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THE OLD IRISH JIG . Mj blessing be on yon Old £ rin , Sly own land of frolic and fun ; Pot all sorts of mirth ana diversion Tour lake Is sot under the son . Uobemia aay boast of the Polka , " And Spain of her waltzat talk big : Och 1 sure they are nothing but limping , Ocmpar'd with an old Irish jig . Then a fig for the w<xes and quadrilles , That come from Bohemia and France ; And a fig for the thing call'd " The Polka , Our own Irish jig we will dance . rve heard bow oar jig came in fashion , And beEeve that the story is true j By Adam and Ere twaa invented ,
The reason was—partners icerefev ; And though they could both foot " the Polk * , " Eve tbonjtht that it w «* nt quite chaste ; But loVd our old jig to be dancing—And faith . I approve o ! her taste . Then a fig , fee . Tfee light-hearted daughters of Erin , Like the wild mountain deer they an bound Their feet never touch their green island , Bat trmsi * is struck from the ground . Asd oft in the glens and green meadows , The old jig they dance with such grace , That even tbe daisies they tread on Look * tp with , delight in their face . Then a fig , etc , As old Irish jig too was danced
By kings and by great men of yore . ¦ Saint Patrick himself well could foot it To a tune tfeey call •» Rory O'More . " And oft in tbe-grest hall of Tan , " © arfamoos king Brian Born , 3 >* ac'd the old Irian jig with his nobles , And plfij'd ha own harp to them too . Then a fig , fee . . Ana-sure * rben 5 leroditrt daughter ID&nsed inSEng Herod ' s sight , jBis feaart , ' that for years had been frcsen , WasthaWd with pure love and delight . Jknd : mo » e-than aihaadrad times over : r * e : fcaard -Father jFlannigan tell , ^ T » &s-onr own lash Jig thai she looted 'jThat . pkas'd the . e * & 2 villain so well . Then * £ g-for your waits , a sod qaadrDles , That come-from Bohea lia and France ; And -a fig for the-tiring ca ll'd " the Polka , " Oar-eara Irish jig we * nil dance . L&jnbe ? - James Jf'Kowen
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TA 1 TS MAGAZINE-. Tote . Welcome once snore w * Ban G ; witier * ad his Friends / ' We were fearful , from tht ir » a »« a $ s > easanee for the last three months , th « their * lpriou 8 revels were- do 3 onger U > immortalis ' tJw ^ pagespf Taii ; but we fod © nrselves agrees Wy ¦ deeerred . Gnee more we greet them . Boa . Gauliier— Charles , it is a pity that . ^ oaaronot & Bcbtit Jiacsdre . lovxg Scotland— Wherefore ? BtmGatdtier—Any man with tbeintelli tfi »< of'that acute Chevalier of St . Lszsrus , might make a peod thing of it just now . Saunters , who used to be - . * «« antious as a trapped rscoen , has been fairly bit by the ' twrntate of speculation , and is * oing a-head with rather i vae M * the vehement emphasis of a Yankee . Three taiiwsy lines from England in the market at once ! Is 1 'toflaad an El Dorado , and are the Sonibrons coming v »« o * arrnnta *
Young ScoSand— Pooh ! the Caledonian linewi jW hsnue ^ mfciy ; and so will the Central to Perth . Bon Gauliier— Doubtless . Ton hold stock in t « eBL Bnt theotbeM ? Yvmg Scotland—Are not tie shares at a premium - Ban GauUier—So much the worse J The greenho * never buy in si first , but are sweated by the origii ** stockholders . Nigbtanddsy tbe bellows of Prospect ! * are kept in perpetual puff . Strata of tool are dis ; cevered , which have rot hten worked since the days el Jniins Casar ; and pigs of lead , with the stamp of tie , Twentieth Legion , are fished from morasses , to testify ) the exuberance of gaipri * . A population starts up on ! esch side of the rail as miraculously , and mere rapidly , j God-wot , than theharvest of theserpent'steeth ; anii S&wntys , on the muirl&nd , are far more plentiful than j snipes i t Tovjiff ScoUasd—Tis a wholesome state of things . Let ' s start » company . I
Btm Gamier—Agreed . Ton shall be Secretary i I Perpetual € hainnsn . What shall it be ? Tcvxg Scotland—I vote against water . I hate Father JIathewl Bon GavUier—Confound gu 1 Tunas Scotland— And the devil take Canal stock I TTfcat say yon to a Mont de Pi £ te ? Bon Goa / Ser—profitable—but low , I demur to the "propiifctj of encouraging the lower orders to avuncnlate their blankets and gridirons . Think you a Joint Stock Company for ensuring Law-pleas would pay ?
Ycatg Scotlazd— At any . rate , we should receive the cordial thanks of the faculty . There is sore grumbling among the juniors in the Outer House &t the paucity of Buliiple-poiBdings . But I don't thins the field Is suffidenUy txtensivB . Wore than half the applications would be made in forma pasperis , with juratory caution only for the j > ajment of the premiums , and espiui would ke itquired for the Pee-fund . ; It won ' t answer . '" , . ¦ . . Bm GtatSer—1 have it I THE QsixiT 2 ? jlTI 05 al VXIOB JOIKT ^ BTOCK WHISK ? -TOI > I > T COKPZKY OT BcoTiaXD , wltb » reservoir on the Galton Hill , ealea J » ted to mix and prqject seven thousand j » 11 obi of that ^ comparable fluid , pet minnte , through pipes to be conveyrttoercryhoBseinthecityandsuburb ^ and aniafai Pipe direct to Glatso" ' - _ :
Tong Seoilaai—Ota fortBne Is aade ? Whs 4 » splen ^ dides , ] A tod-dJetneteT in every cellar , sod tumblers Piping with perenidxl hotsen I Methanks I see the Patpis » on of the central steam-engine g « crashing * J * ongh the . hiUs of sugar ! We must make the Thxne « 5 >^ aitendant - " . -. --LBy the bje , tre miss iixe l" ! bane ihia monih ; he Bast be regtored , bis io * is not to be endnred . J ¦ Bon Gamer—What '"" ! ¦ Mat jO * owe got th »»?
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Yotrtp ScoUaxd—Sioe leaves , I should ssy , to all appearance 2 Cold as a coquette , and ss matter-ef-fact as an apple-dumpling . Call you this poetry ? Bon Gavilier—What i Young Scotland—Why this—the first I have opened npon . It is Btyled " The . Turk at Constantinople to the Frssk . " Harris Nicolas could not be more prosaic . For History is not silent , what we did , Long ere we crushed to dust the Grecian name , It was no Western , to whom Bajerid , Surrendered his long heritage of fame . Good heavens . ' we shall have Euclid in the Spenserian staizi next . I'll rhyme yon so *> y the ell—S » m . Rogers kept a shop in Regent Street , And dealt extensively In sugar candy , Where of a forenoon people came to eat Mince pies , and wash them down with cherry brandy .
Bon Gauliier—Come , come , yon are too bard npon Mibiei . J grant yon , that his principle in poetry is a bad one . He makes rtfltction predominate over pas sion , and there lies tb » grand mistake . Passion is the all in all in poetry . We do not go to it either for our facts or our metaphysics : we want to hear the voice of the heart speaking out in the language of universal troth , and interfusing the inanimate objects of nature with its own stirring life-blood . Young Scotland—Right , old fellow l Give me the poet who makes your' heart burn within you , who sends your blood dancing along your veins in a stronger current , who makes you lose yourself in the joys and sorrows of himself or bis heroes . ~ The anniversary of * the ' 45 " is coming round . Bon and his friends promise as a commemorative dinner on the field of Prestoop&ns ! May we be there to see 2
Bon Gauliier—The century is approaching its completion . Next year , Charles , we must hold a commemorfcUve dinner at Prettonpans . Young Scotland—Every man shall be dressed in tartan . We shall sink all memory of the intervening years , and deport ourselves as if the tramp of Cope ' s retreating horsemen were still ringing in our ears . O that I should have lived so lite J Bon Gavltier—Comfort youiself : yon are better as you are . A . hundred years ago yon would infallibly have been hanged and quartered . Yeusff Scotland—U so , I could hnt have died with B&iiucrino l Bm Gauliier—I * ot quite . Your peerage would bat KaTe oatea from St . GermainS . YOU might , bOWeTBT , have tgh a fair chance of decorating the gates of Carlisle .
Young Scotland— Heigho 1 I am becoming weary of this wicked wurld . Railways , factories , and the Anti-Corn Law League , will be the death of me . Once we were a nation of warriors , then of statesmen , then of merchants ; and now , heaven help us ! we are degenerating into a wilderness of bagmen . I have serious thoughts of bolting and establishing a dynasty elsewhere . Bon Gau&in- —Not a bad plan . Tkere must be plenty of kingdoms about the Caspian to be had for asking . Europe is little more than a heap of decayed ashes , without fire or beat ; and I too feel my fingers becoming frosty . If yon emigrate , Charles , what favoured spot will you select ? Don't choose too savage a neighbourhood . Those athletic limbs of yours arg too precious to be barbecneu for the exclusive gratification of the cannibals .
Yomg Scotland—Tot Tahiti , 11 I have the portrait of Qaeeu Pcmsre hung up in my bed-room . She is a lovely creature . Bon Gauliier—Prince Consort of the Polynesia ? Young Scotland—Why not I There is rojsl blood in the ** veins , ana I feel a nascent appetite fer breadfruit . Here goes for a song 00 the occasion , I Lfi 78 not shaken the cobwebs out of my throat to-night
SOKG OP THE EHKf TK . Ais— " OneBurxper at Parting . " Ill weary , and sick , and disgusted With Britain's mechanical din ; Where I ' m much too veil known to be trusted , And plagnily pester'd for tin ; Where love has two eyes for your banker , And one chilly glance for yourself ; Where a soul can ' t sfibrd to be franker , But when it's weS garnished with pelf . I ' m sick of tbe whole rase of poets , Emasculate , missy , and fine ; Tbey brew their small-beer , and dont know its Distinction from full-bodied wine . I ' m sick of the prosers , teat house up At drowsy St . Stephens : ain't you 1 I want some string spirits to rouse « p A good revolution or two !
I ' m sick of a land where each morrow Repeats the dull tale of to-day , Where yen cant even find a new sorrow , To chase you stale pleasures away . I'm sick of bine-stockings horrific . Steam , railroads , gas , scrip , and consols So 111 off where the golden Pacific Round islands of paradise rolls . There the passions shall revel unfettered , And the heart never speak bnt In truth , And the intellect , wholly unlettered , Be bright with the freedom ef youth-There the earth can rejoice in her blossoms , ZTnsaliied bj vapour or soot ; Asd there chirnpaitres and opossums Shall playfuUy pelt me with fruit
There I'll sit with my dark Oriarms , In groves by tbe murmuring sea , . And they'll give , ss I suck the bananas , Their kisses , nor ask theza from me . Tbej'll Be *** torment Hie for sonnets . Nor bore me to death with their own ; They'll &sk not for shawls an lor bonnets , For milliners there are unknown . There my couch shall be earth's freshest flowers , My curtains the night and the stars , An * my spirit shall gather new powers , Uncramped by conventional bars . Love for lore , truth for truth ever giving , My days sball be manfully sped ; I shall knew that I'm loved while I ' m living , And be wept by food eyas when I'm dead ? Bon ' s " Fight with the Snapping Tortle , or , the American St . George , " is rich and rtcy , but too ieDgthy for extract . We must Btop .
Mrs . Gore's novel , * Blanks » Dd Prizes , or the Wheel of Fortune ' s brought to a close in this number . The conclusion is powerfnlly and afiectingly told . An article entitled u St . Andrews" gives ub an interesting sketch of the past history and present state of this oooe flourishing , and still famous city . We are loth to find fault , bnt there is one besetinjr sin fairly chargeable to Tail , of which we are bound to complain ; viz : that of giving as first chapters , or first papers , up » n certain subjects , which the reader naturally expects to ste continued IB SOCee&sive numbers , but which expectation is too often doomed to meet with disappointment . For instance , in tbe No . for October , 1843 , appeared a paper entitled "The Boman Lynsts , —Ko . 1 , Catullus . " From this title any one would suppose that it was intended to giv « sketches of the whole the Roman Lyrists , and teat No . 1 . would m the succeeding £ o . have been followed by Mo . 2 . Bnt from that
time c own to tbe present , the rest of the Roman Lyrists have been left to their repoBe ; and we guess , October is very likely to return once more without seeing tbe wished for No . 2 . Again , in the No . for December we had , what we supposed , was the first of a series of papers os the " Minor Spanish Poetry of the Sixteenth Century ; " bnt the second step -of the series has net jet been taken . In last month ' s number was Chapter l&t . of an excellent paper entitled " The Spirit -of Aristophanes . " This month ** e of coarse looked for Chapter 2 nd ., and M of coarse , " could not find it . Really this is * too bad , " to be baulked after tius manner -of what are too . nsmally the gems of tbe Magazine . Tail has afa-< VQ » rite apephthegB which he applies to politics and . politicians : " blessed are they whs -expect nothing , Jor > tiiey shall not be disappointed . " For the future weifear we shall have to applj this to Tait himself , « h 8 B waiting for the continuation of-scything more ifcan-BBnaUy interesting .
; : ; ' . la the present No . is one of these pleasant £ Vetches on "German Ljrical Poetry f the Poet st tooted being UblaM ) . Of course soct a subject as ii * iyncal Poetry of any country cannot be done ins . ' ^ - too in My one sketch , comprising not more than ' tx * P'K ^ > J te ° ooe > w ? get no continuation ot&iB highly interesting subject in the next 2 JQ . W-eli , well ; we suppose there is so us * grumbling : w « jonst e ' en take the goods the gods provide us . " and be " thankfn' for sma' mercies . " Piom t&s sketch of Ublxkd ' s poetry we give the followin , * extracts , regretting that we connot afford roSm for specimens of his lyrics : —
What j ' e ** Paul Richter said of music , '' Away , away , tic . ? * &e * kest te me of tilings which In all By endless life , J £ »« not fonnd , snd sball not flnd , " applies equally tofttetry . Tbe world therein-called np is the world mo te oc * our hopes than our txperiences . It is a state ef « ri * ftBnc » j beautiful and undefined , connected mysterii ^ nslf " » fth onr best and noblest emotions —the fairy-land ' ° * Pagination , yet bearing about it the characteristics > « " * ** >» * tsmp of so many delightful realities that wet iBeaoscionsly yield ounelvea np to its enchantments . 1 * «* **» P ° «* P"i » t » » ot nature xnon
beautiful than she i « itf « » toost skill but gifts him with the power to t «>«•* bw of those eorrnptloM and deformities with wb W » **» Bordid-and selfish Meas of manrisd have inve * *** ber . Hence , the poet it , in every sense a benefacx Vw ot laankind . He rtfine . and purifies the passions by th « imagery be derives from the ideal world Heading so * wwroarMting , winnixrf zatber tt » n saWniM , the mo . * wnfaetab * atoisby the witchery of those beautiful " and teBthfarspelto , to which consists Ui « perfection of his" «* , »* the proofs of the fflvtolty ^ f bis commission . .- ' -
. ., How often by ita picture * - ot eentto ««* aoB , and weefe tnd martyr-like « Bdum ««» Pfiet > 7 h" "ofttDed thefiotest spirits , and byitsbe W « n £ « dent elcone » i » , has subjected to ttie noblest iniJ > i » tioD » the moat sordid and selfish , of mankind . ; ? ? _ In the earliest ages , ¦ when the imagination w » s bw powerful * y >* v the xewon , when men , in the simplicity © f theii passions and belief , were but *¦ cfcildiea yriib
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a larger stock of ideas , tbe poet was the preserver of all that was hallowed in social order and the State . Again , under a civilization more advanced , through Poet Prophets the voice of inspiration fell on the ears of men ; while , in more recent times , even in " days of vast mechanical triumphs , of victories over tbe ordinary agencies of nature , ate , steam , and electricity ) Poetry possesses the tame influence . It is not , however , so individualised , nor ra concentrated . Though no bard , as in the days of Taliefer , leads on by song an invading host to victory , yet a ballad , even in the nineteenth century , has rendered powerful aid to a Revolution . Local attachments and associations ate not so strong as In ruder times ; yet wherever they
do prevail , Lyrical poetry exists to tne exclusion of every other species . Poetry is now more diffused , and instead of finding its representative alone in the person of some minstrel favoured enough to sing at the court of Prinees , it has a thousand sources by which it captivates the heart , and bends the senses to its spells , as through the Drama , thb Opera , tbe painting gallery , or the sculpture room , it daily appeals to our liveliest feelings ; telling its story , and shedding influences of the beautiful , and tbe true , on the hearts of the mechanical and gain-bound votaries -of tbe world . In this , too , is exhibited its greatest utility : for in this manner it often makes a successful appeal where tbe voice of the moralist would be in vain txerted .
In the list of those who have enriched tbe literature of the present age , we may fearlessly insert the name of Ludwig TThland . His poems , chiefly lyrical , have been known to tbe English public for sosne years , tbrongb various partial translations , expressive more or less of the style and spirit of the original . In the minor poems of Uhland , there is a simplicity and a conciseness , which forcibly recall to mind tbe best of our British ballads ; nor is the minstrel deficient in that fervid energy which constitutes the very vitality of tbe lyric poem , and which , in opposition to the polished and elaborately finished
compositions of the classical school , possesses an influence that , in spite of irregularities in rhythm and construction , produces at once the . desired effect , and comeB home to the heart . A word , a single expression , and tbe work is done . To spells simple as these , our ballads owe their peculiar cbarm . Thus , ever some simple tune , some Bentiaient connected with social hopes and cmres , aod the beloved associations of the home and the altar , give an interest to ballad minstrelsy . strong almost aa a devotional feeling . In the lyric , " There's nae luck about the bouse , " who has not recognised the beautiful truth of that expression when , awaiting her husband ' s return , the fond and anxious wife
ex-Cl&AtDS" His very foot has musio in 't , when he comas np tbe stair ;" Bnt to adduce from Scottish song instances like this would be endless . Uhland , then , is known to most English readers as a ballad-maker , a writer of simple lyrics ; and what Vhbn T He has displayed In them the highest excellence . The tales of the Trojan war were but a series of nigbtj ballads which har < j stamped tbeir author with immortality . Burns was but a maker of ballads , and
Hogg will be remembered for his " Kilmeny , " and other lyrical pieces , when his longer poetic tales shall be forgotten . ' Tbe poems of TJbland , though possessing a characteristic likeness , are various in metre and in subject . Sometimes he takes a simple household sentiment , and by a few master-strokes , sends it forth to the world as a lyric endowed in beauty and in pathos , with spell * that touch tbe Toughest hearts ; at other times , be wandeTB like Spenser into an enchanted land , mingling , though not with the ornate style of Spenser , the ideal world with the story « f earthly trials and affections .
The fame of Uhland has been progressive . At the commencement of his career , nay , even after he had given to the world seme of bis most beautiful poems , be bad to encounter the neglect that usually attends the earliest efforts of genius . He owed , it is said , his first introduction to celebrity to the publication of his dramatic pieces ; productions which are generally considered inferior in literary merit to the poems , for which tbey were instrumental in claiming the attention of the world . And now that Schiller and Goethe are gone , and Tieck has betaken himself to the more profitable occupation of novel writing , Uhland reigns in undisputed possession of the potjtic throne of Germany . Critical notices of the " Chronicle of the Kings of Norway , " and Jesse's "Lifeof Beau Brummell " are given in the ptesent Number ; which is fully equal to the best of its cheap and entertaining predecessors .
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by a committee appointed by the inhabitant * of the town to be fajse and " unfounded , " and which was subsequently characterised by Mr . Boiling , the late Conservative Member for Bolton , as containing ' unfounded statements and slanderous insinuations" ! Yet . this Mott was the dirty tool whom Sir James Graham , Knowing these facts , held up to the House of Commons as a paragon of veracity ! It was after this disgraceful Bolton affair that Mott was employed to draw up the lying report of the Kejghley Union , intended to "crush" Mr . Ferrand . We say " employed " . Let any one read Mr . i errand s p amphlet , and from the chain of circumstsntial evidence produced by him , the reader cannot doubt the fact of Mott ' s employment , nor be at any loss as to the " Honourable" person by whom he was employed . We have in this letter " proof strong as holy writ , " of all that Mr . Ferrand charged the Home Secretary with in his speech at Leeds , and a great deal more .
The following is the summing up of Mr . Ferrand . Its telling truths mast be gall and wormwood to the "Knight of Netherby " .-•• I will uow briefly sum up the heads of ray charge against you , as proved in tbe foregoing detail . "lu the first place , no one who refers to the evideuce , con doubt that Mr . Mott ' s Keighley report' was false / * * " Secondly-i-No one can doubt that you Becretiy « took steps to procure' this report , which you knew bad been drawn up by a man who had been previously and fully convicted ot furnishing you with a similar false report ' from Bolton . " Thirdly—No one can doubt that you knew It to be ' false / when they recollect how you resisted granting papers which instantly proved its falsehood . .
?• Fourthly—No one can doubt that you got possession of this report , and used it ' for the purpose of crushing' me , when they reflect that it did for a time serve that purpose In the House—that to this day you have never retracted one Word of ' the unfounded and calumnious ' accusations you made against me solely upon its authority-rand that by Buob | Bilence you tzy to continue this effect " Bnt , further , to nmove every doubt that might remain upon tbe Isst two points , arising from the
necessary absence of positive evidence as to what passed in your own mind . I will merely observe , that t&e man who , in little mote than three months after the fall exposure of the Bolton report , could solemnly back the Keighley report , by falsely and unblnBhingly asserting that ke was not aware of any circumstance which should dispose him to think any statement made by Mr . Mott untrue/—no one , I say , can doubt that such a man is alike capable of doing everything of which I have accused him , and of denying it when done ! ' :
" Sir , tbe House of Commons collectively has pronounced my words against yon at Leeds to be' unfounded and calumnieus , '—will any member of that house individually so pronounce ? Will not every one who reads ' this letter , feel that iiy words at Leeds —strained even as you chose to strain them— 'fall very far short of the troth ? Will not every individual member at once perceive that , even admitting for argument ' s sake , the right of the House of Commons to interfere in such matters , —the resolution to which it came , ought not merely to be rescinded , bnt to remain npon its records , with this amendment , that my name should be inserted where yours now stands , and your name take tbe place of mine I
" And now , Sir , bow long to thfa to be borne ? How long are you to be permitted , &t your pleasure and convenience , falsely to give the lie to man of honour , to deny them redress , and then to shelter yourself under government majorities , before an unconstitutional tribunal ? Who is to be your next victim ? Recollect this is no affair between man and man , between one member and another—it is between an honest , independent member of Parliament on one aide , and an unscrupulous , overbearing Secretary of State on tbe other . You may , it is true , still
continue in office—still continue , like a true despot , to insult , and , if possible , to < crush' every honest man who ventures to raise his voice in behalf of the suffering poor , whom you make it the business of your office to oppress . Tour expedient chief may still find it inexpedient to part : with yout valuable services ; but the people of England will judge differently between us . It was iu tho name of the people of England that I protested aealnst your late unconstitutional proceedings : Sir , It is to the people of England that I now make my appeal .
• ' Under a thorough conviction that the perusal of this letter will increase that estimation in which you are ao justly held by your fellow-countrymen , I subscribe myself " Your obedient humble servant , "W B . Febbahp . " The conduct of the Cumberland Baronet in this dirty affair , without anything else , were all-sufficient to ensure him tho honour of being
" Damned to everlasting fasse : " but the last few days has shown the " fine , foaming patriot" in the still more detestable character of the dirty police tool of a foreign despot ! Thus exhibiting „ 'Beneath tbe lowest deep a deeper still I " Surely Mr . Ferrand has his revenge when he sees his unscrupulous emmy gibbetted for the scorn of the worid , as the miserable imitator of Fouct'i—the contemptible Vidooq of the Austrian despot !
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THE EMPEROR'S CUP . So , the Emperor of all the Russlas has subscribed 500 guineas yearly for tbe purchase of a piece of plate , to be run for at Ascot races . Well ; this is handsome csntainly . England will be richer in plate to the value of 500 guineas per annum at the expense of Niehota * The Autocrat has come down gallantly . It was politically done . Henceforward let not a whisper be breathed against him . Surely a donation of 500 guineas annually is an all-redeeming act of virtue . We would canonise a Nero on tbe strength of it
Of course , the plat * will have to be designed ; and , as necessarily , tbe design will be a matter of competition . Under these circumstances , Punch , who would have no objection to receive a couple of hundreds or so for an idea , has set to work and devised a cup , which he proposes as the prize to be provided by the Emperor . Though a 500 guinea cup sbeuld , one might think , be composed entirely ef pure gold , yet Punch wonld have this slightly alloyed with silver , as well to render it the more durable , as in regard , for an obvious reason , to the mines of Siberia . Tbe utensil b to be supported on a skull ¦ , and its stefnto be decorated with carvings or small models of toe Knout ; the same being emblematical of the foundations of despotic government .
The sides of the cup to be garnished with festoons of fetters ; ornaments which may be regarded as tbe insignia of Autocracy . On its sides various devices are to be engraven in bas-relief ; one compartment to contain a group of exiles , driven by the bayonets of soldiers to Siberia ; the gold of the back ground being frosted , for the better indication of tbe locality . On another are to be delineated young dress-makers and servants , undergoing corporal punishment . A third is to exhibit a tableau of houses , dilapidated or burning , with peasantry * women , and children , running away under a charge of cavalry . A fourth , the deportation of a Jewish community , some in a state of semi-nudity , others characteristically attired in old clothes . The whole to typify the sooial and political phenomena of Muscovite life .
The bandies of tbe cup to consist of female forms in Polish attire , weeping into the bowl ; females , Polish ot otherwise , being very apt to weep when tbey axe bereaved or turned oat of doors ; and especially if they are whipped into the bargain . Hurrah for Nicbalas ) He is sn Emperor worth snore than five hundred sovereigns—a year to us . He has given a very splendid cup to Jobn Bull , who , of cours * . will " bury all unkindness" in it—Punch .
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THE CASE OF COUNT OSTROWSKI . Tbe arrival of the Emperor of Russia in England was the signal fon an ace of despotism worthy only of the country over which that potentate sways an absolute sceptre . Domiciliary visits are matters , on the part of tbe police , common enough in the dominions of the sovereigns of France , Russia , Prussia , and Austria ; but in England they are aomewbat more rare . They , nevertheless , happen sometimes , and under circumstances of peculiar aggravation and injury , even in these islands , which boast of a constitution , guaranteeing tbe liberty of the aobjeofc . Every man ' s house is said to be his castle : but , supposing this adage to be
true , it is very certain that a man may not defend his own fortress ; and . therefore , ao far as protection is concerned , the individual may just as well be in the open street , as in the aforesaid castle . Count Ostrowski , a Polish refugee , dwelling in London , maintaining a respectable appearance , comporting himself with respect to the laws of which b % claims the protection , and indebted to no fund of charity nor to the British Government for the means of his support , ia silting quietly in bis apartment ( or castle ) , when he is suddenly invaded by half-a-doxen ruffians , dressed in a uniform that seems to constitute their licence foi
violating law and decency with impunity . A foolish observation made by the Count at bis tailor ' s , relative to a pair of the Emperor of Russia ' s pantaloons , is tortured and twisted into a menace against the life of that Prince . The tailor , doubtless , thinking to secure a few of the Emperor ' s ducats , or at least , the . future patronage ef the Russian Embassy , as a reward for hfs offlciousneis , gives an alarm to the police ; the Magistrate issues his warrant , a tort of letter of marque , enabling policemen to play the privateer upon other person ' s bodies and property ; the polictmen rush in a body to execute the legal document : and , as an additional proof of seal in behalf of the Queen ' s Imperial guest , bludgeons are most magnanimously displayed . * This demonstration of weapons on tbapart of half-adesen powerful policemen was rendered neceraaryabsolutely necewary—by the alarmlcg fact that tbe Count had two or three papw-kniyea , very much resembling daggers , lying upon bis table . 0 u waders can concei t * bow heinous would have twsn
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— ..- I - .. . 1 , m , ¦ ¦ . in— ¦ .. — . ——¦ .. ¦ — -l ^ _ M ' ~ j ^^^^^ ^^ ~ « g ^^~ his intentions , and how aggravated his offence , had he happened to possess at the ] moment ( as even many of tbe most peaceably-disposed cit'Zans do ) a sword er a pair ef pistols . But to < continue . The Count is dragged before a Police Magistrate : authorities arrive from the Russian Embassy , and the wbole of this momentous affair ia heard in secret . Had it b 6 en a simple affair , in which a Mr . Smith had menaced the life of a Mr . Jenkins , the examination would have been public , and Mr . Jenkina would have been compelled to attend to swear that his life was in danger . Bat bin Imperial Majesty , the Emperor of all the Russias ( and we m » y add , of the Siberian slaves and exiles also ) was concerned in this business ; and , therefore , it was
investigated as far as possible from the prying eyes of our reporters . Besides , who ever heard of compelling an Imperial Majesty to appear in person at a Police Court ? Had anch a request been even hinted at , he would have sent bis valet to represent him . Well—tbe Count Ostrowski was ordered to find ball , unreasonably heavy for even an English citizen , surrounded by friends , but infamously severe to a foreigner . The Count was locked up in a filthy cell forj a day and night , and at length liberated , upon the security demanded . Surely all this inflation of a mole-hill into a mountain , was nothing else than a drama , somewhat clumsily contrived , it ia true , but calculated to please the taste of his Imperial Majesty , the Emperor of all tbe Russias ( we give the title in full , in imitation of our daily
contemporaries ) , it being well-known that the aforesaid taste is marvellously disposed to be tickled by any tntafortune or degradation which a Pole is doomed to experience . There can be no doubt that the Emperor found this country getting a little too warm to render his stay comfortable ; the expression of publio feeling , by means of the liberal journals ; and the meetings held on the subject , gave him a warning far too significant to be mistaken , and too unpleasant to be disregarded . He knew little of the sterling qualities of John Bull , if he thought that he could palliate his enormities , and gain golden opinions by means of golden bribes . All tbe money he expended in this country is wrung from the
vitals of his own subjects . His liberality may secure a few admirers , by daezling those weak minds who believe cash to be better thau virtue ; but he will fall to have removed from the minds of the enlightened portion of the community the impressions thereon made by his execrable tyranny , bis cruelty , and bis ruthless oppression Of Old age and innocence at home . In tbe meantime , what recompense is the highly-injured Polish Nobleman to receive for the shameful treatment he experienced at the bands Of our English Magistrates and policemen T and who is to atone for having offered him up as a sacrifice to tbe abominably cruel tastes of his Imperial Majesty tbe Emperor of all the Russius ?—Weekly Dispatch . i
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From the London Gazette of Friday , June 14 . BAKKKUPTS . Dugald Macfarlane , of Berneis-street , Oxford-street * wine-merchant—Alfred Thompson , of Southampton and < Jhiche 8 ter , grocer—Henry Wood , of Baslnghall street , City , woollen factor—Richard Musgrove , of Birmingham , woollen draper— 'Thomas Johnson , sen ., William Johnson , and Charles Mann , of Romford , Essex , b ? nkera—James Taylor , of Liverpool , conunia * sion merchant
DIVIDENDS DECLARED . William Heslewood , Robert Heslewood , and John Skitt , ot KiDgston-npon-Hall , and of Ked Lion-Wharf , City , white lead manufacturers , dividend ef 5 d an& Il-l 6 ths of a penny in the pound , wider the estate of Healewood Brothers ; first and final dividend of Is 9 Jd iu tbe pound , under the separate estate of Robert ? Heslewood ; and first and final dividend of 6 s 6 d in the' pound under tbe separate estate of John Sfci't ; payable at 15 , Bensoa's-bnildlngs , Leeds , any Tuesday . Edward Measum , of Portsea , Hampshire , brewer , second dividend of 7 |< i in the pound , payable at 3 , Basioghall-street , any Wednesday . Caleb Clark , of Banbury , Oxfordshire , linen-draper , ' first dividend at 3 s 6 d in the pound , payable at Baaingbsll-streefc , any Wednesday . Richard Teaby , of Winchester , plumber , first dividend of 2 a 7 f 1 in the pound , payable at 2 , Basingh&ll street , any Wednesday . Thomas Bothell Lawford , of 106 . Fenchurch-street ' wine merchant , first dividend of 2 ^ 1 ia the pound , payable at 12 , Abchurch-lane , June 19 , and two following Wednesdays .
DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED IK THE COONTRT . John Swallow , sea , John Swallow , jun ., and George Swallow , of Skircoat , Yorkshire , corn millers , July 5 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Leeds—James Breasly , of Leeds , victualler , July 3 , at eleven , at tba Court of Bankruptcy , Leeds—Raynes Walte Appleton * of Liverpool , July 9 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool—Spencer Rogers , of Burslem , Staffordshire , earthenware manufacturer , July 9 , at halfpast eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham —Thomas Worinton . of Barbage , Leicestershire , hosier ,
July 9 , at half-past ono , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham—John Clarka , Richard Mitchell , Joaepbi Philips , and Thomas Smith , of Leicester , banker , July 12 , at eleven , at the Court of Binkruptcy , Birmingham—Benjamin Hill , of Birmingham , stationer , July 6 . at eleven , ac the Court of Bankruptcy , fitrmfnj ;* bam—Thomas Westren , of Brnshford , Devonshire maltster , July 19 , at ten , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Exeter—Richard Hodgson , of Sunderiand , Dnrham , tea dealer , July 5 , at eleven , at the Court of Bank * ruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . certificates to be granted , unless cause be shown
to the contrary on the day of meeting . John Battye , of 8 , Courtenay-terrace , Kingvland , ' July fi—James King , jun ., of 22 . Badge-row , City , tear dealer , July 5—William Washington Mansell , late of Old Broad-street , City , and novr of Alfred-street , Bedford-square , bill broker , July 5—Joseph ( Jibbius , of High-street , Marylebone , carpenter , July 6—Edwatvf Holmes , of 3 . King-street , Cheapside , warehouseman , July tf—Ralph Lewis , late of Chester , but now of Pennygroes , Flintshire , wine merchant , July 9— John Price of Birmingham , glass manufacturer , July 6 . certificates to be granted by the Court of Review , unless cause be shown to the contrary , on or befoia July 5 .
Edmund Pickup , of Manchester , fustian-manufac ^ turer—William Bearup , of NewcasUe-apon-Tyno , joiner—Samuel Ruffell , of Greenwich , Kent , draper-James Game , of Long Melford , Suffolk , corn dealer—R'J . 'Pegler , of Reading , Berkshire , woollen draper—William Robertson , ef Liverpool , drysalter— Qaorga Henry Darby Laurence , of Hornsey , Middlesex , lute of Kinte , merchant—George Hawkins , of Bristol , mason —Charles Deane , of Southampton , coaoh builder—Joseph QIazabrook , of Birmingham , carpenter—Samuel Ball , of Liverpool , chemist—^ Francis Thompson , of Southampton , tailor—William Abbott and David Dixon , of Leeds , dyers .
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . Richard Asplnall and Jobn Hunter . Jan ., of Liverpool , commission agents—Denis O'Neil and James Stephenson , of Liverpool , commission agente—LovielC Coleman and Charles Henry Andrews , of 35 , Edgeware-road . Samuel Locke and William Badge , of Manchester , brush manufacturers—John Mayfield Stony / Joseph Smithson , and Joseph Newh&m , of Kingston-upon-Hull , merchants ( so far as regards Joseph Nawham— Benjamin Baker and John Baker , of Huyton and Liverpool , marble masons .
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From , ( he Gazette if Tuaday , June 18 . BANKRUPTS . John Holland , draper , Buxsted , Sussex—Thomas Leaver , baker . Great Coxwell , Berkshire—William Edward Dray , grocer , Heathfleld , Sussex—Henry Peacock and John Peacock , grocers , Stockton-upou-Tees .
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LoMDOjf Cohn-Exchance , Mond ay June 19—TJsa finest samples of Eaglish Wheat found buyers , ub prices about equal to those obtained on this day se ' nnight ; but , in the middling and inferior qualities , only a limited business was d » in # , and previous rates were with difficulty supported . The supply of fine qualities of Foreign Wheat offering was a full average ono ; and much caution was manifest on iha part of the dealers in effecting purchases at tha asking rates . The best Dantzic must be considered quite as dear ; but where sales were pressed of tha
inferior descriptions rather lower rates were takea . In corn under look , if we except very fine Barley , currencies were almost nominal . Fine Chevalier parcels of Barley were held at a trifling improvement in value ; while , in . other kinds , a steady business was doing , at full rates . The Malt trade was rather active , and last week ' s extreme figures were realised . All descriptions of Oats at full rates . Beans a trifla dearer . Peas , both English and Foreign , at lata rates . Flour without alteration . Clover , Canary , aad Linseed , at very full prices .
London Smithfield Cattle Market , Monday June 19 . —Notwithstanding the high temperature , the attendance of both' town and country buyers was numerous . For the primest Scots , Home-bredB , &o . there was an improved demand , and , in some lev ? instances , 3 s 101 par 81 bs was obtained for those breeds . In other kinds of beef very little business was doing , at unaltered currencies . The number o £ Sheep was again large , yet the trade was not so heavy as noticed ia oar last report , and full prices were obtained by the salesmen . Lambs were firm * at an advance of 4 d per 8 . bs . The highest quotation for Calves did not exceed 4 s per 81 bs . In PorK wa can , notice no alteration in figures .
Bohouqh and SpiTAtFiELD 3 . —Fine qualities of old Potatoes are in request at very full prices , but other descriptions are a mere drug . Whites , frooj Holland , have sold at from 50 s to 553 per ton . New Potatoes are selling at from 10 s to 16 j per cwt . Borough Hop Market . —Although the supply of Hops offering Lere is very email , yet the late advance in the quotations is steadily supported . No betting has taken place on the duty . Tallow . —This market is improving . The price for all descriptions of Tallow ia dearer , and , in consequence of the continuance of dry weather , importers are asking higher prices for autumn delivery . Town Tallow is virtually doarer , although the quotation is the same as last waek , By advices from St Petereburgb there is nothing to justify the expectation of lower prices through the season . Tha demand is very good for the time of year .
Wool Market . —The publio sales of Wool held since our last have been tolerably well attended by buyers , who have purchased nearly the whole of the colonial parcels brought forward , at prices about ; equal to those obtained in the previous auction . For the few packages of foreign brought forward , the biddings have been spiritless , aad the rates have nob jeen supported . The stocks of English Wools being ; large , title demand is heavy , and the quotations havo a downward tendency . Richmond Corn Market , Satbdat , June 15 . — We had a tolerable supply of Grain in oar market to * day . Wheatsoldfrom 7 sto 833 i . Oats 2 s 10 to 3 slod . Barley 4 s to is 3 d . Beans 4 s 6 d to 5 j per bushel .
Manchester Corn Market , Saturday , June 15 . — At our market to-day there was not much passing in Wheat , bat we cannot note any material altera * tion in the value of the article . Flour continued to move off slowly , and although we do nos alter our quotations , lower prices were in spina instances submitted to . For Oats a steady , bat not , extensive , inquiry was experienced at fully late rate * Oatmealsomewhat recovered the extreme depression ; noted during the week ; still the demand was only moderate , and prices rather below the ourrenoy of this day se ' nnight , No change was observable ia fche value of Beans . ' ' ^ Liverpool Corn Market Mordat , Jckb 17 . — The arrivals of Grain , Floor and Oatmeal , coastwisa and from Ireland , are of very moderate amount ; those from abroad consist of about 10 # 00 an . ot Who « t 17 Aft nra . hf Rfl&ris . inJ Aftflfl h » lo nt iNnn * -
The duty on Beans has fallen Is . per quarter . Witfc a moderate sale to the jpciai tattlers , and dealers * -wa have to report {« $ io | r thjeejiubejb ) © f ^ Wheat takea for the interior ; the-deiaind , bowefer , has b > ea freely met . by ^ de » ' ^ jvr ^; r ^ dvttt ^ eis £ m % of about 2 d . a bushd / wta IM wj&c ' s prices haa been submitted to , FJouy ; h » jsr ^ oi »^ slowl y , thbpgk offering rathtt lower . ; A largebusiesa has occurred inC ^ tsrthe . priAcipaltrai 4 action ^ hftvebeenlor , tha country , ty ' #£ . Jldi to ^ Syd , ' per ^ 5 ib 8 foi info mealing , according to . qua ^ tjr . ; Oatmeal bis itnefc » thermoreinqaify , audmpst be noted 3 i . to 6 d . » load dearer than at the bfginnw ' g of the week ; SBveral lota , of the lower kinds of grinding Barlej 1 have ( found buyers at in adyahoeiof ^ 3 di % b | ishei ^* Sr 3 d . per 60 lbs . paid for Egyptian ^ Beaus ; » nd-ge » B | npon a fair demand , havei ferpuglit fftUM ^ wysS'S-3000 qrs . of Egyptian Beans have ohatc ^ fi ^ m ^^ U bond \ t 233 . 6 d a few at 24 * rt | » ia parcel Or two of line . boding ] eaa at MasjfaWgumt wier
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Shine on , there is a pathos iv . jam beims , — JL stilly voice that v&kei v / itMn the soul Sntrancixf fselingB , snd the fancy dreams In as abjM of ihonght , as on ye roll Athwart tbe sapphire arch from pole to pole . When nightly , Imperial empire veils the sky , While joys illnme the neart , juj if they stole Adqv / h to man from spheral divine on high ; For all the laer Imaginga that gild Idfel stem realities together low To cheer the « jci , until tbe minri is fili'd With golden visions rich in fce&nlji glcnr , " While fancy soar * , beyond the tsure plains , Jo eeeaea where glory ' s bright meridian reuros . Janes Henderson Glasgow . June 1 S 44 .
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"THE GREAT MOTT QUESTION ; " OR THE MYSTERY UNRAVELLED ; in a Letter from W . B . FsaEASD , £ s < 4-, M . P ., to th » Right Hon . Sir Ja ? . Graham , bait , M . P ., &e . Ao . London : Olliver , Pall-mall . Our readers cannot have forgotten the fracas between Sir James Graham and Mr . Ferrand , which lately occupied the attention of the House of Commons for nearly an entire week , and which resulted in the ( attempted ) whitewashing of the much begrimed name and fame of her Majesty ' s principal Home Secretary , by a vote of the " Honourable " Hou&e declaring the " charges" of Mr . Ferrand to be "unfounded and calumnious . " The value of that vote has since been shown by the disgraceful ezbibiiion of a majority of the "Hononrable House "
twice voting that "black is white r first , by rescinding its adoption of Lord Ashley ' s Ten Hours ' Clause ; and secondly , by its reversal on Monday night last of the decision on the Sugar Duties' Bill , solemnly recorded on the previous Friday . Had Mr . Ferrand never penned this pamphlet , and the public consequently been left in ignoranoe of the astonndiDg facts therein contained , st ill he might eafely have lrf t his character to the judgment of hia country . With tbe great mass of the people it will be sufficient for them to know that Mr . Ferrand has been attempted to be worried down by a Ministry , which has literally not one rag of credit or character remaining attached to it ; a * thimble-rig ^ Government which , while it has arrayed against it Whigs ;
Leaguers , Repealers , and Chartists , has loBtaho the confidence of its own party , and is constantly threatened with destruction through the mutiny and desertion of its divided and distracted " supporter ? (!) . Mr . Ferrand , with the " censure" of the " Honourable House" upon him , is confided in , and applauded by , the masses ; for , independent of the question whether his " charges" are true or false , the people would respect him , believing that he must be an honest man when censured by a gang of dishonest and dishonoured time-servers . To be voted down by such an assembly is no disgrace in the eyes of honest men . The " House" may dub itself Honourable ;* but by the publio its " honour " is properly estimated .
" Its praise is censnre , and its censure praise . " Onr readers will remember how like a pack of hungry wolves , the writers of the Whig Press rushed , with ezultiDg yells , to the aid of tbe renegade Graham in helping him and hie " honourable" supporters to " croBh" "the notorious Ferrand . " What confident predictions there were previous to the denouement of the farce , " that the archenemy of the " devil ' s dust" men would be brought to his knees , compelled to eat his own words , and be finally extinguished by the thunder of " Mr . Speaker . " All this was predicted by the Whig PreBB . and all these pleasant predictions were proven to be " unfounded . " Still , though Mr . Ferrand
was not brought to his knees ; though he did not eat his own words ; though he was not annihilated by the wig'd Jupiter of St . Stephens , still the Whig hacks clung to tbe desperate hope that the Member for Kiiaresborough was " txtinguisbed . " His charges had been " voted by the House" " unfounded and calumnious , " and he was therefore done ; as a pubbo character lie was clean gone I Ah ! the knaves ; " the wish was father to the thought !" But Mr . Ferrand is not " extinguished . " On the contrary the pamphlet before us fairly puts the extinguisher upon his villifiers and denunciators , particularly the " notorious" public character to whom it is addressed .
Mr . Ferrand commences in bis nsnal straightforward style : — 41 On Monday evening ( April 22 nd ) , wben you and others attempted , in the House of Commons , to enlighten the grunstieal understandings of Hon . Members , t < y explanations of the meaning of words and combi-BL ^ tions of words , well calculated to form an important appendix to the hitherto approved works of Johnson , Ma tray , fcc . —it did not , doubtless , escape your observation that I , sticking to my plain old English , carefully absta ined from extending to you the assurance that ' you \ vere mistaken in supposing that I had charged you with v * bat was dUbenest and dishonourable . '
Perceiving and resenting this distinction , and relying upon the al < ost i mpenetrable secrecy of the Home Office affairs , yon rami HUately rose and demanded , 'that tbe accusations agab wt you « honld be clearly aod untqulvocally stated , an . i the foundation on which tbey rested be examined \ vithout delay . * Sir , had your own crimination , in yi * tr own handwriting bien , at that very moment , in i xy pocket , it should never have been produced by m » before the House of Commoitflj but it is a duty I owe both to myself aod to tba public to set before it , ox it of that House , tboce dnnmataoees connecting you a vith the disgraceful tnnaction respecting Mr . Mott aft 1 th » Xbtthley Union , to which at Leeds I made « o la "tot an allusion . "
Of course we cannot go through Mr . Ferrand ' s pamphlet . We ea . ^ only eay that to us Ub contents are perfectly ek ^ isfMtory , and will , we doubt sot , Btarnp convietioi ^ on the minds of til who peruse it . One thing i ^ plain ,. **» otorion » as the Bun at noon-day t" that Sir Janes Graham represented to the HouBe of t ^ Vmrnona that Mott was a person whose veracity wa . \ nnimpeachable . His wordB were : " I am not awar ' **'¦** . * n ¥ circumstance which ought to dispose me to ^ bink any statement made by him to be untrue ; and v ' cisdeeJaration was made at a time , when , as Mr . Fexi V" * to ' ainpbantly proves , Sir James Graham knew tL " ** * h ® aw Mott biflpnrpoiely prepared * report eonc TOipg tr « iEafltiocs in the tovrn of Bolton , which had > M « declared
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Alleged Poisoning at Stepney . —Mr . James Cockbnrn Belaney kept a shop as dispensing surgeon , a few years since , in C-mnon-strtet-road , Commercialroad , and there made acquaintance with a Captain Clarke , who was for some time his patient , and they ultimately became iory intimate . It does not appear from the evidence wby Mr . Bellaney quitted London ; but , being much attached to old English sports , and more particularly to hawking , be , in the interim , published a book comprehending tha whole subject of falconry , not only aa regards the sport itself , with the training , finding , fee , but also furnishing a compendious notice of ali tha birds of the hawk genus . There was no evidence as to Mr . Belaney ' s pursuits or mode
of life from the time he ( oft Cannon-street , which , from the evidence of Captain Clarke , appears to have been about four yean since , until his return on Tuesday week with a young and lovely wife , to waom he appeared to be devotedly attached , and who requited his love with equal affection . On arriving in London from Berwick-upon-Tweed , Mr . Belaney took lodgings at the house of Mrs . Hippingstall , 48 , Green-street , Stepney , With tbe view of being near his friend , Captain Clark , with whose daughter , Mrs . | M'Eachern , he proposed to leave his wife , then seven months advanced in pregnancy , whilst he himself went up the Rhine , not , as has been stated , for botanical purposes , bat to procure new materials for another edition of bis work on falconry . On the Saturday after their arrival , about nine
o'clock , just before breakfast , Mrs . Hippingstall was called suddenly up by Mr . Belaney , who said his wife was very ill . On reaching the bed-chamber , she found the upper part of the deceased ' s body dreadfully convulsed . Mr . Bulaney was greatly alaraied . He requested that Captain Clark and Mrs . M'Eachern should at once be sent for , and ordered warm water to bathe his wife's feet , which was instantly procured , and he commenced rubbing them . He also rubbed her hands , and wben Mr . Clark and Mra . M'Eachern arrived friction with a brush was tried , but without effect , aa Mrs . Belaney died from fifteen to twenty minutes after Mrs . Hippingstall was called jup-slairs . Mr . Belaney , in answer to some observation of Mrs . Hipptngatall , said bis wife was subject to fits , but that he never saw her
so strongly affected before . He attributed her death to disease of the heart , of which ) he said her mother had died nine months previously . Dr . Gairett , of the New-road , St . Gdorge'a-in-the-East , was Bent for , but before his arrival life was quite extinct . The death being so sudden ,. Mr . Garret' sngnested the propriety of having an inquest held , to which Mr . Belaney at once assented . Between tha interval of the death of Mrs . Belaney and the calling of tbe Coroner ' s Inquest , Mr . Belaney on several occasions said to Captain Clark , " O , my God , I ' m the cause of all this through my gross' neglect ; " bnt the C . iptain saving heard him say that bis wife was' of a costive habit of body , understood him to mean that he failed to administer medicine at the proper time . On
the Monday when the post , mortem examination had taken place Captain Clark and Hit . Belaney called upon Mr . Garrett , the surgeon , to inquire whether tbe cause of Mrs . Belaney ' s death had been ascertained ; but that gentleman evaded tr > e answer by saying that he and the other surgeon , Mr . Curling , had not sufficiently considered the ease to express an opinion on it . Returning from Mr . Garrett's , Mr . Belaney said to Captain Clark , " Let us go where jt will be more private ; " and , In getting into a retired place , Belaney said , "O I Captain Clark , my beloved wife died through my neglect in letting heir get at the wrong medicine . " Captain Clark replied , * ' Letting her get at trie wrong medicine , doctor ! What was it she had ? " > To which Mr . Belaney replied : ¦ ' Poison . " The captain , terribly shocked at
bearing such an answer , asked ..- " What poison 1 " To which Mr . Belaney replied : ' Prussia acid . " ?« Is it possible , " asked Captain Clark , " that you , doctor , ould have given it to her ? " To which ha replied , 11 thank God , I have not that to charge myself with . " When Captain Clark ' s surprise and alarm had subsided , he proposed that they should communicate the matter to their mutual friend Mr . Hobson , a bookseller , in the Commercial-road , who strongly recommended that Mr . G . irreU should be informed of all the the circumstances . Captain Clark asked Mr . Belaney wby he did not at once Bay bow tbe thing occurred , to wbicb tbe latter replied . " I intended from the first to disclose all to you . but I was so ashamed of tbe disgrace which my want of caution would throw not on myself
only , bnt on my friends nnd family , that I could not bring myself to tell it . " On saying this Mr . Belaney was so overcome that he had ! t » be supported on the way to Mr . Garrett ' s . When ] they arrived there Mr . Belaney made a statement to Mr . Garrett , to the effect that he was in tbe habit of taking prassic acid for indigestion , in doses of from three 1 to ten drops , according to its strength , sometimes twice a week , and that having taken a dose on the Friday previous to his wife ' s death , in replacing the phial he pressed the stopper closely down . On Saturday morning , intending to take another dsse , he found a difficulty in taking out the stopper , which be tapped wi h the handle of a toothbrush until the neck was broken , and some of the liquid spilled . To save the remainder be poured
it into a tumbler which was on a cheat of drawers opposite to tbe foot of tbe bed on which bis wife lay , and went to tbe parlour to get another phial . Seeing a number of Punch en tbe table ! be took it up and read it for a few minutes- Remembering then that be bad a letter to write to his brother , a clergyman in tbe country , be sat down to hie desk . Immediately after be heard a scream from bis wife's bed room , on which he ran in , and found her with la tumbler in her hand . She cried ont , " O , I drunk some of that hot drink : give me some cold water . " He took the tumbler from her band and emptad out the contents , about a wine-glassful His supposition was , that having taken salts in the morning , she bad got out of bed to take some water , and , not perceiving the acid in the tumbler ,
though Bhe knew be was in the habit of taking it , rilled it with water and drank from ] the glass . These circumstances becoming public , Mr . Bellaney was arrested until the result of the Coroner ' a inquest was known . At the resumed inquest on Thursday , tbe 13 th , Dr . Lethely , of Tredegar-square , detailed at length the teats by which be had tried the contents of tbe deceased ' s stomach , . and discovered in it the presence of prussio aoid , as well as some traces of magnesia and Epsom salts . He was quite sure that the elements used in testing the contents of the stomach acted no further than merely to eliminate the results which he - had stated . He could not say what quantity of tbe poison had been taken into the system of the deceased , or whether it was sufficient to destroy life . Taken in a pure state one drop , or even half a drop , would be quite sufficient to destroy life . Three
drops diluted with 120 drops of water would produce the same effect . He bad seen one drop let fall on the eye of a large Newfoundland dog in complete health , and it fell dead on the instant Two drachms of the pnanuacofttial prussio acid inone instance produced symptoms close upon death , but by great efforts the patient rallied , and was recovered . lit . Gantett , aurgeon , being recalled / said , that the husband of the deceased admitted to him that he destroyed tbe phial which contained the prasaio aoid after hi « wife ' s deatk . It appeared that Mr . Bslaney ; was known by several parties who were in the habit of taking email dotea of prussio add , and that be had purchased tae last from Mr . Donoghue , a surgeon in White Horse ^ street , 8 tepney . It was further given in evidence teat Mr . Belaney had not practised aata aurgeon for several years . The inquest was adjourned to the following Monday . !
A Hint to Phbenologists . —On the first day of the Emperor of Russia ' s arrival , he visited Storr and Mortimer * * , and ordered jewellery to the amount of £ 6 , 000 . The second day , the nobility rushed in hundreds to call upon the Emperor . How largely the bump of "bnuff-box-ativbness" mast foe developed in oar aristocracy 1 J
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 22, 1844, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1268/page/3/
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