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THE HOLY ALLIANCE OP NATIONS . IMITATED FBOJ £ BEBANGER . insatiate War his bloody wings unfurled , And fled the fields Ms demon hands had torn , juid bcaven-bom Peace descended on the world , Flinging around her flowers and ears of corn . « O !" sai 3 the goddess , "hear , ye nations , hear ! English , French , German—all contending landsform 3 n alliance holy and sincere , And join , join hands ! « 0 roan 1 poor lump of sanguinary mud ; Open your eyes , and be no longer blind ; vniy snonld ye ra-e and shed each other ' s blood , Because 3 ome tyrant thinks his realm confined ? VThy , when he mounts his chariot should ye cheer , E ' en though Ids hot wheels crush the trodden lands jorm an alliance hol y and sincere .
- Andjom , join hands ! « Lo' ' mong the com , now bruised and trampled down , Ten thousand soldiera breathed their dying groans ; ipd at each border , fort , and frontier town The barren soil grows rich with human hones ; The lurid war-torch , blazing far and near , Has filled with terror all the suffering lands . Form an alliance holy and sincere . And join , join hands ! " Should millions perish in their cursed strife , Still monarchy think their battles cheaply won ; fThatdo they care for wasting human life ? They gain a province and the thing is done ! "Then up to hearen then- haughty heads they rear , And prate of glory to the bleeding lands . Form an alliance holy and sincere , And join , join hands !
' ¦ TTliy should your glory , founded on your woe , Dazzle jour eyes , and yoke you to their car ? Are ye the gainers by their warlike show ! Fools that ye ' ve been , short-sighted that ye are , "Why should these tyrants trouble thus your sphere , And with their quarrels decimate the hinds ? Form an alliance holy and sincere , And join , join hands ! " Yes , free and happy let the world repose—Sheathed be the sword—and be the cannon dumb Ana let the memory of your former woes * Make you the wissr in the days to come . " Then shall ripe corn-fields all your labours cheer , And the red vintage gladden all the lands . Form an alliance holy and sincere , And join , join hands !
ThUS to the nallOIlS spoke the seraph Peace—The vintage ripened and the rich corn grew—Men bade their straggles and their warfare cease , And youths and maidens danced upon the dew . Then hear , ye nations ! hear , ye peoples , hear ! Freedom and wealth shall gladden all your lands , trhenthat alliance , holy and sincere , Has joined all hands
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SEVER GIVE OP . Sever give up I it is wiser and better Always to hope than once to despair : Flhsg off the load of Doubt ' s cankering fetter , Aad break Hie dark spdl of tyrannical care ] Sever give up ; or the burden may sink you—Providence kindly has mingled the cup , And , in all trials or troubles , bethink you , Tie watdiword of life must be , Never give up ! Never give up 2 there are chances and changes Helping the hopeful a hundred to one , And through the chaos High 'Wisdom arranges Sver success—if you'll only hope on : Sever give up ! for the wildest is boldest , Xnowing that Providence mingles the cup ; And of all maxims the best , as the oldest , Is the true watchword of If ever give up ! Sever give up I—tho' the grape-shot may rattle , Or the full thunder-cloud over you burst , Stand like a rock , —and the storm or the battle
Little shall harm you , though doing then- worst : If ever give up ! if adversity presses , Providence wisely has mingled the cup , And the best counsel , in all your distresses , Is the stout watchword of Nertr give up !
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THE XSHRONIOLES orTUE IfASTILE : Tl C ixewby , Mortimer-street , Cavendish-square . ' f Continued from the NortJ , em Star of February 15 th ) « J ™ * —T ' 7 « / o V " Ulst *» the involuntary excWion of all who read this most excellent work . SS 2 , r ? ^ f ^ r aggle . deadly the strife , the commencement ofwhich saw the destruction of the hated Bastile ; but though many , a deed of horror was perpetrated in that Revolution which the lovers of liberty must ever deplore few conversant with the previous state of France will be found , we think , who will not regard that change as the happiest event which the human race has yet witnessed . We hear much of the horrors of the "reign of terror ; " but let any one read this work , and then sav whether tlmt . ti » rww ;« m , vn » ________
not unavoidable , and the necessary consequence of the damnable despotism which preceded the Revolution Historians have counted flie victims of the Revolutionary Tribunal ; hut they have mostly been altogether silent as to the number of victims * who year bv year , for centuries , had been silently sacrificed " ™ this accursed den ; their only offence that they had incurred the dislike of the reigning tyrant , or some royal courtesan or minister . Men were seized on the authority of a lettre-de-eaehet , and without being acquainted vrith . their alleged offence were immured in this horrible dungeon , where theyremainedduringthe will of their persecutors . If then . - deatli was deemed more necessary than their continued incarceration , they wore either secretly dispatched , or put into the hellish
cages , where death after a time relieved them of their sufferings . Within forty-six years , the number of prisoners who mysteriously disappeared from the Bastile , without any vestige remaining to attest their fate , amounted to two thousand ; these being over and above the number of prisoners who durin " that time were liberated , or who died a " natural death . " It is fortunate for Captain Warxer that he was not born a Frenchman—a Frenchman , we mean , of a century back ; had he been so unfortunate , his blowing-up discoveries would assuredly have blown him intothe Bastile . In the reign of Louis Quinze , an individual named Bnux de Condamixe having invented a kind of exploding bullet , communicated his discovery to Monsieur de ' SARMSEs , then Lieutenant of Police , in hopes of inducing the Government to purchase the secret , but instead of which he was
shortly afterwards arrested and conveyed to the Bastile . Hence , he attempted to escape , and had succeeded in lowering himself from the parapet of the towers , when unfortunately the cord broke by which he hung suspended , and he fell into the ditch ; the sentinel fired at and wounded him ,- and brought Jnin before the Governor , De Launey , who ordered him to be cast into the dungeon of the ditch for eiglit days , and to be fed only on half allowance of bread and water . The register does not state whether this unfortunate man was liberated ; the probability is , therefore , that he was either secretly murdered , or succumbed under the tortures to which he was subjected . This same Governor De Launev was on the storming of the Bastile , on the 14 th of July , 1789 , hewed in pieces by the triumpliant people . Righteous retribution ! So perish all the accursed agents of tvrannv !
In the limits we are necessarily confined to , we have found it impossible to detail the plot of the Chronicles , we liave therefore been compelled to leave it to the reader to judge of the work by the specimens we have from time te time given . In our last number we gave an extract- descriptive of one of the modes of torture to which the unhappy prisoners were sometimes subjected . The following extract describes a successful attempt at escape from this accursed edifice ; an attempt but rarely made , or at least but rarelv successful : —
THE ESCAPE OF ST . LEU FROM THE BASTILE . Judging of the height of the towers from that of his cell , from the number of stories , and the space between each , he calculated upon requiring about a hundred and twenty feet of rope , but great was his dismay when he discovered that every available article of wearing apparel that he possessed , added to the sheets and blankets of his bed , would not , when twisted into strands of the requisite strength , make up more than half the necessary quantity ; still , he wrought on , with increasing assiduity , until he had no more materials te work with , save his outward
garments , the sacking of his bed , the slight cords that held it together , and the bed-clothes themselves . In this dilemma , he feigned indisposition , in order to have a show of excuse for not getting up , and so far imposed upon Ru , as to induce this individual to supply him with an additional blanket and a coverlet ; these rapidly shared the fate of the others , so that on the fifth day from the commencement of his task , he had , by weaving all these articles together in strips , into what is , by sailors , called "tmcelaid , " completed a rope of tolerable strength , and of fourteen lengths , each length averaging about five fbet * * #
As the only materials lie now had at hand , to finish the rope , could not be used without attracting Ru ' s attention to their disappearance , St . Leu found it necessary to fix upon a night for making the contemplated attempt , purposing to attain the platform by means of the chimney , and thence , with the assistance of the rope , to decend inte the great ditch , and gain the Seine through the small moat by which the former was fed . He had no time to wait for a favourable opportunity wherefore as the nights at that season were verj- long , and very dark , he chose the following evening—the sixth after his interview with Julie—though the difficulties that threatened him were materially augmented by the fact of a large quantity of snow having fallen , rendering a discovery br the sentinels more to be apprehended ; the die , however , was cast ; he had gone too far to recede , and delay might prove fetal to his project !
That day fled , but slowly ; the night came , and waned but more slowly still ! Would to-morrow never dawn ? oh yes ! the morrow came , and with it , snow and wind ! noon-tide too passed , and still the snow fell , and the wind blew ; night succeeded , with more snow and move wind ' St . Leu watched the white flakes as they descended , and liPesed to the howling of the storm ! the sound pleased him ! Seven o ' clock struck ; Ms heart leaped : the time he had so anxiously looked forward to had arrived . As soon as Ru had paid him his last visit , St . Leu took out the rope and examined it , length by length , subjecting it to the heaviest strain he was capable of , with a view to test its Strength ; the result proved satisfactory : to ebwplete it was his next task , and to this he applied himself
with an earnestness and an energy of purpose that the emergency increased tenfold . Every article in the cell , available as a substitute for yarn , now came into requisition : tlie sacking of -his vrretdied coueh- ^ the old , and half-rotten green serge of the same that served for curtains—all that remained of his bedding , even to the tick of themattrass—his own outer ga rnients— -coat—waist coat neckerchief every shred of raiment , was turned to account ! He stationed himself near the narrow window of Ids cell , and listened as he worked to the chimes that marked the fleeting hours ! eight o ' clock—nineten ! still his task remained incomplete ! eleven struckthen midnight ! another half hour and all would be ready at lasthis work was done !
Having again assured himself of the strength of his rope , as far as the means for so doing would allow , he coiled it over his left arm , breathed a brief prayer , and with a firm heart commenced his perilous
adventure . With some difiiculty , he forced his way up the narrow chimney as far as tlie elbow , where the obstruction existed which he had cleared away , as related in a former chapter : here , over his head , an iron bar , similar to the one he had already bent aside , stopped his egress : however he at last succeeded in . removing it also , and soon gained tlie aperture above , which was scarcely large enough to afford his . body a passage—indeed , had he retained his clothes , he could not have got through it . He was rejoieed to find that the storm continued with unabated violence , and that the wind , which blew most boisterously , came from the north-cast , placing- him to leward of the sentinels . The night too was very black , though the snow that had fallen—and which still
continued to drift blindingly in every direction , save straight down—rendered surrounding objects perfectly distinguishable , so that he could even plainly see the sentry-boxes at the further end of the platform ; one of these stood not forty feet from the aperture he lay concealed in , which , fortunately for him , was situated at the angle the tower of the Bertaudiere formed with the masenry that connected it with the Baziniere , so that he could reconnoitre unuerceived : the unlooked-for circumstance startled him at first , but a few minutes sufficed to restore his courage , for he soon remarked that the sentinel had taken refuge within , leaving the road comparatively froo : hardly daring to draw breath , he gradually emerged from his hiding-place , shivering and benumbed , and as the neighbouring clocks struck one , set his foot upon the platform : there was now no receding *
With the stealthiness of the cat , he crept on his hands and knees to the nearest embrasure , and , under cover of the piece of field-artillery with which it was furnished , proceeded to attach his rope to the wheel thereof , taking the precaution to cast the coil over the battlements , ready for use . This operation occupied some tune , for his hands and limbs werenot onJy chafed , swoHen , andlacerated , butdeailoned from the effects of cold , so that he could hardly use them : atlcngth , however , he completed his task in safety , and having ascertained that the rope was securely fastened , cautiously raised himself for the purpose of commencing his fearful descent , when the sentinel suddenly came out of his bos and began parading the platform / passing backwards and forwards within twenty paces of the embrasure in which he now again lay crouched , a prey to the severest mental and bodily anguish that can be conceived .
Twice , when the vigilant guardian s back was turned , did St . Leu creep towards the embrasure , with the design of placing : that barrier between them , and twice was he compelled to forego his intention , for the soldier * s walk was so short , his facs might be said to have been turned almost always one way : but hesitation now was madness , for the success of his attempt depended upon his decision and firmness ; taking advantage therefore of the same favourable opportunity that had already twice offered itself , St . Leu bounded towards the battlement , when a fierce gust drove the blinding sleet and snow into the sentry ' s face , causing him to turn suddenly round : he caught sight of tlie strange figure before him—the click of the musket—the q « i-vhe told St . Leu that he was discovered . Dashing forwards unarmed , naked , as he was —he grasped the man by the throat—and a short but desperate straggle ensued , during which the musket exploded : placing his foot in-the middle of the soldier ' s body , he wrenched the weapon from his grasp , and swing-
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ing it over his head . lvitfi Wbuttend laid him ' senseless at his feet : the next moment he hung suspended iu ' thc air : he had « ommenced his frightful descent { Meanwhile , the other sentinels rushed to the succour of their comrade , but stupified by exposure to the inclement m ht , looked about for the fugitive in every directionsave the right one—discharging their pieces ' in the air , in order to rouse the garrison . The alarm now became general , though some time elapsed nrsf , for the wind was so high , it drowned the vociferations of the soldiers on the towers—bawling out to their comrades on the roundaway—who knew not where to look , nor what to do , until one of them perceived a white figure dangling in mid-way air , rapidly descending from the towers into the ditch , and at which lie levelled his musket , and flred , but without efioct , although it served to put his companions or . the proper track . •
St . Leu had by this time descended more than halfway , but his position was frightful in the extreme ; having nothing to steady his descent , he was swinging about back-Wardsiand forwards , in imminent danger of being dashed to pieces ag-ainst the massive stone-work , < and owed his safety only to his presence of mind , which he still retained , even at that critical juncture . His sole aim was to reach the ditch beneath him , which he saw was frozen over , for the snow laid thick upon the surface of the ice ; he therefore continued lowering himself , heedless of the uproar , or of the strife of the elements that raged above , and around , and on all sides of him , his only fear being as to the strength of the rope , upon which the strain increased every moment , causing it now and then to crack , and reminding him of the frail materials that it was composed of , so vividly , that his fingers seemed to interrogate each thread , as if to ascertain the safety of that particular one on wliich his life was at that precise moment hung .
He had yet a distance of some twenty-five or thirty feet to descend , when to his utter dismay , he came to the end of his rope—and atthe same instant he felt that somebody was pulling it above : a moment ' s hesitation—only a moment ' s—but what a moment that 1—he loosed his hold and dropped . ' a rush of air—a suspension of breath—a stunning blow , a sensation of his bones being all broken at once—and the next instant he was immersed in water , and mud , and ice , and snow , and blinding darkness J But life—life—was his only thought , notwithstanding S He rose to the surface , and pushing- aside the broken , jagged masses of ice , succeeded in gaining a footing upon a firmer part ; he had , however , escaped one danger only to encounter another .
He was yet separated from the small moat , which he sought to gain , by the whole width of the great ditch , into which he had fallen , and the space between the Bertaudiere and the Baziniere towers , a distance of nearly seventy yards , in traversing which his person would offer a Sure mark to the sentinels on the round-away , who were now aware of his position ; fortunately , however , the biting wind blew direct in then * face , driving before it a shower of tiny , frozen arrows , that nearly deprived them of vision , the intolerable pain diverting their attention from the fugitive to themselves ' . St , Leu scrambled forwards on all-fours—the ice cracking , and bending , and breaking under him , until he reached the middle of the great ditch , when a shot from one of the sentinels—for he was now within twenty yards of the round-away—took effect on his person , passing obliquely through the fleshy part of his arm . Regardless of the anguish , and of tlie additional danger to which he was now exposed , he started to his feet , bounded forwards , and reached the small
moat . This moat —which likewise formed the outermost boundary of the gardens of tlie arsenal—communicated with the Seine , and was about forty feet wide , and of the same depth as the great ditch ; over it , at about fourteen or fifteen yards from its point of junction with tlie latter , fell a triple draw-bridge , defended on the inner side by a corps-de-garde . Hearing the shots and the shouts of their comrades , the soldiers on duty here lowered the bridge and rushed , in amass , to the first outer court , in order to learn the cause of the outcry ; they passed within twenty feet of the wounded and trembling fugitive , who , the better to conceal himself , crouched down into the snow ; he saw them run across the bridge , and heard their halloos to their comrades—he heard , too , the chains of the great draw-bridge clank , and its ponderous hinges grate—he could see the flash and flicker of their torches , and distinguish the hurried tramp of his pursuers' footsteps drawing every instant nearer and nearer ; then , a shout of exultation—they were on his track—the snow had betrayed the direction he had taken !
Life—life—liberty—Julie ! and again he . rushed onwards—gasping—exhausted ! Another shout ! they wove nearer ! another effort , and he could place the massive outer wall of the Bastile between them and him ! On on ! on 1 over the rotting ice , or immersed in the gelid waters that it covered ! now wading through them—now scrambling over the unsafe masses on its surface—or leaping and running when a footing offered ; but still on —on—on ! St . Leu had now gained that portion of the smaller moat where it was traversed by the outer wall of the Bastile , a small arch of about five feet in length—the thickness of the wall—forming the junction between it and the moat of the arsenal gardens . But here—between
him and Ids liberty—a formidable barrier interposed itself , in the shape of a harrow-fjrmed grating , fixed into the arch and descending to within a foot of the water-mark , and at the bottom of which bristled a chevaux-dc-frize he hesitated : it was only for a moment : the voices , and the tramp of footsteps in his rear told him he was lost if he paused longer : he drew one long breath , burs , t through the rotten ice with his feet , and plunged ! a long halfminute followed ! a noise as of a thousand drums beating all at once , or of as many guns going off all at the same moment , filled his ears ! still he groped on beneath the water , guidiug himself by the bank — then his head touched n substance ; with his last remnant of strength , he forced upwards—lie breathed again—the last barrier was passed—he was free !
We believe some fourteen or fifteen numbers of this work are published , of which we have as yet received but eleven : when the remaining numbers come to hand they shall be duly noticed . In the meantime , we earnestly recommend the Chronicles to the reading world in general , and to every lover of liberty in particular .
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PUNCH'S COMPLETE LETTER-WRITER . By Douglas Jerrold . Punch Office , Fleet-street . " It is an ill wind , " says the proverb , " that blows nobody good j" meaning that most winds , however ill , do * blow some good ; and of this we have an instance in the work before us . Too much of anything but good is , we fear , too chargeable to Sir Jamks Graham ; and not the least of the odious acts which Will cause his llaine to beheld in disreputable remembrance long after his official career shall have ceased , will be his un-English and most infamous Post-office espionage . Atrocious and odious , howevev , as were tlie nets of the Minister in this particular matter , it is , we believe , to these malpractices , or at least the discovery of them , that the public arc
indebted for the excellent letters which , under the above title , have been given to the world by Douglas Jerrold . These letters originally appeared in Punch ; but to those who have read them in their original shape , we beg to ultimate that their re-perusal in their present form will be found a treat which might hardly be anticipated ; for the fact is , that the Complete Letter Writer is now made really complete , its attractions being greatly increased by the letters being collected and placed together . Those who had not the pleasuvc of reading the letters as they appeared mPunth , will do well to purchase the volume without delay . We promise them that their only regret when they come to the conclusion , will be that , instead of fifty letters , there are not five hundred of the like excellent quality . Where all are excellent it is impossible to single out
particular letters for special praise . But as ouv readers will expect a specimen of the contents , we select the following , by a guardian in reply to a young gentleman ( his ward ) , who has expressed his desue to enter the army . " We cannot afford room for the 3 'oung gentleman ' s letter , but we should premise that the writer expresses himself as being ' passionately enamoured of a soldier ' s life . It is not , he alleges , the outward trappings that attract him , but the abstract glory : his heart throbs at the achievements of conquerors ; the game of war is a pastime for gods : he exults in the idea of death , in the bed of glory , and a whole country weeping over his ashes ; fie wishes to see tlie sublime spectacle of a German review ; above all , after the fury of battle is passed , how glorious the privilege of succouring the wounded and protecting the helpless , In reply to these rayings we give the
ANSWER OF THE GCARDIAN TO THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN My Dear Arthur , —I thought more highly of your discrimination . I believed that you knew me better than to make SO foolish a proposition . My opinions on war aria its instruments are , I know , not the opinions of the world ; it would save the world—I am vain enough to think—much guilt , much misery , if they were so . You , doubtless , believe your letter the result of im honest enthusiasm ; and yet , to my fancy , it is nothing more than the folly of a boy , who , unconscious of his prompter , writes with a fiend dictating at his elbow . Yes , my boy , a fiend ; he is too often busy among us— -one of the vilest and most mischievous demons of all the
brood of wickedness . To be sure , he visits men not m his own name ^ -oh no ! he comes to them in the finest clothes and under the pettiest alias . He is clothed in gay colours—has yards of gold trimming about him—a fine feather hi his cap—silken flags fluttering over himmusic at his heels—and his lying , swindling , name is—Glory . Strip the thing so called , and how often will you find the abhorred nakedness of a demon . Be assured of it , fife and drum make the devil's choicest music . He blows and beats—for , being a devil , he can do this at the same time—and makes the destructive passions of men twist and wriggle in the hearts of even peaceful folk , and with the magic of his tattoo drives them on to mischief . You know , people say I have stn . r . jro , violent thoug hts . Well ! I think every sheep whose skin is turned into drum , parchment , has been sacrificed not to the gods but devil ? . You tell me that you are smitten with glory in the abstract—with its naked honour . Pooh ! like a poor-souled footman , you are content to take the blows for the fineness of the livery .
You say , that when you read the history of conquerois , you yearn to become a soldier . Well , I dispute it not ; there have been men made soldiers by tyranr- ' and " wrong , whose memories may , like the eternal stars , shine down upon us ; these men maybe envied . But I , too , have read the lives of conquerors ; and , as I lire , they no
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more tempted me to emulate them , ' than tlie reading ' of the Newgate Calendar would make me yearn to turn footpad or house-breaker . At best , soldiers are the evils of the earth—the children of human wrong and human weakness . Understand me ; I would not have men ground arms , and , with quakcr-like submission , cry " friend" to the invader . Iicvertheless , do not let us prank up a dire necessity with all sorts of false ornament , and glorify wholesale ' liomicidtf . \ ou say war is tlse pastime of gods . Homer tells US as much . . And pretty gods they were who played at the sport ! In my time , I have known many men who , for very humbly imitating them in some of their amusements , have died on the gallons or withered on board the hulks . I trust the time will come when it will bring as great shame to men to mimic Mars , as it now deals upon the other sex to imitate Venus .
You talk glibly enough of the bed of glory . What is it ? A battle-field , with thousands blaspheming in agony abOKt VOU \ Your last moments Sweetened , it may be , with the thought that somewhere on the ' field lies a bleeding piece of your handiwork—a poor wretch in the death-grasp of torture ! Truly , that is a bed of greater glory which is surrounded by loving hearts—by hands uplifted in deep , vet cheerful prayer . There are thoughts , too—it is n \ y belief—better , sweeter far than thoughts of recent slaying , to help the struggling soul from out its tenement .
lou talk , too , of the nation ' s tears ! In what museum does the nation keep her pocket-handkerchiefs ? Depend upon it , nations that loce to fight , are not the nations that love to weep . I grant it , many a fine , simple fellow , has died in the belief of being wept over by his country , who has nevertheless been shamefully defrauded of his dues . My dear boy , never sell your life for imaginary drops of water . And then you rave about laurel—an accursed plant of fire and blood . Count up all the crowns of Ctesar , and for the honest , healthful service of man , are they worth one summer cabbage !
. You would wish to see the German review—you think it so noble a sight % Be assured , if you can teach your eyes to look through the spectacles of truth , there cannot be a sadder , a more rueful exhibition—one reflecting more upon the true dignity of human nature—one more accusatory of the wisdom and goodness of man—than thousands of men dressed and harnessed , and nicely schooled for the destruction of their fellow-creatuves . All their finery , all their trappings , are to me but the gimcraekery of the father of wickedness . In my time , I have seen thousands of soldiers drawn up , with a bright sky shining above them ; and I have thought them a foul mass—a blot—a shame upon the beautiful earth—an affront to the beneficence of heaven ! But then , I have odd thoughtsstrange opinions .
You say it will be sweet , the battle over , to solace the wounded . My dear boy , it will be sweeter far not to begin the battle at all . It may be very humane to apply the salve after you have dealt the ga 6 h—but surely it would be better wisdom , truer humanity , to inflict no hurt . And , in time , men will learn this truth ; they are learning it ; and as I would not sec you in a profession which I trust is speedily becoming bankrupt , you will never , with my consent , purchase into the army , Your affectionate friend , Benjamin Allpeacf . As a satirist of existing frauds and follies , few , if any , writers of the present day can compete with 1
Douglas Jerrold . This volumo is anotheradded to the list of Ms offerings at the shrine of truth , and will be found an excellent promoter of the gpod cause of rig ht against wrong . The . letters are illustrated by Kenny Meadows , whose cuts are admirably in keeping with the satire of the author . We earnestly recommend this work to our readers , and hope that it will have an extensive circulation .
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THE PENNY NOVELIST , AND LIBRARY OF ROMANCE . Cleave , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street . - Have our readers seen this publication ? Doubtless some of them have , but in all probability not near so many as would have done had they been aware of its merits . The Penny Novelist is no new experiment , the success of which is yet to be tested ; its success is already proven , as the four volumes already published sufficiently testify . The fifth volume is now in course of publication , and will be found full y equal , if not superior , to its predecessors . The most important of the contents of the volumes already published are the translations of Eugene Sue ' s works , wliich are fully and faithfull y rendered into English . Of this great writer ' s works the volumes contain— The Jli / steries of Paris ; Paulia Monti , or , the Hotel
Lambert ; The Salamander ; Arthur , or The Journal of an Unknown ; and The Wandering Jew . This last was commenced in tlie fourth volume and is continued in the fifth . We should state that the Penny Novelist is so printed that at the conclusion of a volume " The Wandering Jew" may be separated from the rest of the publication , each part forming two distinct works . This is a great advantage to those who may desire to have this singular romance separate from the miscellaneous ~ , tales of the Novelist .. To attempt the slightest sketch of the varied and entertaining contents of the firat four volumes , in addition to the works of Eugene Sue , is impossible , so numerous are the romances , novels , tales , &c , of this
surprising work . Hie Novelist must be seen to be understood—once seen , it cannot fail to be read , and the l'oadovcoimnerieingwjth . It , will , we arc certain , never tire of its entertainments . We understand that the work is stereotyped , and , therefore , that the whole of the numbers ' from the commencement may be had . To those who have not read , but who arc desirous of reading " The ifysteries of Paris" and the other works of EvaxxE Sue , we can confidently recommend these volumes , feeling assured that they will give unbounded satisfaction . While those who for the present are content to read the Wandering Jew , will do well to procure tho back and current numbers containing it . The four volumes already complete may be had , handsomely bound , of the publisher . We shall return to a further examination of the Penny Novelist as soon as we can afford room .
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" the health of the labourer . The great social difficulty that has beset us in the amelioration of the condition of the labourer , is at length solved . To the Duke of Richmond , we Believe , is to be attributed the happy discovery . Doubtless , when the full success of the plan is made manifest ; when , throughout the length and breadth of England , its wondrous agency is turning the huts of the labouring poor into abiding-places of substantial comfortwhen it is calling smiles into the labourer ' s cheek , and putting flesh upon his bones : and eivin&r him the
erect bearing and independent look of God's primest work—Alan ; then , we doubt it not , other claimants of the discovery will rise up , contesting with the Noble Duke of Richmond the originality of that stroke of philanthropic genius which has worked such blessed wonders . It has _ been so with the inventor of printing ; with the discoverer of the motive principle of steam . Be it then our rewarding task at once to claim for Riclunond his inalienable right to the gratitude of England ' s labourers . lie has discovered the infallible remedy for all their social ills . It is simply this : it is to drink their health .
Mr . Lane tells vis , that the Egyptian magicians enact their greatest wonders with merely a bowl of water . The Duke of Richmond performs his benevolent hocus-jjoeus with a glass of wine ! 0 , it is soothing to the soul , wearied and desponding from a contemplation of the crushing ills that press the very manhood out of thousands , to see a nobleman—philanthropic aa Prometheus—rise in a tavevn hall ; and with a -voice melodious as ten silver trumpets , give— "The Health of the Labourer !" There is no mistaking the look , the presence of the
man . He is rapt , sublimated by the greatness of his mission ; by the almost divine power of his discovery : " The Health of the Labourer !" Magical are the syllables ! What are they , in truth , but as the . words of some spirit-compelling wizard—some political Prospero—that are no sooner dropped from the lips of the speaker than they arouse a swarm of genii—working vassals of benevolence!—and away they fly to carry on their wings a healing balm to thousands and thousands ! So mighty is the necromancy of the toast , that when uttered , -it is easy for imagination to behold a very cloud of Ariels
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rising from tlie Freemasons' Tarcrh . East , vresb , north , and south they separate upon their glad mission . Some , carrying loaves—some , meat—some , kegs of nut-brown ale—aome , new raiment—and all of them alighting at the labourer ' s firclcss hearth , and calling cheerfulness and hope into his faee } and making his gaunt wife and pallid little ones smile at the miracle of sudden plenty . ' What'benevolent magic lies in that little sentence , " The Health of the Labourer ! " It is the " Open Sesame " to the heart of the country . .
And even when the labourer fails to receive the substantial sweetness of these fairy gifts , it is plain he is largely benefitted , though all unconsciously , by the magical toast . Therefore , let him take . heart . True it is , he may wither on seven shillings a week ; but then ; does not a Duke drink his health ? and such condescension must more than double the miserable Consider this , 0 labourer ! It is possible that all day you have wanted food—at night you need shelter and firing . There are sullen thoughts clouding your brain ; there is , too , a slow , withering heat at your vitals ; night is coming on , and you know not where to Jay your head . This , it must be owned , is an uncomfortable plight ; nevertheless , you may shake oft ' the misery like an , ugly dream ; for know , you have been toasted in a London tavern , "ies ; at the Freemasons' the Duke of Richmond has given—'' The Health of the Labourer !"
You are breaking stones in a Union yard . Let the thought of the toast touch your brain with music , and somehow try and hammer on the granite a grateful accompaniment to— " The Health of the Labourer !" Well , labourer , you fall sick ; it may be in the parish of Iver , in Buckinghamshire ; in the county of " the fanner's friend . " You are carted to Isleworth , and you ask for bread for yourself and wife . You cannot move ; but your wife , poor wretch ! has yet some strength , and so she is ordered to trudge From Ilillingdon to Uxbridge—and from Uxbridgc back to Isleworth , having walked in the cutting
winter air , onlyone-and-twenty miles , before melting charity gives her an order for grocery , price three shillings ! It is very wearying , it is sickening to the heart , it is enough to make you call upon death to take you from that despot , fellow-man ; it islvery wretched for you to wait the return of your wife on her hard pilgrimage of three-and-twenty miles . But take heart ! Be of good cheer ! Disease and famine have hold upon you ; but let this thought make them powerless—all that can be done , it done for you ; for amidst hurrahs and cheering clamours , somewhere in London , they drink " The Health of the Labourer ! " '
And , labourer , it maybe you are just turned in howling winter time from a comfortable gaol . You were sent thither for straying in search of work , that you might take your wife and offspring from the union . You could not make out the offence ; but the magistrates , hawk-e 3 'ed , saw it , and you were sent to gaol . There , you slough your labourer ' s rags , and are warmly clothed . Your sentence is suffered , and you are ,. discharged ; the warm convict clothing is taken from you , and your labourer ' s tatters restored . You shiver at the gaol ' s threshold ; for the icy wind maKcs you know the difforenco hotween the snug garments of a felon and the threadbare raiment of a working-man . Well , you trudge on ; but you have palpitation at the heart , and it is sore travelling with
you . At length you crawl into a wayside hovel ; and with one loaf , in withering December , you fight famine for three days ; your feet becoming gangrened with the blighting cold . Terrible thoughts must visit you in . that lone hovel ; you cannot but hold awful conimunings with the midnight blast , howling , to vtmr ears , like humanity about you . Nevertheless , you are not forgotten . No : wrong not humanity—landlordhumanity , and all its gushing impulses : for though you are starving , perishing ; though you are a piece of numbed , mortified , human refuse—a Duke remembers you , and gives "The Health of the Labourer !" And , labourer , you crawl from your hovel , and are
taken to the union . You die . You have been killed —murdered—by want and winter ' s cold . You are at length at peace ; and sleep the sweet sleep of death in a pauper's shell . You are carried to the pauper ' s ground ; and whilst the priest utters the words that confound all things in one undistinguislied heap of day—the pomp and the poverty of life , its emblazonments and its miseries ; while he utters " Ashes to ashes , dust to . dust , " let your spirit in its upward flight be comforted for . those of your earthly fellows vou have left behind ; for still , still will be drunk- " The Health of the Labourer !"
As some ducal landlords drink the health of the labourer while living , ao , to make the heartfelt solemnity complete , a Doctor Cantwcll should bury him when dead . '
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A New Engine of Destruction . —A Mr . Beming , of Jersey , has , we understand , after a lengthened period employed in constructing an electric gun , succeeded in completing his object , Wliich lie denominates a " siva .. " He has exhibited it several times , and demonstrated its amazing effects , which are most destructive . The continuous and rapid flight of balls discharged is scarcely credible . The simplicity of this wonderful work of mechanical art , as a projectile , is such , that it can be easily removed from place to place . It contains within itself the means of continuing to an indefinite period its power and capability of destruction .
More Wonderful than ( 5 | it : DutLi-:. —Some time ago , a paragraph went the round of the papers mentioning the discovery , by a Swedish doctor , of a means of preserving animals for ages in a state of torp idity , from which at any time they could be brought by certain applications again into active life . The following account , purporting to fee written by an eye-witness , we quote from an American periodical called the Magnet , where it is gravely , set forth , without comment , under the head "Extraordinary Discovery . "— " Professor Yon Grusselbach , of Stockholm , lias very lately brought to a state of perfection the art of producing a torpor of the whole system , by the application of cold of different degrees of intensity proceeding from a lesser to- a greater , so as to
cause tho human body to beoomo torpid , without permanent injury to any organ or tissue of the frame . In this state , bodies may remain a great number of years , and again , after a sleep of ages , be awakened to existence , as fresh , and blooming as they were when they first sunk into their frigoric slumber . The attention of the learned professor was first led to the subject by finding a toad enclosed in a solid fragment of calcareous rock , ten feet in diameter , which , when taken out , shewed unequivocal signs of life ; but it WAS supposed that the concussion caused by blasting the rock occasioned his death in a few hours after . The opinion of Baron Gruithizen , geologist to the King of Sweden , was , that it must have been in that situation for at least seven thousand years ;
his calculations being drawn from the different layers of strata by which it was surrounded . From this hint the professor proceeded to make experiments ; and after a laborioua course of experiments for the last twenty-nine years of his life , he has at last succeeded in perfecting this great discovery . No less than sixty thousand reptiles , shell-fish , &c ., were experimented on , before he tried the human subject . The process is not entirely laid before the public a $ yet , \ )\\{ I ha « the honour , in company with a friend , of visiting the professor . I shall give a slight description of one of the outer rooms , containing some of liis preparations . Previous to entering we were each furnished with an india-rubber bag , to wliich was attached a mask with rlass eves . This was put ou to prevent the
temperature of the room from being varied in the slightest degree by our breathing . It was a circular room , lighted from the top by the sun ' s rays , from which the heat was entirely disengaged by its passage through glass , &c , coloured by the oxide of copper ( a late discovery , and very valuable to the professor ) . The room is shelved all round , and contains nearly one thousand specimens of animals , Ac . One was a Swedish girl , aged , from appearance , about nineteen years , who was consigned to the professor by order of the Government , to be experimented upon , having been found guilty of murdering her child , "With the exception of a slight paleness , she appeared as if asleep , although she has been in a state of torpor for two years . He intends , he says , to resuscitate her hi five more vears , and convince the world of the
soundness of his wonderful discovery . The professor , to gratify us , took a small snake otit of his cabinet into another room , and although it appeared to us to be perfectly dead and rigid as marble , by application of a mixture of cayenne pepper and brandy , it shewed immediate signs of life , and was apparently as active as ever it was in a few minutes , although the pvofessor assured us that it had been in a state of torpor for six years . "—This narration is decidedly inferior to tlie ' clever story about the inhabitants of the moon , which emanated from brother Jonathan a few years ago as a veritable scientific discovery . But whether it is to be ranked in the same category , or in that of those truths which arc " stranger than fiction , " our readers are left to determine in accordance with their various experience and phrenological
developments . Restoration op the Portland Vase . —The public and connoisseurs will leam with sincere gratification that this invaluable relic of antiquity , although so seriously fractured and mutilated , is considered by Sir Henry EllJa to be capable , to a certain extent , of restoration , so as still to remain extant in shape for the admiration of the world of art . At a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries , on Thursday evening week , Mr . Windus , at the close of the evening , addressing the members on the subject , said in reference— It waa but too true that nothing could restore to them the vaao itself ; but genuine copies had fortunately been made . The late Pichler , the eminent engraver of gems ; struck with its beauty , moulded the Tasei at Rome . ' This mould was put into the hands of Mr . TA 33 ie , and after a certain number ( only a few ) of casts were m » de , it was destroyed . .. A few of these casts are extant . The Marquis of Exeter . Mr . A . Pellatt , and he himself ( Mr . Windua ) , nos . % 93 < w > p » . His own he intended shortly to exhibit , together viih
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a cast of '; tKe " sal « 6 pIia » u 8 'in '' wliioh '' it- ' wM ^ fouiid i ' at the Polytechnicon . " bir Henry Ellis stated that tha British Museum had also one of these copies , which would , as early as possible , be exhibited to the public . The vase , by Wedgewood , it appears , is only a modern , copy , and not cast from the original . Sir Henry Ella also stated that the vase had not sustained so much injury as . was expected : that the principal figures were preserved , and two persons , named D ° oubleday and Buldock , einfloyed in the Museum , would be able to put it together again . . . .
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THE SURPLICE QUESTION ' . By a Benedict . A very pretty public stir Is making down at Exeter , About the surplice * fashion ; And many bittev words and rude Have been bestow'd upon the feud , And much unchristian passion . Tor me , I neither know nor care "Whether a navson ought to wear A black di-css or a white dress ; Fill'd with a trouble of my own—A wife -who preaches in her gown , And lectures In her night-dress . Hood's Magazine . The last from Punch . —The Chartist ranks feel so highly indignant at the conduct of one of their late lecturers , that they have determined on sinking a vowel in his name , wliich will render it M . 'Do-alL O'Coknell ' s Bull-ism . —That Irishmen commit solecisms , or , as they are commonly termed , " bulk , " is , to use the words of Lord Colchester , when Speaker of the House of Commons , on the subject of selling of seats , as " notorious as the sun at noon-day , " but we certainly did not expect to find tlur " great Agitator" exhibit in one which even Sir Boyle Roche might have envied . While speaking in favour of the resolution preventing the Irish members from attending IWliament , he is reported to have said , " If it were attempted to bring in . any measure injurious to Ireland , he would feel it his duty to go over and to die on the floor of the House in carrying out a vexatious opposition to it . He would then conxe lack
to Ireland , and ask his countrymen , ' Arc you for Repeal now ?'" Although O'Connell , in his time , has performed many parts , we were not prepared to find that , like the ghost of Hamlet's father , his appearance after death may be calculated upon . Subsequently he said that all the Irish representatives were ready to attend the House if circumstances required , and die at their posts . We think it will be a matter of congratulation to many of the tradesmen at the West-end if some of them remain in Ireland . " Boz" has given an" excellent description of the partiality of Irish labourers to standing at their posts in . St . Giles ' s , but we opine they never had an idea of dying there , unless from the combined effects of shillelaghs and whisky . If this memorable tragedy is ever to be represented on the floor of the House , we trust Fitzball will be engaged to give the adequate quantum of blue and roil fire , and allothcr ingredients , to produce a duo scenic catastrophe—Satirist .
Tub QajIxtessencb of Cast . — " Of all the cants in this canting world , " said Sterne , "though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst , the cant of criticism is tlie most tormenting . " What then would he have said had he lived in the present day , to have witnessed the cant of hypocrisy and fanaticism united ? Messrs . Grisscll and Pcto hare presented every workman on the Brandon line of the Norwich Railway with a Bible and Tracts , and haje also engage ! five missionaries to preach to them on Sundays , and other days of the week . Is it during the day , or after the men have left work , that they are preached to ? Messrs . Grissell and Peto have long been , not only before the public , but before committees of the Houses of Lords and Commons , for the delay
in the re-building of the Parliament Houses ; and that delay was occasioned by their sanction of a system of tyranny into which it is not necessary that we should now enter . As , from circumstances which have come to our knowledge , we have reason to doubt of the presentation , without a corresponding reduction of wages to pay for the books and the missionaries , we shall make inquiries on the subject . — 'Ibid . Cheap Immortality . —The destroyer of the Portland vase , valued at upwards of one thousand pounds , lias got no more punishment than the smashers of a half-crown pane of glass ; in fact , not so much asthe City smasher , for the rig ht honourable Michael Gibba has sent some of these gentry to prison for six months , in default of bail . If a man can excite Europe , and
hurl to "immortal smash" one of the most beautiful and valuable specimens of antique genius the country can boast of—if he can live in history , bo the " observed of all observers , " gain a lasting immortality for the astonishing loiv price of five pounds , or two months' imprisonment , there is little doubt but spirited young gentlemen who wish to adorn a page of ( newspaper ) history with their exploits , will now go a cheaper way to work ; and since Parliament has passed a bill that has been a ¦• heavy blow and great discouragement" to poppers at her Majesty , will now seek to achieve a deathless fame by aiming at works of art . The aspirants , howeverjpr a niche at Madame Tussaud ' s must not be suffered to obtain It for five pounds . Parliament having passed a special Act to protect her Majesty from potboyism , it had better do as much for works of art , or they may find ,
when too late , the smasher of the'Barberini vase will soon have rivals in the field . —i& ? "rf . Ax Orthodox Fisish . —The illness under which the respected Bishop of Ely is labouring is , we perceive , apoplexy , which is reckoned the most orthodox disease for a Bishop at any time , and therefore highly becoming his sacred " order . " When the time arrives , as it must , for a Bishop to be translated to the heavenly world , it is perhaps best that the attack which is to send them to paradise bo sudden and speedy , inasmuch as such spiritually-minded men can have iio reason to dread being cut off in the "blossom of their sins , " or brought to a quick account , seeing that , unlike the present Lord Mayor , they are naturally always prepared for such contingencies .-A short cut to the realms of bliss must be the best in the case of a Bishop . —Bid .
Kicked tub Bucket . Here lies Joan Kitchen ; when her glass was spent , She kiokod up her- heels , and away she went . Americax ToMBaxosE . — " Sacred to the remains of Jonathan Thompson , a p ious Christian and an affectionate husband . His disconsolate widow continues to carry on . thetnpe-and-trottev business at the same place as before his bereavement . " The Saints Ashamkd . —Two cardinals found fault with Raphael for having in or . c Hiis pictures given too florid a complexion to St . Peter and St Paul . "Gentlemen , " replied the artist , ill pleased with the criticism , "don't be surprised , I paint them just as they look in heaven . They are blushing with shame to see the Church below so badly governed . "
Punuc Baths for the Poor . —rrom time immemorial England has been a maritime nation , but at present she displays her affection for Uv "•• :: ;> . witu redoubled energy . The temperate movement v onough to convince any man of the liitiiity o ? : ; s . ' : cr ! g on all oecasiona fora go of rum or a go of ai . y otiwv spirituous liquor , when he must reflect within lumsuli that now-a-days water ' s " all the go . " And when we remember , likewise , that legislators are proverbial for treating the people like so many pigs , we cannot bo surprised at their at length proposing to erect washhousos for their convenience . This is refined satire . The notion of presenting a half-starving population with tanks t o bathe in , and soap and ithis in fact tanta
water to scour their clothes w , - mount to offering a man " a glass of water with the chill off and a cinder in it . "—Great Cnm . CuRrocs Drkss . —A member of Parliament wntei thus to the Times last week : — " Please to mention that I attended the great agrioulturalmeeting in one your earliest impressions . "— Hid . Sir E . KNATCiiBULi-istoberaised to the peerage , by which elevation the excellent baronet hoped to get rid of his not very euphonious name . And so he will ; but that wicked wag , Sir Robert Peel , lias insisted on creating him Lord Bullock Smithy , of Bullock-Smithy , in the county of where is it ? So Sir Edward thinks his hat fits him as well as his coronet could do .
—Great Gun . Character in * a Laugh . —How much of character iss there in a laugh ? You know no man till you have heard him laugh—till you know when and now he will laugh . There are occasions—there are numoura when a man with whom we have been long familiar shall quite startle and repel us by breaking out into a laugh which comes manifestly eight trom his heart , and which yet we had never heard before . Even in fair ladies with whom I have been much pleased I have remarked the same thing .- As in many a heart a sweet angel slumbers unseen till some hapj » y moment awakens " it , so there sleeps oiten in gracious and amiable characters deep in the back ground a quite vulgar spirit , which starts into life
when something rudely comical penetrates into the less frequented chambers of the mind . — Blachuood's Magazme . Extraordinary Narrative .. —The ffamaon ( Texas ) Times contains a series of remarkable papers , under the following title , viz : The Female Warrior : an interesting narrative of the suffering , singular and surprising . adventures of Miss Leonora Siddons , who , led on by patriotism , joined the Texan army under Gen . Houston , fought in the ever memorable battle of San Antonio , where she , after seeing all her comrades slain , was shot down and left for dead . Recovering the following morning , she was captured
by the Mexicans , conveyed on board the ship St . Juan , from which she attempted to escape with the surgeon in a storm , but being soon missed froro . the ship , they were pursued by six men in a boat , overtaken , arid after a terrible etrjigg ' -cs , the was recaptured , taken to Vera Cim . tieel belaud- a , cart , and made to walk from there ( barefooted , over burning sand , anil beneath "the v ' ropicni aun ) to the city of Mexico , advance of over 250 miles , -where she was thipvrn" into prison , from whence she escaped , » . sde a Voyage to sea , and returned to her friend ^ in vkia country in Match last . Full and interesting particulars written by herself . "
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COMNGSBY ; or , THE NEW GENERATION . Bx B . D'Israeu , Esq ., M . P . —London : Colburn , Great ^ iarlborough-atrfiet . f Continued from Hie Northern Star of February 1 st . ) The opening chapters of the second volume exhibited CosixosBrsrrived at Manchester , whither he has ieen led by CHriosity to see the wonders of the capital -of manufactures . Mr . D'Israeli paints the manufacturing system so coi'lmrde rose , that we apprehend both employers and employed will be astonished at Ms descriptions . The former will be mightily surprised to learn that they are the good and amiable masters represented ; while the latter will wonder how Mr . D'lsRAELiever came to dream of such happiness
being their lot as he Las depicted . According to Mr . C- "I 3 Rieij ; the female weavers , working- a thousand or fifteen hundred together in a room , arc decked in " coral jjccklaccs , " I " some pretty , some pert , some graceful andjocund , some absorbed in tlicir occupation ; alittlc serious same , few sad . " Again , in describing the locale of the elder MitunjoiK , - we have pictured a " g «> en valley , " " Abrc-adineaaWland , " " andrerj old elm trees ; " aiidhere stands the mill of Oswald JliLLBAXs . Tlie workers at this mill live in a " picturesque "rfllage" close bv , which villaire has its "lecture room , " "library , " and " reading LalL " Thegical-jnillo-sraei ^ itappears , Iiadbuilt " eliurelies , schools , and institutes , " for the benefit of his workers . He had also built for them "houses
and cottages on a new system of ventilation , " hail provided them witb . " garden allotments . " and established " singing classes . " Tliis "happy valley" is situated three miles from Bolton , but whether north , east , south , west , or which of the intermediate points of the compass , Coningjbu saitli not . A voyage of discovery , an expedition in search of iliis region of the blessed , would surely be worth the while of others besides Mr . D'Israeli . Should any of our Bolton readers be disposed to make the trial , we Lojie they -will let us know the result of theirlabours . The discovery of the much-sought
nortliirest passage , would 1 » notning to the discovery of Mr . © 'Israeli ' s Lancashire Eden . Alas ! for this gentleman ' s fanciful pictures ,- the stern realities of the mattraacturia" system are too well known to need recapitulating in opposition to Mr . D'Isiueu ' s baseless visions . Before that gentleman again ventures a description of Lancashire life , we advise him to apply to Lord Ashuey for a few useful facts ; and instead of sentimeEialising at the Manchester Athensenm with Cocdks and Go ., let him apply himself to the ManclMstcr workers , visit their homes , and learn from their lips , male and iemale , the workings of the system he so Aiistalunsrlv lauds .
The elder Muxbaxk , even with all Mr . Disraeli ' s varuish , stands out the unmistakeable representative of his " order . " Envious of tlie landed aristocracy it is not their exclusive privileges he wars against , buiagaicsi the fact of hia own exclusion from a participation in those privileges . He denounces as ridiculous and monstrous that dukes and earls who are not " richer than we ( the inillocrats ) are " should be law-makers for the nation , lie is not , however , opposed -to an aristocracy , but is for what he calls " a Seal , a uaiural oac ** & MILtOCRAT ' s 1 DEA . S OF A " NATCBAt . " AEISTOGKACT . " Anil where will you find your natural aristocracy V asked Coningsliv .
" Among those men whom a nation recognises as tho most eminent for virtue , talents , and property , and if you please , hirA and standing in the land . They guide opinion : and llierefore they govern . I am uo leveller ; I look upon an artificial oquality as equally pernicious with a factitious arutvcracv ; hoth depressing tlie energies , and chedrinjj : he enterprise of a nation . 1 like man to he trip : reaHy free : free in his industry as well as his hoOfr . " . The reader will observe that the most eminent for projKrfy , birth , and standing , are to be the aristocrats of the ( cotton lord ' s ) new regime . True , " virtue " and "talents" are not omitted ^ but these , we suspect , Trill , as LeretofoM . stand but a poor chance of ennoblement when iiiiaceqnipanied hy " property . " We snbjoin two more specimens of a millocrat ' s political views-
THE SOCBCES OF THE ENGLISH 7 EEBAGE . v lioi Jltnry VII . called his first Parliament , therevere Only twojij-n ' ine temporal peers to l > e found , and even Some of ihcni took their seats illegally , for they had been attainted . Of those twenty-nine not five remain , and they 35 tlit Howards for instance , are * ot Jfornian nobility . "W e owe tf re English peerage to three sources : the spoliation of flic church ; the open and flagrant sale of its honours hy the elder Stuarts ; and tlie boronghmongering of oar onu dines . Those are the three main sources of * he crisiing peerage of England , and , in my opinion , disgraceful onis .
rennuTt of a second iegisiative chamber . Why should a popular assembly elected by the flower of a nation , be precipitate ! If precipitate , what senate could stay an assembly so chosen ? _ Eo , no , no ; the thing has been tried over and over again ; the idea of restrain-» f > S the powerful hy the weak is an absurdity ; the question is settled . If we wanted a fresh illustration , we need « uh look to the present state of our own House of Lords , ft ori ginates nothing ; it has , in fact , announced itself as a mere Com * of Registration of the decrees of your Bouse of Commons .
"Hie vaunted antiquity of the "hereditary incura-« es" is adniirablr smashed , as Brother . Jonathan * ould say , in tlie first of these extracts . But , in we 8 f ?» ndJ th . e maiociat is made to prove too much for Ma arsnnaent . He proves the utter aselessness of a Privileged legislative order ; and the Democrat will » eed no stronger argument to prove the utter worth , lessn ess—cot to sayiinmeuseevil-M ) fatoJ aris * ; ocra < 7 » whether composed of land-lords or mill-lords . At flie house of her father , Conixgsbt encounters Ebuh , the daughter of the elder Moxbask . Of this ^ ansd , the fatrae "ladye-loTe" of our hero , tfce reader will hear more anon .
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Publications Received . —The Christian Mythology Unveiled—The London Entertaining Magazine , part 3 The Jhmgeon Harp—Good . ' a Proposition on the National Debt—The Atrocities of the Dictator Rofas .
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SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE-Feb . We have received this Magazine so late in the month as to render it impossible for' ua to do more than barely notice it . The present month ' s number opens with a most important article " On the Manufacture of Sugar , " being the prize essay by J . F . Cauoill , Esq ., to wliich was awarded the premium of £ 100 , offered by the Earl of Elgin , Governor of Jamaica . Tho fftui'fch of tho valuable essays on " The Whale and Whaling , " by Edward Wakbvield , Esq ., is given in this number . The truly entertaining " Journal of a Voyage to Port Philip " is bvouglvt to a closo ; it is with YOgvetwobid favewell to so pleasing a writer , but we hope yet to hear ,
through this Magazine , something ot his experience as a' colonial magistrate . The remaining principal articles are "Australia : Past , Present , and Future ;" "New Zealand Affaire ; " and "The Annexation of Texas . " We should have much liked to have given someextvactsfrointheavticle on "UpperCalifornia , " but our review page this week was already occupied before the arrival of the Magazine , So far as we liaro found time to peruse the contents of the present number , it appears to be fully equal to the best of its predecessors , lacking nothing in talent and sound information ; and not destitute of that yarietv usually looksd for bv the reader of the monthlies .
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Evas Resultiks from the Game Laws , Addressed to You . ng England—The National Temperance Advocate—The Communist Chroxicle . These ave wcli good in their way , and oadi worthy of perusal . The Communist Chronicle is a monthly publication , edited by Goodwin Babhby , and published by B . D . Cousins , No . 18 , Dukc-strect , Lincoln's-inn-fields .
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Febbua » y 22 , 1845 . THE NORTHERN STAR , . ¦ ^ . .. - , 3 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 22, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1303/page/3/
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