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, ****» " — ~—~— ffhen , shortly after the commencement of theprejcnt Tear , ^ e announced our intention to ghre at trimonthlv intervals aseriea ofpoeticalseleetions , under tie title of " The Feast of the Poets , " we proposed T , y go doing to give a helping hand to those of onr fnen ds who , contributing to the "Feast , " might pjve evidence of ability worthy of encouragement , ftur proposition we had the satisfaction of knowing ^ jb a pproved of by many valued friends . Wetherct foic had hoped that at each succeeding period we aSi onld have been supported by such a number of coniributors as would at least have imparted a spice of wig inality to the " Feast . " We regret , however , to sat-, that now that we hare reached the second sta » e of the experiment , we fed our expectations disappointed . The original pieces we have received are fort few , and mostofthem " original" withaveneeance ! As we ^ ave no wish to see any of ou r in
fi ends figuring a second "Dundad , " should a Pope arise to confer npon them such an nncnviable immortality , we must decline giving insertion to mwt of the iavours alluded to . We trast we are not uncharitable ; nevertheless WO must refuse to t « ten the paper into a " ReRigc for the Destitute , " trhich certainly it would become were its columns to afford space for poctryU ) , which we are sure could £ admission unto no other publication in Britain . V ' , - ' . fe ' , SP ? " M a * iece > entMed « We're a ae Withers' Baims " -the idea good , the ex ecution as common-place and faulty as it well could be , J . P . s" contribution to * cur fcrmer feast was well worthy the publicity it received . His prescntfailurethereforemustnotdisheartenhim . He must try again . Others of the "rejected" must excuse us noticing them individually : in mercy we forbear .
William Joses , of Leicester , whom we are always glad to hear from-for , judging him by his pen , we take him to be a true man-sends os a piece which we have decided on inserting , though not without somedoubtsastotbepropriety of so doing . In an accompanying note , the writer says- " Flowery poe fay . though pleasing , is notalwaysthe most useful . As Inave no doubt you wdlreceive enough ofthatsortfor your June Feast , I have chosen a subject of an opposite character—namely , thedeathofa turant- intn
wn ( se coffin I have not even thrown a sprig of rajemary . We certainly have no objection to the " nsc-S " !? *? P ***? » ware we Tery squeamish , as to * T parfjetilar language employed in describing those Who " grind the faces of the poor : " butwemustob ject to the ruthless spirit pervading every line and wcrdofMr . Josks * poetry . Hewillsecthatwehavc omitted one Terse , which exceeded all the rest in the blackness of its colouring . We hope Mr . Joses will for theftture give us something more cheerin « than the grim and unlovable sketch of "
THE TMiS l ' s DEATH . The tyrant is dead!—lie is dead ! The nntaiKinaded soul—it is fled ! Thtry have laid him cold ana deep , Where the slaves he murdered sleep , And the poor their curses heap On his head ! Each mom , having read a short prayer From the altar , like the panther from his lair , He rash'd to his hell of mills , "Where sweat , like rain , distils , And sorrow flows in rills Of despair . ils Etna , oat-breathing red vomit , Or balefnj , creation-scathing comet , He awed poor fools ; his nod "Was their law : where ' er he troi Earth moura'd ; till heaven ' s high God Swept him from it !
Frond laid on velvet couch , quaffing nectar , Ihnning to crash the poor , who ' ve no protector : Athwart Death grimly gUdlie , starting , madly bid A golden pyramid ! Laughed the spectre . * # * IBs captious tongue , that ne ' er spake with jojance , Is husb'd ; his blighting ejre ' s fierce defiance * Is quench'd ; the spectre ' s grasp Hath stopp'd liis simoom gasp ; Sepulchral anus now clasp The annoyance ! TIid following sweet piece entitles the author to our Lest thanks : —
NATCLEASD FEEEDOH . JS D . Wright , of Ahcracen . There is a sweet charm in the valley sae giovrin ' AW a' the bright flowerets Mended in bloom ; The flew hangs sae pare on the breast © ' the gowaa , And bright are the tassels that wave on the broom . 0 ' . ssft are the breezes , -wi * sweet odonrs flvir . g , The birds sing sae bonny fraebraken and tree , And reason responds to their melo'ly , sigliiag 0 : that men , like the birds , were a . ' happy aud free ! There is a wild charm where the eagle is soaring O ' er mountains where Trildiiess aud grandeur combine ; IVi-ere heather is blooming aud torrents are pouring , Ktsistless in might , through the craggy ravine . AaJwegaze oa the torrents wills thrilling i-moiion , That dash o ' er the rocks and glida ou to tlss sea , And reason responds to the roar of the ocean
v . that men , like tha billows , were mighty and free ! 0 : siu-ct is the charm when the morning is breaking , Sat bright in its beauty , unveiling Uk sun ; Tic dew-studded flowers , which the txykxr is shaking , lafolus a' Ihfcir beautr , and day is begun ! A' t ! is sweets o' the tartli , a * the beauties o' nature , A = 3 a' that the wisest in wisdom could gie , I The Creator gies for the wants o * the crcat-aro , I And man might be happy if men were a' free' } Some of our "rejected" friends have favoured us with sonss and other poetical pieces on "The Land . " We can only say -we Lope when thev get on the land they will be able * to handle the spade better than they have handled the pen . As a specimen of the sort of spirit their Land-songs oiurlit to Lave , we give the following from the Agrarian sosgs of the Acierican Reformers : —
bows ¦ wrrn tiie LANDLoaDs . Start from the dream ofases , . Bowed , rugged sons of toil . Rouse , rouse ye . Hero sages Once , once redeemed your soil , foreign foes—domestic traitors . Cleared out from hill and plain . I LAND-lords , and speculator . I Call us to the field again . I Come from your Mils and valleys , I Come from your ocean-tide—I Come from your lanes and alleys , I Come from your forests wide . I Gome , come , ye hardy toilers , I Co . -ne in unbroken baud ; I Down , down ui « m ike spoU ^ rf , Drive , drive than from the iASI > .
Armed witli Sheir " legal tender , " Tiled gold or pictured rags ; Shouting on us to surrender I liehind our Cotton Bags ; " The soil , sun , dew and seasons . . I Here's gold -we'll buy them all , '' Crush , crush the sordid treason , Drive the traitors to the -wall . I "Master Dickey , " « Ilarrv . f " Billy , " " Hissy BeUa , " « Caroline !" One half stupid , ' tothtr silly , SUaU they rule by " rigUdivir-e ?" I ! uk > oar children aud enslave them , Trample out their altar fires—Freedom their GRASD-sires gave them , Shall they lose it by their sires ! So , no!—never , never ! Brothers ! freemen heart and hand , Standby ! Guardfor ever ,
1 Freedom ' s latest hops—Tee LiSB . ' ' ¦ Guard it , and bequeath it , ' ¦ I Kot to a race of slaves— ' [ Sleep ! sleep ! underneath : > , FEEE SOII . ABOVE TOSS GliiVES . , I Vliile ire are vrith oar American brethren , we r csiffiot do better than give a few more cf their , Jfeiotic songs : —
TKEEVOyCS CALL . —I US . I It broie on the hush of morncl It startled the dull midnight , I i&e tlie stirring peal of a battle horn , » It summoned them forth to fight ; >*¦ It rose « ' «• the swelling hill , 3 < 2 y the meadows grcea it was iieard . i 31 Caiiing out for the strength of the freeman ' s tviii , » - ¦ Aud the might of die freeraaiv ' aswerd : " "Hi ^ rivers bcaTd the noise—I And tlie valleys rung it out , * " Ani ev * ry heart leapt lugli at t ! : o Toice ^ Of thai tliriUing battle shout . . I ^* F sprung from the bridal bed , — V From the pallet of labour ' s rest ,
Ana ifcoy hurried away to the field of the 3 caJ , Like a tardy marriage guest ; * * I Ti I ? lrfl ^ plans * in ilie co « t-, — e * I a ' lrft lhe stccr itt tVlC 5 <> ke * ^ AnJ away from mother aud diUd tliat mom jil I Al ) 3 the maiden ' s first kiss they fcroke . ^ Istte sbowt-rof the deadly shot , ^ -a the lurid van of the war , I " - ^ l y tliey stood , battlicy answered not I ' *> tichircling ' s vrild hurra I \ d \ a ^ : is tliel ) roodio s stor ' - ' I ^ re" lashes ocean to foaui—<* £ I * If ^ rcngth of the free was ii : every arai , " m / M { j . - ^ werylKarton its home . vr vsjatjf pleasant homes « : rv tfcansht . —
I A-V" * 1 IK 1 J < : ( 110 th"ir *** && ' * CVjU , — j I * forward they » itnt till Uie : r dear blood LvUght * 1 il > e broad free land they trod .
l lfnH _ TOE BALLOT ECZ . * * * * ^ Jom ' s consecrated dov .. r , ^ tatket of a priceless gen I safM . * ' ° j l » heritage of power ¦ ^ M * ban imperial diadem !
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== ss = s = Cornerstone , on which was rear * d literry ' s triumphal dome , ¦ W hen her glorious form appeared 'Miost our own green mountain home J Porchas'a by as noble blood . As in mortal veins e ' er run , By the toil of those who stood By the side of Washington—By tbe hearts that met tlie foe On their native battle plain , "Where the arm that strikes the blow Kever needs to strike again ! Where's the craven that would dare Mar it with polluted breath ! Scorned and cur ^ d , be his to share The traitor's shame , the traitor's death ! » Let his faithless heart be torn ,
From his reckless bosom riven , And upo « the whirlwind borne , To the carrion kitebe " given ! Guard it , freemen ! guard it well ! ^ Spotless as your maidens' fame ! Kever let your children tell Of your weakness—of your shame ! That their fathers basely sold , What was bought with blood and toil . That you bartered right for gold , Here oa Freedom ' s sacred soil ! Let your eagle's quenchless eye , Fixed , unstrung , sleepless , bright , Watch , when danger hovers nigh , From his lofty mountain height : While the stripes and stars shall wave O ' er this treasure pure and free ; The land ' s Palladium , it shall save The home aad shrine of Liberty .
By the bye , we have never seen the famous national American song , the " Star-spangled Banner . " Could our friends of Tomtg . dmcricahclpus to it ? No matter even if it be not very complimentary to England : we shall not quarrel with the " braggadocia" of Uncle Sam , bearing m mind the example set in that line by his old dad John Bull . Here is an anti-slavery hymn—THE TBIDMPH OP F 8 EEDDJT . By JFjjj . Uogd GarrUm . God speed the year of jubilee , The wide world o ' er ! When from tlieir galling chains set free , Th' oppressed stall vilely bend the knee , , And wear the joke of tyranny , lake brutes , no more : — That year will come , and freedom ' s reign To man his plundered rights again Restore .
God speed the day when human blood Shall cease to flow ! In every dime be understood The churns of human brotherhood , And each return for evil , good—Kot blow for blow : — . That day will come , all feuds to end , Aud change into a faithful friend Each foe . God speed the hour , the glorious hour , When none on earth Shall exercise a lordly power , Kor in a tyrant ' s presence cower , But all to manhood ' s statue tower , By equal birth !—That hour will come , to each , to all , And from his prison-house the thrall Go forth .
] * J 1 * Until that year , day , hour arrive—If life be given—With head and hcartand hand Til strive To break the rod , and rend the gyve , The spoiler of Mi prey deprive—So witness Heaven 1 And never from my chosen post , Whate ' er the peril or the cost , Be driven . _ And here , from the pen of Jons Gbeexlbat Whittier , whose p oems we quoted fr om in our last feast , we give the following noblelines , written on the occasion of the author reading an account of a slave auction atUew Orleans , at which the auctioneer recommended the woman on the stand as a " aood Christian' "
THE CITCISTUN SLAVE . A Christian ! going , gone ! Who bids for God ' s own image ?—for Ilis graco ¦ Which that pcor victim of tlu * market-place Hath in her suffering won S My God ! can such things be ? Hast Thou not said that whatsoe'er is done Unto Thy weaker and Thy liumblcst one , Is even done to Thee ? In that sad victim , then , Child of Thy pitying love , 1 see Thee stand—Oace more the jest-word of a mocking hand , Bound , sold , and scourged again ! A Christian np for sale ! Wet with her blood your whips—o'ertask her frame , Make her life loathsome with your wrong and shame , Her patience shall not fail !
A licatlici hand might deal BaCiC ou your heads the gathered wrong of years , Cut her low , broken prayer and nightly tears , Ye neither heed nor feel . Con well thy lesson o er , Thou j > ru'J « it teacher—till the toilxg slave , Xo dangsrous tale of Him wlio catae to seek and savo The outcast and the poor . But wisely shut the ray Of God ' s free Gospel from her simple heart , And to her darkened mind alone impart Oue stem command—•• Oeei . "
So sbalt thou deWy raise The market price of human flesh ; and while On thee , their pampered guest , the planters smile , Thy church shall praise . Grave reverend men shall tell From northern pulpits how thy work was blest , While in that vile south Sodom , first and best , Thy poor disciples sell ! Oh , shame ! the Moslem thrall , Who , with his master , to the prophet kneels , WInle turning to the sacred Kebla , feels Ilis fitters break and fall .
Cheers for the turbancd Bey Of robber-peopled Tunis : be hath torn The dark , skive dungiious ojreu , and hatU borne Their inmates into day . But owr poor slave in vaiu Tutus to the Christian shrine his aching eyes—Its rites will only swell his market-price , And iivet oa his chaiu . * God of pII right ! how long Shall pr iestly robbers at Thine altar stand , Lifting if t insiyes to Thee tlie UooJj hand , Aad haughty brow of wrong ? Oh , from the fields of cane , From the low rice-swamp , from the trader ' s cell—From the black slave-ship ' s foul and loathsome hell , Aud coffle ' s w earv
chain—Hoarse , horrible , and strong lliscs to Heaven that agonizing cry , Filling the arches of the hollow siiy , llovr losg —oh ! God , now lokc ! In a late number of the Time Mercury we observed what appeared to be one of a series of patriotic sougs entitled " Mob Melodies . " The initials appended to the song , together with the genuine poetical ability of the composition , leaves us no room to doubt the identity of the author . He is , if we mistake not , a gentleman to whose enlarged sympathies , consistent patriotism , acd intellectual greatness , the people of England arc no little indebted ibr the progress towards freedom they have already made , and that certain triumph over their aristocratic oppressors which assuredly awaits them . Of course , in transferring the following " melody" to our
column ? , \ re express thereby our concurrence with the principles therein -vindicated , but we do so with , a reservation . If by the new world regenerating the old , T . I ) , means thatan American " army of libcratioa" would be welcomed to this country to put down the English aristocracy , we must be permitted to tsiiicr with him . When Thomas Pake prayed that " the Xew World might regenerate , the Old , " lie meant , we conceive , to express his hope that the Republican principles practically established in America might so operate there for the happiness of the many , as to excite throughout Eiirope such a lmowledge and love cf thoseprinc-iplcsnswouiil induce the people of tl > e European states to iir . itf . ic the example of the Americans in casting off Use volte of " lungs , and
p leats , aud lords ; " and in this ser . se we think there is every prospect of Pake ' s hope and prayer being realised . In this sense , too , v : c hope " that the New World may regenerate the Old ; " but never , we trsst , will a foreign hostile band , no matter under wliat guise or pretence , be permitted to desecrate the soil of England . The world has seen more than o ; oach of " liberating armies ; " and the French have aiTorilcd to all oiher nations a lesson that Englishmen , at ar . y rate , will be . slo ^ v to forpet . Nations having to contend merely with a domestic oppressor can best liberate themselves . 'Ike mancipation of the Eissiish peopla will be slov . % but it will be sure .
Thatciaaueipationisnowgojngca—the mental emanc ; r . atio : i of the -masses is in pro . CTCss , and tliat is the ' oiilv sure ftmntlation of all veal liberty . The Ameri- ' caas , we fancy , will find quite enough to do to libe-i rate themselves from the tyranny of landlords and usurers—priests and lawyers may ]« sdded . When they hare fully secured tlicir G \ vn liberation , the example of the New World will , we doubt not , be quite saSicic : ! : to cause the TCEencrstion cf the Old , without v . v . y " minx of liberation . " The Americans , however , must look quick , or perhaps the " example " ibsv come from this side . It strikes us that if there vras Universal Suffrage in this country , the EngliBh
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working men could put ; their American friends " tip " jo a thing or two , of which the latter seem hardly to have thought of yet . With these htroductar / rS S 5 y 7 SlVC mS ^ Wimea of tlle ** m HOB MEIODIM . ' That the Kew World may regenerate the Old , Is the prayer of , Sir , your humble servant , Thomas Paine "Letter to WatUngton , 1793 . T one—0 Watne wt the lard . 0 ! deem not , altho' with war's ensigns we come And shoulder the musket and flourish the brand , That we love not the fields of our primitive home , Or would strike at the heart of our own father-land . A o ! her groves and her valleys are dear to us still ,
As they were ere hev tyrants had made them their prey Or ere fell Aristocracy work'd out Ins will , ' And drove us , beyoud the Atlantic , away ! 01 how could we hate those dim valleys , so green ; Or those streams , by whose margin our forefathers rov'd ? There ' s a charm on the soil where onr parents have been What was dear to the sires , by the SOI 1 S must be lov'd . Oer yon smooth swelling downs , 'twas their flocks gave the fleece ; Yea ; their ' s were the fields , where the harvest now waves ; And if now we could strike—e'en in rage—at their peace , w Our fathers , in anger , would start from their graves . No ! 'tis not the village we come to alarm—Jfor the Sabbath , whose bells calls the toUer to prayer ; "We strike not the cot , nor the cottager
harmwhere innocence is there ' s no prey for us there : But we strike at the halls and the domes of the proud . The Avenger is come—ay ! tho'late—of that day , When fell Aristocracy , lofty and loud , Compell'd us , beyond the Atlantic , away ! They deem'd we were gone—and gone ne ' er to return : That God was a name , and his vengeance a joke ; That Liberty , strangled , lay safe in her urn ; That the chain was secure , and eternal the yoke ! They deem'd not an Eye still could reach to the soil Where the sires of their exiles lay low in their graves ; That an Ear could yet listen the woe and the toil ; And that England had friends cross the desert of waves ! We watched them ! We saw their reign had its time , Tho' Justice was trampled , and Mercy exiled ; Tho' Poverty ' s cravings were scourg'd for a crime ; And tno' e ' en in its cradle they'd mortgage the cWld ' . Tho' Virtue was sliam'd with an atheist sneer ,
And Charity prostrate , and Mammon sublime ; We watched them—and felt that their downfall wasnear ; We watched them—and saw that their reign had its time . Then deem not , altho' with war ' s ensigns we come , And carry the musket and carry the brand , That we love not the fields of our primitive home , ^ Or would strike at the breast of our own father-land . So ! we come but to punish the treason of those Who have cover'd her bosom with anguish and shame ; Who have render * d our England the scoff of her foes ; Her valour a mockery—her glory a name ! As the mail of the spoiler assists but to draw On the head of the robber the sulphureous levin ; And the armour of Wrong , by omnipotent law , But serves to conduct the red vengeance of heaven . So the foes of our England shall fall in a war , Thatin guilt and in guile they could only have known , And perish , consum'd in a flame ftfcm afar , That their crimes and their falsehood have kindlet alone . t . D .
In the May number of the DulUn Vhivmile Magazine , appeared an article entitled , "Personal Uecollcctiqns of Thomas Campbell "—one of the most atrocious productions that ever disgraced the pages of any publication . The writer pretends to having met and been introduced to CAMPUKuat one of the annual Polish Balls . He represents Camp-BEttasammnthropical . selfish , scurrilous , drunkard ; drinking brandy to intoxication , and habitually using language the most depraved and disgusting in describing mankind in general , and his eminent contemporaries in particular . This writer makes Campbell call Btron a " ruman : " Sir Thomas Chastket 1- f —• - •••¦•••»* WJU 14 TJIUU 1
* * » * * an infernal scoundrel ; " and Alux Cussinqham the most lnfernalliarthateverleft Scotland . " lie represents Campbell as speaking of the Poles as expatriated rascals , " and sneering at "their immortal demigod , Kosciusko . " These veracious (!) "recollections" of the "Bard of Hope" were continued mthe Junenumberoithe University Magazine and in the continuation the writer makes Campbell callllAzmi " a false , vain , selfish , blackguard "a blackguard penny-a-liner ; " Nokihcote , " a conceited old booby ; " Swift , "anabominablemffian ;" BrnoN ( again ) , " a blackguard and a liar ; " Siikllev , a filthy atheist ; " Ghat ( query Gay ) , " aselfish scoundrel ; " Dr . Jonssos , " a coarse bruto and tyr ant ; and Milton , "a savage-minded wretch . "
>\ as there ever before such an accumulation of filthy falsehoods ? We say "falsehoods , " for though we have no personal knowledge to the contrary of the portrait of Campbell , painted by the writer in the Dublin Magazine , yet are our convictions of the strongest , that it was impossible fcr a man like him to cLerish the Malignant feelings , or to give expression to those feelings in the filthy vituperative terms ascribed to him by the Dublin scanda > nioii « er . But were these anecdotes of Campbell as trne as we believe them to be false , still the publishing of them would be not one whit the less diabolical . It is with Campbell ' s writings the public is concerned , not his vices ( if he . was vicious ) , physical or mental : ami
none but a baa-hearted man would have gloated over andi mafic public the ( alleged ) failings of such a man . We have repeatedly called attention to the yet lingering spirit of envious calumny which has for so many years sought to blast the name and wither the reputation of our great English poet Bynox , but we remember nothing so infamous as the abuse of tie author of " Clufcte llarold" put into the mouth of Campbell by the writer in the Dublin Magazine . In addition to the quotations given above , Campbell is described as representing Brnox as " hi heart and soul a blackguard , immensely vain , vulgar , bullying , ignorant , and mendacious ; " and says , "if eves u man was inspired by diabolism , it was Byron . " lie quotes from the " Prophecy of Dante" : —
'Tis the doom Of spirits of my order to be racU'd In life ; to wear their hearts our , and consume Their days in endless strife , and die alone ; Then future thousands crowd around their tomb , And pilgrims come from climes where they have known The name of him , who now is but a name ; And wasting homage o ' ei the sullen stone , Spread his , by him unheard , unheeded fame . And then adds , "Byron wrote these with a bottle of gin under his vest . " If Campbell really gave expression to these fiendish calumnies , he * would be worthy of the bitterest execration ; but we repeat , we believe him to be innocent of these odious iniputa * tions . Wo have for some time Tiast contemplated
adopting a measure which would tend to make our readers better acquainted with the writings of Byros than probably some of them arc at present , aud we think we cannot do better than commence the carrying out of onr pioject without further delay . Excepting the cheap editions of Don Juan , and the little collections entitled " Select Works , " usually consisting of his miscellaneous pieces , to which , " perhaps , we should add Cain , and the Vision of Judgment , — excepting these , we are convinced that his works arc known but to very few indeed of the class we principally address . We propose , then , to give an extract of a few stanzas or lines weekly , under the head of " Beauties of Byron , " which we hope will do something towards making more generally known the real
character of the man whose sublime ideas and faultless poetry has done so much to advance the freedom of thought , and sow the seeds of future and Listing triumphs in Liberty ' s Cause . The papers contained a few days ago the usual account of the annual celebration of the Battle of Waterloo , now almost entirely confined to the inspection of troops at the Horse Guards parade , St . James ' s Park , and "the Duke ' s" dinner at Apsley Ilouse . As the writer of these remarks took his usual walk homeward along Piccadilly , on Wednesday week , lie noticed leaning against a rail annexed to one , of the entrance-gates of Ilydc Park , elese to the Duke ' s house , a Chelsea pensioner ! v > ho in his day had evidently been a powerful man , but was now old and
frail . We saw by his medal that the old man Lad been one of the Waterloo victors . He stood very near the Duke ' s house , whilst we , halting also for a minute ov two , looked on . Cavringo alter carnage rolled up to the Duke ' s gate—their aristocratic freight intent on offering their congratulations to " the Duke . " This effected , they drove away . We believe upwards of seven hundred carriages stopped at the Duke ' s gate in the course of Wednesday afternoon . The pensioner looked on , but—while \ ve stood there—no one of the high and haughty dames , or privileged drones , bestowed even a kindly glance or an approving word upon the shattered warrior whose medal made 3 iim conspicuous to all who passed . This is the gratitude of the aristocracy ! When v , iil the many learn , tliat when at aristocratical feeds " the Array and the Navy" is toasted , it is not the poor fellows who , in tho ranks and in the riegin" " brave the battle and the brcezo , " to whom homase is paid
but to the oftccrs , the cpaulcttcdgentrj-rthc privileged caste of birth , wealth , aud political ii : 3 « ence . The poor pensioner stood unheeded and unnoticed ; "no one cried God rave him ! " We tinned away with disgust . The Duke of Wellington , ton , is = as aristocratic and exclusive as his seven hundred carriage worshippers . This is proved by the damning iaet , that while to his Waterloo banquets he invites . such heroes as Field-Marshal (!) Prinec Auibiit—a warrior who , exeept when at pheasant shooting or deer slaughtering , never swelled , and , probably , never will smell , an ounce of powder , he invites no cue Serjeant , corporal , or private , who shared with him . and had by far the largest share of" the dangers cf Waterloo , without reaping any corrrsronding quantum of profit or " glory" therclrom . Our plain speaking contemporary , the biqxitch , speaking on this subject last Sunday says— " It is now tlie received , and no longer disputed conviction , that the Duke owed all his most dearl y-bought . ip . d profusely , rewmkd successes to Use sturdy fortitrde of his sol-
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* We often sco adverfistmenls ia the southern papere in which individual slaves , or several of a lot , are recom rcenued as " f . iOHj , " or as " member ! of cliurctes . " latel ; vre saw a slave advertissd , who , among otter qualifica tions , was descr ibed as " a Z ?« j > t « li > w . c 7 : ef . '
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¦ ——¦ j SSJft t 0 ° - / nd ba J ° net t 0 brCa 3 t ™» tne spirit ofour brave infantry , aud aabro to sabre XSlwS ^ ° / r ¦ ' ?*** TtoEmnoror Napoleon ' s K « f ? ,, > '' notedly rushed ? nS ^ iT * ? the front and fi ) M the places of ESte Mlrada The victory of Water-Sate Jw t ! » T soldicrs - ««» of their imwSl 27 / these arc the ™ en wliose place Sim S . f Aum Tttnrpa-tliese are the men whom the sycophants of the Duke scorn to notice" The broken tools that tyrants cast awav "
. as wetvf . W ff S t 0 d ° - S Thfa-tkat t ? nna S ™ « c . «! ed commencing this week our selections irom Ins poems , we may as well select something appropriate . As Waterloo-day has only just IRfyBdS ?* uVfTi llls ^ WtoSoES TZ rS V IarOl i w Peering and march of the British troops from Brussels the night before the battle : to tlijs we add the " OhildeV reflections on that field of " crowningcarnage Waterloo . " There was a sound of rftvclry by night . And Belgium ' s capital had gather'd th ' on
Her beauty and her chivalry , and bright The lamps slione o ' er fair women and brave men A thousand hearts boat happily ; and when ' Music arose with its voluptuous swell , Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again , And all went merry as a marriage hull ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising kndl ' Did ye not hear it ? No ; 'twas but the wind , On the car rattling o ' er the stony street . On wiUi the dance ! let joy be unconfined ; No sleep till morn , when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet . But hark ! that heavy sound breaks in once more , As if the clouds Us echo would repeat And nearer , clearer , deadlier than before ! Arm ! arm ! it is—it is—tho cannon ' s opening roar !
Ah J then and there was hurrying to and fro And gathering tears , and tremblings of distress And cheeks all pale , which hut an hour ago ' Blusli'd at the praise of their own loveliness And thero were sudden partings , such as press The life from out young hearts , and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated ; who could guess If evermore should meet those mutual cye 3 , Since upon night so 8 weet such awful mom could rise . And thpro wag mounting in hot haste : the steed , Tlie mustering squadron , and the clattering ear , Went pouring forward with impetuous speed , And swiftly forming in the ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar ; And near , the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While throng ' d the citizens with terror dumb , Or whispering , with white lips— " The foe ! They come they come !
And- wild and high the " Cameron ' s gathering" rose ! The war-note of Lochiel , which Albyn's hills ¦ Have heard , and heard , too , have her Saxon foes ; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills , Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe , so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand yeais , And Evan ' s , Donald ' sfame rings in each clansman ' s ears And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves , Dewy with nature's tear-drops , as they pass , Grieving , if aught inanimate e ' er grieves Over the unreturning brave—alas ! ' Ere evening te be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them , but above shall grow In Us next verdure , when this fiery mass Ofliving valour rolling on the foe , And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low .
Last noon beheld them full of lusty life , Last eve iu beauty ' s circle proudl y gay , . The midnight brought the signal sound of strife , The morn the marshalling in arms , the day Uattle ' s magnificently—stern array The thunder-elouds close o ' er it , which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay , Which her own clay shall cover , hcap'd and pent , Rider and horse , —friend , foe , —in one red burial blent ! # # * ^
Stop!—for thy tread is on an empire's dust 1 . An earthquake ' s spoil is sepulchered below ! Is the spotinark'd with no colossal bust ? Nor column trophied for triumphal show ? None ; but the moral ' s truth tells simpler so , As the ground was before , thus let it be ;—How that red rain hath made the harvest grow ! And is this all the world has gain'd by thee , Thou first and last of fields ! king-making Victory ? And Harold stands upon this place of skulls , The grave of France , the deadly Waterloo ! How in an hour the power which gave annuls Its gifts , transferring fume as fleeting too ! la " pride of place" here last the eagle flew , Then tore with bloody talon the rent plain , Pierced by the shaft of banded nations through ; Ambition ' s Hie and labours all wove vain ; He wears tlie shatter ed links of the world ' s broken chain
Fit retribution ! Gaul may champ the bit And foam iu fetters;—but is Eavth wove free « Did nations combat to make One submit ; Or league to teach all kings true sovereignty ? What ! shall reviving thraldom again be The patch'd up idol of enlightened days ? Shall we , who struck the Lion down , shall we Pay the Wolf homage i Proffering lowly gnzo And servile knees to thrones ? No ; prove before ye praise t If not , o ' er one fallen despot boast no more ! In vaiu fail- cheeks were fiu-row'd with hot tears
For Euvopu's flowers long rooted up before The tramplcv of her vineyards ; in vain years Of death , depopulation , bondage , fears , Have , all been borne , and broken by the accord Of roused-up millions : all that most endears Glory , is when the myrtle wreathes a sword Such as Harmodius drew on Athens' tyrant lord . Tho address to "the Duke" at the opening of the ninth canto ot Bon Juan , which would appropriately come m hero , we must omit : it will keen tor another Waterloo-day .
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TO THE CHARTIST BODY GENERALLY , BUT MOKE ESPECIALLY THE MEMBERS OP TIIE CHARTIST LAND CO . OPERAT 1 VE SOCIETY . Fbiends , —It seems to be the fato of every measure , whether great or small , designed to improve the people ' s condition , to meet with opposition ; not only the opposition of those in authority , whose sinister interests consist in upholding the present anomalous order of things , hut the opposition also of canting h ypocrites , who are continuallv whining over the sufferings of humanity without ever taking a step to effect their removal or" alleviation . The puny opposition of such misanthropes would merit no other treatment than contempt , but that weak minds may be led into error by lying statements and plausible attempts at reasoning . It , therefore , behoves the promoters of every good measure to strike down with energy and promptitude the opposition by which their objects are sought to be frustrated .
Tho Chartist Conference , which recently assembled in London to devise measures promotive of the political and social melioration of the working dosses , hns concocted and matured a plan , by the operation of which , land to a very great extent , upon comparatively easy terms , may be obtained by the proscribed , impoverished , and degraded sons of toil . Tho project has been but a very short time before the country , and already aro the busy curs of faction barking and growling their brutal opposition . Por . tions of the press too , that potent engine for good or evil , has been made tho medium for conveying this insensate opposition to the world . Being appointed by the Convention pro temport directors of the Chartist Land Co-operative Society , we deem it our duty to defend the plan which has been confided to our management , and to expose the ignorance , stupidity , and falsehood of its assailants . We will first briefly explain the plan itself . Two thousand members are taken as the basis on which our calculations aro made . The
society , however , may consist of . any greater number , for the more numerous the society the more extensive will be its sphere of operation . It i » proposed that a capital of £ 5 , 000 shall be created by % e members sub . scribing £ 2 10 s . each , which may be paid by instalments , at the option of the subscriber , at the rate of 3 d ., 6 d ., 9 d ., or Is . per week . With tho capital thus realised land will be purchased and divided into allotments of two acres each ; cottages erected , and the sum of £ 1516 s . 8 a . presented to the members entering upon
occupationeacll member tO OCCUpy , uudcra lease forever , a wnemsnt and two acres Of land , at an annual rental of £ 5 . The estate , thus enhanced in value by improvements and buildings , is to be sold with the least possible delay ; and the origiual sum , together with the profit realised by the sale , expended in buying more land , erecting other cottages , and locating members : such land and cottages to be again sold , and thus the society propose to continue Us operations until all its members are each in possession of a cottage and two acres of good laud secured by a perpetual lease , at a yearly rent of £ 5 .
Here is a brief outline of our plan , the feasibility and practicability of which we are prepared to maintain by fair argument , in defiance of all opposition . We have observed in Ltoyd ' i Newspaper of the two last weeks , articles written ( not by the Editor , but adopted by him ) to prove that our plan is unworthy of public confidence or support . Having bestowed upon those articles an attentive perusal , we can confidently affirm the impossibility of cramming into so small a space a greater quantity of stale jokes , sheer nonsense , gross ignorance , or wilful and deliberate misrepresentation . But , as we are desirous of construing as lightly as possible the errors of the writer , we are moro inclined to ascribe them to the weakness of his head than to the virulence of his heart .
These articles , designed to crush in the bud the Char , tist Co-operative Land Society , abound in miserable puns —the " gilt farthings" of wit about "Adam and Eve ;" " the garden of Eden ; " " nine tailors making a man ;" the story of " Alnascliar aud his egga , " which are too con . temptible for further notice . The first objection of any weight is tlie imjM-aclicabittt ji of the project . Tho writer is as muc-h amazed at the objects aimed at by this society , as wero the old women of England when travelling by railway was projected ; and as the success of the railways has relaxed the wonderment of the old women , so we trust , bj the success of our plan , to remove the doubts from the murky mind of our assailant . The writer deems the plan impracticable , but he fails to point out where our machinery is defective . Wo ask , cannot land be bought
at twenty-five years' purchase ? Certainly . Do wo reouire it cheaper % No . Thus far the plan is practicable . Can from GO to 100 cottages , contiguous to one another , be completed at £ 30 each « The opinion of experienced men decide the question in the affirmative . If the land is bought at twenty-five years' purchase , is it not likely to sell , with'the improwmenfs , at twenty years' purchase ? Do we ask more for it ? Cannot the residue of our means , after purchasing land and building cottages , be equally divided among those to whom the allotments are appropriated ? Surely there is here no insurmountable obstacle . These are briefl y the operations of which the society guarantee the performance . Where , we ask , are the impediments to their successful result ? But the Sjlon , whose lucubrations illume the readers of Lloyd ' s
and who is shortly to astound the world with a plan so transcendently the superior of ours , that wo must ever after WOe our diminished heads , sneers at the advantages held out by the Chartist Land Society . A cottage and two acres of land secured by a perpetual lease , at a rental of £ 5 a year , with , tlio use of £ 15 lCs . 8 d ., and all obtained at the trifling expense of £ 210 s ., are , in the fuhuss of his benevolence , deemed unworth y the attention of the slaves of the " grinding capitalist ; " The ocenpiers , we arc tjld , would , in tight or nine years , pay , in the shape of rent , more than the value of their cottage . Has the writer forgotten that if they were not on the land , they would have to pay " rent" somewhere elsei Has it escaped the perspicacity of this wise manof Ike east , that more than the annual rent required
by tho society for a residence , in which health , independence , and comparative competence may be enjoved is now paid for dark ana dingy garrets in the filthy aflevs of the metropolis , or the damp and dreary cellars of Liverpool , into which upwards of 40 , 000 human beings are crammed , a prey to those destructive disorders induced by filth and foul air ? Would not such a possession as this society purposes to realise for its members , be a blessing to myriads of toil-worn , care-worn slaves in the manufacturing district , whose very lives are being sacrificed on the Moloch altars of capital ? The term " grinding capitalist , " which occurs in the book containing the rules of the society , does not seem to accord with , the fastidious taste of the writer . They are iterated and reiterated by him , which would lead us to conclude that in
his opiuion they arc a misnomer .- Our experience , however , warrants the application of the term grinding to tho capitalists of this country . We know something of the grinding propensities of the millocrats of the northwretches who , in the majority of cases , lmd it not been for the merciful interposition of the legislature , would through the terrors of the whip , . convert the sweat oi infants into gold , to maintain their unhallowed aggvan . disement—remorseless beings , who would doom then toilers to ignorance , immorality , and decrepitude , i « . aucel ly fourteen or fifte en hours ' labour daily , in the enorvnting atmosphere of the factory , tliat they , the lords of labour , may slake their raging thirst for gain . Such is the animus of your mammon-adoring capitalist : and yet we are carped at for applying to them the term " grinding . "
The public are reminded by the scribe in Lloyd ' s tliat the funds of the society are insecure ; that there is no responsibility attached to the officers in consequence of the society not being bniiolwd . To this we reply , that the rules of the society make ample provision for the security of the funds , and furthermore we say that there is no obstacle to enrolment . A general meeting of the members will shortly be held in their respective localities , when the question of enrolmeut will be mooted and settled . Friends , before we conclude this vindication of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , we ir , ust notice nn impudent falsehood which is blazoned forth in Lloyd ' s with an effrontery , a recklessness , which none but an adept could display . He says : —" Mr . O'Connor shows that when £ 5000 shall have increased to £ 37 , 324 , 372 * persons may have allotments and cottages : but he omits to deduct the 872 i times £ 15 los , 8 d ., which is to be furnished to each individual for stock , Ac ; you have therefore to take £ 5000 as the original capital , and to deduct from
this 372 i times £ 13 lGs . 8 d ., namely , £ 58 D 718 s . 4 d : according to Cocker the result would be 0 , minus £ 89718 s . 4 d .: Jlr . O'Connor , on the contrary , shows plus £ 37 , 324 . " Poor fellow ! we opine that his acquaintance with Cocker is just about as extensive as his knowledge of the Land plan ! Mr . O'Connor does not say tliat " when the property of the society is increased to £ 37 , 324 , 3721 persons will have cottages , &c . ; " but he doss say "that 1923 persons will be in possession of their allotment ? . " The rules of the society assert the same , in language the most unequivocal . Mr . O'Connor lias no necessity to deduct Urn sum given to each seller upon the land from the ori-S inot capital of £ 5000 , as these sums arc supplied by the increase on each sale of the society's property . These things arc known to every man conversant with the rules : hence , while we despise the retailer of falsehood , we can well afford to laugh at the stupidity of the arith . niclical solution which gives a minus quantity of £ S 97 ISs . 4 d ., iustead of aphis of £ 37 , 324 .
In conclusion , we would advise the opponents of tins plan , before they make their appearance iu print again , to endeavour to make themselves conversant with the subject ; ncglcctinjr this salutary advice they may , like unto our adversary m Lloyd ' s , instead of writing down our plan , write themselves down "fools !" Por the Directors of tlie Chartist Land Co-operative Societv , London , June 20 , 1845 . T . M . Wheeieb , Gen . Sec . I ^^ 'A / ' ' AO ^^ ' / ' // - /^^'
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Tub Pxouluk Bubdbss upo . v Lavd . — Mr . Ward lately brought forward an unsuccessful motion for an inquiry into this subject . We quite agree with the majority that rejected it—there is no reason for any inquiry into the matter . We can save the house a blue-book ( so called from its effect upon the looks of l « m . members while engaged in its perusal ) by a succinct account of those " peculiar burdens" for cack of the three divisions of the United Kingdom .
ENOLANI ) . ImprimU , we should say a very peculiar burden upon the land in England is—1 . A sporting landlord , in whose eyes partridges are ot more consequence than paupers , and who ia all lusashcmes of amelioration spells " peasant" with . A pll * 2 . An ill-paid , overworked labourer , with a minJ as bare as his body , a dogWe for a dwelling , and m union-house lor a refuge . 3 . An ignorant tenantry , with a confidence in Sir Robert Peel and a blind dependence on protectioa and the landlord . * 4 . A non-resident rector , with a taste for Cheltenham waters , and a notion that the working clergy are composed of curates at £ S 0 per annum
IUELAXD . 1 . An absentee proprietor , vdio considers liedgo . shooting the natural amusement of the Irish pisantrv behoves the only "genteel" residence for A nianoC taste to bo an English watering-place ; ar . d holds the Untit 3 ol property to be all on the side of the tenant . 2 . A Protestant ascendancy parson , who looks oa Orange lodges as a development of the Christian church ; "Boyne Water" as a hymn ; and a national school as a favourite parade-ground for the Evil One . > rack-renting agent , whose favourite argument is a policeman a bayonet .
SCOTLAND . 1 . Highland landholder , with a preference for sheep-walks over small holdings , and a tendency to promote emigration on a forge scale by driving out lorty families in one clearing . 2 , A population of paupow depending on what tlie heritors like to give them . Let England , Ireland , and Scotland rid themselves of these burdens respectively , and we should not despair of even move wonderful results tban a repeal otthe Urn Laws , a millennium in which the Duke of Buckingham should play in Mr . Cobden's dryine grounds , and Villiers sport over Sir John Tyrdl ' s preserves ; when Sibthorp should exchange the kiss ol peace with Boivnng ; and Hume and Herbert aifc cheek-bv-jowl on the Treasury bench , witli the smile ot brotherly Jove upon their faces , and their amis round one another ' s necks . —And .
An Impudent Compast . —Amongst the advertisements m tho papei-s we perceive one headed " Firstclass Assurance Company . " We understand tfcat O Conncll , Roebuck , D'Israeli , and Mike Gibbs are to be appointed managing directors of this new company ;—we know of no men better fitted for conducting an establishment where " first-class assurance " is to be the capital . Rathkr Doubtfto . —A man at St . Etienne is said to have invented a five-Waded carving instrument , which "being placed in a roasted fowl , and a spring being pressed , the blades will , in a second , separate the legs and wings , and divide the carcase" ! This is very ingenious , but we defy him to invent anything tliat can " cut more ways at once" than the present British Cabinet .
An Isvetwutk Joker . -Mathews ' s attendant lit luslast illness intended to give the patient some medicine ; but a few moments after it was discovered that the medicine was nothing but ink , which had been taken fr om the phial by mistake , and his friend exclaimed , Good heavens , Mathews , I have givea y 0 ? . ™ - ' ^ ever-ncver mind , my boy-ncver mind , ' said Mathews , faintly , " I'll swallow a bit of blotting paper . " This was the last joke Matkewg ever made . Stow Smith ' s Sketch op Lord Johk RussEtt . ' — Ilicre u not a better man in England than Lord John Russell , but bis wont failure is this : he is
utterly ignorant of all moral fear ; there is nothing he would not undertake . I believe ho would perform the operation for the stone—build St . PeteiVor assume ( with or without ten minutes' notice ) the command of tlie channel fleet , and no one would discover by Ins manner that the patient had diedtne cliureh tumbled down-mid tho channel fleet : been knocked to atoms . * # It is impossible to sleep soundly while he has the command of the *¦«•*«*• .. io th » he attached the following note . — Another peculiarity of tlie Russells is , that they never alter their opinions . They r . ro an excellent racc > but they must be trepanned before they can be convinced .
A Aatgrm , iNQvmy . —A cockney youth , on being shown tlie apparatus for hat chins e < -s by artificial heat , which most cf our readers will recollect having seen at the Collegiate exhibition a year or wo ago , remarked that "the chickens would only die when they amio out , for want of mothers to suciclc them . IuxsTRions FisimosoKiis . -Lord Brougham got awftiHy eloquent at the dinner given to Prince Albert by the l'islimongere' Company , and passed such a lanogyric on fishmongers , as must have gladdened the heart of Groves , and elevated Lynn , of Fleetsireet , to a height in his own opinion that he otherwise never would have dreamed of . According to iirougham , the greatest glory a man can aspive to is keeping an oystcr-siiop , for his Lordship declared . Jiat statesmen , warriors , awl even prnires kd reason to Uo proiul of being Fishmongers . Wo should su « - - £ es fc a new order as a sort of companion to the Golden . Meecc , to be called the Silver Mackerel
HINTS FOB TIIE NEXT STATE B \ LL . Why carry back a hundred years tulips , Tories , Commoners , aud Peers , For drosses at a fancy ball ? How vain to go so very far—To what they were from what they aro Would he disguise fur nearly all . Take Brougham as the iirst { for he First in his own esteem will he ) , And as in " cig ] itcen-t ! iirty " sliow him—Down on l . is knees , suffused in tears , Pressing Reform upon the Peers ;—Sure nobody on earth would know him . If in disguise you would concenl The great freetrader , Robert reel . How very easily 'tis done ; TO > y go to George the Second ' s reign » — He ' s only to appear again
As 1 ' eel of " eighteen forty-one . " I \ O powdey'd wig tlicy need prepare i ' oi Derby ' s son anil natural liair : Let him assume a bearing manly , Proud and impetuous , as he Some ten years since was wont to be ; How different from the present Stanley ! How easy 'twere to find disguise Of almost every sort and size , Accumulating now since'thirty , In Graham's wardrobe ; though 'tis true For fancy balls they'd scarcely do , Host of them are so very dirty . Reason , indignant , asks , " 0 , why Make gallant Wellington a Guy \" It was not requisite at all . Besides , it scarcely was a change ; To him there could be nothing strange-He ' s used to powder and to ball .
He needed not the large peruke Of Cumberland ' s illustrious Duke , Since Wellington ncoit only rango For the last twenty years or so Over his statesman's life to show
A most cxtr ' ordinnry change . Now , if another ball of state '[ Her Jfajesty should contemplate , ' There'll be variety in plenty Of character and costume too , If politicians n ay renew Some year of the last ten or twenty . Tme NevIIouses ofPari . iamkxt .-7 Lord Brougham ( the antique , or antic—which Ihu reader pleases ) of the Howe of Lords , said "that Mr . Barry was not only a Gothic architect ami a dilatory man , but he was delay itself . " How caw two of a trade a ^ rcc ? i his comes of Mr . Barry ' s endeavours to rob Lori Brougham of his Gothic character . "Who knows they may not yet turn Vandals ?
Popish Railroad . —It is stated that the Pope lias declared against tlie introduction of railways in the Papal States . " Perhaps his Holiness considers Peel is running fast enough in that direction alread y . According to the Exeter-hall people , Peel is everytiling but a sleeper on thai road . Tiie Temperance Movement . —Another Yankee captain lately emptied some casks of pm into tho sea . If teetotallers generally follow this example we slinll shortly have the ocea n converted into stiff gvog and it will not then be so difiicrJt a matter , as Shak ! spcare might have supposed , to " callspiritsfromtlio vasty deep . "—Great Gun .
iso Occasion tor the Kkt . —Cardinal Salvi , the 2 ri , ko \ - of ? ^ abbc - vs in FJoi < c » c < v during his earlier days , used to . cause a net to bo spread every day on the table of his apartment , toremind him as a poor fisherman ' s son , of his humblo origin . When tho abbot died , this dissembled humility caused him to be appointed bis successor , and subsequentl y chosen cardinnl . He then left off this ' ceremonial , and bessm living in the ordinary style of a luxurious churchman . A brother cardinal remarked upon this dsnnjic . "Nay , " replied Salvi , wliy should ' 1 perpetuate a useless ceremony—I have iiofuvthci- occasion for tlie net , for Have cemght
iJns . ^ YooD .-Whcn this favourite vocalist , iben Lady Lennox , was representing Mly ( Bccar ' * & «) . f the Baymarket , she intimaid to ffi DiMm that she wished to sing "A miser thus a shilling sees " just a mtch ohcr than it is set in the UnT ' and 2 ft . Tf * ^ " yo 11 milst afe ^ line and sing it , "A miser thus a quinta rcpr '' JOtt'Umaketheslullingonepouadoie " '
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Stout , of ax Umbreixa . " -. T 1 us is the title of a comic novel , companion to "Punch , " announced to appear next week . The author , ( i . Ii . Rodwcll , Esq ., is well known from the laughter-producing farces and songs he has given to the public , among the most ?? , a Y « ° ^» vlucU I ' , ! T dd / thc T . vlcr , " "My Wife ' s Out , ' ; £ ux my Dolly , pals , " &c . &c . He has called toUisaid a iumlved genius to give graphic delineations ot his humourous conceptions-thc well-known and admired " Phiz ! " Judging from tlie wit on the illustrated wrapper , and the known talent of the author , wo augur most favourably of having a rich begone dull care" treat . It is announced to be Er « iS ? 1 Iu a 11 l ' C 3 pccts v [ ^ ' ^ sM "
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A Prixce Committed fob FonoEnr . —A circumstance has just occurred which has caused the greatest astonishment in the upper c-ir . des of Paris . Prince de B , twenty-two years of ago , married about eleven months back to the daughter of a rich banker was arrested on'Thursday , and committed to prison on . a charge of forgery , committed under the followin " circumstances - . —The'Jockey Club , in order to facil £ tate the payments of racing and other debts , have been in the habit of using counters made of ivory stained red , bearing the year on one side , and the signature of tlie secretary on the other—each representing 100 francs . Some time back Prince do B—— . who is not a member of thc club , handed over to bis
brother-in-law , also a banker , ten of these counters , and asked him to give bun cash for them . This was done , ami the banker sent them in the course of business to the club , where nine were declared to be forgeries . The secretary immediatel y proceeded to the banker s , and the Prince was sent for . lie declared unhesitatingly that he had received them at the races of Chanlilly , in payment of a bet irom a person on thc course , whose name ho believed to be Zarlatti , & » Italian , -whose address he did not know A complaint was lodged before M . St . Duller , Juge d Instruction , who at once instituted inquiries , and succeeded m « iscovcring the man who had made the counters . J his person declared he had received the order tor tncjii from a young man whom he lmd seen oiuy-twice and whose person ho could not well describe
, lie delivered them , he said , as he could prove by m books , on May 24 . Thin deposition m » in flat cor . tradict . on with the account of Prince de tfc S W facd . ? y , tl 10 1 Sth as ««> dav on v J ]! f , rcce ve them »* CliantUly . " The him "ocvt- ' nM- "'" fc ^ y had been handed to him l v ccvtssiii of Ins friends ; but these gentlemen SS £ , ° 'ff ? llal ?™ tl'o tnffif E ~ ; , „ w . ' i ' . 5 onfrontei 1 ' RIul tllc former at once recop . Jscdthe . lai eras the person vho bad given hm the order . -Tho Prince then burst into tears , and avowed that it was he who bad himself circulated the twcaiy-jvo counters , twenty-two of which had como into he club . Ho was at once committed to pnsonforiorgciy . What makes this case more extraordinary is that thc young man is not onlv rich , but was brought up most religiously . It is cifticult toaccountlorsuch . an . act , unless by supposing that
Oft TK 'n iTA 1 S SiaUtKB .-FAtMOBTH , JUNE ? & •„ - > CVCni ? 1 ' - ly atsix o > clock - thc Gfeat Britain steam-ship hove m sight on hep voyage from Plymoi ; Howards Dublin , and approached to w S our miles oi St . Anthony Light-hou . se . Wh « E had opened ibo harbour her steaming was eased and she sainted the port ; but without waitiS to ' cSm mmufa ' . c . l . er k-ndwas hove off fcr tho fiSiS SiXWm "" 'I" llCaa ' sail 3 > . iiMoSund 6 , ? -i ? ' i \ Cl > Stoam UH fflt full speed for bub-SL . V 1 l ifS ^ Part'cularly Peiulemus , were / WUrf M lMm 8 ands of spectators , and somehunr ? l - - - ° ' ° , . tsidc in t ] 'e W ftiH of Persons dearouso , viewing « iia stupendous ami magnificent ship . It was supposed that the Grcak Britain would wwjgut
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r rmoRApn over the Atlantic—A writer in thc New York Tribune suggests a plan for bringing old England within a speaking distance . He proposes to run a copper wire , well covered , and as large as a pipe stem , from Nova Scotia to the coast of Ireland . This , ns is thought may be accomplished by winding the wire upon reels , and arranging it on board a steamer so as to be reeled off as fast as the boat goes , and dropped the whole width of the Atlantic . The writer says— " Its gravity would sink it to the depth where water was so dense sis to be of equal gravity , and of course beyond thc reach of any kind of collision . Beginning and ending upon a ' bold shove , beyond the reach of anchors , it would be out of harm ' s way , and exposed but to two kinds of accidents—viz ., from separation b y its own weight , and the loss of the coating with which the metal must be protected . The steamer Great Britain would carry more wire i of this size than would extend to EHrope , anditSCOSt I tlllnk , would be Ices than a million of dollars . " '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 28, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1321/page/3/
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