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      BEAUTIES OF BIRON . so . xxvin . " THE SIEGE OF CORISTH . " The great critic Jeffrey has pronounced this poem Jo be " « magnificent composition . " For ourselvei , Ve cannot rate it very highly , althoHgh it contains much beautiful poetry , as the following extracts irill iestirV :-

      coaiSTH . Many a Tanuh'd vear and age , And tempest ' s breath , and battle ' s rage , HaTe swept o ' er Corinth ; yet she stands , A fortress furm'd to Freedom ' s hands . The whirlwind ' s wrath , the earth quake ' s shock , HaTe left untoucb'd her hoary rock , The keystone of a land , which stUl , Thongh fal : ' n , looks proudl y on that hill The landmark to the doable tide That purpling rolls on either side , As if their waters chafed to meet , Yet pause and crouch beneath her feet .

      But could the blood before her shed Since first Timoleon ' s brother bled , Or baffled Persia ' s despot fled , Arise from out the earih which drank The stream of slaughter as it sank , That sanguine ocean would o'rflow Her isthmus idly spread below : Or could the bones of all the slain , Who perish'd there , be piled again , That rival pyramid would rise More mountain-like , through those dear skies , Than you tower-capp'd Acropolis , "Which seems the verv clouds to kiss .

      1 GKEEK SIGHT SCENE . 5 T is midnight : on the mountains brown The cold , round moon shines deeply down j Bine roll the waters , blue the sky Spreads like an ocean hung on high . Bespangled with these isles of light , So wildiy , spiritually bright ; "Whoever gazed upon them shilling Andturn'd to earth without repining , Kor wish'd for wings to flee away , And mix with their eternal ray ? The waves on either shore lay there Calm , clear , and azure as the air ; And scares their foam the pebbles shook . But murmured meekly as the brook .

      The winds werepillonM on the waves ; The banners droop'd along their staves , And , as they fell around them furling , Abots them shone the crescent curling ; And tlut deep silence was unbroke , SiTe where the watch his signal spoke . Save where the steed neigh'd oft and shrill , And echo answer'd from the hill , An-1 the wildhnm of that wild hest Hustled like leaves from coast to coast , As rose the Muezzin ' s voice in air In midnight call to wonted prayer ; It ro £ e , that chanted mournful strain . Like some lone spirit ' s o ' er the plain :

      'I was musical , but sadly sweet , Such as when winds and harp-strings meet , And take a long unmeasured tone , To mortal minstrelsy unknown . It seem'd to those within the wall A cry prophetic of their fall : It struck even the besieger ' s ear "With something omiuous and drear , An undefined and sudden shrill , "Which makes the heart a moment still , Then beat with quicker pulse , ashamed 0 : that strange sense its silence framed ; Such as a sudden passing-bell "Wakes , though but for a stranger ' s knell .

      GBEECE ASS HEB . ASCVEKT BE&OSS . Behind the camp—before him lay , Im many a winding creek and bay , Lepanto ' s golf ; and , on the brow Of Delphi's hill , unshaken snow , High and eternal , such as shone Through thousaud summers brightly gont , Along the gulf , the meunt , the clime ; It will not melt , like man , to tune : Tyrautand slave are swept away , Less form'd to wear before the ray ; But that white veil , the lightest , frailest , "Which on the mighty mount thou haileit , While tower and tree are torn and rent ,

      Shines o ' er its craggy battlement ; In form a peak , in height acloud , In texture like a hovering shroud , Thus high by parting Freedom spread , As from her toad abode she flsd , And lingerM on the spot , where long Her prophet spirit spake in song . Oh ! still her step at moments falters O ' er witherM fields , and roin'd altar * , And fain would wake , in souls too broken , Bypoindng to each glorious token : But vain her voice , till better days Dawn in those yet rememberM rays , "Which shone upon the Persianflying , And saw the Spartan smile in dying .

      The chiefs whose dust around him riumbwM ! Their phalanx marshali'd on the plain , "Whose bulwarks were not then in vain . They fell devoted , but undying ; The very gales their names seem'd sighing ; The waters murmurM of their name ; The woods were peopled with their fame ; The silent pillar , lone and grey , Chum'd kindred with their sacred clay ; Their spirits wrapa'd the dusky mountain .

      Their memory sparkled o ' er the fountain ; The meanest rill , the mightiest river , Boll'd mingled with their fame for ever . Despite of every yoke she bears , That land is glory ' s still and their ' s ! Tis still a watch-wotd to the earth : When man would do a deed of worth He points to Greece , and tarns to tread , So Esnction'd , on the tyrant's head : fie looks to her , and rushes oa "Where life is lost , or freedom won .

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      SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . KO . IV . THE LIGHT OF THE "NORTHERN STAB . " By the last Bard of Breffai . If the Prince of Wales but an eye-tooth cut , If the Princess Royal sp—s , Twill be known o ' er the land ere the sun goes down , ^ Thro' each senile cringing news . ' How condoling they tell if a duke but sneeze , Or a beggar his lady scare ; "While the poor , by thousands , might starve untold , Were it not for the Northern Star ! "While Whigs aud Tories with factisus views By sraft in turn prevail , Xeglecting , or but at best , confuse The down-sliding public weal : To the dubious future in vain we look , Till shinins , like light from afar , Comes the ever-unerring prophetic truth In the light of the Northern Star !

      The collier , who far from the light of day , Gropes on in the gloomy miue ; The weaver , who toils thro' the long lone night , Lest hungry children pine ; Thepale-fecSTslaves who pant for air Where wheels and engines jar , Find not one friend to speak their woes Savs the voice of the Northern Star 1 While landed peers and merchant kings O ' er their hoarded millions brawl . Their slaving serfs ( whose toil and skill Produce their millions all ); Tho * , year by year , of their earnings rebb'd , To tell their wrongs none dare Save that unflinching friend to truth , The refulgent Northern Star !

      Br ght Star of hope , whose enlightening ray 6 Illume the poor man ' s mind , 'Till he now perceives the craft profound That long did his senses blind ; Knaves preaching patience to wretches crusa'd "Seath power ' s gory car , Will ba laughed to scorn by men grown wise In the light of the Northern Star ! Long , long may the light of that Stab expose The schemes of tyrants grim , Anl shine thro' the mist of the poor man ' s woei , A fiery pillar to him ! Leading to liberty ' s promised land , Now faintly seen afar ; "While tyrants crouch , like owls struck blind , In the light of the Northern Star . '

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      Parliament having re-assembled , and the questions already mooted therein being of the utmost importance , and inTolving the necessity of our report ing the debates at great length , we are compelled , for the present , to curtail our " Reviews . " ] TAIT'SEDlXBURGlfMAGAZINE-FflBBUAaT Edinburgh : W . Tait , Prinee ' s-street ; London , Sunpkin aud Marshall . lait opens this month ' s number with a well-timed MweU-reasonedarticleonthe war question , entitled . War with America : Ate we not Brethren V We

      "hall try to find room for this article , or the most of ir i ^ vTn ; A % ** review ° f " Campbell ' s Lives n ^ Chancellors" follows . " Ourllearth and w ? w ? - ¦ L th f «™» of an excellent work bear ing tiat talehy Jobs Alms , author of "The Old figshGentleman" "The Stage Coach , "&c . A portion of the story appeared in this magazine sometong more than twelve moaths ago-rather a long cWw ; r tl > s | - ll ween tlie commencement and the 3 SSL ? - S ?^ DlC £ LiUDEK concludes in % S « » T UlgUan A /' LOTe 'H y ' trance . Thomas Lz acixcEr contributes an

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      article oa "The Antigone , of Sophocles •» Colon . 1 ssrass s ^ -sa ^^ -sa g ^ apfiaa'jaa . 'ssa nS TEtt lsdesc"bed as "one of tke most perfect masters of the vivid ballad style that any language possesses . " The writer then gives a short analysis of the poetical characters of Goeihb and bCHatBB . We extract a portion of his remarks on sihS ^

      GOETHE . Kothing , in our opinion , has hurt the reputation of Goethe more in this country than his having been brought forward principally in two characters , where , whatever be his merits , he was certainly far from first , rate . Coethe is neither a first-rate dramatist , nor a first-rate novelist ; and yet any unstudied J « hn Bull , who knows the great Olympian of the German Parnassus by name , knows also that he is the author of - ' Faust , " and of" Werther , " and of "Wilhelm Meister ; " and knows , perhaps , nothing more . But " Faust , " with all its high poetic excellencies , is , as a drama , only a second-rate

      production . It is pieced together with too obvious coolness in some places aud wants a perpetual current of action , and a continuity of interest . " Wilhelm Meister , " the British reader thinks , —and he is no bad judge in such matters , —is flimsy and trifling , and wants a glowing and vigorous reality . So far , therefore , as his current translated works go , Goethe eannot be highly estimated by the general English rsader ; and the fact of the matter really is , that , likeOrid , Horace , Robert Burns , Beranger , aud all great lyrists , Goethe ( for he is a truly great lyrist ) can be read and relished perfectly « nly in his own admirable tongue .

      The writer gds on to $ ay , that "it is in the capacity of a luxuriant lyrist , and in this capacity only , that Goethe is entitled to take his stand among the great poets of all ages and nations . " The writer concludes his analysis by saying : — " Goethe was as _ great a lyric poet as pure polytheism and the philosophy of Epicurus would allow a naturally great mind to be ; what he wanted to make him perfect was , a few chapters of Seneca , aud a slight tincture of Christianity" (!!) . Schiller was a man of a different stomp , and seemingly a greater favourite with , the writer in Tait— " a poet of deep moral feelings , and with Christian and evangelic sympathies decidedly strong . " The writer thinks that , as in the case of Goethe , so the character by which .

      SCHILLEK Is most generally known in this country , is not that in which he has achieved the highest and most unquestioned excellence . Schiller ' s Wallensteiu is piled up with too much architectural weight in many places , to be a good specimen ^ the drama ; many of its most attractive beauties-are more lyrical aud oratorical than dramatic ; and , generally speaking , we ar « inclined to suspect that Schiller was both too much of a systematic deliberate German , and too much the victim of exclusive inward intense emotion , to be capable of reaching the highest point of dramatic excellence . As a lyrist , however , after the impetuosity of bis first apparition becomes a little more sulject to control , we have no fault to find with him ; and most justly does he merit that extensive popularity which he has achieved in competition with the master genius of Goethe . >

      The "national" poets of the years of the rising of ruFOLEOX—Korxeb and Schexkendobf—are next glanced at . Uhlasd , the representative of the " romantic school , " follows ; and then the writer comes to the poets of the " New Age , " Heewegh , Frehjqb * th , F » uee 3 lebes , Prctz , and others . The writer gives an account of the infamous frauds and perjuries of the German despots , particularly the late king of Prussia , in the matter of the promised " constitutions , " &c , with which our readers must befamiUar . The consequence , as regards poetry , has been "that the poets of the day have become the great prophets of the political opposition , and what St . Paul and the Apostles were formerly , 'the ringleaders of sedition among the people . '" In proof of this , an effusion by Pbctz is given , entitled , "The Story that ' s not true "—very good , but too leogthy for us to extract . The writer concludes with the following prophetic words on

      THE G 03 CIXG « EUUX REVOLUTION . The Czar Nicholas looks like a czar , and speaks lika a czar , and uses the knout like a czar , and no man mistakes him ; so also Austria , "honest old Austria , " site spread out with a quiet breadth of contented Conservatism on her green gossiping prater at Vienna , and her likewise no man mistakes ; but Prussia , prating magnificently about her Protestantism , her intelligence , her high pressure education , her Zollunions , her Germanism , and Liberalism of all kinds , is , when you anatomise her closely , a hideous compound of pedant , preacher , and eomedian , of coward , slave , and lub . What is to be the end of these things no maa knows . For ourselves , we shall not be surprised if the German Lyric Muse , having now at length , in her youngest incarnation , become decidedly political and practical , should quickly learn to indite in a fluid of a more potent virtue , and more perilous concoction than ink . There were songs , alio , and tare ones sung at Paris , in the year of grace one thousand sctenhnndrcdand ninety-two .

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      PUXCII-PartLV . London : Panch \ Office , 85 , Fleet-street . This part eommences the tenth volume of our facetious friend Punch , and affords sufficient indications that the volume now commencing will , to fay the least , be not one w ( A ) it inferior to its predeoessora . We have already given numerous extracts from the numbers making up this part , including that excellent and eloquent protest against legal mwder , "The 'Moral Lesson' of the Gallows / ' which appeared in this paper of January 24 th . As a further specimen of the literary merits ofthis part , we give in our "Tit Bits" column a capital imitation of the famed fable of the " Cameleou , " which every schoolboy has read and admired , and which adults cannot forget . The " illustrations" to Punch ' s witticisms are as racy as ever . We must particularly single out RussELLapplyingforaplace in thecharacterof apace ,

      and the Queen answering— " I ' m afraid you are not strong enough for the place , John . " Also "The Ministerial Crisis , " a capital caricature ; Punth is represented as the owner of a penny peep-show , with master Mm Bull as a little boy having a sight . "Showman : On your right you will perceive a Prime Minister a Bolishingof hisself ; and over your left isanother Prime Minister a Bolishin" of the Corn Laws . ' Muter John Bull : 'But which is the Prime Minister V Showman : Whichever you please , my little dear . You pays your money , and you takes your choice . '" Perhaps still better is the ' * Artful Dodger . * Peel , as the " Artful Dodger , " and Russell , as ' the unfortunate " Oliver Twist "—the former addressing the latter says , " Oh , how jolly green you must be to think you could form a Ministry ! " The figur e of Peel in this caricature is above all praise . The other illustrations are all rich and racy , but must be seen to be understood .

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      THE ALMANACK OF THE MONTH . Edited bt G . A . a'Becketi . London : Punch Office , 85 , Fleet-street . The first number of this admirable " review of everything andeverybody" "kepttheword of promise to the ear , " and now , the second number , unlike the weird sisters , fulfils " it to the hope . " All that the first number led us to hope for is realised in the contents of its successor . The "Almanack of the Month" is now a faite accomplie . After " Some account of February" ( a queer acoountitis ) , we have " The Great Event of the Month , " which ib , of course , the opening of Parliament . Tho narrator ofthis great event says , very truly , that the Royal procession is "inferior as a show to the Lord Mayor ' s , which has the extra advantage of being asort of thing thatevery one is allowed , andexpected to turn into ridicule . " Still , the opening of Parliamen t , including the " Royal Speech" isafter allequal to

      ,, , most of the pantomimes ! We can only give the names of a few of the principal of the contents , such as " The Jkbut of the Month" ( the Dog Emile at Astley ' s ); " The Play ef the Month" ( the two Misses Cushman , as Romeo and Juliet ); "The Exhibition of the Month" ( the Art Union Cartoons ); "The Great Nuisance of the Month ; " " London by N ' ght " ( as seen at tke Colosseum 2 ); " Memorable Days of the Month ; " "The Book of the Month ; " and ' The abuse of the Month . " Most of the articles are of a comic character ; but this last named is a serious and appropriate article on the great abuse of the past month , —the legal murders at the Old Bailey and Horsemonger-lane . We had marked a somewhat lengthy portion of this article for extract , but we find we have not room for it . We have , how srer , extracted several tit-bits , which will be found in their appropriate place . We must not omit the followingstrikingportrait of

      " THE MAN WHO W 4 S VERY HEAR IT . " It strikes us tbat Lord John Russell is amazingly like Ihe " Carrier" in Mr . Dickens' Cricket . He has been all hit life " very near it . " He was nearly losing his minis , try several times during the long , Whig , sticking-plaster administration . He was nearly losing his election in the City , only winning it by a miserable minority of two or three . He was very nearly writing a good tr » gedy , and wasas near a war with France ashe couldbe . He was very nearly winning the Chinese war , only the Tories came in and reaped all the benefit of it . In * e same

      way , he was very nearly proposing the repeal of the Corn Laws ; but Peel has since quite cut the corn from under bis feet The same with the timber the sugar duties : —Lord John was near thtm all ; but Peel , it i * confessed ; in all financial reforms , was always much nearer . Again —he was very nearly coming into the ministry on the last occasion , and we have no doubt will be very nearly coming in again , but if he does come in , it will be the mereit accident that he does not very nearly lose it . We are only afraid posterity will say of Lord John , "He was not a gteat man , but he w&s very near it . "

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      WADE'S LONDON REVIEW-FmuART . London : C . B . Christian , Whitefriars-street , Fleetstreet . In this number we have a continuation of the editor ' s romance , 'The Phases of Love" Tlie chapters before us are mainly occupied with the heart-stirring narrative of an unfortunate gypsywoman , who has been rescued from death , and subsequently from msult by the heroine of the story , f ^««' » Spanish lady . Thus far the story is well told , it it has a fault it is not in tlie quality , but the quantity doled out ; month by month ; but we suppi . se this must be submitted to , otherwise the reader could not be furnished with that" variety" which we believe , magazine-readers look for . This storv ' is made the vehicle for expressing many bold and beautiful thoughts , such only as a writer possessing noble sympathies and a cultivated mind could give expres-< " <•?> .. ' . 'ere . ls no complete portion of thftsi . nrv

      sumciently bnettorus to afford room for as an extract . RumouraversthatColonel THousosisoneof the writers in this magazine ; if so , there can be no difficulty in assigning the pithy article "On theDutvof a Ministry" to his pen :-its tone and aim our readers willnotneedtobeinformedof . " HopeandMemory , " an allegorical poem , by J . G . Grant , is reallyavcry pretty production and very superior to the generality l £ ? £ T POetr £ / . easil 'S featur « ^ » J * Rmew is the re-production of old and curious works . 8 rci from

      SS J i i ! -f ' tue fact ot ' ISw f m ) . laDSua S <« known only to the few , renders them ( the said works ) unknown to S ?» H " ?* £ ne ° f , 8 Uch works is reproduced-at least in its outline and essence , if not in full detailin the number before us . This curious old work is the Daphnis and Chloe" of Loxous , an old Greek romancKt of the calamitous times that succeeded the death of Theodosius . We had marked an extract illustrative ot the translator ' s happy and eloquent style , wnicn unfortunately we are enmnfilWl to nmit

      through wantofroom . Our readers will do well to procure tae "London Review , " and read the story themselves , rhtsnumberalsocontains theconclusionofthe Life of Liszt , " the celebrated pianist and com-> oser , and the commencement of a sufficiently Btarthng story , entitled " The Mysterious Visitor , " written with the avowed purpose of exhibiting to English parents the danger and folly of sending their children to France and other continental countries to bo educated . Notices of new works and theatrical entertainments conclude this number .

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      THE CONNOISSEUR-Februart . London : E . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street . This number of the " Connoisseur" contains several excellent essays , critiques , notices , Ac , on subjects connected with the Fine Arts , Music , and the Drama . The opening article , or essay on " Form in Composition" is somewhat too profound for the general reader , but doubtless will be read with much interest by the class to whom , it is addressed . " The Study of Music" is an article all may understand , and many may profit by , particularly those of the uninitiated who are disposed to throw away their money in learning 10 perform on the Spaaish guitar or other instruments , and accomplishing the art of singbg musically in "six lessons ! " We have

      before spoken of the excellence of the dramatic critiques , or , rather , criticisms on actors , in this publication . In the present number there is an admirable article on the performances of the Misses Cushmas at the Ilaymarket Theatre , where , our readers may know , the eldest is performing the part of Romeo , and the youngest Mitt , to crowded , and , we believe , admiring audiences . We should like to transfer to our columns the greater part of this critique , but the necessity of paying attention to , and criticising the performances at St . Stephen ' s , leaves us no room to do juctice to subjects which we

      must confess are much more to our taste . An article on the " Art Union Cartoons , " with several others , we have not roem to particularise , ate contained in this number . Last , not least , we must notice the magnificent engraving of Raphael , from a Srtrait by himself . Nature , the painter , and the hographer have here combined to present a face which must haunt the thoughts of ladies by day , and their dreams by night . Had we Arnold ' s choice , rather the face of Raphael than Achilles should be ours . But it is useless for us to prate ; let the reader turn to the " Connoisseur" if he would drink the draught of beauty .

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      BRISTOL . A great public meeting was recently held in Bristol in the large room , BroadmeaU , for the purpose of agreeing to some proceedings in opposition to the contemplated government measure for the enrolment of the militia force of the kingdom . Notwithstanding the exceedingly unfavourable state of the weather the immense building was , by the appointed hour , crowded in every part ; indeed , it is not often that we see so large and enthusiastic a meeting . The chair was taken by R . Charlton , Esq ., who delivered a long and eloquent speech , depicting the injustice and horrors of war , the frauds and debaucheries of the enlistment system , and the horrible tyranny practised in the army . Speaking of the anticipated

      embodiment of the militia , the chairman said : —Depend upon it , if the militia was once called out , military men would adhere to it as a means of recruiting the army ever after . Military men knew how to work that out—they had done it before ( hear ) . The plan was to make the militia discipline unduly irksome by the severity of the drills , the use of the lash , ic . While the life of the militia soldier was thus made a Sainful one , prospects were held out to him to inuce him to enlist in the line , Euch as higher pay and greater indulgence . Thus , by driving on the one hand , and drawing on the other , he was led to enlist luto the line . To so great an extent was this the case , during the last enrolment , that from a single militia regiment , in the course of eleven years , 18 , 000 nen

      volunteered into the line—volunteered it might be called , but it very much reminded him of a picture which they sometimes saw in the print-shop windows , into which a man held up a cudgel over the head of another , and addressed him thus— " There is no compulsion , only you must" ( laughter and cheers . ) They might depend upon it that , with all its abominations , the I present recruiting was preferable to tho militia system . He hopedthatby the expression of popular opinion the minister might be led to abandon it . But should he not , and should it , in the face of all remonstrance , become the law of the land , it would then become a serious question to consider what course it behoved them to take . X poor but honest working-man had told him that if he should be drawn

      he would go to prison ; and from what he knew of his character , he believed that he would do so ( loud cheers ) . Sure he was that they ^ would find imprisonment in the gaol incomparably less irksome tb an imprisonment in a barracks ( cheers ) . Any man of Christian feeling would be incomparatively more nappy m serving six months ' on the New-cut or at Lawford sgate , thanin beingenclosed in thebarracks at Horfield , with the red lash hanging over him and learning to degrade himself and butcher his fellowmen ( cheers ) . And if any of those present should rewive , neither by themselves nor a substitute , to learn to

      slaughter their fellow-creatures , but to go peacefully to pruon and suffer the penalties of the law , they would carry with them the sympathies and the prayers of all sincere Christians ( cheers ) . And , in carrying out that groat Christian precept , rather to suffer wrong than to do it , they could cheer each c £ L . Iang « age of encouragement which one of the Christian martyrs addressed to his brother martyr at the Btake , " Be of good cheer , brother Ridley for this day there is lighted up a candle in Lngland which , with God ' s grace , never shall be extinguished . ' 1 he chairman resumed his seat amid prolonged cheering .

      Resolutions were moved , seconded , and supported by the Rev . John Burder , the Rev . J . J . Wait , R . Norris , Lsq .. I . C . Howell . Esq ., the . Rev . W . Lucy , F « d ™ ck Wills , Esq ., the Rcr . T . E . Thoresby , and Mr . N . Pearce . All the speeches were excellent and eloquent , and elicited the most enthusiastic applause . We give the following extracts from the , peech of R . Mrris , Esq .: —Man possessed inalienable rights , of which no govetnment had a right to

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      Jn e E ; Jhe right to worship his Creator , ac-Zt S S . ' clate of W » conscience , was one of 2 nti hei : fr r | lt , *> y whether he would or would SStf !!? « an oHker ' I ™* a fellow creat <™ to death , was another . ( L-md cheers . ) He could see of Sin A'I ! IOUM uot have " « ^ atallatred 1 ffl aIre " cIll "a death as of Pu « 'ng an Euliahnuut to death . ( Hear , hear . ) He held no differences of nations . God had made of one flesh S ? l 7 ' ( Mr - N- ) recogni d in every man a brother , and wished to exercise towards all a brother ' s love . Many persons in England held the feeling—and lie was glad to see that they were increasing in numbers and importance—that war was incompatible with the precepts of the New Testament . He skould like to ask the government what right it had to make him do that which hein

      , his conscience , believed to be sinful , and to do which he knew would brine upon him the anger of his Maker ? ( Cheers . ) Should he obey man or God ? The principle to which he had adverted was recognised by some nations-by one it certainly was . It a man in America declared that he conscientiously objected to war , he was free from all compulsory service , and rom all penalties in consequonce of his refusal . Why should they uot have the same privileges in England ? No man ought to be compelled by any government to take up arms against his conscience . ( Cheers . ) llierc were many sorts of governments ; some were republican , and avowedly were influenced by the will of the people ; others were mixed , having representatives of the neonle . whose measures wpi-a

      regulated by the lords and the crown ; others , again , were despotic , and only governed by their own will . The government which embodied the will of the whole , w nearly the whole of the male population of the land , might righteously do that which a government of one or of a few would have no right to do . If any one said to him that they ought not to resist that which the government of the country had enacted , his answer would be that the government represented virtually a very small number of persons . There were about a million of electors , and seven millions of male adult j , so upon this showing it at once appeared that the one-seventh made the laws which were to govern the other six-sevenths . One man made the laws for seven men , the six having no voice

      in the matter . With these facts before them , and bearing in mind too that the greater part of the boroughs were under the influence of the aristocracy —so called—he would ask what kind of legislation could they expect for the people ? ( Hear . ) Would it not ever be the case , as long as the nature of man remained unchanged—that the interests of the mil lions would be neglected , and those of the few advanced ? ( Great applause . ) From these and other tacts , he believed that the people would continually be troubled with invasions of their rights , until some organic reform took place in the representation ( cheers ); and apart from everything like violenceapart from all appeals of physical force , he would say —Let the principles of the People ' s Charter be

      considered by all the triends to the liberty of their country . ( Applause , and slight disapprobation . ) He was glad to know that the principles of peace were being generally adopted , and that associations had been formed in this city and elsewhere , not to provide substitutes , but to sustain those who go to prison , and endure the utmost extremity which the law could enforce . That was the course he recommended every loverof peace to pursue . ( Cheers . ) He knew not what was the punishment of the law , neither did he care ; that principle he had resolved to act upon , and , with submission , he desired to be drawn . ( Continued applause . ) Nathaniel Pearce , formerly a soldier in the 53 rd regiment , who , in a long and clever speech , of which our space , will not permit of our attempting a report , detailed some of the vicissitudes of a soldier's lite .

      He stated the military life to be in peace one of extreme labour , and in war one of privation , danger , and suffering . He described the horrors of a battle , and the devastating influence of war upon the commercial prosperity of a country . The working men of this country were now labouring three days in every week to pay the interest on the war debt . Since in 1815 we had spent five hundred millions in war , and had slaughtered countless thousands . The lash was still in ute in the army , and there had recently been some appalling cases of its use . He was glad that a new feeling was growing up in the country ; meetings had been held at Birmingham , Liverpool , and elsewhere , and the people had determined not to fight . He hoped all present had made up their minds to keep a conscience void of offence , sheathe the sword , and spare mankind . ( Cheers . )

      ALVA . A public meeting of the inhabitants of Aha was held in the People ' s Hall , on Tuesday evening , Jan . 27 th , for the purpose of considering the best means to be adopted jto prevent the raising of the militia . Mr . Andrew Mc'Kenzie was called to the chair . Accounts of meetings relative to the subject of the militia-raising were read from the Northern Star , as also an article from the Nonconformist ; after which a resolution was passed , en which a remonstrance is to

      oe tounueu , to oe sent to Sir Robert Peel , urging him not to raise the militia force ; and a petition to Parliament , praying them to abolish altogether the Militia Law . The meeting was one in which the greatest interest was felt . The hall was crowded , and the discussions on the various topics that came under their consideration were carried on in the best spirit . At twelve o ' clock the meeting broke up , when all dispersed , thoroughly convinced , not only of the injustice of the Militia Law , but also of the inhuman and unchristian practice of war .

      LEICESTER . One of the largest and most spirited meetings held in this town was convened in the Town-hall , on Monday evening , to consider the propriety of petitioning against the calling out of the militia , and for the adoption of treaties with foreign nations for the settlement by arbitration of all quarrels which may arise . Mr . Alderman Ellis ( deputy-chairman of the Midland Railway Company ) was unanimously called to preside . Mr . W . E . Ilutcbinson ( town councillor ) moved the first resolution , condemning all war as inconsistent with Christianity and productive of great moral injury , and asserting that nations ought to settle their disputes by other means than force of arms . The Rev . J . Stevenson seconded the resolution

      , which was agreed to unanimously . Mr . Joseph Sturge , of Birmingham , amidst much cheering , moved a resolution , stating a number of objections to the war-like movements of the government . He drew attention to the unconstitutiosalness of a standing army in time of peace , and to the wise jealousy of our ancestors respecting it , and in a speech of some length advocated passive resistance to military service ; and subscriptions for the families of those who suffered for such resistance , in preference to payments to clubs for substitutes . He concluded amidst much cheering . Mr . J . Pcgg , an operative , seconded the resolution ; and stated that he had resolved neither to serve nor to subscribe ; which dieted general applause .

      The chairman stated that he had been three times drawn for the militia , and on refusing to serve , was each time distrained for the amount , sheep having been taken from him . Alter the adoption of some other resolutions , and a petition founded on them , the meeting broke up .

      SOWEHBY ASD SOTLAND . At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Sowerby andSoyknd , held in tho Association Room , Long lloyd , on Sunday , the 1 st February , the following resolution was adopted : — " That in the opinion of this meeting the contemplated embodiment of the militia force is an act of tyranny towards tho unrepresented classes of tho community , violating the first principles of justice ; and that it would stamp the working classes with eternal infamy if they allowed it to be carried into effect without protesting against it by the stron-est effort the law and

      constitution allows . And that this meeting further believes that the alleged cause for this tyrannic act , vie ., the prospect of war with America relative to the Oregon territory , is one in which their best interests are perilled , which can only tend to throw into confusion the dearest interests of the empire : and that they will not allow their family ties to be torn asunder , their domestic comforts to be invaded , and their liberty sacrificed , in order that their brethren in America may be slaughtered , and a fresli impulse given to despotism and misrule . " At the conclusion a vote ot thanks was given to thechairman , and the meeting separated .

      MANCUEBIER . A large and" influential meeting of the inhabitants ot Manchester was held this evening ( Monday ) , at tne Urn Exchange , with a view to pass resolutions co . . « : mn at ll ' y of the proposed enrolment of the militia . Ihe Rev . Wm . M'Kerrowtookthechair . H « saKl . oiie ground of his objection was , that tha militia system was calculated to excite and foster a war spirit , and to throw back the spirit of civilisution . f he military spirit was a bad spirit . They had endeavoured in their Sunday schools to teach this , —to show that the soldier was not the hero he had been generally represented to be . He could easily imagine the child , playing with its father ' s accoutrements , and listening to his stories of drills and field days , induced to forget the lesson of good thus instilled in the moment of excitement , and he did not wish that their work should be thus put aside . The inducement to our government , he had heard it

      stated , for wishing to raise this force , was to spare troops for the colonies . This colonial system , he feared , was the excuse for every aggression upon our rights —( hear , hear )—for taxation , for commercial restrictions , and for oppression . ( Cheers . ) Colonies ! What had we to do with colonies , if they were to be a perpetual burthen ? Give us free-trade and free intercourse with every country as well as with our colonies , and give to the colonists the same right , and then there would be no need for expensive military establishments , but all would flourish alike , and ail be interested in each other ' s prosperity . But hitherto , our colonial system had been only a system of taxation . It had been made only the means of providing for a young aristocracy , at our expense ,-who had not the mairliness to earn their own bread by their own labour . With respect to the reasons whv government were about calling out the militia , it

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      occurred to him that they had a difficulty in getting soldiers . The people were getting too sober and too thoughtful to enlist . ( Hear . ) Let people be compelled to go out , however ; let them go to drill , and their present habits might be made to undergo a change . It was this he feared , aud this he did not wisli to expose them to . ( Cheers . ) lie objected to war , on the broad ground that it was opposed to the whole spirit of Christianity . ( Hear , hear . ) They might be told that they were not patriots , that they had not love of country ; but he replied that their country was the world ! ( Applause . ) Their patriotism was the pure spirit of philanthropy , embracing nil ( S ' er ?) ' C 0 Untry ' ™ ' or condition .

      R . Ghailton , Esq of Bristol , moved the first rel ™ ., i »» t W S on the hardships suffered by recruits , he sa . d-In somc districts of Gloucesterslnrethe recruitrng serj eant might wiStle from morning till night and scarcely get a r ™ t This was one reason why government might wish to havo the militia out : and another was , the extraordinary mortality m-the army in India and China It was calculated that tlie 79 th Highlanders , in India would be thinned to such a degree that , in December next , not more than 200 out of the 900 men would be left . ( Hear , hear . ) It was a most shocking thing that these recruitingserjeants , acting in , anil making the most lavish use of the Queen ' s name , should be allowed to go forth , first debauching the youth of the

      country , and then entrapping and sending them into lasting slavery . ( Applause . ) One of the worst evils of this system was the tax it was upon the working class . It was said in favour of it , that it dwelt with a 1 classes or men alike ; but was it dealing with all alike to make tho poorest labourer- pay the same for his substitute as the richset merchant ? ( Hear , hear . ) Having got men into the militia , it was said that they might please themselvcB about going into the regular force . But this was a pretext that must not bo allowed . Let men once get into the militia and a system would be brought to bear , which would soon cause numbers to enlist into the regulars . One means was , the better pay which would be offered . It was calculated that , one way or other , 18 , 000 men in the last war were induced to " volunteer , " as it was called , into the army . It was said to be their own voluntary act ; but it was , in truth , as much a

      voluntary act as was that which a man did because lie could not help himself . The system reminded him of that put in practice by the policeman , who said , "There ' s no compulsion , but you must . " ( Laughter and applause . ) He concluded by moving — "That this meeting regards the proposed measure to enrol the militia of Great Britain for immediate service , as bsing not only opposed to the dictates and spirit of Christianity , but as calculated to awaken the jealousy , and to increase the military armaments of other nations ; to produce irreligion , intemperance , and immorality in the community ; to augment the already excessive military burdens of the kingdom ; to press with peculiar hardship upon the poorer classes ; to affect the prosperity of the country , and to foster a military spirit , baneful in its principle , inconsistent with native British liberty , and unsuited to the spirit of the times . " ( Cheers . )

      Mr . John Jefferson , Secretary of the London Peace Society , seconded the resolution . The Militia Act ( rave the Queen power to enrol and embody such a force at a fortnight ' s notice . The government had already made provision for calling out the militia ; they had given notice to the lord lieutenants for the staffs to be ready , and the lists were out to be filled up of all persons liable to serve . What could this mean but that the militia was to be enrolled ? According to the Queen ' s speech , there was no likelihood of war , nor was there , according to Sir II . Peel ' s speech , any prospect of sedition or disturbance at home . There was no knowing , then , what was the object of government in calling out tlie militia . It had been said that the militia were not to be called

      out tor the usual term of twenty-one days , but for three years at a time , and those who thought proper were tO have tke privilege of volunteering into the line . Then , again , orders were given to have 42 , 000 suits of military accoutrements ready by the spring . These clothes were wanted for somebody—( near , hear , and a laugh)—and the number strikingly corresponded with the number that would have to be called out of the militia for the first three years . He advised them not to join militia clubs , because they were held at public-houses . But there was another mode of going to work . Let them operate upon the legislature , which was the only way to stop the evil . Mr . Duncombe and Mr . Bright had asked if the milicia were to be called out this year , but

      could not get a direct answer . Sir James Graham was proposing to bring in a bill to embody the existing Militia Acts , butthisacfc might propose the three years' permanent service , and the people of Manchester might be called together in a few weeks , again to oppose such a bill . If they were , let ihera not stop short , but have all the Militia Acts abolished , andno new one enacted . ( Cheers . ) At present all the power given by the Militia Acts was to call out the militia for twenty-one days . He called attention to the militia oath . He hoped there were many present who objected to any form of oath . ( Hear , hear . ) This oath was another form of that employed in the line , by which a man swore to do as his superiors should order him ; in fact , it was taking an oath to submit themselves to the most ; abject

      slaveryslavery both of soul and body . It was not their question , once having taken this oath , whether that which they were ordered to do was right or wrong . The Duke of Wellington said the army knew better than to entertain an opinion upon a political question . ( "Hear , and a laugh . ) A body of men were once marched to the boundary of an unhealthy district , and mutimedrather than enter . They had promised to obey their superiors , and six of the ringleaders , kneeling on their own coffins , were deliberately shot . ( " Shame , shame ! " ) Would the meeting consent to be forced into such slavery as this ? ( Loud cries of "No . " ) Now , what did they mean by not serving ? Did they mean they would not serve in the militia personally—( " No , we won't" or did they mean they would each find a substitute ? ( "No , no ; we'll do neither . " But the Act provided fatcompulsovy measures being adoptedunless a substitute were found , and this militia system

      therefore was worse than the enlisting system . ( Hear , hear . ) What wages were they to have ? A shilling a day , or rather , deducting 4 d . for linen , &c , they had 8 d . a day : could they not make more of themselves than that ? ( Laughter . ) How much would they send out of this to their wives and f amilies ? ( Applause and laughter . ) Why , according to the New Poor Law , if their wives and families became chargeable during tkeir service they were liable to be made to repay tlu amount . ( Shame . ) And if they had not the money the guardians had power to have it deducted from their wages . ( Shame , and great sensation . ) He concluded by calling upon the people to nerve themselves to this service and tell the government they would have no more war ; and if the British government gave up the system of Btanding armies and of war , depend upon it all others would follow the example . ( Loud cheers . ) The resolution was carried by acclamation .

      Mr . Benson then read a petition , founded upon the resolution , to the House of Commons . Mr . Prentice moved the petition . He said it had been stated by Mr . Jefferson , that Ihe people called Quakers were exempted from taking oaths , and from serving in the militia . Now he should like them to inquire how it ^ vas they had this exemption . ( Hear , hear . ) And it would be instructive to them to take home the reason . It was simply because they exercised what was called passive resistance . ( Chcevs . ) Why was it they would not boar arms ? Because they conceived it to bo wrong ; and , believing so , they did not bear arms , but suffered themselves to be sent to prison instead . ( Applause . ) They were called upon to consider the ballot . What ballot ?

      ( Applause . ) They were told they could not have tho power to vote at elections by ballot , because it was sneaking and un-English ; but was it not far more sneaking and un-English like to enlist men , and compel them to become soldiers by ballot ? ( Cheers . ) Why did they not adopt the more manly course in this system of choosing men publicly ? If they had the men in every street drawn up in line , and chose from them , they would have no cripples or inefficient men ; why not adopt it , then ? Because there miuhtbe a shriek from some boy in the crowd , " You are taking my father ! " and the men of Manchester , having the sympathies of men , might not allow a father to be taken from his child . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , if the people were prepared to do as the Quakers did , there was a suggestion he had to make to government—it was to whisper in their ears that they micht eet

      together the militia , but that , when they had got them together , " would they act ?" - ( Loud cheers . ) If they had militiamen , they would have anti-corn-law men , anti-union men , and anti-state-church men , and universal suffragists ; but if they wero called upon to go against any of these mevements , could it be expected they would act ? ( Loud cries of " No , " and a voice " No vote , no musket ! " and cheers . ) Yes , that should be the answer . If they were called upon to fight , let them say , " You would not trust me to vote , and I will not fight your battles . " ( Cheers . ) The Rev . Dr . Beard seconded the motion , and it was supported in an eloquent speech by the Rev . E . P . Hood , and agreed to unanimously . The Rev . Dr . MaBsie then proposed an address to the Americans , as brethren deprecating war , and it was seconded and carried by acclamation . The meeting separated at a late hour .

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      THE POLITICAL CAMELEOX . Oft lias It been mj lot to see As great a fuol as fool could be ; Attending meetings , with a shout , That ' twould be better Peel were out While others noisil y maintain They ' re glad that he is in again . One would at once refuse submission And one would bow to his decision . Two politicians , each incli n'd , To be of quite a different mind , Began to have a quiet chat On sometimes this , and somedmes that , DiscourB'd awhile , with enrnest zeal , About that bold Camcleon , Peel , And very energetic grew Upon the subject of his hue . " A stranger animal , " cries one " Sure never bask'd in fortune ' s sun :

      A Tory ' s body , slow and long , A landlord ' s head—free-trader ' s tongue ; Its he ii't to quick repeal inclined But for its length of tail behind , Which checks its pace ; and then its hue Did anything e ' er look so blue i " " Hold , there ! " the other quick replies , " He ' s green : I saw it with these eyes , As late upon the ground he lay , Thrown over in the oddest way ; Resigned—without a cause I mean-Could anything be half se green V " I ' ve seen him , sir , as well as you : I tell you that he look'd quite blue , When he awhile was in the 6 hade , And I , John Russell , progress made . "

      '" Twas green , sir ; green , sir , I assure \« . « " Blue ! " cries the other , in a fury . So high at last the contest rose , They very nearly cams to blows ! When luckily they apied a third : To him the matter they referr'd , And begg'd he'd tell them if he knew Whether the Peel wasgrsen or blue . 11 Sirs , " cried the umpire , " cease your pyii-. j - He ' s really neither one nor t ' other . I saw the animal one ni ght , Viewed by the House of Commons light ; I marked him well—I enn ' t forget , For then he seemed as black as jet . You stare , my Mends ! " " Indeed we do ' " 'Tis green . ''— " 'Tig black !» - " Honstvi' : ia blue . "

      " Suppose , as we are all in doubt , " Cries one , " at once we turn him out . " Before they'd time to do it quite , The Peel appeared—and lo ! ' twas white ! All stared—and all looked wondrous wis 5 , " My friends , " the sleek Cameleon cries , " You nil are right and all are wrong , I ' m all by turns , and nothing long . 'Tis just according to the view , That I am black , or green , or blue . I but reflect each passing ray That seems the brightest for the day ; And friends , I hold it no disgrace To suit my colour to my place . " —Punch . _ Equestrian Feats . —The French are always snooting Abd-el-Kader ' s horse . This is done with the good-natured view of enabling the Emir to < iet off aft the easier . —Ibid .

      Promotion fob Brougium . —On the night of the Address , Brouuham made a speech in the Lords , so entirely foolish and unreasonable , that it is said he is to be made a Duke . —Ibid . Earl Marshal op England—the getter-up of all state processions , who has the grouping of all the state supenumeravies , and is , in fact , a sort of stagemanager to the Royal Household . The Earl Marshal is the head of the Herald ' s-office ; but as very little head ia used in that office , the situation is a sinecure . The post is hereditary in the family of the Duke of Norfolk , whose illustrious name will Jive as long as peppers , and that uort of thing , have the power of preserving it . —Ibid .

      Alliteration Artfully Applied . —Adored And Angeho Amelia , —Accept an Ardent and Artless Amorist ' s Affections ; Alleviate An Anguished Admirer s Alarms , And Answer An Amorous Applicant s Avowed Ardonr . Ah ! Amelia , All Appears An Awful Aspect : Ambition , Avarice , And Arrogance , Alas ! Are Attractive Allurements , And Abase An Ardent Attachment . Appease An Aching And ' Affectionate Adorer ' s Alarms , And Anon Acknowledge Affianced Albert ' s Alliance As Agreeable And Acceptable . Anxiously Awaiting An Affectionate And Affirmative Answer , Accept An Ardent Admirer s Aching Adieu !—Albert—Albany , August . Romantic Story . —A young milkwoman , of the esvirons of La Baumette , newly married , was earning the produce of her dairy to the market of Angers , when she found on her way a black cow fastened to a

      tree , and at a safe distance lay under another tree a arge bundle . Her curiosity was first attracted to the latter , which she found to contain a beautiful babygirl , wrapped in fine linen and warm flannels . On further examination she discovered a purse , containing twenty-five Napoleons , and an anonymous letter , intimating that the mother of the child was driven by powerful considerations to part with it for several years ; that the 500 f . were for the person who would humanely supply her place , and the black cow was to afford the child milk ; addiug , that every year the foster-mother should receive an ample sum for the maintenance and education of the child , until circumstances permitted its natural parent to resume the charge . The young milkwoman accepted the trust thus reposed in her , and , instead of proceeding to the market , hastened home with the foundling the cow , the purse , and the letter . —French paver .

      TIT-BITS FROM TUE ALMANACK OF THE MONTH . Posthumous Honours . —Sir David Wilkie ' s j-jafeHe is placed in a frame beside his statue . When Lord Brougham ' s effigy is erected it is contemp lated , on the same principle , to give increased interest to the sculpture by the addition of his lordship ' s tongue . Improvement of tuf . Month . —It has been at length determined to put the fountains at Trafalgarsquare to some useful purpose , for the attempt to render them ornamental is now abandoned on all sides . The area is to be converted into a washing establishment for the poor , who will be allowed to resort to one of the basins as a tub for cleansing , and to the other for rinsing . The steam engine will convey hot water into the former , and sunply the latter

      with cold , as usual . Solo soap will be supplied by the policeman on duty , whose civility has long been the admiration of the whole neighbourhood . A line will be brought from the coil of ropo at the top of the column , and made fast to the bridle of George the Fourth ' s horse , for ihe purpose of drying the clothes ; and the animal himself will be let out as a clotheshorse , for airing the finer sort of things . It is alse in contemplation to permit the use of the basins , at an early hour in the morning , as public , baths . The terms will be a halfpenny a plunge for grown persons , and three a-penny for children . A shower-bath under the Fountain will be charged according to time . Persons requiring the water warm , will use the right-hand basin ; those who are disposed to take it cool , may go to the left .

      Memorable Days of the Moutii . —There are several days in the month of February that will always be memorable in history . The first event of any importance happened on the 2 nd , when tea made its dibfa in England in the year 1 CCC . It is said " he must have been a brave man who first ate an oyster , " and there can be no doubt that she was a courageous old lady who first tried a cup of Twankay . The 5 th of February will always be celebrated as the day on which Sir R . Peel was born in 1788 , and it is

      a curious tact , that about the same time in the year 1846 he will be declared not to be borne by the Agricultural Protectionists . The 12 th will alwavs be renowned as the day on which the national debt waa first incurred so far back as the year 1500 . By a strange coincidence , the plague broke out in the same year in London . It would take up too muoh of our spacoto say what the national debt was , in the firat instance , owing to . Some think that it originated in our having borrowed a sovereign from the House of Lancaster .

      Look to your Cheap Tea . — " If you please , Mrs . Smith , mother saya will you send her a few tea leaves V " Yes , vxj dear , but you must let me have them back again , as I always sells them . " Jokks in Statues . —Over an ironmonger ' s shop in the Strand may be seen a full-length statue of Justice holding a pair of scales , but unfortuaately one scale is ever so much lower than the other . It only requires the two scales being labelled " rich" and " poor , " and the satire on the present age is perfect . Extraordinary CRAMMER . ^ Sover al ostriches have been sent as presents by the Emperor of Morocco to Louis Pluhppo . The powers of digestion of these extraordinary animals , since their arrival , have been very severely tested , for , on trying them with an omcial account of Marshal Bugeaud ' s victories , they actually swallowed it . For the future the Algerian

      dispatches arc to supersede the ostriches' usual diet ot tenpenny nails and door-knockers . Know Thyself . —It ' s all very well to say " Know thyself ; " but supposing you never find yourself at home , how are you to get an introduction ? GkrmanJ Politeness . — The Frankfort Journal gives the following anecdote : — " About a week ago the Duke of Nassau , while walking on the banks of the Rhine , near Mayence , asked a boatman whether the river continued to rise ? ' You , replied the man , using a term equivalent to calling the Duke a stupid ass , ' have been walking an hour here , and ask me whether the water vises ! ' The Duke turned away laughing . 'Do you know whom you havo been talking to ? ' asked a second boatman to tho first . 1 No ! who was he V ' Why it was the Duke of Nassau ! ' ' Well , I am glad I ' waj not rude ! ' "

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      February 7 , 1846 . THfi ypRTHERN" STAR . ¦' , . *

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      NO VOTE ! NO MUSKET !! STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES . A numerously attended public meeting of the inhabitants of Hanley and Shelton was held on Tuesday evening week , in the Christian Brethren ' s Meeting Room , for the purpose of recording their protestation against the threatened embodiment of the militia force . Mr . Henry Mawdesly was unanimously called to the chair . Mr . Edward Humphreys moved the first resolution in an argumentative and manly speech ; seconded by Mr . Charles Heath , and ably and eloquently supported by our venerable old friend Daddy Richards . Mr . John Moss then moved the petition , which was ably seconded by Mr . J . Tates , and carried unanimously , " that the petition be siened by the chairman , and sent to T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., for presentation . " The feeling seemed to be unanimous to suffer imprisonment rather than disgrace themselves by wearing a military uniform .

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      PEKSHORE . , At the weekly meeting of the Perhore Chartists , held on Tuesday evening week , it was unanimously resolved to get up a petition to Parliament against the embodiment of the militia , several members declaring that if drawn , they would at once declare themselves Chartists , and , of course , dangerous persons ; and would , if necessary , suffer imprisonment rather than fight against their fellow men . A vote of unbounded confidence in that tried and faithful friend of the working classes , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., was carried by acclamation .

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      1 EEDS . A public meeting respecting the embodiment of the militia , was held on Tuesday evening week , in the Bazaar , Mr . Councillor Brook in the chair , when resolutions were moved and seconded by Messrs . Harris , Hewitt , Shaw , Child , Firth , and Brownndge , protesting against the enrolment , and a petition agreed to be sent to T . S . Duncombe , Esq , M . P ., for presentation to the House of Commons .

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      " No Vote , no Musket !"—[ From a Correspondent . ] - ~ la a shop window in St . John-street , West Smithlield , is exhibited the following protest : — " This is to certify , that I will neither be a manslayer , nor learn the art and mystery of the profession at tho bidding of any man , or any combinations of men called governments , and ( as in consistency bound ) am equally resolved not to find a substitute to act the criminal for me . Further , that in my humble opinion , any man who voluntarily permits his bones and muscles to be used by his fellow men as a mere macfiinc for any purpose ' their wisdom or lolly may suggest , cau only be regarded with pity or contempt . —( Signed ) C . Hook . "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 7, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1353/page/3/