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OX THE TOUSCr AJJD BEAUTIFUL GOHNTESS PLTJTER , Who organised and commanded a troop in the late Polish Revolution ; and when the independence of Poland was finally crashed , died of a broken heart .
( "From the Literary Gazette . ) The missile with resistless fury sent , Though fragile be its nature , in that Sight Gains fresh endurance and unwanted might , Through all opposing strength to force a Tent ; But that new nature , for the purpose lent , Enduring only 'till its task is o ' er , It then resumes the same it own'd before , And falls and surrers as its power is spent : Thus was a woman ' s heart for Toland ' s safce , Inspired with energy before unknown , [ own And armed with strength and firmness not its Thus did that heart , its trial ended , break , To prove , when all that made it move was past , That it was still hut woman ' s at the last . x . r .
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SONGS FOR TIIE PEOPLE . 50 . XIV . OUR SHHJI 0 N 3 . Men of the honest heart , "Men ef the stalwart h ? ad , 3 Ien , willing to obey , Thence able to command : Men of the rights withheld , Slaves of the power abused , Machines cast to neglect , "When jour freshness has been used . Ye labourers in Hie Tinevard , We call you to jour toil ! Though bleak maj be the furrows , The seed is in the soil . 'Us not to raise a palace , Where Royalty may dwell , Nor built for broken hearts
The petty parish hell ; 'TIs uot to turn the engine , * Tis not the field to till , That , for the meed you gain , Might be a desert still ! * Tis not to dig the grave , Where the dying miner delves * Tis not to toil for others But to labour for j / owrsdtes . And nobler coin will pay yon , Than kings did e ' er award To the men , they hired to murder , The brothers the ^ - should guard . "No glittering stars of knighthood , Shall soil your simple vest—But die better star of honor , Brave heart in honest breast .
Xo changing "Norman titles , To hide your English name-But the better one of freeman , With its blazoning of fame . Up 1 labourers in xbe vineyard Z Prepare ye for the toil ! For the sun shines on the farrows And the seed is in the soil . Mount Ternon , Dampstead . Ernest Jones
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DOUGLAS JERROLD'S MAGAZINE - May . London : Panzh Office , 85 , Ficut-street . The portion of the Editor ' s stoiy of "St . Giles and St . James" contained in tins number , is brief , but good . Many beautiful thoughts and striking reflections are strung like gems of rarest value on the thread of the story , as , for example , the following : — SrBlSG AXD HOPE , Tlie sweet Tjraith of the season should open hearts , as it uncloses myriads of bu-ls and flowers . So , let us sit upon this tree-trunk—this « -lm felled and lopped in December . Stripped , maiispd , and orei thrown , a few of its twigs are dotted with green leaves ; spring still working within it , like hope in the conquered brave . TZTTED VjtoNGS . Tne doings of men ate not to be thought of nitit less
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charity for a gossip in a green lane . . lf » Jj try it , reader on your own account . Say that you hare > "H wrong at your heart ; say , that in your bosom you . nwse a pet injury like a pet snake . Well , bring it ) , ere , aW J from the brick-andmortar world ; see the innocent beauty spread around you ; the sunny heavens smiling protev - ing love upon you ; listen to the harmonies breathing about job ; anil then say , is not this immgctal injury of yours a wretched thing , a moral fungus , of no more account than a mildewed toadstool ? Of course . You are abashed by omnipotent benevolence into charity ; and you forgive the wrong you have received from man , in your deep gratitude to God . Nevertheless , there are natures hardly susceptible of such influence . There are folks who would take their smallest wrougs with them into Paradise . Go where
they will , they carry with them a travelling-case of injuries . Do we not know Trumperly ? A very regular man , and a most respectable shopkeeper . He taketh his sabbath walk . He lookcth round upon a wide expanse . The heath is illuminated with flowering furse , He stands upon a veritable field of cloth of gold . He is about to smile on the natural splendour , when again he recollects the had half-sovereigu taken ten days ago , and at the extremest corners of his mouth the smile dies , a death-of suddenness . And Grlzzletonf Did he not travel for enjoyment , and did not some past , particular wrong , always blot out , destroy the present beauty S He nia « le a pilgrimage to Niagara . lie was about to be very much wrapt , astonnded by its terrible grandeur , when the spray fell upon his new hat , and he could uot but groaufor the cotton umbrella , price one dollar , that he had lust at Sew York . And in this way do we of en shadow present pleasures with the thought of some sort of counterfeit money—some sort of departed umbrella .
" May-day for the People" is an excellent article , by Arcvs Kkacd , in which ihe writer warmly urges tr . i ' -ellins for the million" as one of the best means to enjoyment-which could be conferred on the people , aud the very best meaus for breaking down local and national prejudices , and thus aiding progression and preventing war . lie would have the " cheap trips" not stop at the " white cliffs of Albion " : — J Tis but a hop . skip , aud a jump to the Talmses of Frauce , aud the long sea dykes aud level corn-fields of Danders . In a year or two the former country will be intersected by railroads—the glorious old towns of the latter are already knit by their iron bands . Well , then , gentlemen Directors of the Great Xortlicrn Line of Fvuiioe and its muuy branches—Directors of the Fltmish ami the English railways , why not come to some amicable arrangement and concert cheap trijis in communication with each other ? Easter is a festival in all three
countries ;—why not teach the people of cilV . er tlie Sweets attd advantages of foreign travel 1 Why not dispatch the Londoner , and for that matter the men of Lancashire and York , across the water to orchards of La belli Aur mawlie , and thence away by Amu us and lisle , or Valenciennes , down into the historic "Low Countries ; " nbile we in our towns should receive etmul crowds oi our friends the JJrorcj Beiges and the blouse-clad men of Xormandy and Picarriy . There is nothing imprarticab'e in the scheme . Only let such trips be performed—ana they could be so performed—at the expense of a few , a very few pound-, and hundreds of thousands who now no more think of visiting Dieppe anil ISouen , or Ghent ami Bruges , than of starting for the antipodes , would be all agog fur a week to be passed in some strange landhitherto uiiniv known by t !; e vague phrase " abroad . " We are certain that the happiest results would flow from such an intermingling of France , Belgium , and England . It would form friendships — dissipate
prejudices—convey instruction—bind together by tlie tics oi acqu . iiniancesliip and pleussut recollections thousands who , ignorant of each other and each other ' s land ? , ivouM be the first to cheer on quarrelling statesmen , and throw up thtir caps for war . Let nations kuoiv each other , and acquire the habit of iiitcr-coininuiiication , and you will check hostile feelings in their bud . Acquaintances are not SO likely to quarrel as strangers . Time was when the inhabitants of England were as ranch divided for all practical purposes as the inhabitants of Europe now are . What was the consequence ? Civil war—eounty against county—the strife of the Koses . When Scotland aud England fought the battle of Bail , nockbum , London was nearly as distant from Edinburgh as it is nuw from Constantinople . Paris will soon be as near us , or nearer , than the Scotch capital , and as surely as that time will come so will an age which will regard the idea of the recurrence of a Waterloo just as wild as we should now look upon the notions of a man who waited in expectation of another fiodden .
In the " Hedgehog Letters" the cabman nioraliseth on the late war with the Sikhs , aud the giory , gore , and God-praising , relating thereto . This number contains an excellent chapter of the " History for Young England , " giving a graphic picture of ihe wringing of Magna Charter from the tyrant Joh . v , of whom it is well said that , " he died more thoroughly hated , and more deservedly condemned to everlasting infamy , than any other man of whom history keeps contemptuous record . " There are several poetical contributions in this number—one from the pen of Mr . Cooper , entitled " The Poor Alan ' s Coat , " but we have no room for further extracts .
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SLMMOXDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE . May London : Siinniouds and Ward , Barge Yard , Bueklerebury . The present number opens with a condensed account ef Capt . Fremont ' s reports of his discoveries in the Rocky Mountains , North California , and the Snowy Ridges . Capt . Fremont's expedition was executed under ; the orders of the United States Government . This account , although much condensed , imparts startling information of regions hitherto hardly known to exist . We have also in this number the continuation of Mr . Hooton ' s " Rides , Rambles , and Sketches in Texas ; " ; deeidedly the most interesting series ot papers yet published concerning that country . Mr . Hootou's exposure of the infamous frauds of the emigration book-makers well deserves the utmost publicity . We give a few extracts : —
THE TEXAN CAPITATi . What does the reader think of the capital city of a country consisting of at most some fifty or sixty wooden houses reatty built , and some thousand of stately stone erections of the imagination , forming visionary Streets , and adorned with splendid public edifices of marble , dug from undug quarries , and not yet existing in embryo even in the brain of an architect ! The Jtcv . Mr . Lawrence , who , in 1840 , visited this interesting spot , either in his own proper person , or in that of afriend equally trust - worthy with himself , says , in allusiun to Austin , " Some distance towards the extreme north part of the city "
( the log-houses before mentioned ) , "is a broad and beautiful street called Congress Avenue , passing through the whole extent of the contemplated city . " This is just as much as to say , there is a line marked out by the ploagb upou the prairie , to be called Congress Avenue when it is an avenue , and upon which many wonderful things ate to be done , that will look very fine when they are done and do look fine ! Yet by this rascally kind of castle-building are poor , anxious , and striving emigrants deluded into a wilderness , to live like wild men mayhap , if they live at all—or , more probably , to perish outright , because they have no means left wherewith to return !
TEXAS DISEASES . Bilions fevers , of different degrees of intensity ; ague and fever producing irrecoverable position Of the system , delirium , and eventually death ; with cholera , in different mitigated stages , constitute the general diseases in Texas of a formidable character . At the town of Houston , which is admirably situated in a swamp , the laitw malady most extensively prevails and nunibtrs die there every season . The nltbiness and corruption of the water , which there is execrable , appear to be one main cause of this periodical summer mortality ; aided , doubtless , by the miasma of the pestilent surrounding neigh buurhood . A tolerably correct idea may be formed of the nature of the locality of Houston , from the fact that after the setting in of the rains the town becomes next to totally inaccessible save by water ; neither carriage nor horse being able to drag or flounder through the deep ¦ miry ground by tvhich it is at that season , as it were , entrenched .
Houston is seventy or eighty miles inland ( a long distance within the " narrow strip" ) , and yet Mr . Kennedy says that" persons who arrive in summer will be quite safe by retiring fifty or sixty miles inland . " To " retire " to Houston in summer is exactly the same to a stranger as retiring to a church yard to see his own grave dug , Take newly-arrived emigrants on the average , and not two in ten would survive twelve months .
A TEXAN UOSP 1 TAL . Connected with matters of a sanatory nature , I must HOt forget to add that ilr . Kennedy has mentioned the existence in Galveston of a General Hospital fur vlie sick . Whether it be a junior St . Bartholomew ' s or a Guy ' s , we are not informed : nor did I ever ascertain whether qny saint in the calendar had or had not any patronage ortr it . Of this fact I am certain—that , as the juveniles of Cocaigne have it , it was a " regular Guy " to look at . A mile and a half from any human habitation , it stood alone in the desert , dead , silent , and seemingly aloof from all living and active Christian sympathy . It was nothing more than a long and ordinary weatherboarded and shingled house , one story Irish , raided on
cedar blocks about two or three feet from the ground , with two windows in front , a door in the middle , and a flight of four or five woden steps by which to communicate within and without . On one side it looked out upon a landscape of wild sea swamp , covered with hundreds of shrieking and screaming aquatic birds ; while an old and ruined wooden fort , comliined with the wrecks of once gallant sailing vessels , now fast embedded in the sands of the bay , formed the back ground . Oil the other hand , the prospect was that of a wild flat wilderness of sandy shore , upon which the breakers of the Gulf , whether at ebb or How of tid * , were everlastingly casting the foam of their madness , and chanting to tlie ears of the poor sick and dying within , day and night , the doleful and solemn suiigof eternity !
DOS ' T CO To TEXAS . Out of the thirty individuals who wt ., lt out ;„ t ! ie snmc vessel as myself , not more th : m t ! lrcc entertaiucd fur a moment any other views than those of obtaining land , either by purchase , or through the medium of the government gi-Mls—of s . malti ,, „ ,, „„ j : ill ( 1 beconjinj ; for the remainder of their natural lives good citizens of tlw nrw Sepubhc . Look at the result . Of all this number , not
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one succeeded in effecting the object for which he , had left home and country / crossed thousands . of miles ; ofj ocean , and gone to Texas . Ueibre Christmas of the same year , some of them had returned home , or gone into the United States ; some were dying , some dead , and some almost perishing from sheer want , either because they could get nothing to do , or were too sick and reduced to tfork at all ; and some others , alas ! were imprisoned upoo tne island , merely because their resources being completely exhausted , they bad not left the means wherewith to get- away . Several ether interesting' articles are continued in this number , . and a beautiful poem by Mr . W . Salmon , of Jamaica , extolling " The Black-Eyed Creole , " which last we should like to have transferred to our columns but cannot afford room , Seven Tolumes of this useful periodical are now complete ; the present number is the first of the eighth volume . As a record of Colonial history , and a i epresentative of Colonial interests , this publication is unrivalled . ^
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MATILDA : or , THE MEMOIRS OF A YOUKG WOMAN . By Eugene Sue . PAULA MONTI : or , TIIE HOTEL LAMBERT . By Eugene Sue . London : W . Af . Clark , Warwick lano , Patern oster Row . These two works form portions of the " People's Edition" of I he writings of M . Sue , now in course o > publication by Mr . Clark . The extraordinary cheapness of this edition is truly astonishing . " Matilda , " an immense work , is sold for two shillings ; and " Paula Monti" for eightpence . Tlie extraordinaiy mass of print , besides illustrations , contained in these volumes must be seen to be understood , any description would fall short of the reality .
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PICTORIAL SHAKESPEARE . Partvm . PICTORIAL BALLADIST . Part vm . London : J . C . Moore , 137 , Strand . The parts before us of these excellent works Ailly justify the praise bestowed on both by us in a recent number of the Stir . In the Balladist part there arc several excellent ballads , including , "Adam Bel , Clym of the Clous be , and Wyllyani of Cloudesle , " » Valentine anil Ursine , " and " The Birth of St . George . "
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TIIE MUSICAL HERALD . London : G . Bi . sgs , 421 , Strand . We shall best explain the nature of this new periodical by quoting an extract from the introductory address " to the reader : "This work will be published in weekly numbers , at a price which will render it easily accessible to every one who takes an interest in the subject . Each number will be divided into two parts ; the one composed of music , and the other of musical literature . The music will consist of a selection of vocal and instrumental pieces of a very varied description . It will comprise songs by tlie greatest ancient and modern composers , both English and
foreign ; and the finest national Da ) l : id > , both of our own and other countries , but uniformly with English words ; vocal duels , trios , glees , madrigals ; and short pieces for the pianoforte and other instruments . The vocal picci-s will be with or without a pianoforte accompaniment , according to the intention of the composers and the charaeti-r of the music . In general tlie songs and duets will be accompanied , the glees and mudrigals without accompaniment ; but there must , in both cases , be occasional exceptions . Among the instrumental pieces , no long or elaborate compositions will be includtd ; they will be short , light , and elegant ; not calculated ( as instrumental pieces too often are ) to puzzle the player and weary the listeners , but to give variety to the domestic enjoyment of a musical evening .
The literary portion will bo adapted , as much as pos . sible , to the instruction as well as entertainment of the general reader . It will include articles ( partly original and partly selected from the best authors ) on the history of music , and its presentstate in this ami other countries ; on the lives and characters of tin-greatest musicians in every age ; on the objects of the art and the best means of their promotion . Such are the promises held out by the editor , and , so far as we can judge by a first number , they are realised . The music contained in this number is well selected , and from first to last it has the appearance of a publication born for success ; indeed , » f that consummation there can be no misgiving when we see it produced under the able management ofthe enterprising publisher of the Family ' Herald . We should state that the weekly numbers ( each number containg several pieces of music ) are sold for twopence . To all our musical and would-be musical friends we cordially recommend the Musical Ikruld .
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THE FAMILY HERALD . Pam XXXVI . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . This Part concludes the third volume of this excellent publication , and it affords us much pleasure to leara that its unexampled success , placed ' as it is at the head of the penny press , continues undiminished . The prosperity of the Family Herald has naturally excited competition , and many imitators and rivals have sought the patronage of tlie public , but none with the success which has attended and still attends this periodical . Success is sometimes achieved without being deserved , and sometimes deserved without being achieved , but in the present instance the merits of the work are of the first order , and its success has been commensurate
with its merits . " Political information , " and " scientific knowledge" are both of the utmost importance , but still it is not possible , nor desirable , that people should always be occupied with politics or science ; mental refreshment of a lighter character is needed for relaxation , and such refreshment the Family Herald amply affords . The reader must not suppose that politics and science are proscribed in the Family Herald , quite the contrary . Politics are to be found in its pages , but not party politics : its politics are those of Universalism , affecting the whole human race . In science , tup , although the reader will not meet with dry disquisitions , he will find no lack of "facts and philosophy" presented in an
agreable form . The editorial articles are singularly clever and original performances . In the presentpart , for instance , the two articles on " The Capitals of the World , " and that on " Good and Bad Men . " if published in a high-priced form would be cried up as essays worthy to rank with any in the English language . Besides the " editorialises" the several departments of the ibou'ly Herald—the " Romances , " " Poetry , " and the other and varied matter—are all excellent . It is really and truly the purveyor of " useful information and amuseinentfor the million , " and to ] the million we heartily recommend it . The fourth volume just commenced will , we doubt not , acquire a vast increase of subscribers .
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"The Reasoxer . " —The advocates of free thought and champions of mankind ' s progression will be glad to learn that Mr . G . J . Holyoaks is again in the field , and about to assume the editorship of a n * w twopenny weekly periodical , bearing the title of " The Reasoner . " This new champion of right and truth will make its first appearance on Wednesday , the 3 rd of June , and , according to the prospectus , will be " Communistic in Social Economy—Utilitarian in Morals—Republican in Polities—and Antitheological in Religion . " The "Reascn .-r" takes for its motto the following : —
It is time that men should tolerate nothing ancient that meson does not respect , and to shrink from no novelty to which reason may conduct . It ia time that the human powers , so long occupied by subordinate objects and inferior arts , should mark the commencement of a new era in history , by ( jiving birth to the art of improving government , aud increasing the civil happiness of man . It is time that legislators , instead of that narrow and dastardly coasting , which never ventures to lose sight of usage and precedent , should , guided by the polarity of reason , huziu'd a bolder navigation , and difcover , in unexplored regions , the treasures of public feeility . —Sir James Mackintosh .
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ROYALTY . " God yave the Iring—and lungs—For if lie don ' t , I doubt if men will longer ; I think I henr a little bird that sings , 1 The people by anil by will he the stronger . '" IiiKON , We have already given our readers two samples o * the good things to be found in the Popular Informant . The blessed system of British Taxation , and the rapacity of the black slugs of the Church , meet with
ample justice in its piiges , as we iiavo ^ hown by tlie extracts given in former numbers of this paper . Another subject is treated of in the second number of this ; excellent work , a subject dear to till "loyal Englishman , "—Royalty :, llovv treated the reader will learn if he will refer to the work itself , which we advise ^ him to do if he would enjoy the <; ood things its pages afford . Just to whet the reader ' s appetite we will give him a taste of ihe feast ; but of course , if he is a sensible man , he will not be satisfied with tbe mere morsel we oiler him .
THE GUELPHS . THE nOYAT . ISCAl'ABI-KS AND INCURABLES—I"CM THE 1 WBTJJ—TJ 1 JS JJUIiJJ OF CLARENCE MID . UKS . JOIIDA . Nsioual Sussex—Brunswick ' s uejkcted . If wo wcuniine the history of thu mumburs uf this family since George the Jirst ascended the thl'OliO of Great Britain , in the beginning ot the last century , we do not iiud them distinguished either I > y their virtues or thvir talents . Lut us pass over tile arbitrary spirit uf George the first , who never even learned to speak English , and the ava-Tice nnil corruption of Ouorgo tlie second , to consider how thtir posterity anil successors have done credit to their exalted station , as princes of the blood royal of thu realm of England . Let us sea how they have contributed to the weal and glory of the country , and what example they have set to tlie nation at large . In the . first place—all the most serious rererses that
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the Bngiiah armies have met with against the French duringa century past , have occurred under the leader-¦ s'wpof princes of the house of Hanover . ¦ - .. A duke of Cumberland commanded-the English army at the battle of Foiitenoy , where , through his mismanagement , it was bemen i > y ths French under Marshal Snxe . Thelate Duke ofYork , the uncle of ths present Queen , commanded a British force which was always unfortunate , and at length through , hie blunders , was defeated by a set of beardless French recruits , and for the most part , perished miserably in the marshes of the Scheldt . It w . as through tlie ignorance and obstinacy of George the third , that the United States , now rapidly treading on the heels of Great Britain in population and pros , perity , were separated from iv These untoward events , of course , occurred only through the obtusoness of these individuate . |
George the third at last sank into , drivelling idiotcy . The late Dulco of Gloucester , his nephew , wa # known ns " Silly Filly , " and his son , the Dulse of Cambridge , might worthil y l » a » e inherited hia conain ' s nieknama , having recently made himself remarkable even amongst tbe very silly Dukes who have lately been taking the bread out of the clown ' s mouth and spoiling the pantomime . He is the author of an observation which will hrand him down to posterity , and which I dare say you rfcmeiisber . ne called in question the existence of the potatoe disease , and the impending famine in Ireland , " because he had always found the potatoes at his own table very geoiJ . " So much for the incapablcs of this family -, let us now examine the remainder of it .
The Duke of Tork , for instances , the blundcvfng soldier , was deprived of the chief command of the army on account of his corrupt practices ; and . these were brought to light through the exertions of the lute Duke o * Kent , who hoped to step into his shoes by exposing a brother ' s infamy . George , Prince of Wales , first regent , and then fourth sovereign of that name , was a bloated mass of moral and physical corruption . lie was a "Hoary Hal , " without his courage , wit or generosity . He lias bt-en jusUly stigmatised ns " one who was never true to tnmi oi' woman , who was false alike to his friends and his principles , and who has left behind him an example for youth to shun and age to avoid ; whose abilities were confined
to some skill in cutting coats and an undeniable taste for cookery , " Thu chitsfhistorical act of his public life was his refusal of tMo petition of the fallen Napnlcon who threw himself on his generosity to be allowed to end his day * in Engrluml , ami whom he sent to die on the rock of St . Helena . Of the many remarkable incidents of his private life , not the leiist disgraceful was , ilia being turned oft' the turf by the Jockey Club for cheating . William the fourth , who often shared with his cousin the epithet of "Sill y Dill . v , " was an exemplary father and considered one of the best of the family ; but he left Mrs . . Ionian , the actress , the mother of his children , to die in positive destitution , ( hough lie hud formerly been in tlie habit of waiting at the door of the theatre to receive her salary when sin performed .
Of the l ) ukc-of Cumberland , now King of Hanover , and butter known as the "Devil Duke , "it is unnecessary tn remind you . The lato Duke of Sussex , wiio was always considered the flower of the flock , married Lady Aiiffiisfa Murray , nnd then abandoned his wife and children , in protended deference to n Jawmado after the event , which declared invalid all marriages contracted by members of the royal family without the Sovereign ' s ' consent . Hut though he unquestionably took advantage of this apt to repudiate- a tie which no ex-post facto law could dissever
(¦' or Parliament , though it can do most things , cannot make right wrong ) , still his pretended obedience to the laws of his country did not prevent hi'n , after tlio act was passe ;) , from marrying Lady Cecilia Dwrgins . Lady Augusta Murray , who married him when it was perfectly lawful to do so , was taken no notice of by the court liecause she bail children by him . Hut Lady Cecilia Buj :-gins , who had married him after such innrringc had been declared by law a state of conenbina ^ r , was received , and aft ( -r his death created Duchvss of Inverness by the present Queen .
Prince George of Cambridge , one of the last male scions of this house , is already walking in the footsteps of bis father and uncles . It i > not , therefore , . on the plea of having served or edified the nation by its virtues or its talents , that the house of Hanover can ground any claim to a permanent provision . The most plausible reason it can plead in support of its claim to the continuance of the national bounty is , the fact of having so long enjoyed it , Buttliis is an argument that ini ^ ' > t be pluaded with equal justice in favour of tbe rats , who for several generations have bred unmolested in a farmer ' s tarn and lived upon his corn .
This hopeful Guclphio stock has been attempted to bo improved by a graft from the Brunswick . You have a specimen of this family in the laic reigninj Duke oi Brunswick , now cooling bis heels on the pavement of the streets of London , because turned out of his native Duchy —an event which speaks volumes for his princely virtues .
THE COBURGS . THE ROYAh GREENGROCER—IiKOPOM ) AM ) TUB OLD WOMH . V OP THE ARBEXSES — THE SAXK-COBimG " SMASnER" — TRISCS ( rAUPJill ) ALBERT AND JJIS DOINGS . The ( Jutlphic breed has also been enriched by a cross of the CoUirg , though of course this is meant only as a figure of speech , because in a material point of view , the Coburgs , like all these German families , have enriched their poverty by their alliances with the Guclphs ; for which John Bull has paid the piper : the Coburgs more than any , because poorer than any . They are verjr thrifty , and up to a trick or two to raise tbe wiud , though not remarkable for any other kind of ingenuity .
Prince Leopold , now king of the Belgians , who lodged on a third floor whi'ii he took the fancy of the l'rinoess Charlotte , was endowed with fifty thousand a year , and u palace at Claremont : but he continued to sell his cabbages and greens , and to feed his household upon rabbits , until called to the thvone of Belgium , where , with the money be had saved in England , he has bought large estates in tbe Ardennes , and having cased us ofaj ; ood deal of cash , now deprives us in some moasure of our good name , because , passing fov an English Prince , he turns the old women out of his woods , where , according to the custom of the country , they have been in the habit of gathering sticks since their infancy .
I hava said that the Gonurgs are up to a few schemes to raise the wind , as well aa thrifty . The late reigniti " Puke governed as sovereign prince over an independent state , the Duchy of Saxe-Cuburg , with a population of some forty thousand souls , which brought him in a few hundred pounds a year , £ 2 , 800 if I remember right . This wat not muuh , considering that he had a court , ministers , chamberlains , and an army to pay out of it ; but , like greater sovereigns , as he could make ami unmake laws , and levy taxes , if there bad been anything left to squeeze out of his subjects , and establish any customhouse regulations he thought fit , he soon devised a nay of turning these privileges to account .
He began by coining silver money of base metal . This money , which was made a legal tender , was taken Loth in and out of his dominions . People knew that there was not a pennyworth of metal in a shilling , just us the people know in England that there is not a farthing ' s worth of paper in a five pound Bank of England note ; but one was considered to represent tbe value of a shilling , in the same way that the other does five sovereigns , by passing current , and bring received , in the government offices as such . But as soon as this very little potentate had issued as much of this money as cither his subjects or any of the neighbouring states would take , he suddenly refused to receive any of it back into his treasury , oi' evon into his principality ; and consequently all those who had trusted to his ducal effigy stamped upon the coin found themselves with ivortUless trash instead of so in any
shillings upon their hands . Though a very little prince , lie thus became a smasher on a very large scale ; and having no one to control him in bis dominions , was naturally transported at thu g uceosg of this inunoaurre , at the expense of bis own aud his neighbour ' s subjects ; so lie would have been in England , though at the expense of government , and in a soniewliatdiftorent way . After t ' . 'is very illustrious example ( but with an excuse which this illustrious personage bad not ) , the worthy people on whose Uimds this spurious coin was left , became smashers in their turn , and tried to palm on nil passing strangers these base pieces called Coburghers . Those Coburghevs were coined for issue only , as tbe princes of Coburg seem to have been bred fur the sole purpose of exportation ; though I would always advise you , whatever you do with Coburgs at home , to avoid Coburghcrs when you go to Germany .
Certain qualities , which will be by-and-bye explained , peculiarly / it them to play the part or" consorts to constitutional queens ; and from tins batch our own lMucc Albert has been provided . There is not much in him—how should there be in a Coburg , even harm ? Since lie has been Prince Consort , though at first hr threatened to do pi ' upustei'ouslj' ridiculous things , he bus sunk down into iusignincanue , chequered by a few imiet absurdities . When he first came over from Gennaiiy , we heard , it is true , of attempts to change the uniform of the British army from red to a policeman ' s blue , aud of ordering private meets with the royal stag-hounds , because he had been laughed at by the field for want of pluck in riding at his fences .
But when he found that Englaud was not Saxc Cobui-g Gutlia , ho niccklr resigned himself to the perpetration of the celebrated Albert timi-fooIluU , with which he has indemn fied himself for tJi « failuru of ! ii . i other designs upon the IJritish army—to the encouragement of animal obesity by breeding fat porkers , fwr which he obtained a prize at thu last lvinjr- « trcct Cuttle Show—and to pattcrinir after a < iuict pack of harriers , safe and slow , lint do uot let us complain of liis want of spirit , lor when he does pluck n spirit up , it is duly to squabble with thu parish olhcors about the rating of tliu Windsor farm , on
which he breeds fat cuttle , contending that he docsnol oacit )> u it beneficially—an allegation -which is , in this sense of thu word , uiidvmaulc , that it would be far more henelicially oceupicd , if tlie pour uf the parish were settled on u , and 1 ' iitic . j Albert located in the Union . Uolh are equally dependent upon publhi charity , with this sole distiucliini , that many uf the Union paupers have at some time or other contributed to the burthens of the state , and that thu Cousurt . pauper who shows so little fcvliug fnv bis follows , lm bwm a Imi'tlwu tu tlie country cvei since lie has been in it .
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HOW ROYALTY MIGHT BE SUPPORTED . •' hOUGIVGS TO LET —" WASHING ASb MANCLUKl t > 6 !) l-• K '' _" . \ VALK UJ \ ,. UDIES , A ? iD . ( iJJJUILEMEN , JUST / . ^ OINO TO JiXIHWr "—TJIE MOIUT ,. Her n -esent ATiijestv , p . er « onaily inoffcnFive , and from her sex eft titled tdyour rtfspCCt , but for what you contribute to her wport , would hava been cuiinned to the bare enjoyment of her royal-re , idences . She might tore let out Windsor Cw'Ue in lodgings ; or stuck up a billjjitli " Apartments to let for Single Gentlemen" over Buckingham Palace . S . > e might have taken in washing for private families ; nnrf Prince Albert might have turned the mangle , or plied wi . 4 > saddle donkeys ill Windsor Farts for hire ; for any means M livelihood which either possessed from any otiier soureo than that derived from the tllGtVS and sinews of tlie hardworking British people .
I know that then ) are m . -wy who like to see the dignity of the nation maintained by , the magnificence of thu sovereign representing it ; and , this ia a very pardonable vanity : it might he even cam xnendable if royalty vrere supported by voluntary contribution , a 9 it would be if good sense and justice were atttmiVd to , if a sort of begging-box were carried round at the levees and drawing rooms , or a h igh price placed on ticke's- for court parties , or the roj'al family shewn so many times a week , atso much ahead , with half-price for Children } or any filler voluntary sy stem established , there would be nothing to he said , thu . 'JRh five millions instead of one were lavished upon royi ^ ty ; though all ihe pensions of all fhe Princes belonging to , or connected with , tbe royal family were doubled ; and though all thei * innumerab ' le German relations were prov ided with a Hew suit of clothing a piece with the mo . iey of Old England , I for one should be right glad to see tu « n in the enjoyment ofit .
But whether such grants be made either by a real or supposed majority , of the nutto *) , which make i . lie supposed minority pay foiv their fanty ; or whether by citirel voluntary contribution , one thi » jj should always be iVwne in mind : A man has «• right to keep a footman in red pliuhhrecclMSr a coachman wWia powdered wig , a three-cornered hat , a . Mlnoseyay in liis Imtton-lutle ;¦ « flunky 19 walb after his u' - / J and ( luut jhters , with a gold-hmtlcd Malacca , cane ; but he has ' no right to do all titis whilniki . s brother it starting . Jf the poor laws were altered to their present oppressive cruelty to save a cowplc of mW . imis , \ vt have no right to ixjKujitfer a million on Royalty when ice coy . l'ltjctun American President , for fine thoumnd a near , or « ( hkifor noUtivij ,
Only two number * of llio Popular Informant have as yet appeared , but we aiv convinufiil' thai the author has good stuff in him , enough to proilwe many more niiinhirrs as valuable as these two . Tfoere are plenty of subjects lor his pen . At home there . ' ire tliosti ! - ferings of tlio Poor L ; tw victims—the evils of cutr factory system—this wrongs of the inin ng popuhiti- n —the grievances of out . seamen—the aivu > . es in thu army ami navy—the wrongs of ] rel ; uidy tyranny « f liw landlords , rascality of her " patriots , " « nii mischievoiisfidininistration of lur rulers . Abroad" there ate colonial jobbing iiiul misinaiKim'ment . —Russian ambition and tyranny , am ! state of Eastern Europe—State of Germany—Staty of Italy—Louis-l'hilippu ' s fraud and force supported system of ' -liberal"
tyranny , vto . &c . & , n . On all tliosu subjects true nutl or of tin : Popular Informant may employ his pen with advantage to the public , and \ vu hope that at lyas-t siime of them will bo treated of in luturc nsnibera . Of course wo also hope that the author vriil be i .-ncimi-iiged in his labour * by the support of thu public . We may as well remind . our reai . ' ers that the Popular Informant is published by Mr . Hi-ti . noium Wilson , Itoyal Exchatiirp , and the tuimlji-rs ( I a :. d 2 ) niay he had toueti . er for eij ; bt . pencc . It is a , publication Uiat slioultl Uo found in every popular library , placi'd on tlie table of every coffee-room , be ( liseussei ! in every meeting and workshop , read at ovury fireside , and , fiunky , be handed down to our so / is , and son ' s so : ; S , that "they nmy see , That such things ivuru bfforu rite world iv ? is fn e . "
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Disgraceful Sckne . —A few days ago ; a pitched battle was fought in the Meadows , near Nottingham , tlio other evening , near ten o'clock , between two female combatants , Mary ^ nn _ Good and Maria Cuectlio , tor the sum of one shilling ; two men professina to he their '' lovers , " acted as seconds on the occasion ' . Many rounds wore fought , and no doubt it would have continued a 5 ; real length of time but for the appearance of a policeman , which compelled them to make oft" . They tire , however , far from satisfied with having degraded themselves to this extent only ; to show still luilher their lamentable depravity , " they have already made another match , which is to come off on Whit Monday .
Assyrian Antkiuiubs , —Utters have been received from Mossul throwing light on the researches of Mr . Layard , at Nimrud , at the junction of the Zab with the Tigris . The works had been interrupted by the last Pacha of Mossul , on the pretence that he must iji'C whether the antiquities discovered were fit for the Imperial Museum m Constantinople . Mr . Lajard appealed to Constuntitiop . ' e , and , although no firman had arrived , lie had again begun Ms excavations . The hiil on which the ruins stand is artificial , as at Khorsabad , but the siipurincumbentstratum of earth
with which they arc covered not being so deep , many of the bas-reliefs want the heads . ' 1 he garments of the figures are different to those found by Botha , but there is no doubt that these , like the Latter , are of Assyrian origin . A much moreconsiderablepartofthe sculptures are more mythological than at Khorsabad ; the architecture of both palaces are the same ; and at Nimrud , as at Khorsabad , are found porticos with colossal winged bulls or lions with human heads and arms , holding dowers or deer ; there are also a great number of inscriptions in the pcrsepoliran and cuneiform characters .
Tiik Choleka . —In a late number we stated that the Asiatic cholera had spread through several of the provinces of Persia , and had given rise to great mortality in some of the principal towns . It is reported to have extomhdfVom Bokhara across the Persian frontier to Herat ami Meshui , thence south of the Caspian to Teheran , and still further south to Ispahan . Recent accounts from Odessa state that it has crossed the Russian boundary , and has appeared at Tiflis , taking a course northward between the Caspian and Black Seas ; while , according to the latest intelligence from Riga , it has broken out at Orenburg in the Unilian mining districts , crossed the Volga , and appeared on the European side at Kasan , about 1 , 200 miles from St . Fetersburgh . If these accounts are to be trusted , the disease has taken a
somewhat irregular coarse , in a direction west by north ; and it does not appear to have followed the banks of great rivers as in the former irruption of 182 S 30 . Tne disease which reached England in JS 3 I , prevailed in Persia for seven years , trora 1 S 23 to 1830 . h appeared at Orenburg for the first time in 1823 ; and was confined to this quarter for a period of five years . It reappeared at Orenburg in 1 S 20 , and its prevalence and fatality in this province were so great , that upwards of one-tenth part ot the inhabitants were seized with it , and one fourth of those who were attacked died . It reached St . Petersburg in July , J 831 ; and England on the 20 th of October of tliatyear . At Tiflis , where it is again reported to have broken out , the mortality from the former epidemic was so great , that three-iolU'tllS ol those who wove attacked perished .
Thu W hmjnotox Statuk . —Passers-by will observe that hoarding is in the course of erection round the Pftlncc-jJiUe entrance at llule-park-corner , which is preparatory to the placing at Mr . > Vrail ' s 1 ijuestnan statue of the Duke of Wellington upon the arch . If not allowed to be the noblest , it must be allowed to be the greatest , bruuzcsculptu'e overproduced in the world . Tlie hviglit is twenty-seven feet , and a mounted kite Gimi-dsm . in might ride under the bully of the mighty hero ' s mighty charger . Suicide fuom Lossks uy Finn . — On Saturday owning , Mr . l ' siyuo held an inquest nt the Ked J . ion ,
lloil Lion-court . Fleet-street , on the body ot Mrs , Sarah Brown , a » ed 35 , a grocer , whose shop , No 0 , Great New-strcct , Fetter-lane , was destroyed by fire on Thur . Ml . -iy night . Julia Macdonald said that the deceased hid carried on her tiusinc-s until a tire broke out there on Thursday night last , when she and witness were got out of the parlour window and removal to the lkd Lion , She lost a great deal of property by the fire , and was very melancholy all the next day . That morning ( Saturday ) witness awoku and foudn her suspended by a handkerchief to a rail of the bed-stead . Verdict , "Temporary Insanity . "
Ji . XTKAOBDINAKY SulCIDK BY A ClULlV . A fUW dllJ'S ago , a little lad , in the employ of Mr . Oliver , printer , Newport , named David Davies , aged twelve years , and residing with his parents in thecourtlage of Airs . Jones , Hill-street , committed suicide by linnsiing himself in the privy by his handkerchief . lie was discovered by his sister soon after be had committed the awful deed , and cut down by Mrs . Jones . f < u other reason can be assigned tor this very extraordinary crime than that the deceased was of a quick nutl violent temper , aud had frequently been in the habit of threatening to hang himself , or cut liis throat , when excited by his play mates . Glouobstek Assizks . —The old man named Janms Ware , against whom sentence of death was reconVd nt tlie last assizes , for setting lire to a house in Temple parish , Bristol , has had his punishment commuted to transportation for life .
Stu'kndiahy Magistrate vor the Mixi . no IhsintCT . — it is stated that Mr . Serjeant Allen is a candidate for the office of slipcndi ; u \ uingivtrate for the mining district of South Staffordshire , the salary oi' which is , £ 1 , 000 per annum . Mouk lAnmi'ioATiONS fou tiik SumjKiis op Pakis . —The Cowrkr Francais says , " Thu future destination of Canonvillii has more than once buen plated in doubt . It is now certain that thu piece of ground , where 100 . acres liavo been already i-loiiveil , in tho wood of Viucennes , is destined to ibe consti-iiel ' ion of two forts and an arsenal . Already thu ditches that are to surround them have been slaked out and partly dug . Building materials have been collected on tllO spot , six hundred workmen ; ire employed at tlio works , aud tho number is sooo tv be juvvvuseu to two thousand .
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Proposal to Raise Osk Hundred Thousand Shillixos . —An attempt is about t" be made to free the Bapt | st Missionary Sonii-. ty from its pecuniary embarrassments ; the Rev . Dr . Cox having undertaken the arduous task of collecting the requisite , sum . The proposal is , to pay down oiie shilling only and is addresssed tn every member of the Baptist denomination . * - ' If 100 , 000 present each si shitting , the whole objpct will be accomplished . —Edinburgh pa per . [ These insatiate black-slugs , like the leech and the grave , ever cry " give , give . " ] The Great Britain . —This splendid steamer » on her way to New York ; she lias a number of passengers and a fair cargo on board . Some of the pilots who met her , report that she was running at the rater of 12 nautical miles an hour .
Flood at Nbw Oiukans , — Heavy rains had swollen the Lake on the Oth and 7 th tilt ., so that the swamp and rear of the city were overflowed . The houses , yards , stables , hotels , and out-buildings of the end of the New Canal or Shell Road , wci e inundated , and for two miles towards the city the canal had overflown its banks , leaving the hown-s in the distance to appear as if they were floating on the sea . The destruction to bridges had h > en very great . The Charit ? Ilosnital , and the infirmaries gmci-ally , were all inundated , rendering access to them exceudin < j ) y difficult . , _ , „ Russian Tkeatment or BASKnem . — 'iho Empornr of Russia has , by ukase ( fated thc 2 ffth of April , promulgated , in the form of a commercial code , a law upan failnresand bankruptcies . The law is borrowed from the French code , the only essential difference being the severe punishment inflicted on bankrupts , who are condemned to perpetual banish men t to Sihei-ia . . ¦
Railway across -GneBJiwicir Papk , —Tim Lon . sof tlie Admiralty have at . lenstli given their consent to a railway passing aevftss Greenwich Park . Stti-h a scheme , however , cannot obtain Pariiaincntnry a . tnetion this year , as the SmiUi-Rastoi ' ii Company ^ in . despair ofobtfiiningthe permission of ! h < " A-ilmsr .-ilty , ¦ had abandoned that part , of t . i < cir line to Woiilwit-h . Esotsk and Taxes ' . — A-riiinmir is .-iH-. iat in tiiu City rio'the effect that theirs' is to bo . an" immediate CO 11-' solifJ'iT . imi of the Hoard of It . v . isc ami the \' n- > n \ of Stamps and Taxes , so eh to leave i-mly one revenue 5 » ard * for customs or foreign dutir . " , » n < l one for inland duties . 2 i is even said tliiit Sir llolH-rfc' Peel intends to make This arrangement part of Ais for . iic » ming budgcti . TSc repeal ' of many of the K-w-i . -i- duties , and- the expected repeal of oilier .- -, render ¥ oni ( ich « iige necos'ifti'v , « rwl tlie present Jtnitwl nn-esiiii's of );<> th the existi ' ii ; . ' boards do not . "ffiioiinfc'fosf / laiyo an in-C'linc it is said , as vvr ^ s for . 'iieay collected by- v . k- bvnvd . nlniiii .
MiKw ? Cm-Air f ? , \ if . « -AV Tmrsr—Tlwdnvetttrxhi tho Newca .-tio aud Carlisle Rniivray have citirunenocil running . ciioap trains to all the > tntions .-lii ' uig their lines oti'ftiUH ' ay . 'j at the low rat'rofdiio ] i . tl . "j . -ui .- ( > y p . ; r milt ; . " To ivi / Ai- STBAXoKUsKSJarrau come Arh / iVT . "—. About n forinitiht . € -ii : ' « , as a i .- ^ n ji :-iiih .- «! Tiiomas Holland , was in . ' the act of diujsiiij ; a grave in the yard of Cb «» ill ' Bridge Church , w-Denr , Lancashire , wiii-n he bind du » about lour fee- ? ili - .-p he came in contact H'iiiia > kn ! l . Un tnlcim ; it <¦;> , In- fofntl in tliij inside a . quantity of liny and rtraw . otifc uf which , to th » no sn ; iill '; i /)> .. zujiieiit f'f Mi-., lio ! a . ' : d . jumjit'd two full Knv . vii niive . Umw tiny cot thi-ie-, or what was their fancy fov Imildim : a r . wfs'i much bt-l-. » w the surface of the yrouin ! iwi ; iin < a mvsurry .
Thk AUjsioiri ! ' Lou of M . \ i : oga . w . —By the last West linliuiiuiil iv 0 learn that our fellow ¦ HiljjrW . t Honduras wero rejoicing in tho possession of what ; ih ' .-y hail elnisU'naii tiiu '" M ; n : ii : i : ; tlt- L > i ^ . " The schooner Vi » il « nthad towed up frum ( Hover ' s Koct the iarjicst los : rv .-n in the i-etiU-riitMit for nisny years . It was-the property , of . Mesirs . \ Vi-ish , Gougi ) , and Blake , and was V > b-o shipped < " JMial .-nid in the St . Cnilx . Tin- f ' ui ) meii .-ui-uinerit whs—length 19 feet C indies ; -. breadth , ii l ' cut : dr | ilhi 4 lctt 2 iliCins ; and set down at l , 7 aO feet , exccediti" 12 . tons ia weight . This log was cut ahout three-years »• : >• , ui the Rio Cnero ; but , in " consequence of itsirn-at draught of water ,. oeuld ' not be got over the bar until recently , when advantage was taken , of a great freshet in the river . The colony was doing well . By tbe Superintendent ' s message to his Parliament , if ; appeared that the balance of revenue overcxpeuditure for the past year was £ 4 , 070 .
Sudden Dkath iff- u Ouai'EL . —On Sunday afternoon , about seven o ' clock , during the performance of the evening service at tho large Wesleyan Chanel , in the Back-road , St . George's in the East , Mr . John Moffatt , a retired servant of the East India Company , residing at 44-, John-street , St . George ' s , who formed one of the congregation , was observed to fall as if he had been shot .. Mr . Luke Farrow , who also formed one- of the congregation , rendered immediate assistance , in which he was assisted by Mr . Rees , a surgeon , residing in the neighbourhood , but their efforts were of no avail , as life was utterly t'XtilWt . Outrage in Westmi . wkr .. — On inquiry at the Westminster Hospital , on Monday , it was stated that the unfortunate women Elizabeth Pullen is going on favourably .
The Assassination ' w Prury-lanb . —Death , of Blbwitt . — On Monday morning , soon after one o ' clock , the unfortunate man Blewitt expired , in the King ' s College Hospital , from the effects of tlie injuries caused by the shot fired at him in Drury-lane , on the evening ' of Saturday , April 23 rd . by . the lad Graham . , , , Fatal Fight . —A fight took place on Sunday last , in a field near the Marley tunnel on the South Sevon Railway , between two " navies , " when one of them fell a corpse on the spot , just as he leceivcd a blow from his antatronisti
Dkath ix a Station-house . —On Monday an inquest was held by Mr . Baker at the Marlborough liead , Fox-lane , Shadwell , on view of the b ^ dy of Hannah Barker , aged 23 , a single woman , who died in Shadwell Police station-house . On Saturday afternoon some wo ds ensued between deceased and a female named Craufurd . Deceased became mucit excited , and in her passion bit the woman aud pulled her hair by the roots out of her head . Mrs . Craufurd . having lost three halfcrowns and five shillings , subsequently gave deceased in ehsrgc of police-constable HarrisK division ^ Yho conveyed her to the
station-, , house . Upon being searched there by the temale searcher , she took an oath , exhibiting two pennypieces , with a horrid imprecation she declared she had no more . In the other hand six penuy-pieces were found . In a few minutes afterwards a fall was heard in her cell . Upon a policeman going in she was discovered on the floor in a state of insensibility . Mr . Ross , asur » eon of the neighbourhood , was sent for , who stated she was attacked with a it ot apoplexy . Ho used the necessary means to restsrc her , but without effect , and life was shortly _ aherextinct Verdict—'' Visitation of God . "
Dkath of a Distinguished Ckstesauus . —Miss IIii"in .-i Leslie , the last representative of the 110 less ancient than distinguished house of Leslie- © f Linclores , diedatCupar , on Wednesday week , ; il tne advanced age of a hundred years , five weeks , and three days , bavin" been born on the 15 th of March , 1746 . In the rebellion ot ' 45 , her father took a very prominent part in the army of the royalists under >> illiaiu Duke of Cumberland , and long survived that eventful period , Deatii of Viscouxt Hood . — We have io record the death of Viscount Hood , who expired on the Sth . ittst . at his residence in liryaiwion-tfqMM'e , at the early age of thirty-eight . He was son ol the second Viscount , by the " daughter of the late Sir Andrew Snape Hammond . His Lordship was born m 1 S 0 S . The Ki-.-t , 1 ' wv was the ccU'brattil AiliniraL who took unit 1 .. Ruoikh ' b ei'lubrntul vidury over Count de Grassi .
Dkatu ov tiik Dean ov \ Vi . \ us--k . — Jnti-llii-onco reached Windsor on Monday evciiws , of ' he 'icaih ot the lion , anil Kuv . Dr . llubtirt , IX-au ot \\ xi . ils « r , who ixpired on the afternoon of Friday last , itt 1 Wtou l ' riory , Lincolnshire . Tub Fortifications at Vkro . va . —A letter from Verona , of April 21 ) , in the Couetitittmwels ; i \ s , 'He lmve boon for some d : vys pas-t in a certain agitation . The immense fortilicacions , at which workmen havo been emuluvud for -. even years , are now completed , but it was understood that they were not to he armed unices in anticipation of a war . However , a commission of three Austrian engineers arrived here two days since , Mid the rumour has been circulated that the fort tiicaf ions are to he armed forthwith , and that the park of the Adige is to be provided with a considerable reserve . "
Death of 1 ' kofessou Mkikleham . — > V lluaitt Meikiuhani , J&q .. LL , D ., professor of natural ^ inloyophy ill the University , Glasgow , dlellon lllUUduy , at his house , in the College . Seduction in Imiasck . —A case of unusual oeeiiuvencis was last week brought before the Cml iribllllill . A young woman named Alphonsino brought an action for seduction a « ainst M . Akxamlve Buituau , laying the damages at 12 , 001 )/' . Judgment was delivered on Saturday in the following terms : — " ¦ Considering that every act committed by a man whii-li causes prejudice to ' another obligts him by wisusti
fault the damage was occasioned to make rupaialion ; and coiMtdcriHg that- AJcx ' awdro Bwlt-aii , ty swiping Alphunsinc from her maternal abode , keephi . i : up an ultimate connection with her , and after abandoning her in a situation diilicult and painful to her , aud injurious to ' her reputation , > v ' nich may bean impwliiiiunt to her future establishment in li ' . ' o , and bring upon her disastrous const- quences , has cau .-ed her 1 real prejudice , for whicl-. i hc owes her reparationth « tribunal"condemns Aloxamlre Boilvau to pay 2 , 000 fniiK-s to Alplmiis ' . nu by way ol" liamagi- 's , and all tho costs ot the suit . "
Tuk Bauks Status . — The slates of tlie tirani Duuhy uf ttiulcn were reopened . on the-ith , with all tho usual ceremonies ; ibe Minister 01 the Interior , aa Commissioner of the Gr « vi ; d Duke , delivcrnl tie Speech in the name of hk-, llkhncss , wh » direct * the attention of the Ulutmbcj-uiii ' ficiil . nl . r t « i «» qiwaioa of railways . Dkatu . - lut . ll ' geuce has been iww " " ; cheslu-huuK' , i .. . rt , uui . fiii S the- diW ¦» [ j «" quise Onvouiv , , llloll , cr 01 the ll ) " . , ^ , ^ A uhuvo . whet e- ^ ired a few da vs siuccat the . uhaucci age oi' Si ,
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BEAUTI 1 S OF BYROS . so . ixivii . " liiZEPPX . " The story of Mazeppa is a welf-tnown one ; Damply that of the young Pole , who , being " bound naked on the back « fa wild horse , on account of an intrigue with the lady of a certain great nobic of his country , was carried ( it his steed into tbe heart of the Ukraine , and being there picked up by some Cussacks , un a state apparently of utter hopelessness and exhaustion , recovered , and lived to be long after the prince and leader of the nation among whom he had arrived in this extraordinary manner . Lord Byron has represented the strange and wild incidents of this
adventure . 13 being related in a half serious , half sportive wav by Mazeppa himself , to no less a person than Charlr a the Twelfth of Sweden , in some of whose las Campaigns the Cossack Hennan tuok a distinguished part , lie tells it during ihe desolate bivonack of Charles and the few friends who fled with him towards Turkey after tlie bloody overthrow of Pultowa . " The galLuit Mazeppa died soon after nia fliglit with Charles , and thus pmbaoly escaped a worse fate , that of falling into the Lands of the Russians . It is needless to praise a poem so well known as this , suffice it to say that its merits are at least equal to its great popuiar . ty . We can only afford room for a few lines .
TOE WILD HORSE AXD 1 UZEPPA . "Bring forth the horse ! " the horse was brought ; Iu truth he was a noble steed , A Tartar of tin .- Ukraine breed , Who louk'd as though die speed of thought Were in his limbs 5 bat be tras mid , Wild as the wiid deer , and untaught , TTith spur and bridle undrtiled—* * * * They bound me on , that menial throng , Ujiou Ills liack with many a tliong ; Thry loused him with a sudden lash—Away !—away ;—aiid on we dash JTorrents less rapid and less rash . * * * * " Att-ay , array , my steed and J , I ' pon the pinions o « " the n-jud . All human dwellings lefc behind ; li ' t sited like meteors through the sky , "lyiieu nith its crackling s-un J the night Is chequia- 'd mth the noitlicru light . # * * * The oouglxs gave way and did not tear ily limbs ; aud I found strength to bear iljr wounds , already scarr'd with cold—31 v bauds forbade to louse my hold .
"W ' o rastled thvou ^ li tlislaaves like wind , Left -hrnbs , and trees , and wolves behind ; Ji . v night I heard them on the track , Their truop came hard upon our back , TVilii tlieirJong gallop , which can tire The hound ' s deep hate , aud hunter ' s fire : Where ' er we flow tlioy followed on , Xor left ns ivith the morning suu ; J > eiiintl I saw them , scarce a rood , At « lay-i > reak winding t ' iroagh the wood . And Uirongh tbe 11 g -t had heard their feetj Tlieir stealing , rastliiiir sU ]< repeat .
ilcthougbt the dash of waves was nigh ; There ivas a gleam too of the sky , otu ^ flird niUi stars ; it is no dri-am ; The wild Lor » e sniuis the wildt-r stream The bright broad rivtr's gushing tide Sweej < s , winding onward , far and wide , And we are halt-wa . y , struggling o ' er Tu von uuknoini and siient shore . * * ? * 31 ethought I heard a courser neigh , Prom out yon tuft « f blackening firs . Is it the wind those hrauches stirs % "So . no 3 from ont the forest prance
A trampling troop 9 I seetiitni come In one vast squadron they advance ! I strove to cry—mvlips were dumb . The steeds rush on in plunt-ing pride ; liut where are they the reins to guide ! A . thousand horse—and none to ride ! " With flawing tail , and fiung mane , "Wide nostrils—never streteli'd by pain , . Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein , Aud feet that iron never sliod , And Hanks unscarr'd bj spur or rod , A thousand horse , the wild , the free , Like waves that follow o ' er the sea , Came thickly thundering on , As if our faint approach to meet . The sight re-nerved my courser ' s feet , A moment stagger . ug . feetfiy fleet , . A moment , with a faint low neigb ,
He anssver'd , and then fell ; "With gasps and glazing eyes he lay , And reckless liuiBs immoveaole , Bis first and last career is done ! On came the treop—they sair him stoop They saw me strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong : They stop—they start—they snufr the air , Gal'op a meuient here and there , Approach , retire , wheel round and round , Then plunging back nith sudden bound , Headed by one black mighty steed , Who seem'd the patriarch of his breed , Without a single speck or hair Of white upon liis shaggy hide ; Th * -y snort—they foam—neigh—swerve aside , And baekw-ri to the ferest fly , ] By instinct from a . human eve .
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May 16 , 1846 ^ . ~ THE NORTHERN STAR . ¦ _ ... % \
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 16, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1366/page/3/
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