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¦ " BEAUTIKS OF BYRON . - . -. so .-xxxvm . . ; "iHKiaASD . " . _ . rnr the fast time , we have this week read this t ^ We had been repelled from its earlier perasal KTnofioa , we cannot say how or vfhj formed , that fef ^ em waspoor andspiriUess , orat least greatiy Sin the usual beauties of Byron ' s verse . We - haow to say that we have found that we were " ^ XtelymL-taken . The "Island" is an exquisitely Sfal production , filled with the lowliest of Sages , and the noblest of thoughts . Otoe poem is founded upon Lieutenant Biigh s -defeated "Narrative of the Mutiny and Seizure of Ih eBotmty inthe South Seas , in 1789 , " familiarto « ery reader of naval history . . .,,.,. " , Beautifully does the poet describe that longing of the heart felt by all but the mentally and morally rajslaved forthose fondly-imaged scenes of freedom , Z fofOs Kature ' s laws are the only acknowledged code , « ,, } the earth auditsproduce the equal properly and Enjoyment of all : —
SAVAGE FREEDOM . The gushing fruits that nature gave sntill'd ; The -wood Tritlioat » path bat wheve they wBl'd The field o ' er which promiscuous Plenty pour'd Her horn ; flie equal land without a lord ; The wish—which ages have not yet subdued In man—to hare no master save Us mood - , The earth , whose mine was on its face , unsold , The glowing sun , and produce all its gold ; The freedom which can call each grot a home ; The general garden , where all steps may roam . Again : — . Nature , and Nature ' s goddess—woman—woOs To lands where , save their conscience , none accuse ; WherU aH partake the earth without dispute ,
And bread itself is gather'd as a fruit ; Whp '^ wnecontiUQitjidds , the woods , the streams ;] ThegoldTetsage , where gold dislurlsno dreamt , , «•* The poet dings to this love ly theme , and again , and again , sings of the bliss of perfect freedom : — Xce ch&CC ^ the xac ^ the liberty to xoam , The soil where eveiy cottageshOW'd & home * , Hie sea-spread net , tbe ligbtJv-launehefl canoe , Which Etemm'd the studded Archipelago ; O ' er whose blue bosom rose the starry isles ; The health ; slasher , earned by sportive toils ; The cavafeast , ihe jam , theeocOa ' siOOt , "Which "bears at onee the cup , and milk , and fruit 5
The bread-tree , which , without the ploughshare , yields Tbe unreap'd harvest of anfurrojv'd £ elds , And bakes its unadulterated loaves , "Without a furrace in uopurchased groves , And flings off famine from its fertile hreast , A priceless market for the gathering guest;—These , with the luxuries ot seas and woods , The airy jojs of social solitudes , Tamed each rude wanderer to the sympathies Of those who were more happy , if less wise , Did more than Europe ' s discipline had done , And civilised Civilisation ' s son .
Such were the nappy isles of the Sooth Seas ; such , erased with civilisation and Christianity , they are no longer . English missionaries and Gallic brigands , British Bibles and French bayonets ( "holy bayonets , " Michblet calls them !) , have done their withering work ; and bow European vices , wants , and miseries , mar those scenes of beauty , ' " "Where all save the spirit of man is divine " "We most pass by many beautiful passages we had market ! for extract , regretting that we cannot find IQOia for the portrait of the lovely JSeuAa —" gentle savage of the wild j" the noble description of Torquil ; the stern and striking picture of Christian and his comrades , after the fight ; the thrilling account of the last struggle and death of Christian ; and the beautiful narrative of Heuha ' s devotion and heroism . These we mu « t pass oy - , but the following additional extracts have , besides their other merits , that of brevity : —
S 05 G . for one long-ehensh'd ballad ' s simple stave , Bung from the rock , or mingled with the wave , Orflrom the bnbbling streamlets glassy side , Or gathering mountain echoes as they glide , Hath greater power o ' er each trae heart and ear , Than all the columns Conquest ' s minions rear ; Invites , when hieroglyphics are a theme Tor sages' labours or the students dream ; Attracts , when History ' s volumes are a toil , The first , the freshest bud of Feeling ' s soil . Hereis . bravely administered , a word of
BEPBOOF TO BIGOIS . 'Tis ours to bear , sotjadge the dead ; and they "RTio doom to hell , themselves are on the way , Unless these bullies of eternal pains Ate pardon'd their bad hearts for their woree brains . In eommon with many other writers , Brraw entertained very erroneous notions respecting the characters of Gisab and Brutus . In his poetry , he ever characterises the former as a tyrant , and the Jatter as a patriot . The fact is , that Julius C . ssar was " The greatest , not the worst of men . " As a military man-slayer he was no worse , though more successful , than the rest of his contemporaries
of " all conquering Rome , " while in all other respects he was decidedly the best man of his time ; anS , perhaps , "take him for all in all , " the most extraordinary man that ever lived . Brutus was a pitiful knave , the leader of a gang of aristocratical usurers . Cesar was put to death , not because he iras " a tyrant , " but because he was the friend of the people , and their protector against the extortionsof the patrician assassins who murdered him . In giving the following extract ire , therefore , dissent from ihe author ' s notions respecting the two Roman worthies : with this exception , magnificent is the following outburst against
. Had Caesar known but Cleopatra ' s lass , Borne had been free , the world had not been his . And what have Casar ' s deeds , and Caesar ' s fame Bone for the earth ? We feel them in our shame : The gory sanefion of his glory stains The Tost Which tyrants cherish as our chains . Though glory , nature , reason , freedom , bid Boused millions do what single Brutus did . Sweep these mere mods-birds of the despot ' s song from the tall boughVhere they have perched so long , Still are we hawk'd at by such mousing owls , And take for feleons those ignoble fowls , "When but a word of freedom would dispel These bugbears , as their terrors show too well .
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SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . SO . XVI . THE BEAUTY OF LIBERTY . "When the dance of the shadows At dayirealt is done , And the eaeeis of the morning Are red with the sun : When he sinks in his glory At eve from tbe 'view , And rallc up the planet To blaze in the blue : There is beauty . But where is the beauty to see More proud than the sight of a nation when free ! When the beautiful bend Of the bow is above , like a collar of light
On the bosom of love ; When tbe moon in her mildness Is floating on high , like a tanner of silver Hung eut in the sky ;—There is ¦ be auty . But earth nas no beauty to see More proud than the front of a nation when free . In the depths of the darkness , Unvaried in hue , "When shadows are veiling The breast of the biuej TVnen the voice of the tempest At midnig ht is still , And tbe spirit of solitude Sits on the hill;—Tiere is beanty . But where is ' the beauty to see lake the broad-beaming brow of a nation when free
In the Drealb of tbe morning , "When nature ' s awake , And calls up the chorus To chaunt in tbe brake ; In the voice of the echo , Unbound in the woods ; Id the warbling of streams , And the foaming of flood * ;—There is beauty . But where is the beauty to see like the thrice-hallowed sight of a nation thatte free » "Wten the striving of surges Is mad on the main , Like the charge of a column Of plumes on the plain ; "When the tfennder is np
from his cloud-cradled sleep , _ And . the tempest is treading Tbe path of the deep;—There is beauty . But where is the beauty to see Like the sua-brilliaut brow of a nation when free f
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THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL . London : J . Bennett , 69 , Fleet-street . We observe with pleasure that Sir . Howitfc has become one of the proprietors of this publication , and from an editorial notice we learn that both " Mr . and Mrs . ilowitt will use every exertion to aid the Editor in placing the People ' s Journal among the first periodicals of the age for beauty of appearance , excellence of Artistical DesigBS and Engravings , variety of Information and Entertainment , earnest enunciation of great Principles , and a genial and ge-
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nerous tone of Criticism . " The -People ' s Journal al * ready numbers amongst ite Contibutors ' names of the highest eminence , and several additions are announced , including ""' Mss Mitford , Mrs . Loudon , Charles Mackay , ; ' &c . ' Specimens of some of the best works of the best living painters including Maclise , Landseer , and - Creswick , , find a place . in this publication ; whilst among-those who are regularly engaged in preparing designs for the Peo ple ' s Journal , we may mention the names of Miss Gillies Kenny Meadows , John Franklin , Edward Duncan ! and P . W . Topham . Such a combination of literary and artistic talent supplied to the people at the charge of Three Half-pence weekly , is an enterprise deserving universal supportandwe tlikkcannot
, , , fail to commandit . Some weeks ago , we briefly noticed Part III . ; Part IV . we received in the early part of this month , but have had not an opportunity of noticing it before , the present week . These Parts contain Lectures by J . W . Fox on " Living Poets ; and their services to the cause of Political Freedom , ( including Miss Barrett , Mrs . Adams , and Barry Cornwall );" " The Study of History ; " and on " The Common Interests of Great Britain and America . " These Lectures contain much valuable information , embellished with eloquence of a very high order : the believers in " the good old times" will do well to read the Lectures on " History . " Amongst the most strikine articles in these Parts we may notice , one
of the series on " Holidays for the People" entitled " Mothering Sunday , " by William Ilowitt . A noble and eloquent appeal for " Ptland , ' \ by Joseph Mazzini , extracts from which appeared in the northern Star some weeks ago . A very interesting account ( with portraits ) of the amiable and talented iiutchinson Family ; " and some beautiful poetry on this family by Mary Howitt . A charming description of " Christmas in Sweden , " frem the pen of the celebrated Fredrika Bremer , in a letter to a friend in Eugland , translated by Mary Ilowitt . The most interesting of the contents , to us , are "Some Account of a French Theory of Association , " by Tito Pagliardini ; " and " Letters on Labour , " by William Ilowitt . The first of these is a brief exposition ,
or outline of the theory of the celebrated Fourier , and we venture to predict that not a few will be found , who having read the Outline in the People ' s Journal , will be induced thereby to prosecute ilieir inquiries till fully masters of the ideas of the Phalansterian philosopher . The "Letterson Labour , " so far asthe author has yet proceeded , are admirable , and greatly exalt our opinion of Mr . Howitt . Never have we read more eloquent vindications of the true dignity and rights of Labour , and rarely have the working classes found an advocate , not belonging to their order , so capable of painting their wrongs , and , we venture to anticipate , so capable and earnest in pointing' out the remedies for those wrongs . The following extracts will afford such of our readers as have not already read the letters an idea of their excellence : — IHE POWERS AND WRONGS OF LABOUR . The enormous powers which felled the forests , drained the morasses , built the cities , founded the empires ( however great , or however ancient , ) are the powers of labour . That which raised the eternal pyramids , which reared Stonehenge , which piled up St Paul's and St . Peter ' s , "Which built Babjlon and Rome , London and Paris ; which in the bands of the Greeks reared the most glorious fabrics —temples and palaces ; struck out the fairist forms of imitative art , and quelled the million invaders from Persia ; that which in the hands of the Romans cut its -way through mountains ; opened all Europe and most of Asia by roads ; left the Stupendous aqueducts of the Cauipagna as the wonder of all generations—was the power of labour , organised and directed . That which
has carried cultivation in China , and in many parts of Europe , zip to the pinnacles of the . loftiest and sterilest rocks , and made vineyards where there was desolation ; that which has made all our ingenious manufactures , and the busy manufacturing system ; that which has created millions of towns , palaces , and churches , and thousands of spinning and weaving mills ; and made capital like an overflowing of the Nile in tbe Egypt of modern toil—this is the simple power of labour in active organisation . Where new towns are rising out of the earth , and where enormous columns lie stretched in the desert sands without name , date or history , you see alike the evidences of this greatest of earthly powers . We often say—did the horse or the elephant know his own powers , would he be tbe slave of man ? But if man knew his own powers , would fie be the slave of his brethren ?
If there be anything , my countrymen , on which you gaze with wonder in the works of art ; if there beanything vast , massive , magnificent , cunning iu its construction , terrible in its strengh , glorious ia its usesremember!—it is you who have created that wonder by thepowers of labour . You read of great empires founded —it was by the combined labour of thousands . "Without this agency where were the greatest king , or the greatest conqueror ? Where were the | triumphs of Xapoleon ? What were Wellington at Waterloo ! The eastern nations overran Europe as Goths , Vandals , Teutons , and SclaVes—it was hy thelabonr of multitudes . Thevfoundedthepresent great nations of Europe—it was
by the labour ot [ these multitudes . Thejbnilt nplaws , customs , and institutions ; these were introduced , Garried out , and established by armies , by multitudes , by the force of organised labour . The Spaniards , English and other Eurpoeans have discovered and planted new worlds—America ( Korth and South ) Australia , India ; they have there subdued swarming and powerful nations ; in India alone they have bent to the British yoke a hundred millions of people . How ? By tfee organised exertions , courage , and lives of you , my labouring countrymen . Without your labaurs and invincible energies all these conquests , and this imposing dominion , were a dream and a nonentity .
At home the mass of wealth which has been created by labour surpasses in its astonishing amount anything which has ever been known in any other country , ancient or modern . As proofs of it , look at the splendour of the houses , equipages , and style of living of the upper classes . Look at the style of living and the amount of the value of mere rental and furniture , in all classes , except the actually labouring one . Look at the enormous sums invested in railways alone ; no less than a hundred millions ! Look at a qnarter of a million ready to he raised at one time amongst the manufacturers and frectradera
for the working of one political question ; a question which , from first to last , is expected te consume little less than half a million . Xook at the inconceivable amount of wealth lying in onr ships , our factories , our warehouses , our banks , and on our richly cultivated land . Spackman , in 1813 , calculated the amount of British capital alone invested in foreign loans and public companies , both at home and abroad , to be £ 315 , 731 . 174 . And the total of British capital , including tbe fee simple of the laHd , at no less than £ 5 , 612 , 360 , 427 ! producing an annual income of £ 897 , 813 , 345 . '
Sow , almost every class of British subjects has united its efforts for tbe creation of this unexampled wealth . Merchants , manufacturers , agriculturists , artisans , all have thrown is the share of those energies , that enterprise , tbatindomitable perseverance , for which the people of this country are renowned above all others . But the far greater amount of the labour which has produced and accumulated this astounding mass of affluence , and no small share of the skill and tact too , have been those of the working classes . The grand question then is , has this great class , has the million , whose labours lie at the foundation of this wealth , benefitted in anything like an equal degree with the other classes ? As this tide of wealth has continued to rise , has it flowed- in any fair proportion into tile houses Of tbe
workers ? Uol On the contrary , as this wealth has advanced , the condition of the labouring class has retrograded . Capital bas continued to run more and more into heaps , and into the bauds of the few . There has been an unhealthy tendency , an apoplectic tendency , towards the bead in our system . There has been a plethora in the head , while the extremities have grown leau aud attenuated . As the system of society has become more artificial , as our manufacturing schemes have been extended , as the capitalist has learned to organise labour iu new modes , and to marshal greater and greater numbers of workers in bands under him , he has become wealthy , and they have grown poor . If any one were iuclined to deny this , the very fact of tbe enormous masses of capital continually protruded on the public neticc ; of
capital seeking investment ; the contuiual complaints that capital is so abundant that its holders cannot tell loir to dispose of it to profit ; that capital in fact , is a drug , while the working classes are in distress , would sufficiently answer him . We have five or six millions of people in Ireland actually suffering famiie , while nine and ten pounds per acre are esttorted by the landowners for potato-ground , from those very people . I speak of what I know and have seen . In England , the rate of wages seems to desend in proponion to the numbers of people employed under one master , especially when they work in conjunction with machinery . This is not tbe place in which I intend to go at large into this particular question . It may be here , therefore , enough to state , that such men as carpenters , masons , bricklayers , painters , and the like ,
generally get their three and four shillings per day , where the worker in a large factory gets his one or two . TUere has been now for some time an unusual degree of prosperity in the manufacturing districts , and therefore the disproportion is just bow not so great in many of them ; but still there are immense masses in Spitalfields , Nottingham , Leicester , Coventry , Paisley , and Glasgow , who while they see large fortunes making by their employers , are not getting their ten shillings per week . Where such trades as tailors , stockingers , and shoemakers , are carried on by large numbers working for one master , the wages are wretchedly low . I have known in Nottingham hundreds of stockingers working sixteen hours a-day for six shillings a-week ; and thousands often having no work at all .
Thus , my friends , we behold how magnificent are the Powers of Labour : what wonders of wealth it has created in this country ; what princely fortunes it has piled up ; what national pride and glory it bas conferred upon Great Britain ; yet—and that is the misfortune—it has not created this for yen . We are truly "the envy and admiration of the world ; " but that envy and admiration are not excited by your condition . "Rich ! " exclaims Michelet , in his new work , The People , " come , confess , this is the secret motive of tbe universal admiration ; England is the rich nation : never mind her millions of b ; ggars . For any one who does not investigate mankind , sbepresentstotheworidan unparalleled spectacle , tbat of the most enormous accumulation of wealth that ever
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existed . A triumphant agriculture , so m uch machinery , so many vessels , bo aiany WaMhoUSes all choke-full , tbat ExQuange , the mistress of the world—gold flows there like water . " True , but this golden water , my friends , does not , as thei Frenchman well observes flow , for you . For you , it is the old sonjr of Virgil ;— . * - Sic vos ndn vobls nidifieatis aves ; . . ; Sicvos nonyobisvellerafertigoves ; Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes ; ' Sic vos non vobis fertisaratra boves . Meaning , Thus , but , ye birds , not for yourselves , your nests build ye ; Thus , but , ye sheep , not for yourselves , bear ye fleeces ; Thus , but , ye bees , not for yourselves , make je honey ; Thus , hut , je oxen , not for yourselves , [ drag ye ploughshares ; . ' ¦ . ' .. .. . . Thus , out not for jonrsehes , do yon labour , Men of England . - . ,
Well , does Mr . Howitt say "There is something wrong here , dreadfully wrong ; and which ought to be set right . " Put how ? Mr . H . reserves the full answer for another letter , but indicates that his remedy is the adoption of the co-operative principle , the combining of labour , skill , and capital , by tbe working men for themselves . We anxiously look for the next letter detailing the " plan . " We should like to have finished this notice without one word of complaint , but owing to the unfairness of . one of the contributors to the People's Journal , we are denied that pleasure . Dr . Smiles , wellknown to our Leeds readers , has been writing a series of articles , under the head " What is doing for the People in Leed 3 ? " In the course of these articles , he describes the self-educating efforts of the
Leeds people , and speaking of the circulation ot newspapers and cheap periodicals in that town , he states the number of copies sold of the Leeds and London papers . He professes to be very accurate and very impartial , so much so that he even specifies those contemptible rags IZoyd ' s Three-Penny Trash and the Penny Sunday Times ; but although he professes to give the names of all the papers sold in Leeds , he omits the Northern Star , as though lie did not know that paper was sold there , nor even that such a paper existed ! Now , this impartial writer well knows that the Northern Star was printed and published for seven years in Leeds , he knows that
it circulates in that town , he knows that of all the Journals sold in Leeds , it pre-eminently represents the party of progress ; but , because tbe Star is . a Chartist paper , and because it has on some occasions administered to him that correction which Iub subserviency to the Milloracy during the time he was editor of the Leeds Times , so well entitled him to , therefore he knows nothing about the Northern Star . We advise this impartial gentleman to learn honesty before he next dabbles in social statistics . We Lave nothing further to complain of , much more we mighty single out for _ praise ; but enough , the best praise is the reiteration of our good wishes for the success of the People ' s Journal .
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We find the followiag rubbish in all the daily papers : — BUCKINGHAM PALACE , Max 25 , 1846 . This afternoon , at five minutes before three o ' clock , the Queen was safely delivered of a Princess . Inthe room with her Majesty were his Royal Highness Prince Albert , Dr . Locock , and Mrs . Lilly , tbe monthly nurse . And in the rooms adjoining were the other medical attendants , Sir James Clark and Dr . Ferguson , and also her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent , the Lady in waiting on the Queen , and the Ministers and Officers of State summoned on the occasion . The Privy Councillors present were the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Bishop of London , the Lord Chancellor , the Duke of Buccleuch , the Earl of Haddington , the Duke of Wellington , Sir Robert Peel , Sir James Graham , Air . Secretary Gladstone , the Earl of Liverpool , the Earl Delawarr , and the Earl of Jersey .
Summonses were immediately Issued for a Privy Council , to be held at four o ' clock , at the Council Office , Whitehall . The following assembled at that hour : —His Royal Highness Prince Albert , the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Bishop of London , the Duke of Buccleuch , the Duke of Wellington , Sir Robert Peel , Sir James Graham , Mr . Secretary Gladstone , the Earl of Ellenborough , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Lord Granville Somerset , Mr . Sidney Herbert , the Earl of Liverpool , and the End of Jersey . Mr . C . Greville and the Hon . William Bathurst , the Clerks of the Council , were in waiting . At the CouBcil the Archbishop of Canterbury was desired to prepare a Form of Thanksgiving for the Queen ' s safe delivery of a Princess , to bo used in the Churches and Chapels throughout England and Wales . The Council then broke up .
During the afternoon the Nobility and Gentry called at Buckingham Palace , and entered their names in the visiting-book of his Royal Highness Prince Albert . The following official bulletin was exhibited at the Palace : — "Buckingham Palace , May 25 , 1846 , Four , p . m . " The Queen was safely delivered of a Princess at five minutes before three o'clock this afternoon . " Her Majesty and the Infant Princess are well . " James Clark , M . D . " Charles Locock , M . D . " Robt . Ferguson , M . D .
The beastly Court Journal says , "this great and important news was immediately made known to the town by the firing of the Park and Tower guns . " The Times ( base sycophant !) calls this birth an " auspicous occurrence . " From the above it will be seen that that sanctified old humbug , tbe Archbishop of Canterbury is preparing a "form of Thanksgiving , " witb . which to pester the " powers above " next Sunday in all Churches and Chapels . The people , the royalty-ridden , tax-cursed people , have more need to howl hymns of despair for their misfortune in being saddled with another addition to the brood of Royal cormorants . Our readers will observe that the Queen is delivered not of a " daughter , " but
of a " princess ! " The outrageous absurdity of manufacturing children into princes and princesses was disgusting enough , * but in this age of refinement the squalling lumps of Royal clay are , forsooth , lorn princes and princesses . We suppose the next thing will be to announce that the Duchess of Dunderhead was " safely delivered of a marquess" the " Lady of Sir Slipper Peei . was safely delivered of a cabinet minister" Mrs . Figgs was "safely delivered of a grocer" Mrs . Suds was " safely delivered of a laundress , " Mrs . Cadger was " safely delivered of a beggar \ " Verily John Bull , with all thy boasted wisdom , tliou art but a stupid ass to bear these tomfooleries , and worse—pay for them .
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GOVERNMENT GRATUITY TO JOSEPH MASON , THE INNOCENT CONVICT . A letter has been received from Lord Morpetb . by the friends of Mason , in which his Lordship advises them not further to press for an inquiry into the circumstances of his conviction , which beyond doubt , arose entirely from misapprehension , and not from any intention to deceive . The character of Mason has been re-established , and a gratuity from Government of 251 . has been ordered as some compensation . The following is his Lordship ' s letter to Mason ' s brother-in-law : — " London , May M , 18 iG .
" Sir , —Sir James Graham informs me that he cannot direct any commission to be instituted in the matter ! complained of with respect to the case of Joseph Mason . The complaint should more properly be addressed to the visiting justices of York Castle ; but now tUat Mason hasbeen returned to his house , with liis character completely cleared and acknowledged , I cannot advise any proceedings which now might bear the appearance of a vindictive character . "Sir James , at the same time , authorised me to state that he will confer a gratuity of twenty-five pounds upon Mason , as a small token of the unfortunate missapprehension under which he suffered . I cannot help thinking that Mason would do well to avail himself of Mr . Hudson ' s offer . Your humble serrant , "MOBPETH . "
A letter lias also been received from Mrs . Hudson , dated"Albert-gate , Hyde Park , 5 th of May , and addressed to Mason ' s wife , in which that lady congratulates her on tbe return of her husband , and states that Mr . Hudson had given instructions that suitable employment should be provided for him at the earliest opportunity .
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This would indeed , bertrue social equality , a perfect bMtherhood , all wstking "fweash , and eacli for all . ' - ¦ . / . '• ' '¦> •¦" .. ¦" . . ; ; . ¦ . I ¦ - ' ' . ; .- ¦• : ; Mr . Stallwood invoked the aid of air ini carrying into practice the principles he had that night so feebly advocated , and sat . down ioudly applauded . No questions being asked of the . lecturer , Mr . Stallwood rose and . introduced Mr . Whitehorne and his sons , when this musical family astonished and electrified the audience by their masterly execution of that beautiful composition , " We ' re all born equal . " At the conclusion , the audience testified their delight by their enthusiastic approbation . A vote of thanks on the motion of Mr . Andrews , was awarded by acclamation to the Lecturer , and to Mr . Wbitehorne and his talented children for their services , and the meeting was dissolved .
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DREADFUL COAL PIT EXPLOSION . A dreadful explosion took place on Tuesday the 19 th inst . at Myreydduewidd Colliery , three miles from Swansea . On Tuesday morning the men were told that " all was right , " except one portion , which they bad barricaded up with timber so that it should be known ; but ere an hour had elapsed a tremendous explosion shocked the entire pit , causing the instant death of five men , and several others much burnt . The first body found was that of David Jones . It presented an awful aspect , the whole . of Ins intestines having fallen out , shewing the violence with which he had been driven against parts of the colliery by the violent concussion . The remainder were also
shockingly disfigured , and were blown some 200 yards from where the explosion happened . At the Coroner's inquest on the bodies it was clearly proved to have resulted by the imprudence of one of the miners , who , notwithstanding the caution he had received , went into the dangerous part before spoken of with a naked lit candle . The Jury , after a very lengthened investigation , returned a verdict of " Accidental Death . " We also regret to mention two other fatal explosions , one at Pwllygraig , near Merthyr , and the other at the Mountain Pitta , Pennydarren . Four person lost their lives at them , which appeared to have resulted under the same circumstances . The greater portion of the unfortunate sufferers have left large families utterly destitute .
, „¦ « lr U , _ i _ Heroic Gallantry . —Mr . Hughes , the eldest son of Mr . Hughes , saddler , of the Cornhill , on Friday last , performed an act of heroic humanity which merits recording . The young man , it aeeraa , was travelling from Lincoln by one of the Gainsborough coaches . On arriving at Saxilby , he perceived a girl in the river Witham , and saw her sink for the third time , though there were several person who observed the accident , and yet did not attempt to save the life of the girl : he unhesitatingly leaped from the coachandencumbered as lie was with his great
, , coat , plunged into the river , dived to the bottom , succeeded in bringing up the exhausted girl , and with great difficulty got her safely landed . We are informed that influential parties , having been made acquainted with the facts of the case , purpose laying them before the Humane Society ; whether any token of commemoration be granted from that quarter or not . there can be no doubt that the generous feeling which prompted so perilous an act in the service of humanit y will gain the young man the warm respect of all whose opinion is worth possessing . — Stamford Mercury ,
Extensive Robbhiiy . op Bank op England Noiks , & 0— AtUxbridge Petty Sessions on Tuesday , Henry and MargaretBarnaby , two persons of respectable appearance , brother and sister , the former living at Harefield , and the . latter at Kensington , were committed for having been concerned in stealing , in the month of January last , a wooden cash-box , containing Bank of England and other notes , with title-deeds , leases , and other securities , to a very large amount , from the King ' s Arms Inn , in the village of Harefield , about two miles from Uxbridge , the property of Mr . John Ratcliffe , the landlord .
Robberies of Plate . —Information of the following robberies of plate were on Wednesday received by the police : —From No . 9 , Cavendish-square , the property of the Hon . Mr . Dawson Damer , four silver candlesticks—they are of massive make ; also , from a cart last week , between Reigate and East Grimstead , a box , the propety of the Rev . S . M . Neate , of Sackville Cottage , East Grimstead , containing four silver table-spoans , four tea and four desert ditto , and a butter knife , each marked " W . " a wine strainer , marked " T . A . W . M . " six table spoons , five desert , two tea , one gravy , and two salt ditto , marked , twenty-four forks , six old-fashioned fillagree teaspoons , marked " T . M . N . " a datete , and moist sugar-bason , marked " A . N . " an inkstand , and a variety of other articles of silver plate .
Dissolving the Parliament . —It is generally believed if the Corn Bill does not pass that the Queen will dissolve ihe Parliament !! What a blessing to the nation ! f Will any respectable washerwoman have the kindness to oblige Her Majesty with a copper and hot water for the purpose of effecting a sure dissolution ? Tub Kino and Queen of the French are expected to visit this country about the latter end of June , or early in July . Death of Viscount Downe . —We have to record the demise of another British peer , Viscount Downe , of the county of Downe , in the peerage of Ireland , who expired on the 23 rd instant , at Beningborough Hall , his seat in Yorkshire ; at the advanced age of 74 . His Lordship , who was in Holy Orders , was bom August 20 , 1772 , and succeeded to the title in
1832 .-African Travels . —The Neivs from Malta , of the 14 th , notices the safe return of Mr . James Richardson from the interior of Africa , Fezzan , and Tripoli , having accomplished his perilous journey in a manner the most extraordinary and satisfactory , by a new route . He travelled the country without arms to defend himself against the attacks of his enemies , or presents to conciliate the good opinion of the chiefs he visited . He has not , hawever , fully accomplished the object he had in view on starting , owing to the wavs which raged in different , parts , occupied by different tribes , through which he would have had to pass . _ .. . . _
A Desperate Leap from a Window . —On Tuesday morning , between one and two o ' c ' , great excitement prevailed in the vicinity of Kent-street , Southwark , in consequence of a female named Johanna Hefferan , aged twenty-eight years , the wife of a labourer , jumping from the second floor window of her residence in a court inhabited by a number of Irish people . It seems that her husband had been laading a very dissipated life for several weeks past , and had treated her in a very harsh and cruel manner . He returned in a state of drunkenness , and when he entered the apartment he seized her by the throat , and threatened to murder her . She , however , escaped from him , and to evade his brutal treatment she threw up the window and jumped out into the
street . A policeman who was on duty , near tne spot ran to her , and when he raised her up he found that she had received some injury to the legs and othev parts of her person . She was taken to Guy ' s Hospital , where she was found to have sustained extensive injuries , which , it is feared , will cause her death . Fire at a Card Manufactory . —On Wednesday afternoon , shortly after three o ' clock , a fire broke out in the drying room of the extensive playingcard manufactory , belonging to Messrs . Josh . Reynolds and Son , card-makers , &c , 28 , 29 , and 30 . Vere-street , Clare-market . The fire originated from the overheating of the steam-boiler flue , and before sufficient assistance could be produced it had obtained considerable hold . The ilolbora engine of the London Fire Engine Establishment , having got to
work , tke firemen succeeded in staying the further progress of the flames in a short time . Dbeadfui . Waggon Accident . —On Wednesday , as n waggon belonging to the Eastern Counties Railway , heavily laden with oats , was going down Milford-lanc , Strand , the herse stumbled , and the heavy vehicle caught the driver between the wheels and the kerb-stone adjoining the Bull public-house . The wretched sufferer , whose ribs were frightfully lacerated , was conveyed to the King ' s College Hospital , where he lies in a precarious state . Accident on the Stamford and Peterborough Railway . —As a number of navigators and other workmen were leaving their employment on
Saturday evening last , between six and seven o ' clock , when near the village of Bainton , the ballast waggons on which they were riding , were suddenly thrown off the rails , by which twelve of the men were thrown out and seriously injured . Six of the sufferers were taken to the Stamford Infirmary severely hurt , one having both his Ieg 3 broken ; the five others , some with their arms broken , others with their shoulders dislocated , &c . It is not expected three of the six can recover . It is reported this accident arose from carelessness ; others affirm that some of the party unhooked one of the waggons for a "lark , " which jerked tlie waggon in which they were , causing it to tip up and throw tne others into confusion .
Suffocation in an Epileptic Fit . —An inquest was held on Wednesday at the White Hart , Berwickstreet , Oxford-street , ' before Mr . Bedford , on the body of Mr . George Augustus Favques , aged hventyseven , a copper-plate printer , of Berwick-street . It appeared that the deceased enjoyedgood health , with the exception of being attacked at long intervals with epileptic fits . He was quite well on Friday night last , when he went to the Princess ' s Theatre , and at twelve o ' clock went to bed , much in his usual state . The next morning he was found dead
in his bed , with his face downwards between the two pillars . Mr . Poi , e , surgeon , of No . 3 , Manchester-square , said that the deceased died from suffocation . In reply to questions from a Juror , the surgeon said , that in the course of the night the deceased had no doubt been seized with a fit of epilepsy , and his head sinking between the pillows , he was unable to rise , and so was suffocated . Had any ope slept with him who was able to render assistance , his life in all probability would have been saved . A verdict in accordance with the medical testimony was returned .
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Emigration to the United States . —The Tide of emigration still flows ; no less than 6 , 3516 persons of al ] sizes , sexes , and denominations , arrived at this port during the month of April ; this being an increase of 2 , 055 over the month of March . Great Britain sent 4 , 936 ; France , 1 , 078 , chiefly Germans ; Bremen and Hamburg , 116 . —New York Herald . A Woman Choked by a Piece of Breab . — On Saturday an inquest was held at the William the Fourth , Wandsworth-road , before Mr . Carter , on the body of Mary . Anne Cooke , the wife of . a sweep , living at Howard-street . A few days previously the deceased was at tea , when a piece of . crust of bread lodged in the larynx , and before a surgeon could be procured , she was dead . Verdict , " Died from suffocation . " .... ¦ - ¦¦
Revbkse of Fortune . —One of the men now engaged as conductor to an omnibus plying between the railway station at Leamington and Warwick , was , in 1831 , mayor of Stratford-upon-Avon . A Craioos Bird's Nest . —A few days since Mr . John Hubbard , landlord of the Wheats heaf , Burton Joyce , found a torn tit ' s nest , containing several young ones , in an old hat placed on a stick in his garden . —Nottingham . Journal , Death at the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Station . —On Thursday evening , a little before nine o ' clock , a man . who was sitting on a form in the
second class waiting-room of the Victoria Railway station , Hunt ' s Bank , was found dead ; and a surgeon , having been promptly called thither , was unable to restore animation . The deceased had been sitting there a short time previously , without exhibiting any signs of indisposition . He was apparently about sixty-five years of age , respectably attired in black . He wore a plain neckcloth , white stockings , shoes with four button holes , and a cap upon his . head . He had not paid his fare tor any place , and no money except Is . 3 d . was found upon him .
Fatal Accident during me -Thunder Storm . — About half-past four o ' clock on Thursday evening , an accident occurred in St . George ' srroad , Manchester , in consequence of a horse becoming frightened by the lightning , by which a man named James Wild was killed . It appeard that Wild was going along St . George's or Rochdale-road , witb an empty cart drawn by two spirited horses , and having hold of the reins of the shaft liorae ; when suddenly , as if frightened by a flash of lightning or the thunder which followed , the leader started of at a furious pace . , Wild kept hold of the bridle for about ten yards , when , losing his hold , he was kicked by the shaft horse , and fell , one of the wheels going over his back . The horses proceeded onward at a gallop , and Wild with difficulty rose , and cried " Wheigh , " as if to stop them , but he was very much exhausted , and had to be sustained by some persons who came up at the time . He was conveyed'to the shop of Mr .
M'Gill , druggist , St . George ' s-road , where , in the space of ton minutes he died . Lusua Nature . —Last Saturday , a hen , belonging to William Barnsby , of Bunkers' Hill , hatched a chicken with four perfect eggs . The little monster is alive , and likely enough to be reared . The Whip and the "Schlague" in Hanover . — The Second Chamber of the States of Hanover , has at present under discussion the criminal code , comprising offences against the laws of the press . At one of the late sittings M . Lehzen , an enlightened and influential member , proposed that the punishment of the whip and the schlague should be suppressed ; but , although supported by several deputies of weight , he did not succeed in carrying his motion , According to the law presented by the Government the whip is , for the future , to be applied only to lads under sixteen years of age , and to vagabonds . Whipping is no longer in any case to be applied to
women . Fatal Accident opf Lambeth Palace . —On Sunday morning , about a quarter past seven o'clock , an accident happened on the river , which was attended by the loss of one out of two of the persons who fell out of a boat off Lambeth Stairs . It appears that the boat was engaged for an excursion on the river by a party of six persons , consisting of males and females . By some indiscretion on the part of those who undertook the management of the boat two of the party , a man and woman , tell into the river ; the man was picked up and taken , in an exhausted state to a tavern near Westminster-bridge , when , after some time he was conveyed home in a cab .
"Oh it is Love !"—Breaking into a Prison . — On Saturday , as Alderton and Clarke were watching at our gaol , about one o ' clock in the morning , they heard some one get over the top of the door of the garden wall , and make his way into the garden at the back of the House of Correction . He had with him a ladder , and went up as far as the roof . They then saw it was Robert Berry , alias "Bob the Cooper , " and ran towards the ladder , on which he descended as fast as he could , ran across the garden and escaped over the wall . They were in watch for him , as it was believed that lie had on tbe previous night been in communication with one of the prisoners , named Emma Weavers . On being taken before II . Braddock , Esq ., he said he was only going to take some tea and sugar to Emma Weavers . He was committed for two months as a rogue and vagabond . Sleeping in the Open Air an Offence . — At
the Ilford petty sessions , on Saturday , Zachanah Lee , a gipsey , was charged with sleeping in the open air at Epping Forest . The excuse made by the prisoner was , that he was sleeping out because he had had a row with his wife . It was ascertained tbat he had a house at Chingford-hatch . The Magistrate sa dthat the gipsies generally rented houses in some of tbe villages near the forest during the winter ; but the moment the fine weather set in they betook themselves to the forest . If they were able to rent for a house during the winter months they certainly could do the same ia summer , and he should order the police totakeinto custody all persons found sleeping in the forest . As the prisoner , however , was not known at that Court , he should discharge him this time , but should deal severely with him if brought up
again . Rapid Increase of Manchester . —From a report prepared by the Chief Constable , and read by Alderman Key , at a recent meeting of the Town Council , it appears that since the census was taken in 1841 , there has been a clear addition of 59 , 770 souls to the population of the borough , being more than the increase from 1831 to 1841 , which was 53 , 373 . The antive population is now reckoned at 295 , 277 . Berne . —Since the census of 1837 , the population of the city and circle of Berne has been increased from 22 , 422 souls to 25 , 158 , of which 7 , 382 are married , 1 , 743 widowers , 125 divorced , 15 , 908 unmarried . Of the Reformed religion , 23 , 77 S ; Catholic , 1 , 218 ; Jews , 162 . The number of civic citizens is 2 , 977 ; cantonal citizens , 19 , 579 ; Switzer citizens , 4 , 147 ; aliens , 1 , 432 .
Railroad between Augsburg anb Ulm . —The Augsburg Gazette mentions a report that the Austrian Government intends to fonn a military railroad between Augsburg and Ulm , so that , in case of any threatened invasion , Ulm may be immediately supplied with troops . More Poisox for the Chinese . —The Ami de la Religion ( Paris paper ) states that Father Ambroaio , and Procurator of Missions in China , and five other missionaries of the of order of Jesus , had embarked at Naples for the Celestial Empire . Nineteen brothers of the order are at pregent in Nankins :
occupied in spreading the Catholic faith . Not loss satisfactory is their zeal in England , where , as stated in this journal from authentic sources , within the last two years , 275 Protestants had been converted to Catholicism . [ The unhappv Chinese appear to be the doomed recipients of civilised poison , first opium , then gospel . We would recommend the good people of the " flowery land , " to cling to the morals taught them by Confucius , rather than listen to the corrupting absurdities of European creeds . Tiiey will find gospel-intoxication more enervating than ven . opium-chewing . ]
A Tunnel under Greenwich Paiik . —It has been determined by the Directors of the South-eastern Railway Company to pull down the Greenwich terminus , the Railway Tavern known as the Prince of Orange , together with several shops and newly-erected dwelling-houses adjoining , and to erect a splendid terminus on Crnom ' s-hill in its stead , alongside one of the smaller entrances ; into the park . The new tunnel will commence at the Crcek-brdge , which separates Greenwich from Deptford , and continue under the town of Greenwich , the lower part of the
Park , next Greenwich Naval School , Maze-hill , onward by the back of the union workhouse in the Woolwich road . Here the tunnel is to end , and the line continue forward to Woolwich , Dartf ' ord , Gravesend , &c . From the estimates made by the surveyors the Directors consider that they shall be able to complete the works to Gravesend , and open it for public traffic , in the course of the next twelve months . The tunnelling is intended to obviate the vibration complained of as likely to arise , and which the Astronomer Royal consideredjwoukl affect the scientific studies atlthe lloyal Observatory ,
A Wealthy Settler Murdereb by the Blacks . — The Moreton Bay community ( New South Wales ) has been thrown into great consternation at the commencement of the year by the murder of Mr . John Uhr , the brother of C . B . Uhr , Esq ., Justice of the Peace . This gentleman was at an out-station , when the'blaoks came into his hut , and commenced helping themselves . This was resisted by Mr . Uhr , when he was attacked by the whole body and murdered . After treating the body with the greatest indignity , the savages threw it into the river Brisbane , on . whose
banns tne occurrence took place . They then made off after plundering the place of sugar , flour , tea , tobacco , < fcc . Lieut . Seymour , and nine men of the party stationed at Moreton Bay , had gone up the Brisbane in pursuit of the murderers . A party of civilians had also started on the same errand . Mr . Uhr ' s body had been found , and handed over to his relatives , The blacks had been committing great depredations on the cattle . They often killed beasts to get a , t the inside fat . After spearing and hamstringing them , they merely made an incision in the ribs to get at the kidney fat , leaving the carcass to rot .
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: John Hampben . —We hear . that , there is to be a . public meeting and dinner at Cbalgrove-field , on the 18 th of June , being the anniversary of the «'< jatft of this distinguished patriot . - ¦ ¦ The Nelson Column . —The public will be gratified by learning that hopes mav he entertained oi the speedy disappearance of the unsightly timber bani . cade which has so . long surrounded-the base of the Nelson column , and dejormed Trafalgar-square . During the last week a considerable number of workmen have been employed in dressing the bricks and making preparations for the foundations of ths pedestals of the recumbent lions which arc to ornament the angles of the basement , and for the reception
of the flights of granite steps which will complete the- ; original plan . > Mount ¦ Hecla . —Copenhagen , Mat 16 . —We have " letters from Iceland , of the beginning of April ,, which state that the eruption of Mount . Hecia imd , ceased for about a fortnight . The fishing ; va 3 so productive that it had been been necessary to send . ahips to England for salt . Valuable Discovery of Lead in the Isle (» i ? Man . —In excavating the rock opposite the court house , for the purpose ot deepening our harbour , the workmen IlUYe eonie upon a small vein of lead ore , sarJ not less than four cwts of excellent ore has been raised , ' containing a proportion , it is supposed , ol ' aboi'i 99 oz . of silver per ton . —Mona ' s Herald .
The Corn Bill . —Earl Delawarr , having dosJared his inteution to oppose the Corn Bill in the House of : Lords , has resigned the situation of Lord Chamberlain ot the Queen ' s Household . The Factories Bill . — Sir Hesketh Flcr-cwood paired off on Friday night in favour of the Short Time Bill with Mr . Mackinnon . Ancient Art . —It is a singular fact , that the pattern now most common upon Paisley shawls , and which has always been a favourite , was in useanioiig the Hindoos three or four thousand years ago . TnE Notorious Joseph Ady was committed from the Thames-street Office , on Thursday , to take hia \ trial on a charge of fraud ; in obtaining 60 ' postage . !' stamps from a gentleman named Hill on the preteiice " of giving him useful information .
The receht Indian Victories . —Death of Lihut . , Colonel Barr .-We have to record the doath of Lieut . Colonel Barr , one of the heroes of Huvietkce Ghat , who , received a imisket-ball in the left arm in the final victory Tvhich crowned the British arms in India . It appears that the gallant office was very anxious that the limb should be saved if pensibifi , and it was hoped that by skilful treatment the in- ' jury ( compound fracture ) might be rv duced . It would seem , however , that the climate was averse to his recovery , and he sank under his sufferings . Vidocq denies that he is either dead , or , what perhaps is better , that he is " in a state of . poverty , " and in a letter to the Sun invites -the editor of that paper to dine with him , as a proof , we suppose , of his teracity .
George Frederick Cooke ' s Monumekt . —When Edmund Kean was' last in this country he erected a monument , in St . Paul ' s Church-yard , to the memory of the lamented George Frederick Cooke . When Charles Kean arrived here , upon goimg to ses the monument , he found it in a dilapidated condition . With a commendable liberality and reverence for the great actor whose memory the monument was intended to honour , and for his father who had erected it , he determined to have it repaired . When he left this city on his southern tour he left orders with John Povey to expend four of five hundred dollars upon its repairs . This has been done , and the '
monument is now restored to its original place , in as good condition as when erected by the actor Kean , and likely to stand many years , to remind the passerby of the great actor . The body of Cooke , who died while in this city , is buried , not under the monument , but in the vestry of the church . It is rather a remarkable coincidence , that the monument was ready and re-elected on the anniversary of the birth of Shakspeare . It is a handsome marble raonnm ' : ni bearing upon one side the original inscription — . " Erected to the memory of George Frederick Cooke , by Edmund Kean , of the Theatre Royal , Drury-lane ,.. London , 1821 . Three kingdoms claim his birth ;
Both hemispheres pronounce his worth . " Upon the other side is the inscription"Repaired by Cnarlas Kean , 1816 . " New York Paper . Fatal Accident—On Sunday last a fine boy , 12 years of age , named David Horbury , son of Charles Horbury , shareholder in the Chartist Co-operative . Land Society , Blucher Street , Barnsley . lost his life " under the following circumstances : —The little fellow was playing by the canal side when ho fell in , a parcel ef cowardly scoundrels were rowing up and down the canal in a boat and contented themselves by merely putting the oar to the canal side , when finding it did not bring him up they with the most perfect coolness lftft him , the consequence was the poor little fellow was taken out a lifeless corpse , --Correspondent . ¦ '
Election Contest in Ayrshire . —We learn that it is all but arranged , in Protection circles , that in . the event of a dissolution of Parliament , which is ex- ¦ pected in a few weeks , our county member , Alex . Oswald , Esq ., will be opposed by Lord G . Bcntiuck , son of the Duke of Portland , and the leader of the Protectionists in the House of Commons . ' Destruction op the Ancient Chapel at Kingsland . —The picturesque little chapel opposite the tollbar at King 3 land , is now being unroofed , preparatory to its destruction , by the sanction of the governors of Bartholomew ' s Hospital . It is of diminutive size , but it posses .-es , independent of its claims as a consecrated building , architectural and antiquarian fea- ¦ tures of interest . It is said that a strong remonstrance has been t to
sen the governors of Bartholomew's Hospital by the central committee of the Archaeological Association , with a view to obtain at least a respite for the chapel , until proper inquiry has been instituted into the alleged ground for its destruction , which is generally supposed to be quite uncalled for . Thumdeb Storm . —During the thunder storm , on , Wednesday week , a sergeant of the 43 rd regiment , who ¦ was travelling near Barnard Castle , took refuge under a tree ; and while there the tree was struck by the lightning and completely rent . The soldier was also struck to the ground , but fortunately was uninjured . Caftdre op a Whale in the River Medwat . — Chatham , May 26 . —Yesterday afternoon this fish was
secured by Henry Hiekson , a waterman , at Upuor , who found it floating dead in the river , below Upnor Castle . Having secured it he towed it to Upnor , and the difficulty then was how to get it to a place of security , when between 50 and 60 united to remove it to a building at the rear of the Jolly Sailors . The fish was then opened , and the inside taken cut and cleaned . The liver was a very extraordinary size . Before it was touched , the fish measured 7 feet round the body , and 13 feet in length ; the breadth of the tail is 2 feet 0 inches . This fish is to be brought to Chatham for public exhibition . It afforded for the last week much sport to the watermen of the river ia their endeavours to catch it . The cause of its death .
is supposed to be the difference of the water to that of the north seas . Hungary . —It is stated that between 25 and 30 districts with a population of 2 , 500 or 3 , 000 souls of the ( united ) Greek religion , have gone over to the ¦ non-united ( the Russian ) religion . Queen ' s Musicians . —It is somewhat remarkable - that the favourite musicians of three Queens fell a sacrifice to suspicion and vengeance within a spaco of thirty years in this country—namely Mark Smeaton , in the service of Anne Boleyn , was executed in 1530 ; Thomas Abel , who taught music and grammar to Queen Catherine , wife of Henry V JIL , who was hanged and quartered in 25-10 ; and David Rizzio , secretary to Mary Queen of Scots , who was murdered in 1556 .
Vaccination . —Vaccination has been highly satisfactory for the past year , ending on the 29 th September last , according to the opinion of the Poor Law Commissioners ; there having been 347 , 705 pursonsvaccinated , and the successful cases having been * equal to ninety-six per cent , on the number vaccinated . A Gentleman Mistaken for a Pickpocket . — A policeman , named Richards , and Henry Kirby , money taker to the London and Westminster Steamboat Company , were charged at the Mansion-house , on Tuesday , with abusive and insolent conduct to Mr . Charles Funge , an officer of the Vice-Chancellor ' s Court , whom they called a pickpocket , and a member of the swell mob , because he remained on the lighter
after having landed from one of the boats . It appeared that a . well-known member of the swell-mob was on the lighter at the time , and because he was standing near Mr . Funge , probably trying to pick his pocket , the policeman considered them to be friends , and so ordered Mr . Funge to walk off . The Lord Mayor fined the policeman twenty shillings , but dismissed . Kirby , as he had acted on information givea him by Richards . DANisn Succession . — The attention of political circles is attracted to the difficulties which will one day arise relative to the succession of Denmark , and the Duchess of Holstein and Schleswig . The Prince Royal of Denmark has no children ; he is now suing
tor a divorceso as to be able to contract a third mar--wage . Prince Frederick of Hesse is the next heir to the throne after the Prince Royal ; but he is a youn " widower , and had no children by his wife , a Grand Ducheasof Russia . A Hamburgh paper publishes the follomng , which might put an end to these difficulties : — " The visit of the Royal Family of Sweden *? mi 9 ? fc of Copenhagen has been much talked ot . Una visit is not looked upon as a mere visit of ceremony . A marriage between Prince Frederick of Hesse and the young daughter of the Kins of Sweden may probably result from the interview between the two sovereigns . "
Supposed Incenwary Fire in Worcestershire . — About midnight ; , on Friday , a destructive tire broke out in a barn on the farm of Mr . J . Edwards , and belonging to B . Dent , Esq ., at Charltsn , near C ' ropthorne , about ten miles tVoiu Worcester . The barn with its contents , consisting of several waggons , carts , and a gig , together with some poultry , was completely demolished . The origin of the fire is enveloped in mystery , and it is very strongly suspected that it was the work of an incendiary ,
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TEETOTALISM MORALLY , POLITICALLY , AND SOCIALLY CONSIDERED . Mr . Stallwood delivered a lecture on the above subject , to a highly respectable and numerous audience , at the True Temperance Hall , Waterloo road , on Sunday evening , May the 24 th . He advocated the putting of the money spent in worse than useless drink and smoke , to the purposes of educating the rising generation in the principles of true political economy , the " Science of Government . " He urged the morality of well training , clothing , and feeding the human race ; and said , if the sons of labour performed this duty to their children , he could not conceive that they would have anything io throw away
on either gin or beer , and that were men teetotallers , they might sq apply the means now spent to their own detriment and degradation . At a moderate calculation , the money now spent in drinking amounts to £ 15 12 a . per annum per family . With this sum they could buy 40 s . freeh' Ids in counties , and better residences in boroughs , < fcc , and thereby muoh extend the franchise . They might obtain for each family with this sum , six shares in the Chartist Cooperative Land Society , making themselves and fami ' lies perfectly contended and happy , and free from tht fears of a Union Bastile . They might at the same time realize Johnson's definition of" Social , " namely , "Fit for Society , " " Companionable , " " Fraternal . "
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