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      THE TWO RACES . Bt XEHE 6 T J 0 HS 8 . " ^ Past I . " The Old . Up ! Gentlemen of England , ' Brace armour to the breatt ! "Where are yon , North and South * 'Where are you , East and West ? Up ! Gentlemen of England , Rifle up from tower and nail , Yepeersof thePlantagenet , And conquerors of the Gaul . Ye sons of Saxon chivalry , And hospitable state ; Those champion * of oM liberty ,

      "When longs bad grown too great * "Who bearded bluff King Harry , And John on Runnymede ; "Who tamed the tyrant ' s tyranny , And toothed thfi people ' s need . "Who welcomed honest poverty To shelter and to feast , And broke on his own infamy , The crozier of the priest . Sow mount yonr high blood chargers , And furbish up jour mail , And let yow proudest summons Go gathering on the gale ! For nobler rrorka awaiting , Than tournament and tilt : To gire its rights to labour ,

      And punish purse-proud guilt . Arise ! if ye are nobles In nature as in name : There ' s misery to banish ! There's tyranny to tame ! Por the lords of trade are stirriDg "With their treasures , far and nigh ; They are trampling on the lowly , They are spurning at the high . With weights of gold and silver , They are crushing spirits fast , And the people rise like one man , To break the chains they cast .

      Sow , gentlemen of England ! " Where are ye , one and all t Ye peers of the Plantageuet , And conquerors of the Gaul !

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      Past II . ThcSevc , Go ! Seek them on the carpet floor , Where rustling silk is sheen , Or lolling with the courtezan , Behisd the painted scene . Not wooers of an English maid , By deeds of honour done ; Bat kneeling at the shameless feet Of lust , that wealth has woa . Hot hunting cheery forests through } In chase of deer or fox ; But pacing Bond Street and Pall Mall , Or sconced in Opera-box . Sot leading on their yeomen bold For hearth and hame to fight ; But languid exquisites by day , And ruffians In the night .

      Not bidding in their titters ' halls . The general welcome swell ; But pale , and thin , and fevered waifs , That crowd the rattling hell . Hot righting innocence betrayed , lake gallant knights and true ; Bat lurers of the village maid , That scorn what they undo . Then , -wrecked by premature excess , By rifled pleasures cloyed ; They seek on banks of foreign streams , The strength they have destroyed . Wo champions of the nation ! No men of better kind ! But a worn-ont generation , In body and in mind . They ' ve buried all their manhood In silk , and plume , and gem ; They look for strength from ns ,

      Sot we for strength from them ! Thongh still some fever flashes Of former power are seen ; And still an old-pulse dashes , — But few and far between ! Like echoes that remind us , "While faintly fleetine o ' er , Of some old , gallant ditty , That man can sing- no more . But another strain is sounding , In music fresh and clear ; And the nation ' s hearts are bounding' , That glorious psalm to hear . II tells , a race has risen , Of more than knightly worth ; Forth-breaking from its prison , In the dungeons of the earth . And not by lance or sabre ,

      These nobles hold their lands , — Bnt dj the right of laoour , And the work of honest hands . And not for crown or crozier , They till the sacred sod ; Bnt the liege-lord of their holding , Is the lord of nature : — -Go 3 .

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      THE ARISTOCRACY OF ENGLAND . A HISTORY FOR THE PEOPLE . By John Hampbes , Junior . London : Chapman , Brothers , 121 , Newgate Street ; Effingham Wilson , Royal Ex-Change ' lNo . IL ] From the time of the accession of Henry VII . to theai ^ ht of the second James , with the exception of one reign , that of Edward VI ., the aristocracy play tut a secondary part in the grand drama of inglish historr . Throughout the reigns of the two last Benrv's , the aristocracy exhibited the mostpusilfcinimoua cowardice and" disgusting sycophancy to the Brown accompanied by a most determined spirit of

      , plnnder , directed against both church and . people . Tfcev plaved the same part throughout the reigns of Elizabeth , James the First , and Charles the First . In the time of the Commonwealth they crouched 3 ike | panic-striken slaves before the people ; they assisted Charles the Second in his bloody retaliations against the patriots , aiding him in all his infamous designs "upon the liberties of the kingdom ; and if thefresisted his successor , it was because they feared Ihey would be compelled to disgorge some of their ill-gotten wealth , had that fool , who "lost three kingdoms for a mass , " succeeded in his attempts to re-establish the corrupt and justly hated despotism &f the Romish Church .

      From the time of Henry the Seventh to that of James the Second , for a moment only , the aristocracy attempted a revival of their former undisguised and high-handed domination over both King and People , this was during [ the short reign of the boy monarch , Ed-ward the Sixth . As ha ? been before observed , ± he "Wars of the Puses , " followed by the "loppings " in the re ^ nsof tie seventh and eig hth " . Henrys , had almost totally extin < mlshed the old aristocracy-the mail-clad lions So produced a " king-making "Warwick . with his army of thirty thousand am ! The day of these was gone , never to return . > new class of robbers—vile , ignoble miscreants , with no glory of " chivalry" to disguise their tyranny , — pimps , parasites , and tburch plunderers , were now in the ascendant , vauntin * themselves in the stolen titles of the iron-Landed barons of the middle ages . The following mractis part of a finished picture of this scumotraev : —

      THE ARISIOCKACT IS THE REIGS OF EDWARD VI . Spite of the lopping and levelling of the last reigns , a swarm of adventurers and gamblers for rank and in-Sreace stood as thickly and as busily as ever round the xbroue . What was woks , they wera new men , —hungry , and without law or conscience . The old oaks were fdled , and here was a prodigious growth of fungus shot up from their stumps and stools . The nation had got rid of its lions , and had got wolves aud leeches in their places . The estates wrestea tij the crown toth from the faUen nobles and the church , and suffered by the bloated tanas of Henry VIII . to be snatched away from it , were sow pounced upon by a crowd of hitherto unknown men . All these , the msment they became possessed of a good thare of this Ijooty , were seized with an equally ravenous desire for titles and power . \ Ye find a complete catalogue of strange names , and even where we find the old titles , there are no longer the old men in them , but dull and creeping things ; asses in lions' skins ; toads and

      salamanders , which had crept into the deserted shells of tortoises , and swelled -with vanity to fill out , If possible , tee space too wide for their reptile littleness . Amongst the men surrounding the death-bed of Henry , or forming the first council of Edward , were Browns , Deunys , Brom' evs Vfiugfields , Petrcs , Southwells , Parrs , Peckhams , rLrets Dudleys , Bafeers , Saddlers , and such like , all uninoutt ' to the Old history and glory of the country . There was Wriothesky , who had grown up by vile sycophancy M . ler Henrv - and by laying what the historian calls his te £ l hands on any rile job which the tyrant wanted coiugid gorged himself with church and other spo ., and wnfoL ^ rd Chancellor . There was John Russell , ytol a-n A under Henry ** the first time , » lany promineatlristorv ; had crept aud wound himself by a » ost pliable sc « uacitv , and now stood Baron Russell , Lord Privy Seat . This is the origin of the greatness of the Uedfurd family ; for this John IlusseU managed to la > hold of an eno ' nnous slice of church property , and 10 be made Earl of Bedford ; as many of these men were nuue

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      during Edward ' i minority , in fact , by themselves , into nobles and great ministers . But above all , tho two families destined to play the grand nobles in this reign the Dudleys and Seymours were the most complete u > starts , and played the most fantastic tricks before high heavsn f nothing less than the crown being able to satisfy their ambition . The whole of the proceedings of this reign constitute a most admiraWe tragic-comedy showing what aristocracy i 8 and always will be when it can have foil swing . The above-named locusts , with many others , having the king m their own hands , proceeded to grant to themselves ( in the king ' s name ) titles estates , revenHes , & ? , The head of this gang , Seyl mour , assumed the title of "Duke of Somerset L

      the oroee of God , " and again , "The Most High , £ o ble and Victorious Prince Edward , Duke of Somerset , Guardian of the person of the King ' s Majesty , and Protector of all his realms , Ac ., Ac ., &C- " This Dukd had a brother as ambitious as himself , who aimed at marrying the princess Elizabeth ( afterwards Queen ) , his career , however , was cut short by his head being cut off , principally at the instigation of his brother , who signed his death warrant . Somerset , himself , was next overthrown by his enemies , and beheaded on Tower Hill , on the same spot where he had caused his brother to . be executed . Somerset's great enemy , the Duke of Northumberland , whose father had been beheaded as a "knave and extortioner" next r « led the roast .

      , The attempt of this towering son of an executed felon to place his own family on the English thron e resulted in the tragedy in which Lady Jane Grey was the conspicuous and deservedly pitied victim . One of the most instructive chapters in this work is the exposure of the real character of that royal tigr ess Elizabeth . The author has done immense service to the cause of truth by unveiling the real character of this abominable she-tyrant—woman we will not call her , for she had no one womanly virtue . This " Good Queen Bess" was "a woman of undoubted ability , though overrun with the most

      ludicrous vanity , and the most childish weaknesses—a woman of a most masculine will and despotic disposition—daring , selfish , cunning , and artful as a serpent , but with the serpent ' s venom and the tiger ' s cruelty—a Jtruej Henry the Eighth in petticoats . " The disclosure of the foul conspiracy against the reputation , peace , person , liberty , and life of the unhappy Mary , Queen of Scots , which Elizabeth from first to last directed , never pausing until she had gorged herself with the blood of her victim , is most revolting . From this portion of the work we shall make an extract illustrating the character and doings of

      THE INFAMOUS SCOTTISH AB 16 T 0 CRACT . Host of the Scottish Protestant nobles were in the pay of Elizabeth . These Lords , commonly kHown as the Lords of the Congregation , were eager to receive English pay , great namesas they bore , suchastheEarlsof Argyle , Montrose , Glencairn , and Arran , called also Duke of Cbatelherault , Lord Lorn , the Prior of St . Andrew ' s , Mary ' s illegitimate brother , &c . We find Saddler pay . idg them £ 2000 at once , telling them , that If they made a good use of it , and kept it a secret , aud the Qvetn ' s honour untouched , they should soon have more . Knox , the reformer , w « s amongst the most active of them , and amongst the most clamorous for some money , and Saddler soon advised the sanding of £ 6000 or £ 8000 more , which was done .

      Elizabeth ' s real design was to undermine Mary ; and when she resorted not only to instigations of Insurrection , but of murder , the object became too apparent to be mistaken . In all those dreadful transactions—tha murder of Hizzio , the murder of Darnley , and other murders , the money and the instigations of Elizabeth are now brought to the daylight . Savage and unrefined the Scottish nobility had always been , but now they were promoting Protestantism , not for any care they had about religion , but to seize on the

      estates of the church . The y hallooed on the preachers as their tools , to denounce the Catholics , and pull down the churches , and then bilked them of their prey , seizing it all to themselves , and setting all the thunders of Knoi , which had " sent tower and temple to the ground , " at defiance . These nobles affected surprise , and expressed a sincere displeasure when the Prebsyterian ministers put in a claim for a share of the monastic and other church property ; and asked them whether "the nobles of Scotland were to turn hod bearers in the building of the kirk . "

      Into the midst of such a set of wolves and hyenas , whetted to still more ravenousness by the hope of Elizabeth's traitor-gold , did the Queen of England see , with a secret certainty of her destruction , her youthful cousin pass , whom she hated alike for her beauty , and for the moral certainty that she or her descendants would possess that power which she now held , and would fain hold firm . The dreadful scenes which followed , were the natural and inevitable results of Elizabeth ' s preparations . How far Mary in her youth and weakness became implicated in the crimes laid to her charge , we will not pretend to say ; but two things are certain , that she both denied them , and demanded , on all occasions , the fullest examination , face to face with her enemies , and that all these enemies were in the pay of Elizabeth . The mur . derers of Jiizzio and Darnley were the paid agents of Elizabeth as those of Cardinal Beatoun , the able head of the Catholic party in Scstland , had been of her father . " The revelation of these atrocious secrets , which had been concealed for centuries amid the dust and cobwebs

      of the State Paper Office , " says Knight ' s History , "is enough to make the villains turn in their graves . " The direct bargaining for the murder of Cardinal Beatoun , by Henry , through , his agents , the Earl of Hertford , Thomas Forcter , and the notorious Sir Ralph Saddler , who spent a long life in the commission of the blackest crimes , is indeed one of the most atrocious things in history . Henry , fancying that all opposition to hie schemes upon that country would cease in Scotland if Cardinal Beatoun was pat out of the way , he entertained the project of assassinating the cardinal . The Saris of Angus and Casillis , with Sir George Douglas , agreed to do this murder if the king would pay for it . There was thereon much negotiating and bargaining carried on between these

      parties and the king , through Thomas Forster and Sir Ralph Saddler . Sir Ralph , in obedience to Henry ' s orders , recommended the assassination as of himself , and told them that the project had not been communicated to King Henry . The ruble Scots were too cunning for that ; they would have the king's commission , and security for the reward , saying , "If the king would have the cardinal dead , and would promise a good reward , " it could soon be done . Henry , like his daughter afterwards , desired the deed to be done , but his Tumour to be saved , and eventually the cardinal was taken off by less scrupulous and less conspicuous assassins , Norman Leslie and his coadjutors , also Henry ' s pensioners , who immediately informed the king of the accomplishment of the deed , and received from him assistance and support .

      Such were the deeds and practices of Elizabeth ' s father , aud such were her own , and carried on by the same agents . The men calling themselves noble on both sides of the border , were never found averse to undertaking base and treacherous commissions like theeei The long account of the horrible persecution of the Catholics , and the infernal . cruelties practised upon thousands of innocent persons we must pass over , merely extracting the following notice of the

      DEATH OF ELIZABETH . The picture of the { last [ days of this truly termagant queen is one of the most dreary , melancholy , but most useful in history . The hard heart and the cunning head were both alike subdued by'disease [ and terrors . She dreaded death , and with what comfort could she look on life ? She , who with the whole heart of a great people with her might have pursued a high and generous career , had pursued a dark , a burrowing , and a bloedy one . She who might have won the everlasting renown of a great queen , had become enly a great tyrant . llnrders-many and dark lay on her soul ; but above all , that which she bad so desired , so steadily for seven , teen long years travailed to compass , and yet would so fain have put from her , that of her cousin , the Queen of Scots . She had torn asunder loving hearts , and had not attached one fathful one to her own . She had been

      roost sickening ]? fumed with adulation , and now knew that all , even Cedlj the son of tne great Barieign , were watching to flee away to her successor—successor ! of all words the most hateful to her soul . " For the last tno days , " writes Beaumont , the French ambassador , " she has been sitting on cushions on the floor , neither rising nor lying down ; her finger almost always in her month ; her eyes fixed on the ground . " Elizabeth has been much lauded for the celebrated Poor Law of her reigB , but it was no sense of justice or humanity on her part that prompted its enactment . The preservation of the country from the lawless rule of the tens of thousands of " sturdy

      beggars , " whom force could not subdue , nor the gallows thin , was the cause of the adoption of that law . In Elizabeth's reign beggars might bo sold into slavery , branded with hot irons , and for a third offence Might be put to death . In the reign of Elizabeth ' s father seventy-two thousand beggars , thieves , and vagabonds , were consigned to the gallows ; and during the reign of Elizabeth the average hangings of these criminals—to say notbing of political and religious victims—was between three and four hundred yearly ! Blessed be " the wisdom of our ancestors , " it must have been "Merrie England " then with a vengeance ! Here is aH attractive portrait of

      JAMES I . James , the first Stuart , -was a ridiculous pedant , and a rdval aes . lie came into the kingdom such an object as had not for ages sat on our throne , and followed by a troop of hungry Scots , ready to tear him and the kingdom to pieces for wealth and honours . With the most inflated pretensions to absolutism and the divine right and supernatural glory of Icings ; he was in his own person as ludicrous nnd disgusting an olritct as his mother had been beautiful . He is described in no very attractive fashion by his countryman , Sir "Walter Scott , in " The Fortunes of Nigel f but his contemporaries represent themselves as overwhelmed with astonishment and aisgust when they firs t saw him ; " at tho very unroyal person and behaviour of the new sovereign , whose legs were too weak to carry his body ; whose tongue was too large for his mouth ; whose eyes were goggle , rolling , and yet vacant ; whose whole appearance and bearing was slovenly and ungainly , while bis unmanly fears wtre betrayed by his wearing a thick

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      wadded doublet , and by many other ridiculous precautions . " James could not move from Holyrood until money was tent to him from England to put himself and family into decent clothes , and to pay the expenses of his journey . Of course there was now an influx of vagabond Scotch courtiers , who speedily became part and parcel of our precious English aristocracy . We must give one specimen of the wise say ings of this pompous James : —

      THE RIGHT DIVINE . As we have remarked , James entered England with the most absurd vauntings of > oyal vanity . He told parliament that they must not begin talking about Usation and grievances , but vote him money for his immc . diate necessities ; and when they appeared in no hurry to do this , he called both houses together , and made his famous speech to them on the god-like attributes of kings . " Kingi , " said he , " are justly eaUed gods ; for they exercise a manner or resemblance of divine power upon earth . For if yeu will consider the attributes of God , you shall see how they agree in the person of a king . God hath power to create or destroy ; to make

      or unmake at his pleasure ; to give lift ) or send death ; to judge all , and to be judged accountable to lions ; to raise low things , and to make high things low at his pleasure ; and to God both body and soul are due . And the like power have kings . They make and unmake their subjects ; they have power of raising and casting down ; of life and of death ; judges over all their subjects , and in all causes , and yet accountable to none but jGod only . They have power to exalt low things , and abase high things , and to make of their subjects , like men of chesB , —a pawn to take a bishop , or a knight ; aud to cry up or down any of their subjects , bb they do their money , " tc . &c .

      This is the most precious definition of royal power which ever was delivered to the world by kingly lips . It is what many a tyrant has thought in his heart , but which few have dared to give utterance to , and none with so much simplicity of a silly man's faith as this second Solomon ; Well might the learned Buchanan , who had educated him , when he was upbraided with turning him out such an ass , reply , " If you had but seen what a fool he was , you would wonder that I made of him an ] thing at all . " It is to James we owe the creation of that ei der of our aristocrats called " baronets . " This title was

      openly sold to any one who would give a , thousand pounds for it . A very honourable origin for that branch of our aristocracy ! The most disgusting rapacity and corruption distinguished the aristocracy of this reign , as a specimen , it may be sufficient to notice the corruption and villainy of the celebrated philosopher , Lord Chancellor Bacon , who for his malpractices was impeached by the House of Commons , dismissed , declared incapable of again holding office , or of sitting in Parliament , and banished beyond the verge of the court , that is , to twelve miles distance .

      In the struggle between Charles I . and the Parliament , the aristocracy supported the King as long as they durst , and when he was at length overthrown , these "hish-blooded" > blesfled indirections . The House of Commons then voted the House of Lords " a nullity , " " dangerous and useless . " Surely England will some day see a repetition of that vote ; but before that can be . we must have a real reform of the House of Commons . Passing over the time of the Commonwealth , In which the country attained to a height of prosperity

      and glory , never previously enjoyed , we come to the period of Cromwell ' s death , when the aristocracy . once more emerging from their hiding holes , with the traitor Monk at their head , effected their release from their obligations to the state , by bargaining to that effect with Charies II . This bargainwas nothing less than to exempt themselves from their feudal obligations , their military tenure , the proceeds of which constituted , in fact , a land tax ; and to throw this burden , not merely from themselves , but upon the shoulders of the unsuspicious people in the shape of the Excise .

      This transaction between the most debauched and unprincipled prince and the selfish aristocracy that restored him , should never be forgotten when the Restoration is spoken of . It should then and for ever be remembered at what cost to the nation it was made . How the proper resources of the crown from the landholders were filched away by those landholders , as the price of the monarch ' s return , put for ever into their own pockets , and the pockets of the people fathomed by the exciseman ' s stick to make up the deficiency ; so tliat the people are actually beari ' g all those burdens for thenristocracy . whioh were the price of all their land !

      But their svlfisli proceedings did not end here . Having removed all tascr . tion from themselves , the amount of which was actually half the revenue of the whole country , and laid it on the people , tkey managed to get from "William III ., a stranger and a foreigner , almost all his crown lands , either in gifts or on long leases , thus making the crown dependent on themselves . 'When it was found that the crown , deprived of the land revenues and of its own estates , could aot carry on the public business , a land tax was obliged to be imposed . But this they took care was but a light one , and in fact for the main part , falling

      on personal property . As their laud grew rapidly in value , through those exemptions and the industry of the people , this tax would have , notwithstanding , grown to something considerable ; and therefore , what did the aristocracy ! They paiied an act in 1797 , declaring that the land tax should only be levied on the original assessment of 'William III . ! Thus , while their land has been rising to tenfold the value of that period , and the taxation on the people has risen from £ 100 , 000 a year , to fifty Motions a-r / ear , the land tax has stood stationary from 1797 , at £ 2 , 037 , 827 !

      The consequences of the " Restoration" were speedily seen in the royal , aristocratical , and priestly vengeance directed against the patriots . The survivors amongst the " regicides" were tortured and put to death , and the country narrowly escaped the eternal infamy of hanging its immortal poet , Milton , for having written his "Defence of the English People . " The dead bodies of Cromwell , Ireton , Bradshaw , and others , were torn from their tombs , dragged on hurdles to Tyburn , hanged , beheaded , and burned under the gallows , the heads being set on the top sf Westminster Hall . The body of Blake , the renownedand honest-hearted Admiral , the first of naval heroes , was subjected to a similar indignity ; so were the bodies of Cromwell ' s mother and daughter . Such is the disgusting and infernal vengeance which restored tyrants delight in ; a lesson to be remembered bv all generations of the sons of men .

      This reign is rendered infamous in the annals of Scotland , by the persecution carried on against the Covenanters , when racks , thumb-screw 3 , iron-boots , gibbets , musketry and cannon , were employed to torture and exterminate thousands of the people ; in this work , the aristocracy produced some noble butchers , as witness "the bloody Claverhouse . " Charles contrived to add considerably to the stock of our " PUKE BLOODED" . 4 RZSTOCIUCY . His court swarmed with mistresses , bastards , pimps , procurers , and parasites of every description . He compelled his wife , Catherine ef Braganza , to associate with his professed mistresses . He had one Chiffinch , the great procurer , and master of his harem ; and while his subjects were groaning and bleeding under the hands of his aristocrats , he was always to be found in the midst of his

      women , and a set of profligate courtiers of similar tastes to his own . The number of his mistresses was prodigi . ous ; but the chief were Mrs . Palmer , formerly a Miss Villiars , with whom he lived in double adulterv towards his own wife , and towards her husband , whom he made Viscount CaBtlemaine , and her finally Duchess of Cleveland ; a Mademoiselle Kerouaille , a French woman , whom he made Duchess of Portsmouth ; Nell Gwynn , an actress ; Mary Davis , and Lucy Walters . The picture of the manners of the court left by the diary writers of the time , are inconceivable in their utter abandonment of morality and sense of decorum . It waB one scene , not only of adulterous , but Of incestuous crimes , in the highest quarters . The people were so enr ; iged that , having pulled down several brothels in the city , they stuck ' up placards , saj ing they would next go and pull down the treat one at "Whitehall , \

      I . m . t & Ml A ¦ Pepjs , in one entry of his diary , say , " The two royal brothers , the king and [ Duke of York , are both making love to the same court woman—the infamous Mrs . Palmer . The Auke hath got my Lord Chancellor ' s daughter with child ; high gambling is common at court , and the people are beginning to open their eyes in astonishment . " In another place he ssyg , "At court things are in a very ill condition , there being bo much emulation , poverty , and the vices of drinking , swearing , and lore amours , that I know not what will be tho end of it but confusion . The clergy so high that all p eople that I meet with do protest against their practice . "

      The kept mistresses of the king , as lie was not truo to his wife , nor to any of them , were also , in general , eqaally free in their practices . Their houses swarmed with children , and al ! these the king was made the reputed father of , and they must be provided for , and married into noble families , and have estates conferred on them . For all this folly , vice , and debauchery , all the money which parliament could grant , or his emissaries and venal judges could wring from the people , was just like so much cash flung into the bottomless pit . Of this bastard brood there are many traces jet iu different families of the aiistocracy ; but the country was especially saddled with three of them as Dukes of St . Albans , Grafton , and Richmond , whose descendants under these names stand aloft in the peerage to this day .

      De Foe had anticipated John Nampdcn , junior : — The Royal Refugee our breed restores With foreign courtiers , and with foreign iy——s ; And carefully re-peopled us again , Throughout his laz . v , long , lascivious reign , With such a blest and True Bom English fry . As much illustrates our nobility . French cooks , Scotch pedlars , and Iialian w s Were all made lords , or lords' progenitors . Beggars and bastards , by his new creation ; Much multiplied the peerage of this nation ' . Who will be all , e ' er one short age runs o'er , As true born lords as those we had before . The crowning infamy of the royal rascal was his becoming the pensioner and paid-tool of Louis XIV . lie receired the price of his treason for many years .

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      thTDfklf& J ^ ^' mini 8 tere . hi 8 brother He ' thilli ' $ £ number of the nobility , inth « TS a L ° ^ nderiand-who , according to 5 l £ » wpJj ^ M 8 ad (! p . " *« k ° a great deal of money -were all pensioners of tho French king . Death op Chablbb II . He was carried off suddenly in the midst of hi . vice . The man who had suffered the kingdom to be torn to pieces with factitious popish plots and Titus Oaten'denunciations of the Papists , and would never lift afinger to save the Catholics from their enemiei , though he laughed in private at the sham plots , —in hit last moments , with the bishops and clergy crowding round his bed , walks them all out , and—takes Ihe last unction from a popish priest !

      " 1 can never forget , " says Evelyn , " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness , gaming , and all dissoluteness , and , as it we ' re , total forgetfulness ef God , it being Sunday evening , which this day se ' night I was witness of ; the king sitting and toying with his concubines , Portsmouth , Cleveland , Marazin , &c . —a French boy singing love gongs in that glorious gallery ; whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basgetrounda large table , a bank of at least J 62090 in gold before them , upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections . Six days after was all in the dust . "

      The last of the Stuarts , James II , now ascended the throne . His reign was short , but infamous and bloody in the extreme . Linked with the name of Judge Jefferies , eternal ignominy is attached to both . The number of victims judicially murdered after the failure of Monmosth ' s insurrection is unknown , but the amount was certainly enormous . The dripping heads were fixed on the churches , the town halls , along the streets , and the highways , in such numbers that the roads could not be travelled for the horror and the stench . Shirly , author of " The Bloody Assize , " writes , " Nothing could be liker hell than these pests—cauldrons hissing , carcasses boiling , p itch and tar sparkling and cloning , bloody limbs boiling , and tearing and mangling . " But the day of retribution was at hand , James hated by the people , luckily also excited the hatred of the church and aristocracy too : —

      Redetermined with a high and rapid hand to restore popery .. He filled the army and all offices with Papists . He sent Palmer , the Earl of Castlemaine , thus created for his wife ' s prostitution to the late king , as ambassador to Rome ; he received the pope ' s ambassador openly in London , Popish bishops and priests were already in Bwwmi thrust into the most lucrative livings In the church ; the parliaments of both Scotland and England were hastily dismissed because they would not submit to this Btate of things ; and Jnmei was come to the point of ruling without a parliament . But he might have known that neither the church nor the aristae , racy , much less the people , would tolerate tbis . The people dreaded the Papists for their past terror , and the king ' s bloody campaign under Jeffries gave them an awful warning of what would be their fate under a thoroughly papistical power . Lords and prisstt and bishops were not likely to give up quietly their good things and offices to the greedy swarm of Papists .

      He commanded the clergy to publish in the churches his " Declaration of Indulgence , " which would have let in at once all the broods and harpies of popery . They refused . He imprisoned some of the bishops for their obstinacy , and the judges acquitted them . The match was setto the train of excitement which was laid all over the kingdom , —through every town , and into every Protestant house , and—the Revolution was come .

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      TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE . September . Edinburgh : W . Tait . Prince's Street . London Simpkin and Marshall . " The Whigs , like the Bourbons , have returned from their exile , having learned nothing and forgotten nothing . The same faults which shattered the Grey Ministry , and sapped the Melbourne , are strong in them as ever . " Such are the opening sentences of an article on the "Politics of the Month . " There is another party , the " Philosophical Radicals , " who , judging of them by this , their monthly oracle , appear to have " learned nothing and forqotten notbing . " Thus , Tait says , "The Poor Law Commission has been proved to be inefficient in its personnel , but no one thinks of rescinding the New Poor Law ; new Commissioners will be appointed , who can avail themselves of the talent and experience of the Secretary and Assistant Commissioners , and a better organization will be given to it . " A nice man

      this to write commentaries on the " Politics of the Month , " who can gravely assert that " no one thinks of rescinding the Neiv Poor Law . " Why the man must be " clean daft . " The great mass , and immense majority , of the English people , demand the rescinding of the New Poor Law ; and Tait will find that not the least of the formidable obstacles the Whigs will have to contend with at the opening of the next session , will be this same " demand , " expressed through the voice of a national agitation . We turn from Tait ' s politics—the philosophy of selfishness—to the more congenial matter of this number . George Gifillan ( no favorite of ours for his c alumnies on Byron ) has an article on the Sheffield Poet , James Montgomery , in the course of which he pays some very pretty compliments to Mary Ilowitt . By the bye , Mr . Gilfillan does not notice that " spicy" production of Montgomery ' s in his Hot youth , when George the Third was king ,

      —the " Church and Warming Pan . " We intend to reprint this literary curiosity in the Star , as soon as we can find room . That De Quincey ' s ( opium-inspired ) article on the " System of the Heavens as revealed by Lord Rosse ' s Telescope , " is a piece of very " powerful" writing , we of course are bound to admit on the faith of the author ' s name ; but if any one will tell us what it all means , we shall feel obliged to our enlightener . The " postscript" to the article , like that to a lady ' s letter , we can partly comprehend ; at least , we have an idea what the writer is driving at , and we feel strongly inolined to have a set-to with

      him . Such an encounter would , however , commit us to a discussion not suitable to our columns ; we , therefore , beg to hand the " Opium-eater" over to our friends of the Xtasoner ; he w a fit subject for their dissection . The " Feast of the Poets" contains some choice morsels of poetry . There are several interesting " Reviews , " including one of the " Rovelations of Austria , " a work we shall have to review in two or three week's hence . " Rings and Posies " will be a favourite article with the readers of Tait this month : we should like to extract from its rich store of beauties , but cannot find room .

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      THE UNION MAGAZINE . September . London : Barker and White , 33 , Fleet Street . There are two or three good articles in this number , but there are others beneath criticism . Amongst the good articles we have been gratified by reading the brief and pleasing " RuminatioHS by the Roadside . " We quote from some pretty verses TO CERTAIJT FLOWERS , PLUCKED IN THE GARDEN OF WILLIAM AND MARY

      HOWITT . Fairest and sweetest of the floral race , Ye shall remind me in the time to come Of the few pleasant hours that fled apace , While I sojourned within your happy home . Ye shall remind me of the beaming looks Of ber 1 long had wishe'l to gaze upon , Associate in my mind with birds and brooks , And flowers , and all things fair beneath the sun Ye shall remind me of the open smile , And manly voice of him to whom I oft lied listened iu imagination , while He pictured wood and vale , and grove and croft , And all the varied scenes of rural life ; And how the seasons change and pass awoy , Each with its own peculiar beauty rifo ; And stories told ef many a by-gone day : Of the kind welcome of this gifted pair , He the true man , the perfect woman she , And of that gentle , winsome daughter fair . Sweet flowers , as memories I shall cherish yc ! II . G . A .

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      Sunday evening a severe thunder storm was experienced at Liverpool , Manchester , and other districts of Yorkshire , and Lancashire . At Bradford the storm burst with great violence , and it is currently stated that one or more lives have been destroyed by the lightning . In Manchester , at Rochdale , and at some neighbouring towns , even so far south as Macclesjield , the lightning flashed at intervals of half a minute , from seven o'clock a . m . till ten o'clock a . m . On Monday the atmosphere continued sultry , and a tremendous storm of thunder and lightning , accompanied with hail and rain , visited Bradford . At Vudsey , four miles from Bradford , Mrs . Dyson , the wife of Mr . John Dyson , whilst attending a nephew and niece , orphans , both sickly children , almost in the last stage of consumption , was herself struck dead by the lightning , ami several panes of glass were broken by the electric fluid .

      Absence of Mixd .-A butcher of Garstang , on returning last Tuesday from Hornby fair , seem to have eotso be-musedon his journey as to mistake his nonev for a fine Scots' licifer , and he accordingly led it to the slaughter house , knocked it down in a business-like manner , stuck it in due form , and began skinning it ; nor would he then have discovered his mistake had not some neighbours , in passing , perceived what he was about , and caused him , by force as well » s entreaty , to desist from his wild adventurcs . —1 ' rcston Chronicle .

      Execution in France . —Jeannic Pcyvieux , who wrs recently condemned to death for the murder of her husband , underwent her sentence on Wednesday last at l ' erigucux , in presence of an immense concourse of spectators . She refused to be carried to the scaffold in a cart , nnd walked there with a firm at ° p . Before ascending the steps she knelt down and received the benediction of the chaplain , aud in aniomcut wasnomore .

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      Metbopolitan Mortality . — The tables of births and deaths registered in the metropolis , for the week ending Saturday last , gives the deaths during the week at 889 . In 1843 the number was 909 , so that notwithstanding the increase in population during the last three years , there are fewer deaths by 20 last week , than there was in the corresponding week of 1843 . The greatest number of deaths , namely 128 , is from diarhwa . The next greatest number , 124 , is from consumption . Thirteen persons are returned as having died from cholera The Exiles op _ Lambeth . —Lambeth has become a sort of Siberia since the stopping up of Westminster Bridge , for there is now literally no communication between the inhabitants of the Northern shore , and the transpontine people . All means of social intercourse are completely cut off , and Astley ' i Amphitheatre might as well be on Salisbury Plain as far as there is any possibility of getting to it from

      any part of Westminster . Lambeth is in a state of utter desolation and the principal street reminds one of a stradu in Pompeii . A civil war might break out and be all over before any one on this side of the Thames could know anything about it . The people are becoming quite isolated from the rest of their fellow-subjects , and the interests of civilization are severely suffering . Already Lambeth is a week behind us in the polite arts , and every day that the blockade continues will send them backward 24 hours towards the barbarism which it has taken centuries to get out of . We should not at all be surprised at hearing through some circuitous channel that a provisional governmen t has been established in the New-cut , and that the whole of the Marsh has thrown off its allegiance . During the stoppage of Westminster Bridge , the Lambethites are aliens in geography if not in blood , and we can scarcely expect submission where protection is not afforded . — Punch .

      Tub Prussian Constitution Lost or Stolen , thb Prussian Constitution . It was done up in a small parcel , and was dropped about the 3 rd of last month . It was last seen at the Sans Sonci , Potsdam , where it had been lying on the shelf for years . It is marked '' Anno Domini , 1816 , " and has a Royal seal to it , with the motto of " Sie Sollen es nicht haben . " As the contents are of no value to any but the owner , a small reward will be given for its restoration to " Frederick , Royal Palace , or Greek Theatre , Berlin . " For fear of accidents , it had better be labelled " Fragile . "—Punch .

      Sleep * Veterans . —A curious notice is posted on the chapel door of Greenwich Hospital , stating that complaint has been made that many of the pen-Bioners are in the habit of sleeping during divine service . The boatswains are , therefore , directed to wake them , unless they are very old and infirm , and especially during the reading of the creed , and to report all such offenders to the captain of the week . An Usbpdl M . P . —Last Thursday morning , the passengers on board the William Jolliffe steam-boat , on her passage from London for Yarmouth , were informed by the captain and stewardess that they might shortly expect an addition to their number , one of the female passengers having been taken with the pains of labour . The unexpected addition at length took place , a well-known medical Member of Parliament acting as doctor and midwife on the occasion . Both are " doing as well as can be expected , "

      Omnibus Statistics . —The total number of omnibuses now traversing the streets of London is 1 , 490 , giving employment to very nearly 4 , 000 hands . The earnings of these vehicles vary very much , on some roads being as high as £ i per day , and on others as low as £ 2 ; but taking the lowest average , we shall then find that there is spent in omnibus rides in and around the metropolis , the large sum of £ 2980 per day . Persons can now be conveyed as great a distance for sixpence as would formerly cost five times the amount ; besides , the whole is so regulated

      that there is a comfortable means of conveyance ready at all hours , from eight o ' clock in the morning till twelve o'clock at night . to all parts ot the metropolis , and for miles beyond it in all direction . A Wise Man at Favlt . —On Tuesday evening Ralph Lowe , of CheBterfield . a professor of the art of fortune telling , had his pocket lighted of eighteen sovereigns by two of the frail fair of Chesterfield . They were taken to prison but no traces of the gold could be found . It is rather awkward when an adept in describing where the lost property of others has taken flight to , is not able to obtain a clue to his

      own . The Government Offices at Westminster . —It has now been determined that the fronts of the Treasury and Home Office shall be altered to accord with the great improvements made at the adjoining Government offices towards Downingstreet . Men are engaged in erecting the necessary scaffolding for the above purpose . Another Waterloo Exile . —A confidential friend of the Duke of Wellington has written to us to state that the Hero of a Hundred Fights has determined upon leaving England . De says this resolution has cost the Duke a deal of pain , but he has been driven to it by the statues which are being erected to him in all parts of London . He says he cannot endure being made ridiculous any longer . He attributes theso frequent attempts to reduce him in the estimation of his countrymen to the vindictiveness of the French . — Punch .

      Expulsion of Gas from Mines , —A method of expelling carbonic acid gasftom pits , mines , and reservoirs , has lately been projected in France by Mone . Faucille . It consists in discharging among the gas a volume of steam , whereby the gas is in part expelled and in part absorbed , by the water brought into minute subdivision while the steam is being condensed . A destructive fire broke out at Leipsic , on the evening of the 29 th ult , by which several booses were destroyed ; in addition five persons were killed and five wounded . The fire was still burning on the 30 th , when the account left .

      An express train has been established between London and Newcastle , The distance each way is run in nine hours and a half . In connection with it a train now runs on the Newcastle and Carlisle line , which makes the time of transmit between London and Carlisle , just thirteen hours . —Carlisle Patriot . A farmer , near Northallerton , lately pulled a single stem of oats , of the Tartary kind , on which there were 210 good seeds . "Love is Blind . "—A legacy was lately left to a young lady , one of two or three sisters , resident on the banks of the T , in this country ; and , when her good fortune became known , a sly swain " fell in love" with her money . He accordingly went a wooing . For a wonder the " course of true love ran remarkably smooth . " His suit prospered , his hand

      was accepted , and in due time he was a happy man . " But , alas ! he had " married in haste , to rue at leisure ; " he was the husband of the portionless bride — he espoused the wrong sister . — Galtshead Observer . Ak Ill-used Bachelor . —A bachelor is published in the papers of Porkpolis for haying refused to pay his washerwoman ' s bill . He publishes a card stating that he refused to _ pay because she washed all the white out of his shirts . —Yankee Paper . A young married " Princess , " daughter of a ex-King , eloped from Paris on Wednesday night with a Dutch painter . —Globe .

      Bite of an Adder . —Last week a pic-nic party on Burdon-hill , Charnwood Forest , weregrealty alarmed by the fact that an adder had bitten tho driver of the vehicle which conveyed them hither . The reptile buried its fangs in the man's body , to which it clung with such pertinacty , that some time elapsed ere it could be secured . The poor fellow was conveyed into Leicester with all speed in groat agony , his hand , arm , and part of his body being fearfully swollen . He is , however , recovering . Charnwood Forest and its neighbourhood are remarkable for producing adders . Scarcely a week passes during the warm weather but some are captured .

      Religions ix the Bkihsh Empire . —It is a startling yet indisputable fact , that if we decide accord , ing to numbers , Paganism must be pronounced to be the religion of the British empire . The numerical order of the four great religious distinctions prevailing in the empire is , 1 st . Paganism ; 2 nd . Mahomedanism ; 3 rd . Protestantism ; 4 th . Romanian ) . EsCArE Or A PjiI 8 ONEH FROM GlI / TSrUR-STnEUT Comptkr . —On Saturday , between one and two o ' clock , a prisoner , named Dennis Shine , effected his escape from this prison . It appears that he was

      employed to assist the workmen in making some repairs now Koing on , and while the 3 were gone to dinner , Shine availed himself of a ladder which they had left in the yard , and contrived to scale tho wall and escape over the roofs of the neighbouring houses . He is a desperate fellow , who was tried at the last London Sessions , and convicted of the commission of a series of ruffianly assaults at a house in Fridaystreet , lie is described as having light hair , fair complexion , stoutly built , five feet nine inches and a half high , and about 21 . lie has not yet been heard of .

      Turnip Disease . —We regret exceedingly to learn from many farmers who hare attended the Oxford market this day ( Saturday } , that asomewhat similar disease to that which has been raging amongst the potatoes , has manifested itself in many parts of the county amongst the turnips , whatever ' is the cause of one there is little dou bt is the cause of the other . Tha turnips are struck in a similar manner to the potato . The leaves first become affected , and the disease fast spreads right into the heart of tho turnip , which in a very short time bocomes so rotten , that a person may easily run their linger through it . and a very offensive smell arises from it when in this state . At present we have heard of no remedy being applied to stop the disease . Great fears arc entcrtiincd that the turnip crops will suffer very alarmingly from it . Within this last week or ten days , the turnip fields in the more immediate neighbourhood of Oxford never looked better , but we regret to say . that in many of them unfavourable symptoms of the disease has made its appearance .

      The late Miss Linwood . — -A marble monument to the memory of Miss Lin wood has just been erected in the church of St . Margaret ' s , at Leicester .

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      Abhbceton . —On Saturday night . last , the 5 th instant , an alarming accident occurred at the Marley Tunnel , on the South Devon Railway . From the information receded , it appears that at about ten o clock in the night several workmen were engaged in removing the centre and uprights that had been used in erecting the arch over the tunnel , as all the masonry was considered perfectly safe . MelaHcholy to relate , about fifty yards of the arch fell in , anil buried four men , and others received injuries Several hours elapsed before the bodies could be extricated , and the poor fellows were literally cut to pieces by the heavy mass which fell on them . Bartholomew Fair , —Thi ? fair terminated on Sa . turday night , as it commenced , without much

      additional noise or bustle in the locality in which it is held . There were altogether but nine stalls , which were devoted to the sale of gingerbread , and whose profits were anything but large ; and only two publie houses opened rooms for the former customary revelry of balls . The only incident ^ the fair , was the seizure on Friday of some ) gambling tables , in the yard of an adjacent public-house , by the police . Extkaordinat Intbepiwit . —A correspondent in Swansea gives us the particulars of a remarkably courageous action performed by a Mr . Thomas Shepherd , lately a chemist in that town } who , returning to his lodgings on last Tuesday evening , was surprised to find his family , and that of Mr . Rowein whose

      , house he lodged , shut up in different rooms , from which they were afraid to emerge , in consequence of a dog belonging to Mr . Rowe having suddenly become rabid . Mr . Shepherd instantly determined to attempt the destruction of the furious animal , and having provided himself with a heavy hammer , and guarded his hands , he scaled the garden wall , and watching his opportunity , threw some bed furniture over the dog , and while entangled in it , grasped him by the throat with his left hand , and inflicting seve » ral heavy blows on his head with the hammer in his right , speedily dispatched the ferociouB animal , to the great delight of the household , and his neighbours . — Sunday Paper .

      The Potato Disease in Canada . —It will be seen from / the following extract of a letter from Montreal , received by the ifioeraia , that the disease in the potato crop exists in Canada as well as in this country . —! 'Montreal , 12 th of August , 1846 . —I have received your letter of the 17 th alt . from Glasgow . I have no doubt that your anticipations in regard to the potato disease will be realised : it is again raging in this neighbourhood . I am cutting the haulm off mine . I have noticed the turnip fly , or a fly very like it , quite thick upon the leaves or vines of the potato tais summer ; the leaves are completely riddled by them . I have been wondering whether these insects could have any effect in producing the disease . " We believe that these insects wherever they are found , are the consequences and not the causes of disease . By the accounts from the United States , it appears that the disease is as destructive there as it is in Canada or Europe . —Liverpool Times .

      Necessary Safeguards . —Every seat , stool , &c , made of the American steamer Massachusetts is a life * boat , of iron with air tight compartments , and adapted : to swim , even with the weight of a man . [ Why does the British Government not enforce the adoption of similar precautions on board every British steamer ?] A Modest Editor . —We have tasted Dick ' s bottled Edinburgh Ale , sold by Messrs . D . Tellett & Co ., and can pronounce it excellent ; a good hearty swig at it this weather is worth all the cold water of the Amazons , whatever teetotallers may say . When we have half-a-dozen fine long-necked bottles sent us , as in this case , for review , we get on with some spirit ; and if any one has a house to let , allow us to live in it for a year , rent free , and then we will be able to tell the public whether it is a " desirable residence" or not . The country at large know not what they lose by being stingy with newspaper edip toM . —Manx Liberal .

      A Central Sun . —Dr . Madler , the professor of astronomy at Dorpat , has published the result of the researches pursued by him uninterruptedly during the last sixty years , upon the movements of the socalled fixed stars . These more particularly relate to the star Alcyone , ( discovered by him ) the brightest of the seven bright stars of the group of the Pleiades . This star , he states , to be the central sun of all the systems ot stars known to us . He gives its distance from ihe boundaries of our system at thirty four million times the distance of the sun frem our earth ; a distance which it takes 537 years for light to traverse . Our sun takes 182 million years to accomplish its course round this central body , whose mass is 117 million times larger than the sun .

      Storm in the Metropolis . — A singular storm visited themetropolis on Sunday . About noon , after a hot , hazy morning , the sun burst forth , and while shining brightly , a sharp clap of thunder was heard over the northern portion of the metropolis . The thunder continued at intervals until past four , and was accompanied by exceedingly partial showers . At Islington , it rained very heavily during nearly an hour , whilst on the south side of the City-road scarcely a drop fell . A severe shower came down in the

      immediate neighbourhood of Seymour-street , Somer ' a Town , whilst the back © f Mornington crescent , scarcely a stone ' s throw distant , was left perfectly dry . Along the line of the Richmond Railway the fall was copious and continuous , whilst in Chelsea , on the north Bide of the Thames , no wet whatever was observed . There was another storm , on Monday , at the western suburbs of the metropolis , which appears to have been very severely felt at Windsor , and otker places to the west and north-west of London .

      Sudden Death op a Tbeithical Pbhpobmeh . — Mr . Patrick Sutcliff , who has been for many years engaged at the Dublin Theatre , was a few mornings since found dead in his bed . AtAEMisa Storm at Windsor . —Shortly before three o ' clock , on Monday afternoon , one of the most fearful storms of thunder and lightning , accompanied by torrents of rains ever experienced in Windsor , passed over the town from the south-east , and lasted for upwards of an hour and a half . The lightning was ot the most vivid character—flash followed flash—and peal succeeded peal , without inter--mission , during the continuance of the storm , For the last two days heat had been most oppressive .. The thermometer on that day at one o'clock , in the shade , stood as high as 82 . Thunder Stohm . —Rochester Sept . 7 . —Yesterday

      morning was close and sultry , with a cloudless sky up till noon day , shortly after which some clouds made their appearance from the southward , followed by a few drops of rain . To this succeeded ^ dark threatening clouds of , ' a slaty hue , projecting forward their white heads , and the thunder pealed loudly , but the clouds bore away to the westward , and we escaped the effects of the storm . On the road to Gnivesend ,. the storm burst with great fury , doing considerable damage to the crops and everything within its range . At the Rev . Mr . Hindle ' s , opposite the Falstaff Inn , on Gad's Hill , where the hail fell in torrents , some of the windows were broken , and in the greenhouse upwards of 200 squares of glass were destroyed . Some of the pieces of ice measured nearly three inches in length , and from the quantity which fell , " laid thick on the ground for some time after the storm had abated .

      Seeing tue Invisible . — A manufacturing wireworker , in an advertisement in the Times newspaper , invites the public to come and sec his invisible wire fences TuoRoucnLY G « EEN .... An innkeeper advertises in the Derby Mercury for " a thorough vegetable cook I " A Railway Smoking Saloon . —Within the last t ' e » v days a novelty has been introduced on the Eastern Counties Railway , in the running of a very handsome carriage , termed a smoking or excursion saloon . Its extreme length is forty feet , the body about thirty feet , the ends being converted into a kind of open lounge . It runs on six wheels . The seats extend the full length of the sides , and are handsomely covered with Morocco leather . A mahogany table occupies the centre ; the entire fitted with selt ' -balaneins lamps . The sides are lighted

      by eight plate glass windows of unusual size , while the ends are fitted up with four plates of lookingglass . Old and Young Ireland . — " Conciliation Hall " is carrying on a most uncouciliatory war against the faction newspaper ; for not only is that paper erased from the list oi' papers circulated b y the association , but the committee have announced that wherever the Nation is taken in , all future supplies from the repeal treasury will bo stopped , and the refractory reading-room and its members disassoci ated from all connection with the liberal patriots of Burgh Quay . What a sample of the liberty we should enjoy in Ireland under a Repeal Parliament and Government ? It begins to be seriously thought that" Dan" has sold the pass in earnest , and is really seeking to do all the despite he can to the Repeal cause ; in short , to undermine and blow up tne edifice which he had veared himself .

      Water in London . —The metropolis is supplied with water by eight companies . This daily supply of the whole amounts to 30 , 000 , 000 gallons ; ' and the houses to which this vast quantity of water is distributed are 250 , 000 , or on average of Hi gallons to each house . Curious Application to a Magistrate . —At Clcrkenwell Police Court on Tuesday , an old woman , a fruit seller , who had been deprived . of her basket by the police , applied to the magistrate to give her two shillings to buy a new one , aa hoi only means of support was selling fruit . Mr . Combe , the magistrato , ordered an officer to go with her to the workhouse to make inquiries into her case .

      Child Diwiti . no . —On Tuesday information was received by the police , that a female jntant , aprwently four days old , had been aband oned by ita unnatural parent in the passage of the house ot Ao .. i J , New-street , Golden-square , in the o ccupationt ot Mr . I ' enninoton , a broker . The child was . wrapi cd 1 in an old blanket , is of fair complexion , blue ojes , and ^ J iS -ROVAL So .-Messw . Bakers , Beaufortstreet Cheben . have now in their possession a Clnna wUkt has had the unprecedented number of sixty pigs at three farrows , viz 17 . 19 , ami , lastly , Jl , 21 of which and the sow are alive aud doing well .

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      September 12 , 1846 , THE NORTHERN STAR . i

      Severe Thunder Storm And Loss Of Life.—On

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 12, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1383/page/3/