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SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . SO . XXX . A Song addressed to THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS , On the occasion of their First 'Annual Festival to celebrate the Anniversary of tie French JtepuHic , at the White Conduit Tavern , April 2 lst , 1846 . Air— " JuH long Stpie . " All hail , Fratfrnal Democrats , Ye friends of freedom hail , ' Whose noble object is—that base Despotic power shall fail . Chobus . —That mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong , Snail from this earth be hurled , And peace , goodwill , and brotherhood , Extend throughout the world . Associated to proclaim The equal rights of man ,
Progression ' s army ! firm , resolved , On ! forward lead the van . Till mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong , Shall from this earth be hurled . And peace , goodwill , ana brottiertjooa , Extend throughout the world . To aid this cause we here behold , British and French agree , Spaniard and German , Swiss and Pole , With joy the day would spe . When mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong "Will from this ear th be hurled .
And peace , goodwill , and brotherhood . Extend throughout tV . e -world . TVe now are met to celebrate The deeds of spirits brave , Who struggled , fought , and bled , and died , Their misrul'd land to sare . For mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong . From France they nobly hurled . And woald have spread Democracy Thronghont this sea-girt world . Though Hrgs snd priests might then combine To crush sweet liberty .
We tell them vote that thej must bow , That roan shall yet > e free . That mitres , thrones , misrule and Wrong , Shall from this earth be hnrled . And pence , goodwill , and brotherhood , Extend throughout the woild . Oh ! may that period soon arrive , When Icings will cease to be , And freedom and equality Extend from sea to sea . Then mitres , thrones , misrule and wrong , Will from this earth be hurled . And peace , goodwill , and brotherhood , Shall reign throughout the world . "Somers Town , Jobs Abnoxt . September , 1316 .
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THE ARISTOCRACY OF ENGLAND . A I 1 ISTORT FOR . THE PEOPLE . By Johs Hampdbs , Junior . London : Chapman , Brothers , 121 , Newgate Street ; Effingham Wilsen , Royal Exchange . | No . III . ] Oar author divides his history into three divisions ; the first commencing with the conquest , and ending with the Wars of the Roses , during the chief portion -of which time the aristocracy were the dominant power in the State , overawing , and even unmaking and making the kings of England , and oppressing -the people at their will . In thesecond division , during the reiens of the Tudors and Stuarts , the regal poVer achieved a complete triumph over the aristocratic : the nobles were humbled to the dust : but
for this humiliation they indemnified themselves by plundering both church and people , which , the better tcenable themselves to do . they hesitated at no act of baseness to conciliate the crown as the parasites , jackals , and bravos of the ruffianly monarchs of the Tudor and Stuart lines . We now come to the third epo-h of this history of rascality , which the author calis the "Mole-period of the Aristocracy , " in a ! lu 3 iOD to their undermining system of sapping the liberties of the country , and the underground policy jthey have acted upon for getting into their own hards the emoluments of the state and the wealth of the people . This third period of the aristocracy commenced in "J 688 , when they found , after two revolutions , that the high-handed , bullying system , would no longer serve them . It is superfluous to add , that thi 3 third period of aristocratic misrule has not yet terminated .
' * With the rerolation of 1038 commenced the reign of humbug . " All power wag declared to emanate from the people ; the constitution wa 3 declared free and glorious ; and John Bui ) , tickled with this stuff , resigned himself to the tender mercies of the aristocracy , who have from that time more tightly bound and successfully fleeoed him , than the same class were able to do even in the days ai&k ' mgjaaking Warwick , and Lord-Protector Somerset . The parties of Whigs and Tories now started into being ; and these two make-believe factions have continued to govern the country between them , down to the present hour . Our author denominates Whis and Tory the 'Locust" and the " Palmer-worm ;" and , quoting the Bible , says , — "That which the
palmer-norm hath left , hath the locust eaten ; and that which the locust hath left , hath the canker-• wonn eaten ; and that which the canker-worm hath left , hath the caterpillar eaien . '— Joel , c . L , 4 . Which , being interpreted , meaneth : ' That which the Tory hath lift , hath the Whig eaten ; and that ¦ which the Whig hath left hath the par « on enteih ; which the parson hath left , hath the lawyer eaten . '" The reign of William the III ., exhibits the usual rapacity on the part cf the courtiers and aristocracy generally . The Whigs loaded themselves with grants of forfeited estates in Ireland , and crown property in England . In this reign many of the aristocracy
played the part of base traitors , by keeping up a correspondence ] with the expelled " Jamas , at the same time that they were in the service of William , and receiving British pay . In Anne ' s reign the country was governed by bed chamber women ; and .-is usual , the vilest corruption was in the ascendant , hut that corruption was perfected in the succeeding reign under the management of Walpolc , who made it hi 3 boast that " every man had his price . " A spechuen i 3 given by Dr . King , in his Political and Literary Anecdotes , of the masterly manner in which Waloole silenced any opponent by the logic of his country ' s
money-BUrCfG TOTES IS THE HOUSE OF COMMOXS . lie wanted to carry a question in the House of Com * icons , to which he knew that there would be great opposition , an < l which was disliked by aome of Jiis own dependents . As he was passing through the Court of Request * he met a member of the contrary party whose avarice he imag ined would not reject a large bribe . He took him aside and said , "Such a question comes on this dav-gfre me ? W ) le > ^ here s a bank-bill for r-7000 " which he put into his hands . The member made him tbisansw « r , " Sir Robert , you have lately served
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• ome of my particular friends and when my wife was last at court , the k ; ng was very gracious to her , which must have happened at jour instance . I should , therefore , think myself very ungrateful ( piittinp the bill into hit pocket ) if I were to refuse the favour you are now . pleased to ask me . " Walpole ' s successor declared " that it was impossi-We to govern England , but by corruption . " On this principle all succeeding administrations , Whi » and Tory , have acted most faithfully . " In the reign of William the III . was began those continental wars , in which this country was almost continuall y engaged down to the year 1815 . The folly of the nation in submitting to these wara , and the knavery of the aristocracy in prompting them , is forciblyjshown in the following extracts : JV j . V *• 4 _ a ° _
ARISTOCRiTIC-MADB WARS . . The aristocracy may be said to have lived and fattened on the blood of tha whole world . Wars of all kinds , and for all pretences , warsfor the balance of power in Europe ; warsof agnre-sion and slaughter of : he nativesin America , India , and Africa , have been a source of maintenance to the vast broods of the aristocracy , who did not find tho whole land rental of England enough for them . We have fought for anybody , and everybody—for any thing or for nothing ; for Germans , Spaniards , Portuguese , Dutch , Belgians i for any people that were too cowardly or effeminate tO take Care Of theUKeKes ; for the maintenance of despotism and popery all over the continent ; and for this John Bull not only has had to pay , but jet owes a debt of eight hundred millions . The most amazing thing xn
nature Is , that through all this long reign of deception and plunder , debt and degradation , the English people—a most active , matter-o f-fact , and intelligentpeople—should have been deluded to the ruin of their finances , and to exclusion from the constitution , by the mere aristocratic bird—calls of glory ; liberty , and a national constitution , the envy and adrairationof the world 1 BuiTevery senBlble man who looks well in to the actual state of facts will see that this constitution has long ceased to exist ; that there is no such thing as the British constitution according to the popular idea of it : that the people have no house , and the monarch little or no political existence . We will go
a little nearer , and trace some of the most strikingme ; ins by which this grand delusion has to this hour been so successfully kept up , and by which the aristocracy hare contrived in reality to possess themselves of everything in this country ; and of the church and the state ; the House of Lords and House of Commons ; the sovereignty in the cabinet and the possession of all offices ; the army and the navy -, the colonies abroad and the land at home ; in a word , of every thing in England but the debt which they have bestowed on the people , and le ! t them to pay , and the trade which they despise , yet continue to extract the sweets of through the medium of taxation , in office salaries and pensions .
The eighteenth chapter is devoted to an exposure of the nature and cost of our wars since the revolution , and a most valuable exposure it is . From this chapter we shall cull two or three extracts : — WHr THERE WAS XO " DEBl " BEFORB THE RSTOMTTWf . WHV WE HAVE A '' DEBT" NOW . And here let us again impress it firmly on the mind and memory of the reader , that before the revolution we had no public debt . With al the long , mighty , and bloody wars in which England had bsfore been engagedwhether the crown and aristocracy were tearing the vitals of the land , or seeking for fflory , plunder , and fresh territory in France—we had never accumulated a debt . And why ? For the simple reason , that till that period the aristocracy had to pay for the war charges as well as all others : and had they accumulated a deht , they
knew that they would have to pay that too . But the infamous barg ain with Charles If . for his restoration , which we have explained , altered this situation of things altogether . The aristocracy threw the burther . - . from thems Ives upon the people , and then it became not only a matter of indifference how much was sp ^ nt , and how much debt was incurred , but an actual matter of proSt . for the more war the more employment f <>* Ihein und theirs ; the more expenditure the more peculation . Accordingly William of Orange had not been lonj : on the throne before the continental war , into which his accession led us . began to be wry expensive ; and in the eight year of his Mun . that is , in 1 C 96 , bis ministers proposed the sure and bold scheme of creating adbt ; that is , of forestalling the year ' * revenue by borrowing money upon state counters or Exchequer Utters , bearing interest , an secured on supplies noted in succeeding tc $ sk > ni .
This was the commencrment and hrst creation of that mode of forstalling the revenues which has grown to so enormous an extent , and produced a debt of eight hundred millions in less thau a hundred and fifty years , To plsce the selfish care of the aristocracy on the one hand , an < i its selfish n-cklesiness on ») iu uiher in tlifir triilitrlit ; its rare t >> avoid losulinsc itwlf with debt , nliile it was btiuj . d to pay it . and its care to load the people with debt when the people became bound to pay it , and they , the aristocracy , were for the most part the receivers of and gainers by it;—let any man only reflect for a moment , that from the hour that the aristocracy came into this conntry with the Conquerer , till the revolution , C 22 years , they fought and scrambled , evenforthe crown , but shunned a debt actually far more than they shunned the
devil ; but , from the revolution to the end of the last war , 127 rears , they spent three thousand three hundred and eighty-three millions in war taxes , and piled up a debt of eight hundred and thirty / our millions ! If any poor man , ay , or any man , wants to know how this wicked waste and extravagance has affected him , and does hourly affect him and his children , let him look at the cost of articles of life before the debt began , and what tba * cost is now . Let him trace the growth of the debt and the growth of the cost of the necessaries of life , and be will see that ra ; has kept pace exactly with the other . He will gee that for eve * -y man murdered by the aristocracy in the continental wars , and for every pound of debt laid on the nation to pay for it : Providence , with a rigorous hand of retribution , has laid on the lires of us . who
suffered this to go on , a tax of dearness and scarcity . We have suffered our aristocracy to destroy life by millions abroad by our money , and the means life to us , tbepermitters , have been made , in a direct and progressive ratio , more difficult of access . Wheat , that in 16 S 3 was abaut 46 s . per quarter , and sometimes much less not more than 263 ., gradually mounted with the debt , till , in 1793 , it valued 127 s ., and at the end of the war was still , with all our increased foreign supplies , 1163 . Heat rese fromlia . pe * pound to 9 d . and Is . ; butter from 5 d . to ls . 6 d . and 2 s ; cheese from Id . and 3 d . to 6 d . and Is . ; peas from 2 d . a bushel , till , in 1800 , they were 13 s . 5 il . ; beer from 5 s . 10 d . a barrel to 20 s . 4 id . ; candles from S-i . Cd . per dozen pounds to 10 s . 6 d . ; coals from 31 s . per chaldron to 51 s . 7 d . ; shoes from 4 s , to 12 * . ; clothing , and all other articles , in like proportion , especially house rent . SUBSIDIZING CONTINENTAL CUT-THROATS . If the history of our continental subsidies and their application ceuld be written in its naked reality , and as it is ridiculed on the continent , it would present a revolting and humiliating scene . The hard-earned money wrung from our own brave and hard working people , till they rose in their misery , and even threatened king and government with destruction , went to be divided among't a host of despots and barem slaves . It went to pamper the sloth and Inst of whole styes of great Westphalian boars , and other German swine . It went
to pay the debts and mistresses of men that were loathed by their own people as monsters of sensual filth , and gravelling petty princes who had not a soldier to bring into the field , such was the ignorance or the criminal carlessless of our Government , re . ceived large sums with which they satisfied greedy concubines and long-waiting creditors , and then plunged into still deeper sensual mire , in reliance on the lavish , unscratinisiug and exbaustless subsidies of England . The stories of such facts that are circulated in Germany , are painful to English ears .
Those princes that did bring men into the field , such as the Hessians , Urunswickers , &c , —the Menschen-VerkaUfer , or Man-sellers , as they are styled by their own people , were rapacious beyond all example . During the American war , we had employed these Hessians , Brunswickers , anil the like , at a cost that excited general indignation . Besides paying £ 7 10 s . for every man , the Duke of Brunswick , who furnished only 4081 men , hud an annual subsidy of £ 15 . 519 . The Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel , who furnished 12 , 000 men , had £ 10 , 281 a-year ; the hereditary Prince of Hesse , for his miserable quota of 633 men , had his £ 0 , 000 a-year ! And besides this , we were bound to defend their territories from all attack Xay , besides their annual subsidies , Brunswick was to receive double subsidies for two years after his troops were dismissed ; and the others , like advantages . In short , these Manscllers had sold their slaves—the offscouring of their population , not raised as now by conscription , but raked together by any means , —something dear ,
about 17 , 000 mercenaries , costing us a million and a half yearl y . In the French war our bargains with these people wire equally absurd . The Hessians had the like proportion of pay and subsidy ; and the Duke of Bruns . wick , for his wretched knot of 2 , 289 nun , his £ 16 , 000 a » year subsidy . ' But , as we have said , this was not all;—ve paid ihe Great Powers to our own actual mischief . We paid the Emperor of Austria from two to four millions yearly . The Austrians were , perhaps , the most honest in thecause of all the Germans , and fought very doggedly , but with little judgment , and less succes * . They were so slow that they were actually useless in any attempts to co-operate with them . Nelson , who was sent to assist the South of Italy , in co njunction with them , in 179 * was driven almost frantic by them . " This army , " said ' he "is slow beyond all description , and I begin to think the Emperor is anxious to touch another five millions of English money . Ab for these German generals , war is their trade , and peace is ruin to them-therefore we cannot expect that they shall have any wish to finish
the war . The subsidizing of Austria continued up to 1797 , in which par we find in April a vote of £ 2 . 000 , 000 to the Emperor , £ 1 , 200 . 000 having b .-en sent him only , n * ovwnber previous . ' and in the following October he made peace with Buonaparte , at CaropoFormio , anulus estates became subject to French levies , which our money went to pay- Again , encouraged by a promise of money , the Emperor Francis declared war in 1309 on Huonapartc . This was done in May ; and in October of the same year , in about five months , Buonaparte was in the Emperor s capital , and levied £ 3 , 000 , 000 of English money on mm for the expenses of the war . "
Russia we subsidized at the rate of from two to three millions a-year . In 1733 , wo were pay ing the Emperor Paul £ 113 , 000 a-monto , with which money he built and repaired men of war . and in the following year swept
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wllh them our merchantmen out of the Baltic and Nor them Seas ; and we find the king of England announcing to hia Parliament in April , 1801 , that his late subsidized ally "had elready committed great outragos on the ships , persons , and property of his subjects , " having made a league with our enemies of Sweden and Denmark to do all possible mischief to our trud < and people in the north , and to cat off from us all necessary supplies of corn thence ! This was madness enough on our part , but was far from the worst . Wo were not only subsidizing all , even the Smallest powers of Europe , such as Sardinia , at £ 400 , 000 a-year , but we were actuall y in league with all the most confirmed villains in it , doirn to the very Dey of Algiers , who was , in fact , licensed by us to practice his Corsair atrocities on Christian nations . TIIE MOSEY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE EMPLOYEO TO AID THE OBSTRUCTION OF POLASD .
At the very announcement of our coalition against France , who were our allies ! Prussia , Russia , and Austria , the very powers that for years we have so vehemently taunted with the violent dismemberment of Poland . In 1793 , when via had issued high-sounding manifestoes , that we and our allies wera going to chastise the French for their crimes and their robberies , and our Puke ofToric had advanced into the Netherlands to meet those allies , where were they ! Busy in robbing and dividing Poland amongst themselves ! " The arguments used by the gpoiler 8 ,, ' ittJS the historian , "threw ridicule and discredit on our manifestoes , and made the French believe that the coalition also meant to plunder and partition France . "
It was a melancholy farce . Wo were pretending to enforce jU 9 tice on a great nation , in company with the most notorious robbers in all Europe . This , unfortunately , however , was but one occasion of this kind ; a still worse occurred in 1794 . The allies were again preparing to make a grand stand against the French in the Netherlands . The king of Prussia , who had in reality been tampering with the enemy for a separate peace , declared , that unless he had a grant immediately of £ 2 , 200 , 000 , he would march off . The money was granted , as money always was , if asked for , even under the most suspicious or absurd circumstances as the present , and he did march off still , and to some purpose . He did not appear in the field at the time appointed with the allies , and it was found that he was gone into a still more disgraceful
one . Kosciusco , the brave Polish patriot , had roused his countrymen for a . last effort against their oppressors , our own dear allies , and with our monej Frederick had marched off , joined the Russians , and , defeating Koseinsco , made the third , and final partition of Poland ! In the meantime , our army in the Netherlands , in consesequencc of this desertion of Prussia , suffered great slaughter and repulse . We had , indeed , not only paid our £ 2 , 200 , 000 for the extinction of Poland , but for the Slaughter Of OUr own troops . Pew , when they lament the fate of Poland , and denounce in terms of deepest contempt both Bussia and Prussia , its violators , are aware that we were the unremonstrating allies of these
caitiff powers , and that our money , the troops raised and paid by us and which , without - this money , could not have stirred a foot , went to do this disgraceful work , making England an active snd efficient partisan in it , nay , the most efficient of all , for without our pay they could not have effected it . Having effected it , the king of Prussia , whj , as we have said , was at the very moment we paid him this £ 2 . . 000 tampering with the enemy , immediately made pence with him ! Such VTltt the manner in which our reckless ministers , with their yes open , were duped out of their money for purposes m- < sf disgraceful to our name ; and such were the m « n whom they were morally trying from year to year to bribe to the deliverance of themselves .
The nineteenth and twentieth coapfers contains further exposures of political corruption from the time of the "Glorious Revolution" of IG 38 . Our reforming friends the Whigs are handsomely showed up . Their plunder of the public fully equalled anythin ? perpetrated by the Tories , and to them we owe the cbiei of the despotic acts which have rendered our blessed " constitution" so complete a farce . They repeatedly superseded the Habeas Corpus Act ; they passed the Septennial Act to establish seven instead of three years parliaments ; and to them we arc indebted for the Riot Act , which has been so often employed to stifle the v » ice of the neople . In these chapters is contained some " spicy" anecdotes of the moral tlornsjs of the bh . « sed Guelphw breed . George I . had , besides English ones , two Gcman mtstscsses : —
In the disturbances connected with the South Sea Bubble , in which we have seen that these German ladies , who , by the bye , were very 1 Kb' , were so conspicuous , the mob one d : iy surrounded the carriage of one of ihem with gr . \ -it demonstrations of violence . She put out her litad , and in her brokpn English said— " Why do you abuse us , good peoples ! We are come for all j our goods I ' To which a fellow most aptly replied— " Yes , curse you , and for all our chatteb too !" We have all heard George III . trumpeted for his domestic virtues , more particularly for
" That household virtue , most uncommon , Of constancy to a bad , ugly woman !" But the light shed by John Hampden , jun ., reveals some ugly facts , perhaps not very widely known . Thus we have an account of tile bible-loving kiHg ' a Quaker dearie , Hsmnah Lightfoot , which account proves George te have been a bigamist . There is considerable doubt that Queen Charlotte was the legal wife of George III ., if she was not , all her children were bastards , and consequently the risht of Victoria t (? sit on the throne is , to say the lea t , questionable ! But whichever was the legal wife , one thing is certain , George III . had two wives . By Hannah Lightfoot he had several children . It is
said that a son of George and of Hannah Lightfoot was retained about court and advanced to the rank of a colonel , when the Princess Amelia , daughter of George and Charlotte , became attached to him , and George had the horror to discover that , unaware of tin relationship , his favorite daughter had privately married her half-brotlier ! So much for royal morality . It is unm cessary that we should go into the history of the notorious ! Prince William , afterwards William IV ., and the unfortunate actress Mrs . Jordan , left to perish in poverty , and find a foreign grave ; the scandal of the Duke of York and Mrs . Clarke , and the boundless and costly amours of the modern Tiberius . George IV . with liis Mrs . Robinsen , Mrs . Fiteherbert , Lady Jersey , &c , &o .
The frightful corruption carried on by ministers and the aristocracy generally to make and keep the House of Commons amere place of traffiick through which the money of the people was infamously obtained , and afterwards as infamously expended , we cannot go inte , but we will just quote from a speech by Chatham , denouncing
PARLIAMENTARY CORRUPTION . In 1770 , Chatham , in a fit of virtuous indignation , ex . claimed , " The minister who is bold enough to spend the people ' s money before it is granted , even though it be not for the purpose of corrupting their representatives , deserves death ! " And on finding opposition to inquiry into government , profusion , he made this remarkable declaration . " Does th < - king of England want to build a palace equal to his rank and dignity ? Does he want to encourage the polite and useful arts ? Does be mean to reward the hardy veteran who has defended his quarrel in many a rough campaign , whoie salary does not equal that of some of your servants ? or does he mean , by
drawing tne purse- » trings of his subjects , to spread eorruption through the people , to procure a parliament , like a packed jury , ready to acquit his ministers at all adventures 1 I do not say , my lords , that corruption lies here , or that corruption lies there , but if any gentleman in England were to ask whether I thought hoth houses of parliament were bribed , I should laugh in his face , and say , " Sir , is it not so V The agitation for a reform of parliament which commenced about this time our author briefly sketches down to the carrying of the Reform Bill , of which he quietly says : — " John Bull got ft paper do ^ cument called the Reform Bill , and fancied it the genuine title to his estate . " .
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THE FAMILY HERALD . Part 40 . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . Besides the continuation of Eugene Sue ' s new and interesting work , Martin the Foundling , there are several tales and articles of considerable interest in this Part . We have selected some extracts from two articles on France and Frenchmen by the Editor , which oar French friends would do well to ponder on . There is , at least as regards the people , an universal desire in this country to regard tlio Frenchpeople as our " natural friends , " with pain , therefore , we view those outbursts of national vanity which Micbelet lias so foolishly published , and the Editor of the Family Ikmld so properly castigated . It is only fair to add the concession , that in the course of their history , Englishmen have been as great fools a * regards this nationality humbug as any people on the face of the earth ; but that delusion has lost its charms on this side of the channel , may it soon be as harmless on the other side . FRANCE—A TEW HINT S RESPECTING OUR QA LLANT NEIGHBOURS .
Of all nations in the Western world , the French have the highest iik't of themselves . National vanity seems so natural to a Frenchman that he never perceives the absurdity of which lie is guilty when he speaks of France in the impassioned language peculiar to his countrymen . He seems to think that we foreigners ought to feel its he does in reference to French superiority , and even to envy him theglory of being a son of France . To pit France against the world is so familiar to a Frenchman that he takes it for granted that France alone is epual to all the rest . " The day the world conspires to come and take »
close view of Franco , " says Michclct in his People , " will be hailed by our soldiers as the finest in their lives . " A curious boast for an historian , who ought to know , at least , that the most heroic deeds of France were accomplished under the auspices ofan Italian chief—a Cursican master . If France was tlien the centre of the world , Italy was the centre of tlie French army . OouM Franco produce an Emperor ? " Ah ! my hope is in the flag . " says this worshipper of Alars , " that it may save France the France of the army . May our glorious army , upon which the eyes of the world are fixed , maintain itself BUM / " " Holy bayonets of rrftuce } watch that nothing
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f y ^? ' * slory ' iroP'netrable to every eye , now hoverinir . ahoveyou !" . Thia is the Frenchman , in &weW # , on hi 8 j bighest-heel 8 ,. hisvery suits .,-ihis ; new religion of the bayonet , this ne « v liturgy of aphflosopMcal church , » « h «! C TCteri 3 tiCOf the 8 reatnation ; andnwreover H nn . vh fnf lhe greatness of lhe na « o" 5 *< krived ml on what the hope of the nation resti . Who- but a Frenchman c on Id , Amen to ' rach a prayer ! A ^ yeJ tins same r rtmchman calls France the universal nation f According to him France writes books for all the world . The fcnjjhsh scarcel y write anything now-a-days but articles in Reviews . As for German books who reads them but Germans «• ' The French do not read them evidently ; but this only shows the greater universality of the Oennan mind , for Germany reads French , English , and German books , while France reads French books only , and simply belioves that th ey are tho only books worth reading ! Yet all ils philosop hy is borrowed from Germany , It is impossible to get political truth from a Frenchman . Apparently he seems to be blinded
by his patne mania , his unreasonable love of country , which goes so far beyond the limits of politeness , us to make him speak disrespectfully of every other country but his own . And yet , great as this nation is , according to Michelet himself , in the book above quoted . " the peopie" are all slaves . His book is divided into chapters . The first treats of the bondage of the peasant ; the second the bondage of the workman ; the third of the bondage of the artizan ; the fourth of the bondage of the manufacturer ; the fifth of the bondnffo of the tradesman ; the fiUth of the bondage of the official ; the seventh of the bondage of thB rich man and the burgess . Now , what isleftfor Liberty , who has taken up herabode in France f Tho France of a Frenchman ' s worship is an ideality . It has no existence . Whenever lie comes to describe thereal France faithfully , big ideal disappears . It is a phantom which his patriotism has conjured up .
Franca defeats its own ends by bepraiting itself . " Who has a literature ! " says Michelet , a member of the Institute , a teacher of adults . " Who still sways the mind of Europe ! We , weak as wo are are . Who has an army ? We alone . England and Russia , two feeble bloated giants , impose an illusion on Europe . Great empires—weakpeoplel Let France be united for an instant—she is as stronj as the world ! - The first thing is that before the crisis ( the earning battle ) we should reconnoitre ourselves well , and hare not as in 1792 and in 1815 , to alter our line manoeuvres and syitem in presence of the enemy . The second is that we should trust in France , nnd not at all in Europe . " It is a pity that France is in Europe . Why do not the French Geographers make it a distinct quarter of the world t or why don't they compose their maps like the Chinese , France in the centre a great nation , and the Barbarians outside occupying little corners V
To crush all nations seems to be a favourite idea . 11 Have we not armies and fortresses enough , " says Michelet , " to pah them up and watch them till a favourable opportunity occurs to crush them altogether t " It ig melancholy to fee a great man , for lie is s great man , indulging in such murderous expectations . It in the moral weakness of his mind , and it U the weakness of France , '' The day when France , remembering that she uiai and must be ( doitetre ) the salvation of the human race , surrounds herself with her children , and teaches them France , as faith and religion , she will find herself living , and solid as the glob ** , " So says Michelet ; a most theatrical claptrap for Frenchmen : England does not talk in this manner . England makes fun of herself under the portly personification of John Bull , whom she inv ill vith all the good humour , simplicity , and
credulity of an . easy , fat ,. well-fed , old gentleman , without any pretensions whatever . Britannia , no doubt , blows a little on her couch , as she rules the waves on a bale of cotton , and the British lion sometimes wakens up in a Bentinck oration , and shakes hit mane and gives a noble roar , as any other lion might do in the zoological gardens for the amusement of the public ; but we never heard of any English madcap ever proposing to teach England as a faith and as a religion , or boasting gravely that England Jios been and must be ( two very contradictory assertions ) the salvation of the world ; nor does any British philanthropist ever suggest the idea of . collecting all the children of Great Britain , from one or two years , to sit together before special education begins , and learn nothing but England ! " On Von n'lipptcndrait Wen antre q « e la France . " Poor little dears !
If France thinks that by such manners she can commend herself to the world as the leader of civilization , she is mistaken . The truth is , that Frenchmen have lost character and influence by this very spirit . They did not speak and write thus in the middle ages , when France was comparatirely greater than she is now . In the days of Abelard and IUmu . s they were more cosmopo . lit an , and therefore greater . Instead of rising in power and influence by becoming Frenchmen , they bave fallen , England and Franco , however , have in a limited capacity a mission of immense mundane importance
England has tho greatest navy—Franco the greatest army . France by land , and England by sea , have for some time past been all-powerful in civilization . Any man tvho is reasonably disposed , and not convertrd into a fool by petty patriotic- vanities , may easily perceive that England and France hold two of the very first places in tb * arena of civilization . Germany ought to be as < sociated with them . These three nations cannot he mistaken—Germany for abstract thought ; France , for popularizing that thought ; and England , for practically attempting it .
Michelet compares Franco and * England to the two electricities , posi ive and negative ; and had he reasoned throughout this singular book of " Tho People " upon this hypothesis , lie had done nell ; but he only acknowledges it with an apparent show of candour , and then immediately returns to the abuse of England , as if it were painful to him , even for one minute , to suffer England to share with France the glory of givinpt salvation to the genre humain ( human race ) . We hope that there is no such jealousy in England , and that we are perfectly willing to share triih all nations the honours competed
for ; indeed , the more we know of other nations , the more we shall be convinced that they have all been contributors to the great work ; and so beautifully has the whole arrangement been made , that even the black man . the doomed slave o' the white , comes in for his prize , as baring in an heur of white barbarity and darkness preserved the light of science , trimmed its lamp , and handed it westward and northward , whither it was at first commissioned . Humanity and charity will et last regard all nations as one , and annihiliate petty national jealouties in tho idea of the universal nation of man ,
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TIIE REASONER . Part 3 . Edited by G . J . Ihlyoake . London : G , Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head Passage , Patcrnoster-row . There are several well-written articles in thia Par 6 , amongst which we most particularly single out an article on " The Duty of Inquirers after Truth . " The Eilitor gives his readers some reminiscences of his early acquaintances amongst public men , and amongst them figures Mr . Georor Combs , the wellknown author of " the Constitution of Man , " and Professor of Phrenology . This gentleman figures anything but creditably in the pages of the Rtasoncr . The narrative of the Editor's early disappointments in his intercourse with such "philanthropists' ^?) as
Combe , tells funnily enough for the reader , but the circumstances narrated must have been " nae fun " to G . J . H . at the time . Amongst the selected matter will be found a reprint of the pith of the celebrated pamphlet " Killing no Murder" by Colonel Titus , which is said to have caused the death of Cromwell through the anxiety it ocoassioned that distinguished usurper . To those who have not read the pamphlet this reprint of extracts will be highly interesting . Some day we may dish up some of the tvrant-hatinu- colonel ' s arguments for the readers of the Star . There are several articles we should like to quote—or quote from , but wo can find nothing sufficiently brief as well as suitable for out columns but the following ueautifui iines : —
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DR . CHAINING . I do not come to weep above thy pall , And mourn the dying out of noble powers ; The poet ' s clearer eye should see , in all Earth ' s seeming woe , the seed of Heaven ' s flowers . Truth needs no champion : in the infinite deep Of everlastine Soul her strength abides , From Nature's heart the mighty pulses leap , Through Nature ' s veins her strength , undylng . glides . Poace is more strong than war , and gentleness , Wherti force were vain , makes conquests o ' er the wave ; Aatl loTe lives on , andliath a power tobless , When they who loved are bidden in the grave . The sculptured marble brags of death-strewn fields , And glorj ' s epitaph is writ in blood ; But Alexander now to Plato yields ;
Clarkson will stand where Wellington hath stood . I watch the circle of the eternal years , And read for ever in the storied page One lengthened roll of blood , and wrong , and tears , — One onward step of Truth from age to age . The poor are crushed ; the tj rants link their chain ; The poet sings through narrow dungcon-grates ; Man ' s hope lies quenched ; -nnd lo ! with steadfast gain , Freedom doth forge her mail of adeerscfates . Men 9 loy the prophets ; fagot , rack , and cross Make up the groaning records of the past ; But Evil ' s triumphs are her undluss loss , And sovereign beauty wins the soul ut last . No power can die that ever wrought for Truth ; Thereby a law of Nature it became , And lives unwUlicrcu in its sinewy youth , Whim no who called it forth is but a name . J , R . Lowell ,
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Effects op Railways . —The extensive range of stabling and coachhouses attached to the Bell and Crown Inn , Holborn , are being converted into dwell ; ing places , tlie introduction of railways having taken all the coaches off the road that used to stop at this inn . There are , in or near London , 41 Charles . stre . ets , 29 Church-streets , 21 Georae-streets , 28 IIi ?? N streets , 28 John-streets , 35 King-streets , 23 New . streets , and 23 Queen-streets . Novei , Imposition—A number of Men , dressed as Armenians , are now going about professing to sell Turkey rhubarb , which in many instances turns out to be only hard wood coloured to- imitate the real article .
Rates op TiUYitumo , —A Contrast . —When the Ime of rail is completed between Berwick and Newcastle , the journey from Edinburgh to London will be a matter of fifteen or sixteen hours . Little more than a cpntury ago we find the following ;_ " 9 ch May r 1 < 34 . —A coach will set out towards the end * of next week for London , or any place on the road . To be performed in nine days , being three day 9 sooner than any other coach that travels the road ; for which purpose eight stout horses are stationed at proper distances . Or you may have a bye-coach at any time , upon acquainting Alexander Forsytb , opposite to the Dulce of Queensberry's lodgings in the Canongate . Gentlemen and ladies will be carried to their entire satisfaction .
New Political Society ;— A new political association the motto of which is " All men are Brethren , " has lately been formed in London , and la daily receiving new accessions to its numbers . The principles of the Association are of the most liberal kind—one of its chief characteristics is , that it is not confined to Englishmen , but comprehends among its members men of all countries and climes . Among its officers are German , Frenchmen , Greeks , Spaniards , Italians , Poles , and even Russians . The motto on the card of admission is printed in the German . French , Greek , Spanish . Italian , and Polish languages . Tlie Society holds its meetings weekly , when speeches are made and patriotic songs sung in the native language of the various members . One of the objects of this Society is to promote the
cause of a universal fellowship—with which view it is intended to celebrate in turn all the great triumphs of popular principles which have been achieved either in Europe or America . —Morning Advertiser , A Minatitbe Newspaper . —In Alytb , a village in the north of Scotland , there is a regular weekly newspaper published , price one halfpenny , and about half the size ofan ordinary street ballad . It is entitled the Alyth Recorder , and as it takes a brief notice ot what occurs in the district , is Cllictly in tended to " be transmitted b y letter to friends at a distance . " It records the fairs , public meetings , accidents , weather , births , marriages , and deaths , taking place in Alyth ; together with occasional anecdotes , scraps of verses , and riddles . —Glasgow Citizen .
Singular Bbquksts . —The will of Mary Anne Johnson , late of Well-walk , Hampstead , spinster , who died on the 6 th ult ., passed the seal of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury , on the 1 st instant . The personal estate of the testatrix is sworn under £ 25 , 000 . The will contains the following bequests ; " I give to my black dog Carlo an annuity of £ 30 a year during the dog ' 3 life , to be paid half-yearly . Unto each of the cats , Blacky , Jemmy , and Tom , I give an annuity of £ 10 a year for the three cats , to be paid half-yearly . Margaret Potson and Harriet Holly , my mother ' s old servants , to take charge of the dog and cats . "—Q , uery—What will the authorities at the Legacy Duty Office do ? As it respects " Legacy Duty , " the legatees are certainly " strangers in blood" to the deceased , and in that capacity are liable to » duty often per cent , on the value of their life interest ; but the Legacy Duty Act , Ml the other hand , says nothing about duty payable on legacies bequeathed todogsand cats .
The subscription to the Wilderspin testimonial amounts to , £ 1 . 000 . " Died ior Lute . "—About a month ago , a man was found inUie Bois de Cologne , having committed suicide ; but it has only been just ascertained that he was a native of Berlin , named Kaufman , lie was a distinguished poet , who had translated into German the plays of Shakespeare and the poems ot Burns . He left hia own country in 1 S 43 , upon the recommendation of the celebrated pianist Liszt , and at Paris became affianced to a young German lady . She , however , died suddenly , and her loss rendered life insupportable to him . Only two days be f ore tho fatal act . he had accepted / the appointment of tutor in a high family at Paris , with a salary of 2 , 000 fi , besides Us board and lodging . Among his papers were found two plays in manuscript , and the commencement of a translation of Dante's Divina Gomedia . —Galignani '
Spring Agai . v . —From the extraordinary heat of the season the trees on the boulevards of Paris , the leaves of which had begun to wither , are now pushing forth fresh ones . Some chesnut trees in the Place Royale afforded the singular spectacle of ripe fruit , yellow leaves , large blossoms , and . fresh green leaves , all at the same time . Fatal Accident . —On Saturday afternoon , * fatal accident occurred to a fine young man , a coalwhipper , named Sullivan , off Stone Stairs , RatciitF . He was practising in a small skiff for a rowing match , when his frail bark was upset by the swell of a steamer , and the unfortunate man lost his life in consequence .
A Fact fob Free-traders . —The Leicestershire Mercury states , that the operative framework knitters of Desford and other villages in the county have deserted their stocking frames and betook themselves to the woods to gather blackberries , for which they find a ready market in Leicester , and realise more by this means than they can at their usual occupation . The Wkllixqton Statue is at length finished , When we state that from the body of the horse to the ground , about nine feet intervene , and that the knee joints are as large in circumferajice as the body of an ordinary man , sonic idea may be formed of the magnitude of the proportion , both of the horse and rider . The ( veighfc of metal in the statue exceeds forty tons . The entire weight of the statue , carriage , ifcc , will exceed sixty tons , and about thirty of the most powerful dray horses will be employed to draw it , from Mr . Wyatt'S to the triumphal arch at Ilytfe Park-corner .
New Rules for Friendly Societiks . —By the 13 th provision of act of last sessions ( 9 th ami 10 th Vie . c . 27 ) , which Act is to be construed with and as Dart of the Acts relating to Friendly Societies , 10 th Geo . 4 , cap . 56 , and the i and 5 Wm . 4 , c , 40 , it is enacted that after the passing of this Act , the Kegiatrar of Friendly Societies in England , Scotland , and Ireland , shall not certify the rules of any friendly society , established alter the passing of the Act , for the purpose of securing any benefit depending on the laws of sickness ormortality , unless such society shall
adopt a table which * hall have been certified to be a table which may be safely and fairly adopted for such purpose , under the hand of the actuary to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt , or of some person who shall have been at least five years an actuary to some insurance company in London , Edinburgh , or Dublin , and the name of the actuary by whom any such table shall have beun certificd- shall be set forth in the rules and printed at the foot of all copies of such table printed for the use of the society .
Ml " . Wakiey , has received several letters from ladies , many of them of rank and title , offering to co-operate in purchasing the discharge of Cook , Mutthcwson , and other witnesses examined at the inquest on White , the soldier , who was | rbi ; ged to death at Ilouns'ow . Human DerifAvirr . —There U now exhibiting at Valencia , says the Espanol of Maih-M ol' che-oth , a child fourteen months old , half of whose body is black and half white , covered with extraordinary marks . Its legs are deformed ; one of its arms is nearly in the natural state , but the other is like that of a monkey .
A Fact , next to a . MiRACLE . —There is non living at Farrington Gurney a young woman , named — Comber , aged about 20 years , daughter of James Comber , stonemason , who has not tasted a morsel of solid food for the last nine years . In or absut the year 1837 she had a sister die , and the occupation of ucr mother required her absence daily from home , leaving the present afflicted daughter in the house with the corpse . It is conjectured that this circumstance affected her mind , and worked upon her nerves so strongly , that it induced her affliction .
She in a short time gradually weakened and took to her bed , whore she was seized with locked-jatv , and from that time to the present she has not opened her mouth . The only substance which has been taken into her stomach is fluid , which is passed into her mouth with a spoon through a small opening where a tootii is missing . And although lying in this state for such a length of time , she has grown nearly six inches in length ; she is quite sensible , happy , and resigned , and appears to be often engaged in prayer . —Plymouth Journal .
The Schoolmaster Wanted—Six marriages were solemnised at our parish church on Sunday last , and , out of the ] twelve newly-married persons , only one could write his name . Of the twelve witnesses to the ceremony not one could write . Thus , of twentyfour whose signatures should be in the register , twenty-three bad to atlix marks . —Preston Chronicle . Incendiary Fiue at Chalk , —On Sunday morning , between six and seven o ' clock , a fire broke out on the Parsonage Farm , adjoining the high road at Chalk , near Gravesend , in the occupation of Mr . Lake , which destroyed a large barn containing about sixty Quarters of barley , that had just been lliveshoil , together with a sack containing six Quarters of the
same gram . Noble GfiNERosirr . —At a recent meeting of the Town Council of J ) ingwall , on an interesting discussion , relative to the potatoe disease , l ' rovost Cameron stated that Mr . Maihosuu , of the Auvhauy and the Lewes , was prepared , without reference to Other attangOuWnts , to order Indian com to the
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amount of £ 10 , 000 to be at hand to supply the deficiency of food now inevitable from the distemper among the potatoes . v „ Juvenile Railway Excursion . —On Monday last much interest was excited in this city by the arri-4 nnos ., ^ mOn : l I traitls ' brin Rin 2 no less than fr tand ? fr ' la 3 r ^ - l cIllMren an ( i 500 teaohpnumd thev Starr S ' ^ - ' - Ah ° Ut Jlalf "P a ] x ° ' clock siS $ ro Br . 19 to 1 in one enormous train , con-SSnw £ ? " ^ s drawn and propelled by 7 en 2 ines . — Gloucester Journal onmfi » fiI ATH 3 ~ . ' xi ' J ^ ge swimming-bath , now Kreofte if *«* W »*« l *«" . at the low TZol ^ f ? ™^ <™« 'nues fa . tort i ? S ! i £ ? teatDr ™ MAvon . _ On Wednesday ast the labourers employed at Drayton Manor , with their wives and children , smountin ? to about 230 persons , partook ot an excellent dinner provided for them by Sir R . Peel . r
Bkxlkt Fair . — "he pleasant fair held at Bexley , in Kent , twelve miles from London , ended on Tuesday . To STAR Gazers- —The planet Saturn , is now visible on clear nights , in the south-eastern quarter of the heavens , between fen and eleven o ' clock . Foot Rack . —On Tuesday the one mile foot race for £ 5 , between Langford , of Ilolloway , and Mills , of Camden-town . was decided in tbe Ilolloway-road , and" the latter ppdastrinn came in tbe winner by fifty yards , going over the one mile of road in five minutes and ten seconds . Death op the Bishop of St . Asapii . —The Rishfc Rev . William Carey . D . B .. bishop of the Welsh dtOceseof St . Asaph . expired on Sunday the 13 instant , in his 77 th year , at his town residence in Portland place .
Increase op Suicides —During the first six months of this year the siiioifles , awarding to the return for the western districts of Middlesex , havo more than doubled the suicides in thoge districts during ihe corresponding period of last vear . Funeral of Lord Metcalfk . —On Tuesday afternoon , the mortal remains of Charles Theophilus , first and last Baron Metcalfo . were consigned to their last restins place , at Winkfield in Berkshire . We are happy to learn that Colonel Dn « mm"nd , of the Coldstream Guards , and nephew of Vice Admiral Sir ^ A . Drummond , of Meggineh , has established his claim to the chieftainship and the arras and supportprs of the ancient house of the Drummonds of Concraie . —Perth Constitutional . [ How easily the " snob" of the Perth Constitutional is made " ImpnyH
Destructive Firk at Dover . —On Saturday afternoon , about three o ' clock , a fire broke out among some wheat and fodder stocks , noar Charlton brick fields , Charlton Bottom , Dover . In about an hour after the alarm had been given , the fire-engineS arrived upon the spot ; but water could not be obtained in quantities sufficient to enable the men to bring them into play ; though , certainly , the fire hhd attained too great a height for it to have been effectually resisted , even if water had been abundant . By half-past four o ' clock , the whole of ten stacks { six oi which were of whoat . and four of foddpr ) were completely enveloprd in flames , and but a very trifling portion of the properfcv was saved . Fortunately the wind , which blew stiffly during the conflagration , was in such a direction as to prevent the fire from being commnircated to some new cottages in close proxN mity to the stack , or , in all probability , a much greater loss of property would have ensued . The orisin of the fire is vet much involved in doubt .
Omnibuses for tiif . Mimjos . —Last'week a more than ordinary degree of curiosity was created at the Bank of England and the Royal Exchange , arising from a number of omnibuses appearing at various interval ' s rfurins the day before these places , on which were placed In larseanri leeible characters the words , " From the Bank to Hacknev . 3 d . " On inquiry it appeared that lattTly the Eastern Counties Railway have undertaken to convey passengers to Tottenham and back for Cd .. beinea distance often miles , which has had the effect of causing the omnibuses to perform thojiurnev very often with a solitary passenger . Whether it arose from the novelty , or from otlipr cnu-e . * . the threepenny omnibuses were speedilv filled ; and it is stated , that if the experiment should provR to be successful , the same scale will be adopted with respect to the numerous suburban points connected with the metropolis , while for distanoPR not exceeding one mile the charge will ba reduced to one penny .
New Postal Aurangesiests —Negociatinns are in procress between fhe Post-office authorities , and the Directors of the North Western Railway , by which mail trains will run from London to Liverpool under five hours . Fleet Street after beting partially closed for five weeks , for the purpose of beine re paved , was on Monday arain opened throughout the entire line . The stone pavement just laid down , will , it is said , last for 20 years . Money Orders . —The money order office , at the branch establishment of the General Post Office ,
Charing-cros , is now removed to that part ot the building recently used as a sorting room for the London district post , where in future a \ l applications for fcUe issue and payment of money orders must be made . Tub Italian Opera at Covest-Garden Theatre . —It is said , among the vocalists already encaged for Covent-jrarden Theatre are ( Irisi . Mann , Persiani , Ronconi . Tamhurini , and Madame Viardot . M . Costa has selected SO instrumentalists for his band , and 60 singers for the chorus , whose engagements « for three years have all been siened .
A Railway in Turkey . —The Journal des Chenvns de Fer states on the authority of private correspondence from the East , that the Turkish Divan is a 4 present occunie vith the question of establishing railroads in Turkey . The Schoolmaster is the Coal M . wes . —Two school * , on the Normal principle , are about to be established at . Cramffnefnn Colliery , for boys and girls ; and already an efficient master and miitresa have been encaged . On Saturday , a wedding , that was on the point of b ing celebrated between a younir person of the Rue des Saint Peres , and a yoiinji man in the service of a chocolate maker , vm suspended hy an event of a very opposite nature . The union of tfie young peop / e had the full consent of all parties , except the second husbapd of the mother of the intended liride . who sternly objected to it , and declared that it should be prevenleil by some dreadful eatiistroplie . The nuptial party , however , was assembled , and on the point of
proceeding to the mayory . when the obdurate father , in-hv seized a knife and stabbed himself with it twice in the breast , lie was ab 'ut to repeat the strokes , when his wife wrested the knife from him . IIi 3 woumU are severe , but sire not considered dancerous . The following strang . j paragraph appears in the Droit : — " There is at this time , as a guest at the hotel of the Frnscati baths , at Havre , an Englishman of most extraordinary eccentricity . According to a positive convention between him and his landlord , every dish served at his table , and of which he has partitken , is immediately after his meal gathered up and carried in a boat thirty or fortv fathoms out to sea , and thrown overboard as food for the fishes the Englishman retiring to an upper room , and ascertaining bv a telescope that his orders are strictly obeyed . Lnrce joints of boef . turldes , fowls , in short cverythins , from the sown to the dessert , inclusive , is cast ' into the deep . " - fft . foal and his money are soou parted . ]
Revival of Richmond Fair . —This fair , which , after bavins been annually kept for many generations , was ' abolished towards the close of Queen Elizabeth's reign , was revived , with the sanction ot the proper authorities , en Monday last , and closed on . Thursday . The novelty of the fair drew a large concourse of persons from all parts of the surrounding country , and on each of the three days durin ; which , it lasted , a great many individuals were attracted to it from London . The Cobden Testimonial fund has this week reached £ 73 . 400 .
Mr . Justice Williams died O'i Monday evening , after an illness of a few hours' d'irati » n , at . his country residence , Livcnnere Park . Bury . lie was promoted to the bench abaut twelve yt'ii ' . 'S imo . by the Whigs , and showed his gratitude to bis ^ masters by the manner in which he administered "justice" to the Dorchester Unionists , shortly after Itis elevation . His conduct on that occasion '" damned him to everlasting fame , " ami his death will create a vacancy for another Whig lawyer , r . nd a general " movo up '' among the legal oiliccis o * ' the party . Lucky Whigs . ! Repeal of the Malt Tax . —The numbers of the East Kent Agricultural Protection Society met at Canterbury last Saturday , to consular how far tllQ Malt TiU ftffidml the interests of agriculture Tho meeting was numerously attended by the landlords and tenants of tho district , and tho chair w ; is occupied hy Sir Urnok V . Bridges the President of the Society . The incatiiiir was addressed by Mr . l'lumptre , M . P .,
Mr . Ducdes , M . F ., and others , and a committee " -as appointed to confer with the Central lVanl of the Society for the Protection of British Industry , as to the bust means of obtaining relief from the burden o £ the Mult Tax . Mr . Deedes in the course of his remarks observed : that Sir James Graham once said that the Malt Tax could not survive a repeal » f the Corn Laws a single yon . ( Hear , hear , hcav . ) Now , as the Right lion . Baronet hail been mainty instrumental in repealing the Corn Laws , it followed its * matter ofcouisc that when the opportunity presented itself he would side with them in obtaining the removal of the Malt Tax . { Cheers . ) None ot . the speakers suggested any substitute for the obnoxious import . '
. _ . „ , „ . Some of the effhcts of Mb . O'Connors \ Vobk on Small Faio » . —A Mr . Charles Newman wsiding near Tcousc . t forwish , dibhltd romo vrhent lose autumn neconliiw t * Mr . O'Connor ' s davct . o s ad has this vear gained a > ize fr * tljo way wipcuoi . crop nf wheat , he had from one f ™'" ^ 7 , ? c ;? to « mens of 8 OTtM . t y-RvoeaN . auil mo-tly <> . ' » ' ' > to OHM . Alsn . Mr . TIW « . Keynote o 1 ilmk- ^ a , near Norwich , had From thirty to « xly-lhfO 4 WitO S" «»» . anwal «* «»» wii were six inches loiv :, tho fevwai estimated to paj « w-8 t'wa f » e ouitt of the oroii .
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2 M > . XSXI . "ALL MEN ARE BRETHREN . " A 30 . NG FOR THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . BT JEUAX HAB 5 ET . \\ n commencing the following song I intended it to 4 » sung , if worth sineing . to tbe air of " Roderigh Ticfa" Alpine dhu" { the Boat Song in Scott ' s " Lady -of the Lake" ) : I fear , however , that in the course -of its " manufacture" I have managed to spoil it for that air : the critics who have " music in their -souk" will decide . ] HffiJ * o the fla ? of Fraternity flying .
' XailM to the mast ™ onr bright banner waves , Kinsily and lordly brigands defying . Breaking onrfettrs , we scorn to be slaves . From the north to the southward , The east to the westward , TbeTMuonraUc-cryrinnaearand far ; Till all the nations round , Till the whole earth resound , "AHMenare Brethren ! hip ! bip ! Hurrah !" "By the scourge of oppressors long we ' ve been driven , Long have webent 'neath the yoke ana the chain ; Oar labour , onr blood , our lives havebeen given To pamper the tyrants who scoff at our pain . The earth they have plunder'd . Mankind the ; have sunder'd , Xation ' gainst nation excited to war . Bat so more disunited . Our wrongs shall be righted ,
" All Men are Brethren ! hip ! hip ! Hurrah I " Tremble , ye purple-clad , princely oppressors ; Woe to ye , haughty and gold-grasping Iord 3 ; -Cnrs'd be your false-hearted priestly abettors—More fatal their frauds than yoor blood-reeking Like the cataract dashing , [ swords . The avalanche crashing . The on-rushing millions shall scatter you far . Like the hurricane rearing , Their voices * re soaring :
" All Men are Brethren ! hip ! hip ! Hurrah !" As bright as the sky when the tempeit is ended ; As fair as the earth when the winter Is o ' er—Shall glory and freedom for ever be blended , "RTien the dark freezing reign of oppression ' s no The happy communion , [ more . Of nations in union , The serf ent of selfishness never shall mar . Then sing , brother . * , sing , Let the chorus loud ring , " All Men are Brethren ! hip 3 hip ! Hurrah !»
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Potatoes In Bread. — The Magistrates Of Forfar
Potatoes in Bread . — Magistrates of Forfar
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 19, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1384/page/3/
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