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SIMMOSDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE . Sep-XE 34 BER . London : Simmontfo and Ward , Bargeyard , Bucktersbury . This number opens with a highly laudatory account of the life and services of Baron Metcalf , sometime governor of Canada , and recently deceased . In Charles Hoototfs" Ramblesand Sketches in Texas . " we nave an amusing account of Texan electioneering . " Progress of Discovery in Australia , " announces the return of Dr . Leicbardt to Sydney , from bis overland expedition to Port Essington ; sad gives an interesting account of his discoveries . According to the writer in the Colonial Magazine , these discoveries are of the
first importance , — " Dr . Leicbardt has discovered an Australian paradise . He bas disclosed to the Colony , and to the empire treasures which , though held tor more than Jialf a century , neither colony nor mother Country was at all conscious of possessing . ' He has brought up from the depths of primeval solitude , whole regions of wealth , incalculable and inexhaustible . He has found out a homestead vast enough to lodge a nation , with resources affluent enough to secure to that nation a high and a permanent prosperity . " In the " Reminiscences of the Island of Cuba , " the author defends the existence of slavery , and mercilessly assails the Exerter Hall" Abolitionists . " While quite agreeing with the author in his
denunciations of the fanaticism of some , and the hypocri 3 y ef others , who make Eseter Hall ring with their clamourings against black slavery , while they at the same time are the oppressors of their white brethren , we cannot go with him in extenuating black slavery , the thing is indefensible and infamous —" whatever is morally wrong , cannot be politically fight . " The slaves themselves by their insurrections in Cuba and America , have proved that they are not Contended with their bonded condition ; and the terror which exists among the planters , who fear a repetition of the St . Domingo rising , proves that they are conscious of the insecurity of their " peculiar institution . " We select two or three extracts for the benefit of the aforesaid
EXfiTER-HAIi HUMBUGS . . And come of these men are what yon call Saints . The ; auoscribe largely at meetings , where the ; frequently bawl themselves hoarse . Sat what matters it to the manufacturer of white lead or devil's dust , whether one or tiro hundred ef his workpeople are consigned to a premature grave % He has not to hear the cost -of their interment—if interred at all ; their families most shire for themselves , for there are thousand ! Out of employment ready to £ 11 their places . This is a melancholy but a true picture of servitude in Happy England , and it forcibly strikes me that there is but very little difference between Slavery and Servitude .
If the slave has to labour because , like a horse , he lias been purchased for hard cash , the clerk , the mechanic , the labourer—in short , all those , no matter their station in society , who sell their services and fcodies for a certain sum payable quarterly , monthly , or wetWy—are bound to give their time and serrices to their taskmasters , many of whom are so grasping and hard-hearted that they almost begrudge them the seventh day . If the slave be indisposed , the master purveys tbe doctor and the medicaments : on the other hand , if the faithful clerk or mechanic fall dangerously ill , his pay is stopped , for some one else must fill his glace , and he may go to the hospital , or pay his doctor , if he has the means ; if his malady prove a lengthened one , he finds himself , on recovery , out of a . situation , with empty pockets . Such is not the case with the negro slave , who only returns to labour whea the physician has pronounced his recovery as beyond the possibility of a relapse .
It generally happens that those who are the least informed upon an / given subject are the most stubborn on all its bearing ! . I recollect the time I was as obstinate as yourself . Thus , we hare read ( for I never would waste my time by listening ) the speeches of a parcel of maw-vorms in the now , we believe , ruined Exeter Hall , declaiming , as if they wished to burst bloodivcssels in so holy a cause , against the horrors endured by thtir " poor black brethren" in the West Indies . We do not believe that any of these fanatics ever honoured the Tropics by then-presence , or else they would not titter such abominable falsehoods . When do we bear of Missionaries , of those who uphold such idle fellows , going down an English coal-pit in order to pay a visit to those who toil in darkness in the intricate galleries which they bare formed in the bowels of the
garth f Do we ever hear orations in favour of large subterranean passages , where themasims of Christ are utterly unknown to many ! So ; they either find the descent too perilous , or else these coal-pits are too near the scene of action . And then it is so easy to depict the sufferings of black brethren who live so many thousand miles distant from the longitu ! e of Exeter Hall . Doubtful persons would require too much tittle to visit the Plantations in the Trojits , whereas thay could find their way to the coal-pits in the North , if they chose to sift the trath of the reports regarding the sufferings of their fellow-countrymen , if charity began at home . If it is fashionable to subscribe immense sums of money to Missionary and Bible Societies , it is tenfashionaUe to relieve the wants of our starving poor at home .
Our Saints carry apathy for their countrymen and Europeans in general to a great extent We hear of Russian vassels , of Poles sent to Siberia ; but no one preaches in favour of these white slaves , whose lot is certainly that of the accursed ; all th « v energy is displayed for the most degraded species of the human race , who repay the so-called benefits of freedom with utter CUOt » mpt and a . direct refusal to work . This number is the first of the ninth volume of this very useful and successful nuigaziue .
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THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL . Pakx tax . London ; 3 . Bennett , 69 , Fleet-street . We have already quoted largely from the numbers composing this Part of the People ' s Jovntal , for in-3 tcr . ee , that excellent article from the pen of William Howitt , " A Word for Thomas Gray , the Author of die General Railway System , " and " the sensible ari'daon "The Jury fur the reward of Workmen . " Thi-Part contains a portrait of Father Mathew , with a memoir by William Ilowitt . The other illustration * are copies of IJaydon ' s picture " The Death of Dentatin , " Sir J . Reynolds' picture of "The Infant Hercules , " and Ary Scheffer ' s picture of " Faust perceiving Margaret for the first time , " and besides tttse , a 2 representation of " Tbe Scott Memorla ' , Edinbnrgh . " The whole of the illustrations are truly beautiful , hut they lack sometbioSj namely , a few
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words descriptive of the subject , and also a few word concerning the painter . "The Infant Hercules '' " TheDeath of Dentatns , " and "Faust perSn Margaret , " together with the view of the '' Lot Monument"are all faulty in . this respect . One or two ot these have been subsequently described in numbers which will form p-rtion of the next Part , but we submit that it would be much more satisfactory to the readers to have the explanation accompanying the engraving . Besides the articles above emunerated , William Howitt contributes articles on WortsdeseriptiTeof the subject , and also a facr tiTni . 8
"Military Flogging , " and other subjects . - Mary Ilowitt contributes 8 ome * sweet poetry . Miss Martineau contributes some of her pleasing and instructive essaysand sketches . Joseph Mazzini gives the first of a series of articles entitled " Thoughts upon Democracy in Europe . " "We shall watch these articles , anil , if necessary , have our say upon them when broueht to a conclusion . The other contents of this part , both prose and poetry , are mostly worthy of warm commendation . We select the following extracts —
WILLIAM HOYT 1 TT 05 MILITAKT FLOODING . But it is not the ladder , the lash , and the back cut to shreds , and to the very bone , which reveal tons the extent of tbe brutality of this punishment . Mr . Erasmus Wilson has opened up to us a deeper horror , a more terrible revelation of agony . He says , that in examining the back" On raising tbe muscles o flesh from off the ribs and spine , 1 found a part of the deeper layer of muscles , viz ., that which lay in contact with the bones , in a state of disorganisation , and converted into a soft pulp . ? * The cause of the jmfpti softeniny Ibdiew to have been the excessive contraction of the muscles taking place during the agony of punishment . The excessive contraction would produce laceration and . subsequent inflammation of the muscles , and the inflammation instead of being reparative , would , in consequence of the depressed state of the powers , of the nerrous system of the Sufferer , be Of the dlSorganising kind , which results in pulpy softening .
Well might Mr . Wilson calls this " a new discovery , such as he had never sern before , though he had opened more than a thousand bodies ; a fact not stated in any book that he knew of extant , and which could hardly have been expected from such a cause . " It is a new and terrible discovery , that such is the agony inflicted by this punishment , that it rends and reduces the muscles to a pnip ! Ana yet this man never ottered a groan ! Such is the power r . f the will , that the poor fellows exposed to the gaze of their comrades suffer their very muscles to be torn with agony , jet ' will not yield one groan ! Are sueh unheard of horrors to continue a daj longer ? Are they to be perpetrated in the midst of tbe British people , and on those who win with their lives those territories and those glories ( so oiled ) for which lords are created , and a nation ' s thanks are given .
Such is the brutality ; now look at the unequal textnre of our humanity . TVegrieve over the lashes inflicted on negroes , and purchase their exemption from it at the rateof twentymillions of money . We traverse the whole earth to christianise and humanise . We take under the protection of our tender mercies the very brute animals in our streets . If this man had been a dog who dare have used him thus J The doff has a whole act of parliament tohimself . No man shall torture him ; no man shall even draw him in a cart . The soldier of this country bas not even the consideration of a dog . " Ts thy servant a doe > " Well were it for « ia British s > ldior if
he could claim that rank . If a set of men had taken a dog , and in some secluded court stretched it out on a ladder upon a wall , and with a r <; lay of brawny farriers had thus mangled and slaughtered it , what a burst of execration there would have been against them ! What monsters , what inhuman wretches tliey would have been pronounced ! The society for the Protection of Animals would have fastened upon them . Is man , then , is that noble creature , the soldier who dies under the lash without a groan , the only animal which has no protection in England ? No ; a thousand generou 3 hearts rise indignant at the fact This revolting barbarity cannot and will not longer be tolerated .
Tbe followins is from Harriet Martineau ' a Stir vey from the Mountain . "
AMERICAN SHAOEHOlDEr . 3 . In the midst of the vigorous lertinjf up fcr troops in the United States , for the Mexican war , the most warlike city , Xew Orleans , puts forth a caution . ' -gainst all t » lk of employing free people of colour in 3 war of . invasion , though these people be patriotic an « i substantial citizens . The objection is that if men of African complexion are employt d as soldiers now , the Americans would have no plea against the employment of a simil .-n force by Great Britain , in case of a war b-tween the two countries . " It is distinctly enters toad . " says the ncv . * - paper , " that if ever theErjjHsh lan . 1 a regiment of MacU * in this country , we can grant no qmrtir to prisoner . * . It will be a war of extermination , marked with blond
at every step . And we must be careful how we set the precedent , when we march into the territory of another power . " He is the downward course ofwror and sSn marked with a clearness not to be mistaken . There was first the error of transporting men from their natural circumstances for the convenience of men more powerful : then slavery becoming mere aggravated with the advance of time and civilisation : then of the necessity of a tyranny at first unthought of : then the natural consequence—fear ; and from / ear' a contemplated cruelty and savagery under which society dissolves itselt into its elements , and states become the lair of ferocious beasts . The fir * t step in wrong should be dreaded as fatal as much by society as i ndividuals .
" We understand that an enormous number of the monthly parts of this publication are every month sent to America—another proof of the extraordinary anddeserved popularity attained bythis true People ' s Journal .
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<^ e" We are compelled to postpone till next week the continuance of our review of "The Aristocracy of England . "
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AND SH 0 P 0 CRA . T 3 . ( From Punch . ) We are accustomed to laugh at the French for their braggadocio-propensities , and intolerable vanity about la France , la Gloire . l'Empereue , and tt « like ; and vet 1 think in my heart that the British Snob , for conceit and self-sufficiency and braggartism in bis way , is without a parallel . There is always something uneasy in a Frenchman ' s conceit . He brags with so much fury , shrieking , and gesticulation ; yells out so loudly that the Francais is at the head of civilization , the centre of thought , &c . ; that one can't bat see the poor fellow has a lurking doubt in his own mind that he is not the wonder he professes to be .
About the British Snob , on the contrary , there is com . monly no noise , no bluster , but the calmness of pro . found conviction . We are better than all tbe world ; we don ' t question the opinion at all ; it's an axiom . And when a Frenchman bellows out , " £ a France , Jfonsteur . laFtaneeUtah , teledu monde civilise // we laugh goodnaturedly at the frantic poor devil . We are tbe first chop of the world ; we know the fact so well in our secret hearts , that a claim set up elsewhere is simply ludicrous My dear brother reader , say as a man of honour , if you are not of this opinion ! Do you think a Frenchman your equal f You don't—you gallant British Snob—you know you don ' t : no more , perhaps , does the Snob your humble Servant , brother .
And I am inclined to think it is this conviction , and tbe consequent l . taring of the Englishman towards the foreigner whom he condescends to visit , this confidence of superiority which holds up the head of the owner of every English hat-box from Sicily to St . Petersburg , that makes us so magnificently hated thi oughout Europe as we are ; this—more than all our little victories , and of which many Frenchmen and Spaniards have never heard—this amazing and indomitable insular pride , which animates my lord in his travelling-carriage as well as John in tbe rumble .
If you read the old Chronicles of the French wars , you find precisely the same character of the Englishman , and Henry V ' s people with just the cool domineering manner of their own gallant veterans of France and the Peninsula . Did you ever hear Colonel Cutler and Major Slasher talking over the war after dinner ? or Capta n Boarder describing his action with the Iudomptable ? " Hang the fellows , " says Boarder , " their practice was very good , I was beat off three times before I took her . " "Cuss those carabineers of Miihauds , " says Slasher , " what work they made of our light cavalry !'' implying a sort of surprise that the Frenchmen sh"uld stand up against Britons at all ; a good-natured wondrr that the blind , mad , vain-glorious , brave , poor devils , should
actually have the courage to resist an Englishman . Legions of such Euplishmen are patronising Europe at this moment , being kind to the Pope , or good-natured to the King of Holland , or condescending to inspect the Prussian reviews . When Nicholas came here , who reviews a quarter of a million of pairs of moustachios to bis breakfast every morning , we took him off to Windsor and showed him two whole rfg irarnts of six or eight hundred Britons a-piece , with an air as much as to say , — " Thtir , my boy , look at ttat . Those are Englishmen , those are , and your master whenever you please , " as the nursery song says . The British Snob is long , long past scepticism , andean afford to laugh quite good-humouredly at those conceited Yankees , or besotted liltle Frenchmen , who set up as models of mankind . They forsooth !
I liavc been led into those remarks by listening to an old fellow at the Hotel du Kord , at Boulogne , and who is evidently of the Slasher sort . He came down and seated himself at the breakfast-table , with a surly scowl on his salmon . coioured blood shot face , strang ling in a tight , cross-barred cravat ; his lineu and hU appointments so perfect y stiff anil spotless and everybody recognised him as a dear countryman . Only our port wine and other admirable institutions could have produced a figure so insolent , so stupid , so gentlemanlike . After a while our attention was called to him by his roaring out , in a voice of plethoric fury , " 0 !"
Everybody turned round at the 0 , conceiving the Colonel to be , as Mb countenance denoted him , in intense pain ; but the waiters knew better , and instead Of being alarmed , brought the Colonel tbe kettle , o , it appears , is the French for hot water . The Colonel ( though be des-
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pisesit heartily ) thinks bespeaks thelanguage remarkably well . Whilst he wasyinhaling his smoking tea , which went rolling and gurgling down his throat , and hissing over the " hot coppers" of that respectable veteran , a friend joined him . with a wizened face and very black wig , evidently a Colonel too . The two warriors , waggling their old heads at each other , presentfyjoined breakfast , and fell into conversation , and we had tbe advantage of hearing about the old war , and some pleasant conjectures as to the next , which they considered imminent . They pslia'd tbe . French fleet ; they poohpooh ' d the French Commercial Marine ; they showed how , in a war , there would be a cordon ( a cordong , by—) of steamers along our coast , and byread / at a minute to land anywhere on tbe other shore , to give the French as good a thrashing as they got in the last war , by— . In fact a rumbling cannonade of oaths was fired by the two veterans during the whole of their conversation . T . ; . noit 1 iDnrtilvnhilikS hpunpnUotliolon . rnotTnrnmnrVa'Klv
Theie was a Frenchman in the room , but as he bad not been above ten years in London , of course he did not speak the language , and lost the benefit Of the conversation . " But oh , my country ! " says I to myself , "it ' s no wonder that you are so beloved I Iflwerea Frenchman , how I would hate you !" Tliat brutal ignorant peevish bully of an Englishman is shotting himself in every city of Europe . One of the dullest creatures under Heaven , he goes trampling Europe underfoot , shouldering his way into galleries and cathedrals , and bustlfrg into palaces with hi » buckram uniform . At church or theatre , gala or picture-gallery ,
h « face never varies . A thousand delightful sights pass before his bloodshot eyes , and don't affect him . Countless brilliant scenes of life are shown him , but never move him . He goes to church , and calls the practises there degiaaing and superstitous , as if Ms alter was the only one that was acceptable . He goes to picture-galleries , and is more ignorant about art than a French shoeblack . Art , Nature , pass , and there is no dot of admiration in liis stupid eyes ; nothing moves IliUl , CIcept when a very great man comes his way , and then the rigid proud self-confident inflexible British Snob can be as humble as a flunky , and as supple as a harlequin .
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—^— PROTECTIONISTS POLICY . The Morning Post publishes , aa a leading article , the following DhCLiKATlON OF C 0 SSBRVAT 1 VK POLICY FOB THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FAIR TRADE AND EQUITABLE TAXATION . The abolition of all Excise Duties on domestic productions and manufactures , and the consequent consolidation o f the Customs and Excise , together with the reduction of the Coast Guard . The admission of colonial wheat , pulse , and flour , at a statistical duty of 6 di per quarter , and 6 d . per barrel . The reduction of duty on tea to Is . per lb . The reduction of duty on tobacco to Is . per Ib . The reduction of duty on colonial sugar to 5 a . per cwt . Ditto on foreign ditto to 10 a . pep cwt .
REVBNUE COMPENSATION . Fixed duty on foreign wheat ot ' oi . per quarter . Fixed duty on other foreign grain and pulse , 2 s . ( 3 d . per quarter . Fixed duty on foreign flour , 2 * . 6 d . per barrel . Restoration of the duty on foreign cotton wool to 3 * . per cwt ., as an equivalent for the Excise on soap . The charge for pt stage to commence at one penny fora quarter of an ounce , instead of half an ounce , to make up for the loss of Excise on paper , which has always been a tax on education and litir ature . BKASOSS FOR REMOVAL OF EXCISE DUTIES ON HOMB PRODUCTIONS , ASD ADJUSTMENT OP REVENUE DUTIES .
As Ion ? as Income and Property Tax is imposed , which , together with the burthen of the Poor La « s , falls principally on the landed proprietors and agriculturists , foreign imports , competing with our domestic production ? , cannot be admitted without paying a revenue duty . The reduction of duty on tea , tobacco , and sugar , would not eventually yield less revenue , owing to tlie increased consumption , whilst the comforts of the poor would lie areatly enhanced , and our commerce extended , especially with China , and the inducement tn smuggle put an end to .
The loss of revenue on the Excise duties would be cxniufiigated f « r by the duty on foreign wheat , pulse , flour . : inu ditton wool , together with an increase in the Post Office revenue , which would be equivalent te the loss of the Excise on paper , to which would be added the enormous saving in the expense of the collection of the Excise duties , as well as in the reduction ef the Coast Guard establishment . Since 1 S 42 nearly five millions sterling of duties on foreign imports hare been reduced for the chief benefit of the manufacturers , while the Exci-e duties hare been retained , and the Income and Propertytax imposed . Fire millions have been taken off and fire millions laid on without any benefit to the poor man .
The proposed revenue duty on wheat would be about ten per cent . ; on colonial sugar , about fifteen per cent . ; and on foreign , thirty per cent . ; making an average of twenty-two and a half per cent ., whilst the present duties are respectively about fortv . five per cent ., and seventy per cent .
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m > THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND HIS SCOTCU TENANTRY . The annual agricultural meeting of the Duke of iichmond ' s tenantry at Fochabers was held on Tuesday last , at Gordon Castle . The show yard was formed in one of the parks , and was very numerously attended by the yeomen of the surrounding districts . The animals exhibited were of a very superior character . In the afternoon about 300 of the tenanxry sat down to dinner , to which they had been invited by the noble landlord , under a spacious marquee which had been erected on the castle lawn . The Duke occupied the chair , and in the cour . e of the proceedings adverted to the recent changes , and tbe consequent alteration in thg relative positions of landlords and tenants in the following terms : —He would not , however , under present
circumstances , say . that the price of corn might not be kept up for a short time . Foreigners were quite unprepared for the great change . This time last year they had no idea that protection would be removed , and that circumstances might , in some measure keep up the price . The failure in the pota . toe crop , in Ireland , and throughout the country , would also tend to the same result , but he felt that it was not possible that with even the greatest energy the farmers of this country would be able to compete with the foreigner who had no taxes to pay . When he recollected that many now present a few years ago came forward and signed leases under the firm impressions that the Corn Bill was to remain entire , but now that through treachery and double-dealing it had been abolished , he felt that he would be incapable of holding up his head among them did he not now tell them that should any of his tenants
wish to relinquish their farms , by giving intimation of their intentions to either of his managers , ho would at once relieve them , of their obligations ; more than that , he would cause an estimate to be made of the unexhausted permanent improvements they had made upon their farni 9 , and repay them the amount . ( Loud cheers . ) He felt that this was only justice . lie should , however , regret parting with any of his tenantry , many of whom had cultivated the same soil for a very long period , but he could not feel satisfied were they to remain and injure their own prospects at those of their family . ( Cheers . ) He hoped that his prohecies of the evil of the measure would not prove correct , but although he had patiently listened to all the arguments which hiid been advanced in favour of the abolition of protection , his objections to the measure were not removed .
[ The Duke seemed to have been very well received by the party , although the way ia which he proposes to meet the new circumstances in which they are placed is not to our taste . Why should his tenants be required to leave their farms ! If his predictions turn out to be correct , are there no other means of redressing the injury that may thereby be occasioned to the tenant ? The apparently frank and generous offer of " His Grace" is , in fact , assumed as a sort of blind to the real selfishness which lies below it . Of what use would it be to the Duke of Richmond , to insist en his tenants keeping terms which would lead to their ultim ate ruin and bis loss ?]
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PROGRE SS OF THE AGITATION FOR THE CHARTER . is foiSv dy -f th 1 / 6 newene '' » S » ta « on ^ r the Charter , SSSF-of ° 7 - ! f lltion ot thc press of 2 followiL ° " , ' aders will peruse with pleasure the GazeX ^ irom tlle AV / oft News Ld Norwich CUvnrV t . ? Sreat meetings recently held in tbe PwmoN - ' ' ° r the adoplion oi" fche N «« w * S PDnrinnnn « .-
THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER . Although we do not profess an unhesitating allegiance to all the details of the "five points , " and there are some unhappy associations with the words "Charter " and " Chartist , " which , ve > houid be eV . xH for the people ' s sake to bury in oblhton . w » cumot suffera petition from the working in en of Norwich on this subjact , to go to Parliamen t w | thoutan expression of our hearty assent to the claim of the petitioners to u share in the franchise . The natural right of every man of sound mind to be represented in Parliament , wo are not called upon to discuss . The question may perhaps admit of dispute , and it would occupy us too long to sift it . Besides it is not necessary to do so , for , if not by nature , certainly , ac cording to the spirit of the British constitution " every
, such man is entitled to a vote . The recognized principle that taxation and repreaontation shonld be coincident , confers upon all tax-payers , that ia every boay , an equal right to a voice at the hustings . If not under every form of Government , certainly under a represimtative form , and ef . p * ecially under the English form , where the advantagesof representation hare been 80 fully tested and so unirersally admitted , and where the theory of representation stands upon so broad , so intelligibl e , so just a basis , it would be difficult , if not impossible , to raise any objection even apparently valid , to so reasonable a demand as that of the Norwich petitioners , 80 far as tile mere rijjht 19 concerned . We have never yet seen tlie attempt made , sure we are that if made it would prove unsuccessful .
The opponents of an equal suffrage do not deny the tight , but take refuge in the plea of inexpediency . They talk of the danger of making the iRnoraut multitude electors . What ! Inexpedient to be just ? Dangerous to do right ? Safe to postpone reason to fear ? Pru dent to nject claims admitted to be valid ? Wise to commit against millions a wrong which cannot on clear grounds oi > defended < Certainly , if the unrepresented had not possessed more wisdom and prudence than the favoured clatse * , tlie obstinate denial of a just equality would long ago have displayed itself even more palpably than now , to be in the highest degree inexpedirnt and unsafe , It is humiliating to have to argue at all about
the expediency of justice . It is a reflection upon thi morality and the good sense of the community that con vonience should for a single moment be placed in opposition to truth . Theory and practice are not more jnrtin . a JubiT connected in physical than in moral and political science . If representation be good for people wcrtV £ 10 a year , or possessing an income of forty shilling !' for land , it cannot but be good for those whose habitations nre humbler , or who do not happen to be freeholders at all . the principle of representation not being founded on a property qualification , the injustice , and con * o . quently the inexpediency of a property test is as clear as a methematica '' emonatration .
Th > re is no difficulty , however , in meeting our antagonists on loner ground . They contend that tbe people must be prepared for freedom by previous intelligence ; we affirm , on the contrary , that nothing fits tbe people so much for liberty as the enjoyment of it . It is civil privilege that makes the good citizen , rather than tbe citizenship which entitles to civil priritge . To k « r « p a subject in serfdom till he be ri'ady to be mnde free , is to limit the tyro to the river ' s brink until he ean learn to swim . Are we asked for proof t Look to the negroes ot Jamaica . Until their recent emancipation they were the most degraded of their specie 9 . Now , in a few abort years , they may safely be compared for Intelligence , for morality , for order , witl ) any population in thc world . Apprenticeship was tried in this c ' ase as a safety valve against the too rapid expansion of tboir state . It was
soon discarded by common consent as a worse than uae-Iess precaution , and almost nt a bound the benighted African passed from the brutal penalties of an animal existence to the dignity us ivell as the [ status of a man . As his chains fell , his brain expanded . When the Insh wait withdrawn , his temper bicamc bland , his passions wen * soothed , tullenness gave way to alacrity , and alacrity heralded intel ligence and industrial skill , From fre * ilum , as a came , c . ime mind , the social aifectioun , religious and mural aptitude , everything , as the tffrcts . Shall we now be foolish enough to invert the natural order , and expect grapes from thorns , or figs from thistles ? The people , whatever their virtues er defects , are what our institutions havo mado them . Retain tlieinstitutions in slatu quo , ftiid amelioration is out of the question .
But we are ready to take lower ground still , and to assert that the people are . at this nioment . even in thesense of our opponents , prepared for the liberty of self-government . Our legislature , however imperfect , has permitted much . The nobler parts of our Constitution have allowed to grow amidst the masses , an irregular and uncultivated perhaps , but still a vigorous intelligence . Our modified freedom in reliRion , in trade , in civic rights , have nutured amongst the many in the lowest stratum of society , an amount of mental power , too strong by half for the restrictions in which they are bound by the timid few . Er . long , we venture to predict , the elasticity of the populnr mind will snap the fetters of inequality , if a sense ot justice do not first untwist then ) . Prepared ! Who ar < the foundation of our national greatness t Who product our wonders of manufacturing skill ? Who make our steam engine ! , our railroads , our marvellous fabrics of iron .
copper , cotton , silk , and wool 1 Who fill the whole earth with the products of their industrial labours ? Who tra-Terse the seas , populate our colonies , found empires , and grow suddenly , as if by an instinctive power of ajfgregn . tion , into mighty nations ? Who have exhibited an almost miraculous ability in self-instruction , secular and reli gious ! Who first detected the sophistry of protection ; raised up , unassisted , all over the land , churches , chapels , ftchools , collides , mechanic , literary , and philosophic institutions ? Who have salaried , at as enormous cost , ministers , schoolmasters , teachers , missionaries , foreign and domestic ? Who have sent the gospel to the remotest lands , and put the Bible in every man ' s hands . Who , but the uner franchised majority of the English peoplca Ant ! shall we fear the concession to such a people of a far les ? degree of social advancementthnn that conferred upon the unhappy negro ? If the British nation be unprepared for the suffrage , we must in vain eipect to see a fit
preparation , until man can be endued with an angelic nature . But it may be said the very lowest orders of the people did not achieve these results . Well , anil what then 1 These are the average results , and it is for the whole people that the franchise is claimed . Wo are not called upon to emancipate only the vicious or the ignorant , but all . It is for the whole , as a whole , that the demnnd is made . It is unphitosophical and unjust to legislate for exceptions . If the mass be sound under present circumstances , it will surely remain sound in a healthier condition and with fairer prospects . If now oar countrymen are , on the whole , as intulligent . as long suffering , as moral as the privileged class , they will not become less so when raised to the rank of citizens .
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Count de Montemolin and General Cabrera arrived in London on Saturday via Dover . His Royal Highness is residing for the present at the Brunswick Hotel , Hanover-square , and leads a very retired life , though he is supposed to be concerting measures for carrying out the declaration contained in his address to the Spanish people . The following minute and unflatterinj ; portraits of these two worthies , are from the description isBUGd immediately after tbcirescape , by the Prefect of the Soiret Cher . The Count is described as follows : — "Age 28 years , height 1 metre G 5 centimetres ( 5 it 4 j' in . English ) , black hair and eyebrows , narrow and round forehead , brown eyes , large and king nose , a little bent on one aide , middlesized mouth , black beard worn en collier , round chin ,
oval face , and dark complexion . The upper lip and the teeth slightly project , and which is more visible when talkini ;; speaks French with facility , but with a strong foreign accent ; the knees turned in , which is more particularly apparent when walking ; holds himself vevyxrect ; a turn in the left eyeball , showing at times the whole of f'c white ; wears his hat inclined to the right side , and over the eyes . " Ramon Cabrera is thus described : — " Born at Tortosa ( Cata Ionia ) , as ; e 38 years , height I metre 03 centimetres black hair and eyebrows , ordinary forehead , grayish brown eyes , middle-sized nose , mouth rather large , beard black and rather thin , round chin , ov . vl t » co , dark complexion . ili 3 eyebrows are bushy , and come close to each other ; lias a small scar on tlie forehead , over the left eye ; legs slightly bent ; never looks a person in the face when addressing him . "
Suicioe of a Soldier . —A . soldier of thc 44 th reginjPiit , cut his throat with a razor , in the Belfast barracks , on Sunday week , Tile deep incision was immediately stitched by the regimental surgeon , and hopes were entertained of his recovery , lie died , however , after two days of extreme sufFcriug . lie had solicited his brother to purchase his discharge from the army , but without success . This disappointment unused the rash act . A RoiJBKnY FnUSTRATKD THROUGH FkAR . —TllO CXcise-oflice connected with , the Loclirtn distillery in ( iilmore—plsice was surreptitiously entered on Wednesday evening weuklast . by means of broaltingsomc panes of glass mono of the windows . While lookins about to see if anything else could be added to
thc plunder which they had collected , before maktog then-exit they wouk \ seem to have been attracted by a lar « o package , securely wrapped up , and apparently placed with great , care in a quiet noekock ol the apartment . Curious to know what was in it , they immediately unloosed the cords and unfolded the sheeiing , when , to tUeir extreme horror and alarm , the pale visage oi ' a human form was revealed . Without waiting another moment , they appear to have darted out of the window , perfectly terrorstricken at the sight , leaving all their booty behind . It turns out that what excited their alarm was the model of a statue , which an artist had left for safety AviUl some of the officials eonneoted with tlie distillery , while ho was on a short tour on the . continent . — . Scotsman .
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Removal op ths Convict Smith to tub Millbank Pmsns . —In tlie course of the afternoon of Saturday , Mr . Cope , the governor of Newgate , received from the Home Office a reprieve , and also the order for removal to the Millbank prison for John Smith , who wa , s found guilty of the-wilful murder of Susan Tolliday , at tlie GuildhaJJ Coffee-house , on Saturday , the 1 st of August . Although it was generally understood that the life of the wretched man " a ?" - ii 8 pared > stil 1 tue reprieve in which it is officially set forth that the sentence of death is commated to a milder punishment had not been pre-VlOUsly received .
Accident Caused by the Whistle of a Stbam-Sjr ? " Sunday eveninff , about six o ' clock / an accident , attended with serious consequences , bap-^ i 1 n , « t ° M la ^ " nd . gent ' eraan named Marks , re MdingatNo 7 Rodney-terrace , West , Mile Endroad , near the Maryland Poinc Bridge . Mr . and Mrs . Marks had been out for a drive , and were returning over the above bridge , when the engine driver of one ot the trains blew of his steam , and the shrillness of the whistle caused the horse in the chaise to start off at a furious rate . The wheel came
111 y' ° J ent « ontact with a laisp . post , and both Mr . and Mrs . Marks were thrown out of it . They were picked up in a state of insensibility , and were subsequently removed to their residence ' in a fly . Sudden Dkatk in a Ramay Thais . — On Wednesday week , Daniel Trinder , Esq ., land-agent to the Lad of St . Germans , left Cirencester by the mail train for Port Eliot , where he was expected to hold the annual Court . He was apparently in perfect health when he left the station atCirencester , but on Opening the carnage at Swindon he was found a corpse . —Bevonport Chronicle .
Cosfessios of as Incendiabt . — Elizabeth Barkitt , a native of Titmarsh , Northamptonshire , who £ ad lived in the service of Mrs . Gray , and her son Edward , at Bushmead , about ten wueks , has made a full confession of . having set fire to the premises on the 1 st inst ., by which the following property was destroyed , viz : — -A barn , containing the produce of fifteen acres of barley , several sacks of old beans , a quantity of dressed barley , a dressing machine , and other implements a wood barn full of wood , shelter hovel , astaek of wheat , the produce of six aeres , a Jove house , and thirty tame pigeons . A searching investigation was made by Superintendent Jebbstt
immediately after the fire , which being closely 'bllowed up , and the prevaricating stories of the servant , together with the difficulty of approach by a stranger to tbe spot where the fire broke out , susli p ion attached to her , which she perceived , and her nind at last became ao overburned with her guilt , hat she could bear it no longer , and made a confession of the whole circumstances , and said that she telfc muoh happier . The girl stated that she set fire to the barley in , the barn by putting a lighted match between the boards . She could give no reason why she had done it , and afterwards felt very sorry . She was taken before G . P . Livius , Esq ., on Thursday and committed for trial on her own confession . —
Bedford Mercury . Two men were killed at Newwark on Wednesday we ? k , by the sudden falling in of a large quantity of earth , upon which they were at work . Two others were severely injured . A Good Example . —At the audit appointed for the payment of the rents by the occupiers of the allotment land at Redditch , the Hon . R . II . ClWe , the proprietor , very generously ordered that one-half of the amount of rent should be returned in consequence of the failure in the potatoe crop . — Coventry Herald . Wilful Damage to Public Baths . —At' Marylebone police « Hiceon Saturday , William Bardwell , an architect , was fined £ 4 for having wilfully damaged one of the baths at the Public Baths ia Georgestreet , New-road , by pourinysome strong acid on the enamel , which caused it topi el off .
A case of some interest to the Theatrical profession was tried at the South wark Court of Requests , on Friday last . Mr . Osbaldeston , manager ot the Victoria Theatre , summoned Mr . Fredericks late of his company for £ 3 , the value of an actor ' s privilege card of admission for the season , which it was alleged had been sold to him . The defence was that such tickets were a part of the perquisites of the profession , and that it was not customary to pay for the privilege . The commissioner decided in favour of the plaintiff's claim , and it was stated tnat the defendant is likely to appeal to another Court An attempt is making to establish a club in Lon-> Jon , to be called the " tVuittiu » ton Club , " for " the •¦ licrative portion of the middle classes , "—clerks , shopmen , and the like . The institution is to combine the advantages of a literary institute , a clubhouse , and a place of amusement .
Ei / Kcrnc Telegraph from London TO Liverpool . The London and North Western Railway Company have , during the last three months , been testing a newly invented electric telegraph , at the London end of their line , and the experiment having proved satisfactory , they are making arrangements to lay it ¦ lown along the whole of tlieir line , from the metropolis to Lancashire . There are twenty-five daily newspapers published in Paris , ten in London . Above 50 , 000 soldiers are in the receipt of pensions Front the extraordinary heat of the season the trees in tbe boulevards of Paris , the leaves of which Jiiid begun to wither , are now pushing forth fresh ones . Some chesnut trees in the Place Royale afford the siugular spectacle of ripe fruit , yellow leaves , large blossoms , and fresh green leaves , all at the . same time .
Such is the scarcity of fruit on the Wolds and in the Clays in the neighbourhood of Caister , Lincolnshire , that from upwards of one hundred apple trees in one orchard , the owner has not obtained a single peck of fruit . In January last there were as many as 16 , 310 lunatics and idiots chargeable to the poor-rate in England , and 1 , 205 in Wales . A Free-Trade Association is about to be formed at Brussels . The extensive cotton mills of the Messrs . Lees , of Ashton-under-Lyne , in which there are upwards of 2 , 000 power looms , commenced working short time on the 14 th insbint .
The punishment peculiar to the naval service ot their country , that of being lashed to the rigging hand and foot , wa * undergone by one of the sailors of the Sardinian Corvette L'Aurora , on her arrival at Woolwich on Friday last . The poor follow remained "'twixc heaven and earth" suspended in the fore shrouds lor four or five hours , and appeared from his writhings and contortions to be suffering considerably . Adulteration of Milk . —It came out in evidence in a case bt ought before tlie Police Court , London , on Friday , in a disputed debt between two dealers in milk , that the defendant had paid between £ 200 and £ 300 to the plaintiff for milk , which he had had of him , to the extent of 26 000 barn gallons , but in that there were 20 , 000 quarts of water , besides the . olouring ! He swore aa ati konest maa that lie had seen him put it in .
Rbmaukable Produce of Potatoes . —A gardener of Dritiiold , named Rubcrt Pickering , who is an extensive grower ol potatoes , remarked amongst a flat oi kidney potatoes last year one particular plant , commonly known £ 3 a " ba > tard , " which he was about to treat as a cumberer of tlie grouud ; however , curiosity induced him to spare it in order to ascertain the kind and produce . On taking up tliat root , last autumn , he was surprised to tind that it had produced nearly ; half a peck of first-rate quality , and of a kind which he had never seen before , having been produced by a " potnto-apple . " As he had thus gratuitously obtained so fine a kind , he was resolved to propagate it , and consequently , at the proper time , he planted the whole of ihe root upon u part of a plot of ground , on which the previous
season , the whole potato crop had failed , and literally rotted in the ground . Last week , he found that the root had produced no less than eight pecks , and would , no doubt , have produced many mure had the sets been placed at a greater distance , the tops being so large as to preclude , in a great measure , the free access of rain , air , and light . The Hotels at New York . —The hotels , at this season , are curious pictures of life . At least , they would be curious to European observation . The Astor-house iilone , which is the principal hotel , dines daily from 450 to 500 persons—almost all of them strangers hi town . The house itself , is like a small town , and its entries and corridors are thronged like squares and streets . Almost every human want is supplied under its vast roof . Its basement Ls
occupied by apothecaries , tailors , barbers , booksellers ,, jewellers , perfumers , baths , and newspaper-denlars . Its principal floor , has six or seven public paclours < m the front , and two vast dining-rooraa on the rear . The ladies' drawing-room is decorated with fscscoes and velvets , mirrors , and costly drapery , and furnislied in a style of sumptuous elegance , disregard of expense , "Hops , " or house-balls , aro ; given by the proprietors during this gay season , and * few ol the guests are exclusive enough not to share in the amusement . Dancing acquaintances are as easily made as at a private entertainment . The rauBic is good , and the ball winds up with a luxurious supper , and aft without any extra charge in the bill . To a peo-• pie as gregarious as the Americans 'this hind ot thing is exceedingly captivating , and , to eumc to New York and " stop at the Astor , " on . ihpir vay from the
springs , is to the many the best feature of the summer ' s diversion . There av « psnate parlours to be had at these hotels , of course , at thvee dollars extra per dioni j . but they are " little called tor . The vegu . !» r [> riceis two dollars a day , all things included ; and whether you are on tlie first floor or the seventh , in a room by yourself or with six « tliera > the price is the same , the best rooms bcini ; only rcseived for ladies and those who travel with them . The daily dinner is a very profuse and sumptuous affair , and as it is a good scene for display , it . has fallen naturally into t \ custom to dress gaily lor the table—nyakina altogether a scene , at the very day taWo of tUre n ' olnck , scarcoly inferior to a Lord Mayor's dinner . —Correspondent of the Morning GtrouieU . Seeking Situations in London . — There are-always some thousands of young persons seeking situation *
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in tue Great Metropolis , without friend or relation to guide or asaiatthem . I was so situated mjaelf 2 " . therefore can fee ! for sneh . A word of good advice to them : -Strictly avoid all theagents ' i ? t *[ £ ? 'IT * 0 ffiees ' which P rofess to "btain good hZ neitta ks to S y ° u a situation : they advfee £ ? JP Jower nor ' 'Mention . Take my advice , advance no money to anv of the . ** < w . rv
¦ hm * aTrt ^ ents and make enquiries ' of respectable parties m your trade or profession , who ' though perfect strangers , will give / ou good advice I have knora lately of swindlers advertising to get premiums from young men on pretence of teaching them surveying , and engaging them on railways for India . A friend ot mine searched into this scheme , and found that numbers of young men had been swindled out of £ 5 , which , perhaps they hud raised with difficulty . —Th e Peopled Journal , The Canterbury Union , according to the Kentish
Observer , are in a happy state ot confusion respecting their accounts , The late clerk ' s accounts are not complete , certain vouchers , which had been inauiro . d for , not being forthcoming , whilst one ofthe refering officers is « a defaulter to a considerable amount . One of the Gloucester Railway Police , has been committed on a charge of felony , for stealing several pairs of boots and shoes , from packages entrusted to theompany , in their capacity as carriers . Coxcealkd Treasure . — Some alterations being
tound necessary to an ancient dwelling-house in the tligh-street , Andover , the workmen , in removing the bricks from the bottom of a chimney , were agreeably surprised by several gold coins of great antiquity . It 18 Conjectured they were concealed by the removal of a brick and replacing it nearly two centuries since . Two of the pieces are about the size of the present half-crown , but much thinner : they were coined in the ^ reigns of James i , and Uflirlesl ., and are in good preservation , having apparently lain dormant almost from the time of their
. Phbsomknok at WAumaousH , Monmouthshire . — On Monday the bees and wasps congregated from east , west , north , and south , and engaged in deadly warfare . 1 hey appeared in swarms as far as the eye could see , and the ground for a large apace underneath , wascovered with the dead , mostly wasps . PROPRRTT lEFjf IN PuBiic Vehicles —Since the 22 d of May last , up to the 8 th inst ., 69 umbrellas , W parasols , 61 coats , 7 parcels , 3 pocket books , 11 cloaks , 8 opera glasses , a prize oar , and 326 anicle . 3 of different descriptions , hare been left in cabs and tiackney coaches .
Education of the Poonin Lambkth .-. Last Monday , two new schools were opened for the gratuitous education of the poor in Lambeth , one a school for boys in connection with Saint Mary ' s district chapel , the other a species of ragged school in Palace-yard , opposite Lambeth church , for the education of all persons above ten years ot age . The Marquess op Slioo , Earl of Lucan , and five other noblemen and gentlemen have come to London for the purpose of obtaining interviews with Lord John Russell and the heads of the government rela * tive to thc potato disease in Ireland , and the most effectual method of employing the famishing poor .
Prooress of the New Palace . —In the House of Lords , to which , more particularly , attention is nowdirected , the works are making rapid progress . The ceiling and upper part of the walls are finished , and carvers and joiners are occupied in every corner of the place in fixing the wainscot fittings , both in the House and lobbies . Those in the former are most elaborately carved f > ut of the fiolid , and reflect eresvt credit on the workmpn . The decorations will be gorgeous—dazzling . The ceilins , formed into deeply sunk panels , is covered with gold and colours . Under each w ^ ll-piece , from principal timbers , ia a sculptured canopy and niche , solidly gilt where finished , between which neew ihe w 5 n < Ws , to be filled with stnined glass ( six on each side ) and compartments for fresco . —The Builder .
There hare , in the present month , been , or are to to be , no fewer than five congresses of scientific men or artista holden in various parts of Germany , where it has not yet been considered » sign of wisdom to laugh nt such thiims . At Jena , the meeting of phi-Inlogijts and arcliEeoloaists , the literary congress at Dresden , that of scholastic professors at Mayence , the assembly of architects at Gotlia , and that of the naturalists at Kiel , are so many testimonies te the apreniVms conviction in favour of these forms of mental association . —Athenmv . m . Romford . —Incendiary Fire . —We regret to state that another incendiary fire took placo on Friday last , on the premises of Mr . Shuttleworth , of Great "Wa' - ' ey , containing three stacks of corn . Three men are in custody , and there is strong suspicion attached to them , as they were seen near the stacks a few minutes previous to the fire breaking out , by Mr . Shuttleworth himself . — Ipswich Express .
IfiCENDlMtlSM at Wadhuhsi , Sussex —Hannah Baldock , 16 , was fully committed by the magistrates at Tunbridge Wells , on Thursday la « t . on a charao of setting fire to a wood lodge and faggot stack , the property of her master , Mr . Overy . of Little Dartfate's farm , Wadhurst . —Alaidstone Gazette , Fatal Accibent on- Battkrsba—On Tuesday morning-, the following distressing accident occurred on tlie river Thames , near Battersea . Four persons hired a small boat at Westminster for the purpose ot proceeding to Richmond for a day ' s pleasure . It was a ' so observed that the parties dhl not thoroughly understand the tnanagfmeat of a boat . They ,
however reached as far as Baftersen , when they rowed athwart a barge , named the Sarah , which was lying at anchor . One of tlie parties moved from his seat , and the Jittle boat instantly capsized , and the men were thrown into the water . Their shrieks at the moment were truly dreadful . Two of them succeeded in grasping hold of the cable , and were rescued by the bargeman , named J . Packer . The other two , named James Gascoine , aged 24 , " » n'l George James , aged 32 , mining in Clerkenwett-green , almost instantly sunk , and were never seen to rise asain . The drags were used for some time , but in vain . The boat was r-icked up and conveyed home by a
fisherman . Cheap Up . wsrArKRs . —A well-wisher to the Ion don Pioneer asks us which is the chea cst nenspa per . Our reply is , the News of the . World . We be lieve it to be not only the cheapest , but tbe bes General newspaper in the united kingdom , Itspric is threepence . The Northern Star is an excellen paper , as a political newspaper . It advocates the rights of labonr with a z »> al and honesty that do credit to the writers , whoever they are . We are sorry that it cannot reduce its price to subscribers . The Northern Star is sold at fivepence . We believe the time is not far distant when nearly all tVe weekly newspapers will be sold at three-pence or threepence halfpenny —London Pioneer .
The " Godiv-ss" Coi . i . y-OES . —A paragraph has been pretty generally copied from an Irish newspaper , to the effect that the Council of Cardinals had denounced thc colleges commonly known as '' the Godless ; " ¦ and that there was no reasonable doubt that Pope Pius himself would concur in their measure of condemnation whenever the subject was officially brought before him . This statement , however , has been contradicted by the Nation ; which affirms , " on the highest authority , " that the heads of the Catholic Church in Ireland hare received no communication t « this vffect , or "tending to that direction . " and that , judging from the liberal policy of the I ' opb , such a decision is wholly improbable .
Rewarkablb Phkxombso . v . —The sea , at a short distance from the coast here , has presented some remarkable appearances during the present week , Otl Tuesday last , ahout four o ' clock in the afternoon , about low water , the sea , for about thirty vat d& from the shore , and along the coast fr « m the cove to the bay of Nig ? , : ippeare « f- » f » purple colour , and continued to darken a * the afternoon advanced ' . Our informant , who , with ft larire number of fishermen , observed the appearance , thinking it inigilt arise from any reflection » f the sky , went out in a boat and examined tke water . To his astonishment , he round the boat actually in a sea ot" purv'e , and the water of ft glutinous nature , contiiinins so much colouring that it netuallv dyed red whatever object
it touched . No efilurfn c-nild be prrceiwd arising from the water- As the tide ro .-c , the coloured water packed closer in shore , and continued to become darker and darker . Next afternoon tjtf same apnearancca were observed to nceur , but a « t to such svn extent . We wish some of our sciaatitie friends would affbi'rt us a clue to the cause of this phenomenon . Nothing of tlie kind seem * ever to have been observed i » tiiis quarter before , although , perhaps ,, in ot ^ ier places such appearances may havebeen wifctiessfd . We may state iivat , on Monday ,, the fishermen between this and tli 9 eove observed the sea , nfc about I * or SO yards from tlie shore , breaking ' out in dark spots , which may ba > supposed to have multiplied ami magnified till thoy presented the > appoanuee alvvye-mcHtioned . —jifeenfeeu Ikvold .
IhiSTMUTiwi . —At the Petty Sessions of this town , on Tuesday kst , a wretched looking pirlof the name of Bridpet Spelman , appea ^ sdt to an swrr Jhe complaint of Charles Blake , ] £ * q »» of Merlin Fark . for a malicious trespass . ty \) : Blake ' s wwulrnnBer , Oswiiptatt , sialeu that 3 » iew Onys ago tic emigiit tlie i * irl stealing three turuijiji , one ' ofwbicli she w- ' '" . ( the act of eating whea , c ; ui-i ;! it by him . Irealsosta'ca thai the girl was oftw going through i"e potato fields , and trying toipicfc up any smalt potatoes ^ might have rem&iVd- w » the ridgM stor tlio j > u * o » - " * be was msifvuvl said she haul not eaten any food that dns ^ ov-iy took tte turnips ¦ to cafe them" The maeistrntes . after reading » ne h . Ut-& girl a tectSrc on moral ;* , so for as concerned £ protects of Uw rich ni- 'uvH im » per y dismissed the case . Jfkto J * m < W- f . " »» « !^ " Protest property " i * the leading uU-a ot the _ age . For msre wealth there is everywhere a superstitious vevewnce , for thapr ^ tar ot wealth there is neither rcsvect nor protection . Wlien shaU we have magis . twitea who will rend the rh 1 nt ^«; rujess on morality , anu " nvHsfc on the innwqitW . ^ d . uty of pYo ^ ctvng ; nw » iftpwl « venc « io , a » jtfl ^ ii ^ e ^ 1 ' | . ¦ .. ' i £ U \> . ' ..: < ¦ : ! . - |" ., S-, ..- v * £ / - ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ . ¦ ¦ , -, , " >
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A YANKEE'S KOTIOK ABOUT ENLISTING IN THE MEXICAN WAR . { From tie People ' s Journal . ) Thrash away ! you'll have to rattle On them kettle-drums o ' journ . — 'Taint a knowing kind o ' cattle That ia ketcfaed with mouldy corn . Pat itstifii yon fiferfeller ; Let folks see how spry you be ;—Cuens you'll toot till you are yeller 'Fore yon git a-hold o' me ! That ere flag ' s a leetle rotten , Hopeitaintsour Sunday's be 3 t ;—Fact * , it takes a sight o ' cotton To stuff out a soger ' s chest . As for war , I call it murder , — There yon have it plain and flat : ¦ " I don't want to go no further Than vaj testjment for that : Gad has said so , plump and fairly ; It ' s as long as it is broad , And you've got to git up airly If you want to take in God . 'Taint your eppjlettes and feathers Mate the thing a grain more right ; J Taini a-folloring your bell-wethers YTUl excuse ve in His sight : If ye take a sword and dror it , And shonld stick a feller through , Cov ' jnent aint to answer for it , God 'II lend the bill te yon . What ' s tbe use o' meeting goitf Every Sabbath , wet or dry , If it ' s right to go a-mowing "Fellow-men like oats and Tje ? I don't know but what it's pootjr ( pretty ) Trainin * ronnd ir oobtaH coats , — Bat it ' s curus Christian dooty To be cnttio' / olks ' s throats ! Want to tackle me in , do ye ? I expectyon'U have to trait ; When cold lead pnts daylight through ye , You'll begin to calkylate . Jist go home and ask our Nancy ¦ Whether I'd be such a goose As tojineye—guess she'd fancy Tbe etarnal bong was loose ! She wants me for home consumption , Let alone tbe hay's to mow—If you're arter folks o * gumption You're a darned long way to go I Come , I'll tell ye what I'm tUinkiu ' I * oar duty in this fix , They'd ha' done't a » quick as winkin ' In the days of seventy-six : Clans tbe bells in ever / steeple , Call all true men to disown Tbe traducers of our people , The enslavers of our own ; Let our dear old Say State proudly Fat tbe trumpet to her month . Let herring this message loudly , 1 & the ears of all the South : — " I'll return ye good for evil , Much as we frail mortals can , But I won't go help the Devil if akin ' man the cursaof man ; Call me coward , call me traitor , Jist as suits your mean idees—Here I stand a tyrant-hater , And tbe friend of God and Peace !"
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day morning , a baker named Char ! ton , the proprietor of a very extensive business on the London-road ,: strangled himself in a paroxysm of drunkenness , lie had scarcely been sober for the last five months ; and on . Thursday night went to bed quite intoxicated , ills wife awoke about five o ' clock in the morning , ; md found a handkerchief tight round his neck , with the other end fastentnl to the bedpost , and tlie unfortunate wretch quite dead . An inquest was held , and the Jury returned a verdict of " Temporarj Insanity , caused by excessive driuking . " The Cbssorin Spaik . —Spanish newspapers are at tlie present time two-thirds blank paper ; for the Censor" Breathes o ' er the page his purity of soul ,
Corrects each error , and refines tho whole "by dashing out whole sentences . Thus , the Kspeciador comes out after this fashion : — "All true Spaniards ar . il thua our beloved country . , . The Infanta by her marriage "i our next . " Very eloquent these blanks ! What tiumpet flourishes do they give of freedom \—funeh .
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« gPMm-a 6 l 846 " THE NORTH ERN STAR . — i —
English Snobs Os The Continent. Brutal Ignorance Op British Aristocrats
ENGLISH SNOBS OS THE CONTINENT . BRUTAL IGNORANCE OP BRITISH ARISTOCRATS
Suicide By A Drunkard In Liverpool.—On Fri-
Suicide by a Drunkard in Liverpool . —On Fri-
The Spanish Pretkndkr Asd His Second. — The
The Spanish Pretkndkr asd his Second . —
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 26, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1385/page/3/
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