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Our auther again reiterates that the " pureblooded , " " ancient" aristocracy of the present day are a mere bastard brood , who cannot even trace their descent Irom the Gorman robhers ?_
THE " TIUE-HOSOURKD" ARISTOCBACY . But the fact is , that none of our nobility have titles of any such date . Tlieir ancestors were too insignificant at that time to acquire the smallest title . Our very oldest titles are those of the baronies of le Despencer , De Ros , ana Hastings , who figured chiefly in the time of the weak Edward II . These are not of 1066 , the date of the Conquest , but of 1264 , in the latter end of the reigB of Henry III ., and actually of Edward I ., that is , nearly 208 years after if . This , however , would have been something of a descent , Bad it been a clear and unbroken one ; but all these barenies are what are called restored ones ; that is , they are titles which , for want of a true genealogical descent , had fallen into desuetude ; but which , in order to fill up the aristocratic order , hare been given to some family that could make some sort of
a claim , be it tha vtry lowest and moat serpentine imaginable . Thus that of the le Despencers has gone wandering in search of an owner from MOO , when the last Earl Le Despencer was beheaded , by Edward III ., for his treason , till 1788 , during which it lay in abeyance , that is to say 388 jears . Through this long period , if we are to believe the heralds , the blood of the ie De » pencer « had meandered from this sister and that cousin , to this great-grand-son or that great-grand-daughter ; and in the course " of this tour had skipped ! from the L » Despeneere to ' the Nevilles ; from the Nevilles to the Fanes ; from the Fanes had made a Vault to the Dash , woods ; and from the Dashwoods had leaped to the Stapletons ; In plain fact , had wandered , curvetted , dodged , made curious winding pilgrimages , but had not descended stall .
In the same manner the barony of Hastings , from the same date till 1811 , or 977 years , had gone all about the country , jet neTer got lost . It had passed , or rather the blood of Hastings had , through the Le Stranges , Telvertons , Stubbses , Lewknors , Cokes , Wodehouses , Galthorps , Norths , Stjlmans , Pratts fWatlingtons , Delavals . and atlast into the Teina of one Jacob Astlej , " In whose person her present Majesty was pleased to terminate the abeyance , he being one of the heirs of Sir John Hastings , who was summoned to parliament by Edward I . " In this transaction we hardly know which most to admire ; the admirable qualities of noble blood , which for 577 j » ars can make such extraordinary rambles , leips , strolls , turns , andtwinings , besides man ; a game of hide tad seek , and yet preserve itsrlf distinct and uncontaminated , or tlie easy faith of her Majesty , who could take it
all in . If it be a wise child that knows its own father , what wise people must those Hastings be ! But tha history of the De Ros family is the same . The descent winded from the De Roses ts the Manners , the Cecils , and back to the Manners again ; then to the Tilliers , Dukes of Buckingham , till it was finally extinguished on the death of the second duke , no pretence for its continuance beiog found even bj the amazing sagacity of the heralds . The ouly claimants then were the heirs of Bridget , wife of Sir Thomas Tjnvhit , of Kettleby , and France * , wife of Willium Lord Willoughby , the only sisters who left issue of one of the Earls of Rutland . In short , it was so completely a bad business , that the claims were digallowed , anil all pretence of the baronial blood fell til ! 1806 , when George III ., having the advantage of the light of our enlightened age , in the course of his 522 restorations and creations , was pleased to discover it again .
Such is the poor hocus-pocus of aristocracy . It is surely the most precious humbug under the sun . What , howerer , knocks the whole pretensious system completely on the head is , that George III . manufactured , as may be seen in any book of the peerage , no less than 523 peers ! In reviewing the "Dulses , " after showing up the Seymours , our author has another word concerning
CHARLES THE SECOND S BAfeTAKDS . Next itt succession to these came the bastards of Charles II .. as dukes , of whom the nation was saddled with six . Four of those whose descendants still hold that title , were the Dukes of Richmond . St . Albaus , Grafton , and Bnccleugh . The Duke of Richmond was the son of Ilia mistress , Barbara Yilliers . made by him Du . chess of Cleveland . This ' son was the product of the most open and profligate double adultery , Charles being married , and this mistress being the wife of one Charles Palmer , who was promoted to the earldom of Castiemain , as the price of his wife ' s prostitution . St . Albani was the son of the actress Xvl Gwvnn * : Grafion . the sou of
Charles's French mistress , Kcrouaille ; and Buccleugh was Charles's reputed son , the Duke of Monmouth , Monmouth having married the heiress ef Buccleugh , and 'aken the name . The Duke of Monmouth was the sen of one of CharlesV earnest mistresses , one L-cy Walters , who was abandoned by him and di- d in destitution in France . Sucli was the loose character of this Lucy Walters , that it was vrry doubtful that Charles was the father of Monmouth at all , bat was confidently attributed to a brother of Algernon Sydney . On such dubious an 4 scandalous extraction sit the honours of our nobility ; such is the descent of tha chief dukes of England .
The most remarkable feature in the modem lists of the peerage , ia the Ta 3 t number of lawyers , or descendants of lawyers ; a long list if these cormorants is given . "The ' ^ very land groans under its monstrous host of lawyers . Like the reptile curse of Pharaoh , they enter every man's house , and come up into every man ' s kneading trough and money * box . Their parchments are a net that is cast over every acre of land in England ; their red tapes binds the limbs of every man in the country . " xN ' ot the least useful and interesting part of this work is the lists of patriots , philosophers , poets , inventors , discoverers , statesmen , authors , and other celebrated characters , which shows at a glance the number of each sprung from the people and those sprung from the aristocracy . These lists alone show the worthles 3 nessof an aristocracy , and the propriety of annihilating such a class as being both " useless and mischievous . "
ARISTOCBACIES HATB BUI . VED ALL COU . VTK 1 ES . Turn your eyes , however , in what direction you please , and there lie the examples of aristocratic desolation . Who ruined the intellectual states of Greece ? The aristocracy which assumed their management . Who betrayed the Roman republic , and converted it into a despotism , from which hour the national decline commenced ! The aristocracy , with the Caesars at their head . In vain the first successful traitor fell by the hand of the indignant Brutus : there were plenty of his fellows to succeed him . Rome became imperial , and perished . Turn your eyes , however , nearer to jour Own tunes , to Spain , What has reduced that country to the anarchy and misery of the present time t The pride , the luxury , the ambition , and the effeminate sloth of the aristocracy .
From the hoar that South American gold poured into Spain , the Hidalgoes grew into a condition of haughty voluptuousness , that sapped the productive power of the country , and hastened oh a rapid declension of national wisdom , simplicity , and industry , from that time to the present . In this corrupt sloth , knowledge was neglected . Loid Byroa , when there , found the lady and the lady'smaid equally ignorant . The people of Spain ara universally described as a fine people . They have shown that they possess the elements of freedom and vigour in no ordinary degree , by the bloody resistance they have made to repeated tyrants , and the decision with which they at once pulled to the ground , in that so-called superstitious country , the great , corrupt system of monkery . But the nobles !—When lord Wellington entered that country
as a saviour , there could scarcely be found a man of that class who understood the duties of a good general ; and as an order they were feeble , disunited , and far more greedy of English gold than desirous of the aid of English arms . They were at the same time too stupidly proad to act under the direction of our more experienced commanders . Their armies were scattered before the French like autumnal leaves , and their country might have lain under the feet of the foe for ages , had not Other nations fought the tattle for them . The whole class was torn to pieces with cabals and factions . They were at once ignorant , extravagant and covered with
debt ; and were for ever craving after our gold , though they hated our heretical persons . From that hour it has continued the same . The Spanish people , brave and independent , find no able leaders iu this corrupted class , and they have not yet advanced far enongli to free themselves from them ; and anarchy and continual revolution and counter-revolutions go on . In the meantime they fight against any immediate oppressor , and when the enemy disappears , return cheerfully to the cultivation of their toil . No people live so lightly as they . Thty possess their soil , and are therefore always ready to rise from their temporary troubles under their fine climate . It is the goTermnent that is ruined , not the people .
Turn to Germany . There the nobles had long undermined the ancient freedom of the empire . Every petty count aspired to be a prince . He severed his little territory from the government of the whole ; set up a separate independence—the right of the axe and the gallows —till the country , dissected into two thousand little States , fell a ready prey to Napo leon . He swept away a host of tyrant nobles , and the country is all the better for it . Look again at Sweden . That country was , and is , in the hands of a swarming nobility . This nobility , at ths approach of the Russians , sold the fortresses and sirong position in Finland and Pomerania for money ; which thus became lost te the country for ever , and which loss they had then the meanness to make one of the charges against their king , Gustavus 1 Y ., for which they deposed him , and adopted Beraadotte , The country is still oppressed by the incubus of this nobility , which
usurps all honours , offices , and emoluments ; and the nation groans and declines und . r thtm . On the contrary , Norway , though subjected to Sweden , by the arrangements of the great European powers , has with a brave spirit resisted all Swedish attempts to bring it into the same aristocratic subjection . It arose in arms , compelled a free representative government , and abolished aristocracy . The lands and government are in the hands of the peopU ; and what are the consequences ? Agriculture and trade flourish , and the nation , according to Mr . Laing , presents the most singular contrast to Sweden . In the one country there is an air of neglect and decay ; iu the other , of comfort and prosperity . I " t'is one , uf crime and miser * ; in the other , of virtue » nd eujoym ent . llr . Laing pronounces the Norwegians to be through this their wise and stout decision to govern themselves as they act for themselves in private life , the most happy and flourishing of European nations .
Look finally at France . Every one is familiar with the dreadful condition to which its proud and imbecile aristocracy reduced it . Every one knows in what a storm oi
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blood and terror tin ? oppressed people arose and took all eternal vengeance on « S ? ir oppressors . If we read the accounts of Francejast previous to the Revolution , we cannot avoid . being struck with a terrible similarity of circumstances and features with those of our own country now . In conclusion , John Ilaropden , junior , conies . to the remedy—that remedy is
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE * Till we obtain the franchise we obtain nothing ; when we obtain that we obtain everything . Every petition , every demand , however stern or resolved , that asks for anything short of the universal franchise , is the perpetration of an absurdity , and the greatest of all absurdities He is just as wise who asks short of this , as if he prayed the Pope to abolish the Catholic religion , or a Jew to give you all he is worth . The aristocracy have usurped the House of Commons—for what ? Just for this purposeof resisting tha proper demands of the people—of maintaining and perpetuating all the evils for whose removal you pray . It is true the people , combining on some great nergency—driven , as it were , into this combination by I > me desperate pressure—may alarm the aristocracy into > me individual concession , as in the case of the Reform Bill . But this is a stupendous exertion , a viulent and
convulsive sort of action in the political system , which wrests only , at the point of famine or national ruin , its own rights from ths usurping party . Public opinion ia mid , in this country , to be the actual ruling power ; butit is a fitful and irregular power . Like the Indian , or the boa-constrictor , it is aroused to action only by hunger or by imminent impending danger ; at the smallest return of ease it pauses ; it becomes drowsy again , and the mischief goes on for another ptriod . If publie opinion really rules , it should lift itself to the necessary height of command , and do it * work effectually , That would save us all muc h trouble . There is but one perfect permanent remedy—but one means of absolute cure for our perpetually recurring evils : We must have these usurpers out of the people ' s house , and rule in it ourselves ! and this is to be done only by insisting on the franchise , the whole franchise , and nothing but the franchise .
We have now gone through this work , and can conscientiously pronounce it one of the best works ever issued from the press . Since " Paine ' s Rights of Man" there lias not appeared so formidable an assailer of the aristocratic principle ; and since the publication of the celebrated " Black Book" there has been no such exposure of aristocratic rapacity and villainny . What William Ilowitt did for priestcraft , John Hampden has done for lordcraft , and his book will be " a heavy blow and sore
discouragement" to the Haub-thiercn . We earnestly recommend this book to our readers , and those of them who cannot afford five shillings each for its purchase let them subscribe sixpences or pennies each , and by means of clubs obtain it for their instruction . No Chartist Society , or Working Men ' s Reading Room , should be at least without one copy of " The Aristocracy of England . " We are tempted to give one more extract , which we recommend to all parents and teachers of youth as
A CATECHISM PROPER TO BE TAUGHT IN EVERT SCHOOL . Who laid the foundations * t our frre institutions , parliaments , repreiintation , and trial by jury * The old Anglo . Saxon people . Who destroyed these to a great practical extent , and rent the soil from its ancient possessors by the introduc tion of feudalism 1 The aristociacy of the Danish-Normans . Who attempted to wring the ilagna Charta from King Jo' n , and failed ? The barons . Who won it ! The bowmen of England , who drove John and the barons too , and their invit-d French king , before them , and compelled Henry III , to give them a still better charter .
Who tore the kingdom to pieces by cruel wars and wranglingsfor the crown , t ill the reign of Henry VII . \ The aristocracy . Who , meantime , cultivated the ground , originated trade , raised the country in wealth , strength , and respect , spite of its internal aristocratic dissonance ? The people . Who trembled before the Tudore , and became their instrument * even to the commission of systematic murders in Scotland and at home ? The aristocracy . Who made the Tudor Elizabeth tremble in the midst of her haughtiness , ami retract ner arbitrary commands ? The people in their parliament . Who joined with the Stuarts to destroy the liberties of the nation , and to rule by a standing army ?
The aristocrrcy . Who put down king and aristocracy , and made the firit example in the world of a headless king , for the warning of bad monarchs , and the encouragement of injured nations ? The people of England . Who recalled the debauched Charles II . to this country , and bargained with him for their own profit and ( be popular wrong ? The aristocracy . Who again drove the Stuarts form the throne ? The people . Who got the credit of it ! Seven bishops , whose "Diana of the Ephesian 3 , " the church , was in danger by the king ' s plan of restoring Popery , and some dozen or two of the aristocracy , who called in the Dutch king to rule and rob him .
Who , from that time ~ to 1 S 15 , went on spending the national funds in' foreign wans , for th « establishment of foreign tyrants , till the cost of bloodshed amounted to three thousand millions ! The aristocracy . Who , meantime , ' raised the wind ! Who ploughed and sowed , dug and hoed , spun and wove , and sailed and traded , and raised England to such a pitch of power and wealth as withstood all immediate ruin , but left an awful heap of debt to look at ! The people of England . Who planted America ! The people . Who lost it 1
The imbecile aristocracy . Who invented all improvements ir . agriculture , mechanics , and manufactures , which ingenuity produced national wealth ? Who made roads , cut canals , called into knowledge and use gas and steam ; built steam-engines anl steam-ships ; laid down railroads and put in motion spinning-jennies aad power-looms , the grand sources of our national ascendancy f Tme People . Who invented the National Debt ! The AbibtocbactM !
We feel bound to notice the conduct of the public journals as regards this work . The newspapers have been dubbed the " be 3 t public instructors , " but most of them might be more truly called the " worst public misleadera . " True , some few exceptions have favourably noticed this work ; for instance , the Morning Advertiser , Nonconformist , Dispatch , Brighton Guardian , Kent Herald , \ Notlingham Review , Nottingham Mercury , and People ' s Journal ; but the great mass have passed it over in silence , as the best method of burl-iny it . These " best possible burkers " include all the daily press , excepting the Advertiser . The Atlas has denounced it as " a shocking : bad book , " and the delicate Bhara-radical Spectator has repudiated it as " a low book ! " But this conduct
of the press-gang towards the people ' s friends is quite in keeping with the way they treat the people themselves , witness their burking of the great Chartist meetings now being held in London and the country . The Crown and Anchor meeting of between two and three thousand persons ( to say nothing of the hundreds who could not gain admission ) was never even noticed in * the "bloody old Times" as Cobbett well called it . The meeting of two thousand good men and true , who have sworn to have the Charter , last Tuesday at the Eastern Institution has also been completely burked . Well , we will yet makethe ^ e rascals do us justice . If they cannot hear us , our voice shall be raised ten-fold stronger
and louder , until we force these traitor-journalists to give us the justice of publicity . And now we take leave of this work , calling on the people to be true to themselves , and to remember , in the words of John Hampden , junior , " that the good and the salvation ot the world always come , and always have came , from the Hut . Christ came thence : the greatest sages and philosophers , the true founders and builders of national wealth and glory—of the power and happiness of man , have come thence in all ages . The People are the fruitful soil of all genius , oi all imagination , of all constructiveness , of all valour , daring , enterprise , and success . The Aristocracy are the mere vermin that ride in the lion ' s mane , because they have eleverly located themselves out ol the reach of his paws !"
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Tuesday an inquest was held on the body of John llurst , fireman on board the Little Western , Ramsgate steamer . From the evidence of Mr . Hudson , assistant aurgeon on board the Dreadnought Hospital-ship , it appeared that the deceased was received on board on Monday , the 28 th ult ., suffering from severe injuries on his face . On examination it was ascertained that the bones of the face and nose were broken , and a large hole was in the skull above the nose , penetrating to the brain . A large piece of the bone of the skull had also entered the brain , causing inflammation , from which death ensued . John Robertson , first engineer on board the Little Western .
deposed that on the day of the accident they had rondo their last trip for the season , and were going to their moorings at Duptford for the winter . When off the Custom llouse , the engines were stopped , but they went on ahead immediately afterwards . Deceased was wiping the oil off the engines , when the crank of the shaft came in contact with his head , crushing it between the shaft and the beam . Witness did not see the accident occur , but saw the deceased falling . The engines were instantly stopped , and the nature of the injury having been ascertained they came at full speed to the Dreadnoug ht , when deceased was put on board . —Verdict , ' Accidenta death . ' &&
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THEATRE ROYAL , MARTLEBONE . On Monday evening we hnd the plenaure of attending this western temple of the Muses , and sitting under the shrine of Shakspere , Otway , Byron , and other celebrated dramatists ? o graphically depicted by the artist ' s pencil on the ceiling of the house . We witnessed the representation of that domes'ic drama which excited such a thrilling interest some time since at the Surrey Theatre , ami which appears destined to do tho same in this more western hemisphere—called "Genevieve , a romance of real life . " Mrs . Campbell , as the heroine , was all that could ba desired , and sustained her well merited high reputation , as the " Prima Donna" in domestic tragedy . Sha was ably supported by Messrs . Cowlu and Harrington in the serious portions uf the drama , whilst T , Lee , Biddlu and Miss Afurtin , kept the house in a roar in the comic
scenes . A new farce was next produced under the attractive name of " Hiss Martin ' Kiss , or 'Two * I . " The scenes are laid in "La Belle France . " The plot is as follows : The mayor and commune of a French village , in order to support and reward maiden chastity , offers a prize of a wreath of white roses , together with a purso of one hundred crowns , to the maiden who shall have lived fifteen years without forfeiting her virtue , or receiving a kits from any man . Proclamation to this effect having been made , an urn is placed on the table , from which the several papers are drawn , and the prize is declared to have been won by Georgette ( Miss Martin ) , which much raises the ire of Madam Mag ( Mrs . Lickfold ) , a maiden lady of a certain age , tho village scandal-monger , who is determined to see if In r tongue cannot prevent the brow
of the fair G-rorgvtte from being graced with the chaplet ofroies . The noxt scene is the cherry gardens of Monsieur De Lorme ( Mr . Lickfold ) , which the cottage of Madame ilig overlooks , and in which Georgette is discovered gathering cherries on a ladder , when De Lorme enters , and commences ro : nping with the beautiful Georgette , and at length insist upon stealing a kiss from her lips . Madame Mag during this time being watching from the window , makes her presence known by " b hem , " much to the discomfiture of the youthful rompers , and Georgette fearing that Madams Mag will carry the intelligence of her romp with De Lorme to her faithful swaine , Marcel Margot ( Mr . T . Leu ) , a village simpleton and gardener employed in the grounds of De Lorme , dashes down a beautiful rose just presented to her by De Lorme , at this moment Marcel enters with the news that
Georcette has had tlie prize awarded to her . Georgette and Marcel leave to proceed to the public place , at which the chaste virgin is to receive the crown of honour , and Madame Mag , with a determination to prevent its accomplishment . In the meantime , Madame De Lorme ( Miss E . Hodson ) enters , and De Lorme , to confute the scandal of Madame Mag , plays over again upon his wife the romp he had previously enacted with Georgette , much to Madame De Lorme astonishment , who declares she hai " not had such a chaste salutes since tho day she became a wife . " The next scene is the road leading to the "Place de Triumph , " in which Georgette is seen and heard instructing the simple Marcel in his lesson , and the reply to any accusation Madame Mag might make , which is simply that he is to answer all questions and charges , with the simple response— "It was I , " which , on her pro .
milling to he his henceforth , he undertakes to do . Fro . ceeiing onwards he meets Madame Mag , who commences her tale of scandal , that Georgette had been kissed in open day in the sherry garden , &c , &c , when impelled by the dumb motions of Georgette , who has closely followed on the heels of Madame Mag , he , in the most rue . ful and doleful accents , exclaims , " It was I ; " but , by the arts of Madame Mag , he is thus made to criminate himself with Madame De Lorme . We now come to the " Place de Triumph , " at whieh the mayor , commune , baroness and villagers are assembled , to give to maiden chastity its due reward . Proclamation having been made by thecrier ( Mr Robberds ) , toany one who know any cause why the award should not then be made , Madame Mag steps forward , but her charge is immediately met by Madame De Lorme , who exclaims , " You may cease your scandal—It was I . " Madame Mag determined not to
be wholly defeated , makes charges against the chas tity of Madame De Lorme , and insists upon Marcel Mnrgot heing called to substantiate her charges ; on Marcel ' s entree he is seized and shaken by Monsieur and Madame Da Lorme , and consequently when questioned he is found to have forgotten bis lesson , and , in an affrighted tone , replies" It was not I ; " much to the relief of Georgette . Madame Mag is then dechred to ba the miaehief-niakGr and soan . dalum magnatum of the village , aad in order to secure peace and domestic bliss for the future , poetical justice is done her , she is drummed out of the village . The roseate wreath ii given to Georgette , and Marcel is blessed with her hind and heart , whilst Madame De Lorme solicit another " chaste salute" from her husband . The characters fere most ably sustained by Mr . T . Lee , Misi Martin , Mr . and Mrs . Lickfold , Mr . Biddle , and Miss E . Ilodson ,
In the course of the farce , a duett , describing the duties and joy of wedded life , was sung by Miss Martin and Mr . T . Lee , with much humour , and honoured with a unanimous encore . The house was convulsed with laughter during : the performance of tlie farce , and at the fall of the [ curtain , the applause was unanimous , long and loud . The faroe cannot fail to prove a lasting card to the enterprising and justly popular lessee . The evening ' s entertainments concluded with " The Union Jack , " in which Mr . J . Douglass ably sustained the character of Joe Hatchway . The audience by their loudly expressed approbation declaring him to be " every inch a sailor . " TJie house was well attended , jand at half-price was literally a bumper .
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inhabitants of JJrignton-streot , St . rancras , wore thrown into a state of alarm , by the screaming of a female , who was calling out" Murder , " and exclaiming that her husband , Mr . John Tugday , had shot himself at his house , the Green Man beer shop . Crowds of peraens assembled on the spot , and the poor woman was supported to the house in a fainting condition . On entering the skittle ground at the back part ot the premises Mr . Tugday was discovered lying on the ground presenting a horrid spectacle , bis head being shattered to pieces , evidently from
the effects of a pistol shot , and his brains scattered about the place , but a pistol was no where to be found . In the course of the day a female made herself very conspicuous , by saying it was not fche act of the deceased himself , and sho knew the party who shot him . Information was communicated to tho police , and inquiries wore instantly made , and the woman alluded to was taken to the station house , and this matter will shortly bo investigated . As far as it appears at present , this man shot himself while in a state of despondency , from hia business not succeeding .
Accident ox the Leeds and Bradford Railway . —On Saturday last , when one of the morning trains from Leeds for Bradford had arrived near KirkutaJl Forge , file engine-driver perceived a man walking on the line at a distance of eighty yards in advance . He mmediately sounded the whistle twice , but as the man took no heed he let off the steam and reversed the motion of the engine , yet all was to no purpose ; before the train could be stopped , the man was knocked down , and the whole of tho carriages passed over him . His death was instantaneous . He was a labourer employed on the line . Verdict— " Acoi dental deiAh "
Attsmitivd Suicips uv a Fkuale at London Bkiuok . —On Tuesday afternoon , an elderly , respectable individual jumped inte the river off the London Bridge Steam-boat ? ier , whilst apparently waiting the arrival of a steamer . The assistance of boat and waterman wua very speedily obtained , but before sho could be reached the steersman of a below-brid ^ e steam-tug , called the rover , threw out a hook attached to a ropo , by hiuans of which he caught hold of her dress , and hauled her on board , apparently dead , but by tho means of the usually applied restoratives she ultimately recorded .
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Prospectivb Opening of RAH . WAr "'~ Jj * New castle and Berwick , between Newcastle ai ? dMorpoth is announced to be oi ened in tho early part o » the en suin month , and the whole line is expected i , ? b finished by February next . The bridges over the Tyne and Tweed , now in course of erection , will oc ^ cupy two years at least ere they can be opened . The extension of the North Shields line to Tynemoutli will be thrown open to the public in a few weeks , The Whitehaven and Harrington Railway is in so forward a state as to promise fts opening for public traffic in the early part of October . The South Devon mil be opened on the atmospheric principle fu '!? * ??? ! 1 / 011 * ?? Tbengineaat
S .- ^ " . " «»*» ' » the Exeter and Counte ss Weir stationsare completed , and have been tried ; the valves are being fixed to •? . i r" ? 5 a d the connecting pipes for the engine mil be forthwith laid down . The Bridito gton Branch , otthe Hull and Selby , extending from HulltoBridlinfiton by way of Beverley and Driffield , a distance ot 31 miles , is appointed to be publicly opened on Tuesday , the 6 th of next month . The Margate line a branch of the South Eastern from Rams 4 te is on the eve of completion , and will bo thnmn open to the pub Uc ma few day s . The Hertford branch of tha Lastern Counties was opened on Tuesday a 9 a double line . The Bedford branch of the London and Birmingham will be completed the first week in October . —Mining Journal ,
A Caution to Omnibus Travellers or Night — An old trick of the omnibus conductor * has lately come in vogue , respecting the change which thsy give . A number of instances have occurred where a party has , on leaving an omnibus at the West-end , handed the conductor half-a-crown , upon which he immediately takes a coin from two different pockets , hands it to the passenger , jumps up on the monkeyboard , and cnea " All right ; go on . " On the party looking to see if they have the right change , they sometimes find to theircost . 4 hat they only receive a shilling and a farthing . The principal victims are females .
Tub Mjwai Tujwbl Suspension-bridge . — The foundation stone of this stupendous work across the Menai Straits , was laid on Friday last . The erection of the bridge is expected to occupy three years . No less than 210 vessels laden with foreign merchandise and provisions of every sort , arrived in the port of London , on Monday and ' Tuesday . Increasb or Incendiary Fibes . —For the last month , scarcely a day has passed but the principal insurance offices have received accounts from their agents , of the most disastrous incendiary fires occurring in the different parts of the country , more especially in Essex and Suffolk . In those counties barely a night passes but the country is illumined
by the burning of agricultural property , and the greatest alarm now pervades these districts . The most alarming feeling naturally exists amongst the farmers of this country , and in many places they have forme' ) themselves into a society for the better protection of their property . The village of Soham has again been the scene of an alarming fire . No spot in England has suffered bo much from acts of incendiarism as this parish , and during the last four months , more than one-third of it has been consumed . The perpetrators , in some of these ca « es . are alledged to be merelado of amiserab ' . e half-starved appearances . Three of them have been committed to Chelmsford ior trial at the next assizes .
Governorship of Bommt . —The Worcester Herald says that Sir Dennis La Marchant , Bart ., one of the members ior Worcester , ia spoken of for the post of Governor of Bombay . Anti-Malthusianism . —The wife of a peasant at Caen , has just been delivered of three healthy male children . Two years ago she had two female children at th ^ same birth , making five children in the two years . Food for the Irish . —A statement has appeared in some of the papers that the ' mills at the Royal William Victualling Yard were immediately to commence grinding , night and day , Indian corn for the distressed Irish . At present no corn has been ground nor has any yet arrived for grinding . Everything , however , is ready , we believe , for proceeding wMi the grinding when any corn is received . —Plymouth Journal .
Pauperism in England and vyalbs —The tenth annual report of the Commissioners describes the pauperism of 1843 as " amouting to one-tenth of the population . " In their eleventh report , referring to the winter quarter ending March' 25 , 1844 , the Commissioners tell us : — "The number of n w cases in the other three quarters may be safely estimated at half a million , so that the numberof persons relieved in England and Wales in the course of the parochial year 1844 may be taken at about two millions , or nearly one-eighth part of the population . " There is to us a solemnity in this announcement like that ef a funeral knell , —the knell of a nation . Oneeighth part of the population of England and Wales paupers in a year of railroad activity , and with wheat at 51 s . 5 d . per quarter ! To what gulf are we hastening ' .
Lieut . WArnbr ' s Loi * j Ranch :. —An officer of artillery has been selected , with the consent of both parties , to teat tlie merit of Lieut . Warner ' s inventions both of the shell and long range ; the Treasury have appropriated the sum of £ 1 , 500 to defray the expenses of the experiment . Cost of the Abmt and Navy . — The expenses of the Army and Navy for the present year is £ 16 840 , 000 , being £ 5 , 180 , 000 more than in 1835 , and this is without any reference to the interest of the Nation Debt , incurred for military expenses in
former years . The population of the United Kingdom is now probably about twenty-two "millions . The impost voted for war during the past Session is about eight shillings and sixpence on every man , woman and child in Great Britain and Ireland . The total burden upon each individual for the year , is about fifteen shillings and fourpence ! and if to this be added each one ' s proportion of the interest for the debt produced by war , about one pound per head must still be added ; the grand total being little , if anything short of £ 40 . 000 . 000 sterling !
A Fostbnate Parish . —In the proceedings at the City revision , a curious circumstance transpired in reference to the parish of St . Mildred , Bread-street : tliey have had no occasion to levy a rate for the las four years . It Is Raid that thtre are now between 7000 and 8000 journeymen tailors out of employment in London . The members of the Tailors' Society receive , in such circumstances , 5 a . or 10 ? , weekly . Fearful Situation—As a pump-mal ? er , named Bradford , at Kingston , ilereforshire , was filling a bucket at a bottom of a well , a depth of twentyeight feet , the sides gave way and engulfed him ; but in the falling of the mass , three large stones formed a sort of trianeu ' ar arch over the poor fellow's
head , and were thus the means of saving his life . Six hours elapsed before he was got out . Rice ano Turnips a Substitute for Potatoes . —Throughout Scotland the entire potato crop being unfit for human food , and abandoned almost wholly by all classes of society as dnngerous even to be given to stock , the use of rice and turnips in equal quantities has been recommended as a wholesome , substantial , and palatable food for rich and poor , and as a substitute for potatoes . Blended together , and seasoned with butter , lard , or dripping , the compound forms a most agreeable dish . The turnips and rice should he boiled separately , and when the former are WClI freed Of water by pressure , and thoroughly mashed , they should then be mixed .
The Daobkiiah Murdkk —Since the verdict in the above affair was returned , a number of officers of the police force have held frequent communications on the necessity of adopting further measures to secure , if possible , the apprehension of the parties implicated in the brutal murder of poor Clarke .- The result was , that tho leaders in the movement forwarded a memorial to Scotland-yard a memorial expressive of their anxiety to procure a united expression of the sympathy of the force , by a general subscription , for the purpose of offering a further reward for the discovery of the actors in the late tragedy at Dagenham , and requesting the opinion of the Commissioners as to the legality of such a course . A favourable answer was returned in reply , and the subscription is now in course of collection .
Extension and Completion of ths Ovbrland Route to India , and the Whole Eastern Archipelago . We bclive that we can safely affirm , that tlie East India Company have given their sanction to a line of railway across the southern continent of India , with the view of facilitating our intercourse with the East , with China , and with our Australian possessions . The forthcoming report of Mr . Simms suggests the necessity of intersecting the presidencies of Madras and Bombay by a line of railway ^ and thus bringing within a month or six weeks journey to England the most distant possessions in the southern this be carried outit will
hemisphere . If project , change the commerce of the whole world ,, and consolidate our vast and scattered fragments ot empire into something like a tangible -whole . To reach China in one month , Australia in sis weeks , and to traverse the Mediterranean , the Indian Ocean , and ihe vast sweep of waters in the southern hemisphere in tho same space of time , may truly be said to be a grand g igantic scheme . Shokt Time . —The Halifax mtllowners have issued a notice , that if the operatives shall signify their dasire for such an arrangement , they -will commence running short time , " and reduce the hours of \ Hr bonr from twelve to eleven , making & pvoportioaate
reduction ot wages . [ The " Halifax millowners"' are wise in their day and generation ; but tho " operatives" are wiser , and not t& be gulled by such clumsy tricks » s this . Short Time to give it fair play , must be general , and enforced by the laiv ! The operatives are content to leave the question of wages to be settled by the general effects of such a measure . They wil make no such fools' bargains as that offered by tha " Halifax millowners . " ! Dibcoveby of IIvman Bones . — On Saturday as the labourers were employed digging the foundation for the new infirmary in Short ' s hardens , at the roar of St . Giles ' s Workhouse , thoy discovered * quantity of human bon « 8 and tlw remains apparently
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of coffins , The ground was formerly occupied by the deadhouse of St . Giles ' s Workhouse , and dwelling-SJ . Short ' s Gardens and it is mppoStffi » n . ~\ I thu 9 A 9 «> vered must bo those of perworkhoSe ^ " * - een b Mied within the wfSWsSn ? " MAN REMAi . v 3 .-Throughout the 5 S 2 i n , i H * « " »* M « tonent and difgust perv ! " ^ neighbourhood of the Caledonian-road Is-Ungf . onMaidtin . lane , and King ' s-road , on the di-coyery of hutfian somebonesand pieces of coffins exnosed n the pubHc ^ roughfares of KitiTuTder
^ circumstance of ^ moat suspicious and mysterious character . The gecrecy observed in bringin / the remains to the various ^ ote has been such as almost entirely to prevent the detection of the parties who have been gmlty of this gMOs act . In Albion 4 fcreet Caledonian-road , a-cart-load af earth was shot on Saturday in She middle of the roa > i , which is in course of construction , and emitted a mo * vt disgusting effluviu ( B , but . wasaot noticed to containr the remains of human beings . The stench caused an examination to be made , and several other portions of roffins half rotted and human bones were found . In Es&istreet
and River-street , two new streets in the cottrse of formation on the north side of the Regent ' s C » aaf , upwards of two or three-waggon loads of black eautfi intermingled with human bones have been deposited in these streets , and men have been employed to sift the ear . 'h for the purpose of mixing portions of it with lime . The bones left in the sieve , composing all parts of the human frame , were thrown on one side aHd partially buried under clay . Death or Sib Charles Wolselbt , Bam . — This venerable baronet expired ! on the 3 rd instant , at hia seat Wolseley Hall . Staffordshire , aged 78 . He was the head of one of our oldest Saxon families , and during his long career had erer been the champion of the people and staunch advoeate of civil and religious liberty and progress . His political con nection with Birmingham , and his consequent pro s ecution »? the government of that day are still famil ' ar As » landlord , he was raucli \ ) e \ ore < i mi respected
. Sr . MicnAEi / s Mount . —It is rumoured the Queen has offered £ 55 . 000 for St . Michael ' s , Mount , but that the sum asked is 75 , 000 . Nautical Facts .- —The averaee number of wrecks of British merchant ships in " a year 13 600 ! The average sum lost above two millions and a half ^ terlin < r ! The average of lives lost , the lamentable number of 1 , 560 ! but the wrecks of fifteeen out of every twenty . ships are attributed to some incompetency or other on the part of the master . Railway Employment i . v EmxBimosHiRE . —The number of men at present employed in tlie construction of railways within the county , and the Edinburgh Water Company ' s works , amount * to 3 . 509 . Of these 2 , 486 are at work on the Hawick branch of the North British Railway .
Ihb jNew Monet-Order Office Ald * r ? oatikrbbt . —A very extensive building \ v as heen erected in Aldgersgate-street . near the French Protestant Church , the internal fittings of which will be completed by Christmas next , when the wl ale businessof the Money Order Department , at present t ransacted at the the General Post uffice . St . 'Martin ' s-le-Grand , will be removed to this building wl'ich is to be styled the Chief Central Money-Order Office . A Gaiuing llouse recentl y eitablished at Newcastle upon-Tyne , and which proved a great temptations to the young men of the town , was forcibly entered by the police , and the money , implements of play , and keeperof thepremises secured , and carried before the magistrates who inflicted a fine . John Harden , pauper of the Limerick Union , died in this workhouse , a mere skeleton , from physical exhaustion , and after nine weeks ' abstinence from solid food .
The Industrial Schools . —There is an immediate prospect of industrial schools being established in Edinburgh . The British Muskum . —The exterior works of this building are now in a very advanced state . Only two of the Ioiiic columns 0 / the peristyle , and the completion of the pediment of the central portico , are wanting to perfect the facade of the principal front . Rkprksentation op North Lancashire . —There is some talk of requesting Sir Robert Peel to allow himself to he pu 5 in nomination as one of the candidates for tbe northern division of the countv , at the next election . Van Dieugk ' s Land . —A vessel has arrived from Launceston , with 2 . 848 bags of wheat , and in addition to a quantity of bark and gum , 20 logs ofmahogany , the production of the colony .
Kise is thk Prick of BitEAn . On Monday morning all the principal bakers at the west-end of London raised the price of their bread from 9 d . to 9 Jd . the 41 b . loaf . The continued rise in the price of bread , together with the scarcity of potatoes , ha 3 caused great consternation amongst the' labouring population . Qukbkc . —A Wiktbr Scexk . —The winter markets at "Quebec are very curious , every thing is frozen . Large pigs , with the ** . eouliarly bare appearance which that animal presents when singed , stand in their natural position on their ricid limb ? , or
upright in corners , killed , perhaps , months before . Frozen masses of beef , sheep , deer , fowls , cod . baddock , and eels , long and stiff , like walking stif-ks , abound in their stalls . The farmers have a great advantage in this country in being able to fatten their stock during the abundance of the summer ; and by killing them at the first cold weather , they keep frozen , to be disposed ol at their pleasure during the winter . Milk is kept in the same manner , and sold by the pound , looking like lumps of white ice . —Hochelaqa ,
A Cow Bsoissiso—We have « reat pleasure in stating that the funds of the Repeal Association are , for the future , to be devoted exclusively to the purchase of meal and Indian corn , which are to ba dis ' ributed amongst the poorer class of Irish . Mr . O'Connell has given notice of a motion to the above effect , and there is not the slightest doubt that , with his powerful influence , the resolution will be carried into execution directly . The weekly rent has already risen . —Punch . Tight Laci . no . —A learned doctor , referring to tight laci . g . avers that it is a public benefit , inasmuch as it kills all the foolish girls , and leaves all the wise ones to grow up to be women . Stkeple Chase . —A steeple cha 3 e for 1000 guineas is fixed to come off on the 4 th of November next , between Captain Wm . Peel and Mr . Hope Johnstone , over & sporting country to be selected by Lord Maidstone .
True . —Cruelty to animals is one of the distin « guishing vices of the lowest and basest of the people . Wherever it is found , it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness—an intrinsic mark , which all the external advantages of wealth , splendour , and nubility , cannot obliterate . A Roi-Ai . Marriage . —The daughter of the Queen of Madagascar hus lately espoused a Frenchman , M . Maxime Lepellier , who is the possessor not only of a princess , but of one of the largest beef-salting establishments in the country . The Screw . —Mr . F . P . Smith , the talented inventor of the screw-propeller , has been appointed by the Admiralty to' superintend at all their establishments the fitting of the screw machinery in all vessels fitted with a screw-propeller .
Odd Theft . —Some thief obtained access to the tower of Ciwle church last tvevk , and stole tlia hands from the parish clock . Ti . i- Rev . Mr . Duncombe , the vicar , has offered a reward of £ 10 for the discovery of the offender . Wild Doos . —Dreadful havoc has been committed . aiuimi ; the sheep flocks of Van Diemen's Land by wild clo ^ s . One farmer has loat , 2000 sheep , and another 7000 . The French newspapers state that almost all tha fisll tlil ' S year have quitted the coast of France and betiiki n themselves to that ofScntlunrl . Convext . —A convent , the inmates of which consist of teii or twelve sisters of charity , has boen established in Hloonisbury . The ilvess of the sisters Js entirely of . blacis . Besides administering religious consolation , they dispense temporal necessities to the sick poor .
Ciikap . —A bird-catcher in the vicinity of Seven Dials , London , announces that he will provide sportsmen - with birds , including powder , shot , and the use of a dog and g « n at the rate of two shillings per dozen biids , which he will convey to the required distance . In the garden of the city prison , Lincoln , is a dahlia eleven feefc hi ^ U . A hop-grower of Shobdou , Herefordshire , lias grown this year a hup measuring T niches iong aud 5 inches wide . Fammk in Ski-b-. —Petitions to- government are getting up throug t . umt SUyc iu order to uive timely wammff of the famine that is iearoiL The potatoes are getting wars * , although i » but too xiany p laces here , indeed iu all , they suffered , enough before to reudev them < rf littlo use to people , t » evon to animals . llsrriE ^ s aro also very Inte iu making their appearance .
Locusts '—A specimen of this celebrated species of insect was eaught the other day in a field near Broxbnrn . lit is about two ineks 3 in length , and altogether is very like an . enlasgeiJ grasshopper , having tla © same lonij ami pow . rl ' ul le « s , ivnd large brilliaut ey < s , but with father more brown iz > . fcha colour of the body . Baiaoomng . —Mr . Green ,, ftc son of the famous English aeronaut , made avi asoeut at Rj 1 '' 1 " ' Saturday week , aceonipauieJ by Uarou d'CHisson , the Swedish minister . After remaining , up loi- upwards of an homv they safely descended at about three leagues am \ a half from tho capital . According to the & ' a »«>» fornun ti » human inM wouUl be oxtiiiot in eleven years , it Vie « " •" , £ tality of the Iranian wee was us great as « » ' « »« English sarcisons in Jamaica , U on ^ Kwv ^ , Lojion , adel where . Ptaiai . it uewathUlor . rccruiU .
, ' About two hunu ' ml ii ckoiw have been recently ,, ; i »; nii « firt in Vacis bv an ingenious swindler , who SffiXaicJto tilbd with « u « l . al then- houses . 1 niitiTPit twn irancs t ' . >? I ho eaiTiano . a ln ffi pS 0 ? Unniiw *! , North Wales , there w three overseers of the poor , all 0 wunm , tins year , ftl'Q widows . What arc the bauUeloi-s about !
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THE MAID OF THE WEST . BI XBSEST J 0 NS 9 . Oh ! Shame on the slare , who betrajed thee , For granaenr , and power anfl pelf ; Who marred the brig ht image he made thee ; A traitor to thee and himself ! Hefirana thee . —a desolate maiden ; He wooed thee—throug h , long stormy years , And won thee—from thoughts sorrow-laden , To plunge thee Bgain into lean . On glory so neat consummation , A spirit—so certain to win , To pour all this cold desolation : — 'T wag pity— 'twai reason— 'twas sin ! And , shame on those heartlesB spectators , Who witnessed oppression ' s career ! » br sared thee bom felse Liberators , "Who freed—thy worst foei from their fcar . While , cheated by policy's barter , E ' en those , who would punish the deed , Surrendered the crown of the martyr , To him , who the torture decreed I Bat judgement , shall come , theugb . belated , Down-striking Mm , never to rise , Kot honoured enonph to be bated : Then hate not the thing they despise . By his grave shall no wanderer sitvreeping , Untroddtn its grasses eo gray ; While the winds of oblivion come sweeping , His lost name away and away . The child , in its tongnes ' a broken sireetnssc , "Wtitild have lisped to its mother that name ; The bard , in the spirit ' s completeness . Had snng it to snare in its frame ! That name would have paralyzed faction , In senates , -when party Tan high ; The soldier , when rushing to action . Bad found a strange charm in tha aj . All this has his folly surrendered ! All this has hi £ tre son denied ! And now , when life ' * count shall be tendered , Hell die , as all traitors nave died . Oh ! Thou werft thine own treasure's rifler , — To blot thy long life ' s crowning page ; Oh 1 conldst thon not . traitor , and trifler ! Respect thj grana , grey-headea age 1 But learn thon , e'er passing the portal Where sc « rn hol «! s the key of thy gravel That the ilaidqfthe West is immortal , And thon—art a poor , dying slave ! What } Thonghtet thon , frail waif of an hour ! To still the proad pake of the free I Death only has compassed that power , — Kot thou- —nor a ¦ milKm like thee ! Oh ! then , with its fetters about thee , This thought shall thy broken heart sen : To know—she goes conquering wiihout the * , Nor casts back one glance on tbj bier !
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SONGS FOR THE PEOPLB . so . xxxn . A STATE ABOUT THE QUACK PATRIOT AJTD HIS REPEAL DELUSION . ( Which will be found to sing very well to the tune o "O'Kowlan * MTigg . " ) Come , m tip ye a stave—if I can—About that old catamaran ! Thaf s him they call Dan , The Big Beggarman , Who clanes ye all out evarv year , That ' s clear , Through priestcraft , delusion , and f « ar . And sure ' twere a dutiful task . To tear off the ould villaiu ' 3 mask , Aud expose bus to view , Ia his own colours true , That no more in jour smiles he may basic , The onld wasp ! So well jist start the end of his cast . "Well , it's done ; an' what is't ye behold ! Who new a thing , sure , but gold ; The greedy ouia elf , His whole life ' s aim is pair , A . Patriot ! nothing hut self . But self . He's as much one as china is delf ! ^ When . Erin ! I think of his greed , Tor thee , this poor heart oft does bleed , And often I pray . That may eoon come th » day , When we'll get him laid past on the shslf ,
Theonlielf . As rapacionn as one of the Guelpb ! Thou Wretch ! with heart flinty and cold To sell thy poor country for gold ! Why for so many years , * Hid her sighs and her tears , Tour Tribute down lib ' rally told , Ss bold . . Ay , or felth ye'd ba gava her a seold ! Though famine he strides now go gaunt , And no cry is heard 'round but want , With your beagles again , Tc ' re at sweet Derrynane , And capital sport ye'll have there , Oh ' . raw , Snjoying the fresh mountain air . They'll be hungry at Cahirciveen , But of tourse you'll have none ef it ises . WhilsnpattheHall , They'll have roast , boiled , and all , An'the port too , to wash down all clean , between , Ay , an'jolly good stuff too I wean . Faith Kepale ' s been ye ' r best payin game , Tho' I fear it will damage ye ' r fame , For your name it must stink , In the nose now I think ! When one counts « p yer ili-gotten wealth , by stealth , But the Bint ' s in a bad state o' health ! Arrsh ! where ' * the Eepale now * all bam I Tour Parliament too ! all a sham ! J Thou Old Han of Sin , ThyRepale was the TIN ! Poor Erin bow sadly ta ' en in , je have been , By this vilbdnom Ola Man of Sin ! Ton may croak of ye ' r new moral fore * . An preach up decate till yer hoarse , It ' s easily seen , What your motive has been , Of Ireland you ' ve been quite the curse , Or woree , With your fingers ne ' er out of her purse , O'Higgins ! thee onward I'd cheer , To expose this old fox without fear , That Erin ' s each son Hay see she ' s been DOXE , To the tune of some thousands per year , And steer , Of this "hoary old sycophant" clear ! O'Connor ! ' tis only to thee , Tbe people mast look to be free , ^ Heaven strengthen thy arm , And shield thee from harm , And spare thy life , happy and long , Very long , So with this wish I finish my song . Tom Pis .
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THE ARISTOCRACY OF ESGLAM > . A HISTORY FOR THE PEOPLE . By Johs Hampdes , Junior . London : Chapman , Brothers , 121 , Newgate Street ; Effingham Wflssn , Royal Exchange . IN 0 . VJ If there be one thing , says John Hampden , more ominous than another in opening a hook of the peerage , it is the queer look of the armorial escutcheons by which , the aristocratic families are distinguished : —
EMBLEMS OF THE MATURE OF ARISTOCRACT . Tha whole emblazonment of aristocracy is one manifesto « f sarage barbarism , brute force , and propensity to robbery and plunder . W hat are these objects on their fhields ! Daggers , swords , lions' beads , dogs' beads , arrow-heads , boars'heads , cannon balls , clubs , with a medley of stars , moons , and unmeaning figures . What are the crests of these arms ? X . asciTiotxs goats , rampant lions , fiery dragons-and griffins gone crazed ; bulle'heads , block , leads , arms with uplifted daggers , beasts with daggers , and vultures tearing up helpless birds . What , again , are the supporters of these shields 1 What are the emblems ot the powers by which they are maintained and upheld ? The demonstration is deeply significant . They are the moat singular assemblage of all that is fierce , saragu , rampageous , villanous , lurking , treacherous , bloodthirsty , cruel , and bestial in bestial natures . They are infuriated lions , boars , and tigers ; they are raging bulls , filthy goats , horrid hyenas , ' snarling dogs , diunken bears , and mad rams 5 they are foxes , wolres , panthers , everything that is creeping , sneaking , thievish , and perfidious . 2 ? ay nature cannot furnish emblems extensive enough , and , so startup to our astonished sight the mosihideous shapes of fiendlike dragons and griffins , black , blasted as bjr infernal fires ; the most fuliginous of monsters ; and if the Imsaan shape is assumed for the gnardians and supporter j of aristocracy , the ; are wild and savage men , armed with clubs and grim with hair , scowling brute defiance , anil seeming ready to knock down any man at tbe command Of their lords . Ay , the Tery birds of prej are called in ; and eagles , rultures , cormorants , in most ezpressire attitudes , with most ludicrous embellishments of crowned heads , collared n ? cks , escutcheoned sides , and with hoisted wings and beaks of open and devouring wrath , proclaim tbe same great truth , tbat aristocracy is of the ' class of what tbe Germans call Itaub-thUren , or robberbeasts—in our Ternacul ju * . bto : U of vrty .
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THE DEATH OF THE DEMOCRAT .
BY tVIAUX HAItNET . [ The f ollowing line ? were suggested by the notice wlncli appeard in last Saturday ' s Star of the death 01 a German democrat nsoied D . Hmsiko . The deceased was " every inch a Man ; " ho acted upon the princi ple , "All men are brethren : " and through lite and at his death proved himsdf one of the hero-• i ,, ' no tyrant can rule , and no priest deceive . ]
Mr—The burial of Sir John Moore . To battle for right , and to pluck down wrong- / Tlie democrat urm'd for t he struggle ; lie defied the scourge of oppression ' s thong , And he laugh'd at foul priestcraft ' s juggle . With courage undaunted he fought the fight , Unappnll'd by pain or danger His arm was strong in thecauso of right , And his heart was to four a stranger . Struck down by the merciless dart of death , His braTe spirit no priestcraft could smother , 1 ' or he clieeriljr cried , with his latest breath "Fear nought if you love each other . " Let justico and truth , till life ' s pulse shall cease , " Be the unfailing aim of your mission , " And like mine , yuur last thoughts Bhall be thoughti of peace , " And your hopes shall be bright and Blysian !" Though dark is the night of our present woe , Thero is coming a glorious morrow , When the deeds of nueh mon as our brother laid low Shall relieve mankind of their Borrow . LinkM hand with hand , we swenr o ' er his grate To manfully struggle united , Till this earth shall be freed from tyrant and tlar * , And this world of wrong shall be righted . If our fato be to fall on battle-ground , For justice and freedom contending ; Or fast by the chain of tho tyrant bound , Our course in captivity ending ;—Or with loving and loved ones by our side , Whose heart-heaving sighs speak tlieir mourning ; If rte live as ht lived , we shall di * as he died , All priustly terrors scorning .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 10, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1387/page/3/
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