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THE BATTLE . ( From The Labour * for Jane . ) fbemr-cteeds are trampling , the bayonets are tare , inj the banner * of battle are red in ibe air ; Hurrah ! { bere flashes the flame—and there circles the smoke ! ij , 3 the army awoke—at the loud cannon-stroke . (• Kb * rise to jomr duty and march man by man , •• iud rain , and slaughter , and crush all you can . "Hurrah ! "For this is the glory of war !"
fhew bends the long host in its scarlet array , T « r stretching its dsloge of glitter away ; Hurrah ! jhectmass and helmet are flaring in light ; Sj Htmn ! but fti » i magnificentsigtit , ^ b atulionand squadron » re moving amain jo the battery ' s song and the brazen strain . Hurrah ! For this is the beauty of war . jfl 3 opposite , sullen and shadow ; and vast , gttndtnasterless , motionless multitudes massed ; Hurrah ! ( joe shudder there crept through that great living wedge , ij { he firft flsms broke from the battery ' s edge ; fbra aD was steady and still as death , Aiidmulion longs drew one long breath : Hnrrah !
For this is the moment of war . JLnoa you might sae the long streaky lines dart There the shot drove right ihroneh the multitude ' s heart ; Hurrah ! And a sudden pit dug in that human floor Where the shell dropped downward and burst and tore ; And the shrieking here—and the booming there , — Ifiih a hell on the earth and a hell in the air , Horrah ! For this is the mane of war . They stood their ground for a time like men ; Where a rent was made it was closed np again ; Hurrah ! Bat every moment more thick and fell Came the arrowy sleet of the shot and shell , — lnd heads were turned backward and cries grew load * , And they swept away like a great black cloud . Hurrah !
For this is the panic of war . Then at once all the thousand battalions enlarge , As that army pours down its magnificent charge ; Hurrah ! And the fugitives stand in their panic aghast , like stubble mown down by the great , kingly blast ; Wild bursts the load cheer—but , destroyers , beware Here cometh that leader « f leaders : —Despaib ! Hurrah ! For this is the crisis of war .
And the p » ple are turning and standing at Kay Behind ramparts of dead—a brave garrison they ! Hurrah ! SOW , Courtier 1 your plumes should be wings in your need . And , Knight of St George ! give the spun to your steed ! Tour bright silken bravery scatters the plain like gossamers strewn by the rouad summer-ram . Hurrah ! For this is thn triumph of war .
At the close of the dsy when the tempest was laid . Great masses were moving about in the shade ; Hurrah ! And broke o'er the field a broad deluge of light , . And a thunder was thrown on the pause of the night ; They clanged all their cannon , and prophets were they Of » jes of peace beneath Liberty's sway ! Hurrah ! For that was the ending of war . Ebkssi Jones .
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SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE . June . London z Simmonds and Ward , Barge Yard , Bncklershnry . The present number of th ' s useful magazine contains the usual amount of interesting matter , on a variety of subjects connected with onr colonial empire . The most important articles are those on "SierraLeone ; " "The Manufacture of Su ? ar ;" * ' Statistics of Van Dieman ' a Land ; " "Discoveries in Australia ; " and "Colonisation and Currency . " We most not o ™ it notice of our old friend Sampson Brown , whose Cockneyisb , and , withal , humourous letters , descriptive of' - Life in the Jangle " of
Cev-Ion , are sufficiently amusing . The article on "Colonisation and Currency , or what might be done with the Waste Lands of Ireland , " is one of the " signs of the times ; " another proof that the conviction is beeomini general that the restoration of the people to the land , and the land to the people , is the great step necessary to be taken to accomplish the amelioration of the condition of the messes . This article , is particularly curious and interesting , sot only on the ground of its merits , but also because of its appearance in a magazine devoted to Colonial interests , and , consequently , a favourer of extensive emigration .
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The Peoples Journal Part XVII . London : J . Bennett , 69 , Fleet-street . Articles of a very superior character , with illustrations equally good , combine to make this part a very good specimen of "The People ' s Journal . " _ In another column we have given an important article , extracted from this part , on "Small Farms and Spade Husbandry . " Amongst the most interesting of the contents we notice a paper on "Manchester , by ncpworthDixon ; "Social Problems ; " "
Sanitary Legislation ; " and the "Treatmentof Crime , " by Lord Nugent . Joseph Mszzini contributes an article on "Nationality and Cosmopolitism . " The article contains opinions we must dissent from . Both Communism and Fourierism find defenders in this part against the assaults of Mr Mazzini . A less poetical , or more rational defender of Communism , than Uoodwyn Barraby , is gsdly wanted to make CommnoisniuBderstood . Is there bo " competent person" to undertake the task ? What sajs the Editor of the Beasmer f
An excellent poem , entitled The Little Moles , " by Charles Mackay , we must find room for in an esrlv number .
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Re ramtly Herald . —Yo \ . IV .. Part 49 . London : G . Bigge , 421 , Strand . The fourth year ' s collected numbers of this publication make up a goodly and handsome volume , well worthy of taking its stand by the side of its three year ' s predecessors . In the course of the past twelve months we have so repeatedly asserted and exhibited the worth of the contents of this volume as to render any lengthened remarks now perfectly unnecessary . Suffice it to say , tfeat for original- criticism and sound taste the velume of the " Family Ilerald , " just completed , is inferior to no current nubiication , and , indcc ' l . in many respects is unrivalled as an in structor and entertainer of " The Mi 3 ion . " We can conscientiously recommend this volume as a valuable addition to the library of every man , be he rich or poor . As regards price , it is , we believe , the cheapest of the cheap ; but its cheapness is its least recommendation .
Part 40 is the first part of a new volume , which has commenced in a manner well worthy of the character of this publication , proving that the resources of the "IlewldV conductors are inexhaustible . The essays by the editor are as original , suggestive , and enrionsas ever ; and the romances , tale ? , and miscellaneous utilities , and jocularities are equally good in their w ay . The commencement of a new volume affords readers a favourable opportunity for fomiin" a direct acquaintanceship with the "Family Herald , " and judging ( of ifa merits ) for themselves .
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Me jRdland Florist . — June , Nottingham . R . Suiton . London : Simpkin , Marshall and Co . Tt e are g lad to note the success of this publication , as evidenced by the fa ' ot that the present is a double number ; apnofthat the demand for the information it supplies is greater than can be provided wi hin the limits of the space and price originally fixed by the editor . This month's numbsr is a valuable sixpenajworth f <« " any one who has a garden and desires its proper cultivation . The " Midland Florist'Ms
another proof of the advance ot that public opinion whic ' j aims at relieving the masses from the unmiti-J-atedfslavery of the manufacturing system . For a Ioip tf me past , the people of this country "haveerred asd strr . yed like lost sheep" from the bountiful lap of nature : the re-action has now commenced , and must terminate in the return of large masses of the people to this LAKD . not as feudal serfs as of yore , fratas cultivators in their own right , and emfyers of thosebl ( ssin"s which nature , with their help ot their cwa strong arm ? , will provide tor them . Speed the day .
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The JUaia ' s Advocate— Edited by Wm Daniells June . Is ' eof Man : Daniells , 4 , Post Office-place , Douglas . Several erifcfcs of m ore than ordinary importance i « miners arc contained in tins number . We particular ] v notice the articles on Captain Addisons " Plan for preventing the loss of life in coal mines ; " Mr Commissioner Tremenheerc's Report ; I he Oner ' s Deputation to London ; " and a verypraisevortliy slio » - -or « and cut-up of that - p hilanthropic lrambug , tkst ' sentiroental bastard son <> t \ We . " , that Sam Slid ; * to Elihn Buvritt . This week or nest , i-. ccordir . g a ? we may have room , we suaii quote several ; hings from this number of the " Aovocate ; " a publication whl-h , as a most earnest , faithiu ? , and able re presentative and defender of the interests of the slaves of the mine , deserves their undi-Tided and hearty sanport .
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Muketuiet KaSuiay Month ly Time and Fart TaUti * ^ writer « mi Wi Imdm Guide—London E ; Mackenne , 111 , FleeUtreet . Each succeeding number of this most useful sheet exhibitsi improvements upon its predecessor ; for instance , in the present month ' s number the traveller ^ LtT fr ^^ W ^^^^^^^ from London to Edinburgh , the moment of time he will reach thatcity , and the exact fare b y the several modes of conveyance . This information could not JSmSffi !! KS ° * Railway Guide - ^ tt ™ consulting a bewildering mass of tables , better calc -Iated to mystify than inform . The enormoM success of this penny sheet is well deserved ; it is to the interest of the public that its circulation should distance that of all enmoetitors .
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MARINO FALIERO . Do not the following words apply to a class nearer our own time and our own homes than the Venetian aristocracy of 1355 ? do they not picture the past and present of the English aristocracy ? Better bow down before the Hun , and call A Tartu lord , than these gwoln silk-worms mastsrs I The first at least was man , and used his sword Astceptre : these unmanly creeping thing ! Command our swords , ana rule us with a word At with * spell . In the assembly of the conspirators Bertram , who subsequently through weak-mindedness betrays his confederates , pleads against the universal massacre of the aristocrats , and sayg that There might he some , whose sge and quaUtiu Might mark them out for pity . To this appeal Calekdaro replies in the following glorious and unanswerable outburst : —
Yes . suck pity As when the viper hath been cut to pieces . The separate fragments quivering in the sun , In the last energy of ^ Vrnomous life . Deserve aad have . Why , I should think as se » n Of pitying some particular fang which made One in tn « jaw of the t wolu serpent , as Of saving ona of these ; they form but links Of oho long chain ; one mass , eoe breath , one body ; They eat , and drink , an 4 live , and breed together , Revel , and lie . oppress , and kill in cencirt , — So let them die as me .
Da g ouko enforces the same argument : — Should on « survive , H « would be dangerous as the whola ; it it not Their nmmber . be it tens or thousands , hut The spirit of this aristocracy Which must be rooted out ; and if there wera A tingle shoot of the old tree in life , 'T would fasten in the soil , and spring again To gleoroy verdure and to bitter fruit . • • • It is the cams , aud not our will , which asks Sneh actions Aram onr hands : we'll wash a waj All stains in Freedom's fanntnin
_ The Doge shrinks at first from consigning the entire of his own class to destruction . His conscientious scruples are thus answered by Israel Berieccio , chief of the conspirators : — Teuhave teen blood in battle , shed it , both Tour own and that of others ; can you shrink then From a few aropafrom veins of hoary vampirts , Who but give back what they have diain'd from millions ! Subsequently atjthe moment fixed for the outbreak , when the Do » e is left alone in his chamber in the Ducal palace—his nephew having left him to sound the great bell of St Mark ' , the signal of the insurrection—the old can in his soliloquy thus decides the question above discussed : —
What Are a few drops of human blood ! 'tis false , The Wood of tyrants it not human , they , Like to incarnate Molochs , feed on ours , Until ' tit time to give them to the tombs Which they have nade ta populous , When all has faiied , and the conspirators having been arrested , and put to the tortvre , are , final ]? , brought up for judgment , the following colloquy ensues between Besistendk . the chief of the Council of Ten , and Israel Bertdccio : — Bin . —Say what was your motive f I . Bek . Jmtice I Beh . What Tourohjict ! I . Beb . . Freedom ! Beh . — . —Ton arebritf , air . I . Bse . _ So my life grows : I Wai bred a soldier , not a senator . Ben . —Perhaps you think by this blunt brevity To brave yonr judges to postpone the sentence ! T . Bit , —Do you be brief as T am , and , believe me , I shall prefer that mercy to your pardon . Ben .--Is this jour sole reply to the tribunal ! I . Be * . —Go ask your racks what they have wrung from us . Or place us there again , we have still some blood left , And tome slight sense of pain in these wrench'd limbs :
But this ye dara not do ; for if we die there — And jou have left us little life to spend Upon your engines gorged with pangs already-Ye lose the public spectacle , with which Tou would appal your slaves to further slavery Groans are not words , nor agony assent , Nor affirmation truth , if Nature's sense Should overcome the soul into a lie , For a Ehort respite—must we bear or die ! Ben , —Say , who were your accomplices f I . Bm . — ————— The Senate !
Ben . —What do you mean ? I . Beb ,. — — Ask of the suffering people , Whom your patrician crimes have driven to crime . PniLip Calesdaro is next questioned , and ex « pressiug his contempt for his judges is threatened with renewed application of the torture to make him rep ' y to the questions of the court ; on which he asks— Will ray avowal on your rack Stand good in law ! Ben . Assuredly .
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Cax .. Whoe'er The culprit be whom I accuse of treason ! Ben . —Without doubt , he will be brought up to trial . Cal . —And on this testimony would he perish ! Ben So your confession be detailed and full He will stand here in peril of his life . Cal . —Then look well to thy proud self , President ! For by the eternity which yawns before me , I swear thatt&au , and only thon , shall be The traitor I denounce upon that rack , If I be stretched there for the second time . The bravo conspirators are doomed to instant death and ordeted to be gashed , * to prevent them addressing the people . The wretched Bertram , compelled to appear as a witness against his comrades , as they are about to be led to execution , solicits them to pardon his fatal weakness : —
Say you forgive me , though I never can Kitrieve my own fargireneis—frown not thus ! I . Be * . —I die and pardon tkee ! Cal . —{ Spitting at lam ) I die and scorn thcol The Doge is next brought forward to hear and meet his doom , and comports himself with all the death and pain-defying majesty which was to be anticipated from the character oi his previous life . The last scenes with his wife ; and judges are not to be easily effaced from the memory of the reader . The Doge ' s final address , in which he prophesies tie fate of Venice , isfcarfullj eloquent and sublimely terrible . The whole is too lengthy for extract , we give the conclusion : — * * * # When Smiles without nsit tl > , and pastimes without pleasure , Youth without honour , age without respect , Meanness and weakness , and a sense of woe Gain ' st which thou wilt not strive , and dar ' st not
murmur , Have made tliec last and worst of peopled deserts , Then in tfce last gasp of thine agony , Amidst thy many murders think of mine ! Thou den of drunkards with the blood of princes ! Oeheaa of the waters < Tbyu sea Sodom ! Thus I devote thee to the infernal gods ! Tliee and thy serpent s : ed ! [ litre ft * Doge turns and addraia the Eteculimtr . ] Slave , do thine office ! Strike as I struck the foe ! Strike as I would Ilavc struck those tjrnnts ! Strike deep as my curse ] Strike—and but once !
In 1335 -Marino Faliero and his compatriots perished beneath the hands of executioners . Ffcur hundred and sixty-five years subsequently a glorious poet , burn in a strange land , but by sympathy "akin to all the universe , " rises up to avenge them ! Verily , " They never fail who dit In a great cause !" * Historical fact .
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Plato observed that the minds of children were lik « : bottler with very uarrow mouths ; if you attempt to fHl them too rapidly , much knowledge was wasted and littie received . The « lory of i , reat men ought always to be measured by the means of which they have availed themselves in its acquisition . There is nu oisgulsc that can long conceal love where it 'loss exist , or feign it where it does not . It is reDoriert that Alfred Tennyson has a new pom in tlio press . An A raeric ! j' . i paper has this advertisement : " Two sisters want washing . " . , , ¦ . The camel is the only animal that cannot swim . ItiaJtn extraordinary fact , that the moment it loses its tooting" ! a stream it turns overaudmakeano effort to prevent itself from being drowned .
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T . S . DUNCOMBE , M . P . ( From The Bun , of June 7 th . ) Throughout the whole of his parliamentary career Thomas Slingsby Duncombe has proved himself to be—in word and act , in heart and soul—a Tribune of the People . Among all the distinguished Reformers of our generation he is conspicuous as about the roost consistent and the moat chivalrous , ilence it ia that Mr Duncombe hasacquiredsuch universal popularity ; hence it . isthat in all the mutations of political partizanship , in all the fluctuations of ublic sympathy
p and m all the changes of the supreme government , his name has continued to be the object of national respect , and in a ureat measure too of national affection . Even the nickname which has fallen upon him m the excitement of electioneering enthusiasm , and which stickato him like a burr , is in some sort a tolerable indication that he ia a favourite with the multitude . "The Finsbury Pet . " But Thomas Duncombe is more than the Finsbary Pet : he has , py his courageous and unflinching conduct as a liberal legislator , ensured for himself the admiration of
every sincere and earnest lover of constitutional Reform . Both as & parliamentary debater and as au advocate of those whoseextreme lowlinessdeniesthem all except such generous and spontaneous assistance as that continually afforded by the hon . gentleman the member for Finsbury—as an assiduous committeeman , and as one whose name w perpetually recurring in the division lists , Mr Duncombo is eminently entitled to the enviable consideration he has now for a considerable period enjoyed , _ On Thursday eveninc last , in the course of his
Inminous and masterly speech upon Convict Discipline , Sir G , Grey paid a deserved tribute at once to the judgment and the humanity of Mr Duncombe . We were ourselves particularly gratified with these observations of the Home Secretary , from a vivid recollection of the circumstances to which they referred , as well as from a consequent remembrance , that in regard to those very circumstances the honourable representative of Finsbury had received a wither churlish and supercilious rebuff from the government . Indeed , the complimentary allusions of Sir G : Grey can scarcely be considered as other than an act of
expiation , or , perhaps , weshould say of compensation , for the unmerited manner in which Im original proposition was received . It cannot be forgotten that we are referring to the terrible narrative of cruelties and brutalities detailed in the House of Commons by the hon . member for Finsbury several months baclt , and which narrative he declared to be a by no means exaggerated description of the conduct habitually practised by the subordinate officers to the wretched criminals incarcerated in the hulks . It cannot be forgotten , because the miseries depicted by Duncombe on that occasion produced throughout the country the liveliest feelings of horror and indignation , nor cannot by possibility have escaped the recollection of the public , that notwithstanding
thehonrepresenta-, tive for the metropolitan borough adjured the government to investigate the circumstances which ho declared to be of continual recurrence in the hulks , and to discover , by the inquiries of intelli gent commissioners , whether or no his allegations were founded m truth or misrepresentation , his demand was rejected , his assurances were slighted , and it was even determined that no Hulks Committee should be constituted , because it was maintained , forsooth , that inquiry implied an anticipatory conviction of iruilt ! Upon these frivolous and erroneous grounds Mr Duncombe ' s very rational and humane demands were rejected , and so the matter continued apparently in abeyance until her Majesty ' s Secretary for
the Home Department explicitly acknowledged , on Thursday evening , that the fullest investigation had been made into the declarations of the hon . gentleman , and that after a cursory glance at the voluminous reports transmitted for his examination by Captain Williams , "he had no hesitation in saying that there ivas ample ground for many of the statements which , had been brought forward as to the abuses existing in the hulfo . " With such an amende honourable Mr Duncombe must bs personally satisfied ; but we doubt not but that in his generous estimation the parties principally aggrieved in the transaction are lheconvictsthem ? el yesand that to those convicts , therefore , theadministrativeassistanceshould be immediately directed .
Beyond the cratificntion that mu-t be experienced by the hon . gentleman the representative of Finsbury , at the prospective prevention of the cruelties inflicted upon thrse unfortunate wretches whose temporary homes are the hulks , must be the consolatory reflection that in time those hulks may be altogether tenantlesj . Earnestly , then , do we congratulate Mr Thomas Slingsby Duncorabe upon the eulogistic remarks whiih fell on Thursday evening from jhe lips of the Home Secretnry . Those expressions embodied in their very brevity and simplicity a panegyric upon the Parliamentary career of the member for Finsbury ; and in such a panegyric we are certain that the multitude will coincide with cordiality , for Thomas Slingsby Duncombe is—and deserves to be—a national favourite .
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Wkstmisbter Mental Improvement Societi . — The discussion on the Government Plan ot Education was resumed on Saturday evening , June 6 th , at the Temperance Hall , Breadway , MrCath ? ein the chair . Mr Stall wood reviewed " the arguments- advanced by the several speakers on the previous evening , and concluded by avowing his preference of a secular over a religious education , and a State education in preference to one left entirely to the voluntary principle , as it was quite evident , so long as the latter principle prevailed , an immense number of the people wmiid remain uneducated-altogether . —Mr Cathie said , as regarded scriptural education , he did not think some of his predecessor ' s arguments would go for much . Taking Chambers' statistics for his
guide , he was justified in stating that the Irish people , with all their superstition , were better educated , or , in other words , there were not so many uneducated , in proportion to their numbers , as there were in England . — Mr Brccmasaid he had asked the previous speaker , when lie wa 3 alluding to the writings of Percy Byslie Slielley and Byron , to point out the inclegan- ^ y ofdicti n , or the immorality , contained in the works of th se authors , but Mr Cathie had failed to produce a single quotation ; but he woild tell them , or rath t give them , one strong argument against scriptu al education—it certainly did not inculcate kindn ^ a of feeling , as did the writings of Percy Byshe S ! elley . He contended that no government had any right to educate the people
in eithor politics or theo ' ogy . The teacher ' s duty was simply to give the mdiments , and leave the pupils to find theology ard politics for themselves , lie emphatically denied t ! e right of any government , or any ona else , to tr-ach the infant mind either Christianity or nateriilism—proselytism was not their business . As maturity dawned , truth would force itsolt on the human mind ( Loud cheers ) . — Mr Trurable said he entirely differed with the last speaker , as he contended it was the duty of a father to find food for his child ' s mind , quite as much as it was to clothe his body or feed his stomach , and , looking on the governmo : t in a paternal sense , he thought it equally its duty to see that the country ' s laws were wisely and justly administered .
Notwithstanding the defects of the government plan of education , he could not altogether support voluntaryism , as he found , in the midd e of the nineteenth century , largo numbers of the peo . le still without educationstill plunged in the very depths of ignorance . He thought the government guilty of tyranny when it undertook to give edrcation to Protestants , and refused it to Catholics , Jews , and those they pleased to denominate Heretics ( Loud cheers ) . For his part , he would appro ; riate the revenues « f the Church , and with them e lucate the people . To use the lan » na ^ e of Dr Hook— " Better have an impoverished hierarchy than an immoral , uneducated people" ( Great applai'e ) . —Mr Bowler said , when he first went to Liverpool he found a Liberal corporation
in existence ; that c r ,. or ition adopted a system of education in the schovh , that all creeds partook of ; but , alas ! a bigoted corporation succeeded , and reverted to narrow sectarianism : the consequence was , that the consciences of tl e parents constrained them to keep their childien from school . Did not this speak loudly in favour of a secular system of education ? ( Cheers . ) He contended that , as all were compelled to pay towards the government scheme of education , so should all be allowed to partake without prejudice ; and he knew of no better ^ plan of prevent n < i religious feuds , and creating a kindly fraternal feeling , than to permit of all being educated togetherwhich could only be done under a secular
, Byttem of education ( Loud cheers ) . The evils of a religious education were but too apparent . Had sectarianism not led to burnings , bloodshed , and destruction of human lives innumerable ? ( Hear . ) Secular education was the plan to create coid feeling , peace , and happiness ( Loud cheers ) . —Aiter a few words from Mr Tilling , Mr Walford replied , refuting very cleverly the arguments put forth in opposition to his opening speech . The meeting was then adjourned until Saturday ( this evening ) , June 12 tb , at eight o ' clock precisely , when Mr Stallwood will open the following question : " The Merit 3 of the several Candidates aspifing to the honour of representing Westminster in Parliament . " _ _ . _
Sixgdlar Iscrkask of Grain . —Lord Ivenyon ' s lodgekeoper , in the autumn of 1815 , sowed one grain of wheat in grass land ; the produce from this was 645 grains ; these were re-sown that autumn , gram by grain , on a space of ground eig ht yards by fortyone these produced in 1816 a beautiful crop , amounting to ten quarts ; thcie . were also sown grain by grain the same year , and when reaped and cleaned in September last , the produce was nine measures ancl a half , thirty-eight quarts to the measure . What does Mr Maltous say to this ? Does the principle of population proceed in the same geometrical ratio ?—From on Old Newspaper . The inhabitants of " Stony Batter , " near Dublin , have applied to the street commissioner ! for leave to change tho uame of that locality to " Palmerston Place , " as the valuo « f their property has been lessened by tho oldness of the former designation .
Philosophy triumphs easily over evils passed , and evils to be ; but present evils triumph over philosophy . ¦;¦¦ ¦ ¦•
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Having atlastfimshed with "the Chambers '" and pretty well finished them'by convicting them of the grossest inconsistency , the ' erounds and proofs of the conviction . being furnished by themselves ; having proved on their own evidence the immense advantages ot the small ( arm system , and the capabilities of that syBtem to ensure the comfort- and happiness of the oulti yators of the soil , —we may now withoutfurther notice ' consign W . C , or at least the productions of his pen , to that nameless place which his initials direct to . This column being now at liberty for other matters , we this week commence the carrying out of an idea we have entertained for some
time past . Be it known then to our readerR , that we purpose to give weekly a column of" extract" from some useful book , of a character calculated te in-Btnict the inquirer ; not omitting the design of combining as far as possible entertainment with instruction . We shall not confine ourselves , to any particular branch of literaturebut shallendeavour to '' cull the choicest" from all books coming under our notice , r We purpose to extract liberally from the works of that great Englishman , William Cwbbett . We shall have an eye to the wants of our Land readers , and occasionally eive a column of matter useful to the farmer , gardener , and housewife .
We last week promised to give an extract from certain astounding ruvelations contained in recent numbers of Howitt ' s Journal , unvr-i '> r itr some of the dark crimes of one of the detestable prince * of Germany . The following is the promised extract : — . .... . CASPAR HACSEB , THF . UERED 1 TAET PMNCE ny BADEN . Kaspar , or Caspar Hauser , the Nuremberg foundling , was observed in the evening of Whit-Mundny , the 26 th . of May , 1828 , standing against the wull in tin ; Unschlitt market-place . The citizen , an inhabitant of thi- marketplace , who first observed him , » us struck by his singular appearance . It was that of a peatiint jouth , clad in tlu < peasant costume , and hoMing in bis hiuirt a letter addressed to tlie captnin of the fourth squadron « f tin
sixth regiment of light horse , ljing there , Br-ini ; conducted to him by this good citizen , am ! questioned by him who and what he was , it became evident that he was almost wholly incapable of » p < ech , was thoroughly ignorant of everything in life , and strange in his behaviour . To all questions he answered , " From R- > j : ens . b \ tTg , " or"Johv ) aaisnit , " in the diulect of Bavaria , " I don't know ; " and yet on pen and ink being put before himphe wrote , in a tolerably legible Inuid . his mime , "' Kaspar Hausei . " All endeavours to draw from biin , however , whence he came , where he had lived , or any other matter connected with himself , wero vain . He appeared to be from sixteen to seventeen years of age . He was of middle size , broad-shouldered , and of a perfect regularity of build . His skin was ; white and Hue ,
hislimbs were delicately moulded , his hands small and beautifully formed ; and hie feet , which were as soft in texture and finely shaped as his hunws , bore not tho slightest tvaco cf having been compressed in shoes , lit ) showed the utmost abhorrence of all food or drink , except dry bread and water . His speech wns confined to a very few words , or sentences in the old Bavarian dialect , aB " Scutawahn , wiemei Vottt . Wahn is : " "I wish to be a trooper , as my father was . " Ho exhibited tho most utter unacquaintanee with the commonest objects and most daily appearances of nature , and a total indiffer . ence to the comforts and necessities of lii ' e . In his wretched dress was found a handkerchief marked K . H . ; and he had also in his pocket a manuscript Catholic
prayer-book . The writer of tho letter which he had brought in hia hand , professed to be a poor labourer , and tho father often children , and said that the boy had been left by his unknown mother at his door ; that he had taken him in , and brought him up secretly , teach , ing him reading , writing , and Christianity . The letter was dated 1828 . from the Bavarian frontiers , but the place not named , Within it was another letter , purporting to bo from then-other , and written in Roman characters , saying that the boy was born on the 30 th of April . 1812 ; that his mother was a poor maiden , who couW not support him , and his father a soldier iu the sixth regiment of light horse , now dead . Thnt she requested the labourer to keep him till he was seventeen , and then send him to the regiment .
The whole of the story was soon felt to hang very badly together . It was not likely that a mother , determining to expose her child , would lay it at the door ot a poor labourer with ten children , and expect him to keep it sevtnteen years . It was less likely that any poor In bourcrin such circumstancesc « uld or would so i ' aithfullv supporta burden of this kind for so many years , iind then so punctually convey him to the place appointed . Besides , what metive could the man have for conceal , mint ? The mother might have , but what could the poor labourer have ! If he had received the child , he would most likely have let him run about with hia o « n ten . But to shut him up iu a dark den , and there for seventeen years feed and visit him , was u piece of labour and ravsteiy which no common labourer would Futjeot himself to . There was evidently a nobler parentage , and anotbtr story , for which this was but a clumsy substitute .
He was handed over by the cap ' ain of horse to the police the very evening that he was found , and he wns treated by them as a helpless person from some unknown place . The greatest curiosity was excited regarding him , as soon as the ca 6 O was known , and Burgermeister Binder especially exerted himself to penetrate the mystery which surrounded him . The result of much inquiry , partly from himself , and partly from circumstantial evidence , was , that lie had been kept from his childhood in a dark , subterranean place , where hecould not once . stretch himself properly , it was so small , and there he had remained clad only in a shirt and trouners , and fed on bread and water . Occasionally he was attacked with very heavv
sleep , and on awaking from these peculiar sleeps he found that his clothes had been changed , his nails cut , and the place had been cleaned out . His only amusement was playing with two wooden horses . For some time , however , bc-fore he was carried off to Nuremberg , the man who tended him , but whose face he never saw had coma frequently into his cell , had guided his hand in writini : with a pencil on paper , which had delighted him very much , and had taught him to say he would be a soldier as his father had been ; that he was from Regensbcrg ; and " I don't know . " At length " the man , " as he always called him , came one night , carried him out of hia dungeon , made him try to walk , on which he fainted , and at last brought him to the gate of Nuremberg .
Every circumstance testified to the truth of these fact ? . He stumbled slowly forward in attempting to walk . lie appeared to have no guidance or control of his limbs . Ilia feet , which had never been used to boots , wera now thrust into them , and evidently gave him the greatest torture , 'Walking occasioned him to groan and weep . His eyes could hot bear the light , but bcGame inflamed ; and the formation of the bones and muscles of his le gs demonstrated that he had sate all his life along . At first he bad no idea whatever of the qualities of things ; nor of distances . He was delighted ¦ with the flame of 6
candle , and put his finger into it . At the police office he exhibited ho symptoms of interest in anything , of confusion , or of alarm . Feigned cuts were made at him , and thrusts , but he did not even wink in consequence . The sound of bells made no impression on him ; but on drums beating near him , he was thrown into convulsions . gjjFrom the police-office he was removed to the prison for vagabonds and beggars . Here the keeper at first regarded him as an impostor , but soon found him actually to be in the state of a little child ; and the jailer ' s children played with him , and taught him to speak .
The public curiosity regarding him and his story grew , and numbers flocked from all sides to seohim . They brought him toys . Ton Feuerbach visited him after he had been considerably more than a month in Nuremberg , and found bis room stuck all over with printB and pictures which had been given him , nnd money , playthings , and clothes , lying about in regular order , which every night ho packed up , and unpacked and arranged every morning . 113 complained that the people teazed him ; that he Uadhead-aclies , n-liicb . he had never known in his cell .
ORthelSlhof July he was released from the prison , and given into the care of Professor Baumer , who undertook to bring him up and educate him ; and an order Wis issued by the magistrates that ho should not be interrupted by anymore visitors . Here being shown a beautiful prospect from a window , he drew back in terror ; and when afterwards be had learned t © spook , aud was asked why he did eo , he said it was because a wooden shutter seemed to have been put close before his eyes , spattered all over with different colours . His sense of smell was most acute , and often gave him great agony . He could not bear to pans through or near a churchyard , because tha effluvia , unperceived by others , affected him with horror . He was extremely amiable , and attached himself with the utmost affection to the Professor and Mrs Daumer .
On the 17 th » f October he was found blooding , and insensible , from a dreadful wound in the forehead in a . cellar . He was supposed to bo ( lead ; but he finally re . covered , awl state d , that " the man" hod entered the house in the absence of tho family , having his face blacked , and had wounded him ; how he got into th » cellar he could not tell , In his delirium he bad often said , " Man come—don't kill me . 1 love all men—do no one anything . Man . Ilovoyoutoo . Don't kill—whv man kill ! " . Strict offioial inquiry was made into the circumstances , but no further light was thrown upon them . It was evident , however , that some diabolical mystery hung over him . There were powerful enemies somewhere , and it was now evident that they had taken alarm . Thopublic curiosity had spread far and wide the fame of ihii strange youth , and it was evident that he might yet
recollect things which might lead to a detection of his origin . Amongst those who now became deeply interested in him was Lord Stanhope , who undertook the wholo charge of ! iis education , and removed him to Angpach . Here he was placed for awhile as clerk in the registrar ' s office of the Court of Appeal ; nnd ho was quietly per . forming his duties when Lord Stanhope began to talk of adopting him anil bringing him to England . This most probably sealed his fate ; for ono evening , December 14 , 1833 , as he was returning from the oflice , a etranger accosted him in tho street , and on pretence of giving him news from Lord Stanhope , and intelligence regarding his origin , induced him to accompany him into the castle gardens ,, whera ho suddenly stabbed him in tha left side . Ilamer had strength cnoHgh to reach home , and to utter a few indistinct words , when ho fainted , . The police were instantly summoned , but before they arrived
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Kaspar Hauser was deaa , ' Ho trace of tfie murderer couU be found . - ¦ -i ^ The belief throughout Germany is , that the unfor-• t " n 5 Caspar HaU 8 er was the true heir of the throne iTfj- "" - * Grand-Dnice Karl and the adopted daughter of Napoleon ,. Sfephanio Tascher . In hii . Journal , William Uowilt pive . s copioin extracts from a certain German work published secretly , which extracts , accompanied by a mass of circum-Btnntial evidence , strongly bears out the popular belet ol the German people respecting Hauser . Fur-. ?? ° rf T ? " W < Pcrseouti <> n and final assassination of Rawer u shown to have been but one of a series ot crimes , almost equally revolting , committed by the same parties . Tho celebrated Bavarian ju « lge , Von Fenerbaph , deputed by the kin" of 13 ayam . instituted a rigid inquiry cnncernjng Caspar Ilauscr . but was comnellnd t . nnln « o > w .. «„ . < :.. n ..
followine remarkable words : — " There arc circles of human society into which the arm of jwtice dares not penetrate ! " Feuerbach , nevertheless , continued his individual scrutiny into this mysterious history , and it was said had made curious discoveries , which he was likely one day to publish . This , however , was prevented by the timely and sudden death of Fever bach . "His relations setm to entertain but little doubt of the nature of Im fatal disease !" The entire of this strange history , which would occupy the best part of a page of this paper , will be found in numbers 19 . 20 and 21 of How M ' s Journal nnd aluo the Part ( No . 5 ) for June . To that publication we refer tho curious , who will find therein new weapons for the war against Kingcraft .
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IMS & ° L F co * ffi . the pen of the celebrated FatherKenyou . andis !? - d-cssed to the editor a 3 one of the ' accredited leadon of the Young bektid part . The rev £ nfT . YrT , ? a ba * te 7 " ifcafimo denunciation at £ " ^ P £ n . a"a } nat a resolution proposed by % . . n ° n ' r' \\ Mraeetin & ofthc ™ nn «» ot the " Confederation , " pledging the body to join in a national demonstration of honour to the remains df Mr 0 ConncH-a course altogether repugnant to the feclitiKS of thc writer , for tho reasons hereinafter stated , without reserve or qualification , or " mincing of the matter " :-- . ¦¦ .
" tour weedsof mourning and Mr O'Brien ' s resolution imply arid expivss that Sir O'Connell ' s demise has been a great loss to Ireland , nnd that a tribute of National respect in due to his remains . I do not believe in the truth of the fact ; I deny the justice of the debt . 11 Mr O'Connell ' s death , ia my deliberate opinion , has been no Ie 3 s whatever to the Irish nation . On the contrary , I think that Mr 6 'Connell haB beon doing before his deati-, and was likely to continue doing as long as he might live , very grievous to Ireland ; so that I account his deuth rather a gain than a loss to tho country . II 9 was the vaunted leader , the prime mover , the head and frtnt , the life and soul of a system of policy at once so servile and despotic , bo hoMow and so corrupt , so
barefacedly hypocritical and dreadfully demoralizing , that the very organs of tho government to which it pandered laughed it into scorn . That Ms slavish minions , hia selfish followers , or his deluded dupes , should have deemed his death a loss , I was , propared to learn ; but tlutt the Irish Confederates whom he insulted , spurned , and would have hanged—the representatives of the mnn . hood of tho nation which he had degraded into brutish beggary—that these should adopt the error , and make it the foundation of a further and more fatal miitakc-, this was nn event for which I was utterly unprepared a midnight inundation from which I know not where to hope for shelter . All seems confusion , and it is intensely durk .
It you justly respect a man , he must be respectable in his totality . If a nation justly respects him , ho mu * l he a benefactor , a blessing to that nation . O'Connell is not such . lie befooled this country before his death , and ho died politically impenitent . Irtland , therefore , owes him nothing but forgiveness . If she gives him more , and to the extent to which she shall give him more , then in that proportion will she uusetthi the principles of public morality , incapacitato herself from reivardin ? hone . ity nnd fidelity , and brand ht-rself with in . famy throughout the oomlne vears .
If an apprehension of exasperating dissensions turned your heads a'tray , I would solemnly submit to jour immediate consideration tbat such apprehensions belong to that class of temporary expedients , involving a dereliction of principle for a hope of presf nt good , in which Mr O'Connell himself lived , and moved , and had his bcinpr , and of the utter vanity of which his fate is a most signal wurning . I believe in that sentiment of Carlylu ' s—the solitary light is jour last dark number—that every cause , "so far as it is true—no farther , yet precisely eo far—is very sure of victory : the falsehood of it alone will ha conquered . " So have all Mr O'Connell ' s makeiliifta . those emanations of saper-human prudence for which he was so magnified by his worshippers , ended in bitterness and untimel y ashee . They were conquered by
an ovi-rruliRg Providence . Over and above tbo essential emp ! ines 9 of your hope —over nnd above the danger inherent in every deviation from right , I can even see staring into my fnce an overwhelming vanity , a manifold and manifest peril in thu policy you have adopted . Tou assist in creating anational demonstration of grief at O'Connell ' s funeral . If lie merits that , to-day , why did you oppose liim yesterday ? Out of your own mouths , verily , you shall be or ndemncd . How could you avoid seeing that Conciliati n-Hull , and its no principles , and its hereditary des . piitism , and its slavery , and its sycophancy , and its corn ptiori , and itsno-drop-of blood-but-every-ounce . of-flesh tl eory , and its barefaced beggary , but will suck fre 6 h riiality from your tainted characters ? If your
resoluten was just , it your grief was called for , such imminent dEnger might almost warrant you in suppressing it ; but tli ;; t you should court the risk of such nn enormous exptnse of consistency and equity , —that you should court it for the express purpose ofinducing your country , long treated as a honnd by O'Connell , with more than a hoondlsh wvility to howl ov ;> r his bier , —this is that midnight inundation from which I seo no way to escape . So far I have addressed mvself to you , Sir , and to tho council of the Irieh confederation , arguing on our common principles . But I will not concluda without appeal - ing to the Iriah public at large . Is it possible that this nation can remain infatuated for ever ? O'Connell has boasted that ha guided us , and bis toadies have vouch e I every word he told us for 50 years . Well , then ,
let us look about and calculate our obligations for the nervier . Whither havo we boon guided ? Where aad how haihe left us ? We have beon guided , stepbystep , lelf-boodwinked , to suoh an abyss of physical and moral misery—to such a condition of helpless and hopelesB degradation , as no race of mankind was ever plunged in since the creation . We are a nation of beggars—mean , shameless , lying beggars . And this is where O'Connell has guided us . But it will be said that he could not help till . I deny it , No man ever enjoyed or abused such rmurces as , in the cxtravagranco of our devotion , wo lavished ou O'Connell . Since I was able to think or act as a man , till within a twelvemonth , hehad me , with all that flod gave mo , of thought , and goeds , and life , at his or mm and . And my case was the ease of millions .
Had O'Connell been mould in a jnstcr type—had he cultivated the virtues which it ivas his duty to cherish , of integrity , frugality , sincerity—had ho studied his plans maturely , and pursued them consistently—had he been liberal of judgment , nnd sparing in equal proportions of moneys , of censures , and of praise—had he cultivated disinterestedness amongst his followers , and selected his counsellors from thc ranks of honesty and virtu " , there is no destiny foo glorioui to which he might not have conducted Ireland . But , unfortunately for his fame , aud for his country , he was a mere timeserving politician—a huckster of expediencies . He said things , and did them not . lie issued orders , aud jeered
the men who obeyed him , as the powder . monkies of Cork enn testify . Se patronized liars , parnfitee , and bullies . He brooked no greatness that grovelled not at his feet . jKe conducted a petty traffic iu instalments , He boasttd . He flattered grossly , and was grossly flattered . ~ He forestalled his glory ; and enjoyed with a relish a reputation that he forgot to earn . Above all , he was unsteady , because ho was unprincipled , The gentry of Ireland could never unite with him , and no man in Ireland could calculate upon his policy for a month . Thus the lives , and loves , and treasures of this trusting land were frittered into nought—thus wero our resources squandered , our hopes thus levelled to thc
grave . I deny not the good points of O'Counell ' s character j nnd , if I do not omunoratc them , it is only because all his points—good , bad , and indifferent—have been extolled over frequently and overmuch . He was , all in all , i () i grand homme manque , possessing great elements of ( . 'ventness , but alloyed below the standard . He faded in his mission , and he deserved to fail iu it . The real liberators of nations liavo steered a straight course , tuslcail of stultifying ourselves by another national demonstration , we should rather study the ways of Trovi . deuce for ' our instruction , and learn from tho signal falluro of O , Connell a greater confidence in God ' s truth , and less trust iu mau ' s devices .
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The bloom of the hawthorn was never known to to be more beautiful than is the case at the present moment . ; According to tho bookef Japhet . recentlypublished , Na&mah , the daughter of Enoch , was 580 years old when she was married to Noah . This is an example Unit should give courage to tbo old maids of tho oresent day . The New YorkStandard says that a confectioner ol that city has discovered a method of makin » ice creams by steam , and hopes to bo enabled to supply them at halt tho former prices . A Neapolitan newspaper lately contained an advertiEcnent from a poet , who undertakes to furnish in iour-and-twenty hours , a comedy ; in forty-eight , 11 tragedy or a lilretto ; and in sixtv-two , a novel , in stroplm of six lines , " with any letter of the alphatetlett out , at pleasure of tho customer .
iho Irish judges have postponed the summer assizes to October , in consequonce of the prevalence of typhus fever throughout the country . The editor of the Boston Post says— " All that is necessary for the enjoyment of sausages at breakfast , ifl co »/ i <; nce . "
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n t-& i ! *! "" Lwo .- ! The Niagara Mail Canada West , ot the loth nit . states :-A trw-m . clous immigration or-pi / . pw , » from tho ndwiKin * Stub's took | . iiuci 5 on Sunday last . They were fi-iisaing the Miajiiira from before nine in ' the morn i ng until past one in tho afteriwnn ; andtakinEtl ^ ar-eed ofHi » htat 30 i :-iilrs an hour , the flock musD liwe been npwjsrds of-120 miles ii length . Emjoiust OnuRCHKS . — A London church-builder provides w . iod and iron churches for tran smission to the colonies . . He offers a church , with stained plans windows , bell , < kc ., cupabli : of sc-ilini : 800 pemms , for 500 suiiiMs ; but if you cannot afford to buy a church , lie will lend you oiie " on hire . " Mm ; and Pias . — the quantity ol mi * k brought into Livi-r [ K ; o ) by railway is enorranus-, and wi !! " help to make up lot' the loss of rtvonus caused by tho an > nihilft , ion of Irish pi » 9 , whoec carriage t . gcd formerly to yirld an income of many pounds a week . —Liverpool Mercury . . .
nn : KjirKnoR of Russia and the Exiled P-uss . —\ Ne quote from the S ' pener G .-itelte : — ' U ia said that the . Empcvor Kioholay is- about to do at . spC of generosity towards such Poles ; is have bft'ii condemned l < ir political offrncea . TJinse who have bwa exiltd to Siberia , and whose elates have br-en enrbscntcd , are to bo allowed to return into th ? kingdom sum re-enter into potsessi ^ n of their pmiiertv . [ . Fudge . ] . An Ibikit Remedy . —A pcmH- 'mnn observing an Irish servant pirl who vas left hnmlcd , nlncins tV-8 knives and forks on the dinner table in thu ssiraa awkward position , remarked to har that . uh « w » a lay ide themleft handed . "Oh , indadc , " saw aba solflave ! Be plased , sir , to help me to tni-n the table round . " l
Extraohdisart . ~ A sow in llenley-iii-Ardcii , on luesday liist , farrowed eleven young pigs , of which the hlth was born with theclicst open , so as r .. afford a lull view of the heart and lamrs , which vvw * in their proper places ; but the entrails were < v ! outside , though quite perfect , and placed in the natural order , l he animal was never perceived to mnvs , but the heart beat lor an hour nnd a half , and the lm . es tor lour hours and a half , after its birth Fuekmasonry iH PnussiA .-Thc principal Lodge oftheLrccmasons of Breslau hast struck out of Hs laws tbo clauses which presurilm .-l th . it no person could be received a Mason without belonging : ' to the Christian religion , and which particularly im ?) dieted I he admission of Jews . His p <> val lli-hn-as the Prince of Prussia , Grand Master r . ( all the . M&semio Lotigjes of the Kingdom , Las consented to this modificatioii of the laws .
Mn O'Co . vN 7 UL . ~ -The admirers of Mr OOonnell have resolved to honour his remains with « a rand and solemn funeral procession through London , should they ( ss it is expected they will ) pass through en route for Ireland ; and tbo Roman Catholic clersy intend , it i .- < said , to havo a solemn high ma *« and requiem performed over them in MoovfieldR ehapeS . A Ioad is a Hole—A correi-pondent of the Fife , shire Journal states that he lately saw a toad dnj ; out of a garden , after it had been buried , in an earthen , pat , deep below tlie surface , for the space oi iwa yenvs and eight months . It was alive , an < i apparently none the worse for its \ onu and solittivv cow finement . Covered Street Arcades at Paris . —A hwe company , with a capital of oO . OOO OOOf ., lias juafi been formed , for constructing a series of pi-maes converts from the Boulard St Denis to the Plane du ( . batelet . The company to be called C . des Valeria du , Commerce .
White C ' howb . —The rookery at Castledykes has become quite isruous for its white crows . ' It baa again produced one this year , which was caugtit on the Kingholm-road . It is a handsome young bird of a pure cream eolour . —Dumfries Courier . Serenade ro Jexet Lrm—At ten o ' clock » , i Friday evening , a party of fifteen centlen . en , members of the German Vocal Club ( Liederkranz ) , repaired to Mile . Lind ' s residence at Brompton , and huving * btained admittance to the garden at the back of the house , they executed several beautiful serenade air 3 in a very superior nnd musician-like manner . Mite . Lind walked into the garden , and thanked tha gentlemen for their unexpected attention . Stkokg Drink — «• Wine of four men" ia the ;; f . nie given to ft kind of wine made at a place calk ! Witzenhaisen , in Germany . The reason of this name is that " it takes one to pour it out , one to dri : ik it , and two to iiokl the man while he swallows it . *'—iVeto York Mirror .
Dr CnALiiBUs . —The public funeral of this treat and good man took place last week , his last remains being iuterrcd in the New Southern Cemetery at Grange . A Wise PniEST . —A German priest was walking in procession at the head of bis parishioners over cultivated fields , in order to procure a blessing npoa the crops . When he enme to oue of unpromising ap . peaivwce , be would pass on , paying , " Here ur&rers aud singing will avail nothing ; this must liava manure . " Fever in Glasgow . —It is indeed raging at a fear « ful rate , and no sufficient accommodation is yet provided . Up to the 26 th nit ., there were 41 ? cases on the lines of the district suvgeons of the poor alone ; On that day there were S 3 cases of fresli'liucs ! This simple statement carries its own tale . — Glasgow Gazette .
LsTiiEriDiTY op Queen Isabella . —Tho Faro , of Madrid , informs us that Queen Isabella is as intrepid a horsewoman as she is a skilful driver . "Lately ( ssiys ^ this journal ) there arrived at Aranjutz several English , Norman , and other foreign horsos , of which two were chosen for the Queen " , who immediately mounted one of them , withoutbeingat all acquainted with its qualities . " A aiore decided instance of her intrepidity has been related in the saloons of Madrid . One of the dragoons of her guard was thrown by a vicious horso . The Queen ordered a side-saddle to he put upon the animal , and mounting it , brought it in less than half an hour under perfect subjection . Improvements op Greenwich Hospital . —Workmen are employed , by order of the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital , in the demolition of the Ship Tavern , the Lord Ligonier ' s Head , and other buiidngs in Fisher-lane , Greenwich , to form improvements in the line of , and in addition to , the viver frontage of Greenwich Hospital .
Tnu New Officis of « ib Treasury at White-Hin . —The erection of thc new offices of the Treasury at Whitehall has been completed , and the whole of the scaffolding removed . The new building completes the whole of the course of buildings of the Privy Council , Board of Trade , nnd Home and Treasury oflicL' 3 , formerly an unseemly edifice , but now presenting a fao , > de of elegant and elaborate architecture , in keeping with the magnificent structure of the new Houses of Parliament , and a great additional ornament to "Whitehall . ¦ ¦ Tri'jius PiVKs . —\ k order to aid as iaav ] i as possible tk ^ niftV- 'iition of infection from typhus fever . ' we present tho fullowing simple ami cfUwicious recipe of
Dr J . C . Smith , for which ha was paid £ . j , C' >' v . by Parliament : — " Take six drachms ot ' powdersd jiif . t-b ( saltpetre ) and six drachma of sulphuric acid ( oil of vitriol ); mix them in a teacup . By adding one draclim uf the oil iit a time , a copious discharge of nitrous acid gns will take placb . The cup to be placed during the preparation on n hot hearth or a plate of heated iron , and the mixtu . ro stirred with a tobacco pipe . The quantity of gas may be regulated by lessening or increasing the quantity of ingredients . The above is for a moderate-sized room ; half the quantity would be sufficient for a small room . Avoid as much as possible breathing the gas when it first rises from the vessel . "
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Manchester . —A singular caso of swindling has been brought before the magistrates . A Young German giving the name of Adolphus Sehutz , was the prisoner , and Mr Beswick ,. chief superintendent of the Manchester detective { police , stated that-he had reason to bolieve the accused went , some time ago , to thc banket" Messrs J . II . Stemclz and Co ., Vienna , and obtained a lettor of credit upon houses in England for 20 , 000 florins ( £ 2 , 000 , ) and upon this letter there was , as usual , the names of several houses in this country to whom the holder wa ? , entitled to apply , as convenience might d ; tate . Amongst these names wero those of Mr Sin . csitch , London , and Messrs Merck , merchants , Cross-street , Manchester . When he obtained a letter of credit ,
it now appeared that he had pilfered blank forms for others from the same house , and that he had filled one of them up , forging the names of Stemetz and Co ., and taking one of them to Mr Shusesitch , in Lordon , got £ 1 , 900 advanced upon it . He had then , gone to Manchester , obtained £ 1 , 900 from Messrs Merck , and from thence wont to Liverpool and en * gaged a passage in the Cambria , for Boston , U . S ., which should have sailed on Saturday but was detained by low tides till Monday . In the meantime Messrs Merck had obtained information that he had drawn to tho amount of his credit in London , and upon their information Mr Beswick had sent aa officer to Liverpool , who apprehended him . The prisoner had to be examined throug h tbo medium of an interpreter , and acknowledged the offence , stating that he had been robbed of the first sum of money iu London , and had been driven in this way
to commit tho forgery . In the course of the examination this difficulty arose to tho prosecution—that no one could swear whi ch wa 3 the forged and which , the real lottcr of credit , and Mr Maud ( tho magistrate ) said , in this dilemma he would remand him , to ace if witnesses couW he procured ; luTfc he could not commit him to the assizes for trial without somo one from Vienna to swear to the writing of StomeU and Co , Our reporter states , it has transp ired that the prisoner had power to draw in thirteen largo cities in different parts of a route from Vienna to England , and that by means of another forgesy he had drawn to the lull amount of the gonuine letter , of credit at Aix la Chapello . He had nu accomplice when he arrived at Manchester , who escaped to Loni don , as it is supposed . It has further transpired that he had transmitted £ 1 , 000 tofriends in Vienna , and this money , it is expected , will ke recovered , I \ cry little money was found in hi « possession .
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Untitled Article
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Citation
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 12, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1422/page/3/
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