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" ' THE h * $ to AND THE CHARTER . An Epistolary Edogne , ABDMlsra TO FEAIQCS O ' COXHOB , u « . , » od tnou wast filled «¦ a river with wisdom , and thy * -red the earth . Thy name went abroad to the j , tl * off « ana < hou WMt Stared in thy peace . The ^ es wondered at thee . because tboti hast been a * , h to the poor , a strength to the needy in his dig-, Thus Onins answering , said , "This is a lover oi * w thren . and of the people of Israel . "—Ecdes . xvii-^ -Mac xr-M .
Of » U the wonders of this wondrous age flat cheer the po » r man and exalt the sage ; Of all the treasures that are daily given jit God to man , to fix his thoughts on Heaven , Thtrr ' s none that Prudence wisel y recommends , To all her children and to Freedom ' s friends , g 0 much as oM that all should learn to know , tnio ! o « the people , or regret their woe— , One that must soon reform a nation ' s laws , I VotoU the sanction , sad the world ' s applause ; One that fball hallow a bright patriot ' s name , And add new glory to his deathless fame . Thine , ? r * at O'Connor , thine , illustrious chief , Thr toim now ofivred for a nation ' s grief ; K ind Heaven has raised thee for a noble end , To be the father and the people ' s friend : Tbj Lsnd and Charter are tut God ' s decree . To make men happy and all nations free .
Thini be the glorj , which thy works display , Thy lsstingmonuments cannot decay : The people ' s rights , before condenm'd to toil , jlr , now inscribed upon their native soil . H- who did once a houseless stranger roam , { Us now a dwelling and a happy home . The st-ats where once oppression rais'd her head , 5 o * Labour cheers , and Indolence has fled : There humble cotteges in myriads stand , In vite back health and decorate the land , plenty and ease with affluence unite . To sweeten comfort and increase delight . All man can wish , when from ambition free , Snrronuds his home , in mild simplicity . Secure from want , with freedom ever blest , Bis hands ma ; labour , bat his heart ' s at rest . Remote from envy and devoid of care , He smiles at fortune , for he has his share .
So useless dainties crowd bis frugal board , Hi * best repast i » what his bands afford . Imidltthe pleasures of a rural life , He rears hi 3 children , and he loves his wife ; Well pleas'd with these , content with peace and
health , He wants no more , for happiness is wealth . Hail ! mighty man , to thee the world matt bow , Admire thy virtnej and thy claims allow : The time is come , when they who scoffd before , Mast own their folly , and their faalts deplore . Thy greatest foe , who once could crowds command . And rale his rivals with an iron hand . Ha * prov'd , by reasons lighter than his purse , A nz ' . ion ' t leggar is a nation ' s cane . Tor freedom too he twenty reasons found , Xot worth the snillines that make op one pound . Bat lei him go , the teretehl I must not blame , As naBehtsurrires him but a traitor ' s name . Por ^' t , forget , since he has ceas'd to live , In m- icy spare , in pity now forgive . Tnlike to his . thy name shall proudly sianJ , The Churlet's pride , the glory of the land . Great is thy task , thy course with zeal pursue , To tntnd old manners and reform the new . Subiime the work , as grand the priia shall be , A dwtUett crown cf immortality . London , July 16 , 18 ( 7 . As Ikisbmam .
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The following lines find a place in onr columns , nose , as poetry , they are worthy of that distincon , and because the poetess is equally worthy of all snoor . Bat we must dissent from our friend ' s medy for national ills . Instead ot flying in despair aa the land of their birth , we trust that the people resolved with Robert Niool to 44 Mak * the warld better yet "—31 remain at home and win back their right—the od of their sires . If there most be a general emiation , let it be a driving ont of the drones of the re—an English " edition" of the " emigration" oi 89-03 . The sooner plunderers and idlers " quit , " i better ; bat let honest men stay at home and niggle to get" their ain again . " SONG OF THE EMIGRANT . bi us . b . r . tostix .
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THE WESTMINSTER AND FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW . Jclt . London : G . Lurford , Whitefr-ars-street . . This number , though containing some valuable and putetest jog articles , is to our view—inferior to some | r ecent irsnes . Its principal drawback is the very j pieagre notices of foreign literature which may be in-£ « Kled to uphold tho title of Foreign Review , but JTOicn certainly will not hare that result . Questions gniONrisin politics and productions of foreign literature Jfemacd mueh greater space than is afforded in this pnoaeation . The Convocation of the States General « t Prussia , the progress of peaceful revolution in J » £ , the critical stateof Switzerland , and the signs pi tne coming hurricane in France , are subjects which . EDCUld emolov the nens of writer * in a « ' R >»;_ P « .
Slew , ' to say nothing of the boundless Sow of [ much and German literature , very inadequately "presented at present in this periodical . The article on " International Law " reads very like a defenceofthe right oftneassasiusof Poland to confiscate Cracow ; and is really a laboured apology in their behalf . Thank Heaven , the time is coming when this "international law "—founded on the u s urpations of kingcraft—will be blown to annihilation by the uprising of the nations against their ty-[ rants and their tyrants' laws . Speed the day 1 i The article on " Currency Principles , " isone well-^ calculated to uatkad . It is the production of a man I * ho has attempted to be profoundand achieved only
, j the lmer triumph of being plausible . Those really acquainted with the science of government must itnow that many theories which look well on paper | fiave the disadvantage of being impracticable in ac itualhfe , our " reviewer ' s" article is of this das 3 , as Jfiefox said of the mask "It isa fine head to look at , ! Wt there are no brains within . " He is in fact a nomceat his trade , who cannot understand the most ordinary principles of currency , or detect the difference between aetaal and apparent wealth . He thus states the convulsion which followed the railway ! Psnicofl 845 : — '
Tte jearlsao n as characterised by an extravagant spirit Mlpeeolatioa . BUTnasHng in toldnessoot onl y that of 1825 " tit anj mania for money-making witnessed iathis conn , T since the days of the celebrated South See bubble . * o * more than a century back . The cold fit , ' or panic ,, * hith followed the railway fever , was of course itsnatoal attendant ; but sabstquently , asd long after its jniptom had entirely subsided , when tpeculation in railways wae entirely at aa end , and railway shares had reached apparently their lowest point of depression , pub-5 e ctt < Kt MiUaincd a shock unprecedented in this coun . fcji excepting at a time of war . or of apprehended invasion * « oluticn . We have seen the funds fall 1 per cent .
P * r wetk , for tix rcetks in succession ;—the scrip of a fortrnniuii loan at £ 3 discount within a month of its Kins ;_ the r « eof interest rise in a fortnight from * to P » cent , ou bills of exchange of the first class , and of wt date ;—priTate acceptances of the ordinary mercan-= character rendered scarcely negotiable upon any J « ms Of OUeount ( 7 | and as much as 15 per cent having *> me instances bem paid ); and the Bank refusing to -ice advances ciiious npun Exchtquer Bills , and even WW HlviT bluItoB . tliuS lits tbe fi « tofthe many fallacies of the nit . tlie ^ reat commercial depresBsion was p rtvio » " ^^ inevitable result ot the enormous weuit ^ J ^ , 1311011 - The iund 9 fell ~ the public credit am ? ., ea 5 - the total absence of private 11 and stabiUty . It was the fashion amon-st all
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Jlasses of railway speculators to talk durine th * 5 S" ° S e maHia ' of having ««* »* W hm ^ ga ss&ssssgBrj change for that amount , and those who'fijlS " s ^ L ^ ses ^ fe i . To carry out this principle-Sir R PeerfiBanv illsf- * # 2 ? ermind 1 that \ h » v " ^ Ui onists object , on the iSS ? -th £ ! S may hwe ° ther security than money—that government securities and even private SafeVm ^ T y remMk . that though apparently VZL ^ ZSte g ^ mment securities are by no ffOm classes of railway nrtrrnlntnm tn t-ilfi t . ¦
SSJUf "" ^ f ^ P 0 * "" ** of change « hich risitseyerything on this earth :-For the second .-if 5 teTT dIdnolkoow ' «»^ to have in ri rf S'J ^ w tablUhed in x \ ew York on precisely that footing : thntthe title deeds of private property were considered as security , and notea issued to the amount only , oflessthaa half their value ? What was the result ? though kept within these limits , the whole thing was a failure—property i j r l t ^ timation , and finally the title deeds were sold for less than one-eighth of their professed value . If it be objected that this , or ereater restriction ot the paper currency , would injure the trade of our merchants , it must not be forgotten that it is to the undue accommod&tionj ; ranted , { especially by private banks , that this trade has out-stepped the limits of their legitimate capital . Had the merchant been compelled to confine his transactions within the
amount of his own bullion capital , it would have been impossible for him to have suffered the reverses described . But he had been trading on that which had no tangible existence , on notes lor which he bad no correspondent value , and on a fictitious and temporary prosperity , and it was fortunate for all members of the community that the crash was not longer in arriving , siHce , evil as its effects were , they would afterwards have been more difficult to overcome . We see nothing in this article but oft-refuted fallacies , against which it is our duty , as honest critics to protest . The labour of the people is the only legitimate source of wealth—and bullion is the only true representation of it . A bank-note issued beyond the amount of uullioa is but the promissory note of a company , instead of a private individualthe value of both to be determined only by our confidence in their honesty .
We have now done with what iB ever to us an unplea-Bast task—that of finding fault . It is a relief to turn to articles which we can generally approve of , and commend . The *• Trial of the Earl of Somerset" is an interesting abridgment of that curious story the " Great Oyer of Poisoning . " The light now thrown upon the faetsof that revolting history , has somewhat mitigated the blackness of darkness which has hitherto enshrouded the name of Carr ; at the same time that light has served to still more clearly reveal the disgusting character of the beastly James 1 st , and the general iniquity of the aristocracy ef that day . The whole article is well calculated to inspire tbe reader with a wholesome horror of courts and kings .
The "Life of Geerge Fox " the founder of the Quakers , details many interesting facts in the history of this very remarkable , and in ' some respects great man . But we cannot join the reviewer in unqualified praise of his hero . Fox did not wholly escape the fanaticism of his age , and some of his " cunwientious" doings savour strongly of the ridiculuus ; for instance , his refusal to take off his hat in a court of justice . This folly of the Quakers we have alwayB regarded in the light of an offence against good manners . We must confess that , little as we respect many of our judicial usage ? , we should no more think of entering a court of justice covered than we should think of doing the same thing in a church , or the house of any nerson—friend or
stranger . Bj-the-by , we remember that when at Dunfermline we visited * the cathedral or church where lies buried all that remains of Robert the Bruce , instinctively we uncovered as we crossed the threshold . _ a Scotch friend accompanied us , and between him and the person who showed us over the church there passed a jocular remark on our English fashion ot uncovering on entering a place of worship ( whether or net religious service was being performed , ) and we _ gathered from the said remark that our " canny friends " considered thesaid custom decidedly " popish , " and " more honoured in ; the breach than in the observance . " We must confess that , " popish" or not , we very much prefer the custom generally pursued in England by all save
the Quakers . But at the grave of Robert the Bruce w e should have uncovered , though that grave had been on the bleak hill-Bide , instead of within a " religions sanctuary , " as we did uncover in the shade of Wallace ' s eak at Eldet > lie . The graves of Burns , and Byron , and Shakespeare ; the humble cottage on the banks of Doon , and the lordly halls of Newstead ; and every spot hallowed by poetry and patriotism , it has been our good fortune to visit—has not found as wanting in this mark of homage which the greatness of the past extorts from us , whether in Westminster Hall , or the filthy and miserable haunts made by the once human tread of Goldsmith , "holy ground . " But to return to George Fox . In the article before us there are certain fac ts revealed of the double doings
of Mr Cromwell , not at all redounding to his credit ; facts , which even that sword-worshipper Thomas Carlyle—one-half a great man , and one-half a great humbug—will find it difficult to explain away . One thing we admire in Fox , his preaching against all priesthoods . This one feature of Quakerism—the absence ef a priesthood—is its redeeming feature in our eyes . We have no special liking for the drabcolouretl gentry , rather the ' reverse , but we mu 3 t confess wedo well like their refusal to support either priests for themselves , or other folks' priests . As Ions as the people will have spiritual mediators between themselves and Heaven , they will be " led by the nose as asses are , "—tke prey of speculators in human credulity , and trafficker * in human ignorance and folly .
PJeasin ? articles on the " Birds of Jamaica . " and the clever but dainty Fanny Kemble ' s " Year of Consolation , " will repay perusal . Last , not least , we direct attention to a charming article on a charming subject , — "Persian Poetry , " ' rom which we shall give an- extract or two ; the first briefly tells the sad store of the career of Persia ' s Homer -.
—riRDDSI . Ha was bora at Shadab . a village in the district of Tus , in Khorassan , about the year 910 , A . D ., some forty years after our brave Alfred had finished the work that was allotted to him , and had closed his eyes on a king , dom now beginning under bis rale to manifest tbe various elements of future order and strength . Tradition reports that hit father was a gardener , in the service of the governor of Tus . Both he and Mb brother worked for many years as husbandmen ; and perhaps the poet might hare continued thera to his death , keeping his wild thoughts to himself as he toiled with his spade , had uoi the repeated insults of a neighbour , who had quarrelled with them , roused his latent spirit . After in vain urging his brother to accompany him in search of another home , Firdnii departed alone , in a glcony mood of stera Dante-like decision , and bent his steps towards Ghnzni , where Mahmoud held his court . The Sultan wasreao « ntd aaapatron of literature , and had gathered
round him all the best poets of the land , An old chronick , called thK Bazian-namcii ( something similar to that meutiuued in Esther vi . 1 ) , had betn lately ( its cuvertd , uhkh purported to give an account of llie ancient history of Persia , previous to the invasion of the Mohammedans , as related in the lost national ballads ; and Mahmoud was ambitious ef leaving , as a monument of his taste and patronage of letter * , a poem begun under his auspices , which should embrace all these legends , and be a standard national history . The best poets of his covthad already been employed in various episodes , and one mined Uasari had gained the palm . Firdusi beautifully deicnbes how many a day of sorrow * rullonging he spfnt after bis arrival at the city , vainly hoping that some opportunity for displaying his talents might present itself ; till at length a friend obtained for him , after much trouble , a copy of the Bastau Nameh , and ( as he says )" enlightened my darkened soul . " He forthwith prepared tone episodes from tnechronicles . tnd such
was bis success that he was soon appointed by Mahmoud to undertake the great natiensl work . A thousand gold pieces were promised for every thousand couplets , and accordingl y he commenced his task with , golden prospects . of fame and wealth opening on every side . He com . pletely gave himstlf up to the undertaking , and laboured atit unremittingly for thirty year # . At length the work wascoinple' . ed' , hut during the thirty year * that had been spent on it many changes had occurred . Old friends had died or grotni cold , and the court swarmed with new faces , who looked tcornfally on the old poet , grown gray and infirm in his stud y . He had al > o had the misfortune , to incur the enmity of Aiyar , the sultan ' s favourite , who used all his iuflusnee to poison the royal mind against him , representing him as disaffected to the empire , and to the national faith , in Consequence of ihis
some passages n poem describing the ancient rehgion of Zoroaster . These efforts had not failed Mahmoud , with all his excellences ( and they were many ) ' was proud and suspicious , and only too read y to give credit to the suggestions . He received the copy of the completed epic with studied coldness ; and in vain Firdusi waitedforthe promUsed rewarjj , with which he had fondly hoped for so many years to beautify his native city , Tus . After months of anxious expectation he sent an ep igram , to the Sultan , in which he compares his liability to a sea , " and what though I have dived in it and found no pearls , it is the fault of my nature and notof the sea . " But , as sir W . Jones says , " where an epic had failed , what could be expected of an epigram !" Jla ' iHioud resolved to add insult to neglect , aud he sent tie poet C 0 , 008 < ftrr /* enw instead of the pieces of gold . Firdusi was in the bath when the money arrived , and
the proud spirit , which no jears could chill , fiiea tx once , as it had done more thaB | thirty venre befor at Tub . He distributed the money among the attendants at the
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^ > athi , and inveighed bitterly against the sultan ' s meanness . His words were repeated with exaggerations to Mahmoud , who , in an evil hour for his fame , gave way to bis resentment , and ordered hin to be trampled to death by an elephant ! Firdud , after many entreaties , obtained a remission of hU sentence , but the labour of thirty years was lost , aud all his hopes w « re blasted . He walked home alone from the court , and there , in the bitterness of his heart , wrote a withering satire against the sultan , heaping all the invectives that bis injured spirit could devise , not forgetting the blot in Mabmoud ' s escutcheon , that he was the son of a slave . This he sent sealed to a courtier , desiring him to give it to his master whenever he was more than Usually dis . tnrbed by state affairs , in the meantime he fled from
Ghuim , and sought shelter in Mazindaran . But Mahmoud-s wrath knew no bounds , and his emmissaries followed Fudusi everywhere . He next took refuge in Bagdad , where the caliph , Kader Billah , received him for a time ; and he added in hi . praise a thousand lines to the Shah-naraeh ( as his great poem iB called , t . « King-book ); but tbe cali ph was too weak to dispute Mahmoud ' s will , and a stern message from Ghurni once more hurried Firausiinto erile . He was then more than SBTentyyeari of flge , and for several years he wandered from plaoe to place in constant dre * d of Mahmoud ' s vengeance . At length , wearied with poverty , sickness , age , and the ingratitude of his friends , he bent his steps , accompanied by his daughter , who was his only stay , towards his native Tus , in hopes to gladden his old eyes , ere he closed them for ever , with a sight of the haunts
of his cbUahosd . There amWst the scenes of his early life , when he had been the poor gardener of Shadab he died and was buried . Soon after his death , Mahmoud touched perhaps with remorse at the sad fate of him who had once been the glory of his court , sent the long withheld 60 . 000 pieces of gold : but his daughter , with the true spirit of her father , nobly refused the gift , saying , " what have I to do now with the w « . ilth of kings !" We would gladly give specimens of Firdusi's poetry but want of space forbids . The same cause prevents us noticing the other great poets of Persia ; even Sadi , Jelaleddin , and Hafiz . We must , however , make room for , and conclude this notice with , the following anacreonatie effusion from the pen of the last-named of these Persian worthies . — " Tha rose has come , forth ! Oh J my friends , 'tis the hour
To fill the bright goblet , and drink in the bower Come , seize the sweetseason , —who know * not , too well That not always tbe pearl can be found in the shell ! Love ' s path is a desert of doubt and dismay , Where none but the foolish would willingly stray ! A truce to your volumes—your studies give o ' er , —> For hooks cannot teach you love ' s marvellous lore ; Come , listen to me ; ye shall learn it apace , If you'll fix fast your thoughts on your mistreBs ' s face , My mistress ' s image , that idol divine , Has found in my besom an altar and shrine ; There she rules like a queen , with a crown on her brow , Though she scorns her poor subject , and laughs at bis WOB . Come , open the tavern ; why longer delay f And bring as the wine to chass sorrow away , —• Not Cutber ' s * fair stream can so gladden the soul , As the liquor that dances and laughs in the bowl . Come , friends , bring the wine , for the moments fait fly , Ere the week iB well ended the roses will' die ; And may fortune look smiling , and shield us from sorrow , Nor send as an ache and repentance to-morrow 1 And do thou , too , ray fair one , be here with thy smile , And scatter thy glances , like jewi-ls , the while : For none bus the bigot will ever rrprove The passionate fervour of Hafiz ' * love . "
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* A stream in Paradise .
The Theologian . A Review of Ancient and Modern Divinity , &c ., &c . July . London : W . J . Cleaver , Baker-street , Portman-square . this bi-monthly publication seems to be the advocate of certain shades of opinion , more nice than wise , between "high church" and " low church , " some " golden mean" which is to unite the distracted members of our plethoric " establishment : " we say thattbi 8 tous " seeas" go ; . for . w « confess we have lacked the necessary courage and patience to wade through the ponderous contents . One article we have thoroughly read , because the perusal of the first few lines sufficed to show us that the author is a warm-hearted friend of the poor . The article is entiled "Ireland , as viewed by His Grace the
Archbishop of Dublin , " and ia , if we are not greatly mistaken , the production of a philanthropist well-known to our readers for the incongruity of his politics" old-fashioned Toryism , " combined with an earnest and Hfe-long advocacy of the interests of the working classes . The heartless Malthusianism and ignorant flippancy exhibited by " His Grace , " in the course of the recent discussions in the House of Lords on the Irish Poor Relief Bill meet with a jast exposure and well-merited castration , and we must congratulate the writer on having achieved a complete vindication of the principle of the old English Poor Law , and a triumphant defence of the much-abused and
muchcalumniated working class of England . The writer draws largely from public reports of the horrible " famine " and pestilence which have recen ly desolated Ireland , and his comments thereon show not merely the sympathy of his heart but also the soundness of his head in suggesting measures to relieve and ultimately remove the misery he deplores . We are glad to observe that this article has been reprinted for distribution , independent of the Tkeolo gian . We eonsider that all advocates of Justice as opposed to MalthuaianiBm will perform a publio duty in giving their aid in making better known Ireland , as viewed by His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin . "
The curious in such matters will find lengthy articles on " The Education of the Middle Classes , " and " Maskell ' s Ancient Liturgies . " •• The Country at the Dissolution " sets forth Protestant and Protectionist views for the benefit of the electors , and , ol course , " slashingly " assails Sir Robert Peel .
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Tlie Upland Hamlet and other Poems , by Spencer T . Hall . London : W . S . Orrand Co . " The Upland Hamlet" exbibits . in addition to the author ' s usual powers of '' rhyme , " occasional gleams of real poetry . Most of the other pieces are characterised by sweetness and simplicity , and form very agreeable reading . There are better things than the lines on Burns to be found in the volume , but we extract this piece , as most fitting for our columns .
BURNS AND HIS FAME Recited to a meeting of Scotsmen , in Shsffitld , on the anniversary of their poet ' s birth , 1811 . Men of tbe land of" flood and felt , " And deathless song and matchless story ! Men who , where ' er ye roam or dwell , Point back unto a home of glory ! Though in Old England ' s heart my home—A lone and lowly brown-thatch'd cat-To-day in Barns ' s name I eome , And feel myself with you a Scot ! Burns—Burns 2 O , not in name alone Is present here that spirit bright : In many a song we hear its tone , And feel its throb and see its li ght Tn many a heart and many an eye , Nor is it to our circle bound , But , far as fancy can deicry , Is cherished , reverenced , and reaowned !
Wide over Scotia ' s rugged land , This hour ten thousand ingUs blare , Sonnd each of whicb a heart-warm band In rapture chants his glorious lays ; While the lone packman far away . Toiling his evening inn to gain , Starts on remembrance of the day , And chords in fancy with the strain . Remote in wild Columbian woods . The emigrant with moistening eye , Sees " Burns "in those vast solitudes Upon his" big ba ' bible "lie : He takes the book—tbe wee things " throng Around , and list with deep delight , Ab in his thrilling native tongue He reads the Mossgiel ' s " Cottar ' s Might . " And where by some Australian strtam .
That sweetly lulls the drowsy noon , The unplaidtd shepherd loves to dream Of winding Ayr and bonny Doon ; His brother herdsmen wandering by , Perchance the da ) to mind will bring ; And Scotland to their hearts come nigh As " days of auld lang syne " they sing Yes ! gather'd here or gather'd there , Britannia ' s sons the wide world o ' er , Will hail him each returning year With offerings worthier than before : Yet , thoogh more tuneful eastern rain , And richer in poetic flowers , No lay names Burns ' * dear-loved name With more devotedness than ours !
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The Usitbd Patriots' akd Patriarchs' Societies . —The nwt anniversary meeting of the Birmingham branch ot this society was held on the 12 th instant ) at the Dolphin Inn , Broomsgrove-street , when the members and their wives sat dovn to an excellent dinner . Charles Fulford , Esq . surgeon , of Paradisestreet , occupied the chair . — After the cloth was withdrawn , the chairman proposed " Prosperity to the United Patriots ' and Patriarchs'Society , " and congratulated the members upon the thriving state of the society ' s funds , and the increasing attention
that its admirable piovisionaand rules was gradually attracting in Birmingham , Wolverhampton , and elsewhere . The health of Mr . Harris , secretary , was next proposed and drank with great applause , Mr Beetleston proposed the health of the surgeon , Mr Fulford , and observed that the members felt much pleasure in meeting him at the annual featival , and boing able to express to him their great satisfaction of the manner with which he had Uniformly fulfilled his duties . The health of the pattona , T . Duneombe , T . Wakley , and Luke Hansard , Etiqrs ., was drank with great applause .
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SMALL HOLDINGS triti ^ n 'Sr * ! ' congratulati » n that the Scottish Pa-2 K ? . fMiu Ulld 51 ' t ! llt '' n in right earnest tbe advocacy of smalHatm , . The alloKation that an ener-«* andindustrious family . « £ %£ * £ ™ ,, 3 S x / h , r , ! rm e K cre 8 bytiie 8 ^ «^ » be raised b , large farmers b y meana ef the plough , is so . upported by experience , and by reaeon , that it » diffl . cult to understand the hostility shonn b y many to the general introduction of the sy 8 tem . it has , however socet . es and , s daily borne out by ao mauy fresh ex . pmmenti , that its ultimate success cannot be doubted
Small farms cannot of course be cultivated to profit without skill nud knowled ge of the principles of farming , and yet . tistocrofts wretchedl y managed b y half-savaee tenants , that the opponents of the system have looked for their ¦ illustrations . Even large forms will prove ruinous if Ulisktlfully managed . Iu Downshire there are u . ooo farms undernve acres ; the tenants aro prosper , ous and h , gh apiritca . In limerick there are only hall tlie number , with poor and apathetic tenants . The dif tereuce lies altogether in the amount of agricultural skill .
Nothing is better established than the profitablen » 68 of small crofts , when well cropped , manured , and managed . Dr Mackenzie , in nn admirable address to the Gairloch crofters , pointed out n proper rotation of cropping , and made nu nsiimate of profits . Four aure » and a half are allottd for eiv . h crofr . as leing quits enough for the bodily labour of one famil y . The half acre is allowed for house , corn yard , garden , ise . Tho four acreB are laid out in four fields as follows : — 'No 1 ia oats for hay ; 2 , grass ; 3 , bear and grass seeds ' ; and 4 , green crop—as turnips , potatoes , < fcc . & * . The acre of oats Is made into hay , and immediately afterwards planted with cabbages , which have been preparing for that purpose in the garden . No . 2 is in clover to he cut for the cows in the bvre . No . % is In bear find clover seed sown with it , and Ho . 4 is in potatoes and turnips . Supposing , then , the lot to be in good order , and fairly undor its regular crops ; an acre of good clorer is sufficient to keep three ordinary cows in a full supply of food if
cut and carried to the b yre during the raonthB of June , July , August , and September , with a little help from the house and garden ; and from September till June of the following year , these cows will easily be kept upon the hay , straw , turnips , and cabbages , < Ssc , which will then be roady for them . These tlti ^ a cows , supposing them to be properly fea and attended to , and properly cleaned and rubbed down daily lilto horses in a gentleman ' s stable , vill be bad milkers indeed if they do not average five pints of milk each daily for the four months they are on grass , three pints daily for the next four moiilhs , and one pint and half daily for the rest of the year , allowing them a mouth to run drjr bgfore calving . This comes in all to 3240 pints in the year . An acre of good boar should yield not less than fire quarters , deducting seed . Suppose half an acre of laud under potatoes , it should jield at least fifteen bolls , or sixty barrels . At present prices a Scotch pint of milk , if made into butter and cheese , is worth 3 d . ; so that
3 , 210 pints amount to ... ... ... £ lo 10 0 5 quarters of bear , at 30 s 7 10 0 15 bolls , or GO barrels of potatoes , at 4 s . 12 0 0 Showing a return of ... £ 60 e 0 for tbe year ' s produce of tho croft , besides the use of the garden and several other little mattera , and not counting any return from tbe bill pasture attached to each lot . ' Such ia Dr Mackenzie ' s estimate , and it has been found not an extravagant one . The population on the estate already resembles a' hive of beeB , ' to use the phraseology of the ' Industrial Magazine . '
The tendency of the evidence ia exactly the same from all part- of the country , where experiments have been fairly and fully tried . Of course it is necessary to raise the habits of the crofter s . Not the least important element in this process is the improvement of their dwellings . This may he effected by willing proprietors at far less cest than is generally imagined , Dr Mackenzie haB erected cottages on a new model , which take up no moro room tluin a common croft , but contain—Living room , parents' bedroom , girls' bedroom , boys ' bedroom , milk room , store , water closet , piggery , byre , and barn .
A plan it given B the " Industrial Magazine ' for Ma , * , It adds— ' With the exception of a few additional doors and windows , and some ' cat and clay'partitioning , tho cottage is as cheaply constructed as the usual ones . The doors and windows are so arranged as to ensure light and well ventilated rooms . The slops and draining of the house , water-closet , bjre , and pig-stye , instond of spreading in front of the house , are carefully conduct' ; : ! at tbe back into a liquid-manure tank , built with stonf- > , like an inverted bee-hive , and rendered water tight by a puddling of clay , or a coating of asphalte , formed
by mixing boiling tar with fino Rand . Instead of tho whole family being crowded into one room by d : iy and night , a kitchen with a banging chimney is provided , which , by the adoption of an iron plate at the back , imparts warmth to tke parents' and girls' bedrooms . The masonry of such a cottuge , for walls , eO 8 t £ 2 108 , ; the wood work , about £ 4 , The cotter first covers the roof with turf or divot , and in time thatches all of it with straw or rushes ; a roof of that description being calculated to last out the nineteen-years' lease on which crofts are set . '
The esaential and primary requisite is , however , agricultural skill ; and for this the Silf-suppoHing Agricultural Schools , in the course of institution , will form vuluable machinery . In these , in return for three hours ' rural labour by the boys on bis _ eroft , the schoolmaster crofter give » three hours' instruction . In England , the pupils cheerfully pay a penny a-head in addition . Such a school has been established at Cairloch . Mnjor Wray , in Kent , has carried out the principle still farther . In a national schoel there , he obtained a neat and clever workman te make models , in a part oi the school-ground , of the best methods of draining , dig . ing , trenching , fencing , iic . This man ' s services were required only twice afterwards in tencbing the boys how to begin their work , and also the proper use of their tools , whicb the committee had handsomely provided .
Lessons were subsequently given in tno easieBt mode of taking land-levels ; and ae Kent is a county abounding in wood aud hop plantations , the boys were taught how to set out land for planting in the triangular furm as well at the square system . Three lessons wore deemed quite sufficient to enable the boys to comprehend the principle , and to work afterwards under tbe superintendence of those persons who took an interest in their progress , without any additional aid ; more especially as the master of the school , a very intelligent man , had in the mean time made himself quite competent to direct their field operations . These works are resumed twice a week in spring and summer ; and such is the proficiency of the boys that many of them can not only perform all the work without assistance , but even give inBtruCtiOQ to others , although their average agiB do not exceed 10 } years ' .
' At the examination , ' says the' Labourers' Friend ' s Magazine , '' which we had the pleasure of attending last week , all that is here stated was verified to the letter . Three several troops of little urchins were mustered on the green , tools in hand , who speedily and accurately exhibited their skill in taking levels , calculating the weight of earth to be moved , and the expense ; also in planting , both on tbe square and triangular system . We also saw specimens of their skill in fencing , draining , and trenching , in all which operations they displayed a proficiency very rare indeed among the even experienced agricultural labourers . These valuable arts have been acquired at a comparatively small sacrifice of attention to tho ordinary school duties ; they are highly creditable to the ohool , most beneficial to the boys , and rcdotnd greatly to the honour of those who bare promoted them . We oannot wish anything better for rural schools generally , than that they should be as well and as usefully conducted as that of Bearstoad '
We are happy at all times to notice the success of any attempts to apply the labour of the people to the land , which only requires such application to supply food more than sufficient for all .
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Bbranokr . —The first chosen retreat of Beranger was in the neighbourhood of Tours , and here he spent several successive years . But whether the spot was inconveniently far from his friends of the capital , or whether any other cause intervened , is not known to us . However , certain it is that the poet has more lately been located at the village of Plassjr , within a few miles of Paris . So the recent memoir of Mr Anderson informs us . That gentleman visited the poet in 1811 , and found him inhabiting a neat little mansion , altogether such as might have been supposed congenial to his tastes . The personal manner of Beranger , it is stated , ia full of unaffected urbanity . Iu person the poet is " a little man , " continues his Scottish y isiter , " not more , T should say . than five feet five inches in height , of a
firm make , and apparently robust and healthy , He has a high , intellectual forehead , regular and rather handsome features , and a quick sparkling eye . The principal expression of his face is , I think , that of kindness combined with shrewdness . He talks rapidly and earnestly , pouring a flood of information upon whatever subject occupies his attention , be it political , biographical , or literary ; and possesses in an eminent degree the power of commanding the attention of his auditory . " He is well acquainted , it appears , with the works of Walter Scott ( through versions ); and he knows enough of our true Scottish national poet to prize highly the title of a " French Burns . " Thus quietly , in a pleasant retreat , are passed and passing the advanced years of Pierre Jeun de Beranger .
Accident on the London and North-Wrstbrn Railwat . —On Tuesday afternoon as a passenger train from London arrived near the Tring Station , the en gine-driver , it is stated through not regarding the signal cautioning him of danger , ran into a luggags-train which was on the line . The coming in train was a very long one , and the shock of course very great . Many of tho passengers , it seems , were severely bruised , but nothing of a moro serious nature occurred . . The harvest in tho empire of Morocco is ended , and the produce has been bo abundant that corn hng fallen to one-half oi the price at which it was previ ously soldt
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A farmer , dcHcribing the effect of the present favourable weather , and the progrcssof the crops , said . - ' Wecould not hove managed it betterourselres , ir ^ uiStes" " 1111 m ouoiuuid "i—t aru ™ . One of the steamers arrived from Boulogne has brought a numberofhTO oxesol French production , or » o in tins country . We hope the importers wil have to export the vermin . A Hull paper states that an association has been formed in that town for the purpose of " keciiine journeymen shoemakers honest . " The Boston Post . U . S ., mentions a very impressive and solemn funeral in Water-atreut . A barrel of porter had fallen from a truck , and some fifty mourners were standing round the beer . [ Oh ! oh H The Conference of the Wesleyau Society for ifW 7 will be held in Liverpool .
Professor Wilson has published a letter disclaiming all present connection with Blackwnod . A few days since in a quarrel , the mate of a vossd lying in the docks at Liverpool bit oiFthe nose of a seaman , and forced a finger into his eye ; but the seaman preferred a charge of assault against his brutal officer , who has been committed for trial . No less than eighteen gallons of whisltyand twelve dozen of wines were required for the Kilkenny hospital during the past week .
At the late meeting of the British Association for the Promotion of Science , it waH stated that the potato rot hail appeared in New Zealand . Mr Disraeli now advocates an alteration in the Game Laws . At a recent sale by Messrs Puttick and Simpson , 2 m a ? p ! £ Ph letter of Lwd Bac » n , dated August 4 th , 1606 , and addressed to Sir Thomas Iloby , sold tor eighteen guineas . The Russian government has sent a quantity of coin to England , in order that it may be assayed at the English mint . Several English anglers have lately risited Norway for the purpose of enjoying the sport of salmon hslnug in the Norwegian rivers , and they are said to have been very successful .
The commissioners of the Northern Lights have purchased several tons' weight of lenses , ol French manufacture , for the use of the lighthouses under their management . A medal will be struck in order to commemorate the installation of Prince Albert us Chancellor of the University of Cambridge . [ When will the sycophantic snobs at this seat of learning discover a little common sense ?] Mr T . Lennon Hunt has been appointed Vice-Consnl of England at Monte Video , in the place of i \ lr Hood , recently appointed Consul at Buenos Ayres . A return procured by Sir II . W . Barron , M . P ., shows that the sums granted by parliament for Irish fisheries , in 1846 , amounted to £ 50 , 000 , and for British fisheries to £ 11 , 000 . The Grand Duke of Baden has allowed lod"es of freedoms to be established in his dominions , where they had been forbidden during the last thirtv-four
years . An old woman in Largo ( Fifeshire ) , named Hannah Duncan , has just finished the 102 nd year of her a ° e A few days ago she took a walk on the seashore accompanied by her daughter . She is now blind . A cargo of sugar from the West Indies is guon expected to arrive in the Isle of Man , where sugar has never before been imported directly from the countries in which it has grown . Among the importations which have lately taken place from the United States of America are some dried apples , which are cut into small piecea , like slices of candied orange or lemon peel , and form an agreeable dish for dessert . On the person of a young man , committed for burglary , at Stockport , was found a book called " The llonest Man's Guide . "
Considerable quantities of chicory are now grown in the sandy lands in the neighbourhood of Marton , near Blackpool . The Gateshead Observer saya that a playful whirlwind betook itself to haymaking tbe other day in the field , ran off with a quantity of the crop 200 feet high in the air , and then sportively scattered it over its fellow haymakers . A medal has been struck in honour of Viscount Hardinge . and in commemoration of his victories over the Sikhs . On one side is a likeness of Lord Hardinge , and on the obverse is a figure of Minerva receiving from an armed warrior the lowered sword and tho unrated olive branch , aa the symbols of a 1 conquered peace . " [ Let us trust the time will arrive when due honour shall be meted to those who wield the pen—more powerful than the sword—and whose omission is peace , and good will to men ? J
A few days since & snake entered a dairy at St Osyth , Essex , and emptied a pan of milk , but was killed by the farmer , while endeavouring to make its escape . Official returns for Massachusetts show that with males ( bachelors ) tbe average duration of life was thirty-six years , but fifty-six withjmarried men . Bachelors , then , not in a fortune-hunting sense , should marry , to live . The Doncaster Chronicle says : —Mr Smith , the gardener at Brodsworth Hall , took up one potato * root , the other day , which had the extraordinary number of one hundred and eighteen full-grown potatoes attached . We are happy to learn that the sample was entirely free from disease .
The owner of Van Tromp , one of the favourites for the Derby , for six weeks before the race , had two policemen guarding his horse ' s stable , one at night and the other in the day time . The king of- Bavaria has allowed the statue of Luther to be placed among the statues of other illustrious Germans in the Walhalla , whence it bad hitherto been excluded on account of the king ' s religious prejudices . An electric telegraph has been established between Amsterdam and several of the principal towns in Holland . A German journal states that shambles are about to be established in Berlin for the public sale of horseflesh . A swallow ot a pure white colour has been caught in Renfrewshire .
Steps have been taken to establish an Athentoum at Birmingham . Some of the land bought ^ at Birkenhead at four pence , has lately been sold at four guineas per yard" Go back to the first period of man ' s existence . —What shall we find tbere ? Nothing but one wide common ; a wilderness , on which man , for the first , time , has imprinted his footsteps . Of course it belongs to all equally . "—Thomas Skidmore . Tho house in which the great German poet ScMller lived at Weimar has been bought at a public auction , for the sum of 5 , 025 thalers , by the corporation of the town , which has purchased the dwelling in order that it may be preserved as a memorial of its former illustrious inmate . ( . We trust our country * men will take this hint , and bear in remembrance the immortal bard of Avon . ]
The last descendant of Martin Luther , now living in Germany , and very poor , lately abjured the Reformed , and adopted the Roman ( Jatholic religion . It has been asked why the ladies with whom Prince Albert dances at the balls in Buckingham Palace or elsewhere , are always married ladies ? So many recruits have lately been raised for the artillery , that the barracks at Woolwich aro unable to hold them , and some of them have consequently been forced to encamp in tents . Tho Cheltenham Examiner suggests that all the Smiths in tho kingdom , estimated at a million , should subscribe one penny each to a testimonial to the distinguished Sir Harry Smith . As the present mode of branding deserters has been found inefficient , the Duke of Wellington has given orders that the operation shall be henceforth performed with needles and gunpowder , ao as to make the letter D indelible .
The American Anti-Slavery Society elected Frederick Douglass president of the recent Anti-Slavery Convention . Tho National Association for the reform of excise abuses is prosecuting a vigorous agitation throughout Scotland . Mr Lassell , of Starfield , Liverpool , asserts that he has ascertained the existence of a satellite to Neptune . - The government of Bavaria has ordered that from the 1 st of August next , the ! journals published in other German states , Bremen excepted , shall no longer be subjected to tho censorship on arriving within its territories . The Nairn Mirror mentions that a labourer lately ( foundon tho beach a large codfish , which had unsuccessfully attempted to swallow a grilse weighing more than ernht pounds , and had been choked by its
prey . . A labouring man of the parish of Brad worthy was last week working in a field , and dug up a coin ; he looked at it , and threw it down , thinking it of no value , but from curiosity picked it up again , and on rubbing it , found it be a guinea of James II ., dated 1638 . A few years since a guinea of the same date was found in a similar way in the same Held . Take a fork , fix it in the wall , and on its handle place a cork ; walk up to it with ono eye shut , and try to knock it off . You will generally miss it . This is an amusing optical delusion .
A tradesman in Bath has the following printed upon his shop-bills : — „ My books are so cramm'd and debts I ' ve so many I ' m resolved that in future I'll not trust a penny Giving crtdit to friends often friendship endangerg ' And I hope ne ' er again to be cheated by stranger s . " The Bible Society of New York is said to have de-Glared that it will not give bibles to slaves , even if they are able to read . Of 60 , 000 persons who made the last pilgrimage to Mecca , not less than 20 , 000 died of the cholera . The will of MrO'Connellhasjust been proved in tkc Prerogative Court . Tho personal property is SWOrn to be under J 6-25 . 000 , andihe has , among other heque&ts , left & 1 , 000 to Mr Ray , the secretary to the Repeal Association .
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Going ! Uoinq !—A Bargain . —To be ' sold " , a tremendous sacrifice , the rental of Ireland , which has produced as much as £ 18 , 000 ayenr . This rental was held on a feu simple , and can easily be raised by an flpitator who only umlev .-tamls how to drain the country in which tho rent is collected . No encumbrances—noteven a poor-law . Tenders , stating lowest terms , ( of abuse ) , to be sent into Conciliniionhall , Dublin , addressed "to Hereditary Bondsmen . " N . B .- Repeal , and a heap of other rubbish , to be taken at a valuation . —Punch . TnADK in Gods . —Strange and even profane as this title limy sound , it is literally a fact . La Democratic Pacijiquc states that there is a warehouse in Paris witu the title of "Depot for African Go . ' s ! " The firm of Roars carries on an extensive business with
Seneeal , where there arc about as many kings as mediaeval Italy had princes . These African kings make war by way of a little pleasant excitement . When one of them lias lost a battle he dismisses his " P «< to i" ami orders new French ones from Re gis and Co ., who employ artists to make them of deal , with serpents' heads , lions' manes , tigers' claws . When a Scnrgalinn potentate obtains a consignment otnew " gods , " i , gnes to war in order to test their t-mcacy . llit ! UT to Regis and Co . have been lucky in their " gods . " The Latb Murdkr and Solemn . —An inquest has been held on Matilda Griffin and llenrv Thomas Par
- pession kv . dem .-e was givcu that the young woman lad dechnedto "keepcompany " any longer wjth l ' , rk « r , an . ) that ho had been very agitated and S £ TiS V ? nuir < lmd b ? "e nry Thomas Parker and that ho did feloniously destroy his own I ™ , ! . W ? RUiItyof feh < hse The tanv . S" ? e - eild , take ° haree Of l '« ker '» body ; and to have it placed in a plain shell for interment without Christian ritel . The funeral , winch took place shortly before midnight , was attended by an immense multitude .
Allkgkd Death from ViousNCE .-Our readcrg will remember that a few weeks since , we noticed , the death of James Burden , an inmate of the Surrey Uunty Lunatic Asylum , who , it was stated , had died from injuries received from one of thekeepers of the above institution . An " extraordinary special meeting" has been held to inquire into the circumstances . Aftera patient investigation the committee consulted for a few minutes , and expressed their opinion on taecasu in a resolution that " the committee are not enabled to decide whether the injur / from which the deceased died was occaioned by a blow received on or about the 1 st of June , in a scuffle which took place between him and a lunatic of the
name of Robarts ; whether it was from the injury received in a fall which he got in attempting to get through the ventilator over the door of his ward , or from the blow stated by him to have been inflicted by some of the attendants . They regret the unsatisfactory manner of this conclusion , but they feel that it would be unjust to the attendants to throw upon them , or any one of them , a stigma which is not borne out by the evidence . " Cultivation op tub Blackberry . —It is proposed that the blackberry shall be brought into general cultivation . It is highly serviceable for domestic purposes , and very economical and abundant , as all out country friends are aware , We are elad tn nerneiva
that the C ommittee of Agriculture have eensidered the matter and recognised , the vast benefit and utility which would accrue from the propagation of this berry . The committee deem it highly desirable experiments should be made ; and they weuld be glad to receive specimens of the fruit from the cultivated plant . Every encouragement will be offered to successful growers ; and improved specimens , accompanied by a plainly-written statement of all particulari relating to growth , should be sent to the secretary of the Society of Arts , Adelphi , London . We feel [ assured these facts require only to be known to meet the attention they deserve from cottagers and others , whose interests and comforts will be to greatly advanced .
The Daoenham Murbbii . —Mr Baron Parke , ia passing sentence upon Kimpton and Uickton , the Oagenham policemen , said , that , upon a further consideration of the points of law , raised by counsel ia their case , he should not give effect to it by postponing judgment , but leave it to the prisoners to adopt a writ of error , if they thought proper so tod "! Tbe prisoners were then sentenced to pay a fine of Is ., to be imprisoned for a week , and then to be transported for seven years , Parsons is not yet in custody . Violent Storm at Southampton , July 17 th . — This town and its environs were visited at halfpast one o ' clock this morning with one of the most violent storms of thunder and lightning , accompanied with rain , ever remembered in this town . The lightning was terrific , and the thunder most awfully loud . The storm continued with very little intermission until ten o ' clock . At Shirley , about tno miles from the town , a house was entirely destroyed
by the electric fluid , also nine sheep in the neighbourhood oi Pear-tree-green . DrAbnom ) on "Toryism . "—Of the two besetting sins of human nature , stilish neglect and selfish agitation ( in politics ) , the former is the more common ,, and has , in the long run , done more harm than the latter , although the outbreaks of tbe latter , while they last ! are of a far more atrocious character . So I ha 7 e in a manner vowed to myself , and prayed that , with God ' s blessing , no excesses of popular wickedness , though I should be myself , as I expect , tbft victim of them , no temporary evils produced by revolution , shall ever make me forget the wickednesi of Toryism , of that spirit which has , throughout tho long experience of history , continually thwarted tha cause of God and goodness * * * and has gon » on abusing its opportunities and heaping up wrath by along series of selfish neglect apainst the day of wrath and judgment .--. Dr . 4 nwM to Chevalier Bunsen . 1833 ,
A Faithful Messenger . —Mr Solomon IIeyea , who is in the Bervice of MeBBrs Livingston and Wells , express forwarders , has travelled on railroad and river since 1829 , without accident , 482 , 600 miles ; He has never missed a trip , and has carried safely for his employers , at a moderate calculation , during those eighteen years of Bervice , 658 millions of dollars , without the loss of a single cent . —New York Journal of Cmmeree . Funeral op Mb O'Connkll . —A letter dated Genoa , the 13 th inst ., states that the body of Mr . O'Connell had at length been removed from that city on the preceding day , a large coach , styled a fowgon , having been purchased for the purpose , and the funeral setting out by an overland route for France .
Thb Sohaki Fires . —Josiah Mansion , indicted for Betting fire to a stack of straw , the property of Thos . Peek , on the 1 st of November , at Sohara , has been acquitted , the jury returning a verdict of " Not Guilty . " Miss Burubtt Coutts * New Chubch . —Tuesday being the day appointed for laying the foundation , stone of . Miss Ceutts ' s new chnrch , there was a largo and fashionable attendance to witness the ceremony . The church will be dedicated to St Stephen , and is situated in Rochester-row , the most densely populated portion Of Westminster . Thb Magistracy . —Mr Broughton , of Worshipstreet , has succeeded the late Mr Rawlinson at Marylebone police-office .
Obstruction op the Ship Palladium by Firk . — Letters dated St Helena , June 10 th , received July 21 , communicate the loss by fire of the ship Palladium , 400 tons burthen , Captain Ravilly , whilo on a passage to Bourbon . The ship left Nantes on th » 15 th of March , with two ladies on board as passengers , the crew , besides the master , amounting to fourteen men . On the 4 th of May , in lat . 23 52 south , long . 25 50 west , smoke was discovered issuing from tho lower hold , which eventually proved to come from the cargo near the bottom of the hold . On account of the inflammable charaoter of the good * , chiefly pitch , oil , turpentine , oakum , timber , < 5 ic , there was but little hopes of saving the ship from destruction nevertheless the men worked incessantly on tho pumps , but in less than an hour they were forced to cease their efforts , the smoke and heat becoming
unbearable . The boats had already been got over tll 9 ship ' s quartera , and the two lady passengers placed in them , into which all on board retreated , but all the provisions they could get at was a small bag of biscuit and a keg of water , together with a compass , a chart , and the ship ' s paper ? . Within half an hour after they quitted tbe ship she burst into flames and continued burning until midnight . The suffer ! ings of the passengers and the crew were subsequently fearfully severe . They were ten days before they sighted a ship . Atlength the Sutlej . belonnins to Liverpool , bound to Calcutta , picked them ud the master afforded them all the comfort and attenl tion himself and the crew could bestow . A few days afterwards , the Sutlej meeting with a vessel bound 0 I Jr * " *' . ^ were transferred to it and safely reached that island on the 9 th of June last . The H is stated to be little short of £ 16 , 000 . Firb at
CHATHAM . -On Tuesday night , about halfpast tweilye . a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs lhompson , boot and shoemakers , Highstreet , lhe fire was observed to issue from thet < # ot the house , and on the door being broken open tht passage wa 9 found to be one body of flames . The inmatea ^ however , had escaped from the roof to the adjoining house . The military from the garrison were soon in attendance , and the garrison and other engines speedily arrived , and were supplied witk ' water from Colonel James Best ' s brewery at Chatham , which was brought in beer barrels in drays , from that establishment . The fire shortly communicated to the establishment of Messrs Magnus and Son , and to the house of Mr James Buncle , and was not got under till four o ' clock . Tho damage done is very considerable ; the amount ag yet cannot be estimated . The Messrs Thompson are insured in the Pliffinix £ 250 , and in the Norwich
£ 1 , 000 . Thk Eoo Tradb . —No less than 5 , 000 dozens of eggs were sent from Wick , one day lately , by tho Sovereign atearaer for Leitk . A large number wero also dispatohed for the south by a clipper . Somo conception may be formed , from this fact , of the ex ^ tent and value of the egg trade of the north .
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Up . up and away ! Why linger we thus * What is oar country now \ Unknown is the patriot ' s glow to us Hen of the furrowed brow * Cp , up , rnd be stirring ! we must not hear , The whispering voices of all we revere ; From homes of the living and groves of the dead , Fra load is the cry of our children for bread . Wh y weepest then , loVd one r "JUu ! " the replied " 31 ; mother sue cannot come ; And how ehall I feel when I hear shs died Aloae , in a workhouse hornet L ; t us iUy till she reits in the slumbers « f death , And onr sail shall be filled by her parting breath , " ' But bark thee , my wife , to that infant
crj—Oh 1 which of the tw » is the strongatt tie "Up , up , wb must go—for poverty ' s smut . Into the bosom stealing , Dalleth the love of the warmest heart , Chilletk its noblest feeling-Affection for country , for parents , and friends , Soon in its direful influence ends ; And love for onr children—oh , who dare say , That holiest thing will resist its sway ! " Let us fly—let us fly ! there are other climes , Orer tbe briay sea . Par off from the sonnd of onr village chimes , fiat where , to the bold and free , Tbe fitld of ambition and hope is outspread , And toil is rewarded by daily bread . Vr'hcr ? lives are not measured by sorrow alone , Asd children are blessings we blush not to own
"A way then , away ! In Australia ' s load . Will palaces seldom rite . To shadow the ! pot where the cottages stand . And hide tbe light of God ' s skies . So cast off the fibres that cling round the heart , Ere misery tends them away part by part ; And cooie ! who will tremble at dangers to be , What Britons once were—independent and free !"
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 24, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1428/page/3/
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