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POLITICAL REVELATIONS . —THE THREE VICTIMS , bj lie Comie ds Willbrod . Armand , Bathbone-place , Londcn . « The work before ns is one of so unusual a character and so peculiar a merit , that before giving oot readers an abstract of its contents , as we propose to do , it may be as well to notice the object of the author and his mean 3 for attaining it . Those who have teen accustomed to regard * he course of public events cannot have fergotten the alarming conspiracy at Grenoble in May , 1816—which had for its wound object the replacing of Napoleon on the « mme of France , and which , in effect , was nearly succcsful in disturbing the weak and newly establuted sovereignty of the Bourbon king . That this
Wttpiracy was intended to replace Buonaparte has ** ver been a matter of question ; indeed the whole « air has been mapped up in a degree of mysterious atscurity , which is , in itself , suKcien tly equivocal—no Joftentic account has ever been given to the public ; Wo authors only ever promised to give a complete ' oistory of Didiers' Conspiracy , and the premature «< &th of the one , and the obstinate silence of the Wier , are among the most remarkable features of £ & curious case . Hitherto , therefore , little has ** tn surmised , and nothing accurately known of one « the most daring conspiracies recorded in modern « Btory , andoftherealviewa of the brave , but un ^ oopled and unfortunate , Paul Didier—a man T'use turbulent life and tragic death rendered him * Mof the most celebrated characters in our modern
Kurt-ed disturbances . The object , the actors , the tettore , the resales , have all alike been wrapped in « Jf * " —acd this mystery is unravelled for ttie first taZtf ?? c ° mtteWillbrod ; who , ! it « j > ui justice * ° add , br : ngs to hmmti ^ * VoOv the aid ot a « tear oead and a sound judgment , as well as some faci"fies fcr arriving at truth , which have « o $ ultea 5 * rtly from good fortune , but mainly from dius » t * fid careful investigation . Not only has he consul ' W every journal , and public record in which the ^ Bpiracy of GrenoWe ia referred to , but he has ^ access to private correBpondenee , secro tatmly records and notes , and has questioned some of the armors who were engaged in that plot , as well M fUier ^ who quelled it ,
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From sueh materials we may juptly exnP /> f « « . i We work , awl few readers can beESbKS T ^ . although perhapa aomepart ? K ! plicated ia the conspiracy , whomi * £ Z f \ i ' ataostitaM to susp ectof such aSlT % * 1 Truth is great and will prevail " ^ atl 0 n ' « t rJi « 2 % T ^ t ife ^ ******* sentiments of ^ pSt te ? hSS mindthat the contained therein , anTnotL Zr fary m ™ ° W aste ^ g& sww tt ^ vjSF ^ r ?^* 83 Weworfc . ai ^ eVrLde ^ c ^^;^^^ ^ 1118-
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The Beasmer . Edited byG , J . Holyoake . Parts 13 , H , 15 . London : Watson , < k keen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster Row . That the writers in this public * 'tion are clever raenrfew would be disposed to quests m , but we must confess we doubt their wisdom whet' we see them hotlj engaged _ in discussing the syBtem s of dreamers , at the sane time , leaving almost who . Uy untouched the practical questions of the hour . Wa must confess our astonishment that men who assume to be the ' pink ' of reformers should have dimensthing practical in the late electoral struggle to a dvanee the cause of ( real ) ' civil and relij-ious libertv . Beasmer . Edited G . . T . Hoivoafce . Parts
Tko series of lectures by Madame cfAnwmea * , lately announced with so much ' pomp and circumstance , appear to hare beec ; brought to a preYnature , and not very di gnified conclusion . That lady wbo had undertaken to explain the whole historv and mystery of The Mission of England , ' broke down after the delivery of the fourth ot ' the course . Indisposition was the stated cause , which we cannot wonder at , as we perceive that the audiences however select , were by no'means numerous . To render her hearer / disappointment less afflioting , Madame d Arusmont promised to publish the entire course of lectures , delivered or intended to be delivered , in the pages of the lieasoner , described as ' all but the oiy press open to the popular use , and removed from the influence of some one or other political party . ' Infulnlment of this announcement one 'lecture' was published in the lieasoner , but instead of a second ,
an intimation appeared that Madame bad withdrawn her favours from that publication , some one having frightened her from continuing the connection with Mr Holyoake , on the ground that his paper was heterodox ! Upon this Mr Holyoake , ( see No . 57 . ) not unnaturally , but somewhat bitterly for a philosopher declaims against the moral , ( or , it you will , gentle , reader , the political , ) frailty of the once priest-andchurch-defying Frances Wright . We beg to comfort Mr llolyoake by the assurance that ihe Reckoner will lose nothing by the withdrawal of JMadanie d'Arusmonfs lectures , that is , if we may take the only one fully reported as a sample of the stock . Its merits may be quickly described , — * words , words , Horatio ! In short , Madame tl Arusmont is but the distorted gho « of Frances Wright , and it will be well for the fame of the latter , if the former ne more obtrudes herself upon the public .
From almost the only reasonable article in these numbers of the lieasoner we give the following extracts : CHEMICAL AND PHYSI OLOGICAL LAWS OP DIET , BT JACOB DIXoK . Aoimals differ especially from vegetables in attaining , at a period of their growth , more or less variable in each species , a maximum size , beyond which they are not susceptible ef increase . Vegetables , on the contrary , continue to increase in bulk at long as they retain vitality . This difference on the part of animals is due to the tact that all animals waste more or less ; in youth the growth : i greater than the waste ; but in all , a period arrives when the waste becomes exactly equal to the growth , and at that time they have attained their maximum size . Animals are then said to have attained
their full growth . The chemist , on examining the composition of this waste , finds it to consist ot oxygen , hydrogen , carbon , and nitrogen , which may be called emphatfcally the organic elements , together with calcium , sodium , phosphorus , 6 ulphur < chlorine , and other elements . Now , as the composition of the waste of animals is known , the supply requisite for replacement in the form of food becomes a matter of no difficult calculation Young animals must get a supply ef these elements greater in amount than the quantity they excrete or throw off ; and adults must obtain a quantity at least equi . 1 to that thrown off . Carbon , hydrogeB , and oxygen are contained goabundantlj in all articles of food , that there is little fear of a failure of these elements ; but this is not the case with the other elements enumerated .
Succulent roots , such as potatoes , turni ps , beets , and Jerusalem artichokes , require to he taken in enormous quantities to give as much nitrogen as is contained in comparatively small weights of the cereal grains , such as wheat , barley , oats , maize , or of the leguminous seeds , such as peas , and beans ; while , on the contrary , they contain a much larger proportion of lime . Feas contain a much smaller , aod wheat a much larger proportion of phosphoric acid than the succulent roots and leaves . The knowledge of the quantity of nitrogen is not there , fore enough in discriminating all the other requisite elements of food . Sautsure has indeed shown that no sulphur is contained in man ; of the cereal grains .
Now the animal body is a consistent whole ; it is ne . cessary , for the maintenance of health , that all the parts should be equally nourished . It will not do to feed the muse ' es alone , or the bones alone , or the secretive organs alone . Eachpart must receive a suitable and compensating supply in proportion to its waste . In proportion as this is not done , debility , emaciation , or death , is the inevitable result . If nitrogen be required for the muscles and cellular tissue , phosphate of lime is equally so for tha bones , and sulphur and sodium fur the bile . The whole of the nitrogen an animal acquires , it acquires from food ; but if that food docs not also contain a sufficiency of li me , diarrhaaa and weakness of the bones ensue . Many disorders of the system arise from deficiency of snlphnr in the food , and the consequent
non-secretion of bile , into which production it enters . The obvious remedy to prevent these effects is to alternate and combine different kinds of food ; to supply the deSciency ot particular elements in one kind by the excess of them in another . Thus , by mixing wheat , peas , and turnips , for instance we supply , what is deficient in the peas of phosphoric add , by its excess in the wheat , and we make up what is absent in them of sulphur and lime by the excessive quantity ot theso contained in the turnips . Thus , in flesh , in grain , and in the leguminous seeds , we have an abundant source of nitrogen ; but the succulent roots and leaves , although of little worth for the aitrogen they contain , are of great value for yielding lime , sulphur , and phosphoric acid . According to the analysis of flesh by Berzeluis and Bracounot , sot more
than twenty parts in the hundred are nitrogenous , or can be censidered as nutrative ; and of these nitrogenous compounds , but little more than a sixth is pure nitrogen . If we , therefore , take one hundred pounds of meat , and subtract one-third for the bones , then subtract from the remaining siity-six four . fifths for non-nitrogenous and innutritious materials , and divide by six , we get a quotient equal to two and a fraction per cent , of nitrogen as the quantity of it contained in meat . Now , the cereal grains contain generally more than two per ctnt . of nitrogen , and the leguminous seeds from four to five per cent , It follows that butchers' m-at is not intrinsically more nutritious than wheat or maize , and only half as much as peas or beanB , its advantage being chiefly in its being more easily digested and BBEimilated . It is , besides , the finest tonic stimulant to the nervous system . Prom all that liaa been said we must conclude that in order to SU 3 .
tain healthy animal life , ills necessary to combine the several essential ingredients in articles of food , so as to give to the animal a due proportion of the several elements necessary for his different organs and secictions . Soups , and other diluted foods , are of value only in proportion to tho solid articles of real nutriment contained in them . Everj reader must have heard of the experiment of starring a dog upon btef tea , The distribution of soup to the poor is quite a favourite project among the benevolent , with , more or less , the same result as that of the experiment upon the peor dog . This is the result of the miserable conjunction of charity with cheapness . And now , dees the reader ask for clear , positive , absolute rules of diet ? Tbe reader's own observation , sensation , reflection , and experience will furnish the best answer , and constitute tbe b- st guide iu this matter . The diet that would bo healthful for him here in the tern .
perate latitude and insular position of England , would not be healthful for bint at the poles any more than it would be in tbe tropicB . To whatever part of the world the reader might go , he would find rules of diet net absolute , but fimply relative to the climate and other conditions dependent upon climate , such as productions of the soil , habits of the natives , < tc . All organisations , vegetable as well as animal , being composed bnt of few elements , and all being reciprocally interconvertible , it might be a priori supposed that ill organised substances would form equally good food to any one other organised subst ^ nco ; but it is proved a posteriori , by experience , that such is not the fact . I was once recommending a disciple of the late Mr Greaves , who had a child suffering from scrofulous disease , to let the child's principal food ba meat , when he said , 'but wbeaten bread contains the same elements : ' to this I
replied , Tes , and { Common air , and the nitrous ucid gas . both consist of the same elements ; but the difference in the proportions of the elements of these compounds makea a difference of life and death in the breathing of them . That particular foim in which the elements are presanted in meat is the form of food wluch . in this bland , is indispensably required for the prevention and cure of this particular form of disease . ' To maintain aa active individual In health and activity , fii this climate , and with the constitutions inherited by us from our progenitors , he should have a mixed food , cousisting of meat , bread , and ordinary culinary vegetables ,
and with no other weig ht or measure , than the feeling of appetite , comfortable satisfaction , and cheerful refreshment ; If this feeling of comfort and cheerfulness coutinues after the food has bocn taken , then the right quantity , as well as quality , has been taken . Surely the collective instincts and f xperlance of millions for ages are suiiioUnt guides for aiding us to rules of conduct in the affair of eatiug ar . a ui i .-i .:..,,. « arciy we want no new lights , nofacciful theories of total abstinence iruui «« .. <• . - « otal abstinence from fcrmauted driuk . Your totalist ? , of any description , are totally absurd . Total abstinence is as ridiculous as total indulgence of any description would be .
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THE POLISH INSURRECTION OF 1830 . TS labm ! > manee of « *** . aw publishing in JJZSH ntcl 08 ed th 8 fl »» * j ofliberty-tho Eck 15 ft « . " > «» W * . -here Prince popular cl amoar W ° Th B b v m 0 re / nt of tho reach of SSI ^^ H'S peoplesnw 52 n 2 ' ° ' PoI ( ma ' When the Lbunner 352 tULT ?? * acinS beneath iffia ^^^^ ssrts i- ^^ SLSJESlpi , !^ ., ? sr ^ -Bcrj & ^ -jt ? ijft Cmopfcki himselfeapoused the Tat" ? 5 £
'a ^^^^ Kr ^ K Dukl Sta ^ H SttUn 8 , ' falr ! il w « tb . toS LowLka ? 8 taBtiOe and h *« , the P « nMB 8 After an . interval of anxiouj' nionense , Colonel Za moyski appeared Wore the prfitcerstating SJ the P ^ ^ th , . » , Mievrt th , a !^ aSwl £ ! obly detaining the ToHah Chasseurs- who had \ IIJ ~ Z ^^^^^ i ^ 5 £ li ££ j % S join heir comrades . Constantino hesitated ; he feawd imphmtiDg himself with his brothwy Iml am&ht , « £ d came booming down the roa-i ; it was the advancing populace . e 1 You have but a moment to decide-in ; ' said ZamoyskSj beyond that I cannot answer for yoarlife , ' C-natantlns wrote the order .
'Remember , ' said the Princess , « hU-imperial hig h , ness permits , but does not authorise their departure . ' While the Chasseurs were marching , to meet their approaching countrymen , Constantino and the remnant of his Russians were flving to the frontier .. Memorable was tho meetiag between , the retarning soldiers and their comrades in arras . The former hung their heads with shame , to think they should have sided with the enemy—but ono loud acclaim rent the airns they fell into the line of ihe procesBion , and tumultuous cheers welcomed their return to liberty . That morning Warsaw was a fejtal place . AH its youth , beauty , and valour graced the streets , balconies , and windows-old age poured its blessings on the conquering heroes .
The fifth of December beheld the revolution oata . blisned , by Chlopicki seizing the retns of power , and becoming irresponsible dictator ; while the provisional government had been self . institatcd b y prince Czartoryski , the Castellan Kochanowski , General Pac , Niemcewicz , the bard , Lelewoll the teachej , and the deputies Dombrowski and Ostron'ski , A general summons to arms was addressed to tho nation ; all disbanded officers and men were called into active service ; anil proclamations issued to tho Palatine Councils , directing them to meet the Diet on the eighteenth of Deecmber . Thus , the last decisive step was taken , from which there could be no return , Conatantine , with the imperial troops , was permitted to retire unmolested from Poland—a great and generous , though an impolitic act . Bnt , in that hour , the nation was too happy to punish its enemies , and felt too great to avenge its wrongs .
The fortresses of Zamogc and Modlin capitulated , and Poland , for the time , was free . While Poland was doing this for Earopean liberty , what did Europe for Poland ! True , it treated the Polish envoy with distlnctien . Many may yet remember a Polish nobleman who visited London shortly after the outbreak of the insurrection , and excited great attention on account of the tyranny of which he had been made the victim . He was received with distinction b y the aristocracy , and though he found it difficult to gain access to men in office , yet the warm manner in which he was welcomed by society in general , end the spirited tones assumed by the English press in behalf of his outraged country , seemed to hold fair promise of support from England .
The cause of those exiles , implicated in the conspiracy of Lukasinski , or other equall y hapless attempts , and who had fled from the fate that was denounced or dreaded , was espoused with warmth ; committees were formed , subscriptions raised , and lgfty names were advertised in the papers , as bestowing donatives towards the Polish fund ( although what became of the fund it . self was never exactly understood ) ; balls were given in belmlf of the suffering exiles ( although , most of th « proceeds were spent in the arrangements of the festival ); guarantees , co ; phees , and premieres danseuses danced tho Cracovknne and the Maaurka at his Majesty ' s Theatre ; from Sadler ' s Wells to Surrey , the playbills teemed with Polish names , and the audienoes applauded —londcs dejambl .
It is true the government never gave an open support , but then they could not commit themselves!—they could not fly ia the face of great , allied , and powerful sovereigns , who-had been in tho habit of visiting St James ' s , feasting off banqusts at Windsor castle , and turtle dinners at the Mansion-bouse ! . It is true , minis , ters never propounded anything aislinntly - . never made any pledge or promise ; never said , the treatment to Poland is an outrage to humanity and an insult to en . ligttened governments : never said , we emancipate tho black slave , and therefore theuAite ono shall bo free : wo interfere in the internal policy of weak states , therefore we will interfere in that of the strong!—nothing of the kind . But they did say , ( in secret , howevcr , ) if webestir ourselves for Poland , tbeu Russia may cry Ireland 1 ' to our teeth ; and as we have tyrannised , and do tyrannise and intend still further to tyrannise over the latter country , we had best not Bay a word about the / oroier .
Notwithstanding , they did much ; even Royalty went to Bee the . Polish ballet ; cabinet-ministers dined at Polish dinnerBatthe Mansion-house , and the fair lady of a high dignitary of the state was the first to introduce a Polish pelisse , from the ashes of which phoenix rose ths present polka . ¦ What more c » uld be expected from a -government whose fleets swept the seas from the Hoangbq to the Hudsou , and whose armies have laid the imperial guard of Prance beneath her bayonets ! But they actually did even more thau tUis I ¦ k
secretary of state told an under-secretary , who told a private secretary to tell a secretary of a Polish Association , to inform tho Polish envoy . that if Poland really rose , and if it maintained a suitable policy , and formed a suitable government , the English people would , in that case , act towards Pjland in a suitable manner ; the meaning of which was , that if Poland rose and beat the Russian armiflS , and took the Rusaiaa fortresses , and established itself as a free and powerful kingdom—then England would transfer its relations of amity from the fallen Russia to the triumphant Poland .
Justice must , however , bo done to the great elements of British nationality—at feat time , but subordinatethe press , and Oxeptople . They spoke the language of honour and honesty , but the people havo been trampled by monopoly , and tho press has turned the veaal instrument of corruption . In the meantime the Russian ambassador made Borne stringent observations , and oven delivered a note from his government . Accordingly , hints were dropped from certain quarters to cirtain editors , that It would bo advhable for them to use mora moderate language in their leading nrticlea , lest they should complicate tho relations of the country , and certain inducements , too , were offered . Non-interference prevailed , and tho relations of the country remained' uncomplicated . ' This noble effort of sound and lofty statesmanship is still the glory of the party lrom whoBe ranks it emanated .
The l ' arisans , however , far outdid us . They ran into an enthusiasm of valour ! The students of tho Ecole Polytecbnique talked of marching from Paris through Germany , Prussia , and Poland to Warsaw , without oven asking the leave of the armies of the confederation , Vienna or Berlin ! Tho theatres—they were like so many bits of Poland ! The Boulevards—they were Cracow itself!—Kosciusko handkerchiefs and Sobieald robes , cuke ; , loaves , and p&tet ii . la polonnaise , shouts , balls , processions , dunces and gensd ' urmes , discussions in the chambers , that never came to a result , and proud inscriptions over cabmts that— ' franco decrees the liberty of Polnni ! , ' with omission of the latter half of the sentence ; but does nothing to enforce it —spoke volumes for tho chivalry of that tremendous nation !
And then their leading men ! ( French sntesmc-n are not more punctilious about their promises than ours)—they actually did promise —( notthoso in oflics , but those who expected to be )—that Trance would sympathise , all Franco would sympathise with Uie' France of tUe North !'—let the Poles but rise ; tho Gallic eagle had been there before—it knew the road , coulil find its way ugain ! Mean while addresses from the Fiencli to tho Polish nation were multiplied by the press , and Russia must have trembled at theso—words and psp ? r t Such is tho counige—such is the honesty—suck ia the manliness of butteiil y courts and couiiting . koust ! governments .
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The Yankee Psdur . — ' See here , Mister , don t you want tew buy asmething in my line tev-day ? v '" ~ tV W ew machine for picking bones * outuf fishes . Now . l tciivou ua B ua » iuu vUverest thing yew ever did see . All yew have to dew , is to set it on n table and turn a crank , and tho liah flies down your tliroat , and the bonos ri ght off the other way . Well , there was a country ' greenhorn' got hold oS it the ot ' uer day , and he got turning tho crank the wrong way , and 1 tell you the way the bones flow down that ar feller ' s throat Ciwld ' nt be boat : why , it stuck that feller so full of bones , that he couldn't got his shirt oft'for a hull weuk . '—New York ( Me .
The Aoe op Miracles . —The news contained in the London morn « i g papcre of Tuesday , travels to Edinburg h on the ga ^ c , £ »» and returns to Newcastle , in the Scotsman , by Weiu ^ y a erno !—?«« wEjwtwtt . v ^ - horseflesh to be 8 L" tQ ov ^ omiJ ^^ judice whicftTs entertp ^ u s ^ aiiwWt aa an article human food . ' _ „ , _
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10 THK EMTob OP THB K 0 HTHEBN ST 1 B . t . _ Stoney Stratford , August 11 th . ueab sin .-i am glad to perceive that at th » presunt moment there Beemi to be a disposition on tbe part of the Chartist body , t « merge their little differences in the grert and paramount question of democratic reform . J . « i Jl b 8 ; W ° fflay be 8 eeW 8 * the Clla ' « through d . fferent menns . but themiuhiefofit is , that in so doing , we are too apt to eneourage that feeling of jedouqr which Hindii onr judgments ar . dia detractive of » h best interests of our cause . I will , howevor , venture tcsay , that but few men look otherwise than with satisfaction and delight on the return of Mr CSbnnor for Nottingham . All hoaour to the brave men of that town , for having set an esample so worthy of tmiifation . Wo must not however stop- here , let ub therefore at onci to the work , let us have na more words without deeds We must instantly begin to make preparations foranoi th . r , and a more vigorous assault on the citadel of corruption ; I would make a suggestion , which , if acted upon will reffeet lasting credit on-tbe Chartist bod
y . Wo all remember the great petition signed b y 8 , 300 , 000 persons ; suppose there are only 300 ; 08 fr of that number will subscribe 1 W each towards an Election Fund , the some to be phid , fif tho subscribm think fit ) by instal . mrats of Id . per aonth . This will amoantin the course of twelve months to > £ t 5 ftQQ , the saaw to be placed In the hands of the Central Election an * Iteglstration Com . mittee . I am not much acquainted with the expenses of tnklnj candidates tcthe poll , but I win take it to be on the swage £ 100 ; tliirwlll enable ths- Chartists to take to tlie-poll 150 advesates of their r ! $ ht » Now this may U so easily done ,, that I think there can be but
little objection to it onthe ground of expense . Think of tho effect the taking : to the poll but a fowmen of the right stamp has produced on the electors ; juage then of the eff . ct which would he produced if 150 of the same wer « brought to the contest . Utt this or a . more efficient system be adopted , Stoney Stratford will . Iknow . dortspart , and it maybe adopted , wlthont Inl iunngin the slightest degree the glorieut movement for ttio Iiund . Onward , Charttats , onward , in the glorious struggle , forlibcrty and victory ia youts . I remain , Hr Editor , in the giant cause of democracy , _ R . G . Gaiswaob . '
[; we ar « glad to learn that Hr Sammage has at length began to see the sound policy of' deeds not words / Tor a long time past Mr Gammage and his friends have teen acting npon the opposite poHey , and havo done , if not much , at leait all they could dots thwart the progress of the men of ' deeds . ' We can rightly appreciate tbe generous natura-of Mr O'Connor , which hag so often prompted htm to extend the hand of fellowship to secederaand factionists , nevertheless ; wo most be permitted to say , that before we would consent to shake hands with some of .-the partiss named in Mr OHJonnor ' s letter in the Star of the 7 th of August , wo should wish to sw a course of action directly the opposite to that hitherto pursuod by 0 Brien . and Co ., for at le .-ut as long a time as they havo been factious and mischievous . Then—having gone through tbat necessary probation—wo would say Mf % onej 6 « bygonti . In the meantime , net being quite so warm as llr O'Connor is , we say . Once bit , twice soy . •—«!>• Xf » 5 . 1
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CLASS LEGISLATION AND- ITS EFFECTS ; TO THI EDIIOi OF THE HOKTHEBJl 8 T 4 E , Enemtto Ciass Legislation , —Suffer , me through the medium of your Journal , to atk Hie public to LOOK TJPOJf THIS PICTOBE , AND ON THIS ! For the proposed remo- Forpurohasingthehoust val of houses ( or inhabi . in which was born one ot tants ) at Windsor more- out tbe greatest poets England of' the whiff and wind of or the world over had , via . royalty , * and for otherwise Immortal Shakespeare !—'improving' the Windsor 000 ( or Nothing !) Estate , £ 250 , 000 !
lor erecting New Houses For erecting a new ot Parliament , for class Bridge at Westminster , af . legislators to pass class lc tcr all but demolishing the gislation laws in , and vote old one , —No Thousands ! away the raonej of the nothing but 000 ( or Nopeople for purposes to which thing 1 ) the people are generully opposed , Many Thousands ! For enlarging Bucking . For ' extending Primrose ham Palace , because a Hill Park , because thirty building as large as the acres—Ub present extent-British Museum was not is anything but sufficient to large enough for a single recreate a Primrose Hill couple * with a small famil y , crowd on —000 ( or No-£ 50 , 000 . thing !)
Such are the effects of class legislation ; or rather , such aro some specimens of tbe same . A Parliament which really represented the people , whilst it would not neglect royalty , or the state , in anything which it was necessary for either royalty or the state to have , would not neglect the house of a Shakespeare ! tue bridge of millions ! or expect that thousands could eonvenientlj recreate themselves on thirty acres ! no , it would not be a shabby government ! Government has declared itself quite willing to ' tuke care of . " both tte ho »» e of Shake , speare and the additions to Primrose Hill Park , if the people will purchase them . Of course , such ' care' would afford snug sinecures for tax . eaters ; but if there is aught of British manliness left in British hearts , I tiust that every Briton will resent suck insult by declaring , at least , that the government wuien would not save the house of Shaliesponre is not worthy of its care ! Yours , a , ? ainstclas 9 legislation , ' Henbv Dowell Gaitfiins , JIarylebone , August 18 , 1847 .. , : • . .
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THE LAND COMPANY . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERS-STAB , Dear Sir—Having watched with intuuse interest the Rise and Progress of tho co-operative liana Company , and the disinterested exertions of that friend to mankind , Fearqcs O'Cohhou , to whom the working classes of this country are so much indebted , that I nraonly astoniihed that his very excellent Land Plan has not been adopted before . Now , so positive am I of his good intentions , that I would voluuteer to become liis' bondsman , ' if he wo 9 in want of ono , to the amount of thousands . I lmvu this day token out a four-acro share , merely to help one of my people on to the land . But allow mo to ask . nhv
are not meetings called , nnd petitions got up and forwarded to T . S . Luncombo , Esq ., praying that the Laud Plan may be extended through tho country , and that Feargui O'Connor , Esq , M . P . be appointed her Msjestj ' s Commissioner of the British Co-operative Land Company , authorised by Act of Parliament for tbe purpose of establishing these villages in all pnm of the country , for I never saw anything so well calculated to diminish the poor rates ? Any man of common 6 ense can see that uaturo designed that all creation should livo by the produce of thtt soil . The prayers of millions will ascend to heaven for long life and prosperity to ail such as Feargus O'Connor . I am , sir , your obedient servant , Liverpool , Aug . 9 , 1847 . j s .
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THE LAND PLAN . TO THE EDITOR OF TnE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —I most heartily coajrutulate you upon the rspit $ advance of the Lnnd Plan . I have been long un advocate of the Land question from my being more or lest connected with the Socialists , since 1823 , in Edinburgh , Glasgow and London , where several attempts atpractical illustration , I am sorry to say , have uniformly proved abortive ; notwithstanding the thousands of pounds expended , all gono ! without securing on a solid basis , n single homo for a single individual—not even a kennel to the poorest dog . I however rfjoico to find that many of tho friends to social advancement have tallied round the Chartist Land standard in tho noble cause of political as well ns social progress . For Eeveral months past 1 hava been fnrourcd with the Star through a friend , «! tich I rt . post to ono person or other in the country . 1 ' i'ym ona correspondent , in Scotland , whose letter bears ( late July 17 lh , I oxtraet tha following paragraphs , to show
bow th * plan is appreciated in the remote corner of Nairn i ' I , ' says the writer , ' approve of Mr O'Connor's Land Plan . It is a much surer way to bentfit tho people than Hr Owen ' s . The freo traders had begun to act upon it in a niOHintd form , but they abandoned it as soon as they had attained their object . Tbe tendency of legislation , however , has been lately , anO in tho next parliament will be , popular . But the law of entail will not for some time admit of such a subdivison of the highlands as would suit your views . Besides , the natives subsisting mostly ou charity , are in no condition to accept of the sounding title of laird . Tbe forty shillings franchise on which the Laatl Plan is founded was never trusted to tho Scotch , The Irish hail it , but bartered it for Emancipation . ' I liava been much gratified in read-Ing your poetical columns—there the gcuuinu spirit of poesy i 9 doing its work in fresdon . ' 3 cause , Wlskiug you , and all embouit-rtin the cause oS man's redsmption , the greatest success . I nra respectfully your ? , W , Cameros . Hou 33 low , August 2 nd , ISi " .
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TIIE LAND AND LABOUR BANK . TO FEAttOUS O ' CONNOR , ESQ . Respected Sir , —1 liava great pleasure in informing you that tho miuutcs of our last mooting , authorising the trustees t » withdraw the money of U 10 Manchester 4 Ui branch oi tho Journeymen Steam Engine MaehiuaMukers and Millwrights' Friendly Society , frem Si ? Beujamin Ileywooil ' s bank , and the placing « 1 tho same in the Land nnd Labour Bank , wbb confirmed by an unanimous votu ni a summoned meeting of our branch , on Saturday \\\\ , Uth . You will also find enclosed a copy of our rules with the names of our trusUes in the second page , signed btheselveswhich
y m , you will be so kind as keep fo ? th » pnrpose of comparing signatures , when the wiibdmn of aoy of the money may bo required . I am also reaueiteu to draw your attcmion to the ninth rule , which relates to our baking of mosey as a brunch , aud to request that you will acknowledge ths receipt of this letter ana rules ; and sand us the best method of transmitting tUo money ;( six hundred and , twenty pounds ) to you with tn « least expense , as our object ia to show to society at largo , the superiority of tho Land and Labour Bai ^ k over tho present , aud thereby set an txamplo worth following by the rest of the trade , for I feel coufljout that I brWkOjieo set going , it will b » speedily followed by other * M > a wai « trade , I »< Jv * di it is already 8 ° tofi
on in another branch in Manchester ; and I think , * . uSffthi ? havere * ' hiatoyouro * - « n «" . « o ; * no ? « S Wra ° ° f them wil 1 8 Wke »!> " the iron " hot , and I do expeot something from D . vid Morrison t Ithough at present a . trnng * . to me , fc , ^ tit SV wiadon cannot lay behind with him there . I » m sir , yours respectfull y , Geohoe SiMDEi . Oman 3 , Church- « tr « ct , Rochdale . road , Manchester Au ! Btfl 5 , lS « .
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A VOICE SROil AMERICA . . TO TOE ZDUOB Of THE KOBTHSSN STAB , Stty-OJou will much oblige the members of flifo branch , bj inserting in next Saturday ' s Star , the follow ing letter , ? , : cciTod from one of Mr O'Connor ' s oldgoawis , now resident in tbe United States . We tire yours verj respectfully , THE MBMIJEItB OF NO . 1 BllANCn OF VSt KATiosAt Lamd Compact . Leicester , Aiu / mt Iff , 1847 . ¦ _ TO P . e ' CONMOK . IPO .
i SiB , —I have three single grains 0 / barley in my Igarden . One wilt produee 70 head « r , another 45 , and th « jo ther « , 1 nra th . iDldng of sending it to you for your cottagers ; ami from this single grain yon will be able to raise enough , for all y our ikw freemen' in ono year . I < tniak I could prodsca 150 bushels from-one- acre in ona year . If y 0 U , lhink it wi , y bB . flny hBmfit tQ you iB turtneranoeof jourobji ct , I wilMhankfully send it , and a letter ' with it , to gire- you auldta bow topiantit , as r unatsmtoid tormina thvorougW y . You «» y have tbl » ort Of barley h . England ; if jwhave , and do- not know - its power of production , 1 shall hava obtain . * one object in cmkmg it known to y « u . If m . O'Connor Shibl < 8 well to reoenre a letter from m « e , 1 mu , givc him my opinion upon > wh « at ,-barley , aud outs . I aaij Sir , jot urs very-respectfully , JONATHAN B 3 SJIT . Nomnan-row , AllfegbanydU y , July Hth 1847 " ..
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A wsman recently died . in this town , wJiosej weight was upwarda-of three hundred ' pounds . Hc ' r cofhn measured tMrty-tro inebwin width , m »» large that * the corpse bad - to be taken out ot tho house to be-placed m < it , neither the doors nor windows being wide enough to admit it .-Qiiwv . lia *? . Patriot . '
Mr Will , am Rced ; of Carjlton . © Weans county New Yorki . bora in Gtimmin ^ m , Hampshire county , Mauaohnnetts , was thesevenfad chiWof his parent ^ and born the seventh day of the week , the soventb > day of June , in the year 1777 , and was- seventy year * old on the seventh day of June , 1847 . ; ' Nairn ^ wwrtnentions thaUJabourcjvlately foun < £ on the beach a large codfish , which ha&--unsucces 3 * tully attempted to swall&w a grilse weighing mor *' than eight pounds , and had been choked by iteprey .
A Mexican- vessel , awived at Dartsmouth ,. has brought sundry pretty presents from her- Majesty , amongst wkich-are a monkey , a ma-caw ^ ananteater , a lizard , and an alligator ! Several hundred acres of land in the KeighbouV hood of Aberdeen have been sown with flaaja * an ex « ' penraent , with a view to introduce the cuitare of th © - ¦ p lant into Scotland , if it should thrive and yield a . good crop . Several flax spinners and raanufeftlurers * , ime interested tnemielTO in this trial , and one of . them has sown a fieM of sixty acres with Fji 5 , wb . icl * , promises an early , and abundant harvest The Jews residing at Constance are to be admitted : to all the rights of-citizenship . ; The fares on th&- Eastern Counties Railway , werfr ' , raised Ja 3 t weeknearly 25 per cent , t All paragraphs ia newspapers referring to adveptisement » arenow subject to tli 8 usual advertisine ; duty . " "
A few days since ; the excavator employed onthe Monmouthand Hereford Railway , near Caerieon , fuund a stone coffin containing a skeleton and a smalt glass bottle , which soems to have been made at * - very remote period . Mr Henry Ralph j . a yeoman of Bayher , nearSturminster , whilst swimming in the stream near his farm , on Sunday morning week , was drownedby th&-extra care of his own dog , which kept leaping upon him in the water , until he sank to rise no more .. The editor of an American paper , the 'Charlestoa Evening News , ' says that bc ' has in his possession * gold ring , which was found in a large black fish ,, while it was being prepared for the table . Upon itare cut two doves , in the act oi ' billing and cooing , " and also the words , ' Fsr ever constant . ' A schoolmaster in Ohio advertises that he will ' - keep a Sunday school twice a week—Tuesdays and " Saturdays .
A Copenhagen newspaper , called the Kjochentovns - Posten , was seized on the 5 th inst , because . it con-- ' tained some observations on tho recent trial before tho Chamber of Peers of France , which were thought cilculateAtogivocffencetothe French government and people . A portion of one of the streets in Fa ^ gttevi'le , North Carolina , ia pavod with resin ; and a- correspondent of the Boston Post says , that he haa ridden % . horse and driven a carriage over this novel pavement , ; which makes an excellent road . The Russians arcsaid tn hnvu discovered eoalminefv in the Caucasus , near a village called Oulnngowr , an < F it ia expected that this discovery , will facilitate theur conquest of the country , as they ' have hitherto suffered a great want of fuel for their steamers on the > Circassian coast .
In some districts ofServia . it is customary ' . uponthe ^ death of one of two brothers whoso birthdays fail ia the same month , to fasten ths survivor tr > the dead body , until he adopts , in his deceased broilu-r ' s stead , a stranger , by whom he is releasd . During a thunder storm which visisted Norwich , on Monday week , a tanner , who was employed in adjusting the sails of a hark mill , at Ileigham , near that city , was struck by the lit-htninj .- , and remained insensible for several hours , bat ultimately recovered . A boy throe years old , who U bains exhibited ia .. ondon , lias the upper part of his pcra m entirelycovered with flexible hair , two inches in length , and shaded as the most beautiful colours of the rainbow ; while the lower pavt of his bod y has . the appearance of variegated spots , and the toea are grown together on each foot .
Much interest was lately excited : in the United States , by an announcement that yiates of mica » covered with hieroglyphics of diffeient colours , had been found iu one of the auciont Indian mounds which had been excavated ; but upon further investi-Kati < m , it was discovered that- the supposed hieroglyphics were only natural discolorations of the
mica . _ The Gazette Masica ' c of Paris says , that aa American theatre , tho first which hai ' ever L-cen established , has been opened at Constantinople . Thoplays performed are stated to . be pantomimes , of which tho subjects aro taken from the histories ct-Napoleon , Alexander the Great , ihe kings of Armenia , Noah , Abraham , Jacob , anditlie patriarchs . A Carlisle paper mentions that i \ n apple-tree in full bloom ia now growing in a garden at Little Broughton . A meeting ef the architects , of Germany ^ rilI ba held at Mentz , from tho 26 th te-tlic 2 Oth instant . The ' John O'Groat Journal' says that a cudiish woiphing sixty-three pounds was lately caught off-Wick . 'fora Thumb is said to ba building a splendid mansion in Connecticut , with the-view of retiring from public life .
A proposal has been made So establish a general museum of scripture in Iiundua , on the model of that in Paris . The assistant turnkey oftke Carmarthenshire ' gaol , has been committed for trial , on a chargo-of having aiiled a prisoner named-Evans , who was accused ot ' horse stealing , to make his escape from that prison . A meeting lias been held in New York , to cousider the propriety of adopting some measures to honour » e memory of Stephens Dayo , the first , printer ia the United State ? . _ A short time sincCj a seaman , while bathing * was devoured by n shark iu tho harbour of Corfu , where a tish of that kind h : id never before been
seen . Tho harvest of wheat , barley , and oats , in the north of Spain , has been very abundant , but tho crops of maize are said to have siii&red severe ! " from blight . Somspcas which hail been found in an ancient Egyp-Siaiv tomb , Have been sown , and are said to havo yielded a vary 1 i \ ve > c increase . Tho second steam-ship of the American line to Southampton anil Bremen , tho Lafayette , was to havo been hmaehed ou Tue&Jay last . The Saxon government has recalled the prcliib :-tior . to distil spirits from qorn and potatoes , vhiuii had boon temporarily os&Mished darine tho latu dearth . & Durii'K the last ypo ? , there were issued in tho United Aungdom , 3 . 6 U 0 & 7 po > t-nffice money ovdew , the amount of which came to £ 1071050
. .. Tho Gorman pApesa mention Unit a ilroiwU'iil lira broke out on ths Jteil inst-., at Oborvirchtaeh . i » ti ) 0 Upper Palatinate-,, and destroyed fifty of the principal houses ; but happily no Iv / fs were lost . A cargo of m-Bug tiles , tha first ever imported into England , arrived in Lomloii , from Antwerp , uuring tho last wetk ; and a new trade seems liUely to aviso , aa several other c . vgocs are said to have oeca * A French surgeon states Hint by fitting beheads with glass feet , and iwlating them about ; oigltcoa inclios from the wulicf tho apartment , he n « s cured the patients sleeping on them otahosU't nervous affections . . .
. . , ..., „ , Tl'O Popo ha sprfasnte «\ a gold mciln ! to Mv Waghorn , as a mark of approval of nis efforts to prqmota international intercourse . It is snitl that this ia the iirst medal which hi \ 3 ever been eeni ' evred upon a pro testantbyapope . ,., , c-allvin-Tho number of visitors at Whitby has ' ¦** " > r creased during the present waterji '' . r ~ V ^ ' contract has been made for tJa , ? K"Lni * ^ ° hotel , aad torn thirty to ^ $ ™
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THE VICTORY . The field is ours—the battle ' s hob , The Chartists' work is aobly done , They stood the fire of Goth and Hun , Realties * in their bravery . Tte Goth and Eva , there siaeby side , Enrag'd , the people ' s might defj'd , And , press'd by courage , mail y crj'd , To charge with gold and revelry . Corruption pourM her deadly shot , And , drank with wealth , almost forgot , That Freedom ' s soni ambition'd not Tho treasures of a Bhacchanal . Oppression labonr'd , too , in vain , To forge anew the people ' s chain-Bat sank npon the battle plain , Into 8 hideous sepulchre . Immortal plain ! where all the bravo Came , not to slanghter , bat to sav «; And make a deep and silent grave , For celd and heartless tyranny . In sooth , it was a glorious sight . To see this moral , bloodless fight , WhenFreedom ' s foes were put to flight , By Season ' s hot artillery . Look , look around the battle field , See Glory ' s sons , their falchions wield , Kow here , a mitre—there , a shield . To decorate the scenery . Behold , where Msmmca ' s church still stands Held up Vy foul , polluted hands—That grasp at wealth , and pray for lands , To feast on holy sinecures . Ah ! how unlike the Roman spouse . So faithful to her solemn vows—Whose purity the world allows , And still remains immaculate . See WhiK * and Tories acattet'd round . Like autumn ' s leaves upon the ground , Sat not a hero can be found To rouse them from their lethargy . The trophies and the spoils yon see , Are bat the wreck of tjraanj—Tomake a shrine for Liberty , And ornament her diadem . Oh ! what a glorious , happy day , When Chartists nobly bore away The laurels that shall not decay , ' Till crown'd by immortality . Hekht Geiccbos , gentleman , London , August ISth , 1817 .
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VICTORIA'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND . Mtheenelssed trifle can get a wee bit room in the Star , Is will oblige an old Chartist . There is such a devil af a kirk-np here about our lately Soverei gn coming to shus !! OUS FIRESIDE QUEENS . A » . — ' A man ' s a man for a ' that . ' ' Welcome to our monntain lakes , "Welcome to our woodland brakes , "Welcome for thy people ' s sakes—Welcome Queen Victoria !' ilcdone , ef Greenock . I care cae for inflated lays , About ye ' r Queen Tutorial I If or ken I boo pair-folk can praisa The plnnd ' rers reignin * o ' er U 3 . Te ' r Queen ' s praise I'll ne ' er raiie , I ' m nae sic rank adorer ; Thoush e'er see gnH for a her Moid—Our itreride Qttterts before her . Let lordlin' lackies roose ter name , Her princely looks and favours ; Its no for as to share then : shame , And join their fulsome havers . Te ' r Queen ' s praise , I'd ne ' er rai 39 , For Labour ' s rank is o ' erher ; I scout her richt , to croonly micht—Oar Fireside Queens before her . Ia God ' s came I what ' sherrichtorrank That coofs should rant about it ? Our guid lair warld , wad hae nae blank , Though a' yeV Queens were aot O ' t . Te ' r Queen ' s praise , I'll ne ' r raise , Nor yet the stock that bore her ; Do ' t wha may like , I scorn the tyke—Our Itrende < 2 u * 6 ns before her . Til fa * the fans ? , d « gradet loons , Wha'd prostrate mind sae lowl y , As sing tie richt-divine o' croons , And bend to ru ' e unholy . Te ' r Queen ' s praise , I ' l l ne ' er raise , Lei skives wha choose , adore her , 111 never act sae base a part—Oar Firtzide Queens before her . God ' s malison be on them a . ' , Their craft , and guile that gall us ; And let the knaves , wha'd princes blaw , Aye mind king-murdered ITaBace \ A Queen ' s praise , can slaves raise , Or for thfcir richt i-nplore her , ¦ ff ha ' s bnt a pest , and bad at best !—Our -PEresufc Qkcois before her . Let ' s mind the wrang they ' re done to men . To a' that ' s gane before ub , And curse the craven-heart wha'd plan , To hand the tyrants o ' er us ! Te ' r Queen ' s praise . 111 ne ' erraise , Bat scorning each adorer , — Here ' s FreeatmCtfrecns , and Fireside Otteens " A thousand times before her ! Glasgow , 1317 . Kambleb .
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Newion Abbott . —A pauper , by name Richard Guadger , was lately removed from the Tannton Unien , to that of Nuwton Abbott , and had not bcon long in the latter place before he threw himself out of tho window , and died in a few hours after . An inquest was held on the body , and from the evidence , the jury came to the following verdict— ? That the deceased destroyed himself while in a fit of temporary ™? a « nn ' Vrn ^ wrVJik ^ lo confinement , and Be-1 ii fe K om hl 8 ;™« ! l « «~ o ° , ~ A ; awlfe trade and for " twelve ' \ u 8 S 9 L . aii was a mason by from illness , during which time he parte ' d ' wfrn tf / l J $ vestige of furniture , before ha submitted to go into UwbMtUe . _ . fcstu ^ rn- =, ^_ 4 .:
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THE LABOURER , A Monthly Majazme of Polltics , IAterature , Poetry , due . Edited by Feargus O'Connor , M . P ., and Ernest Jones , bsq . August . London : Northern Star OEcs , 1 G , Great Windmill-street , Haymarket . The contents of this number of the Labourer will well repay perusal . A poem , by Erne 3 t Jones , Esq ., a continuation of « The Insurrections of the Working Classes / the conclusion of 'The Confessions of a Kine , ' a continuation of ' The Romance of a People , ' and a second legal article on the iniquitous ' Game Laws , ' comprise the principal contents of this number . In another column we have qiven a soul-stirring extract from the' Romance of a People , ' detailiug the events that immediately followed the outburst of the Polish insurectioa of the 29 th November , 1830 .
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SimmonfFs Colonial Magazine . London : Simmond 3 and Wardi Foreign aud Colonial Office , Bargeyard , Bucklesbury . It is with very great pleasure we notice this useful magazine , which presents monthly a mass of information on many subjects of great importance to all in a commercial country like England . Dissenting , as our principles compel us to do . from some of the views set forth by these who advocate emigration , it is but fair to say that the articles on these subjects are written , both with ability and fidelity . There is a letter from 'An Old Australian Colonist , ' on secondary punishment and coavict discipline , which contains some truly valuable remarks . We would gladly quote the article , did our limits permit us to do so , but must content ourselves with tbe following observations on the ' New System' of translation : —
At length , came the new system of transportation , oue of the features of which was to Bead all the convicts , formerly divided between the great colony of Ken South Wales and Van Dieraeu ' s Land into the latter colony alone . Bnt coupled with this , two ' main principles' of action were established , of which Lord Stanley thus spoke in a despatch addressed by his lordship in July , 1814 , to the late Sir Eardley "Wilmot—First , each convict should undergo a severe preliminary punishment , consistiDg in great part of a life of seclusion from society at large ; and , secondl y , thispnnishment should be progressively mitigated in such a manner as to afford an invigoratiog hopa of further re . lief , an 4 an animating motive to good conduct , until the
convict should at length be restored to all the privileges of his fellow-suljocts . All this is reasonable enough ; but ' in the practical measures which followed , ' we see ths worst features of the old system only revived with endlessaggravation . The evil of mutual contamination was great indeed under the old system ; but it extended chiefly to the convicts condemned to the service of the government . An assigned man , of good disposition , had some prospect of coming through this stage of punisbmeDt aa improved character , with settled habits of useful industry . Even the bad were not without a ' chance' of amendment . The assigned servant might , from the time of his landing , never once be subjected to the contamination of a gang .
But the way , in which , under the new system , the severe preliminary punishment , consisting in great part of a life of ' seclusion from society at large , ' has bem con . ducted , has been to throw large bodies of oriminals , numbeiisg amongst them the most depraved and hard , dened , into ths < exclusive society of each othar . ' The preliminary punishment at Nurfolk Island , and ths probationary process in Tan Diemen ' s Land , have censti . luted a collegiate course of vioe , which all were constrained to go through as , so ' to speak , tho preparation for graduating in virtue . The result has been that a far greater degree of' unjust inequality , ' as regards severity of punishment , has existed , than tit any former time ; while , instead of a system conducive to reform , we have had one which affords only a solution of the diabolical problem , bow criminals can be made most campletely and irrecoverably criminal .
Such 13 the result of the laws made ostensibly for the prevention of crime and the reformation of criminals ! 1 Ellerman ' s Reminiscences of the Island of Cuba continue very amusingly , and 'Sierra Leone' by Shreeve , presents some learfuily true pictures of the honors of slavery .
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We will resume our notice of this extraordinary man next week .
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bombn ^ EawS ^ ' ^ *" && » . ' was heeHwT « ino 7 r < i ? caJed ^ y a Pions country priest , 2 laiieJ to the last hour of his life , those senl timenta of respect for hereditary monarchy and reverence towards Heaven , that were the fruits of such
early training , although a love of intrigue and imperious necessity sometimes led him into conduct no 'T ei 7 consistent with either . His contemporaries will yet remember the success which he obtained at the bar ; and when the first tumours of the revolution were heard . Didier , like all tb . e geuerou 3 and noble-heartcd , hailed the dawn of that bright day on which , as it was said , the face of affaire would change , when abuses were to disappear , and wounds which dotage and folly had caused were to be finally and for ever healed . ' Didierwith
, most Frenchmen , rejoiced in the hope of a new order of government , until the excesses of the 10 th- of August opened the eyes of those who sought not their own aggrandisement but the realisation of their dreams of political perfection . Later , at a period when courage was rare , and sound politics were rarer still , Paul Didier was one of the Jew who courted the perilous honour of defending the king , and we are asjnrred fay his son . Simon Didier , that catsed a protest to be printed beneath the will of the Martyr-King .
m From that day , ( whether from calculation , conviction , or impulse , we cannot now say , ) Didier ' s part was chosen . An advocate of monarch v and religion , he was at the head of that constellation of noble and gallant spirits who , amidst the horrors of the reiga of terror , fought and conspired to save France from the misfortunes into which misrule had plunged her . He also took part in the heroic defence of the city of Lyons , and when it surrendered , a price was set on his head , and he escaped ^ under a feigned name , to Marseilles , where he joined a confederation , and began that fatal Btudy of plots and counter-plots , political intrigues , correspondence and conspiracies , for which , indeed , he seems to have had a natural genius , but which , nevertheless , cost him his head twenty years afterwards .
Didier returned te Para about five years afterwards , the interval having been passed partly in Switzerland and Germany , partly in attendance at the wandering court of the Count de Provence . The Directory had replaced the Convention , and Didier soon found himself connected with many noble families , returned , like himself from exile , and to whom common misfortune . and similar opinions made him a welcome guest . It may readily be supposed he was not backward in the plots now formed for restoring the exiled family . He published , in the summer of 1 TO 9 , a pnmpbJet . entitled , The Hope and Prayer of the French ' —( L'Erprit ti le Van dei FranfaisJ—a . direct appeal in favour of the Bourbons . This was followed , in
1802 , by amanifestoheaded , 'Onthe Return to Religion , ' a production remaikable only for a very flattering dedication to Napoleon . He now continued to unite himself with Montalivet . Fovehe , and other ? , wh < 9 were likely to receive prools of imperial favour , and was soon named one of the professors of a new colJege founded at Grenoble . From this time to 1814 the name of Paul Didier disappeared from the political world ; but perpetually engaged in forming intrisues , or conceiving pn-jects which were to confer benefits on a gigantic scale on the public , he neglected h * « private affairs , was involved in debt , and contracted obligations not yet discharged , even for sums of the most trifling description , borrowed from persona in the humblest ranks .
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The People ' s Journal . John Bennett , 69 , Fleetstreet . The best tale in the present number of this excellent Journal appears to us to be « The Bribe and the Bridal , * which is said to be a true tale of an election from the charming pen of Mary Lcman Gillies . It is well worth the price of the whole volume , and ,
indeed would be bo did it contain only ono sentence which we would grave in letters of brass on tho hearts of the people . 'I read , the other day , that the people deserved no better laws than they submitted to , but when laws are once made they must be submitted — what the people have to do is to mind who they set up to make laws for than . ' But this 13 a sentiment with which the people of England are , gradually indeed , but surely , acquiring . They have proved it in the recent contests . They will prove it ia the next , come they whenthey may . Other places , besides Nottingham , Macclcsfield . Lambeth , and the Tower Hamlets , will then prove that the people will ! mind who is set up to make laws for them .
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Caldweli ' s Musical Journal . . Wejiave sincere pleasure in recommending this fnnr rou 5 i cavrirJ ; £ ai > publication to the attention nnmocr contains are selecka -flWJ » h > b . the preset more carefully arranged than is generally the c $ & with low priced music . May ajlsuceess attend tiie Bublisher who thu 3 p laces within the reach of his Boorer brethren the means of indulging v \ a bar . mcnw ingaadekYating astyKgat ,... _ . ..
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 21, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1432/page/3/
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