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~ - ~~~ THE PATRIOT'S TEST . ST EKKSIT JOMES . - B , e hither ! cone hither ! froa broad England , Ye » en of Soutn > Korth , Etit , md Rest ! _ . jjg hither , whoever feeli courage te stand Tbe trith of the Patriot ' s test # e &ik not the wealth of his acres broad , Vor the tarn ef hii thousands won : B gt we ask of him how he has serred his God , And the worth of the work he's done . ir a * k bio «* t f nfalt * " * & *«« have been la the ages of mr i iron rath : jjBt the ancestry brave that we reckon with him Are the cbivelrsus deeds of his youth .
tfe ast him Hot , how h »' s groTtlled low To worship tt elite and arowa : Bat how he hat itract at tie heart of the fo » . And ho ? he ha « spared Kim when dowa . ^> ask him not , how he ' s paid titha and tax , And settled tall , impost , aad rate : gat whether he ' s ready to lay the axo At the roet of a rotten state . ¦ ffs tsk him not , what his creed may be , Or what was the form it garr : Bat whether he's prayed to th « God of the ibe » To streBgthea the heart of the slate . And whether he ' i willing with heart and haHd To march to the field of fight , And scourge from the depth of a suffering land The foes of a People ' s riiht :
Te face their steel and their canaon flame , And the mesh of their greedy laws : And not ashamed to avow his name , Sheuld he stand aJoae in the cause . And whether he'd jpsra the lilkea hand , That offers a half-reform ; Oh ! The fool who w » uld bind with s gotiamerbead The bolt of a people ' s store ! Aad whether he trusti in the strength of his right , And Bsrera dosbt within : If . so , Wi aman wlio Itfitfor the fight , For such are the men that wia !
Then hither—e » me hither , frem brosd England , Te men of South , Kertn . EMt , and West I Gome bither , whoever it able to itand The truth of the Patriot ' s testl
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¦ -d — SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . OUR NATIVE LAND . BT JOHH B 1 THB 0 K . The Lano , the Land , ear natire Land ! forthcoming years will see , Thick scattered o'sr your fertile breast , the dwellings of the fire :. Froa hill , from mine , from workshop crowd , the tardy sons of tail , To rear a home in freedom's name , and till the bounteous soil . Sy gentle atreasi , fey moaatalasld ' e , laTaHey ' and inglea , There mil be seen the homes ef free and italwart Englishmen 1 Who'll epeak sot then , as they do now , the language of despair . Bat r « sa the song of eheerfolnes * , and breathe tha grateful prayer .
Tfe need no food from foreign shores , while we hsTeland to grow it . For send for corn some tfljosand miles , while we hare haadt to sot * it ; Nor send oar goods to erery elime , to clgthe and deck each nation . While millions' backs are bare at home , aad thouiaads in starvation . If all our Land were well employed , 'twouli yield us bounteous store , And each succeeding year become more richer than before . Each plot of Land a peasaat thes might dare to call his own , K equal laws were framed for all—for cottage and for throne .
The Land their owh they d dread no foe , no rathleis fierce invader ; If England ' s eons ownM Esgl&md's soil , no tyrants conld degrade her : Each cot would be a castle then , no nation could enslave them , Por loud weuld ring their rallying cry— ' The Laad their birthright gare theas . ' lei tiase who whh aad would be ( its , staad by not tame and coldly , Bat gire their help to those who've fought the poor man ' s cause eo boldly ; Bat 'bove tneai all to him be praise—all glory and all honour-Tie people '* friend and champion , onr patriot chief O'Connor .
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THE EMIGRANTS OF AflADARRA . A Tale of Irish Life . By W . Carleton , E « q . Sims and M'Intyre , Lindon and Belfast . In the modest and unpretending preface te this admirable volume the author disclaims haying written ' a political work , ' or one encumbered with a superabundance of political reflection ; on the contrary , he says he has only introduced such short and plain statements , affecting the condition ot the Irish
people , as were necessary to elucidate the characters of the actors—and this is true , bnfc the legal assertion , th ° greater the truth the greater the libel , is here most evidently borne out . What fietion could ETailto describe It eland ' s distresses so forcibly as does tke narrative of plain , unvarnished troth ? What daring dealer in the marvellous and the improbable -would Tenture to describe , from his luxuriant imagination , the awful , the heartrending scenes of oppression and despotism which daily oceur in the sister isle ?
We confidently assert that , as respects the -woes of Ireland , Trath leaves Fiction lingering far behind ; and he who wonld describe them mast trust to simple fact , as offering scenes of horror , of atrocity , of legal assassination , such as no imagination , vrhat-6 Ter , bas been powerful enough to coin . In this well-planned , well-written , and thoroughly well principled tale , Mr Carlelon has , then , availed himself of facts—and of facts alone—and it tells all tie more piwerfally on the mind from the circutn-Etance of its unexaegeraied veracity . The evils of the ' lease' system—and of priestly denunciation sre especially f . ourtrayed . The characters are
nuineronsand perfectly consistent—the tile itself one of every-day-Iife—at least in unhappy Ireland , where everr violent passion seems to bare dominion , ancl religion is too often prostituted to the basest and most murderous purposes . Carleton , always 3 n excellent ponrtrayer of the characters and manners of his own countrymen , has been peculiarly happy in this novel . Inspired bv ( he patriotic desire to make the true eiuses of Ireland ' s misery raore generally known smocg English bodies , he hag , in this work , exceeded bh former self—may he lire to see his country ia a position which shall allow of a very much , happier , jet an equally truthful exposition of its state . May he see thp riav when that rich , and fertile , and lorely
land , shall no longer drive forth its children from its bosom as starving , homeless , fever-stricken Emigrants . But whatever thanks may be due to MrCarletpn , we owe an equal meed of praise to the enterprising publishers who have presented the public with this erisiaal book for the price of a shilling . We thought that bibliopolic liberality could scarcely be exceeded when a r < j , rint of an entire popular work was offered for that sum . but here we bare a new novel , such as most publishers wonld sell at a guinea and half , inferior to nnne in point of merit , —printed far more accurately U > o , than the volumes of SQme of onr London men , —for a sum that many , even among tee working classes , expend weekly ia nselessnmdinjnriou « luxuries . Ought not such liberality in a publisher meet with some reward from the public ? It certainly ought . —and we feel sure that no man who can spare a shilling will grudge the bestowal of it on ' The Emigrants of Ahadarra . '
That the novelty of the book may not be worn off before it is purchased , we will give no extracts whateTer , —it . would be unjust alike to author , publisher , and public .
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Lord Lindsay , a Poem , by Ernest Jones , Esq ., Barrister-at-Law . London : Northers Stab office , 1 G , Great Windmill-street , Hayraarket . Thi 3 poem is a reprint from the Labourer , and has attracted considerable attention , and very favourable notices on the part of several journals since its ^ publication . Our opinion of Mr Jsses ' s poetry is too well-known to need repeating . Though no admirers of aristocracy , we recommend onr readers io make personal acquaintance with Lord Lindsay .
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The Charier , the Land Company , and the Land and Labour Hank . By B . W . Robinson , M&nche = ter . TLis pamphlet U , as described on the title-page , a letter addressed to the Trades , Orders , and the I'ui lie , on the principles of the Charter , _ the NdtWal Land Company , and tho National Land and Labour Bank , with remarks oa the character and objects of the ' Wcistler . ' It appears that tho author is but a new convert to Chartism and the Lnnii Plan ; aud curious enough , although we believe he h not a rare instance , he was made
a conrert thrcuzh the instrumentality of the Maktp . < ri : n Exi . vi . vEH ! Mr Robinson was a con-tant r ^ ier of tlin : paper , and iiis acquaintance with the Limi 1 'lan van first broutlbt about by the Exjiiisek ' s abu-e of that plan . Determined to hear bitii sides , fce commenced reading tbe Star , and after well * ti ;; hin ; j tee evidence on both sides , he abandoned ' the Whistler , ' and joined the banner of Mr O'Cont ' . r . Almost immediately afterwards he wrote this Pamphlet , which "has been published by the Council W ' . Sis Manche ^ er Locality . Its circulation i 3 caltolf . ed to effect enmiderable good .
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Letters to tie Toiling . By W . W . Broera . Pntih for ikt Curious . Bj W . W . Broom . London , W . Jeakinson , 91 , Leather-lane , Holborn . We fear that Mr Broom has a ' mtaken oddity for ori « ginality . If Carlyle would write plain , understandable English , he would be none the less thought of But what the public eicuas in him they will net tolerate in his imitators , who adopt his form of expression without being able to enunciate the great thoughts—( because not possessing them > -which go far to redeem his barbarous jargon . As a writer , Carlyle is the worst of models . Mr . Brbom is a young man , and means well ; two sufficient reasons why we should restraia our peni T */ 4 + —m * - » <¦! ,. T' -J / . * TJ— TIT TIT T »__ . _ _
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Radicalism an Essential Doctrine of Ckrutianity . By the Rev . B . Parsons , at Ebley . Stroud : B . Bucknail ; London : J . Snow , Paternoster-row . This is No . 5 . of Tract * for the Fuatian Jackets and Smock Frocks , ' the three first numbers of which we noticed some time ago , The present tract Is a racily written and well reasoned production , devoted to showine that' the gospel is Radicalism , and real Radicalism is the gospel . ' Mr Parsoug defends tho name of' Chartist . ' * E ? ery person , says he , * who reflects , or has studied the British Constitution , knoHB that the six points of the Charter contain in them the gem of social , political , and even religious reform ; bat , then , who can bear the insufferable name of Chartist ? Only think of a Doctor of Divinity , or a Squire , being called a Chartist ! Atid yet a better name , asexpregslve of a constitutioBallprinoiple , was
never invented . ' Mr Parsons shows that the same ef Christian was once even more despised than that of Chartitf is now . Manfully defending tbe real d gnity of the people , Mr Parsons says , 'The Saviour himself was an operative ; the Apostle Paul would in these days have wern a 'fmtian jacket ; ' several of the prophets were' smock frockt . ' and those desperate Radicals . James . Peter , and John , were Gallilean fishermen . ' We heartily aeree with the rev . gentlerasn when he says , ' Appeals to the rich respecting Radical reform are generally vain . In all ages the Fustian Jackets and Smock Frocks have been &e most efficient Radical reformers , and , therefore ) the most enlightened and practical gospellers ; and our own day tells us that we must loek to the working men and working women for the emancipation and salvation of the world . ' We hope that this tract will have an extensive circulation .
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Tke Reformtr's Companion to the Almanacs . A correspondent bas sent us a copy ef this publication , which ix certainly a political curiosity . The Reformer ' s Companion is published by the well-known preacher , Joseph Barker . Its spirit will be understood by the extracts we select . We give the following from a
1 ETTZE TO THE QtJEEH . Among themeaiores which we would reeommend for the relisf and lasting benefit of the country , aie the followitig . 1 . The immediate and entire abolition of tbe law of entail and primogeniture , and the establishment of abjolutefreetra . de in land . 2 . Tbe abolition of the Sump dttki , and the removal of til abstractions to tbo transfer ef eitates , and tbe general distribution of a landed proper < y . 3 . A tax on land and housw , In the place of every other tax bearingupsn other industry . We weuld extend the tax to uncnltlrated land . And In all cases make it so heavy ai to oblige the holders of lind , either tobriBg it into cdtiration , or part with it to thoia who will da it . 4 . The abolition of the Navigation laws .
5 . The abolition of the Church Establithmenti of Great Britain and Ireland , and the appropriation of all church property to tbe tupport of ths poor , and to purpoies of general education . 6 . Retrenchment tn every department of government , whether civil or military , 7 . A law seeurin ; the right of tenanti to compecsation for all improvements made by them upon their farms . 8 . AnotherjRefonn Bill , giTing to every roan of age , through the ceua ' try , who is not convicted of crime , the right of voting for ' members of Parliament , —establishing equal electoral district * , —directing TOtes in the election of members of Parliament to be token by ballot , —making Parliaments annual . —aad requiring no qualifications of members of Parliament , but such as ma ; be required by the persons electing them .
Toa may tbink what you will , and those that are around you may isy what they will , but these are tbe things which are wanted to reliefs the distress of the country , to prevent the recurrence of similar distress for the fntnrr , and to secure peace and prosperity to the population of this empire generally . You hare . 0 Queen , amongst many of year subjects , a reputation for shrewdness and humanity . People say yonara both in : elligent and well-disposed . I beseech you , prove that the good opinion which thevhave formed ef you , i « correct . I beseenh yon , give a proof that you really know something about the interests of nations , and that yon are really desirous to promote the welfare of your tried and suffering people . Tou cannot but know , 0 Qaeen , that you are greatly
indebted to the people . Ton are deriving , for yourself and yonr household , little less tbaa a million a year from thepeople ; and your husband and children are deriving , I suppose above a hundred thousand more . Of these vast sums , a very considerable portion is taken from the poor ; from persons who have not sufficient to clothe themselves in decent garments , to rent a decent house , to procure comfortable furniture , to obtain a supply ofgooa and wholesome food , or to secure for their children tbe beaefits of a tolerable education . Yoa must be aware , 0 Queen , that the only ground on which you can in justice or in rea 6 on receive those sums of money
from the people , , that you are the garvantof tbe people . You can , in reason or justice , haia no title to them whatever , except as the servant of the people . You are bound , therefore , 0 Queen , as an honest woman , either to give np your income , or to do your best to render the people , from whom yon receive it , service equal in vslne to its vast amount . Your situation , therefore , as Qaeen of these realms , binds you to do your atnsost to secure the people their rights . And one of the rights of the people is , the opportunity , by moderate labour , of obtainin ? sufficient to ' maintain themselves and their families in comfort ; an € another of tfeeir rights is , a . share in tbe power of the government .
I say you have it in your power to do much towards securing to the people their rightc Were you to eiplais yourself plainly and decisively in favour of popular meaenres - the men that are around yoa would feel themselves obliged either to propose such measures to the Parliament , or ts give Hp their places and make way for others t > approach you better disposed , or more able , to help yoa in the good work ; This is ' plain speaking w . ith a vengeance . The misfortune is that Victoria will never see Mr Barker ' s letter . The knaves surrouadiDg her will take good care to prevent that . Asingularfeatureofthiapublicationistheanthor ' B ' prophecies . ' These predictions are curiou 3 and startling , as the following specimens will testify : — Kirch 1 . —Many meetings will be held about this seasoH , which will inspire the supporters of religious and political corruption with serlotix alarm . The human inventions which have been mixed up with divine
revelations , and the wicked laws and mischievous institutions which have been enacted iu tte name of justice and government , will n ? eet with some tremendous assaults . A set of men who care more for the interests of truth aBd suffering humanity , than they do for kings and priests , may be expected to cause considerable excitement in different pans of the country , and the result will probably be , to make priestly deceit and govern , ment injustice moro difficult masters than they have been for manygenerations past , o _^ great many falsshoods will this day be uttered in the name ef Christ , and a great deal of hypocritical villany will be practised under the name of religion . We are also greatly mistaken , if the people will nut be made , by some horrible system of Injustice , to pay a great price for the lies which will be told them , and for the hypocritical villanies which will be practised in their midst .
—3 . —Long before this there will have been a great deal of talk in the House of Commons , but no great abundaace of honest , straightforward , beneficent legisladen . The IUdical members will have uttered several speechep , but it is questionable whether many of them will have come out folly in favour of the rights of the people at lar ^ e , and in opposition to the long-continued and nnblusbing iniquities of aristocratical legislation . — 4 . —A certain man , whose name shall not be mentioned for tha present , will bB Tery jreatly and very agreeably disappointed , if he should find that either of the members fer Leeds ha « , up to this time , done any thin ? in the House of Commons , worth doing ; he will also be disappointed if the one called a Whig , should not prove as useless or as mischievous as the one called a Tory . Here is something racy : — A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION AT LEEDS .
The LXED 3 Tikes of December I 8 th , states tnat the Committee of the Leeds Association for improving the breed of pigs an 3 poultry , received last week the gracious permission of Prince Albert , expressed in a letter to Mr Purchon , to present him with a pig of the large Yorkshire breed , intended for the farm at Windsor . The slUj' creatures ! to ask of a man ptrRiitsion to present him with a pi ? . Had he not pigs enough ? "Was there nobody flsein the country that needed pigs more than he ! Might they not have disposed ef their pig nearer bom « , without the wretckea humiliation of writing to oltain permission t-j present » ?; Tbe simpletonsi . ' It is grievous to think that flwre ihould bo sueh wretched , crouching sycophants bo near one ' s felling . A committee at Leeds , for improving the breed c-f pigs and of inco Al
pouitrv , obtained the gracious permission P . - bert to present him with a pig ! A committee at Leeds , inthemidstofa vast population , many tbo «« n « U of which oro starving at this hour for want of a Ittle br . ad , pass by their fanning nnshbow ., and leave £ « . to perish for want of food , and ask permission of a man . a foreign , who has forty thousand ayt-ar to five upon besides half a million for his wife , and tho ^ SI ; of xn-ey tafcen partly from the pockets of their starving , famishing ^^"' - ^ "J ^ l mittee a * k permission to present Prince Albert with a P I wish this committee of tbe Leeds Aesecia ion for improving the breed of P i E s asd poultry , woald jart form themselves into an Association for improving the : r oh-u understandings and thiir own hearts . I also wish tbtv would form themstlveB into aa Association forim- ^
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proving the clroansitaaeBa e « their wretched and famishing neighbours . -I wish that they would form them-BsiveB into an AHoclation for ioproTins the breed of princemnd erlgtocrata j aad , initesd of helping eo perpetuata their blindness and hardhtartednosa , by sycopnaney and crouching , endeavottr to op « n their eyes te their duty , and to touch their hearts with sympathy for the millions whom they oppress , and plunder , and destroy , 8 * * And all this at Leeds ! I am ashamed of Leeds . A larg « Kianufacturinft place , with ona Tory Member , and another Member as bad as a Tory , and an Association for improving the breed of pies and poultry , requeitiug permU » on of Prlac * Albert , to preseat him with a pi * . Psh » w « .
There are many mere good things in this ' Companion , ' snd amongst others a quo ' tatiois from 'liowitt ' s History ef Priestcraft , ' exhibiting the humbug and plunder carried on under pretence of consecrating church yards . Mr Barker appends some comments from which we quote the conclusion : — Lsave the ungodly ana plundering church to itself , until it bo abolished . Let « w be buried in unsouiecrated ground . And let no prleBt como n » ar me at my burial . Away with the hypocrites . The world has been postered with them toe long . I would hare no fellowship with them , either while I live , or when I die . We hope that this publication will be to every poor man a' Companion .
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WINTER WANDERINGS Ten years sinea ; baing a narrative of remarkable adventures during a five days' journey between the cities of Toronto and Buffalo ; undertaken under peculiar oircumstances in the month of December , 1837 , by
WILLIAM LYON' MACKENZIE . THE CANADIAN ' RKBEl / Formerly mayor ef Toronto , and member of the Legislature of Upper Canada . ( From the Toronto ( Canada ) Globe . ) The Barlof Durhaia , in one of bis famous proclamations frem Qiebgc , in Octobir , 1838 , frankly atcribid tke insurrections jQ Canada to 'long misgovcrnment and s&d mitrale . ' Assuredly , a more busy . meddliBg , yet proiokingly incoaipotent governor than Sir Francis Head was never dispatched across the Atlantic , to try the temper ef any people .
Although tha expediency of a violent revolution had been publicly diaeussed in both provinces for yeara , the more immediate cause of the civil war was the deliberate destruction , sa the 6 th of November , 18 S 7 , in the open day , and in the presence of the constituted authorities of Montreal , ( then bristling with British bayonet ) , ) of the whole of the types , preaies , and printing and publishing materials of the Vikbicatok newspaper there , which had long beea the acknowledged organ ef the great body of the Liberals of Lower Canada . That popular joarnal wss then edited , with great ancoess , skill , and ability by Dr E . B . O'Callaghan , a member of the Colonial Legislature , and well known in this city as the erudite bUtoriaa of tbe Hew Netherlands .
It appears that the government of tho day were un . able to find anything illegal ia the colttmas of the Viudi . ctTot ; taat it to ! 4 the people moat unpalatable troths , and had an extensive circulation ; and that therefore , the Loyalists , ( and they ill-deserved the name , ) had concluded that it was expedient to go a 6 tep beyond the examplo setby Charles X . of France , in 1880 , to get rid of it . Of course , no one was punished for this unprovoked outrage , nor were tha injured parties ever remunerated , the whole affair was premeditated ; Governer Goeford , being at ihi very satm time , employed In writing secret dispatches from Quebec , advising the Queen to recall himself , tend out a military ruler , and abolish tbe established Constitution !
Many Upper Canadians , justly indignant at the pas . sage of Lord John Russell ' s resolutions ot that year , for tbe seizare of tbe Canadian revenue , in defiance of the Legislature , had solemnly pledged themselves to make common cause with Lower Canada , In her resistance to that most reprehensible proceeding ; and although it was koowa that her people had been routed by the regulars , and her leaders either imprisoned or compelled to fly , before any attempt at resistance was made ; in December , at Toronto , I was among those who steadily adhered to our pledget , and noted , to the best of my humble abilities ' , up to tbelr letter and spirit . The circumstances which attended my successful effort to escape from the neighbourhood of Toronto to Buffalo , in December , 1837 , throogh a thickly settled country , tbe people ef which were , generally speaking , long and well acquainted with me , as will be seen by tbe following narrative , are truly remarkable .
Ths conduct of the Canadians , under the temptation of a large pecuniary reward , and the prejudices engendered by civil strife and differences in religion and race , was mnsthonourable and praiseworthy . When vexed and disappointed with some apparent inconsistency in the masses , on various occasions since , I have fallen back upon the noble traits of character that were developed during my eventful journey of five days , and felt constrained to blame tbe few wbo lead in society , rather than the millions wbo are led astray by their plausible dcceptioBP . I would have published this narrative at the time the events occurred , had I not been apprehensive that its de * tails might iajure several very worthy individuals .
Oa the forenoen on which the p ; rty in opposition to Governor Head were worsted , near Toronto—Thursday , December 7 , 1837—and while the light artillery and small arme , from Tonge-street , were supplying tho rebels [ so called ) Trith musket balls and grape ehot , in superabundance , and the boys on our side returning the compliment with the few available rifles in their poaeeBSton , a bell struck my worthy friend , Captain Wideman , in the head , killing him on the spot ; and a person from the city brought intelligence to Col , Loiint , who stood close by , that tbe two wings of the Tories , armed with several additional pieces of artillery , were hemming us in , and bad been ordered to cat off our retreat .
It evidently appearing that success for the insurgents was , at that time , impossible , tbe Colonel and many others gave way , and crossed tbe field to the parallel line of road , west of Yonge-street . I endeavoured to get my cloak , which I ha ;? left at my hotel , through which Captain Fitzgibbon ' s men were just then sending their six-pound shots with good effect , but was tao late . Strange to tell , that clo » k was sent to me years afterward , while in prison , but by whom I know not . Perceiving that we wtre not yet pursued I passed on
to Yonge-street , beyond-, Lawyer Prices , and the first farmer I met being a friend , readily gave me his horse- — a trusty snre-foeted ereaturo , which that day did me good service . B . fore I had ridden a mile , the smoke rose in cl juds behind me , and the flames of the extensive hotel and outbuildings arrested my attention , as also anothtr cloud of smoke wMoh I then supposed to be from the Don Bridge , in the city ^ which bridge we had sent a party to destroy or take possession of . Colonel Fletcher , now of Chatauque county , handed me an overcoat , and t / vld ma th ^ i he would make fur tho States , hut not b \
the bead of Lake Ontario . Although it was known we had been worsted , no one interrupted us , save in friendship . Dr , from above Ifewmirket , informed me that sixty armed friends were on their way close by . I assured him it was too late to retrieve our loss in that way , and bade him tell them to scatter—seme , however , went on as volunteers fur Sir Francis Head , the rest returned to their homes . At the Golden Lane , ten mik-s from the city , I overtook Colonel Anthony Van Egmond , a Dutch officer , of many years' experience under Napoleon . He agreed with me that we should at once make for the Niagara frontier , but was taken almost immediately after by a party who had set out from Governor Head ' s camp to gain the rewards then offered there . The Colonel was a man of large property , old , and known to be opposed to Head ' s party . Though not found in arms , he was placed iu a cell , so cold that they had verr soon to take him to the hospital—on his way to the
grave . Immediately after the skirmish , his EzeelUnoy had appointed Mr Boulton , tho Newfoundland Judge' 6 brother , his herald , to make proclamation , that the Queen ' s government would pay from the Exchequer , one thousand pounds for my apprehension , and half as much per man for that of several other persons tbtn there named . Couriers were sent off forthwith , in every direction , with tidings to the like effect , and a gazette was circulated , minutely describing those persons whose apprehension was specially tfebired . Finding myself closely pursued and repsatedly fired at , I left the high road with one friend , ( Mr J . R . ) and made for Shepatd ' s mills . The fleetest horsemen of the official party were so close upon us that I bad only time to jump off my horse , and ask the miller ( himaelf a Tor ) ) whether a large body bl men , then on tha heights , were friends or foes , beforoour pursuers were climbing up the steep uscent almost beside me .
When I overtook Col . Loane , he bad , I think , about 80 men with him , who were partly armed . We took some refreshments at & friendly farmer's near by—Loant was for dispersing—I proposed that we should keep in a body , and make for the United States , viz . tbe head of Lake Ontario , as our opponents had the steamers ; but o » ly sixteen persons went with tae . I had no other arms than a single-barrelled pistol , taken fi om Captain Duggan daring Tuesday ' s scuraV , and we wtre all on foot . Some of my companions bad no weapons at all . We made for the Humber bridge , through Vaughan , but found it strongly guarded—went up the river a long way , got some supper at the hous- of a farmer , crossed the stream on a foot-bridge , and early next morning rode to the hospitable mansion of a settler on Dundas ,
thoroughly exhausted with cold and fatigue . Blankets were hung over the windows to avoid suspicion , food and beds prepared , and while the Tories were carefully tearehing for us we were sleeping soundly . Next morp . lng ( Friday ) , those who had arms buriel thera , and after sending to inquire whether a friend a milo below had been dangerously wounded , we agreed to separate and make for the frontier , two and two together . A lad in bis nineteenth or twentieth year accompanied me , and such wes my confidence in the honesty and friendship of the country folks , Protestant and Catholic , Europeas and American , that I went undiiguised , my only weapon at the time btinj : Duggan's pistol , and it not leaded . Address was now wanted much ' iaore than brute fore ? . We followed the concession , parallel and next to the great WeBtern-road , saw and talked with numbers of
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S ' Ab ^ n ° n ! ™** A ** government ro . f £ t ' . ' M » i . o ia tbe Dft " ™ ° » , we reached Com . o ? he , ™ S ' , m ° * h 0 Ue " Orangemen , and ^ arX fn , ? ent S artl 8 an 8 ' Were diTided * ° P ««« ZlSfr t '; e ° ° SOm Of thele there »«• no real danger The , were at heart f ri . adly . while a young Irishman in his empioy wtt harnessing to in «« w I " ' ° US 6 ' She insi 8 ' ed 0 E our « Vl 4 to dinner which we did . Mr Comfort knew nothing of the mtended revolt , and had taken no part in it , but ha awared me that no W of con 8 tqqtn 0 e , Bhould preV 0 Dt him from being a friend in th « hour of danger . After conversing with a number of people there , not one of whom . aid an unkind word to us , a , companion , nd I got Into tho waggon , and the young Etnaralder rov « down the Btreetsville-road , through the Credit villare ( Springfield ) , in broad daylightand alonjr DundaL
, street , bills being then duly posted fur my apprehension and I not yet out of the county which I had been seven times chosen b y its freeholders to repressnt Yet though known to everybed y , we proceeded a long wny west before danger approached , At length , Bowevor we were hetly pursued by a party of mounted troops ' ; our driver became alarmed , and with reason , and I took the reim , and pushed onward at full speed over a rough , hard-frozen ro » d , without snow . Our puiu'iers , nevertheless , gained on us , and whtn near the Sixteen Mile Creek , we ascertain * d that my countryman , Cel . Cbal . mers had a party guarding tbe bridge . The creek swells up at timcB Into a rapid river—It was dow gwollun by ttie November rains . What was to be done ! Youog W . and I jumped from the wa ggou , made toward the forest , asked a labourer tht road to Eiqueiing to put our pursuers off our track , and were soon in the thickest of the patch of woods near ^ ihe deep ravine , in which flown the creek named end numbered arithmetically as the Sixteen .
The men la ehaso earae up with our driver almost immediately after we left , took him prisoner , seized bis team , gave the alarm to all the Toil e and Orangemen in that part of Trafalgar , and in an boar or thereabouts , we were annoyed by the reports of rifles and tho bark-In ? of dogs ueap by the place wberd we were hidden . Borne who « aw me at Comfort ' s Mills went and told the armed Tories of Streetsville , who instantly went to the worthy man ' s house , where they insulted and threatened bis intrepid and true-hearted < rife , proposod to mtftB a bonfire of Kin premises , hnndcuff . d and chained him , ' threw him into a waggon , and dragged him off to Toranto Jail , and , as they said , to the gal .
lows . He lay long in prison untried , and was only released to find bis exctllent wife ( who had been in the family way ) in her grave , the victim of that system of persecution and tcrrer nhich often classes men in America , as in Europe , not according to their personal deserts , but with reference to their politics , birth-place , faction , or religions profsssion . Nativeism in Canada , in those day" , *» bb the Nativeiam of 1813 . with the boot Oa the other leg , Americans were intuited there , at I bave seen us Europeans treated bere . FrieadB of peace and human progress ought to eschew all such illiberal and invidious preferences , and loam to consider mankind as a band of brothers .
Our Irish driver had a kino heart . Whsn I was es . hlbited by authority at tbe prison at Rochester , he came across to see me . lie bad been in the service of Judge Jones and others . I wan ill of the intermittent at tbe time , owing te close confinement and the swamp around me , and could ontyexprcBS th « gratitude I felt for paot nets of good will . As far down as 1825 , Orangeman and Catholic had lived together in harmony and peace near me , but a Mr Rowan who had been a leading functioaary in the Irish lodges came over to Canada , was openly aided and encouraged by the government , and organised extensively the Orange system , which soon occasioned useless , and seemingly , enrileis dissensions among no . Trafalgar was a hot-bed of this sort of work , and « 3 I had alwajs
set my face against it , and British nativeism , I could hope for no friendship or favour , if here apprehended . There waB but one chance for escape , however , surrounded as we were—for the young man had refused to leave me—and that was to stem the stream , and cross the Bwollrn creek . We according ly stripped ourselves naked , aud with the surface ice beating against u § , and holding our garments over our heads , in a bitter cold December night bntfetted tbe current , and wrre soon up to our necks . I hit my foot against a stone , lot full some of my clothes ( which toy companion caught ) , and cried aloud with pain . Tho cold in that stream cauaed me the most cruel and intense sensation of pain I ever endured , but we got through , thengh with a better chance for drowning , and the frozan sand on the banks seemed warm to our feet when we once more trod on It .
In an hoar and a half we were an £ er tbe hospitable roof of one of tbe innumerable agricultural iriends I oould then eountintne country . I had a supply of dry flannels , and food , and an hour ' s rest , and have ofttn wished since ( not to embark again on tbe tempi-stuoub ocean of politics ) , but that I might have anopportuoity to express my grateful feelings to those who proved my most faithful friends in the hour when most required . Amnesties ' , and a hotter system in England and Canada , nty or may not have removed all personal dan .
Rer , at this interval of time , yet I choosa to withhold the ' namea of many wbo then rendered me essential aid , becanse I am not thoroughly aware of their peculiar position and present circumstances . I had risked much for Canadians , and semd them long , and as faithfully as I could—and now , when a fugitive , I found them ready to risk life and property to aid me—far more ready to risk the dungeon , by harbouring mo , than to accept Sir Franch Head ' s thousand pounds . Tue sons and daughters of the Nelson farmer kept a silent watch outside , In the cold , while I and my companion slept .
We crossed Dundas . street , about eleven p . m ., and the twelve mile creek , /{ Rtnfc , on a fallen tree , about midnight . By four on Saturday morniBg- we had reached Wcllington-square , by tho middle road . Tho farmers ' dogs began te bark loudly , the heavy tramp of a party of hirsemtn was heard behind us—we retired a little way into tbe woods ^ aw that the men wero armed—entered the rond again—and half » n hour before twilight reached the door of an upright majjistrato , which an English boy at once opened to us . I sent up my name , was requested to walk up stairs ( in tho flark ) , and told that the house , barno , and cvevy part of the premises , had been twice searched for roe that morning , and that M'Nab'a men , from Hamilton , were scouring tbe enuntry Ih all directions , in the bope of tiiking me . I a « kcd if I had the least chance tn pass downward by the way of Burlington Bcncb , but was answered that both road * were guarded , and that Dr Rolph was , by that time , safe in Lewiston ,
Believing it Bnfest , we went behind our friond's house , to a thicket he dressed himself , followed us , gave a Bhrill whistle , which was answered , and all three of us were greatlj puzzled as to what safe course I could possibly take . As my companion was not known , and felt tbe chill of the water and the fatigue , he was strongly advised to seek shelter in a certain house not far off . He did SO , nnd renched the frontier safely , and continued for four months thereafter very sick . At dawn of day it began to snow and show footmarks , and I concluded to go to a farm near by . Its owner thought I woald be quite Bafe in his barn , but I thought not . A peas-ricb , which the pigs had undermined all
round , 6 tood on a hi ' s h knoll , and I chose it for a biding-placs . For ten er twelve hours I slept , when I conld get any sleep , in my clothes , snl my limbs had swelled so that I had to leave my boots and wear a pair of slippers ; my feet were wet , I was very weary , and tbe cold and drift annoyed me much . Breakfast " I had none , and in due time Colonel M'Donnell , the Uigh Sheriff , and bis posse , stood before me . House , barns , cellars , and garret were searched , and I the while quietly looking on . The Colonel was afterward second in command to Sir Allan M'Nab , opposite Navy Mand j and when I lived in William-street some years ago , ho called on mo , and we hud a hearty laueh ever his ineffecfual exertions to catch a rebel in 1837 .
When the coast seemed clear , my terrified hoot , a wentthy Canadian , came up the hill as if to feed the pigs , brought two bottles of hot wnter for my feet , a bottle of tea , and several slices of bread and butter ; told mn that the neighbourhood was literally harassed with bodies of armed men in search of me . After I left his premises he was « r « Btcd ; but had powerful friends , gave bail , and the matter ended there , WheR night had Bet in I knocked at the next farmer ' s door , a small boy who lived , I think , with one of the brothers Chiebolm ( strong government men , collectors , colonels . 4 o . ) , or wha was their nophew or other rdative , came to me . I sent In a private message by him but the ' houBe hnd befn searched so often for me that
the in . dwellero dreaded consequences , and would not see me . The boy , however , volunteered to go with me , and we proceeded by a by-path to Mr King's , wbo lived on tho next farm to Col . J- > hn Chisholm ' s , which was then head-quarters for our Tory militia . The boy kept my secret ; I had supper with Mr King ' s f imily , rested for an hour , and then walked with him toward my early residence , Dund . is village , at tbe head of Luke Ontario , We saw a small party of armed men on the road , near the mills of an Englishman , but they did not perceive ub . Mr K . is now dead , but the kind attention I met with under his hnspitablo roof I shall not forget . Why should such a people as I tried and proved in those daje ever know hardship , or suffer from foreigH or domostic misrule ?
We went to the dwelling of an old friend , to whom 1 stated that I thought I would tnw make a more speedy , yet equally sure p-ogress , on horseback . Ho risked at once , and that too most willingly , not only hia Iioree , but also the lniowledp ; o It might convey that lie had aided me , Mr King returned homo , and I entered the village nlone in tho night , and was hailed by some person who p p « cd'ly passed on . I wanted to take a friend with me , bat durst not go to wake him up ; there was a guard on duty nt tho hotel , and I had to cross tbe creek close by a house I bad built in the public Fqunre ; Tthen murie for the mountain country above- Hamilton , na ! led at Lswis Homing ' s , but found a stranger there , passed on to tho dwellings of some old Dutch friends , who told mo that all the passes wera guarded—Terrj-berry ' s A - bion Mills , every place . ( To be concluded in our next . ) i ¦¦ rTTTi
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OUR NATIONAL DEFENCES . —THE RATS IN - TfiE STACK . BY W 1 U . UM HOWITT . An old farmer , one John Bull , talking over thn hedge of his rick-yard to his neighbour , expressed great alarm at a rumour which had reached him , throush an old soldier who lived ob his pension kj the Tillage , that incendiaries were meaning to come and burn down his corn-stacks . He deolared that he must apply to the magistrates to have tho yeomanry ready U keep the rogues in awe . and to send him a detaohment of police to guard hie rick-yard .
' Makeyouwelf easy on that auennnt , replied hu neighbour over the kedge . himself also a farmer , ' for the yeomanry and the police would saddle the parMi with a hcavv debt , and , tosny the truth , the danger to your stacks ia of another kind . The rats are in them by hundreds , and if yoa don't thrash ' em out , it will ba of little consequence how coon they may be burnt down . Thrash out your ricks , neighbour , and then you'll save your corn both from rata atd incendiaries . * John Bull took the advice , found a legion of rats that had already made dreadful havoc in the heart of hia stacks , and conveying his corn to market , heard no more of tho incendiaries , who were believed to have existed nowhere but in the old soldier ' s brain , who was getting superannuated , and talked in hia elppn .
The war-ory of the lest few weeks raised by a oertain old soldier who lives on his pension at Hydepart Corner , has every day reminded us of the village John Bull . Let the Jobn Bull look to it , and da like the horeat farmer , for the danger is the same , and the remedy is the sa ^ ne . The folly of the cry of invasion bas been sufficiently shown by a variety of the ablest journals in the eountry ; we need not , therefore , eo far into that part of the question , but the roguery of the cry wants yet more fully demonstrating . We are now quite satisfied of the self-evident troth of the fact that our alarmist is like tbe old woman in the nursery song—There was an old woman , God help hor ! YTho lived in . a hovel of dirt , She dreamed that thieves e -. tag to rob her and ekelp
her , ARd she cried oat before fho woo hurt . Poor eld woman . God help her ! Every man is quite satisfied that while we have be » n nccusinc the French of designs upon us , they Have been thinking more of what they shall do with Abd-el-Kader , and busying themselves with plans of reform of their own grievances . We have heenreokoning without our host ; counting onr Gallic chickena before ihey are hatched ; begging the French to come and invade us , whether they are inclined for it or not , and poor old Wellington—there conld be no stronger proof of his superannuation , ef his being no longer the prudent general that he was—has been oblieinely informing them of all one weak points , and
ofthebpatwayof getting to London with the leaat lost of time and labour . Every body is quite satisfied too , with the plain fact , that before the French invade us they must put their army in motion ; thai this will not be done withour a gcoi ) deal of stir and observation in France —and that all this stir and observation ia not likely quite to escape the vigilance of onr Government / or our journals . We have such things as a numerous embassaee , consuls , amenta , correspondents of newspapers daily on the alert for news , and daily writing thence ; besides merchants and proprietors of railway shares and their employes and agents , all on the qui vive about their interests , besides hundreds and thousands of English subjects living in tbe chief cities of
France , who , in case of a war , must cut and run . Out of all these Bonrces it is rather likely that we should hear something of any preliminary preparations for ho important a thinp as the invasion of England , a thing net attempted for these ages past , and which Buonaparte with all his talent , power , almost nniversal victory , and with the most burning desire to conquer us—dared not undertake . It is rather likely that before such an array invaded onr coast we should find an army somewhere , and a navy toe , to receive it . It ia scarcely preOable that oar men of war would all contrive to get out of the way at bugd a crisis , and like ordinary police , not to be able to be found when they were wanted . Let im see the French once on the water before we are seriously alarmed ,
and before we accuse our navy and our army , to whom we pay twenty millions a year , of doing what they never yet did on any far less emergency than the invasion ol their native land , —deserting their posts , and showing the white feather . Tbe French onc 6 on land ! Could such a tbiner be —why tho poor old soldier at Hyde-patk Corner must have bo knowledge ef Englishmen if he does not know that every man in the country would spring up a soldier ; every gun , pike , pitch-fork and poker would be converted into a weapon ; from behind fivery hedge and ont of every window , would pour forth the hail of death upon the invader . We irould not give a pinch of sniiff for the ten heurs' lease of any Frenchman ' s life belonging to such an invading
army . Let any one recollect the natural furor on the threat of Buonaparte's invasion . The enrolling of volunteers , the Bplrit that burned and boiled in every bnsom . from Land ' send to John O'Groat's ! But enough ! Vvxcn has sufficiently shown up the turnip-lantern scarecrow of invasion , and has called nut all the defensive force that is necessary , —the Brook-uroen volunteer . Tho French are dreaming of very different things to an English invasion . — Louis Philippe knows it—the meetings all over the country for Radical Reform tell it him ; he hastoo much at stake to risk any such foolish speculation , and shnnld he die , France wiH find enough to do a * home in the unusual ferment and commotion tbat will follow as nn immediate consequence .
Besides this , the merchants , manufacturers , and proprietors of railways and other public works in France , would do on such an occasion , as thev did on the very last menace of a breach with England , huny to the capital with petitions and memorials against so preposterous , wicked , and suicidal a thine as war with Great Britain—the certain ruin of them and of millions of their fellow-suhjects . What then is the real cause of thia war-cry in England ? The matter is no mystery—it lies p laie and open to the day-light ; nn child pan be so childish , no fool so foolish , as not to observe it . It is simply this : —There are at the War-office some twenty thousand applications for commissions that no commissions can be found for . Lur-kily for us , the love of pence
has been a growing feeling in Europe . We have not sent out our soldiers to DHtcher onr continental neighbours and get butchered themselves . The breed of butchers , therefore , has grown excessively , and they long to be at work . The old butchers sit idle at home , except such as we send ont to butcher the East Indians and Chinese , and the sucking butchers are growirg numerous . All over the country the aristocracy , who used to find a fine vent for their surplus progeny in the ereat European slaughterhouse , don't know what to do with their children . AH civil offices , commi 3 sinner 8 hips , and what not , all peaceable profepsions are full , the church has more parsons than preachers , more expectants than livings—and therefore , the only chance is to raise the cry of wolf ,
and get a militia and get other soldiery on foot . In short , the Rats are in the Stack , and much 83 they get to devour , cry ' more ! more ! ' find their numbers rapidly increasing , and want to extend their ravages . There lies the real danger ! that is the real cause of this outcry ! We agree with the old Duke so far , that there is imminent danger , and more—that there is need of war ; but the danger is not from without , but from within—not from the French but the Normans . There is need of war , but war of another kind and directed into a different quarter . The enemy is already in the camp—the plunder ia poing on . The rats are in the stacks—the old Aristoc-Rats who , since the Norman invasion , in increasing numbers and ever growing audacity , have been tuggiBg at the vitals of John Bull .
We are tempted hero , like Aberncthy , to s ^ to all those credulous patien ' s wbo can imn « ine that their disease is the fear of invasion— ' Read my Book' —Read' John Ilampden ' s History of the Aris tocracy ; ' * and learn what it is that ails you . See there the fearful expose ef the English Aristocracy , which from age to age has been extending its palaces and its power till it has swallowed up your whole constitution , Crown , Church , State , Colonies , Officen , and Taxes : has swamped your commeree , ruinod your manufacturing system , reduced your population tn beggary , overwhelmed you with a debtwhich is sink , ing you in national perdition , and raising all other nations on yonr ruin ' .
That is wbat you should look at : that ; b what you have to fear . With such stagnation in youi trade , such distress in your manufacturing districts ; such bankruptcy amongst your merchants , and starvation amongst your people , aB never were known before , yon are coolly asked to plunge yourselves once more into war that your vultures may flesh their beaks . There are so many younger sons unprovided for in that class that' cannot dig , and wbo to beg are ashnmed , ' that your property and persons are to be still further invaded . Tbey ask you to revive
that war-spirit that you are every day so wisely , so religiously , growing «» t of , to renew oil these jealousies with France which have caused a rain of blood from age to ace , and cursed yoa with the heaviest debt and proudest aristocracy which ever cuvsed any nation . Tbey ask you to give up vour persona anil your puvsea . your businesses , and your firc-sido ? , the society of your wives and children , to become once more the mechanical marching machines of dcFpotism—tho green geese driven to market by those who never even reared , lodged , or fed you ,
My cood fellow countrymen , I Uunft yon are grown somewhat more rational than that—I think you havy something better tn do . Do you want a balloting for tho militia ajiain ? Do you want to be marched off frora your homes , your looms , your spades , or ycur 3 hops , to lounge in barracks nnd polish belts with pipe-clay , or to havo your money taken for . oiiWitutea . Now that is precisely what th ' s r . oor old Duke is asking for . This poor old man is either a wil ins
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tool or an unhappy dupe for the ^ arintociaey . H « knows D 8 well 88 we do that we already pay Twukxt MllUOWB FOB OUB MlUTAftY AND NaTAL E «* ABLtSHmbht , while tke whole civil government of the country costs but Six Milmoss ! If Twbmtt Milmoas a ibab ia not enough to defend thisconntry , io thename ' of common sense what will be ? If we paj more than tkree times the amount ot all our civil government for soldiera and sailorp , aed tiey are not en < iugh to defend us , it is hich time that we adopted C » bdeo ' a notion , and reduced our establishments and expenses altogether , and trusted to God , and the common interests of mankind .
But let it bB remembered that it ia in the midst of unexampled di » tr « 8 » , scarcity of mor . ey , and with a revenue showing a deficiency for the past year of upwards of Two Millions , and for the past quarter , of nearly a million akd a quarter , that we are asked to burden ouraBhres , with at least half a million a year for National Defences . ' Why , tbe poor old Duke mu 9 t be haunted with all the apparitions of the armies thai he has slain in former days , and fancies that they an ? arising to invade us . We shall have to publish the account of another Haunted House , that at Hyde Park Corner , and its aged and afflicted occupant .
Now , dues it never occur to you , that there is still another object in this cry of invasion ? If you took at the condition of both ' England and Ireland , if you see the imperative necessity of immediate and abl © measures for domestic relief and retrenchment , does it not strike' you that the alarm is one of those delusions which are employed to divert your attention from the real evil and the demand of a remedy , to an imaginary onet 18 not thia cry of invasion merely a rust to « et over the session and ths winte * once raore with empty talk instead of wise , prompt , and stati smanslike measures ?
But let us at length answer to the war-cry ! Let us have war , but not with the French . Let us thrash out our stacks , and squander the rats while we : have any corn left . In other words , let us put a stop by onebuld , prompt , and universal movement to the system of prufligate waste and corruption that-h goins ; on at home . Sixteen years of the . Reform BiU , which was to hava dotiesuch wanders , which . was le have originated suoh sweeping retrenchments , such aotive measures for trade—and what is our condition ? Every year our distress deepening , our trade psriah * labour werhhouees full , oar ledgers Jqadfeil ' rwith catalogues of bankruptcy ; and onr ^ government standing stock-still , in tbe possession ofaiirthe unabated places , pensions and 8 inecnre 3 . ; T $ icu tbey denounced as so atrooions when in the hands of others . .,. •• .: :. '' .- >
We want a militia , indeed ! It should be ; a moral force militia balloted out of evory class , grade , and school of reformers , to maroh down on tliij ; citadel of domestic corruption , and throw it open to the light of day . Englishmen should cure themselves-of this dreadful cacoethes loquendi ; which , has got such hold on them . They have talked long enough-of their erievances , they Bhould conic to action . —they should show the same front that tbey did for the Reform Bill , now for a better cause—for - ' a , thorough Parliamentary and Government Reform , —a complete sweeping out of the Augean stable of corVuptiea If that be not soon done , tbe mass of the neon e * re .
duced to wretchedness and despair , will be litle the ass in the fable . They will , when told of invasion , ask whether the enemy can increase tbeir burdens , or diminish their foed any more than their prpgeat masters , and will be indifferent to whom rules fhrm . Till this is done , tiil Reformers really unite and f « roe on retrenchment , and the entire freedoSntif'trader till parliamentarians shorten their *|> eecBe . 3- /< and lengthen their demands—till we . th ? ash out-our stacks and squander the rats , we shall never be free frora freah demands upon our puraea and patiencenor from danger of real war , that" our : authdritio leeches and vampires may live . •' ... ; .
We are glad to see the Feace Societf ^ fe ' ing th 0 field against thia artful and interested cry of invasion —we give their address in the Record . But let every real Reformer take the field too . Let there be meetings in every town and village to remonstrate agaiaat any increase of ow * military expenditure , and demaad the fulSln * J the pledges of the Whigs for retrenchment in every department of tha state . Te that we must come , aad the sooner the better . The truth can be no longer concealed , that there is no remedy for the distress and . ruin . thafc every year aiuk . the nation deeper and ^ teepery but a prompt , sweeping , and unflinching reform in our taxation , representation , and commercial-code . We must take off the restrictions frem our trade , and put
them upon our ruler . * . Let those who will not work , be they of what class they may , be refused relief either from the parish pr the nation . Let all blopdthiratineas nurtured In idleness be cured bythereduotion to low diet , and the offer of a spade and mattock to win honest bread with . The most dangerous enemies are notoriously of a man ' s orn house . All we want isunion and re&iatance to them . > Till then we are every day and every hour suffering from , invasion—invasion of our rights , of our property , of our profits , and our persons ; and the real objeet of a militia , which can be of no use against the French , may , in the moment that we mav be roused to stek redress from our own misrulers , be /) nly discovered too well . —Hovfitt ' s Journal .
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The Central Gaol of Poisst broken ito axd robbed . — Poissy , near Paris , has lately boon the scene of three curious adventures . In the month of November last a young raan , wearing the costume of a priest , took up his residence in a chateau near tie town . lie made a display of the most fervent piety , and so godly was be that he actually turned the sidebeard of the dining-room into an altar , and every day celebrated mass before it , clothed in the most splendid robea of the Catholic church . lie made frequent visits to Parb , and on each ooeasion returned with valuable articles used in the celebration of worship . It turned out that he bought these things on credit , and that he then sold them for whatever they would fetch . Tho duped tradesmen , on finding that they were swindled , got a warrant against him .
On going to the chateau to execute it , the officers of justice were told by the ccnciei ^ e that the abbe had gone to Paris , and taken all his keys with him . But the officers forced their way in , and broke opoli all the doors that were fastened . At length they arrived at a room which was supplied with a formidable lock , but after some difficulty they contrived to effect an entrance . They then found a table covered with the remains of an excellent breakfast , and several bottles of excellent wine . The pretended abbe , who is . only about twenty-five years of age , was crouched in tha corner of the room . He gave himself ap to the officers , and in reply to the questions put to him , pretended that he should be able to confound his accusers . —The next adventure is still more remarkable—the gaol broken into and robbed ! ' The money
cliest of the prison generally contains a considerable sum together with tho jewels , watches , and other objects of value taken from the prisoners . A few nights ago , aman , taking advantage of tbe weather being dark and rainy , placed a ladder against the outer wall . He then let hiB ladder down on tbe other side , and quietly descended , The audacity of this exploit will be conceived , when it is stated that the wall is watched by sentinels placed only a few yards from esch other . Once within the yard , the fellow made bis way to the offices , which he opened by means of skeleton keys . lie then broke opon the money chest , took out SOO . ' ., re-ascended the wall by means of bis ladder , attached a rope to the ladder , and let himself down on the othc r side , getting clear off with his booty . —The third adventure consisted in an escape frora the prison . A prisoner named Du val was , about a week ago , occupied , with some nineteen
other prisoners , in washing linen . The place in which the washing is carried on is surrounded by high walls . It is entered from a court yard , and tho entry is secured by a solid fo . ding-door , which is fastened by an immeuBe lock , and further protected bv an enormous iron bar . Whilst the turnkey to whom the superintendence of tho prisoners was committed was engaged in making an entry in a book , Duval slipped to the door , pushed up the iron bar , and by a sudden jerk forced the lock , lie then ran towards tho outer wall , and ion reaching it , leaped with extraordinary agility the top of a railing two yards high , which was fastened to it . From the railing he , in the twinkling ef an eye , got to the top of the wall , frora which he dropped into a bv-street , and before he could be pursued wns clear off . A sentinel was placed within half a ds z ? n yards of tbat part of tbe wall over which he escaped ;
A Boy Lost . —On the 2 Gth of November last , Walter Wallford , the son of John Wallford , wag missed from his home , in Bow-street , at Oldhum , in Lancashire , and is supposed to have deen stolen . VVe understand that when he left home , he had en a dark cord jacket and trousers , a coarse pinafore , a cap without a tip , and clog ? . The poor boy was , we believe , between eight and nine years of age , and of a light complexion . Now and then gives a squint with one eye , is weak in tho back , and rather bends the knees when walking ns though they wero weak . Ho is a native of Mansfield . Any information will be g ladly received by his father , at Mr W . Thacker ' s , rinter and bookbinder , Church-street , Mansfield . From tbe 1 st of January , 18 i 7 , to the 1 st of October last , 233 , 798 European emigrants arrived at Boston , New York , Philadelphia , New Orleans , and Baltimore , while Cor the preceding year the number was only lol , GC 2 .
The Swiss Diet has vfited a award of honour art ! a grant of 40 , 000 Swiss francs to General Dufour for his conJuct in the recent campaign against the Sondirbund . A paragraph lias been added , in the French Chamber of Peers , to the answer to tho speech frrm the Crown , expressing approbation of the Pope ' s reforms . M . Guiz'jt consented to it very reluctantly . Tho number of steamers that entered the port of Hamburgh in 1843 was 332 , in ISio it waa only 2 Qo , and in 1 S-17 tbe number uad increased to 410 . During a late storm , ISO bottle-nosed whales were driven on sbore at Ilaroltlswick Island , in the Orkneys .. The supply of soles in the Leeds and other inland markets has for some months been unusually cib ' . iiidi . nt .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 29, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1455/page/3/
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