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THE FELON , Aib — Scott tcfca hae . Who to he ttoaldshtink with sfcame . Who'd d « p « e the Felon ' s nima , Saw ' tis link'd with mstchleBg fame-, Death to tyraRay . Honour'd is esch sacred ltek , Tko mind unshackled still will think , And fiom freedom's formula driiik , Immortal liberty . Better far the Eeloa's chain , Better bear Its woes end pain , Than a ^ illlHg Elwe remain ,
In want and misery . " Who would bow to class-mads laws , Who'd lapp ^ rt oppression ' s ceaes . What bold Briton would notpaase , T' lite ia slavery ? By joar mnrder'd martyrs ' sighs , By yonr starrisg children ' s cries , Lst ynnr os'bi of freedom rise , T-- patriot band : Stand erect in God-like form , Treat the hireling preBS with Bcora , Liberty shall yet edorn O « r fatherland . Edwin Gill
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CHARTISM . 1 . A Few Words on the People ' s Charter . By Mr T . J . PdillipH . London : WMttaker and Sullivan , Chancery-lane . 2 . A letter on Chartism , addressed to the Operatives cfDanford S . A Rtplv to a Letter on Chartism . By the Council of tVe Dirtfotd Branch , of . the National Chatter Association . 4 . A Letter in Reply to a Ban > i-lill , published , by the Curati ofRotherham Church . Oi Tat Ae « R-form Movement . By H ? nry Haratet Dobney . Maldstone ; W . Sycklcraeere , Hehald Office . 8 . Tht Uolt , Tens , Hundreds . Thousands , Ten and Hundred Thousands , and iSIiions of the Constitution of England . By a Nottingham Midd ! e-elflS 3 Has . Lvndnn ; Simpkin and Co . 7 . The Political Rightt of the People . By the Re ? . Alexander Duccanscn , Falkirk . 5 . The People a Charter end Houstlold Suffrage Contrasted . By Robert Barrell , Greenock . 9 . The Charter ; whit it means ! The Chartists , what ih * y want . ' Explained in an address to the Middle Clouts of Great Britain . By P . 11 . M'Douall , Snrgeon . London : £ . Dipple , 42 , Holy well-street , Strand .
1 . —Taking intosooonnt the pnee of this pamphlett it might ba not unaptly christened Twopenny Trash . The author ii a Liberal , but objects both * to the Charter and Home ' s scheme of Reform ; the former , ia fail opinion , ' going too f » r , ' and the latter , ' not far enough . ' He appears to regard the Ballot as of primary importance , and which , together with ' EqusI Electoral Right , he places in advance of the Suffrage . His objections to the Charter srs of the weakest possible bind ; in fact , it is plain that he is asacqaainted with the provisions of that measure ,
Otherwise ke would know that the enfranchisement of Tagrant ? forms no part of the Charter . A right of voting to any man bejord the age of twenty-one , renting house or apartment for the space of dx aonths , st a yearly rental of £ 5 , whether payable weekly or not , is the gcheme proposed by Mr T . J . Philips . Th ? ~?"' t T-ocld ha ^ n electoral body , not .,,: f . vh ; £ \ riienj ur-os ; S £ as : - . sal coo .-ti ' : ut-rc ? th ? C :-vw / 'fon'd * ciea .. . lut ' -he Charter hr . 3 the se-¦?!¦ ' ¦ -ii ¦ ¦'¦ :-.-ii ?' r ..: ir- 'd ; f . nd icrrsr ^ C uVig- ?; " : ; ut . oa ice :-, 3 " . t- ; iv . i .-ulTr . 'Soioandcdut- ^ u - . ¦ u . j
in-;* l .. < icie princi ; ' :- of 7 i' ? , ' r . rotura ! "igii in « I - ^ 0 T ^ r 3 B 3 eat . Mr i'tjllipi objects if . Arv . sl ParlislEeDis ; tic- ^ bihr-jcctf V 2 s Pr ?! rert > -Q . i ; sl : r . cft * i-jn , aad Par ent of MsmJcrs— luz turn : p'jicU oi i ^ i Laartec . of the greatest impo : tance next to Universal Suffrage . He tells us that there are thousands of patriotic E u of wealth who would gladly accept the honour of being returned to represent a constituency . Think vou for nothing , ' as the Irishman said , We have been too long goTerned by such patriotic gentlemen . No donbt that even , under the Charter , £ majority of' man of property' wonld be elected ; bat it would be aU-izapertant that a goodly master of working men should be returned to represent the rights of indagtrj . Any extenfion of the Suffrage , nnsoempanied by the Abolition of the Property Qaalification and Payment of Members , would be an alia ost barren booB . In Libour ' t r&nks
The obI ) hope of freedom dffdli . 2 . —This dennnciatign o ( Chartum is . according ta the printer , the production of'A Working Bee ;' but we strongly suspect that , in truth , it is the production of an idle drone , or a tueSdng slug . This pamphlet is another specimen of twopenny trash , and that , too , of the most garbage-like kind . When we inform our readers that this drone or slug has the assurance to talk r . f * our mi ! d and forbearing go-TeromenV and tssssert that the taxes press least npon tire wjrkiuE clangs , v& hs . re said enough to show the combined fcnarery and stapidity of this preeions pampkletser . Witkout wasting space npon this elamsy tool of tyranny , we will proceed at oace to the next publication in our list .
§ . —This is an answer ta the idle drone ' s trash . We tre sorry we have not had an opportunity of earlier ioCeing * prodaction , which does infinite credit to fee intelligence and public spirit of the working men of Dartford . The authors of this pamphlet show that thej possess an iatimate knowledge of the history of the moTemer 4 t for Radical Reform ; a perfect comprehension of the evils , political and social of tbe present system j ted intellectual power more than enovgh to silence tbe bazzicg of a hundred Bnch idle drones as tne enemy they have so effectually answered and convicted of igaantnee and falsehood . Ths wide circulation of this pxmpblet intbat awfolly benighted dutrictg tie otinnty of Kent , con ! d cot fail to be of great Berries in adrancing the good course of truth and justice . We may add , that both thaban 9 and antidote—the productions of the sham 'be ? , ' and the real bees , may be bad of Mr Reeves , bookseller , High-street , Bartford .
4 . —Ths Chattistsof Rotherham bayin ? announced A political mating te be holden on a Sunday , were Snet by an outburst of scurrility , ia the shape of s ksnd-bil ! , from the enrate of Rotherham Church . Ths Reverend gentleman held forth , in this wiss ;—These Chartists are practical Infidels . The Preach profanity—the French liosntieusneir—tbe French Jnjostica and robbery—the French R ^ ToIalioas—the French blood-had of tae list ttcty jest * , tesch ui wh& * firuits kucq prmcipUs produce ia practice . h A those tfeen who kave any lova for their Country or their Qieen , » aj reverence for their 6 o 3 , any hope of Heaven or any firead of H » Ii , let them set their feoeg Egainst The CH * BCT » rs * Desecration of the S&bbatm .
This reverend libeller Eeems to be all unconscious of the ereat lesson of hi ? master . ' It is lawful to do good on tbe Sabbath . * Ha Beemsi too , to be blind to tbe great / ici . iLafc it is the treat 6 n of htasslf , and inch as him , to Christianity , which , has made Sunday political meetings indispensable . Were the parEonB tb . 9 unswerving prsaohers and assertors of the great priEdple , 'Do unto thy brother man as thoa Tfoaldest be ghanld do nntotbee . 'Cflarfisia—founded apon that sublime principle—would be in the agoenlant , and the crimes of the n ' chandthe wrongs of the poor would be unknown . These parsons are practical infidels . The letter ia anBwer o the curate ' s band-bUi , is a stnas-her for his reverence . Eis * practical infidelity is admirably demonstrated . In this contest the black eiLg has decidedly come off second betr , and we imagine will think twice bvfore he again ventn- e * npon a contest with hig Chartist parishiontH . We trust that this letter hs 6 been iridely distributed .
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CHAKTI 5 K Cineelves that all men are born with equal rights . E tibljih sn opposite principle , then one portion of mankind snait be born to be masters , ths remainder to t > 3 seiraats ; one por ^ oa most have phrenologicol developmoats to rale , the remainder have constructed organs to obey . Chartism conceives that all the children comprising on » family hav * equal claims opon their parents , and are all entitled to ( he enjoyment of equal privileges and protection ; therefore , as society consists tnttely of fe onion of families , the same citizen rights should be enjoyed by the members of millions of families as by the children of one . Establith as opposite princip le , then It becomes right for the eldest to tyrannise over the jouagest , and for & fraction to make laws fur the whole .
Ciiarlism conceives that the aim and object of uniting families into society was to redoes to practical utility the mental and physical differences ia men , to enable one to contribute by miad that which he cou ! d not do by labour , another to « ff-: ct by contrivance that which hecuuld natacbierd by strength—all to do something bo as to increao the Wealth , strength , and resources of the nation ; all reeeiviDg In return common baeefitB and enjoying common rights . Establish opposite priaeiples , thsa the strong hive a right to enslave the weak , tha canning to outwit the Bimple , the wise to tax the witless , and all to defend their injustice oa the plea of possessing tuptrior rights to their neighbours .
Cflsrtism conceives that at each family wohW be naturally free and independent when it joined the social unien , it would not associate to receive less but to gcqalrs greater beaefits from co-operation , therefere it could not cgree that one family out of the many should aake laws for the remainder . Prove an opposite principle and you establish tbe right of one family to declares privileged clasB , and to make all others an oppressed class ; and ss it increases in numbers you have constituted a law making and a law obejinf , a tax impeding ami a tax paying el&ss—a class with rights and a claS 3 without rights ; two distinct races , one formisg the white rulers and the other the white Eubjscts of class . Reversed soaiety .
Chartism conceives that no onion could originally have bsen formed or ought now to exist without all being eligible to elect or be elected as Iaw . makers , because all have a paramount interest and natural right in drawing up a constitution , and establishing a farm of government . If ths opposite is right , then the habits and customs of cailj tribes aie fable ? , the recsrds and traditions of our coustry are unfounded ; and society without a constitution recognising tbe rights of all must be a palaoe home to tbe few , a prison purgatory to the many . Cfcartifm conceives that the enactment of laws and the Imposition of tares must originally , and ought BOW to be madeeittKr personall y la public meeting by all , or In Parliament through representatives , cheien by the Iree voices ef the majority of the people .
If you submit to as opposite principle , then the exist , ence of an electoral class makes the will of the minority the lew of the majority . Oppression becomes a right , obsd ' ence becomes a duty , sad taxation a fine upon in . dustry . It 13 then justifiable to make the poor support the government of the rich , and draw the supplies , not from those , who have most , but from those who hare least to give . Chartism conceives that as society did not apparently commence by mskiag til produce common property , bat rather afforded opportunity and protection for each to benefit bf his skill , industry , and perseverance , it was not designed that the successful should forget all duties , cb 4 the unsuccessful loss all rights . On the other
hand it ttrs orddaed , that the mor « property a man acquired the more duties ha owed to society for tht protection it gare him , and the more the poverty of a man the more claims he had . In other word * common sense and interest imposed rates and taxes as Just fines upon exorbitant wealth aud undus accumulation of property . If mob . t ; :. " -e g ' . o r . re vrcng . then * e taay have c >; - r-SHTf sT 3 : b ? 3 ' r , e one bsud ar . d -qus " y EiJtecsiv-I'OttTty u . i 1 he -j ' . b-ir . Tko rich . 7 ?» y liiult to :: <\ 1 & tbc : . ' sa-vics « rtilth tast .- ;—ii ; snjajr ail rtgatii a : ; i [ ifirior . ^ uo curias : a ~ . i inrtKivg th .: social banie . ifc ; n thtii le » s ' . ' . .- iiii&te bre . tb » i' < - -joaimit 3 texrebbory of tbsm ^^ t anjs >; « h 9 T » i ; tcr , ur . d ralnous coasequrrces ! o tbi . ' lu . diJie
Chartism conceives that ss labour is tbe only source of wealth and produce , one great tim of society ought to be to give it such encouragement , protection , snd remuneration , that it may beoome more valuable ia itself ) and more fruitful to all . Pariue an opposite course and it becomes the passive tool of the selfish , the goose with the golden eggs , Iu claims to good wages raay be deaied . Its rights to selfdirection may be dilated . Its demand for self-government refused . Bad direction , ep' treatment , become the reles of the workshop , and competition , Idleness , and misery , the erder of the day , mitigated feebly by a partial organisation and almost inoperative Trades ' Unions .
Chsrtitm conceives that a tax upon ^ e necessaries of life is an embargo upon Industry as much as a tax upon income is a tariff upon enterprise . Both ought to be abolished . If this is wrong then it becomes right to tax tbe man who is f truggling to acquire property , Bad ontax the man who has got it . Spending then becomes a merit , saving & loss , and both a beneSt to government . Chartifm conceives that from all well directed labour a surplus should remain over end above home consumption , and that that surplus should be exported aad ex . changed for the products and manufactures of other
nations , thereby establishing the principle of selling only that which we eould sot coniEtne , and tuyiag only that which we really required , llsnj otherprxatlple Is adopted , tfctn home wants may be fbrgottea in suppljisg foreign ones , Doaestic necessity may yield to distant profit , and our own people be strippednaked to clothe strangers . The husbandman may giow wbtat which he is never to consume , and the weaver produce shirts wbick he is never to wear . In other word 6 the tree may be cut down to gather the apples , and millions be ruined hereafter r asrely to satisfy the cravings of a few for immsdlate and fri . i-bitant waalth .
Chartlsm conciirei that &s no two families agree alike oa religious subjects , etery one should be free to pursue and msdatala its own form and tenets . If aay other principle is adopted , then the Catholic has * right to tax the Protestant , and the Pfotelt&nt the Catholic ; and government raay claim the Inspiration of power , and tax both to meintaia a State church . Chartism el « o cacceiveg ( hat each family has a tight to instruct its members ia the faith it has adopted , aDd tlat from public free and national schools all sectarianism shcald ha banished , and the children of all sects meet 6 a eommun g / ound without having their minds biased from the creed of tneir parents .
Any other course would enable the schoolmaster t » displace parental snthorit / , the government to usurp domestic dutiei , and inflict Irreparable injury to the rising intelligenca of the age , because the formation of mind and character would be consigned to those who are interested in crippling the one and perverting the other . We must refer our readers to the pamphlet itself for the author's review of' Household Sufff&ge , ' and his powerful refutations of the objections to the Charter u-ged by its enemies . Every Chartist council should consider it a duty to push the circulation of this well-timed , and ably-wiitteu vindication of Chartism .
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2 This pamphlet deserves an extensive sale . Terrigenous' leaves the land monopolists and their anologiKta not a leg to stand apon . Hia arguments Snpiortof tie right of all to the land are unanswerable . Wo give the concluding portion of the pamphlet . USD , C 02 JM 0 S PRCrEBTT . jz ^? x : ss ' ; r 22 Bt » s ? = iSr -ttwrsiss £ S ^ rsittrsasp rafesriirstsaw-fr ? s . ss : : i i :, c s ^ jiss&wwswjws
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a lair yrhertby estates would drop Into the common filed oa the demise of their present po « scj ! O > - . Tbe advantages accruing from auch a change must bo very great . Land is ths stronghold of the srhtscracy , and landed property has been tbe eurse of civilised society . Thoao who have been its possessor , have held power almost omnipotent , and from them the people have received every species of tyranny and oppression Destroy the landed property , and away goes the Law of Primogeniture , Pareoa ' & Tithes , Laws of Entail , Game Laws , etc . Landlord aDd Tenant Right woald st last be settled . Ejectments would ba an Impossibility . Was , sinecuristj , pensioners , and all otiierp , who . fattea on tbe labour and property of tha people , weald naturally share tho same fate . Aristocracies would
speedily disappear , when each man mast bo the producer of his cwn fortune . All this wonld certatoly take plsce with the destruction of landed property . But there le something mors . Att taxation might eease , the rental of the hnd being ample to meet the expindilure of any cheap form of government .
3 . The contents of this pamphlet , written by a native of Great Britain , but a resident in France , had bean widely circulated in Paris , when about two m-nths ago , a translation was published by Mr Cooper , ' tbe Ch rtist . * 'This paper , ' taya Mr Cooper , ' is esteemed to be tbe consistent consequence of the policy pursued by the Provisional Government ; wtich it i 3 presumed will not be negatived by the Rational Aswmbiy . ' We presume that long before this time , Mr Cooper baa digoovered his mistake . A viler crew of protitmougering and labourplundering scoundrel * , than the majority of the National Assembly , never gathered together to plot away tho liberties and hopes of & people . This unhappy result of the victory &f Februaryis no doubt
, largely owing to the ignorance of the mass of tho French people ; but much is also to be laid to the ac count of those moderate foola and villains who have headed tb . 9 state since the overthrow of h' ) Vi % Philippe . We know that Mr Cocfsb greatly admirea Lamartihe—to whoae imbecility , mnat , to a great exteHt , bo imputed the evils which have fallen upon the Republic LiUARiiNB , largely imbued with the sentiments of the author of ' the orations against the taking away of human life under any circim ; - etance , ' made it his first business to release tbe aristocratic brigands from that terror which was necessary for the people ' s salvatioa ; yet within the last few days tkia gama humauiby-moncer has directed a hidsoua massacre of tbe people—a
wholesale slaughter of the men who made the revolution . True the victims had revolted against' the Republic' But who had driven tbem to revolt ? The miscreants whoa Lauartinb protected in February . Oh ! men of the people , beware of philanthropists , beware of sentimentalising humbugs ; in a state of revolution look upon that man as your foulest enemy , who would indoctrinate you with the fatal poison of' moderation . ' At page 5 of this pamphlet the anther says , ' Whatever may be the political constitution whieh we adopt , we xiust have civil war if government attempts to maintain the present pjBteia of industry . ' The government has declared it will maintain the present system even at the mouth of the cannon , and civil war has commented !
This pamphlet is well worthy the csrefcl study of all true democrats . Thatrthe new industrial eyatem 8 Bggested , or any modification of it , will now be adopted in France cannot be hoped for , unless , indeed , a new revolution should give to a seoand Babe dp the authority of another Robespierre .
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MISCELLANEOUS PAMPHLETS . l . —A Sermon for the Times . By the Rev . S . Oliver . Vicar Of Calverton , Nottinghamshire . Lsndon Hall and Co ., Paternoster-row . 2 . —The French Revolution of 1848 , viewed in the fight of prophecy , A sermon by the Rev . R : S . Smith . Dorchester : W . Barclay . > . —A'l . k'is ; tr . - /( ,- W ' ovh-vj r ' s < sci . By arcs '! Friet ; d of iWorm . London ; Sinu-kin , Marshall and Co . i .-To . - . ii . ' 0 ( Jr . Enslave ! . 'By T ?\ W . F > V 00 B > . L-ndon : Watson , Q . aotn' ? Hcsd-pjissREe , Pater-Roater-row . S . —T ^ e Battle " f the Miliict , London : * i . ivianauil , ] 15 , Fleet-stMet .
v . ^ . '< fonarcr . o-jl ( fpi . ( v ( iwm ( Vi . Limon : & . Wtlsan , Royal Exchange . 7 . —An Essay on Republican Governments . By W . T . Meyler . Dublin ; H . Shaw , Lower Ormond Quay . 8 . —The Reformer ' s Companion to the Almanacs . By Joseph Barker , Wortley , near Leeds . 9 . —The Radicalism of Moses . By the Rev . B . Parsons , of Ebley , near Stroud , Giouosstershiro . 10 . —Physical Force . By Gaorge Bowen . Leicester : J . Ayer , Albion Hill .
11 . —The National Guardsman ' s Companion and Special Constable ' s Manual . By ; J . H , Maokay . Edinburgh : Robinson , Greenside-street . 12 . —The Rights of the Working ) hn defended in a Letter to Lord John Russell . Bristol : Matthews , 44 , Broad Quay . 13 — The Trial of John Jlitchel , London : W . Winn , Holywell-street . 14—The Sounds of the Times . By J . C . Blumenfield . Newcaatle-npoa-Tyne ; T . Dodde , ; Greyatreet .
15 . —A Songfor the Timts . Cheltenham ;* T . Willey , Oxford Passage . 16— The Bonny Bird ; a Radical Rhyme . Dan dee : A . Barnet , 1 ( 18 , ScoUringbufU . 11 . —History of the ifarseiUaise . By J . D . Collett . Londen : J . W * t 3 on , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . 1 . This is a sermon preached in the pariah church of Calverton , on Eatter Tuesday , to the member * of
the Little John Lodge of ' the Nottingham Ancient Imperial Order of Odd Fellows . ' It is a pity that tbe Rev . Sah . Oliysb seems to be utterly ignorant of the ninth commandment : ' Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour ; ' for ignorant he most be or he would not have been euilty of' evil apeakin ? , lying , and slandering , ' in reference to the advocates of Chanis-m , As a specimen of the doctrines preached in this preoioua sermon , we extract the following : —
PASSIVE OBEDIENCE . But you will probably aik , if the monarch of a oountry i » wicked , ought not the country to resist ? GericAtO . not . StPc'tersByi , « Henour the king . ' Now the king or emperor who geverned at that time in Rome * waB one of the most blood-thirsty tyrants the world ever produced . The crueltlei ta praollsed upon tho ChrlBtianB on account of their religion , wero of a most hor . rlble nature ; and yet , to these very ChristlBnB , and re ferrlng to this vary ruler , the Apostle says , Honour the king ; Submit yourueWes to every ordinance of man for the Lord ' s sake . ' If the rev . gentleman ' s hearers cauld stomach this —they muat be odd fellows indeed !
2 . Unmitigated trash . The ' Rev . R . Smith of Stafford , Dorset , ' abuses the Pope for accepting tbe embrace oi " infidelity and deraooracy , ' and denounces the French people fat having kicked out the author ' s namesake , King Smith , at tha same time asserticg that ' not a sparrow can fall upoa the ground without the Almighty ' s permission , much less an em pin be overthrown . ' He asserts that republican and democratical feeliDgB are produced under the agency of evil spirits , spirits unseen by the world , but revealed to believer * ! ' It strikes us that his revereoce must have been under the influence of evil spirit * when he prepared tins serMOH . Ha denonnceg the Noethbrn Stab and . other newspapers , remarttinzthat— . . „_ . __ the of Satan
Theec publications are prim * engines , and whoever takes in or circulate them is doing tha devil ' s work ; end every ona wio exposes their true character and cauttone others against the subtlety and ta . lent with which they ara written , in so for WnderiHg the work Of the devil , and promoting * oth the causa of Christ and-the vf el / are of his country . We are much obliged for this compliment and hope for a continuance of the flame kindly advertigement of the Nobthebn Siab each time the rev . gentleman holds forth to his favoured hearew . From the Norihbbh Stab and all Satan ' s pabhoationszood Lord deliver us , ' will ba an excellent D » r . setahire addition of the Litany ; and will do us the good servioe of increasing the sale or this journal in « jH county-very WUCh , Wfl bellOTO ^ m Want Of STAR h 8 3 . * More Tuioptnny troth ; too contemptible for further notice , 4 W ell-meaning intentions disguised in a rhapsody of of words . An applieaWe title wonld have bsen ' Muoh Ado about Nothing . ' 5 The title of this pamphlet in fall is The Battle of the Million , undei-Ganeral Honesty , Boppwted by Ha relative ,, Truth , Honour , End Hope ; against the numerous hordes of savages who have thrown themselves among the million , for the purposes of nillaee . fraud , and violence , led by those notorious fSC . o ' e sbJod , p 6 mp and Avance , snppoBed £ M 5 t « t topWi » rfFratermty . ' For fall mp ; SSSTIf this terrible battle we must refer the reader to the pamphlet ltsell .
6 -This pamphlet professes to . ba an answer" to thfl nnntiMi 'Why dees tbe History of tha World and Republican forms of Government V flwing to hb OWDfsatisfaction wswered thm query , the author Sa forward aresedy which be . B « fea Monarchft-Sblicsnism . ' It « ppeara that this remedy the 3 a of this country are already in poasesupB of , fosawortiEg to the author of this pamphlet' Monar-! KEpubl £ » i « ' ia thaformof thaEoghshgo . TOrnment Hence , we suppose , tho people of this SS sVe so contented ! Our readers will not 52 m 1 to discuBs the contents of a pamphlet which ooiteins suchstiiffagthofoUow ^ g ^ The dear ^ asd StK ! .
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HMHTMUI " *"' HIWJ r"fT' 7 ir * m ** *> * ' ^ MinilTrfV ^ T * Tr * T ^ T' *?* " *>" ™ WmilWIIOTrBlT 1 respected iady who fills the throne with go mnob credit to herself and advantage to tbe nation , ^ gain : ' The iiluetrious lady who fiil the thioae has eyer found it Jined withroas-blossom { hallowed by the love and good wishes of her Bubjeots ; and , aB the urientala say , 'May she live a thousand years . ' Lastly , the author recommends the people of France to unite with England under the crown of Victoria It is not often that Mr Wilson pnta his name , as publisher , to such a lamentable waste of type and paper . — - 7 . —Although the author of this essay avows himself a moderate Republican , his ' evidences' rather tell against than for Republicanism . The nosition of the Canadas , an abstract of the expenses « f the English government , and other matterB , are 1 &I 30 treated of in this rather disjointed production .
8 —The numbers for April and May last of ' The Reformer ' s Companion to the Almanacs , ' whioh we have before noticed and recommended to our readers . Royally , Aristocracy , Paraocioraft , State-juggkry , and Middle-cla = < a despotism , ate bravely exposed in this publication . The ' Companion to the Almanacs ' should be every poor man's companion .
9 . —Another of the excellent' Tracts for the Fustian Jackets acd Smock Froeka . ' Wo extract the following illustration ot . TEE BADICALItM OF HOSES . To prevent overgrown wealth 011 the one hand , £ nd hopelo 9 a pauperism on tha other , the Jewish lawgiver instituted a redivUion of the laud every fifty years , aad thus , at evory jubiloe the children roocived again the fields which their fathers by misfortune or extravagance
hod lost . To tho poor , the labourer , the stranger , the f&therless , and the widow , 'the laws of Moses paid a special regard . If raeney was lont to thopeor , no intercut was to bo required . If his garment was taken for pledge , it was to be restored before tbe sun went down . Every aaventh year tho Innd was toroatandlie Btiil , that the p 0 orn 1 igbte-. it . Tho corners ef tho fie ' . d were not to be reaped bat were to boUftforthejworaad the stranger . It vtui a divine eommand ' Thou shalt op « u thy hand wide nnto thy brother , thy poor , and thy needy in the land . '
It will be seen that these ' tracts' aro not of , the order of Eulibhh usually circulated under that name . We wish Mi Parsons siujcesa in hisefforta to enlighten the people and promote / the cause of universal justice .
10 . —This is an admirable and elcquently-wilten defence of Physical Force , in reply to tho drivelling twaddle and cowardly calumnies of the Press-gang . 11 — ' Military Discipline made easy' is the heading of this pamphlet , whieh profeBSOJ to UDfold the art and mystery of military defenoe and offence , by a praoticaj writer , 'Jate of tbe British Army in India . ' 12 — This tract is from the pen of Mr W . H . Clivion , Bristol , whnse letters have often appeared in this journal . Mr Clifton ably defends the rights of bis order , but tre are afraid th . it to Lord Jobs Russell he has written in vain . We reoomtuend our West-coantry frieada to purchase and circulate Mr Clifton ' s Latter .
13 . —A penny sheet , containing a report of the trial and sentence of John Mifcbel , embellished with a portrait of the exiled patriot . 14 , 15 , and 16 —Radical Rhymes for the Times , good in principle but possessing no claim ta the title of'Poetry . ' ( PBBMO 17 . —A history of the origia oi th ? Marseillaise Hymn from Lamartine ' s' History of the Girondists ;' together vrith copies of the hymn in proa © and poetry ; to which is added the chaunt of ( he Girondists ; 1 Mourir pour la patrie . '
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PERIODICALS . The Family Krakl , Pari UXt . Loadii' ' ¦ ¦ r > ¦ : ¦ ¦ 431 , Scratid . Five vnhm > e& t > f Uh 3 periodical ba 0 ¦ : ; . ¦ ¦• completed , aud dm part uf . fnr" ua is t ' . ¦ : ' . ¦ ' : sixth ? a uoie . Tiie rucresn oi this poM . cnii w I- '<¦ : > yond prbtedsnt in tbo « nnal 8 of puriod ¦ ¦ "> . ¦' . ¦ . : ¦ and ti' 9 ave bcuuit to sa ? th » t Hjc succesu , „ ) m . vaa lue part under notice exhibits no falling off on tbe part of euber the editor or his assistant contributors . The csntents are fully as wise and raoy aa ever . Eugene Sue ' s latest roaaaHOS and several good tales and romances are contained in thia Patt ; aIbo a series of useful articles on the management of tho hair , acd no end of facts and ( 30010 ? , inetructiveand entertaining . We must express our decided dissent from the editor ' s views on Louis Blanc ' s book on the 1 Organisation oi Labour . ' Wa conclude with the following notice of A F 0 D 8-F 00 TED BEVOIBTIOHUT .
A larfs , rough , yellow . coloured dog might have bsen seen on Thursday lying quietly oa the steps oi the obtrade , whsn the Provisional Government wore distribute ing the eolours . His master woe killed daring tho revolution , and he was himself wounded ob the same ccoasion with a ball in the leg and a sabre cut on his left shoulder . His right paw was bcsidsB crashed by tho hool of a municipal # u « rd '» horse , which causes him to limp . Tbe animal entered tbe Hatpl de Tille on the 25 th of February , and has remained there since , always staying with the Republican Guard .
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CREMORNE GARDENS . wi imir The entertainments at this delightful place of recreation are of the moat various acd arousing description . Lieutenant Gale made his four th ascent from these Gardens on Monday evening , accompanied by Mr Van Buren and another gentlemani for the purpose of testing by experimental models the relative merits and defects of the para . chnt « s used bj M . Gannerin , Mr Cocking , and Mr Hampton .
. At half-past seven o ' clock precisely tho gallant Lieutenant gave the signal to loosen tho ropes . The balloon rose in fine style , amid the loud oheors of the assembly . At first it took a notth-eaaterly direotion , but shortly afterwards proceeded in a direct easterly line , when , in a few minutes it was lost to view , owing to the misty clouds When tho balloon had reached a certain height , Lieutenant Gale eufc the strings of the parachutes , in which three monkeys had been placed . That mads after the plan oi Mr
Cocking deBCOnded with great rapidity , exhibiting oscillations that confirmed the opinion of aoientlfio men that it was constructed on a bad principle . That after the plan of Gannerin descended more slowly and heeled leB 8 , preserving a tolerably upright atti . tudev That of Mr Hampton was obcioumy the beat it preserved a perfest perpendicular throughout the whole of the immense apace through which it descended , ana came down steadily and without any dangerous rapidity . Tho monkeya descended in perfect safety .
.... Shortly after the ascent the audience were highly amused by the performances of M . Silrani and troupe . The ballet of ' Telemaohu&' followed , and wa * sue eaded by the dancing , which took placeoi , the moseter platform around the Pagoda , in whioh the band was stationed . The evening ' s entertainments were concluded by & brilliant display of fireworks , by Mortram , the celebrated pyrotechnist .
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Diabolical Attack by a Gako op BtEotAHfl on Two Mbkr 8 . —Dum of One op ths Vkjiims , — In the village of Wartbill , about five milea northeast of York , a most atrocious attempt at double murder has been perpetrated . The unfortunate vie tims of the brutal outrage were a quiet , inoffensive , and respectable widow lady , a&tA 6 d Newlare , opwards of seventy years of age . and her eon , Thomas Newlove , an unmarried man , between forty and fifty years of age . Jointly and separately i they were possessed of considerable proi crty , and adopted the foolish plan of bein ^ thoir own bankers , aemneh as £ 1500 being kept in their miserable abode . They lived in a most penurious manner , ao much so aa to follow the practice of seldom , if ever , retiring to rest
until their neighbours would to getting up : the strange object of their strange life being to watch their hoarded wealth . About eight o ' olock onMonday morniBg , a man who was in the habit of milking the cow aud doing other little jobs for Mr ? Newlove and her son , called at tho honee as usual - The back-door waa opened , and en entering apasaage lead , ing to the front kitohen he wa ? horrified on percefa . oeiviag her lying ob the ground , apparently dead , and a quantity of Wood about her . The man imme » diately raised an alarm , when , upon the neighbouro as 3 emblinR , a tearoh was made for the son , who was found outside the house . His head was sadly beaten in and blood was copiously flawing from the wounds . Medical aid being prooure'd , the extent of their
injuries was in Bome degree ascertained . An iron candlestick was found in thopasaage , whioh had 67 idently been used in the murderous affray . It was oovered with blood and hair , and was apparently bent by . the force of the blows icfliotsd with it npon . the heads of the poo ? creatures . On a further examination , it was quite dear that thoy had made a vigorous effort to escape from their murderous assauatts , WhioU the state of the passage confirmed , pools of bloods being visible Jn several partB . Mif 8 NflWlOVe in some degree subsequently recovered her senses , nndfrom what could be gleaned from he ? , thermfiana wewsthrea in number . They had contrived to obtain an entranoo into jne neuse by a back wjnd «> yr , to
and the robbers , bettering that the son had fled the village to give an alarm , decamped witnous CD taining ' any of the hoards they coveted . The police , however , discovered £ 1 , 300 , chiefly in nates , in diner * OUtpartflOf the house , and £ 170 aeorated in a sharing box . In one Of the rooms were several k > 118 OI notes , tied round with thread . On Saturday morning last , the police reoeived intelligence of the aeatn of Mrs Newlove , who has sunk nnder the injuries she received . No twee of the ruffians hsa yet been obtained although the polioe have been acouncg the oountry for miles round . . , , A person onca sent a note to a waggish friend , for the loan ef his neose' pspor , and received in rotrra hio friend ' s' marriage certificate . '
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( From tho Times . ) REHHEMEOT OF UP . I . O ' COSSELl F / 10 M PUBLIC LWE Dvmin , June 21 — The Irish Confederation-held j meeting at eight ' . ' clock this evening in the Music hall , convened by ad \ rerti ; emont . Ths building wai densely and respectably filled in every part , more than 3 , 000 persons brkg present . Shortly after eight o'clock the chair waa taken bj Mr Danny Leyno ( Cork ) . The Secretary ( Mr Halpin ) read a letter from Mi F . F . Moaghsr , excusing himself from attendanw
on account of ilinesa , and stating that , should the N ? w Ropoal Laague bo establishoJ , he would pledge himself not to compromise it « principles by the usa of language calculated to crsate dissension or bring down a prosecution on any of it ? own membora . At the s ( vm « time he wished it to ba distinctly understood , that outside tlie League he would continuetc sra * e and enforce the opinion that the national wil coald net prevail unless the people were armed ; and baing armed , were prepared " to put an end to foreign rule . ( Ch « era )
Ninety five laembsra of the John Mitchel Club , Clonmel , wore admitted marabere ef the Confederation ; also Bovenfeen membsrs of the Hogh O'Neill Ciub , from the sama town '; twenty-six from Dublin ; ninety two members of the Carlow United Repeal Club tormed within tho last few days . Mr J . Dniojf tliea addreued the meeting . He proceeded to lay before ths meeting an account e £ the receipts and expenditure of the Irish Confederation , from the day it was founded to the 21 st day of the present month . The sum total of their receipts was £ 91 G 8 j . Id . £ 400 of this sum was paid in by members of the body , so that the country at Urge centributed little ewe than £ 500 . He would , therefere , boldly ask the meeting whether the Confederafci'i !) had not given tho country full value for thai
money ? ( l / oud choaw . ) Hemi ? ht safely aeasrt tha for every pound thuy had received tbe enemies o Ireland had been put to an expense of £ 1 , 600 , ( Cueers . ) The Confederation bad made the Monarch of Ecgland feel somewhat insecure on her throne j it had been mainly instrumental in driving the British government to bring into parliament a bill to se < cure wore permanently the Crown and Gaverament of Eisgiand ; and it had coat Lord Clarendon—( hisses )—not a few sleepless nights . He might alga add , tbftfc it had planted in that country a principle of Rreot value , namely , that every man in Ireland had a right to have a weapon , and that when a British Minister told the people of Ireland that he would resist their will by force , and rule this couatry by force in their despite , they had a right to tell him
lihftt he should nofi do so . ( Cheers . ) Besides the regular fund of the Confederation , ( here was another recently got up for the purpose of defending Messrs O'Brien ^ Meagher , and Mitchel , in the late stata prosecutions . This fund amauntsd to £ 400 , of which , after the payment of a 11 expenses , . £ 200 still remained in hand . lie had thea the pleasure of proposing tbat £ 150 ef this balance be added to the fund in course of being raised for ths wife and family of John Mitchel . ( Deafening applause . ) The re « mainder waa reserved , in order that they should be enabled to contribute something to support the infanoy of the New Lsagaa . ( Hear . ) He then pro * ceeded to state what had transpired at the recent conferences of Repealers . At one of thcie conference ! Mr Jshu O'Conneil was asked whsther , in case the
League was formed , he would permit the members oi the Confederation to caH on the people to arm , and be said he bad no objeotion ; but at tbe subsequent conference he stated that he could not abide by what he had formerly pledged himself to ; and that he now viewed with apprehension the movement that wai rapidly progressing for the purpose of arming thfl people —( hisses )—and tbat , should tbe members of the Lca&ua be called on to arm he would feel it hia duty to protest against it . ( Renewed hisses . ) The members of tha Rspoal Association who were present at that conference then and there protested most strongly againsttho retrastation made by Mr O'Connell . He ( Mr Diliocjtold Mr O'Cosnell that he had no objection to the iutroducticn of the subject of arming the people by him ( Mr O'Comiell ) , provided
he consented that he and his brother Confederates should !> c allowed to reply to him ; but at the laat coufsi > .: it . ffhiob . jas beld on the previous evening , Mr O'C-i-iaell lnou » tit down tt \* M him a series of t . ac ' . di ' wn ? , -: ta ;{ :. csotiiitdd ' -a i .: !> -isfiC £ i * the old peace resoiutioLb ot Oorcili . itioi ) Hai ! -- ( t ; nanu ' !)¦ ' histe . " )—and v ;* X ± & ? -hat ha could not oorwnt W t > 6 ? . trombei' of anj ai : ! i / cir . uon ^ hick vv ; . ul uo \ pu \ c « th-rtio leiinlutions on Us books , ( IIUs ' -s : ¦ Undsc these oircutnftiar'Cf , wben Mr O'Conne'lnssJci tkie announcement , they told hip ; hr-1 h ' . I un ^ ori ? :- -. ! i »^ between him , as an in-jiviiiaM . d . - id tho Crnf :-u ' .: t . iticR was at an" end . ( 'Hear , hear , ' and Lc . - . vo , ' isio . J He oonld not discover the real causes ot this rett-ac taticn on the prfrt of Mr O'Conneil , but that gentleman had himself assigned as the reasons of his con * duot a leading article in the last number of tha Nation , and a ktter of Mr Smith O'Brien , in the same number , There was one passage in the latter
tbat Beemed peculiarly offensive to him , whioh ran as follows : — ' All the principles for which the Confederates contended have in succession been conceded to us . ' But Mt O'Conneil should bear in mind that Mr O'Brien , when he wroto this letter waa addressing the members of the Irish Confederation ) not those of Conciliation Hall ; and he only wanted to Bhow them that there had been no principles of theirs abandoned—the principles fte aHaded to being twoviz , those that Sad been conceded them , the anti * place-begging principle and the anti-sectarian principle- ( Cheers ) Wasthia union , then , after all , to take place ? , ( 'Yea , yea . ') He , for his part , said ' yes / and on behalf of the Confederation ha would also eay ' yes '—( cheers)—a proof of which would be given tbat evening by the proposal of a resolution to adjourn the Confederation sine die , for the purpose of facilitating tha union of tbe Repeal parties . _ ' _ ..
The Rev . Tsaddbus O ' mallkt next addressed the meeting , urging the formation of armed clubs , and Btating his intention to take an active part ia their formation , Moral force , he said , was a very good thing in Ub proper place , but they knew tbat the government they had opposed to them waa sot a government of moral force « - ( cheers)—and when they had to contend against a physical force government he knew but ene mode of argument tbat promised success , and that was to give it a dose of its Own A resolution was then passed , adjourning the Confederation sine die . _ . ..
Mr R . O'Gobuam , Jan ., read and proposed the adoption of an address from the American peoDle to the Irish nation , passed at a meeting held at Philadelphia , and written by Mr R . Tyler , son of the late President of the United States . The address enforced in the strongest terms the necessity of union amongst the Repealers of Ireland , recommending them , when united , to watch the prospect of their liberation , and then to strike fast , heavy , and all together . ( Cheers . ) If , ' said Mr O ' Gorman , 'you are determined to act on this advice , I would recommend that your reply should emanate from the frte Legialative Assembly of Ireland- ( oheerfl ) ; -and in order that your correspondence with America may not be delayed , the Booner your reply ia given the better . ' ( Cheers . ) Tha resolution having been seosnded and passed .
Mr C G . Dum lastly addressed the meeting . He Btated that when Mr John O'Goanell proposed bis peace resolutions at the last conference of the B ^ Peal parties , all his old associates at Conciliation Hall , without exception , voted egainst him and for the union . ( Loud cheers . ) fle ( Mr Dpffy ) h » d now good news to tell them . It was this—Mr John O Connell , when he found himself outvoted , » aid : We have appealed to the country , at my consent and with my concurrence , and tho country has pro-Honnced againot cio . You , as ( lie Irigh Le>w , must "o on , but as for me , I have certain flanBCientioua sotuDlcs . sooner than forego whioh I have made
up my mind to retire into private life . ' ( The whole audience here ros 9 and cheered vehemently for several minutes , on the announcement of Mr O Connell ' s retirement from public life . ) There was a condition attaohed to this step by Mr O'Connell-namely , he desired that , at the next meeting of the Repeal Association , Mr Galway should propose its indefinite adjournment , ia order that the League Bhpnld afc once take its place . He ( Mr O'Connell ) naid that since it was out of hia power to help the League , be would at least not bo an impediment in its way . ( Cheers , and a voice— ' Ha would if he ccuia . ) The meetiDg then separated .
CLUD OROAHI 8 ATI 0 N . - From town and country all accounts conour in *«• pi-wonting the rapid increoso of the GonMentQ Jluba and the enrolment by wholesale of new memher e . On Saturday evening no less than six oddi . tional ones were established in the wiy of Wmenok , and this day there ia to ba a gathering of tho fightine men on the celebrated green of DonnybrooK , for the purpose of finishing the work commenced lest Sunday 6 f enrolling the inhabitants of the metrepo . litan county into tbe ranks of the Irish National Guards . Really , as matters go , there seems to beiio doubt ( hit before the harvest is fit for the Biekk w « shall have the realisation of Mr Smith-O'Briens Xr . carried out to tbe letter , and that the oouotry will be garrisoned by some hundred thousand men with arms in their hands .
The Irish Pblok , successor Id the UHWBD IRISHman , made its first appearanoe on Saturday last . The editors , Mr John Martin and Mr Thomas Dann Reilly . have spirited addresses in the Mitohel atyity BhOWing that Ibey fear not to jbrave the dwm wfawh has overtaken the exiled patriot . THB FITS OF THK ABBI 0 CB 4 CT . The Nation thoB disposes of the landlords 8 &d ^ WiSritco ariotooracy ^ "Jh 08 nde ^™ : marily . It a Parliament wo w •*** * , " " * i ! Ell . obeth-. atasof twenty . fiTepcr c . nt | In a revolution the preoedont of Jafflen-confiscatloB . B , w&at 1 S £ S ^ SSSpSSSSi freebooter—the law of the atieagiat haad ?
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' Wt etAlthe ohokeil . ' AMaoL 06 igTS . ~ It is Btiil lesa astonishing tbat so many men , raised m other things so far above the vulgar ; so tsmny princes ; so many popes , whom it would have been impossible to mislead thenulleat atiair of interest , have been ' so ridiculously seducet 1 by this astrological nonsense . They were very i , roud and very igncnnfc . The stars were for them alop . e the rest of the wor'd were a rabb ' e , wi < h whom the etara had tiothiua tb do . The ? were like the r . rmcc who trembled at the Right of a ennat , and aaid
gravely tothote who did not fear it— ' You may behold it without concern ; you are not princes . ' The famous German leader , Wallenstein , was one of those infatuated by this cUimera ; he called himself a prince , and conaeq-jenoiy thought tint th » zo-liao had been made on purpose fqr him . llo never lesieged a tSwn , nor fought a battle , until he had s eld a council with the heavens ; but , r . a this great umn was very ignorant , ha placed at tho head of tliie council , a rogue of an Italian , named Seni , ktv ; nng him a coach and six , and giyin ? him a persi * n oi twenty thousand liyres . Seoi , however , never toresaw that Walienptein would be atsassinsttd hy o < der of his most gracious sovereign , find that he himself would return to Italy on feot . — Voltaire .
SlSQVLm Pjsxixjwt , —A most aiivul&r petition was presented a few dayB ago to the French AKcmbly from Citizen Barele , residing at 36 , Faubourg Mantmartre , demanding that a plura'ity of wives suouul be parmitted in marriage . It ia almoEt unmcea ^ ary to add that the committee pa-Bed to the crder of the day . Slave . —A human epitaph of human feelings . Famb . —A glasB castle erected by public opinion , for the better observation of its inmates . Cut . —A human hive without its Sosey-comb . Ship . —The telescope of the world . MoNBY . —The largest slaveholder in the world . Experience . —The ecara of oar wound ? . WiNB . ~ Botoled fever . —A friend who seldom dies without torturing us with his ghost . Dbb ? . —A 9 lice out of anctbor man ' s loaf . Coat . —A check drawn on society by your tailor .
Pauprb . —An animal bo like a man as to make us feel uneasy . Palace . —Aguillotine which cuts off the head of a natloa from Us body . Savage . —An individual who goes to war with his enemies , like a heathen , and takes their scalp ? , instead of gofcg to law with them , like a CbiistiaB , and taking their goods . Solbikr . —A live target , set up by one nation for another to shoot at . Bbe ^—A self-taught botanist , whose wwks oommand a ready sale .
HAROLD IN COUKClIi . ( From Sir E . B . Lytton ' s Harold , the Lasl of the Saxon Kings . ) All within tie Palace of Westminster showed tho confusion and dismay of the awful time ;—all , at least , save the oounoil chamber , in whioh Harold , who had arrived the night before , conferred with his Thegus . It was evening : the courtyards and the halls were filled with armed men , and almost with every hour came rider and bode from the Sussex shores . In the corridors the churchmen grouped and whispered , as they bad whispered and grouped on the day of Kiag Edward ' s death . • * * In the council hall , debate waxed warm—which was the wiser , to meet William at ocea in the baMlefield , or to delay till all the foroee Hareld might expect ( and which he had ordered to be levied in his rapid march from York ) could s ^ eU his host ?
' If we retire before the enemy , " said Gurth , leaving bim La a strange land , winter approaching , bis forage will fail . He will scarce dare to march upon London ; ifhedoe 3 , wo shall be better prepared to encounter him . My voice is against resting all on a engirt battle . ' ' la that thy r . W . fle V said Vebba indignantly . 'Not wo , I am wet would havo ofcoFen thy father ; not ? o \ ae Ssxo&s of Ktmfc . Tiia Norman * 3 laying wnBt-3 all the lands ef thy subjects , Lard HanJ < i ; living on plumisr , as a rubber , : n the realms of King Alfred . Dost thou think tbat men wilt get Jester bparfc to lyht / or their mug try by hearing th *!; their King shrinks fvom ( he danger V '
Thou Bpeaketh wdl and wisely , ' ERid Uaco , and all eyes turned to the young son of S ireyn , as to ene who best knew the character of tha hostile avmy , and the skill of its chief . ' We have now with UB i lorcu flushed with conquest over a foe hitherto deemed invincible . Men who have conquered the Norwegian will not shrink from tha Norman . Victory depends upon ardour more than numbers . Every hour ot delay damps ( he ardour . Are we sure that it will swell the numbers ? What I dread mostia , not the sword ef the Norman Duke , it is his craft . Rely upon it , that if we meet him not soon , he will march straight to London . He will proclaim by the way that he comes not to seize the throne , but to punish Harold , and abide by the Witan , or purchase by the
word of the Roman pontiff . The terror of his armament , anreai 8 < ed , will gpread like a panic through the land . Muny will be decoyed by his filse pretexts , many awed by a force that the king dare not meet . If he came in sight of the city , think you that merchants and cheapmeh will not be daunted by the thought of pillage and sack f They will be the first to capitulate at the first house which is fired . This city is weak to guard against siege ; its walls leng neglected ; and in sieges tha Normans are famous . Are we so united ( the king ' s rule thus fresh ) , but what no CJibals , no dissensions will break out amon ^ sf ourselves ? If the Duke eome , as come he will , in the name of the Church , may not the churchmen set up some new pretender to the Crown—perchance
the chi'd Edgar ? And , divided aniODgst ourselves , how inglorioualy should we fall 1 Besides , this land , though never before have the links between province and province been drawn bo close , hath jet demarcations that make the people selfish . The Northumbrians , I fear , will not stir to aid London , and Mercia will hold aloof from our peril . Grant that William once seize London , all England ia broken up and dispirited ; each shire , nay , each town , looking only to itaelf . Talk of delay as wearing out the strength of tho foe ! No ; it would wear out our own . Little enow , I fear , is yet left In our treasury . If William
atizo London , that treasury is his , with all the wealth of our burgesaea . How should we maintain an army except by preying on the people , and thus discontenting them ? Where guard that arm ; ? Where are oar forts ? Where our mountains ? The war of delay suits only a land of reck and defile , or ot ca 3 tle and breastwork . ThegUB and warriors , ye have no castles but jour breasts of mail . Abandon these , ' and you ate lost . ' A general murmur of applause closed ths speech of Haco , which , while wise in ' arguments , our historians have overlooked , came home to that noblest reason of bravo men which urges [ prompt resistance
to foul invasion . Up , then , rose King Harold— 1 thank yon , fellow Englishmen , for that applause with which ye have greeted mine own thoughts on the lip ef Haco . Shall it be said that your king wished to chase his own brother from the soil of outraged England , yet shrank from the Bword of the Norman stranger ? Well , indeed , might ray brave subjects desert my banner if it floated idly over jheae palaoe walla while the armed invader pitched his camp in the heart of England . By delay , Wiliiam ' a force , whatever it be , cannot gr 6 w less his causa grows moroatrong iu our craven fears . What his armament may be , we rightly know not ; tbe report varies with every meaaeneer , swelling and lessening with the rumours of
erery hour , Have we nofc around ua now our reost stalwart veterans—the flower of onr armies—tie most eager spirits—the vanquishers of Hardrada 1 Thou sayeth , Gurtb , that all Bhouldnot be perilled on a siBglo battle . True . Harold should bo pe . rilled , but wherefore England ? Grant that we win the day ; the quioker our despatch the greater our own fame , tbe more lasting that peaoe , at home and abroad , which rest ever its best foundations on the genae o ! the power , which wrong cannot provoke , unchaatised . Grant that we lose ; a loss can be made cain by a king ' s brave death . Why should not our example rouse and unite all who eutrvive U 9 ? Which the nobler example , the one best fitted to
protect our country—the recreant backs ot living ohiefa , or the glorious dead with their fronts to the foe ? Come what may , life or death , at least we will thin the Norman numbera , and heap the barriers cl our corpses on the Norman inarch . At least we can ahow to thereat of England how men should defend their native land i And if , as I beliew and pray ,, in every English breast beats a heart like Harold 8 , what matters though a king should fall f Freedom ib imrnoft&l " He spoke ; and forth from his baldric he drew his sword . Every blade , at tbat Bignal , leapt from the sheath ; and in that council hall , at least , in every iraast beat the heart of Harold .
RiPACin of Lard SiUBKs .-The number of lawyers ia London is no less than 4 , 972 , atid the amount ol their oosts in 1846 7 waa sixteen millions , two hundred and tea thousand , one hundred and sixty-nve P YlRTUE W IBB ' Cbmob . ' — An Australian journal says tba * an Irishman succeeded in curing hlB wife , XelVhad been bitten by a ; v . enomo «» flerpent through the app cation of a whisky bottle , month dSaVdB , to < L wound . The whiskey gradually jeoame darker , and $ he decolouration around the hitn diminished , until tho whole ; of the potion
appeared to have been absorbed by the spirit . Liibhatubk or xBi WonKi ^ o CUSSB 3 .-N 0 fewer than 950 es 8 ayaby working men have been sent in f « thfl three prizes Of * 25 , £ 15 , and * 1 O for the best three esBaja on the . Temporal Adwfogea of the Sabbath to the Labouring , OImbm , and the eraa «! a « iiKa * J £ ^ ^ sSSa Sf ^^ w . Fpn MS edS- » mUUoa of t * publiomoney .
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5 . — This pamphlet is the eabsbne * of A Speech deJirered at a pnb'io meeting , held at Maidstoce , in furtherance of the Hume movement . Mr Dobcey ' a speech is decidedly Chartist , but he accepts the new raove u behg in tha right direction . Thoroughly democratic wntiments pervade this well reasoned and eloquent address .
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6 . —This tract advocate * with , considerable ability the principle * o ! Chartism and reforms , -which , in the opinion of the author , ghcuid result from theexten-« ion of the franabise of election to the people . This tract is a proof that there ara some honest men amongst tha middle daises .
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7 . —This tract is a deface of the Peop le ' s Charter , by a Scottish tEiniiter , the Rty . Alex . Dancsnson , of Falkirk . It contains nose uojast illusions to tbe saen eocunrniy called ' Phygieal Force Chartists , ' feat em the nerjona mcukwI may afford to foKive thit little ir . ja » y in coDrideraUnn of ihB rev . geatlSQan ' sablstxplaaation and masterly vindication of the Charter—' name and all . ' The circn ' ation of this tract is well calcn ' ated to enlighten those who &t& igUMiEUf ihs priaciplsa d ths Charter .
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8 ^ -Thig re print of a letter to the Editor of the RxxFBzvfiEiBz ADVEansEB is another contribution to Chartist literature , from the pen of ear talented friend , Rosser Boheeh , of Greenock . The arto-Bients advanced for Universal Suffrage , in preference to flooKhold Suffrage , are perfectly unanswerable .
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9 . —List , not least , we , for the secoud tkne , bricg Dr M'Donal . s rec « atfy puah ' B&ed pamphlet under tb . 9 notioe of oar resders . fiaviBg , ia a previoES sgab « pfthe Stab , testified to the casrits < st thia
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THE LAND . 1 , Free Trade in Land , the only true remedy for National Distress . By an Accountant . Nottingham '• Stevenson and Co ., Middle P&Tement , 2 Oar Inheritable : Land . Common Properly . By 1 Terrigenous . ' London : J . Wataen , Q , een ' a Head Passage , Paternoster-row . 3 . The land for the labourers , and the Fraternity of Nations t a Sehantfoi a New Industrial Systtm , &c . Edited by Thohas Coopzb , Author of the Parg «» tery of Suicides . ' London : E . Wilson , Rojal Exchange . 1 . Nottingham certainly marches in the van of the movement . Here we have another raiddle-claesman proclaiming truth , not usually comprehended by his caste . If the aristocracy possessed common prudence , they would l isten to his voice , snd adopt bis KTKTPPstions for tbe establishment of Free Trade in
Land by forthwith abolishing thezr accoraed laws ot primogeniture acd entail . But that they will not do The Nettingham' accountant' will in vain seek to charm HieEe deaf adders of feudalism . We oonfesa wa are not wrry . We desire a more Bweepmg change than is indicated in this pamphlet , and we bslieve that the heartless obstinacy ef the landed usurpers will greatly help us in the pursuit of tbat change . Still we can express our approbation of this pamphlet as far as it goes ; and , therefore , deem it a duty to recommend its perusal by all whe desire reaV reform .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 1, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1477/page/3/
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